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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Verse there.
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Then I'll come back and read a few verses in
Luke chapter fourteen, verse John chapter five, verse Fourlease God
you have first John chapter five, verse four.
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Here's what the Bible says.
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For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And
this is the victory. And this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith, Saint Luke, chapter fourteen.
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The Bible states in verse twenty five, and there went
great multitudes with him, and he turned.
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In seven to them.
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If any man come to me and hate not his
father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren and sisters, yea,
and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
And whatsoever doth not who and whosoever doth not bear
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his costs and come after me, he cannot be my disciple.
For which of you intending to build a tower sitteth
not down first and counteth the cost, whether he has
sufficient to finish it less happily, after he hath laid
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the foundation and is not able to finish it, all
that behold it begin to mock him, saying, this man
begin to build and was not able to finish. Please
notice in verse twenty eight the Bible said.
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Counteth the cost, counteth the cost. In our verse that we.
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Read in one John chapter five, there was a word
call victory.
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And I want to preach to you tonight.
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That the price of defeat is greater than the cost
of victory. The price of defeat is greater than the
cost of victory. People usually ask one of their first
questions when they see something or hear of something they would.
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Like to have, is how much does it cost?
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And contrary to the modern approach to Christianity, it is
going to cost you something to go to heaven. Being
a disciple of Jesus Christ, the cost is high.
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There is a price to pay to go to heaven.
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And the modernistic preachers today, many of them have no
prisce tag, and if they do have a price tag,
it is a markdown price on a cheap order of
cheap grace. But I must inform you, as a minister
of God, that there is a pricet tag attached to salvation.
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And although salvation.
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Itself is free, it is not cheap. Somebody paid the price.
And when I search the records that are listed in
this book, I see that others have paid the price
to make heaven their home.
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Stay with me. I want to preach to you.
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We are making a mistake when teaching this generation that
there is no cost in being a disciple of Christ.
We are teaching, even in the Holiness Church, ayman, that
we can measure our spirituality by our shout, or by
our feelings, or by our emotions. And in so doing
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we're failing to prepare this generation for a realistic walk
with God. But it's gonna cost something to make heaven
your home. Oh yes, this Christian race is not a
fifty yard dash.
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If it was, many would make it all the way home.
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But it is an endurance test, and you must continue
and endure to the.
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End if you want to be saved.
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I must tell you once again it will cost you
to make Heaven your home. It is a road of
self denial and Jesus, as I've read to you in
my text, said if any man come after me, let
him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
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That doesn't sound like a gospel so called that these
modernistics are preaching. They are preaching prosperity, prosperity, prosperity. But
you hear the old fashioned preacher tonight before I take
you and give you a prosperity plan. I'm gonna bring
you to the road of cavalry and to a fountain
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that's filled with blood, and tell you, emen, in order
to be save, you must crucify the flesh, and crucify
the fleshly desires it. You want to make heaven your home,
Help me while I preach Hallelujah.
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Oh yes.
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The Bible said in Luke thirteen and twenty four, to
strive to enter at the straight gate?
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Amen, What does the word strive means?
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It means to make it all our effort, to work hard,
to try hard, to contend to enter in at the
straight gate. For many shall seek to enter and will
not be able. We are a monashed to count the cost,
and the cost or the price of something is usually
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determined by the value you get in return. Whenever you
think about making Heaven your home, when you think about
hearing Him say well done, thou good and faithful Sermont,
intervowing to.
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The joys of the Lord.
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When you think about being forever with Jesus, there is
no price that could ever be attached to salvation that
would equal what we are getting in return. Victory is
never cheap. You can call me a bomb, you can
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call me a fanatic, you can even say I'm crazy,
but just don't call me a loser. I'm planning on
being the winner. I'm gonna win the victory. Hallelujah.
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I said.
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Victory is never cheap. For instance, this United States flag
that we have here tonight, it gives us liberty and
freedom right here in America. It would not be waving
tonight if somebody had not paid a price. Did you
hear me? I said, it would not be waving. We
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would not have the privilege of being gathered here. And
I don't mind telling you it bothers me when I
see some of these little whimpy guys running around, when
necklaces around their necks and here rings in their ears,
burning the United States flag.
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It bothers me because.
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I know somebody paid the price and then for that
flag to be here. How about a son, give me
that flag, bring it over here a little closer. When
those veterans are foreign wars, amen come around and they
start asking for donations for their little flags.
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Amen.
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Some don't have but one arm, some don't have but
one leg, some don't have but one eye. A man
always try to give them something and appreciation, Amen, for
what they did for me. Are you listening to what
I'm telling you?
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Amen?
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Don't you ever come around me wearing a T shirt
saying no fear, and you will not even salute the
American flag? Amen, you will not. You want to burn
or desecrate the flag. The reason young men and other
men want to burn the flag they don't have anything
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invested in that time. Yes, but some of us have
something invested. And the reason so many preachers are willing
to let the standards of holdin us down. They don't
have anything invested. But some of us have stood out
there for years, flat footed and preached and said, thus saith.
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The word of the Lord. Let me hurry on here.
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I'm proud to be an American. I am patriotic. If
you don't love it, leave it, hallelujah. I travel over
the world and I still say America is the best land,
even in anywhere in this world. And I appreciate those
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men that fought for this American flag.
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Listen to me now, Amen.
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In nineteen forty five, fifty two years ago, our American
soldiers landed on a beach.
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Amen, call iwo Jima. It was a little eight.
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And a half square mile island between Guam and Japan.
It was a key location and a strategic point in
winning the victory.
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Over the chaps.
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Our American soldiers landed on that beach with one golden mine,
and that was raising this American flag on the mountain
called Sarah Baika aymen. When they hit the beach head amen,
blood flowed white like water. Soldier after soldier was shut down.
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Some had their faces shot off, Amen and over, calling
over dead bodies, they made their way up that mountain
amen carrying this flag. Historians say, as soon as that
body was shot out from under the flag, somebody else
would get the flag and head on through the top
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of that mountain. They had one thought in mind, We're
gonna pay the price.
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Amen, We're gonna pay the price.
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After a while, they begin to drive the chaps off
the top of that mountain, and after a while, someone
over the top of the bodies of their dead buddies
raised the flag for the United States of America and
set it on that island there.
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What was the price?
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What was the cost of six thousand, eight and twenty
one American gis were killed nineteen thousand were wounded. You'd say,
what a high price, what a terrible price. But those
American soldiers knew that the cost of their defeat, if
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they were defeated, would be higher than the cost of victory.
I appreciate them doing it that hear me. My grand
children are probably be speaking Japanese or German. If those
men had not fought, are you listening, we wouldn't have
free enterprise like we haven't.
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Oh no, you ladies couldn't make all your sales, amen.
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But somebody fought that we could have liberty and freedom.
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It costs something.
