Warning People Full Time — John R. Rice

The Watchman's Charge to Warn the Wicked

Ezekiel, Ezekiel chapter 2. I'm greatly impressed with the truth that's on chapter 3, I think, more than usual. Everywhere you turn in the Bible, you find God is concerned about one thing, that's keeping people out of hell.

You find soul winning as much in the Old Testament as in the New, if you look for it. For example, it's in Daniel where the Scripture says, These be wise, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, they turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

It is in Proverbs 11, 30, that the fruit of the righteous is the tree of life, and he that winneth souls is wise. It's in Psalm 51 where David said, Lord, restore to me the joy of thy salvation, then will I teach transgressors thy way, and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

It's in Psalm 19, 7, the Scripture says, The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. So then, God has in mind soul winning throughout the Old Testament too. Now, in Ezekiel chapter 3, it begins with verse 4,.

And he said unto me, Son of man, go and speak with my words unto them, for thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech, and I would hardly have made thy forehead clear. They would not be to be dismayed, as thou look'st, though there be a rebellious creature that toucheth one another.

Now, verse 14,. So the Spirit lifted me up, for if I miss something, verse 10, come unto the children of the people, and speak unto them, and tell them,. And took me away, and I sat where they sat, and remained there stonished among them seven days.

And it came to pass, at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, the same is life.

The same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn'st the wicked, and turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity.

And I left something before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning. He shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered, but his blood will I require at thine hand.

And that the righteous sin not, and do not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned, also thou shalt never die a soul. The Lord says, Ezekiel, I made you a watchman for the house of Israel, because of their sin.

Give my word to them. Not something you've made up, not your own intrigue, but give my word to them. And he said, you go. He said, Then I was caught by the Spirit, led by the Spirit, and taken over to where they were, by the river Chebar.

I sat where they sat. I took the burden for these poor, wicked, lost people. And he said, Don't be afraid. You'll have to be bold if you're going to speak for God, if you're going to be a soul winner among these people, because they're hard-hearted, and that's true today.

Now give us him not warning, not speak as to warn the wicked, for the wicked weigh the same as us, the same wicked man shall die in his sin. Everybody that doesn't get warned goes to hell. And then he says, If you warn the wicked, any turn not, you've delivered your soul.

But he said, If you don't warn him, his blood's on your hand. And he said, The righteous, if you preach to Christian people, and you warn them what God says, and then go to the devil, the girls turn out to be heartless.

If their families are broken up by divorce, if the curse of God comes on the nation, then you've delivered your soul if you warned them. But if you didn't warn them, another family will be ruined, a plague, an awful curse on a family like that on the Kennedy family I mentioned, and other ruin will come, and you'll be to blame, you'll have blood on your hands.

Then Dr. Parker, a preacher, is going to have to answer to God for the people around him. Now I want you to consider several things that stand out in this, this Old Testament teaching about a prophet of God.

Beginning the Gospel with Those Closest to Us

First of all, he said, Ezekiel, I'm not sending you to far-off people, to people of hard language and strange speech. I'm sending you to your own people Israel. Now that reminds me, that's the way God does it all the time.

You remember in the great commission that's given in Luke 24, and verse 47, and following that repentance, and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

You begin at Jerusalem. He said it's the same way in Acts 1 -8, but you shall receive power when the Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, that's first, and in all Judea, that's next, and then in all Samaria and the outermost parts of the earth.

God's plan is, begin where you are. Why were they to begin in Jerusalem? Because they were in Jerusalem. Now you, if I'm a heretic, all right, make the most of it. There's a broad, widespread doctrine as to foreign missions that simply is not true.

Oh, there's a widespread doctrine that if you want God to bless your church, you must give your money to foreign missions. Don't misunderstand me. The best soul-winning churches do support foreign missions in all ways.

They're usually the best givers to foreign missions. You, the folks at home, the first one, I knew a church. I knew it well. I attended long. They had supported 40 missionaries on the field. They only had four professions of faith in a year's time at home, and those were little children went at one in the homes.

Now that church didn't please God, and the young people went to the devil. And the kind of missionaries they supported didn't win souls in the foreign field either. No, your first duty is not somebody in a strange speech and far-off language.

