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What would you perceive, Brother Ravenhill, to be

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the greatest need in the Church in America

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specifically today?

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I won't give you my opinion, I'll give

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you a Bible opinion, from Jeremiah chapter 2,

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verse 13, My people have committed two evils.

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They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living

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waters, and hewn them out cisterns, broken cisterns

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that can hold no water.

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It's amazing to me when every pastor that

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comes, oh, I'm in a mega church, you

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know, we get four thousand Sunday mornings, it's

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got nothing to do with your church.

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Every church in America nearly is filled Sunday

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morning.

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How many people do you have in your

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prayer meeting?

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The prayer meeting has almost died.

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Not just in Presbyterian churches, but in Pentecostal

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churches, in Baptist churches.

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I have a prayer meeting Thursday morning for

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pastors, about twenty come.

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Some come 200 miles, some come 300 miles

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round trip, and the last five or six

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weeks we've all ended up on the floor

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in tears praying for one thing, revival.

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Nobody's praying for his church.

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I believe the spiritual condition of America at

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this moment is lower than it was in

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the revival of the 1700s with Jonathan Edwards.

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We've forsaken God, particularly we've forsaken the prayer

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meeting.

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What would happen if you had a choir

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like, say, you had First Baptists or somewhere?

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I First Baptised in Dallas or Good Brothers

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First Baptist Church in Atlanta.

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I stayed there a month once.

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You have about 200 people in the choir.

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What if only 10% turned up for

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choir rehearsal on a Friday night?

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Do you think you might get the resignation

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of the choir master?

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But supposing a guy with 26,000 members

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had 10% come to the prayer meeting,

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he'd die of shock.

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You see, we have had people last, just

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a year ago now, we finished our 500th

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prayer meeting every Friday night, and it was

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a prayer meeting.

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In most churches now the preacher preaches Sunday

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morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night.

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Forget it.

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One of the young pastors that comes to

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us, he got moved by the power of

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God.

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He went to his church and said, look,

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I'm going to preach Sunday morning, Sunday night,

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but not Wednesday night.

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We're going to pray.

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He's in a country church.

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He went from 60 Wednesday night to 6.

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They don't want to pray.

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We had a prayer meeting where people drove

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four, five, and six hours, and there were

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people that came, and they belonged to famous

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churches in California, and they came over and

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said, look, we know why God's brought us

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in this area.

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We need to learn to pray.

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We went to a very popular church.

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It's attended by dozens, hundreds of film stars

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and others, but there's no prayer life there.

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But do you know what happened?

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When they come three or four times, they

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quit.

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Do you know why?

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Because we had men that used to mumble

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in their prayers, and it pleased God to

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educate them in the Spirit, and I would

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go on Wednesday night.

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I'd go Friday night.

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There was one full-blooded American Indian.

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He was dying in the gutter, snow falling

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on him.

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He was a victim of drugs and drink,

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and God awakened him, and he got wonderfully

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saved, and he got an anointing in prayer

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to hear that man pray for the American

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Indians.

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They're the most neglected people in America today,

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and the Indians somehow don't go after them.

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You can't go on the reservations.

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They kill you.

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All they say, listen, you stole our land,

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you stole our oil, you stole our mineral

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rights, you stole our fishing rights.

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Get out of here.

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And I've told him, stay with it.

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Stay to your people, with your people.

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Don't let somebody else wear your crown.

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You see, some of us, we're walking around

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eternity, and God is going to put a

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crown on my head, and I didn't do

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the job, so he passes it to Dale,

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and he's going to wear it for a

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billion years.

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Every time I see him, I say, that

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should have been my crown, but that's my

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fault.

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It's not the devil's fault.

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No man take thy crown.

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That's a warning against deacons, but anyhow.

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Not any man take your crown.

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God has given you a job.

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Do it if you die.

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That's what it takes.

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Brother Leonard, what is the nature and the

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content and the direction of those prayer meetings?

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For the average layperson who has not been

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able to attend, where do you begin, what

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do you pray for, what do you target,

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what happens in those prayer meetings that are

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so unusual, and what are the kinds of

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prayer meetings that we need to start having

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in our churches?

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Well, we have different targets.

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I call it target praying.

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For instance, one week we pray for all

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the husbands of the wives or fathers of

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the children who were there whose daddies were

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not saved.

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Maybe not even church members.

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We concentrate on unsaved fathers, unsaved husbands, and

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at the time we concentrate on teenagers.

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You see, there's something about covenanting in prayer.

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I went to Dr. Toto's church, thank you,

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and I stayed there for two weeks, and

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I had the privilege of praying with him.

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He's a wonderful man.

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He wasn't the greatest preacher I've ever heard,

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but he had an intimacy with God like

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nobody else.

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I remember one day he said, Len, don't

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let anybody diminish your appetite or zeal for

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prayer.

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He said, I'll tell you what happened.

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In World War I, the finest young men

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in our church went to war.

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They were drafted, 30 of them, and we

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covenanted with their parents and their wives.

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We covenanted in prayer that not one of

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those men would get killed or seriously injured,

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and every man came back.

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The only one that was lame was his

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own son.

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But he said, if we can covenant in

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prayer like that, why can't you covenant in

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prayer in your churches?

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Not one of our girls in our churches

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is going to get pregnant.

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Not one of our boys is going to

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go in to drink.

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We're not just going to raise nice, healthy

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children.

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We're going to do more than that.

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We want to produce spiritual offspring.

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And the reason those superstars that came to

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our prayer meetings didn't continue, well, they heard

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men that were praying with anointing.

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Again, they heard this fellow crying with tears

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for the different tribes in America.

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It's astounding that two and a quarter American

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Indians, where's David Brainerd today?

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There isn't a Brainerd there.

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How do we have a right to pray

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for revival when in the 20th century there

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are so many people who believe theologically that

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things are just going to get worse and

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worse and worse, and God certainly is not

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going to send a revival.

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So why are you wasting your time praying

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that God will send one?

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Well, you get a nucleus of people who

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get together and talk with the deacons and

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others, but it says here, they have forsaken

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me.

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So what?

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How many of you deacons come to prayer

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meetings?

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One night I was standing on the platform

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with Charles Stanley.

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There were maybe over a thousand people there.

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I think you have 50 deacons.

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And I said, Charles, where are your 50

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deacons tonight?

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He said, well, I can count 15.

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I said, well, fire the rest.

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What did they do in the upper room

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when the Holy Ghost came?

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They gave themselves continually to fundraising, did they?

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What did they do?

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Give ourselves continually to prayer.

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I like the figure, I'm going to speak

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maybe one day, I think Hannah is the

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best type of an intercessor that I know.

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That all the qualifications, she had grief, she

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suffered, she mocked, and yet year by year,

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it wasn't once they scorned her.

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But when she got pregnant, she didn't care

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a hill of beans about anybody.

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Well, let me say this too.

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I think there's a danger of seeking revival

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to justify my ministry, to prove we're the

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best people in town.

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We mentioned it with Paul this morning.

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What does it say in Malachi?

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The Lord whom ye seek.

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We're not seeking him.

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We're seeking revival.

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We're seeking healing.

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We're seeking miracles.

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It's not that we need.

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If we get God, we get all that's

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needed.

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And revival is when God comes down.

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Pick up the book for me, please.

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Here's a little book I hope you'll all

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get.

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It's Come Down, Lord.

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It's a good book, of course.

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It's from England, but apart from that.

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Get a copy if you can.

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It's published by Banner of Truth, but I

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mark this page 23.

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Now this is revival.

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I think revival is the most prostituted word

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that we have in our vocabulary today, either

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revival or faith.

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We don't know much about either.

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Revival stops the traffic.

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As dear Tozi used to say, Leonard, when

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revival comes, it changes the moral climate of

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a community.

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Taverns close down.

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Nightclubs close down.

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I mean, there's a war going on now.

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Dear God, if anybody needs to run a

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whole armour of God, it's today.

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How many of you may know the book,

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The Whole Armour of God, by Goebbels?

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Do you have it?

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Let me see your hands.

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Oh, good.

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Only two out of all of you.

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It's a wonderful book.

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It's 1130 pages.

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It's $36.

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We can send dear Nancy an address, we

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can get it for $18.

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It was written like most of the classics

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in the 1600s, and it's the most stirring.

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I gave Wilkerson a copy of that five

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years ago.

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When I came back, he said, hey, while

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you're at it, we had a vacation in

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the Bahamas.

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We should be there now.

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We got a free flight and free holidays.

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But this glorious atmosphere here, you know, where

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you can freeze every night is more attractive.

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How do you address the people who say

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that we are living in a day and

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age where everything is getting worse and worse

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and worse?

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There is no way God's going to send

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revival.

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Let's hang on for dear life and pray

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for the rapture.

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But you have no right to believe and

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to storm the throne of heaven in faith,

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believing that God is going to send a

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revival.

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He tells you in the Bible things are

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going to get worse and worse.

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How do you answer those people?

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Well, I answered it this week this way.

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When the world population was five million, did

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God love it?

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Yes.

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Does he love it less when it's five

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billion?

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If God isn't willing that they should perish

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when it's five million, is he more willing

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that many should perish now?

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You see the trouble in the world today,

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the stagnation, the moral desolation in America and

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the stagnation in America is not due to

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the strength of humanism.

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It's because of the weakness of evangelism.

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People don't get born again when they come

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to the altar.

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They leave it, they come damned and they

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leave it damned.

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They're not born.

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People can't be born in five minutes, put

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off ten million sins and transgressions and violations

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of the law of God.

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They can't change the way of life, put

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off the old man, put on the new

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man by just standing there in tears, as

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I told you last night.

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When I heard that guy say on TV,

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come forward, it won't take a few minutes,

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I went to bed and cried.

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I say that he's a leading evangelist in

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America, telling people who are dead in trespasses,

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they're not bad, they're dead.

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The prodigal didn't say, my son is bad,

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he says he's dead.

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It's no fun to look on a congregation.

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Maybe I said yesterday, a hundred years ago,

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that great, that great art critic in England,

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what was his name, John, John Ruskin said,

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preaching is thirty minutes to raise the dead.

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I thought that was facetious, it's scriptural.

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All those lovely people you have, executive people,

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deacons, nice people, wealthy people, poor people, hippies,

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yuppies, what have you got, there they are,

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they're dead.

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And we're the ones that transmit life.

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But dear brother, I believe we're going to

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see a Pentecost that will allow Pentecost, Pentecost,

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I'll tell you what, nobody's going to stick

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his name on it.

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Swaggart's had his chance to evangelize the world,

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messed it up, all the rubbers, they've got

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millions of dollars, what have they done?

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They've brought disgrace to the name.

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People ridicule it, that God is a jealous

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God.

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God's going to raise up, I mean, I

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pray for Romania and behind me I come

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every day of my life.

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People want to tell me now that God's

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bypassed America, don't waste your time.

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Why?

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Was it as dead in the days of

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Jonathan Edwards?

