Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church - Full Service With Music — Paul Washer

Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world. Obeying the devil, the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit of work, used to live that way.

We were subject to God's anger, just like everyone else. But God is rich in mercy. He loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, He gave us life. It is only by God's grace that you have been saved.

For He raised us from the dead, along with Christ. He seated us with Him in heavenly realms. Because we are united, so God can point to us in all future ages, as examples of the incredible wealth of His grace and kindness toward us.

As shown in all He has done for us, who are united with Christ Jesus. It was March 3, 1955, Madison Square Garden, New York City. Billy Graham was just there for one night. A guest minister, a converted band leader named Jack Woodson.

A woman had been praying for me for, I think, at least two years. I wasn't from a really Christian home. My grandfather was Scottish, Irish, and English, but I think he was probably a toxic. He was an alcoholic.

My grandmother divorced him. My other grandfather was an atheist. He went over to the New York City area with my father, when my dad was just a small boy. By 16, already I was just living my own selfish life.

I even started to move a bit into the world of pornography. This lady heard about me. I was sort of a leader in my school. She sent me a Gospel of John through the mail. That really got me searching other things.

It's not time to explain. I ended up, thanks to the generosity of a Christian business person, going to this Billy Graham meeting. There I heard the Gospel and believed on the Lord Jesus. I experienced His Holy Spirit coming into my life.

I experienced His new life. I've always been convinced, though it took me time to understand this, that Plan A Revival is Jesus coming in us at conversion and then us allowing the Holy Spirit to enable us to walk day by day in the kind of grace and reality we just read about in Ephesians 2.

It's always been my conviction, and some may not agree with this, that the kind of revival we're often praying for, I've actually just come back from the Isle of Lewis where that Hebrides revival broke out.

We all know about the Welsh revival and so many other revivals that get tremendous publicity and lots of books written about them. But I've always convinced, and I guess I've been studying this now for about 50-some years, that Plan A Revival is believing on the Lord Jesus, experiencing salvation, and then walking in the reality of the Holy Spirit day by day.

This has been my experience for 53 years. Every day, by God's grace, not in the absence of doubt, stupidity, sometimes sin or failure, but in the midst of that, through repentance, through grace, pressing on and worshiping Him and honoring Him in every way throughout every day.

As I look back at 53 years, I can say by the grace of God that even that first love, I've not lost that. We sort of assume everybody loses their first love. You've got to go to a conference or come on OM or read a great book or be in some great meetings and then you repent and come back to Jesus and back to your first love.

And I know that's the experience of many people. I've had at least 150 ,000 people in my own meetings enter into a new walk with the Lord, through repentance, through broken, sometimes coming forward, different kinds of meetings, different kinds of churches.

And I just thank the Lord for every person that comes back to Jesus through a special touch from God. But I believe, plan A, that we put our hands on the cloud of conversion and we never turn back. I learned a lot from the East African Revival, meeting up with Roy Hesschen and reading Calvary Road, which were continuing to distribute around the world, and we would see Jesus.

I recently read Norman Grubb's Continuous Revival, and I discovered quite a few people have this same conviction that revival, first of all, is Jesus living in us. But you know, no matter how filled we are with the Holy Spirit, no matter how much the Lord Jesus is living in us, we're still very human.

In my experience with many people who especially were longing for revival or had gone through a special time of revival, including people in our own work at OM, I discovered many pitfalls. And the enemy, of course, is a roaring lion, seeketh whom he may devour.

I discovered that some cases a revival experience and blessing soon is accompanied by legalism or super-spirituality or subtle forms of Phariseeism. Moody Press published a book, Extreme Righteousness.

This is a Bible study on the Pharisees, and it shows how easily we Bible-believing people get sort of a Pharisaical streak. I think this is why the message of grace, which was so emphasized in the East African revival by godly people like Roy Hesschen, is so incredibly important, not only realizing God's grace toward us so that we experience salvation, but now expressing that grace to other people.

I think one of the most important things in our walk with Jesus and living in ongoing revival, no matter how we sort of got started down this road, of course, is to know how to deal with failure. And this has been my privilege to help a lot of people who have had serious failure in their lives, including moral failure.

