Faith and Fire - Jesus Culture

Praise be to God.

Let everything that has
breath praise the Lord.

Hallelujah.

What a mighty God we serve.

Jesus is here tonight.

I am honored to be here.

Thank you very much,
Banning, for inviting me.

I am so glad to see you, be with you.

And we are all together with
Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

What God has done and what God is doing is
absolutely glorious.

And as I just said a few minutes ago,
outside here to a little group,

I said, The God that is omnipotent

in Africa is not impotent in America.

Yes, praise God.

He is the same.

He is the same Jesus,
the same God, the same Lord.

Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Hallelujah.
Praise God.

Praise God.
Praise God.

Well, as I said, I'm honored to be here
at Jesus Culture Conference.

I like the name, by the way, very much.

It's a lifestyle,
it's a culture, isn't it?

And it's a family.

And this is all compounded.

I'm also very happy

for my dear friend Russell Evans,
who is here from Australia,

from the planet shakers, world shakers,
planet shakers, America shakers.

Amen.

And my friend, Bill Johnson, of course,
whom I love and highly appreciate,

although he's not here, but I
just would like to mention him.

And a very big word of appreciation also

to my friend, Louis Engels,
who spoke here.

Wow, it's fantastic.

I think we have a similar voice.

I think we preached our voices to pieces,
but it is still audible, though.

And then also Daniel Colanda is here.

He's the he is the chief evangelist
of Christ for all nations.

You just saw him in this clip.

And he is my successor.

I'm an old man by now.

I'm 73 years of age.

But
I

tell you, old age means absolutely nothing

as long as the Holy Spirit empowers us.

Yeah, that's the difference.

I am moving on in years, but I tell you,

I still want to kick the devil
before I kick the bucket.

America will be safe.

America will be saved.

This is what the Holy Spirit spoke to me.

In Africa, in 1972,

I heard the Holy Spirit shout in my dream,
Africa shall be saved.

And I saw a blood washed Africa.

And everybody thought, It's impossible.

It's impossible.

It's impossible.

But I heard it in four consecutive nights
until I then said to my wife after night

number four, I think the Holy Spirit
is trying to tell me something.

And then I saw him in action as we moved.

God expects us to move, and then he moves.

That is the ABC of service for God.

We move, then he moves with us.

And I heard him last year

saying, America will be saved.

America will be saved.

People say, What do you say?

What do you say?

What do you say?

Well, after having seen what I have seen

in Africa, I have become
an incurable believer.

I don't want to be cured.

But I believe America will be saved
and we will march towards it.

And the Lord will do what only he can do.

I'm just a small little evangelist.

But I tell you,
God takes the small people.

He doesn't take the big ones
like Goliath or like Solomon.

Somehow in the Bible,
big people have a bad press.

But he takes the nobodies
and turns them into some bodies.

And the world rejects a God's elect.

That's him.

That's this Bible.

Amen.

So we are starting.

I so much agree
with Banning and with Louis.

Yes, we will go from stadium to stadium,
from city to city, from state to state,

and from Coast to Coast
in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

And we'll do it together
in Jesus' wonderful name.

Amen.

Amen.

I still wanted to tell
you that I'm on Facebook.

Don't forget.

Don't forget.

How many of you follow me on Facebook?

Wow.

Well, that's a small minority here.

But check me out.

I've got 3.4 million followers on
my four language Facebook,

and they tell me by the end of the year,
I will have five million.

Isn't that wonderful?

I'm not going to tell you
when I drink coffee or tea.

For me, Facebook is a pulpit.

You will get punchy stuff from the Word
of God, and it will bless you greatly.

Amen.

Make sure.

A lready, having spilled the beans here,
being an old man,

I have the great joy that two
of my granddaughters are here tonight.

Where are you?
Where are you?

Can you just wave wherever you are?

There you can see them.

Yes, Anika and Elicia.
God bless you.

Praise God.
Praise God.

I have been praying a lot for tonight,

and I believe the Lord
has given me a word.

I want to preach.

I've been on my knees and I've said, Lord,
what do you want me to say?

I want to speak to you
as if it was my last sermon.

I don't intend to die
tonight, don't worry.

But I want to speak with that same urgency
and emergency.

I'm an evangelist.

I'm after souls.

Every time I take a microphone,
I have one desire in my heart.

I want hell empty and heaven full.

Yes, that's why we preach the gospel.

And that is the reason why Jesus died.

That is the reason.

He died to seek and save the lost.

He died to deliver those who were bound,

to set the captives free, to heal
the sick, and do glorious miracles.

He's the God of miracles.

Everything in the Bible is miraculous.

It's miraculous.

Somebody said to me, Reiner,
you are preaching sensation.

I said, Well, it can't
be. cannot be avoided.

It cannot be avoided because
this book is a miracle book.

From beginning to end, it's all miracle.

It cannot be avoided.

I don't believe in sensationalism,
but I do believe in sensation.

Hallelujah.

Praise God.

Amen.
Amen.

Amen.

I want to speak here tonight
about faith and fire.

Faith and fire.

I want to contrast it a little bit here.

And let me say, I want to give it

to you in form of short little...

As if somebody would string up
beautiful purls.

That's what I want to present to you.

Some necklace with beautiful purls,
stringing up those truths.

And I pray that the Holy Spirit may

plant them in your heart
as he planted them into my heart.

And if he is successful,
you will be successful as well.

Because these truths changed my own life,

got me going for God and seeing
since 1987,

when we started to keep records about
decisions for Christ in our gospel

crusades, we have reached
the figure of 75 million.

