Gospel House Ministries

Pastor Dr. Herbert Ward, Sr.: But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand. So much has gone on because somebody does not understand. People are hurting, crying, and running because somebody does not understand. If they did, they would not do what they do. And will utterly perish in their own corruption. Do you see it? It is in the Word.

So that is why I say do not trouble. Trouble does not last always. Do not worry, trouble will be gone soon. You have to speak these things. You have to pray these things, church. You have a tongue. You have to speak it. Speak it. Stop complaining about what you see them doing and start speaking against what they are doing so they can be gone soon. However God chooses. However God chooses.

And will receive the wages of unrighteousness as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you. And what makes me sad is some church folks following that foolishness. Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. And that is what is going on. That is why they are following. They were never stable in God. That is why they were easily deceived because they were not stable. When you are stable in God, you shall not be moved.

They have a heart trained in covetous practices. See, they are rich, but they want what you have got. They have got everything. Billionaires. Billionaires. But they still want to take from the poor. Covetous. Trained in covetous practice and are accursed children. They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. There are people who love the wages of unrighteousness.

But he who was rebuked for his iniquity, a dumb donkey. You cannot hear the Word of God, God will get a dumb donkey to speak to you because you are dumb. Speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water. Did not Jesus say He would give you rivers of water, living water, not just any water? Rivers of what? Living water.

These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lust of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped or some barely escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, you see that. It is going to be free. It is going to be a golden age. They themselves are slaves of corruption. For by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. These people you listen to, they are going to bring you down into bondage. You are following the way of the world. You are following the way of Balaam because they love the way of unrighteousness. Is not that what the Word says?

For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them. You cannot go back. And overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit." Everybody who will see that. And a sow, which is a pig, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

The major problem with our world today is that our leaders, both political and spiritual, have not invested in the unadulterated Word of God. They have become selfish and greedy. They are certainly not generous, looking out for their own needs while the people they lead bleed. They gamble with their position and now nobody wants to listen to what they have to say. That is why churches are empty. The people have been led astray. They are like sheep without a shepherd. Go to Jeremiah 31.

Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. In other words, I am going to allow men to produce more men and I am going to allow men to have more beasts: cattle, goats, and sheep. There is going to be some prosperity there. And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy and to afflict. So I will watch over them.

I did this to them in the past because they were hard-headed. Israel was hard-headed. He is saying this is what I did to Israel. I plucked them up, I broke them down, I threw them down. I did it to destroy them and to afflict them. So I will watch over them to build and to plant. God plants you. He does not throw you. In those days they shall no more say, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes." They will not know that no more. It is changing. He is talking about a new covenant here. "The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge."

But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. I am not going to let this happen no more, God is saying. What you have done wrong, I am not going to necessarily allow to come on your children. Now if you do not know Me and you are in the world, yes it is going to come on your children. But those of you who know Me, the sins that you did in the past because I forgave you of those sins, I am not going to let those sins come on your children. Do you get it? Every man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be on edge.

Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, with the house of Judah. I am making a new covenant. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them. Do not forget that. A husband. We are the bride. And His bride shall be adorned in glory. And I was a husband to them, says the Lord.

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel in those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds. That is why the battle is in the mind. I just told you earlier you think bad because you are doing bad and you think bad things are going to happen because you think bad. You are having bad thoughts. Change those thoughts. Stop thinking things the worst is going to happen. And I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

How is God going to be our God? By allowing Him to write His Word on our hearts, by us keeping His commandment. That is how we are going to be God's. You cannot say you are a child of God and you know good and well you do not give God nothing, you do not study, you do not even give Him time, but you say you are a child of God. You are lying to yourself. You have to spend time with Him just like you need to sit under Grandma's table and sit before Grandma to learn wisdom from Grandma. You need to sit before God.

No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, "Know the Lord," for they all shall know Me. See that? If you want to know Me, I will tell you Myself. You do not have to wait on your mama, your brother, your sister, nobody. You do not have to wait on auntie or grandma. If you really want to know Me, ask Me. If you ask not, you receive not. From the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more. So stop bringing up your sin. If God has forgiven you from your past sin, why do you keep bringing it up? He said, "I forgot it. Why do you keep remembering?"

In conclusion, a true investment, a good investment brings joy for tomorrow. Your investment in God gains you eternal life. You need to listen because I am going to tear down something Satan put in our mind. Your investment in God gains you a mansion. You better listen to me. Right now you have a house. You are a spirit that lives in a house. Your body is your house. But because you live in the way that you love the Lord, you have kept His commandment. What did He just say to you? He said, "I will put My laws in their minds." Anybody got their mind stayed on Jesus? If you do not, I urge you to let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.

That is how you will obtain your mansion. Now listen to me carefully. He said that He will write His law in your heart, but you must let Him so that He can be your God. He says, "And they shall be My people." He is only going to give mansions to those who are His people. Stay with me. Jesus said in John 14:1-3, "Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions."

