(PFYC 2025) Rev. Enoch Snow- “A passion for the old fashion”

A spiritual hunger is stirring among young believers today—not for innovation, but for authenticity. While our culture obsessively pursues the newest trends, there's a countermovement valuing what's proven, meaningful, and lasting. This powerful sermon explores this fascinating tension.

Rev. Enoch Snow takes us on a journey through the rich heritage of Pentecostal revival, beginning with the compelling story of Charles S. Price, a skeptical Methodist pastor who reluctantly attended an "old-fashioned Holy Ghost meeting" only to have his life transformed. This historical touchpoint serves as a mirror for our current spiritual climate where many have seen religious expressions without experiencing their transformative power.

Against our backdrop of rapid technological advancement—where knowledge doubles yearly and trends rise and fall within hours—Bishop identifies a surprising trend: Generation Z shows remarkable interest in vintage items, traditional practices, and proven ways of life. The most expensive possessions in our world aren't new creations but ancient treasures, suggesting that perhaps what's old carries more lasting value than what's novel.

The heart of this message examines a critical distinction between religious expression and spiritual experience. Using colorful metaphors like the "top hat" (which once signified character but became merely fashion) and powerful concepts like giving God "lock, stock, and barrel," Bishop challenges us to move beyond empty religious symbolism to authentic transformation. His personal testimony of being changed from a shy, backward boy to a Spirit-filled preacher demonstrates that genuine encounters with God remain available today.

Whether you're feeling spiritually dry, hungry for more authentic faith, or simply curious about what real revival looks like, this message offers both challenge and hope. The ancient promise of Joel—"I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh"—isn't just history; it's a living invitation to every generation. Are you ready to rediscover the power of old-fashioned Holy Ghost religion?

Chapters

• 1:40 Introduction to Holiness Preaching
• 4:10 The Pentecostal Experience Story
• 13:40 Explaining the Holy Ghost Outpouring
• 21:55 Our Obsession with New Things
• 30:25 The Value of Old-Fashioned Faith
• 38:10 Lock, Stock, and Barrel Religion
• 46:10 The Importance of Praying Through
• 53:05 The Shekinah Glory Experience

Transcript

Speaker 1: 1:21

Hey everybody, this is Brother Jacob Bishop from Waynesville, ohio, coming to you on behalf of Holiness Preaching Online. Today we want to present to you another wonderful sermon from a great Pentecostal holiness preacher. So, wherever you are, sit back and prepare to be blessed by the Word of God. Thank you all, and may God keep you and bless you today.

Speaker 2: 1:52

At PFYC this year, 2025, and God has already met with us in a wonderful way. And, for those that have responded, I was walking around the altar this morning praying for different ones and seeing many just in tears and the power of the Holy Ghost falling on them and seeing God moving already. So I believe that God's going to meet us even in a greater way throughout the remainder of this meeting and bless our hearts every altar service that we come to. Don't you believe that? Amen? I just want to say what an honor it is to be able to minister here tonight and appreciate so much for the web brother Ralston, brother Brim and brother Sanders, and it's a great privilege to be able to serve with them, appreciate them so very much and the confidence to be able to ask us tonight. We're honored to be here and just believing that God is going to meet us in this altar in a special way. It's a great privilege to have my mother and father with me here this year and I give my father and mother honor and appreciate them so very much being here. Two of my brothers are here tonight and love and appreciate my wife and family. So thankful for them and give honor to my pastor tonight for being here. Just believe in God's going to minister to every one of us. So many different churches. But I know that we're at PFYC and you know Charles S Price tells in his book the Story of my Life about how he was a Methodist pastor.

Speaker 2: 3:25

He was a Methodist pastor and a known critic of the Pentecostal movement that was going on in California. He had some of his parishioners that had slipped down and went to what was advertised as the old-fashioned Holy Ghost meeting. One day he was out on the lawn and an individual came up to him and was shouting Hallelujah, hallelujah, brother Price, hallelujah. He shook his hand and looked at him and said what has happened to you? And he went into another fit of hallelujahs as he gripped his hand, real strong, he said I've been saved, I've been saved, I've been saved. He said where have you been? He said I've been down to that old fashioned Holy Ghost meeting. I've been saved, I've been saved, hallelujah. Well, brother Price was skeptical, to say the least, until another friend came to him again to talk to him and convinced him to go to that old fashioned Holy Ghost meeting. He decided he'd go, but not without putting an advertisement in the local paper.

