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This week we have Leonard Ravenhill with his
message, A Storm Arose, Christ Arose.
But tonight that before thine ever-blazing throne
We have and we ask no lust of
our own But we thank you that you
hear our feeble call, our cries Our very
spasmodic, as it were, adoration We are glad,
Lord, there's a company in your presence Who
cease not to say by day or night
Holy, holy, holy Lord, we need to rediscover
more of your majesty More of your glory
More of your awesome presence Lord, I cannot
help but think as we sing this song
Of the millions today who have bowed down
to idols of wood and stone They've called
from broken hearts to stone images that have
no hearts They've cried with loud voices into
ears, stone ears that cannot hear They've cried
for help to hands that cannot move They've
called for deliverance and the feet of stone
they cannot come Lord God, help us to
treasure our light We want to thank you
tonight for every good and perfect gift We
want to thank you tonight for the precious
blood And all the people said And we
thank you for the precious book And all
the people said We thank you for a
hope that we have And all the people
said We thank you, Lord, that you redeemed
us You bought us not with corruptible things
such as silver and gold We thank you
tonight for the permanent offering Jesus made That
once in the end of the age He
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself He didn't need the Virgin Mary
He didn't need cherubim to help him He
gathered all human sin and all human iniquity
We think of your Lord Jesus staggering up
the hill to Calvary Not just bending over
a load of wood But bending over billions
of sins Because the word says The Lord
hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all Lord, it would take eternity to fathom
that We wonder why As the hymn says
Thou didst not spare thine only Son But
gavest him for a world undone And freely
with that blessed one thou gavest all We
lose what on ourselves we spend We have
as treasure without end Whatever, Lord, to thee
we lend Who giveth all Lord, give us
an expansion in our hearts The psalmist prayed
Enlarge my heart Lord, enlarge us That we
may hold more capacity for your grace More
capacity for your compassion More compassion for a
dying world Lord, we thank you Tonight we
can really sing He lives within my heart
But Lord, we think of millions in our
own country As the hymn says Fast bound
in sin and nature's night They're just as
dark as though they were somewhere up the
Amazon They have education And that illumination And
social standing But there's a centre in them
An area in them that's dead It has
no relationship to God Lord God, make us
conscious We're walking amongst We're walking amongst Dead
people who are walking They walk, they see
They buy, they sell, they eat They do
all their things But Lord, they've no living
relationship with the living God Therefore they're not
living They're still dead In trespasses and in
sin And that word grips me so often,
Lord Lately, they're without hope No wonder they
commit suicide No wonder they do the devilish
things They have no hope Either in this
world or the next Lord, their eyes are
blind Their intellects are still dull Lord, you
must awaken We can't awaken them by argument
By logic By preaching By threatening Lord, it's
your operation We long for the Holy Ghost
to come, Lord I think of the time
When you came in the Great American Revival
I don't know Under Jonathan Edwards there In
the 1600s 1674 or something And he says
that people down the street Visibly were under
conviction Their faces were drawn as if in
pain They were in pain They were in
soul pain They were in guilt pain They
were in condemnation pain And yet, Lord, you
used some very simple men To awaken them
Lord, this is the greatest need we have
in our nation We need an awakening We
need a divine intervention Lord, all our crusades
and operations They're just little drops in a
bucket As the hymn writer says Thou must
save and thou alone Lord, there's no help
outside of your majesty Outside of your mercy
Outside of your grace Lord, we thank you
for hearing us tonight We bless you that
we're accepted In the beloved even at this
moment We thank you, Lord, as we've already
sung tonight We know in whom we have
believed And we're persuaded that he's able to
keep That which we've committed unto him against
that day Breathe on your word afresh tonight,
Lord Come with holy assistance as we pray
Lord, we don't know how to pray as
we ought We can bring needs and situations
But, Lord, we want the spirit of God
To birth something in us tonight Lord, make
this a birth chamber, I pray Again, we
ask thee Make this meeting a tragedy to
the devil Lord, as he looks down Or
wherever in the world he is, Lord When
he looks here, he'll say There's one spot
covered with blood And I can't get victory
in that area But our lives are covered
with that same precious blood Lord, we thank
you again Thank you for the precious people
who've come tonight Again, quicken your word to
our hearts In Jesus' name Thank you I
was thinking that while I was praying You
know, when When Napoleon was conquering Europe He
conquered so many different countries But on the
map, England Which is a place I visited
And that England is always red It's in
flaming red on the map And one day
when his warlords were telling him what to
do He said Except for that red spot
there, I could conquer the world You know,
I like to think of that The devil
looks at Calvary and says If it were
not for that red spot, I could conquer
the world Okay, let's come to the word
We're going to read this good book, part
of it The gospel recorded by Luke, chapter
Chapter 8 Let's read from verse 25 They've
come out of that situation, the storm You
know, when the ship was being battered there
And I don't like reading that story I'll
tell you why They were in the middle
of the sea And the waves were beating
the boat around And they woke Jesus He
better sell him, go to sleep It says
that he couldn't sleep He couldn't eat, because
the multitude were after him He's having a
nice rest in the boat And these poor
puny little disciples Go and wake him up
and say Don't you care that we perish?
