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Turn to Isaiah and from there we will progress. As far as I can tell, this entire seminar is going
to be on the gospel of peace. This will be a new series because we’ve never done an entire
series on the gospel of peace but it looks as though that’s the direction it’s going and it is vitally
important. As we shared last night, you’re not going to find the gospel of peace accepted or
believed by the evangelical Christian community. They still believe there’s an angry God. In
fact, they won’t let go of an angry God and they get angry if you say God’s not angry. So, it’s
kind of a mad cycle that we get caught in here. However, the gospel of peace as I’ve shared
with you last night, was the very foundation of the process I went through to where I am now
which may scare everybody off from believing the gospel of peace altogether.
The Gospel of Peace is the other side of the coin of what Paul called the Gospel. There were
two things that he declared to be the Gospel; the Gospel of Peace and the Gospel of the Grace
of God. The Gospel of Peace is the cessation of all hostility between God and man. The
Gospel of Peace does not imply that it is the gospel of tranquility in the heart (which that is a
wonderful thing to have but that’s not the gospel)…tranquility in your heart. It’s the Gospel of
Good News; cessation of all hostility. The war is over between God and man.

And of course the Gospel of the Grace of God which that grace is very, very powerful in that it
destroys all other religious concepts and that is the basic understanding that even the Christian
community accepts and that is that God’s grace is undeserved and unmerited favor with God.
It’s favor with God that you don’t deserve. Yet listen to most of our testimonies about what we
did to get God to do things. Underserved and then unmerited, somehow we deserve it and then
somehow there are these works and things that cause us to merit things with God. I used to
teach that doctrine. I taught it for over 15 years.
Talk about a strange situation. You’re standing up and you’re seeing things like the gospel of
peace and the gospel of grace in the word and you’re teaching these works doctrines and your
heart and mind are screaming at you while you’re telling people things that aren’t right. Well, I
went through that for a long time and it is a very bizarre thing to go through. I’m standing here
arguing with my own heart and mind while I’m telling you things that I don’t even believe.
But it was things I was trained in so thoroughly, that I could not even believe my own heart. I
couldn’t even believe the very things that were coming to my own heart. I was so indoctrinated
that when a thought of the goodness of God would come, it was like no! This can’t be that
way.
Now I know that many of you, in fact all of you, have probably gone through that process. It’s
been an incredible thing to have a loving merciful Savior in our heart and a mean
condescending judgmental doctrine in our head. Have you ever been in that controversy with
yourself? You know! You’re in a situation and your heart says that all this mercy and love
could come out of you. But bless God! There’s this doctrine that says BLESS GOD! You
have to do this and bless God, it has to be that way. That was always a very difficult thing for
me because I thought in my head this is what I was supposed to do but in my heart there was
this loving Savior. If he had dealt with me the way I had dealt with people, he would have
gotten rid of me a long time before that.
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In the book of Romans…..one of the beautiful parts of the entire book of Romans is that Paul is
teaching primarily out of the prophets. He is teaching from the prophets. This isn’t Paul’s own
teaching. This is his teachings out of the Psalms and out of the law and out of the prophets.
And he’s teaching here what this here meant. He’s not coming up with a new doctrine. He is
not coming up with something new. He’s quoting what Isaiah said. He’s quoting Ezekiel.
He’s quoting Daniel. He quotes the Psalms. He quotes the law. But he quotes it in the context
now of this incredibly new and different covenant that we have that God has established for us
in Jesus Christ.
Anything in Romans is absolutely wonderful but listen here at his declaration and you’ll see
why we’re going to read this verse because he defining something that we’re going to go back
and look at. So we’ll have Paul’s definition of this statement and then we’ll go back to that
chapter in the book of Isaiah.
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And how
then shall they call on him whom they have not believed and how shall they believe on him
whom they’ve not heard. And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they
preach except they be sent. As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things.
Now here we have Paul specifically addressing the gospel of peace. And he said something
very interesting here. Romans 10:15 He said, “How beautiful are the feet of them that
preach the gospel of peace.”
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In the book of Ephesians 6:11 Paul is telling us about the armor of God that we have. The
armor of God is not something that you get up and put on every morning. How many of you
went through that back in….Well I put on my helmet. I put on my gospel shoes. I put on the
breastplate. Well, Jesus is the armor of God. If you’ve got on Christ you’ve got on the armor
of God as Isaiah prophesied and spoke of the fact that he would be our shield. He would be our
sword. He would be all of these things to us. He would be a breastplate of righteousness for
us. So this is not something that you get up every day and put on and then go out and do
warfare. It’s something that you have in Christ so that you can live your day. You can walk
through this day without being a weird Christian. However, we use them to become weird
Christians; you know really bizarre strange people.
