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You can study historical revivals and see very

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plainly that when a man or a group

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of men start preaching a doctrine of the

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gospel that has become lost, then God will

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attend that message, bless that preaching, and shake

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things up like a mighty earthquake in revival

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after revival.

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Whitefield held up the lost doctrine of regeneration

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and proclaimed, you must be born again, and

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God shook two continents under his preaching.

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Charles Finney and Sam Jones preached, unless you

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repent, you shall surely perish, and they blazed

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a path of revival throughout America in the

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19th century.

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When Charles Finney was in Antwerp, New York

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in 1827, he preached, you must repent and

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surrender to God with such power, people felt

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like there was electricity in the atmosphere.

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They fell off their chairs so fast.

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He said it was as if he'd held

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a broadsword in both hands.

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He couldn't have cut them down as quick

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to where they were lying in the aisle,

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groaning and crying out to God for mercy.

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In cities all across America, Sam Jones would

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preach to 10,000 people night after night

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for a month at a time with his

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message of repentance.

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And entire cities were completely transformed.

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There's a city today in Alabama called Reform

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Alabama, and it was named after an evangelist

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had visited the city.

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Well, Sam Jones was that evangelist who conducted

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revival meetings there.

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Sam Jones came into town and preached for

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eight weeks.

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And when he left town, there was nobody

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in the jail.

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The theaters had closed.

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Nobody played cards and the liquor stores were

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run out of business.

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There wasn't anything questionable left.

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And when men would curse in the streets,

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they would lower their voices so nobody could

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hear them.

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When Sam Jones was preaching in Nashville in

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1885, one of the biggest sinners in town

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came to hear him to disrupt the meeting

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and beat him up.

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But instead, the man got saved, surrendered his

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life to Christ.

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His name was Captain Tom Ryman.

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He owned a fleet of steamboats.

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There were gambling vessels on the Carmelin River.

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And after he got saved, he had his

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men pour out all the booze into the

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river.

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And he turned those steamboats into floating gospel

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preaching.

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He built an auditorium in Nashville just for

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Sam Jones to preach in.

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Today, it's still there.

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It's called the Ryman Auditorium.

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Along came Mordecai Ham, a man so mightily

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used to God.

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And his number one message was the missing

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doctrine of the Lordship of Christ.

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Entire communities were transformed by God and the

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gospel that Ham preached.

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He'd set up a tent in the red

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light district of a town and go to

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preaching.

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And soon, they'd have to shut down all

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the brothels there because all the girls got

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saved.

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One time, a young Billy Graham came to

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a Mordecai Ham message meeting.

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And Billy Graham came to that meeting as

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a clean 16-year-old church member.

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And he got mad at the preacher for

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pointing him out and calling him a sinner.

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Later, Mordecai Ham would say, I never pointed

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at him and called him a sinner.

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But the Holy Spirit sure did.

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All these men were mightily used of God

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because they were holy men on fire for

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God, preaching what others would not.

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As they proclaimed these missing doctrines of the

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gospel, revival would follow them wherever they went.

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Let me tell you, friend, you go to

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preaching on man's duty of repentance and this

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necessity of regeneration.

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And that men and women and boys and

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girls must bow to the Lordship of Christ

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in their daily living.

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And you have a fight on your hands.

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You have a fight from lost religious folks.

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You start preaching that Jesus is Lord and

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you cannot have him as Savior without him

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being your Lord.

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And why the good deacons will take off

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their freshly shined shoes and throw them at

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you.

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All hell will begin to pop if you're

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appointing guilty sinners to a bloodstained Christ who

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has rights and claims on all followers of

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his.

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Jesus said, unless a man be born again,

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he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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Jesus said, unless ye repent, ye shall all

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likewise perish.

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And that means you, friend, even if you

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are the chairman of the deacons.

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Did these men like Wesley and Whitfield face

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persecution for the message they preached?

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You bet they did.

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Charles Wesley recorded in his journal that today

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my brother John was dragged through a town

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by his hair by an angry mob.

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And when Whitfield preached in the open air,

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he was pelted with rotten eggs and pieces

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of dead cats.

