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Romans chapter 1, sorry, pardon me, Romans chapter

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1 and verse 16 are the best known

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of the verses.

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For I am not ashamed of the gospel

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of Christ, for it is the power of

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God unto salvation.

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Well, you might ask, why should he be

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ashamed?

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Well, as far as I can find out,

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Paul had never been to Rome when he

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wrote to the Romans.

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First of all, it was a city of

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splendid architecture, intimidating.

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It was a city where the king lived.

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It was a city that always rejected the

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alien.

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It was a city that was competing almost

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for the title of the most corrupt city

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in the world.

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Apart from Corinth, it had every excess, every

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exercise in iniquity.

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They threw off all restraint.

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And Paul says, I am not ashamed of

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the gospel of Christ.

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I listened to some stuff on TV this

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week.

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Boy, was I ashamed of that presentation of

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the gospel.

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It's the most perverted, rotten thing I've ever

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heard.

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People in sin never, oh, I made a

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mistake, I made a mistake.

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No confession of sin, no humiliation for wasting

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millions and millions of dollars and time and

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lives, nothing of the kind.

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I couldn't help but contrast it with this

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glorious gospel of Paul.

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Why is he so sure?

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What is the gospel of Christ?

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Notice he doesn't say they need a new

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theology.

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He says, he doesn't say, I want to

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be the most wonderful preacher in the world.

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I think he was.

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You know, there was an Augustine in history,

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about 340, I think.

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And he was, he became, whether it's good

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or not, he became the first archbishop of

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Canterbury.

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You know, you can tell a bishop is

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straight up an archbishop as an arch, because

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they overeat too much and get too fat.

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But then there was another Augustine, Augustine of

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Hippo.

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Hippo was an area outside of Algiers in

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Africa.

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He was a good young man, a fine

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young man, very religious.

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But then he went to university, got corrupted.

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He sank to every degree of depravity he

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could go to.

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But he had one of the greatest treasures

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in the world, he had a praying mother.

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Every time people came, have you heard of

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my son?

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Oh yes.

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You never knew what a corruption he's gone

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into.

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He gets worse and worse.

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Every time we see him, he's more depraved,

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he's more violent, he's more reckless, he's more

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sinful.

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He wants to be an example of every

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reckless sin that the devil can put in

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a man.

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He says, I want that.

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I want to be the embodiment of evil.

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And every time they said that, his mother

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said, that's all right.

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You have to go to the bottom before

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you come up.

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He'd become a Christian, he became a Christian.

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He wrote that magnificent volume, if you haven't

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read it, let me tell you, it was

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a favourite of Dr. Tozer's.

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He wrote it against worldliness and paganism, called

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the City of God.

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Well, I've said all that to say this.

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You know, he said, if God would grant

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me three wishes, these were what they would

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be.

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Number one, I would like to have seen

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Jesus Christ in the flesh.

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Number two, I would like to have seen

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Caesar coming down the Appian Way when he

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had all his choice captives, prisoners.

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The kings and noblemen, they chained them to

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the wheels of the chariot, they had to

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run at the side.

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And they galloped them through the city while

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the people screamed and cheered.

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He said, number one, I would like to

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see Jesus in the flesh.

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Number two, I would like to have seen

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the triumphal entry of Caesar down the Appian

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Way.

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And number three, he said, I would like

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to have heard the Apostle Paul preach.

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Well, I'd change that to number two.

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I'd like to have seen Jesus, I'd like

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to have heard him preach.

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I don't think I dare have heard him

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pray.

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I think even praying John 17 would crush

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me.

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I've heard people say, I'd like to have

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been with Jesus in Gethsemane.

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I sure wouldn't.

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It would have killed me.

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But to hear this Apostle Paul preach.

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I can listen to any man if he's

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as good as his theology, and Paul was.

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He's there with a battered, bleeding, bruised body.

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And you can take that phrase from the

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marvelous poem, The Invictor, My head is bloody

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but unbowed.

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The man that bows the knee to the

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father never needs to bow to any other

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man, in any shape or form.

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I don't care who he is.

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And Paul never bowed the knee.

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I think, who was the, uh, was it

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Spinoza that talked about Bishop Brasney, I'm asking

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you.

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Was it Spinoza, pardon me, that wrote the

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phrase, talked about the God-intoxicated man?

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Thank you.

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I'll give you zero as you go out.

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I could have said that myself, why did

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I ask you?

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So there's two of us that don't know.

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Anyhow, so I think it was Spinoza, he

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talked about a God-intoxicated man.

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This man is never, you know what, the

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Church of Jesus Christ never does anything when

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it's sober.

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What was the first thing they said about

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the men toppling out of the upper room?

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They thought they'd been tippling in the upper

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room.

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These men are drunk.

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What did that proud Roman that had never

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heard the gospel in his life, Felix, Felix

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trembled, didn't he?

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When he heard the Apostle Paul, you'd have

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thought, Paul would have been trembling.

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But boy, the king is trembling.

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I'll tell you what, if that man trembled

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before Paul, what will he do when he

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stands before Jesus?

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Boy, sometimes I itch, you know, the right

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way, to go home.

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I want to see that judgment.

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I want to see every rebel bow their

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knee to Jesus.

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Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Genghis Khan, Philip of Macedon,

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tell me all the kings that ever lived.

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All are going to bow their knee one

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day to Jesus.

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We sing a hymn sometimes, it's a good

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English hymn, of course.

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Crown him with many crowns.

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What does it say?

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It says he had many crowns.

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Now let me check the bishop again.

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Where did he get all those crowns, Brother

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Bracey?

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We'll talk about this next time we meet.

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Get us both off the hook.

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But he said he had many crowns.

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What crowns?

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Did he get a crown over death when

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he died?

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Did he get a crown over sin?

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Did he get a crown over the powers

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of hell?

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He's crowned with many crowns.

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The lamb upon his throne.

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That's an excellent, wonderful hymn.

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Here is a man and there's nothing breaks

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him.

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It doesn't matter where you put him, what

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you put on him.

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They whipped him, they lashed him.

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What did he say?

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A night and a day I was in

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the deep.

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What's that, 36 hours?

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Holding on to a piece of wood in

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the Mediterranean.

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In weariness, in fastings, in painfulness, in perils

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of the deep, in perils of my non

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-countrymen.

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And what did he say?

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I think this man gave the devil a

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headache all the ex-hedrons in the world

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couldn't move.

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Sure he did.

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Why?

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Because he said none of these things move

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me.

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Now get him straight, he didn't say none

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of these things hurt me.

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Of course they hurt him.

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The more sensitive you are, the more deeply

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you're wounded.

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But they didn't move him.

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Why?

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Because he says to everybody, you know the

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success of the Christian life isn't profound theology

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and memorizing scripture, it's keep looking unto Jesus,

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the author and deliverer.

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If you look around about you today, you'll

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be disappointed.

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If you look inside, you'll be disgusted.

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I thought I was right.

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Bracey said I'm right for once.

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Thank you.

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So what do you do now?

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You keep looking unto Jesus.

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The Lord didn't ask you to look at

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bishops or archbishops or missionaries.

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He says keep looking unto Jesus.

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And if you say I want to be

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like Jesus, get ready to suffer and be

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persecuted and rejected and despised.

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You see this man had such a comprehensive

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view of God, of the redemptive work of

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Jesus Christ.

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He believed John 3, 16, God so loved

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the world.

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He wrote to the Ephesians, Christ loved the

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church.

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But he said you know, want to know

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something more marvelous than God loving the world

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and loving the church?

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He loved me.

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And that dear saint that ended his life

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up in a prison off the west coast

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of Scotland, Samuel Rutherford.

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How many of you know his hymn, The

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Sands of Time are Sinking?

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Bracey again, you're down.

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Boy, you're getting all straight zeros tonight.

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I've never seen a straight zero, but anyhow

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you're getting them.

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I've got to get some copies if we

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can get them Martha.

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The Sands of Time are Sinking is one

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of the most amazing hymns ever written.

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In it he says the bride eyes not

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her garments, but her dear bridegroom's face.

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There's a pillar, there's a rock and then

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what looks like a chimney off the west

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coast of Scotland.

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It has some bars up about 10 or

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12 feet from the base of the rock.

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They put that old man in that prison.

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Somebody rode over in a boat one day

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to see him and said you've been here

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so long, what a terrible place.

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And then the wave came and splashed up

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and the poor old man was there, wet.

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And he said isn't this a terrible place

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to be in?

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Look at the slime running down the wall.

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Oh there's a rat.

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This is a terrible place for a saint

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of God to be.

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What is it like to be here alone?

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He said friend when you're not here those

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walls shine like rubies and diamonds and everything

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else when I'm alone.

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You see?

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We want that but we don't want it

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at a price.

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The most difficult thing in the world is

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to walk alone.

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Great men walk alone, eagles fly alone.

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Lions when they're hunting hunt alone and great

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men walk alone.

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Can two walk together?

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Well two walk together except they'll be a

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great.

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The two are God and myself and he's

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the manager, I'm just going on with him.

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But this man, none of these things move

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me.

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Weariness, fastings, painfulness, a night and a day

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in the deep.

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Once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck.

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And he goes on giving a catalogue and

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he says but none of them move me.

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But I'll tell you what moved him.

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He said the greatest thing in the world

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is not having your back whipped until its

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flesh is torn like a plowed field.

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It's not being stoned.

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It's not being half starved in weariness.

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And he said I know how to abound

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and how to be abased.

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How in the world he abounded I can't

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find anyplace except he abounded in every situation

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he was in.

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What did he do it for?

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Because he said Christ loved me and he

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gave himself for me.

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I used to think the motivation of his

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life was in, is it the second or

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first epistle?

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I won't ask any more questions.

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Either 1 Corinthians 5 or 2 Corinthians 5

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.17 where Paul says what?

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You can't remember the scripture?

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I can't either.

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Okay, something like that anyhow.

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No, no, no, no, I'm not thinking of

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that.

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I'm thinking of 2.57 I think it

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is.

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If any man being Christ is a new

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creation.

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This man doesn't come loaded with guilt as

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we think of guilt.

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He's everything going his way.

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He's a Pharisee of the Pharisees.

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He's of the tribe of Benjamin.

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He's of the seed of Abraham.

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He has everything going.

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His father was a Pharisee.

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He was a Pharisee.

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He argued once with a general or a

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centurion in the Roman army.

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And the centurion stuck out his chest and

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said I'm a centurion.

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And I paid a vast sum of money.

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A corrupt politician got me my freedom.

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Paul says I was free born.

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He's the leader amongst the Romans.

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He's the leader amongst the Jews.

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And yet he did as we sing I

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lay in dust life's glory dead.

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In everything that came his way he said

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there's death in it.

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Well how did it happen?

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Let me skip back a minute here and

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then I'll come back to this chapter.

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What do they say in Romans, pardon me,

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in Acts chapter nine.

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You know this story anyhow.

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Acts nine verse three.

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As he came near to Damascus suddenly there

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shone round about him.

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You know I like that word suddenly.

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Why?

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Why do you like the word suddenly?

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For this reason.

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The scripture says the Lord whom you seek

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shall suddenly come to his temple.

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No 24 hour notice.

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The shepherds went out as usual to look

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after their sheep and suddenly the sound of

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a heavenly host.

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And what happened?

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They announced that Jesus had come.

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A bunch of nervous men were in an

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upper room and suddenly the Holy Ghost came

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upon them.

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And this man is on the Damascus road.

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He's going down the Damascus road and there

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inside of his garment he has a Roman

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toga.

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He has credential sign that he can liquidate

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every Christian that he finds.

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It says he goes down that road breathing

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out threatenings against the Christ of God and

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his church.

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I think I read this once.

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I'm going to read it again to you.

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This is a statement of an atheist.

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It was sent to me from India.

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It's an atheist.

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Listen what he says.

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Were I a religionist did I truly firmly

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consistently believe as millions say that they do

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that the knowledge and practice of religion in

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this world life influences the destiny in another.

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If I did that religion would be everything

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to me.

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I would cast aside earthly thoughts and feelings

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as less than vanity.

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Religion would be my first waking thought or

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my last image sleeping into unconsciousness.

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I would labor in her cause.

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I would not labor for the meat that

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perisheth nor for the treasures of the earth

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but only for a crown of glory in

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the heavenly regions where treasures and happiness are

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alike beyond the reach of time and chance.

