You will find our reading this afternoon in
the Prophecy of Isaiah, and we shall read
part of chapter 59.
Isaiah, chapter 59.
Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that
it cannot see, neither his ear heavy, that
it cannot hear.
But your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid his
face from you, that he will not hear.
Then, in verse 14, and judgment is turned
away backward, and justice standeth afar off, for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity
cannot enter.
Yea, truth faileth, and he that departeth from
evil maketh himself a prey.
And the Lord saw it, and it displeased
him that there was no judgment.
Then, two verses in chapter 64.
O, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that
thou wouldest come down, that the mountains may
flow down at thy presence, as when the
melting fire burneth, the fire causes the waters
to boil, to make thy name known to
thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at
thy presence.
Amen.
May God add his blessing.
I notice that a watch has been left
here in front of me, and seeing it
there reminds me of an incident at a
convention in Ireland some years ago.
After an address given by myself, a young
man came to me.
He was a chemist, a man in a
drugstore, and handed me a little parcel and
said, Take that.
I'm sure it will help you in the
pulpit.
I naturally concluded, being a chemist, that he
was giving me something to ease my throat.
But on going to my lodgings and on
opening the parcel, I found a small alarm
clock to help me in the pulpit.
I suppose he thought that I was keeping
the good folk a little too long.
Well, now, I may have been a little
long last night.
You see, when you invite a preacher from
the Hebrides, you must be prepared for a
fairly long address.
But you seem to be very patient, and
you'll pray for me, I'm sure, this afternoon.
Now will you turn with me to the
prophecy of Isaiah and to chapter 64 and
to that very familiar passage.
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that
thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might
flow down at thy presence, as when the
melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters
to boil, to make thy name known to
thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at
thy presence.
O that thou, God, that thou wouldst rend
the heavens.
You'll notice that the prophet here is giving
expression to what appears to be a burden.
Indeed, to the heart cry of many today,
God, do something.
Rend the heavens and come down.
Notice the previous chapter and how it closes.
We are become as they over whom thou
never bearest rule.
Now I'm reading from the Gaelic revised version,
slightly different to what we have in our
English.
We are become as they over whom thou
bearest no rule.
Now it seems to me that you have
there a description of a state of lawlessness
and utter disregard for God or for anything
pertaining to it.
Now it seems to me that that in
the mind of the prophet was a powerful
argument for revival.
Those of you who are familiar with the
writings of Finney will remember that again and
again he makes a statement similar to that
which I have made.
That the law condition of the church is
a fitting argument for confidence and belief in
the God of revival to do something about
it.
You will notice that the prophet here has
a burden but he has also a deep
seated conviction.
A deep seated conviction.
His burden, his conviction.
No human effort of itself could save the
situation.
That is written clearly and largely across this
passage of scripture.
You will remember that chapter one gives us
a picture of the situation.
A sinful nation.
A people laden with iniquity.
A seed of evil doers.
Children that are corruptors.
And here the prophet clearly indicates that nothing
can happen.
The situation is so desperate.
The general attitude of men so indifferent to
the things of God that nothing can happen
unless God comes down.
My dear friend, is that your conviction?
That nothing can possibly happen unless God comes.
But he goes on to say or to
suggest that if God comes down, if there
is a manifestation of God moving in the
realm of the supernatural and revival is supernatural.
Oh brother, remember that.
It's supernatural.
In revival you're caught up in God.
I had a letter some time ago from
two of our workers who were in the
midst of a remarkable movement in the field
of revival.
This was true revival.
Whole communities were touched.
One town swept by the mighty power of
God and desperate characters brought to a saving
knowledge of the truth.
I happened to be there one night assisting
them.
And one morning when out for a short
walk, a contractor in the town met me
and said this, My, wasn't that a remarkable
meeting last night?
I was never in such a meeting.
Do you know that my wife, three of
my children, all in their late teens, and
myself were gloriously saved at four o'clock
this morning.
In a letter some days afterwards, one of
the girls in the midst of that revival
said this, This is a wonderful move.
It's greater than ever.
There's deep conviction of sin.
God is let loose.
Have you got that?
God is let loose in the place.
And He is in the field and we
are caught up in God.
That's the language of a heart in touch
with revival.
And that, I think, is the conviction that
has gripped the prophet.
Oh, let God come.
And mountains will flow before His presence.
