Enough Is Enough — Michael L. Brown

Father, we love you, and we praise you, and we thank you. Just lift your voice to Him with me, and ask Him to make this day special in your life. Father, you see your people. Lord, you see the hunger and the thirst.

Lord, they've come, some, Lord, from the ends of the earth, some from around the block, Lord, but equally hungry, equally thirsty, from all over America, from the nations, saying, God, speak to me, God, touch me, God, change me.

Lord, you know we've had it with quick-fix solutions, Lord, you know we've had it with man-made remedies, Lord, you know that we must have a touch from you, and I pray that you would speak to us with clarity, God, that the anointing of your Spirit would be upon this message, that your word would hit home, and that we would not deceive ourselves, Lord, by being hearers only, but that we would be doers of your word, and so be blessed.

In the name of Jesus, thank you for hearing us. Amen. Amen. I want you to turn with me, you can be seated, thank you, turn with me to Genesis 32. This word stands on its own, but it's ideal for all of you that will be here with us for a few days.

Jacob Faces Esau and Abandons Human Solutions

It's ideal as an introduction. Genesis 32, if you want a title, the title is, Enough is Enough. Enough is Enough. Genesis 32, verse 22, Jacob has left Paddan Aram, he has left his father-in-law, Lavan or Laban.

He is now traveling with his wives, concubines, children, all of his flocks, all of his herds, and he gets word that his brother Esau is coming to meet him with 400 men. The last time Jacob heard Esau's voice, Esau was threatening to kill him.

Now, years have gone by, Jacob is heading back, and Esau is on his way to meet him with 400 men. And Jacob plans things out as best as he can, but maybe for the first time in his life, he realizes no earthly plan will succeed.

Jacob has been a self-reliant man and a God-reliant man. Sometimes he's relied on his own strength and cunning, and other times he's relied on God, but always there was that mixture. He would try to get God's work done with his human help or with his sinful ways.

Now he's faced with a situation that in spite of his best planning, there is no way out. There is no earthly solution. Jacob does not know what's happening, except he assumes Esau is coming with hostility, and he could be dead, and worse yet, his wives and children could be dead.

So what does he do? That night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his 11 sons, and crossed the fort of the Yavok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.

So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.

Then the man said, let me go, for it is daybreak. But Jacob replied, I will not let you go unless you bless me. The man asked him, what is your name? Jacob, he answered. And the man said, your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.

Jacob said, please tell me your name. But he replied, why do you ask my name? Then he blessed him there. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, it is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.

The sun rose upon him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. Therefore, to this day, the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.

In reading this account, you can just read over the fact that Jacob wrestled with this man through the night until dawn. It's a superhuman effort to have a fight for life or to wrestle hour after hour after hour.

Jacob was pushed to the absolute limit, but he would not let go, because he could not let go, because he knew somehow this was a divine messenger. Hosea 12 says that he wept when he wrestled with the angel.

This was a divine messenger. This was God somehow coming to Jacob. And he knew that his only hope was in getting a blessing from God. He knew that his only hope was divine intervention. And he said not just empty words, but words from his heart, I will not let you go until you bless me.

And I want to say to you that that attitude is the key. If you want to see revival in your church, if you want to see breakthrough in your personal life, if you want to see change come where there has been a stronghold for years, if you want to see light shine where it has only been dark, you must come to that same place of holy desperation that Jacob came to.

You must come to the place of saying, I will not let you go until you bless me. Now for years, people have asked the question, why don't we have revival? If you're coming from outside of America, I have to apologize for some American terminology, especially in the Bible Belt.

This part of the South, from here and going out west for a little ways, is called the Bible Belt. And in this part of the country, we have this miserable expression. We say we're holding a revival next week.

Oh, praise the Lord, we're holding a three-day revival next month at our church. Oh, we schedule the revival for the first Sunday of every month. And week in, week out, we tell people, you can no more hold a revival than you can hold a hurricane.

You can no more schedule a revival than you can schedule an earthquake. Revival is not something man works up. Revival is something God sends down. Once you realize that revival is not produced by flesh and blood, revival is not just a series of meetings.

Revival is not just a special speaker. Revival is not just a lot of emotion and noise. Revival is divine visitation. Then the question is, how do you make it happen? How do you get the rain to come down?