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What is revival?

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Well, I think it's an old America, I

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think it was E.M. Bounds said that

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E.M. Bounds is the breath of God

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on the situation that threatens to become a

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corpse.

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We're very near death in America.

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There's no time for a new reformation in

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a denomination.

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He's going to raise up new men with

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new vision.

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I want to preach on vision tonight, God

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willing.

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And we've got to have vision and passion.

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God's got to upset our whole schedules, our

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lifestyle, our way of eating, our way of

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living, our way of socializing in the church.

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God help us.

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Sure you can get a hearty church, if

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you put a chicken supper before the prayer

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meeting, they'll come for the chicken supper.

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You've got the chickens, you've got the crowd,

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because they're all chicken, but anyhow.

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I believe, but I didn't believe there was

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going to be an awakening.

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Okay, God has given me the privilege of

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knowing praying men.

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There's a little fellowship of people in a

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town called Zion, Illinois, you know where that

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is?

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And it's still there.

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There's one or two original people that were

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there with Dowie.

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And I went there, they asked me to

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talk with a man, he's upstairs in bed,

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normally.

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He speaks with a mic to the congregation

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downstairs every morning.

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Do you know what happened to him?

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I walked in, he thanked me, he said,

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Mr. A, you do me an honor, I've

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read your books.

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I said, please don't say a word.

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My mother said, if ever you go into

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royalty, you never turn your back.

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And when I backpedaled to the door, I

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said, I want to thank you.

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Do you know that man, Andrews?

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God called him to go to Israel, and

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he mastered Hebrew.

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And when he got there, God said, go

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back.

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He said, but people gave him a...

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Do as I say, go back.

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Intercede for America.

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What did he do?

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For 30 years, he prayed from 10 o

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'clock in the night till 5 o'clock

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in the morning by himself.

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Oh, you talk about David Brin, and I'm

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talking about our day, I'm talking about the

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one I talked with.

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When they carried him in his little wooden

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casket out of that room, it was the

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first time he'd been out of the house

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in 12 years, never out of the house.

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How does a man retain his fire?

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He's not only seen men are lost, men

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are not merely lost in your church, they're

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robbers.

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They're robbing God of the right to use

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their personality.

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They're robbing God of the right to use

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their time.

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They're robbing God of the right to use

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their tongue.

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Dear God, Saturday, they shout till they're hoarse.

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They're frantic on Saturday at the sports arena,

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they're frozen on Sunday.

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And here is a man, he said, listen,

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I am not a bit weary.

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And this is a staggering thing to me.

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He said, Mr. Rainer is going to be

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in awakening before Jesus comes.

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And I forgot it till Martha reminded me

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the other day, he said, there's going to

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be a revival that will sweep one billion

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people into the kingdom of God.

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Well, that's a lot.

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But there are five billion in the world.

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Are the other four billion going to hell?

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There's a man around the country now, I

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don't know if...

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Manly, have you met Paul Kane yet?

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Well, Paul, I've ministered with him a few

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times lately.

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He's an amazing man.

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He used to get 30 and 40,000

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people in his meetings.

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He deputized for Bill Brunham.

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And then he disappeared.

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I heard of him in 1950 when I

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first came to America.

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I didn't meet him till about 20 years

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after.

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And then I met him recently.

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And he said in a meeting we're in,

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he said, God has revealed to me there's

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going to be a moving of the Spirit

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of God.

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And what?

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And one billion people will be born again.

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And he mentioned your country, dear brother.

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What did he call him, son?

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He mentioned your country.

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Those other countries have been the belly of

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Russia now, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.

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Dear God, when I was a boy, we

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had a family who used to come from

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Estonia.

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I think there were what, about 10 in

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the family.

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They all played different instruments.

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And they set our church on fire.

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Well, where did they disappear to?

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Dear God, you say my church had never

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prayed.

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Get some conditions from this brother about what's

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happening in their country.

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You know, the two most pleasant looking men

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in the world right now are the two

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biggest enemies of the cross.

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One is the Pope, another is Gorbachev.

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And they fooled us.

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They fooled us.

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We may not have a collision with Communism.

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We'll have one with Romanism.

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It's a deadly enemy because it says Mary

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is chorydentrix, and Mary is a mediator before

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God.

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But going back to this, there never has

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been a situation in the world as difficult

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as today.

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We've never had all the cults that we

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have now.

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I see the nations being squashed like this.

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This wall is moving in this way.

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It's cults this way.

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Wall is moving this way.

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It's the occult.

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And these things are rampant.

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My dear country of England again, in the

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last 25 years they've closed 600 branch churches

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of the Church of England alone.

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Leave out the Methodists and others.

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But in the place of 600 churches, we

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have now 600 mosques.

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The greatest revival in the world right now

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is amongst the Muslims.

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Why?

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Because they're prepared to die.

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You can't scare them.

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We're prepared to die.

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Our folk are not prepared to live.

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Sure they'll come to a camp.

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They think, right, horses have played tennis or

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some other thing.

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I know there's nothing wrong in that.

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But where's the passion?

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It's young men that see vision.

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I'm not trying to escape it.

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I'm going to tell you before God.

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I'm in my 83rd year now.

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I have a bigger fire burning in my

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belly, if you like, and my heart than

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ever in my life.

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And I'm determined by the grace of God

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to wage war.

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And I say I've got young men coming

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300 miles to our prayer meeting.

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That's my consolation.

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I know that Manly's stirring people in his

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area, Bill in his area.

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Still God has a remnant, but the remnant

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is not enough.

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We've got to return to the old ways.

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The fire has to burn.

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Dear God, the prayer meeting has to become

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the most attractive thing in the church.

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You fire the deacons.

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If they, when I went to the last

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church I was in, they said, listen, every

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deacon has to meet me half an hour

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before the service, any meeting.

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Friday night we meet at 9 o'clock

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and pray till midnight.

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You tell me about Spurgeon.

546
00:20:11,180 --> 00:20:12,840
Paul was showing me a little book the

547
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:13,320
other day.

548
00:20:13,820 --> 00:20:15,200
Yes, sure he was a great man.

549
00:20:15,340 --> 00:20:16,700
Do you know in all the 20 years

550
00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:18,080
he was in that church he never once

551
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,060
made an altar call?

552
00:20:19,580 --> 00:20:21,160
Do you know what the deacons did for

553
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:21,440
him?

554
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,860
They went in the side room where he

555
00:20:23,860 --> 00:20:26,560
prayed and wept and groaned before God.

556
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,000
Every time he went in the pulpit, the

557
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,520
deacons put their arms under his armpits and

558
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,260
carried him to the door to get him

559
00:20:34,260 --> 00:20:35,040
on the platform.

560
00:20:36,660 --> 00:20:39,100
One old lady that visited him, knew him,

561
00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:41,300
told me about his prayer life.

562
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:42,860
It's amazing.

563
00:20:45,430 --> 00:20:46,850
And no man is greater than his prayer

564
00:20:46,850 --> 00:20:47,070
life.

565
00:20:47,110 --> 00:20:48,650
I don't care how many church members he

566
00:20:48,650 --> 00:20:49,050
has.

567
00:20:49,770 --> 00:20:51,190
Somebody told me the other day you like

568
00:20:51,190 --> 00:20:52,030
a favourite verse.

569
00:20:52,250 --> 00:20:53,490
I don't know, I'm jumping around a bit.

570
00:20:53,870 --> 00:20:55,150
But you know I think the greatest honour,

571
00:20:55,230 --> 00:20:56,570
I don't have any doctorates.

572
00:20:56,630 --> 00:20:58,910
I haven't begged or borrowed or burned or

573
00:20:58,910 --> 00:20:59,710
anything else.

574
00:21:00,410 --> 00:21:01,510
I have no degrees.

575
00:21:01,690 --> 00:21:03,410
You can have 32 and still be frozen.

576
00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:11,730
The one thing I covet, I want to

577
00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:13,530
be one of the ten most wanted men

578
00:21:13,530 --> 00:21:14,090
in hell.

579
00:21:14,970 --> 00:21:17,710
I want the demons to say, Jesus I

580
00:21:17,710 --> 00:21:19,050
know and Ravenel I know.

581
00:21:19,530 --> 00:21:21,070
Jesus I know and Del I know.

582
00:21:21,450 --> 00:21:23,110
That's why the devils opposed him.

583
00:21:27,050 --> 00:21:29,050
Namely last night moving to tears I was

584
00:21:29,050 --> 00:21:30,170
trying to come to the platform.

585
00:21:30,650 --> 00:21:31,750
I whispered it is thereafter.

586
00:21:31,930 --> 00:21:33,510
I said you and I have one thing

587
00:21:33,510 --> 00:21:35,010
in common with the apostle Paul.

588
00:21:35,170 --> 00:21:37,650
When in death's aft, dear Lord my wife's

589
00:21:37,650 --> 00:21:39,270
been to my funeral half a dozen times,

590
00:21:39,370 --> 00:21:40,450
not at my bedside.

591
00:21:42,410 --> 00:21:43,950
Lots of people like to see me die,

592
00:21:44,010 --> 00:21:44,970
but I'm not going to die, I'm going

593
00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:45,290
to live.

594
00:21:47,650 --> 00:21:49,690
They actually threw a white sheet over me

595
00:21:49,690 --> 00:21:51,130
and the doctor said you won't last four

596
00:21:51,130 --> 00:21:51,510
minutes.

597
00:21:52,010 --> 00:21:53,410
And I was going to die.

598
00:21:53,510 --> 00:21:56,130
I had my hands folded and he said

599
00:21:56,130 --> 00:21:56,950
you won't last forever.

600
00:21:57,130 --> 00:21:57,370
Me?

601
00:21:57,790 --> 00:22:01,110
I said you're talking about me.

602
00:22:02,830 --> 00:22:04,430
Then the doctor said you won't, he said

603
00:22:04,430 --> 00:22:06,550
by another 11 years from now you'll be

604
00:22:06,550 --> 00:22:09,570
crippled and paralysed, your back's broken, your feet

605
00:22:09,570 --> 00:22:11,170
are broken, your legs are broken, you'll be

606
00:22:11,170 --> 00:22:11,630
useless.

607
00:22:12,770 --> 00:22:14,410
Well I may be useless but I'm still

608
00:22:14,410 --> 00:22:16,190
hanging on.

609
00:22:16,270 --> 00:22:19,190
But the thing is this, I've been privileged

610
00:22:19,190 --> 00:22:20,830
to share in prayer.

611
00:22:21,310 --> 00:22:23,470
And I don't remember great pulpits, I've preached

612
00:22:23,470 --> 00:22:24,870
some of the great pulpits of the world.

613
00:22:25,070 --> 00:22:26,810
I don't remember them, I've talked with great

614
00:22:26,810 --> 00:22:27,350
preachers.

615
00:22:27,670 --> 00:22:29,130
But when men have let me pray with

616
00:22:29,130 --> 00:22:30,310
them I remember all of them.

