1 00:00:01,740 --> 00:00:04,220 Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:06,220 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:06,220 --> 00:00:08,300 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:10,960 Christian faith, and powerful sermons for modern preachers 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:11,240 too. 6 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,040 This week we have Leonard Ravenhill with his 7 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:15,860 message on Hebrews chapter 1. 8 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,920 And then the assistant pastor said, that was 9 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:23,900 a beautiful meeting. 10 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:25,800 I said, there was a lovely spirit there. 11 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:27,140 Didn't you enjoy it all? 12 00:00:27,220 --> 00:00:28,220 I said, no, why not? 13 00:00:28,220 --> 00:00:30,460 I said, how is it that three people 14 00:00:30,460 --> 00:00:32,140 spoke in tongues and nobody interpreted? 15 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:34,060 And it was a huge audience. 16 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,140 He said, there's only one person in this 17 00:00:36,140 --> 00:00:38,220 church has the interpretation, that's the pastor. 18 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,240 And when he's away, I said, are you 19 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,440 telling me the Holy Ghost moved somebody and 20 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,340 then the Holy Ghost couldn't get an interpretation? 21 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:46,280 Doesn't make sense. 22 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:49,440 There's no waste in the economy of God. 23 00:00:49,980 --> 00:00:52,000 Either she's totally out of gear, or else 24 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,060 the pastor's out of gear being somewhere else. 25 00:00:55,220 --> 00:00:57,680 If this really operated in the power of 26 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,320 the Spirit, signs and wonders and miracles and 27 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,120 divers gifts of the Holy Ghost, we'd still 28 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:05,140 move the world for God. 29 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,640 Of course, when you get holy fire, you 30 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:09,480 get false fire. 31 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:12,760 You read the report of the coming of 32 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,960 the Spirit, what was it, Azusa Street, 1905, 33 00:01:15,140 --> 00:01:15,780 I think it was. 34 00:01:16,660 --> 00:01:18,340 Every crackpot in the country went. 35 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:21,900 One of the leading prophets was a man 36 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:25,100 in a faded old swallowtail coat, with a 37 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:27,560 white beard, tobacco juice all down one side, 38 00:01:27,660 --> 00:01:28,720 it was deep brown. 39 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:30,680 And they had to push him away from 40 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:31,400 the front every day. 41 00:01:31,580 --> 00:01:33,560 He had a new revelation, a new prophecy. 42 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:35,880 And they got out of him and huddled 43 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:36,880 him out into another room. 44 00:01:36,940 --> 00:01:39,060 He came back, he had that hope that 45 00:01:39,060 --> 00:01:40,040 never fails, you know. 46 00:01:42,860 --> 00:01:44,460 Of course, you get some false fire. 47 00:01:44,460 --> 00:01:46,760 But brother, I'd rather get the false fire, 48 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,340 with the Holy Ghost fire around, than have 49 00:01:48,340 --> 00:01:49,260 no fire at all. 50 00:01:51,860 --> 00:01:54,520 If holy fire is there, God will give 51 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,180 the necessary wisdom. 52 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:58,780 Now, if you didn't get Dave Wilson's tape 53 00:01:58,780 --> 00:02:00,420 for, was it week last Sunday, Martha? 54 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:01,600 Week last Sunday? 55 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:04,720 Yeah, on the fire, did you get it? 56 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:05,460 Did you play it again? 57 00:02:07,199 --> 00:02:10,300 Oh, that was a fantastic message on Zechariah. 58 00:02:11,060 --> 00:02:13,260 God being a wall of fire round about, 59 00:02:13,420 --> 00:02:14,820 and the glory in the midst. 60 00:02:16,580 --> 00:02:18,320 Usually, he asked me to close in prayer. 61 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,120 If he'd done that that Sunday morning, I'd 62 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,280 have choked, I couldn't have done it. 63 00:02:21,580 --> 00:02:22,920 I'd have been on the floor myself. 