Wouldn't you have thought they would have said
If they loved him, Lord, you're going to
drown But they were so full of me,
me, me Isn't that right?
Great as it is, so it must be,
can't you?
Carest thou not that we perish?
Lord, don't you concern I can't get whitewall
tyres For my automobile?
Poor lady in grief She said it's going
to be cold There's a frost two mornings
ago And she's looking for a fur coat
And can't find it And yet there are
people at this very moment Trapped under that
debris there in El Salvador Screaming for help
It's hell on the way to hell Because
Catholics want to die with somebody Making a
sign of a cross What does it say?
Absolvo Deus And gives them the last rites
And there they are trapped Groaning in agony
Terrified to live and terrified to die You
know, we don't know Most Americans don't know
the value of America anyhow You've got to
come from Europe to find it out And
most Christians don't know the value of Christianity
You've got to come out of bondage And
sorrow and night and darkness Of self-righteousness
And be free Isn't it wonderful?
He took control of the whole thing There's
another story, a version of this It says
As they were crossing the sea A storm
arose And in the same verse it says
But he arose And there was a great
calm There's some divisions for a sonny To
preach a message A storm arose He arose
Well if Jesus stilled the storm here Can't
he still the storm in your life?
You're in a storm You're a domestic storm
You're a business storm That's his business Okay,
verse 25 He said unto them Where is
your faith?
And they being afraid Wondered, saying one to
another What manner of man is this?
For he commandeth even the winds and the
water And they obey him And they arrived
at the country of the Gadarenes Which is
over against Galilee And he went forth to
the land There met him out of the
city A certain man Which had devils a
long time And he wore no clothes Neither
abode in any house But in the tombs
And when he saw Jesus He cried and
fell down before him With a loud voice
I like the version in Mark 6 Because
it says there That not just he fell
down But he fell down and worshipped him
He fell down before him and said With
a loud voice What have I to do
with thee?
As I've said many times That the greatest
honour in the world Was given to the
apostle Paul When those men tried to cast
demons out And the demons said Jesus we
know And Paul we know So many of
these preachers Oh I want to be rated
with Billy Graham Or Oral Roberts I don't
care a hill of beans about them They're
nice guys I'm concerned what God thinks about
me Not my rating in the level of
evangelists I may be the worst preacher in
the world I don't think I am But
I could be But does it matter what
rating we have of men If God has
no rating on us?
Cried with a loud voice Saying what have
I to do with thee Thou son of
God Otherwise in another place it says Thou
holy one Thou holy one Even devils recognize
The holiness and majesty of God What have
I to do with thee Jesus Thou son
of the most high I beseech thee torment
me not Jesus asked him saying What is
thy name He said it is Legion And
Legion means there Legion is the minimum is
5000 And the largest number is 10,000
Now hold that for a minute On the
cross Jesus said I could call 10 legions
of angels 10 legions of 10,000 is
100,000 He could have called them But
he didn't You know he could have done
What those men said Come down from the
cross Wouldn't he have been terrified If he
did?
