1 00:00:00,580 --> 00:00:03,059 We pray again with Edwin Hatch this morning. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:04,580 Breathe on us, breath of God. 3 00:00:05,340 --> 00:00:08,540 Fill us with life anew that we may 4 00:00:08,540 --> 00:00:10,340 love what thou wouldst love and do what 5 00:00:10,340 --> 00:00:11,120 thou wouldst do. 6 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,920 Breathe on us, each of us, individually, breath 7 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,380 of God, that we may say, breathe on 8 00:00:17,380 --> 00:00:19,280 me, breath of God, till I am wholly 9 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,460 thine, till all this earthly part of me 10 00:00:22,460 --> 00:00:24,660 glows with thy fire divine. 11 00:00:25,780 --> 00:00:27,380 Lord, I believe this morning we're in the 12 00:00:27,380 --> 00:00:28,200 valley of decision. 13 00:00:29,020 --> 00:00:32,720 We march round Jericho every day this week. 14 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:34,660 I pray the walls will come down today, 15 00:00:44,860 --> 00:00:46,680 the walls in our own life. 16 00:00:47,860 --> 00:00:49,640 If there are any walls of unbelief, crush 17 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:50,680 them, we pray today. 18 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,980 If there are any walls of doubt, crush 19 00:00:53,980 --> 00:00:54,240 them. 20 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,220 Lord, again we pray, make this one meeting 21 00:00:59,220 --> 00:01:00,720 again a tragedy to the devil. 22 00:01:03,260 --> 00:01:04,780 We ask in Jesus' name. 23 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:05,260 Be seated. 24 00:01:05,420 --> 00:01:05,780 Thank you. 25 00:01:15,190 --> 00:01:16,610 I got a note here. 26 00:01:16,650 --> 00:01:18,210 My dear wife brought it a minute or 27 00:01:18,210 --> 00:01:18,670 two ago. 28 00:01:19,290 --> 00:01:20,270 I got a shock. 29 00:01:20,370 --> 00:01:23,570 I thought it said, sung by David Raymill. 30 00:01:23,710 --> 00:01:24,790 I thought he was going to sing. 31 00:01:24,850 --> 00:01:25,790 I couldn't believe that. 32 00:01:27,170 --> 00:01:29,550 His wife's a very glorious singer, but she 33 00:01:29,550 --> 00:01:31,370 hasn't done a thing on him for singing. 34 00:01:33,570 --> 00:01:35,350 Nancy, when you go home, teach him every 35 00:01:35,350 --> 00:01:36,310 hour, every day. 36 00:01:36,410 --> 00:01:38,550 I mean, it'll take you every hour anyhow. 37 00:01:40,630 --> 00:01:43,150 Here's a poem he wrote about, you know, 38 00:01:43,210 --> 00:01:45,450 the different things that have been preached this 39 00:01:45,450 --> 00:01:45,770 week. 40 00:01:46,510 --> 00:01:48,550 Here it is by David, right off the 41 00:01:48,550 --> 00:01:48,830 grill. 42 00:01:49,510 --> 00:01:51,910 I've built the altar, Lord, send the flame. 43 00:01:52,430 --> 00:01:54,590 I'll be the sacrifice unto your name. 44 00:01:54,990 --> 00:01:55,870 Come, holy fire. 45 00:02:08,130 --> 00:02:13,960 The next line is what we've been praying 46 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:15,160 for three weeks. 47 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:20,720 We prayed Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 48 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:25,700 1130 to one, and then the other morning 49 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:28,760 is at 630, and it's been absolutely glorious. 50 00:02:29,620 --> 00:02:30,760 Will I choke up on this? 51 00:02:30,860 --> 00:02:31,780 Let me read that part. 52 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:32,900 Let me read the whole thing. 53 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:34,180 It's better than Shakespeare. 54 00:02:36,380 --> 00:02:38,520 I've built the altar, Lord, send the flame. 55 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:41,940 I'll be the sacrifice unto your name. 56 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:44,540 Come, holy fire, consume me now. 57 00:02:44,620 --> 00:02:45,860 That's been our prayer. 58 00:02:46,780 --> 00:02:49,340 Lord, in your presence, I make this vow. 59 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,740 Nothing but you, Lord, do I desire. 60 00:02:52,180 --> 00:02:54,300 You're grownly only, and one desire. 61 00:02:55,260 --> 00:02:55,700 Wonderful. 62 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:56,500 Thanks, Dave. 63 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,400 I'll leave you this in my will. 64 00:03:08,940 --> 00:03:11,820 That reminds me of the TB evangelists. 65 00:03:11,860 --> 00:03:13,220 I think they missed it, you know, begging 66 00:03:13,220 --> 00:03:13,720 for money. 67 00:03:14,620 --> 00:03:18,280 They should just have sung Take thy will 68 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:19,100 and make it mine. 69 00:03:41,350 --> 00:03:43,590 There's one word that I hold on to. 70 00:03:44,930 --> 00:03:45,370 Tenaciously. 71 00:03:45,490 --> 00:03:46,530 I've never preached on it. 72 00:03:46,570 --> 00:03:47,570 I'd like to sometime. 73 00:03:48,790 --> 00:03:50,230 Let me read part of it. 74 00:03:50,330 --> 00:03:53,050 It's Malachi chapter 3, verse 1. 75 00:03:56,970 --> 00:04:00,550 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he 76 00:04:00,550 --> 00:04:03,150 shall prepare the way before me, and the 77 00:04:03,150 --> 00:04:04,270 Lord whom ye seek. 78 00:04:04,310 --> 00:04:05,470 Now, let's get this straight. 79 00:04:06,330 --> 00:04:07,890 Why did you come to this conference? 80 00:04:08,390 --> 00:04:09,490 Did you come to see miracles? 81 00:04:10,290 --> 00:04:11,570 Did you come to hear prophecy? 82 00:04:12,890 --> 00:04:13,750 Why did you come? 83 00:04:16,550 --> 00:04:17,730 Did you come to meet God? 84 00:04:18,790 --> 00:04:20,010 Have you met God? 85 00:04:21,610 --> 00:04:22,750 Do you want to meet him this morning? 86 00:04:23,890 --> 00:04:25,550 Well, say, come, Lord Jesus. 87 00:04:25,870 --> 00:04:26,730 Come, Lord. 88 00:04:27,470 --> 00:04:28,070 Praise. 89 00:04:29,370 --> 00:04:32,870 The Lord whom ye seek shall come tomorrow. 90 00:04:34,710 --> 00:04:36,110 No, that's a KC version. 91 00:04:39,110 --> 00:04:40,330 What is the scripture? 92 00:04:40,750 --> 00:04:43,730 The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly. 93 00:04:45,250 --> 00:04:46,710 What were the shepherds doing? 94 00:04:47,430 --> 00:04:51,430 Watching over their flocks by night and suddenly 95 00:04:52,030 --> 00:04:54,130 there was a sound of a heavenly host. 96 00:04:54,790 --> 00:04:56,330 The men had been sitting around in the 97 00:04:56,330 --> 00:04:56,930 upper room. 98 00:04:57,450 --> 00:04:59,430 They'd been there for what, 49 days? 99 00:05:00,010 --> 00:05:04,630 And suddenly there was a sound of a 100 00:05:04,630 --> 00:05:05,710 rushing mighty wind. 101 00:05:07,210 --> 00:05:09,790 So I'm praying this morning that suddenly God 102 00:05:09,790 --> 00:05:10,290 will come. 103 00:05:11,810 --> 00:05:13,690 You jump up from your seat with an 104 00:05:13,690 --> 00:05:15,230 arrow of God in your heart and flee 105 00:05:15,230 --> 00:05:16,290 here for refuge. 106 00:05:17,070 --> 00:05:19,850 The Lord whom ye seek and I'm seeking 107 00:05:19,850 --> 00:05:20,210 God. 108 00:05:20,330 --> 00:05:22,510 I'm not seeking miracles as good as they 109 00:05:22,510 --> 00:05:23,210 are or prophecy. 110 00:05:23,370 --> 00:05:24,170 I'm seeking God. 111 00:05:25,590 --> 00:05:27,270 You say America needs God. 112 00:05:27,330 --> 00:05:27,870 No, she doesn't. 113 00:05:28,010 --> 00:05:29,430 She needs, the church needs God. 114 00:05:30,230 --> 00:05:32,470 If the church gets God, America will soon 115 00:05:32,470 --> 00:05:33,030 feel it. 116 00:05:34,090 --> 00:05:34,850 She'll be staggering. 117 00:05:35,830 --> 00:05:39,090 You know those preachers that stand in pulpits 118 00:05:39,090 --> 00:05:45,970 with icicles hanging on them, preaching freeze-dried 119 00:05:45,970 --> 00:05:46,530 sermons. 120 00:05:50,020 --> 00:05:52,220 Can you imagine another bickle going home on 121 00:05:52,220 --> 00:05:52,540 fire? 122 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:57,780 Did you say no? 123 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,460 How many would like to see your pulpit 124 00:06:02,460 --> 00:06:03,020 on fire? 125 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:04,160 Great. 126 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,880 Hey, when's the next Kansas City Fellowship meeting? 127 00:06:09,980 --> 00:06:10,720 Let me announce it. 128 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:11,420 June what? 129 00:06:14,820 --> 00:06:18,180 June 25 to 49. 130 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:21,940 29. 131 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:23,700 Put that in your diary. 132 00:06:23,740 --> 00:06:24,860 I want to see you all there. 133 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:26,580 Do you know what we're going to do? 134 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,560 You've already rented a building to seat 10 135 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:30,000 ,000. 136 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,060 Well, that's the next stop. 137 00:06:32,980 --> 00:06:34,820 That's just a trial balloon. 138 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:36,800 I want to see you all in London. 139 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:38,620 When is the London meeting? 140 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,000 October. 141 00:06:40,780 --> 00:06:43,420 The meeting house is already booked. 