Even just this very morning on the phone again with someone who's had that failure, was sort of immediately pushed out of his church, had to even flee the particular part of the country he was in because people don't know how to respond in grace when there's failure.

They don't seem to have that grace-awakened attitude toward people to be able to reach out and to restore them when they have fallen. A lot of people don't seem to really accept that God loves them, and they get down on themselves, and they refuse to forgive themselves.

There's even been extreme cases where people actually ended up committing suicide because of the extreme shame and guilt in failing to understand the way of grace, the way of forgiveness in Jesus. And it's my prayer that somehow we'll find that balance between grace and obedience, between forgiveness and restoration, between moral purity and holiness and forgiveness and grace.

It's a great challenge. That's why we have the whole of the Word of God. That's why I believe we should be open to listening to different people from different backgrounds. God is working in such a variety of ways.

If we're honest, we have to acknowledge there are many different ways that revival comes to churches, to people, even to parts of whole countries. And so we need wisdom and discernment as we go forth in this great movement.

I pray God's blessing upon you as you seek His face in these days, as you are open to the teaching of God's Word, and pray that through it you'll let one great scripture bring other great scriptures into great biblical grace-awakened action and reality, and that the ends of the earth, that's another whole subject, how revival and the life in Christ can affect our ministry to the ends of the earth.

And I'd love to send you a book about that if you'd email me, georgeatverworth .om .org. God bless you, and I hope to hear from some of you. And we'd love to send you something.

All God's people said, Amen. In the first part of the Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians, he says, Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in accordance with His pleasure and will to the praise of His glorious grace. God of grace and God of glory.

The Spirit gave the church new life as Reformation fires burned. And through the years the great revival...

We have to beg the Father to give.

What Christ died to provide. He who loved us so much that He spared not His only begotten Son and gave Him up for us all, how shall He not also along with Him graciously give us? And the filling of the Holy Spirit is not some mystical thing that just produces an over-bubbling of emotions.

Christ came in the fullness of time, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law that we might receive the promised Spirit of adoption. And when this Holy Spirit of adoption comes into your heart, He cries out, Abba.

The Holy Spirit gives each one of us access to the Father. And when we live and abide in the love of the Father, you will see the Father's righteousness. You will see the fulfillment of all the law made possible by the Spirit of Christ doing what He did in the Son, shedding abroad the love of God.

The Holy Spirit filling us with the one thing that will produce righteousness, God's love at work in us to will and to do of His good pleasure. This is love. Not that we love God, but that He loved us and gave up His Son.

And when we abide in love and God abides in us, by this is love perfected among us. And when this love of the Spirit of God abiding in us, filling us, bringing us into the relationship with Abba Father is perfected among us, you know what it does?

It gives us confidence in the day of judgment. You know why? Because as He is, so are we in this world. We love the Father by the very Spirit of God in our hearts crying out, Abba Father. And it takes no preacher, and it takes no prophet telling us to love the one, to be with the one we love the most.

We do it a free will offering. It's the desire of our hearts. It is faith working through love made possible by a circumcision done without hands. Circumcising the callous indifference religiosity and bringing a true and genuine oneness with the Father so that the love that God had for Christ might Himself be in us.

Till we are made perfect in one. One with the Father walking in the righteousness of Christ made possible by the Spirit of adoption poured out in our hearts. That's revival.

Revival is Jesus again. And actually I think when God finally gets us to see the power of the cross we stay in revival all the time. God didn't intend us to go very far without it. Over 23 and a half years ago we experienced that in western Nebraska and I've never got over it nor did I ever get over the day Jesus Christ saved my soul.

Well, here's some announcements. Cell phones off. And we'd like to acknowledge there's several websites that are broadcasting this around the nation and we'd just like to say thank you to all of you. There'll be a list to put out here but we'll just say thank you very much.

And to those of you that have joined in in other countries, I have a list of the countries and many, many states that have been joining us. There's going to be a panel tomorrow afternoon. It's on your schedule.

And so far, things change up here on this front row. Things change as we go along. But we have these men lined up right now to be on the panel. Don Curran and Brent... Let's see, let me come down the list.

