God's Generals Series - John Alexander Dowie — Transcript
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- 0:00his church was bombed he went to
- 0:02Washington and spoke to the president
- 0:04about the need of beefing up his
- 0:05security and he didn't do it so the
- 0:07president was assassinated he prophesied
- 0:09television radio before there's even
- 0:11thoughts about it he built a city but he
- 0:13died thinking he was Elijah his name is
- 0:15John Alexander Dowie I'm Robert Cerdan
- 0:18and this is God's generals
- 0:19[Music]
- 0:31one of the great men that we've not
- 0:33heard much about in the Pentecostal
- 0:35circles is John Alexander Dowie mainly
- 0:38because his Indian days were not as
- 0:40great as his beginning days and today's
- 0:42broadcasts were to discuss the life and
- 0:44the ministry of this phenomenal man who
- 0:47came out of the British Isles actually
- 0:49he was born in Scotland in the city of
- 0:51Edinburgh and then they moved to
- 0:52Australia and he grew up as a little boy
- 0:54in a teenager when it's time to go to
- 0:56university they sit him back to Scotland
- 0:59to get his university training and when
- 1:01he went to choose his subjects to study
- 1:03he chose two interesting subjects he
- 1:06chose political science and theology and
- 1:09to me as a historian I think that's the
- 1:11first sign of his apostolic calling a
- 1:13man that has a love for God and want to
- 1:16know about God's Word and Surrey
- 1:18theology and the political side which
- 1:20speaks of the governmental side of the
- 1:22episodic anointing that was already in
- 1:24his life while he was at the school
- 1:26there in Scotland he also because he was
- 1:29so intelligent
- 1:30he was probably those students that
- 1:32always asked the question that irritated
- 1:34the teacher or all the students went not
- 1:36into him again with the question because
- 1:38he was such of a high level of
- 1:40intelligence in his subjects they made
- 1:42him an honorary chaplain of the schools
- 1:45medical infirmary and so he access to
- 1:48all the medical lecturers too and he
- 1:51noticed that when he would go down to
- 1:52hear the medical lectures and see the
- 1:54operation you know in those days let me
- 1:56explain when they did the medicals
- 1:58teaching they put the student in their
- 2:01rounds type of auditorium and then put
- 2:03the doctor or the surgeon and the person
- 2:05they're gonna operate on in the middle
- 2:07of this round theatre where all the
- 2:10students could see and watch the
- 2:11operation happen
- 2:12well gowing because he was the honorary
- 2:14chaplain and very smart and very known
- 2:16in the school was given access to hear
- 2:18the lectures and see what was happening
- 2:20so he would see what the doctor would
- 2:23say when the operation was going on and
- 2:24because he was involved in the infirmary
- 2:27and doing the chaplain service of the
- 2:29infirmary he was able to see the outcome
- 2:31of it later he would later form a doctor
- 2:34that would be a part of the early
- 2:35Pentecostal movement called don't trust
- 2:37your doctors so outra medicine and trust
- 2:39God only and that's where this doctrine
- 2:42came from because now it looked at
- 2:43medical science as an
- 2:44exact science and so from the very
- 2:47beginning of his ministry he begin to
- 2:49see that some of these things are
- 2:50medical science specially in the 1800's
- 2:52were not quite as good as just crushing
- 2:55God alone and so when that began to form
- 2:58in his life he never really finished
- 3:00college because his family got in
- 3:02trouble financially in Australia asked
- 3:04him to come back and help so he left the
- 3:06United Kingdom went back to Australia
- 3:08and took his first church his first
- 3:11church he didn't like and so he resigned
- 3:13after being there less than a year he
- 3:16left them because he said they were
- 3:17allergic people and did not deserve a
- 3:19pastor like himself and so he found
- 3:22another corrugation where he was
- 3:24welcomed and they were a little more
- 3:26active and want to do the gospel a bit
- 3:27more than the last one he was with and
- 3:29they also encouraged him to finish his
- 3:31schooling which he did during this time
- 3:34there was a plague that came through the
- 3:37outskirts of Sydney Austria where he was
- 3:39pastoring and the plague had killed 40
- 3:41people in less than two weeks and so he
- 3:44was doing all the funerals helping all
- 3:46the families and even officiating some
- 3:48funerals of other churches because their
- 3:50pastors had died and he was so
- 3:52distraught by this that he began to pray
- 3:54and ask God can't Jesus who walked the
- 3:57seas of Galilee and heal the sick then
- 3:59can he do something about what's
