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Michael H Yeager

Michael H. Yeager (N/A–) is an American preacher, pastor, and evangelist known for founding and leading Jesus Is Lord Ministries International (JILMI), based in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Born in the United States—specific date unavailable—he experienced a dramatic conversion in 1975 while serving in the U.S. Navy, where he claims an angel appeared to him in his barracks, taking him through a white portal into a heavenly vision that affirmed his call to preach. That same year, he attended Rhema Bible Training Center, and in 1978, he married Kathleen, with whom he has co-led their ministry. They began JILMI in 1983, the year God reportedly instructed Yeager to use television for gospel outreach, initiating a focus on media ministry. Yeager’s preaching career spans over four decades, during which he has delivered more than 10,000 sermons and founded over 25 churches. He has served as a pastor, apostle, missionary, and broadcaster, owning radio stations and broadcasting via satellite and low-power TV stations through The Word Broadcasting Network, launched in 1996. A prolific author, he has written over 300 books, including titles like Hell Is For Real: One Man’s Terrifying Journey and Smith Wigglesworth: OVERCOMING THE SPIRIT OF UNBELIEF, often emphasizing personal testimonies of miracles and divine encounters. Ordained by figures like Lester Sumrall and Wilford Reidt, Yeager continues to lead JILMI, focusing on global evangelism and discipleship through media and local church ministry. He and Kathleen have children, including Michael and Stephanie, who assist in the ministry.
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This sermon emphasizes the importance of true repentance and living a life that reflects genuine faith in Christ. It warns against self-deception and highlights the need for a transformed life that aligns with God's holiness and grace. The speaker challenges the audience to examine their hearts and actions, stressing that true conversion involves crucifying the flesh and its sinful desires.
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How do we know we're a Christian? How do we know we're redeemed and saved? I pray to prayer. What kind of life are we living? For Jesus said, by their works you will know them. I'm warning you now. The majority of the church thinks they're saved and they're not. For the holiness of God is not in them. You go to a hospital and your wife's just given birth and you begin to go up and down in the nursery and you're looking for that particular look and the name written on the chart that says that child belongs, it's yours. Now I want you to know that God, take off that slipper won't you mom, don't let him push it. It's a little slipper my little daughter wears. You push it, it goes ha ha ha ha ha. And the father in the last days is going into the nursery. He's looking up and down, he's seeing. Is that really mine? Do I want to claim that little girl, that little boy? Do I want to claim him as my own? I'm telling you. If you've got unconfessed, unrepented sin he'll say I never knew you. Though it was the seed that gave birth but see, you're the first Adam and I'm the second. It's a frightening message. I've trembled and shook. Years ago God began a deal with me and I backed off. I tell you why, my staff was so opposed to it and I'm not blaming them, it's my own fault and it was so unpopular. I backed off from it, I repent. I said God, we've allowed people to think they're safe in the portals of heaven and they're hanging over hell. Well how do you know? Ask Mike Galatians chapter 5. Go there, just for a moment. I know that time's running out and I really don't know how much time I have but oh man, I just, in my heart I perceive that right now that if some of you don't hear this message it's over with. I'm studying the scriptures, you'll see what I'm saying is true. I was going to bring a pack, I got literally thousands of scriptures dealing with what God requires us to do by the nature of God on the inside. Do you understand? Love does not relinquish me from responsibility. Love increases it. We have taught once our love, God loves me. God loves me. God loves me. Well now let's take a look at Christ. For God loved his son more than any other. He loved him so much but yet he gave him for us, for you and me. And what did love require Jesus to do? He required him to go to the cross. He required him to take the sins of the world. He required him to live in a society that he could hardly stand. He said, how long will I feel this untoward generation? It required him to give all that he had. Now I want you to know that when you become God's child even as he loved the world and he gave his son he's going to give you and me and he's saying, son, my love that I have for you is now the love I require for you to have for me. He said, I'm requiring you to go all the way to forsake all your physical possessions. It doesn't mean I go out here and sell it all but if God told me to, I would right now. I'm telling you I would and that desire is going to grow and increase but I'm telling you what God is going to require, God is going to require. God's got a Calvary for you. God's got a cross for you. God's got a gulf of hill for you. And if you deny his love and say, God, I'm not going my friend, I'd