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  1. 0:00his church was bombed he went to
  2. 0:02Washington and spoke to the president
  3. 0:04about the need of beefing up his
  4. 0:05security and he didn't do it so the
  5. 0:07president was assassinated he prophesied
  6. 0:09television radio before there's even
  7. 0:11thoughts about it he built a city but he
  8. 0:13died thinking he was Elijah his name is
  9. 0:15John Alexander Dowie I'm Robert Cerdan
  10. 0:18and this is God's generals
  11. 0:19[Music]
  12. 0:31one of the great men that we've not
  13. 0:33heard much about in the Pentecostal
  14. 0:35circles is John Alexander Dowie mainly
  15. 0:38because his Indian days were not as
  16. 0:40great as his beginning days and today's
  17. 0:42broadcasts were to discuss the life and
  18. 0:44the ministry of this phenomenal man who
  19. 0:47came out of the British Isles actually
  20. 0:49he was born in Scotland in the city of
  21. 0:51Edinburgh and then they moved to
  22. 0:52Australia and he grew up as a little boy
  23. 0:54in a teenager when it's time to go to
  24. 0:56university they sit him back to Scotland
  25. 0:59to get his university training and when
  26. 1:01he went to choose his subjects to study
  27. 1:03he chose two interesting subjects he
  28. 1:06chose political science and theology and
  29. 1:09to me as a historian I think that's the
  30. 1:11first sign of his apostolic calling a
  31. 1:13man that has a love for God and want to
  32. 1:16know about God's Word and Surrey
  33. 1:18theology and the political side which
  34. 1:20speaks of the governmental side of the
  35. 1:22episodic anointing that was already in
  36. 1:24his life while he was at the school
  37. 1:26there in Scotland he also because he was
  38. 1:29so intelligent
  39. 1:30he was probably those students that
  40. 1:32always asked the question that irritated
  41. 1:34the teacher or all the students went not
  42. 1:36into him again with the question because
  43. 1:38he was such of a high level of
  44. 1:40intelligence in his subjects they made
  45. 1:42him an honorary chaplain of the schools
  46. 1:45medical infirmary and so he access to
  47. 1:48all the medical lecturers too and he
  48. 1:51noticed that when he would go down to
  49. 1:52hear the medical lectures and see the
  50. 1:54operation you know in those days let me
  51. 1:56explain when they did the medicals
  52. 1:58teaching they put the student in their
  53. 2:01rounds type of auditorium and then put
  54. 2:03the doctor or the surgeon and the person
  55. 2:05they're gonna operate on in the middle
  56. 2:07of this round theatre where all the
  57. 2:10students could see and watch the
  58. 2:11operation happen
  59. 2:12well gowing because he was the honorary
  60. 2:14chaplain and very smart and very known
  61. 2:16in the school was given access to hear
  62. 2:18the lectures and see what was happening
  63. 2:20so he would see what the doctor would
  64. 2:23say when the operation was going on and
  65. 2:24because he was involved in the infirmary
  66. 2:27and doing the chaplain service of the
  67. 2:29infirmary he was able to see the outcome
  68. 2:31of it later he would later form a doctor
  69. 2:34that would be a part of the early
  70. 2:35Pentecostal movement called don't trust
  71. 2:37your doctors so outra medicine and trust
  72. 2:39God only and that's where this doctrine
  73. 2:42came from because now it looked at
  74. 2:43medical science as an
  75. 2:44exact science and so from the very
  76. 2:47beginning of his ministry he begin to
  77. 2:49see that some of these things are
  78. 2:50medical science specially in the 1800's
  79. 2:52were not quite as good as just crushing
  80. 2:55God alone and so when that began to form
  81. 2:58in his life he never really finished
  82. 3:00college because his family got in
  83. 3:02trouble financially in Australia asked
  84. 3:04him to come back and help so he left the
  85. 3:06United Kingdom went back to Australia
  86. 3:08and took his first church his first
  87. 3:11church he didn't like and so he resigned