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Someone may have said to those soldiers, the price is
too high, But when they considered the price of defeat,
they decided it's.
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Gonna cost us to win the victory.
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But the cost of victory will be less than the
cost of defeat. So I want to talk to you
tonight about another price that.
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Was paid for victory.
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The Bible said Enrollments five and twelve were for us
by one man. Sin entered into the world, and death
by sin. So death passed them on all men. For
all has sin. That's you and you, and you and
you and you. We all had.
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The sentence of death upon us. Amen, we were.
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All destined to go to hell, for we have all
sinned and come short of the glory of God. Death
passed upon all men. God tried different methods, Amen, to
reconcile lost humanity to himself.
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Amen.
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He shed the blood of loambs, and of goats, and
the bulls, and the.
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Ashes of heifers.
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But none of this could take away the guilt of
sin of humanity. But one day the cry of guilty humanity, Amen,
turned the looks of mercy in God's heaven. The world
and God sin of matchless lomb Jesus Christ, the Son
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of God, who came of one purpose in mind to
pay the price for my salvation, now for your salvation.
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He came to pay the price. He was rejected. Oh,
yes he was.
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He was refused. The world refused him. He was arrested.
He was tied in Pott's Judgment Hall. They whipped his
back until, according to Josephus, em and his introls were
protruding from his rib cage, his bowels were actually running out.
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They tortured him soul. The Bible said his visage was
more marred than any man.
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But after a while.
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We see him and I hate to see these artists
draw those little, whippy looking pictures of Jesus Christ. There
never was a more determined man, a more relentless man.
There never was a man like Jesus, a man who set.
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His eyes amen on the gold of the cost. Like
a friend.
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He was setting and heading towards Jerusalem and to Calvary to.
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Pay the price.
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As his back was bleeding, as he was suffering, the
crowd crying out, Crucify, crucified. They spit upon him, put
a crown of thorns on his head. And somebody may
have cried out and said, why not give it up.
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It's too high a cost, You're paying too much. But
hear him say, to this end, once I had born,
and for this cost I came into the world. Or
he could have presently call more than twelve legions of angels,
But he knew the cost of defeat would be greater
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than the cost of victory. In hell tonight, you'd be
in hell tonight. But Jesus was willing to pay the
price for victory. Oh hallelujah, listen, all the world will
be lost. It's going to cost you something now to
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win the victory. Salvation has already been paid for. But
when you start looking at such scriptures a second Corinth
in seven, wherefore come out from among them, and be
ye separate saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing.
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Then I will receive you and be a father under you,
and you shall be my sons and daughters. It's going
to cost something. Look at the man that's given up
on life. Look what it cost him. How many men
here work on a public job. Let's go for quiet here,
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nobody works. Everybody own welfare. Hallelujah. But it's rough when
that alarm goes off, to have to get up, go
out on the job. Hit it again, the eight ten
hours shift. But look at the man who give up
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on the economy. He's standing out there with a little sign,
dirty filthy clothes on homeless.
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Amen, we'll work for food. Oh no, he wouldn't. Amen,
he's already given.
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Up on life. Oh yes, it'll cost you something. But
young man, just be glad that you still have enough
zip and get up and go in you and enough
of the red blood of the American pioneer.
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Amen, that you're willing to get up and go out
on a job.
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Those of you that are married it'll cost you something
to keep your marriage together, or yes, there's a price
to keep the home together. Or you say, well, brother rich,
I see him going to the divorce courts all the time.
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I do too.
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But I also see the little children now that are
torn between Mama and daddy. Some are crying to go
with mother, some are crying to go with daddy the
court separates him. I see the heartache and different mulible
marriages that are not working out. It'll cost you something
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to keep your family together, but the price of defeat
will be greater than the cost of victory. Somebody saying, man, whoa,
I'm beginn to feel like preaching now. Hallelujah, my ministry
has cost me something. Oh yes, sure, I get tired,
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Shall I get weary?
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Sure?
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Sometimes I get tired of people calling me and oh Fogy,
dam Rich. But oh, the cost of defeat will be
greater than my cost of victory. So hear me tonight,
and then you can talk about me, scandalize my name.
But I'm going home with Jesus just the same. Hallelujah.
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I must run on through in sorrow and pain. I
must run home through the heat and the rain.
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I must run on.
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Though I lose my best friend, I must run on home.
I know I win in the end. I've got one
gold in mine. Defeat is one.
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Word I don't use.
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I'm on my way to heaven, and I'm gonna be
pronounced a winner. You say, brother rich, It's gonna cost you.
It has already cost me quite a bit. But when
I hear him say well done, thou good and faithful
soul hunt, the.
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Price will seem cheap to make Heaven my home. Listen
to me.
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In Romans a Revelation rather twelve verses eleven and twelve,
the writer said, woe to you, inhabitants of the earth
and sea, for Satan has come down too, you having
great wrath for a north that he hath but a
short time, Budy, none of the verse down says, but
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they overcame him. I'm going to be an overcomer, how
about you. I do not want to be defeated. I
want to be an overcomer. But they overcame him by
the blood.
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Of the lambman, by the word of their testimony.
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Now, I'm not trying to get in an argument with
any Bible scholar trying to throw out anything that would
cause any contention. But it's all right to preach the Bible,
is it, Amen? Whoever these people are, wherever they came from,
I'm not sure. But in Revelations Selena, I read about
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a great multitude that no man can number. Each one
had on white robes. They had palms in their hands.
They were singing the song of victory here and one
of the elders asked John this question, who are these?
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And whence came they? And John said, sir, thou norst.
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And the elder answered and said, these are they that
came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and.
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Made them white.
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In the Brother of the Lamb, I've never seen so
many people looking for an easy road into heaven. One
young preacher came up to me and said, but a
rich you travel aver the United States, and I'm getting
ready to go out in full time ministry, and i'd
like to start pastoring. Maybe you can tell me where
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there's an easy place.
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Brother. We're not on a Caribbean cruise, hey man.
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We're sailing your old ship of cyon nothing that's mattered
and scarred.
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We're sailing the bloody seas of time and Our.
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Journey will not be finished until we harbor safely in
the heaven's gold and Heaven's portals.
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There is no easy places.
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If they did these things in a green tree, what
will they do in the dry I read in the
Book of Revelation, chapter fifteen, verse two, and John the
Revelator said, and I saw, I said, we're.
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A sea of glass mingle with.
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Fire, and then that they'd gotten the victory over the bee,
over his image, over the number of his name. And
they stand on the sea of glass, having the harps
of God, and they sing the song of Moses and
the song of the Lamb. And they loved not their
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lives even under death. You say, preacher, it's too hard
to live for Jesus. The price is too high. You
need to look at what is gonna cost if you
don't live for Jesus. You need to look at what
is gonna cost if you do not turn loose of
your sins. Somebody said, this says too hard aiming to
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turn loose. I've encharged the things of the world so long.
