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God's Generals Series - Smith Wigglesworth — Transcript

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  1. 0:01[Music]
  2. 0:14from the first time you raise someone
  3. 0:16from the dead it took him three tons
  4. 0:17push them against the wall but they came
  5. 0:19back to life again he was also known for
  6. 0:21being very abrupt in the prayer lines he
  7. 0:23would hit cancers and punch people in
  8. 0:25the stomach and sometimes be very rude
  9. 0:26on what he told him to do this is none
  10. 0:28other than Smith Wigglesworth he was
  11. 0:30known for saying I'm a thousand times
  12. 0:32bigger on the inside than on the outside
  13. 0:34I'm Robert Sheridan with God's general
  14. 0:35the British Isles has produced all the
  15. 0:37greatness and the world they have held
  16. 0:39form Nations they've helped solve Wars
  17. 0:42but one thing is also known for is how
  18. 0:44it has blessed the world with the faith
  19. 0:46of Christianity John Wesley came from
  20. 0:48there
  21. 0:49you've got George Jeffries out of the
  22. 0:51ELA movement and probably one of the
  23. 0:52most unusual personalities especially
  24. 0:54for the Pentecostal world is a man named
  25. 0:56Smith Wigglesworth when I first began
  26. 0:58studying the life of great preachers and
  27. 1:01revival leaders I read swiftly with
  28. 1:03those worst Bognor feet called the
  29. 1:04apostle of faith when I first read I
  30. 1:06thought can these stories really be true
  31. 1:08about how he preached and prayed for the
  32. 1:10sick and so I begin my journey to see if
  33. 1:13these stories were true and they were
  34. 1:14true Smith Wigglesworth was known for
  35. 1:17his unusual ability to create faith in
  36. 1:20people's heart when he preached but
  37. 1:21probably the story that now live long
  38. 1:24after his death that's how he was so
  39. 1:26abrupt how he was so uncouth in the way
  40. 1:29he would pray for those seeking healing
  41. 1:31for from his prayers and so we start
  42. 1:34with the study of where wiglesworth
  43. 1:35begin his life first like I said he
  44. 1:37comes from Great Britain and so can you
  45. 1:40believe today with England being so calm
  46. 1:42and so proper here comes an unusual
  47. 1:44personality that there's not even an act
  48. 1:46British you would even consider an
  49. 1:48British is the way he would pray for the
  50. 1:49people and how abrupt he wasn't
  51. 1:51answering some of their most logical and
  52. 1:53simple questions
  53. 1:54one time he was a trained for a man that
  54. 1:57was needed healing that night he came
  55. 1:59back the next night and he told him
  56. 2:01didn't I pray for you last night and the
  57. 2:03man said yes when I wasn't healed and
  58. 2:05what girl says well that's unbelief get
  59. 2:06on my prayer line and pushed him out of
  60. 2:08the prayer line and didn't even pray for
  61. 2:09him wiglesworth believed you pray once
  62. 2:12that's faith you prayed twice that's
  63. 2:13unbelief so that will begin to give you
  64. 2:15a little bit of a his personality a
  65. 2:17little bit of his flavor of how he was
  66. 2:19he was born again when he was a little
  67. 2:22boy he was raised in Bradford he went
  68. 2:25to his grandmother's Methodist Church
  69. 2:27where he first found Jesus and then when
  70. 2:29the bishop confirmed him into the Church
  71. 2:32of England and he realized became aware
  72. 2:35I should say of the presence of God and
  73. 2:37that was from the first time that he
  74. 2:38records in his writings that he felt and
  75. 2:41became aware of God's tangible presence
  76. 2:43which would be something that he would
  77. 2:45live in and desire for the rest of his
  78. 2:47life once he got into his ministry now
  79. 2:49to understand what goes worse the life a
  80. 2:51little bit better we're in the 1800s the
  81. 2:54middle to the last other part of the
  82. 2:561800s and there was a revival group of
  83. 2:58people called The Salvation Army now
  84. 3:01most of the Salvation Army today in
  85. 3:02England and America around the world
  86. 3:04they don't act like they did when
  87. 3:06William Booth and his wife Catherine
  88. 3:08were alive and had just founded the
  89. 3:10Salvation Army if you were alive in the
