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Well, I've got an important message for us

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tonight, friends, so come up a little closer

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so you'll be sure to hear me.

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In the book of Hosea, we see that

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God had a controversy with Israel, for we

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read in chapter 10, in verses 1 through

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3, Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth

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forth fruit unto himself, according to the multitude

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of his fruit he hath increased the altars,

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according to the goodness of his land they

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have made goodly images, their heart is divided,

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now they should be found faulty, he should

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break down their altars, he shall spoil their

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images, for now they shall say, we have

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no king, because we feared not the Lord,

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what then should a king do to us?

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I will stop their friends.

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The Jews in the days of Hosea were

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living double lives, with their lips they served

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God, but with their lives they served their

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sins, they partly served God, and partly served

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their idols, and this gave them a divided

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heart, they were hardened in their idolatry, hardened

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in their sins, and God had a controversy

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with them.

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We are very much in the same shape

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today, friends, I'm afraid to say, we must

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ask ourselves a question, why, why in the

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world are we broken over the sins of

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the land, why isn't the carpet in our

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sanctuary wet with the tears of broken hearted

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saints, crying out to God for the sins

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of the land, and asking God to send

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us revival?

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I've been alive a long time, and I've

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never seen things so bad as they are

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today, in both society and in the church,

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we've lost our young people today to the

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devil, we made the mistake in our churches

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by giving them pizza night and movie night,

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instead of having prayer nights with them and

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teaching them how to pray, we gave them

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what they wanted instead of giving them what

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they needed, consequently our young people today are

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going to hell and droves, many of them

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grew up in church, but now they are

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godless, they saw nothing but hypocrisy in the

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church, and even their parents acted one way

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at church and another way in the home,

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and the teenagers saw right through it, it

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was a do as I say philosophy instead

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of a do as I do through spiritual

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leadership and example, the teenagers saw no reality

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of God in the lives of their parents,

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and as soon as they became adults they

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left the church, why aren't we broken over

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them, why aren't we crying out to God

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over our young people today who are going

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to hell, why aren't we broken over the

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moral laxity of our nation where women can

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walk around naked in public, where profanity is

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common in public conversation and prominent in our

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news, where the F word has become part

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of normal daily language, where streets are red

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with the blood of violent crimes and perversion

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is promoted by our government and applauded in

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our entertainment, tonight the massage parlors in the

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city are full, the bars and nightclubs are

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jam packed, they are not hurting for a

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crowd like we are, there will be enough

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booze drunk in this town tonight to drown

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the entire nation, things were bad in England

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back in the days of Wesleyan Whitfield, in

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the days of Wesleyan Whitfield things were so

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bad in society that drunkenness was a plague

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on the nation, in London every fifth house

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was a gin house, members of parliament showed

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up for work dead drunk, prostitution was rampant

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in London, things are much worse today than

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they were back then, we've got a moral

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downgrade in society that's been out of control

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and we live in a sex craze society

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where we're exposed to nudity and sex just

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reading the news, TV has become X rated

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and we're desensitized to sin even in the

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church as we tolerate sin in our lives,

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the doctrine of holiness is taboo in our

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pulpits, we live divided lives and serve God

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partly like the Jews in Hosea's day, we

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lack brokenness in the church today, we lack

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brokenness in our personal lives, the title of

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my message this evening friends is brokenness, when

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I was writing my new biography on Sam

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Jones, the famous evangelist of the 19th century,

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I came across the following story, let me

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share it with you, I know you'll enjoy

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it, Sam was at his home in Cordersville

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Georgia when he received a telegram from Texas

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inviting him to go to Southwest Texas to

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preach the cowboys, after praying about it he

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boarded a train and traveled to Texas, for

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two weeks he preached the gospel of Jesus

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Christ to the cowboys in Texas, when the

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meetings ended the cowboys wanted to give Sam

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Jones a love offering, they felt the laborer

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was worthy of his hire and they'd been

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wonderfully blessed by Sam's time among them, but

