God Confirming His Word — Rolfe Barnard

Now, here is the last of the last three messages preached by Brother Ralph Barnard, and this one was taken from the 19th chapter of Revelation, and it was preached on Sunday night of January 19, 1969.

I have been told by your beloved Uncle Shepard, he and Brother Holder are seeking to work together, and Brother Holder's congregation, and I tell it right now, they'll be here during the weeknight. He's hopeful that you'll follow over the next week or as I told your pastor, I do not like to try to talk anybody into making a profession of faith until I've preached to them for three weeks.

So I want you to be patient. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you were a number, but you've always given me a beautiful building? I'd love to see a lot of people in it, wouldn't you? Not just so we could fill in the day in which there's no climate for the gospel.

You go home, you have a hard time ever getting to the subject of the Lord, don't you? You meet a man down on the street and talk about everything, but it's awfully hard to say a word about God Almighty and his claims and his provisions for men.

There's no climate. Nobody is anxious to find out whether there's any remedy for them. And I think we ought to face it, and we ought to just get us a great big old plow, Texas on the farm, and go to plowing deeper than we ever have.

If we don't do some plowing we haven't been doing, we're going to get thinner and thinner. I lost my reputation many, many years ago. I just got a bad name, a seven-year-itch, somebody said, and so I don't have to worry about any results or not.

I'm just concerned that whether we do, at a particular time, pay more attention to that, go hear somebody. In these two weeks together, if you hear one, like to hear two, like to hear somebody, find out is there any hope.

Now that'd be what you call reliable, isn't it? Somebody would walk up to you, yeah, and if you'd whisper to me, wouldn't that be something? When somebody, you'd tell them they'll never heard it before.

He'd been preached a thousand times, but he never heard that story. There was good news, but it is now. I'll tell it to them, but one, there's a cry of a newborn babe. Oh, that's a little heaven on earth.

Now, there's a few people who are seeking to be a testimony here. Get excited about the possibility of that. It's yourself. Let's just try to see one thing here, within self, in Christ Jesus. That's the only way anybody ever gets saved.

Salvation Comes Through Encountering the Living Lord

People are not saved when they make a decision. What you decide, you can undecide. People are saved when they're confronted by the living Lord in the gospel. Is that right? We've had so much of man's decision, the latter.

You're going to pray for us, pray one little for another. At the invitation, I'm going to ask you to do a definite thing. And whether you can or not, I'm just going to ask you as a brother in Christ. And I don't know what to speak on in the morning.

I just don't have the least way of knowing what kind of congregation I'll have. Whether it'll be God's people, whether you'll be able to bring, give me something for the first service in the morning, I trust.

The Coming Triumph of Jesus Christ

I want to speak to you tonight on a very solemn feast coming. I'm going to be called upon to shout people, say, and hallelujah. This thing that's gotten this war, every enemy of Almighty God, Jesus Christ.

And it looks like the devil has got churches in our schools, in our society. And it looks like the devil has got the whole business locked up. And one wonders how much longer suffering of God shall be at our disposal.

And when you kind of look around and see hell popping loose everywhere. Churches going out of business, waiters quitting the ministry by the multiplied hundreds. Everything just tearing all to pieces.

The Bible once again, and soak my soul in its promises. That we'll one day mirror the time. When righteousness is going to cover this earth as the waters cover the sea. And when God's going to put rebellion.

And when all mankind are going to bow their knees and with their lips confess the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Kidding me, boy, I lived on Horatio Alger. Any of y 'all ever read Horatio Alger's books? Lift your hand.

Oh, you won't be happy when you get to heaven if you didn't do that. When I was six, seven, eight years old, I just devoured those books. There were a lot of them just alike. I expect I read a hundred of them.

And it was all about the poor little orphan boy that he'd come into New York City. And he'd have a dime in his pocket and holes in his shoes. And he'd finally get him a job for about a dollar a week, you know.

And he'd have the awfulest trouble you ever saw in your life. And it wasn't he'd get him a job as a boot blacker or a clerk or something. He was a good little boy. But the old mean boys, they'd give him a lot of trouble.

And after I read a few of them, I learned the secret. Every time I'd get a new book, I'd read the last chapter first. Anybody got any sense? Want to enjoy a book, read the last chapter first. And I got to where I'd have the biggest fun reading those books you ever saw.

What trouble that boy had. And then by the meantime, he'd get accused of dishonesty and look like he's just going to be ruined. And he'd get knee deep in trouble and the devil would crack it down. I never would read that first.