  88. 3:13after being there less than a year he
  89. 3:16left them because he said they were
  90. 3:17allergic people and did not deserve a
  91. 3:19pastor like himself and so he found
  92. 3:22another corrugation where he was
  93. 3:24welcomed and they were a little more
  94. 3:26active and want to do the gospel a bit
  95. 3:27more than the last one he was with and
  96. 3:29they also encouraged him to finish his
  97. 3:31schooling which he did during this time
  98. 3:34there was a plague that came through the
  99. 3:37outskirts of Sydney Austria where he was
  100. 3:39pastoring and the plague had killed 40
  101. 3:41people in less than two weeks and so he
  102. 3:44was doing all the funerals helping all
  103. 3:46the families and even officiating some
  104. 3:48funerals of other churches because their
  105. 3:50pastors had died and he was so
  106. 3:52distraught by this that he began to pray
  107. 3:54and ask God can't Jesus who walked the
  108. 3:57seas of Galilee and heal the sick then
  109. 3:59can he do something about what's
  110. 4:00happening in Australia and so this kind
  111. 4:02of praying brought to him a revelation
  112. 4:05God illuminated to him acts 10:38 and
  113. 4:08that verse says how God anointed Jesus
  114. 4:10of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with
  115. 4:12power who went about doing good and he
  116. 4:14all that were oppressed of the devil
  117. 4:16when that verse came alive to him he
  118. 4:20realized that sickness was of the devil
  119. 4:22and that healing was of God and Jesus
  120. 4:25came to do good things which was to heal
  121. 4:27and destroy the works of the devil about
  122. 4:29the time that this revelation came to
  123. 4:32live in his spirit there was a knock at
  124. 4:34the door and it was a child from down
  125. 4:36the street from one of his church
  126. 4:38members the mother had sent the child to
  127. 4:39get their pastor because the child in
  128. 4:42the home the other sibling was dying and
  129. 4:44so Dow had just had this revelation of
  130. 4:47acts 10:38 he runs out the house without
  131. 4:49his jacket or his coat and we're gonna
  132. 4:51find out what he did next which you've
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  165. 5:55dalla was chasing the young child down
  166. 5:57the street who entered the home and when
  167. 5:59he walked into the living room of the
  168. 6:00house of the child and the church member
  169. 6:03the doctor was in there writing out the
  170. 6:05death certificate for the child in the
  171. 6:06other room and the doctor said to dr.
  172. 6:08Dow II I can't be here to sign the time
  173. 6:11of death on the death certificate I'll
  174. 6:12leave that for you to do I feel that
  175. 6:14everything else I need you to put the
  176. 6:16time and he's shown him in the little
  177. 6:18document where the death time was to be
  178. 6:20written in and Dow I said I won't do it
  179. 6:23and got upset and spoke very harshly to
  180. 6:25the doctor even where the doctor thought
  181. 6:27something's wrong with dr. Dow II he
  182. 6:29walked into the room where the little
  183. 6:31child was dying and the mother was
  184. 6:32walking around the bed distraught as you
  185. 6:34could understand that the emotional
  186. 6:36strain of knowing that your child was
  187. 6:38dying and there was no natural hope and
  188. 6:40you somehow thought the preacher could
  189. 6:42help you so you called for your pastor
  190. 6:44and he walked into the room and he asked
  191. 6:47the mother why did you call for me to
  192. 6:49come she said I thought maybe you could
  193. 6:51do something and he said I can do
  194. 6:53something I'm gonna pray and ask God to
  195. 6:55heal your child this is the first time
  196. 6:58dr. Dow II ever made those words and
  197. 7:01utter those words come out of his mouth
  198. 7:02say I'm going to pray a hidden prayer he
  199. 7:05did know how to pray healing prayer so
  200. 7:06he goes over to the bed and prays for
