In this sermon, the preacher references various verses from the Bible, including Jeremiah chapter 4 and Joel chapter 1. He emphasizes the need for repentance and laments the state of the world, where the commandments of God are being broken. The preacher also criticizes the idea of fulfilling the Great Commission solely through financial means, stating that true fulfillment of the Great Commission involves repentance and a message from God. He concludes by marveling at the greatness of God and questioning why He has not yet judged the world for its disobedience.

So shall I all my love exert and love them with the zeal like thine, and turn them to a pardoning God, and quench their brands in Jesus' blood. Kindle a fire in this meeting tonight, that be a wall of fire, so that people will not let a hell fire. Let love burn in us like a fire, let faith burn in us like a fire, let hope burn within us like a fire, let zeal burn within us like a fire. Again Lord, make this a bad night for the devil, make it a glorious night for our Lord Jesus Christ. We give you praise in his name. Thank you. If any of you want to be in the limelight, come up here. Terrible. We're going to look in the prophecy of Isaiah. A great biblical scholar, I think it was a Hebrew scholar, said that the, what Martin Luther called the book of Isaiah, the gospel of Isaiah. Because there's so much gospel in it. This other Hebrew scholar said this is the most profound thing that's ever been written by any man anywhere. It has to be because it's not written by imagination, it's written by inspiration. And some of us are stupid enough to believe that the Bible has no errors in it. All the errors are in the pews. Okay, we're going to Isaiah, did I give you the chapter? I didn't. Well, it's 64. This book, how many books are there in the Bible? How many chapters are there in Isaiah? The Old Testament ends at the 39th book. And this wonderful gospel of Isaiah, the first part finishes at the 39th chapter. The second part goes on from the, well it must go from the 40th to the 66th. Last week we took a study, partly a study in Jeremiah. I don't know how it affected you, it affected me tremendously. It affected me. I believe the greatest breed of men that ever walked on this earth were the major prophets in the Old Testament. I wouldn't mind having been one of the minor prophets, but the major prophets are the greatest men that ever walked this earth. I quoted last week, I quote again from a famous Jewish scholar who was converted to Christianity, and he made this definition. He said, the prophet by the very nature of his calling is a tragic figure. He has a fierce, I love that word, a fierce loyalty to God and a burning heart of compassion for a lost world. And this time he's pulled right to the very throne at the other time he sees all the human corruption. Jeremiah writes through backsliders. Thirteen times in the writings of Jeremiah you have backsliders. Only four times elsewhere I think in the Old Testament a backslider is mentioned, that's in Hosea. So his stress is on the backslidden nation. But the emphasis of Isaiah is the emphasis of holiness. It's the most needed thing in the church of God today. Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture. I don't care what theory you have of the rapture. The Lord isn't coming for a limping old woman. He isn't coming for a bag woman. He's coming for a bride. Pure and spotless. If you take the first chapters that we mentioned there, chapters 1 to 39, you'll find that the holy God or holiness is mentioned no less than 12 times. If you take the second half of the book from chapters 40 to 66, you'll find that holiness or a holy God is mentioned no less than 17 times. This man seems to me he's always hitting the peaks. He prophesies the birth of Jesus. He prophesies the second coming. He gives you a pen portrait in Isaiah 53, one of the most gorgeous chapters in the word of God, who hath believed our report. He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, as a root out of a dry... Do you ever see a root that was attractive? He's the root out of a dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. And when we should see him we should not desire him. Let me jump down that. There was a Hebrew scholar in Scotland years ago by the name of Rabbi Andrews. He wasn't a rabbi. He was a little Scottishman, but he was more familiar and quoted more often the Hebrew scriptures than anybody in that great university. In fact when he lectured he didn't have a textbook. He always took the book of Isaiah as his textbook. And he was slowly coming down day by day into that chapter. And he came to that where it says he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity. The justice meant of our peace was upon him and by his stripes we are healed. A verse that always chokes me up. It pleased the Lord to bruise him. Do you fathers take delight in bruising your child? One of the curses of America today is child abuse. It pleased the Lord to bruise him. Why? Because that's the only way he could bring total glory to his father. An old man, a very wise man, he was English. He said a few years ago that Jesus did more to glorify his father for the 30 years he was on earth than he would have done if it stayed in heaven another thousand years. He undid all that Adam did. Whatever came in for Adam. Now there's a lovely hymn. It was written by a Roman Catholic actually. It was written by Cardinal Newman. I think it's magnificent. Praise to the holiest in the height and in the depth be praise. In all his works most wonderful, most sure in all his ways. O wisest love that flesh and blood which did in Adam fail should strive again against the foe. Should strive and should prevail. And then he goes on to say if I get it. Let me get this. Let me quote it again. O loving wisdom of our God and all was sin and shame. A second Adam to the fight and to the rescue. That's wrong. Jesus is not the second Adam. He's the last Adam. If there's a second Adam you can have a third, a fourth, a fifth. No sir. Jesus took all the powers of darkness and hell and what came in through the first Adam goes out by the last Adam. That's why we sang twice that verse tonight from it is well with my soul. My sin or the bliss. You see all our people know in the churches now is they've had their sins forgiven and they've been submitting to inward sin for years. I don't believe there's a man on the whole tv that preaches salvation. They preach forgiveness. Forgiveness is not salvation. They point out. There's a man in bed with some other man's wife in a motel. He said you know the Lord loves you just as you are. Well then why get changed? Commit adultery as long as you like. He still loves you. Be a cheat, be a liar, be a thief, be a failure. He still loves you. But there's a scripture. Isn't it the psalm seven? Don't look. I think it is. But it says God is angry with the wicked every day. I heard somebody quote today. God loves you but hates your sin. That's bunkum. God hates you for committing the sin. Is God going to take your sins and judge them at the judgment and leave you alone? Well some say there's no trouble for us at the judgment. But it says that man who has failed God, he shall suffer loss. Not his sins. He shall suffer loss. You know five minutes inside of heaven we'll all be embarrassed. We wish to God we'd be more faithful. We wish to God we'd be more obedient. We wish to God we'd have explored the possibilities of grace as Lowry called. The resources that there are in the Godhead. You believe that son? If you said no I'd send you home. Well let me just look at this a minute again. Somebody told me recently they'd been up north and heard I don't two or three conferences and everybody at the conference preached on wall or go. Well that's illegal. That belongs to me. But here in this sixth chapter, simple words, monosyllables, so simple a preacher could remember them. Verse five he said woe is me I'm undone. Verse seven it said lo. And verse nine he said go. The first is the word of a man. The second is the word of a seraphim. The third is the word of God. The first is a confession, woe is me. The second is a word of cleansing, this will touch thy lips. And the third is a word of commission, go. I keep seeing people appealing for money on tv and say help us to fulfill the great commission. I can help them in a weekend. The great commission of Jesus was going to all the world, it wasn't anything of the kind. The great commission was God's message to his disciples. The last message of Jesus to the church is repent, repent, repent, repent, repent, six times over in revelation. And we're going out to people, men living in defeat are going to tell heathen people how to get saved. That's all if they're saved. We used to say spend a beautiful