I long to see people who know a
little bit about the gospel of God's grace,
have a baptism of tears, a baptism of
holy passion.
I long to see us set on fire.
There is nothing on earth as terrible as
naked truth that isn't soaked in tears and
the Holy Ghost.
I'd rather be a 190% free willer
on fire for God than to have some
conception of truth and to make that glorious
truth of the sovereignty of God an excuse.
For years I've been alarmed about my own
heart and about all of us people who
dare to make the claim that we're trying
to preach the gospel by which God saved
men.
One of the great things that's said against
us all over the land as I go
about is that what we preach dries up
our tears and our zeal.
And in far too many places a wrong
conception, not the right conception of the gospel,
has done exactly that thing.
I long to see this become more and
more a place where this beautiful Linolean will
feel the splatter of God-given, God-wrought
tears so that God will be able to
say, I saw your tears and I heard
your prayer.
I wonder if 13th Street Baptist Church could
do something like what I'm going to tell
you about now.
I was in Rochester, New York some years
ago.
It's a city of 350,000, 400,000
people.
It's the hotbed of Catholicism and modernism and
liberalism and everything.
And I'd been preaching a week.
An old farmer called up to Pastor and
said, if you've got some time I want
to come down and talk to you a
moment.
And the old farmer came down and wrote
out a check, written out for $2,600.
And he said, I want that man's message.
I want the people of Rochester to hear
it.
And he said, here's a check.
And he said, I want you to buy
radio time with this money and when it
gives out I'll write you another check.
The pastor said, brother, you're not a rich
man.
And he said, no, but the Lord's blessed
me and I've got this money and I
don't need it and I want Rochester to
hear this message.
The pastor got on the phone and called
me and I came down.
And I said, brother, this is too big
a burden to place on me.
I appreciate it.
But don't all suppose we bought time on
the radio station.
I said, and we didn't have any evidence
of response at all.
How about it, brother?
Do you still want to invest this money
in the radio?
Whether we get any response at all.
I said, I can preach but only God
can give me in faith.
He said, I'm not interested overly in the
response.
I'm interested in the opportunity that I want
to have a part in affording people of
hearing the word.
So there in that office, the pastor began
to phone.
He phoned the big 50,000 watt radio
station that never had had a preacher on
it in all its history.
He made an appointment to see the manager.
And by the grace of God, some way
or another, they sold us three 15-minute
programs per day.
And then we got on two other stations.
I preached nine times a day over the
radio for four more weeks.
And then the pastor got up that night.
We would go on there the next day.
And he asked his member, told what the
farmer had done, and asked his membership if
they thought he was in the flesh in
what he was going to suggest to them.
That the membership covenant to phone every phone
number in Rochester in the next four days.
And the women would sit at the home.
We were not allowed in every vacant aisle.
And they weren't doing something else.
And all the men were different shifts.
And they made a covenant to take the
phone book.
Time was wasting.
And give an invitation to everybody that answered
the phone representing around 400,000 souls.
Not that many families, but that many souls.
And they did it.
They did it.
Over the radio, nine 15-minute programs a
day for four more weeks.
I won't know till I get to the
judgment.
And that farmer who furnished the money, it
was God's money, and he just was a
steward.
But he challenged us, and the pastor challenged
the people.
Honestly, folks, I want everybody in the world
to hear the gospel I preach.
There are multitudes of people who can preach
it better than I can, but there are
men who never live who preach a better
gospel than I do.
That's not boasting.
That's just so.
The gospel is revealed to me.
And brother, I'll fight you over that.
I won't fight over anything else, but I
will that.
If I was a member of 13th Street
Baptist Church, I'd want everybody in this whole
section to hear your message.
I believe in it.
I believe in it, and I hope you'll
get to where you believe in it enough
to baptize it in tears.
They that sow in tears.
That's still true.
I do not necessarily mean tears that run
down your cheeks, but I mean tears that
are in your voice and in your heart.
God knows.
I think we'll ask you to respond about
it tomorrow.
I don't know of anything you've got I
want, but I think we share a desire
for men to hear about a God who's
determined to have a family for people to
love him.
That's a great conception.
It's the Bible conception, and I'm going to
challenge you.
Think about it.
In two days' time, I expect the membership
could blanket this city at least by telephone.
If you got one response out of a
thousand, you'd be doing good advertising.
That's what the folks who advertise on television.
If one person out of a thousand buys
their products, they'll keep on.
They say that's getting the job done.
But ours is not to get men to
God.
