HC: Richard, I began to revisit, as we talked about in the executive committee meeting, the heart and the vision of the founder and chairman Oral Roberts. And he had in his heart to minister to those that are ministers that may be dealing with problems, obstacles, hurts. They may have had trouble, as some have said, following the leading of the Spirit in their denomination.
And he felt like in his late sixties, which Richard just said he was 68 when he founded this organization, that he could be a catalyst to ministers. And he opened himself and this ministry to draw you, to put his arms around you, to fellowship with you, to encourage you, to seed into you.
And I’ve learned so much of being a part of this ministry, and Brother Roberts’ desire was to reach out and touch you. And our theme was “Love and Unity Through Signs and Wonders.”
I believe in these last days, even tonight I believe that you’re going to experience that love and unity through signs and wonders. I believe that the signs, wonders, miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost are going to be the earmark of this latter day, this outpouring of the Spirit. We have to have it. And what better place than right here on the ORU campus.
Richard, when we came yesterday, the young man that picked us up at the airport, he was bubbling. He was absolutely bubbling. Then the young man that took us from the hotel to the cafeteria and brought us back, he was driving the bus. He’s a graduate of ORU, just graduated. He said, “Pray for me because I am going to be”—he’s from Liberia. He may be here tonight. He said, “Pray for me. I am going to be the next President of Liberia.” He said, “I am believing God.”
And so during this week, I believe that you’re going to be ministered to by the Holy Spirit and that you’re going to receive something from God by the Spirit of God. Amen.
RR: I’m going to ask Pastor Karl Strader if he would come up. He’s also a member of the executive committee. Brother Strader. He was here earlier. Pastor Daugherty, would you come, Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty, and share from the standpoint of the executive committee today, what we felt in our hearts today about ICBM.
Finding Nemo, the brand-new one, within the first five minutes of the movie, mama’s dead. Think about it. And yet we sit back. How long are you going to tolerate this spirit of rebellion in the church? And yet we take it. We talk bad about other preachers. “You know Oral Roberts got his car by stealing it out of the offering. You know that, and I know that.” You know my jewelry came because I stole it out of the offering. You know that, and I know that.
Well, you know I drive a Lexus. You know I got that car because I certainly stole that sucker out of the offering. Somebody put this great big Lexus right in the middle of that offering bucket, and I stole it right out of the offering. Liar, liar, pants on fire! That man came here two years ago, never met him before in my life. The Spirit of God spoke to him, told him to buy me that car. I didn’t even know what it was. When they asked me to insure it, what kind of car it was, I said, “I don’t know.” I had to go look.
But yet other preachers accused other preachers, and while we’re sitting here accusing each other, we’re all going broke. And yet they’re making billions of dollars to hit a ball with a bat. Give me a bat. I might not be good, but I might not be bad. Am I in the wrong profession? Am I serving the wrong God? Are you in the wrong profession? Are you hungry? Are you sick? Are you tired of your belly aching? Are you tired enough to stand up and say, “I will not tolerate the spirit of Jezebel in the church any more. In the name of Jesus, you lying, foul spirit, you get out of my house. You get out of my children. You get out of my church. You get out of my Christian school. You get out of Oral Roberts University.”
Start to support Richard Roberts. Why? Because he’s my husband? No. Because he’s sending young kids to the nations of the earth, like Jude Fuquay, who is changing the face of Seattle. Did Timba and Puma ever change the face of Seattle? Did they ever get anybody saved or healed or delivered or set free?
Let’s go over to Tiger Woods. His current worth is $212 million. He won eleven tournaments in 2000, nine on the PGA Tour, earned him $9,188,000; on the PGA Tour, $11,034,000 worldwide. He broke his own PGA Tour record of $6,616,000 in 1999. He increased his total record on the PGA Tour on the career money list to $33,103,852, and now they are estimating that he’s won over $41,213,162. And at that pace, he will be the sports first golf billionaire by the age of 50. Would you like to know what he does to calm down? Buddha meditation.