And nations will be made to tremble.
And terrible things will happen.
And things that we looked not for.
Now, it seems to me that the time
has come, and what I say in this
camp meeting, when we must face ourselves with
honesty and with sincerity, and I would say
also with an open mind and open heart,
ready to listen to God.
Oh, brother, listen.
Are you ready to listen to God?
We read that His arm is not shortened
that it cannot see, nor is His ear
heavy that it cannot hear.
But I fear that there are many of
God's dear children today whose ear is heavy.
And I pray that we may have ears
today to listen.
As we are going to face this question,
we're all interested in revival.
At least, I would say, most of us.
And I can well believe that the question
is being asked, if God has the answer,
if God is the God of revival, why
is He not doing something about it?
I think that was suggested in the remarks
by the chairman.
Why is revival not coming?
With all the praying and all the conferences
and conventions and camp meetings, dealing with this
great truth, why is God not coming down?
Why is He not coming down?
Now, it seems to me that you get
an answer to that question.
We must go back to chapter 59, the
portion that I read.
And there we read again, But your iniquities
have separated between you and your God, and
your sins have hid His face from you.
All your sins have sent God into hiding.
Is that the answer?
Yes, my dear people, I would say, that
sin in the Christian church, not in the
world, not among sinners, who know nothing about
saving grace, He doesn't hinder revival.
He can't be revived.
What He needs is life.
And I would say that the basic reason
why we are not seeing revival at this
camp meeting is because there's sin in the
camp.
There's sin in the camp.
And I feel that we have got to
deal with that.
The devil is not greatly concerned about getting
between you and work.
Oh, no.
You can work and work and work again.
He doesn't mind that, so long as he
can keep you from God.
As long as he can come between you
and the God of revival.
I wonder if you have noticed the sins
listed in the portion that I read in
chapter 59.
Here you have the prophet's assessment of the
situation.
And you will notice that he begins by
saying judgment is turned away backward.
Judgment is turned away backward.
My dear people, the test of salvation is
in its ethical results.
Some people will say to me, yes, I
believe, but I'm not changed.
I remember after that great crusade in London
conducted by an American evangelist, a group of
nurses came to me, brought to me by
the matron of a hospital, an infirmary in
London.
These were nurses who had responded to an
appeal.
Oh, they had responded to an appeal.
And they were counseled.
And they made a decision.
And were registered as converted.
But here they were in my presence and
making this statement.
Yes, we believe in the gospel.
And we have made a decision relative to
the appeal of the gospel.
But we are not changed.
We are not changed.
Converted, but not born again.
I'm often arrested by a passage in the
gospel by John.
It's in the second chapter, and I think
the twenty-third verse, where it is stated
that many believed when they saw the miracle.
But Jesus did not commit himself to them.
What do we learn from that?
That Jesus had no confidence in their believing.
He had no faith in their decision.
Because the word goes on to say, because
he knew what was in man.
And I would make bold to say that
this, in itself, is one of the supreme
causes why revival tarries in America.
This gospel of sepulchralism amazes Christianity.
That is unwilling to recognize the supernatural or
face the implications of Calvin.
You know as well as I do that
the cry today in America and in Great
Britain is preach a positive gospel.
Preach a positive gospel.
And the possible gospel is invite men and
women to believe in Jesus Christ.
But I want to say this evening that
there is a negative side as well as
a positive side to the gospel.
Oh, there is a negative side to the
positive gospel and not his repentance.
Let the wicked forsake his ways under the
unrighteous man's thoughts and let him return unto
the Lord and he will have mercy.
When?
When he forsakes his wicked ways.
Oh, my dear people, this is a truth
we need to proclaim.
Oh, we need to proclaim.
And here I think I ought to mention
the difference between simply believing in the realm
of human faith.
But my dear people, you are not saved
by human faith.
We are saved through faith alone.
But the faith that saves is never alone.
God is in it.
I heard a prominent evangelist in Scotland.
Might I say also that he came from
America.
We get many evangelists from your country.
And in course of his address he used
an illustration.
And in the illustration he referred to a
person going on board a ship because he
had faith in the captain that he would
bring that ship to the desired haven.
Or a man going on board a plane.
He has faith in the captain and crew
and the plane that are taken to his
destination.
And this dear man then went as far.
Exercise the faith that you put in the
ship, the captain, the plane, and the captain
in the promise of God and you're saved.