Your first duty is to the folks at home. You remember the case of the Gadarene demoniac? I was over there in the Little Sea of Galilee, and it's only 15 miles wide, and I'll leave again for a tour of Bible lands.

And there, it's only seven or eight miles across, and over yonder, and on the south side, where there's some steep hills, the Lord went over there, and in the country of the Gadarenes, there was a devil-possessed man.

And he said, what's your name? He said, my name is Legion. I've got a whole army of devils in me. Well, and he went around naked, and he cut himself with stones, and he slept in the tombs where they buried, the caves where they buried the dead bodies.

And this poor demon-possessed and harassed man cried and ran about, and they tried to chain him, and he broke the chains with the supernatural devil's power. And Jesus said, come out of the land. And the devil said, oh, well, can we go on these hogs here?

They heard of 2 ,000 hogs, and Jesus said, yes, these Jews have no business making money out of the hogs if they're not supposed to eat pork in the house. So he said, go ahead. So the demons, they went in this great 2 ,000 hogs, and they all ran down a steep place into the sea and committed hogicide.

And that was done to them. And so here the people come out of town, and they said, here, Jesus, you leave our country. Now, look here. Here's 4 ,000 Smithfield hams and all this black hog bacon that's gone.

Now, you just leave our country. You've caused us trouble. But here's this poor demon-possessed man. He's got his clothes on. People get right where God puts their clothes on. You listen to me. And up in heaven, they don't smirk and smile about that.

Ludeness is dirty and wicked, and it's a sorry kind of testimony to anybody who claims to be a Christian. So he put his clothes on, and he's sitting clothed and in his right mind at the feet of Jesus.

Trouble, the harassment of demons is gone. That's what God can do. Thank God I've seen it. I remember a man who tried to commit suicide in Dallas. And he turned on the gas in a little cheap hotel room.

His wife had quit him. And this doctor had just told him, now he's lost his job and it's depression times. And what a fan. And got a dollar for a room and turned on the gas. But a chambermaid smelled the gas.

And with her paskey, opened the door and opened the window, turned out the gas, called the ambulance, rushed him to the Methodist hospital. And when he got out that night, why, she went to see how he was.

And he, and she said, he told her all of his burdens and life wasn't fit to live. And she told him how she'd fallen into sin and low respect. And they said, we need somebody to pray for us. And they went down to Catholic priest's rectory on 8th and Marseilles street.

And it's 11 o 'clock at night. And he said, oh, they said, father, will you pray for us? And he said, I've got mass at six o 'clock in the morning. I have no time to muck with you. And I think you're drunk anyhow.

Get away from my door. She said, well, my mother goes to church and she thinks her preacher's the best preacher in Dallas. Let's go see brother Rice. And he said, no, I can't take this being driven away from a door.

She said, if I call ahead of time, if he says, tell him, will you come? He said, yes. So they called and Mrs. Rice answered the phone. I heard her talking. She said, well, well, I'm sorry. Why, brother Rice is sick in bed with the flu.

I'm sorry. I know he'd be glad to see others. I said, wait a minute, mother, what is it? She said, somebody wanted to come see you. And I told him you're sick in bed. I said, tell him, come on, to come back to the bedroom.

And so they came and passed 11 o 'clock at night. This poor man that had, life wasn't fit to live. His wife's gone. His health is broken and there's no job. And in despair came face to face and tried to kill himself.

And here's this poor, sorry. And they came and I had told him of this story and I had him kneel down to the bed. I put my hands on their heads and prayed and God in loving mercy fixed it. And the Catholic man saved first.

And then after a little while, the woman finally decided God would fix even a wicked woman like her. And as they sat up there and the man sat there, he said, say, isn't this strange? I said, what's strange?

He said, you know, I didn't know how I could face another day. I was just tormented. And he said, that's all gone. I said, I'm, everything's bright and happy and I don't have any fears and troubles. He said, there's just this peace, isn't that strange?

I said, no, that isn't strange. I've seen that happen to 10 ,000 people. That's what Jesus does. Here's the man now, the devil's cast out and so on his right mind and they said, hey Jesus, you get out of here.