64 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,960 High youngsters going to church, and other people 65 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:30,860 laughing, merry. 66 00:02:32,700 --> 00:02:34,100 Doesn't make any difference to them. 67 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,520 They don't expect to be awed with God. 68 00:02:39,580 --> 00:02:41,480 As I've said once or twice Sunday morning, 69 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,360 did you come here to meet God, or 70 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:45,780 do you come here to hear a sermon 71 00:02:45,780 --> 00:02:46,320 about him? 72 00:02:49,260 --> 00:02:51,140 I preach in audiences when there have been 73 00:02:51,140 --> 00:02:53,140 two or three thousand, and ask that question. 74 00:02:53,340 --> 00:02:54,920 Nobody has ever come up to me yet. 75 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:57,600 Even the pastor often says, well brother, I'm 76 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,940 afraid I don't come to meet God. 77 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,040 I come to deliver what I feel is 78 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:03,760 the word of God. 79 00:03:04,180 --> 00:03:05,680 Brother, you've been saying that for the last 80 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:06,460 twenty years. 81 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,380 When are we going to have a divine 82 00:03:10,380 --> 00:03:12,640 invasion, that will leave us stunned with his 83 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:14,940 majesty, with his glory, with his beauty, with 84 00:03:14,940 --> 00:03:17,000 his power, with his love, with his authority? 85 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:20,820 The Methodists used to have a hymn that 86 00:03:20,820 --> 00:03:22,920 said, Lord, how much longer shall we live 87 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:24,220 at this poor dying rate? 88 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:26,320 I think we ought to sing that every 89 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:26,660 Sunday. 90 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:32,460 So great salvation. 91 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,160 He tells you how great it is. 92 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:37,120 Don't look how I quote it. 93 00:03:37,180 --> 00:03:39,320 From Hebrews 7.25, he is able to 94 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,400 save to the uttermost. 95 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,400 You better get that lodged in your mind, 96 00:03:43,460 --> 00:03:45,660 in case God shunts you up the Amazon, 97 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:48,900 where there's some virgin territory, where people have 98 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:51,220 been waiting for a thousand years for the 99 00:03:51,220 --> 00:03:52,360 gospel, and nobody's gone. 100 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:55,720 I remember a missionary coming to England. 101 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,120 He said, I went up the Amazon in 102 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,620 a boat, that was bought for me by 103 00:03:58,620 --> 00:04:00,460 a Pentecostal group in England. 104 00:04:01,780 --> 00:04:03,700 He put the boat on top of a, 105 00:04:03,940 --> 00:04:05,920 almost an ocean liner that can go right 106 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,900 up the Amazon, for nearly a thousand miles. 107 00:04:09,140 --> 00:04:10,480 Then they lifted the boat off, and he 108 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,940 went up further, till he couldn't go any 109 00:04:12,940 --> 00:04:13,240 further. 110 00:04:13,860 --> 00:04:15,820 And he rented a man there, and his 111 00:04:15,820 --> 00:04:19,420 boat, and he paddled up the, well, he 112 00:04:19,420 --> 00:04:21,040 went up the Amazon, then there's a branch 113 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,900 of the Amazon called the Orinoco, and he 114 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:26,120 went up the Orinoco paddling for days, and 115 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:27,500 then he went up the next bend in 116 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:29,800 the river, and he said, I was saying 117 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,020 to myself, well, oh boy, I feel almost 118 00:04:33,020 --> 00:04:33,700 like the apostle. 119 00:04:33,940 --> 00:04:34,960 Here I am, I'm going up here. 120 00:04:35,620 --> 00:04:36,120 I'll have to work. 121 00:04:36,180 --> 00:04:38,500 Oh, the arrows keep swishing across the boat 122 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:41,180 there, but Lord will preserve me, of course. 