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We have a legitimate right to sing as

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we sang earlier tonight, My Jesus, I love

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Thee.

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I know Thou art mine.

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We bless You for that security that we

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have.

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We thank You, Lord Jesus, that when You

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look down from the cross, You said it

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is finished, and there remaineth no more sacrifice

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for sins.

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Your Word says, once in the end of

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the age, He appeared to put away sin

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by the sacrifice of Himself.

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Your Word tells us, by one man's transgression,

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sin entered into the world, and because of

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sin, death.

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But we thank You that by one man,

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not the second Adam, but the last Adam,

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was able to undo all the first Adam

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did.

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We thank You that he lived a righteous,

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spotless, holy life.

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We thank You for the cleansing of the

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blood tonight.

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If we hadn't have had that, we would

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have entered this house defiled tonight, embarrassed.

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But we thank You for that fountain filled

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with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners

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plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty

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stains.

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The dying thief rejoiced to see the fountain

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in his day, and there have I, not

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may I, but there have I, though vile

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as he washed all my sins away.

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The Lord, let this meeting contribute to Your

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praise and adoration.

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We can't give You anything.

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You own the world.

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We can't give You the advice.

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You're the essence of all wisdom.

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We cannot counsel You in righteousness.

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You're the very essence of righteousness.

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But You desire our praise.

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You desire our worship.

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We would worship You tonight in spirit, and

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in truth, and in the very beauty of

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holiness.

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We thank You for Your mercy to us.

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As we sang tonight, great is Thy faithfulness.

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Pardon for sins.

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We thank You You've given us that.

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We thank You that the strength for today

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and grace for tomorrow.

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We thank You You haven't made any miscalculations.

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We think about how often the automobile people

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withdraw their automobiles for defects that have been

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there for years.

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But we thank You that You made a

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perfect offering, Lord Jesus.

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We thank You that You can make us

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perfect in holiness, in obedience, in righteousness, in

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love.

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God, put a grudge in our hearts, lest

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we become an embarrassment to God.

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Don't let us misrepresent You in this evil,

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perverse generation in which we live.

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You've told us in Your Word that whatsoever

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we do, we're to do all to the

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glory of God.

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We ask tonight, in the words of the

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psalmist, that the words of our mouths and

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the meditation of our hearts may be acceptable

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in Thy sight.

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O God, our strength and our Redeemer.

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Anoint Your Word tonight.

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Take the veil from it.

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Take the veil from our eyes.

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Take the veil from our understanding.

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May we go from this house with a

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deeper assurance, a greater determination to do the

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will of God.

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Because You've told us that He that doeth

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the will of God abideth forever.

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So we thank You for Your presence in

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Jesus' name.

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Okay, take your seats please.

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All right, Exodus, the book of Exodus chapter

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20.

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Exodus chapter 20 in verse 19.

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I'm reading, obviously, the King James version.

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The proper version.

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You know, people laughed at the old lady

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in England.

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She said, I read the King James version

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because the Apostle Paul read it.

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Well, he wrote most of it anyhow.

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She's pretty smart, wasn't she?

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Not King James version, but she read the

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scriptures that are here.

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Okay, Exodus chapter 20.

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Verse 19, And they said unto Moses, Speak

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thou with us, and we will hear, but

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let not God speak with us.

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You know, I think that's typical of many

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services to which we go.

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We want to hear a preacher, we don't

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want to hear God.

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Particularly a preacher who presents something we've always

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believed, it's merely an echo in our hearts.

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We don't want to know what God is

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saying, we want to know what the popular

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theology is saying.

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Don't speak to us, don't let God speak

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to us.

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You speak to us.

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It's rather a change of tune.

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They said unto Moses, Speak thou with us,

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and we will hear, but let not God

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speak with us, lest we die.

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You know, if you go back to the

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17th chapter, Exodus 17 verse

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1, And all the congregation of the children

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of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of sin,

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after their journeys, according to the commandment of

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the Lord, and pitched in rephidim, and there

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was no water for the people to drink.

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Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and

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said, Give us water that we may drink.

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Moses said, Why do you chide with me?

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Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?

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The people thirsted for water, and the people

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murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this

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that thou hast brought us apart of it?

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Notice they don't recognize God has done it.

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They don't say here that you brought us

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up with a strong hammer and a stretched

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out arm.

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Moses brought it.

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Moses did nothing of the kind.

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Sure enough, he was the leader.

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He brought them out, but he couldn't get

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them in.

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The trouble with the church today, in my

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judgment, is this.

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Most of us have come out of Egypt,

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but we're not living in the promised land.

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The church has halted somewhere between Easter and

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the resurrection.

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No, don't speak to us, God.

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But now look at the change again in

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that 20th chapter.

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And all the people saw the thunders, thunderings,

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and the lightnings, and the noise of the

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trumpet, and the mountain smoking.

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And when they saw it, they removed, and

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stood afar off, and said unto Moses, Speak

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with us.

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And we hear, but let not God speak

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with us.

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Moses said unto the people, Fear not, for

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God is come to prove you, that you

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may, that his fear may be before you,

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before your faces, and that ye sin not.

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You see, as we would say, God put

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on a show there.

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They murmured, they complained, we have no water.

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We, back in Egypt, we had onions and

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garlics.

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Why in the world they wanted that junk,

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I don't know.

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But they want to go back to onions

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and garlics.

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Ever get near somebody with garlic?

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Don't they smell horrid?

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But they want to go back to Egypt.

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And so the Lord shows them now, he

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does a display of thunder and lightnings, the

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earth shakes.

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Read the Hebrew, in the epistles of the

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Hebrews about that.

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They were terrified when they saw the majesty

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of God in the skies.

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When they felt the shaking of the earth,

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when they hear the noise of the thunder.

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Well, if that's what God does, what would

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he do if he spoke to us?

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And Moses says, don't be afraid, he's not

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wanting to destroy you.

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He wants to speak to you.

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And that led me off on to thinking

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of the voice of God.

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You remember that God, well, the story is

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so familiar, Adam sinned.

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What can you say about it that's new?

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Well, let me stress this anyhow, Adam sinned.

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Did he go looking for God?

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No, he didn't.

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What did he do?

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He hid.

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He tried to cover himself.

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Cover himself in the bushes, cover himself with

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leaves, made an apron to cover his nakedness.

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And God went after the man who had

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disobeyed him.

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God is the offended one, and yet the

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offended one goes after the offender.

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You get the same thing, God goes after

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Abraham.

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God went after Jacob.

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God went after Moses.

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He's always pursuing, he's always seeking.

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What did Adam do?

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Well, he went and hid himself.

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And he heard a voice.

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I wonder how he felt.

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It's like the voice that says, what doest

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thou hear Elijah?

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He said, what are you doing here Adam?

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I'm hiding.

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Why are you afraid?

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He gave the game away, because he was

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disobedient, because his conscience was lashing him, because

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he was afraid of the majesty and awesomeness

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of God.

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And yet God comes to him.

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What did he do when the angels transgressed?

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He put them in hell forever.

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People say demons are those angels that fell.

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Well, that's not scriptural.

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The angels that fell are locked up, Jude

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says, they're locked up there in eternal darkness

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till God wants to release them.

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That's where the angels are.

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Where do demons come from?

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Find out for yourself, do some homework, don't

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be lazy.

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The demons, well, I was going to say,

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I won't say it anyhow, I'll let you

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work sweat over it a bit, do you

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good.

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But God, as soon as the angels transgress,

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he casts them out into darkness.

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He doesn't do that with Adam.

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He isn't a policeman, he's a counselor.

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He comes to rescue them, he comes to

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deliver them, he comes to tell them he's

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going to make a propitiation for sins when

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he gets to the third chapter, something that's

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going to happen centuries ahead.

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I find it very interesting to think again

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about the voice.

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I did a little homework myself, I don't

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do too much, but I did some today.

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I went through the book of Revelation and

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found that the voice is spoken of 40

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times, maybe 42 times in Revelation, the voice

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is spoken up.

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Do you remember what this wonderful man John

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did on the isle called Patmos?

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You can see Patmos if you were at

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Ephesus, the ruins are still there, you can

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look over the sea and see a piece

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of rock out of the ground, and that's

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out of the ground, pardon me, out of

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the water, out of the sea, and that's

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the isle of Patmos.

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If you've gone to Ephesus and said, well,

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I'm on a trip, I'm on a tour,

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and I would like to see your pastor,

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is he preaching at home?

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No, he's not at home today.

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Well, he's in the isle of Patmos, and

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you take a boat and you go there,

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and you see the little fellow there on

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a rock, and you come up behind him

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and say, are you John?

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He says, I sure am, yes.

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Well, he wouldn't say sure, because he wasn't

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American, but anyhow, he says, yes, I'm John.

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I never thought I'd find you in Patmos.

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He said, I'm not in Patmos.

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What do you mean you're not in Patmos?

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Where are you?

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I'm in the Spirit.

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And remember, will you, a bit further up

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in the book, in the same chapter, he

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says that when he saw the Christ of

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God, his hair as white as snow, his

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feet like burnished brass, his face like the

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sun in its strength, his eyes like living

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coals of fire, his tongue as sharp as

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a razor, I felt his feet as dead.

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That's the only case I know of in

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a scripture where anybody's ever been slain in

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the Spirit.

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He was in the Spirit on the last

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day, and he goes down.

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What did he do?

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I'll tell you what he did, nothing.

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I don't read he ever said a word

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to the Lord Jesus.

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The woman brought her alabaster box of ointment

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and broke it at the feet of Jesus.

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Why did she go to see Jesus?

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She went to worship him.

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How do you know?

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Because, number one, she took the most precious

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thing that she had.

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You cannot worship God without sacrifice, and your

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sacrifice may be kicking the bedclothes off at

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two o'clock in the morning.

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I went into my office at quarter of

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one this morning, to work.

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I usually go between now two and four

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o'clock, and have such wonderful times.

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You know, all those crazy people don't phone

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you at that time.

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The mailman doesn't come, and those pestering preachers

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don't come asking for counsel that they won't

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accept anyhow.

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So nice to be quiet, you know, as

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the old hymn says, alone with God, the

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world forbidden.

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Alone with God, O blessed retreat.

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Alone with God, and in him hidden, to

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hold with him communion sweet.

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The woman washed his feet.

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She never said a word, as far as

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I know.

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There's no evidence anybody ever took a bite

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of food at that banquet.

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They were so magnetized with a person of

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Jesus.

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John, this is the man who had laid

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his head on the bosom of Jesus.

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I hear preachers say, well, you know, he

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loves us all.

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He loves everybody.

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God has no favorites.

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If the man tells you that, find a

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new church.

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He doesn't know what he's talking about.

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God has favorites.

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I'm one of them, but apart from that.

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He does have favorites, doesn't he?

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He went and raised Lazarus from the dead.

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He went and raised, was the daughter of

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what?

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Jairus, and on the Mount of Transfiguration, he

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took with him who?