In the natural, with all of our science, with all of our technology, we cannot manufacture rain that can soak a whole nation, or that can soak a whole region, or that can produce enough rain to irrigate crops through a whole region.

We cannot manufacture rain. It's the same thing spiritually. We cannot manufacture a visitation. In America, we are great at hype. We are great in big talk. We are great in big television settings. And sometimes we impress ourselves.

We believe our hype. We believe something is actually happening. Sometimes we do that, but in point of fact, there's no visitation. And we have lost the better part of a whole young generation here in America, because our churches are full of big talk, and our churches are full of hype, and our churches are full of good management, and good administration, and good music.

But we haven't had the presence of God. And the world has seduced away a whole generation until these recent years. There's no substitute for the presence of God. There's no substitute for the anointing.

There's no substitute for God pouring out his spirit in power. There's no substitute for it. But how do you make it happen? How do you manufacture it? You can't. You're totally dependent on God. You see your nation going down.

You see your church going down. You see your community going down. Or you see things just stagnating, no growth, no breakthrough. The society impacting the church more than the church impacting the society.

God, visit us. God, come in power. He doesn't come right away. What do you do? You know, the American mentality in much of Europe and other parts of the world is the microwave mentality. Push a button.

Make it happen. Instant results. No preparation. That's the way we like it. Show me the secret. Show me the key. What do I do to have revival? Do I need to have a sanctuary that looks like Braswell? Do I need to sing the songs that they sing?

Oh, they use banners at prayer for subjects, for people to gather around. Maybe if we have banners. Oh, well, they did this. Friends, there's no easy solution. There's no automatic way to make it happen.

And we don't like that. We like to be in control. You know, I told this story some weeks ago. But our daughters now are 20 and 19. And our younger one still does some riding. Our older one did more riding in the past, horse riding.

And I've never been a horse rider. You know, grew up in New York, was not into horses, not around horses. But my wife had ridden when she was young. And a few years ago, we went on vacation. I don't know how many years ago, but I remember that we went on vacation.

It's a distant memory, but we did it. And we came down to Florida. We didn't live here. We went down to some other parts, actually, in different parts of Virginia. And we went on all these rides. I would go on the rides with my daughters, you know, these big roller coaster rides, and these things that would flip twice, and all this stuff.

And it was fine. I'm pretty big, and I'm pretty squeezed into those chairs. And with those seat belts on, I felt pretty secure. Even though I wasn't in control, I was secure. And then we were finishing up vacation.

We stopped in West Virginia. Our daughters had really wanted to ride. God healed me of hay fever years ago. But I found when I was around horses, I had a little bit of an allergic reaction. Horsehair and I didn't agree.

But everyone wanted to go riding. We found this riding place. So I said, fine, I'll go. So of course, they got to get a nice big horse for you. That means you're higher off the ground. And I'm starting to sneeze now, too.

And I get on this horse, and I was in the front. And Nancy, my wife, and our two girls, they're behind me. And the guy leading us through the forest is in front. And I sit on this horse, and I tell you before God, my first thought was, where's the seat belt?

I got to strap in. I got something over my shoulder and something around my waist, just like I had on all those roller coasters. And I thought, oh, no. There's no seat belt. I'm not in control. I'm on a big horse.

I don't like horses. I'm sneezing. And at some point, we're going to start moving fast, because it'd be too boring for everybody else. And my family had the greatest time. When the guy said, do you want to trot?

We're just walking through this rough area. Do you want to trot? I thought, of course, I have to say yes. We start to pick up a little speed. And trotting, I understand, is just a little bit more disruptive if you're not used to riding until you hit the next stage of cantering.

So we were just in the trotting phase, and my family was in stitches watching me bounce. I'm just saying, if I fall this way, if the horse goes which way if I fall, if my glasses go this way, what's going to happen?

We like to be in control. We like to call the shots. Pastors, it's a weakness. Evangelists, Christian ministers, we like to be in control of the service. Even in our own lives, whatever the situation is, have you ever noticed at a prayer meeting, people are praying, and they're crying out, and you're agreeing, yes, Lord, yes, Lord, Father, help us.