You say well Paul said God had called him a peculiar people. Peculiar and weird are two
different things. All right! What’s peculiar about you? The thing that is peculiar about you is
that you have not changed enough to be righteous, yet you are. The other thing that is peculiar
about you is that God should have killed you a long time ago and he hasn’t. That’s really
peculiar. You are a totally different people now.
In the Old Testament we read about God getting angry with people because they didn’t
measure up to the law and they disobeyed and were rejected by God. Then when they did sin,
God said he was going to punish them and wipe out their whole generation and many more
statements like that.
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But you’re a very peculiar people you see. While you were yet sinners, Christ died for the
ungodly. You’re very peculiar because without doing “right”, you’ve become righteous.
You’re very peculiar because when you do wrong or you are a human being, God doesn’t count
it against you. He doesn’t mark it against you any more at all. And with that, you can’t get
more peculiar. You can get weirder than that, especially if you don’t know this. You can get
really weird trying to gain God’s favor, trying to be spiritual and trying to be externally
spiritual. Folks! External spirituality is not something that is very pleasant. It really divides
people. The only thing that I count spiritual about myself is the fact that I’ve declared to be
righteous by the power of the blood of Jesus and that when I do wrong, it is not counted against
me. There is nothing more spiritual about me than that.
In fact, when I go to the gym to work out, the last thing in the world that I do is admit that I am
a Bible teacher. I never let anybody know that I’m a Bible teacher. I totally deny it. No! That
wasn’t me. Uh Uh (chuckle) Because people are so used to this external Christianity and the
performance mode that the moment they find out that you are a minister…You know I go to the
gym, work out and then go sit in the steam room for a little while. And in a little bit, somebody
will say, “How ya doing and how’s the day going. Where you from? I can tell from your
accent that you’re not from around here.” And I say, “Yeah, I notice your accent is a little
weird too.” But one of the things that comes up is…and what can you say? “Well what do you
do for a living?” “I’m a motivational speaker.” I never let them know that I’m a minister
because the very moment I say, “Well I’m a Bible teacher, minister or a Christian”, it’s like this
very nice person that was sitting there carrying on a conversation all of a sudden says, “Oh!
It’s getting a little hot in here. I think I better get out.” (laugh) I get really tired of aborting
every possible friendship that I could ever have because I do what I do. I don’t feel like I’m
lying because I feel like I motivate you pretty well. (the audience affirms that) Al right!
Thank you for clarifying my lying. (chuckle)
He says, how beautiful are the feet of them…remember in Ephesians about the full armor of
God…here he says are the feet of them that preach this Gospel of Peace. He didn’t say Gospel
of Healing. There is no Gospel of Healing. There is no Gospel of Prosperity. Oh those things
are talked about but they are not the Gospel.
There are only two things called the Gospel. And in the book of Ephesians when he’s talking
about the armor of God, he says that our feet are shod with the preparation of the Gospel of
Peace. And here he says how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of them that preach the
Gospel of Peace.
So, you’re going to be setting through an entire session, during this time that I have with you
over the weekend, with someone that has beautiful feet. Now I don’t know about the rest of me
but I know that my feet, in God’s eyes, are absolutely beautiful because he says, “How
beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel.” One thing that I’ve learned about The
Gospel of Peace is that if you’re going to preach it, you will be preaching against a standard
that is widely accepted and believed in the Christian community, all the way from Catholicism
to almost every branch and breed of Protestants and definitely every other religion on the face
of the earth.
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It seems to me to be a shame that this particular Christian doctrine of an angry God who is just
about…he’s fed up, he’s just about ready to wipe everybody out…you may have gotten by with
it so long but eventually it’s going to catch up with you, that this doctrine fits real well into all
other religions in the world.
But there is the Gospel of Peace. There are questions that people bring up that are legitimate
but I’m telling you that this was prophesied too strongly, taught about too strongly to take one
verse out of context somewhere and say…well what about this…there’s no answer for this so it
can’t be true.
He says, “How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad
tidings of good things but they have not all obeyed the Gospel.” What does it mean to obey the
Gospel? The Gospel is good news. How do you obey good news? The term obey, in the New
Testament, actually is synonymous with the term belief. It is not something that you do. It is
simply belief.
He said, Romans 10:16 “But they have not all believed the gospel.” Which Gospel has not
everybody believed? It’s the Gospel of Peace. How many of you can occur with the writer of
Romans, that not everyone believes that God’s not angry? Not everyone has believed this
report.
Isaiah 53:1 He says for Isaiah saith, “Lord, who hath believed our report?” And what was
the report; that God was going to declare peace with the entire world. And he says….who has
believed this report? Now we’re going to go back to this chapter and read that entire chapter
and then tonight, we’re going to go through the chapter that follows that one. You will see, this
is not a sideline issue. This is not a verse out of context doctrine. Most denominations, in fact
all denominations that I know of in America, are built on one verse. It’s a one verse
denominational belief. If you go to a Pentecostal church, it’s Acts 2: 38. If you go to the
Church of Christ, it’s the great commission and that you must be baptized along with accepting
Christ to be saved. You go to a word of faith church, it’s Mark 11:22,23. If you go to the
Baptist Church, it’s John 3:16. They’re all based on one verse. They’re not based on the
Gospel of Peace and the Gospel of the Grace of God.