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I would take thought for I would take

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thought for the tomorrow of eternity alone.

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I would esteem one soul gain to heaven

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worth a life of suffering.

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There should be neither worldly prudence nor calculating

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circumstance in my engrossing zeal.

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Earthly sequences would never stain my hand nor

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seal my lips.

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I would speak to the imagination, awaken the

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feelings, stir the passions, arouse the fancy.

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Earth its joys and grief should occupy no

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moment of my thoughts for these are but

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affairs of a portion of eternity so small

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that no language can express its comparatively infinite

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littleness.

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I would strive to look for eternity alone

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and on immortal souls.

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Everything that man says Paul did.

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Everything.

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There wasn't a moment when he wasn't conscious

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of eternity, conscious of God, conscious that he

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was in a world.

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He wasn't here for a playground like PTO.

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You know I used to say it means

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pity the listeners.

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I know what it means now.

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It means polluting the listeners.

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God help them at the judgment.

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They've lost sight of eternity.

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They never have that stupid thing.

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Two nights ago in the in the national

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news as they finished it they showed girls

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with minimum bikinis on.

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This is the PTO.

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They said PTO ministry.

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It may be but it's not God's.

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Nakedness.

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As naked as they dare be.

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And yet that's supposed to be the Holy

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Ghost brooding there.

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I don't believe it.

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People say is that Pentecost?

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No it's not.

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They're having a bad time right now.

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The biggest church in Houston collapsed I believe.

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A Pentecostal church.

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The biggest church in uh what's further on?

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Oh this way.

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New Orleans collapsed.

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Pentecostal.

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People say is that Pentecostal?

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I said wait a minute.

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A Ford motorcar down the road knocked a

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woman down and killed her.

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Do you blame Henry Ford for that?

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You blame the driver.

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Some of the godliest men I've ever met.

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We had a man in England.

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Do you ever ever remember hearing of Donald

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G?

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You did.

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A brilliant man.

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A perfect English gentleman.

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Apart from that a scholar and a magnificent

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man in Christ.

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When he preached my daddy would go 100

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miles to hear him.

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He lived at the same time as a

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man just the opposite.

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A boisterous I was going to say rebellious

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fellow.

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What was his name?

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Ever-increasing faith.

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Smith Wigglesworth.

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Oh boy was he a brand plug from

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the burning.

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He was in a meeting as a lady

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with a big fat tummy and he didn't

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like fat tummies.

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And he went down while he was singing.

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He bawled in the rear.

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Are you pregnant?

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No.

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He hits in the she said I've got

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something there.

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The doctor says it's a growth.

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He says oh close your eyes and she

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didn't.

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The boy hit her in the stomach as

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hard as any boxer could hit.

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She said oh.

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He says you're healed.

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Well either she's healed or dead.

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One of the two.

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She was healed.

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He did the most extravagant thing.

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They were extremes.

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They were like John and Peter.

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I take that as real whole Pentecostalism not

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the junk that's around today.

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I don't care where you turn.

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Immorality is rotting almost not every pulpit.

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A man called me tonight and he said

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I've got to deal with somebody in a

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church.

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The pastor's fooling around with a judgment.

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He said oh well pray pray pray for

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me tonight.

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I talked with a pastor the other day.

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A young man who's been out on the

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road.

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And he said I met a whole bunch

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of my seminary friends.

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He said almost every one of them is

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divorced now.

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He said they're just cracking up like mad.

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Do you know why?

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Because there's no fear of God in the

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sanctuary.

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Somebody said that Jimmy, not Jimmy's faggot, Jimmy's

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mixed up.

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Jimmy, Tommy's Jimmy, Jimmy's Tommy, Jimmy said this

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week we have a replica of the upper

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room.

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Did you hear about that?

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And he said what hundreds of people pass

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through and they come out speaking in tongues.

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He didn't say they were filled with the

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Holy Ghost.

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He didn't say they become revolutionized.

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Was this man tasted the grace of God

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man?

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He had eternity in his heart and eternity

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in his vision.

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You couldn't tire this man out.

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He worked on the superhuman or unhuman strength.

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Holy strength, divine strength.

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You expect people to give you up and

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fail you, don't you?

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If you don't you will.

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But listen this man had maybe the most

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wonderful team of evangelists the world ever saw.

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What happened?

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They all deserted him.

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Listen, you say Lord draw me nearer and

555
00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:25,740
nearer.

556
00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:26,940
The only way he can get you near

557
00:17:26,940 --> 00:17:28,440
is to separate you from other folk.

558
00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:30,180
Some of your dearest friends.

559
00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:31,860
Some will misunderstand you.

560
00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:32,920
Some will misrepresent you.

561
00:17:33,020 --> 00:17:33,920
Some will lie about you.

562
00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:34,360
So what?

563
00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:35,820
You said draw me nearer.

564
00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:36,620
He said I'll do that.

565
00:17:37,580 --> 00:17:38,520
Paul gets going.

566
00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:40,240
He's seen signs and wonders and miracles.

567
00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:40,920
What happened?

568
00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,760
He says demons have forsaken me.

569
00:17:45,140 --> 00:17:46,640
Not going into the sin of the world

570
00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,300
but having loved this present world.

571
00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:50,980
The men that were with him he out

572
00:17:50,980 --> 00:17:51,500
preached them.

573
00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:52,240
He out prayed them.

574
00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:53,180
He out fasted them.

575
00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:54,740
They said he's eccentric.

576
00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:56,920
Well those are the people that are anything

577
00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:57,380
for God.

578
00:17:57,460 --> 00:17:58,760
God intoxicated men.

579
00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:00,940
You can't see what the others are seeing.

580
00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,000
You can't hear what the others are.

581
00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,560
To use a common American phrase you're marching

582
00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,380
to another drummer, an eternal drummer.

583
00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:11,240
And this precious man says I am not

584
00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,060
ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

585
00:18:14,140 --> 00:18:15,660
Let me stay here a minute or two.

586
00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:17,900
In this ninth chapter.

587
00:18:22,190 --> 00:18:23,470
Suddenly I shined right about him.

588
00:18:23,510 --> 00:18:23,930
Verse three.

589
00:18:24,030 --> 00:18:24,770
A light from heaven.

590
00:18:26,030 --> 00:18:26,990
And he fell to the earth.

591
00:18:27,050 --> 00:18:28,030
I think he was on a horse.

592
00:18:28,130 --> 00:18:29,510
He wouldn't be going to Damascus walking.

593
00:18:31,050 --> 00:18:32,370
And he fell to the ground.

594
00:18:32,710 --> 00:18:34,670
And he heard a voice saying why persecutors

595
00:18:34,670 --> 00:18:35,130
thou me?

596
00:18:35,690 --> 00:18:37,370
He'd never seen Jesus Christ.

597
00:18:38,390 --> 00:18:40,470
Unless you accept the theory of some theologians

598
00:18:40,470 --> 00:18:42,770
that that Saul was the rich young ruler

599
00:18:42,770 --> 00:18:43,510
that ran away.

600
00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:45,890
Yet the Lord caught up with him.

601
00:18:47,150 --> 00:18:49,530
But he doesn't say you're persecuting the Christians.

602
00:18:50,270 --> 00:18:51,630
He says you're persecuting me.

603
00:18:52,350 --> 00:18:54,550
Every time you touch into another brother or

604
00:18:54,550 --> 00:18:55,750
sister you hurt him first.

605
00:18:56,110 --> 00:18:57,770
He's the head and your head feels pain

606
00:18:57,770 --> 00:18:59,430
before your toe that somebody stamps on.

607
00:19:00,470 --> 00:19:02,150
He says why persecutors thou me?

608
00:19:02,770 --> 00:19:04,370
It's hard for thee to kick against the

609
00:19:04,370 --> 00:19:04,750
pricks.

610
00:19:12,490 --> 00:19:14,210
And at verse six says he trembling and

611
00:19:14,210 --> 00:19:16,730
astonished said Lord why me?

612
00:19:17,650 --> 00:19:18,910
No he didn't.

613
00:19:19,330 --> 00:19:20,670
He said Lord what will thou have me

614
00:19:20,670 --> 00:19:21,170
to do?

615
00:19:22,950 --> 00:19:24,530
Verse seven says the men which journeyed with

616
00:19:24,530 --> 00:19:25,290
him stood speechless.

617
00:19:25,990 --> 00:19:27,650
It doesn't say they even saw the lights.

618
00:19:28,810 --> 00:19:30,130
You know that's one thing I think that

619
00:19:30,130 --> 00:19:31,690
riveted Paul to his task.

620
00:19:31,830 --> 00:19:33,150
Nobody could divorce him from him.

621
00:19:34,770 --> 00:19:35,870
Where had he been?

622
00:19:36,850 --> 00:19:39,090
He'd been standing at the uh watching a

623
00:19:39,090 --> 00:19:40,850
young man maybe not 20 years of age

624
00:19:40,850 --> 00:19:41,750
stoned to death.

625
00:19:42,190 --> 00:19:43,590
And the young man never murmured.

626
00:19:44,450 --> 00:19:45,130
What happened?

627
00:19:45,230 --> 00:19:47,410
The heavens opened and all the people who

628
00:19:47,410 --> 00:19:48,790
crucified Jesus were there.

629
00:19:49,410 --> 00:19:51,210
And they said oh he's done away with.

630
00:19:51,330 --> 00:19:53,270
This young man says I see Jesus.

631
00:19:53,390 --> 00:19:54,730
Boy that must have shot them through the

632
00:19:54,730 --> 00:19:54,990
heart.

633
00:19:55,570 --> 00:19:56,610
They said Jesus is dead.

634
00:19:56,770 --> 00:19:57,990
Somebody smuggled his body away.

635
00:19:58,850 --> 00:20:00,630
And this precious young man says I see

636
00:20:00,630 --> 00:20:01,530
Jesus standing.

637
00:20:02,610 --> 00:20:04,010
The scripture says he's sitting at the right

638
00:20:04,010 --> 00:20:04,750
hand of the father.

639
00:20:05,330 --> 00:20:07,010
So one preacher I think was an eccentric

640
00:20:07,010 --> 00:20:09,670
Englishman said Jesus got so excited to see

641
00:20:09,670 --> 00:20:12,370
this young man giving his death dying like

642
00:20:12,370 --> 00:20:14,890
that patiently praying for his enemies that even

643
00:20:14,890 --> 00:20:16,670
Jesus got jumped off his chair and said

644
00:20:16,670 --> 00:20:19,010
come on come on heaven's open come up.

645
00:20:19,610 --> 00:20:21,750
Heaven opened in for Jesus in the most

646
00:20:21,750 --> 00:20:23,430
critical circumstances of his life.

647
00:20:24,050 --> 00:20:25,290
And if you want heaven to open for

648
00:20:25,290 --> 00:20:27,370
you get ready for something that's tough.

649
00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:35,440
Anyhow they stood speechless hearing a voice but

650
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,120
seeing no man.

651
00:20:36,220 --> 00:20:36,980
Jesus had vanished.

652
00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:42,440
Then verse 10 there's a certain man at

653
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:42,880
Ananias.

654
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,840
A certain man at uh a certain disciple

655
00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,140
Ananias of Damascus.

656
00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,160
He saw in a vision.

657
00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:52,600
You know I'm glad that man stayed to

658
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:52,880
pray.

659
00:20:53,860 --> 00:20:55,400
If he didn't like everybody else and said

660
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,000
the prayers and run away God wouldn't have

661
00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:57,780
found an heaven boy.

662
00:20:58,460 --> 00:20:59,820
But he just waited a bit longer.

663
00:21:00,060 --> 00:21:00,920
Prayer is two ways.

664
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,280
He unloaded on God and God unloads on

665
00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:03,580
us.

666
00:21:04,980 --> 00:21:06,580
People say well who does God unload on

667
00:21:06,580 --> 00:21:06,980
us?

668
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,340
Otherwise why did he say my yoke is

669
00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:10,660
easy my burden is light.

670
00:21:11,340 --> 00:21:12,560
You know sometimes we run away.

671
00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:13,860
We ask people pray for us.

672
00:21:13,940 --> 00:21:14,480
I've got a burden.

673
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,220
I say I'm not praying for you.

