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ABC Prayer Crusade

ABC's of Prayer

Glenn Coon

1-An Amazing New Kind of Prayer

2-Seven Great Bible Facts

3-Coon’s Own Nightmare Experience

4-Married, Infatuated, Reunited

5-20 Years a Victim-Cured in 20 Minutes

6-Lovely Lord of the Lord’s Day

7-Seven Secrets of a Happy New Year

8-All This and Heaven Too

I'd like you to notice this morning 7 great Bible facts.

Number 1, Jesus is coming again, Revelation 22 12, behold I come quickly.

Number 2, he's coming for righteous holy people, Revelation 22 11, he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still.

Number 3, no man can make himself righteous and holy.

Romans, the 15th chapter and the 16th verse being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

0.5, when the Holy Ghost comes into our comes into our hearts, he sheds love holiness, not just law holiness.

The evidence that the Holy Spirit has come into our hearts is He sheds love holiness, God's love holiness.

The love of God is shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost.

Not the love of man, not carnal love, not publican love, not pharisaical love, God's love.

And 0.6, then we become instruments of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 1.8, ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me or instruments.

And 0.7, Psalm 51, 10 to 13, Then sinners will be converted through our instrumentality.

I will teach transgressors your way, and sinners will be converted unto you.

So Jesus is coming again for a righteous people, a holy people.

But we can't make ourselves holy, so we must depend on the Holy Spirit to make us holy.

The type of holiness he brings into our lives is not merely a legal holiness, it's a love holiness.

The kind of love holiness he brings into our lives is a God love holiness, which loves his enemies.

And this love sends its rain on the evil as well as the good, and its sunshine on bad and good.

God's love holiness doesn't treat the sinner as he deserves, but as he needs.

So when the Holy Ghost is shed abroad in the heart, he sheds God's love, not a pharisaical love, not a love that is dependent or conditioned on the on the situation of the individual, but it flows from God because it comes from God and it's part of God.

And anybody who thinks that he can get love power any other place than from the Holy Spirit might as well start his learner all over again.

And anyone who thinks that he cannot receive God's love power through the Holy Spirit needs to learn.

Just as an individual cannot make himself holy by himself, so an individual filled with the Holy Spirit will far exceed the holier-than-thou attitude.

Then sinners will be converted because he's an instrument.

Our study revolves around the experience of a medical doctor whom I shall call my friend because we were very close friends.

He was the first elder of a church, which I was pastor.

And naturally, being the first elder, he and I were thrown together more often, and I found his family was a wonderful family.

I depended on him for counsel every now and then.

He was not a yes man, neither was he a negative type thinker.

A wholesome, happy, delightful Christian.

Sometime after I left that church of which I was pastor, my wife began our traveling ministry.

Little messages seeped through to us that something had happened to my friend.

Somehow he'd lost his way and it almost broke my heart.

I was made almost heartbroken to think of my friend having become confused, frustrated, lost.

Years passed before I learned what was the trouble, and then it all came out.

He had helped a younger relative of his through medicine.

He'd helped him financially and with encouragement, which means a great deal also.

After his young relative was through medicine, my friend took him into practice with him and did well by him financially.

And just at this time, a dirty rumor broke out against my friend, a rumor that had no basis in fact at all.

But the amazing thing is, his young relative believed the rumor.

You know, the Bible speaks of the mystery of righteousness and the mystery of iniquity.

1 of the aspects of the mystery of iniquity to me is, how that a dear friend whom you've known for years can all at once believe some rumor that has come from somebody who may have come from Europe or Asia or Australia who might have been a horse thief himself and yet he can spread a rumor and how a person who claims to be your close friend will accept the rumor, it's part of the mystery of iniquity.

And my friend's young relative seemed to base his conclusion on a very wrong cliche.

Where there's a lot of smoke, there must be a little fire.

Were that a fact, then Jesus Christ himself would be a criminal for spies hounded his steps all over the land of Judea and Galilee and other parts with express purpose of scattering the rumors, read in Desire of Ages, the crisis in Galilee.

And you'll find that it came about as a result of the rumors of satanic origin.

Where there's smoke, there's fire, but the fire may be the fire of envy and jealousy, and the wise man states it's the worst type of cruelty.

Don't ever believe anything against a human soul, ever, unless you see it with your own eyes and hear it with your own ears.

No individual has a right at any time under any conditions to pick up a rumor against his neighbor.

He who will lessen the influence of another, says our favorite author, is as gilly as though he were to swear.

My friend turned to his younger relative again and again.

He said, you've known my life, you've known my experience, you know my character.

How in the world could you believe a thing like that?

And his relatives said, well, where there's smoke there's fire.

And then my friend made the mistake of his life.

Isaiah 45 22 says, look on me and be ye saved.

The antithesis is look away from me to humanity and be ye what?

And by looking at his younger relative and observing and thinking and meditating on the mistakes that his younger relative made and the unfaithfulness of his younger relative and the disloyalty his love turned to bitterness and when you get your eyes off Jesus Christ on a humanity and the failures of humanity When you take your eyes from love, you lose love.

For by beholding, we're changed in the same image.

And by beholding the unworthiness of his loved relative, He became like him.

He lost the love of God and the bitterness of the enemy filled his soul.

And his love turned to hatred and his hatred to murder.

1 day he returned home, opened his coat and showed his wife a badge.

He pulled out 2 guns and said, I'm gonna shoot the cuss.

She said, honey, you'd never do a thing like that.

The idea while we 2 are together, nobody around has a defender of the law.

He said, there'll never be brought any disgrace on the family, I assure you of this, rest assured.

And then the devil came along with his special temptation, now you're a murderer at heart you you might as well go on into sin.

I believe the devil was not cast out of heaven because of smoking.

He wasn't cast out of heaven because he ate a piece of pork.

He was cast out of heaven because he acted like the devil.

But to imagine my friend smoking was something.

The devil said, now you're a murderer, now you smoke, you might as well drink.

And my friend drank and drank, and later he testified to me that he tried everything in his power to drown his worries by drinking and he said I couldn't get drunk.

He just drank and drank and the devil said now the the game is as good as the name they've accused you of immorality take it And I'm not going to describe his immorality for it was sordid.

Series

ABC's of Prayer

2-Seven Great Bible Facts

Transcript

Parent Series

Sponsor

Path to the Heart

4-Jesus, The Argument

33m

The Kidnapper, the Ransom, and You

33m

Plenary

Nahum 1:9

1h

Getting Through to God

01-Oh God, Do You Care?

26m

History and Heroes - Those That Stand: Part 3

1h 6m

Restoration 2023

The Atheist Who Found God

50m

Whose Side Are You On?

1h

ABC's of Prayer (with Video)

6 - There’s Joy in Trusting Him

49m

General Sessions

Amazing Grace

1h 2m

Plenary

No Need To Fear: The Journey of Ellen Harmon and Samuel Rhodes

1h 1m

Mental Health

05 The United States of Addiction

1h 3m

Elijah

03 Willing to Give Up Everything

55m

Sound Doctrine