  201. 7:09the child ends a prayer and they take a
  202. 7:11few steps back to see what's gonna
  203. 7:13happen and nothing happened for the
  204. 7:15first few moments and all of a sudden
  205. 7:16the child's eyes open she set up in the
  206. 7:19bed and asked for some hot chocolate
  207. 7:21and then she wanted some toast and
  208. 7:23within an hour she was up in the room
  209. 7:25playing perfectly healed died went to
  210. 7:27every church member that was sick pray
  211. 7:29with them and nobody else in this church
  212. 7:31died of the plague and nobody else died
  213. 7:34in that church except for a few elderly
  214. 7:35people who he said it was it was their
  215. 7:37time to go why he was pastor of that
  216. 7:39church
  217. 7:39now this revelation of acts 10:38 begin
  218. 7:42the great healing ministry of dr. dolly
  219. 7:45he believed at that time that nobody
  220. 7:47else in the world had that revelation
  221. 7:49but him now he said how could he think
  222. 7:51that well number one realize the world
  223. 7:53of communications was not as developed
  224. 7:54magnin as it is today all they had was
  225. 7:57maybe newspapers and telegrams are just
  226. 7:59being developed and so they don't have
  227. 8:02the world knowledge they had and so now
  228. 8:04I had never heard anybody else preach
  229. 8:05this but himself he never seen any
  230. 8:07miracles
  231. 8:08and so he began to preach what we call
  232. 8:11the divine healing message from the
  233. 8:12gospel and he begin to get results and
  234. 8:15as his ministry begin to grow in
  235. 8:16Australia people would come to in the
  236. 8:18prayer lines and he was kind of like
  237. 8:20Smith Wigglesworth in a way that he
  238. 8:22ministered to people he would be very
  239. 8:25abrupt and he would hit quarters and
  240. 8:28slept knocks off people's bodies and
  241. 8:29newspaper folks would report seeing him
  242. 8:32roll on the floor after he had slapped
  243. 8:33their neck or their face or off their
  244. 8:35back of them or something and so this is
  245. 8:38not just Christian folklore this is
  246. 8:39secular press talking about what they
  247. 8:41saw in doughies meetings now before we
  248. 8:44get much further in doughies life we
  249. 8:46have to make a statement and talk about
  250. 8:48a little season of his life when dr.
  251. 8:51died was at the height of his healing
  252. 8:53ministry in Australia he had this
  253. 8:55uncanny ability to be distracted and to
  254. 8:58leave the ministry or go from his main
  255. 9:00calling he came into relationship with
  256. 9:04some people because of the popularity
  257. 9:05and his and his fame outside of the
  258. 9:08church world as well with folks who
  259. 9:10wanted him to run for a seat in the
  260. 9:12Australian Parliament in Australian
  261. 9:14government and so he quit the ministry
  262. 9:16to run to become a member of parliament
  263. 9:20in the Australian government and so he
  264. 9:22ran a campaign and back then prohibition
  265. 9:24was a big thing and so Dowie preached
  266. 9:27against smoking and drinking and living
  267. 9:28holy and doing these things and they
  268. 9:30thought he was going to win but he lost
  269. 9:32now let me make a statement when you're
  270. 9:35in ministry you're already in office
  271. 9:36there are two types of government in the
  272. 9:38earth there is a natural government and
  273. 9:40there a spiritual government if you are
  274. 9:42called into ministry you're in spiritual
  275. 9:43government you don't need to leave the
  276. 9:45spiritual to become one of the natural
  277. 9:47many apostolic gifts miss Reed that
  278. 9:50governmental called thinking that God
  279. 9:52has called in to do something in the
  280. 9:53natural and they make a mistake in miss
  281. 9:55reading it now he made that mistake his
  282. 9:58church went down he went bankrupt all
  283. 10:00kinds of bad things happen he lost it
  284. 10:02was a disaster and so finally he woke up
  285. 10:05and went back to his call and everything