674
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:17,720
Maybe you're asking me to pray God will

675
00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:18,940
remove the burden he's put on you.

676
00:21:19,340 --> 00:21:20,480
He's trying to get you somewhere.

677
00:21:20,620 --> 00:21:21,700
He's trying to test your muscles.

678
00:21:22,260 --> 00:21:24,380
All those extravagant things you said in prayer.

679
00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:26,040
I lay in dust life's glory day.

680
00:21:26,140 --> 00:21:27,340
Here's your chance to do it.

681
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,480
Well it means two days of vacation.

682
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:30,880
I'll miss or something else.

683
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:32,680
But he says you ask for it so

684
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:33,400
work it out.

685
00:21:34,220 --> 00:21:36,300
This man says work out your own salvation.

686
00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:37,780
He surely worked his out didn't he?

687
00:21:40,870 --> 00:21:43,750
Listen the Lord said unto him arise go

688
00:21:43,750 --> 00:21:46,690
into the street which is called straight inquire

689
00:21:46,690 --> 00:21:48,530
of the house of Judas once all Saul

690
00:21:48,530 --> 00:21:49,170
of Tarsus.

691
00:21:49,490 --> 00:21:50,110
Isn't that nice?

692
00:21:50,910 --> 00:21:51,590
Where does he go?

693
00:21:52,150 --> 00:21:52,970
Into the city.

694
00:21:53,110 --> 00:21:53,330
Where?

695
00:21:53,450 --> 00:21:54,550
To a street called straight.

696
00:21:54,670 --> 00:21:55,010
To where?

697
00:21:55,070 --> 00:21:56,010
To the house of Judas.

698
00:21:56,710 --> 00:21:57,990
Do you know what thrills me about that?

699
00:21:58,430 --> 00:22:00,250
If Jesus knew his name and address he

700
00:22:00,250 --> 00:22:00,770
knows mine.

701
00:22:01,990 --> 00:22:04,050
If he wants somebody to come they come.

702
00:22:05,130 --> 00:22:06,690
Some I wish didn't come but anyhow if

703
00:22:06,690 --> 00:22:08,650
he sends them I put up with them.

704
00:22:08,790 --> 00:22:10,030
I rough it smoothly but anyhow.

705
00:22:11,230 --> 00:22:12,730
He knew his name and address.

706
00:22:12,890 --> 00:22:13,830
There's where he's staying.

707
00:22:15,970 --> 00:22:17,190
He's seen in a vision a man named

708
00:22:17,190 --> 00:22:17,570
Ananias.

709
00:22:17,630 --> 00:22:18,530
Let me jump down here.

710
00:22:20,570 --> 00:22:23,850
Verse 19, 18 says immediately there fell from

711
00:22:23,850 --> 00:22:25,890
his eyes and it had been scales and

712
00:22:25,890 --> 00:22:27,590
he received his sight forthwith and a rosary

713
00:22:27,590 --> 00:22:29,590
was baptized and when he had received meat

714
00:22:29,590 --> 00:22:30,370
he was strengthened.

715
00:22:31,310 --> 00:22:34,330
Then were sold certain days with the disciples.

716
00:22:34,890 --> 00:22:37,570
Verse 20 straightway he preached Christ in the

717
00:22:37,570 --> 00:22:38,210
synagogues.

718
00:22:39,390 --> 00:22:41,550
Now listen this man's only just been born

719
00:22:41,550 --> 00:22:41,990
again.

720
00:22:42,150 --> 00:22:43,310
Just been filled with the spirit.

721
00:22:43,890 --> 00:22:45,830
Just been liberated from the bondage of the

722
00:22:45,830 --> 00:22:46,130
law.

723
00:22:46,830 --> 00:22:48,450
Just had a divine transformation.

724
00:22:49,570 --> 00:22:51,210
I don't believe in being filled with the

725
00:22:51,210 --> 00:22:52,330
Holy Ghost without action.

726
00:22:53,370 --> 00:22:54,650
When they were filled with the Holy Ghost

727
00:22:54,650 --> 00:22:55,330
what did they do?

728
00:22:55,590 --> 00:22:56,630
They went to the marketplace.

729
00:22:57,750 --> 00:23:00,210
As I said to somebody yesterday yes those

730
00:23:00,210 --> 00:23:02,830
Puritans were never fundraising they were hell raising.

731
00:23:03,630 --> 00:23:04,970
What happened when they came out of the

732
00:23:04,970 --> 00:23:05,450
upper room?

733
00:23:06,250 --> 00:23:07,550
The whole city was stirred.

734
00:23:08,430 --> 00:23:09,290
What's the next movement?

735
00:23:09,390 --> 00:23:10,830
They were in another room praying.

736
00:23:12,170 --> 00:23:13,390
As soon as a man gets filled with

737
00:23:13,390 --> 00:23:14,970
the Holy Ghost he talks about a prayer

738
00:23:14,970 --> 00:23:16,070
language speaking in tongues.

739
00:23:16,190 --> 00:23:16,990
I don't believe it is.

740
00:23:17,370 --> 00:23:18,830
I believe it praying the mind of the

741
00:23:18,830 --> 00:23:19,110
spirit.

742
00:23:19,530 --> 00:23:21,070
It may be speaking in tongues at times.

743
00:23:21,270 --> 00:23:22,730
It's praying the wisdom of the spirit.

744
00:23:23,250 --> 00:23:24,990
It's praying with the authority of the spirit.

745
00:23:25,570 --> 00:23:26,870
Whether you speak in English or not.

746
00:23:27,150 --> 00:23:28,290
I used to go to a prayer meeting

747
00:23:28,290 --> 00:23:29,130
on Monday mornings.

748
00:23:29,810 --> 00:23:30,710
How many have ever heard it?

749
00:23:30,870 --> 00:23:32,090
Did you hear David Duplice say?

750
00:23:32,130 --> 00:23:32,730
Do you know who he is?

751
00:23:32,850 --> 00:23:33,370
Who he was?

752
00:23:33,870 --> 00:23:35,010
He's an angel now or somewhere.

753
00:23:36,070 --> 00:23:37,990
Well David Duplice came every Monday morning.

754
00:23:38,050 --> 00:23:39,810
We used to meet with him and the

755
00:23:39,810 --> 00:23:41,310
founder of Daystar Missions.

756
00:23:41,450 --> 00:23:42,150
What was his name Martha?

757
00:23:43,010 --> 00:23:45,770
Jack Winter and a whole bunch of other

758
00:23:45,770 --> 00:23:47,010
wonderful fellows.

759
00:23:47,990 --> 00:23:49,670
Boy we had some prayer meetings.

760
00:23:50,510 --> 00:23:52,090
I'll tell you what you talk about praying

761
00:23:52,090 --> 00:23:52,970
about anointing.

762
00:23:54,870 --> 00:23:56,270
Once he got going you didn't know who

763
00:23:56,270 --> 00:23:56,710
was who.

764
00:23:57,650 --> 00:23:59,030
But I remember one day a fellow really

765
00:23:59,030 --> 00:24:00,510
prayed with that and he was an Englishman.

766
00:24:01,050 --> 00:24:02,690
I remember Jack Winter saying you know that

767
00:24:02,690 --> 00:24:03,930
was wonderful hearing that fellow.

768
00:24:05,810 --> 00:24:06,770
He put it this way.

769
00:24:07,490 --> 00:24:08,410
I guess you'll understand.

770
00:24:08,990 --> 00:24:10,970
He said he prayed in tongues in English.

771
00:24:11,150 --> 00:24:11,670
Do you know what he meant?

772
00:24:12,230 --> 00:24:14,010
He prayed with anointing in English.

773
00:24:14,570 --> 00:24:16,490
They spoke in every language in the Holy

774
00:24:16,490 --> 00:24:16,950
Ghost.

775
00:24:25,530 --> 00:24:26,290
Now here's a miracle.

776
00:24:29,190 --> 00:24:32,010
Straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues.

777
00:24:32,290 --> 00:24:34,030
You remember in the 17th chapter of Acts

778
00:24:34,030 --> 00:24:35,650
where he's at the intellectual capital of the

779
00:24:35,650 --> 00:24:35,870
world?

780
00:24:36,350 --> 00:24:37,970
Remember he began, he was born in the

781
00:24:37,970 --> 00:24:40,170
ancient capital of the world, Tarsus.

782
00:24:40,430 --> 00:24:42,030
He finished up in the military capital of

783
00:24:42,030 --> 00:24:42,350
the world.

784
00:24:42,970 --> 00:24:44,610
In between he went to the religious capital

785
00:24:44,610 --> 00:24:45,470
of the world, Jerusalem.

786
00:24:45,810 --> 00:24:47,270
He went to the immoral capital of the

787
00:24:47,270 --> 00:24:47,830
world, Corinth.

788
00:24:48,310 --> 00:24:49,870
And he went to the intellectual capital of

789
00:24:49,870 --> 00:24:51,410
the world where the poets and Stoics and

790
00:24:51,410 --> 00:24:53,370
philosophers were all gathered in the 17th chapter.

791
00:24:53,470 --> 00:24:54,670
He doesn't pull any punches.

792
00:24:55,530 --> 00:24:57,350
He says you worship strange gods.

793
00:24:57,430 --> 00:24:58,270
I want to tell you one.

794
00:24:59,330 --> 00:25:00,570
What an astounding thing.

795
00:25:00,670 --> 00:25:02,050
It wasn't something that flitted in out of

796
00:25:02,050 --> 00:25:02,170
his mind.

797
00:25:02,350 --> 00:25:04,390
Do you know all you brilliant men with

798
00:25:04,390 --> 00:25:04,950
your genius?

799
00:25:05,210 --> 00:25:07,010
One day God has appointed a day.

800
00:25:07,670 --> 00:25:08,870
Do you know why he doesn't pass judgment

801
00:25:08,870 --> 00:25:10,510
on P.T.L. and others or even

802
00:25:10,510 --> 00:25:11,050
on you and I?

803
00:25:11,250 --> 00:25:12,570
Because he's appointed a day.

804
00:25:13,290 --> 00:25:14,510
Nobody's got away with anything.

805
00:25:15,330 --> 00:25:16,890
There won't be a thing missing from P

806
00:25:16,890 --> 00:25:18,590
.T.L. whether it's 90 million or 900

807
00:25:18,590 --> 00:25:19,010
million.

808
00:25:19,010 --> 00:25:21,010
God has a document on it.

809
00:25:21,810 --> 00:25:24,310
Everything, every word that's been preached there, every

810
00:25:24,310 --> 00:25:25,910
action, everything.

811
00:25:27,050 --> 00:25:28,470
I call it now the judgment seat.

812
00:25:28,670 --> 00:25:30,770
I call it also the final checkout counter.

813
00:25:32,090 --> 00:25:33,810
And again remember this, no case is going

814
00:25:33,810 --> 00:25:35,170
to be settled out of court, either for

815
00:25:35,170 --> 00:25:36,230
the pope or the prince.

816
00:25:37,770 --> 00:25:38,590
Kennedy got away.

817
00:25:38,750 --> 00:25:41,770
It's John Kennedy's birthday, anniversary today, 70.

818
00:25:42,470 --> 00:25:43,110
What a family.

819
00:25:44,470 --> 00:25:45,670
What about Teddy Bear?

820
00:25:47,190 --> 00:25:48,890
He died with that girl in his car.

821
00:25:49,710 --> 00:25:52,030
And for years they said he let her

822
00:25:52,030 --> 00:25:52,230
drown.

823
00:25:52,330 --> 00:25:52,990
He didn't let her drown.

824
00:25:53,070 --> 00:25:54,430
She didn't drown at all because there was

825
00:25:54,430 --> 00:25:55,210
no water in her lungs.

826
00:25:55,290 --> 00:25:56,030
She suffocated.

827
00:25:56,690 --> 00:25:57,790
She got her head up in the car,

828
00:25:57,870 --> 00:25:59,190
breathed up all the air and passed out.

829
00:26:00,450 --> 00:26:02,890
The man who investigated it said two years

830
00:26:02,890 --> 00:26:04,950
from the death, I shall publish a book

831
00:26:04,950 --> 00:26:05,630
that will shock the world.

832
00:26:05,710 --> 00:26:06,490
He never published it.

833
00:26:06,570 --> 00:26:07,410
It never will be published.

