| The Governed of God: A Series of Sermons by R. Brant Baker |  | Creator: Ben P. Morgan
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Why buy this book? January 10, 2006
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These are very rare sermons by a man of God who is no longer with us. Rev Brant Baker of Shekinah Fellowship, Long Beach California,passed away in 1985.
These sermons,hard hitting and straight to the point, will leave you wanting more. Brant tells it like it is, never one to back away from his perceptions. At a time when others were seeking conformity and doctrinal correctness in the early seventies, Brant was presenting the person of Jesus Christ as a living and active lover of humankind.
In these sermons you get a sense of the divine love that God has for all of us. You have to understand that this man of God never used notes while delivering his sermons. They just flowed out of him. These sermons will blow you away when you know that he did not rely on notes. I highly suggest that it would be wise to purchase all of these sermons by Rev Baker, you won't be Disapointed.
Now some of you may ask who was Rev. Brant Baker, and why should I buy his sermons?
'''Rev Brant Baker of Shekinah Fellowship'''
Brant Baker was a young Christian man with an anointing from God similiar to Kathryn Kuhlman's in the early seventies on the West Coast of America. His California meetings could be called a sensational healing revival. Brant had unusual things taking place during his services. People would fall over backwards when he prayed over them. People got completely healed of their afflictions. And yet he himself died of aids. Brant passed through the land like Jesus the healer. But strange as it may seem, no one wants to talk about Brant.
Brant grew up in a home in Newport Beach CA where Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa taught bible studies before taking over the helm of Calvary Chapel.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary_Chapel]
Brant came into the spot~light in a strip mall located on 7th Street in Long Beach CA. His fellowship was best known for the healing meetings on Saturday nights at Pastor Billy Adams' First Foursquare Church in Long Beach CA.
In the late sixties Brant had a clothing store located on 17th Street in Costa Mesa across from The Builders Emporium hardware store. Brant gave away all the clothing to the Jesus People who were living in some of the communal homes of Calvary Chapel before going into the ministry. His Bible studies became noted for the moving of the Holy Spirit in powerful ways.
Brant told in testimony of how he was involved in the Hollywood scene before his salvation experience. He told of how he hung with the rich and famous of that crowd during the many parties that he would attend. He experienced the emptyness and the futility of that life. He told of the darkness and the allurement that he experienced during this period of his life.
Brant would attend every meeting at the Shrine Auditorium in LA that Kathryn Kuhlman had there.[http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Kuhlman
After those meetings he would sit outside on the steps and plead with God for the same type of an anointing upon his ministry. He would cry for hours afterward, saying, "God I have got to have that anointing or I will die!". One day as Brant was praying for people God started to heal them. And as word got out that God was moving at Shekinah Fellowship through Brant,people started coming from all walks of life. As Shekinah grew in reputation Brant shaped and molded the ministry after Kathryn's. He had catcher's who stood behind people as he prayed over them because just like in Kathryn's meetings they would fall over backwards under the power of the Holy Spirit as he lightly touched them on the neck. He had a magnificient choir and several musicians in the fellowship.
Brant had "workers" who moved in the word of knowledge who would be scattered throughout the crowd to prompt people who were healed during the meetings to go up and share the story of their healing. Today at Benny Hinns meetings you can observe the same format.
As Brant continued to pattern his ministry after Kathryn's he rented out the Long Beach Municiple Auditorium. It was full of people who had come to see God work. Brant continued to rent adutoriums in CA, holding healing type meetings where people were getting healed of all types of afflictions. His popularity continued to grow and churches started inviting his ministry to visit them.
Shekinah Fellowship got the attention of TBN the Christian television station. Paul and Jan Crouch invited Shekinah to their program. So Brant started to garner more followers as viewers became aware of his ministry. Brant was on his way to filling the space vacated by Kathryn...
But such was not to be. Today no one at TBN will hardly mention Brant's name. Even Benny Hinn who eventually became Kathryns apparent replacement has not been told about Brant by TBN... not until Pastor Schumate told the Brant Baker story to Benny Hinn at a Christmas party recently (Christmas 2005).
Brant's life radiated the love of Jesus Christ for a few bright fleeting moments before dimming out in his unexpected death. People were stunned and devastated! Many of the workers in his ministry backslide or just wandered away in deep dissapointment. Some who recovered still hold fond memories of those magnificient times in the Lord when the ministry functioned like a well oiled machine. Brant's story is just as inspiring as other generals of the faith. He forged new territory when everyone else was involved in "cookie~cutter~christianity." As other churches were stressing correct theological and doctrinal foundations to the neglect of the supernatural side of God, Brant presented a Jesus Christ who loved everyone and demonstrated that love by healing the afflicted.
Brant's sermons always presented the person of Jesus Christ. Brant's Christ's presence transcended words in a sense. In his first letter, apostle John expanded on that, saying that He was the Word of life that they heard and saw and touched. It was Christ's physical presence that sealed it for them and for us all.
Those who followed Him experienced Him. They heard, saw and handled the word of life in human flesh as Brant presented Jesus to the people in a powerful "preaching" way. Brant never read from notes as he spoke. His voice would go from being soft and intimate to loud and authorative during the course of his sermons. It was an identifyable moment when the Holy Spirit would come in and take over the service as Brant was preaching. At that point Brant would start to call out the healings taking place around him.
The lights were dimmed when Brant would speak. There would be a bright spotlight on him. He was dramatic to watch, almost like watching a stage performance.
Brant Baker had the anointing upon him. If you stood face to face with him you would become aware of the childlike innocence he projected during ministry. There was that glowing sensation of the presence of the Holy Spirit that surrounded him. He was young, good looking,tall and thin, and always well dressed. He won over many people just by his likeable presence. Shekinah's choir could have been rated with some of the finest around. Towards the end of Brant's life he had dyed his hair blond and did not seem to care that anyone was aware of his return to some of his past short comings.
Anyone who had the privelege of sitting under Brant's ministry would tell you that of a certainty God had anointed this young man of God inspite of his personal struggles. The Jesus People would bring the hippies from the streets to Brant's meetings where they would receive salvation. Some would come in vans full of hippies from as far away as Laguna Beach CA.
Over time other churches started speaking against Brant's ministry and would publicly do so from their pulpits. This was hard on Brant who was very emotionally sensitive to what was being said. Like most sensitive people Brant often needed to be by himself to recenter his focus.
There are those who are still struggling to recover to this day because of the way that Brant died from aids.
Shekinah Fellowship eventually acquired the old West Coast Theater across the street from the Convention Center on Ocean Boulevard . Some say that the Marquee out front had Brant's name in large letters above the name of Jesus Christ in smaller letters. It read, "Rev Brant Baker appearing with Jesus Christ. This somehow reflected the slow decline of his ministry as he was falling back into his past at that time.
[http://www.cinematreasures.org/theater/1971/]
As the study continued to grow a ministry that was called "The Fire Escape" on Beach Blvd in Huntington Beach CA closed it's doors and turned over their non~profit organization to Brant. Brant renamed the organization Shekinah Fellowship. Today Pastor Tilson Schumate[http://www.care2.com/c2c/photos/view/33/445639943/people/Hinn%20Schumate.jpg.html] has the original Shekinah Fellowship nonprofit organization that Brant operated under during his ministry.
Brant's life has been expunged from the records by Christiandom possibly because he died in 1985 of aids. Brant was introduced to Jesus Christ by Lonnie Frisbee another minister who also died from aids.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Frisbee]
assistant pastor Shekinah Fellowship
David Sloane
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