  286. 10:07beginning to come back to him again so
  287. 10:09that also tells us if you will correct
  288. 10:11your mistake and correct your misstep
  289. 10:14and go back to where you belong then the
  290. 10:16blessing of God and the honor of God and
  291. 10:18the excitement of the people will all
  292. 10:19come back to you and so he goes back in
  293. 10:22ministry after losing this race and
  294. 10:24going through all the financial troubles
  295. 10:26and he comes like praying for the sick
  296. 10:27in his church grows and it begins to
  297. 10:30increase it grows into the thousands so
  298. 10:33he is the large what we call mega church
  299. 10:34today in the 1800s in Australia then
  300. 10:37Dowie decides it's time to take the
  301. 10:39healing message to the world and so he
  302. 10:41decides to get on a boat and head for
  303. 10:43America and so he heads to San Francisco
  304. 10:46and then San Francisco newspapers have a
  305. 10:48little article about the Australian
  306. 10:50healer it's coming to Frisco so it gets
  307. 10:53off the boat the reporters are there and
  308. 10:55the reporters start writing about all
  309. 10:56the things they heard about the healing
  310. 10:58minister or the heal evangelist from
  311. 11:00Australia but dally had a little
  312. 11:02uniqueness now this is not a good
  313. 11:03doctrine but it's a historical fact that
  314. 11:05he believed that unless you were born
  315. 11:07again you didn't deserve to be healed so
  316. 11:09he wouldn't pray for anybody unless you
  317. 11:11were saved and so people begin to come
  318. 11:14to his hotel room in San Francisco and
  319. 11:16asked for a prayer of healing for him to
  320. 11:18heal them and he would interview each
  321. 11:20one and if he didn't think they were
  322. 11:22saved
  323. 11:22he wouldn't pray for him and dally let
  324. 11:25the newspaper people sit right in the
  325. 11:26hotel suite with him so he was not
  326. 11:28scared to have the press or the doubters
  327. 11:31or the skeptics or his enemies per se to
  328. 11:33sit in the same room and watch it
  329. 11:34because it was God to do the healing he
  330. 11:36was just facilitating it through obeying
  331. 11:39the scriptures and so finally he found a
  332. 11:41woman that he believed that was born
  333. 11:43again and had the right to be healed and
  334. 11:45she had him Gorda the size of a small
  335. 11:47coconut they said and when he discovered
  336. 11:49that she was saved and felt convince her
  337. 11:51that she was he stood up walked over and
  338. 11:54slapped it off her neck and it fell on
  339. 11:57the floor and the newspapers people
  340. 11:59absolutely freaked out and summon out of
  341. 12:01the room they couldn't handle that was
  342. 12:02the first miracle that dolly did in
  343. 12:05America and all of a sudden because of
  344. 12:07that it begin to grow and they begin to
  345. 12:09hold revival meetings or evangelistic
  346. 12:12meetings where he preached the gospel
  347. 12:13ask people to get saved and begin to
  348. 12:15pray for the sick and he has not already
  349. 12:17begin to gain in California now another
  350. 12:19important fact that we must not forget
  351. 12:21to talk about was at the same time guy
  352. 12:23was in San Francisco another great
  353. 12:26general a woman named Maria Woodworth
  354. 12:28etter was over the bay in Oakland
  355. 12:30California having the worst meeting of
  356. 12:33her life and he heard about this woman
  357. 12:36pray for the sick and they did get
  358. 12:38healed well he had never heard of
  359. 12:39anybody else doing what he was doing so
  360. 12:41he goes over to this meeting meets Maria
  361. 12:43Woodworth editor becomes freezer for a
  362. 12:45few weeks and then turns on her he turns
  363. 12:48on her because in her meetings God would
  364. 12:50heal people and people fall into trances
  365. 12:52while she was preaching well Joey didn't
  366. 12:55handle that he thought that was terrible
  367. 12:57he called the papers and said this
