1 00:00:00,510 --> 00:00:02,750 Our text tonight is in the 16th chapter 2 00:00:02,750 --> 00:00:03,870 of the book of Judges. 3 00:00:04,310 --> 00:00:07,310 Judges, the 16th chapter, reading verse 6. 4 00:00:09,870 --> 00:00:13,670 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I 5 00:00:13,670 --> 00:00:17,570 pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and 6 00:00:17,570 --> 00:00:21,150 wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict me. 7 00:00:21,150 --> 00:00:26,590 One of the old European versions of the 8 00:00:26,590 --> 00:00:29,230 scripture has an extra word in this text, 9 00:00:29,490 --> 00:00:31,610 and the extra word is secret. 10 00:00:32,870 --> 00:00:34,890 So then the text reads, Tell me, I 11 00:00:34,890 --> 00:00:39,470 pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and 12 00:00:39,470 --> 00:00:41,830 wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict me. 13 00:00:42,610 --> 00:00:45,110 Now you may not want to accept that 14 00:00:45,110 --> 00:00:46,430 word secret. 15 00:00:47,390 --> 00:00:49,370 You say it's not there by inspiration, and 16 00:00:49,370 --> 00:00:51,530 that's true, but it's there by influence anyhow. 17 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,880 This is a question of a woman of 18 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,360 the world to a man of God. 19 00:01:01,670 --> 00:01:03,129 It will be a great day, and God 20 00:01:03,129 --> 00:01:05,250 hasten it, when the world again begins to 21 00:01:05,250 --> 00:01:06,370 ask the Church what. 22 00:01:09,530 --> 00:01:12,010 I believe right now the world has a 23 00:01:12,010 --> 00:01:14,030 suspicion that the Church has no strength. 24 00:01:20,390 --> 00:01:22,610 About 400 years ago in England we had 25 00:01:22,610 --> 00:01:24,650 a breed of men, a very unusual breed, 26 00:01:25,050 --> 00:01:28,110 most Englishmen are, but they were a very 27 00:01:28,110 --> 00:01:29,110 unusual breed. 28 00:01:29,770 --> 00:01:32,950 By any standard they were giants, morally, spiritually, 29 00:01:33,170 --> 00:01:33,770 intellectually. 30 00:01:34,910 --> 00:01:37,530 And history has classified them as the Puritans. 31 00:01:42,130 --> 00:01:43,710 Quite a number of them, but I think 32 00:01:43,710 --> 00:01:47,290 the tallest of them, theologically, spiritually, was John 33 00:01:47,290 --> 00:01:47,490 Owen. 34 00:01:48,550 --> 00:01:51,050 John Owen left us a massive volume on 35 00:01:51,050 --> 00:01:51,810 the Holy Spirit. 36 00:01:53,090 --> 00:01:54,670 That is my interest right now. 37 00:01:54,730 --> 00:01:58,790 My interest is this, and he criticized men 38 00:01:58,790 --> 00:01:59,510 this way. 39 00:02:00,470 --> 00:02:04,790 He said the sin of men in the 40 00:02:04,790 --> 00:02:07,110 Old Testament was against the Father. 41 00:02:08,430 --> 00:02:10,150 The sin of men in the New Testament, 42 00:02:10,350 --> 00:02:11,770 he said, was against the Son. 43 00:02:13,110 --> 00:02:14,730 And the sin of men in my day, 44 00:02:14,850 --> 00:02:17,130 he said, 400 years ago, is against the 45 00:02:17,130 --> 00:02:17,750 Holy Spirit. 46 00:02:17,970 --> 00:02:19,370 The sin of men in my day, he 47 00:02:19,370 --> 00:02:21,810 said, 400 years ago, is against the Holy 48 00:02:21,810 --> 00:02:22,170 Spirit. 49 00:02:23,890 --> 00:02:25,690 I think if he came back he wouldn't 50 00:02:25,690 --> 00:02:27,850 need to mollify that criticism in any way. 51 00:02:29,290 --> 00:02:31,650 I've said, I shall say tonight, say other 52 00:02:31,650 --> 00:02:33,590 nights, that I believe that this is the 53 00:02:33,590 --> 00:02:36,790 most perilous hour in the history of America. 54 00:02:37,810 --> 00:02:39,510 In the last two or three years I 55 00:02:39,510 --> 00:02:42,690 have been able to preach at the National 56 00:02:42,690 --> 00:02:45,750 Convention of the Southern Baptists, at the Florida 57 00:02:45,750 --> 00:02:49,370 State Convention, at the Texas State Convention, and 58 00:02:49,370 --> 00:02:50,770 at each of them I've said I would 59 00:02:50,770 --> 00:02:52,350 like to give all the preachers a sheet 60 00:02:52,350 --> 00:02:54,890 of paper and a pencil and ask them 61 00:02:54,890 --> 00:02:57,110 to write on that piece of paper what 62 00:02:57,110 --> 00:02:59,330 or who they think is the greatest threat. 63 00:03:01,980 --> 00:03:03,780 And I've said and still say that I 64 00:03:03,780 --> 00:03:05,480 don't think ten percent of them could give 65 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:06,420 me the right answer. 66 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:09,620 They might start off with the devil and 67 00:03:09,620 --> 00:03:12,460 finish with the Democrats, and in between have 68 00:03:12,460 --> 00:03:14,240 drink and dope and I don't know what 69 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,160 else, divorce. 70 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:18,800 But I believe the greatest threat to America 71 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:19,920 tonight is God. 72 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:24,320 If you haven't read any books by Francis 73 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,520 Schaeffer, who is a full-blooded American in 74 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,240 one sense, I think one of the great 75 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,520 spiritual intellectuals of our time, he's running the 76 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,560 Liabri Fellowship there in Switzerland. 77 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,620 It's a rescue station for intellectuals. 78 00:03:39,420 --> 00:03:41,780 Some kids from the richest homes in America, 79 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,080 kids that have had the very best of 80 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:44,540 everything. 81 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,540 They've done his own things and yuck. 82 00:03:47,420 --> 00:03:49,180 They lived in millionaires' homes. 83 00:03:49,660 --> 00:03:51,580 They've had the finest of education, but they 84 00:03:51,580 --> 00:03:52,400 hit the gutter. 85 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,220 They got caught in the vortex of modern 86 00:03:56,220 --> 00:03:56,640 life. 87 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,300 And they've made their own pilgrimage there to 88 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:02,500 the Liabri Fellowship in Switzerland with a language 89 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:02,960 something. 90 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,380 If you don't have the answer, we can't 91 00:04:08,380 --> 00:04:10,260 find the answer in the churches in America. 92 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,720 But I'm interested in this observation he makes 93 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,360 in his book called Death in the City, 94 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:17,740 which is only about a dollar and a 95 00:04:17,740 --> 00:04:18,040 quarter. 96 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:39,050 He says, remember this, that every 97 00:04:39,050 --> 00:04:39,850 leading... 98 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,000 Where is that church tonight? 99 00:04:53,810 --> 00:04:55,910 God said that he was married to Israel. 100 00:04:56,090 --> 00:04:57,650 God said he divorced Israel. 101 00:05:01,950 --> 00:05:06,260 In between, God hasn't bothered with Israel football 102 00:05:06,260 --> 00:05:08,120 and every nation has kicked around. 103 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:12,160 Five times in history, they have been almost 104 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:12,980 annihilated. 105 00:05:18,140 --> 00:05:20,620 God hasn't bothered with Israel, the people he 106 00:05:20,620 --> 00:05:22,220 married for 2,000 years. 107 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:25,840 What makes you think he didn't walk out 108 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:29,940 on America or England? 109 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,020 You don't legalize abortion. 110 00:05:34,180 --> 00:05:36,020 You don't take living babies out of living 111 00:05:36,020 --> 00:05:37,380 mothers and let them be babies. 112 00:05:42,340 --> 00:05:43,360 And I'm not facetious. 113 00:05:45,930 --> 00:05:48,090 Nevada has legalized prostitution. 114 00:05:49,690 --> 00:05:52,210 England has legalized homosexuality. 115 00:05:54,590 --> 00:05:56,270 We have 9 million alcoholics. 