It's just too hard. And sure, all loving God will
not require that in me. Here listen, after God sent
Heaven's best the pearl of great price, the lamb of God.
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This sin curse bore you.
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Hear me here, there is no distance too far to travel,
there is no load too heavy to carry, there is
no pain too severe to bear, there is no price
too high to pay. If you can hear them say,
well done, you vulnerable victory old be worth.
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Sister Rich and I all right, Little sister Rich and I.
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Almost forty years ago now, we left a beautiful home
situated on the top of the highest hill in Grover City, California,
looking out over the beautiful Pacific Ocean. It costs something.
I had a call on my life, so I gladly
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sold my business. I gladly turned looser. There a thing
that had me attached. And I took that little black
headed girl, not quite as black headed as she was
back then, but I took her and loaded her in
a car with two little babies, and we set out preaching.
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Brother.
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There's been times when we did not have the money
him in to get a motel room him. And if
somebody would have set fifth wheel, we'd have thought you're
talking in a foreign language.
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We didn't know what a fifth wheel was. Aymen.
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We've slept in the car we ate belonging got the
babies they me in cartons of milk from the grocery store.
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But old praise God.
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When I gathered my sheaves around me in that hell
only world, and I see the souls that Jesus has
helped me win. It's called me worth it all? Whoa
the cost of defeat?
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It's too high? I said, it's a high cost.
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John the Revelator sit in Revelation twenty verse twelve, and
I saw the dead, small and great stand before God.
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Oh yes.
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And the books were opened, and another book was opened,
which is the Book of Life. And the dead were
judge according to the things which were written in the books.
And it goes on to say, death and hell. We're
cast into the lake of fire. And whosoever's names was
not found written in the Lamb's Book of Life was
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cast into the lake of fire. Hear me, Hell, a terrible, burning, everlasting,
eternal hell. It's too high a price for the few
little paciers of sin you're enjoying tonight.
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Woh be easy just to be defeated.
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She gotta keep up the fight, keep on fighting, Amen
endure hardness, says a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Oh,
I've got to make it. Yes, I've had them to
talk about me. I've had to get upset because I
wouldn't get involved in every little church problem.
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That comes along.
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He said, as a compromiser, you ask me, anybody ask
me what I believe on any issue, I'll tell you.
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Like that it won't even bat mine. But I do
not have time.
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To get into every fuss that folks have in every church.
I go, amen, I'm not gonna get involved. And that's
why I have but one gold, and that's to make
Heaven my home. I'm hurrying on here. Some commit suicide.
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They thought life was too hard. But oh, the price
of defeat.
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I don't know how many problems you have. I don't
know how many cares you.
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Have, But your soul is worth more than all the problems.
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And those that take a gun stick to their head
thinking they're getting out of all their troubles, brother, you're
just now starting your troubles. The price of defeat is
greater than the price of victory. In Revelation six and nine,
the revelator saw the fifth seal opened, and he said,
I saw unto the all of the souls of them
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that were slain for the word of God and for
the testimony for which they held. And they cried with
a loud voice, saying, how long, O Lord, Holy and True,
dost thou not judge and avenge Our blood on them
that grow on the face of the earth, and white
robes was given under them, every one of them. And
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it was setting to them that they should rest yet
for a little season, until their fellow servants and their
brethren that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Hey,
the cost of defeat is greater than the cost of victory.
Now let me get down real personal. Oh don't you
love it when I get personal? Hell?
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Helujah, hallelujah.
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Even Jesus eimn the Bible said, we're foreseeing we are
compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.
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Amen.
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Oh, yes, let us run with patience the race that
is set before us, looking under Jesus, the Author and
the finisher of our.
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Faith, for the joy that was set before him.
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He endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated
at the right hand of the Father. For consider him, Amen,
who endured such congrediction of sinners, Lest you also be
weary and faith in your mind. You're not gonna be
popular with this old world when.
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You take your stand for Jesus. Did you hear me?
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You're not gonna be accepted when you take your stand
for Jesus.
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The world's gonna despise you.
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They're gonna hate you, and just your presence is gonna
bring condemnation on them. When your good holy sisters walk
around in your good holiness dresses and those ladies are
in their pants, you don't have to say nothing. They
feel it and they don't like it, you know why
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under condemnation. I was in the hospital not long ago.
They're in Oklahoma or California rather where my mother was at.
A lady I knew they're supposed to went to the
hole in the church, came in. She was in her pants.
Her grandson had been in an accident. She had no
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idea of meeting me down there at one o'clock in
the morning.
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I didn't say.
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Words of how are you doing, sister? All my grandson's
in bad sheet, he's in an accident. I said, I'm
sorry to hear about it. Oh, brother Richie. I just
had to get ready real quick, and I grabbed these
old pants. I didn't say a word about it. She
could grab an old dress, she says, quick as she
grabbed them old pants, said, I grabbed these old pants.
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I got here quick as I could, said I feel
so bad. Two or three times, I didn't say a word.
I'll tell you, whenever you live a sanctified life, the
world's going to know it.
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When you dress different.
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Than the world, the world's going to know it. You know,
when you take your stand and you refused the offers
of the world, the Earl's gonna annoy it that it
will cost you something to be different. It'll cost you
something to be separate. But if you don't, you're gonna
be defeated. And the high cost of defeat is greater
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than the cost of victory.
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Now listen to me. Listen to me.
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A few years ago, asked preaching revival, a man got
under conviction. He came to the altar to give his
heart to the Lord. He did give his heart to
the Lord. He really prayed through. When he got up,
his wife was with him. She wouldn't come to the order.
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When he got up.
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She started mocking him and laughing and pointing her finger
at him. He going on back and sit down, and
that's okay. If I just get her to come back
tomorrow night, I'll maybe I can get her in the altar.
She came back the next night with her husband, who
had been saved the night before.
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And all the time I preach, she set.
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Back at sticking out her tongue, making faces at me.
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I just kept on preaching.
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Seen a lot of other faces, but never has stopped
me from preaching. I'm still preaching to night. Okay, I'm wanna.
I'll just move on real quick now, hallelujah. And so
I was preaching away and she is making faces. Went
back and invited her to the alder, and she laughed
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at me. Her husband came on to the altar, kept
on praying, and finally she told him said, if you
keep going to that church and down to that altar,
I'm gonna leave you. So he came and talked to
the pastor and said, my wife is threatening to leave
me if I don't quit coming to this church and praying.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
What should I do?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
And bless that dear pastor's heart? He said, why don't
you talk to the evangelist brother Rich about it? So
she come over and talked He come over and talk
to me about it, and said, my wife has threatened
to leave me if I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Quit coming to church and praying. So what do you
say now?