I'd read the last chapter. Bless the Lord. In the last chapter, the boy came clear and he was vindicated. And he married the president of the bank's daughter, you know. And got elected vice president and built him a big house up on a hill and just lived happily ever after.

And after I'd read that chapter, then I'd go back and start at the beginning. And then my hero'd get in trouble. Didn't bother me much after. I know it's not going to come out. Bless the Lord. They ain't going to get him.

It looked like he's a goner, but he ain't. See this? I've got good sense too. It's going to come out. The Lord Jesus Christ is going to be on top. He's going to be the victor. And the devil's not going to get him the last.

He's going to be brought happiness and peace and happiness. Unless he lets the central thing in. Read that promise in the book. For new heavens and a new earth. And childlessness is coming. This is the biggest thing between the eternities.

And that Jesus Christ puts his foot on people's necks and makes them surrender to his rule. Talk about that crowd tonight a little while. We're going to be, thank God, on safety side. Rejoice inside. Inside with God.

Revelation 19 and the Hallelujah of Divine Judgment

Let's read here in the 19th chapter of the Revelation, verse 1. And after these things, some things have taken place. There's God's last rebellion, broken forth and then crushed. Now there's a counting time.

The crop's here now. And the judgment is set. And after these things, I heard of great people. And they're in heaven. They sought heaven to begin. They thought it would be wonderful to go from this life to a place called heaven.

And sure enough, the prophet here, at the windup, he sees a whole lot of people in heaven. Opening their mouths. Heaven and they're glad they're there. There's a whole lot of. And they're saying hallelujah.

Because salvation is of the Lord. They're happy because good. God and healed. And they're just shouting these wonderful inscriptions to God over one thing. Here's the thing that enables them to shout.

And the scribe all praise and honor and adoration and worship and glory. Salvation to almighty God. Something's taking place. These people have witnessed it. And they set their seal to it. They said God's right.

God's doing right. Whatever God does is right. And what he's doing here is judging. And they're shouting hallelujah because now. To see righteous. And to see in this life. That yonder God's people are going to be able.

As the judgment of God. On the biggest monster. That's ever been let loose. Between the eternities. That's perverted religion. The judgment of God comes. And they shout hallelujah for true and righteous is his judgment.

For they just see as he has judged the great poor. This is religion. Of her fornication. And hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And they shout again hallelujah. As they see the smoke.

Of the one thing. That's damning more people than even as I am saying. And that's religion. Everybody in this community is very religious. If you don't think so. You go look in the mirror yourself. See how what a good opinion of yourself you have.

And how you knee deep in hell. One foot in the grave and the other dangling over hell. But you've made a little profession of faith. And everything's all right. You're going to sleep on chances are. Till the judgment catches up with you.

Or you knock on this door down. They say I'm all right. I go to church. I believe this. I believe that. And they've got a religion. That doesn't make them holy. And doesn't set them hot after the pursuit of perfection.

And that leaves them perfectly satisfied to call themselves Christian. When they can be satisfied with anything less than the likeness of Christ. And they say I'm all right. And you say we have a meeting down at our little church building.

They don't say it out loud. But what they say in their hearts will work. The name of Christianity. Antichrist. God Almighty's judgment. And the smoke of the torment. And God's people are going to shout hallelujah.

The victory is won. God's still on the throne. The Lord's got omnipotent reign. And you can do that. We shout hallelujah as we seek God. Bring judgment. The day will come. You a Christian? Let me challenge you afresh as I would my own heart.

That take down your sign. Or get out of the rut that passes for being Christians today. Ladies and gentlemen. I see more Christian among drunkards. Generation of church people. Something's happened to us folks.

The Failure of Religious Profession Without Holiness

I never met a drunkard yet. Wouldn't give you the shirt off his back if he's drunk. Together. If one of them gets in trouble, they help each other out. But what passes for Christians today is a bunch of folks that watch each other hoping they'll fall so they can stick a knife in them.

There's not enough love manifest amongst professing Christians now to fly a kite. There's not enough women, boys, and girls still outside of Christ. This is a long time ago. This is a lovely little church building.

You people haven't read it. With your tears. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Mr. Wet Eyes would come back to me. Mr. Amen. You're the first sort of people that come to me. Treat me like I was a gentleman.

A loved one. Going to hell. Listen to me. Preaching. My daughter. My neighbor. Until I worked by alibis. Ended of Hezekiah. I used to say to Hezekiah two things. Hezekiah. Be a kid. Be a kid. You haven't seen many professing preachers and church people lately folks.

