As a congregation in one of the southern
states where I've had thirteen different campaigns, mostly
people didn't hear the cam, they felt the
pain.
In fact, I've been with them eight years,
eight times.
I remember the dear one shut the rope
one time and said, Brother Barnett, what do
you think about me having, well, so-and
-so for special meetings?
And I wrote him that I thought his
people would be able to hear the man
and God could use him, and so they
brought him and he stayed three weeks.
And the pastor wrote me about the meeting.
Nobody was saved, but thirty-three people were
awakened to the fact they were lost.
That's a great meeting, don't you think so?
You see, we've got a generation of church
people that claim to be saved, but they're
never really lost, and that's an impossibility.
We need to pray for God to strip
people and rob people and end people up.
For no sinner will ever trust the Lord
if there's anybody else or anywhere else to
go.
That's not bragging on us, but that's so.
We'll trust each other.
We'll trust something, but we won't turn ourselves
over to him until we're just firmly exhausted
and we have a recourse.
That's right.
And if we were scriptural and we loved
lost souls, we would ask God to burn
folks' houses and tear up their business and
rob them of their health and everything else,
in the hopes that that might be used
of God to bring them to their senses,
to where, like the part of them, some
day is aware of the mess they're in
and determined to get out of it and
face toward home.
Nowhere in the New Testament was Jesus Christ
ever offered to anybody that didn't know him.
Is that so?
All of our messages, you see, are on
scripture, nearly all of them are, and it
is a sign that we do not love
lost souls unless we're willing to be honest
with them and abide by the precepts and
example both of the Old Testament and of
the New, that Jesus Christ is a Savior
for people who desperately need him.
But unless people come to realize their tremendous
desperate need of Christ, we do them ill
if we try to get them to make
a profession and we pull the fruit too
green and the first time the sun shines
it withers and dies and is burned up.
There is no reason, I think, our churches
need more to learn than the simple truth
that God has spiritual laws upon us.
And for sixty years, everybody wanted to be
a weeper, nobody wanted to be a plower,
nobody wanted to be a sewer, nobody wanted
to be a welder.
Everybody talked about handing their souls over to
anyone.
If you ever were present and helped to
land the sinner, somebody was there before you
got there and did some work before you
did.
So that none of us can beg, for
in the deep sense, only the Holy Ghost
in the deep sense is the sole winner,
although there are some things that we can
do.
We desperately need some plowing now.
I believe we swept things under the rugs
in our churches so long that the rug's
full and the dirt's shivering on us.
And I think we just wear face facts,
and I look you in the face.
And if we ever see the breath of
God upon our churches again, God's going to
have to save a big proportion of our
church members, for they're disgracing the gospel by
claiming to be saved and living the kind
of lives they live.
And it's got to the place that the
world's found that out.
It's showing on us, brethren, and we just
wear a face.
Just wear a face.
Thank you for listening to the sick preacher.
I'm looking forward to the...
You know, it's been twenty-some odd years
since I was in the Fifth Sunday Meeting,
and I'm looking forward to it.
I never will forget the last of my
days out in the state of New Mexico
and the preacher took a text I'm going
to give us to you about this.
And whether or not you can preach it
someday.
He took a text from one of the
gospels where it says, The Lord entered into
the ship where the disciples were, and there
were other little ships.
And the sermon was that the ship where
the disciples were, and the other, and below
it ended up, there's the Baptist church.
And the other ships, the disciples went in
them, and the Lord went in them.
And one of them was a Methodist, and
one of them was a Presbyterian, and he
just named them all.
And he preached the sermon on that, made
off a good preaching because it wasn't so,
but you can always do better preaching if
you've got something that you know nothing about,
and the people know less, and you've got
plenty of liberty, and so that's your place,
you know.
But that's a good sermon.
Well, God bless you.
In the 12th chapter of the book of
the Please the Last Years, as far as
I know, the book of Please the Last
Years, chapter 12, in the first six verses,
and I'll take time to read them out
if you're interested, you can read them after
you get home.
Please the Last Years, chapter 12, we have
as far as I know, and I think
I'm right here, the only description in the
word of God of a funeral procession.
There was a funeral procession going down the
main street of town, and a man or
woman, somebody, was being carried along into the
house, going down to his long home.
Going to his long home.
They had taken a man to his long
home.
The pastor was engaged in the funeral services
of somebody that gave.
