A Burning Heart — Leonard Ravenhill

A Burning Heart and the Fire of God

So shall I all my love exert, and love them with a zeal like thine, and turn them to a pardoning God, and quench their brand in Jesus' blood. Kindle a fire in this meeting tonight. That be a wall of fire, so that people will not look to hell fire.

Let love burn in us like a fire. Let faith burn in us like a fire. Let hope burn within us like a fire. Let zeal burn within us like a fire. Again, Lord, make this a bad night for the devil. Make it a glorious night for our Lord Jesus Christ.

We give you praise in his name. Thank you. If any of you want to be in the limelight, come up here. Terrible. We're going to look in the prophecy of Isaiah. A great biblical scholar, I think he was a Hebrew scholar, said that what Martin Luther called the book of Isaiah, the gospel of Isaiah, because there's so much gospel in it.

This other Hebrew scholar said this is the most profound thing that's ever been written by any man anywhere. It has to be because it's not written by imagination, it's written by inspiration. And some of us are stupid enough to believe that the Bible has no errors in it.

All the errors are in the pews. Okay, we're going to Isaiah. Did I give you the chapter? I didn't. Well, it's 64. This book, well, how many books are there in the Bible? How many chapters are there in Isaiah?

The Old Testament ends at the 39th book. And this wonderful gospel of Isaiah, the first part finishes at the 39th chapter. The second part goes on from the, well, it must go from the 40th to the 66th.

The Prophetic Burden of Isaiah and Jeremiah

Last week we took a study, partly a study in Jeremiah. I don't know how it affected you. It affected me tremendously, affected me. I believe the greatest breed of men that ever walked on this earth were the major prophets in the Old Testament.

I wouldn't mind have been one of the minor prophets, but the major prophets are the greatest men that ever walked this earth. I quoted last week, I quote again from a famous Jewish scholar who was converted to Christianity, and he made this definition.

He said, the prophet by the very nature of his calling is a tragic figure. He has a fierce, I love that word, a fierce loyalty to God and a burning heart of compassion for a lost world. And this time he's pulled right to the very throne.

At the other time, he sees all the human corruption. Jeremiah writes to backsliders. Thirteen times in the writings of Jeremiah you have backsliders. Only four times elsewhere, I think, in the Old Testament, the backsliders mentioned, that's in Hosea.

So his pressures on a backslidden nation. But the emphasis of Isaiah is the emphasis of holiness. It's the most needed thing in the church of God today. Until the church is holy, there'll be no rapture.

I don't care whatsoever you have a rapture. The Lord isn't coming for a limping old woman. He isn't coming for a bag woman. He's coming for a bride. Pure and spotless. If you take the first chapters that we mentioned there, chapters 1 to 39, you'll find that the holy God or holiness is mentioned no less than 12 times.

If you take the second half of the book from chapter 40 to 66, you'll find that holiness or a holy God is mentioned no less than 17 times. This man seems to me, he's always hitting the peaks. He prophesied the birth of Jesus.

He prophesied the second coming. He gives you a pen portrait in Isaiah 53, one of the most gorgeous chapters in the word of God, who hath believed our report. He shall go out before him as a tender plant, as a root out of a dry...

Do you ever see a root that was attractive? He's the root out of a dry ground. He has no form, no comeliness. And when we should see him, we should not desire him. Let me jump down that. There was a Hebrew scholar in Scotland years ago by the name of Rabbi Andrews.

He wasn't a rabbi. It was a little Scotland, but he was more familiar and quoted more often the Hebrew scriptures than anybody in that great university. In fact, when he lectured, he didn't have a textbook.

He always took the book of Isaiah as his textbook. And he was slowly coming down, day by day, into that chapter. And he came to that where it says he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity.

The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed. A verse that always chokes me up. It pleased the Lord to bruise him. Do you fathers take delight in bruising your child? One of the curses of America today is child abuse.

It pleased the Lord to bruise him. Why? Because that's the only way he could bring total glory to his father. An old man, a very wise man, he was English. He said a few years ago that Jesus did more to glorify his father for the 30 years he was on earth than he would have done if it stayed in heaven another thousand years.

Christ as the Last Adam and the Necessity of Salvation

He undid all that Adam did. Whatever came in for Adam. Now, there's a lovely hymn. It was written by a Roman Catholic, actually. It was written by Cardinal Newman. I think it's magnificent. Praise to the holiest in the height, and in the depth be praise.

