God, He cast demons out.
At least, you remember there's a place where,
was it St. Joseph's Cathedral?
Tried to get the demons out of a
man.
And the demons have some self-respect.
They kicked the man off.
And you know what the demons said?
Jesus we know and Paul we know.
The greatest honour this side of eternity is
to be known in hell.
Known in hell.
If there's a danger list in hell, I'd
rather be the last person than the first
person anybody else's list in the world.
You can have a DD, you should be
a devil destroyer if you have, but titles
won't do it.
Degrees won't do it.
They've had their day.
It's time for the spiritually anointed men of
God.
I say about the Puritans, the difference between
them and us was this.
The Puritan preachers lived in eternity six days
a week and they came down to earth
on Sunday to tell us what they'd seen.
No wonder people went out o'er.
Again, when the Holy Ghost came on a
Baptist like Spurgeon, he'd say, now God there's
trouble for you this morning.
Meet me in my office tomorrow morning.
There's not much emotion around at seven o
'clock Sunday, Monday morning.
Particularly if you get up at five.
But you know all day long from seven
till seven at night, people going into that
office.
Yesterday the Lord, I mean, He just preached
the Word of God.
You see, I tell these young students, listen,
keep this clear in your mind.
Study to show thyself approved to the deacons.
No?
Oh no, that's the old version.
Oh, the new one is to show thyself
approved to the congregation.
No, that lady says.
Does it matter if everybody in the world
says I'm a success, if in my heart
I know I'm a failure?
Study to show thyself approved unto God.
Just yesterday I read it marked in my
Bible.
Peter on the day of Pentecost said of
Jesus, a man approved of God.
Dear God, if that's good enough for Jesus,
good enough for me.
He was a man anointed of God.
He had dominion over demons and sickness, and
that was a diabolical thing.
So this young man has no trouble.
He tears up the lion.
What was the first thing they did with
Samson?
I'll run through it quickly.
The first thing they did was bind him.
The second thing they did was blind him.
The third thing they did was grind him.
In this way, in so the old castles
in England, I've been in them.
They have, instead of a treadmill, well, it's
a treadmill, but also there's a bar, and
a man leans on it, he goes round,
and he grinds corn.
You see, this old trickster, he not only
fought the devil, or the demon, or the
lion, he not only slew an army of
people with the jawbone of an ass, but
one night for mischief, he caught foxes.
Well, it's 600.
Tied their tails together with a faggot between,
and turned, and he burned the crop down.
Yes, a famous preacher keeps saying, Remember, I
was in Ethiopia, and ships were backing up
there.
Where were they from?
They were from America, taking grains, fine.
But do you know those ships turned round,
and took grain to Russia, and sold it
at cut prices?
Do you know the bankers in Russia are
getting billions from America now at the lowest
rate of interest, and they don't have to
account for it?
We're financing the war in Afghanistan.
That dirty rascal the other day, that fooled
us all on TV as he signed that
thing.
Did you notice what he said?
I signed this in the name of the
eternal man.
That was a shot at our Christianity.
And he said, he did this, he said,
We're winding down the war in Afghanistan.
And that demon man, he knew that a
week after, they were going to rape Afghanistan
worse than they'd ever done.
Thousands fled.
I have a picture on my desk right
now from Africa.
It shows a young man with half a
leg.
300,000 young men and women in Angola
alone have lost their limbs through landmines that
are being put down.
And it says by the Cubans who are
being backed by Russia.
I could tell you some startling things, make
your hair stand up, but I won't tell
you tonight.
Because I'll get back to the press maybe,
and get some people in trouble.
But I'll tell you what.
Our pastor, boy, he was a poor creature.
Couldn't preach for nuts.
But two things stuck in my mind from
being about 12 years of age.
He used to say, God has always had
a remnant.
And you know, there's a remnant inside of
that remnant.
And then he would say, keep your eye
on the Middle East.
The Middle East is a thermometer.
Israel is this size.
You could pick it up and drop it
in Lake Huron, never find it.
You could do the same with England as
far as I go.
I'm absolutely sure in my own mind that
Israel has the atom bomb.
And he's going to use it when it
will shoot her.
And we'll be amazed when it happens.
But you see, Israel, again, is the thorn
in the side of Russia, the thorn in
the side of America.
As long as we support her, we'll be
okay.
If we drop her, we'll get dropped.
Because God says, whoever blesses her, he will
bless.