617
00:22:30,350 --> 00:22:31,630
I can tell you how we pray.

618
00:22:32,070 --> 00:22:33,770
I remember Manly at the, what was the

619
00:22:33,770 --> 00:22:40,540
national conference we had in, no, when, no

620
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:47,080
when Bertha, no Bertha Smith was there.

621
00:22:50,340 --> 00:22:50,900
No Bertha.

622
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:55,420
Philadelphia.

623
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,640
That night of prayer we had, we said

624
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,400
have a night of prayer and we got

625
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,800
in the bedroom and boy after about ten

626
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,900
minutes the door kept going out and I

627
00:23:05,900 --> 00:23:07,280
thought my I'm going to be left by

628
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:08,240
myself as usual.

629
00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:10,040
And folks weren't going out, they were coming

630
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:10,320
in.

631
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,460
So I look round, about six pairs of

632
00:23:12,460 --> 00:23:14,980
legs, the guys were under the bed, the

633
00:23:14,980 --> 00:23:17,560
guys under the bed at that side and

634
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,360
at this side and we prayed till, I

635
00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:20,380
don't know what, two or three in the

636
00:23:20,380 --> 00:23:20,620
morning.

637
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,400
And somebody said God came down that night.

638
00:23:23,820 --> 00:23:25,720
Well that's where revival is born.

639
00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:27,480
You can't schedule it.

640
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:29,800
The stupid thing, we're going to start a

641
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,140
revival next Sunday night and finish there.

642
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,220
Who, who gives orders to the Holy Ghost?

643
00:23:37,330 --> 00:23:39,750
Sensitivity to the Spirit of God isn't there.

644
00:23:40,270 --> 00:23:42,370
In the middle of the Welsh revival and

645
00:23:42,370 --> 00:23:45,390
remember there's a guy, 26 years of age

646
00:23:45,390 --> 00:23:49,110
and he's already prayed 13 years for revival.

647
00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:54,220
They wouldn't allow people to photograph him.

648
00:23:55,340 --> 00:23:57,680
The greatest preachers in England were there at

649
00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:58,080
the time.

650
00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:59,480
William Booth was there.

651
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,560
He left his office desk to go listen

652
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,260
to this 26 year old guy.

653
00:24:03,260 --> 00:24:05,440
The greatest Bible teacher in the world was

654
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:05,720
there.

655
00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:06,280
G.

656
00:24:06,380 --> 00:24:09,000
Campbell Morgan, he left his office at Westminster

657
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,820
and came to hear this young Welshman.

658
00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:14,420
F.B. Meyer came from the Baptist church.

659
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,840
They were all flocking to Wales to hear

660
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,040
a man who was anointed in the Spirit

661
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:19,600
of God.

662
00:24:20,140 --> 00:24:23,040
He comes into a meeting, the biggest hall

663
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,820
in town, 800 seats, everyone was packed an

664
00:24:25,820 --> 00:24:28,340
hour before time and in comes a young

665
00:24:28,340 --> 00:24:30,320
man, everybody's waiting for him to come.

666
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,600
There's one seat on the throne.

667
00:24:32,020 --> 00:24:33,560
He went to the front seat, bowed his

668
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,240
head and he prayed for three hours.

669
00:24:36,140 --> 00:24:36,760
What do you mean?

670
00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:39,020
Do you think our congregation would do that?

671
00:24:39,420 --> 00:24:40,760
They say, hey he's fallen asleep.

672
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:43,660
For three hours.

673
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,580
Until he felt the rich and then he

674
00:24:46,580 --> 00:24:48,360
stood up and preached for 15 minutes, the

675
00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:49,680
glory of God came down.

676
00:24:51,140 --> 00:24:52,080
And did what happen?

677
00:24:54,020 --> 00:24:55,720
Nobody dared leave the place.

678
00:24:57,940 --> 00:24:59,560
He went out at 10 o'clock and

679
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,460
prayed the whole night for the anointing for

680
00:25:01,460 --> 00:25:02,180
the next day.

681
00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:05,260
The people stayed till 2 and 3 in

682
00:25:05,260 --> 00:25:05,640
the morning.

683
00:25:05,780 --> 00:25:07,300
They did that week after week.

684
00:25:09,140 --> 00:25:11,040
You see we take our little revivals to

685
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:11,700
South America.

686
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,080
What do you call him again?

687
00:25:15,940 --> 00:25:18,220
Swaggart went, he took the formula he had

688
00:25:18,220 --> 00:25:19,840
here, turned it on at 6, turned it

689
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:20,360
off at 7.

690
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,180
It didn't do a thing.

691
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:21,820
It failed.

692
00:25:22,340 --> 00:25:23,280
Because it was American?

693
00:25:23,460 --> 00:25:24,600
No, because it wasn't biblical.

694
00:25:26,620 --> 00:25:28,760
Another big shot did the same thing.

695
00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:31,180
But the faith was having revival in South

696
00:25:31,180 --> 00:25:31,980
America now.

697
00:25:32,260 --> 00:25:34,300
I was reading one report, it said they

698
00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:36,180
go to a meeting, it starts Wednesday, they

699
00:25:36,180 --> 00:25:37,720
have Wednesday night, they have Thursday night, they

700
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:38,300
have Friday night.

701
00:25:38,860 --> 00:25:43,260
Friday night, the people, particularly teenagers, prayed the

702
00:25:43,260 --> 00:25:47,320
whole night through, prayed all day Saturday, prayed

703
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,440
all Saturday night into Sunday and the glory

704
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:51,760
of God filled the place.

705
00:25:52,820 --> 00:25:54,140
You see we've got to get an appetite.

706
00:25:54,940 --> 00:25:57,220
You know the nitty-gritty of the whole

707
00:25:57,220 --> 00:25:58,880
thing is this, we don't know God.

708
00:25:59,660 --> 00:26:00,720
We don't know God.

709
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,340
We know theology, we know about Him.

710
00:26:05,790 --> 00:26:07,210
Why did Jesus come into the world?

711
00:26:07,290 --> 00:26:07,990
To save sinners.

712
00:26:08,090 --> 00:26:09,270
That's not what Jesus said.

713
00:26:09,910 --> 00:26:10,990
What did Jesus say?

714
00:26:11,250 --> 00:26:13,150
I am come that they may know Thee.

715
00:26:13,750 --> 00:26:15,610
Every man that comes in my office, and

716
00:26:15,610 --> 00:26:17,610
I get them worldwide, I don't know why

717
00:26:17,610 --> 00:26:20,070
but they come, and I say first tell

718
00:26:20,070 --> 00:26:21,090
me, do you know God?

719
00:26:21,630 --> 00:26:22,490
Well I have a degree.

720
00:26:22,490 --> 00:26:23,730
I didn't ask you about that.

721
00:26:23,790 --> 00:26:24,530
Do you know God?

722
00:26:25,090 --> 00:26:26,970
When was your last encounter with God?

723
00:26:27,830 --> 00:26:29,890
When were your last prostrate in His presence?

724
00:26:30,610 --> 00:26:32,870
When did you last sit spellbound at His

725
00:26:32,870 --> 00:26:33,270
majesty?

726
00:26:33,450 --> 00:26:34,410
You don't know God.

727
00:26:36,780 --> 00:26:38,240
Because we don't know God we don't know

728
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:38,820
how to worship.

729
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:40,720
We don't know how to enter into His

730
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:41,220
presence.

731
00:26:42,020 --> 00:26:44,820
We're content to know a few theological shibboleths

732
00:26:44,820 --> 00:26:46,320
that other people have taught us.

733
00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:48,980
Dear God, one of the leading men in

734
00:26:48,980 --> 00:26:50,920
the Southern Baptist Church, a very dear friend

735
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,360
of yours, I won't give you a clue

736
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:54,440
after that, my dear brother, he said to

737
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,320
me recently, he said, listen, forget our seminaries.

738
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:58,680
There's no anointing in them.

739
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,500
Those professors are teaching the lessons on Romans

740
00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:03,700
they taught ten years ago.

741
00:27:03,780 --> 00:27:05,120
You can shake the dust off them.

742
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,620
And every year they go back and saying

743
00:27:07,620 --> 00:27:10,180
the same thing, Romans chapter one and then

744
00:27:10,180 --> 00:27:12,660
chapters eight to eleven and chapters to, to,

745
00:27:12,980 --> 00:27:17,160
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

746
00:27:36,380 --> 00:27:44,820
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

747
00:27:44,820 --> 00:27:44,920
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

748
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:45,020
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

749
00:27:45,020 --> 00:27:45,120
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

750
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:45,220
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

751
00:27:45,220 --> 00:27:45,320
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

752
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:45,420
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

753
00:27:45,420 --> 00:27:45,520
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

754
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:45,620
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

755
00:27:45,620 --> 00:27:45,720
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

756
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:45,820
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

757
00:27:45,820 --> 00:27:45,920
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

758
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:46,020
to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

759
00:27:46,020 --> 00:27:46,120
to, to, to, to, to, to Have you

760
00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:47,160
noticed so often God says, I look for

761
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:47,620
a man.

762
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,200
Have you noticed in the middle of his

763
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,960
great, the greatest poem ever written on love,

764
00:27:53,060 --> 00:27:55,900
1 Corinthians 13, that's 13 verses, he suddenly

765
00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:58,720
stops talking about love and he says, when

766
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,360
I became a man, what does he mean?

767
00:28:00,460 --> 00:28:01,920
Tell me manly, think it over.

768
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:03,300
When did he become a man?

769
00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:04,060
What does he mean?

770
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,980
When did he step out of spiritual infancy?

771
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,420
When did his parents move out of spiritual

772
00:28:10,420 --> 00:28:11,100
immaturity?

773
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,600
When did that vision come?

774
00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:19,000
I want to preach on him one day

775
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,100
before I go, I hope.

776
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,540
When you were talking last night about Hebrews

777
00:28:24,540 --> 00:28:27,180
11, you know I read that chapter as

778
00:28:27,180 --> 00:28:29,560
I tell you, when I read Hebrews 11,

779
00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:32,580
I follow my phrase, because not one person

780
00:28:32,580 --> 00:28:35,140
in Hebrews 11 ever had a Bible, and

781
00:28:35,140 --> 00:28:37,100
when I've read all about achievements, I'd like

782
00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:39,400
you to preach on this sometime manly, there's

783
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,080
a verse there that staggers me and it

784
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:41,720
says what?

785
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,760
It says, they did by faith subdued kingdoms,

786
00:28:44,980 --> 00:28:47,460
wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of

787
00:28:47,460 --> 00:28:50,680
lions, and then one verse says, not accepting

788
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,460
deliverance.

789
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:52,640
What does it mean?

790
00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,560
I'd rather die than fail Christ.

791
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,400
You can't imagine it, can you?

