In this sermon, the speaker shares a personal anecdote about a mishap with an electric kettle to illustrate the concept of mercy. He then discusses the attributes of God, specifically focusing on His holiness. The speaker emphasizes that holiness is not an ugly or negative aspect of God, but rather a beautiful and essential part of His character. He also challenges the idea that there is a formula for revival, stating that it is important to remember who God is and seek His mercy. The sermon concludes with a prayer for revival and a reference to Habakkuk 3:2.

Now, before we start, you can open up your Bibles to Habakkuk 3, verse 2. And before we read that verse, I'd just like to give you a little bit of maths, or math, as they say in America. A little question. Let's just say there's two towns. And you look at these two towns, and they each have 10 people in it. Now, there are towns like that. I don't know if you call it a town, but there are little villages of 10 or 12 people, a few houses together. Let's say one person goes to the one town, and after praying, God comes down, and everybody in that town seems to radically meet with God in one amazing series of meetings. Now, another person goes to the other town, and he visits on a few occasions, and on the first occasion he goes there, one person radically gets saved. And the next time he goes there, another person radically gets saved. And the third time he goes there, another person radically gets saved. And eventually, over a few years, some of them bring each other to the Lord, and all 10 people are saved. Which is more precious to God? Doesn't matter. But which do you write a book about? The only ones I generally find people writing books about, in general, unless it was a very big drunkard who was on his way to hell in every way possible, is the ones where someone comes to town, and a revival breaks out, and everybody gets saved. When I read my Bible, I read about 3,000 people getting saved in one day, or being baptized, when it comes to Acts and Pentecost. But I also read God getting extremely excited about the one sheep that came back, and I also see him writing a whole portion of the New Testament about one Ethiopian eunuch who got saved. One sows in other waters, but God provides the increase. To God, that boring sowing, that boring watering, that leads to God's increase later, that you can't even write a book about. To God, that's exciting, but to the flesh, it's not. And some people will only do something for God when they see revival is about to happen, or something exciting, when many people are coming together. Then we will do something for God. In Namibia, South Africa, there was a famous preacher who went up there. He had 400,000 people that came together in one meeting in South Africa. And when he went up to Namibia, people from across the country came to hear him preach. They traveled up to eight hours, 12 hours to hear him preach in their thousands. My one missionary friend who works up there, and many souls he's brought to the Lord, he asked some of these people, will you come to my meetings just nearby? And they said, no. Why? It's not exciting enough. It's not the big preacher. Now, that's in every single heart of almost every single person. It was even in the disciples when you see them wanting to be the greatest. There's something in you that wants big. Well, if you want something big, how about God? I'm going to talk today on the topic. And yes, I said yesterday I'm going to talk about the attributes of God. You'll see the attributes of God coming right through this. But I've changed my sermon totally and kept it the same in a sense. We're going to talk about how to have a revival. And I'm going to contradict myself like nothing in this sermon. I'm going to be very happy to do so, because we need to show that there's not only one way and one box for God. Let's read this verse before we pray. Habakkuk 3 verse 2. O Lord, I have heard thy speech and was afraid, O Lord. Revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years, make known in wrath. Remember mercy. We're going to come back to that verse a little later. Let us pray. Father, thank you so much. Thank you so much for thy word, that every single word is true. And that you haven't left us in blindness concerning thy ways and thy will and thy power in thy person, but that you've given us 66 books to read and to wonder at. And praise the name of Jesus and the God of the Bible. Dear Father, this morning, work, speak to our hearts. Show us from your heart how we can have revival. In Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Interesting topic. Some people might say, well, what right do you have to preach on the topic? How to have revival? We haven't heard of a great revival happening in South Africa. So why are you coming up here as if you're an authority to speak on this topic? I'm not, by the way. But I've seen someone else have the same reaction. Not saying you have that reaction, but I've seen that. And really, I'll never forget it. There was a guy in South Africa. For two years, he prayed, he studied the Bible. He memorized chapters and chapters and chapters and chapters of the Bible. He cried out to God for hours in prayer. God opened the dead churches of South Africa that I can preach to them. And then after a while, a few years, he started to go around in churches. I knew this person very well, and my dad does too. And he would come to little churches that would never allow a person like myself and even my dad to come preach there. And they allowed him in for some reason. And there would be little churches of 100 people in a town of 1,000 people. And almost 900 people would later crowd into those halls. Little children would be crying as he preached for two hours a night. And they would come again and ask for a few weeks later for him to have a whole series of meetings of two hours a night. And the elders would be coming to the front. And they would be breaking before God, it seemed. And I know people who are still saved through those meetings. As whole towns would come together. My best friend in South Africa, he's now gone to South America as a missionary, Glenn. He likes big people like that. He hooked onto this person. He begged. And they allowed him. Our mission, this person was, to go around with the specific person that I mentioned. And they went around together. And everywhere where they were having whole towns, almost literally little towns coming together, or much of those towns coming together. First night, 60 people. Second night, 200 people. Third night, 300 people. In a hard, hard towns. And people would be broken. And my friend Glenn, I know this sounds like a terrifying sin, but he would look after the children. Little children. And God worked through that. And I've been to towns where these people have been. And I remember one person said an angel came to this town. And they said it's a guy called Glenn. And there was a little child that got saved in one of his meetings. Many children seem to get saved. But one child got saved and his parent hadn't been to church in 20 years. His father. And that little child was so changed, he begged, he dragged his father to church that next Sunday and he got saved. Glenn. You know, often you can't have it the perfect way. We'll come back to that. The perfect way is you get the adults saved and then they, you know, bring up the children. Kind of. We must reach the adults and the adults must reach the children and we must reach the children with the adults and let's all sit together in church. You know, there's towns you can go to, the adults will never come to one of your meetings. But the children will. And I know one old lady in South Africa who went to many towns and she would get the children together and she'd, she'd reach out to them and many of them would be radically saved. And then she begged them to bring their parents and it worked. And all those adults got radically saved through the children. Back to front. You know, in a perfect world, we get the whole world together. They'd all hear the gospel. God would come down and they all get saved. But we're not living in a perfect world. So you can give your list of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, the perfect way to have revival. And in most cases, that formula just doesn't work. Does that mean we must compromise? No. But let's look at this. Number one, and I said, I'm going to contradict myself. We're going to go back and forth. To have revival, you have to remember who God is. And the first thing that we should remember is that God is holy. In Joshua 7, verse 20 and 21, and the verses before that we'd hear of Ai. And how Joshua sent out a small force to take on Ai. And they got destroyed. Many of them got killed. And they found out it was because one person, just one person, Achan, had sinned against God. And he'd taken some shekels of silver, a wedge of