Whoever curses her, he will curse.
And we're pretty well tied up with that.
But, you see, God's problem tonight, as I've
said, it's not Mormonism or Russellism or demonism
or humanism.
God's problem in America tonight is a bankrupt
church.
A church with a form of godliness.
A church where, like the early Pentecostals...
You know, I used to go to Pentecostal
meetings and get scared to death.
There was one man, he'd get voices, he'd
say, Oh God, come and walk, you know,
walk up and down the Israel.
I thought, boy, if he does, I'll be
through that door in ten seconds.
But, you know, he came down.
I'll tell you when a church is blazing,
when there are more people at the altar
before the service than after it.
You need to uphold the hands of this
man, not just when you're finished washing dishes
or something, coming out of Kmart.
Have a time every day when you pray
for him.
I'm praying that God will do something in
this church he's not doing in any church
in this community.
He'd light a fire here that all hell
would be afraid of.
No man filled with the spirit is afraid
of the devil.
Samson prayed, the spirit came upon him mightily.
So the first thing they did was bind
him.
The second thing they did was blind him.
And the third thing they did, they tied
him and made him grind out corn for
the Philistines.
He burned their crops.
So they said, we'll make him give it
back to us.
Then what happened?
After he said the last time, and I'll
carry through this, at the end of verse
17, put a razor upon my head.
You see, the other thing they did, the
first thing he couldn't touch anything bad.
The second thing, he couldn't drink wine.
The third thing, he had to bear reproach.
He had to bear long hair like a
woman.
And it was forbidden in those days.
And therefore he's a marked man.
Everywhere he went he was marked.
He bore reproach.
Nobody wants to bear reproach for Christ anymore.
Many Christians.
Keith Green told me not too long before
he died.
As a matter of fact, he hasn't spoken
to me since he did die.
But he spoke to me before he died.
I wish I got the statistic where he
got it from.
He said that most of the girls in
churches that get pregnant, get pregnant at Bible
camps.
But you know, it's no longer outside the
church there's gross sin, there's gross sin in
the church.
Swaggart says there's more immorality in the church
in the church it's now than ever.
And you've had the case of two churches
that are on the coast last year or
within a couple of years.
Thousands going Sunday morning and the pastor's living
in immorality.
There's no fear of God anymore.
Not only no fear of the judgment seat
there's no fear of going to the sanctuary
and suddenly the Holy Ghost comes and you
feel as though there's something tearing you on
the inside.
The word of God is quick and powerful
and it's as though somebody stabbed you and
God says, look, that sin that pride, that
lust that child you fathered and ran away
that false thing you did.
I talked with a man about ten years
ago in California I went into a meeting
and there was a little fellow sitting there
with an English dog collar and I looked
at him twice that man used to come
to our church when I was fourteen years
of age he terrified me when he preached
but he got into sin and as soon
as he saw me he said, well Len,
you were only a boy when I saw
you last I mentioned his name and he
clung on to me he said, please don't
expose me don't expose me really.
I said, no I won't I said, that's
between you and God that man used to
make people to tremble he used to spend
whole days and nights fasting George Jeffries, and
I'm going to hurry I keep saying, George
Jeffries came to our city in 1927 the
city of Leeds and a holy ghost revival
the big auditorium was packed to the rafters
all kinds of crippled were healed the blind
were seen, the lame were walking the paralyzed
went out new creatures, physically everybody said, what
a wonderful wait a minute, I happen to
know the Pentecostal preacher in a little church
that was despised do you know that man
had three breakdowns not mentally but physically he
fasted until he could hardly stand his wife
said he was grown on the floor as
though he'd been beaten read the second chapter
of Lamentations and see where Hugh and I
are there what does Jeremiah say?