Yes, Lord, Father, help us. The moment someone says, I take authority in Jesus' name, everybody gets louder. Is it just because the anointing comes down when we take authority over the enemy? Maybe. Could it be that God is waiting for us to take a stand against the enemy?

Maybe. Could it also be that now I am doing something? And therefore, we all rise up together. We don't like to be in a state of dependence. And when you realize that the only hope for your nation, for your city, for your life, for the circumstances that you're battling with, that the only hope is a divine answer, divine visitation, it puts you in a place where you are on your face.

It puts you in a place where you run out of human solutions. And many of us will try. Well, we'll try prayer. Well, we'll try fasting. Well, we'll try a series of special meetings. And God's going to let us exhaust all the things that we try until we come to realize the answer must come from heaven.

It's not a method. It's not a routine. It's not a pattern. The answer must come from heaven. It's uncomfortable for the flesh, but it's the only way. It's got to be killed. And I want to give you some keys to breaking through.

These are keys for revival. These are keys for corporate change. These are keys to see a nation change. These are keys for your individual life. But the question has often been asked, why don't we have revival, real revival, real visitation?

Why don't we have revival? And the answer that's been given for years has not changed. We don't have revival because we are willing to live without it. We have not yet come to that place of desperation.

We have not yet come to that place with Jacob where he says, I won't let you go until you bless me. I've got to hold on because there is no other answer. We are willing to go on without it. We are willing to go on with church life as we know it.

We're willing to go on with that stronghold as we know it. We're willing to go on with all the darkness around us as we know it. So the very first thing that must happen, you must come to the end of yourself.

Yes, God has called us to overcome. And God has called us to triumph. And God has called us to be strong in Him and in the power of His might. And God has called us to believe, and so on. But ultimately, the answer lies in Him, not in us.

I'm not saying that we walk around like a bunch of defeated wimps. I'm not saying we walk around like dogs with their tails stuck between their legs, dejected, guilt-ridden, condemned. Not at all. I'm saying that our hope lies in Him.

We must come to the end of ourselves. I remember when Bill Clinton was elected president, even though I was not one of those who would think that God is a Republican and that every Democrat is the devil.

I didn't think like that. I knew, and even though I was not happy with the stance that President Bush had taken towards Israel, I felt at times he had been unfair. Still, I looked at the fact that Bush came from a heritage that was primarily pro-life and Clinton, pro-abortion, that Clinton was going to be much more activist in terms of homosexual, feminist agenda, et cetera, and that his moral reputation was lower than that of Bush.

So economy was secondary to me. And even social justice, that was important. But the other things were higher. So I voted for Bush, although I still had certain questions. But I wasn't going to vote for Clinton.

And I remember that next morning driving to my office with the news that Mr. Clinton had been elected president. All of a sudden, I felt something sink in the inside of me. And I realized that to a slight extent, and bear in mind, I'm not, like I said, Mr. Republican.

But to a slight extent, I realized that I had been putting my trust in government, that I had been thinking if we could just get a few more good people, godly or conservative in their orientation, appointed to the Supreme Court, if we could just get a few more godly senators, if we could just get this passed, if we could just get an amendment here, if we could just have some legislation against abortion, if we could do this.

Now, I'm not saying those things are not important. But there was a certain extent that I realized subconsciously I was depending on government, as opposed to saying, no matter who's in office, and yes, vote for the right people and pray and cooperate to do the right thing with government in any way you can or to call them to do the right thing.

But the fact of the matter was America, and you can apply this to your own nation, America was so far gone morally and spiritually that no matter who was in government, it wasn't going to change things.

That there had to be a radical sweeping move of God among the people of America. Grassroots repentance. All the laws in the world are not going to take abortion away right now. Only God converting hearts and changing lives is going to do it.

You can say, OK, we now stand against homosexual activism. That's not going to change it. Homosexual activists will not say, OK, we go back in the closet. Radical feminists will not trash their agenda.

Racial hatred, racial inequality will not just go away because people pass laws. There's got to be something more. And all of us in our lives have things that we trust and things that we hang on. Maybe you're in ministry.

Maybe you think, man, if I could just preach with greater anointing, that would do it. Or if I could just be more effective, if I could get the right assistant pastor to work with me. Or maybe in our community, if we could just get a few more believers active doing this, doing that, that's all fine and good.

