1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,059 Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:04,940 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:04,940 --> 00:00:06,880 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,520 Christian faith and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:09,800 too. 6 00:00:10,460 --> 00:00:12,640 This week we have Ralph Bernard with his 7 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:14,620 message, A Great Revival is Coming. 8 00:00:16,940 --> 00:00:19,160 I invite you to turn, if you will, 9 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,120 to the eleventh chapter of the book of 10 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:22,600 Romans. 11 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,360 I make two comments before we read the 12 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:30,740 scripture. 13 00:00:30,740 --> 00:00:36,650 We'll begin reading in just a moment in 14 00:00:36,650 --> 00:00:41,110 verse 25 of Romans chapter 11. 15 00:00:42,550 --> 00:00:47,110 The first comment that I wish to make 16 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:55,820 is that we are a day nearer the 17 00:00:55,820 --> 00:00:59,840 great revival that is yet to come right 18 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,620 here on this earth than we were when 19 00:01:03,620 --> 00:01:04,900 we met here last evening. 20 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:10,520 Without a shadow of a doubt, the church 21 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,480 has not yet come into her glory, but 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:14,080 she will. 23 00:01:16,610 --> 00:01:19,530 The Lord gave a promise that the gates 24 00:01:19,530 --> 00:01:22,990 of Hades should not prevail against his church. 25 00:01:23,830 --> 00:01:25,570 That doesn't mean that he said the devil 26 00:01:25,570 --> 00:01:26,870 is not going to overcome it. 27 00:01:26,930 --> 00:01:28,290 He said the devil is not going to 28 00:01:28,290 --> 00:01:29,770 be able to withstand it. 29 00:01:30,090 --> 00:01:33,090 The church has yet to come to her 30 00:01:33,090 --> 00:01:34,010 glory. 31 00:01:34,010 --> 00:01:37,350 If I didn't believe that, I'd take out 32 00:01:37,350 --> 00:01:39,490 on what we call churches today. 33 00:01:39,630 --> 00:01:40,590 It looks like we're hopeless. 34 00:01:41,950 --> 00:01:43,990 And we are as far as man is 35 00:01:43,990 --> 00:01:44,510 concerned. 36 00:01:44,790 --> 00:01:47,470 But we've got the Bible and the clear 37 00:01:47,470 --> 00:01:47,990 promise. 38 00:01:50,170 --> 00:01:52,090 The second statement I wish to make before 39 00:01:52,090 --> 00:01:54,870 I read the scripture, after I read the 40 00:01:54,870 --> 00:01:59,790 scripture, I'll make two or three statements that 41 00:01:59,790 --> 00:02:02,990 I don't know whether you'll agree with them 42 00:02:02,990 --> 00:02:03,470 or not. 43 00:02:03,470 --> 00:02:05,210 I do not know your theology. 44 00:02:06,330 --> 00:02:08,750 If they do not sit well with you, 45 00:02:09,449 --> 00:02:10,630 just forget them. 46 00:02:11,270 --> 00:02:14,330 I have to make them in order to 47 00:02:14,330 --> 00:02:16,490 introduce my subject. 48 00:02:17,490 --> 00:02:19,330 I want to reason with you a little 49 00:02:20,150 --> 00:02:23,230 from God's word tonight on this thought. 50 00:02:24,650 --> 00:02:27,450 A great revival is coming. 51 00:02:28,890 --> 00:02:30,570 It will come in the days of the 52 00:02:30,570 --> 00:02:35,500 glory of Christ's church and I want to 53 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:39,820 talk about how that revival will come and 54 00:02:39,820 --> 00:02:43,440 then close with a brief word about the 55 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,440 evidence how we'll know when this revival is 56 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:47,780 here. 57 00:02:49,060 --> 00:02:51,760 And I read about this revival beginning in 58 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:56,840 verse 25 of the 11th chapter of Romans. 59 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,600 The Apostle Paul says, For I would not, 60 00:03:00,860 --> 00:03:02,920 brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this 61 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:07,120 mystery, lest ye should be wise in your 62 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,840 own conceits, that blindness in part is happened 63 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,260 to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles 64 00:03:16,260 --> 00:03:17,200 be come in. 65 00:03:18,580 --> 00:03:23,340 And so all Israel shall be saved. 66 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,460 As it is written, this is the way 67 00:03:26,460 --> 00:03:28,080 all Israel shall be saved. 68 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,920 As it is written, they shall come out 69 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:35,560 of Zion, the deliverer, and shall turn away 70 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,440 ungodliness from Jacob. 71 00:03:38,540 --> 00:03:42,940 For this is my covenant unto them, when 72 00:03:42,940 --> 00:03:45,560 I shall take away their sins. 73 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,600 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for 74 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:51,460 your sakes. 75 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,060 But as touching the election, they are beloved 76 00:03:55,060 --> 00:03:56,700 for the Father's sakes. 77 00:03:56,700 --> 00:04:02,580 For the gifts and calling of God are 78 00:04:02,580 --> 00:04:04,920 without repentance. 79 00:04:06,180 --> 00:04:09,020 Moffat, whose translation I love in so many 80 00:04:09,020 --> 00:04:14,040 places, translates that verse, God never goes back. 81 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:20,180 God never goes back on his calling. 82 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:27,260 We have this statement made here by the 83 00:04:27,260 --> 00:04:31,520 Apostle Paul, and we claim to believe that 84 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:36,060 he made it as the Holy Ghost guided 85 00:04:36,060 --> 00:04:41,740 his mind, that all Israel shall be saved. 86 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,300 I believe, and I'll not argue, if you 87 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:48,280 don't agree with it, it's all right, I 88 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:52,640 believe the term Israel, is the Jewish nation, 89 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,240 not spiritual Israel. 90 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,320 I believe when it says, all Israel shall 91 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:08,600 be saved, that it means this, that false 92 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,700 prophets and false preachers who got Israel in 93 00:05:13,700 --> 00:05:17,360 the mess she got in, and is still 94 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,980 in today, I believe that the power of 95 00:05:21,980 --> 00:05:26,100 God will overcome them, and they'll not have 96 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:27,620 a hearing anymore. 97 00:05:29,260 --> 00:05:36,040 In passing, we could have revival in America 98 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,280 if we could kill off 99% of 99 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:39,880 the preachers. 100 00:05:39,940 --> 00:05:41,380 I hope I ain't one of them. 101 00:05:44,420 --> 00:05:44,920 We could. 102 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:49,300 For the people do not think for themselves, 103 00:05:49,300 --> 00:05:50,620 most of them. 104 00:05:51,540 --> 00:05:55,420 They believe what the preacher says, and God 105 00:05:55,420 --> 00:06:01,300 hasn't got many preachers, not many. 106 00:06:04,310 --> 00:06:07,290 The term, all Israel shall be saved, does 107 00:06:07,290 --> 00:06:11,110 not mean that the nation as such will 108 00:06:11,110 --> 00:06:15,310 become Christian, nor does it mean that every 109 00:06:15,310 --> 00:06:18,490 individual in the Jewish nation will become a 110 00:06:18,490 --> 00:06:24,830 Christian, but it does mean that a deliverer 111 00:06:24,830 --> 00:06:26,950 shall come out of Zion and shall turn 112 00:06:26,950 --> 00:06:27,450 away. 113 00:06:28,730 --> 00:06:31,630 The ungodliness of Jacob and Zechariah that we'll 114 00:06:31,630 --> 00:06:33,590 read in a moment tells us how that 115 00:06:33,590 --> 00:06:35,350 ungodliness shall be turned away. 116 00:06:35,770 --> 00:06:36,990 Don't turn to it yet. 117 00:06:38,190 --> 00:06:40,350 It'll be turned away by getting rid of 118 00:06:40,350 --> 00:06:44,530 the false prophets who corrupted the message and 119 00:06:44,530 --> 00:06:46,490 led the people in the shape they're in. 120 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:50,840 The word S-A-V-E-D, saved, 121 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:52,960 in the Bible is an interesting word. 122 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:55,900 I do not believe this word saved here 123 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:58,840 has reference to what we call salvation. 