  368. 12:59trance evangelism is of the devil and
  369. 13:01the relationship between mama Adam and
  370. 13:04dr. Dow II ended this was a mistake in
  371. 13:08Dolly's life God has different kinds of
  372. 13:10relationships that we have in our life
  373. 13:12and one of them is a divine relationship
  374. 13:14of a person or persons who have the
  375. 13:17ability to understand your calling your
  376. 13:19anointing your personality who and what
  377. 13:22you are and able to speak to you
  378. 13:24correctly and directly about any matters
  379. 13:27and not be inferior or feel overwhelmed
  380. 13:30by your personality recalled they're not
  381. 13:33yes people and mother etter was senior
  382. 13:36in the ministry or senior in the spirit
  383. 13:37then Dowie
  384. 13:38and I believe that God had arranged
  385. 13:40these two to me and the devil arranged
  386. 13:42for these two to break up we'll talk a
  387. 13:44little bit later in life because she was
  388. 13:46probably the only one it was able to
  389. 13:47speak to dolly and say don't do this or
  390. 13:50be aware of that and he would listen and
  391. 13:52the devil works a wedge between them
  392. 13:54that never was healed from those
  393. 13:56meetings in California he decided the
  394. 13:58next place he should go with Chicago at
  395. 14:00this time Chicago was the second largest
  396. 14:02city in America it's the new bubbling
  397. 14:05city in the American civilization as
  398. 14:08it's growing and the World's Fair is
  399. 14:10happening in Chicago and now he thought
  400. 14:13what better place to talk to the world
  401. 14:15about divine healing at the World's Fair
  402. 14:16so he goes to Chicago and asked to buy a
  403. 14:20booth or get some space in the fair in
  404. 14:21the fair and they wouldn't let him they
  405. 14:23did not want to have a healing
  406. 14:25Australian preacher in the fair but they
  407. 14:28let deal moody preach every Sunday in
  408. 14:30the World's Fair but they wouldn't let
  409. 14:31the healing evangelists preach so what
  410. 14:33he did he went out run outside the gate
  411. 14:36of the World's Fair and rented a
  412. 14:37building called the little wooden hut
  413. 14:39and he began to hold revival meetings or
  414. 14:42healing meetings right at the gate of
  415. 14:43the World's Fair he said if you don't
  416. 14:45let me in I'll stand outside where I can
  417. 14:47do it and he'd be
  418. 14:48one of the main attractions of the
  419. 14:50World's Fair even though he was not
  420. 14:52permitted in people got healed and they
  421. 14:55had all the signs of wonders and so
  422. 14:57people came there and they were shocked
  423. 14:58by what they saw God spoke to Delhi then
  424. 15:02to make his headquarters in Chicago in
  425. 15:04America and not to go back to Australia
  426. 15:07and make it at his headquarters but it
  427. 15:08was to be in Chicago so he settled in to
  428. 15:11make that his home base in America of
  429. 15:13Chicago and so in the fair was over he
  430. 15:16began to build his church it grew into
  431. 15:18another mega church it grew one time up
  432. 15:20to about eight to nine thousand people
  433. 15:21one estimates over ten and now it was
  434. 15:24bigger than life now remember Chicago
  435. 15:26had two great evangelists in it the
  436. 15:29famous deal Moody and dr. Dow it was a
  437. 15:31spiritual governor or the Apostolic gift
  438. 15:34of that city and so the people of the
  439. 15:36town liked him and didn't like him
  440. 15:38now here's what he did he came in on
  441. 15:40Billy's church and then he began to
  442. 15:42build healing homes now hitting homes I
  443. 15:45think he had up to over thirteen or
  444. 15:47fourteen estimated at homes that I've
  445. 15:49read that he built which was these large
  446. 15:51Victorian homes it had like two or three
  447. 15:53floors and big rooms and people have
  448. 15:55started coming to him from all over
  449. 15:56America in all of the world wanting to
