The tone, heart, and burden of this message echo that of the Apostle Paul in his farewell address to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20. Bro. Hampton with his “66 years” of insight, wisdom, and experience urge the saints to not go down with the ship or fall victim to the general conditions of our day.  Alternatively, he encourages the saints to strive to be apart of the remnant of her seed, build themselves up in their most holy faith, and rise above this apathetic, impotent, logically inconsistent 8th beast spiritual atmosphere.  Preached in: Columbus, Georgia (Tent Meeting) Preached on: July 27, 2017 (Thursday PM)

War for the saints is inevitable; there is no way to go around it and stay saved. Therefore we must fashion our minds for the spiritual warfare! Our lifestyles ought to be so that we could engage a major crisis at any time. If you are in a war, fight it out until the end; if you are not, give yourself in preparation for it! Date of Message: ?/?/1990

God has directed His promises to those whose heart is perfect toward Him; it is these who can expect and hold God to His promises. A perfect heart is characterized by perfect trust. God has not promised to come through because we are suffering or in distress, but because we trust Him and are empty of all doubt. Soul-searching is in order after listening to this Word from God! Is your heart perfect toward God?

It's one thing to not accept or delay acceptance of the truth. It's another thing to oppose it blatantly. When an individual exchanges the tender working of the Holy Ghost for hardness, hatred, and hostility towards that working they adjudicate themselves as children of Satan, appropriately deserving hell. May Almighty God enable us to prove ourselves worthy of everlasting life. Preached on November 22, 1981.  

An ultimatum is made in salvation: either you crucify the old man or the old man will crucify you; both cannot co-exist in salvation for long. The life of every living thing can only be perpetuated if it is fed; if you stop feeding something, it dies. So it is with the old man, or the old nature. You will never be able to mortify the old man unless you get brutal enough with it to stop feeding it, despite its cries to be satisfied. You must deny the passions that it stirs up in you! To mortify the old man is a commandment from God, so we see then that we will not get to heaven short of entire sanctification. If you are willing to go as far as you must, the experience of sanctification is as available to you as it was to anyone who has obtained it!

Interfacing the Divine requires a still mind.  The only way to "know", hear the "still small voice", receive revelation, and experience a spiritual deposit from God is through stillness and solitude.  "Don't get excited", be still and know. 

There is a grace to which we have access; a grace that will enable us to stand under any circumstances. In the morning time of the gospel day, the church stood in the face of strong persecution. They felt the same way we feel about be physically persecuted, but it was the standing grace that allowed not to waiver in the face of death. We too must make it up in our minds that we are going to stand, and seek after the grace to stand until we obtain it. Either we put on the whole armor of God and stand, or we will fall. Though obtaining this grace will require strenuous effort at times, if we are willing to do all to stand, we will stand. And praise God that this grace is attainable! Despite what trial, at this moment, is on the table before you, when you have done everything that you can do to stand, just stand, and the Lord will give grace.

Immortality is that aspect of God that we have inherited; our conscious existence is an eternal one. But those who have obtained life and conquered fear of death will have an eternal existence of bliss! We are sure that heaven lies on the other side of the life of a saint because the joy and ecstasy that we have experienced on this side is something that earth cannot produce! Our experience as saints is a foretaste of heaven. But those who reject salvation have rejected eternal life, and many will not even realize it until they are aroused by the stark reality of an eternal sentence. But while we are still here on earth, we still have a choice. Will you choose life or death? Date Preached: 4/22/1984 

Human nature is anti-sacrifice.  The essence of a true Christian's existence is sacrifice.  The level of one's spirituality is defined by the state of their personal altar. 

When it comes time for you to reckon with God, He will not judge you by what you did, but by what you could have done. Pastor Hampton challenged the heart of the saints, presenting to them a heavy question: have you done what you could? The position of our souls before God is dependent on us reaching our full potential for God, for we must give an account for anything that went lacking because of our lack. This word from the Lord is solemn and heavy, but, thank God, sufficient inspiration to execute is always sent along with a challenge from God! Date Preached: 12/20/1981

After the first apostasy, it took the church many hundreds of years to recapture the blamelessness and glory with which she began. But so soon after she regained it, she became spotted again. It is in this condition the church now stands, and it is up to us, those of whom the church consists, to rid ourselves of every individual and collective spot, that Christ's bride may be blameless upon His imminent return. It is not just up to a few individuals to make the bride ready; everyone who makes up the body must take the up the burden of the church personally. However, there will not be a blameless church without a blameless ministry who will keep the Word pure. It is the pure Word alone that can wash the bride of her spots and make her presentable to Christ. Date Preached: 9/5/1982

