The Indestructible Man (Kansas City) - Part 2 — Leonard Ravenhill

So you have this mass of corruption and John the Baptist came. Poor guy. God didn't give us chance. Supposing God had taken the pillar of fire that led Israel through the wilderness. Supposing he put in the wilderness and said and everybody said what's that?

It's the pillar of fire that led our fathers. He didn't do that. Supposing the Holy Ghost had come like a dove. He didn't come like that. And here's John Baptist. What did he have? I'll tell you what.

He didn't have. He had no priestly robes. He had no altar. He had no sacrifice. He had no choir. He had no formality. If you come through town and you've seen the high priest in his garments of glory and beauty you'd say how wonderful.

It tells us here what kind of people were here. I'll tell you what kind of people who were here that are not mentioned. There were two kinds of people watching John the Baptist every day. One found John.

They looked on John with great amusement and the others looked on John with great amazement. Some said look at the freak. That's an old camel skin. They all fleas are jumping off it. He's a rugged ragged man.

Do you remember the other side of that gap? Malachi in the last chapter says The Lord whom he seek shall suddenly come to his temple. We're not seeking the Lord today. We're seeking signs and wonders and miracles.

Forget it. I've lived through a period. When I came to America first in 1950, there were a host of evangelists. Oral Roberts was not so well known. Jack Cole was very well known. A .A. Allen was well known.

There were strings of men in this country with 5 ,000, 6 ,000, 7 ,000 seated tents and they had signs and wonders and miracles. People lining up bringing people in wheelchairs who were healed and walking away.

What did it do? They went back to their beer. They went back to their dancing. They were not regenerate. They were not changed. They saw the miracle who saw more miracles than the children of Israel. Did it lead them to holiness?

It led them to rebellion. He said in verse 3 of this chapter He John the Baptist came into all the country about Jordan preaching the baptism of the repentance. For the remission of sins as it is written the book of the words of Esau.

The prophet saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord and Listen, this is how he preached. I was gonna say to you as that brother preached about fire. This man had a tongue Hotter than the tail of a scorpion.

No, he had a tongue that was like a laser beam. You know what you're doing revival. You never have an altar call. I'm trusting the Holy Ghost will burn in you this morning with so shame for your barrenness.

You'll be so convicted of your prayerlessness. Some of your own children are going to hell and the other shed a tear over them. Your own church is bankrupt and you sleep all night or watch TV for hours and don't pray for 10 minutes.

So America isn't going to a head-on destruction. It isn't going to a head-on clash with Russia. Dear brother whether you believe that or not. I don't but anyhow. Both America and Russia are going I if we if you get past a clash together.

We're heading for Armageddon anyhow, and after that we're heading for the judgment seat of Christ the most awesome thing that's ever happened. We're on a collision course. I Don't know brother this morning yesterday.

I forget so quickly. But I was thinking of about last year one of the popular magazines. It took a Census across the nation. Are you afraid? Yes, what's your number one fear? I can't give you the exact quotation how he came out tabulated, but one was I'm afraid That we'll have an atomic war.

Number two, I'm afraid I may get cancer number three. I'm afraid my daughter 16 may come home. I'm pregnant. Well, my son 18 may come home with AIDS and so it went on. I'm afraid of an atomic war. I'm afraid that the financial world is gonna collapse.

You know, I was saved last year. Not on the 19th when all the banks were gonna fold up. It was the 20th, you know held the world together a little English woman. She doesn't know that much about money.

But the friend of a friend of mine is one of the key men in world finance. He called that little English woman and said what should we do? She said don't close all the banks. No, they said we're gonna close all the banks.

Let all the money float. Don't do that. Why not? She said call me back in an hour. He called back in an hour and she said it's alright. Listen, this is fact. It won't be reported in magazines. We don't like to give God any credit.

You know what happened that precious woman called The leading intercessor in 30 different nations in an hour and Said listen, the whole economy of the world is going to collapse. Stand with me in prayer and in the book in eternity.

You'll see the books open and that little woman will come forth. She saved the economy of the world along with 30 other intercessors around the world and after they prayed some Superman. My friend's friend knows him but won't give his name.

He said I don't know his name. He said he put all his billions of dollars and refloated all the banks in the world. Otherwise on the 20th of October last year, not the 19th the 20th the whole world economy would have collapsed and a praying woman.

With 30 other intercessors and you think intercession doesn't count. I would rather be an intercessor than be the greatest preacher in the world. I'm too old to want anything. No, I want a new intimacy with God.