- 4:00happening in Australia and so this kind
- 4:02of praying brought to him a revelation
- 4:05God illuminated to him acts 10:38 and
- 4:08that verse says how God anointed Jesus
- 4:10of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with
- 4:12power who went about doing good and he
- 4:14all that were oppressed of the devil
- 4:16when that verse came alive to him he
- 4:20realized that sickness was of the devil
- 4:22and that healing was of God and Jesus
- 4:25came to do good things which was to heal
- 4:27and destroy the works of the devil about
- 4:29the time that this revelation came to
- 4:32live in his spirit there was a knock at
- 4:34the door and it was a child from down
- 4:36the street from one of his church
- 4:38members the mother had sent the child to
- 4:39get their pastor because the child in
- 4:42the home the other sibling was dying and
- 4:44so Dow had just had this revelation of
- 4:47acts 10:38 he runs out the house without
- 4:49his jacket or his coat and we're gonna
- 4:51find out what he did next which you've
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- 5:55dalla was chasing the young child down
- 5:57the street who entered the home and when
- 5:59he walked into the living room of the
- 6:00house of the child and the church member
- 6:03the doctor was in there writing out the
- 6:05death certificate for the child in the
- 6:06other room and the doctor said to dr.
- 6:08Dow II I can't be here to sign the time
- 6:11of death on the death certificate I'll
- 6:12leave that for you to do I feel that
- 6:14everything else I need you to put the
- 6:16time and he's shown him in the little
- 6:18document where the death time was to be
- 6:20written in and Dow I said I won't do it
- 6:23and got upset and spoke very harshly to
- 6:25the doctor even where the doctor thought
- 6:27something's wrong with dr. Dow II he
- 6:29walked into the room where the little
- 6:31child was dying and the mother was
- 6:32walking around the bed distraught as you
- 6:34could understand that the emotional
- 6:36strain of knowing that your child was
- 6:38dying and there was no natural hope and
- 6:40you somehow thought the preacher could
- 6:42help you so you called for your pastor
- 6:44and he walked into the room and he asked
- 6:47the mother why did you call for me to
- 6:49come she said I thought maybe you could
- 6:51do something and he said I can do
- 6:53something I'm gonna pray and ask God to
- 6:55heal your child this is the first time
- 6:58dr. Dow II ever made those words and
- 7:01utter those words come out of his mouth
- 7:02say I'm going to pray a hidden prayer he
- 7:05did know how to pray healing prayer so
- 7:06he goes over to the bed and prays for
- 7:09the child ends a prayer and they take a
- 7:11few steps back to see what's gonna
- 7:13happen and nothing happened for the
- 7:15first few moments and all of a sudden
- 7:16the child's eyes open she set up in the
- 7:19bed and asked for some hot chocolate
- 7:21and then she wanted some toast and
- 7:23within an hour she was up in the room
- 7:25playing perfectly healed died went to
- 7:27every church member that was sick pray
- 7:29with them and nobody else in this church
- 7:31died of the plague and nobody else died
- 7:34in that church except for a few elderly
- 7:35people who he said it was it was their
- 7:37time to go why he was pastor of that
- 7:39church
- 7:39now this revelation of acts 10:38 begin
- 7:42the great healing ministry of dr. dolly
- 7:45he believed at that time that nobody
- 7:47else in the world had that revelation
- 7:49but him now he said how could he think
- 7:51that well number one realize the world
- 7:53of communications was not as developed
- 7:54magnin as it is today all they had was
- 7:57maybe newspapers and telegrams are just
- 7:59being developed and so they don't have
- 8:02the world knowledge they had and so now
- 8:04I had never heard anybody else preach
- 8:05this but himself he never seen any
- 8:07miracles
- 8:08and so he began to preach what we call
- 8:11the divine healing message from the
- 8:12gospel and he begin to get results and
- 8:15as his ministry begin to grow in
- 8:16Australia people would come to in the
- 8:18prayer lines and he was kind of like
- 8:20Smith Wigglesworth in a way that he
- 8:22ministered to people he would be very
- 8:25abrupt and he would hit quarters and
- 8:28slept knocks off people's bodies and
- 8:29newspaper folks would report seeing him
- 8:32roll on the floor after he had slapped
- 8:33their neck or their face or off their
- 8:35back of them or something and so this is
- 8:38not just Christian folklore this is
- 8:39secular press talking about what they
- 8:41saw in doughies meetings now before we
- 8:44get much further in doughies life we
- 8:46have to make a statement and talk about
- 8:48a little season of his life when dr.
