So this is what this prayer, listen, you
talk about power, this to me is the
evidence of a life filled with holiness.
She's going down the street, she says, I
prayed and prayed, prayed and after six weeks
I began to lead the people without even
trying.
Gangsters fell on their knees, she lives in
the one outpost of hell on earth, she
goes down the street and there's human filth
there, she can't step because there's blood there.
Girls at 15 are prostituting, women 60 years
old are prostituted 58 years or 50 years
after the 60 and yet she says the
most diabolical men in the world, there's no
altar call, there's no music, there's no preaching
the word, she's so filled with God out
of her flow, rivers of living water that
gangsters kneel and say, listen, pray for me,
have mercy on me, that to me is
revival, that to me is being filled with
all the fullness of God.
But look at the cast, would you believe
after all the tremendous manifestations of God that
she had, casting out demons, not only the
rottenest people in the world coming, but the
society people coming to say what's happening, that
old prostitute isn't there anymore, we're not afraid
as we used to be, people don't break
into our houses, why?
Because of you.
Do you know what?
I think Jackie, bless her dear heart, I
think she's an embarrassment to the devil and
more than that she's an embarrassment to me.
Why is this happening in a country far
away, why doesn't it happen in America?
What's choking it?
Unbelief, familiarity with the Holy Spirit, the only
thing you know about the Holy Ghost is
you speak in tongues, but where's your power,
where's your tears, where's your brokenness, where's your
travail?
I believe God Almighty started something last Friday
that if you're obedient, and I'll be obedient
when I'm here or not, the birth pains
are on this assembly, for this particular assembly
and for the vineyard.
I look for the whole vineyard to be
reborn in two weeks, that's no difficulty to
God.
I'm tired of playing for small stakes and
so many people came forward and so many
people bought your book, forget it, it's time
to see majesty of God.
But listen, this woman has seen the meetings
go until when they had no buildings, the
government came and gave her 14 huge buildings
entirely free, now she's casting out demons, people
are being delivered from insanity and would you
believe it, she says with all this, I
lost the anointing, it all disappeared.
John, if you don't get reward for anything
else, you get a big reward in heaven
for the way you handled this, only John
Wimber would give her any comfort.
Well, weren't you running away, what was happening
to you Jack when you came here, were
you an orphan, spiritual orphan?
Yes, don't be embarrassed, Jack came and what
a blessing he's been, you see the open
door, who else came, one of the only
great to me prophets in the world today,
Paul Cain will be here tomorrow night I
believe and John opened the door to him,
he'd been to 27 other ministries in America,
they all slammed the door in his face
and John took him in, then I came
along, poor orphan and he took me in,
but you see this is the kind of
person we need in the last days, come
on we've got 10,000 Pentecostal churches in
America that should take the sign off, they're
not Pentecostal, when did they last see a
miracle, when did they last see some lunatic
delivered, when did they last see some man
with an unholy fever or a girl who's
a prostitute and you say listen you can't
go to that church down there and they
have no power, but go up the street
to the Pentecostal church, you'll see the power
of God there, you know we're a million
miles from Pentecost, when I read this I
tell you I'm embarrassed, pride came in she
said and so we lost our anointing, but
now listen to what she says, God restored
that strength to us and again she's out
getting the scum of the earth, she's not
offering them free meals or free banquets or
free clothes, she says we have something here
which is not of man, it's not theology,
it's not doctrine, it's a living God, come
and bring in your paralysed, come and bring
in the lunatics, come and bring in the
filthy unclean people that could make hell blush
with this lifestyle, come and bring them, you
know she says the spirit of God came
and we began to exercise spiritual gifts and
those who came to the walled city about
asking about our drugs withdrawal program, rarely came
in the room and they weren't there five
minutes, did you hear that, not five hours
preaching, not singing a song, there's room at
the cross, but there's something in this room,
they said this room is filled with God,
I think before we're through these two weeks
people will come trembling through those doors, the
awesome presence of God will so subdue us,
I say I want to see this precious
woman, but more than that I want to
see it happen in America, but it's costly,
let me say this to you, we need
a vision of the holiness of God, we
have vision of our helplessness, we see a
vision of lost people, if I asked you
about the Salvation Army, you say it was
launched by a man who had been trained
as a Methodist, he got kicked out, took
his half crippled wife into the streets, I'll
tell you how it was started, if you
have those wonderful books, there are 10 volumes
of the sermons of Campbell Morgan called Westminster
Pulpit, it's in chapter 6, volume 6, now
listen, this is an unbeliever, can you listen
