The following message was given at the HeartCry
for Revival Conference, May 26-29, 1998, at
the Willow Valley Resort and Conference Center in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America.
Our Father, we thank thee from our hearts
for each other.
We wash thee in the blood and we
praise thee for that, Lord.
We thank thee, Lord, for this conference, for
filling us with hope and vision and understanding.
And as white people, we bow very lowly
before thee.
Thou art our God and we are so
unworthy.
We're so conscious of it, Lord.
I am especially this man.
There is not need to remind me, Lord,
that I am nothing.
Please don't have to remind me that.
But in our nothingness, in our unworthiness, come
have mercy.
Love us openly.
Come to thy people, who are bowed very
low before at this time of our history.
And you are looking in great desperation, God,
for an answer.
Somehow, we're just not absolutely understanding.
Please have mercy on us.
Show us.
Wash me in the blood of Jesus Christ.
Fill me with the Holy Spirit.
With my lips, knowing, function I.
Great liberty, have mercy.
Have mercy on me.
Have mercy on all of us.
And visit us as only God can.
That the devil doesn't smile.
That we may leave this place.
Oh, in Jesus
Christ's name.
In Jesus Christ's name.
Amen.
In the entire Bible.
The chapter.
The chapter that is most feared by modern
day Christianity.
In the entire Bible.
The chapter that is most feared by modern
day Christianity is 1 John chapter 3.
Where we read these words, Behold what manner
of love.
Behold what manner of love the Father hath
bestowed upon us.
That we should be called the sons of
God.
Therefore the world knoweth us not.
Because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God.
And it doth not yet appear what we
shall be.
But when we know that when he shall
appear.
We know that when he shall appear we
shall be like him.
We shall be like him for we shall
see him.
We shall see him as he is.
And every man that hath this hope in
him.
Purifyeth himself.
Even as he is pure.
Every man that hath this hope in him
of being like Jesus.
When we see him we shall be like
him.
Every man that hath this hope in him.
Purifyeth himself.
Even as he is pure.
Whosoever commiteth sin.
Transgresseth also the law.
The sin is the transgression of the law.
And we know that he was manifested to
take away our sins.
And in him is no sin.
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not.
Whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known
him.
My little children let no man deceive you.
He that doeth righteousness is righteous even as
he is righteous.
He that commiteth sin is of the devil.
For the devil sinneth on the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested.
That he might destroy the works of the
devil.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit
sin.
For his seed remaineth in him and he
cannot sin.
For he is born of God.
In this the children of God are manifest.
And the children of the devil.
In this the children of God are manifest.
And the children of the devil.
Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God.
In this the children of God are manifest.
And the children of the devil.
Whosoever doeth not righteousness, is not of God,
neither he that loveth not his brother, neither
he that loveth not his brother.
So this is the message that he heard
from the beginning, that we should love one
another, not as Cain, who was of that
wicked one, and slew his brother.
And wherefore slew him?
Wherefore slew him?
Because his own works are evil, and his
brother's righteous.
Father, not my brethren, if the world hate
you.
We know that we have passed in death
unto life, because, because we love, we love
the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother, abideth in
death.
Whosoever hateth his brother, is a murderer.
And ye know that no murderer hath eternal
life abiding in him?
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because
he lay down his life for us, and
we also lay down our lives for the
brethren.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth
his brother have need, and shutteth up his
bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the
love of goodness are in him.
My lovely children, let us not love in
words, let us not love in words, neither
in tongue, but in good and in truth.
And hereby we know that we are of
the truth, and shall assure our hearts before
him.
For if our heart condemn us, if our
heart condemn us, God is greater than our
heart, and knoweth all things.
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then
have we confidence toward God.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep his commandments, and do those
things that are pleasing in his sight.
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then
have we confidence toward God.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep his commandments, and do those
things that are pleasing in his sight.
And this His commandment that we should believe
in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ,
and love one another as He gave His
commandment.
And he that keepeth His commandment dwelleth in
Him, and he in Him.
And hereby, hereby we know that He abideth
in us by the Spirit which He has
given us.
Now the axle, the axle upon which this
whole chapter revolves, the axle upon which this
whole chapter revolves is verse 10.
In this, in this, in this the children
of God are manifest, and the children of
the devil.
In this the children of God are manifest,
and the children of the devil.
Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,
neither he that loveth not his brother.
Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,
neither he that loveth not his brother.
We are living in a chaotic and dangerous
and superficial age in the church.
We are living in a chaotic and dangerous
and superficial age in the church.
And I believe the time has come for
everyone that dares to name the name of
Jesus as their Savior to examine themselves, whether
they be in the faith.
We are living in a chaotic and dangerous
and superficial age in the church.
And I believe the time has come for
everyone that dares to name the name of
Jesus as their Savior to examine themselves whether
they be in the faith.
2 Corinthians 13 verse 5 says examine yourselves,
examine yourselves whether you be in the faith.
Examine yourselves only, only, only in the mirror
of God's Word.
Only in the mirror of God's Word.
And if this book condemns you, they can
be careful how you react.
If this book condemns you, be careful how
you react.
We read in James chapter 1 verse 21,
Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness, lay apart all
filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with
meekness the engrasted Word.
Receive with meekness the engrasted Word which is
able to save your soul.
But, but be ye doers of the Word,
and not hearers only, deceiving your own self.
For if any be a hearer of the
Word, and not a doer, it is like
unto a man beholding his natural face in
a glass.
For he beholdeth himself, and goes his way,
and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he
was.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of
liberty, and continueth therein, he be not a
forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work.
This man, this man shall be blessed in
his deeds.
Examine yourselves.
Examine yourselves whether you be in the faith.
Be ye doers of the Word, and not
hearers only, deceiving your own self.
Examine yourselves whether you be in the faith.
In chapter two, verse fourteen, James asks this
staggering question.
What does it profit, my brethren, though a
man say he hath faith, and hath not
works?
Can faith save him?
If a brother or sister be naked, and
destitute of daily food, and one of you
say unto them, Be pardoned, peace, be ye
warmed, and filled, notwithstanding ye give them not
those things which are needful to the body,
what doth it profit?
Even so, faith, if it hath not works,
is dead.
Speak along, yea, a man may say thou
hast faith, and I have works.
Show me thy faith, show me thy faith
without thy works, and I will show thee
my faith by my works.
Thou believest that there is one God, thou
doest well that the devils also believe.
And tremble, but wilt thou know, o vain
man, that faith without works is dead?
What?
James is not saying here you are saved
by works.
No, there is no such a thing as
a contradiction in this book.
James is not saying you are saved by
works.
No, by grace are ye saved through faith,
not of works.
To him that worketh not, but believeth on
him that justifies the ungodliest faith, is counted
to him for righteousness.
Not having mine own righteousness which is of
the law, but that which is through the
faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of
God, by faith.
No, James is not saying here you are
saved by works, you are saved by faith,
but you are not saved unless your faith
works.
Unless your faith brings your life to correspond
with this book, these words on these pages,
your faith is like the devil.
He believes every word.
He doesn't doubt a word, that's why he
trembles.
Do you tremble?
Wilt thou know, o vain man, that faith
without works is dead?
Examine yourselves.
Only in the mirror of God's word, that's
all I'm asking of you.
Only in the mirror of God's word tonight.
Whether ye be in the faith of this
book, whether ye be in the faith of
this book, America, if this book still matters,
yeah?
In Matthew chapter 7 verse 17, the Lord
Jesus said, even so every good tree bringeth
forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth
forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down and cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruit ye shall know them.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven,
but he that doeth the will of my
Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name?
And in thy name have cast out devils?
And in thy name done many wonderful works.
And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you, I never knew you.
Depart from me ye that work iniquity.
Examine yourselves.
Whether ye be in the faith.
You that cast out devils.
Oh, you stir people, don't you, that you've
done that?
Are you going to hell?
Who is Jesus who's saying words that don't
matter to the church today?
You that cast out devils in thy name,
that do many wonderful works.
Many will say to me, not a few
preachers, many will say to me in that
day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
thy name?
Have we not preached, literally, anointed, ansonized, preaching,
expounding of the oracles of God?
That's all that word means.
In case you have some other interpretation of
prophecy, in this dispensation, in its context, I
hope you do read many preachers
who say, Lord, have we not preached in
thy name?
Examine yourselves.
Whether ye be in the faith, you will
preach in the name of Jesus.
No one will ever ask this again of
you until the day you die, I guarantee
you.
I guarantee you.
Examine yourselves.