124 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:00,460 You don't agree with this? 125 00:07:00,540 --> 00:07:01,500 Don't get mad at me. 126 00:07:01,580 --> 00:07:03,320 I have to say it in order to 127 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:04,560 introduce my thinking. 128 00:07:07,330 --> 00:07:11,210 For instance, the word of God tells us 129 00:07:11,210 --> 00:07:16,810 about Adam was not deceived, but he was. 130 00:07:18,090 --> 00:07:22,930 And the scripture says that nevertheless, the woman 131 00:07:22,930 --> 00:07:27,450 shall be saved by childbearing, as your word 132 00:07:27,450 --> 00:07:27,870 says. 133 00:07:29,110 --> 00:07:32,810 And that either means that women become Christians 134 00:07:32,810 --> 00:07:36,630 by bearing children, or it means, what it 135 00:07:36,630 --> 00:07:40,690 really means, that they shall be preserved in 136 00:07:40,690 --> 00:07:41,290 their agony. 137 00:07:43,450 --> 00:07:47,450 For instance, the word of God says that 138 00:07:47,450 --> 00:07:52,430 he is the Savior of all men, especially 139 00:07:52,430 --> 00:07:54,070 of them that believe. 140 00:07:55,670 --> 00:07:59,390 That means that he saves believers a little 141 00:07:59,390 --> 00:08:02,570 gooder than he does other people. 142 00:08:02,690 --> 00:08:06,290 Or it means, what it actually means, not 143 00:08:06,290 --> 00:08:09,450 reference to forgiveness of sin and eternal hope 144 00:08:09,450 --> 00:08:13,550 and glory, but that Jesus Christ is the 145 00:08:13,550 --> 00:08:18,510 preserver of all men, and in a special 146 00:08:18,510 --> 00:08:22,290 way he is a preserver of them that 147 00:08:22,290 --> 00:08:22,670 believe. 148 00:08:23,650 --> 00:08:25,750 You're out here on the lake, there's one 149 00:08:25,750 --> 00:08:27,990 in this state, you see a man drowning, 150 00:08:28,190 --> 00:08:30,810 and you throw out a life preserver, a 151 00:08:30,810 --> 00:08:33,510 rope or something, and haul him in, and 152 00:08:33,510 --> 00:08:36,450 you say you saved him from drowning. 153 00:08:36,570 --> 00:08:38,470 That doesn't mean he got converted and born 154 00:08:38,470 --> 00:08:40,309 again, but you kept him from dying. 155 00:08:41,669 --> 00:08:44,410 And so all Israel shall be preserved. 156 00:08:47,210 --> 00:08:50,350 And up till now, that's been true. 157 00:08:50,350 --> 00:08:52,730 There's still a nation of the Jews. 158 00:08:54,030 --> 00:08:57,230 And at that hour of God's great revival, 159 00:08:57,530 --> 00:09:02,010 which is yet to come, for Paul tells 160 00:09:02,010 --> 00:09:06,610 us that if we Gentiles were blessed by 161 00:09:06,610 --> 00:09:10,810 God turning aside from the Jewish nation, that 162 00:09:10,810 --> 00:09:15,230 when he turns again to them, oh, such 163 00:09:15,230 --> 00:09:17,990 blessing will fall on this old wicked world 164 00:09:17,990 --> 00:09:20,150 as we've little dreamed of. 165 00:09:20,850 --> 00:09:22,270 Now, I don't know whether that's according to 166 00:09:22,270 --> 00:09:24,230 your theology or not, but didn't just forget 167 00:09:24,230 --> 00:09:24,350 it. 168 00:09:24,430 --> 00:09:26,970 I don't want to change your theology, but 169 00:09:26,970 --> 00:09:29,150 it introduces me to my subject. 170 00:09:30,690 --> 00:09:35,390 The great revival that the world is headed 171 00:09:35,390 --> 00:09:37,790 toward, do you believe this? 172 00:09:37,870 --> 00:09:38,350 It's so. 173 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:43,720 The time of the letter rain that Joel 174 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:44,580 pronounced. 175 00:09:45,940 --> 00:09:48,700 The time when he said he'll pour out 176 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:53,580 his spirit on all flesh, partially fulfilled on 177 00:09:53,580 --> 00:09:56,340 the day of Pentecost, still without yonder the 178 00:09:56,340 --> 00:09:56,680 future. 179 00:09:59,420 --> 00:10:03,960 One thing I wish, I wish under God 180 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,020 that people would claim to believe the Bible, 181 00:10:08,260 --> 00:10:11,820 believed a little of it, and weren't such 182 00:10:11,820 --> 00:10:18,700 pessimists, and would open their hearts and quit 183 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,880 writing God's church and his program off the 184 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,740 record, and get a little of the glory 185 00:10:27,740 --> 00:10:30,160 of God on their counter that says, we're 186 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,160 headed for great days. 187 00:10:35,060 --> 00:10:37,000 We're headed for great days! 188 00:10:39,150 --> 00:10:41,450 And I'm going to keep preaching to local 189 00:10:41,450 --> 00:10:45,310 churches, imperfect as they are, as long as 190 00:10:45,310 --> 00:10:46,630 I get one of them to let me. 191 00:10:47,510 --> 00:10:49,650 Because some of these days, and I may 192 00:10:49,650 --> 00:10:54,050 be alive, you can't tell when this revival 193 00:10:54,050 --> 00:10:54,850 breaks out. 194 00:10:55,170 --> 00:10:59,850 Boy, if I could live six months in 195 00:10:59,850 --> 00:11:03,490 a revival, I don't know what might be 196 00:11:03,490 --> 00:11:04,410 all I could take. 197 00:11:05,150 --> 00:11:09,510 I'd say with Simeon, Lord, I've seen your 198 00:11:09,510 --> 00:11:09,990 glory. 199 00:11:10,430 --> 00:11:11,930 I'm ready to go now. 200 00:11:12,970 --> 00:11:15,550 I've never seen revival, neither have you. 201 00:11:16,690 --> 00:11:20,290 I've been where the fire blazed for just 202 00:11:20,290 --> 00:11:24,410 a little while, and burned pretty hot. 203 00:11:26,070 --> 00:11:29,390 Last Sunday night, the week before I got 204 00:11:29,390 --> 00:11:32,590 here, in the church with an audience of 205 00:11:32,590 --> 00:11:37,530 about 350 people, I saw over 200 people 206 00:11:37,530 --> 00:11:42,250 profess to receive Jesus Christ as Lord in 207 00:11:42,250 --> 00:11:43,310 just a few days. 208 00:11:44,370 --> 00:11:45,870 Oh, it was blessing. 209 00:11:46,890 --> 00:11:48,730 The other day, I had a word from 210 00:11:48,730 --> 00:11:49,270 a preacher. 211 00:11:49,470 --> 00:11:51,470 He said, all over that section of North 212 00:11:51,470 --> 00:11:54,610 Carolina, they're talking it on the streets and 213 00:11:54,610 --> 00:11:55,390 talking it everywhere. 214 00:11:56,430 --> 00:11:58,490 I had a little touch from God. 215 00:11:59,450 --> 00:12:01,770 I had a pastor that didn't bother me. 216 00:12:02,850 --> 00:12:04,730 He wanted what I had to say. 217 00:12:05,190 --> 00:12:06,030 Prayed for me. 218 00:12:06,750 --> 00:12:08,350 He'd get up every night and say, listen 219 00:12:08,350 --> 00:12:09,130 to this man. 220 00:12:10,570 --> 00:12:11,790 And don't book him. 221 00:12:12,090 --> 00:12:12,890 Hear him through. 222 00:12:13,950 --> 00:12:16,050 Don't book the word of God. 223 00:12:17,270 --> 00:12:18,650 And he didn't bother me. 224 00:12:18,830 --> 00:12:20,990 He let me preach and preach and preach 225 00:12:20,990 --> 00:12:21,490 and preach. 226 00:12:21,610 --> 00:12:27,850 People went away greatly confused, greatly disturbed, defending 227 00:12:27,850 --> 00:12:32,850 their profession, defending their church membership, defending their 228 00:12:32,850 --> 00:12:33,690 orthodoxy. 229 00:12:34,110 --> 00:12:35,690 But they kept coming back. 230 00:12:37,110 --> 00:12:41,170 And then God's Spirit, after the word of 231 00:12:41,170 --> 00:12:43,650 God had clouded hearts, opened the windows of 232 00:12:43,650 --> 00:12:43,930 heaven. 233 00:12:45,330 --> 00:12:47,270 And we almost went to heaven there a 234 00:12:47,270 --> 00:12:47,850 few nights. 235 00:12:49,610 --> 00:12:54,330 I saw over 150 people claim Christ Sunday 236 00:12:54,330 --> 00:12:56,170 nights a week ago in a small church. 237 00:12:56,770 --> 00:12:57,850 You say, well, that's revival. 238 00:12:58,010 --> 00:13:00,070 No, that's just a little flame. 239 00:13:01,390 --> 00:13:02,590 Just a little flame. 240 00:13:03,270 --> 00:13:05,570 But brother, this world is going to see 241 00:13:05,570 --> 00:13:06,030 a revival. 