75 million.

You know what that means?

75 million less in hell and 75
million more in heaven.

That's what it means.

That's what it brings.

That is the result.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God.

I want to want to start
with Mark Chapter 16.

Mark Chapter 16, this will blow
you away right from the start.

If you have a pen and you have a Bible,

I want you to underline something.

I'm reading Mark 16 from Verse 11.

That was before Jesus ascended to heaven

and gave the great
commission to the disciples.

Now, Verse 11,
And when they heard that he was alive

and had been seen by her,
they did not believe.

Number one,
verse 13, And they went and told it

to the rest,
but they did not believe them either.

Verse 14,

Later he appeared to the eleven as
they sat at the table,

and he rebuked their unbelief and hardness
of heart because

they did not believe those who had
seen him after he had risen.

Can you believe it?

Three times in a row,
it says here, they did not believe.

They did not believe.

They did not believe.

Now that they did not believe,
I can still believe.

But what I find difficult to believe is
the fact that Jesus, a few verses later,

gave the Great Commission
to these unbelieving believers.

And he said, Go into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature.

Wow.

If I had been there that day,

I think I would have sneaked up
from behind

and pulled the garment of Jesus and would
have said, whispered into his ear,

Lord Jesus, are you sure you
picked the right people?

Do you know that behind your
back they are full of doubts?

Do you know that they are
questioning you all the time?

Are you sure you picked the right people?

You know what I think
Jesus would have done?

Jesus would have turned around.

He would have done this.

Shut up, funky.

I have a secret you don't yet know.

Hallelujah.

You
know what amazes me is that a perfect

God desires the cooperation
of imperfect people.

But he says, You shall receive power.

And now, listen,
after verse 14, we read verse 20.

It says there, And they went out

and preached everywhere,
and the Lord working with them

and confirming the word through
the accompanying signs.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

I asked myself, what happened
between verse 14 and verse 20?

What happened?

What was the key?

Well, this is Mark is not writing
properly chronologically.

But we know that between verse 14
and verse 20 is Acts 2.

When the Holy Spirit
came into this world and they were filled

with power and then went out
and served the Lord gloriously.

Amen?

Now, I would like to take you
by your hand if you are at verse 14.

I would like this evening to lead you,
bring you to verse 20.

How many of you would like that?

Amen.

From doubting to believing,

from questioning
to preaching, to moving forward,

to terrorize the arch terrorist,
which is the devil.

And this can happen in the
power of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.
I would like to share with you

some of the truths, some nuggets of truth

that burst upon me like revelations

and that changed my whole thinking,
changed my ministry.

And I can only say

today, looking back,
it was the hand of Jesus lifting me

to a harvest of a scale that was almost
unimaginable.

You saw this clip here.

Within six days in one city,

3.4 million people received
Jesus as their savior.

Isn't that awesome?

Well, it surely wasn't me,
but I had the microphone.

And yes, I did the preaching.

And we saw miracles sweep those meetings,
miracles upon miracles upon miracles.

The power of God accompanying
the preaching of the Word of God.

And I just would like to give you some
of those nuggets of truth, if I may.

And I pray that they may affect
you as they affected me.

Is that okay?

All right.

So be it then.

You know, I

used to pray because I was taught like
that in our Church in Germany,

that we must always pray
for an open heaven.

Lord, open the windows of heaven.

Lord, open the windows.

I was an expert in praying for
God to open the windows in heaven.

Somebody had forgotten it up there.

Lord, open the windows of heaven.

Wow.

Then the Holy Spirit began to teach me.

He began to teach me.

And I said, Wait a minute.

The windows of heaven are always open.

And I will give you the proof of it.

When Jesus ascended to heaven,

I think he punched a hole
into the heavens.

When he passed through

to the father's throne and sat down at his
right side, as we read in Scripture.

But he left that gate, that door,

he left it open because 10 days later,
after the ascension of Jesus,

the Holy Spirit had his
Descention on Earth.

And he passed through the same open gate.

Ascension, Descention.

So the gate was still open 10 days later.

And now I want to take you
to the Acts of the Apostles.

And that is very important.

The Acts of the Apostles

in Acts 7, verse 55 and 56, Stephen
became the first martyr.

And when just before they killed him
for his testimony,

his face shone like that of an angel,
Scripture says.

And he said, I see heaven open.

Oh, it was still open.

I see heaven open, he said.

And he said, I see Jesus standing.

I said, Oh, what?

I had read that Jesus sat down.

Now, Stephen says, I see Jesus standing.

Yes.

When the first Christian Martyr died,
Jesus stood up to receive him.

Say Amen.

Isn't that wonderful?

But let's never forget, you don't
need to pray for an open heaven.

Heaven is always open.

Even 2,000 years later, heaven is open.

Heaven remains open.

Let's shout it together.

Heaven is open.

Amen.

That affected me.

It affected me.

It affected me.

Unbelief is a terrible business.

Unbelief offends God.

Unbelief is very, very bad.

I want to sound a warning
against unbelief.

Can I do that quickly?

In 2 Kings, I need
to quickly go to 2 Kings.

2 Kings 7, here is the finest example
how dangerous unbelief is.

Samaria was besieged by the Syrian army,
and there was starvation, terrible.

I just make it very short,
terrible, terrible starvation.

Even so much that
some ate their own children.

Imagine, it must have been
absolutely catastrophic.