834
00:26:07,550 --> 00:26:08,550
There was too much money paid.

835
00:26:09,250 --> 00:26:10,730
That whole case is going to be tried

836
00:26:10,730 --> 00:26:12,110
at the judgment seat of Christ.

837
00:26:13,070 --> 00:26:14,690
There'll be nobody pope to plead for him

838
00:26:14,690 --> 00:26:14,990
there.

839
00:26:15,730 --> 00:26:17,270
Where did Jimmy Hoffa go when he died?

840
00:26:17,390 --> 00:26:17,870
Hell, I think.

841
00:26:17,930 --> 00:26:20,310
But anyhow, wherever his body went, it's going

842
00:26:20,310 --> 00:26:22,050
to be played out in that great day.

843
00:26:23,130 --> 00:26:25,450
All these mysterious, no mistress to God.

844
00:26:26,450 --> 00:26:27,950
He won't need any book of reference.

845
00:26:29,570 --> 00:26:31,230
Man, if he sees Sparrows fall to the

846
00:26:31,230 --> 00:26:33,630
ground, if he knows the names of every

847
00:26:33,630 --> 00:26:35,330
one of the billions of stars, and it

848
00:26:35,330 --> 00:26:36,830
says that he does in the 40th chapter

849
00:26:36,830 --> 00:26:39,550
of Isaiah, the Lord could stand here and

850
00:26:39,550 --> 00:26:41,030
he could recite the name of everybody that's

851
00:26:41,030 --> 00:26:42,870
lived from Adam till this moment, and who

852
00:26:42,870 --> 00:26:43,730
will live till the judgment.

853
00:26:44,810 --> 00:26:46,010
I think the only thing that's kept me

854
00:26:46,010 --> 00:26:48,790
sane, I'm not quite, but I'm nearly, and

855
00:26:48,790 --> 00:26:50,170
the only thing that's kept me sane is

856
00:26:50,170 --> 00:26:50,370
this.

857
00:26:50,470 --> 00:26:51,710
Shall not the judge of all the earth

858
00:26:51,710 --> 00:26:52,210
do right?

859
00:26:52,810 --> 00:26:53,970
Nobody's going to corrupt God.

860
00:26:54,070 --> 00:26:54,850
He needs no memory.

861
00:26:55,270 --> 00:26:56,270
He's the eternal God.

862
00:26:56,370 --> 00:26:57,050
He's infallible.

863
00:26:57,650 --> 00:26:59,310
He's immaculate in his understanding.

864
00:26:59,870 --> 00:27:00,710
He's omnipresent.

865
00:27:00,850 --> 00:27:02,690
He's witnessed everything that's gone on today with

866
00:27:02,690 --> 00:27:04,390
one sweep of his eye around the world.

867
00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:06,370
He's registered every emotion.

868
00:27:07,310 --> 00:27:08,850
As the hymn says, crown him with any

869
00:27:08,850 --> 00:27:10,930
crowns, whoever he grief hath known that wrings

870
00:27:10,930 --> 00:27:13,490
the human breast, and takes and bears them

871
00:27:13,490 --> 00:27:14,110
for his own.

872
00:27:14,950 --> 00:27:15,870
Does Jesus suffer?

873
00:27:15,970 --> 00:27:17,430
Yes, he suffers now, and he'll suffer till

874
00:27:17,430 --> 00:27:19,310
he comes finally to sit on the throne

875
00:27:19,310 --> 00:27:20,050
in the world.

876
00:27:20,130 --> 00:27:20,270
Why?

877
00:27:20,470 --> 00:27:22,370
Because it's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

878
00:27:23,070 --> 00:27:26,330
Whoever he grief hath known, in Isaiah, doesn't

879
00:27:26,330 --> 00:27:27,450
it report that?

880
00:27:27,730 --> 00:27:29,530
It says concerning the Lord Jesus that he

881
00:27:29,530 --> 00:27:31,910
was with them in their suffering, in everything

882
00:27:31,910 --> 00:27:34,210
they suffered when they were whipped in Egypt,

883
00:27:34,330 --> 00:27:35,190
he suffered with them.

884
00:27:35,650 --> 00:27:36,770
Well, let's rush on with this.

885
00:27:38,150 --> 00:27:40,850
Verse 20 says, straightway he preached Christ in

886
00:27:40,850 --> 00:27:44,570
the synagogue, and all that heard him, what

887
00:27:44,570 --> 00:27:44,910
were they?

888
00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:46,350
Amazed.

889
00:27:47,490 --> 00:27:49,050
Listen, he's on his own ground.

890
00:27:51,010 --> 00:27:53,150
He's not a select company of preachers.

891
00:27:53,650 --> 00:27:55,210
He hasn't chased around to see if there's

892
00:27:55,210 --> 00:27:56,190
any apostles left.

893
00:27:56,730 --> 00:27:58,510
He's in territory that's foreign.

894
00:27:59,830 --> 00:28:01,630
It says in a sense he's a Jew,

895
00:28:01,910 --> 00:28:03,670
but here he is with all these antagonists,

896
00:28:04,150 --> 00:28:05,250
and yet in the midst of all of

897
00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:07,410
them, all that heard him were amazed and

898
00:28:07,410 --> 00:28:10,130
said, he's not this, he that destroyed them

899
00:28:10,130 --> 00:28:12,190
which called on the name of Jerusalem, and

900
00:28:12,190 --> 00:28:13,750
he came here with that intent.

901
00:28:14,570 --> 00:28:16,170
Doesn't he say in the 26th chapter of

902
00:28:16,170 --> 00:28:19,850
Acts before Agrippa, I went everywhere, I tore

903
00:28:19,850 --> 00:28:20,650
families apart.

904
00:28:21,290 --> 00:28:23,470
In my holy zeal, I tore families apart.

905
00:28:23,770 --> 00:28:26,290
I chased them into strange cities, and these

906
00:28:26,290 --> 00:28:27,850
people say he came here with a, he's

907
00:28:27,850 --> 00:28:30,370
got a death sentence in his pocket, and

908
00:28:30,370 --> 00:28:31,990
he can command death for all of us.

909
00:28:32,610 --> 00:28:37,190
But they said, listen to him now, he

910
00:28:37,190 --> 00:28:40,570
came hither with that intent, that he might

911
00:28:40,570 --> 00:28:42,230
bring them bound to the chief priests, and

912
00:28:42,230 --> 00:28:44,090
Saul increased more and more in strength.

913
00:28:44,210 --> 00:28:44,750
Isn't that gorgeous?

914
00:28:45,990 --> 00:28:47,210
You say, Lord strengthen me.

915
00:28:47,250 --> 00:28:48,870
He says, well, bend your back, I'll put

916
00:28:48,870 --> 00:28:49,510
a load on it.

917
00:28:50,470 --> 00:28:54,550
You remember John Bunyan has a picture of

918
00:28:54,550 --> 00:28:57,850
the celestial city, and on the way he

919
00:28:57,850 --> 00:28:58,950
said there was a lion, and when he

920
00:28:58,950 --> 00:29:00,650
saw it, he was afraid, and he discovered

921
00:29:00,650 --> 00:29:02,250
it had a chain, and it could just

922
00:29:02,250 --> 00:29:03,610
come near enough to lick his legs, but

923
00:29:03,610 --> 00:29:04,730
not near enough to bite him.

924
00:29:05,290 --> 00:29:06,310
He said, it's a type of the devil,

925
00:29:06,390 --> 00:29:07,690
he gets very near, don't be afraid of

926
00:29:07,690 --> 00:29:08,090
his roar.

927
00:29:08,690 --> 00:29:11,010
And then he saw a big fire, and

928
00:29:11,010 --> 00:29:13,510
he saw demons, and there they were throwing

929
00:29:13,510 --> 00:29:15,930
buckets of water on the fire, trying to

930
00:29:15,930 --> 00:29:17,770
put out the testimony of the individual, or

931
00:29:17,770 --> 00:29:19,750
the testimony of the church, and he said

932
00:29:19,750 --> 00:29:21,930
they were throwing water on furiously, and the

933
00:29:21,930 --> 00:29:23,310
more they threw it on, the more it

934
00:29:23,310 --> 00:29:23,770
blazed.

935
00:29:24,510 --> 00:29:26,690
I couldn't understand it, water doesn't do that.

936
00:29:27,130 --> 00:29:29,010
He said, I walked around the back, I

937
00:29:29,010 --> 00:29:30,910
looked at the front, there were demons with

938
00:29:30,910 --> 00:29:33,270
little buckets throwing water on, and at the

939
00:29:33,270 --> 00:29:34,850
back, there were angels with buckets twice the

940
00:29:34,850 --> 00:29:35,890
size throwing oil on.

941
00:29:37,170 --> 00:29:38,110
So there you are.

942
00:29:40,130 --> 00:29:42,130
You see, we're more than conquerors through him,

943
00:29:42,470 --> 00:29:44,750
and the man that wrote this blessed epistle.

944
00:29:45,850 --> 00:29:47,190
Let me just finish with a couple of

945
00:29:47,190 --> 00:29:47,730
things here.

946
00:29:48,530 --> 00:29:49,410
Let's go to Romans.

947
00:29:50,630 --> 00:29:52,410
I think we're living, we mentioned this yesterday,

948
00:29:52,510 --> 00:29:53,970
I think, in our meeting with the preachers.

949
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:02,600
I don't know how they got the message

950
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,460
through, but he says that their faith is

951
00:30:04,460 --> 00:30:05,860
heard of throughout the whole world.

952
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,080
In verse 8, verse 10, he says, making

953
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:11,700
a request, if by any means now at

954
00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:13,680
length I might have a prosperous journey unto

955
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:13,940
you.

956
00:30:14,260 --> 00:30:15,600
Verse 11, I long to see you, that

957
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,720
I may impart unto you some spiritual gift,

958
00:30:18,020 --> 00:30:19,720
to the end that you may be established.

959
00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:23,000
Now again, remember, he's gone to this city

960
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,760
that didn't want him.

961
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,380
He was the greatest reject the world ever

962
00:30:27,380 --> 00:30:27,600
had.

963
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,740
Nobody wanted him, and yet he was the

964
00:30:29,740 --> 00:30:31,500
most anointed man I'm sure that ever lived.

965
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:32,600
That's why I say I'd love to have

966
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:33,280
heard him preach.

967
00:30:37,850 --> 00:30:39,610
In verse 15, he says, so as much

968
00:30:39,610 --> 00:30:41,570
as in me is, as much as in

969
00:30:41,570 --> 00:30:41,770
me.

970
00:30:41,930 --> 00:30:42,710
What was in him?

971
00:30:43,710 --> 00:30:45,330
Do you think Paul ever preached anything he

972
00:30:45,330 --> 00:30:46,050
hadn't done himself?

973
00:30:47,090 --> 00:30:48,990
He writes in this very epistle in chapter

974
00:30:48,990 --> 00:30:52,530
12, present your body a living sacrifice, be

975
00:30:52,530 --> 00:30:54,030
not conformed to this world.

976
00:30:54,110 --> 00:30:56,510
I don't like most translations, but if you've

977
00:30:56,510 --> 00:30:58,970
read, is it J.B. Phillips says, instead

978
00:30:58,970 --> 00:31:01,790
of not, instead of using the authorized version,

979
00:31:01,890 --> 00:31:03,770
be not conformed to this world, J.B.

980
00:31:03,810 --> 00:31:05,950
Phillips says, don't let this world squeeze you

981
00:31:05,950 --> 00:31:06,690
into its mold.

982
00:31:07,010 --> 00:31:08,130
That's what it's trying to do.

983
00:31:08,650 --> 00:31:10,450
It got all the PTL and molded it,

984
00:31:10,530 --> 00:31:12,150
it would pass now for Hollywood.

985
00:31:12,910 --> 00:31:14,390
They lost track of something.

986
00:31:15,270 --> 00:31:17,010
They got the extra gold and greed.

987
00:31:18,670 --> 00:31:21,530
Oh Tommy, Jim says, I raised it because

988
00:31:21,530 --> 00:31:23,430
I wanted people to see what God can

989
00:31:23,430 --> 00:31:24,130
do for his people.

990
00:31:24,410 --> 00:31:26,030
Do you think there's anybody rejoicing now in

991
00:31:26,030 --> 00:31:26,570
what he's done?

