When I was a little boy, I was
very fond of cake that they make in
England, and they put sugar on it, and
all kinds of lovely things.
And I would eat my share of that,
and then say to my mother, now, I'd
take another piece of that.
Oh, no, mother would say, no, not good
for you.
I used to wonder why she gave me
the first piece if it wasn't good for
me, but anyhow, she said, another piece isn't
good for you.
And then a bit later on, when I
wasn't feeling too well, she'd say, now, open
your mouth, and she'd get a spoon and
a bottle, and she'd say, now, take this.
And I'd go, oh!
And she'd say, open your mouth, take another
one.
And I said, but mother, I wanted to
take some cake, and you said a second
helping wasn't any good, so this couldn't do
me any good, it's really horrid.
And usually you find that you only get
what we don't like.
Dr. Sangster of Westminster, living in the city
where I lived, and he had two children.
One little boy said, Daddy, at Christmas, amongst
other things, I want a diary.
And he said, all right, you'll get a
diary, and you'll get a pen if you're
a good boy, and that great morning came,
and he discovered, amongst other things, that he
had received a lovely leatherback diary, and he
also had a pen.
But you know, he couldn't get through the
rest of the week, he wanted Sunday to
come, because Sunday, he
said, just before I went into my room,
I turned into my bedroom, and he said,
I looked at him and thought, what a
pair of angels they are.
He said, don't they really look wonderful?
And he said, as I turned to him,
my little boy stared dead under the light.
But he said, I went, and my first
diary, the first day, went to church, daddy
preached.
He said it was told and rendered.
Only twice, as far as I know, Jesus
has made three stupendous claims here in chapters
6 and 7 and 8 of John.
You see, Jesus is not a luxury, he's
a necessity.
He said, I'm not only taking them back
historically, every Jew knew what he meant.
He said, we've been guided, and
people coming behind us, and in commemoration of
that, we're here at this very feast that
Jesus speaks of, in the
seven of the day, the temple orchestra, and
at the pool of Shiloh, and he bore
the burden.
God is bypassing us, provoking us, says,
oh, I have stirred up this nation of
mine, and God will send me by.
But God loves my people.
And he will say, I had a great
prayer.
You remember, dear pastor, he said, some of
you, you never had one.
The prayer you
had, Jesus, and the song.
That's why, my dear friend, you need to
ask the church, including all the other families.
If he is, then it will be an
instinct in life.
God is life, and life begins in
the church.
These are the words of
men done.
Banned it, slain it, burned it.
This word lives.
He went up.
He's going to reverse it.
He's the Lord.
And the spirit of pruning, the spirit of
pruning, of the same Holy Ghost, went there
when they locked Jesus up.
If Jesus tried, Jesus.
Because like everything else, it's
power Jesus raised.
You have no power today without it.
And it was a work of love.
Can all souls pick it up?
Our people can't tell the difference between a
psychic meeting and a spiritual meeting.
That's right.
You stir the emotion.
Jesus' power.
Courageously went.
And they'd seen that water poured out and
said, our fathers.
Jesus says, I'm not wrong.
And he that brings it up.
This spake he on the spirit, which was
not yet given.
The spirit was not yet given because Jesus
was not yet glorified.
In the next ten minutes, but let's go
ahead.
Because the holiness churches.
We leave the Pentecostals and somebody and what
have you alone.
Some of you boys are trying to wriggle
out.
Why?
Because Jesus was not glorified.
Well, how are we dealing with spirit?
The Holy Ghost will never come until.
In fact, you'll never get the blessing.
But I
was in a meeting the other day.
I'm preaching.
I happen to make an illustration point.
And that was a young lady.
Too many died on the spot.
The pastor of the church is here this
afternoon.
And she loves the young lady next to
her.
She followed the priesthood and she really encouraged
me.
Yeah.
You were mistaken.
You didn't see a ring on my finger.
Lose, lose.
I don't have it.
Now don't you shout about that.
Because I'm going to tell you that I
just as much see a girl than a
God.
You know, some people do it.
They get a heaven.
They're running around the street.
Hey, you have to know where the father
will probably go when he came home.
Put a ring on his hand.
You know where Joseph live in?
Joseph.
Which Joseph?
Joseph, the pattern of Christ, isn't it?
