I ask our Father that you may speak
to us from your word even now, that
we may see the truth and do the
truth.
We may not be hearers of the word,
but doers.
Speak, O Lord, for we listen.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
I'd like you to open your Bibles, if
you have your Bible with you, to the
book of Romans, chapter 12.
Beginning at verse 9, Let love be without
dissimilation, that is, let it be sincere.
Abhor that which is evil, plead to that
which is good.
Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly
love, in honor of preferring one another.
Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving
the Lord.
These are great words, and God speak to
our hearts from them.
Just add the 12th verse, rejoicing in hope,
patient in tribulation, continuing instant in prayer.
The title of the message tonight is the
Christian's Manifesto.
And I want to declare somewhat of a
manifesto tonight.
I want to speak to you about what
OM, this little fellowship of young people, not
so little now, with about 500 full-time
on the year and a thousand or so
for the summer, what they really believe.
What they believe should be declared to every
student in every university in the whole world.
And we're just crazy enough to believe that
that's going to happen.
And I remember when I had my first
contact from the University of Moscow and the
wonderful time of distribution he had in that
university a few years ago.
And I'm convinced that nothing is too hard
for the Lord.
And I pray the Lord for this brief
privilege I have to make this declaration tonight.
What do we really believe?
Very few of us know very much thoroughly.
If you're a university student, you have to
admit that.
And when you finish all of your studies
and you go on to research, you get
to know more and more about less and
less.
And very few people understand any Christian movement
thoroughly.
I would be a very foolish person to
try to give you an analysis of certain
Christian groups that I really don't know that
much about.
And I believe it's important, especially for those
of you praying and planning on going on
one of these crusades, to know what we
really stand for, what we really are trying
to declare.
Over 6,000 students and young people have
passed through our ranks, some of them for
only one month.
To find out what O.N. is like
from some young person who spent three weeks
in one day on the summer crusade is
not the best way to get the picture,
because even the summer crusade in itself in
Europe represents only about 25 to 30 percent
of what O.N. does.
So it's impossible to see really, unless you
have real insight, and some fortunately do, what
it's all about.
What are we really trying to emphasize?
What are we really trying to say?
Now I can tell you that the devil
is so powerful and so deceitful, and has
such a power to deceive, that many young
people come with us, even for a year
or more, and never get what we're trying
to say.
Because we're not fighting a physical warfare in
trying to declare these truths that I'm speaking
about tonight.
And the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked,
and the tendency is to blindness rather than
to vision and to sight.
I hope that some of you, in your
very first summer with us, or even not
with us, may see some of these principles,
because I don't know many Christian groups that
would deny that these are the most basic
issues a young person can get, if he
wants to really be effective, if he wants
to really be used of God.
I think of what Eric Fyfe said.
He's one of the leaders of inter-varsity
in the United States.
He said, Today we have perhaps a higher
standard of academic preparation for the mission field
than ever before, but it is unfortunately true
that there are very few candidates whose prayer
and conversation are such as have a heart
-warming quality.
The first thing that we want to declare,
the first thing we want to emphasize, is
the need to know reality in worship.
There is nothing more important in the Christian
life than worship.
We have become the activist generation.
We measure everything by what we do, how
far we run, how many pieces of literature
we give out, how many souls we want
to Christ.
Where God is seeking worshipers, he's seeking those
who will worship him in spirit and in
truth.
His work was born in prayer and worship
meetings, meetings that didn't last necessarily one hour,
but sometimes went on for one day.
Because when we get in the presence of
God and he's working in our hearts, we
want to stay in his presence, not that
we ever have to leave his presence, we
don't.
Fr.
Lawrence knew more about worship and holiness in
the midst of all the activities of the
kitchen than the average person knows in a
prayer club.
And we've got to go back to the
Christian's highest occupation, worship.
It doesn't matter what you're doing.
You can come on O.M. and work
in the packing department or the shipping department
where you put the books in the boxes,
or you can come on O.M. and
work as a mechanic, or you can come
and drive a truck.
I know one doctor from Cambridge who was
a truck driver with O.M. in India
working under an Indian team leader who had
one-fiftieth as much education.