116 00:05:57,570 --> 00:05:59,590 We have roughly 30 million people on some 117 00:05:59,590 --> 00:06:00,550 kind of drugs. 118 00:06:02,180 --> 00:06:07,650 We have an all-time high in venereal 119 00:06:07,650 --> 00:06:10,230 disease amongst kids under 15 years of age 120 00:06:10,230 --> 00:06:11,510 this past year in America. 121 00:06:15,970 --> 00:06:17,590 And England is very much the same. 122 00:06:19,270 --> 00:06:21,770 You see, you only shake your finger at 123 00:06:21,770 --> 00:06:23,990 God and break his law so long, and 124 00:06:23,990 --> 00:06:25,570 God walks out on nations. 125 00:06:27,070 --> 00:06:28,470 Just like he does on men. 126 00:06:28,510 --> 00:06:30,650 He says, my spirit shall not always strive 127 00:06:30,650 --> 00:06:31,170 with man. 128 00:06:32,470 --> 00:06:34,730 And one of the terrible things about preaching 129 00:06:34,730 --> 00:06:36,750 is that while some people come forward and 130 00:06:36,750 --> 00:06:39,250 say they'll take Christ for eternal life, there 131 00:06:39,250 --> 00:06:42,710 are others who say no, not openly, secretly. 132 00:06:44,070 --> 00:06:46,390 In that very moment, they say they're dead 133 00:06:46,390 --> 00:06:49,950 as long as God lives. 134 00:06:50,930 --> 00:06:53,130 Because there comes a time when God knocks 135 00:06:53,130 --> 00:06:54,630 at the door of the heart for the 136 00:06:54,630 --> 00:06:56,830 very last time, and then he goes. 137 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,640 This story of Samson to me is a 138 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:06,780 story of a superman. 139 00:07:06,780 --> 00:07:11,260 To me, Samson is a type of a 140 00:07:11,260 --> 00:07:12,240 spirit-anointed man. 141 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,060 He's a type of a spirit-anointed church. 142 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,700 The two most elusive things in the world 143 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:17,740 tonight, what are they? 144 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:19,760 While we've been in the Bahamas the last 145 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,080 three years, there was a scare. 146 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,300 The newspaper articles, they thought they'd rediscovered the 147 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:28,540 lost island of Atlantis, but discovered they hadn't. 148 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:30,380 And right now, for some reason, I don't 149 00:07:30,380 --> 00:07:30,660 know. 150 00:07:31,940 --> 00:07:34,440 There are two expeditions on the Himalayan ranges 151 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,740 trying to find the abominable snowman. 152 00:07:38,020 --> 00:07:39,840 If they were trying to find the abominable 153 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,520 showman, I could give them the names of 154 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:42,600 six evangelists. 155 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,980 But they're trying to find the abominable snowman. 156 00:07:48,190 --> 00:07:50,050 Are these the most elusive things in the 157 00:07:50,050 --> 00:07:53,570 world, the abominable snowman and the elusive lost 158 00:07:53,570 --> 00:07:53,870 island? 159 00:07:54,030 --> 00:07:54,550 No, no, no, no, no. 160 00:07:54,710 --> 00:07:57,210 The two most elusive things on God's earth 161 00:07:57,210 --> 00:07:59,990 tonight are, number one, personal anointing by the 162 00:07:59,990 --> 00:08:03,230 Holy Spirit, and number two, Holy Ghost revival. 163 00:08:03,690 --> 00:08:06,470 In every other area you can energize, organize, 164 00:08:06,830 --> 00:08:07,490 get money. 165 00:08:09,450 --> 00:08:11,210 And you just sweat in your labor when 166 00:08:11,210 --> 00:08:12,010 it comes to it. 167 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:18,480 God won't anoint you because you're a millionaire, 168 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,080 and He won't refuse your anointing because you're 169 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:21,600 a pauper. 170 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:25,240 God won't send blessing because you have this 171 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:26,800 God, this church, and I think it's very 172 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:27,300 beautiful. 173 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:29,540 And He won't bypass it either because you 174 00:08:29,540 --> 00:08:29,840 have it. 175 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:31,780 You see, God is sovereign, and there are 176 00:08:31,780 --> 00:08:33,500 certain things that men must do if God 177 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:34,559 is going to come and bless. 178 00:08:39,309 --> 00:08:41,570 Samson is a title of spirit-anointed man. 179 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,020 I suppose it's fortunate for mankind that at 180 00:08:49,020 --> 00:08:51,120 only once in maybe a thousand million men 181 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:52,800 you'll get a man who wants to dominate 182 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:53,920 the whole world. 183 00:08:54,780 --> 00:08:56,300 We've had a few of them in history. 184 00:08:57,700 --> 00:08:59,840 Remember they told you at school, perhaps, that 185 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,180 Alexander the Great at twenty-seven years of 186 00:09:02,180 --> 00:09:04,320 age conquered the world and sat down and 187 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,020 wept because there were no more worlds that 188 00:09:06,020 --> 00:09:07,460 he knew of to conquer, and he was 189 00:09:07,460 --> 00:09:08,900 only twenty-seven years of age? 190 00:09:10,220 --> 00:09:12,280 And then in my day almost conquered the 191 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:13,400 world, his name was Hitler. 192 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,240 Prior to him, a little, small, copulent Corsican 193 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,520 by the name of Napoleon, one of the 194 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,340 greatest military strategists in history, almost conquered the 195 00:09:24,340 --> 00:09:24,800 world. 196 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:28,880 And one day he gathered together his warlords. 197 00:09:29,940 --> 00:09:31,460 On the wall of his office he had 198 00:09:31,460 --> 00:09:32,820 a great map of the world, and he 199 00:09:32,820 --> 00:09:35,100 snapped these men to attention and he plunged 200 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:36,880 his index finger round the ragged edge of 201 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:37,660 the great country. 202 00:09:37,660 --> 00:09:39,880 And then he said to his generals, Gendelman, 203 00:09:40,020 --> 00:09:41,540 there lies a sleeping giant. 204 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:42,440 Let it sleep! 205 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,840 He said this before the Battle of Waterloo, 206 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,580 which happened to be on June the 18th, 207 00:09:54,580 --> 00:09:56,840 which is tomorrow, and it's my birthday. 208 00:09:57,580 --> 00:09:58,640 You know where I'm staying. 209 00:10:02,550 --> 00:10:04,730 But on the day of the Battle of 210 00:10:04,730 --> 00:10:07,250 Waterloo, with his ambition to conquer the world, 211 00:10:07,250 --> 00:10:09,390 he ran his finger round that country, there 212 00:10:09,390 --> 00:10:10,130 is a sleeping giant. 213 00:10:10,190 --> 00:10:10,910 Let it sleep! 214 00:10:12,390 --> 00:10:14,310 He said if that country ever wakes up 215 00:10:14,310 --> 00:10:17,190 and discovers its mineral wealth and harnesses that 216 00:10:17,190 --> 00:10:19,790 mineral wealth to its manpower, let the rest 217 00:10:19,790 --> 00:10:21,830 of the world know, that giant will shake 218 00:10:21,830 --> 00:10:22,550 the world. 219 00:10:25,420 --> 00:10:27,520 If you're interested, the country that he outlined 220 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:28,200 was China. 221 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:31,540 America's biggest headache tonight. 222 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:34,180 Russia's biggest headache. 