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It's always been my great desire to keep families together,
em and I've always worked at that end. And so
I told him that that was my desire. But I
also told him that if it stood between him and
God Almighty, it is better to obey God than man.
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So he kept coming to the church, and at the
end of the revival, we announced a water baptismal service
on Sunday afternoon. So he came Saturday night told the pastor, said,
I really want to get baptized in water. But my
wife gave me the altimatum. She said, if you're baptized
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in I'm leaving you and not stay with you another day. Now,
he said, ask the pastor what should I do? Bless
his heart, he said, why don't you go talk to
Brother Rich about it? So he came over. I gave
him the same answer. You cannot put no one ahead
of God, Jesus said, if any men come to me
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and hate.
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Not his father and mother and wife.
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And children and brothers and sisters, yeay and his own wife. Also,
he cannot be my disciple. No one can ever come
between you and God. God is a jealous God, I said,
God is a jealous God.
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He will let not have nor the gods before him.
Listen to me.
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So we announced the water baptismal service. We went out
on the bank of the river. The church gathered there.
I think we had seventeen new converts to be baptized.
You all like him old fashioned water baptismal services. Had
the old guitar out there and the organ, people singing,
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Shall we gather at the river, the beautiful, the beautiful river.
I preached a little while on the bank, and the
pastor and I went out into the water. My method
is to take every candidate for water baptism out into
the water the same time.
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Let them all stay out there till it's all over.
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And I had them all out there lined up, and
we started baptizing them in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Ghost. And the spirit
of the Lord was a moving. About that time, we
heard a car driving up went up on top of
the hill. It was this man and his wife. He
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was dressed in a suit. He got out and she
got out. They sat up there on the car and
watched the water baptismal service. We kept baptizing them one
by one. Finally we got to the last one. We
were taking them out of the water, and the people
were congratulating them, and they were singing, and some was
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just shouting and rejoicing. And I just stepped back in
the water about this deep, and when things sort of
settled down, I lifted my hand.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I said, maybe there's.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Somebody out there and you're saved, and you know you're saved,
and you have not been baptized, and you want to
be baptized in water.
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I'm waiting on you right now.
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About that time, upon that bank, that fella looked over
his wife, took off his coat and said, honey, I
love you, but I love cheese.
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Say even more through her his coat.
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Run about twenty or thirty steps through his billfold back
to her. Hit that water. I almost went underfore I
could get a hold of him. Finally got a hold
of him, baptized him in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Ghost, and brought him
up out of that water. Hey, listen, it cost him
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something to come off of that bank. That cost him
something to tell her, Honey, I love you, but I
love God even more. Two days later, I was preaching
in the state of Arkansas. They called me and said
that man was on his way to work and a
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big tanker truck came over on his side of the
road and hit him and took him.
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Out into eternity.
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Or if he could talk to you tonight, he'd tell
you it cost me. But I told my wife, honey,
I love you, but I love Jesus more. It cost
me something, But the price of my defeat that would
have been higher than the cost of victory. You know
what I'm telling you. They've an live for God. Don't
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let nothing stank between you and the Lord. Be willing
to leave it all behind. Oh take this whole, but
give me Jesus.
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Oh whoa.
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I had a hard time getting started, I may have
a hard time getting stopped.
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Now I'm talking to you. You, you, you, you you.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
You wanna justify your hurts, You wanna justify your backsidings.
You want to justify the fact that you're still in sin.
How can you look at Calvary? How can you look
at the suffering and justify yourself in your sins? There's
only one place you can be justified, and that's to
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come to the fountain that's fill of blood drawn from
me Manuel's veins. And there and there alone, can you
be justified.
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Listen to me. He'll cost but the cost of defeat.
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If you come to this order of the night, backslider,
it'll cost you something, but it'll cost you more if
you don't come. Oh yes, I read by preaching too
long by cons knows you're looking.
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At your watch. I don't mind them looking at their watch.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I just hate for them taking them out and beat
them on the front bench and from saying listen, see
if we're still running.
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Hellelujah, praiase God.
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I'm talking to you, backslider. I'm talking to you, sinner.
I'm talking to you. That's playing with the world. It's
it's gonna cost you more if you're defeated than it will.
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If you make Heaven your home. Listen.
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According to a story I heard recently, there was a
man by the name of Randy Creedy. According to historians,
it is the greatest case of backsliding that's been recorded
in modern day church history. Randy Creedy lived in the
Bush country of Africa, had a different name and a
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medical doctor missionary from London, England, came to Africa. There
he fell in as good friends with this young African boy.
He decided to take him back to England with him.
He took him out of the bush country in the
savage country and took him back to England. There he
gave him his name, his last name Creedy, and he
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named the young man Randy Creedy. There he educated and
cultured this young man in London, England. He sent him
to medical school and he graduated from medical school. And
when he sent him on amen to seminary and he
graduated from seminary.
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There he met a young girl and married her. In England,
a young.
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Englishwoman married her and they decided to go back to
his people as missionaries, back to Africa, back to where
the savages were. When he got there, they started trying
to do missionary work. But every time he would hear
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those drums beating over theres, those savages.
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Danced around their fires.
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He told his wife, he said, there's drums beating in
my chest. When I hear those drums beating, I feel
beatings and vibrations in my chest. He kept getting closer
day by day. Finally, one day, Rendy Creedy went to
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where these young men were dancing naked around and around
the fire. As he listened his breast, his chest began
to vibrate, and before he knew it, he had ripped
off his clothing, ran out with the savages, and once
again was dancing around and around the fire. Never did
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go back to his wife, never went back to his baby.
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She finally had to.
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Leave and go home and told the story. Well, let
me tell you something, Randy Creedy. If i'd ha been there,
I'd have told you. When you feel and hear those
drums of beating in your chest, run to the costs
of Calrey, call on the name of Jesus and listen
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to me. It's dangerous to get too close to the world.
It's dangerous to get too close to the things of
the world that beating or start in your breast. Oh, yes,
those of us has been saved over forty years. I've
been saved forty years ago. I was listening to Ernest
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tub sing I'm walking the four over you Amen, She's
my Filipino baby, and all those songs hear me.
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I can accidentally hear.
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That over the radio, and those words are come to
me just like they did over forty years ago.
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Say what are you.
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Saying, brother Rich, I'm saying, get as far away from
the world as you can. Make up your mind. You're
gonna throw the world overboard, and you're going to go
for Jesus. Preachers will be a cost to pay if
you're passive to the devil in sin. Don't try to
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make a league with the devil. Now listen, mister devil,
if you don't bother me, I won't bother you. Well,
I'm here to tell you I'm gonna expose a devil.
I'm gonna expose sin. It's the devil's desire to take
him a one of you to Hell as fast as
he can.
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But you've got to make up your mind. You'll pay
the price and separate from yours
Verse there.
