Jacob Meeting God — Leonard Ravenhill

Sorry, Genesis? Book of Genesis. If you don't know where that is, it's the opposite end to Revelation. Genesis chapter 32. Genesis 32, I'm reading from verse 1. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host. And he called the name of that place, Manaheim. Actually, the word that way, Manaheim, means two hosts, because there was one host before him and a host behind him.

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, and to the land of Seir, and the country of Edom. And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau. Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban and stayed there until now.

I have oxen, asses, fox, men servants, women servants. I have sent to tell my lord that I may find grace in thy sight. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and he cometh to meet thee with four hundred men.

How wonderful. Well, then the next verse tells you what happened. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, for wouldn't you be if four hundred men were coming after you? All determined to destroy you.

Then was Jacob greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks and the herds, camels in two bands, and said, If Esau come with one company and smite it, then the other company which are left shall be saved.

And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the Lord which sent unto me, return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will do well with thee. Now he changed his tune, I'm not worthy to be the least of all thy servants.

Verse eleven,. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear lest he will fear, lest he will come and smite me and the mother with the children. There's a background for you.

Verse nineteen,. So he commanded the second, I'm sorry, I must go back. Verse sixteen,. He delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves, that is, every group of cattle, and said unto his servants, Pass over before me and put a space between, betwixt drove and drove.

You see, he didn't want the cattle mixing up, he didn't want them under one big line, he wanted them in short sections. A section of sheep, another section of sheep, a section of some other cattle, and so forth.

He commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau, my brother, meeteth thee, and asketh thee, Whose art thou, and where goest thou, and whose are these before thee? Then thou shouldst say, They are thy servant Jacob's, it is a present sent unto him.

You see how cautious he is? Scripture, verse nineteen,. And so he commanded the second section, and then the third section, and all that followed in the drove slain. This manner shall ye speak unto Esau.

And say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us, for he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me. You see, he's still a good Jew, he doesn't want to give too much away.

If he can appease his brother with one section of sheep, he's not giving the next lot. But if he presses, give them. If he takes the cattle, and he's not satisfied, I'll give him the second one, but don't let him come near me.

And it's kind of buying time to get where he wants to go. Verse twenty, He said, I'll appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face, and peradventure he will accept me.

So went the present over before him, and himself lodged that night, notice it's night, in the country. I remember when I was young and enthusiastic, an assistant pastor to a very brilliant pastor, in fact the most brilliant preacher I ever heard, Dr. Fawcett.

We took the whole church over from England to the Isle of Man, that's an island between England and Ireland. It's a self-governing island, it has a wonderful creature there, only found there in the whole world.

It has a beautiful cat, and every cat in that island never has a tail. They're born without tails, and that's not a tail. It's true. And we pitched our big tent in one field, and the women were lodged in that, and men in the other field, and a central tent for eating.

One night I decided to stay up and spend the night in prayer, so I went into a field about, I guess, nine o 'clock. It had been a warm night for England, roasting hot, seventy-two. And I thought, this is a lovely night, so I got down in the grass, I lay prostrate in the grass, which was fine for a couple of hours.

About one or two o 'clock, the rabbits came around me to see what was lying in the field, this strange creature. I'd never forgotten that night. It was beautiful going in, but it got intensely dark, it got intensely cold, it got intensely lonely.

Now, here is this man in the same situation. Pardon me. Verse 21. So went the present over before him, and himself lodged that night in the company. And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two women servants and his eleven sons and passed over the four jabbok.

And he took them and sent them over the brook and sent over that he had. And Jacob was left alone. Notice, did you, in verse seven we read Jacob was greatly afraid. And he divided the people. How many people?

I don't know. Servants, women servants, wives, everything else. But verse 24 says, Jacob was left alone. You know that's one thing God's trying to get with most of us? Trying to get us alone. We go to so many meetings, we have so many friends, and God all the time is trying to separate us.

He has to separate this man from his wealth, from his home, from his possession, from his position. He's alone. And it's a dark, dark night. Well, if I ask you what this story is about, you'll say, oh, we know this Brother Amiel over and over again.

It's Jacob wrestling with an angel. No, it isn't. It's an angel wrestling with Jacob. Jacob didn't go looking for the angel. The angel came looking for Jacob. Let me read it to you. Verse 24, Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him.