You know that's the biggest temptation To you
and I When you've made a decision To
live at a certain level Come down from
the cross Say to yourself Those people don't
fast Those people don't sacrifice Those people don't
Well you're not those people God almighty has
called you To something higher and nobler And
purer and stronger And if you want to
live Like the worms around you That's your
business I don't As I've told you so
much I'm tired of sick To death of
mediocrity I'm tired of preachers All on one
level Using the same gimmicks Using the same
gadgets God's going to do something I'm sure
of that Where are we now Verse 13
Jesus asked him Say what is thy name
He said legion Because many devils Entered into
him And they besought him That he would
not Command them to go out Into the
deep See the devils Are afraid of him
Don't command us To go out into the
deep And there was a herd Of swine
Feeding on the mountain And they besought him
That he would suffer them To enter into
them And he suffered them Then went the
devils After the man And entered into the
swine Well I'll tell you why Swine are
smarter than men As soon as these hogs
Found they had a devil in them They
all committed suicide Weren't they smart The man
had lived With a devil in him For
years As soon as these things Felt this
horrible power in them They all fled And
committed suicide What happened Something wonderful They ran
into A steep place Into a lake And
were choked When they that fed them Saw
what was done They fled Why did they
flee Why were they afraid They fled in
a city And they went into the country
And they went out To see what was
done And they came to Jesus And found
the man Out of whom the devils Were
departed Sitting at his feet Clothed and in
his right mind And they were afraid What's
wrong with them They're afraid of the man
When he's full of demons They're afraid of
him When he's full of God The most
dangerous man In the world Is a man
filled with God A man that's linked To
omnipotence He links his impotence To God's omnipotence
And there's an Unbiblical code As the man
voices Unbiblical code of life From the Lord
To me And to you So what did
he do They were afraid They fled And
went into the city They found the man
Sitting at the feet Of Jesus Clothed in
his right mind Isn't that wonderful He'd been
happy To live in tombs Dear Lord What
a place to live Some people don't live
They don't just go once a week Sundays
I've told you I believe that When I
look at Not tonight But the average church
When I see rows of people It's death
row It's rows and rows Of dead people
They've got religion They take communion They pay
their tithes They talk about But they're dead
There's no living Relationship with God The church
couldn't be In the condition it's in If
every so-called Church member Was really born
again Of the Spirit of God It's a
supernatural life Notice it says That when he
was Running around in the tombs He was
naked As soon as he gets Sober and
sensible He gets clothed You know what happens
In foreign countries They tell me I went
in New Guinea And I went up Through
the country And there were tribes there With
hardly a g-string on But you know
As soon as they get saved They want
covering Now in America The richer the more
Stylish you are The less clothes you wear
See these kids On football Painting their faces
Like savages And these daredevil groups And I
don't listen To rock music But there's such
a Horrible, horrible Thief of it Around the
country And God won't put up With that
much longer What happens Verse 37 The whole
multitude Of the country Of the gatherings They
rallied the crowd And they besought him And
they entreated him To depart from them Why?
What had he done?
He'd taken a man Who'd been a menace
A man that didn't sleep Because he's leaping
In the tombs And he'll do all kinds
Of devilish things And now that man's been
Sobered and brought Are they turning him Out
of the city Because he healed the man?
What are they turning him Out of the
city for?
Because he destroyed Their property They were running
hogs And they were not allowed To have
hogs as Jews And so Jesus went And
he destroyed All their capital If you like
to put it that way He told all
them Spoiled all their Material possessions And they
were furious about it You know it's a
strange world If you do good You'll get
murdered If you do evil You'll get murdered
A world of insane people You know it
was a communist That first said to me
Leonard I know What you stand for I
want to tell you one thing Theologically It's
the only thing He ever told me He
said to be insane Is to be insane
Now you can go to A theological cemetery
And not learn that To be in sin
Is to be insane And it is What
sin is profitable?
Why do people Think to sin?
Why do they buy it?
Why do they sell it?
Why do they eat it?
Why do they drink it?
Why do they plan Their lives around it?
