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Okay, we're going to take some thoughts on

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the 51st Psalm, Psalm 51.

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Have mercy upon me, O God, according to

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thy lovingkindness.

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According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies,

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blot out my transgressions.

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Watch me throughly, blot out my transgressions.

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Watch me throughly for my iniquity, and cleanse

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me from my sin.

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For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin

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is ever before me.

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Against thee only have I sinned, and done

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this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest

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be justified when thou speakest, and be clear

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when thou judgest.

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Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in

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sin, did my mother conceive me.

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Thou desirest truth in the inward part, and

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in the hidden part thou shalt make me

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to know wisdom.

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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be

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clean.

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Wash me, and I shall be whiter than

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snow.

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Make me to hear joy and gladness with

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the bones which thou hast broken, may rejoice.

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Hide thy face from my sins, and blot

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out all my iniquities.

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O God, create in me a clean heart,

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O God, and renew a right spirit within

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me.

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Cast me not away from thy presence, and

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take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

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Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation,

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and uphold me with thy free spirit.

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Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and

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sinners shall be converted unto thee.

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I suppose at some time, many of you,

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at least if you know much about music,

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you've been thrilled if you watch Leonard Bernstein

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conducting the New York Philharmonic, or some other

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thing that he did.

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But not only is he one of the

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world's supreme conductors, he also is a, in

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his own right, a concert pianist, and a

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very brilliant pianist.

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A friend of his was over in Europe,

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and when he came back he went to

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see Mr. Bernstein in his apartment there in

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New York.

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And the man was flourishing a piece of

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paper.

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And he said, Leonard I want you to

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play this piece of music to me.

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I bought it in Europe, it's over 200

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years old, of age.

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It was written by one of the great

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masters, and I want you to play it.

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Well then Bernstein said, I'm sorry I can't

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do that.

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He said, you can't?

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There's not a piece of music in the

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world that you can't play.

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But he said, I can't play that.

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I've never seen it before.

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But you can sight read it, you can

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play it.

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He said, I can't.

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He said, this music was composed by one

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of the greatest composers in Europe.

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He composed it up at one of those

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giant organs in a great cathedral.

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Well that's just the point.

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This manuscript is 200 years of age.

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It was written 2,000 miles away from

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here.

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I can't get down at the piano and

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translate all the cadences.

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If I sat up there at the side

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of that man while he made that massive

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organ, made that great building tremble, if I'd

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seen all the cadences he put in it,

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the expressions, then I could feel with a

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man I might somehow, I might somehow be

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able to translate it.

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But I'm handicapped.

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To the same degree, this scripture here that

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I read tonight was written hundreds, thousands of

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years ago.

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In your book, whatever version or perversion you

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have, it's on paper, it's printed in black

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ink, and yet it wasn't written like that.

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It's punctuated in good English because some of

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the greatest masters got this old King James

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Version together and it's immaculate in its interpretation.

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In the version that we have, again, it's

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punctuated with periods and with commas.

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But actually this is not written in ink,

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it's written in blood.

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It's not punctuated with commas and periods, it's

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punctuated with groans and sobs and tears.

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It's a very wonderful psalm.

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It's a monologue.

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There's nobody in it, not even Bathsheba is

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mentioned.

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This man is loaded with guilt, he's tormented.

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Every time he hears the cry of a

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baby, he remembers the baby that was birthed

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to Bathsheba.

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Every time he looks out of his castle

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he sees a soldier standing there.

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And he says, my sin is there before

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me.

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And you see when there's real conviction of

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sin, a man is as honest and as

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deliberate as this man was.

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This wasn't some emotional decision he made in

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a meeting while the organ was whimpering and

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somebody was singing.

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He's come face to face with the offspring

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of his lust, his desires.

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And notice what he says, have mercy upon

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me.

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He isn't praying for the sins of Israel,

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that they might be forgiven for all the

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wicked, vile things that they've done, for failing

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God, for destroying enemies.

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He says, have mercy upon me, O God.

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According to the multitude of Thy tender mercies

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brought out my transgressions.

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Wash me solely from my iniquity.

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Cleanse me from my sin.

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I acknowledge my transgression.

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My sin is there before me.

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You know, most of us are experts at

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confessing other people's sins.

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The holdup of revival is in somebody else.

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Whereas actually the holdup of revival is in

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me, is in you as a person.

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But listen how he, how he says this

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again.

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Have mercy upon me, O God.

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According unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies

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brought out my transgressions.

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He uses three different words for sin here.

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In the first verse he talks about transgressions.

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In the second verse he talks about iniquity.

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In the second verse he talks about sin.

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He has three different words for sin.

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He has three different words for cleansing.

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There are three major prayers in this amazing

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psalm.

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The first is a prayer of a penitent,

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heartbroken, crushed man.

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A man haunted with guilt.

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A man lashed with a tormenting conscience that

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burns more fiercely than its scorpion.

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I've been bitten with scorpions more than once.

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They're terrible things.

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And yet there's something there, the conviction, which

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is totally unknown to our generation.

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We don't know anything about conviction of sin.

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We've lost sight of the awesomeness of sin

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because we've lost sight of the holiness of

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God.

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You see this man is conscious.

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He's borne down.

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There's no help anywhere else.

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Have mercy upon me, O God.

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You remember the apostle Paul writes in his

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image, he says, God is rich in mercy.

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And the only reason you and I are

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here tonight is because of the mercy of

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God.

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When him writer says, I have long withstood

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his grace, long provoked him to his face,

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would not hearken to his call, grieved him

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by a thousand falls.

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Depth of mercy, can there be mercy still

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reserved for me?

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Can my God his wrath forbear, me the

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chief of sinners spare?

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As you were singing tonight, I'll sing with

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a glittering crown on my brow.

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I was singing with Jesus staggering up the

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hill with a cross on his back.

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His back wasn't bowed because of the cross.

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His heart was broken because he was carrying

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a billion sins up there to the cross.

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Your sins, the sin of the whole world

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was upon him at that moment.

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And he's going there to that terrible crucifixion.

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You see, Paul here, pardon me, Paul here

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reminds me of a statement he made in

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his epistle.

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One of the greatest statements he made, though

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he made hundreds.

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And he says, if any man, being Christ,

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any man, anywhere, at any time, whether he's

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a Jew or a Greek or a barbarian,

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an intellectual, an ignoramus, a king or a

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commoner, a prince or a prostitute, if any

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man being Christ, he is a new creation.

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You see, we're living in a day of

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the most shabby, cheap interpretation of salvation the

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world has ever known.

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A very famous preacher said a while ago,

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talking to a more famous author, that the

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moral desolation of America or England, the moral

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desolation and the spiritual stagnation is due to

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one thing.

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And that one thing is, we've lost sight

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of the rapture.

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That's nonsense.

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All those men who have been guilty of

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those horrible sins are being flashed on every

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newspaper in the world.

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Not by guilty men in jail, but by

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professing Christians, by spiritual men.

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God help us.

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And the world mocks at them.

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They become a standing joke, they tell me,

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in clubs.

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All over the country, men who are supposed

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to walk in holiness, guided by the Holy

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Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit, energized with

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the Holy Spirit.

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And they have done more to damage the

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Pentecostal testimony than all the liberals and the

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opposition in the world.

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But it is also the fact that some

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of my dearest friends I know in this

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world are spirit-filled and tongue-speaking people.

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They know God intimately.

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They fast, they weep, they pray.

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But Paul has no despair in his message.

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Time and again, fellows have called me on

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the phone and said, what do you do

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about the situation now?

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The world is falling apart.

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These Pultic giants are falling.

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What are you going to do?

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I don't know if you ever read a

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poem by, what was it, F.

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H.

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Myers?

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F.

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Myers, St. Paul.

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How many have read it?

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You haven't read it?

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You won't find it, it's not in print.

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Oh, one lady has, good.

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It's a fabulous thing.

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But one phrase in that thing comes to

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me almost every day.

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He says this, God will forgive thee all

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that thy despair.

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There is no despair in the vocabulary of

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the Christian.

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Jesus didn't promise us a life without difficulties,

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he promised us a life without defeats.

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That we can be more than conquerors through

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him that loved us.

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A few days ago we listened to a

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tape by a woman, I forget, was it

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Margaret Rose?

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Pardon?

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Darlene Rose.

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I'd like to meet that Darlene, Darlene.

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Darling Darlene.

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She was three years in a brutal camp,

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down in the South Seas, in the Japanese

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invasion.

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The women were raped, they were tortured.

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They had the rottenest food.

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They were fed worms, worms were fed.

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They had to eat everything that came.

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And this is repulsive.

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Well, why would you like to do it?

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She said, if you vomited, an officer stood

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over you and made you gather up that

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vomit and eat your own vomit.

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There was every considerable indecency, and yet her

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faith never wavered.

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She came out strong, she came out, she

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didn't say, why me?

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You see, when you do that, it's a

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sign of your weakness.

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How many believers today can say with Paul,

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I glory in tribulation?

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Not you glory when you get a new

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car.

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You glory when you go to a full

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gospel business banquet or something.

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That's why they call them full gospel, they're

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always eating.

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But, well listen, how many of us glory

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in tribulation, in necessities?

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It's so easy to give God what you

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don't have, isn't it?

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I hesitate to ask people to sing, well,

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the whole realm of nature, mine.

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Dear God, you won't even give him his

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own day.

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Some of the preachers were preaching this morning.

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They were talking about the mission field.

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This afternoon they were at the TV watching

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the infield and the outfield.

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And as soon as this gets over and

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it's football, they'll be talking about the sheep

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in the morning, and they'll be watching the

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goats in, no, no, they'll be watching the,

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what, the rams in the afternoon.

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Before you offer to give God the whole

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realm of nature, try giving him an extra

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hour of prayer every morning before you get

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up.

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Prove it, you don't convince God with your,

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your very charming words.

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You've got to put it into practice.

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But go back again here.

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Here is a man on one hand, he's

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got the stain of murder.

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What did he do?

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Well, I'll tell you what he did.

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Read the story carefully, and it's in what,

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2 Samuel 11.

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And when you read the story, you discover

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this.

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That all, every battle that David fought, he

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won, until he got messed up with Bathsheba.

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After that, he lost every battle.

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When his baby was born, he cried, he

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prayed, he fasted, he wept all night, but

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that didn't save, it didn't save the baby.

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Every battle was lost after he got involved

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with that woman.

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What happened?

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He took another man's wife and committed adultery.

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And then he killed her husband to cover

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that.

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What happened?

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What he sowed, he reaped.

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He came home to his castle one night,

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and as he went in, there was a

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body.

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And he says, whose is the body?

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Turn it over.

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It's my son.

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Who killed him?

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His other son said, I killed my brother

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because he violated my sister.

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He sowed adultery, he reaped adultery.

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He sowed murder, he reaped murder.

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You know, some of the strangest things happen

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in our days.

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When I was a boy, if anybody was

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gay, you meant they were frivolous, you know,

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joyful.

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Never had a burden in their life.

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Now, the vilest, rottenest, filthiest, dirtiest sin in

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the country, is called gay.

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In God's name, what's gay about it?

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I'm not for Caesars.

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I read when a man said, if you

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were to take a man and sit him

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on a red hot, on a hot stove,

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it's not more painful than the agonies of

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AIDS.

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Suddenly, they're discovering that sin is a very,

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very painful thing.

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And whatsoever a man sows, that he reaps.

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So David has condemnation on him, he has

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guilt on him.

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And if he'd known it, he might have

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sung, Other refuge have I none, hangs my

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helpless soul on thee.

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But he knew that God is a God

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of mercy.

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Do you remember later, he wrote to him,

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what did he write, a psalm?

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He says, he lifted me up from a

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horrible pit.

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He not only lifted him up, he set

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him up.

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He put me on a rock.

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He not only lifted him up and set

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him up, he tuned him up, because he

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said, he put a new song in my

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mouth.

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And Paul says, if any man anywhere, he

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may be the most twisted man you know,

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he may be the vilest, the dirtiest, the

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most polluted, the most rebellious, he may have

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sinned against men and against God, and yet

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if Jesus Christ comes into his life, in

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a moment, he's changed.

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His hideous record, his hideous record is cast

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away into the sea of God's forgetfulness.

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I remember a teacher telling us in Sunday

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school in England, that's quite a few years

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since I was in Sunday school, she talks

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about a man who couldn't keep quiet, like

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these precious fellows here.

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Give them some chewing gum.

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Now I guess, how many of you have

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been in jail?

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Have you been in jail?

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What's the amen for, that you're out or

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you've been in?

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You see, that's why they're so happy.

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You've been sitting in a stuffy pew all

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your life, putting a measly dollar in the

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offering, and singing, Jesus loves me, let the

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world go to hell, he loves me.

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These guys have been what, from a horrible

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pit, eh?

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Fetters, he broke every fetter.

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He drives up the lust, he drives up

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the greed, he drives up the hatred.

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Well, this guy was always rejoicing.

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They got a new pastor in the church,

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and they told him, be careful, be careful,

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there's one man, and if you send him

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about redemption, he'll shout, hallelujah, oh, blow the

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place up.

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So this young guy out of seminary went

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around to see this fellow.

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No, he said, oh, the man's coming to

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see you tomorrow afternoon.

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So the man came, and he happened to

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have a college friend with him, this, this

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young preacher.

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So he said to this very disorderly kind

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of rebel, you know, he said, listen, I

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want you to go in my office here,

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and, uh, I may be half an hour.

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Anything you want to read, read it.

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And, uh, be quiet, because my friend's not

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used to your enthusiasm.

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Well, they'd been sitting about 20 minutes, and

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this fellow exploded.

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You know, I believe in the exposition of

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the scripture when it's explosive.

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We need more than exposition, we need explosion.

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We're living in the most critical hour in

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American history, or world history.

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So anyhow, this guy suddenly exploded, shouted hallelujah.

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So the starchy preacher went, said, my friend,

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what are you shouting about?

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What are you reading?

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Oh, he says, I'm reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Well, he said, I've read it a hundred.

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And you're praising the Lord, reading the Encyclopedia

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Britannica?

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He said, yes.

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He said, why?

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He said, I've just been reading about the

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ocean.

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It's about six miles deep across, uh, somewhere

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outside of the Philippines, wherever that is, he

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said.

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And then there's another place where they can't

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fathom the depths of the ocean.

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Hallelujah!

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He said, for what?

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He said, because Jesus cast my sins beyond

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the depth of the sea, and if the

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devil tries to get them, he'll get drowned.

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Maybe his theology wasn't very good, but boy,

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it's true.

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You see, him that cometh unto me, it

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doesn't say him that cometh with a checkbook,

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him that cometh with a degree.

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Listen here, you preacher boys, if you don't

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know, I'll tell you something.

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Unction does not come with decrees or diplomas.

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It comes by a close, intimate walk with

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God.

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You know, we're living in a tragic hour.

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This week, I was reading about one of

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the greatest men in history, and particularly Scottish

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history, a man by the name of John

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Knox.

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He was born in 1505.

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That's before I was born.

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1505.

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He became one of the great men.

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Do you know why?

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Because like all great men God has used,

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he had a patmos.

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He had to flee out of Scotland for

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14 years.

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He was a prisoner in Holland, and it

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was there God revealed himself to him.

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You ask God to reveal himself to you,

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and he starts manipulating to get you on

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your own, and you scream.

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Oh Lord, take this away, don't do this.

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He was answering your prayer.

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You talk too much.

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All of us do.

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I do anyhow.

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Anyhow, 1505.

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But one historian said, the day that John

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Knox was born, Scotland was born again.

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You know what he meant?

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I think you do.

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But Knox became one of the most outstanding

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preachers in the history of Scotland.

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That...

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I'm trying to make my connections here.

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The largest house in England is not Buckingham

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Palace, it's Blenheim Palace.

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Winston Churchill's grandfather, Randolph Churchill, lived in it.

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It's nice.

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I'm sure you wouldn't like to clean it,

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ladies, with your vacuum cleaners.

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It had 365 rooms.

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I think it's to let for the summer.

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Some American evangelist will rent it, I'm sure.

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365 rooms.

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But it was the name Randolph.

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In the time of John Knox, there was

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a British ambassador to Scotland because the nations

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were divided.

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And the ambassador was called Randolph.

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And Randolph said this, the reason the Reformation

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lived, it lived because John Knox lived.

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This is what he says.

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When John Knox addressed an audience of people,

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he was more powerful than 500 trumpets.

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You see, we say, we teach, Christ is

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the way, the truth, and the life.

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We're heavy on the way, we're heavy on

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the truth, we're not so heavy on the

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life.

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But he's life.

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Jesus did not come into the world...

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Jesus did not come...

544
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:41,160
Shut up a minute.

545
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:45,740
Jesus did not come into the world to

546
00:21:45,740 --> 00:21:47,580
make bad men good, he came into the

547
00:21:47,580 --> 00:21:48,880
world to make dead men live.

548
00:21:51,980 --> 00:21:53,660
All men are not bad in the sense

549
00:21:53,660 --> 00:21:54,720
we think of them as jailbirds.

550
00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:58,440
And yet, you know, the brilliant boys, the

551
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,840
boys from the best universities, did that, what

552
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:01,220
they do.