Later, he wrestled with the man, but first of all, it was the man that wrestled with him. And struggled with him all night, in the cold night, lonely. Maybe hearing the roar of beasts, wild beasts. Darkness, isolation, hunger, starvation, if you like.

Everything's been away from him, and he's alone. I remember flying over the Rockies once, and the pilot of the plane said, if you look to the right, you'll see an eagle flying. There was one eagle. They seldom fly in crowds.

Breeding time, yes, but otherwise alone. I remember crossing the Atlantic, and the buzzer went on the ship. Go to starboard, and you'll see a beautiful whale. And there was a great whale, and it was tossing its water in the air.

And most often, the whale, it goes alone. Great birds fly alone. The lion goes hunting alone. The devil, as a roaring lion, goes about. When does he roar? Well, if the lion roared, everything would run away from it.

He roars when he gets his foot on something, and he's possessed it, and he's torn it, and he's tasted the blood. Great lions hunt alone. Great birds fly alone. Great fishes swim alone. Great people walk alone.

Unless he didn't say amen, but anyhow, it's still there. Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled with him a man. Why didn't Jacob go home? The man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. Why didn't he answer his prayer immediately?

He's going to answer him. He's going to deliver him. Why not do it now? Because it's a test of character to be alone. Because I've told you before, God is not capricious. He doesn't play tricks. You see, if I'd spent more time alone with God, instead of traveling and thinking I was changing the world and whatnot, I'd be a very different man.

Verse 25, When he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh. Now, in the first part of this story, the angel lays hold of Jacob, and Jacob tries to get away. In the second part of the story, the angel tries to get away, which I'm sure is the anointed, the angel of the covenant.

I've got to quote Wesley. You'd think I'm dying or something. I may be wrong in this. I think I'm right. Oh, there's somebody else's language here. If you go in St. Paul's Cathedral, I think it is, or Westminster Abbey, there's what looks like a big coin on the wall, and there's a double profile, Charles Wesley and John Wesley.

Somebody said the most amazing brothers that ever worked in the church of Jesus Christ. Well, John made the theology, and his brother set it to music. We're going to learn his great hymn, and can it be that I should gain an interest in the Saviour's blood?

We're going to put that in the front page of the book. Well, I think this story, this story that I'm reading to you bit by bit, I want to put it this way. With a masterly economy of words, Charles Wesley puts that whole story together in verse.

It begins like this. Then he's holding on to the man. He says, He says, You see, our idea is we have to be strong. The reason God can't use you is you're too strong. Intellectually, you should be strong.

Spiritually, sure enough. But it's the lame that take the praise. For those who have no might, he increases strength. We don't quote Isaiah enough. What does he say? And it goes on to say again that strength comes to the weak.

One of the greatest mission societies ever was founded by a man called Hudson Taylor. I pastored a church many years after he'd been in that town. There's no memorial there, except in town. And there's a cooperative store and they have one old room with an old fireplace and a few pots and pans.

That young man went from Barnsley to China and established the China Inland Mission. You see, say that's China. Everybody came in by sea and they stopped at all the seaside towns. He went right inland there to the most difficult part and established the China Inland Mission.

Somebody asked him one day, when you've been to China already, yes, I've come back. I hear you're going back again. Yes, what's your resources? How much money do you have? He said, I have exactly a hundred dollars in the bank.

You're going to evangelize China with a hundred dollars? He said, yes. Is that all? He said, yes. And all the promises of God. And from that day to this, that society has never taken an offering at the door or an offering from anybody.

But why did you do it? I mean, there's a group of intellectuals there, Christian intellectuals, students in Cambridge University, Oxford University, some very brilliant ones in Glasgow University. Why did God take you?

He said, he'd been looking for years to find the weakest man he could find and he found me. And immediately he found me, he said, I became a giant in faith and expectation. I got rooted in the word of God and I'd drawn life on him in every difficult circumstance.

He'd been there a number of years, he got a house, he had meetings in the house, his wife died unexpectedly and he's 10 ,000 miles away from home. He put all the servants out of the house and asked the friends to go.

They had those big old-fashioned English doors, they have keyholes, you can nearly get through them, never mind look through them. And the servants said, why don't we watch him? Watch him, what do you want?

You watch. And they watched in turns. He's going to break down. He's 10 ,000 miles away from home. There had already been division in his camp, there had been criticism at home, he was going through a time of hell as it were.

