Okay. Greetings, friends and new listeners. Welcome to this program of the R.G. Harding Ministries. I'm Sharon Knotts thanking you for being with us today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
Today's message by my father brother Hardy is certain to uplift you, especially if you're in a tight place. In fact, that's the title of today's message, The Tight Spots of a Christian.
So if you are in need of encouragement, you are in tune with the right station to hear a timely word. The tight spots of a Christian. And I'll tell you why America's not saved. And I'll tell you why Baltimore doesn't have a revival. And I'll tell you why your loved ones.
or not saved. It's because we've lost our burden. And we've lost our vision. And all we can look in the mirror is and All we can see. Because we have got so big and so enlarged as me, myself, and I.
We are destroying people. Because the Bible said without a vision. People perish. People are perishing. America's perishing.
Because the church has lost its vision. How many say amen? There's no souls getting saved because the church has lost her travail. And she has got so satiated. And so filled with the joy and the blessings of God that they have become stale to him.
You know how we felt when we were in the tight spots, when we had the burden, when we had the load of the Lord, or when we called on God, he moved and we rejoiced, we thanked him because he moved. But now we just got tired. Ho hum! We're going to come to church and we're going to shout again. We're going to dance ourselves silly again.
I'm part of it too, children. I believe a good cry that produces an altar call. I believe a good travail would be a welcome change. Yeah. Bake up shouting tonight.
Somebody says it's a hard message. It ain't a hard message to me. Hallelujah. I got hopes God's going to give some children yet in Faith Tabernacle. I got hopes that God is going to do miracles yet in Faith Tabernacle.
Somebody said, Why, Brother Hardy? I thought you shouted when they shout. No, God confirms the word. And all we were shouting about was God was giving us grace to try to keep us to the next service. to give us grace to keep us to the next service.
Until He could get us screwed up enough, until He could talk to our hearts and open our eyes and let us see that there is a world dying and there is not much to shout about. Oh, thank God, thank God he's on the main line tonight. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, you're talking. I don't care if you laid a rot on me.
Just talk to me tonight. Talk to me tonight, Jesus. But yes, I know what I got what say unto me. Yes, they cry. Out for thy loved ones, yea, but they put on the face of contentment and happiness.
Oh, but beneath this soul grieves, they fear, they are discontent. Oh, they cry out to me. I would say, cry out. Oh, the night is far spent and the day is at hand. I would say, cry out for thy loved ones before it is too late.
Oh, seek my face. Sing me while I may yet be found and call me while I am yet. Thank you, Jesus. I said we ought to praise God. Not to look at it as a rebuke, but because God wants to yet save our loved ones.
Because God wants to use us to bring a revival. Oh, have we gone so far that God can't touch us, that he can't put a burden, that he can't talk to our hearts, that we don't care about our loved ones? Listen. How can we care about our loved ones? When God brings prophecy, we don't believe them no more.
We don't believe prophecy. We don't believe God's talking. We don't believe God's talking when he says that I'm going to visit your city when I have commanded judgment against it. I'm going to visit. We don't believe God if we did knowing that our loved ones are in that city not saved.
And just like the Holy Ghost said, they're laughing on the outside, but they're scared to death. They're full of fear. Everybody's a scared. Where I live at people are scared to go out at night and won't go out in the day unless they're in numbers. People are afraid to stop their cars because they're getting killed.
They're afraid to even go up to their friends. Their friends are killing them. And that seemingly we don't even care. We're not even as good as Lot. Oh, I know Lot had a bad testimony.
How many say you men? But when the two angels came And Lot recognized that they were the two angels of the Lord. And the reason why they came to Sodom and Gomorrah... Because God said, I've heard enough of its wickedness. I've heard the cry of its.
unclean filthy laughter as they commit their abominable filthy things and laugh. and frolic. I'm tired of the cry, and God came down, honey, and I believe God's tired of the cry of America, and he's tired of the cry of Baltimore, and he's tired of the cry of Christians in a church that's threw off its first love and threw down its burden. That God has dug them out of the pit. It's almost without exception, every one of us that's here.
God took us out of the jaws of death. Most of you, honey, he healed you. You'd have died if he didn't heal you. You were in calamity. You were being tormented.
Calamity, a tight spot, brought you to God, and God reached down and delivered you. Just like he delivered me, I wouldn't have came to him. I was having too good of a time. I was dressing my clothes and riding in the cars and smoking the pot and having a good time. Until an old tight spot got me.
I didn't want to hear about my mother's God. I didn't want to hear about the church. I didn't want to hear I was having too good of a time. Until I got in a tight spot, till I got crippled, until my money went, until my clues went, and I couldn't get the pot, I couldn't get the dupe, I couldn't have a good time, I was crippled, and I was full of pain. And the devil was telling me I ought to kill myself.