  90. 3:121800s or the middle 1800 I should say
  91. 3:14you should join the Salvation Army
  92. 3:15because that was where God was moving
  93. 3:17the most traumatic and the most powerful
  94. 3:19weights at that time these people prayed
  95. 3:22for Souls and went for the worst first
  96. 3:24and Dhanam and so this is where
  97. 3:27wiglesworth begin his ministry whiffle
  98. 3:29did not begin praying for the sick he
  99. 3:31began working in the Salvation Army in
  100. 3:34winning souls and helped me what we
  101. 3:35would call the day the children's
  102. 3:37ministry the children's minister for him
  103. 3:39was this that he would get a little pony
  104. 3:40and walk down the streets of Bradford
  105. 3:43and know how little horses are punted to
  106. 3:44the track kids and all the kids had run
  107. 3:46up and want to pet the horse and want to
  108. 3:48ride the horse and so wiglesworth would
  109. 3:50say I'll give you a ride to the church
  110. 3:52to salvation army Church there and back
  111. 3:55if you'll go to church with me and all
  112. 3:56the kids are yes we'll go we'll go and
  113. 3:58that's how will the truth begin his
  114. 4:00ministry for Jesus and so in one of the
  115. 4:03sub Asian Army meetings there was a lady
  116. 4:05preacher now back in those days women
  117. 4:07preachers are very unusual so for the
  118. 4:09Salvation Army to empower women and that
  119. 4:12women preach was a big deal especially
  120. 4:14in the 1800s and so Smith sister
  121. 4:18was preaching and Smith was in the
  122. 4:21balcony and she gave an altar call and
  123. 4:24he noticed a lady walking down the aisle
  124. 4:26and gave her life to Jesus that day and
  125. 4:29while he was watching this whole scene
  126. 4:31go on at the altar place the Lord spoken
  127. 4:34that that lady was his wife her name was
  128. 4:37pauly and so that day
  129. 4:38Paulie got saved and met her future
  130. 4:41husband weathers worth came out of the
  131. 4:43balcony and they're close to the service
  132. 4:44found her introduce himself term and
  133. 4:47begin to take possession of her but I
  134. 4:49can say that with all due respect for my
  135. 4:51womenfolk he begin to act like he was
  136. 4:53already married which made her feel a
  137. 4:54little uncomfortable but in a short
  138. 4:56amount of time they discovered that they
  139. 4:58were meant for each other they've got to
  140. 4:59bless them and they love each other and
  141. 5:01they got married so now we have a great
  142. 5:04team
  143. 5:05mr. and mrs. wiglesworth work together
  144. 5:07now there was another problem the
  145. 5:09problem was Smith Wigglesworth was a
  146. 5:11stutterer he couldn't talk and speak
  147. 5:14clearly that's why he would work with
  148. 5:17the children and do what he did in the
  149. 5:18children's ministry and work on the
  150. 5:20altar because then he would not be on
  151. 5:22the platform with the challenge of he
  152. 5:24and I'm able to speak a declarative
  153. 5:26sentence incorrectly without having a
  154. 5:28challenge but his wife Pauline was a
  155. 5:31rowdy and feisty preacher and so if you
  156. 5:34know that some Haitian Army in those
  157. 5:35days that was the personality of
  158. 5:37everybody really and so she was the one
  159. 5:39that got on the stage and would preach
  160. 5:41and go down the streets and preach and
  161. 5:43do things and she kept pushing Smith to
  162. 5:45preach so he would he wanted to but he
  163. 5:48had this speech impediment and so they
  164. 5:50got into lots of arguments over this
  165. 5:52problem he kept saying you free to leave
  166. 5:53me alone because he was embarrassed and
  167. 5:55so I'd like any married couple I guess
  168. 5:58is one of their challenges so after a
  169. 6:00period of time of these arguments and
  170. 6:02their little fusses going on finally
  171. 6:05they decided that she could preach and
  172. 6:07he would keep doing what he was doing
  173. 6:09and there came peace on that issue so
  174. 6:11let me recap this for a moment
  175. 6:13Smith Wigglesworth could say this little
  176. 6:14boy he's confirmed by the bishop he
  177. 6:17feels the presence of God for the very
  178. 6:18first time in his life and then he gets
