Okay. Greetings, friends and new listeners, and welcome to The Sound of Faith. I'm Sharon Atz, thanking you for tuning in today because we know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Today's message by my father, Brother Hardy, build again the altars, is truly a word in due season to him that is weary and a call to the church to rise up and rebuild the altars of righteousness that are fallen down and even torn down by compromise and syncretism. These are sobering times, but God is not silent, and he speaks to us today: build again the altars.
Folks stumble because they disobey, but if you obey the truth, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. And if you continue in the word, then you are his disciple indeed, and then you shall know the truth. Wise men built On the rock. The altar of God, the foundation of God, the word of God, the precepts of God, the righteousness of God. Paul said, I don't want to be found with my righteousness, which is by the law, but I want the righteousness of God, which is by faith in Jesus Christ, the righteousness of God by faith, because Jesus is faith.
He is righteousness. Amen. Say it. Amen. He's the rock.
He's the foundation. Built his house on the rock. Say what you built on, the blood of Jesus. What else? righteousness or living right.
Living holy, because he said, be ye holy, for I'm holy. And if you couldn't be holy, why didn't he tell you to be holy? And he said, Follow peace with all men and holiness without, or apart from no man shall see God. How many say amen? You don't believe it.
For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. For this is the will of God. Even your sanctification. that you should abstain from fornication. Whoredom, that means, that you should know how to possess your vessel.
in sanctification, in holiness, and in honor. Neither yield to your members as servants. Of unrighteousness from iniquity unto iniquity. And the fruit and the end thereof, the wages is death. But rather yield yourself.
Under righteousness. Under holiness. And what the fruit is holiness of righteousness. When you live right, You bring forth fruit of holiness. When you live wrong It brings forth fruit of Bill.
In Nikfa Day. Transgression. It's not all that cry, Lord, Lord, that enters in. but to whom you yield your members' servants to obey no matter what you call yourself. His servants you are to whom?
You obey obedience unto righteousness. or sin unto death. I'm going to build the altars of God. I want to be wise. How can I be wise?
Jesus said in the seventh chapter of Matthew, the wise man. built his house on the rock.
Now listen to this. And the rains descended. And the floods ascended. and the winds blowed and beat theirself on it. Can I stop a little bit?
You're not going to fly to heaven on the magic carpet, even though you're on the rock. Let me go another step. The foolish man built his house on sand and the rains. The wind And the floods beat. They both want to do the same thing.
You don't believe me. Is that right? You all following me? How many spy on me? End of the seventh chapter of Matthew.
Does it say that? Wise and foolish? Both had similar experiences. Let me open it up and see. Better check and see if it's still there, Lord.
I'm pretty sure it's forever settled in heaven. You didn't write a new Bible since then. Hmm? Therefore, whosoever heareth these things of mine, Matthew 7, 24, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man. which built his house upon the rock.
And the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon the house. Just beat on you. That's if you're saved and on Jesus. And if you backslide, and if you're a sinner, here's what's going to happen. And every man that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand, and the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon it.
You're going to have the same thing. But the only difference is the one that's on the rock when the rains come and the floods are sitting and the wheats beat on you. Said, when it's all over, said, you're going to stand. He said, but if you're backslidden in the center, the rains are going to come, the winds are going to blow, the floods are going to just beat on you. He said, but you're going to fall.
So if you're saved or a sinner, you're still going to have rain. You're still going to have floods. And the winds are going to beat on you. The only thing is, when the test is all over, you're standing on the rock saying, Victory is Jesus. And when the rains come, I tell myself, Don't worry, behind the cloud there's a sun.
Somebody couldn't prove that. Elijah could, Enoch could, but they haven't come back yet. Philip couldn't, he came back. My, but his feet was running when he hit the ground. He was still running.
Want them preach Christ? Just Samarian, anyone. Preached Christ to the Ethiopian eunuch, and the Spirit of God caught him up in the heavenly chariot. And when he hit the ground, he was still running, preaching, holiness to the little art. And I'll tell you what you do if you're struggling.