Uh, yes.
Oh, Georgie, yes, the great man wants to
see you.
Say, brother, you, you compromised, you know.
Pull your finger!
Peace be still, isn't it lovely and quiet?
Now, don't you go home and say I
defended the ring.
You say, this is the first time.
If we let that ring in, you don't
know what will happen next.
Well, I
mean that because you just have these things,
that that necessarily means you've got the Holy
Ghost around.
And some of the folk are the most
rigid in tradition, and I said I did.
You can't get off your knees if...
Ah, the sausage, your sausage machines.
But I can get it for you, I'll
tell you.
And you lambaste the man or the woman
that has a ring.
I said, oh.
And the man said, you know.
He said, uh.
Do you think you've got what we need,
I said.
Give us a date, I said, I don't
have any dates anyhow.
So he talked to the other man, and
the other pastor said to him, how are
you getting on?
What are you selling now?
All he said, I'm selling a defroster.
You know, you put it inside of your
refrigerator, switch it in, and, oh,
how many do you...
Well, he said, Brother Abel, let us know
sometime when you have some dates.
I said, well, it's been a millennium, maybe,
but...
But, brother, he said he's a nice preacher,
too, and he's a clever preacher, but, oh,
he's so dead.
He said, what would you think is wrong
with a fellow like that?
I said, well, he wants to get one
of those gadgets he sells.
Why, it used to be when I went
to the Holyness Church, the accent was on
worshippers.
Now it's on visitors.
Get them in at nine o'clock.
This is how many people we had in
Sunday school.
And hell is a...
Just what Dr. Anderson said this morning, maybe
in a more clever way than I said
last night.
The thing is, you get the brooding of
the Holy Ghost.
You know, folk will always come where there's
a fire.
You don't need to send postcards out of
the telephone and say there's a fire.
They'll come where there's a fire.
Brother, I want to tell you, they don't
want to come anyhow.
We click to shibboleth.
The ring, it's the ring.
It's the...
The world, what do you mean?
Well, I love people who wear rings.
Or take them off.
That doesn't necessarily mean that one thing or
the other.
People have no conviction about it.
Come on.
You say, but the Word of God says
so.
All right, come on.
I'll take it to task.
Your doctrine's right, your life's wrong.
We can be very careful.
John Wesley powdered his wig.
Isn't he a Wesley, I think?
But you know, one of the great...
He preached in short.
Oh, don't let the man...
A ring is worldly.
Yes, but if it goes to plain dress,
I say, go down to the...
You talk about sacrifice?
Jehovah's Witnesses run two factories in this country
and nobody...
You've nearly to extract that, getting teeth out
of people, to even give a tenth in
some of the churches.
And then he said the other way...
And if you feed it well enough, it
will...
The spirit
is grieved, and the spirit doesn't come because...
I'll tell you another reason why the spirit
is grieved.
It's by this thing.
Brother, we talk about tongues.
You don't need to talk about the tongue.
You only need to look after the one
you've got.
Listen, preacher.
If you're leading your church, you're leading a
movement...
I've suffered enough from other people's tongues.
I'll let nobody suffer from mine anyhow.
It's a fire.
It's set on fire and hell.
And you might have preached...
The Holy
Ghost is not given because Jesus is not
glorified.
He's not glorified.
You've got heart trouble when you come to
a meeting.
As I said last night, coming to an
altar isn't the cure for your problem.
Don't you suggest to people if they make
a second trip to the altar that they're
all right?
The problem isn't dying to sin at the
altar.
The problem is dying to self every day.
You say there's no sin in fishing.
And the spirit is grieved.
I'll tell you how the spirit's grieved it
up.
I've been in and out of so many
denominations on this trip.
And you know what I found?
The most irreverent churches in the whole of
America are holiness churches.
Not a bit of reverence.
Think I'm going to work.
Somebody said to me only the other day
what we...
The Puritans were in Raphael last night.
People come...
They don't come to meet God.
They come to hear...
They don't come in saying...
He was in the Heavenly Revival said that...
He took a bunch of young girls down
to the Keswick Conference in England.
Sit down and ask...
Six months.
And my church has grown from about 120...
Pardon me.
From about 50 to 120.
And he gets a pat on the back.