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Then I'll come back and read a few verses in
Luke chapter fourteen, verse John chapter five, verse Fourlease God
you have first John chapter five, verse four.
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Here's what the Bible says.
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For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And
this is the victory. And this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith, Saint Luke, chapter fourteen.
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The Bible states in verse twenty five, and there went
great multitudes with him, and he turned.
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In seven to them.
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If any man come to me and hate not his
father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren and sisters, yea,
and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
And whatsoever doth not who and whosoever doth not bear
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his costs and come after me, he cannot be my disciple.
For which of you intending to build a tower sitteth
not down first and counteth the cost, whether he has
sufficient to finish it less happily, after he hath laid
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the foundation and is not able to finish it, all
that behold it begin to mock him, saying, this man
begin to build and was not able to finish. Please
notice in verse twenty eight the Bible said.
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Counteth the cost, counteth the cost. In our verse that we.
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Read in one John chapter five, there was a word
call victory.
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And I want to preach to you tonight.
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That the price of defeat is greater than the cost
of victory. The price of defeat is greater than the
cost of victory. People usually ask one of their first
questions when they see something or hear of something they would.
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Like to have, is how much does it cost?
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And contrary to the modern approach to Christianity, it is
going to cost you something to go to heaven. Being
a disciple of Jesus Christ, the cost is high.
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There is a price to pay to go to heaven.
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And the modernistic preachers today, many of them have no
prisce tag, and if they do have a price tag,
it is a markdown price on a cheap order of
cheap grace. But I must inform you, as a minister
of God, that there is a pricet tag attached to salvation.
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And although salvation.
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Itself is free, it is not cheap. Somebody paid the price.
And when I search the records that are listed in
this book, I see that others have paid the price
to make heaven their home.
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Stay with me. I want to preach to you.
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We are making a mistake when teaching this generation that
there is no cost in being a disciple of Christ.
We are teaching, even in the Holiness Church, ayman, that
we can measure our spirituality by our shout, or by
our feelings, or by our emotions. And in so doing
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we're failing to prepare this generation for a realistic walk
with God. But it's gonna cost something to make heaven
your home. Oh yes, this Christian race is not a
fifty yard dash.
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If it was, many would make it all the way home.
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But it is an endurance test, and you must continue
and endure to the.
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End if you want to be saved.
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I must tell you once again it will cost you
to make Heaven your home. It is a road of
self denial and Jesus, as I've read to you in
my text, said if any man come after me, let
him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
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That doesn't sound like a gospel so called that these
modernistics are preaching. They are preaching prosperity, prosperity, prosperity. But
you hear the old fashioned preacher tonight before I take
you and give you a prosperity plan. I'm gonna bring
you to the road of cavalry and to a fountain
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that's filled with blood, and tell you, emen, in order
to be save, you must crucify the flesh, and crucify
the fleshly desires it. You want to make heaven your home,
Help me while I preach Hallelujah.
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Oh yes.
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The Bible said in Luke thirteen and twenty four, to
strive to enter at the straight gate?
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Amen, What does the word strive means?
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It means to make it all our effort, to work hard,
to try hard, to contend to enter in at the
straight gate. For many shall seek to enter and will
not be able. We are a monashed to count the cost,
and the cost or the price of something is usually
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determined by the value you get in return. Whenever you
think about making Heaven your home, when you think about
hearing Him say well done, thou good and faithful Sermont,
intervowing to.
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The joys of the Lord.
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When you think about being forever with Jesus, there is
no price that could ever be attached to salvation that
would equal what we are getting in return. Victory is
never cheap. You can call me a bomb, you can
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call me a fanatic, you can even say I'm crazy,
but just don't call me a loser. I'm planning on
being the winner. I'm gonna win the victory. Hallelujah.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I said.
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Victory is never cheap. For instance, this United States flag
that we have here tonight, it gives us liberty and
freedom right here in America. It would not be waving
tonight if somebody had not paid a price. Did you
hear me? I said, it would not be waving. We
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would not have the privilege of being gathered here. And
I don't mind telling you it bothers me when I
see some of these little whimpy guys running around, when
necklaces around their necks and here rings in their ears,
burning the United States flag.
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It bothers me because.
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I know somebody paid the price and then for that
flag to be here. How about a son, give me
that flag, bring it over here a little closer. When
those veterans are foreign wars, amen come around and they
start asking for donations for their little flags.
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Amen.
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Some don't have but one arm, some don't have but
one leg, some don't have but one eye. A man
always try to give them something and appreciation, Amen, for
what they did for me. Are you listening to what
I'm telling you?
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Amen?
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Don't you ever come around me wearing a T shirt
saying no fear, and you will not even salute the
American flag? Amen, you will not. You want to burn
or desecrate the flag. The reason young men and other
men want to burn the flag they don't have anything
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invested in that time. Yes, but some of us have
something invested. And the reason so many preachers are willing
to let the standards of holdin us down. They don't
have anything invested. But some of us have stood out
there for years, flat footed and preached and said, thus saith.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
The word of the Lord. Let me hurry on here.
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I'm proud to be an American. I am patriotic. If
you don't love it, leave it, hallelujah. I travel over
the world and I still say America is the best land,
even in anywhere in this world. And I appreciate those
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men that fought for this American flag.
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Listen to me now, Amen.
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In nineteen forty five, fifty two years ago, our American
soldiers landed on a beach.
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Amen, call iwo Jima. It was a little eight.
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And a half square mile island between Guam and Japan.
It was a key location and a strategic point in
winning the victory.
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Over the chaps.
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Our American soldiers landed on that beach with one golden mine,
and that was raising this American flag on the mountain
called Sarah Baika aymen. When they hit the beach head amen,
blood flowed white like water. Soldier after soldier was shut down.
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Some had their faces shot off, Amen and over, calling
over dead bodies, they made their way up that mountain
amen carrying this flag. Historians say, as soon as that
body was shot out from under the flag, somebody else
would get the flag and head on through the top
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of that mountain. They had one thought in mind, We're
gonna pay the price.
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Amen, We're gonna pay the price.
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After a while, they begin to drive the chaps off
the top of that mountain, and after a while, someone
over the top of the bodies of their dead buddies
raised the flag for the United States of America and
set it on that island there.
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What was the price?
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What was the cost of six thousand, eight and twenty
one American gis were killed nineteen thousand were wounded. You'd say,
what a high price, what a terrible price. But those
American soldiers knew that the cost of their defeat, if
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they were defeated, would be higher than the cost of victory.
I appreciate them doing it that hear me. My grand
children are probably be speaking Japanese or German. If those
men had not fought, are you listening, we wouldn't have
free enterprise like we haven't.
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Oh no, you ladies couldn't make all your sales, amen.
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But somebody fought that we could have liberty and freedom.
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It costs something.
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Someone may have said to those soldiers, the price is
too high, But when they considered the price of defeat,
they decided it's.