As in, I've heard your prayer. Let me challenge you. How do you think you'd act? How do you think you might act? If I took seriously. No witness down here. Not the witness at the judgment. Be on God's side.

And as we see God send eternally to the face of Paul. Men and women. Boys and girls. I believe we'd face that. And we'd get into war. Several expressions since I've been here. Don't misunderstand me. Just bring my little wisdom against yours.

Who's the smartest? None of us smart enough to know much about it. I very well wish we could have revival. I believe we can have it. Don't leave God. Don't touch His side. Top and the bottom. I think we're going to have a revolution.

This worker, sober poppy is too desperate for us to have a little movement. Call it the spirit of God. I think it's time for every preacher and every professing Christian. For we are told not to take the name of the Lord without God's name.

That means plainly what we're not. I think it's time for us to do some soul-searching. I don't think this is any time for complacency. I think we ought to find out what it means to afflict ourselves.

We've got mourners' benches here. It ain't worth a dime unless there's mourning in the heart and in the spirit. Isn't that right? Jesus Christ. That man desperately need a savior from the just wrath of Almighty God.

Sin, Divine Wrath, and the Need for a Mediator

There ain't but one issue with that. You know there ain't race to call. You know there ain't no pastor in most of our churches. I hope this isn't true here. You know what he has to do? He's got to ask somebody to benedict while he runs to the unsaved church members.

Where a church member was broken. If he showed up at a service like this, wasn't able to sit beside some old sinner he'd brought there. Prayed, come and sit, sleep through the service, put a little money in the pot, and get out as fast as we can.

Join the crowd and all go to hell together and call it Christian. I'll ask you two questions tonight. Do you believe God ought to punish sin? He's going to. Days coming when you're going to have to shout, hell yeah!

You're doing right, girl. With rebellion against his sovereign rule. That's what sin is. Who denies the lordship of Christ. He took your personality, your life. That's his eye in sin. Sin. What we call sin just sprouts from it.

And that's everybody being God himself. And denying God the central place in his life. Everything sprouts from that. That's the rebellion. Started in the Garden of Eden. And it's going on right now. Over just one issue.

Who's boss? And God ought to put that rebellion down. He's going to. Rebellion going to be put down. God's going to. Everybody going to be saved. It just means God's going to save you. He can't save you by grace.

Everybody's going to bow. Nobody's going to escape. Do you believe God ought to punish sin? Do you believe God will punish sin? All this fool talk about, whoa, whoa, whoa. Want to see the Bible, do you?

Well, what happened to your conviction? That's the one reason. Men are in need of a mediator. Jesus Christ. And God in a climate. In this community. Anywhere else in America. For the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Hallelujah. Cause this generation. In church. And time to wish Jesus off on uncloud high. Has lost all consciousness of God almighty. Doesn't anymore believe that sin will be punished than a monkey. And nobody ever yet has got desperate.

About who Jesus Christ is. Whether he did anything on a glory call. Should it help anybody or not. Whether anybody's ever saved or not. God almighty is going to see through it. It's worse than death. Sin is worse than hell.

If a man believed that. He'd be afraid to die. That hates sin. And is sworn to punish it. I don't know whether I'm getting over to you or not. What I'd like to see in this community. And the one to follow.

Are you agreeing with me? Is this what you want? I'd love to see a blow struck by God's people now. Get your water chewing tobacco in your mouth. And begin to spit in their juice. And to spit in with tears of compassion.

And a bonus of the Holy Ghost. Inspiration to take Jesus. To his home sinful men. And who men and women. Third side of the first message of gospel preaching. That is that God almighty requires of men.

What they cannot perform in themselves. And unless they have. What God requires of you. Done for you by Jesus Christ. There's no way on earth. Men can escape the coming wrath of God. You believe God ought to punish sin?

Critique of Manipulative Evangelism

What we call evangelism. I'm called the greatest enemy of evangelism in America. I hate what we call. Sowing it. I hate all the methods and tricks. And the whittling down of the claims of God in Christ.

That have made America at once the most church nation on top side of God's earth. And the most godless at the same time. I've given my life and I'm not fixing to stop. I've got it in for all of this business of ignoring the fact.

That both in the old testament and the new. You cannot ignore the laws of God as it goes out here. And plants his seed on unproud. God is a fool. And we've been wishing the gospel off. On a generation whose hearts have not been plowed.