Just pray and fast. You're like that jet taking off. Oh, praying and fasting and straining and revving all of your power. And you're breaking and breaking and breaking and breaking. But they tell me after that thing gets up about 25,000 feet or higher and it levels off above the storm, above the clouds, above the bad weather.
Amen. It gets a tailwind behind. It gets in what they call a jet stream. And that thing begins and just, oh! 800 miles an hour, 900 miles an hour.
Boom, there they go. They broke the sound barrier. There's an explosion. You're all the way in the spirit. The devil's domains busted through.
You got through the second heaven. You're in the third heavens. You're in hell. These folk don't know what I'm talking about. They ain't never got off the ground yet.
Bunch of chickens going around. Honey, some of you need to stay in that there. prayer and fasting till you climb above them things. You know a lot a lot of you Christians are like That jet plane takes and goes out onto the runway out there. and it calls up to the tower.
Sends his number up s clear for takeoff, and the tower Sends him instructions back. And you know what he does? Honey, he throws them flaps down and opens that throttle up and roars them engines. I mean, he throws the full juice to it, but that plane don't even move a half inch. He gets out there and throws them flaps down so it won't go nowhere.
and then opens up all the motors and just revs it with all its power.
Well, honey, if God would give you the power, some of you the power, all you do is you've got your flaps down, you've got your feet dragging, and all you do is just buck and jerk and buck and jerk and sputter and buck. You ain't going nowhere. But honey, when you get the right combinations, when you send the right number, and he looks on that board and say, that's it, you're cleared for takeover. Let her roll. Pray and fasting you raise them flaps up.
Yeah. And you start down that runway. Praying fast a little bit more. And you're going down that run, praying fast. And pretty soon, after a while, your wheels is off the ground.
But you ain't all the way up in the jet stream at some more battles that come. Can they say amen? Oh, but knows that know straight on up. Look unto me, all ye the ends of the earth, and be safe. Look under the hills.
From once cometh thy help, thy help cometh from the Lord that made heaven and earth. Honey, I'm already up there, Lord. Put the tailwind on me. Come, mama, mama, you better stay close to that. Don't you get out in the spirit, you gotta play a little bit.
I'm in the judgment. It's been 10 fights. Oh, been 10 months of praying and fasting. Amen. Saying them chickens.
And they don't bother me anymore. I'm up too high. They can't get up there. Amen. Say amen.
As long as those people talking about you is hurting you, you're not up high enough. Throw the throttle up, pray and fast some more. That thing strains 5,000 feet. 10,000 feet all of those storm formations banging it. Cook book cook.
Some of you in them old engine types. They fly right through the storms. Proof, boom, boom. The winds are flapping. That's all you're swinging is always in the storm.
Face looked like a Missouri mule. I was feeling good. A tailwind pushing me. And you conserve that fuels. Oh, that's just wonderful.
You just sit back and you just go and Oh, you don't believe it, but God knew He's going to let the old Jeff Pain come and He said, You to walk and not faint, and you keep on walking and praying and fancy, and you start to run. Not be weary, and pretty soon, honey, he puts a little bit more spirit on you and what, and you begin to mount up on wings. How many has ever been up here what I'm talking about?
Some of them just chickens down in the barnyard. Ah I don't like that book, book, book, book, book. Just book, book, book, book, book. Just book everything. I don't like that.
Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck. Amen. Play your face. I don't like that. I'm going to buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck.
I feel good. I'm up in the chat stream. In his presence, you just get in his presence. I mean, when that sun begins to come through the cabin window up at the top of them clouds, it can be snowing and blowing down on the earth. And that heat comes through that window, you feel so good.
Yeah. You know, this time of the year, that couple of days ago when that sun come out a little bit? Doesn't that feel good? You just wanted to get in the sun. You followed it all the way around the house.
For our God's a son. How many say amen? And just like when that jet levels off and that sun comes through and the announcer's voice comes over the communication system says, Welcome aboard. This is flight so-and-so. We're going to so-and-so.
Said we're up 28,000 feet. It's wonderful that the sun's shining. And when you said in heavenly places in the third heaven, but the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost says, this is white J-E-S-U-said, everything's already in my Father's house. Amen and say, Amen. Hallelujah.
