In this sermon, Hans Waddvogel emphasizes the importance of transforming one's mind and not conforming to the ways of the world. He uses the analogy of being trapped in a building filled with smoke to illustrate the need to humble oneself and seek guidance from God. Waddvogel shares his personal experience of being transformed by God's grace, which enabled him to respond with love and joy even in the face of persecution. He encourages listeners to examine themselves and focus on their own spiritual growth rather than judging others.

Welcome to the from the pulpit and classic sermon series each week We bring you a different message for some of history's greatest speakers in the Christian faith and powerful service for modern preachers, too This week we have Hans Wubvogel with this message. Ye shall be as gods was not Christ's ambition Bible says examine yourselves That doesn't mean that I should examine somebody else It's a bad bad sign when I examine everybody else Shows that I haven't seen myself. I have lost sight of my own great need You know, that's the mark of a true Christian He examines himself in the presence of God and he judges no man Jesus was like that, but it would be good and it is good and it must be good for us to examine ourselves Or to let God Examine us Examine yourselves whether you be in the faith Whether Christ be in you I've been sitting here praying for this one thing That God might help in these days for us to See our great need What is our need? Well, we're a perishing lot perishing Woe is me. I'm undone I'm a man of unclean lips and I dwell among a people of unclean lips I'm in a poisonous atmosphere Who shall deliver me from the body of this day? There's no deliverance except the thing that our brother spoke of to be made new absolutely new Long as we try to fix up the old will only make an awful job out of it But all of Jesus Christ has his way he'll go his way We will go his way and his way is just one way Learn of me. I'm meek and lowly in heart. Oh Is that my desire? I Come to learn to play the fiddle or the bass fiddle why when I come to this teacher I Had a teacher for two years who didn't know himself how to hold the fiddle and he was teaching me bad habits and when he finally Got too old to teach me any longer. I got another teacher. He said play something for me. So I took my fiddle Boy, he said that's rotten. The first thing I had to do was to get another kind of a fiddle He said this fiddle is not for you I had one that was made for a man and I was just a little boy, you know, and I couldn't That's rotten He made me start all over on new principles. That was the best thing that ever happened to me And what does the Bible say? Don't be conformed to this world, but be ye transformed the turning upside down a beginning on a new foundation Let this mind be in you be Transformed by the renewing of your mind. What is my mind this morning? How am I minded? I'll soon find out I'm choking because of the atmosphere around about me and coughing and barking Why I haven't gotten down. I read of a place where there was a fire and Many people died from suffocation Asphyxiation the smoke choked them to death and there were two or three that were saved alive And I tell you how it happened. They knew what to do When the smoke filled the whole building and they were up somewhere on the third floor They got on their stomachs and they put their nose to the ground They had been informed that there was always a certain layer of air on the ground the smoke rises and Whatever oxygen there is and whatever air there is drops to the bottom and so they had enough air to sustain their lives and For them to get out and to save their lives and all the others with all their fuss With all their fuming they choked to death and if I want to find a way of life There's only one way learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart Let this mind be in you What is that mind? Why Jesus wanted to humble himself? When he was reviled he reviled not again. Well, we don't do that either We're too cultured, but we get sour on the inside. We don't like it. Jesus liked it He said I delight to do thy will. Oh God he condemned sin in the flesh. He said no He was tempted in all Points like we are like Adam why you shall be like God. We heard it quoted a while ago Why don't let them do that to you? How quickly Jesus Christ showed what mind was in him what mind controlled him get thee behind me Satan All to have that mind in me, which was also in Christ Jesus. That's a wonderful Monitor that will guide me in the right direction It'll guide me down What I find Jesus when I breathe a heavenly atmosphere and I'm not choked by the poisonous gases of pride and conceit and self-seeking and self-made spirituality Beloved there's no salvation. I tell you there isn't any salvation. Our hearts are too deceitful We become Spiritually minded and all the while we admire ourselves My God who shall deliver me from this Satan that now puts on delivery of heaven That now is transformed into an apostle of life How we praise Ourselves how we admire ourselves simply because we have not been turned upside down Our minds have not been transformed. We have not