223 00:10:35,220 --> 00:10:37,500 Doesn't the Book of the Revelations say somewhere 224 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:39,520 round about the 9th chapter that one day 225 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,240 200 million men will come marching from the 226 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:42,460 east? 227 00:10:42,580 --> 00:10:43,100 From where? 228 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,980 Well, they don't have 200 million in Japan. 229 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:47,760 The only country could be China. 230 00:10:50,860 --> 00:10:52,340 Do you remember you being patched up to 231 00:10:52,340 --> 00:10:54,540 your ears to make atom bombs and hydrogen 232 00:10:54,540 --> 00:10:55,100 bombs? 233 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,500 And wasn't it Mr., who was the president? 234 00:10:59,780 --> 00:11:02,940 Wasn't it that Baptist president, Truman? 235 00:11:05,270 --> 00:11:07,090 No wonder he made so many mistakes. 236 00:11:07,210 --> 00:11:12,310 But anyhow, wasn't it Truman that said after 237 00:11:12,310 --> 00:11:15,010 that bomb was dropped on Hiroshima or Hiroshima 238 00:11:15,010 --> 00:11:16,910 at 16 minutes to 8 on the 6th 239 00:11:16,910 --> 00:11:20,430 of August 1945, if there's another war, if 240 00:11:20,430 --> 00:11:22,290 the war is threatened, we drop the bomb 241 00:11:22,290 --> 00:11:24,370 the first week and get it over. 242 00:11:25,190 --> 00:11:28,030 About 50,000 bodies of the choicest American 243 00:11:28,030 --> 00:11:29,690 boys in Vietnam. 244 00:11:38,940 --> 00:11:40,960 You've been patched your ears to make atom 245 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:41,180 bombs. 246 00:11:41,380 --> 00:11:42,620 We don't use one of them. 247 00:11:42,620 --> 00:11:43,100 Why? 248 00:11:43,340 --> 00:11:45,520 Because when America dropped that bomb, as I 249 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:47,040 say, at 16 minutes to 8 on the 250 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,800 6th of August 1945, she had the big 251 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:51,600 stick and she was telling the world what 252 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:51,960 to do. 253 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,980 But remember tonight, China, that has no conscience, 254 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:57,060 has that atom bomb. 255 00:11:58,760 --> 00:11:59,940 You don't need aircraft. 256 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:01,400 All you have to do is to make 257 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,400 an intercontinental ballistic missile and put a warhead 258 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,440 in it and shoot the thing and boy, 259 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,240 they can blast us to smithereens. 260 00:12:10,630 --> 00:12:13,910 Interesting, isn't it, that Mr. Breesnath, Leonardo Breesnath, 261 00:12:14,470 --> 00:12:16,770 is going to have a political reception tomorrow 262 00:12:16,770 --> 00:12:19,390 with pomp and circumstance and white-gloved soldiers 263 00:12:19,390 --> 00:12:21,350 and drums and bugles. 264 00:12:22,030 --> 00:12:23,470 And he hates us like the devil. 265 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:27,520 And Nixon doesn't hate him much less, anyhow. 266 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,600 But we'll play hypocritical games with politics. 267 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:37,260 Did you nearly roll out of bed the 268 00:12:37,260 --> 00:12:38,880 other night or was it Tuesday or Wednesday? 269 00:12:39,660 --> 00:12:42,400 They shot the thing off across the water 270 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:43,520 there, one of those rockets. 271 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,820 At 3.30 in the morning it rocked 272 00:12:46,820 --> 00:12:48,220 your house and your window. 273 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,440 And it was a new gadget that's going 274 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,980 around in space right now and it's specially 275 00:12:53,980 --> 00:12:57,760 put there to listen in for anything that 276 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,700 Russia sends over and relay and release a 277 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:01,860 message within seconds. 278 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,000 Once Russia starts firing these missiles, which they 279 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,960 know we have and we know they have, 280 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:12,240 for the last 12 years some men under 281 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,140 the mountains there in Colorado have marched down 282 00:13:15,140 --> 00:13:17,640 under an area that's thicker than this place 283 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,620 with concrete and they simulate pulling a switch. 284 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,180 They never pull the right one because it 285 00:13:22,180 --> 00:13:23,280 has a bit of wire on it so 286 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:23,700 they won't. 287 00:13:23,740 --> 00:13:25,460 But if they pull the right one, rockets 288 00:13:25,460 --> 00:13:27,460 would shoot out from all over America to 289 00:13:27,460 --> 00:13:28,280 blast everything. 290 00:13:30,830 --> 00:13:32,610 And the article I had on that says 291 00:13:32,610 --> 00:13:34,510 the men were waiting for Armageddon. 292 00:13:39,940 --> 00:13:41,160 China's our biggest headache. 293 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,920 Napoleon said over a century ago, century and 294 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,420 a half, there lies a sleeping giant, let 295 00:13:50,420 --> 00:13:51,220 it sleep. 296 00:13:53,270 --> 00:13:56,310 If China ever decides to yawn and stretch 297 00:13:56,310 --> 00:13:59,830 and go on the march, let the world 298 00:13:59,830 --> 00:14:00,370 look out. 299 00:14:03,930 --> 00:14:06,110 All right, you don't like politics, let's change 300 00:14:06,110 --> 00:14:06,330 it. 301 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:13,020 Instead of seeing Napoleon there, instead of seeing 302 00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:14,320 a map of the world, see a map 303 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:14,880 of the ages. 304 00:14:15,100 --> 00:14:16,800 Instead of seeing Napoleon, see the devil. 305 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,080 And he brings all the demons out of 306 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:20,980 hell and he says to them, There, see 307 00:14:20,980 --> 00:14:21,340 that? 308 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,220 He runs his finger around the ragged edge 309 00:14:24,220 --> 00:14:24,700 of something. 310 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:25,160 What is it? 311 00:14:25,180 --> 00:14:26,480 The Church of Jesus Christ. 312 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,480 And he says there is the Church of 313 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:28,600 Jesus. 314 00:14:33,090 --> 00:14:35,210 Because if the Church of Jesus Christ ever 315 00:14:35,210 --> 00:14:38,130 rediscovers the power of the Holy Ghost and 316 00:14:38,130 --> 00:14:40,450 harnesses what it already has for the power 317 00:14:40,450 --> 00:14:42,750 of the Spirit, let the earth look out 318 00:14:42,750 --> 00:14:43,950 and let hell look out. 319 00:14:47,510 --> 00:14:49,310 For the Church anointed in the power of 320 00:14:49,310 --> 00:14:55,310 the Holy Ghost is the greatest power after 321 00:14:55,310 --> 00:14:56,670 the power of the Triune God. 322 00:15:03,530 --> 00:15:05,490 Tell me where in the secret of thy 323 00:15:05,490 --> 00:15:06,710 great strength I am. 324 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:11,300 I first heard about America when I was 325 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:13,320 a little boy in a school in England. 326 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:16,600 I had a teacher I didn't like. 327 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:18,720 I never had one I did like, as 328 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:19,280 a matter of fact. 329 00:15:19,380 --> 00:15:21,980 Look, this one I particularly didn't like. 330 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:23,100 She didn't like me either. 