Whether ye be in the faith of this
book, lest you stand before Christ one day
and hear him say, I never knew you.
Depart from me ye that work iniquity.
Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith.
1 John 2 verse 3 we read, and
hereby we do know that we know him.
Hereby we do know that we know him
if we keep his commandments.
How do I know that I am saved?
Hereby we do know that we know him
if we keep his commandments.
He that sayeth, I know him, and keepeth
not his commandments, is a liar, and the
truth is not in him.
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily
is the law of God perfected.
Hereby know we that we are in him.
Examine yourselves.
Whether ye be in the faith.
Hereby we do know that we know him
if we keep his commandments.
He that sayeth, I know him, and keepeth
not his commandments, is a liar, God says.
God says.
Not me, but the truth is not in
him.
Examine yourselves.
Whether ye be in the faith.
To everyone, to everyone that dares to name
the name of Jesus as their saviour, Paul
asks this staggering question in Romans 6 verse
1.
What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin?
Shall we continue in sin that grace may
abound?
God forbid.
How shall we that abound in grace?
How shall we that abound in sin that
we may be buried?
Know ye not that so many of us
that were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised
into his death?
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
into death, that like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of
the Father, even so we also should walk
in newness of life.
For if we are to be planted together
in the likeness of his death, we shall
be also in the likeness of his resurrection.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with him, that the body of sin might
be destroyed, but henceforth we should not serve
sin, for he that is dead is freed
from sin.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we
believe that we should also live with him,
knowing that Christ being raised from the dead
dies no more, death has no more dominion
over him.
For in that he died, he died under
sin once, but in that he liveth, he
liveth under God.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead
indeed under sin, but alive under God, through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
body, that it should obey it in the
life thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteousness under sin, but yield yourselves unto God
as those that are alive from the dead,
and your members as instruments of righteousness unto
God.
For sin shall not have dominion over you,
for ye are not under the law, but
under grace.
What then shall we sin, because we are
not under the law, but under grace?
God forbid!
Know ye not that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are,
to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto
death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
But God be thanked that ye were the
servants of sin, that ye have obeyed from
the heart that form of doctrine which has
delivered you.
Being then made free from sin, ye became
the servants of righteousness.
I speak of you as a man of
men, because of the infirmity of your flesh.
For as ye have yielded your members, servants,
to uncleanness, unto iniquity, unto iniquity, even so
now yield your members, servants, to righteousness, unto
holiness.
For when ye were the servants of sin,
ye were free from righteousness.
What fruit had ye then in those things
where ye are now ashamed?
But the end of those things is death.
But now being made free from sin and
become servants to God, ye have your fruit
unto holiness.
Death and the end everlasting life, for the
wages of sin is death.
But the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Examine yourselves, examine yourselves, whether ye be in
the faith.
Titus chapter 2 verse 11, For the grace
of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to
all men, teaching us, teaching us the denying
ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly
and righteously and godly in this present world.
Looking for that blessed hope in the glorious
appearing of the great God and our Saviour,
Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us that
he might redeem us from all iniquity, and
purify unto himself a peculiar people jealous of
good works.
For the grace of God that appeared to
all men, teaching us, Search if anything of
God's grace has ever appeared to you in
the smallest iota.
This is what it taught you.
Teaching us the denying ungodliness and worldly lust.
We should live soberly and righteously and godly
in this present world.
Teaching us the denying ungodliness and worldly lust.
Let's just take a moment here.
Let's just take a moment here to look
at this, to consider this sin called lust,
that God so rejects in the life of
anyone that would dare to name him.
1 John 2 verse 15, Love not the
world, neither the things that are in the
world.
If any man love the world, the love
of the Father is not in him, but
all that is in the world.
The lust of the flesh and the lust
of the eyes and the pride of life
is not of the Father, but of the
world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof, that he that doeth the will of
God abideth forever.
Matthew 5 verse 28, But I say unto
you, that whosoever looketh on a woman, to
lust after her hath committed adultery with her
already in his heart.
To know what God sees going on in
your mind and heart is so filthy that
God thinks you may as well have done
it.
There's no less sin.
It is as filthy as if you just
did it.
And no less judgment.
I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on
a woman, to lust after her hath committed
adultery with her already in his heart.
And if by right I do cause thee
to offend, pluck it out and cast it
from me.
For it is profitable for thee and one
of thy members to tell another thy whole
body to be cast into hell.