In all his works most wonderful, most sure in all his ways. O wisest love, that flesh and blood which did in Adam fail, should strive again against the foe, should strive and should prevail. And then he goes on to say, let me get this in a minute.

Let me quote it again. O loving wisdom of our God, and all with sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue. That's wrong. Jesus is not the second Adam. He's the last Adam. If there's a second Adam, you can have a third, a fourth, a fifth.

No, sir. Jesus took all the powers of darkness and hell, and what came in through the first Adam goes out by the last Adam. That's why we sang twice that verse tonight from, It is well with my soul, my sin or the bliss.

You see, all our people know in the churches now, they've had their sins forgiven, and they've been submitting to inward sin for years. I don't believe there's a man on the whole TV that preaches salvation.

They preach forgiveness. Forgiveness is not salvation. They point out. There's a man in bed with some other man's wife in a motel. He said, you know the Lord loves you just as you are. Well, then why get changed?

Commit adultery as long as you like. He still loves you. Be a cheat, be a liar, be a thief, be a failure. He still loves you. But there's a scripture, isn't it? The psalm said, and don't look, I think it is.

But it says God is angry with the wicked every day. I heard somebody call today, God loves you but hates your sin. That's Buncombe. God hates you for committing the sin. Is God going to take your sins and judge them at the judgment and leave you alone?

Well, some say there's no trouble for us at the judgment, but it says that man who has failed God, he shall suffer loss. Not his sins, he shall suffer loss. You know, five minutes inside of heaven, we'll all be embarrassed.

We wish to God we'd be more faithful. We wish to God we'd be more obedient. We wish to God we'd have explored the possibilities of grace, as Lowry called the resources that there are in the Godhead. You believe that, Sammy?

If you said no, I'd send you home. Well, let me just look at this a minute again. Somebody told me recently they'd been up north and heard, I don't know, two or three conferences. Everybody at the conference preached on woe, lo, go.

Well, that's illegal, that belongs to me. But here in this sixth chapter, simple words, monosyllables, so simple a preacher could remember them. Verse five, he said, woe is me, I'm undone. Verse seven, it said lo.

And verse nine, he said go. The first is the word of a man, the second is the word of a seraphim, the third is the word of God. The first is a confession, woe is me. The second is a word of cleansing, this has touched thy lips.

And the third is a word of commission, go. I keep seeing people appealing for money on TV and saying, help us to fulfill the Great Commission. I can help them in a weekend. The Great Commission of Jesus was going to all the world, it wasn't anything of the kind.

The Great Commission was God's message to his disciples. The last message of Jesus to the church is, repent, repent, repent, repent, repent, six times over in Revelation. And when going out to people, men living in defeat are going to tell heathen people how to get saved.

Holiness, Victory Over Sin, and the Great Commission

Ask someone if they're saved. We used to stay in a beautiful estate in the Bahamas. Half past six in the morning, or six to half past, I did a chug, chug, chug of a motorboat. I go under the verandah of the house, look in the channel there was a man with a sombrero and he yelled at the top of his voice, but the raven in I'm glad I'm saved from hell.

Well, that's wonderful. It's a fringe benefit. Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from fear? Are you saved from doubt? Are you saved from anger? Are you saved from envy? Are you saved from pride? He came to save us now from sinning.

Christianity is NLT, not a sinning religion. It's a victorious religion. Yeah, I love this. Let me play with these, not play with them, but say these words again. Can I? Wall logo. Remember the first verse says, in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon the throne.

Do you know that? Let me think how many times. I think there are 14 references, mostly in Isaiah, about God sitting upon the throne. So, there he has vision. You go down there, down then to, in the year King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord.

And then he says, I heard a voice in verse 8. Let me take the words again. He saw the Lord high, so it's a vision of height. He saw into the abyss of his own heart, so it's a vision of depth. He saw a lost world outside, so it's a vision of breath.

He saw God, it was a vision of deity. The great curse in modern preaching is this, our people never see God. I don't believe one percent of the Christians in America or the world know God. They know theology, they know about God, they know references in the scripture.

But who really knows God? He had a vision of deity, he saw God. He had a vision of depravity, he saw himself. He had a vision of duty, he saw a lost world outside. He had a vision of a holy God, he had a vision of holiness.

