And seeing the multitudes, he went up into
a mountain, and when he was set, his
disciples came unto him, and he opened his
mouth and taught them, he taught them, saying,
Blessed, blessed are the poor in spirit, for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven, theirs, theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed, blessed are they that mourn, that mourn,
for they, they shall be comforted.
Blessed, blessed are the meek, the
meek, for they
shall inherit the earth.
Blessed, blessed are they which do hunger and
thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for
they, they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall see God.
Blessed, blessed are the peacemakers, the
peacemakers, the peacemakers, for they shall be called
the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness'
sake, for righteousness' sake, for theirs, theirs is
the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye when men shall avile you
and persecute you, and to say all manner
of evil against you, force you for my
sake.
Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is
your reward in heaven, for so persecuted they
the prophets which are before you.
Ye are the salt of the earth, ye
are the salt of the earth, but if
the salt have lost its
flavor, wherewith shall it be salted?
It is thenceforth good for nothing but to
be cast out and to be trodden under
foot of men.
Ye, ye are the light of the world.
A city that is shepherded on hills cannot
be hid, neither do men light a candle
and put it under a bushel but on
a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all
that are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men that
they may see your good works and glorify
your Father which is in heaven.
Think not that I am come to destroy
the law or the prophets.
I am not come to destroy but to
fulfill.
Verily I say unto you, till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle, till
in no wise past from the Lord shall
all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments and shall teach men so, shall be
called the least in the kingdom of heaven.
But whosoever shall do and teach them, the
same shall be called great in the kingdom
of heaven.
For I say unto you that except your
righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes
and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter
into the kingdom of heaven.
Ye have heard, ye have heard that it
was said by them of old times, Thou
shalt not kill, Thou shalt not kill, and
whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of
the judgment.
But I say unto you, I say unto
you that whosoever is angry with his brother
without a cause shall be in danger of
the judgment.
And whosoever shall say to his brother, Lachah,
that if thy vain fellow shall be in
danger of the council, but whosoever shall say,
Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell
fire.
Therefore if thou bring thy gift for the
altar and there rememberest that thy brother had
fought against thee, leave there thy gift at
the altar and go thy way, go thy
way.
First be reconciled to thy brother and then
come and offer thy gift.
Agree with thine adversary quickly whilst thou art
in the way with him, lest at any
time the adversary deliver thee to the judge
and the judge deliver thee to the officer
and thou be cast into prison.
Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by
no means come out then till thou pay
the uttermost bribing.
Ye have heard that it was said by
them of old time, Thou shalt not commit
adultery, Thou shalt not commit adultery.
But I say unto you that whosoever looketh
on a woman to lust after her, hath
committed adultery with her already in his heart.
And if thy right eye do cause thee
to offend, pluck it out and cast it
from thee, for it is profitable to me
that one of thy members should perish and
not that thy whole body should be cast
into hell.
And if thy right hand do cause thee
to offend, cut it off, cast it from
thee, for it is profitable to me that
one of thy members should perish and not
that thy whole body should be cast into
hell.
It hath been said, Whosoever put away his
wife, let him give her a writing of
divorcement.
But I say unto you that whosoever put
away his wife, stating for the cause of
fornication, cause of her to commit adultery, and
whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth
adultery.
Again, it hath been said by them of
old time, Thou shalt not persuade thyself, but
shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths.
But I say unto you, swear not at
all, neither by heaven, for it is God's
throne, nor by the earth, for it is
His footstool, neither by Jerusalem, for it is
the city of the great King.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because
thou canst not make one hair white or
black.
Let your communication be yea, yea, nay, nay,
yes or no, for whatsoever is more than
these cometh of evil.
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
an eye for an eye, and a tooth
for a tooth.
But I say unto you that ye resist
not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on
thy right cheek, turn to him the other
also.
And if any man will sue thee at
the law, and take away thy coat, let
him have thy cloak also.
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a
mile, goeth and twain, goeth and two miles,
give to him that asketh thee, and to
him that would borrow thee, turn not thou
away.
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine
enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemy,
love your enemy, love your enemy.
Bless them, bless them, bless them that curse
you.
Do good to them, do good to them
that hate you.
And pray for them which despitefully use you
and persecute you, that ye may be the
children of your Father which is in heaven.
For he maketh his son to rise on
the evil and on the good, and sendeth
rain on the just and on the unjust.
For if ye love them which love you,
what reward have ye done even the publicans
the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what
do ye more than others do not even
the publicans so?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect.
Take heed, take heed, take heed that ye
do not your own, your righteousness, your piety,
your religion.
Take heed that ye do not your own
before men to be seen of them.
Otherwise ye have no reward of your Father
which is in heaven.
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not
sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites
do in the synagogues and the streets, that
they may have glory of men.