I want a new touch of fire on my soul before this day is through. Before this meeting is too. I can't wait. I've heard for 50 years. There's an awakening around the corner. There's an awakening around the corner.

God help us. I can't wait. Or there's gonna be a new awakening in five years in between a million people will die without God. To use Wesley's words, I'm asking God to open a door which earth and hell may strive to shut but stride in vain.

So John was preaching if you go back to the account, I won't do that. If you go back to Matthew's account he talks about them the pulling power of this fire-bred prophet. Again, God was going to lead Israel by a pillar of fire.

It doesn't give a pillar of fire gives you a man on fire a man who has touched God. Dear God, I've seen a thousand ten thousand bumper stickers. God is love. Forget it. God is fire. Change it. I suppose Solomon built the most extravagant building that was ever built till Bob Shuler came.

Bob Shuler, what did he build? He built a glass house. Do you know what it's caused? It caused a greenhouse effect on evangelism in America. Poor Bob. You know Solomon use use gold like we use cement.

He got all his priests red dressed up. He got the choir in order. He got an altar of gold pure gold. He had everything in order, but there was one thing missing. Altar is no good. Sacrifice is no good unless the fire falls.

Remember he prayed and cried let the fire fall and the glory of God so came the priest couldn't minister. I Want to go to meetings like that Mike if your grief over your bankruptcy gets so bad. You can't stay there.

You feel it's burning. Get up walk to the altar. You may be the key to revival if you can get your pride burned up. Your self-satisfaction your self-sufficiency. Okay, let me rush to this now. He's preaching to the multitude in verse 7.

They came to be baptized of John and He called them a generation of vipers. Is that wonderful? The ecclesiastical guys in the dark colors, that's like me going into the papacy or Westminster Abbey and saying to all the people you swine.

Do you think I'd be voted man of the year? Do you think if John the Baptist preached once on TV he'd ever get back again? We don't have a voice in America today. They're all echoes. They all borrow what the other man has done.

There's no man lying in the presence of God till he hardly dare open his mouth. I got two precious brothers with me brother Bracey and brother Sonny. We have a prayer meeting on Thursday mornings, and it's wonderful.

Bracey's the moderator is a very wonderful man. Bracey was in Africa for a few years. How many years. Five terribly hot. He didn't leave because he was hot, but he left Sonny. Bracey was in Africa a few years, and it was too hot.

Sonny was in hell for a number of years, and it was too hot so he got out of it. Do you know where God trained him in the bowels of ships at a stevedore down in Houston amongst the roughest toughest men.

Didn't why? He challenges me. He brought an offering to God. He brought his house. He takes boys off the streets. He takes me incurables and God kills them. He's always working on a shoestring. You see that what's a couple crouches I?

Wish they did crouch on TBN. Made an appeal the other week for money got 25 million dollars gone home at the judgment. I heard t .e. What's eevee? Eevee how is it? Fun. Oh Eevee Hill boy. I enjoyed that dear old black man.

You know one thing he said with a big voice of his you know. Watch who your children marry. Don't let them marry anybody. You don't get race horses out of mules. He's not a good one. Then sister what's her name?

His name Jan Jan. She's there with a pink wig on. I thought imagine pulling it off to wipe the feet of Jesus. Eevee Hill was mocking the Christian women. He said the Christian women are late for church.

They found they had the wrong wig on so they went home to change it. You have a you have a yellow one on Sundays. A silver one on Mondays. A brown one on Tuesdays a red one on Wednesdays. And heaven help you forget the wrong one.

Isn't it pathetic what's happened in the church of the living God? Let me tell you this a minute here verse 7 says the multitude came forth. He called them a generation of vipers. Now look this is preaching in verse 10.

It says the people asked him. What shall we do notice that? Verse 9 the people said what shall we do? Look at verse 12 then came the publicans to be baptized and said what shall we do? Then the soldiers came and said what shall we do?

That's preaching. There's no alter car. The Roman soldiers Kipling would call them the lesser breeds outside of the law. They've come from a country of gods and Priests, but when they heard John the Baptist they said what shall we do?

How do I get rid of this leprosy within how do I get rid of this bondage. How do I get rid of my pollution? What should we do the people cried the publicans cried the soldiers cried? And even the Holy Ghost it's you you cry you won't sit there nursing you your feebleness nursing your prayerlessness nursing your coldness.

You should have got up and been at the altar already here when the brother was preaching. You can't buy this anointing. I thank God for the incorruptible Holy Ghost. Again, the Holy Ghost doesn't do anything small.

