TRANSLATION ALERT 129
Watchful – Who’s Ready? Neal Frisby’s Sermon CD #1372 6-30-91 (AM)
We prayed for a lot of people there last couple of nights. I never, you know, you people got a lot of little kids running around here, amen. I’m going to preach a little about something this morning here. We had a good one, God blessed and seemed like to me what He really wanted to do is touch those little children. He kind of got rid off, got the old ones out of the way and then reached around and did things. I saw the power just popping and going. You know, they have got their lives still a little ahead of them and the translation is near and it’s getting closer. And each revival He reveals just exactly the conditions of the people and just exactly what is going on. You should never miss a revival if you can, stay in as much as you can.
Sometimes I’ve got to have a little bit of rest, but I go, I prayed four straight nights in a row besides my other work, and I was glad to do it for the Lord. You know, sometimes He calls a man away from the people and he can’t help it. He did me one time and I didn’t want to.
I was enthusiastic, I was young and went ahead and was seated. I’ll pray for you while you are sitting down. And I was, I was really young still, you know, young, much younger than I am now. And I’ve been in ministry about, about, probably four, three or four years and I just started going good and, and everything and the Holy Spirit even spoke greater than He did when He called me. And oh, He said, “You are going to halt now” and I’m just getting started, see? And oh, how I love to go to those auditoriums, you know, you see so many miracles, so many people helped. And when you are getting started like that, it just tells you so good that, you know, how God has really moved on His people, so many needed help. And then after I had many, many revivals and then the Lord spoke to me point blank, and I heard Him too, and He revealed things to me. And He said, “You are going to come aside now.” And then He began to speak to me at night, and I’d get up and write something down. One time I wrote about 50 things down and then He told me what kind of paper and what to do. And I wrote them on there. You know, I’m not, I never have been a writer, and I learned to speak as God taught me to speak. But from the first time I just started going like that and He did it and He called me off. I think before I saw the people again, probably five years or so, I don’t know exactly, I haven’t taken track of it. And He called me aside and He went [sent me] to the nation[s] instead of going to auditoriums. And I went everywhere with a message like that.
1.Now today, listen to this right here. Maybe God possibly brought that in because I’m going to talk about this. Watchful, Who’s Ready? Oh yes, He did. Amen. Who’s ready? The word that God gave was, “Be ye also ready.” How ready? See, look at Wednesday. How ready after that? How ready are you? You look at this right here. You see lukewarm [lukewarmness], settling all over the churches, all over the nation and God said He would cast out the lukewarmness. He would literally spew, cast out away from Him while He brought His people in. They [the lukewarm] are going to be spewed out. Well, we already see it happening. We see it all the time that God’s moving. I think I’ve got somebody’s sore spot in there. I’m so anointed that you cannot escape. He said, “I am going to another church.” I will help you get there. The people, maybe I’ve been working too hard. The people, they are haphazard. They are careless. They have allowed inflation, they’ve allowed the problems, the cares of this life, they have allowed it [them] to steal the victory that God has already given. How many of you believe that? Oh my, haphazard, careless, be careful. We are nearing that hour, boy, where that separation point is coming and like I say, that spewing out has already begun. I’ve seen that way back. It’s starting and it’s going on and has been on and the pruning and all of that and [when] He gets it where He is, then He is going to have a fast, quick work.
2.Backsliding, listen to this right here. No man having put his hands upon [the plough] and looking backwards, see, is fit for the kingdom of God (Luke 9:62). And God will speak, God will do something for Israel, and they will go back, look backwards, go backwards. In this generation, God gives a great revival. After a little while, they start looking backwards. They look backwards at this, and they look backwards at that, and pretty soon the devil catches up with them, amen. They look back and the cares of this life, they keep looking back. Remember, saith the Lord, Lot’s wife looked back. That will fit right with that same scripture there. And she looked back just for a moment there and she lost the scope of the whole thing at that time. And I kind of believe that that is, He said, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be when the Son of man shall come again. And I kind of believe, like I’m talking this morning, and this point is coming out now that I didn’t really realize that just before He comes, you’re going to have the group and they’re going to be like Sister Lot. And just about the time the Lord comes, they are going to look back and it will be over with. Because He said, just like Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be when the son of man comes again. So, you cannot erase that, Lot’s wife at that point right there. That’s the way it’s going to be.