the mind that was also in Christ Jesus How do I feel when I'm judged? When I am misjudged, that's one thing the Lord had against me when I first came into Pentecost You're doing my will along every line except one you don't like to be criticized I didn't God held that against me. Why that's the mind of the flesh. Oh Beloved the thing that will help us very very greatly is to seek Jesus and When we seek Jesus, we will soon get down the Holy Ghost will see to it The unction that you have received of the Holy One will teach you all things Teaches you to keep your mouth shut. I always say it teaches you French Ferme la bouche. It does with a vengeance. Have you learned to keep your mouth shut? Have you learned to keep your heart with all diligence lest these thorns and thistles spring up I I found out that one can be very spiritual on the outside and still have a sour heart and Still have a root of bitterness in the heart My there was a time when I'm shaved under it. I couldn't deliver myself I couldn't get out of it. It was choking me. The only thing to do was to get down really Get down and I mean get down. I had to go to people that had harmed me That had hurt me that had sinned against me and humble myself before them that did it that helped me Oh when that mind that is also in Christ Jesus controls me beloved. That's not my own mind it's his mind and Jesus Christ offers to think for me to feel for me to be my own life Also he that hateth not his own life Also, why beloved when we do that, we will welcome this is the truth. We will welcome Someone has said we ought to consider the people that harm us and that do evil and ill to us We ought to consider them our very best friend It isn't praise that blesses me and lifts me but blame Blame is far better than praise but until I like it and experience one time when I was Awakened to my great need of humility. I wish I had that awakening today. Oh, I shaved I thought my god my god my god First I cried to God to show me myself. I had learned that from another brother in In Kenosha, we had a habit of walking up and down and walking up and down praying and he did It was during the Depression when the men had no work and so they spent eight hours a day in prayer and sometimes 12 hours Didn't do them any harm and this young fellows walking up and down and said Oh God show me my abominable my lord Show me my abominable self. I Did you ever pray like that, you know, you'll get to the place where you think everybody has wings and you have horns The strangest thing what happens when you really want to know the truth when you really Want to know the truth and you realize that you're dying. You're choking to death You begin to pray like that and I prayed I prayed I prayed I prayed And all the vision that God gave me at that time the awful Awful condition why that is salvation when we realize how? deceitful above all things and Desperately wicked our own hearts are Why was Adam and Eve that were Deceived by that angel of light Lucifer. He shall be as God Isn't that a wonderful ambition? Why today's being preached in Pentecost from one end of the earth to the other why you shall be as God You can buy phonograph records They come from California and they'll tell you who you are why you don't know you're sons of God you are You ought to have your pockets full of money You ought to stick out your chest. You ought to tell the devil where to get off at Beloved it's that same poison of Lucifer and It's not surprising because the devil knows his time is short and if God Almighty can get his people down with a transformed mind With the renewal of the mind when Jesus Christ can possess the minds of his people then Satan will be in the pit That's where Satan reigns in the church That's where the man of sin spreads himself in the church In the place where it ought to be Christ and Christ alone And if it isn't Christ alone, I will never meet the great. I will never find that throne room of heaven And where am I am I on the way well, I ought to examine myself I will soon find out how do I like it when things when people do outrageously mean things It was at that time that God allowed people to do that to me I Chased under it. I wanted to forgive and I did the best I knew how but there was something in my heart that rose up within me and one time when one man railed on me I Rose up against it. I didn't rail back. I knew better than that. I knew I'd only get it worse but in my heart There was something there was something created. I knew that was poison I knew it was thorns and thistles God says you can't get into the kingdom They that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you shall prove. What is that good and acceptable and Perfect will of God what is that? Why if any among you seem us to be great or wants to be great? Let it be the lowest of all I've given you an example that you should do as I have done to you. I've washed your feet Blessed are ye if you do those things and so I had to learn my lesson and I remember how Desperately I prayed and one day like brother Gardner said the other day the Lord checked me and said look out come Sure enough. It came again that day But all the transformation God had