1 00:00:01,029 --> 00:00:04,570 Welcome to From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:05,210 --> 00:00:07,790 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:07,790 --> 00:00:10,250 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:10,250 --> 00:00:14,250 Christian faith and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:14,250 --> 00:00:14,630 too. 6 00:00:15,790 --> 00:00:18,530 This week we have Rolf Bernard with his 7 00:00:18,530 --> 00:00:21,430 message, The Great Need of the Hour. 8 00:00:21,430 --> 00:00:26,380 In the 16th chapter of the Book of 9 00:00:26,380 --> 00:00:29,460 Acts, I read just a few verses. 10 00:00:29,820 --> 00:00:33,400 Verse 25, this is the account of a 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,680 moving, of a living God who did something 12 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,740 that only God can do. 13 00:00:41,020 --> 00:00:43,600 And I love to read this chapter again 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,300 and again and again, because we are dead 15 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:51,360 sure come to the place now when man's 16 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,220 best didn't get the job done. 17 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:59,120 Our best service is failing, looks like now. 18 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:03,660 Our best consecration isn't enough now. 19 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,940 This is a time the psalmist had in 20 00:01:06,940 --> 00:01:10,120 mind when he said it is time for 21 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,800 thee to work, O God, for they have 22 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,060 made void thy law. 23 00:01:17,260 --> 00:01:23,400 This is the hour when nothing can save 24 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,800 us from any direction you want to talk 25 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:34,320 about, except an intervention of a God that 26 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:41,260 the Bible talks about, who can do that 27 00:01:41,260 --> 00:01:45,720 which would get the attention of people today, 28 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:53,680 when nobody's interested in eternal things. 29 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:02,520 Only God is the answer for this hour. 30 00:02:04,620 --> 00:02:08,199 And here we encourage ourselves as we read 31 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:12,480 again into an old, old time where a 32 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,960 sovereign God, and by a sovereign God we 33 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:21,560 simply mean no God who's an absent monarch, 34 00:02:22,860 --> 00:02:26,320 who created a world and people and gave 35 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,780 us some rules and hoped we'd stumble along 36 00:02:29,780 --> 00:02:31,260 and do the best we could. 37 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,980 But when we mention the word sovereign God, 38 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:36,500 we mean a living God. 39 00:02:39,030 --> 00:02:43,810 Greatest illustration of what we mean by the 40 00:02:43,810 --> 00:02:48,450 word sovereign God is the sermon Jonathan Edwards 41 00:02:48,450 --> 00:02:50,510 preached on the center and the hands of 42 00:02:50,510 --> 00:02:53,870 an angel God when he so preached that 43 00:02:53,870 --> 00:02:57,870 men actually believed that God held them in 44 00:02:57,870 --> 00:02:58,650 his hand. 45 00:02:59,770 --> 00:03:02,170 And that's where he does hold men. 46 00:03:04,930 --> 00:03:07,310 He said that God could just drop them 47 00:03:07,310 --> 00:03:08,330 into the pack. 48 00:03:09,790 --> 00:03:12,110 Now you can get that word sovereign in 49 00:03:12,110 --> 00:03:13,650 your head and use it as a club, 50 00:03:13,730 --> 00:03:15,270 but if you get it in your heart, 51 00:03:15,450 --> 00:03:17,650 God knows it's the need of the hour. 52 00:03:19,370 --> 00:03:22,570 That's the human being be conscious of the 53 00:03:22,570 --> 00:03:26,290 fact that they're in the hands not of 54 00:03:26,290 --> 00:03:29,310 a creed or a machine, but a living 55 00:03:29,310 --> 00:03:32,350 God who gives them the very breath they 56 00:03:32,350 --> 00:03:32,950 breathe. 57 00:03:35,730 --> 00:03:37,890 Now this generation don't know anything about that 58 00:03:37,890 --> 00:03:40,130 kind of a God, do we? 59 00:03:40,330 --> 00:03:42,410 And here at one time he intervened in 60 00:03:42,410 --> 00:03:46,290 verse 25, Paul and Silas got put in 61 00:03:46,290 --> 00:03:46,650 jail. 62 00:03:47,910 --> 00:03:50,790 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and 63 00:03:50,790 --> 00:03:53,850 sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard 64 00:03:53,850 --> 00:03:54,030 them. 65 00:03:54,270 --> 00:03:56,650 And suddenly there was a great earthquake so 66 00:03:56,650 --> 00:03:59,190 that the foundations of the prison were shaken 67 00:03:59,190 --> 00:03:59,470 and a great earthquake took place. 68 00:03:59,470 --> 00:03:59,570 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and 69 00:03:59,570 --> 00:03:59,670 sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard 70 00:03:59,670 --> 00:03:59,770 them. 71 00:03:59,770 --> 00:03:59,870 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and 72 00:03:59,870 --> 00:03:59,970 sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard 73 00:03:59,970 --> 00:04:00,070 them. 74 00:04:00,070 --> 00:04:00,170 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and 75 00:04:00,170 --> 00:04:00,270 sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard 76 00:04:00,270 --> 00:04:00,370 them. 77 00:04:00,370 --> 00:04:00,470 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and 78 00:04:00,470 --> 00:04:00,570 sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard 79 00:04:00,570 --> 00:04:00,670 them. 80 00:04:00,670 --> 00:04:00,770 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and 81 00:04:00,770 --> 00:04:00,870 sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard 82 00:04:00,870 --> 00:04:00,970 them. 83 00:04:00,970 --> 00:04:01,070 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and 84 00:04:01,070 --> 00:04:01,170 sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard 85 00:04:01,170 --> 00:04:01,270 them. 86 00:04:01,270 --> 00:04:07,510 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and 87 00:04:07,510 --> 00:04:16,510 sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard 88 00:04:16,510 --> 00:04:16,610 them. 89 00:04:16,610 --> 00:04:17,769 And at midnight Paul and 90 00:04:17,769 --> 00:04:28,530 Silas 91 00:04:28,530 --> 00:04:29,450 prayed and sang praises unto God and the 92 00:04:29,450 --> 00:04:29,550 prisoners heard them. 93 00:04:29,550 --> 00:04:32,030 And at midnight and said, Sirs, what must 94 00:04:32,030 --> 00:04:33,750 I do to be saved? 95 00:04:34,270 --> 00:04:36,470 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus 96 00:04:36,470 --> 00:04:39,830 Christ, and thou shalt be saved in thy 97 00:04:39,830 --> 00:04:40,410 house." 