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Peter, James, and John, every time.

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I wonder if the others griped about it.

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Oh, off they go again.

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He favors those three.

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Then John, who is perhaps the most humble

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of them all, writes that that disciple whom

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Jesus loved.

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There was an intimacy between Jesus and John

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that the others didn't know a thing about.

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You know, one of your problems, if you're

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going to walk with God, you better watch

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out you don't get more spiritual than your

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pastor.

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That's awful embarrassing to him.

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He may be the laziest guy in the

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country, doesn't have any discipline, doesn't have to

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go to bed at a given time, doesn't

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have to get up at a certain time,

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he makes his own life, and before long

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he's moldy.

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I read a smart thing, you know Americans

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do say some smart things, not as good

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as the English, but anyhow.

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I read where an American said we're all

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made in the same mold, but some are

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moldier than others.

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Doesn't matter how moldy you are, the Lord

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can get you into shape anyhow.

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But you see, there's an intensity with some

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people.

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In every church you find that, to use

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a common phrase easy, quality people.

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You find some people are an inspiration to

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you in their walk with God, in their

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talk with God, in their actions for God.

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And there was something about John that magnetized

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Jesus, and something about Jesus that magnetized John.

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Here is a man who had laid his

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head on the bosom of Jesus and heard

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that divine heartbeat.

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He'd look into the eyes of the Eternal

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One, and now he sees him with eyes

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like a flame of fire, and his feet

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like burnished brass, his face like the sun

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in its strength.

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I think it was Fanny Crosby, she wrote

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more hymns than any other American, over three

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thousand.

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I think I've got them all at home.

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I think she wrote that, the verse anyhow

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that says, and I shall see him face

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to face.

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How will we bear it?

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Oh, Revelation says we will.

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Well I remember, I've got a speaker, not

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that I want you to come, the pastor.

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I always want to say the agape for

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us, but anyhow, who are they now, the

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Christian tribe up the road?

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The pastor's here tonight.

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Brother Dave Wilkinson came to see me two

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days ago.

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He was so overwhelmed with what God was

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being saying to him.

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He's trying to finish a book right now.

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I'll give you the title of it.

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The title is, Put the Trumpet to Thy

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Lips.

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It's from the prophecy of Hosea.

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My wife and I have read it through

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three times, and maybe tonight we'll read it

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through again.

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And you know, you've got background music almost

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everywhere you go.

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The background music, as we have read that

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over and over again, has been the sound

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of the trumpet, sound and alarm.

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Where?

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On my holy hill, not in the taverns,

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not in the brothels.

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Again, God's problem in America tonight is not

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Mormonism, humanism, Spiritism, Seventh-day Adventism, any other

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ism you like.

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God Almighty's problem in America tonight is a

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carnal church, a church that's choked up.

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You can put all the other things together,

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humanism, communism, Mormonism, Romanism, Spiritism, Seventh-day Adventism,

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Mormonism, you can roll them all in one

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big ball.

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They are not the number one hindrance in

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America or any other country.

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The hindrance in America tonight is as it

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was in the Old Testament.

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God's problem in the Old Testament was not

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Amalekites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites and the otherites.

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It was Israel.

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God's problem tonight in America is an unsanctified

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church, a church that's still carnal, worldly, fleshly.

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It hasn't been severed.

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That word's been on my mind today.

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I preached last Sunday morning, or tried to

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anyhow, on Galatians 6, 14, where Paul says,

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the world is crucified to me, and I

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to the world.

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Now you've seen a lot of stuff you

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folk that have traveled, but you've never seen

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a crucifixion.

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You mean they're saying something bloody like a

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bullfight.

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Nobody here has seen a crucifixion.

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I found something in making that study.

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I may be wrong, but I'm sure I'm

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right.

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Right in the middle of the most beautiful

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poem on love that was ever written, 1

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Corinthians 13, Paul, you remember, suddenly sidetracks and

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he says, when I became a man, I

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put away a child.

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When did he become a man?

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When did he put away childish things?

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I believe, you have to step back into

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Galatians 2.20, he was crucified with Christ.

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I cannot find any record anywhere wherever a

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child was crucified.

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The Romans were wicked, but they did not

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crucify children.

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There is a place in his, I do

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not believe anybody enters unconsciously into a transaction

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with God, forget it.

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God has given you a brain, given you

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a mind, give you emotions, given you understanding.

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He doesn't ask you to sign a blank

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paper without knowing what's on it in the

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deal.

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It's open in his word, you've got to

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study the word to find it, sure enough.

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But he says, when I became a man,

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you know, he's an amazing man.

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I think the only thing that Paul didn't

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like about himself was he never got to

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do what John Baptist did.

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John Baptist did the greatest thing in history,

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presented, I introduced you Jesus Christ, the Lamb

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of God that taketh away the sin of

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the world.

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Count how many times in Revelation the Lamb

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of God is mentioned.

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I'm going to speak Sunday morning, I think,

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about the bride of the Lamb.

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I like talking about weddings.

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I'm going to live long enough to go

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to Ronnie's, I hope, but anyhow, that's a

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good, at least a year away, anyhow.

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If Jesus Christ is the King of kings,

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and the Lord of lords, and the judge

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of judges, isn't he going to have the

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bride of brides?

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Do you think he's coming for a crippled,

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limping church that we have today?

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A church that has to have a family

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center next door, so the kids can be

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brought up like heathens, so they can play

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pinball and see all the junk, and the

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poor, weary folk that couldn't bend the in

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prayer, they thought that, they thought the scripture

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said, play without ceasing.

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When, of course, it said, pray without ceasing.

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Just like these TV preachers were reading of

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the scripture one day, they thought, they thought

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it said, fleece the flock, and it's, it

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says, feed the flock, you see.

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You need to have good eyes when you

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read the scripture.

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Do you know, the one thing that holds

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the revival back is immaturity.

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We're not mature enough to handle it.

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We don't have mothers and fathers in Zion

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that God can trust.

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There's a time when a girl is too

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young to bear children, there's a time when

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she's too old.

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I remember saying that in a church, the

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first time I came to America, and the

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preacher walked down the aisle on his hands

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and knees, there was an old-fashioned altar

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right there, raised his hand and cried, please

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God, don't let my church get too old

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to bear.

540
00:21:05,660 --> 00:21:07,520
Don't let us get too old to be

541
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,400
spiritually pregnant and bring to birth.

542
00:21:12,170 --> 00:21:13,930
You see, God wants to get through to

543
00:21:13,930 --> 00:21:16,990
us in a special way.

544
00:21:17,970 --> 00:21:19,610
When this new book of David comes out,

545
00:21:19,610 --> 00:21:20,570
I don't know when it will come, but

546
00:21:20,570 --> 00:21:21,750
I'll tell you what, it's red hot.

547
00:21:21,830 --> 00:21:23,870
I hope you'll buy as many copies as

548
00:21:23,870 --> 00:21:24,070
you can.

549
00:21:24,090 --> 00:21:25,370
He won't make a penny out of it.

550
00:21:26,090 --> 00:21:27,670
The money will be given to missions and

551
00:21:27,670 --> 00:21:27,870
whatnot.

552
00:21:29,810 --> 00:21:35,300
But he's waiting on God, crawling into his

553
00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:36,580
bed at three or four o'clock in

554
00:21:36,580 --> 00:21:36,980
the morning.

555
00:21:39,060 --> 00:21:40,840
Burdened as I've never seen him burdened in

556
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,100
the 20 years I've known him.

557
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:44,960
Something's going to come forth that's going to

558
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:45,860
be most disturbing.

559
00:21:45,980 --> 00:21:47,880
It'll cost him a thousand pulpits in America.

560
00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,380
People say of him, as they said, as

561
00:21:52,380 --> 00:21:55,080
these men say, they said to Moses, speak

562
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,280
thou with us and we will listen, but

563
00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:58,720
don't let God talk to us.

564
00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:02,080
Now David is determined that God is going

565
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,000
to speak through that book if it costs

566
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:04,560
him his life.

567
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,180
It will shut thousands of doors in his

568
00:22:08,180 --> 00:22:08,500
face.

569
00:22:09,220 --> 00:22:14,220
Ministers, seminaries, Bible schools will not want him

570
00:22:14,220 --> 00:22:16,640
because it's a prophetic word, it's a burning

571
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,600
word, it's a blistering word, it's a burdened

572
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,760
word, it's a breaking word, it's a blessed

573
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:22,140
word.

574
00:22:24,740 --> 00:22:27,120
See, children want to choose everything for themselves.

575
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,040
Moses said, speak with us that we, and

576
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,660
we will hear, let not God speak with

577
00:22:33,660 --> 00:22:34,540
us lest we die.

578
00:22:35,540 --> 00:22:37,360
Isn't it amazing that people will send millions

579
00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:39,800
of dollars to these TV boys that tell

580
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,520
them lies and kick you out of pulpits

581
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:43,360
if you tell the truth?

582
00:22:45,060 --> 00:22:46,560
A man came to see me this week,

583
00:22:46,740 --> 00:22:48,540
do you remember coming to our church down

584
00:22:48,540 --> 00:22:50,020
in Alabama a few years ago?

585
00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:50,920
I said, tell me the church.

586
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:51,720
Yes, I remember.

587
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,700
Oh yes, oh you really disturbed the church.

588
00:22:55,140 --> 00:22:56,780
In the next business meeting that they had

589
00:22:56,780 --> 00:22:58,440
they said, we're not having that old charismatic.

590
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,880
That's disgraceful, I'm not an old charismatic, I'm

591
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:02,420
not even old.

592
00:23:02,620 --> 00:23:05,660
I mean, I'm getting older but I'm not

593
00:23:05,660 --> 00:23:05,960
old.

594
00:23:06,700 --> 00:23:07,060
Charismatic?

595
00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:08,120
I'm not rheumatic.

596
00:23:21,870 --> 00:23:23,130
Let's hear the voice of God.

597
00:23:23,970 --> 00:23:25,450
Don't let us hear the voice of God.

598
00:23:30,540 --> 00:23:33,180
The voice is a great, it amazes me

599
00:23:33,180 --> 00:23:35,900
when I phone someone, even when I call

600
00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:37,560
my son in West Africa or the other

601
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,480
son in down South America or the other

602
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,380
boy in New Zealand, immediately they come and

603
00:23:41,380 --> 00:23:42,300
I can tell their voices.

604
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,620
I'm amazed at the perfection of a telephone.

605
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,120
Didn't used to be like that 20 years

606
00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:49,320
ago.

607
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:50,600
You used to say something and say, would

608
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:51,380
you repeat that?

609
00:23:51,460 --> 00:23:52,280
Would you repeat that?

610
00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:53,180
Would you repeat that?

611
00:23:53,260 --> 00:23:55,300
And your telephone built as long as you

612
00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:55,660
talk.

613
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,520
It isn't like that now because it bounces

614
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,400
off a satellite and it's pure, it's beautiful.