553
00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:03,120
In the stock market they were, in the

554
00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:03,500
trading.

555
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,140
These clever boys, these boys with degrees, these

556
00:22:07,140 --> 00:22:09,440
boys studying in universities in other countries.

557
00:22:10,260 --> 00:22:11,800
And yet there's corruption in them.

558
00:22:16,580 --> 00:22:18,260
Let me go back a minute there.

559
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,560
And say, what did this man say?

560
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:25,000
He said, when John Knox talked to a

561
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,100
congregation, it vibrated with life.

562
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,880
They spelt life then L-F-Y.

563
00:22:30,460 --> 00:22:32,200
I was reading that over and over again

564
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:33,760
this morning, about two o'clock.

565
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:36,180
He had life.

566
00:22:37,660 --> 00:22:38,940
Our nation is dead.

567
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,260
In trespasses and in sin.

568
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,180
And theology isn't going to save it.

569
00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:46,380
Rallies are not going to save it.

570
00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:49,360
We need a prophet in every pulpit today.

571
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,720
Why do we graduate men?

572
00:22:53,820 --> 00:22:55,580
Just because they got big heads and shrunken

573
00:22:55,580 --> 00:22:56,080
hearts.

574
00:22:57,300 --> 00:23:01,260
We need men alive, to carry life.

575
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,320
He came that we might have life.

576
00:23:05,340 --> 00:23:07,100
So here is a man sin-stained.

577
00:23:08,660 --> 00:23:10,740
Here is a man crying, have mercy upon

578
00:23:10,740 --> 00:23:11,460
me, O God.

579
00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:15,100
According to the multitude of thy tender mercies,

580
00:23:15,220 --> 00:23:16,900
blot out my transgressions.

581
00:23:17,580 --> 00:23:19,820
And thank God he doesn't say, listen, you

582
00:23:19,820 --> 00:23:21,240
sinned a year too long.

583
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,200
You just overdid the sins.

584
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,580
I can only forgive a thousand sins for

585
00:23:26,580 --> 00:23:28,380
each person, and so you guys have ten

586
00:23:28,380 --> 00:23:28,760
thousand.

587
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:29,920
He didn't say that.

588
00:23:30,580 --> 00:23:33,120
He said, if any man be in Christ.

589
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,080
Jesus says, command to me all the labor

590
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,120
and the heavy laden, and I'll give you

591
00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:38,460
rest.

592
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,700
And it's wonderful, he takes us just as

593
00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:42,220
we are.

594
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,660
There was a man who came from Ireland,

595
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,460
a number of, oh no, I'll change that.

596
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,640
The great revival of 1859, there was an

597
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,340
outstanding character in Scotland by the name of

598
00:23:55,340 --> 00:23:55,820
North.

599
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,060
What was his first name?

600
00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:01,160
Thank you, who said Brownlow?

601
00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:03,500
Good for you.

602
00:24:04,940 --> 00:24:05,960
Brownlow North.

603
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,180
His grandfather was, what, Lord North.

604
00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:13,460
In fact his grandfather had a picture, you

605
00:24:13,460 --> 00:24:15,300
know, in these big homes they have pictures

606
00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:18,480
of the Lordship doing this, and he has

607
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,180
a staff of honor in his hand.

608
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,120
It's given to him when he receives his

609
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,180
knighthood, or when he receives the position of

610
00:24:25,180 --> 00:24:27,280
being the Lord of that particular group.

611
00:24:27,540 --> 00:24:29,000
So this lady came and looked to the

612
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,420
picture, she said, that's Lord North.

613
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,100
And you see the staff in his hand,

614
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,100
that's a North Pole.

615
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:35,780
Wasn't quite right.

616
00:24:37,420 --> 00:24:40,320
But Brownlow North became incredibly wicked.

617
00:24:41,300 --> 00:24:42,940
He had access to society.

618
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,460
He stained the path with corruption.

619
00:24:47,180 --> 00:24:48,320
He stained it with blood.

620
00:24:49,380 --> 00:24:51,420
He stained it with every perverted thing you

621
00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:52,100
can imagine.

622
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,560
And then like lots of men did at

623
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,020
that time, and still do, he went to

624
00:24:56,020 --> 00:24:57,500
Gay Paris, he went to Paris.

625
00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,840
And there he went from bad to worse

626
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,180
to worse, until even the vilest men rejected

627
00:25:03,180 --> 00:25:03,620
him.

628
00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:06,840
His people in Scotland heard, they cut funds

629
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,300
off, they weren't going to let this man

630
00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:09,260
live in this state.

631
00:25:09,940 --> 00:25:11,620
But he went down and down and down

632
00:25:11,620 --> 00:25:12,320
in corruption.

633
00:25:13,420 --> 00:25:15,480
He got marvelously saved and became one of

634
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,020
the outstanding preachers in the 59 Revival.

635
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,860
They put a sign over the street in

636
00:25:20,860 --> 00:25:24,040
Scotland, Brownlow North will be preaching.

637
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,520
And they mentioned the auditorium.

638
00:25:26,420 --> 00:25:28,340
So as a man went in, he wrote

639
00:25:28,340 --> 00:25:30,340
on a piece of paper, and he said,

640
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,260
give this to Brownlow North.

641
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,380
Because when he starts preaching tonight, I'm going

642
00:25:35,380 --> 00:25:36,900
to expose him to these people.

643
00:25:37,180 --> 00:25:38,120
He's a fraud.

644
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,540
He's a leper, a moral leper.

645
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,300
He's a diabolical personality.

646
00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:46,860
He has debts he'll never pay.

647
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:48,980
He's left women in distress.

648
00:25:49,740 --> 00:25:51,660
He has a track record the devil would

649
00:25:51,660 --> 00:25:52,440
blush to own.

650
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,700
I'm going to expose him.

651
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:56,840
So they gave this slip of paper, and

652
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,080
Brownlow North let the preliminaries go.

653
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,060
And then he stood up, and he says,

654
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,720
I have a notice here from an old

655
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:03,060
friend.

656
00:26:03,820 --> 00:26:05,980
And he says, I remember you in Paris.

657
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,240
And he said, he's given me a catalogue

658
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,800
of my sins, and I know them without

659
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:10,540
him telling me.

660
00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:13,240
But he doesn't know this, that when I

661
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,700
left him in Paris, I sank further, I

662
00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:16,700
fell through the bottom.

663
00:26:17,340 --> 00:26:18,880
There wasn't a man on God's earth as

664
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:19,300
corrupt.

665
00:26:19,740 --> 00:26:21,460
And one day I stood by the river

666
00:26:21,460 --> 00:26:23,560
Seine, and I was just going to jump

667
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,380
in, and suddenly I was stopped.

668
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,820
Do you wonder his favorite hymn was, In

669
00:26:28,820 --> 00:26:32,280
loving kindness Jesus came, My soul in mercy

670
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,860
to reclaim, And from the depths of sin

671
00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:37,400
and shame, In love he lifted me, From

672
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,500
sinking sands he lifted me, With tender hands

673
00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,300
he lifted me, From shades of night to

674
00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:45,640
planes of light, O praise the Lord he

675
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:46,300
lifted me.

676
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,940
And here is this man now testifying.

677
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,440
You see, a man with an experience is

678
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:53,780
never at the mercy of an argument.

679
00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:56,120
Some of you poor guys, all you have

680
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:56,900
is theology.

681
00:26:57,820 --> 00:26:59,220
But listen, you were as bad in the

682
00:26:59,220 --> 00:27:00,700
sight of God as the worst man down

683
00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:01,060
the road.

684
00:27:01,140 --> 00:27:01,820
You were dead.

685
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,100
You rebelled against him.

686
00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:05,480
You don't have to do outward sin.

687
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,520
What do you do to go to hell?

688
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:08,500
Nothing, just go.

689
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:12,760
It takes no effort.

690
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,760
It takes no courage to be a sinner.

691
00:27:17,340 --> 00:27:19,460
I don't know a sin that's profitable, do

692
00:27:19,460 --> 00:27:19,700
you?

693
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,460
So there's one end of the scale.

694
00:27:24,580 --> 00:27:26,260
You get this man, he's a ball of

695
00:27:26,260 --> 00:27:29,860
corruption, he's vile, he's polluting every sense of

696
00:27:29,860 --> 00:27:30,300
the word.

697
00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:33,580
At the other end of the scale, you

698
00:27:33,580 --> 00:27:34,960
have a man entirely different.

699
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:37,620
When I tell the story of a man

700
00:27:37,620 --> 00:27:40,660
explosive, when I sat in the Methodist church,

701
00:27:40,820 --> 00:27:42,040
a cross was bleakly from us.

702
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,180
There was a big fellow there, the biggest

703
00:27:44,180 --> 00:27:45,160
man I think I've ever seen.

704
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,460
He had a hand like a shovel.

705
00:27:47,340 --> 00:27:48,280
He was an amazing guy.

706
00:27:49,020 --> 00:27:51,320
And his favorite hymn, it was great when

707
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,300
our own pastor was there, he knew what

708
00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:54,800
would happen.

709
00:27:55,380 --> 00:27:57,160
It was just like putting a match to

710
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,220
gunpowder.

711
00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:01,580
The preacher would say, we're going to sing

712
00:28:01,580 --> 00:28:03,940
the hymn 325, and can it be that

713
00:28:03,940 --> 00:28:05,980
I should gain an interest in the Savior's

714
00:28:05,980 --> 00:28:06,260
blood?

715
00:28:06,260 --> 00:28:09,720
Died he for me who caused his pain?

716
00:28:09,940 --> 00:28:11,940
For me who him to death pursued?

717
00:28:12,340 --> 00:28:14,320
Amazing love, how can it be that thou,

718
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,000
my God, shouldst die for me?

719
00:28:17,140 --> 00:28:20,260
Then the next stanza is, Long my imprisoned

720
00:28:20,260 --> 00:28:24,540
spirit lay fast bound in sin, and nature's

721
00:28:24,540 --> 00:28:27,620
night, thy night, diffused a quickening gray.

722
00:28:28,140 --> 00:28:30,380
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light.

723
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,540
My chains fell off.

724
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,120
Well that was too much for that old

725
00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:34,000
boy across the aisle.

726
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,480
Every time he exploded, my chains fell off.

727
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,700
And he waved his hands, and the visiting

728
00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:40,160
pastor almost passed out.

729
00:28:41,340 --> 00:28:43,260
But you see he'd been lifted from a

730
00:28:43,260 --> 00:28:44,040
horrible pit.

731
00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:47,900
Well he's like the other fellow.

732
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:49,720
Now here's a young man.

733
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:52,540
He had a very godly mother.

734
00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:54,940
And I'll tell you what, you women had

735
00:28:54,940 --> 00:28:56,820
better put extra work in with those children.

736
00:28:57,540 --> 00:28:59,900
Don't buy those stupid TVs.

737
00:29:00,460 --> 00:29:02,500
Let your TV be the babysitter.

738
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,140
One of the greatest women in history was

739
00:29:07,140 --> 00:29:07,780
Mrs. Wesley.

740
00:29:07,940 --> 00:29:09,160
She had 17 children.

741
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,040
That's not why she was great.

742
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,540
Most of them had 15 and 16.

743
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,440
But one day she got a copy of

744
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,140
one of the greatest books ever written, written

745
00:29:19,140 --> 00:29:22,680
in the 1500s, by a Scotsman, Henry Scougal.

746
00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:24,760
And he has a book called The Life

747
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,380
of God in the Soul of Man, which

748
00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:28,020
is the best book outside of the Bible,

749
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:28,520
I think.

750
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,320
She got a copy, and she gave a

751
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,220
copy to Charles.

752
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,780
Charles gave it to his brother John.

753
00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:35,940
John passed it back to Charles.

754
00:29:36,340 --> 00:29:38,800
Charles was going through the university, and there

755
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,180
sitting in the window, reading another book with

756
00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:44,480
a young man, and this enthusiastic young preacher,

757
00:29:45,540 --> 00:29:49,060
Charles Wesley said, Hey George, George, you need

758
00:29:49,060 --> 00:29:49,700
to read this.

759
00:29:49,780 --> 00:29:50,400
It's super.

760
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,320
In the present edition, which you can buy.

761
00:29:53,380 --> 00:29:54,640
It's a good brother of the front, sales

762
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:55,080
addition.

763
00:29:56,060 --> 00:29:57,900
And on the front it says this, I

764
00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:00,100
did not know until I got this book

765
00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:01,820
what real Christianity was.

766
00:30:02,060 --> 00:30:03,080
Signed by who?

767
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:04,440
George Whitefield.

768
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:06,440
George Whitefield.

769
00:30:07,060 --> 00:30:09,200
The man that set America on fire.

770
00:30:11,980 --> 00:30:13,160
George Whitefield.

771
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,740
Like Charles Wesley, like John Wesley, a gentleman

772
00:30:17,740 --> 00:30:18,540
and a scholar.

773
00:30:19,460 --> 00:30:22,300
Men who already knew the Greek New Testament,

774
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:23,740
they could tell you the Hebrew.

775
00:30:24,340 --> 00:30:25,780
And yet they were dead, they were not

776
00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:27,200
alive in Jesus Christ.

777
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,320
And you know what John Wesley said?

778
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,920
It was about a quarter to nine on

779
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,480
the 24th of May, 1738.

780
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,160
While somebody was reading the preface to the

781
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,940
epistle to the Romans, he wasn't even reading

782
00:30:37,940 --> 00:30:38,420
the book.

783
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,420
He was reading, he was reading Luther's introduction

784
00:30:42,420 --> 00:30:43,080
to the book.

785
00:30:43,540 --> 00:30:45,720
And John Wesley says, I felt my heart

786
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:46,800
strangely warmed.

787
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,260
Somebody said he had an epileptic fit.

788
00:30:51,020 --> 00:30:52,140
Well if he had, I hope a lot

789
00:30:52,140 --> 00:30:53,080
of you have tonight.

790
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,700
He became a new creation.

791
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:58,720
Christ lived in him.

792
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,620
He became the spark plug, if you like,

793
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,980
again of the revival.

794
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,520
John Wesley, Charles Wesley, and George Whitefield.

795
00:31:14,980 --> 00:31:17,420
But listen, these were men of impeccable morality.

796
00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:19,040
They didn't smoke or swear.

797
00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:20,580
They didn't drink.

798
00:31:21,580 --> 00:31:22,960
They were very good men.

799
00:31:23,580 --> 00:31:26,100
They passed off in English society as being

800
00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:27,100
the supreme model.

801
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,720
You know, people make excuses about sin today.

802
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,360
Even, even godly people so-called.

803
00:31:32,820 --> 00:31:35,200
That even a gentleman wouldn't do 50 years

804
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:35,420
ago.

805
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:36,780
Never mind preachers.

806
00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:39,840
A young man came to my office last

807
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:40,060
night.

808
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,140
I hadn't seen him for weeks.

809
00:31:41,580 --> 00:31:43,580
He'd been on a tour through the schools.

810
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,160
And he said, Brother Lane, when I got

811
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,320
back, my mail was this height, he said.

812
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,720
That's what you call evangelistically speaking.

813
00:31:52,740 --> 00:31:54,740
I had a stack of letters so high.

814
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:56,700
So he brought some.

815
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:58,440
Here is a girl.

816
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,040
I'm 15 years of age.

817
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,520
I've just met a young man.

818
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,300
I believe I love him with all my

819
00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:03,620
heart.

820
00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:04,720
I believe he loves me.

821
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,320
And I consider marrying him.

822
00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:10,700
But I don't like to tell him I've

823
00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:12,420
already, she's 15 years of age.

824
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,460
I've already had sex with five other men

825
00:32:14,460 --> 00:32:15,480
before I knew him.

826
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:17,980
She says, of course I love the Lord

827
00:32:17,980 --> 00:32:19,980
and I have dear Christian parents.

828
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,460
But where in God's name have they been?

829
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,400
Listen, mother, your influence may be greater than

830
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:28,520
mine on your children.

831
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,780
Everybody knows Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

832
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,820
Do you know at nine years of age,

833
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,200
his mother used to bring him round the

834
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,420
fire before he went to bed and read,

835
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,040
there's a book called, what was it, Joseph

836
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,820
Alleyne's Alarm, Alarm to the Unconverted.

837
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,700
Written about 1634.

838
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:46,740
It's one of the greatest books ever written.

839
00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:48,880
Can you imagine a nine year old child

840
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,780
sitting there while his mother read that to

841
00:32:50,780 --> 00:32:51,120
him?

842
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:53,980
What do you youngsters do?

843
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:55,860
You say, I'm going to the other room,

844
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,020
look at Channel 5, or some other thing.

845
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,600
The church needs to be improved drastically but

846
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,720
our homes need to get, I don't want

847
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,360
to get the Bible back in school just,

848
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:09,500
I want to get the Bible back in

849
00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:09,940
the home.

850
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,080
I don't want to get prayer back just

851
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,440
in the school, I want to get prayer

852
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:14,300
back in the home.

853
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,320
I thank God for a home where the

854
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,840
Bible was read and where my daddy prayed

855
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,380
for us before we went to school.

856
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,820
This man prays the prayer of a sinner,

857
00:33:25,980 --> 00:33:27,680
have mercy upon me oh God.