But he learned a lot.
Worship is what we're trying to teach young
people.
The first message they generally always get over
in Belgium when they come is a message
on worship.
But the moment that message is in the
head and in the heart, or at least
getting in the heart, the devil comes and
puts it out.
And he has any one of a hundred
major tangents going on right here in Britain
today to get people away from priority.
This is why we're constantly telling people to
read the books of A.W. Tozer because
he's calling people back to worship.
He's calling people back to God because in
this age of superficiality, instant Christianity, and spiritual
pet pills, here's a man who has a
message, a message that takes time to digest.
Here's a man who knew communion with God,
who followed in the steps of Madden, Gunion,
Fenelon, and others in years gone by who
knew God, who had something more than an
intellectual rattle in their head, who knew God
in their hearts.
Let's forget evangelism, forget tract distribution, book selling,
preaching, and all the rest, and get to
know God, and learn what it is to
worship God.
Learn what it is to get off in
the mountains alone with God.
Maybe that's where some of you ought to
spend the summer.
Not on O.M. or with any other
group.
Go off to the mountains and spend a
month in the presence of the Holy of
Holies, and maybe you'll come down a different
man, like Moses and many others who came
down from the mountains.
Men of God are not made in a
summer, nor in five years.
It takes a lifetime to make a man
of God.
No one could be more confused than the
man who thinks O.M. is a shortcut
to Christian service.
It's the shortcut with the longest road that
I've ever met.
We don't believe Bible school, nor university, nor
both of them combined can prepare a man
for real spiritual work.
A man has to spend time with God.
He has to know what it is to
worship.
Read that book by Gibbs on the subject
of worship.
I don't think we have any on the
table.
Then you'll see what I mean.
I'm not talking about coming into some little
place once a week and going through an
evangelical rosary, God deliver us.
I'm talking about something that is so beyond
that that the average man trembles at the
very thought of it.
Yet you read the word of God and
you see the reality of this kind of
life in the prophets, in the disciples, in
the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
This is our manifesto.
We must worship him.
He seeketh worshipers.
He said that to thank him and to
praise him was better than an ox and
a bullock, Psalm 69.
This is what God is seeking today.
You say it's too old-fashioned?
Call it old-fashioned.
Call you what you want to, but I
believe it is the greatest area of reality,
worship.
If it wasn't for the hour to two
hours I spend every morning and other times
throughout the day with God, my life would
be nothing.
I'm a weak person.
I was overrun with habits, foul language, foul
living, screwy ideas, wrong doctrines, you name it,
I had it.
But we become as him whom we worship.
And for almost from the beginning of my
Christian life I put this as number one.
Strange for a person of 17.
But when I was 17, on my knees
I said, only one thing I want to
know, prayer, reality.
And the nights of prayer that continue to
this day all over the world started when
we were 17 and 18.
That's what carried me through an unbelieving university
with unbelieving professors and all the possible skeptical
views that were sent my way.
Several hours, many days, not every day.
I'll be the first one to admit I've
had days when I didn't get ten minutes.
But that's what carried me through.
Do you know this?
Do you want to know it?
You'll graduate from here or finish from here
with a degree, but how many are going
to finish from here with a degree in
prayer?
We're looking for PhDs, PhDs in the school
of prayer.
We aren't finding any, hardly at all, in
our generation.
I would rather fail out of university and
know God than finish university at the top
of my class and come out with a
zero minus two knowledge of the Holy One.
Fortunately, both are possible.
Secondly, we believe, we declare, we must emphasize
this revolution of love.
I'm not the first one to write a
book on love, if you know anything about
Christian books.
We've just produced 20,000 copies of a
six-penny edition of Henry Drummond's book, The
Greatest Thing in the World, one of the
greatest messages ever given.
And if you study the Church, you will
see, maddened years gone by, many mighty saints
of God felt that this was the major
emphasis.
Love.
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
This is the second commandment.
The first is love God with all your
heart, soul, mind, and strength.
That's worship and obedience and many other things.
And so I haven't talked about anything new,
have I?
Just the same basic commandment we had way
back in the book of Deuteronomy.
