You brothers at the back, you came from
Lubbock?
Very good, very welcome.
Brother from Arkansas, and his wife?
Good.
Anybody from then?
Who's from then?
Oh, you are, now you live there, good.
You're still welcome.
We're going to have a carload from where?
Jimmy's track at school tonight.
I don't know whether he got lost, or
they're fearful.
Hebrews 11, OK.
We put these mics on, these amplifiers anyhow.
I hope they're not too loud, are they?
Good.
OK, let's say one or two things.
Repetition is a law of learning, and so
we have to learn every week.
Remember, this epistle is written to Christians only.
We, we, we.
Nobody else, not the sinners.
Again, it's not addressed like the other epistles,
usually in the first chapter.
It's addressed in the third chapter, in verse
1.
Yes, verse 1 of chapter 3.
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the apostle and high priest of our
profession, Jesus Christ, our Christ Jesus, who was
faithful to him that appointed him.
Going back to the 11th chapter now.
Remember, we've said that this word faith occurs
no less than 300 times in the New
Testament, only twice in the Old Testament.
See, we talk about faith, they acted it.
We're going to have to come back to
acting faith.
That...
Let me go back again a moment here
into the second chapter.
And this again, remember, is written to believers.
We ought to give the more earnest things
to the thing we have heard, lest we
let them slip.
If the word spoken by angels was steadfast,
and every transgression and disobedience received a just
recompense or reward, how shall we escape, if
we neglect so great salvation?
How great is it?
Well, the next verse tells you.
Or the same verse.
At the first it began to be spoken
by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us
by them that heard him, God also bearing
them witness with signs and wonders and divers
miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost.
That's how great the salvation is.
And anything less than that is not the
gospel.
We've gradually diminished it and diminished it.
The liberals don't believe the Bible, and some
of the fundamentalists say dispensationally, oh, well, that's
for another day.
That's a nice cop-out, isn't it, for
failure.
But God says, I'm the same yesterday, today,
and forever.
Jesus said, and God says, I am the
Lord, I change not.
He hasn't changed, sin hasn't changed, so who
has changed?
The church, obviously.
Are those who profess to be the church?
So in this chapter, okay, verse, chapter 11,
the first person named here is, by faith,
Abel.
Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice
than Cain.
So here we have Abel worshipping.
If he sacrificed, he made an altar.
We used to go to a fellowship sometime,
and the pastor would say, now, come on,
everybody, get up and come to the front,
come to the front.
The fire always falls on the altar.
The fire never falls on the altar.
The fire falls on the sacrifice.
You can have an altar, it doesn't matter
what kind of an altar you want.
The fire falls on the sacrifice.
And Abel, I don't know whether he had
a lot of cattle or not, but anyhow,
he brought an offering.
His brother's offering, I'm sure, looked a lot
nicer.
It wasn't bloody, but it was from the
ground, and the ground was cursed, and man
was cursed.
And so he tried to bring a cursed
thing to God as an offering, and God
said no.
So we have, first of all, we have
Abel, and he's there because he worshipped.
The second character is Enoch, and we remember
him because he walked.
Now, why do we stress it always so
much?
Enoch walked with God.
Abraham walked with God.
Noah walked with God.
But you see, the consuming thing about Enoch
was he walked with God.
And we talk about the Christian life.
Ruth Paxson has a book on Ephesians, The
Wealth, the Walk, and Warfare.
I don't have that.
Anybody have it?
If you do, if you want to give
it away, I know somebody who would like
it.
But that's what it is, the wealth, the
walk, and the warfare of the Christian.
So Abel is there because he worshipped.
Enoch is there because he walked.
And now we come to who?
Noah, in verse 7.
And he's there because he what?
He worked.
Faith, again, without works is dead.
Remember again, we reminded you that here in
the previous chapter, chapter 10, and verse 11
is a verse that's used so often, a
kind of a threatening verse, to the unbeliever.
But it's written to us, it's written to
believers.
It is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God.
Robert Louis Stevenson said there's only one thing
more fearful and that's when you fall out
of the hands of the living God and
he won't bother with us, either as individuals
or nations.
It's going to be a fearful thing at
the judgment seat.
Terrifying majesty.
Glory beyond anything we can ever comprehend.
By faith, Noah, being warned of God of
things not seen as yet.
Well isn't that what faith's all about?
About things not seen, and you see them
as real as though they were vividly in
front of us.
Because he was wooed with fear he prepared
an ark to the saving of his house
by which he condemned the world and became
heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Now let's go back into Genesis here.
What's the chapter?
Six, I think.
Yeah.
Genesis chapter six.
Let's read from verse five, or verse four.
There were giants in the earth in those
days and also after that when the sons
of God came in unto the daughters of
men and their then children the same became
mighty men which were of old, men of
renown and God saw that the wickedness of
man was very great in the earth and
that every imagination and thought of his heart
was evil continually.
Now emphasize that.
Every thought.
Every thought without interruption was evil continually.
Every thought only without mixture.
Every thought was evil without interruption.
Every thought was totally maximum impurity.
It was only evil.
And it was wickedness, evil without intermission.
It was continuous.
It wasn't a case of, you know, you
see a graph sometimes of something's like this
and then it shows you something going down
and up and up.
I don't believe that's what happened here.
I believe the wickedness of man began on
this level and it just went up and
up and up.
It didn't come down at all.
It increased in intensity.
It became more and more diabolical.
And yet a holy God, whose eyes are
holier than to behold iniquity saw this in
the creation that he had made.
It repented God, verse 6.
It repented the law that he had made
man on the earth.
It grieved him at his heart.
Now how in the world do you interpret
the grief of God?