gold, and 50 shekels of weight. I coveted them, he said, in verse 21. I took them and behold, they are hid in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. Isn't it amazing? You can have a whole lot of people that haven't sinned and one person has sinned and it ruins everything. That's actually discouraging. Man, we're all working away and one person sins now. What's the use? Hebrew 1, verse 13, thou of pure eyes than to behold evil. You know, there was a man in the east in the early 1900s and revival broke out and then it suddenly stopped. Now, in the case of Solomon in the Bible, when he compromised, God didn't immediately take his strength away. So sometimes you have compromise and then later you see the effect. When this man's life revival stopped and they wanted what it was and later they found it was when he compromised with another woman. In his case, that was his eye. C.T. Studd had a whole lot of missionaries with him and many of them were not willing to submit to the basic authority of the mission structure that he had there and in Africa. And then there came a day when many of them left and when they left, revival broke out. They were the eyes because God is holy. You know, I remember when I went to India for three or four weeks. I know there's a lot of things that strike you in India. Cars generally look like they're going to strike you. They're all coming towards each other. And the people there are very weird. We've got 700,000 Hindus living around me and they are weird in South Africa and it's interesting and wonderful to reach out to them. But I'll tell you, the Indians in India are weirder than the Indians in South Africa when it comes to their strange practices and ways. But what struck me the most was not the Indians. It was the Americans that went with me because there was about, I suppose, about eight of them and I remember I'd gotten to know some of them in America and they were very polite people. They were very good to their wives. Women were important, so we allowed the women to go through the door first, basically. We let them eat first, all those type of things. They were very respectful. They were kind. That was the culture of their church. And what amazed me when we went to India was how fast they went out the door. You see, my wife was the only woman of that group and I remember sitting there and at the very beginning they'd say, okay, well, if there's so much water and there's to bathe and only three people can bathe, she'll be the first one that would bathe, etc. Things like that. And if there's five mud beds, well, then the nicest mud bed would go to me and my wife because she's a woman. It was nice to tag along with her. I'll tell you that. But after a while, they started getting tired. Travel, travel, travel. And some of them started getting sick. And I don't know if you've noticed in India, if you've been there, but in many places the women are not treated as if they're the most wonderful things on earth. They're just numbers. And I was absolutely amazed at how the culture of a country so fast can affect the culture of a little group. Because after a week and a half around about, they started to treat my wife with disrespect. We came into the house. It was so obvious. And there was one mud bed and the rest would have to sleep on the ground. And literally the one guy shouted and said, why are you going to go in that bed? Why do you get preference? And one person said, well, his wife is a woman, you know. Well, this is India. I never heard them saying that in America. But it took a week and a half almost for culture to strangle out of them a lot of what they learned through the years. You know how strong culture is? Culture can affect you from the outside into a church and change you totally and you don't even realize it. These are people who prayed for hours. These are people who go out and witness on the streets in America. These are people who read the Bible for hours. But culture was so strong that it took a week and a half for them to change their ways. Let me tell you something. We're living in a time where never before the holiness of God is being disregarded through culture that is coming into the church. And there's less respect for God. I'm not saying we can't have a sense of humor, but boy, it's sad how you go from church to church, conservative churches, and there's less and less respect for God. There's less and less knowledge that God is holy. But there's something I'd quickly like to say about the holiness of God. When I was a youngster before I got saved, I thought of the two attributes, the main attributes of God that everybody knows about. God is love and God is holy. And I used to think, well, the love of God, that's the beautiful side of God. You know, he gave his son to die for my sins. And the holiness of God, well, that's what sends me to hell. I'm not saying it's ugly, but it's not the nice side of God. And how wrong did I have the holiness of God? You see, there's four verses in the Bible, 1 Chronicles 16 verse 29, 2 Chronicles 20 verse 21, Psalm 29 verse 2, and Psalm 96 verse 9, which talks of the beauty of holiness. Before Satan rebelled, before man rebelled, God was holy and it was beautiful and it didn't change the course of man's rebellion. And sometimes the same thing that sends us in many cases, we have to understand the same thing in the Bible that sends us to hell is the thing that gives us hope. I remember once meetings where my dad preached in South Africa years back. I've really experienced the presence of God so tangibly as in those meetings. People were breaking before God. It was so obvious that God had came and they sang that song, holy, holy, holy. Although the darkness hide thee, I'll never forget them singing. It was so, so tangible that God is holy and God was present. Oh, God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, oh, holy. Though the eye of sinful man like glory may not see, only thou art holy. There is none beside thee perfect in power and love and purity. But it's beautiful. How beautiful is the holiness of God? How many of you, I suppose all of you have read the verse in the New Testament, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Jesus was hanging on the cross and he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? What do you do? What does the Bible teach us to do when we face such times and we don't, it looks like if you howl out to God and we cry out to God and it seems like he's not hearing us. He doesn't seem like he's there. The darkness seems to veil his face. What do you do as a Christian in that time? What do you turn to, to give you faith? God's love, God's mercy, truth that the Bible teaches us to turn to God's holiness. And we find this in Psalm 22, verse one to three, where we see where Jesus quoted from and part of it he didn't quote in the New Testament, but God points this person to an aspect of God, an attribute of God in which he can find faith through times when God doesn't seem to be there. For in verse one, it says, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Verse two, it says, thy year is not. And then in verse three, it says, but, but thou art holy, the beauty of holiness. We're living in a time of many achings of eye. Everybody knows about Vision Forum. I won't mention names of other people, great leaders in America that have failed, ministers across this land. There have been church splits, family splits. I remember a group of people were sitting once around a place and one young man who was in deep sin looked at me and said, you know, you must have sympathy on me, basically. There's been three pastors in this place and every single one of them, every single one of them has compromised and gone into deep sin one after another. It's getting a bit bad. And he thought that was an excuse for him to be a drunkard or to get drunk and to party. I basically said to him, listen, who are you building your life around? Your pastor or Jesus Christ? I know it's sad. I know it's bad. I know there's lots of achings of eye in almost every organization out there. You're wondering who's going to be in the next one. It's like a domino effect. They're all falling down. And the world looks on in the newspapers like a soap opera. Oh, the next juicy story of the next conservative who's fallen into sin. In organizations, the elders of the church, the family members, children, parents, pastors. I mean, if God will only bless if there's no aching in eye, then we've got a problem in the conservative church because where do you start to get a church that doesn't have somebody who's falling? Oh, God can't bless us. Tell me something, young man, if you have someone in your life that makes you turn from God, why are you blaming God for what someone else does? If someone hits you on the right hand side, do you turn to the other person on the left and say, I'm rejecting you because he hit me. Stupid. God has never