In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of not losing the fire and passion for God. He urges preachers who have become too focused on organizing and have lost their zeal to humble themselves and seek God's intervention. The preacher reminds the congregation that God will not beg at their door but instead mercifully knocks, calling them to repentance and surrender. He encourages everyone to cry out to God, asking what they should do to be on fire for Him. The sermon references hymns and quotes from Charles Wesley and John Wesley, highlighting the desire for a constant flame of love and devotion to God.

Phinney could go to a town and not make an altar call for the first 28 nights. He didn't say, come on, come on, come on, like that. Go home and have a sleepless night. Do you know why they had two or three sleepless nights? So they wouldn't have a million sleepless nights in hell, that's right. He disturbed their consciences, he disturbed their memories. He made them realize that God is a holy, just God, and nothing's going to drive him. And I believe God is holding back. You need the fire of God to pray. You need the fire of God to see visions. You need the fire of God to recognize. There's no help for us. I don't want to cry as I've done so long. Like David in Psalm 80, O thou that dwellest between the chair of him, Lord, don't stay there, come down here. We need God here. Does it matter if he breaks your heart today? You're going to have a million, millenniums and eternity. There'll be no sorrow there. You can't patch up your prayer lines the day that Valley of Deceit... Most of our preachers need to get free from denominations theology. You meet your church's doctrine. How often do you go and come out breathing, gasping, God the Holy Ghost is at meeting and I'm absolutely shaking to my feet. We don't do that. We have to do it. We will do it. Because God has a controversy with our generation. What happened on the 24th of May in 1738? I don't want a warm heart, I want a heart on fire. And so he preached entire sanctification, the very God of peace. Give Jesus a lot of joy this morning. Just the introduction of Martin Luther. He's loaded with scholar dictionaries in four different languages. ...to Charles Wesley and John Wesley singing a hymn together. O Thou who camest from above the pure celestial fire to impart, Kindle a flame of sacred love on the mean altar of my heart. There let it for Thy glory burn with inextinguishable praise, And trembling to its source return with constant prayer and fervent praise. Jesus, confirm my heart's desire to work and speak and think for Thee. Still let me guard the holy fire. He got a new baptism of fire. And if you don't keep fire going, it goes out. He says, still let me guard the holy fire. And still stir up Thy gift in me. Ready for all Thy glorious will, Thine acts of faith and love repeat, Till death, Thine endless mercy seal, And make the sacrifice complete. Then he says this awesome thing, Enlarge, inflame, and fill my heart with boundless charity. He says, I want a fire. God won't die in you. Isn't that awesome? Every preacher, remember again the word of Jesus, I would that you were either hot or cold. So because you're neither hot or cold, I'll spew you out of my mouth. God isn't going to beg at your door. He's been begging all week. He's not going to keep knocking, knocking, knocking. It's merciful he knocks this morning. Thank God. Come on now, let's join these people or else kneel where you are. And you cry to God, what shall we do? What shall I do? You've been repenting during the week. This is a day to receive. He's coming in now. He's coming in with vision. He's coming in with power. He's coming in with revelation. God is brooding over us. Don't insult the Holy Ghost. Yes, Father, come. Let me remind you right here as we're bowing in prayer. The last day of the feast, and it was the last day of the feast, Jesus said, if any man will come. He stood at the door in revelation and said, if any man will come, I don't care how backstabbing you are, how disobedient you are, there's enough fire in the Holy Ghost to burn up every bit of dross in you. Every bit of unbelief. Every bit of failure. Every bit of coldness. God wants to put that fire right now. Say, God come and fire on me. Not on Vinyard, but on me. Not on John Wimber or Jack or Todd, but me. God needs a torch of holy fire in your house. He wants a fire in you to read the word of God to your family. He wants the fire of God your neighbours will know. This church is turning the corner this week. We know that. It's having a new birth. It's not going to be like the Vinyard of last year or last week. Every man that stands up will have an anointing. I've claimed this from God. I'm sick of theology and words. We need God to move in our midst, like he moved in the midst of the seven golden candles. What does it matter? Surrender everything. Either stand up and raise your hands and say, Lord, I surrender everything, or get down and kneel there and believe God. Father, we bow before your