Verily I say unto you, they have their
reward.
But when thou doest alms, let not thy
left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
That thine alms may be in secret, and
thy Father would see it in secret himself,
shall reward thee openly.
When thou prayest, thou should not be as
the hypocrites are, for they love to pray
standing in the synagogues and in the corners
of the streets, that they may be seen
of men.
I say unto you, they have their reward.
They have their reward.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter
into thy closet, and when thou has shut
thy door, pray to thy Father, that he
would see it in secret, and thy Father
would see it in secret, shall reward thee
openly.
Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou has shut thy door, pray
to thy Father, which is in secret, and
thy Father would see it in secret, shall
reward thee openly.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions
as the heathen do, for they think that
they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them, for
your Father knoweth what things ye have need
of before ye ask him.
After this manner therefore, pray ye, our Father,
our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed, hallowed
be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in
earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and
forgive us our debts.
Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our
debtors, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver
us, deliver us from evil, for thine is
the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
for ever.
Amen.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses against
you, your heavenly Father, for if ye forgive
men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you.
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Moreover, when ye fast, when ye fast, see
not as the hypocrites of the sad countenance,
that they disfigure their faces, that they may
appear unto men to fast.
Verily I say unto you, they have their
reward, they have their reward.
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head,
and wash thy face, that thou appear not
unto men to fast, but unto thy Father
which is in secret.
And thy Father which seeth in secret shall
reward thee openly, openly.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves break through and steal.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves do not break through nor steal.
For where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also.
The light of the body is the eye.
If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole
body shall be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in thee
be darkness, how great is that darkness!
No man can serve two masters, for either
he hates the one and loves the other,
or else he'll hold to the one and
despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Ye cannot serve God and be materialistic.
Therefore I say unto you, take no thought
for your life, what you shall eat, and
what you shall drink, nor yet for your
body what you shall put on.
Is not the life more than meat in
the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air, for they
sow not, neither they reap, nor gather into
barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.
Are ye not much better than they?
Which of you, by taking thought, can add
one cubit unto his stature?
And why, why take ye thought for raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow.
They toil not, neither do they spin, yet
I say unto you that even Solomon, in
all his glory, was not arrayed like one
of these.
Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of
the field, which today is, and tomorrow is
cast into the oven, say not much more
clothe you, O ye of little faith.
Therefore take no thought, take no thought, saying
what shall we eat, and what shall we
drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed?
For after all these things the Gentiles seek,
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God,
and his righteousness, and all these things shall
be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow, take
therefore no thought for the morrow, for the
morrow shall take thought for the things of
itself, sufficient unto the days of the evil
era.
And judge not, judge not, that ye be
not judged.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall
be judged.
With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be
judged.
With what measure ye meet, it shall be
measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the most in thy
brother's eye, the speck that is in thy
brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that
is in thine own eye?
For how wilt thou say to thy brother,
Let me pull out the most out of
thine eye, and behold, a beam is in
thine own eye.
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out
of thine own eye, and then shalt thou
see clearly.
Cast out the most out of thy brother's
eye, give not that which is holy unto
the dogs.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest
they trample them under their feet, and turn
again, and rend you.
Ask, and it shall be given you.
Seek, and ye shall find.
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
For every one that asketh, receiveth.
And he that seeketh, findeth.
And to him that knocketh, it shall be
opened.
For what man is there of you who
made his son ask bread?
Will he give him a stone?
Will he ask a fish?
Will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to
give good gifts unto your children, how much
more shall your father which is in heaven
give good things to them that ask him?
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would, whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you, do
ye even so to them.
For this, this is the law and the
prophet.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so
to them.
For this is the law and the prophet.
Enter ye in, enter ye in, enter ye
in at the straight gate.
For wide is the gate, and broad is
the way that leadeth to destruction, and many
there be which go in there.
Because straight is the gate, and narrow, narrow,
narrow is the way, narrow is the way
which leadeth unto life, and few, few there
be that find it.
Beware of false prophets, beware, beware of false
prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them, ye shall know them
by their fruit, by their fruit.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs
of thistles?
Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good
fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil
fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit.
Every tree, every tree that bringeth not forth
good fruit is hewn down and cast into
the fire, wherefore by their fruit ye shall
know them.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven,
but he that doeth the will of my
Father, which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name?
In thy name have cast out devils, and
in thy name done many wonderful.
Then will I profess unto them, I never
knew you, I never knew you, I
never knew you, I never knew you.
Depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Therefore whosoever heareth, whosoever heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them, I will liken him
unto a wise man which built his house
upon a rock, and the rain descend, and
the floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house, and it fell not,
it fell not, for it was founded upon
a rock.
And every one that heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened
unto a foolish man which built his house
upon the sand, and the rain descend, and
the floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house, and it fell, and
great was the fall of it.