Ours is to get God's message to men.
Any way on God's earth we can do
it.
Amen?
And I don't know whether that's just me
eating all over it.
You say, well, everybody's a church member.
Well, nearly everybody in America is.
But that's all right.
If they're saved, they won't get mad at
you.
And if they're not, at least you might
get a little gospel over the telephone.
Amen?
That's right.
Well, you can think about it, and I'm
going to ask you what you think about
tomorrow.
Tonight I'm going to speak to you, I
anticipated, it rained all day, that I'd have
a better opportunity tonight to speak to the
13th Street Baptist Congregation with perhaps fewer visitors
than any night.
And I wanted to talk with you from
the 19th chapter of the book of the
Acts of the Apostles.
The book of the Acts of the Apostles.
And I wanted out of my heart to
bring, if God will help me, and help
me not to be in the flesh but
in the Holy Ghost, to challenge my own
heart afresh tonight as I try to be
used of God to challenge every child of
God here tonight about what to me is
the greatest ambition I have, and I hope
it will be the greatest ambition this church
has, and the greatest ambition that each individual
Christian here has.
For 35 years I've been trying to preach,
28 of those 35 have been spit hitchhiking
from one place to another.
And I've wanted to be known in hell
more than anything on God's earth.
Long since I took steps, I won't know
at the judgment whether God was in them
or not, I think so, that fixed it
so I'll never, as long as I live,
be known much here on this earth.
But I want to be known in hell.
I'd rather be known in hell than to
be known by the powers that be here
on this earth.
And I want to read to you tonight
about a man who was known in hell.
And this man has been divinely ordained to
be the pattern that you are to shape
your life by.
This man's a man with the name of
Paul, and he tells us in Timothy that
God saved him as a pattern for all
who should hereafter believe.
And I want to be like Paul.
That's the reason I've never been able to
go on a pension and never have got
like him.
If I ever do, it's still out in
the future.
But Paul was known in hell.
The devil knew about Paul.
The demons that do his business here on
this earth now, they knew about Paul.
Let's read about him, a man who was
known in hell.
In the eighth verse of the nineteenth chapter
of Acts, and he, that's Paul, went into
the synagogue and spake boldly for the space
of three months, disputing and persuading the things
concerning the kingdom of God.
And when divers were hardened and believed not,
but spake evil of that way before the
multitude, he departed from them and separated the
disciples, disputing daily in the school of one
tyrannous.
People told me, all of my ministry, Brother
Barney, if you hope to be a successful
evangelist, you must never engage in anything as
controversial.
But Paul did.
He was down there for three years, just
arguing and spitting all the time about who
Jesus was.
Yes, he was.
And then God says, well, I won't preach
on anything controversial.
Every inch of ground in the word of
God is the subject of controversy now.
You can't touch the Bible any way on
God's earth now without getting in a fight
in this religious world.
And the apostle Paul used to be our
example.
He spent three months, I think I said
three years, three months, disputing and persuading of
the things concerning the kingdom of God.
And they wouldn't listen to him.
And he went and took the disciples and
went down to a school.
And daily he disputed.
He argued with people.
He taught them.
He brought truth there in that school.
And he did that for two years.
Verse 10 says, This continued for the space
of two years, so that all they which
dwelt in Asia heard the word of the
Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Now that's some ministry, wasn't it?
In two years' time, the whole outfit heard
the word of the Lord Jesus.
And God, now watch it now.
Now get this carefully.
Paul did the disputing.
Paul did the persuading.
Paul did the teaching.
Paul did the persuading for two years.
And then God did something.
God confirmed what Paul preached.
God has to do the confirming.
And that's what I long to see in
my day.
God confirming.
Now don't get excited.
I've been in this quite a while.
I'm not fixing to go off on a
tangent.
I'm going to keep on God willing.
I think I can almost promise you this
as one preacher.
I'm going to stick to my last.
If there's any miracle working done around my
ministry, God will do it.
I'm going to keep preaching.
That's all I can do.
I can dispute and persuade concerning the things
of the kingdom of God.
That's what Paul did.
And while Paul was taking the truth of
God about Jesus Christ, God came on the
scene and he wrought special miracles by the
hands of Paul.
Now I want you not to get scared
of this, but I want to call your
attention to some of this.
Now we need it.
God knows I need it.
We are awfully afraid that we're going to
give man a little blow.
And that's a well-intentioned proposition to be
afraid of.
But I call your attention, my friends, to
three times that the message of salvation has
to do with the turning or converting of
men and women.