123 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:45,240 But anyhow, he said, I'm possibly the first 124 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,640 white man they've ever seen up here. 125 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,080 And he said, we went round the bend, 126 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:51,680 and there was a big tree hanging with 127 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:52,340 a sign on. 128 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:54,360 What did it say? 129 00:04:56,380 --> 00:04:58,200 What was Rockefeller's company? 130 00:04:58,520 --> 00:04:59,200 Oil company? 131 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,440 Standard Oil, I think that was it, thank 132 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:04,560 you. 133 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:05,940 Standard Oil. 134 00:05:08,220 --> 00:05:08,700 What? 135 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:13,020 I thought I was the first one. 136 00:05:13,140 --> 00:05:15,200 Oh, we've had Standard Oil more than five 137 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,560 years, nearly ten years. 138 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,200 Oh, he said, I felt like jumping in 139 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:20,560 the river. 140 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,500 Oh, coming back and blazing, and said, do 141 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:26,300 you know there are tens of thousands of 142 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:27,320 Indians up there? 143 00:05:32,420 --> 00:05:34,040 And nobody had ever reached them yet. 144 00:05:40,660 --> 00:05:41,960 The other night there was a lady singing, 145 00:05:42,180 --> 00:05:44,280 I like to hear these good singers, I 146 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:44,660 confess. 147 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,360 Here she is. 148 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:51,700 She was somewhere up in, where, Alabama, in 149 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:55,980 a poverty-stricken shack, and she thought she'd 150 00:05:55,980 --> 00:05:58,240 like to play the piano, so her neighbor 151 00:05:58,240 --> 00:05:59,700 said, well, come in and play. 152 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,060 And one day as she played, she sang. 153 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:04,880 Now she said, I was going to pay 154 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:05,840 for you to be a pianist. 155 00:06:06,020 --> 00:06:06,760 You won't get a penny. 156 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,980 I will train, have you train. 157 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:12,280 I think she's singing Wednesday night, this one, 158 00:06:12,340 --> 00:06:13,480 Liam Tone Price. 159 00:06:15,020 --> 00:06:19,100 But they say, has a voice, one, what 160 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:20,460 is it, in a hundred years, and one 161 00:06:20,460 --> 00:06:23,560 in a hundred millions, a fantastic voice. 162 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,700 She'd have been washing dishes, or scrubbing a 163 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:29,880 floor in some little, you know, place up 164 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:30,160 there. 165 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:33,520 But they got hold of her and trained 166 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:33,900 her. 167 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:36,160 To sing? 168 00:06:37,060 --> 00:06:37,540 Yes. 169 00:06:38,580 --> 00:06:41,080 French, she sings in five languages. 170 00:06:45,170 --> 00:06:47,270 I say, my God, what are our people 171 00:06:47,270 --> 00:06:47,610 doing? 172 00:06:49,150 --> 00:06:50,950 You young folk, get hold of another language. 173 00:06:51,070 --> 00:06:52,670 How do you know God wants you staying 174 00:06:52,670 --> 00:06:54,750 in a stuffy country like America or England? 175 00:06:56,390 --> 00:06:57,430 Come on, master it. 176 00:06:57,430 --> 00:06:59,210 Master a language while you're young, while your 177 00:06:59,210 --> 00:07:01,050 mind is plastic, so to speak. 178 00:07:01,730 --> 00:07:02,130 Receptive. 179 00:07:03,690 --> 00:07:04,410 Come on. 180 00:07:05,790 --> 00:07:07,230 Think of the vastness of the world, the 181 00:07:07,230 --> 00:07:08,610 vastness of the world of Spanish. 182 00:07:09,390 --> 00:07:12,070 I was reading today, Spain has, pardon me, 183 00:07:12,290 --> 00:07:12,750 Brazil. 184 00:07:13,990 --> 00:07:15,570 I think they speak Spanish in Brazil. 185 00:07:16,350 --> 00:07:17,870 Portuguese, that's right, I just remembered. 186 00:07:18,590 --> 00:07:21,050 Because where Phil, Paul was, they were speaking 187 00:07:21,050 --> 00:07:23,690 Spanish, and then over the border, Portuguese. 188 00:07:25,090 --> 00:07:27,490 It's the fifth largest nation in the world. 189 00:07:29,730 --> 00:07:32,610 It has the largest potential outside of China 190 00:07:32,610 --> 00:07:33,190 or Russia. 191 00:07:34,990 --> 00:07:36,130 How many people are going? 