142 00:06:43,540 --> 00:06:44,460 14,000. 143 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:45,920 Can you imagine that every night? 144 00:06:51,540 --> 00:06:53,420 So when you see your grandfather, tell him 145 00:06:53,420 --> 00:06:55,900 that the preacher said he's not to leave 146 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:56,720 you any money in Israel. 147 00:06:56,820 --> 00:06:57,800 He's to give you it now to go 148 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:58,220 to London. 149 00:07:03,380 --> 00:07:04,740 Now all that advice is free. 150 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:05,280 Don't worry. 151 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:12,960 Well, thank you, David. 152 00:07:13,180 --> 00:07:14,480 That's confirmation this morning. 153 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,040 You know, the message to the world is 154 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,900 John 3.16. The message to the church 155 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:22,000 is Luke 3.16. What does that say? 156 00:07:23,420 --> 00:07:24,460 You don't know. 157 00:07:25,420 --> 00:07:26,680 It's a good thing you came to the 158 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:27,420 meeting this morning. 159 00:07:31,970 --> 00:07:38,220 Luke chapter 3 and verse 16. 160 00:07:42,780 --> 00:07:48,370 John answered saying, John answered saying unto them 161 00:07:48,370 --> 00:07:52,190 all, I indeed baptize you with water but 162 00:07:52,190 --> 00:07:54,950 one mightier than I is coming whose shoes 163 00:07:54,950 --> 00:07:57,090 I'm not even worthy to carry his shoes. 164 00:07:57,350 --> 00:08:00,870 He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. 165 00:08:02,150 --> 00:08:03,370 But you know, we're leaving the last of 166 00:08:03,370 --> 00:08:03,850 that off. 167 00:08:04,150 --> 00:08:04,970 Have you had the baptism? 168 00:08:05,170 --> 00:08:05,710 Forget it. 169 00:08:05,990 --> 00:08:07,230 Did you have the baptism of the Holy 170 00:08:07,230 --> 00:08:09,790 Ghost and with fire? 171 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,480 Because our God is what? 172 00:08:13,540 --> 00:08:15,260 A consuming fire. 173 00:08:16,140 --> 00:08:17,900 And the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly 174 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:19,420 come to his temple with what? 175 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:20,640 Fire. 176 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:23,680 You know, I used to feel so sorry 177 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:24,520 for John the Baptist. 178 00:08:25,940 --> 00:08:27,180 I mean, when you think a poor guy 179 00:08:27,180 --> 00:08:29,580 didn't have a Bible, didn't have a copy 180 00:08:29,580 --> 00:08:30,620 of our Revival Tarot. 181 00:08:43,610 --> 00:08:45,810 He didn't have, you know, that new wonderful 182 00:08:45,810 --> 00:08:46,610 book 20. 183 00:08:46,710 --> 00:08:47,570 What's it called, David? 184 00:08:47,790 --> 00:08:48,890 26 perversions. 185 00:08:51,420 --> 00:08:55,840 No, I David says, you know, about all 186 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:56,420 these versions. 187 00:08:56,580 --> 00:08:58,180 David says only 10 versions. 188 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,240 Five are wise and five are foolish. 189 00:09:04,570 --> 00:09:04,970 No, no. 190 00:09:05,090 --> 00:09:07,750 Well, despite all this, Saint Louis Paul, here 191 00:09:07,750 --> 00:09:09,270 I am with King James again. 192 00:09:11,660 --> 00:09:14,920 The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come 193 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:15,680 to his temple. 194 00:09:21,380 --> 00:09:23,260 I say I used to feel sorry for 195 00:09:23,260 --> 00:09:23,540 him. 196 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,320 Do you remember the last word in Malachi? 197 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,360 The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come 198 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,640 to his temple and he shall purify the 199 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:33,360 sons of Levi. 200 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:35,000 So he begins with the preachers. 201 00:09:36,460 --> 00:09:40,400 Between Malachi and Matthew, there are 400 years 202 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:44,820 of silence without any prophetic voice, 400 years 203 00:09:44,820 --> 00:09:47,140 of darkness without any prophetic light. 204 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,400 And then suddenly, unexpectedly, John the Baptist appears 205 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:53,280 in the wilderness. 206 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:55,100 And I used to feel sorry. 207 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,300 I used to feel, Lord, that's not right. 208 00:09:58,260 --> 00:09:59,840 I mean, he comes into a nation in 209 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:00,300 chaos. 210 00:10:00,740 --> 00:10:02,240 A nation that's under the heel of the 211 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:02,860 oppressor. 212 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,380 A nation that's overtaxed and overburdened. 213 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,800 And yet here his preachers suddenly plunged into 214 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:09,440 this mess. 215 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:11,940 He has no financial backing. 216 00:10:12,460 --> 00:10:13,680 He's no credentials. 217 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:15,880 He's never been ordained. 218 00:10:17,850 --> 00:10:19,590 He doesn't even have a newsletter. 219 00:10:23,490 --> 00:10:27,370 He comes across that dark sky like what's 220 00:10:27,370 --> 00:10:29,710 what Halle's meteor flashed across the sky. 221 00:10:30,110 --> 00:10:35,160 And suddenly, well, I'll tell you what I 222 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:35,560 thought. 223 00:10:36,340 --> 00:10:38,860 I thought, God, you're always helping your people. 224 00:10:39,220 --> 00:10:41,040 Why didn't you put the pillar of fire 225 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,060 in that wilderness? 226 00:10:42,660 --> 00:10:44,040 Just like he did for Israel. 227 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:45,520 All the nation would have come. 228 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:47,960 All the people around about would say, what's 229 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:48,140 that? 230 00:10:48,220 --> 00:10:50,200 Oh, that's God come back in his glory. 231 00:10:50,340 --> 00:10:51,500 There's a pillar of fire. 232 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:52,600 He didn't do that. 233 00:10:53,580 --> 00:10:54,580 He did more than that. 234 00:10:54,620 --> 00:10:55,700 He put a man on fire. 235 00:10:57,580 --> 00:11:00,180 John Baptist is incandescent with God. 236 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,640 You see, I tease these prophets. 237 00:11:05,780 --> 00:11:07,320 Some of these prophets aren't even grown up 238 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:07,620 yet. 239 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:14,690 The prophets in the Old Testament got punished 240 00:11:14,690 --> 00:11:15,750 and they got tried. 241 00:11:16,410 --> 00:11:19,730 Malachi, I mean, Jeremiah goes down in a 242 00:11:19,730 --> 00:11:20,050 pit. 243 00:11:20,530 --> 00:11:22,770 Moses goes 40 years on the back side 244 00:11:22,770 --> 00:11:23,370 of the desert. 245 00:11:23,830 --> 00:11:26,650 God says to Isaiah in the 20th chapter, 246 00:11:26,810 --> 00:11:29,370 go lie in a shopping center in your 247 00:11:29,370 --> 00:11:30,050 nakedness. 248 00:11:30,550 --> 00:11:31,870 You go back to Ezekiel. 249 00:11:31,910 --> 00:11:32,910 What does he say to Ezekiel? 250 00:11:33,070 --> 00:11:37,190 Lie 339 days on one side. 251 00:11:38,150 --> 00:11:39,070 You can do that. 252 00:11:40,390 --> 00:11:41,590 Oh, you're all nodding your head. 253 00:11:41,730 --> 00:11:42,090 Thank you. 254 00:11:42,110 --> 00:11:43,690 There's a baptism of honesty this morning. 255 00:11:44,330 --> 00:11:46,870 You get in your butyrate vest, your bed. 256 00:11:46,990 --> 00:11:49,790 You've been about five minutes tossing over, tossing 257 00:11:49,790 --> 00:11:50,030 over. 258 00:11:50,550 --> 00:11:51,410 Wife's grunting. 259 00:11:53,970 --> 00:11:54,730 What are you doing? 260 00:11:54,830 --> 00:11:55,750 I can't sleep. 261 00:11:56,210 --> 00:11:57,250 Turn on the other side. 262 00:11:58,010 --> 00:11:59,230 Back on the other side. 263 00:11:59,290 --> 00:12:00,310 How many sides do you have? 264 00:12:02,010 --> 00:12:03,770 If only two really, inside and outside. 265 00:12:03,910 --> 00:12:08,000 But apart from that, can you imagine a 266 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,860 man of God with the burden of the 267 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:13,960 nation on him for 390 days? 268 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:17,200 And God says, all you can do is 269 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,640 cook your food with human excrement. 