And already that person has experienced my text,
verse 7.
The funeral procession proceed down the street.
The singing is in the minor key, and
the mourners go about the street with no
hope.
For they're headed for the cemetery, and in
verse 7 we come to the climax for
the people of the home.
Then shall the dust return to the earth
as it was, and the spirit shall return
unto God who gave it.
Then shall the dust return to the earth
from which it came, and the spirit unto
God who gave it.
No man's afraid of death if he can
convince himself that there isn't something on the
other side.
But that's what the Bible says.
When a man dies physically, they take the
body he lived in for a while.
It's already beginning to rot.
Scientists or doctors tell us in three minutes
after what we call death occurs, that the
brain of a man has so degenerated that
he's an imbecile.
If you could resuscitate that brain after he'd
been dead three minutes, he would be just
an outright idiot.
That's how fast the body starts going back
to the dust from which it came.
But when that's over, that isn't all of
it.
For that part of a man that God
put in you, or the Bible tells us
he breathed breath into Adam, and he became
a living soul.
And even God himself, using all the power
of God himself, cannot destroy that spirit which
he breathed into man.
It's got to go on.
It's eternal because it came from God, and
the gifts and callings of God were without
repentance.
And a man, whether he likes to face
it or not, is due, if you want
to use that kind of language, whether you
like it or not, you're due to live
on forever and ever and ever and ever.
Then shall the dust return to the earth
as it was, and the spirit shall return
unto God.
I use that text.
1926, that's a few years ago, in the
city of Boulder, Texas, at that time the
world's largest oil camp.
An old man by the name of Whittenburg,
an old bankrupt rancher, they struck oil on
his ranch, and in one year's time, the
royalties that he received amounted to 90 million
dollars.
And of course, somebody went and bought up
a little of it, made a town site,
and they started a town.
And they named it B-O-R-G
-E-R.
And in six months' time, there were 50
,000 inhabitants of that very vast, growing city.
The Baptist Association of that section went out
and bought one of the lots in the
town site for the future erection of a
church building.
And I had just been saved.
And they asked me if I would go
out and build a church in that wicked
oil camp.
And I do it.
And I didn't live with one man in
that wicked city.
And I just had five dollars in my
pocket.
I resigned my job of teaching school, and
I went out to build a church.
They had the lot oil paid for, and
I had to raise money to build some
sort of a building.
First thing I did, I purchased a dance
hall that had been outgrown and was vacant,
and I purchased it on credit.
And then I hired a man to move
it and place it on the lot that
had been purchased by the Baptist building.
And then, not knowing what else to do,
I got a big 20-gallon hat.
You've seen pictures of them at least out
in Texas.
And I started for begging for money.
The street, the main street, it was all
built on the main main street, where every,
every, the first fence had brick and the
rest of it was wood.
They used to put up a business section
two and a half miles long.
I went down to the end on one
side, and I didn't know much scripture.
But I read that God was no respecter
of persons, and so I got me a
20-gallon, a 20-gallon hat of this,
and I just went into every place of
it.
Houses of old things, saloons, gambling houses, grocery
stores, just nailed it.
I didn't, I didn't leave anybody out.
And I'd tell them I was a Baptist
preacher, and I'd raise them money to build
a Baptist church, and I wanted them to
kick in.
And they did.
By the time I got to the length
of one side, of two and a half
miles on one side, I had $30,000
in the bank.
I looked around again.
And I was doing good.
And I got down on the other side,
and him being a little white-haired, pink
-cheeked Baptist deacon, I didn't know him, but
he heard there was a preacher in town,
just gracing God.
And he finally ran me down, and he
rebuked me.
And I accepted his rebuke, and he said
I was doing wrong, and I was ashamed
of myself.
And he forgave me because I was so
young.
He said, You ought to know that the
Lord doesn't want to use the devil's money
to prosecute his work.
And I said, No.
And the old man said, Most certainly.
He did.
And I apologized to the old man like,
Get out.
He was my son, and I wouldn't rebuke
an elder.
But I kept the memory book.
And the old man was right, except he
was wrong.
There's a lot of pious hypocrisy about Henry
Goodman.
He don't want anything money except the Lord's
money.
Well, I didn't know there wasn't any other
kind.
The Bible says the cattle in the south
and hills are mine.
The Bible says the silver and gold are
mine.
The Bible says it's God that gives you
power to get rich.