But we must have revival. We must have visitation. Thanks, brothers. Listen. You take a country like Italy. Italy has had the gospel since the days of the Apostle Paul. Almost 2 ,000 years later, believers and missionaries working in the country tell me that about one half of 1 of the nation is born again.

After 2 ,000 years, the gospel has been in India since the days of the Apostle Thomas, according to church tradition. Again, almost 2 ,000 years. And maybe 2 or 3 of the population is born again. And that's in a nation that is open.

There is much openness in India for the gospel. I could start asking about different European nations represented here. I could ask you about other parts of the world. How long has the gospel been in your country?

You know, Great Reformation, birth in Germany. You look at Germany, the end of the 20th century. You look at the moral decline, the spiritual decline, the tiny percentage of born-again believers. What's going to change all that?

You look at some of your own lives trying to overcome the same things, five years, 10 years, 20 years, hoping it's going to be better. It's going to be better. It's going to be better. It's going to change.

It's going to change. You know, I joke about this when I go overseas. But I've explained to people overseas something that you may not even know here in America. Do you know this has been statistically proven?

Sociologists have done all types of surveys and backed this up. It crosses racial barriers. It crosses economic barriers. But do you know there is one day in America which is the number one day for people to begin diets?

Across America, I don't know if you know this, surveys have proven it out. One day more than any other day in the year. I've explained this to people outside of the US because they weren't aware of this.

One day more than any other day is the day when people begin diets in America. That day is tomorrow. How'd you go in there for a second, didn't I? You were figuring it out. It's day after Thanksgiving.

It's New Year's Day after Christmas, day after your birth. No, no, tomorrow, tomorrow. That's the way some of you have been for years with your own spiritual life. The change is going to come. The breakthrough is going to come.

I'm really going to get victory over this sin. I'm really going to live in purity. I'm really going to go after God. I'm not going to be ashamed. And it's been years and years and years and years and it hasn't changed.

And you tried this method and you did this and did that and it's the same junk. You've got to come to a place of realization that there must be a divine breakthrough. You must come to a place of holy desperation.

Not only do you come to the end of yourself, but the next thing that must come out of it, you must realize that your only hope is in God. See, there is a worldly despair. You come to the end of yourself and you kill yourself.

You come to the end of yourself and you become manic depressive and hopeless and so on. But there is a godly coming to the end of yourself. The scriptures reiterate several different times. You can find it in Psalm 51, 17.

You can find it in Isaiah 57, 15 and other passages that God looks to those whose hearts are broken and contrite, to those who are crushed in spirit, to those who realize, Lord, you are my sufficiency.

You are my strength. See, we have to be realistic about the need before we come to the end of ourselves and before we look to God alone. And one thing that amazes me is how unrealistic we tend to be. We tend to think, oh, it'll be okay.

It's always okay. Oh, things will change. They always change. I remember years ago when we were praying for someone dying of brain cancer. And I thought, all right, we're gonna get him through. He can't die.

He's a young man. You're married with kids and we're not gonna lose him. And I remember at one point, my wife saying, if we don't change what we're doing, we're gonna lose him. He's going downhill. He's getting worse.

You know, and I knew what she was telling me because I was close to him. I was probably the main man involved in this whole situation and I knew the challenge to me was to stop what I was doing and to shut myself in with God for a period of days and to shut myself in with him to say, hey, we're getting the hotel room and we're just staying in there.

We're gonna fast and pray and go after God and I'll pray with you and pray for you and help you until the breakthrough. I didn't wanna hear that. I didn't wanna realize, no, no, he's gonna be all right.

He wasn't all right. I didn't wanna hear that. And I'm not saying that all dependent on me. I believe that I had an opportunity to go after God the way that I hadn't before. I don't live condemned and with guilt.

I'm going after God, doing things the best I know how to do and know that he's saved me by his grace and he loves me and he's kind to me and compassionate to me. And by his strength, I live a holy and pure life before him.

And by his strength, I produce fruit. I'm not condemned. But I didn't wanna hear my wife tell me the truth. He's getting worse. Some of us would rather stick our head in the sand. Some of us would rather think, well, at 400, well, it's probably not really coming here.

Maybe the report was exaggerated. Esau, no, it's probably not gonna be like that. We don't wanna come to grips with it. We don't wanna come to grips that our neighborhood is in worse shape now than when we planted a church there 10 years ago.