Peace and happiness there. Joy. No more sire. You don't believe it. I tell you how you get up there, you've got to build the altars up.
You gotta walk with God. And your walk, you won't get weary. And when he runs, you run with him. And you run, and you won't faint. And then when he begins to flap them wings.
You Honey, we're on the verge of it. God has sowed people all over. He's hit them. Like old Badiah did. Fifty.
Fifty. Fifty. Power, power, power, power. Yes. Pentecost means 50.
That's all it means. On the 50th day, see 40 is trial. Probation. Preparation. Jesus came back after He was crucified and resurrected.
He walked 40 days with them. They upbraided them. for their unbelief and their doubt. He opened up the scriptures. He prepared them.
He qualified them. He got rid of their doubt. He says, Come on, Thomas. I was with you three and a half years and you didn't come up yet, but now here I am. Stick your hand in.
Let's get it over with. Get it ready. I've got to prepare you because after the 40, after the preparation, then I'm going to start all over again. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. And when you come to 10, there's a new beginning.
I'm going to begin to do a new thing. And on the 10th day, in a new first, On the fiftieth day, Said, I'm going to send the power back. He said, after I prepare you, get rid of your doubt and unbelief. Come on. God wants you to say, come on, come on, come on, come on, believe me.
I'll pay your bills, stick your hand in my side, trust me. Just trust me. I'll pay your bills. I'll heal you. Trust me.
How are you going to be a deliverer when you don't know whether God can deliver? Wow. Going to go out there and deliver somebody.
Somebody said to me, Oh, Brother Hardy, said I can pray for other people. He said, Now I can pray for myself, but I don't get him. Oh, I don't want you to pray for me. Get out of here. Said, man, said I, I can't believe for myself, but I can believe for others.
I said, Honey, I can believe for myself better than anybody else because I'm the one that knows what I need the most. And I don't know whether you're going to pray, but I'm going to be praying for me. In the name of Jesus. Had an old fever, virus started to get me, said they shall lay hands upon the sickness. I said, In the name of Jesus, lay hands on it.
Somebody sell their hands hard. Oh, it don't hurt me. It feels pretty good. Said the Lord. They have digged down your altars.
Can I read it to you? Can no other foundation be laid? Only that which is laid. which is Christ Jesus the Lord. And if any man build thereupon, Silver, gold, precious stone.
Wood stubble on hay? For the day shall declare it, and the fire shall try it. Of what sort it is? If any man's works be burnt up, He loses reward. But if he's worked for a main Huh?
He gets a reward. For in a great house They are not only vessels of honor. but some to dishonor. And if a man purge himself of these, He will be a vessel of honor. Sanctified.
Meat. for the master's use. prepared unto every good work. You know what the good work is? Let your light so shine before men that they might see your good works.
See, why, when's the best time to fulfill that scripture now when they say there is no God? How are they going to know there is a God? Let your light so shine before men that they might see thy good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Let your light so shine before this generation that says there is no God, and they're going to see God in you, the hope of glory, Christ in you, and God working in you, and they're going to say there is a God, and they're going to glorify him. What are the good works?
Acts 10, 38, God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power who wanted about doing good. What was it? Healing all that were oppressed by the devil. The word oppressed as Canada steel means overlorded, crushed down, and fairly ruled and conquered by the devil. Where do we get that word dynasty in the English catadynaste, which means he has conquered you and got you crushed down?
Healed means to be loosed and set free from. Delivered means to be losing set free from. Salvation and to be saved means to be loose and set free from. Usually when you say salvation is from sin, you're loose and set free from. Deliverance, they usually think in their mind of a habit or a bondage you're delivered or loose or set free from.
Healing, it's usually a sickness or a disease. But they're interchangeable. God said he'd heal your soul. No much spiritual sicknesses and disease. Isn't that right?
Here's the way sometimes preachers feel, but they have not all believed the gospel. 10th chapter, 16th verse. of Romans. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias or Isaiah say, Lord, who have believed our report?
And I'd like to read a little bit more. And to whom is the armor of the Lord revealed? Don't have any mighty power. Has God revealed himself in power?