242 00:13:07,150 --> 00:13:08,630 It's going to start in the city of 243 00:13:08,630 --> 00:13:09,090 Jerusalem. 244 00:13:09,890 --> 00:13:14,270 And it's going to spread all over the 245 00:13:14,270 --> 00:13:14,790 world. 246 00:13:15,950 --> 00:13:18,570 It's going to spread all over the world. 247 00:13:20,010 --> 00:13:22,470 Now, there are no Jews here. 248 00:13:23,530 --> 00:13:25,490 And you say, I'm not interested in the 249 00:13:25,490 --> 00:13:28,610 revival that's going to start in Jerusalem. 250 00:13:28,810 --> 00:13:29,590 Well, I am. 251 00:13:29,730 --> 00:13:31,270 Because that's where the big one is going 252 00:13:31,270 --> 00:13:31,850 to start. 253 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:38,760 But it's going to start exactly like a 254 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,040 revival, what we call revival, a little touch. 255 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,860 It might never go any further than Carlisle. 256 00:13:47,100 --> 00:13:48,240 It might die out. 257 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,040 The flame would burn out for as soon 258 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:51,380 as I've ever been in. 259 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:54,060 That little touch from God had spread around 260 00:13:54,060 --> 00:13:54,620 the world. 261 00:13:56,740 --> 00:14:02,480 It's going to start exactly like a revival, 262 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:04,760 if it ever comes to Carlisle. 263 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:06,720 We'll start. 264 00:14:08,140 --> 00:14:09,900 And I want to talk to you about 265 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:14,860 the two things that God will bring to 266 00:14:14,860 --> 00:14:21,320 pass in bringing revival to any church, to 267 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:25,080 any community, or as in the days that 268 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,400 we'll yet look forward to, when he'll bring 269 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,180 it to the whole world. 270 00:14:31,020 --> 00:14:33,300 I'm not a timetable man. 271 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,620 I may not live to see the time. 272 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,120 I don't know a thing on God just 273 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,540 about this world revival I'm talking about. 274 00:14:42,220 --> 00:14:44,960 The only reason I mention it is I 275 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:49,920 think under God one of our greatest contributions 276 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:54,740 to this bewildered day would be to have 277 00:14:54,740 --> 00:14:56,660 hope! 278 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:07,600 There's nothing on earth as contagious as a 279 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,040 man that's full of hope! 280 00:15:11,020 --> 00:15:13,860 He's still got something to look forward to, 281 00:15:16,420 --> 00:15:18,920 and that kind of encourages everybody he touches. 282 00:15:20,060 --> 00:15:21,520 Every once in a while I meet one 283 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,140 of you fundamentalists and you tell me, well, 284 00:15:23,220 --> 00:15:26,080 Brother Bondage, the last days and everything got 285 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:27,840 played out, and I want to get away 286 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:28,920 from you as fast as I can. 287 00:15:28,980 --> 00:15:31,040 I'm bad enough shaped to associate with you. 288 00:15:31,620 --> 00:15:33,660 I tell you, I want to associate with 289 00:15:33,660 --> 00:15:38,160 somebody that's got a big gut and his 290 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:42,180 program's going to succeed and the whole earth 291 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:44,960 was created for a place to display the 292 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:49,500 glory of my Sovereign Redeemer and everything that 293 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:52,000 breathes before the wind up comes is going 294 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,280 to bring glory to God and this whole 295 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:03,220 world is yet going to witness and experience 296 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:08,480 the power of a church in unity, the 297 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,340 body of Christ, under the power of God, 298 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,300 preaching the gospel. 299 00:16:14,820 --> 00:16:15,640 That's yet future. 300 00:16:16,060 --> 00:16:19,940 It's coming, and it can come to any 301 00:16:19,940 --> 00:16:21,240 congregation. 302 00:16:21,460 --> 00:16:25,160 If there are six members of this church 303 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,580 that wanted it to come, I bet you 304 00:16:28,580 --> 00:16:30,900 a dollar and a half you've got the 305 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:33,120 key in your hand and you can have 306 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,540 a touch of the power of God. 307 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,560 If this church were located, this building, one 308 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,700 half an inch from the brink of hell, 309 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:46,240 it'd still be far enough to hear from 310 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,820 hell for us to avail ourselves of the 311 00:16:49,820 --> 00:16:52,920 weapons God always has used and will in 312 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,400 the future and would today, if he were 313 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,660 not hindered by us, to bring his blessing 314 00:17:00,660 --> 00:17:03,160 of revival upon the people. 315 00:17:03,980 --> 00:17:05,839 If you'll turn to the book of Zechariah 316 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,160 at the 11th, 12th chapter, I wish to 317 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:14,440 read to you the two things that will 318 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,480 take place that make a revival. 319 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,599 Just simple as falling off a log backward. 320 00:17:22,859 --> 00:17:26,359 The brethren got a little concerned the other 321 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,540 day after these meetings had been set up 322 00:17:28,540 --> 00:17:33,520 some weeks ago The foreman said, maybe we 323 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:36,660 won't have many folks for you to preach 324 00:17:36,660 --> 00:17:37,000 to. 325 00:17:39,150 --> 00:17:40,810 I said, well, I'm used to preaching to 326 00:17:40,810 --> 00:17:41,490 a small crowd. 327 00:17:42,970 --> 00:17:44,690 So we decided to go ahead. 328 00:17:45,790 --> 00:17:47,490 And I don't want to play mumble peg 329 00:17:47,490 --> 00:17:48,310 with this time. 330 00:17:51,660 --> 00:17:55,280 Under God, you haven't got another day to 331 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,920 fool around playing mumble peg moaning. 332 00:17:58,740 --> 00:18:03,500 We're a day near revival and time's wasting. 333 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:05,840 Time's wasting. 334 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:09,760 And this church got no right to exist 335 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,320 if it isn't working toward this glorious time 336 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:16,320 I'm talking about. 337 00:18:16,740 --> 00:18:21,300 With hope in God and all hell, every 338 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:24,920 trick of the devil will fail. 339 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:26,840 This thing I'm talking about is coming! 340 00:18:27,820 --> 00:18:28,280 Hallelujah. 341 00:18:29,180 --> 00:18:30,320 How is it coming? 342 00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:34,940 Well, a revival comes about in just two 343 00:18:34,940 --> 00:18:35,920 simple ways. 344 00:18:36,740 --> 00:18:40,840 When this revival breaks out in Jerusalem, when 345 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,980 this scripture, All Israel shall be saved, preserved, 346 00:18:44,260 --> 00:18:48,020 till this Deliverer comes, I do not believe 347 00:18:48,020 --> 00:18:49,720 this is the second coming of Christ. 