Huh?
We're such a flippant crowd.
Jesus wouldn't be comfortable in most of our
meetings.
We're too gay, we're too happy.
And by gay I mean frivolous.
Jesus was a man of sorrows.
And Paul says at the end of the
journey to Timothy be sober, be sober, be
sober.
The emphasis now is be silly, be joyful.
The emphasis is not holiness, it's happiness.
And yet God is wanting more and more
holiness of his people.
Verse 7, the Lord said That
takes me back, I remember as a boy
climbing up a bank in a town called
Doncaster.
I didn't know what was on the other
side.
I climbed up the bank and there was
a lily, a big gorgeous lily open on
a lake that was covered with scum.
I've never forgotten it.
It showed up in its beauty by the
scum around it.
And here Noah shows up in his holiness
by the hellishness of those around him.
He shows his consecration in the midst of
all the corruption.
And it says, concerning this man Noah, listen
to how God graduates this man.
Noah was a just man, number 1.
Number 2, perfect.
Number 3, and he walked with God.
And in chapter 7 verse 1, The Lord
said unto Noah, One man.
Only one man.
Surrounded by a multitude that no man has
numbered.
Some people have said there were millions.
I don't know how they come to that
conclusion.
But the fact was, in the midst of
all that corruption, he wasn't contaminated, he wasn't
intimidated.
He shut the whole thing off.
It's of the devil, it's not of God,
it's not pure.
It's perverted, it's polluted.
And he shrank from it, he hated the
thing.
Because he had the nature of God, and
God hates it, and he hated it.
And so God says to him, The end
of all flesh, verse 13, The end of
all flesh is come before me, for the
earth was filled with violence through them, and
I will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood.
Verse 15, This is the fashion which thou
shalt make of it.
The length of the ark shall be three
hundred cubits.
Do you know how long that is?
Four hundred and fifty feet.
That's quite a boat.
One, I think it's Dake in his notes
on the Bible, says this was the greatest
ship ever made until 1880 or something.
No, he missed it.
How many people on that ship that Paul
went across the Mediterranean on?
Three hundred and seventy-five.
No first class, second class, all like cattle.
That must have been a horrible trip.
And yet look at the size of this
boat.
This is the length.
This is the fashion thou shalt make of
it.
The length of the ark shall be three
hundred cubits.
The breadth, fifty cubits.
The height, thirty cubits.
So what do you have there?
It's four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy
feet wide, seventy-five feet wide, and forty
-five feet high.
Well, if you work that out, the only
comes to fifty-six thousand two hundred and
fifty cubic yards, not feet.
A hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred
and fifty cubic feet.
Boy, that's some ship.
And the Lord told him to get all
the cattle in, and then he says, take
all your food.
They weren't going to stop shopping.
Oh, people say, oh, that ark, boy, it
must be stinking in that ark.
You know, I don't believe it had one
polluted smell in it at all.
Some have typified it as a type of
the millennium, because the animal, the lion didn't
need the lamb.
There was perfect harmony.
He was how long building it?
Do you remember?
How many years?
A hundred and twenty.
Okay, a hundred and twenty.
A hundred and twenty years, that's right.
How many days was that?
Forty-three thousand eight hundred.
How many hours?
Boy, I got a computer years before anybody.
She came with me tonight.
I just said, Martha, work that out.
That's what she worked it out.
It's forty-three thousand eight hundred days.
It's one and a half million hours.
And God said he looked down from heaven
for one and a half million hours.
You know how quickly we forget?
They knew the story of Abel.
Abel had slain the, whatever, he slew a
lamb and shed blood.
But God looks down on these people.
The question in my mind, how many people
helped him to build this ark?
Didn't I think it was?
It's not a bit like the thing you
buy in a, you know, Toys R Us
or something.
It wasn't a boat at all.
It didn't have a sail.
It didn't have a motor.
Where was it sailing?
It wasn't sailing anywhere.
It wasn't made to sail.
It was made to float.
My father had a piece of gopher wood
and it's very much like, what's that wood
that they make airplanes out of?
The boys make airplanes.
Bolster.
Bolster, like that.
As light as that.
And this huge craft with all the animals
of the world in it and all the
people that God wanted to save were in
it.
I wonder how many of them helped him
to build the ark.
Hmm?
What do you think happened to him there?
Don't you think everybody said, you know that
old crackpot?
Oh, let's take the grandchildren.
They haven't seen this crazy old guy.
Oh, we've seen him for years.
It's going to rain.
Remember, they'd never seen rain.
There'd never been rain.
God had watered the earth.
We sang it tonight.
You notice that?
Drop thy still dews of quietness.
Do you know when the dew falls?
When there's no wind.
You never get dew when there's a wind.
And so he says, drop thy still dews
of quietness.
In other words, let's all be quiet before
him and he'll drop his dew upon us.
Or take time to be holy, if you
want it in some other language over him.
We don't have time for that.
Everything's in a hurry.
Particularly in America, we're so fast with everything,
aren't we?
We wanted to finish something yesterday instead of
tomorrow.
But these men helped to build the ark.
I don't believe it was, I believe it
was just a floating log cabin.
So don't think America had the first of
them.
It must have been, they didn't saw it
into planks and whatnot.
Why should they?
I believe that they just put those logs
together and somehow cemented it, whatever they did
with the cracks in between.
Or maybe it swelled up and, I remember
going to an auction in Ireland and there's
a wonderful barrel there about this height, I
don't know, a hundred gallons.
And the ribs were about, oh, a quarter
of an inch apart.
And a friend of mine, he bid frantically
to get it.
I said, the thing will hold a gallon
of water.
He said, it will in a few hours.