992
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,780
Yesterday, I talked with a man and he,

993
00:31:33,620 --> 00:31:34,740
I said, how's your family?

994
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,280
He has three sons like we have, and

995
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,120
he said, well the oldest one is going

996
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:39,680
on with the Lord.

997
00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:41,020
He's doing pretty good, but the other two,

998
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,400
he said, they're complete cynics.

999
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,540
They said, Dad, is that Christianity?

1000
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,180
Is that Pentecost?

1001
00:31:46,660 --> 00:31:47,560
I said, it isn't.

1002
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,240
The man's lost his nut, lost his head,

1003
00:31:50,340 --> 00:31:51,080
lost his thinking.

1004
00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:54,220
He's got caught up, or sucked down, if

1005
00:31:54,220 --> 00:31:54,660
you like.

1006
00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:56,560
But you know, God's going to give an

1007
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:57,440
answer to all that.

1008
00:31:57,620 --> 00:31:59,320
He's going to raise up pure men, poor

1009
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,940
men, unlettered men, if you like.

1010
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,760
Those men went into the upper realm, unlettered.

1011
00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:06,280
What did the world say about them?

1012
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,420
Peter and John worked a miracle and they

1013
00:32:09,420 --> 00:32:11,740
dragged them up before the big shots, and

1014
00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:13,680
the big shot looked down and he says,

1015
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,960
be careful, these two men are unlearned and

1016
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:17,320
ignorant.

1017
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:19,120
Oh boy, that's what we can't bear, isn't

1018
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:19,260
it?

1019
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,720
Just yesterday, a preacher said to me, almost

1020
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,480
everybody in our denomination now has got a

1021
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:23,920
doctorate.

1022
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:26,780
Somebody said to one of John Wesley's men,

1023
00:32:27,580 --> 00:32:28,900
your church won't prosper.

1024
00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:29,720
He won't go on.

1025
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:30,220
He said, why?

1026
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,240
He said, you don't have a single doctor

1027
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,420
in the whole range of your preachers.

1028
00:32:36,750 --> 00:32:37,130
Do you?

1029
00:32:37,170 --> 00:32:37,610
He said, no.

1030
00:32:37,670 --> 00:32:39,130
He said, our theology isn't sick enough to

1031
00:32:39,130 --> 00:32:39,630
need a doctor.

1032
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:45,940
What have we got with all this wisdom

1033
00:32:45,940 --> 00:32:46,600
and all this learning?

1034
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:47,360
We've got no way.

1035
00:32:47,420 --> 00:32:48,860
We're more carnal, we're more helpless.

1036
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,660
God isn't wanting to put us on exhibition

1037
00:32:51,660 --> 00:32:52,480
for scholarship.

1038
00:32:53,980 --> 00:32:55,240
It's sainthood he's after.

1039
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,400
And yet this man has such a comprehensive

1040
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,040
revelation of God.

1041
00:33:00,940 --> 00:33:02,540
As much as in me is, what did

1042
00:33:02,540 --> 00:33:02,900
he have?

1043
00:33:02,940 --> 00:33:04,080
He had a colossal intellect.

1044
00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:05,920
He had an unbreakable spirit.

1045
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,340
He had an unshakable faith.

1046
00:33:07,980 --> 00:33:09,360
My faith looks up to thee.

1047
00:33:09,460 --> 00:33:10,900
A joy unspeakable he had.

1048
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:12,400
A faith unbreakable.

1049
00:33:12,780 --> 00:33:17,140
He's sitting in a prison, bloody, half starved,

1050
00:33:17,340 --> 00:33:17,680
cold.

1051
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:19,060
What does he do?

1052
00:33:19,260 --> 00:33:21,020
Send a letter, a monthly letter.

1053
00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:23,740
Please help, send some food parcels, care packages

1054
00:33:23,740 --> 00:33:24,580
and all the rest of it.

1055
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:25,100
No.

1056
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:25,800
What did he say?

1057
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,340
He says to other people, rejoice in the

1058
00:33:27,340 --> 00:33:27,500
Lord.

1059
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:28,840
And again I say rejoice.

1060
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,480
Look at the epistles that he wrote.

1061
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,300
Somebody says, you know, Paul's in prison.

1062
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,140
Why doesn't he get out?

1063
00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:36,860
Those big shots, you know, Dallas, the faith

1064
00:33:36,860 --> 00:33:37,180
gang.

1065
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,240
They say if he'd had more faith he'd

1066
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:40,400
never had a thorn in the flesh.

1067
00:33:40,860 --> 00:33:41,600
I'll tell you what he did.

1068
00:33:41,660 --> 00:33:42,220
They don't do.

1069
00:33:43,380 --> 00:33:44,300
They beg money.

1070
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:46,480
He had a thorn in the flesh.

1071
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:47,140
Sure he had.

1072
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:48,800
His faith was so small.

1073
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:49,740
Do you know how small it was?

1074
00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:51,480
It's so small he raised the dead.

1075
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:52,420
Do you know how small it was?

1076
00:33:52,460 --> 00:33:53,360
He cast out devils.

1077
00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:54,580
Do you know how small it was?

1078
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,460
He invaded all the heathen powers.

1079
00:33:56,580 --> 00:33:57,160
One man.

1080
00:33:58,100 --> 00:33:59,520
He didn't raise a million dollars.

1081
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,960
He just lived in a living vital relationship

1082
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:04,560
with God.

1083
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,040
And because of that, of course he boasts.

1084
00:34:10,380 --> 00:34:12,760
The psalmist said my soul shall make a

1085
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:13,460
boast in the Lord.

1086
00:34:13,620 --> 00:34:14,159
People don't.

1087
00:34:14,260 --> 00:34:16,800
They boast how big their radio program is,

1088
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,760
how big the results are of our ministries

1089
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:20,380
and so forth.

1090
00:34:20,780 --> 00:34:21,699
Paul didn't do that.

1091
00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:23,120
What did he do?

1092
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,159
He boasted that my soul shall make a

1093
00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:26,920
boast in the Lord.

1094
00:34:28,380 --> 00:34:32,120
And he says very joyfully, triumphantly, I can

1095
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,860
do all things through Christ.

1096
00:34:34,739 --> 00:34:36,560
You see, this man has such a comprehensive

1097
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,020
realization of the redemptive work of Jesus.

1098
00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:41,000
In Jesus' name he cast out devils.

1099
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:42,659
They did that before Pentecost.

1100
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:43,920
But it's more than that.

1101
00:34:44,540 --> 00:34:45,540
He's willing to lie.

1102
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,080
And in that great hymn I quoted, the

1103
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,139
hymn writer says, it was a well-spent

1104
00:34:51,139 --> 00:34:52,980
journey though seven deaths lay between.

1105
00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:54,659
If I had to die and rise and

1106
00:34:54,659 --> 00:34:56,920
go to martyrdom again and another martyrdom and

1107
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,120
a second and a third and a fourth

1108
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,340
and a fifth, it will be worth it

1109
00:34:59,340 --> 00:35:00,500
all when we see Jesus.

1110
00:35:01,060 --> 00:35:03,000
Five minutes inside of heaven we'll all wish

1111
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,980
we carried greater burdens, had greater zeal, had

1112
00:35:05,980 --> 00:35:07,680
greater love, had greater sacrifice.

1113
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,520
What in the world is treasures?

1114
00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:13,300
I talked with our dear David the other

1115
00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:13,480
day.

1116
00:35:13,540 --> 00:35:16,180
If you've ever seen a saint walking, there's

1117
00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:16,360
one.

1118
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:18,740
His walking with God is awesome.

1119
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,260
And I said, David, these things don't matter.

1120
00:35:21,460 --> 00:35:23,560
I said, supposing you saw a woman with

1121
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:24,880
a million dollar ring, wouldn't she be more

1122
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,200
precious?

1123
00:35:25,340 --> 00:35:27,340
He said, Dad, these things don't make any

1124
00:35:27,340 --> 00:35:27,780
difference.

1125
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,020
All that you can take off and put

1126
00:35:30,020 --> 00:35:31,420
on, the world can rob you of everything.

1127
00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:33,360
But my faith looks up to thee.

1128
00:35:33,460 --> 00:35:35,240
I can have a joy unspeakable, a faith

1129
00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:37,040
unshakable, a love that's indestructible.

1130
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:37,980
Paul had them all.

1131
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,160
That's why you can't fault him.

1132
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:42,920
You may say, well, Jesus, oh, he was

1133
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,100
a son of God and the son of

1134
00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:44,220
man.

1135
00:35:44,540 --> 00:35:45,320
He was a son of God.

1136
00:35:45,620 --> 00:35:47,680
Well, Paul says, listen, I can take everything

1137
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:48,180
that comes.

1138
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,000
I can do all things through Christ and

1139
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:50,440
he did it.

1140
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,620
So let's tackle the situation right here.

1141
00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:55,680
I mustn't take much time now.

1142
00:35:59,810 --> 00:36:00,350
Verse 15.

1143
00:36:00,490 --> 00:36:01,670
So as much as in me is that

1144
00:36:01,670 --> 00:36:04,410
colossal intellect, his spirit, his unbreakable spirit, his

1145
00:36:04,410 --> 00:36:07,650
love, his joy, his peace, I'm ready to

1146
00:36:07,650 --> 00:36:09,070
preach the gospel to those that are in

1147
00:36:09,070 --> 00:36:09,590
Rome also.

1148
00:36:09,870 --> 00:36:11,450
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

1149
00:36:11,550 --> 00:36:13,550
It's the power of God unto salvation to

1150
00:36:13,550 --> 00:36:16,730
everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and

1151
00:36:16,730 --> 00:36:17,630
also to the Greek.

1152
00:36:18,410 --> 00:36:20,950
You see, there's no, he says, in another

1153
00:36:20,950 --> 00:36:23,570
place, there's neither Jew nor Greek, which is

1154
00:36:23,570 --> 00:36:27,050
race distinction, bond nor free, class distinction, male

1155
00:36:27,050 --> 00:36:28,490
nor female, sex distinction.

1156
00:36:29,090 --> 00:36:30,850
It doesn't matter what category you're in, the

1157
00:36:30,850 --> 00:36:32,730
blood can come, because sin is the same

1158
00:36:32,730 --> 00:36:33,310
in everybody.

1159
00:36:34,170 --> 00:36:38,770
But remember, God's holiness will never cover, God's

1160
00:36:38,770 --> 00:36:40,850
mercy will never cover over the sin that

1161
00:36:40,850 --> 00:36:42,110
his holiness has condemned.

1162
00:36:43,230 --> 00:36:45,010
He'll forgive us here, but not afterwards.

1163
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:51,580
Why is he so zealous?

1164
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:54,580
I'm not ashamed of the gospel.

1165
00:36:54,660 --> 00:36:55,280
Verse 18.

1166
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,640
For the wrath of God is revealed from

1167
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,240
heaven against all ungodliness and righteousness of men

1168
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:01,860
who hold the truth in righteousness.

1169
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,120
Now look at the people.

1170
00:37:03,220 --> 00:37:04,600
I'm going to skip down this quickly.

1171
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:06,500
Who is he going to?

1172
00:37:07,940 --> 00:37:08,960
Verse 24.

1173
00:37:09,660 --> 00:37:11,940
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness

1174
00:37:11,940 --> 00:37:14,040
through the lusts of their own hearts, to

1175
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,100
dishonor their own bodies between themselves.

1176
00:37:16,220 --> 00:37:17,100
That's wrong living.

1177
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,060
Now look what he said in verse four,

1178
00:37:24,060 --> 00:37:24,960
or verse 25.

1179
00:37:25,540 --> 00:37:27,160
Who changed the truth of God into a

1180
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,000
lie and worshiped and served the creature more

1181
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,960
than the creator, who is blessed forevermore.

1182
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,460
In verse 24, it's wrong loving, living.

1183
00:37:33,820 --> 00:37:35,740
In that verse, it's the last one, 25,

1184
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,680
it's verse, it's wrong living, wrong loving.

1185
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,760
Then he comes down into verse 28.

1186
00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:44,880
Even as they did not like to retain

1187
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,720
God in their knowledge, giving them over to

1188
00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:48,920
a reprobate mind to do these things which

1189
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,700
are not convenient, filled with all and filled

1190
00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:55,820
with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness.