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there was a problem, they had no money,

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not a single dollar in any of their

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pockets, they didn't know what to do, Sam

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Jones returned to Cordersville with no love offering

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or compensation of any kind, a couple of

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weeks passed when suddenly one day Sam received

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a telegram, it was from the cowboys in

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Texas and it read like this, we are

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sending you a love offering and we are

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shipping you a car load of broncos, Sam

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Jones scratched his head as he looked in

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amazement at that telegram, what am I going

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to do he said, with a car load

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of wild horses here in the small town

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of Cordersville, his friend standing beside him said,

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why it's very easy, hold an auction sale,

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sell the horses and you'll get your money,

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you can get your love offering then and

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put it in your pocket, well Sam Jones

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thought it was a good suggestion so when

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the horses arrived he held a horse auction,

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he sold the broncos all except one, he

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kept the finest looking bronco for his son,

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but the son had never in his life

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been on the back of an unbroken bronco

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and Sam Jones wondered what he could do,

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he called the cowboy who had brought the

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car load of broncos to Cordersville and said,

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will you take this bronco and break him

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so that my son can ride him, yes

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sir said the cowboy, I'd be glad to,

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how much will you charge, fifteen dollars said

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the cowboy, all right said Sam, take him

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away, the cowboy disappeared with the bronco, two

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weeks later he came back, is he broken

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asked Sam, yes sir he's broken, can my

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son ride him in perfect safety, yes sir

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your son can ride him in perfect safety,

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the father thought that before allowing his son

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to ride the bronco he'd better mount himself

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and make sure the cowboy had broken it,

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as he started toward the horse the cowboy

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came running and waving his hands in alarm,

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what's the matter asked Sam, what's gone wrong,

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oh said the cowboy, he's only broken on

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one side and you're mounting from the wrong

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side, well that will never do, my son

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might make a mistake and he might mount

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from the wrong side, how much will you

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charge to break him on the other side,

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fifteen dollars replied the cowboy, another two weeks

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passed and again the cowboy came back leading

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the bronco, is he broken asked Sam, yes

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sir he's broken, both sides, yes sir both

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sides, your son can ride him in perfect

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safety from either side, well that's the end

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of the story friends and I like that

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story because it's so true, the average Christian

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is like that bronco, he's only broken on

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one side, oh he'll do this but he

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won't do that, he'll go here but he

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won't go there, God cannot depend upon him,

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he has no consistency in his life, he's

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like the Jews in Hosea's day, partly serving

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God and partly serving their idols, we have

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no brokenness in our lives because we have

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divided hearts toward God, where once we were

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in a red hot love relationship with Jesus

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but now we're stone cold or even worse,

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lukewarm, what thing or area in our life

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has moved us away from the heart of

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God, it doesn't necessarily have to be a

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bad thing friends, what's gotten in the way

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of our walk with the Lord, what is

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the cause of our divided heart, Leonard Ravenhill

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used to tell a story about a friend

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of his who was always on fire for

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God and every time Ravenhill got around this

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man he was more thirsty for Christ than

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things of eternal worth, do you know people

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like that, people that make you thirsty for

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God, well this man was like that, every

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time he got around him he just wanted

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to talk about Jesus and winning souls, then

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one day this man began collecting stamps and

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as his collection grew so did his enthusiasm

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for stamp collecting, Leonard Ravenhill said this man

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called me up one day and said come

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on over and I will show you my

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new stamp collection of British Colonials that cost

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me $50,000, can you imagine that friends,

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$50,000 for some stamps, well Ravenhill said

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that pretty soon this man no longer wanted

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to talk about Jesus and the things of

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God, he just wanted to talk about stamps,

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a harmless little thing like a stamp drew

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that man away from God, what is it

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with you friend, is there something or someone

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in your life who's gotten between you and

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God to where you have a divided heart,

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you can't walk with God with one foot

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with him and one foot playing footsie with

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the world, you're either all out for him

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or you're not, if it's Baal then serve