192 00:07:39,170 --> 00:07:41,470 If kids can give up basketball and other 193 00:07:41,470 --> 00:07:44,210 stupid things, and get away and start learning, 194 00:07:44,330 --> 00:07:45,790 ooh, I'm going to be an opera star. 195 00:07:47,130 --> 00:07:48,330 Oh, I'm getting ready. 196 00:07:48,750 --> 00:07:50,090 They showed a girl in the news the 197 00:07:50,090 --> 00:07:51,590 other night, or was it the other morning 198 00:07:51,590 --> 00:07:51,950 news? 199 00:07:52,210 --> 00:07:54,130 Little thing, only about 12 years of age. 200 00:07:55,130 --> 00:07:57,170 I'm going to the Olympics in 1988. 201 00:07:58,670 --> 00:08:00,770 I'm not 14 yet, but I'm going to 202 00:08:00,770 --> 00:08:02,470 win a gold medal at least when I 203 00:08:02,470 --> 00:08:02,890 get there. 204 00:08:03,730 --> 00:08:05,370 I'm giving all the hours of the day, 205 00:08:05,430 --> 00:08:08,330 I don't care what it costs, how I 206 00:08:08,330 --> 00:08:11,470 keep my body fit, I reject chocolates, I 207 00:08:11,470 --> 00:08:13,410 won't eat cookies, I won't drink this, that, 208 00:08:13,470 --> 00:08:13,590 the other. 209 00:08:13,810 --> 00:08:15,490 I'm going to get myself in line. 210 00:08:15,590 --> 00:08:16,050 For what? 211 00:08:17,630 --> 00:08:19,050 I'm glad she's got the discipline. 212 00:08:19,310 --> 00:08:20,550 That's unusual for our day. 213 00:08:21,810 --> 00:08:23,790 But every time they talked about these men 214 00:08:23,790 --> 00:08:28,070 winning these medals, I thought, yes, what Paul 215 00:08:28,070 --> 00:08:30,210 said, they run for what? 216 00:08:30,790 --> 00:08:32,030 A corruptible crown. 217 00:08:33,090 --> 00:08:34,789 But we for an incorruptible. 218 00:08:36,770 --> 00:08:39,210 So great salvation, you better get that on 219 00:08:39,210 --> 00:08:40,929 your eyeballs if you're going up the Amazon. 220 00:08:43,450 --> 00:08:45,090 I remember the first time I went in 221 00:08:45,090 --> 00:08:46,670 a leper colony in the north part of 222 00:08:46,670 --> 00:08:47,110 Thailand. 223 00:08:48,430 --> 00:08:49,650 You talk about everything, you're coming in, you're 224 00:08:49,650 --> 00:08:50,250 turning over. 225 00:08:51,350 --> 00:08:52,470 Talk about the stink. 226 00:08:54,410 --> 00:08:56,690 A hog stye is a perfume factory compared 227 00:08:56,690 --> 00:08:57,890 to decaying flesh. 228 00:08:59,010 --> 00:09:00,990 Where people had no limbs, where the end 229 00:09:00,990 --> 00:09:02,990 of their arms were masses of corruption, dripping 230 00:09:02,990 --> 00:09:04,490 pus on the floor and blood. 231 00:09:06,490 --> 00:09:08,970 People had no cheeks, they'd been eaten away 232 00:09:08,970 --> 00:09:09,750 with leprosy. 233 00:09:12,070 --> 00:09:14,250 You'd better go with something better than John 234 00:09:14,250 --> 00:09:16,870 3.16 and a few little choruses. 235 00:09:19,650 --> 00:09:22,530 We've got to witness that great salvation ourselves, 236 00:09:22,830 --> 00:09:25,450 not just to erase our rotten record that's 237 00:09:25,450 --> 00:09:28,150 there in eternity, and God in infinite mercy 238 00:09:28,150 --> 00:09:30,470 wipes it out, but to do something in 239 00:09:30,470 --> 00:09:30,790 us. 240 00:09:33,910 --> 00:09:36,950 So that we're not only forgiven our sins, 241 00:09:37,050 --> 00:09:38,290 but we're cleansed from sin. 242 00:09:38,910 --> 00:09:42,110 We remove all the internal territory that the 243 00:09:42,110 --> 00:09:43,170 devil can work on. 244 00:09:47,750 --> 00:09:49,210 You know, there's nothing more awesome in the 245 00:09:49,210 --> 00:09:50,550 whole world than preaching the gospel. 246 00:09:53,550 --> 00:09:54,910 Such a great salvation. 247 00:09:55,710 --> 00:09:57,430 I must wind up, my time's almost up. 248 00:09:58,950 --> 00:10:00,970 I remember the other day, an event that 249 00:10:00,970 --> 00:10:04,170 happened after World War I, 1914, 1918. 250 00:10:05,110 --> 00:10:06,870 Prince of Wales, he was a great runabout 251 00:10:06,870 --> 00:10:08,250 boy, you know, and he was always dressed 252 00:10:08,250 --> 00:10:09,710 immaculately in his breeches. 253 00:10:10,310 --> 00:10:11,870 He did go to the front lines and 254 00:10:11,870 --> 00:10:13,450 won the hearts of men because he went 255 00:10:13,450 --> 00:10:15,090 up to his niece in slush and mud 256 00:10:15,090 --> 00:10:16,850 and blood and where there was shots and 257 00:10:16,850 --> 00:10:18,310 firing and risked his life. 258 00:10:19,730 --> 00:10:21,590 But when he got home, his father didn't 259 00:10:21,590 --> 00:10:23,410 like what he'd been doing and he reprimanded 260 00:10:23,410 --> 00:10:23,930 him somewhat. 261 00:10:25,330 --> 00:10:29,030 Oh, well, he said, Daddy, I'm going to 262 00:10:29,030 --> 00:10:29,890 a military hospital. 263 00:10:30,990 --> 00:10:32,490 I must go see some of the men 264 00:10:32,490 --> 00:10:33,310 they'd brought home. 265 00:10:34,430 --> 00:10:36,090 He got into this war that had about 266 00:10:36,090 --> 00:10:39,030 50 beds all around, a huge place, and 267 00:10:39,030 --> 00:10:40,190 at the end there was a screen. 