Speaker 2: 4:32

At the coming Sunday in that Methodist pulpit he was going to preach a message entitled Divine Healing Bubble Explodes. He went down to that old-fashioned Holy Ghost meeting, got down there. The crowd was massive underneath that tent 6,000 people there was that night, he said. I got there right after the pre-service. As he walked in, seen just a crowd standing there, nothing going on. As he elbowed his way up to see what was going on on the platform nothing going on to hold the crowd he turned and looked to a gentleman that was tall standing there beside him. He said what's going on? There's no program, there's something going on to hold all of these people. And he said they're waiting for the evening service. Hallelujah, they're waiting for the evening service. Charles Price smiled back at him and said well, that hallelujah business seems to be pretty general around here. It must be catching something like the measles. And that man laid his hands on Charles Price's shoulder with a grip like a vice and said son, this is a good place to get the hallelujahs. You stick around here and it'll get you for sure. Well, I got good news for you you come to PFYC this year. This is a good place to get the hallelujahs. I'd like to see the hallelujahs fold all the way from the front of this place to the back. How about you? Would you meet me tonight? Let's gather around.

Speaker 2: 6:00

Acts, chapter number 2. Acts, chapter number 2 and verse number 12. Acts, chapter number 2 and verse number 12. When you find it, let's stand together for the reverence and the reading of God's Word. Praise God. Acts, chapter number 2, verse number 12. Through verse number 13.

Speaker 2: 6:29

The Bible says, and they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying one to another what meaneth this? Others, mocking, said these men are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto them Ye, men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words, for these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel, and it shall come to pass. In the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants and on my handmaids I will pour out in those days of my Spirit and they shall prophesy If the Lord would help me.

Speaker 2: 7:36

Just tonight, I want to preach to you on this simple topic, this simple thought a passion for the old fashioned, a passion for the old fashioned. Let's pray together. Thank you, lord, for this glorious opportunity to be here together. Lord, this building is your sanctuary tonight and we thank you, god, for what you are done and what you are going to do. God, we pray that you would move across this place. Don't leave one space in this place unoccupied with the glory of heaven. Feel this place.

Speaker 2: 8:10

I pray with your power and your anointing. I pray, god, that you would make every youth pastor, every pastor that has brought their people here, every youth leader, every one that has drove a van, make them an agent of the Holy Ghost to be an altar worker. God, we need a great revival in this hour and we cannot do it alone tonight, god. We need the cooperation and the unity of the church. I pray, god, that revival would break out In every family that's here. Revival would break out in every church, every youth group. I pray, god, that you would anoint us afresh. Move in the name of Jesus, bring healing, baptize in the Holy Ghost, save, deliver and set free and anoint us tonight for your glory and we'll give you the praise for it. And everybody said Amen, amen, you can be seated.

Speaker 2: 9:01

Thank you for standing for the reading of God's Word the outpouring of the Holy Ghost that we started just after in our text. This was the explanation of Simon Peter on what meaneth this. What meaneth all this that's going on here in Jerusalem? The outpouring of the Holy Ghost. That happened in Acts, chapter number 2. The Holy Ghost was not a new invention. It was not something new that God thought up. As far as the person of the Holy Ghost, this is a new dispensation, but not a new invention. He is person of the Holy Ghost. This is a new dispensation, but not a new invention. He is God, the Holy Ghost. He is God eternal, without beginning or end. He has always been and he always will be with the Father, with the Son. He's the Ancient of Days. Amen, that Daniel talked about. With the Father and the Son. He's always been and he always will be. Though this is a new dispensation, this is not a new invention.

Speaker 2: 10:05

That happened at Pentecost, because you can trace back the record of the Holy Ghost all the way back to Genesis, chapter 1 and verse number 2. Bringing creation out of chaos. 4,000 years approximately before Pentecost. That was him Falling upon the elders in the camp. 1,000 years, 1,500 years before Pentecost. That was him Clothing Gideon with power. 1,200 years before Pentecost. That was Him coming upon Samson, anointing him to do mighty things. About 1,100 years before Pentecost. That was Him anointing Saul to prophesy Amen. About 1,500 years before Pentecost. Yes, that was the same Spirit of God, but here in the Old Testament the Holy Ghost had not yet been given in His fullness because Jesus had not yet been glorified. But after the resurrection, that glorious Sunday morning, the set time had come.