day staying in the Bahamas. Half past six in the morning or six to half past I did a chug chug chug of a motorboat. I go under the verandah of the house look in the channel there was a man with a sombrero and he yelled at the top of his voice but the raven and I'm dead I'm safe from hell. Well that's wonderful it's a fringe benefit. Are you safe from lust? Are you safe from fear? Are you safe from doubt? Are you safe from anger? Are you safe from envy? Are you safe from pride? He came to save us now from sinning. Christianity is N.O.T. not a sinning religion. It's a victorious religion. Yeah I love this let me play with these not play with them but say these words again can I? Wall logo. Remember the first verse says in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon the throne. Do you know that? Let me think how many times. I think there are 14 references mostly in Isaiah about God sitting upon the throne. So there he has vision. You go down there down then to the King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord and then he says I heard a voice in verse eight. Let me take the words again. He saw the Lord high so it's a vision of height. He saw into the abyss of his own heart so it's a vision of depth. He saw a lost world outside so it's a vision of breath. He saw God it was a vision of deity. The great curse in modern preaching is this our people never see God. I don't believe one percent of the Christians in America or the world know God. They know theology they know about God they know references in the scripture. But who really knows God? He had a vision of deity he saw God. He had a vision of depravity he saw himself. He had a vision of duty he saw a lost world outside. He had a vision of a holy God. He had a vision of holiness. He had an upward vision of holiness. He had an inward vision of helplessness. He had an outward vision of hopelessness. The scripture clearly says as you remember that where there is no vision the people perish. I'm going to skip over now to if I get preaching all that I'll keep you here all night. Let's go to chapter 64 please. I've said before I'll say it many times I guess. I think every preacher should read Acts 26 on his knees every week where Paul outlines what the preacher is there for to turn people from darkness to light the power of sin to God they may have forgiveness of sins and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified by faith that is in me. And then when you've digested that go to the 40th chapter of Isaiah and get the concept of God that this amazing man has. You'll never get depressed. Now some people have worn the page or out the corner of the page Romans 8 28 that's all they know. What does it say here? In Isaiah 4 verse 13 says who have directed the spirit of the Lord or being his counselor taught him with whom took he counsel who instructed him and taught him in the path of knowledge and showed to him the way of understanding. Verse 17 verse sorry 15 behold all the nations out as a drop of a bucket and a small dust in the balance. Verse 17 all nations before him are as nothing they're counted to him less than nothing and vanity. Now verse 18 is your question to who will he liken me or what likeness will he give me says the Lord. Then 22 it is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth. Isn't that a picture? Verse 26 is more astounding lift up your eyes on high who has created these things talking about the stars the sun the moon who has created these things that bringeth out the greatness of his might that he is strong in power if I skip one thing that's important he bringeth out their host by number. I heard a statement again on tv this week that what we thought there was one milky way a way back somewhere in infinity you see the scientists don't believe in eternity but they believe in infinity. The smart boys just now are deciding what position to give Jesus in history he's already decided where to put them in prophecy no uncertainty about that in any shape or form oh I forgot how many trillion stars they said the world the other day I enjoy a scientist saying that he thinks it's baffling and then the next thing they say they've invented a new chip for what do you call them computer it's as big as your fingernail and you can store 250 000 statements on a chip but God doesn't need fingernails but he knows the name of everybody that lives inside him. Isaac Watts has a hymn in which he says he made the stars those heavenly flames he counts their numbers calls their names names his wisdom's vast and knows no bound the deeper all our thoughts are drowned what is a creature's skill or force the sprightly man the warlike horse the piercing wit the active limb all are too mean delights for him but saints are lovely in his sight I don't think God enjoys the sun and the moon and the stars they can't respond he enjoys the man that's been digging ditches down the road all day but he had a heart in tune with God all the time he was praying you know the salvation of America does not rest on the white house I don't care who gets in only one care I do the salvation of America does not depend on the white house it depends on God's house and before God does anything he'll clean up the church when he was on earth he cleaned up the temple if he comes again he'll clean up the pulpit judgment must begin at the house of God judgment must begin with the preachers I think the most awesome task in the world tonight is not to be the president of the United States or the king of an empire but to be a man who stands between a living God and a dying people somebody quoted to me again the words of Richard Baxter in 1500 Richard Baxter went to Kidderminster my precious wife now used to drive through that town there's an oversized statue I suppose about 15 feet high there he is with a book in his hand when he went into that town there was not one family that had devotions and when he died there wasn't one family that didn't have them they had to put five galleries up wouldn't that be something five galleries to accommodate the crowd every lord's day and he said the secret was that he was he said I preached as if to never preach again and as a dying man to dying men I reminded the crowd last week crowd hold you thousands there the greatest soul winner in England maybe ever was neither Whitfield nor Wesley it was Spurgeon when he was still only 22 years of age he preached to 3,000 people every Sunday morning 3,000 every Sunday night a newspaper critic says more people are healed when he prays he never had the healing line he never sold worn-out handkerchiefs and dusters that he blessed more people healed through Spurgeon's praying than all the hospitals in London he led tens of thousands of people to Christ listen to this you evangelist fellows and he never made an alterco he said God has troubled you this morning about your soul's salvation and he said the same at night I'll be in my office tomorrow morning at six and I'll deal with you and there was a procession and he stayed three hours every Sunday morning pardon me Monday morning and three hours every Monday night dealing with people when he finished Dr. A.D. Dixon went he was a greater orator maybe than Spurgeon and the first day he was there he shocked the congregation by making an appeal will you come forward and accept Christ a newspaper reporter wrote asked him afterwards why did you Mr. Spurgeon never ever in 20 years made an altercolony thousands of people genuinely born again they left the world the flesh and the devil and the filthy language they became new men with new hearts and new hopes and new spirits and new wills people don't get saved like that anymore they come to the altar and weave a few tears crocodile tears and live like crocodiles the rest of the week biting and devouring each other well the the newspaper man said Mr. Dixon I don't think Spurgeon would have enjoyed sorry don't think Spurgeon would have enjoyed your alterco last night he never made them oh he said I believe in striking while the iron is hot the newspaper man blessing said to Dr. Dixon you know what Spurgeon would have said if the iron was hot with the holy ghost at eight o'clock on Sunday night it'd still be as hot next morning at eight o'clock I believe in that kind of salvation if we don't get that preaching back you may as well sell America out we've got to get some hellfire preachers we won't find them in the cemeteries but we'll find them somewhere I mean seminaries but God's going to find them I mentioned last week that the most amazing move of the spirit of God was in about 17 what 34 through that graveled voice sour looking man by the name of Jonathan Edwards do you know the New England revival began as a cut out of an ordinary meeting it wasn't staged they weren't converted film stars and