Folks, you can take a verse out of context, and totally miss the Gospel altogether. Those verses
that we pull out of context, we need to read them in context. And if they declare to us the
Gospel of Peace and the Gospel of Grace, then we are understanding them. Why would God
give us the Gospel of Peace and the Gospel of Grace and then give us verses that disagree with
it? There aren’t any that disagree with it. Those verses that seem not to fall in place are taken
out of context.
He says, “But they have not all obeyed the gospel. Isaiah says, “Lord, who hath believed our
report?
Romans 10:17 Now, you’ve heard this verse a lot but you’ve never heard it quoted right. This
is how you’ve heard verse 17 quoted. “The Bible says faith cometh by hearing and hearing by
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the word.” That is not what it says. Is it! What does it say? So then…faith cometh by
hearing and hearing by the word of God. So then, how can you be a person of faith? There is
a perquisite to saying, “I walk by faith.” What is walking by faith? What is walking by faith?
Well, I’ve got a headache and so well….I’m not going to take Tylenol. Is that walking by
faith? You see, because we have not accepted these things in context, we come up with these
bizarre things that are external expressions of faith or we think that they are something that is
making us spiritual or separate from the world. We don’t go to the doctor. We write checks
when we don’t have money in the bank…by faith of course.
You may not have been in some of these groups and think that we were all really weird. We’ve
got some of our friends here from the Worldwide Church of God and they think that the Word
of Faith folk are really weird. How many people from the Worldwide Church of God do we
have in here today? All right! All these people have been in or were in the Worldwide Church
of God and we sat and talked….I think it was in Calgary actually. I had a group of Worldwide
Church of God friends and a group of Word of Faith friends and my Worldwide Church of God
friends had never heard Word of Faith doctrine. So my Word of Faith friends began to say all
the things we had to do…you know you have to confess this…you can’t say this. And if you
say I’m sick, you get rebuked and on and on and on. And the guys from the Worldwide Church
of God was saying, “Man! That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard. How did you guys ever fall
for that? That is weird.”
Then my friends from the Worldwide Church of God started telling us about the feast of
unleavened bread and how that they had to remove the dashboards off of their car to vacuum
out the crumbs just in case there was a little bit of dough got down the back of the dashboard
when you stopped at McDonalds. You had to remove that. You had to clean the whole house
and pull out all the cushions cause there could be some leavened bread somewhere in the
house. They talked about that like…that was just normal stuff. And the Word of Friends said,
“Oh my gosh! How could you have been so stupid to do something like that?” Well you see.
If you start doing stupid things with the whole group, it doesn’t seem stupid any more. It
doesn’t seem stupid when everybody’s acting the same way. You know! You get with kids.
And it’s mob mentality. That’s what it’s called. You get with a bunch of kids that are all
acting the same way when as individuals, they themselves would not act the same way. Who in
the world would dye their hair..pink on one side…green on the other and have a long purpose
ponytail hanging down from that? You know! It’s nobody! But you get a group together that
does that, and it’s “Hey! We’re cool. We’re with it. This is where it’s happening.” But boy!
Would they ever feel out of place if they ever got around a group of people who know what
“cool” is. And that’s a shaved head. (chuckle)
Romans 10:17 It says, “So then….Once a person understands the Gospel of Peace; once you
know God is not angry….So then…..faith cometh by hearing. Hearing what; The Gospel of
Peace! So what is a walk of faith? A Walk of faith is walking through this life knowing that
God isn’t angry! Folks, the Christian community is not walking by faith because they believe
there is an angry God who is ready to pounce on them…or if not them……definitely on the
people that dare to disagree with them. Bless God! But it never works out that way. There are
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always excuses and cover stories and we have to redo it and revamp it and repackage it because
it just doesn’t happen that way.
Romans 10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth
and their words unto the ends of the world.
Romans 10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to
jealousy by them that are no people and by a foolish nation, I will anger you. (speaking to the
Jews)
Romans 10:20 But Isaias is very bold and saith, I was found of them that sought me not.
How many of you know that the whole Christian community is based on you trying to find
Jesus? You’ve got to seek after Him. Folks! That was God’s direction to the Jews. Seek the
Lord while He maybe found. Call on Him while He is near. Well they didn’t do that. So what
did God do? God said, “Well I’m going to go find me a people that never sought for me at all.”
That’s you. I was found of them that sought me not. Oh! Incredible! He said, this is what the
new covenant is going to be. I will be found by people who don’t look for me.
Romans 10:20 He says…I was made manifest for those who never asked for me. Boy! That
blows away a whole lot of evangelical doctrine real quickly there.
