Vision for the Unsaved World - Part 2 — Leonard Ravenhill

The Light of Christ and the Vision of Holiness

When Paul the Apostle met Jesus, he met him on the Damascus Road, brighter than the noonday sun. Doesn't it say in the book of Revelation, there's no need of sun, he is the light? Doesn't it say if you're really born again and Christ indwells you, that you walk in the light and not walk in the darkness?

I need a vision of God's holiness, a vision of his majesty. Again, I see Dr. Chaucer lying on his belly, as he said, I lay there three hours, four hours, five hours, six hours, without even saying a word of prayer?

Without saying a word of praise? I just turn over in my mind those statements by F .W. Faber. Oh Jesus, Jesus, dearest Lord, forgive me if I say for very love thy sacred name a thousand times a day. Burn, burn within me, love of God.

Human's ear will go out. Holy fire never goes out. Dear God, I remember when I trusted God to sanctify me, as we said, and I was only a youth leader. And God did something in my life that sent me in the forest to pray.

But listen, I'll tell you what, as God's my witness, I'll use a rough word here. I have a fire in my belly this morning that burns more fiercely than it did 70 years ago. The situation in the world is more critical.

The Lost World and the Burden of Eternity

Hell is filling. There are five billion people in the world and more than four billion are lost. How can you sleep in your bed? I nearly said you stinking preachers. Have you lost sight of eternity? There's very little said in the New Testament about winning souls.

It's all about character. And I need God to come and change my character. Okay, let me quickly try and find this out. There's more lost people in the world at this moment than ever in history. And as I said to pastor coming down this morning, remember this, no man ever did God a favor.

The biggest favor you can get is for God to call you from your profession as a doctor or something else and lay your life out for Christ somewhere where nobody will ever know. Never write your story. Wait until God publishes it in eternity.

A fallen world like this says, Binny, a fallen world like this. Maybe I said this earlier this week. The biggest lie the devil's put over to our generation is that we left Jesus at the crossroad 2000 years behind and friend is at the road waiting for everybody.

Whether you go down the broad road that leads to destruction or the narrow way to life eternal. And the word says that the Christian is a narrow way and few there be that find it. And I add on to that and few there are that want to find it.

You've got a nice little house now. You don't drink. You don't smoke. You've a nice little people. You sit down and read a bit. So what? And you go to bed and hell laps. Oh, my husband plays golf on Monday with other pastors, of course.

You know, some of the things we do, we look so incongruous and ridiculous at the throne of God. We've been so embarrassed and there's no chance to come back. What darling? What is it? Thank you. Yes, you're right.

I never argue with my wife, particularly in church. She's a wonderful woman. I went to a place a while ago and boy, they gave my wife the greatest, greatest eulogy. And she doesn't like that. Oh, boys and boys.

Revival, Prayer, and the Glory of God

She was everything rolled in one boy. I was thrilled. I was shaking to my toes because, you know, wherever there's a great woman, there's a great man behind her. But let me say this quickly, the greatest move of the spirit right now that I know of is in it's in South America.

I thought I had a copy of something here. Anyhow, there's a there's a college up in the north. What do you call it now? Northwest America. What was it? Not no more. But no man and Dr. Aldrich, who is there, he's one of the professors there and they're far, far removed from what we would call Pentecostalism.

But he's been down to South America and he says, what could we do here? You've got young men there who've never been to Bible school. They've been saved three or four years. They're pastoring churches of four, five, six and seven thousand every week.

You go to a meeting like this, you come every night till Friday night, Friday night with sometimes three or four thousand teenagers there. Friday night service. People go home if they want. The young people stay.

They pray all through Friday night, all through Saturday, all through Saturday night into Sunday. And then the glory of the Lord fills the temple. Sure, it does. Our kids are playing baseball church as a program.

Forget it. If you go to a church with a sports program, forget it. Shows the bankruptcy of preaching. I went to a church. There was nothing but prayer and supplication and intercession. And brother, I tell you, I was there every time.

