In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of hard preaching and repentance. He compares the current generation to the religious vipers and proud Pharisees of John the Baptist's time. The preacher highlights the urgency of the message, stating that people have only 40 days to repent before facing judgment. He emphasizes that God's plan for salvation and revival has always been through the preaching of His Word, and encourages believers to follow the example of past preachers who boldly proclaimed the truth and led many to salvation.

Man is a fallen, radically depraved, spiritually dead, morally corrupt, sin-loving, God-hating creature. In the very core of his being, he is as opposed to God as the devil himself. He cannot change and has no desire to do so. He loves a lie and will do everything in his power to restrain and suppress any and every truth about God. And the more he knows about God, the more he hates him because God is righteous and man is evil. This is a dark generation we're living in now. These are people robbed of truth and many have run away from the church. A church that's defiled with pedophilia, child molestation, incest, adultery. A nation in a moral landslide that's inundated with pornographic filth that the whole world blushes at. And now out of Cannes Film Festival, according to the New York Times, there's a new movie about to hit the shores of the United States with 13, 14 year old kids having unspeakable kinds of sex with adults. And they said at the Cannes Film Festival, it's the boast of Cannes Festival, that we have not only pushed the envelope, we've gone over the edge. And America's now ripe for it. There are millions of people going to hell and unless the church of Jesus Christ wakes up, they'll still be going a year from now. If we don't get that preaching back, we 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. But God's going to find them. Now in every generation, God has raised up and set aside chosen vessels. These have been touched with the burning coal from the fire of the altar of God. God has put his word into their mouth and he has sent them out and he has used this principle ever since the beginning. Remember, God has no other plan. God has no other alternative. He has no other plan to save or ward a nation or a people or a society other than sending a preacher. He sends men of God anointed to preach his word. The greatest revival that came to America, there were a bunch of men, again, Jonathan Edwards and the other men with him, joined hands and said, by the grace of God, we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision because these were his own words. We'll lead them to damnation and not to salvation. There was George Whitfield, you know it. He stood on Boston Common speaking to 20,000 people and he said, listen sinners, you're monsters, monsters of iniquity. You deserve hell. And the worst of your crimes is that criminals, though you've been, you haven't had the good grace to see it. He said, if you will not weep for your sins and your crimes against the Holy God, George Whitfield will weep for you. That man would put his head back and he would sob like a baby. Why? Because they were in danger of hell? No. But because they were monsters of iniquity that didn't even see the inner terror about their crimes. Do you see the difference? Do you see the difference? The difference is here's somebody trembling because he's going to be hurt in hell and he has no sense of the enormity of his guilt and no sense of the enormity of his crimes and no sense of his insult against deity. He's only trembling because his skin is about to be seen. You're praying. And I submit to you that whereas fear is this good office work in preparing us for grace, there's no place to stop. The Holy Ghost doesn't stop there. And that's the reason why no one can savingly receive Christ until they've repented and no one can repent until they've been convicted. And conviction is the work of the Holy Ghost that helps the sinner to see that he is a criminal before God and deserves all of God's wrath and if God were to send him to the lowest corner of a devil's hell forever and ten eternities that he deserved it all and a hundredfold more. Some of you are Thineites, I suppose. That's okay. You know, Mr. Thiney never made an altar call for the first three weeks of any crusade. You don't have a preach in America? Go to a city. We all go for a one-night stand. There's no scripture that supports that. He preached, preached, preached, preached until people couldn't sleep, until they stopped him in the street and said, Have you no mercy? Don't ask me that, ask God. He preached until their sins came alive. He preached until their conscience lashed them as though they had some scorpion inside. He preached until their memory haunted them. In every generation, this is George Whitefield, this is John Wesley that will just stand. There's somebody somewhere that will take their wagon and go to the field and begin to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Having Christ totally consumed their vessel, having Jesus as everything that they are and ever will be, Lord of their life, Lord of their life. Who will stand? Who will stand? Wesley was a preacher of righteousness that exalted the holiness of God and when he would stand there with a two to three hour sermon that he was accustomed to deliver in the open air and he would exalt the holiness of God and the law of God and the righteousness of God and the justice of God and the wisdom of his requirements and the justice of his wrath and his anger and then he would turn to sinners and tell them of the enormity of their crimes and their open rebellion and their treason and their anarchy. The power of God would so descend upon the company that on one occasion it is reliably reported that when the people dispersed there were eighteen hundred people lying on the ground utterly unconscious because they'd had a revelation of the holiness of God and in the light of that they'd seen the enormity of their sin and God had so penetrated their minds and hearts that they had fallen to the ground. This generation of Christians, and that's you, I've had my day. This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of lost people. You know the nearest mission field to you? Your front street. What's the point? People, they're not numbers. They go to hell when they die. If they don't know Christ. Let your voice be counted for righteousness in this generation. Speak for the Lord. Speak for the Lord Jesus Christ. When I'm looking for mission, I want one man who will take one open Bible, walk out in the middle of the town square and preach until they kill him or someone comes out of there born again. I want you to get that principle in your mind. We're going to see it further as we go. This is the way God's been working from the beginning. When the wickedness of Nineveh came up before the Lord, He determined to destroy that entire population within a set time, 40 days after the time that His servants had arrived on the streets of Nineveh. And what does God do? This generation is doomed. This generation is about to fall under judgment. What is God going to