to this a minute, this atheist says were
I a religionist, did I truly firmly consistently
believe as people, millions of people say they
do, that the knowledge and practice of religion
in this earth, on our feelings, if I
believed it was transforming, then he said religion
would be my first waking thought and my
last image when sleep sunk into my unconsciousness,
I would labor in its cause alone, I
would not labor for the meat that perishes
nor for the treasure of earth, but only
for the crown of glory in heavenly regions,
I would take no thought for the tomorrow,
but for eternity alone, I will be neither
worldly prudent nor calculating circumstance to engross my
zeal, earthly consequences should never stay my hand
or seal my lips, I would speak to
the imagination, awake the feelings, stir up the
passions, arouse fancy, earthly joys and griefs should
occupy no moment of my time, I would
strive to look for eternity alone and for
immortal souls who will soon be in everlasting
bliss or everlasting darkness and torture, I would
deem all things that men have outside of
that as pure madness, I would not give
a second thought to materialism, I would say
live, move and have your being in me
God, control my life, control my eating, control
my sleeping, make me a slave, I don't
want to be a servant of Jesus Christ,
a servant knows what time to start, what's
time to finish, a slave doesn't, he's looking
for slaves, that's why the apostle Paul declared
he was a slave, in the year that
King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord and
everything in life was totally transformed, he became
what Spinoza called a God intoxicated man and
it's going to take that to move this
generation in which we live, I need a
vision of a holy God, holiness
is the residence of God, because his word
says holiness, what the psalmist says, spring from
the habitation of thy holiness, you go to
the other end of the scale, he says
in Ephesians 2, we're the residence of God,
you're the habitation of God, would you dare
say that?
I've gone around holiness churches around the world
for at least 40 years, I've heard people
say I was saved and then I'm sanctified
or saved and I never knew till today,
I've never once heard a person say I'm
holy, we sang in that hymn tonight, only
thou art holy, holiness is originally God's but
he demands holiness, you can't pray without holiness,
you say my prayers don't get through, the
devil hinders, it doesn't hinder you, you hinder
yourself, why?
Thinking of Bob again, remember that word you
gave me up in Kansas City, Psalm 24,
who shall ascend the hill of the Lord
even have clean hands, that's our relationship with
men, you know you think if you're righteous
you get blessed, well Abel was righteous, what
did he get for it?
He got killed, what was Noah?
A preacher of righteousness, what was Zechariah?
A preacher of righteousness, he was killed in
the temple, people hate righteousness, righteousness is my
relationship with God, holiness is my relationship, no,
righteousness is my relationship with men, holiness is
my relationship with God, and God demands holiness,
worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,
you can't worship God with bitterness in your
heart, you can't worship God with a grudge
in your heart, you can't worship God when
all the time you're catering for selfishness and
your own ambition, no, that's totally impossible, I
could give you a whole list, I won't,
but just say why did a young man
go from, I think it was America, a
young preacher and he went to, what country
am I thinking of now, I was going
to Siberia, it wasn't Siberia, it was out
that way, anyway he went there for one
reason, he had a vision of the lost
people there, vision motivates us, if you get
vision you get action, you can't say you
have a passionate love for soul without compassion,
then Salvation Army sang when I was a
kid, except I am moved with compassion, how
dwelleth thy spirit in me, in thought, word
and deed, burning love is my knee, I
know I shall find it in thee, so
here is a man in the year the
king Uzziah died, everything changed, he
had a vision of God, as he had
a vision of deity in the heavens, a
vision of depravity in his own heart, a
vision of duty in the world outside, but
wait, he also had a vision in chapter
1, he sees his whole nation full of
wounds and putrefying sores from the head to
the feet, there's no soundness, it's corruption, it's
corruption, but he doesn't cry there for the
nation, it's when he sees his own corruption,
20 times in his writing he says, woe
unto you, woe unto you, sit up late
at night, woe unto you that gossip, woe
unto you others, but then finally, the greatest
woe is me, it's not my brother nor
my sister, it's me O God, standing in
the need of prayer, it doesn't say woe
to the priests and others, he says woe
is me, I'm undone, that takes an awful
lot of saying, let me wind this up
quickly, I've leaped around a bit I'm sure,
but you know what, don't get edgy when
I say this, for the last 50 years
or a hundred years, evangelism has been ridiculed,
you know, you talk about Elmer Gantry in
American history, but it's only this last three
years it's been scorned and joked about, the
misconduct of some of the leading men had
had millions of dollars, one took 20 years
to build the Christian Disneyland at PTO, another
one got millions of dollars to build a