615
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:03,800
The voice.

616
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,760
Remember Jacob tried to pull a fast trick?

617
00:24:11,260 --> 00:24:12,380
On who?

618
00:24:15,140 --> 00:24:15,700
No?

619
00:24:16,860 --> 00:24:18,000
Come on, who did he try to pull

620
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:18,420
a trick on?

621
00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:19,700
His father?

622
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:21,760
Isaac?

623
00:24:26,060 --> 00:24:27,820
His mother helped him in the deal, you

624
00:24:27,820 --> 00:24:27,980
know.

625
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,480
She took some skin off a goat and

626
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,640
put it on his wrist and round his

627
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,740
neck and the old man goes and he

628
00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:35,940
bends over to his father.

629
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,480
And his father says, well okay, I know

630
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,020
those hairy wrists and that, but the voice

631
00:24:44,020 --> 00:24:45,040
is Jacob's voice.

632
00:24:47,220 --> 00:24:49,180
Remember when Peter was standing at the fire,

633
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,800
the woman said, I know you, you've got

634
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:51,640
a northern accent.

635
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,460
We know you by your speech.

636
00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:00,520
One man is identified always with a rolling,

637
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,220
rumbling, marvelous voice.

638
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,560
I mentioned his name there.

639
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,000
I said, I think Paul would have liked

640
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,700
to have done just one thing he couldn't

641
00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:10,340
do and that was introduce Jesus to the

642
00:25:10,340 --> 00:25:10,500
world.

643
00:25:10,580 --> 00:25:11,560
John Baptist did it.

644
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,000
How is a voice crying in the wilderness?

645
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,700
How in God's name did he do it?

646
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,360
He had nobody to sponsor him.

647
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,120
He had no friends in court.

648
00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:26,360
He didn't even have a newsletter, would you

649
00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:26,840
believe that?

650
00:25:29,380 --> 00:25:31,420
No offense, no offense, Martin.

651
00:25:33,060 --> 00:25:34,700
If you're under convicts, I'll talk with you

652
00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:34,940
after.

653
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:35,300
Okay.

654
00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,080
Here is a man suddenly hurled.

655
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:41,680
From where?

656
00:25:43,020 --> 00:25:44,320
I had a young man see me this

657
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:44,440
week.

658
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,440
He wants to be another George Whitefield.

659
00:25:46,940 --> 00:25:47,660
Mercy on us.

660
00:25:49,780 --> 00:25:51,020
I'd like to be a John the Baptist.

661
00:25:51,020 --> 00:25:54,680
Well, go live in the desert, somewhere, Navajo

662
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,800
desert, somewhere between here and California, where there's

663
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,720
only rattlesnakes and a lot of stuff out

664
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:00,980
there.

665
00:26:01,660 --> 00:26:04,040
John Baptist lives with the wild beasts until

666
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,560
the day of his showing forth and then

667
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,300
he tamed wild beasts when he came out.

668
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:09,660
What happened?

669
00:26:09,860 --> 00:26:11,880
A voice crying in the wilderness.

670
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,140
That voice rolled down that valley.

671
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,340
It rolled down every valley in hell.

672
00:26:17,940 --> 00:26:20,380
I believe every demon shivered as soon as

673
00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:22,880
John said, behold the Lamb of God.

674
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,520
The devil and his cohorts said, now we're

675
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:25,960
finished.

676
00:26:27,870 --> 00:26:29,630
Don't think you're smart because you believe the

677
00:26:29,630 --> 00:26:29,890
Bible.

678
00:26:29,970 --> 00:26:31,390
The devil believes a lot more than some

679
00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:32,150
of the preachers do.

680
00:26:33,250 --> 00:26:34,950
He believes in the virgin birth.

681
00:26:35,030 --> 00:26:36,110
He believes in the resurrection.

682
00:26:36,510 --> 00:26:37,250
He witnessed them.

683
00:26:38,830 --> 00:26:40,830
Your poor dumb preacher maybe has nothing but

684
00:26:40,830 --> 00:26:41,270
a degree.

685
00:26:42,810 --> 00:26:44,550
Well, maybe by degrees he'll get better.

686
00:26:50,210 --> 00:26:52,270
A voice crying in the wilderness.

687
00:26:54,190 --> 00:26:57,750
If you do some homework, you'll find that

688
00:26:57,750 --> 00:26:59,890
John the Baptist was more than a hellfire

689
00:26:59,890 --> 00:27:02,530
preacher, more than a blazing evangelist.

690
00:27:02,630 --> 00:27:05,150
You'll find 27 different points of doctrine.

691
00:27:05,310 --> 00:27:06,890
He was a theologian in his own right.

692
00:27:06,950 --> 00:27:08,290
We never think of him as a theologian.

693
00:27:11,090 --> 00:27:21,640
But his voice, in Matthew chapter 7, verse

694
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:29,100
21, it says, or verse 16, pardon me,

695
00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:32,620
chapter 7 of Matthew, verse 7, pardon me,

696
00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:34,820
chapter 7 and verse 14, okay.

697
00:27:35,540 --> 00:27:37,580
Because straight is the great and narrow is

698
00:27:37,580 --> 00:27:39,460
the way which leadeth to life, few there

699
00:27:39,460 --> 00:27:40,300
be that find it.

700
00:27:41,140 --> 00:27:43,180
Beware of false prophets which come to you

701
00:27:43,180 --> 00:27:45,420
in sheep's clothing, but inwardly ravening wolves.

702
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,760
Ye shall know them by their fruits.

703
00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:49,980
Do men gather grapes of thorns or pigs

704
00:27:49,980 --> 00:27:50,600
of thistles?

705
00:27:51,540 --> 00:27:53,820
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good

706
00:27:53,820 --> 00:27:56,640
fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil

707
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:56,980
fruit.

708
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,720
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,

709
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,600
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good

710
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:01,820
fruit.

711
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,480
Every tree that bringeth forth good fruit is

712
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,020
hewn down and cast into the fire.

713
00:28:08,540 --> 00:28:09,580
Verse 20.

714
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,240
Wherefore by their fruit ye shall know them.

715
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:13,100
Now here it is.

716
00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:15,940
Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,

717
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,360
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but

718
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:20,120
he that doeth the will of my Father.

719
00:28:20,540 --> 00:28:22,260
Many will say to me in that day,

720
00:28:22,380 --> 00:28:24,580
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy

721
00:28:24,580 --> 00:28:24,700
name?

722
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,060
Didn't we get big crowds?

723
00:28:26,340 --> 00:28:27,800
Didn't we have a super show on TV?

724
00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:30,220
Didn't I build monuments in my name?

725
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:31,960
It's got my name plastered over it.

726
00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:36,340
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?

727
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,040
In thy name we cast out devils.

728
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,060
In thy name we've done many wonderful works.

729
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,200
Then will I profess to you and say

730
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:45,020
I never knew you?

731
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,260
Depart from ye, ye that work iniquity.

732
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,100
You say, well, how does that work?

733
00:28:50,260 --> 00:28:51,160
Doesn't God know everything?

734
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,880
Didn't God know what they were doing?

735
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:54,360
Yes.

736
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,140
Didn't he know their works?

737
00:28:56,180 --> 00:28:56,420
Yes.

738
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,660
Why does he say he doesn't know them?

739
00:28:57,860 --> 00:28:59,400
He doesn't say he doesn't know their works.

740
00:28:59,580 --> 00:29:00,620
He said, I don't know you.

741
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,580
You never had a love relationship with me.

742
00:29:03,780 --> 00:29:05,300
You were never married to my will.

743
00:29:05,740 --> 00:29:07,420
I wasn't number one in your life.

744
00:29:07,980 --> 00:29:09,780
You didn't give me priority in your thinking

745
00:29:09,780 --> 00:29:10,460
and your acting.

746
00:29:10,740 --> 00:29:12,400
You were so occupied with your ministry.

747
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,760
What a devastating thing.

748
00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:20,180
You get the same thing in Matthew 25

749
00:29:20,180 --> 00:29:20,980
and verse 11.

750
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:22,940
They told Cursed.

751
00:29:23,620 --> 00:29:24,880
Let me read that to you.

752
00:29:35,810 --> 00:29:36,730
No, it's not verse 11.

753
00:29:36,870 --> 00:29:37,610
What verse is it?

754
00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:51,700
21?

755
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:54,240
41?

756
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:56,920
Okay, thank you.

757
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,020
I marked it in my testament, not there.

758
00:29:59,020 --> 00:30:01,820
Yeah, then shall they say also unto them

759
00:30:01,820 --> 00:30:03,800
on the left hand, depart from ye cursed

760
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,700
into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and

761
00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:08,380
his angels.

762
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:10,000
What are they done?

763
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,640
The righteous, verse 37, shall the righteous answer

764
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,080
him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungered,

765
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,320
or fed thee, or thirst and gave thee

766
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:19,620
drink?

767
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,840
When saw we thee as a stranger, and

768
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,320
took thee in, or naked and clothed thee?

769
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,260
When saw we thee sick, or imprisoned?

770
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,220
And the king shall say, Beverly, I sent

771
00:30:28,220 --> 00:30:29,460
you in as much as you have done

772
00:30:29,460 --> 00:30:30,820
it unto the least of these, you have

773
00:30:30,820 --> 00:30:31,520
done it unto me.

774
00:30:32,540 --> 00:30:33,820
You know, when you gave that man a

775
00:30:33,820 --> 00:30:35,140
raw deal, you didn't give him a raw

776
00:30:35,140 --> 00:30:36,440
deal, you gave Christ a raw deal.

777
00:30:37,660 --> 00:30:39,320
When you did something for that man that

778
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,820
nobody knows, you didn't do it for him,

779
00:30:40,860 --> 00:30:42,020
you did it for Jesus Christ.

780
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,840
You see, if we kept that in focus,

781
00:30:46,140 --> 00:30:47,520
it would change our lifestyle.

782
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,000
What a shocking thing when it comes to

783
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,940
the final day, and we stand there again,

784
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,260
as you will do, as I will do,

785
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:56,540
before a billion people.

786
00:30:57,540 --> 00:30:58,880
You say, I wouldn't like to stand up

787
00:30:58,880 --> 00:30:59,620
before this crowd.

788
00:30:59,780 --> 00:31:01,080
You'll have to stand up one day before

789
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,020
billions, and give an account of the deeds

790
00:31:04,020 --> 00:31:05,460
done in the body, every one of us

791
00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:05,660
will.

792
00:31:06,740 --> 00:31:08,840
A judgment for the believers, a judgment for

793
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,220
the sinners.

794
00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:12,460
And in that great day, some of these

795
00:31:12,460 --> 00:31:14,820
ministries, God is going to say, I never

796
00:31:14,820 --> 00:31:15,360
knew you.

797
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:19,640
David was telling me, one of the outstanding

798
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,260
preachers in the country, talked with him not

799
00:31:21,260 --> 00:31:22,480
long ago, and said, what time do you

800
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,120
spend in prayer?

