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Father, we thank you tonight that we are
gathered together to worship thee in spirit and
in truth.
We thank you for our Lord Jesus who
said, I am the way, the truth, and
the life.
We thank you, Lord Jesus, that you said
when he has come, he will guide you
into all truth.
We thank you for your holy word.
We thank you for its inspiration.
We thank you for its preservation.
We think how often men have taken issue
with it.
They've burned it and banned it and blamed
it and banished it.
But you said that your word will live
forever and ever.
And we thank you for this tonight.
Lord, as we come here, we trust to
a kind of spiritual banquet.
We remember the millions who are starving without
God and without hope.
We remember the suffering church of Jesus Christ
in Russia and in China and countries locked
up like Albania.
But we bless you that still your word
is going forth there.
And Lord, we ask you to bless your
word to our hearts tonight.
We pray with the psalmist, may the words
of my mouth and the meditation of my
heart be acceptable in thy sight.
Give us ears to hear and give us
utterance that we'll glorify your name in Jesus'
name.
Thank you.
Be seated.
As we sang the hymn tonight, am I
a soldier of the cross?
I was thinking of a man who came
into my office about a month ago.
He'd been to Romania behind the Iron Curtain.
And he startled me by saying, I found
two things there.
He said the young people crowded into the
meetings.
And they said, we want help from America.
Money?
No.
Tennis rackets?
No.
Volleyballs?
No.
What?
We're asking you to pray for us that
God will intensify the persecution.
Are we soldiers of the cross?
Are we big enough to take that?
These were teenagers.
They said the government has been pressing on
us and persecuting us for years.
And some months ago they took the pressure
off and the young people are beginning to
drift.
They're beginning to talk worldly and act worldly.
And want to do worldly things.
Ask the people in America to send us
some persecution that God will drive us back
to the depth that we've had before.
The other thing he said, and remember there
are three Bibles for every person in America.
America has 660 million Bibles.
He said the other thing I learned was
that as a man, in Siberia that's between
70 and 80 years of age, he has
one page of the Bible.
One page.
He's carried it all over that nation and
led many, many people to Jesus Christ.
Well, what have we done with the whole
Bible?
I can never read Hebrews 11 without getting
my nose in the dust.
I read of men and women of flesh
and blood like us.
Women received their dead raised to life again.
There's a catalog.
Subdued kingdoms, raw righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the
vows of life.
And you know what?
Not one of them ever had a Bible.
You know, I get a bit nervous about
preaching to people.
I'm not nervous about people.
I'm nervous about the reaction.
You see, most of us have enough light
now.
If we die this minute with more light
than we can handle at the judgment seat.
And I may increase your condemnation tonight.
We look so easily on the things of
God.
Let me turn to a scripture here.
Exodus 32.
I'm reading from the King James Version, of
course, which is really the living Bible.
It hasn't been messed up like modern scholarship
has done with other parts of it.
Verse 9 says, And the Lord said unto
Moses, I have seen this people.
Behold, it is a stiff neck hot against
them, and that I may consume them, and
I will make of thee a great nation.
Now we've got to go back and find
out what this is all about.
Go to the previous chapter.
Chapter 32.
Verse 1 says, When the people saw that
Moses delayed.
Remember, he'd been called up into the mountain.
If you want to go back, let me
see where's the scripture here.
Go back to chapter 24, please.
Chapter 24, it says in verse 1, He
said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord,
Thou, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders
of Israel, and worship ye afar off.
And Moses alone shall come near the Lord.
But they shall not come nigh, neither shall
the people go up with them.
Now that's easy to read.
Remember that Moses has separated himself from maybe
a million people in Israel.
Out of the million, you get 70 plus
4.
He leaves the million, and then he leaves
the 70.
And then he goes up into the mountain,
and he's there with God himself.
Verse 13 says, And Moses rose up and
his minister Joshua, and Moses went up into
the mount of God.
And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye
here for us, until we come again to
you.
Verse 15, And Moses went into the mount,
and the cloud covered the mount.
And the glory of the Lord upon the
mount, on Mount Sinai, the cloud covered it
six days, and on the seventh day he
called Moses out of the midst of the
cloud.
You know, God is never in a hurry.
He says to Moses and the rest of
them, they all went up the mount, but
Moses goes as it were into the Holy
of Holies.
He goes into the inner circle by himself.
Maybe Bonhoeffer would have called this the cost
of discipleship.
Leaving the crowd, leaving the 70 elders, the
prime people in Israel, and then coming down
to four, and then leaving the four.
And I believe if you walk with God,
you'll find the same thing in your life.
You're going to leave the crowd, you're going
to find even the 70 are not what
you expected them to be.
And so he's drawn up into the presence
of God.
And the sight of the glory of the
Lord was like a devouring fire on the
top of the mount.
If he went up on the mount, and
remember he didn't go up on an escalator,
a skylift.
He had to climb that precipitous mountain.
And then when he got there, God kept
him waiting.
Notice what it says in verse 15.
The glory of the Lord abode on the
mount, Sinai, and upon the cloud covered it
six days, and on the seventh day.
Why wouldn't you think God would reward him?
After all he's left the multitude, he's left
the most select people.
He struggled to the top of this awesome
mountain.
Most of us would have turned around and
gone home.
You see, God is never in a hurry.
Noah built the ark for about 120 years.
And he got inside the ark, and he
stayed there six days, and on the seventh
day God spoke to him.
Again, God is never in a hurry.
You know, I was going to trace this.
I got my wires crossed coming in.
Brother Milt said, Well, I'll leave you to...
He said, I'll speak, and then I'll leave
you to take the meeting.
So I thought he was going to speak,
and then I'd be finishing the meeting, but
here I am.
So you'll have to get put up with
it, whatever you want to know.
Okay.
I'm wondering, how did this man get to
this place in verse 9 of the 32nd
chapter?
The Lord said to Moses, I have seen
this people, it is a stiff-necked people.
Again, if you go into the previous chapter,
32, when the people saw that Moses delayed
coming out of the mountain.
You see, they were in a hurry.
They weren't going anywhere, but they were in
a hurry, like most people are.
Don't know where we're going, but we're going
there quickly anyhow.
Moses delayed, and the people gathered unto Aaron,
and said unto him, Make us gods, which
shall go before us.
For as for this Moses, the man that
brought us out of the land of Egypt,
we want not what is become of him.
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the
golden earrings.
Verse 3, And the people broke off their
earrings, which were in their ears, and brought
them to Aaron.
And he, that is Aaron, received them at
their hand, and fashioned it with a grating
tool.
He made it a golden calf.
Now look what he says in the next
chapter, chapter 32.
And he says in verse 24, I said
unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them
break it off.
So they gave it to me.