  179. 6:21above the Salvation Army I think it's
  180. 6:23about 16 years old when he got involved
  181. 6:24in he saw his wife get saved they get
  182. 6:28married and they begin to work for the
  183. 6:30Lord in the Salvation Army and he did
  184. 6:32not preach because he was a stutterer
  185. 6:33but something great was about to happen
  186. 6:36the great event I was about to take
  187. 6:39place in Smith Wigglesworth life was the
  188. 6:41baptism the Holy Spirit in nineteen oh
  189. 6:43four five and six the greater this
  190. 6:45revival by taking place in Los Angeles
  191. 6:47it is the birthplace of the modern
  192. 6:49Pentecostal movement today
  193. 6:52largest Protestant group of critters in
  194. 6:54the world our koneko stools so in less
  195. 6:56than a hundred and fifty years the
  196. 6:58Pentecostal people that believe me
  197. 6:59speaking in tongues divine healing
  198. 7:01deliverance and the you near God's voice
  199. 7:03herself today is the largest Ponzi group
  200. 7:06of Christians in the world this was a
  201. 7:08new thing that was threatened around the
  202. 7:10world at this time we're gonna had
  203. 7:11embraced the divine healing message but
  204. 7:13he'd not embraced the method of the holy
  205. 7:15spirit and so he had been praying for
  206. 7:17the sick but the most dramatic change
  207. 7:19came when he received the Holy Spirit
  208. 7:21there was an English vicar named
  209. 7:23Alexander body in Sutherland who had
  210. 7:25received the Holy Ghost and was
  211. 7:27preaching the Holy Spirit with the
  212. 7:28baptism of fire
  213. 7:29and speaking of tongues when we would
  214. 7:32have heard about it he thought well I
  215. 7:33need to go see if this is true he had
  216. 7:35been warned by people that they were
  217. 7:37full of a devil don't go be careful stay
  218. 7:40away which is why everything is done
  219. 7:42plumbing Christianity when something new
  220. 7:44is being brought into the earth or
  221. 7:46highlighted by God's Spirit there's
  222. 7:47always the critics so Wigglesworth being
  223. 7:49a bold kind of person that he was wants
  224. 7:52to go see for himself he leaves his wife
  225. 7:54at home because she's a little more
  226. 7:55cautious and a little more stay away and
  227. 7:57she's involved in some nations army now
  228. 7:59the healing side had coming into play in
  229. 8:01their ministry he goes down there and
  230. 8:03realizes that these people have
  231. 8:06something that he needs and he
  232. 8:08interrupts the meeting while the
  233. 8:09preachers preaching to ask questions so
  234. 8:11that also you shouldn't loose
  235. 8:13personality he was not scared when he
  236. 8:14was hungry he went after it and he got
  237. 8:17his answer he left that meeting baptized
  238. 8:19in the Holy Spirit now when he came home
  239. 8:21this is what made his wife know there
  240. 8:24was something different I mean what I
  241. 8:25told you in the first section was that
  242. 8:27there was a collision between them over
  243. 8:29preaching publicly and him not preaching
  244. 8:31publicly well when he got baptized in
  245. 8:33the Holy Ghost he came back home to
  246. 8:35Bradford and told his wife politic he
  247. 8:37wants to preach on Sunday well that
  248. 8:39surprised her but she says well if you
  249. 8:41won't you go right ahead she said on the
  250. 8:43back row this meeting did not quite know
  251. 8:46what to think about all of this and all
  252. 8:48through the meetings she kept saying
  253. 8:49yourself that's not the Smith I know
  254. 8:51that's I knew Smith he had received the
  255. 8:54Holy Spirit begin to speak with tongues
  256. 8:56and his life changed and his stuttering
  257. 8:59disappeared this begin Smith
  258. 9:02Wigglesworth ministry in the pulpit
  259. 9:05for this time they did very little he
  260. 9:06meant he was in the children's ministry
  261. 9:08and soul-winning and one on one prayer
  262. 9:10for the sick
  263. 9:11when I received the Holy Spirit God
  264. 9:13healed him from his stuttering and
  265. 9:14released his tongue and he begin to
  266. 9:16preach in the pulpit Paulie jumped up at
  267. 9:19the end of the meeting ran to the front
  268. 9:21and said to her husband
  269. 9:22I want what you've got and another man