I prayed with some of the greatest men in the world. Nobody knew their names. I'm trying to write my autobiography. I'm going to put a section about these men. I used to pray between the two of them because they burned with holy fire.

We came in from street meetings, starved to death. All we had was a cup of tea and a slice of bread for weeks and weeks and weeks. It was a period of despair financially in England. But we'd start praying at midnight and we'd pray till two or three in the morning.

And I'd see those guys with steam rising off them in a room that had no heat. One of them, by the name of Harry Toft, his father was one of the greatest footballers, Welsh international footballer. I'll tell you how he got saved.

Harry Toft’s Healing and Call to Ministry

Dear old Mr. Toft, when he got to, I think, about 50, he developed a little red thing here like a grape. Then he had two, then he had three, then he had a bunch hanging from his mouth. And he went to great doctors like I worked at the City Hospital.

There was a doctor there called Dr. Maxwell Telling. So they got this famous international footballer to go see Maxwell Telling. And Maxwell Telling said, there's no hope for you. That's a bunch of cancers.

And we don't know an answer. There isn't an answer for it. George Jeffries came to town. There was a healing line. And Mike, this is encouraging to me. This man went up in the healing line every night of the crusade and nothing happened.

People said, brother, don't do it. It's a mockery. A year after, when they'd established a church and they had some spirit-filled deacons there, one of them one night said, you know, I've had dear brother Toft on my mind all day long.

I think we should go pray for him tonight, anoint him with oil. This fellow said, listen, you're getting proud. You think anything's going to happen when we go? I mean, after all, George Jeffries prayed over him.

Nothing happened. So-and-so prayed. In fact, Wigglesworth was around. Nothing happened. So these men went and they took some oil, went upstairs and they said, now, brother Harry, the Lord has quickened our brother here.

And we've come with him, called for the elders of the church. We're going to anoint you with oil. So they anointed him with oil. They went downstairs. Harry Toft's wife came up and she said, darling, look here, drink your water and take your pill.

He said, no. Why? Well, I've just been anointed. You've been anointed many times. Come on. You'll jump on, jump up on your bed at one o 'clock in the morning. You'll be screaming, screaming, screaming.

You're in pain. I'm in hell. Forget it. Please take the pill. He didn't. He went to sleep. Harry Toft Jr. came home at night, his brothers in the house, magnifying the Lord. What happened? Oh, Harry, I can't tell you what happened.

Run up and see your daddy. He goes in daddy's, daddy's sitting in bed, smiling, no grapes hanging there. He said, I was just a self-righteous Baptist. I knelt at the side of the bed and said, Lord Jesus, you are alive.

You delivered my daddy from death. Certain death, you've delivered him from pain. I've got a new daddy. And there he resulted to become a preacher. He never went to Bible school. He came home from the, the, uh, what do you call it?

The, uh, ironworks at night. And his mother said he'd get his Bible and the concordance, go upstairs at six o 'clock and stay till midnight. And he did that for about four years. Never went to play games.

Some nights wouldn't go to meetings, but I'm saying the glory of God came. And because of that, that young man became the intercessor. And I had the joy of spending hours and hours and hours with him.

Spiritual Warfare and the Unreached Nations

Okay. Recently, a man came to my office. He brought a big fine guy with him. And I said, where are you from? He said, Zimbabwe in Africa. I said, Oh, and I've worked in so-and-so. And I said, well, brother, I said, I'm saying this with sorrow.

Christianity has never been able to pull down the stronghold of Mohammedanism. There has never been a revival in a Mohammedan country. What's the good of saying that 3 ,000 people here and 3 ,000 a crusade, Billy Graham at 20 ,000, so what?

Let the guys go where hell is loose. Let them go. Like this doctor said, when you went to South America and I saw young men casting out demons and pulling down strongholds, I said, can I go to a seminary in America where our young students can do this when they graduate?

No, we're playing games. We're tossing little theological terms up and the devil laughs at the whole thing. And I'm embarrassed to devil, I'm embarrassed to death at the power of the devil and the weakness of the church.