- 8:51died was at the height of his healing
- 8:53ministry in Australia he had this
- 8:55uncanny ability to be distracted and to
- 8:58leave the ministry or go from his main
- 9:00calling he came into relationship with
- 9:04some people because of the popularity
- 9:05and his and his fame outside of the
- 9:08church world as well with folks who
- 9:10wanted him to run for a seat in the
- 9:12Australian Parliament in Australian
- 9:14government and so he quit the ministry
- 9:16to run to become a member of parliament
- 9:20in the Australian government and so he
- 9:22ran a campaign and back then prohibition
- 9:24was a big thing and so Dowie preached
- 9:27against smoking and drinking and living
- 9:28holy and doing these things and they
- 9:30thought he was going to win but he lost
- 9:32now let me make a statement when you're
- 9:35in ministry you're already in office
- 9:36there are two types of government in the
- 9:38earth there is a natural government and
- 9:40there a spiritual government if you are
- 9:42called into ministry you're in spiritual
- 9:43government you don't need to leave the
- 9:45spiritual to become one of the natural
- 9:47many apostolic gifts miss Reed that
- 9:50governmental called thinking that God
- 9:52has called in to do something in the
- 9:53natural and they make a mistake in miss
- 9:55reading it now he made that mistake his
- 9:58church went down he went bankrupt all
- 10:00kinds of bad things happen he lost it
- 10:02was a disaster and so finally he woke up
- 10:05and went back to his call and everything
- 10:07beginning to come back to him again so
- 10:09that also tells us if you will correct
- 10:11your mistake and correct your misstep
- 10:14and go back to where you belong then the
- 10:16blessing of God and the honor of God and
- 10:18the excitement of the people will all
- 10:19come back to you and so he goes back in
- 10:22ministry after losing this race and
- 10:24going through all the financial troubles
- 10:26and he comes like praying for the sick
- 10:27in his church grows and it begins to
- 10:30increase it grows into the thousands so
- 10:33he is the large what we call mega church
- 10:34today in the 1800s in Australia then
- 10:37Dowie decides it's time to take the
- 10:39healing message to the world and so he
- 10:41decides to get on a boat and head for
- 10:43America and so he heads to San Francisco
- 10:46and then San Francisco newspapers have a
- 10:48little article about the Australian
- 10:50healer it's coming to Frisco so it gets
- 10:53off the boat the reporters are there and
- 10:55the reporters start writing about all
- 10:56the things they heard about the healing
- 10:58minister or the heal evangelist from
- 11:00Australia but dally had a little
- 11:02uniqueness now this is not a good
- 11:03doctrine but it's a historical fact that
- 11:05he believed that unless you were born
- 11:07again you didn't deserve to be healed so
- 11:09he wouldn't pray for anybody unless you
- 11:11were saved and so people begin to come
- 11:14to his hotel room in San Francisco and
- 11:16asked for a prayer of healing for him to
- 11:18heal them and he would interview each
- 11:20one and if he didn't think they were
- 11:22saved
- 11:22he wouldn't pray for him and dally let
- 11:25the newspaper people sit right in the
- 11:26hotel suite with him so he was not
- 11:28scared to have the press or the doubters
- 11:31or the skeptics or his enemies per se to
- 11:33sit in the same room and watch it
- 11:34because it was God to do the healing he
- 11:36was just facilitating it through obeying
- 11:39the scriptures and so finally he found a
- 11:41woman that he believed that was born
- 11:43again and had the right to be healed and
- 11:45she had him Gorda the size of a small
- 11:47coconut they said and when he discovered
- 11:49that she was saved and felt convince her
- 11:51that she was he stood up walked over and
- 11:54slapped it off her neck and it fell on
- 11:57the floor and the newspapers people
