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    If you run into trouble; listen attentively!  Trials come to try all!  Many times you get excited about something until troubles start to rise up with it!  God is always using things to teach us spiritual principles!  We learn how to endure when troubles rise up!  We look at our emotions, and see how they are being affected!  Listen attentively to what the Spirit is saying!  He will speak with you if you have been listening to Him when he was speaking through the mouth of the man of God!  But, remember what the Lord said about Him not answering you when you call upon Him, because when He tried to speak with you; you did not listen to what He was trying to tell you!

www.messages-of-christ.net/06-03-2010.mp3

    What does a preacher look like?  Does his physical appearance change who he is?  Has his appearance affected you in how you look upon him?  Remember Jesus on the cross!  A man being afflicted does not change his position with the Lord!  God is magnified with him!  People see a man being afflicted with a sickness, and they stop looking upon him as being mighty in the Lord!  Amen!


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    What are you saying to the Lord about that which you said belongs to Him?  Does He not have the right to do with what is His as He wants to?  The Lord does not share ownership!  We are saved to do God’s Will.  If His Will is not being done by you, you are not going to be saved!  You are going to be destroyed!  Whosoever contends with the Lord about the use of that which you say you gave to Him, will receive damnation!  There is something that people are bitter about; and, that is the purpose and use of the Tithes.  To whom do the Tithes belong?  The Lord made it clear that the Tithes belong to Him; and, He determined that He wants the preachers to have them!  This whole thing is for the preachers’ livelihood!  Not just part of it!  The Tithe is the 10%; and, if you take away any part of it for another purpose; it is no longer counted as Tithes!  Consider your bitter thoughts about what the Lord has determined is to be done with the Tithes!  Many of you will go find someone to agree with your bitterness about what the Lord wants done with those Tithes.  You find a congregation, being led by a false preacher, who will allow those Tithes to be divided up, and used for other purposes.  Though the wicked agree hand in hand, they shall not go unpunished!  To refer to a thing as being Tithes, automatically declares this as something Holy, which is dedicated to the Lord.  You had better change the name of it, because once you declare it as Tithes, there are specific instructions as to what to do with it, and what it is intended for!  Once it is given away; you relinquish all “say so” about it!  You don’t exercise any control over what you have given to someone else.  What they do with it is their business.  And, when you know what Tithes are intended for; and, you see those people not using them for the purpose in which God intended it to be used; make sure you no longer give those Tithes to those people, because you are found guilty of giving that which is Holy unto the dogs!  For this reason, many of you are still abiding under a curse, according to what the Lord spoke in Malachi 3.  Amen!

    How do you determine a preacher; by the way he looks, or by the way he works?  Amen!

    It is written in 2nd Kings 13, saying, "Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.  And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.  And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king’s hands.  And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD’S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria, because you shall smite the Syrians in Aphek, till you have consumed them.  And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.  And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, You should have smitten five or six times; then you would have smitten Syria till you had consumed it: whereas now you shall smite Syria but thrice.  And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.  And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.  But, Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.  And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast He them from His presence as yet."  Just do what the man of God is telling you to do, and you will prosper!  Don't let his condition affect you in not doing what he tells you!  Notice how a man upon his death bed did tell another man what to do!  His words are still the Words of God, telling you what to do!  You are given to pay attention to the Word; and, don't let the physical condition affect you!  Be strong in your focus!  Amen!