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Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.

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Each week we bring you a different message

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from some of history's greatest speakers in the

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Christian faith, and powerful sermons for modern preachers

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This week we have Leonard Ravenhill with his

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message, Abraham in Light.

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They look at the Gospel of Luke, sorry,

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the 17th chapter.

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Luke chapter 17 and verse 32.

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Not many words, just three.

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Remember Lot's wife.

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The preachers will tell you that a text

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without its context is a pretext, at least

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that's what I was always taught.

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And if we deal with a text, we

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should deal with what surrounds it.

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That's except you get in the book of

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Proverbs, you can't do that very well.

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And you can't do that in the Old

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Testament when you get to the begats, it's

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a bit difficult to do it there.

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But you can do it here.

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Verse 32, remember Lot's wife.

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Go back to verse 28.

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Here's the framework.

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Likewise also as it was in the days

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of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they

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bought, they sold, they planted, they builded.

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But the same day that Lot went out

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of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from

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heaven and destroyed them all.

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To go a bit further back there into

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verse 26, it says as it was in

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days of Noah, so shall it be also

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in the days of the Son of Man.

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They did eat, they drank, they married wives

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and they were given in marriage.

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I guess the Hebrew there says, if you

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go back to the Old Testament, they married

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wives and then they exchanged wives, which is

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a habit these days.

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Until the day that Noah entered into the

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ark and the flood came and destroyed them

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all.

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To identify with this, we need to go

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back to Genesis chapter 6.

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As it was in the days of Noah,

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it says here.

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What was it like in the days of

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Verse 5 in Genesis 6 verse 5 says,

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God saw that the wickedness of man was

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great in the earth and every imagination of

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the thoughts of his heart was only evil

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continually.

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Break it down here.

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Every imagination.

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That's evil without exception.

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And he says they were evil continually.

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Well then that's evil without intermission.

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It was only evil, it's evil without mixture.

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And Jesus says as it was in the

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days of Noah, there was a recklessness, there

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was a defiance of God.

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Well then as it was in the days

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of Lot, what did they do?

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Verse 48 again says, as it was in

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the days of Lot, they did eat, they

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drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they

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built, but the same day that Lot went

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out of Sodom, it rained fire and fire

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and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

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Maybe a bit further.

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No, verse 18, chapter 18, I'm sorry.

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I guess you know the background of this,

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almost everybody does.

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Verse 16, the men rose up from fence

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and looked towards Sodom and Abraham went to

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bring them to the way.

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And the Lord said, shall I hide from

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Abraham the thing that I do?

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I think that's a fantastic statement.

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Remember Abraham is the only man in scripture

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that's called a friend of God.

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Moses wasn't, David wasn't, Solomon wasn't, Abraham was.

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In the New Testament we're called the friends

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of God of course.

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He are my friends, but not in the

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Here's a man who stands supreme, he's isolated.

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And yet God says there's something about this

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one man, shall I hide from him?

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Not shall I hide from the king of

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Sodom, not shall I hide from Lot who's

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now a multimillionaire, a businessman.

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Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that

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Can I violate the laws of friendship?

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If you have a true friend, well somewhere

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along the line you'll exchange secrets.

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We don't shout secrets from the house though.

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You whisper in somebody's ear or you make

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a covenant together.

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The secret of the Lord is with them

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that fear him.

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And Abraham feared God exceedingly.

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And God says, shall I hide from Abraham

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the thing that I do?

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Now look at verse 19.

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It's important for you young folk with families.

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For I know that he will command his

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children after him.

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They shall keep the way of the Lord

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to do justice and judgment that the Lord

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may bring upon Abraham that which he has

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The story of Sodom, pardon me, the story

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of Lot is one of the saddest I

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think in the whole of the world of

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What do you think of when you think

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of Lot's the scripture that we read there

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in the 17th of Luke and 18, remember

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Lot's wife?

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What do you think of?

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Usually we think about she escaped by the

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skin of her teeth.

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But you know there are three words remember

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Lot's wife.

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To deal with them would take at least

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three hours.

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In fact it could take three days if

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you took the whole background, the historic background.

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Yet Jesus is saying to these people upon

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whom judgment is going to come very soon,

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remember Lot's wife.

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Remember her because she ran away?

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No, remember her for our privileges.

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If you go back into the, where are

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we, let me see here.

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Chapter 13 and verse 12.

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Abraham dwelt in the land of Canaan and

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Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain

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and he pitched his tent toward Sodom.

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In the next chapter he gets into Sodom.

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In the next chapter Sodom's got into him.

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You know we talk about this amazing man

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Abraham as though he was the most immaculate

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man, faultless, nothing of the kind.

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God says I called Abraham alone.

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Did he go alone?

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He took Lot with him, took another man

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God called him alone.

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He blundered all the way he went.

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He had trouble with the old man, he

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wouldn't go and move over Jordan.

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He had trouble with a young man, he

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got in bad company.

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He went down into Egypt where God never

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had young Lot with him and young Lot's

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eyes were open bulging wide.

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Do you know there's a record they were

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topless in those days?

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Sin was a sport, sex was a sport,

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drinking was a sport, violence was a sport

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and young Lot goes and he feasts on

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it.

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So what happens when he gets a choice?

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He pitches his tent towards Sodom because he

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says it's like I come to Egypt.

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I can get in here and it's like

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that wicked country I was in.

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So be careful what your children see on

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your TV.

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Don't say we're buying the youngster a TV

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for Christmas on his own and send you

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to hell as quick as you can.

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He pitches his tent towards Sodom.

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Now come down to chapter 19 and verse

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They came to angels to Sodom and even

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and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom.

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What's he doing in the gate?

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I used to wonder why in the world

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the scripture says the gates of hell won't

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prevail against the church.

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I thought what does the devil carry gates

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around pushing people away?

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The gate was a place of government.

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All the elders of government sat in the

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gate.

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People had their passports checked as they went

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in, they had their credentials, they had to

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prove many things.

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All the authority was in those people at

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the gate and now this man is a

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man of authority.

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One of the most puzzling things about this

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man in 2 Peter is it says that

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Lot vexed his righteous soul every day.

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I don't see much righteous about him.

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I think he was righteous until he got

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involved in all the commercial life and the

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social life of Sodom.

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He sat in the gate, he was accepted.

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I think again here he lost his righteousness.

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You see we have identical situations in history.

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I guess you've heard me say this before

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and I hope I'll live to say it

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again.

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I think the one thing we learn from

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history is that we don't learn from history.

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I think at this point America's in the

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lowest point of degeneracy she's ever been in.

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It's true that she was pretty low when

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Jonathan Edwards and those Puritans came along.

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There's no way we're going to legislate righteousness.

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You stick notices up the road 55 miles

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an hour.

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Some of you guys broke it coming to

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church tonight maybe.

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You can repent right there but anyhow we'll

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leave that to you for a bit later.

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Do people keep 55?

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I go down 55 and a thing goes

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roaring past me.

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I say to my sweetheart, to my wife,

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that Mack truck.

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Is it a Mack or what in the

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world is it?

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It's doing 75 miles an hour.

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I don't know much about motors but I

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know that that big thing that's roaring down

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the road at 75 has not got a

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Volkswagen motor in it.

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Isn't that wisdom?

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So you've got guys running big churches on

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a Volkswagen prayer meeting.

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I go to churches sometimes with 150, 200

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people in the choir.

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If only 10 percent of them came to

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the choir practice the choir master would resign

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the first week.

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But if a preacher got 10 percent of

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his congregation, as in the Church of Hollywood

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there were 12,000 members.

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They had 53 deacons.

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I asked the pastor, I said tell me.

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Oh I nearly said his name.

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I won't tell his name.

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I won't let you guess even.

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You're 53 deacons.

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How many can you see?

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Eight, nine.

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Isn't that marvelous?

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What do you do with the other 50?

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Fire them.

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They're supposedly full of faith of the Holy

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Ghost.

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They got elected because they own two Texaco

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stations and a hot dog stand.

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Apparently no deacons here tonight.

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I'd be buried in hymn books if you.

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Oh there's so many things in this story

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we could take.

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I'm not going to take them.

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Chapter 19 verse 1.

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I read it again.

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I came to angels to Sodom at evening

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and Lot sat in the gate.

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And seeing them he rose up and bowed

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himself with his face to the earth and

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said behold now turn in with me so

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forth and so on.

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Verse 3 says he pressed upon them greatly

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and they turned into his house.

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Verse 4 but before they laid down the

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men of the city even the men of

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Sodom come past the house round about both

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old and young all the people from every

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quarter and they called them to Lot.

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Where are the men which came into your

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house bring them out to us that we

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may know them.

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They were Sodomites.

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Lot went out of the door and said

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unto them shut the and he shut the

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door after him and he said no I

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pray you brethren do not so behold I

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have two daughters which have not known man.

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Why hadn't they known man they were married.

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Read in the chapter they were married.

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But the marriage would never consummate it.

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This righteous man had married his sons after

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some wealthy homosexuals.

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Where in God's name was his righteousness.

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Let me say the point of identification here

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I wanted to read to you from I

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don't usually use translations as you know but

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Philip's translation.

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Jesus says as it was in the was

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in the days of Lot so shall it

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be when he comes.

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Come on now tell me you theologians has

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God set a clock and when that clock

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goes off he's going to put judgment on

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us.

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Is it a case of time or temperature.

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Does it now automatically kick over like when

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you have your air conditioner on and you

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set it at a certain thing and it's

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cold outside you open the door and immediately

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that thing kicks on it fights back against

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the cold.

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Does God wait until a country a nation

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gets so rotten that the only thing he

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can do in mercy a judgment on Sodom

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and Gomorrah was not a judgment of madness

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it was a judgment of love.

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He did in a few hours what it

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would have taken them to do rot in

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their sin for a number of years.

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Here's Romans 1 in a modern translation.

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The holy anger of God is disclosed from

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heaven against all godlessness and evil of men

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who render truth dumb and inoperative by their

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wickedness.

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It is not that they do not know

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the truth about God indeed he has made

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it quite plain to them for since the

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beginning of the world the invisible attributes of

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God is eternal power and divinity have been

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plainly discernible through the things which he has

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made and which are commonly seen and known

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thus leaving these men without a rag of

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excuse to cover them.

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They knew all the time that there is

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a God yet they refuse to acknowledge this

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God or to thank him for what he

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does.

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They became fatuous in their argumentations and plunge

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their silly little minds further into the dark.

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Behind the facade of wisdom they became such

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fools.

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Fools who could exchange the glory of immortal

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God for an imitation God like mortal men

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of things that fly and crawl.

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Therefore God gave them up to be play

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things of their own foul desires and dishonor

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their bodies.

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Moreover since they consider themselves too high and

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mighty to acknowledge God he allowed them to

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become the slaves of their degenerate minds to

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perform unmentionable deeds.

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They became filled with wickedness, rottenness, greed, malice.

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Their minds were steeped in envy, murder, quarrelsomeness,

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deceitfulness and spite.

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They became whispers behind doors, stabbers in the

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back, God haters.

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They overflowed with insolent pride and faithfulness.

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Their minds teemed with diabolical invention.

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They scoffed at duty to parents.

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They mocked at learning.

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They recognized no obligations of honor.

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They lost all their natural affection, had no

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use for mercy, lost their natural affection.

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I had a man in my office a

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while ago, boy was he one thousand percent

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stronger than Calvin.

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Every baby in the mother's womb is already

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predestined.

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God knows its destiny.

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Tell me that a million babies were destined

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in eternity to go down to John last

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year.

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What kind of a God have you got?

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I believe God has foreknowledge.

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I don't believe he predestined them to that.

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But these people have become so corrupt, they're

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so lawless, they obey nobody.

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Laws of God are laws of men.

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They're in a state of total rebellion.

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Being well aware of God's pronouncement that all

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that do these things deserve to die, they

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not only continued in their own practices, but

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did not hesitate to give their thorough approval

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to others who did the same.

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As far as I see, we parallel today

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in our moral or immoral condition, the conditions

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of nor and the conditions in the days

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of lot.

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But who worries about it?

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These people are warned of judgment.