If the devil swipes some of God's money,
God swipes some of it back.
I'll do it every time.
In the old days, if you had a
few million dollars, I'll take it and use
it for the glory of God, because I'm
just getting it back.
It's been God's all the time.
You believe that?
I do.
Now, remember, I came to the middle of
the second bar where Mr. A.P. Barber,
whom the town was named, who bought the
town site, he had his finger in every
puddle in the city.
No prostitute engaged in her traffic without paying
her.
No man sold in a whiskey in town
without paying him.
Nobody had a gaming establishment without paying him.
He had a rink off of everything.
The sheriff and everybody else was in his
crib, and he was getting rich.
And I wasn't going to pass him by.
And when I got to his place, he
had the biggest free food establishment.
There were 267 of them, just alike, on
that main street.
And the front was a whiskey place where
you could buy whiskey.
Of course, Texas was dry, but they had
founded out there, and you could buy whiskey
there.
And then the second room was a gaming
house in the road behind where houses of
all kinds, 267 such free food establishments in
that city at that time.
And when I got there, they were waiting
for me.
And I went in, and it was a
big crowd.
They'd been counting my pouch up the street,
and they were waiting for me, and I
told them where I was, and that I
was in a crib.
And they said, they had somebody do the
talking, and said, we're not going to give
you a dime, so we'll get a sample
of it, don't you?
Well, they just stood with me, and they
laid out a big barricade and set me
up, put me up on top of it,
and had me hold my Bible kind of
passed right like that, and they had a
book to share.
If you had two books, I'd go hop
on and catch a beer on the tin
door and help me read them like in
the movies and old television.
And then over there, and they took pictures
and published them all over the rest.
The preacher read the Bible, and the book
to share us what we'd done, and we
became the wicked city.
But after I had that done, they said,
preach to us.
And I preached, and I preached from this
church.
Then we shall be blessed.
Return to the earth as it was, and
the Spirit shall return unto God.
I've never seen the Holy Spirit challenge that
He didn't knock on the door and let
the bases loaded.
The trouble is, He don't come around our
churches.
This orthodoxy, there's so much slaves to custom
that the Holy Ghost doesn't come around.
We don't, we don't get out and run
around where He's got to come to our
rescue.
We don't take any chances to be bold
for Christ.
We do things like we've been doing for
the last 50 years.
And the Holy Spirit doesn't bother us.
He bothered me that day.
And seven men claimed the Lord Jesus Christ.
They became chartered members of our church that
we started.
And from that experience of preaching to those
people in that saloon, we built a church.
For 16 months, I was a single young
man of 23.
And I was the only preacher in that
city.
And I want to talk to you a
little while tonight on two things that I
learned.
Now, what I'm going to say tonight may
sound a little trite.
Don't get mad at me.
You never have learned.
Our churches today never have learned two things.
First, you can't clean up men or sinners
or a world from the outside.
It just can't be done.
If you turn on the radio, if you've
got them around you, and I bet you
have, I want you to say that 96
% of the preaching you hear on the
radio next Sunday all day long is somebody
trying to get the sick cats out of
somebody's alley instead of preaching to the hearts
of men.
They'll preach up a storm about don't close
up the bear joints and the picture shows
and the bathing beaches and just name it
and you can take it and if you
accomplished all of those things, people will still
go to the same hell and be a
little cleaner.
But that's all.
Now, all men's got heart disease and he
needs a new heart.
He doesn't need to just be cleaned up
a little bit if he ever gets a
clean, pure heart.
The outside will take care of itself but
you can fuss and fume.
I never tried to get this generation of
church men to quit living such dirty lives.
They never will lead clean lives till they
meet the Lord Jesus Christ and he gives
them a new heart.
That's it.
God's truth.
I saw that city absolutely cleaned up three
times in 16 months.
I just fell in one living white tower
when they had something up coming that morning
and I preached to everybody and I preached
against what they was doing and I baptized
2,361 of them in 16 months.
Some of them were saved.
But I know right now that town is
a preaching town.
I didn't build any nice little church building
and wait for somebody to come.
I went down there and sent his word.
I said if I ever get to be
president of the Southern Baptist Convention the first
thing I'm going to do is bring every
church building in America up and I'm going
to keep the people supporting the King's building
no more.
Maybe they'll quit substituting going to a place
for serving God.
And when I start bringing witnesses to people
down there who are working there to pray
instead of hoping they'll come to what we
call a church.