270 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:21,780 And then a bit later, he says, well, 271 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:22,440 I'll relieve you. 272 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:25,820 You can cook your food with animal dung. 273 00:12:26,860 --> 00:12:28,660 What do you think the nation thought about 274 00:12:28,660 --> 00:12:28,900 him? 275 00:12:29,940 --> 00:12:31,420 This is a man that's supposed to know 276 00:12:31,420 --> 00:12:31,760 God. 277 00:12:31,860 --> 00:12:32,440 There he is. 278 00:12:33,020 --> 00:12:35,280 He isn't in the garments of the high 279 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:35,720 priest. 280 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:39,020 He's been there now, week after week, month 281 00:12:39,020 --> 00:12:42,240 after month, lying and groaning, because the Lord 282 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:43,580 has put a burden upon him. 283 00:12:44,420 --> 00:12:47,340 But I'm saying this, you don't spring like 284 00:12:47,340 --> 00:12:50,260 that into being a prophet, because somebody tells 285 00:12:50,260 --> 00:12:51,560 you one day, I think you're a prophet. 286 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:52,140 Forget it. 287 00:12:53,020 --> 00:12:54,340 To be a prophet is painful. 288 00:12:54,460 --> 00:12:56,020 Let me tell you again what Bux Basin 289 00:12:56,020 --> 00:12:56,360 said. 290 00:12:56,820 --> 00:12:58,640 The true man of God, the true prophet 291 00:12:59,180 --> 00:13:01,180 is by the very nature of his calling, 292 00:13:01,260 --> 00:13:02,180 a tragic figure. 293 00:13:02,940 --> 00:13:04,800 He has a fierce loyalty toward God and 294 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,420 a broken heart over its sin. 295 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,260 America's more broken now than ever she's been 296 00:13:09,260 --> 00:13:09,940 in the history. 297 00:13:09,940 --> 00:13:12,760 We've millions of broken homes with divorce. 298 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,960 We've millions of broken bodies through drink. 299 00:13:15,380 --> 00:13:20,820 We've millions of broken bodies through adultery and 300 00:13:20,820 --> 00:13:22,100 all the rest of the junk. 301 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:25,680 You know, it seems anybody's broken in America, 302 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,840 but the church isn't broken about it. 303 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:30,300 The one thing that alarms me in America 304 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:32,680 and England is that there is no alarm 305 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:33,400 in the church. 306 00:13:34,580 --> 00:13:36,720 Nobody dares to say we're not going to 307 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:37,060 preach. 308 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,460 Most of you can't handle the light you've 309 00:13:39,460 --> 00:13:39,980 got now. 310 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:41,980 Why should you hear more? 311 00:13:43,580 --> 00:13:44,800 But God is full of mercy. 312 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,120 No, he doesn't put a pillar of fire 313 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:48,340 there. 314 00:13:48,340 --> 00:13:50,720 He puts a man who's been walking up 315 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,440 and down the valley for 30 years. 316 00:13:54,620 --> 00:13:55,480 I love the hymn. 317 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:56,500 I thought of it this morning. 318 00:13:56,660 --> 00:13:58,800 Thou didst not spare thine only son. 319 00:13:59,060 --> 00:14:00,720 If God didn't spare his son, is he 320 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:01,460 going to spare me? 321 00:14:05,310 --> 00:14:07,310 Jesus was a man of sorrows and acquainted 322 00:14:07,310 --> 00:14:07,990 with grief. 323 00:14:10,110 --> 00:14:13,150 Anyhow, here comes this amazing man, John the 324 00:14:13,150 --> 00:14:13,450 Baptist. 325 00:14:14,250 --> 00:14:15,970 I used to think he had no backing. 326 00:14:17,050 --> 00:14:18,870 Dear God, I'd like to be an evangelist 327 00:14:18,870 --> 00:14:19,550 with a backing. 328 00:14:20,670 --> 00:14:23,050 I think of dear, what do you call 329 00:14:23,050 --> 00:14:23,330 him now? 330 00:14:23,570 --> 00:14:24,250 Paul Cain. 331 00:14:25,550 --> 00:14:26,790 He's one of the great men of our 332 00:14:26,790 --> 00:14:27,250 generation. 333 00:14:27,330 --> 00:14:28,150 I'm sure of that. 334 00:14:28,930 --> 00:14:30,390 But on the other hand, you know when 335 00:14:30,390 --> 00:14:31,550 he gets to heaven, he's gonna have to 336 00:14:31,550 --> 00:14:32,790 split the reward with his mother. 337 00:14:35,850 --> 00:14:37,510 Remind me to tell him about that tonight. 338 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:42,480 What do you think about a woman? 339 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,060 He took her around the country with him. 340 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:45,400 She was a hundred years old. 341 00:14:45,780 --> 00:14:47,160 So they knew he wasn't flirting with any 342 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:47,480 girl. 343 00:14:50,190 --> 00:14:52,090 Taking a mother around for a hundred years, 344 00:14:52,150 --> 00:14:52,770 isn't that wonderful? 345 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:56,320 You think not. 346 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:57,960 I didn't say your mother-in-law, by 347 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:58,320 the way. 348 00:15:00,710 --> 00:15:01,330 I said your mother. 349 00:15:03,230 --> 00:15:04,510 Think of that precious woman. 350 00:15:04,650 --> 00:15:05,890 She's prayed for him for what? 351 00:15:05,970 --> 00:15:06,650 What is he now? 352 00:15:07,810 --> 00:15:08,170 60. 353 00:15:08,750 --> 00:15:09,550 He's in his 61st. 354 00:15:09,770 --> 00:15:10,870 I knew he was just a boy. 355 00:15:14,260 --> 00:15:17,040 In his 61st year and his mother's backed 356 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,760 him every hour of the day. 357 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,060 She told him, number one, what God said. 358 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:23,820 In the middle of his life, what God 359 00:15:23,820 --> 00:15:24,180 said. 360 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,340 And now he's almost afraid to leave home 361 00:15:26,340 --> 00:15:28,360 because she has a third word to tell 362 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,000 him before she goes to heaven. 363 00:15:30,580 --> 00:15:32,200 And I think he's very courageous to come 364 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:33,020 to meetings like that. 365 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:33,760 I wouldn't come. 366 00:15:36,020 --> 00:15:37,180 Took me all my time to get there 367 00:15:37,180 --> 00:15:37,960 apart from that. 368 00:15:45,990 --> 00:15:46,890 But here we are. 369 00:15:48,810 --> 00:15:50,850 John the Baptist had some of the greatest 370 00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:51,990 people in history. 371 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,040 He has this old woman who the computers 372 00:15:58,040 --> 00:15:58,920 have just worked that out. 373 00:15:59,020 --> 00:16:00,760 She was 106 years of age. 374 00:16:01,420 --> 00:16:03,360 And every day she went to the temple, 375 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:04,800 the Lord whom ye seek. 376 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,260 She didn't know which day revelation would come. 377 00:16:07,860 --> 00:16:09,560 You see, in the Welsh revival, they were 378 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:10,240 very smart. 379 00:16:10,820 --> 00:16:12,760 They said, God, the Holy Ghost is going 380 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,260 to come to Wales, be in church. 381 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:14,780 Do you know? 382 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,680 Almost every church was packed out for months. 383 00:16:18,420 --> 00:16:21,420 Before the Holy Spirit came, Seth Joshua was 384 00:16:21,420 --> 00:16:22,460 one of the great characters. 385 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:23,800 We don't mention him very much. 386 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,080 But Seth Joshua says, get to church. 387 00:16:26,140 --> 00:16:27,640 So every church was packed. 388 00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:29,180 We better pull that. 389 00:16:31,060 --> 00:16:33,500 Oh, maybe the next great invasion of God 390 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:35,300 is at Kansas City in June. 391 00:16:35,540 --> 00:16:35,940 Right. 392 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:37,880 Lord, put that on record, please. 393 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:40,520 You want me to come? 394 00:16:42,940 --> 00:16:44,700 We used to sing a chorus years ago. 395 00:16:44,860 --> 00:16:47,320 Holy Ghost, we bid thee welcome, source of 396 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:48,740 life and power thou art. 397 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:51,220 Come in power and fill thy temple. 398 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:52,960 Holy Ghost, we welcome thee. 399 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,220 But it's a dangerous thing to ask God 400 00:16:55,220 --> 00:16:57,360 to come because often he comes with a 401 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:57,720 sword. 