858
00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:30,500
In other words, nothing in my hands I

859
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:30,840
bring.

860
00:33:31,460 --> 00:33:33,960
There's nothing you can barter to get salvation

861
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:34,740
from the Lord.

862
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,200
You can bring your virtues, thank God you're

863
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,620
not as other men are, I thank God

864
00:33:39,620 --> 00:33:40,700
I'm not as other men are.

865
00:33:41,220 --> 00:33:43,160
These precious fellows have been saved, they gave

866
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,580
us some hideous memories, you can't erase the

867
00:33:45,580 --> 00:33:45,900
memory.

868
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,380
It's like knocking the nail in the table,

869
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:50,040
this boy did that in the dining room

870
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:50,460
table.

871
00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:52,540
When daddy came in he said, oh look

872
00:33:52,540 --> 00:33:53,020
at the nail.

873
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,420
And he said, well daddy, he pulled it

874
00:33:55,420 --> 00:33:55,640
out.

875
00:33:55,740 --> 00:33:57,300
Well daddy said, now take the hole out

876
00:33:57,300 --> 00:33:57,860
of the table.

877
00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:00,500
And you've had memories that maybe haunt you

878
00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:01,220
a long time.

879
00:34:02,820 --> 00:34:05,240
But listen, sometimes those things keep us humble.

880
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:06,380
We remember the pit.

881
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,699
This man says, the Lord lifted me up

882
00:34:09,699 --> 00:34:11,179
out of the horrible pit.

883
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,380
Bless the Lord oh my soul.

884
00:34:14,380 --> 00:34:16,500
And all that is within me.

885
00:34:16,780 --> 00:34:18,480
Well if you have carnality within you, it

886
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,400
can't praise the Lord.

887
00:34:21,139 --> 00:34:22,860
There must be purity of heart.

888
00:34:22,980 --> 00:34:25,080
Nonsense this business, you'll be carnal till you

889
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:25,440
die.

890
00:34:26,139 --> 00:34:29,239
There's no such biblical teaching, that teach, men

891
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:30,699
teach it, the carnal Christian.

892
00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:32,560
There's no such thing as a carnal Christian.

893
00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:35,120
If a man is carnal, what does it

894
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:35,460
say?

895
00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:37,659
To be carnally minded is what?

896
00:34:38,739 --> 00:34:39,219
Sickness?

897
00:34:40,300 --> 00:34:40,780
Weakness?

898
00:34:41,820 --> 00:34:42,260
Death?

899
00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:46,820
You can't have carnality, and be alive in

900
00:34:46,820 --> 00:34:47,280
Christ.

901
00:34:48,659 --> 00:34:50,920
All that is within me, praise his holy

902
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:51,219
name.

903
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,600
Except one little black spot in there, which

904
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,360
is where the devil holds stronghold.

905
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:56,280
Not on your life.

906
00:34:58,240 --> 00:34:59,160
Anybody got a quarter?

907
00:34:59,200 --> 00:34:59,820
Have you got a quarter?

908
00:35:01,820 --> 00:35:03,620
No quarters, they all went in the offering.

909
00:35:07,860 --> 00:35:09,560
Oh look, my good enemy is coming.

910
00:35:11,460 --> 00:35:12,360
Bless you, thank you.

911
00:35:12,380 --> 00:35:13,300
Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

912
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:14,620
Here you go.

913
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:16,060
Yeah, I'll give you it back.

914
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:17,140
Oh, don't worry about it.

915
00:35:17,460 --> 00:35:18,160
Oh, thank you.

916
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:19,500
Anybody else want a lonely one?

917
00:35:25,070 --> 00:35:26,990
Not far from my home in England, there's

918
00:35:26,990 --> 00:35:28,210
a town called Huddersfield.

919
00:35:28,770 --> 00:35:31,190
Outside of the town of Huddersfield, there's another

920
00:35:31,190 --> 00:35:32,830
small town called Marsden.

921
00:35:33,690 --> 00:35:35,510
And a young man went there, I read

922
00:35:35,510 --> 00:35:38,430
his story recently, and he went there about

923
00:35:38,430 --> 00:35:39,730
more than a hundred years ago.

924
00:35:39,730 --> 00:35:41,830
And he bought up all the land, and

925
00:35:41,830 --> 00:35:45,250
he started building, building mills and other things.

926
00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:48,510
And he bought up every bit of territory,

927
00:35:48,690 --> 00:35:50,430
except right in the middle of all this,

928
00:35:51,030 --> 00:35:54,370
these houses, these mills and things that he

929
00:35:54,370 --> 00:35:56,030
built, there was a quaker.

930
00:35:56,950 --> 00:35:58,830
Those dear old quakers, we don't have any

931
00:35:58,830 --> 00:35:59,170
anymore.

932
00:35:59,350 --> 00:36:02,390
We've lots of people quaking, particularly when the

933
00:36:02,390 --> 00:36:03,390
stock market goes down.

934
00:36:04,270 --> 00:36:11,950
Anyhow, one day, Sir John Marsden, Sir John

935
00:36:11,950 --> 00:36:13,970
Marsden was in a place, they were giving

936
00:36:13,970 --> 00:36:19,550
some honour, and he said, well, I, I

937
00:36:19,550 --> 00:36:21,110
own all this countryside.

938
00:36:21,810 --> 00:36:23,910
He was a multi, multimillionaire, he was a

939
00:36:23,910 --> 00:36:24,670
sterling millionaire.

940
00:36:25,610 --> 00:36:27,310
And he was boasting about this, then one

941
00:36:27,310 --> 00:36:29,110
of the friends said, a fellow said, just

942
00:36:29,110 --> 00:36:31,470
a minute, what about that farm right in

943
00:36:31,470 --> 00:36:33,230
the middle of all your territory, that old

944
00:36:33,230 --> 00:36:33,550
quaker?

945
00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:35,330
He won't sell that.

946
00:36:35,470 --> 00:36:36,930
He said, he will when I go see

947
00:36:36,930 --> 00:36:37,370
him this week.

948
00:36:37,410 --> 00:36:38,130
No, he won't.

949
00:36:38,130 --> 00:36:40,570
He was born there, his father was born

950
00:36:40,570 --> 00:36:42,430
there, his grandfather was born there.

951
00:36:43,310 --> 00:36:45,590
That old house is more than 200 years

952
00:36:45,590 --> 00:36:46,770
of age, he won't sell it.

953
00:36:47,430 --> 00:36:48,790
He will when I make an offer.

954
00:36:49,530 --> 00:36:52,490
So, instead of having these things, they had

955
00:36:52,490 --> 00:36:56,770
sovereigns, solid gold, worth about $10 each.

956
00:36:57,790 --> 00:36:59,550
And he goes along and he sees John,

957
00:37:00,330 --> 00:37:02,590
John sees the other old John outside in

958
00:37:02,590 --> 00:37:05,330
the garden, he says, John, they all was

959
00:37:05,330 --> 00:37:07,270
thee and thou, you know, I want to

960
00:37:07,270 --> 00:37:09,070
make thee an offer, I want to buy

961
00:37:09,070 --> 00:37:09,710
thy house.

962
00:37:10,390 --> 00:37:12,190
No, no, no, he said.

963
00:37:12,970 --> 00:37:14,910
And he made him various offers, he said,

964
00:37:14,970 --> 00:37:16,070
no, no, no.

965
00:37:19,110 --> 00:37:22,790
Finally he said, look, I'll get golden sovereigns

966
00:37:22,790 --> 00:37:25,310
and I'll put them side by side, right

967
00:37:25,310 --> 00:37:27,670
along the front of the house, down the

968
00:37:27,670 --> 00:37:31,850
hedge, round the back, up the side, and

969
00:37:31,850 --> 00:37:35,050
then I'll cover all the ground that's yours,

970
00:37:35,050 --> 00:37:38,010
I'll cover it with golden sovereigns.

971
00:37:41,140 --> 00:37:42,560
You'll never spend that money.

972
00:37:43,980 --> 00:37:45,140
You'll have vast wealth.

973
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,140
Now, you'll sell it.

974
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:50,480
No, no.

975
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,060
You won't sell it for all of, you

976
00:37:54,060 --> 00:37:55,440
won't sell it for golden sovereigns.

977
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,680
Yes, yes, I knew you, I knew you

978
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:57,920
would.

979
00:37:58,340 --> 00:37:59,020
No, wait a minute.

980
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,080
He said, don't lay them side by side,

981
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:02,360
stand them up like this.

982
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:07,200
Wouldn't that be wonderful?

983
00:38:08,260 --> 00:38:09,900
Stand them side by side.

984
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,640
Oh, I can't do that.

985
00:38:12,740 --> 00:38:13,980
Well, you can't buy my property.

986
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,460
Brother Hitches, good catch.

987
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,080
Are you going to tell me that Jesus

988
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,060
didn't die for something more than to forgive

989
00:38:27,060 --> 00:38:28,040
our lousy sins?

990
00:38:30,860 --> 00:38:32,780
Let me read to you.

991
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,340
See what it says here in Colossians chapter

992
00:38:36,340 --> 00:38:36,760
1.

993
00:38:38,820 --> 00:38:42,120
Colossians chapter 1, verse 21 says what?

994
00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:43,520
Isn't this you?

995
00:38:43,780 --> 00:38:45,680
Come on now, put yourself in this.

996
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,020
And you were sometime alienated and enemies in

997
00:38:49,020 --> 00:38:50,640
your mind by wicked works.

998
00:38:51,140 --> 00:38:52,840
You didn't have to do the wicked works,

999
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,240
you were enemies in your mind.

1000
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,160
You denied God the right.

1001
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,060
You didn't keep his Sabbath, you didn't keep

1002
00:38:58,060 --> 00:38:58,640
his commandments.

1003
00:38:59,380 --> 00:39:01,420
You haven't worshipped him in spirit and in

1004
00:39:01,420 --> 00:39:01,780
truth.

1005
00:39:01,780 --> 00:39:04,820
And so you were alienated by wicked works.

1006
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,940
Sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by

1007
00:39:11,940 --> 00:39:12,560
wicked works.

1008
00:39:13,260 --> 00:39:15,080
Now after he reconciled in the body of

1009
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,940
his flesh through death to present you, present

1010
00:39:17,940 --> 00:39:18,500
you what?

1011
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:21,280
Holy.

1012
00:39:25,910 --> 00:39:27,970
Jesus didn't die to save us from hell,

1013
00:39:28,030 --> 00:39:29,510
he died to save us from sin and

1014
00:39:29,510 --> 00:39:30,110
from sinning.

1015
00:39:31,450 --> 00:39:33,230
Christianity as far as I know, and I'm

1016
00:39:33,230 --> 00:39:35,390
not a smart guy, as far as I

1017
00:39:35,390 --> 00:39:37,470
know, Christianity is the only religion in the

1018
00:39:37,470 --> 00:39:39,050
world where a man's God comes and lives

1019
00:39:39,050 --> 00:39:40,070
inside of him.

1020
00:39:42,090 --> 00:39:43,730
Isn't that what the word of God says?

1021
00:39:44,690 --> 00:39:45,770
Christ in you.

1022
00:39:46,370 --> 00:39:48,650
That makes that silly theory that you have.

1023
00:39:49,590 --> 00:39:51,050
I heard one of the greatest preachers in

1024
00:39:51,050 --> 00:39:52,110
the world use it.

1025
00:39:52,670 --> 00:39:54,570
He said, you know, the apostle Paul, great

1026
00:39:54,570 --> 00:39:56,750
and wonderful as he was, yet he finished

1027
00:39:56,750 --> 00:39:58,710
up in Romans 7 where he said, O

1028
00:39:58,710 --> 00:40:00,770
wretched man, it is not I but sin

1029
00:40:00,770 --> 00:40:01,570
that dwelleth in me.

1030
00:40:01,630 --> 00:40:02,910
That's a lie, he didn't.

1031
00:40:03,230 --> 00:40:05,210
He finished up in Galatians 2.20, it

1032
00:40:05,210 --> 00:40:07,010
is not I but Christ liveth in me.

1033
00:40:07,330 --> 00:40:09,510
You can't have an indwelling Christ, an indwelling

1034
00:40:09,510 --> 00:40:09,990
sin.

1035
00:40:11,290 --> 00:40:14,110
And Christ is in your heart if there's

1036
00:40:14,110 --> 00:40:17,190
pride and envy and grief and covetousness and

1037
00:40:17,190 --> 00:40:17,570
lust.

1038
00:40:18,590 --> 00:40:20,110
You see, we don't have a message of

1039
00:40:20,110 --> 00:40:22,450
victory to a generation that's used to sinning.

1040
00:40:22,510 --> 00:40:25,070
We buy sin, we sell it, we advertise

1041
00:40:25,070 --> 00:40:26,090
it, we love it.

1042
00:40:26,510 --> 00:40:28,070
People give their lives for it.

1043
00:40:29,230 --> 00:40:30,590
But you see, when it comes back like

1044
00:40:30,590 --> 00:40:34,070
a boomerang, you find that people say, well,

1045
00:40:34,150 --> 00:40:35,330
sin's different these days.

1046
00:40:35,330 --> 00:40:35,810
Is it?

1047
00:40:36,810 --> 00:40:38,430
Ask the man who's got AIDS if it's

1048
00:40:38,430 --> 00:40:38,790
different.

1049
00:40:39,590 --> 00:40:41,570
You read Bob Shuler or some other clown.

1050
00:40:42,530 --> 00:40:44,630
He says, oh, you're full of goodness, let

1051
00:40:44,630 --> 00:40:45,390
it all come out.

1052
00:40:45,730 --> 00:40:47,170
Well, lots of guys did and they got

1053
00:40:47,170 --> 00:40:47,570
AIDS.

1054
00:40:48,610 --> 00:40:49,650
Lots of girls did.

1055
00:40:49,710 --> 00:40:50,390
What happened?

1056
00:40:50,470 --> 00:40:51,450
They got into sin.

1057
00:40:52,330 --> 00:40:54,110
There's something in there you can't control.

1058
00:40:54,230 --> 00:40:54,570
Do you know what?

1059
00:40:54,690 --> 00:40:56,090
God can't control it.

1060
00:40:57,390 --> 00:40:58,810
What does it say in Romans 7?

1061
00:41:00,150 --> 00:41:01,910
It says there's something there.

1062
00:41:04,010 --> 00:41:06,730
There's no law of God against sin.

1063
00:41:07,810 --> 00:41:08,930
People come to the altar.

1064
00:41:09,150 --> 00:41:10,110
I want you to pray with me.

1065
00:41:10,130 --> 00:41:10,670
About what?

1066
00:41:10,850 --> 00:41:12,670
Oh, I've got secret lust or I've got

1067
00:41:12,670 --> 00:41:12,930
this.

1068
00:41:13,050 --> 00:41:14,070
I won't pray with them.

1069
00:41:15,270 --> 00:41:15,730
Do you know what?

1070
00:41:15,850 --> 00:41:17,470
Lots of people are going to meetings and

1071
00:41:17,470 --> 00:41:19,250
folk are trying to cast out demons and

1072
00:41:19,250 --> 00:41:20,350
it's not a demon at all.

1073
00:41:20,410 --> 00:41:21,250
It's the old nature.

1074
00:41:22,070 --> 00:41:23,570
They're trying to cast the old nature out.

1075
00:41:23,650 --> 00:41:24,110
You can't.

1076
00:41:24,290 --> 00:41:25,270
It goes to the cross.

1077
00:41:25,330 --> 00:41:26,150
It's to be crucified.

1078
00:41:27,230 --> 00:41:28,130
I use this.

1079
00:41:28,130 --> 00:41:29,610
I say, here's the water level.

1080
00:41:30,070 --> 00:41:31,750
Here's a man standing up in that water

1081
00:41:32,410 --> 00:41:35,910
and if I baptize him, immediately he goes

1082
00:41:35,910 --> 00:41:36,590
under the water.

1083
00:41:36,770 --> 00:41:38,210
He can't talk to the world above.

1084
00:41:38,290 --> 00:41:39,510
He can't see the world above.

1085
00:41:39,590 --> 00:41:40,990
He's not interested in the world above.

1086
00:41:41,190 --> 00:41:43,670
If you're really baptized into Jesus Christ, not

1087
00:41:43,670 --> 00:41:46,190
just in water, that's an outward sign of

1088
00:41:46,190 --> 00:41:46,970
an inward world.

1089
00:41:47,590 --> 00:41:48,850
You'll remember the place.

1090
00:41:49,470 --> 00:41:51,370
Again, get this, hold it tight.

1091
00:41:51,770 --> 00:41:53,570
There are two classes of people in the

1092
00:41:53,570 --> 00:41:55,670
world, not blacks and whites, not rich and

1093
00:41:55,670 --> 00:41:58,290
poor, not intellectuals and stupid people.

1094
00:41:58,450 --> 00:41:59,430
Just two kinds.

1095
00:41:59,810 --> 00:42:01,950
Those who are dead in sin and those

1096
00:42:01,950 --> 00:42:03,110
who are dead to sin.

1097
00:42:05,170 --> 00:42:07,410
Those where sin has no dominion.

1098
00:42:07,490 --> 00:42:08,890
You have dominion over it.