I cast it into the fire, and calf
jumped out.
Isn't that a tall story?
It says he made it with a, but
you see, it's easy to make a lie,
after you've disobeyed God.
But it says here, When Aaron saw it,
he built an altar, and made a proclamation.
Listen, this is Aaron.
Go back into the previous chapter, or two
chapters, chapter 30.
And verse 30 says, And thou shalt anoint
Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that
they may minister unto me in the priest's
office.
This is the man that God has anointed.
This is the man that was anointed with
holy oil.
If you read down the chapter, it repeatedly
talks about holiness.
They shall speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, This shall be an holy ointment to
all your generations.
Upon man's flesh it shall not come, neither
shall then any imitation.
Remember that 133rd Psalm, where it gives one
secret of revival.
Where brethren dwell together in unity, there the
Lord commandeth the blessing.
It is like the oil, and specifically it
says, the oil that was put on the
head of Aaron.
And it ran down his face.
No it didn't.
It ran down his beard.
It ran from his beard to his garments.
It ran from his garments to the floor.
The flesh could never take the holy anointing
oil.
God doesn't sanctify flesh.
He destroys it.
Not this flesh.
The fleshly spirit.
The things spoken of there in Galatians chapter
5.
This holy oil.
And this man has been anointed, and he
wears on his forehead, he wears a golden
plate, and it says, Holiness unto the Lord.
And it's this man who's made a molten
calf.
These people have seen the hand of God.
When Aaron saw it, he built an altar,
and made a proclamation.
Tomorrow is a feast unto the Lord.
They rose up early in the morning, and
offered a burnt offering, and brought peace offerings.
The people sat down to eat and drink,
and rose up to pray.
The Lord said unto Moses, Get thee down,
for the people whom thou hast brought out
of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
They have turned aside quickly.
Verse 9, The Lord said unto Moses, I
have seen this people.
Behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
Now therefore, let me alone, that my wrath
may wax upon them.
Well, listen, this man didn't get here in
a day, or a week, or a year.
Remember, he saw the glory of God.
If you go back, he heard the voice
of God.
I don't know where.
I know where, but I don't know how.
You know, in the seventh chapter of the
Acts of the Apostles, it says there that
God appeared to our father Abraham in Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamia was the Las Vegas of the day.
They had belly dancers, and semi-naked people.
How do you know that?
Because Lot went and pitched his tent towards
Sodom, because he was like unto Egypt.
Who took him to Egypt?
Abraham took him.
And he said when he saw Sodom, it's
like to Egypt.
It is the same style of life.
It's corrupt.
It's licentious.
It's lasciviousness.
It's corruption.
And he wanted it.
Abraham should never have taken him.
By the same token, don't you trouble the
pastor a few years up the road when
your children get corrupted, because you gave them
a TV in their bedroom, and let them
do what they want, and see what they
want, and they'll turn around and say, my
daddy showed me.
My daddy sneaks in at night, and he
watches X-rated movies, or something like that.
It's so easy to get corrupted.
It's so difficult to get out of corruption.
Go right back there again.
How in the world did Moses, why did
he come to this place where he can
cry out as he does here?
I'm going to read it in a second,
but wait a minute.
Why does he cry out here?
God had been dealing with him right through
his life.
Remember he was born in a slave camp,
like Jesus was born in a slave situation.
He was poor like Jesus was poor.
God sent him to Egypt, like the mother
and father took Jesus into Egypt.
But even there, just as in Mesopotamia, God
revealed himself to Abraham.
So somewhere in Egypt, he'd been adopted, remember,
as the child of the princess.
Pharaoh's daughter took him and educated him.
The second chapter of Acts says he was
learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.
It says he spake.
Now he wasn't, I believe he was a
super intellectual for sure.
But it says he was God's spokesman.
But remember he argued about it.
He said, Lord I stammer, I can't speak.
God says, well I'll provide lips for you.
But there he is, in the most licentious,
capital of the most licentious city or state
in the world.
And somewhere, maybe he's dreaming away and suddenly
he has a voice, he hears God.
Tell me how in the world he did
it.
Why does God come with a revelation to
a man in the midst of a corrupt
festival, with all the kings and queens of
the earth there, with every diabolical damnable thing
going on.
And yet there God comes and speaks to
him.
Because it says there in Hebrews 11, that
while he was still down there in Egypt,
he made a statement, he made a decision
there.
He looks at all this seething mass of
corruption, perishing things of clay that are born,
but for one brief day, it's going to
end very quickly.
And somehow, I don't know how, it bowls
me over, it absolutely bowls me over, when
I read there that he decided to relinquish
all the privilege of being the next king
of the greatest empire in the world.
Renounce all its wealth, it was the richest
empire in the world.
Say goodbye to the woman who'd nourished him
for 40 years.
This is bad manners.
But he's going to move out.
Why?
For the simple reason he heard the voice
of God.
And it says Moses decided.
He chose rather to suffer with the children
of Israel than enjoy the pleasure of sin
for a season and that's all they ever
are.
Esteeming the reproach of Christ, not the crown
of Christ, not the kingdom of Christ, not
the glory of Christ, the reproach.
He says, if it takes me to go
through what Christ goes through, I'll go through
it.
He's not only the physical redeemer of Israel,
bringing them out of Egypt, he's the spiritual
redeemer.
He stands here at the highest office in
the world, a million times higher, if I
can use that geographic sense.
A million miles higher than ever Pharaoh could
be or any other king of the earth,
or all the kings of the earth, of
all the empires of the world.
He's the most marvelous man in history, maybe
up to the coming of Jesus Christ.
God has spoken to him.
He'd gone through the miraculous.
He'd heard the voice of God.
He'd seen the victory of God there in
the 15th chapter of Exodus.
It gives you there maybe the most beautiful
description of God at the end of the
15th chapter in Exodus.
The chapter begins, Then sang Moses in the
tomb of Israel this song to the Lord.
And they spake, saying, I will sing unto
the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously.
The horse and the rider hath he cast
into the sea.
The Lord is my strength and my song.
He has become my salvation.
He'd seen the victory of God.
He'd heard the voice of God when he
was in a heathen country.
Now he sees the victory of God.
The horse and his rider.
God had parted the sea.
When he looked as though the Chinovites were
going to be overwhelmed, right then God intervened.
But look at the last verse of this
or the 11th verse.
Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among
the gods?
Who is like unto thee?
Glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders.
Somebody has said that's the most beautiful description
of God in the whole Bible.
Now this is the God in whom he's
trusting.
He has no security outside of God.
He needs no other security outside of God.
When we refer there again in the 24th
chapter.
He's heard the voice of God in Egypt.
He's seen the victory of God here in
this 15th chapter.
Then he sees the majesty of God here
in chapter 24.