failed. But that's what people do and they think it's right. My dad did something terrifying. My pastor did something terrifying. Therefore, I'm not following God. Are you mad? Don't you understand? I remember I was tenting, that's what you say in America, camping somewhere and we had tents. And outside, my son is kind of in the middle as far as emotions go and my daughter, I don't think it was a, it may be a girl thing. I don't know. I've only got one daughter. Her mood swings. So she'll be very unhappy and then she'll be very happy. And people love her when she's happy. And unfortunately, she knows it. She sits in malls in South Africa when we go shopping or something and she'll sit there and she'll wave. And they're all, oh, she's so sweet. And then she realizes she's done something. Oh, okay, now she waves again. And she waves again. It'll be like an hour later. She's still waving because she realizes attention. Perhaps I'm not very good at bringing it up. But I remember once we were camping. And she was sitting outside our tent. And there were some prickly things on the ground and she was going. And then suddenly, like in one split second, she saw a flower. And when she saw that flower, she was. And I was just amazed. How can someone in a split second go from. I suppose they can. You see, she had been prickled and that's the bad things in her life at that moment and that made her sad. And then she saw something beautiful and that made her happy. And that's how we are, all us adults. We like that little child. You see, there's good things in life and there's bad things in life. Your health might be good right now. Your business might be bad. There might be someone in your life that's disappointed you and there might be other people who are not disappointing you. And generally what we as humans do, even unsafe people and safe people, is we try to cling to those things in life which are beautiful to encourage us to the things which are bad. And that kind of works to a degree. But there's one big problem with this. And it comes down to the fact that every single thing that is beautiful in your life can change. Except one thing. The most beautiful of all. Jesus Christ. And so if your foundation and your strength as a Christian is in the blessings of God and the good things in life, it's a pastor that never failed, it's a business that was God's blessing was upon it, it's a wife and children that are not rebelling against God, that can change no matter how good you are. No matter how many principles of the Bible you apply, that can change. We're living in a cursed world. Feelings, circumstances and people can change. But you have an attribute of God we have to cling to. If we want to have revival and want to have faith for revival, God never changes. For I am the Lord, I change not. Malachi 3 verse 6. The hymn writers understood this. How many of the hymns don't we read words like this? Change and decay in all around I see, O thou that changes not. Abide with me. And when this hymn, when darkness seems to veil his face, I rest in his unchanging grace. The hymn writers understood it. Charles Spurgeon understood it. He said of the songs in the night, in one sermon called Songs in the Night. No time does God love his children so well as when he hears the serenade of praise beneath his window, when he has hidden his face from them and will not appear to them at all. They are all in darkness. But they come under his window and begin to sing. Our God says, God, that is true faith. That will make them sing praises when I will not look at them. I know there's some faith in them that makes them lift up their hearts. Even when I seem to take away all my tender mercies and all my compassions. It is a wonderful exercise of faith to praise God, even when it feels like he has abandoned you. My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Why? Why have you left me? But oh, yes, but I remember who you are. Life might say God has forsaken you, but remember who God is. That hasn't changed. And look to that. Psalm 42, verse 9. I will say unto my rock, right through the Psalms, right through many of the books of the Old Testament, you'll get the term that God is my rock. One lady. Now remember, rock can't change. It's a foundation that stands sure that the waves change in life. It's something you can stand on. But one lady, the old lady was dying and she sat there in her sick bed in the hospital and the nurse asked the doctor, how's she doing? He whispered back. He didn't want her to hear. He said, she's sinking fast. She heard it. He said, doctor, doctor, I'm not sinking. You can't sink. You're a rock. I know Jesus. Tell me something. Have you forgotten that God doesn't change, that he's a rock? When so many things around you change, your church splits, your family has problems, your business has problems, your health has problems. Have you forgotten that you can't sink through a rock? Is he your rock? Do you understand the attribute of God that he never changes, though life changes? Let me get back to the question. In light of I and the fact that it seems that so many preachers preach, and it's a good sermon, that one person is all it takes to ruin God's work and to make the whole army that's trying to follow God be in defeat. Should you wait for a perfect church to have revival? That doesn't happen. Will the weak link always ruin all no matter how much you try in a church to be used of God and to get the church going? If there's one person sinning or one person is not on fire, does that mean you can't do anything? You know how much across America and across the world I meet that attitude? And they point to I, an aching of I. I told you I'm going to contradict myself, but I'm going to contradict myself biblically. There's a sermon that Don Cavalli's preaching. I encourage you to get it. I'm going to remind you at the end. It's a very good sermon. I listen to it with my wife in South Africa. It's called Sheep and Wolf, sorry, the other way around, Wolf and Sheep's Clothing, and it is recorded, and it's absolutely brilliant. I don't want to sound like I'm attacking Don Cavalli, but it didn't sound like it was him that was so brilliant. It was amazing, and I encourage every single one of you to get hold of that CD, me personally. You don't have to listen to me. I'm not God, but I encourage you to listen to it. It's an excellent sermon, one of the best, and to give it to your pastor if he's willing to take it. But back to the question, should you wait for a perfect church before you have revival? Does it mean that if there's a weak link in your church, that's it? God can't bless that church in every case. Remember what I said at the beginning. When you don't have a perfect situation, there's the perfect answer to a problem, but then there's also a situation where the perfect way doesn't work, and so we come without violating God's word in another way. Don Cavall said in many of his sermons, and I agree with him totally, that there are people who, in every church, every person is either seeking to build Christ's kingdom or their own. I've heard him say that many times. That's true, and he says what they cannot control, they will seek to destroy. That's true, and you can be very godly. Don Cavall one day could do that. I could do that. My dad could do that, no matter how much we serve God. So, he's preaching to himself and to me and to everyone, but I'd like to shock you with something that really, really strikes me right throughout Scripture. Perhaps it won't shock you. Perhaps you're very spiritual and know everything in the Bible, but when Satan does something, it doesn't mean that you can't do it. When a Catholic does something, it doesn't mean you can't do it. Many people are reactionary. They say, well, this is what the Puritans used to do. They say the Catholics believe in this and that and whatever. We mustn't be like the Catholics, and so if the Catholics breathe, we mustn't breathe. If they sin, we mustn't sin. If they believe that Mary is God, we mustn't believe Mary is God, and they take all the good things and the bad things, and they do the opposite, and they get another error. Do you know that Satan came to Adam and Eve in the garden, and he said, you can be like God. Do you know what God's message to us is? You can be like God, but in a totally different way and through totally different means, and I mean something totally different. You can be like, in fact, he commands us to be like him. I am holy, be ye holy. He says in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 that we are changed into his image. We are partakers of his divine nature. In fact, the message of the New Testament is that sinful man can be his God, but through faith and unto Christ's likeness and love. Not as Satan meant it, be as God and his message, to be your own little God with your own little kingdom in rebellion against God. A totally different message that