Do you know how serious a thing it
is, sir, if you don't deal with lust?
If you're just doing the thing God says,
don't, don't, don't deny this.
Don't deceive yourself.
You've done it.
You did this with a man who went
physically.
You've done it.
In my eyes, unless I'm a bit confused
about Christ, do you believe Christ's words?
Anymore?
Church of Jesus Christ, shelter us in your
blood.
Someone needs to tell us, in case they're
going to linger.
We're looking at the sin called lust, that
God so rejects.
I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on
a woman, to lust after her hath committed
adultery with her already in his heart.
1 Peter 2 verse 11.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you, I beseech you
as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts
with war against the soul.
Have you seen a man in war?
1 Peter 1 verse 14.
As obedient children, as obedient children, not fashioning
yourselves according to the form of lust and
your ignorance, but as he which hath called
you is holy, so be ye holy, be
ye holy in all manner of conversation, because
it is written, be ye holy, for I
am holy.
Be ye holy, be ye holy, for I
am holy, I am holy.
2 Peter 1 verse 4.
Whereby I give unto us exceeding great and
precious promises, that by these ye might be
partakers of the divine nature.
Oh, that's wonderful, you know.
By these precious promises, we can become partakers
of the divine nature, if we put our
faith in what God says.
Whereby I give unto us exceeding great and
precious promises, that by these ye might be
partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world to lust.
Have you escaped the corruption that is in
the world to lust?
Examine yourselves, examine yourselves whether ye be in
the faith, and let every one that nameth
the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Let every one that nameth the name of
Christ depart from iniquity.
2 Timothy 2 verse 19.
In this the children of God are manifest,
and the children of the devil, God says.
Do you believe it?
Whosoever doeth not righteousness, whosoever doeth not righteousness
is not of God, is not of God.
I was in a meeting many years ago
now, as a young preacher, sitting there with
some of the greatest preachers in this world,
some of the greatest theologians I think this
world has ever known were in that meeting.
There I was, this young fellow, full of
fire, very little wisdom, listening to them as
this man in this front, this amazing theologian
revealed, oh, I won't tell you his name,
you'll be staggered.
And he made this statement in his meeting
concerning 1 John chapter 3.
He said, oh beloved we mustn't worry about
1 John chapter 3, the Greek, he says,
brings out the true meaning.
If you look at the Greek it's not
saying whosoever is born of God does not
commit sin, cannot sin, whosoever sinneth is of
the devil.
This here in the Greek means does not
habitually commit sin, but habitually lives in victory.
He says, thank goodness for the new translation.
And don't deceive us like the old King
James.
Oh my, well, another man stood up, more
greatly revered than he in this world, won't
tell you what his name is, you won't
believe that.
And he stood up and said, sir, I,
I beg to differ.
I don't know where you learn Greek.
I don't know what manuscript, what text you're
using.
I don't know how you want to explain
this, but I want you to bring any
manuscript with any text that you care to
use.
And I want to show you that that's
not true.
It literally means, if one has to be
honest, and I have no argument doctrinally, but
if you're going to make a statement like
that, sir, let me clear it up right
now, you're not true.
The Greek says, and you cannot twist it
no matter what you do, does not commit
sin.
And he sat down.
Well, a war broke out in that hall.
There were lots of different sorts of schools
of doctrine there.
And there I sat, a young preacher, and
I was quite delighted as they all thrashed
this out.
I said, look, listen to this.
Well, after a while, while this was going
on, I began to think to myself and
I thought to myself, but they're missing the
point.
That's not the point.
John isn't aiming at us, weighing up here
if it's possible that a Christian could ever
sin.
And if he sins, he's of the devil.
If he says he's saved and he ever
sins again, he's of the devil.
That just isn't the point.
No matter what the Greek says, because John
has cleared up very clearly before he got
to chapter three, he made sure he wouldn't
say that.
In chapter two, verse one and two, my
little children, these things write I unto you
that ye sin not.
Oh, that's what he's saying, believe it or
not.
If you don't like that, this is the
message.
Get out of the pulpit if you don't
want to preach it, for God's sake.
My little children, these things write I unto
you that ye sin not.
But if, now you must be balanced, you
know, the Jehovah Witnesses, we accuse them of
taking text and not reading the next text,
the next verse.
Are we guilty?
Be careful now.