1099
00:42:10,050 --> 00:42:11,690
The indwelling Christ has come.

1100
00:42:12,710 --> 00:42:14,450
You see, that's why this man prays.

1101
00:42:15,330 --> 00:42:17,130
And it is a prayer, I remind you.

1102
00:42:18,010 --> 00:42:20,210
Let me go a minute over to Titus

1103
00:42:20,210 --> 00:42:21,050
before I go on.

1104
00:42:21,870 --> 00:42:28,930
In Titus chapter 2, people say you can't

1105
00:42:28,930 --> 00:42:30,030
do anything to get saved.

1106
00:42:30,170 --> 00:42:31,030
Well, look at this verse.

1107
00:42:31,690 --> 00:42:36,630
In Titus chapter 2, verse 11 says, The

1108
00:42:36,630 --> 00:42:38,270
grace of God bringeth salvation.

1109
00:42:38,630 --> 00:42:41,170
It is appeared unto all men, teaching us,

1110
00:42:41,210 --> 00:42:43,610
this is what we do, denying ungodly and

1111
00:42:43,610 --> 00:42:44,290
worldly lusts.

1112
00:42:44,770 --> 00:42:48,150
We should live soberly, righteously and godly, in

1113
00:42:48,150 --> 00:42:49,090
this present world.

1114
00:42:49,870 --> 00:42:52,170
Looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing

1115
00:42:52,170 --> 00:42:53,350
of the Lord Jesus Christ.

1116
00:42:53,830 --> 00:42:54,890
You see what it says?

1117
00:42:55,270 --> 00:42:59,170
We should live righteously and godly or holy.

1118
00:42:59,470 --> 00:43:00,650
What, when we get to heaven?

1119
00:43:01,350 --> 00:43:02,970
No, in this present world.

1120
00:43:05,070 --> 00:43:06,630
We're supposed to be the light of the

1121
00:43:06,630 --> 00:43:06,970
world.

1122
00:43:07,750 --> 00:43:09,330
You say, I work in an office, it's

1123
00:43:09,330 --> 00:43:11,030
very difficult, I'm the only Christian.

1124
00:43:11,490 --> 00:43:12,750
Where do you put street lamps?

1125
00:43:13,110 --> 00:43:14,970
Do you take them out of the streets

1126
00:43:14,970 --> 00:43:16,250
and put them in the city park?

1127
00:43:16,250 --> 00:43:18,750
You put them in the darkest places.

1128
00:43:19,310 --> 00:43:21,110
Why did God put you in that office?

1129
00:43:21,290 --> 00:43:22,830
Because he wants a light there.

1130
00:43:23,930 --> 00:43:24,850
It's so dark.

1131
00:43:26,090 --> 00:43:27,870
People say it well today.

1132
00:43:29,010 --> 00:43:31,830
I heard somebody in a report recently say,

1133
00:43:32,190 --> 00:43:34,490
We don't understand the rebellion amongst young people

1134
00:43:34,490 --> 00:43:35,050
in America.

1135
00:43:37,110 --> 00:43:38,110
It's so dark.

1136
00:43:39,330 --> 00:43:41,130
People say it well today.

1137
00:43:41,910 --> 00:43:45,150
I heard somebody in a report recently say,

1138
00:43:45,150 --> 00:43:47,850
We don't understand the rebellion amongst young people

1139
00:43:47,850 --> 00:43:48,430
in America.

1140
00:43:49,570 --> 00:43:51,550
We've got the best homes.

1141
00:43:52,050 --> 00:43:52,730
No, no we haven't.

1142
00:43:52,790 --> 00:43:53,890
We've got the best houses.

1143
00:43:54,210 --> 00:43:55,810
But houses are not homes.

1144
00:43:56,970 --> 00:43:58,710
Beautiful California, what?

1145
00:43:59,690 --> 00:44:02,410
The street gangs there kill one person a

1146
00:44:02,410 --> 00:44:02,710
day.

1147
00:44:03,290 --> 00:44:06,190
In fact, they killed more than 365 last

1148
00:44:06,190 --> 00:44:07,850
year in the one town alone.

1149
00:44:08,970 --> 00:44:12,250
America, of the five industrial nations, America has

1150
00:44:12,250 --> 00:44:14,710
the highest teenage pregnancies.

1151
00:44:15,510 --> 00:44:16,110
Why?

1152
00:44:17,010 --> 00:44:18,810
Because the light has got blurred.

1153
00:44:19,830 --> 00:44:21,430
Because the light has gone out.

1154
00:44:23,810 --> 00:44:26,990
The sin is exactly the same.

1155
00:44:27,730 --> 00:44:30,550
The wages of sin is still death, but

1156
00:44:30,550 --> 00:44:31,910
the gift of God.

1157
00:44:31,970 --> 00:44:32,830
Did you notice that?

1158
00:44:33,690 --> 00:44:35,470
Not the gift from God.

1159
00:44:36,130 --> 00:44:37,950
It isn't as though God has something called

1160
00:44:37,950 --> 00:44:41,130
life, and he gives you eternal life.

1161
00:44:41,290 --> 00:44:43,130
It's the gift of God.

1162
00:44:43,970 --> 00:44:46,370
God comes to take up residence in you.

1163
00:44:46,450 --> 00:44:47,770
It's the gift of God.

1164
00:44:48,010 --> 00:44:49,810
Again, not the gift from God, but the

1165
00:44:49,810 --> 00:44:52,290
gift of God, which is eternal life through

1166
00:44:52,290 --> 00:44:53,610
Jesus Christ our Lord.

1167
00:44:55,230 --> 00:44:58,270
And so again, if this miracle happens, if

1168
00:44:58,270 --> 00:45:00,030
any man being Christ, he is a new

1169
00:45:00,030 --> 00:45:00,510
creation.

1170
00:45:03,790 --> 00:45:10,570
But notice too, in this 51st Psalm, he

1171
00:45:10,570 --> 00:45:12,430
says, purge me with hyssop, and I shall

1172
00:45:12,430 --> 00:45:12,750
be clean.

1173
00:45:12,950 --> 00:45:14,810
You see, he uses three different words.

1174
00:45:15,610 --> 00:45:19,210
Wash me, that's like washing the surface of

1175
00:45:19,210 --> 00:45:21,830
something, then cleanse me, and then he says,

1176
00:45:21,990 --> 00:45:22,650
purge me.

1177
00:45:23,410 --> 00:45:26,030
One of the greatest Hebrew Christians in history

1178
00:45:26,030 --> 00:45:27,290
was Dr. Eidersheim.

1179
00:45:27,850 --> 00:45:29,050
You may know his book, he has a

1180
00:45:29,050 --> 00:45:30,870
wonderful book, a lot of wonderful books.

1181
00:45:31,670 --> 00:45:34,550
Dr. Eidersheim says, there is no way at

1182
00:45:34,550 --> 00:45:37,430
all, where you can take that Hebrew word

1183
00:45:37,430 --> 00:45:39,210
and translate it into English.

1184
00:45:40,330 --> 00:45:42,670
It strains English too much.

1185
00:45:44,010 --> 00:45:44,810
Purge me.

1186
00:45:46,770 --> 00:45:51,710
In one of his hymns, purge me.

1187
00:45:53,410 --> 00:45:55,770
In one of his hymns, Charles Wesley says,

1188
00:45:55,890 --> 00:45:57,070
he's reaching for what?

1189
00:45:58,150 --> 00:46:00,190
Well, he's a penitent man, alright.

1190
00:46:01,310 --> 00:46:03,150
But he's reaching for something beyond that.

1191
00:46:03,150 --> 00:46:05,230
Purge me from every sinful blot.

1192
00:46:05,610 --> 00:46:07,550
My idols will all be cast aside.

1193
00:46:08,010 --> 00:46:10,310
Cleanse me from every sinful thought, from all

1194
00:46:10,310 --> 00:46:12,350
the filth of self and pride.

1195
00:46:12,910 --> 00:46:15,070
Give me a new and perfect heart, from

1196
00:46:15,070 --> 00:46:17,050
doubt and fear and sorrow free.

1197
00:46:17,490 --> 00:46:19,670
The mind which was in Christ in part,

1198
00:46:19,930 --> 00:46:21,750
and perfect holiness in me.

1199
00:46:22,610 --> 00:46:26,590
As dear Wesley said, justification is sanctification begun.

1200
00:46:27,750 --> 00:46:29,810
There's a progressive revelation of God.

1201
00:46:29,930 --> 00:46:31,390
There's a progress in holiness.

1202
00:46:32,370 --> 00:46:34,230
So he says, purge me.

1203
00:46:34,570 --> 00:46:36,050
Do you know what the Hebrew actually says?

1204
00:46:36,110 --> 00:46:38,670
According to Dr. Idersheim, one of the greatest

1205
00:46:38,670 --> 00:46:40,970
Hebrew scholars, they say, he says that word

1206
00:46:40,970 --> 00:46:44,290
purge is U-N unhinge me.

1207
00:46:44,790 --> 00:46:46,070
Unhinge me from sin.

1208
00:46:46,310 --> 00:46:47,410
Divorce me from it.

1209
00:46:48,550 --> 00:46:50,450
Don't just take the fruits of sin, take

1210
00:46:50,450 --> 00:46:51,490
the root of sin.

1211
00:46:52,650 --> 00:46:54,730
You say you preach sin as perfection, no.

1212
00:46:56,230 --> 00:46:58,050
I don't believe that a man, of a

1213
00:46:58,050 --> 00:47:00,230
man, in any state of grace, I don't

1214
00:47:00,230 --> 00:47:03,170
believe in his inability to sin.

1215
00:47:03,450 --> 00:47:05,510
I believe in his ability not to sin.

1216
00:47:06,330 --> 00:47:08,270
Greater is he that is in you, than

1217
00:47:08,270 --> 00:47:09,310
he that is in the world.

1218
00:47:09,610 --> 00:47:10,890
It's easy to read that.

1219
00:47:12,310 --> 00:47:13,950
It's Romans 8 what, 37?

1220
00:47:14,870 --> 00:47:16,590
Greater is he that is in you, but

1221
00:47:16,590 --> 00:47:17,110
wait a minute.

1222
00:47:17,850 --> 00:47:19,730
I've been around a few years.

1223
00:47:20,890 --> 00:47:23,730
I've been going to meetings 75 years at

1224
00:47:23,730 --> 00:47:24,050
least.

1225
00:47:25,950 --> 00:47:27,610
But, and I preach around the world.

1226
00:47:28,410 --> 00:47:31,190
I've never heard anybody preach on a threefold

1227
00:47:31,190 --> 00:47:33,970
infilling, indwelling of the Spirit of God.

1228
00:47:34,550 --> 00:47:36,530
And yet it says in Romans 8 and

1229
00:47:36,530 --> 00:47:38,670
what about verses 9, 10, 11 check them,

1230
00:47:39,010 --> 00:47:40,770
the Spirit of God is in you, the

1231
00:47:40,770 --> 00:47:42,530
Spirit of Christ is in you, the Holy

1232
00:47:42,530 --> 00:47:43,550
Spirit is in you.

1233
00:47:43,670 --> 00:47:44,130
Come on.

1234
00:47:46,250 --> 00:47:49,410
You see, we're so used to sinning we

1235
00:47:49,410 --> 00:47:50,750
just kind of permit it.

1236
00:47:52,190 --> 00:47:53,210
Sin is not normal.

1237
00:47:53,870 --> 00:47:54,850
It's abnormal.

1238
00:47:56,150 --> 00:47:58,330
If sin is normal then Adam was born

1239
00:47:58,330 --> 00:47:59,090
and he wasn't normal.

1240
00:48:00,230 --> 00:48:01,970
What did Jesus say to a bad woman

1241
00:48:01,970 --> 00:48:02,610
that came?

1242
00:48:03,150 --> 00:48:04,170
Go and sin less?

1243
00:48:07,670 --> 00:48:08,650
Is that right?

1244
00:48:09,970 --> 00:48:11,010
What did he say?

1245
00:48:11,350 --> 00:48:12,710
No more.

1246
00:48:14,670 --> 00:48:15,930
What does Paul say?

1247
00:48:15,990 --> 00:48:18,350
Awake to righteousness and sin not.

1248
00:48:19,810 --> 00:48:21,570
Thy word have I hid in my heart

1249
00:48:21,570 --> 00:48:23,210
that I might not sin against thee.

1250
00:48:23,550 --> 00:48:25,430
If you have the indwelling word and the

1251
00:48:25,430 --> 00:48:27,550
indwelling Holy Spirit, I'll tell you what, when

1252
00:48:27,550 --> 00:48:31,310
temptation comes you'll hate it because God hates

1253
00:48:31,310 --> 00:48:31,430
it.

1254
00:48:31,490 --> 00:48:33,330
You'll feel the strength of God there.

1255
00:48:34,030 --> 00:48:36,410
They sing a hymn in England at the

1256
00:48:36,410 --> 00:48:38,430
Keswick meetings about the Holy Spirit.

1257
00:48:38,530 --> 00:48:41,710
Our blessed Redeemer, ere he breathe this tender

1258
00:48:41,710 --> 00:48:44,290
last farewell, a guide, a comforter bequeathed with

1259
00:48:44,290 --> 00:48:44,950
us to dwell.

1260
00:48:46,210 --> 00:48:48,950
He came sweet influence to impart, a gracious

1261
00:48:48,950 --> 00:48:49,870
willing guest.

1262
00:48:50,050 --> 00:48:51,890
You talk about the Holy Ghost.

1263
00:48:52,210 --> 00:48:53,910
The word ghost is a corruption of the

1264
00:48:53,910 --> 00:48:55,150
old English word guest.

1265
00:48:55,690 --> 00:48:57,790
The Holy Spirit comes as a holy guest

1266
00:48:57,790 --> 00:48:59,850
and he'll stay till you offend him.

1267
00:49:01,090 --> 00:49:03,170
And you can accept the Spirit, you can

1268
00:49:03,170 --> 00:49:03,970
grieve the Spirit.

1269
00:49:05,130 --> 00:49:05,810
What is he going to do?

1270
00:49:05,930 --> 00:49:09,110
You can accept the Holy Spirit or resist

1271
00:49:09,110 --> 00:49:12,950
the Holy Spirit or what's the other one?

1272
00:49:15,190 --> 00:49:17,170
And the final one, thank you, is quench

1273
00:49:17,170 --> 00:49:18,090
the Holy Spirit.

1274
00:49:18,670 --> 00:49:19,690
Oh, I don't believe that.

1275
00:49:19,750 --> 00:49:20,730
I don't care whether you do or not.

1276
00:49:20,770 --> 00:49:21,970
The word of God says so.

1277
00:49:22,690 --> 00:49:24,570
But you see, if the Holy Spirit comes

1278
00:49:24,570 --> 00:49:27,110
that hymn goes on to say he checks

1279
00:49:27,110 --> 00:49:30,730
each thought, he calms each fear, and he

1280
00:49:30,730 --> 00:49:31,710
speaks of heaven.

1281
00:49:33,550 --> 00:49:34,630
The holy guest.

1282
00:49:37,330 --> 00:49:39,950
Mercy, this last four weeks our house has

1283
00:49:39,950 --> 00:49:42,450
been terrible ever since this Swaggart affair particularly.

1284
00:49:43,010 --> 00:49:46,490
Do you know we've had 30 30 guests

1285
00:49:46,490 --> 00:49:49,750
one week, 33 another, 35 another, 40 one

1286
00:49:49,750 --> 00:49:50,070
week.

1287
00:49:50,550 --> 00:49:52,810
Coming from all over the nation, asking questions,

1288
00:49:52,890 --> 00:49:54,150
they're puzzled, they're problems.

1289
00:49:56,770 --> 00:49:59,850
I have a sand glass in my office,

1290
00:49:59,930 --> 00:50:00,910
I don't always use it.

1291
00:50:01,670 --> 00:50:03,530
And I discovered that, you know, these sand

1292
00:50:03,530 --> 00:50:05,950
glasses when I turn it, it runs for

1293
00:50:05,950 --> 00:50:07,210
exactly 20 minutes.

1294
00:50:07,850 --> 00:50:09,470
And if I remember, I don't always, I

1295
00:50:09,470 --> 00:50:10,810
say when a guest comes, I say, listen,

1296
00:50:10,910 --> 00:50:11,690
watch this thing.

1297
00:50:11,690 --> 00:50:13,970
When this thing runs out, you run out.

1298
00:50:16,010 --> 00:50:18,610
Your time's up, 20 minutes that's all you

1299
00:50:18,610 --> 00:50:19,130
can have.

1300
00:50:19,930 --> 00:50:21,810
If I was a psychiatrist, I should charge

1301
00:50:21,810 --> 00:50:22,470
them all a dollar.

1302
00:50:23,170 --> 00:50:24,630
I tell you what, with the wisdom I

1303
00:50:24,630 --> 00:50:25,650
have, I should charge them $10.

1304
00:50:26,010 --> 00:50:27,490
But anyhow, apart from that.

1305
00:50:33,010 --> 00:50:36,350
It's one of the favorite verses of John

1306
00:50:36,350 --> 00:50:38,370
Wesley, and he shook England, remember he didn't

1307
00:50:38,370 --> 00:50:40,190
have teams, he didn't have TV, he didn't

1308
00:50:40,190 --> 00:50:40,770
have media.