He had an upward vision of holiness, he had an inward vision of helplessness. He had an outward vision of hopelessness. The scripture clearly says, as you remember, that where there is no vision, the people perish.

I'm going to skip over now to, if I get preaching all that, I'll keep you here all night. Let's go to chapter 64, please. I've said before, I'll say it many times, I guess. I think every preacher should read Acts 26 on his knees every week, where Paul outlines what the preacher is there for, to turn people from darkness to light, the power of Satan to God, they may have forgiveness of sin and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified by faith that is in me.

And then when you've digested that, go to the 40th chapter of Isaiah and get the concept of God that this amazing man has. You'll never get depressed. Now, some people have worn the page out, the corner of the page, Romans 8, 28, that's all they know.

The Majesty of God and the Smallness of Nations

What does it say here? In Isaiah 4, verse 13 says, Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counselor, taught him? With whom took he counsel? Who instructed him and taught him the path of knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?

Verse 17, sorry, 15, Behold, all the nations are as a drop of a bucket and a small dust in the balance. Verse 17, All nations before him are as nothing. They are counted to him less than nothing and vanity.

Now, verse 18 is a question, To whom will he liken me, or what likeness will he give me, says the Lord? Then 22, It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth. Isn't that a picture? Verse 26 is more astounding.

Lift up your eyes on high. Who hath created these things? He's talking about the stars, the sun, the moon. Who hath created these things? That bringeth out the greatness of his might, that he is strong in power.

If I skip one thing that's important. He bringeth out their host by number. I heard a statement again on TV this week, that what we thought there was one Milky Way, a way back somewhere in infinity. You see, the scientists don't believe in eternity, but they believe in infinity.

The smart boys just now are deciding what position to give Jesus in history. He's already decided where to put them in prophecy. No uncertainty about that in any shape or form. Oh, I forgot how many trillion stars they said there were the other day.

I enjoy a scientist saying that. He thinks it's baffling. And then the next thing they say, they've invented a new chip for what do you call them? Computer? It's as big as your fingernail and you can store 250 ,000 statements on a chip.

But God doesn't need fingernails when he knows the name of everybody that lives inside him. Isaac Watts has a hymn in which he says, He made the stars, those heavenly flames. He counts their numbers, calls their names.

His wisdom's vast and knows no bound. The deep where all our thoughts are drowned. What is a creature's skill or force? The sprightly man, the warlike horse, the piercing whip, the active limb. All are too mean delights for him.

But saints are lovely in his sight. I don't think God enjoys the sun and the moon and the stars. They can't respond. He enjoys the man that's been digging ditches down the road all day, but he had a heart in tune with God all the time when he was praying.

Revival, Judgment, and the Need for Holy Preachers

You know, the salvation of America does not rest on the White House. I don't care who gets in. Well, it won't care I do. The salvation of America does not depend on the White House. It depends on God's house.

And before God does anything, he'll clean up the church. When he was on earth, he cleaned up the temple. If he comes again, he'll clean up the pulpit. Judgment must begin at the house of God. Judgment must begin with the preachers.

I think the most awesome task in the world tonight is not to be the president of the United States or the king of an empire, but to be a man who stands between a living God and a dying people. Somebody quoted to me again, the words of Richard Baxter in 1500.

Richard Baxter went to Kidderminster. My precious wife and I used to drive through that town. There's an oversized statue, I suppose, about 15 feet high. There he is with a book in his hand. When he went into that town, there was not one family that had devotions.

And when he died, there wasn't one family that didn't have them. They had to put five galleries up. Wouldn't that be something? Five galleries to accommodate the crowd every Lord's Day. And he said the secret was that he was, he says, I preached as if to never preach again.

And as a dying man to dying men. I reminded the crowd last week, crowd, hold you thousands there. The greatest soul winner in England, maybe ever, was neither Whitfield nor Wesley. It was Spurgeon. When he was still only 22 years of age, he preached to 3000 people every Sunday morning, 3000 every Sunday night.

A newspaper critic says more people are healed when he prays. He never had the healing line. He never sold worn out anchor cheese and dusters that he blessed. More people are healed through Spurgeon's praying than all the hospitals in London.

He led tens of thousands of people to Christ. Listen to this, you evangelist fellows. And he never made an alterco. He said, God has troubled you this morning about your soul's salvation. And he said the same at night.

I'll be in my office tomorrow morning at six and I'll deal with you. And there was a procession and he stayed three hours every Sunday morning, pardon me, Monday morning and three hours every Monday night dealing with people.