You can preach the standard, but if you're
scared of the next text, if it doesn't
go along with your doctrine, oh my, you're
in trouble.
And so are the poor people who are
going to hear you.
My little children, these things write I unto
you that ye sin not.
But if, beloved, we have to preach it
with this high stand.
If God doesn't stand over you in a
rod of iron, say, did you sin, I'll
smash you.
No, no, no, no.
Oh, he loves you.
He loves you.
And he cries out, look, if any man
sin who lives in standards, who is in
truth, not if you just sin and sin
and sin and sin.
This is where you know the first part
then you've got to read, somebody's got to
remind you about.
He says the first part before he comes
to this, to those who are living in
victory, who repentant, who are on their road
to the celestial city, who turn from the
broad road and repent of their sinful life.
And they stand out like sore thumbs.
You can't be hid, you know.
If you've repented with a broad road, your
whole life condemns every single person that passes
on the broad road.
If you're real and you, all who will
live godly in Christ Jesus self, suffer persecution,
you can't escape it.
All who will live godly, all who've come
to repent unto the narrow, you're exactly the
opposite road.
You're walking in the exact opposite direction.
How can you be missed?
But God knows, though you've done this by
his grace.
And if any man be in Christ, he's
a new creature.
All things have passed away, behold, all things
have become new.
Behold, look, God says to everybody passing by.
Look at this man.
All things have passed away.
All things have become new.
But if on your road to the celestial
city, with all the powers of darkness against
you, the devil, oh, with all those thousands
of years of knowing, to weigh up every
reaction of man, every weakness.
If with all the powers of darkness against
you, while you've turned to a life of
repentance, if you fall, it's possible.
Don't give up.
Get up!
And go on.
I give you the right.
If while you're living in this amazing repentance
that condemns everyone's heart in your own home,
people look upon you as an enemy.
They're so condemned that you weep at what
they're watching on the television in your own
home.
If any man sins, hail, for we have
an advocate of the Father Jesus Christ, the
righteous.
And he is the propitiation for our sins.
He is the mercy seat, literally, for our
sins, the Christians.
Oh no, John.
John didn't come to chapter three first, you
know.
He said this.
So that no one would have to have
a debate.
No matter what the Greek, I mean.
It's possible we can fall, but it's possible
that we can live in victory.
And if you don't believe that, I pity
you, because what on earth can you preach
of any value?
The point here is not if we can
never, never fall again.
The point here is have you repented?
Is it written by God across you that
every single person in your life that knows
you sees written by God's hand so loud
that nobody can doubt it without one word
from your lips?
I have repented from a life of sin.
Take away the word of repentance from the
gospel, and you have churches full of people
going to hell.
In their millions, in their millions, just take
that one word away and they're fated as
good as the devil.
There's no reason for it to work.
There's no reason.
If you take away, repent.
That's the one thing, sir, God can't do
for you.
God now commands all men, I like that,
everywhere to repent.
Repent, ye therefore, and be ye converted, that
your sins may be blotted out.
They haven't been blotted out if you haven't
repented from them.
Whoso confesseth and forsaketh the sin, the same
shall have mercy.
Only where do you find in this book
a man who didn't turn from his sins
found mercy?
Your sins are blotted out by faith in
the blood of Christ when you turn from
them.
To God, you really alone can turn and
God alone can set you free.
But if the Son shall set you free,
you shall be free indeed.
God will cry it out to the world
as you walk, sinning not.
With a possibility, yes, that in this amazing
victory, in this amazing victory that staggers the
world and staggers the powers of darkness, there's
a possibility that God doesn't say, give up.
No, get up, child.
You're on the road, now get up.
I knew it's possible.
Get up.
Written across you is you've repented.
You have repented.
You've repented.
Oh, it's a glorious message, you know.
That God now wants us to repent.
That if we repent, He delivers.
What a message to preach to the world.
What poverty if you don't preach it.
Because when a man goes home with a
condemned heart, though he sang the praises of
God in your church with you, and his
heart was condemned, but God will condemn ten
times more.
Who knoweth all things.
No, in this
the children of God are manifest, and the
children of the devil.
Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,
is not of God.
Neither he that loveth not his brother.
Now this is staggering.
With equal importance in God's eyes as evil
sin, this is just going to be as
much judgment.
You're of the devil as much as if
you are an adulterous evil man.