We don't care about this part of you. And the man said, Jesus, you let me go with you. You see, they don't care. I want to go with you, Jesus. No, Jesus said, no, you go back home and tell your own folks what great things the Lord has done for you and has had compassion on you.

And he went back and told him to everybody in this city what wonderful things God had told him. Now that's what God wants you to do. You live where you live and no speech and hard language, but your own crowd.

That's it. Let's make this personal. How many have a brother or sister unsaved? Let's see your hand. Hold your hand up high just a minute. Yeah, good many. How many have a father or a mother unsaved? Some will.

You've got somebody to work on. You better not be thinking about foreign missions or anything else till you get the one main thing done. Wait, how many have some in-laws, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law unsaved?

Let's see, unsaved in-laws. Have you? Oh, so many have. Yes, sir. Wait a minute. I don't know somebody you were in school with them or you worked with where they work or they live next door and they're unsaved.

Let's see your hand. Christianity begins first in Jerusalem. That's what you'd better do. So Ezekiel, I'm not sending you to a far off country and people of a hard language and a strange speech that you can't understand.

I'm sending you to your own people. That's the way the Lord does it all the time. Now, you listen to me. You understand, I am forgiven out of tax. I'm not forgiven out of tax as an excuse for not winning souls personally.

I am for foreign missions. I am not for foreign missions as an excuse for not doing the one main thing, the folks next door. Now, God, the light that doesn't shine bright at home won't shine very far anywhere.

You better get that settled. Now, some people have an idea. Take an ocean voyage, it'll make you a wonderful soul winner over in Africa. No, it won't. If you don't win colored people in this country, you won't win them in Africa.

No. If you don't win your own folks, you won't win anybody else much. You know, one of the tragic things, and I think it's one of the best evidences that God doesn't call women to be preachers and leaders and so on.

I've seen all over America women preachers that had unsaved husbands and godless children going to the devil. A good woman said to R .A. Torrey one time, oh, she said, Dr. Torrey, I'm called to preach.

I'm going to be an evangelist. You were called to preach? Yes. He said, well, I said, he said, aren't you? Oh, yes. He said, I've got a husband, eight children. Well, fine, Dr. Torrey. I said, George, I got your congregation.

Go home and start. Listen, now, God's plan is you better win the folks next to you. So here it is with this man here, and you must go on. Now, Joshua said, it's for me, I understand, I'm a Jewish Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and the same thing for your family.

And the next four verses, every four verses, preach the gospel to him and all that is in the house, and believe in God with all his house, and baptize straightway he and all his. That's the Bible plan.

Rejoice, believing in God with all his house. That's the Bible plan. Confidence in the kind of Christianity that don't work at your house and don't work with the people you know next door and the people in school with you.

You better get that down settled. You talk about revival. I'll tell you when you have a wonderful revival. When this crowd right here, you just set out to get your own folks saved. There's some of you that ought never to eat another meal till you go to that dad or mother or that brother or sister, or till you cry a long distance and cry and pray and beg them to be saved, or tell them I've got to come home and get it.

If you don't get that crowd saved, you're no good to anybody else much. You're a watchman to the house of Israel, your house of Israel, your own little crowd, your Jerusalem, that's right. Some people, they use a term that's quoted three times in the book of Romans, to the Jew first.

So they said, and I saw an ad the other day by my good friend, I'm on the board of Brother Gartenhouse and Jewish Missions, and I'm for Jewish Missions just like I'm for winning Gentiles and Jews and high school youngsters and Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses and so on, the whole business, not any exclusive group.

But an ad the other day said, God's command to the Jew first. No it isn't, God's statement to the Jew first. God's stating that chronologically, that's the way it came. It's not a command, you're to put the Jew first.

You're to put Gentiles first if you're a Gentile. You're to put the folks in Winston-Salem first if you live in Winston-Salem. If I live in Murfreesboro, I'm to put Murfreesboro first, if that's God's plan.

And Brother Parker, if you don't win, if you can't win Penny, and if you can't win John, your born girl, then brother, you're in hard business running out here as the banjo is told over the country. God's plan is you win your own.

That's where you better start, or as far as he could go, to your own. Search your conditions for real soul winning work here. He said, I ate that book he gave me and in bitterness of soul, he said, where they sat for seven days and I was astonished with it.