Now turn with me back to the book of Isaiah. I wanted to read that in Paul’s teaching. I want
to go back to the actual chapter where Paul took that teaching from. And that is Isaiah 53.
Now remember he said…who hath believed our report. And what was the report about? God
isn’t angry any more. That was Isaiah’s report…the Gospel of Peace was the report that Isaiah
had.
Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report? Remember we just read that in the book of
Romans! Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We just
read that too. Who does God reveal himself to? It is to those that don’t look for him or ask for
him.
That always bugged me because I watched that happen. I watched Christians get real intense
saying, “I’m seeking God. I’ve got to find God. Man! I’m going to do everything. I’m going
to fast. I’m going to pray.” And then some guy out on the job…you know….that never
thought about God…he’s in the bar and all of a sudden…wow…Jesus loves me. And you’ve
got some Christian at home that’s been fasting at home for 60 days trying to figure it out.
Some guy sitting at the bar drinking a beer gets a revelation. Jesus loves me! (chuckle) You
say, “Well now we’ve got Mike Williams version of evangelism. Go to the bar, have a beer
and you’ll get a revelation of Jesus.
Well we might as well say it because that’s what they’re going to say it any way. (chuckle)
Then he says in this prophesy about Jesus. What is this all about? It’s all about Jesus. It’s not
about today. It’s not about tomorrow. It’s not about a future prophesy. It’s all about Jesus.
It’s all about the cross.
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Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry
ground: he hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that
we should desire him.
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed him not.
Now, we’ve been given a full description of Jesus and now he’s going to go into some detail as
to what this actually means.
Isaiah 53:4 Surely he hath born our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.
Now, when we read this and it said he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows….again we must
keep in mind what he’s talking about. How many of you were taught, as I was taught, and as I
taught for 15 years, we were talking about daily lifetime experiences and circumstances? How
many of you have experienced griefs and sorrows since you have come to know Christ? You
know! We tried to tell you, we tried to preach to you….oh well, Jesus bore that grief. He bore
that sorrow. You don’t have to go through that.
And so we wound up with people going to funerals laughing and acting like…hey you
know…whoopee…everything’s great…hallelujah…I’m a Christian or everything’s okay….hey
they’re dead…so what! Jesus bore my griefs! And people wondered about you. It was
like…wow! You know! But you see, we get our minds so geared to think that way. And we
think that is what those scriptures mean. We’re so sincere and desirous to identify with God
and to identify with the Gospel or with people. So we act as though there is no grief. There is
no sorrow. So, what is that? It’s called denial.
Modern day Christianity is not a revelation of the Gospel. It is an exercise in denial and the
denial will catch up with you eventually. All of these things, these emotions and thoughts that
you’ve shoved back…you can’t feel and you can’t think, you can’t confess that you’re feeling
and thinking this way. You can’t think that way. You can’t feel that way. Your emotions are
repressed and suppressed. And suddenly one day, you blow up! And folks, it’s not a healthy
thing. Modern day Christianity in most of its form is creating more mental and emotional
illness than anything that I know of in the North American society. It is creating mental illness
because we are not people who process and resolve things. We are people who deny the very
circumstances that we are in. Jesus was supposed to have born all of our griefs and carried all
of our sorrows. Now! Does that mean this is not true? No! It means we have to read it in
context. We’ve got to read it in context.
Folks, after I was here with you this last time, a situation happened at home that held incredible
grief, incredible grief! Now if I would have tried to have suppressed that, it would have at
some point come back on me and created things within me like not being able to deal with
circumstances in my life in the long run. But instead, thank God, I knew that Jesus was there
with me. That was the wonderful thing. The wonderful thing was that I knew that Jesus didn’t
do this. I knew that he had declared peace with me. And I knew that whatever this was, that it
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wasn’t something that I had done wrong, or my daughter had done wrong or somebody had
done wrong. Who sinned? Was it this man’s daughter or whatever. I knew those things had
nothing to do with it. There was grief connected to it. But you know time helped resolve the
grief.
Instead of working through the problem, you go into denial and do not face your feelings or
emotions. You are eventually going to have mental and emotional problems and you won’t
even know where they’ve come from. But they come through these suppressed things, trying
to be a good Christian; trying to be a good person, trying to be people who do not have grief.
We’re happy Christians! Jesus bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. Oh! Oh Mom died!
How ‘bout that! She’s gone on to heaven. Praise God! She’s in a better place. Folks! That
sounds like an exaggeration but I’ve actually heard that and seen that in some Christian circles.
It’s absolutely incredible.
What did he do? He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. What griefs and what sorrows?
Yet we did esteem him stricken and smitten of God and afflicted. This contains the
understanding…all in this one verse. What was the grief about? What was the sorrows about?