Great was the fall of it.
And it came to pass when Jesus had
ended these sayings.
The people were astonished at his doctrine, for
he taught them as one having authority, and
not as the scribes.
Not as the scribes.
If I were asked what the Lord Jesus
Christ would say to the church, to his
church in America, if
he were to stand in a pulpit for
one moment, and speak to them right now
in their history, without any hesitation, without any
doubt, I would say these words.
These words, and these words only, ye are
the salt of the earth, ye are the
salt of the earth, but, and I believe
he would weep, I believe he does weep
over these words, ye are the salt of
the earth, but, but if the salt ye
have lost, ye say, wherewith shall it be
salt?
It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to
be cast out, and to be trodden underfoot
of men.
Is it possible something could happen to the
church of Jesus Christ, that Christ could say
these words, my church is good for nothing?
Could that ever happen?
But to be cast out, and to be
trodden underfoot of men, has that happened?
Oh, one of the greatest theologians in the
history of the church said that the most
accurate interpretation of this verse would read like
this, ye are the salt of the earth,
but, if the salt have lost, ye say
that you are the world's protection, church
of Jesus Christ, to make it tolerable to
live in.
But if you lose your effectiveness, your vital
reality, your impact, what will happen to the
world?
What will happen to the world?
And you yourselves will eventually be thrown out
by them, and your religion considered worthless.
If you lose your vital reality, church of
Jesus Christ, you will be thrown out by
the world, your religion will become considered worthless.
You're the world's protection, to make it tolerable
to live in.
But if you lose your effectiveness, your reality,
your impact, what will happen to the world?
I believe that the church of Christ has
come to a horrific crisis, not only in
America, but in the West, and in the
world, a horrific crisis of having lost its
effectiveness, of having lost its right to be
the salt of the earth, to stop completely
the advance of corruption.
And if we were what we are to
be, in God's eyes, believe me, sinners wouldn't
stand up so brazenly, they would melt in
absolute condemned hearts, before they whispered, let alone
shouted out, the things they're crying for.
If we were right with God, if we
were vital in our reality with God, if
we were effective as God wants us to
be, sin could not advance.
I don't blame the politicians, though I weep
over them.
I don't even blame Hollywood, though I agonize
there's such a hell-bent place, tending so
many to hell.
We blame everything, don't you?
I blame the church of Jesus Christ, and
I know that's going to shock you.
I blame the church.
In the Sermon on the Mount, I believe
Jesus Christ speaks to us and gives us
the stepping stones to revival.
He lays before the church of Christ, but
he agonizes to live this.
He said, now, here's the stepping stones to
vital reality with God, to become effective so
the world will stagger, the world will turn
from sin.
There's the stepping stones, church of Christ, if
you want them, blessed, he says.
I love that word.
I love the King James Bible.
The newer translation says, happy.
Oh, I know many sinners that are happy,
you know.
Don't think they're all unhappy, but I know
no sinner that's blessed.
Oh, it's these things, this, my joy, my
peace, give I unto you.
Notice the world, there is a peace out
there, you know, but not God's peace.
It's incomparable joy, unspeakable and full of glory.
This blessed is something only comes from God
when men take these steps.
And what's the first step?
Blessed.
Oh, I believe this with all my heart.
I hope your theology doesn't get stamped on
tonight, but blessed.
And this is the step for the poor
in spirit, for they that mourn, for the
meek.
Now, do you know there's something here, if
you study this, not just for one moment
or one day, you're going to come to
see that this is talking about a brokenness,
a brokenness, a brokenness that's so terrible.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, they that
mourn, the meek.
Now, how can that be blessed, to mourn,
to be broken, broken?
How can that be blessed?
Oh, beloved, because God says these words, to
this man will I look.
Oh, God has to look now.
God's eyes will look past all the thousands
of those walking and leaping and praising God
and no burden, and suddenly God will look
in the first spark of hope and joy
in his heart that anything he sees amongst
the millions who worship, not in truth, but
to be seen of men.
Oh, God looks and says, this man, will
I look?
In the middle of a broken spirit, contrite
heart.
Oh, that's why it's blessed, it's blessed, because
now God's going to look.
God's going to look if we get broken
in search of Jesus Christ, broken and begin
to mourn, all this pride, you know, all
this confidence, this confidence in self-sin.
I don't know, but I know this God
has to break us until we have no
confidence in ourselves.
When men look at us, they know one
thing, this man is nothing.
And if they don't know that, something's wrong,
something's wrong.
Blessed, oh, it's blessed if the church comes
to a place of we as individuals and
corporate, if we come to a place of
being broken before God, for God will look.
And the first step we take to revival
is if we break, if we become broken,
if we mourn, if we weep, we become
contrite.
But it's not very blessed to stay there.
We have to take the next step, otherwise
it'll become a curse.