He made the world. He made the Christ in the womb of the Virgin Mary. He came on a bunch of men in the upper room that were failures and what he do he turned the world upside down. Are you going to do it again?

Let me look here in st. John's account. It says this in chapter 1. This is the record of John chapter 1 and verse 19 says. This is the record of John when the Jews and priests look at them. Priests and Levites came from Jerusalem to ask him now.

Look, I'll tell you something that this man didn't have. He didn't have a mass transport system to get people to see him. He's in the most difficult place. He didn't have altars. He didn't have a choir.

He didn't have any financial backing. Again he had no pillar of fire there again, there wasn't a man on earth had ever seen a prophet and. It says he came in the spirit and power of Elijah and then you say but Elisha had a double portion of spirit.

But listen, it was Elijah who was on the Mount of Transfiguration. It was Elijah that this man was like him too. It's Elijah that lies in the streets isn't it in Jerusalem at the end of time and here is another edition.

God has brought us this fearless anointed man. Look at verse 33, please. Pardon me verse 31. Let me back up again verse 29 the next day what next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and said Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away.

What? This is a misquoted verse. It doesn't say the sins of the world. It says the sin of the world the very Essence of sin the very nature of sin. God is of holy rise and to behold iniquity. Well, how'd it out as Wesley says God the heaven of heavens cannot contain God.

But God was contracted to a span and pushed into the womb of a woman. How do you explain it? There's no explanation for the incarnation. God was contracted to a span. I don't understand how God became man, but less do I understand how he became sin.

He says here The Lamb of God. Do you know that's the most terrifying expression? Who were there the priests and the Levites did not is saying listen you priests. This word declares your bankruptcy. Your altars are obsolete your lifestyle is obscene.

You're out of business. I Tell you I believe the very gates of hell tremble. This is about all John said Behold the Lamb of God. He didn't say the Lamb of Israel. He didn't say the Lamb of the high priest.

He didn't say the Lamb of the people. He said the Lamb of God and they knew. They knew instinctively because they knew the Word of God that the Lamb that was made a sacrifice was spotless. The priest had to look over it from head to tail and test it and say it had no warts.

See it had no disease. See it had no incapacities. Check its eyes to see they were seeing and its ears to hear see they were hearing and he says this is the Lamb of God, this is the most perfect Lamb that ever was.

I Took what sort some great hymns. Is most famous when I surveyed the wondrous cross. Is not a famous Christmas. Him joy to the world. The Lord is come that he wrote this him to not all the blood of beasts on Jewish altar slain.

Could take one guilty conscience make one guilty conscience. Clean nor wash away the stain but Christ the heavenly lamb. How many lambs that they sacrificed by the high priest through all the system that they had of sacrifices?

I like what brother David said every offering in the Old Testament every sacrifice had to have fire and Fire hurts. You can't have the baptism with the Holy Ghost without it hurting you. It'll burn up your career.

It will change your direction. It will alter your lifestyle. It will alter your vocabulary. I'm gonna this is I'm talking about the. I'm talking here about John the Baptist. The incandescent man tomorrow morning.

I want to talk about the indestructible man. But listen, here is the perfect lamb John. John the Apostle wrote about John the Baptist. Behold the Lamb of God. I'm gonna tell you see, you know what? We preach the terribly handicapped, you know, it's handicapped us for this thing.

You I were I preached the church last Sunday morning didn't hold 200 people. They had an amplifying unit. John Wesley at my age 82 preached to 80 ,000 people. Everybody heard him. In the in the old Crystal Palace in London.

Mr. Nellie said doctor never claimed that or a reverend Spurgeon. Not too long before he died. He spoke to 27 ,562 people. I think it was maybe that's an exaggeration 525 and 61. I think he was 27 ,651 or two people and everybody heard him.

We've no voices anymore. We don't have anointing so we turn up the amplifying have a switch here. Shout your arguments weak shout. People not being moved shed a tear. Listen, there's more to preaching than flaming oratory and surface tears.

I'm craving that old-fashioned preachy will come back. There are three things missing in modern preaching immensity intensity and eternity. If you don't touch eternity in a meeting, I don't care how eloquent the man was.

If you don't shrink at some time, I don't care if you don't feel dear God, I'm unclean. I thought it was alright. Behold the Lamb of God it echoed down the Jordan Valley. It echoed down every cavern in hell.

Jesus has been living 32 years to say I bring fire on earth and Now John is introducing him. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. That's a painful experience. I Felt the same as you mentioned David a bit earlier.