331 00:15:24,060 --> 00:15:24,920 I don't know why. 332 00:15:25,740 --> 00:15:27,920 I've always been attractive, but anyhow, she didn't 333 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:28,320 like me. 334 00:15:31,140 --> 00:15:32,800 And she thought I didn't know much, and 335 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:33,640 I knew she didn't. 336 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:37,880 And she told us a story. 337 00:15:38,140 --> 00:15:40,060 The best known story, I don't care whether 338 00:15:40,060 --> 00:15:42,000 you go to Russia or Africa, wherever you 339 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,760 go around the world, there's one story that's 340 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,640 known above all other stories in America. 341 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,280 About America, you know what it is? 342 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,140 The story of Ritland Winkle. 343 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,380 I don't know whether he's a Democrat or 344 00:15:54,380 --> 00:15:55,880 Republican, but he's very famous. 345 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,080 And she told me about this man who 346 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:01,620 went up a hill and he fell asleep, 347 00:16:01,820 --> 00:16:03,080 and when he came down the hill he 348 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,060 got involved in argument with a group of 349 00:16:06,060 --> 00:16:06,380 people. 350 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,300 All I know, she said he slept for 351 00:16:10,300 --> 00:16:12,060 20 or 50 years, she wasn't sure. 352 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:15,680 And that's all I learned about the man. 353 00:16:16,540 --> 00:16:18,780 And that's exactly what the story is, which 354 00:16:18,780 --> 00:16:20,020 proved her ignorance anyhow. 355 00:16:21,940 --> 00:16:23,840 You see, the story is this, that when 356 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,060 he went up the hill there was a 357 00:16:25,060 --> 00:16:26,780 sign hanging outside of the tavern. 358 00:16:32,950 --> 00:16:35,410 When he came down the hill they had 359 00:16:35,410 --> 00:16:38,190 painted out the face of George I. 360 00:16:39,230 --> 00:16:41,250 And they had painted the face of another 361 00:16:41,250 --> 00:16:42,290 famous Englishman. 362 00:16:42,790 --> 00:16:44,010 Did you guess his name? 363 00:16:45,270 --> 00:16:46,150 George Washington. 364 00:16:47,010 --> 00:16:48,070 You didn't know he was English? 365 00:16:49,590 --> 00:16:50,810 How ignorant can you get? 366 00:16:50,870 --> 00:16:54,790 But anyhow, they had erased the face of 367 00:16:54,790 --> 00:16:56,890 George III, they had painted there the face 368 00:16:56,890 --> 00:16:57,510 of George Washington. 369 00:16:59,130 --> 00:17:00,770 Is the story secret that he went to 370 00:17:00,770 --> 00:17:01,590 sleep for 20 years? 371 00:17:01,670 --> 00:17:02,110 No! 372 00:17:02,450 --> 00:17:04,290 The secret is this, he slept through a 373 00:17:04,290 --> 00:17:04,730 revolution. 374 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:11,960 And I tell you with all the power 375 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,920 of my being tonight, I believe that's what 376 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:15,640 the Church of Jesus is doing in this 377 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:16,480 very moment. 378 00:17:18,630 --> 00:17:23,690 Sleeping through the greatest moral, spiritual, social, economic 379 00:17:23,690 --> 00:17:25,109 revolution in history. 380 00:17:28,990 --> 00:17:32,090 America can't hold together five more years, nor 381 00:17:32,090 --> 00:17:33,790 can mankind, none of the present. 382 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,800 A week tonight I'm going to preach, God 383 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,420 willing, on the second coming, the King is 384 00:17:43,420 --> 00:17:43,700 coming. 385 00:17:49,150 --> 00:17:51,330 Tomorrow night I want to preach on revival 386 00:17:51,330 --> 00:17:51,850 praying. 387 00:17:51,990 --> 00:17:53,850 Tuesday night I believe on vision. 388 00:17:55,490 --> 00:17:57,350 Wednesday night, if the Lord gives us permission, 389 00:17:57,470 --> 00:17:58,750 on the judgment seat of Christ. 390 00:17:58,910 --> 00:18:00,490 Thursday night maybe on the cross. 391 00:18:01,250 --> 00:18:05,190 Friday on problems in the Christian life. 392 00:18:05,910 --> 00:18:08,870 Saturday night, there'll be no preachers unless these 393 00:18:08,870 --> 00:18:09,490 boys do it. 394 00:18:09,530 --> 00:18:11,370 I'm not preaching twice a day every day. 395 00:18:18,430 --> 00:18:20,470 Scripture says, six days shalt thou labour. 396 00:18:20,610 --> 00:18:30,580 And in case you are going to 397 00:18:30,580 --> 00:18:46,360 give me anything to eat, 398 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:48,000 I'll lend a mission, so you know I 399 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:48,640 won't get a dime. 400 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:50,820 All right. 401 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:54,280 But we'll ask the question, what is the 402 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:55,540 secret of thy great strength? 403 00:18:55,540 --> 00:19:04,970 Well, abnormal days demand abnormal men, with abnormal 404 00:19:04,970 --> 00:19:07,050 methods and abnormal messages. 405 00:19:08,090 --> 00:19:09,750 And Samson is one of the most abnormal 406 00:19:09,750 --> 00:19:10,550 men in the Bible. 407 00:19:13,220 --> 00:19:14,800 You know, we got this man kind of 408 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,900 mixed up in our thinking. 409 00:19:18,140 --> 00:19:20,320 Wherever you find a picture of Samson, you'll 410 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:21,680 find him a kind of colossus. 411 00:19:21,780 --> 00:19:24,860 You know, he's got muscles like watermelons, and 412 00:19:24,860 --> 00:19:27,660 muscles on his chest like a range of 413 00:19:27,660 --> 00:19:28,060 mountains. 414 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:31,480 And that's exactly what he was. 415 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:37,480 Of course, he's read mythology. 416 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:39,020 Maybe you have. 417 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,460 Read about Atlas carrying a road on his 418 00:19:42,460 --> 00:19:44,920 back, Hercules kicking a range of mountains over. 419 00:19:47,460 --> 00:19:49,320 Or if you're not so well educated, Jack 420 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:50,880 and the Beanstalk, let me come down to 421 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:51,340 your level. 422 00:19:56,230 --> 00:19:58,030 But every man is a giant, he's a 423 00:19:58,030 --> 00:19:59,590 Hercules, he's a Colossus. 424 00:20:02,020 --> 00:20:04,400 Now, I don't think women are stupid, always. 425 00:20:05,380 --> 00:20:07,360 Can you imagine a woman looking up to 426 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:08,360 a man 19 feet? 427 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,380 And here is Saul, head and shoulders above 428 00:20:13,380 --> 00:20:14,260 the average man. 429 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,660 And here is Goliath, head and shoulders above 430 00:20:16,660 --> 00:20:18,160 the man who's taller than the rest of 431 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:18,280 them. 432 00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:20,980 And here is a colossal Samson up there. 433 00:20:21,180 --> 00:20:24,300 Now, you can't imagine a woman going to 434 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:26,400 a man and saying, of course, buddy, what's 435 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:27,720 the secret of thy great strength? 436 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,040 It's pretty obvious that you'd think a man... 437 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:35,620 I'm not going to suggest he was no 438 00:20:35,620 --> 00:20:37,600 bigger than the staff here, that wouldn't be 439 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:37,880 right. 440 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,160 But by the same token, I don't think 441 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,840 he was six feet thick to six foot 442 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:46,240 seven. 443 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,940 He was a normal man doing abnormal things, 444 00:20:51,020 --> 00:20:52,420 and everybody asked a question. 