98 00:04:40,410 --> 00:04:45,010 Beginning in verse 16 of this chapter, we're 99 00:04:45,010 --> 00:04:50,890 introduced to some Christians who were witnessing, and 100 00:04:50,890 --> 00:04:55,860 then went to praying, and were introduced to 101 00:04:55,860 --> 00:05:03,180 a living, miracle-working God, and it resulted 102 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:10,560 in a trembling sinner, screaming for life as 103 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,380 to how he could be saved. 104 00:05:15,450 --> 00:05:19,490 We could reproduce these characters. 105 00:05:19,870 --> 00:05:23,030 I say that not blasphemously. 106 00:05:23,970 --> 00:05:27,090 In any church that's as far as a 107 00:05:27,090 --> 00:05:29,830 half an inch from hell, we could have 108 00:05:29,830 --> 00:05:33,410 a measure of glory and blessing and revival 109 00:05:33,410 --> 00:05:38,270 that would spread to bring living water on 110 00:05:38,270 --> 00:05:40,610 parched hearts all about. 111 00:05:40,810 --> 00:05:43,710 As I said this morning, it's been 226 112 00:05:43,710 --> 00:05:46,690 years since revival has come to America. 113 00:05:47,810 --> 00:05:50,030 We desperately need it. 114 00:05:52,630 --> 00:05:58,560 Apart from the return of the Lord, we 115 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:04,100 desperately need God to come on the scene, 116 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,380 until men would become conscious that they are 117 00:06:09,380 --> 00:06:11,520 in the hands of a living God. 118 00:06:14,410 --> 00:06:16,830 And I think the pattern, since God always 119 00:06:16,830 --> 00:06:19,690 uses means, is brought out in this chapter. 120 00:06:19,710 --> 00:06:24,210 First, we've got some witnessing. 121 00:06:24,210 --> 00:06:26,070 A fellow by the name of Paul and 122 00:06:26,070 --> 00:06:28,970 Silas are going around, and a little girl, 123 00:06:29,090 --> 00:06:32,110 possessed of powers of divination and the tool 124 00:06:32,110 --> 00:06:32,810 of the devil. 125 00:06:33,930 --> 00:06:38,230 She followed these men, verse 17, and she 126 00:06:38,230 --> 00:06:40,190 paid them a tremendous compliment. 127 00:06:40,410 --> 00:06:43,070 These men are the servants of the Most 128 00:06:43,070 --> 00:06:47,230 High God, which show unto us the way 129 00:06:47,230 --> 00:06:48,530 of salvation. 130 00:06:50,070 --> 00:06:53,350 These men were engaged in the best business 131 00:06:53,350 --> 00:06:55,010 between the eternities. 132 00:06:56,430 --> 00:06:59,550 I've been preaching quite a while, and I 133 00:06:59,550 --> 00:07:02,250 resign from the ministry about every Monday, or 134 00:07:02,250 --> 00:07:04,350 at least every time I close a meeting. 135 00:07:04,590 --> 00:07:05,750 Don't do it publicly. 136 00:07:07,310 --> 00:07:10,410 But I don't know I'm living in a 137 00:07:10,410 --> 00:07:14,570 world where everything else is important except to 138 00:07:14,570 --> 00:07:16,850 find the way of salvation. 139 00:07:18,650 --> 00:07:21,770 And I'm sometimes tempted, I really am, to 140 00:07:21,770 --> 00:07:24,270 go into the improvement business. 141 00:07:24,990 --> 00:07:28,690 We could just improve the lot of mankind. 142 00:07:28,870 --> 00:07:30,130 That'd be good, wouldn't it? 143 00:07:32,140 --> 00:07:34,540 Or we get into politics. 144 00:07:34,740 --> 00:07:38,080 This nation of ours is rotten governmental and 145 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:39,920 political in every other way. 146 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:42,980 I said, well, I believe I'll go into 147 00:07:42,980 --> 00:07:44,580 that sort of boring in me. 148 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,560 I trained to be a lawyer, for God's 149 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:46,860 sake. 150 00:07:47,740 --> 00:07:51,460 But Paul and Silas were going about in 151 00:07:51,460 --> 00:07:54,480 this city of Philippi, sticking to just one 152 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:55,020 thing. 153 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,040 They thought it was the most important thing 154 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,260 that any human being ever be called upon 155 00:08:01,260 --> 00:08:02,060 to consider. 156 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:05,940 And this little demon-possessed girl said, These 157 00:08:05,940 --> 00:08:10,640 be the servants of the Most High God, 158 00:08:10,820 --> 00:08:17,540 who do show unto us the way of 159 00:08:17,540 --> 00:08:19,300 salvation. 160 00:08:20,260 --> 00:08:22,700 And she just followed him around until Paul 161 00:08:22,700 --> 00:08:23,800 got tired of it. 162 00:08:23,860 --> 00:08:26,540 He turned and rebuked the demon on her 163 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:27,800 and set her free. 164 00:08:28,460 --> 00:08:31,140 And that's where he got in trouble. 165 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,679 Oh, that's the kind of trouble I wish 166 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:35,960 we could get in again. 167 00:08:36,620 --> 00:08:38,600 We get into so much trouble trying to 168 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,299 do something that isn't the main thing. 169 00:08:41,820 --> 00:08:45,500 But wouldn't it be Christ's blessing of God 170 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:48,540 if he'd anoint a preacher and a church 171 00:08:48,540 --> 00:08:52,440 together, and we'd get in trouble with the 172 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,920 spirit of this ungodly age? 173 00:08:55,140 --> 00:08:59,720 Because we were pressing with Holy Spirit power 174 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:04,080 the way of salvation. 175 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,140 Paul and Silas got in trouble with this 176 00:09:07,140 --> 00:09:10,860 little girl's masters, because the demon's gone. 177 00:09:10,980 --> 00:09:13,520 She could look into the future now and 178 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:14,940 make money for them. 179 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,260 So they went to the powers that be. 180 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:19,540 And the next thing you know, Paul and 181 00:09:19,540 --> 00:09:21,300 Silas Dunn got arrested. 182 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,080 Beat half to death for putting stocks way 183 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:26,600 down in the cell of prison. 184 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,320 And there they are, in jail, for the 185 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,880 simple reason they'd been going about showing people 186 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:37,440 the way of salvation. 187 00:09:37,860 --> 00:09:39,460 But say, Brother Barnes, they got in trouble 188 00:09:39,460 --> 00:09:41,500 with casting the demon out of that girl. 189 00:09:41,620 --> 00:09:44,660 But blessed God, Satan's got to be locked 190 00:09:44,660 --> 00:09:47,560 before sinners can be loosed. 