(Happenings Ahead) the Demands of the Last Days — Willie Mullan

706, please, 706, old-fashioned ones, onward, Christian soldiers marching out to war, looking on to Jesus who has gone before, and we're singing the first, and the second, and the last verses, first, second, last, 706, please.

Great joy for Mrs. Stewart and myself to be here this evening. We have been with Mr. Mullin in many places, and we want to tell you that the tapes and the books are going right all over the earth because you know I travel from continent to continent, and from this pulpit the rivers of living water flow from out the world, and I want you to know that.

Now, I'm so glad also to be here because my father was born here. My father was an orphan here without a father and mother. An orphan boy slept in a straw bed right here in the city. My mother's from Bushmills, and through their prayers in Scotland where I was born and through the ministry of Mr. Tom Rae, they're playing before thousands of people as a soccer international football player.

Now, I want just to tell you a little of originally what. I'm traveling now for 47 years, and we're engaged in a three-type ministry. First is, we're evangelizing the borders of Scotland and England where the gospel of Jesus Christ has died out.

I used to live there as a boy with John McNeill, the famous reviver of Moody, and now the gospel of Jesus Christ is dying out in these places. Mission halls are being closed, churches being closed for years, and now we have 21 permanent evangelists.

They don't run around the places. They stay put. I'm responsible to evangelize that town or city and also five or ten surrounding towns and villages. Very soon we'll have 30 full-time workers evangelizing there.

And the last time I was in this Bible study class, you gave me money to help me buy a portable hall. And we added some money of our own, and that is now the Baptist church in Eyemouth. We've had it five years now, a fishing town of 2 ,500 people, Eyemouth, near Berwick-in-Tweed.

When I went there as a boy with Dr. Rupert and his Amnesty campaign, we had 3 ,000 every night in the meetings. Hundreds of fishermen, all believers. But now we have not one believer, but not one adult believer in a town of almost 4 ,000 people.

John Ox was born in Harrington. John Brown, the theology minister there for years. Bobby Moffett, David Livingston's father-in-law, was born in Harrington. Harrington is Presbyterian, 15 miles south of Edinburgh on the Great North Road, where 8 ,000 Protestants are not a believer, not a born-again person, out of 8 ,000.

And we still need another four portable gospel halls that we can turn them into permanent places for the evangelizing of the barbers. And then God has helped Mrs. Stewart and myself to write 70 books and booklets like this.

And these are translated into different languages. And we send out these books to foreign missionaries and native believers around the world. And we have about 10 ,000 native believers on our mailing list in India alone.

And our last ministry is evangelizing the Russian nation. As some of you know, my younger brother was arrested by the Gestapo and was with them for five years. And recently he went home to heaven because of what he suffered.

Now I was sentenced to death because I was the last foreign evangelist in Europe in mass campaigns preaching to thousands of people. I was invited back a few months ago by the Soviet leader of Czechoslovakia, Mr. Ducez, and said, please come back and evangelize our country.

We've discovered that covenants was not enough. Man shall not live by bread alone. And when I was sent back to evangelize, then the Russian troops moved in. Now we are printing the Word of God in every language of Eastern Europe.

And this is our last edition we just printed of a Ukrainian Bible. We have one million Ukrainians in Canada alone. Powdery is almost Ukrainian city. Winnipeg is always has a mayor who's a Ukrainian. But all over Europe, we have Ukrainians.

And in Russia, what we call it the white Russian language, we have possibly 60 million Ukrainians. And this is the last Bible printed for 10 ,000. We just finished another edition of 50 ,000 Russian Bibles.

And we print in all the languages in Eastern Europe. And these Bibles are being smuggled in. So I've just come back from a conference in Moscow, or rather in Stockholm. Hundreds of us gathered together.

All of us have been in prison or arrested by the Russians or suffered imprisonment or somewhere at the other. And I want you to pray for the underground church in Russia, because tonight, many are being put to death for Christ's sake.

Just recently, one sister, we say, was telephoned by the secret police. Come and pick up your husband. And he had a meeting in his home. They took him away. They went to the police station. He was a dead man with his tongue cut out.