And the King was just about to capitulate
when the man of God spoke up.

The man of God spoke up.

Elisha said, hear the word of the Lord.

Second King 7, that says the Lord,

tomorrow about this time,
a sea of fine flour shall be sold

for a shekel and two seas of ballet
for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.

An officer on those

on whose hand the King leaned answered
the man of God and said, Look,

if the Lord would make windows
in heaven, could this thing be?

And he said, In fact, you shall see it

with your own eyes,
but you shall not eat it.

Eat of it.

Now, he was God's spokesman,
the Prophet Elijah.

He said, Tomorrow at this time,

there will be abundant
food in the gate of Samaria.

Very cheap food.

That was God's spokesman.

He comes the spokesman of the government,

the one on whom the king was leaning,
I mean, the wise s of the lot.

And he said, impossible.

If God would make windows in heaven,
this would not be possible.

Impossible.

God said it shall be.

He said it shall not be.

The next day,

the Syrian army heard a terrible noise
of an mighty approaching army,

and they fled, left everything behind,
including all the food they had.

And they had plenty.

And there under the gate of Samaria

was exactly the food the Prophet had
prophesied about 24 hours before.

And now, listen, here comes the point.

Here comes the point.

The King heard about it and instructed his
wise man, on whom he was leaning,

to go and administerate the food
distribution at the gate of Samaria.

But God had said he would not eat of it.

What happened?

Listen now.

That officer was trampled to death

by people who rushed to get
what he had not believed in.

Do you get the point?

I say that again,
that officer was trampled to death

by people who ran to get what he,
the officer, had not believed in.

And it struck me, unbelief is dangerous.

I renounce unbelief
with all that is within me.

We put our trust in God.

Let's put our trust in Jesus.

Whatever he says is true.

One reporter came to me and said,

Does a man of faith like
you sometimes have doubt?

I said, Yes, I do have some doubts.

Sometimes.

The reporter was amazed.

He said, You have doubts?

Oh, yes, I said.

She said, What doubts?

Cannot be.

Oh, I said, I have got
doubts about doubts.

Why have we always to doubt the truth?

Why can't we doubt the lie of the devil?

And I have decided to doubt my doubts
and I have decided to trust my Jesus.

Amen.

Away with doubt.

And here we are.

America will be saved.

America will be saved.

And you will see it and you
will have a part in it.

Hallelujah.

We will have a part in it.

Are you blessed?

Yes.
Hallelujah.

Glory to God.

Glory to God.

Glory to God.

Some people always major
on the negative things.

Always major on the negative things.

I never forget I arrived here somewhere

in America, I don't want to say where,
for a television show.

My plane was late and I came late

and the show had already started
and I thought, Oh, what now?

I came in and they still wanted me on it.

When I came onto the panel there,

the moderator said, Oh,
here comes Reiner Bahnke.

We are dealing here with a big theological

problem, and Reiner will
solve it all tonight.

My heart sunk.

And then they
spread out the whole theological problem.

I only understood about 75 %.

And then he said, Now,
Reiner, what do you say?

What do you say?

I said, To me, it's very simple.

Don't forget, I'm an evangelist and I'm
in the business of breaking chains.

And when the last chain is broken,
then I'm starting to split hair.

Let's stop splitting hair.

These are things that don't matter.

Let's break the chains in Jesus' name.

The chains that Satan has brought

and found so many people with,
they need to be broken.

And the preaching of the gospel,

the preaching of the gospel
is the sword of the Spirit.

Hallelujah.

Gold and silver I don't have,

but such as I have,
I give unto you in the name of Jesus.

Rise up and walk.

Rise up and preach.

Rise up and hear.

Amen.

Hallelujah.
All right.

So, unbelief is dangerous.

Let's all say it together.

Unbelief is dangerous.

Always dangerous.

Thank you.

The next revelation bursting of meat.

This all affected me.

Don't forget that.

They affected me and changed me.

It's for instance, the third one was
that I was taught when we go to Church,

we must always pray, dear Lord Jesus,
please come into our midst.

Come into our midst.

Oh, I prayed so much.

Lord Jesus, please come into our midst.

Come, please.

Please.

Why don't you come?

Come.

Half my life I prayed like that.

One day I read Matthew 28,

verse 20, and I gasped.

The Holy Spirit was there.

He taught me something.

Jesus said, I am with you always.

I thought by myself, Wait a minute.

Only somebody not right in his mind

is begging somebody to come
who never leaves you.

He never leaves us.

I am with you always.

How long is always?

Forever.

Hallelujah.

I am with you always.

I said, Jesus, I want to thank you.

You are with me even when
I don't feel like it.

You are with me always.

That changed everything in my life.

Half of the hymns I could no more sing,
but it didn't matter.

That is the Christian's only certainty

that so many Christians
are not certain about.

That Jesus is with us always.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God in the highest.
He's with me.

He's with me.

I heard somebody tell how

he was in a crusade, and then
he was to mount the platform to preach.

He wouldn't come up the platform because

he said he couldn't feel
the presence of Jesus.

He couldn't feel it.

And he stood there crying tears saying,
Lord, be with me.

I can't go up.

I don't feel you are with me.

Lord.

I respect that preacher,
but I don't agree with him.

You know what struck me?

Jesus is not a commodity.

He is a personality.

He is a personality like you,
like you and like me.

And no personality appears in percentages.

You are here fully.

I am here fully, and so is Jesus.

Fullyly.

That got me going.