191 00:09:47,780 --> 00:09:48,340 That's right. 192 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:50,000 That's a part of it. 193 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,260 The power of hell's got to be backed 194 00:09:53,260 --> 00:09:58,300 up before the glory of the living Christ 195 00:09:58,300 --> 00:09:59,360 will be revealed. 196 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,140 It's always that way. 197 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,720 And there isn't an issue before God's people 198 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:05,220 now. 199 00:10:05,580 --> 00:10:09,440 Why is it so fascinating and so challenging 200 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,280 and so all-important as to learn how 201 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,620 not to split hairs over doctrine or anything 202 00:10:16,620 --> 00:10:21,180 else, but to build up on the forces 203 00:10:21,180 --> 00:10:24,200 of hell and get on the offensive and 204 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,720 quit tucking our tail and turning this generation 205 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,800 over to the demons of hell? 206 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,040 Yes, sir, they cast this demon out. 207 00:10:34,460 --> 00:10:37,860 It's always been true that everything God's done, 208 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,320 He's done by the word of command. 209 00:10:42,220 --> 00:10:46,700 He speaks, and a world is created. 210 00:10:47,900 --> 00:10:52,100 He speaks, and He hangs out the sun. 211 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,480 He speaks, and He divides the land and 212 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:57,080 its water. 213 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:01,440 He speaks, and the man with a widowed 214 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,360 hand is able to stretch it forth. 215 00:11:04,820 --> 00:11:08,600 He speaks, and a dead lasher has come 216 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:09,900 from the grave. 217 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:15,440 And God taught God's people to begin to 218 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:20,720 speak the word of command in the name, 219 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,400 in the power, in the authority of the 220 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:26,460 living Lord. 221 00:11:26,940 --> 00:11:30,560 Come to take our stand and occupy some 222 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:34,760 territory for King Jesus and spit ambidextrous in 223 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,260 the devil's face and tell him to go 224 00:11:37,260 --> 00:11:40,020 back to hell where it belongs, that we're 225 00:11:40,020 --> 00:11:42,720 going to occupy some land and capture some 226 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,380 men and lock the jaws of hell and 227 00:11:46,380 --> 00:11:48,640 find the power of Satan. 228 00:11:50,780 --> 00:11:53,460 And that's how salvation comes to men. 229 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:55,740 That's right. 230 00:11:56,620 --> 00:11:57,820 And we got in jail. 231 00:11:59,140 --> 00:12:00,060 We got in jail. 232 00:12:02,140 --> 00:12:05,600 There are two people, most of us nice 233 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:06,380 church members. 234 00:12:06,580 --> 00:12:07,060 We're nice. 235 00:12:07,140 --> 00:12:08,240 We wasn't hurt a flea. 236 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:10,660 We weren't hurt a flea. 237 00:12:10,820 --> 00:12:12,140 We're the nicest folks here. 238 00:12:12,820 --> 00:12:15,500 We got our doctrine all straight, and it's 239 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:18,480 ossified and dead, and it's killed us, but 240 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:19,640 we touched. 241 00:12:19,780 --> 00:12:20,060 Amen. 242 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,140 And we got all our convictions. 243 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:24,960 We got pockets full of convictions. 244 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,500 Got this pocket full of this kind, and 245 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:29,080 this full of this kind, and this full 246 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:29,640 of this kind. 247 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:32,160 And we're out here trying to wish our 248 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,980 convictions off on people, and that ain't even 249 00:12:34,980 --> 00:12:36,460 nice, much less Christian. 250 00:12:37,940 --> 00:12:39,920 And we don't know much about a living 251 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:44,100 God or a personal devil. 252 00:12:46,770 --> 00:12:50,010 It's because we've been so nice we haven't 253 00:12:50,010 --> 00:12:52,630 been invading Satan's territory. 254 00:12:54,110 --> 00:12:54,430 Amen. 255 00:12:57,090 --> 00:12:59,170 Did you know, ladies and gentlemen, the whole 256 00:12:59,170 --> 00:13:02,370 generation of people, grown up, grown up, why 257 00:13:02,370 --> 00:13:03,930 don't we have two stars? 258 00:13:05,030 --> 00:13:06,310 We've lost them. 259 00:13:06,670 --> 00:13:07,650 We can't catch them. 260 00:13:09,290 --> 00:13:11,430 We've got to separate it. 261 00:13:11,530 --> 00:13:14,050 We can't catch men with a cap on 262 00:13:14,050 --> 00:13:15,750 and a marionette rope. 263 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:22,000 And we need to get involved. 264 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:28,400 You've been criticizing these colored people having those 265 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:29,180 demonstrations. 266 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,720 I think they're going at it wrong, but 267 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,120 they're getting involved, brother. 268 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,180 You've been criticizing these beatnik students out at 269 00:13:38,180 --> 00:13:40,000 the University of California at Berkeley. 270 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:42,300 They've been telling the governor and the faculty 271 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:43,840 and everybody else how to go. 272 00:13:45,060 --> 00:13:47,000 Well, they're all wrong, you say, I know, 273 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,220 but they're getting involved in the issues of 274 00:13:50,220 --> 00:13:50,860 this day. 275 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,100 You've been criticizing the communists that have taken 276 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:57,380 over a third of the world in a 277 00:13:57,380 --> 00:13:58,340 little while, you know. 278 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,960 Well, brother, they've got the most flaming religion 279 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,800 this side of eternity, and they're getting involved. 