Everything's falling around about him and when he needs it most, his wife dies. Then you'll see him, he'll be angry, he'll pray, he'll weep. Instead of that, he walked up and down quietly up and down that room and just waved to the casket where his wife remains, singing Jesus, I am resting, resting in the joy of what thou art.

I am finding out the greatness of thy loving heart. Thou hast bid me gaze upon thee and thy beauty fills my soul, for by thy transforming power thou hast made me whole. Jesus, I am resting, not weeping, not fretting, not complaining, resting.

There remaineth a rest for the people of God. I'm going to dig in that again sometime. The first call of Jesus was, come unto me. The second was, follow me. The third was, abide in me. Jesus said, come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, I will give you rest.

Then you cross a bridge, take thy yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly at heart and ye shall find rest. But they've got rest, it's all been addressed. They rest from anxiety about sin, anxiety about death, anxiety about judgment, but they still don't have the inward rest.

There's too much inward strife. There remaineth a rest, Hebrews says, for the people of God. Well, he says, yield to me now, for I am weak but confident in self-despair. Speak to my heart, in blessings speak, be conquered by my instant prayer.

Speak, or thou never hence shalt move and tell me if thy name is love. My prayer hath power with God, the grace unspeakable I now receive. Through faith I see thee face to face, I see thee face to face, and live.

In vain I have not wept and strove, thy nature and my name is love. What does God do to him? He struggles all night. Jacob wants to get free. Hour after hour, they wrestle, they wrestle, they wrestle, and God doesn't deliver him.

Why? Because he's still confident that he can do it himself. He's still confident that he can beat this person, whoever he is. Well, who do you think he thought he was? He's at the other side of the brook, Jabbok.

There's only one man in the world he fears, and that's his brother who said he would destroy him. And as Jacob goes around the rock there, somebody jumps on him. Well, who do you think he thought he was?

I'm sure he thought it was his brother. If I'm going to die, I'm going to die fighting. And he struggles and he fights and he wrestles. You know, so often when we get into circumstances where God is trying to get us down, pin us to the ground and show us we have nothing, we fight and we struggle and we pray and we send for requests for prayer.

We undo what God's trying to do in our lives. People ask me sometimes when they protest, no, I won't pray for you. Why? You're asking me to pray God will take off you what God wanted to put on you? You don't become a saint by reading books.

You don't become strong by reading books. They may help you to some degree. So there he is. He's trying to get away with all the anger that God does, which is the Son of God, I'm sure, or the angel of the covenant.

And the more he struggles and wriggles, the tighter the grip on him. And there he is. He's locked up in the arms of this person. What happens? Jacob was left alone and wrestled with the man until the breaking of the day.

What weary hours it must have been. Do you think it was? Don't you think it was the most exciting thing that ever happened to him? He couldn't explain it but he's experiencing it. There are things that you can never explain in that you haven't experienced.

And yet this person, as I say, the angel of the covenant is wrestling with him. Verse 25 says when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh. Why? Because that was Jacob's last resort.

When you're wrestling, a man that wrestles, he needs strong thighs. And this man is pretty strong. And the last thing that has to go is his self-sufficiency, his strength. He has to get to the place where he says, God, I've got nothing.

I've done some wrestling before. I usually win, but here I am. I'm beaten now. And God puts his finger on the spot where he was strongest. So be careful how you pray because God may come on your life like that.

God doesn't want just your weakness. He will transform it. But he takes our strength. Now the tide is turned. Instead of Jacob trying to get away from the one who's wrestling, the one who was wrestling with him tried to get away and he says, I will not let thee go.

Contented now upon my thigh. He's lame. You see, the reason we don't pray is that it demands so much on the flesh, even this flesh. You can't pray to the flesh of the nature. You sabotage your own thing.

But it's hard on the flesh. Do you think that man, Jacob, ever forgot the place? He could come up a mountain and say, it was just behind that rock there. It was there where I met God. It was there where I went up in strength and he weakened me.

It was there where I went up weak and he strengthened me. He took away my last resort. He took my strength from me. You see, we say that this man, Jacob, is trying to get a blessing. No. God's trying to get something out of him.