It says, Then went up Moses, Aaron, Nadab
and Abihu and the 70 elders of Israel.
Now listen to this.
I guess you've never heard anybody preach.
You've been 90 years old.
You've not heard anybody preach on this.
I'm in my 80th year but I've never
heard anybody preach on it.
I've been around the world preaching.
Many countries, many conferences, many so-called great
men.
Nobody's ever touched this text.
I'll read from verse 9 again.
Then went up Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu
and the 70 elders of Israel.
And they saw the God of Israel.
That there was under his feet as it
were a paved work of a sapphire stone.
And as it were a body of heaven
in his clearness.
And upon the nobles of the children of
Israel he laid not his hands.
Also they saw God and did eat and
drink.
Now there you've got something.
We need to read that maybe before we
go to communion as we call it.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up
to me into the mount and be there.
And I will give thee tables of stone.
And the law and the commandments which I
have written.
That thou mayest teach them.
Verse 13 says, Moses went up and his
minister Joshua.
And Moses went up into the mount of
God.
And he said unto the elders, Tarray ye
here for us.
Verse 15, Moses went up into the mount.
And a cloud covered the mount and the
glory of the Lord.
He's seen the majesty of God.
There when he sits down to eat and
drink with the elders.
In that fabulous setting as it's described in
all its beauty.
But now again he sees on the top
in the mount.
In the eyes of the children of Israel.
And Moses went into the midst of the
cloud.
And got him into the mount.
And Moses was in the days.
Moses was on the back side of the
desert for 40 days.
And it wasn't till the end of the
40 days that he saw the burning bush.
Why didn't God give him that revelation.
And hear God's voice before he went into
the 40 years.
Because as I said, I believe it already.
The revelation of Jesus Christ.
He says he's determined to go through and
serve Jesus Christ.
Whatever the cost is.
And therefore he hears the voice now a
second time.
And you find stages in his life.
At the end of every 40 years there's
a climax in his life.
I don't know how well you hear.
But this voice is echoing all over.
As far as I'm concerned.
Let me come down to the text here.
In this 32nd chapter.
The Lord said unto Moses, I've seen this
people.
Remember this disobedient bunch here.
We referred to them in the previous chapter.
God had laid down his commandments.
And he especially stressed the Sabbath.
Remember there are ten commandments.
There's only one with remember in it.
It's the most violated commandment of all.
Christians do it, don't think bad about it.
If you break the Sabbath, don't grumble at
the man up.
You say, well I think that's bondage.
I think that's the Old Testament.
Jesus said I come to destroy, I came
to fulfill.
What does it say about the Sabbath day?
Verse 17 says of chapter 31.
It is a sign between me and the
children of Israel forever.
For in six days the Lord made heaven
and earth.
And on the seventh day he rested and
was refreshed.
Well if God Almighty rested and was refreshed.
What shall you and I do?
If you have a breakdown, it's your own
fault.
Don't blame your business, don't blame the economy.
Don't blame the threat of Russia, forget it.
It's your fault you've been breaking his commandment.
And if you do your shopping on Sunday
and other things on Sunday.
Don't blame the man up the street, he
commits adultery.
He's only breaking one law, you're breaking it
every week.
He maybe breaks it once.
We don't regard the Sabbath.
We change it from the Sabbath day to
a pagan title, Sunday.
We need to knock the S off and
put an F there.
It's fun day now.
People go to church for an hour.
Then in the afternoon they go swimming half
naked or fooling around in sports.
But this is a commandment of God.
And if you're suffering it may be because
you're deliberately violating this commandment.
We cannot break any commandment and get away
with it.
It's compulsory now I believe in Dallas to
open shops on Sunday.
Well that's how Russia deteriorated.
That's how Germany deteriorated.
But God has told his people they must
keep the Sabbath day.
Notice verse 13.
Speak unto the children of Israel.
Verily they shall keep thy Sabbath.
Verse 14.
Ye shall keep the Sabbath.
And anyone that defiles it shall be put
to death.
Boy I better get a firing squad here
tonight.
Kill half the congregation or maybe nine tenths
of it.
If you break the Sabbath you shall be
put to death.
That's what God says.
Of course grace has come and we do
as we like.
We've turned grace into disgrace.
I don't hear many amens but that's okay.
Verse 9 of chapter 32.
I've got through it again.
Now therefore let me alone that my wrath
may wax hot against them.
That I may consume them and I will
make of thee a gration.
Leave me alone in my wrath.
Look at verse 12.
Wherefore should the Egyptians spake and say.
This is Moses speaking.
What mischief had he to bring us out
and slay them in the mountains.
Consume them for the face of the earth.
This is Moses pleading.
Listen he says.
Turn from thy fierce wrath.
He's seen the victory of God.
He's heard the voice of God.
He's seen the vastness of God.
When they were all there in the 24th
chapter.
And they're surrounded in majesty.
But now he's a God of vengeance.
And Moses stands between them.
He stands in the gap.
God can't say I'm looking for a man
to stand in the gap.
Because Moses is standing there.
You know one of the greatest things in
the world I guess.
Is to be a preacher.
I can't do much at it.
But I'd rather preach than be a president.
You know what.
One of the greatest offices in the world.
If not the greatest.
And I think it is the greatest.
Is to be a preacher.
To stand before people on behalf of God.
There's one greater than that.
It's to stand before God on behalf of
people.
We don't know the majesty of the fact.
America will go down the drain between 5
and 10 years from now.
Unless we have a divine intervention.
We're not going to have it by organizing
conventions.
We're not going to have it through TV
preachers.
We're going to have it through intercessors.
We're going to have it through people on
how to travel in birth.
Until revival comes.
We don't know much about the Puritans.
Remember they lived in the 1600s.
They were men of massive intellect.
A preacher, some of you know his name,
asked me in my office.
What was superb about these marvelous Puritans?
I said I'll tell you what.
Six days they walked in eternity.
And the seventh day they came down with
revelation.
They came with anointing.
Maybe the greatest preacher of them all.
Some would say it was John Owen.
Some would say it was Flaval or Sibbes.
Or someone else.
Maybe the greatest preacher of them all.
And I think he was the greatest, was
Jonathan Edwards.
Remember he preached.
Listen, listen, please.
Those men that move that generation.
A revival was born in 1734.
It wasn't organized.
Jonathan Edwards could have said we're going to
start a special meeting.
He could have sent men to the four
corners of the earth.
Like the man who was the guy that
rang the bell crying the British are coming.
I don't like him, whoever he was.
But he ran to all the corners of
the nation crying the British are coming.
What was his name?
Paul Revere.
He could have sent out a hundred Paul
Reveres and said, meet, meet, meet me in
Northampton.
The greatest preacher in the world is coming.
You've heard about him.