280 00:14:06,940 --> 00:14:09,200 I stand here before and tell you the 281 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,340 greatest evangelistic force in America now is the 282 00:14:13,340 --> 00:14:14,860 Roman Catholic priest. 283 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:17,860 You go to your hospitals on Sunday morning, 284 00:14:17,980 --> 00:14:19,300 you can't get down the corridors. 285 00:14:19,980 --> 00:14:23,180 The prominent Catholic businessmen passing out tracts. 286 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,960 And next time you see a priest walking 287 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,180 down the street, he's got a scuttle of 288 00:14:28,180 --> 00:14:30,400 coal and a loaf of bread, and he's 289 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,060 heading down some back alley to do what 290 00:14:33,060 --> 00:14:35,620 he calls evangelism, to keep somebody from freezing 291 00:14:35,620 --> 00:14:37,960 to death and starving in the name of 292 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:38,580 the Church. 293 00:14:38,940 --> 00:14:40,420 What you talking about, brother Mark? 294 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,240 I'm talking about it's time that we woke 295 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,420 up to the fact that we hadn't rolled 296 00:14:48,420 --> 00:14:51,300 up our sleeves and got out here in 297 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:54,560 the thick of the battle and got involved 298 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:55,480 in our day. 299 00:14:55,700 --> 00:14:56,680 That's what I'm talking about. 300 00:14:58,020 --> 00:14:59,540 Don't you get mad at me that this 301 00:14:59,540 --> 00:15:01,660 world don't give a hoop if you are 302 00:15:01,660 --> 00:15:02,880 sound on doctrine? 303 00:15:03,340 --> 00:15:04,220 Does it? 304 00:15:05,060 --> 00:15:06,260 They don't care. 305 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:08,280 They don't care. 306 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,100 But if you get involved in what's eating 307 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:17,600 up the souls and bodies of men today, 308 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:24,460 you'll find out there's a living God, and 309 00:15:24,460 --> 00:15:26,840 you'll find out there's a personal devil. 310 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,300 These witnessing Christians, they just had to go 311 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:35,740 praying. 312 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:38,960 I don't know what it'd take to get 313 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,280 old Ralph Barnett and Paul Kirkman and you 314 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:44,240 folks to pray, but I guess if we 315 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,900 got involved and got about half our ribs 316 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:50,820 caved in, all our teeth knocked out, we 317 00:15:50,820 --> 00:15:55,980 might either tuck our tails and quit, or 318 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:59,680 we'd learn how to intercede at the throne 319 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:00,660 of God. 320 00:16:03,170 --> 00:16:08,190 Oh, this generation going to hell in it's 321 00:16:08,190 --> 00:16:11,830 jet leg and jet airplanes. 322 00:16:13,470 --> 00:16:20,750 We don't know how to intercede at the 323 00:16:20,750 --> 00:16:22,170 throne of grace. 324 00:16:25,690 --> 00:16:27,390 I want you to hear my message on 325 00:16:27,390 --> 00:16:28,370 sinful praying. 326 00:16:28,550 --> 00:16:29,830 I'm going to tear up your little old 327 00:16:29,830 --> 00:16:30,250 praying. 328 00:16:30,570 --> 00:16:34,510 God knows it's a disgrace, and we got 329 00:16:34,510 --> 00:16:37,150 to get to where God could still be 330 00:16:37,150 --> 00:16:39,210 God and listen to us when we pray. 331 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:45,080 I'm for your passing out circles. 332 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:46,000 God bless you. 333 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:48,300 I'm for your lip testimony. 334 00:16:48,660 --> 00:16:49,560 God bless you. 335 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,860 But ain't none of it going to do 336 00:16:51,860 --> 00:16:55,080 much good now, and you just well face 337 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:55,400 it. 338 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,100 We are up against a praying situation now. 339 00:16:59,860 --> 00:17:00,540 That's right. 340 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:05,119 You tell me one thing we could do 341 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:10,800 now that would make a dent on the 342 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:15,119 anti-Christian climate in spitting distance of this 343 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:16,119 little church house. 344 00:17:16,819 --> 00:17:17,900 We can't do that. 345 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,880 This is praying time for the saints of 346 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,660 God to learn how to wrestle with the 347 00:17:25,660 --> 00:17:29,100 powers of hell and lock the devil's jaws 348 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:31,800 and loose the power of God. 349 00:17:33,020 --> 00:17:35,480 But old Paul and Silas, they put them 350 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,200 in jail, and they began to pray and 351 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:40,080 sing songs. 352 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:41,940 I think old Paul said, well, I guess 353 00:17:41,940 --> 00:17:44,280 we better get in touch with the headquarters. 354 00:17:44,460 --> 00:17:46,020 It looks like we're sort of a mess 355 00:17:46,020 --> 00:17:46,780 down here. 356 00:17:47,220 --> 00:17:50,020 And he got on the telephone, ring, ring, 357 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:52,740 he rang number one of the end of 358 00:17:52,740 --> 00:17:54,840 the line and said, this is the living 359 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,280 Lord talking. 360 00:17:56,820 --> 00:17:59,980 And Paul said, this is Paul and Silas, 361 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,720 your bond slaves, and we're down here in 362 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,100 Philippi, and we got our feet in the 363 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:07,480 stock, and our backs are bleeding, they beat 364 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,120 us about half to death, and we're cold 365 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:13,300 and hungry and lonesome, and kind of got 366 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:15,960 the blues just a little bit, and we 367 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,180 thought we better report to headquarters. 