my bowels are torn my liver is torn
my heart is torn that's burden for the
lost he's not asking to be a super
preacher how many of us dare to ask
don't panic really can ask God honestly for
the burden of the Lord is an awesome
thing but it's the only thing that's going
to bring this nation back to God so
let me tell you, that man fasted and
prayed the little church grew and grew and
grew and he got the church to pray
and believe that God would send a man
George Jeffries came and the whole city knew
that God had come it didn't take money
it wasn't advertised in the paper God came
the dirtiest, filthiest, wickedest man in the neighborhood
came and somebody carried him head, body, soul
and spirit laid him at the feet of
the preacher and George looked down there immaculately
dressed asked him what he needed he said
I need to be healed he said no
you need God more than that and he
began to cry, he said I'm wicked I'm
wicked, I'm vile I've a filthy tongue and
a filthy heart and a filthy home can
God save me he said if you repent
of this I'll repent and then in front
of a packed auditorium that man repented of
his sin and George handsome George just looked
down and said brother, have you been born
he said brother Risenroth, that man jumped up
do you know those stuffy English people forgot
their manners they threw hymn books in the
air and Bibles in the air began to
clap that's a synonym to death in churches
in England what do you think they're going
to do when they see a man liberated
like that that should be an everyday occurrence
you shouldn't have to invite some healer you
see today we're not preaching the word, we're
preaching against drugs we're preaching against abortion we're
preaching against crime but Jesus says if I
be lifted up yes it was that famous
sculptor, what's his name now he wrote the
classic on the first epistle of Peter, I've
forgotten his name for the moment Leighton Leighton
in his days somebody came and said Dr.
Leighton you're not preaching up the times all
the events all the preachers are preaching up
the times he said well if they're preaching
up the times do you mind if one
preacher in this city preaches Jesus up if
I be lifted up we've cursed the darkness
long enough God help us don't tell me
anymore how many illegitimate babies are born Texas
has the world record in that and in
crime and in murders but what can we
say how many churches could you take people
to I say could you take your friend
you're drunken, you're lying your son that's wicked
and your girl that's messed up in sex
could you take her to the church and
say listen I guarantee that within two visitations
you'll be born again in the spirit of
God you could say that in early Pentecost
and it's got to come back so they
shave off his hair which is a sign
of his covenant with God you know what
happened she said now you keep tearing up
lions and lifting gates you're going to have
a physical breakdown darling darling I love you
so much just put your head on my
lap you know if it stayed on his
knees it never got on hers and that's
where you backslide as soon as you let
upon your prayer life don't blame this, don't
blame the other the fact is you've lost
out preaching you've lost your anointing you keep
up the gesticulations you keep up the terminology
you know you're as empty as a drum
Paul said my preaching is not in word
only dear Lord wouldn't you like to have
heard the apostle Paul teaching Romans or Ephesians
or Hebrews but there's something of another world
about him he said my preaching is not
in word only he wasn't eloquent because his
bodily presence is weak and his speech was
contemptible he didn't give up the orator of
the early church was Apollos the orator well
I've had some strokes the last one took
my this arm isn't too good it didn't
affect my brain just my body some people
think I lost my brain too but he
lost his anointing so what did he do
verse 20 says the Philistines the Apombe Samson
let me finish please in the middle of
19 she caused him to shave off the
seven locks of his head and she began
to afflict him she began to afflict him
before that she'd been oppressing him and pestering
him a bit earlier in the chapter that
doesn't matter but it says she vexed him
you see she tormented him so maybe I'll
get rid of this and get out of
it so he says here in the middle
of verse 20 I will go out at
other times and shake myself and he whisked
not I heard G.
Cameron Morgan preach often I remember one day
he said that's the saddest text in the
Bible here's a man in a pulpit saying
the right words doing the right things and
he doesn't know the Holy Ghost departed from
him six months ago he whisked not the
Spirit of God departed from him he's still
getting his wage he still visits the sick
he's still a nice man to talk to
but devils don't tremble when he stands up
all hell isn't alerted get round that building
and just put all demon power you can
because this man is a terror one man