Baywatch. Who’s really watching the bay anyway? Come on. Next one, Exodus 20:4-6, listen very carefully. How many of you watch the Oscars? ”You shall not make for yourself a golden image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven, above the earth, or beneath it. You shall not bow, nor shall you serve it.” That is the statue that was built outside the Academy Awards.
The next one, “Dude, you’re getting a Dell.” Remember him? “Dude, you’re getting a Dell,? Benjamin Curtis, the actor who gained fame and occult following known as the slacker Steven in the commercials for Dell Company, was now arrested for buying marijuana. That was February 11, 2003. A day in the life of. My Bible says, “This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” Howard Sterne, A Day in the Life Of, earned $16,949 per hour that he is contracted out. Shoes, I love shoes. I’m wearing a pair of Stewart Weitzman shoes. Stewart Weitzman has women buying over 1.5 million pairs of his designer shoes every year. He’s famous for his $2,500 multicolored jeweled shoes that are at the Emmys. This year he did a million dollar diamond shoe, and next year he’s promised the Emmys the same million dollar ruby shoes.
Somebody come up. Wait a minute, wrong shoe. Now I bought these shoes-they’re Stewart Weitzman. They’re brand-new. They’re the jeweled version. They’re not the big fancy, but they’re a very, very fancy version of Stewart Weitzman. And I bought them brand-new. You can see by the bottom of the heel they’re new. And, Brenda, can you read that? Come here. I want you to see what I paid for them. I bought them at a resale shop. You all think, “Oh, my word!” No, they’re were brand-new, in the box. How much did I pay for them? Can you read the price?
LR: Well, a couple of years ago my daughter Chloe had an event that she had to go to, and at this event that she had to go to she was just as nervous as she could be. She was nervous. She was jittery. She was frustrated. She was excited. She was nervous as a cat in a, what they say, a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. She was itchy. She was wound up. But I couldn’t talk her out of it.
Finally she got in the car and she wouldn’t stop. And she kept going and going and going and going, and I thought, This is not good. I said, “Chloe, listen to mama. Nobody is making you do this. Nobody’s putting pressure on you. You do not have to put pressure on yourself. If you want to wait a while to do this, just wait a while. We can do it in a week, we can do it in a month, we can do it in a year. You don’t have to do this.”
And she got all wound up, and the more wound up she got, the more wound up I got. And the more wound up I got, the more wound up she got, until she sat in the car and threw up. And while she was getting ready to throw up, I grabbed her by the hair and I said, “Honey, honey, at least throw up over there!” And I rolled down the window, and I stuffed her head out the window and she heaved out the window.
And just about the time it started to come out, she turned to her sister and aimed at her lap. Well, her sister grabbed her and grabbed her by the hair, hung her out the window. She began to throw up all over the place. And typical mother, who always has a camera, I said, “I have to have a picture of this.” I hung out the window driving the car, hanging out the window, taking pictures of my daughter throwing up.
We arrived at the place where she was supposed to perform, and she walked in the door. And the only thing she said to the woman standing at the door was, “Bathroom, bathroom, bathroom!” The woman pointed, we ran over there, and she said, “Mama, O mama,? she went to the bathroom on one end, and she said, “Mom, I’ve got to throw up from the other end.” And do you know what she did? She screamed and the whole time, and I saw there’s a garbage thing on the wall. I ran out and I grabbed the garbage sack on the wall. It was nailed to the wall. So I pulled the sack out of the part that was nailed on the wall. She stuck her head in the bag. She threw up all over the place. She wiped off her face. And I said, “Chloe, this is ridiculous.” She took all the garbage off her face. She stuck her head under the sink. She wiped off her face, and she said, “Let’s go do this thing, mama.” Let me tell you something, Christians, it’s time to suck up and go do this thing. Let’s go do this thing. Father, in the name of Jesus, I have a message that I believe is from You. Let’s go do this thing in Jesus” name, amen. Now after having said that, those of you that used to love me before may have to rethink your theology after this message. But I want to warn you in advance; I believe that this message is for the church because Jesus wrote about it in the Bible. So do you agree that if it’s in the Bible, I can preach it? Do you agree that if it’s in the Bible and I preach it, it’s probably from the Lord? So if you agree that it’s in the Bible and I can preach it and it’s probably from the Lord, you are going to love me afterwards. Remember what you said at the end of this message. We’re going to talk about Jezebel.