  450. 15:58get healed doctors had given up they
  451. 16:00were gonna die they came and here's what
  452. 16:03he would tell them you didn't come to my
  453. 16:04healing homes take a room but here's the
  454. 16:06rule you cannot do what your doctor says
  455. 16:08you can't take your medicine you throw
  456. 16:10all of that out and you trust God and
  457. 16:12you do what we tell you to do and he'd
  458. 16:14go by and pray for each one and then you
  459. 16:16have people who he'd trained they would
  460. 16:18read the scriptures to them and minister
  461. 16:20to them until they got healed or they
  462. 16:22went home and so when that begin to
  463. 16:24happen miracles begin to follow
  464. 16:26controversy begin to follow the devil
  465. 16:29does not gonna let anybody do anything
  466. 16:32that is successful beginning to bring
  467. 16:33awareness of God's goodness awareness of
  468. 16:36God's power go unchallenged so if you're
  469. 16:39in ministry or you're gonna help a
  470. 16:41ministry you're in a battle
  471. 16:42so don't be shocked about the devil does
  472. 16:44or how things are reacted now he was
  473. 16:46arrested a hundred times for practicing
  474. 16:48medicine without a license in the city
  475. 16:50of Chicago back in those days if you
  476. 16:53laid hands on the sick you had to be a
  477. 16:55medical doctor trained by medical school
  478. 16:57that was recognized by the state or you
  479. 16:59were in trouble
  480. 17:00well Dow he said that's not right
  481. 17:02Jesus was not a doctor he went around
  482. 17:04praying for the sick guy here because
  483. 17:05God empowered him like he empowered me
  484. 17:07and so they had his own special paddy
  485. 17:10wagon outside the church door when da
  486. 17:13would get flu preaching and framed of
  487. 17:14the sick kid for this coat on walk out
  488. 17:16the side door and get in the paddy wagon
  489. 17:18and they go take him downtown to Chicago
  490. 17:20put him in jail he wouldn't pay the fine
  491. 17:22which I remember was like two or three
  492. 17:23dollars that went up to about ten
  493. 17:25dollars in the maximum he wouldn't pay
  494. 17:26it because he said I didn't do anything
  495. 17:28wrong
  496. 17:28so finally they went to trial and so Dow
  497. 17:31I hired two lawyers not to represent him
  498. 17:34but to inform him about the American law
  499. 17:36and he did his own talking and defense
  500. 17:39in the court Dow he is the man in
  501. 17:41American history that changed the law to
  502. 17:43where all of us can lay hands on the
  503. 17:45sick today in the name of Jesus and not
  504. 17:47be in trouble of breaking a law in
  505. 17:50America so we all owe a big thank you to
  506. 17:53dr. Dowling first standing up and saying
  507. 17:55this is not right and had enough faith
  508. 17:57and guts to stand up against the courts
  509. 17:59and to win so dr. Dowling thank you for
  510. 18:02making that great stand in American
  511. 18:04history dr. Dahle I have found one of a
  512. 18:07very rare voice recording of him that I
  513. 18:09want you to listen to now this is him
  514. 18:11preaching as a young I should say young
  515. 18:14men but him preaching and the timings in
  516. 18:16Chicago you'll hear it's an old wax
  517. 18:18recording so it's kind of scratchy so
  518. 18:20the words will be on the screen but
  519. 18:22you're good to hear his personality and
  520. 18:23here's a little bit of roughness and his
  521. 18:25compassion as he preaches his sermon
  522. 18:28here
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  528. 19:45[Music]
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  530. 20:13[Music]
  531. 20:29[Music]
  532. 21:06[Music]
  533. 21:14Gallery has such a phenomenal life and
  534. 21:16ministry that the cult of time in the
  535. 21:18day show I can't tell you everything
  536. 21:19that's why I want you to call the number
  537. 21:22on the screen and order the book where I
  538. 21:23tell you a lot more about his life I
  539. 21:25tell you about him