368 00:18:19,180 --> 00:18:22,220 And Jesus said, well, how come you got 369 00:18:22,220 --> 00:18:24,160 down there in jail, Paul? 370 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,240 Well, he said, we were going up and 371 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,820 down the city showing men the way of 372 00:18:28,820 --> 00:18:29,840 salvation. 373 00:18:30,220 --> 00:18:32,460 They all got religion, but they don't know 374 00:18:32,460 --> 00:18:36,040 how to go to glory, and we're showing 375 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:37,080 them the way. 376 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:39,760 And he said, in order to do it, 377 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,980 we had to cast out a demon and 378 00:18:41,980 --> 00:18:45,220 loose a little girl, and a master reported 379 00:18:45,220 --> 00:18:47,260 us, and they beat us and put us 380 00:18:47,260 --> 00:18:48,060 in jail. 381 00:18:48,060 --> 00:18:52,480 And Jesus said, well, just hold the phone, 382 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:54,260 I'll be right down. 383 00:18:56,620 --> 00:19:00,120 And pretty soon, bless God, he intervened. 384 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:04,760 Now, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises 385 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:09,720 to God, and the prisoners heard them pray 386 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,940 and heard them praise God, but they felt 387 00:19:13,940 --> 00:19:16,900 it when God came on the scene. 388 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:20,760 Paul didn't bring an earthquake to living, Lord 389 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:21,220 did. 390 00:19:21,540 --> 00:19:25,480 Silas didn't bring an earthquake to living, Lord 391 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:26,760 brought the earthquake. 392 00:19:27,340 --> 00:19:30,560 They did the praying, they did the praising, 393 00:19:31,020 --> 00:19:34,860 they did the witnessing, and God Almighty did 394 00:19:34,860 --> 00:19:35,860 the confirming. 395 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:36,940 That's right. 396 00:19:36,940 --> 00:19:42,520 Oh, boy, that's what we want. 397 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,800 I'll fight you to get a good doctrinal 398 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:46,240 base. 399 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:47,020 I will. 400 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,960 But I'll fight you if you always want 401 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,320 to think that that's it, brother, that's just 402 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,300 something to stand on to resist the devil 403 00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:57,580 and proclaim Christ. 404 00:19:57,580 --> 00:20:03,420 To invade a heathen world with the demand 405 00:20:03,420 --> 00:20:06,120 that men and women give a listen to 406 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:09,160 the claims of Almighty God for the Son 407 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:10,360 of His love. 408 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,340 To die with the authority of the Holy 409 00:20:14,340 --> 00:20:17,800 Ghost coming down from heaven sweeping over your 410 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:18,320 soul. 411 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,160 Listen, listen. 412 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:25,280 It was God that brought the earthquake, and 413 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:32,180 men felt something when God came on the 414 00:20:32,180 --> 00:20:32,900 scene. 415 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,400 A miracle working, God. 416 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:40,100 A gospel confirming, God. 417 00:20:40,780 --> 00:20:43,320 I'm crying to God as I grow older. 418 00:20:43,380 --> 00:20:45,420 I didn't need the Lord much when I 419 00:20:45,420 --> 00:20:46,480 was 30 years old. 420 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,120 I thought I could make it all right, 421 00:20:48,420 --> 00:20:49,760 but I'm 62. 422 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,320 I'm not as old as I hoped to 423 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:53,980 be, but I'm older than I was 30 424 00:20:53,980 --> 00:20:54,840 years ago. 425 00:20:55,460 --> 00:20:57,620 And as the years creep in on me, 426 00:20:58,020 --> 00:21:00,120 I won't be here forever. 427 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:04,860 Oh, my soul, how hungry I'm getting. 428 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:10,940 How desperate I'm getting for the confirming work 429 00:21:10,940 --> 00:21:13,980 of Almighty God on the preaching of the 430 00:21:13,980 --> 00:21:15,660 gospel in my day. 431 00:21:16,260 --> 00:21:19,560 I'm so tired of preaching nice little sermons 432 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,000 that people enjoy and it doesn't disturb anybody. 433 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,460 I'm so tired of being alone as if 434 00:21:27,460 --> 00:21:30,160 God Almighty had gone off on a fishing 435 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,300 trip and left it with us. 436 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,320 Brother Kirkman, I'm so tired of preaching the 437 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,400 gospel of the grace of God that shuts 438 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,440 me up to God doing something for them. 439 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,840 When I haven't got God doing something for 440 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,780 them as I preach, I'm hungry for the 441 00:21:48,780 --> 00:21:52,080 confirming work of God Almighty. 442 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,960 And old Paul and Silas, they witnessed and 443 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,520 they prayed and they sang praises to God. 444 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,560 And then they got in touch with the 445 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,420 headquarters and headquarters didn't pull its arms and 446 00:22:05,420 --> 00:22:07,560 say, well, but you've gotten a mess by 447 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:07,960 yourself. 448 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,660 Get out the best you can. 449 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:10,140 No. 450 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,700 God sent an earthquake and he rattled the 451 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:15,140 locks off of the doors. 452 00:22:16,180 --> 00:22:18,280 And the prisoners were gone. 453 00:22:31,830 --> 00:22:34,630 You don't learn salvation. 454 00:22:35,010 --> 00:22:35,890 You catch it. 455 00:22:36,350 --> 00:22:37,550 You feel it, brother. 