1309
00:50:42,470 --> 00:50:43,350
What did he have?

1310
00:50:43,450 --> 00:50:45,610
He had men like himself that prayed and

1311
00:50:45,610 --> 00:50:45,910
sweat.

1312
00:50:46,770 --> 00:50:48,710
While he was preaching they were praying.

1313
00:50:53,550 --> 00:50:54,870
An anointed man.

1314
00:51:00,270 --> 00:51:02,550
His favorite text was this, he preached it

1315
00:51:02,550 --> 00:51:04,690
everywhere, particularly because the Church of England was

1316
00:51:04,690 --> 00:51:05,710
so frozen.

1317
00:51:06,610 --> 00:51:10,550
His favorite text everywhere was Romans 8, I

1318
00:51:10,550 --> 00:51:13,330
think it's verse 16 there, the Spirit beareth

1319
00:51:13,330 --> 00:51:14,690
witness with our spirit.

1320
00:51:15,530 --> 00:51:18,230
When the congregation sings that great American hymn,

1321
00:51:18,230 --> 00:51:18,850
I love it.

1322
00:51:18,950 --> 00:51:20,710
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.

1323
00:51:20,850 --> 00:51:22,130
I feel like saying, hey, wait a minute,

1324
00:51:22,190 --> 00:51:22,910
we're not going to sing.

1325
00:51:23,310 --> 00:51:24,850
Let's start with the first man here.

1326
00:51:24,950 --> 00:51:25,630
Do you have assurance?

1327
00:51:25,830 --> 00:51:26,970
How do you know you have assurance?

1328
00:51:28,750 --> 00:51:30,570
That's the secret of the Christian life.

1329
00:51:30,630 --> 00:51:31,490
I have assurance.

1330
00:51:32,810 --> 00:51:34,610
I don't need the witness of the Spirit,

1331
00:51:34,730 --> 00:51:36,770
maybe just to tell me that I'm born

1332
00:51:36,770 --> 00:51:38,850
again, just to tell me that I can

1333
00:51:38,850 --> 00:51:39,650
be sanctified.

1334
00:51:40,510 --> 00:51:42,610
I need the Holy Spirit, but dare I

1335
00:51:42,610 --> 00:51:43,050
do it?

1336
00:51:43,810 --> 00:51:46,130
What does Paul say in Romans chapter 9?

1337
00:51:47,310 --> 00:51:48,890
I've preached with some of the greatest men

1338
00:51:48,890 --> 00:51:51,110
in the world, I've prayed with some, and

1339
00:51:51,110 --> 00:51:52,670
I remember the men I've prayed with more

1340
00:51:52,670 --> 00:51:53,750
than the men I've preached with.

1341
00:51:54,350 --> 00:51:56,690
But listen to Paul in Romans 9, he

1342
00:51:56,690 --> 00:51:58,950
said, I call the Holy Spirit of God

1343
00:51:58,950 --> 00:52:01,830
to bear witness that I lie not, that

1344
00:52:01,830 --> 00:52:03,510
I could wish myself a cursed.

1345
00:52:05,490 --> 00:52:06,170
Come on.

1346
00:52:09,050 --> 00:52:11,090
The prayer life is a thermometer of your

1347
00:52:11,090 --> 00:52:11,510
life.

1348
00:52:12,890 --> 00:52:14,850
The prayer meeting is the strength of your

1349
00:52:14,850 --> 00:52:16,770
church, not the Sunday morning congregation.

1350
00:52:16,950 --> 00:52:19,050
Everybody goes to church in America Sunday morning.

1351
00:52:19,430 --> 00:52:21,110
The Sunday night service is a test of

1352
00:52:21,110 --> 00:52:21,670
your preacher.

1353
00:52:21,730 --> 00:52:23,550
Maybe you don't even have a preaching service,

1354
00:52:23,670 --> 00:52:24,470
but that's the test.

1355
00:52:25,290 --> 00:52:27,110
But the strength, the thing the devil fears

1356
00:52:27,110 --> 00:52:28,850
is not when we meet together and clap

1357
00:52:28,850 --> 00:52:30,450
our hands, it's when we pray, when we

1358
00:52:30,450 --> 00:52:34,010
intercede, when by faith we pull down strongholds.

1359
00:52:34,650 --> 00:52:36,930
I'd love to have heard Paul preach, dear

1360
00:52:36,930 --> 00:52:37,710
God, would I?

1361
00:52:38,230 --> 00:52:39,050
Preaching Romans?

1362
00:52:39,730 --> 00:52:41,250
I'd love to have heard him pray.

1363
00:52:42,030 --> 00:52:44,010
I'd love to have heard Jesus preach the

1364
00:52:44,010 --> 00:52:44,790
Sermon on the Mount.

1365
00:52:45,290 --> 00:52:46,950
I couldn't have heard him in Gethsemane, it

1366
00:52:46,950 --> 00:52:47,810
would have killed me.

1367
00:52:48,950 --> 00:52:50,890
Because it's his custom to go and pray

1368
00:52:50,890 --> 00:52:51,550
all night.

1369
00:52:53,690 --> 00:52:56,390
The Word of God says that the Christians

1370
00:52:56,390 --> 00:52:58,870
are the salt of the earth, praying people

1371
00:52:58,870 --> 00:53:00,130
are the salt of the church.

1372
00:53:00,650 --> 00:53:02,770
I know men now in my neighborhood who

1373
00:53:02,770 --> 00:53:04,690
pray three, four, five hours a day.

1374
00:53:04,890 --> 00:53:06,590
Nobody knows them, they don't want to be

1375
00:53:06,590 --> 00:53:06,890
known.

1376
00:53:07,670 --> 00:53:09,870
But Paul says, I call the Holy Ghost

1377
00:53:09,870 --> 00:53:10,650
to their witness.

1378
00:53:11,610 --> 00:53:13,310
I could wish myself a curse.

1379
00:53:14,310 --> 00:53:16,770
It wouldn't be too bad, it wouldn't strain

1380
00:53:16,770 --> 00:53:18,330
that word actually, he said, I could wish

1381
00:53:18,330 --> 00:53:21,230
myself damned if need be, for my brethren.

1382
00:53:22,850 --> 00:53:25,470
You see, basically, Christianity is sacrifice.

1383
00:53:25,730 --> 00:53:27,930
If there's no sacrifice in your life, it

1384
00:53:27,930 --> 00:53:28,650
won't be fruitful.

1385
00:53:29,730 --> 00:53:32,450
It's based on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

1386
00:53:33,070 --> 00:53:36,190
And it's based again on us, it's alright

1387
00:53:36,190 --> 00:53:37,670
to sing, I'm going to wear a crown

1388
00:53:37,670 --> 00:53:38,290
of thorns.

1389
00:53:39,030 --> 00:53:41,110
It's alright for him to leave the glory

1390
00:53:41,110 --> 00:53:42,570
of heaven, to come down to a wicked

1391
00:53:42,570 --> 00:53:44,330
world like this and die for us.

1392
00:53:44,530 --> 00:53:46,130
But don't ask me to die in order

1393
00:53:46,130 --> 00:53:46,770
to get there.

1394
00:53:46,950 --> 00:53:48,130
But that's what he asked for.

1395
00:53:49,150 --> 00:53:50,650
Jesus didn't ask you to live for him,

1396
00:53:50,690 --> 00:53:51,910
he asked you to die for him.

1397
00:53:52,650 --> 00:53:54,830
If you die, the other part, while you

1398
00:53:54,830 --> 00:53:57,930
walk in light, will be so transforming.

1399
00:53:59,610 --> 00:54:02,610
So quickly now, he prays a prayer of

1400
00:54:02,610 --> 00:54:04,530
a sinner, have mercy upon me O God.

1401
00:54:05,510 --> 00:54:07,570
Blot out all this hideous record.

1402
00:54:08,470 --> 00:54:10,570
Stop this burning fire of guilt.

1403
00:54:12,350 --> 00:54:14,970
Put to death this lashing scorpion in me

1404
00:54:14,970 --> 00:54:16,730
that accuses me of my past.

1405
00:54:17,330 --> 00:54:18,230
Take care of it.

1406
00:54:19,470 --> 00:54:20,750
And God answers his prayer.

1407
00:54:23,750 --> 00:54:25,570
So when he's prayed the prayer of a

1408
00:54:25,570 --> 00:54:29,210
sinner, then he prays another prayer here.

1409
00:54:30,290 --> 00:54:31,630
Watch this crazy one.

1410
00:54:38,370 --> 00:54:40,390
Make me to hear joy and gladness of

1411
00:54:40,390 --> 00:54:42,110
the bones which thou hast broken, may I

1412
00:54:42,110 --> 00:54:42,570
rejoice.

1413
00:54:43,330 --> 00:54:45,890
You see, three times he mentions brokenness in

1414
00:54:45,890 --> 00:54:46,530
this chapter.

1415
00:54:47,790 --> 00:54:49,690
A broken and a contrite heart.

1416
00:54:50,910 --> 00:54:53,910
Notice what he says, the bones which thou

1417
00:54:53,910 --> 00:54:54,590
hast broken.

1418
00:54:54,790 --> 00:54:55,850
Did you ever break a bone?

1419
00:54:57,610 --> 00:54:59,590
I jumped out of the burning hotel in

1420
00:54:59,590 --> 00:55:00,630
1951.

1421
00:55:01,030 --> 00:55:03,510
I hit the deck, brought my back in

1422
00:55:03,510 --> 00:55:05,850
three places, this leg in three pieces, my

1423
00:55:05,850 --> 00:55:06,630
feet were broken.

1424
00:55:07,230 --> 00:55:09,390
I lay in the snow at half past

1425
00:55:09,390 --> 00:55:10,150
three in the morning.

1426
00:55:10,630 --> 00:55:12,470
That's, preachers should be in bed, not sleeping

1427
00:55:12,470 --> 00:55:13,090
in the street.

1428
00:55:13,610 --> 00:55:15,310
But I jumped out of the burning hotel.

1429
00:55:16,090 --> 00:55:17,830
A guy comes around the corner, hey what

1430
00:55:17,830 --> 00:55:18,590
are you doing here?

1431
00:55:19,430 --> 00:55:21,530
My first reaction was to say, playing tennis,

1432
00:55:21,570 --> 00:55:22,470
what do you think I'm doing?

1433
00:55:25,130 --> 00:55:26,690
He says, why don't you get up and

1434
00:55:26,690 --> 00:55:26,930
go?

1435
00:55:27,430 --> 00:55:29,170
He said, something could come around the corner,

1436
00:55:29,310 --> 00:55:29,930
you'd get hurt.

1437
00:55:30,050 --> 00:55:30,690
I said, hurt?

1438
00:55:31,190 --> 00:55:33,330
My back's broken, my legs are, oh no,

1439
00:55:33,390 --> 00:55:33,810
he said.

1440
00:55:33,970 --> 00:55:35,230
Oh, is that so?

1441
00:55:36,010 --> 00:55:37,490
I put his hand under my neck at

1442
00:55:37,490 --> 00:55:39,230
the back here and under my legs, he

1443
00:55:39,230 --> 00:55:40,730
lifted me up and he laid me in

1444
00:55:40,730 --> 00:55:42,270
about eighteen inches of snow.

1445
00:55:43,070 --> 00:55:43,750
I don't know if he was trying to

1446
00:55:43,750 --> 00:55:44,750
deep freeze me or what.

1447
00:55:45,870 --> 00:55:47,030
And he left me there.

1448
00:55:47,510 --> 00:55:48,770
But you know when he lifted me up,

1449
00:55:48,950 --> 00:55:51,410
boy, everything in my body screamed.

1450
00:55:52,390 --> 00:55:53,910
But I'd always been taught like a good

1451
00:55:53,910 --> 00:55:56,350
Englishman you don't, you know, you don't howl.

1452
00:55:56,350 --> 00:55:57,970
So I bit my lip on the inside,

1453
00:55:58,250 --> 00:56:00,050
so much so I bit part of the

1454
00:56:00,050 --> 00:56:00,990
lip away on the inside.

1455
00:56:01,270 --> 00:56:02,750
I was all bloody and messed up.

1456
00:56:04,070 --> 00:56:05,570
It was agony when he lifted me.

1457
00:56:05,670 --> 00:56:08,790
I was far better there, in my broken

1458
00:56:08,790 --> 00:56:09,410
condition.

1459
00:56:11,950 --> 00:56:15,810
I laid there for half an hour, shivering.

1460
00:56:16,710 --> 00:56:18,590
It was fifteen below zero anyhow.

1461
00:56:19,690 --> 00:56:21,950
It was a horrible morning, a horrible day,

1462
00:56:22,150 --> 00:56:25,090
a horrible night with this burning hotel above

1463
00:56:25,090 --> 00:56:25,390
us.

1464
00:56:26,570 --> 00:56:29,050
Half an hour afterwards, the ambulance men came.

1465
00:56:29,730 --> 00:56:31,250
The next thing I knew, I was in

1466
00:56:31,250 --> 00:56:31,710
hospital.

1467
00:56:32,110 --> 00:56:34,350
They picked me up, put me on a

1468
00:56:34,350 --> 00:56:35,410
stretcher, put me in the ambulance.

1469
00:56:35,470 --> 00:56:36,410
I never felt a thing.

1470
00:56:36,490 --> 00:56:36,710
Why?

1471
00:56:37,710 --> 00:56:38,750
Because they're skilled.

1472
00:56:39,230 --> 00:56:40,370
They knew how to do it.

1473
00:56:40,950 --> 00:56:43,890
You know, sometimes we go to people, we're

1474
00:56:43,890 --> 00:56:45,830
so zealous we're worse off when we start,

1475
00:56:46,230 --> 00:56:48,290
when we finish with them than when we

1476
00:56:48,290 --> 00:56:48,850
found them.

1477
00:56:49,530 --> 00:56:51,150
There's a way to handle people who are

1478
00:56:51,150 --> 00:56:52,870
dead in trespasses and in sin.

1479
00:56:55,190 --> 00:56:58,990
Anyhow, when I'm out of relationship with the

1480
00:56:58,990 --> 00:57:00,950
Lord, he said, it's like a broken bone.

1481
00:57:01,650 --> 00:57:03,030
And God broke the bones.

1482
00:57:04,090 --> 00:57:05,310
I insulted him.

1483
00:57:05,430 --> 00:57:07,070
I, I, I withstood him.

1484
00:57:07,590 --> 00:57:09,690
I grieved the Holy Spirit of God.

1485
00:57:10,370 --> 00:57:11,790
Dear Lord, how long do you meet a

1486
00:57:11,790 --> 00:57:14,530
prostitute or somebody, and the Holy Christ is

1487
00:57:14,530 --> 00:57:16,370
looking down, and the Holy Ghost is looking

1488
00:57:16,370 --> 00:57:18,590
down, and a man can't break down and

1489
00:57:18,590 --> 00:57:20,530
weep and cry and scream to God?

1490
00:57:21,030 --> 00:57:22,130
There's something wrong.

1491
00:57:24,910 --> 00:57:26,530
So he prays the prayer of a sinner.

1492
00:57:30,010 --> 00:57:31,550
Have mercy upon me, O God.

1493
00:57:37,850 --> 00:57:38,890
And look at verse here.

1494
00:57:42,740 --> 00:57:46,840
Verse 60 says, I was desirous not, behold,

1495
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:48,740
I desirous truth in inward parts.

1496
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:50,520
In the hidden part thou shalt make me

1497
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:51,100
to know wisdom.

1498
00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:52,660
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be

1499
00:57:52,660 --> 00:57:52,820
clean.

1500
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:54,120
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than

1501
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:54,380
snow.

1502
00:57:54,380 --> 00:57:56,660
Make me to hear joy and gladness, for

1503
00:57:56,660 --> 00:57:58,700
the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

1504
00:57:59,060 --> 00:58:01,000
Can you imagine a broken bone rejoicing?

1505
00:58:01,700 --> 00:58:03,500
Hide thy face from my sins.

1506
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:05,720
You see what he does?

1507
00:58:06,740 --> 00:58:09,160
This man writes the most amazing things ever

1508
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:10,960
written about human experience.

1509
00:58:11,780 --> 00:58:13,640
In this verse he says, here it is,

1510
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:14,880
I'm crushed with guilt.

1511
00:58:15,220 --> 00:58:16,240
I'm unclean.

1512
00:58:17,140 --> 00:58:18,900
I'm vile and full of sin.

1513
00:58:19,300 --> 00:58:19,880
So what?

1514
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,420
Hide thy face from my sins.

1515
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,280
Do you remember that Psalm 139?

1516
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:26,080
What does it say?

1517
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,200
Search me, O God, and know my heart.

1518
00:58:28,300 --> 00:58:30,380
Try me and know my thoughts, and see

1519
00:58:30,380 --> 00:58:31,920
if they have any wicked way in me.

1520
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,440
You see, one of the agonies of lost

1521
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,920
people, according to the sixth chapter of Revelation,

1522
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,380
in the final days, when all the multibillionaires,

1523
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:42,160
what have you got?

1524
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:44,440
When Jesus comes and they see his face,

1525
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:45,520
what do they do?