You keep filling it, the wood swells and
it swells and it swells.
It'll be a perfect barrel tomorrow.
And I went to see and it was.
Then I knew I had a PhD.
But how the Lord made provision in this
ark.
You can do so much, I do the
rest.
He put one window in the ark and
it was at the top.
I remember some years ago I went to
have a crusade down in Trinidad.
They'd just put up a wonderful building.
The Queen of England opened it and this
Englishman preached right after that.
But she left unfortunately.
But it's built like two saucers and there's
a space, there are no windows, so while
you're preaching the birds come in and it's
a great time.
And I believe the ark was like that.
It had no glass windows as we think
of.
But it had a door in the side.
And it had a window in the side.
And our David being so sharp, bless his
heart.
He said, you know I've had a window,
no the window's in the roof and the
door's in the side.
If the window had been in the side
no one would have seen all the corruption
sailing past and God would let him look
on that defilement.
And yet you have the ark made just
for a choice number of people.
I think for years they scorned him and
cursed him and ridiculed him and said, rain?
He says the waters are going to break
up from the ground and waters are going
to come down from above and meet and
flood.
You see that's why the ark, it was
made to float, it would rise.
And there's no notice here of any storm,
any thunder.
There must have been.
I'm sure once the waters started getting behind
those rocks they started bouncing down the hillside
and making a terrific crash.
Or on the other hand, maybe they had
to stay there and watch that flood coming
up.
I imagine every beast that was there somebody
jumped on its back to get out of
the way.
Climb the hills, get as high as you
can.
And the silence was killing.
It was just coming up like this, there's
no way of stopping it, it's creeping up
relentlessly, relentlessly.
Suddenly they start screaming, what are we going
to do, what are we going to do?
For a hundred and twenty years.
You see, there are two great things in
life, maybe there are more, but I've reduced
them to two because I know you don't
like to think too much.
Okay, two great things in life.
One is to find the will of God
and the second, more difficult thing is to
do it, when nobody else is doing it.
The third thing you need is patience.
It says in the tenth chapter to have
patience.
It says in the twelfth chapter, let us
run with patience.
Noah built an ark for a hundred and
twenty years.
That's patience, isn't it?
I wonder what kind of...
Do you think the family had a row?
Do you think there were arguments?
I think if you've gone down to Noah
and you heard him there with a saw
working, when you got near you'd say, there's
something wrong, I hear it.
And it wasn't the saw, it was the
groaning of his own spirit.
He was building a coffin in one sense
for the rest of the world.
For him it was safety, for them it
was destruction.
And no man could enjoy that situation.
So he has a hundred and twenty years
of grief.
They were stony-hearted and rebellious.
They enjoyed their defilement.
They enjoyed their corruption.
They totally...
God looks down for a million and a
half hours to see if there's an altar,
a curling smoke, somebody to repent.
Not one, not one.
It was fashionable to be sinful like it
is today.
Total iniquity, total corruption.
And yet Noah sticks it out.
You notice this?
Once he went in the ark, he never
came out again.
People may have said, hey, come out old
boy, you've been in there a while.
He had been in a while.
I think there's a scripture, I couldn't find
it today, where it says that God didn't
speak to him until the seventh day.
He lets him put the door, but he
says there's one thing you can't do about
that ark.
You can't shut the door.
When I shut it, no man will open
it.
When I open it, no man can shut
it.
And that's the thing we need to learn.
Revelation 3 says that.
I'll open a door no man can shut.
I'll close a door no man can open.
And so he is in the ark of
safety, and the whole world is rocking round
about, and yet there's a deep settled peace
in his heart.
He's in the centre of the will of
God.
I think it's the same man that wrote
that hymn that we sang tonight, who says
the storm may roar without me, my heart
may low be laid round about me, and
shall I be afraid.
Isaac Watts wrote to him that says, let
mountains from their seats be hurled down to
the deeps and buried there.
Convulsions shape this solid world.
Our faith shall never yield to fear.
In another he says, let mountain walls confront
my way.
Why sit and weep?
Arise and say, be thou removed, and they
shall be by power of God cast in
the sea.
Be thou removed, faith bid thee restart, for
yonder sea arise, depart.
I may, I can, I must, I will,
the purpose of my God fulfil.
What did he do with a man like
that?
No wonder Wesleyan enjoyed him.
That's such a concept of the majesty of
God.
I think I've always believed in the majesty
of God, and I believe in the sovereignty,
but this last year God showed me more
the sovereignty of God in my own life.
In my own life.
I've been very slow to learn, I know
that.
I listen to my boys and in the
home or outside, it's heavenly to be there.
Their walk with God is so majestic.
Anyhow, these people are here.
Verse 17 of that 6th chapter says, Behold,
I, even I do bring a flood of
waters on the earth to destroy all flesh.
When is the breath of life from under
heaven, and everything that is in the earth,
it shall die.
But with thee I establish my covenant, thou
shall come into the ark, thou and thy
sons and thy wife, and thy son's wife
with thee.
Now verse 21, Take thou unto thee of
all the food that is eaten, that thou
shall gather it to thee.
It shall be food for thee and for
them.
So anyhow, there's the background.
You've got a man laboring for a hundred
and twenty years.
Listen, God isn't going to tell you what
he tells that dear brother, nor tell him
what he tells me.
God says go work it out.
Lord, how long?
Do it till I say stop.
When the ark is finished, that's OK.
So he goes and does it.
A hundred and twenty years, you have need
of patience to do the will of God.
Let the other guy do what he likes.
God is making me, he's not making Bob
here, he's making Bob, he's not making up.
He's got a different design for us.
A hundred and twenty years.