Some people cringe yesterday when when brother Mike was talking about money. Because he said we talked about prosperity. I'll tell you what the Bible name for it is covetousness, which is as a sin of idolatry for which you could be stoned.

You know while he was saying that I could see a parade. I had a vision of hundreds of men walking down the road and they had a Bible in one hand and a bank book in the other and. For some of you the thing that's keeping you from getting the anointing of God is you're living in the Old Testament.

You say I don't live in the Old Testament. I say you don't why because you give God a tenth of your income. If Jesus had said to the rich young ruler give a tenth. He was already giving a tenth. He kept all the commandments.

If Jesus said well double it. He'd have doubled it, but Jesus didn't say give me a bit more. Give me it all. It's all or nothing. Do you know what Christianity is? Christianity is Christ plus nothing.

If you believe that you'll be running to the altar not clapping. You'll get that thing you've been craving for us. Do you know what you'll get on fire for God as I've said one reason We don't have revival is we're content to live without it.

The reason you don't have it. There's something you're hanging on to. It may not be bad. It may be pretty good, but it's not the best. It's keeping you. It's got you in bondage. You Know sometimes we want liberating and it the best thing is brother mentioned in another way.

The best thing is we go through trouble. Where was it? Where were the three Hebrew children? Everybody in town knew they prayed three times a day. But when they got in the midst of the fire, they saw the form of the fourth and you're in the midst of the fire.

You're asking the pastor to pray you out of it. That's why God wants you to reveal Christ to your family Christ your church. Let me skip on quickly now. We'll keep on quickly. Verse 31 says I knew him not.

So there you are. It was his own cousin. He didn't know him. John had been dwelling with the wild peace peace. He didn't know Jesus, but it says here. I knew him not. But the Spirit bear record saying I saw the Spirit descend from heaven upon him.

Now listen to this verse. I knew him not. That's the second time He says that but he that sent me to baptize with water the same said unto me upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit Descending. They didn't say that but what did he say?

He said on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining. Pentecost is not something that happened. Pentecost is a relationship. I got married to my darling wife. We've been married this our 50th year and she's more precious now than ever.

She was. Why because I'm not depending on a piece of paper I got to tell me 50 years ago, I married Martha Wilson. It's a relationship and If you have a true experience of God, it's not an event where you had a wonderful transformation and spoke in tongues every day.

You live it's a new anointing. It's a new revelation. It's a new vision. It's a new compassion. I. There are ten times that number here. If a hundred and twenty people catch fire we could change the history of America.

If you got so filled with God that you didn't go anywhere. You didn't go to lunch. You say I can't live. I'm tired of being so bound. What did the fire do to the three Hebrew children. It burned off the fetters the world put on them.

That's all it did. It didn't burn the hair. It didn't burn the clothes. They were transformed men and the nation had to take notice of them. I Better hurry on this. Why is it people have craved for this?

There was a meeting not as big as this in England over a hundred years ago. And the committee were on the platform and one of them got a list and he said William Booth. You are appointed to be the pastor at so-and-so Mrs. Booth got up and she said not so William and When they got outside he took hold of the hand of his wife.

She had the curvature of the spine. She's the genius. He was a genius. He's the moneymaker. Is half Jew and half Gentile. She was the prayer power. She prayed with the almost awesome power. So what happened?

He says I waited until the Holy Ghost came in my office. I have an American flag and I have the Salvation Army flag and on it. It says The battle song of this man who wasn't a poet. This is what William Booth wrote.

Thou Christ of burning cleansing flames. Send the fire thy blood-bought gift today. We claim send the fire. Look down and see this waiting host. Give us the promised Holy Ghost. We want another Pentecost.

Send the fire to make our weak hearts strong and brave. Send the fire to live a dying world. To say. The greatest world population is now five billion. We're gonna go get to it by reshuffling our Theological cards.

God has to do more than him bless us. He has to invade us purify us cleanse us direct us. He says to make our weak hearts strong and brave. Send the fire to live a dying world. To save send the fire. Oh see us online all to lay our lives out all this very day.

God doesn't want your stinking money. He doesn't want your career. He wants your spirit your soul and body to be a living sacrifice. And when we get there the fire comes. The fire comes because you won't let go of what you've got.

You won't let go of your pride. You're such a wonderful preacher. You're such a good deacon. You're such a good son is forget it. Brother, you're on the brink of bankruptcy. I admit it. There are areas of this world that will be reached through this meeting today if we obey God.

