“What’s going on today? Is the devil using angels? Do we
have a bunch of devils running around? No, he’s not doing that. What happened
when he got defeated at the Cross? He got defeated by Jesus Christ rising again
the third day. We are justified by that. What happened over there?
“Well, when Christ called Paul in Acts 9, what did we go
into? We went into a mystery program. Remember this if you don’t remember
anything else: Everything the Lord has the devil has a counterfeit for. So what
kind of program is the devil in today? Why, he’s in a mystery program.
“How is the devil working today? You know, Paul says in II
Thessalonians 2 that ‘the mystery of iniquity doth already work.’ He’s in a
mystery program.
“II Corinthians 11:15 says, ‘Therefore it is no great thing
if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose
end shall be according to their works.’
“Where are his ministers at today? Well, they’re not in the
bars; there’s no need for them down there. They’re behind the pulpit.
“If you don’t know what they’re teaching, you need to turn
your TV on Sunday mornings or whenever. I mean, they’re on 24 hours a day. And
guess what that guy’s teaching? ‘Do good, help the poor. Send me your money and
I’ll help the poor.’
“Who are those guys? II Cor. 11:13-14: ‘For such are false
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of
Christ.
[14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.’
[14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.’
“You see, everything the Lord has, the devil has a
counterpart for. His ministers are standing today in the pulpits across this country
and what are they doing? They’re preaching righteousness, but they’re not
preaching the righteousness of Jesus Christ. They are preaching self-righteousness.
And the attack today is on the Word of God. Do you know what’s going to happen
one day? They’re going to completely do away with the King James Bible.
“In fact, I don’t know about you, but y’all been in the
bookstore lately? They got rows of translations. I ain’t never seen anything
like it.
“I was telling someone the other day how you determine it’s
a King James Bible. You go to Genesis 1: ‘In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth.’ If heaven has an ‘s’ on the end, it’s not a King James Bible.
“By the way, I know everybody uses bible references and I do
too. But I found out one thing, that most people you talk to place more stock
in a Strong’s Concordance then they do in this Book. Think about that. And you
know what’s amazing to me?
“I ask them, ‘Can you speak Greek? Can you speak Hebrew?’ And
if they tell me yes, then I say, ‘Well, you need to buy you a Greek bible.’ If
they tell me no, I ask this question: ‘You telling me that you’re smarter than
the King James translators?’
“You know, those jokers who do that, they can't hold a
conversation at a third-grade level in Greek or Hebrew, so what makes you think
they have the authority to go in the Strong’s Concordance and look up a word
and change it? They don’t have that authority. But that’s what they do. They
believe that Strong’s Concordance is the Word of God over this (Book) right
here.
“You know, I’ve looked in Strong’s, and most every word I
ever looked up had three meanings. Which one am I going to use? And you know
what those guys do? They use the one that suits them best without taking the
context of the verse, and that’s what’s going on today. I mean, it’s a subtle
thing, people, and you need to check that thing out.
“I Corinthians 2:13 says, ‘Which things also we speak, not
in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
comparing spiritual things with spiritual.’
“Do you see what Paul says there? Let me ask you a question.
What can we lay our hands on that’s spiritual? The Word of God and that’s the
only thing you can lay hand on that is spiritual. And guess what that verse
says? ‘Compare spiritual things with spiritual.’ You see, you have instructions
on how to study your Bible. And one of them is to compare Scripture with Scripture.
Also, you’re to compare bibles with bibles.
“You know, this King James Bible was the standard up until
1881. Over two hundred years this thing was a standard in the Christian
community. But guess what? They don’t use it any longer. And it’s so important
to know that you have the Word of God. If you don’t have the Word of God, you
don’t have anything.
“If you don’t have a final authority, you don’t have no
authority. Think about that. If you don’t have a final authority to go to, then
you don’t have no authority at all. You’re out there just like everybody else."
******
Here’s an outtake from Jordan’s Sunday morning radio show (WYLL
1160 AM at 8:30):
“When Jesus gave that promise in Matthew 7 on the Sermon on
the Mount--when He gave that promise in Matthew 21, He didn’t give it to a
bunch of Gentiles; a bunch of Gentiles living in the USA in the 21st
century. He gave it to the nation Israel to fit into Israel’s program, just
where it fits, and it will accomplish just what it said it would.
“When God raised up that other apostle, the Apostle Paul, He
gave him some prayer instructions that are adequate and appropriate for us.
“If you want prayer to be cleared up--you want to resolve the
issue of prayer--you rightly divide the Word. Don’t go back over to Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John and get your prayer promises. Take this one—Romans 8:26: ‘Likewise
the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray
for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered.’
“Now, isn’t that more like you? Don’t you really not know how
God could best be glorified in any situation and circumstance in your life?
When the C&S gang (circumstances and situations) assaults you, you really
don’t know how God can best be glorified.
“So he says the Spirit’s going to help our infirmities. He’s
not going to do it for you; He’s going to help you ‘for we know not what we
should pray for as we ought.’
*****“Now, you know preachers go haywire over that and say, ‘You know, you pray down here but the Father’s up in heaven and the Holy Spirit retranslates your bad prayers as they go up there.’
“That’s just such nonsense. You don’t pray to God in heaven.
You carry God around inside of you! Your body is the temple, the dwelling place
of God the Holy Spirit. You need to get over this idea that you’re praying long
distance across the heavens.
“Somebody says, ‘Well, my prayers aren’t getting through the
roof.’ Well, they’re not intended to. You have an instant, personal, intimate
inner-man communion with God the Creator of heaven and earth, through His Spirit
because of His Son ‘by whom we have access.’
“As you pray, the Holy Spirit ‘makes intercession for us
with groanings that can’t be uttered.’ He literally reaches down to the deepest
levels of your real need and is able to minister to you there.
“And when He makes intercession, He’s the go-between. He
takes His Word, and takes what you’re talking about, and brings your thinking about
what’s going on, and takes His Word, and begins to bring His Word to apply it
to the things going on in your life.
“Prayer is designed to be the catalyst in your inner man,
not to try and go out and manipulate God into changing things out in the world
for you, but rather to change YOU and take YOUR thinking process, your mind and
who you are in your inner man, and take His Word, and you talk to God about
what’s going on. You see in His Word what the Word says about it, and you begin
to talk to Him about how to bring those two things together in your life.
“That’s what he calls ‘praying in the Spirit’; praying in
line with what the Holy Spirit is doing. How do you know what the Spirit of
God’s doing? You find it in His Word rightly divided.
“That’s why Paul says, ‘Be careful for nothing.’ Don’t be
all bound up, worried, fearful about things going on in life. But in
everything, by prayer and supplication (meaning you’re talking to Him about
specific needs that you have) with thanksgiving . . . ”
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