throne tonight, recognising thee as the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy. Lord, we thank you. We thank you tonight that when you were far off, without God, without hope, outside of the camp, when there was no eye to pity us, your eye pitied us. When there was no arm long enough to reach us or to lift us, your arm lifted us. Lord, we sing it so often. Out of my bondage, sorrow and night, Jesus, I come. We thank you you found us as slaves and you set us free. You found us dead, but you gave us life. You found us in darkness, but you gave us light. You found us hopeless, entangled in the machinations of sin, deep some of us, some drunken here, some that were once deep in drugs, some in prison. But Lord, we thank you you came to set the captive free. Whether he's a dignified bishop, whether he's a colossal intellect or an inglorious. We thank you, Lord Jesus, you stretched it in that fantastic, measureless word that whosoever will may come. Lord, we believe tonight in about a thousand tongues around the world, somebody's telling the story of redeeming grace. We thank you for everybody who's been born of the Spirit this one day. They've passed from darkness to light, from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified. Lord, that we thank you for all it means now to belong to Christ. The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heavenly fields or walk the golden streets. Lord, we bless you. We've sung it often to hear. I'm not ashamed to owe my Lord not to defend his cause. In a world that's crumbling, we thank you that we are on the solid rock. There's no dynamite or atom bomb can blast the rock of ages. We thank you there's nothing that can hinder the coming of your kingdom. We bless you you're not coming for a weekend, and we're not going to the kingdom for a weekend. We're going to reign with him forever and ever, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And the government shall be upon his shoulders. He's going to rule the world in righteousness, in holiness, in justice. God, what a world to live in where there's no crime, no misery, no uncleanness, no sin, no diseases. We thank you that in him, Christ, the tribes of Adam, boast more blessings than their fathers lost. And we thank you we do have an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith that is in Jesus Christ. We thank you for your holy word. We thank you as we read today, holy men of God speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. We know it's not a fabrication. It's not a Shakespeare that wrote it. It was written by the Holy Spirit of God. At the hands of like the herdsman of Tikur, a poor man, a farmer. At the hand of King David, at the hand of Isaiah, who had such fantastic revelations of the glory of God. I had a preview of the atoning work of Jesus in that wonderful chapter in Isaiah. Lord, tonight, lots of people would feel so uncomfortable here, feel like crazy. Well, Lord, if they're saying we don't want to be anyhow, their values are wrong, they've no hope, they're without God. They have no horizon in eternity. But, Lord, again, we bless your holy name. Thank you for everybody who's ever helped us, Sunday school teachers, parents, that have influenced our lives, hymns and books. We pray for all who have been in this prayer meeting from the first time over there in Brown's house. People that are still right, do go to Brown's prayer meeting. We thank you that you've birthed it there. And then it's come here. We pray that you'll continue, Lord. We come up and do. We ask you to pour blessing. We ask you to take us deeper, deeper, deeper in the love of Jesus. Deeper in the wisdom of Jesus. Deeper in the authority of Jesus. Deeper in the revelation of Jesus. Lord, get us out of water to the ankles. Get us waters to the knees, and then to the loins, and then waters to swim in. Lord, we know in who we believe tonight. There's no despair in the gospel. He's able to say to the uttermost, it says in Hebrews, to the uttermost, all who come unto God, if they've sinned enough to damn a hundred people, He'll still accept them. If they come with the deepest of pollution and the vileness, we thank you there's no heart you cannot purify. There's no will you can't put into subjection to yourself, if we're willing. We'll pray again tonight. This dear lady said in the letter, I've never heard of others praying for those in, not just the heathen, but those in slave camps in Russia, or in Afghanistan, or in China, or in Albania. Lord, we thank all lights that follow us on my way. Lord, I think tonight of millions who are in darkness. Why are they in darkness? Our light hasn't shone there yet. Lord, I pray do something, as I prayed last Friday night. Bring something to birth in this meeting, whether we see it or not. Because you're a faithful covenant-keeping God. So Lord, we come to your holy word and ask you to bless it. Give us ears to hear what the Spirit says, not what I say, what the Spirit is saying. And then give us a grace of obedience in Jesus' name. Thank you. Be seated.