He's as eloquent as De Mocenys.
He has a theology of stubbornness.
Tremendous as the Apostle Paul.
His name is George Whitfield.
I want you to gather.
I want you to come.
He did not do that.
The revival was not staged.
It wasn't round of personality.
I'm sick to death of seeing men steal
God's glory.
They ask for this money for that.
Before long they stick the big ugly name
on it.
If it's for God, stick God's name on
it.
But anyhow, Jonathan Edwards preached that message.
And to encourage you little preachers as you
think you are in the country.
The revival that broke out and shook America
was born in a country church with an
ordinary preacher preaching his ordinary Sunday morning service
and the Holy Ghost came.
We don't know divine interventions like that.
We don't know much about people falling off
their seats which they did when he preached.
He preached on sinners in the hands of
an angry God.
People fell on the floor, convicted of sin,
riding in their agony.
He didn't say, pardon me, I didn't mean
to upset you.
In my opinion, he lacerated them with the
word of God while they were there.
He tore them apart.
What happened?
Well, history says he was a man with
poor eyesight.
He held a candle in one hand.
He read a stack of notes sonorously.
He had a voice, gravel voice.
He had a face without expression.
And he went through that long sermon.
Do you know they used to have services
nine hours in those days?
I read one the other day where the
preacher announced we shall have the word of
God this morning.
A man got up and prayed for twenty
minutes.
Then he sat down.
Then a preacher preached for two hours.
Then another man prayed for two hours.
Then a preacher preached for two hours.
Another man prayed for two hours.
It ran into nine hours.
Good night we'd have to serve hot and
cold drinks and sandwiches and everything if we
had meetings like that.
Most of us are belly worshippers.
You can tell the time with your tummy.
You know when it gets to ten to
twelve in church you get pains.
But when the Holy Ghost came brother that
whole area was wooed.
But I have on my desk what you
call a Xerox copy today.
They call it a facsimile of a letter
from the daughter of Jonathan Edwards.
She says my daddy, people say he's fierce.
He's angry.
He has a rough voice.
He's very expressionless.
He doesn't smile very much.
She says my daddy carries the burden of
the Lord.
You say what you like about him.
I hear him in the back room before
he preaches.
Day after day he's on his face groaning
and sweating and grieving and mourning.
That's the cost.
That's why we don't do it.
It's too expensive.
We'd rather deliver little lectures.
Go around with a satchel full of sermons
from city to city.
But we know nothing of the divine anointing
of God like our fathers did.
And remember this, they met in halls and
had no lighting.
They had candles stuck all around the place.
They had no air conditioning.
There was no amplification.
I wish we hadn't tonight.
But anyhow, no amplification, no heating, no lighting.
The seats had no backs to them.
When the meetings were caught, the weather was
cold.
They shivered.
When it was hot they sweat.
But they had something we don't have.
They had one who walked in the midst
of the golden candlesticks.
He came Sabbath by Sabbath by Sabbath.
And the record goes that after this divine
intervention, there wasn't one house in the city
that wasn't affected.
There wasn't one family.
And Jonathan Edwards said you could see conviction
on every face of every person.
Everybody was going with a drawn face, an
agonized face.
They were suffering intense conviction of sin.
The least office expressed about the Holy Ghost
today is conviction of sin.
We don't have conviction.
People come to the altar, they're damned and
they leave it damned.
They don't know anything about regeneration.
We're basing everything on decisions.
Everything on confession.
But there's something more than confession.
It's whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sin.
A man needs to be justified.
He needs to be sanctified.
He needs the indwelling of the Spirit of
God or he'll never make it through this
world.
But here is this man, Moses.
He's been on the mount with God.
He's seen God in a frame of fire,
consuming fire.
And he knows that God is of holier
eyes and to behold iniquity.
The Lord said unto Moses, verse 9 again,
I've seen this people, behold it's a stiff
-necked people.
Now therefore let me alone.
Isn't that amazing?
This is paraphrased in the old Methodist hymn
book.
You see, it's a wonderful thing when God
reaches down and takes hold of a man.
Billy Graham says, when people say, why did
God choose you?
He says, that's the first thing I'll ask
him when I'll see him on his throne.
Why did you choose me?
It's wonderful when God reaches.
Anything more wonderful, that's when a man reaches
up and takes hold of God.
God here says, let me alone.
The paraphrase in the Methodist hymn book is,
when Moses, let Moses in the spirit groan
and God cries out, let me alone.
Don't interfere.
I'm going to destroy these people.
He'd deliver them out of Egypt.
Look what he says now in verse 10.
Let me alone that my wrath may wax
hot against them, that I may consume them,
and I will make of thee a great
nation.
Why did he say, Lord, thank you for
the vindication?
Lord, they're a grumbling, miserable people.
They're crying now to go back.
They want to go back to Egypt to
leeks and garlics and eat all the junk
food down there.
And God has delivered them from that.
And they'd even plotted against him.
His brother Aaron had plotted.
His sister Miriam had been in collusion with
her brother.
Why doesn't he say, oh God, this is
wonderful.
I've struggled with this nation so long.
I've had a thousand heartbreaks.
I've been deceived.
People have done every considerable evil against me.
Thank you.
Wipe them out.
And get out of my loins a bigger
nation.
But he doesn't do that.
What does he do?
I will make of thee a great nation.
Moses besought the Lord and said, Why doth
thy wrath wax hot against the people?
Verse 12.
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, for
mischief did he bring them out, and slay
them in the mountains, and consume them from
the face of the earth, turn from thy
fierce wrath, and repent of the evil.
Now notice what he says now.
Verse 19 says, It came to pass, as
soon as he came down into the camp,
he saw the calf.
This is Moses now, of course, coming down
from the mountain and seeing the calf which
had been made by this so-called man
of God.
It immediately betrayed his trust.
He'd been anointed to be holy, and now
he makes a false god, and he makes
a false altar, and he makes false statements.
But it says, it came to pass, as
soon as he came down into the camp,
he saw the calf and the dancing, and
Moses' anger waxed hot.
And he cast the tables out of his
hand.
Now verse 22, Aaron said, Let not the
anger of my Lord wax hot.
Where did he get that from?
The previous reading, why has God got such
fierce anger?
You see, the thing is, if you live
near to God, you'll hear the outbeat of
God.
You'll know the mind of God.
You'll feel the spirit of God.
There'll be times when you know the overwhelming
presence of God.
There'll be times when you know the grief
of God.
Moses is angry because there's a spillover from
the heart of God about the condition of
this people.
Now he goes on, let me push over
into verse 31 of this chapter.
Moses returned unto the Lord and said, O
this people have sinned a great sin, and
have made them gods of gold.
Now therefore, if thou wilt forgive their sin,
dash, and if not, blot me out, I
pray thee, from thy book.