God operates with a different criteria of measurement than we humans do.  His eyes are on the spirit (internal) and we default to the flesh (external). The posture of one’s heart is the surest determinant of one’s spiritual success not any external measure (even if it relates to the spiritual realm). Furthermore, we know sin separates from God, however God's ultimate desire is that we maintain a certain attitude towards sin (internal) and not the we simply avoid sinful manifestations (external). Date preached: December 9, 2001

God has entrusted every person with a responsibility. We are stewards of the task that God has committed to our trust, and are expected to be faithful in carrying it out. The completion of this mission is not optional: our eternal destination is predicated on whether or not we fulfill God's plan. Can God trust you in carrying out this task? To apprehend that for which you were apprehended? In the church today, we often wonder why there aren't more gifts; greater manifestations of God's power. The reason is this: there are so few that God can trust with this level of power. This trust comes with faithfulness. Not just faithfulness pertaining to living above sin, but faithfulness in a certain pursuit and consecration that will put you in position to be entrusted with a greater power from God. May God help us to imbibe both a life and a lifestyle that renders us trustworthy to God! And the results will follow. Date Preached: 6/2/1982

Christ and his army conquered then and is conquering still now, victorious through the annuls of time.   The caliber experience God expects of his church is that of unbroken glory.  The flame of His glory ignites upon a definite work of salvation in the soul and must grow in heat and luminance as you progress, walking on the path of just, which is as a shining light that grows brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. Preached on February 14, 1982.

Every action has an immediate reaction, but also lasting aftermath. Often people act swiftly, only seeing as far as the immediate result, and not considering that they also must deal with the aftermath of their actions. How the aftermath is handled is usually just as consequential as the action itself, and a failure to handle it right might mean one's eternal downfall. So we would do well to make it fully certain that we allow this message to have its full and immediate effect in our lives! Pastor Hampton clearly speaks from experience in this message, having seen many things in salvation up to that point, and was burdened about being right himself and that the saints also be right. Date Preached: 12/26/2014 (Springfield, OH)

Sentencing against an evil work is always God’s last resort. God’s mercy endures, going to extreme measures to give all of his human children every opportunity to correct their errors and wholly follow the Lord. However, humans have the ability to waste God’s aggressive goodness and merciful power to such a point to where there is no return; therefore an eternal divine ruling to damnation is reasonable. As gruesome and fierce as some of Gods judgments may appear, everything God does is redemptive.  

The spiritual condition of this world is only growing colder. The religious world is also following the same trajectory. If then the world is getting colder, in order for the people of God to remain hot, we must continually increase the fire in our souls. There is no way we can stay the same and not be affected by this atmosphere. Everyone that falls spiritually only adds to the cold, and we who are determined to stand must work more abundantly to pick up their slack. So examine yourself: are you daily drawing closer to God? Daily increasing your heat? Take heed that you align your life with this message; only those who do will survive! Date Preached: 12/1/1981

Holistic life satisfaction is only achieved in one kind of lifestyle; that which is built on and centered around the foundation of Christ. Since the beginning, mankind has always attempted to design a meaningful, substantive, and fulfilling existence disconnected from God’s course. Humanity has made status, financial affluence, and counterfeit fleshly religion their chief pursuit. Meanwhile Satan has so consumed humanity in their relentless striving towards “enough”, constantly redefining what “enough” means. As a result humanity operates exhausted and stuck on a never-ending treadmill of arrival, only to soon realize that they have been building on the bottomless pit, functioning with a flawed value structure, and now have eternity to think about how they were tricked.  Date preached: November 1,1987 (Altar call begins at 37:57)

Noah condemned the entire world because he was perfect in the wicked environment before the flood. He condemned the world because he went far enough to meet God's standard despite the prevailing conditions around him. We too have the very grave responsibility, as saints of God, to judge the world by our lives; we must be perfect. God ought to be able to use our lives as a perfect example of what he requires from man, and judge others by it. But what is God's standard for man? It is that we be the best that He offered His grace and inspiration for us to be; no less! God now may not cut you off for lacks in your salvation, for there is time and space to fulfill that lack. But when you meet Him in final judgment, no lacks will be tolerated since all was provided to you to measure up. This message sent forth is strong, but it will prepare us to meet Christ! May God grant the grace to receive it.