So Melchizedek comes down in the form of a priest and a king of the Most High. He is ruling and reigning. There’s a reason. He has a certain authority that God wants to release into the earth for every one of you sitting in the seat you’re sitting in now. But it takes a little time to get there.
How many of you know going through a process isn’t always easy or fun? But it’s productive. And by the time I get to you in your little seat right down there, we’re going to find out how productive it really is. He starts with a priest and a king by the name of Melchizedek, the priest of Salem, king of Salem. He is the priest of peace. He’s not the priest of a city. He’s the priest of a spiritual happening. He is the priest of nothing missing, nothing broken. You got that?
Okay, this is getting good. So you take a priest and a king of nothing missing, nothing broken, means you can rule spiritually with nothing missing, nothing broken. And you can rule earthly in your kingship and your authority or governmental authority with nothing missing, nothing broken. God did not call heathens to rule and reign over His children. We’re the ones that messed that one up.
He has given us priestly authority from the most high, and he has given us kingship authority from the most high. And down through the years, we let it go. Not anymore.
So you take that kind of authority, and he passes it to Abram. Why did He do that? He brought out wine and bread. Sounds a little like the Last Supper to me, doesn’t it to you? So here he has wine and bread. He’s about to serve him communion. The king of Sodom comes up and says, “I’ll give you all these things.”
Boy, every time God wants to do something simple, satan comes along to offer you the whole wide world. And some of us are just goofball enough to take it. And God is saying, ”Here we go. I’m going to…” God’s serving up supper. God’s given us a snack, and satan is offering us the whole world. I’d rather have a snack blessed from God than everything from the world without God, for heaven’s sake.
But listen, some Christians today haven’t done that. They haven’t made that choice. Well, here he comes out, and he says, “I want to bring you a little snack here. I’m going to give you bread and wine.”
So I get ready to sell the car and I talk to Richard, and the Lord had a check in my spirit and he said, “Not now.” I thought, “Okay, maybe tomorrow.” And He said, “Not now.” And He kept saying, “Not now.”
Now I want you to understand something. I red-lined the car twice two weeks ago. Do you know what red line means? You drive it till the end and it goes “eeekkk!” I did. Got it fixed, did it again. Got it fixed, and I said, ”Something is very, very wrong with this picture. I’m doing something wrong. God, You’re either going to have to release me to buy another car or You’re going to have to send a car.”
Now I had been praying for probably a year now for a car, and the Lord kept saying, “Not yet.” Six months ago He told me to find somebody that had a car payment and begin to pay their car payment. So the very person that went in front of my face, I said, “Lord, that’s the person?” He said, “That’s the person.” I said, “Do you have a car payment?” She said, “Yeah, I drive a BMW.” I said, “Lord, could we not have a Mazda?” I began to pay her car payment.
And the Lord kept saying, “This is what I want you to do. This is what I want you to do.” Well, four weeks ago my car died completely, to the tow stage. Now you know you have a problem when you see your car being taken away, not being driven under its own power. And so I was on my way to our program. It is live at eight o?clock at night now. Thank You, Jesus. And so I’m being driven. I get to the program. We are on the air. I am covered in sweat. I look very similar to what I looked like when I came out tonight, today, without the green bathrobe, real close. Get a visual.
And I got on television, and I was frustrated, to say the least. But you know something? Count it all joy. He didn’t say everything would be good. He didn’t say praise Him for everything. He said, “Praise Him in every situation.” Not for every situation. There was nothing good about what I was thinking right then. But the Lord said, “You renew your mind daily with the Word of God.”
You’ve got opportunity to fall into the sharks. You’ve got opportunity to swim with the short things. You’ve got opportunity to go and walk back on that stage, on the shore and just splash around in the shallow stuff. It’s easy in the shallow end. But God said, “Not yet.” And I knew that I had to get on television and say something that I would be held responsible for.