I don't expect that to ever happen but
you get what I'm after.
I'm so sick and tired of people thinking
that they serve God when they attend the
religious service.
The old Quakers had it right.
The service begins when the meeting ends and
if we don't start facing up to that
we're going to be better tomorrow than we
are now.
We want a meeting together.
Those places called houses of God have been
going out.
And then we come back with a living
Christ in the Holy Ghost with the blues
the kind of blues of God on their
faces to watch Him kneel in the dark
world as lights shine and gossip about Christ
that's what I'm talking about.
We took Christ to people in need for
the gospel for people to come to us.
And I preached in every house a real
thing and I preached in every dance hall
I preached everywhere.
I preached down the street corners of town
as the church grew.
Now men and women were down there and
men and women were people getting paid.
So I said, Jesus Christ I wish this
dead group of fundamentalists that are contending for
the faith and they're off in the corner
nobody ever hears them.
I was.
We've been contending all along contending for souls.
And I'm glad they are.
And they're not a leap over me and
that's that God's truth.
I'm going to tell you something you won't
charge a thing this way it won't give
a whoop if you are fundamental.
You can see tears coming down out of
your eyes but if you don't press for
your soundness I'll tell you that.
I'll tell you that.
It's more than that those that sow in
tears shall reap.
Those that go far in their unconscious sin
and foolish you'll come back bearing the seeds
ready.
I love to see the independent fundamental churches
that have given everybody in the world hell
for so long and now we're catching it
ourselves because we should be here.
I love to see one prayer meeting in
an independent Baptist church where God would see
the tears and then hear the prayers of
this people.
God shep you if you've got to worry
you can't weep over the lost condition of
men about you.
I went to Boston, Texas and got the
Christian band Needy Brethren.
I took a suitcase full of affidavits dealing
with fixed and signed and sealed.
And before I got back from the governor's
office the Texas Rangers were there.
They let me put the first padlock on
the padlock 267 of those places.
They let me start to mash the 1200
salt machines and burn them up.
They let me and the mayor lead the
procession as 1200 poor public women were let
out of the city limits.
And we cleaned that city up as clean
as a hound's tooth and it stayed clean
two, three days.
Two, three days.
Listen, Barrett, I tell you the reason you
have filthy habits is talking to your men.
I'm telling you why don't you speak?
Why don't you smell decent?
I'm telling you why don't you speak in
the nostrils of the Holy Will of God?
I'm telling you why you're out with conduct
smells to high heaven.
You've got a rotten heart.
I ain't trying to get you to clean
up on the outside.
You need a new heart.
You need Jesus Christ.
You need to be washed in his precious
blood.
Barrett, when you're good to clean up on
the outside you will stay clean.
It's got to come from the inside.
I quit wasting my time chasing Jack Travis.
God knows that there's one thing the Bible
teaches.
It is that our heart can know these
things.
And I was just in the covenant of
the gospel.
A new heart will act.
Even a new spirit will act with them.
That's what everybody needs.
And you better not settle for a decision
or a profession or membership in the church.
You better not settle until you come in
the Bible.
And that's the living God in Jesus Christ.
That's why when I say if you ever
get saved it'll be a deed of a
sacrifice to come in the Bible contact with
him.
And from whose hands comes power.
As he sits on the throne on high
that's in a place to raise power on
the side of good and evil.
And if you have power to live a
clean heart you better contact with him as
he sits there on that throne with power.
To raise them out of time and try
and clean up the marvelous love that we
have.
I ain't concerned about them.
I'm concerned about us people who read the
Bible and say, but we can't have a
family and God have mercy on us and
give us another chance.
But the main thing I learned as an
impressionable young preacher you see, it's different for
me.
For three years I never got involved in
anybody's church.
I was an infidel.
I organized an infidel club in a Baptist
college.
Had 300 young Baptists join.
I didn't go to anybody's church.
You see, my mother and father which you
folks lack at this you old parents my
mother and father gave me to the Lord
as a preacher before I was born.
We used to have a generation of moms
and pops like that.
And they reminded God of that covenant of
the day of error.
They said, Lord, that war is over for
good and good.
Sooner or later.
Why, we used to have mammoths and they
had a pony house.
I've been places young as I am and
they're terrible.
And they had homes of farmers where the
children would teach and we'd keep as moms.
We'd give our place of prayer at a
certain time of the day of the world.