It is a turning and a converting that
is performed by men.
God called Paul to turn the Gentiles by
his ministry.
Isn't that right?
And God raised up John the Baptist to
prepare a people.
Isn't that right?
That would receive Christ.
And in the book of Hebrews at chapter
11, God isn't quite as afraid where he'll
make a theological mistake as some of us.
He gives Abraham credit.
He said, by faith, Abraham did things.
Abraham did some things.
Yes, sir.
God did it, but he did it using
the hands of Paul, do you see it?
I don't know what we all camped at
for a long time.
Don't you get mad at me.
But those of us who speak much of
the sovereign purpose of God better watch out
now.
Here's something else that's true, that God's sovereign
purposes ought to be wiped out through surrendered
men and women whom he owns and whom
he commissions and whom he empowers.
That's right.
It's not too far till we can get
into the position of our old primitive Baptist
people.
God wants to convert to heathen even do
it without our help.
No, sir.
This shocked me some years ago when I
needed to be shocked that God wrought special
miracles.
He's one good to miracle working.
But ladies and gentlemen, he did it how?
By the hands of Paul.
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did it.
There's a man that God could work miracles
for him using him.
God wrought special miracles with the hands of
Paul.
And yes, some miracles in a way, so
much so that from the body of Paul
were brought under the sick handkerchiefs or aprons
and the diseases departed from them and the
evil spirits went out of them and God
did the miracle working, but he did it
by the hands and the body of Paul.
Now, a sovereign God has been pleased to
entrust the gospel to earthen vessels.
A sovereign God for this age has been
pleased to entrust the working out of his
eternal purpose to us who have this treasure
in earthen vessels.
And what God does now in this day
of Greece, ladies and gentlemen, he does not
do it apart from, but he does do
it through his people.
A lost sheep will never be saved apart
from a saved sheep seeking him.
God seeks lost sheep now through saved sheep.
That's right.
I've had the desire all week, don't get
mad at me, I've had the desire to
stick a pin in you folks and get
you on fire.
I'm not one bit interested in orthodoxy unless
it's sitting on a fire.
I want us to get on fire.
I want us to have something afresh.
This isn't new.
I'm calling you remembered things you already know.
What I say to you that we need
as under God, I have to have it
and I think maybe you do.
In the name of God, will you face
it that God almighty has entrusted the gospel
of the glory of his grace to people
like us.
And we must let it stop with us.
We must just be channels.
We must be on the lookout for every
opportunity for God to bring things to pass
by our hands, by our hands.
Now in verse 13, certain of the vagabond
Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over
them which had evil spirits.
The name of the Lord Jesus.
They were as orthodox as all get out.
These fellows said they took it upon themselves.
Now watch this.
They took it upon themselves.
God didn't entrust it to them, but he
asked his people.
They took it upon themselves to call out
over them which had evil spirits.
The name of the Lord Jesus.
Now that's good.
But they said, now you evil spirits, you
get out.
And they did it on the authority of,
they took it upon themselves to do it,
on the authority of the name of the
Lord Jesus.
We abjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.
And these fellows that did that were seven
sons of one Sceva.
And he is a Jew and chief of
the priests.
They are the ones that took it upon
themselves.
I'm not talking to you tonight about taking
something on yourself.
I'm talking to you and me tonight about
facing up afresh to something we didn't take
on ourselves, but which was entrusted to us,
was entrusted to us.
And under God the cry of our heart.
If we're doing everything that we as individuals
know, and as a church gathered together know,
from the preacher on down, to faithfully proclaim
the things concerning the kingdom of God, ladies
and gentlemen, you can call us whatever you
want, our churches had better face this now.
You'd better get to where you know what
it is, to wait on God in intercessory
prayer.
For God, as it pleases Him today, to
confirm what we're preaching.
We can't confirm it.
Only God can confirm it.
Only God can do things with it.
And I don't want God to do anything
He don't want to do.
But under God, if the chief way God
is glorified, is in the saving of helpless
sinners, under God I'd love to see a
revival where a thousand are saved.
Well, one's saved now, wouldn't you?
Now, wouldn't that make God mad?
These seven sons of Sceva, they said now
to these people, these spirits, they attempted to
bring the name of Jesus, and there's authority
there.
And they said to these evil spirits, you
get out!
In the name of this Jesus whom Paul
preaches, you get out!
And verse 15 says, and the evil spirit
answered, and this mocks me today, this mocks
me, this haunts me today.