I remember as a youngster once I saw a telescope. I picked it up and I looked through the wrong end. I couldn't believe why people were excited being looking through it. I picked it up and here it's the objective away there and it's about this size.

Then suddenly I turned it around and looked the other way. It made all the difference. If you see this story only as as the as Jacob trying to get a blessing it's more than that. This holy one is trying to get him right to the last resource and take his strength until he's nothing at all to lean on.

He's left his wife. He's left his children. He's left his servants. He's left his possessions. He's left his cattle. But God hasn't got him alone yet. Then he gets alone. And where does he get you alone?

In the darkness. Isn't that something? You tell me what a man does when in his spare time I'll tell you what kind of a man he is. He hangs on. And as I said the other night if you hang on to God you don't need to hang on to anybody else.

You'll have friends and so forth. But in the deepest sense of the word you hang on to God for your life for your joy for your peace because he is all I need we sing. Can you imagine somebody saying I saw Jacob the other day you know he drags one leg.

Oh I saw him a couple of years ago he was like that. It's not getting any better. No it isn't. You see there's part of a beast that the Jews to this day won't eat because of this fact. Jacob remember out of him there's going to come a marvelous race of people.

But God gets him to the extreme that he has nothing. He's no home. He's no wife. He's no children. He's no possessions. And the last thing he has and God said I'll take that as well. But look at the reward that he had.

Verse 26 says let me go for a daybreak. And he said I will not let thee go except thou bless me. Surely it's after a blessing. And the angel said thy name shall be called no more Jacob but Israel because you're a prince.

You came up here with possessions you came up with personality you came up with power but it's all gone. Isn't that nice to have a title like that a prince with God. But you know what your friends may flatter you.

I'll tell you what God never flatters anybody. He flattens you but doesn't flatter us. You say well why doesn't he flatter us because it says in the let me see 41st of Isaiah fear not thou worm Jacob.

How do you like that? I saw my neighbor he's Jacob tonight. I said I've got a new name for you. He said what? I said you're a worm. He said what? I said that's what the Bible says. In Isaiah 40 it says fear not thou worm Jacob.

So what? Do you want to see some more of my artistry? Here it is. You won't guess what that is. Well it's a mountain. And here's a little thing. A dirty little worm. And here's a mountain. Here's an elephant or you can tell it by its trunk but anyhow here's an elephant.

This little thing can go in a mountain right through that mountain to the other side. No other creature in creation can do that. And it says in Isaiah 51 fear not thou worm Jacob. I shall thresh the mountains.

Doesn't make a good context does it? The worm goes in at one side then what happens? The air blows through and that solid stuff becomes excuse me becomes dust and blows away. But the only creature that can go through a mountain I used to pick worms up when I was a boy put them in my sister's hand put them in her bed once and sure got into trouble.

But you know after that when she got exasperated and angry with me she said you worm that used to make me so mad. She called me a butterfly a worm? A worm has no eyes I've never found eyes on a worm I've never found legs on a worm it has no hands.

I can't find its legs. It's a picture of absolute nothingness. And yet God said that creature can go through a mountain and you're facing mountains of opposition become a worm. Discard all your ability throw away all your personality so to speak.

Cleave your weakness because he turns it into strength. I shall recall no more Jacob as a prince thou hast power with God. He doesn't heal him and he doesn't pray for healing. The brand of God is to take men and show them in their weakness and deficiency how he can take them.

I remember when Nicky Cruz came to God we were working in Teen Challenge at that time in New York. He could hardly put two English words together it doesn't do too good now but it was worse then. Oh how contemptuous he was at first of Christianity.

And yet how marvellously God changed him and others that I think were far beyond him. I remember a man coming in he was about six feet high and I said What do you want? He said This is my wife. I said She is?

Well no no no no she's not my wife we've lived together for three years. Boy her hair you should have seen it. I'm sure she'd done it with Mobil oil that had been through the engine once. Streaky she smelled woof woof get my wife off drugs.

Thank you for the order. We sent her in a room where about forty women were praying. She came out of that totally liberated transformed. Next day when I got to that room he said My wife Mary she's different.

Will she stay different? I said Really God made her different. Can I go in that room? Yes he went in. They had a system of robbing they had a plan for pawn shops in New York. They marked them out you know they say there's West 44th Street that runs through some other place they had all these pawn shops marked and they raided them systematically and she watched on the street and she had a sign to give him he got in the back they robbed and robbed and robbed and robbed.