402 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:00,580 He may come in the meeting this morning 403 00:17:00,580 --> 00:17:04,220 with blinding glory, just like he came on 404 00:17:04,220 --> 00:17:08,980 the Damascus Road and he stopped Paul or 405 00:17:08,980 --> 00:17:09,920 Saul as he was. 406 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,839 Or he may come in some other very, 407 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:14,319 very fascinating way. 408 00:17:16,180 --> 00:17:17,940 Anyhow, John Baptist is not alone. 409 00:17:18,060 --> 00:17:20,040 He has one of the greatest prayer groups. 410 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,640 He has his precious woman, 106. 411 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:23,420 He has Simeon. 412 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,339 He has others behind him, Simeon. 413 00:17:25,740 --> 00:17:26,859 I always think of Bob Jones. 414 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:28,360 He told me the first time he saw 415 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:29,020 me, I'm Simeon. 416 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:30,180 I didn't know I looked like him. 417 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:31,120 But anyhow. 418 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,240 But the interesting thing was, five people told 419 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,800 me, Brother Bickle, that I was Simeon. 420 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:42,720 Yes, thank you. 421 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:45,440 I feel as old as him this morning. 422 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,580 Well, what's unique about Simeon? 423 00:17:50,940 --> 00:17:52,640 I mean, when five people tell you in 424 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,420 six months you're Simeon, you get a scratch 425 00:17:54,420 --> 00:17:55,380 your head and ask why. 426 00:17:55,980 --> 00:17:58,440 Because of this, he prayed that the Lord 427 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:00,340 let him live till the baby was born. 428 00:18:10,140 --> 00:18:11,820 And I'm going to live till the baby's 429 00:18:11,820 --> 00:18:12,380 born, too. 430 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:20,960 But you know, an interesting thing happened. 431 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:22,720 The day I mentioned that up in Kansas 432 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,640 City, the next day a lady came to 433 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,520 know to know Alexander. 434 00:18:30,940 --> 00:18:32,260 He's Alexander the Great. 435 00:18:33,580 --> 00:18:35,600 She came to know Alexander the day after 436 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:36,180 I said that. 437 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,840 She said, I've just discovered I'm pregnant. 438 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,220 And you know, nine months to that day, 439 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:41,180 she had a baby. 440 00:18:41,540 --> 00:18:44,020 Nine months to that day, he opened a 441 00:18:44,020 --> 00:18:44,600 new church. 442 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:47,940 So there you are. 443 00:18:50,270 --> 00:18:51,570 That doesn't mean a thing to you. 444 00:18:51,670 --> 00:18:53,210 You're still drunk on your morning coffee. 445 00:19:02,210 --> 00:19:03,850 But it's a privilege, it's an agony to 446 00:19:03,850 --> 00:19:08,010 have even a touch of the prophetic burden 447 00:19:08,010 --> 00:19:08,470 on you. 448 00:19:08,970 --> 00:19:10,630 And I still feel with all of us, 449 00:19:10,770 --> 00:19:13,730 Kansas City, from there till here, we're still 450 00:19:13,730 --> 00:19:14,970 in waters to the ankles. 451 00:19:15,490 --> 00:19:16,770 We have to move in waters to the 452 00:19:16,770 --> 00:19:18,510 knees and then waters to swimming, and that's 453 00:19:18,510 --> 00:19:19,090 going to happen. 454 00:19:21,940 --> 00:19:23,620 The first time I talked with John Wimber 455 00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:25,080 on the phone, I hadn't seen him before. 456 00:19:25,620 --> 00:19:26,840 And you can be brave when you don't 457 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:27,340 know the guy. 458 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:28,860 I didn't know whether he was this height, 459 00:19:28,940 --> 00:19:30,220 and he isn't, as you know. 460 00:19:31,820 --> 00:19:33,760 But I said to him, John, the Lord 461 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:35,380 told me in prayer this morning, you're a 462 00:19:35,380 --> 00:19:36,120 man of destiny. 463 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,060 And I believe he's a man of destiny. 464 00:19:38,660 --> 00:19:41,300 He has the trust of millions of people 465 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:44,620 across the world, and that's a frightful responsibility. 466 00:19:46,060 --> 00:19:50,360 But here is John the Baptist in agony. 467 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,040 Do you remember Jesus told a story about 468 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:54,220 a man who had a farm? 469 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,140 And he sent out his servants, and then 470 00:19:57,140 --> 00:19:58,580 finally he sent his son. 471 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,100 And John the Baptist is the one that's 472 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:02,260 going to introduce his son. 473 00:20:03,460 --> 00:20:05,720 When he came, it was a tremendous period. 474 00:20:07,690 --> 00:20:11,230 I think right after Ezra and Nehemiah, they 475 00:20:11,230 --> 00:20:14,230 left a settled form of government in Israel. 476 00:20:15,330 --> 00:20:16,470 They enforced the law. 477 00:20:17,050 --> 00:20:17,970 They demanded obedience. 478 00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:21,330 And they established a great synagogue, which I 479 00:20:21,330 --> 00:20:23,970 believe lasted for what? 480 00:20:24,410 --> 00:20:26,970 It was composed of 120 elders. 481 00:20:27,630 --> 00:20:29,270 And it lasted 150 years. 482 00:20:29,550 --> 00:20:31,530 But those 120 elders get out of the 483 00:20:31,530 --> 00:20:34,030 way, and 120 men in the upper room 484 00:20:34,030 --> 00:20:36,330 get more revelation of God, more anointing of 485 00:20:36,330 --> 00:20:37,570 God than that all the years they were 486 00:20:37,570 --> 00:20:37,910 there. 487 00:20:38,770 --> 00:20:42,710 And I believe God is holding back until 488 00:20:42,710 --> 00:20:44,850 like that thing David wrote this morning, Lord, 489 00:20:44,910 --> 00:20:47,030 I can't live another day without the fire 490 00:20:47,030 --> 00:20:47,590 of God. 491 00:20:49,750 --> 00:20:51,570 You need the fire of God to pray. 492 00:20:52,270 --> 00:20:53,910 You need the fire of God to see 493 00:20:53,910 --> 00:20:54,390 visions. 494 00:20:54,890 --> 00:20:56,610 You need the fire of God to recognize. 495 00:20:57,270 --> 00:20:58,790 There's no help for us. 496 00:21:01,870 --> 00:21:03,230 I don't want to cry as I've done 497 00:21:03,230 --> 00:21:03,830 so long. 498 00:21:04,790 --> 00:21:07,350 Like David in Psalm 80, O thou that 499 00:21:07,350 --> 00:21:10,470 dwellest between the cherubims, Lord, don't stay there. 500 00:21:10,570 --> 00:21:11,470 Come down here. 501 00:21:12,810 --> 00:21:14,350 We need God here. 502 00:21:15,430 --> 00:21:17,230 Does it matter if it breaks your heart 503 00:21:17,230 --> 00:21:17,550 today? 504 00:21:17,650 --> 00:21:19,510 You're going to have a million, millenniums in 505 00:21:19,510 --> 00:21:20,090 eternity. 506 00:21:21,090 --> 00:21:22,210 There'll be no sorrow there. 507 00:21:22,650 --> 00:21:24,470 You can't patch up your prayer life when 508 00:21:24,470 --> 00:21:25,790 you get to the judgment seat. 509 00:21:26,750 --> 00:21:28,770 You can't sacrifice when you get to the 510 00:21:28,770 --> 00:21:29,510 judgment seat. 511 00:21:29,710 --> 00:21:31,230 You can't weep when you get to the 512 00:21:31,230 --> 00:21:31,870 judgment seat. 513 00:21:31,870 --> 00:21:33,790 It's all between here and there. 514 00:21:34,470 --> 00:21:36,690 This period we're in now is a dressing 515 00:21:36,690 --> 00:21:38,010 room for eternity. 516 00:21:38,010 --> 00:21:39,230 That's all it is. 517 00:21:40,450 --> 00:21:41,910 It's not to get more knowledge. 518 00:21:42,030 --> 00:21:43,090 We have enough knowledge. 519 00:21:43,750 --> 00:21:45,470 You need God this morning. 520 00:21:46,130 --> 00:21:47,730 I need God this morning. 521 00:21:48,350 --> 00:21:50,270 Some of you disobeyed God all the week. 522 00:21:50,730 --> 00:21:52,410 And this is the day, the valley of 523 00:21:52,410 --> 00:21:52,830 decision. 524 00:21:53,230 --> 00:21:55,210 You'll go back more after today than ever 525 00:21:55,210 --> 00:21:56,810 you've done in your life unless you obey 526 00:21:56,810 --> 00:21:57,190 God. 527 00:21:58,210 --> 00:21:59,770 So John the Baptist appears. 528 00:22:01,980 --> 00:22:03,520 What a message he had. 529 00:22:06,050 --> 00:22:07,750 I could tell you about all the corruption 530 00:22:07,750 --> 00:22:08,710 he had to face. 531 00:22:10,190 --> 00:22:11,770 The priests were backslidden. 532 00:22:13,210 --> 00:22:15,110 The priests themselves were backslidden. 533 00:22:15,750 --> 00:22:17,590 And the system they had was bankrupt. 534 00:22:18,210 --> 00:22:20,190 And here he steps into this horrid vacuum. 535 00:22:21,650 --> 00:22:23,410 There had been a period before this. 536 00:22:24,150 --> 00:22:26,030 I've got a Jewish scholar here, so I 537 00:22:26,030 --> 00:22:27,630 mustn't tell you what I think. 