The problem today, we oftentimes want things that
are new, interesting, and different, when the message
is old.
It's revolutionary, but it's old, thousands of years
old.
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Very few of us understand what that means.
I've preached that subject, I guess, more than
any other subject, from 1 John, from 1
Corinthians.
I've gone through every single verse in the
entire New Testament on the subject of love.
Several times I've listed them all, memorized many
of them, and yet I find people, and
even myself, very slow to really grasp what
this is all about.
You see, it's very much linked with humility,
the last thing we seem to have in
our day.
When I read this book, it was the
end.
I was ready to quit, because I don't
have it.
I don't even understand it.
But I want it.
Do you want humility in your life?
This is one of the greatest books in
print, Andrew Murray's book, Humility.
And if we don't come out of here
humble, and it's not easy to come out
of Cambridge humble, broken, contrite, we've wasted five
years, four years, as far as God is
concerned.
And there's hundreds of Bible verses that prove
it.
We've got to get back to basics.
And to know the revolution of love, one
must humble himself.
One must first of all admit he doesn't
have it, admit his spiritual bankruptcy, the coldness
of his heart, and then come and believe
that God will do it.
It won't happen in a day.
You may have a crisis.
You may have a crisis tonight as you
go on the side of your bed and
face God and ask Him to revolutionize your
life and to make this revolution of love
real.
But if this crisis isn't followed by a
process, it will soon become, as I've often
said, an abscess.
And I'm convinced that many of us want
the crisis, and some have a crisis, some
don't.
But there's not many of us that are
ready for the daily process of going to
the cross, of instant repentance, of claiming the
blood of Jesus Christ, of admitting what we
are.
I'm convinced with all my heart that God
in our day wants to begin or to
continue this revolution of love.
I haven't got time.
I could talk to you all night on
this subject.
I have many tapes available on this subject,
if you'd like to hear more.
I can't overemphasize it.
Love.
This is the disease that's killing the Church.
Lack of love.
Everywhere.
I've been all over the world.
That doesn't mean a thing.
Anybody can travel.
Travel means nothing.
Sometimes I'm afraid about O.M. I have
a little motto for O.M. It's called,
Much Travel, Little Fruit.
Traveling won't accomplish anything.
But what we do when we get there,
that's what's going to make the difference.
Crossing the channel will not make you committed.
Working in France will not cause you to
be dedicated.
But this love in your life, which comes
when the Holy Spirit has His way, it
can do something.
You have to learn the life of love.
I know a lot of people are just
sort of waiting for it to fall on
them.
I have never met a man yet, in
my 13 years as a Christian, who got
love in that way.
I know some who had an experience and
that was a help.
You have to learn how to love.
You have to be broken again and again
because there's so many aspects to love.
You may have developed in one particular aspect
of this revolution of love, but you'll only
discover as you really get close to Jesus.
There are dozens of aspects to this revolution.
There isn't time to go into it.
Thirdly, we want to declare, we want to
emphasize the need for honesty.
Absolute honesty.
In our dealing with people, in our facing
of ourselves.
Many of us live spiritually dishonest lives.
We're pretenders.
I almost asked Peter to sing one of
my favorite songs.
It's a favorite song before I knew Christ.
I used to hear it in the nightclubs
where I spent a lot of my time.
It's called, The Great Pretender.
Peter has a great ability to change all
the words, or some of his friends do.
So he has some very spiritual words to
this song.
But it's true, many of us are the
great pretenders.
Pretending to be what we're not to be.
Pretending that we're living a long victory.
Pretending that somehow we're on the way and
all the rest.
We're not honest.
This is so true, especially if people, if
they're introverts, if they're shy, they will not
share.
They will not share, they push things, they
repress things, and they catch up later.
We have found a very important aspect of
the Christian life is fellowship, real, straight, honest
fellowship.
You know, it's wonderful to know that your
life is an open book.
There's nothing about my life that isn't known,
nothing.
It's tremendous.
I don't go around telling everybody everything about
my life, but there are those around me,
those who are close to me, and others
who know everything about me.
I've nothing to hide.