Speaker 2: 11:10

Pentecost had arrived, not by a surprise to God, but a fulfillment of ancient prophecy and promise. Isaiah would prophesy about it 700 years before Pentecost and said that there's going to be a people, amen. For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak unto this people. That is the Holy Ghost promise. But in Joel, chapter number 2. 800, some odd years before Pentecost, the prophet Joel would foresee an outpouring of God's glory, amen. And he would say and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour my spirit out upon all flesh.

Speaker 2: 11:54

I'm glad that this ain't no newfangled ideal. This is an old-fashioned amen. It's been from the beginning the plan of God to pour out the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is not a Pentecostal as a title ideal, it's not a preacher's theology, it's not a movement's made it's not a movement's made up mandate. It is God's plan and it is God's promise for this hour. What had been shadowed in the fire that fell on Mount Carmel, that is what's going to come out, not as a shadow but as a substance. What had been revealed in the cloud over the tabernacle now is going to be poured out in a greater measure upon the people of God. The prophecy was their promise, the shadow was their substance. He, the Holy Ghost, had come. Not just fire on us but fire in us. Not just wind around us but his breath breathing through us. Not just a visitation but a holy habitation.

Speaker 2: 13:05

I don't know about you, but I want that old fashioned Holy Ghost power. I said I want that old fashioned. I've got a passion in my heart to have that old fashioned glory of God. Now I realize that this generation is seeing new at a crazy level. We are obsessed with new. I realize that there's a great obsession with new things. Matter of fact, in the last two years, 90% of our data came into existence. In the last two years, trends that used to take years and even centuries to grow and to become a norm now rise and fall within 24 hours. Medical breakthroughs that are happening today are astounding. Once it took 13 years and $3 billion to map out the genetic code of a human being. Now it can be done within 24 hours with just $200. They are saying that our knowledge is doubling every year, every 12 months. With the new technology of AI, they are predicting that now, within 12 hours, within 12 hours, knowledge is going to be doubling.

Speaker 2: 14:31

But I'd like to stand and say to myself and to say to you that we are still in business because of an old fashioned power of God. I'll be honest, I still think of myself as young. Matter of fact, I stand flat footed and say I am. I'm still young, and about a year ago, we was at a family gathering at Christmas and I was hanging out with all of my young nephews and nieces and they was using all these words. You know they was talking. They would say things like cap no, cap, sick, talking. They would say things like cap, no, cap, sick riz. I mean they're saying stuff like low key, high key, and they're not even playing music. They're using terms. And I'm standing there they're saying slaps and drip, and I'm looking at the sink. I'm standing there, they're saying slaps and drip and I'm looking at the sink. I'm wondering what is going on.

Speaker 2: 15:40

All these new words, this new vocabulary, it kind of got to me so I thought I'm going to pull out an old one. Surely they're still saying this. They showed me a picture. I'd already planned this. I knew I was going to say it.

Speaker 2: 15:58

I said something that was cool back in the day. You know, well, it was only 15 years ago. I said it and they just kind of looked, you know, like huh. I was like, oh, they didn't get that. So I said it again and they still didn't get it. And so I said it again and they still didn't get it. And so I said it again and there was just that feeling in the air Like we're not going to say nothing. He's our uncle, you know. It's like oh. So I said do y'all even know what that means? To my utter amazement, every one of them in that circle said no, I've never heard it. I was like what? This is what everybody said when I was coming up. Everybody said I'm still feeling, you know I'm with you, you know I'm with you. No, so I asked all the guys and then none of them said yes. So I went over and I kept asking. I kept. So I asked all the guys and then none of them said yes. So I went over and I kept asking. I went to every single one of them that was at that gathering and not one of them understood my expression.

Speaker 2: 17:05

This is the point that there's a lot of things that are changing, there's a lot of expressions that are changing, but there's one thing that has not changed, and I found some interesting things with Generation Z. Though we are changing our expressions, generation Z is possessing a great desire for the old-fashioned. It's amazing to me, with all the things that are coming on, I've done just a little research to find out that the most expensive things that have ever sold Is not new things but old things. A 500 year painting sold for 450.3 million dollars. The most expensive car that ever sold Was a 1955 Mercedes Ben. That sold for $143 million. An 18th century cabinet just a cabinet sold for $36.7 million. A 1711 cello musical instrument went for over $20 million. An original printing of the 1787 Declaration of Independence sold for $43.2 million and, by the way, you don't have to pay that Get on Amazon it's $1.99. Free shipping for a new one.