3.What are they doing? Falling by the wayside. If you preach a sermon to correct them, they get mad. They either don’t go to church anywhere or they go somewhere where it’s preached like they want to hear, nice, soft message, music, soft. Be careful, you will wake them up. “I’ll fire that organist. You will wake them up over there. Don’t preach too loud, my God, you’ll wake them up and they won’t give us any more money. Keep them asleep in there and then we can rob them.” How many of you are still with me? Sure, that’s like that. If you want to hear the gospel, you’ve got the right place. If you don’t want to hear the gospel, you haven’t gotten the right place. Amen. That’s the Lord. He’s talking to His people there. So, look back–when you get started with the Lord, you keep on looking back and the next thing you know, you’re gone back out in the world. You’re finished there. You know, a lot of times I’ve seen people that witness, they will witness and witness for God. But if they ever quit witnessing, many times they will just sit down, and they will backslide. Witnessing is some type of motor in you to keep you going and to help other people. How many of you believe that? Testify, testify, tell of His wonders, tell of His works. The church at the end of the age, the ones that’s going to be swept out, those are the ones [He said] “You are my witnesses.” Go ye, He didn’t say just me, He didn’t say just you. He said all of you, go into all the world and witness some way or another. You might not be all preachers, but there’s a lot of laymen that God uses. But you are all witnesses to that fact even you little children can witness once in a while when you feel the power of God coming on you there.
4.Backsliding by losing the savor of the salt. Now, if you lose the salt that’s within, that is the vitality, the life, the taste, then Jesus said, ye are good for nothing but to be trampled on, stomped on, and then throwed [thrown] out. That’s the scripture. If you want me to read it, I better read that to you. He said here, “Ye are the salt of the earth, but the salt has lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is therefore good for nothing but to be cast out and be trodden underfoot by man (Matthew 5:13). How many of you believe that? If you lose the excitement, the life that the Spirit gives, and the value and the power of the Holy Spirit, if you lose that, and you don’t have that Holy Spirit of power and divine love in you, and all that goes with that and His power, He said, you are good for nothing. How many of you believe that? That’s exactly right. You say, Why? See, the thing about that is, I didn’t say it. “Behold, I said it,” saith the Lord. That’s right. I didn’t. He did. If you want to argue with Him, you know, you can argue, but you will never get anywhere. You cannot change His Word, and you will not change what comes out of it there. Now on the hand, those that have their eyes open and watchful, I am not criticizing people, a lot of people have something to do, maybe, a lot of people just don’t care. You get the point, don’t you? Somebody maybe had to work, somebody had to do this, but the general rule is that’s only a small percentage. You’ve got to be alert, be watchful, and you’ve got to keep the Holy Spirit, be filled with the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, it’s going to leak out, and you’re going to be like the foolish virgins out in there. You’ve got to stay awake, and you cannot let the devil, don’t look back.
5.Those who continue in God’s Word, listen to this right here, are saved. Those who endure to the end, they shall be saved. Now, that is, no matter what, how the wind blows, no matter how it knocks you down, no matter what satan does, no matter how many tests and trials, no matter what you do, if you endure, you brush it out of the way, you knock it off, and you get it out of the way, you shall be saved. There’s no ifs and about it. They that continue are my disciples indeed. If you continue in my Word, you are my disciples, they that continue (John 8: 31). Now, they didn’t look back, they didn’t quit, they didn’t get out of the way. They continued right against the fierce winds of satan, and all the storms that he could blow, they continued right on down the line there. This is right here. The honest and the good heart brings forth fruit with patience (Luke 8:15). You see, a ministry as hard as mine, it’s still bringing forth fruit to all this nation, and in this building here. It’s been a tough one. Old satan said, “He is the one I’m going to get him and stop him,” but I’m still going. Can you say amen? If you look at the story with no one, no system, nobody, just me and the living God. If you look at the story in the background and see how God has held this thing up without a debt, you’re looking at faith, and you’re looking at what God did without men. I don’t have anybody to give account to but Him, and that’s enough. Amen. I have to account for every word that He gives me, despite what they say, despite what they do. Many times, when the people are not listening just right, like Moses, He will call him off, like Elijah, He will get him out of the way for a while and like Paul, He will put him aside for a while. You have to watch, and the people don’t listen, then God does things differently. It happened once in my ministry.