I tell you, it spun me,

it stopped me, it spun me around, and it

turned me and I moved in a new direction.

Jesus is with me always.

And if I don't feel his presence,

then I know my feelings are lying

because the word of God says the opposite.

Hallelujah.

The word of God states it.

And if I don't feel him,
I sometimes have it.

When I'm in Africa, I tell you,
when I had to preach and I was glowing

with fever, with malaria,
I didn't feel Jesus exactly.

You know what I mean?

I took the microphone
and I put it away and I said, Lord Jesus,

I don't feel you right now,
but I appropriate your presence by faith.

T hen I preached and I tell you,
people got saved in huge numbers

and the sick got healed and the lame
walked and the blind saw.

Jesus is with us.

Hallelujah.

May it affect you as it affected me.

This is the cry of my heart and my desire.

Indeed, hallelujah.

Jesus is always with us.
Amen.

Amen.
Can I string up another pearl?

This is dynamite too.

My goodness, this is dynamite.

I'll tell you what, I've written a book
called Faith, the Link with God's Power.

I see it's not here,
but Faith, the Link with God's Power,

where I really elaborate in great
detail on all these things.

That is the truth I wrote down,
which really changed me.

And it will bless you mightily.

It will bless you mightily.

Amen?

Now, James, I need to go to James quickly
because there's another wonderful truth.

Jesus, I would say, is

always at the peak of his power.

Always at the peak of his power.

I will prove that to you from Scripture.

James 1, verse 17, Every good gift

and every perfect gift is from above
and comes down from the father of lights

with whom there is no variation of shadow

of turning, nor shadow of turning.

The father of lights, perfect gift,

no variation, nor shadow of turning.

And one day I was meditating over it.

I said, Holy Spirit,
you caused this to write.

Explain it to me.

What does it mean no shadow of turning?

Suddenly I saw it.

Do you want to know?

You know, in those ancient days,

the people didn't have
watches as we have now.

They had something what
they called sun dials.

And the primitive sun dial was

just a circle on the ground
and a stick in the middle.

And when the sun rose in the morning,

that stick through a shadow
across the circle.

And as the sun was climbing into the sky,

the angle of the light changed
and the shadow kept turning.

And by the turning shadow,
the people could read the time.

But at one point in the day,

there was no shadow in the circle.

And you know why?

Because the sun was in its meridian.

The sun was smack above that stick,

and the stick could not throw a shadow
because the sun was in its peak position.

That is how the earthly
son is rising and setting.

Now, hear the word of the Lord.

God is the son
of all sons, the son eternal.

I've got good news for you.

He doesn't rise in the morning
to sit at night.

With him, no shadow turns.

He is always at the peak of his position.

He is always at the peak of his power.

Nobody here will ever
catch a piece of shadow.

The Lord has put a circle around us all.

And we are in the full blast of his glory,
of his power, of his presence.

Like the first disciples and Apostles

were, like the Apostle Paul,
there is no shadow of turning.

We are walking in the light of God.

Jesus is the light of the world and is
always at the peak of the of his

willingness to save the lost
and to heal the sick.

Hallelujah.

Isn't that wonderful?

Isn't that wonderful?

Oh, Hallelujah.

Oh, Hallelujah.

The Lord took me by the hand
from verse 14 to verse 20, long ago.

I remember when I started off with our
crusades, I had another preacher with me.

He was praying for the sick, and I was, I
had I was preaching the gospel.

He was an African.

I, of course, was a German.

Then we had announced the crusade there
in a place called Bush Park Ridge,

very close to the Kroeger National Park
in South Africa.

He was to come by train, and then we
were to go by car to Bush Park Ridge.

But he never came.

He never, ever came again.

I waited for that train.

I waited for the next train,
and I waited for the third train.

Then I started to pray.

I said, Lord, when is Richard coming?

The Lord said, He's not coming.

I said, Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Who's going to pray for this pig?

The Lord said to me, I am with you.

Yes, that's good enough, Lord.

You are with me.

Jesus is with me.

I got into my car and I drove those
six hours to Bush back Ridge.

T here, the people were waiting for my...

For Richard, more than for Reiner.

I told them I've got
bad news and good news.

The bad news is, Richard didn't come.

The good news is, Jesus did.

I said, And I will preach and
I will pray for the sick.

I preached, made an altar call.

And then the Lord said to me,
Pray for the totally blind people here.

I said, How many blind
people have we got here?

A whole row came forward,
well, led forward.

I said, I lined them up in front of me.

I think they were about 20.

I said, I'm going to come and lay
my head, close your eyes.

I lay my fingers on your blind eyes

and I'm going to pray for you
in the name of Jesus.

But keep your eyes shut
until I tell you to open them.

I laid my hands on them,
my fingers on all those dead eyes.

And then I stepped back.

I said, Now, in the name
of Jesus, open your eyes.

And suddenly, a young man
about 20 years old, I can see.

I can see.

I can see.

And others, oh, Hallelujah.

I made up my mind that day I
don't want to depend on people.

I want to depend on Jesus.

Because Jesus never fails
and Jesus is with us always.

Don't forget that.

No matter what the situation, no matter
what condition, it doesn't matter.

Jesus never fails. never fails.

Amen.

Are you blessed?

Oh, may that sink into our hearts.

This always, always always.

There's always, always, always,
there's no need to question.

And if there's no need to question,
there's no opportunity to doubt.

I take the word of God at face value.
Why?

Because the word of God is
the constitution of the Kingdom of God.

