But get hold of this, this, this tells
me every day of my life.
Here is a man without any backing, except
the praying of the greatest bunch in the
world at that time, and while he preaches,
it's, it's, it's as though he's got a
blowtorch in his hand.
I pray that for you preachers, you came
here with icebergs in you, go home with
a blowtorch in your hand, because our God
is consuming fire, and the only answer to
hell fire is Holy Ghost fire.
So the people cry out, what shall we
do?
The publicans cry out, what shall we do?
And these people have never heard a man
preaching their lives, say, what shall we do?
You say, well, that was unique to John
the Baptist, forget it.
Let me prove that to you.
This is Pentecostal preaching.
Brother Bickle wasn't here last night, was he?
No?
Was he here last night, the night before?
I told him that the Catholics in our
country always shouted at me on the street
meeting, you're not ordained properly.
I went to see a Church of England
big shot in the, in Sheffield Cathedral, and
he said, Mr. Raymond, we do not recognize
your ordination.
I said, well, Rome doesn't recognize your ordination
either.
Oh, we're in the apostolic succession.
There's only one way to prove whether you're
Pentecostals, or hyper-Pentecostals, or apostolic Pentecostals, or
what.
There's only one way.
You tell your pastor, take that notice outside
the church, because you're not Pentecostal.
Okay, but apart from that, there's one way
to prove you're Pentecostal, or that you're in
the apostolic succession, just one noted apostolic success.
You're all asleep except Bobby, he said yes.
Apostolic success is the proof of apostolic succession.
The very shadow of Peter healed people.
The whole of St. Peter's could fall on
somebody, it wouldn't heal anybody these days.
So here you have, look in Acts chapter
2, is it 2 or 3, I forgot
now.
There's a word here about Peter preaching.
Oh yes, in chapter 2 of Acts.
Listen, here is a man who ran away
from a girl's finger, and he's sticking his
finger in the eye of the high priest.
Listen to what he says.
He doesn't merely mouth about it, he says,
you crucified the Lord of glory.
Now when they heard this, they were pricked
in their heart, and said Peter and the
rest of the apostles, what shall we do?
So the fire of the Holy Ghost gets
to people, it gets to publicans, it gets
to soldiers, and it gets to these rebellious
theologians that have put Jesus to death.
And when they hear Peter with that same
anointing, they say, what shall we do?
That preaching has to come back.
What happened on the 24th of May in
1738?
I don't remember.
24th of May, 1738, about a quarter to
nine, John Wesley says in his diary, my
heart was strangely warm.
That was the first move of God in
his life.
He didn't stop there.
He read the Word of God.
He said there's something more than a warm
heart.
I don't want a warm heart, I want
a heart on fire.
And so he preached entire sanctification, the very
God of peace, sanctify you wholly.
Listen, you can give Jesus a lot of
joy this morning, for the simple reason he's
coming for a bride, he's not coming for
a widow.
He's not coming for a church in its
lousy condition, which is poor and wretched and
naked and blind.
I don't care how rich it is.
I don't care how popular it is.
It is not the true church.
The true church is a minority within a
minority.
It's people who walk in purity.
It's people who love God with all their
heart, soul, mind and strength.
And when we get there, we'll prepare the
way for the bride to come.
So John Wesley, at 20 foot the record
down, somebody's reading an introduction, just the introduction
of Martin Luther's, what do you call it,
exposition on Romans.
He hasn't even got into Romans, he's reading
the exposition.
And suddenly Wesley feels this transforming power.
My heart was strangely warmed.
He's loaded with scholarship.
He wrote four dictionaries in four different languages.
He's one of the most gifted men on
earth.
He's high up in the scale.
Everybody in the Church of England says, we've
got Wesley and his brother.
We're going to shake the world.
Well, they shook the world, but not by
being again in the Church of England.
The Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come
to his temple.
And that's how he came to Wesley.
He came and he put the date down,
the 24th of May, 1738, about a quarter
to nine, did not happen.
He got up and came to a country
called America.
He heard about the Indians and the need.
He got off a boat in Georgia, walked
into a forest, went to sleep.
He was tired out.
Woke up in the morning, frozen to the
ground.
He couldn't get his arms up.
So he pulls one arm out.
Then he pulls the other arm out.
And then he gets one leg free.
Then he gets the other leg free.
Okay.
But this is what he said, Lord, I
want to be on fire.
Listen, I'm going to ask this.
I don't care whether we go through the
meeting or not.
Why is it that fire is so attractive?
Listen to Charles Wesley and John Wesley singing
a hymn together.