It was all of the things that the grief and sorrow of alienation, separation, punishment, fear and
dread of an angry God; we saw him go through this grief. We ascribed it as his grief…that was
going on. But it wasn’t. He was bearing our griefs and our sorrows but we thought he was
suffering at God’s hands.
Remember! They stood at the cross and said…..well obviously, God’s not saving the man!
This punishment is coming and he’s not being saved from this punishment whatsoever. But we
didn’t know that it was our grief. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and
afflicted….and he was but not for his own sin. It was not for his own fault. He was wounded
for our transgressions. Where do these griefs and sorrows come from? Is it a death of a
relative or a loss of your job? We’re not talking about dead relatives or loss of a job. We’re
talking about alienation from God through transgression to the law. It’s a feeling of separation
and the horrible feeling of being divided and separated from God almighty. This is the grief
and sorrow. These are the things they were dealing with especially through the prophet Isaiah’s
years of feelings that they couldn’t measure up; didn’t measure up. This was a constant grief
and a constant sorrow.
Paul told Timothy, “Listen! God’s not given you a spirit of fear because fear has torment.”
The term torment there means the dread of punishment but of power and of love and a sound
mind. Now do you see that difference? What is that….power, and of love and a sound mind.
That is mentally and emotionally healthy. Why are you mentally and emotionally healthy?
Because you know God’s not angry with you. Folks! Mental Illness! I spent 6 terms in mental
institutions and lock up wards. I know what the thought process is of the people in there. They
either believe that they have done something so wrong that God has turned them away or that
God is so angry with them, they dread the fear and the punishment of God so much they don’t
know what to do with it. It creates mental and emotional instability inside. Oh it’s not the
answer to everything. There are chemical imbalances. There are things that can go wrong. Let
me tell you! Our mental institutions in America are filled with people who have been raised
and trained in Christianity…not in Buddhism. They have been raised and trained in
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Christianity that there is this God, this exacting God who is offering out rewards for good
people and punishment for bad people. That will create mental and emotional instability.
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities
and the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed.
Did he say, the chastisement of tranquility in our hearts? No! The chastisement of our
declaration of our peace with God was upon him. Folks! It’s a horrible thing to say that God is
angry because you’re saying that the chastisement of our peace was not upon Jesus. Jesus
didn’t do the job God sent him to do. Jesus did not do the very thing he said he accomplished.
And with his stripes we are healed. Oh! This has caused so much confusion. Folks! There
has been no mention of anything physical in any of this context. By his stripes we are healed.
We’re healed from what? We have been healed from the punishment, anger, wrath and the
things inflicted upon us from God. By the stripes that he took upon him….we say…oh well
that was for physical. Those stripes that Jesus took on himself in context was the chastisement
that he took for our iniquities, for our transgressions and with his stripes we have been healed
from all of that. To think otherwise carries great torment; dread and fear of punishment from
God. You say, “Well you don’t believe in healing.” Let me tell you something. God can heal
anybody he wants to but I’m telling you that this verse out of context….everything here is
absolutely factual and without exception, has been fulfilled. You nor anyone else has
experienced his anger or wrath or his chastisement or his judgment because by his stripes we
are healed.
Yet we take it out of context and preach it as a physical healing to charismatic people and
suddenly, we eventually get to where none of us really believe the promise of God. He said, by
his stripes we were healed, so why are we sick? Why did we pray so long and God never did
anything? It says by his stripes we are healed. Then you get told, “Well if you really believe,
it’ll happen.” And then you really believe as much as you possibly can believe and it still
doesn’t happen.
So what’s the conclusion? You’re either mad at God because he doesn’t fulfill his promises but
that’s usually not the direction that it will turn. The direction that it will usually turn is that you
have not obeyed, prayed, or done enough to get God to do what he needs to do for your life. If
you would just tithe more, if you would give more, if you would commit more, if you would
pray more, if you would worship more, if you would meditate more: There’s something that
you’re not doing enough of.
And then in the World of Faith movement, because of this teaching in this realm, we have a
great revelation. We preach that this healing that Jesus took upon him meant everybody was
supposed to be health, and rich. Then after we affirmed that…#1 We affirmed something that
you cannot conclusively draw to a point of saying it’s fact. I know where the illusions to that
are. I’ve taught it myself. So then we came up with this great doctrine. Man! I tell you! We
were smart and we figured something out. So we said…okay by his stripes we were healed.
Jesus has healed everybody. He’s already done it. He’s paid the price for physical healing.
Then we said, if you’re not healed, guess what? There’s nothing wrong with God. There’s
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nothing wrong with his word. So guess where the problem is! So where did it all go? It went
right back on you. And we were the very ones that he died for so that he could take it off of us.
And religion turned right around and put it all back on you. Folks, it’s a strange thing to say
that you’re the problem when Paul quoted Isaiah and said…I’m going to make a people mine
who aren’t a people at all and there are people who have never sought after me that is going to
be my people and a people who never ask at all…they are going to be the people of God.