And no two thirds majority of any
Parliament on earth

can change that constitution because
it is settled in heaven forever.

That's how sure it is.

Hallelujah.

From verse 14 to verse 20.

And of course, between those two verses,
as I already said, was Acts 2.

Wow, I love that chapter.

Actually, I don't need to turn to it.

I know it by heart.

Believe me,
when the day of Pentecost had fully come,

they were all with one
accord in one place.

I love every word here.

I could preach on every word if I had to.

And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind,

and it filled the whole house
where they were sitting.

Then they appeared to them,
divided tongues of fire.

And one sat upon each of them.

And they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit and began to speak

with other tongues as
the Spirit gave them utterance.

It's Bible.

It's Bible.

It's Bible.

Jesus said, You shall receive power.

He said that in Acts 1.

In Acts 2, we read what type of power?

Firepower.

I like that.

That's my Bible.

Firepower.

He's the captain of our salvation.

He gives us firepower.

Bless it be the name of the Lord.

Hallelujah.

Firepower.

I would like to give you one little
Old Testament, another pearl.

Is that okay?

Because it highlights a New Testament
truth that will amaze you.

And you may have never thought of it.

But the Holy Spirit showed it to me.

I've written about it also in my book
called evangelism by fire.

That book I have written, I can tell you,
I've written with a hot pen

because the Holy Spirit dictated it
and it's my whole heart in it.

If you want a ministry that
I have of evangelism, that is the way.

It's not stories, it's scripture.

But I tell you,

it's the word of God that is quick
and sharper than any two edged sword.

Amen.

I want to turn quickly with you just
for a minute or two to Judges Chapter 15.

It's the story of something.

Let me quickly give you
the context very quickly.

Samson had married a wife,
a Philistine wife.

I want you to please remember
that that was Old Testament.

It doesn't fit so well into our
today's societies.

I am aware of that.

So he had married
a beautiful Philistine wife.

Then he had to go.

And when he came back after a few months,

he wanted to kiss his wife and her father,
his father in law, stepped in and said,

Oh, Thompson,
I didn't know you would come back.

I gave your wife to another man.

Now, who wouldn't be as mad as a snake?

If your father in law did that to you?

What?

He has given my wife away to another man?

Samson was mad

and he did something terrible, but it
also is a picture that I want to use.

The Bible says he caught 300 foxes.

Now, that is miracle number one.

If you don't believe it, try to catch one.

He caught 300 foxes.

And then he went to the fields
of the Philistines.

He took the foxes, the Bible says,
and bound them tail to tail.

And because if every fox has just one tail

each, he must have bound
them together two by two.

And then he did this cruel thing.

He lit those tails and sent those

foxes into the ripe harvest
fields of the Philistines.

And then he watched.

He could exactly see where the foxes were

running because wherever the foxes were

running, trails of fire appeared.

Now, allow me,
I also read in the New Testament

that Jesus took his disciples
and sent them out two by two.

He bound two together.

I think sometimes it must have
been couples, husbands and wives.

And then he did something similar.

He did something wonderful.

We read of that in Luke.

In Luke, we can read of that.

Luke 12, verse 49.

Jesus says, I have come to throw...

My German translation says Jesus said,
I've come to throw fire on earth.

How much I wished it was already burning.

He joined his disciples together, two
by two, and then set them alight

with the fire of the Holy Spirit
and then sent them out.

Now, the fire of Jesus

is different to earthly fire because it

will burn, but it will not consume you.

Remember the fire of God
and the bush of Moses?

It burned the bush,
but it did not consume it.

I don't want to become
an ash heap for Jesus.

No, his fire I will carry
to the last day of my life.

And wherever he sends me, Hallelujah,
he has come to throw fire on the earth.

What of becoming a burning fox for Jesus?

What do you say?

Hallelujah.

Now, my real point is this.

Listen, my real point is this.

I asked myself, what if Thompson had

forgotten to light the tail of the foxes?

Tell me,
if he had forgotten to light the tales,

what would have happened
to the harvest fields?

Shout.

Nothing.

Nothing.

You see, when we work for Jesus,
without the fire of the Holy Spirit,

we will work our fingers to the bone and
it will be worth nothing.

The fire of the Holy Spirit is
the key to effective Ministry.

Hallelujah.

I've never forgotten that.

I always said, Lord, your fire, your fire.

I want to move with your fire
in the mighty name of Jesus.

I want to move in that fire
in the name of Jesus.

Hallelujah.

I was preaching in a church and suddenly
a certain gentleman came to me.

It was in Germany.

This gentleman came to me
and I looked at him.

I thought, Wow, this man is sick.

He said to me, May I
please speak with you?

I said, Yes.

He said to me, I'm a pastor, he said.

I can no more carry the weight
of my church.

It is too heavy for me.

He said, I am burned out.

I am burned out.

I can no more carry
the weight of my church.

I am burned out.

Can you help me?

I said to him, Yes, sit down.

One question, Pastor, I said, have
you been filled with the Holy Spirit?

He said, My denomination
does not believe in it.

Then I tried to figure out,

I only had half a minute to figure
out something I couldn't figure out.

He said he suffered from a burnout,
and I thought by myself,

How can somebody burn out who has
lived his whole life in a fridge?

He can suffer a freeze out,
but not a burnout.

But I said nothing.

I said nothing.

I began to explain to him the glorious

fire baptism and fire power
that Jesus has come to give to us.

And shall I tell you how
that pastor went home?

He didn't drive home, he swam home
in a river of fire.