O thou who camest from above the pure
celestial fire to impart, kindle a flame of
sacred love on the mean altar of my
heart.
There let it for thy glory burn with
inextinguishable brave, and trembling to its source return
with constant prayer and fervent praise.
Jesus, confirm my heart's desire to work and
speak and think for thee.
Still let me guard the holy fire.
He got a new baptism of fire.
And if you don't keep fire going, it
goes out.
He says, still let me guard the holy
fire and still stir up thy gift in
me.
Ready for all thy glorious will, thine acts
of faith and love repeat till death, thine
endless mercy seal and make the sacrifice complete.
Then he says this awesome thing enlarge in
flame and fill my heart with boundless charity
divine.
So shall I all my strength exert and
love them with a zeal like thine and
turn them to a pardoning God.
You see, he's not asking for a theological
definition.
He says, I want a fire.
Listen, if our God is a consuming fire
and he is, if he takes a residence
in you, you'll burn to the dying.
God won't die in you.
And all he's asking you this morning is
to let the walls down, let the fire
in.
Isn't that awesome?
That a man with such a colossal intellect
and background, he said day by day enlarge
and fill my heart with boundless charity divine.
I can't live in coldness anymore.
I can't live in blindness anymore.
I can't be indifferent to a dying world.
Every preacher who has lost the fire, you
should be on your face down here.
You used to burn, but you got so
busy with organizing, the fire has gone out.
Come on.
I believe God's gonna breathe on us this
morning.
I believe you're going from this place.
I believe you're gonna have to say, I'm
in the valley of decision.
Remember again the word of Jesus, I would
that you are either hot or cold.
So because you're neither hot or cold, I'll
spew out of my mouth.
God isn't gonna beg at your door.
He's been begging all week.
He's not gonna keep knocking, knocking, knocking.
It's merciful he knocks this morning.
Say God, consume in me everything that's un
-Christ like.
Consume in me everything which hinders, like David
says in that wonderful poem there.
Consume me.
They're crying out now, what shall we do?
That's what they're crying out.
Come on now, let's join this people or
else kneel where you are.
And you cry to God, what shall we
do?
What shall I do?
You've been repenting during the week.
This is a day to receive.
He's coming in now.
He's coming in with vision.
He's coming in with power.
He's coming in with revelation.
God is brooding over us.
Don't insult the Holy Ghost.
You see, this is the last day for
some people.
Yes, Father, come, come afresh, come in power.
Let me remind you right here as we're
bowing in prayer.
For many of you, you'll be going home
tomorrow.
So this is the last day of the
feast.
And it was the last day of the
feast.
Jesus said, if any man will come.
He stood at the door in revelation, said,
if any man will come, I don't care
how baxer you are, how disobedient you are,
there's enough fire in the Holy Ghost to
burn up every bit of dross in you,
every bit of unbelief, every bit of failure,
every bit of coldness.
God wants to put that fire right now.
Say, God come in fire on me.
Not on Vinyard, but on me.
Not on John Wimber or Jack or Todd,
but me.
God needs a torch of holy fire in
your house.
He wants a fire in you to read
the Word of God to your family.
He wants the fire of God your neighbors
will know.
This church is turning the corner this week.
We know that.
It's having a new birth.
It's not gonna be like the Vinyard of
last year or last week.
Every man that stands up will have an
anointing.
I've claimed this from God.
I'm sick of theology and words.
We need God to move in our midst
like he moved in the midst of the
seven golden candlesticks.
What does it matter?
Surrender everything.
Either stand up and raise your hands and
say, Lord I surrender everything, or get down
and kneel there and believe God.
That's great.
Isn't that wonderful?
Glory to God.
Thank you, Father.
Yes.
This is music to God.
Yeah.
Praise the Lord.
Pray for each other.
The walls are coming down.
The walls of unbelief.
The walls of fear.
The walls of materialism.
The wall of the fear of man.
The wall of the fear of the church.
The wall of the fear of tomorrow.
Oh you say.
To some of you I'm sure at this
moment.
To some of you this is chaos.
I'll tell you it's music in the ears
of Jesus.
At this moment Jesus is seeing of the
travail of his soul.
He's purging you and stamping you and claiming
you for his own.
You'll never be the same after this morning.
I won't.
Glory.
Glorious.
Glorious in holiness.
Fearful in praises.
I'm believing at this moment prophets are being
born.
Soul winners are being born.
Evangelists are being born.
Apostles are being born.
Oh Lord.
Lord I agree with Jack and Todd now.
Lord at this moment send all hell into
pandemonium.
Lord let demons have to mourn that they've
lost their captives.