They're mesmerized by it This poor man Is
possessed of evil spirits And he's not ashamed
To be naked He's not ashamed To do
the things he's done But once he gets
clothed And in his right mind He's totally
An acceptable Wonderful man But they lost All
their property To get Jesus Out of here
You know we say Jesus comes He's a
prince of peace Jesus comes to bring A
sword He divides people He divides families I've
told you before A very When we had
a crusade In the city of Bath In
England We had some Aristocratic girls Some of
them had Danced in Buckingham Palace And they
were related To royalty and what not One
very lovely Young lady came to the altar
One Saturday night I preached on Psalm 51
Mary Barton And she knelt there You know
so stiff With her hands up And prayed
I asked her what she wanted She wanted
to get saved She got saved What did
she do?
She wouldn't drink sherry Before dinner She didn't
want to smoke She didn't want to go
To the county ball She didn't want to
Go with the upper crust Of society A
mother came to see me A month after
Said what have you done To my daughter
I said nothing What did I do to
her Anyhow Well she's been a good Communicant
in the Church of England All these years
And now She doesn't want to Do anything
When she comes home She won't take Drinks
with us She doesn't want to Play cards
She's not sociable What's wrong with her?
I said It's not wrong with her It's
you I said she's been Put in her
right mind And you're the problem She hasn't
a problem You know that girl Went to
Afghanistan I think when I hear the news
She went there And labored for about Ten
years In the most Difficult situations She went
to The poorest hospital In London And people
didn't Know who she was I was preaching
In London At a Catholic convention I think
it was A lady came to me And
I'd made reference To this lady She said
Was that girl's name Mary Barton I said
yes She said well She was my room
mate At the hospital It's an old Jewish
hospital In the slummy Areas of London She
was my room mate For three years And
never gave me a Clue that she was
A society girl That she'd studied music She'd
studied One of the modern Masters in In
Belgium Painting And she'd had all The benefits
of it Never said a thing About it
And yet she said There was something When
she was in the room There was a
presence there A presence Without saying a thing
Good night That girl I think Had worn
the most Fashionable clothes ever About what Couple
of years or more That we were in
Bath I never saw Anything Spectacular on her
Just a radiance You know around Bath There
are seven Seven hills And I held a
street meeting On Saturday I had to go
to the police Court about it Two or
three times And Thursday afternoon And you know
what I'd do I'd look for these American
soldiers coming And Polish soldiers And French soldiers
And English And I'd put Mary Barton Up
on the box Boy was she beautiful And
you'd say Boy she was beautiful And Mary
would stand there And give a testimony How
for years She'd been so self-righteous And
prayerless And the Bible was like A mouthful
of sand And I'd come into A living
loving relationship With her Her face radiated And
guys would Halfway walk Halfway through the ring
And look up at her And she'd stand
there And just tell how Beautifully her life
Had been transformed She had no Criminal record
She had no record of drugs She was
as clean And upright as any Girl in
the world But she said I found there
was A vacuum in there There was an
emptiness There was some space That only God
could fill But I'll tell you When it
came She went through the offices In the
Admiralty With the upper crust Of the British
Navy And really bore witness For the Lord
Jesus Christ Now that isn't In the authorized
version But it's good Now what happens To
this fellow It was 38 Now when the
man Out of whom the devil Had been
cast Came to him That he might be
with him But Jesus sent him away Wouldn't
it be nice If you could live In
meetings all the time He wanted to become
An extra disciple Oh if I could live
With you Lord I could get victory If
I could just Stay round here But it's
when I get outside Well that's a test
isn't it Of character A test of our
spirituality A test of our strength A test
of our vision A test of our qualities
Oh Lord Could I stay with you Jesus
says No go about your business Go home
And tell the folk there What's happened Return
to thine own house Verse 39 And show
how great things God hath done unto thee
And he went his way And published throughout
The whole city What great things God had
done for him But what's the result When
we read it Behold there came a man
By the name of Jairus The ruler of
the synagogue And he fell down At Jesus'
