The International Charismatic Bible Ministries is a vehicle for informing and educating ministers in the area of establishing and accrediting Christian schools, assisting in long distance education and degree completion.

ICBM is a vehicle for Spirit-led, Spirit-filled ministers of the gospel to meet periodically to share their insight into God’s Word and, through sharing, to provide both encouragement and a checks and balances approach to our ministries.

And, finally, ICBM provides mutual appreciation and combined strength, helping ministers meet the needs of people, operating fully in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and by our unity and love through mighty signs and wonders.

Now this is the founding of ICBM.  And this morning and this afternoon in our annual board meeting, we took this into our hearts once again and revisited the beginnings, the foundings.  It is said, “You will never know where you’re going until you know where you have been.”  You must never forget your roots.  You must not forget where you have come from.

This fellowship was designed for men and women across America, Canada, nations all over the earth who are in need of ministry themselves.  And no one needs ministry more than those of us who minister.  Can you say amen?

How many of you came to get filled with the Word of God this week?  How many of you have a need in your life, and you came based on that?  Some of you may be here and you think, “This is my last hope.”  There may be someone here tonight who’s been thinking about quitting the ministry.  We talked about that today.  Well, this is for you.

And there were a number of words that came out of this that are very important, words like unity and fellowship and signs and wonders and praying and the Word, inspiration, support, crises, education, and instrument, planning, vehicle, new insights and revelation, checks and balances, mutual appreciation, combined strength, and updated information.  That’s what the ICBM is all about.

I want you to meet the vice chairman of ICBM, Pastor Happy Caldwell.  Give him a big welcome.  Happy, come down just a moment.  (Applause)  Share a word about what we talked about in the executive committee meeting and also as well as the main board session this afternoon.

But you know what?  Those same people got up and they bought Ted Turner, and they put on CNN, and they buy music in the music stores, and they rent videos in the video stores.  And they go and see Hollywood’s movies, who are teaching your kids sex, sin, decadence, and every other piece of garbage that’s on the face of the earth.  They preach against preachers.  They suddenly put in their innuendoes.  They quietly tell you this and that.  They say things that are so left wing and racial right wing.  And if you stand up for the things of God, you’re a jerk. You’re a fool, and everything else.

So then you sit back and you say, “Do you know what they said about Oral Roberts?”  And the next thing you know, you talked about it and you talked about it and you talked about it, and you know you did and you know we did, and you know everybody else did.  Instead of saying, “Shut up” to your cable operator, and saying, “Come and rip that stuff out of my house.  You ever talk about a man of God like that again, and I’m going to cut the cable cord myself.”  And go to every person in your church and say, “Boycott the newspapers, boycott the Burger Kings.”  

Do you know what they sell?  Do you know what Disney sells?  Does it bother you that Disney has a day for gay and lesbians?  Does it bother you that people in Walt Disney World, who are their employees, can have insurance for their significant other half?  But if you’re not married and you’re living with a man and you’re a girl, you can’t get insurance for your significant other half?  What am I thinking?  But yet, you know, we go buy them out.

How long are you going to tolerate the spirit Jezebel that’s in the church?  Oh, we tolerate all this stuff.  We tolerate the Lion King because the little lion’s so cute.  Who produced it?  Who directed it? What are they telling you?  What Disney movie doesn’t have a mother? Where’s Snow White’s mother?  Where’s Arial’s mother?  Where’s Beauty and the Beast?  Where’s Bell’s mother?  Where are they?  In family values, where’s the mother?

Let’s look at sports on television.  Now baseball tonight.  Now I want to tell you that I’m one of the biggest baseball fans in the universe. I grew up in Detroit Tiger Baseball.  I think Al Kayline’s cool.  I tell you, baseball is good.  But when baseball becomes more important than anything else that God has to offer and the things of the world-remember the Scripture that says, “The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous?”  If you don’t have what they have, then you’re going to begin to lust after it.  And they’re going to begin to set the example for our children and our children’s children.

