I’ve observed something that surprised me in my travels. You can still use religious language and attend church and say prayers, but you’ve lost the joy of the Lord. When you lose sight of that you’re carnal. And the moment you live like that, you may not be committing obvious sins but you’re carnal, you’re living in the flesh, you’re missing the whole ultimate purpose of God for His redeemed people.īecause, you remember that Scripture that said.that we quoted, “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior.” Every one of us should be continually every day looking for the blessed hope.
He took me to various scenes, quite a number of them were in restaurants, and he showed me the essence of carnality is to live at any time as if there’s nothing beyond this life. And so quite often they’re right, too! But God showed me, the Lord Jesus showed me, how carnal I had been. Now I want to say, just to avoid misunderstanding, by the grace of God I’ve never been guilty of drunkenness, or immorality, or misappropriating funds, which are the things that people always expect when preachers confess sins. And I want to say He never condemned me, He was very impersonal in a way, but He just took my mind back over scene after scene in my career as a minister, and He showed me how carnal I had been. I don’t know if this is what it will be like to be before the judgment seat of Christ, but it says we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. What’s wrong? Why have I not been healed?” It was as if I had an interview with the Lord. “God, I’ve always believed in divine healing, I’ve always preached divine healing. And I wasn’t afraid of dying, although it could have led to death, but I wanted to have an answer. Some years ago I became very sick when I was in Hawaii.
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