792
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,020
There's a woman standing over there, feeding a

793
00:29:01,020 --> 00:29:04,020
baby, and the judge says to her, look,

794
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,280
listen preacher, you take three grains of incense

795
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,980
to that, at the feet of Caesar, and

796
00:29:09,980 --> 00:29:11,780
all you do is say, Caesar is Lord,

797
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,760
you can go back to your darling wife

798
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,460
and precious baby, if not, those lions are

799
00:29:16,460 --> 00:29:18,220
going to release them, the next thing you'll

800
00:29:18,220 --> 00:29:20,560
find a lion chewing your baby up, another

801
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,440
one tearing the breasts off your wife.

802
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:23,340
Do you love your wife?

803
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:25,600
I didn't tell me you're going to love

804
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,740
a God you can't see, to the wife,

805
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:29,640
and he stands there and watches it.

806
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,300
We've forgotten all about that.

807
00:29:36,230 --> 00:29:39,010
There's a book called Fair Sunshine, it's about

808
00:29:39,010 --> 00:29:40,250
the young men that were put to death

809
00:29:40,250 --> 00:29:45,810
in Scotland, until 1665, and as you read

810
00:29:45,810 --> 00:29:48,010
them waving their hands and saying, have three

811
00:29:48,010 --> 00:29:49,950
more days before I see the king in

812
00:29:49,950 --> 00:29:50,490
his beauty.

813
00:29:51,050 --> 00:29:53,710
You see, what our generation of preachers have

814
00:29:53,710 --> 00:29:56,590
managed to do, we've failed to make sin

815
00:29:56,590 --> 00:30:01,150
diabolical, we've failed to make sin offensive, and

816
00:30:01,150 --> 00:30:04,270
we've failed to make sin attractive, Christ attractive.

817
00:30:08,060 --> 00:30:09,900
You know, the only time you can sing

818
00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:11,940
the hymn of Wesley, thou O Christ art

819
00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:14,080
all I want, the only time you can

820
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,000
say Christ is all I need, is when

821
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,120
Christ is all you have.

822
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,160
We're propped up with everything, our refrigerators are

823
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,900
full, I don't have many clothes, but I

824
00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:25,800
have at least, I have two suits at

825
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,960
least, and I have at least two pair

826
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,220
of shoes, I'm only one preacher's place, he

827
00:30:30,220 --> 00:30:35,640
had 35 sports coats and 25 pairs of

828
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,160
shoes, in nearly as many books.

829
00:30:42,420 --> 00:30:44,880
Does a devil care what we have?

830
00:30:45,580 --> 00:30:47,940
All he's worried about is that you catch

831
00:30:47,940 --> 00:30:52,080
fire, and then your church catches fire, and

832
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,560
another thing, let me say this, I've gone

833
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:54,780
round a bit, I know, but I've got

834
00:30:54,780 --> 00:30:55,940
to get wound up and say what I

835
00:30:55,940 --> 00:30:56,460
want to say.

836
00:30:56,940 --> 00:30:59,560
You see, the great revivals of Methodism were

837
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,520
not in buildings, they were in the streets.

838
00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:04,280
The Salvation Army set England on fire.

839
00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:07,180
Wow, not by buildings?

840
00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:13,880
The Bishop of Gloucester said, don't ever let

841
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,400
John Wesley, or Charles Wesley, in any of

842
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:16,980
our churches.

843
00:31:17,860 --> 00:31:20,980
They were both certified men of impeccable morality,

844
00:31:21,740 --> 00:31:24,760
scholars, read Hebrew and Greek, don't let them

845
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,080
in the churches, and don't let that man,

846
00:31:27,940 --> 00:31:30,360
George Whitfield, in the church at all.

847
00:31:31,740 --> 00:31:33,100
Tell me, who was the bishop at that

848
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:33,460
time?

849
00:31:34,020 --> 00:31:36,080
Nobody knows, don't care a hill of beans,

850
00:31:36,740 --> 00:31:38,000
but we know the men that got kicked

851
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:38,400
out.

852
00:31:39,020 --> 00:31:40,420
You know, some of you guys, if you're

853
00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:41,700
faithful, you'll be kicked out.

854
00:31:42,540 --> 00:31:43,560
At least that's my prayer.

855
00:31:46,220 --> 00:31:48,180
I pray you all get fired for being

856
00:31:48,180 --> 00:31:49,360
fired, Amen.

857
00:31:49,820 --> 00:31:50,780
But God's going to do it.

858
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,800
Don't lose sight of that with all I've

859
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:53,460
rambled on.

860
00:31:53,940 --> 00:31:56,120
You see, God used the same material before,

861
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:57,800
they were flesh and blood, many of them

862
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:58,440
were fallible.

863
00:31:58,820 --> 00:32:00,420
Paul was saying this morning, some of them

864
00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:02,820
made great mistakes, but God looks on the

865
00:32:02,820 --> 00:32:05,140
heart, and they were able to see great

866
00:32:05,140 --> 00:32:07,020
movings of the Spirit of God.

867
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,920
America is harder today than she's ever been.

868
00:32:14,510 --> 00:32:15,870
We've no vocabulary anymore.

869
00:32:16,430 --> 00:32:18,810
Nobody commits adultery now, they just have an

870
00:32:18,810 --> 00:32:19,210
affair.

871
00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:23,250
There's no fornication, it's premarital sex.

872
00:32:25,190 --> 00:32:27,610
Nobody's messing with spiritism, it's just channeling.

873
00:32:28,670 --> 00:32:30,250
We've taken the sting out of all the

874
00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:31,890
words, we don't talk about hell.

875
00:32:33,130 --> 00:32:35,470
We've got to get back to biblical theology.

876
00:32:36,070 --> 00:32:38,150
And listen, we've got to do the essential

877
00:32:38,150 --> 00:32:38,610
thing.

878
00:32:38,750 --> 00:32:40,990
Jesus says, if I be lifted up, we're

879
00:32:40,990 --> 00:32:43,730
not preaching Christ, we're preaching drugs, we're preaching

880
00:32:43,730 --> 00:32:47,170
abortion, we're preaching crime, we're not preaching Christ.

881
00:32:48,430 --> 00:32:52,170
Our fathers, I've been reading very much lately

882
00:32:52,170 --> 00:32:56,230
again, well, partly the apostolic fathers, and the

883
00:32:56,230 --> 00:32:58,710
men up in the Puritans, and the other

884
00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:01,690
people in that area, how they exalted Christ.

885
00:33:01,870 --> 00:33:04,590
It was Christ first, Christ last.

886
00:33:05,530 --> 00:33:07,170
You see, we've lost sight of the majesty

887
00:33:07,170 --> 00:33:08,450
and holiness of God.

888
00:33:09,130 --> 00:33:12,130
We don't tiptoe out of the sanctuary subdued

889
00:33:12,130 --> 00:33:14,470
by God's almightiness and power and mercy.

890
00:33:15,110 --> 00:33:17,190
It's just a ritual, it's a formality.

891
00:33:17,790 --> 00:33:19,430
People know where we're going to start, how

892
00:33:19,430 --> 00:33:20,170
we're going to start.

893
00:33:20,530 --> 00:33:21,990
But let's go back to the main issue

894
00:33:21,990 --> 00:33:22,270
again.

895
00:33:22,350 --> 00:33:24,510
The main issue, the church should vibrate.

896
00:33:25,110 --> 00:33:26,790
Boy, if I live within a hundred miles

897
00:33:26,790 --> 00:33:29,350
of this place, I'd be here every, I'd

898
00:33:29,350 --> 00:33:30,970
be here every week at least once to

899
00:33:30,970 --> 00:33:31,870
pray with these guys.

900
00:33:32,230 --> 00:33:33,490
I wouldn't pray in the day when it's

901
00:33:33,490 --> 00:33:35,350
coming to about nine o'clock till three

902
00:33:35,350 --> 00:33:37,890
in the morning, and see how men would

903
00:33:37,890 --> 00:33:38,110
come.

904
00:33:38,190 --> 00:33:38,730
They'll come.

905
00:33:39,230 --> 00:33:41,590
There's nothing more attractive on this earth than

906
00:33:41,590 --> 00:33:42,030
fire.

907
00:33:42,410 --> 00:33:45,250
Whether it's physical or spiritual, fire is the

908
00:33:45,250 --> 00:33:45,930
most attractive.

909
00:33:46,090 --> 00:33:49,270
Our God is a consuming fire, and the

910
00:33:49,270 --> 00:33:51,550
only answer to hellfire is Holy Ghost fire.

911
00:33:54,110 --> 00:33:56,210
Brother Leonard, let me ask you another question,

912
00:33:56,330 --> 00:33:58,370
and you make interviews very easy.

913
00:33:58,510 --> 00:34:00,190
This is my third question now.

914
00:34:01,990 --> 00:34:07,370
What do you believe is the greatest hindrance

915
00:34:07,370 --> 00:34:11,469
to genuine revival in the church here in

916
00:34:11,469 --> 00:34:11,909
the West?

917
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,659
The number one hindrance to revival in America

918
00:34:18,659 --> 00:34:19,780
is evangelism.

919
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,179
We've made it easy for people to come

920
00:34:23,179 --> 00:34:24,820
forward and say a little prayer and go

921
00:34:24,820 --> 00:34:25,159
out.

922
00:34:26,139 --> 00:34:27,600
Stop them and ask, ask it.

923
00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:29,880
You ask teenagers in your church.

924
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,020
Number one, are you saved?

925
00:34:32,260 --> 00:34:32,880
Yeah, from what?

926
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:33,639
Oh, from hell.

927
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,040
Are you saved from lust?

928
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,340
Are you saved from pride?

929
00:34:37,179 --> 00:34:37,840
They don't know.

930
00:34:38,780 --> 00:34:40,900
Talk about the witness of the Spirit that

931
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:43,120
John Wesley preached on more than anything else.

932
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:44,460
They don't know what you're talking about.

933
00:34:44,860 --> 00:34:47,480
They'll sing blessed assurance and they've no assurance.

934
00:34:51,050 --> 00:34:52,790
The hindrance, number one, is we've made it

935
00:34:52,790 --> 00:34:54,570
so easy for people to come forward.

936
00:34:54,870 --> 00:34:56,150
They go out at the door.

937
00:34:56,250 --> 00:34:57,350
I watched some recently.

938
00:34:57,610 --> 00:34:58,670
They had to get out of the door.

939
00:34:58,750 --> 00:34:59,650
They were lighting cigarettes.

940
00:35:00,090 --> 00:35:01,870
They weren't going home under anguish.

941
00:35:02,810 --> 00:35:06,190
Do you not, dear, what's his name again?

942
00:35:08,390 --> 00:35:11,010
Spurgeon said when he was 15, he was

943
00:35:11,010 --> 00:35:13,410
under conviction of sin for weeks and weeks

944
00:35:13,410 --> 00:35:13,930
and weeks.

945
00:35:13,990 --> 00:35:14,770
He couldn't sleep.

946
00:35:14,830 --> 00:35:15,550
He couldn't eat.