Al Whittinghill and Don Curran and Brent Williamson, Steve Gallagher, Paul Washer, Roger Ellsworth, Ralph Satere, Ron Owens. And so these men so far, and sometimes men have to leave, they'll be here for a panel now.

We need questions to give the panel. So you write your questions out and you can turn them into one of the registration tables and that'll be for tomorrow. And I think that's about it. We decided we would just go ahead and get the announcements out of the way and Brother Ron's going to come up and lead us in worship right up to the point and Brother Paul Washer, wherever you're at, you'll be on when Ron Owens is done up here.

Okay, Brother Paul Washer, man of God, with tonight's message from God for us. Okay, Ron, thank you. Thank you, Alan, for that ministry revival and for the positive note that all that we need or ever will need has already been provided in Christ.

Please repeat after me, repeat after me just a few verses from Psalm 145. Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise. His greatness no one can fathom. One generation will commend your works to another.

They will tell of your mighty acts. They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty. And I will meditate on your wonderful works. They will tell of the power of your awesome works. But we think our stars are actually galaxies.

And in each of those hundred billion galaxies there are at least a hundred billion stars. And, folks, that's a lot. But that's just a small, small portion of who our God is, how great God is. One of the reasons we need revival is to restore to us the awe and the wonder of the greatness of our God.

The God of creation. They haven't lost it in heaven. They're worshipping the God of creation now. But I think supremely maybe worshipping the God of redemption. Because you see, the one through whom all things were created is the one who came to earth and hung on a cross and died.

He died that you and I might be here tonight. Think the loudest hallelujahs, the greatest crescendos of adoration and praise and worship reserved for the God of redemption. Because you see, in heaven right now there is a Lamb with His scars in His hands, His feet, His side, His brow.

They're worshipping the Lamb. We worship. And when I think naked in sin, gladly bearing as clear as crystal flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city, on each side of the river stood the tree of life bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month.

And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city. And His servants will serve Him. They will see His face and His name will be on their foreheads.

There will be no more night. They'll not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun for the Lord God will give them light and they will reign forever and ever. And the angel said to me, these words are trustworthy and true.

The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show His servants the things that must soon take place. Then these words that have echoed down over the corridors of time to you and to me tonight at this conference on revival here in Lilburn, Georgia.

Behold, I am coming soon. I am the Alpha and Omega. I am the First and the Last. I am the Beginning and the End. I am the Root and the Offspring of David. I am the Bright Morning Star. The Spirit and the Bride say come and let him who hears say come.

Whoever is thirsty, let him come. And whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life. And he who testifies to these things says, Behold, I am coming soon. No wonder! ...be of people who both reflect you and turn everything to you.

Do you have that you did not receive? And if you did not receive it, what do you boast? No, it is as though, see, it matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands. The only applause we're meant to seek is the applause of nail.

Should God call you to serve where others...

Christ, Lord, you know all things are all before you like an open book. Who can hide their heart from your presence? From your eye, the deeds of the most clever men are exposed before you. Your omniscience knows no bounds.

And if it were not for grace, I would be of all men most terrified. But there is grace, abounding and glorious, poured out upon the weakest of men and abounding to your glory. Father, I praise you and I worship you.

And I thank you for all that you are and all that you have done. And there is no one like you in the heavens or the earth or under the earth. You are King and there is no other. You are Savior and you share that glory with no one.

Father, this night you know me and my great need of grace. Why am I here except that you call the weakest among men, the most ignoble among brothers, and that by your grace oftentimes the lesser teaches the greater?

That is always my case. And I praise you, I worship you. Father, help us tonight to the wind with eloquence, to hell with the brilliant intellect, Father. But that truth go forward, that men be changed, that the state of your church be more glorious.

I pray for grace upon grace and mercy upon mercy for myself and for the hearers who are present here. Help us, O God. And we will be helped and we will boast in that help. In Jesus' name, Amen. It is a great privilege for me to be here this evening.

An astounding privilege to stand here before you and to speak about things such as revival, reformation, the working of God among His people and among men. But tonight, I'm going to share with you an indictment.