We'll go on to, not now, we'll go
on later, to Abraham.
It was seventy-five years when God called
him.
It was a hundred and seventy-five when
God finished with him.
So cheer up, Bracey, you've a long way
to go.
A hundred and years for God to make
a man.
You know these young preachers come into my
office.
Boy, they get insulted.
You know, they discover, when the older men
come in, they talk about God.
When the young men come in, they want
to tell me who they know, where they've
preached, how many souls they've won, everything else.
As though they've turned the world upside down.
It takes God twenty years at least to
make a man.
And he says, Abraham, I'm going to work
with you.
We'll see all the obstructions.
It takes a hundred and twenty years of
patience looking from heaven.
He's delighting the heart of God.
I'm talking here of Noah.
He's doing everything according to the pattern.
The world around is getting more corrupt.
They have excursion parties coming round to mock
him and saying this clown talks about rain
coming down.
You know, I wrote a book, which God
used, I'm glad.
Sodom had no Bible.
I think I'll write another one.
Sodom had its prophets.
It had one.
Why weren't these people alarmed?
Why didn't somebody come in and say, I
was shopping today to, you know, to a
brother.
Hey, Jacob, whoever it was.
Hey, you know that old man that goes
down Main Street, yelling, the Lord is coming
with ten thousand of his.
He's disappeared.
And the police can't find him.
Nobody can find him.
He's just vanished.
Enoch.
He had no Bible under his arm.
He had a great advantage.
He never went to a Bible school to
get his mind all messed up.
He just walked with the Lord.
And yet Enoch walked with God.
What's he saying?
Can you imagine this fiery prophet going down
the Main Street in Jerusalem or wherever it
was?
Where would it be?
Sodom and Gomorrah?
What's he saying?
Enoch the seventh from Adam.
Remember there's another Enoch in between.
Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied saying, behold
the Lord cometh.
How did he know the Lord was coming?
Pardon?
Sure.
In a walk.
Boy, I'd like to have been out behind
the Lord and Enoch with a tape recorder,
wouldn't you?
Huh?
You know the wonder about these men, invisible
things were visible to them.
I tell you, Cain built a city.
Abraham looked for a city.
John saw the city.
The man of God sees things as really
now as though they were actually in front
of him.
And they're not this stupid thing they've got
now of visualizing, is it?
What do they call it?
Visualizing.
Again, I remind you about these fellows in
Hebrew.
They absolutely stagger me.
I can't read it without tears.
What did they do?
Let me run down it quickly.
They subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped
the mouths of lions.
Women received their dead raised to life again.
And not one of them ever had a
Bible.
Dear God, what am I going to do
at the judgment seat?
I've got every word almighty God is ever
going to say.
Every word.
He doesn't write a p.s. at the
end and say, oh I forgot to tell
John on the isle of Patmos.
Or I forgot to tell Elijah just before
he shattered all those priests.
It's all down here.
For us, upon whom the ends of the
age have come.
But with patience they endured.
I didn't count it, but one of the
key words in Hebrews is they endured, they
endured, they endured.
There used to be a song when we
were youngsters in Scotland that one of the
guys used to sing it often, keep right
on to the end of the road.
And somebody said that's what the epistle to
the Hebrew is.
Keep right on to the end of the
road.
It's there at the end of the road.
But let me look for a minute.
Let's look at, in Luke chapter 17.
Luke 17 26.
As it was in the days of Noah
so shall it be also in the day
when the man comes.
Listen, they ate, they drank, they married wives.
Why does it say the next thing?
They married wives and were given in marriage.
Do you know what one translation says?
They exchanged wives.
They weren't loyal to one wife, they exchanged
wives.
A thing very common in the day in
which we live.
And they did that till Noah entered into
the ark.
And the flood came and destroyed them all.
Right to the very last meeting.
Some bride is coming out of her building
and suddenly somebody says, hey look what's coming
down the road, a wall of water.
And right after the marriage she's swept away.
Then in the next verse it says, verse
28, likewise also as it was in the
days of Lot.
They did eat, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted and they builded.
Well isn't that what we're crazy about now?
Go, what did somebody call Dallas?
The city of what?
Cranes or something.
Everywhere you go there's a crane on top
of a building.
They've already a million surplus square feet of
office space and they're rushing millions more.
Until the very day Noah entered into the
ark.
Nothing disturbed them until the flood came, or
in the case of Lot, until fire rained
down from heaven and destroyed them all.
Let's look here in the first epistle of
Peter, where is that?
First epistle of Peter, chapter 3, and verse
18 says, Christ also hath once for all
suffered for sins, that just for the unjust
that he might bring us to God.
Being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit, by which also he
went and preached to the spirits in prison,
which sometime were disobedient.
When once the long suffering of the Lord,
you see that?
The long suffering of the Lord, a hundred
and twenty years, a million and a half
hours, he looked for at least one heart
to turn toward God and they didn't.
They're like our day, they were mesmerized by
materialism, totally lost in materialism.
They bought, they sold, they planted, they built
it.
And it gets increasingly worse.
You can have earthquakes in California, you can
have an earthquake in the stock market, what
difference does it make to people if they
don't get a hill of beans?
I noticed churches around here, I think it
was terrible, going into Lindale, a Baptist church,
tomorrow night having a special celebration at a
Baptist church, Halloween.
TV showed the picture in the news of
Green Acres, Saturday night, big Baptist church, the
wealthiest Baptist church in town, having a Halloween
party.
Why didn't they want to glorify the devil?
And yet they do.
And this wickedness is spreading the earth tonight.
We don't need Russia to destroy us, we'll
destroy ourselves before long.
