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Consecrated to God: Tony Alamo on Ownership, Fear of the Lord, and God’s Life Within Believers

Ep183 How To Have Gods Life Living In You Part 81

Tony Alamo Introduces Part 81 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You

In this archival program, identified as program 183 and part 81 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You, Tony Alamo opens by thanking God for new radio stations carrying the broadcast and inviting listeners to request a copy of the message. He begins with prayer, asking God to speak through him, save souls, strengthen believers, and help people surrender their own will to God’s will. Alamo frames the episode around obedience, fear of the Lord, consecration, and the belief that true Christians must allow God to work through them rather than live for themselves.

Letters from Uganda, New Jersey, and Ghana

Alamo reads listener letters from Uganda, Africa, Newark, New Jersey, and Kumasi, Ghana. The Uganda writer encourages him to remain strong in his calling and says Alamo’s literature is helping people seek what the writer calls the “real truth.” The New Jersey writer says he is incarcerated for a crime he says he did not commit, but believes God has used the situation to save him from drug use and bring peace to his life and relationships. The Ghana writer reports distributing Alamo’s newsletters and requests more literature and a Bible, saying the materials are encouraging people to worship God.

Fear of God, Biblical Authority, and Alamo’s Wider Teachings

Responding to the letters, Alamo repeatedly emphasizes the fear of God as necessary for obedience. He argues that people will not continue keeping God’s commandments unless they fear the consequences of disobedience, and he cites the Bible as the final authority for how believers should live. During this section, he also speaks at length about marriage, polygamy, dating, sexuality, and religious practices. His comments include strong condemnations of homosexuality, premarital sex, dating, divorce, Catholic devotion to Mary, and modern cultural attitudes toward sexuality and family life. These claims are presented as part of Alamo’s religious interpretation and rhetoric within the sermon.

Jesus, the Word, and the Blood of Forgiveness

Alamo also teaches about Jesus as the Word of God who came in the flesh so that human blood could be shed for the forgiveness of sins. He stresses that salvation comes through Christ’s sacrifice, not through any other religious figure or object of devotion. He argues that those who are born again have God living in them by the Spirit, but distinguishes that from Jesus’ conception by the Holy Spirit. In this section, he again rejects devotion to Mary as deity and emphasizes the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and the corporate body of born-again believers as central to his understanding of Christianity.

Consecration as Giving Oneself Completely to God

The main teaching portion of the episode focuses on consecration. Alamo explains that consecration means giving oneself completely to God as God’s possession. He says believers are not their own because they have been purchased by Christ’s blood, life, death, and descent into hell on their behalf. Using examples such as purchased groceries, a purchased car, and a gifted box of candy, Alamo argues that when God buys a person, God has the right to use that person however He chooses. In Alamo’s view, real consecration means no longer reserving any part of one’s life, body, will, or choices for oneself.

Ownership, Motive, and Obedience Beyond Feelings

Alamo and a reader identified as Sherry continue through the teaching, explaining that knowing the reason for consecration is not enough; believers must also have the right motive. Alamo says that the reason for consecration is that God owns the believer, while the motive is God’s love and the believer’s response to that love. He warns that moods, feelings, hardship, prison, suffering, illness, or fear should not determine whether someone obeys God. He compares the believer’s surrender to a burnt sacrifice whose old life has been reduced to ashes so that God’s life can operate through the person instead.

Personal Testimony, Prison, Susie, and Opposition

Alamo connects this teaching with his own experiences, including what he describes as being falsely charged, imprisoned, beaten, and persecuted for preaching. He also discusses his late wife Susie, saying she continued serving despite cancer but eventually became exhausted by people who accepted help from the ministry and then left. Alamo interprets her illness and death through his religious worldview and uses the story to warn against giving up on ministry work. He also makes claims about opposition from Rome, the Vatican, Catholic officials, government authorities, judges, law enforcement, media, Hollywood, and other institutions, presenting them as part of what he sees as Satanic resistance to his ministry.

Closing Salvation Prayer and Program Information

Near the end, Alamo says listeners must change the “channel” of their will away from refusal and toward surrender to God. He leads a salvation prayer asking Jesus to forgive sins, enter the heart, wash the listener in His blood, and give the power to live according to God’s will. The program closes with instructions for requesting program 183 as a tape or CD, followed by Alamo’s announcement that the next broadcast will be part 82 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You. He urges listeners to remain consecrated until death or until Christ’s return, which he says is coming very soon.