1526
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:47,620
They call for the rocks and hills to

1527
00:58:47,620 --> 00:58:49,520
fall, and hide us from the face of

1528
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:50,760
the wrath of the Lamb.

1529
00:58:51,180 --> 00:58:53,360
Your option tonight is to accept the blood

1530
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,400
of the Lamb, or meet the wrath of

1531
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:55,820
the Lamb.

1532
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:58,060
And so what do they say?

1533
00:58:58,740 --> 00:59:00,460
Hide us from the wrath of the Lamb.

1534
00:59:01,260 --> 00:59:03,860
When they see his face, what in the

1535
00:59:03,860 --> 00:59:05,960
22nd chapter of Revelation it says, one of

1536
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:07,660
the glories of the believer is to see

1537
00:59:07,660 --> 00:59:08,800
him face to face.

1538
00:59:09,340 --> 00:59:12,020
Didn't blind Fanny Crosby, the American hymn writer,

1539
00:59:12,140 --> 00:59:12,600
write that?

1540
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:14,680
And I shall see him face to face?

1541
00:59:15,260 --> 00:59:16,860
When she said, the first face I ever

1542
00:59:16,860 --> 00:59:18,220
see will be the face of Jesus.

1543
00:59:19,820 --> 00:59:21,560
Well, let me rush this through here.

1544
00:59:25,830 --> 00:59:27,890
Catch me not away from thy presence, I

1545
00:59:27,890 --> 00:59:29,090
deserve it, but don't do it.

1546
00:59:29,650 --> 00:59:31,510
Take not thy holy spirit from me.

1547
00:59:31,590 --> 00:59:31,890
Why?

1548
00:59:33,010 --> 00:59:34,310
Why did he say that?

1549
00:59:36,250 --> 00:59:37,730
Oh, you say he doesn't do that?

1550
00:59:38,270 --> 00:59:38,930
He doesn't?

1551
00:59:41,990 --> 00:59:43,750
Take not thy holy spirit from me.

1552
00:59:43,770 --> 00:59:44,010
Why?

1553
00:59:44,870 --> 00:59:46,890
Because before him there had been a king

1554
00:59:46,890 --> 00:59:49,630
by the name of Saul, the most handsome

1555
00:59:49,630 --> 00:59:52,210
man in Israel, head and shoulders above everybody

1556
00:59:52,210 --> 00:59:52,690
else.

1557
00:59:53,230 --> 00:59:55,050
The spirit of the Lord came upon him,

1558
00:59:55,270 --> 00:59:57,690
and the word says he received a new

1559
00:59:57,690 --> 00:59:58,170
heart.

1560
00:59:58,570 --> 01:00:00,190
The word said he prophesied.

1561
01:00:00,730 --> 01:00:02,390
So he was born of the spirit, he

1562
01:00:02,390 --> 01:00:04,270
was filled with the spirit, he prophesied, he

1563
01:00:04,270 --> 01:00:05,030
died a suicide.

1564
01:00:05,990 --> 01:00:08,010
He died crawling up to a dirty witch,

1565
01:00:08,710 --> 01:00:11,730
asking her to help him out of his

1566
01:00:11,730 --> 01:00:12,130
trouble.

1567
01:00:13,250 --> 01:00:16,010
He'd seen that king degenerate, instead of going

1568
01:00:16,010 --> 01:00:18,730
at the head of armies, marching or riding

1569
01:00:18,730 --> 01:00:21,050
a horse, he's groaning on his foot, begging

1570
01:00:21,050 --> 01:00:22,990
a woman to be in touch with the

1571
01:00:22,990 --> 01:00:23,510
underworld.

1572
01:00:24,030 --> 01:00:25,870
And in the spirit of the former person

1573
01:00:25,870 --> 01:00:28,210
up, and he says don't take thy holy

1574
01:00:28,210 --> 01:00:29,270
spirit from me.

1575
01:00:30,890 --> 01:00:32,730
I tell you that's a terrible thing.

1576
01:00:34,290 --> 01:00:36,490
I met my precious Irish wife in a

1577
01:00:36,490 --> 01:00:37,910
little town called Eccles.

1578
01:00:38,370 --> 01:00:40,330
It's seven miles outside of Manchester.

1579
01:00:41,370 --> 01:00:44,070
She was supervising one of the largest hospitals

1580
01:00:44,070 --> 01:00:44,730
in England.

1581
01:00:45,190 --> 01:00:48,710
The night supervisor, and God wonderfully led us

1582
01:00:48,710 --> 01:00:49,130
together.

1583
01:00:49,890 --> 01:00:52,010
But one night I preached on this psalm

1584
01:00:52,010 --> 01:00:52,650
in a tent.

1585
01:00:53,530 --> 01:00:55,350
I don't think there were fifty people there.

1586
01:00:56,430 --> 01:00:58,110
And as I closed it I said look,

1587
01:00:58,430 --> 01:01:00,810
I'm making no I'm not going to ask

1588
01:01:00,810 --> 01:01:02,070
you to come, I'm not going to sing.

1589
01:01:02,490 --> 01:01:05,090
I said if you have leprosy within, if

1590
01:01:05,090 --> 01:01:07,290
you had cancer and I had a cure,

1591
01:01:07,470 --> 01:01:08,390
would I have to beg you?

1592
01:01:08,470 --> 01:01:09,090
No you'd run.

1593
01:01:09,370 --> 01:01:11,310
Well you've got a cancer, it's called carnality

1594
01:01:11,310 --> 01:01:12,090
if you're a believer.

1595
01:01:12,770 --> 01:01:14,970
It should have died at the cross.

1596
01:01:15,050 --> 01:01:15,550
It didn't.

1597
01:01:16,130 --> 01:01:18,130
But God can put that thing to death.

1598
01:01:19,270 --> 01:01:20,590
And I said some of you once had

1599
01:01:20,590 --> 01:01:21,130
the witness.

1600
01:01:22,110 --> 01:01:24,370
You remember when this book was sweetened and

1601
01:01:24,370 --> 01:01:25,510
honey in the honeycomb.

1602
01:01:26,610 --> 01:01:28,170
Some of you fellows remember that.

1603
01:01:29,030 --> 01:01:30,990
You say well brother Raphael I'm like those

1604
01:01:30,990 --> 01:01:31,910
folk in Revelation.

1605
01:01:32,550 --> 01:01:34,090
I've lost my first love.

1606
01:01:34,270 --> 01:01:35,230
That isn't in the Bible.

1607
01:01:37,150 --> 01:01:38,990
You can't find it in any Bible under

1608
01:01:38,990 --> 01:01:39,230
heaven.

1609
01:01:39,290 --> 01:01:40,370
I've lost my first love.

1610
01:01:40,450 --> 01:01:41,730
I left my first love.

1611
01:01:42,070 --> 01:01:43,770
You deliberately gave priority.

1612
01:01:44,510 --> 01:01:46,170
I'll tell you how much you love Jesus.

1613
01:01:47,230 --> 01:01:49,030
Before you go to bed tonight, check the

1614
01:01:49,030 --> 01:01:49,690
bottom line.

1615
01:01:49,790 --> 01:01:51,470
How much time did you spend with TV?

1616
01:01:51,590 --> 01:01:52,270
That's your idol.

1617
01:01:53,410 --> 01:01:55,730
Do you wonder Wesley says purge me from

1618
01:01:55,730 --> 01:01:56,850
every sinful blot.

1619
01:01:57,030 --> 01:01:58,910
My idols all be cast aside.

1620
01:01:59,490 --> 01:02:01,190
Cleanse me from every sinful thought.

1621
01:02:01,290 --> 01:02:03,230
From all the filth of self and pride.

1622
01:02:04,270 --> 01:02:05,910
Yes, everything can be purged.

1623
01:02:05,990 --> 01:02:06,290
Okay.

1624
01:02:07,310 --> 01:02:09,430
So a woman came from the back of

1625
01:02:09,430 --> 01:02:09,870
the tent.

1626
01:02:10,530 --> 01:02:11,630
Boys are boys.

1627
01:02:12,510 --> 01:02:13,450
I should have had a camera.

1628
01:02:15,270 --> 01:02:17,170
She was the ugliest woman I've ever seen.

1629
01:02:17,230 --> 01:02:19,130
I've seen some ugly women I'll tell you.

1630
01:02:20,710 --> 01:02:22,450
I've never seen a woman like her.

1631
01:02:22,530 --> 01:02:24,090
She was about six feet tall.

1632
01:02:24,550 --> 01:02:25,590
Big shoulders.

1633
01:02:26,210 --> 01:02:26,890
Half bent.

1634
01:02:27,810 --> 01:02:29,770
And she comes to the front and she

1635
01:02:29,770 --> 01:02:32,310
started sobbing and she sobbed and sobbed and

1636
01:02:32,310 --> 01:02:32,690
sobbed.

1637
01:02:33,290 --> 01:02:35,510
I guess I stayed there 15 minutes or

1638
01:02:35,510 --> 01:02:35,790
longer.

1639
01:02:36,150 --> 01:02:38,430
And finally I said lady I want to

1640
01:02:38,430 --> 01:02:38,850
help you.

1641
01:02:39,410 --> 01:02:41,090
I remember she said my name is Mrs.

1642
01:02:41,190 --> 01:02:41,470
Shepherd.

1643
01:02:45,430 --> 01:02:46,810
I said well what's your problem?

1644
01:02:48,110 --> 01:02:49,370
She said Mr. Abner.

1645
01:02:51,410 --> 01:02:53,030
And boy did she cry more.

1646
01:02:54,630 --> 01:02:58,630
Tonight for the first time in 40 years

1647
01:02:58,630 --> 01:03:00,190
I heard the voice of God.

1648
01:03:00,190 --> 01:03:01,130
Hallelujah.

1649
01:03:02,470 --> 01:03:04,590
40 years ago I was an officer in

1650
01:03:04,590 --> 01:03:05,570
the Salvation Army.

1651
01:03:06,610 --> 01:03:08,170
I had a wonderful prayer life.

1652
01:03:09,370 --> 01:03:10,830
I had a sister working with me.

1653
01:03:10,990 --> 01:03:12,210
We were working in a slum area.

1654
01:03:12,490 --> 01:03:13,790
We saw people converted.

1655
01:03:14,650 --> 01:03:16,290
We saw God do miracles.

1656
01:03:16,990 --> 01:03:19,030
Living flesh and blood miracles.

1657
01:03:19,910 --> 01:03:22,130
Not just physical, moral and spiritual.

1658
01:03:22,890 --> 01:03:24,210
But she said I got jealous.

1659
01:03:24,970 --> 01:03:27,050
My friend could lead meetings better than I

1660
01:03:27,050 --> 01:03:27,170
could.

1661
01:03:27,250 --> 01:03:29,350
She could somehow get a meeting going.

1662
01:03:29,790 --> 01:03:31,090
She prayed with more fervor.

1663
01:03:31,210 --> 01:03:32,890
I got sour about it.

1664
01:03:33,610 --> 01:03:34,550
But let me tell you something.

1665
01:03:35,030 --> 01:03:36,230
Everybody backslides.

1666
01:03:36,310 --> 01:03:37,190
I don't care what they commit.

1667
01:03:37,290 --> 01:03:37,850
I do care.

1668
01:03:38,190 --> 01:03:40,490
But whether they find out in adultery or

1669
01:03:40,490 --> 01:03:42,190
stealing money or some other crazy thing.

1670
01:03:42,250 --> 01:03:43,750
They all start at the same place.

1671
01:03:44,110 --> 01:03:45,750
They start by neglecting prayer.

1672
01:03:47,230 --> 01:03:48,950
You talk about these big shots that have

1673
01:03:48,950 --> 01:03:49,790
gone down the drain.

1674
01:03:49,910 --> 01:03:50,310
Do you know what?

1675
01:03:50,370 --> 01:03:50,970
Do you know what they are?

1676
01:03:51,470 --> 01:03:51,870
Apostates.

1677
01:03:53,290 --> 01:03:55,290
They've been preaching the baptism and a hundred

1678
01:03:55,290 --> 01:03:56,050
Wait a minute.

1679
01:03:56,910 --> 01:03:57,850
According to G.

1680
01:03:57,970 --> 01:04:00,310
Campbell Morgan, an apostate is not a man

1681
01:04:00,310 --> 01:04:02,370
who continues to teach wrong doctrine.

1682
01:04:02,770 --> 01:04:04,090
He's a man who comes up to the

1683
01:04:04,090 --> 01:04:05,870
true light of God and backs off from

1684
01:04:05,870 --> 01:04:06,110
it.

1685
01:04:07,190 --> 01:04:08,970
He doesn't go to a holiness meeting.

1686
01:04:09,110 --> 01:04:09,330
Why?

1687
01:04:09,710 --> 01:04:11,130
Because he's so full of anger.

1688
01:04:11,270 --> 01:04:12,130
So full of pride.

1689
01:04:12,270 --> 01:04:13,310
So full of grudges.

1690
01:04:14,490 --> 01:04:16,310
He's so negligent in his devotion.

1691
01:04:17,390 --> 01:04:19,750
He hasn't worshipped Christ for a year maybe.

1692
01:04:20,830 --> 01:04:23,590
So this precious woman says, tonight the Lord

1693
01:04:23,590 --> 01:04:25,350
spoke to me for the first time.

1694
01:04:26,230 --> 01:04:28,230
Forty years ago I was an officer in

1695
01:04:28,230 --> 01:04:29,170
the Salvation Army.

1696
01:04:29,750 --> 01:04:31,390
Before we went to the meeting at night

1697
01:04:31,950 --> 01:04:34,250
my partner said to me well I've got

1698
01:04:34,250 --> 01:04:35,150
the hymns for tonight.

1699
01:04:35,270 --> 01:04:36,570
She said, I've got the hymns for tonight.

1700
01:04:36,650 --> 01:04:38,330
Well I'm having my hymns tonight.

1701
01:04:38,410 --> 01:04:39,450
You had yours last night.

1702
01:04:39,770 --> 01:04:40,410
And we argued.

1703
01:04:40,530 --> 01:04:41,370
We went to the meeting.

1704
01:04:42,070 --> 01:04:44,590
And she said, when I came out she

1705
01:04:44,590 --> 01:04:46,950
said, my friend said, would you ask forgiveness?

1706
01:04:47,090 --> 01:04:48,150
She said, sure I won't.

1707
01:04:48,550 --> 01:04:49,330
You're in the wrong.

1708
01:04:49,890 --> 01:04:51,410
It was my turn to have the hymns.

1709
01:04:51,410 --> 01:04:52,190
I hate you.

1710
01:04:52,870 --> 01:04:54,150
And this is what she said, you know

1711
01:04:54,150 --> 01:04:55,450
there were those straw hats.

1712
01:04:55,990 --> 01:04:57,370
She said, I went and I took that

1713
01:04:57,370 --> 01:04:58,010
straw hat.

1714
01:04:58,350 --> 01:04:59,210
I tore it up.

1715
01:04:59,290 --> 01:05:00,730
I put it on the open fire in

1716
01:05:00,730 --> 01:05:01,230
the house.

1717
01:05:01,890 --> 01:05:03,410
Then I took off my tunic and I

1718
01:05:03,410 --> 01:05:03,970
cut it up.

1719
01:05:04,410 --> 01:05:05,310
I put that there.

1720
01:05:06,170 --> 01:05:07,090
I burned that.

1721
01:05:07,710 --> 01:05:10,110
Then I took off my skirt and I

1722
01:05:10,110 --> 01:05:12,190
put the scissors through the skirt in strips.

1723
01:05:12,510 --> 01:05:13,670
I put it on the fire.

1724
01:05:15,010 --> 01:05:16,610
And when my clothing was burning.

1725
01:05:17,170 --> 01:05:19,810
When my, when my what do you call

1726
01:05:19,810 --> 01:05:21,610
it, my bonnet was burning, she said, and

1727
01:05:21,610 --> 01:05:22,110
my clothing.

1728
01:05:22,510 --> 01:05:23,330
I got my Bible.

1729
01:05:23,510 --> 01:05:24,970
I tore it up, page by page and

1730
01:05:24,970 --> 01:05:25,950
said, there's nothing in it.

1731
01:05:27,390 --> 01:05:28,970
All I could see were her faults.

1732
01:05:29,070 --> 01:05:29,750
I couldn't see mine.

1733
01:05:30,230 --> 01:05:32,290
And she said, Mr. Ennett, that's forty years

1734
01:05:32,290 --> 01:05:32,670
ago.

1735
01:05:33,690 --> 01:05:36,770
She said, listen, after that, I went to

1736
01:05:36,770 --> 01:05:38,410
hear the greatest preacher in the world at

1737
01:05:38,410 --> 01:05:39,030
that time.

1738
01:05:41,690 --> 01:05:43,870
And remember he, William Boone, the founder of

1739
01:05:43,870 --> 01:05:45,810
the Salvation Army was preaching at the same

1740
01:05:45,810 --> 01:05:50,130
time that, that the great Baptist preacher was

1741
01:05:50,130 --> 01:05:51,990
preaching in London there, F.B. Meyer.