So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. But I say, have they not heard? Yes, verily or truly. There sell one into all the earth. and their words unto the ends of the world.
But I say, did not Israel know? For first, Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation will I anger you? God never turns anybody over until they know. But Ezaias is very bold and saith, I am fan of them that sought me not. I am made manifest.
I am revealed. God wants to reveal or manifest himself to you under them that ask not after me. Talking about God rejected the Jews and revealed himself to the Gentiles. But to Israel he saith, all day long I've stretched forth my hand unto a disobedient. and gainsaying people and honey, the parallel is coming the reverse.
The church has fell into the same thing. They don't believe the report. They don't obey. Although God has spoken, His arm has been revealed. All day long, he stretched forth his hand to a disobedient and again saying people.
I can pray the prophecy of the last month, and God said that. I say then, hath God cast away his people? God forbid, he don't cast away his people. He casts away reprobates. God forbid.
For I am also an Israelite of the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away his people which he foreknew. What ye not, or know ye not, what the scriptures say of Elias or Elijah, how he maketh intercessions of God against Israel, say it? What did Elijah pray against? When Jezebel had her 850 false prophets, when she digged down the altars of God.
When Ahab had married that terrible woman. Of a foreign nation disobeyed God when God said, Don't take you a strange wife. I've watched young person after young person in this church do it.
Some of these mothers are supposed to be saved and fathers say, oh, he's a nice boy. I got news for you, honey. If he's not saved, he's got a devil in him and it's playing possum until you disobey God. And when you disobey God, he's going to let the real him be seen. He's of his father, the devil, and his father, he, what?
The lust of his father, he will do. And what's so wrong with Jesus that he don't want him? And what's so wrong with my Jesus that you don't want him? Huh? And if you marry he or she that don't want to come to church, what are you going to do?
They're not going to want to come more so afterwards, and you have lost the upper hand. And if they love you the way they say they do, why don't they come and get saved? Oh, but you'll be like Ahab and marry Jezebel. That terrible woman. Bringing in her terrible religion.
Because all of the religions... The Moabites, the Amorites, the Hittites. the Hevites, the Jebusites. And all the other ites, all of their worship was the devils, and always whoredom was associated with their worship. Their temples had female and male prostitutes.
They worship the God of reproduction. How many say amen in the gods of fertility? How many say you many, when you come and worshiped, you had to have an unlawful, horrible, homosexual act to consummate your worship? How many say amen? That's why God hated it and destroyed it.
And Ahab married that woman, and she shut her up. 450 prophets, that was Baal. Baal, the god of flies. Boy, no wonder God brought flies into Egypt and said, you ain't got no God that's got power over the flies. I got the power over the flies.
The Egyptians worshiped the God over the frogs and the flies and all that, and God smote them with the thing that was supposed to be on their side. And so all of Israel, they dug down the altars, the right worship, the righteousness, the godliness of God, and they put up the altars of whoredom and wickedness and homosexuality. Until it was so bad that Jezebel killed all of the prophets of Jehovah. Wanted to get rid of that worship so the people wouldn't know anything but wickedness. The devil's trying to get rid of you if you're right so the world won't know anything but wickedness.
The devil's trying to put your light out. I'm preaching the same message. Only he who will let till he be taken out of the way. The devil's trying to remove you. Same thing coming at another scripture.
Same message. The devil's trying to remove you and turn your light out because the whole world lieth in darkness. The devil's tore down the altars. The devil's killing the prophets like Jezebel did. In Elijah's day, but honey, I'm going to be in an Elijah.
I said, I'm going to be an Elijah.
Now Bunt will go out and say I said I am Elijah. How many say amen? And I said that. Ten years ago in a mission, remember Granny and I said, oh Lord, make me a last day, John the Baptist. Make me a last day, Elijah, to cry out against sin and prepare a people for the coming of the Lord.
They went out and said, Brother Hardy said he's John the Baptist. But, honey, I want to be a last day Elijah. I want to build an altar of God back again. Let's kill all the false prophets. Come on, God, it's time to have a contest.
All you devils have been murmuring and complaining and false fine and said I'm false. Why don't you come on up here? I'll let you pray for me first. And then I'll pray for you. Even if the man was false, God said, Don't pull him up.