And they tied the women on this plow
and let them rest at a certain time
of the day and the kids knew about
it.
Sometimes they'd tell me how to creep up
and listen to them.
Reminding them, God, that the children were His.
And asking Him for His great hand of
protection and salvation to come.
I'm telling you, you can do some of
that now.
God, help us.
What on God's earth has happened to our
homes?
You know, a Christian living in a ranch
where the children learned that God was disciplined.
Mom and Papa considering them as being heritages
of the Lord.
They've got them for a little while under
the care of God and they're given.
My mom and Papa never told me I
wouldn't be a preacher.
They knew it.
God knew it.
And boy, I knew it too.
I know flesh and faith and I was
living as old as I've got just like
half of you folks.
I never knew I wasn't a Christian until
this came to pass.
I found out I didn't have a supernatural
power inside of me.
Brother, if you ain't got it, you ain't
saved.
No Christian brags about living an older life.
It's not him that does it.
It's Christ living in him.
But brother, if you can't say no to
the temptations all about you, if you can't
live a life that's utterly different from people
about you, you're crazy to call yourself a
Christian.
You'd never come into contact with the living
Christ who fleshed your soul with power divine.
God never asked a man to live a
holy life without giving him a holy disposition
and holy power to do it.
When I got out of prison, I was
killed.
I would never have these crooked fingers.
It got me.
There ain't no Christian in the world.
Nobody.
And then he kept declining it.
I knew that if I ever surrendered to
God almighty, I'd have to be one of
these hitchhike preachers.
I wasn't gonna preach.
I had a scholarship in the largest, a
scholarship in the world's biggest law school and
a junior partnership in the biggest law firm
in Texas waiting to find me.
And I put it down that I wouldn't
be a big guy who would preach.
And I wasn't gonna be a preacher and
I begged God to save me for six
long years.
He never did it because I told him
I don't even know how to save you
as long as you hold out on him.
Brother, whatever your point of value is, you
keep on holding to it, you're going to
hell.
My mother ain't gonna preach.
And so, when I surrendered to preach, that's
when God saved me.
And when you surrender to do the will
of God, that's when God can save you.
And not before.
And so as soon as God saved me,
I ain't preaching.
And the week after, I ain't preaching.
And I got that time bill, that church.
I didn't know I was such a, but
I let God.
And he conquered me and I surrendered to
do his will.
And for me, that was it.
Listen to me.
Just a young man.
A young man.
Hear me, little soil Baptist church.
Hear me.
You men.
Hear me.
You claim to be Christians.
You don't act like it.
You stand on the outside and act like
the will.
Where is the prayer power in little soil
Baptist church?
Well, you ain't got any unless you got
some Christian men.
Isn't that right?
It ain't out there gossiping, waiting for the
song service to start.
Hear me.
The Bible says, Don't take the name of
the Lord by God in vain.
That don't mean get out on the street
and curse.
That means claim to represent him when you
don't.
There is more than you in love and
they say I ain't put a heart on
you.
But if you're a Christian, you're not your
own.
You belong to the Lord Jesus Christ and
you bear his name.
And if you disgrace his name, it's his
name that's disgraced.
And God help your hair be too hot
and nice for you if you take his
name in vain.
Listen to me.
I'm down here in a nest of people
that are parched to make much of the
local church.
But I'm down here right now to make
much of this to make much of.
Where in God's beauty is the holy living
that characterizes the people of God.
You got no right to call yourself a
church unless you walk in holy prayer.
Nothing is separate in heart from the spirit
of this God-hating, holiness-hating world.
Is it your church?
If it is, no good.
But don't call it the world's church unless
you walk in holy obedience to him.
Where in God's beauty that the name of
Jesus is out of the two or three
of them together.
It says he's come from the two or
three of those in the garden whose names
are Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.
Blame it.
Can't you see?
Come about from the way you believe it.
It's the church that was purchased by the
blood of Jesus Christ.
Now Jesus said, please stand in the Bible
and never let the candle go out and
burn your name.
It's just the younger generation of inferior sinners
that they're looking to church people to show
them the way to glory.
Blame bad shape now.
Bad shape.
I saw people die.
Just a kid.
This is how I die at the cremation.
I averaged three funerals a day for the
first sixteen months.
I died twenty-six months.
The Methodists see me in the prayer after
I've been there by myself sixteen months.
They died like flies in that wicked city.