And I want to teach you how to get completely wet today. Now I want you to turn to your neighbor and say, ”Neighbor, you’re all wet. Neighbor, you’re all wet.” (Response) Now the question is, what’s been sprinkled on them? What are they full of? You know, what you’re full of, you will manifest. What are you full of? Are you full of being watered with the word of the Holy Spirit, with the word of the Lord, with the power of God? Are you watered with your friends? Are you watered with what your hair looks like? Are you too busy taking care of what your hair looks like and not worry about what the Word looks like?
All right, how do you get wet? We know we’re supposed to avoid the appearance of evil, but how? You know, I love these how-to books. If you want to grow tomatoes, don’t just hand me tomato seeds. Tell me how to grow the thing till I get a tomato on the vine.
So here’s the how to. I want you to look at a couple of Scriptures today. First of all, I want you to think about this. Second Corinthians 10:4,5, II Corinthians 10:4,5, what does that say? “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.” They are not in our head. For the weapons of our warfare, for the weapons of our warfare. Clue number one, it’s a war. You don’t put on an armor for a picnic.
Don’t think you’re going to tiptoe through the tulips and get the job done. Satan is going to beat you up every opportunity he has. But the only way he has opportunity is if you forget about the Word. “I’ve set before you life and death, blessing and cursing.” And then He had to go on and say, “Choose life.”
If He set before us life and death, blessing and cursing, don’t you think that it would be a no-brainer to choose life? But He had to tell us to choose life. Why? Because even though we think we choose life, the only way to really choose life is to get into the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation and not get into the gospel according to opinion and not get into gospel according to girlfriends and not get into gospel according to my legs are longer than your legs. My legs are shorter than all your legs, so what difference does it matter? You get into the Word of God.
And let’s believe this one thing. Let me just say this before those of you who are going to join join. Believe that God’s going put a millennial blessing increase upon that $25 that you give, a thousandfold return. How many of you could stand a $25,000 breakthrough? According to your faith, be it unto you. Put that hand up one more time. Say, “According to my faith, be it unto me a thousandfold return.” (Response) Now some of you may be tempted to pay four years and say, “I need a hundred, I’d better put a hundred in there.”
Because I believe that many of you, dozens of you, are going to get a thousandfold return. About this time next year, you’ll be testifying of the glory of God. Please be seated. And if you’re interested, raise your hand and our ushers will put one of those envelopes in your hand. Very simply fill it out, and in the next five minutes you’ll be an official member joining. Pastors, leaders, anybody involved in the fivefold interest or ministry, God wants to let you be a part of us. Keep your hands up so that the ushers can see you.
Our next speaker, Dr. Myles Munroe, will be on the platform in a few moments to minister. He’s sitting here, but he’ll be at the podium. Raise your hand if you’re interested. Please raise your hand and keep it raised if you’re interested.
There are envelopes at the end of the row. If you don’t see an usher, the envelope … well, yeah, we’re passing out the applications, but the envelopes are on the end of the row. Those of you sitting on the end, just pick up a group of those envelopes and pass them down if you see somebody with their hand uplifted. Please keep your hands up fairly high so we can see you. Sometimes you all look alike.
Yes, and we’ll send you one book a month from one of the 77 trustees, most of whom have written some of the most … (End of Side #1) … profound books. We send that to you free, postpaid, no obligation to us whatsoever. It’s a gift from the conference into your life. Last year nearly $100 worth of books went out free of charge in the mail to you who are members of the conference. I got my collection of books, and I’d like to make one available to the people this year. I didn’t last year, but I will this year.
We want you to be a part of what God is saying to this conference and what He says, not only during the conference, but all year long. You will get occasional communications from our office here under Billy Joe’s direction and President Roberts and the chancellor. They will be giving words to you from time to time, prophetic words and utterances along with the books.
Now how many of you know what this is? You ever use this?
BJD: Yes, cellophane.
LR: Yes. Now this is the kind we wrap food in. Do you do much cooking?
BJD: Occasionally.