Let the tares grow with the wheat. Lest you pull up a tares, you uproot a wheat. But you go out in front of your loved ones and murmur and complain and then you wonder why you can't get into an altar. You're destroying them. A lot of times the one you're stabbing at's the only one between you and God.
Oh, Miriam and Aaron were stoning Moses, and God got so mad he come down in a tabernacle, and his glory filled out, and he spoke out, said, Moses, tell Aaron and Miriam to come before me. And God come down. And God said, Miriam, and Aaron, why didst thou not fear to touch my servant Moses and smote her with leprosy? See, she turned white with leprosy. And God was angry.
Said, you should have feared to touch my anointed. Honey, you better fear to catch anybody that's been anointed of God. David, when he had Saul in the cave and could have killed Saul and he was righteous, he would have been vindicated for what if he'd have put a spear and nailed Saul to the ground. Nobody would have said anything because Saul was out to murder him. But David said, No, I will not touch God's anointed.
I'll just clip a part of his garment and let him know I could have killed him if God delivered him. But I'm going to be what? Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. I'm going to have mercy on Saul. And if anything be against him, let the Philistines or let God be against him, but I'm not.
You better fear to put your hand on somebody God put the anointing on. Because I tell you, in these days, somebody, that God can put the anointing on, they're a rare vessel, because people are backslidden and carnal and sensual and wicked. You either put your hand on somebody that God's using for one or two reasons, you're backslidden and God's using them to uncover you and pride you, or you're jealous. And the only thing is you're spiritually lazy, and if you'll pray and fast, God will give it to you, because he has no favorites. He just uses people that will obey him.
You're nobody special. All you are somebody that will obey him. He doesn't need anything of your wisdom and knowledge. He'll give you the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge. He'll give you the gifts of healing and miracles.
All he wants you to do is present your body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto him, and is your reasonable service and say, Lord, I will obey you. And honey, when you will obey him and acknowledge your wrong like David, when you make a wrong, you'll be a man or a woman after God's own heart. He'll use you. But what saith the answer to Elijah when he interceded against Israel? God has not cast away his people which he foreknew.
If you want to go on with him, he won't cast you away. He'll never leave you or forsake you. What you not, know you not the scripture saith Elias, how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets and digged down thine altars, and I am left alone and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him, I have reserved to myself 7,000 men? who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Listen to this fifth verse in the word, five is grace. Even so, then at this present time, also, there is a remedy according to the election of grace. God's got a number right now, honey. God's got a number that won't bow there, neither bail. God's got them here, 50 here and 50 there.
He's been feeding them on bread and water, which is trial and test. He's been proving them to see if they're gonna stand up for right and righteousness and will build the altars of God that have failed, that'll lift up their voice and say, Jezebel, you are a false prophetess. You are a sinful woman, Ahab. You murdered to get what you got. You disobeyed God.
How many say amen? And in the midst of that famine, and in the midst of that wickedness, and in the midst of that false prophecy, God is going to send a revival. How many say amen? Upon the mount of prayer, He's going to bring them together, and God is going to prove who's the real God, who's the real prophetess, and God is going to. than a rainstorm!
I made up my mind I'm going to be one of those remnant. He said there is a remnant now reserved. In every dispensation and generation, God tried to remedy. When wickedness got so bad that God had to let Nebuchadnezzar desecrate and destroy Jerusalem and his house that was so wicked, that wickedness was perpetrated and committed till he tore it down. That's why there is no house now in Jerusalem because of the wickedness.
Even like Eli's day, the light went out and his own sons were committing whoredom in God's house. How many say you men? Honey, I'm going to lift up the standard and God's fire burn. You ain't going to commit whoredom in here. You'll almost drop dead in here.
Him and it say amen. Is that right? Is that so? Honey, he had Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego and Daniel that would not compromise, and they weren't afraid of their fiery furnace, and they weren't afraid of the lion's den, because after they got out of the fiery furnace in the lion's den, their enemies were killed, and they were the rulers. Hey, we're going to go to the Mount of Prayer and get a hold of God and the God of anchors by fire.
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