An indictment. But it is an indictment of hope. As I was praying through what I should do in this series of meetings, I came to a great conclusion, a great burden that was laid upon my heart. We need revival.

We need an awakening. But we cannot simply expect the Holy Spirit to come down and clean up all the mess we've made. We have clear direction from the Word of God with regard to what He has done through Christ, how He expects us to live, how He expects us to order His church.

And it does little good for men to cry out for extra-biblical manifestations when biblical principle is violated all around us. I want you to know this. There is little need for the devil and evil men to oppose a man praying for revival unless he is also laboring for reformation.

We have been given truth. And we cannot simply do what is right in our own eyes and then expect the Holy Spirit to come down and bless our labors. As we look into the Old Testament, we see that Moses is given very, very detailed explanation how to build the temple.

Now, was that given for Moses' sake or for the church's sake? I think that what is being explained here is that God is specific in His will and that we are not to presume that we can take the smallest detail and ignore it.

Now, I know that I am a frail man and I know that I am buffeted by many weaknesses, but I have an indictment. And I can't call it my indictment because who am I to indict anyone? And I dare not call it God's indictment for how can I presume upon His name?

But I will say this, as I look around at the church and compare her to Scripture, I see that there are certain things that must change. I am not Martin Luther. This is not 95 declarations nailed to Wittenberg's door.

But this is a burden on my heart and I must share it. I must share it. Now let me say this, what I'm going to say will anger some of you. But let me warn you, it may be true that you will be able to accuse me of arrogance.

It may be true that you do not like my delivery. I have many times been arrogant and I have many times delivered truth in a wrong way. But don't allow that to be an excuse for you. The question is what I'm saying, is it true?

Whether it's delivered through a faulty messenger or no. Others of you will be rejoicing in what you hear and you'll want to say amen and maybe pump your arms. But don't do that. Because all of us bear a measure of guilt.

And if you have attained to some spiritual state, then I would say what my brother has said. What do you have that you have not received? And if you have received it, why do you boast? Would it not be better to worship God in humility?

If you're a younger minister, I do not want you to get caught up in these truths and take them back and storm your church without love. I would make one suggestion. See to it that your knees are bleeding before you begin any sort of reformation.

And if you are an older minister serving the Lord for many, many years, I beg you not to be arrogant. An old foolish king can learn from the weakest of his servants. And also I beg you this, have the courage to change everything.

Even if it is the last day of your life. At least you can go into glory knowing that you attempted a reformation that was biblical. And I'll say this as a warning to the older men. And listen to me carefully.

I know the admonition in 1 Timothy chapter 5 of the way I am to address you, and so I address you this way. But there is a great awakening going on in this country. And not only in this country, in Europe where I have been and in South America and many other places, I see young men going back to the rock from which we were cut.

They are reading Spurgeon and Whitfield. They're still listening to Ravenhill and Martin Lloyd-Jones and Tozer and Wesley. And it's a great, incredible movement just because popular media and Christianity today hasn't discovered what's going on.

I want you to know that I would have never dreamed 15 years ago that I would see the awakening I'm seeing. Not through my ministry, but as I go to different places and see what God is doing without any of our ministry.

Whether it's Holland, a thousand young men declaring things have to... crying out all night in prayer for the power of God and the truth of Scripture. Or South America recognizing that they've been so influenced by psychology and all sorts of superficial techniques coming from America with regard to evangelism and now weeping and broking are going back and evangelizing their churches.

Or the inner city of the United States where I have sat up at times until 2 and 3 in the morning discussing theology with young African Americans in the hood whom God is going to raise up to do more preaching than anyone will ever be able to imagine on this day.

There is an awakening. And I'm going to say this with tenderness. Most men over 40 don't even have a clue about it. Many of the young people who are turning back to the old men and the old ways and the truths that have brought awakening time and time again in this world.

Most of these young men are quite young. And they'll go to their pastors. They'll go to their leaders and say, look at what we've discovered. Look what happened in Wales. Look what happened in Africa.

Look at this and look at that and look at this teaching. It's absolutely amazing. And most of them will either turn it away or say, it's nothing any different than what I've been preaching for 25 years when in fact it is completely different than what they have been preaching in 25 years.