Hallelujah.

I pray that we may all swim home
in a river of fire in the name of Jesus.

Come out of the fridge and get
your temperature right.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God in the highest. Glory
to God in the highest.

I've got another experience.

I was asked to speak to a group of people,
and I did.

Suddenly,
after the way was prepared,

I felt the Holy Spirit was present
and I thought he would just about fall.

And he did.

And the Holy Spirit fell
and the people were shouting.

Oh, they were shouting and praising God.

All of them except for two.

They were sitting right in the middle
and they were as cool as cucumbersbers.

Everybody shouted and praised
God and speaking in new tongues.

And there they sat.

I tried to figure out,
I said, how is that possible?

And then I got the answer.

Since that day, I call such
people as best as Christians.

They are fireproof.

Well, I want to tell you what I am.

I am flammable for God.

Are you flammable for God?

Shout, I am flammable for Jesus.

Oh, Holy Spirit, fall upon us all
in Jesus' mighty name.

In Jesus' mighty name, hallelujah.

America will be saved.

That fire makes us stop at nothing.

Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.

I hear so many people say, Oh, America,

such in such a bad state
in such a bad state.

I don't agree with them at all.

And I'll tell you why.

Somewhere in the Bible, I have read
that today is the day of salvation.

It doesn't say this day
is the day of damnation.

So shut up, all of you
who are damning America.

This is the day of salvation.

There will never be
a better day than today.

Don't forget that.

And when the night is darkest,

the light is brightest, and all darkness
in the world cannot kill a little candle.

Here we come with the fire power
of the Holy Spirit in Jesus' mighty name.

Are you happy?

Hallelujah.

Oh, Hallelujah.

Listen quickly back to Acts 2.
Quickly, quickly.

All right?

Shall I close or can I continue?

You are the best of the best.

You are a precious paradise here.

Listen, listen to this.

S uddenly there came a sound
from heaven and so on.

Then in verse 3, Then they appeared
to them, divided tongues as of fire.

Here it is.

And one sat upon each of them.
Each, each.

I like the word each.

It speaks volumes.

Each.

There were 120 people.

Somebody in heaven had counted the heads

and they prepared one
flame for every head.

I feel sorry for people
who haven't got a head.

Yeah, there are some headless ones.

But if you have a head, Jesus has a flame.

I want you to shout, I claim my flame.

I desire the fire.

I desire the fire. It will fall.

Hallelujah.

A flame for each head, for every head.

I believe that is what is
just about to happen here.

It's just about to happen here.

And here I feel in my

spirit, I feel in my spirit, here are some

that are going to take Reiner Bunker's

baton or my microphone.

Who wants my microphone?

Oh, Hallelujah.

The problem is I can't give it
to you because it's not mine.

But the Holy Spirit will give you
something better than the microphone.

A flame in Jesus' name.

Hallelujah.

I was giving a teaching

on the fire of the Holy Spirit
in a church, and they recorded it.

At the same time, it just crossed my mind,
that story that what I experienced.

They translated me simultaneously
into 12 languages for recording.

Here I stood and there were 12 boots.

They all had glass doors.

They all had glass doors.

And I'm an animated preacher.

In Germany, they say when Reiner preaches,
he looks like a Dutch windmill.

There they were.

They were translating and I
was preaching, preaching.

They were translating.

When I did this, they did this.

When I spoke about the flame
on the head, I did this.

They all did this.

Oh, I liked it.

And then I had a fantastic idea.

If you say goodbye to someone
in America, what do you do?

How do you do it?

This?
What does it mean?

Go left, go right, but never straight?

I'm kidding.

In Germany, when we say goodbye, do this.

Push off.

I thought, Wow, why can't we, we fire
Christians, say goodbye like this.

Bye, bye.

Where are you going?

I'm going to New Orleans
to cast out devils.

Bye, bye.
Where are you going?

I'm going to New York
to preach the gospel.

Hallelujah.

A flame on every head in Jesus' name.

Claim your flame in Jesus' name.

Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Are you happy?

If you don't enjoy my preaching,
I enjoy it myself.

Oh, Hallelujah.

Glory to God in the highest.

This Jesus I want to follow.

Him I want to serve.

My mortal hands, I always feel
my mortal hands...

Look at them.
They are so ordinary and they are mortal.

But my mortal hands
built God's eternal kingdom.

You know what architects build?

Thank God for the architects.

But it all one day will turn to ashes.

But what you build with your mortal hands

in the name of Jesus means
you build this eternal kingdom.

My mortal lips preach the eternal gospel.

That is the highest form of life.

I want to challenge all of you.

Dedicate yourself to Jesus
totally, completely, radically.

And if you do it, he will make you.

He says, I will make you.

It's not a university that will make you.

It's not a theology that will make you.

Jesus says, I will make you.

Fishes of man.

Hallelujah.

He is the maker of his
men and of his women.

I will make you.

He will make you.

I honestly want to repeat
it one more time.

Here are some people,

some men, young or old, I don't care,
and women, young old, I don't mind.

Here are some of you
that God will use to shape nations.

Hallelujah.

America will be saved.

Last year, let me quickly still
tell you what happened to me.

Last year, I live in a small little town
in Florida called Verro Beach.

It has got 14,000 inhabitants.

It's a sleepy little place.

One for 14,000.

And the Lord spoke to me.

He said to me,
I did not just send you to America

for America to be the offering
plate for Africa.

Choked me.

He said, I've sent you to America
for America's sake.