The evil spirit answered and said to these
seven sons of Sceva, Jesus, I know.
It's a fact.
Whether it be in the will of God,
I'm not certain.
But it's a fact that you and I
are living in a generation that hardly knows
we're around.
It's a fact that we are dead sure
not troubling Satan much.
It's a fact.
I'm not yet preaching on demonology tonight.
But if you don't believe Ashland's infested with
demons, ask your policeman.
Ask your doctor.
Ask your chief of police.
Ask your sheriff.
I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, we little
dream of the awful bondage that Satan has
this generation of hell-bound sinners in.
And I'm a novice at it and don't
know how to go about it.
And everybody says, don't go up on the
deep end, and I guess I'll keep round
on the edges and let the world go
to hell.
But we as church people today seem to
know nothing hardly about the binding of Satan
and the loosing of his captives.
But there's something in the Bible about it.
And I'm as certain as I'm preaching to
you tonight that unless we can find some
churches that'll begin to take seriously the battle
that we're in.
We are not battling men.
We are battling principalities and strongholds of Satan.
And old man Caldwell said to me a
hundred times, and you've heard him preaching, I
expect he said it to you, ladies and
gentlemen, the only spirit that can handle the
spirit of this age is the Holy Spirit.
And it's time we quit giving lip service
to it.
Our churches must be turned, not simply to
places where the truth is proclaimed, but into
places where the warfare is pursued against the
principalities and powers that abound this evil age
to where our gospel falls off on like
water off a duck's back.
They're blind as bats and bound as they
can be.
And they'll never be saved unless they're loosed
from the bondage of Satan.
I take my, I take back water from
no man.
I've tried to stay with what little truth
I could learn.
But the older I get, the more heartbroken
I am that we seem to think that
truth is the answer.
No, sir.
Truth and the power of the Holy Spirit
is the answer.
And only God can furnish the latter.
Here we are in a demon-infested city,
if you please, with men blinded by the
God of this age, bound hand and foot
by Satan through the power of sin.
And it'll take more than truth, brother.
It'll take the gospel preached in the Holy
Ghost.
The gospel preached in the power of the
Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost sent down from heaven to
confirm by whatever miracles he pleases.
I don't know nothing about that.
But that's got to be our prayer today.
Methods we used five years ago are five
years too old now, honey.
We're in the war and we're getting licked
because we've not yet learned that a Christian
is truer to himself.
He's truer to the gospel on his knees
than any other place.
For years you've heard it here that when
Christians get down on their knees to pray,
they all believe what you folks try to
preach there.
They get up on their feet and their
little old weak heads, they'll come in to
argue and doctrine.
But when they get down on their knees,
they recognize the salvation of the Lord that
only God can save.
We all do that.
Here's a man that I heard the highest
accolade that I've ever heard spoken of a
human being.
The forces of hell knew Paul.
Jesus I know and Paul I know.
Henry, who are you?
Ross, who are you?
We're not going to handle this generation in
the way that God expects us to handle
it.
Then we'll leave the results with him.
We'll have to do that.
Unless we take more seriously than we've ever
taken in our lives the fact that the
truth of God must be baptized in the
spirit of God and that every member of
our churches that's heard the true gospel is
a criminal if they do not get on
a stump having to deal with the spirit
and begin to preach these things concerning the
kingdom of God with a prayer in our
hearts that God will confirm what we preach.
Paul was known in hell.
They knew about him in hell.
You know, sir, he is a preacher that
hell had no rest while Paul was alive.
These demons said, Hey, fella, Paul, he wanted
us to dance.
Who are you?
You know they're out giving us in trouble.
Eh?
If a man has a life does he
put it under a bushel or no?
Ladies and gentlemen If God in goodness brought
you into the light of the gospel of
the glory of God set it up on
a hill and let it shine don't hide
it under a bushel.
I thought I was going to get shot
in your lane.
You don't tell them that church had the
truth.
They go out tell people that wasn't in
Buntown had the truth with them.
And I shocked them.
I said it's not so in the first
place.
No man ever had all truth.
We got some of it.
None of us got enough of it.
But what, we better be humble about what
little we do?
No, that's right, isn't it?
And then I said that God never has
promised that truth will get the job done.
The apostle Paul just relied on one thing
that he might preach in the power and
the demonstration.
God would have to furnish the demonstration as
confirmation.
And that's the need of this hour.
I guess you could not find a better
prepared, better preacher thirty-seven years old than
your own pastor.
He ain't good enough to get the job
done without a church that learns how to
not be satisfied until God confirms.