We don't wanna come to grips with the fact that the moral standards of our country continue to decline. We don't wanna come to grips with it because it's too overwhelming. And I'll just be candid. We're always candid, by the way.

The only way that we shoot here, any of us that speak in the revival is shooting straight. So either duck or take it. But something has amazed me recently. You know, many people, many believers in this nation have been on their faces for years, mourning over the moral state of things, mourning over what's on television, mourning over what's in the movies, mourning over the condition of the society, crying out to God, doing what they knew how to do to change things one life at a time to call for fasting and prayer.

But others have just been kind of coasting. I'm talking about Christians. I'm talking about born-again, so-called spirit-filled believers. And what's blown me away, it's been hard to understand. You know, we're in this particular situation now where our president is accused from several different places of sexual immorality.

And if he is guilty of sexual immorality, then he has also lied publicly to the American people by saying, I haven't done it. And there are other charges of obstruction of justice and so on. But the economy is booming and other things seem to be doing pretty well here in America.

So of course, the polls, everybody knows the polls. They're probably known around the world that over half of Americans think that he probably did commit sexual sin, adultery, et cetera. But two thirds of the Americans say that doesn't affect his job performance.

We still give him thumbs up as a president. And all these Christians and all these leaders are outraged. Look at the moral state of our country. I can't believe this. I think, what have you been doing the last decade or two?

Where have you been as things have been going down the tubes as we've slaughtered a million and a half babies a year? As we've had, you know, homosexual parades, you know, led by mayors of our cities going down the streets with every type of unspeakable thing going on that I wouldn't repeat with all the young ears here.

Where have you been? You know, we're shocked to see this. No, this is par for the course. This is what we expect. Let me illustrate this for you. About seven, eight years ago, a movie came out in America called The Last Temptation of Christ.

Once it was out, it really didn't do all that much, but it got a lot of attention before it was out. I never saw it, of course. It was based on a novel that believers would consider blasphemous. And I remember churches, good churches, and they started petition drives.

And they said to the movie theaters, if you show this movie in your theater, we will no longer go to your theater. We will boycott your theaters. Yes, taking a moral stand. Praise the Lord. I was in a state of shock.

You say, why? Let me explain. This is how far we had fallen asleep. Listen to me. And by the way, I will encourage you by the time this message is over, trust me. But first we got to kind of expose the need and the wounds and then do some surgery and then stitch you up.

Is that all right? By the way, if you came to have your ears tickled, you came to the wrong building, the wrong place. It gets hot in the day and hotter at night. This is what shocked me. Okay, on the one hand, I understood the outrage.

On the one hand. You know, if Hollywood produced a movie that was blatantly anti-Semitic or blatantly anti-Muslim, that would cause an outcry in America. And if they attacked something that was wrong and perverse and it was anti-homosexual or anti-abortion, that would create a stir.

But you can be anti-Jesus. You can make him immoral. That's okay. I understood the stir on the one hand. On the other hand, I thought, well, what else to expect Hollywood to produce? What else to expect godly, godless, worldly people to do but put out trash when it comes to the gospel?

If they do, it's no surprise. But that wasn't the big issue to me. This was the issue. How is it that Christians had boycott power with the movie theaters? How is it that, I mean, look, you might find one movie in 50 that's acceptable for a believer to watch without being defiled, either with profanity or sexual innuendos and uncleanness or violence, or just all the stars that were being entertained by, or, you know, pro-abortion and pro-homosexual and anti-Christian and so on.

And here, believers are going to the theaters enough to say, if you show that movie, we'll take our business elsewhere. What in the world has happened to the church? Go to 1 Corinthians 5 for a minute.

I just want to drill this home. It's what you call a feel-good message. 1 Corinthians chapter 5. See, we haven't gotten desperate because we haven't seen how sick we were. I'm Jewish, my own people, the leaders of my people.

When the Messiah came, basically said, we're not sick. We're not sinners. He said, I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners. It's only the sick who need a physician, not the healthy. They said, we're healthy.