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The word of God says, remember lot's wife,

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because she has stacks and stacks and stacks

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of advice before this inevitable thing came upon

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her.

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She didn't remember her father Abraham and his

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righteousness, the greatest man who had walked the

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earth.

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She didn't remember her father and his righteousness.

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After all, you only go six chapters back

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and God's flooded the world, destroyed the world.

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And he's hung a sign over it, my

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spirit will not always strive with mine.

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Wake up America, we're going to hell as

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quickly as we can.

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He'll cut us off before long.

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We don't break his laws every day.

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We don't transgress his commandments and get away

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with it.

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There's a payday.

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I call it a final checkout counter.

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When everybody's bills will be due.

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When every sin that isn't covered with the

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blood will be exposed before billions of people.

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It goes further down there into Timothy.

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2nd Timothy chapter 3 says this, Do you

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realize that in the last days the times

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will be full of danger?

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Men will become utterly self-centered, greedy of

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money, full of big words.

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They will be proud and contemptuous without any

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regard for what their parents taught them.

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They will be utterly lacking in gratitude, in

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purity and in normal human affection.

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They will be men of unscrupulous speech and

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have no control over themselves.

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They will be passionate and unprincipled, treacherous, self

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-willed, conceited, loving all the time what gives

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them pleasure instead of loving God.

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They will maintain a facade of religion but

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their conduct denies its validity.

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You must keep clear of people like this.

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The time is coming when men will not

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tolerate wholesome teaching.

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Again God's problem in the Old Testament was

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not the Amalekites or Hittites or Jebusites or

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Hittites or any otherites.

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God's problem in the Old Testament was Israel.

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God's problem tonight is not humanism in the

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school.

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That's an excuse to lazy pastors.

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We need to get the Bible back in

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the home.

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We need to get prayer back in the

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house, in the school.

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We need to get prayer back in the

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home.

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Ask your congregation to order.

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How many of you fathers are not really

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fathers in the home?

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You're not the king in the home, not

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the bully, you're not the king, you're not

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the priest in the You don't gather the

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children around your lap and every day read

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the word of God and instruct them.

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I had the privilege of praying many mornings

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between five and six o'clock with that

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precious man that God used in the Hebrides

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revival in 1950, Duncan Campbell.

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I remember one day talking, it was before

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six and as Bunyan would say, the water

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stood in his eyes or the tears were

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there.

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I said, how is it in the outer

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Hebrides?

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Amongst those so-called stuffy Presbyterians, you saw

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more of the spirit of God.

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Well, he said, I'll tell you one reason

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I think.

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The little boys and girls there from five

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years of age see daddy bring the Bible

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out every morning and if there's pressure on

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the farmer somewhere, he leaves it till supper

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time and all the dishes are put in

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the sink.

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Then he takes the word of God and

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he reads it.

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And all those children have to learn the

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shorter catechism, which is really an epitome of

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theology.

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There's your answer.

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Those children have had the word of God

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in their hearts since they were five or

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six, Paul plants of Paulus waters, God gives

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an increase.

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The revival there was due again to two

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old ladies, 184 and 182.

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They joined hands and made a covenant.

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Oh dear, I get tired of people making

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promises.

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The highway of most of our lives is

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filled with broken vows and unfulfilled covenants.

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Lord, if you get me out of hospital,

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I'll pray next hour, every day, the rest

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of my life.

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And you forgot God the week after.

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That woman dying in labor pains, the doctor

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said the odds are against you.

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And she said, well, if you get me

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through this, I'll be a different woman.

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But she wasn't, except she had another baby.

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But apart from that, there was no miracle

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wrought in her.

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Let me look at here a minute.

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And this is the important thing I want

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to say.

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In the midst of all this devastation, in

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the midst of all the corruption, there was

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one man stood alone.

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He was unchanged with the system, with the

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customs.

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Young lot pitched his tent towards Sodom.

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Then he went in Sodom.

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I remember an old man said to me,

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but son, look, you know what?

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The devil will help you in your Christian

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life.

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I said, he will, yes.

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He'll help you get to the top of

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the ladder.

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And when he gets to the top, he'll

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push you over.

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Very often success is the worst thing that

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can come to us.

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We need adversity.

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We need to fight the world, the flesh,

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the devil.

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It says concerning this man Abraham, he stood

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before the Lord.

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Does that ring a bell?

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Does it say in 1 Kings 17 verse

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1 that Elijah stood before the Lord?

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He didn't kneel, he stood.

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He's waiting for two things.

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He's waiting for a commandment and he's waiting

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for authority to carry it out.

549
00:20:51,170 --> 00:20:54,050
And Abraham has every conceivable evil against him.

550
00:20:54,110 --> 00:20:55,730
The city's swarming with filth.

551
00:20:55,850 --> 00:20:56,850
People delight in it.

552
00:20:56,890 --> 00:20:57,390
They buy it.

553
00:20:57,450 --> 00:20:58,510
They sell it like we do.

554
00:21:01,890 --> 00:21:02,630
Friday night.

555
00:21:04,110 --> 00:21:05,750
Some taverns will be open till two and

556
00:21:05,750 --> 00:21:06,370
three in the morning.

557
00:21:06,510 --> 00:21:08,570
So will dance halls and discos and all

558
00:21:08,570 --> 00:21:09,270
these hell holes.

559
00:21:09,550 --> 00:21:10,930
And the churches will be locked up.

560
00:21:14,550 --> 00:21:16,390
Maybe there's only one fault with modern Christianity.

561
00:21:16,530 --> 00:21:17,670
We don't take God seriously.

562
00:21:18,490 --> 00:21:19,950
Why should the man in the street believe

563
00:21:19,950 --> 00:21:21,090
God if we don't believe him?

564
00:21:21,130 --> 00:21:22,910
Why should they obey what you say, preacher,

565
00:21:23,010 --> 00:21:24,470
when you don't obey what God says to

566
00:21:24,470 --> 00:21:24,650
you?

567
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,000
Sure, I'd like to write another book on

568
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:28,340
revival.

569
00:21:28,460 --> 00:21:29,860
I've got something boiling inside me.

570
00:21:29,860 --> 00:21:30,840
I don't think I'm going to do it.

571
00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:34,100
Because, you see, I don't have to do

572
00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:34,320
it.

573
00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:37,160
The secret of revival isn't a secret at

574
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:37,360
all.

575
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,720
It's splashed right across the Word of God

576
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:40,900
for over a thousand years.

577
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,000
And it's the priest that's to lie between

578
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,660
the altar and the doorpost and let him

579
00:21:45,660 --> 00:21:47,140
weep and let him travel.

580
00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:51,140
I went to a certain famous college, I

581
00:21:51,140 --> 00:21:52,780
went in a Bible college, a great big

582
00:21:52,780 --> 00:21:54,640
display thing, you know, with a guy with

583
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,840
a tennis racket, all plastic, of course, plastic

584
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:58,260
gold.

585
00:21:59,420 --> 00:22:01,300
Somebody kicked me a football, somebody else with

586
00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:04,240
a baseball, somebody else with a volleyball, somebody

587
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,060
else with a basketball.

588
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:06,280
I mean in miniature.

589
00:22:07,140 --> 00:22:08,400
I got on my knees and I was

590
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:09,860
looking and a fine young fellow said, Sir,

591
00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:10,620
could I help you?

592
00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:13,240
I said, I'd be very happy if you

593
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:13,400
could.

594
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:16,180
What are you looking for?

595
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:17,940
I was looking to see who got the

596
00:22:17,940 --> 00:22:18,800
trophy for praying.

597
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:21,020
He said, what?

598
00:22:22,380 --> 00:22:23,540
I said, don't you have a model of

599
00:22:23,540 --> 00:22:25,800
somebody praying in these famous Bibles?

600
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,040
Are you serious?

601
00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:30,020
I said, yes, are you?

602
00:22:35,470 --> 00:22:36,470
Do you think you're going to get a

603
00:22:36,470 --> 00:22:39,490
reward in heaven because you knock more home

604
00:22:39,490 --> 00:22:41,530
runs in the Wesleyan, what do you call

605
00:22:41,530 --> 00:22:42,470
it, Bible school?

606
00:22:44,660 --> 00:22:46,740
Or as you go to, where does it,

607
00:22:46,860 --> 00:22:48,200
Pentecostals go when they die?

608
00:22:49,860 --> 00:22:50,600
Springfield, yeah.

609
00:22:56,610 --> 00:22:57,390
Do you think you're going to get a

610
00:22:57,390 --> 00:22:59,070
reward because you hit more home runs?

611
00:22:59,170 --> 00:22:59,810
Come on preacher.

612
00:23:02,050 --> 00:23:03,150
I had a young man came to see

613
00:23:03,150 --> 00:23:03,770
me this week.

614
00:23:03,990 --> 00:23:05,430
He thinks God has called him out of

615
00:23:05,430 --> 00:23:07,230
the business career to become a preacher.

616
00:23:07,830 --> 00:23:08,610
Give me some tips.

617
00:23:08,690 --> 00:23:10,930
I said, read Acts 26 on your knees

618
00:23:10,930 --> 00:23:12,090
every day for the next month.

619
00:23:12,870 --> 00:23:13,950
Tells you what your job is.

620
00:23:14,050 --> 00:23:15,690
Acts 26, to open the eyes of the

621
00:23:15,690 --> 00:23:17,470
blind, to turn them from darkness to light,

622
00:23:17,510 --> 00:23:19,010
from the power of Satan to God, that

623
00:23:19,010 --> 00:23:20,970
they may receive forgiveness of sins and an

624
00:23:20,970 --> 00:23:22,270
inheritance among them that are sanctified.

625
00:23:22,410 --> 00:23:24,010
When you've done that, read all the minor

626
00:23:24,010 --> 00:23:25,750
prophets and soak yourself in them.

627
00:23:26,470 --> 00:23:27,910
Get out of the way of pygmies and

628
00:23:27,910 --> 00:23:28,730
walk with giants.

629
00:23:30,570 --> 00:23:32,490
Get away from the modern trash that they

630
00:23:32,490 --> 00:23:36,550
sell at CBA next week and read what

631
00:23:36,550 --> 00:23:38,130
God says and measure up to some of

632
00:23:38,130 --> 00:23:39,270
the standards God has.

633
00:23:42,650 --> 00:23:45,170
We don't need any advice and God doesn't.

634
00:23:45,290 --> 00:23:46,110
We try and give it to him.

635
00:23:48,860 --> 00:23:49,960
You see, I wonder what would happen if

636
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,920
we really knew that judgment was coming, say

637
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,300
next week, Wednesday night.

638
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:55,720
I'll tell you what would happen.

639
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:56,920
Every church would be packed out.

640
00:23:59,310 --> 00:24:00,530
I told you the other week of a

641
00:24:00,530 --> 00:24:01,850
friend of a friend of ours who came

642
00:24:01,850 --> 00:24:02,630
back from Korea.

643
00:24:03,550 --> 00:24:06,730
Of course, wide-eyed, oh there's Dr. Cho,

644
00:24:07,350 --> 00:24:08,950
Cho is it, Dr. Cho, Paul Cho.

645
00:24:09,070 --> 00:24:11,070
That's a church of 300,000, 400,000

646
00:24:11,070 --> 00:24:11,270
now.

647
00:24:12,290 --> 00:24:13,990
But the thing was, she went up the

648
00:24:13,990 --> 00:24:15,710
mountain, there was a cave there and there

649
00:24:15,710 --> 00:24:17,770
were nearly 2,000 women in there praying

650
00:24:17,770 --> 00:24:19,230
as though they were all delivering a baby

651
00:24:19,230 --> 00:24:19,730
in agony.

652
00:24:20,850 --> 00:24:22,830
Hour after hour after hour after hour.

653
00:24:22,890 --> 00:24:23,410
Do you know why?

654
00:24:24,530 --> 00:24:26,310
Because you can walk to the borders and

655
00:24:26,310 --> 00:24:28,430
on the border of North and Korea, there's

656
00:24:28,430 --> 00:24:30,470
a million Russians lined up ready to come

657
00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:32,670
over and plunge the whole nation into blood.