268 00:10:42,170 --> 00:10:43,990 They took the prince round and said, this 269 00:10:43,990 --> 00:10:46,030 is private so-and-so, this is sergeant 270 00:10:46,030 --> 00:10:49,470 so-and-so, this dear man lost one 271 00:10:49,470 --> 00:10:49,770 leg. 272 00:10:50,730 --> 00:10:52,610 Notice this man lost both his arms. 273 00:10:53,870 --> 00:10:55,150 This man lost two legs. 274 00:10:55,230 --> 00:10:56,610 This man lost a leg and an arm. 275 00:10:57,910 --> 00:11:00,710 He went round saying all the horrible things 276 00:11:00,710 --> 00:11:01,650 that had happened to this man. 277 00:11:02,070 --> 00:11:05,250 And they took him past the screen and 278 00:11:05,250 --> 00:11:06,530 the prince said nothing. 279 00:11:10,050 --> 00:11:13,590 Oh, they whispered, we managed it all right. 280 00:11:15,370 --> 00:11:18,950 He said, excuse me, you took me round 281 00:11:18,950 --> 00:11:21,410 about 50 beds but he said there's a 282 00:11:21,410 --> 00:11:23,410 screen and you didn't show me the man 283 00:11:23,410 --> 00:11:24,250 behind the screen. 284 00:11:25,370 --> 00:11:27,650 Well, Your Excellency, we are forbidden to show 285 00:11:27,650 --> 00:11:28,150 you that man. 286 00:11:28,270 --> 00:11:29,630 I'm the Prince of Wales. 287 00:11:31,090 --> 00:11:35,530 I assert my royal prerogative that, sir, he's 288 00:11:35,530 --> 00:11:36,170 repulsive. 289 00:11:38,030 --> 00:11:39,670 There's hardly any man left. 290 00:11:42,150 --> 00:11:43,850 He was right near a mine when it 291 00:11:43,850 --> 00:11:44,270 blew up. 292 00:11:46,830 --> 00:11:48,330 They took him out and he marched up 293 00:11:48,330 --> 00:11:49,490 with his smart stripe. 294 00:11:49,930 --> 00:11:50,950 They took the screen and on one side 295 00:11:50,950 --> 00:11:51,630 there was a man. 296 00:11:53,350 --> 00:11:54,350 He had no face. 297 00:11:55,670 --> 00:11:57,370 He had two bits of skin holding his 298 00:11:57,370 --> 00:11:58,510 eyeballs in place. 299 00:12:00,250 --> 00:12:01,650 The prince looked at him and could see 300 00:12:01,650 --> 00:12:03,410 right down his throat to where his tongue 301 00:12:03,410 --> 00:12:04,990 was joined there in his throat. 302 00:12:06,570 --> 00:12:08,170 The other parts of his head were great 303 00:12:08,170 --> 00:12:10,170 big sores that he hadn't had the right 304 00:12:10,170 --> 00:12:13,830 attention and his hands were all messed up. 305 00:12:16,830 --> 00:12:17,490 They saw him wept. 306 00:12:18,810 --> 00:12:19,670 They turned away. 307 00:12:21,870 --> 00:12:24,230 The prince looked down, put his hand on 308 00:12:24,230 --> 00:12:27,250 his shoulder and he bent down and kissed 309 00:12:27,250 --> 00:12:27,490 him. 310 00:12:29,250 --> 00:12:31,550 And the doctors and nurses and everybody wept. 311 00:12:33,910 --> 00:12:35,070 He said, why not? 312 00:12:36,730 --> 00:12:37,350 Why not? 313 00:12:40,490 --> 00:12:41,770 He did that for me. 314 00:12:41,870 --> 00:12:42,690 He did that for you. 315 00:12:48,030 --> 00:12:49,630 Don't you think we ought to reverse that 316 00:12:49,630 --> 00:12:51,770 so often and see the suffering of Jesus 317 00:12:53,210 --> 00:12:55,010 see what he did in our place? 318 00:12:56,510 --> 00:12:59,950 The old hymn says Bearing shame and scoffing 319 00:12:59,950 --> 00:13:03,210 rude in my place condemned he stood and 320 00:13:03,210 --> 00:13:04,890 see to my pardon with his blood. 321 00:13:05,150 --> 00:13:05,810 What a gospel. 322 00:13:08,150 --> 00:13:09,910 There's nothing like it in the whole world. 323 00:13:11,150 --> 00:13:12,810 Is Buddha able to save Thutmose? 324 00:13:12,930 --> 00:13:13,670 Can save himself? 325 00:13:14,390 --> 00:13:17,030 Said before his death I've been searching all 326 00:13:17,030 --> 00:13:18,850 my time all my life for truth. 327 00:13:18,990 --> 00:13:20,070 Jesus started that. 328 00:13:23,250 --> 00:13:25,230 Brothers, we're totally inexcusable. 329 00:13:25,410 --> 00:13:26,470 What did the psalmist say? 330 00:13:26,690 --> 00:13:27,990 Thy word is truth. 331 00:13:28,150 --> 00:13:29,030 What did Jesus say? 332 00:13:29,170 --> 00:13:30,250 I'm the way, the truth. 333 00:13:30,510 --> 00:13:31,650 What did he say about the Holy Ghost? 334 00:13:31,790 --> 00:13:33,590 When he, the spirit of truth, is come. 335 00:13:36,990 --> 00:13:38,810 I read a dreadful thing this week. 336 00:13:38,890 --> 00:13:39,730 I'll quote it and finish. 337 00:13:39,950 --> 00:13:40,890 I'll try to find it. 338 00:13:40,950 --> 00:13:42,010 Remind me, Martha, dear, tomorrow. 339 00:13:43,050 --> 00:13:45,450 I can't find where I read it. 340 00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:46,870 But I read this. 341 00:13:49,630 --> 00:13:54,230 It was from a very reputable preacher. 342 00:13:56,810 --> 00:13:58,130 He said heresy. 343 00:13:58,630 --> 00:13:59,410 Pardon me, no. 344 00:14:00,310 --> 00:14:03,890 He said apostasy, an apostate is not a 345 00:14:03,890 --> 00:14:05,470 man who has got heresy and is running 346 00:14:05,470 --> 00:14:06,610 all over the country with it. 347 00:14:07,910 --> 00:14:09,770 An apostate is a man who has had 348 00:14:09,770 --> 00:14:11,730 light and refuses to walk in it. 349 00:14:13,610 --> 00:14:15,030 Dear God, that made me gasp. 350 00:14:18,540 --> 00:14:20,100 Somebody told me about a preacher down there 351 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:22,600 in Thailand who recently said, you know, the 352 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,240 Old Testament, it's not relevant to our day. 353 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:29,480 The story of Jonah, of course, is a 354 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:30,100 fish story. 