  270. 9:24walked up and said I want what you got
  271. 9:25they notice a change this was the
  272. 9:28beginning of the ministry of Smith
  273. 9:30Wigglesworth as you and I know in the
  274. 9:32stories that we've heard now as this
  275. 9:34begin to grow in his life and in Polly's
  276. 9:36life he began to get people spirit
  277. 9:38filled and pray for the sick you'll
  278. 9:40notice I'm sitting in front of an old
  279. 9:421880s wheelchair and some crutches here
  280. 9:45beside me and this is the way people
  281. 9:47would come to Smith Wigglesworth
  282. 9:49meetings they come in chairs like this
  283. 9:50with their crutches or their canes and
  284. 9:53asking for healing and asking for him to
  285. 9:56help them discover how God can heal them
  286. 9:58today because there was no medical help
  287. 9:59for them and he was so abrupt in the way
  288. 10:02he would do things that his stories of
  289. 10:04the abruptness lived today over 50 years
  290. 10:07of he's dead for example he would pray
  291. 10:10for you and he'd ask you what's up and
  292. 10:13that was how you want to know what was
  293. 10:14wrong with you and sometimes he would
  294. 10:16lay his hands on you very nicely and
  295. 10:18politely and pray a prayer or he would
  296. 10:21just say do this and scream real strong
  297. 10:24I almost started you in the whole crowd
  298. 10:25and you didn't do it he would go over
  299. 10:27and make you do it and so he was like a
  300. 10:30like a bull in a china closet as they
  301. 10:32would say so he was not your nice little
  302. 10:35British person that triggered this we
  303. 10:37had a cup of tea or even the way the
  304. 10:39American evangelist do it today he was a
  305. 10:42bullet of China cause it was tearing
  306. 10:44things up from the tradition but the
  307. 10:46thing that worked it worked when he did
  308. 10:49this they got healed he would punch
  309. 10:51people he would slap borders and gross
  310. 10:54up people's necks and he would tell
  311. 10:56people to stand up on that wheelchair
  312. 10:57like one lady in Arizona when he was
  313. 10:59here preached in the States
  314. 11:00he said stand up she goes I can't he
  315. 11:02said shut up you stand up and he kept
  316. 11:05arguing with her and she went down there
  317. 11:06and pulled her out and said don't talk
  318. 11:08back to me and she got healed so you
  319. 11:10know wiglesworth
  320. 11:12I don't know if some they would like him
  321. 11:15today
  322. 11:16times people think wow that's great but
  323. 11:18what if you were the person that
  324. 11:19wheelchair what have you were the person
  325. 11:21they've been doing that so put yourself
  326. 11:22in their shoes now for me personally I
  327. 11:24like it I like all those fun things but
  328. 11:27the thing I'll say again it worked no
  329. 11:29Smith Wigglesworth didn't have this
  330. 11:31because he had a special gift Smith
  331. 11:34Wigglesworth live a life that created
  332. 11:36the kind of faith and the kind of
  333. 11:38relationship that created these kind of
  334. 11:40results I do not believe or do I want to
  335. 11:43propagate what I would call the
  336. 11:45Christian life may God has favorite
  337. 11:47people and he gave things to something
  338. 11:49he doesn't give to others when God gave
  339. 11:52salvation God gave the Holy Spirit
  340. 11:54baptism God gave a ride the measure of
  341. 11:56faith he was all the same it's what you
  342. 11:59do with what God gave you that makes the
  343. 12:01difference not how you receive the
  344. 12:03blessings of God the gifts of God's and
  345. 12:05the calling of God Smith Wigglesworth
  346. 12:08said that he never went more than 15
  347. 12:10minutes without reading the Bible or
  348. 12:12praying now I tried that a few times and
  349. 12:15that's difficult to do to go every 15
  350. 12:18minutes you got to stop and remember
  351. 12:20some scriptures and confess them or you
  352. 12:22prayed a prayer I would say it's a good
  353. 12:24challenge for all of us to do but when
  354. 12:26you build your faith and your
  355. 12:27relationship like that
  356. 12:29you can scream it a woman a little chair
  357. 12:30and she'll get healed you can go to
  358. 12:32someone that's gonna quarter or a nut