with God is a majority God raises up
men not movements he didn't raise up Methodism
he raised up Wesley he didn't raise up
the Salvation Army he raised William Booth half
Jew and half Gentile his wife had a
curvature of the spine and yet that man
the Salvation Army went into 70 countries in
90 years not 70 cities 70 countries one
of the greatest orators in America went and
joined the Salvation Army and William Booth told
him to clean Booth for a hundred students
the next morning as he'd come down he
forgot about his Greek and Hebrew but he
became the outstanding special in the Salvation Army
he whisked not that the Spirit of the
Lord had departed from him the Philistines took
him and put out his eyes and brought
him down to Gaza and they bound him
with fetters of brass and he'd be ground
in the prison can you imagine going down
let's picture it look you come down the
steps and there's this man going round blind
and you can hear the grinding of the
corn and you get a bit nearer you
can hear the grinding of his spirit above
the grinding of the Lord he knows he's
a captive I'm bound I'm blind I can't
see I don't know what's going on I'm
in a prison I'm shut off from Israel
and God leaves me here and they bound
him with fetters of brass and he did
grind in the prison house now look here
the next verse says how be it the
hair of his head began to grow again
don't you think one morning he woke up
and put his hand up like this and
said glory to God this is an act
of mercy I let that wicked woman take
my anointing away it was a type of
anointing and he said oh my hair is
coming hallelujah glory to God I'm going to
have another chance I won't mess it up
this time he meant business notice what it
says in verse 23 at the end of
it let me read the whole verse then
the lords of the Philistines gathered together to
offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their God
and to rejoice for they said our God
hath delivered Samson do you see that the
enemy said our God is greater than your
God otherwise how could we take him this
man used to slay lions he could slay
an army with a stupid jaw bone in
his hand but he can't now he's paralyzed
there he is grinding corn for us our
God hath delivered Samson the enemy into our
hands verse 24 when the people saw him
they praised God they praised their God why
because they brought him into the temple of
Dagon it used to be a tourist place
and I guess Samson had been in and
seen the place ok they were merry and
they said call for Samson and make a
sport that's what the news did the other
day they laughed and scorned showed a picture
of Oral Roberts and said this man made
the holy God into a terrorist and the
uncircumcised Philistines were laughing listen if Pentecostal people
really loved God with a holy love they'd
have shut down every Pentecostal church in the
nation for a week and had a week
of prayer and fasting for Roberts to get
his anointing back if he ever had it
and for Baker too Baker spent twenty years
building the biggest pile of wood, hay and
stubble of any man since Pentecost and when
God put the torch to it he'd have
ashes up to his knees you see wood,
hay and stubble are above the ground that's
ministry people can say silver, gold and precious
stones are under the ground it's ministry it
can't be seen the best men I know
hardly come in a pulpit you can't take
pictures of them to put in magazines, they
know God they shut away with God I
know the man who prays and for ten
years, he's 37 this year he has prayed
ten hours a day for the last ten
years by himself I know another man that's
65 years of age who prays five hours
a day the great thing that rejoices my
heart I don't make money like these guys
I'm glad I don't, I like to give
it away if I get it but these
guys the guys that have the anointing of
God are not on TV I'll tell you
that, they shut away you guys with a
little country church if I had my day
and I could go to a church now
be co-pastor of a church with 12
,000 members a guy offered to build me
a mansion and all the rest of it,
forget it I would rather be pastor of
a country church where I know every one
of my sheep and where they'll knit together
and believe God to send a Holy Ghost
revival again it proves here again, do we
need to know it?
what's it saying Daniel I don't know the
chapter the people who know their Bibles shall
be strong and to exploit Daniel 11.32
it doesn't say that don't look at it
now please it doesn't say the people that
do know their Bibles it says the people
that do know their God if you knew
God brother as much as you know your
Bible you'd be shaking the whole community these
seminary men I tell them you go there
you read your Hebrew, you read your Greek
and all hell is filling and you stand
there and get a big salary and do
a great job and hell doesn't even know
you you're certainly not an evangelist up there
the people that do know their God shall
be strong and to exploit what exploits do
you do?