1742
01:05:53,130 --> 01:05:55,770
Dr. Clifford was preaching in St. Paul's Cathedral

1743
01:05:55,770 --> 01:05:57,810
and packing three thousand people there.

1744
01:05:58,490 --> 01:06:00,210
You could go up the road, you could

1745
01:06:00,210 --> 01:06:00,970
hear Spurgeon.

1746
01:06:01,410 --> 01:06:03,290
You could hear the Prince of Preachers as

1747
01:06:03,290 --> 01:06:04,450
people said at that time.

1748
01:06:04,770 --> 01:06:07,350
That was, that was Parker, Joseph Parker.

1749
01:06:08,790 --> 01:06:10,230
That, that was a man for you.

1750
01:06:10,830 --> 01:06:12,470
They slipped him a piece of paper on

1751
01:06:12,470 --> 01:06:12,810
Thursday.

1752
01:06:12,910 --> 01:06:13,950
I'll be through in about five minutes.

1753
01:06:13,950 --> 01:06:15,510
They slipped him a piece of paper at

1754
01:06:15,510 --> 01:06:17,310
his Thursday mid-day meeting.

1755
01:06:17,430 --> 01:06:19,890
I noticed Gregory, John Gregory has a mid

1756
01:06:19,890 --> 01:06:20,670
-day meeting now.

1757
01:06:22,810 --> 01:06:24,470
Somebody slipped him a piece of paper.

1758
01:06:24,990 --> 01:06:26,990
On the piece of paper it says, the

1759
01:06:26,990 --> 01:06:31,230
Sultan of Turkey is massacring the Armenians.

1760
01:06:31,310 --> 01:06:31,950
That was 1915.

1761
01:06:33,110 --> 01:06:34,850
Ask Demos Shikabi and he'll tell you the

1762
01:06:34,850 --> 01:06:35,330
whole story.

1763
01:06:35,390 --> 01:06:36,810
I know Demos, I've talked with him.

1764
01:06:38,010 --> 01:06:38,970
Do you know why they left?

1765
01:06:40,230 --> 01:06:42,210
All those wealthy people left, Armenia, do you

1766
01:06:42,210 --> 01:06:42,770
know why?

1767
01:06:43,550 --> 01:06:45,030
Oh boy, it wouldn't happen in a Baptist

1768
01:06:45,030 --> 01:06:46,770
or Methodist church, it wouldn't happen in a

1769
01:06:46,770 --> 01:06:48,210
Pentecostal church these days.

1770
01:06:48,610 --> 01:06:50,750
A little boy, twelve years of age, stood

1771
01:06:50,750 --> 01:06:52,550
up and he said, I've had a revelation

1772
01:06:52,550 --> 01:06:53,290
from God.

1773
01:06:53,690 --> 01:06:55,210
Our nation is going to be plundered.

1774
01:06:55,330 --> 01:06:56,510
Blood will flow in the streets.

1775
01:06:56,630 --> 01:06:58,030
Get out of the country as quick as

1776
01:06:58,030 --> 01:06:58,490
you can.

1777
01:06:58,790 --> 01:07:00,230
And people got out of the country.

1778
01:07:00,810 --> 01:07:02,590
Well, they slipped a note up to Parker

1779
01:07:02,590 --> 01:07:04,390
and the big church was crowded.

1780
01:07:05,490 --> 01:07:07,650
Fellows came from Parliament to hear this man.

1781
01:07:07,710 --> 01:07:08,470
He thundered.

1782
01:07:09,310 --> 01:07:12,450
He was a brilliant guy, a fearless guy.

1783
01:07:13,890 --> 01:07:18,590
In London they have posters about 30 inches

1784
01:07:18,590 --> 01:07:19,050
high.

1785
01:07:19,630 --> 01:07:21,490
There's a spring in front, it's like chicken

1786
01:07:21,490 --> 01:07:21,770
wire.

1787
01:07:22,070 --> 01:07:23,590
And they take a sheet of paper and

1788
01:07:23,590 --> 01:07:24,350
put it under there.

1789
01:07:24,710 --> 01:07:26,610
And all over London at night it said,

1790
01:07:26,930 --> 01:07:28,830
Parker damns the Sultan of Turkey.

1791
01:07:29,670 --> 01:07:31,730
And before that congregation he said, I've just

1792
01:07:31,730 --> 01:07:36,390
heard the Sultan of Turkey has, the Sultan

1793
01:07:36,390 --> 01:07:39,250
of Turkey has ordered the massacre of the

1794
01:07:39,250 --> 01:07:41,310
Christians, the Armenian Christians.

1795
01:07:41,470 --> 01:07:43,170
And he lifted his hand in a thundering

1796
01:07:43,170 --> 01:07:43,530
voice.

1797
01:07:43,910 --> 01:07:45,350
He says, in the name of the Father

1798
01:07:45,350 --> 01:07:46,710
and of the Son and of the Holy

1799
01:07:46,710 --> 01:07:48,890
Ghost I say, God damn the Sultan of

1800
01:07:48,890 --> 01:07:49,350
Turkey.

1801
01:07:50,490 --> 01:07:52,770
Do you know anybody that dare damn Gorbachev?

1802
01:07:54,410 --> 01:07:55,690
Do you know when he signed that last

1803
01:07:57,450 --> 01:08:02,430
treaty in America with Mr. Reagan?

1804
01:08:03,030 --> 01:08:04,010
Do you remember what he did?

1805
01:08:04,730 --> 01:08:06,650
Mr. Reagan signed it and just nodded his

1806
01:08:06,650 --> 01:08:06,910
head.

1807
01:08:07,230 --> 01:08:09,070
Gorbachev stood up and flourished his, but I

1808
01:08:09,070 --> 01:08:10,690
signed this, he said in the name of

1809
01:08:10,690 --> 01:08:11,610
the Eternal Man.

1810
01:08:13,550 --> 01:08:14,890
That's a slap in our Christianity.

1811
01:08:16,430 --> 01:08:18,270
I hear he's told a famous preacher in

1812
01:08:18,270 --> 01:08:20,550
this country, you can come to Russia anytime

1813
01:08:20,550 --> 01:08:21,569
you like and preach.

1814
01:08:21,890 --> 01:08:23,290
All the cities are open to you.

1815
01:08:23,609 --> 01:08:25,130
Everybody says that's an answer to prayer.

1816
01:08:25,210 --> 01:08:25,470
Is it?

1817
01:08:25,529 --> 01:08:26,330
Or is it an insult?

1818
01:08:26,930 --> 01:08:28,510
Does he say, what's your gospel done for

1819
01:08:28,510 --> 01:08:28,870
America?

1820
01:08:28,990 --> 01:08:30,830
Your jails are filled, your courts are filled,

1821
01:08:30,930 --> 01:08:32,130
your divorce courts are filled.

1822
01:08:32,950 --> 01:08:34,890
Your gospel hasn't done anything for you, so

1823
01:08:34,890 --> 01:08:36,189
it won't affect my country.

1824
01:08:37,290 --> 01:08:38,770
See that's why I say we need it

1825
01:08:38,770 --> 01:08:39,250
today.

1826
01:08:40,490 --> 01:08:43,270
We need somebody like John Knox, who they

1827
01:08:43,270 --> 01:08:47,290
said once he spoke, he stirred the congregation

1828
01:08:47,290 --> 01:08:49,189
more than 500 trumpets.

1829
01:08:49,870 --> 01:08:51,529
I'd like to see somebody go to the

1830
01:08:51,529 --> 01:08:54,069
Southern Baptist Convention, a guy that's been in

1831
01:08:54,069 --> 01:08:56,830
eternity for a month before he dared open

1832
01:08:56,830 --> 01:08:59,109
his lips and stand and say something.

1833
01:08:59,510 --> 01:09:00,770
Not a guy that will keep in the

1834
01:09:00,770 --> 01:09:04,649
narrow channels of Baptist theology or Pentecostal theology.

1835
01:09:05,430 --> 01:09:07,250
We always choose a man that won't rock

1836
01:09:07,250 --> 01:09:07,689
the boat.

1837
01:09:08,710 --> 01:09:10,430
I went to a church once, they said,

1838
01:09:10,830 --> 01:09:11,930
you won't rock the boat will you?

1839
01:09:11,990 --> 01:09:13,069
I said, that's why I came.

1840
01:09:15,630 --> 01:09:17,149
They said, what, you're going to rock the

1841
01:09:17,149 --> 01:09:17,330
boat?

1842
01:09:17,390 --> 01:09:18,550
I said, yes, I'm not going to sink

1843
01:09:18,550 --> 01:09:18,750
it.

1844
01:09:20,310 --> 01:09:22,069
You see, lots of people, sure they don't

1845
01:09:22,069 --> 01:09:23,890
march on Washington elsewhere, do you know why?

1846
01:09:24,090 --> 01:09:25,270
They're trying to save America.

1847
01:09:25,370 --> 01:09:27,210
I'm not trying to save the American ship,

1848
01:09:27,250 --> 01:09:28,450
I'm trying to save the crew.

1849
01:09:29,729 --> 01:09:30,850
What good is a ship?

1850
01:09:33,170 --> 01:09:35,630
Unless we have a holy, a divine intervention

1851
01:09:35,630 --> 01:09:37,770
in America, we won't last another decade.

1852
01:09:38,609 --> 01:09:41,149
We're not going to murder a million babies.

1853
01:09:42,870 --> 01:09:44,470
I told a guy in my office, I

1854
01:09:44,470 --> 01:09:46,649
said, listen, you blast to those girls, tell

1855
01:09:46,649 --> 01:09:48,930
them, that baby that was pulled out of

1856
01:09:48,930 --> 01:09:50,790
your belly, you're going to see it face

1857
01:09:50,790 --> 01:09:52,250
to face at the judgment seat.

1858
01:09:53,210 --> 01:09:54,710
And the baby's going to see its mother

1859
01:09:54,710 --> 01:09:56,350
face to face at the judgment seat.

1860
01:09:56,350 --> 01:09:57,770
He said, I believe that.

1861
01:09:57,850 --> 01:09:59,390
I said, well listen, everybody you bring to

1862
01:09:59,390 --> 01:10:01,630
the altar, you tell them to come and

1863
01:10:01,630 --> 01:10:02,010
repent.

1864
01:10:02,590 --> 01:10:03,790
You see, you can get them to the

1865
01:10:03,790 --> 01:10:05,290
altar, you can't get them to the cross,

1866
01:10:05,510 --> 01:10:06,910
and further you can't get them on the

1867
01:10:06,910 --> 01:10:07,230
cross.

1868
01:10:07,710 --> 01:10:09,190
If you just bring them to the altar

1869
01:10:09,190 --> 01:10:11,690
and leave them unborn, you'll be charged with

1870
01:10:11,690 --> 01:10:12,510
their spiritual.

1871
01:10:13,730 --> 01:10:15,790
You'll be charged with a holocaust when you

1872
01:10:15,790 --> 01:10:16,870
get to the judgment seat.

1873
01:10:17,570 --> 01:10:20,210
It's a more faithful thing to handle people

1874
01:10:20,210 --> 01:10:21,470
who are trying to be born again to

1875
01:10:21,470 --> 01:10:23,070
the Spirit of God and deliver babies.

1876
01:10:24,410 --> 01:10:26,530
You see, we've got so far from the

1877
01:10:26,530 --> 01:10:27,070
new birth.

1878
01:10:29,390 --> 01:10:30,890
The new birth is a miracle.

1879
01:10:32,210 --> 01:10:33,730
Okay, let me tell you this and quit.

1880
01:10:34,790 --> 01:10:37,010
So this day lady, we stayed with her

1881
01:10:37,010 --> 01:10:37,650
half an hour.

1882
01:10:38,650 --> 01:10:40,150
Do you know when she got up, my

1883
01:10:40,150 --> 01:10:43,310
goodness, she looked as though she'd used all

1884
01:10:43,310 --> 01:10:45,570
that miracle stuff you ladies use to try

1885
01:10:45,570 --> 01:10:46,990
and get rid of wrinkles, and it only

1886
01:10:46,990 --> 01:10:47,730
makes it worse.

1887
01:10:48,990 --> 01:10:50,330
Her face was radiant.

1888
01:10:50,330 --> 01:10:53,030
She said, this is the first time in

1889
01:10:53,030 --> 01:10:55,990
40 years I've felt the joy of the

1890
01:10:55,990 --> 01:10:56,310
Lord.

1891
01:10:57,310 --> 01:10:59,250
You know, the less joy of the Lord

1892
01:10:59,250 --> 01:11:01,310
you have, the more entertainment you need.

1893
01:11:03,010 --> 01:11:05,590
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.

1894
01:11:07,570 --> 01:11:09,190
You won't have time to watch those dumb

1895
01:11:09,190 --> 01:11:10,390
harlots on TV.

1896
01:11:11,630 --> 01:11:13,330
As Dr. Torson used to say, their faces

1897
01:11:13,330 --> 01:11:15,710
like angels and marbles like alley cats.

1898
01:11:17,230 --> 01:11:18,850
This whole corrupt system.

1899
01:11:19,750 --> 01:11:22,410
See, everything outside of Christ has corruption on

1900
01:11:22,410 --> 01:11:22,510
it.

1901
01:11:22,550 --> 01:11:24,210
Don't care whether it be with politics, or

1902
01:11:24,210 --> 01:11:25,910
science, whatever in the world it is.

1903
01:11:27,510 --> 01:11:28,870
Science can't do too much.

1904
01:11:29,430 --> 01:11:30,930
I was in hospital about three or four

1905
01:11:30,930 --> 01:11:31,470
years ago.

1906
01:11:32,730 --> 01:11:34,810
And I'd had some pain in my head.

1907
01:11:35,750 --> 01:11:36,990
So they said they're going to take a

1908
01:11:36,990 --> 01:11:37,690
brain scan.

1909
01:11:37,810 --> 01:11:39,230
I asked Martha what that was, so she

1910
01:11:39,230 --> 01:11:39,690
told me.

1911
01:11:40,430 --> 01:11:41,910
So they took it, then they came in,

1912
01:11:42,010 --> 01:11:43,350
the next morning, the doctor came in, he

1913
01:11:43,350 --> 01:11:46,850
said, Reverend, we took a scan of your

1914
01:11:46,850 --> 01:11:47,190
brain.

1915
01:11:47,330 --> 01:11:49,310
He said, don't worry, there's nothing in it.

1916
01:11:51,450 --> 01:11:52,710
I said, thank you.

1917
01:11:55,370 --> 01:11:57,270
You see, science can take a picture of

1918
01:11:57,270 --> 01:11:58,890
my brain, it can't take a picture of

1919
01:11:58,890 --> 01:11:59,490
my mind.

1920
01:12:00,890 --> 01:12:02,490
It can take a picture of my heart,

1921
01:12:02,550 --> 01:12:04,330
it can't take a picture of my affections.

1922
01:12:06,210 --> 01:12:07,610
You can have a heart transplant.

1923
01:12:07,710 --> 01:12:08,230
What do you do?

1924
01:12:08,390 --> 01:12:09,730
Do you take all the sin in that

1925
01:12:09,730 --> 01:12:10,830
man and put it in another man?

1926
01:12:10,890 --> 01:12:11,110
No.

1927
01:12:12,450 --> 01:12:14,090
It's something very difficult for that.

1928
01:12:14,750 --> 01:12:16,570
And yet, God who knoweth the heart.

1929
01:12:17,290 --> 01:12:19,850
Acts 15, 8 and 9, reporting the coming

1930
01:12:19,850 --> 01:12:21,330
of the Holy Ghost, said what?

1931
01:12:22,930 --> 01:12:25,190
Peter's telling them what happened in the house

1932
01:12:25,190 --> 01:12:25,910
of Cornelius.

1933
01:12:26,030 --> 01:12:27,310
God who knoweth the heart.

1934
01:12:27,570 --> 01:12:29,810
After all, that's one problem the world has,

1935
01:12:29,870 --> 01:12:30,870
it's a heart problem.

1936
01:12:31,270 --> 01:12:33,490
The heart is deceitful of all things and

1937
01:12:33,490 --> 01:12:34,390
desperately wicked.

1938
01:12:34,710 --> 01:12:35,930
The heart, who can know it?

1939
01:12:36,390 --> 01:12:37,910
Created me a clean heart.

1940
01:12:38,310 --> 01:12:40,310
He said, it doesn't say, Lord, help me.

1941
01:12:41,770 --> 01:12:44,370
He says, Lord, created me a clean heart.

1942
01:12:45,750 --> 01:12:47,390
Come on, what's that thing you've been to

1943
01:12:47,390 --> 01:12:49,130
the altar with time and time again?

1944
01:12:49,690 --> 01:12:50,950
No, I won't help you if you come

1945
01:12:50,950 --> 01:12:51,270
here.

1946
01:12:51,610 --> 01:12:53,030
You say, I've got secret lust.

1947
01:12:54,210 --> 01:12:56,330
You say, I've got pride, I've got temper,

1948
01:12:56,430 --> 01:12:57,070
I've got anger.

1949
01:12:57,750 --> 01:12:59,090
You don't need to come to the altar,

1950
01:12:59,210 --> 01:13:00,130
you don't need to take it to the

1951
01:13:00,130 --> 01:13:00,530
cross.