348 00:18:49,780 --> 00:18:50,540 Maybe you do. 349 00:18:51,140 --> 00:18:52,800 We'll not fuss about that. 350 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:55,500 I believe it's the day of the glory 351 00:18:56,310 --> 00:18:58,100 of the church and the day of the 352 00:18:58,100 --> 00:18:59,160 glory of the gospel. 353 00:19:00,260 --> 00:19:02,140 But however it comes, it's coming. 354 00:19:03,140 --> 00:19:05,620 I could be wrong about an interpretation, but 355 00:19:05,620 --> 00:19:08,440 I'm not wrong about the fact that there's 356 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,600 going to be a great turning to God. 357 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:15,920 It's described in the 12th chapter of the 358 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:17,320 book of Zechariah. 359 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,240 And from this passage, the Apostle Paul takes 360 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,040 his text that I read in your hearing 361 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:24,820 from the book of Romans. 362 00:19:24,820 --> 00:19:29,260 In verse 9 of this 12th chapter of 363 00:19:29,260 --> 00:19:32,180 Zechariah, I read these words. 364 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,300 And it shall come to pass in that 365 00:19:34,300 --> 00:19:37,260 day that I will seek to destroy all 366 00:19:37,260 --> 00:19:40,440 the nations that come against Jerusalem, and I 367 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,680 will pour upon the house of David and 368 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,340 upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of 369 00:19:47,340 --> 00:19:49,900 grace and the supplication. 370 00:19:50,660 --> 00:19:54,400 And they shall look upon me, whom they 371 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,880 have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, 372 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:01,280 as one mourned for his only son, and 373 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,400 shall be in bitterness for him, as one 374 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,760 that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 375 00:20:08,260 --> 00:20:13,080 The first thing that will take place when 376 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,600 revival comes, that will bring revival, men, listen 377 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:25,180 to me now, shall see who Christ is. 378 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,100 There has never been a work of grace 379 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:29,540 yet. 380 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,520 There never will be a work of grace 381 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:33,440 in the future. 382 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,060 You will never see a work of grace 383 00:20:36,060 --> 00:20:41,580 here, apart from men and women being constantly 384 00:20:41,580 --> 00:20:50,200 confronted in the gospel with a crucified, exalted 385 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:50,900 Lord. 386 00:20:54,140 --> 00:20:59,080 What's the one task for every congregation that 387 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:03,040 dares to call itself an assembly of God's 388 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,100 called out ones? 389 00:21:04,180 --> 00:21:05,240 We call it a church. 390 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,820 What's our one task, or one of our 391 00:21:08,820 --> 00:21:13,220 tasks, is to keep on as a body 392 00:21:14,220 --> 00:21:20,060 closely knit together in bonds of love, honoring 393 00:21:20,060 --> 00:21:24,580 one another above ourselves, toting our end of 394 00:21:24,580 --> 00:21:30,360 the blanket full strength all force ahead, to 395 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:38,220 constantly confront God and man with the crucified, 396 00:21:39,140 --> 00:21:42,200 exalted Lord of glory. 397 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:51,440 No revival apart from the public and private 398 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:56,040 and instant and constant speaking to the less 399 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:03,040 of preaching not about, but proclaiming Him, the 400 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,020 One who was an offering for sin at 401 00:22:07,020 --> 00:22:12,300 Calvary, and now is the exalted Lord of 402 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:15,220 glory raining from us all. 403 00:22:16,460 --> 00:22:18,280 No revival apart from that. 404 00:22:18,540 --> 00:22:20,640 Our task is never to change. 405 00:22:21,220 --> 00:22:22,280 You listen to me now. 406 00:22:22,940 --> 00:22:23,880 I'm not a crank. 407 00:22:23,980 --> 00:22:25,060 I know what I'm talking about. 408 00:22:25,220 --> 00:22:26,260 Listen to me now. 409 00:22:27,620 --> 00:22:30,920 The Jesus that's preached in our churches today 410 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,980 can't save a flea. 411 00:22:35,220 --> 00:22:37,680 The Jesus that most church members say they 412 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:42,080 accepted as their personal Savior, and they say 413 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,540 that they did it, and they made Him 414 00:22:45,540 --> 00:22:48,240 their Savior, they made Him their Lord, and 415 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:49,740 all that tomfoolery. 416 00:22:50,740 --> 00:22:53,240 There's two things about the Jesus that's been 417 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,060 preached in America, that's been preached, I expect, 418 00:22:57,180 --> 00:22:57,840 in Colorado. 419 00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:02,580 The two things about Him that make Him 420 00:23:02,580 --> 00:23:05,060 different from the Christ of God. 421 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,460 The Jesus that is popularly preached today, and 422 00:23:09,460 --> 00:23:12,760 the only one this generation knows anything about, 423 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,360 is the Jesus who made some sort of 424 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:21,860 a gesture of love, but was not a 425 00:23:21,860 --> 00:23:26,320 sin offering on Golgotha's hill. 426 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:34,620 But when man come face to face with 427 00:23:34,620 --> 00:23:38,900 the Christ who poured out His soul unto 428 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:41,860 death, and God hung Him on a cross 429 00:23:41,860 --> 00:23:46,380 as an offering for sin, as a vital, 430 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:48,520 necessary remedy. 431 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,740 That Jesus who poured out His soul unto 432 00:23:53,740 --> 00:23:57,880 death, under the lash of God's holy law, 433 00:23:58,060 --> 00:24:02,000 and the wicked machinations of evil did, that 434 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,960 Jesus has yet, for the most part, to 435 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,300 be preached in our generation. 436 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,340 People today admire Him. 437 00:24:12,340 --> 00:24:15,280 People today talk about Him. 438 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:23,600 People today do everything except recognize Him as 439 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:29,100 God's sin offering, doing for them what they 440 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:34,740 could not do for themselves, taking their place 441 00:24:35,660 --> 00:24:38,920 and paying their guilty debt. 442 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:46,040 They shall look on Him whom they have 443 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:46,760 pierced. 444 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:54,220 When men see who Jesus is, revivals come, 445 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:54,540 brother. 446 00:24:56,220 --> 00:24:57,600 Revivals come. 447 00:24:59,220 --> 00:25:01,840 When they see Him as a sin offering 448 00:25:02,820 --> 00:25:10,540 on the cross, and an exalted Lord on 449 00:25:10,540 --> 00:25:15,770 the throne, they shall see their utter need 450 00:25:15,770 --> 00:25:21,550 of Him as their substitute, and their utter 451 00:25:21,550 --> 00:25:25,390 need of Him as their absolute Lord. 452 00:25:27,150 --> 00:25:36,650 You'll never, you'll never, never be saved if 453 00:25:36,650 --> 00:25:41,150 you never see Him as an actual sin 454 00:25:41,150 --> 00:25:47,110 offering, now seated on a throne. 