THE CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY OF PROPHECY

47 Pine Hill

Centreville, AL 35042

MINISTER: Leonard Chance

(205) 926-7706

(205) 717-1960

www.thegreatspeckledbird.org

THE DEVIL’S GRAVE

All Souls are mine but the Soul that sinneth shall surely die. That is a sure promise. Praise the name of the Lord. I want to preach awhile. I feel like preaching. I feel like serving God. I feel like talking about His greatness and His goodness. The Lord sent us into this world to preach this Gospel. He sent The Church of God of Prophecy to preach to the whole world. Not only to preach this Word but to teach it! I want to teach the Word of God not just preach the Word of God. That is the Commission Christ gave the Church, go into the all the world and teach.

This Work is on the World Wide Web and anybody on the earth can click and read it, if they want to. We may be a small Church but we are doing a Goliath job. We’re going places nobody else seems to be going to. These Sermons are not just shut up in these four walls but they are before the face of the whole world. Whoever wants it can find it, whomever wants to see it can and whomever wants to can learn from it. I will say this, be careful about whom you talk to against this Church or it’s Doctrine, me or anyone else, for God will surely mark your mouth and your own words will fall back. You will find yourself in trouble with God. No wonder there are so many people with every kind of problem and element. They have set their Tongue and their foot against the Work of the Lord!

MATTHEW 28:19—Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Jesus sent the Church to the world. That is what He said here. “Go ye therefore, and teach all Nations”. To the Church He said, Go ye to the whole world. The Church has not reached the whole world yet, but with the help of the World Wide Web the way and means are being made that the whole world will be taught.

MATTHEW 29:20—Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen

God commanded you, the Church, “Go ye therefore, and teach all Nations.” I believe this teaching program will go to all Nations. We have the ways and means now. The old airplane, God no longer needs it. He no longer needs the D. H. Queener. He has a way of putting this Gospel into the hands and eyes of whosoever will. The teaching of the Word of God will go forth just as preaching it will. People don’t realize God has provided a way for any man, any person on earth to learn and be taught this whole pure Doctrine.

ISAIAH 5:26—And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

“Behold, they shall come with speed swiftly,” that means quick. With just a click of a button you can learn of this Word, you can learn of this Doctrine and know that ole Flag is still there. Praise God. God has a way of fulfilling His Will and Way. The warning is this, “All Souls are mine.” The Soul that sinneth, that is the message that will live and die in every person. There is an opportunity to serve God and there is a will not to. The choice is individual.

MATTHEW 3:10—And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

John the Baptist wrote and said these words. Trees mean people, people everywhere. Every tree or every individual, “Which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down.” Somewhere, someway, someday everybody will find the end of life. Whether they ever have a burial, whether they have a grave or whatever they have, whether they go back to ashes or whether they come to dust, everyone will.

Everybody on this earth has a grave, or a time of death: EVERYBODY! Every Devil, Satan his self, every individual on this earth: the Devil is on this earth. He’s not in Heaven and he’s not in Hell. Everything on this earth, even a tree knows it will die. Everything will die! Even the sun, the moon, and the stars will fall and be no more. There is a time for the end of everything.

Where is the Devil’s grave? Jesus set the Church into the whole world, to save the world. The world can be saved. There was enough blood shed at Calvary to save the entire universe, from it’s beginning to it’s end. He has the Power to wash away all sins and cleanse them; yours, mine, everybody’s. We all have the opportunity to Fear God, serve God, and be taught the Word of God.

“Go ye therefore, and teach all Nations.” All Nations means ALL NATIONS on the earth. For the time will come when they will not be taught. There will be a time when there will be no Nations, for here won’t be here anymore. “And, lo, I am with you always, even until the end of the world.” The world has an end. Everything has an end. Jesus said I’m going to be there at the end of the world, I’ll still be with you. In Him there is no end.

MATTHEW 3:11—I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.

John is writing to one and all. Therefore every tree, which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire: the fire being Hell fire. A lot of people are afraid of the Holy Ghost and of the fire: they don’t know what the Fire is. The Fire is the Zeal and Power that God puts into the believer that will come to Him; the Holy Ghost will deliver him. He’s the Man of the hour. He’s the Man that’s going to do the work. He’s the Man that’s going to teach the Nations. They’re going to be taught whether they know it, whether they believe it, or not! Many people have walked into the House of God, sat there, heard the Word and felt the Spirit of God deal with them. But they walked out and died lost, without ever taking advantage of the great Power of God that was delivered unto them.