actually, if you just said one sentence, sounds exactly the same. And so we are not to start our own little kingdoms in a church, but we are to do something pretty similar and yet totally different. I call it the church within the church. You know, sometimes you'll come to church and people will say, well, the church is dead or the church is, there's some sin somewhere. I don't know what it is. There must be some sin somewhere. And sometimes you go there and you try to deal with it. You find someone who's sinning and you talk to them and they're willing to leave or they're not willing to leave. Or sometimes you just can't put your finger on it, but there's something wrong in that church. And so many people come to me in so many places across the world and they basically say to me, now what must I do? If there's one thing, remember Akin of Ai, if there's one person in this church who's not following God and is compromising, it's going to stop all the blessing that we could possibly have. And all the effort will mean nothing because of this one person. And I say, that's a lie of Satan. Haven't you noticed that since Akin of Ai, God blessed little groups in Israel continuously in spite of there being much sin in the land. The last time he ever judged an entire people for one person's sin, apart from Saul later and David because they were the leader. Charles Finney, Charles Finney said he was amazed and was so grateful when the youth of a certain church saw that the adults were not seeking God and they were not crying out to God for revival and they were not doing what was necessary for God to come down, as Charles Finney says. And the right way is for the adults to start, you know, to take the lead. But they didn't take the lead. And Charles Finney said, isn't it wonderful? The young people in the church without disrespecting authority went on their own because the parents were just taking their time for 50 million years before they'd see God and they started to seek God until God came in revival. And God did not look down and say, hey, there's quite a few Akins of Ai there. All the adults are not seeking God. If I'm sorry, young people, I'm terrifyingly sorry. While the parents are not seeking God, I can't bless you because there's like 50 Akins of Ai in your church and the 50 youth and there's the 50 adults, perhaps even 100 youth. And unfortunately, one adult that's not, you know, doing the right thing. I can't bless you. No, God came. There was one college in South Africa where there was much sin. And in that college, not the college I went to, another college, there was two young people who started to make right with God and they started to seek God and God started to work. And God didn't say, hey, you're a Christian institution. 90% of these students are Akins of Ai. I can't bless you seeking God. I'm sorry. God came. And the revival broke out and spread through that college. And they were thinking of closing down that college. It was so bad. Until a few people started to seek God. You know, my dad gave me wonderful advice when I went to Bible College. Our Bible College that my dad, sorry, that we went to of our mission has had years and years of wonderful preachers that came out of it. And many people that have really sought God, many wonderful students. Right now, they've got a lovely group of students. The last 10, 12 years have been wonderful. But every six months, you get new students. Each student has to fill in forms and say how God answered prayer and what they believe about the Bible before they can come in to that Bible College and how they got saved, et cetera, et cetera. But you can lie or you can be mistaken. And Satan wants to send students to that college too. And just at that particular time, 13 years back or so, when I was at Bible College was a bad time in the history of that Bible College. There was very bad people there. And I wasn't saved myself, though I thought I was. And I went to that Bible College and my dad gave me very good advice because there was one student there that was just negative about everything. And my dad knew about it. And it isn't psychology. My dad doesn't do psychology. But he said, Roy, there's one thing that is more powerful than a negative person is always negative, which is contagious, which just needs everybody else to be negative. It's a positive person who refuses to be negative. And I'm not talking about positive thinking. Positive because you look to the ear. I remember that in the back of my mind. I wasn't saved. I went to that Bible College and, you know, I got radically saved in my room. And I'd like to remind you of something. God did not look down. And he said, sure, I can't save people in this Bible College until all the I's are out of there and they stop smoking, pornography, fornication, rebellion. That's what most of them were. Until these I's are out of there, I can't save anybody. Praise God he wasn't like that. I'm one of the proof that it's not true. He radically saved me. And another student came under conviction very soon after that. He was a and he got radically saved. And now we've got a problem. We've been saved. And when you're saved and your heart has been changed, you read about all the revival books and you want to have revival. And so one of the students decided we must all get together, all the people on all their spiritual levels, let's get everybody together and we have a prayer meeting. And so they pray, but it lasted about, although we have through the day from five o'clock in the morning till 10 o'clock in the night, you're forced to have times of prayer and read your Bible. It lasted a few days and then everybody gave up because there was no inner strength of that group. And then we took a few little people, three people, and we didn't tell anybody else about it. We said, now spare time, not the times they tell us to pray, like your church prayer meetings and your Sunday meetings. We're going to come early in the morning, five o'clock. We're going to pray through the night. We're going to seek God. And then God started to work. And people started to get saved. And people's lives changed. And some of those people who were involved in pornography and in terrifying other things almost shouldn't have been missionaries, have become some of the most wonderful missionaries you can ever meet in your life that have brought countless people to God radically through what God did over there. But God didn't look down and say, hey, until everybody and all the weak links in this group has dealt with, I can't bless you. Until you're willing to be part of the answer, you have no right to criticize the public. So many people come to me and say, well, my church is dead. My church is dry. There must be some sin there. I say, listen, what are you doing about it? Well, I'm telling everybody they must repent. Is that all? I'm looking for the eye. I'm looking for that person who's sinful and the sin in our church. I said, is that all? You're doing nothing. What about getting a prayer meeting at five o'clock in the morning? Get two or three people, maybe the ones that are so dirty, I don't know if that's a word in America, so stupid that they don't even realize that church spread is coming. Get them together and pray and seek God and spend your spare moments doing something to make that church better. And then don't try to get everybody together. Add one person and add another person and grow slowly and you'll be amazed. You'll be amazed at how God can change that entire church press. And maybe they'll split, but you carry on. Oh, my church is split. I'm going to follow God still, but my church is split. Well, God can't bless our church anymore. You know, there's so many things that went wrong. You are listening to get that church within the church, not, and this is the biggest point when it comes to this. If you were to start a church within the church and it is not to be like Satan taking someone to build his own kingdom, then there's two things you have to think about. Number one, you must not be proud or self-righteous. That's very hard, easy to say, hard to do. It's so easy to start a little group. It happens all over. Oh, we're going to get this church right. So let's get the group together. Oh, I've got a wonderful idea. Why don't we split? Why don't we become the new church and then we'll be blessed with God? Ah, if you've got a pastor who believes in gay marriage, do that. If you've got someone who's a pastor and he will not stop his committing fornication, do that. But if you've got a church that's just a bit dead and there's a few things you disagree with the pastor, then you do not leave that church just for nothing. You get that group together and you start to see God and you do not become proud. I'm better than them. We get together at five o'clock in the morning and we pray. Oh, I don't say it, but you know, I feel it. They not pray. I'm not saying it, but you