  359. 12:34and slap it and falls off on the floor
  360. 12:36that's what we want to see again and you
  361. 12:39ask the question why don't we see it
  362. 12:41like that today
  363. 12:41I think it's a simple simple answer we
  364. 12:45don't pay the spiritual price or do the
  365. 12:47spiritual things that create the
  366. 12:49relationship the tangel anointing and
  367. 12:51the faith that creates these kind of
  368. 12:53miracles in the world today so hopefully
  369. 12:55with this broadcast I can challenge you
  370. 12:57to start doing something new and not
  371. 12:59just say the same ol thing well that was
  372. 13:00back then Mac name can be today because
  373. 13:02God is always the same we're the ones
  374. 13:05that have to change and get better not
  375. 13:06God he's still already he's too willing
  376. 13:09he still wants to he's working for
  377. 13:11someone to work through amazing you can
  378. 13:13be that next great general like
  379. 13:14wiglesworth I'm about to show you a clip
  380. 13:16of dr. Lester Sumrall he was my
  381. 13:18spiritual father and I spent many years
  382. 13:20with him and had many enjoyable times
  383. 13:22that the times I enjoyed the most when I
  384. 13:26were talking about all the prickers he
  385. 13:27knew as a young man and he
  386. 13:29Smith Wigglesworth personally as your
  387. 13:31men who went with so many times to visit
  388. 13:33him when he lived in England as a
  389. 13:34missionary he told me one time he was
  390. 13:36with Smith Wigglesworth in Scotland at a
  391. 13:39big Pentecostal camp meeting and they
  392. 13:41used to have what they call picnic on
  393. 13:42the ground or church lunch on the ground
  394. 13:44and after Sunday morning service they
  395. 13:46put all the food out and everybody's
  396. 13:47gonna eat there and they asked their
  397. 13:49guest evangelist wiglesworth to pray for
  398. 13:51the food
  399. 13:52and so because were stood up and said
  400. 13:54Lord you can bless what you've cursed
  401. 13:57then bless this thinking Pig because
  402. 13:59they've been roasted a big roasted pig
  403. 14:01for our lunch that day and he was
  404. 14:03somewhere else said that he just laughed
  405. 14:05and laughed he cannot believe that
  406. 14:06wigglesworth's in front of all those
  407. 14:08people and I prayed a prayer like that
  408. 14:10over the church lunch food and so we've
  409. 14:13got this little brother son wrote on his
  410. 14:15visit with Smith that right there in the
  411. 14:18same church where I was preaching the
  412. 14:19great glad tidings Tabernacle that at
  413. 14:21that time seated more than three
  414. 14:23thousand people says he was here
  415. 14:26speaking and on a Sunday afternoon he
  416. 14:28had a healing service and and that that
  417. 14:32they brought the people from hospitals
  418. 14:34and wheelchairs and all kinds of
  419. 14:36situations for Smith Wigglesworth to
  420. 14:39pray for them and from one of the local
  421. 14:41hospitals the doctor brought a very
  422. 14:43severe cancer case that they didn't want
  423. 14:46to bring him because he was so near
  424. 14:48death the doctor accompanied him and set
  425. 14:51by his little little portable hospital
  426. 14:54bed on the platform and your King Smith
  427. 14:57Wigglesworth who was just a little bit
  428. 14:59gruff down the line praying for the
  429. 15:01people and the way he would ask you what
  430. 15:03was wrong with you he'd say who took now
  431. 15:06in his part of England that was a
  432. 15:10similar way to their speaking
  433. 15:11what's up mean what ails you what what
  434. 15:15is wrong with you and so he got to this
  435. 15:17patient that was laying out on a bed
  436. 15:19there and and had on one of the little
  437. 15:21hospital gowns you know that has no
  438. 15:25buttons and buttons up in the back there
  439. 15:27was a doctor sitting there where there's
  440. 15:30a stuffed coops in his ears and
  441. 15:32listening to the man's heart beating and
  442. 15:33and and letting everybody know that he
  443. 15:36was the man was very near death and so
  444. 15:39when Smith was here and said what's up
  445. 15:41the doctor replied and said he is dying
  446. 15:44of cancer
  447. 15:44wiglesworth said where is it and they