538 00:22:27,710 --> 00:22:29,450 I'll gain some stuff from him later. 539 00:22:30,010 --> 00:22:31,730 But there had been an awful period of 540 00:22:31,730 --> 00:22:32,250 turmoil. 541 00:22:32,550 --> 00:22:35,110 Not only had there been an invasion of 542 00:22:35,110 --> 00:22:37,730 foreign power that dominated them and taxed them 543 00:22:37,730 --> 00:22:38,750 and terrified them. 544 00:22:39,850 --> 00:22:46,350 They Yes, that's right. 545 00:22:47,070 --> 00:22:48,490 Terrified them and so forth. 546 00:22:49,290 --> 00:22:54,540 They What am I thinking of? 547 00:22:55,340 --> 00:22:56,980 I can't quite say this name. 548 00:22:57,940 --> 00:23:00,080 And if I can, I'm sure Bickle can't. 549 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:05,290 Uh Oh, where's Todd? 550 00:23:05,430 --> 00:23:06,470 Todd, can you say? 551 00:23:06,670 --> 00:23:07,570 No, Todd can't. 552 00:23:08,350 --> 00:23:12,560 Well, here's a brute that came on the 553 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:12,780 scene. 554 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:13,740 He ruled for a while. 555 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,340 Antiochus Antiochus Epiphanes. 556 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:19,120 A brutal man. 557 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,260 He vandalized the temple of the living God. 558 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,260 He put a statue of Jupiter there. 559 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:25,940 What else did he do? 560 00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:27,700 He took a pig and cut its throat 561 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:29,500 on the altar to defile the altar. 562 00:23:30,060 --> 00:23:31,440 And then he burned the scriptures. 563 00:23:32,020 --> 00:23:34,340 So you're the nation defiant. 564 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:36,860 As I've said to you more than once, 565 00:23:36,980 --> 00:23:38,860 I'm troubled every morning I wake up. 566 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:40,840 For this simple reason. 567 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:46,720 I live in a world. 568 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,180 I live in a world that has lost 569 00:23:52,180 --> 00:23:52,820 its way. 570 00:23:53,620 --> 00:23:55,580 And a church that has lost its voice. 571 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:57,960 That voice has to come. 572 00:23:59,140 --> 00:24:00,820 We've got to get our old vocabulary back. 573 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:02,140 Nobody commits adultery now. 574 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,200 We're just having an affair. 575 00:24:03,580 --> 00:24:05,080 There's no wickedness, only weakness. 576 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,700 There's no iniquity, only infirmity. 577 00:24:08,980 --> 00:24:09,480 There's no. 578 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:11,520 Well, you can create a lot of things. 579 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:14,240 Can you imagine the rottenest thing that the 580 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,380 devil ever introduced is called gay? 581 00:24:18,020 --> 00:24:20,120 What's gay about having hell in your body? 582 00:24:21,140 --> 00:24:22,840 What's gay about sitting a man on a 583 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,860 red-hot stove and he burns like hell? 584 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,400 A woman called me not long ago. 585 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:28,780 She said, would you pray for a man 586 00:24:28,780 --> 00:24:29,220 near me? 587 00:24:29,340 --> 00:24:30,980 He's a young man, 25 years of age. 588 00:24:31,020 --> 00:24:31,680 He's in agony. 589 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:32,340 He screams. 590 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,060 It's self-inflicted. 591 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,200 Nobody gave it to him. 592 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,600 He invites it in his body and asks 593 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,520 the government to spend 100 million dollars to 594 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:41,060 get it out. 595 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,460 You think the devil isn't a clever guy? 596 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,200 How he tricks people. 597 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:48,400 He never shows them the end. 598 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,480 He just showed them the beginning. 599 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,220 The church has never faced the challenges it 600 00:24:54,220 --> 00:24:55,020 faces now. 601 00:24:55,700 --> 00:24:58,260 We've had 25 years of broadcasting and some 602 00:24:58,260 --> 00:24:59,860 of the guys that shouted most throughout the 603 00:24:59,860 --> 00:25:01,500 Holy Ghost are in jail this morning. 604 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,080 Or they've lost their ministries. 605 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,140 So God has to vindicate his own name 606 00:25:06,140 --> 00:25:08,320 and I'm praying there'll go a stream of 607 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,860 holiness out of this meeting. 608 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,620 North, south, east, west. 609 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,180 That your young people will say, daddy, mommy, 610 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:17,800 what happened? 611 00:25:18,220 --> 00:25:19,840 One day you'll be praying with your family 612 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,620 around the family altar and the Holy Ghost 613 00:25:21,620 --> 00:25:23,300 will come and your children will speak in 614 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:23,500 tongues. 615 00:25:23,620 --> 00:25:25,960 Your children will prophesy and you'll be embarrassed. 616 00:25:34,540 --> 00:25:36,340 You know, Whitfield, I'd love to have heard 617 00:25:36,340 --> 00:25:36,780 Whitfield. 618 00:25:37,460 --> 00:25:41,800 I think of much about Whitfield as Bishop 619 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,540 Bickle thinks about Brainerd. 620 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,220 He reminds me of Brainerd. 621 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:48,800 Only he's twice as heavy as Brainerd. 622 00:25:55,820 --> 00:25:57,620 Brainerd that could go out in the snow 623 00:25:57,620 --> 00:26:00,240 weighing only a hundred pounds and with a 624 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,800 snout to his chin could pray until the 625 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:03,400 snow melted. 626 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,500 He couldn't touch it with his fingers and 627 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:07,280 you can't get people to kneel in a 628 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,160 lovely comfortable church with a rug. 629 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,200 Well, in God Almighty, how do we dare 630 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,140 to say we're the same tribe and people 631 00:26:16,140 --> 00:26:16,640 we're not? 632 00:26:19,490 --> 00:26:22,530 I've talked 20 years before I ever heard 633 00:26:22,530 --> 00:26:24,830 Paul Cain say and a couple of my 634 00:26:24,830 --> 00:26:27,590 precious prayer partners are here and they've heard 635 00:26:27,590 --> 00:26:29,850 me say many times God's going to give 636 00:26:29,850 --> 00:26:32,030 us a new breed of men and they've 637 00:26:32,030 --> 00:26:32,550 heard me pray. 638 00:26:32,630 --> 00:26:35,090 Every week we have 500 prayer meetings. 639 00:26:35,770 --> 00:26:39,610 10 years, every Friday night, 500 prayer meeting. 640 00:26:40,250 --> 00:26:41,870 And every time in that prayer meeting, I 641 00:26:41,870 --> 00:26:44,350 would say this, Lord, at the judgment seat, 642 00:26:44,910 --> 00:26:46,930 when there are maybe 50 million eyes or 643 00:26:46,930 --> 00:26:49,590 billion eyes looking on me, don't stand there 644 00:26:49,590 --> 00:26:51,750 in your majesty and read the record of 645 00:26:51,750 --> 00:26:53,970 my poor life and say, son, I had 646 00:26:53,970 --> 00:26:55,750 many things to tell you, but you couldn't 647 00:26:55,750 --> 00:26:56,230 bear them. 648 00:26:56,410 --> 00:26:57,430 You were too occupied. 649 00:26:57,750 --> 00:26:59,750 Your ears were catching other voices, but not 650 00:26:59,750 --> 00:27:00,110 mine. 651 00:27:00,850 --> 00:27:02,790 That's why that damnable TV has to get 652 00:27:02,790 --> 00:27:03,430 out of the way. 653 00:27:03,430 --> 00:27:06,630 You're hearing more about men than you hear 654 00:27:06,630 --> 00:27:07,310 about God. 655 00:27:07,990 --> 00:27:12,090 You're getting more vision that's television than you 656 00:27:12,090 --> 00:27:14,650 are about the vision of the Almighty God. 657 00:27:15,310 --> 00:27:16,630 That's all got to change. 658 00:27:17,990 --> 00:27:19,270 I believe many of you are going to 659 00:27:19,270 --> 00:27:21,030 a new lease of life from this meeting. 660 00:27:21,550 --> 00:27:23,110 You'll be amazed when you wake up. 661 00:27:23,350 --> 00:27:25,130 You'll be amazed how the Bible speaks. 662 00:27:25,290 --> 00:27:27,130 You'll be amazed how the Holy Ghost speaks. 