How many say amen? And that's where I was. And you were in a light circumstance, and God delivered you. And if you weren't, then this recently, somebody threw a gun on you, and God delivered you. And if you didn't have that circumstance like me, somebody put you in a car and in your truck and started to kick you out to bump you off.
Yeah, I just said my word. Yeah, you turn my people, save God. Spare us, Lord. This night, saith the Lord. Yea, and fear thou not, saith the Lord.
Yea, for whom the Lord doth love, saith thy God. Yea, I doth scourge and reduce the trust in thy word this night for many, saith the Lord. Yea, thou art rich and increased with many goods, saith the Lord. And yea, many at need of nothing, saith thy God. But yea, knowest thou not, thou art wretched, even in my cup, saith the Lord.
Yea, thou art miserable, poor, and blind. Yea, even destituted of my spirit, saith God. But yea, I warn thee ahead of time, saith the Lord. For yea, shaven has sifted many, saith God. Yea, many still desire to sift, even as we did sifted, saith the Lord.
But yea, even all the day long, yea, my arms, yea, is stretched out still. Yea, I say, come unto me, Yea, and cry unto thy God, saith thy God. And yea, if my people who are called by my name, yea, if they will pray and humble, yea, even number themselves, saith the Lord, yea, thou shalt hear from heaven, thou shalt see the move of thy God, yea, even in this city, even in this tabernacle, saith the Lord. For behold, Satan has come down, saith the Lord. Yea, and he's slow and discourse, saith thy God.
And yea, I doth behold even the evil, and I doth see the good. I see thy steadfastness. Yea, I see those that have been faithful, even unto my words, saith God. Yea, and I will bless them, saith. The Lord, and I will prosper their righteousness, saith our God.
Yea, I say, cry, cry even for the Lord. And remember that even in the times, yea to come, yea, the wicked shall be verd between the righteous, and they shall see those that fear the Lord, and those that serve their God, and they shall see that thou art blessed, even of thy God. Yea, but those yea who will go in their own ways and follow their own heart, saith the Lord, and will not seek and acknowledge thy God. Yea, nor thou knock, yea, destruction lieth ahead, even for thy soul, saith the Lord. For behold, saith the Lord thy God, I stretch my hand out towards this nation and this city and to my church.
And I say unto this nation, return, return unto me. And I say unto the city, return. And I say unto my church, return unto me, and rend thy heart and not thy garment. And come and let me anoint thine eyes with eyesapp. And let me let thee behold that the hourglass of eternity, the sands, yea, the sands ever were, or but a few that yet must trickle through.
The end shall come, yea, and many of your loved ones are not saved and will not be ready. And even many of ye have slipped back and thou art not ready.
So therefore, I say, examine thyself, yea, prove thine own self. See whether thou art in the faith. Remember the former days. Remember in the beginning when thy first love was for me and for souls. And she once shot.
Thou hast fallen and repent up and be thou zealous and do thy first works over. Return, return unto me, and I, I will give thee a fresh burden and a fresh anointing. Yea, I will anoint thee anew and afresh, and I shall place thee in the hedge, and thou shalt make up the gap. But I send my spirit up out into the highways and the byways of this nation and this city to see if I can find the man to see if I can find someone to stand in the hedge and make up the gap and plead for the people. And remember in the word that when I've sent and I sent the prophet and there was no one to stand in the hedge and make up the gap, therefore I destroyed them in my fury, saith the Lord God.
And again, I do send my prophet, I do send my messengers to cry to see if those people have an ear. To hear what the spirit has to say to the church, yea. And if thou wilt come, I will place thee in the hedge, I will place thee in the gap, I will anoint thy tongue, and thy heart, and thy spirit, and I will prevail, yea, for this generation, and for thy nation, and for thy city, and for those that are in the valley of decision and the clutches of darkness. And I will yet be gracious and merciful, for I extend yet a little space and a time of grace. And then, saith God, I will unbear my arm, I will unstretch my hand, and I will shake again this nation with a mighty shaking.
Behold, I said that I would startle the headlines, and I shall say of God, I shall, there shall be no peace. Yea, for if one more stop another starts in a larger scope and scale yea saith God I take away the idols of silver I take away the idols of gold I shall utterly cast down the idol of pleasure and the idol of whoredom and the idol of nakedness and the idol of lust and the idol of sex yeah and I shall wipe and rid the earth up of the whoreing spirit and of the spirit of fornication and homosexuality in which many say that it is of me and has a divine origin and I hate this sin I say I am against this sin yea it is a vile sin that's why they would not return me in their knowledge of their darkened hearts and their darkened minds that they might dishonor their bodies one with another Men with men working that which is unseemly, women with women, and men leaving the natural use of the woman, burning in their own lust. Yea, but I say that I gave them the just recompense. And I shall give this generation of whores and fornicators and of homosexuals. I shall give this generation of God-haters and righteous resistors and worshipers of silver and of gold their just recompense.