You are of the devil, God said.
Neither he that loveth not his brother.
So this is the message that you heard
from the beginning.
That we should love one another, not as
Cain, who was of that wicked one, and
slew his brother, and wherefore slew he.
And because his own works were evil, and
his brother's righteous.
Marvel not, my brethren of the world, hate
you.
We know, we know that we have passed
from death unto life, because we love, because
we love the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother.
He that loveth not his brother abideth in
death.
You're still going to hell.
Whosoever hateth his brother.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.
And you know that no murderer had eternal
life abiding in him.
God says, if you hate your brother, you're
just as good as a murderer.
That's how vital this is to be saved.
In this, the children of God are manifest,
and the children of the devil.
Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God.
Neither he, neither he that loveth not his
brother.
We are living, we are living in a
chaotic, and dangerous, and superficial age in the
church.
And I believe the time has come for
everyone that dares to name the name of
Jesus as their savior, to examine themselves whether
they be in the faith.
Examine yourselves, 2 Corinthians 13 verse 5 says.
Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith.
Examine yourselves tonight, whether you be in the
faith of this book.
Examine yourselves only, only, that's all I ask,
even if no man ever asks you again
until the day you die, sir, just tonight.
Examine yourselves only in the mirror of God's
word.
Only in the mirror of God's word.
And if this book condemns you, be careful
how you react, even if you're a minister.
Be careful how you react here tonight.
Be careful if this book condemns you.
We read in 1 John 2 verse 9.
He that saith he is in the light
and hateth his brother is in darkness, even
until now.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the
light, and there is none occasion of stumbling
in him.
But he that hateth his brother is in
darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not
whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded
his eyes.
Examine yourselves.
Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith.
1 John 4 verse 7.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love
is of God, and every one that loveth
is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God, for
God is love.
And this was manifested, the love of God
toward us, because let God send his only
begotten Son into the world, that we might
live.
Not that we love God, but that he
loved us, and sent his Son to be
the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought
also to love one another.
No man hath seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God dwelleth in
us, and his love is perfected in us.
Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith.
He that loveth not knoweth not God.
You don't know God.
You can't know God, if this book still
matters.
Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith.
1 John 4 verse 20.
If a man say, I love God, I
love God, and hated his brother, he's a
liar.
Can I repeat that?
If a man say, I love God, and
hated his brother, he's a liar, for he
that loveth not his brother, whom he hath
seen, how can he love God, whom he
hath not seen?
And this commandment have we from him, that
he who loveth God, loveth his brother also.
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is
born of God, and every one that loveth
him that begat, loveth him also that is
begotten of him.
By this we know that we love the
children of God, when we love God, and
keep his commandments.
For this is the love of God, that
we keep his commandments.
And his commandments are not grievous.
This is the love of God.
This is what it means to love God,
that we keep his commandments.
Not to say, I love God, and hate
your brother, and you're a liar, God said,
you don't love me.
This is the love of God, that we
keep his commandments.
And his commandments are not grievous.
And Jesus said, a new commandment I give
unto you.
A new commandment I give unto you, that
ye love one another, as I have loved
you, that ye also love one another.
By this shall all men know that ye
are my disciples.
By this shall all men know that ye
are my disciples, if ye have love one
to another.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith.
Though I speak with the tongues of men,
and of angels, and have not love, I
become a sounding brass, a tinkling cymbal.
I have something that means nothing.
I've got something that, in God's eyes, what
is this?
Not me, if there's no love.
What is it we're seeking to prove to
the world we know God?
Though I speak with the tongues of men,
and of angels, and have not love.
Ask your husband, lady, if you're a Christian,
even if you speak in tongues to him.
Please ask him, I've got something that means
absolutely nothing.
It's worthless.
Though I speak with the tongues of men,
and of angels, and have not love, I'm
become as a sounding brass, a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and
I have all faith so that I could
remove mountains, and have not love, I am
nothing.
Do you know what that literally means?
My faith and religion is worth nothing, in
God's eyes, in its context.
Goodness, can that be?
You come back to what Jesus said in
Matthew 7, to preachers and those who cast
out devils, if you only think that's possible,
those who do many great things in the
name of Jesus, who God said, I'll never
knew you.
Now you come here, and though I have
the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge, and I have all faith
so that I could remove mountains, and have
not love, I am nothing.