This is intercessory prayer.
I'm prepared to be blotted out.
Go over to Numbers chapter 11, please.
Hear the children of Israel grumbling again.
Chapter 11, verse 1 of Numbers.
When the people complained, it pleased the Lord,
and the Lord heard it, and his anger
was kindled, and the fire of the Lord
burned among them, and consumed them that were
in the uttermost part of the camp.
The people cried unto Moses.
When Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire
was quenched.
Then the people were grumbling in verse 4.
The mixed multitude that was with them fell
a lusting.
The children of Israel also wept again and
said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
We remember the fish we did eat in
Egypt freely, and the cucumbers, and the melons,
and the leeks, and the onions.
And now our soul is dried up.
Is there nothing at all except this manna?
God Almighty had opened the heavens and sent
them angels' food, and they prefer to go
back to Egypt for junk food.
Have you got nothing to eat but this
manna?
You know, it's getting like that with the
Word of God.
Is that all we have, the Bible?
Someone sent me a report just today about
the rock music, Christian rock music.
And this lady says, My children are sick
of going and just hearing Christian songs sung.
We've got to bridge the gulf and mix
the worldly songs with the Christian songs.
These people here say we can't be satisfied
with manna.
They've been satisfied with it till here.
Now what happens?
Verse 11, Moses went to the Lord and
said, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant?
And wherefore have I not found favour in
thy sight that thou layest this burden of
this people upon me?
Have I conceived this people, and have begotten
them that thou shouldst send to me, carry
them in thy bosom as a nursing father?
Verse 13, Wherefore should I have flesh to
give to this people?
And he says in verse 14, I am
not able to bear this people alone because
it is too heavy for me.
And if thou deal thus with them, kill
me, I pray thee, out of hand.
What was his occupation?
His occupation was that of a shepherd.
What does a shepherd do?
A good shepherd lays down his life for
his sheep.
And he sees the wrath of God is
going to break over this disobedient, rebellious nation.
And therefore he says, If need be, kill
me.
I am prepared.
Remember this man has had fierce anger.
And yet in Numbers chapter 3, verse 2,
it says, Moses was the meekest man in
the earth, over nothing.
There is a difference between human anger, or
if you like, carnal anger and godly anger.
In human anger there is bitterness.
In holy anger there is sorrow.
Moses was the meekest man in the earth.
And yet his anger waxed hot.
Meekness and anger, they are two sides of
the same coin.
Jesus was the meekest man in the world.
Moses is a type of him.
Moses was meek.
Jesus was meek.
Come unto me, I am meek and lowly
of heart.
But he was angry against the temple.
And he kicked out the money changers.
I think if he came back, he wouldn't
only cleanse the temple, he'd cleanse the pulse.
You see all the unreality of the world
around you.
Moses isn't claiming to be delivered from Philistines
and Amalekites and others.
He wants the glory of God.
How many churches just want blessing?
We just want to expand.
How many of us really want God to
get the government and the authority and bring
the deliverance only he can bring?
Kill me, I pray, if need be, out
of hand.
This people out of hand.
The people have asked for food.
Notice what he says in verse 17, I
will come down and talk with thee, and
I will take the spirit which is upon
thee and put it upon them.
That's upon the 70 elders.
That they shall help bear the burden with
thee.
That thou shall not bury thyself alone.
Now they cried out for food.
Notice what he says in verse 10, Ye
shall not eat one day, nor two days,
nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty
days, not even for a month.
Ye shall eat until it comes out of
your nostrils.
And it shall be loathsome unto you, because
ye have despised the Lord which is among
you.
And ye have wept because of him, saying,
Why came we out of Egypt?
Now again, this is this man standing this
torture.
Notice what it says in the 27th verse,
They ran a young man to Moses and
said, Eldad and Midad do prophesy in the
camp.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant
of Moses, one of his young men answered
and said, My Lord, Moses forbid them.
And Moses said unto him, Envious thou then
for my sake?
I would to God that all the Lord's
people were prophets.
And the Lord will put his spirit upon
them.
You see this man totally rejects any superior
position.
The Lord says, I'll make a new nation
out of you.
He says, No, don't do that.
Preserve this.
The people here say, You've got another prophet.
Let everybody be a prophet.
He's the meekest man.
He's the lowliest man.
And he's the purest man.
And that's why the raging anger of God
comes through him.
We want happiness.
We want joy.
You can't have one without the other if
you're going to truly walk in the light.
Now let me jump over a bit further
here to the book of Lamentations.
Remember I'm talking, I won't be long now.
I'm talking here about intercession.
I believe it's the highest office this side
of eternity to be an intercessor.
Remember the one great example we usually show
is the example of Abraham.
Then people say, Well of course, it was
a kind of a Dutch auction.
If you go to an auction here, they
put something up at a price and you
go up and up and up.
The Dutch people start at the top and
come down.
And remember he starts with per adventure, per
adventure they lack.
And he comes down to finally.
Per adventure they lack ten righteous within the
city.
Isn't that amazing?
Ten righteous.
Well you see he didn't spare the city.
I'll tell you what he did do.
He interceded long enough for Lot to get
out and his wife to get out and
their family to get out.
But you see when the judgment of God
was coming she wanted to go back to
the city where your treasure is, where your
heart will be also.
But he was the intercessor.
And yet he doesn't exceed the intercession of
this man Moses as far as I'm concerned.
Look at Lamentations please.
That's right after Jeremiah chapter 2.
It says, How hath the Lord covered the
daughter of Zion with a cloud in his
anger and cast them down from heaven?
Now step back into verse 20 of the
previous chapter.
Now this is very severe.
It's not our language.
It's a scripture very few people know anyhow.
Remember this is Jeremiah.
Remember when Jesus was on earth he said
ask people who do men say that I
am.
Some say thou art Moses.
Some Elijah.
He said some Jeremiah.
What identified Jesus with Jeremiah?
Jeremiah was a man of sorrows till the
man of sorrows came.
Jeremiah was the weeping prophet.
I'll tell you one thing.
The preacher that weeps never preaches dry sermons
because he's not reciting a creed.
He's not obeying the government that's over him
at headquarters.
He's been in the presence of the Holy
God and he comes with fear and trembling.
We're going to have to have a revival
in the pulpit folk or God clear it
up anyhow.
Well you see Jesus got angry.
Yes he did.
He went into the temple and he kicked
the money changers out.
He kicked the profiteers out.
He took a whip.
Yes but read previously in the chapter before
he whipped them and he wept over them.
If you're going to whip a congregation weep
over it first.
People know when a preacher preaches just theology
or preaches for a job they know when
he preaches with a broken heart.
You know time's running out for America.
We haven't much time left.
