Here is a man, he's a prophet, one
of the most outstanding men in history.
He says, cleanse me.
I'm undone.
He doesn't say I'm behind in my tithing.
He doesn't say I'm not as I should
be.
He says, purge me.
Did God hear his cry?
Woe is me, I'm undone.
Here's the final thing.
He didn't say, Lord, I think there's something
wrong with me.
He said, Lord, I have filthy lips, and
I live amongst people with filthy lips.
Somebody told me, and I hope it's, I'll
quote it because it's the same thing I
believe.
Somebody told me that recently Paul Cain said
this, I think one of the great pollutions
in the church is through the lips.
Gossiping lips, criticizing lips, dirty lips.
Dear God, we slander somebody and then say,
Lord, bless me today and bless my family
with dirty lips.
Preposterous.
Then you have an altar there.
The top of the altar is something like
mesh.
On the altar, there's a slain animal, and
from that animal drops of blood are dropping
onto the live coals.
The blood is symbolic of the cross, and
the fire symbolic of the Holy Ghost.
You put the blood and the fire together,
and the angel can't take hold of the
thing.
He gets a pair of tongues, and he
touches him on his head.
No, he touches where he's filthy.
He says, Lord, this has touched thy lips.
Thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
purged.
What did David cry?
Terrified that God would take his spirit from
him.
You know, there's no fear of God with
us.
I turned up thinking about Moses today.
We give people a second chance.
Did Adam get a second chance?
Did Moses get a second chance?
God said, speak, and instead of speaking, he
smote the thing.
It cost him 40 years, and yet, preacher,
you've been walking in disobedience for the past
five years, and you think it's all right.
God doesn't mind.
Listen, brother, you'll catch at the end of
the road anyhow.
You better do the will of God, whatever
it costs.
I tell you what.
Today, I cried, and two or three days,
I've cried over the most neglected, forgotten people
in the world.
They live in America called the American Indians.
Nobody goes to them.
Even their own people don't want them.
They're torn with witchcraft.
I heard the other day a missionary saying,
you come down where we live.
You'll see demon power.
You'll see people healed by demons.
You'll see all kinds of awesome things done
by demons.
Why can't we counteract in the power of
God?
The devil's run the business too long.
He's run the church too long.
It's time you craved in your heart and
said, Lord, I can't live any longer.
As a man said this morning, Lord, I
can't live like this.
If you can't change my personality, if you
can't enthrone me, if you can't fill me
with the Holy Ghost, I don't want to
live.
I'll say the same thing, old as I
am.
I've not seen the best yet.
I've not seen the glory I want to
see.
I've not even seen the glory God wants
to give.
And as soon as you get angry and
say, Lord, I can't live like this anymore.
Can you imagine the life goals from off
the altar touched upon his lips?
Do you wonder that after that, he can
walk into the presence of God purified.
He hasn't a single thing he's interested in.
It's God first.
No, no, no.
I used to have a little Bible case.
It had God first and a very famous
man.
I won't tell you his name.
Len, you want to cross it out?
I think it's wonderful.
It gives me a point of contact.
I get in a bus.
God first.
He said it's wrong.
I said, what do you mean it's wrong?
He said, it's not God first.
It's God only.
Well, that's where we should be.
God only.
Again, see this man who'd been terrified with
impurity.
I'm unclean.
I'm undone.
I don't deserve to come.
And a cherubim takes a life called from
off the altar.
The cherubim had six wings.
What do you do when the light's too
bright?
You put your glasses over and you screen
the brightness.
They didn't have glasses.
So they filtered the glory of God through
their wings.
They couldn't, they didn't look on God and
they put two wings over themselves.
They didn't let God look at them.
And so they cried in their misery.
One morning this week, we're going to, when
I can get, I want to remind ourselves
Psalm 80, where David says, Oh, thou that
dwellest between the cherubim.
Well, listen, I'll tell you before God, I'm
tired of God living amongst the cherubim.
I want to walk in on a high.
I want you to come here.
Even if I'm terrified when he comes, I'm
sick of meetings.
I've been in meetings all over the world
for 60 years.
Almost.
I've never seen the glory I want to
see.
And God wants to unveil it on this
age, which is the most crooked, perverse rebellious
generation in history.
Sex is a joke.
Uncleanness is a joke.
Rebellion is a joke.
How long does God put up with it?
All right.
Take the life call and put it on
your lips.
I'd say this and finish.
I was a youth leader in the church.
I had more zeal than most people.
They said, Oh, Raven is going to do
this.
Raven is going to do that.
I rallied the young kids to pray Saturday
night.
I rallied them to pray at seven o
'clock Sunday morning.
And one day I went to an altar
and everybody said, my preacher came in.
What are you doing here?
I said, well, I've some uncleanness.
No, you're all right.
You're the best guy in this church.
Everybody knows you pray with zeal.
Everybody knows you shout best in the open
air and so forth.
It didn't make a hill of beans if
Gabriel said it to me.
