Our Guest Randy Clark
RANDY: That’s an accusation; I think it’s a false accusation, but it is a character – it’s a caricature of Pentecostal charismatics. So, the Lord w- – I said that, because what the Lord said to me was so um interesting. He said, “Don’t you dare”, and it was strong, “Don’t you dare become an experience-based preacher, that you will only preach what you’ve experienced. You preach My Word, even if you’re experienced” – “you haven’t experienced it yet, you’re not experienced with the dead being raised yet. But you preach My Word, whether you’ve experienced it yet. You let My W- “You let your experience rise to My Word; but don’t you DARE bring My Word down to the level of your experience.” Boy, that got [CHUCKLING] my attention! And I taught on that uh for the first time in my life.
SID: Uh that takes – by the way, that takes all of the pressure off of you, Randy!
RANDY: Yeah [LAUGHS]!
SID: Completely!
RANDY: It was just [LAUGHS] –
SID: [LAUGHS]
RANDY: it made me nervous though.
SID: [LAUGHS]
RANDY: But anyway, after I – I only knew two – two stories then of the dead being raised. I didn’t know of – I mean Heidi hadn’t started uh – she hadn’t been touched yet – so I told those two stories! And within 6 months, one of the guitar players – a young man had a 5-year old son, or a y- – very young son on a tricycle. He got hit by a car; he was killed. His dad had just graduated EMT school – Emergency Medical Technician – he knew how to recognize the signs of death. And then he remembered the teaching, so he called for his boy to come back into his body by name. And uh, uh, he – and – and he did! And he was – it was you know, he was uh gone for quite a while; they medevaced him. And as a result of it though, when it should have – when it should have taken many many year – uh months for the bones to be healed – he’s many many – he’s in a body cast, within just a few weeks they went in and checked to see if the bones were just beginning to heal, and they were totally healed already, and they just cut the whole cast off.
SID: Mm! Uh b- – a-and do you realize, Randy, if you hadn’t said, “I am NOT experience-based; I’m WORD-based”; if God hadn’t told you that, you would have never preached that. If you had never preached that, that little boy would have been – remained dead!
RANDY: That’s correct, because the father knew, and he heard the teaching, and he – and he did what he – what I taught. Now we have, you know, quite a few stories. Uh, uh matter of fact, we had a woman healed at the V- – Voice of the Apostles in Orlando, Florida two years ago, that was like 14 years of severe pain, and she had died; and was – saw her out of the body; saw herself there. And uh, through uh prayers, the Lord gave her a choice: She could go back, but if she went back, she was – I don’t understand this part – would go back into that body of pain, which had been a – a terrible, terrible pain, with nerves that had been crushed and stuff.
SID: Um hm.