455 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,000 Now seated on a throne. 456 00:25:53,360 --> 00:26:02,520 The second thing that God uses, I 457 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:10,300 will pour upon the house of David and 458 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:16,200 upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of 459 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,660 grace and supplication. 460 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,280 God says, I'll do it. 461 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,300 I'll do it. 462 00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:31,190 I'll do it. 463 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:39,690 Where you've got men under the power of 464 00:26:39,690 --> 00:26:45,630 God, their eyes are being opened, and they 465 00:26:45,630 --> 00:26:48,650 see who Jesus Christ is. 466 00:26:59,810 --> 00:27:02,270 There are just two things I know that 467 00:27:02,270 --> 00:27:06,090 God's people can do in this matter of 468 00:27:06,090 --> 00:27:06,550 revival. 469 00:27:07,870 --> 00:27:11,750 Be dead sure this church in every home 470 00:27:11,750 --> 00:27:14,310 in this community, you can get in, in 471 00:27:14,310 --> 00:27:16,890 every club, in every street corner, in every 472 00:27:16,890 --> 00:27:21,530 jail, in every avenue, in every Sunday school 473 00:27:21,530 --> 00:27:27,470 class, everywhere, faithfully confronts men not with the 474 00:27:27,470 --> 00:27:32,450 popular, weak, helpless, futile Jesus today, but with 475 00:27:32,450 --> 00:27:36,170 the Christ of God who under the grace 476 00:27:36,170 --> 00:27:38,870 and love of God was offered as a 477 00:27:38,870 --> 00:27:42,970 sin offering, and who under the power of 478 00:27:42,970 --> 00:27:45,890 God has been highly exalted and made to 479 00:27:45,890 --> 00:27:49,470 sit upon the throne, where he's going to 480 00:27:49,470 --> 00:27:53,890 stay and rule and reign, thank God, until 481 00:27:53,890 --> 00:27:58,490 every enemy has been disgraced, until all authority 482 00:27:58,490 --> 00:28:01,350 and power and rule has been brought unto 483 00:28:01,350 --> 00:28:01,750 him. 484 00:28:02,310 --> 00:28:05,730 And when everything has been brought under subjection 485 00:28:05,730 --> 00:28:09,270 to him, I'm quoting from Corinthians, then he 486 00:28:09,270 --> 00:28:12,810 was going to bring a subjected world and 487 00:28:12,810 --> 00:28:15,830 turn it back to the Father, that God 488 00:28:15,830 --> 00:28:17,390 may be all in all. 489 00:28:19,270 --> 00:28:24,030 Now, briefly, what are the evidences of revival? 490 00:28:25,570 --> 00:28:27,030 Would we know one if we met it 491 00:28:27,030 --> 00:28:28,630 in the road, or just one? 492 00:28:29,730 --> 00:28:31,030 May I give it to you. 493 00:28:32,350 --> 00:28:36,390 When revival comes, God knows. 494 00:28:37,170 --> 00:28:39,150 I've seen a little taste of it in 495 00:28:39,150 --> 00:28:40,370 my ministry once in a while. 496 00:28:41,810 --> 00:28:48,460 Everywhere I go, I say, Lord, if you 497 00:28:48,460 --> 00:28:52,620 will, do it again. 498 00:28:55,460 --> 00:29:00,120 I've never seen it come in a way 499 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,060 that I could explain it. 500 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:09,660 The Spirit blows where he wills, and you 501 00:29:09,660 --> 00:29:12,100 cannot tell from whence it comes or where 502 00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:12,560 it goes. 503 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,600 You can't control God, can you? 504 00:29:20,450 --> 00:29:21,570 But I'll tell you one thing. 505 00:29:23,230 --> 00:29:26,430 If you're ever in it, and I hope 506 00:29:26,430 --> 00:29:28,590 you are, I'll tell you how you can 507 00:29:28,590 --> 00:29:29,110 tell it. 508 00:29:32,150 --> 00:29:38,630 Men will have great concern about their personal 509 00:29:38,630 --> 00:29:43,740 relationship to the Christ of God. 510 00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:50,720 And they'll begin to seek after the Lord. 511 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,160 Let's read this 10th verse one more time. 512 00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:58,080 Of the 12th chapter of Zechariah. 513 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,040 God says, I'll pour upon the house of 514 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,320 David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the 515 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,600 spirit of grace and supplication. 516 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,800 And they shall look upon me whom they 517 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:15,240 have pierced, and they shall mourn for him. 518 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,720 Mourn for him. 519 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,000 They shall seek after him. 520 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:30,100 As one mourneth for his only son, and 521 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:33,520 shall be in bitterness for him, in agony 522 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,980 for Christ, as one that is in bitterness 523 00:30:36,980 --> 00:30:38,120 for his firstborn. 524 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:39,900 Verse 12. 525 00:30:40,820 --> 00:30:44,000 And the land shall mourn every family apart, 526 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,060 and their wives apart. 527 00:30:51,030 --> 00:30:55,610 People ask me if I believe in a 528 00:30:55,610 --> 00:30:57,270 public mourner's bench. 529 00:30:58,150 --> 00:30:59,850 I don't know whether you Yankees ever saw 530 00:30:59,850 --> 00:31:00,430 one or not. 531 00:31:00,590 --> 00:31:03,230 Down south, many of the churches have a 532 00:31:03,230 --> 00:31:04,370 real bench. 533 00:31:05,430 --> 00:31:07,790 People come there and call it a mourner's 534 00:31:07,790 --> 00:31:08,090 bench. 535 00:31:10,150 --> 00:31:12,470 Well, you stiff folks could use a little 536 00:31:12,470 --> 00:31:12,810 of that. 537 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,680 I do not believe in a public mourner's 538 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:28,840 bench, although I'm not going to holler about 539 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:29,020 it. 540 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,340 I don't care how you get to the 541 00:31:32,340 --> 00:31:32,840 Lord. 542 00:31:35,790 --> 00:31:36,350 Is that all right? 543 00:31:36,950 --> 00:31:37,910 Just so you get to him. 544 00:31:40,490 --> 00:31:42,390 I'll tell you right now, but you ain't 545 00:31:42,390 --> 00:31:44,950 never going to know him until you begin 546 00:31:44,950 --> 00:31:46,330 to seek him apart. 547 00:31:48,890 --> 00:31:55,500 If revival came to Grace Baptist Church, the 548 00:31:55,500 --> 00:32:01,120 families of this church would have great seasons 549 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:06,360 of mourning and seeking in their home, searching 550 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:07,300 for God. 551 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,920 Your little old church membership and the fact 552 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:13,820 that you don't chaw tobacco or get drunk, 553 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,440 it wouldn't make a dime worth of difference. 554 00:32:16,620 --> 00:32:18,560 You'd want to get acquainted and have a 555 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,500 personal relationship with the living God. 556 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,140 That'd be revival. 557 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,260 A revival would come when this generation of 558 00:32:30,260 --> 00:32:31,920 church members that are going to go to 559 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:36,160 hell defending their profession and their confession and 560 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,200 can tell you when they're saved but don't 561 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:46,210 know Christ, when they got terribly concerned about 562 00:32:46,210 --> 00:32:51,130 their own relationship to a living God. 563 00:32:55,430 --> 00:32:57,770 I don't believe in a public mourner's bench 564 00:32:57,770 --> 00:33:00,170 because it can be abused. 