1191
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,560
That's wrong being, wrong living, wrong loving, wrong

1192
00:37:58,560 --> 00:37:58,880
being.

1193
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:00,620
These men were totally corrupt.

1194
00:38:00,740 --> 00:38:02,280
They were a new edition of sodomites.

1195
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,380
He needs a gospel as big as that.

1196
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,640
I think he wrote Hebrews and Romans.

1197
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:08,860
Do you quote it tonight, I think, dear

1198
00:38:08,860 --> 00:38:09,060
brother?

1199
00:38:09,180 --> 00:38:12,180
Romans, Hebrews 7.25. He is able to

1200
00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:13,160
save to the uttermost.

1201
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,960
We have a prayer meeting Thursday morning in

1202
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:16,400
our house.

1203
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:17,780
It's kind of private.

1204
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:18,720
It's just for preachers.

1205
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:20,420
But it's good.

1206
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:21,220
I enjoyed it anyhow.

1207
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,920
So, if your preacher can bear it, time

1208
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:24,440
to come along.

1209
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,900
It's a half past nine, just about two

1210
00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:27,120
hours.

1211
00:38:27,860 --> 00:38:29,560
Joe Foss was there yesterday, dear Joe.

1212
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,320
People say to me, boy, there's some wonderful

1213
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:33,620
ministries where you live, aren't there?

1214
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:34,760
I say, yes, two big ones.

1215
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,780
Oh, no, no, no, I wasn't thinking of

1216
00:38:36,780 --> 00:38:36,940
them.

1217
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,040
Two very special ministries.

1218
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:39,620
Who are they?

1219
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,300
Gates of Life, run by my dear friend

1220
00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:44,120
there, Sonny James.

1221
00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:46,760
And down the back lane there, as I

1222
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,340
call it, Joe Foss.

1223
00:38:49,180 --> 00:38:50,520
Joe said, I think it was a friend

1224
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,160
of his, you were there, Gracie.

1225
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,420
What did he say, a friend of his,

1226
00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:53,900
that chaplain?

1227
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,240
And he'd been visiting a man who's murdered

1228
00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:58,380
six different people.

1229
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:00,660
And he acknowledged before the judge.

1230
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:01,640
He said, I did it.

1231
00:39:01,940 --> 00:39:03,260
I'm not going to plead for my life.

1232
00:39:03,340 --> 00:39:03,760
I did it.

1233
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:04,200
I did it.

1234
00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:04,640
I did it.

1235
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,360
They gave him a time on death row.

1236
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,080
Then he was to die on a certain

1237
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:08,440
day.

1238
00:39:08,980 --> 00:39:10,680
And Joe's friend, the chaplain, went in.

1239
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:12,320
And he said the man was laid back

1240
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,480
on a bench, relaxed, with a huge smile

1241
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:15,080
on his lips.

1242
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:17,920
The other men had been whining and pleading.

1243
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:19,360
He said, I'm not going to plead for

1244
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:19,780
my life.

1245
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,560
And the chaplain said, are you going to,

1246
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:23,600
did he say, are you going to plead

1247
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:24,300
again or something?

1248
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,260
Oh, thank you.

1249
00:39:27,860 --> 00:39:29,020
So you're right at the end anyhow.

1250
00:39:31,340 --> 00:39:32,240
He said, yes.

1251
00:39:32,820 --> 00:39:34,460
The chaplain said, have you any last words?

1252
00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:35,060
He said, yes.

1253
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:37,280
Well, he said, say it.

1254
00:39:39,020 --> 00:39:40,060
What was he saying?

1255
00:39:45,530 --> 00:39:46,170
The wages.

1256
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:50,660
Yeah.

1257
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,100
With six murders on his conscience.

1258
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,320
But now he's got right with God while

1259
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:55,760
he'd been there.

1260
00:39:55,820 --> 00:39:56,580
They led him to Christ.

1261
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,040
And he said he had a huge smile.

1262
00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,640
And he said, well, this is the last

1263
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:00,680
word I'd leave to others.

1264
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,120
The wages of sin is death.

1265
00:40:03,340 --> 00:40:04,680
The gift of God is eternal life.

1266
00:40:05,180 --> 00:40:06,480
And he said, they injected him and he

1267
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:07,840
just folded up and passed away.

1268
00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:08,840
Those were his last words.

1269
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:10,660
You think of that.

1270
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,380
The psychologist is going to whisper some nursery

1271
00:40:13,380 --> 00:40:14,180
rhyme in his ear.

1272
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,080
Here's a man says, listen, I've got the

1273
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:17,760
answer for you.

1274
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,660
There's one who died for you.

1275
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:22,380
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain

1276
00:40:22,380 --> 00:40:23,020
in his day.

1277
00:40:23,380 --> 00:40:24,760
And there may I, though vile as he,

1278
00:40:24,860 --> 00:40:26,020
wash all my sins away.

1279
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:27,880
I could keep you all night telling about

1280
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,660
amazing characters in America.

1281
00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:32,020
None of them greater than Jerry McCauley, the

1282
00:40:32,020 --> 00:40:33,560
man that came to Christ in Sing Sing

1283
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:33,980
Prison.

1284
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,060
One of the vilest men that ever was.

1285
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,660
When they buried him in New York, the

1286
00:40:38,660 --> 00:40:40,400
crowd outside was so big it was like

1287
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:41,080
a royal funeral.

1288
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:42,520
They opened the door.

1289
00:40:42,620 --> 00:40:43,740
There's the body of the old guy.

1290
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,600
His eyes were sunk and his face wrinkled.

1291
00:40:46,180 --> 00:40:47,960
He drunk enough beer to launch a ship.

1292
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,560
But every time he went to a meeting,

1293
00:40:51,020 --> 00:40:52,660
he would have a prostitute on one arm

1294
00:40:52,660 --> 00:40:53,940
or a jailbird on the other.

1295
00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:56,280
And as he lay in his casket there,

1296
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,520
the preacher said some nice words about him.

1297
00:40:59,580 --> 00:41:02,020
They opened the door and a woman came

1298
00:41:02,020 --> 00:41:05,160
in with a white flower anyhow.

1299
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,100
And she walked up to the front of

1300
00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:07,560
the casket.

1301
00:41:08,020 --> 00:41:09,620
And they said that tears were flowing so

1302
00:41:09,620 --> 00:41:12,000
much that by the time they'd gone past,

1303
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:15,160
those eyes there were just puddles of tears.

1304
00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:17,380
And after the women walked in with their

1305
00:41:17,380 --> 00:41:20,080
white roses or white flowers, then they opened

1306
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:21,740
the door and 25 men came in with

1307
00:41:21,740 --> 00:41:22,400
a red rose.

1308
00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:24,980
All very deeply dyed sinners.

1309
00:41:25,980 --> 00:41:27,880
The vilest of New York's underworld.

1310
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,560
And he led all those 20-odd women

1311
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,680
and those 25 men to Jesus Christ.

1312
00:41:33,380 --> 00:41:34,760
Because he said if he did it in

1313
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:35,840
me, he can do it in anybody.

1314
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:39,280
That's why Paul says, I'm the chief of

1315
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:39,580
sinners.

1316
00:41:39,860 --> 00:41:41,760
If I'm the head of the gang, if

1317
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,380
I'm the worst reprobate, he wasn't in sexual

1318
00:41:44,380 --> 00:41:46,740
uncleanness and things, but he hated Jesus Christ.

1319
00:41:46,860 --> 00:41:47,840
He hated the system.

1320
00:41:48,260 --> 00:41:49,940
The persecutor becomes a preacher.

1321
00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:52,460
He says, listen, God's done the miracle in

1322
00:41:52,460 --> 00:41:52,780
me.

1323
00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:54,480
And if he's done it in me, he

1324
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:55,140
can do it in you.

1325
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,260
He's able to save to the uttermost.

1326
00:41:58,180 --> 00:41:59,640
Whether at the lowest hell or you're in

1327
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,320
the highest echelon of so-called rich and

1328
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:03,000
famous people.

1329
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,440
I've got a book here I'm going to

1330
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:05,680
read.

1331
00:42:08,790 --> 00:42:09,450
It's written by F.

1332
00:42:09,470 --> 00:42:09,670
W.

1333
00:42:09,750 --> 00:42:09,970
H.

1334
00:42:10,130 --> 00:42:10,330
Meyer.

1335
00:42:11,150 --> 00:42:12,290
If ever you see it, buy it.

1336
00:42:12,470 --> 00:42:14,250
You'll have to buy it in a used

1337
00:42:14,250 --> 00:42:15,150
bookstore somewhere.

1338
00:42:16,510 --> 00:42:17,790
It's all about St. Paul.

1339
00:42:17,890 --> 00:42:18,910
It's the most moving thing.

1340
00:42:19,030 --> 00:42:21,010
And I've dozens of lives I'm going to

1341
00:42:21,010 --> 00:42:21,630
save St. Paul.

1342
00:42:21,950 --> 00:42:22,970
This is all in verse.

1343
00:42:25,970 --> 00:42:26,930
But he's a preacher.

1344
00:42:28,110 --> 00:42:28,910
God help us.

1345
00:42:29,370 --> 00:42:31,590
These young theologians come from the seminaries and

1346
00:42:31,590 --> 00:42:34,530
say to me, oh, my teacher was saying

1347
00:42:34,530 --> 00:42:35,550
this and I said, well, forget it.

1348
00:42:35,710 --> 00:42:36,530
Let me tell you something.

1349
00:42:37,050 --> 00:42:38,210
Oh, they say, you know, we aren't the

1350
00:42:38,210 --> 00:42:39,210
sawdust preachers now.

1351
00:42:39,310 --> 00:42:39,890
We don't go down.

1352
00:42:40,230 --> 00:42:42,090
We have a profession equal to doctors, equal

1353
00:42:42,090 --> 00:42:42,510
to lawyers.

1354
00:42:42,850 --> 00:42:44,470
I say, brother, preaching isn't a profession, it's

1355
00:42:44,470 --> 00:42:45,570
a passion and an obsession.

1356
00:42:46,730 --> 00:42:48,250
In God's name, if you can live without

1357
00:42:48,250 --> 00:42:49,850
getting in the pulpit, keep out of it.

1358
00:42:50,450 --> 00:42:51,570
But if you get in it, don't let

1359
00:42:51,570 --> 00:42:53,790
a 50 Clydesdales pull you out of it.

1360
00:42:54,550 --> 00:42:56,090
It's the hardest job in the world if

1361
00:42:56,090 --> 00:42:57,430
you're going to do what Paul did, carry

1362
00:42:57,430 --> 00:42:58,530
a burden for the last.

1363
00:42:59,370 --> 00:43:01,350
He doesn't say my eloquence gets me through,

1364
00:43:01,450 --> 00:43:02,610
my logic gets me through.

1365
00:43:02,710 --> 00:43:03,390
What does he say?

1366
00:43:03,650 --> 00:43:05,110
He says, I travel in birth.

1367
00:43:05,210 --> 00:43:06,470
Ask your pastor, does he travel?

1368
00:43:07,730 --> 00:43:09,250
Ask him how often he weeps in the

1369
00:43:09,250 --> 00:43:09,990
secret place.

1370
00:43:12,210 --> 00:43:13,430
Ask him how many people have really been,

1371
00:43:13,570 --> 00:43:15,230
but they're not being born again because nobody's

1372
00:43:15,230 --> 00:43:16,210
traveling, that's why.

1373
00:43:17,490 --> 00:43:19,410
This is what he has Paul saying.

1374
00:43:20,910 --> 00:43:22,130
This is about Paul's preaching.

1375
00:43:22,270 --> 00:43:23,610
Oft when the word is on me to

1376
00:43:23,610 --> 00:43:25,870
deliver, lifts the illusion and the truth lies

1377
00:43:25,870 --> 00:43:26,210
bare.

1378
00:43:26,210 --> 00:43:28,170
The desert, the throng, the city or the

1379
00:43:28,170 --> 00:43:30,790
river, melts in a lucid paradise of air.

1380
00:43:31,210 --> 00:43:33,130
Only like souls I see the folk there

1381
00:43:33,130 --> 00:43:35,930
under, bound who should conquer, slaves who should

1382
00:43:35,930 --> 00:43:36,430
be kings.