broken down footballers on the platform no choirs no singing there was a consistency about the man that preached and people said yes he read with a candle in one hand and he had bad eyesight didn't have good glasses so he had to skip over his notes his daughter said you you complain that my daddy being severe but you should live in the house with him and hear him weeping I'd like to send a notice to all the deacons of every church in America if your preacher doesn't weep over the congregation weep over your preacher Jeremiah I said last week was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief he goes on to say later in the book I'll weep over your sins in secret we used to live in a town nine miles out of Manchester England there's a block of stone half the size of this wall here on one side of a doorway a great big arch another big lump of stone that side and it says this Salvation Army Corps as they called it was opened in 19 I think it was 1910 William Booth died in 1912 because they had a revival they built the largest Salvation Army hall outside of London in a small industrial town there were two girls there by the name of Jackson the Jackson sisters well they went the usual Salvation Army way you know gave out food gave out all clothes gave out furniture in fact it used to be a skit a skit you go to the Salvation Army for soup soap and salvation and they tried everything and nothing worked they were desperate they were bearing no fruit so they sent a letter to William Booth he was half Jew and half Gentile and he didn't want to waste words on the telegram so he sent two words back to the young ladies try tears they did and revolution came spiritual revolution they packed up all the children that seats over 2000 to the rafters every Lord's Day they had prayer meetings every Saturday I would not be a member of a church that doesn't have a prayer meeting Saturday night Saturday night from nine o'clock to midnight or Friday night nine o'clock to midnight you do it it will revolutionize your church they tried tears brokenness and God in infinite mercy came now let's get to this chapter again I keep trying I suppose the most thankless task in the world is to be a prophet of God when God is angry with the nation it has no profits I don't know profit in America today somebody sent a brochure out with my picture on and said Leonard Raven is another Jeremiah I never said that I wouldn't sanction a foolish thing like that I'm not fit to lose his shoes never mind be a prophet like Jeremiah but you remember again in the 16th chapter of Matthew verse 16 that Jesus said ask for the who do the people say that I am some said out Elijah some say you're a liar some say that he John Baptist risen from the dead but some said out Jeremiah what's the point of contact because Jeremiah was a man of tears because Jesus was a man of tears oh yes he whipped the people when he went into the temple but wait a minute read a few verses back he wept before he whipped and if you're going to whip them weep over them that makes all the difference in the world do you think he looked at that temple as you look at it and want to take a picture I know no cameras not thinking of that do you think he looked at it with human eyes don't you think you remember the time though this was Herod's temple the old one had done don't you think he looked there and saw Jeremiah preaching and Isaiah preaching and all the prophets and this stupid people don't know he's the last he's a prophet of prophets as much as he's the king of kings and lord of lords and this is God's last call I think you might take that scripture and change it where it says oh Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killeth the prophets why don't we say oh America America this is your last chance I say to America what I say to you God doesn't owe you a single thing the reason you're a dwarf spiritually is we won't eat the eat the word of God you won't wait on him you won't hear his voice and you won't obey him the secret of revival is obedience you can't obey what you don't know I don't remember that Isaiah talks about his tears anyhow I'm trying to recall the statement I didn't memorize it but anyhow the essence of it was it's by an old Jewish scholar in America that became a Christian and he said no man who has ever seen the blazing light of God's glory will ever backslide you just didn't do it you'll be afraid of missing eternal glory well let me go a bit further and read the text Isaiah 64 and verse 4 all that thou would render heavens it's an admission we can't do it the Catholics will say Gabriel will you end the heavens or Michael the archangel will you end the no no no they have no power this is the man who knows the living God this is a man who has seen God sitting on the circle of the earth he writes about him as the one who inhabited eternity go back into the previous chapter 63 and look at verse 15 look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory all that thou would render heavens and come down that the mountains may flow at thy presence that's a reference of course one translation of it that the mountains may quake do you remember the holy mountain when they didn't go near to it because the glory of God was there they didn't even stand near it and he says come again in that majesty come in that glory again that the mountains might flow down at thy presence when the melting fire burneth and the fire again causeth the name causeth the waters to boil to make thy name known to thine adversaries and that the nations may tremble at thy presence he likes that word you remember what he says earlier about preachers to this man will I look to him that trembleth it doesn't mean your knees not together like the first time you stood in the pulpit and never found your knees so friendly it's not talking about that he's talking about an inward trembling to handle the word of the eternal God to stand as a communication between the living God and the dying people again I ask you in God's name is Jesus Christ risen does he stand in the midst where two or three are gathered together well if the living Christ is in the midst how in God's name can you have a dead meeting it's impossible if the meeting's dead he isn't there we're going through motions we're going through actions he's asked that the mountains may flow at thy presence look at verse three when thou didst terrible things which we look not for thou camest down the mountains flowed at thy presence for since the beginning of the world men have not heard or perceived by the ear neither have I seen O God beside thee what he has prepared for them that wait for him do you know the Hebrew says they're those who soak themselves in God those who saturate themselves with his holiness with his majesty let me ask you when in your fellowship did they ever tiptoe out of the sanctuary without saying a word because glory of God had been there so much you go to the average church in Dallas this weekend and you can't get off the steps you got to say well do you think the Cowboys will win today oh no it's World Series Christians are worried about World Series but they're not taking the world seriously I asked you last week when in God's name are we going to get serious about being serious see the prophet doesn't see the world as a politician sees him or the industrialist or the educationalist the true prophet of God sees the world as God sees it in verse 60 says we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness are as filthy rags you know people say that today oh I'm just a saved sinner that's like saying you're a married bachelor that's like saying you're an honest thief or a pure harlot you can't be a saved sinner you're either saved or you're a sinner he came thou shalt call his name Jesus he shall save his people from their sins he saves us from sins that we've committed and from committing a thousand more that would meet us at the judgment you know we live in a day when we're more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness we accommodate ourselves to iniquity not only in the world but in the fellowships about look back a minute at chapter 59 of verse 16 would you do that the chapter begins behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear but your iniquities have set and your sins have separated you from God you you can't see his face he's hidden his face from you I went to a little college in England just 35 men there Samuel Chadwick was the wonderful principal and he loved and said over and over and over the 80th psalm all thou that dwellest between the cherubim our people don't know where God is so how can they call on him he dwells between the cherubim shine forth let's find it a minute and read it three times in the psalm he says the same thing go to verse 2 psalm 80 verse 2 