Again, I am going to repeat this to you, the reason why, I know you are a lay minister, And one of the 1st. things, a minsters of The gospel according to Jesus Christ is to pay very close attention to words, and the words that come out of people mouths. Because many people do not even know the meaning of some words they use. And you can tell by the contents of their conversations. And then, in any kind of writings, make sure you understand their directions in words into what they are trying to explain before you address them.
Now, why are you asking me that question, and I made it plainly known if I served in Vietnam ? and to be sure, I reread the post and there it is in plain English. I might seem harsh, yes and no, lIke a long time ago, when I entered the ministry in my mid twentys, Those old Pastors with strictness, You get it RIGHT! Go Back because you are "GREEN as SIT" back then, those "Orators" where not nice, When they spoke they were not nice with The "Stentorian Tone"voice. they made me cry a many of days, One pastor, would not let up off of me, He finally called me into his office, and said to me in essence, GOD told him, that is enough, and stop messing with you! Point blank! And he said God said; And I mean it!
I got it right! And my daddy said to me one day, "son" you don't know it, But You are "HEAVY"! And My Aunt use to tell me they as "Scared of You" those pastors and Ministers.! I have lecture to hundreds of Pastors, Harvard, Yale, Union Theological Seminary of New York, Dallas Theological, and grads of "Moody", I have cried and prayed many of nights, days, and the middle of the day. For GOD to teach me, how to say it, what to see , when to say it and how to tone it up, and how to read it, In tears and hundreds of prayers in that alone. Laid out on The floor! I have cried so hard in my younger years my lap would be wet my eyes would be red, My wife: I don't know why a man be crying like that! And he is, in there crying again. Lord help my Brain to contain this stuff and hold it and see it as a whole! I did, for years!
I cuss GOD out a couple of times too! I am telling the truth! how can I whole this stuff in my Brain! Rome, Romans, Greeks, Persians, Caesars, American history, Biblical history, The popes, kings and queens, The church Fathers, and All of the books of the Bible, THE REFORMATION, THE REFORMERS,
AND TO PREACH, SHORT FORM, LONG FORM, HOW TO LECTURE, HOW TO PREACH "IMPROMPTU", LONG FORM, WITH A PRINTED SERMON, AND a Outline sermon, Preach within the Text, Preach taking a Text, Preach out of the Text but within The TEXT! Preach with a text.....Learning what a Text is and the different kind of Texts!
Because, those "Theologians" with PhD's, and those Doctors of Divinity, using those big old words on me
Cut me all up, looking down on me!
And before they knew it., they wanted to hear me Lecture, and preach, I didn't; even need a "SCRIPT". Just a OutLine. God would give it and I rolled it out, I had Theologians , jumping out there seats, LOL! Talking about "GOD"! Those Old Pastors; he preach nothing but the word! nothing about christianity, the church, the congregation, The Only thing coming out of his mouth is Pure BIBLE from memory and POWER from ON HIGH! Not Volume, But "Pneumatic",
For real, regular church Sunday morning parishioners did not understand me, And it was Bible. straight out the book! And I didn't know why they didn't, [
they haven't read the BOOK] and God told me, they hadn't] . They like to hear me preach but they didn't understand me. So I cried again fo HIM to teach me how to proclaim to all mankind, no matter, what race, what color or age
and he made it very
clear , I heard these words, I cannot remember where, but the Word of GOD Came to me:
"I will give you The Tongue of the Learn" and it was "AUDIBLE". I didn't;t highly knew what it meant when I first heard it. But later on in life, . it was clear. "My wife one time said I remind her of The restorer of The breach"
King James Bible
"The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should
know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned."
" The drug dealer, the addict, the professor, the lawyer. The heart surgeon, the Millionaire, the Lebanese, the Armenian, the Arab, The Japanese, The South African , The Jew, The Mexican, the Spaniard, the Brits, the Irish, The hillbilly, the soldier the children, white, black, the bum, prisoners, they came by my path. there quote" :we ain't never heard a man Talk about GOD like you do"! I never promoted the church one time, and I never promoted "christianity" one time. And when they called me a christian I told them "I am not a Christian" "I am a Child of The LIVING GOD" and I never had to explain to them. And they never have ask what I meant. But I could see the pondering in their eyes." I am retired!
" a young man is for War a old man is for Counsel" [ just maybe
if he has been to war and have the scars to prove it] we are Warriors. "drafted".
And i need not a interpreter. "it was God breathe" MEANING, one word spoken by God "Illuminates" "millions" of Words, just one word is Liken to millions in one moment of time.
"I will give you The Tongue of the Learn"
So am I teaching, of course not, I am giving Testimony. Because I know, I am dumb as a box of rocks! but That "Parakletos". that lives in [
us] me! he speaks and I listen.
And that is great learning process, through many of trials and errors , tears and prayers, So much suffering, and pain. it was a command , for "Moses" to Circumcise his own sons.
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