I would say to your people again, no
more damning advice was ever forged on the
anvils of hell than that.
You are not saved by human faith.
You can believe and you can believe again
and be damned eternally if all that you
have is the faith that you exercise, the
faith that brought you to this meeting today.
A speaker would be speaking, addressing the meeting.
But my dear people, that's mere human faith.
We are saved by the faith of the
Son of God.
I am crucified with Christ, cried the apostle.
Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ
he liveth in me.
And the life that I now live in
the flesh, I live by the faith of
the Son of God.
My dear people, that's saving faith.
May I also draw your attention to another
thought right in the very center of that
great text.
The difference between Christ being revealed to us
and Christ being revealed in us.
My dear friend, you're not saved by Christ
being revealed to you.
They're in hell today for the revelation of
Jesus.
God doesn't save you.
Christ revealed to me.
Yes, but I'm saved when Christ is revealed
in me.
And of this glorious hope I have, hath
an anchor to a soul both sure and
steadfast.
That's Christ in me, the hope of glory.
Oh, my dear people, get that truth proclaimed.
Tell it out in your congregations.
But it's not Christ revealed to me.
Or you can have your emotions stirred when
that happens.
Of course you can.
And you can be moved to go to
the altar.
But you'll go to the altar in your
way to hell.
Oh, my dear people, I know these are
hard words.
But there's a cry for reality today.
Oh, may God get us away from this
doctrine of simply believism.
But notice further in this passage of Scripture,
there is reference to the justice of God.
Justice standeth afar off.
You have that in verse 14 of 59.
So the goodness of God is preached, but
His severity is overlooked.
Heaven is preached, and we sing about heaven,
but you seldom hear people singing about hell.
You seldom hear people singing about the severity
of God.
And yet, this is a truth and a
doctrine that is written largely across the records
of God.
At a meeting of ministers some little time
ago, I was asked to give a series
of addresses on the Holy Ghost in Revival.
Or the Holy Ghost in Evangelism, I should
have said.
But they allowed me to select my own
subject for the closing meeting.
Now, it was a minister, a meeting of
ministers of the leading denominations in England.
There will be a little over 80 gathered
in that conference.
I just asked my subject for the closing
meeting, the goodness and the severity of God.
The goodness and the severity.
A merciful God, but a just God.
A God whose moral attributes were equally balanced.
And I spoke along these lines.
At the close of the meeting, five of
the leading men who had arranged for this
conference requested that I should meet them in
the vestry.
Well, I naturally thought perhaps they were going
to pay my traveling expenses.
But, my dear people, that was not in
their mind.
When they gathered into the vestry, shut the
door the chairman, a doctor of divinity, a
prominent man in evangelism, the type of man,
the three of the five there, brought coaches
loaded to Haringey to listen to Dr. Billy
Graham.
Oh, they were interested in evangelism, and they
were men who had arranged nights of prayer
prior to the conference that I am referring
to.
But would you believe that I was faced
with the question, Mr. Campbell, do you really
believe in the hell of the Puritans?
Do you believe in the hell of the
Puritans?
And I looked at them and asked, what
do you mean by the hell of the
Puritans?
I believe in the hell spoken of in
the word of God, Old and New Testament,
as the Puritans believed in it.
Would you believe that I had to listen
to the following words, Mr. Campbell, if we
knew that you believed in the hell of
the Puritans, you would never have been asked
to address this conference.
My dear people, that's the day in which
we're living.
I'm sure that Lord Samuel was right to
remark to you he was a Jew.
Speaking in the House of Lords, and quoted
by the Daily Express, one of the leading
papers in England, this is what he said,
How we find to our dismay that the
vices of Sodom and Gomorrah are rife among
us.
The moral law is weakened because the dogmas
of heaven and hell no longer grip and
control content.
Was he right?
His words to me prophetic.
The doctrine of heaven and hell no longer
conducts or controls conduct.
When Jesus, my dear people, when Jesus spoke
about hell, and have you discovered that for
every time Jesus spoke about heaven, he spoke
thirteen times about hell.
Read your Bible and discover that.
And I maintain that when Jesus spoke about
hell, he was not fully humanity.
The embodiment of eternal truth spoke of what
he knew.
Oh, my dear people, let's get this truth
home clear.
Justice standeth afar off.
Standeth afar off.
