Okay. Greetings, friends and new listeners, and welcome to The Sound of Faith. I'm Sharon Knott, thanking you for joining us today because we know faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Today's message is by my father, Brother Hardy. If you've ever wondered why you can't seem to maintain a level of liberty in your spiritual walk, Or sometimes have difficulty overcoming your fleshly desires.
And if you want more than just a breakthrough, but you want to stay through, this message is for you. One more time. Measures of the Spirit. Didn't John say in John 3, 35 and 6. And in that area, for the Father loveth the Son, I giveth not the Spirit to him by measure.
Measures According to your measure. How quick If you don't renew it every day, You leak out.
Some that's got a whole lot takes a little longer. But if they just keep it up. They're gonna leak out. You're going to leak out. You're gonna leak out.
You don't want to read the Bible, it's a burden. You don't want to pray, it's too hard. And you sure don't want to go to church. No, no, no. Especially, you don't want to hear Brother Harney because he never tells you good things.
Is that what Ahab said? When Jeophat had all these false prophets, it had 750 of them. And Jeophat said, Ain't there a prophet of the Lord here? Said, it's only one, but he never speaks good things of me. He said, I don't want him here.
John said, I said, Bring him here. I want to hear from God. How many say amen? Thank God, Jehoshaphat, want to hear from God. And the prophet Malachi came and said, Go on up, God will give you the victory.
An Ahab shin. I adore you in the name of the Lord. Tell me the truth. Said, you want to know the truth, you devil? All right.
I saw Israel scattered over the hills of the out, a shepherd. He said, see, die to that. I told you he wouldn't speak good things. Put him in prison till I come. And he said, if you come, God didn't speak by me, brother.
How many say amen? How many hears me? I want to hear the God. I want to have an ear. Let him that have an ear hear the word of God.
I want to hear the word of God. If the devil's fight me to read a chapter, I read the whole book. If the devil fights me for praying 10 or 15 minutes, I'm going to stay down at least an hour. If the devils fight me to come to church, I'm going to come to church that much more. Because what you got to do is fight the devil on the thing he's fighting you on.
You gotta fight him back. I'm gonna get here. I don't care. I'm gonna cut here no matter what. And some of them got their biggest Trick of the devil and all.
They're working. Instead of going to hell easy, they're working their way into hell. I'm working. I'm working, I'm getting the overtime. And you're getting leaked out.
You're getting empty. Yeah, I think. Pay your bills. Because God said He that forgets my house and my work. Earn of a wage and put it in a bag and I cut a hole in it.
It's not how much you got, it's how much you got with God's blessing on it. How many say it's how much you got with God's blessing on you? God can multiply your money. God can give you bargains. Working yourself to death.
Leaking out of the anointing. And the devil's got all these traps. Wait. said one more time If they don't shake theirself this time and get back and pray and read the Bible. and get that spiritual mindset again.
Get that determination. to get into church and pursue. Pursue for that goal line press. their way through. And then they say, Amen.
I got him. Sampson fell there. Palunk. and empty. And the bad thing of it was There was nobody with an anointing to come and deliver him.
Yeah. And I tell you, it's getting that way now. Not many ministers got the anointing anymore. A little game. And meetings are not geared for souls, they're geared to give a little teaching.
to tickle the mental. Natural mind. Give them all this to do nothing with. That old time Holy Ghost. Tear crying revivals.
No more hellfire messages. They stir up the young people. And the old people just playing little games, tickling the ears. And then they say, Amen, and our cities are reaping the harvest. And anybody Like me, I'm an old dinosaur.
Bless God, I'll die a dinosaur.
Somebody say amen. Because I'll tell you what. It's kept me for 45 years. And I might be a dinosaur. But I still got the anointing.
And God hears me and He still answers prayer. That's why he left me. and didn't take me when he took the others. Years ago. I prayed, of course God anointed me.
Inspired me to pray, and I said, Lord. Make me a last day John the Baptist. And I told that to the people preaching. And a lot of them went out and said, Brother Hardy said he's John the Baptist. I never said that at all.
Because if I'm going to be anybody, I'm going to be Jesus, not John the Baptist. But the Lord had me to pray the message Let me have the ministry of John the Baptist that would go up to Herod and say, you can't have your brother's wife. You're an adulter! I told you a couple weeks ago, I was prophesying, but Sister Hardy woke me up, but God said in that. First words that I got out.
He is tired of people using him as a dial and a toy, getting what they want, and throwing him on the side. You can't play with God. He's no toy. He isn't something you use. He isn't something you pull the Holy Ghost down and say, He'll bless, supply my need, prosper me.
And then, when God said, Do this now, you get up there till I need you again.
Now, you don't deal with God that way. It's all or nothing at all. And I tell you what, when God anoints me, I'm going to be like John the Baptist. I don't care if it costs my head. I'm going to tell you what sin is sin.
And I'll tell you who loves you. It's a person that will tell you the truth. That you loves you. Not the flim flam yet. And you shill.
And abuse him! And strip and rob you. God showed me that vision years ago. God's people were in a dungeon. And the preachers had them shackled.
And all they were doing was feeding them enough, they were like sheep. feed them enough to keep them alive so they could Fleister War. I had one of the angels come in my service and it was the last night. Said, I'm going to go out there and get all the money I can. Said, it can't hurt the meeting.
I said, No, you're not. I said, You can hurt my people. You ain't fleeing. He said, Brother Hardy, Sheep are made to be fleeced, that's it. You ain't fleecing these.
And I cut him on out. You hearing me? You hear the word of God? How many knows God's speaking tonight? How many knows it's anointing?