turn us again oh God and cause life not we'll turn ourselves it's going to take omnipotence turn us again oh God cause thy face to shine upon us and we will be saved oh Lord God of hosts how long will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people verse 7 turn us again oh God of hosts cause thy face to shine upon us and be saved the last verse 19 turn us again oh Lord God of hosts cause my face to shine upon us and we shall be saved we say you know this dispensation we say this is the dispensation of the Holy Ghost I looked in an old edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica that I have there were three pages on the Holy Spirit there were 33 on the papacy Wesley has a hymn in which he says stay thou insulted spirit stay I believe almost every church in America incels the Holy Ghost every Sunday Jonathan Edwards said we got together we preachers and I guess it would mean shepherd who remember there are a vast number of intellectuals Jonathan Edwards I believe was the greatest brain America ever had or ever will have he went to university at seven at 13 years of age he was voted the what we call invalid victorian a little later he became when Yale he became president then he had a very bad time after that but he said we don't made up our minds we preachers listen to it excuse me I keep saying that listen to it I know you're listening we both ears some of you with your eyes too thank you we made up our minds we would never pluck any unripe fruit the curse of American evangelism we're plucking unripe fruit we're asking people to say they don't know they're lost the preacher hasn't much power in his own life so he can't say what power he can can be reached by this man it's an awful I don't believe the spiritual temperature of America with all the fancy shows we have on TV a little boy I turned on the other day I was looking for Jimmy Swaggart don't like all Jimmy says but anyhow he's the best of the bunch I think and who dare get got PTL as I say PTL means pity the listeners there's little Jimmy there and his wife all dolled up with butter all over her face and a can of red paint on her lips and somebody else's eyelashes and somebody else's fingernails must be terrible when they go to bed at night and she takes her fingernails off then she leaves her dentures in the bathroom and then she hangs a wig on the bedpost what a wife you could almost buy that it came out but the little guy Jimmy Baker was saying oh well yes there have been revivals uh look at Mr Finney but he only drew thousands we're seeing millions the greatest revival since Pentecost is on the world tonight I challenge you to find out why there's one city with a revival in it one a little squirt like him talking about Finney I remember standing outside of the great church in Rochester New York and there was a placard there it was in bronze it said Charles G Charles G that's Charles Grandison Finney labored in this city for six months and a hundred thousand people were born again you could marry Jimmy get Jimmy Swaggart and I nearly said Maynard James but you don't know he's my wife's favorite teacher but anyhow you could get Jimmy Swaggart, Orville Roberts, Dave Wilkinson put them all together they couldn't go to a city and turn it upside down in six months do you know why we don't have revival because we're content to live without it number one and the second thing is the price is too high and the third thing we couldn't handle it if it came usually you don't put a newborn baby in a refrigerator do you what's the good of God getting thousands of people saved and putting them you know a fine old Baptist preacher Vance Havner I like old Vance he wrote the foreword to my last book he did a good job but that's a good book but anyhow he said some people down where we live got refrigerators he said we've got them all over our town they've got steeples on them oh that's about it isn't it go back please into chapter 63 we'll come to the other in a minute for sure he's talking about Israel and he says in verse 9 in all their afflictions he was afflicted he was with them through the wilderness he was with them in every step of the way in all their afflictions he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them that's verse 9 in his love and in his pity he redeemed them listen he redeemed them he bared them up he carried them did you hear it he saved them he redeemed them he bared them up he carried them and those then but they rebelled what a dirty crowd they yell like man to get out of Egypt and when they got out they said can you take us back we're missing the onions and the garlic I'm gonna emphasize that again you preach the fellows preach on it please the angel of his presence saved them he redeemed them he bared them up he carried them as in david but they rebelled and vexed the holy spirit therefore he turned to be their enemy I'm not scared of Russia why should I be show me one script where God tells me to be afraid of my enemies you can't show me one I don't believe number one enemy of America is Russia number one enemy of America is God I'm scared to death that to use that phrase that God one of these days will cut us off and walk out from us like he walked out of Russia in 1917 we're blessed we're overloaded you're going to a store you don't know which kind of bread to get there's 10 kinds of brown bread and whole wheat bread more sausages that you could link them from New York to California nearly this brand that brand the other brand 40 kinds of cheeses good night we've got everything in a world that stop are we grateful you see this man makes a statement that not many people like I think it's for the end of the 58th chapter this is linked in with revival I don't care what you say I say it and so it's right because my conviction as I have 58 and verse 13 if thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath I say that because all our football matches on the Sabbath so God got ahead of us take thy foot from thy Sabbath from doing thy play thy pleasure on my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honorable and shall honor him not doing thine own things nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words then shall thou delight thyself in the Lord you know you're having trouble in your family maybe the trouble is you're breaking the Sabbath oh well there's not much in breaking the Sabbath well your neighbor thinks there's much in committing adultery either you choose to break the Sabbath you're as guilty as he is you don't like your other neighbor he steals but he only steals about once a year and the Lord says keep my day 10 commandments only one of them has remembering it remember the Sabbath day to keep it whole God is always taking Israel back and says remember thou was a bondsman in Egypt remember this remember that we've got awful short memories how many times have you made a vow to God and broken it I've heard of so many women when they were having a baby delivered and they thought they were going to die and they made vows to God and two months after found they hadn't kept any of them a year after found they hadn't kept any of them we were saved in an accident we were delivered from this or the other and we forget we've short memories you know we don't have a holy God we have a utility God he's there to answer your prayer send your money send your gifts God pities verse 6 in 4 in 64 this isn't a sermon obviously it's just commenting on things that are burning in my heart we are all as an unkeen thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags but listen wait a minute why don't we go to John and John says he that is right he that doeth righteous is righteous even as he's righteous he didn't come to break a few filthy stinking habits in my life and change my cursing lips to blessing lips he came to do more than that I believe again the greatest miracle in the world is that God can take an unholy man out of an unholy world make that unholy man holy put him back in an unholy world and keep him holy that takes all the blood of the cross and all the power of the Holy Ghost and your will in total submission to God a world famous preacher was in my office not long ago I said tell me this you cross the world you've been through many cities can you give me the names of 10 holy men that you know no I can't well think about the holy preacher I can't you know holiness is not a luxury it's a necessity one of the most astounding verses I never preached on it is where God says we can be in Hebrews what 12 or 13 we can be partakers of his holiness and then two verses after the most shattering verse it says without holiness no man shall see the Lord how many people do we die a burial of backslidden and we say some nice holy words over them some people put what they call holy water they