The Answer Was Created

Glenn Coon

ABC Prayer Crusade

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The travelers may pause and look upon the loveliness depicted there.

Then passing on their weary ways, each radiant face may bear stamps so that time can nary face the image of thy glory and thy grace.

Lord, let not 1 soul think of me only let me be a nail upon the wall to hold thy picture in its place we thank you in Jesus name amen This study this evening on Rebellious James' glory experience begins with a gem and I would be happy if all of you would be free to read this scriptural gem with us.

Together, trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.

In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path." Here is the secret of the Christian life, to be connected to the Lord, to trust in him instead of ourselves.

I want to share with you several experiences tonight of which this is the center.

In our team as we travel from place to place we quite often have stated that we are like a We're like an electric card.

We have 2 motor homes just outside of this church.

They're connected to the power that is at the church, the outlet of the church we plug into.

The card connects the power that's as far as the church to our motor home.

We say, you know, somebody could come to that card and say, you are tremendous, look at the power there is in that card.

But pull the card, and how much power is there?

We have water hoses that connect usually to the church.

Somebody can come up to those hoses and say wonderful, look at what wonderful hoses you are.

They merely connect with it and it flows through them but they're not the source.

We can say to some Christian, you are tremendous, you are.

But when we disconnect from the Lord, how tremendous are we?

Back in 1950, I was holding a series of meetings down in Florida.

I was pastor of a church up in Tennessee.

I went down with my brother and The Lord's Holy Spirit was just poured out.

We were just keeping very close to him, connected.

As I was about to leave, my brother, 2 years older than I, said, you know, God has blessed you so much, to me you're almost like a prophet.

I went back to my home church and the next Sabbath preached a sermon, blessed of the Lord.

That afternoon we had a little church gathering of maybe 40 officers.

During that gathering, somebody injected a sour note.

So I brought forth from the richness of Glen Coon, carnality, some of the richest sarcasm.

On the way home, the Lord caught up with me.

A week ago, you were connected with me, and I blessed you so much that your brother even almost thought you were a prophet.

And as you disconnected from me, you engaged in sarcasm.

I'm going to immediately start apologizing.

Do you apologize when you hurt somebody, when you misrepresent the Lord?

My Father taught me that I'm to apologize whether anybody else does or not.

And that I'm to apologize as though I were the chief offender and not say, now I've apologized, now it's your turn.

As long as I am assuming that somebody else is equally guilty with me, that's no apology.

Now I've done my apology, Now let's hear yours.

So I started contacting every 1 of these persons who had heard me with this sarcasm.

You know, you can be a very sweet, sarcastic, carnal person.

I was just, oh, it was rich, sweet, delicious.

I called them on the telephone, every person I could think of, or went to see them.

The next Sabbath afternoon we had a gathering in my other church and before I stood up to speak I said, brethren, not all of you know But some of you know that last Sabbath afternoon I misrepresented the Lord before a group of officers and I said I can't speak until I ask you to please forgive me.

I remember there was a medical doctor at my right, about 3 or 4 seats from the front, and as I said, I'm so sorry, will you forgive me, he put his hand in his, his face in his hands and just sobbed for sympathy.

He didn't know that a minister could apologize, I guess.

1 week in a wonderful relationship with the Lord, a week later misrepresenting Him.

And the same afternoon, apologizing to the Lord and doing everything I could to straighten things out, connected again.

Did you know that you and I can connect with the Lord just that easily and we can disconnect just that easily?

Don't ever get the impression that because somebody's walking very close to the Lord, that it's inherent in himself.

It can cease the moment that he loses contact.

Many people have said to me, I knew a minister, oh he was a tremendous minister.

There's all kinds of power when we're in contact with a mighty deliverer, Jesus Christ.

We're weakness itself when we disconnect.

That's why you should take that hour with the Lord in the morning.

That's why my wife and I have made this a practice for many years in my ministry.