947
00:35:18,550 --> 00:35:21,830
Dear God, our people, they're a bit upset

948
00:35:21,830 --> 00:35:22,410
in the meeting.

949
00:35:22,570 --> 00:35:23,050
They go out.

950
00:35:23,130 --> 00:35:24,210
They go back to sin.

951
00:35:24,430 --> 00:35:26,370
They go back and sit before TV till

952
00:35:26,370 --> 00:35:26,730
midnight.

953
00:35:28,330 --> 00:35:29,410
There's no concern.

954
00:35:29,550 --> 00:35:31,070
There has to come an awakening in the

955
00:35:31,070 --> 00:35:32,110
church to the peril.

956
00:35:32,790 --> 00:35:34,270
Those loved ones of yours at the end

957
00:35:34,270 --> 00:35:36,030
of the table, they don't go to church.

958
00:35:36,110 --> 00:35:36,950
No, they're going to hell.

959
00:35:37,190 --> 00:35:38,070
Why don't you say it?

960
00:35:41,020 --> 00:35:42,120
My boy's a good boy.

961
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:42,600
He's quarterback.

962
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,020
Who cares a hell of beans?

963
00:35:44,140 --> 00:35:45,960
He's quarterback, a fullback, any other back.

964
00:35:48,390 --> 00:35:49,250
Where are your children?

965
00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:53,940
What's your ambition for your boy?

966
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:55,620
I have three boys.

967
00:35:55,740 --> 00:35:57,560
Two of them, two of the best preachers

968
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:58,260
in America today.

969
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,320
The other one's the head of one of

970
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,280
the new sects in that multi-million dollar,

971
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:03,540
what do you call it now?

972
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:05,120
Smithsonian Museum.

973
00:36:06,260 --> 00:36:10,240
And these boys, they've got prayer lives.

974
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,420
Two of them have got tremendous prayer lives,

975
00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:13,240
and they're my joy.

976
00:36:14,020 --> 00:36:15,780
I would be totally unhappy if they were

977
00:36:15,780 --> 00:36:16,600
anything else.

978
00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:18,420
They'd never be millionaires.

979
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:19,280
They'd never be rich.

980
00:36:20,020 --> 00:36:20,820
But they know God.

981
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:22,240
They're laying up treasure in heaven.

982
00:36:23,020 --> 00:36:24,780
And our young people, you see, it's not

983
00:36:24,780 --> 00:36:27,020
a case of getting the family, getting the

984
00:36:27,020 --> 00:36:28,240
Bible back in the schools.

985
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,120
Get the Bible back in your home.

986
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,420
We were talking, I was talking to your

987
00:36:32,420 --> 00:36:37,800
brother Bill here about, um, what's his name

988
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:38,100
now?

989
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:39,080
Duncan Campbell.

990
00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:41,220
I spent many hours in prayer with Duncan

991
00:36:41,220 --> 00:36:41,680
Campbell.

992
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,320
He used to pray and weep and groan.

993
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,840
The amazing thing, Billy, I don't know, he

994
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,980
never had revival except when he preached in

995
00:36:49,980 --> 00:36:50,420
Gaelic.

996
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,140
I preached, you know, the first day of,

997
00:36:53,260 --> 00:36:55,000
I remember the first day of World War

998
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:55,260
I.

999
00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:56,440
It was the 4th of August.

1000
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:57,820
My cousin went to the army.

1001
00:36:58,240 --> 00:36:59,180
He came back crippled.

1002
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:00,980
I remember the first day of World War

1003
00:37:00,980 --> 00:37:01,300
II.

1004
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,200
I was to preach at the head church

1005
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:04,640
of Nazarene Saturday night.

1006
00:37:04,780 --> 00:37:06,080
In the afternoon, I went to a mission

1007
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,400
hall in the center of Glasgow.

1008
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,160
And I didn't know, they said, this is

1009
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:09,940
Duncan Campbell.

1010
00:37:10,740 --> 00:37:13,220
And he was always known as Duncan Campbell

1011
00:37:13,220 --> 00:37:14,740
of the Argyle Revival.

1012
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:15,580
I'll tell you about that.

1013
00:37:15,620 --> 00:37:17,420
Till now, he'd lost his anointing and became

1014
00:37:17,420 --> 00:37:17,860
nobody.

1015
00:37:18,540 --> 00:37:21,740
But I said to him, well, what was

1016
00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:22,400
the condition?

1017
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:25,080
He had, what, Revival 1949.

1018
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,140
He said, well, by the way, at that

1019
00:37:27,140 --> 00:37:29,720
time, after breakfast in the morning, they lifted

1020
00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:31,860
all the dishes off the kitchen sink, off

1021
00:37:31,860 --> 00:37:33,440
the table, put them in the kitchen sink.

1022
00:37:33,820 --> 00:37:36,440
And Daddy got the Bible and he read

1023
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,640
a psalm, or a psalm usually, commented on

1024
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:39,880
it.

1025
00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:44,160
And the children had to memorize the, what

1026
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,340
do you call it, the charter catechism.

1027
00:37:48,220 --> 00:37:51,140
You see, maybe the greatest hemorrhage we ever

1028
00:37:51,140 --> 00:37:52,460
had was Isaac Watts.

1029
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,660
He wrote, When I surveyed the wonderous cross,

1030
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:56,080
he wrote, Joy to the world, the Lord

1031
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:56,500
is come.

1032
00:37:56,580 --> 00:37:58,780
He wrote, We're marching to Zion, wonderful man

1033
00:37:58,780 --> 00:37:59,000
of God.

1034
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,440
But, you know, he had a catechism, catechism

1035
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,220
for children under seven years of age.

1036
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:06,940
And you couldn't move up in a, in

1037
00:38:06,940 --> 00:38:09,020
a class in Sunday school until you've memorized

1038
00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:09,440
it.

1039
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,920
Then he had another catechism for children from

1040
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,380
seven to 14 years of age.

1041
00:38:14,820 --> 00:38:17,080
Then he had another catechism for people 14

1042
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:17,540
and up.

1043
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:19,820
What does a good book say?

1044
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,520
Thy word that I hid in my heart,

1045
00:38:21,580 --> 00:38:23,100
that I might not sin against thee.

1046
00:38:23,780 --> 00:38:25,500
And so I said, well, you give me

1047
00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:26,480
the secret of revival.

1048
00:38:26,860 --> 00:38:28,280
The seed had been in the hearts of

1049
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,160
those children for 10 and 15 years.

1050
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,440
Then the Holy Ghost comes and sends somebody

1051
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,360
along, and that seed begins to germinate.

1052
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,280
The word of God is quick and powerful.

1053
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:40,840
Where is it?

1054
00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:42,700
It's first in my heart, but then the

1055
00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:44,180
Holy Ghost breathes on it.

1056
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,300
It's like I have a little spark in

1057
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:46,740
my heart.

1058
00:38:46,820 --> 00:38:48,160
The Holy Ghost breathes on it.

1059
00:38:48,220 --> 00:38:49,260
It comes into a flame.

1060
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,000
Your number one concern should be your family.

1061
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,640
I went to preach at a certain college.

1062
00:39:01,100 --> 00:39:01,980
I had a good time.

1063
00:39:02,780 --> 00:39:04,300
The second time I went, a guy came.

1064
00:39:04,380 --> 00:39:05,560
He said, I want to thank you for

1065
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:05,880
coming.

1066
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,960
He said, God moved on my heart last

1067
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:08,500
time you were here.

1068
00:39:08,620 --> 00:39:08,860
Fine.

1069
00:39:09,220 --> 00:39:10,380
And he said, I believe in you.

1070
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,500
I said, what do you mean you believe

1071
00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:11,800
in me?

1072
00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:14,520
He said, because you've raised three boys that

1073
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:15,360
are a credit to you.

1074
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,580
Two wonderful preachers.

1075
00:39:16,660 --> 00:39:18,180
My precious wife did most of it.

1076
00:39:18,220 --> 00:39:21,200
I was away touring in prayer, but I

1077
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,700
spent hours in prayer for them.

1078
00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:25,380
And my number one, even if I was

1079
00:39:25,380 --> 00:39:26,980
in a big church in some other country,

1080
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,380
number one today, Lord, the first thing I

1081
00:39:29,380 --> 00:39:32,260
cover my family with the precious blood, I

1082
00:39:32,260 --> 00:39:34,180
believe the Holy Spirit will talk to them.

1083
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,280
Dear God, when Paul was 16 years of

1084
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,980
age, he prayed more hours than I prayed.

1085
00:39:39,540 --> 00:39:40,820
We were prayed till one and two in

1086
00:39:40,820 --> 00:39:43,220
the morning in an old part of a

1087
00:39:43,220 --> 00:39:44,280
mansion we had in Ireland.

1088
00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:47,340
And all the men I've known have been

1089
00:39:47,340 --> 00:39:48,160
men of prayer.

1090
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,300
And it costs something.

1091
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,580
But you see, your ambition should be to

1092
00:39:55,580 --> 00:39:58,600
see your spiritual offspring in your home, your

1093
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,320
spiritual offspring in the church.

1094
00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:02,240
If I were in a church, I would

1095
00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:04,180
have a nucleus of about 10 young men

1096
00:40:04,180 --> 00:40:06,240
every week and talk to them about the

1097
00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:08,100
things of God, particularly in the life of

1098
00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:08,460
prayer.

1099
00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:10,660
I'd read some of the great characters that

1100
00:40:10,660 --> 00:40:12,600
God has made, because they did the same

1101
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:13,400
stuff as us.

1102
00:40:13,780 --> 00:40:15,540
I wouldn't be bothered about a big church.

1103
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,760
Why didn't Jesus take the 5,000?

1104
00:40:18,860 --> 00:40:19,440
He fed them.

1105
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:21,900
They didn't follow him.

1106
00:40:22,660 --> 00:40:24,240
He didn't feed the 5,000 in a

1107
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:24,480
church.

1108
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,000
He didn't feed the 4,000 in a

1109
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:26,340
church.

1110
00:40:27,180 --> 00:40:28,620
He manifested his power.

1111
00:40:29,820 --> 00:40:31,320
He had 12, and they weren't all good.

1112
00:40:31,420 --> 00:40:32,080
Thomas doubted.

1113
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,680
Look at the mess that Judas made.

1114
00:40:34,580 --> 00:40:35,960
But prayer is the secret.

1115
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:37,040
You know that.

1116
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,240
You make up your mind you're going to

1117
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:40,200
give time to a prayer.

1118
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,320
The devil will fight it more than anything

1119
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:42,600
else.

1120
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,060
Your phone will ring off the hook.

1121
00:40:44,220 --> 00:40:45,220
Visitors will come.

1122
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,400
Somebody will say, come and preach at our

1123
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:47,660
church.

1124
00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:49,820
Why did you conduct a revival in somebody

1125
00:40:49,820 --> 00:40:51,560
else's church when your own is dead?

