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Where Are All His Miracles?

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

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Participants: Pr. Jim Gilley

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01:00 Hello, friends, and welcome to Thompsonville
01:02 Seventh-day Adventist Church here
01:03 in Thompsonville, Illinois,
01:05 the largest little city in the world
01:08 where the Lord is blessing as it were the entire world
01:12 from this axle in Southern Illinois.
01:15 We thank you for joining us
01:16 for "Where Are All His Miracles"
01:18 and we like you to join us in our theme song
01:20 "It Took A Miracle."
01:22 The words will appear on your screen.
01:30 My Father is omnipotent
01:35 And that you can't deny
01:39 A God of might and miracles
01:44 'Tis written in the sky
01:49 It took a miracle
01:54 To put the stars in place
01:59 It took a miracle
02:04 To hang the world in space
02:09 But when He saved my soul
02:15 Cleansed and made me whole
02:21 It took a miracle
02:25 Of love and grace!
02:30 Second stanza, Pastor C. A., join me on this chorus.
02:33 Though here His glory has been seen
02:38 We still can't fully see
02:42 The wonders of His might
02:46 His throne 'twill take eternity
02:51 Read that chorus.
02:53 It took a miracle
02:59 To put the stars in place
03:04 It took a miracle
03:09 To hang the world in space
03:14 But when He saved my soul
03:19 Cleansed and made me whole
03:25 It took a miracle
03:29 Of love and grace!
03:34 The Bible tells us.
03:36 The Bible tells us of His power
03:40 And wisdom all way through
03:45 And every little bird and flower
03:50 Are testimonies too
03:55 It took a miracle
04:01 To put the stars in place
04:06 It took a miracle
04:11 To hang the world in space
04:16 But when He saved my soul
04:21 Cleansed and made me whole
04:28 It took a miracle
04:32 Of love and grace!
04:39 Amen.
04:40 Pastor C. A., lead us to the Lord in prayer.
04:42 Shall we pray.
04:44 Our Father and our God,
04:45 we do praise you this wonderful Sabbath day.
04:48 We praise You and thank You
04:50 for Your power and Your presence.
04:52 We thank You for this temple in time
04:54 that You have set aside for us
04:57 to turn off the cares of this world
04:59 and to worship You in spirit and in truth.
05:02 We thank You for the promise
05:04 that when we come to this place,
05:05 You're sure and certain to meet us
05:08 and so we ask dear Lord that
05:10 You accept that You would accept our prayer
05:12 and our praise and in exchange for these,
05:15 give us Your presence,
05:17 Your power and Your blessing.
05:20 Anoint the speaker if You will.
05:22 Be pleased dear Lord to speak to us through him.
05:27 May he be an instrument of Your divine calling this day
05:31 and may our hearts be filled to overflowing.
05:34 We love You, we praise You
05:36 and we thank You in Jesus' name.
05:39 Amen and Amen.
05:40 Please be seated.
05:43 Once again welcome to Thompsonville.
05:45 We had been blessed all week long.
05:48 Can you say amen? Amen.
05:49 We started out last Sabbath as yours truly.
05:52 We began our nine parts series
05:55 on "Where Are All His Miracles,"
05:57 and we've had one anointed
06:00 blessed speaker after the other.
06:01 And today Pastor Jim Gilley is going to be the one
06:04 who puts the capstone closing out our week of revival
06:08 as we look to the Lord
06:09 for the transforming miracle of His grace
06:11 and we would like to encourage you
06:14 to continue praying for the Lord
06:16 to transform your life, not just miracles outside
06:19 but the greater miracle inside transforming us
06:23 to be more like His son Christ Jesus.
06:26 Today our scripture reading will be brought to us
06:28 by one of our elders, Steve Nelson.
06:31 After that Brother Danny Shelton,
06:33 the founder of 3ABN,
06:34 will bless us with a wonderful song
06:36 entitled "Undeserving."
06:38 And the next voice you'll hear
06:39 after that is Pastor Jim Gilley,
06:41 the president and the one God has chosen
06:45 to bring the message this morning entitled,
06:47 "I believe In Miracles.''
06:48 He is the president of Three Angels Broadcasting Network.
06:51 Steve, come and bless us
06:53 as you share with us the word of God.
06:59 Good morning.
07:01 Turn with me in your Bibles to Mark Chapter 11.
07:05 We're going be looking at verses 22 to 24.
07:08 Mark 11:22 to 24.
07:15 "So Jesus answered and said to them,
07:18 "Have faith in God.
07:20 For assuredly, I say to you,
07:22 whosoever says to this mountain,
07:25 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,'
07:27 and does not doubt in his heart,
07:29 but believes that those things he says will be done,
07:34 will have whatever he says.
07:36 Therefore I say to you,
07:39 whatever things you ask when you pray,
07:42 believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
07:46 May He who is the word
07:47 add His blessing to the reading,
07:49 the hearing, the singing and the speaking of His Word."