801
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,160
I've 3,000 members in my church, do

802
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,800
you think I can spend time in prayer?

803
00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:29,280
Huh?

804
00:31:30,740 --> 00:31:32,620
It's like saying, I'm running so fast, I've

805
00:31:32,620 --> 00:31:33,500
no time to breathe.

806
00:31:36,670 --> 00:31:39,910
You see, there goes some awful revelations at

807
00:31:39,910 --> 00:31:40,650
the judgment seat.

808
00:31:41,630 --> 00:31:44,030
Again, not what we did, but why did

809
00:31:44,030 --> 00:31:44,550
we do it?

810
00:31:44,690 --> 00:31:47,150
Not why didn't we, not what we didn't

811
00:31:47,150 --> 00:31:48,290
do, but why we didn't do it.

812
00:31:48,950 --> 00:31:50,750
God is going to judge motives more than

813
00:31:50,750 --> 00:31:51,910
the action that we've done.

814
00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:53,590
What motivated us to do it?

815
00:31:54,850 --> 00:31:56,670
I told a story often, when I first

816
00:31:56,670 --> 00:31:59,650
came to America in 1950, I would dash

817
00:31:59,650 --> 00:32:01,750
home after preaching at night, sat at Sunday

818
00:32:01,750 --> 00:32:04,070
night, switch on the little box, it only

819
00:32:04,070 --> 00:32:06,570
had two little stations on it, here and

820
00:32:06,570 --> 00:32:08,950
here, and listen to a preacher up in

821
00:32:08,950 --> 00:32:11,890
the northeast, northwest of the United States in

822
00:32:11,890 --> 00:32:15,230
Portland, packing in about 2,000 people every

823
00:32:15,230 --> 00:32:15,810
Sunday night.

824
00:32:16,170 --> 00:32:18,310
He would say, we had a marvelous Sunday

825
00:32:18,310 --> 00:32:18,470
night.

826
00:32:18,530 --> 00:32:21,610
Last Sunday, we had 35 people saved, 20

827
00:32:21,610 --> 00:32:23,790
people received the baptism of the Spirit, and

828
00:32:23,790 --> 00:32:24,630
11 were healed.

829
00:32:24,930 --> 00:32:26,810
Come on, so and so, they're coming down

830
00:32:26,810 --> 00:32:27,290
the aisle now.

831
00:32:27,470 --> 00:32:29,390
And I visualized what was happening, it wasn't

832
00:32:29,390 --> 00:32:29,890
on TV.

833
00:32:31,050 --> 00:32:33,550
When that man finished his amazing ministry of

834
00:32:33,550 --> 00:32:37,590
25 years, he had been to Africa and

835
00:32:37,590 --> 00:32:39,370
had pictures, you know, everybody with their hands

836
00:32:39,370 --> 00:32:39,550
up.

837
00:32:39,690 --> 00:32:42,390
He reported, we saw Pentecost two nights in

838
00:32:42,390 --> 00:32:42,690
succession.

839
00:32:43,030 --> 00:32:44,810
Two nights, we had more decisions than they

840
00:32:44,810 --> 00:32:45,830
had on the day of Pentecost.

841
00:32:45,930 --> 00:32:46,770
It didn't last as long.

842
00:32:48,030 --> 00:32:48,790
We had them.

843
00:32:50,130 --> 00:32:52,610
He was very seriously ill the year before

844
00:32:52,610 --> 00:32:53,150
he died.

845
00:32:54,570 --> 00:32:57,610
He said one night to his wife, his

846
00:32:57,610 --> 00:32:59,510
wife brought him his usual glass of warm

847
00:32:59,510 --> 00:33:00,970
milk and kissed him good night.

848
00:33:01,070 --> 00:33:02,470
In the morning, he called her to his

849
00:33:02,470 --> 00:33:02,990
bedside.

850
00:33:03,770 --> 00:33:07,290
He often made prophecies about himself, about the

851
00:33:07,290 --> 00:33:08,290
church, about the nation.

852
00:33:09,410 --> 00:33:11,370
Called his wife to his bedside and said,

853
00:33:11,550 --> 00:33:13,470
call my assistant, and call the deacons, and

854
00:33:13,470 --> 00:33:15,590
call pastor so-and-so, and they all

855
00:33:15,590 --> 00:33:16,570
got around his bed.

856
00:33:18,250 --> 00:33:19,810
Wife thought he's going to say, you know,

857
00:33:19,890 --> 00:33:21,310
he'll die at four o'clock tonight or

858
00:33:21,310 --> 00:33:21,590
tomorrow.

859
00:33:21,890 --> 00:33:24,370
He said, last night when my wife went

860
00:33:24,370 --> 00:33:26,490
out of the room, Jesus stood there at

861
00:33:26,490 --> 00:33:27,730
the bottom of my bed.

862
00:33:29,490 --> 00:33:31,270
His eyes like a flame of fire.

863
00:33:31,910 --> 00:33:33,990
Just as he's pictured in red, his hair

864
00:33:33,990 --> 00:33:35,850
as white as snow, his feet like burnished

865
00:33:35,850 --> 00:33:37,930
brass, his face like the sun in its

866
00:33:37,930 --> 00:33:42,830
strength, his tongue had sharp twedged sword, and

867
00:33:42,830 --> 00:33:46,570
he pointed to me and said, son, your

868
00:33:46,570 --> 00:33:49,930
25 years of ministry are wood, hay, and

869
00:33:49,930 --> 00:33:53,050
stubble, and when I torch them, all you'll

870
00:33:53,050 --> 00:33:55,150
have is ashes up to your knees.

871
00:33:56,390 --> 00:34:01,680
25 years of ministry, there are six things

872
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:02,640
that can happen in your life.

873
00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:04,480
You can have a Christian life which is

874
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:05,860
made up of wood, hay, and stubble.

875
00:34:06,020 --> 00:34:07,420
They're all above the ground, aren't they?

876
00:34:08,179 --> 00:34:09,340
They're all inflammable.

877
00:34:10,420 --> 00:34:12,540
Silver, gold, and precious stones are hidden in

878
00:34:12,540 --> 00:34:12,920
the ground.

879
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,120
You can take silver, or gold, or precious

880
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:17,620
stones and put fire to them, you won't

881
00:34:17,620 --> 00:34:18,120
change them.

882
00:34:18,179 --> 00:34:20,280
You'll purify the gold, you'll purify the silver,

883
00:34:20,340 --> 00:34:21,600
you won't consume the jewels.

884
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,580
And he said, your ministry is wood, hay,

885
00:34:25,620 --> 00:34:26,159
and stubble.

886
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,400
Oh yes, you've written books, of course you've

887
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,360
had some of the greatest evangelistic meetings in

888
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,760
history, but your ministry was not to me.

889
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,320
There was no love relationship.

890
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,260
I tried to woo you into the secret

891
00:34:39,260 --> 00:34:39,719
place.

892
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,480
I tried to make love to you in

893
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,080
the spirit, but you were so busy, you

894
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,880
ran off, you planned, programmed.

895
00:34:47,980 --> 00:34:50,380
I preached to the ministers in the, of

896
00:34:50,380 --> 00:34:55,440
the Southern Baptist Church, about three or four

897
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,400
years ago, in Alabama, hundreds of them.

898
00:35:01,420 --> 00:35:02,960
Usually if I give a word to preach,

899
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,440
I say, Lord, what will I preach six

900
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:05,000
months ahead?

901
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:07,660
When I said I would go, the Lord

902
00:35:07,660 --> 00:35:09,440
said, preach on the judgment seat of Christ

903
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:09,960
in the morning.

904
00:35:11,380 --> 00:35:15,420
Lord, the people are gathering in the morning.

905
00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:17,940
At night it will be packed out, at

906
00:35:17,940 --> 00:35:18,260
night.

907
00:35:18,540 --> 00:35:19,720
No, the Lord said in the morning, so

908
00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:20,400
I preached on it.

909
00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:23,160
When I finished, I gave the illustration of

910
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,020
this famous preacher.

911
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,580
The chairman of the board came up, the

912
00:35:27,580 --> 00:35:29,200
chairman of the group of the Southern Baptist

913
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,740
Convention in that state came up, president, and

914
00:35:32,740 --> 00:35:35,760
he said, when I came in this morning,

915
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,020
I had a pain from the crown of

916
00:35:38,020 --> 00:35:40,860
my head, right down to my shoulder here.

917
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,400
He said, now after that sermon from Brother

918
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:44,700
Raven, I've got a pain from my head

919
00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:45,760
to the soles of my feet.

920
00:35:46,420 --> 00:35:47,500
What can I do about it?

921
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,400
He said, that's about the most awesome illustration

922
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,000
ever heard, that a man who has invested

923
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,420
25 years of time and money and travel,

924
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,680
and God says it's ashes.

925
00:35:59,570 --> 00:36:02,310
So much showmanship today, it won't stand the

926
00:36:02,310 --> 00:36:02,950
fire of God.

927
00:36:04,590 --> 00:36:06,070
The gold is hidden.

928
00:36:06,210 --> 00:36:08,230
There are so many wonderful hidden ministries.

929
00:36:09,850 --> 00:36:11,290
A lot of intercessors in it.

930
00:36:11,350 --> 00:36:12,470
David said to me the other day, he

931
00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:13,930
said, Len, I'm getting more and more news

932
00:36:13,930 --> 00:36:17,650
from groups that are heading away, praying, interceding.

933
00:36:19,030 --> 00:36:20,370
We have a dear little lady has been

934
00:36:20,370 --> 00:36:21,750
to see us, I think, once Martha, I

935
00:36:21,750 --> 00:36:23,730
don't know, twice, and she with a group

936
00:36:23,730 --> 00:36:25,790
are away in the Rockies, about 30 miles

937
00:36:25,790 --> 00:36:28,350
up inside the mountain there, outside of Pass

938
00:36:28,350 --> 00:36:28,690
Denver.

939
00:36:29,630 --> 00:36:31,730
They worship every day, I don't know, she

940
00:36:31,730 --> 00:36:32,730
has a paper round.

941
00:36:32,810 --> 00:36:35,470
Imagine a paper round in the Rockies, at

942
00:36:35,470 --> 00:36:38,610
four o'clock every morning, and they pray

943
00:36:38,610 --> 00:36:40,330
for hours and hours and hours a day,

944
00:36:41,430 --> 00:36:43,830
in an old disused Methodist church with a

945
00:36:43,830 --> 00:36:44,730
pot-bellied stove.

946
00:36:45,310 --> 00:36:47,470
And they struggle to throw the deep snow

947
00:36:47,470 --> 00:36:49,190
up to their waist, but they go every

948
00:36:49,190 --> 00:36:51,490
morning and have done that for 16 years.

949
00:36:53,570 --> 00:36:54,970
What are these under the altar?