I don't care what they do at the
White House.
The destiny of America is not with the
White House it's with God's house if we
clean it up.
God only has one agency on earth.
It's church.
With his own blood he bought her and
for her life he died.
Now if you follow old Schofield he'll tell
you the church is going to be raptured
and cleared up there and become the bride.
That's not what the scripture says.
The scripture says in the 19th chapter of
Revelation the spirit and the bride say come.
It says the bride has made herself ready.
Maybe I said this before whether I did
or not it's still true.
I've been to many weddings I've never seen
a bride at the altar with curlers in
her hair.
Have you?
Have you seen an old person start putting
her fingernails because they weren't right?
She'd been preparing for that wedding for years.
Took her years to catch him anyhow.
But when she gets him there she's going
to keep him she's going to get married.
She's dreamed about that thing.
Dreamed about being robed in white.
You know the trouble with us?
We live on earth too much.
We're not eternity conscious people we're time conscious
position conscious possession conscious personality conscious eternity
conscious?
No.
Why should people in the world believe the
Bible if we don't behave it?
The biggest obstruction to revival in America or
any country is not humanism.
I'm tired of preachers kicking humanism out.
I believe the biggest enemy of revival in
America is evangelism.
We're leading people into a false hope.
The problem is not eternal security maybe it's
false security.
Mr. Wolf one of the big preachers in
the Southern Baptist Convention sent me his report
last month it's called The Challenger.
Let me see what he says I think
I've got it here somewhere.
This is what he says about the day
in which we're living.
56% of the...
He says we have a minister to students
specifically to the students in the colleges.
Now this is his census of them.
He says 56 of them live in single
parent homes.
75% of high school graduates will never
be saved.
Listen 95% 95% of the Southern
Baptist teenagers quit going to church in their
sophomore year at college.
95% of them in college.
You can gamble your very life away but
more than once they made a profession of
being saved.
They've been baptized and they rest in their
baptism.
They rest in a few scripture foods.
95% of students quit.
What in the name of God is wrong
with his house?
You see our people don't come to the
sanctuary to meet God they come to hear
a sermon about him.
Dr. Christopher has a little book on Isaiah.
Get it, it's worth reading.
I don't know if I mentioned this but
it grips my heart maybe every day.
You remember Julius Caesar well Julius Caesar had
a rival called Pompey a very brilliant what
do you call him commander or general.
And he sent him to a far off
country to get rid of him.
And he went to Israel as it was
at that time Palestine.
And he went there with all the pomp
and pageantry you know.
His horses had panoply's on.
The soldiers had their breastplates they had these
big plumed helmets.
They took the city by force at least
took it they captivated its imagination they'd never
seen an army like this.
He'd been there a few days he said
what's the building there in the center.
That building is a holy place.
What do you mean by a holy place?
It's there where God lives.
Gods we've hundreds of them in Rome.
Oh but this is a different God.
He made the stars.
As Isaac Watts said he made the stars
those heavenly flames.
He counts their numbers calls their names.
His wisdom's vast and knows no bound a
deep where all our thoughts are drowned.
And the God who made the heavens and
the earth he put that ball of fire
up there in the day time and the
moon at the night time.
He controlled he made the whole world.
And he lives in there yes.
I'm going to see him you can't yes
I will.
They told the people in the city that
Pompey was going to see the going into
the holy place into the holy of holies.
Over two thousand people followed him to the
outskirts.
When he got near to the temple they
fell on their faces and cried no, no,
no.
They remember the second book of Chronicles chapter
26 where Uzziah went in.
Remember in Isaiah 6 it says in the
year that King Uzziah died.
Remember if you read the chapter 80 priests
plus one 80 priests plus one tried to
stop this man but he was so demon
possessed he threw off 81 men and he
went into the holy place he went to
the outskirts.
He went to the outer court he came
to the inner court he came to the
Gentile court he came to the women's court
he came to the court of Israel he
came to the holy place and he said
where is this God they said that curtain
behind that curtain the God he blazes brighter
than a million suns they call it the
shekinah glory it's the holiness of God the
holiness of God that we don't know a
thing about they didn't and we don't and
he said tear that curtain apart and they
tore the curtain apart and it was pitch
black because it wasn't a man only one
man ever went there one day for one
year for one day in one year for
one people Israel the high priest the other
priest couldn't go in it was his privilege
to go into the holy of holies and
see the shekinah glory and this heathen king
went in there and he said I've come
all the way from Rome I've come through
here, here, here and I've come to the
holy of holies and he isn't there where
is he he isn't there let me paraphrase
it for you now they're building a big
church there in Houston it's open it's no
secret it's open in the press and everywhere
they're building a 34 million dollar church it
has four what do you call them racquetball
courts it has two what do you call
the others basketball courts it's got sauna baths
it's got a movie house it's got a
banqueting hall but there's no mention of a
prayer meeting place in it that I can
see now you see the young people they
come out of the world they've been in
an office they've been at school they've heard
profanity and uncleanness and sex talk and all
the hellishness that goes on and to get
into church now they've to go past the
outer court that is the baseball diamond they
come then to the basketball court they come
to the racquetball court they come in and
in and they come to the sanctuary God
isn't here and they go away empty come
on we've cursed the darkness long enough we
need to strike a light we've got to
pray and travel until nothing on earth makes
us happy except the presence of the Holy
God until we walk out of the sanctuary
we didn't speak to each other in 1949
I was privileged to speak in Wales in
Aberamond going down the street one day an
old man with snow white hair came and
he said brother Raymond do you see the
chapel or the capel as they call it
he said one night in 1904 we have
no telephones we have no handbills you see
the lock on the gate he said the
janitor came down he took the lock off
the gate nobody denounced anything and within an
hour that church that was never opened on
Monday nights was packed to the rafters the
glory of God came it was 1904 when
they had the Welsh revival and he said
you know what well when I was there
in 1949 I went to supper well a
snack after preaching and the lady I remember
Mrs Lewis she said Mrs Griffiths Mrs Thomas
Nye was saying last night that these meetings
that you had this week are the nearest
to the Welsh revival I said well how
do you know she said because every night
we walked home and we walked to the
crossroads we've never once said a word until
we meet at the crossroads and in Welsh
for goodnight they say Nostar and she said
we said last night do you notice the
difference we don't talk about the preacher we
don't talk about the meeting we don't talk
about the coal strike we don't talk about
poverty every night we've been so awed with
the majesty of God we couldn't say a
single word when do you leave the sanctuary
like that it should be normal not abnormal
but every time God so comes in his
majesty in his glory we invite him to
walk in the midst of our meeting like
he walked in the midst of the seven
golden candlesticks let me go back here a
minute wind this thing up this
man says in verse 20 of this first
chapter in Lamentations behold O Lord for I
am in distress my bowels are troubled my
heart is turned within me jump down now
to the second chapter and he says in