Nor are my thoughts, which is all under
the blood anyway, nor am I present.
And I know young men who have, for
the first time in their life when they've
come on OM, opened their hearts to another
brother about the things that were really bothering
them, really eating away at their soul.
Sometimes they weren't even conscious of these things
until the light of the Word of God
began to shine in their hearts.
And when they came out, and they could
really be taken under the blood, it's amazing
what happens.
This is what happened down in East Africa
when these church leaders, bishops, top boys began
confessing openly their failures, began admitting they weren't
all that they pretended to be, began to
admit they didn't love the Bible, began to
admit they didn't have reality in prayer.
When they started to admit honestly what they
really were and claim the blood and the
Lord's grace and realize that Christianity is a
message of grace, revival came to East Africa
and it has never left.
That was 30 years ago.
I've been there.
And this is what we need to see
today.
Roy Heston talks about this in his book.
Stanley Vogt talks about it in his book,
Reality.
Reality is not some super set of standards
that you try to keep.
Eventually you fall.
When you fall you get so depressed because
your self-image has been broken that you
do not easily get back up again.
But reality is a cross.
Reality is Christ.
Reality is taking your place as a failure,
as a sinner, as a nobody, and allowing
the grace of God to make you what
Jesus would have you be.
So many of us are maintaining an image.
So many of us are shooting for a
particular image.
Many of us will end up extremely nervous
because we'll fail somewhere along the way.
And especially if you're a Christian, you have
a greater possibility for failure in many ways
because God is going to let you drop
until you finally get at His feet and
say, Jesus, you're all I want.
Not Jesus plus success in Christian work.
Not Jesus plus souls.
Jesus plus Christian leadership.
Jesus plus preaching ability.
Jesus plus him or her.
Jesus plus this or that.
Not even Jesus plus Cambridge University.
I know in the past how God has
allowed people to fail and the thing they
wanted the most was to bring them to
the place where all they wanted was Jesus.
That doesn't mean Christianity is a group of
failures working together.
No, because when God takes over, though we
are failures, He brings success.
He brings victory.
But first we go down.
Then we go up.
Not first up.
Except the corn of wheat fall in the
ground and die.
It'll bite us alone.
Do you know this in your life?
Reality.
The cross.
Amy Carmichael said, if we covet any other
place in all the world other than the
dust at the foot of the cross, we
do not know Calvary love.
This is what we're trying to teach on
earth.
This is what we're trying to bring through
to our generation.
Reality opens honestly.
The masks are off.
The curtains open.
All the behind-the-stage activities that you've
engaged in are now there and brought.
Oh, beloved, if we don't see this in
the church, there's no hope.
I know that you, having not been out
in the hundreds of situations I have been
in in the evangelical church, cannot even begin
to know how much dishonesty, how much hypocrisy,
and how much sham there is.
And unfortunately, you're probably as I have.
And as thousands who I know, hundreds who
I know, have had to learn it the
hard way.
I believe that Tozer hit the nail on
the head when he described the evangelical climate
of our day.
Here's what he said.
It's true.
He said, the spiritual climate into which many
modern Christians are born does not make for
vigorous spiritual growth.
Indeed, the whole evangelical world is to a
large extent unfavorable to healthy Christianity.
We may as well face it.
The whole level of spirituality among us is
low.
We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the
incentive to see higher plateaus in the things
of the Spirit is all but gone.
We are making converts to an ethic type
of Christianity that bears little resemblance to that
of the New Testament.
The average so-called Bible Christian in our
times is but a wretched parody on true
sainthood.
Yet we put millions of dollars behind movements
to perpetuate this degenerate former religion and attack
the man who dares to challenge the wisdom
of it.
This isn't from some little schoolboy.
This is from a man who spent 40
years in the very thick of the battle.
A man who is becoming one of the
most widely read men even in Britain today,
now that he's dead.
When a prophet is dead, we begin to
listen.
But America turned their back to this prophet
while he lived because he cut at the
very heart core of our nation which is
rotten right through the middle.
And we as a nation have refused to
listen.
You will have to answer for your nation.
Personally, I'm mainly concerned about answering for myself.