These people, these sodomites, I talked with a
doctor today that Brother Bracey knows, and in
the course of talking I said, well the
conditions are getting worse.
He said that a doctor in the town
where he lives was indicted in the court
today, a doctor a brilliant qualified doctor was
indicted for sodomy with a child.
Can you think of a man studying all
those years to get a degree?
Can you think of his daddy and mummy
putting all the money behind him that their
son may become a distinguished surgeon or physician?
And then for a few minutes pleasure cursing
the life of a boy?
His wife's heart is broken, his parents' hearts
are broken, his life is damaged.
For the rest of his life he's a
vagabond, he's marked.
I'll tell you what, a lot of these
guys didn't believe the Bible they're beginning to
realize the wages of sin is death.
All you have to do, these guys get
AIDS and they find out it's very, very
real.
And yet we're back in that same condition
today, but who cares?
Who cares?
Who preaches righteousness?
Nor a preacher of righteousness.
Why was Abel slain?
Because he was righteous.
And the most horrible thing you can have
in a factory today is a righteous man
or a righteous woman it seems.
Because he won't participate in all the corruption
that's around about him, he stands out very
clearly.
His light shines so distinctively.
And yet despite these facts the generation we
live in is not repentant.
Let's look at the second epistle of Peter
in chapter 2 and verse 5.
Or verse 4, pardon me.
If God had spread not the angels that
sinned but cast them down to hell and
delivered them into chains of darkness.
You know, I was taught that the angels
that fell from heaven are the evil spirits
up in the sky.
That's not true.
The angels that fell from heaven have been
chained in hell ever since they fell.
I don't know where the other demons came
from.
Ask Bracey after the meeting.
No, the angels are chained.
You know, the more I read of this,
the more I see the paralysis of the
church today.
Okay, let me read from verse 5.
He spread not the old world, but saved
Noah the eighth person, the preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world of
the ungodly, turning the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow,
making them an example of those who after
should live ungodly.
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked.
But I don't read it in anything about
it.
It vexed him, it troubled him.
But when those dirty people came to beat
his door down, he was prepared to give
his daughters away to many who had lived
their filthy homosexual lives.
And verse 9 says the Lord, or verse
8, it vexed his righteous soul from day
to day with their unlawful deeds.
The Lord knows how to deliver the godly
out of temptation and to reserve the unjust
until the day of judgment to be punished.
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh
in the lust of uncleanness and despise government,
presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not
afraid to speak evil of dignitaries.
Whereas angels with a greater power than might
bring not a raving accusation against them before
the Lord, that these as natural brute beasts
made a token may be taken and destroyed,
speak evil of the things that they understand
not and shall utterly perish in their own
corruption.
You see, the church, it's so simple and
yet it's so profound.
The church is supposed to be what?
Salt.
What does salt do?
Stop corruption.
Is the church doing that?
No, the world is corrupting the church.
The longer we spare time, the more dirty
the so-called bride becomes.
I don't believe the church is the bride.
I believe there's a called-out number of
the bride.
Paul said, I want to attain by any
means the out-resurrection.
He's going to be resurrected.
What does he mean, the out-resurrection?
The holy dead?
No, they're going to be resurrected.
The holy dead first and finally, the final
judgment.
But I want to attain the out-resurrection
from the dead.
By any means.
I don't care what it cost me.
What could it cost me more than he
had?
He died daily.
His back had been skinned 195 times with
a lash.
He'd been in weariness, in fastings, in painfulness,
in tribulation, in perils amongst false brethren, in
perils.
And he goes on amongst all that kind
of...
And yet there's one thing I'm striving for.
Not to make heaven, but to be in
the out-resurrection.
The Y1 folk have a book called the
Anastasis.
Paul David got on a plane the other
day in New Zealand.
A fellow came up and said, Hi David.
And it's the captain of the Anastasis.
Anastasis, he was coming over there.
By the way, I'm warning you, I'll be
preaching at Y1 on Sunday night.
Brace is preaching in Gilmore.
So everybody go to Gilmore Sunday night in
Gilmore.
And if you can't go, remember to pray
for him.
But you know it's terribly critical.
We blame everybody for the mess that we're
in.
The only reason we're in this mess is
the reason the world's going to hellfire because
the church has lost Holy Ghost fire.
You know, I said to somebody on the
phone today, you know what?
I've read over and over again where the
apostle says do the work of an evangelist.
Well, what's the work of an evangelist?
Boy, I read this, was it middle of
last night.
Let me read what the work of an
evangelist is.
And tell me if you know one.
Here we have Acts chapter 8 verse 2
The word?
Yes.
Now notice hearing and seeing.
Paul said my preaching is not in word
only, but in power and demonstration of the
Holy Ghost.
Well, this is what it is.
The people of one accord gave heed unto
those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing
the miracles which he did.
This is an evangelist.
He's not an apostle.
It's not the same man, is it?
Is it a deacon?
It's a deacon.
Philip the deacon.
Boy, wouldn't you like half a dozen deacons
like this in your church?
Brother Bracey, I hope you get them.
Hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
Unclean spirits cried out with a loud voice
and they came out of many that were
possessed of them.
Many things with palsies or paralysis and lame
were healed.
There was great joy in that city.
Dear God, what's the good of having a
TV program broadcasting to people in Timbuktu if
folk are dying on our gutters?
Paralyzed with disease.
Paralyzed with lust.
Paralyzed with greed.
We can't go to another nation.
I'm not going to another nation.
I'm scared if I went to another nation,
I'd go to a number right now by
invitation.
I won't go.
Supposing they ask me what's happening here in
Mindo, what would I say?