Earlier ministry, I would do it often and then I would neglect it.

When I did it, there was a contact, a tremendous contact.

When I neglected it, I was a half-back-sledden preacher.

And what is true of me is true of every other person.

The power comes from him and nobody can be happy in the Lord unless we're in the Lord.

Nobody can have the power of the Holy Spirit unless we're connected to him.

And you pull the plug and people say I wonder why I don't seem to have any spirit I don't seem to have any spirit.

And when you set up that time, plan the day before.

Because I can't go to bed at midnight and still be up the next morning at 5 or 6 or 07:00 with time with the Lord.

And I found I'm up to a lot of Christian gatherings where they will stay up till 10, 11 o'clock and we excuse ourselves and go because you can't stay up, I can't stay up till 11 o'clock and get up the next morning at the right time.

There's a time for everything under the sun.

Now, I've shared with you how a person can lose the Lord and find Him again.

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What I want to share with you this evening, and then I hope that you will be ready to share with someone else, the Lord is used to save my life.

I don't believe I would be here if it weren't for some of the things I've learned that's on this tiny little outline.

And I hope that you'll be free to put down any of your thoughts because there's going to be a lot of thoughts tonight.

Be free to put down any thoughts and then we may ask us to couple up for 10 minutes, 5 minutes, at the closest share with 1 another.

I was just thrilled the way that you shared the other night.

Or we may have the roving mic in which you will share more audibly.

But this evening, may the Lord help us to know how he alone will do and what our part is shall we pray dear Lord make me a nail upon the wall fastened securely in its place Then from this thing so common and so small, hang a bright picture of thy face and we thank you in Jesus name, amen.

Would you like to read that gem together?

You all received this little questionnaire together.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee.

What a little verse, how uncomplicated and yet a gem.

I want to share with you first of all in my own experience.

In 1953, 24 years ago, I was told by a very godly physician who had examined my wife and me, that I had cancer.

And he thought probably we ought to give up our revival work.

We studied over earnestly and decided that we would try to continue without giving it up.

But the word cancer, you know what it means when it's connected with you, if it ever has been.

I had known of people who died of cancer, in some cases, 3 or 4 weeks from the time they learn.

And then I did what this text says to do.

Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.

And the Lord impressed me to fight a fight of faith you know first Timothy 6 12 says fight the good fight of faith.

To keep our eyes fixed on Christ is a battle.

I sometimes call it Operation Jesus and when you are told that you have cancer you know your mind is on what?

So at the midnight hour, I'd awaken almost trembling.

Not that I was afraid to die, but I didn't want to die.

Not that I was afraid I would be lost if I died, but I didn't want to die.

And then the Lord impressed me to fight the fight of faith like this, to put mine on him thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is what?

I said dear Lord and I can't repeat word for word but it went almost like this.

Dear Lord at creation's dawn you spoke and worlds came into existence.

That's how powerful your word is because I had already I'd already learned how to claim Bible promises the Bible contains 3, 573 promises or clusters of promises And each promise contains the life of Jesus Christ.

John 6, 63, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit in their life.

The word of God taken in the heart creates a new creature, first, a second creature, 1, 4, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the Corruption that is in the world through luck and there are many forms of corruption cancer is part of it John 15 3 now are you clean through the word?

And I had claimed years before when it seemed I was going to die.

I'd claim Jeremiah 33 6, I will bring Glen Coon health and cure and I will cure Glen Coon.

You put your first and last name right in everywhere it says Judah or Jerusalem or them or or it put your first and last name in I'll bring Glen Coon health and cure I will cure Glen Coon I will reveal under Glen Coon the abundance of abundance of peace and truth and I said Lord, He tells me I have cancer but your word is cleansing, your word is healing, your word is life, your word, by your word the heavens were made, all the hosts of them, by the breath of your mouth.

By your word, you created light where there was nothing but darkness.

And then I went on down through the Old Testament.