By the holy requirements of God. Ever since I've been lehigh to a duck. And we've got everybody to take Jesus and go on to hell. That's right. I'm saying it's time to call a hall. That you can show the blessed sweetest story that ever was told.

The glorious good news of a crucified exalted Lord. You can show it on unproud hearts. And they'll never make a dent. Brother pastor we just well roll up our sleeves. Put on our hands. Let somebody else brag about how many men they've won to Christ.

They can't find them no how. And just start doing some plowing. Would you like to see it? In the old testament and the new. We're forbidden in the old testament to sow among thorns. In the new testament we're forbidden to cast our fur before swine.

And to give holy things to those. What does that mean? Well that means you attend every church now. You almost have to have a deputy sheriff. It's a sort of unsafe. Especially in a business meeting. And the Lord warned.

You ignore the laws of the harvest. And the folks will turn rim to the pieces. They fire the preacher if he preaches anything now. Huh? That's right. We did it by ignoring the plain teaching of the word of God.

That until people are stabbed in their hearts. The fullness of their sin. And the wonder of God's exaltation of Christ the supreme Lord. Until they're stabbed there. Now you try to get them to take Jesus.

They'll go through the motions but there'll be no change. Would you like to see somebody in this community? Hear the old of the gospel. Can't do it. Unless this church gives its whole to the Bible ways.

That we've ignored in most places so very long. You believe God ought to punish sin? Why did Jesus die? If God won't punish sin. You believe God ought to punish sin? You believe God must punish sin? You believe God wouldn't be God any longer if he let a single sin go unpunished?

If you don't. Then you'll agree with the preacher. That the God of the Bible is a monster. If he hung his son on a cross like he did. He looks in anyhow. He's a monster my friend. We want what we call revival.

Let's just come back to what your men and daddy believed. What we take for granted and almost lost. God help us dear ones. Listen to brother Barnett. Everything that's wrong in America. Is laid at the door of our churches.

If morality is almost gone in America. Professing Christians look in the mirror we call it. That's right. The politicians they didn't do it we did. That's right. That's right. God intends for him to control things.

God bless your heart. I'm under conviction. I'd love to get you under. Let me come back to my question. You believe God won't punish sin? He's going to. Is the God you worship. Does he have to punish sin?

Can he be God? The Bible says there are two sovereigns. Two absolute monarchs. Paul says that if I am sin. He personalizes it. Sin reigns. And the other sovereign. The righteousness of Jesus Christ.

One of them is going to reign. Which side you on?

The Cross as the Absolute Necessity for Sinners

The issue of the hour. Don't tell me about your creeds. About your doctrine. It may not be much better than mine. I'm not particularly interested in your confession. Or mine. I'm not particularly interested in your testimony.

Or mine. To be followers of Jesus Christ. And with one conviction. That makes the whole thing make sense. That is that men are in such desperate condition in the sight of God. That the crucifixion of the Son of God was an absolute necessity.

For everybody sent to hell. That men desperately need a Savior. Wilson when he was President of the United States. Took a little stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue. And he looked to his right and saw smoke.

Belching out of a little humble dwelling. And he ran over and rang the doorbell. And a nice little housewife came. Oh Mr. President. How nice of you to call. Come in. And let's have a cup of tea. And Mr. Wilson said.

I didn't come to drink tea. I came to tell you. Your house was on fire. Every church member now is full of convictions. You got this pocket full of them. And that one. He's full of opinions. And we're trying to wish our opinions off on people.

Try to wish our convictions. It ain't worth a dime. What men need not to bleed like you do. What men need not to have your opinions. What men need not to bleed like you do. This is right and that's wrong.

What men need is a Savior. From the penalty of their sin and sin. That's what men need. That's what men need. I got to where I see a church member coming out and talking to me. I want to run. I know he didn't try to tell me about one of his convictions or one of his opinions.

And I'm not interested. Convictions or no convictions. This is the nub of it. Either God must or he mustn't. If God is set to punish sin. If all hell can't keep him from punishing sin. It's high time we quit inviting people to tea.

It's high time with tears in our hearts. We begin telling people their house is on fire. There's a sonar that can come on the head of our business. But God knows if I knew how. I'd light a fire under my cell.

And I'd light a fire under every professing Christian I could reach. And I'd light a fire under every congregation that calls itself a church. Oh, the fire would burn. Taking it so easy that men are going to hell.