We believe there must be a revolution of
honesty, a revolution of walking in the light.
What we don't mean, really, then let's not
say it.
Everybody's running around saying, God bless brother this,
God bless, I'll pray for you.
If we prayed for all the people we
promised to pray for, we'd have to spend
dozens of nights in prayer.
And the whole evangelical church has become a
long series of clichés and we've developed a
whole set of jargon, and most of it
is completely meaningless.
We can talk about being a Christian soldier.
We can talk about take my life, let
it be.
Take my silver and my gold.
All these fantastic hymns.
And we can go out of church and
not be one iota different from when we
came in.
How long are we going to push it
on?
No wonder most students in Britain today are
becoming agnostics.
Why don't we face it?
Why do we continue with our heads in
the sand?
And do you think that out of the
students who go through our Christian unions in
Britain and declare themselves little evangelicals during university,
do you think they're all going on?
I could tell you of so many backslidden
degenerates who have gone out of our Christian
unions.
You wouldn't believe it.
Why?
Because we have given them dry husks.
We don't know reality.
We don't know revolution.
We don't know spiritual honesty.
We don't know New Testament Christianity.
You say those words are too hard.
I can give you the names of 25
Christian leaders.
What does it mean?
Who would agree to the same thing?
Alan Redpath is one.
A man from this nation, whose feet I
sat under for two years at Moody Church,
and I saw that church turn a deaf
ear to another prophet.
Oh, may God open our eyes before it's
too late.
We're young.
We're flexible.
God can change us.
We're not yet set in our ways.
May we not go down the drain of
unreality.
May we determine to buck against the tide
and stand for that which the Bible talks
about.
Fourthly, we believe.
We must emphasize the victorious life.
The victorious life is not a myth.
A life of abundance, a life of victory,
the life of spiritual power, the life of
overcoming.
There must be at least 200 books written
on this subject.
Many different vocabularies.
Sanctification, the spirit-filled life, the victorious life,
the abundant life, the Keswick life, whatever you
want to refer to.
I like to say, as Billy Graham said,
I don't care how you get it, just
get it.
But there is a life of victory.
There is a life on the right side
of Jordan.
There is a life in which we're not
up and down and one minute rejoicing, and
the next minute complaining, one minute living in
victory, and the next minute defeated, depressed, discouraged.
And it's a life that Caleb and Joshua
chose, the only two of the whole multitude
out of the wilderness.
All the rest.
So are the giants.
And I know as some of you hear
about this message tonight, all you see is
giants.
The walled cities, you see the walled cities
in your own life, the areas that seem
so impossible.
Psychological problems, emotional problems, battles.
Walled cities, giants.
And although there's milk and honey and you
see that, not for me.
Back to the wilderness.
The greatest mistake you can make in your
Christian life.
And if I didn't believe in the sovereignty
of God, I wouldn't even speak because it
makes me tremble that my wretched personality, my
miserable accent, or something else I might say
tonight would cause you to turn away from
the life of victory, from discipleship.
I know he is sovereign.
I know that somehow he can overrule my
weaknesses.
Don't throw the baby away with the dirty
bathwater.
Throw me away.
Too noisy, American, go home Yankee.
Fine, throw me away, but don't throw away
this message.
Take the New Testament and search it out.
Throw O.M. away.
I don't care if you ever come on
O.M. That's meaningless unless it's part of
God's plan.
But oh, don't throw away this wonderful message
of the abundant life, of victory in Jesus
Christ, of the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
This is something that we need to know.
Some people come into it through crisis.
Some people come into it without even knowing.
I've seen and met people of both categories.
The crisis boys, the process boys.
Doesn't matter.
I'll take all the Whitfields and all the
Wesleys I can get.
I'll take all the Darbys and all the
Muellers and I'll take all the Finneys and
all.
I'll take all of them on my team
and know this life.
Do you know it?
Are you learning it here at Cambridge?
Victory, power, abundance, fruit, reality, God.
Do you want it?
If you want it, if you really want
it, you will know.
I believe we must emphasize this.
I believe we must declare it.
It's a subject I preach about more than
anything else.
