In this sermon, the preacher expresses a concern about the current state of the religious scene, where there is a lack of desire for correction and reproof. The preacher criticizes the focus on man-made inventions and ministries, such as how-to conferences, instead of seeking Jesus above all else. The sermon emphasizes the need for a revival where young people are convicted and fall on their faces before God. The preacher also speaks about the coming of the Lord, describing both His vengeance upon those who reject Him and His glory upon the righteous.

Lord, if you don't help me, I can't get through this. I can't. Lord, I'm too old for games. Foolishness. And I'm tired of rhetoric, meaningless rhetoric that never changes things. Lord, just help me. Folks, I'm tired of hearing about revival. I'm tired of hearing about awakenings. As last day outpourings of the Holy Spirit, I've heard that rhetoric for 50 years. Just rhetoric. We've held on to our religious rhetoric and our revival talk, but we've become so passive. Our so-called awakenings are stirrings, last but a short time. And when the short-lived revivings and awakenings come from the hand of God, they are so short-lived. And in those times, we promise God we'll never return to our passivity. But it's not long, it's just weeks or months, and we're back. And this time, we slip further back into passivity than when we started. And we say, this time, oh God, you've touched me for life. I'll never be the same. And it's like fireworks. A loud bang and a lot of noise, and then it dies. Tell me now, how many churches have you visited recently? How many churches do you know where when you walk in, the Holy Ghost is so strong that every one of your sins are brought up before your face? And I see more of the world coming into the church and impacting the church rather than the church impacting the world. I see the music taking over the house of God. I see entertainment taking over the house of God. An obsession with entertainment in God's house. A hatred of correction and a hatred of reproof. Nobody wants to hear it anymore. Away with all of our how-to conferences because they accomplish nothing. How to build a bigger church. How to reach the lost. How to improve your people skills. And how to impact the world in this computer time. And I look at the whole religious scene today, and all I see are the inventions and ministries of man and flesh. We want you, Jesus, more than we want anything. We want you, Jesus, more than anything else. You're everything we desire, Lord. We only want you, Jesus. You're our hearts breaking tonight, oh Lord. We're hungry for you. We're hungry, Lord. Oh, Jesus, we're all hungry for you. When is the last time you've been to church where you've seen young people under such conviction because the people of God have been on their face? And there's such a concern and there's such an agony that young people are falling on their faces and calling on God because a spirit of conviction is called down from heaven upon them. When the Lord comes, May the tears from our eyes, When the Lord comes, And the light of his glory will shine, When the Lord comes. Fathers will return to their children, And the children to their fathers, When the Lord comes. When the Lord comes, He will stand in his way, When he comes in wisdom, Not a spider-wise man will stand, When the Lord comes, When the Lord comes. See the glory of the Lord, See his vengeance when he comes, For he's coming back with a fire in his eyes, To revenge it upon those that have rejected him, And have abused his little children, For not one hair of their head has perished that the Lord our God has not seen, And surely he will revenge, And avenge, Every bruise, Every drop of blood, The blood of the martyrs cry out to the Lord our God, And surely he will come, Surely he will come, Surely he will come, To avenge the blood of the righteous, To bring the kingdom of the Lord, To pour his wrath out upon the unbeliever, To pour his glory upon his pride, When the Lord comes. And the unrighteous will tremble in his sight, But the righteous will shine like the sun, And everlasting joy will be upon their heads, Oh, they'll be singing and dancing, And joy and darkness will be gone, When the Lord comes. When the Lord comes, when the Lord comes, There will be feasting and laughter in the house of the Father, When the Lord comes back for his children, Oh, comes quickly with his reward in his hand, When he comes, when he comes. Whatever happened to anguish in the house of God? Whatever happened to anguish in the ministry? It's a word you don't hear in this pampered age. You don't hear it. Anguish means extreme pain and distress, The emotion so stirred that it becomes painful, Acute, deeply felt inner pain, Because of conditions about you, In you or around you. All true passion is born out of anguish. All true passion for Christ comes out of a baptism of anguish. You search the scripture and you'll find That when God determined to recover a ruined situation, He would seek out a praying man And he'd take him down into the waters of anguish. He would share his own anguish For what God saw happening to his church and to his people And he would find a praying man And he would take that man And literally baptize him in anguish. I was in anguish four blocks from here On Broadway Weeping and crying and wailing I wasn't looking for a ministry I wasn't looking to build a church I was feeling God's pain For a lost city And I've never had anything That's been any worth to God In my 50 years That wasn't born in agony Never It's all been splashed on the water And I know The service won't do it I know The revelation won't do it I know now Oh my God do I know it Until I'm in agony Until Until I have been anguished over it I'm preaching service Oh God And all our projects All our ministries Everything we do It's all theirs It's an idea They didn't come to me from a broken heart They didn't come to me After hours of fasting and praying And mourning Not a broken heart It's an idea I'm sick of it A true prayer life begins At the place of anguish You see if you set your heart to pray God's going to come and start sharing His heart with you He's going to open up His heart And I'll tell you there's pain in His heart But He sees And so few to hear He's going to show you The condition of His church And He's going to ask you a question What is it to you? What is it?