07:58 I don't deserve
08:02 To come to You, Lord
08:07 With my troubles
08:09 And selfish pleas
08:16 But I know I have failed You
08:20 In so many ways
08:25 But never have You failed
08:29 To meet all my needs
08:35 I am the least
08:40 In Your kingdom, I know
08:45 But Lord don't forsake me now
08:53 Pour all of Your mercies
08:58 I could never afford
09:01 I'm undeserving of Your love
09:06 But love me Lord
09:12 For nobody else really knows me
09:20 And no one else
09:25 Understands my fears
09:30 And when I'm in trouble
09:34 And I'm all alone
09:40 Lord, only You can dry my tears
09:48 And if You should leave me
09:53 Where would I go
09:57 To find rest for my weary soul
10:05 And because I'm so unworthy
10:10 I love You even more
10:13 I'm undeserving of Your love
10:19 But love me Lord
10:22 I don't deserve
10:26 The blood that You shed
10:31 When You died on the crossing--
10:38 And to think that each drop of blood
10:43 That fell from Your brow
10:48 Would reach down the gulf of time
10:52 To cleanse my soul now
10:57 I don't deserve
11:02 The place that You prepared
11:06 For my soul
11:08 When this life is over
11:14 So take my love forever
11:18 Your presence I adore
11:22 I'm undeserving of Your love
11:27 But love me Lord
11:33 For nobody else really knows me
11:40 And no one else
11:45 Understands my fears
11:50 And when I'm in trouble
11:54 And I'm all alone
11:59 Lord only You can dry my tears
12:09 And if You should leave me
12:15 Where would I go
12:19 To find rest for my weary soul
12:28 And because I'm so unworthy
12:32 I'd love You even more
12:35 I'm undeserving of Your love
12:41 But love me Lord
12:47 For nobody else really knows me
12:55 And no one else
12:59 Understands my fears
13:04 And when I'm in trouble
13:07 And I'm all alone
13:12 Lord, only You can dry my tears
13:22 And if You should leave me
13:27 Where would I go
13:32 To find rest for my weary soul
13:40 And because I'm so unworthy
13:45 I'd love You even more
13:48 I'm undeserving of Your love
13:55 But love me Lord
14:01 Love me Lord
14:09 Amen.
14:15 Thank you, Danny.
14:17 You know that's where it all begins with miracles
14:21 is realizing you don't deserve it.
14:25 If you feel like you deserve a miracle,
14:27 you'll never have one I guarantee you.
14:30 Because God understands and knows our hearts
14:33 better than anybody else
14:36 and He is the one that really and truly
14:42 can help us in every single way
14:46 in our lives, only Jesus.
14:51 Love that theme song, It Took A Miracle.
14:54 It's been a favorite of mine for a long time.
14:56 David Peterson, who was my singing evangelist
14:59 when we were holding evangelistic meetings
15:02 all over the northeast used to sing that song
15:06 in the meetings that we conducted
15:08 and how I loved to hear it.
15:10 David Peterson, he is living down in Florida now.
15:13 He sings down there and leads the choir
15:15 and directs the choir to church in Florida,
15:18 one of our churches in Orlando area.
15:21 He sounds as much like George Beverly Shea
15:25 as anybody that I have ever known.
15:28 I suppose that's what it really attracted me to him so much
15:32 because Beverly Shea
15:33 was just one of my favorite singers.
15:36 When I heard David sing
15:38 and somebody introduced me to him.
15:40 I knew that this had to be my singer.
15:43 And so I called him to come and to be with me.
15:49 By the way Joe, your grandfather
15:52 paid that first year's salary that he was our evangelist,
15:58 Brother Werdy
15:59 and I have never forgotten that.
16:02 Really he is such a dedicated man.
16:05 But I am-- and that's the first time
16:07 I have ever told anybody that too.
16:09 So keep that to yourself, would you?
16:11 That's kind of a confidential thing,
16:14 it's-- this is so confidential,
16:16 I am only telling one audience at a time
16:19 and but David could really sing
16:26 and I remember one night
16:29 we were in a big auditorium pitched.
16:33 Now that auditorium was hard to put up.
16:36 We had a fellow with the name of Judd Jamieson,
16:38 who was worked for the conference,
16:41 Judd's a good friend of mine
16:43 and Judd would put that auditorium up
16:46 and every time I would tell him
16:49 because it was so exasperating to get it just right
16:52 and it would bother him so much,
16:54 I'd say, you know, Judd,
16:55 we're guaranteed of at least one rebaptism
16:58 in each meeting and it's yours
17:00 because you lose your religion putting this up.
17:04 But I remember one night, David, was singing,
17:08 we had a pastor and his wife
17:11 who had recently come from Denmark
17:15 and they were adjusting to America and they were,
17:21 I remember she was in the back
17:23 and I could tell that she was so upset
17:27 and I thought, what is bothering her?
17:30 So I slipped out around and I went to her and I said,
17:33 what's wrong?
17:35 And she said, that's too far,
17:37 that's too much, that's going too far.
17:41 I said what?
17:43 David would sing in a way "It Took A Miracle."
17:46 She said to sing it took America
17:49 to put the stars in space.
17:54 I told David, you got to pronounce
17:57 that L a little better you know,
17:59 it took a miracle to put the stars in space.
18:04 And I will never forget that
18:07 when I finally showed her the words that,
18:09 she said he is singing it took America
18:12 and when I finally showed her the words of the song
18:16 she was quite relieved that
18:18 we didn't actually believe that.
18:23 The Bible is so clear that God is a God of miracles.
