Suddenly — G.W. North

Crying Out Until God Comes

Some sound advice once from a dear old gentleman. You've heard me talk about him before In the days when God was moving upon us all together. He gave this young man as I was then some very very sound Yorkshire advice.

And this is what he said. They'll keep crying while he comes brother. While is the Yorkshire word for until they'll keep crying while he comes. When he comes I'll shut up. That's what he said. So keep crying.

You keep crying till he comes. Praise God. He didn't mean shedding tears. He meant crying unto him. Praise God. Thou keep crying he said while he comes Hallelujah, and when he comes Oh Hallelujah. Hallelujah when he comes.

The Sudden Coming of the Holy Ghost

It's like the dawning of the day. Glory, it's like the shutting up of the tomb. It's like the closing of a sewer. A Man when he comes. It's like the end of everything. For the beginning of a new when he comes.

Hallelujah when the Holy Ghost comes. Oh. Right out of misery into joy. Right out of defeat into victory. Right out of darkness into light when he comes it's not gradual. It's sudden. Praise the name of the Lord.

You know, the trouble is with people that live in the northern and southern hemisphere. They haven't got an idea about what it is. What daylights like or you see it's dark and then the Sun's up and it's light.

You see up here it's also Gradual gradual gradual and we're these gradual kind of people, but when you get where it's really hot. That's right. Where where where it's dead central move its daylight and then at night it's dark.

That's right. It's sudden and Old Malachi he said that he whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple. Suddenly comes to his temple. Praise God one minute. He's out in the next minute. He's in bless God.

That's what Malachi said. Suddenly that's what it said on the day of Pentecost suddenly. There was a sound from heaven. Suddenly. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Glory why it's so sudden. They woke up they came alive.

The Holy Ghost came he didn't creep in. He comes suddenly. The end of an old the beginning of a new. It's wonderful when he suddenly comes in there a tremendous thing. Yes all of a sudden. Glory be to God all of a sudden.

Lazarus and the Voice That Raises the Dead

Amen. Imagine old Lazarus in the tomb all of a sudden he heard Lazarus come forth. So he came forth. All of a sudden praise God. Amen, he'd been lying there peacefully enough. Dead as a dead man can be.

Jesus said Lazarus Amen. That was the end of it all or the beginning of something new. It was wonderful glory. Haha, he speaks with the voice that wakes the dead. Amen. That's what he does and they that hear the voice of the Son of Man live praise God.

You have to listen for his voice not work anything out in your mind praise God. You have to listen for his voice not start trying to climb the golden stairs. You have to listen for his voice. God has made it dependent upon his word.

He's sovereign in this matter of life and death. He's sovereign praise him and it's because subtly in our nature in our hearts we have the nature of the serpent we Wriggle and wiggle and we try and we do all sorts of things.

Yes, that's right and then God comes and he says Lazarus. Praise God. Look at Mary she was breaking her heart. She'd made up her mind. That it was all over and somebody had stolen him and he comes and he says Mary.

Huh. Listen little boy lies. He's asleep. He's in front of the altar. Samuel. Samuel a man is riding along a road to Damascus so. So he fell off his horse or whatever. He was riding. Amen. Suddenly praise God.

God breaks in to death. God breaks into bitterness and hardness. Nobody hated more than Saul hated but breaks in utterly. I Make a suggestion to you. Let God be God in your life if you attempt anything else shall only succeed in building an Idol that you will worship in your tears.

You will fall down before it. It will be a sorry thing. It will be horrible to your vision. You will hate it. You will detest it, but you will worship it. You will weep before it at times night and day.

You will hate its raucous voice. You won't want anything to do with it. You will hate it, but you will worship it and it's yourself. Jesus comes and it's God you will worship in the realms of I can't.

I don't. I won't. When you worship him, you will say I can. I will. I do. That's Jesus. You're worshipping the right one then the other you're worshipping yourself and you're horrible and rotten and hard and vile and unmentionable and Shameful, and you might try and dress it in some lovely texts.

But the only robe that Jesus wears is righteousness. And it's girt about his peps with a golden girdle. And he'd love to feed you with the golden milk of his word. This is the great truth. This is the thing that he's saying to you.

Jesus Calls Everyone to Come and Drink

He calls he comes. Suddenly he goes up to the temple suddenly. You can read all about it in the chapter in the Bible that you should know all about so I won't tell you. And suddenly in the midst of the feast he comes up.

There and Here he's making a call. You say yes, you talk about him Lazarus. But you see he hasn't called my name. My name's not Lazarus. You talk about him calling Mary my name's not Mary. Samuel my name's not Samuel Saul my name's not so he hasn't called my name.

Oh Listen. In the middle of the feast and right on the great day of the feast he stands up and he says if any man. Put your name in there sister put your name in there brother. If any man shout your name John Jack Mary Joe.

Hallelujah, you're in there if any man first. Let him come unto me and drink. Hallelujah, he may not Specifically have mentioned your name and just because it would take him a long time to mention any name in the world.

Every name in the world and you might feel left out. He's bracketed you any man. Glory, if you're a man be a man. Glory, I include you sisters in that. Let him come unto me and drink. He may not specifically have mentioned your name.

But he's specific about what he tells you to do. Come to me and drink. Yeah. He that believeth on me as the scripture has said listen to him. And don't you dare deny it. Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

That's what he said. And I know it's true. Do you? He's speaking of the Holy Ghost. Which they that believe on him receive glory be to God. That's for any man any woman. I Like God, he's generous. How he says in case you should think that he's missed out someone.