658
00:24:33,830 --> 00:24:35,450
So every time they go to church, the

659
00:24:35,450 --> 00:24:37,590
pastor says, you memorize this chapter next week.

660
00:24:37,670 --> 00:24:39,010
You memorize that hymn next week.

661
00:24:39,490 --> 00:24:40,610
It's an open secret.

662
00:24:40,810 --> 00:24:42,490
There'll be no Bibles around in a few

663
00:24:42,490 --> 00:24:42,850
years.

664
00:24:42,950 --> 00:24:44,110
There'll be no hymn books around in a

665
00:24:44,110 --> 00:24:44,590
few years.

666
00:24:44,930 --> 00:24:47,310
We'll be huddled in concentration camps.

667
00:24:47,390 --> 00:24:48,590
We'll be hiding in caves.

668
00:24:48,950 --> 00:24:50,290
The streets will be running with blood.

669
00:24:50,410 --> 00:24:51,330
We're going to be martyred.

670
00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:55,300
Oh, if we knew that.

671
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:56,560
Come on now, come on.

672
00:24:56,620 --> 00:24:58,000
Don't suggest we don't know.

673
00:25:00,770 --> 00:25:01,830
Yeah, you say if we were going to

674
00:25:01,830 --> 00:25:03,490
be murdered, we were going to be destroyed

675
00:25:03,490 --> 00:25:04,590
like Sodom and Gomorrah.

676
00:25:04,970 --> 00:25:07,350
Well, don't you listen to what Mr. Reagan

677
00:25:07,350 --> 00:25:07,810
says?

678
00:25:09,170 --> 00:25:11,650
That Russia's deciding what temperature to roast us

679
00:25:11,650 --> 00:25:11,910
at?

680
00:25:13,530 --> 00:25:14,590
And if you don't think there's going to

681
00:25:14,590 --> 00:25:16,470
be a bloody thing like that come happen,

682
00:25:16,770 --> 00:25:18,010
what do you think about the Word of

683
00:25:18,010 --> 00:25:19,830
God that talks about the battle of Armageddon?

684
00:25:21,690 --> 00:25:23,110
What do you think about the Scriptures that

685
00:25:23,110 --> 00:25:25,070
nobody quotes these days, that Jesus is coming

686
00:25:25,070 --> 00:25:26,170
in flaming vengeance?

687
00:25:26,410 --> 00:25:27,770
Forget all about your rapture.

688
00:25:30,710 --> 00:25:32,290
Come on preachers, how many of us will

689
00:25:32,290 --> 00:25:33,870
be cleared from the blood of the people

690
00:25:33,870 --> 00:25:34,570
in our streets?

691
00:25:37,020 --> 00:25:38,760
If I were a Protestant Pope, I'd close

692
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,580
every church in the nation for a month.

693
00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:41,800
There wouldn't be another word of preaching.

694
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,260
Your people can't handle the light they have

695
00:25:44,260 --> 00:25:45,360
now at the judgment seat.

696
00:25:45,420 --> 00:25:47,340
All you'll do on Sunday is add condemnation

697
00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:47,800
to them.

698
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:50,940
They can't handle it.

699
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:54,900
Every one of us know to live better

700
00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:56,740
than we're living, and that's our condemnation.

701
00:25:57,620 --> 00:25:59,160
We know to be praying better than we're

702
00:25:59,160 --> 00:25:59,500
praying.

703
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,120
We know how to fast better than we're

704
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:01,460
fasting.

705
00:26:03,260 --> 00:26:04,960
We know we should be weeping more than

706
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:05,580
we're weeping.

707
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,320
We know we should have gone to a

708
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,440
place where God Almighty can give us groanings

709
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,000
that cannot be uttered, and that's a hundred

710
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000
million miles fast praying in tongues.

711
00:26:15,990 --> 00:26:17,110
It's an inner grief.

712
00:26:17,310 --> 00:26:18,790
It's something that has no language.

713
00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:20,870
God says so, I don't say so.

714
00:26:24,330 --> 00:26:25,870
I'm convinced with all my heart we're in

715
00:26:25,870 --> 00:26:28,870
the most severe decade, if we last, I

716
00:26:28,870 --> 00:26:30,430
don't think we'll last a decade, five years

717
00:26:30,430 --> 00:26:32,150
that America's ever had.

718
00:26:33,910 --> 00:26:35,430
And she's not going to be changed by

719
00:26:35,430 --> 00:26:38,050
legislation, she's going to be changed by revival.

720
00:26:38,890 --> 00:26:41,610
And revival only comes by birth, by traveling.

721
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:46,920
I get too many visitors, I wish I

722
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:47,880
didn't get some of them, but the other

723
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,680
day a very refreshing young man came to

724
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:49,780
me.

725
00:26:49,860 --> 00:26:51,400
In the course of talking he said this,

726
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,340
do you know anything about the lady, what's

727
00:26:55,340 --> 00:26:55,920
her name now?

728
00:27:00,530 --> 00:27:01,750
Oh she was in England when we were

729
00:27:01,750 --> 00:27:03,110
there, Agnes Sanford.

730
00:27:03,270 --> 00:27:04,850
Some of you read Agnes Sanford's books I

731
00:27:04,850 --> 00:27:05,090
suppose.

732
00:27:07,230 --> 00:27:09,750
Six years ago somebody told her that San

733
00:27:09,750 --> 00:27:11,290
Andrea Fault, is that what you call it,

734
00:27:11,930 --> 00:27:13,290
is going to split wide open and that

735
00:27:13,290 --> 00:27:15,390
section is going to slip into the Pacific

736
00:27:15,390 --> 00:27:16,890
Ocean, that section of California.

737
00:27:17,550 --> 00:27:19,210
She went and bought a house on the

738
00:27:19,210 --> 00:27:22,950
San Andrea Fault, defied the devil, defied her

739
00:27:22,950 --> 00:27:26,010
friends, and she's living there and has been

740
00:27:26,010 --> 00:27:27,830
holding on to God for six years without

741
00:27:27,830 --> 00:27:30,130
tremendous catastrophe will not come.

742
00:27:32,770 --> 00:27:34,870
Isn't it amazing that this righteous man so

743
00:27:34,870 --> 00:27:35,410
called?

744
00:27:36,550 --> 00:27:38,270
I'm angry with Lot, wait till I see

745
00:27:38,270 --> 00:27:39,390
him, I'll tell him off, I'll tell you

746
00:27:39,390 --> 00:27:39,490
that.

747
00:27:41,650 --> 00:27:43,710
Why didn't he go pray with Abraham?

748
00:27:43,850 --> 00:27:44,970
He didn't pray with Abraham.

749
00:27:46,650 --> 00:27:47,810
We were in a prayer meeting the other

750
00:27:47,810 --> 00:27:49,950
night where somebody prayed and said, well this

751
00:27:49,950 --> 00:27:51,810
coming Saturday my family, and they're a very

752
00:27:51,810 --> 00:27:54,250
well-known family, world famous, they'll be at

753
00:27:54,250 --> 00:27:54,970
a ball game.

754
00:27:55,170 --> 00:27:57,050
All the grandkids get, we're going to have

755
00:27:57,050 --> 00:27:58,230
a ball game, but they won't come to

756
00:27:58,230 --> 00:27:59,190
the prayer meeting tonight.

757
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,140
No church is stronger than its prayer meeting.

758
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,000
The church that isn't praying is playing.

759
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,060
The pastor that isn't praying is straying.

760
00:28:11,860 --> 00:28:13,460
The devil fights your prayer life.

761
00:28:16,020 --> 00:28:17,180
I think of that woman, I get up

762
00:28:17,180 --> 00:28:18,560
now two or three in the morning, I

763
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,240
think there's that precious little woman on the

764
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,300
San Andrea Fault there, and she's got the

765
00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:24,040
destiny almost of millions in her hands.

766
00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:25,240
She said, they're not going to pray till

767
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,580
I live, I'm going to pray, I'm going

768
00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:27,540
to put out my life.

769
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,600
She won't get a Congress medal for it,

770
00:28:30,660 --> 00:28:31,580
she won't be asked to go to the

771
00:28:31,580 --> 00:28:32,180
White House.

772
00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:35,880
In most cases she won't be asked to

773
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,280
go to God's house, they think she's a

774
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:37,620
fanatic.

775
00:28:40,010 --> 00:28:42,250
But there's that one precious woman that's become

776
00:28:42,250 --> 00:28:43,050
my heroine.

777
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,180
Oh yes, yes, I love the stars and

778
00:28:49,180 --> 00:28:49,520
stripes.

779
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:50,520
I keep saying I'm going to get a

780
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:51,880
flag, it hasn't come yet, but anyhow I'm

781
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:52,420
going to get one.

782
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,140
But when I see people singing, is it

783
00:28:55,140 --> 00:28:56,080
this way you do it, with your hand

784
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:56,580
on your heart?

785
00:28:57,020 --> 00:28:58,580
And half of them cheat the income tax

786
00:28:58,580 --> 00:28:59,800
anyhow, they don't love the country.

787
00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:04,180
They break every blessed law they can break,

788
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:04,900
they're hypocrites.

789
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,100
And stand my consciences of thee, O America,

790
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,840
America, how beautiful, except the IRS, go to

791
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:11,060
hell.

792
00:29:19,650 --> 00:29:20,630
You know, I think one of these days

793
00:29:20,630 --> 00:29:21,570
most of them are going to wake up

794
00:29:21,570 --> 00:29:22,370
and take God seriously.

795
00:29:24,930 --> 00:29:26,570
I spoke about two weeks ago about the

796
00:29:26,570 --> 00:29:28,450
barren women in the Bible, where Rachel got

797
00:29:28,450 --> 00:29:29,850
fed up of her jewels and all the

798
00:29:29,850 --> 00:29:30,630
glory and everything.

799
00:29:31,110 --> 00:29:32,870
I noticed this woman, Lot's wife.

800
00:29:33,850 --> 00:29:35,090
Oh brother, was she something.

801
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,180
I'll tell you what a note I made

802
00:29:39,180 --> 00:29:39,900
here about her.

803
00:29:43,110 --> 00:29:45,930
When the judgment came, Lot said, verse 14

804
00:29:45,930 --> 00:29:48,570
of chapter, wait a minute, 19 says this,

805
00:29:48,910 --> 00:29:50,890
Lot went out and spake unto his sons

806
00:29:50,890 --> 00:29:52,450
-in-law, which had married his daughters.

807
00:29:52,590 --> 00:29:54,050
There you are, his sons-in-law had

808
00:29:54,050 --> 00:29:54,870
married his daughters.

809
00:29:56,070 --> 00:29:58,190
The marriage was never consummated, so they had

810
00:29:58,190 --> 00:30:00,270
their sex between themselves, the dogs that they

811
00:30:00,270 --> 00:30:00,510
were.

812
00:30:02,450 --> 00:30:04,170
Which had married his daughters and said, get

813
00:30:04,170 --> 00:30:05,610
you out of this place, for the Lord

814
00:30:05,610 --> 00:30:06,590
will destroy this city.

815
00:30:06,670 --> 00:30:07,890
But he seemed unto them as one of

816
00:30:07,890 --> 00:30:08,190
Mark.

817
00:30:08,570 --> 00:30:10,550
Now this woman had seen the most righteous

818
00:30:10,550 --> 00:30:11,910
man in the world, Abraham.

819
00:30:12,770 --> 00:30:14,390
She'd seen her father when he was on

820
00:30:14,390 --> 00:30:17,050
stretch for God, and she forgot about the

821
00:30:17,050 --> 00:30:18,450
holiness of Abraham.

822
00:30:18,610 --> 00:30:20,170
She forgot about the holiness of Lot.

823
00:30:21,030 --> 00:30:22,870
She forgot that God had already poured his

824
00:30:22,870 --> 00:30:25,130
judgment out in water and flooded the earth,

825
00:30:25,190 --> 00:30:26,290
and now he's going to burn the thing

826
00:30:26,290 --> 00:30:26,530
up.

827
00:30:27,830 --> 00:30:29,330
Let me stick this in your mind again,

828
00:30:29,470 --> 00:30:30,090
like it or not.