- 11:59absolutely freaked out and summon out of
- 12:01the room they couldn't handle that was
- 12:02the first miracle that dolly did in
- 12:05America and all of a sudden because of
- 12:07that it begin to grow and they begin to
- 12:09hold revival meetings or evangelistic
- 12:12meetings where he preached the gospel
- 12:13ask people to get saved and begin to
- 12:15pray for the sick and he has not already
- 12:17begin to gain in California now another
- 12:19important fact that we must not forget
- 12:21to talk about was at the same time guy
- 12:23was in San Francisco another great
- 12:26general a woman named Maria Woodworth
- 12:28etter was over the bay in Oakland
- 12:30California having the worst meeting of
- 12:33her life and he heard about this woman
- 12:36pray for the sick and they did get
- 12:38healed well he had never heard of
- 12:39anybody else doing what he was doing so
- 12:41he goes over to this meeting meets Maria
- 12:43Woodworth editor becomes freezer for a
- 12:45few weeks and then turns on her he turns
- 12:48on her because in her meetings God would
- 12:50heal people and people fall into trances
- 12:52while she was preaching well Joey didn't
- 12:55handle that he thought that was terrible
- 12:57he called the papers and said this
- 12:59trance evangelism is of the devil and
- 13:01the relationship between mama Adam and
- 13:04dr. Dow II ended this was a mistake in
- 13:08Dolly's life God has different kinds of
- 13:10relationships that we have in our life
- 13:12and one of them is a divine relationship
- 13:14of a person or persons who have the
- 13:17ability to understand your calling your
- 13:19anointing your personality who and what
- 13:22you are and able to speak to you
- 13:24correctly and directly about any matters
- 13:27and not be inferior or feel overwhelmed
- 13:30by your personality recalled they're not
- 13:33yes people and mother etter was senior
- 13:36in the ministry or senior in the spirit
- 13:37then Dowie
- 13:38and I believe that God had arranged
- 13:40these two to me and the devil arranged
- 13:42for these two to break up we'll talk a
- 13:44little bit later in life because she was
- 13:46probably the only one it was able to
- 13:47speak to dolly and say don't do this or
- 13:50be aware of that and he would listen and
- 13:52the devil works a wedge between them
- 13:54that never was healed from those
- 13:56meetings in California he decided the
- 13:58next place he should go with Chicago at
- 14:00this time Chicago was the second largest
- 14:02city in America it's the new bubbling
- 14:05city in the American civilization as
- 14:08it's growing and the World's Fair is
- 14:10happening in Chicago and now he thought
- 14:13what better place to talk to the world
- 14:15about divine healing at the World's Fair
- 14:16so he goes to Chicago and asked to buy a
- 14:20booth or get some space in the fair in
- 14:21the fair and they wouldn't let him they
- 14:23did not want to have a healing
- 14:25Australian preacher in the fair but they
- 14:28let deal moody preach every Sunday in
- 14:30the World's Fair but they wouldn't let
- 14:31the healing evangelists preach so what
- 14:33he did he went out run outside the gate
- 14:36of the World's Fair and rented a
- 14:37building called the little wooden hut
- 14:39and he began to hold revival meetings or
- 14:42healing meetings right at the gate of
- 14:43the World's Fair he said if you don't
- 14:45let me in I'll stand outside where I can
- 14:47do it and he'd be
- 14:48one of the main attractions of the
- 14:50World's Fair even though he was not
- 14:52permitted in people got healed and they
- 14:55had all the signs of wonders and so
- 14:57people came there and they were shocked
- 14:58by what they saw God spoke to Delhi then
- 15:02to make his headquarters in Chicago in
- 15:04America and not to go back to Australia
- 15:07and make it at his headquarters but it
- 15:08was to be in Chicago so he settled in to