People think that I go around preaching about
forsaking all.
I hardly ever touch this subject.
Because when a man falls in love with
Jesus Christ, he'll forsake all.
Forsake all anyway is not an ultimate.
We're only learning to forsake all.
I'll give you the best definition I think
I've ever seen of what a committed life
really is.
I wrote it in my Bible from the
book Taste of New Wine.
The totally committed Christian life is a life
of continually committing oneself and one's problems day
by day as they are slowly revealed to
his own consciousness.
Is it?
There's no ultimate until we meet him.
And this is one of the ways God
uses this OM.
Because most of us are used to living
in a British culture.
We have the climate we're used to, the
food we're used to, the friends we're used
to, the family we're used to, the music
we're used to, all the things we're used
to.
Why, we can live pretty victorious.
Is that victorious?
Or is that, I wouldn't say it.
But throw that man out in the southern
heat of Italy in July.
Take away his five cups of tea.
Give him macaroni instead of pork chops.
Take away his girlfriend for a month.
Allow his letters to be lost in the
post from mommy and daddy.
And give him eight hours a day witnessing
on the doors under an Italian leader who
he can't understand and you'll see how victorious
he is.
This is why so many people get turned
upside down in these crusades.
This is why now leading mission societies are
assigning candidates to come on OM.
They know it works.
Not because we're anything, but because when we
expose ourselves to new situations, new pressures, it
takes bank and we're either going to sink
or swim.
If you allow, I don't know if that's
American, I don't know anymore what's American and
what's English.
I'm totally confused.
And I'm convinced with all my heart that
God does want some Cambridge students on these
campaigns.
I'm not ashamed to say that.
When I think of the fact that no
matter how many go from Cambridge to serve
Christ on the continent, there still will be
500 times as many people serving in the
British Isles, it's hard for me to panic
over the exodus.
You have no conception of the situation on
the continent if you start comparing needs in
Britain.
If you believe the biblical teaching about evangelism,
if you believe the unscriptural teaching that our
job is to save everyone, stay in Britain
because you're going to have a long, long
journey to save everyone in this island.
I'm convinced God has called us to evangelize.
I believe with all my heart that we've
got to know this victorious life.
I believe, as Watchman Nee says in his
little book, Released of the Spirit, I don't
have a copy up here, that this is
the most important thing.
I praise God for this set of books
that just came out.
For those of you who read a book
a day, like many of you, this is
nothing.
But if you want to dig your teeth
into something this summer, you read the only
books that Watchman Nee ever wrote.
All the rest were taken from notes.
Watchman Nee penned this encyclopedia on spiritual life
in three volumes, The Spiritual Man.
This is what we need.
Now, you can get it without reading even
one volume.
You can get it just reading the New
Testament.
But I believe we've got to get down
and develop a spiritual life, a victorious life
in all of its many aspects.
Fifthly, I believe we must declare, we must
emphasize, the need for world evangelism.
If men are lost, we've got to reach
them.
I don't care how Calvinist you are.
It doesn't matter.
We have some of the most on-fire
Calvinists that I've ever met writing this work,
and we have on-fire Arminians.
Theology of all kinds, under the right pressure,
will catch fire.
But I'm convinced that we have been called
to evangelize the world.
I believe it.
I believe firmly what this book says, that
it's the world that's running away, and I
believe we've got to catch it.
And I believe that the Church has lost
the vision of a lost world.
We don't realize any longer that the Holy
Ghost is going to bring a holy go,
that we're either going to evangelize or fossilize,
and one look at British churches can tell
you what direction we're moving in.
And it's not anything to laugh at.
The heart of God is broken.
The heart of God is crying out, as
He did in Ezekiel, looking for men, looking
for women that will stand in the gaps.
Too many young men today are praying that
aged prayer, Lord, here am I, send my
sister.
And the world, the mission field, is filled
with single girls, two for every single man.
While the Mormon Church, a little fanatical sect
from Salt Lake City, has 20,000 men
on the march tonight, more than all the
churches of Britain and America all put together.
Somehow we don't want to face the realities.
Somehow we always come out with that trite
little saying, charity begins at home.