he lifted the gates of the city he
ripped the life out of the lion he
took a job out of an ass he
did exploits he didn't have a committee meeting
he did it somebody said committees spend hours
making minutes that's all most of them do
in churches anyhow you say well that's rough
fasten your seatbelt it might be a bit
rougher right now verse 25 it came to
pass when their hearts were merry maybe they
were drinking they called for Samson that he
may make sport can you imagine a holy
man of God that they were terrified of
and now they bound him up he's blinded
and shut down there and nobody trembles and
they make sport they ridicule how do you
think Jesus felt when Jennings said to I
don't know maybe a hundred million people listening
on TV this man this man revealed God
as a as a terrorist don't you think
the heart of God was grieved you know
I believe that Jesus still weeps he's the
same yesterday today and forever he could rejoice
over the Pentecostal church in the New Testament
he weeps over it now I guarantee the
smallest meeting in this church is a prayer
meeting the prayer meeting is the Cinderella of
every church and that power has to come
back well you'd rather have the anointing of
God in tears than be laughing at some
stupid harlot on TV the house of God
has to become the magnet where it pulls
us where we don't just come once or
twice a week we get to the place
where we have an appetite for God every
day this Baptist preacher I've been talking to
for a few weeks came to see me
a few days ago and said Mr.Rainer
I have a prayer meeting in my church
a Baptist church at 5.30 every morning
of the week and it's wonderful to see
how many men are coming before they go
to their offices in Dallas in a Baptist
church people around the country waking up to
the efficacy of prayer I'm almost through they
call for Samson make sport a boy held
him by the hand he was 26 and
I can see him saying to the boy
hey boy go steady where are we going
oh he said I'm taking you on the
platform he said you know there are 3
,000 spectators in the gallery that's what it
says 3,000 the house is packed and
they're all laughing and Samson says be careful
remember I'm blind and he leads Samson up
onto the platform verse 27 says there were
upon the roof about 3,000 men and
women and you know what the gallery of
the church usually holds less than half than
the main auditorium usually a third so I
estimate there were 10,000 people in this
auditorium looking at a man they were terrified
if they'd seen him coming down the road
they'd have fled but now he's blind he's
crippled he's helpless and so they make fun
of him verse 28 says and here is
one of the most remarkable prayers in the
Bible I've never heard it preached on the
middle of verse 28 oh Lord God remember
me I pray thee and strengthen me I
pray thee only once oh God that I
may be avenged of the Philistines for my
to I he doesn't ask for freedom he
doesn't say God get me out of jail
and I'll serve you he doesn't say Lord
give me my eyes back and I'll serve
you he's concerned about one thing and that's
the glory of God Lord come in your
glory be you selfish and carmel do you
pray for your daddy so he'll get saved
so he won't go to hell that's not
the first thing is robbing God of the
glory of using that brain and heart and
affection of his your daddy might be one
of the greatest prayer warriors in this town
but you're letting him slide and the thing
is not merely that he's bad he's dead
Jesus did not come into the world get
it clearly he did not come into the
world to make bad men good he came
into the world to make dead men live
I don't care how wealthy they are I
don't care if they're D.D.'s and they're
wealthy it makes no odds they're dead in
trespasses and in sin verse 78
I pray thee strengthen me I pray thee
only once that I may be avenged of
my to I do
you know he do you know how how
I know he meant that from the very
center of his being every fiber of his
being every beat of his heart every one
of the three million cells in his body
cried out for the living God how do
I know because it says in verse 30
Samson said let me die with the Philistines
do you know why brother do you know
why there's no anointing you're trying to hold
it together you're afraid to die to your
reputation you're fighting you're popping that church up
and it's killing you die and let God
come and take your life over completely lose
all the rights to yourself the rights to
sleep the rights to eat the rights to
spend money if you're a slave of Jesus
a slave has no rights and Samson says
in the midst of that howling bunch of
agnostics and critics and rulers of the nation
he says God please just once that marvellous
anointing I had when I tore the lion
up that marvellous anointing when I carried the
gates that marvellous anointing when I remembered a
surge of eternal life that marvellous anointing when
I remembered a surge of eternal life sweeping
through me when I slew the two thousand
with a jawbone of an axe please Lord
just once give me one more chance I'll
never ask again give me one more chance
even if I die what's the scripture say
the house fell upon him upon the lords
that's the aristocrats in England dukes and lords
and ladies the house fell upon the lords
so the dead which he slew in his
death were more than they which he slew
in his life you see that's the greatest
prayer that he ever prayed Lord please don't
let me die half back slidden don't let
them take my body in the church and
people come round oh he's the sweetest pastor
ever had of course he he didn't trouble
you much as he got older he kind
of petered out he didn't pray with much
anointing he didn't send us home all bruised
on the inside he had more of a
massage than a message that's what most preachers
have today it's funny and it's terrible strengthen
me just once even if I die and
he pull the house down and he kill
more in his dying than in his living