die black slidden without holiness no is the sanctification in the sepulcher does some miracle take place between there and the resurrection no sir you're right as a tree falls so it lies let's go to verse 7 in 64 there is none that stirreth up himself that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee for thou has hid thy face from us and has consumed us because of our iniquities my definition of a prophet is that prophets are God's emergency men for crisis hours we don't need a prophet in America we need a prophet in every pulpit Elijah says gather all the people of Israel he was a prophet there were less people in Israel than there are in Chicago today less people in Israel than are in New York City that poor doomed damn city down there called Mexico City where the priests have run it I thought about those poor people trapped there for days I couldn't sleep some nights not only trapped because a man has a big what do you call it block of stone over his legs or his arms are pinned down he can't move you know it is despair wasn't physically it was spiritual because he'd been taught as a Catholic he must die either holding the crucifix or kiss it and the priest must pronounce his last rites to him and the poor man's in a place as black as hell and he's suffering pain and there's no cross to kiss and there's no priest to talk to him well I ask you how will those priests escape the damnation of hell they won't the biggest fraud the devil ever imposed on mankind is the Roman church only Swaggart dares say anything against it because he goes overboard sometimes I've done that sometimes I've often insulted people in fact I enjoy it Swaggart said one day sure there's a wonderful woman in India I've been down the streets of India where women are there trying to be feed a baby in the breast of Nottingham they're ragged and dirty and smelly and flies swarm around them and he says Mother Teresa puts maybe 12 people a day over her arm and whispers the scriptures of them as they die she's full of good works but he said over tv in the New York area she'll go to hell if she doesn't repent he lost about a dozen Catholic stations like that but he'll have a dozen more stars in his crown when he gets up there anyhow we're not laboring for wages that down here if we do we're idiots I've been praying and groaning one night and I said to Martha I woke up I said are you awake dear yes I said you know what I said a man that chooses to be a preacher is an idiot they should give him a certificate or let him have a pin in his lapel I'm crazy if you've chosen to be a preacher you're crazy but if God has chosen you don't let go of it if the deacons get as mad as the devil let them get mad it's the greatest song in the world to be able to declare the whole council of God but isn't it a shocking thing oh let me go back a minute here you know people have said so often you see in the old testament they didn't know the holy spirit the holy spirit was with them but he wasn't in them forget it what does it say in this 50 63rd chapter in verse 10 they'd rebelled and vexed the holy spirit therefore he was turned to their enemy you know one of these days we're going to discover the holy ghost has gone and he'll go out of mercy and leave us alone we'll preach the same we'll gesticulate the same we'll shout the same and the meeting will be as flat as the floor and God will do that in order to drive us back to the place where we realize there's nothing in our flesh nothing in our theology nothing in our doctrine nothing in our terminology it must be the holy ghost he wrote the book he inspires it he interprets it okay verse 10 in 50 63 but they rebelled and vexed his holy spirit therefore he turned to be their enemy and he fought against them God now instead it was delivered them out of the hand of pharaoh he brought water out of the rock he sent manna from heaven he gave them prayers and now he turns and becomes their enemy brother listen if God is your enemy you have no friends anywhere no matter how rich you are how famous you are how big your church is how big your denomination is whether you have a tv program if God goes out brother you're sunk verse 11 then he remembered the days of old moses and his people saying where is he that brought them up out of the sea with a shepherd of his flock where is he that put his holy spirit within him the holy ghost was in moses that's clear enough isn't it he's called a prophet do you think a prophet was ever void of the holy ghost now we're in 64 verse 7 there is none that calleth upon my name that stirs up himself to take hold of thee for thou hast hid thy face from us and has consumed us because of our iniquities you know what people there'll be people in hellfire screaming the name of their pastor forever and ever because he hadn't holy ghost fire why did isaiah have this concept of God because he saw the lord high and lifted up what did he do he fell at his feet what did he pray help me i need power to preach no he didn't he said two statements i'm undone and i'm unclean and if you can get people to the altar and get them to confess in brokenness i'm undone i'm unclean you can get somewhere if they only want God to forgive their lousy sins and make them a little nicer to live with forget them i wouldn't even bother with them God's business is to make us holy when Saul had an evil spirit he did evil things Jesus said when a man has an unclean spirit does unclean things on that basis a man with a holy spirit does holy things if you have the holy ghost you live a holy life if you have a holy life you'll be easy to live with if you have a holy life nobody on earth or in hell can offend you once you get a clean heart a sanctified heart i like to call it it won't make a hill of beans who like to dislike you psalm 119 verse what 156 to 65 says great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them i've got one two friends i know would never offend him well why do we get so offended because somebody hurts our prejudice ego or something i love that verse of Jesus he says the prince of this world he admits that a prince of this world come and findeth nothing in me well that's what i want to live because the devil's smart but everybody can't do he can't hit nothing and the only thing you retaliate is there's something in you there's some pride and somebody hurts it some bitterness and somebody touches it and immediately you spring out like a lion a tiger jumping out of a ditch great peace have they which love thy law and nothing you know it's a great joy in having nothing do you know what it is you can't lose anything isn't that profound if you've no opinion of yourself nobody can rub your nose into this was it luther said either is low need fear no fall you sit on the floor you can't fall anywhere can you if you've written yourself off you don't want to be of any reputation it doesn't matter what people say about you great joy in having nothing you can't lose anything i remember somebody walked with a friend of mine and said you know i don't like your preaching to shake hands he said why i said i don't like it either so the poor guy didn't know what to do he's embarrassed he thought he'd defend himself but i don't like it should be a hundred percent better than it is if you've no pride nobody can get worried touch it but there's a great embarrassment in having nothing a friend of mine came at midnight and i had nothing to say before him that's why the church is today she's nothing to give this world let's come down here to a shocking chapter pardon verse here in isaiah 64 and verse 10 well i've heard preachers again say you know isaiah doesn't have to are you going to try and persuade me you'll waste your time if you spend two years doing it are you going to tell me that a man whose people have known the holiness of god and deserted it the protection of god he's been a wall of fire and now he's moved out are you going to tell me this man had dry eyes when he said oh but thou would surrender heavens it's the same oh said in the same tone that uh jeremiah said in chapter nine all but my head were waters it's the same oh that broke the heart of jesus and he looked on jerusalem he says oh jerusalem jerusalem you can't learn it by evocation okay verse 10 and 64 my holy cities are a from a desolation our holy and beautiful house where our father's praise he is burned with fire and all our present things are laid laid in ruins you're going to tell me he said that without tears i won't believe you i won't believe gabriel if he told me a man doesn't look over desolation and waste he doesn't see the mounting condemnation that's going to come against this people without grief without tears i was looking at that let me see if i can find it here in jeremiah no in lamentations lamentations chapter one you know