445 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,080 You lock him up in a city, he 446 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,640 carries half the city away with him. 447 00:20:58,240 --> 00:20:59,920 He meets a lion and destroys it. 448 00:21:00,060 --> 00:21:02,000 Two thousand men come from West Point, he 449 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,380 picks up a jawbone of an ass and 450 00:21:03,380 --> 00:21:04,060 slays them. 451 00:21:07,970 --> 00:21:09,390 And I said in one meeting, the Lord 452 00:21:09,390 --> 00:21:11,190 doesn't use a jawbone of an ass anymore. 453 00:21:12,570 --> 00:21:14,650 One of those nasty little ladies on the 454 00:21:14,650 --> 00:21:16,690 front seat said he does a dark church 455 00:21:16,690 --> 00:21:17,310 every Sunday. 456 00:21:18,890 --> 00:21:22,500 But the jawbone of an ass? 457 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:25,080 Why are you so sure he wasn't a 458 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:25,400 giant? 459 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:26,440 I always thought he... 460 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:27,720 I have a Bible and it has a 461 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:28,460 picture of Samson. 462 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:29,660 He's a huge man. 463 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:31,140 I'll tell you why. 464 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,100 Because the sign is written outside of his 465 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:35,240 church there, not by might, nor by power, 466 00:21:35,340 --> 00:21:37,140 but by my spirit, saith the Lord of 467 00:21:37,140 --> 00:21:37,380 hosts. 468 00:21:38,020 --> 00:21:41,600 Again, the Word of God says, And to 469 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,100 those who have no might, increase of strength. 470 00:21:45,020 --> 00:21:50,600 Again, the Word of God says, He's a 471 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,140 normal man doing abnormal things. 472 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,480 He's a very epitome, he's a very answer 473 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,220 to that text that says, That when you're 474 00:22:03,220 --> 00:22:05,400 walking in the Spirit, no weapon that is 475 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,200 formed against thee shall prosper. 476 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,180 Oh, but in all things we are more 477 00:22:10,180 --> 00:22:11,360 than countless through him. 478 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,840 You see, over and over and over again. 479 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:17,840 The most precious thing you can say of 480 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,560 any man who's started, he said, I would 481 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:20,340 rather have this. 482 00:22:24,060 --> 00:22:25,920 But it says that whatever this man does, 483 00:22:25,940 --> 00:22:27,500 what nobody else could do. 484 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,340 It says of him, the spirit of the 485 00:22:29,340 --> 00:22:30,940 Lord rested night in the apartment. 486 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:32,740 And you can't get that by college or 487 00:22:32,740 --> 00:22:33,740 seminary. 488 00:22:33,820 --> 00:22:35,680 Still God's prerogative is to give it to 489 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:36,580 those who are hungry. 490 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:39,660 And so desperate. 491 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:41,880 But they'll do what this man did, as 492 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,200 we'll come to the end of the story 493 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:43,960 and find out. 494 00:22:45,860 --> 00:22:47,440 The woman said, What is the secret of 495 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,460 thy great strength? 496 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,480 What do you have that nobody else has? 497 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:52,060 What's the mystery? 498 00:22:52,740 --> 00:22:53,820 Where do you have this energy? 499 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:58,980 You see, the church began by being supernatural. 500 00:22:59,180 --> 00:23:00,760 She's ending by being superficial. 501 00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:11,610 What is the secret of thy great strength? 502 00:23:12,470 --> 00:23:14,330 What is the secret of thy great strength? 503 00:23:14,890 --> 00:23:16,370 He gives the answer, he says, If you 504 00:23:16,370 --> 00:23:18,450 fasten me, verse 7, if you fasten me 505 00:23:18,450 --> 00:23:21,630 with seven green whips that were never dried, 506 00:23:21,770 --> 00:23:23,090 then I shall be like another man. 507 00:23:23,210 --> 00:23:24,390 No, I wish he didn't say that, he 508 00:23:24,390 --> 00:23:24,670 didn't. 509 00:23:25,150 --> 00:23:26,070 What did he say? 510 00:23:26,550 --> 00:23:27,990 He said, If you fasten me with some 511 00:23:27,990 --> 00:23:30,750 of those vines that climb around the trees, 512 00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:35,780 if they're green and they're not brittle, and 513 00:23:35,780 --> 00:23:37,460 if you fasten me with seven green whips, 514 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:38,200 I shall be a rebel. 515 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,140 No, no, no, he doesn't say that. 516 00:23:43,750 --> 00:23:45,710 You know, the greatest curse of modern Christianity 517 00:23:45,710 --> 00:23:47,210 is that there are too many of us 518 00:23:47,210 --> 00:23:48,210 that are too much alike. 519 00:23:48,790 --> 00:23:50,130 We say it's a normality. 520 00:24:03,540 --> 00:24:05,440 He's earning five million, he has his own 521 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:06,480 yacht and everything now. 522 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,420 But I notice he says for the last 523 00:24:08,420 --> 00:24:12,360 four years particularly, eight years in all, I 524 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:14,160 spend no less than eight hours in the 525 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:15,080 water every day. 526 00:24:15,140 --> 00:24:16,000 I was determined. 527 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,080 I'd do what no other man did. 528 00:24:20,300 --> 00:24:21,660 And I tell you this for nothing, an 529 00:24:21,660 --> 00:24:23,200 experience of God that costs. 530 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,280 So the devil doesn't fear organizing, he fears. 531 00:24:39,370 --> 00:24:41,190 He doesn't mind our brilliance, our genius. 532 00:24:48,050 --> 00:24:49,550 And that won't cost you a penny except 533 00:24:49,550 --> 00:24:50,470 a broken heart. 534 00:24:51,650 --> 00:24:53,190 It may cost some of you boys a 535 00:24:53,190 --> 00:24:54,670 few silly hours with your girlfriends. 536 00:24:56,370 --> 00:24:58,250 The other night God moved on that church 537 00:24:58,250 --> 00:25:00,270 in Merritt Island and many young people came 538 00:25:00,270 --> 00:25:02,290 forward, maybe sixty people came out one night. 539 00:25:03,230 --> 00:25:05,290 There was a moonlight madness sale and my 540 00:25:05,290 --> 00:25:06,830 dear wife and the lady with us at 541 00:25:06,830 --> 00:25:08,710 the time, the sale and my dear wife 542 00:25:08,710 --> 00:25:10,050 and the lady with us at the time, 543 00:25:10,130 --> 00:25:11,730 they wanted to get some bargains, we went 544 00:25:11,730 --> 00:25:12,130 along. 545 00:25:13,150 --> 00:25:14,830 This young lady came up to me breathless 546 00:25:14,830 --> 00:25:17,090 in the mall there, and she said, by 547 00:25:17,090 --> 00:25:18,470 the way, you know, the devil's doing all 548 00:25:18,470 --> 00:25:20,630 he can to keep me from praying tonight. 