hate to be in your shoes on a day of judgment. But you see, you think right now in your natural mind oh, that's such bondage, but I'm telling you it's not. Oh, when you begin to step into the light of his spirit it becomes heaven on earth. And you say, Lord, I can't wait till I get there. You got such peace and joy and I tell you the presence of God is upon me so strong I literally shake before this, right now before I came up one of the brothers back there, he said, I'm shaking he said, and my legs felt like jello. Oh, makes me a brand new man. Somebody said to me the other day, Father, you even look younger. I don't know if that's true, but it's all right with me. Forget the dye and the makeup. Though the outward man perisheth, there remains renewed day by day. So pass the mic, act like you've lost your mind. Oh, heaven help me to do that. Oh, you know the Bible says the wicked man is mad. The Bible says the sinner is mad. There is a way which seems right unto a man but the end thereof is the way of destruction. It says the wicked, the sinner, the rebellious the one who won't seek God, the one who won't serve God the Bible says they're insane like Nebuchadnezzar. They're nuts. Because there's coming a day of judgment. But those who seek God and have the mind of Christ they're the only sane ones. And we may act like little children for such is the kingdom of heaven. And we may jump and dance and run and shout hallelujah. But God says now there's some boy with some brains. It's the wicked that are mad. You don't believe it? Notice where the madness has taken over. Killing their wives and children. Ripping little babies out of the mother's womb the comfort and protection of their mothers lost their natural affections. Men and women laying in bed on TV killing and snapping people's throats as if it's like breaking of a stalk out in a wheat field and you laugh at it. Swearing and defamity and God this and God that and Jesus this and Jesus that and the church sits there and licks up the vomit. Man cheating on wife and wife cheating on husband and acting like it's alright. I've got the spirit of God. No you're not. It's a lie of the devil. Yeah but God's moving on me. Do you not know it pours out upon the just and the unjust? Do you not know the waves and the spirit of God is moving over the face of the ocean of humanity and he's wooing us trying to get us to come into the ark of safety. It's only in God's pure holiness that we're saved. I'm not exaggerating. I'm telling you by the spirit of holiness and grace the time for playing games is over with. Look what it says in Galatians chapter 5 verse 24 and they, now if this doesn't nail the coffin shut nothing will. You've got such a spirit of unbelief in you you'll never get free most likely unless you keep coming to these services but the devil's going to do everything he can to keep you out of the church tonight to keep you away from the house of God. He's going to have you so wrapped up in the cares of life you'll be so wrapped up in the things of this world that when the judgment comes it'll be too late. Oh we've always been told at the last minute I'll get right with God. I'll tell you right now we've been lied to. Many of the people we've been praying for that have been laying on the bed of death and had them pray a prayer they died and they went to hell. Because they never repented of their sins. They never repented. They never said God forgive me for rebelling against you. For defaming your holy name. They never repented. And there is no true conversion without true repentance. And they that are Christ have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust. Do you read that? Do you believe that? They that belong to God have made
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Michael H. Yeager (N/A–) is an American preacher, pastor, and evangelist known for founding and leading Jesus Is Lord Ministries International (JILMI), based in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Born in the United States—specific date unavailable—he experienced a dramatic conversion in 1975 while serving in the U.S. Navy, where he claims an angel appeared to him in his barracks, taking him through a white portal into a heavenly vision that affirmed his call to preach. That same year, he attended Rhema Bible Training Center, and in 1978, he married Kathleen, with whom he has co-led their ministry. They began JILMI in 1983, the year God reportedly instructed Yeager to use television for gospel outreach, initiating a focus on media ministry. Yeager’s preaching career spans over four decades, during which he has delivered more than 10,000 sermons and founded over 25 churches. He has served as a pastor, apostle, missionary, and broadcaster, owning radio stations and broadcasting via satellite and low-power TV stations through The Word Broadcasting Network, launched in 1996. A prolific author, he has written over 300 books, including titles like Hell Is For Real: One Man’s Terrifying Journey and Smith Wigglesworth: OVERCOMING THE SPIRIT OF UNBELIEF, often emphasizing personal testimonies of miracles and divine encounters. Ordained by figures like Lester Sumrall and Wilford Reidt, Yeager continues to lead JILMI, focusing on global evangelism and discipleship through media and local church ministry. He and Kathleen have children, including Michael and Stephanie, who assist in the ministry.