950
00:36:55,130 --> 00:36:56,270
The prayers of the saints.

951
00:36:56,670 --> 00:36:58,690
You notice in Revelation, there are no sermons

952
00:36:58,690 --> 00:36:59,370
under the altar.

953
00:37:01,250 --> 00:37:03,210
Most of them shouldn't be preached anyhow.

954
00:37:05,150 --> 00:37:06,050
What are these under?

955
00:37:06,430 --> 00:37:07,490
Prayers never die.

956
00:37:08,670 --> 00:37:12,270
There's a remnant in America today, stronger in

957
00:37:12,270 --> 00:37:14,390
prayer than any period I've known.

958
00:37:14,510 --> 00:37:16,630
I've been coming to America since 1950 anyhow.

959
00:37:18,070 --> 00:37:20,910
I get wonderful news of young men, teams

960
00:37:20,910 --> 00:37:22,650
of young men, who pray every Friday night

961
00:37:22,650 --> 00:37:24,090
on the basis, if you can do it

962
00:37:24,090 --> 00:37:25,710
there down in Lyndale, we'll do it in

963
00:37:25,710 --> 00:37:26,210
our church.

964
00:37:27,270 --> 00:37:28,910
One young man went back and started a

965
00:37:28,910 --> 00:37:29,330
prayer meeting.

966
00:37:29,470 --> 00:37:31,070
Three months after he called me, he said,

967
00:37:31,490 --> 00:37:33,330
do you know two-thirds of our church

968
00:37:33,330 --> 00:37:36,190
praying every morning for two hours, afternoon three

969
00:37:36,190 --> 00:37:39,030
hours, evening two hours, seven hours a day?

970
00:37:41,530 --> 00:37:42,690
In busy America?

971
00:37:46,150 --> 00:37:47,830
What an awesome thing if God has to

972
00:37:47,830 --> 00:37:48,510
say to us.

973
00:37:50,670 --> 00:37:53,290
Depart from ye, ye cursed into everlasting fire.

974
00:37:54,250 --> 00:37:55,950
I was a hunger, you gave me no

975
00:37:55,950 --> 00:37:56,250
meat.

976
00:37:56,290 --> 00:37:57,950
I was thirst, you gave me no drink.

977
00:37:57,990 --> 00:37:59,350
I was a stranger and ye took me

978
00:37:59,350 --> 00:38:02,550
in, naked and ye clothed me not, sick

979
00:38:02,550 --> 00:38:04,430
and ye in prison and ye visited me

980
00:38:04,430 --> 00:38:04,710
not.

981
00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:08,290
Then shall they answer and say, Lord, when

982
00:38:08,290 --> 00:38:10,470
saw we thee unhungered, or a thirst, or

983
00:38:10,470 --> 00:38:12,590
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison?

984
00:38:12,870 --> 00:38:14,930
And he shall answer them as I answer

985
00:38:14,930 --> 00:38:17,050
you saying, inasmuch as he did it not

986
00:38:17,050 --> 00:38:18,930
to one of these little ones, he did

987
00:38:18,930 --> 00:38:19,750
it not unto me.

988
00:38:21,150 --> 00:38:23,550
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment.

989
00:38:23,650 --> 00:38:24,610
Now figure it out yourself.

990
00:38:24,690 --> 00:38:26,430
I'm not talking theologically, I'm talking about the

991
00:38:26,430 --> 00:38:26,930
fact here.

992
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,040
If there's one book I'd like to write,

993
00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:34,980
I'm trying to write one now, I'd certainly

994
00:38:34,980 --> 00:38:36,460
like to finish what I have of only

995
00:38:36,460 --> 00:38:37,860
part of it on the judgment seat of

996
00:38:37,860 --> 00:38:38,180
Christ.

997
00:38:39,140 --> 00:38:41,500
Surely is the most awesome thing, almost the

998
00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,240
most awesome thing, that lies ahead of us.

999
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:47,600
Of the whole ministry.

1000
00:38:50,220 --> 00:38:52,400
I can give you the names of the

1001
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,920
five, six, seven, eight leading men in the

1002
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:55,160
country.

1003
00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:56,240
I can tell you how much they get

1004
00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:56,740
every week.

1005
00:38:56,740 --> 00:38:58,680
There's at least five of them drawing a

1006
00:38:58,680 --> 00:38:59,620
million dollars a week.

1007
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,600
Every dime of that they have to answer

1008
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:03,640
for at the judgment seat.

1009
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,440
It isn't their money, it's God's money.

1010
00:39:06,540 --> 00:39:08,320
They say, send me God's money, send me

1011
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:08,960
God's tithe.

1012
00:39:13,820 --> 00:39:14,620
The voice.

1013
00:39:17,780 --> 00:39:19,820
The voice of Jesus, I think, in anger.

1014
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,520
The first time we hear his voice is

1015
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:24,700
what?

1016
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:25,780
Matthew 11, 28.

1017
00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:30,580
Where Jesus says, come unto me, all ye

1018
00:39:30,580 --> 00:39:32,040
that are weary and heavy laden, I will

1019
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:32,660
give you rest.

1020
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,460
Take my yoke upon you and learn of

1021
00:39:34,460 --> 00:39:36,620
me, for I am meek and lowly of

1022
00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:38,540
heart and ye shall find rest unto your

1023
00:39:38,540 --> 00:39:38,860
souls.

1024
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,360
Why do you want rest when he's told

1025
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:40,840
you have it?

1026
00:39:41,580 --> 00:39:42,360
Figure that one out.

1027
00:39:43,780 --> 00:39:44,820
Ye shall find rest.

1028
00:39:45,820 --> 00:39:47,940
This is the most restless age in history.

1029
00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:51,500
Nobody can find rest or peace or joy,

1030
00:39:51,940 --> 00:39:53,480
not outside of Christ anyhow.

1031
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,560
But when you hear his voice say, come

1032
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,880
unto me, how wonderful.

1033
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:01,840
Think of the anguish.

1034
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,820
As I said before, we quote so often

1035
00:40:05,820 --> 00:40:07,580
from the book of the Revelation at funerals

1036
00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:09,360
and whatnot, oh well, there shall be no

1037
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:09,860
tears.

1038
00:40:10,460 --> 00:40:12,180
But the scripture of the same book says,

1039
00:40:12,260 --> 00:40:14,300
he wipes away all tears from their eyes.

1040
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:17,560
Where does he wipe the tears away?

1041
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:18,860
I believe at the judgment seat.

1042
00:40:21,660 --> 00:40:23,220
When all of us will be an open

1043
00:40:23,220 --> 00:40:24,540
book, just as I can open this book

1044
00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:26,600
anywhere and read it, your life will be

1045
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:27,620
an open book to God.

1046
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,700
Nothing will be hidden, everything shall be revealed,

1047
00:40:31,820 --> 00:40:32,760
the word of God says.

1048
00:40:33,580 --> 00:40:35,580
And how wonderful if he says, well come

1049
00:40:35,580 --> 00:40:37,180
to the right, well done thou good and

1050
00:40:37,180 --> 00:40:37,780
faithful son.

1051
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Look at the redeemed.

1052
00:40:39,220 --> 00:40:40,600
I'm going to dwell on that Sunday morning.

1053
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,360
All the things that lie ahead of us,

1054
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,580
there are four outstanding things I think ahead

1055
00:40:44,580 --> 00:40:47,500
of us, that will supersede every other thing

1056
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:48,080
in history.

1057
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,900
You know the world outside has a pity

1058
00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:51,420
for us.

1059
00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:53,160
It says, you know where my son is

1060
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:53,460
tonight?

1061
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,240
He's with a crazy bunch, they go to

1062
00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:56,000
prayer meetings.

1063
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:57,080
What do you think about that?

1064
00:40:58,060 --> 00:40:59,660
Your dad's boozing his head off, he'll be

1065
00:40:59,660 --> 00:41:02,060
an idiot tomorrow morning, but he thinks he's

1066
00:41:02,060 --> 00:41:02,840
smart tonight.

1067
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:04,880
Or somebody else.

1068
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,540
Just because we've got things in right perspective,

1069
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,780
just because eternity has become real to us,

1070
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,600
just because we're finding, as Isaac Watts said,

1071
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,980
the hill of Zion, yields a thousand sacred

1072
00:41:18,980 --> 00:41:21,100
sweets before we reach the heavenly field.

1073
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,340
You can find peace in Jesus, no sedative

1074
00:41:24,340 --> 00:41:24,880
can give you.

1075
00:41:26,340 --> 00:41:28,560
You can find such courage in Jesus, and

1076
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:29,860
no electric shock can give you.

1077
00:41:30,980 --> 00:41:32,600
They can find such power in him.

1078
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,060
You know most of this book, to most

1079
00:41:36,060 --> 00:41:37,680
of us, is totally unexplored.

1080
00:41:39,340 --> 00:41:40,820
We just go up and down to one

1081
00:41:40,820 --> 00:41:42,600
chapter, one chapter, two chapters.

1082
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,580
Instead of getting the vast horizon of God's

1083
00:41:46,580 --> 00:41:47,080
revelation.

1084
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,040
We need to hear that voice every day.

1085
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,660
I guess if I were to press you,

1086
00:41:55,740 --> 00:41:57,260
you'd surely say, I don't want God to

1087
00:41:57,260 --> 00:42:01,640
say to me in that great day, depart

1088
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:02,280
from me.

1089
00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:05,800
I want to hear him say, well done.

1090
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:10,640
The only way you can keep on track

1091
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,440
is to hear God's voice day by day.

1092
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,380
Sometimes it's an inward impression, as John Wesley

1093
00:42:18,380 --> 00:42:18,580
said.

1094
00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:20,300
Other times it's the word of God that

1095
00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:21,400
leaps out and grabs you.

1096
00:42:22,580 --> 00:42:24,100
This is the revelation he's given.

1097
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:25,900
He's got nothing more to say.

1098
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,360
How firm a foundation these saints of the

1099
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:30,460
Lord.

1100
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,580
What more can he say than to you

1101
00:42:32,580 --> 00:42:33,000
he has said.

1102
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,420
I like to rub some of the guys

1103
00:42:35,420 --> 00:42:37,340
that come to see me, rub their noses

1104
00:42:37,340 --> 00:42:39,900
in the floor, you know, in my kindness.

1105
00:42:40,940 --> 00:42:41,360
Why?

1106
00:42:42,060 --> 00:42:43,760
Oh, you know what my church was when

1107
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:44,280
I took it over?

1108
00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:45,900
It only had 600 members.

1109
00:42:46,220 --> 00:42:48,320
Now we have 4,500.

1110
00:42:48,580 --> 00:42:49,000
So what?

1111
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:51,620
What have you done?

1112
00:42:52,780 --> 00:42:56,140
Maybe they're all castaways from another denomination anyhow.

1113
00:42:57,340 --> 00:42:58,960
They couldn't put up with the pastor and

1114
00:42:58,960 --> 00:42:59,880
soon they won't put up with you.