I still believe that Joel 2 has to
be fulfilled people ask me you know so
many men you watch the giant fall how
short I have I've seen men that I
thought were as firm as almost the throne
of God fall down over money, fall down
over women fall down over praise or something
the devil doesn't care what it is as
long as you lose your anointing and you've
gone as at other times you're nice to
the deacons you're sweet to the old ladies
you're gracious and heaven has written you off
a long while ago and hell has, you're
no longer a hell wrecker the devil and
demons don't see you anymore so in essence
Simon says I can't die like this oh
I have a thousand memories of the majesty
of God and near this heathen crowd laughing
at me give me one more chance I'm
through with this, I remember preaching in Australia
some years ago and the pastor said to
me, Brother Raymond I said just look to
the right there, there's a man a tall
man with a large bald head, I said
yes he said you know 35 years ago
that man moved through this country of Australia
and everywhere he went he was dynamic he
was like a torch in the midst of
bales of hay and everywhere he went God
delivered people even physical deliverances and demon deliverances
but he said when he spoke it was
almost like a breath of fire coming well
that's a symbol you see that cross it's
alright, but it's not Christian that's a symbol
of paganism the symbol of the church of
Jesus Christ is a tongue of fire our
God is a consuming fire it makes his
ministers a flame of fire but it's pretty
tough isn't it when your husband's here, your
deacons are here for you to get up
and walk here and say Brother Raymond, I've
lost I haven't shed tears, my pillow's dry
every night I don't weep from the loss,
I have no burden, I got a few
nice little gifts from the church at Christmas
oh they're so nice, they're not nice they
tell you the truth I
said you didn't hear that I said you
have to nail it on, do you know
when Mao Zedong took over in China do
you know what he did, he liquidated 90
million people and millions of them are Christians,
do you know what they did with them
they came into services like this and they
took the pastor and they nailed him to
the wall of his church that's communism, that's
the stuff Mr. Gorbachev wants to do in
America but brother you can't say, you shouldn't
say it's not my brother nor my sister
it's not headquarters up at where is headquarters,
Springfield there's no virtue in going to Springfield
and it won't kill you to go but
listen, the glory isn't even in Pentecostal Bible
schools anymore the kids go drinking, the kids
fool around, they ought to go in that
room and be terrified when they go in
oh we're in one of the fastest growing
churches in Dallas forget it, do you know
what the Holy Ghost Church is, no man
dares join himself do you think a man
that's living a double life would come in
a meeting filled with the Holy Ghost somebody
would say listen, you've got a serpent in
you George Fox, the founder of the Quakers
would go to a man and say I
see a demon spirit in you I see
the spirit of a fox in you I
see the spirit of a serpent in you
and he used the animals and he went
to people continually and yet they never preached
gifts of the Spirit, they demonstrated the power
of the Holy Spirit of God strengthen me
just once how do you know this isn't
the last message you'll hear how many times
has God rebuked you privately and you've gone
home you've come to the altar time and
time again and you've gone out and done
the same crazy things, you came paralysed you
went out paralysed, you came without vision, you
left without vision I tell you if you
come to this place with brokenness you can
come but listen I don't make altar calls
in a general way I'm certainly not going
to try and stir you emotionally some of
you preachers know you're on the verge of
bankruptcy you know it's a job, you know
it doesn't break your heart of the people
in your church I had a pastor of
a church of God, I'll put it that
way, that's what it is came to see
me a while ago he gets a thousand
people Sunday morning and he said Mr. Redmill
you know 50% of my congregation are
divorced you see there's no fear of God
in any shape or form and that will
come back and it's not a cringing fear
it's a fear of grieving him hurting him
the Lord spoke to me first when I
was 14 I started leading a youth meeting
I got a couple of prayer meetings going
when I was 16, just for youth on
Friday nights in the church and Sunday morning
at 7 and at 19 I went to
an altar because I knew I had a
problem and the problem was jealousy and pride
I was youth leader, most admired guy in
the church I guess, I went to the
front and as they did, they used to
come with a Bible and say what you
need and this preacher came up and said
well Leonard I'm amazed to see you at
the altar you're such a fine young man,
I said oh he said what do you
want, I said I want Romans 6 and
verse 7 to be really my life oh
no, you mean Romans 6 6 knowing this
that our old man is crucified, I said
no I don't want Romans 6 7 he
said no, it's Romans 6 7, I said
sir it's Romans 6 7, I want and
he didn't even know what it was I'll
tell you what it is without looking he
that is dead is freed from sin I
want to die here to my ambitions I
want to die to pride I want to
die to failure I want something to happen
in my life I'm not saying I've walked
as a saint all the years since, but
it was a crisis in my life, you
know what it did and I'm through with
this two books changed my life my Sunday
school teacher gave me a hymn book, pardon
me, gave me a book it's the bridged
life of David Brainerd, I read about that
young American that would go out and pray
in the forest so I lived on the
edge of Sherwood Forest so I'd take my
mother's little dog at night, I'd walk into
the forest tie the dog to the stump
of the tree and there were some ferns
there instead of going up and going out