18:29 Last night Danny shared some fantastic stories
18:32 and we all really enjoyed listening to those
18:36 and he talked about all of these miracles
18:39 and he mentioned the fact that
18:40 if you just dismiss it as a coincidence
18:45 or happenstance or whatever,
18:48 then you will never have a miracle in your life.
18:52 You see these things don't just happen accidentally.
18:55 They are things that God is very much a part of.
19:00 A man with the name of Glenn Coon,
19:02 had a ministry a number of years ago
19:04 and some of you are nodding, you remember him.
19:07 And he would talk about the ABC's of prayer.
19:10 I've never known a man,
19:12 never met a man with greater faith than Glenn Coon.
19:16 And I was privileged to be able to sit at his feet
19:19 a number of times and appreciate his ministry.
19:23 Ask, believe, claim, the ABC's of Bible prayer
19:29 and if you expect a miracle in your life
19:32 and it may be a financial miracle,
19:34 it may be a physical miracle, it may be a spiritual miracle,
19:37 it may be a family miracle, you must first ask.
19:44 You know, the problem with us
19:45 is so many times we don't ask,
19:46 we have not the Bible says,
19:48 because we ask not.
19:50 We just worry about it.
19:52 We think worrying is asking. No, it isn't.
19:56 We think mulling over it is asking.
19:58 No, it isn't.
20:00 We need to be specific in asking our Lord.
20:05 It tells us in Matthew 7:7,
20:09 it says, "Ask, and it shall be given you,
20:12 seek and you shall find, knock,
20:15 and it shall be opened unto you."
20:19 For everyone in verse 8 that asketh receiveth.
20:23 Everyone it says.
20:26 That hat asketh receiveth.
20:29 Now you say, we say that well,
20:30 wait a minute I have asked and I didn't receive.
20:34 Let me say something to you.
20:38 You are trying to call God's timing.
20:44 God has a timing.
20:47 We ask for something,
20:49 He may know that right then is not the right time
20:53 for that particular thing.
20:56 He may even know that never is the right time
21:00 for that particular thing.
21:02 So you have to leave it into His wisdom.
21:06 My son, Jim, called me,
21:08 actually he text messaged me this morning.
21:10 Have a sermon titled for you he said,
21:13 He always does the right thing,
21:16 talking about God.
21:17 He always does the right thing.
21:20 I said, well, I work on the sermon on that later
21:22 but right now that fits into this message.
21:25 You see when we ask,
21:27 God answers it right then if that's the right thing,
21:32 in time if that's the right thing.
21:35 In eternity if that is the right thing.
21:42 God is not going to perform a miracle
21:45 that's going to hurt you.
21:47 He is not going to give you something you ask
21:50 for that's going to hurt or destroy
21:53 or cause you to be lost.
21:57 And you see we get the idea sometimes that
22:00 just whatever we ask for is just exactly
22:03 what God would have us to have.
22:06 But that may not be exactly the case.
22:10 The second thing is to believe.
22:14 Believe Mark Chapter 11, part of our text today.
22:17 And it says in verse 24.
22:20 "Therefore I say unto you,
22:22 what things so ever you desire when you pray,
22:24 believe that you receive them,
22:27 and ye shall have them."
22:32 Believe.
22:34 So you ask and you believe
22:38 and then the third is to claim.
22:42 And the Bible says that Jesus said in Mark Chapter 11,
22:46 pardon me John 11: 41,
22:49 "Then they took away the stone from the place
22:51 where the dead was laid."
22:52 This is at the raising of Lazarus.
22:56 "And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said,
22:59 father I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.
23:04 I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me."
23:08 You know, we have to right then,
23:11 after we ask, after we believe,
23:13 we need to thank the Lord for giving us the answer.
23:17 Sometimes we are not willing to do that.
23:20 Thank Him.
23:21 Receive it and then don't keep begging Him for things.
23:27 You ask Him, you believe,
23:30 you claim, you leave it to Him.
23:32 You don't have to keep reminding Him, He knows.
23:37 Last night Danny told about the lady.
23:40 Simple little prayer walked off.
23:43 I'm going to tell you something.
23:45 If God is going to answer it,
23:46 it's going to be from a simple old prayer.
23:49 He is going to answer it.
23:50 But if you are going to see the result,
23:52 it's not the amount of pray,
23:54 it's not the way you lower your voice
23:57 and sound spiritual, it's not all of that.
24:01 You don't have to act like you have
24:04 as Fordyce Detamore used to say,
24:05 some of these fellows get so spiritual,
24:08 they sound like they have spiritual TB he said.
24:11 Where they get--
24:14 you know, God can hear you just in your voice.
24:17 You don't have to yell, you don't have to whisper.
24:20 You don't have to try to sound like a woman to pray.
24:23 You are not going to fool Him, He knows who you are.
24:25 That's right.
24:27 Talk to Him in your voice.
24:31 Worked for the preacher one time,
24:32 loved him, I was a young preacher,
24:34 and he said Jim, your prayers are too simple.
24:38 I said what do you mean?
24:40 I just talk to the Lord.
24:42 No, he said when you are upfront,
24:44 this is a good man by the way, very good man.
24:47 I was privileged to work with this man
24:50 but we had difference of opinion on this one subject.