663 00:27:27,390 --> 00:27:29,190 You'll be amazed how all your interests in 664 00:27:29,190 --> 00:27:31,690 other things have withered and perished. 665 00:27:32,330 --> 00:27:34,150 You see, this man is shut up to 666 00:27:34,150 --> 00:27:35,450 this one thing I do. 667 00:27:36,450 --> 00:27:38,230 So he steps onto the stage. 668 00:27:39,170 --> 00:27:40,350 I was saying about Whitfield. 669 00:27:40,450 --> 00:27:41,950 I thought about him early this morning. 670 00:27:43,110 --> 00:27:45,390 Lord Chesterfield was one of England's great men, 671 00:27:45,770 --> 00:27:47,350 and they told him it's a great honor 672 00:27:47,350 --> 00:27:48,670 to buy the name of Whitfield. 673 00:27:49,030 --> 00:27:51,530 So he goes to hear Whitfield, and Whitfield 674 00:27:51,530 --> 00:27:54,810 is describing a sinner as a blind man, 675 00:27:55,270 --> 00:27:57,030 and he says, and he's doing this, you 676 00:27:57,030 --> 00:27:59,350 know, he's going nearer to the edge, and 677 00:27:59,350 --> 00:28:01,090 he preaches a little, says he's nearer the 678 00:28:01,090 --> 00:28:01,390 edge. 679 00:28:01,950 --> 00:28:03,570 And he's going on in his blindness. 680 00:28:03,910 --> 00:28:06,170 He treads on something and thinks it's gravel, 681 00:28:06,610 --> 00:28:07,570 and it's precious stones. 682 00:28:07,670 --> 00:28:08,770 He doesn't know he's blind. 683 00:28:09,270 --> 00:28:11,690 He goes a bit nearer, and he's going 684 00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:12,210 a bit nearer. 685 00:28:12,330 --> 00:28:16,130 Lord Chesterfield's a brilliant aristocrat, and he jumps 686 00:28:16,130 --> 00:28:18,010 up on his feet when he says he's 687 00:28:18,010 --> 00:28:18,690 got a bit nearer. 688 00:28:18,770 --> 00:28:20,490 He says, my God, he's fallen over. 689 00:28:21,450 --> 00:28:22,390 Now that's preaching. 690 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,480 Also, he said one day I'll shoot the 691 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,080 arrows of God, and he pulled the bow 692 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,300 back, and all the congregation bent down. 693 00:28:32,930 --> 00:28:34,990 Oh, I hope you get so terrified this 694 00:28:34,990 --> 00:28:35,270 morning. 695 00:28:35,510 --> 00:28:37,390 You run out to the front and squeal 696 00:28:37,390 --> 00:28:39,830 and howl and say, God, I've been disobedient, 697 00:28:40,510 --> 00:28:42,530 but I must get fire before I go 698 00:28:42,530 --> 00:28:42,970 back. 699 00:28:44,050 --> 00:28:45,430 Do you want to disappoint God? 700 00:28:47,270 --> 00:28:48,870 I don't want to disappoint God. 701 00:28:48,970 --> 00:28:51,270 I disappoint some people, I'm sure, but one 702 00:28:51,270 --> 00:28:52,590 thing I want to live for, Lord, I 703 00:28:52,590 --> 00:28:53,830 don't want to disappoint you, and I don't 704 00:28:53,830 --> 00:28:55,290 want you to be disappointed in me. 705 00:28:56,170 --> 00:28:58,870 The Lord whom he seeks, he seeks you 706 00:28:58,870 --> 00:29:00,510 every day to do his will, and you 707 00:29:00,510 --> 00:29:01,510 better hear his voice. 708 00:29:02,150 --> 00:29:03,650 If you don't do it, somebody else will 709 00:29:03,650 --> 00:29:03,950 do it. 710 00:29:04,270 --> 00:29:05,670 You'll walk around eternity. 711 00:29:06,350 --> 00:29:08,150 Somebody will be wearing a crown that God 712 00:29:08,150 --> 00:29:09,390 Almighty had for you. 713 00:29:09,770 --> 00:29:12,030 Hold fast to that which thou hast, that 714 00:29:12,030 --> 00:29:15,790 no man, not demon, not deacons, which is 715 00:29:15,790 --> 00:29:16,990 not the same thing, but anyhow. 716 00:29:20,850 --> 00:29:25,490 Neither deacons, nor demons, nor anything, will, uh, 717 00:29:26,390 --> 00:29:27,930 I'm going to cut this off now when 718 00:29:27,930 --> 00:29:28,490 I go home. 719 00:29:29,910 --> 00:29:30,830 Can I tuck it in? 720 00:29:34,060 --> 00:29:35,500 Oh, I took my tie off the other 721 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:35,720 night. 722 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,240 Don't take my shirt off, that wouldn't do. 723 00:29:42,060 --> 00:29:43,680 But let me just say this quickly without 724 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:44,720 giving you the scriptures, you know. 725 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,580 What did Jesus say of John the Baptist, 726 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,360 the most amazing man in the world? 727 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:49,900 Do you know what it says? 728 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,320 His mother was filled with the Holy Ghost. 729 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:53,380 Do you know when? 730 00:29:54,180 --> 00:29:56,100 As soon as Jesus came in the room, 731 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,500 and Jesus was in the belly of Mary, 732 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:02,320 but as soon as Jesus came in the 733 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:03,960 room, he was filled with the Holy Ghost 734 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,180 from his mother's womb. 735 00:30:05,180 --> 00:30:06,560 It doesn't say that about any other man 736 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:07,560 in the scriptures, does it? 737 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,580 It says his mother was filled with the 738 00:30:09,580 --> 00:30:11,420 Holy Ghost, his father was filled with the 739 00:30:11,420 --> 00:30:13,220 Holy Ghost, his preacher was filled with the 740 00:30:13,220 --> 00:30:14,760 Ghost, and he was filled with the Holy 741 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:15,160 Ghost. 742 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:17,960 No wonder he didn't need to go to 743 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,060 Bible school to get mixed up. 744 00:30:29,110 --> 00:30:30,750 Now it says in Luke 3 verse 1, 745 00:30:30,810 --> 00:30:31,530 let me read it quickly. 746 00:30:32,350 --> 00:30:34,350 Now in the 50th year of the reign 747 00:30:34,350 --> 00:30:37,450 of Tiberius, Caesar Pontius Pilate being the governor 748 00:30:37,450 --> 00:30:41,250 of Judea, Herod was the governor of Galilee. 749 00:30:41,830 --> 00:30:43,410 Listen to these marvelous names. 750 00:30:44,190 --> 00:30:45,890 And his brother Philip was a tea truck 751 00:30:45,890 --> 00:30:51,150 of Aeturia, of the region of Trachonitis, and 752 00:30:51,150 --> 00:30:53,790 Lysanias was a tea truck abilene. 753 00:30:54,130 --> 00:30:55,990 That's about as refreshing as a mouthful of 754 00:30:55,990 --> 00:30:56,690 sand, isn't it? 755 00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:09,680 You say, well, why is it there, brother 756 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:09,980 Rayner? 757 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,500 It's to show you the obstructions against him. 758 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,120 He didn't care about military power. 759 00:31:15,420 --> 00:31:17,280 He didn't care what Caesar was on the 760 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:17,660 throne. 761 00:31:18,060 --> 00:31:19,440 There's somebody else on the throne. 762 00:31:21,220 --> 00:31:23,720 Once you've seen that throne, these thrones don't 763 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:24,100 matter. 764 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:26,640 Was it in a year that King Uzziah 765 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,220 died, got kicked off the throne, that Isaiah 766 00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:30,740 saw the throne of God? 767 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:32,420 Who did he see on the throne? 768 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:33,920 Read the 12th chapter of John. 769 00:31:34,620 --> 00:31:37,720 The vision he saw in Isaiah 6, I 770 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,700 saw one hand lifted up and its glory 771 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:40,400 filled the temple. 772 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:41,420 He saw Jesus. 773 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,020 That's what it says in the 12th. 774 00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:44,660 And you know, when you see Jesus like 775 00:31:44,660 --> 00:31:46,780 that, you'll be blinded to everything else in 776 00:31:46,780 --> 00:31:47,240 the world. 777 00:31:48,780 --> 00:31:50,600 Well, make a hill of beans, what they 778 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:51,140 offer you. 779 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,880 It won't matter what God says. 780 00:31:54,940 --> 00:31:57,120 Go here or go there, drop everything, sell 781 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:57,680 your house. 782 00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:59,180 So what? 783 00:32:00,140 --> 00:32:01,580 What's that in the light of eternity? 784 00:32:01,740 --> 00:32:03,780 There'll be no sacrifice once we get to 785 00:32:03,780 --> 00:32:04,640 the throne of God. 786 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:07,000 Anyhow, it is John the Baptist. 787 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:14,180 Then the next verse says, Annas and carefust 788 00:32:14,180 --> 00:32:15,480 be too high priest. 789 00:32:15,580 --> 00:32:16,240 That's illegal. 790 00:32:16,860 --> 00:32:18,880 It shows you the mess in the temple, 791 00:32:19,140 --> 00:32:21,780 in the religious world, the mess that they 792 00:32:21,780 --> 00:32:23,800 had in the economic world and the military 793 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:24,100 world. 