that way they grew around here and met
in the middle I got into the middle,
lifted up my hands a thing they never
did in holiness churches I cried to the
Lord for revival by myself, night after night
in that forest I got up early Sunday
morning and went into the forest and prayed
and groaned and one day I walked to
a hill overlooking the city, I raised my
hands up and the tears ran down my
face I think I was 17 and I
said Lord don't let my city die Lord
send just one more like Samson asked for
one more visitation I'm not a preacher Lord
but please come do you know a few
months after that or a year after, George
Jeffries came not because I prayed, but because
a bastard fasted himself almost to death three
times and the strongest church in that city
started in 1927 is the strongest church tonight,
60 years after young people saw the glory
of God in Daddy and Mummy there was
no bickering in the home there was sweetness
Daddy tossed away his pipe and Daddy got
rid of his sport and everything the biggest
treasure you have I keep telling dear Spencer,
these other young fellows those children are treasures
I've got three wonderful sons one has an
earned PhD, they're all pretty brilliant the other
one's got a head position just now in
the Smithsonian Museum the other's left his big
church and he's tramping the world for God
and the other has an amazing prayer life
when he was 16 years of age he
prayed 5 hours a day at 16 years
of age you see we're not tired of
organising God is it's time for agonising there's
something more than getting a degree we need
a new degree, a new depth a new
anointing from God a new vision you meet
God tonight, then I'll tell you how to
start revival, go to your church Sunday morning
and say do you know the biggest failure
in this church is your pastor, I've had
no real vision I've had no passion, I've
had no burden, it's been a living but
from here on you've got a man that
God has touched by the Holy Ghost and
I don't care whether I've good health or
bad health this community's going to hell fire
and this church is responsible for it and
I want some men that will pledge their
lives to God strengthen me just once even
if I die and you'll die alright because
you see, all the others didn't see Jesus
Christ, he visualised it, no man can look
on God and live what did Isaiah say,
maybe I'll preach on that one night Isaiah
said, woe is me, no woe is my
prayer life, I'm behind in my tithing, I'm
not doing, he says two things, I'm undone
and I'm unclean, and then the life cold
touched him and he became a super prophet
and that's what God wants to do I'm
not going to tie it up theologically you
know another scripture we don't have there and
I'm through with this why it's only nine
I thought it was ten I'm cutting myself
short, ok a scripture says, confess your faults
one to another, you know, it doesn't take
much moral courage to come down there and
weep and shed a few tears and tell
God you're sorry any coward can do that,
but you're the best known deacon, you're the
best known pastor why don't you come now
and kneel here and say I'm the key
to failure in my church I've lost my
vision, I've no power over the devil, I've
no power over maybe my own body and
thinking God I want one more touch now
don't come here and just kiss the floor
with your knees and go stay till God
touches you go down in your life and
you know what's wrong with you, I've pride
whatever it is, some secret sin ambition tell
the Lord what they are, don't generally say
Lord I've weakness, He says I'm undone, I'm
unclean and stay there if it takes you
till midnight and for once in your life
get cleansed and anointed with the Holy Ghost
and I'll tell you what if you do
you'll treasure it more than any experience you've
ever had before this is God's second call
to you and it's not only that, it's
your last call you think I enjoy preaching,
of course I don't if this is a
Holy Ghost meeting somebody will die here tonight,
not physically, this is God's last call to
you, He doesn't owe you anything, He's called
a hundred times, you've worked and you've got
nowhere your godly mother's in the grave there,
worms have eaten her long since she prayed
for you, maybe your grandpa and yet you're
a stulted, crippled weak, ineffective Christian, and this
is a day for soldiers, put on the
whole armour of God there's a devil and
a million demons want to destroy Kilgore or
the town that you're in and as you
are you can't face them I say I'm
not going to sing a chorus I nearly
said you've got the guts, if you have
the courage let everybody see you, or everybody's
going to see it, they're judgment a thousand
billion eyes will look on you, standing by
yourself you won't lean on your pastor, lean
on your darling wife, lean on your lovely
husband you'll be there by yourself before billions
of eyes, and there's no you turn, you
can't turn in front for somebody it's now
or never this could be the first real
Pentecost you've ever had you'd say, Lord break
me I want to come, I want to
get rid of my profession, of my showmanship
I'm tired of the world going past my
church and saying that's how it has been,
there used to be Pentecostals the Holy Ghost
used to command them they used to pray
all night, people went and miracles were done,
but not anymore it's a pretty little church
and a nice pastor, nice people but there's
no flaming torch of God the Holy Ghost
I just said I was going to preach
on prayer but God showed me last night
and showed me again, in a way I
didn't expect today, I got to preach on
Samson I've preached this around the world but
I'm getting old and forgetful, I don't tie
up so well, but I know God has
spoken I know tonight this is your chance
and so I'm not going to sing get
up and bring your broken heart, and bring
your broken promises, and meet God there are
two, one, two, three benches so, I'm not
going to sing, get up and come ...