Entering the Burden and Compassion of the Lost

You know, if you don't enter into the burden and the sorrows and the tragedy and the emptiness and frustration and temptation, if you don't enter into all the sad states, you can't be much good. Shake hands, don't find a man's name, don't learn what his don't care.

I don't care what about his children. You don't give a hoot. Well, you can't win it about that way. You know that he'd go forth and weep. Did you know love has a wonderful thing? Nobody gets enough love.

Nobody gets enough of that. You know that? I suppose you just, you listen into my broadcast and you say, brother, I see a girl sure do sing sweet. You come around and see if I spit on you. I don't sound bad at all to me.

You know that? Nobody gets enough love and appreciation. And you can go, you can go to the most, to the most orthodox Jew or to the most devoted Catholic and you can go to the craziest Jehovah's Witness.

But let me tell you, if you get right down where you love him and his family and you want him to be blessed and you care about his burdens, nobody gets enough of that. There's an old saying I used to teach my little girls, hearts like doors open these to their, their little keys and don't forget the two of these are thank you, sir, and if you please.

Well, that's another way of saying that hearts open up when you really care and there's compassion and burden and, and a sweet sympathy. We do need that. Uh, Dr. Jack House tells you he was a little girl and she said one came one day and she said, he said, well, she said, Dr. Mr. House, he said, Mr. Brother House, she called him, said, I'm, I'm not going to be here anymore.

I'm moving away. Well, he said, I told you, I'm sorry, I'm going to miss you. And finally she said, well, ain't you going to cry? And then he said, yes, I'm going to cry. And he did cry. Now, don't you think you better get into this business of feeling like lost people feel and seeing their poor lost country.

I find a lot of lost people, they despise, a lot of Christian people, they despise lost people. We're driving past in Dallas, Texas, driving by the baseball, uh, uh, stadiums. And someone said, yeah, I got a baseball game and I can't come, come hear me preach.

Well, I said, if you had as much done as they got, you might get somebody to hear you preach. But I do not, why should I despise baseball games much? I don't see anything special. Not the point. Oh, the restless like sheep having no shepherd.

No wonder Jesus looked on them and they were the multitude and he was moved with compassion. And so I hear that with bitterness of soul is equal sits where they sit. And there's astonished with them before he has a message.

I'll tell you, we sure need somebody to get learned to weed. We need somebody who there's too much seed sown and never does rain on it. It doesn't sprout. You mean everyone that isn't warned will die in his sin?

That's right. That's right. That's right. You listen to this. God has no way of saving sinners, except through Christ. God never saves a single lost person in the world who doesn't hear the gospel some way from somebody.

The Necessity of a Gospel Messenger

Some great Romans chapter 10 scripture said, whose service you call from the name of the Lord to the same. That's fine. The next verse 14, 10, 14 says, how should I call on him in whom they've not believed?

And how should I believe on him of whom they've not heard? And how should I hear without a preacher or without a proclaimer? Uh, it don't mean formal pulpit preaching, but without somebody to herald it and tell it.

Uh, how can it call on anybody that haven't believed in? If they don't know there's a savior died for sinners and now they're going to believe on him. They didn't ever hear about him. And now they're going to hear about it unless somebody tells it.

That's it. If you don't tell people how to be saved, then they're going to hell. Somebody has come your way. Somebody, you know, in Luke 11, Jesus talks about praying for bread for sinners. He said, a friend of mine, this journey has come to me.

Another said before him, a friend has come to me. There's somebody you can win that very likely as far as we humanly know, nobody else can. And as far as we can humanly judge, if you don't win him, he's going to hell.

A friend of mine has come to me. See that? Uh, sir or madam made you a watchman for you. If a watchman don't holler, if a watchman doesn't warn, you've got blood in your hands because there's no other way for him to hear it.

No other way. He was what we'd call a God fearing man. He prayed every day. He fasted and prayed. He gave alms. He did all he knew. And an angel of God came down and said, uh, oh, fella, I said, you want to be saved, don't you?

Oh, yes, I sure do. Well, he said, I can't tell you. You've got to get somebody to save you. I can't tell you, but the Lord told me I could tell you where to find somebody. You send over to Joppa, to the house of Simon the Tanner, and there you can, uh, he'll tell you where about you and all your house can be saved.