355 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,380 That man signed up in his denomination to 356 00:14:34,380 --> 00:14:36,320 be a fundamentalist preacher and gets a good 357 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:36,940 wage for it. 358 00:14:36,980 --> 00:14:38,480 He's a double-dyed hypocrite. 359 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:39,340 He's an apostate. 360 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:41,240 I'd like to talk to him about it. 361 00:14:43,140 --> 00:14:46,060 How shall we escape if we hide our 362 00:14:46,060 --> 00:14:47,040 lives under a bushel? 363 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:49,460 What's the bushel? 364 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,840 You often bury your light with business. 365 00:14:57,370 --> 00:14:59,210 Or you put the light under a bed, 366 00:14:59,390 --> 00:15:01,210 symbolic of laziness and indifference. 367 00:15:04,580 --> 00:15:05,780 Come on, friends. 368 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:12,080 How shall we escape when we know such 369 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,320 a message of love, such a message of 370 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,840 infinite mercy, such a message of measureless grace, 371 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,800 such a message of the dazzling, blinding holiness 372 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:24,620 of God? 373 00:15:26,180 --> 00:15:28,080 I had to get away from that wonderful 374 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,180 hymn written by Oliver Wendell Holmes II. 375 00:15:30,420 --> 00:15:31,840 His father lived in Westleesday. 376 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,160 Oliver Wendell Holmes lived about 1802, maybe. 377 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,660 Lord of all beings thrown afar, thy flowering 378 00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:42,120 flame from sun and star, center and soul 379 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,040 of every sphere, yet to each loving heart 380 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:45,560 our dear. 381 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:49,680 He says, our midnight is thy smile withdrawn. 382 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,020 Do you ever feel that? 383 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:55,620 Do you feel God has hidden himself? 384 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:58,560 And when he withdraws his smile, you're in 385 00:15:58,560 --> 00:15:58,920 darkness? 386 00:16:00,060 --> 00:16:01,880 Then he goes on to say this staggering 387 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:07,120 thought, before thine ever blazing throne we have 388 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:08,400 no luster of our own. 389 00:16:12,260 --> 00:16:14,400 He adds, grant us thy truth to make 390 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,600 us free and kindling hearts that burn for 391 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:21,060 thee till all thy living altars flame one 392 00:16:21,060 --> 00:16:21,740 holy light. 393 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:23,940 One heavenly blaze. 394 00:16:27,730 --> 00:16:29,610 God has nothing to add to the gospel. 395 00:16:34,070 --> 00:16:36,530 How shall we escape if we neglect preaching 396 00:16:36,530 --> 00:16:39,510 the judgment of God which we all have 397 00:16:39,510 --> 00:16:41,270 to go to finally, saints or sinners. 398 00:16:41,490 --> 00:16:43,130 Two different judgments, but there they are. 399 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,140 How shall we stay as we are? 400 00:16:51,460 --> 00:16:53,540 Well, get that passion that consumed in the 401 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:54,780 heart of the apostle Paul. 402 00:16:55,700 --> 00:16:57,160 Woe is me if I preach not the 403 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:57,480 gospel. 404 00:17:00,060 --> 00:17:08,190 Or again, can I just quote one thing 405 00:17:08,190 --> 00:17:08,490 here? 406 00:17:08,609 --> 00:17:09,750 I have about three minutes left. 407 00:17:16,829 --> 00:17:18,990 Now, faith is a substance of things hoped 408 00:17:18,990 --> 00:17:19,290 for. 409 00:17:20,829 --> 00:17:22,950 Is this a definition or a description of 410 00:17:22,950 --> 00:17:23,190 faith? 411 00:17:23,230 --> 00:17:23,710 Does it matter? 412 00:17:24,770 --> 00:17:26,890 Hebrews 11.1, faith is a substance of 413 00:17:26,890 --> 00:17:28,550 things hoped for, the evidence of things not 414 00:17:28,550 --> 00:17:30,610 seen, for by it the elders obtained a 415 00:17:30,610 --> 00:17:31,210 good report. 