If you'll allow me we don't need manifestations
now we need repentance we need to cry
out to God we don't need to ease
our conscience we don't need to be sidetracked
I don't mean this unkindly but if the
Lord is speaking to your heart come and
pray if you want to be dismissed be
dismissed, we are so glad you came God
is speaking to hearts especially we preachers let's
come and pray let's seek God I'm
going to pray the pastor asked me to
pray if you wish to leave leave now,
stay a little while anyhow Father we thank
you tonight that you are the unchanging God
you said call upon me and some here
may tonight have no language but a cry
a sob in the heart something eternal that's
crying to be released some fetter that needs
to be broken that nobody knows is here,
the fetter of pride personal ambition secret sin
laziness lack of passion for the lost Lord
I pray send fire from heaven tonight on
these hearts we remember Solomon built a temple
and with all its beauty and he built
its altar and yet he knew it hadn't
done anything until the fire fell and he
prayed and the fire of the Lord fell
Lord fall on these hearts tonight burn up
all the dross burn up all the impurity
burn up every fetter that's there Lord light
a fire in the hearts of some men
or women here tonight that will never go
out that at the judgment seat we will
say that this was a turning point in
their life where they cried in despair the
pastors who've tried everything, they brought in music
they brought in entertainment, it hasn't done a
thing Lord I pray do something in these
precious pastors that they'll preach on Sunday in
an utterance with an anointing they've never had
before Lord that people will see that out
of them are flowing rivers of living water
Lord we're so tired of formality we're so
tired of seeing the nation go to destruction
we're so tired of Jehovah's Witnesses and other
people mocking the church of Jesus I'm told
that the Jehovah's Witnesses say they get more
backsliders than anybody else, people who once had
a walk and a talk with God and
their backs slidden, Lord I pray send all
hell mad tonight that this meeting ever took
place may some of these men get on
the devil's most wanted men, on the danger
list, Lord give them an utterance in prayer,
even if it's in the pulpit, break them
till the congregation weeps with the weeping preacher,
it can see with the seeing preacher it
has strength with the preacher who's been renewed
by the Holy Ghost Lord you ordered us
to go into all the world and preach
the gospel and here 2000 years after you
came there are more lost people in the
world tonight than ever Lord again I pray
with all my being do something that will
last longer than a half hour at the
altar something that men will not dare to
hold in something they'll have to confess maybe
Sunday or somewhere openly I've been failing the
church I haven't borne the burden there are
hundreds of lost children in families where Sunday
school teachers and deacons and yet the children
are lost and there's no burden Lord open
eyes tonight give us a sight of an
eternity we've never seen as David your servant
said, enlarge our hearts Lord enlarge us fill
us to capacity fill us with the Holy
Ghost, fill us with the knowledge of your
will fill us with divine love fill us
with holy compassion fill us until we have
to say with Jeremiah thy servant a river
of water or the psalmist says a river
of water runs down my eyes or again
as Jeremiah says oh that my head were
waters, mine eyes a fountain of tears Lord
lift us clean out of the normal into
the abnormal out of the natural into the
supernatural Lord I pray put a wall of
fire round about this church and be the
glory in the midst of it and for
every other church pastors and Sunday school teachers
and others who are at this altar Lord
we're gluttonous for your glory Lord we'll never
ever find satisfaction between here and eternity unless
you do a new thing unless people ask
destroy all the old things in my life
my old interests, my old love of football,
my old love of TV my old love
of this that and the other and transcendent
put a new love in me holy love
that I can love the last and the
least and the last Lord I look for
some miracles to come out of this service
tonight not because I'm here but because you're
here you brought men to pass a milestone
tonight you brought them to come to this
altar tonight like Samson to die die to
everything else every fetter that's held them Lord
break every fetter