794 00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:25,480 And here's a lone man. 795 00:32:28,620 --> 00:32:30,560 You know, you better get a bit sharp 796 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:31,120 at you and I. 797 00:32:33,510 --> 00:32:35,090 Let me say this this morning again. 798 00:32:35,190 --> 00:32:38,930 Listen, you, you, you, individually, you are just 799 00:32:38,930 --> 00:32:40,810 as spiritual as you want to be. 800 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,420 No man had ever lived, ever had a 801 00:32:44,420 --> 00:32:45,300 Bible like this. 802 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,120 I can read Hebrews 11 every morning and 803 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,740 it knocks me on the floor in tears. 804 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,080 By faith, not by organization, not by money, 805 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,800 not by scholarship, by faith. 806 00:32:58,020 --> 00:33:01,060 They subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped 807 00:33:01,060 --> 00:33:01,880 the mouths of lions. 808 00:33:02,180 --> 00:33:04,520 Women received their dead, raised to life again. 809 00:33:06,540 --> 00:33:07,320 Isn't that wonderful? 810 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,820 Except they never had a Bible. 811 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,380 What did they do? 812 00:33:17,420 --> 00:33:19,140 I'm a bit nervous about some of these 813 00:33:19,140 --> 00:33:19,600 prophets. 814 00:33:23,620 --> 00:33:25,720 Who's the first man in Hebrews 11, remember? 815 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:29,980 Well, I'll tell you what with God. 816 00:33:30,060 --> 00:33:30,660 What was his name? 817 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:31,760 Enoch. 818 00:33:32,940 --> 00:33:33,860 What does it say? 819 00:33:35,660 --> 00:33:37,160 You have to go to the end of 820 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:38,440 the Bible to find out. 821 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:40,600 There's a book of Enoch. 822 00:33:41,980 --> 00:33:44,720 It'll cost you $150 to buy it today. 823 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,640 But I'll tell you what, the Bible will 824 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,480 tell you more about Enoch than that fellow 825 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,060 with his imagination tells you in the book 826 00:33:51,060 --> 00:33:51,540 of Enoch. 827 00:33:52,180 --> 00:33:53,720 Here is a man, never had a Bible, 828 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,440 never saw a priest, never heard of prophecy, 829 00:33:56,860 --> 00:33:57,740 never had a Bible. 830 00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:00,300 He's launched out into the world with nothing. 831 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,840 And he stands there and says to the 832 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,120 nation, the Lord is coming with 10,000 833 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:06,900 of his saints. 834 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:08,400 How did he know? 835 00:34:11,380 --> 00:34:12,080 He'd no Bible. 836 00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:13,980 He'd no church. 837 00:34:14,820 --> 00:34:15,960 He'd no high priest. 838 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:17,739 He'd no bloody sacrifice. 839 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:21,480 And yet he says the Lord will come. 840 00:34:22,179 --> 00:34:26,300 Well, listen, if he said that, how far 841 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:27,040 back is that now? 842 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,560 What, 7,000 years ago? 843 00:34:28,780 --> 00:34:30,199 We must be terribly near to where he's 844 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:31,120 coming now, mustn't we? 845 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,360 That ought to thrill you. 846 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:36,900 It'll either thrill you or terrify you. 847 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:39,239 What does it say? 848 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:46,020 The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come 849 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:47,980 to his temple. 850 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,179 And when we see him, we shall be 851 00:34:50,179 --> 00:34:50,540 what? 852 00:34:53,219 --> 00:34:54,800 We shall be given a week to prepare. 853 00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:58,540 Oh, no, it's a month, isn't it? 854 00:35:01,530 --> 00:35:01,930 Instantly. 855 00:35:02,570 --> 00:35:04,170 If you're not like him in that moment, 856 00:35:04,270 --> 00:35:05,790 you'll be left behind to the hell of 857 00:35:05,790 --> 00:35:06,690 the world it's going to be. 858 00:35:07,490 --> 00:35:08,490 There's no preparation. 859 00:35:08,970 --> 00:35:10,210 The preparation is now. 860 00:35:10,870 --> 00:35:13,110 The hour is now, the accepted time. 861 00:35:14,430 --> 00:35:15,350 This is the day. 862 00:35:17,190 --> 00:35:18,730 Anyhow, here's this man preaching. 863 00:35:19,210 --> 00:35:21,230 A man full of the Holy Ghost, his 864 00:35:21,230 --> 00:35:22,870 daddy full of the Holy Ghost, his mother 865 00:35:22,870 --> 00:35:24,810 full of the Holy Ghost, the church full 866 00:35:24,810 --> 00:35:25,190 of the Holy. 867 00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:26,250 It must have been awesome. 868 00:35:27,850 --> 00:35:30,070 You know, we've got about 50 different churches 869 00:35:30,070 --> 00:35:32,650 in Dallas, and they're all the fastest growing 870 00:35:32,650 --> 00:35:33,150 church. 871 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:38,100 Isn't that crazy? 872 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,880 You know, I tell them, I say, I've 873 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,920 got a friend called Jesus, and he had 874 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,320 the fastest, what? 875 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,080 Shrinking church. 876 00:35:49,540 --> 00:35:52,600 He preached to 5,000, then to 4 877 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:56,020 ,000, then down to 500, and then he 878 00:35:56,020 --> 00:35:56,460 had 11. 879 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,740 Will he also go away, he said. 880 00:36:01,220 --> 00:36:03,220 Oh, you want Pentecost, you do? 881 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,600 Wouldn't it be wonderful if your pastor could 882 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,780 say, listen, we're going to have the greatest 883 00:36:08,780 --> 00:36:10,600 meeting you've ever been in your life. 884 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:12,580 I've been praying, I've got a word from 885 00:36:12,580 --> 00:36:12,940 the Lord. 886 00:36:13,220 --> 00:36:15,000 You know, these two old hypocrites we've had 887 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,380 for years, they've killed the last six pastors 888 00:36:17,380 --> 00:36:18,220 with their unbelief. 889 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,460 Next Sunday morning, I'm going to start the, 890 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:22,600 we're not going to sing the doxology until 891 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:23,140 I've done this. 892 00:36:23,420 --> 00:36:24,880 I'm going to raise my hand and kill 893 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,160 two of these old hypocrites. 894 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,740 If that isn't a way to start a 895 00:36:29,740 --> 00:36:31,340 Sunday morning meeting, I don't know what is. 896 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:35,040 Wouldn't it be great carrying corpses? 897 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:35,960 Goodbye, brother. 898 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,320 Don't come back, Sapphira. 899 00:36:44,570 --> 00:36:47,130 We've got such wonderful imaginations of what a 900 00:36:47,130 --> 00:36:47,950 good meeting is. 901 00:36:53,950 --> 00:36:55,390 Okay, Luke 3, 3. 902 00:36:55,990 --> 00:36:56,670 It says what? 903 00:36:56,990 --> 00:36:59,670 He came into all the country of Jordan. 904 00:37:00,250 --> 00:37:02,710 Preaching the baptism of repentance with the remission 905 00:37:02,710 --> 00:37:03,390 of sins. 906 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,140 He says the Lord is coming. 907 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:11,980 All flesh will see it together. 908 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,980 Then verse 7 says, when the multitudes came 909 00:37:16,580 --> 00:37:19,180 to be baptized, he was such a gracious 910 00:37:19,180 --> 00:37:19,640 man. 911 00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:23,740 He said, you know, in my opinion, no, 912 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,360 in Dr. Smith's latest book, he says, he 913 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,160 spit on them, he said, you generation of 914 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:30,540 swine. 915 00:37:31,860 --> 00:37:34,300 Isn't that nice to talk to the aristocrats? 