And know that my anger is kindled. Yea, to the lowest hell, I shall cast them out of my sight and rig the earth of their wicked looks and wicked ways. But behold, I give thee a chance again, church. I give thee a word of warning, for yet many of your loved ones are not in the sheepfold and not under the protecting cover of. The blood, and I give you another chance to awake.
Thou that sleepest. Arise from thy deadness, and I shall give thee light and life, and run you to the highways and the byways and the hedges, and lift up thy trumpet and cry aloud, and spare not, and sound the alarm, and let thy light shine before this darkened sin and lust craze city and nation and generation, and warn them whether they will hear or whether they will not hear. But be it known that I shall send a prophet, yea, that shall call and cry out. And I look for ye again, my little ones, to be my instruments and implements and my vessels. I say, come and seek my face.
Come and rend thy heart. Come and again present thy bodies. Present thy being as a living sacrifice. Unto me, yea, hold not and shrink not back, but make it a whole and a complete sacrifice unto me. And I will give thee a fresh and a new anointing.
Yea, and I shall make thy tongue as the wise and the scourdy and the learned. For I will give thee a spirit and a wisdom by which thine enemies shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. And I shall use thee to give a mighty witness. I shall give a mighty witness. And in confirming, I shall give a mighty confirmation.
No, know that I hold back and give a space of grace. But I say, I will not hold back and forbear forever. For I must judge the wicked, and I must judge this nation and this generation. For I have a work, and I have a word that must be fulfilled. For every eye shall be dotted, and every T shall be crossed, and I shall finish it.
For behold, I shall do a quick work in a short time, for I shall cut it short in righteousness. Therefore, I come down and warn thee again, my people. I warn thee of what lies ahead, yea, so that thou mightest get in thy prayer closet and turn thy face toward me and lift up thy voice and cry aloud. And I will be gracious, and I will hear, and I will move. I will hear thy prayer.
For know that the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man still avails much. Therefore, I say, Come, come, and seek my face. And in the day that thou seekest me with all of thy heart, in that moment, thou shalt find me the same. Thou shalt find my son the same yesterday, today, and forever. A gracious God, slow to anger, plenteous to mercy, but a God whose eye is upon the Righteous, whose ear is open to their call, but also a God who is angry with the wicked every day.
And I am angry with this generation, and especially this nation and this city. Yea, I am very angry.
However, I say, be not slow forth, but be ye diligent and come so that I might place thee in the hitch, and that I might put thee in the gap, lest my anger bowl over, lest I spew out and break out upon this nation. Yea, and I might be breaking. Come, saith the Lord God, and I, I will reveal myself, I will manifest myself. And if thou wilt not come, then I will stretch my hand out against thee, and I will remove thy silver, and I will take thy gold, and I will take away thy pleasures, and I will put thee in a very tight spot, and I will put my hand upon thee and press down until thou wilt cry for thine own soul, if not for thy city, and thy loved ones, and thy nations. Come and let me bless thee and let me make thee a blessing.
And come and take my yoke, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. And thou shalt find rest for thy soul. Come, come, for my word is still yea. All of my promises are still yea. And amen in my son, Christ Jesus.
Yea, for if, if ye, my people, will humble thyself and pray and turn from thy wicked ways and seek my face. Yes, I will hear. I will hear from heaven. I will forgive thee of thy sins, that backslidings, thy failings, thine iniquities, and I will send healing unto thy land, unto thy nation, unto thy city, unto thy loved ones, unto thy household. For I, the Lord thy God, I have spoken, saith the Lord.
Yes, Lord. Come on, saints. Come on and seek God with me. Come on, organists. Come on, while God is still calling.
Oh, God is still extending mercy. Oh, let me. Let's obey God. Don't turn him away in the night. Don't turn him away.
Don't shut God out. Open up your heart. Pass me not, O general Savior. God, don't pass Baltimore. Don't pass America.
Don't pass my house. Don't pass my brothers. Don't pass my sisters. Don't pass the loved ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Amen. What an inspiring word of encouragement by God's servant Brother Hardy, the tight spots of a Christian. The Scripture says, Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all.
Now the term afflictions does not refer to a sickness, but rather to a narrow, confining place, as though you are being squeezed or as Apostle Paul described, being pressed in the spirit, and even pressed out of measure in other words, a tight spot. Many are the tight spots of a Christian, but God has promised to deliver us out of every one. 1 Corinthians 10.4 states, There is no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man. But God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that which you are able, but with the temptation will also make a way to escape that you may be able to endure. Child of God, your tight spot will not destroy you because God is faithful to bring you out.
And James reminded us that we have the examples of the Old Testament saints who also suffered great afflictions and they did so with patience. And Peter stated that the same afflictions, the very same tight spots, are accomplished in our brethren around the world. We believe this message is one you might need to hear again, or you may know someone who is in a tight spot that you want to share it with. It can be ordered on CD for a love gift of $10 or more for the Radio Ministry. Request Offer 127 and mail to Archie Hardy Ministries, P.O.
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