So Peter came back and told him how to be saved. Uh, it's an interesting thing that he, uh, he let the cow out of the bag. Peter started to make a long sermon. He said, good night, these old heathen. I've got preaching up to Jews, but I'm Gentile.

I never heard the gospel. Boy, I'll have to go to the whole Venice. But he made one mistake. He told him how to be saved in the first of the message. And that broke up the meeting. That's just all this waiting for.

So the Holy Spirit fell on people and everybody's saved by then. He said, how do you intend to preach a long sermon? Because in chapter 11, when they got after him about preaching to Gentiles, he reported, he said, as I began to speak unto them, the Holy Ghost fell on them as it did on us.

He said, I had a lot more to say, but I didn't get to say it. Uh, uh, God couldn't save Cornelius or that Peter or somebody. God couldn't save that household unless somebody told him. An angel wouldn't do.

God had to send somebody. Here's the case of that Ethiopian eunuch. He's going down from Jerusalem to Gaze. He got the Bible and read the Bible. And the Lord said, Philip, you go down there. He said, go ahead now.

And Philip ran. I sure like propeller run when God says go. I think God does too. God let a lot more people win souls if you ran instead of fighting back and arguing with God. And so he ran drawing near.

And so he said, he heard a fellow read in Isaiah 53, the most familiar passage on soul, on, on salvation in the Old Testament, easiest perhaps. And, uh, he led like a lamb to the slaughter and so on. And, uh, and he said, uh, you ought to say to him.

And the man said, sadly, he's the government official. He's treasurer of the nation down in Ethiopia. But is it like, how can, unless some man should guide me, how can lost man understand even the Bible if somebody tells him, you see, that's God's plan.

Now, if you don't win somebody, God has no other way to do it, except somebody tell him and people go into hell. Now here's another word. And so the Lord says, you've got, you've delivered your soul. You do the best you can.

You've delivered your soul. But if you don't speak to warn them, you've got blood on your hands. What do you mean blood on your hands? That means that there's coming a judgment seat of Christ. And you're going to give an account for that.

Accountability at the Judgment Seat of Christ

You know that? My sins are the blood. They're under the blood, but we must still all stand before the judgment seat of Christ to receive the things done in the body, whether they be good or bad. And Paul says, no, he's talking about terror for Christians.

That is not a judgment. Law centers, the judgment of Christians, knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men, Paul. Our judgment seat, blood on your hands. Did you read, uh, back down a few months ago in Harlem, New York, about a girl, Kitty Genoese, and, um, and a fella came along and she'd been dating.

And I went and called it, and said, somebody help me. And said, don't, don't, don't stab me with that. And, uh, he'd stabbed her two, three times and she cried and screamed and she went away and he, she fell down and he went away.

And 48 people, I believe it was, that looked out the windows or were nearby and saw it and, and didn't interfere and let it go on and kill that man. It wasn't their business, was it? Just like it's not your business, but it's your neighbor going to hell, is it?

Yeah, that's just like King, wasn't it? When he killed Abel, he said, am I my brother's keeper? So you bloody murderer, too. You think everybody that didn't interfere and didn't call the police, didn't want to be involved, those are friends.

Don't you think they were guilty of the blood of that girl, got stabbed? Just like you're guilty about people around you die and go to hell. Ah, yes. And, uh, I remember in, uh, Oklahoma, Big Tent meeting, what a blessed meeting, what a lot of people say.

Regret Over Failing to Warn the Dying

In three days, one night, among the crowd came by and here, uh, converts and people came to shake their hands. And I was watching, seeing if anybody could help. And here came a long girl and cried her through there and, and didn't speak to us.

She said, uh, and I said, uh, she looked at me and I said, are you saved? She said, no, I'm not saved. But she said, I want to talk about my mother. I said, well, wait a minute, what about you? No, she said, my mother, my mother's sick.

The doctor says she won't live long and she's wanting to get saved and she doesn't know how. Will you come to see my mother? Yes, I said, I'll come. Where do you live? She said, out this, um, out the highway West.

They said the first, uh, White House on the left by the side of the Danish schoolhouse in the strange, I remember the very terms. And I said, yes, I'll go. But the next day they had a bachelor's association meeting and I was invited to speak and I was to speak in the revival campaign and went to the association.