24:54 And, boy, he prayed, I will tell you
24:56 when he prayed you looked around,
24:58 you thought you know, this is-- he had a warrior's voice,
25:01 he had a great voice to start with,
25:04 and he would sound so good when he prayed.
25:08 He said you need to get out of the Psalms,
25:10 you need to take those phrases,
25:12 you need to write out your prayers,
25:14 get them just right and then pray them.
25:18 You know, I pray and I talk to God
25:23 as if I talk to a friend.
25:26 Even in public I am sorry,
25:29 I just say what is laid upon my heart.
25:32 Say it, drop it, if it didn't sound spiritual.
25:35 I am very sorry,
25:37 if it doesn't sound like Charlton Heston, I apologize.
25:43 I just simply open up my heart to the Lord and talk to Him.
25:49 And let me tell you, I believe that's the way.
25:52 Sometimes I love to hear a prayer
25:54 like he is talking about.
25:56 Sometimes I do, for a little while.
25:58 Then after little bit they get kind of,
26:00 you know, they kind of weary you out
26:01 a little bit after while.
26:04 I just want to hear what comes out of here.
26:07 Just receiving and asking believing and claiming.
26:14 Now there are some of you who do not believe
26:17 that this could be according to the Spirit of Prophecy.
26:22 Could not be further wrong.
26:24 Write these down, education and if you don't get them,
26:28 you can get it from me later.
26:30 Pages 253 and 258, now this is where you will,
26:36 in no other place but there are some other places
26:39 but here it talks about how to pray,
26:42 how to receive an answer from your prayer.
26:47 And when you return thanks
26:49 for that prayer you've planted a seed.
26:53 You know that the promise is in the seed.
26:56 You take an apple seed and you break that thing open
27:00 and there is a little bitty apple tree
27:01 in that seed, it's there.
27:04 So when you plant that seed, the tree is already there.
27:08 God says the promise is there when you ask for it,
27:14 when you believe, when you claim,
27:16 when you receive it, it is there.
27:20 Let me tell you another statement,
27:22 page 253, Ellen White says,
27:25 "The oak is in the acorn."
27:29 And Rutherford Platt,
27:30 who was a prize winner in science states
27:32 in his book This Green World,
27:34 "That a trunk, two leafs and roots
27:37 are already contained in the embryo of the seed
27:40 that you can see with the magnifying glass."
27:43 It's already there. The tree is there.
27:48 Book Education page 253,
27:50 "If we receive the promise we have the gift."
27:54 Receive it and you have it.
27:59 Again 258, "The gift is in the promise."
28:03 Volume 7, Testimonies page 71,
28:07 "One sentence of scripture
28:09 is of more value than 10,000 of man's ideas or arguments."
28:15 Already made that too long,
28:17 I got to preach this morning you know,
28:20 and then Christ Object Lessons page 146,
28:24 "I have done as Thou have said I present Thy promise."
28:29 You see do this with your--
28:30 she says with a Bible in your hands.
28:32 Claim the promise and then you say to the Lord
28:36 I have done what You have asked me to do
28:41 and He will hear and He will answer.
28:44 Then she talks about Augustine's mother
28:47 and she tells about this in volume 5,
28:50 pages 322 and 323,
28:53 Augustine's mother was praying for her son
28:57 who was a reprobate, he was totally out.
29:01 And the Bible says that if we pray for that,
29:05 the God will hear and God will answer.
29:08 We pray for our children, He is going to hear us,
29:10 He will answer I believe.
29:11 He does not make them go against their will
29:13 but the Holy Spirit will work upon them.
29:17 And then she says in volume 3 pages 322 and 323,
29:21 says she quoting here what Augustine's mother did.
29:26 She laid her fingers upon the text
29:28 presenting before God His own words,
29:30 God's words, and pleaded as only a mother can
29:35 and the Lord gave her the desire of her heart.
29:40 Greatest miracle of all.
29:43 The miracle of healing.
29:47 Spiritual healing, physical healing.
29:50 Wonderful. Lasts but a short time.
29:55 Spiritual healing lasts throughout eternity
30:00 and then there are so many other texts
30:04 that we could talk about.
30:06 You know, somebody said to me the other night,
30:09 I hope you people talk more about miracles than we are,
30:13 we are talking about miracles,
30:14 we are talking about what God has done in our lives
30:18 and what God has done and what we have seen
30:20 and I am going to share with you some miracles
30:23 that I have seen with my own eyes
30:26 and I believe them,
30:27 I am not going to talk to you about theory.
30:29 Just gonna tell you about some of these things
30:33 because you see God has promised
30:35 that He will hear, ask, believe and claim,
30:39 He says I will hear you and I will answer.
30:43 James 5 says, "Is there any sick among you?
30:47 Let him call for the elders of the church,
30:49 let them pray over him,
30:51 anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord
30:54 and the prayer of faith shall save the sick."
30:58 Doesn't say, you know, it might work.
31:03 No, God says shall save the sick,
31:09 it's going to save the sick.
31:12 "And the Lord shall raise him up,
31:15 and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him."
31:18 Again it's God's timing.
31:21 It can be immediate and I have seen it immediate.
31:26 I picked up a man on the side of a highway one time,
31:29 I was going to preach and I prayed for that man.