565 00:33:01,050 --> 00:33:03,290 I'm afraid people would trust the bench, but 566 00:33:03,290 --> 00:33:07,090 the Bible dead sure teaches a private mourner's 567 00:33:07,090 --> 00:33:07,370 bench. 568 00:33:08,150 --> 00:33:10,330 And everybody that ever gets saved dead sure 569 00:33:10,330 --> 00:33:11,870 knows what I'm talking about now. 570 00:33:13,690 --> 00:33:17,710 Just talk about seeking apart, mourning apart. 571 00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:20,970 Why isn't that room there and there? 572 00:33:21,830 --> 00:33:25,850 Men and women naked before God, mourning after 573 00:33:25,850 --> 00:33:26,750 Christ. 574 00:33:27,630 --> 00:33:28,490 That'd be revival. 575 00:33:29,790 --> 00:33:31,350 That'd be revival. 576 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,940 Paul had a private mourner's bench. 577 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,720 That's what he's talking about in Romans 7. 578 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,700 Daniel had a private mourner's bench. 579 00:33:49,980 --> 00:33:52,660 David had a private mourner's bench. 580 00:33:58,150 --> 00:34:01,070 Everybody ever knows God's got a private mourner's 581 00:34:01,070 --> 00:34:01,310 bench. 582 00:34:01,710 --> 00:34:05,090 A Christian spends his life at a private 583 00:34:05,090 --> 00:34:06,270 mourner's bench. 584 00:34:07,830 --> 00:34:09,730 I wish you'd turn, if you can find 585 00:34:09,730 --> 00:34:14,070 it, right quick to Jeremiah 31, verse 18. 586 00:34:14,710 --> 00:34:18,230 Here's what's going to happen among us nice 587 00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:23,449 little refined church people if revival ever comes. 588 00:34:24,350 --> 00:34:27,810 In 18th verse of Jeremiah 31, this be 589 00:34:27,810 --> 00:34:28,969 a description of us. 590 00:34:29,710 --> 00:34:37,710 I've surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus. 591 00:34:38,429 --> 00:34:40,530 Oh, Ephraim moaning. 592 00:34:41,909 --> 00:34:45,909 He said, Thou hast chastised me, and I 593 00:34:45,909 --> 00:34:49,730 was chastised as a bullock unaccustomed to the 594 00:34:49,730 --> 00:34:50,130 yoke. 595 00:34:51,630 --> 00:34:56,450 Turn thou me, and I shall return. 596 00:34:57,610 --> 00:35:04,330 For thou art the Lord my God, the 597 00:35:04,330 --> 00:35:05,710 moaning himself. 598 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,020 I know I'm talking strange. 599 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:11,680 We don't know about what I'm talking about 600 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:12,200 tonight. 601 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,920 We're members of this cocky generation that made 602 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,340 a little profession one time, and we've been 603 00:35:17,340 --> 00:35:19,660 going around talking about we're born again Christians 604 00:35:19,660 --> 00:35:20,840 or there's some other kind. 605 00:35:24,430 --> 00:35:25,530 We're all right. 606 00:35:25,710 --> 00:35:26,830 We're nice people. 607 00:35:28,310 --> 00:35:32,070 But if revival came, God bless your heart, 608 00:35:32,750 --> 00:35:39,340 there'd be moaning and mourning apart. 609 00:35:39,940 --> 00:35:43,920 Men would seek God apart. 610 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,920 You ever seen much of that? 611 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:57,800 Am I? 612 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,580 May I say one more word? 613 00:36:06,620 --> 00:36:09,220 If anything like this ever happens here in 614 00:36:09,220 --> 00:36:15,550 Carlisle, for God's sake, don't try to stop 615 00:36:15,550 --> 00:36:15,770 it. 616 00:36:19,260 --> 00:36:20,840 Don't try to stop it. 617 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,180 You will, you know, if you listen to 618 00:36:24,180 --> 00:36:27,220 the way to do personal work and the 619 00:36:27,220 --> 00:36:28,400 way to witness today. 620 00:36:34,860 --> 00:36:37,100 Boy, I've fought many a battle on this 621 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:37,660 camp field. 622 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:41,520 I've seen people go to insane asylum over 623 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:41,900 this. 624 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,420 I've seen people in my meetings go crazy 625 00:36:46,420 --> 00:36:47,500 over what I'm talking about. 626 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:49,880 How'd it happen? 627 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:51,880 They'd come here and they'd preach. 628 00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:54,640 The Holy Spirit would take the word and 629 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,880 tear up all the little places of refuge 630 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,260 and just tear them all to pieces. 631 00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:06,060 And the next day, some preacher of personal 632 00:37:06,060 --> 00:37:06,880 work would go to them. 633 00:37:06,980 --> 00:37:09,360 Why, you're all right. 634 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,020 Why, you teach your son's school class. 635 00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:17,440 And they'd give them a little piece, but 636 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,100 they'd make a mistake and come back in 637 00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:20,580 to preach that night and the Holy Spirit 638 00:37:20,580 --> 00:37:23,540 would take the knife and cut their heart 639 00:37:23,540 --> 00:37:24,200 open again. 640 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,720 And the next day, somebody would go along 641 00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:27,780 and give them comfort. 642 00:37:28,980 --> 00:37:30,540 Listen to Brother Barney. 643 00:37:32,330 --> 00:37:33,750 Listen to Brother Barney. 644 00:37:33,970 --> 00:37:40,060 In God's name, if in answer to prayer, 645 00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:42,240 if that's how it comes, God ever pours 646 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:45,260 out His Spirit on you, and men are 647 00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:50,920 confronted with the sure enough crucified, now exalted 648 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,820 Lord, and they begin to mourn for Him 649 00:37:54,820 --> 00:37:56,720 and seek Him apart. 650 00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:00,140 They want to know whether they have a 651 00:38:00,140 --> 00:38:03,040 vital relationship to Him or not. 652 00:38:05,140 --> 00:38:09,500 For God's sake, pay a little attention to 653 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:12,060 this old preacher when I tell you in 654 00:38:12,060 --> 00:38:16,320 God's name, don't try to pour water on 655 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:16,960 their mourning. 656 00:38:19,130 --> 00:38:23,470 Don't try to comfort mourning sinners. 657 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,640 Should we go after sinners? 658 00:38:29,860 --> 00:38:33,220 If there's a Sunday school teacher here and 659 00:38:33,220 --> 00:38:36,680 you're not inspiring and training your class to 660 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,640 go after souls, you ain't worth the powder 661 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:39,860 and lead to kill you. 662 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:41,140 You ought to resign. 663 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:42,760 Let them get somebody who knows God. 664 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:46,760 I'm talking straight to you. 665 00:38:47,780 --> 00:38:49,640 This world is going to hell, while there's 666 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,200 nice people playing mumbo-jumbo. 667 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,280 You better listen to me. 668 00:38:55,550 --> 00:38:56,950 We ought to go after people. 669 00:38:58,570 --> 00:39:00,630 But what all we do is catch up 670 00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:00,950 with them. 671 00:39:03,540 --> 00:39:06,040 I hope this church rings every doorbell in 672 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,480 this city about once a month. 673 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:08,460 But you ought to if you're going to 674 00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:08,800 count. 675 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:11,100 After souls. 676 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:11,900 What are you going to do when you 677 00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:12,500 get there? 