If only I could find it in the
Bible.
But I don't.
Not that I don't believe we should practice
charity at home.
We should.
But there'll be no problem with you doing
that.
Because most of you will not end up
on the mission field for a long time.
I hope that some will.
But when I think of the comparisons, it's
just staggering.
Afghanistan, four believers among 13 million.
I challenge anyone, anywhere, to come up and
try to compare any need with that.
Or do we believe, perhaps, that these are
subhuman people?
It's only the Aryans, sort of the Hitler
theology, the white-faced boys, the Anglo-Saxons
who deserve the best and throw the bones
to the rest of the world.
That's what we've done, evangelistically speaking.
And as the cream of most of our
universities ends up in the big industrial jobs
of Britain, we send off a few Bible
school boys to evangelize the world, most of
whom do not have that which it takes
to lead and to evangelize and to conquer.
We need people in the mission field as
well, with the brains, with the equipment, with
the natural ability, anointed from God, to do
the task.
I think those of you who have received
gifts from God and natural abilities and something
upstairs need to pray and make sure it's
on the altar and it's going to be
really used for God.
That could be an industry.
I believe God wants to call spirit-filled
men into every area of society.
I don't separate the secular from the sacred.
Some of the most dedicated men I know
are in business.
Personally, I prefer to be known as a
businessman than a clergyman.
But the neglected aspect today is not the
business world.
The neglected aspect today is Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran,
North India, Nepal.
I was speaking at the main pastors' conference
in Nepal.
We had seven pastors in the whole nation,
maybe eight, one or two weren't there.
A hundred and fifty believers among ten million
people.
Can you picture London, beloved?
Ten million people with seven pastors and a
hundred and fifty believers.
What would London be like?
So you can know what it's like in
Nepal.
But where are those who will go?
They say it's a closed country.
We've had gospel and educational book exhibits everywhere,
right under the king's nose, right in the
streets in the biggest universities.
We're showing gospel, moody science films all over
the place.
Closed countries.
If I could only find the verse about
this closed country business.
I'm willing to believe anything I find in
here.
But we don't find it.
That's why we believe in invading closed countries
with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
That's why we're in Turkey.
Praise God for those Oxford students enrolled in
the University of Turkey.
One of them getting his PhD in the
University of Turkey.
We don't have any Cambridge men there yet.
I never want to compare Cambridge with Oxford.
It's not good politics.
But I'm concerned about Turkey and the University
of Kabul and the University of Tehran and
the University of Shiraz and the University of
Beirut and the University of Paris and Austria
and Vienna and all these schools.
If the Mormons can all give two years
of their life, almost all of them, do
you think one year for you would set
you back that far in your professional goals?
Are you willing to give God at least
one year in militant Christian service to see
if perhaps that is not His plan and
if you go back from that into industry,
into business, into research, I believe you'll be
a better man for it.
We've had some do this already and they've
testified that this has been a blessing.
This is enabling them now to pray for
missions, to give to missions and to see
that this is not a job for just
a little woman's sewing circle in the church.
This is the task of the whole church,
of all of us together.
We believe in world evangelism.
Read this little book, Go You means you
and you'll see what I mean.
This is our declaration.
There are many other things we emphasize, about
200, maybe more, because we believe we should
declare the whole counsel of God.
Too many of us get one little set
of truths and we ride it and ride
it and ride it and ride it until
the horse falls down.
I believe we must take the whole counsel
of God in balance as we see it
in the word of God.
That takes a long time.
I certainly haven't got there yet.
But here are five basic issues that must
be manifested in our generation.
Worship, prayer, absolute number one priority.
Love to others, a revolution of love, transforming
us, humbling us and making us unselfish, loving,
broken, kind, gentle, meek, spirit-filled individuals, honest,
off with the mask, walking in the light.
Fellowship, real fellowship with one another.
Victory, promised land living, Holy Spirit, Christ-exalted,
victorious living and world evangelism.
May God give us students who will demonstrate,
who will manifest, who will declare these biblical
principles, each one of which I could give
at least 50 Bible verses for, to our
generation.
Let us pray.