549 00:25:22,190 --> 00:25:24,890 I met the lady the next day and 550 00:25:24,890 --> 00:25:27,830 she said, you know, the next day, and 551 00:25:27,830 --> 00:25:30,370 she said, you know, I just met one 552 00:25:30,370 --> 00:25:33,650 of our young kids, a girl sixteen, that 553 00:25:33,650 --> 00:25:35,390 trusted God to fill her with the Spirit 554 00:25:35,390 --> 00:25:37,530 last night and she went home and prayed 555 00:25:37,530 --> 00:25:40,730 the whole night through at sixteen years of 556 00:25:40,730 --> 00:25:40,950 age. 557 00:25:42,350 --> 00:25:43,950 Does that sound foreign to you? 558 00:25:43,950 --> 00:25:45,690 You may be sixty and never did that. 559 00:25:47,110 --> 00:25:49,270 I met a boy seventeen, he said radiantly, 560 00:25:49,410 --> 00:25:52,250 this is the first time, I met a 561 00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:54,630 boy seventeen, he said radiantly, this is the 562 00:25:54,630 --> 00:25:56,670 first time in my life I've invited the 563 00:25:56,670 --> 00:25:58,550 Holy Ghost to take full control of my 564 00:25:58,550 --> 00:26:00,270 life, the Holy Ghost to take full control 565 00:26:00,270 --> 00:26:02,870 of my life, control of my life. 566 00:26:04,210 --> 00:26:05,590 I met another of my life. 567 00:26:06,930 --> 00:26:09,230 I met another teenager joyously, I met another 568 00:26:09,230 --> 00:26:11,830 teenager joyously and he said, my, this is 569 00:26:11,830 --> 00:26:14,150 transforming, God has come into my life as 570 00:26:14,150 --> 00:26:14,770 never before. 571 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,520 I went to get a hair trim the 572 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,360 other day, ducked all I got, nearly. 573 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,340 As we came out my wife and I 574 00:26:24,340 --> 00:26:25,760 met a fine looking man. 575 00:26:25,820 --> 00:26:27,500 He said, Brother Ragnar, man he said I 576 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:29,480 could shout and leap down this mall I've 577 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,540 been looking for answers. 578 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,140 And I found the answer to spiritual power 579 00:26:33,140 --> 00:26:34,180 and anointing this week. 580 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,360 I'm a new man. 581 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,900 I'm energized by the Spirit of God. 582 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,140 Fasten me with seven green robes. 583 00:26:43,220 --> 00:26:44,440 They fasten him, he gets up. 584 00:26:44,940 --> 00:26:45,880 That's not the secret. 585 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,640 No he says fasten me with seven new 586 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:48,080 robes. 587 00:26:49,020 --> 00:26:50,680 And they fasten him and he gets out. 588 00:26:50,980 --> 00:26:52,480 Because he said if you fasten me with 589 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:53,960 seven new robes I'll be weak like those 590 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,320 other guys around here. 591 00:26:58,220 --> 00:27:00,820 Now he did have to wear long hair. 592 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,100 He was a Nazirite. 593 00:27:03,740 --> 00:27:06,560 A Nazirite had three things incumbent upon him. 594 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,880 He could not drink wine, a sign of 595 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:09,660 worldly pleasure. 596 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,040 He could not touch anything dead, a sign 597 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:13,840 of people who are dead in trespasses and 598 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:14,340 in sin. 599 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,060 He could not have his hair cut. 600 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,820 Now just having long hair isn't the secret 601 00:27:22,820 --> 00:27:23,360 of power. 602 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:24,980 If it was many of our churches would 603 00:27:24,980 --> 00:27:25,680 explode. 604 00:27:29,020 --> 00:27:30,880 Not a case of long hair. 605 00:27:31,180 --> 00:27:31,880 What's the secret? 606 00:27:32,020 --> 00:27:33,360 Somebody asked me that in the office. 607 00:27:33,460 --> 00:27:34,580 I'll tell you what the secret is of 608 00:27:34,580 --> 00:27:36,620 the Christian life for tonight, next night. 609 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,220 I don't care if you go to theological 610 00:27:41,220 --> 00:27:42,220 cemetery. 611 00:27:43,660 --> 00:27:47,280 I don't care how much learning you have. 612 00:27:47,380 --> 00:27:49,680 The whole secret is this, trust and obey. 613 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:50,600 There's no other way. 614 00:27:50,740 --> 00:27:52,320 Whatsoever he says to you, do it. 615 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,260 When I was youth leader in the church 616 00:27:56,260 --> 00:27:58,580 I went to, we had a tremendous time. 617 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,220 We had many people saved. 618 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:01,460 We had fantastic meetings. 619 00:28:02,780 --> 00:28:04,800 And I remember asking God to take full 620 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:05,960 control of my life. 621 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,540 But it meant partying company with girlfriends and 622 00:28:08,540 --> 00:28:08,920 boys. 623 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,920 Or you've read about Sherwood Forest and the 624 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,460 fellow that used to go down there on 625 00:28:14,460 --> 00:28:14,840 and on. 626 00:28:16,020 --> 00:28:17,540 Well I didn't go robbing anybody. 627 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,320 I went in the Sherwood Forest to pray 628 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:19,840 that night. 629 00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:23,440 Took my mother's little pedigree dog. 630 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:24,800 I walked over the golf links. 631 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,620 I got down under the wild bracken. 632 00:28:27,820 --> 00:28:28,800 The wild fern. 633 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,020 I got up in the morning before six. 634 00:28:32,340 --> 00:28:33,480 Particularly Sundays. 635 00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:36,880 While everybody else slept. 636 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:39,640 I went across into the forest. 637 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:42,780 Got under the bushes and prayed. 638 00:28:44,930 --> 00:28:46,370 And if I've had any secret in my 639 00:28:46,370 --> 00:28:47,890 life the only thing I know is that 640 00:28:47,890 --> 00:28:51,770 I've given God time all the time to 641 00:28:51,770 --> 00:28:53,070 talk to me as well as me to 642 00:28:53,070 --> 00:28:53,690 talk to him. 643 00:28:56,470 --> 00:28:57,510 Fastening with rocks? 644 00:28:58,010 --> 00:28:58,190 No. 645 00:28:58,410 --> 00:28:59,950 Fastening with weeds? 646 00:29:00,090 --> 00:29:00,330 No. 647 00:29:01,510 --> 00:29:03,430 Unlock my hair and fasten it to a 648 00:29:03,430 --> 00:29:06,030 beam and then when you get my hair 649 00:29:06,030 --> 00:29:08,130 fastened there I'll be powerless. 650 00:29:08,690 --> 00:29:09,370 And they did that. 651 00:29:09,430 --> 00:29:10,510 And he shook his head and nearly pulled 652 00:29:10,510 --> 00:29:11,110 the house down. 653 00:29:12,730 --> 00:29:14,210 And then she said now that's not the 654 00:29:14,210 --> 00:29:14,470 secret. 655 00:29:14,590 --> 00:29:15,210 And he said no. 656 00:29:16,090 --> 00:29:17,370 And you know what she did? 657 00:29:17,470 --> 00:29:19,090 It's an old trick women have if they 658 00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:20,010 can't get the wrong way. 659 00:29:20,930 --> 00:29:22,250 She pulled his socks out. 660 00:29:22,350 --> 00:29:24,190 You know she said you don't love me. 661 00:29:26,230 --> 00:29:27,590 And of course he said oh yes I 662 00:29:27,590 --> 00:29:27,750 do. 663 00:29:28,210 --> 00:29:28,890 Oh yes. 664 00:29:29,050 --> 00:29:30,630 I'll tell you what my secret is. 665 00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:33,210 My secret is I'm a Nazarite. 666 00:29:33,330 --> 00:29:35,530 I've kept every vow that God has asked 667 00:29:35,530 --> 00:29:35,670 me. 668 00:29:35,750 --> 00:29:36,790 I haven't touched wine. 669 00:29:36,910 --> 00:29:37,710 I haven't touched anything. 670 00:29:40,490 --> 00:29:42,650 And with the instinct that women have she 671 00:29:42,650 --> 00:29:44,270 knew right there she'd got his secret. 