456 00:22:38,230 --> 00:22:38,830 That's right. 457 00:22:39,350 --> 00:22:41,190 We can explain God's alive. 458 00:22:41,430 --> 00:22:43,990 This generation is not paying any attention to 459 00:22:43,990 --> 00:22:44,270 us. 460 00:22:44,570 --> 00:22:46,690 This generation needs an earthquake. 461 00:22:47,710 --> 00:22:50,770 God won't have to send an earthquake, won't 462 00:22:50,770 --> 00:22:52,930 have to start now churches, won't have to 463 00:22:52,930 --> 00:22:55,090 shake us up, won't have to turn us 464 00:22:55,090 --> 00:22:59,210 inside out, peel us gut, put salt in 465 00:22:59,210 --> 00:23:02,470 our wounds, break our hearts and set us 466 00:23:02,470 --> 00:23:07,050 on fire to invade this generation with the 467 00:23:07,050 --> 00:23:08,790 claims of Jesus Christ. 468 00:23:09,590 --> 00:23:11,150 We can't do it. 469 00:23:12,570 --> 00:23:13,890 We can witness. 470 00:23:15,370 --> 00:23:16,330 We can pray. 471 00:23:17,550 --> 00:23:24,030 We can praise God until God begins to 472 00:23:24,030 --> 00:23:28,030 answer and sends his bolts of lightning to 473 00:23:28,030 --> 00:23:31,330 split the hearts of men and confront men 474 00:23:31,330 --> 00:23:32,770 with Jesus Christ. 475 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:38,900 Now this miracle working God got something done. 476 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:39,660 You know what he did? 477 00:23:40,860 --> 00:23:43,220 He got the attention of that jailer. 478 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,440 He came running out about half scared to 479 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:48,800 death. 480 00:23:51,310 --> 00:23:54,330 And he said, what must I do to 481 00:23:54,330 --> 00:23:55,010 be saved? 482 00:23:57,990 --> 00:23:58,670 Be ready. 483 00:24:00,970 --> 00:24:01,830 Be ready. 484 00:24:02,970 --> 00:24:06,590 Men's hearts have to be prepared before they'll 485 00:24:06,590 --> 00:24:08,070 ever ask that question. 486 00:24:10,470 --> 00:24:13,610 Oh, aren't you sort of tired of witnessing 487 00:24:13,610 --> 00:24:15,350 nobody paying any attention to you? 488 00:24:15,390 --> 00:24:16,410 I'm tired of preaching. 489 00:24:16,650 --> 00:24:17,350 Nothing much happened. 490 00:24:17,430 --> 00:24:18,570 I'll tell you that right now. 491 00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:22,350 I ain't preaching down to nobody, but you've 492 00:24:22,350 --> 00:24:24,310 asked me a pill, you sick bastard. 493 00:24:25,090 --> 00:24:26,890 And I appreciate you asking me. 494 00:24:26,890 --> 00:24:29,010 The stage would play out. 495 00:24:29,110 --> 00:24:31,110 I have revival and I haven't taken an 496 00:24:31,110 --> 00:24:32,830 engagement for a long time. 497 00:24:32,970 --> 00:24:34,370 You can close it in the night, but 498 00:24:34,370 --> 00:24:35,110 I've honored you. 499 00:24:35,930 --> 00:24:36,970 I honor the pastor. 500 00:24:37,110 --> 00:24:39,810 I love to see some people get in 501 00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:42,570 this thing and pray down and weep down 502 00:24:42,570 --> 00:24:44,490 and sob down and act up. 503 00:24:44,490 --> 00:24:51,510 Till somebody would begin to listen to the 504 00:24:51,510 --> 00:24:54,190 gospel of the glory of God. 505 00:24:57,860 --> 00:25:00,900 This old trembling sinner, bless God, you didn't 506 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:03,120 have to slip up on his blind side. 507 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:04,720 You just had to get out of the 508 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:05,020 way. 509 00:25:05,180 --> 00:25:09,500 He's undone having to hear God shook him. 510 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:12,820 God shook him. 511 00:25:14,340 --> 00:25:15,520 He is ready. 512 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:23,840 He is ready for the civil war down 513 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:24,920 the state of Georgia. 514 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,120 He's having a revival meeting, the colored people, 515 00:25:29,220 --> 00:25:31,720 slaves on one of the big plantations down 516 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:32,340 in Georgia. 517 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,460 And the white owner, the boss, one night 518 00:25:37,460 --> 00:25:39,840 he decided to go down and attend the 519 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:40,140 meeting. 520 00:25:40,140 --> 00:25:42,100 A few minutes, he and the slaves were 521 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:43,480 behaving themselves. 522 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,520 He stood on the fringe of the crowd 523 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,620 and listened to the old colored preacher preach. 524 00:25:50,180 --> 00:25:52,440 And the old colored preacher didn't know much, 525 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,040 but what he knew was sold. 526 00:25:54,940 --> 00:25:58,380 He's preaching hell hot and eternity long and 527 00:25:58,380 --> 00:26:00,220 judgment sure in Christ. 528 00:26:01,380 --> 00:26:04,900 The only hope, but he is the hopeless 529 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:05,260 sinner. 530 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:08,260 And the next day, the white man was 531 00:26:08,260 --> 00:26:10,760 going across the plantation and ran into old 532 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:11,320 Sambo. 533 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:13,860 Sambo was sort of the straw boss of 534 00:26:13,860 --> 00:26:16,180 all of the colored people on the plantation. 535 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,460 And the white man stopped old Sambo and 536 00:26:19,460 --> 00:26:21,520 said, Sambo, I was down to the meeting 537 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:22,400 last night. 538 00:26:22,580 --> 00:26:25,100 Sambo said, yes sir, boss man, we've seen 539 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:25,820 you down there. 540 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:28,320 We're sure glad to have you with us. 541 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,800 He said, you know, you've got quite a 542 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:31,900 preacher down there. 543 00:26:32,020 --> 00:26:33,740 He said, yes sir, boss man. 544 00:26:33,860 --> 00:26:37,340 He said he preached the gospel without fail 545 00:26:37,340 --> 00:26:40,400 or favor and declared the whole counsel of 546 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:40,820 God. 547 00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:43,460 And the white man said, you know, Sambo, 548 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,640 I listened to that preacher a little while 549 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,200 last night and he scared me. 550 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,200 He said, I've been so busy running this 551 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,040 plantation, making a living, keeping you colored people 552 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:53,480 straight. 