829
00:30:30,350 --> 00:30:32,070
There's one reason we don't have revival.

830
00:30:32,190 --> 00:30:32,610
Do you know what it is?

831
00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:33,870
We're content to live without it.

832
00:30:34,530 --> 00:30:37,610
When it becomes number one priority, we'll do

833
00:30:37,610 --> 00:30:38,350
something about it.

834
00:30:39,490 --> 00:30:41,250
There's only one reason the world tonight is

835
00:30:41,250 --> 00:30:42,890
going to hell fire, and that's because the

836
00:30:42,890 --> 00:30:44,250
church has got holy ghost fire.

837
00:30:44,290 --> 00:30:45,650
I don't care whether you've got Holy Insomnia

838
00:30:45,650 --> 00:30:47,050
Church or Pentecost or what it is.

839
00:30:47,730 --> 00:30:49,350
It's a pillar of fire over it.

840
00:30:51,890 --> 00:30:53,790
After tonight, we're going to start our meetings.

841
00:30:53,970 --> 00:30:55,750
Every Friday night, we're going to start with

842
00:30:55,750 --> 00:30:58,190
10 to 15 minutes of total silence.

843
00:30:59,950 --> 00:31:02,410
The Scripture says, be filled with the Spirit.

844
00:31:02,530 --> 00:31:04,070
It also says, be still and know that

845
00:31:04,070 --> 00:31:04,530
I'm God.

846
00:31:04,950 --> 00:31:06,290
We come out of the fever of the

847
00:31:06,290 --> 00:31:07,790
world, and you've been racing up the road,

848
00:31:07,990 --> 00:31:09,370
and you come in here and expect somebody

849
00:31:09,370 --> 00:31:10,310
to become sanctified.

850
00:31:11,270 --> 00:31:13,930
We need 10 minutes, 15 minutes to clear

851
00:31:13,930 --> 00:31:15,530
our minds of all the dross and all

852
00:31:15,530 --> 00:31:17,270
the thinking and all the material things.

853
00:31:17,870 --> 00:31:19,190
The church is earthbound.

854
00:31:20,710 --> 00:31:22,630
We're as materialistic as the man up the

855
00:31:22,630 --> 00:31:23,030
road.

856
00:31:25,890 --> 00:31:27,530
The Lord's going to utterly destroy this place.

857
00:31:27,650 --> 00:31:30,090
He seemed unto them as one that mocked.

858
00:31:30,850 --> 00:31:32,010
I had a man and his wife came

859
00:31:32,010 --> 00:31:36,730
from Pittsburgh, to see me yesterday.

860
00:31:36,870 --> 00:31:37,970
Very delightful man.

861
00:31:39,630 --> 00:31:44,010
I'll tell you why I liked him, because

862
00:31:44,010 --> 00:31:46,350
he agreed with all my idiosyncrasies.

863
00:31:50,250 --> 00:31:52,350
Notice what he said, I've read your books,

864
00:31:52,450 --> 00:31:53,990
my heart beats like yours, but you know

865
00:31:53,990 --> 00:31:54,150
what?

866
00:31:54,230 --> 00:31:55,530
People want to accept my message.

867
00:31:58,790 --> 00:32:00,190
Did you ever accept the message of a

868
00:32:00,190 --> 00:32:00,410
prophet?

869
00:32:02,890 --> 00:32:04,310
If you see a man saying he's a

870
00:32:04,310 --> 00:32:05,770
prophet, and he's well-dressed and has no

871
00:32:05,770 --> 00:32:06,730
scars, forget it.

872
00:32:09,210 --> 00:32:11,990
Maybe he's a prophet, P-R-O-F

873
00:32:11,990 --> 00:32:15,510
-I-T, like most of the big radio

874
00:32:15,510 --> 00:32:15,850
boys.

875
00:32:19,910 --> 00:32:21,650
He seemed as one that mocked to his

876
00:32:21,650 --> 00:32:23,610
sons, and when the morning arose, the angels

877
00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:26,050
hastened to Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife,

878
00:32:26,130 --> 00:32:27,790
thy two daughters, which he had noticed the

879
00:32:27,790 --> 00:32:31,130
sons-in-law left out, lest thou be

880
00:32:31,130 --> 00:32:32,890
consumed in the iniquity of the city.

881
00:32:33,030 --> 00:32:35,090
And while he lingered, even Lot was lingering.

882
00:32:35,710 --> 00:32:36,930
You talk about mercy?

883
00:32:38,150 --> 00:32:42,230
While he lingered, then these angels laid hold

884
00:32:42,230 --> 00:32:43,690
of his hand, and on the hand of

885
00:32:43,690 --> 00:32:45,150
his wife, on the hand of his two

886
00:32:45,150 --> 00:32:46,650
daughters, but not his sons-in-law.

887
00:32:48,050 --> 00:32:50,270
They brought them forth and set them without

888
00:32:50,270 --> 00:32:50,810
the city.

889
00:32:51,730 --> 00:32:54,050
It came to pass when they brought forth,

890
00:32:54,970 --> 00:32:58,490
then forth abroad, he said, Escape for thy

891
00:32:58,490 --> 00:32:59,790
life, look not behind thee.

892
00:33:00,390 --> 00:33:03,250
Verse 26 says, But his wife looked from

893
00:33:03,250 --> 00:33:04,830
behind and became a pillar of salt.

894
00:33:05,870 --> 00:33:07,830
Isn't it amazing, with hell raining from the

895
00:33:07,830 --> 00:33:09,370
sky, she defied God?

896
00:33:12,180 --> 00:33:14,380
It's equally amazing to me tonight that with

897
00:33:14,380 --> 00:33:16,460
judgment coming down on us very soon that

898
00:33:16,460 --> 00:33:17,760
most of the churches are locked up at

899
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:18,400
this very hour.

900
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,180
We're never going to win the world by

901
00:33:22,180 --> 00:33:23,780
organizing, it's only by agonizing.

902
00:33:28,010 --> 00:33:35,510
Then notice, stepping backwards and forwards a little

903
00:33:35,510 --> 00:33:39,790
bit, but anyhow, in the 18th chapter, verse

904
00:33:39,790 --> 00:33:42,010
22 says, The men turned their faces from

905
00:33:42,010 --> 00:33:44,390
thence and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood

906
00:33:44,390 --> 00:33:45,350
before the Lord.

907
00:33:45,410 --> 00:33:46,730
He wasn't going to be moved by anybody.

908
00:33:48,590 --> 00:33:50,610
Abraham drew near and said, Will thou also

909
00:33:50,610 --> 00:33:51,950
destroy the righteous?

910
00:33:52,070 --> 00:33:54,150
He never prayed for Sodom, he never prayed

911
00:33:54,150 --> 00:33:56,230
for Gomorrah, he prayed for the preservation of

912
00:33:56,230 --> 00:33:56,750
the saints.

913
00:33:58,110 --> 00:34:00,110
People say, Oh bless America.

914
00:34:00,890 --> 00:34:04,410
There's a fellow in Dallas preached, not the

915
00:34:04,410 --> 00:34:06,570
4th of July this year, 4th of July

916
00:34:06,570 --> 00:34:08,330
last year, we were in the Bahamas having

917
00:34:08,330 --> 00:34:10,750
a rest, and somebody turned the thing on

918
00:34:10,750 --> 00:34:13,050
and said, Here's a young fellow preaching from,

919
00:34:13,469 --> 00:34:15,429
I never said his name but I won't,

920
00:34:15,650 --> 00:34:18,290
his first name is Bob anyhow, but he's

921
00:34:18,290 --> 00:34:19,050
preaching from Dallas.

922
00:34:19,310 --> 00:34:21,350
At the end, before he preached, the other

923
00:34:21,350 --> 00:34:23,170
man come in Yankee Doodle Trousers, you know,

924
00:34:23,190 --> 00:34:26,730
stripes, white and black, and a blue vest

925
00:34:26,730 --> 00:34:28,429
with stars on, and a tall hat and

926
00:34:28,429 --> 00:34:30,330
a stick, and a guy danced on the

927
00:34:30,330 --> 00:34:32,429
platform singing Yankee Doodle Dandy, you know, just

928
00:34:32,429 --> 00:34:33,290
like Isaiah did.

929
00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:37,659
You know what Isaiah did in the first

930
00:34:37,659 --> 00:34:38,000
chapter?

931
00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:42,520
Then he tries to get serious, Oh how

932
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,360
come you need, Oh my dear wife and

933
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,360
I, we have decided to give America to

934
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:46,880
God.

935
00:34:48,620 --> 00:34:50,420
Good Lord, that's like giving a bride a

936
00:34:50,420 --> 00:34:50,980
bag of manure.

937
00:34:57,530 --> 00:35:00,290
Give America to God, rotting with venereal disease,

938
00:35:00,430 --> 00:35:05,130
rotting with AIDS, with more illegitimate babies than

939
00:35:05,130 --> 00:35:06,550
we've ever had in our history, with more

940
00:35:06,550 --> 00:35:08,210
drunkards we've ever had in our history, with

941
00:35:08,210 --> 00:35:10,550
more people on drugs than we've ever had

942
00:35:10,550 --> 00:35:11,230
in our history.

943
00:35:12,430 --> 00:35:14,170
It doesn't alarm the world, it doesn't alarm

944
00:35:14,170 --> 00:35:14,590
us.

945
00:35:16,070 --> 00:35:17,730
He did not pray for Sodom, he did

946
00:35:17,730 --> 00:35:19,590
not pray for what did he say?

947
00:35:21,310 --> 00:35:23,130
It said in verse 22, the men turned

948
00:35:23,130 --> 00:35:24,990
their faces from thence and went, but Abraham

949
00:35:24,990 --> 00:35:27,770
stood, and the next verse says, Abraham drew

950
00:35:27,770 --> 00:35:29,430
near and said, will thou also for they

951
00:35:29,430 --> 00:35:30,890
destroy the righteous with the wicked?

952
00:35:31,030 --> 00:35:32,830
Put a bench without a fifty righteous within

953
00:35:32,830 --> 00:35:35,510
the city, and notice he mentions that all

954
00:35:35,510 --> 00:35:36,150
the way down.

955
00:35:36,570 --> 00:35:38,830
In verse 23, the righteous, in verse 24,

956
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:41,710
the righteous, in verse 25, the righteous, in

957
00:35:41,710 --> 00:35:42,850
verse 26, the righteous.

958
00:35:43,670 --> 00:35:45,410
He gets down to the end where it

959
00:35:45,410 --> 00:35:47,690
says, if there lack fifty of the righteous,

960
00:35:49,830 --> 00:35:52,270
verse 29 says, he spake yet again and

961
00:35:52,270 --> 00:35:54,550
said, peradventure there shall be forty found there,

962
00:35:54,610 --> 00:35:55,570
and he said, I will not do it

963
00:35:55,570 --> 00:35:56,370
for forty's sake.

964
00:35:59,990 --> 00:36:01,850
Verse 33 says, the Lord went his way

965
00:36:01,850 --> 00:36:03,390
as soon as he had left communing with

966
00:36:03,390 --> 00:36:07,770
Abraham, and Abraham returned unto his place.

967
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,000
And then you go on to that terrible

968
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:13,760
scene again.

969
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:16,940
These girls are spared.

970
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:17,840
How are they spared?

971
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,780
An angel, God in heaven, in mercy comes

972
00:36:20,780 --> 00:36:23,340
to these girls who've had object lessons in

973
00:36:23,340 --> 00:36:24,540
righteousness and holiness.

974
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,380
They've seen the most amazing man.

975
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:28,240
They've seen Abraham.

976
00:36:28,460 --> 00:36:30,200
He was a standing joke in Sodom.

977
00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:32,220
You ever go up the hill there and

978
00:36:32,220 --> 00:36:33,140
see that old man, you know?

979
00:36:33,380 --> 00:36:34,580
He's a marvelous looking character.

980
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,160
Oh, he has such a marvelous beard.

981
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,420
Oh, he's such a marvelous figure.

982
00:36:39,420 --> 00:36:41,780
But watch out, because if you're there, he'll

983
00:36:41,780 --> 00:36:43,860
most likely shed blood, and build an altar,

984
00:36:44,020 --> 00:36:44,460
and pray.