There's still a thousand languages. There's more than a thousand languages. It doesn't have a verse of scripture. You've got people. I don't, I don't spend one day without going to Russia in my prayers, in my vision, I go around to those stinking cells.

You see, if God is with you, does it matter where you are? Paul says there were saints in Caesar's household and that was next door to hell. One of the greatest secular prophets in the world today, I think is Sol's, Sol's, how do you spell it?

Sol's Hen Hitson. How did he come to Christ? It was in a cell. There's urine running past him, stinking human corruption there. But across the cell, there's a man on a bit of a bench and each night he reached into his rags and he uncurls some things wrapped up and he reads them and smiles and lays back and puts them back again.

And Sol's Hen Hitson watched this for a while. And he says, Hey, I say, uh, what, what, what, what do you do that for? He said, I noticed, uh, when you, when they give jobs, they give you the hardest job, you'll get beaten more, you get less food, you get more suffering than any of us put together.

Uh, what, what, what, what, what have you got in your account? He said, these are little scriptures I wrote and I put in here before I came into prison and Sol's Hen Hitson said, I didn't need a preacher.

I didn't need a crucifix. I saw a man, God indwelling him and he's going through the lousiest rottenness. And he said, I was lying on a stinky bed of rotten straw when Jesus came to me through a man that was suffering.

Holiness, Moral Decline, and the Need for Prophets

Oh, we must be dressed nice to preach. I'm glad these guys aren't in bondage, even the clothes around here. We've got our starch in the wrong place. We need some Puritan starch in our living. Okay. Let me wind this up.

Look, we've all, we've all slaves in America now than any period in history of slaves to lust, we've slaves to liquor. We've got this damnable thing called AIDS. Wilkerson himself referred to the moment I was in Australia when it happened.

When, uh, Mr, what was the president now? Nixon pointed up. He says, America, we have landed a man on the moon. The Eagle has landed. So what? Do you know that every nation that lived that had the Eagle as its emblem perished?

The Roman empire had the Eagle, the Russians had the Eagle. When I was a boy in Germany, I had the Eagle. We used to see newspaper, you'd see the Kaiser with a big golden Eagle on the top of his head.

America's in jeopardy, not because she has an Eagle, but because she refuses to walk in the light. Now the theologians are saying the 10 commandments don't apply to us who are Christians. So soon you'll have a little brochure giving you at the church.

When you go in the choir will sing and you look at the bottom and it says on our coins, it says, in God, we trust in the church, in God, we lust. If you say the 10 commandments are today, why do you argue about the divorce rate and all the rotten stuff?

That's why I say we need profits. We need amazing men. I need a vision of a lost world. I told you, I'm a candidate for what Jeremiah had in his lamentations. Tear my liver, tear my heart, move my bowels.

Do you think it worries me if people think I'm eccentric or an idiot? Do you think I'll be embarrassed at the judgment seat of Christ? You want to be in heaven five minutes, but what you'll wish I'd live more closely to God, I'd sacrifice more, I prayed more, I preached more, I'd live like a model husband, a model child.

I've got three wonderful genius sons, partly because that little woman, when I was away, she'd read mystery stories to them every night and teach them the things of God. Dear God, I crossed the Atlantic 16 times in eight years or more than that.

I had to go home now and again, but I didn't get enough money to pay the fare across the Atlantic and back. I certainly didn't get rich. My little wife never said a word, stayed with those three boys.

Do you know, in all our years, we never had a babysitter in the house until I was in hospital and Martha had to stay and help nurse me in hospital. Listen, those children of yours, take care of them. You know, when the kids misbehave, people don't complain about their grandfather and grandmother.

Take that child and love it. If you're pregnant, sing to the baby. If you get a baby, feed it. Bless you, poor little thing. It hardly comes in the world and they stuff it with animal milk. No wonder they become little beasts.