678 00:39:13,380 --> 00:39:15,080 Try to get them to accept somebody? 679 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:17,680 Try to get them to make a profession? 680 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:25,840 Suppose tonight your telephone rings and somebody phones 681 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,880 and says, Oh, I'm in trouble. 682 00:39:29,140 --> 00:39:31,060 I tell you, I'm just miserable. 683 00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:34,640 I feel like I'm going to drop in 684 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,780 hell, poor son of. 685 00:39:36,380 --> 00:39:38,340 Won't you come over and help me? 686 00:39:38,460 --> 00:39:39,040 Would you go? 687 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:41,360 Surely you would, wouldn't you? 688 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,220 What would you do after you got there? 689 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,800 If you knew the Bible, you'd do one 690 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:46,160 thing. 691 00:39:46,660 --> 00:39:51,450 You'd do exactly what Peter did when God 692 00:39:51,450 --> 00:39:53,630 sent him down in answer to the prayer 693 00:39:53,630 --> 00:39:55,510 of a man by the name of Cornelius. 694 00:39:56,550 --> 00:39:58,250 You've got to listen to Brother Barnard now. 695 00:39:58,530 --> 00:40:01,010 Let's turn to the 10th chapter of the 696 00:40:01,010 --> 00:40:03,570 book of Acts and read it again. 697 00:40:04,050 --> 00:40:07,290 You're familiar with the story of how a 698 00:40:07,290 --> 00:40:09,150 man by the name of Cornelius, he is 699 00:40:09,150 --> 00:40:10,010 a devout man. 700 00:40:10,150 --> 00:40:12,490 He prayed and he gave alms and God 701 00:40:12,490 --> 00:40:13,390 gave him a vision. 702 00:40:14,110 --> 00:40:15,650 And then God went over and worked on 703 00:40:15,650 --> 00:40:16,950 a fellow by the name of Peter and 704 00:40:16,950 --> 00:40:18,730 I killed him to get him where he, 705 00:40:18,950 --> 00:40:21,970 he'd go down and preach to this Gentile. 706 00:40:23,150 --> 00:40:26,590 And when Peter finally got down there to 707 00:40:26,590 --> 00:40:29,850 old Cornelius, he was worshiping God and he 708 00:40:29,850 --> 00:40:32,250 was praying and he was seeking and he 709 00:40:32,250 --> 00:40:33,270 wanted help. 710 00:40:36,370 --> 00:40:39,050 Why, Peter stuck John Thrickstein to the stage 711 00:40:39,050 --> 00:40:40,710 and said, Don't you believe that verse of 712 00:40:40,710 --> 00:40:40,850 Scripture? 713 00:40:41,190 --> 00:40:41,550 Yeah. 714 00:40:41,770 --> 00:40:42,490 Well, he was sick. 715 00:40:43,870 --> 00:40:45,810 And Peter went up to him and said, 716 00:40:45,890 --> 00:40:47,970 I understand you want me to come down 717 00:40:47,970 --> 00:40:48,450 and help you. 718 00:40:48,650 --> 00:40:51,090 I've been praying for somebody to come. 719 00:40:51,990 --> 00:40:53,390 Well, here's my hand. 720 00:40:53,570 --> 00:40:56,010 Won't you accept Jesus Christ as your personal 721 00:40:56,010 --> 00:40:56,410 Savior? 722 00:40:56,870 --> 00:40:57,930 No, he didn't say that. 723 00:40:58,130 --> 00:40:58,770 What did he do? 724 00:40:59,370 --> 00:41:00,630 Well, let's read what he did. 725 00:41:02,110 --> 00:41:03,490 Bless the Lord. 726 00:41:04,370 --> 00:41:05,850 He just preached to him. 727 00:41:07,090 --> 00:41:10,570 Verse 34, Then Peter opened his mouth and 728 00:41:10,570 --> 00:41:13,010 said, Of a truth I perceive that God 729 00:41:13,010 --> 00:41:15,550 is no respect of persons, but in every 730 00:41:15,550 --> 00:41:18,170 nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness 731 00:41:18,170 --> 00:41:19,490 is accepted with him. 732 00:41:19,910 --> 00:41:21,870 The word which God sent unto the children 733 00:41:21,870 --> 00:41:25,590 of Israel to preach in peace by Jesus 734 00:41:25,590 --> 00:41:31,050 Christ, he is the Lord of all. 735 00:41:31,050 --> 00:41:33,830 That word I say you know, which was 736 00:41:33,830 --> 00:41:36,590 published throughout all Judea and began from Galilee 737 00:41:36,590 --> 00:41:39,590 after the baptism with John, preached how God 738 00:41:39,590 --> 00:41:43,350 anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost 739 00:41:43,350 --> 00:41:45,950 and with power, who went about doing good 740 00:41:45,950 --> 00:41:48,330 and healing all that were oppressed of the 741 00:41:48,330 --> 00:41:49,910 devil for God was with him. 742 00:41:49,910 --> 00:41:52,490 And we are witness of all these things 743 00:41:52,490 --> 00:41:54,190 which he did both in the land of 744 00:41:54,190 --> 00:41:57,330 the Jews and Jerusalem, whom they slew and 745 00:41:57,330 --> 00:41:58,430 hanged on a tree. 746 00:41:58,790 --> 00:42:01,650 Him God raised up the third day and 747 00:42:01,650 --> 00:42:04,990 showed him openly, not to all people, but 748 00:42:04,990 --> 00:42:07,450 unto witnesses chosen before of God, and so 749 00:42:07,450 --> 00:42:07,770 forth. 750 00:42:07,950 --> 00:42:10,490 And he commanded us, verse 42, to preach 751 00:42:10,490 --> 00:42:13,310 unto the people and to testify that it 752 00:42:13,310 --> 00:42:16,130 is he which was ordained of God to 753 00:42:16,130 --> 00:42:17,010 be judge. 754 00:42:17,010 --> 00:42:19,250 J-U-D-G-E, judge! 755 00:42:19,390 --> 00:42:21,690 He's going to do something with everybody, save 756 00:42:21,690 --> 00:42:23,450 them or damn them, of the quick and 757 00:42:23,450 --> 00:42:23,710 dead. 758 00:42:23,910 --> 00:42:26,810 To him give all the proper witness that 759 00:42:26,810 --> 00:42:30,370 through his name whosoever believeth in him shall 760 00:42:30,370 --> 00:42:32,250 receive remission of sins. 761 00:42:32,630 --> 00:42:37,230 While Peter yet speaks these words, you read 762 00:42:37,230 --> 00:42:39,430 these words just the gospel all about Jesus 763 00:42:39,430 --> 00:42:41,070 Christ, who is it? 764 00:42:42,270 --> 00:42:46,590 While Peter yet speaks these words, the Holy 765 00:42:46,590 --> 00:42:49,710 Ghost fell on all them. 766 00:42:50,550 --> 00:42:53,270 That H-E-A-R-D heard the 767 00:42:53,270 --> 00:42:53,950 word. 768 00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,620 If somebody called for you and wanted to 769 00:42:59,620 --> 00:43:00,500 help out, what'd you do? 770 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:02,560 Try to get them to do something? 771 00:43:03,220 --> 00:43:03,800 Peter didn't. 772 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:09,560 He confronted him with the Lord Jesus Christ. 773 00:43:09,580 --> 00:43:09,860 Amen. 774 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,920 And the Holy Spirit added his testimony. 775 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:16,380 That's right. 776 00:43:17,340 --> 00:43:18,160 That's right. 777 00:43:19,220 --> 00:43:20,820 What I'm trying to say is let the 778 00:43:20,820 --> 00:43:22,160 Holy Ghost comfort people. 779 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:22,540 Amen? 780 00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:24,020 Amen. 781 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:26,500 Ah, my. 782 00:43:27,340 --> 00:43:28,220 What did Peter do? 783 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,080 He showed them Jesus Christ. 784 00:43:32,420 --> 00:43:33,540 Is that what you do? 785 00:43:34,580 --> 00:43:37,360 My church is presently coming, I hope accepted. 786 00:43:40,030 --> 00:43:41,930 With the absence of most of your members, 787 00:43:42,110 --> 00:43:48,620 I ain't so sure, have been talked into 788 00:43:48,620 --> 00:43:50,240 accepting something. 789 00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,500 My soul, they need to be listened to 790 00:43:56,500 --> 00:43:59,820 the word when the Holy Ghost falls on 791 00:43:59,820 --> 00:44:00,300 them. 792 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,840 That's how people get saved. 793 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:09,160 What'd Peter do? 794 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,180 He didn't go around trying to get somebody 795 00:44:13,180 --> 00:44:14,720 to accept something. 796 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:17,020 There's a troubled soul. 797 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:20,720 He didn't go say, now you're all right. 798 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,460 He didn't go try to talk them into 799 00:44:23,460 --> 00:44:23,700 anything. 