672 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,400 Now she had said repeatedly to him the 673 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:50,720 Philistines would be upon me. 674 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:52,700 Do you know that you can cut this 675 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:54,760 man's life down into three simple things? 676 00:29:55,060 --> 00:29:56,080 First what did they do? 677 00:29:56,260 --> 00:29:57,100 They bind him. 678 00:29:57,460 --> 00:29:58,200 Secondly what? 679 00:29:58,380 --> 00:30:00,000 They blind him, put out his eyes. 680 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,420 Thirdly they ground him. 681 00:30:03,780 --> 00:30:05,540 Put him in the basement and make him 682 00:30:05,540 --> 00:30:07,780 tread round and round and round and round 683 00:30:07,780 --> 00:30:08,320 and round. 684 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,060 Grounding time for the Philistines. 685 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:10,680 But wait a minute. 686 00:30:15,090 --> 00:30:15,970 There's something else. 687 00:30:17,430 --> 00:30:18,970 If Samson is a type of a spirit 688 00:30:18,970 --> 00:30:20,870 filled man and I'm persuaded he is. 689 00:30:21,370 --> 00:30:22,930 If Samson is a type of a spirit 690 00:30:22,930 --> 00:30:24,970 anointed church and I'm sure he is. 691 00:30:25,190 --> 00:30:27,150 Then later in the chapter it says that 692 00:30:27,150 --> 00:30:28,250 he was going to Timnath. 693 00:30:28,250 --> 00:30:30,070 Now he could go that way to Timnath 694 00:30:30,070 --> 00:30:30,930 or that way. 695 00:30:31,070 --> 00:30:32,010 Didn't make any difference. 696 00:30:32,170 --> 00:30:34,090 The road was just as short because he 697 00:30:34,090 --> 00:30:35,030 was going to see his girlfriend. 698 00:30:35,470 --> 00:30:36,810 The road's never long when you're going to 699 00:30:36,810 --> 00:30:37,290 see her. 700 00:30:39,190 --> 00:30:40,710 But he must not go that way. 701 00:30:40,990 --> 00:30:41,470 Why not? 702 00:30:41,670 --> 00:30:43,450 Because there's a lion in the way. 703 00:30:44,770 --> 00:30:46,370 Now if Samson is a type of a 704 00:30:46,370 --> 00:30:49,550 spirit anointed person the lion must be a 705 00:30:49,550 --> 00:30:50,330 type of the devil. 706 00:30:56,030 --> 00:30:58,350 And when Samson went down the road the 707 00:30:58,350 --> 00:31:00,170 lion thought, boy my I'm going to have 708 00:31:00,170 --> 00:31:01,130 a good lunch today. 709 00:31:01,270 --> 00:31:02,270 Look at this fellow coming. 710 00:31:02,950 --> 00:31:04,490 I'm just going to tear him up. 711 00:31:04,670 --> 00:31:06,290 And Samson thought the same thing. 712 00:31:07,770 --> 00:31:09,170 He's going to tear the lion up. 713 00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:13,180 He had his mother and father with him 714 00:31:13,180 --> 00:31:14,920 and he said mummy daddy would you sit 715 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,260 round the corner I've just got a little 716 00:31:16,260 --> 00:31:17,280 bit of business to do. 717 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,120 And when they went round the corner he 718 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,480 took hold of the lion as though it 719 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,780 were a kid of the goats and he 720 00:31:23,780 --> 00:31:27,860 ripped it apart and he threw it down. 721 00:31:31,140 --> 00:31:33,540 Now that's wonderful but the next statement in 722 00:31:33,540 --> 00:31:34,560 the verse is more wonderful. 723 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,900 It says that after he destroyed the lion 724 00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:39,780 he said nothing about it. 725 00:31:41,830 --> 00:31:43,110 I'm sure a woman couldn't have done it 726 00:31:43,110 --> 00:31:43,510 like that. 727 00:31:43,590 --> 00:31:46,950 But anyhow Samson destroyed the lion and he 728 00:31:46,950 --> 00:31:52,900 said oh if we destroyed the lion we'd 729 00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:53,760 have photographed it. 730 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:55,740 We'd have stretched it out it would be 731 00:31:55,740 --> 00:31:58,720 the longest, strongest, heaviest, fiercest, terriblest lion in 732 00:31:58,720 --> 00:31:59,320 the whole world. 733 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,560 And I killed it all by myself. 734 00:32:05,850 --> 00:32:06,770 He slew a lion. 735 00:32:07,650 --> 00:32:09,630 He pushed the devil back and he said 736 00:32:09,630 --> 00:32:10,490 nothing about it. 737 00:32:12,030 --> 00:32:14,110 I'm looking for a revival and I'm sure 738 00:32:14,110 --> 00:32:14,590 it's coming. 739 00:32:15,730 --> 00:32:18,610 A holy ghost tidal wave that's going to 740 00:32:18,610 --> 00:32:20,410 engulf the whole world and they're going to 741 00:32:20,410 --> 00:32:23,270 have such a revival that no man will 742 00:32:23,270 --> 00:32:24,150 steal the glory. 743 00:32:27,780 --> 00:32:28,480 He slew a lion. 744 00:32:33,950 --> 00:32:35,710 Let me ask you a simple question. 745 00:32:37,190 --> 00:32:38,130 Not so simple. 746 00:32:38,410 --> 00:32:38,610 Alright. 747 00:32:42,690 --> 00:32:44,290 Do you push the devil around or does 748 00:32:44,290 --> 00:32:45,070 he push you around? 749 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,300 When I was in Australia a lady said 750 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:52,780 to me after one service Mr. Ravenhill I've 751 00:32:52,780 --> 00:32:54,180 had a terrible day today. 752 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:55,900 I said you look like it. 753 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,260 I've never seen a more miserable face. 754 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,760 Mr. Ravenhill do you know what happened today? 755 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:04,340 I said no I couldn't guess. 756 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,260 When I got out of bed this morning 757 00:33:06,260 --> 00:33:10,860 the devil was standing with me all day. 758 00:33:13,940 --> 00:33:15,880 I said lady how conceited can you get? 759 00:33:18,050 --> 00:33:19,590 I thought if the devil's been in your 760 00:33:19,590 --> 00:33:21,370 home all day he hasn't been anywhere else 761 00:33:21,370 --> 00:33:21,870 in the world. 762 00:33:22,030 --> 00:33:23,570 Satan can't be in two places at the 763 00:33:23,570 --> 00:33:24,250 same time. 764 00:33:25,150 --> 00:33:26,770 God can, Satan can't. 765 00:33:27,090 --> 00:33:27,950 Demons might be. 766 00:33:28,730 --> 00:33:31,950 He might sublet certain areas but Satan can't. 767 00:33:34,630 --> 00:33:35,850 I looked her straight in the eye and 768 00:33:35,850 --> 00:33:37,670 I said lady you say Satan's been with 769 00:33:37,670 --> 00:33:39,610 you all day I seriously doubt he even 770 00:33:39,610 --> 00:33:40,330 knows you're living. 771 00:33:47,660 --> 00:33:48,760 Does he know you're living? 772 00:33:52,820 --> 00:33:55,120 I got saved when I was 14 years 773 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:55,580 of age. 774 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:56,880 I never doubted it. 775 00:33:57,300 --> 00:33:58,720 Never been ashamed of it. 776 00:33:59,260 --> 00:34:00,520 Talked round the world about it. 777 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:04,240 And according to this book when I was 778 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,960 born again my name was written in the 779 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:06,640 book of life. 780 00:34:12,409 --> 00:34:14,110 I'd like to get it written somewhere else. 781 00:34:14,770 --> 00:34:16,070 Not in Westminster Abbey. 782 00:34:17,510 --> 00:34:19,409 I've never been a competitive preacher. 783 00:34:19,610 --> 00:34:21,290 I don't care whether you think I'm the 784 00:34:21,290 --> 00:34:22,610 worst you've ever heard or the best. 785 00:34:22,690 --> 00:34:23,850 It won't move me out of the way. 786 00:34:24,150 --> 00:34:25,690 I say what God wants me to say. 787 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,239 But I'd like to get my name written 788 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:30,699 somewhere. 789 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:41,020 Do you remember in the days of the 790 00:34:41,020 --> 00:34:43,340 apostle Paul he cast demons out of some 791 00:34:43,340 --> 00:34:43,620 people. 792 00:34:43,780 --> 00:34:44,600 Jesus did that. 793 00:34:45,260 --> 00:34:47,040 Everything that Jesus did Paul did. 794 00:34:48,340 --> 00:34:50,500 And one day he cast demons out of 795 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:50,940 a person. 