He went in that room and he got marvellously saved. He was illiterate dear old Dave used to dress them up get them nice soaps and get their teeth fixed and their hair cut and all the rest. That guy was illiterate.

He went to a small yes Pentecostal Bible School on the East Coast for an extracurricular activity he studied Greek. At the end of the first semester when the Greek expositor was speaking he'd say you know gentlemen there's a word a Greek word for flesh is sarx and he says yes sir and there's another one called soma sarx and soma and they're interchanged and he kept pulling the Greek scholar up so at the end of the end of the semester they asked the guy to leave.

He's now a very awesome man he's a marvellous man of God. We had another man there from Yale University no Harvard and recently I told him I said what about what was his name James he said I went to a conference to speak and James spoke before me.

I didn't speak after him. Here's a man from Harvard has to follow God that's been in the gutter he's lived with women he's drunk he's fought he's been in murders been in everything and yet God gets hold of him.

He said he's still lame in some ways he bears scars but to me he's a prince with God. You can have your superstar on TV. I'm not much respectful. Never mind anything else as a prince thou hast listen two things.

Power with God. And you've prevailed. You know I notice one thing missing out of this time of prayer. It doesn't say that he wept. Does it? Yes it does. But he said it doesn't be my version. You should read the King James.

But he won't find it in the story. He'll find it in Hosea of all the places. A little prophecy of Hosea chapter 12 and verse 2 says the Lord also had controversy with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways.

Jacob, this same Jacob according to his doings. Will he recompense him. He took his brother by the heel in the womb and by his strength. He had power with God. Yet he had power over the angel the angel the angel of the covenant.

He had power over the angel of God and he wept. You can't have travail without tears. You can't have travail without sweat. Let me give you the last verse. It's from Mr. Wesley. Here a minute. He says lame as I am I take the prey hell, earth.

Listen lame as I am I take the prey hell, earth and sin with ease or come I leap for joy pursue my way and as abounding hearts fly home through all eternity to prove thy nature and thy name is love beautiful.

You know I hear people say oh you get ravenous. And some of those old crownies there. You know we don't have to lay hold of God now we don't have to pray like this. I was telling a lady this week a few years ago I went to a big conference.

I never got back. They asked me to preach and I preached on the judgment seat for 3 hours and 15 minutes. And I didn't know it was that time. They said they had those big reels. You remember the old reels they had.

They filled 2 or 3 of those. So what you got. Your money's worth. You know what. The altars were crowded. And a man came and he said you know the altars were still filled at 12 o 'clock this morning. People didn't used to go and kiss the ground with their knees and get up when they said a little slobbering prayer to the Lord.

I'm sorry for my sins. I'd like to be better. My old prayer life is weak. They stayed at the altar in what they called. They prayed through. They prayed till they got assurance. And once they got up all the demons in hell couldn't shift them.

There's no backsliding. Amazingly. How many churches you go to. They believe in eternal security. But they get saved every revival they have. They are free a year. They get saved 3 times over in their eternal security.

So they must be pretty insecure in their security. Just looking there at Isaiah 64 7. Isn't it there. Isaiah 64 and verse 7 what's it saying. There is none that call upon my name that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee.

I don't care how many baptisms of the Holy Ghost you have. I don't care how many gifts you have. There are times you have to stir yourself up. Paul says to Timothy stir up the gift of God which is in thee.

By the laying of my hands we go to sleep so easily. We get satisfied so easily. You should keep constantly stirring yourself up. How would you do it. You can do it by literature. Every time I see precious.

I forget his name now. Spencer there. I've got his list. I read it today about the Indians all over America. The percentage. Some of the tribes 95 alcoholics some 80 some 70 And the stuffy folk all sitting in churches all day Sunday.

Then we stretch the hand out to the people that own the country. There are four times as many suicides amongst the Indians. Isn't it as there are amongst white people. And four times as many. What's the other mortality rate is four times that of the whites and alcoholics.

Four times the rate suicides. Four times the rate who bothers about them. I won't put you on the spot. I'm not afraid to do it. I like to do that. Dear Lord if I can embarrass you what you can do at the judgment seat with a billion eyes looking on you.

When God looks on your record for today and says you never thought of the Indians. You haven't thought of the Indians for a year. They're full of superstition. They have witch doctors. They have witchcraft.