It's the anointed word of God. God knows that the bridge is out and you're heading pellmell into destruction and in a whirlpool. And he's crying: turn around, turn around, turn around, return unto me, return unto me, return. The word repent basically means return to me. That's what the word repent means, and especially.
to the Jewish people. Not have a change of mind, but return to God. And if you will read the Gospels in Jesus, what was his main message? What were all of their messages? Repent.
Repent. John the Baptist came saying what? Repent, the kingdom of God's at hand. And Jesus said, repent, repent. Except you repent, you shall also likewise perish.
Return to me, return to me, return. God is saying to this church and people in this building, return to me, return, return, and I will return to you the joy of your salvation. David backslid. He live with Pathshiva. And when he got Done.
And God gave that good name. Nathan Cave. He didn't realize. He had emptied out. This great man of God that wrote all of his songs.
Got so blinded. Did he murdered? And adultery and murdered and he couldn't realize that the prophet had to come and he saw himself. The scales fell off his eyes. He said, my God, I've been mesmerized by the devil.
I've been deceived. And he wrote the psalm. Search me, O God, and know my heart, I pray. See if there's any wicked way in me. Wash me with hips up.
And I shall be whiter than snow. Said, cast me not away. From thy presence. Take not! Oh my god.
I can't begin to think of it. Take not your Holy Spirit from me. Uphold me with thy free spirit. Then I will teach transgressors thy way. And sinners will be converted unto you if you wash me, if you cleanse me, if you won't take the Holy Spirit away, that's so give him back to me.
That's why no souls are saved. No Holy Spirit. No burden without a burden. without a travail. Nobody's saved.
Even in the midst of all this backsliding, God's power has been pouring it out and pouring it out. Yeah. People picked him up like a rattle and shook him for a while and amused themselves and then threw him in the corner. God said, That's it. Uh-uh.
Uh-huh. You show to the wind, you're going to reap the whirlwind. How many say you men? And Samson. Leaked all the way out.
And fell. on this side of the line of demarcation to flesh. And the devil reduced him to a beast of burden. See, that's what the devil wants to do. God knows that if He can control us and keep us full of the Spirit, He can elevate us into the image of Christ.
The devil knows if we can get us leaked out. And walk in the lust of the flesh, he can reduce us to an animal. All we live for is to satisfy our unbridled lusts and appetites. Yeah, but And let me tell you something, honey. Concern is God.
And you never get the thing you compromise God for. He never got the lilac. I'm sorry. He never got her. You know, get it!
You don't get it! That means both ways. You don't get it and you don't get it. And when he was fully empty, I will get up in my own mind and shake myself. There's other times.
How many say amen? Some preachers are backsliding and really believe when they get in the pulpit, God's going to anoint and use them. And the devil says I've been waiting for you. You fell right into the trap. Get empty.
And he bound him. Huh? And the devil's going to make sure you don't get what you want. You ain't gonna see Delilah no more. He burnt his eyes out.
That was the best thing the devil could do. For Samson. And reducing To a beast of burden, hooked him up with an ox. And let him prying out the meal for the Philistines. And the maidens would come and laugh at that.
Great one of Jehovah. How many say you men? Yeah. But he couldn't see no more. And he began to repent and pray.
And he consecrated himself. God, just one more time. Let me feel your spirit. And these signs of consecration began to come out. He renewed his consecration in the sign.
His hair began to grow. His sign of consecration. He couldn't see nothing else. That was the best thing the devil did. He couldn't see nothing else.
He was blinded naturally, but God opened up his spiritual eyes again. Hemany, say amen. And when he got all the way back, The God The enemy had a big feast day. And in their great building. They had all the kings and nobles and ladies and lords and they're gonna bring out.
Yes. Ishaelite except Jehovah's the great God one day! Our fish goddess, the great God. And in the temple of Dagon, that great, huge image. They brought him out.
And he had to be lid and stumbling. But he had his consecration back. He had the anointing back. He had spiritual eyesight. And when they let him out, they jeered and made fun of him.
The court gestures would come and kick him. Say, who's kicking you, Samson, and trip him. Ha, told that little boy. He said, take me on the foundational pillars of the building. And then get out.
And he put his hand on one of the pillars. And he saw the hand on the other pillars. And he lifted up those blinded eyes. And he prayed. One more time, God.
Let me fill your spirit. And he said, And when you bring this victory Let me die with it.
So I won't live to ever think I would lose it again. I'd rather die. Come on and see you, man. And the power of God like lightning came and hit Samson. And he disrupted those pillars until the balconies and the foundations fell.
And he killed all of those Philistines. He wiped them out. And he was like Jesus in his death. He killed more of the devil in his death than he did in his life. You've leaked out from God.
If you've lost your prayer life, if you've left that, if you've backslid where you used to be. Maybe you're not in the world yet, but you're not where you used to be. Your prayer life is not there. You don't have your Bible study. You don't go to church like you used to.
You couldn't wait. You need to holler. God opened up my spiritual eyes again. I can hear it. Yeah.
I can hear it. I can hear it in the spirit.
Some people are going to be crying out from their heart, one more time, God! One more time, you sniffed tabernacle. One more time, move on these people, Lord. Help him to see the mail that I give. People around the world are saying, brother, they don't lose out.
You're one of the few preachers left. Don't lose out. Don't get discouraged. Keep standing up for Jesus. We need you.
One more time, God, let your spirit fall on these people, every man, woman, boy, and girl. One more time, let your power surge through them. One more time, use them to destroy the devil. One more time, Jesus. I'm going to say one more time.
Come in and say one more time. God, let me feel your spirit one more time. One more time. One more time. God, put it on me one more time.
I'm only gap this time. I'm only gap this time. I'm only gap this time. Hey, this is a one more timeline. If you want it, I'm going to say one, get to your feet.
Two, get out of the aisle. And three, run up here. Are you ready? One or two and three. Send your spirit down.
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