So we had a great revelation in the Word of Faith movement. There’s nothing wrong with
God. Isn’t that a great revelation? (chuckle) We figured it out. Man! Give us some credit.
After long hours of study, we figured out….there’s nothing wrong with God. I don’t think that
we should have had to study so long to find out there’s nothing wrong with God. Folks, the
great revelation is not under this covenant that there’s nothing wrong with God. The great
revelation is that in God’s eyes, there’s nothing wrong with you! And that does take a
revelation especially for you when you know all of your faults. You know all of your failures.
You know all your shortcomings. But folks, that’s where this Gospel is so powerful. You
know God should be angry with you. You know your deeds don’t measure up. You know that
God should have abandoned you. You know that he should have. But the most incredible
thing is that even though you know that you do not deserve him to be there, he said, “I’ll never
leave you nor forsake you.”
Folks, the glory of this Gospel is not that I feel that I’ve measured u p to the law. The glory of
this Gospel is the knowledge that I have not measured up to God’s law but Jesus has gifted me
with God’s righteousness and holiness. I am holy and righteous and perfect and faultless and
without blame because of the blood of Jesus Christ. Oh! I can turn to so many laws….you
know….I love finding the places that says that I’m an abomination to God. I love finding
them. Wow! There’s another one. Look at that law. That law says I’m disqualified. Look at
this one. This one says I’m disqualified.
Because of the glorious revelation of the new covenant, he said, “And everybody who I said
was not my people, they shall be called the people of God.”
(I Peter 2: 10) Which in time past were not a people but are now the people of God, which
had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
Folks, I don’t get my fulfillment and my intense belief and knowing that I belong to God
because of my obedience to the law. I get my intense belief and knowing by finding all the
laws I don’t measure up to. The new covenant says that God will take a people who don’t
measure up and he would make them his people.
I rejoice every day. I don’t measure up. That means I can know that I am “the people of God”
because God says the people that would be his, would be the ones that he used to say were not
his. And he put no requirement on me in that. That’s a little different view of the law. Huh!
It’s fantastic. It’s so wonderful to be able to look at those laws and say…look at that…I’m
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guilty of that one…look at that one. Jesus said if you even think about it you deserve hell.
Wow! Isn’t that wonderful! Look at all this that the law says I deserve and because of Jesus,
I’m never going to get what I deserve.
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Every place I find that I am disqualified, do you know what
it means? That’s where I find the confidence that I am qualified. Well you say, “What do you
need?” Well you need plenty of weaknesses to be able to have confidence. You say, “Well
now he’s teaching we should develop weaknesses.” I don’t think I need to teach you that you
need to develop the weaknesses. I think you have plenty to go on for the rest of your lifetime.
Christianity produces fakes and phonies because we believe that we have to measure up to a
certain standard and none of us do but we act like it. We fake it. I got tired of being a fake. I
got tired of being a phony. I attempted suicide three times before I was 21 years old. Why?
Was it because of my great sins? I thought that was why. I finally figured out later, after I
learned the Gospel, the reason I attempted suicide three times is because I loved Jesus with all
my heart.
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I tried to kill myself three times because I loved Jesus with all of my heart and the Baptist
church told me that every time I sinned, I was crucifying Jesus all over again. I loved him too
much to do that to do that to him so I decided I’d rather die than hurt Jesus any more.
Folks, I’ve watched the pain that Christianity has brought out. I’m reminded of a young man
that I went to see when I was called in…lets see…this has been 15 years ago. God! I wished I
had more of the Gospel in me at that time. This young man was 14 or 15 years old. He was in
his bedroom. The parents were very concerned about him. He had attended a Christian school.
He has learned everything that there was to learn about; what to do, what not to do. He learned
what God wanted, what God didn’t want; what he’s pleased with and what he’s not pleased
with; what God accepts, what God rejects. He had been taught that by your words you shall be
justified and by your words you shall be condemned. You say, “Oh yeah, Bro. Mike! What
about that!” Let me tell you something. Jesus taught that when he was expounding on the law.
I am not justified by the words that come out of my mouth. I am justified by the blood of Jesus
Christ. Jesus nullified that law. I’m not justified by blood AND my words. It used to be that I
was judged by everything I did and everything I said. But now, I am justified only, by the
blood of the lamb.
I walked into this bedroom. The parents took me in there and there was this handsome 14 year
old boy laying there in the bed. He had the sheets pulled all the way up around his neck and as
he was laying there, he had his hand stretched across his mouth. I tried to communicate with
him. He wouldn’t respond at all.
I said, “What is this? Why is he doing this?” They told me why he was doing it. They said he
was living under such guilt and he was trying so hard to be right with God, that he held his
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hand over his mouth because he was afraid everything he said was offending God. I tried my
best to talk to him. I went away.