985
00:36:45,020 --> 00:36:46,480
And you know, when he prays, he scares

986
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,020
you to death.

987
00:36:50,620 --> 00:36:52,660
We can't even have any pulpit prayers.

988
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,740
The most shabby thing in church is pulpit

989
00:36:54,740 --> 00:36:55,120
prayers.

990
00:36:58,390 --> 00:37:00,410
I'm reading this verse again here, verse 16,

991
00:37:01,110 --> 00:37:02,050
in chapter 19.

992
00:37:02,390 --> 00:37:05,290
While he lingered, the men laid hold, or

993
00:37:05,290 --> 00:37:06,950
the angels laid hold on his hand, on

994
00:37:06,950 --> 00:37:08,290
the hand of his wife, on the hand

995
00:37:08,290 --> 00:37:09,210
of his two daughters.

996
00:37:09,330 --> 00:37:10,190
What did they do?

997
00:37:11,250 --> 00:37:12,430
I'll tell you what they did.

998
00:37:14,910 --> 00:37:17,890
They got from out of the place, Lot's

999
00:37:17,890 --> 00:37:20,210
wife, of course, here now, has looked back,

1000
00:37:20,270 --> 00:37:21,750
and she's turned into a pillar of salt.

1001
00:37:21,870 --> 00:37:23,270
She's looking back to the country club.

1002
00:37:23,750 --> 00:37:25,070
She's looking back at the place where she

1003
00:37:25,070 --> 00:37:25,850
bought all the jewels.

1004
00:37:25,950 --> 00:37:27,010
She hasn't got them with her, and they

1005
00:37:27,010 --> 00:37:28,110
were ashes before long.

1006
00:37:30,730 --> 00:37:32,370
As I've said before, we sing, Let the

1007
00:37:32,370 --> 00:37:33,990
beauty of Jesus be seen in me.

1008
00:37:35,850 --> 00:37:37,330
And we sing the end of that chorus.

1009
00:37:40,410 --> 00:37:41,750
Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in

1010
00:37:41,750 --> 00:37:41,870
me.

1011
00:37:41,950 --> 00:37:43,630
All is wonderful, passion and purity.

1012
00:37:44,470 --> 00:37:47,230
All thou spirit divine, all my nature refine.

1013
00:37:49,170 --> 00:37:51,030
Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in

1014
00:37:51,030 --> 00:37:51,250
me.

1015
00:37:52,590 --> 00:37:54,450
You see, when a man is purifying gold,

1016
00:37:54,530 --> 00:37:57,070
he puts the mixture, the gold, the alloy,

1017
00:37:57,230 --> 00:38:00,410
in a crucible, modern crucible, an induction crucible.

1018
00:38:00,910 --> 00:38:02,530
And he sits there with a sieve, and

1019
00:38:02,530 --> 00:38:03,410
he takes the scum.

1020
00:38:03,890 --> 00:38:05,370
Gold is the heaviest of all metals.

1021
00:38:05,470 --> 00:38:06,310
It falls to the bottom.

1022
00:38:06,790 --> 00:38:08,390
The rubbish comes to the top, he takes

1023
00:38:08,390 --> 00:38:09,570
it off and throws it away, takes it

1024
00:38:09,570 --> 00:38:10,190
off, throws it away.

1025
00:38:13,670 --> 00:38:14,970
He doesn't take it off this time.

1026
00:38:14,970 --> 00:38:15,170
Why?

1027
00:38:15,290 --> 00:38:15,890
Because of Islam.

1028
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:18,600
It's pure.

1029
00:38:18,660 --> 00:38:19,460
How does he know it's pure?

1030
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,140
Because as soon as it's pure, it reflects

1031
00:38:21,140 --> 00:38:21,680
the maker.

1032
00:38:24,770 --> 00:38:25,470
Reflection there.

1033
00:38:26,930 --> 00:38:28,630
Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in

1034
00:38:28,630 --> 00:38:28,770
me.

1035
00:38:28,850 --> 00:38:30,330
But brother's going to take the dross out.

1036
00:38:30,410 --> 00:38:31,630
He's going to put you through the fire

1037
00:38:31,630 --> 00:38:32,390
to take it out.

1038
00:38:35,030 --> 00:38:37,130
We speak of the Holy Ghost stand with

1039
00:38:37,130 --> 00:38:38,790
fire, but that's not what the scripture says.

1040
00:38:38,930 --> 00:38:40,530
The whole, the word, the scripture, the Greek

1041
00:38:40,530 --> 00:38:41,690
says, Holy Ghost fire.

1042
00:38:42,210 --> 00:38:44,210
It's not the Holy Ghost plus fire, it's

1043
00:38:44,210 --> 00:38:46,050
the Holy Ghost who is fire, because our

1044
00:38:46,050 --> 00:38:47,330
God is consuming fire.

1045
00:38:48,670 --> 00:38:50,410
And again, you never have to advertise a

1046
00:38:50,410 --> 00:38:50,650
fire.

1047
00:38:50,810 --> 00:38:52,710
Every time you advertise in the newspaper, you're

1048
00:38:52,710 --> 00:38:53,710
advertising your bankruptcy.

1049
00:38:55,210 --> 00:38:57,030
If a pillar of fire ever comes in

1050
00:38:57,030 --> 00:38:58,710
your church, you'll never advertise again.

1051
00:39:03,430 --> 00:39:05,310
Neither may be comfortable, but it's true anyhow.

1052
00:39:07,970 --> 00:39:09,350
His wife looked back, at what?

1053
00:39:09,410 --> 00:39:11,030
At a country club, at the place where

1054
00:39:11,030 --> 00:39:12,450
she bought her, what do you call them

1055
00:39:12,450 --> 00:39:14,610
now, Christian Dior clothes, and all the rest

1056
00:39:14,610 --> 00:39:16,550
of it, and all the jewels.

1057
00:39:17,710 --> 00:39:18,950
They weren't a bit of good now.

1058
00:39:19,710 --> 00:39:21,370
But where your treasure is, there will your

1059
00:39:21,370 --> 00:39:21,770
heart be.

1060
00:39:21,950 --> 00:39:24,430
She was following outwardly, but inwardly she was

1061
00:39:24,430 --> 00:39:25,510
fretting, not following.

1062
00:39:25,710 --> 00:39:27,130
She's worried about the house.

1063
00:39:27,230 --> 00:39:28,670
She's worried about all the antiques.

1064
00:39:28,790 --> 00:39:30,210
She's worried about all the treasures in the

1065
00:39:30,210 --> 00:39:30,530
place.

1066
00:39:32,990 --> 00:39:34,270
But notice verse 29.

1067
00:39:34,530 --> 00:39:36,430
It came to pass when God destroyed the

1068
00:39:36,430 --> 00:39:39,430
cities of the pen, God remembered Abraham.

1069
00:39:40,070 --> 00:39:40,490
Come on.

1070
00:39:42,270 --> 00:39:44,330
The one man that prayed and is delivered,

1071
00:39:44,630 --> 00:39:45,970
God remembers him.

1072
00:39:47,330 --> 00:39:48,770
Because he'd obeyed God.

1073
00:39:49,530 --> 00:39:50,870
He'd heard the voice of God.

1074
00:39:52,410 --> 00:39:54,470
And therefore, God answers prayer for the man

1075
00:39:54,470 --> 00:39:55,610
who didn't pray for himself.

1076
00:39:56,510 --> 00:39:58,350
I don't read that Lot built any altars.

1077
00:39:58,430 --> 00:39:59,990
He was too busy building his bank book

1078
00:39:59,990 --> 00:40:00,170
up.

1079
00:40:01,750 --> 00:40:03,750
I don't read anywhere that he prayed.

1080
00:40:04,950 --> 00:40:07,050
Old Abraham is keeping his daily habit of

1081
00:40:07,050 --> 00:40:08,090
contact with God.

1082
00:40:09,230 --> 00:40:10,330
He builds his altar.

1083
00:40:10,470 --> 00:40:11,710
He stands against the ridicule.

1084
00:40:12,230 --> 00:40:13,990
I imagine people come and want his autograph.

1085
00:40:14,430 --> 00:40:16,030
They see that camera that's taking his photograph.

1086
00:40:16,730 --> 00:40:18,610
But it's impervious to all the thinking of

1087
00:40:18,610 --> 00:40:18,950
the world.

1088
00:40:19,050 --> 00:40:21,250
It's impervious to whatever Lot, his nephew, might

1089
00:40:21,250 --> 00:40:21,570
say.

1090
00:40:22,870 --> 00:40:24,410
He's seen the face of God.

1091
00:40:24,490 --> 00:40:25,550
He's heard the voice of God.

1092
00:40:25,610 --> 00:40:26,770
I tell you, if you see the face

1093
00:40:26,770 --> 00:40:27,710
of God and hear the voice of God,

1094
00:40:27,750 --> 00:40:28,790
all hell won't move you.

1095
00:40:31,380 --> 00:40:32,620
I'm glad you chose that hymn tonight.

1096
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:33,680
I've been thinking of it during the week.

1097
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,840
How firm a foundation these saints of the

1098
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:36,080
Lord.

1099
00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:38,900
You may tremble on the rock, but I'll

1100
00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:40,120
tell you what, the rock will never tremble

1101
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:40,820
under you anyhow.

1102
00:40:42,260 --> 00:40:44,340
The foundation is laid in the blood of

1103
00:40:44,340 --> 00:40:47,080
Jesus Christ, in the exceeding great and precious

1104
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:48,140
promises of God.

1105
00:40:49,820 --> 00:40:51,160
I say again, as I've said in one

1106
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:52,640
of my books, one day somebody's going to

1107
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:53,720
read the Bible and believe it.

1108
00:40:53,780 --> 00:40:54,900
When they do, we'll all be embarrassed.

1109
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,400
That's why you get kids in foreign countries

1110
00:40:58,400 --> 00:40:59,940
who only have about one chapter of the

1111
00:40:59,940 --> 00:41:01,240
Bible, and they read it and they believe

1112
00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:01,500
it.

1113
00:41:04,230 --> 00:41:05,510
And the messengers are astounded.

1114
00:41:05,750 --> 00:41:07,110
Oh, I went to school in America.

1115
00:41:07,510 --> 00:41:08,610
Doesn't matter whether you went to school in

1116
00:41:08,610 --> 00:41:10,130
America or in hell, as far as they're

1117
00:41:10,130 --> 00:41:10,390
concerned.

1118
00:41:11,150 --> 00:41:12,970
Shows the works of God and they can't

1119
00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:13,330
do it.

1120
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,660
I've told you, I'm sick of theology on

1121
00:41:17,660 --> 00:41:17,980
paper.

1122
00:41:21,620 --> 00:41:23,120
I'm sick of just reading the Word of

1123
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:24,220
God, and I go to a meeting and

1124
00:41:24,220 --> 00:41:25,220
somebody says, God is here.

1125
00:41:25,300 --> 00:41:26,140
Oh, shut up.

1126
00:41:28,790 --> 00:41:31,230
If you put 500 roses in a room

1127
00:41:31,230 --> 00:41:32,710
and bring a blind man in, he'll tell

1128
00:41:32,710 --> 00:41:33,830
you whether the rose is there or not.

1129
00:41:33,930 --> 00:41:34,810
You won't have to tell him.

1130
00:41:35,830 --> 00:41:37,530
If God is there, I don't need you

1131
00:41:37,530 --> 00:41:39,230
or Gabriel to tell me God is there.

1132
00:41:39,290 --> 00:41:39,890
I'm a spirit.

1133
00:41:40,010 --> 00:41:40,670
God is a spirit.

1134
00:41:40,810 --> 00:41:42,550
His spirit bears witness with my spirit.

1135
00:41:42,550 --> 00:41:44,310
You can't persuade me God is there if

1136
00:41:44,310 --> 00:41:44,970
he isn't.

1137
00:41:45,690 --> 00:41:47,830
Because we sang my favorite hymn, All Hail

1138
00:41:47,830 --> 00:41:49,710
King Jesus, and had a marvelous feeling in

1139
00:41:49,710 --> 00:41:50,230
our bellies.