That's your fault. Did you say I have to stop now? I will in a few minutes. But yeah, man, I went to see, they asked me to go see this man in, uh, what was his name, sweetie? Uh, Faith, Faith Holmes. Uh, Brother Andrews.

Brother Andrews wants to see you. So I went upstairs. Here's a man sitting behind a, a, a, a table. He had a nice little white beard. He had cheeks, any girl would envy, rosy cheeks, deep blue eyes. And he said, Mr. Raymond, I'm very honored that you've come and see me.

I've read your books. I said, sir, the boots on the other foot. So my mother always taught me if you go into the presence of royalty, you never turn your back. So when I went out, I went backwards, right?

Like this, you know? And I said, I'm so gratified to have seen you. It's a wonderful thing. Do you know that man living in America died a few years ago? A wonderful preacher. You can talk about Brainerd's and I, I enjoy that.

As I told you, there's three new big volumes out on praying, praise and of Portland that are fabulous. But this man's my hero. Here in busy America, that man never went out of that bedroom in 30 years.

He prayed alone every night from 10 o 'clock until five in the morning. Miracles have happened in other countries. What happened? They delivered the baby. He conceived it. He knew God's mind. He prayed God's mind.

He had God's energy, God's power, God's authority. When they carried him out in his little casket in a very little house, it was the first time he'd been out of the house in 12 years. He'd been once before for something.

But apart from that, and I'm saying it was there for 30 years. He had a tremendous authority with God. What else was it the same after? Fine. I said, what else did he say? She said, just finish. I'll tell you between the Lord and Martha.

Vision and Passion for God

I don't get much room. Let me try this real quick again. There are two things essential. If you're going to be successful, not in the eyes of man, but God, two things, vision and passion. This little semi crippled woman lifted out of bed every day.

Give me a love that leads the way of faith, which nothing can dismay a hope, no disappointments, tire, a passion that will burn like fire. Let me not sink to be a cloud. Make me the fuel frame of God.

It's one thing for me to see a holy God. It's another thing for me to see a lost world. So what happened? He sees the Lord high and lifted up. What did the cherubim do? They had six wings. What did they do with two of them?

Just like when the sun is too bright. And I've got that terrible lamp there. You, you, you, you put your shades on and you look at the sun through the shade. They had no shade. So they fell to the majesty of Jesus Christ through their wings.

They can't look on him and they cover themselves with their wings because they can't let him look on them. And when the light suddenly flashes and he sees his corruption. And remember, Isaiah is the man that wrote Isaiah 53.

Obviously he saw the Lord high and lifted up and he saw Jesus crucified. Then there's a people saying this one is 64th of Isaiah says, all that thou would spread the heavens. I can't do it. Armies can't do it.

Our country is in the best state it's ever been in. And now our leader has gone. New Zion has gone. Oh, come is your church saying that is your denomination saying we need God. No, they say, give us more money.

What to spread the weakness you've already spread. I want to go on more stations. Again, he's said nothing for 25 years, giving him $25 million. Will it be anointed because he got it? Will it be more passionate?

Sure. I'd actually give me half a million. I want to spend a penny on myself. I would reprint lots of the old classics that can't be printed and give them free. I do that last year. We gave away $2 ,000 of the books.

I don't make big money. One man came to see me. He said, did you write? What if I will tell you? Yes, I wonder you weren't shot. He said, but how do you live? I said, well, I'm social security and anything.

Anybody said, listen, he said, I've just struck two new wells in Louisiana and they're gushers eggs on is going to take them over. And he said, I was so moved. Really? Why did that will tell us? I called my lawyer this morning and said, give those two new wells to Leonard Ramey and he said, how do your sons live?

I said, they live like me, whatever the Lord sends. He said, listen, neither you nor your sons will ever want the money. You will have more than you can use. I said, well, that's wonderful. And he said, look for the papers.

They'll be coming. The lawyer's working. Six months after that month, remember he called me, he promised me two wells. He called, he said, Mr. Rayner, uh, I'm bankrupt. I said, well, well, both my wells went down the drain.