What on earth can it be blessed to
always be mourning, always be broken about the
state of the church and the state of
the world?
Take the next step now.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness.
God, we want to become real again.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
That word means satisfied.
Now, beloved, if you find a man in
a desert who's hungering and thirsting, and you
come across him and you give him a
million dollars, that man won't be satisfied.
That man will only be satisfied when you
give him what he's thirsting for.
And, beloved, if God says you're going to
be satisfied, if you, you're going to be
satisfied because you receive what you're hungering and
thirsting after, nothing will satisfy you until God
makes you righteous.
You hunger, you thirst, you are going to
be made righteous.
You will receive the only thing that will
quench this thirst, that will take away this
hunger, that will satisfy you.
God doesn't mock you.
Oh, this here, sir, is righteousness imparted by
God, not righteousness imputed.
Great difference in its context.
This has nothing to do with righteousness imputed,
whereby a moment of faith in the blood
of Christ.
I am imputed, righteousness is imputed.
God declares me righteous as I put nothing,
nothing, nothing of myself, just my faith in
the blood of Christ.
To him that worketh not, but believeth on
him that justifieth the ungodliest faith, is counted
to him for righteousness.
Just a moment of faith, that's righteousness imputed.
This is speaking about righteousness imparted, where God's
righteousness is seen in my life, where I'm
made righteous.
By God, I'm righteous.
Oh, beloved, are we hungering and thirsting after
that, to be made righteous by God, when
I have been made righteous by God?
Do you know what will happen?
Do you know what will happen to the
church?
The first thing I see is we become
amazingly able to forgive, so that you can
be forgiven.
This amazing repercussion to the result of God's
righteousness, you are made pure in heart, pure
in heart, the result of God's righteousness being
imparted unto me, I am pure in heart.
Suddenly, do you know what the repercussions of
the man pure in heart are upon the
world?
Pure in heart, as a result of God's
righteousness imparted into my life by God, looking
at my thirst and my brokenness, and coming
and meeting the need and making me, giving
me the desires of my heart.
The first thing I really see here is
there's peace comes between God's people, peacemakers.
Oh, the ability I've lacked to go to
my worst enemy, embrace him, fall at my
knees and beg him.
Everything was in my power to be at
peace with every man, no matter what it
costs me.
Oh, as God sees us being merciful, us
making peace, you know what else I see
here?
The first things that will come upon us,
God's righteousness imparted into us, you know what
comes suddenly?
Persecution.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness'
sake.
You won't be persecuted for righteousness' imputed.
That will make no difference to anyone.
They'll be impressed by a little testimony, but
all righteousness imparted, you will have, all who
will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution, God says.
Oh, you can't escape it now.
You know why?
Because you're the salt of the earth.
You condemn everyone right in your home.
A man's family, children become his enemies.
His wife becomes his enemy.
Her husband becomes her enemy.
Your father becomes your enemy.
Do you know why?
Because of the righteousness.
Everyone's condemned in that house.
Everyone's heart is condemned at your work.
Everyone's heart is condemning as you are standing
up and living righteous, holy life.
Suddenly, in the home, they don't need a
message, it's in the home.
And as the salt of the earth, sir,
as the salt of the earth, as the
light of the world, that men see your
good works, it doesn't matter that you're persecuted.
You know why?
Because they're eventually going to get saved, because
their heart is so condemned.
And they're going to come, no matter what
they're saying right now, everywhere in the world,
no matter what they're going to do to
us initially.
Believe me, they're going to come, they're going
to come, they're going to come in our
homes, they're going to come in the whole
world, they're going to start coming when our
life demands that their hearts are condemned being
in our presence.
We're the salt of the earth, they can't
go on with sin.
I can't enjoy my sin anymore because of
your life, or the world's going to start
writhing in your company and not sleeping in
nights because there's something crying out in their
company, oh, this is the salt of the
earth.
Every one year you will not be able
to go on with sin and enjoy it.
Believe you me, they'll persecute you, but they'll
come, they'll see your good works, you're the
light of the world, you're showing the way
now, men.
See your good works and come to glorify
your Father which is in heaven.
They'll come, they'll come, they'll come.
You see, as a result of righteousness imparted
by God, you're now able to fulfill this
amazing standard.
You are now able to fulfill the law
in your life.
You realize that Jesus didn't come to destroy
the law, but to fulfill it in your
life.
You wouldn't stoop to those theologians level who
say, you know, I'm not under the law,
I'm under grace.
Suddenly you wouldn't stoop to such stupid words.
You couldn't stoop because you know that's not
true.
You know, most people I've heard who've said,
I'm not under the law, but under grace.
You're under the law, he's Daniel, and I'm
under grace.
This is a different, dispensation of grace.
Most people have ever said that to me,
who say, I'm not under the law, but
under grace they'll end up in disgrace.