1126
00:40:53,580 --> 00:40:54,440
That's nonsense.

1127
00:40:57,790 --> 00:41:01,930
Brother Avonhill, if you knew that God was

1128
00:41:01,930 --> 00:41:04,530
going to remove you from the scene and

1129
00:41:04,530 --> 00:41:08,370
you only had one message left that you

1130
00:41:08,370 --> 00:41:12,490
could communicate to the church in North America,

1131
00:41:13,430 --> 00:41:15,570
what would that message be?

1132
00:41:16,250 --> 00:41:18,130
What's the burden of your heart right now?

1133
00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:24,000
There will be two things.

1134
00:41:24,100 --> 00:41:27,820
Number one, the sad thing we don't know

1135
00:41:27,820 --> 00:41:28,220
God.

1136
00:41:30,350 --> 00:41:32,310
Years have come that they may know thee,

1137
00:41:32,410 --> 00:41:34,430
the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom

1138
00:41:34,430 --> 00:41:35,130
thou has sent.

1139
00:41:35,910 --> 00:41:37,470
And if we know God, we don't have

1140
00:41:37,470 --> 00:41:38,430
to know anybody else.

1141
00:41:38,770 --> 00:41:40,410
If we don't know God, we need to

1142
00:41:40,410 --> 00:41:41,190
know everybody else.

1143
00:41:41,690 --> 00:41:43,370
And the other thing that's obscure, I'm going

1144
00:41:43,370 --> 00:41:45,990
to use it when I preach on the

1145
00:41:45,990 --> 00:41:47,030
indestructible man.

1146
00:41:47,630 --> 00:41:50,010
We've lost, totally lost sight of the judgment

1147
00:41:50,010 --> 00:41:50,970
seat of Christ.

1148
00:41:51,870 --> 00:41:52,310
Totally.

1149
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,600
Suppose the Lord is coming today.

1150
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,420
As you as a pastor, would you welcome

1151
00:42:03,420 --> 00:42:05,460
him and say, Lord, my church is the

1152
00:42:05,460 --> 00:42:06,760
cleanest church in town.

1153
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,580
We're without spot or wrinkle.

1154
00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:10,660
We've dealt with divorce.

1155
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,020
We've dealt with drunkenness.

1156
00:42:12,420 --> 00:42:14,440
I have the most godly bunch of deacons

1157
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,040
in Texas or in America.

1158
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,600
I have the finest group of young people,

1159
00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:18,900
Lord.

1160
00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:21,600
I've spent my life preparing the bride.

1161
00:42:22,740 --> 00:42:23,700
Why doesn't he come?

1162
00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:25,700
Because the bride hasn't made herself ready.

1163
00:42:25,820 --> 00:42:26,440
She's filthy.

1164
00:42:27,340 --> 00:42:28,360
She's unclean.

1165
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,840
It isn't rape and all the damnable things

1166
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,380
in the world that keeps Jesus away.

1167
00:42:34,460 --> 00:42:35,440
The church is filthy.

1168
00:42:36,460 --> 00:42:37,940
He's not coming for a bride.

1169
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,020
Therefore we have to revive a revival of

1170
00:42:41,020 --> 00:42:41,980
true holiness, Bill.

1171
00:42:42,020 --> 00:42:43,160
I believe with all my heart.

1172
00:42:43,220 --> 00:42:45,300
You do, I believe too, Manly.

1173
00:42:46,700 --> 00:42:47,980
Holiness has to come.

1174
00:42:48,540 --> 00:42:51,080
There are three things missing in modern preaching.

1175
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,680
Immensity, intensity and eternity.

1176
00:42:55,740 --> 00:42:57,560
There are two things missing in the pew.

1177
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,280
One is integrity and the other is honesty.

1178
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,380
But you read about those old Puritans.

1179
00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:05,320
They had immensity and intensity.

1180
00:43:06,420 --> 00:43:08,220
There was no dodging the Word of God.

1181
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,540
You felt you were almost being crucified with

1182
00:43:10,540 --> 00:43:10,700
it.

1183
00:43:11,460 --> 00:43:13,600
It's the Word of God that's living, as

1184
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,180
my dear brother said last night.

1185
00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:16,600
It's not an illustration.

1186
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:17,760
You build a doctrine on it.

1187
00:43:17,780 --> 00:43:18,640
You can't do that.

1188
00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:21,320
These guys that have all these visions, they

1189
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:22,440
trouble me in one sense.

1190
00:43:22,820 --> 00:43:23,500
You have a vision.

1191
00:43:23,540 --> 00:43:24,320
It doesn't help me.

1192
00:43:25,860 --> 00:43:28,300
It's my personal relationship with God.

1193
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,320
And as you taught last night, I was

1194
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,240
thinking how often I've preached on that chapter

1195
00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:32,680
of Manly.

1196
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,720
And it's a wonderful chapter on faith.

1197
00:43:36,100 --> 00:43:37,780
And the key in that chapter to me

1198
00:43:37,780 --> 00:43:39,800
is, is Hebrews 11, 6.

1199
00:43:41,380 --> 00:43:42,600
How does it begin?

1200
00:43:42,820 --> 00:43:43,140
Yeah.

1201
00:43:46,660 --> 00:43:48,240
And he that cometh to, who?

1202
00:43:49,940 --> 00:43:53,500
He that cometh to God must believe that

1203
00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:55,360
he is, that he is what?

1204
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,320
That he is able to save to the

1205
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:57,800
uttermost.

1206
00:43:57,900 --> 00:43:59,620
That he's able to keep you from falling.

1207
00:44:00,140 --> 00:44:02,020
He's able to make you pure in an

1208
00:44:02,020 --> 00:44:03,820
impure world, as I said the other night.

1209
00:44:04,060 --> 00:44:05,880
The greatest miracle in the world is God

1210
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,000
can take an unholy man out of an

1211
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,960
unholy world, make him holy, put him back

1212
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,600
in that unholy world, and he can walk

1213
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,780
in truth and righteousness from here to eternity,

1214
00:44:14,980 --> 00:44:15,820
walk through hell.

1215
00:44:18,180 --> 00:44:19,880
Jesus didn't die to save us from sins.

1216
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,020
He tied us to.

1217
00:44:21,100 --> 00:44:22,060
What did he die for?

1218
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,300
To get a peculiar people unto himself.

1219
00:44:26,980 --> 00:44:28,880
You know, many people in your church want

1220
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:30,360
to be good, but not many want to

1221
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:30,860
be holy.

1222
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,360
Who wants a drunken husband?

1223
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,240
Who wants a rotten, unfaithful wife?

1224
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,420
Who wants kids that are the smartest dressed

1225
00:44:37,420 --> 00:44:37,960
in town?

1226
00:44:38,020 --> 00:44:38,700
Who cares?

1227
00:44:39,900 --> 00:44:41,240
Ask your children, do you want to be

1228
00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:41,580
holy?

1229
00:44:45,020 --> 00:44:46,860
Do you think they might turn around and

1230
00:44:46,860 --> 00:44:47,820
say, Dad, are you holy?

1231
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,520
Do you live like Christ in our home?

1232
00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:54,620
You see, that's where it comes down to

1233
00:44:54,620 --> 00:44:56,500
role models, as we say.

1234
00:44:57,100 --> 00:44:59,860
We've got men who are models.

1235
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,020
I think you centralised it last night, when

1236
00:45:03,020 --> 00:45:05,360
you were talking about Christ being in us.

1237
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:07,700
You see, a man isn't saved because he

1238
00:45:07,700 --> 00:45:09,900
gives up his lousy sins and confesses sins

1239
00:45:09,900 --> 00:45:11,380
and believes Jesus rose from the dead.

1240
00:45:11,420 --> 00:45:12,540
The devil believes that.

1241
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,660
The devil believes in the virgin birth, he

1242
00:45:14,660 --> 00:45:15,360
witnessed it.

1243
00:45:15,580 --> 00:45:17,500
The devil believes in the resurrection, he witnessed

1244
00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:17,860
it.

1245
00:45:18,060 --> 00:45:20,600
But there's no Christ in the devil, it's

1246
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:21,820
Christ in you.

1247
00:45:23,260 --> 00:45:26,020
Paul says he revealed himself to me and

1248
00:45:26,020 --> 00:45:27,820
then he revealed himself in me.

1249
00:45:29,060 --> 00:45:30,800
You'll never forget that if you have that

1250
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,000
crisis, I'll tell you that.

1251
00:45:32,340 --> 00:45:33,580
You can argue as much as you like

1252
00:45:33,580 --> 00:45:34,700
about the second blessing.

1253
00:45:34,940 --> 00:45:37,460
You come into a crisis where the Christ

1254
00:45:37,460 --> 00:45:40,320
becomes different, the Word of God lives and

1255
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,400
vibrates, the losses of men, you see men

1256
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,040
robbing God every day, some of your deacons

1257
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:46,480
do it.

1258
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,060
They rob God of time, they rob God

1259
00:45:49,060 --> 00:45:51,460
of his testimony, they rob God of his

1260
00:45:51,460 --> 00:45:52,620
authority on them.

1261
00:45:53,300 --> 00:45:55,460
There has to come a revival of purity

1262
00:45:55,460 --> 00:45:56,260
in the church.

1263
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,420
So the two most urgent things to me

1264
00:45:58,420 --> 00:46:00,440
will be to preach that you may know

1265
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:00,900
God.

1266
00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:04,340
Say for the next month you say I'm

1267
00:46:04,340 --> 00:46:07,520
going to do nothing but study about Jesus

1268
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,040
Christ who he is and what he is

1269
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,980
and I'm going to study about the judgment

1270
00:46:11,980 --> 00:46:12,760
seat of Christ.

1271
00:46:13,140 --> 00:46:15,120
I've preached on the judgment seat of Christ

1272
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,920
for more than 20 years.

1273
00:46:16,980 --> 00:46:18,240
I've been working on the book for nine

1274
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:18,580
years.

1275
00:46:19,220 --> 00:46:20,800
But you know what, it terrifies me.

1276
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:25,660
I try to go to bed at nine.

1277
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,100
One night I was late, I went to

1278
00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:28,440
ten.

1279
00:46:29,180 --> 00:46:30,660
I woke up at two o'clock and

1280
00:46:30,660 --> 00:46:32,220
went to the end of the house to

1281
00:46:32,220 --> 00:46:35,280
my little office and I opened Revelation.

1282
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,420
I began to read the Revelation 20 and

1283
00:46:38,420 --> 00:46:42,060
it's as though the book suddenly left alive.

1284
00:46:43,580 --> 00:46:44,480
What did I read?

1285
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:49,860
I read there the second death and suddenly

1286
00:46:49,860 --> 00:46:51,520
I said I've heard a hundred sermons on

1287
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,740
the second coming, I've heard a hundred on

1288
00:46:53,740 --> 00:46:57,580
the second blessing, I've heard a hundred on

1289
00:46:57,580 --> 00:46:59,520
the second coming, on the second birth, on

1290
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,360
the second blessing, and never heard one on

1291
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:02,080
the second death.