1115
00:42:59,980 --> 00:43:01,540
They'll go two blocks down the road somewhere

1116
00:43:01,540 --> 00:43:01,960
else.

1117
00:43:03,140 --> 00:43:05,200
It's easy to build a congregation without building

1118
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:05,680
the kingdom.

1119
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,820
You know, some of you young preachers, you

1120
00:43:13,820 --> 00:43:14,740
don't have maturity.

1121
00:43:15,620 --> 00:43:17,680
But let me tell you something, you can

1122
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:18,280
have authority.

1123
00:43:20,260 --> 00:43:21,480
Maturity comes with years.

1124
00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:25,300
Authority comes by abiding in his presence, by

1125
00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:27,020
listening to the voice of God, by doing

1126
00:43:27,020 --> 00:43:27,700
the will of God.

1127
00:43:27,900 --> 00:43:29,600
He that doeth the will of God abideth

1128
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:30,020
forever.

1129
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:34,860
I believe God's going to raise up in

1130
00:43:34,860 --> 00:43:36,960
this generation some men greater than any in

1131
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:37,300
history.

1132
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,120
I don't think God put his plan on

1133
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,500
one side after Finney and Wesley and all

1134
00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:43,640
these other amazing men.

1135
00:43:44,500 --> 00:43:45,720
It's a bigger task.

1136
00:43:45,860 --> 00:43:47,220
It's a bigger demand on us.

1137
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,440
It's going to take men with greater vision,

1138
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,980
greater passion, greater unction.

1139
00:43:53,420 --> 00:43:55,340
It's not just the result of my will,

1140
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:56,880
it's abiding in the will of God.

1141
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,520
It's being near to the heart of God.

1142
00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:01,440
It's knowing the timing in the things of

1143
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:01,800
God.

1144
00:44:05,570 --> 00:44:06,850
Sure, it's an awful day.

1145
00:44:09,030 --> 00:44:12,430
But I'll tell you, when David does get

1146
00:44:12,430 --> 00:44:14,070
his book out, there are some people going

1147
00:44:14,070 --> 00:44:15,070
to have sleepless nights.

1148
00:44:25,010 --> 00:44:27,290
There are more lost people in the world

1149
00:44:27,290 --> 00:44:29,170
tonight than there have been in any period

1150
00:44:29,170 --> 00:44:29,790
in history.

1151
00:44:30,950 --> 00:44:34,010
The world population is teetering on five million,

1152
00:44:35,690 --> 00:44:37,970
and five billion, and I don't believe there

1153
00:44:37,970 --> 00:44:39,730
are half a billion, say, people in the

1154
00:44:39,730 --> 00:44:40,030
country.

1155
00:44:41,230 --> 00:44:43,150
And then asked me this week, how many

1156
00:44:43,150 --> 00:44:44,730
people do you think are really born again

1157
00:44:44,730 --> 00:44:45,190
in the nation?

1158
00:44:45,250 --> 00:44:47,370
I said, two percent of all professing Christians.

1159
00:44:48,350 --> 00:44:50,150
A hundred and twenty from the upper room

1160
00:44:50,150 --> 00:44:51,070
filled with the Holy Ghost.

1161
00:44:51,330 --> 00:44:54,090
Now we're supposed to have 75,000, 75

1162
00:44:54,090 --> 00:44:58,350
million charismatic, spiritual people below me.

1163
00:44:59,250 --> 00:45:01,150
If a hundred and twenty could turn the

1164
00:45:01,150 --> 00:45:03,290
nation upside down, what should seven million do,

1165
00:45:03,370 --> 00:45:04,090
or 70 million?

1166
00:45:06,130 --> 00:45:07,930
I said that in church last Sunday, Monday.

1167
00:45:07,990 --> 00:45:09,510
One of the big shots from Christ for

1168
00:45:09,510 --> 00:45:10,990
the nation was sitting under my nose.

1169
00:45:11,530 --> 00:45:12,910
I said, what about your bunch?

1170
00:45:13,030 --> 00:45:16,030
You've 1,500 students there, and nobody knows

1171
00:45:16,030 --> 00:45:18,490
you're in Dallas, except you.

1172
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,800
How many students do you have at Springfield?

1173
00:45:26,260 --> 00:45:29,300
Assembly of God, big outfit there.

1174
00:45:29,820 --> 00:45:30,940
Two thousand students.

1175
00:45:31,180 --> 00:45:32,340
Anybody know they're in town?

1176
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,580
Oral says we have 4,000 students filled

1177
00:45:36,580 --> 00:45:36,980
with the Holy Ghost.

1178
00:45:36,980 --> 00:45:37,860
Oh, shut up, Oral.

1179
00:45:37,900 --> 00:45:39,680
Nobody knows in town that you're there.

1180
00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:42,380
There's as much prostitution as when he started

1181
00:45:42,380 --> 00:45:43,220
20 years ago.

1182
00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:45,660
There's as much drunkenness, there's as much wickedness,

1183
00:45:45,700 --> 00:45:46,560
there's as much crime.

1184
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,320
I ask honestly in God's name, what's wrong

1185
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:50,880
with us all?

1186
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,440
But they're sitting and go rotten when you

1187
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,740
profess with 4,000 people filled with the

1188
00:45:54,740 --> 00:45:55,400
Holy Ghost.

1189
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:58,960
Nobody dare face the question.

1190
00:46:00,260 --> 00:46:02,460
I asked that professor from CFN, Christ for

1191
00:46:02,460 --> 00:46:04,140
the nation, last week, he had no answer.

1192
00:46:06,620 --> 00:46:08,740
I asked all these different men that come.

1193
00:46:10,420 --> 00:46:12,720
You see, somewhere we've got away from printing

1194
00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:13,320
the menu.

1195
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,560
You ever go into a restaurant and give

1196
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,120
you a gorgeously polished thing, you know, big

1197
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:19,980
thing this size.

1198
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:21,760
You look at it and say, I'll have

1199
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:22,280
number one.

1200
00:46:22,420 --> 00:46:24,760
Oh, I'm sorry we ran out of that

1201
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:25,640
half an hour ago.

1202
00:46:25,980 --> 00:46:28,160
Well, my wife wants number three, but that's

1203
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:29,240
only Wednesdays and Fridays.

1204
00:46:29,820 --> 00:46:32,920
Oh, we'll take number six, but that's only

1205
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,240
evening after six o'clock, and you can't

1206
00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:35,780
get a bite.

1207
00:46:40,030 --> 00:46:41,930
But that's all the church is doing today,

1208
00:46:42,010 --> 00:46:43,110
we're printing the menu.

1209
00:46:45,510 --> 00:46:46,830
You know, a little guy let you read

1210
00:46:46,830 --> 00:46:47,950
to him so long, and then he says,

1211
00:46:48,090 --> 00:46:48,790
show me daddy.

1212
00:46:49,850 --> 00:46:51,730
I believe the world outside is saying you

1213
00:46:51,730 --> 00:46:53,430
yell, and you shout, and you scream, and

1214
00:46:53,430 --> 00:46:54,530
you have all your fancy shows.

1215
00:46:54,730 --> 00:46:55,370
Show me!

1216
00:46:56,790 --> 00:46:57,450
Show me!

1217
00:46:58,670 --> 00:47:00,190
Where is the glory of the Lord?

1218
00:47:02,150 --> 00:47:04,450
Where are the beautiful garments of holiness the

1219
00:47:04,450 --> 00:47:05,090
church should wear?

1220
00:47:05,170 --> 00:47:05,970
Where is the authority?

1221
00:47:06,170 --> 00:47:07,010
Where is the power?

1222
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:13,680
God sought for a voice.

1223
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,080
That's all we know about John Baptist.

1224
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,240
The only thing he tells us about, what

1225
00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:21,300
kind of clothes he wore.

1226
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:22,080
Isn't that interesting?

1227
00:47:23,460 --> 00:47:25,120
I'd like to see some Baptist preacher in

1228
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,460
the same clothes, if he had the same

1229
00:47:26,460 --> 00:47:26,940
anointing.

1230
00:47:30,260 --> 00:47:32,840
Imagine the pastor of the fashionable church down

1231
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:34,600
in Tyler, Sunday morning, going in with a

1232
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,500
leather girdle around his lungs, and the smelly

1233
00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:38,280
old camel skin around his neck, with fleas

1234
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:39,360
popping off here and there.

1235
00:47:42,940 --> 00:47:44,840
Boys, the deacons would arrest him before he

1236
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:45,540
got in the pulpit.

1237
00:47:48,020 --> 00:47:49,600
But God's going to find his name.

1238
00:47:52,220 --> 00:47:53,960
Friend, listen, it's no good having a heart

1239
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,440
as wide as this, if your heart's as

1240
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:56,180
shrunk as that.

1241
00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:58,540
God doesn't measure our heads, he measures our

1242
00:47:58,540 --> 00:47:58,920
hearts.

1243
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,700
He doesn't measure us by our theology necessarily,

1244
00:48:02,860 --> 00:48:04,740
he measures us by our relationship with him.

1245
00:48:05,020 --> 00:48:06,240
Our love relationship.

1246
00:48:08,780 --> 00:48:11,520
I preached once in that famous church on

1247
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,400
Northside there on Boston Common.

1248
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,440
It was there that that wonderful hymn was

1249
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:17,620
written.

1250
00:48:17,700 --> 00:48:20,420
The organist and a member of the church

1251
00:48:20,420 --> 00:48:22,040
wrote that hymn, My Faith Looks Up To

1252
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:23,180
Thee.

1253
00:48:23,180 --> 00:48:24,840
Thou Lamb of Calvary.

1254
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:26,600
I said, would you sing it before I

1255
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:27,580
preach, which they did.

1256
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:30,200
I love that stanza that says, May thy

1257
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:36,380
rich grace impart, no, yeah, may thy rich

1258
00:48:36,380 --> 00:48:39,300
grace impart strength to my fainting heart, my

1259
00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:42,880
zeal, inspire, as thou hast died for me,

1260
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,580
so may my love to thee pure, warm,

1261
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:46,720
and changeless be.

1262
00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:49,400
God help us, we go up after we've

1263
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,240
sat four days in a seminar, about as

1264
00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:53,840
useful as going to a cemetery.

1265
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:54,780
Very often.

1266
00:48:56,140 --> 00:48:57,400
We've got a bit more knowledge.

1267
00:48:59,020 --> 00:49:00,660
Most of us here are choking up on

1268
00:49:00,660 --> 00:49:00,960
knowledge.

1269
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:02,860
We've knowledge, we can't work it out.

1270
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,900
We don't want new theological books.

1271
00:49:07,260 --> 00:49:08,340
We don't need new seminars.

1272
00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:10,180
We need a new wave of obedience in

1273
00:49:10,180 --> 00:49:11,460
the church of Jesus Christ.