1952
01:13:01,250 --> 01:13:02,990
You need to deal with it specifically.

1953
01:13:03,290 --> 01:13:05,530
Lord, you know my laziness.

1954
01:13:06,130 --> 01:13:07,610
Do you know the crying sin of the

1955
01:13:07,610 --> 01:13:09,850
church tonight is laziness after God?

1956
01:13:10,750 --> 01:13:13,050
Five minutes inside of heaven we look back,

1957
01:13:13,150 --> 01:13:16,450
we'll be embarrassed at how poorly we walked

1958
01:13:16,450 --> 01:13:17,530
on this Christian life.

1959
01:13:18,090 --> 01:13:20,030
Here this is God's will and testament.

1960
01:13:21,010 --> 01:13:24,450
Everything that you need for life and victory

1961
01:13:24,450 --> 01:13:25,130
is in this book.

1962
01:13:25,190 --> 01:13:27,070
You don't need a psychologist and psychiatrist.

1963
01:13:27,530 --> 01:13:30,050
If those boys are so burning with compassion,

1964
01:13:30,170 --> 01:13:31,770
why don't they go up the Amazon unarmed

1965
01:13:32,130 --> 01:13:33,630
and help the people up there?

1966
01:13:34,210 --> 01:13:37,290
Not pray on weak little old ladies that

1967
01:13:37,290 --> 01:13:39,970
go to church and then the doctor says,

1968
01:13:40,090 --> 01:13:41,610
oh go see my friend the psychiatrist.

1969
01:13:42,750 --> 01:13:43,530
So what?

1970
01:13:44,490 --> 01:13:45,810
Poor psychiatrist is in a mess.

1971
01:13:45,830 --> 01:13:46,630
Who does he go to?

1972
01:13:46,690 --> 01:13:47,050
His wife?

1973
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:56,340
Listen friends, if there's no answer at the

1974
01:13:56,340 --> 01:13:57,660
cross, there's no answer at all.

1975
01:14:01,020 --> 01:14:03,120
Paul says knowing this, that our old man

1976
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:08,020
is crucified with him that the body of

1977
01:14:08,020 --> 01:14:09,340
sin might be destroyed.

1978
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:15,280
You see just like that man that boasted

1979
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:17,980
I own the whole of this countryside and

1980
01:14:17,980 --> 01:14:21,200
his enemy said, accept that little spot that

1981
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:22,400
the Quaker won't sell you.

1982
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:28,100
Does somebody say, you say my whole life

1983
01:14:28,100 --> 01:14:29,640
is easy to God, I had victory and

1984
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:31,320
somebody says, why do you have such a

1985
01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:32,000
vicious temper?

1986
01:14:32,740 --> 01:14:33,880
Why are you so proud?

1987
01:14:34,660 --> 01:14:36,760
Why are you so negligent in your spiritual

1988
01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:37,240
life?

1989
01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:40,100
Dear Lord, all over the country, everywhere you

1990
01:14:40,100 --> 01:14:41,340
go now, health clinics.

1991
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:42,940
Do you know what holiness is?

1992
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:44,060
Health of soul.

1993
01:14:45,020 --> 01:14:46,860
Charles Wesley says in one of his hymns

1994
01:14:46,860 --> 01:14:50,100
to perfect health, restore my soul.

1995
01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:54,500
To perfect holiness and love purge me from

1996
01:14:54,500 --> 01:14:57,100
every sinful blot in one hymn.

1997
01:14:57,180 --> 01:14:59,960
In another, refining fire, go through my heart,

1998
01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:03,200
illuminate my soul, scatter thy life through every

1999
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:04,840
part and sanctify the whole.

2000
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:09,420
My steadfast soul from falling free, shall then

2001
01:15:09,420 --> 01:15:10,420
no longer roll.

2002
01:15:10,980 --> 01:15:13,000
While Christ is all the world to me

2003
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:14,440
and all my heart is love.

2004
01:15:15,660 --> 01:15:17,520
It takes the miracle of the blood of

2005
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:19,820
Jesus Christ, God's son to cleanse us from

2006
01:15:19,820 --> 01:15:20,420
what?

2007
01:15:23,180 --> 01:15:23,940
From what?

2008
01:15:26,300 --> 01:15:27,520
Some of our sins.

2009
01:15:28,940 --> 01:15:29,380
All.

2010
01:15:32,820 --> 01:15:34,120
Well is that where we are?

2011
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:43,260
What's the thing that's haunted you?

2012
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:47,180
Even since you were saved, there's been lethargy,

2013
01:15:47,420 --> 01:15:48,700
laziness after God.

2014
01:15:49,140 --> 01:15:51,920
There's been pride, you've been erratic, sometimes doubting,

2015
01:15:52,060 --> 01:15:54,900
sometimes trusting, sometimes joyful, sometimes sad.

2016
01:15:55,580 --> 01:15:57,400
Sometimes you have victory over the world, the

2017
01:15:57,400 --> 01:15:58,940
flesh and the devil, sometimes you've got victory

2018
01:15:58,940 --> 01:15:59,560
over you.

2019
01:16:00,280 --> 01:16:02,060
But that's not what Jesus died for.

2020
01:16:03,540 --> 01:16:05,700
He died that we may be the habitation

2021
01:16:05,700 --> 01:16:07,540
of God, and I'm through with this.

2022
01:16:08,480 --> 01:16:10,060
I read of a man who'd been to

2023
01:16:10,060 --> 01:16:14,060
a certain part of China, and somebody he'd

2024
01:16:14,060 --> 01:16:15,340
left a bible with someone.

2025
01:16:16,180 --> 01:16:20,020
When the man came back into America, another

2026
01:16:20,020 --> 01:16:22,060
man said to him, well yes, I'm a

2027
01:16:22,060 --> 01:16:22,360
Christian.

2028
01:16:22,580 --> 01:16:23,260
He said, you are?

2029
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:25,360
Are you a Christian?

2030
01:16:25,860 --> 01:16:26,340
Yeah.

2031
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:31,960
I've been round your country, I've seen the

2032
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:34,700
great mountains, I've seen the Grand Canyon, I've

2033
01:16:34,700 --> 01:16:36,280
seen some of the greatest sights in the

2034
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:36,620
world.

2035
01:16:37,100 --> 01:16:41,540
But you, you are the most amazing thing

2036
01:16:41,540 --> 01:16:42,380
I've ever seen.

2037
01:16:42,460 --> 01:16:43,900
The man said, mean amazing thing?

2038
01:16:44,780 --> 01:16:45,620
He says, yes.

2039
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:47,880
He said, I've read the Quran, I've read

2040
01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:50,780
the Vedas, I've read a dozen sacred books

2041
01:16:50,780 --> 01:16:53,600
of other religions, but I've read nothing like

2042
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:54,020
this.

2043
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:59,240
Because it says there in the epistle to

2044
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:02,860
the Ephesians, that you are the habitation of

2045
01:17:02,860 --> 01:17:03,260
God.

2046
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:10,060
God is in control of your mind, of

2047
01:17:10,060 --> 01:17:12,820
your spirit, of your desires, of your emotions.

2048
01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:16,480
You see, if we set off every morning,

2049
01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:18,620
going into a wicked world, and it wants

2050
01:17:18,620 --> 01:17:20,300
to trip us up and cast us down,

2051
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:22,660
if we went out every morning saying, I'm

2052
01:17:22,660 --> 01:17:25,000
covered with the precious blood, I'm hanging on

2053
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:26,960
to the promises of God, I have the

2054
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:29,240
internal power of the Holy Spirit of God,

2055
01:17:29,940 --> 01:17:32,200
we'd be more than conquerors through Him that

2056
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:32,860
loved us.

2057
01:17:34,820 --> 01:17:36,380
No one in the world doesn't know what

2058
01:17:36,380 --> 01:17:36,980
we've got.

2059
01:17:38,060 --> 01:17:41,260
Dear God, people have been singing in church

2060
01:17:41,260 --> 01:17:43,480
today, that lovely hymn, what if it were

2061
01:17:43,480 --> 01:17:43,900
today.

2062
01:17:44,060 --> 01:17:45,200
They're talking about the second coming.

2063
01:17:45,620 --> 01:17:47,580
They're singing, what if it were today, and

2064
01:17:47,580 --> 01:17:48,860
they're planning divorce tomorrow.

2065
01:17:51,940 --> 01:17:54,060
You know, I don't believe any Christian couple

2066
01:17:54,060 --> 01:17:54,760
ever get divorce.

2067
01:17:55,940 --> 01:17:57,720
If they get divorce, their backs living.

2068
01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:03,060
A fellow comes to pray with me every

2069
01:18:03,060 --> 01:18:04,920
Tuesday morning, his daddy and mummy have just

2070
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,740
celebrated a 72nd wedding, isn't that wonderful.

2071
01:18:09,780 --> 01:18:10,140
72nd!

2072
01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:11,920
Dear Martha and I have only gone 50,

2073
01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:13,080
not quite 50 yet.

2074
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:15,180
Cheer up Martha, we've got the others.

2075
01:18:17,300 --> 01:18:18,640
If a man can be true to his

2076
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:20,260
wife all these years, can't he be true

2077
01:18:20,260 --> 01:18:20,780
to God?

2078
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:24,080
By the power of the blood, I'm a

2079
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:24,500
debtor.

2080
01:18:25,780 --> 01:18:28,080
You say I'm not in debt, I hate

2081
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:28,620
debt too.

2082
01:18:29,260 --> 01:18:31,080
Paul says I'm a debtor to the whole

2083
01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:31,520
world.

2084
01:18:31,860 --> 01:18:34,120
He was loaded with religion, he was an

2085
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:36,480
upright man, he was a righteous man, he

2086
01:18:36,480 --> 01:18:39,000
kept the law blameless he said, and yet

2087
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:41,100
one day he met Jesus on the road.

2088
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:43,160
You see the trouble is most people only

2089
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:43,920
meet the preacher.

2090
01:18:44,620 --> 01:18:46,580
If you meet Christ, it's a very different

2091
01:18:46,580 --> 01:18:47,020
thing.

2092
01:18:49,180 --> 01:18:51,620
And there on that Damascus road, he met

2093
01:18:51,620 --> 01:18:55,400
Christ, and a miracle took place in his

2094
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:55,800
life.

2095
01:18:58,180 --> 01:18:59,940
And he could say the life which I

2096
01:18:59,940 --> 01:19:01,720
now live in the flesh, I live by

2097
01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:04,460
the faith of the Son of God, who

2098
01:19:04,460 --> 01:19:06,280
loved me and gave himself for me.

2099
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:08,600
Now because we love him, we're going to

2100
01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:09,420
keep his commandments.

2101
01:19:09,900 --> 01:19:11,820
If we keep his commandments, we'll love each

2102
01:19:11,820 --> 01:19:12,080
other.

2103
01:19:12,460 --> 01:19:14,300
If we keep his commandments, he'll love this

2104
01:19:14,300 --> 01:19:15,520
world, he will have priority.

2105
01:19:16,100 --> 01:19:19,940
If we love him, we'll pray, intimacy in

2106
01:19:19,940 --> 01:19:20,300
prayer.

2107
01:19:20,300 --> 01:19:24,460
You see, it's all predicated on this thing.

2108
01:19:25,220 --> 01:19:27,440
My heart is not a divided heart.

2109
01:19:29,140 --> 01:19:32,060
Christ is there in soul control.

2110
01:19:33,540 --> 01:19:36,620
I can remember now, 30 seconds, I went

2111
01:19:36,620 --> 01:19:37,180
to a meeting.

2112
01:19:37,940 --> 01:19:39,880
I was a youth leader in the church.

2113
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:42,900
And I went to the meeting, and I

2114
01:19:42,900 --> 01:19:44,100
heard about the life of victory.

2115
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:48,120
I went to the altar.

2116
01:19:49,760 --> 01:19:52,100
A man came with his Bible, as they

2117
01:19:52,100 --> 01:19:53,640
did, and they should do when people come

2118
01:19:53,640 --> 01:19:54,100
to the altar.

2119
01:19:54,620 --> 01:19:56,080
And he said, well Len, what do you

2120
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:56,280
want?

2121
01:19:56,340 --> 01:19:57,080
You're the youth leader.

2122
01:19:58,180 --> 01:19:59,780
You lead the open air meeting.

2123
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:01,160
What's wrong?

2124
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:02,400
I said, I know this.

2125
01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:05,180
I'm terribly jealous of somebody else.

2126
01:20:05,300 --> 01:20:05,920
I've got envy.

2127
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:06,820
I've got other things.

2128
01:20:08,440 --> 01:20:10,140
And I said, sin has dominion.

2129
01:20:11,020 --> 01:20:12,600
It has some power over me.

2130
01:20:13,380 --> 01:20:15,440
I said, I want Romans 6-7 to

2131
01:20:15,440 --> 01:20:16,380
be really my life.

2132
01:20:16,380 --> 01:20:17,800
He said, you mean Romans 6-6?

2133
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:18,520
I said, I don't.

2134
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:19,660
He said, you do.

2135
01:20:19,860 --> 01:20:21,140
You mean Romans 6-6.

2136
01:20:21,740 --> 01:20:23,520
Knowing this, without all man is crucified.

2137
01:20:23,700 --> 01:20:24,260
I said, no.

2138
01:20:24,860 --> 01:20:26,220
I want Romans 6-7.

2139
01:20:26,660 --> 01:20:28,500
He that is dead is freed from sin.

2140
01:20:29,300 --> 01:20:31,480
I said, I want to die at this

2141
01:20:31,480 --> 01:20:31,720
altar.

2142
01:20:31,900 --> 01:20:32,880
Die to my ambitions.

2143
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:34,160
Die to my own plans.

2144
01:20:34,240 --> 01:20:35,140
And I got lots of them.

2145
01:20:35,900 --> 01:20:37,800
And I said, there are things, there's a

2146
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:40,040
defilement I want God to take out.

2147
01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:41,940
I'll tell you what it did.

2148
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:46,020
Justifications alters my relationship with God.

2149
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:48,100
Sanctification alters my personality.

2150
01:20:48,940 --> 01:20:50,780
It's still working on me, but there's a

2151
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crisis experience in my life that I never,

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ever will forget.

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I went through torment there.

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Everybody in church.

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Len Raven at the altar.

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You see, we don't, we don't, we shouldn't

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see ourselves as Scotsman says, as others see

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us.

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All I need to see is not as

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my friends see me.

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That friend likes me.

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And so it's prejudiced with liking me.

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This man doesn't like me, so he hates

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me.

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I'll take pretty good care of myself.

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I need to see myself as God sees

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me.

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Created me a clean heart.

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The secret lust for power.

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It's not always lust for flesh.

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01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:28,780
It's lust for power.

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Lust for money.

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Lust for preeminence.

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Paul talks about a backslider.

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He had a team of spirit filled men

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and yet they backslid.

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Demas hath forsaken me.

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He didn't say he's gone into the sin

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of the world.

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Having loved this present world, he saw a

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peak he could climb and still be a

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good man.

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And he forfeited it.

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The anointing.

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01:21:52,080 --> 01:21:54,260
The anointing is hard to get and it's

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hard to keep.

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It means walking very, very closely with the

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Lord.

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You can't find in the Scripture where some

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of the disciples were saved.

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I can find over the whole field with

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the Holy Ghost.

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01:22:15,940 --> 01:22:17,880
It's amazing isn't it that the children of

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Israel all got out of Egypt.

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01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:20,580
They perished in the wilderness.

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01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:22,900
They didn't make it to the promised land.

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01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:24,400
They got away from slavery.

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01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:25,780
They got away from tyranny.

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They got away from starvation.

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And they died in the wilderness.

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And some of you are dying in the

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wilderness.

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01:22:31,380 --> 01:22:32,740
There's one thing you won't yield.

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01:22:33,260 --> 01:22:34,340
Maybe it's your career.

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01:22:35,300 --> 01:22:36,660
The Lord may take you to a foreign

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01:22:36,660 --> 01:22:37,060
country.

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01:22:37,140 --> 01:22:37,620
So what?

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01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:40,460
Isn't it better to be there in the

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will of God than anywhere else?

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01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:44,600
Creating me.

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01:22:44,980 --> 01:22:46,760
Again, He doesn't talk about others.

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01:22:47,980 --> 01:22:49,580
You say He sinned against Bathsheba.

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01:22:49,660 --> 01:22:50,800
I don't know He sinned with her.

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01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:52,380
But He's talking about me.

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01:22:52,560 --> 01:22:53,940
I've got to get rid of this problem.

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01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:56,020
You've got to get rid of that pride,

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01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:58,680
that lust, that laziness, that greed.

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Yes.

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01:23:04,740 --> 01:23:05,700
Where's my pianist?

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01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:06,360
Can I see it?

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01:23:09,500 --> 01:23:15,000
Do we have the What's the hymn I

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01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:15,240
want?

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01:23:15,460 --> 01:23:16,440
When Peace Like a River.

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01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:17,020
Do we have that?

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01:23:20,460 --> 01:23:21,760
Would she have the sheet for it?

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01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:31,280
Can I sing that?

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01:23:31,480 --> 01:23:33,160
Stand and sing When Peace Like a River

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01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:34,180
Attendeth Thy Way.

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When Peace