And as that happens, if we don’t measure up to what the things of the world has to offer and the wealth of the wicked is not laid up for the righteous, it’s only in the hands of everybody but the righteous, then the people of this world are not going to be attracted to the things of God.  They’re going to be attracted to the things of the world. Now if I read the Bible right, we’ve got it mixed up because not only were you the sickest bunch, you were the poorest bunch.  Is that correct?  All right.

I took thirteen baseball players, just thirteen, thirteen contracts for baseball only, thirteen.  Say thirteen.  (Thirteen)  During the season they play 162 games, and I’m giving you the money of only thirteen baseball players.  Ken Griffey, Jr., Kevin Brown, Mike Piazza(sp), Bernie Williams-I’ll go on and on and on, but there’s thirteen of them. Ken Griffey, Jr.?s contract is over a nine-year period, $116.5 million; Kevin Brown is $105 million; Mike Piazzo; $91 million; Bernie Williams is $87.5 million, Shawn Green, $84 million; Mo Vaughn, $80 million; Pedro Martinez, $75 million; Lanny Walker, $75 million-I’m sorry, Larry Walker-Gary Sheffield, $68.5 million; Albert Bell was only $60 million; ____ Mondezzi(sp), $50 million; Gary Maddox, or Greg Maddox, $57.5 million; and Randy Johnson from Arizona was only on the bottom of the list with a meager $52.4 million.

Those thirteen players alone added up at the highest baseball salaries to one billion-I’m only talking about thirteen guys and 162 games per season-one billion, seventeen million, four hundred thousand dollars. What did you get paid last week?  Just checking.  Do you know that the lowest guy on that pole, Randy Johnson from Arizona, single-handedly $52.4 million, his contract alone could wipe out the debt at Oral Roberts University.  What’s wrong with this picture?  We are to be the what and not the what?  Keep thinking, guys.

You go figure.  Cursed is the man that hangeth on the tree so that that blessing that was pronounced in the earth thousands of years ago will come upon you and you and you and you and me so that we live in the blessing of Abraham.

Jesus died on the cross and shed every single drop of blood so that the blessing of Abraham, pronounced thousands of years ago, might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus. If you don’t have it, it’s not God’s fault! APPLAUSE   God is like American Express.  Don’t leave home without Him.  God is like your coffee.  He is the best part of waking up.  God is like Coke.  He is the real thing.

God is like Timex.  He takes a licking and keeps on ticking.  God is like Hallmark.  He cared enough to send the very best.

But most of all, God is Pepsi.  He is the right one, baby, uh huh.  It’s time we got it all back.  CHEERS  All of it. Did you get what you came for?  If not, get up and begin to declare it, now!  CHEERS  Call it back into the kingdom of God!  Christ went to the cross and shed His blood so you get it today.  CHEERS  If you’ve missed it for forty- six years, pull it back and call it into the kingdom today. APPLAUSE  CHEERS

Declare what’s rightfully yours.  You are to rule and reign with Christ Jesus.  That means you’re a king and a priest.  If you’re not, you’re not living right.  If you don’t have it all, you are robbing yourself.  You are a thief and a robber if you are not doing what God said to do.  God poured it out to you, and if you are living in poverty, you stole something that’s not rightfully yours.  You’re a thief.

If you’re living in sickness, you stole something straight from hell that’s not rightfully yours.  You’re a thief and a robber if you’re living in sickness.  And God says, “Stop it!”  Get the blessing of Abraham.  It took Him Melchizedek, and it took Him Abraham, and it took Him Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  And it took Him Malachi, and then it took Him Jesus.  Don’t miss what God has for you.  APPLAUSE

Don’t be too proud.  Don’t be too poor.  Don’t be too humble.  Be a king and a priest and it’s time to rule and reign.  CHEERS  APPLAUSE  In Jesus’ Name.  CHEERS  APPLAUSE

RR:  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Are you getting what you came for?  CHEERS  APPLAUSE