1274
00:49:13,340 --> 00:49:15,120
We're going to hear him say, sell all,

1275
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,680
and that will mean maybe postponing a marriage.

1276
00:49:17,860 --> 00:49:19,380
Sell all, it means giving up a business

1277
00:49:19,380 --> 00:49:19,800
career.

1278
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,560
Sell all, it means severing relationships with friends

1279
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:26,280
or your church that you've loved and been

1280
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,040
brought up in since you were this height.

1281
00:49:33,460 --> 00:49:35,140
The greatest thing in the world is to

1282
00:49:35,140 --> 00:49:36,440
hear the voice of God, as far as

1283
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:37,020
I'm concerned.

1284
00:49:40,820 --> 00:49:43,680
My heart dances for joy when I hear

1285
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:44,140
his voice.

1286
00:49:45,220 --> 00:49:47,900
I would rather hear God's voice in rebuke

1287
00:49:47,900 --> 00:49:49,800
than anybody else's voice in flattery.

1288
00:49:51,140 --> 00:49:53,140
If he rebukes me, he loves me.

1289
00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:55,880
If I'm coasting on and it's all so

1290
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,500
easy, forget it, you must be sick.

1291
00:50:00,220 --> 00:50:01,900
We should be able to kiss the rod

1292
00:50:01,900 --> 00:50:04,100
that he chastises us with.

1293
00:50:05,540 --> 00:50:07,720
His correction is to move us to perfection.

1294
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:10,500
Perfect in love.

1295
00:50:12,060 --> 00:50:13,260
Perfect in obedience.

1296
00:50:15,020 --> 00:50:16,440
Perfect in doing his will.

1297
00:50:18,300 --> 00:50:19,180
Well, you know what?

1298
00:50:19,220 --> 00:50:20,020
This is a prayer meeting.

1299
00:50:20,140 --> 00:50:21,000
What do you think about that?

1300
00:50:22,780 --> 00:50:23,660
We're going to pray.

1301
00:50:23,780 --> 00:50:25,180
I'm going to ask you to pray especially

1302
00:50:25,180 --> 00:50:26,040
for dear brother David.

1303
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:27,780
I know he's got an awesome task.

1304
00:50:28,700 --> 00:50:30,180
He's got to finish off that book.

1305
00:50:32,220 --> 00:50:33,680
There aren't many guys go to bed at

1306
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:34,860
three and four o'clock in the morning

1307
00:50:34,860 --> 00:50:35,980
as David has been doing.

1308
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:38,380
You sit and talk to a little machine

1309
00:50:38,380 --> 00:50:40,620
and your secretary goes and he's sweating and

1310
00:50:40,620 --> 00:50:41,740
bleeding over that thing.

1311
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,120
And I need prayer for Sunday morning for

1312
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:45,720
ministry.

1313
00:50:46,660 --> 00:50:48,660
We need to pray for these other fellowships

1314
00:50:48,660 --> 00:50:49,340
around the country.

1315
00:50:50,340 --> 00:50:52,240
I said to Martha today, there are the

1316
00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:53,380
dear Browns at the back.

1317
00:50:53,980 --> 00:50:55,960
They're the patriarchs of this area.

1318
00:50:56,900 --> 00:50:58,760
If you don't know what patriarchs are, look

1319
00:50:58,760 --> 00:50:59,860
up in the dictionary, but anyhow.

1320
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,340
They're the, oh my, should I say?

1321
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,000
Betty, would it be all right if you

1322
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,040
say you're the old timers?

1323
00:51:07,260 --> 00:51:11,540
I mean, they're the original papa and mummy

1324
00:51:11,540 --> 00:51:12,340
of this prayer meeting.

1325
00:51:12,620 --> 00:51:14,760
And I still get people, somebody called Martha

1326
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,720
today and said, the prayer meeting is held

1327
00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:17,120
where?

1328
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:19,140
Last day.

1329
00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:23,920
Oh, well, you weren't born here, were you?

1330
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:24,680
You're here tonight.

1331
00:51:27,140 --> 00:51:28,440
You've moved around a lot.

1332
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:29,420
You're here.

1333
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:30,760
We've moved around a bit.

1334
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:31,820
Finally, we're here.

1335
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,120
There are people around the world that have

1336
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,640
come as a result of that prayer meeting

1337
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,960
in the house there and they've gone out

1338
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:40,940
and they've given birth spiritually.

1339
00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:43,220
You take on the atmosphere in which you're

1340
00:51:43,220 --> 00:51:43,380
born.

1341
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:45,040
You'll get born in a worldly church.

1342
00:51:45,100 --> 00:51:46,580
You'll be worldly all your life till the

1343
00:51:46,580 --> 00:51:47,660
Holy Ghost gets hold of you.

1344
00:51:50,980 --> 00:51:52,400
Isn't it something now when we have a

1345
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,340
sanctified bowling alley next to the church?

1346
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,440
They open a bowling alley and ask somebody

1347
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:00,200
to pray over it.

1348
00:52:02,460 --> 00:52:03,600
I think they got mixed up.

1349
00:52:03,660 --> 00:52:04,580
You know, I read about Peter.

1350
00:52:04,740 --> 00:52:05,640
It says he was bald.

1351
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:10,640
They got it all mixed up.

1352
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:16,660
I'll tell you what, all those things are

1353
00:52:16,660 --> 00:52:17,900
going to dry up before long.

1354
00:52:19,300 --> 00:52:21,200
There's going to be a sudden surge into

1355
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:21,800
maturity.

1356
00:52:21,980 --> 00:52:23,800
When I became a man, you remember the

1357
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,460
day when you gave up every blessed thing

1358
00:52:25,460 --> 00:52:27,040
which tonight is an hindrance to you and

1359
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:27,660
you won't give it up.

1360
00:52:27,780 --> 00:52:28,820
Don't pray about it.

1361
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:31,260
You don't need to pray about it.

1362
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:32,440
All you have to do is be obedient.

1363
00:52:34,700 --> 00:52:36,540
You don't have to ask God if you

1364
00:52:36,540 --> 00:52:37,600
should keep the Ten Commandments.

1365
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:38,400
You could better keep them.

1366
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:38,960
You'd be in trouble.

1367
00:52:41,140 --> 00:52:42,540
I'd say some of you thought you don't

1368
00:52:42,540 --> 00:52:43,080
keep the Sabbath.

1369
00:52:44,140 --> 00:52:45,700
Don't you pray for a loved one or

1370
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:47,640
someone else if you're fooling around on Sundays

1371
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:48,580
in Canton Fair.

1372
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:49,140
Forget it.

1373
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:51,040
Some of you go to movies.

1374
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:52,200
You've told me you went to movies.

1375
00:52:52,420 --> 00:52:53,580
Some of the students around here.

1376
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:54,680
We go to movies Sunday night.

1377
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:57,440
You keep the Sabbath day holy.

1378
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:00,960
Somebody who used to come here a lot

1379
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,480
said, I don't think I have to keep

1380
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:03,260
the Sabbath day.

1381
00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:04,360
It's Old Testament.

1382
00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:06,140
I said, your neighbour doesn't think he has

1383
00:53:06,140 --> 00:53:07,220
to keep the other commandment.

1384
00:53:07,420 --> 00:53:08,560
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

1385
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:10,480
And you can't stop him committing adultery.

1386
00:53:10,540 --> 00:53:11,640
You're breaking one commandment.

1387
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:12,420
He breaks the other.

1388
00:53:13,220 --> 00:53:14,780
And if you break one, you're guilty of

1389
00:53:14,780 --> 00:53:15,040
all.

1390
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,000
God has hinged revival onto keeping the Sabbath.

1391
00:53:19,220 --> 00:53:20,520
Read the fifth date of Isaiah.

1392
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:23,680
Take your foot from my Sabbath.

1393
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:25,100
That's for footballers, see.

1394
00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:30,500
Take your foot from doing your pleasure on

1395
00:53:30,500 --> 00:53:31,560
my holy day.

1396
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,280
The Sabbath, not half of it, the Sabbath

1397
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,220
is God's tide on your time.

1398
00:53:37,980 --> 00:53:41,300
It's his 24 hours, not, not giving God

1399
00:53:41,300 --> 00:53:43,220
that Sunday morning service and an extra buck

1400
00:53:43,220 --> 00:53:44,660
in the offering and then dashing off to

1401
00:53:44,660 --> 00:53:46,180
Canton Fair amongst all the junk.

1402
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:50,860
Now I talk straight, you notice that, and

1403
00:53:50,860 --> 00:53:51,620
I walk straight.

1404
00:53:54,220 --> 00:53:56,000
You won't have to get somebody to interpret

1405
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,140
the Greek while you're around here.

1406
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:58,320
I can tell you without the Greek.

1407
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,360
It may make you weak, but that's all

1408
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:02,580
right.

1409
00:54:02,580 --> 00:54:06,520
Do you know the Christian life will only

1410
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:07,980
work one way, and that's God's way.

1411
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,840
God is not committed to bless anything you

1412
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:14,700
do that's outside of his word and his

1413
00:54:14,700 --> 00:54:15,020
will.

1414
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:17,400
Whether you like it or not isn't the

1415
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:17,620
point.

1416
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:19,620
He has said it.

1417
00:54:20,740 --> 00:54:23,060
And he says if you love him, doesn't

1418
00:54:23,060 --> 00:54:24,580
say you'll give extra in the offering or

1419
00:54:24,580 --> 00:54:25,180
do some other thing.

1420
00:54:25,220 --> 00:54:26,680
He says if you love him, you'll do

1421
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:26,900
what?

1422
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:27,860
You'll keep his commandments.

1423
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:30,880
And I believe that means what they call

1424
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,640
the Decalogue, the ten commandments as well as

1425
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,000
the new commandment that you should love one

1426
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:34,320
another.

1427
00:54:35,740 --> 00:54:37,420
There's a needy world outside.

1428
00:54:39,500 --> 00:54:41,240
I'm hoping that if you do go out

1429
00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:42,820
of this area, you'll go with a spark

1430
00:54:42,820 --> 00:54:44,520
of fire that God put in your heart

1431
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:45,380
in this prayer meeting.

1432
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,220
I mean these prayer meetings every Friday night.

1433
00:54:54,370 --> 00:54:56,130
As the old poet said, more things are

1434
00:54:56,130 --> 00:54:57,950
wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

1435
00:54:59,610 --> 00:55:01,510
We do need to pray for these prayer

1436
00:55:01,510 --> 00:55:01,890
groups.

1437
00:55:03,110 --> 00:55:04,490
We need to pray for that group I

1438
00:55:04,490 --> 00:55:06,850
told you about in Urbana in Illinois last

1439
00:55:06,850 --> 00:55:07,150
week.

1440
00:55:07,930 --> 00:55:09,750
Young group of young men that have met

1441
00:55:09,750 --> 00:55:10,590
for eight years.

1442
00:55:11,230 --> 00:55:12,490
They've had street meetings.

1443
00:55:12,610 --> 00:55:13,850
They've had meetings in the parks.