1292
00:47:02,700 --> 00:47:04,700
And it's just a voice like that I'm

1293
00:47:04,700 --> 00:47:07,800
sure just said to me hell has no

1294
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:08,260
exits.

1295
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,040
And I turned around.

1296
00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:14,030
What do you think I did?

1297
00:47:14,090 --> 00:47:14,870
Go back to sleep?

1298
00:47:16,390 --> 00:47:17,990
A million roads into hell and nowhere.

1299
00:47:18,390 --> 00:47:19,050
Well preach it.

1300
00:47:19,110 --> 00:47:20,310
Tell me when did you last?

1301
00:47:32,310 --> 00:47:33,030
Come on don't believe it.

1302
00:47:33,130 --> 00:47:34,170
Cut it out of your bible.

1303
00:47:34,450 --> 00:47:35,730
You've cut it out of your preaching.

1304
00:47:35,870 --> 00:47:36,570
What's the difference?

1305
00:47:37,210 --> 00:47:38,530
In God's sight you cut it out of

1306
00:47:38,530 --> 00:47:38,990
your bible.

1307
00:47:40,870 --> 00:47:42,750
Boy you're going to get into trouble man.

1308
00:47:42,950 --> 00:47:44,150
You won't be in the southern baptist.

1309
00:47:44,270 --> 00:47:46,290
Did you say we should do what Jesus

1310
00:47:46,290 --> 00:47:46,650
did?

1311
00:47:47,490 --> 00:47:48,790
You see kids come to me and say

1312
00:47:48,790 --> 00:47:51,270
well I'm going to the Philippines for three

1313
00:47:51,270 --> 00:47:51,650
weeks.

1314
00:47:51,750 --> 00:47:53,030
Can you speak the language now and give

1315
00:47:53,030 --> 00:47:53,550
that tract?

1316
00:47:53,790 --> 00:47:54,030
Why?

1317
00:47:54,530 --> 00:47:55,890
To fulfill the great commission.

1318
00:47:55,990 --> 00:47:56,410
What was a great?

1319
00:47:56,510 --> 00:47:57,810
Well the last words of Jesus.

1320
00:47:57,950 --> 00:47:59,090
Tell me what were they?

1321
00:47:59,430 --> 00:48:00,610
As manly says what were they?

1322
00:48:01,410 --> 00:48:03,290
Well the last word of Jesus was going

1323
00:48:03,290 --> 00:48:04,650
into all the world and not in my

1324
00:48:04,650 --> 00:48:04,970
bible.

1325
00:48:05,350 --> 00:48:06,870
That's the last word to the disciples.

1326
00:48:07,290 --> 00:48:09,370
The last word of Jesus is three times

1327
00:48:09,370 --> 00:48:11,570
over in Revelation repent, repent, repent.

1328
00:48:12,450 --> 00:48:13,910
And he didn't say go into all the

1329
00:48:13,910 --> 00:48:14,790
world and preach.

1330
00:48:15,070 --> 00:48:16,190
He said make disciples.

1331
00:48:16,790 --> 00:48:18,950
You can't make disciples in five minutes at

1332
00:48:18,950 --> 00:48:19,410
the altar.

1333
00:48:19,890 --> 00:48:21,910
You can't make disciple by giving tracts on

1334
00:48:21,910 --> 00:48:23,410
main street every Friday night.

1335
00:48:23,510 --> 00:48:24,150
Bring them in.

1336
00:48:24,750 --> 00:48:26,630
Even if you bribe them with coffee or

1337
00:48:26,630 --> 00:48:28,650
a donut or something and say we're going

1338
00:48:28,650 --> 00:48:30,090
to have instruction now.

1339
00:48:30,410 --> 00:48:32,670
We're not going to go through the catechism.

1340
00:48:32,890 --> 00:48:34,310
The pastor's made a catechism.

1341
00:48:34,410 --> 00:48:36,110
We're going to teach you the fundamentals of

1342
00:48:36,110 --> 00:48:36,530
the faith.

1343
00:48:36,630 --> 00:48:37,750
Our kids don't know it.

1344
00:48:38,970 --> 00:48:41,470
I guarantee there's a big church in the

1345
00:48:41,470 --> 00:48:44,390
south where the pastor says we're called to

1346
00:48:44,390 --> 00:48:47,070
the 11,000 college students in this town.

1347
00:48:47,450 --> 00:48:48,890
And then he says I'll give you the

1348
00:48:48,890 --> 00:48:50,070
name of it in the back of my

1349
00:48:50,070 --> 00:48:50,430
bible.

1350
00:48:50,930 --> 00:48:53,390
And he says in this town in their

1351
00:48:53,390 --> 00:48:55,570
sophomore years and the baptist.

1352
00:48:55,930 --> 00:48:56,930
I'll give you his name.

1353
00:48:57,290 --> 00:49:00,970
He says the sophomore students in the colleges

1354
00:49:00,970 --> 00:49:03,270
here as soon as they get away from

1355
00:49:03,270 --> 00:49:08,330
home in the second semester or what do

1356
00:49:08,330 --> 00:49:08,630
you call them?

1357
00:49:09,010 --> 00:49:09,570
Sophomores.

1358
00:49:10,350 --> 00:49:11,970
They quit church.

1359
00:49:12,090 --> 00:49:13,590
They go off out on Sundays.

1360
00:49:14,250 --> 00:49:14,530
Why?

1361
00:49:14,650 --> 00:49:16,890
Because they've been baptized and everything but they

1362
00:49:16,890 --> 00:49:17,810
never make Christ.

1363
00:49:17,810 --> 00:49:20,070
They've gone through a ritual and a formula.

1364
00:49:21,250 --> 00:49:23,650
Few of our young people are generally born

1365
00:49:23,650 --> 00:49:25,530
again of the spirit of God.

1366
00:49:26,430 --> 00:49:28,250
Boy I'm glad when I got saved I

1367
00:49:28,250 --> 00:49:29,010
got saved.

1368
00:49:29,710 --> 00:49:31,030
I know sooner got saved.

1369
00:49:31,110 --> 00:49:32,630
Boy I got an appetite for prayer.

1370
00:49:33,050 --> 00:49:34,470
I owe a lot to America.

1371
00:49:34,610 --> 00:49:35,670
He owes a lot to me too.

1372
00:49:35,850 --> 00:49:39,770
But somebody gave me a limited edition uh

1373
00:49:39,770 --> 00:49:44,130
of the life of uh of David Brainerd.

1374
00:49:44,230 --> 00:49:45,390
When I read it I cried.

1375
00:49:45,950 --> 00:49:48,010
I said people told me that all finished

1376
00:49:48,010 --> 00:49:48,850
with the new testament.

1377
00:49:49,010 --> 00:49:50,870
Listen if miracles finish with the new testament,

1378
00:49:51,130 --> 00:49:51,970
prayer finished.

1379
00:49:53,670 --> 00:49:55,450
You show me why God the Holy Ghost

1380
00:49:55,450 --> 00:49:57,810
abrogated giving gifts unto men.

1381
00:49:58,630 --> 00:49:59,610
You can't show me.

1382
00:49:59,970 --> 00:50:01,010
A professor told you.

1383
00:50:01,090 --> 00:50:01,890
Who told him?

1384
00:50:02,250 --> 00:50:02,810
Not God.

1385
00:50:02,870 --> 00:50:03,810
The devil told him.

1386
00:50:05,330 --> 00:50:06,270
It's an amazing thing.

1387
00:50:06,330 --> 00:50:07,570
You can be in a church and commit

1388
00:50:07,570 --> 00:50:08,130
adultery.

1389
00:50:08,910 --> 00:50:10,510
You shouldn't do but if you do that

1390
00:50:10,510 --> 00:50:12,270
or some other thing they'll let you stay

1391
00:50:12,270 --> 00:50:12,850
as a pastor.

1392
00:50:13,190 --> 00:50:14,850
You'll get filled with the Holy Ghost and

1393
00:50:14,850 --> 00:50:16,210
speaking tongues they'll kick you out.

1394
00:50:17,150 --> 00:50:18,690
I had dinner the other day with Dr.

1395
00:50:18,890 --> 00:50:19,710
Jack Reed.

1396
00:50:19,830 --> 00:50:20,530
You know Jack Reed?

1397
00:50:20,950 --> 00:50:22,170
Beautiful man of God.

1398
00:50:22,330 --> 00:50:23,830
Knows Hebrew through and through.

1399
00:50:23,950 --> 00:50:25,230
Knows Greek through and through.

1400
00:50:25,330 --> 00:50:27,050
Was teaching in Dallas.

1401
00:50:27,790 --> 00:50:29,130
No sorry Jack Deer.

1402
00:50:29,230 --> 00:50:29,690
Thank you dear.

1403
00:50:30,470 --> 00:50:31,310
Jack Deer.

1404
00:50:32,150 --> 00:50:33,150
And I sat with him.

1405
00:50:33,950 --> 00:50:35,790
Well he was teaching Greek and Hebrew.

1406
00:50:36,070 --> 00:50:38,250
I won't mention the the seminaries.

1407
00:50:38,330 --> 00:50:39,970
A whole lot of these cemeteries.

1408
00:50:40,070 --> 00:50:41,710
I mean seminaries in Dallas.

1409
00:50:42,470 --> 00:50:45,770
And uh he didn't get the gift of

1410
00:50:45,770 --> 00:50:45,950
chance.

1411
00:50:46,090 --> 00:50:47,530
He went to see what was happening in

1412
00:50:47,530 --> 00:50:48,370
these other churches.

1413
00:50:48,490 --> 00:50:50,730
When he saw it he became alarmed.

1414
00:50:54,170 --> 00:50:55,450
You know guys say to me I've read

1415
00:50:55,450 --> 00:50:55,810
your books.

1416
00:50:55,910 --> 00:50:57,790
One thing sticks in my mouth.

1417
00:50:57,890 --> 00:50:58,330
What is it?

1418
00:50:58,530 --> 00:51:00,810
You said one day somebody's going to read

1419
00:51:00,810 --> 00:51:02,230
the bible and believe it and when they

1420
00:51:02,230 --> 00:51:03,130
do we'll all be embarrassed.

1421
00:51:03,850 --> 00:51:04,970
That's what they do in some of these

1422
00:51:04,970 --> 00:51:05,850
foreign countries.

1423
00:51:06,310 --> 00:51:07,790
They get the bible and they read it.

1424
00:51:07,870 --> 00:51:10,050
They stare and say hey who's this Jesus?

1425
00:51:11,030 --> 00:51:11,670
Is he there?

1426
00:51:11,750 --> 00:51:12,690
Oh no he lives up there.

1427
00:51:12,810 --> 00:51:14,070
They don't get a hill of beans if

1428
00:51:14,070 --> 00:51:15,350
he lives up there if he's not living

1429
00:51:15,350 --> 00:51:15,790
in you.