  540. 21:26prema Abraham Lincoln's niece Buffalo
  541. 21:29Bills family hi went to Washington and
  542. 21:31talked to President McKinley and
  543. 21:32prophesied to him about the need to beef
  544. 21:35up his security or his life was in
  545. 21:36danger and he know American history
  546. 21:38President Kennedy was assassinated but
  547. 21:40Dow had warned him dr. Dow he had a
  548. 21:43phenomenal ability to succeed everything
  549. 21:45that he said his hand to do but he also
  550. 21:47had some strange things that happened to
  551. 21:49him as well I want to talk to you
  552. 21:51because of time about the invitees of
  553. 21:53life the endeavors of life was a little
  554. 21:55more tragic than the excitement of the
  555. 21:57beginning and the crescendo of his life
  556. 21:59now he decided that living in Chicago
  557. 22:02for him was not what he wanted to do so
  558. 22:04he went 40 miles north of Chicago and
  559. 22:06about 66 hundred acres of land and on
  560. 22:10December 31st 1899 at New Year's Eve
  561. 22:14service in his church in Chicago he
  562. 22:16dropped the big screen and declared that
  563. 22:19he was going to build a city that was
  564. 22:22going to be totally Christian it is it
  565. 22:25became known as the longest last seen
  566. 22:26Christian utopia in American history and
  567. 22:29he called the city Zion it still is
  568. 22:31alive and functioned today as a city in
  569. 22:33Illinois and here's what now he did he
  570. 22:36secured the land he began to build a
  571. 22:39city the city grew to about 20 thousand
  572. 22:41citizens during his life and so it's not
  573. 22:44a small little village it's 20,000
  574. 22:47people it had a fire station it had
  575. 22:50public libraries it had a postal service
  576. 22:53it had school systems Dowie
  577. 22:55there was one church and there was one
  578. 22:57man that was the maker he was head of
  579. 22:58everything and to me even though that's
  580. 23:00a phenomena it was a great mistake God
  581. 23:03didn't call us to build
  582. 23:04little utopia's or little places where
  583. 23:07we get away from the world and we hide
  584. 23:09and wait for Jesus to come Jesus said go
  585. 23:12into all the world and preach the gospel
  586. 23:14to every creature that's our job to be
  587. 23:16salt and light in the world not to hide
  588. 23:19or be away from it and to say that's
  589. 23:21wrong and we're gonna stay here and live
  590. 23:23in this little exclusive thing when
  591. 23:25Christians go exclusive they go weird if
  592. 23:28we stay in the world we stay normal we
  593. 23:30stay functional your salt and light so
  594. 23:33Dow he builds a city in this city of all
  595. 23:35these citizens there came some famous
  596. 23:37people out of it John G Lake and F F
  597. 23:40Bosworth were neighbors in Dowie City
  598. 23:42Gordon Lindsey was born as a baby in
  599. 23:45design city but over a hundred and fifty
  600. 23:48different Pentecostal pioneers was in
  601. 23:52the city or around ours so Dowie of
  602. 23:54Zombies effect on Pentecostalism
  603. 23:57especially the healing side of it is
  604. 23:59phenomenal he helped train all of us and
  605. 24:01to be honest with you the doctrines he
  606. 24:03preached on healing we preached today he
  607. 24:05trained a hundred and fifty people that
  608. 24:08became pioneers of the Pentecostal
  609. 24:09movement so dowry has an effect on this
  610. 24:13great Pentecost one that we were part of
  611. 24:14today and we owe him thanks but the
  612. 24:17reason why you don't know his name like
  613. 24:19he wouldn't wiglesworth or Kathryn
  614. 24:20Kuhlman or some of these other great
  615. 24:22personalities is because he died
  616. 24:24thinking he was Elijah now I know that
  617. 24:27sounds crazy
  618. 24:29sounds like how could that happen but it
  619. 24:32happened he got into the place of a
  620. 24:35mental fixation because he saw nobody
  621. 24:37else that could do what he was doing
  622. 24:39under the anointing people around him