6.We are getting so close to the translation, there can’t be much time lost. Now, trust in all that He does, in His divine wisdom. Amen. So, the honest and good heart brings forth fruit with patience. It won’t all come at once. It won’t all happen overnight. Some things will definitely happen overnight. Miracles happen all of the time, but God is guiding His sheep, and He is bringing them in such a way that hardly anybody notices how He’s doing it. Satan is confused, he doesn’t know all of God’s plans about it, he just doesn’t know. Men, while God did it all, they said like they were asleep, and all of a sudden, the corn of ear came up, and it was ready to take in. How many of you believe that? The honest and good heart brings forth fruit, but all that patience, and in James 5, three times that patience with the coming of the Lord, because there was going to be a real travailing. There was going to be a real opposition, there was going to be a real challenge, and a lot of that challenge came right from so-called Christians themselves out there that pushed against the great thing and the real thing that God is going to send to His people. He is trying to get you in a place where you’re able to lock in on it and go away with Him.
7.So, the honest and good heart brings forth fruit with patience. In patience, sir, you possess your souls. You get somebody, you know, over here there, and they don’t know, and they get confused, and they don’t know what doctrine, they don’t know where they are going. They don’t know if trinity is right, the one God right, this right, or that, and the healing right, and that right, and this right. You get somebody like that, they don’t have any patience, and they cannot possess their soul, but with your patience and listening to the Lord, sometimes the journey is hard and it’s long, but [with] patience, sir, you’re going to possess the kingdom of God. And that word was put in there in many places for a reason that we would be faced with at the end of the age. Patience, and God will do the unbelievable. He will do signs, wonders, and miracles, not only as you see them done by God’s servants, but they will be done by people that obey the Lord and His great wonders there. So, in your patience, you possess your souls. You know, so many people say, “I can’t wait any longer. I’ve waited on the Lord twenty years, now I’m going to go out here for a while and kind of just rove around and go around. I can’t wait any longer.” Well, more and more they’re doing that, and that’s how I said He was going to come in, and that was a sign to us not to follow them. Can you say amen? How many of you believe that? You don’t follow them; you follow the Word of God. So many of them are going out, you know, like that right there. Now I said, abide or be cast forth.
8.If you abide in me and I abide in you, you must abide, or you will be cast forth. You abide in Christ. You abide in Christ’s Word. You abide in what God said and what Christ said in the Word of God because if you do not abide in the Word of the Lord, you’re cast forth. That’s the end of that. Oh boy, isn’t this good? That’s really cast forth there. Those who keep His commandments abide in Christ’s love (John 15:10). If you do what He says, and you believe what He promised and what He is going to give you, then you will abide in His love and you believe what He says, He will come to you like that. Watch that you may be counted worthy to escape all of these things that are going to come upon mankind. He said, watch that you’d be worthy to escape all of these things. Jesus had gone down through there and the book of Revelation said, all of these things are coming. But if you’re watchful and you’re alert and you’re not slothful, then you’re going to escape, and you will be worthy to stand before the Son of Man. How many of you believe that? You know what? It’s going to be identical to the days of the flood, identical to the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. They’re going to look back and the Lord’s done come and gone. He has it all timed, almost as if He didn’t even allow those people to look back until He said so, being they wanted to look back so, so much. And it’s got it timed in His calendar.
