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Good morning, good morning. This is the Old Trailblazer broadcast coming to you once again from the Metropolitan Tabernacle, 501 Opelousas Avenue in old Algiers in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is Pastor Albert Fendoris, the Old Trailblazer, coming back this morning with another message from God's Word. We're looking at a study, a new study on the preacher. Yes, the Lord laid these studies on my heart to bring you a study on the preacher. God's man, God's preacher is the apple of God's eye. Did you know that? Listen, the Bible says, Touch not God's anointed. Do you know that you need to be careful about what you say and do and how you reflect and throw off on the pastor, on God's man? Listen, my friend, if your pastor is a saved man, you better honor that man. That's right, you better honor him in all things. The Bible says, Touch not God's anointed. Oh, I've seen folks who rebel against God, rebel against God's pastor, and the Lord will strike them down. The Lord will put them down flat on their back. in order to teach them to keep their long, long tongue in their mouth. That's right. Oh, listen, how many pastors have been demoralized and dehumanized by some long tongue, my friend. Oh, listen, listen, the Lord give us grace here at Radio Mission to preach the Word of God as it is to men as they are, and ask the Lord to break rebellion in the hearts of our folks. And He has. He's doing that thing. We're bringing you a study, as I said, on the preacher, And the preacher and his salvation. No preacher, no pastor is ever called to preach the gospel unless he's saved. Oh no, no no. We were asked in our last study, are you saved pastor? Have you been saved? Christ only saved lost sinners. Have you ever been lost? Let's look at your heart from another angle. Can you go back to the time when you were made to mourn over your transgressions according to Psalms 51.3? I wish you'd read that verse. And you were made to lie at the feet of Christ, crying for deliverance from all of those transgressions? Have you ever seen your sins? Have you ever seen your sins? Do you ever read Pilgrim's Progress? Do you remember the day that the burdens rolled away, rolled off his back, rolled down the hill, rolled into the sea of forgetfulness? What not a great day, my friend? My pastor friend, my deacon friend, my Sunday school teacher, what not a great day? Or are you still carrying that burden around? Or maybe you've never seen a burden. Maybe you've never had a burden. Maybe you just joined some church some day and now you've been sitting in the amen corner, sitting in the choir, playing the piano, playing the organ, whatever, and you're just like a bump on a stump. You don't know nothing about the Lord. My friend, listen, to know the Lord is the greatest thing that ever happens to an individual. I hear these radio preachers, and I'm not critical of them, because I know that they're blinded. But I hear them. They're out there harping and harping and harping on the things that they know nothing about. They don't talk about the Lord. Do you hear any of them talk about the Lord? I listen to some of the radio preachers on Sunday night, maybe when I'm tired and weary and can't sleep. I listen to two or three of them. They never mention the Lord. They never mention Christ dying for sin. No, it's a program. It's a program. Joke-telling program. That's right. They open their broadcast with a joke. They say it loosens up their people. Well, they'll be loosened up in hell, my friend, and you'll be there with them if you keep that up. Listen now, if you can't go back to that time, you can't say you're saved, let me ask you another question. Have you ever been made pastor, preacher, to see your guilty distance from God? that you were a sinner by nature, that you love sin, and that God wrote hard things about you according to Jeremiah 17 9? Did you ever see that you were wrong inside, out, and outside in? That you were rebellious against God, according to Romans 8, 7, and that you hated God? Have you ever seen those things? Have you ever seen that scripture where it says, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? O wretched man that I am! That was the Apostle Paul. Listen, listen, listen now. Were you ever made to mourn and weep in bitterness of one who has lost their firstborn, according to Zechariah 12.10? Have you ever been made to see and to feel and to know that you had no righteousness, that all your self-righteousness were but filthy rags, according to Isaiah 64.6, and that you had no covering for your sin? Have you ever been Uncovered, my friend? Have you ever been in a room changing clothes or dressing and someone inadvertently opened the door and there you were without any covering on? That's embarrassing, isn't it? Have you ever been that way spiritually? I have. I saw myself naked like Adam and Eve did. The Lord called them and they said, we hid because we were naked. Have you ever seen