Then the lady knows I'd like a good, strong, nice car. So she promised me, she's a multimillionaire. I'll buy you a brand new Rolls Royce for your 90th birthday. She's playing it safe. But the trouble is she went bankrupt.

So if you tell me this morning, how much you're giving me, excuse me, if I don't believe you. Okay. Yes. It's, it's, it honestly, it's a crushing. It's a, it's a, it's almost a terrible thing to have a vision of a lost world, to keep turning over in my mind that 4 billion people every day.

I live a perishing without God, without hope. And what the church has now never reached them. That's awesome. A vision of a Holy God. He said two of the most awesome things. I think that can be said, here is this awesome man, a friend of Zachariah, a man who'd been in the Holy presence of God, and it said some of the most amazing at those human lips ever uttered.

But then he cries before God. When he sees the awesome holiness of God, it says, Roy's me. It doesn't say I'm behind in my tithing. It doesn't say I'm behind in my reading. It doesn't say I'm behind in my praying.

It says, Roy's me. I'm undone. I'm unclean. You won't get anywhere until you admit that. Undone and unclean, it hits the bottom. But that's the language of revival. Let me wind this up. I suppose if I asked you personally, one to one, do you think you're part of the bride, you'd say yes.

The Bride of Christ and Readiness for His Return

In the war days in England, when we were there, well, I was there, World War I, World War II too, but a young man had become friendly with a girl and he said, listen, I won't be called of the one. I won't get drafted.

I'm in a very special section. And because of my work at the university, I'm safe. If the war lasts another 10 years, it won't make any difference. And she got so very fond of this guy and they decided they would get married.

So one night he came and he looked rather distressed. And she said, what's wrong with you, John? He said, today I got my papers, my draft papers. And I have only two days and I'm going. And I don't know where they put us on the boat.

The captain has sealed orders. We land in another country. I don't know how long I'll be away. I don't know if I'll ever come back. But he said, I'll tell you what I'd like. He said, I think tomorrow, the one day we're at home, I think I'd like to go and get all your bridal outfit for you.

So that's what they did. They got all this stuff. He went away. She got a letter from a foreign country. It wasn't marked with any stamp. It had a government stamp. And he said, well, darling, here we are.

Everything's strange. The atmosphere is strange. The economy is strange. The lifestyle is strange. The food is strange. Everything is wrong as it can be. But he said, I love you. And for more than three years, he kept writing letters.

She kept taking them and, you know, tie them up with a bit of ribbon, put them away. He got odd letters. But one thing he cherished, he carried that in his breast pocket, a picture of his girlfriend. He'd take it night by night, look at it, give it a kiss, put it back, go to sleep.

She had a great big picture of him, you know, about this size on the dressing table. And it was standing up like this so she could see it all the time. Well, anyhow, for three years, there was no news of this fellow.

He was presumed dead. One night she came home from work extra tired, said to her mother, I can't go to church tonight. It's Wednesday night, but I can't go. I'll go upstairs and rest. So she went upstairs.

She said, don't trouble me. Don't let anybody else trouble me. She hadn't been gone up long before there was a knock at the door and the mother went and there was a soldier. So she brought him in and he came in.

He said, Where's Peggy? She isn't dead, is she? No, no. She didn't get married, did she? No. Oh, no. She's a very honest little boy. She talks about you every day. She comes down here, reads your love letters.

She goes up there and cuddles your picture. She's crazy about you. Well, where is she? She's upset. But wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me go upstairs. So the mother went upstairs. Those old English houses, you know, you have keyholes in the bedroom door.

Look through them. You can almost walk through the things of that big. So the mother couldn't hear anything. So she got down and looked through as a mother would, of course. And boy, what she saw was astounding.

So she tiptoed downstairs. She said, What was his name? I forgot his name. John, John, go upstairs. The door on the left at the top, open it very quietly because it's an old door and it groans a bit. But I want you to see her as she is.