Oh Everyone that fastest. Come ye buy and eat. Yay, come buy wine milk without money and without price. Hallelujah. Anyone that's thirsting. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Are you are you? Well drink drink.

Just drink drink as though you're the thirstiest person in the world. Drink drink drink keep drinking. Say what do I drink? Drink Jesus in drink drink in his spirit. Drink him in Hallelujah. That's what he says.

Thirsting for Christ Without Shame

Everybody glory be to God. Hallelujah, are you really thirsty? Are you really thirsty? Really thirsty. When you're really thirsting for something. You go after it like you've been going after sin. You go for it as you've gone for sin.

That's what you do. But now it's not sin, but you're employing the same powers. You're employing the same inward man. Go for him. Come on, he says you come to me. Matter if you're out there at the back of the crowd push through the crowd.

Look at the little woman that pushed through the crowd when she wanted to get healed. I Don't know how she got there. I'll ask her when I meet her. If somebody points her out to me. She got through and she just took it.

She went there glory be to the name of the Lord because she got to a place of certainty in her heart. That it was there for the taking. Glory be to the name of the Lord. Do you see it's there for you praise God.

Well drink then drink hallelujah. You better drink right down here to at this level. He said it's out of your belly. It's going to flow you have to. He doesn't apologize for talking really right deep down to basic things.

Drink right down here. Let it be the name of the Lord. Drink you in Hallelujah. See. Amen come out of your mind and come into your spirit and be primitive and. Be thirsty and don't worry about what anybody else thinks.

Glory to God. If you've been without food for about four days and there was some food here. You wouldn't worry about some what somebody thought about you. You say I'm hungry. Open to know where we live.

We have table napkins. You'd say give me the food. We don't eat with our hands in our society. Give me the food. You eat with your hands when you're hungry praise God. Never treat God politely. You won't hurt him if you get hold of him.

Coming to God in Our Brokenness

He's been crucified. He's been hurt beyond. Anything you'll be able to do then. Come primitive. Come naked. Come like a beast. If you've been like a beast and live like a beast then come like a beast.

Don't try and educate a beast. Come. Hallelujah that lamb slew every beast. Praise the name of the Lord. Come like a beast like you've been wallowing struggling lusting burning fighting. Hating come that's it.

That's what he's come for. Get off this polite business as though the gospel is a sort of a new kind of a society leveler. Or upraiser or something? It's God's answer to man's need. Basic unreal. And as rotten as it's been.

That's right. Don't you want to let anybody know you've been rotten? Don't you want to let anybody know that you've been vile and like a beast. You needn't hide it. That's what they've been like to the one sitting beside you.

They've been like it too. You needn't try and hide it. They're thinking they've got to hide it from you. You think you're gonna hide it from them? That's the great. That's the great deception that's in the world.

That's how the devil's pulled it over everybody's eyes. They've all been like you. They may not have done it the same way. That's not the point. I mean a lion's no less a lion because you keep it in a cage.

It's just as much a lion as if it was roaming free in the drungle. Hallelujah. Glory be to God. Jesus has come to meet reality basic needs. He hasn't come to educate us. He's not a psychologist. Amen.

He's a Savior. And he only saves sinners. Glory be to God. He only saves the worst. Hallelujah. He never saved the best because there never was one till he came. Amen, he saves the worst. He saves the scoundrels and the rotters and the twisters and the liars and the fornicators.

The haters the murderers the lobsters the thieves. He saves them. Hallelujah, he saves those that have done wrong those that have been wrong. He saves those that are sinned and have been sinned against he saves us.

Hallelujah. Glory be to God. That's right. It's power. It's reality. It's God. Don't try and educate God and tell him what you need he knows. Amen. Come and let God deal with you. Amen. Will you do that?

Do it now then. Praise God. He stands up he says if anyone thirsts. He gets you on the thirst and look at the things you've thirsted after in your life. They don't you can't mention them in public. Some of the things you've thirsted after.

Can you Know that's right. God knows. God bless you for honesty. We're all a rotten lot of twisters and sinners and vile persons. Till Jesus Christ comes and orders this and if you don't like that, you'll never be saved.

Amen. He saves hippies and hoppies and hoppies and I don't know. Hallelujah. He's he saves people glory. This is his testimony. This is the wonder of him. Amen. That's God. He's not conventional. Amen.

You can't tie him down. You can't kill him for good. You can't seal him in a tomb. You can't put him on a cross. You can't carry him around in a locket. Hallelujah. God. Amen you can't have him in a frame over the head of your bed either.

God he's God everywhere. Amen now come and let God deal with you. Come on. Get right with God. Hallelujah any man. You let God deal with you. That's right. You come and let God deal with you. You don't sit.

So that you can have an excuse for blaming God. Let God deal with it. Amen. No, man shall ever accuse God of not doing things for them. It's all done. You receive it. Amen. Praise the name of the Lord to save you if you think you're not a sinner.

He hasn't come to save the righteous. He hasn't come to save the good people. He came to save the people who know that they're bad through and through. That's right. Glory to God. No one else glory. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Sin, Grace, and the Glory of Christ

There's no difference. We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. But the glory of God's come. The glory of God's glory of God. He's seated at father's right hand. He's the glory of God. And he's done it.

He's triumphed gloriously. Hallelujah, hallelujah. He'll burn sin right out of you. Glory to God. Amen, and amen. Glory. Praise God. It's fire. There's no compromise.