And that is definitely true today in your
country and in mine.
But then you will notice further that in
the same portion it is written, truth is
fallen in the streets and truth faileth.
You'll get that in verse fifteen of fifty
-nine.
Speaking to me of this great truth, that
preaching truth without the anointing of the Holy
Ghost is helping the devil to damn souls.
Oh, my dear people, it's true there is
nothing on earth today so deadening as preaching
without heaven's anointing.
Oh, I dread the thought that I should
ever stand before a congregation without heaven's anointing,
without having my address speak in prayer.
Oh, brother ministers, how much time do you
give to waiting upon God?
How much time do you give in the
morning to the morning watch?
My soul waits now only upon God, for
my expectation is from Him.
And you rise from your knees possessed of
the spirit of expectancy.
God is going to do something.
My dear people, I believe that God is
doing something in this meeting.
I believe that God did something in last
night's meeting.
My dear people, God was here.
And God was speaking.
Now, I believe that God is speaking today.
I wonder how many of you have read
a passage in Spurgeon's lectures to his students.
In one of his lectures, he tells of
a dream that one of the Puritans had.
As far as I remember, I think it
was Boston, the Puritan, who wrote that great
book, The Sevenfold Testimony.
Boston, the Puritan.
Well, this Puritan, whoever he was, had a
dream.
And he dreamt that while walking through the
town, he saw the devil preaching at the
street corner.
And he suddenly made this discovery that he
must be a fundamentalist.
Boys, he was preaching the gospel.
Preaching the gospel.
Giving men to know that he believed the
word of God from cover to cover.
So, the Puritan went over to him and
faced him with a question.
Are you really the devil?
Of course I am.
I'm the devil.
And you're preaching the gospel.
Yes, I'm preaching the gospel.
Preaching the gospel.
Because I have made this discovery that my
best weapon for the damning of foes is
to get men to preach the gospel without
the anointing.
My dear people, be careful that you're not
helping the devil.
Preaching without the anointing.
That is why I used to say to
my students in Edinburgh, oh, be careful in
dealing with souls that you're under heaven's anointing.
Be careful that you have the anointing that
comes from above.
In case, in your endeavor to counsel a
seeker, you're helping the devil to damn him.
Oh, brother ministers, take this to heart.
Take this to heart.
Spurgeon says that when he read this, that
he trembled.
And I've trembled again and again in face
of it.
Oh, my dear people, the devil is cunning.
Oh, he's cunning.
And if he can get you to preach
a fundamental gospel, my, he'll make a fundamentalist
of you.
I tell you, he will.
So long as he can keep you from
God and from the anointing that comes from
on high.
Oh, brother ministers, see that your sermons are
steeped in prayer and refrain from preaching unless
you consciously know that the dew of heaven
is on your soul.
Oh, my dear people, truth is fallen in
the street.
My dear people, it seems to me that
it's in the streets in your country today.
In spite of all your crusades, in spite
of all your decisions, peace, truce, vital, dynamic,
sailing truce, regenerating truce has fallen in the
street.
And the devil is tramping triumphantly over it.
Oh, may God help us this afternoon.
May God help us.
But you will notice that there is a
further statement here.
Verse 15 again.
He that departeth from evil maketh himself a
prey.
What a statement.
What does it mean?
The man who will take his stand for
righteousness, for truce, for holiness, for holy ghost
separation.
Oh, brother or sister, the cry for separation
today.
You know that you'll not mind me saying
this, but I feel I've got to say
it.
I can't understand Christian women who seem to
delight in showing so much of their body.
My dear people, it grieves me.
It grieves me to my soul.
Why?
I read recently of a minister interviewing a
young Christian girl who was seeking blessing.
And in course of conversation he asked her,
why was it that she seemed to delight
to show so much of her body?
And she said, because I love to show
my legs.
My dear people, my dear people, you may
not accept that, and you may say what
the dear lady said, the widow of General
Dobby of Malta.
She was carrying a meeting for me outside
of London.
It was a meeting convened and conducted by
a certain women's association.
There were several hundred of them.
I was the only male among them.
And I spoke along similar lines.
I was really dealing with that great truth,
Christ in me, the hope of glory.
And at the close of the meeting she
was overheard to say, that was a wonderful
address, but we must not forget that the
dear man was born and brought up among
the hills of Scotland, and he has his
own theology.