Though I bestow my goods to feed the
poor, and though I give my body to
be burned, and have not love in my
fanaticism, it profiteth me nothing.
You've done nothing for God.
He won't reward.
There is nothing you've done for God there,
if it isn't out of love.
It profiteth me nothing.
Love, love suffereth long, and is kind.
Tell me, with all you have, have you
got this?
Ask your wife now.
Ask your husband now.
Ask your children.
Ask your enemy.
I say unto you, love your enemy.
Bless them that curse you.
Do good to them that hate you.
Do you?
What good have you done?
Pray for them which despitefully use you and
persecute you.
Do you?
Do you love your enemy?
Do you know what it is to turn
the other cheek, beloved?
Oh, heaven help the man who touches you,
or your name, or your doctrine.
Have you got this?
Ask yourself.
Love suffereth long, and is kind.
Love envieth not.
Love is not rash, is not puffed up,
doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her
own, is not easily provoked, is not easily
provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity,
but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things,
beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things, love never faileth, but
whether there be prophecies, they shall fail, whether
there be tongues, they shall cease, whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away, for we
know in part, and we prophesy in part,
but when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is impossible be done away.
Hope you know that.
When I was a child, I spake as
a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child, but when I became
a man, I put away childish things, and
now we see through a glass darkly, but
then face to face, now I know in
part, but then I shall know you even
as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three,
but the greatest of these is love.
The greatest of these is love.
Follow after love.
And if you're not, are you going to
hell with all your gifts, with all your
casting out devils?
Tell me, are you going to hell?
Follow after love if you're saved.
This is what matters, not gifts.
Desire spurred through gifts is by the by,
but rather that you may prophesy.
If you're going to go after gifts now,
stand in line, covet earnestly the best gifts
that you may preach, should be anointing, unsanitized.
Hand of God upon you as you expound
through studying to show yourself approved, a workman
that can handle the word of God aright.
These gifts that are instantaneous are dangerous.
If you're gifted, sir, you've got to study
to show yourself approved.
A workman that can handle the word of
God aright.
That needeth not be ashamed.
You're going to be ashamed if you don't
know this book somewhere along the line, sir.
Whatever gift it is, oh, you've got to
work.
Take it up now if God has enabled
and you do, and you do, in any
way.
It's a lifetime of throwing yourself into it.
And if you're desperate for gifts, if you
think that's an evidence that you're right with
God, oh, please, rather that you preach the
holy word of God.
Oh, love.
Stammering yourself now, whether you be in the
faith of this book, if you're following after
anything else, you haven't got love, you've got
nothing.
You're worthless, God said.
You're religious.
Your whole faith, worthless.
Alright.
Do you believe that anymore?
In this chaotic world today?
Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith.
In this, in this, in this, the children
of God are manifest and the children of
the devil.
Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,
neither he that loveth not his brother.
I often wondered why God put these two
things together as the vital evidence as whether
we are God's child or the devil's.
I often wondered why God put these two
things together as the vital evidence as to
whether we are God's child or the devil's.
Holiness, without which no man shall see God.
Holiness and love.
Love.
Why did God put these two things together?
And I began to understand, you know, as
the years went by, I began to understand
as I looked at people's lives, as I
watched people's lives.
Holiness without love is ugliness.
Ugliness.
It's rigid, separation.
Lawlessness, judgmental, condemnatory.
Oh, it's ugly.
No wonder you send people to hell with
all your separation.
Holiness without love is ugliness.
But love makes holiness beautiful.
Love makes holiness Christ-likeness.
Now, beloved, can I shock you and tell
you the sum total of my doctrine?
Holiness.
Full stop is Christ-likeness.
The whole standard of this book, full stop,
is to be like Jesus.
And if it's not at heresy, don't seek
it.
It's worth nothing.
A holy life governed by love is the
mightiest weapon God could ever have at his
disposal in this world.
Last night, we looked at the man, the
message, and the movement.
Tonight, in case you didn't know it, we
looked at the man, the message.
The man is the message, you know.
Oh, God will never use him in the
Bible.
You can't look at the man, the message,
and the movement.
If you don't live what you preach, brother,
how can God take you out?
If you're not living what you're going to
preach, brother, and if you're going to preach
this, and if you're not going to live
it, you bring such shame to God.
I guarantee you, the world will soon find
out you're not living it.