- 15:11make that his home base in America of
- 15:13Chicago and so in the fair was over he
- 15:16began to build his church it grew into
- 15:18another mega church it grew one time up
- 15:20to about eight to nine thousand people
- 15:21one estimates over ten and now it was
- 15:24bigger than life now remember Chicago
- 15:26had two great evangelists in it the
- 15:29famous deal Moody and dr. Dow it was a
- 15:31spiritual governor or the Apostolic gift
- 15:34of that city and so the people of the
- 15:36town liked him and didn't like him
- 15:38now here's what he did he came in on
- 15:40Billy's church and then he began to
- 15:42build healing homes now hitting homes I
- 15:45think he had up to over thirteen or
- 15:47fourteen estimated at homes that I've
- 15:49read that he built which was these large
- 15:51Victorian homes it had like two or three
- 15:53floors and big rooms and people have
- 15:55started coming to him from all over
- 15:56America in all of the world wanting to
- 15:58get healed doctors had given up they
- 16:00were gonna die they came and here's what
- 16:03he would tell them you didn't come to my
- 16:04healing homes take a room but here's the
- 16:06rule you cannot do what your doctor says
- 16:08you can't take your medicine you throw
- 16:10all of that out and you trust God and
- 16:12you do what we tell you to do and he'd
- 16:14go by and pray for each one and then you
- 16:16have people who he'd trained they would
- 16:18read the scriptures to them and minister
- 16:20to them until they got healed or they
- 16:22went home and so when that begin to
- 16:24happen miracles begin to follow
- 16:26controversy begin to follow the devil
- 16:29does not gonna let anybody do anything
- 16:32that is successful beginning to bring
- 16:33awareness of God's goodness awareness of
- 16:36God's power go unchallenged so if you're
- 16:39in ministry or you're gonna help a
- 16:41ministry you're in a battle
- 16:42so don't be shocked about the devil does
- 16:44or how things are reacted now he was
- 16:46arrested a hundred times for practicing
- 16:48medicine without a license in the city
- 16:50of Chicago back in those days if you
- 16:53laid hands on the sick you had to be a
- 16:55medical doctor trained by medical school
- 16:57that was recognized by the state or you
- 16:59were in trouble
- 17:00well Dow he said that's not right
- 17:02Jesus was not a doctor he went around
- 17:04praying for the sick guy here because
- 17:05God empowered him like he empowered me
- 17:07and so they had his own special paddy
- 17:10wagon outside the church door when da
- 17:13would get flu preaching and framed of
- 17:14the sick kid for this coat on walk out
- 17:16the side door and get in the paddy wagon
- 17:18and they go take him downtown to Chicago
- 17:20put him in jail he wouldn't pay the fine
- 17:22which I remember was like two or three
- 17:23dollars that went up to about ten
- 17:25dollars in the maximum he wouldn't pay
- 17:26it because he said I didn't do anything
- 17:28wrong
- 17:28so finally they went to trial and so Dow
- 17:31I hired two lawyers not to represent him
- 17:34but to inform him about the American law
- 17:36and he did his own talking and defense
- 17:39in the court Dow he is the man in
- 17:41American history that changed the law to
- 17:43where all of us can lay hands on the
- 17:45sick today in the name of Jesus and not
- 17:47be in trouble of breaking a law in
- 17:50America so we all owe a big thank you to
- 17:53dr. Dowling first standing up and saying
- 17:55this is not right and had enough faith
- 17:57and guts to stand up against the courts
- 17:59and to win so dr. Dowling thank you for
- 18:02making that great stand in American
- 18:04history dr. Dahle I have found one of a
- 18:07very rare voice recording of him that I
- 18:09want you to listen to now this is him
- 18:11preaching as a young I should say young
- 18:14men but him preaching and the timings in
- 18:16Chicago you'll hear it's an old wax