Well, my dear people, if my theology
makes me mystical, I declare that
if I'm spiritual and mystical, it's because
the root of my Christian experience is in
the realm of mystic.
Oh, my dear people, we've got to be
true to the Word.
The man who takes his stand for that
truth will not be popular today, I can
assure you.
A man said to me not so very
long ago, Mr. Campbell, you ought to have
been alive a hundred years ago.
They would listen to you then, but they're
not going to listen to you today.
I said, brother, as long as I've got
the smile of God, it matters not what
people think of me.
I am thankful to God that I was
delivered from that.
When God in His mercy baptizes me in
the Holy Ghost, I tell you with clean
pride out, God can do it.
God can do it.
But brother, I believe that time has come
when men and women of similar convictions must
stand together for this truth, holiness, godliness
of living, separation, purity of action, purity
of living, purity of conduct.
Oh, we need that today, dear people, because
truth is fallen in the streets.
But further, you will notice this, that confidence
is born in the soul of the prophet.
All the situation is bad, but not beyond
hope.
When thou camest down, suggesting God you did
it, you can do it again.
When thou camest down, the mountains flowed before
thy presence.
You see, he declared that a new manifestation
of God would put to shame the sins
of the people and the false confidence of
the ungodly.
If God came down, if God came down,
miracle would happen.
Mountains would flow.
And you remember that he speaks of a
melting work.
The mountains, oh, the mountains will now flow.
They are melting.
And I would say the mountain of indifference,
the mountains of opposition, the mountains of Lord's
thunder, the mountains of truth having fallen in
the street of the mountains.
Oh, see the mountains flowing before his presence.
See emotion stirred.
And that happens in revival.
Oh, that happens in revival.
I saw a thing happening when we were
right in the midst of the revival.
I tell you, it shook me at the
time.
It shook me.
We were right in the midst of this
mighty move.
I couldn't preach.
I simply couldn't preach because of the cry
and the crowd kneeling around the pulpit.
Oh, from every corner.
Some were standing outside listening through the windows
that were open.
Came in and they are now on their
knees beneath the pulpit.
And suddenly, in the midst of all this,
a young woman got out into the aisle
and began to dance the Highland Fling.
Began to dance the Highland Fling.
I just couldn't understand it.
The minister who was sitting beside me bent
over and said, Brother, do you think it
was the Holy Ghost that taught her that
step?
Well, I was a step dancer and I
knew that the step was all right.
But I couldn't believe it was the Holy
Ghost that taught it.
But what I am trying to get at,
here was a young woman spurred to her
very death because she saw her brother crying
to God for mercy who was a drunkard.
A drunkard.
He is crying to God for mercy.
And it would appear that this was the
only way that she could express it.
The only time I saw it.
But I did not condemn it.
I believe that emotion has a place.
We are emotional beings and in regeneration, God
touches every part of our mortal frame.
But when I say that, don't misunderstand me.
I detest emotionalism.
And there is a difference.
People getting on to the bandwagon.
Oh, may God save us from that.
May God save us from dead emotionalism.
But I still believe that when God moves,
oh, there is a warming.
There is a warming.
You can see brothers going to one another,
embracing them and saying, I am sorry, brother.
Oh, I misjudged you.
I know such a brother here who knows
the Baptist chapel that we have in Edinburgh.
He was a student in the city.
And he knows this chapel well.
A crowded church.
Crowded every Sunday.
But I remember when it was ministered to
by Dr. Graham Scroggie, that great Bible scholar
and teacher.
Equal, I would say, to Campbell Morgan.
They were, I would say, in the same
field.
One night, while I was a student in
Edinburgh, I was in the service, evening service.
And the address has been given.
And he gives out the hymn in which
you have the words, Thy love unknown hath
broken every barrier down.
Now to be thine, yea, thine alone.
Oh, Lamb of God, I come.
And at that moment, that great preacher sprang
to his feet, lifted his hand and cried,
Congregation, stop your singing.
You are singing a lie.
Boys, I tell you, now chookers, stop your
singing a lie.
If his love unknown had broken every barrier
down, we would have revival in Charlotte Chapel
tonight.
That was all he said.
Sat down.
And then a movement in the congregation.
And up the pulpit, to the pulpit, went
one of his deacons.
And for the whole congregation to hear him,
he said this, Dr. Scroggins, I am sorry
for my criticism of you.