I knew inside.
I had a defilement.
And I said to the man, listen, I
want Romans 6, 7 in my life.
He that is dead is freed from sin.
I want to die.
A precious girl prayed in our prayer meeting
yesterday morning.
Lord, do something in this meeting.
We've been to meetings and made commitments and
we fall back.
Here's a girl bursting with tears.
It's saying, Oh God, please do something in
this conference in Anaheim where we'll never backslide
again.
We'll never lose our anointing.
We'll never lose our vision.
I'm saying the final thing here.
One of the most dramatic prayers.
I think the whole of God's word.
I'm up the hill again.
Jack, is it?
Where's the phrase?
It's 64 where it says, Oh, that thou
wouldst rend the heavens.
Isaiah 64.
But here it is.
This man who was nervous in the sight
of God says, Oh, that thou wouldst rend
the heavens.
I'll tell you what, if we could rend
them, we'd have rended them long ago.
I preach at the annual conference of full
gospel businessmen 25 years ago at their annual
conference in Denver.
They were a big crowd.
And I said, if you could buy the
Holy Ghost, you'd have bought him long ago.
You pull out your checks and want to
govern him, but he won't play that game.
God never took advice from me and he
won't take it from you.
He says, read my word, read my revelation.
Woe is me, I'm undone.
A final thing.
This precious brother at the front is a
brilliant scholar in Hebrew and 16 Semitic languages.
He invited me to go up to their
place.
My dear Paul, Martha and I went.
We had five meetings.
Only two of them were in buildings.
The other were in houses.
As we finished the Sunday night, people began
to pray.
And I remember the prayer of one blonde
woman particularly.
But then I looked up, there's a young
Jew.
I could just see his black beard with
his hands in the air.
I don't know if he's a lawyer or
what.
A wonderful looking guy.
Do you know what he was crying?
Lord, show me how to buy ointment.
I'm blind.
Jesus says in the church today, she's poor,
wretched, naked, blind.
No wonder she stumbles around.
I've never forgotten the prayer of that man.
Doesn't Jesus say, when I come in, I
counsel you to buy.
You say you can't buy anything from God.
We'll argue with God.
You can buy.
We buy by our obedience.
Buy of me gold.
Buy of me white raiment.
Buy of me eye salve.
The irony is that that was the chief
export of that town.
It exported the best cloth.
It exported the greatest eye salve.
And he says, hey, you're selling it.
You need it.
You want to go to the mission field.
No, you need the mission.
You need the holy ghost friend tonight.
If God comes in, your prayer life will
never drag.
I think I could pray every hour of
the day and enjoy every minute of it.
I look forward to Saturday night.
We're going to meet at seven in the
next room.
Come, we're going to pray.
I don't care if it's prayed until six
in the morning, but I want you to
pray your long prayer before you come and
then pull your hat out and say, Lord,
this next week is the most vital in
Anaheim history, in American history, and maybe in
world history.
I tell you, I'm tired of playing for
little chips.
I want something that will glory.
I want something so big no man will
ever dare put his name on it.
I'm sick of people trying to get power
to boost their little cause.
Forget it.
Maybe I'm not smart.
I think I'm not.
But I'll tell you what, the little foretaste
I've had of God, the little foretaste I
have of fire, if he would condescend to
give me a bigger burden, crush me more.
Give me anointing of the spirit.
You can have everything you like.
Build the biggest church in America, get the
greatest donations.
I don't care.
I want to live to make the devil
get afraid.
I want to see before we leave this
place, people swept by the hundred that say,
I can't be like this anymore.
I need the fire of God.
Burn up my pride.
Burn up my selfishness.
Burn up my weakness.
Burn up my indifference.
Fire will hurt, but I'll tell you in
God's name, there's nothing else we'll do.
There are hundreds of preachers tonight and you
know at this moment your church is blind
because you're blind.
It has no vision because you've no vision.
It has no passion.
You go to the it doesn't make a
spot of difference.
It's a crucial hour.
What are we going to do?
Keep the bridegroom waiting?
Are we going to take off your dirty
rags tonight and say, Lord, I'm unclean?
Again, he doesn't say Israel is unclean.
He doesn't say the priesthood is unclean.
He says, I'm unclean.
It's easy to say the preacher is not
clean and the deacon, it's me.
I'm going to ask you now, I never
get choruses.
I won't stir you emotionally.
In your will, will you will tonight to
do the will of God, whatever it costs?
Will you say, burn up my future if
maybe?
Burn up my anticipations.
Burn up my lifestyle.
I want God, the Holy Ghost tonight, if
I'm to live 12 more hours.
I'm going to tell you men, you say
I need this tonight.
So get up and walk right here now
and say, God, I'm going to stay here
till the fire falls.
And then the women can kneel at the
chairs.
Are you going to meet God?
I'm not going to sing.
You either come now.
I'm going to quit.
Those men who say now, I'm going to
meet God.
I want God to consume every hindrance in
my life.