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Gonna cost us to win the victory.
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But the cost of victory will be less than the
cost of defeat. So I want to talk to you
tonight about another price that.
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Was paid for victory.
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The Bible said Enrollments five and twelve were for us
by one man. Sin entered into the world, and death
by sin. So death passed them on all men. For
all has sin. That's you and you, and you and
you and you. We all had.
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The sentence of death upon us. Amen, we were.
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All destined to go to hell, for we have all
sinned and come short of the glory of God. Death
passed upon all men. God tried different methods, Amen, to
reconcile lost humanity to himself.
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Amen.
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He shed the blood of loambs, and of goats, and
the bulls, and the.
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Ashes of heifers.
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But none of this could take away the guilt of
sin of humanity. But one day the cry of guilty humanity, Amen,
turned the looks of mercy in God's heaven. The world
and God sin of matchless lomb Jesus Christ, the Son
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of God, who came of one purpose in mind to
pay the price for my salvation, now for your salvation.
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He came to pay the price. He was rejected. Oh,
yes he was.
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He was refused. The world refused him. He was arrested.
He was tied in Pott's Judgment Hall. They whipped his
back until, according to Josephus, em and his introls were
protruding from his rib cage, his bowels were actually running out.
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They tortured him soul. The Bible said his visage was
more marred than any man.
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But after a while.
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We see him and I hate to see these artists
draw those little, whippy looking pictures of Jesus Christ. There
never was a more determined man, a more relentless man.
There never was a man like Jesus, a man who set.
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His eyes amen on the gold of the cost. Like
a friend.
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He was setting and heading towards Jerusalem and to Calvary to.
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Pay the price.
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As his back was bleeding, as he was suffering, the
crowd crying out, Crucify, crucified. They spit upon him, put
a crown of thorns on his head. And somebody may
have cried out and said, why not give it up.
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It's too high a cost, You're paying too much. But
hear him say, to this end, once I had born,
and for this cost I came into the world. Or
he could have presently call more than twelve legions of angels,
But he knew the cost of defeat would be greater
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than the cost of victory. In hell tonight, you'd be
in hell tonight. But Jesus was willing to pay the
price for victory. Oh hallelujah, listen, all the world will
be lost. It's going to cost you something now to
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win the victory. Salvation has already been paid for. But
when you start looking at such scriptures a second Corinth
in seven, wherefore come out from among them, and be
ye separate saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing.
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Then I will receive you and be a father under you,
and you shall be my sons and daughters. It's going
to cost something. Look at the man that's given up
on life. Look what it cost him. How many men
here work on a public job. Let's go for quiet here,
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nobody works. Everybody own welfare. Hallelujah. But it's rough when
that alarm goes off, to have to get up, go
out on the job. Hit it again, the eight ten
hours shift. But look at the man who give up
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on the economy. He's standing out there with a little sign,
dirty filthy clothes on homeless.
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Amen, we'll work for food. Oh no, he wouldn't. Amen,
he's already given.
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Up on life. Oh yes, it'll cost you something. But
young man, just be glad that you still have enough
zip and get up and go in you and enough
of the red blood of the American pioneer.
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Amen, that you're willing to get up and go out
on a job.
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Those of you that are married it'll cost you something
to keep your marriage together, or yes, there's a price
to keep the home together. Or you say, well, brother rich,
I see him going to the divorce courts all the time.
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I do too.
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But I also see the little children now that are
torn between Mama and daddy. Some are crying to go
with mother, some are crying to go with daddy the
court separates him. I see the heartache and different mulible
marriages that are not working out. It'll cost you something
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to keep your family together, but the price of defeat
will be greater than the cost of victory. Somebody saying, man, whoa,
I'm beginn to feel like preaching now. Hallelujah, my ministry
has cost me something. Oh yes, sure, I get tired,
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Shall I get weary?
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Sure?
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Sometimes I get tired of people calling me and oh Fogy,
dam Rich. But oh, the cost of defeat will be
greater than my cost of victory. So hear me tonight,
and then you can talk about me, scandalize my name.
But I'm going home with Jesus just the same. Hallelujah.
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I must run on through in sorrow and pain. I
must run home through the heat and the rain.
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I must run on.
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Though I lose my best friend, I must run on home.
I know I win in the end. I've got one
gold in mine. Defeat is one.
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Word I don't use.
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I'm on my way to heaven, and I'm gonna be
pronounced a winner. You say, brother rich, It's gonna cost you.
It has already cost me quite a bit. But when
I hear him say well done, thou good and faithful
soul hunt, the.
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Price will seem cheap to make Heaven my home. Listen
to me.
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In Romans a Revelation rather twelve verses eleven and twelve,
the writer said, woe to you, inhabitants of the earth
and sea, for Satan has come down too, you having
great wrath for a north that he hath but a
short time, Budy, none of the verse down says, but
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they overcame him. I'm going to be an overcomer, how
about you. I do not want to be defeated. I
want to be an overcomer. But they overcame him by
the blood.
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Of the lambman, by the word of their testimony.
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Now, I'm not trying to get in an argument with
any Bible scholar trying to throw out anything that would
cause any contention. But it's all right to preach the Bible,
is it, Amen? Whoever these people are, wherever they came from,
I'm not sure. But in Revelations Selena, I read about
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a great multitude that no man can number. Each one
had on white robes. They had palms in their hands.
They were singing the song of victory here and one
of the elders asked John this question, who are these?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And whence came they? And John said, sir, thou norst.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And the elder answered and said, these are they that
came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Made them white.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
In the Brother of the Lamb, I've never seen so
many people looking for an easy road into heaven. One
young preacher came up to me and said, but a
rich you travel aver the United States, and I'm getting
ready to go out in full time ministry, and i'd
like to start pastoring. Maybe you can tell me where
(22:07):
there's an easy place.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Brother. We're not on a Caribbean cruise, hey man.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
We're sailing your old ship of cyon nothing that's mattered
and scarred.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
We're sailing the bloody seas of time and Our.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Journey will not be finished until we harbor safely in
the heaven's gold and Heaven's portals.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
There is no easy places.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
If they did these things in a green tree, what
will they do in the dry I read in the
Book of Revelation, chapter fifteen, verse two, and John the
Revelator said, and I saw, I said, we're.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
A sea of glass mingle with.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Fire, and then that they'd gotten the victory over the bee,
over his image, over the number of his name. And
they stand on the sea of glass, having the harps
of God, and they sing the song of Moses and
the song of the Lamb. And they loved not their
(23:16):
lives even under death. You say, preacher, it's too hard
to live for Jesus. The price is too high. You
need to look at what is gonna cost if you
don't live for Jesus. You need to look at what
is gonna cost if you do not turn loose of
your sins. Somebody said, this says too hard aiming to
(23:40):
turn loose. I've encharged the things of the world so long.
