The Incandescent Man - Part 2

St. Thomas and St. Croix and so forth, and sold themselves into slavery in order that they might get the guest world. Okay, let me go back a minute here. Jesus said of John the Baptist what? There's no man ever born of woman that was greater than John the Baptist. Let me tell you how it began. It says in Luke chapter 1 and verse 10, the whole multitude of people were praying in at the time of incense. Isn't that wonderful? They were praying, a great prayer meeting in that old temple. What happened? There appeared unto an angel of the Lord, verse 11, standing on the right side of the altar. I won't go into the details there, but he says in verse 13, Fear not, Zacharias, thy prayer is heard. Thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. He shall have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at his birth. He shall be great in the sight of God. It says in verse 32, He shall be great, and he shall be called the Son of the Highest. Oh, that's of Jesus too. But here is a man, what does Zacharias say? Let me quote it, paraphrase it. He says, Look, don't talk like that. My wife's old and stricken. She can't bear children. You've got people in America telling me I'm crazy. I've prayed for revival more than 60 years, and I'm more sure than ever now that it's coming. I'm getting old and frail. You fight the devil, it'll hit you back. I was thinking today when dear Joyce and her precious husband came to see me in the hospital, I was dying. In the last five years I've had three strokes, different strokes of course, and two heart attacks. The devil fought back, and he's likely to do that. But you see, revival comes after barrenness. Can you imagine, what's his name now, Abraham's wife, Sarah? You mentioned her this morning, what was she, eight, ninety? Can you imagine her writing to her mother and saying, Mother, I'm expecting a baby? She said, What? You're crazy. You should never have married a preacher. They're crazy. It's amazing how often God in the Word of God shows us how the impossible is possible, and yet we doubt Him. We're the biggest generation of doubting believers the world's ever had. Joyce said this morning, we're almost arrogant to say we're Christians. You see, what happens in meetings usually? I pick up Christian magazines, I don't buy them, they're not worth anything. But again and again it says, Know your Bible. Take this Bible course, take this Bible course, take this Bible course on prophecy, take this Bible course on the blood. Listen, the great need is not to know the Word of God, the great need is to know the God of the Word. What does Daniel say? Does Daniel say that people who do not know their Bible should be strung into exploitation? Of course not. The people that do know their God. Why did Jesus come into the world? He said to save sinners, that's what He said. Jesus said, I've come that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. Anyhow, this young man is like, I mean, this man is like others. Sarah brought forth a beautiful son, but you know, have you ever discovered this, when you try to help God out, you get into trouble? The Lord says, you're going to have a son. And you quoted, did the Lord say to him, were you wrong this morning? The Lord told him to take the woman? No, no, the woman, who was the other woman? Did the Lord tell him to take her? Come on now, cough it up. If you're wrong, confess your sin right here. God said to Abraham, do not be distressed, do what Sam said. Oh, that's not the King James Version. Come on now, whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her. Yeah, but you know what happened? After he listened to Sarah, God never spoke to him again for 15 years. One for me. It's, you know, NASB, NASB, that's Greek for nasty. Because in Hebrews 1, I love that verse in Hebrews 1, God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us. These last days, 2,000 years ago? The book of the Revelation, these last days, 2,000 years in God's name, where are we now? People say it's 10 minutes to 12 on God's clock. It isn't, it's 30 seconds to 12. We're on the edge of the greatest events in history. But there it says in the NASB, well, let me finish that verse. When he had by himself purged our sins. You see, there's a propagation, one of the popular preachers, I'll tell you, it's James Robinson, says every day almost on TV in Dallas there, remember, we're all to be one. Jesus didn't put his hand on the shoulder of the Pharisee and his hand on the shoulder of the Sadducee and let's all be one. He didn't say that. He uses John 17, 6. But notice what Jesus says, their father, them which thou hast given to me, they have kept thy word. What did Jesus say to the Pharisees? You white sepulchres, you children of the devil? Do you make league with the children of the devil? Of course not. I don't believe I have to accept the Virgin Mary as Corydemtrix. What does it say in Philippians? Paul says, I weep when I...