553 00:26:53,740 --> 00:26:56,000 I never had thought much about where I'd 554 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,120 go when I die, but according to what 555 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:00,440 your preacher said, when I die, I'm going 556 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:01,760 to go right straight to hell. 557 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,220 Sambo said, yes sir, boss, that's exactly where 558 00:27:05,220 --> 00:27:05,740 you were. 559 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,980 Well, he said, you know, I never had 560 00:27:07,980 --> 00:27:09,780 thought about it, but he said it bothered 561 00:27:09,780 --> 00:27:12,300 me some time last night and I couldn't 562 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:13,440 go to sleep very well. 563 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,640 He said, Sambo, he said, I know you, 564 00:27:16,740 --> 00:27:17,620 you are my friend. 565 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,780 He said, I want to ask you something. 566 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:21,420 Sambo said, ask away. 567 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,840 He said, could you tell me how I 568 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,120 could get God Almighty to save me and 569 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:29,240 not send me to hell? 570 00:27:29,780 --> 00:27:31,940 Sambo said, yes sir, boss man, I can 571 00:27:31,940 --> 00:27:32,640 sure tell you. 572 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:34,740 Well, he said, I wish you would. 573 00:27:34,740 --> 00:27:36,840 Well, he said, boss man, you see that 574 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,180 hog pen right over there? 575 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,500 He said, you go over to that hog 576 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:43,000 pen, you climb up on that rail fence 577 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,760 and you climb over and get over in 578 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,980 the northeast corner where the hogs got their 579 00:27:46,980 --> 00:27:49,240 wallow and you get out on your knees 580 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,260 in that wallow and close your eyes and 581 00:27:51,260 --> 00:27:53,600 ask God to have mercy on your soul 582 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:54,780 for Jesus' sake. 583 00:27:55,220 --> 00:27:56,800 And he said, he's liable to do it. 584 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,960 And the boss man gave him a little 585 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,280 curse and said, ah, Sambo, I didn't want 586 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:02,180 you to jump up. 587 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:03,740 And he walked away. 588 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,540 But that night, strange that drawn, he decided 589 00:28:07,540 --> 00:28:08,740 he better go down and see if the 590 00:28:08,740 --> 00:28:10,440 colored people behave in themselves. 591 00:28:10,580 --> 00:28:12,060 And he stood again and listened to the 592 00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:13,260 old preacher preach. 593 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,760 And that night he went home and he 594 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,680 tossed and tossed and tossed on his bed 595 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,480 and he had a terrible time. 596 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,940 And the next day he met old Sambo 597 00:28:22,940 --> 00:28:23,340 again. 598 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,660 He said, Sambo, back down here, the preacher 599 00:28:25,660 --> 00:28:27,640 last night said, yes sir, that's the answer 600 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:28,140 to the prayer. 601 00:28:28,260 --> 00:28:29,840 He said, those colored people have been praying. 602 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,960 You'd better get under the sound of the 603 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:32,260 gospel. 604 00:28:32,420 --> 00:28:34,180 Maybe God's going to save your soul. 605 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,320 He said, Sambo, he said, I couldn't sleep 606 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:38,380 a wink last night. 607 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:39,480 He said, I'm scared. 608 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,260 I'm afraid I'm going to die and go 609 00:28:41,260 --> 00:28:41,900 to hell. 610 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:44,420 He said, Sambo, don't joke me today. 611 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,560 He said, joke me, yes, but don't joke 612 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:47,000 me today. 613 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,740 Can you tell me how I can get 614 00:28:48,740 --> 00:28:51,200 God Almighty to save me and not send 615 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:51,900 me to hell? 616 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:53,540 Don't joke me, Sambo. 617 00:28:53,820 --> 00:28:55,500 And Sambo said, boss, I go and tell 618 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:55,620 you. 619 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,200 He said, you see that hog pen? 620 00:28:57,460 --> 00:28:58,800 He said, you go over there at that 621 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,880 hog pen, you climb over the rail tracks 622 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,020 and you go over there and get in 623 00:29:02,020 --> 00:29:04,100 the northeast corner where the hogs got their 624 00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:06,440 water and you go in on your knee 625 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,060 and close your eyes and ask God to 626 00:29:08,060 --> 00:29:09,780 have mercy on your soul and save you 627 00:29:09,780 --> 00:29:10,520 for Jesus' sake. 628 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:11,880 He said, he's liable to do it. 629 00:29:12,660 --> 00:29:14,560 And the boss man gave him an oath 630 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:15,600 and went away again. 631 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,700 But that night he decided he'd better go 632 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:19,580 back and see if the colored people behaved 633 00:29:19,580 --> 00:29:20,920 themselves, and so he did. 634 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:22,920 And he listened to more of the sermon 635 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:23,500 that night. 