31:32 When I got there some of the people
31:35 that had stopped there said this man is dead.
31:39 There were body parts everywhere
31:42 but I found out they weren't his.
31:45 They belong to the pig that he had in the car with him
31:50 and he was on his way to deliver that
31:55 but he had already cooked the pig by the way
31:57 but he was a caterer
32:01 and he was taking it to have some kind of a feast
32:06 somewhere with this thing and he went to sleep.
32:10 Hit a bridge and went off to side
32:12 was down in river bottom.
32:14 I was on my way to preach in Jefferson, Texas.
32:17 In my dress clothes, I told my wife,
32:20 I just feel like I have to go down then
32:22 I went down there
32:23 and there was a take charge guy down there
32:26 and he said get back, get back, get back,
32:27 I said, let me take a look.
32:29 No, no he is dead.
32:32 And I looked and I saw blood spurting out of an arm,
32:36 I said dead man's hearts don't beat,
32:38 that heart is still beating.
32:41 I turned to another fellow
32:42 that had a really ragged T-shirt
32:44 on probably his favorite T-shirt
32:47 but I said would you donate that
32:49 and I took it and I put a tourniquet on him
32:52 I prayed for him.
32:55 Highway patrol men came,
32:57 three days later I called the hospital
32:59 to check on the man and they said
33:02 he is walking out of here.
33:04 He is going home.
33:06 I saw a miracle take place right there.
33:12 By the way the highway patrol men said,
33:13 who put this tourniquet on and I thought,
33:15 I was looking around to blame it on somebody else.
33:18 Somebody said I did it, I said yeah I did it.
33:20 He said, well, you saved his life.
33:23 He softened up a little bit there.
33:25 He said don't ever, ever not do it.
33:30 There was another time.
33:32 We were sitting at home, a friend had dropped by,
33:34 Max Trevino and his wife Betty.
33:36 Dropped by to see us,
33:38 we hear ambulances out in front of our house.
33:40 Now we lived quite a ways back of the road
33:44 and our driveway was long enough that our son, Jim,
33:50 who is watching right now
33:52 totaled our van in that driveway,
33:54 that's how long that driveway was,
33:56 so yeah you could get the things started,
33:59 he lost control in the gravel
34:01 and I think he had been watching the Rockford file
34:05 or something like that
34:06 and he was little inspired to drive a little too rapidly
34:10 and as he went out he had a wreck,
34:12 so all of our kids except the youngest were teenagers.
34:17 And we were always concerned about
34:19 when you heard an ambulance.
34:22 And so Camille said,
34:23 go find out who that is and I said,
34:25 that is not any of our kids it's,
34:27 you know, it's right out here in front of the house,
34:29 it's just down the road little bit from our house.
34:31 She said, go find out what it is.
34:35 Now I have found out that it takes less time
34:39 to go do it then it does to resist, all right.
34:43 I said let's go Max and we got in the car,
34:45 we drove out there got out to the road,
34:47 drove down they little ways
34:49 and there was an ambulance there,
34:52 I knew the ambulance driver Jerry Holdrege,
34:54 and I said, Jerry, what's happened?
34:57 He said, it's Denny Modreo, he's had an accident.
35:03 Denny he was on his motorcycle,
35:05 he was upset about a few things.
35:08 The last time he saw the speedometer
35:11 it said 130 miles an hour.
35:14 Somebody stopped in front of him.
35:17 He ran right into the back of that car.
35:20 They were making a left turn.
35:22 He went over the car, hit on his head,
35:26 slid turning back and forth all down the road
35:30 over 100 yards down the road
35:33 before his body stopped.
35:37 And Jerry said he's gone, Jim, he is dead.
35:42 He said you need to go get his parents.
35:47 I said they are going to take him to the hospital.
35:48 Yeah, will take him,
35:50 they're going to take him on airway,
35:51 care flight's on its way.
35:52 We are going to take him to Fort Worth but he said,
35:56 don't think he is going to make it,
35:57 it looks pretty bad.
36:00 We got his parents.
36:03 Denny, the only, only child
36:08 of Muriel and Arlene Modreo.
36:13 We got them, got them in the car,
36:14 headed for the hospital,
36:17 driving somewhere between law and grace,
36:19 but hurrying pretty rapidly.
36:23 Got to the hospital.
36:25 Just as we got there,
36:27 they were coming out of emergency with Denny,
36:32 heading to the surgical suite
36:36 to do emergency surgery on him.
36:39 He had all kinds of injuries.
36:43 I mean he, you know, he called me the other night.
36:46 He called me on January the 17th,
36:49 I was sitting at home about 8 o'clock at night.
36:52 He said, you remember
36:53 where you were exactly 20 years ago tonight
36:57 and I said no.
36:59 I don't remember where I was 2 hours ago
37:02 and he said then he told me
37:07 he revived my memory about the accident.
37:10 Now, of course I had never forgotten that.
37:13 Here is what they said about him.
37:15 They have revived me in the helicopter
37:18 but I was completely dependent on life support
37:21 and has sustained a severe head injury
37:25 which broke my right eye socket
37:28 and severed the optic nerve.
37:30 I also had broken both collar bones,
37:33 many ribs, fractured several vertebrae,
37:37 broken several bones in my right hand,
37:40 my right foot and was bleeding internally
37:43 and the doctor said they did not think
37:46 I would live through the night.