It's just too hard. And sure, all loving God will
not require that in me. Here listen, after God sent
Heaven's best the pearl of great price, the lamb of God.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
This sin curse bore you.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Hear me here, there is no distance too far to travel,
there is no load too heavy to carry, there is
no pain too severe to bear, there is no price
too high to pay. If you can hear them say,
well done, you vulnerable victory old be worth.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Sister Rich and I all right, Little sister Rich and I.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Almost forty years ago now, we left a beautiful home
situated on the top of the highest hill in Grover City, California,
looking out over the beautiful Pacific Ocean. It costs something.
I had a call on my life, so I gladly
(24:54):
sold my business. I gladly turned looser. There a thing
that had me attached. And I took that little black
headed girl, not quite as black headed as she was
back then, but I took her and loaded her in
a car with two little babies, and we set out preaching.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Brother.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
There's been times when we did not have the money
him in to get a motel room him. And if
somebody would have set fifth wheel, we'd have thought you're
talking in a foreign language.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We didn't know what a fifth wheel was. Aymen.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We've slept in the car we ate belonging got the
babies they me in cartons of milk from the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
But old praise God.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
When I gathered my sheaves around me in that hell
only world, and I see the souls that Jesus has
helped me win. It's called me worth it all? Whoa
the cost of defeat?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It's too high? I said, it's a high cost.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
John the Revelator sit in Revelation twenty verse twelve, and
I saw the dead, small and great stand before God.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Oh yes.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
And the books were opened, and another book was opened,
which is the Book of Life. And the dead were
judge according to the things which were written in the books.
And it goes on to say, death and hell. We're
cast into the lake of fire. And whosoever's names was
not found written in the Lamb's Book of Life was
(26:38):
cast into the lake of fire. Hear me, Hell, a terrible, burning, everlasting,
eternal hell. It's too high a price for the few
little paciers of sin you're enjoying tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Woh be easy just to be defeated.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
She gotta keep up the fight, keep on fighting, Amen
endure hardness, says a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Oh,
I've got to make it. Yes, I've had them to
talk about me. I've had to get upset because I
wouldn't get involved in every little church problem.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That comes along.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He said, as a compromiser, you ask me, anybody ask
me what I believe on any issue, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Like that it won't even bat mine. But I do
not have time.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
To get into every fuss that folks have in every church.
I go, amen, I'm not gonna get involved. And that's
why I have but one gold, and that's to make
Heaven my home. I'm hurrying on here. Some commit suicide.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
They thought life was too hard. But oh, the price
of defeat.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I don't know how many problems you have. I don't
know how many cares you.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Have, But your soul is worth more than all the problems.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And those that take a gun stick to their head
thinking they're getting out of all their troubles, brother, you're
just now starting your troubles. The price of defeat is
greater than the price of victory. In Revelation six and nine,
the revelator saw the fifth seal opened, and he said,
I saw unto the all of the souls of them
(28:40):
that were slain for the word of God and for
the testimony for which they held. And they cried with
a loud voice, saying, how long, O Lord, Holy and True,
dost thou not judge and avenge Our blood on them
that grow on the face of the earth, and white
robes was given under them, every one of them. And
(29:00):
it was setting to them that they should rest yet
for a little season, until their fellow servants and their
brethren that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Hey,
the cost of defeat is greater than the cost of victory.
Now let me get down real personal. Oh don't you
love it when I get personal? Hell?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Helujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Even Jesus eimn the Bible said, we're foreseeing we are
compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Oh, yes, let us run with patience the race that
is set before us, looking under Jesus, the Author and
the finisher of our.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Faith, for the joy that was set before him.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
He endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated
at the right hand of the Father. For consider him, Amen,
who endured such congrediction of sinners, Lest you also be
weary and faith in your mind. You're not gonna be
popular with this old world when.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
You take your stand for Jesus. Did you hear me?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You're not gonna be accepted when you take your stand
for Jesus.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The world's gonna despise you.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
They're gonna hate you, and just your presence is gonna
bring condemnation on them. When your good holy sisters walk
around in your good holiness dresses and those ladies are
in their pants, you don't have to say nothing. They
feel it and they don't like it, you know why
(30:50):
under condemnation. I was in the hospital not long ago.
They're in Oklahoma or California rather where my mother was at.
A lady I knew they're supposed to went to the
hole in the church, came in. She was in her pants.
Her grandson had been in an accident. She had no
(31:11):
idea of meeting me down there at one o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I didn't say.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Words of how are you doing, sister? All my grandson's
in bad sheet, he's in an accident. I said, I'm
sorry to hear about it. Oh, brother Richie. I just
had to get ready real quick, and I grabbed these
old pants. I didn't say a word about it. She
could grab an old dress, she says, quick as she
grabbed them old pants, said, I grabbed these old pants.
(31:37):
I got here quick as I could, said I feel
so bad. Two or three times, I didn't say a word.
I'll tell you, whenever you live a sanctified life, the
world's going to know it.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
When you dress different.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Than the world, the world's going to know it. You know,
when you take your stand and you refused the offers
of the world, the Earl's gonna annoy it that it
will cost you something to be different. It'll cost you
something to be separate. But if you don't, you're gonna
be defeated. And the high cost of defeat is greater
(32:15):
than the cost of victory.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Now listen to me. Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
A few years ago, asked preaching revival, a man got
under conviction. He came to the altar to give his
heart to the Lord. He did give his heart to
the Lord. He really prayed through. When he got up,
his wife was with him. She wouldn't come to the order.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
When he got up.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
She started mocking him and laughing and pointing her finger
at him. He going on back and sit down, and
that's okay. If I just get her to come back
tomorrow night, I'll maybe I can get her in the altar.
She came back the next night with her husband, who
had been saved the night before.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And all the time I preach, she set.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Back at sticking out her tongue, making faces at me.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I just kept on preaching.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Seen a lot of other faces, but never has stopped
me from preaching. I'm still preaching to night. Okay, I'm wanna.
I'll just move on real quick now, hallelujah. And so
I was preaching away and she is making faces. Went
back and invited her to the alder, and she laughed
(33:36):
at me. Her husband came on to the altar, kept
on praying, and finally she told him said, if you
keep going to that church and down to that altar,
I'm gonna leave you. So he came and talked to
the pastor and said, my wife is threatening to leave
me if I don't quit coming to this church and praying.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
What should I do?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
And bless that dear pastor's heart? He said, why don't
you talk to the evangelist brother Rich about it? So
she come over and talked He come over and talk
to me about it, and said, my wife has threatened
to leave me if I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Quit coming to church and praying. So what do you
say now?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
It's always been my great desire to keep families together,
em and I've always worked at that end. And so
I told him that that was my desire. But I
also told him that if it stood between him and
God Almighty, it is better to obey God than man.