I said Lord it was by by your word that the Red Sea parted for God's people.

It is by your word that the manna fell every day in the week except the Holy Sabbath day.

It is by your word that the water gushed out of that rock.

It was by your word that the Jordan banks overflowing caused the, resulted in the water turning back in both directions.

It was by your word that again and again and again Armies who hated God were defeated by your children that I came to New Testament And I said Lord It was by your word that the woman who touched the hem of your garment was healed.

And Lord down through the ages I told 1 thing after another after another by your word.

On Christ instead of cancer and I said Lord your word was greater than leprosy in Matthew chapter 8 verse 1 the leper said if you will you can make me clean and you said I will be thou clean The word was more powerful than leprosy.

It is therefore more powerful than cancer.

You said I'll bring Glen Coon health and cure.

By the way, parenthetically, let me give you a little motto, a little statement, and I think that probably I'll split the audience over it for a minute.

We'll make the statement you'll tell me whether it's right or wrong and it's this every child of God who remains a child of God will be healed yes or no let me repeat it Every child of God who remains a child of God will be healed, yes or no?

Every child of God who remains, who remains a child of God will be healed, yes or no?

Either now or in time or in the resurrection.

Let me repeat it and we'll see how many are with me now.

Every child of God who remains a child of God will be healed yes or no?

Yes, yes that's why let's not be talking about death, let's not be talking all the while about sickness every child of God who remains a child of God is going to be healed.

Every child of God who remains a child of God will be healed.

9 months later the same doctor said there's not a sign of cancer.

I don't believe that I would have gone through that 9 months at all if I hadn't done what this simple text says.

Thou will keep him, keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee You see how important it is for every child of God keep that mind stayed on Jesus Christ Since that is true What is the what is the battle of the evil 1 over?

It doesn't make any difference how good a thing it is to which we divert our mind so long as it is diverted from Christ.

You can even divert your mind to good doctrine, perfectly good doctrine, biblical, but good doctrine doesn't save.

All you ends of the earth, who anybody who keeps his gaze fixed on Jesus in simple trust follows Jesus, Believes in Jesus, trusts in Jesus, makes no substitute for Jesus.

He isn't following what mother did or father's religion, he's following what Jesus is showing him.

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And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father.

And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation great, mighty, and populous." And then the next, "'Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for thee.

Now the first text, the gem text, explains the pit from which we were digged.

And the second shows how we go out and share what he's done for us.

And if you would like to learn how to share and how to get something to share, don't miss getting into a prayer partnership.

In this particular church where I'm speaking now, tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock, The men have stated that they're going to have a men's prayer group at 6 o'clock from 6 to 7 and they've asked me to come in and teach it so they'll get the format.

I think that's a wonderful time to have a prayer group, don't you?

While other people are snoring we'll be in praying now in the prayer group you don't do all the praying for the hour you spend most of the time in studying and witnessing so there's nothing Don't get the impression that ABC prayer groups are drudgery.

And we're to say to people, I was a Syrian, my father was a Syrian.

Now maybe your father wasn't a Syrian, maybe my father wasn't a Syrian, but the principle is there, the principle is without the Lord I was nothing, right?

A Syrian didn't mean that the Syrians were nothing, it meant that they were, they didn't know the Lord.

And then the Lord chose 1 and revealed himself to that 1, just a few, And then the Lord did such marvelous miracles.

So we're to say the same thing in principle.

Like someone in our 630 question answer service was telling how he stopped drinking.

He said he was practically an alcoholic for many years.

He smoked and he drank profusely and he said then I stopped.

By God's grace, he said, by the grace of Jesus Christ.

My friends, let none of us go around telling people what we have done.

Let us let them know it's by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Even the will to break a habit comes from God.

It is God that worketh in you both the will and to do.

The willpower to break any habit is God's gift to us.

So God wants us to be humble and sweet and wholesome and let men and women know that we weren't it.