And he deserves it sure enough.
But he says this is the thing that
troubles me.
Across the road there, a young Pentecostal preacher
came.
And this week he's striving to touch 1
,800...
And I don't know the answer.
Because at least Sunday morning they spend that
hour.
Many of them have no preaching.
They spend it in worship.
In worship.
Now I don't know about your country.
I've been in one or two.
They sing quietly.
Oh come let us adore him Christ the
Lord.
And sings it maybe 20 times.
The atmosphere is just filled with worshipping.
They never start worshipping with a hymn at
this time.
For old-fashioned holiness and all.
I've been in two or three churches in
four weeks.
You know I said that...
I just finished a two-week meeting in...
You see I...
We've lost...
Yes you may nod your head.
Hypocrisy.
The only way to get power is by
the Holy Spirit.
Now I know we can get fed and
we can get life.
But there's something wrong my friend if you...
He was the first prophet.
Now I say this...
It's going to be a hard thing to
get it.
And I'm preaching to my own heart as
well as you.
Good theology and preaching sound doctrine.
The answer is not preaching merely to this
generation.
We need prophets.
And God found Amos, a man gathering sycamore
fruit.
And he found Obadiah.
And he found Joel when a lamb was
having waves after wave of locusts.
They were eating everything up and there was
darkness.
And he found Habakkuk.
And Habakkuk says it's a picture of absolute,
complete death.
The fig tree shall not blossom.
In the darkest and most desolate hour that
God raised up his prophets.
Why?
Because out of them...
You get the answer in those men that
went there to the upper room.
Nervous...
Ghosts came upon them.
Now what a difference.
You know, the more you have of God
inside...
The less you need of material things out
there.
You don't show me a man that saw
the Lord in things...
Until God left him.
And now we're interested in...
Look what I've got.
And the more we reach out...
Church for a moment...
The church never had more things than she
has today.
Because she never had less power.
Sixteen walked 77 and read the life of
Thomas Boston.
A man that went to an air...
When he preached he could see through the
windows and then...
He didn't know the person...
She got...
And God came upon him...
And then we discover him beginning...
To move out and as soon as...
If you get God's blessing...
If you get God's favor you'll get the
devil's crown.
And those things began to move.
His wife lost her mentality.
And he kept to that in a room
for years and years and years and looked
after her.
But that man got down there before God.
1764 about.
And he stayed there for 20 years.
I'm going to get out of this.
I bet it wasn't a perfect church on
the day of Pentecost.
I don't know, maybe Ananias and Paul can
stand what you and I can give them.
In those days we have had...
If you talk about having another Pentecost do
you think people would stand for...
You think if somebody came to my church...
Or Ananias first of all.
Come on!
Elders.
Here's Ananias.
Pentecost meant what?
Pain.
Here's a hypocrite.
Smart.
I don't think your healing ministers do that
on TV do they?
Well they'll do that, they'll do that.
There's one thing you can be sure about
friend.
Revival never fits into our theology.
Right.
You can make a little narrow vessel like
that.
But when Jesus comes there'll be a well.
Let me mention one.
Kiss him.
The old man.
The younger, the elder brother.
He said he's dead.
That's the body product.
Jesus came to make dead.
And it doesn't say anything.
But I'm convinced of this at all.
The first time I came to America it's
not as fashionable now.
I used to see on the side of
the windows of cars.
They used to stick a little thing up
you know.
Visit the...
This shrine.
Or visit this...
What do you call it now?
National Park there.
Yellowstone Park.
Or come and see the Mammoth Caves of
Kentucky.
And I looked at cars plastered all over
with signs.
I saw a young man one day.
He'd a broken down jalopy.
He had all the labels on nearly around
the country.
And I said you must have some money
to have been around all these places.
He smiled.
I said what are you smiling at?
He said I've never been to one of
them.
I said you've never been to one of
them?
I said what are you doing with all
the signs?
I bought them in a shop down the
street he said.
So you weep like Jesus wept dear.
Let the beauty of Jesus...
You go on trial for your own sweat
and blood.
And you go on trial sister for that
long tongue of yours.
And you'll go better because you had so
much money in the bank and wouldn't get
it out.
What does
Jesus thank the Father for?
Well it says laid it out.