Two weeks later, they called me (the parents) and said that he was in the hospital. He had sat
in youth groups and heard about the evils of masturbation and the evils of everything under the
sun; how evil sexuality was. They noticed that he was getting pale. They noticed he was
becoming anemic and they didn’t know why. And finally he collapsed. They took him to the
hospital. He had a towel wrapped around him and found several bloody towels for he had
emasculated himself. He thought the only way he could stop what he was doing was to
emasculate himself. Folks! This was a young man who took the preaching and teaching he
heard seriously.
They took him to a mental institution. They couldn’t find anything that he did wrong. They
couldn’t find anything. There were no drugs. There was no promiscuity. But he took
everything to heart what he heard. And two weeks later, I got a call from his friends. They had
walked into the door, where they had left him in the mental institution where he was locked up.
He had taken his pants off and had tied one leg around a fixture in the ceiling and tied the other
one around his neck. They found him hanging. He was dead at 14 years old. Why? It was the
guilt and condemnation of Christianity.
I know that’s an extreme story but what happened to him that he carried out to the fullest
extent, physically, it’s happening in the minds of young people across this nation all day long.
We just had the massacre that took place in Colorado. It’s happening all over the states and
still the preachers get on and say…oh the problem is that we’ve got to bring the Ten
Commandments back into school. We’ve got to bring morality back into this school.
Let me tell you something. The reason why these kids are breaking down is because they were
raised in Christian homes where they could not measure up. They have given up. They’ve lost
respect for life because they believe God has lost respect for them. It is not because they have
not been taught morality strong enough. It’s because they’ve been taught it so much, they
know they’re not going to make it anyway. Why not go out in a blaze of glory! They’re
already condemned in their hearts and minds. Do you think that somebody who knew they
were already accepted by God would have the need to do something like that? No! It’s those
who know they are already rejected by God who would have a need to do that!
And then the same rhetoric comes over the Christian television and radio. This is why we need
to be here. It justified the reason for our radio broadcast, our TV broadcast. This justifies our
preaching. When in all actuality, it is the focus of the point of where this horrible guilt and
condemnation and feelings of alienation and separation from are coming to such degrees that a
loss for respect for human life is gone. The very same reason Cain killed Able. Cain did not
kill Able because he felt he was accepted by God. Cain killed Able because he felt his sacrifice
was rejected by God and that someone else was accepted.
Folks, that whole thing that took place in Colorado, just a few days ago, was about two boys
that felt like everybody else was better than they were. Now I know there’s much more to this
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than I’ll ever be able to explain. God forbid and please excuse me for putting too wide a
blanket of understanding on this. But I guarantee you. What I’m telling you is now much more
of an insight and understanding as to the whys of it than what the religious community is
saying. These boys did not do this because of a lack of teaching on morality and a lack of the
Ten Commandments on the wall of the school and the lack of prayer in the school.
Isaiah 53:5 The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed.
Oh God! You are all healed, even those of you that are sick, you’re healed. What are you
healed from? You’re healed from any affliction upon your body, upon your life, as a judgment,
a chastisement or a scouring from God Almighty. By his stripes you were healed.
Isaiah 53:5 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way (and
that’s our own righteousness they have turned to) and the Lord has laid upon him the iniquity
of us Christians. Who did God lay the iniquity of..on? He laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:6 He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is
brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth
not his mouth.
Isaiah 53:7 He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare his
generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my
people was he stricken.
Remember when Jesus said, “And this generation shall not pass away till all these things be
fulfilled.” It was his generation he was talking about and folks when Jesus died on the cross,
all these things were fulfilled.
Isaiah 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he
had done no violence; neither was any deceit in his mouth.
You see! He was completely innocent but he died under the judgment hand of God for the
iniquities and transgressions of the whole world.
Isaiah 53 10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days and the
pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him…..Folks! The devil didn’t put Jesus on the cross. The
cross was not the devil killing the son of God. It pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put
him to grief. Jesus felt that grief. What grief? He cried out in that grief that the human race
was experiencing….”My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken me?” But he took that grief
upon him. Why? It was so that you would never have to cry out, “My God, my God! Why
hast thou forsaken me?” Because he said he would never leave you or forsake you this side of
the cross.
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When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall prolong his days and the
pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Isaiah 53:11 He, (God) shall see the travail (suffering) of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by
his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many for he shall bear their iniquities.
Now wait! Jesus’ soul suffered for what? It was for the sins of the people. We just read that
and then it says, and God would see the travail of his soul and God said then what? And he
shall be satisfied. Preachers may not be satisfied. Christianity may not be satisfied. Preachers
of judgment may not be satisfied that sin has been punished. But God is satisfied that all sin for
the whole human race has been punished. We have a lot of unsatisfied preachers but we do not
have an unsatisfied God. We have a lot of unsatisfied prophets but we do not have an
unsatisfied God. He saw the suffering of Jesus’ soul for the sins of the whole world and said,
“I am satisfied.” His wrath was completely satisfied.