If they say, oh, we were reading today
what a real Pentecostal evangelist is.
Signs and wonders.
Paralyzed people are healed.
The lame are healed.
Demons are cast out.
A man that's been raging and tearing up
his body and tearing up his family and
tearing up his community and now he's going
down there saying, praise the Lord.
What a lovely day.
I love you.
Hallelujah.
That's better than a million broadcasts.
I'm sick to death of paper theology.
I want to see it in flesh and
blood.
Flesh and blood, brother.
You know, it's more likely revival will break
out somewhere else than in churches.
I talked with dear David, you know, little
David.
He kills Goliath, I mean, Joe Foss.
Dear little Joe went to a prison last
Monday.
They were having a week's revival in the
prison.
Somebody preached on the Monday night and the
Lord came on those prisoners.
Do you know what they did?
They went to the guard or whatever you
call him and said, please, we want you
to lock us all up in the jail
chapel tonight.
Lock you up?
Why?
We want to spend the night in prayer.
And those wicked men, some of the only
recently saved, were put in the building and
they locked it up and they prayed from
ten at night till six in the morning.
You can't get people to do that in
any church in this area.
I don't care what in the world you
call them.
They'll go to a little convenient prayer meeting.
You see, the formula for revival doesn't have
to be made.
It's there in the Word of God in
Joel told.
Weep between the altar and the doorpost for
the priests.
Who are the priests?
Oh, our pastor.
Forget it.
He has made us a kingdom of priests.
Because I stand ten inches higher than you
in the pulpit doesn't mean I stand higher
before God.
I happen to have an R.E.V.
if you want it, you can have it.
Ordination.
What good is it?
It's an abomination unless God's given it.
There's only one ordination that's John 15.
I have ordained you.
And if God has ordained you all hell
can't stand against you.
But just to think that those precious men
said, we've been so blessed tonight.
And he said when he went in, he
didn't know just how to start.
And one of the prisoners got up, went
to the organ and began to play the
organ.
What do you play now?
Oh, he walks with me and he talks
with me.
And after that they sang Just a Closer
Walk with Him.
And all heaven came down on the place.
In a jail.
They'd better go to jail some of us.
Find out what God's like there.
My brother was telling me he was down
at, do you know Freddy Garcia?
Freddy has a wonderful church in San Antonio.
And he has a wonderful staff.
Dear God, if I lived in that town
I'd go, do you know the whole staff
of the church is on welfare?
They've been on welfare for 12 years.
They've never taken a penny to run the
church.
One man and they said his house is
no bigger than mine.
He has 50 men in the house at
one end.
He has 12 women in the house at
the other end.
Dear God, what are we doing with big
houses?
One man, one little Spanish guy.
Oh, Mexico or whatever in the world he
is.
And then he's got 50 men and they
swear their allegiance to him because they know
he isn't just standing behind the desk and
saying, doing this and that.
He can say, what things you've seen in
me do and God be with you.
So cheer up Marjoram, I'll have 50 men
soon in the house.
You're just training now, you've qualified so now.
Isn't that wonderful though?
Hmm?
All the staff for 12 years living on
welfare.
I think that's fabulous.
Dear God, everybody wants money.
You know all the guys come in and
say, Mr. Enio, I'm finishing Bible school.
Okay.
Will you pray for me?
Okay.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
Do you know what the next thing is?
They go to Bible school.
Next thing is they get a newsletter.
Then they go and get somebody to ordain
them.
Even if other people disdain them, but anyhow.
First they do is get a newsletter.
Then they get an ordination.
And then the next thing, they've got a
tax-free organization.
Oh, board members of course.
They've got board members.
I told you about the preacher who asked
to meet the board members next Wednesday and
700 turned up.
They were all board in his church.
We so lean on flesh.
Dear God, we lean on flesh.
I want to see an emancipated church.
I don't listen to one man.
I have to do this Friday night because
specifically this is a prayer meeting.
But I would not be a member of
a church that had just one pastor, or
even two.
But in the Bible they all had two
at least.
I like the five pastors like David had
in their church.
He just resigned a church of 1500 Sunday
morning and 500 in Sunday school at the
same time.
And the guy's gone out.
He has no financial backing.
He has no newsletter.
He has no people guaranteed to give him
$25 a month or something.
And there he is tonight.
He's in Minnesota.
And tomorrow he flies to New York to
be in that marvelous tabernacle.
Monday he goes to Amsterdam.
Tuesday he goes to Germany.
Wednesday he comes to London.
Next day he goes to Manchester.
He'll be staying in Sheffield for a few
days.
And then going down to Southern Ireland which
is 97% Catholic.
And people are meeting in homes there.
David went last year.
He said the glory of God is in
the house.
People got together.
They used to be the upper crust you
know, whatever that means.
Lawyers and doctors and others.
They were the boys that golfed together and
goofed together and did everything else together.
Now they got saved.
They worshiped together.
They prayed together.
And down in a hellish place like that's
saturated with Rome.
You see Rome when she's in the minority,
Rome in the minority is a lamb.
When she's in equality she's a fox.
When she's in the majority she's a lion
or a tiger.
People say, oh I know nice Catholic people.
There are no Catholics in America compared with
the ones in Western Ireland or these other
countries.
I fear the Church of Rome more than
I fear Communism.
They both want world dominion and they're going
to fight like the devils they are to
get it.
But when I hear of things like that,
dear Lord I don't sleep many nights.
I try and sleep as little as I
can eat as little as I can and
pray as much as I can.
But when I hear of these precious men
in prison from ten at night till six
in the morning and I meet a brother
that was over in the prayer meeting a
week today a week of this morning at
the Rock Church at five o'clock in
the morning over a thousand people praying and
he said God was coming down in tremendous
power.