Speaker 2: 18:25

But we have showed ourselves that there is more value in the old than there is in the new, than there is in the new. If you do your research, you'll find out that millennials and Gen Z are showing a surprising trend that is astounding the market. They have shown a trend to be fond of the old-fashioned. We got homesteaders and gardening, preserving food that is on the rise. Stay at home moms is on a 25% increase and they say it's happening in newly marrieds and millennials. There is a global market Amen.

Speaker 2: 19:07

For reselling clothes. It is up 30% Last year for resale. They said they've done a survey with Gen Z's and 89% of Gen Z's prefer vintage clothing and are open to buy and use older clothing Praise God, I'm going to tell you and lifestyles of the past, not because they're outdated, but because they're proven, they're meaningful and they're lasting. Simply put, they're going back to them because they work. I said they work. Sixty-five million dollars is what the economy says the antique market is worth and they are still trying to figure out. But they say because of the 9% increase in the last year, they are blaming it on the infatuation of the younger generation that wants to go back to the old time way.

Speaker 2: 20:13

I believe I came to Pigeon Forge on a Thursday night and I'm looking at some young people that's got a passion. I said you've got a passion for the old fashioned Hallelujah. I know that there's a lot of things that are coming that are being outdated very quickly, but let me just simply say the gospel may be ancient but it's still active. Holiness may be old school, but it's still on God's schedule. The cross may be a classic, but it's still conquering. The Bible may be historic, but it's still heaven sent. The church may be traditional, but it's still transformational. The altar may be an antique, but it's still transformational. The altar may be an antique but it's still adequate. I scream out give me that, give me that old time. Somebody, help me tonight, give me that old time. Religion, help me tonight. Lord, I want you to notice the accusation in the text. These men Are drunk on new wine. They're intoxicated With a worldly substance.

Speaker 2: 21:36

There's a lot of accusations Throughout the New Testament church. Matter of fact, in Acts You'll find at least 11 of them that are notable. Here they accuse them of being drunk on new wine Acts 6, he's going to accuse Stephen of speaking blasphemous words. In Acts chapter number 16, accused him of exceedingly troubling the city. In Acts number 17 and 6, accused him of turning the world upside down. In Acts chapter number 24, accused Paul of being a ringleader in a sect of Nazareth. In Acts 21, accused him of polluting this holy place. In Acts chapter number 24 and 5, a mover of seditions. And in Acts 26, he would accuse him of being beside himself and mad. In Acts chapter number 19, he accused Paul of trying to bankrupt the economy in the city there. Amen.

Speaker 2: 22:29

The mockers in this text were accusing them of being intoxicated with ungodliness, intoxicated with something that was not godly and was forbidden. Amen by the word of God. Praise God In Proverbs. We still stand against alcoholic drinks. He was accusing them of being intoxicated with something that's worldly. Woe to the church when the world's executions are accurate. Woe to the church when the enemy can accuse us of being intoxicated on worldliness. And it be true In this case. It was not so. But I'm looking for a generation that has a passion to say I'm not going to be intoxicated with the world, I'm not going to be intoxicated with ungodliness. Yes, you can be intoxicated on more things than just liquor.

Speaker 2: 23:28

We have watched it in this day where we have seen people that are intoxicated with entertainment. They are drunk on entertainment. That's why they can't concentrate. They can't focus on anything because their mind is so intoxicated with entertainment. You need to stop being entertained by what is taking place in other people's privacy. You need to stop being entertained Amen With the worldly entertainments that the enemy is trying to shove down our throats. That's why we feel the pressure to keep it so fast-paced. We've got to keep their attention. We've got to compete with Hollywood. We've got to compete with Nashville. Come on now. You know I'm telling you the truth and we're trying to get you to sober up enough that you're not so intoxicated with worldliness. God, I know you've come to help me tonight.