796 00:34:50,940 --> 00:34:54,500 Do you remember the time when Jesus cast 797 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:55,860 demons out of a man that had a 798 00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:56,820 legion of them in him. 799 00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,600 And if you take demons out of a 800 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:00,920 person you must put them somewhere. 801 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,360 They can't live disembodied. 802 00:35:02,420 --> 00:35:03,460 They can't float in the air. 803 00:35:03,660 --> 00:35:05,460 They have to occupy something or somebody. 804 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,420 And you remember that Jesus took a legion 805 00:35:07,420 --> 00:35:09,320 of demons out of a man. 806 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,780 And if you think pigs aren't smarter than 807 00:35:11,780 --> 00:35:13,020 men tell me this. 808 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,280 When he put the demons into the swine 809 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,600 they committed suicide in about 40 seconds. 810 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:21,940 The man had had the devil in in 811 00:35:21,940 --> 00:35:23,640 40 years and he wasn't smart enough to 812 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:24,940 commit suicide or bad enough. 813 00:35:25,420 --> 00:35:26,780 But the pigs wouldn't even have the devil 814 00:35:26,780 --> 00:35:26,920 in. 815 00:35:27,180 --> 00:35:29,240 And hell is so bad the demons said 816 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:31,000 don't send us back from whence we came. 817 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:35,420 Now one man one day said I'm not 818 00:35:35,420 --> 00:35:37,200 getting on I'd like to be famous I'd 819 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:37,940 like to do something. 820 00:35:38,060 --> 00:35:39,400 And somebody said you find a man with 821 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:40,740 a demon in cast the demon out. 822 00:35:40,820 --> 00:35:41,780 This is what you do you say in 823 00:35:41,780 --> 00:35:43,460 the name of Jesus Christ and Nazareth come 824 00:35:43,460 --> 00:35:44,680 out of him the demon will come out. 825 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:45,820 The man tried it and it worked. 826 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,160 The demon came out of the man. 827 00:35:50,730 --> 00:35:52,370 But he never sent a demon anywhere. 828 00:35:52,690 --> 00:35:54,550 So the demon turned around and he beat 829 00:35:54,550 --> 00:35:55,190 up the preacher. 830 00:35:56,570 --> 00:35:59,130 Kicked him, bruised him and finally he came 831 00:35:59,130 --> 00:36:02,710 back and he said listen preacher Jesus I 832 00:36:02,710 --> 00:36:04,850 know and Paul I know. 833 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,760 I think the most embarrassing thing of all 834 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,940 the embarrassments to quote Balthasar Tozer again. 835 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,460 I remember him saying to me one day 836 00:36:19,460 --> 00:36:21,420 Len not many of us are going to 837 00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:23,560 stand erect as the gentlemen see this time 838 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,340 with all our talk and all our boast. 839 00:36:25,340 --> 00:36:27,780 Not many of us will lift our unblushing 840 00:36:27,780 --> 00:36:28,380 heads. 841 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,760 Most of us will bow our heads in 842 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,240 the presence of a holy God. 843 00:36:35,050 --> 00:36:36,250 I think the most terrible. 844 00:36:39,060 --> 00:36:41,440 When we stand there alone without your pastor 845 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,660 without your wife without your husband you stand 846 00:36:43,660 --> 00:36:45,320 there as an individual. 847 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:48,380 Remember you have as big a Bible as 848 00:36:48,380 --> 00:36:50,100 I have or anybody else that ever lived 849 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:51,140 and you have to give an account to 850 00:36:51,140 --> 00:36:52,660 God for this word that he gave you. 851 00:36:54,020 --> 00:36:56,220 I think the most embarrassing thing will be 852 00:36:56,220 --> 00:36:58,480 when God calls Satan to bear witness. 853 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,640 I wonder what do you say. 854 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,040 I wonder if you say Jesus I know 855 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,660 and Paul I know and Ray Gill I 856 00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:07,000 know and Billy Graham I know. 857 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:08,500 Will he say he knows you? 858 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,240 Did you ever draw a line and take 859 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:13,560 your rights in Jesus Christ and draw a 860 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,060 line by the precious blood and then put 861 00:37:15,060 --> 00:37:16,740 the promises of God against it and the 862 00:37:16,740 --> 00:37:18,440 power of the spirit and say yes yes 863 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,160 Satan you shall not pass that line. 864 00:37:22,730 --> 00:37:23,870 When I was a boy in a little 865 00:37:23,870 --> 00:37:25,590 church I attended in England they used to 866 00:37:25,590 --> 00:37:27,690 talk a great deal about Pastor Fetler of 867 00:37:27,690 --> 00:37:28,210 Latvia. 868 00:37:28,850 --> 00:37:31,190 Latvia got absorbed in the United States and 869 00:37:31,190 --> 00:37:31,910 Soviet Russia. 870 00:37:33,070 --> 00:37:34,830 They used to talk to some degree about 871 00:37:34,830 --> 00:37:38,190 a German Pastor Bloomheart. 872 00:37:38,190 --> 00:37:42,610 Bloomheart was reading the word of God one 873 00:37:42,610 --> 00:37:46,800 day and he read that terrible statement. 874 00:37:49,940 --> 00:37:52,140 He was asking God to do something and 875 00:37:52,140 --> 00:37:52,960 God said do it. 876 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,900 He said Lord tie up the powers of 877 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:01,040 Satan and Jesus said listen I give you 878 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,680 power over all the power of the enemy. 879 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:23,240 He went along and he stood 880 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:25,500 over that girl and demanded her deliverance and 881 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:26,100 nothing happened. 882 00:38:26,180 --> 00:38:27,620 He went the second day and like that 883 00:38:27,620 --> 00:38:28,240 she was delivered. 884 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,160 He became famous for casting out demons. 885 00:38:36,180 --> 00:38:37,760 One day they asked him to go to 886 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,640 a girl many miles away and he went. 887 00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:42,480 The girl sat up in bed and laughed 888 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,960 and screamed the most devilish hideous noises he'd 889 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,180 ever heard in his life and everything he 890 00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:51,080 said the demon counteracted and every time he 891 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,660 said he'd come out the demon said I 892 00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:54,300 won't and every time he pled the blood 893 00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:56,840 of Jesus the demon said some obscene things 894 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,220 about Jesus Christ because a long story short 895 00:38:59,220 --> 00:39:02,400 this man was so determined that he'd exercised 896 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,640 his authority over all the power of the 897 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:04,840 enemy. 898 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,040 That he went to that girl's bedroom eight 899 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,040 hours a day for two years.