I am sorry, my...
It took something to say that.
I am sorry.
There are some dear people who find it
extremely difficult to say that they are sorry,
but a Christian never finds it difficult.
If he is a born-again Christian, oh,
he can say, I am sorry.
He will go to his wife and put
his arms round her neck and kiss her
and say, my dear, I am sorry.
That is a mark of a Christian.
But that night, a wave of revival broke
out in the church.
And we were there for twenty minutes to
midnight.
Revival.
When his love unknown broke down the barriers.
Broke down the barriers.
Oh, thank God for the Holy Ghost in
the midst of my personality.
I want to ask, before I sit down,
as it is coming about time that I
did that, I am going to ask, is
it really true that his love unknown has
broken down every barrier in your life?
My love unknown has broken every barrier down.
Is that true?
Now, I could give out that hymn.
I will get our song leader to lead
it.
And you would sing lustily.
But would you be singing truths or singing
a lie?
Singing a lie.
And you are singing the laughing stock of
devils in hell.
Oh, my dear people.
Let's face it with honesty and with sincerity.
I believe that the early church conquered because
there was confirmation of God's presence among them
by supernatural utterance, supernatural revelation and supernatural
demonstration of God's power.
Oh, for the supernatural demonstration.
Yes, you can have the stirring of the
emotions there.
Of course you can.
Oh, let me say again what I felt
last night after that great address by the
Dr. Appelman.
His Pentecost.
His Pentecost is the living link between the
eternal purpose of God and a world that
must inevitably perish.
His Pentecost is the answer between the eternal
purposes of God for America and an America
that must inevitably perish.
Truly, surely, our crying need is for a
Pentecostal visitation.
My dear people, as a country you've known
revival.
As a country you've known times of refreshment.
I think of Edwards.
I think of Finney.
I think of Billy Sunday with all his
extravagances.
And he had some.
But my dear people, he saw souls saved.
And he saw them genuinely born again.
And we cry today, God, do it again.
Do it again.
But there is a challenge here.
What shall we do?
What can we do this afternoon?
Well, I believe, dear people, that we can
do something.
I know that revival belongs to God and
in that field God is sovereign.
I've said that repeatedly.
But let me say again that I do
not believe in any conception of sovereignty that
nullifies man's responsibility.
God is the God of revival.
But we are the human agents through which
revival is possible.
And that brings me to this closing thought.
I'm sure you must have read that passage
in John 12.
When the Greeks came to the disciples and
said, We would see Jesus.
If they were in this meeting this afternoon,
I believe they would be saying, Oh, we
would see revival.
We would see revival.
We would see Jesus.
But can you find one single passage in
Scripture that suggests that they saw Jesus?
If you can, you can show it to
me perhaps tomorrow.
A single passage that makes clear that they
saw Jesus.
But I do read this, that Jesus went.
Having said this, he went and hid himself.
But between the desire expressed and Jesus hiding
himself, you have that great statement from the
lips of Jesus.
Except a grain of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abideth alone.
But if it dies, it bringeth forth much
fruit.
I will tell people that in that statement,
we are presented this afternoon with a challenge.
Are you prepared to die?
Are you prepared to face the implications of
Calvary, dead to the world and all its
toys, its adolphant, its fading joys?
Jesus, my glory be.
Jesus, according to another passage that I quoted
already, knew what was in man.
Oh, he knew.
He knew all that was in the heart
of the Greeks.
And he knew, not they weren't prepared.
Were the Greek philosophers interested in doctrine?
They could have been.
But I believe that Jesus saw and Jesus
knew that they would not face the implications
of Calvary when confronted with it.
And he quoted the truth.
Except a grain of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abideth alone.
But if it dies.
And then he went and hid himself.
And I make bold to say they never
saw him.
Oh, brother, you're interested in revival.
Oh, you're interested in revival.
And revival will come to your heart.
It's got to begin there.
The moment with honesty and with sincerity you
say yes to the implications of Calvary.
If any man will come after me, let
him follow me.
Let him deny himself and pick up his
cross and follow me.
My dear brother, sister, that is the challenge
that is facing you and facing me this
afternoon.
And I believe that God is bringing us
this afternoon to a crisis.
In this convention.
And it will depend on how you react
to the crisis.
As to whether we're going higher with God
or miss the way.
Oh, may God help us.
May God help us.
Amen.