Speaker 2: 24:22

Praise God, entertainment is not necessarily a sin to be entertained, but it's what you're being entertained with. What happened to be entertained with family time and church functions, glory to God and getting together and sharing communication Besides text. Come on, hallelujah, amen, you can get together and have fun. There's more to entertainment than a screen. I refuse to be entertained by a Satan worshiper, devil possessed, idle, living devil that's going to try to make its money off of the innocent minds of people because they are on the devil's team. I'm not going to be entertained by the devil's propaganda. I'm not going to take pleasure in them. That do I'm not. God, have mercy here, don't make me Amen. We're so entertained with murder. We're entertained with adultery. We're entertained with cursing and ungodliness. Do you realize you're laughing about stuff that Jesus died for? You're being entertained with things that sent Christ to the cross. You need to be sobered up. I said you need to be sobered up.

Speaker 2: 25:50

Forgive me for going back to my old roots. In those old altar service days Right there at Ida Bell, we had a plethora of drunks that would come in quite regularly and they'd come down and start to pray. And those old timers, they wouldn't let us wildfires take advantage of it. They'd get in there and say now listen, we got to get them sober before we can get them saved. We got to get them sober before we can get them saved. We got to get them sober before we can get them saved. And that's the problem with some of our churches. We're so intoxicated with ungodliness, oh hallelujah. We're so intoxicated with the world, but I come tonight to say give me that old-fashioned Holy Ghost. I wish I had somebody that wanted an old-fashioned move of God in this house tonight.

Speaker 2: 26:47

Since 1984, you have had to be 21 years old in the United States. To purchase an alcoholic beverage, an intoxicating drink. You must be 21 years old. Yet I am seeing our 13 and 14 year olds Intoxicated. Come on now. Can't talk, can't listen, can't give in. They're intoxicated with gaming. They're intoxicated with worldly dresses, dressing. They're intoxicated with Taylor Swift. They're intoxicated with pop culture. They're intoxicated with pop culture. They're intoxicated with country music. Glory to God, my God, in the name of Jesus. You know that reason some of you are driving so recklessly spiritually and reason why some of you are dating people that you know don't have your best interests in mind. It's because you're so intoxicated with ungodliness that I feel that old fashioned. I feel that old fashioned glory that says God, sober them so you can save them. Hallelujah, oh God, oh, hallelujah.

Speaker 2: 28:07

Simon Peter, on the other hand, did not deny the accusation that they were under the influence, but he just clarified what the influence was. These are not drunken, as he supposed. They're under an influence. It's just not the kind of influence you think it is. It's an influence that came down at Pentecost, that calls Peter and John to say such as I have, give I thee, and a lame man went leaping and running and praising God. It's the kind of influence that while he spake in Acts, chapter number 4, the place was shaken where they were assembled together. It's the influence that puts fire in your bones and boldness on your lip.

Speaker 2: 29:00

Influence that makes you pray when others are just walking away. Influence that makes you pray when others are just walking away. Influence that keeps you and helps you say no when the devil is the one doing the talking. Influence that keeps you praising when everything is pressing. Influence that helps you make the right decisions, marry the right wife, marry the right husband, choose the right job. Oh, somebody help me tonight. It's the truth. It's the guidance that will guide you into all truth. Influence that fills conviction when compromise is more convenient. Influence that helps you live pure when nobody else will and it's unpopular. Influence that makes you spirit led when others are just trend fed.

Speaker 2: 29:44

I want that old fashioned Holy Ghost anointed. I don't care if my hair gets messed up, I don't care if my shoes get scuffed. I'm under the influence of the Holy Ghost. Notice Simon Peter's answer. That's from the ancient. This is that. This is that.

Speaker 2: 30:11

Simon Peter stood up on Pentecost, placed one hand on his heart and one hand on the promise and said this is that blessed is the man who can put one hand on his heart and one hand on the word and say this is that not like that? Not some of that, not kind of that. This is that you can have a certainty that what you have in your heart Is what was promised by the old time prophet. This Is that. Oh, glory to God. I feel that passion growing in this house tonight. I said I feel it growing.

Speaker 2: 30:58

We are in danger in this hour Of keeping the expressions and losing our experience. Where we say I'm Pentecostal by expression or by experience, I'm holiness by experience. I almost have to start asking this Are you holiness by expression or are you holiness by experience? I'm sanctified by expression or by experience. Come on, help me here. I'm, holy Ghost, filled An expression or an experience. Peter didn't use Joel's expression to vindicate some emotional, ungodly act. He vindicated what was happening by putting his hand on both and saying I got the prophecy and I got the promise. I got the promise and I've got the power. I don't want just an expression, I want a Holy Ghost experience. Help me tonight, god. Oh, glory to God.