37:47 Yes, that's what they told us.
37:50 So we are just holding him alive with life support.
37:54 I always have this bottle not too far from me,
37:59 same bottle and it's getting kind of low now,
38:03 it started out full but you can see.
38:06 You don't use but just a drop,
38:08 but you do it why, because God said to do it.
38:12 No power in the oil none whatsoever.
38:15 Certainly no power in the preacher.
38:18 But power in the God.
38:21 He says if you will do when I tell you to do,
38:23 I will hear your prayer and I will answer,
38:27 and let me tell you my, friend, he does.
38:31 We came into that place with his father and mother
38:34 thinking that we were actually
38:35 coming in a way to claim his body.
38:38 We saw them come out of emergency room,
38:40 they were wheeling in,
38:41 and they were pumping this hand thing
38:43 to keep him breathing
38:44 until they can get him to a machine
38:46 because now they were just,
38:47 you know, moving him on a stretcher.
38:49 In the hall we stopped him.
38:51 They said you can't stop us.
38:52 I said only a second and then I took a little bit of oil,
38:56 put it on his forehead
38:58 and prayed father you promised,
39:00 please give us Denny, please heal him.
39:05 In Denny's own words one week later,
39:09 they released him from the hospital.
39:11 Amen.
39:13 One week later.
39:15 Highway patrol came to finish out his death report.
39:18 This is a truth.
39:21 He said, we had a fatality,
39:22 they brought him here to the hospital to verify.
39:25 They said, oh, he is still alive.
39:27 He said, there is no way he is still alive.
39:31 He said, I was one of the first at the scene
39:33 and that man if he is alive, it won't be long.
39:38 I want to tell you Denny still rides motorcycle,
39:42 whole lot less speed.
39:43 Denny would want me to tell you that
39:46 that everything hasn't been all that wonderful
39:48 since then as far as his personal spiritual life.
39:52 He's had his ups and his downs
39:54 but he is still holding on to Jesus.
39:57 Still claiming the power of Jesus.
40:00 Still battling with some things in his life
40:04 as unfortunately all of us are.
40:08 But my, friend, there is no question
40:11 that God healed him.
40:12 God did not heal him
40:13 because he deserved to be healed, he did not.
40:16 God did not heal him
40:18 because the preacher deserved to have his prayer answered
40:22 because he didn't.
40:25 God healed him because He made that decision.
40:30 You see, we leave those decisions to Him, when?
40:34 Now in time or at the resurrection.
40:38 Somebody says, oh, that is a cop-out.
40:40 No, it isn't.
40:41 The woman with the issue of blood is dead and gone.
40:46 I have been over there, she is not out there.
40:49 Lazarus resurrected from the dead to die again.
40:56 And then you look at all the others,
40:59 but the ones that last forever are those
41:06 that happened at the resurrection.
41:09 That healing, and Lazarus would be in that
41:12 and Jairus' daughter would be in that
41:14 and the woman with the issue of blood
41:16 would be in that resurrection, but that is the final healing.
41:19 We make it temporary healing now,
41:22 but the final healing comes then,
41:25 and the most important healing.
41:27 The most important miracle
41:30 is what takes place in this heart.
41:34 When we trust God, then God starts change in us.
41:39 Because it is just so amazing
41:41 how He can take somebody and change them
41:44 and I can tell you conversion story after conversion story,
41:49 and the most fantastic miracles
41:51 I have ever seen happened to people
41:54 spiritually changed lives.
41:59 I don't mean taking us and getting us
42:01 to where we don't do things anymore,
42:03 but we are just as hard and cold and legalistic
42:06 as we ever were.
42:07 I'm not talking about that,
42:09 talking about conversion that changes our hearts,
42:13 writes the law of God on our hearts,
42:16 not out here but in here.
42:19 Oh, man, what a difference.
42:22 I was preaching in Arlington, Texas,
42:25 was there for 7 years, Lord bless that ministry there,
42:28 we loved it, we enjoyed it.
42:29 Came in from a trip,
42:31 Camille picked me up at the airport
42:33 and she said Jacky Carver has had an accident.
42:38 She was hit by a swing set at the school.
42:43 The swing set had been taken down a new one put up.
42:46 Some of the kids,
42:49 big kids had raised up the old swing set,
42:52 put it back together not realizing
42:55 it had to be tied in the ground.
42:57 They had it part way up and dropped it
43:02 and little Jacky happened to be running by.
43:05 Hit right at the side in base back here for skull
43:09 and they said she is in Cooks children hospital,
43:13 they were taken there by helicopter.
43:17 Not a chance.
43:19 I got to that place there were 40 or 50 of our members
43:23 in that lobby on their knees,
43:28 they weren't standing, they were ringing their hands,
43:30 they weren't standing around talking,
43:33 they weren't telling jokes,
43:34 they were on their knees praying for Jacky.
43:39 And they said, right, you can go right in,
43:41 and they took me right into that place
43:44 where they had her barely, barely alive.
43:48 I did not have this bottle of oil.
43:52 I just said to the nurse, please bring me oil,
43:55 any kind of oil and they brought me
43:59 what appeared to be Mazola or something,
44:03 a cooking oil, it's oil, it's oil.