I doubt if Brother Henry can preach any
better than Brother Spurgeon.
And the heart of his congregation never got
to hear him preach.
There's in the prayer room underneath the pulpit
waiting on God every time he preaches.
Three hundred souls on their knees before God
every time Mr. Spurgeon preaches.
All the time he preaches.
Praying for a demonstration.
For a confirming word from God.
Who alone can pierce the spirits of men?
Who alone can take the scales off of
men's eyes?
Who alone can energize the perverted wills of
men?
Who alone can illumine the darkened minds of
men?
Who alone can break the awful, awful hellish
hearts of men?
Who alone can make the revelation real to
men and women?
Paul was known in hell.
I think the imps in hell got on
the telephone every time Paul started somewhere else.
One little imp phoned down Thessalonica.
Boys, you better get ready.
Paul's on his way.
I wish that so were me.
I wish I knew how to give that
devil more trouble than he ever gave me.
I'm there right now.
Oh, Paul never did let the demon rest.
He invaded that territory and hell knew no
peace while he was alive.
I've tried to think about him.
Where did he sharpen his edge?
I know how far short I've fallen.
I'm not fussing anybody.
I'm challenging you and I'm challenging me.
God knows that battle is red hot.
It's red hot.
You don't think it is.
Get off your comfortable seat of truth and
invade the devil's territory sometime and begin to
witness.
You'll find out the war's on.
Where did Paul edge his blade, make it
so sharp?
And I tried to study what could you
say about him and I think I see
just four things and the introduction's been longer
than the message.
First thing about old Paul is he actually,
sure enough now, he actually, K-N-E
-W, knew that Jesus Christ was God's Son
and that he had invaded this old earth
and that he is God's own remedy.
Now here's a man that the Holy Spirit
about saved a look at the crucified, risen
Christ.
And what Paul saw on the road to
Damascus was not a picture of the glorified
Son of God, it's a picture of the
crucified Jesus.
And he found out that the very person
he'd been seeing was the bastard son of
a fallen woman.
He found out that that Jesus that he'd
said he ought to, he got what was
coming to him.
He found out by personal sight and by
personal hearing he heard his voice and he
saw it.
And Paul never could be shaken come hell
or high water all he wanted he knew
that Jesus was the Christ.
Ladies and gentlemen, we just will camp here
a little while.
What mama thinks about it and I'll get
the job done in God's name.
Don't go to hell trusting anything less than
a first-hand knowledge of who Jesus is.
I'm telling you, if Jesus is God's Son,
that settles everything.
And a man's a fool to go to
hell taking anybody's word for it.
I say to you, you ought to become
a seeker after God until God reveals His
Son to you just like you did before.
You say there's one thing I know, bud,
I know who Jesus is.
He's the eternal Son of God.
I saw Him and I heard Him.
I think you preach around here, don't you?
That salvation is a seeing and a hearing
of Christ.
We hear Him!
We're saved by His call.
We're saved by our look at Him.
Listen to me, Paul saw Him and he
heard Him and under God advise you I'd
quit calling myself a Christian.
I'd seek Him if it took the rest
of my life until I could stand up
and say I've heard Him, too.
I've seen Him, too.
You can tear up your Bible, brother Ronnie,
but you can't tear up one thing if
you've heard the Lord.
And if you've seen the Lord, that settles
it, brother.
That settles it.
Oh, my soul, you'll never get bigger than
what you can believe.
You'll never get bigger than what you can
act upon on the testimony of God.
You and I don't have a Damascus road,
but we've got the revelation of God in
Christ.
And I'm saying to you that nothing short
of a subtle knowledge that you have yourself
that Jesus Christ is God manifest in the
flesh, that it was God in a man
who died on a cross, that God did
raise Him from the dead, that He's alive
now, and I K-N-O-W know
it.
I know it.
I can't know it for anybody else, but
under God I know it for myself.
Hard to shake a man that's seen the
Lord.
Hard to shake a man that's heard from
the Lord.
Brother, that's got to be tremendous.
And that's what it means to be saved.
I think that the second thing that keened
the edge of Paul's blade, made him known
in hell, was that revealed truth.
This book, if you please.
Revealed truth.
Held it like a vice.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's a man, and he's
to be my patent, who actually believed this
was God's Word.
He's just showing up, please.
Now, I'm not just preaching now.
I'm down to something.
It's a whole lot easier to talk about
this than to do it under God.
Do you have any greater need?
I don't, than to actually believe.