place with his name on, but wait a
minute, I don't care a hell of beans
what people say about Christianity, but when Jesus
says it, I'm torn up, I don't need
to want my Bible at night, I lay
in my bed and weep and say Jesus,
you said it, Paul didn't say it, what
do you say about the day in which
we live, I checked this with Jack the
other day, I keep picking on Jack, but
he's helped me so much, what did Jesus
say, he wasn't Paul, it was Jesus that
said of the church for which he gave
his blood, that she's poor, wretched, naked, blind
and miserable, are you telling me the church
at this moment is ready, the one thing
that holds Jesus Christ back is not all
the rotten damnable sin of the world and
heresies and cults, the one thing that keeps
Jesus from coming is the bride is not
ready, he's not coming for a crippled bride,
our young men in England in the royal
family usually want to get married in Westminster
Abbey, it seats only 3,000 people, everybody
going to a royal wedding gets excited, oh
you can't sell the ticket, you must use
it, if you sit on a chair in
the hours you can take it home and
all the celebrities are there, all the leaders
of the nations, presidents, principals, men of money,
men of talent, the cream of science, the
cream of society all flock in, they borrow
clothes to go, they're going to see a
royal wedding, so let's figure it, some of
those ladies wear, what do you call them,
tiaras, precious stones, and they wear the gorgeous
gowns, a lot of them rent them, so
here's a man up in the music loft
and this fellow in the loft says, how
do I know when to start playing here
comes the bride, well there are trumpeters at
the door and they'll sound a blast and
when they sound the blast you start playing
here comes the bride, so the trumpet sound
this fellow up there plays here comes the
bride and here's the royal prince standing there
immaculately with his suit, gold buttons, gold handle
on his sword, looking the model of sartorial
perfection and everything else, he's scholarly, he's well
trained, he speaks three or four languages, maybe
like Prince Charles, he's been in charge of
a boat, he can fly a private jet,
he can do all this thing, here's this
most envied bachelor in the world and there's
a woman coming down the aisle and everybody
gasps, isn't she gorgeous and just before she
gets there a woman over here jumps out,
she has an artificial tiara on, she's a
dress she's borrowed and just as the prince
comes and the bride's going to go up
and the prince going to say, darling this
is it at last, she shrieks out, she
tears her clothes, she stinks, she isn't bathed,
she's blind, she crashes into something and gets
bloody knees and rubs them, then rubs her
hands and then gets it on her dress
and there is despicable stinking and a soldier
gets hold of her, what are you doing
here, she says I'm the bride, I'm the
bride, you idiot, you're the bride, you think
our royal prince is going to marry a
dirty stinking smelling blind woman like you, well
that's what your preacher says, your preacher says
Jesus will take the whole church, I don't
believe that, you say I believe Jesus will
come at any moment, I don't believe that,
if you believe that you're walking in purity
at this moment, I read it this morning
in John, when we see him we should,
when we see we should what, be like
him, no that's the old version, when we
see we should say Lord I'm sorry my
prayer life is in rags, I have a
disobedient heart, I have a will that isn't
set to do the will of God, I'm
behind in my tithing, I don't love prayer,
friend if you went to heaven as you
are just now it would be hell, you'd
be miserable in the holiness of God, no
Jesus did not come for a bride that's
impure and dirty, he's coming for a bride
that's pure, so dear brothers sisters I'm prepared
by the grace of God, whether I'm in
or out of this place, I'm prepared as
some other people are up there in Kansas
city, I'm prepared to lay down my life
to see a revival of holiness, to make
the bride ready, not to make the church
feel better, but because Jesus Christ has been
waiting 2,000 years, isn't it amazing, isn't
it staggering, he looks through the latch and
he sees this dirty filthy rebellious woman that
we call the church, he should spit on
her and kick her out of his life
and he threatens to do that, and yet
mercy upon mercy, mercy upon mercy, patience upon
patience, the blessed son of God stands outside
of the door as he'd done for 2
,000 years and looks in and sees this
rotten woman and he says behold I stand
at the door and knock, if you repent
I'll cleanse you, I'll come in and possess
you, I'll come and make you pure, I'll
carry you into my presence for eternity to
be made pure because of my own blood,
but the church doesn't want that, she's sleepy
and lethargic and indifferent, but Jesus Christ is
waiting for the church to be purified and
I guarantee you the Holy Ghost can come
and sweep not America but the world in
six months and purify, purify the bride in
a short time, he's waited long enough, I
find it terrible to ponder that, he's waiting,
okay let's take this precious man for a
moment, do you know what purity does?
It drives you to prayer, it drives you
to realize we have no resources of our
own, you may be stacked up with theology
or buddhism if it isn't on fire, we've
got to see as God sees and love
as God loves and sacrifice as God sacrifices,
there's no other way.