(34:38):
So he kept coming to the church, and at the
end of the revival, we announced a water baptismal service
on Sunday afternoon. So he came Saturday night told the pastor, said,
I really want to get baptized in water. But my
wife gave me the altimatum. She said, if you're baptized
(34:59):
in I'm leaving you and not stay with you another day. Now,
he said, ask the pastor what should I do? Bless
his heart, he said, why don't you go talk to
Brother Rich about it? So he came over. I gave
him the same answer. You cannot put no one ahead
of God, Jesus said, if any men come to me
(35:23):
and hate.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Not his father and mother and wife.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
And children and brothers and sisters, yeay and his own wife. Also,
he cannot be my disciple. No one can ever come
between you and God. God is a jealous God, I said,
God is a jealous God.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
He will let not have nor the gods before him.
Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
So we announced the water baptismal service. We went out
on the bank of the river. The church gathered there.
I think we had seventeen new converts to be baptized.
You all like him old fashioned water baptismal services. Had
the old guitar out there and the organ, people singing,
(36:13):
Shall we gather at the river, the beautiful, the beautiful river.
I preached a little while on the bank, and the
pastor and I went out into the water. My method
is to take every candidate for water baptism out into
the water the same time.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Let them all stay out there till it's all over.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
And I had them all out there lined up, and
we started baptizing them in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Ghost. And the spirit
of the Lord was a moving. About that time, we
heard a car driving up went up on top of
the hill. It was this man and his wife. He
(36:57):
was dressed in a suit. He got out and she
got out. They sat up there on the car and
watched the water baptismal service. We kept baptizing them one
by one. Finally we got to the last one. We
were taking them out of the water, and the people
were congratulating them, and they were singing, and some was
(37:19):
just shouting and rejoicing. And I just stepped back in
the water about this deep, and when things sort of
settled down, I lifted my hand.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I said, maybe there's.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Somebody out there and you're saved, and you know you're saved,
and you have not been baptized, and you want to
be baptized in water.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I'm waiting on you right now.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
About that time, upon that bank, that fella looked over
his wife, took off his coat and said, honey, I
love you, but I love cheese.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Say even more through her his coat.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Run about twenty or thirty steps through his billfold back
to her. Hit that water. I almost went underfore I
could get a hold of him. Finally got a hold
of him, baptized him in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Ghost, and brought him
up out of that water. Hey, listen, it cost him
(38:22):
something to come off of that bank. That cost him
something to tell her, Honey, I love you, but I
love God even more. Two days later, I was preaching
in the state of Arkansas. They called me and said
that man was on his way to work and a
(38:44):
big tanker truck came over on his side of the
road and hit him and took him.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Out into eternity.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Or if he could talk to you tonight, he'd tell
you it cost me. But I told my wife, honey,
I love you, but I love Jesus more. It cost
me something, But the price of my defeat that would
have been higher than the cost of victory. You know
what I'm telling you. They've an live for God. Don't
(39:14):
let nothing stank between you and the Lord. Be willing
to leave it all behind. Oh take this whole, but
give me Jesus.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Oh whoa.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
I had a hard time getting started, I may have
a hard time getting stopped.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Now I'm talking to you. You, you, you, you you.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
You wanna justify your hurts, You wanna justify your backsidings.
You want to justify the fact that you're still in sin.
How can you look at Calvary? How can you look
at the suffering and justify yourself in your sins? There's
only one place you can be justified, and that's to
(40:03):
come to the fountain that's fill of blood drawn from
me Manuel's veins. And there and there alone, can you
be justified.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Listen to me. He'll cost but the cost of defeat.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
If you come to this order of the night, backslider,
it'll cost you something, but it'll cost you more if
you don't come. Oh yes, I read by preaching too
long by cons knows you're looking.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
At your watch. I don't mind them looking at their watch.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I just hate for them taking them out and beat
them on the front bench and from saying listen, see
if we're still running.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Hellelujah, praiase God.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I'm talking to you, backslider. I'm talking to you, sinner.
I'm talking to you. That's playing with the world. It's
it's gonna cost you more if you're defeated than it will.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
If you make Heaven your home. Listen.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
According to a story I heard recently, there was a
man by the name of Randy Creedy. According to historians,
it is the greatest case of backsliding that's been recorded
in modern day church history. Randy Creedy lived in the
Bush country of Africa, had a different name and a
(41:32):
medical doctor missionary from London, England, came to Africa. There
he fell in as good friends with this young African boy.
He decided to take him back to England with him.
He took him out of the bush country in the
savage country and took him back to England. There he
gave him his name, his last name Creedy, and he
(41:55):
named the young man Randy Creedy. There he educated and
cultured this young man in London, England. He sent him
to medical school and he graduated from medical school. And
when he sent him on amen to seminary and he
graduated from seminary.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
There he met a young girl and married her. In England,
a young.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Englishwoman married her and they decided to go back to
his people as missionaries, back to Africa, back to where
the savages were. When he got there, they started trying
to do missionary work. But every time he would hear
(42:42):
those drums beating over theres, those savages.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Danced around their fires.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
He told his wife, he said, there's drums beating in
my chest. When I hear those drums beating, I feel
beatings and vibrations in my chest. He kept getting closer
day by day. Finally, one day, Rendy Creedy went to
(43:11):
where these young men were dancing naked around and around
the fire. As he listened his breast, his chest began
to vibrate, and before he knew it, he had ripped
off his clothing, ran out with the savages, and once
again was dancing around and around the fire. Never did
(43:34):
go back to his wife, never went back to his baby.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
She finally had to.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Leave and go home and told the story. Well, let
me tell you something, Randy Creedy. If i'd ha been there,
I'd have told you. When you feel and hear those
drums of beating in your chest, run to the costs
of Calrey, call on the name of Jesus and listen
(44:00):
to me. It's dangerous to get too close to the world.
It's dangerous to get too close to the things of
the world that beating or start in your breast. Oh, yes,
those of us has been saved over forty years. I've
been saved forty years ago. I was listening to Ernest
(44:25):
tub sing I'm walking the four over you Amen, She's
my Filipino baby, and all those songs hear me.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
I can accidentally hear.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
That over the radio, and those words are come to
me just like they did over forty years ago.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Say what are you.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Saying, brother Rich, I'm saying, get as far away from
the world as you can. Make up your mind. You're
gonna throw the world overboard, and you're going to go
for Jesus. Preachers will be a cost to pay if
you're passive to the devil in sin. Don't try to
(45:08):
make a league with the devil. Now listen, mister devil,
if you don't bother me, I won't bother you. Well,
I'm here to tell you I'm gonna expose a devil.
I'm gonna expose sin. It's the devil's desire to take
him a one of you to Hell as fast as
he can.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
But you've got to make up your mind. You'll pay
the price and separate from yours
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