416 00:17:31,910 --> 00:17:34,130 Through faith we understand that the worlds were 417 00:17:34,130 --> 00:17:35,710 framed by the word of God. 418 00:17:37,090 --> 00:17:39,050 You know, that isn't a good translation. 419 00:17:40,070 --> 00:17:43,510 I believe the worlds were framed by God. 420 00:17:44,270 --> 00:17:45,410 What did they say yesterday? 421 00:17:45,730 --> 00:17:48,670 Jupiter, they've just rediscovered some new moons around 422 00:17:48,670 --> 00:17:48,770 it. 423 00:17:48,770 --> 00:17:50,130 I think it has 17 already. 424 00:17:51,050 --> 00:17:53,270 And they've sent that thing, the Voyager into 425 00:17:53,270 --> 00:17:53,950 space. 426 00:17:54,190 --> 00:17:55,390 They don't know where it's going to end. 427 00:17:56,490 --> 00:17:58,550 Scientists don't believe in eternity, but they believe 428 00:17:58,550 --> 00:17:59,110 in infinity. 429 00:18:01,010 --> 00:18:04,970 It's already done about 250,000 miles in 430 00:18:04,970 --> 00:18:05,530 that staggering. 431 00:18:05,710 --> 00:18:06,970 It's still going on with it. 432 00:18:07,010 --> 00:18:08,970 Some momentum they put in it. 433 00:18:10,050 --> 00:18:11,130 We think of the world. 434 00:18:11,270 --> 00:18:12,830 I don't think that's the right word here. 435 00:18:13,670 --> 00:18:15,770 Through faith we understand that the ages were 436 00:18:15,770 --> 00:18:17,290 framed by the word of God. 437 00:18:19,090 --> 00:18:20,390 What was the first age? 438 00:18:20,430 --> 00:18:21,210 The age of innocence. 439 00:18:23,390 --> 00:18:24,550 Well, sin ended that. 440 00:18:25,710 --> 00:18:27,630 We moved into another age, the age of 441 00:18:27,630 --> 00:18:28,070 conscience. 442 00:18:30,770 --> 00:18:32,590 From the age of conscience we moved on 443 00:18:32,590 --> 00:18:35,610 to the call of Abraham, which was the 444 00:18:35,610 --> 00:18:37,850 age of faith, and that lasted for centuries. 445 00:18:40,110 --> 00:18:42,010 Then when the age of faith went out, 446 00:18:42,090 --> 00:18:43,870 the age of law came in, and that 447 00:18:43,870 --> 00:18:46,210 existed till the day of Christ. 448 00:18:46,890 --> 00:18:49,130 But all these ages were under the control 449 00:18:49,130 --> 00:18:50,610 of a sovereign God. 450 00:18:51,710 --> 00:18:53,270 He measured them out as he will. 451 00:18:53,510 --> 00:18:54,590 I can't explain it to you. 452 00:18:54,610 --> 00:18:55,730 I can't explain it to myself. 453 00:18:56,270 --> 00:18:57,630 But I know that all those ages were 454 00:18:57,630 --> 00:19:00,270 there, and one stops and another starts. 455 00:19:00,710 --> 00:19:03,050 Now we're in the most amazing age of 456 00:19:03,050 --> 00:19:05,030 all, the age of the Holy Ghost. 457 00:19:07,250 --> 00:19:10,050 The Holy Spirit is totally, I wish I 458 00:19:10,050 --> 00:19:11,730 could say that in letters six feet high, 459 00:19:12,610 --> 00:19:15,330 He's totally incapable of anything small. 460 00:19:17,450 --> 00:19:21,430 This world was a ball of mud wrapped 461 00:19:21,430 --> 00:19:22,250 up in the universe. 462 00:19:22,350 --> 00:19:22,970 Here it is. 463 00:19:23,790 --> 00:19:25,470 And the Spirit brooded over it. 464 00:19:26,470 --> 00:19:28,430 And out of chaos He brought cosmos, and 465 00:19:28,430 --> 00:19:29,830 out of disorder He brought order. 466 00:19:30,910 --> 00:19:36,110 The Holy Spirit brooded over this misshapen world, 467 00:19:36,170 --> 00:19:37,810 and God is glorified in it. 468 00:19:39,310 --> 00:19:41,430 And then He brooded over the barren womb 469 00:19:42,430 --> 00:19:44,630 of a young Jewish lady by the name 470 00:19:44,630 --> 00:19:45,610 of Mary the Virgin. 471 00:19:48,110 --> 00:19:50,590 All His works, as one hymn writer says, 472 00:19:50,630 --> 00:19:52,350 in all His works most wonderful. 473 00:19:52,870 --> 00:19:54,570 What a wonderful world we live in. 474 00:19:56,670 --> 00:19:59,430 Somebody recently discovered, I don't know how or 475 00:19:59,430 --> 00:20:04,330 where, somewhere in Egypt, I think it was 476 00:20:04,330 --> 00:20:08,330 Pharaoh's brother, Amenhotep II, I guess you like 477 00:20:08,330 --> 00:20:10,370 his proper name, King Tut. 478 00:20:11,110 --> 00:20:12,610 You know they brought all his gold and 479 00:20:12,610 --> 00:20:14,390 displayed it in Dallas a few months ago. 480 00:20:15,350 --> 00:20:17,250 He used to use penicillin. 481 00:20:18,630 --> 00:20:21,410 We thought it was something new, discovered by, 482 00:20:22,550 --> 00:20:23,950 I forgot the name of the man, but 483 00:20:23,950 --> 00:20:28,570 anyhow, all the glorious things in this world 484 00:20:30,350 --> 00:20:31,590 we haven't yet discovered. 485 00:20:34,290 --> 00:20:36,290 Science is bringing us into a new world, 486 00:20:36,390 --> 00:20:37,350 a terrible world too. 487 00:20:39,390 --> 00:20:41,290 If you had told your grandpa you'd sit 488 00:20:41,290 --> 00:20:43,810 in a room one day and you'd be 489 00:20:43,810 --> 00:20:46,330 looking on a piece of glass, you see 490 00:20:46,330 --> 00:20:47,850 the man walking on that snow? 491 00:20:48,550 --> 00:20:49,350 That's not snow. 492 00:20:50,230 --> 00:20:51,550 He's walking on the moon. 493 00:20:53,410 --> 00:20:57,050 I think you're loony, walking on the moon. 494 00:20:57,270 --> 00:20:58,810 But wait a minute, let me turn this 495 00:20:58,810 --> 00:20:59,010 knob. 496 00:20:59,210 --> 00:21:00,370 Now he's talking to us. 497 00:21:01,110 --> 00:21:02,330 You did that, I did that. 498 00:21:02,530 --> 00:21:04,710 I sat in a house and listened to 499 00:21:04,710 --> 00:21:06,830 a man walking on the moon and talking 500 00:21:06,830 --> 00:21:07,410 on the moon. 501 00:21:10,390 --> 00:21:11,850 Julius Caesar could have done that but he 502 00:21:11,850 --> 00:21:12,970 didn't know where to find the stuff. 