1140
00:41:51,810 --> 00:41:53,250
We had a brother prayed there a few

1141
00:41:53,250 --> 00:41:54,470
nights ago, I'll never forget it.

1142
00:41:54,870 --> 00:41:57,190
He was very, very, very profoundly moved.

1143
00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:00,850
And he said, God, the reason why our

1144
00:42:00,850 --> 00:42:02,410
young people are not in the church is

1145
00:42:02,410 --> 00:42:04,030
they've never seen the Shekinah glory.

1146
00:42:04,290 --> 00:42:05,970
They see the lights of the world, and

1147
00:42:05,970 --> 00:42:07,650
the lights of the world dazzle them, because

1148
00:42:07,650 --> 00:42:09,250
there's no light and glory inside.

1149
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:13,980
When the glory comes, you know what, we

1150
00:42:13,980 --> 00:42:15,620
won't put these lights out for weeks.

1151
00:42:18,750 --> 00:42:21,170
In the Welsh Revival, I wasn't living then.

1152
00:42:21,830 --> 00:42:22,990
I was living a few years after.

1153
00:42:23,370 --> 00:42:24,730
But I went to Wales and I met

1154
00:42:24,730 --> 00:42:26,190
people a hundred years old who went to

1155
00:42:26,190 --> 00:42:26,930
the Welsh Revival.

1156
00:42:27,990 --> 00:42:29,510
As I say, I talked with Duncan Campbell.

1157
00:42:29,670 --> 00:42:30,850
The tears were coming into his eyes, and

1158
00:42:30,850 --> 00:42:32,750
he said, Brother Raymond, most of our people

1159
00:42:32,750 --> 00:42:33,890
never seen the glory of God.

1160
00:42:35,670 --> 00:42:36,970
God remembered Abraham.

1161
00:42:38,270 --> 00:42:40,650
Verse 30, Lot went up out to Zoar,

1162
00:42:40,670 --> 00:42:42,730
and he dwelt in the mountains, and his

1163
00:42:42,730 --> 00:42:43,750
two daughters with him.

1164
00:42:44,010 --> 00:42:45,710
Now, these are the two girls, come on

1165
00:42:45,710 --> 00:42:45,970
now.

1166
00:42:46,170 --> 00:42:47,870
They've seen all their city consumed.

1167
00:42:48,110 --> 00:42:49,670
They've seen their buildings consumed.

1168
00:42:49,810 --> 00:42:51,330
They've seen their government consumed.

1169
00:42:51,730 --> 00:42:53,250
They've seen their markets consumed.

1170
00:42:53,430 --> 00:42:54,670
They've seen everything consumed.

1171
00:42:54,850 --> 00:42:55,530
What do they do?

1172
00:42:55,990 --> 00:42:57,690
They get their father drunk and lie with

1173
00:42:57,690 --> 00:42:57,810
him.

1174
00:42:57,910 --> 00:42:58,350
They're bitches.

1175
00:42:59,670 --> 00:43:00,690
You say, that's a bad word.

1176
00:43:00,730 --> 00:43:01,770
Well, I looked it up in the dictionary,

1177
00:43:02,690 --> 00:43:04,410
and it said, bitches, a female dog, or

1178
00:43:04,410 --> 00:43:06,730
a dirty woman who's immoral and corrupt.

1179
00:43:07,830 --> 00:43:09,630
And they got their father drunk, it says

1180
00:43:09,630 --> 00:43:11,030
in verse 33.

1181
00:43:11,670 --> 00:43:13,530
They made their father drink that night.

1182
00:43:13,850 --> 00:43:15,370
The firstborn went in and lay with him

1183
00:43:15,370 --> 00:43:16,870
and perceived not when she lay down.

1184
00:43:17,230 --> 00:43:18,390
He came to pass on the model.

1185
00:43:18,570 --> 00:43:23,130
The firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I

1186
00:43:23,130 --> 00:43:24,670
lay with my father yesterday night.

1187
00:43:25,430 --> 00:43:26,310
I made him drink.

1188
00:43:26,970 --> 00:43:27,630
Go thou in.

1189
00:43:28,450 --> 00:43:30,370
And it says, verse 35, they made their

1190
00:43:30,370 --> 00:43:30,950
father drunk.

1191
00:43:31,030 --> 00:43:33,590
Verse 36, they were both daughters of Lot,

1192
00:43:34,510 --> 00:43:35,930
were in childbirth their father.

1193
00:43:36,970 --> 00:43:38,810
Could you think a girl who'd been rescued

1194
00:43:38,810 --> 00:43:41,990
by a living mortal, an immortal angel, dragged

1195
00:43:41,990 --> 00:43:43,530
by the wrist, would dare to get her

1196
00:43:43,530 --> 00:43:45,810
father drunk and lie with him, and become

1197
00:43:45,810 --> 00:43:47,570
a dirty dog herself, or bitch?

1198
00:43:48,590 --> 00:43:50,050
That's a dirty word, but I use it.

1199
00:43:51,610 --> 00:43:52,670
Because that's what she was.

1200
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,640
It used to hurt me profoundly.

1201
00:43:57,740 --> 00:43:59,100
I worked in the first days with Dave

1202
00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:00,920
Wilkins in New York 20 years ago.

1203
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,220
I remember when that girl came out in

1204
00:44:04,220 --> 00:44:06,000
the office, she was spectacularly beautiful.

1205
00:44:07,260 --> 00:44:08,900
She came up in a snow white caddy

1206
00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:09,780
like a convertible.

1207
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:12,540
Boy, she was something.

1208
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:15,600
What are you here for?

1209
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,120
My friend here needs help.

1210
00:44:19,180 --> 00:44:19,960
Dave came in.

1211
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:21,780
I said, Dave, this girl says, Dave said,

1212
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:22,400
you need help.

1213
00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:25,920
Oh, well, I used to go to church.

1214
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,060
I was filled with the spirit.

1215
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:28,200
I spoke in tongues.

1216
00:44:28,900 --> 00:44:30,860
And I can recite the 23rd Psalm.

1217
00:44:30,940 --> 00:44:31,660
I can do this.

1218
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:32,700
What are you doing now?

1219
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:36,000
Never mind.

1220
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:36,740
What are you doing?

1221
00:44:38,420 --> 00:44:39,460
Why have you come here?

1222
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:40,460
I'm prostituting.

1223
00:44:41,420 --> 00:44:43,160
She said, I sat on the front row

1224
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,160
in the choir and enjoyed services, and now

1225
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:45,880
here she is.

1226
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,640
I read an awful word in, what was

1227
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,220
it, 1 Samuel, I forget the chapter.

1228
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,640
Remember the sons of Eli, how they corrupted

1229
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:56,140
themselves.

1230
00:44:56,300 --> 00:44:58,060
And God says, the house of Eli will

1231
00:44:58,060 --> 00:44:58,960
never be purged.

1232
00:44:59,100 --> 00:45:00,820
Bring all the sacrifices you need.

1233
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,160
And they're wiped out.

1234
00:45:04,310 --> 00:45:06,130
I believe some denominations will be wiped out

1235
00:45:06,130 --> 00:45:06,630
before long.

1236
00:45:07,710 --> 00:45:08,970
They've toyed with truth.

1237
00:45:10,770 --> 00:45:12,110
Preachers are not going to be judged only

1238
00:45:12,110 --> 00:45:13,550
for what they've said, but what they wouldn't

1239
00:45:13,550 --> 00:45:14,790
dare to say they're going to be judged

1240
00:45:14,790 --> 00:45:15,250
for too.

1241
00:45:18,130 --> 00:45:19,030
And that's going to be tough.

1242
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,560
One man stands in the gap.

1243
00:45:28,910 --> 00:45:30,090
You know what preachers do when they get

1244
00:45:30,090 --> 00:45:32,870
going, going gets hard, decide to go into

1245
00:45:32,870 --> 00:45:33,370
politics.

1246
00:45:35,510 --> 00:45:37,250
Guys keep calling, I think I should go

1247
00:45:37,250 --> 00:45:37,710
into politics.

1248
00:45:38,010 --> 00:45:39,230
I think I should go to Washington.

1249
00:45:39,430 --> 00:45:40,770
I said, you want to act like that's

1250
00:45:40,770 --> 00:45:40,930
right?

1251
00:45:41,250 --> 00:45:43,350
It's like taking an ice cube and dropping

1252
00:45:43,350 --> 00:45:44,870
it in a volcano and say you'll cool

1253
00:45:44,870 --> 00:45:45,270
it down.

1254
00:45:47,370 --> 00:45:48,490
You won't do a thing when you get

1255
00:45:48,490 --> 00:45:50,830
to Washington except become as corrupt as the

1256
00:45:50,830 --> 00:45:51,410
rest of the gang.

1257
00:45:53,190 --> 00:45:54,710
If God has called you to the ministry,

1258
00:45:54,850 --> 00:45:56,030
it's the loftiest thing in the world.

1259
00:45:56,090 --> 00:45:57,150
Don't stoop to be a king.

1260
00:45:57,290 --> 00:45:58,630
Don't stoop to be the president of the

1261
00:45:58,630 --> 00:45:59,310
United States.

1262
00:45:59,430 --> 00:46:00,550
Don't stoop to be the king of England.

1263
00:46:01,010 --> 00:46:03,990
We deal with the loftiest, mightiest, eternal things.

1264
00:46:04,870 --> 00:46:07,570
We're not settling temporary judgments as to whether

1265
00:46:07,570 --> 00:46:09,270
they should widen the road or cut down

1266
00:46:09,270 --> 00:46:10,670
some houses and make a new road.

1267
00:46:10,770 --> 00:46:11,710
We're dealing with eternity.

1268
00:46:14,470 --> 00:46:15,970
Well I'm praying the next three nights.

1269
00:46:16,090 --> 00:46:17,790
Tomorrow night we're going to speak on prayer.

1270
00:46:19,670 --> 00:46:21,310
Sunday night on holiness and vision.

1271
00:46:22,590 --> 00:46:24,230
Monday night I think on the judgment seat

1272
00:46:24,230 --> 00:46:25,790
of Christ for sinners and for saints.

1273
00:46:26,690 --> 00:46:27,970
The next night maybe on worship.

1274
00:46:29,410 --> 00:46:30,670
I promise you it will be good.

1275
00:46:30,750 --> 00:46:32,350
There are some people fasting and praying for

1276
00:46:32,350 --> 00:46:32,810
that meeting.

1277
00:46:32,930 --> 00:46:35,130
I'm amazed how many people have called in

1278
00:46:35,130 --> 00:46:36,990
and said I don't go there but I'm

1279
00:46:36,990 --> 00:46:37,470
going to go.

1280
00:46:37,890 --> 00:46:39,710
Not because you're there but God wants you

1281
00:46:39,710 --> 00:46:40,010
to go.

1282
00:46:41,910 --> 00:46:43,270
Personally I don't care whether you come or

1283
00:46:43,270 --> 00:46:43,450
not.

1284
00:46:45,030 --> 00:46:46,430
I admit I wouldn't like to preach from

1285
00:46:46,430 --> 00:46:47,010
empty seats.

1286
00:46:47,770 --> 00:46:51,840
But on the other hand if the God's

1287
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,580
there, I wouldn't like you to miss it.

1288
00:46:57,930 --> 00:47:00,910
God used Abraham, one man.

1289
00:47:03,830 --> 00:47:06,750
God used Duncan Campbell with the background of

1290
00:47:06,750 --> 00:47:09,810
old crippled old ladies, 82, 83, 84, who

1291
00:47:09,810 --> 00:47:11,350
fasted and prayed for weeks.

1292
00:47:13,610 --> 00:47:15,530
Who made a holy covenant before God they

1293
00:47:15,530 --> 00:47:17,050
wouldn't die until you rent the heavens and

1294
00:47:17,050 --> 00:47:17,990
God did exactly that.

1295
00:47:22,790 --> 00:47:24,550
It troubles me there's so little passion in

1296
00:47:24,550 --> 00:47:25,070
our praying.