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil
with the strong: because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with
the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, (and we already know how many…ALL…just
the same as Romans 5: 18 affirms to us) and made intercession for the transgressors.
This is another verse totally taken out of context about the subject of intercession. In the
charismatic movement we had intercessors in the church. Now you can pray an intercessory
prayer but you are not an intercessor. You can pray a prayer of salvation. You’re not a Savior.
There’s only one intercessor and that’s Jesus Christ. And the bible says he made intercession
for our transgressions and now it says he is seated at the right hand of the throne of God ever
making intercession for us. What does that mean? What he did at the cross is now perpetual!
There are no transgressions between you and God. Why? That is because there is no law
between you and God. Jesus is seated at the right hand throne of God carrying out his ministry
of intercession for transgression. Why? Because where there is no law, there is no
transgression. And he maintains that freedom from transgression forever!
Folks, this is good news! Let me reaffirm this to you, I have had it made clear to me. The
Catholics do not believe this. The Baptists do not believe this. The Methodists do not believe
this. Jerry Falwell does not believe this. Pat Robertson does not believe this. God’s burning
Florida down now. Now the reason he’s doing it is because Orlando let the gays have a parade
and put their gay pride flag on the city telephone poles; therefore God was going to punish
Orlando. Now! For two years, fires have broke out in Florida but it hasn’t hit Orlando. But
you have to give God the credit. He’s a few thousand years older now than when Sodom &
Gomorrah did this. Give him credit! At least he hit the state. Sodom and Gomorrah; he got
right down to the city.
In fact, he said not one innocent person will ever suffer from my judgment. Folks, the
preachers of judgment today have a lot to explain as to why innocent people are dying in the
judgment of God. Aids was declared to be the judgment of God on the homosexual world yet
you have babies dying of aids. The earthquake in San Francisco was determined to be the
judgment of God. Yet you had innocent people, Christians, even people who watched CBN
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die. Yet the most basic principle about God’s judgment is that He goes to all extreme to get the
innocent out. But do you know what! In Christ, under the law, nobody is innocent. And so
how many people did Jesus die for? He died for all. Hum!
Please do understand that we are not preaching a revival because this will revive nothing of
Christianity. What I’m sharing with you will not revive modern day Christianity. It will
destroy it.
You say, “Well what if you’re wrong, Bro. Mike?” I consider that all the time myself. But
every time that I speak something, I wonder is this going to cause people who do not believe to
“believe” or cause people who do not believe to be pushed that much further from God. I think
it’s going to draw people. I cannot see it repelling people. Now, the religious community is
repelled by the preaching, but it is self righteousness that causes them to be repelled by it. It’s
guilt and judgment that causes them to be repelled.
Jesus has already bore all the guilt and all the judgment. All the judgment was passed. Jesus
bore the guilt and he took all the judgment. Jesus bore the guilt and he took all the judgment.
Jesus bore the guilt and he took all the judgment.
So when the Christian community is preaching guilt ridden teaching and preaching judgment,
what are they actually saying? Jesus Christ did not do what God sent him to do. I believe he
did. And I believe we’re in for a gospel revolution that will spread around this world.
I really get encouraged every time I come to Canada to get to see and get to talk to you guys
and see what is going on and happening. And occasionally I get information. I just want to
encourage you for a minute. This is spreading around the world; every country, every nation,
cities around the world; you and I have never even heard of.
I got a call from Denver the other day and a young man was ordering tapes and he said, “Oh!
Is this Mike Williams?” I said, “Yes it is.” He said, “Oh my Mom would faint if she knew I
had you on the line.” And I said, “Well, who is your Mom?” And he said, “Well, she lives in
Germany. And if she buys something directly from you, they have to pay a lot of duties and
taxes and all this stuff but if it’s a gift from a family member, then they said they don’t have to
pay all of that. So I order tapes for her all the time. Do you know you have quite a following
in Germany? Myself and several other people have been shipping tapes there for the last two
years. I order tapes from you guys all the time and then turn around and ship them off to Mom
and the group in her church. It is really causing a stir in Germany.”
So I want to encourage you. This Gospel Revolution is spreading. It’s spreading wonderfully
between people. It’s just like what George was telling you. Don’t expect this to take place in
the arena downtown. It’s not going to. It’s going to take place between you and somebody else
you share with and a person you share a tape with. And that’s what is going to happen.
We could start right now and go through situation after situation. There are many of you that
are sitting beside somebody right now and the only reason you’re here is because you heard a
tape; because somebody told you about this really weird teaching. Somebody told you.
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Boy, this is different than what you hear in church. And that’s why you’re here. And is it
different than what you hear in church?
Oh my folks! There’s a Gospel Revolution in progress. Share it! Amen!
Mike Williams Ministries