We're righteous. We don't need you. The church of Laodicea said, I'm rich, increased in wealth, and I've need of nothing. Jesus said, you don't realize you're wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

We've got to see the need. If we're going to come to the end of ourselves and realize our solution is in God, we've got to be honest. It may be painful, but we've got to be ruthlessly honest with ourselves.

That's where the victory begins. That's where the answer comes. You don't go to prayer and fasting for revival to seek God around the clock with prayer, to pour your heart out with tears, to soak your pillow with tears, to be honest with your flock and congregation, to be honest with yourself.

You don't do that unless you know your only hope is in visitation. 1 Corinthians 5, before I read it, let me give you an illustration. What would you think of this? What would you think if you go to a church and there is now a petition?

There is now a petition. I'm being interrupted by the video director. Thank you, brother. Can I say something honestly? Thank you. And I would say we're going close to 800 services, right, Steve? Going close to 800 revival services and probably 130 of these day sessions.

And this is, you were here the very first time that anyone ever came on the platform in the middle of a message and did that to the speaker. The very history was made in front of your eyes. Also, for all of the prima donna ministers here who would have gone absolutely crazy if anyone did that to them in public, notice how easygoing I was about that.

And what you don't know is these Friday sessions are videoed, right? These are videoed, which means that this potentially could go on video around the world. And you were here to see it. Now, the miracle of all miracles is I remember my train of thought exactly where I was.

So I will resume. I think I was right about here or so. Before I read from 1 Corinthians 5, let me give you this illustration. See, that's where I was. What was the illustration? No, I know it. I know it.

What if you go into a church and they've got petitions? All the brothers are passing out these petitions. It's for the local brothel. They have found out that some of the prostitutes are anti-Semitic, and they are going to boycott that place until they get rid of the anti-Semitic prostitutes.

Or here's a petition going through the church. Some of the local bartenders during happy hour are racists, and the Christians are gonna boycott that happy hour until they get rid of the racist bartenders.

You show that movie Last Temptation of Christ and we will boycott your theater. We won't watch all the other movies that are bad, but not as directly offensive. 1 Corinthians 5, Paul says, verse 11, now I'm, well, verse nine, I've written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people, not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters.

In that case, you'd have to leave this world. By the way, I deal with this very chapter and these concepts in my book, How Saved Are We? That's why I put that title on it. Yeah, we may be saved, but how saved?

And then Steve will ask tonight, are you saved? And if you are saved, I ask how saved? But he says, look, I'm not telling you just stay away from all sexually immoral people or idolaters, I'm not telling you stay away from them in the world, because then you'd have to leave the world.

The world is full of people like that, and you're gonna be salt and light. You're gonna reach these people. You're gonna be examples to these people. You're gonna touch these people. You can't leave the world.

But, but, I am writing you now that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother, but is sexually immoral or greedy and idolater or a slanderer or drunken or a swindler. With such a man, do not even eat.

Now, he said, if I was telling you don't associate with these people in the world, then you'd have to leave the world. Listen, you know how far things have fallen now? If he says don't associate with these people in the church, we have to leave the church, because the church is filled with people like this.

This is not the way it is supposed to be. It's not supposed to be a great accomplishment for a young lady to get married and say, I'm still a virgin or a young man to get married, and I'm still a virgin.

That's not supposed to be some great heroic accomplishment for a Christian family. When Steve talks about the standards that he sets in his family, and you won't find a single video with even, you know, the slightest profanity or gratuitous violence of any kind or any type of sexual scene, or, you know, you won't find anything like that in his home.

People are like, wow, you live like that? You don't find arsenic in my refrigerator either to drink. Why is that a high standard? Isn't that normal? Isn't it? Maybe not. Can I take this one step further?

Would you mind if I meddle a little bit, especially with those who are from Europe? As messed up as things are in America, some European Christians look at us here as puritanical and old-fashioned. True story I'm about to give you.

True story. One of my friends is over. He's a missionary, American missionary, been in Italy over 20 years. He's over in Germany. One of his friends, German Christian, says to him, you want to go swimming?

We've got this pool, it's got simulated water. Waves in it, it's really neat and so on. Sure. So they go, they got to take a few showers, you know, disinfecting the whole bit. And now they're ready for this pool.

Everything real clean in there. They go in the pool and have a great time swimming. And then the German brother says to my American brother, who's a missionary in Italy, hey, you want to go in the sauna?