feet Do you notice They always fall at
his feet And asked him He would come
to his house He had one daughter Only
one daughter And she was twelve years of
age And she lay dying But as he
went The people thronged him And the woman
Having an issue of blood Twelve years Which
has spent all See that The little girl
Was twelve years of age She brought twelve
years of joy Twelve years of love Twelve
years of happiness In her home And suddenly
she's dying Now you have the opposite here
You have a woman With an issue of
blood The Greek word There is hemorrhaging She
was hemorrhaging blood And it doesn't look Too
dramatic When you see it here In the
King James Or some other version This woman
had an issue Of blood for twelve years
Do you know what that means In the
Jewish economy If you read the book of
Leviticus A woman with an issue of blood
Was an outcast She could not go to
the temple Or the synagogue She was unclean
She looked unclean She smelled unclean Her husband
divorced her She can't go to her family
She can't go to her friends She's like
a leper Walking with his hands up Or
shaking a bell And saying unclean unclean This
is one of the best Known women in
town Don't you think maybe That Jairus was
a bit irritated My daughter's lying there Dead
and you're Bothering with this Dirty scum Everybody
knows this woman She should be put out
Of the way entirely Put her in the
valley Down in the valley Where Jesus was
crucified Before he went there Where all the
unclean are She had an issue of blood
Twelve years And not only had she Difficulty
Not only had she misery She had poverty
Because she sold Everything she had In order
to pay doctors Mark is very strong About
that Mark has a kind of Content for
doctors I think But they'd spent She'd spent
all her money One physician Another physician Running
everywhere And finally she comes to Jesus I'm
going to read Verse 43 again The woman
having an issue Of blood twelve years Spent
all her living Upon physicians Neither could be
healed Of any of them And she came
behind him I like that Why did she
come This woman would never Go in a
crowd She had to walk At the other
side of the road Everybody says Look she's
coming This dirty vile woman She'd been put
out Of the synagogue Out of the temple
Out of her home Out of her family
It was She was ostracized On every simple
level Spiritual and social And every other way
Why did she come to Jesus Well I
think I'll tell you what I think I'm
sure I'm right Because in verse 39 again
The man who had been Healed of demons
Or cleansed of demons He published throughout The
city The whole city I imagine he stands
In the market square And somebody says You
know I've seen that man He's usually gashed
He cuts himself with stones He used to
be naked His body was all torn Notice
his eyes sag Notice the marks On his
body He's bruised himself Afflicted himself The devils
have tormented And there he is Standing and
saying That man Jesus That you don't like
Don't you think He kind of got a
kick When he saw the big old Fat
priest there And priests are usually fat Anyhow
And he saw the priest there And he
saw the scribes And he saw the Pharisees
And he says I want to tell you
Jesus has done it Your religion is sterile
Your theology is stagnant Oh you read with
Sonorous terms In the temple The thirty-fifth
chapter Of Isaiah That when he has come
The eyes of the blind Will be opened
The ears of the deaf Unstopped The lame
will leap As the heart The tongue of
the dumb Shall sing And when he does
it You turn on him This is the
very son of God They say Go to
hell We don't want you And it's like
that today It's still people Will not come
to Christ But they may have life They've
got a substitute They've got a little bit
Of something called Pleasure and satisfaction But you
see These were real deliverances She came behind
him I like that She didn't get in
front of him As much as say You're
not getting by Until you do something for
me She didn't say a word to him
She didn't bring him a gift In the
seventh chapter You have one of the most
Beautiful stories in the Bible Where the woman
brought An alabaster box of ointment And again
came to his feet And remember he turned
And rebuked Peter The man who had been
a leper And been healed And he said
I entered your house You gave me no
water You gave me no kiss You didn't
do anything For my feet But this woman
Since the moment I came in Hath not
ceased To kiss my feet Wash them she
said I'll wash his feet Sure I will
Not with water With tears I'll give him
My alabaster box of ointment And she put
it on his feet As well as his
head And then she took her hair And
dried his feet With the hair of her
head What happened?