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him, if it's God then serve him, you

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can't have it both ways friend, you can't

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have partial obedience and expect God to use

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you, we must be broken over the things

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that break the heart of God, why is

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our personal evangelism so non-existent, why don't

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we share our faith every day, why are

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we knocking on doors and ringing doorbells, handing

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out tracts and telling people about Jesus, folks

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that are just going to a hellbound, in

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a hellbound world, we want revival but we

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don't want the cost of revival in our

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personal lives, what cost counts and what counts

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costs, I remember years ago getting a phone

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call when my first book on revival was

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published, Stephen Offord wrote the foreword and it

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was entitled Realities of Revival and a local

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pastor had read that book and he telephoned

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me to invite me to lunch and talk

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about revival, well I can't turn down a

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free lunch so I met this man at

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a local Chinese restaurant, he was an elderly

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pastor who told me he'd been a pastor

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for over 40 years and now he wanted

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to see revival come to his church, he

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asked me if I'd be willing to help

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him get his church ready for revival, I

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looked him in the eye and said if

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you're serious and if you really want revival

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to come to your church then you need

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to repent of your sins for revival begins

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with you, well he didn't seem to like

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that answer and abruptly ended lunch calling for

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the check, I thought that's the last I'll

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hear from him but a week later he

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called again asking if he could buy my

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lunch and meet with him and two of

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his pastor buddies, they wanted to talk about

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revival, well I couldn't turn down a free

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lunch so I went to the Chinese restaurant

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to meet with these men, they asked me

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if I'd be willing to meet in regular

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prayer with them on a weekly basis to

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pray for revival, of course I would, we

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picked a place and a time and began

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to meet and soon there were about 10

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other pastors there gathering for prayer on a

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weekly basis for revival and I'll never forget

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it friends, after a couple of months of

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doing this, this elderly pastor, the one who

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initially had bought my lunch, it was his

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turn to pray, we sat on folding chairs

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in a circle and went around the room

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praying, each man taking his turn and this

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elderly pastor when it was his turn, he

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bolted straight up from his chair like a

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lightning rod and he stood there stiff as

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a board, then with a groan he crumpled

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to the floor and lay there motionless, I

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thought he was dead but he got up

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on all fours, raised his head and cried

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out with a loud voice, great God forgive

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me for my dirty rotten sins, I want

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to see revival at my church, let it

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start with me Lord, let it start with

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me and this man was sobbing like his

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heart was breaking because his heart was broken

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because he had gotten to the place of

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brokenness and that man was getting serious with

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God, well what did God tell the wayward

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Jews in Hosea's day, look at his word

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in Hosea 10 and verse 12, sow to

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yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy, break up

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your fallow ground, for it is time to

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seek the Lord, till he come and reign

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righteousness upon you, let it start yes and

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friends, we must break up the fallow ground

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of our hearts, fallow ground is unbroken ground

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that is hard, our hearts are hardened in

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sin, our lives are found faulty before God,

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personal revival is a prelude to church revival,

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God gets serious with those who get serious

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with him, God says return to me and

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I will return to you, that's a promise

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friend, let me ask you friend, let me

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ask you brother pastor, are you ready to

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get serious with God, are you ready to

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stop all this nonsense in your church with

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all your gizmos trying to work up some

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enthusiasm, are you ready to rely on prayer

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and the power of God to his Holy

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Spirit, it all starts with brokenness, take this

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time now to examine your heart, it's time

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friends to seek the Lord, like the husband

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man seeks, like he prays, like he waits

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for rain, when he has tilled the ground

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and sowed his seed, to water it and

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make it fruitful, that he may have a

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good reaping time, a plentiful harvest time, let

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us be fruitful for the Lord, and this

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starts with our brokenness before him, don't let

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time slip away from you friend, our young

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people today need Jesus, our society needs Jesus,

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this nation needs to turn back to the

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God of the Bible, but it's got to

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start with us, take time now friend to

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get right with God, let us pray.