  448. 15:47the doctor said in his stomach and and
  449. 15:50Smith Wigglesworth the pus were the most
  450. 15:52unusual person I've ever met in my life
  451. 15:55he wound up his hand and hit him for the
  452. 15:59cancer was in the stomach punched him so
  453. 16:02hard until the man died just like just
  454. 16:05his hands fell off the bed and the
  455. 16:08doctor screamed he's dead he's dead
  456. 16:11and he looked up and said you killed him
  457. 16:13you killed him
  458. 16:14the family will sue you you killed him
  459. 16:17mr. bigglesworth wasn't upset one bit he
  460. 16:20said he's illed
  461. 16:22and that's the way he would say you were
  462. 16:25healed he says he's healed he didn't you
  463. 16:28know he didn't pronounce HS he said he's
  464. 16:31healed and he didn't stop you know he
  465. 16:34just went on down the line pray about 10
  466. 16:37minutes later down the line here came
  467. 16:40the man walking he'd gotten up off that
  468. 16:43bed he had moved the doctor to one side
  469. 16:45and he was walking and that's that funny
  470. 16:48little hospital dress you know that
  471. 16:50comes along here like this and is open
  472. 16:52in the back and and here he was falling
  473. 16:54Smith Wigglesworth with his hands and
  474. 16:56his up in the air praising God he said I
  475. 17:00have no pain I feel wonderful inside I
  476. 17:03have energy that I had not had for I
  477. 17:06don't know how long and he was following
  478. 17:08him and as Smith Wigglesworth is so
  479. 17:11unusual he didn't turn around and say
  480. 17:13well thank God all praise God everybody
  481. 17:14looked at it to him it was such a usual
  482. 17:17thing he said well just thank God for it
  483. 17:19and he just went on praying for people
  484. 17:21hope you enjoy brother summer old
  485. 17:22talking about his experience with Smith
  486. 17:24Wigglesworth Smith Wigglesworth its wife
  487. 17:26died before he did many years before he
  488. 17:29did and then his life took off
  489. 17:31internationally and I think this is a
  490. 17:33great point to make about the life of
  491. 17:35wiglesworth is that when his wife went
  492. 17:38to be with the Lord he decided to get
  493. 17:41out of his house and out of his home and
  494. 17:43out of his city and go to the world when
  495. 17:46something happens in your life that is a
  496. 17:48setback or painful like the loss of a
  497. 17:51loved one you have to decide to go
  498. 17:53forward or sit there and grieve and
  499. 17:55reven grieve smith wigglesworth grieve
  500. 17:57for a moment he got up and said let's go
  501. 18:00forward and he begin to become the
  502. 18:01travelling wiglesworth he is known to go
  503. 18:04to South Africa
  504. 18:05he brought Pentecostal measures to New
  505. 18:06Zealand and Australia he came to America
  506. 18:08many times and so he got up and made the
  507. 18:12pain become a positive step so I'd like
  508. 18:15to make that application with you if
  509. 18:17you're going to do something that's
  510. 18:18challenging you're going through the
  511. 18:19loss of a loved one or a spouse grieve
  512. 18:22for that moment that's appropriate and
  513. 18:24right then get up and go do something
  514. 18:26bigger louder and larger and better make
  515. 18:29the devil pay for it and make your life
  516. 18:31clown unless my grandmother always said
  517. 18:33don't die until you're dead and so do
  518. 18:36something for God man and do it loud and
  519. 18:38do it bold in all the years that I have
  520. 18:41been researching and collecting things
  521. 18:43about Smith Wigglesworth there's one
  522. 18:45thing that I found that was very rare
  523. 18:47and I'm gonna show to the end of the
  524. 18:48show the only film sorted to Smith
  525. 18:50Wigglesworth that exists in the world I
  526. 18:52found I found it from a little lady that
  527. 18:54worked in a me some of a person's church
  528. 18:57she ran the bookstore and I saw a
  529. 19:00picture of a young girl with her father
  530. 19:02with a camera a moving camera and me and
  531. 19:05one of my friends begin to hunt down
  532. 19:07this woman and finally I found her she
  533. 19:09was in Los Angeles could not believe
  534. 19:11she's in Los Angeles and so I called up