Now that word mansions means dwellings. It means dwellings. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. Where is that place? I am preparing a place for you. That place is the mansion. Stay with me. He is not going to prepare a building for you. He is not going to prepare a building for you and we have been taught that. We thought that. It is not a building. He is going to prepare a body for you because the body you have right now cannot dwell in heaven with Him. You are going to have a body like Jesus that can walk through walls or just appear in the room, eat food and not have to go to the bathroom.

Remember heaven will be on earth. You will have deity in you. You will be 100% man and 100% God, just like Jesus. 1 John 3:2 says, "Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." So you are going to be just like Jesus.

In John 14:1-3, He goes on to say, "And if I go to prepare a place for you." You need a place in heaven. Stay with me now. "I will come again and receive you for Myself; that where I am." See, where He is, you will be also. So you are going to be just like Him. He is seated on the right hand of God, you are going to be seated on the right hand of God.

Stay with me. Jesus lets us know that He will go and prepare a place for us. Matthew 25:32-34 says, "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations." That means all people. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. You know goats are always bucking, bucking against the truth. And He will set the sheep on the right hand. See, I told you you are going to be on the right hand. "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." You are going to inherit the kingdom, but you are not going to inherit a building. You are not going to inherit a building.

Now the mansion is your spiritual body. All your life you thought it was a place you are going to be inside something. No, the mansion is your spiritual body. On earth you have a house, in heaven you are going to live in a mansion. You all better stay with me. Jesus is going to be seated on the right hand of God and so are you. Why would He give you a mansion edifice to dwell in when heaven is your home? Right now you are seated in heavenly places. That is what it says in Ephesians, second chapter. We live in houses to protect us from the cold, the rain, and the storms. In our house we have a stove to cook food and a refrigerator to store food. Food is for the body, the human body.

But you are going to receive a spiritual body. In your house you have a bathroom. What will you need with a bathroom in heaven? You see that? So what is He going to put you in a building for in heaven? When buildings are on earth. When Jesus resurrected, He ate food with the disciples, but when He went through the walls, the food did not stick to the walls, did it? No, it did not. He ate food with them in the house. He ate food with them. Yes, He did. Did you read that? But when He went through the wall, it did not stick on the wall.

The mansion that you receive is nothing but the fruit of your investment. The fruit of your body while you are down here. Your body right now is a house. But when you get to heaven, you will receive a mansion. That is why you cannot be gambling down here on earth. You need to make an investment in heaven.

What is the difference between a house and a mansion? It is called capacity. It is called capacity. When you receive a new body, you will have greater capacity than you had on earth. Your body right now does not have the capacity to handle heaven. No. It is an earth suit. So when Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place for you," He is actually saying, "I go to prepare a body for you that can handle the place of heaven," which is My Father's house. Listen to what He said. In My Father's house there are many mansions. Who puts mansions in a house? There are many dwellings there, but who puts a mansion in a house, not to mention many mansions in one house? No, you become the mansion. Instead of your body, the earth suit, you will have a mansion, a heavenly suit.

Just think about it. When Jesus came to earth, He told a man who wanted to follow Him, "The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." Why would He need a house here on earth when the earth is His footstool? He did not need a home here because this is not His home, and it is not your home either. We are just pilgrims. Sojourners here. Jesus did not even need a job here because He was on His job. He did not need to earn wages here because His wages were with His Father in heaven.

In Hebrews 11:13-16, it talks about all who had faith in God. It says, "These all died in faith, those who died before Jesus came, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. You see that? And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they came out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better." Somebody say a better. "I am going to get a better home. That is a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them." Your mansion, you are going to be living in that city.

We will be the mansions in the city He has prepared for us because He has now given us the capacity to live there in that city. Do you get it? John says in Revelation 21:2-4, "Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.'"

We will be the mansions in the city. Do you get it? We will be the mansions in the city. We will not be living in mansions. We will not be living in mansions in the city, but we will be the mansions in the city. You are down here on earth making your investments to live in that city. So do not gamble your time away chasing the wind when the old earth that you are working so hard is going to pass away. People working so hard to get something here, to get something here. They work so hard, do not even have time to come to church. They do not have time for their church. They work so hard and die and go straight to hell. If you do, you are living a fruitless life. Are you a gambler or an investor?

Now that you have heard these words from God, repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand. Repentance is your first step to redemption. Repentance is your first installment toward your investment. Are you a gambler of this world or an investor of the kingdom of God? Now listen to this.

(Music playing: "This Old Building Keeps On Leaning")

This old building keeps on leaning, I have got to move to a better home. This old building keeps on leaning, I have got to move to a better home. Do you get it? Do you get it? Old folks knew it and put it in a song. They said I have got to move to a better home. They knew they were going to get a mansion, they were not going to live in a building, but be the mansion.

This old building keeps on leaning, I have got to move to a better home. This old building keeps on leaning, I have got to move to a better home. This old building keeps on leaning, I have got to move to a better home. One more time. This old building keeps on leaning, I have got to move to a better home. This old building keeps on leaning, I have got to move to a better home.

Everybody move into a better home. Are you a gambler or an investor? Do not gamble your life away because this is not where you want to stay. You want to make it up to see the Father. You want to hear Him say, "Well done, my good and faithful servant." Hallelujah.