Rejecting God's claims on their lives. Oh, if we could get excited. I think somebody else might get excited. If we were a little bit excited. Maybe we could get somebody interested. I'll tell you right now.

I'm tired of living in a reprisal area. And calling it satanic in Christianity. I'd like to have a little fire, wouldn't you? I believe that the reading of the scriptures says you get to plow and plow your own heart, honey.

People say, oh, Lord, give me a burden. Sassy, fresh. You want to get a burden? Go to doing what the Lord said. And you have one. I heard these dear little church people. I know you and the Lord. If you see anything in my life that displeases them, tell you.

Wish you'd take it out. You big old liar. You no good now. Something now you don't like. And he ain't going to take it out. He says, you do it. You put it there. You reach in there and take it out. That's right.

Whoo! I wish we could get on fire. There's a story of the dear old woman in the Civil War in Kentucky. Some of the Kentuckians were for the Yankees and some for the Johnny Rebs. She happened to be a rebel sympathizer.

And her husband, poor Sons, was off to war, and she was left alone. And the Yankees had come through in a little skirmish. They'd taken every pig and chicken and cow and everything that was loose at one end and left her there.

And the only thing she had that was loose at both ends was a poker she stoked up the fire with. And one morning, she said, Some ministries would touch me from the niceness of the hour. It's a breeder of atheism and infidelity and threatening to do away with what we call our churches.

A Revival Campaign Centered on “Will God Punish Sin?”

I was in Kentucky years ago. One of these what's called genius campaigns. All the Baptist churches of that association, all meetings together. It so happened that the church where I was preaching had a daily radio broadcast.

And it so happened it was the largest church in that association. And they also had, I believe, a 10 o 'clock day service. None of the other churches had a radio broadcast, nor did they have day service.

And please God to send the fire on the radio ministry. And pretty soon, people were having fist fights down on the street about the message. Oh, let's see some of that, wouldn't you? I'm getting tired of everybody agreeing with me on everything.

That means don't believe nothing, you know. I wish we could have some fights around here. I don't want to fight nobody bigger than I am. But some of you folks, little fellas, that's their song leader.

I'll fight you. Let somebody believe something around here. We could at least have a good lively scrap, wouldn't you? Aren't you so tired of everything being so peaceful like it's in the cemetery? I am.

I tell you what's right. And they were cussing me. They don't cuss the preacher. He can't separate the messenger from the message. And so they just had a rain came down on the street. And pretty soon people got coming up to the church house.

And preachers brought their evangelists from the other churches. And they'd sit in on our day services and listen to the broadcast.

And God blessed a little bit.

And after the thing about to wind up, the pastor where I was preaching called me on the phone about the last day of the meeting. He said, Brother Barnard, there's a committee here at my association. And they want to come down and talk with you if you've got time.

I said, sure. He said, I'll come along with them. And so three men from that Baptist association, they came down to the hotel. And I know you ain't going to believe this, but it's the God's truth. They said, Brother Barnard, we want you to come back here next year sometime so we can get things arranged.

And you can. And said, all 48 of our churches will go together. And we'll rent the city auditorium. If we can't get the auditorium at that time, we'll put up a big tent. And said, we'll buy you an hour's time on the radio.

And we'll have you preach on the radio every day for an hour. And then under the tent or in the auditorium for a solid month. And that sounded good to me. And I about prayed with them. But they said, before we see any more of that, two conditions.

I said, oh, that won't work. And I'm going to tell you the two conditions. They said, first of all, we want you to pray about it and see if you could get the mind of the Lord. If you thought you could, you tell us and we'll set the thing up.

Would you come to our city? Said about 50 ,000 people. A lot of churches inside and all around. You know, all of them will come together. Do the best they could. And said, if you could make up your mind that this would be the will of God.

For a solid hour. And every night under the tent or the auditorium. If you could find it in your heart just to preach on one subject. And I said, what's that? They said, if you find it in your heart to preach on, will God punish sin?

Said, nobody here believes it. Nobody believes it. Said, we're breeding a bunch of infidels and atheists in our Sunday school classes. We're telling some pretty little picture stories. But they don't know nothing about sin or God either.

Said, our church members, my soul, they come to church on Sunday morning and raise hell the rest of the time. And said, you can't find anybody here that's interested in the gospel. Whether Jesus is God.

And whether he died on a cross. And if he did, what good did it do? He said, the reason that they don't believe God fully. And that God makes demands of men and women. And that God's set to punish sin.