1383
00:43:37,150 --> 00:43:39,230
Viewing their one hope, hearing their one hope

1384
00:43:39,230 --> 00:43:42,190
with an empty wonder, gladly, sadly contented with

1385
00:43:42,190 --> 00:43:42,910
a show of things.

1386
00:43:43,430 --> 00:43:46,050
Then with a rush, the intolerable craving shivers

1387
00:43:46,050 --> 00:43:47,570
throughout me like a trumpet call.

1388
00:43:48,010 --> 00:43:49,790
Oh, to save these, to perish for their

1389
00:43:49,790 --> 00:43:52,310
saving, die for their life, be offered for

1390
00:43:52,310 --> 00:43:52,750
them all.

1391
00:43:53,530 --> 00:43:54,410
What do we sing?

1392
00:43:54,510 --> 00:43:56,050
I lay in dust, life's glory dead.

1393
00:43:57,730 --> 00:44:00,210
I get less confidence, I'm getting old and

1394
00:44:00,210 --> 00:44:01,870
muddled a bit since that stroke, I don't

1395
00:44:01,870 --> 00:44:03,590
speak too well, but I'm going to preach

1396
00:44:03,590 --> 00:44:04,330
as long as I can.

1397
00:44:05,310 --> 00:44:06,570
And I'll tell you what, the passion doesn't

1398
00:44:06,570 --> 00:44:07,590
get less, it gets deeper.

1399
00:44:09,130 --> 00:44:11,190
America won't stand another decade unless there's a

1400
00:44:11,190 --> 00:44:12,010
Holy Ghost revival.

1401
00:44:13,050 --> 00:44:15,210
The Russians won't destroy us, we'll destroy ourselves.

1402
00:44:15,530 --> 00:44:17,330
We'll destroy ourselves with AIDS and all these

1403
00:44:17,330 --> 00:44:19,150
other hellish diseases and all the corruption in

1404
00:44:19,150 --> 00:44:19,470
government.

1405
00:44:21,210 --> 00:44:22,950
And God's going to offer us mercy.

1406
00:44:24,010 --> 00:44:25,510
And we have to plead now in wrath,

1407
00:44:25,610 --> 00:44:26,410
remember mercy.

1408
00:44:27,670 --> 00:44:29,290
He is a merciful God, otherwise he'd have

1409
00:44:29,290 --> 00:44:30,290
burned us up today.

1410
00:44:30,410 --> 00:44:31,770
It's true of England and other countries.

1411
00:44:32,730 --> 00:44:34,090
But you see, we don't have these passionate

1412
00:44:34,090 --> 00:44:34,330
men.

1413
00:44:34,430 --> 00:44:35,790
Where in God's name are the men with

1414
00:44:35,790 --> 00:44:36,170
passion?

1415
00:44:37,470 --> 00:44:39,570
It's all so sweet and easy these days.

1416
00:44:40,790 --> 00:44:41,750
Oh, God loves you.

1417
00:44:42,110 --> 00:44:43,450
One of the big excuses some of the

1418
00:44:43,450 --> 00:44:45,530
preachers now, you know, oh you sin, of

1419
00:44:45,530 --> 00:44:45,950
course you do.

1420
00:44:46,050 --> 00:44:46,870
We're only human.

1421
00:44:47,010 --> 00:44:47,770
We're not human.

1422
00:44:48,870 --> 00:44:50,290
How can a man filled with the Holy

1423
00:44:50,290 --> 00:44:51,550
Ghost just be human?

1424
00:44:52,370 --> 00:44:53,890
The man who's just human is a sinner.

1425
00:44:53,990 --> 00:44:55,730
He loves his sin, he practices his sin.

1426
00:44:56,430 --> 00:44:58,210
He's not just human if he's a God

1427
00:44:58,210 --> 00:44:58,630
-filled man.

1428
00:44:58,730 --> 00:45:00,650
Read Romans 8, he says he's filled with

1429
00:45:00,650 --> 00:45:02,170
the Spirit of God, he's filled with the

1430
00:45:02,170 --> 00:45:03,630
Spirit of Christ, he's filled with the Holy

1431
00:45:03,630 --> 00:45:03,970
Spirit.

1432
00:45:04,450 --> 00:45:06,470
If he's really abandoned, why is he just

1433
00:45:06,470 --> 00:45:06,810
ordinary?

1434
00:45:08,330 --> 00:45:10,090
Why is the devil always trying to destroy

1435
00:45:10,090 --> 00:45:11,650
that man if he's not ordinary?

1436
00:45:12,110 --> 00:45:13,450
He's different in the eyes of the devil,

1437
00:45:13,530 --> 00:45:14,810
he's different in the eyes of God.

1438
00:45:15,490 --> 00:45:16,150
I'm through with this.

1439
00:45:16,690 --> 00:45:18,130
I expect at the judgment seat there's going

1440
00:45:18,130 --> 00:45:19,810
to be a judgment of believers, there's going

1441
00:45:19,810 --> 00:45:21,390
to be a judgment of sinners, there's going

1442
00:45:21,390 --> 00:45:23,050
to be a special judgment of preachers according

1443
00:45:23,050 --> 00:45:23,630
to James.

1444
00:45:24,030 --> 00:45:25,770
Be not many preachers or teachers, we shall

1445
00:45:25,770 --> 00:45:26,870
receive a greater judgment.

1446
00:45:27,490 --> 00:45:29,870
I expect to see preachers, brilliant preachers, well

1447
00:45:29,870 --> 00:45:32,250
-known preachers, charged with criminal neglect at the

1448
00:45:32,250 --> 00:45:32,850
judgment seat.

1449
00:45:33,250 --> 00:45:33,450
Why?

1450
00:45:33,530 --> 00:45:35,210
Because they do not preach the whole counsel

1451
00:45:35,210 --> 00:45:35,670
of God.

1452
00:45:36,370 --> 00:45:37,330
We're not just human.

1453
00:45:37,430 --> 00:45:38,490
We're not here just to be human.

1454
00:45:38,890 --> 00:45:40,150
We're here to be superhuman.

1455
00:45:40,150 --> 00:45:41,350
We're here to live.

1456
00:45:41,650 --> 00:45:43,150
Why do you say thy kingdom come, thy

1457
00:45:43,150 --> 00:45:44,110
will be done in earth?

1458
00:45:44,690 --> 00:45:45,790
It can only be done in earth as

1459
00:45:45,790 --> 00:45:46,910
the kingdom is done in us.

1460
00:45:47,510 --> 00:45:49,590
As we're subject to love and joy and

1461
00:45:49,590 --> 00:45:52,910
peace and longsuffering and gentleness and meekness, the

1462
00:45:52,910 --> 00:45:54,450
intensity of our love to God will be

1463
00:45:54,450 --> 00:45:57,230
measured by our intensity of our hatred for

1464
00:45:57,230 --> 00:45:58,550
the devil and human systems.

1465
00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:00,390
And they've all had their way and done

1466
00:46:00,390 --> 00:46:00,710
nothing.

1467
00:46:00,790 --> 00:46:01,930
We're on the edge of disaster.

1468
00:46:02,610 --> 00:46:03,690
We're on the edge of wrath.

1469
00:46:04,550 --> 00:46:06,050
And God's going to raise up some men

1470
00:46:06,050 --> 00:46:06,610
like this.

1471
00:46:08,150 --> 00:46:09,650
I believe lots of these young men that

1472
00:46:09,650 --> 00:46:11,090
keep coming in here, they keep writing to

1473
00:46:11,090 --> 00:46:12,350
me, I came the other Friday night, God

1474
00:46:12,350 --> 00:46:13,010
touched my heart.

1475
00:46:13,270 --> 00:46:14,090
That's my reward.

1476
00:46:14,890 --> 00:46:16,250
Not rewards, not offerings.

1477
00:46:17,370 --> 00:46:18,570
In fact, the offerings are the same every

1478
00:46:18,570 --> 00:46:19,290
week at this place.

1479
00:46:19,850 --> 00:46:20,790
Never there is a dime.

1480
00:46:22,870 --> 00:46:23,930
And I'm glad it is that way.

1481
00:46:24,830 --> 00:46:26,030
But you don't say, well, there'll be an

1482
00:46:26,030 --> 00:46:26,590
offering at the end.

1483
00:46:26,630 --> 00:46:28,890
Never has been, never will be, as far

1484
00:46:28,890 --> 00:46:29,550
as I'm concerned.

1485
00:46:30,310 --> 00:46:31,650
But you see, this is an unusual hour.

1486
00:46:31,930 --> 00:46:33,230
It's an unusual hour.

1487
00:46:33,290 --> 00:46:34,390
God wants unusual men.

1488
00:46:34,470 --> 00:46:35,390
It's a crisis hour.

1489
00:46:36,870 --> 00:46:37,870
Sin isn't normal anymore.

1490
00:46:37,990 --> 00:46:41,130
People don't, when those gay girls lying almost

1491
00:46:41,130 --> 00:46:43,090
naked, they say, oh, I don't feel embarrassed.

1492
00:46:43,350 --> 00:46:44,150
That's no compliment.

1493
00:46:44,290 --> 00:46:44,870
It's a shame.

1494
00:46:45,270 --> 00:46:46,630
They can be in a Christian camp and

1495
00:46:46,630 --> 00:46:47,450
not feel embarrassed.

1496
00:46:47,950 --> 00:46:49,650
And fellows are going past looking and pointing

1497
00:46:49,650 --> 00:46:51,250
at them and they're not embarrassed to say

1498
00:46:51,250 --> 00:46:51,450
it.

1499
00:46:53,190 --> 00:46:54,570
Where is our hatred for sin?

1500
00:46:59,060 --> 00:46:59,720
Let me say this.

1501
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,600
A fellow called me yesterday from West Virginia.

1502
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,220
Brother Raymond, I want to encourage you.

1503
00:47:05,260 --> 00:47:05,460
Good.

1504
00:47:05,580 --> 00:47:06,280
I said, that's great.

1505
00:47:06,740 --> 00:47:07,840
There's not much of that stuff about.

1506
00:47:08,420 --> 00:47:10,120
He said, we started praying in our church.

1507
00:47:10,820 --> 00:47:12,520
Young people get together, other people.

1508
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,500
And he said, the Lord came and a

1509
00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:16,160
bunch of young men have really got quickened

1510
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:16,700
by God.

1511
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:18,100
I said, what's the proof?

1512
00:47:18,340 --> 00:47:19,580
He said, they've gone back to their offices

1513
00:47:19,580 --> 00:47:22,380
and businesses and they've been witnessing and they

1514
00:47:22,380 --> 00:47:24,040
brought Mormons into the church.

1515
00:47:24,380 --> 00:47:26,300
And the last few weeks, one or two

1516
00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:28,220
Mormons each week is getting saved.

1517
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:29,980
Bless the Lord forever.

1518
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,540
In this day, why?

1519
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,180
Because some young men have been transformed.

1520
00:47:35,300 --> 00:47:36,320
You can't contain it.

1521
00:47:38,290 --> 00:47:39,790
Boy, I went to his tiny church.

1522
00:47:39,870 --> 00:47:40,690
You know what we did Sunday morning?

1523
00:47:40,770 --> 00:47:42,230
We carried the church organ in the street

1524
00:47:42,230 --> 00:47:42,990
where there was poverty.

1525
00:47:43,430 --> 00:47:44,650
And we had our streets Sunday morning.

1526
00:47:44,730 --> 00:47:45,650
Where did Jesus preach?

1527
00:47:45,670 --> 00:47:47,670
In a lovely church with stuffed seats and

1528
00:47:47,670 --> 00:47:49,410
stained glass windows, a massive choir and an

1529
00:47:49,410 --> 00:47:49,590
organ?

1530
00:47:49,710 --> 00:47:50,330
No, he didn't.

1531
00:47:51,190 --> 00:47:52,450
He didn't often get in the synagogue.

1532
00:47:52,970 --> 00:47:54,050
He preached in the street.

1533
00:47:54,550 --> 00:47:55,950
What do we do Sunday night after the

1534
00:47:55,950 --> 00:47:56,190
service?

1535
00:47:56,450 --> 00:47:57,970
We went back in another area, a poor

1536
00:47:57,970 --> 00:47:59,590
area, took the organ again and we sang

1537
00:47:59,590 --> 00:48:01,510
for about an hour and testified and preached.