9.If you continue in my Word, then you are my disciples. And the reason He said, “If you continue in my word,” it’s [because] a lot of people will start off with the Word of God and you will say, boy, that guy’s got the Word of God, the person preaching the Word of God. And the next thing you know, they’re continuing in some kind of a watered-down doctrine that has nothing to do with God anymore. How many of you believe that? It’s if you continue with this Word, not the organizational dogmas, and trends, and all those things that they have. Don’t continue in the church rules, the church laws, and different things that they have in there and what mankind their boards have set up, that don’t mean anything to the Lord. See, they don’t have any vitality at all in there. But continue, if you continue in my word. So many, after they continue for a while, they jump out and they get something that’s more adaptable to their character, more adaptable to what they want to do, more adaptable in there to what they want to preach and what the people want to hear. But you, in the beginning, when you had [heard] the Word of God, you continue with that Word of God till you see Jesus. In fact, saith the Lord, that’s how you will see me. My, you get with the Word, and you go out with the Word, and you go back to the Word. How many of you believe that? And you see me, you see who Jesus is. How many of you believe that? Glory to God! Watchful, Who’s ready? See, the word was, be ye ready.
10.The other word He said, in an hour you think not, “Be ye also ready for in an hour you think not, the Son of Man cometh.” And from looking at the signs on the earth, and even around here sometimes, looking at the signs that God gives, that we see everywhere, the people are not ready. They are not ready where He wants them. But oh, I can feel and see the blowing in that tree, and I know that God’s got something good for them that continue in His Word and continue in His anointing that He’s got. He has an abundance of it and we’re going to receive it. The world doesn’t have anything that I want out in there. How about you? Amen. You continue right with Him and He will bless your heart. This is the time so, remember, don’t look back. The honest and good heart gathers fruit with patience and all of a sudden, it will all bloom and the next thing you know, it will all be gone. He will take the flower from this earth. And I pray that every one of you that is here, some probably are not here this morning, maybe this cassette will get to them.
11.I know the people on my list, every one of them, many of them don’t have a place to go to church and I get so many letters, they are rejoicing, “Oh, keep the cassettes coming. Keep the scripts coming. It is life to me. It’s just good to read it and to read the Bible with it.” I put so many scriptures; you’ve got to read the Bible. You can’t get loose from it. And it just blesses them because they’re in out of way places where there are no spiritual churches. Some do have churches, probably they go to, but right here where we are at, it’s such a blessing that God gives. And I pray this and all of my heart, all of those that are on my list, I haven’t forgotten any of those people. Every day I reach out for you and none of you failed me out there either. God’s hands [are] on you, don’t you let the devil tell you that He is not on you. You hear my voice here, God is talking, “My hand is upon you,” saith the Lord. That devil, he is trying his best to get people to fall by the wayside, but he won’t. And when you continue, you haven’t gotten long to wait. Oh, you know, I said the other night, the sun is setting on this generation. It’s ready to go down on this generation. And all of my heart, I believe this is our generation that will see Christ that we are living in right now. And according to the fig tree prophecy, it’s getting closer and closer. So right now, is a time to be alert, a time to be awake.
12.Give the Lord a hand clap! Thank you, Jesus. Amen. You know, the Lord and all of His kindness, His goodness. I want you to stand on your feet here this morning. If you need salvation, all you have to do is to take the Lord Jesus in your heart. And when you take Him in your heart, you get back some of these prayer services. We’ve been praying four straight nights in a row. I don’t know what He will have me do next, but you can just sit out there in that anointing. You give your heart to the Lord, and you will be a different person. I noticed I’m praying for these little children. You can tell they have been sitting in this building, little eyes you know. I know children, children, they get a little mean once in a while, but laying all aside, boy, they’ve been through this anointing in here. How many of you believe that I’ve helped them look good? Amen. Amen. Amen. All right. Are you ready? Let’s come through and God bless you. If you want to sit down until I get through, go ahead. Yeah!