The fragrance she poured Out on him Came
back on her You know very often We
don't come out Of the sanctuary Or the
closet With any halo around us We don't
stay long enough We burden everything Throw it
all on God And he's waiting to say
Get my ear And say something to me
He needs me to come With some power
Of another world on me With an authority
From another world With a message From another
world Unless we do this Generations go to
hell And run quickly She came behind him
And touched the board Of his garment I
looked up One of the old references And
it said that the The priest used to
wear A long garment Then he wore a
scarf And he threw the scarf Over his
shoulder And there were tassels on it Because
in Leviticus It said the priest Must have
a blue tassel And this writer said You
know This woman came up behind him And
touched that tassel She didn't do anything Of
the kind The scripture says She touched the
Henry's garment How in the world Did she
get there?
I mean the crowd around Jesus says Who
touched me?
And the disciple Look are you crazy?
Look at this crowd Jostling them Everybody's knocking
Trying to get near you You're the greatest
man In the world They're trying to touch
You know you can be in a crowd
And never touch Jesus You can go to
a meeting I'm sent enough to know I'm
not much I'm sent enough to know That
God would arrange A meeting like this Or
if I preach to a thousand Or two
thousand people I've said this There's one man
in this meeting That God wants The rest
of you Close your ears if you like
This is God's appointment With one man in
this meeting We look for crowds Where do
they go After we've got all our decisions?
But let God speak to a man He'll
never forget that meeting I meet people now
Who say I remember You preached so many
years ago Do you remember me?
How in the world Do you remember all
the faces?
No I don't Well do you remember that
night You know we can talk But only
God does the speaking There's a crowd But
I don't believe Jesus ever looked at a
crowd As a mob He looked at them
As a group of needy individuals He didn't
see the mass He saw the individual He
doesn't see the mass Here tonight He sees
an individual He knows every shade Of obedience
Or disobedience In us He knows every degree
Of faith Or unbelief In us There's nothing
hidden From him This woman came How did
she come?
Well let me look here In chapter 6
and verse 8 Chapter 6 verse 8 says
He knew their thoughts And said to the
man Which had a withered hand Rise up
He knew their thoughts Remember the other scripture
Says he knew what was in man This
woman is behind him He knows her thoughts
He knows He feels the vibes If you
want to say that He knows she's coming
She's coming with a worshipping heart An adoring
heart She doesn't go to anybody else Again
she doesn't speak to him He doesn't speak
to her He doesn't say Well you're a
foolish woman You had a fortune And you
spent it You've been going to physicians Year
after year After year after year Until you're
totally bankrupt And look at your body It's
withered And look at your face You're in
a wretched condition You're weak And you're wicked
And you're an outcast of society But he
says Who touched me?
I remember the first time I went to
a meeting With Miss Kuhlman And she had
a voice Couldn't have worse than mine A
voice like a rope Under a door And
she stood there And she said He touched
me I thought Who's who talking?
I thought it moved me I'd never heard
that song before He touched me Oh he
touched me You know that song?
He touched me Oh He touched me And
all the joy That Something happened Something Happened
And now I know He touched me And
made me Can you sing the verse?
Shackled by a heavy burden You know it?
Shackled by a heavy burden He
touched me And made me Then The hand
of Jesus Touched me And now I know
Stand up, really sing it He He touched
me Jesus said
Somebody has touched me For I perceive that
virtue Has gone out of me It's also
translated power It's also translated life This woman
had spent everything she had Trying to find
life Well again, how did she get there?
If she touches the hem of his garment
behind him She must have pushed past the
men and women That were there determined You
see this is a case of desperation This
is where God is bringing a lot of
us He's going to bring the nation to
desperation Before long, financially He's going to bring
us more and more to desperation Where meetings
won't satisfy us It'll have to be the
living God In the midst of a people
With the living word And the living resurrected
Christ Speaking so that every meeting Vibrates with
eternity What do you think she felt like?
Immediately she touched him And divine life Holy
life Eternal life Quickened that mortal body I
guess it was like touching I don't know
about voltage What a hundred How many volts
would give you a shock?
You don't know What an ignorant crowd Anybody
know?