know, we're the little holy club. And the second thing you have to be very careful of is that you don't explode. In size, you grow too fast. You know, Jonathan in the Bible and his armor bearer, God didn't say to him, oh, Jonathan, I'm sorry. I can't use you though. You've got great faith and take on this Palestine army up on the hill. I can't use you because Saul is first has to repent and seek God. And then the aching of eye is taken out and then I can bless you. No, God looked at that little group, those two people within the congregation of sinners and a king that's in and God blessed him for his faith. Jesus had 12 apostles. One of them was Judas. And if you read the Bible carefully, you'll see that Judas was already compromising to a great degree when God was still using the 12 and was still using the words of Jesus. And God didn't look down and say, hey, well, until Judas is out of you guys and not part of this congregation, there's an aching of eye among you and I can't use you. God is holy. But praise God. He's merciful. And I'd like to bring a principle of scripture. Yeah, if we could read Ezekiel 14, verse 20 and 22. An amazing principle. But if you don't grasp this, you don't understand what revival is all about. It's not only about God's holiness. Yes, that's one way to revival. You go and get all the people who sin and get them those eyes and you get them to repent. And when they do, and this has happened like it happened with Sitti Stutt and it happened in different revivals of people, the whole church literally made right with God and all the weaklings were dealt with and God looked at this and he blessed them and he came down. What about the churches that for 40 years you might have a guy sitting there and you don't even know about it. Does it mean that you can't be used of God? Yes, that's the perfect way. But what about almost every situation on earth and everywhere we're looking at today in America when you go back to your church in different places where there might be a sinner, there might be people who are dead and you can't get everybody together and everybody at the same time just to be on the same page. Ezekiel 14, verse 20, though Noah, Daniel and Job were in it. As I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter. They shall deliver their own souls by their righteousness. You know what staggers me about this is verse 22. God says that there's not one righteous enough in the city to save himself. In other words, if we were to look and we were to say, well, God, when everybody's perfect, when there's no aching of eye and those type of people in our midst, then God's going to bless. And only when we've dealt with all the weaklings, then God's going to bless. When I look at this, I say that's true. That's a good principle. But let's look at other principles because God is not a box God. He is an answer for every situation. If there's a little group that wants to serve and follow God, he's got an answer for them too. Because when I read in Ezekiel 14, verse 22, these words, there and shall be left the remnant that shall be brought forth. Both sons and daughters, behold, they shall come forth unto you and you shall see their way and their doings and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem. This is amazing. God says there's nobody righteous in this city enough for them to be saved through their righteousness. And he says, well, anyway, I'm going to save some of them and I'm going to make them change them. And if you look at their ways and their deeds, you're going to say, wow, why did God do this? Because there was no aching in that city. They were full of aching. God said the whole lot is not righteous. They all deserve to die. But I'm going to take a group out anyway because I'm merciful. You see, God isn't only holy. He's merciful. And therefore, I will in a church that has no righteousness. I'm willing to come. And I'm willing, and I've seen this happen so many times, in spite of all the achings in their midst, I'm willing to take out a few and to do something great. Let's go back to that verse at the very beginning. Habakkuk three, verse two. I don't know if you noticed it. What it said. So often we look at a verse and we think, oh well, that was nice. But in light of what I've just said, oh Lord, I've heard Thy speech. I was afraid. Oh Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years. Look all the achings of our heart. We have obeyed all the principles in the Scripture. No, it says revive Thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make known in wrath, remember mercy. Isn't that beautiful? If the little group within a church of eyes is willing to seek God, God can bless the church within the church. Are you just complaining or are you part of the answer? Are you calling out for God's mercy and you're getting a little group together not to be against the pastor, not to be against the church, but to seek God? You know, I need mercy at times. I was in an airport and over the loudspeakers came these words. Do not joke or say anything wrong or anything about that might make us think that you're a terrorist basically. I can't remember the exact words. And as these things blared out over the intercom, I remember looking at the people in front of me where they took your suitcases and they trained that they have to ask you these questions. Do you have anything sharp in your possession? Do you have anything flammable? And the lady looked at me and says, Do you have anything sharp in your possession? And I looked at her and I said, Yes, my teeth. And she said, Do you have anything flammable in your possession? I said, Yes, my hair. And she laughed. And then over the loudspeakers come, please, if anybody says anything, not even a joke about bombs or whatever, then weapons, then you will be prosecuted. Now that's what they said. And I know it's totally wrong and people say I shouldn't do stuff like that. I just can't help it. But that lady obviously showed me some mercy. I don't know if you've noticed it. People show us mercy at times. Don Cavall showed me mercy. I was at his house a few days back and there was a kettle that looked to me like a kettle you put on a stove. And it was an electric kettle that you put on an electric thing. And I took it and I put water and I put it on the stove and I put the heat up and I left. And the next thing, the house was full of smoke. And I came out there and Jennifer, his daughter, was trying to clean it up. And she was like, there was smoke everywhere and the air conditioner was being put on, whatever. And she said, Roy, did you do this? And I said, yes. And I just couldn't believe it. I don't know if I should laugh or what or if I was going to be killed. I don't know. But they showed me mercy. People do show you mercy at times. And God is merciful. Daniel 9 verse 18 is one of the most beautiful lovely verses when it comes to this. There's thousands of verses I'd like to bring on the topic, but we don't have time. For we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, Daniel says, but for thy great mercies. There's another verse that basically says, don't remember the sins of, don't look upon me for the sins of my youth, but look upon me for thy mercy's sake, in Psalms. Isn't that beautiful? But what strikes me about this is it's a righteous person who's asking for God's mercy. And I think a lot of people forget this. And it's one of the reasons why there's not power in little groups seeking God or great groups seeking God. If we forget not only about the holiness of God, but about the mercy of God. And I know it's easy to remember God's mercy when you fail. You know, when I got irritated with my wife, she's perfect. But let's just say that happened as I'm traveling around America and so on, and that has happened. I've been sometimes a little irritated and I feel so bad about it. And I go to my room and I cry out that I find God is merciful. And all of us kind of, if we humble enough, we realize we need God for mercy in those times. But what many people don't realize is you need God's mercy when you have had a victorious day. Because you're not perfect compared to God. And if you don't realize that, you're proud and God cannot bless you. Daniel, the righteous Daniel that God says by his own righteousness, he would have been saved, said, for we do not present our supplications before by righteousness, but for our righteousness, but for by mercy's sake. It's sad when the righteous, true righteous, even saved people start to trust their righteousness. We'll read of this in Ezekiel 33 verse 13. When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live, if he trusts his own righteousness and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered. Now that's another topic and we won't go there. I don't perfectly understand this, but this I understand. When Saul was humble in his own eyes, he tried to obey God fully, but there came a day when he trusted in his own goodness and his own righteousness and he thought he only had to obey God 99%. And he lost the kingdom because of that. We must never come to the point where we look to our own righteousness no matter what God has done through us, how Christ-like he has lived through us. We always have to look to the mercy of God and to the righteousness that is in Jesus, no matter how victorious we become. So in 22 verse 31, this is the gospel. They shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto people that shall be born that he hath done this. Romans 3 verse 25, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that have passed through the forbearance of God. That is the gospel message. And yes, we are to live a holy life. And yes, we are to strive to be Christ-like. And yes, we are to be crucified with Christ that Christ might live through us. But there's not one moment of any day no matter how victorious you are that you don't have to look to the mercy of God. And if you lose that, there's no way God can use you. Zechariah 3 verse 4 gives an example of this. Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I've caused thy iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with a change of raiment. This is Joshua the high priest. Zephaniah 1 verse 8, I will punish the princes, all such as are clothed with strange apparel. Matthew 22 verse 12, And he said unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding garment? There's a false gospel out there that you can just sin and do what you want and Jesus isn't king and you don't have to turn from a life without God to be under his authority and you can be saved. But boy, there's a lot of people who try to turn from all the sins in their life and they forget it's only the righteousness of Jesus that saves you, nothing else. And it's only with the righteousness of Jesus that keeps you saved, nothing else. And it's only the righteousness of God and his mercy that we can come before him and he can bless us and nothing else. When the bridegroom cometh, will your robes be white? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Will your soul be ready for the mansions bright and be washed in the blood of the lamb? And in that old song, I gave him my old tattered garments. He gave me a robe of pure white. I'm feasting on manna from heaven and that's why what Satan cannot stop through persecution, he will explode. In Melmoth, South Africa, a little group within a dead church got together and they started to seek God. And God's presence was felt and God started to use them and people started to get added to them and it was wonderful. But then suddenly everybody heard about it and it was the end thing and a whole lot of people came. Let's say there was 20 people and 50 more people came and they destroyed that meeting by fighting. What Satan cannot destroy, Satan cannot stop, he will destroy by exploding. The Korean revival grew 10% a year. The population was added every 10 years or so to Christianity, nominal or otherwise. And there was great revival in Korea from the early 1900s onwards and it was absolutely amazing what God did in that Korean revival. But Satan looked down, he said, well, I can't stop it through persecution. What am I going to do? And of course, he had the answer, let's explode it. And so everybody became a Christian. Because there were American evangelists who went over in the 1960s, 70s. And they said another gospel that didn't have a cost. Who wants to accept Jesus? And the biggest evangelical crusade in the history of time until recently, over six million people or so coming together in one evangelical crusade, so many of them went home thinking they were Christian. He exploded Christianity in that country. And there's two reasons that it exploded. And again, it comes back to who God is. You see, the original message of Christianity understood that it must be God-centered, not just you get to heaven. And there's two things that were missing. And one of them was the goodness of God. Do you know that the goodness of God as an attribute of God is the most attacked attribute of any attribute by society? There's books written by atheists saying God is not good. There are videos after videos after videos of people saying that God is not good because he allows suffering, because of this, because of that, because he sends people to hell. Across the internet, everywhere you go, people are saying God is not good. Half of what atheists say call themselves scientists is not attacking the science of the Bible, it's attacking the goodness of God philosophically. And other religions do the same when they look at the Christian religion. In the Bible, it was one of the first three things that Satan attacked. In Genesis 3 verse 1, we see that Satan comes to Eve to tempt her. And he attacks God's authority by saying you don't have to obey God. He attacks the fact that God is truth by saying God told a lie. And he attacks the goodness of God by saying, yea, hath God said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden. He's saying, listen, God's bad. This God that you're serving, he's keeping stuff from you. He's a mean God. He doesn't want you to eat of all the trees of the garden. Three things, he attacked God's truthfulness, God's authority, and God's goodness. Many people say, well, how can God be good and send people to hell? Well, it's the goodness of God that sends people to hell. If you talk of goodness, let's just say there's a little boy. And I say, well, that's a good little boy. What do I mean? Well, compared to the rest of society and all the little girls, I would look at the bad, bad, look at the good, good boys. And somewhere in the range of where it gets to good boys, that's where that child is. Do I mean that child is perfect? No. But that's God's measure of goodness. In the Bible, we find that God said when the rich young man came to him and said, why call us, he called him good master. Jesus said, why callest thou me good? Now, Jesus wasn't saying I'm not good. But he understood that this young man had a relative mind that compared, his measure of goodness was comparing himself and Jesus to other people. And he looked at Jesus and said, well, compared to everybody else, you're a relatively good person, good master. And God says, no, you have to compare yourself to my pure, holy goodness. Imagine I took Don Quixote and I brought him to the front and I took out a big hammer. And I'm the judge. And a group of people came in and they stood at the front and they said, judge, the reason why Don Quixote is here today and we've asked you to bring him to the front here is because he told a lie. And I said, he told a lie? Did you? And Don Quixote says, yes, I told a lie. And I said, right, that's it. I'm taking my hammer out. You are guilty. Take him out and burn him at the stake. Now, there's two reasons why people would have a problem with this. Number one, that have a problem because you don't do that in Western nations. But second of all, someone might just put their hand up and say, judge, have you ever told a lie? Have you ever told a lie? You see, by condemning him so harshly, I'd be condemning myself. But that's not a problem with God. We don't understand why God can send people to hell as sinners born and they've done one sin according to James. And broken one law is as good as breaking them all. And that's because we don't understand God's goodness. That God doesn't compare us to other people when he decides whether we're good or not. He compares us unto himself. And he not only has never done anything bad, only done good, but he is the goodness that we can never be. He's never told a lie. And he's always been perfect. And so compared to his absolute goodness, we are very, very bad. What we've done and who we are living without him is so bad it deserves hell for eternity. And strangely, the same question that people ask against Christianity, how can God be good and send people to hell? Well, it's the goodness of God that sends you to hell because you're being compared to that goodness. It's also the goodness of God that teaches sinners in the way. Psalm 25 verse 8, good and upright is the Lord. Therefore, will he teach sinners in the way? You know, it was nothing good in you. It was nothing good in you that led God to come and start to speak to your heart. It was the goodness of God. It's the goodness of God that saves us. You know, when Jesus Christ died on the cross, it wasn't because it's the right thing to do. It was his mercy. And when he applies that in our life, many people think when our God has died, therefore, the way is open. And that's true. But the way is open. Therefore, it's the right thing that I can come before God. No, it's God's mercy that he applies in your life. He has legally made a way. He's made it wide open. But it's his mercy if he applies it. That's why in every single, literally, almost every single prayer that you'll find someone getting saved, if they say words, it's, God, be merciful to me, a sinner, when it comes to this. There was a Taiwanese lady in an airplane. And she said to me, Roy, my parents were wonderfully saved. And there was a great revival in our country among different places. And so many people got saved. And I said, Debra, there's a big problem. Second generation Christianity, as I was sitting next to her on the plane. I said, the next generation often weren't part of that revival. And they're not saved. She said, that's the problem with me. She said, I know their message. And I saw the power in their life. But I've just got Christianity on the outside. I've never had it on the inside. And in many of these countries, that's another way that Satan allows the revival to die or to grow bigger. Is that you've got all this Christianity that comes out of all the kids that come out of the revival. But they're not saved themselves. And they don't understand another two attributes of God. Number one, that God sees in the dark. Ezekiel 8, verse 12. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark? Every man in the chambers of his imagery? For they say, the Lord seeth us not. The Lord hath forsaken the earth. Do you think God can't see you? You know, God can see everything you do in the dark and everything you do in your heart. He knows if you're dead in your heart, though you've got Christianity on the outside, though you come to camps, though you go to church, though you talk about Jesus. He knows in your heart that you don't know him, that you're still dead. He knows the sins that you do in your heart when you committed adultery by lusting off to women. Though on the outside, you're Christian. God sees in the dark. And this younger generation didn't know this. They also didn't understand what it means that God is truth. Most Christians, even in conservative churches, don't understand this. John 1, verse 70, for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Let me ask you a simple question. Is the law of God truth? Is the law of God truth? Yes or no? Then why did God say, well, the truth of the law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ? Have you ever thought of that? What this verse is saying? What it means that God is truth? If you go to the Greek word, that basically means reality with God. The law is the truth, but it's only on the outside. But Jesus is the truth on the inside. He can make you one with God. He is truth. He is reality with God. That's what it means when God says, I'm truth. Not only that he only speaks truth, but that he is the truth, reality with God. I once went into a little hut and I preached every weekend to a little group of people and I couldn't get through to them. They had the law on the outside, but no truth on the inside. And I didn't know what to do. I prayed and I prayed and I prayed and I asked God to help. And eventually I saw a little plastic pot plant sitting there in this poor little house. And all of them were sitting respectfully. And I said to them, listen, so many people are like that plastic pot plant. They look like Christians on the outside, but there's no life on the inside. And as I said, that tears started to stream down their faces and they broke. And the one lady, I'll never forget it, looked at me and said, oh, all these years, I've been the law on the outside, but I've never realized that I've been like that plastic pot plant. I've never had life on the inside. You realize, do you have the law or do you have grace and truth through Jesus Christ? We have reality with God. God knows he sees your heart. The fact that God is truth means that he's faithful. God is faithful. It's all the attributes of God. We can believe the man behind the words. Your feelings may change, nature may change, your circumstances may change, but the man behind the word never changes. So I end off. What must we do? What must we do when we're in a church and it's dead? When Satan explodes a church that was once on fire for God and the exploding has watered it down. Well, number one, you get a little group of people together. You, first of all, you try to confront the problem. You look for the acorns of iron. That's good. You look for the people who are sinning and you confront them and you can find it. But if they will not change or you cannot really find out who's the one sinning or being the problem in that church, then you become part of the answer, not part of the problem by just causing another church split, unless it's something really bad like gay marriage or fornication in the leadership. You get a little group together and you don't become proud. You get it five o'clock in the morning, perhaps, not every morning. Sometimes you might miss it. My friend in South Africa, we get up at five o'clock in the morning to pray and sometimes he just says, I'm just too tired. And I say, well, great. I'm also too tired. Let's go to sleep. God's not like legalistically holding a big hammer over your head, but you try and to do something instead of just giving up. And as you seek God and you make right with God and you do what you have, you bring in one or two more people and so it grows and so it grows and so it grows. Don't wait for everybody to be perfect before you start something. The Catholics go to the priest to get to God. There's many people being held back for 40 years in a church from seeking God as a little group because they're waiting to go to the priest of a perfect church before they can seek God for revival. Oh, and all the Achans of Iagon, then we can start really trusting God for revival. Start a prayer meeting and be humble about it. Don't look down at others. Show love. By this, shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. And again, you don't have to wait for the whole church to love each other for the world to take notice. I remember me and my one friend, while there was pornography, while there was sin in that institution, while they were so compromised, a drunk kid got radically saved by the love we had one for another. God didn't look down and say, I'm sorry, the rest of them aren't loving each other. God didn't look down and say, hey, they've got to get their sin dealt with first. He looked down at that little group that were seeking God and people and that loved each other and allowed that to bring drunkards to the Lord. Many people got saved, in fact. Love your enemies. God blesses that. All heaven stands still when someone prays for his enemy's good. Support the vision. Support the vision. Of younger people. There were some people at the table here and I said to them, you don't have to listen to me, okay? I'm giving you my heart's anguish when it comes to people out there. They're all telling me and telling other people, well, our church is split, our church is this, our church is that, there's sin in the church, there's this, there's that, there's whatever. And I said to them, what are you doing? And they said, well, we try to find, tell everybody they must repent. I asked you, what are you doing? Well, we're telling everybody else they've got to repent. I asked you, what are you doing? I want everybody else to repent. What are you doing? Well, I'm just not sinning. Support the vision of young people. You can get up in the morning, five o'clock and have little prayer meetings or late at night. It doesn't matter the time. God doesn't bless certain times of day, but do it. If there's a young man in your church and you might be a businessman and there's a soul in the church, go out with him once or twice. Encourage him. See who those few are who are seeking God and stand beside them, not to start a new church, but to support what is alive in the church. If someone's written a track, print it for them if you happen to have the money. If someone's got money to print the track and he wants to do it, but he doesn't have a track, write it for him. And if he rejects you, we'll say thank you. Pride makes us better. If someone's making websites, help them. Ian Bounds wrote books and he prayed for so long for God to give him someone to come alongside him to print those books. And eventually someone did. And how God used those books. I remember a young man and this young man was 16 years old and I came to him. I thought I'd do the very simple thing. I just spent three days where I went soul winning with him. And I slept in the car. He said to me many years later, he said, Roy, at that stage, I was very down and I was the only person in my church that wanted to go out and win souls. And I felt like giving up. But then you as an older 23, 24 year old came along. He said, you never know what that meant to me, that someone was willing to stand beside me as I tried to be used with God. You have no idea what it means to a young person if there is such a thing anymore. Sorry, I'm sure there is. But I'm wondering sometimes as people get so busy in life and not