800 00:44:24,820 --> 00:44:27,880 He went and did what honors God, bless 801 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,380 God, and what everybody that's a member of 802 00:44:31,380 --> 00:44:35,580 anybody's church, you're either living in disgrace or 803 00:44:35,580 --> 00:44:36,460 you're doing it. 804 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:41,580 You're a preacher of the gospel of Jesus 805 00:44:41,580 --> 00:44:42,240 Christ. 806 00:44:47,710 --> 00:44:50,050 You sell clothes, listen to the pay expenses, 807 00:44:50,050 --> 00:44:52,290 but if you're saved, your mission is to 808 00:44:52,290 --> 00:44:53,230 preach the gospel. 809 00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:58,440 If the day ever comes when we quit 810 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,900 limiting the preaching of the gospel behind one 811 00:45:00,900 --> 00:45:04,040 of these things, and have some churches full 812 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:08,480 of saved people called of God, to go 813 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,920 to the Cornelius's, bless God, and do what? 814 00:45:13,220 --> 00:45:14,980 Just proclaim Christ. 815 00:45:18,690 --> 00:45:20,070 Let him comfort you. 816 00:45:24,140 --> 00:45:29,440 I was down in Greenville, Mississippi, Greenville, South 817 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:33,880 Carolina some years ago, and was on the 818 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,300 radio 30 minutes a day, and God began 819 00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:38,360 to pour out his Spirit on the broadcast. 820 00:45:39,340 --> 00:45:41,600 In that city is a great Bible college. 821 00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:44,940 Before we knew it, many hundreds of the 822 00:45:44,940 --> 00:45:45,980 students were listening. 823 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,160 Then they began to crowd out the auditorium. 824 00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,600 After a few nights, they began to crowd 825 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,980 the aisles running to the prayer room, young 826 00:45:54,980 --> 00:45:55,600 preachers. 827 00:45:56,300 --> 00:45:59,320 People stood under the missionaries screaming, I'm lost, 828 00:45:59,460 --> 00:46:01,660 I'm lost, I'm mourning, I'm groaning. 829 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,060 Couldn't help but comfort them. 830 00:46:05,900 --> 00:46:08,020 It just began to spread, and the telephone 831 00:46:08,020 --> 00:46:10,200 began to ring, and began to drive in 832 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,240 from 250 miles around. 833 00:46:13,100 --> 00:46:15,100 So we had preachers all over that town 834 00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:17,380 spending all that time in the daytime, not 835 00:46:17,380 --> 00:46:20,200 even in the meeting, trying to deal with 836 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:21,320 distressed souls. 837 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,880 There I stood, and everybody wanted to help 838 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:29,020 me. 839 00:46:29,020 --> 00:46:30,620 I said, I'm scared, too. 840 00:46:32,020 --> 00:46:32,880 Leave them alone. 841 00:46:37,220 --> 00:46:39,060 You saw somebody with a tear, you'd get 842 00:46:39,060 --> 00:46:40,240 him converted right away, wouldn't you? 843 00:46:40,860 --> 00:46:42,380 He'd stay converted about a week. 844 00:46:44,580 --> 00:46:45,420 Let them mourn. 845 00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:50,240 Brother, if we ever have revival, there'd be 846 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:51,360 mourning apart. 847 00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:52,880 The families. 848 00:46:53,940 --> 00:46:55,660 Old man Allspaugh would be in that room, 849 00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,440 and the wife would be over there, seeking 850 00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:58,020 the Lord. 851 00:47:05,350 --> 00:47:09,570 Let the Holy Ghost wipe their weeping eyes. 852 00:47:09,650 --> 00:47:09,910 Amen? 853 00:47:11,550 --> 00:47:18,800 And I remember Saturday night at midnight, I'd 854 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:23,670 just got asleep, and the telephone woke me 855 00:47:23,670 --> 00:47:26,530 up, and a young preacher out at the 856 00:47:26,530 --> 00:47:29,950 school said, Brother Barney, we're bringing a girl 857 00:47:29,950 --> 00:47:31,210 up to your hotel room. 858 00:47:31,350 --> 00:47:32,470 Said, she's in hell. 859 00:47:33,630 --> 00:47:35,530 Said, she's just suffering like I never saw 860 00:47:35,530 --> 00:47:36,750 anybody suffer in my life. 861 00:47:37,710 --> 00:47:39,450 And he said, you just got to help 862 00:47:39,450 --> 00:47:39,550 her. 863 00:47:39,570 --> 00:47:40,750 I said, don't bring her up here. 864 00:47:40,830 --> 00:47:42,990 I've got to preach five times tomorrow night. 865 00:47:43,390 --> 00:47:45,470 But he said tomorrow night, I've got to 866 00:47:45,470 --> 00:47:46,230 get some sleep. 867 00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:49,140 I did, too. 868 00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:52,580 Well, he said, Brother Barney, she's just suffering 869 00:47:52,580 --> 00:47:53,340 out here now. 870 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:54,740 I said, well, let her suffer. 871 00:47:55,620 --> 00:47:57,280 One more night in hell might do her 872 00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:57,740 good. 873 00:47:58,660 --> 00:47:59,940 You think I'm cruel? 874 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:02,400 Eh? 875 00:48:03,020 --> 00:48:04,760 No, you're the one that's cruel. 876 00:48:04,940 --> 00:48:06,360 You don't believe God's word. 877 00:48:06,860 --> 00:48:08,700 You think this business of becoming a Christian 878 00:48:08,700 --> 00:48:10,060 is a little matter of flicking your gum 879 00:48:10,060 --> 00:48:10,980 from one jaw to the other. 880 00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:14,040 No, it's becoming vitally joined to the Living 881 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:14,560 Lord. 882 00:48:16,830 --> 00:48:19,050 No man will ever have peace unless he's 883 00:48:19,050 --> 00:48:19,730 had bitterness. 884 00:48:21,890 --> 00:48:23,710 No man will ever know joy unless he's 885 00:48:23,710 --> 00:48:24,730 experienced mourning. 886 00:48:25,970 --> 00:48:27,730 They shall mourn for him. 887 00:48:30,530 --> 00:48:31,790 And we'll let her stay in hell. 888 00:48:31,930 --> 00:48:32,630 Wasn't that cruel? 889 00:48:33,510 --> 00:48:35,910 But when she got out, she sure was 890 00:48:35,910 --> 00:48:36,310 glad. 891 00:48:38,900 --> 00:48:40,460 And if you ever stay in hell a 892 00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:45,740 while, mourning, how about my vital, personal relationship 893 00:48:45,740 --> 00:48:47,260 to the Living God? 894 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,040 Nobody can do business there but you. 895 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:51,240 For you. 896 00:48:52,810 --> 00:48:54,310 That's revival. 897 00:48:56,030 --> 00:48:57,050 That's revival. 898 00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:06,020 I said all over America, every community ought 899 00:49:06,020 --> 00:49:09,120 to have a church in it full of 900 00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:15,020 people in the power of the Spirit confronting 901 00:49:15,020 --> 00:49:19,280 everybody they can with a Christ who's an 902 00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:20,520 actual sin offering. 903 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:25,540 Men actually need a sin offering in their 904 00:49:25,540 --> 00:49:25,860 stead. 905 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:27,840 They don't need a helper. 906 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,440 They need somebody to pay that sin debt. 907 00:49:33,260 --> 00:49:39,400 And men actually need to bow to the 908 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,680 Lord Jesus Christ now. 909 00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,440 You've been listening to From the Pulpit in 910 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:47,200 Classic Sermons. 911 00:49:47,460 --> 00:49:49,720 This week you heard Ralph Bernard with his 912 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:51,600 message, A Great Revival is Coming. 913 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:53,880 Tune in next week to hear Willie Milan 914 00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,720 talk about Daniel and 21 Days of Prayer 915 00:49:56,720 --> 00:49:59,480 on From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.