Then other people keep calling in where started
the prayer meeting?
Well they won't be in secret very long
because the whole thing was going to explode.
So I told him what?
I told him about Freddie Garcia I told
him about the Rock Church.
I made some notes I don't have a
computer like Martha.
Oh a man called me three days ago
he said are you going to the conference?
Well I don't go to conferences usually.
I said where?
He said oh the prayer leaders of America
are meeting with the prayer leaders of Canada
up in where was it?
Porcelain somewhere for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Are you going?
I said no not if I can help
it.
All the others are programming oh Joe Smith
is going to speak from nine to ten
fifty minutes break for coffee and then Brother
Brown is going to speak from ten fifteen
to eleven and everything is you know anything
to keep the Holy anything to keep the
Holy Ghost away.
But God is finding his own men.
We are nervous about the Holy Ghost we
are.
How many of you have read that book
Azusa Street?
Have you got one?
Do you have some with you tonight?
You've got to get it.
It's marvelous.
And read it.
Boy they spent hours in intercession.
Hours.
Went to meetings and nobody was appointed to
do anything.
And the Lord looks to the helpless.
When there is nobody in the way the
Lord works.
When we are in the way it doesn't
work.
We've got things so organized.
Oh boy boy boy aren't we marvelous.
As I told you the other day you
know we go to the house of God,
we read the word of God, we sing
the songs of God we pray to God
but where is God?
When do we go out speechless?
Dear me it's a good thing it is.
Halloween this weekend now the World Series is
over.
But oh well of course basketball or something.
You know the Apostle Paul never had to
deal with pastors who got spring fever with
baseball and winter fever with Superbowl.
He never had to deal with that.
All he had to deal with was devils.
That was easier.
You can get people delivered from the devil
and drink and smoking but you can't get
them delivered from sports.
It's a strange day isn't it?
I don't know if I mentioned this I'll
mention it again anyhow.
You know that orphanage that Brother Brother Joe's
putting up is getting their completion.
It's three stories high like the Ark Noah's
Ark was three stories.
And the ground floor is for teaching the
middle section is for what's the middle section
for?
Oh the ground floor is for the school
the second is for living or something and
I don't know what the top one's for.
He's taking a hundred of those people they
pick up on the street and he said
one little boy 10 years of age he's
10 years of age physically and mentally he's
25 years of age in sin he knows
everything about lust, incest every vile thing and
his languages are wicked and they've been dealing
with the little guy.
I heard recently girls getting pregnant going to
Bible camps getting introduced to drugs in Bible
camps tell you what we'd better get a
spurt on I mean we know the church
knows the world doesn't know it's in the
same condition as it was in the day
of Noah the church doesn't care the world
doesn't care time's running out the church doesn't
care if we did we'd never have a
prayer meeting without tears we've lost control today
I read the 19th verse in the 18th
chapter of Genesis do you know why God
blessed Abraham amongst other things he knows how
to command his children he knows how to
command his children do you think Noah took
a vote with his family as to whether
they should go in the ark or not
of course not he received orders from the
Lord and he didn't care what happened he
was prepared to follow the Lord in everything
and the Lord expects that same filial devotion
from us there are two great monsters hindering
revival in America or England one is unbelief
and the other is evangelism evangelism well I
read to you from the 8th chapter of
Acts Philip an evangelist he didn't call him
an apostle he didn't call him a revivalist
but he healed the sick he cast out
demons and that's in this blessed book our
pastor doesn't believe that well God isn't judging
your pastor he's judging you why don't you
believe it why don't I believe it why
do we put up with this mediocrity prove
the point if I were in a church
these days boy I'd give the pastor a
rough time I mean even if I was
a teenage I would just the last thing
do you remember when the angel came to
Gideon and said God is with thee thou
mighty man of valor what did he say
he said if God be with us where
be his miracles our fathers told us of
yeah we believe the God of our fathers
divided the Red Sea we believe he sent
angels food down every day we believe he
split the rock but we don't shout like
that it's history it's history that's why I
say I'm sick of paper theology and I
said to a preacher in our house the
other day I'm waiting to find a Pentecostal
pastor who can stand at the door of
his church and say to the world outside
a world that's scared and a world that's
scarred this is that which is spoken by
the prophets everything they had at Pentecost why
in God's name do we stick a name
up Pentecostal we're a million miles from it
all Methodists we're nowhere like the Methodists all
Salvationists we're so afraid of the supernatural we'd
rather have no fire than false fire and
I'm not after false fire I can't read
Azusa Street or the other tremendous book seven
Pentecostal pioneers I'd be content again God is
the same I mostly decide to put everything
on one side this one thing I do
a pastor has nothing else to do but
live for God walk with God hear the
voice of God obey God forget everybody else
there's no judgment I'm going to of men
I don't have to go to Springfield like
some Pentecostals or Nazarenes go to some other
place my business is to walk with God
and it's your business and this is the
rule book and as I tell you again
I can't imagine that I have to go
and stand on a dais before 50 billion
billion people at the judgment seat right after
one of these people in Hebrews 11 who
never had a Bible and yet they accomplished
all these things for God I've got the
whole mind of God here and I'm restless
until I see it come to pass we
need to pray for Jopha oh let me
say this one thing an aunt called me
two nights ago from New York City and
the hub of all the corruption of New
York City is on West 42nd Street do
you know it?