Speaker 2: 32:09

Frank William Borum tells in his book when Swans Fly High about the top hat. He said that in those days the top hat, when it first came around, stood for dignity, respectability and honor. In short, the man with the hat had his life together, his bills was paid and his character was vindicated. The man with the top hat had a character, but as time rolled on, the tragedy of the symbol outliving the substance took place again, and robbers and thieves and crooks got enough money to buy the hat, but they didn't get enough to clean their heart up. They got enough to purchase a hat to wear. They bought the clothes, they bought the costume, but they never changed the inside. Oh, glory to God.

Speaker 2: 33:01

There's nothing quite as disappointing as pulling out your favorite candy and grabbing that piece that looks so good, only to open it and realize it's container. Only, come on now. That's all it is is the container. There's no content on the inside. There is a generation that's rising up that does not care if the container looks right to the public eye. Come on now. They've got a passion in their heart to say give me that glory from heaven, give me that old time power. That glory from heaven, give me that old time power. Oh God.

Speaker 2: 33:51

I went through our churches this year. Matter of fact, one of the brothers was talking to me last night out in Rocky Top from Jersey. I've talked to some and heard the reports that says we just buried another one of those fire starters. We just buried I know that Bethel Chapel, amen, just buried one of those old saints of God that would start a move of God when nothing was shaken, that would pray when nobody else would pray. I'm going to tell you right now we need this generation to rise to the occasion. I grew up with some old saints of God, some preachers that would use some expressions and over the past year and a half two years when I've been working on this little thought, I've watched some of the faces when they've been said from the pulpit and it's kind of like my nephews and nieces when I'm saying my outdated words.

Speaker 2: 34:48

Some old preachers that get up and say you got to give God lock, stock and barrel. Oh, come on, anybody ever heard that? Give God lock, stock and barrel, amen. And a few folks say yeah, and a lot of us say, oh, stock and barrel, amen. And a few folks say yeah, and a lot of us say, oh yeah, we don't have a clue. Amen, what a lock, stock and barrel is. Praise God, amen, hallelujah. It's like at my wedding when they were saying the vows and they said I pledge thee my troth. I thought I don't got a troth. Come on now, hallelujah, anybody with me tonight? Praise God, you got to give lock, stock and barrel to God. The old timers would say you know what that means. Amen. It's the lock, the firing mechanism of a gun, the stock that goes against your shoulder, and the barrel. That means when you give somebody lock, stock and barrel, they got it all. They've got everything.

Speaker 2: 35:49

It's time for this generation to go back to lock, stock and barrel religion. Where God doesn't have some of me, he's got all of me. Sold out everything. I got Delmar G Meadows, brother Sutherland's aunt. She wrote a book called the Identity of God and in that little book a story is told when God was using her powerfully in a service and an old bootlegger. Come to that service and seen the Holy Ghost moving on her. He stood back there and said I'd give everything for what Downer G Meadows has. And somebody went and told her. She said that's exactly what it cost me. Glory to God. And if you want an old-fashioned move of God, it still takes lock, stock and barrel. It takes spirit, soul and barrel. It takes spirit, soul and mind. It takes body. I'm looking for somebody that's ready to give God lock, stock and barrel. Help me, jesus. Glory to God. Glory to God.

Speaker 2: 37:06

You know there's a man by the name of Hugh Price Hughes, an old Methodist preacher Back in the 1800s. He was a powerful preacher, became the president of the conference and one day, when he was 14 years old, he got saved. God put a passion in his heart to witness and he sold out to God. He preached his first sermon in a cottage service with just six people. They were all elders, amen, except two of his little buddies that came. He preached that message and his schoolmaster criticized him afterwards. But before Hugh Price Hughes would walk out of the room, he would say this that this boy will be the president of the conference. Oh, glory to God. He would go on. Amen. After that the Holy Ghost would deal with him and he would write a letter to his father. His father was a distinguished politician Amen.