The Lord reached down with a big arm of love, and he said, I'll take care of you.

I'll be long-suffering, and I'll make you fit for my kingdom.

You know our favorite author states that the world is perishing for this simple testimony to tell people how we've claimed God's promise that's what it says tell them how we've tested his promise and it's proven true.

This is a testimony for which the world is perishing.

Why is the world perishing for that kind of a testimony?

Because they they want to know whether somebody has experienced his love.

And when they hear us tell how God loved us, they'll say, well, if God could love you, he can love anybody.

And we might just as well admit it, we're all just made of the dust of the earth, formed in the image of God, and we lost the image of God, and Jesus came to restore it.

Now, we've been sharing with you, and this is the last of the series on Andy.

Tomorrow begins something else that has thrilled my soul for years.

It is the experience of individuals who are in great trouble, in shock, in the state of shock practically, who have learned how to find perfect peace no matter what happens, no matter how great is the shock.

We've gotten Andy down through into college, and there he is receiving miraculous answers.

The oil has been stretched like it was in the days of Elisha.

The gas in his tank was stretched as best as we could figure out, and as best he could.

And 1 miracle after another, it got wrought on a woman's heart, a dear precious lady who had no money in savings, and she signed a note to the college that she would pay his tuition month by month.

I had the privilege of meeting that lady after we wrote the book.

She is just a humble, sweet, quiet child of God.

And the Lord is delighted with that kind of a child of his.

She wasn't at 1 of these big rabble-rousers or anything like that.

She just loved the Lord with all her heart.

She would be 1 of the most quiet members of the church probably.

And that reminds me of that beautiful statement in the book, The Desire of Ages.

He who loves Christ the most will do the most good aren't you glad for that It makes no difference what station in life we are, whether you're a teenager or whether you're a person 95 years old, he who loves Christ the most will do the most good.

The tutelage, the training, all of which is good in itself, isn't the most important thing.

The important thing is to know that my Redeemer lives and to know that he loves me with an everlasting love, Jeremiah 31 3, with loving kindness he's drawn me, you see.

As I sat in Pastor Andy's office in his study in Memphis, Tennessee, I had my recorder and I was recording what has been placed in our book, the answer was created.

We went into it in the 630 question and answer service.

As he sat there in his office, he told me of how he could have been in jail.

He said, because somehow because of my personality, I had been able to do great things in the in the commercial field at a very young age.

He was the leading person purchaser of a large company purchased as many as $100, 000 worth in a month.

And he seemed to have the technique of being able to sway minds.

And he said, and I enjoyed the sensuality of the world I drank in of it's follies until God caught up with me and he said I like to argue and he said I could win the argument he said I could win the argument on the truth that the seventh day is the Sabbath and I was breaking it right along.

But he said the worst thing perhaps about me of all was, he said I had a vicious temper.

He said that temper could have landed me in jail.

He said, 1 time I was just by the quick action of a bystander, saved the life of a man that I was coming at.

He said to think that the Lord, instead of letting me go into jail, he put me in the ministry.

Doesn't it remind you of the Apostle Paul?

This is a faithful saint, worthy of all acceptation.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Doesn't that tell us of a wonderful, long-suffering God?

He takes that man that had been so brutal as a persecutor and he brings him to a knowledge of Jesus Christ and actually in vision takes him all the way to the third heaven.

Oh friends, you and I need to let men and women know that God is love.

Oftentimes I say to young people, they say, I'm not interested in God.

And you know some of the older people then look at me I said I just hope you'll dump God what yes the God that you should dump never existed And the sooner you can dump that God and put him out of your mind, the better.

God is not looking down a pharisaical stern nose, trying to find all the mistakes you've made.

He's a God of tender love and compassion and pity and long-suffering, eager to come to the rescue of his unworthy children.

And those of us who are older, who've given our children and young people the impression that God is that kind of a God, we ought to say, God, forgive me.

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