West 42nd Street there are transvestites you think
that woman's going past it's a man there
are pimps there are prostitutes the whole street's
a line on either side with big glaring
nude pictures and movies it's a center of
corruption he said brother I went down the
east side of the street and it's lined
with young people giving out tax you know
our church is sending some young people to
New York to give out tax save your
money those young people are not redeemed if
they're not careful they'll be all contaminated when
they come back seeing all that lust and
lewdness this young man said I walked down
the street and you can hardly move shoulder
to shoulder hey take this track and some
have little microphones little speakers and they're talking
the gospel to these people going down the
street on both sides of the street dozens
of people and he's in despair he said
Mr. Rayleigh what do you do when evangelizing
fails I've come up to New York all
this way I'm treading on the heels of
somebody in front giving out this track no
this is a better track little speakers again
free from the wrath to come or something
else and those kids have no more passion
than a cat walking down the broadway they're
not there with a broken heart they're not
there with a vision they're not there with
a compassion that would die I'll say this
and I didn't tell my darling wife yesterday
I was having a real time with God
today which I often do and I said
Lord I believe I'm in that position now
where if I could die on a cross
in the middle of Tyler be crucified to
save this area I believe I would do
it I'd do it joyfully do you know
what the Lord said you don't have to
do it and I believe you, he told
me I believe you mean that and I
do if I could die to redeem it
I believe I would do it the Lord
said listen if you follow me you'll get
crucified it's a bit slower maybe but you'll
get crucified oh I hear people saying oh
don't ever let him in your pulpit oh
somebody said a while ago well let him
in your pulpit but don't let him pray
oh I thought that was beautiful isn't it
awful when you get marked for praying oh
dear Lord it's a corrupt generation and what
the church has today is not the answer
for this situation it's going to take holy
men who have been shut up with God
nothing else is going to do it we're
going to have to go deeper we're going
to have to be more sacrificial we're going
to have to bear more ridicule the world
is corrupting and corrupting outside and the church
is going down the drain with it but
oh if you're happy have some nice people
don't be offensive don't preach too much righteousness
don't preach against sin it's something isn't it
God has a remnant and yet as I
mentioned last week at the end in Revelation
God says that is it the harlot is
going to or the dragon is going to
turn all the power on the remnant on
the remnant we're going to be targeted more
and more with doubts and fears I've had
something burning in me for ten years and
it burns more fiercely than ever to write
this book there are times I can't go
in my office I'm so awed with the
awesomeness of God and the task that we're
right on the verge of a tremendous judgment
unless we have a tremendous earthquake in revival
and people say why don't you pray and
ask God to take it away, I've prayed
for 60 years to get it, I'm not
going to ask him to take it away
I'm asking him to deepen it I'm asking
him to intensify it if others don't want
to that's your business but we're very very
near to judgment, he's not going to watch
us corrupt, he'll have holier eyes than to
behold all our brothels 50 million dollars a
year is made out of porno literature now
tens of thousands of boys and girls have
been brought into the porno trade and drunkenness
increases and they're married and given in marriage
married and swap your wife, change them like
an old car and yet this holy God
looks down I marvel every day we're not
burning like Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom didn't have
all the Bibles we have if they heard
a preacher it was the wild old boy
going down the street, Enoch, say 10,000
saints he's coming with or read 2nd Thessalonians
1 it's coming in flaming fire we'd much
rather sing gentle Jesus meek and mild which
was written by Charles Wesley than read this
other hymn in which he says lo he
comes with dreadful majesty those who set at
naught and pierced him and nailed him to
the tree deeply wailing sure there's going to
be hallelujahs and praises we hear but you
know it comes to this place it says
in what is it the 5th chapter of
Revelation there, there comes a time when just
as a flood came down and destroyed there's
no time to repent there's no time to
get things right they were suddenly cut off,
they screamed and yelled at the ark for
lore and he didn't hear them he didn't
even concern himself he'd had 120 years of
ministry Babylon is going to collapse in a
day, our sisters are going to collapse there'll
be a smash in the stock market worse
than there is and a lot of stuff
is coming up but then what does it
say it says, it doesn't say the poor
men it doesn't say the Indians up in
the South America up the Amazon it doesn't
say the men in the gutters it doesn't
say they're nobodies, it says the kings of
the earth, the famous men of the earth
the captains, the greatest intellects they're going to
howl rocks and hills fall on us and
what does it say in Revelation, they'll seek
death and they won't find it when the
judgment of God will come men will jump
from the 40th story of a skyscraper and
land on their feet and not break a
bone they'll take poison they won't die, they'll
show themselves, they won't be killed God's going
to say, oh now you're seeking it now,
you're not going to escape anything that terrible
judgment is coming but dear God, what does
the church care, if we really cared we'd
have a prayer meeting every night, not for
an hour, from after supper till midnight, every
night till the glory of God comes, and
I talked with some preachers this week, I
found a bunch of preachers, the other side
of Dallas who are desiring to do that
they're desiring to really pray and seek the
face of God and those are the men
I want to be with and you want
to be with so let's pray, pray for
the Indians again for I don't know when
when Spencer's going, I think he is going,
and those Cree Indians are having a revival
on the northern border of Canada, right on
the farthest border the Cree Indians are having
a move there hundreds have been saved in
the last two months Joe Foss has gone,
one team has gone up north and the
other Joe's gone south let's pray for them
pray for all the workers, team challenge, or
world challenge however in the world they are
but God is looking for some holy men,
the most attractive thing in the world I
believe is an incandescent man John the Baptist
no money, no organization no choir, no anything
and yet everybody went to see him exactly
the same as in Azusa street, when people
came from the ends of the earth because
the fire of God had fallen, and I'm
not going to be satisfied with anything less
than that so please pray tonight, pull your
hearts out for revival for our nation, for
revival in other nations it's a desperate hour
so let's go to prayer