that, my friend? We don't have any covering outside the righteousness of Christ. He's our covering. His righteousness covers us like the new-morn snow covers this mountainside. Oh, my friend, listen. Have you ever been made to lie at the feet of Christ, hungering after His righteousness? Now, I know I may be breaking new ground here, but that's what the old trailblazer does. He goes down the unbeaten path. He's not on a beaten path. We get off of that beaten path. That path is beaten down so much by the emissaries of hell tripping and chopping up and down this world. In the religious circles, the Huskers are out there harping for money, money, money, money. That's all it is. It's like the fellow said, follow the money. And I see it in the newspaper where they have... Scoundrel with the money I saw where a man the other day took $700,000 of one of our famous TV evangelist money and and live wine women and song with it man to make a good back stick in hell my friend and then call himself a minister a minister of whatever he called himself, but listen listen Oh to be clothed with the righteousness of Christ according to Philippians 3 7 Oh, I wish you'd look at that verse. I'm asking some pertinent questions here this morning. I know that. I'm not going off on a tangent. I want you to sit up and listen. Perk up your ears and listen. And let me say this. You may be the pastor of the biggest church in New Orleans. You may be the pastor of the biggest church in Algiers, or Chicago, or Baltimore, or Atlanta, or Cincinnati. You may be a head deacon. But have you ever been saved? Just because you've got a frocktail coat on don't mean you're saved. Just because you've got a long flowing road with some green and yellow and purple and red streamers hanging around the backside of it, and standing on a podium that runs around and around, and folk can see you all the way around. That don't mean you're saved, fella. That don't mean a thing in this world. Are you saved? Or are you just somebody that promoted you to Dr. So-and-so, Dr. This, and Dr. That? Oh, no. Listen, folk. Listen. Listen. Listen. Let me tell you about the fella that wrote me a letter. He said, Pastor Pendarvis, he said, since you're the voice of truth, we have a radio broadcast by that title, since you're the voice of truth, I need to ask you a couple of questions. And one of them was, who was Keynes, why? Now, my friend, everybody with a grain of sense knows who Cain's wife was. That's right. Most folks don't talk about it. But Cain's wife was his sister. There's no question about it. That's the only family that was on this earth. But this fellow, he was so smart. He said, I'd just love for you to tell me who Cain's wife was. And he said, I'm a doctor of divinity, and I have an LTD and an LPSD and all this, and a PhD pending. And he said, since you're the voice of truth, I'd just like for you... So I wrote him back and I said, my dear friend, usually we don't answer this kind of letters because it's only a fool will respond to a fool. But I said, my old dad told me back when I was a young man coming up, he said, son, a fool can ask a question that a smart man can't answer. And that's what I say about you, fella. I don't have no LSDs and PhDs and all those things, nothing pending. I don't have anything pending. I'm like Pastor Shelton said, all I have behind my name is a DD, and that stands for dead dog. That's right. That's what that DD stands for behind my name, dead dog. But my friend, God, God doesn't call a person that misrepresents him. He doesn't, just like I said in our last study. We're going to get into maybe a study one morning on that woman preacher. That's the most damnable, abominable thing that's sweeping our nation. We had a man here in New Orleans the other day, stood up and took issue with that, said, a woman can preach, and a woman can do this, and a woman can be the bishop, and a woman can be this. But my friend, he'll just wake up in hell. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's misrepresenting God. God never called him to misrepresent him. No, sir. No, sir. Listen. Have you ever been made to feel and know and acknowledge your heart of unbelief? Have you ever wrestled with unbelief? Have you? Oh, listen. You were made to cry out for faith. Lord, give me faith to believe. Break this damnable will of mine. Break this hard heart of mine. There was a time, there was a time when you could repent, but now you can't. Listening, coming to the Lord. And listen, there was a time when maybe you could believe, but now you're made to cry out, Lord, help my unbelief. Give me faith to believe. Mark 9, 24. My friend, if you haven't, you cannot say that you're saved. If you haven't been down that road of Holy Spirit conviction where you came to see yourself as lost, depraved, totally undone, totally without any strength, you can't say you're saved. The Lord only called and only saved lost sinners. Have you ever been lost? Do you know anybody in your church that's lost? Do you have