the old methodist used to sing a hymn blessed are the men of broken heart who mourn for sin with inward smart not mourning for their own sin necessary mourning for the sin of the nation now if this is a broken man tell me where there is one lamentations 1 and verse 20 he says behold oh lord for i am in distress he's distressed about what himself no his people my bowels of trouble my heart is turned within me i've grievously rebelled or we have grievously rebelled and therefore the sword bereave us but in chapter 2 and verse 11 this isn't some hot flush this man has when he's in a meeting and he suddenly feels oh i've been rather naughty i'm being good i haven't read my bible enough i haven't given enough permission forget it that's sheer rotten emotion that preachers work on tell me if you will after this i'll send you a post you know a man that lives in this situation in verse 11 lamentations 2 mine eyes fail with tears my bowels of trouble my liver is poured out for the destruction of the daughter of my people because of children and sucklings thrown in the streets verse 11 says all that pass by clap their hands and at thee and their heads and wag their heads at the daughter of jerusalem saying this city is the city that men call the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth it was a very embodiment of god's holiness i think again when jesus stood there at the temple he was thinking back to the time when solomon had built that temple and when they prepared an altar when they prepared to sacrifice and the glory of god came and all the priests backed out they couldn't minister for the glory of god ever been in a meeting like that you want to be in a meeting like that you're going to get your church to pray that someday the preacher will go and he doesn't say a word john knox a great reformer when he preached in joseph's cathedral in scotland i stood outside of it and looked at it there in edinburgh he went through that one day and he went through the whole performance about 3 000 people in the sanctuary the choir sang somebody else sang somebody read a scripture and so forth he stood up raised his hand he said god be with you till next lord's day i have no message you know preacher has the guts to say that it'll dug up some old whiskery sermon wouldn't it some note says in the back of his bible he's preached a thousand times he dares to say i have no message and people remember that as much as when he was at his peak as an orator go back a little there if you're in lamentations to jeremiah chapter four one of those best known verses in scripture i guess is in chapter four and verse three thus saith the lord to the men of judah and jerusalem break up your fallow ground and sow not among thorns over to verse eight for this gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament and howl did anybody preachers doing that you don't do that anymore people love to call the second chapter of joel you know he's going to pour out his spirit and all flesh but there's something important before that in chapter one of joel verse 11 be ashamed o ye husband men if you like you preachers how the vine dressers for the wheat for the barley because the harvest of the field is perished the vine is dried of the fig tree languishes the pomegranate tree in the palm chain the apple tree even the trees of the field are withered because joy is withered from the sons of men there is no joy reaches its highest peak when there's a holy ghost revival now when we clap our hands and try and bring god down we try and work up an atmosphere but god comes down joel 1 verse 13 gird yourselves and lament ye preach how do you ministers of the altar come all night in sackcloth i was invited to a conference this past year i got a fantastic brochure with the names of i don't know how many professors and doctors and leaders of movements and what have you got on revival i didn't go we're going to move this i said listen i don't scorn scholarship i have a son has an mphd and his wife has and the other boys are pretty smart i wrote back to the man and said sir you've sent me about 60 names this doctor is a professor of something at certain university this man leads a certain movement this man is one of the best known christian philosophers i said you sent me all those men i've never heard of them i'll tell you we're drawing the men to god not just because we have no degrees dave wilkerson has no degree billy graham has none of what was given to him swagger has none the men that are pulling the crowds in america today are men who have no degrees they've been to the university i went to bush university i told a lady when she asked me what university you give her i said bush well do i know anyone that went there i said moses she said moses who maybe she thought it was a basketball player moses i've preached in a big college and seminary and i said to the professor sitting there i was preaching on hannah actually in her travel and i quoted this it says the priests weep between the altar and the doorpost i said you have a graduation class here for those who howl and if they learn to howl can they get another degree in weeping between the altar and the doorpost it's foreign to us we want revival our way go to hell if you're depending on some way you're going to work it it'll never come the christian life will only work one way that's god's way revival will only come one way that's god's way billy graham's going to have another gathering last time he had it in lucerne in switzerland they sent free tickets for men in philippines and what have you got and they came and had a nice vacation and they had a good time i guess he cost 14 million dollars i'll tell you something in presence of god revival doesn't cost a penny it costs obedience broken hearts writing the world off and say i don't care to hang about the world of flesh and the devil if some of you guys could get your church to say listen we won't watch tv for a month we'll meet every night in the sanctuary for prayer for intercession for our town everybody's a success away from home you preachers go to somebody else's church have a great time you left a bankrupt church behind so you kicked your heels in somebody else's pulpit but jerusalem is the place the home base is where revival must come beginning at jerusalem and that's the hardest place they were most despised discredited disappointed disillusioned men in the world you wonder why people don't believe you they didn't believe jesus so forget it even when he was risen from the dead going down the road going to emmaus we trusted it was in the past tense they didn't believe them went to the upper room there was thomas they said you missed it he'd just been who jesus yeah yeah yeah i heard a woman screaming up the road saying he's risen he's risen he's risen you know those high-powered women that scream their heads off you won't get me to believe until i take my finger and put it in his side and i put my finger in the nail prints boy if ever a man lived to regret it next time i went to the meeting jesus turned up you know why thomas missed it because he went to a meeting late that's why you miss it so often sometimes the blessing is in the first hymn or in the prayer i get more out of hymns and out of preaching usually except my own of course but anyhow there never has been revival without intercessory prayer and tears i think that i get precious friends that i can pray with and weep with billy graham's gonna repeat what in amsterdam what he did at the other place one of his closest friends wrote to me afterwards he said i i wrote to him i said what was it like in louisiana did you have a night of prayer was the brokenness did the fire come down no no len you'd have been disappointed i sure would it'll be the same thing this next time if it costs 50 million dollars obedience trust and obey there's no other way as the old englishman said out of trust and obey rust and decay it's as simple as that gird yourselves lament ye priests and how and lie all night in sackcloth ye ministers of my god they have got it will you say that's for ministers wait a minute come on i heard dr g campbell morgan preach often and i remember more than once he said this one of the saddest days in the christian church is when we divided the professional ministers from the laymen there's no difference in the sight of god because i'm 12 inches above you here doesn't mean i'm bigger in the sight of god he's made us a kingdom of priests unto god we're a royal priesthood and we're a holy nation you're as much if you're born again of the spirit and the holy ghost is in you you've as much access to god as i have you see the thing again that troubles me as i've said often i'll still say i read hebrews 11 where those are fantastic that vast scope of men and women all they