1430
00:51:16,530 --> 00:51:18,670
Life action became new to me today.

1431
00:51:18,870 --> 00:51:19,370
I'll tell you.

1432
00:51:20,110 --> 00:51:21,590
You can believe dear brother.

1433
00:51:21,810 --> 00:51:22,990
I know you do on your team.

1434
00:51:23,650 --> 00:51:25,670
But people don't just get interested when your

1435
00:51:25,670 --> 00:51:27,150
van goes down the street with the life

1436
00:51:27,150 --> 00:51:27,510
action.

1437
00:51:27,890 --> 00:51:29,570
How much life do you leave in churches?

1438
00:51:29,690 --> 00:51:30,850
How much life is there?

1439
00:51:31,250 --> 00:51:32,930
Does somebody say Dalin is team?

1440
00:51:33,050 --> 00:51:34,750
They don't preach like ordinary men.

1441
00:51:34,810 --> 00:51:37,090
They preach as though they've got something they've

1442
00:51:37,090 --> 00:51:40,530
got power that we've never measured.

1443
00:51:41,830 --> 00:51:42,830
I'm going to keep saying.

1444
00:51:42,910 --> 00:51:43,250
I'll stop.

1445
00:51:43,350 --> 00:51:43,850
I will right now.

1446
00:51:43,930 --> 00:51:44,390
But you know what?

1447
00:51:44,430 --> 00:51:45,430
All of us are thermometers.

1448
00:51:46,330 --> 00:51:47,870
We have a big thermometer at the back

1449
00:51:47,870 --> 00:51:49,290
of our window and I say to them

1450
00:51:49,290 --> 00:51:49,830
out in the morning.

1451
00:51:49,910 --> 00:51:51,490
Darling what is it?

1452
00:51:51,550 --> 00:51:53,530
Do you know the last few mornings before

1453
00:51:53,530 --> 00:51:55,210
we came here it was almost 80 at

1454
00:51:55,210 --> 00:51:56,050
7 in the morning.

1455
00:51:56,910 --> 00:51:57,950
And what's it going to be today?

1456
00:51:58,030 --> 00:51:58,310
100.

1457
00:51:59,190 --> 00:52:00,590
But you know that poor thermometer.

1458
00:52:01,370 --> 00:52:03,090
Well the poor thermometers around there were at

1459
00:52:03,090 --> 00:52:03,810
80 the other day.

1460
00:52:03,910 --> 00:52:06,230
Boy they went down like the stock market.

1461
00:52:07,390 --> 00:52:09,410
Down to 40 or something last night.

1462
00:52:09,890 --> 00:52:12,790
But there inside the door you have a

1463
00:52:12,790 --> 00:52:13,890
what do you call it?

1464
00:52:15,370 --> 00:52:16,430
A thermostat.

1465
00:52:16,530 --> 00:52:17,790
Well it's only a thermometer.

1466
00:52:18,150 --> 00:52:19,190
The difference is this.

1467
00:52:19,470 --> 00:52:21,590
The thermometer outside gets opened down with the

1468
00:52:21,590 --> 00:52:22,530
changing of the world.

1469
00:52:23,130 --> 00:52:27,410
The thermostat taps into some power and it

1470
00:52:27,410 --> 00:52:29,890
doesn't say I'm going to go up and

1471
00:52:29,890 --> 00:52:30,030
down.

1472
00:52:30,110 --> 00:52:32,070
I'm going to control the atmosphere.

1473
00:52:32,590 --> 00:52:34,730
The atmosphere doesn't control me.

1474
00:52:34,890 --> 00:52:36,130
I control the atmosphere.

1475
00:52:36,490 --> 00:52:38,150
Well listen either the world, the flesh and

1476
00:52:38,150 --> 00:52:39,870
the devil control you or God the Holy

1477
00:52:39,870 --> 00:52:40,770
Ghost controls you.

1478
00:52:40,790 --> 00:52:41,810
We don't go up and down.

1479
00:52:42,210 --> 00:52:43,230
We're God controlled.

1480
00:52:43,430 --> 00:52:44,430
We're God inspired.

1481
00:52:44,810 --> 00:52:45,630
We're God energized.

1482
00:52:46,190 --> 00:52:47,690
We're not serving a denomination.

1483
00:52:48,430 --> 00:52:49,850
We're serving the living God.

1484
00:52:50,330 --> 00:52:51,130
And brethren listen.

1485
00:52:51,210 --> 00:52:53,010
Every one of us here this morning we're

1486
00:52:53,010 --> 00:52:53,690
on probation.

1487
00:52:54,890 --> 00:52:56,570
We're clamming for our finals.

1488
00:52:58,330 --> 00:52:59,870
I'll tell you a thought of the judgment.

1489
00:53:00,050 --> 00:53:04,510
See when I preach on Paul that absolutely

1490
00:53:04,510 --> 00:53:07,590
floored me when a brother wrote it to

1491
00:53:07,590 --> 00:53:08,170
me recently.

1492
00:53:08,930 --> 00:53:10,890
But you see you start preaching.

1493
00:53:10,990 --> 00:53:13,010
Every time you make this sermon put your

1494
00:53:13,010 --> 00:53:14,510
notes down or whatever you have and say

1495
00:53:14,510 --> 00:53:16,490
Lord I'm just going to preach this in

1496
00:53:16,490 --> 00:53:18,090
the light of the judgment and I answer

1497
00:53:18,090 --> 00:53:20,370
for every word before a billion or 50

1498
00:53:20,370 --> 00:53:22,190
billion people I have to answer for this

1499
00:53:22,190 --> 00:53:22,710
message.

1500
00:53:24,150 --> 00:53:26,150
Keep a record of your prayer life and

1501
00:53:26,150 --> 00:53:27,350
at the end of the week say Lord

1502
00:53:27,350 --> 00:53:28,070
this is it.

1503
00:53:29,550 --> 00:53:31,970
If you can't control your TV every time

1504
00:53:31,970 --> 00:53:33,530
you go to the TV put a chair

1505
00:53:33,530 --> 00:53:35,190
at the side invite the Lord to sit

1506
00:53:35,190 --> 00:53:36,990
there and you make a note of how

1507
00:53:36,990 --> 00:53:39,230
many minutes you spend how many hours and

1508
00:53:39,230 --> 00:53:40,870
at the end of the week keep a

1509
00:53:40,870 --> 00:53:42,330
list on your praying and see how much

1510
00:53:42,330 --> 00:53:42,590
time.

1511
00:53:42,690 --> 00:53:44,470
I know the football season coming and all

1512
00:53:44,470 --> 00:53:45,490
the other crazy things.

1513
00:53:46,090 --> 00:53:49,530
You know what I've in my mind entertainment

1514
00:53:49,530 --> 00:53:51,690
is the devil's substitute for joy.

1515
00:53:52,230 --> 00:53:54,070
The more joy you have in the Lord

1516
00:53:54,070 --> 00:53:55,930
the less entertainment you need.

1517
00:53:56,410 --> 00:53:58,550
When you can say thou O Christ art

1518
00:53:58,550 --> 00:53:59,390
all I want.

1519
00:54:00,650 --> 00:54:02,510
But listen be careful he may strip you

1520
00:54:02,510 --> 00:54:03,750
of everything else you have.

1521
00:54:04,490 --> 00:54:05,910
You may lose some of your best friends

1522
00:54:05,910 --> 00:54:06,970
that think you're fanatical.

1523
00:54:07,590 --> 00:54:09,410
They don't mind you being kind and good

1524
00:54:09,410 --> 00:54:11,770
but you become holy and zealous and immediately.

1525
00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:14,750
Have you got friends think you're crazy?

1526
00:54:16,230 --> 00:54:18,230
Good well I've got some too maybe the

1527
00:54:18,230 --> 00:54:18,790
same friends.

1528
00:54:20,290 --> 00:54:23,210
Brother Ravenhill I know you've got to go

1529
00:54:23,210 --> 00:54:27,010
and prepare for tonight and on behalf of

1530
00:54:27,010 --> 00:54:29,170
all of our participants here I want to

1531
00:54:29,170 --> 00:54:34,770
thank you for giving so much of yourself

1532
00:54:34,770 --> 00:54:38,770
and what God has taught you this afternoon.

1533
00:54:39,490 --> 00:54:41,130
Well it's been lovely to meet you brothers

1534
00:54:41,130 --> 00:54:46,590
and there's nothing on God's earth secondary to

1535
00:54:46,590 --> 00:54:47,370
preaching.

1536
00:54:48,210 --> 00:54:51,050
The job in the white house is peanuts

1537
00:54:51,050 --> 00:54:53,690
compared to being a man of God in

1538
00:54:53,690 --> 00:54:54,490
God's house.

1539
00:54:55,030 --> 00:54:56,930
God's house is going to change America not

1540
00:54:56,930 --> 00:54:57,430
the white house.

1541
00:54:58,030 --> 00:54:59,330
It's full of corruption.

1542
00:54:59,570 --> 00:55:00,390
It's like Washington.

1543
00:55:00,690 --> 00:55:02,030
It's like Wall Street.

1544
00:55:02,470 --> 00:55:04,690
It's down the drain and the church is

1545
00:55:04,690 --> 00:55:05,610
in the same condition.

1546
00:55:05,970 --> 00:55:06,870
There's going to be revival.

1547
00:55:07,450 --> 00:55:09,550
I'm looking tonight for some men that maybe

1548
00:55:09,550 --> 00:55:11,230
there's one man in that meeting tonight.

1549
00:55:11,330 --> 00:55:13,390
I keep saying to myself and I've got

1550
00:55:13,390 --> 00:55:15,510
a word from God I know that maybe

1551
00:55:15,510 --> 00:55:17,590
there's one man who's going to be transformed

1552
00:55:17,590 --> 00:55:20,150
tonight and only 10 years from now we'll

1553
00:55:20,150 --> 00:55:21,090
know what God did.

1554
00:55:21,930 --> 00:55:26,230
I've seen that happen more than once and

1555
00:55:26,230 --> 00:55:27,070
that's my desire.

1556
00:55:27,930 --> 00:55:28,870
I love you all.

1557
00:55:28,930 --> 00:55:29,850
I love you dear brother.

1558
00:55:30,610 --> 00:55:31,630
Pray for every day.

1559
00:55:34,540 --> 00:55:36,400
You have been listening to the From the

1560
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,100
Pulpit and Classic Sermon Series.

1561
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,620
This week you heard Leonard Ravenhill with his

1562
00:55:41,620 --> 00:55:43,760
Revival Forum Q&A session.

1563
00:55:45,140 --> 00:55:48,020
Tune in next week to hear William Blackbird

1564
00:55:48,020 --> 00:55:51,240
talk about Hell is Real on From the

1565
00:55:51,240 --> 00:55:53,060
Pulpit and Classic Sermons.