with God's things that they go to church, they sing hymns, they do a whole lot of things for God to truly be on fire for God and to want God to work. They get stopped by wanting everybody to be perfect before they can be used to God. And they get stopped by being discouraged because no one is there to stand beside them. And this young man said, Roy, that was what got me going years back. And he said, I want to travel across the country to find young people to stand beside them. I remember one church, there's one church that's always splitting. So let's apply the principles of God and find the eyes and find this and whatever. And they tried and they split anywhere. And then eventually they had a foot washing ceremony. And the one person came to me and said, Roy, I think we've really broken through because all the bad guys have come together and they washed each other's feet. They're looking for these breakthroughs. And yes, sometimes it works. Trust me, there's certain churches and I've seen this where you get people together and you talk about the sin and the leaders break and they meet with God and God blesses that. But 99% of the time because of the will and heart of man, you're not going to get everybody to be on the same page. What do you do? Do you give up? How about if the perfect way doesn't work? Get a few people together but never be proud. Are you doing that? It's a choice. I remember three ministers in South Africa. These are famous ministers. They go across the world. They preach to hundreds and hundreds of churches. One of them got about 100 churches to come together to listen to me preach. They've been very good to me. But what I'm amazed about these people is that they are so busy, so busy. And I've told them a few times, I said, if you still find time for little people like me, they found me. I remember when I was young and I wanted to start some projects for the Lord. I didn't know what Google was. And I decided I'm going to start some websites. I didn't know where to start. Somebody got radically saved. He was a big sinner. He gave me $400. I paid some company, a real estate. I could have done the job myself. It was so easy what I paid them for to start my first little website years back. I asked them, what is Google? What is Yahoo? What is all these things? And these three ministers heard about my little project. And they said, we're going to give you about $40 a month. All three of them. One of them $30, $40. It was 400 grand in South African rands. About $100 a month. And they spent time and they sent me little things to help me with it. In the midst of the immense 11 months a year preaching everywhere. And you'll never know what that meant to me as a young little preacher. That somebody was willing to take a little time and come decide my little projects that I wanted to be used of God. I'll never forget it. You know what came out of that? We go across the country in South Africa and we record people for radio stations across our country. Many of the radio stations want seven, ten minute messages a day. Hundreds of them. Millions of people. And they can't get people to come to them. They can't afford it. The best preachers. So they get the charismatic. And they get rubbish messages. So we realized there was a little gap. But you had to have people come and decide you to do that little project. That could reach millions of people. Ministers across our country. Most of them in the churches that are dead. You go for them for tea and if you mention the new birth they chuck you out. They're not born again. How can we reach these people? I thought. And so I started. I thought well they're lazy. Ministers are lazy. Have you ever noticed that? Except for Don Cavill. He's not lazy. But many, many ministers are lazy. They don't want to prepare their own sermons. Well I thought if they anyway are not going to preach the new birth because they're not saved. Why not give them illustrations that tell them about the new birth. That tell them of repentance. And so I got a group together who would and they stood beside me. I couldn't do it on my own. Four or five people who for free spent hours and hours translating illustrations into that one language. We got the email addresses. People through the nights. Through weeks. I couldn't do all that. People nobody knows about and they spent through the nights they were just getting email addresses. Email addresses. Email addresses from church after church. Eventually now we have 10,000 churches. We have people seeking us through the websites that we have started. It's the one of them is four million people of one language. The biggest website in the world for that language over 10,000 Christian media. Good preaching. And I could have done all that and gone to hell if it wasn't for the mercy of God. But people every single day are contacting us saying how can we get saved? Almost every single day after seven a day. Many of them getting saved. Little tracks. You need an artist. I can't do art. I do comic tracks. I've got the idea in my head. I don't have the artists to come beside me. I don't have the money to pay them. Even when I have the money they don't want to do it because it's too controversial. And so eventually you get someone who comes beside you and you can do something for God. I wonder what would happen in Christianity if we looked around us and said who's got a good idea? I'm not talking about me now. I'm talking about young people. Why don't I support him? A little guy in your church. He wants to write a track. Okay it might not be a very good track but why not encourage him? Help him with the grammar if he's willing and print a few hundred. Encourage the people around you. If you want revival in your church start doing something. Not just getting all the aches and sorrows. They're going to be there until Jesus comes. Remember that God is not only holy and yes we have to deal with the aches and sorrows. And we have to, the proper people in the proper time have to deal with them severely. Not out of love but we also have to remember that just because they're there doesn't mean God can use us, can't use us in the meantime if we come together and start supporting each other one at a time. Try the perfect way. Last words of my sermon. Then the church within the church. How many of you have read the Chocolate Soldier? Good for you. All the rest of you are not good enough for my church if they've started. One thing I love about the Chocolate Soldier is this, this. When things go bad and the soldier starts to melt. It's not a real soldier. And that's what C.T. Studd was trying to bring out. We have a church fight. What's the use? God can't use us anymore. We have a family, a problem. Oh, oh my one son of ten children is revised. I know it's terrifying. I know the Bible says things about it and I really have to be humble but more than that, let's give up. God can't use me anymore. Let's just say something else goes wrong. There's a leader of the organization that I've been basically behind for many, many years and he's now in sin. Oh no, I can't do anything anymore. Chocolate Soldier, melting your son. You know how you can not be a Chocolate Soldier? It's when you build your life around who God is and not around people. Even though we have to be with instruction and have elders and everything the Bible talks about. Just to build your life around as individuals who God is and then start to show love to people around you and start to seek God for people instead of just condemning them. And yes, we must stand for truth. Let us pray. Dear Father, thou knowest although I'm not the best preacher at all and I don't always know how to bring across the idea that's in my heart but this is a burden in the heart that I have that there's so many people across America who I believe from my heart need this message. They need to realize that that they must not despise the day of small beginnings, small things. That Satan's very method and tactic is to explode. The very thing we think is the only sign of revival. And God, please, I beg you to bring revival in this land and to sweep through this land through the Holy Spirit and to raise up preachers that God moves mightily through and many thousands of people. But I ask you, dear Father, when that's not happening in most cases that you'll give people a desire and an excitement about who God is in spite of life. And that you'll put into their hearts to not just criticize and say let's give up on this deadness in the church but that they will do something that they will stand up in Christ and His righteousness looking unto His mercy in spite of the achings of I and that they'll start to get together to pray and that they'll start to support each other and do stuff. And Father, that this message will not just be another message that people say, oh, that's wonderful but that they'll go and do for the name of Christ and unto His glory alone. In Jesus' name.