I won two boys up there. I was busy, busy, didn't get there. Next morning I came and I had the service and, and the morning service under the tent. Man came, call out the pastor. After the service was over, he said to me, he said, you know what that man wanted?

No. He wanted to make arrangements for the funeral of the woman we didn't get to see. She was wanting to be saved and begging somebody to tell her and send her lost daughter to ask somebody to tell her.

And I didn't go. I was busy, but I shouldn't have been that busy. In Dallas, Texas, I pre-won in 1932 and had a radio broadcast and started a big open-air revival campaign. Out of that revival campaign grew what's now the Galilean Baptist Church and grew to 1 ,700 members and thousands were saved.

But in the midst of that campaign, I helped build benches to help give out circulars and preach daily on the radio. And I led the singing and did the preaching and, and worked day and night. And I got a letter from a man, a card, just a card, a government postcard from a man.

Said, dear Brother Rice, he said, I can understand your kind of preaching. Said, Brother Rice, I'm 80 years old. A doctor says I won't live very long. Said, will you come and pray for me so I'll get ready to die?

I'm not ready to die. I put that card up on the desk and I said, I'm going tomorrow to see that fella. But I was busy, busy, busy, and I didn't get to it. And another day and another day and another day and that card sat there and accused me.

And one day I called in a preacher boy and I said, Neil, you take this, this address. Here's car repair. You go downtown Dallas and change their South Dallas car and get off a certain street and go down here.

You see this man knock on that door and you see that man makes sure he's ready to die before we leave and come back and report. All right, Brother Rice. And so he went downtown, changed cars, changed cars, went down, nobody answered.

They're out of home today. Said they're out in the country. Said they'd be gone to a funeral 15 miles in the country, but they'll be back tomorrow. Any words you want to give him? He said, no, no, no word to give him.

Thank you. He came home and said, Brother Rice, we're too late. And said, why didn't you go? What are we going to say? I wish I'd lost my night's sleep over it. I wish now I'd just missed two or three meals.

I wish now I'd done anything necessary. You listen to me. You say, oh, don't be scared to death. Paul said, that's why I worked so hard so I'm going to be acceptable to him. So the laborer said, well, Paul, I know the terror of the Lord.

We've got to meet that judgment. We've got to meet that judgment. I stress that too, that sometimes Christians, they're not going to hell, but they may die in judgment of God on sin. I know several dead.

And that's the firework. I knew four men in Dallas. I know a good many people that God killed because they got into sin and worldliness and lost out. And that you got blood on your hands about them. They won't go to hell, but to death and the breakup of a home and ruin of many a life.

If a preacher doesn't warn against sin, you got blood on your hands if they don't. Well, you don't find that kind of talk in the Bible. God is love and says our gods are consuming fire. Better preach both of it.

So preachers hell, you better put both in there. You better put that in there and repentance first. More law than there's grace in the Bible. Better have them in here. Don't you feel accountable for a brother or sister that's lost?

Don't you feel accountable for your own mother and dad that are lost? Down at Lake Louise, I mean, down at Bill Rice Ranch, I preached on soul wing. Dr. Hiles did. My good friend, Bud Liles, got a burden on his heart.

His old mother, as far as he knows, his father died unsaved. And this mother was unsaved. And so he got vacation, got in his car and drove up to Bampton, New York. And he greeted his mother. And he said, now, mother, you come in this room with me.

And she did. And he said, now, mother, listen, now you sit here this time, I'm going to have to know because you're getting old. And so she didn't know it, but he knew she had a cancer then. And he took the Bible and went into it step by step.

And his mother said, yes, you trust the Lord. And she did. In six months, she was gone. You better do something about it. You're going to have blood on your hands and answer to God. And it'll be an angry God.

God gets angry with his children. He chastens every son he receives for your loved ones. You know that. Let's bow our heads, please, for a moment. Somebody I ought to win. Oh, at least I ought to warn them and get the blood off my hands.

At least I ought to weep over them and sit where they sit and have bitterness of soul and sit astonished over it. And I ought to do all I can do to get some particular person saved. You got somebody you know, God's pulling your heart.