- 18:18recording so it's kind of scratchy so
- 18:20the words will be on the screen but
- 18:22you're good to hear his personality and
- 18:23here's a little bit of roughness and his
- 18:25compassion as he preaches his sermon
- 18:28here
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- 21:14Gallery has such a phenomenal life and
- 21:16ministry that the cult of time in the
- 21:18day show I can't tell you everything
- 21:19that's why I want you to call the number
- 21:22on the screen and order the book where I
- 21:23tell you a lot more about his life I
- 21:25tell you about him
- 21:26prema Abraham Lincoln's niece Buffalo
- 21:29Bills family hi went to Washington and
- 21:31talked to President McKinley and
- 21:32prophesied to him about the need to beef
- 21:35up his security or his life was in
- 21:36danger and he know American history
- 21:38President Kennedy was assassinated but
- 21:40Dow had warned him dr. Dow he had a
- 21:43phenomenal ability to succeed everything
- 21:45that he said his hand to do but he also
- 21:47had some strange things that happened to
- 21:49him as well I want to talk to you
- 21:51because of time about the invitees of
- 21:53life the endeavors of life was a little
- 21:55more tragic than the excitement of the
- 21:57beginning and the crescendo of his life
- 21:59now he decided that living in Chicago
- 22:02for him was not what he wanted to do so
- 22:04he went 40 miles north of Chicago and
- 22:06about 66 hundred acres of land and on
- 22:10December 31st 1899 at New Year's Eve
- 22:14service in his church in Chicago he
- 22:16dropped the big screen and declared that
- 22:19he was going to build a city that was
- 22:22going to be totally Christian it is it
- 22:25became known as the longest last seen
- 22:26Christian utopia in American history and
- 22:29he called the city Zion it still is
- 22:31alive and functioned today as a city in
- 22:33Illinois and here's what now he did he
- 22:36secured the land he began to build a
- 22:39city the city grew to about 20 thousand
- 22:41citizens during his life and so it's not
- 22:44a small little village it's 20,000
- 22:47people it had a fire station it had
- 22:50public libraries it had a postal service
- 22:53it had school systems Dowie
- 22:55there was one church and there was one
- 22:57man that was the maker he was head of
- 22:58everything and to me even though that's
- 23:00a phenomena it was a great mistake God
- 23:03didn't call us to build
- 23:04little utopia's or little places where
- 23:07we get away from the world and we hide
- 23:09and wait for Jesus to come Jesus said go
- 23:12into all the world and preach the gospel
- 23:14to every creature that's our job to be
- 23:16salt and light in the world not to hide
- 23:19or be away from it and to say that's
- 23:21wrong and we're gonna stay here and live
- 23:23in this little exclusive thing when
- 23:25Christians go exclusive they go weird if
- 23:28we stay in the world we stay normal we
- 23:30stay functional your salt and light so
- 23:33Dow he builds a city in this city of all
- 23:35these citizens there came some famous
- 23:37people out of it John G Lake and F F
- 23:40Bosworth were neighbors in Dowie City
- 23:42Gordon Lindsey was born as a baby in
- 23:45design city but over a hundred and fifty
- 23:48different Pentecostal pioneers was in
- 23:52the city or around ours so Dowie of
- 23:54Zombies effect on Pentecostalism
- 23:57especially the healing side of it is
- 23:59phenomenal he helped train all of us and
- 24:01to be honest with you the doctrines he
- 24:03preached on healing we preached today he
- 24:05trained a hundred and fifty people that
- 24:08became pioneers of the Pentecostal
- 24:09movement so dowry has an effect on this
- 24:13great Pentecost one that we were part of
- 24:14today and we owe him thanks but the
- 24:17reason why you don't know his name like
- 24:19he wouldn't wiglesworth or Kathryn
- 24:20Kuhlman or some of these other great