And do you know the shame that has
been brought on God's name when men try
to preach the standard and couldn't live it?
Do you know what damage is still repercussing
across the world through men who thought they
could, but they weren't the instruments of revival?
No good crying out judgment, sir, unless your
heart is word-formed with love.
Unless you've whipped over hell, sir, you have
no right to preach.
But if you have, by God's amazing grace,
become a holy life that's governed by love,
you've become the mightiest weapon God could ever
have at his disposal in this earth.
And he's waiting for such a man.
He's waiting.
You prayed last night, begin in me, God.
I prayed for revival, but tonight I want
to pray another prayer, God.
Revive me.
Can I ask you to pray another prayer
tonight?
That I may be holy by thy grace
alone, and yet governed so by love, that
I be not Jesus, that I have the
right to preach what God has enabled me
to live by thy grace.
We speak of being filled with the Spirit.
You know what that means?
Being controlled by the Spirit.
So that in every circumstance, no matter how
trying, our lives spontaneously react to the fruit
of the Spirit.
And the fruit of the Spirit, beloved, is
Christ.
Oh, God, I want so much, so much
to have the right by my life, by
my life to be the instrument, enable me
to live by thy grace.
Come, my God, wash me so truly and
fill me with the Holy Spirit.
Take control, God.
I absolutely surrender to thee.
Fill me, take control, make me a holy,
holy man governed by love, no matter how
trying the circumstances, governed by God's love, spontaneously
see in every reaction, no matter how trying.
Fill me with the Holy Spirit.
You know, it's not the saying, it was
dead faith.
It's saying, make me like Jesus, so you
don't know what you're praying, that I have
the right to preach this book.
How many of you have prayed that?
God, bring me the holy life governed by
love.
Help me, Christ, my God.
That's all it is, or I cannot preach.
I want those of you that desperately, not
shallow, desperately, desperately need to ask that of
God from the depth of your soul, to
give you the right to preach to this
nation.
I want those of you that are so
desperately in need to stand right now.
That's going to cost you, isn't it?
I only ask once, because it's between you
and God.
And if you haven't made up your mind
yet, nothing's going to do it.
Oh, beloved, it would be wonderful if you
all get on our knees and just pray
and ask God aloud.
Come pray with me loud, and don't dare
listen to the devil who says this can't
work, that God will turn his face, you
know, and say, not good enough.
Only the devil will tell you that, let
me tell you.
Try this from your heart, and prove God.
You pray with me loud, oh my God,
wash me through and through with the blood
of Christ, and fill me with the Holy
Spirit, that I may be like Jesus.
For if I'm not like Jesus, I cannot
preach any standard.
For the only standard I see in this
book is to be like Jesus.
Give me the right to preach by giving
me the life.
Fill me now with thy Spirit.
Take complete control of me by the Holy
Spirit, that not by my effort, my struggle,
but by thy Spirit, the fruit of the
Spirit will be seen spontaneously, no matter how
trying the circumstance in my life, that Christ
will be seen even by my enemies.
Make me an instrument of revival.
In Jesus Christ's name.
Can we all stand?
Beloved, we're going to have times of prayer
after this.
And there's much you can pray aloud, but
don't doubt God now.
If you prayed that, God does not look
at the words that proceed out of the
mouth.
God look at the heart from which they
come.
If he's shown your heart, you meant that.
How could God say no?
How could he?
He's so upright and perfect.
God bless you.
You've had so many meetings, and they've all
been long.
You must be desperate for revival.
And God's watching you.
And that's what matters.
God's looking down here at this host.
I would be amazed if God doesn't.
I would be stunned if God doesn't.
And honour you above all you could ever
have dreamed of gathering like this and seeking
him, and standing and praying.
I would be stunned.
Don't doubt him now.
He's watching.
He's waiting.
There's a few meetings left.
Go all the way through it, no matter
what the cost.
If there wasn't more, there wouldn't be any
more meetings.
God knows why.
There's more now.
Don't stop now, child.
Come in every single meeting, trying out God.
Continue, continue.
By the by, being filled with the Spirit,
is just the beginning of a consistent growth.
Ups and downs until then, more downs than
ups.
But now, consistent growth, because God's in control.
That's why we have to be absolutely surrendered.
You've done it.
But oh, he wants to take you so
much more now.
Let him, let him, till the day you
die.
Let him.