Speaker 2: 38:06

J Gregory Mantle says that he held every political position in the town, a renounced surgeon that had plans of training Hughes for the bar. But Hughes would write his father after that experience and say this my dear father, I believe it is the will of God that I should be a Methodist preacher. Your affectionate son Hughes and his father would reply with this my dear boy, I'd rather you be a Methodist preacher than the Lord Chancellor of England. Your affectionate father John Hughes, I've got news for you. There's a generation that's coming up in this place that's got the potential to change the world, and I'd rather you be a Pentecostal preacher than the President of the United States. I'd rather you play that piano and play that drums and clap your hands than be a Hollywood star. I wish I had some mom and daddies that tell their children go, lock, stock and barrel, son. Go, lock, stock and barrel. I'm tired of giving bits and pieces. I'm ready for lock, stock and barrel. Go, lock, stock and barrel. I'm ready for lock, stock and barrel.

Speaker 2: 39:25

Those old saints would say something else. They'd say pray through, pray clear through or, as Brother Gabbard would say, pray, plumb through. We're all looking at them saying what's that pray through? I'm going to tell you it's an art that the enemy is trying to take from us. He's trying to get us to just pray up to instead of praying clear through.

Speaker 2: 40:02

I asked some elder preachers because of my age. I wanted their approval on what these statements meant. So I called some elder men of God. I asked them about this. Brother Gabbard said Amen, that praying through is praying till you get there. It's praying till you touch there. It's praying till you touch heaven. And you know you did. Oh glory to God, amen.

Speaker 2: 40:30

I asked Brother Russell McDonald. I said what's praying through mean? I said does it mean getting all the way? He said it means that you're in the throne room, that you're with the King. Oh glory to God, hallelujah.

Speaker 2: 40:44

I asked Brother BD Sutherland what praying through meant. He says it means you go all the way through. He said it's a faith thing that you know. I'm through. Oh glory to God. I'm going to tell you it's still the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man that availeth much. I'm just about to get through here. Oh glory to God. You've got to pray until you know you've touched heaven.

Speaker 2: 41:12

Pray through. Pray through the distractions, pray through the demonic attacks. Pray through depression. Pray through addictions. Pray through doubt. Pray through fear. You gotta be determined to not be denied. I gotta pray through when you hit a wall. Keep on praying.

Speaker 2: 41:32

When the devil says you can't have the Holy Ghost, pray through it. When the devil says you'll never get the Holy Ghost because you're not worthy, pray through it. Hey, you can get through it in the name of Jesus. I said you can get through it by the power of the Holy Ghost. Some of you've been seeking for an anointing. Pray through it. You've been seeking for a blessing. Pray through it. Oh glory to God. Oh glory to God. Somebody believe that you can pray through tonight. Oh God, right where you are, raise your hand. Ask God to help us across this house as we begin to make our way to this altar In just a moment. Speak to us, lord. Speak to us, lord. The Shekinah glory. I wish I had Brother Lynn Head here. The Shekinah glory of God. Amen. The Shekinah glory filled the house. The Shekinah glory came in that place. I feel the Shekinah glory, oh glory. You ever heard that? The Shekinah glory. It's making reference back To that visible manifestation Of God's presence that would come and hover Over the tabernacle. Though this word is not found in your King James Bible, it is a biblical term that follows all the way back Through Jewish and historical records. Amen Of the Hebrews. It's a Hebrew word that simply means to dwell or to settle down and dwell. It's that Shekinah presence of God that moves in to stay. Hallelujah, amen.

Speaker 2: 43:38

Brother Gabbard told me of the time at Bond Camp meeting when Brother Sutherland was preaching and he said the anointing of the Holy Ghost was there. He said all of a sudden I believe it was on the left side a cloud moved in that place and came all the way across the platform, hit the right side of that building and went out the other side. He said that stadium was packed. Amen to the brim. But when he got, when he looked after that glory came, he said I don't think there was ten people in that place who was not kneeling or on their face in the Holy Ghost.

Speaker 2: 44:13

I'm going to tell you one thing that we cannot do without. We cannot do without the glory. I said we've got to have the glory. I said we got to have the glory Of the Holy Ghost. I know I prayed with some of you In the altars. I've heard some of you talk and testify. You don't want no cheap version, you want the glory Of the Holy Ghost. There's a passion For the old fashioned. How many would say with this preacher, we want that Shekinah, we want that dwelling glory. Come on, musicians, hallelujah.