LR: Is that a lie? This is called Saran wrap, Glad wrap. Do you know what that is, plastic wrap, right?
BJD: Yes.
LR: Okay. I want to ask you a real serious question. Okay? Are you afraid of it?
BJD: No.
LR: If I were to get mad at you and hit you, did that hurt?
BJD: No.
LR: So you’re not afraid of it and it doesn’t hurt? In fact, it’s pretty innocent to you. And, you know, in my opinion, this is a good thing, especially in my house, right? I want you to come here a minute. Richard, would you help me? Now do you know that it’s entirely possible to get too much of a good thing? You know, it’s not possible to get too much of a God thing, but it is possible … would you hold that, please … to get … put your hands down … okay, okay, go, all the way around, but not me. It’s entirely possible to get too much of a good thing. In fact, you know, you weren’t afraid of it, were you? This thing that looked so small to you meant nothing to you. Sorry. You weren’t afraid of it, were you? I mean, it was basically … you know, some of the things that we look at that we think can’t even harm us, we allow satan to come in and use against us and we think, “Ah, it’s nothing. No one will ever know this. No one will ever see.” Lower, lower. He’s shouting “lower.”
You know, it’s amazing those little things, little distractions that we don’t even pay attention to and we think they’re nothing. We think they’re harmless and we think, you know, nobody will see it or who cares? We pay no attention to it. You know, it’s amazing … what if I called on you to like lay hands on the sick at this moment? You’re a little what? Wrapped up.
BJD: Wrapped too tight.
LR: We get all wrapped up in the wrong things, that we don’t even think are worth worrying about and we let those little foxes come in and we pay no attention to them. And until somebody comes along … you know, the Bible says, “What’s bound on earth is bound in heaven.” And then you’ve got to have some deliverance session to loose you because you’ve got to help me. You really did a good job. What’s loosed on earth is loosed in heaven.
RR: When Creflo Dollar, who pastors one of the largest churches in America in Atlanta, was here-was it about a week ago, Lindsay?-he talked about going in other churches and asking people to stand who were in debt. He said when he has visited other churches, ninety-eight percent of the people stand.
LR: Can you imagine the people who have the most high God, who is the possessor of heaven and earth, who put all the gold and silver in the earth, who said, “Go subdue the earth,” the same God, that’s our Father, that said “I give you power to get wealth,” the same God that said, “Give, and it shall be given unto you,” the same God that said, “exceedingly abundantly above all you can ever ask or think,” the same God that said, “I will supply all of your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus,” the standard is glory by Christ Jesus, which means heaven, the walls made out of jasper, gates made out of pearl, that same God is sitting here with ninety-eight percent of His children in poverty or in debt. Something’s wrong, Marilyn.
M: But, see, I think seed sowing though can break that.
LR: That’s what breaks it is seed sowing.
RR: Creflo was talking about sowing against your need. Of the people that are calling and pledging, most of them are saying, “I am sowing this against something. I’m sowing it against a need for a job. I’m sowing against a debt that we have. I’m sowing it against” you had a need. You wanted to see your granddaughter come to ORU, so you’re sowing it for a certain thing to happen.
I believe that we can do that. God sowed a seed out of His need. He sowed Jesus, that He might receive mankind back. And that’s what people are doing. So many people are calling and saying, “I am sowing it because I need this to happen.”
Like this came from Frances in Rose Sharon, Texas. Isn’t that a great name for a town, Rose Sharon, Texas? “Sowing a $100 seed for ORU debt release, also for my daughter to get a promotion on her job.” She believes for her daughter. Now this is just one of many, many who called who are sowing seed as a result of a need that they face in their life.
LR: When Creflo said that about the ninety-eight percent everywhere he goes, something hit me that this is wrong. This is wrong in the body of Christ. This is not what God intended. We’re not living in what God calls His highest and best.
And then I began to get over into Matthew 6. And the Lord woke me up one night, and for some reason I saw single moms-and I’m sure there’s probably a lot of other people in this same condition-but I saw single moms that were working two jobs. And it was in the middle of the night, and I just had this rush of compassion for single moms working two jobs.