Let's do Jesus Is The Rock [650k .wav file, 30sec] [This is just a wonderful experience tonight, Tim, for me. Hahaha. Well, we have the live sound, I will say that. You can just drum right through this, brother, that's OK.] Praise God. I'm gonna sing a song of my new CD, Celtic Glory. We took Irish songs, which I'm sure Patty Murray would know nothin' about any of that stuff. :) I've got all the Patty Magee stories you can imagine. I can tell them but their long and arguous, no. I want to do Amazing Grace [753k .wav file, 35 sec] I'm tellin' ya, it is by grace we were saved. And tonight I'm goin' to speak about the throne of grace. Hallelujah. I want everybody to hear this. How many feel like praisin' the Lord, tonight? Anybody? Hallelujah. We can raise our hands and worship the Lord. We're gonna give it up. Hallelujah. Let's praise the Lord. Living Word, let's praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Some have inquired as to what the youth choir is singin'. Their singin' in Gaelic, Glory to the Lamb of God. And in Gaelic their singin', Praise be to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You know, it is praise be to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Who loves Jesus in this place? We own Him everything. Hallelujah.

Time after time I've had things happenin' in schedulin' and different things. One time I had a pastor, who called me up to cancel. I said, 'Why?' He said, 'I read in the newspaper that your mother's suing you.' 'And?' He said, 'Well, that's pretty awful, your mother's suing you.' I said, 'Yeah. It happens. You know, these things happen.' And the Bible even talks about it in Matthew 10 or something like that. It says your enemies can be those of your own household. God doesn't say He wants it to be that way, but it can be. And the Word of God says if you're not willin' to go on no matter who comes against you, or who tries to come between you and the Lord...If you don't go on with the Lord, we're not worthy of followin' anyway. But I was prayin' and God was doin' a tremendous work in my mother's life and mine and the family's. But this pastor said, 'Well, I'm not havin' you in.' I said, 'Brother, it's comin' up this week.' We had a big Saturday night thing. Then the church Sunday mornin'. 'Brother, come on, it's this week. How am I gonna rearrange and this and that.' 'Well, you're not comin' in my church. I've decided you're too controversial.' So then I said, 'Ah, OK, I'm too controversial. Well, I guess you wouldn't have had the Apostle Paul either. I heard he got busted in Rome, you know.' And I picked up the phone and I called a chaplain of San Quentin Prison, up in northren California. I said, 'Brother, you've been wantin' me to come in and do a weekend outreach to the men there in the yard.' 'Yeah, I have.' I said, 'Well, guess what, my weekend's free.' We went to San Quentin and we whacked the devil in the name of Jesus. My point is this, if they don't want to hear over here, somebody's gonna want to hear over here. If somebody comes against us over here, God will raise up a standard over here. God is on the throne. And our destiny is firmly in the hands of Christ Jesus. He is my Lord and Savior.

Oh, by the way let me tell you how it turned out with my mother. My mother got saved, praise God, my mother, who was suing me. God moves on our loved ones. How many have loved ones you're believin' for? Praise God. Well, we're comin' into agreement tonight for them to be saved and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Praise God. How many prayed that and meant that in your heart? How many love fellowshipin' and praisin' the Lord Jesus?

Let me show a few things, here, if I could, the t-shirts and stuff. This is the book [From Darkness To Light] my mother sued me about. We have some left. I'm not printin' any more of them. Because my mother's asked me not to. Not because there's anything that I don't stand behind in here. But my mother is, we're talkin', and praisin' God, and my mother's readin' the Bible now. So, I told her I would sell what I have left; then, that's the end of the books. It's been an incredibly popular book. It's got pictures of me when I was on the cover of Time Magazine, and rock'n'roll, and White House invitation back when I was nineteen years old, invited to meet the President and all this other stuff. And things that we've done, good stuff as a Christian, too. I got to open the old theater that I did Jesus Christ Superstar in, I've got a picture of it in here. I've never mentioned that.

You guys know David Wilkerson? This is a picture of my old Mark Hellinger Theater, where I blasphemed God for three years. David Wilkerson called me and asked me to come and help him start a work in New York City. And I went in and did it. I'll come into New York and I'll come in the weekend of...And I was so booked up, I couldn't come for six months. And I said, 'I'll be there in six months, on such and such a date. And I'll help you in New York City.' He said, 'Great.' You know what happened? The weekend that I was scheduled to go in for six months, a month before I was scheduled to go in, an investment broker from Wall Street, a Jewish man got saved, who was worth hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the story I have. I might have it a little wrong. I'm just repeatin' it the best I know how. He walked into Dave Wilkerson's and said, 'There's a theater for sale, the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York City, I'm puttin' an offer on it. I'm gonna pay $20,000,000 cash for it and I want you to have it for your church.' And the Sunday that he booked me to come in, I went into my old theater that I did Jesus Christ Superstar in, and dedicated it as a church. And it's still a church in New York City. Tell me that's not God.

Then we have somethings so you don't have to ask at the table. We have a Christmas tape [Fenholt Christmas] here. It's very anointed, I've been told to say that because I used to joke around and say, 'It sounds like Bing Crosby with long hair, got saved and praises God.' It's very laid back. [We don't need drums for this, Tim. How many appreciate, Tim, tonight?] But, it's a Christmas tape and its very laid back. You can put it on quietly and relax. That's kinda what I'm thinkin' as I pass forty. I've got Jesus 50's. Elvis gets saved, and does a fifties album. If you like that fifties style stuff I was doin', Jesus 50's, we have that in CD's and cassettes. Here's a Praise tape [Fenholt Live] with Hosanna [675k .wav file, 32 sec] The Anointing [650k .wav file, 30 sec]. Then we have these T-shirts. I want to show them. Here's a Fear Not shirt. We've got one in Black. It says, Fear Not, for God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and a sound mind. We have it in grey, too. Which everybody seems to like, 'cause we've almost sold those out, too. And we have a Fear Not shirt that's blurry, that's got blurry letterin'. That says, First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you'll see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. This is a rowdy shirt here, it says, Raze Hell, r-a-z-e, like destroy hell. It says, Revelation 1:18, I am He that liveth and was dead; and behold I am alive forever more, Amen, and hold the keys of Hell and death. That's kinda of a radical shirt, isn't it? What do you think? You like that? What are you guys lookin' at me like an oil paintin' for? Praise God. And you can pick anything you want at the table. I appreciate you so much. Love you, and I'm already lookin' forward to comin' back. I love this church. This place is explodin'. Praise God. Thank you, Pastor.

My Deepest Love,
Jeff
Living Word, Vandalia OHIO, November 22, 1998