had was not money and prestige every one of them had faith they subdued kingdoms wrought righteous and obtained promises stopped them out of life come on and not one of them ever had a bible what in god's name what what excuse do you have what suppose you died tonight went straight to judgment you won't do that see when a man's dead he isn't dead spurgeon's dead thousands of baptist preachers will resurrect these sermons sunday and preach them he still lives and he's going to get payment at the end of the journey for every sermon you've preached of his do you think god's going to reward you for preaching spurgeon forget it oh fellow say i've been preaching so much good i've preached through yb bible paris i preach a message wallow great keep laying up treasure in heaven for me they say what for you i say why do you think god's going to reward you for a sermon you stole there's going to be some trouble up that i'll tell you sanctify a fast and call a solemn assembly people scorn the pharisee that stood he went up to the temple he went up to the front he lifted up his voice and he said i thank god i'm not as other men are extortion is unjust or even though this public i fast twice in the week you can't get christians to fast once a week never mind twice he fasted twice every week because of what the law said you remember that hymn that says fasting alone in the desert there was jesus alone no sorry we don't know how to fast call somebody solemn assembly get in elders and the inhabitants of the land this chapter in joel here for a minute again verse 11 says the lord shall utter his voice before his army for his camp is very great for he is strong and execute with his word and the day of the lord is great and very terrible therefore now not tomorrow the choice in america lies either we either we concentrate in praying or we pray in concentration camps make a choice most preachers spend more time in bed than they do out of it if you're under 40 years of age i don't see any reason why you should be in bed after four o'clock in the morning john wesley met with his friends and they were friends john newton that wrote amazing grace william calper that wrote there is a fountain filled with blood and a bunch of intellectuals and they met at four o'clock in the morning unless he said we prayed at 10 at night till four in the morning and then we stood up and raised our hands and sang the doxology you don't need to do that now when you're a popular church do you when people are tired and you can spend anything you like on the church do as you like get some nice soft seats so they'll sleep better during the sermon where are the fasting weeping praying pastors verse 12 therefore also now saith the lord turn ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning in verse 13 gird yourself lament ye priests and how the ministers of the altar come all night in sackcloth and anybody that mourns sackcloth is indicative of mourning of grief of sorrow our preachers have to go the best suit they can get sackcloth and not only sackcloth it talks about ashes that means that something is being consumed now he doesn't let them off again he says that word in verse 12 then 15 he says blow the trumpet in zion in zion not to the world i'm not worried about a revival in the world i'm worried about a revival in the church getting cleaned up and purified and sanctified and getting all the dumb things that take up your time you can always tell a church that bankrupt that's bankrupt is have a sign outside in another building family gathering entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy there's a king in america i'll tell you his name the king of america and i'll tell you the name of his queen the king is called sport and his wife is called entertainment and come on now between them sinners don't tithe don't they give god a measly tenth of what they earn they'll spend every penny in that room and borrow money to get drunk and borrow money to go to all this weekend world series some of these guys will shout their heads off they couldn't squeak amen in church but they're screaming like comanche indians brother that brother is a full-blooded indian bless him i love him i'm asking you when are you going to get serious people right to me are you writing another book on revival i've almost made a vow today i won't go to any gathering of men about revival unless they lay all night between the altar and the doorpost are we trying to improve on god oh well ramiel arrogant he talks revival he won't come and no i won't go why should i this is god's prescription it's not wesley's it's not phineas it's not spurgeon's it's god's recipe if you like you can't tell people to weep they weep when they're heartbroken they weep when they're terrified i don't wonder paul said knowing the terror of the lord you see today we are all so sweet and sugary dear god we're in bad shape skip down to verse 17 a minute before i leave this i'm not supposed to preach friday nights but verse 17 says let the priests the ministers of the lord weep between the porch and the altar and let them say spare thy people oh god i believe the shortest cut to hell is down the middle isle of the average church why did jeremiah stay with it to the end of the road because he says your word burns like a fire in my heart why did isaiah go on with all the opposition he had because he says when he cried to god the holy one a cherubim took a live coal from off the altar and put it on his lips and said i need after he confessed i'm unclean i'm undone then the angel came on the cherubim with a a pair of tongs took a live and he touched him where he was unclean on his lips wesley said in his day gossip is the curse of the church gossip slander criticism ridicule i've been to ministers meetings where they told borderline jokes then somebody gets a bit bold and tells a blue joke and everybody laughs i've never been to a dinner with ministers yet with any intelligence there they don't talk about god they talk about football talk about their sunday school numbers watch a golf handicap we got dirty preachers like that in the pulpit no wonder the church is dirty let the priests and ministers of the lord weep between the porch and the altar let them say spare thy people oh lord and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heathens should rule over them i'm going back to 64 now i can't find it somewhere here you know we talk about jesus living to make intercession for us i'm just thinking of this word here in the 53rd chapter of isaiah where we have a picture of his crucifixion he says therefore in the last verse will i deliver him a portion with the great he should divide the spoil with a strong because he has poured out his soul unto death i am maybe off my horse here i think the dying thief suffered as much as jesus did physically the catholic church has made a lot you see you're going to see a plastic christ with blood running down his forehead and his hands and his side ripped open but this is very clear it says his soul was made an offering for sin all my billows the wrath of god came upon him he tasted damnation because god blew the sun out wouldn't let men see the crucifixion his disciples forsook him god forsook him my god my god he cries he loyal lamas say back to me why hast thou forsaken me he was separated from his father for a moment so that you and i didn't have to be separated from him for eternity that's right that same god verse 12 of 53 therefore will i divide him a portion with the great he should divide the spoil with a strong because he had poured poured out his soul unto death and he was numbered with the transgressors and he bared the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors didn't he pray father every crisis in the life of jesus read the life of jesus in the gospel according to luke and you'll find the prayer life of jesus he says that when he stepped down into the water he was praying when the spirit descended upon him he said he was on the mount of transfiguration and the spirit descended upon him there in every crisis you'll find the spirit descending on jesus he's praying oh dear i'm going to just talk a little about this 64th chapter verse 10 again i can't think of this man saying this with dry eyes our holy and beautiful house where our fathers praise thee the pentecostals talk about the holy street that nobody's ever been in a meeting like that since and it's not god's fault it's our fault we start satisfied with clapping our hands a new few songs and tap our feet our holy city i remember when the bombs came on england and the bombs hit this indiscriminately one of the great pictures of world war ii was the cross on top of saint paul's cathedral with a background of terry black clouds with all around the buildings and they never hit the