1538
00:48:02,190 --> 00:48:03,030
And it was wonderful.

1539
00:48:03,950 --> 00:48:05,650
I thought, I got my first taste there

1540
00:48:05,650 --> 00:48:07,610
of a real concern for the lost.

1541
00:48:08,710 --> 00:48:09,350
And I'll tell you what it was.

1542
00:48:09,390 --> 00:48:12,070
It started through an American that went to

1543
00:48:12,070 --> 00:48:14,910
the Indians, David Brainerd.

1544
00:48:15,730 --> 00:48:17,290
And I said, well, God sends the same.

1545
00:48:18,270 --> 00:48:19,270
And I lay in dust.

1546
00:48:19,370 --> 00:48:19,930
I just started.

1547
00:48:20,050 --> 00:48:21,590
I got everything printed to start my own

1548
00:48:21,590 --> 00:48:21,930
business.

1549
00:48:22,590 --> 00:48:23,490
I took it to the altar.

1550
00:48:23,490 --> 00:48:24,070
I said, it's there.

1551
00:48:24,170 --> 00:48:24,710
I finished with it.

1552
00:48:24,790 --> 00:48:25,330
I didn't touch it.

1553
00:48:26,610 --> 00:48:28,270
I'm glad a thousand times over that I

1554
00:48:28,270 --> 00:48:28,490
have.

1555
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,260
I have one thing equal with Dr. Talbot.

1556
00:48:32,300 --> 00:48:33,580
I finished school in the eighth grade.

1557
00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:35,280
If that's any congratulation, I helped you.

1558
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:36,520
And he did.

1559
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:38,580
And I've learned to love the Lord.

1560
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:39,900
And I want to love him more.

1561
00:48:40,900 --> 00:48:42,160
And if I had a thousand tongues, I'd

1562
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:42,400
preach.

1563
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:43,540
Boy, you'd be here a long while if

1564
00:48:43,540 --> 00:48:44,500
I had a thousand tongues, wouldn't you?

1565
00:48:49,710 --> 00:48:51,030
I told that young man we'd pray for

1566
00:48:51,030 --> 00:48:51,390
his group.

1567
00:48:51,470 --> 00:48:52,750
They were concentrating on the Mormons.

1568
00:48:52,810 --> 00:48:53,850
Let's remember that tonight.

1569
00:48:56,190 --> 00:48:57,710
Jacob had a special request for prayer.

1570
00:48:57,710 --> 00:48:59,910
He has a difficult situation tomorrow to be

1571
00:48:59,910 --> 00:49:01,910
in with some other people counseling.

1572
00:49:02,070 --> 00:49:02,970
So he asked for prayer.

1573
00:49:04,110 --> 00:49:05,510
There are different groups around the country keep

1574
00:49:05,510 --> 00:49:06,990
saying, remember, oh, I'll tell you what, the

1575
00:49:06,990 --> 00:49:09,030
man, there was a man here a few

1576
00:49:09,030 --> 00:49:11,270
months ago, remember from Canada?

1577
00:49:12,530 --> 00:49:13,030
That big.

1578
00:49:13,510 --> 00:49:14,470
Church of England preacher.

1579
00:49:15,150 --> 00:49:16,870
They had to move up there about two

1580
00:49:16,870 --> 00:49:17,690
years or less ago.

1581
00:49:18,030 --> 00:49:19,610
And in that great church with its stained

1582
00:49:19,610 --> 00:49:21,930
glass windows and everything, people were laid everywhere,

1583
00:49:22,890 --> 00:49:24,150
slain in the spirit, he said.

1584
00:49:24,550 --> 00:49:27,150
But within 18 months, they'd all backslidden, gone

1585
00:49:27,150 --> 00:49:28,570
back to their drinking, gone back to their

1586
00:49:28,570 --> 00:49:28,970
dancing.

1587
00:49:30,130 --> 00:49:31,470
And he said this over the phone to

1588
00:49:31,470 --> 00:49:32,030
me this morning.

1589
00:49:32,130 --> 00:49:32,930
He talked quite a while.

1590
00:49:33,570 --> 00:49:34,710
And he said, you know, up here, he

1591
00:49:34,710 --> 00:49:36,390
said, these charismatics don't know a thing about

1592
00:49:36,390 --> 00:49:36,810
repentance.

1593
00:49:37,090 --> 00:49:38,550
They just think, he said, it's like Jim

1594
00:49:38,550 --> 00:49:38,830
Baker.

1595
00:49:39,330 --> 00:49:40,270
You just say you're sorry.

1596
00:49:40,710 --> 00:49:42,030
If Jim's sorry, why is he going to

1597
00:49:42,030 --> 00:49:42,910
try and build another one?

1598
00:49:43,070 --> 00:49:44,310
If he's sorry, why doesn't he take all

1599
00:49:44,310 --> 00:49:44,910
the money back?

1600
00:49:46,270 --> 00:49:47,750
He said, I want to tell you, I

1601
00:49:47,750 --> 00:49:48,570
love my staff.

1602
00:49:48,730 --> 00:49:50,030
What did the staff say last night?

1603
00:49:50,090 --> 00:49:51,210
One of the leading men said, why didn't

1604
00:49:51,210 --> 00:49:52,310
he love us when he was here with

1605
00:49:52,310 --> 00:49:52,550
us?

1606
00:49:52,970 --> 00:49:54,510
He was arrogant and unapproachable.

1607
00:49:55,690 --> 00:49:58,410
You see, the world doesn't forget that God

1608
00:49:58,410 --> 00:49:59,230
is going to move.

1609
00:49:59,450 --> 00:50:01,270
God is going to vindicate, not my preaching,

1610
00:50:01,370 --> 00:50:01,850
anybody else.

1611
00:50:01,930 --> 00:50:03,410
He's going to vindicate the passion of his

1612
00:50:03,410 --> 00:50:03,690
son.

1613
00:50:05,490 --> 00:50:06,270
One thing I'm through.

1614
00:50:07,050 --> 00:50:08,490
When they were needing young men to go

1615
00:50:08,490 --> 00:50:10,590
and offer their lives on the plantations down

1616
00:50:10,590 --> 00:50:15,110
in the Caribbean years ago, there were two

1617
00:50:15,110 --> 00:50:17,610
young men of the Moravians offered to go.

1618
00:50:18,210 --> 00:50:20,710
And as the ship was pulling away, somebody

1619
00:50:20,710 --> 00:50:23,890
shouted and said, you'll never come back again.

1620
00:50:24,550 --> 00:50:26,050
They went and stood on the slave blocks

1621
00:50:26,050 --> 00:50:26,990
down in St. Thomas.

1622
00:50:27,250 --> 00:50:28,450
It was the only way to get into

1623
00:50:28,450 --> 00:50:29,110
a plantation.

1624
00:50:30,090 --> 00:50:35,030
And these lovely golden-haired young Germans stood

1625
00:50:35,030 --> 00:50:35,790
on the slave block.

1626
00:50:36,190 --> 00:50:38,050
And when they gave them the money, they

1627
00:50:38,050 --> 00:50:41,090
said, give it to Pastor Spendelberg, and he'll

1628
00:50:41,090 --> 00:50:42,570
send it back to Germany to pay the

1629
00:50:42,570 --> 00:50:43,810
fare of somebody else coming out.

1630
00:50:43,810 --> 00:50:46,230
And when they said, these two young men,

1631
00:50:46,450 --> 00:50:47,630
remember, you'll never come back.

1632
00:50:47,670 --> 00:50:48,410
It's a one-way ticket.

1633
00:50:49,110 --> 00:50:51,730
And they just shouted back, may the lamb

1634
00:50:51,730 --> 00:50:53,010
that was slain, was it?

1635
00:50:57,130 --> 00:50:57,690
That's right.

1636
00:50:57,870 --> 00:50:57,970
Yeah.

1637
00:50:58,030 --> 00:51:01,410
They borrowed that from the, uh, yeah, the

1638
00:51:01,410 --> 00:51:02,630
covenants said that first, I think.

1639
00:51:03,350 --> 00:51:04,550
But anyhow, it was their language.

1640
00:51:04,690 --> 00:51:06,090
May the lamb that was slain, see of

1641
00:51:06,090 --> 00:51:07,430
the reward of his sufferings.

1642
00:51:07,970 --> 00:51:09,370
And they went and they put a chain

1643
00:51:09,370 --> 00:51:09,930
around their necks.

1644
00:51:10,010 --> 00:51:10,610
They put a collar.

1645
00:51:11,070 --> 00:51:12,330
And when the men turned their head, that

1646
00:51:12,330 --> 00:51:15,030
iron chain could cut their necks.

1647
00:51:16,150 --> 00:51:18,030
And they festered and died very often.

1648
00:51:18,250 --> 00:51:19,210
They put a rope around them.

1649
00:51:19,670 --> 00:51:20,690
And they put five men.

1650
00:51:21,410 --> 00:51:23,370
And the secret sign was, when they chain

1651
00:51:23,370 --> 00:51:24,850
you up to plow, get in the middle

1652
00:51:24,850 --> 00:51:26,830
so you can testify to each end, to

1653
00:51:26,830 --> 00:51:28,190
the one on the right and those on

1654
00:51:28,190 --> 00:51:28,570
the left.

1655
00:51:29,010 --> 00:51:29,970
You know what the sign was?

1656
00:51:31,470 --> 00:51:33,190
It wasn't just on their stationary, it was

1657
00:51:33,190 --> 00:51:34,210
the sign of the whole group.

1658
00:51:34,710 --> 00:51:38,910
They had a, an ox leaning forward.

1659
00:51:39,530 --> 00:51:41,050
On the right hand, they had an altar.

1660
00:51:41,930 --> 00:51:43,510
On the left hand, they had a plow.

1661
00:51:45,250 --> 00:51:46,930
It said underneath, ready for either.

1662
00:51:47,770 --> 00:51:49,230
Under the plow, it said service.

1663
00:51:49,910 --> 00:51:51,450
Under the altar, it said sacrifice.

1664
00:51:52,350 --> 00:51:54,010
And they said, we're ready for either, service

1665
00:51:54,010 --> 00:51:56,150
or sacrifice, live or die, it doesn't matter.

1666
00:51:57,950 --> 00:51:59,010
Do you wonder they had revival?

1667
00:52:00,450 --> 00:52:02,010
Do you wonder the Holy Ghost came on

1668
00:52:02,010 --> 00:52:04,770
their fellowship at 11 o'clock, Wednesday morning,

1669
00:52:07,240 --> 00:52:09,700
13th of August, 1727, the Holy Ghost came.

1670
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:11,780
And a prayer meeting started that lasted for

1671
00:52:11,780 --> 00:52:14,660
100 years, it never stopped, day or night.

1672
00:52:15,540 --> 00:52:17,120
Boys and girls at eight and nine were

1673
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,380
weeping and traveling for the salvation of people

1674
00:52:19,380 --> 00:52:20,700
they didn't know a thing about, except they

1675
00:52:20,700 --> 00:52:21,960
were black people who were slaves.

1676
00:52:23,020 --> 00:52:25,800
Revival lasted a hundred years, non-stop praying.

1677
00:52:26,820 --> 00:52:27,940
We want it for a weekend.

1678
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,280
We want to be devout for a little

1679
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,240
while, not too much, it'll interfere with our

1680
00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:31,540
plans.

1681
00:52:31,860 --> 00:52:33,540
You see, we're planning this, we're planning that,

1682
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:34,260
forget it.

1683
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,700
Get his plan and let's do it, whatever

1684
00:52:37,700 --> 00:52:38,280
it is.

1685
00:52:39,060 --> 00:52:40,920
So let's go with a holy hatred to

1686
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,860
prayer, a holy hatred to the devil, and

1687
00:52:43,860 --> 00:52:44,940
a holy love for the Lord.

1688
00:52:45,420 --> 00:52:47,380
Let's remember these precious people who are asking

1689
00:52:47,380 --> 00:52:47,880
for prayer.

1690
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:49,800
If you just pray for these in different

1691
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:51,420
parts of the country, God knows where they

1692
00:52:51,420 --> 00:52:53,460
are, and pray for Jacob, I told him

1693
00:52:53,460 --> 00:52:53,780
we would.

1694
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:56,360
Thank you, I'm sorry I took so much

1695
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:57,160
time, but there you are.