  535. 19:13there and I went up there to see her and
  536. 19:15I asked you have any footage of
  537. 19:17wiglesworth she goes yes and I go can I
  538. 19:19have a copy of it she don't know it's
  539. 19:21for the family I said but he's part of
  540. 19:23the family who God we all like to see it
  541. 19:24so I had to wait for her to die for me
  542. 19:27to get the footage so I called every 6
  543. 19:29months she's still there she's still
  544. 19:31alive but in one day the answer was
  545. 19:33she'd gone to heaven
  546. 19:34and I called her family and I got the
  547. 19:36footage and I'm gonna show you that
  548. 19:38footage of the end of the program they
  549. 19:40took him in his house at 70 Victor Road
  550. 19:42in Bradford England you don't want to
  551. 19:43miss it now the other thing that I
  552. 19:45enjoyed doing about wiglesworth is
  553. 19:47finding all of his unpublished sermons I
  554. 19:50print a big thick book about 850 pages
  555. 19:52of them but here are some of the quotes
  556. 19:54I wrote them down so you don't hope you
  557. 19:55don't mind me reading them to get a feel
  558. 19:57of some of these statements
  559. 19:58wiglesworth would say like I said in the
  560. 20:00beginning of the show I'm a thousand
  561. 20:02times bigger on the inside than on the
  562. 20:04outside your spiritual capacity should
  563. 20:07always be bigger than
  564. 20:08your intellectual and physical capacity
  565. 20:10and you do that by praying and we're
  566. 20:13doing the word and and exercising your
  567. 20:15spirit to keep it strong all the time
  568. 20:17he also said fear looks at things faith
  569. 20:20jumps and takes them I like that
  570. 20:22statement he also said some people like
  571. 20:24to read the Bible in Hebrew some like
  572. 20:26that study it in Greek because I like to
  573. 20:28read it in the Holy Ghost which to me is
  574. 20:30a prime Wigglesworth quote that's how
  575. 20:33was worse odd he also said some live by
  576. 20:36what they see and what they hear but I
  577. 20:38don't live by what I see
  578. 20:39I don't live by what I hear but I live
  579. 20:41by what I believe that comes from the
  580. 20:43Word of God that's why we look worth was
  581. 20:45the way is and we can be the same way
  582. 20:48we'll base our life base our emotional
  583. 20:50feeling base our planning on what
  584. 20:52Shepherd verse says and not much here on
  585. 20:54the news from a friend or an unbelieving
  586. 20:57soul that's in the church so base what
  587. 20:59you believe on chapter and verse and
  588. 21:01stand on it because God will always keep
  589. 21:02his promises now we sometimes don't know
  590. 21:06about the critics of looks worth and yes
  591. 21:08he had critics anybody that obeys God
  592. 21:11and does something outside of the normal
  593. 21:13traditional boredom that they do all of
  594. 21:15the world that becomes acceptable
  595. 21:17Christianity he's going to have critics
  596. 21:19if you obey God and you step out of the
  597. 21:22borders of normal boring Christianity
  598. 21:24somebody probably close to you is gonna
  599. 21:27react and they beget upset at
  600. 21:29wiglesworth for you know abruptly
  601. 21:32punching somebody or shaking them and
  602. 21:34and they ask him one time we goes why
  603. 21:36are you so aggressive in the prayer
  604. 21:38lines he goes well I'm not aggressive he
  605. 21:41goes they go well you shake people you
  606. 21:44move their arms you yell at them and
  607. 21:45even hit some of them he goes I don't
  608. 21:47hit them I hit the devil they just get
  609. 21:49in the way and he kept on going so
  610. 21:51that's a bit of those worst humor Smith
  611. 21:54Wigglesworth I had critics as I said and
  612. 21:57he used to preach at him and say put
  613. 21:59down your umbrellas of pregnancy and
  614. 22:00enjoy the letter rain and I think maybe
  615. 22:03some of you watching me should do the
  616. 22:04same thing I think some of you preachers
  617. 22:06and some of the you that have been in
  618. 22:08church for a long time that have seen
  619. 22:09the good bad and the ugly of
  620. 22:11Christianity today I put up your
  621. 22:13umbrellas of prejudiced and doubt and
  622. 22:14disbelief and go no I don't want to