When he finished, Dr. A .D. Dixon went. He was a gradual orator maybe than Spurgeon. And the first day he was there, he shocked the congregation by making an appeal. Will you come forward and accept Christ?

A newspaper reporter wrote asked him afterwards, why did you, Mr. Spurgeon, never ever in 20 years made an altercolony, thousands of people genuinely born again. They left the world of flesh and the devil and the filthy language.

They became new men with new hearts and new hopes and new spirits and new wills. People don't get saved like that anymore. They come to the altar and weave a few tears, crocodile tears and live like crocodiles the rest of the week, biting and devouring each other.

Well, the newspaper man said, Mr. Dixon, I don't think Spurgeon would have enjoyed, sorry, I don't think Spurgeon would have enjoyed your altercol last night. He never made them. Oh, he said, I believe in striking while the iron is hot.

The newspaper man, bless him, said to Dr. Dixon, you know what Spurgeon would have said? If the iron was hot with the Holy Ghost at eight o 'clock on Sunday night, it'd still be as hot next morning at eight o 'clock.

I believe in that kind of salvation. If we don't get that preaching back, you may as well sell America out. We've got to get some hellfire preachers. We won't find them in the cemeteries, but we'll find them somewhere.

I mean, seminaries. But God's going to find them. I mentioned last week that the most amazing move of the Spirit of God was in about 17, what, 34? Through that gravel voice, sour looking man by the name of Jonathan Edwards.

Do you know the New England revival began out of an ordinary meeting? It wasn't staged. They weren't converted film stars and broken down footballers on the platform. No choirs, no singing. There was a consistency about the man that preached.

And people said, yes, he read with a candle in one hand and he had bad eyesight, didn't have good glasses, so he had to skip over his notes. His daughter said, you complain that my daddy being severe, but you should live in the house with him.

And hear him weeping. I'd like to send a notice to all the deacons of every church in America. If your preacher doesn't weep over the congregation, weep over your preacher. Jeremiah, I said last week, was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

He goes on to say later in the book, I weep over your sins in secret. We used to live in a town nine miles out of Manchester, England. There was a block of stone half the size of this wall here, on one side of a doorway, a great big arch, another big lump of stone that side.

And it says this Salvation Army Corp, as they called it, was opened in 19, I think it was 1910, William Booth died in 1912. Because they had a revival, they built the largest Salvation Army Hall outside of London, in a small industrial town.

There were two girls there by the name of Jackson, the Jackson sisters. Well, they went the usual Salvation Army way, you know, gave out food, gave out alcohols, gave out furniture. In fact, it used to be a skit.

A skit, you go to the Salvation Army for soup, soap and salvation. And they tried everything and nothing worked. They were desperate, they were bearing no fruit, so they sent a letter to William Booth.

He was half Jew and half Gentile. And he didn't want to waste words on the telegram, so he sent two words back to the young ladies, try tears. They did and revolution came, spiritual revolution. They packed that auditorium that seats over 2 ,000 to the rafters every Lord's Day.

They had prayer meetings every Saturday. I would not be a member of a church that didn't have a prayer meeting Saturday night. Saturday night from 9 o 'clock till midnight. Or Friday night, 9 o 'clock till midnight.

You do it, it will revolutionize your church. They tried tears, brokenness. And God in infinite mercy came. Now, let's get to this chapter again. I keep trying. I suppose the most thankless task in the world is to be a prophet of God.

Jesus, Jeremiah, and Prophetic Tears

When God is angry with a nation, it has no prophets. I don't know a prophet in America today. Somebody sent a brochure out with my picture on it and said, Leonard Raven is another Jeremiah. I never said that.

I wouldn't sanction a foolish thing like that. I'm not fit to lose his shoes. Never mind, be a prophet like Jeremiah. But you remember again in the 16th chapter of Matthew, verse 16, that Jesus said, ask the people, who do the people say that I am?

Some say, thou art Elijah. Some say, you're Eli... Some say that you're John Baptist, risen from the dead. But some said, art Jeremiah. What's the point of contact? Because Jeremiah was a man of tears, because Jesus was a man of tears.

Oh yes, he whipped the people when he went into the temple. But wait a minute, read a few verses back. He wept before he whipped. And if you're going to whip them, weep over them. That makes all the difference in the world.