Never a night somebody wasn't shot or stabbed.
They took what they called jealous pneumonia and
just died like flies.
There was a doctor that was a failure
in what else but praying to the Lord
to get rich for butchering people.
There was a question where the black was
at.
And death was everywhere.
I lived with death for sixteen months as
a preacher.
You may have lived as a death priest
that didn't care much.
I may have lived as a preacher.
Watched men die.
Some days I preached at high seven different
funerals in one day.
You don't believe what I'm saying that I've
been so overcome once or twice once I
recall just now sitting at the bedside of
a man in the middle of my home
begging me not to let him go to
hell.
How many of you folks have ever been
at the bedside of anybody and they died
begging you to keep them out of hell?
I tell you, if you could claim to
be Christian ever get saved and go to
Nixon in this whole world and go more
serious to get your very nice feminine garments
and beg you in the service of Jesus
Christ.
This is a dire world.
The sin and disease is here everywhere.
It's in the homes.
It's in the business places.
It's in the hospitals.
It's everywhere.
You go to Louisville, Kentucky and you can't
walk down the corridor to the hospital from
that city in the Sunday morning without waiting
to be in the company of two Catholic
businessmen they're witnessing the Catholicism while us Baptists
brag about being a brother of Christ and
let the world be the hell.
Everybody, all of the people except us the
oldest witnesses, the Mormons everybody, the Catholics why,
it used to be all the colored people
of Baptist and they'll send out a team
for the other now they're all becoming Catholic,
huh?
Remember the time when we let the Catholics
get them every city, the colored people of
Jordan, Catholicism do you know what they are?
No.
Oh, God, help us.
Don't tell me about how few we are.
I want to see some blood and guts
and some sweat and some tears down there,
senior leaders and the part of the membership
of our churches.
It's around here.
I live with it.
I don't believe it, it was a very
quick living 16 months just going from one
death bed to another that's all I did,
I did in one place.
I was overcome when I knew it was
entirely down to my hands down to my
teeth and down to my heart that I'd
better lift all my hands and he said,
you will have to break his fingers and
you will never get your hands out.
I've seen men die.
It's an awful thing to watch men die
begging you to keep them out of hell.
I can't keep anybody out of hell.
It's an awful thing.
Oh, you don't realize it, but people die.
We hide our faces for a quick while
in the grave but people die and death's
an ugly thing.
If men die without God they will look
dead in the eyes but if you've got
a husband and you haven't been there and
you go back tonight if it weren't for
the good doctors and nurses keep the hospital
full like my old body is now and
full of dope if it weren't I'd be
screaming in pain and they don't let people
die much in pain now they fill them
full of dope.
Isn't that right?
And I'm not criticizing doctors but if the
bank supply they never get out in thirty
minutes time you'd love the people in the
hospitals and sick beds all over this country
screaming Oh, bless all our daughters bless all
our daughters I'd watch men die die a
man but no matter how you kill the
man he lives in the blood of hells
when he's in the lighted in the lighted
hospital in the county jail lying in the
blood of shambles the letter of death comes
on his throat the deal of death comes
on his back the man never lived it
wasn't for him to die to go out
and face what's on the other side it's
so terrible to die without God without hope
in this life or the life to come
the tragedy of it is I never was
able many people as I watched die begging
me to pray for them begging me to
keep them out of hell I'd have to
say you wouldn't get saved just cause I
prayed for you nobody ever gets saved listen
to this one nobody ever gets saved apart
from being brought to the place where you
yourself I know it's a gift of God
but it's your act nobody ever has got
saved who didn't himself repeat to God and
exercise faith to lay hold on Jesus Christ
himself all the prayers and all the seats
cannot take the place of this that God
that has repentance to God and faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ and up until this
hour God really has violated that demand if
you ever say to him you're gonna be
brought to repentance and faith or you're gonna
die and spend eternity in hell now you've
only got a man with a little trim
and a snake jumping up on his back
and two nurses had to hold him down
and between his skulls he's sobbing and crying
and he can't find two pieces of bread
in the middle of hell and you have
to say well brother I can't take you
out of hell you must repent and believe
and when you start preaching turn back time
he's gonna remember and he'll get where he's
gone and then he dies and goes to
hell no wonder no wonder even these awful
days of sickness we keep on seeing the
blessing of the kingdom of heaven we still
cling to the repentance and faith of the
conviction of salvation and why you have your
lips about you by God giving you space
I want you to repent now and believe
now I remember Dixie Dixie Dixie's 27 years