You wouldn't stoop to such a level because
you realize Christ says, I haven't come to
destroy the law, but to fulfill it in
you.
You're the most least unworthy servant of God
that you don't allow me to, through your
preaching, teaching, and living.
I haven't come to destroy it, but to
fulfill it through God's righteousness imparted into my
life.
God's righteousness imparted by His grace and mercy
in and through me, the law of God,
through me, not by rigid discipline, you know,
but by Him writing the law of God
upon my heart, and by the Holy Spirit,
beloved, I spontaneously live the standard.
I don't memorize and think, thou shalt not,
and I'm going to say, oh thou shalt
not do this.
No, I just don't do it without any
effort.
This is God's righteousness imparted.
This is God's liberty.
The liberty of the law in Christ Jesus
is an amazing liberty, not a bondage of
the law.
You fulfill it when you find God's righteousness
imparted into you, imparted through you, lived out,
not your own.
In every circumstance spontaneously seen is the fruit
of the Spirit.
No matter how trying the circumstances, it's there,
the law fulfilled, even if you haven't memorized
it.
It's written in your heart by God.
You're vitally real, you're fulfilling the law of
God.
You realize something.
You wouldn't go and break the law and
kill, thou shalt not kill.
You wouldn't do that.
So, in case you think the law is
destroyed through Christianity, we without the bondage of
the law, let me tell you, the bondage
is gone, but let me tell you something
about the law.
The standard, sir, is ten times higher than
the Old Testament.
And you can live it.
It isn't that you have no standard.
Oh, then you've really missed the whole Bible
and the whole of the purpose of Christ.
Look at the standard here, he tells us.
Look how high.
I think, maybe, let's be honest, a hundred
times higher than the Old Testament.
But he puts it there, you've heard that
it said you mustn't kill, but I want
you to live this, and you're going to
live it.
You mustn't be angry anymore.
Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer in
my eyes.
I don't want you to be angry anymore
without any cause.
Any anger that can come in your life
must be such a righteous indignation that nobody
that watches you could see anything else but
holiness in your reaction, no matter what you're
offended at, that your deepest offense will be
so Christ-like toward anyone that it's caused
by that any righteous indignation could never, ever,
ever be seen as anything but a holiness
that will condemn hearts and not condemn you.
You know it, and everyone knows it, and
God knows it.
Oh, this righteousness imparted by God gives you
the ability to leave anything you want to
do for God the moment you remember or
realize someone has something against you.
Imagine the church like this, fleeing, I don't
want to give out a cheque, I don't
want to give tithes, I don't want to
give anything.
God, I know thou would not receive it
if I don't go fast and get right.
Then come and offer thy gifts, get right
quickly with anyone while you're with him.
Oh, this righteousness imparted gives you the ability,
beloved, to not look at women with lust.
You don't have to.
God condemns it.
And your wife, sir, Mr. Kinlaw, Mrs. Kinlaw,
is all you see, and it's all you
want.
We can be holy.
By God's grace, this righteousness imparted as a
result of this purity of life and thought,
and even what my eyes behold, will mean
all this divorce won't come.
There won't be this putting away your wife,
marrying someone else that you find better than
the old one you know.
Oh, no, no, no.
It won't go on.
Divorce will stop.
Ninety percent of it, perhaps a hundred percent,
I hope, when revival comes and the church
will live the message and be able to
preach it again, not write volumes trying to
deny it and explain it away and find
psychologists to deal with it.
No, God deals with it.
When we find God's righteousness, we don't have
to swear, just your yes as all men,
every man just looking at you with your
integrity wouldn't require more than yes.
They would feel deeply ashamed to say, I
want more than that.
You don't have to swear by anything if
you're holy.
Not one man looking at you would require
it, never.
If the church is the salt of the
earth, this holy righteousness imparted by God to
give us holy living will help us, dearly
beloved, to turn the other cheek.
Have you ever seen someone do that, I'd
like to ask you?
Have you seen a Christian, not physically, oh
my, touch a man's theology and watch a,
touch a man's enemy, just watch him and
see how he doesn't turn the other cheek,
there's this self and even his doctrine, there's
something sinful in the way he defends it,
it can't be edifying, it's just I'm here
to defend my doctrine, I don't care about
a soul.
Oh, how terrible it is to hear men
like that and to see them like that,
so that half the Bible I wouldn't quote
sometimes of uncertain people, just to win them,
I'd quote the other half, that's what needed.
Am I a Calvinist?
Am I a Wesleyan Arminian?
Oh my, I don't know.
When I need to be a Calvinist, I
am.
When I need to be a Wesleyan Arminian,
I am.
And I'm not compromising because both have such
an amount of scriptures yet I don't stumble
and I don't see them as contradicting each
other, I see a blending, a harmony here
and something from God that makes one thing
cry out from everything I believe in, that
I love the soul I'm speaking to, not
the doctrine I'm defending.