house of god in that sense but they're talking historically here the beautiful house where our fathers praise thee we don't have to pray i don't mean the church in the world where they know how to worship i've been in meetings i say let's all raise hands and worship that's not worship that's praise praise is the gateway to worship worship is the gateway to adoration adoration is what you do in prostrate on the floor dr torres used to say to me often now brother leonard if i go before you remember you and i worship god face downward you can't be distracted looking at the rug that man would lay three four or five hours on the rug he showed me the rug and he said then i can stay there on my face three four five hours without saying a word of prayer without saying a word of praise i've just worshipped i might be turning over in my mind favours marvellous words how beautiful how beautiful the sight of thee must be thine endless wisdom boundless power and awful purity oh jesus jesus dearest lord forgive me if i say for very love thy sacred name a thousand times a day burn burn within me love of god burn fiercely night and day till all the dross of earthly love he said i get there three or four hours i gave on his holiness one day i gained again on his incredible majesty another day i gazed on his ineffable love another day i moved to tears and brokenness as i meditate the mercy of god why didn't he cut us off the commandments of jesus of god ten commandments have been broken ten million times in america and god seems to relax and do nothing about it but he's going to do it why doesn't he judge now because he's appointed a day paul said that to the philosophers didn't it happen what is it 16 17th of act 16 the epicureans and stoics and philosophers and poets and he said you worship an unknown god i want to tell you about that unknown god i hate the devil though every day more that i live i remember in thailand that brother steve was here last week he come to thailand i remember going up a street at four o'clock in the morning and they have great wooden fences they're made of teak it doesn't rot they don't paint it and there's a little door on the shelf and they put a big bowl of rice and there's a big hefty priest coming down and the boy goes and takes the rice and throws it in in the bag and off they go i went to the great temple with a with a reclining buddha 120 feet long covered with gold and people bowed their noses to the ground and were crying there to a god who can't hear to a god who can't feel to a god who can't move himself never mind anybody else millions of them in damnation tonight doesn't move the church you get more people to your church with a chicken supper than you get every night of prayer for people in russia the beautiful house where our fathers praise thee it's burned with fire and all our pleasant things are revised version says ruined are you going to say that they could look at all that waste and destruction they could see their history and now they see all that their fathers built and the prophets built has been destroyed and it's crumbled away and nobody's moved to tears i think it's very near the day that we're living in there's a wonderful book by j.i packer not because he's english but he's a great creature it's called knowing god i copied this from it today well i paraphrase it a little myself this generation has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed i've put a sign there greed in christian circles today is called prosperity but it's still greed anyhow this generation has sold itself without blushing to the gods of greed and sex and pride and self-will but the church is mumbling on about the goodness of god and we're as near hell as a nation has ever we've been oh preach the goodness but listen there's another side to the coin it says the goodness and severity of god i won't take you to the reference remember moses was up on the mountain and he prayed to god turn away from my fierce wrath he says and later in the chapter aaron says to moses you turn from your fierce wrath you see he's lived in the presence of god till he's like him you'll get like the people you live with if you live with a holy god you become a holy man if you live with a bunch of backsliders you get like them if you're not careful moses has been with an angry god and he got angry the trouble is we don't have to be angry we get angry over something a child does when you do that you're the child and he's a father do you think somebody will have the courage you know methodist baptist what have you got church of god i'm going to preach this on that church of god the other end of town do you think any denomination dare call its ministers together to fast and pray you go to a conference and many says hey uh we're going duck hunting you know one of our deacons has a hut up on a hill and there's a lot of ducks they'll go duck hunting they'll go deer hunting but god held them at the judgment bar they'll sing all the whole realm of nature man they'll give hunting three days you won't give god three days on their face before god fasting and praying we've lost the fire our god is consuming fire where did moses get his leg life revolutionized at a burning bush ezekiel says the fire burned him jeremiah says have a fire burning in me we quote people slang terms i hate people asking great i've had the baptism what in the world you mean he shall baptize you with the holy in the greek it's he shall baptize you with holy ghost fire there never has been a moving of god without god the holy ghost the father of the holy ghost coming first consuming sin and then enlightening intellectually never the way the holy word of god yes we sold ourselves out to sex and things that used to be done in the back street now you can see on tv shows you're stupid enough to watch it nobody grumbles about adultery anymore my friend my neighbor couldn't come tonight he's a boy sick he just came back from sweden you know sex is a sport there kids form a cage on the way home from school but while they're the most reckless kids in the world remember this that they have the biggest suicide rate too of all the nations of the world mercy i think of all the gimmicks and everything else we have in evangelism today and yet those men came out of the room without money without prestige without a purse just power rejected by men on every level but accepted by god rejected by orthodox religion the temple crowd wouldn't acknowledge them but they went out anointed with the holy ghost and what happened they turned the world upside down it says we turn nobody upside down and just go back and quote this and finish again in joel 2 in 12 verse 12 he says therefore also now saith the lord turn ye even to me with all your heart no divided heart with all your heart not a heart that's half interested in sport or even business with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning and rend your hearts and not your garments in other words don't put a professional on outside when there's nothing inside that's really moving i don't know how people live today that don't know god you know a few years ago we blamed all the trouble of the world on Mussolini a wicked fascist and Hitler and the old Georgian Stalin in about four or five men Mussolini Hitler Stalin if we get rid of them we'll clean the world up we've got a bigger madman than all of them by the name of Gaddafi right now the devil isn't short of captains for his army they're not short of funds they're not short of most wicked violent things in the face of the world but why in god's name are we so timid oh dear we've got a precious brother here an Indian a real Indian not a dime store Indian he was telling me last week about the condition you know one of the greatest mission fields in the world is on our doorstep it's neglected the black people often say they've been neglected not like the American Indian if the American Indians have been as violent as some of the blacks that have burned this 10 12 years ago i thank you for this dear brother here the American Indians this is a percentage of alcoholism in the Navajo tribe it's 50 percent in the Sioux tribe it's 80 percent in the Shoshone Arapaho is how we call it Arapaho it's 90 percent in the Apaches it's 95 percent in the Kiowa tribe it's 30 percent the mortality rate amongst the American Indians is four times the rate of whites and blacks that's the mortality that's the death rate they die mad in drink i'm sure there are hundreds of murders never reported the suicide rate among India Indians is four times higher than that of the moment than the white people now here's the thing that makes me kick and get mad the Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses continue to make Indian converts all over the nation what in God's name have they got