Do you think he looked at that temple as you look at it and want to take a picture? I know, no cameras, not thinking of that. Do you think he looked at it with human eyes? Don't you think he remembered the time though this was Herod's temple, the old one had gone.

Don't you think he looked there and saw Jeremiah preaching and Isaiah preaching and all the prophets? And this stupid people don't know he's the last, he's a prophet of prophets as much as he's a king of kings and lord of lords.

And it is God's last call. I think you might take that scripture and change it. Where it says, Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets. Why don't we say, America, America? This is your last chance.

I say to America what I say to you, God doesn't owe you a single thing. The reason you're a dwarf spiritually is we won't eat the word of God, you won't wait on him, you won't hear his voice and you won't obey him.

The secret of revival is obedience. But you can't obey what you don't know. I don't remember that Isaiah talked about his tears. Anyhow, I'm trying to recall the statement, I didn't memorize it, but anyhow, the essence of it was, it's by an old Jewish scholar in America that became a Christian and he said, No man who has ever seen the blazing light of God's glory will ever backslide.

You just didn't do it. You'll be afraid of missing eternal glory. Well, let me go a bit further and read the text. Isaiah 64 and verse 4, All that thou wouldst rend the heavens. It's an admission we can't do it.

The Catholics will say, Gabriel, will you rend the heavens? Or Michael, the archangel, will you rend the heavens? No, no, no, no. They have no power. This is the man who knows the living God. This is the man who has seen God sitting on the circle of the earth.

He writes about him as the one who inhabiteth eternity. Go back into the previous chapter 63 and look at verse 15. Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory.

All that thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains may flow at thy presence. That's a reference, of course, one translation of it, that the mountains may quake. Do you remember the holy mountain when they didn't go near to it because the glory of God was there and they didn't even stand near it?

And he says, Come again in that majesty, come in that glory again, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence when the melting fire burneth and the fire again causeth the name, causeth the waters to boil to make thy name known to thine adversaries and that the nations may tremble at thy presence.

He likes that word. Do you remember what he says earlier about preachers? To this man will I look, to him that trembleth. It doesn't mean your knees not together like the first time you stood in the pulpit and never found your knees so friendly.

He's not talking about that, he's talking about an inward trembling. To handle the word of the eternal God, to stand as a communication between the living God and the dying people. Again, I ask you in God's name, is Jesus Christ risen?

Does he stand in the midst where two or three are gathered together? Well, if the living Christ is in the midst, so in God's name, can you have a dead meeting? It's impossible. If the meeting's dead, he isn't there.

We're going through emotions, we're going through actions. He's asked that the mountains may flow at thy presence. Look at verse three. When thou didst terrible things which we look not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed at thy presence.

For since the beginning of the world, men have not heard or perceived by the ear, neither have I seen, O God, beside thee what he hath prepared for them that wait for him. Do you know what the Hebrew says?

Those who shock themselves in God, those who saturate themselves with his holiness, with his majesty. Let me ask you, when in your fellowship did you ever tiptoe out of the sanctuary without saying a word because glory of God had been there so much?

You go to the average church in Dallas this weekend and you can't get off the steps you've got to think, well, do you think the cowboys will win today? Oh no, it's World Series. Christians are worried about World Series but they're not taking the world seriously.

I asked you last week, when in God's name are we going to get serious about being serious? See, the prophet doesn't see the world as a politician sees him or the industrialist or the educationalist. The true prophet of God sees the world as God sees it.

In verse 6 he says, we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness are as filthy rags. You know, people say that today, oh, I'm just a saved sinner. That's like saying you're a married bachelor.

That's like saying you're an honest thief or a pure harlot. You can't be a saved sinner. You're either saved or you're a sinner. He came, thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins.

He saves us from sins that we've committed and from committing a thousand more that would meet us at the judgment. You know, we live in a day when we're more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

We accommodate ourselves to iniquity, not only in the world, but in the fellowships round about. All right, go ahead. Look back a minute at chapter 59 and verse 16. Would you do that? The chapter begins, Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear.

But your iniquities and your sins have separated you from God. You can't see his face. He's hidden his face from you. I went to a little college in England. Just 35 men there. Samuel Chadwick was the wonderful principal.

And he loved and said over and over the 80th psalm, O thou that dwellest between the cherubim. Our people don't know where God is, so how can they call on him? He dwells between the cherubim. Shine forth.