44:08 God says oil, He didn't said
44:09 had to come from the olive tree.
44:11 This happened to have come from an olive tree
44:16 that was near the garden of Gethsemane,
44:19 doesn't make any difference.
44:21 That oil, this oil makes no difference at all.
44:26 I just happened to picked up a bottle of oil
44:31 and continued to use it,
44:33 but this is not magical oil my friend,
44:37 not at all, there is no such thing as magical oil.
44:41 Took that oil, put it on her head.
44:44 Father please save Jacky,
44:49 if it's in Your divine will, save her please Lord,
44:56 and while I was praying that nurse
45:00 let out a gasp that sent me into alarm.
45:04 Oh, she said. I said, what's wrong?
45:09 She said, look at that.
45:11 And she was watching the monitor.
45:13 She said, that monitor has been right near death.
45:16 She said, watch it. It began to spike.
45:20 She said, God has done something,
45:22 He has done something.
45:26 Jackie had a long little road,
45:29 it didn't-- she didn't walk right out of there that minute
45:32 but that's where God started it right then.
45:37 In about a month
45:41 "God giving us all things equal,"
45:45 I'll be performing her wedding.
45:48 Isn't that something?
45:50 I tell you, I know God heals, I've seen Him do it.
45:54 And if you think it's just an accident,
45:57 if you think it's a great victory of medical science.
46:00 Medical science helps, no question about that.
46:04 But I remember when I was so sick,
46:06 so very sick that Don Jacobson
46:09 and a group of people came and they anointed me.
46:13 Later I told the doctor,
46:16 thanks to you and the good Lord I am still alive.
46:19 He said, you better reverse that,
46:22 you better reverse that.
46:23 Because he said, I had given up on you.
46:26 He said, thanks to the good Lord,
46:29 you are still alive.
46:30 Catholic doctor, but he said He did it.
46:34 He said, we do the treating, He does the healing.
46:38 Amen.
46:39 He's right.
46:40 They can treat us but they can't heal us,
46:43 only God can do it.
46:46 I remember one time I got a call that Cyril Miller,
46:49 our union president, had a terrible accident
46:54 and he was lying in a coma.
46:57 He was in that coma for 30 days.
47:01 Some of us wanted to anoint him by the way,
47:04 remember this, anointing is not the last rights,
47:07 it should be the first rights.
47:09 Now, I am not talking about for hangnail,
47:12 I am not talking about for a cold.
47:14 I am really not talking about for that,
47:15 I really I don't think that's what God intended.
47:18 You have a serious illness.
47:20 Either a illness that can be debilitating
47:24 or life threatening.
47:25 And if you don't seek anointing first,
47:31 then I don't think you've done the right thing.
47:34 I want it first, I want it right out,
47:37 immediate if I have an illness that is confirmed illness,
47:44 I am concerned, I want healing.
47:47 Yeah, we get the idea that's' the last rights.
47:49 I've had people call me and say,
47:51 mom was 93 and it looks likes she's just about gone.
47:56 Just wonder if you come over and anoint her.
47:59 I said, I'll come over there and hold your hand
48:01 and I'll pray with you for her,
48:04 but I am sorry,
48:07 anointing is not the last rights.
48:11 It is not.
48:12 And, folks, sometimes we get the idea that it is.
48:15 In fact, Cyril Miller
48:17 had a well- meaning brother-in-law
48:19 who I love him like a brother,
48:21 but he would not let us anoint Cyril Miller
48:25 because he said, if he wakes up--
48:28 and he was in coma 30 days.
48:30 He says, a lot of times in comas
48:31 they know what's going on around them.
48:33 Well, now that's true.
48:35 But he said, if he wakes up and he sees you anointing him,
48:38 he'll think he's going to die.
48:40 He said, that will just send him on over the edge.
48:43 He was on a respirator,
48:47 complete life support and unconscious.
48:52 His temperature kept rising,
48:54 they call me and they say it's 106 degrees.
48:58 Things are starting to shut down.
49:01 He's been on this respirator so long,
49:03 they say that even if he recovers
49:05 he'll probably never be the same.
49:07 His daughter Jennet called me and she said,
49:09 please, come and anoint him.
49:13 She didn't say no matter what, but she just said,
49:16 please, come and anoint him.
49:18 And I got Ray Hubert
49:23 and I got Sam Green,
49:26 these men both at the union office
49:29 and we went there.
49:32 Now Sam and I are pretty big guys.
49:34 We don't throw our weight around,
49:37 but when we got there, the door was blocked.
49:41 Somebody didn't want us to go in.
49:43 And I said, I'll tell you what I'll do,
49:45 I don't want to--
49:47 One thing you don't want in anointing is the battle.
49:50 I mean, you know, you don't want that.
49:53 And by the way, you know, sometimes we overemphasize
49:56 that we have to go often fast
49:58 and we have to get ourselves in shape to anoint.
50:00 Listen, it's not us, folks,
50:03 you ought to be ready to anoint at a drop of a bucket,
50:06 the drop of a hat, drop of anything,
50:09 you should be ready to anoint.
50:12 Because you should not-- it's not dependent upon you,
50:15 how good you are, who you think you are.
50:18 I do want somebody that believes,
50:20 I don't want somebody that does not believe.