It was given to me to reach a
soul, to heal a hurting, broken, wounded spirit,
to break a man who thinks he can
live in sin because he had some experience
back there, to break him that he wore
a wound and in woeing of his sin.
Now, I take any doctrine, any verse, because
I care when I'm righteous about the soul,
not about defending a doctrine.
I know some people, you know, I actually
heard a preacher preaching, he has a reading
here and he came to the verse about
predestination, he skipped the verse and he read
on.
He didn't want to admit it there so
he just skipped it and hoped we'd all
shut their eyes.
I'm not scared of predestination.
Predestined to what?
To heaven?
To hell?
No, predestined to be conformed into the image
of his son Jesus Christ.
That's a wonderful thing God had in his
heart for me, but this God is sovereign
and this sovereignty, beloved, is not static.
That makes him very different, very different to
your idea of sovereignty maybe.
I believe everything but I don't allow it
to keep me from compassion to every single
soul I come to and every single soul
I preach to.
Where am I at now?
This righteousness imparted helps us to be able
to turn the other cheek.
I saw a man hurting my daddy.
My daddy was one of the holiest men
of God that ever lived.
I know five men that I have come
close to in this life who I have
become conscious were the holiest men of God
I've ever been with in my life.
I trembled, I wept in some of their
presence.
One of them was my daddy.
I'll never, ever, ever, ever be able to
stand in my daddy's shadow, but I thank
God he was mine.
I saw a man hurting my daddy for
righteousness before we could all jump up, before
we could stop, before we could do anything,
but my daddy did.
Made everybody in that room unable to move.
No matter what that man was doing to
him in his anger, I guess that's a
righteous man.
My daddy just looked at him and with
such love that I've never seen in my
life, he said, I love you, and he
turned the other cheek.
Have you ever turned the other cheek?
Do you know that man melted, he crumbled
onto the floor.
Do you know what sinners will do when
we live this?
Do you know what sinners will do if
you can do that?
If you become the salt of the earth,
do you know what it is by God's
righteousness imparted to love your enemies, to bless
them that curse you, to do good to
them?
How can a man carry on hating you
if you do good to him?
What good did you do to your enemy
to win him?
But you will win him.
You have to do good to him.
Pray for him.
Go back to him.
Love him.
Bless him.
Turn the other cheek.
You can.
As a result of God's righteousness imparted to
the church of Jesus Christ, we will find
a revival, a revival into vital reality, into
the standard of this Word, the Scriptures.
By God's grace alone, fulfilling the law, we'll
find the ability, beloved, to not do our
righteousness before men.
Do you know what it is that your
left hand doesn't know what your right hand
doeth?
Do you know what that is?
Tell me.
How many of you are hypocrites?
How many of you are as the hypocrites
are?
When you give, you make sure everyone knows.
You won't have any thank you from God.
It isn't received by God.
Men will grab it, but not God.
You will have nothing.
You have to agree with a stance of
hypocrisy.
It's abhorred by God that you gave money,
because you didn't give it to him.
You don't have to go and be crippled
and embarrass people if people do have to
know, but you do your best that no
one knows it's you when you're righteous.
Imagine a church like that.
When you pray, you won't be as the
hypocrites are.
You love to pray standing when people will
hear you in the corners of the streets,
in the synagogues, you know, I'm a prayer
warrior.
Tell me, you know what Jesus says how
to differentiate between a hypocrite and a true
disciple of Christ?
You know what he says?
I don't know.
When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.
When thou shut thy door, pray that thy
father would see it in secret.
Thy father would see it in secret.
What did your father see this morning?
I know you didn't miss the meeting where
men expected you to attend.
Did you miss the meeting with God?
Oh, I mean, it would really be terrible
if you missed Sunday, wouldn't it, or the
prayer meeting, wouldn't it, sir?
I mean, people would, well, he's the pillar
of the church, what's wrong?
But the meeting with God, tell me, you
can miss it like that.
It's only God.
After all, I'm not in this for God.
Oh, I'll agonize if I miss.
I've got the front row of seats.
I've got my own seating shirts.
I'm so faithful, but the meeting with God,
and God says, now you want to know
whether you're a hypocrite?
Tell me, do you miss the meeting when
no one's watching?
So easily, but you won't miss any other
meeting, even if they pray me.
Tell me, are you a prayer warrior every
morning?
Do you pray what you pray in the
prayer meetings when you're crying for the world?
Tell me, you have no right to pray
for the souls in the world unless you're
on your knees when nobody knows daily, groaning
before God.
Imagine no groan coming from your heart for
the lost, no groan coming, but in the
church there you're groaning.
You know what you are?
A hypocrite, Christ says.