Let's find it a minute and read it. Three times in the psalm he says the same thing. Go to verse 2. Psalm 80 verse 2. Turneth again, O God, and cause thy face. Not we'll turn ourselves. It's going to take omnipotence.

Turn us again, O God. Cause thy face to shine upon us, and we will be saved. O Lord God of hosts, how long will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? Verse 7. Turneth again, O God of hosts. Cause thy face to shine upon us and be saved.

The last verse, 19. Turneth again, O Lord God of hosts. Cause thy face to shine upon us, and we shall be saved. We say, you know, dispensationally say this is the dispensation of the Holy Ghost. I looked in an old edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica that I have.

There were three pages on the Holy Spirit. There were 33 on the papacy. Wesley has a hymn in which he says, Stay thou insulted spirit, stay. I believe almost every church in America insults the Holy Ghost every Sunday.

Revival Requires Brokenness, Prayer, and Tears

Jonathan Edwards said, we got together, we preachers. And I guess it would mean shepherd. Remember there are a vast number of intellectuals. Jonathan Edwards, I believe, was the greatest brain America ever had or ever will have.

He went to university at seven. At 13 years of age, he was voted the, what do you call it, invalid Victorian. A little later he became, when Yale, was it Yale, was it not? Yale. He became president. Then he had a very bad time after that.

But he said, we have made up our minds, we preachers, listen to it. Excuse me, I keep saying that. Listen to it. I know you're listening. We're both ears. Some of you with your eyes too. Thank you. We made up our minds, we would never pluck any unripe fruit.

The curse of American evangelism, we're plucking unripe fruit. We're asking people to be saved, they don't know they're lost. The preacher hasn't got power in his own life, so he can't say what power he can be reached by this man.

It's an awful, I don't believe the spiritual temperature of America with all the fancy shows we have on TV. A little boy I turned on the other day, I was looking for Jimmy Swaggart. Don't like all Jimmy says, but anyhow, he's the best of the bunch, I think.

And who did I get got PTL? As I say, PTL means pit of the listeners. There's little Jimmy there and his wife all dolled up with butter all over her face and a can of red paint on her lips and somebody else's eyelashes and somebody else's fingernails.

It must be terrible when they go to bed at night and she takes her fingernails off. Then she leaves her dentures in the bathroom and then she hangs her wig on the bedpost. What a life. You can almost buy that it came out.

But a little guy, Jimmy Baker was saying, oh well, yes, there have been revivals. Look at Mr. Finney. But he only drew thousands. We're seeing millions. The greatest revival since Pentecost is on the world tonight.

I challenge you to find out why there's one city with a revival in it. One. A little squirt like him talking about Finney. I remember standing outside of the great church in Rochester, New York and there was a placard there.

It was in bronze. It said, Charles G. Charles G. Charles Grandison Finney labored in this city for six months and a hundred thousand people were born again. You could marry Jimmy, get Jimmy Sraggett and I never said Maynard James, but you don't know who he is.

He's my wife's favorite preacher. But anyhow, you can get Jimmy Sraggett, Orville Roberts, Dave Wilkinson, put them all together. They couldn't go to a city and turn it upside down in six months. Do you know why we don't have revival?

Because we're content to live without it, number one. And the second thing is the price is too high. And the third thing, we couldn't handle it if it came. Usually you don't put a newborn baby in a refrigerator, do you?

What's the good of God getting thousands of people saved and putting them, you know, a fine old Baptist preacher, Vance Havner. I like old Vance. He wrote the foreword to my last book. He did a good job.

Because it's a good book. But anyhow, he said some people down where we live got refrigerators. He said we've got them all over our town. They've got steeples on them. Well, that's about it, isn't it?

Go back, please, into chapter 63. We'll come to the other in a minute for sure. He's talking about Israel and he said in verse 9, in all their afflictions, he was afflicted. He was with them through the wilderness.

He was with them in every step of the way. In all their afflictions, he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them. That's verse 9. In his love and in his pity, he redeemed them. Listen. He redeemed them.

He bared them up. He carried them. Did you hear it? He saved them. He redeemed them. He bared them up. He carried them. And verse 10. But they rebelled. What a dirty crowd. They yell like mad to get out of Egypt.

And when they got out, they said, can you take us back? We're missing the onions and the garlic. I'm going to mess up again. You preach, you fellows preach on it. Please. The angel of his presence saved them.