But he would never again preach the gospel. And the children are taken away from believing parents and maybe sent 5 ,000 miles away, so that they will not hear the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And as we gather tonight in this beautiful place, under the ministry of God's word, through the Holy Ghost, through His servants, then we can rejoice and thank God for this liberty.

The Need for Revival and Gospel Witness

And we need revival. And how wonderful it is that these are carrying on in dangerous places, proclaiming the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus. And we would ask you to remember these believers behind the iron curtain.

And I have a big interest in Ulster. Forty-six years ago, I came preaching the gospel here. I was here 40 years ago in a campaign in your largest hall here as a boy. But I'm burdened for Ulster. And I'm praying that God will continue to bless Pastor Mullen, and that God will continue to bless you believers in Ulster, that you might be filled with the Holy Ghost, and from your life more than ever, the rivers of living water will flow.

God bless you. Thank you very much. Now, just one or two brief, almost Ted, we're turning to Genesis. Second Timothy, it is. Paul's second letter to Timothy, and we're not about third chapter. Last week we began this series on what I've called Happenings Ahead.

The Last Days and the Coming Perilous Times

And we're looking at every major event from now to eternity, every major event for the church, every major event for the Christian, for the Christless, for the Catholic, for the Communist. Yes, we're going into all the details of the major events that lie ahead.

Last week, just to get the series properly off the ground, we had to look up the last of the last days, this whole dispensation of grace that we're in now, is called the last days. In these last days, God has spoken unto us in his Son, and the whole period is called the last days.

But when Paul was writing to Timothy here, and he was at the end of the journey, he was the age of the bottle about to lay his head on the block. He says to Timothy in this chapter, this, know also, that in the last day perilous times shall come.

And he's talking now about the last of the last days, when perilous times shall come for the church. And it's very easy to prove that it's for the church, because down a little bit, he emphasizes the church, to turn away from certain things.

And we went into the details of the last of the last days, last Tuesday, and I pointed out that they're very easily found in the New Testament, because they're described as denial. You see, in the last days of church history, the church is going to find itself in perilous times all over the world, because men, that's what the second verse there says, for men, is where the perilous times shall come from, for men.

And then it describes these men. And you'll notice that it says at the end of verse 2 that they're unholy, unholy men. You'll find that it uses the word blasphemers in verse 2. And it says at the end of verse 3 that they're despisers of those that are good.

And yet these unholy blasphemers who despise those that are good, they'll not be content without a form of religion. Well, after all, some form of religion. Imagine unholy blasphemers thinking about a form of godliness.

And now I can see the ecumenical movement of the beginning of this great religious image. Yes, they're going to have a big world church. But one thing that's going to mark everything is they'll deny the power of godliness.

They won't want Christ, or the words of Christ, or the spirit of Christ. Oh, no. There'll be an amalgamation of formless, dead-empty rituals. Yes, religion without Christ. And we found out last week that they'll not only deny the power of Christ, but, you know, in the last of the last days there'll come shoppers who will deny the coming of Christ.

Where is the promise of his coming? They'll deny the coming of Christ. And we found out when John was writing that great first letter, 1 John, that he talked about the spirit of Antichrist. And the spirit of Antichrist, they questioned the very reality.

They may question if Christ ever came in the flesh. Because that's what that fellow in the Mushroom book was writing about. I call him Mushroom muddler from Manchester. I'm getting muddled myself over there.

Yes, now, we went into the denial. And because of these denials, the denial of the person of Christ, and the coming of Christ, and the power of Christ, and the word of Christ, because of this, we're absolutely sure that we're in the last of the last days.

The Demand to Turn from Dead Religion

Now, I want to take this week, just to get a bit further off the ground, I want to talk about the demand of the last days for the lingers, the demand. And then next week, I want to go one further before we get into the great nature of that.

I want to talk about the dangers of the last days for unbelievers. I think we need to see the truth in the last days. We need to see the truth. We've got a lot of truth in the last days. We've got the truth about the dangers of the last days for unbelievers.