Lord I'm praying this.
At this moment I'm praying to God with
my dear brothers that right at this moment
there'll be pandemonium in hell because the devil's
losing his captives.
Bondage.
Bondage is going.
Bondage is being broken at this moment.
Eyes of the blind are seeing at this
moment.
See the glory of God.
Then Lord take us out and give us
a vision of a lost world.
Lord we're yours at this moment.
I say for this people we're your spirit,
soul and body.
We don't want any ownership of anything we
have in our mind, in our affections.
Our plans will tear them up.
Show us the mind of God each day.
Lord I think of that old hymn that
says out of my bondage sorrow and night
Jesus I come.
Out of my sickness into thy health.
Out of my poverty into thy wealth.
Out of my sin into thyself.
This is where we're going from here.
If you believe at this moment with us
having therefore these promises dearly beloved live on
the Bible as you've never lived on it
before.
Eat it.
Tell God every day make the book live
to me.
Make the scriptures become alive.
Let them captivate my mind and my interest.
Let them become first.
Let business become second.
Let friendships become second.
Get deep into the word having therefore these
promises dearly beloved.
Let us cleanse ourselves.
You have to do it.
I can't do it for you.
You just say any unclean thing in me
dear God at this moment purge it with
holy fire.
Fire is the greatest cleansing agency that there
is.
Having these promises let our cleanse from all
self of filthiness of the flesh and of
the spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of
the Lord.
It's continually progressing in holiness.
It's letting God do a little bit of
pruning every day.
Something has to be cut.
The branch that bore fruit last year will
not bear fruit this year.
It's to be cut off.
It's done its job and borne the fruit.
What you've known up to this moment much
of it's dead wood.
He'll cut it off.
He's going to bring in you his life
and fruit is not the result of life.
Fruit is the result of overflowing life and
if you say fill me to overflowing fruit
will start coming there.
Fruit to the spirit as you've never known
them before.
God says out of you.
I nearly preached on this this morning.
I'll preach this week maybe.
Out of him shall flow rivers.
Out of who?
He didn't say out of me.
He said out of the Holy Ghost.
When the Holy Ghost takes up residence in
you out of him there'll flow rivers of
mercy, rivers of love, rivers of peace, rivers
of joy, rivers of wisdom, rivers of strength.
It's all in the Godhead.
It's not in vineyard theology as somebody's preaching.
It's in God.
Wesley said thou of life the fountain art
freely let me take of these spring thou
up within my heart and rise to all
eternity.
Those rivers are going to flow out but
God's going to test us to see if
we mean business.
He'll give you some situation where if you
didn't have a river of mercy you'd cack
up.
If you didn't have a river of joy
you'd fall down overburdened.
If you didn't have a river of peace
he's going to put them all there because
Christ is our peace.
Christ is our joy.
Christ is our wisdom and as I submit
daily to him I think one of the
greatest hymns ever written there is trust and
obey there's no other way just simple obedience,
simply trusting every day, getting some new mandate
from God every day.
This is what he wants.
Lord I pray now as you bring it
to my mind seal every commitment or crucifixion
that's here stamp your name on it now.
Brand us like the Apostle Paul said I
bear in my body the brands of the
Lord.
Brand us.
Brand our heads so we think spiritual things.
Brand our feet so we walk in the
ways of God.
Brand our hands that we won't handle anything
which is undesirable by God.
Every shepherd brands his sheep and God wants
to brand you this morning he just whispered
that to me.
I want to brand every one of these
as my sheep and whether a sheep or
a wolf but he'll protect you he's a
good shepherd.
You'll start living Psalm 23 the Lord is
my shepherd not a shepherd.
I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures.
He restoreth my soul.
He leadeth me even in the valley of
shadow death but he leads me by still
waters and you can write on the whole
thing the Lord is my shepherd I shall
not want.
I shall not want for peace.
I shall not want for joy.
I shall not want for strength.
I shall not want for adequate material to
face the issues we're in.
Christ is all in all.
All things are in him and through him
and for him.
I tell you with all my heart Jesus
is rejoicing this morning.
Some of you are held out on him
for five or ten years and this morning
he's got right in your life and he's
gonna keep it.
You're not gonna go back tomorrow.
This is a one-way road and the
path of the justice is a shining light
that shineth more and more and more until
the perfect day.
He's gonna lead us into incredible beauty, incredible
majesty, incredible, incredible authority.
Yes it's easy to smile when I say
that the only proof of apostolic succession is
apostolic success.
I pray this morning every one of your
churches where you represent whether you're a pastor,
a deacon or what will be in the
apostolic succession you'll have victory over the devil.