You miss the meeting that makes the difference
between a disciple who pleases me with vital
reality.
You have only one right to stand in
front of men like a prayer warrior.
If you agonize along with God, you have
the right to continue that agony in front
of men, otherwise you are a hypocrite.
And if you're offended, sir, God have mercy
on you, because then you're guilty.
You're guilty.
You're not offended at me, you know, you're
offended at Jesus, because he said it.
And he said it with more agony than
I'm saying it.
Believe me, righteousness imparted by God will stop
the hypocrisies.
Then our prayers won't lift the roof, you
know, with shouting and nothing happens.
Our prayers will make heaven come down when
we're gathered together because we're real.
And our prayers are not one big mighty
stench of hypocrisy in the crowd, but they're
like a fragrance coming to God.
Oh, righteousness imparted into vital reality.
Men become pure of heart.
Men don't want their left hand to know
what their right hand do with men praying
for prayer, not in front of people.
That moment in front of people, gifts from
the right, only because they shut the door
daily, they never miss the meeting with God.
God is all that matters.
Their life is just God.
Alone with Jesus is what matters, not to
be when men gather.
That's there, yes, but that makes me a
hypocrite if that's all I want to attend
faithfully and miss the meeting that matters.
Oh, righteousness, righteousness imparted by God is all
that matters.
Pure hearts, we will see God, not in
heaven, beloved.
No, we'll see God when we become pure
in hearts through God's righteousness imparted.
We'll see God again.
Righteousness imparted will stop us laying up for
ourselves treasures upon earth.
That's going to cost us in anxious thoughts
for tomorrow.
Oh my, you're so worried about tomorrow, no
wonder you're going to die young.
Take no thought.
Isn't that an amazing statement?
Do you obey it?
I should not commit adultery.
Oh, I don't, I don't commit adultery.
Take no thought.
Oh, I do take thought.
It doesn't matter if Jesus says so.
Be honest, and me.
Take no thought for tomorrow.
Don't lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth.
This way you're going to spend eternity.
You're not, you can't take anything with you.
Only what's done for Christ will last.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
How many Bibles could you have sent out
in the last 20 years that you've named
Jesus as your Savior, instead of the luxuries
you've had, sir?
How many?
Think of it.
And you didn't send out one.
Don't put everything into your material.
Don't, don't have darkness through materialism.
You can't be materialistic and serve God America.
You can't.
It doesn't mean God wants you to be
silly now and go and make poverty-stricken
lives, you know.
If God blesses us, praise God, if he
can trust you, sir, but is your heart,
do you set your affections upon things on
heaven, not on things on the earth?
Where's your affection?
Is it this?
If God knows he can trust you, he'll
abundantly bless you.
He doesn't, he doesn't want to withhold even
some luxuries from us, but beloved, if these
things keep you from being what God wanted
you and make you have to give account
to God one day, all we are is
a grief to God.
But when we're right with God, righteousness important
by God, you'll be stunned what doesn't have
any value or anything toward us anymore.
We just lose interest in all these things,
you know.
Do you hunger and thirst after materialism to
be satisfied?
God, I have this.
Do you hunger and thirst after righteousness to
be satisfied?
Do you hunger and thirst after sensuality, lusting
to be satisfied?
You'll never be satisfied, you'll just never condemn.
Do you hunger and thirst after righteousness?
Do you hunger and thirst after men's esteem
to be satisfied in the church of Christ?
Oh, and you get all their esteem, don't
you?
Because all you give and all you do
and all your sacrifices and everybody sees, everybody
knows, but let me tell you, you know
nothing of satisfaction, nothing of the heart of
fulfillment and joy that is unspeakable and full
of glory.
You'll never know what God could have given
you, you'll be poverty-stricken, though you name
the name of Christ, and nothing will ever
satisfy you until you find righteousness.
In Christianity, unless you have vital reality, you
know nothing but agony.
What you think is happiness, sir, is bordering
on the deepest agony available and attainable to
a Christian.
If you haven't found God's righteousness, you know
nothing, nothing of the joy of the fulfillment
of the peace of the satisfaction of knowing
my heart, my life was laid in the
altar for God, and my treasures are in
heaven, not on earth, and my life was
transparent before God and a blessing, and he
openly was blessing me in what I did,
because he saw it was for him and
him only, and there the whole world became
conscious.
He's openly blessing me.
Does the world see that, that God openly
blesses you because you're real, you're real righteousness?
Oh, these material things.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and
his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you.
What you need, not what you want.
What you need to be happy, not what
you want, but oh, you'll be happy for
the first time in your life, sir, when
you find righteousness imparted.
Righteousness, how do you receive this righteousness imparted
by God?
Oh, I'd like to think there's all sorts
of ways, you know, just hungering and thirsting
for the rest of my life, and saying
that's all God wants.