50:23 But that's the number only prerequisite that I know
50:26 of for a Christian is that you believe.
50:29 Now the Bible says the prayer
50:31 of a righteous person availeth much.
50:34 And I want to tell you something,
50:35 if I am sick I'll just take the prayer.
50:39 I'm not going to look at the pedigree,
50:41 make sure did you ever make a mistake?
50:44 You know, I'm not going to be asking that.
50:46 I want the person to pray for me and trust and believe.
50:52 And so I said to this brother, I said, look,
50:55 I'll put the oil on my figure before I go in.
51:00 I'll put this in my pocket
51:03 and then he will not see anything
51:08 and I'll anoint him with this finger
51:10 already has the oil on it.
51:11 Okay. All right.
51:13 Go ahead.
51:14 And we went in.
51:16 We did not have a long prayer.
51:18 I don't remember what Sam and Ray said
51:22 but they had short prayers.
51:23 So we only had--
51:24 they only let us in that room for seconds.
51:26 I am talking about the medical people.
51:28 For seconds. And we anointed.
51:34 My prayer was, "Lord, we need our leader."
51:38 He was our union president.
51:40 "Please don't take him from us now.
51:43 We need him.
51:44 This is a difficult time in history of our union,
51:48 lots of things going on,
51:50 great challenges and great evangelism.
51:52 We need him. Please restore him."
51:57 Within a few hours his temperature started to go down,
52:02 he awakened a day or so later.
52:06 Came out of the coma.
52:09 The doctor came to him,
52:10 his pulmonary specialist came to him and said,
52:14 I am worried because you've been on this
52:17 breathing machine so long
52:19 that your lungs are not going to be able
52:21 to take back over when we take you off.
52:25 And even if you heal and he had infections
52:27 that even his doctor who had dealt with infection
52:30 for injuries that he had said later,
52:33 you have divine help in overcoming those infections.
52:38 Even the doctor said that.
52:41 But his pulmonary specialist told him,
52:43 I don't think you ever going to have full capacity
52:46 even if you recover.
52:49 You're going to have difficulty breathing
52:51 the rest of your life.
52:54 He said that depressed him.
52:55 He felt so depressed because this is an active man.
53:00 And he wanted to be healthy
53:02 and he wanted to be going forward
53:05 and he did not want to have something like this.
53:12 And he said that one night shortly
53:15 after that a young doctor came in, stethoscope,
53:19 he said, he didn't identify himself,
53:22 he just came in and said, very nice looking young man.
53:27 And he took his stethoscope
53:28 and he listened to my lungs and he said,
53:34 I can hear things that other people cannot hear.
53:40 And he said, I hear the air
53:44 going to all parts of your lungs,
53:48 every part of your lung.
53:52 Now when he had come in Joyce
53:57 who is now Cyril's wife at the time,
53:59 Cyril's first wife had died
54:01 and he and Joyce were not yet married.
54:04 When she heard about the accident,
54:05 she came and she'd been by his side.
54:08 They had been friends through the years.
54:10 They were friends years ago
54:11 and then had renewed their friendship
54:13 after this wife had died.
54:15 But then they had not quite made it in a friendship
54:20 till she heard that he needed her
54:22 and then Joyce was there.
54:24 A nurse, by his side all the time.
54:28 But she had left the room
54:29 when the doctor came in as a courtesy.
54:32 But she can see through the door
54:34 and Cyril motioned her back in and he said to the doctor,
54:41 tell her what you just said, and he repeated.
54:45 I can hear things that other people cannot hear.
54:50 And I hear a healthy lung,
54:53 I hear things taking place there
54:57 that are going to ensure that you're going to be all right,
55:00 you're going to have full strength.
55:02 You know something, it was amazing.
55:07 When he left, they called the nurse standing
55:13 and said who was this doctor?
55:15 She said, there's no doctor been here.
55:18 His pulmonary doctor came in and he said,
55:20 who did you send?
55:21 He said, I haven't send anybody,
55:24 I didn't sent anybody.
55:27 And then Janet said, the way you described him
55:30 is exactly the way Ellen White describe the angel
55:33 that came to encourage her, as a fine looking young man.
55:40 And then he said, do you think it might have been an angel?
55:46 His friend Ray Hubert said this, said,
55:50 do you think it was a doctor Cyril
55:52 or do you think it was an angel?
55:55 Cyril said, I don't know.
55:57 He said, well, did he send you a bill?
56:08 Because doctors don't just drop by.
56:13 If you didn't get a bill it was an angel.
56:18 Cyril will be 80 on Sunday. Happy birth day, Cyril.
56:25 And you know something?
56:27 He's still going for the Lord
56:29 and he's never gotten a bill from that doctor.
56:34 Today, Jesus Christ wants to heal you.
56:40 It's not going to last forever
56:43 except the healing of spiritual healing,
56:45 that one's going to last for eternity.
56:47 If you only get a choice of one by one,
56:49 by the way take that one
56:50 that's going to last for eternity,
56:53 not the one that's going to last for few years here.
56:56 But He has promised life eternal to everyone
57:03 who will receive, accept and believe.
57:07 And that miracle He has promised to all
57:12 who will say, come, I want to be a part of Jesus.
57:16 Won't you do that?


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