  623. 24:41begin and say you're special you're
  624. 24:43unique you're one of the in time
  625. 24:45servants and then either you're Elijah
  626. 24:46well people can say anything it's what
  627. 24:49you believe that you've got to make sure
  628. 24:51you don't let it take root inside of you
  629. 24:52somewhere in Delhi's heart and mind he
  630. 24:55begin to believe those statements from
  631. 24:57misguided followers that you relied to
  632. 24:59the restore your the Elijah here Elijah
  633. 25:02and he begin to believe it and begin to
  634. 25:04announce it so dr. Dowling built a city
  635. 25:07that was his first mistake begin to
  636. 25:08believe it was Elijah number two and
  637. 25:10then he got into financial difficulties
  638. 25:12when you make mistakes financial
  639. 25:14troubles come and so he decided the best
  640. 25:17way
  641. 25:18to solve the financial troubles was to
  642. 25:20build more Zions around the world he was
  643. 25:22on the bill design plantation in Mexico
  644. 25:24one in Jamaica now here's another one he
  645. 25:28was in negotiations for with the Turkish
  646. 25:31government to buy the city of Jerusalem
  647. 25:33in Israel and he'd already had an
  648. 25:35architect to lay out how they're gonna
  649. 25:37rebuild the walls and lay out the city
  650. 25:39if you go to the Historical Society in
  651. 25:41design you can actually still see the
  652. 25:42plans that dalian made to restore the
  653. 25:45city of Jerusalem
  654. 25:46so the man's ego was huge the man's
  655. 25:49faith was huge and he did phenomenal
  656. 25:52things but this would cause you to do
  657. 25:53great things does not mean everything
  658. 25:55you do is right Lillian Yeomans became a
  659. 25:57great Pentecostal preacher she was a
  660. 25:59medical doctor that got addicted to
  661. 26:01morphine after a surgery that was healed
  662. 26:03in Dolly's ministry and she made a great
  663. 26:05statement at I wanted to kind of stay to
  664. 26:07you and use it as a principle for life
  665. 26:09you can follow somebody's faith but you
  666. 26:12can always follow their doctrines and
  667. 26:14she would say of dowing follow his face
  668. 26:16but don't follow everything he says
  669. 26:18because some things he says is not quite
  670. 26:20right and I think that's what brother
  671. 26:22Hagin used to say is like an old cow he
  672. 26:24would eat the hay and spit out the
  673. 26:25sticks we as Christians have to know how
  674. 26:28to take the good things and release the
  675. 26:30bad things and I think dr. Dolly's a
  676. 26:32life in ministry every one of us should
  677. 26:34appreciate should study I wish I had
  678. 26:36more time to tell you about him promise
  679. 26:38on radio and television and all the
  680. 26:40other great miracles that he did that's
  681. 26:42why I keep saying get the book I spent
  682. 26:44years researching it I want you to get
  683. 26:45it and call the number on your screen or
  684. 26:47go to my website and pick it up it's
  685. 26:49probably in some bookstores as well but
  686. 26:51we want you to get it and read about
  687. 26:52John Alexander Dowie and all the other
  688. 26:54great generals and I want you to know
  689. 26:56that because son makes a mistake
  690. 26:58it does not mean everything about them
  691. 26:59is wrong let's take the good learn from
  692. 27:02the bed and be better ourselves as we go
  693. 27:05off the air today I'm gonna let you hear
  694. 27:07dr. Dolly's sing in one of his church
  695. 27:09services and remember this is from the
  696. 27:11early nineteen hundred's of a wax
  697. 27:12recording but I think it's good to hear
  698. 27:15the man sing and praise God so here dr.
  699. 27:17Dow is leading worship in his great
  700. 27:19shadow Tabernacle in Zion Illinois
  701. 27:28[Music]
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  703. 28:28[Applause]
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  706. 29:13[Applause]
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