They said, ain't no use trying to keep on going. Trying to get men to accept Jesus. Long as they think they don't need him. And the boys ride down my alley. And I sit and trade with them. I said, what's the second condition?

And this is what you Baptists ain't going to believe. They said, we'd want you to preach a month. An hour a day on the radio. And every night long as you want to in the tent. On one subject. And not give any kind of a public invitation for a solid month.

Well, that sounded awful good to me, Bob. I'm so sick and tired. Of begging empty seats to take Jesus. I never saw an empty seat converted in my life. I never saw anybody real converted. Before they felt a terrible need for a save.

I don't believe you ever get a human being to be interested one whit. In the Lord Jesus Christ. And they'll be scared of placing God's feet on you. My boy, I said, that's right down my alley. I wish the churches of America were quick this day.

Trying to wish Jesus off of them. To be sought. Not to be auctioned off. He was the man, the Lord of hosts. They couldn't get the old tune. I went back. Put it down on the radio. And I didn't get quite carried out at the bargain.

I preached three weeks. Halfway through my sermon on Thursday night. On the big tent. Fourth week. And while I was just preaching. Boy, I preached on Will God Punish Sin on the radio. I became almost besotted.

I preached everything I could find in the Bible about it. And there's plenty of it. And then I used my imagination. And after I'd get through preaching. Every night I'd say, good night. Go on to hell.

That's where you seem to want to go. That was my benediction. That's where we're up in. Little difference, you know. As little difference as you said, oh, when you take Jesus off my hand. We're tired.

I don't want you taking him. You don't want him. Jesus didn't pound that way. But there's the night of the last week. What was to be the last week. I kept preaching up away. And a man way back there, he got up and came running down the shoulder.

Came up on the platform, pushed me aside and said, for God's sake, preach. I've got to say something. He broke up my good sermon. That's bad. Next year. That was 1951. Next year he didn't get out of the penitentiary.

Been in the penitentiary. Ever since. He was president of the bank of that city. Biggest bank in town. His teacher's son's school was built in the church. He had $250 ,000 in the bank. He'd stolen that money.

Nobody knew it. Well, he got to listen to me on the radio. And he got to learn about that. Then he got to come and hear me on the pen. All I'd say, God won't punish sin. I'd prove it. He always has. He's doing it now.

He's going to do it some day. Catch up with us. And he got in terrible shape. His little son's school teaching wouldn't help him, you know. That won't save a man. In fact, he's a deacon. That won't save him.

In fact, he's the president of the bank. Couldn't take care of it. And he got to where he'd come to hear me preach. And he'd go home at night. And I don't know why he'd lock the door. And he'd get his Bible.

And he'd get down on his knees. And you talk about praying up a storm. You've got to have mercy on him and save him. That's the one thing God loves. Number four. And he just couldn't get God to pray with him.

Of course, it's immeasurable. But the day before, he came and interrupted my sermon. He wrote a letter, put it in the mail. He'd stolen a quarter of a million dollars from the bank. Got in touch with the chief of police and the powers that ran the bank.

And there was some policeman and the congregation waiting to arrest him that night. And he knew it. And he crawled up there on that platform and confessed his awful sin. And then he just fell down like a sack of sugar and sobbed like his heart was broken.

And then he looked up to his ears after a while and said, If anybody could pray for an old sinner like me. And I saw some several thousand people in that big tent. Saints and law people hailed around him.

Everybody hailed. They just said, Amen! And that taught us all around. And begged God to have mercy on that old sinner who brought his sin out. And he tried to pull it over. God died. They arrested him, tied him, and sent him to the penitentiary.

I get a letter once a month from him. Held for all of these years. That's the happiest fellow you ever saw in all these years in prison. But bless God, there ain't no prison like S-I-N-S-I-N-E-D.

The Desperate Need of Every Person for a Savior

Ladies and gentlemen, we're on seven more weeks. And I hadn't given any kind of invitation to start with. They wouldn't let me. I never did get to give a public invitation. We had to hire seven people to answer phones.

We had to keep six people at a time, different ones, in that tent 24 hours a day to pray for and deal with men and women coming to the tent, asking somebody to help them see if there's any way on earth they could get to God.

Ladies and gentlemen, we talk about, we want the blessing of God. I don't know what will ever happen to me here in this country, but it ain't going to happen until we get back. It's counting on one hand.

People need the Savior. They don't need it. They don't believe it. They don't believe God. They don't believe God. Don't understand. You understand? You can't understand. You should understand that God is life, God is death.

AAH!