1297
00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:29,120
You can get enthusiastic at a football match

1298
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,260
or some other thing but when it comes

1299
00:47:30,260 --> 00:47:33,380
to eternity and lost men and women, there's

1300
00:47:33,380 --> 00:47:35,060
not much zeal, there's not much passion, not

1301
00:47:35,060 --> 00:47:35,660
many tears.

1302
00:47:40,330 --> 00:47:42,090
I remember walking on the main street in

1303
00:47:42,090 --> 00:47:42,850
Edmonds, Scotland.

1304
00:47:42,990 --> 00:47:44,830
I looked at the cathedral there and remembered

1305
00:47:44,830 --> 00:47:45,490
John Knox.

1306
00:47:46,770 --> 00:47:49,310
That precious, precious man, a brilliant scholar.

1307
00:47:50,070 --> 00:47:51,850
But he lost sight of his eloquence.

1308
00:47:51,930 --> 00:47:53,890
He lost sight of his monumental sermons and

1309
00:47:53,890 --> 00:47:55,630
he got angry and he got to a

1310
00:47:55,630 --> 00:47:56,390
place of passion.

1311
00:47:57,750 --> 00:48:01,230
And remember he took the words of Rachel,

1312
00:48:01,390 --> 00:48:02,770
give me children or I die.

1313
00:48:03,310 --> 00:48:05,030
And again she didn't say that when she'd

1314
00:48:05,030 --> 00:48:06,570
made her hair nice and put on her

1315
00:48:06,570 --> 00:48:07,030
best dress.

1316
00:48:07,110 --> 00:48:08,410
She flung herself at the feet of her

1317
00:48:08,410 --> 00:48:09,830
husband, give me children or I die.

1318
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,260
In the 1500s Richard Baxter went to Kidderminster,

1319
00:48:15,380 --> 00:48:16,880
my dear wife and I went to that

1320
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:17,400
town often.

1321
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,320
When he went there wasn't one family in

1322
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,020
the town that had family devotions.

1323
00:48:24,740 --> 00:48:26,840
He had revival on the local level to

1324
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:27,320
this degree.

1325
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,560
They built five galleries in that huge church

1326
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,460
and he packed every one of them.

1327
00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:36,640
Before the revival there wasn't one family in

1328
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:37,860
town had devotions.

1329
00:48:37,940 --> 00:48:39,540
When he died there wasn't one family in

1330
00:48:39,540 --> 00:48:40,440
town that didn't have them.

1331
00:48:42,710 --> 00:48:43,950
I'm burdened about that word.

1332
00:48:44,070 --> 00:48:44,790
We use it so often.

1333
00:48:44,870 --> 00:48:46,110
I guess you preachers use it.

1334
00:48:46,630 --> 00:48:48,190
This church we're part of the body.

1335
00:48:48,390 --> 00:48:49,530
Are you really part of the body?

1336
00:48:51,990 --> 00:48:53,070
Christ is the head.

1337
00:48:53,530 --> 00:48:55,110
If you sever the head from the body

1338
00:48:55,110 --> 00:48:55,730
you've got nothing.

1339
00:48:56,830 --> 00:48:58,490
If Christ isn't the head of your church

1340
00:48:58,490 --> 00:48:59,010
you've got nothing.

1341
00:48:59,110 --> 00:49:00,230
You may have a good bank balance and

1342
00:49:00,230 --> 00:49:00,790
a good account.

1343
00:49:01,490 --> 00:49:02,630
Come on are we the body?

1344
00:49:02,930 --> 00:49:04,670
Because Jesus said this is my body.

1345
00:49:04,770 --> 00:49:07,490
His most sacred holy body says he's broken.

1346
00:49:08,470 --> 00:49:09,770
Do you know a church that says to

1347
00:49:09,770 --> 00:49:11,450
God break us to pieces if you like.

1348
00:49:11,570 --> 00:49:12,570
Take our deacons away.

1349
00:49:12,670 --> 00:49:13,910
Take our Sunday school teachers away.

1350
00:49:14,030 --> 00:49:14,610
Break us.

1351
00:49:15,890 --> 00:49:17,850
But in holy pity do something for this

1352
00:49:17,850 --> 00:49:19,690
hell-bound community I'm living in.

1353
00:49:22,390 --> 00:49:24,390
John Knox says give me Scotland or I

1354
00:49:24,390 --> 00:49:24,870
die.

1355
00:49:28,270 --> 00:49:30,050
At the same time John Welsh up the

1356
00:49:30,050 --> 00:49:31,790
road a poor man has a blanket on

1357
00:49:31,790 --> 00:49:33,930
his bed and he gets out of bed

1358
00:49:33,930 --> 00:49:35,190
in the morning at three o'clock.

1359
00:49:36,630 --> 00:49:37,810
There's no heat in the house.

1360
00:49:38,230 --> 00:49:39,850
He takes out a big old Scottish plaid

1361
00:49:39,850 --> 00:49:40,590
and wraps it around.

1362
00:49:40,690 --> 00:49:42,190
He's groaning on his belly on the floor

1363
00:49:42,190 --> 00:49:43,970
and his wife says get into bed laddie.

1364
00:49:44,050 --> 00:49:44,790
Get into bed.

1365
00:49:45,650 --> 00:49:47,410
He says woman how can I sleep when

1366
00:49:47,410 --> 00:49:49,350
there are three thousand people in this parish

1367
00:49:49,350 --> 00:49:50,570
going to a lost eternity.

1368
00:49:53,450 --> 00:49:56,550
I picked up the wonderful diary of McShane.

1369
00:49:56,730 --> 00:49:57,330
I read it often.

1370
00:49:58,690 --> 00:50:00,350
McShane was the brainard of Scotland.

1371
00:50:00,490 --> 00:50:01,270
He died at 29.

1372
00:50:01,470 --> 00:50:02,610
He was a genius in Hebrew.

1373
00:50:04,490 --> 00:50:08,230
He went as a missionary to Israel and

1374
00:50:08,230 --> 00:50:09,690
when he got there God said go back

1375
00:50:09,690 --> 00:50:10,030
home.

1376
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:13,820
Maybe I mentioned last week a man that

1377
00:50:13,820 --> 00:50:19,140
was in our house two weeks ago from

1378
00:50:19,140 --> 00:50:20,400
a little fellowship called Zion.

1379
00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:21,920
I walked in the upper room there after

1380
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,400
preaching one Sunday morning to about 80-90

1381
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:24,780
people.

1382
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:26,780
I went up to see this man Rex

1383
00:50:26,780 --> 00:50:29,200
Andrews.

1384
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,540
Wide head man, little white beard, blue eyes,

1385
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,760
cheeks any girl would envy, pink.

1386
00:50:38,380 --> 00:50:39,560
I was looking at one of the most

1387
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,640
amazing men America's had in a hundred years.

1388
00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:42,080
Do you know why?

1389
00:50:42,380 --> 00:50:43,760
The man I looked at hadn't been to

1390
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,700
bed one night in 30 years.

1391
00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:49,240
Not 30 days, not 30 weeks, 30 years

1392
00:50:50,750 --> 00:50:53,010
living in America nobody knew.

1393
00:50:53,110 --> 00:50:55,090
All the big preachers were getting on TV

1394
00:50:55,090 --> 00:50:55,950
and showing off.

1395
00:50:56,050 --> 00:50:57,590
Here's a man shut up with God from

1396
00:50:57,590 --> 00:50:59,410
10 o'clock every night till 5 in

1397
00:50:59,410 --> 00:50:59,830
the morning.

1398
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,200
I'm embarrassed to say I get up early

1399
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:05,720
and pray when I think of that man.

1400
00:51:08,650 --> 00:51:11,470
Four, five, six hours every night of his

1401
00:51:11,470 --> 00:51:14,590
life for what 30 years.

1402
00:51:16,850 --> 00:51:18,510
I look at my dear wife every morning.

1403
00:51:19,290 --> 00:51:20,530
I give her a hug and kisses.

1404
00:51:20,910 --> 00:51:22,270
I think she's lovely as she was when

1405
00:51:22,270 --> 00:51:23,670
we got married 46 years ago.

1406
00:51:26,450 --> 00:51:28,350
I've been faithful to my wife for 46

1407
00:51:28,350 --> 00:51:28,750
years.

1408
00:51:28,850 --> 00:51:30,350
Can't I be faithful to God for 46?

1409
00:51:31,050 --> 00:51:32,990
Despite the world, the flesh, the devil and

1410
00:51:32,990 --> 00:51:34,170
everything wants to hinder me.

1411
00:51:34,970 --> 00:51:36,370
Can't I make a vow to God?

1412
00:51:36,890 --> 00:51:39,730
I don't make vows these days because I

1413
00:51:39,730 --> 00:51:40,790
know if I make them I'll keep them.

1414
00:51:43,460 --> 00:51:44,740
If I know if I wouldn't make one

1415
00:51:44,740 --> 00:51:45,840
or two of them I'd like to make

1416
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,140
I'd be dead in six months.

1417
00:51:49,910 --> 00:51:51,450
Maybe God will test me on it.

1418
00:51:53,950 --> 00:51:55,610
I'm sick to death of mediocrity.

1419
00:51:59,030 --> 00:52:00,970
I'm tired of assembly lines that turn off

1420
00:52:00,970 --> 00:52:02,830
kids up at, what do you call it

1421
00:52:02,830 --> 00:52:03,010
now?

1422
00:52:05,730 --> 00:52:07,070
Springfield, off the assembly line.

1423
00:52:07,130 --> 00:52:08,530
The guys don't know God, never mind the

1424
00:52:08,530 --> 00:52:09,430
baptism of the Holy Ghost.

1425
00:52:09,530 --> 00:52:11,050
They speak in tongues, proves nothing as far

1426
00:52:11,050 --> 00:52:11,650
as I'm concerned.

1427
00:52:12,790 --> 00:52:15,190
Every Mormon nearly over in Utah speaks in

1428
00:52:15,190 --> 00:52:15,430
tongues.

1429
00:52:15,590 --> 00:52:16,530
They'll tell you that proudly.

1430
00:52:18,070 --> 00:52:20,430
Every Christian scientist will tell you every medical

1431
00:52:20,430 --> 00:52:21,890
order Roberts has had they've had.

1432
00:52:22,970 --> 00:52:25,010
There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost

1433
00:52:25,010 --> 00:52:26,770
in your life and that's a holy life.

1434
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:30,020
That's the only proof.

1435
00:52:33,670 --> 00:52:35,110
And the second proof is you're easy to

1436
00:52:35,110 --> 00:52:35,530
live with.

1437
00:52:38,330 --> 00:52:39,750
Don't ask my wife here, come around the

1438
00:52:39,750 --> 00:52:41,250
back door someday, ask her if I'm easy

1439
00:52:41,250 --> 00:52:42,950
to live with, if I'm not, write me

1440
00:52:42,950 --> 00:52:43,650
off as a hypocrite.

1441
00:52:47,490 --> 00:52:49,230
Preserve the righteousness of your saints.

1442
00:52:50,090 --> 00:52:51,630
If we can get a holy band of

1443
00:52:51,630 --> 00:52:53,330
people we can see God do as much

1444
00:52:53,330 --> 00:52:54,470
as ever he's done in history.

1445
00:52:56,970 --> 00:52:58,670
People will say we're arrogant, we're funny.

1446
00:53:00,530 --> 00:53:01,970
Well surely in God's name you don't like

1447
00:53:01,970 --> 00:53:02,870
that bunch do you?

1448
00:53:04,670 --> 00:53:06,810
I'd rather be considered the biggest idiot in

1449
00:53:06,810 --> 00:53:08,250
the world with the anointing of God than

1450
00:53:08,250 --> 00:53:09,490
be the smartest man outside.

1451
00:53:12,130 --> 00:53:13,810
I don't see much of these big fashionable

1452
00:53:13,810 --> 00:53:15,950
churches, how about these big wonderful preachers?

1453
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:19,720
I'm trying to write another book I get

1454
00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:20,420
scared to write.

1455
00:53:23,150 --> 00:53:24,610
I'll tell you why, because once I say

1456
00:53:24,610 --> 00:53:25,950
something to you God puts it on a

1457
00:53:25,950 --> 00:53:27,190
plate and says eat it yourself.