Speaker 2: 44:58

Paul would write and say this that the power of my grace is sufficient. Jesus said to him and Paul said most gladly. Paul would write and say this that the my grace is sufficient. Jesus said to him and Paul said most gladly. Therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. That word rest is used one time in the Greek. It's a one time usage word in the Greek. That word in the Greek means to dwell in a tent or to tabernacle, to come down and dwell in a tent. That's what the word rest means in the Greek, but it's companion word in the Hebrew. It's got it's root word from the word Shekinah and Paul said all of this is happening.

Speaker 2: 45:45

But there's one thing that I desire more. I'm not worried about the thorn in the flesh, I'm not worried about what's going on. I'll count it as glory if the power of God, the power of Christ, would Shekinah, would dwell upon me. Oh God, you know what would fix your church, fix your youth group. The Shekinah glory of heaven. We need an old-fashioned heaven scent, holy Ghost revival. Somebody get hungry For the glory. I said somebody. What about back there in the back, do you need the glory? What about back here on this side, do you need the glory? What about Kentucky? What about Oklahoma? What about Georgia? I need that Shekinah Glory from above. What about Georgia? I need that Shekinah. Glory from above.

Speaker 2: 47:01

Oh, while they're coming in, and I appreciate you moving on in and not clogging up the aisles. I was an 11 year old boy, shy and backward, couldn't talk. I was an 11-year-old boy, shy and backward, couldn't talk. Oh, glory to God. And I went to youth camp.

Speaker 2: 47:32

After the year after I got the Holy Ghost, at 10 years old, I went to a youth camp and God had touched me. But on a Thursday night the glory of God came down on me. I remember the glory of God settling in that place. Oh, hallelujah. All I remember was praying in the Holy Ghost and began to shout. At some point I ended up on the floor and and at somewhere in there I realized I'm on the floor, but that I mean we had just gotten the altar when that happened. The next thing I don't know how long I was there, because when I came to there's probably only 10 people. It was after midnight that night when I came to, there was probably only 10 people. It was after midnight that night when I came to.

Speaker 2: 48:24

And when I came to a young boy and, to be honest, I sold backward. I don't ever remember even talking publicly in a circle with my friends. Sold backward. I don't ever remember amen, talking publicly, with a conversation with all my family. I was sold backward, I scared to death. I was bound by the a conversation with all my family. I was so backward, I was scared to death. I was bound by the forces of the enemy. Oh glory to God. But when I came to I was on my feet and I was preaching in the Holy Ghost. I was preaching, oh glory to God. And I don't know how long. I preached in tongues. But when I came to, it hit me Enoch, you're a preacher. You're a preacher, oh glory to God. And if you wonder why I sling my arm, I've been slinging it since a thirsty night when I came to in the Holy Ghost and I've been trying ever since that day to preach in the Holy Ghost. I say give me the glory. I say give me the glory.

Speaker 2: 49:31

It's time for some of you that are struggling with the call of the preacher to sell out. It's time for some of you that are struggling with holiness to sell out in the name of Jesus, because I've got to have the glory, oh glory, to God by the raising of your hands.

Speaker 2: 49:57

I'm going to ask you a simple question. You say deep down in my heart, preacher, I have a passion For that old Fashion. Tell me straight, I want that old fashion. Tell me like it is. I want that old fashion. Bust me, step on my toes. I want that old fashioned. Bust me, step on my toes. I want that old fashioned. Don't entertain me. I want that old fashioned. I got good news for you. The announcement is this Amen For the promise is unto you and to your children, and to all of them that are far off as many as the lord, our god shall call.

Speaker 2: 51:03

It's for you, the old fashioned. Somebody say I want the old fashioned. Amen. He's for you that came into this place bound. He's for you that came into this place needing revival. He's for you, for your youth group, for your family. This cheap gospel won't do. I want that old fashioned. Get ready, get ready. Oh glory to God, throw your hands in the air. Hallelujah Say, get ready to sing, hallelujah, come on, I want you to cry out with your voice. I see tears running down your face. I see it. I don't have to have the makeup preacher, I want the old said I don't have to have the makeup preacher, I want the old fashioned. I don't have to have Hollywood. Just give me the Holy Ghost In the name of Jesus. Come on, sell out right now. Sell out right now. Hey.

Speaker 3: 52:27

This is Pastor Philip Steele from Pentecostal Lighthouse in Pekin, illinois, and one of the contributing members of the HBO team. We're so glad that you joined us today. We pray that you've been blessed, encouraged and uplifted through this message. May you continue to walk victoriously in the hope of His calling. God bless.