wrought in my soul The more they railed on me the more I rejoiced inwardly. I was just laughing. It was like honey out of the rock. I Knew that wasn't myself. I knew that I could never have done it up to that time I would get inwardly very wild and mad and now so sweet So loving and the more they railed The more I rejoiced and glory to God I knew God was answering prayer God was Transforming me praise God. My mind was gone and the mind of Christ was beginning to possess me What does he mean when he says blessed are the poor in spirit theirs is the kingdom of heaven God has a kingdom prepared before the foundation of the world, but he has no takers that Kingdom is not going to be given to the old Adam nor to his son But to the last Adam who is made the Lord from heaven who said all things are delivered unto me of my father And this is now come learn of me for I'm meek and lowly in the heart Oh to be like the blessed Redeemer We think of the glory of heaven and how we're going to be transformed into the same image from glory to glory But we don't realize that that glory of the only begotten of the father was full of grace and truth It was his humility that Constituted his glory his lowliness his utter meekness Not my will but thy will be done. That's where the father was glorified in the son that's where the Veil was ranked and the way was open for you and for me to become sons of God Learn of me learn of me Learn of me if we're wise at all beloved. We're going to do one thing alone. I do one thing alone And holy give myself to one who gives himself to me Sir, Sagan wrote that song. Where is the school for one and all where men become as children small and Little ones are great Where to unlearn all things I learned from self and from all others turn One master here and see I learned to do one thing alone One thing alone and holy give myself to one who gives himself to me and You know that transforms every Every little thing in life into a throne room where I meet my king We heard a while ago about the kitchen sink How wonderful when that kitchen sink becomes a meeting place with God Every item in all the world Becomes a throne where I bow before the king But I humble myself before the king And our sister talked about the sink how it became a throne room I remember in a faith home a dear sister who sought God with all her heart and how that When she had fasted five days one day she came down into the Kitchen and you know some of the Saints Don't like to wash dishes and here was a pile of dishes and she hadn't she had fasted she hadn't eaten for five days And when she saw that pile of dishes, what did she do going to a dump and say where are all these? lazy Saints They eat like Butchers three times a day and here I've been fasting and waiting on my Lord for five days Where are these lazy? creatures and then Grow up her sleep. No sweetly singing she did the dishes Never letting on at all. I Tell you that sink became a throne room of the king. I Never liked to do dishes unless George was helping her My what a sanctuary that kitchen sink became How different it was now why that was the Lord Why Otherwise you didn't like it at all, but my goodness You know marriages are made in heaven But often the sink is started a sort of a way to heaven My how marvelous oh how a wonderful because you come to me Hold the horse the nines are coming wounds around the waist. Oh Yes, that was the Lord I tell you that was the Lord I am holy Glory to God And so they went to the altar And because you come to me with no faith love No beloved these hearts of ours are deceitful of all things desperately wicked Who can know them? But when I am minded like Jesus Christ was minded, I'll be on the way I'll not deviate I will not seek myself Nor do things that satisfy the flesh and then blame the Lord and blame all the holy angels in heaven For having led me that way But I will follow the Lamb with us wherever he goes That will be my guide. It'll be the cross of Christ. Oh Jesus Show me the way Follow me Hallelujah Praise the Lord Oh Beloved to get down to humble myself to really be transformed by the renewing of my mind to prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God That's it It isn't the way the gale blows, but it's the way the sail is set that determines the way she goes And when my sail is set in the right direction Oh Jesus this mind in you which was also in Christ Jesus that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God Oh My father when I learn to get down Really get down and really humble myself. I And that house full of Smoke and full of fire they got down. They found out that along the ground There was a certain layer of air and they got out alive and all the others spoke to them Oh, let me learn my lesson to really Be transformed by the renewing of my mind that I may prove What is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God? And the Lord will draw You've been listening to the from the pulpit and classic sermon series this week You heard Hans Wadvogel with his message you shall be as God's was not Christ's ambition Tune in next week to hear Bruce Wilkinson. Talk about walking in the spirit. I'm from the pulpit and classic sermons