There'll be new mysteries born. There'll be new men with vision. There'll be new men with passion. There'll be new men with holocaust anointing. The woman will be writing home to a mother and say my daddy.

My husband went to Kansas, but it's not the same man that came back. Your children will be saying mommy. What's happened to daddy. He prays me. I'll never watch his TV anymore. He prays my daddy's weeping in the other room.

He's never done that. I don't believe you can have the anointing of the Holy Ghost. You say but it doesn't say a word about the prayer life of John Baptist, of course, it doesn't. He was nurtured in prayer.

He was born in prayer. The greatest prayer meeting in the world was held with who a woman a hundred years of age. Simeon nearly a hundred years of age. Do you wonder he was born filled with the Holy Ghost?

Do you wonder Kings tremble because of him? Do you wonder like a fire? There's nothing more attractive than fire and and people came from every every level. Jerusalem Judea Samaria. Geographically, they came socially different levels.

The people the publicans and the soldiers they came from every religious standpoint. They'd never seen anything. This is a phenomena. They like most people in America. They've never been to a meeting where God comes.

I'd never get you to sing emotionally. There's room at the cross for you brother. There isn't room at the cross. There's room on the cross. If you'll come to your death don't come to it get on it. It will be painful to be crucified.

Your pastor will discourage you more than anybody else. People in the church will say look at the sign on the church of the Pentecostal Church. Ashton, where is the fire? Listen to. What's it Wesley says.

Oh Wesley cries out. Just like William Booth cried they'd known they'd seen the fire of God. They read church history. Listen, let me quickly try and rush this. You know, we have such weird ideas of blessing.

You think you have to stand here? One of the most powerful witnesses for revival died weighing less than 90 pounds. I Was a youth leader in our church. I Got the people to pray. Somehow when God filled with the Holy Ghost boy I needed to pray and I prayed with fire and the old people in the church didn't like it.

I thought that she'd see it sometime, but I'll tell you what God changed the whole of our youth. We never had any entertainment. We prayed Friday night. We prayed when everybody's in bed. Sunday morning I went into the forest and tied my mother's little dog to the stump of the tree and I prayed at night.

I got up and I stood over a hill and said God send revival to my city. If you weep over Jerusalem, I'll weep over my city. Do you know what happened? Three years after I started preaching that city was shaken with revival because I prayed no.

Because across the tracks there was a little Pentecostal preacher by the name of Jewett. J-e-w-i-t-t. That little man had three breakdowns not mentally physically by fasting his wife said when you passed when you passed his room.

You would think he was wrestling with a devil himself. He fasted and prayed and said I won't die till revival comes to my city. George Jeffress came one of the greatest preachers I ever heard not an eloquent preacher.

But he had the anointing of God. The whole city was shaken. I called my wife my dear sister a couple of months ago. I said Annie. I was bridge Street. You see the. You see the greatest abomination America is evangelists that come and stay a night and off they go.

They get big advertising big crowds big offerings and leave nothing. It isn't how you preach. It isn't just what you preach. The greatest evangelist and best-known better than Billy Graham was DL Moody and Dr Tozer said to me Len remember Moody murdered Kings English.

He said Jerusalem in one word Jerusalem not Jerusalem one slurring word. He said Daniel Daniel. What happened he went to London for what one night? He stayed six weeks the whole city was shaken. He went from London to Scotland.

It wasn't it still is I think the greatest country of preachers. What happened all there's an American coming boys? Mur is English is poor his exposition not clever, but there's something about him. The stunning arrest you who was the greatest preachers.

Cotton. Alexander white not before or since. As anybody preached like Alexander white he went and sat on the platform spellbound and said I can't explain this man. Except there's something mysterious about him that God is upon him.

There's a wonderful book called the The greatest thing in the world. Henry Drummond. Henry Drummond went and sat there and listened to him. The greatest men in Scotland came. Why. Because it's a man on fire for God.

He had a passion. Cultured Englishmen don't weep when they preach, but he weeped he wept. These brilliant men that knew their Hebrew knew their Greek was spellbound. By a Chicago salesman one thing now finished with it.

In the reign of Charles the second in England the greatest preacher was John Owen. He has about 12 or 15 out six of his books. He has about five on the Holy Spirit. So John Owen was preaching. He preached at every.

He preached at every Government celebration. The King called for him one day and he said dr. Owen. In his ancient English He said thou art the greatest preacher in the world today. Dr. Owen I Call you to preach before the government.