So he went up and she'd had a terrible day and she had the love letter on her lap. She had her arm around the picture. And when he opened the door, he looked and he saw her mirrored through the mirror.

And the first thing he saw was her face and his at the side of it, through the mirror. Tears came down his face. She looked around and saw him. And she said, John, it's you. How nice. Forget it. She ran across the room.

She was airborne. She jumped up and put her arms around his neck. Love you. I love you. She said, I've read your love letters every day. Have you been away? I've looked at your picture. And he said, Darling, I've done the same.

Your last letter I had. You said in it, it doesn't matter how long it takes. When you come home, I'll be ready. He said, I didn't think you'd be so ready. She was rigged out in all her, I was going to say, uniform, bridal outfit, white array, white shoes, everything with her arm around the picture of the one she loved.

Jesus didn't take that much notice of you saying, My dears, I love thee. Not if you're not keeping his commandments. He said, If you love her, you keep my commandments. You'll put out your love. The last single thing that David kept emphasizing this week, the Jesus, the church and in the scripture is always likened to a woman.

Spiritual Self-Examination and Purity of Heart

Let's say here's a woman. She says, I'm the most beautiful woman in the world. So she sits down and starts painting. It's very, I used to do some painting. You sit between mirrors, get a reflection, you paint what you see.

So she paints a picture of a woman with gorgeous wavy hair, the bluest eyes you ever saw. Like the scripture says, as blue as the pools of Heshbon. Her teeth look like sheep that have come up from the washing.

Like a pillar of marble. I know it's not, I'm not describing any of you ladies, but anyhow, it's the most gorgeous picture of a woman you could ever imagine. And she goes away and then she goes back and she takes a pen and she writes underneath.

And I scream, what she put underneath? I am rich and increased in goods. I have need of nothing. And she goes on to say, Hey, just a minute. Just before you go there, I want to show another picture. I don't care what you think about me.

Neither do I. But as you were painting that painting, that picture of yourself and you put underneath, I'm rich, increased in goods and need of nothing. Look, here's a picture. Now, steady yourself. That picture, you have gorgeous, wavy hair.

Here, your head is bald. There, your eyes are blue as pools. There, your eyes are bloodshot. There, your teeth are faultless. Here, your teeth are rotten. There, your cheeks are round and rosy. Here, your cheeks are shrunken.

And you put underneath, I have need of nothing. And God says of you, thou art naked, wretched, blind and poor and miserable. And you don't even know it. Think it for a second. Supposing she sits there and I have a camera and I take a picture of her in a gorgeous, what do you call it now?

Brussels lace and all the gorgeous things that brides wear. And people say, This is the most gorgeous picture. But wait a minute, there's somebody here called God and he has a picture and his penetration goes right through your, the clothing you're wearing to your heart.

And he sees in the corner of your heart a cancer called pride. He sees another pocket in you called envy. He sees another point in you called laziness. He needs another little cell there called selfishness.

And instead of being the nice preacher and deacon you are, you're a disgrace and a disaster to God. What did you leave us there? No, look, there's an altar there instead of a flat top. It has bars of iron.

There's a there's a beast on there. It's bloody. And blood is dropping from the beast onto the live coal underneath. And an angel comes, a seraphim comes with a pair of tongs and he lifts a live coal from off the altar.

What does this man say? Woe is me, a man of unclean lips. Some of you guys have unclean eyes. You watch that much lousy stuff on TV, unclean lips. You gossip and criticize. You've been afraid to preach the truth because of what people will do.

Dear God, help us. He takes a live coal and touches his lips. I'm undone, I'm unclean. And immediately touched to me, says this, thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin not governed, purged. Does the Bible say without miracles, no man shall see the Lord?

Or without tongues? Or without ministry? No, without holiness. Turn the word around. Without purity. If you're not pure in heart, you may show off in church. You've got bitterness against something. You can't be a Christian and have bitterness.

You can be a Christian, you can be a backslider and have bitterness. You can't be a Christian and have a grudge. You can be a backslider and have a grudge. And what God is looking for right now is a pure vessel.