No, I believe, I believe just as you
obtained righteousness imputed to you by faith in
God, there's this thirsting, there is this thirsting,
there's this longing, there's this brokenness, there's this
seeking, but there must come this moment, beloved,
that by faith you see God, I will
not let thee go except thou be led,
no matter what it costs me, and God
has to make you a prince of God
in one moment, one moment, one moment.
I put my trust in thee, God, as
I put my trust for righteousness to be
imputed in thy eyes by the blood of
Jesus.
I hunger, I thirst yet, and I long,
but I by faith, by faith ask thee
let the blood, God, go through and through
in my life, through and through, Andrew Murray
says, so that God can fill you with
the Holy Spirit.
And Andrew Murray says being filled with the
Spirit, beloved, is not like a glass half
empty, now you're going to have to fill
the other half that's empty.
No, the Holy Spirit's a person, Andrew Murray
says.
You can't have half a person in you.
The Holy Spirit dwells in you if you're
saved, but being filled with the Spirit, all
it means, Andrew Murray says, is he takes
control of you, and he can only take
control of you when you absolutely surrender, Andrew
Murray says.
And when you absolutely surrender to God, all
the fight on every single issue, and say,
I will not let thee go, I'm not
going to, Lord, unless thou dost have thy
complete way in my life.
Have thy way, God, have thy way, I'll
obey thee.
Oh my God, and Andrew Murray says when
you're filled, when God takes you at absolute
surrender, and takes control of you, do you
know what the evidence that you're filled with
the Spirit is?
In every circumstance, spontaneously, seen in your life,
no matter how trying the circumstances, is the
fruit of the Spirit, is Christ.
Christ seen.
Christ seen to your enemy as he beats
you.
Christ seen to every soul that looks at
you, even if they're persecuting you, and they
come to God, because they can't fight such
a life.
Church of Jesus Christ, 95%
of every promise in the book that God
will answer our prayers, to any degree of
anything we ask him, if it's the will
of God, immediately, are attached with a condition,
and the condition is holiness.
If our heart condemn us not, then have
we confidence toward God.
Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, and
because we keep his commandments, and do those
things that are pleasing in his sight, I
will therefore let all men pray everywhere, lifting
up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
This without doubting is a holy confidence, and
a result of a holy life.
Yet I'm asking faith, nothing wavering, for he
that wavers is like a wave of the
sea, driven with the wind and tossed, for
let not that man think that he shall
receive anything of the God wants a holy
confidence that can come from a heart that
condemns us not, but beloved, if you could
ever come to live a life that your
heart doesn't condemn you anymore, if our heart
condemn us not, then have we, as a
church of Christ, confidence toward God, and whatsoever
we ask, we receive of him, because we
keep his commandments, because we're vitally real, not
mocked by God who tells us to keep
commandments we can't keep, but honored by God
because we hungered and thirsted in brokenness, and
then by the same faith that God imputed
righteousness in one moment, God make me righteous,
fill me with the Holy Spirit, and let
the fruit of the Spirit's righteousness be imparted
through my life, and the next step I
take, God, to be the salt of the
earth.
I want an altar here tonight, not this
altar, you couldn't do it.
Those of you, I don't care if you
say you're filled with the Spirit, if God
says to you, child, I want your life
in the altar, I want you in brokenness
tonight, I want you to, for me and
me only, cry out, God, I need to
be made vitally real with God.
I'm not the salt of the earth, I'm
not staggering lies, I'm not bringing into Christ
my prayers and not being answered, God, and
it's because of this I need righteousness imparted
by God, written in my heart that I
can't attain in my own strength.
I want to absolutely surrender, I want you
to fill me with the Holy Spirit, take
complete control of me, God, that I may
be an instrument of revival in prayer, let
alone in preaching.
Everyone who needs to do that in desperation,
I want your oath to be your chair,
get on your knees right where you are,
and start praying aloud.
Don't pray for people, don't pray in some
other language, pray in something God understands completely
from your heart, so you pray now, don't
worry about the man next to you, don't
disturb him, but all of you pray aloud,
call on God here tonight, in order, not
chaos, but a holy chaos, if there's such
a thing.
Will you all pray now, call on God
aloud, confess to him your sins now, tell
him, tell him that you're broke, trust him
by the blood to cleanse you through and
through, tell him you absolutely surrender, tell him
you won't let him go now, except he
has his way and blesses you, tell him
to fill you with the Holy Spirit, to
take absolute control, no matter what the cost,
I know it's going to cost, and that
you won't settle for anything less to believe
he's done it, but that your life lives
the standard of vital reality laid before you
by Christ tonight, and lived even to your
worst enemy, to bring him to Christ soon,
and tell him you want to become a
prayer warrior, that heart doesn't condemn you, that
whatever you ask for a miracle, he can
do, he will do, because we keep his
commandments.