And so we need to be very, very careful to understand that God is doing work. And He who began a good work will finish it. Many people have the idea that they're going to pray in a revival. And other people say, revival will come whether you pray or not.

I'm not in either one of those camps. But I know this. When I see men and women and young people all over the world praying for an awakening, to me, that is the first fruits of revival. And I can count on the fact that He who gave those first fruits will bring in the full harvest.

Now, I want to look at ten indictments if we have time. Things that I believe that we must change. First of all, the first indictment, a practical denial of the sufficiency of Scripture. Especially in my denomination, a practical denial of the sufficiency of Scripture.

2 Timothy 3 .15 and on says, and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

Over the last several decades there has been a mighty battle with regard to the inspiration of Scripture. Now, some of you have not been a part of that battle, but many of us in more liberal denominations most certainly have.

A battle for the Bible.

But there is only one problem. When you come to believe as a people that the Bible is inspired, you have only fought half the battle. Because the question is not merely is the Bible inspired? Is it inerrant?

The major question following that that must be answered, is the Bible sufficient? Or do we have to bring in every so-called social science and cultural study in order to know how to run a church? That is a major question.

Social sciences, in my opinion, have taken precedent over the Word of God in such a way that most of us can't even see it. It has so crept into our church, our evangelism, and our missiology that you can barely call what we're doing Christian anymore.

Psychology, anthropology, sociology have become primary influences in the church. Several years ago, many years ago, when I was in seminary, I remember a professor walked in and he started drawing footprints on the blackboard.

And as he marched them across the blackboard, then he turned to all of us and said only this, Aristotle is walking through the halls of this institution. Beware! For I hear his footsteps more clearly than those of the Apostle Paul and the team of inspired men who were with him and even the Lord Jesus Christ.

We have come to believe that a man of God can deal in certain tiny areas in the life of the church, but when it really gets tough, we need to go to the social experts. That's an absolute lie. It says here in Scripture that the man of God may be equipped, adequate, equipped for every good work.

What does Jerusalem have to do with Rome? And what do we have to do with all these modern day social sciences that were actually created as a protest against the Word of God? And why is it that evangelism and missions and so-called church growth is more shaped by the anthropologist, the sociologist, and the Wall Street student who is up on every cultural trend?

All the activity in our church must be based upon the Word of God. All the activity in missions upon the Word of God. Our missionary activity, our church activity, everything we do ought to flow from the theologian and the exegete.

The man who opens up his Bible and only has one question. What is Thy will, O God? We are not to send out questionnaires to carnal people to discover what kind of church they would attend. A church ought to be seeker friendly, but the church ought to recognize there's only one seeker.

His name is God and if you want to be friendly to someone, if you want to accommodate someone, accommodate Him and His glory. Whether it is rejected by everyone else, we are not called to build empires.

We are not called to be accepted. We are called to glorify God. And if you want the church to be something other than a peculiar people, then you want something God does not want. I want you to listen to Isaiah just for a moment, chapter 8.

Listen to what he says. When they say to you, consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter. This is a perfect answer and the church growth gurus and everything else. Because every two or three years, all their major theories change.

Not only on what is a man or how you fix him, but what is a church and how you make it grow. Every two or three years, there is another fad coming down the line of what can make your church into something super in the eyes of the world.

Just recently, one of the greatest or most well-known church growth experts said that he discovered that he was entirely wrong on all his theory. But instead of turning then to Scripture, on his knees, broken and weeping, he goes out to find another theory.

They give no clear word. It says here in Isaiah, should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? Should we as churchmen, as preachers, as pastors, as Christians, should we go out and consult the spiritually dead on behalf of those whom the Holy Spirit has made alive?

Absolutely not. Absolutely not. The second indictment, an ignorance of God. At times I am asked, Brother Paul, please come and do a week-long series on the attributes of God. And many times I will say this, well, brother, have you thought this through?

He said, what do you mean have I thought this through? Well, it's quite controversial, the subject that you're giving me to go teach in your church. And I say, what do you mean it's controversial? I mean, it's God.