MATTHEW 3:12—Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

“Whose fan is in His hand,” that means He’ll go and blow out the sin and put in Salvation. That means He’s going to wash, cleanse and purify your heart, mind and Soul! Listen, you don’t just need to get saved in the mind, you need to get saved in the heart. You need the whole body full of the Glory and Power of God, that’s what you need! You need some submerging of the Holy Ghost’s Divine Power. You need to be Baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Not everybody believes you need to be Baptized in the modern day we live in. They believe water Baptism isn’t necessary and that they can do it if they want to. According to the Redeemer its necessary. “Baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe.” Don’t just do it and forget it, go on teaching. We must keep the whole Word of God. When people go down in that water and come back up it isn’t the water that washes away the sins. All it does is prove to you that Jesus has Resurrected. It takes the Blood of Jesus Christ to wash away that sin. It takes the Holy Ghost to keep you True and Holy in your Heart, Mind, Soul, and Body. If your hands steal, guess what? That thief goes back to your mind. If you lie, guess what? That lie goes right back to your mouth. If your foot goes to the wrong place, guess what? It carries along your whole body. One thing we know for sure, if we don’t die in the Lord we will not rise in the Lord. If we don’t die without sin then we die with sin. If it wasn’t necessary for you to be Baptized, I wonder why Christ was? He had to be Baptized. John just told you, “But he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.” Yet I have to Baptize Him.

EPHESIANS 6:10-17—Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness: And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

People will tell you, ‘Oh, I have Salvation: I know I have it! I may not do everything right but I know I have it.’ As for me, I’d rather crawl into Heaven on my knees than to jump up and run in there with sin. There’s nothing more modern today than Holy Ghost Fire! There’s nothing stronger today than the God of Heaven and Earth! There’s nothing any purer than this Word of God! Nobody is going to out Shine the Holy Ghost! There is no other name under Heaven you’re going to be saved by! We must come back down to the Cross. That’s right, come back down to the Tree. Come back down where the Blood is. Come back down where the Suffering is.

Ole Paul was writing to the Church in Ephesus, he said, “Finally my Brethren, be strong in the Lord.” I believe this is solid sound advice to every Church of God of Prophecy person AND everybody that’s not Church of God of Prophecy of Prophecy! I believe it’s sound Doctrine to come down to: come back to the Word of Truth and Light. “Finally my Brethren,” finally means you’ve tried everything else, come back to me, come back to the Lord! Come back and learn my Salvation. “Finally my Brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” Who’s Might? His Might. You say, ‘No, no, it can’t be. I believe a little sin every day will help me. I can do it and still make it to heaven.’ Did you know that’s what a lot of people are telling themselves today?

You have some things to do. “Put on the whole Amour of God!” Why? You preach to people and preach to people but they go year and year with no change in them. They never seem to hear or learn, no matter how much Conviction is poured out. Without Conviction there’s no Conversion. Without Repentance there’s no Saving. Where there is no Born Again person there is no Saving.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”. Now I want to break this up a little bit for you. I know you can read it over right quick but there are some things here I don’t want you to miss. “Against the rulers of the darkness of this world.” But wait, don’t run ahead of me, what about the spiritual wickedness in High Places? Where am I going to find that? What does Paul mean when he says “spiritual wickedness in high places?” I just told you we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities: Devils, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world.

Do you believe everybody that says, “Lord, Lord” is going to Glory? NO! Do you think The Church of God of Prophecy is already Perfect and there’s nobody in it wrong? NO “Put on the whole Armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil.” What are the wiles of the Devil? The Devil can preach anything. He can tell you anything. He can make you believe anything, that’s the wiles. He can send people that have the wiles in them to teach you. If you’re willing to hear, you will hear. Against the wiles of the Devil, THE DEVIL! You’re going to learn a little bit about the Devil today. You don’t know him yet. You just know of him.

There is a time when the Devil will be tied up. I mean literally “tied up”. I like to tell the Devil what he’s getting. He’s getting the fire, he getting the brimstone, but I love to tell him, ‘Hey, I know when you are going to be tied up.’ Have you ever heard that before? You will today. The wiles of the Devil: you know a lot of people go to church and then go home the same ole Devil they were before they went to church? Still preaching, speaking and believing the same sins they have been serving all their days.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities of the people in the flesh and blood. Some of them can really put it on you. I’m not going to go out there and fist fight no one but I’ll tell you what I am going to do. If he tries to convince me what’s wrong is right, I’m not going to stand there and say, “Ok, I believe.” You can go out on any ole street corner and find somebody with the wiles of the Devil in their mouth trying to convince you. That’s the wiles of the Devil.

Against power(s), meaning there’s more than one kind of power. These people have different kinds of powers. You wonder why and how so many things go wrong. We’re having the problems because of people with powers. They have the power to say and do and all you can do is be quite. But thanks be to God, these people WILL soon lose their power! “Against the rulers of the darkness of this world.” All sins are sins of the world, ALL of them. “Against spiritual wickedness in high places.” No, no, Paul wouldn’t say that! You mean there’s spiritual wickedness in high places? One fellow pointed up to Heaven, I believe that the Devil was cast out of there. I don’t believe he’s up there.