Not in Africa but here in America. But somehow it's more exciting to get in a canoe and paddle up the Amazon to the Indians there and there are lots of them there. There may be a million. You go up the Amazon and turn off to the Orinoco River and turn off to another river.

A missionary did that and he said. I thought well this is wonderful. I'm a pioneer. Nobody's ever been up here before. No white man. He went round the bend. There was a sign hanging on a tree. Standard oil.

Standard oil had got there before the missionary had got there. The Mormon society has more missionaries than all the other missionary societies put together. I read a statistic today that there are 51 million people in the world full of the Holy Ghost with appendicosphexia.

I don't believe it for a minute. Not 10 of them 75 million Americans filled with the Holy Ghost and with some stinking hell holes. They're preaching faith and coveting this. And at the end there's a woman selling a body in the backstreet.

Kids are snuffing junk and drinking. People are all about the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The biggest thing the church needs to know is the baptism of honesty. Why do we admit our bankruptcy our powerlessness.

Ok, Jacob didn't give up. He held on to the end. If he hadn't given up what would he have missed again, isn't it better to be crippled and leave that place a spiritual giant and go on in the crazy way we're living now.

God says none stirreth up himself to lay hold of God. The last scripture Exodus 32 and 10. It's almost a terrifying chapter. I'll go back please a little in there. The beginning of chapter 32 when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said answer him up.

Make us gods which will go before us. Verse 4. He received of them at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool. And with a graving tool he did it. And then later he lies to God and said I put their gold together.

And a calf jumped out. That's a tall story. Isn't it bigger than any of Aesop's stories. When Aaron saw it verse 5 he built an altar before it and made a proclamation and said tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.

And a dancing round idols. And the dancing round naked. Verse 19 says it came to pass. As soon as he came nigh to the camp. He saw the calf and dancing. Moses waxed anger waxed hot. Go back to verse 10.

The Lord said unto Moses get down for the people which thou brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. What would he say of our nation tonight. A precious woman wrote me a letter this week. I've known her a number of years.

Her husband's a genius at golf. They've tried to impress him to become a professional. He won't. I preached one night in Baton Rouge on no man that warreth entangleth himself with the feathers of his life.

He'd trade out all his expensive golfing gear and he started collecting books. Now he's got about twice or three times as many as I have some very choice books. And she said in a letter this week she said well Brother Landon Martha the Lord's really working on me.

I can hardly sleep after four o 'clock. I'm up every morning between four and five and have to have long periods in which I can't utter a word. All I can do is sob and grieve over a nation that's so rotten.

And a church that's so sterile. Pretty little business. A woman whose husband's well off she has a family and she said I can't sleep. And when I get up I can't pray. I just grieve. I just mourn I just weep.

Well notice if you're after a pure heart read what it says there in the fifth is it sixth of Matthew. It says first of all blessed are they that mourn. And then after that a pure heart. But you can't have a purity without mourning without grief without brokenness to realize you've been crucifying the Son of God.

Afresh. The Lord said go down for thy people which thou have brought out of the land of Egypt. They have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside out of the way. They made a molten calf and worshiped it.

Verse nine. The Lord said unto Moses I've seen this people. Behold it is a stiff necked people now therefore let me alone. Verse ten. Now therefore let me alone that my wrath wrath may wax hot against them.

Skip over to verse nineteen. It came to pass as soon as he came unto the camp and he saw the calf and the damned thing that Moses' anger waxed hot. You see if you get into the presence of God when God's in the mood of anger you'll get angry.

There's an overflow out of God. That's why I bypass a lot of this junk. If you pardon me. And if you want I'll still say it junk theology. But the only sign of being filled with the Holy Ghost is to speak in tongues nothing.

That's a genuine gift. I don't believe many have it. How often you get holy anger. How often you go down the path to Tavern. And you see them brawling and shouting and carrying on. You pass a newsstand and half the girls on the covers there are naked.

The Lord said unto Moses I've seen this people. God says look America I've seen you. I know every hell hole you have. I know every broken life. I know every broken home and every mind that's broken with drugs.

Every life that's broken with uncleanness. I know every diseased man with VD and AIDS and all the rest of it. I know it. You've corrupted your generation. You've out sinned Sodom. You've out sinned Gomorrah.