He said, I want you to have a gospel
crusade here in Vero Beach.

I said, Lord, this is a small place.

I can do that quickly.

I'll get it. I'll get it.

Few hundred people together
and it will be fine.

But as I prayed and prayed and prayed,

the whole thing grew
and grew and grew and grew.

In February of this year,
I had my crusade in Verro Beach.

And in every single meeting,
I had 5,000 people in that little place.

5,000 people.

To me, that was as if somebody would
shoot a flare into the night sky,

or somebody pulling the trigger
of the starting pistol.

The race is open.

The race is open from city to city, from
state to state, and from Coast to Coast.

I believe America will be saved.

We signed the contract

for the Amway Center in Orlando
for September 27, 28.

It seats 19,000.

That is the second step.

After that,

I will start moving
and we will fill stadiums

from city to city, from city to city,
to city to city, to city to city to city.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

The gospel must be
preached to be the gospel.

Gospel means good news.

News is not news when
it's stuck on the shelf.

News is news when it becomes communicated.

An un preached gospel is no gospel at all.

The gospel must be preached
to become the gospel.

When the gospel is preached,
the gospel becomes an event.

Young man said to me, How can you call
that gospel, which is 2,000 years old?

He said, You say it's news?

He said, I call news something else,

he said to me, You could
at best call it good history.

He was smart, but not smart enough.

I said, Young man, yes, the gospel is old,

like the sun is old.

But nobody can say, because
the sun is old, I'm cold.

The sun is old but hot.

And the Bible is old but powerful.

And I said, Listen,
every time the gospel is preached,

it happens in the people,
in the hearts of the heroes.

It happens.

And then they shout, they jump up and say,
Something happened to me.

News.

Blind eyes opened, crippled Swag,
lost a found, and sinners saved.

It happened.
Did it happen to you?

Yes.
Hallelujah.

In Jesus' mighty name, I want to find out

how many of you
have heard the call of God tonight

to be part of that salvation move
that is going to roll across

the United States of America to turn
darkness into light,

the power of Satan into the power
of God, bondage into freedom.

If you have heard that call and you are

willing to drop all like Levi,
the tax official.

When Jesus entered his tax office,
he stood up, left all and followed him.

Who's here tonight?

You want to follow Jesus in this calling.

I want you to stand up with me.

There's no room to call you forward.

But I believe as we are going to pray now,
the fire will fall and there is a flame

on every head showing a flame
on every head in Jesus mighty name.

Are you ready for it?

Listen, I'll tell you
how we do it in Africa.

Can I tell you?

And can we do it here just the same?

When we pray for the fire to fall in

Africa, there are crowds of 100,000,
200,000, 800,000, and they are all there.

Nobody can come forward,

but they all want to receive
that wonderful

fire power,
that baptism in the Holy Spirit,

that flame on your head and your
flame bears your name, by the way.

It's personalized.

It fits nobody else.

It only fits you.

That's why you can serve God
in a way nobody else can.

It's original.
It's unique.

Do you get me?

Amen.

Then we call the people forward.

I'm just explaining now.

I'm just explaining now, so don't start.

Then I say, They were of one accord.

It says there in Acts 2, They were of one

accord. And then the fire came.

I said to them, You can praise
the Lord the way you like, actually.

But I suggest why can't we
shout the biggest Hallelujah?

This place has ever heard.

Universal Studios has ever...

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

And then don't just shout one Hallelujah.

It means praise the Lord.

When you praise the Lord, you attract
the Holy Spirit like a lightning.

Condactor attracts lightning.

Then don't just shout one Hallelujah.

Open your eyes and look around.

Keep your eyes shut and keep
praising the Lord with hallelujah.

And suddenly, suddenly your
language will change.

You will prophesy.

You will prophesy.

You will interpret.

You will see visions.

You will become a preacher
of the gospel with firepower.

Are you ready?

Are you ready?

Everybody stand.

Are you ready?

Everybody stand now.

Follow my instructions.

Please lift your hands now.

Close your eyes and your

hallelujah. fire in Jesus' name.

Fire in Jesus' name.

Fire, fire of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus, every head, every heart, every one.

So put up our fire.

Every head,

every tongue, every heart, every body

receive in the name of Jesus and go
in the power of your mighty

and preach the gospel and heal the sick
and raise the dead

freely you have received
freely give in Jesus mighty name.

Shalama, see I call all
among thy all of all

sh you. Hallelujah. Oh, Hallelujah.
Oh, hallelujah.

Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

You have received the call.

It's easy to receive a call from Jesus.

It's another matter to give
birth to that call.

You will give birth to that call
in the name of Jesus.

May this auditorium become a womb

for the next generation of Holy Spirit
evangelists in the mighty name of Jesus.

The Lord says, Don't be afraid.

I am with you.

My lips are your lips.

Your hands are my hands, says the Lord.

I will remove the barriers.

I will remove the barriers that tempt you
from entering your call, says the Lord.

This day is your day.

This day is the day of salvation.

America will be saved.

America will be saved.

God bless America.

America will be saved.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, mighty Jesus.

Thank you, mighty God.

America will be saved.

Hallelujah.

Has the flame landed?

Has the flame landed?

Your head is the landing
strip for the Holy Spirit.

He has landed.

Never to take off again.

The comforter has come to abide.

Shout, Hallelujah.

Some of you have already responded
to a similar call before.

I hope you don't collect calls.

I pray from the bottom of my heart

that you are no more waiting for another

call, but that you go to pennies and buy
a suitcase and get going for God.

In Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name.

Amen. the

word that we continually got,

again and again, as we were coming to LA,
was that the Lord wanted to release

something significant
and unique in our midst.

I want to tell you, I feel very strongly

that what was released tonight is really
tied to our ability to receive it.

One of the ways we receive that is
the Bible says that if you honor a prophet

in the name of a prophet,
you'll get the Prophet's reward.

I want us just to honor right now,

just by showing him our gratitude,
that run our bank, you would come in here,

invest in us and pour
himself out as he did.

I want you to thank him as a father.

I want you to thank him better
than you're thinking him.

I want you to thank him for coming.

We just honor him.

We did a tour in April.

We did eight cities just
doing one night events.

The message we sent everywhere he went,
I believe, and we said this last year,

hope is alive and well in America
because you've decided to believe God.

I believe that hope is alive and well

because you've decided
to give everything to him.

As I get into settings like this,
it's impossible to just be discouraged.

It's impossible not to be full of hope.

I'm just so encouraged by your life.

I feel so much hope in my heart
because of your life.

Here's what we're going to do.

I want to just end with one
more song tonight.

Just one more song just celebrating Jesus.
Before we do that,

because once we do that, we're going
to dismiss you and let you go.

If you're here for one night,
we're glad you're here.

You're more than welcome to come.

Each night, we'll have
tickets available each night.

Tomorrow night will be Russell Evans
and then I'll be on the last night.

But also for those that are in the days,
if you'd like to come to the days and you

can get tickets for the three days,
but two days now.

But tomorrow morning,
we'll have the youth pastors meeting

at eight o'clock for a high
school and junior high pastors.

Then I think whatever time it starts at 9
30, we're going to have in the morning,

I believe it's Brian
and Katie are on, right?

Brian and Katie Torwalt will
be leading in the morning.

Then Scott Thompson is
going to be activating.

We're going to have going to have some
interaction with Scott over power

evangelism and praying for people
and all that type of stuff.

We'll be doing that in the morning.

As well as Kim will be
speaking in the morning.

She's pregnant.

She may have to sit
on a stool or something.

No, I'm not.
What are you talking about?

She's pregnant or she's been eating more,
but that's not the point.

Then in the afternoon,

one of our favorite things is
something called the Culture Project.

We will have different people in,

a captain, a jag in the military will be
here, a nurse practitioner, an author,

songwriter in the entertainment
world will be here.

Luke Rittenhouse,
an NBA basketball player.

Anyways, an NBA player
will be here tomorrow.

All that's going to be
happening in the afternoon.

We're going to be interacting with him

and talking and just going over,
raising up leaders for all the realms.

That's in the afternoon.

Then we'll be back here tomorrow night

with the band and one of our
favorites, Russell Evans.

W e are glad that you're here tonight.

I f you're just with us
for the night, bless you guys.

We love you guys.

You're more than welcome to come
back if you'd like and get tickets.

I f you're here for the days,
we'll see you in the morning.

Okay?
Does that sound good?

All right, one last song.

Hey, let me just say before we leave,

just to set this, we are really grateful
for this place, the Gibson,

the staff here, and all the ones that are
helping us who are serving here.

I want to make sure that you just make
sure you just let them know you love them

as you're going out and make sure one
of the ways we love them is by picking up

trash and making sure we're not
just leaving stuff everywhere.

Are you with me on that?

They've got really a great crew here,
a great staff that works at this theater,

and we just want to make sure
that we honor them as well.

And we're just really grateful
for what they're doing for us.

Okay?
All right.

You ready?
Did you receive tonight?

Yeah, Mark.

Let's end with one more song
and then we'll let you go.

Three, two,

one. I'm coming back to the start

where you found me.

I'm coming back to your heart.

Now I surrender, take me.

This is all I can pray.

One, two, three.

You'll never stop loving us.

No matter how far we run.

You'll never give up on us.

All of heaven sheds, let the future begin.

So let the chains fall off.

God is freedom and here
we feel your heart.

Our heartbeat for us, take me.

This is all I can.

One, two, three.

You never stop loving us.

No matter how far we run,
you never give up on us.

All of heaven shouts,
let the future begin.

You never stop loving us.

No matter how far we run,
you never give up on us.

All of heaven shouts,
let the future begin.

I feel alive.

I come alive.

I am alive. God's great, God's love.

I feel alive.

I come alive.
I am alive.

Oh, God's great, God's love.
This is all right.

One, two, three.
You'll never stop loving us.

No matter how far we run.
You'll never give upon us.

All of heaven shouts,
let the future begin.

You'll never stop loving us.
No matter how far we run. efore we run.

You never give up on us.
All of heaven sheds.

Let the future begin.
I feel alive.

I come alive.
I am alive.

I God's great, God's love.
I feel alive.

I come alive.
I am alive.

I God's great, God's love. here we go.

Here we go.

Here we go.

So take me.

This is all I can want.

One, two, three.

You'll never stop loving us.

No matter how far we run. you
never give up on us.

All of heaven shouts,
let the future begin.

I feel alive.

I come alive.

I am alive.

Oh, God's great, God's love.

I feel alive.

I come alive.

I am alive.

Oh, God's great.

I feel alive.
I come alive.

I am alive.
Oh, God's great.

You're god's great, God's love.

Oh, oh.

I feel alive.

I come alive.

I am alive.

I come, I'm great, God's love.

I feel alive.

I come alive.

I am alive.

God's great, God's love. you..