Bracey, you should know Smart boy like you
Oh, thank you Okay, flashlight battery But anyhow
Do you think she could touch The living
Christ of God Who is the way, the
truth and the life Who came that we
might have life You know he throws his
arms out And Wesley says The arms of
love that compass me Would all mankind embrace
And you remember what Jesus One of the
sayings that he had was Him that cometh
unto me I will in no wise cast
out He's healed a man Full of devils
He's gone to Jairus His daughter And healed
her Showed his power over death And he
comes to this woman And purifies her Now
look in the 9th chapter At
the end of the last one The previous
The verse at the end Says that Verse
55 A spirit came again She rose straightway
And he commanded them To give her meat
And her parents were astonished But he charged
them They should tell no man Then Next
verse Verse 1 of chapter 9 Then he
called the twelve disciples And gave them power
and authority Over devils and to cure diseases
And he sent them To preach the kingdom
of God And to heal the sick Come
on now Not pray for the sick Heal
them I've seen God do many miracles I'm
hungry for them in one sense But I
want to see That God do the greater
miracle I want him to raise up people
Who are dead in trespasses And in sin
People who are tormented With demons of lust
Demons of Drugs And every other demon But
you see Why he had authority Was this
He'd done it all In front of their
eyes He isn't giving them a theory The
woman doesn't care to him And say I
know you've done many things Will you be
holding A healing seminar Next week I'd like
to come She can't fool around With that
She's got a desperate need For twelve years
She's been haunted Day and night And she's
been Cast out As I say From the
temple Divorced her husband Lost her family And
she's an object Of scorn As well as
pity This is my one chance I don't
care what they do Don't you think She
was a marked woman Ever after that Don't
you think She was marked for two reasons
Number one She dared to do What no
woman did She pushed through the crowd And
touched the greatest man Living in the world
The Son of God And said But I'm
desperate There's only one place You know I
want to see conviction of sin Where people
can't sleep I'd rather Keep people away with
prayer It's better than They don't sleep for
five nights And spend five billion years In
hell not sleeping I've been so Disturbed Moved
Broken Reading about hell Nobody preaches about it
anymore I listened to a tape Of Jimmy
Swaggart's The other day Good guy And he
says You know At the present moment There's
more immorality In the churches in America Than
ever in history And he's right But he's
wrong in his premise Because he says There's
the reason of that Is they've lost view
Of the rapture There's thousands There's millions of
people Who believe in the rapture Who've got
divorced They're living in sin They drink wine
They do worldly things It isn't the rapture
That we've lost sight of What does the
word of God say There's no fear of
the rapture Before their eyes There's no fear
of God Before their eyes We've lost sight
Of his holiness We're like Bernard Shaw We
don't say it But he says I accept
God On unequal terms But God could Snuff
out my breath And your breath like that
And he wouldn't miss us But Jesus has
shown His power He's fulfilled Every prophecy That
was made of him Again, particularly That 35th
chapter of Isaiah Which I love so much
When he's come The eyes of the blind
Shall be opened He has power over demons
He has power over death He has power
over disease Well I don't know Brother Bracey
I guess you'd agree with me Anyhow I
don't believe The church should ever Have lost
that power I don't believe Every meeting Has
to be a healing meeting Not in the
sense Of physically Every meeting Should be a
healing meeting It should heal us Where we
have grief And where we have doubt And
where we have injuries Where the devil Has
been booting us around But Jesus says I
give you power He gave it to the
twelve He gave them power And authority Over
all devils To cure diseases And he sent
them To preach the gospel Of the kingdom
And to heal the sick Let
me go back a minute To the end
of verse 47 She declared unto him Before
all Wait a minute Verse 47 When the
woman saw That she was not hid When
she suddenly realized I'm exposed anyhow I'll go
the second mile I'll fall down before him
It says what Falling down It's the same
word That's used there in Mark 6 That
she fell to worship him She's overcome But
listen Here's the electrifying thing Falling down before
him She declared unto him Before all the
people For what the cause She had touched
him And she was healed Immediately Now look
Here's this crowd Looking at them Someone says
I wouldn't touch that woman With my foot
She's the dirtiest Vilest Rottenest woman We've ever
had in this city She deserves to be
an outcast And what does Jesus do?
Well she got cleansed But she needed more
than that What did she need More than
cleansing?