Victory over everything that's obscured you until that
every barrier you backed away from it's too
big.
No, no, no it is not.
Today I'm gonna move you all up by
the grace of God.
He tells me to say I can do
all things through Christ, not by my zeal,
not by my resolution.
I can do all things through Christ.
I'm claiming that for the vineyard here, for
Jack and the others who've gone that trip
with John Wimber.
It was the best trip they've ever had.
That everywhere they go they leave a fire
behind.
Not a blessing, not just a blessing but
a fire.
Dear God if there's a city in the
world needs a fire it's Hong Kong and
they're going to Hong Kong.
Lord let me pray and you agree with
me will you?
Lord as this team goes to Hong Kong
go before them, go behind them, be with
them.
May they say things they've never said in
their lives.
May they see things they've never seen.
Lord we want to move right now into
the harvest field.
Lord let people in Hong Kong that's mourning
and in dope, those 60 year old prostitutes
and others.
Lord let these men bring life where there's
death.
Bring freedom where there's bondage to drugs and
prostitution.
Lord you get hold of some of the
mafia there.
The Chinese mafia I understand are there.
Lord I pray bless Jackie this morning give
her a double portion of your spirit.
Lord I pray for Jackie and her staff.
You'll give them a new expectation.
They've already said it's getting more dangerous there
but Lord greater is he that's in Jackie
than he in the world.
Lord the devil's held that city captive so
long.
Again I pray for them Lord you put
it on my mind so much this morning.
I pray Lord evening Hong Kong the walls
will come down.
I pray the men who are plotting daily
daily plotting how to grab little girls and
make them prostitutes.
Lord let the fear of God come on
them.
They don't fear men.
They don't fear sin.
They don't fear death.
The devil's got them where he wants them.
Dear God many of our people go to
church every Sunday.
It's only a custom.
They don't want God.
Find some people that want God.
Find some young men in Hong Kong who've
been to hell and back.
They're just about worn out but Lord you
lift the beggar from the dunghill and make
him a prince unto God.
Put a wall.
You remind me of that scripture.
I don't know where it is Jack.
What is it?
Be a wall of fire around us.
There's a scripture that says be a wall
of fire around about us and the glory
in the midst.
Lord do that for Hong Kong in a
new way.
Be a wall of fire around that wall
city and be the glory in the midst.
More than Jackie has ever seen.
More than we've ever seen.
More than church history has ever seen.
Lord you God you see it now.
You said in Hebrews 7 25 he's able
to save to the uttermost.
Lord do it there.
Send your shock troops.
Send your angels if need be.
But again Lord I just pray for your
glory first.
For John and his team.
Keep them healthy as they go from there.
There are dangers.
Dangers of diseases.
A stinking hole.
Lord keep them pure in the midst of
impurity.
Give them extra light in the midst of
extra darkness.
Give them extra authority over demons and satanic
power in a city that's one of the
capitals of the devil on earth.
And Lord what you do there doing in
Australia and New Zealand.
But Lord we come back.
You told the disciples go but begin at
Jerusalem.
So Lord I look next week this place
will blaze with the glory of God.
People will get on the phone and say
get to the vineyard quick the fires are
burning.
Lord let people come here and get destroyed.
Spoiled forever for God.
Spoiled forever.
Their eyes will never look in anything else.
Their hearts will never desire.
Put birth in us.
Put birth in me my dear Martha, David
and his precious wife.
Put something in us Lord.
It's a late hour.
Lord your eyes will come in mercy or
come in judgment.
Lord Lord God we pray like the man
in the Bible.
When he heard they're gonna cut my tree
down he says please just give me one
more year to dig around it and fertilize
it.
Lord give everybody in this room at least
one year.
Give every pastor in this room one more
year to get serious with God.
One more year to get closer to God.
One more year to share the burden of
God.
Lord make us worthy of carrying your burden.
You said my yoke is easy my burden
is light.
We are a billion years in eternity to
carry no burden.
So Lord make us adequate for the burden
of our day.
There's never been a day like it.
The devil has never gone as crazy as
he has.
Thousands of young men dying.
We're told nearly 10,000 in California alone
dying of AIDS.
We think of Frisco which is not the
capital they say now of AIDS.
They claim New York is the worst.
It's transferred over there.
I pray for Wilkerson and his ministry there.
I pray for Bill Watson the young man
with a Sunday school of 8,000 kids.
Most of them born illegitimate.
Most of them have never been a kiss
from their mother.
They don't know a thing about human love.
They don't know about human comforts.
