Originally Posted by Brother Strange
Thank you.
I used to love hearing the "Whole Truth Broadcast," eminating from the sanctuary of the Apostolic Square at 25th and Bainbridge Streets in the heart of downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the world's largest Apostolic Sanctuary.
He was so anointed in his preaching...thought totally messed up on some of his weird doctrines.
He preached that if you divorced you wife and married another, you could not be saved. Even if the woman that you divorced was now married to another man, she is still your wife. If you are going to be have a wife at all, you had to reconcile to your first wife and remarry the woman. To have another wife, regardless of the circumstances, you were going as straight to hell as a Martin to his gourd.
But, I dearly loved the man for one reason...he was probably the stoutest, most profound, absolute messenger of the One God message as there ever was, rivaled by only one man...G.A. Mangun. Bishop Mangun greatly loved him too, for that one reason. I remember when S.C. Johnson died unexpectedly down in Jamaica, it greatly disturbed brother Mangun. He grieved over his loss for a while. Never a stouter preacher of this GREAT, GREAT ONE GOD MESSAGE.
Preachers...if you want the anointing to return. PREACH IT! I heard one reknown preacher among us respond to a saint that wanted to hear that preaching, "Well, is there anything about the Oneness that you don't understand?" The reknown preacher missed the point. The point is; God is in the message. God comes down and visits among the people during the preaching among those who receive it. It is the highest order of preaching there is, for there is no god but the Lord God, who is above all.
Well, preaching that message very much, you might set up an earthquake or two, but keep preaching it until everything that can be shaken is shaken until that which cannot be shaken is firmly fixed to the rock...Christ Jesus. It'll work. I once thought that G. A. Mangun has totally lost his ever-loving-mind. All he could preach for weeks on end was ONE GOD. Wow! Did it ever have its affect! That old church on 16th and Day streets just off Bolton avenue was visited with a white hot, twisting pillar of fire that lasted for many years. People were slain. People were healed. The power and the glory of the Lord was mightly manifested. Some people who have walked though the doors for the first time, have falled to the floor from the lingering afterglow of God's presence there. Those old timers, including ME, will never, never forget it.
Some wonder why I lament and weep! OH GOD! If they only knew.
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