The Most Beautiful Girl in the World Part 3

I see very little spiritual hunger. Second, I see very little desire to have someone come who will walk out and leave you on your own. And the third one was, I wonder what the third one was. Well, okay, I do want to make that point, and that is when ministry is the center of the church, and it is, and the ministry is taken away, or it gets so deathly dead, and we’re all amateurs out here in our world. Do you know that? We’re amateurs? Really gets bad. And the last one is the centrality of Jesus Christ. And this is simply not anything that anyone knows. And then to talk about the centrality of Christ and having experiential spiritual experience just leaves us hopeless.

Now, I’ve been with you for less than 24 hours, or about 24 hours. And I realize that many of you don’t have the foggiest idea what I said. That’s okay. But did you hear what you heard tonight? Now, I didn’t say that; you did. And I’m here to say that I believe that what you heard tonight is about 150 years ahead of almost anything you’ll hear in a pulpit tomorrow anywhere on this planet. I’m waiting for a tiny little amen.

All right, think about it. You heard something different. The tone was different. The source was different. You have no idea the capacity of this girl. I believed in her, and I gambled on her, and I really wish some other people would just believe what I’m about to say. I can go into a town among a group of Christians who are willing and I can talk to them a little bit about the Lord Jesus Christ and they just get whoa, woo, you know, and then I can take a little time and show them how to touch Him, which I have not done here this weekend, but I have shown you a little bit about how to see her, not to touch her or him, but in seeing her, you have become her in reality.

Now, if you see Him, there’s no end to what happens, and to take a group of Christians who are total amateurs and don’t know zilch about the New Testament, and just barely get them off the ground, and then walk out and leave them without elders or ministers or anything else, and you watch that girl come forth.

Now, I’m not going to have much chance for you to see beyond what you saw here in the mouths of four or five or six or seven people, but I can tell you what I have seen. I’ve seen this go on for weeks, and I’ve seen it get so deep and so rich that I’m sitting there taking notes. I don’t know what these people are talking about because this is beyond my understanding or insight into the Lord Jesus Christ. And I have seen and heard things that are not lawful for men to hear and see from the mouths of people who are new Christians because the veil has been lifted, and they have seen things eternal. And as you see her, you just more and more become her. And I can’t explain that, but you see Him first. And I need to make that point really clear.

I have seen brothers and sisters go on like this through a whole book, go back over it again and over it again, and it doesn’t stop giving. It just keeps on. And sometimes in meetings so holy, and sometimes I have literally sat outside with the door open and listened, where nobody even knew I was present, and heard things that would make angels envious, from God’s simple people, for they have touched Him. But that’s not all. As brother Jim pointed out, did you see the enormous variety of her expression? Did you see that girl for just a minute here tonight, folks? She was in your midst for just a moment. And she is so versatile and endless in the variety of her expression. I cannot communicate to you. On your own, on their own, on your own, I’ve seen brothers and sisters write songs that are as beautiful as any that have ever been written and sung with tears.

I have watched the Lord’s people spontaneously get down on their knees and worship Him. I have seen the brothers and sisters create plays depicting what you have heard tonight from the mouths of these brothers and sisters and put on in front of a huge audience of 15, 20, and 25 and break the hearts of everyone present. And I would go on – songs, worship, praying, praying that does not take place on this earth.

Consider the praying that most of us have heard, the tragedy of it, the pity of it, the outright downright pitifulness of it, the pathos of it. And then to hear brothers and sisters praying prayers that are not their own coming from their lips that do that they are not their own and they’re not prayed on earth, and they’re not centered on human beings, and they’re not expressing need, but they are prayed in other realms before other audiences, and you just can barely bear it. But it’s your right because part of you belongs to another realm.

The singing, the praying, the sharing, the drama, the ministry. And if you don’t know this, I just quoted 1 Corinthians, and the people who didn’t even know. Some had a song. Some had a psalm, some had a prayer, and some had a word. Because it was organic, not forced. It literally came out of her bowels. It came out of her DNA. It is natural for her to do these things. This is what I mean by an organic expression of the church. And it’s a real nice feeling to call somebody up and say, “Well, listen, I stop, I make a two-day layover with y’all if you want, I’m on my way somewhere else.” And the answer is, “Sure, come on if you want to.” Instead of, “Oh, yeah, we haven’t had any ministry. Nobody’s preached in weeks, and we’re just in terrible shape. Oh, please come. We really need ministry.” Yeah, come on. Drop by if you want to. You don’t know how that does my heart.

The infinite variety of the expression of the body of Christ, and then one day you have to drop back and say, That’s the most beautiful girl in the world, and when you’re in her midst, this is the kind of talk you hear. This is informal stuff; I’m not leaving here for nothing. Boy, do I love this place. I hate these people, and I love them with all my heart. Somebody’s coming by here in a few days, but they don’t really understand that if they come here, they’re probably going to be here forever. And it could go on and on and on. And I didn’t do this, and I didn’t convince them that we are the last great work of God on earth, and that I am the prophet mentioned in Revelation, the prophet from the east. Nor have I told them that they are somebody special.

What we have done is see Him and then touch Him, and then you have been left to function. And sometimes you drag, it’s pitiful. But one day, one day it sparks and you say, ‘Gene, did not show me this, God taught me this. Now I see with my own eyes and hear with my own ears.’ Most of you I’ve never seen before in my life, and I realize some of you are sitting here, boy, I hope nobody sees my notes that I wrote after this. And several of you have said you didn’t have the foggiest idea what I was talking about in the two messages that I have brought. But you don’t have to understand what I’m talking about. You have a spirit who knows, and she catches on. As I have told several people, I spent two months at a four-month conference in Eastern Europe. I ministered for two months and then I left.

Now you’ve never been in a conference and where the guy was in charge of the conference got up and left the conference went on for two more months with people who were there who knew absolutely nothing about the Lord when they first arrived and the last two months was far greater than the first two months and it was in a big house and they ran that house and they ran that house with my without my instruction or without rules or regulations. But my point is that I sat there and talked to them and watched them move like this, until they were down here instead of up here. And it really happens, and folks, this is not something I do. It is not me that does this. And I have sat in those meetings in Eastern Europe with people who don’t know me and some who had to listen through a translator, sit down, not with notebooks, and they didn’t. And they sat down and they shared with one another things beyond my understanding which the Lord had shown them. And it wasn’t like it was some big ordeal or that it took forever.