anybody in your Sunday school, your adult Sunday school, who's lost? I have folks here, when I ask them, anybody here lost? And hands go up all over the audience. Oh, you say, well, why aren't they saved? Because they won't come to Christ. I preach my heart out, pour out my heart here, day in, day out, and they won't come to Christ. They're lost. They know they're lost, but it never has dawned on them that they could come to Christ. that Christ died for lost sinners. Oh, my friend, listen. That's the reason the preacher cannot tell others how to be saved. He's never been there himself. Have you ever heard a fellow trying to tell something he don't know what he's talking about? You know what it sounds like? Back when we as a child, we'd put a couple of acorns in a syrup bucket and rattle them to make racket, aggravate my mom and dad. But that's what it sounded like, one of these preachers that can't tell you. The Bible says, always be ready to have a given account of the hope that you have within you, and I don't hear these fellows doing that. Many of them are rattling around, and rattle, and rattle, and rattle around, and their programs are so cut and dry, they have to sing 18 verses of a song trying to get somebody to come down to the front, or they have announcements that last about 20 minutes, and recognizing every old lady and every old man in the audience, the oldest one, one with most children, one with the biggest hat, And they do that until the preacher's got about 12 minutes to preach, and then he gets up and brings a little sermonette and leaves off about five minutes to give an invitation. My friend, that's not God's man. God's man sees through that. No, sir. No, sir. We don't do that. No, we come here to preach the gospel, not to do all of those things. Oh, we love our folks. We love our mothers and dads, and we recognize them, we honor them, but we don't do it during their service. No, that's a different time. That's a different time. We come here to preach the gospel. This tradio mission, this tabernacle, this old tabernacle here where we bring the message, is dedicated unto getting out the gospel. to bringing God's message, to calling on sinners to repent, and to probe your heart to see if you know the Lord. And now this study that we're bringing is on the pastor, the preacher, his salvation, his calling, his salvation. Are you saved, pastor? Deacon, are you saved? Did you know a deacon has a mighty, mighty awesome responsibility, my friend? Did you know that? Did you know the song leader has an awful responsibility? He stands before his audience out here and leads these great old blood songs. He better know the Lord. How can you stand up and lead a song or sing a song you don't know what you're talking about? He said, we sang that song, there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. If you don't know nothing about it, you better not be singing it. Listen, folk. Worst thing in the world, a hypocrite. No, that's right. There's no other sin, I don't believe, worse than the hypocrite. So I face you again with this question in the closing moments here of our broadcast. Have you been born again? Have you been born again? Have you ever been born again? Have you ever come to the place of a lost sinner, looking, longing, wanting to be saved, and the Lord delivered you? I'll bring you doom and gloom, folks. The Lord's able to save to the uttermost. We had an old man who said, even to the guttermost. That's right. And we had another old man here, half French, half Italian, spoke with broken English, couldn't read nor write, and he said, come clean, come clear, go to hell. Come clean, come clear, go to hell. And I tell you this morning, pastor, preacher, layman, deacon, usher, whoever you are, that's right, choir director, piano player, Come clean. Come clear. Go to hell. I'm going to be true to your soul, my friend. You can turn the message off. Turn the radio off. Go on out. Stomp on out. Get in your 18-wheeler and roar off down the road. Say, I won't have that guy to tell me that I'm a sinner. Well, I don't tell you a sinner. I'm asking you, do you know the Lord? I'm asking you, are you saved? If you're not, you're on your way to hell. Now, we might well be honest. We don't have many folks being honest with you today, do you? Do you hear anybody being honest with you, my friend? I look you in the eye. I look my folks in the eye here and say, you know the Lord? If you don't, you're lost. And if you're lost, you're going to hell. If you miss heaven, you're going to hell. Oh, my friend, if you miss Christ, You're going to miss heaven. This is the Old Trailblazer, Pastor Alva Pendoris. Oh, it's been so, it's so good to be with you. I know maybe I get all riled up sometimes, but my heart is kind, my heart is tender, and I love you, and I long after you. Will you sit down and write me? My mailing address is the Old Trailblazer, Post Office Box 6250, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70174. Goodbye, and God bless you.