503 00:21:15,590 --> 00:21:18,170 Shakespeare could have written his plays out on 504 00:21:18,170 --> 00:21:20,250 a printing out thing, what do you call 505 00:21:20,250 --> 00:21:20,410 it? 506 00:21:21,850 --> 00:21:22,570 Computer thing. 507 00:21:23,510 --> 00:21:26,090 All the resources were there but they weren't 508 00:21:26,090 --> 00:21:26,550 put together. 509 00:21:28,090 --> 00:21:30,410 That makes me ask the question, why are 510 00:21:30,410 --> 00:21:31,990 we honoring God tonight that we're not touching? 511 00:21:33,170 --> 00:21:34,950 Do you wonder Paul yearns and he says 512 00:21:34,950 --> 00:21:37,250 I want you to know the height and 513 00:21:37,250 --> 00:21:38,990 the depth and the length and the breadth 514 00:21:38,990 --> 00:21:40,970 of the love of God that passes knowledge? 515 00:21:43,750 --> 00:21:45,430 I want you to get such a vision 516 00:21:45,430 --> 00:21:48,190 of the majesty of God that you didn't 517 00:21:48,190 --> 00:21:50,010 say nay, you didn't sit down, you didn't 518 00:21:50,010 --> 00:21:51,510 refuse to use all you have. 519 00:21:52,270 --> 00:22:02,470 Of material resources, intellectual resources, spiritual resources, or 520 00:22:02,470 --> 00:22:03,930 if you're brave enough, go into China. 521 00:22:05,090 --> 00:22:06,310 Or if you want to live shorter, go 522 00:22:06,310 --> 00:22:06,830 into Russia. 523 00:22:08,170 --> 00:22:09,610 And I'll go to a stinking hole and 524 00:22:09,610 --> 00:22:12,410 ask these precious folk here, Ray and Robbie, 525 00:22:12,570 --> 00:22:14,110 before they go back to India again. 526 00:22:16,630 --> 00:22:21,890 We're so smug, we're so contented, we're so 527 00:22:21,890 --> 00:22:23,650 happy to be saved from sins and a 528 00:22:23,650 --> 00:22:26,510 few dirty habits we had and a few 529 00:22:26,510 --> 00:22:29,370 unclean things but oh I wonder how often 530 00:22:29,370 --> 00:22:32,050 it burns with us, this great salvation. 531 00:22:33,690 --> 00:22:35,730 Marvellous grace of our loving God. 532 00:22:36,370 --> 00:22:38,770 Grace that exceeds our guilt and our sin. 533 00:22:41,310 --> 00:22:43,030 All there for a lost world. 534 00:22:44,790 --> 00:22:46,730 And two thousand years after he died and 535 00:22:46,730 --> 00:22:47,950 made it available to us. 536 00:22:48,990 --> 00:22:51,270 We haven't explored again what I call the 537 00:22:51,270 --> 00:22:52,470 possibilities of grace. 538 00:22:53,730 --> 00:22:55,230 As you leave would you take one of 539 00:22:55,230 --> 00:22:55,490 these? 540 00:22:55,710 --> 00:22:56,770 You can have it, they're free. 541 00:22:57,190 --> 00:22:58,370 Brother Dale's going to give them out. 542 00:22:59,370 --> 00:23:00,710 If you're by yourself you can have one 543 00:23:00,710 --> 00:23:01,090 of course. 544 00:23:01,770 --> 00:23:02,870 If you can make it one for the 545 00:23:02,870 --> 00:23:04,390 family that will make them to go around 546 00:23:04,390 --> 00:23:04,610 more. 547 00:23:05,510 --> 00:23:07,970 Father bless us as we explore your word. 548 00:23:09,550 --> 00:23:11,650 As one said, write it deeply in our 549 00:23:11,650 --> 00:23:13,250 hearts with an eternal pen. 550 00:23:15,710 --> 00:23:18,130 We're terribly obligated to our generation. 551 00:23:19,690 --> 00:23:22,130 We're awfully guilty if we withhold anything at 552 00:23:22,130 --> 00:23:23,490 any time in any way. 553 00:23:25,110 --> 00:23:26,910 Help us to see the majesty of our 554 00:23:26,910 --> 00:23:27,490 Lord Jesus. 555 00:23:29,750 --> 00:23:31,950 Help us to realize Lord that this word 556 00:23:32,970 --> 00:23:36,390 which quickened the pioneers of faith and some 557 00:23:36,390 --> 00:23:37,870 who didn't have their word of God. 558 00:23:38,790 --> 00:23:40,150 This word is our God. 559 00:23:40,470 --> 00:23:41,950 This word is your word. 560 00:23:42,050 --> 00:23:42,670 Still valid. 561 00:23:43,950 --> 00:23:47,690 Still powerful, quick and powerful, sharper than any 562 00:23:47,690 --> 00:23:48,450 twedged sword. 563 00:23:51,110 --> 00:23:52,830 We ask in Jesus name. 564 00:23:53,630 --> 00:23:53,930 Amen. 565 00:23:55,690 --> 00:23:57,470 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 566 00:23:57,470 --> 00:23:58,570 and Classic Sermon series. 567 00:23:59,370 --> 00:24:01,410 Last week you heard Leonard Ravenhill with his 568 00:24:01,410 --> 00:24:02,930 message on Hebrews chapter 1. 569 00:24:03,550 --> 00:24:05,190 Tune in next week to hear Jonathan Cahn 570 00:24:05,190 --> 00:24:07,230 talk about the mystery of the bride and 571 00:24:07,230 --> 00:24:09,850 the bridegroom on From the Pulpit and Classic 572 00:24:09,850 --> 00:24:10,330 Sermons.