do? Is He going to work through a politician? Does He work through legislators? Does He work through poets? Does He work through attorneys? Does He work through any other form? No. He sent a preacher by the name of Jonah, a Jewish preacher. The word of the Lord came to Jonah saying, Go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it. For the wickedness has come up before me. You know the story, Jonah flees to Tarsus, ends up in the belly of the whale. But God has no alternative plan. God has no other plan. He says, You're going to go. You're my only plan. Spits him out of the belly of the whale, sends him back. The scripture said, The word of the Lord came the second time under Jonah, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, and preach it, the preaching that I tell you. Nothing else but a man walking the streets. Crowds gather. This man is not preaching hype. He's not trying to win their favor. He doesn't care what they think of his preaching. They're about to die and go to hell. This man says, You've got 40 days and you're dead. 40 days and it's over. You talk about hard preaching. You talk about tiptoeing around sin. No, this man did not tiptoe around sin. He said it bluntly, frankly, and put it to the point, You're going to die. Judgment is coming. You have 40 days. That was God's only plan. I repent of my pursuit of America's dream. I repent. I repent of living like I deserve anything. Of my house, my friends, my kids, my wife. In our suburb where we're safe and wise. I am wrong and of these things I repent. John the Baptist comes out of the wilderness to face another generation going to hell. A generation under judgment. A generation of religious vipers. Proud Pharisees, hypocrites. This is a generation that's going to be visited by the incarnate Son of God. But first God sends a preacher to prepare the way of the Lord to make His path straight. John came preaching repentance. Listen to his message. All of you who don't like hard preaching. All of you who want to go to church where there's candy cotton preaching. All generation of vipers. Bring forth fruit suitable to repentance. He's laid the axe to the root. Every tree that brings not fruit is going to be cast down and thrown in the fire. He's got a fan in His hand and He's going to purge you. He's going to burn up all the chaff with unquenchable fire. This is the preaching that God sent. This is the kind of preaching that God sent to make the path straight for the Master. It's not a message conducive to self-esteem. It's not a how-to message. It's not a success message. John didn't tiptoe around sin either. Every one of these men that God sent were on anointing and they were told to warn people to free from the wrath of God. And the Bible says and they confessed their sins. They heard preaching from John the Baptist that is so convicting, so powerful, so anointed. They fell on their faces and repented. The Bible says. 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. In the name of Jesus, stand up, stand up and preach the Word of God in this generation. Jesus Himself came preaching. Scripture said Jesus went about all the cities and villages preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. Then He sent forth His twelve. The Bible said to preach the Gospel to every creature. Scripture said He ordained twelve sending them forth to preach. They were to preach from the housetops. Then Paul is raised up. And Paul says it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. And Paul makes it very clear unmistakably clear that when God is about to judge a nation when God is either about to bless with the revival or He's about to send judgment He uses preachers. He raises up men of God that have been shut in with Him. He gives them the message. He anoints them. They come forth fearlessly from the presence of God. And the Scripture according to Paul says God has in this time manifested or revealed His Word through preaching. That's Titus 1.3. But you remember again in the 16th chapter of Matthew verse 16 that Jesus said ask the people who do the people say that I am? Some say that I'm Elijah. Some say you're Elijah. Some say that you're John the Baptist risen from the dead. But some say that I'm 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 looks at that temple as you look at it and want to take a picture? No, no cameras not thinking of that. Do you think He looks at it with human eyes? Don't you think He remembers the time though this was Herod's temple the old one had gone? 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 the 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 killest the prophets why don't we say Oh America America this is your last chance. Praise the Lord even though it gets you killed. The hold up is not monism, mormonism communism, socialism romanism any other rottenism. The hold up of revival in America is the church of Jesus Christ. We want a resurrection life but we don't want to die. We want to be filled but we don't want to be empty. We want to be clothed but we don't want to be stripped. As I see it if there was ever a generation more perverted than Sodom we are far more violent than Noah's day. We are far more wicked than any of us could have ever conceived to be. So if ever a generation needed the word of the living God it's today. We need powerful preaching more than any past society. We need a smite and conviction that smites the heart. Instead sad to say what we most need we're not getting in the United States. Instead we're witnessing a famine of hearing Holy Ghost preaching. I say it again God's only plan is through the preaching of his gospel. That was the plan for Christ's generation for the apostles' generation. That's the plan for this last hour. Folks it's not through politics. And everyone running around the country who tells me we're going to organize and we're going to legislate holiness you don't know your Bible. God raises up anointed fearless prophets and preachers of his word to bring a nation a generation to their knees or to hurt their hearts just before judgment comes. But who will stand for God in this generation? A man shot in with God a man who waits on God in God's presence until he hears the word of the Lord until he hears from the throne of God and he comes out and stands before the people with the mind of God and he's to preach with plainness the scripture said a speech not in the wisdom of man he's to preach with spiritual authority he's to be absolutely fearless he's to name sin he's to be the voice of the living God in these last days. 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 Kilminster my precious wife and I 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 one 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 he said I preached as if to never preach again and as a dying man to dying men and that's what we're called to follow we're called to be a surrendered vessel in the hand of God that the kingdom of God can go through our lives releasing people from behind prison doors healing those that have been bruised in heart giving sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf that they may come to the saving knowledge of Christ Hallelujah