old she was the queen of the dancehall
girls of that wicked city they had those
places you paid a quarter for a dance
to go about 15 cents a house 10
cents you'd get your tickets she was a
beautiful girl she'd had seven husbands she brought
a man up to the church one time
and made a marriage to an ape man
now living there and she said I'm glad
I heard of him though man, a woman
wants to make it legal and the preacher
retired and all I said well you can
get another preacher but I'm not going to
let him do it and so she went
and got some black preacher to go through
the forest again she cursed me all the
time about how married man did I was
she had to go to Maiden City to
find a preacher to marry and then one
night she was on the dance floor and
some two men got to scuffling over and
the gun came out and five shots were
fired instead of going into the body of
the man it went into the body of
Dixie they carried her quickly to the hospital
and after a while the doctor said Dixie
you can't live much longer she said my
God doc you don't mean it the doctor
told me that he said yes Dixie you've
got maybe another hour she said for God's
sake somebody go get the preacher and they
came and called and I went to the
hospital and I got there the doctor had
left and the nurse said preacher you need
to go in she said she can't last
much longer and you can't hurt her maybe
you can help her and I went in
and Dixie was inside of a housekeeper and
I sat down at the bed and I
said Dixie Dixie Dixie this is the preacher
you see for me what can I do
for you she said God knows preacher they
say I'm going to die and I don't
want to go to hell said preacher don't
let me go to hell don't let me
go to hell I said Dixie I can't
keep you out of hell she said for
God's sake preacher go to hell I said
too late for prayer now you were then
you substitute for the hearing of the gospel
that brings Christ to me and any living
man that's your time and you'll obey and
to surrender and lay hold on him and
I said there's no good for you Dixie
unless you're able to repent and believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ she said for God's
sake preacher how can a person do that
and I said can't except if God as
you listen to his word God somehow works
a miracle I understand that I've experienced it
man couldn't do it now he can as
God speaks and he says that's God talking
to me and when God tells you to
do something you can do that and so
I began to preach to Dixie and she
listened to me and then I got to
conditions to repent and I never will forget
Dixie for the last strength I thought she
had she turned with her back toward me
and her face toward the wall and I
thought she would die as her body was
wrapped in salt and I sat there helpless
and reckless she turned and I saw a
hell in her face don't tell me living
hell a beautiful 27 year old woman's face
not yet showing the ravages of her awful
life and she said God no preacher I
can't repent and she died I don't know
what she's telling me but I'm telling you
what she said all I know is the
last word she ever said God no preacher
I can't repent and I'm looking you in
the face telling you God commands you to
repent God commands you to repent and you
can't repent if you stay around forgetting the
word of God paying your attention toward the
God that sets you up and is no
longer telling you enough for some of it
to sink in and even belittling on Christ
while you can brother you better turn to
the Lord God and ask for mercy and
Dixie died and they took her body out
and had the biggest funeral they ever had
in that city and Dixie is the queen
of that city but a moment of a
second after the death and out of this
body Dixie experienced a second death that's the
death of the spirit the Bible says three
things about this second death that's that part
of you that lives on Sunday that's not
this body that's you that's you that part
that moves into the body or even soul
that will never pass out of existence the
Bible talks about that spirit dying the second
death and the Bible says three things about
it first is to be eternally banished from
the presence of the Lord the apostle Paul
said to you be a trebuchet against when
the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven
he that was angels of mine and came
in fire taking vengeance on them that know
not God nor believe not the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ he shall be cursed
with everlasting destruction from the presence of the
Lord and from the glory of his power
it means to be banished utterly banished from
almighty God it means in the second place
eternal birth I don't know how to explain
that it's dying and you'll never die Mark
9, verse 9 says every man shall be
salted preserved with fire you'll die and never
die you'll be in a state of death
separation from God the opposite of life in
which you'll never be out of existence eternal
death eternal death the rage of your sins
that kind of death and the Bible says
the third thing the death of the spirit
the second death not of this body but
of that part of you that'll be somewhere
a billion years from now consciously existing in
torment or enjoying the bliss and comfort of
God the Bible says it's to be C
-A-S-T cast into the lake which
burneth with fire and brimstone death and glory
cast into the lake of fire this is