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One time while he was preaching in Ireland,

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an angry mob stoned him and he received

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a gash on his head that almost killed

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him.

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Years later in Boston, he was introduced to

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a minister from Ireland and Whitfield bowed and

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removing his beaver cap, he pointed to a

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large scar on his forehead with the remark,

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this wound, sir, I received for preaching Christ

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in your country.

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Mordecai Ham was dragged from a meeting in

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Texas by an angry mob who carried a

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bucket of tar, a sack of feathers and

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a rope to hang him.

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He was saved only when the mayor called

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in the Calvary troops to rescue him.

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One time Mordecai Ham was leaving his hotel

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to go preach at a meeting and a

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man attacked him from behind and pistol whipped

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him.

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One time he was purposely run over by

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a car while crossing the street that put

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him in a coma in the hospital for

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the next six weeks.

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Sam Jones was waiting at a train station

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when the mayor of the city approached him

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and asked him if he was Sam Jones

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and when Sam Jones replied, yes, the man

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took his cane and violently began to beat

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him across the face.

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But Sam wrestled the cane away from the

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man and gave him a licking with his

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own cane until a newspaper reporter wrote that

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the mayor's face ended up looking like a

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pound of raw hamburger meat.

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And every time, friends, the vital truths of

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God are held up and proclaimed, it will

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drive lost religious men wild and the rocks

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will begin to fly.

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I've stood face to face in sanctuaries with

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angry deacons with fire in their eyes and

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hatred in their hearts for me because I

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said unless you repent you'll surely bust hell

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wide open when you die.

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I'm telling you, friend, revival hurts.

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Vance Havener was preaching at a pastor's conference

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in South Carolina when God moved in and

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revival broke out to where pastors began to

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come forward to the platform without an invitation

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to kneel and weep and confess their sins.

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One minister approached Vance Havener when it was

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over and he said, brother Havener, your preaching

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is just tearing me up.

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To which Vance Havener replied, if it's having

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that effect on you, what do you think

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it's doing to me?

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I'm telling you, friends, I've preached revival for

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years and I've got my scars to prove

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it, but revival hurts.

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But when a God called preacher starts messing

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with men's dirty pig pens and smashing their

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idols, they will organize a mob to run

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you clear out of town.

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Mordecai Hamm was run out of town by

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a mob in Texas one year and the

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local police had to hold the rifles on

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the mob while Hamm boarded the train.

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A detective was assigned to travel with him

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to the next town for the evangelist's safety.

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Halfway there, the detective asked Hamm what he

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could do to be saved because he said,

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any man who can face danger like you

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faced with that mob, with the calmness you

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did, there must be some truth to the

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gospel you preach and the Christ you hold

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up.

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And as I'm preaching to you now, friends,

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in complete honesty, is I care about your

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soul.

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I don't care how long you've been a

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member of a church unless Christ is your

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Lord of your daily living.

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You're dead in your sins and as blind

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as a goose lost in a snowstorm.

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God Almighty will never, ever run the white

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flag of peace upon your soul while you

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still point a shotgun at Him.

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If Jesus, listen to me, if Jesus is

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not your Lord, then you've never been saved.

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A self must be dethroned and another enthroned

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there.

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The Lord Jesus Christ, a thrice holy God,

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will not allow any rebels into His kingdom.

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You must come to a bloodstained Christ as

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a needy, guilty sinner and throw down and

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stack arms and throw your shotgun of rebellion.

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It is now pierced feast feet.

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Salvation is absolute surrender to a living Lord.

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I'm going to tell you something, friend.

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You can put it down big, plain and

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straight and I'll see you at the judgment

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where Christ Himself will back up my words

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to you now.

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Listen to me.

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There is therefore no way of salvation open

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for men apart from unconditional surrender to Christ

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as Lord.

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He is Lord.

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You better bow to Him now before He

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makes you bow to Him when a sovereign

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puts his foot on your neck.

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When the Lord makes His enemies His footstool.

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Oh great God in Heaven, send a revival

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to this nation.

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Send revival to your sleeping churches across this

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land until men and women and boys and

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girls are crying out in repentance.

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What must I do to be saved?