1444
00:55:13,930 --> 00:55:15,310
They've been punched, pushed around.

1445
00:55:15,410 --> 00:55:16,290
They've been bruised.

1446
00:55:16,870 --> 00:55:19,010
Some of that group have been kidnapped in

1447
00:55:19,010 --> 00:55:20,070
America for preaching.

1448
00:55:21,590 --> 00:55:24,330
They've been lampooned in the national newspaper as

1449
00:55:24,330 --> 00:55:25,010
being a sect.

1450
00:55:26,850 --> 00:55:29,030
You see they're so near to God that

1451
00:55:29,030 --> 00:55:30,090
everybody thinks they're idiots.

1452
00:55:31,450 --> 00:55:33,650
The fool is that everybody outside that group

1453
00:55:33,650 --> 00:55:34,190
are the idiots.

1454
00:55:36,110 --> 00:55:37,570
I don't mean just their number.

1455
00:55:37,890 --> 00:55:39,310
I mean who are not walking in the

1456
00:55:39,310 --> 00:55:40,290
light as most people.

1457
00:55:40,630 --> 00:55:43,810
They've severed themselves from radios, from tv, from

1458
00:55:43,810 --> 00:55:46,870
worldliness, from worldly habits, for worldly customs.

1459
00:55:47,190 --> 00:55:49,290
They meet every day for prayer and intercession.

1460
00:55:51,030 --> 00:55:52,690
I'm sure as God looks down from heaven

1461
00:55:52,690 --> 00:55:53,650
he sees these groups.

1462
00:55:53,870 --> 00:55:55,470
That little bunch up behind the rock is

1463
00:55:55,470 --> 00:55:55,710
there.

1464
00:55:56,090 --> 00:55:57,830
Meeting every morning at four o'clock.

1465
00:55:59,770 --> 00:56:02,390
A group up in Illinois there, suffering for

1466
00:56:02,390 --> 00:56:03,150
his name's sake.

1467
00:56:04,430 --> 00:56:06,190
A group in Virginia that are praying.

1468
00:56:06,590 --> 00:56:08,730
A group in Kansas City came down to

1469
00:56:08,730 --> 00:56:09,090
see me.

1470
00:56:10,630 --> 00:56:12,430
That's the church where they pray two hours

1471
00:56:12,430 --> 00:56:14,070
in the morning, three hours in the afternoon,

1472
00:56:14,190 --> 00:56:14,990
and two hours at night.

1473
00:56:16,170 --> 00:56:17,730
And they're not writing a book about it.

1474
00:56:19,170 --> 00:56:21,050
Tell you what you'll never...

1475
00:56:21,870 --> 00:56:23,430
Here's a word of wisdom if ever I

1476
00:56:23,430 --> 00:56:23,870
gave you one.

1477
00:56:23,930 --> 00:56:25,430
You never see a prayer meeting on tv.

1478
00:56:28,690 --> 00:56:30,530
Now wasn't that worth coming to this meeting

1479
00:56:30,530 --> 00:56:31,670
to get to know that tonight?

1480
00:56:34,610 --> 00:56:36,750
I'll tell you what, that every prayer meeting

1481
00:56:36,750 --> 00:56:38,270
is a tv show in hell.

1482
00:56:40,590 --> 00:56:43,250
Every prayer meeting twists the thorn in the

1483
00:56:43,250 --> 00:56:44,470
side of the devil's flesh.

1484
00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:48,170
He hates prayer.

1485
00:56:48,990 --> 00:56:50,710
He fights you on your prayer life more

1486
00:56:50,710 --> 00:56:51,090
than anything.

1487
00:56:51,190 --> 00:56:51,950
Now face up to it.

1488
00:56:54,010 --> 00:56:56,130
You give a time to prayer and everybody,

1489
00:56:56,410 --> 00:56:58,030
your cousin you haven't heard from in 20

1490
00:56:58,030 --> 00:56:58,910
years will phone you.

1491
00:57:00,310 --> 00:57:01,810
Somebody else will call you up.

1492
00:57:02,930 --> 00:57:04,770
Somebody else wants to tell you some nonsense.

1493
00:57:06,550 --> 00:57:07,470
You know God is a...

1494
00:57:07,470 --> 00:57:09,470
all he's looking for is a bride.

1495
00:57:10,970 --> 00:57:11,990
That's what he's after.

1496
00:57:13,870 --> 00:57:15,250
Well if you want to come Sunday morning

1497
00:57:15,250 --> 00:57:16,550
you're welcome, if you can get a seat.

1498
00:57:17,470 --> 00:57:19,050
Go up to Brother Dunn's first and if

1499
00:57:19,050 --> 00:57:20,510
you can't get in with Dunn come down

1500
00:57:20,510 --> 00:57:22,290
to us and you may not get in

1501
00:57:22,290 --> 00:57:23,250
with us we don't care.

1502
00:57:24,650 --> 00:57:26,790
But God is looking after pure people.

1503
00:57:28,830 --> 00:57:30,170
Purity precedes power.

1504
00:57:31,290 --> 00:57:32,490
Purity means purpose.

1505
00:57:33,810 --> 00:57:34,990
Purity means progress.

1506
00:57:35,870 --> 00:57:36,910
Purity means passion.

1507
00:57:39,010 --> 00:57:40,070
Purity means victory.

1508
00:57:42,070 --> 00:57:43,570
If you haven't got it cry to God

1509
00:57:43,570 --> 00:57:44,370
for it here tonight.

1510
00:57:44,490 --> 00:57:45,690
You've got a sympathetic audience.

1511
00:57:47,730 --> 00:57:49,690
Tell God to take out the unclean thing.

1512
00:57:49,870 --> 00:57:50,570
Purify you.

1513
00:57:52,330 --> 00:57:54,090
Ask him for a passion for souls.

1514
00:57:54,270 --> 00:57:55,310
Don't if you don't mean it.

1515
00:57:56,330 --> 00:57:58,010
He may turn the heat on you till

1516
00:57:58,010 --> 00:57:59,170
you can't sleep at night.

1517
00:58:01,510 --> 00:58:02,470
I'm happy I don't know.

1518
00:58:02,590 --> 00:58:03,910
I slept one night, I don't know, slept

1519
00:58:03,910 --> 00:58:06,250
two hours last night and I'm a bit

1520
00:58:06,250 --> 00:58:07,050
older than most of you.

1521
00:58:09,070 --> 00:58:10,350
And if I can do it you can

1522
00:58:10,350 --> 00:58:10,590
do it.

1523
00:58:10,830 --> 00:58:12,490
You can't find me a man that's moved

1524
00:58:12,490 --> 00:58:14,110
his generation to God that hasn't been a

1525
00:58:14,110 --> 00:58:14,790
disciplined man.

1526
00:58:14,790 --> 00:58:16,410
Wesley went to bed at nine every night.

1527
00:58:16,530 --> 00:58:17,890
I go to bed every night at nine

1528
00:58:17,890 --> 00:58:18,110
now.

1529
00:58:18,750 --> 00:58:20,470
Won't get it tonight but normally I do.

1530
00:58:21,930 --> 00:58:23,350
Get up at four or three.

1531
00:58:25,090 --> 00:58:26,950
Got up yesterday morning I thought my I

1532
00:58:26,950 --> 00:58:28,670
feel so fit it's marvellous.

1533
00:58:29,530 --> 00:58:30,810
Oh maybe I should make a cup of

1534
00:58:30,810 --> 00:58:32,210
tea so I put some water on and

1535
00:58:32,210 --> 00:58:33,670
look at the clock it's 10 minutes past

1536
00:58:33,670 --> 00:58:34,030
12.

1537
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:41,320
Where have I been?

1538
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:44,880
Got up this morning it was uh What

1539
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:45,180
was it?

1540
00:58:46,740 --> 00:58:47,420
Friendly past.

1541
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,100
I got five minutes extra this morning.

1542
00:58:53,460 --> 00:58:55,500
I saw a statement by Follet.

1543
00:58:55,540 --> 00:58:57,700
He was a real old time assembly of

1544
00:58:57,700 --> 00:58:58,260
God preacher.

1545
00:58:58,380 --> 00:59:00,060
One of the greatest men this nation's had

1546
00:59:00,060 --> 00:59:02,300
and nobody recognized him much.

1547
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:04,000
By every book you can buy him.

1548
00:59:04,020 --> 00:59:04,580
By Follet.

1549
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:06,240
F-O-L-L-E-E-T-T.

1550
00:59:07,260 --> 00:59:10,320
His family came over in 1666 when the

1551
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:11,780
Huguenots were driven out of France.

1552
00:59:11,780 --> 00:59:14,180
He's a marvellous man intellectually every way.

1553
00:59:15,300 --> 00:59:16,740
And he had a saying in a book

1554
00:59:16,740 --> 00:59:18,080
I think Martha read it to me there.

1555
00:59:19,660 --> 00:59:20,360
What was it?

1556
00:59:20,380 --> 00:59:20,940
What did he say?

1557
00:59:21,660 --> 00:59:23,580
Lord help me to live until I die.

1558
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:24,440
Isn't that good?

1559
00:59:26,620 --> 00:59:28,040
You say well I'm going to live to.

1560
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:28,820
No you're not.

1561
00:59:28,940 --> 00:59:30,460
Some of you are only existing you're not

1562
00:59:30,460 --> 00:59:30,780
living.

1563
00:59:32,900 --> 00:59:34,980
There isn't enough in the world to magnetize

1564
00:59:34,980 --> 00:59:35,120
you.

1565
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,160
There isn't enough in Jesus to magnify you.

1566
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:38,280
You're in no man's land.

1567
00:59:39,860 --> 00:59:42,180
Until you get severed from the world, the

1568
00:59:42,180 --> 00:59:44,400
flesh, the devil, all the trivial things, all

1569
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,680
the vain things which charm me most and

1570
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:47,340
help me least.

1571
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:48,600
You get no progress.

1572
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:50,820
Well I better quit talking.

1573
00:59:53,060 --> 00:59:53,900
Let's go to prayer.

1574
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:54,640
Cry to God.

1575
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:56,640
Let's cry that God will give us a

1576
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:57,000
new incentive.

1577
00:59:57,540 --> 00:59:58,460
Give you a new vision.

1578
00:59:58,600 --> 00:59:59,980
Give you a new power.

1579
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,140
Give you total purity in your heart and

1580
01:00:03,140 --> 01:00:04,760
your will, your emotions, your life.

1581
01:00:05,620 --> 01:00:08,580
Deliver you from the vain things, empty things

1582
01:00:08,580 --> 01:00:10,340
that charm us most and help us least.

1583
01:00:12,380 --> 01:00:13,500
Let's believe God.

1584
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:16,200
Let's kneel in prayer.

1585
01:00:16,340 --> 01:00:17,760
Please feel free to pray.

1586
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:18,160
Pray.

1587
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:21,560
Thank you.