We're Christians. This is a church. What do you mean it's controversial? I said, dear pastor, you listen to me. When I begin instructing your people on the justice of God, the sovereignty of God, the wrath of God, the supremacy of God, the glory of God, you're going to have some of your finest and oldest church members stand up and say something like this.

That's not my God. I could never love a God like that. Because they have a God. They have made with their own mind and they love what they have made. Jeremiah 9, 23, 24, Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me.

Again, Psalms 50. You thought, God speaking, you thought I was just like you. I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes. Now consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces and there will be none who delivers.

Now, what is the problem here? There is a lack of the knowledge of God. Many of you possibly think, oh, talking about the attributes of God and theology, it's all high ivory tower stuff that has no practical application.

Listen to yourself speak. Saying the knowledge of God has no practical excellence. Do you know why all your Christian bookstores are filled up with self-help books and five ways to do that, and six ways to be godly, and ten ways not to fall?

Because people don't know God. And so they have to be given all sorts of trivial little devices of the flesh to keep them walking as sheep ought to walk. First Corinthians 15, 34, Become sober-minded as you ought and stop sinning, for some have no knowledge of God.

I speak this to your shame. Why the rampant sinning, even among God's people, a lack of the knowledge of God. Now, let me ask you a question. When was the last time you attended a conference on the attributes of God?

When was the last time as a pastor you taught for a solid year on who God is? Much of all the teaching that goes on in America every week has anything to do with who God is. And then we wonder. It's so easy to go with the flow, to just follow everybody else, and then one day you hear something like this and all of a sudden you go, I can't even remember when anybody taught on the attributes of God.

No wonder we are a people as we are. To know Him, what everything's about, that's eternal life. And eternal life doesn't begin when you pass through the gates of glory. Eternal life begins with conversion.

Eternal life is to know Him. Do you honestly think you're going to be thrilled about swinging on gates of pearl and walking down streets of gold for an eternity? The reason why you won't lose your mind in eternity is because of this.

There is One there who is infinite in glory and you will spend an eternity of eternities tracking Him down and you will never get your arms even around the foothill of His mountain. So many different things you want to know and do in all the books.

Get out a book on God. This one. Study it. To know Him. To know Him. Sunday morning, because of all of this, I would submit to you that it would be better not even to have a Sunday morning. Sunday morning is the greatest hour of idolatry in the entire week of America because people are not worshipping the One true God, the Great Mass at least, but are worshipping a God formed out of their own hearts, by their own flesh, satanic devices, and worldly intelligence.

They've made a God just like themselves and He looks more like Santa Claus than He does Yahweh. There can be no fear of the Lord among us because there is no knowledge of the Lord. Third indictment. A failure to address man's malady.

When I look at the book of Romans, which is one of my favorite books of the Bible, it is not a systematic theology, but if you could say any book in the Bible was a systematic theology, the book of Romans would be the closest.

Isn't it amazing that Paul spends the first three chapters of that book seeking to do one thing, bring all men into condemnation. Bring all men into condemnation. But it is not that condemnation is his great sunum bonum in his theology.

It is not his end or his final purpose. It is a means to bring salvation to his readers because men must be brought to a knowledge of self before they surrender self over to God. Men are made in such a fallen manner now that you must cut away from them absolutely every hope in the flesh before they may be brought to God.

This is important in everything, but it is especially important in evangelism. I remember, I was 21 years old and had just been called to preach and I walked into an old store where they would sell suits to ministers for half price.

They had been doing it for 50, 60 years. And I walked in there and I was looking for a suit in Paducah, Kentucky. And all of a sudden, the door opened. I heard the bell ring and it closed. There was an old, old man standing there.

I never caught his name, but when he walked in he looked right at me and he said, ìBoy, youíve been called to preach, havenít you ?î. I said, ìYes, sir .î. He was an old, old evangelist. He said, ìYou see where that building is right outside this building ?î.

I said, ìYeah .î. He said, ìI used to preach there. The Spirit of God would come down and souls would be saved .î. I said, ìSir, please tell me about it .î. He said, ìThere wasnít anything like this evangelism today .î.

He said, ìWe would preach for two and three weeks and give no invitation to sinful men. We would plow and plow and plow and plow the hearts of men until the Spirit of God began to work and break their hearts .î.