the second death there's awful lot of it
cast nobody'll go to hell willingly nobody'll jump
in the lake of fire willingly to be
cast Rothbard hadn't got power to cast in
body but God has God has I make
no apologies for it every fiber of my
being rebels against this awful hell birthed in
spirits in the book God warns that death
and hell shall be cast into the lake
which burneth with fire and brimstone no wonder
the scriptures say they'll be reaping and they'll
be lashing teeth when unwilling sinners are cast
I wish I could open hell tonight and
let it burn my own soul again and
hear the shrieks of the devilish sinners who've
fallen into the hands of the living God
who've met the law of God without immediate
care but I don't know yet that they'll
be reaping and they'll be lashing teeth as
they're cast into the lake which burneth with
fire and brimstone I ought to let you
go but I beg you to give me
two more minutes in Columbus, Ohio one night
I was preaching some other woman's rhyme and
the deacon approached me after service said, come
have some coffee and cake the Yankees like
fellowship and then they had to work but
the work in the church, the Christians don't
and they like Christian fellowship he said, I
want to talk to you a little bit
about your son and that, and I said,
let's go he said, as you know, I'm
a guard in Death Row in Ohio State
Penitentiary been a guard 20 some odd years
he lived with those persons down in Death
Row but I rarely serve walked into Death
Row waiting that time to be executed he
said, I thought about Mrs. Sheets as he
was preaching tonight I knew I'd read about
her there to be executed in the elected
chair in the city of Ohio and she
had been arrested and accused of marrying and
killing 13 different husbands and collecting the insurance
items I don't know whether she did or
not but she was a judge so and
committed to be executed and a lot of
papers about petitions and everything trying to get
together a commuter sentence and people raised money
and finally the execution time came this guard
said, Preacher I've lived in Death Row 8
hours a day, 5 days a week for
20 some odd years he said, I've heard
blasphemy I've heard cursing I've heard vulgarity I've
heard explosions come out of wicked man's heart
but said that woman had the most wicked
venomous heart and tongue than what I've ever
seen said, I know the other Negroes the
big old Negroes waiting there hours a day
asked the guards to bring them cotton so
they could put it in their ears not
have to listen to her vulgar, awful blasphemy
said she cursed God and cursed the mother
of that boy and the governor of the
state and everybody else she could take off
around the clock oh, she was wicked, she
was wicked but on the day that Robin
came and told her her last efforts had
been denied and the day of her execution
had been set and confirmed and told her
to prepare her soul asked her if she'd
learned the patron she began to curse him,
curse the patron cursed everybody else, gave him
another round he said, I never lived anything
like it awful, awful, awful he said the
time came he was shaved at the proper
places, never been fixed and I and another
guard unlocked the cell and I took a
bow and arrow the other guard took a
bow and arrow and led her out of
the cell down the little narrow corridor we
were loaded on very tightly and suddenly she
just got her arms this way and knocked
us apart and she ran back and fell
in the cell and closed the door and
ran around the corner and began to cry
like a little baby who's had a little
puppy dog run over he said in all
my days I never lived anything as pitiful
as the weeping of that vicious woman said
she said, please don't kill me please don't
kill me please, no cussing now no more
America now please don't kill me just wept
said the warden told four of us guards
to go in the cell I got her
by the left arm one man got her
left leg another man her right leg another
man her right arm like a pig carried
into the water there he carried that woman
out of the cell down that little corridor
said the prisoners in death row sobbed at
the pitilessness of her cry please don't kill
me that's all she could say said we
sat her down and held her while the
straps were adjusted the blindfold was put on
the last words were given her last words
please don't kill me the warden pushed the
button millions of volts of electricity burned her
insides up and in a moment or two
she was dead he said, brother preacher would
you reckon it would be that way reckon
that's what it means of the weeping and
weeping that's what it means oh, God who
gave us all that you disguised and let
me say unto you when his patience had
exhausted and his grace was no more he
must have been there in your life with
no pity left when he cast you into
the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone
I wonder if men and women won't go
out into eternity saying please don't send me
to hell and ever thou of the Calvary's
cross looked up in the face of him
on the throne and cried out, Lord have
mercy on me now it's too late they
cast into the lake which burneth with fire
and brimstone I praise what I'm preaching as
every preacher does all the time I've been
crazy but I couldn't sing there is a
fountain filled with blood oh, God with
fire and brimstone there is a fountain filled
with blood