He's looking for pure people. Get rid of your pride. Get rid of your self-esteem. Get rid of your qualities and ability as a preacher. Say, God, I'm undone. My church is undone. My prayer meeting's undone.

Oh, that God would come and invade somebody's life this morning. What's a defiling thing in your life? Pride? Laziness? What is it? You know what it is. Anger? Jealousy? You know what it is. I'm not going to sing.

A Call to Repentance and Spiritual Bankruptcy

I could get you to move you emotionally. I wouldn't do that. I'm going to do what I've done before. Challenge you right down to your toes. After all, there's got to be no shutting your eyes when you walk to the judgment seat.

You're not going to be a big shot. You're not going to be a man with money, a man with fame. You'll be stark naked. Can you imagine going to the judgment? Can I give you a second again? Look, Jesus is coming, OK?

He's coming for what? A what? A bride. The princes in England don't want to get married in Westminster Abbey. So here there are 3 ,000 of the greatest people in the world going to the wedding of a prince.

The fellow in the choir says, when do I know when to start playing here comes the bride? Well, there are six soldiers at the door and a fanfare of trumpets. And when you hear the trumpets start playing, here comes the bride.

So the guy up there hears the trumpet. He starts piping. Here comes the bride and that multi-billion dollar organ. And as he does that, a woman comes through the door, stark naked, stinking, she hasn't been bathed.

She's impure and blind. And she crashes into a pew and she becomes bloody. And she comes screaming down the aisle. The soldiers get all of her. What are you doing here? I'm the bride. I'm the bride. You idiot.

You stinking woman. Get out of here. Are you going to tell me that Jesus Christ, who went through the hell of Gethsemane and down into the depths and ascended to the right hand of the Father, is coming back for a bride like we have in our churches today?

Forget it. Could you at this moment say, Lord, I don't care if you come in five minutes. As far as I know, my heart is pure. I have no bitterness. I have no enmity. I'm tied up with God in my prayer life.

I'm sacrificial. I love to glorify the Lord. He's not going to give you a day's notice. Either you're part of the bride or you're not. When you go home, I won't do it. I won't attempt to do it. Read Isaiah.

He has at least 20 woes. Woe unto you that sit up late. That's your TV fault. Woe unto you that go from house to house. That's the thought that got it. But then he turns his eyes that have been turned upward, turned outward, and turned them inward.

It's not my brother, nor my sister. It's me or God. It's not your pastor that has no passion. You have no passion. It's not your deacons have no vision. You have no vision. If you get vision and passion, it'd be afraid to come to the prayer meetings that be so alive with God and tears and brokenness.

Sure, I'm not going to try and move you emotionally. Make up your mind. I can't live like this anymore. I've been secretly hiding uncleanness. God, wipe it out. Kill the thing. Touch me with the Holy Ghost and with fire.

Fire burns, fire destroys, fire purifies. I'm not asking you to come and kneel at the front for a minute. I'm going to ask you to stay here till the Spirit bears witness that you've been honest before him and it's cleaned you up and cleaned you out and anointed you with the Spirit.

You're ready to go out to a lost world. He's not asking you to live for him. He's asking you to die for him. Die to your plans. Die to your skills. Die to your desires. Well, you've heard a crazy Englishman.

I'm saying right now, I'm not going to sing. You say, Mr. Reginald, the fire has gone out. The anointing has gone. It has to come back. I can't hang on to my diploma. I can't hang on to my degrees. I can't go on to my anointing, my, what do you call it?

Preachers get, you're out of here or something. You can't do it. There's a perishing world out there. It could be transformed if we meet God today. I believe history has been made this week. I believe history could be made this morning.

The Invitation to Seek God’s Presence

So I say, I'm going to ask the men first. I'm not going to sing. You say, Brother Reginald, I'm just on the edge of spiritual bankruptcy, on the edge of spiritual blindness. I don't care who sees me, I must meet God.