Not to argue about it, just to believe
it.
This is it.
This is God's Word.
Paul believed it.
Brother, he quoted it all the time.
He got out of the tidiest end by
quoting it.
He actually believed it.
He'd say, I'm persuaded.
He said, it's a settled thing with me.
On the testimony of God, that's settled.
I'm persuaded.
I don't know about you, but I'm persuaded.
I've listened to God's testimony.
That settles it for me.
I wouldn't stake my eternal welfare on something.
You say it.
I've got to have some belief that it's
on God's testimony.
I've put my faith in Jesus Christ.
Somebody wrote a book, and I read a
sentence of it.
I forget the book, or the man's name.
He said, someday, a simple child of God
is going to pick up the book and
read it and just believe it.
Make the rest of us ashamed of ourselves.
Just believe it.
Reveal truth.
Just held him in a vice.
Kept him steady in the boat.
Couldn't shake him.
He said, I'm persuaded.
He said, I know whom I believe.
Knowing that for the terror of God.
He knew something about it.
Testimony in this book.
Leave the book.
And that's the reason he'll pray.
When he's asking the people to pray at
all, prayer and supplication.
For all the saints, and then he'll say
for me, that I may be granted utterance.
Utterance.
That I may speak with boldness the mystery
of the gospel.
Utterance.
Somebody has said that the greatest contribution that
John Knox made to Scotland when he saved
Scotland for the gospel was one time when
the multitude 5,000 strong were in that
great church, I forget the name of it,
cathedral to hear and preach.
And they waited, finally Mr. Knox came out
from the cubby hole and stood up before
the congregation and said, we shall all rise,
please.
He said, we'll be dismissed.
I have no utterance.
And he dismissed them and sent them away.
Rather than preach to them out of himself,
he dismissed them.
Utterance in the Bible means authority.
And what gave Paul authority?
When he went out, as maybe some of
you will do tomorrow, to give a witness
to somebody, he spoke with authority because he
believed this was it.
There's nothing in doubt about it.
Unless we can speak with authority, this world
is in bad enough shape that it don't
need some more question marks.
We need somebody to speak with authority.
Paul said, pray for me.
That utterance shall be given to me.
Don't let this just be the public preacher.
God knows, elect yourself a committee of one.
Pray for one another that utterance may be
given to all of God's people in these
awful days.
That they may speak with boldness the mystery
of the gospel with authority.
This is it.
This is God's word.
I never get tired of reading that account
of Paul when he writes back to the
church at Thessalonica.
And he reminds them that when he was
over there, something took place that I long
to see again and again and again.
In the 2nd chapter of the 1st book
of Thessalonians, at the 13th verse, the Apostle
Paul says, For this cause also thank we
God without ceasing, because when ye received the
word of God which ye heard of us,
it is the word of God.
And Paul said, I preached it, and ye
received it, not as the word of men,
but as it is in truth, the word
of God.
Paul said again, Well, I brought you the
word of God, and you received it, not
as my word, but as God's word.
You have to have utterance to do that.
You have to have authority to do that.
You have to know what you are talking
about.
You have to read this book.
This is God's truth.
A man who trusts his life and his
faith to anybody except on the testimony of
God is a fool.
And Paul said, I came over and preached,
and by his praying power, and he had
utterance, and he spoke with authority, and people
heard it not as the word of men,
but they heard it as the word of
God, which it is in truth.
And the word of God does what?
It effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Utterance.
I think my time is already gone.
Let me just mention two other things.
I won't preach on them.
I'll let you go.
What hell, what came to the edge of
Paul's blade?
Why was he known in hell?
Why did he cause so much trouble?
Why did the demons say, We know you.
Don't know those seven sons of Sceva.
Don't know none but Oroff Barnard.
He spent his life going up and down
the land, having not been able to kick
up enough dust to bother the devil much.
But Paul, I know.
Well, not only because he knew Jesus, he
really knew him, and he believed the word,
but also he was learned about the destiny
of sinners.
Knowing therefore the terror of God, we persuade
men.
Come on now.
Come on.
Knowing therefore the terror of God, we persuade
men.
Know us by faith.
Know us.
Being warned of God of things not yet
seen, moved with fear and prepared in heart,
scared and pure and scared.
How long has it been since you persuaded,
since you pled with some old sinner, be
you reconciled?
What came the edge of Paul's blade made
him known in hell.
Ladies and gentlemen, he believed in the power
of the blood of Christ.
He actually believed this power in the blood.