636 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,360 And he tossed and tossed and he got 637 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,220 up and he tried to pray and he 638 00:29:29,220 --> 00:29:30,100 didn't know how. 639 00:29:30,220 --> 00:29:31,600 And he tried to read the Bible and 640 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:32,920 it was a closed book too. 641 00:29:33,180 --> 00:29:34,820 And the poor old fellow was in a 642 00:29:34,820 --> 00:29:36,600 terrible, terrible shape. 643 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,020 And at three o'clock in the morning 644 00:29:38,020 --> 00:29:39,880 he got up and got a lantern, put 645 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,660 his trousers on, his shirt tail tucked in, 646 00:29:42,780 --> 00:29:43,920 his hat on, yay! 647 00:29:44,580 --> 00:29:46,800 Knocked on old Sambo's cat door. 648 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,120 Sambo, all bleary-eyed and sleepy, came out 649 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,220 and said, boss man, what on earth are 650 00:29:52,220 --> 00:29:54,060 you doing this time of the night? 651 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,460 He said, Sambo, I'm desperate. 652 00:29:57,100 --> 00:29:59,000 He said, I can't sleep and I can't 653 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,960 pray and I don't know what to do 654 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,680 and I feel like I'm going to slip 655 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,140 into hell before morning. 656 00:30:04,140 --> 00:30:06,320 And he said, I've asked you to tell 657 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:07,900 me if God would save me and you've 658 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:08,780 joked with me. 659 00:30:08,860 --> 00:30:11,420 Sambo, please don't joke with me tonight. 660 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,500 Tell me how I can get God to 661 00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:16,760 save me and not send me to hell. 662 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,980 Sambo said, boss man, I can't tell you. 663 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,060 He said, you go to that hog pit 664 00:30:21,060 --> 00:30:24,140 and you climb over the rail fence and 665 00:30:24,140 --> 00:30:25,800 you get over there in the northeast corner 666 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,400 where the hogs got their wallow. 667 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,020 And you get on your knees and close 668 00:30:30,020 --> 00:30:31,960 your eyes and ask God to have mercy 669 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,760 on you and save you for Jesus' sake. 670 00:30:34,020 --> 00:30:35,440 He said, he's liable to do it. 671 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,000 And the white man just started walking toward 672 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:38,720 the hog pit. 673 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,600 And old Sambo got in his trousers right 674 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:42,840 quick and followed him. 675 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,640 And the white man got over there and 676 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,560 he stepped over the old rail, the old 677 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,080 rail fence and straddled it and started down. 678 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,540 He got his right foot on the last 679 00:30:51,540 --> 00:30:53,500 rail just before he got in the mud. 680 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,540 And old Sambo said, boss man, wait just 681 00:30:56,540 --> 00:30:57,020 a minute. 682 00:30:57,300 --> 00:30:59,320 He said, have you asked your God to 683 00:30:59,320 --> 00:30:59,860 do that? 684 00:30:59,860 --> 00:31:02,000 And the white man said, I don't see 685 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,120 a better sense on earth. 686 00:31:03,180 --> 00:31:04,180 I don't know why a man got to 687 00:31:04,180 --> 00:31:06,140 get on that hog pit for God to 688 00:31:06,140 --> 00:31:07,720 save, but said, I want to be saved. 689 00:31:07,780 --> 00:31:08,740 I don't want to go to hell. 690 00:31:08,980 --> 00:31:11,080 And I've asked him, that's all you'll tell 691 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:11,480 me. 692 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:12,820 And that's what I'm going to do. 693 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,360 And he started to step down. 694 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,020 And old Sambo said, wait just a minute, 695 00:31:17,180 --> 00:31:19,400 boss man, you don't have to actually do 696 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:19,640 it. 697 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,460 You just got to be willing to. 698 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,720 You just got to be willing to. 699 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:34,490 Oh, if men were willing, it's 700 00:31:34,490 --> 00:31:35,230 so easy. 701 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,420 And that's what we want to see here. 702 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,220 And that's what I want to hear. 703 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:50,060 Men and women willing to be saved by 704 00:31:50,060 --> 00:31:54,520 the foolishness of proclaiming a man hanging on 705 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:55,180 a cross. 706 00:31:56,540 --> 00:31:58,800 God taking him out of the grave, putting 707 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,840 him on the throne, turning the destiny of 708 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:08,180 men over to him, bloodstained, enthroned, the living 709 00:32:08,180 --> 00:32:09,420 Lord of glory. 710 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,020 My people shall be willing in the day 711 00:32:14,020 --> 00:32:15,280 of his power. 712 00:32:17,140 --> 00:32:19,880 I'm going to challenge my heart and yours 713 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:24,800 to be in the place where God will 714 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:25,700 listen to us. 715 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,800 Keeping all the glory to himself, he'll come 716 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,120 and send an earthquake. 717 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:41,140 Get the attention of men and women in 718 00:32:41,140 --> 00:32:42,120 your day and mine. 719 00:32:43,860 --> 00:32:46,120 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 720 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:47,580 and Classic Sermon Series. 721 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,260 This week you heard Rolf Bernard with his 722 00:32:50,260 --> 00:32:52,740 message, The Great Need of the Hour. 723 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,460 Tune in next week for another powerful message 724 00:32:56,460 --> 00:32:59,460 from God's Word on From the Pulpit and 725 00:32:59,460 --> 00:33:00,660 Classic Sermons.