1458
00:53:28,770 --> 00:53:31,050
Otherwise I'm just giving you advice, I'm waving

1459
00:53:31,050 --> 00:53:32,650
my hands, go that way for healing and

1460
00:53:32,650 --> 00:53:33,950
this way for writing and that way for

1461
00:53:33,950 --> 00:53:34,570
something else.

1462
00:53:37,730 --> 00:53:38,790
I say to me that one of the

1463
00:53:38,790 --> 00:53:41,230
awful things of our day is that Calvary

1464
00:53:41,230 --> 00:53:42,630
has become a tourist attraction.

1465
00:53:44,490 --> 00:53:46,130
Oh I went to the place where Jesus

1466
00:53:46,130 --> 00:53:48,890
was crucified, I picked up a little stone,

1467
00:53:49,090 --> 00:53:50,310
I brought it, I thought you'd like a

1468
00:53:50,310 --> 00:53:51,690
souvenir, put it down, I don't want it.

1469
00:53:54,450 --> 00:53:55,990
There are lots of people going to Calvary,

1470
00:53:56,070 --> 00:53:59,510
not many people getting on the cross, not

1471
00:53:59,510 --> 00:54:01,010
many people who really want to die.

1472
00:54:04,650 --> 00:54:08,070
I've gone around the circle but listen, if

1473
00:54:08,070 --> 00:54:09,530
there isn't a presentation of the Holy Ghost

1474
00:54:09,530 --> 00:54:11,350
fire there'll be a judgment fire before long

1475
00:54:11,350 --> 00:54:11,730
in America.

1476
00:54:11,850 --> 00:54:13,770
You may agree or disagree with Dave Wilkerson's

1477
00:54:13,770 --> 00:54:14,170
new book.

1478
00:54:15,110 --> 00:54:16,370
I think most of it hits the nail

1479
00:54:16,370 --> 00:54:18,270
on the head, some I don't understand, some

1480
00:54:18,270 --> 00:54:19,710
he doesn't understand as far as that goes,

1481
00:54:22,590 --> 00:54:23,930
but America's in jeopardy.

1482
00:54:25,190 --> 00:54:26,630
There's nobody can rescue us.

1483
00:54:28,070 --> 00:54:30,690
We can't make friends with communist nations and

1484
00:54:30,690 --> 00:54:31,230
other nations.

1485
00:54:31,510 --> 00:54:32,730
God is going to get us to the

1486
00:54:32,730 --> 00:54:34,190
place where he's going to break the nation,

1487
00:54:35,530 --> 00:54:37,050
but before he does that he'll break the

1488
00:54:37,050 --> 00:54:37,430
church.

1489
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:42,160
As far as I'm concerned we've out sinned

1490
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:42,940
Sodom and Gomorrah.

1491
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:47,260
I say they had no Bibles and that

1492
00:54:47,260 --> 00:54:48,760
book sold very well, they hadn't, but nobody

1493
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,440
ever wrote to me and reminded me until

1494
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:51,460
years after I'd written it.

1495
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:52,440
I'll tell you what they did have, they

1496
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:53,880
had two of the greatest preachers that ever

1497
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:54,100
lived.

1498
00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:55,960
Noah was a preacher of righteousness he said

1499
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:56,420
in Peter.

1500
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,480
Everybody remembers him because he built an ark.

1501
00:54:59,580 --> 00:55:01,380
God remembers him because he preached righteousness.

1502
00:55:01,580 --> 00:55:02,960
He didn't preach anything but righteousness.

1503
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:07,160
Peter's second blessing, the second coming, miracles, healings,

1504
00:55:07,260 --> 00:55:09,580
signs, wonders, anybody will listen to that but

1505
00:55:09,580 --> 00:55:10,480
preach righteousness.

1506
00:55:11,540 --> 00:55:13,360
Brother you're out of business all of them.

1507
00:55:15,620 --> 00:55:17,100
Not only was Noah a preacher of righteousness

1508
00:55:17,100 --> 00:55:18,440
but a more amazing man.

1509
00:55:21,380 --> 00:55:23,960
Five minutes inside eternity friends, we'll all wish

1510
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:25,940
we'd been more holy, we'll all wish we

1511
00:55:25,940 --> 00:55:27,880
carried bigger burdens, we'll all wish we had

1512
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:29,620
more tears, we'll all wish we'd had more

1513
00:55:29,620 --> 00:55:29,900
trouble.

1514
00:55:30,980 --> 00:55:33,140
It's too late, there's no turning back.

1515
00:55:35,570 --> 00:55:37,410
If we don't write, if we don't write,

1516
00:55:37,630 --> 00:55:39,290
if pardon me, if we don't see revival,

1517
00:55:39,410 --> 00:55:40,910
God's going to write America off I'm sure

1518
00:55:40,910 --> 00:55:42,770
of that and England as far as that

1519
00:55:42,770 --> 00:55:43,050
goes.

1520
00:55:45,950 --> 00:55:48,130
The sons of Eli betrayed God and they

1521
00:55:48,130 --> 00:55:49,870
wiped their generation out.

1522
00:55:51,470 --> 00:55:53,210
I wonder what would have happened if Hananias

1523
00:55:53,210 --> 00:55:54,650
and Sapphira hadn't grieved God.

1524
00:55:54,730 --> 00:55:55,710
They might have had some of the most

1525
00:55:55,710 --> 00:55:57,870
wonderful children baptized with the Holy Ghost and

1526
00:55:57,870 --> 00:55:58,890
revolutionized the world.

1527
00:56:00,350 --> 00:56:02,770
But they got greedy, got so satisfied.

1528
00:56:04,550 --> 00:56:07,490
Let me quote Maxine again, quote Maxine said

1529
00:56:07,490 --> 00:56:09,070
a hundred, more than a hundred years ago,

1530
00:56:09,770 --> 00:56:11,870
there's one thing for sure the devil hates

1531
00:56:11,870 --> 00:56:13,610
in the world and that's a holy person.

1532
00:56:15,630 --> 00:56:18,790
He doesn't mind half-hearted people, he doesn't

1533
00:56:18,790 --> 00:56:20,450
mind people who want to be sanctified on

1534
00:56:20,450 --> 00:56:23,790
Sunday and caramel on Monday, who enjoy a

1535
00:56:23,790 --> 00:56:25,690
prayer meeting but enjoy a bowling alley tomorrow

1536
00:56:25,690 --> 00:56:26,630
night just as much.

1537
00:56:28,090 --> 00:56:29,850
He's looking for a heart of people whose

1538
00:56:29,850 --> 00:56:33,010
hearts are pure, pure in their purpose, pure

1539
00:56:33,010 --> 00:56:35,370
in their intention, pure in their desires.

1540
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,300
It's getting late, just now it is, I'm

1541
00:56:41,300 --> 00:56:42,040
going to close in a minute.

1542
00:56:43,220 --> 00:56:44,380
It's getting late for Americans.

1543
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,220
All kinds of people are writing Dave Wilson,

1544
00:56:49,340 --> 00:56:50,360
your book has stirred me.

1545
00:56:51,780 --> 00:56:54,160
They call me from many countries often, I

1546
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:56,880
just read your book, it's been translated, I've

1547
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:57,540
been challenged.

1548
00:56:57,720 --> 00:56:58,900
I say forget it brother, you need to

1549
00:56:58,900 --> 00:56:59,980
be changed not challenged.

1550
00:57:00,540 --> 00:57:02,620
We get challenged every time we go to

1551
00:57:02,620 --> 00:57:03,720
church, who gets changed?

1552
00:57:04,100 --> 00:57:05,740
Who comes out with a miracle heart?

1553
00:57:05,860 --> 00:57:07,400
Who comes out with a fire of God

1554
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,080
burning in him that all the waters of

1555
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:10,880
hell and discouragement can't put out?

1556
00:57:13,260 --> 00:57:15,380
We build monuments to our heroes, we don't

1557
00:57:15,380 --> 00:57:17,080
copy them in lifestyle, we don't copy them

1558
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:17,560
in passion.

1559
00:57:21,870 --> 00:57:24,290
Abraham was like Elijah, a man of like

1560
00:57:24,290 --> 00:57:26,390
passion as we are, God is scary sometimes,

1561
00:57:26,550 --> 00:57:27,630
but on the other hand he held on.

1562
00:57:28,270 --> 00:57:30,090
He held on when all Sodom went down,

1563
00:57:30,210 --> 00:57:32,970
he held on when his nephew went down,

1564
00:57:33,770 --> 00:57:36,270
he held on when the city burned, but

1565
00:57:36,270 --> 00:57:37,970
he lived to see God honor his prayers,

1566
00:57:39,350 --> 00:57:40,530
and God will honor our prayers.

1567
00:57:43,290 --> 00:57:44,470
God is going to have to give us

1568
00:57:44,470 --> 00:57:48,650
holy men, men who look in the face

1569
00:57:48,650 --> 00:57:50,070
of God and say, Lord I'm not concerned

1570
00:57:50,070 --> 00:57:51,750
about my preaching and my name in this

1571
00:57:51,750 --> 00:57:53,170
district, I want to be a channel of

1572
00:57:53,170 --> 00:57:54,870
blessing from your throne to a world that's

1573
00:57:54,870 --> 00:57:55,630
doomed and damned.

1574
00:57:57,350 --> 00:57:59,630
When we get desperate, as I said before,

1575
00:57:59,750 --> 00:58:01,670
God does not answer prayer, he answers desperate

1576
00:58:01,670 --> 00:58:01,990
prayer.

1577
00:58:03,050 --> 00:58:04,590
We're going to pray for a season now.

1578
00:58:05,690 --> 00:58:06,850
I'm not going to sing, I'm going to

1579
00:58:06,850 --> 00:58:08,230
ask you to leave, if you wish to

1580
00:58:08,230 --> 00:58:09,510
leave when we get down, you can go

1581
00:58:09,510 --> 00:58:13,330
out, or you can stay and pray for

1582
00:58:13,330 --> 00:58:14,530
a half hour or more as the Lord

1583
00:58:14,530 --> 00:58:15,010
leads us.

1584
00:58:16,630 --> 00:58:18,530
I can't transmit in words what's in my

1585
00:58:18,530 --> 00:58:19,290
heart, I wish I could.

1586
00:58:21,190 --> 00:58:22,810
I wish I kind of cut a vein

1587
00:58:22,810 --> 00:58:24,270
and say there's a spot of my blood.

1588
00:58:25,210 --> 00:58:26,330
That's what they used to do, and cut

1589
00:58:26,330 --> 00:58:26,710
a vein.

1590
00:58:27,690 --> 00:58:29,370
Couples that were going to get married used

1591
00:58:29,370 --> 00:58:30,630
to cut a vein and put their wrists

1592
00:58:30,630 --> 00:58:32,830
together and pledge, made a covenant with blood.

1593
00:58:34,980 --> 00:58:36,900
You don't have to cut your vein, the

1594
00:58:36,900 --> 00:58:39,720
blood is you have to discipline your life

1595
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:40,340
under God.

1596
00:58:41,180 --> 00:58:42,920
You have to be willing for ridicule, you

1597
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:44,540
have to be willing for sarcasm, you have

1598
00:58:44,540 --> 00:58:45,980
to be willing for somebody saying he thinks

1599
00:58:45,980 --> 00:58:46,980
he's holier than we are.

1600
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:48,300
So why worry?

1601
00:58:50,650 --> 00:58:52,090
We need God to render heavens.

1602
00:58:54,470 --> 00:58:55,330
Only that's going to...

1603
00:58:55,330 --> 00:58:56,270
Give me a chair please.

1604
00:58:57,450 --> 00:58:58,910
That's the only answer that we have.

1605
00:59:01,260 --> 00:59:02,920
You've been listening to the From the Pulpit

1606
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:04,040
and Classic Sermons series.

1607
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:06,600
This week you heard Leonard Ravenhill with his

1608
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:07,900
message, Abraham and Lot.

1609
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:09,960
Tune in next week to hear John Piper

1610
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:11,940
speak about the price of God's own blood

1611
00:59:11,940 --> 00:59:14,340
on From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.