- 24:22personalities is because he died
- 24:24thinking he was Elijah now I know that
- 24:27sounds crazy
- 24:29sounds like how could that happen but it
- 24:32happened he got into the place of a
- 24:35mental fixation because he saw nobody
- 24:37else that could do what he was doing
- 24:39under the anointing people around him
- 24:41begin and say you're special you're
- 24:43unique you're one of the in time
- 24:45servants and then either you're Elijah
- 24:46well people can say anything it's what
- 24:49you believe that you've got to make sure
- 24:51you don't let it take root inside of you
- 24:52somewhere in Delhi's heart and mind he
- 24:55begin to believe those statements from
- 24:57misguided followers that you relied to
- 24:59the restore your the Elijah here Elijah
- 25:02and he begin to believe it and begin to
- 25:04announce it so dr. Dowling built a city
- 25:07that was his first mistake begin to
- 25:08believe it was Elijah number two and
- 25:10then he got into financial difficulties
- 25:12when you make mistakes financial
- 25:14troubles come and so he decided the best
- 25:17way
- 25:18to solve the financial troubles was to
- 25:20build more Zions around the world he was
- 25:22on the bill design plantation in Mexico
- 25:24one in Jamaica now here's another one he
- 25:28was in negotiations for with the Turkish
- 25:31government to buy the city of Jerusalem
- 25:33in Israel and he'd already had an
- 25:35architect to lay out how they're gonna
- 25:37rebuild the walls and lay out the city
- 25:39if you go to the Historical Society in
- 25:41design you can actually still see the
- 25:42plans that dalian made to restore the
- 25:45city of Jerusalem
- 25:46so the man's ego was huge the man's
- 25:49faith was huge and he did phenomenal
- 25:52things but this would cause you to do
- 25:53great things does not mean everything
- 25:55you do is right Lillian Yeomans became a
- 25:57great Pentecostal preacher she was a
- 25:59medical doctor that got addicted to
- 26:01morphine after a surgery that was healed
- 26:03in Dolly's ministry and she made a great
- 26:05statement at I wanted to kind of stay to
- 26:07you and use it as a principle for life
- 26:09you can follow somebody's faith but you
- 26:12can always follow their doctrines and
- 26:14she would say of dowing follow his face
- 26:16but don't follow everything he says
- 26:18because some things he says is not quite
- 26:20right and I think that's what brother
- 26:22Hagin used to say is like an old cow he
- 26:24would eat the hay and spit out the
- 26:25sticks we as Christians have to know how
- 26:28to take the good things and release the
- 26:30bad things and I think dr. Dolly's a
- 26:32life in ministry every one of us should
- 26:34appreciate should study I wish I had
- 26:36more time to tell you about him promise
- 26:38on radio and television and all the
- 26:40other great miracles that he did that's
- 26:42why I keep saying get the book I spent
- 26:44years researching it I want you to get
- 26:45it and call the number on your screen or
- 26:47go to my website and pick it up it's
- 26:49probably in some bookstores as well but
- 26:51we want you to get it and read about
- 26:52John Alexander Dowie and all the other
- 26:54great generals and I want you to know
- 26:56that because son makes a mistake
- 26:58it does not mean everything about them
- 26:59is wrong let's take the good learn from
- 27:02the bed and be better ourselves as we go
- 27:05off the air today I'm gonna let you hear
- 27:07dr. Dolly's sing in one of his church
- 27:09services and remember this is from the
- 27:11early nineteen hundred's of a wax
- 27:12recording but I think it's good to hear
- 27:15the man sing and praise God so here dr.
- 27:17Dow is leading worship in his great
- 27:19shadow Tabernacle in Zion Illinois
- 27:28[Music]
- 28:21[Music]
- 28:28[Applause]
- 28:31[Music]
- 28:39[Applause]
- 29:13[Applause]
- 29:19[Music]
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