verse 10 the elders of the dorch of
Zion sit on the ground and keep silence
they've cast dust on their heads they've girded
themselves with sackcloth the virgins of Jerusalem hang
their heads down to the ground now this
is a man I put a title on
this the man that God has torn apart
remember this is same Jeremiah and he says
my eyes do fail with tears he says
in the previous verse my heart is in
distress my bowels are moved my heart is
turned within me he says here my eyes
so his heart is torn my eyes are
filled with tears my bowels are troubled my
liver is poured out for the destruction of
the daughter of my people because the children
of sucklings are dying in the streets he
sums it all up in chapter 3 in
verse 11 he hath turned aside my ways
and pulled me in pieces and hath made
me desolate I don't believe we'll get anywhere
in this generation until we're sick to death
of everything round about us except God we're
too satisfied we're too comfortable with what we
eat and what we drink and where we're
going we're not consumed with God we're not
seeing the world as he sees it it's
lost, it's without God without hope and there
is no hope for America or England or
any other nation unless there's a divine intervention
and the men who bring this about are
men like Jeremiah he says I'm torn apart
my bowels are moved my heart is moved
my liver is torn in other words every
part of me my emotions everything is torn
up I must see the glory of God
do you know why we don't pine for
the glory of God because we've never seen
it that's why if we see the glory
of God brother after that you'll never go
to meetings I believe the church is going
to end up where it began it began
in house meetings I think God threw a
denomination all over the nation I found out
young people calling me and other people we're
meeting 20 of us in a house 30
of us in a house and we're going
to stay like this till God shows us
something else to do but you see there
has to come upon us a spirit of
travail and it's painful in the revival in
Scotland I'm through with this in the revival
in Scotland I had the privilege of praying
a number of times with Duncan Campbell the
man God used there he had been in
meetings the glory of God had come down
he'd gone to a place because an old
lady who was blind and another lady invited
him after a successful period he went to
another place and he said it seemed the
heavens were brass God didn't come and he
said I went on with my message till
I felt no, I'm getting nowhere then he
pointed to a boy and asked that boy
to pray a boy 16 years of age
and he said the laddie stood up and
just said what's the good of praying if
we're not right with God the secret of
revival I believe is in the 24th Psalm
who shall ascend into the hill of the
Lord these are thy clean hands that's our
relationship with our business partners and a pure
heart our relationship to God righteousness on the
human level holiness on the divine level and
the laddie just turned he said and he
recited Psalm 24 who shall ascend into the
hill of the Lord these are thy clean
hands and a pure heart and he's not
lifted up his soul to vanity then he
said he turned and pointed as though he
could see him he said Satan get out
of this district be gone I demand you
go in the name of the Father Son
and Holy Ghost by the blood of Christ
by the Holy Spirit and the promises of
God be gone and immediately that boy prayed
the Spirit came on the other end of
town dance halls closed taverns closed they never
opened again we haven't got David Wilkinson David
David Wilkinson was in my office a while
ago he brought a bunch of preachers I
said David look the Southern Baptists have at
least 200 evangelists the Pentecostals have 300 that's
500 neither of them one of them have
a revivalist the last revivalist in America I
know of was Mordecai Hamm and you know
he took his tent into a town and
after three days there he had to have
a police escort to get into the pulpit
and a police escort to get out why?
because he blasted sin because he preached with
the awful unction and power and might of
God we don't have any I said to
David Wilkinson why don't you and Jimmy Swaggart
and Oral Roberts and Billy Graham get together
and forget your differences and emphasize the points
you agree on why don't you go to
a city and stay four weeks until the
heavens break I said to David
while I was there with his friends I
said David there's no scriptural authority I know
for going to a city for one night
and moving on why do they go?
is it to get big offerings?
do you think the devil is afraid of
an invasion for one night?
good lord not but if you've got a
bunch of people if they knew that people
that evangelists were going to stay a month
I know why this works last year I
got an invitation to preach in two churches
I helped found 50 years ago they both
said please come and preach a Jubilee service
we went to cities we had no money
we rented a tent we had no money
we said we'll pay a rent when we
get the offering we slept in the tent
we ate in the tent we prayed in
the tent we wept in the tent and
we stayed there eight weeks and people got
saved and we established them we taught them
we prayed with them we prayed for them
and God came and those churches are standing
like a rock today the rock we sang
about because they were not founded on emotion
most of our kids come to the altar
through emotion I won't sing an altar call
sing there's room at the cross everybody gets
moved we were in a service last Sunday
morning my dear son David prayed and preached
the masterpiece of the sermon and he just
said well let's just wait on God we
waited a few minutes two or three walks
to the altar then a young woman got
up and began to get the people to
sing I forgot the song they sang now
let's see if I can think of it
as I tell you I'm getting old I'm
not losing my mind I'm just losing my
memory I know what it was have thy
known way Lord we sang it once twice
three times four times then sang it the
next nobody came I preached in the night
service the church was packed and I said
you know what happened this morning the spirit
of God moved you kill the altar call
we've got to interrupt we can't wait in
the old days when people came to the
altar somebody came with every one person and
opened the scriptures and we didn't leave until
they got through to God in the great
revival in 1926 when it seemed that revolution
was going to sweep through Northern Ireland they
have a book bigger than this and right
across the page 1926 it says we anticipated
revolution God sent revival through W.P. Nicholson
I preached with that man preached with him
in front of me when he made an
altar call which was very brief when people
came to the altar he said go on
all you gossipers get out of the place
and if he made the altar call at
nine or ten o'clock he was still
there at one o'clock or two in
the morning he dealt with everyone personally what's
your problem what's your hindrance why can't you
get through to victory what are you hiding
what is it there come on there's something
there the result was he had the most
abiding fruit in that country since Wesley was
there two hundred years ago we've got to
get back to the place where we don't
build our reputation on who comes to the
altar it's abiding fruit that matters if we
don't get more than we've got now if
there was an invasion of America ninety seven
percent of professing Christians would die tomorrow they'd
die of grief but God's going to test
us we've had our years of plenty the
years of famine are coming but I'll tell
you what he's going to raise up men
he's raising them up I've young men come
to my office who've gone and hide in
the hills for six months just with a
Bible and maybe a copy of Gernal and
they're there spending months and months I get
continually almost every day letters from people we've
formed a prayer group we're meeting at five
in the morning we're meeting at six in
the morning we've established a day of fasting
in our church and these will birth revival
nothing else will I don't expect the superstar
evangelist on TV to be in the next
move of God for the simple reason I
read it today God says in Joel and
he says it again in the Acts of
the Apostles he'll pour out his spirit on
all flesh your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy your young men shall see visions your