916 00:37:36,540 --> 00:37:38,620 When we go to London, brother Bickleigh, if 917 00:37:38,620 --> 00:37:40,260 you and I preach in Westminster Abbey, I'm 918 00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:40,840 going to say that. 919 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,160 Well, that's the equivalent to nowadays. 920 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:53,320 They hate it sneaks. 921 00:37:53,380 --> 00:37:54,480 He says, you vipers. 922 00:37:55,660 --> 00:37:56,420 Isn't that something? 923 00:38:00,590 --> 00:38:01,650 I was going to tell you something, but 924 00:38:01,650 --> 00:38:02,310 I won't say that. 925 00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:09,640 But here's a man preaching in the power 926 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:10,460 of the Holy Ghost. 927 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:10,820 Listen. 928 00:38:12,060 --> 00:38:13,260 The multitude came. 929 00:38:13,340 --> 00:38:14,260 They didn't stay away. 930 00:38:14,380 --> 00:38:16,040 They said, this man is saying something. 931 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,500 He wasn't a faceless preacher, a voiceless preacher. 932 00:38:21,060 --> 00:38:22,580 He's a God-shaped man. 933 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,260 He's been listening to God for 30 years 934 00:38:25,260 --> 00:38:27,480 and he's got three years to unload. 935 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,380 He, a man who is intimate with God 936 00:38:31,380 --> 00:38:33,360 will never be intimidated by men. 937 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,760 That's one of my slogans. 938 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,480 You can borrow it, Bob Jones, but you 939 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:38,040 didn't say it. 940 00:38:38,060 --> 00:38:38,520 I said it. 941 00:38:41,230 --> 00:38:43,390 The man who is intimate with God will 942 00:38:43,390 --> 00:38:44,710 never be intimidated by men. 943 00:38:44,710 --> 00:38:46,010 I don't care a hell of beans who 944 00:38:46,010 --> 00:38:46,410 they are. 945 00:38:47,530 --> 00:38:49,440 Who stood up against Hitler? 946 00:38:51,210 --> 00:38:52,310 The universities didn't. 947 00:38:52,370 --> 00:38:53,350 The businessmen didn't. 948 00:38:53,610 --> 00:38:54,590 There was one man there. 949 00:38:54,710 --> 00:38:56,390 What was that great preacher they had? 950 00:38:58,510 --> 00:38:59,590 Dietrich Bonhoeff. 951 00:38:59,890 --> 00:39:01,750 I remember walking to Dr. Seuss's office one 952 00:39:01,750 --> 00:39:01,870 day. 953 00:39:01,970 --> 00:39:06,550 He said, Leonard, the Germans killed their prophet. 954 00:39:06,930 --> 00:39:08,690 Dietrich Bonhoeff. 955 00:39:09,110 --> 00:39:09,790 What was his book? 956 00:39:09,830 --> 00:39:10,590 His best book? 957 00:39:11,630 --> 00:39:13,450 The Cost of Discipleship. 958 00:39:14,270 --> 00:39:15,750 Why did God let him die? 959 00:39:15,850 --> 00:39:20,210 The Americans broke into that camp three days 960 00:39:20,210 --> 00:39:22,110 after he was still hanging on a scaffold. 961 00:39:24,580 --> 00:39:26,220 He could have been John the Baptist to 962 00:39:26,220 --> 00:39:28,100 his generation, but maybe it was through his 963 00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:29,160 books and his lifestyle. 964 00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:33,840 They crucified the greatest prophet they've had since 965 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:34,620 Martin Luther. 966 00:39:37,620 --> 00:39:39,140 That's what prophets get, isn't it? 967 00:39:40,380 --> 00:39:41,400 What did Abel do? 968 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:42,220 He did the will of God. 969 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:42,840 What did he get for it? 970 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:43,400 He got killed. 971 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,120 The other rascal doing the devil's work was 972 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:46,380 living. 973 00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:50,200 Nobody knows all the mind of God. 974 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:51,940 It's a mystery. 975 00:39:53,620 --> 00:39:55,480 But listen to him preaching here. 976 00:39:57,790 --> 00:40:00,530 He baptized them to repentance in verse 7. 977 00:40:01,570 --> 00:40:03,530 But notice the effect of his preaching. 978 00:40:03,750 --> 00:40:06,430 You see, altar calls are trying to help 979 00:40:06,430 --> 00:40:07,070 God out. 980 00:40:07,670 --> 00:40:09,470 If God isn't present, you need to sing 981 00:40:09,470 --> 00:40:11,050 Just As I Am 50 times. 982 00:40:11,650 --> 00:40:13,090 If God is there, you don't sing at 983 00:40:13,090 --> 00:40:13,390 all. 984 00:40:14,830 --> 00:40:17,050 People are so broken and crushed that God 985 00:40:17,050 --> 00:40:18,810 is giving me one more chance, like he's 986 00:40:18,810 --> 00:40:19,630 doing this morning. 987 00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:20,590 Some of you are in the valley of 988 00:40:20,590 --> 00:40:20,970 decision. 989 00:40:21,710 --> 00:40:24,030 God won't come around your place for a 990 00:40:24,030 --> 00:40:26,150 long, long while, if ever, maybe 10 years. 991 00:40:27,250 --> 00:40:28,650 The Lord whom ye seek. 992 00:40:31,230 --> 00:40:32,070 So what does it say? 993 00:40:33,390 --> 00:40:34,730 Look at verse 10, please. 994 00:40:35,470 --> 00:40:39,290 In Luke chapter 3, there's no altar call. 995 00:40:39,810 --> 00:40:41,230 The Spirit of God is moving. 996 00:40:41,410 --> 00:40:43,090 He's shooting the arrows of God in the 997 00:40:43,090 --> 00:40:43,890 hearts of people. 998 00:40:43,890 --> 00:40:45,290 They know they've failed. 999 00:40:45,430 --> 00:40:46,790 They know they're unrepentant. 1000 00:40:46,910 --> 00:40:49,630 They know they're rebellious against God's will. 1001 00:40:50,030 --> 00:40:50,910 And so what did he do? 1002 00:40:51,790 --> 00:40:54,390 While he's preaching, the people cried out, what 1003 00:40:54,390 --> 00:40:55,110 shall we do? 1004 00:40:55,990 --> 00:40:56,790 That's revival. 1005 00:40:57,990 --> 00:40:59,950 When you can't sit through the meeting, you 1006 00:40:59,950 --> 00:41:01,470 feel you've got a burning cancer. 1007 00:41:01,950 --> 00:41:03,510 If I don't get to the cross now, 1008 00:41:03,530 --> 00:41:05,270 I may die before the meeting's over. 1009 00:41:05,710 --> 00:41:06,930 And if you feel like that, get up 1010 00:41:06,930 --> 00:41:07,250 and come. 1011 00:41:07,310 --> 00:41:07,950 I don't care. 1012 00:41:08,410 --> 00:41:09,490 We'll still go on preaching. 1013 00:41:10,570 --> 00:41:12,090 God told me the walls are going to 1014 00:41:12,090 --> 00:41:13,150 come down this morning. 1015 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,560 So while he's preaching, the people say, what 1016 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:24,340 shall we do? 1017 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:26,720 Now turn over the page, if it's like 1018 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:27,320 my Bible. 1019 00:41:28,340 --> 00:41:30,380 Then verse 12, it says, then came the 1020 00:41:30,380 --> 00:41:31,660 publicans to be baptized. 1021 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,140 And they said, Master, what shall we do? 1022 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:38,060 Dear God, you've got to preach with all 1023 00:41:38,060 --> 00:41:40,180 heaven on you to get publicans and sinners 1024 00:41:40,180 --> 00:41:41,660 like that to cry out, what shall we 1025 00:41:41,660 --> 00:41:41,920 do? 1026 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,540 So the people cry out, what shall we 1027 00:41:44,540 --> 00:41:44,660 do? 1028 00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:46,600 The publicans cry out, what shall we do? 1029 00:41:46,860 --> 00:41:50,240 Then he's surrounded by heathen, by men who 1030 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:52,720 have been following strange gods in other countries. 1031 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,120 And here they are mentioned now in verse 1032 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,580 14, the soldiers likewise asked of him, what 1033 00:41:59,580 --> 00:42:00,380 shall we do? 1034 00:42:01,020 --> 00:42:02,660 Do you see the different stations? 1035 00:42:03,540 --> 00:42:06,280 John the Baptist is a success geographically. 1036 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:08,380 They came to him from Judea and Samaria. 1037 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,320 They'd never seen a man God-filled. 1038 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,240 He's not wearing beautiful garments of glory and 1039 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:14,640 beauty. 1040 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,020 He doesn't wear a skirt with pomegranates and 1041 00:42:18,020 --> 00:42:18,380 bells. 1042 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,880 He's got a dirty old sheep, well not 1043 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,480 sheepskin, what was it? 1044 00:42:25,260 --> 00:42:27,440 Camel skin around his neck and a pair 1045 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:27,920 of shorts. 1046 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,140 They'd kick him out of Westminster happy. 1047 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,040 They'd receive him in open arms at the 1048 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:32,440 vineyard. 1049 00:42:40,330 --> 00:42:42,070 They'd ask him where they got his pattern 1050 00:42:42,070 --> 00:42:42,750 for his uniform.