I caught you call you to preach in Parliament. I called you to preach before the courts when Kings come, but he said dr. Owen I've heard a strange thing about thee you're loaded with wisdom and He said no man can hold a crowd like you do.

But dr. Owen I've kept repeatedly hearing that you'll go down the road to air a babbling Baptist. He doesn't have your authority. Please don't go to that man. John Owen said your majesty. I would take off my scarf.

I would take off my robes and I would kneel at the feet of this babbling Baptist that you called Bunyan. John Bunyan a tinker a man without education. But he has something this nation has never seen and he said King your majesty.

I would give all I have to get that I'll surrender my talents my gifts and all the privilege. If only I can get one anointing like that. Dear friends, I'm glad the Holy Ghost can't be bought. He says your money perish with you.

He'll use you when he can release you. Let me say this fire releases doesn't it? Fire burns of every fetter. God has a habit of breaking things that he uses. He took the alabaster box of ointment, but she broke it first.

Jesus took bread and break it. Jesus says this is my body which is broken for you. Why are you trying to save yourself? Bunyan wrote a little phrase. I learned only a few days ago. He said There was a man the world thought mad.

The more he gave the more he had and it doesn't begin by giving. You say if I own more. In other words you say if I owned a bakery I give it to God. He has to give you five loaves and two fishes not a bakery.

You can't give him what you don't have. You can't even give me what you do have. I'll tell you what it cost to follow the Lord. I got all my business things raised up. I had about 200 samples of the best cloths made in England.

I'd taken the training To design clothes and so forth was doing quite well and the Lord said no. I was talking to brother Bracey the other day. What's that hymn we used to sing Bracey? I will praise him.

How many do you know that chorus. I will praise him. Praise the lamb for sinners slain. Do you know that give him glory all ye people for his blood can wash away stain. What about the second stanza when God's fire upon the altar of my life was set aflame?

My ambitions plans and wishes are my feet in ashes lay here. You say my life isn't beautiful. He gives beauty for ashes. He gives the oil of joy for mourning if these people are really mourning for God here and not just out of self-pity.

They've got over the oil of joy. Every church they represent will be quickened. God doesn't inhabit golden palaces or glass palaces. He invades human personality. So Wesley says refining fire go through my heart.

Illuminate my soul scatter thy life through every part and sanctify the whole in other ways. Hymns. How does it begin? I? Come Jesus Lord with holy fire not with blessing not with prosperity. Come Jesus Lord with holy fire.

Come on, my quickened heart inspire cleanse with thy precious blood now to my soul myself. Reveal thy mighty working let me feel since I am born of God. Me with a quenchless thirst inspire a longing infinite desire and fill my craving heart now.

Here's the crux of it less than thyself. Oh, do not give. I don't need blessing. I need God. I Don't need to just need revelation. I need God. I'm moving. I want by the grace of God to live move and have my being in God.

I'm getting old and frail. My body's weaker. I guess I sleep less than any man here. I've learned to become the master of the thing. Go to bed at 9 o 'clock. Lengthen your life. Get up at midnight. I got into bed at 3 o 'clock this morning and I feel as fresh as ever in my life.

To use a almost vulgar phrase my body is getting frail, but I got a fire in my belly. What did Jeremiah say thy word is a fire in my bones? It burns if he won't doesn't burn in me. Why should I expect it to burn in you?

The listen again. He says me with a quenchless thirst inspire Longing infinite desire and fill my craving heart. Dear Mike since I left here. I prayed every day God keep this place creed clean. You see we're heading for a collision with the Church of Rome.

We're fighting cults. America gave to the world Mormonism. America gave to the world Jehovah's Witnesses. Now we have more gurus in this nation. We have more false gods than any nation on earth. Why. Because the Living God has been driven out of the sanctuary.

We'd rather clap and dance and break our hearts and mourn in his presence till the glory comes. We're trying to work something up. It has to come down. I Hope I last another. I think I will last another year.

Next year we get 500 extra chairs. So we may have to stand. God's gonna do something in this city. I'll tell you that I'm not saying that to encourage these fellas. You see all the staff sit on the front road.

Have you noticed that? The scripture says the Pharisees love the front seats in the synagogue, but they still may catch fire. There's a precious bunch of men here. They've given up careers. Dead David could be Oxford beating his brains out studying some ancient language and here he is working in dirty old cancer.

I mean cancers, you know an experience of God that cost nothing is worth nothing and it does nothing. The old Methodist I'll take five minutes. The old Methodist Fox Jackson said I Want their Lord.