old men shall dream and on my presidents
and brilliant people no no no he doesn't
say that he says on my servants and
handmaids when Jesus wanted disciples he didn't go
to the temple and ask for the deans
list he went down the road to some
smelly fishermen he went to a man gathering
taxes and he took those men he's going
to do that again in the Irish revival
of 1859 young men came out from feeding
hogs and they stood with a word of
prophecy it wasn't tongues it was a deliberate
word from the living God and some of
the most learned men in the day knelt
there and repented go back for one minute
now through in that outbreak of revival in
1735 sure they had these giants they had
these men with colossal intellects these men who
knew their Hebrew and their Greek but there
was a young man with the common name
of John Smith and the Holy Ghost came
on him and the greatest preacher of that
day most likely was would be again his
name eludes me anyhow he went to this
young country preacher what happened he fell down
in weeping and tears and repentance I've been
leaning on my scholarship and on my ability
and on my personality and here is a
young man that God has touched you know
all the difference in the world between a
man who's out of the academy a man
who walks with God and talks with God
and burns for God it's going to take
that dear God we can't mourn over a
lost city so you can't mourn over unsaved
husbands unsaved children you know they're going to
hell you know they got caught up in
sex they're caught up in drugs it doesn't
cost you any tears you know I believe
one of the agonies of hell will they
be able to see right into heaven how
do I know because it says so in
Luke 16 it says the man in hell
he looked and he saw into Abraham's bosom
which is the Hebrew figure of heaven he
saw the rich man saw it not because
he was rich he was in hell but
he saw Abraham in the bosom of Abraham
he could see he could hear he could
feel he said I see Abraham they can
see in hell he could hear in hell
they pray in hell he prayed from the
wrong place at the wrong time to the
wrong person got the wrong answer as far
as he's concerned there's no prayer in heaven
it's not needed there's prayer in hell but
it's unheeded come on sit down when you
get home read the last read the 20th
chapter in Revelation I was reading it recently
it broke my heart I groaned sat at
my desk and wept it talks about the
second death twice three times in Revelation you've
heard sermons on the second coming you've heard
sermons on the second blessing you've heard sermons
on the second Adam you've heard sermons on
the second covenant I guarantee nobody here has
ever heard a sermon on the second death
the death that never dies and yet loved
ones of ours are going we get stirred
in a meeting we get blessed we go
home with a bit more Bible knowledge dear
God it's not Bible knowledge that's going to
move it's the Holy Ghost coming and kindling
a flame in our hearts a flame of
passionate devotion to Jesus Christ a flame that
says I'm not going to settle down and
see my community go to hell so the
churches in town here are beaming their message
to other countries and within two blocks of
where they're beaming it from there's prostitutes standing
in the street there's kids up the back
alley with drugs there are drunkards Jerusalem begins
a revival begins in Jerusalem I want to
see a revival in my country before I
go somewhere else I get calls to many
countries they ask me about my district where
I live I live in Garden Valley it's
more like the valley of the shadow of
death I don't want to go out of
it until God moves I want to say
I've just come out of a burning fire
I've come out of the presence of this
God who rages with anger or rages with
mercy we're so contented we're so satisfied to
be blessed we don't want to be broken
this man says he's broken God has torn
me apart I'm through, listen whatever God takes
he breaks this is my body which is
broken for you he could do nothing until
he was broken why do I expect blessing
before I'm broken he took bread and break
it and blessed it he took an alabaster
box of ointment and broke it the law
of production is brokenness and until we're broken
until you let God shatter that idol of
yours until you let him destroy your ambitions
it may be a good ambition but it
is what God wants until you get away
and yet your priority number one is God's
glory not your health not prosperity not blessing
but to be broken for him to see
his glory come to see through his eyes
to feel with his heart to understand with
his mind this mind being new God isn't
going to come and take up residence in
your personality when it's lousy with temper and
pride and anger and jealousy his pride must
be pure even now and he's waiting to
demonstrate his power intercessors only God can make
them you can learn to preach if you
go to a school you can't learn to
pray except you do it it's hard work
preachers can strut and show their stuff you
never find a praying man strutting you never
find a praying man begging I've never asked
for a dime in my life, I never
will it's a case of getting into the
secret place of the most high and feeling
the heartbeat of God as Moses did and
the anger of God was kindled on him
I'm angry with my generation I'm not angry
with a drug addict I'm angry with a
church I'm angry with professing preachers who give
lip service and they don't know a thing
about tears they don't know a thing about
travail and there can be no birth without
travail and anguish the most difficult thing in
the world get people to pray try a
prayer conference see how many people come suggest
a night of prayer see how many people
come it's fanatical it may be fanatical but
it's scriptural Jesus prayed all night why shouldn't
I pray all night Jesus was lonely up
in the cold there's a part of the
hymn says the mountain and the cold night
air were witnesses to his prayer you see
we can't do it on the basis of
theology it's on a love relationship it's never
difficult to do anything for people you love
and if you love God with all your
heart soul, mind and strength you'll be willing
to be a sacrifice you'll be willing to
say if need be kill me that my
congregation may live it's costly let's pray Lord
we thank you for the day in which
we live we live in the midst of
a crooked and perverse generation we've so often
sought blessing instead of brokenness we've sought life
instead of death but you said except a
corn of wheat fall into the ground and
die it abideth alone but if it die
bring us forth more fruit Lord take us
to search our hearts and search your word
grant oh Lord we'll come to the place
of willingness to stand in the gap for
this generation that you won't look down and
say I sought for a man to stand
in the gap and there was none Lord
if need be take us and give us
a revelation of your glory like you gave
to Moses give us the willingness to break
away from the crowd even from friends and
get alone on the mountain as difficult as
it is to climb that mountain we know
there'll be opposition there'll be trial there'll be
difficulties but Lord we thank you that in
you we can trust God is my strength
and God is my life Lord I ask
you out of this conference whatever it is
that we've had or they've had yesterday and
today I pray Lord that you'll breathe a
breath of fresh air into our hearts drop
a coal of fire into our hearts we
ask that we may not be a stumbling
block to your moving in this day on
this needy generation this needy multitude billions even
now of lost people without God and without
hope Lord I just pray for that old
man there in Siberia tonight with that one
page of your word who has read it
and re-read it and memorised it and
shared it and he's still effectively witnessing in
Siberia one of the most deserted places in
the world I thank you for others Lord
who are in the dark places of the
earth they're not there with creature comforts they're
not deceived they can't leave meetings and relax
and watch TV for an hour or two
they're living and feeding and abiding in the
Christ of God and because of that your
life is coming through their life to other
lives show us these secrets we pray and
give us Lord God a baptism of obedience
that we may do the will of God
and we give you praise in Jesus name
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