  623. 22:17Jesus till the same his words chill
  624. 22:19works but you're not letting the word
  625. 22:21the rain of the spirit get in your life
  626. 22:23too wet shoe and to call it the word to
  627. 22:25grow so I'll say what widows were said
  628. 22:27to his critics I'll say to you put down
  629. 22:29your umbrellas and enjoy the letter rain
  630. 22:32he also said wildfire is better than no
  631. 22:35fire you know sometimes when the move of
  632. 22:37God gets to going people make mistakes
  633. 22:39I've cited revival since I was twelve
  634. 22:41and a half years old and there's one
  635. 22:43thing for sure they'll be good things
  636. 22:44they'll be some bad things and there'll
  637. 22:47be some things you can call ugly things
  638. 22:48you know what they were but you solve it
  639. 22:50and so that happened that every move of
  640. 22:52God and so wildfire is better than no
  641. 22:54fire I'm gonna have people that are a
  642. 22:56little bit out of the ordinary a little
  643. 22:58bit emotionally hyper and then some
  644. 23:00people sit there and quiet and criticize
  645. 23:01and do nothing
  646. 23:02so you know a living person has sound a
  647. 23:05living person has movement and when
  648. 23:07nothing's alive there's no sound there's
  649. 23:10no movement and there's no need for
  650. 23:11money no need for food no need for air
  651. 23:13so you know if you're alive or not Mike
  652. 23:16your hunger by your desire and by
  653. 23:18movement when you walk into a church and
  654. 23:19there's no sound
  655. 23:20there's no hunger there's no liveliness
  656. 23:23there then leave that dead dumb thing
  657. 23:25and go someplace else where there is
  658. 23:26some liveliness I don't know why people
  659. 23:28when you were a sinner you went to the
  660. 23:30wildest disco the wildest club that was
  661. 23:33packed out so loud the music was that
  662. 23:35you need to scream to the person in
  663. 23:36front of you and you call it fun you say
  664. 23:38that at 2 or 3 o'clock at night but when
  665. 23:40you got saved
  666. 23:41you chose the quietness the most boring
  667. 23:44thing and counting call it church that's
  668. 23:45where you go forget that go to the
  669. 23:47church has got lively music strong
  670. 23:49preaching got a mission going somewhere
  671. 23:51that's where God is I've learned in my
  672. 23:53life that most of the places that are
  673. 23:55being criticized by religious people
  674. 23:57that's because God has gone there and
  675. 23:59God is doing something and creating the
  676. 24:01dead people's criticism because life is
  677. 24:03there Wigglesworth created like wherever
  678. 24:05he went he made this statement to if the
  679. 24:07Spirit of God is not moving then I move
  680. 24:10him when I first read that I thought
  681. 24:12what does he mean by that
  682. 24:13it almost sounds arrogant in a way if
  683. 24:16the Spirit of God is not moving then I'm
  684. 24:18leaving
  685. 24:18well when you actually investigate what
  686. 24:21do you want on to say what he meant was
  687. 24:23if the Spirit of God is not moving I
  688. 24:25know what makes this great God knew just
  689. 24:27where God lives by faith so I'll walk
  690. 24:29out there on the water or I'll release
  691. 24:31my faith and the sweeter gotta move to
  692. 24:33answer my faith based on the chapter in
  693. 24:34verse
  694. 24:35and so that's what he meant if
  695. 24:36something's not happening because we're
  696. 24:38not believing we're not standing out
  697. 24:40beyond our intellect or our comfort zone
  698. 24:42he said so if it's not moving I'm gonna
  699. 24:44step out there where God has to come so
  700. 24:47I want to make sure that we live in a
  701. 24:48day which signs wonders and miracles are
  702. 24:50happening in your life to you and
  703. 24:52through you and in your church the world
  704. 24:55needs a day new churches that men like
  705. 24:57wiglesworth helped found years ago they
  706. 24:59brought over the birth is still the god
  707. 25:00of the day and we need to have that kind
  708. 25:03of boldness that kind of ruthlessness
  709. 25:04toward the devil and love for people
  710. 25:08[Music]
  711. 26:21[Music]
  712. 26:39[Music]

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