She needed receiving I love to read that
story Of the woman that went To the
sepulcher Early in the morning And she thought
It was the gardener She's supposing It was
the gardener She thought he wasn't there And
he was When they lost Jesus Coming from
the temple They supposed He was there And
he wasn't She supposed He wasn't there And
he was But can you imagine A woman
going into A spooky cemetery I don't like
cemeteries I guess most women Wouldn't be found
there Too often She goes in the darkness
And somebody moves And he gave her name
He said Mary Nobody said Mary In the
whole world Like he said it Somebody can
say your name That makes all the difference
Just the way they say it And he
said Mary And she said Rabboni Oh boy
She was electrified It's him He's risen Jesus
turns to this Leprous woman If you want
to put it that way This social outcast
This religious outcast This domestic outcast Immediately he
touched him She was healed But the bonus
is here He turned to her And he
said daughter Don't you think That electrified her
Nor did My daddy won't hold me As
his daughter And yet this holy man Says
daughter He's not only cleansed me He's received
me Well I think it's Consistent with the
As the big shots say Contextually Don't you
think after this This woman's prayer life Was
revolutionized I only ever prayed once As I
was kneeling there Behind him He didn't even
look at me What do you think she
felt When she turned around And saw that
holy face And saw the smile And when
he smiled And said daughter She doesn't care
What the rest of the world Thinks now
Let the Pharisees laugh Let them say she's
unclean Let the social people Say you're an
outcast She said I'm his daughter He's received
me As the hymn says If I ask
him to receive me Will he say me
nay Not till earth And not till heaven
pass away This must have been The most
exciting day In her life She brings no
gifts She has no arguments But Jesus says
I perceive that When I When she touched
me Not the people That jolted me She
came with faith She came with expectation He
knew what was in her He didn't need
to look behind He knew what was in
her He knows what's in you tonight He
knows what's in me tonight He knows our
secret desire He knows our motives There's a
hymn that talks About the chambers Where polluted
things Hold empire over soul There's not a
single thing In your life and mine Which
isn't just Totally unveiled Before him at this
very moment And yet there she is As
I say With all her transgressions And all
the mess she's in And suddenly that life
Goes flowing into her And she's hardly Got
over the shock of that When he says
daughter Is there anything More wonderful How often
do you say I'm part of a royal
priesthood And a holy nation And yet what
happened It didn't matter Whatever Jesus did Nobody
liked him You know everybody These days wants
acceptance Well I don't I love rejection Boy
if I'm accepted With that bunch I'm not
much good I wouldn't like to be Like
any of them I'm quite willing To be
an outcast Doesn't make any difference Some churches
won't have me That's okay If I'd been
married twice And I was a film star
They'd have me But I'd just happen To
be an ordinary guy You know An Amtat
three wives And all this other junk You
know the most Unpopular thing in the world
Today is truth It isn't heresy That divides
people It's truth He was the essence of
truth And they wouldn't have him They beseeched
him They entreated him Go out of our
coast You can't have revival Without upsetting the
economy When dear old Billy Sunday was around
Everybody knew He used to pick up a
chair On the platform And smash it over
his knee And say I'd do that With
a brewery system If I could But nobody
gets mad About the brewery Everybody's on one
binge now It's always drugs And yet liquor's
Killing more people Than drugs in the nation
Anyhow But they beseeched him Get out of
town I've told you After the third night
Of preaching in his tent Billy Sunday had
to have A police escort To get in
the pulpit And a police escort To get
out But nobody fears us now Do you
think people are Afraid of a guy On
a TV screen?
Not on your life They can press the
button And switch him off anyhow I know
people Would like to do that with me
But I still keep going But I'll tell
you what We don't We don't celebrate As
we should celebrate But he took out uncleanness
There's a script I don't know Brother Bracey
You preach on it sometimes It pleases the
Lord To bruise him It pleases the Lord
To bruise me sometimes To find what I'm
made of Not to prove me to God
To prove me to myself All the vows
All the statements All the commitments That I've
made About my strength And my confidence in
God And if things just Just don't go
my right way Then what do I do?
Go sour?
He doesn't say he touched Anybody else in
the crowd Does he?
He doesn't say Anybody else touched him