Lord give the people who minister to the
youngsters the spirit of angels to comfort them.
Give people the spirit and the reality of
adoption to adopt them.
Bless that young man don't let him get
spoiled by success.
Bless Wilkerson he needs help too.
But Lord God I pray again as you
told me six months ago keep praying and
I've done it by your grace every day
for the vineyard ministries.
It's either going forward or backward after this.
We refuse to go backward.
We refuse to let the devil throw the
dust of time in our eyes and blind
us to eternity.
Lord I pray at this moment bless every
vineyard palace.
Bless St. Newport.
I thank you you've given them a building.
Bless it.
Lord I pray put a pillar of fire
there in the person of a pastor.
Lord I want to be a John Baptist
blazing with holy fire.
Blazing with indignation against the devil's monopoly of
our day.
Blazing with love to reach out to these
people who are going to a lost eternity
forever.
Lord show us more of the awfulness of
sin and the eternity of hell.
Show us Lord as you show me one
morning at 2 o'clock there hell has
no exits.
There are million roads into it no way
out.
If people get out of there and come
in this meeting this morning there wouldn't be
one of them on a seat they'd be
prostrate on their faces.
Lord many of us have been near death
the last year.
Almost in an accident you snatched us from
it.
Some other situation here we are.
Lord kill unbelief in us.
Not only kill unbelief kill ingratitude in us.
We take so much for granted.
Half the world is starving and our refrigerators
are full our bellies are full.
Half the world is naked and most of
us have two or three suits or dresses.
Lord we've forgotten our blessings.
Lord this morning we say thank you Lord
not just for saving our souls.
I thank you for bringing me to old
age in your infinite mercy.
Lord I pray spare me at least five
more years.
Give me five more years for your glory.
Lord I pray the prayer of Isaiah after
you cleansed him.
After you said Lord this has touched thy
lips.
He didn't talk nonsense he cried.
And immediately who touched his lips to fire
he said all that thou wouldst rend the
heavens.
Lord that's it we can't rend them.
You have to do it.
We don't deserve it but do it afresh.
As these people go home bless them.
May this be the most glorious weekend they've
ever had in their churches.
Lord don't any contrary spirits come in here.
It's been beautiful for three weeks.
I pray for those who speak tonight.
I pray for the prayer meeting tomorrow night
Lord.
It will be on all our expectations that
you'll just drop a ball of fire in
the midst.
Drop that ball of fire in every heart
here this morning at this moment because our
God is consuming fire.
We want you to take residence in us.
Not just bless us.
Take up residence in us.
That's what you said in Ephesians too that
we can be.
Was it the temple?
Is it the temple of God?
Yeah well there's there's that again but there's
there's one in Ephesians says we are oh
the habitation of God.
Lord I pray in every shape and form
of our lives people will know God is
in residence in us.
The love of God shed abroad in our
heart by the Holy Ghost.
Lord if you love us you'll share your
burdens.
If you love us you'll chastise us for
being careless.
If you love us you'll just correct us
like a loving parent but with infinitely more
love and patience.
Lord don't let one of us miss the
supreme blessing of God.
I pray for every home here bless the
daddies and mummies.
Give them a new love for their children.
I love to love them and care for
them and watch over them and pray for
them.
There are thousands of wolves outside want to
tear our children up.
I plead the blood over them this morning.
Lord don't let one of their children get
in drugs.
Don't let one of their boys get messed
up.
Don't let one of their girls get pregnant.
Lord let these people say to their children
you're not your daddy's property and mine your
God's property.
You said young men shall see visions old
men dream dreams.
I think of the revival back in 1727
when the Holy Ghost came on the Moravians.
We're told the prayer meeting lasted a hundred
years and little boys and girls prayed with
tears for the lost.
Lord bring this back again.
Lord maybe they'd have to do it to
teach some of us.
Lord I just remember the word you say
of Samuel you let none of these words
fall to the ground.
Lord there have been hundreds of inspiring words
given by different speakers this week.
Lord don't let any bird steal the seed
away.
Lord you reminded me this morning at conference
I went to and I admired that one
beautiful woman there an old lady with a
bible and taking notes.
And in a prayer meeting at two o
'clock in the morning she jumped up and
yelled at the top of her voice I
did commit that murder I did commit that
murder.
Shocked everybody.
We thought she was the most charming woman
but Lord when conviction comes like that it's
always me I'm undone.
It's me crying out as the people cried
out what shall we do or the people
cried out or the republicans cried out or
the soldiers cried out.
Lord give us to see this more and
more and more.
We don't have to sing a moving sentimental
chorus at the end of preaching but the
word will live.