There's the danger of the transgression of Christ. I'll tell you what I mean. You know, today, the Lord Jesus, in wondrous, boundless, marvelous, marvelous grace, is holding out his hands to unto a virgin sinners of Adam's race, and he's saying, come unto me, and I will give you rest.

But tomorrow, tomorrow, the door might be shut, and your voice will be claimed, be cast, be chastened. And on, say, bread, you're in danger. And if the door is shut in your faith, you'll find there'll be a change that threatens coming from Christ, that ultimately will pass your curse.

We'll go into the dangers of the last days for the unsafe next Tuesday. But we're looking at the demand, and let's get the hold of this. We're at 2 Timothy, chapter 3. It's new also that in the last days, perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves.

Verse 4 says, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. What's the next four words? Each one with four letters.

You don't need the 11-plus to understand this. Form hath turned away. You know, there is the demand for separation. You know, some of you are such an old treacherous, and they're giving their money to this ecumenical movement, new money.

And it's five times you are out, five times. They're not fiddling about with it any longer. I'm behind the word of God now, and if it hits you, may it hit you hard. Form hath turned away. Suck in it. It all said, modernism coming, and you're coming here with your Bible.

Turn you out of the demand of the last days. No fiddling with it. Get out, it's gone. Get out. Can't it choose to obey, then? Somebody said to me once, well, as we get out, you know, we'll get amalgamated with a lot of things, and there'll be trouble there too, and then we'll split again, and we'll have to get out.

Friend, it is not for you to bring human reasoning into this. It is for you to obey the word of God, and don't be telling Christ that you're wiser than him. It's a little test. Form hath turned away. Get out, says the Lord.

It's yours to obey, it's not ours. Yes, this is one of the demands of the last days. And I want you to get a hold of this one. Let's have a look at this one. We're back at Matthew 28 just now, Matthew's gospel.

The Great Commission and the Demand for Evangelization

Chapter 28, and the Lord Jesus, half risen from the dead, bodily resurrection. Verse 16, Matthew 28, 16,. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. You know, you can eat, you can bow in worship, and it's a doubt in your mind. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Isn't that tremendous? You know, I like that. I like the incomprehensible mass of his power. The seraphim and cherubim, and all these created beings in heaven that we don't properly understand, and 10 ,000 times 10 ,000 angels.

They're all at Christ's command. At the end of the book of the Revelation, it says, I, Jesus Christ, take my name. He's in command. All power in heaven, and all power in earth. Oh, the incomprehensibleness of his power.

I think, you know, it brings out the incomparableness of his person. My, sometimes the things with Jesus' death would thrill you. Sometimes I amuse myself, you know, with Jehovah's Witnesses when they come round, who want to know how you would prove Jesus Christ is God.

I've got about a thousand lines for doing it. Sometimes I amuse myself with the chains of Christ. Did ever a man speak like this man? Who could face the whole world, all the baffled, bewildered, blinded sons of Adam's race, and he could say, come unto me.

I will give you this. You need to be God to talk like that. When he stands and says, all power in heaven, and in earth, you need to be God. Oh, you can see the incomprehensibleness of his power. You can see the incomparableness of his person.

You know, he said this, said to the disciples, all power is given unto me in heaven, and in earth, go ye therefore. He keeps all nations. You know, I love that bit, you know. This brings out his inconceivable passion for prolactinous.

You know, he didn't say, you know, I'm risen from the dead, and all power is mine. Don't go near Jerusalem, they crucify me. Not at all. He said, begin as you receive. You know, you can see the inconceivable passion in his soul.

Yes. As he says, keeps all nations. If you read Mark's gospel, it just puts it plain like this. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. You know, I think that's tremendous, because not only do we see the incomprehensibleness of his power and the incomparable passion and the inconceivable passion, but the indispensable preaching.

You know, this preaching of the gospel must go on. Mind you, young folks, and young preachers, and old preachers, Christ meant us to preach the gospel. You know what it is? As Paul said, the gospel of our preached unto you by which you were saved, how that Christ died for our sins and was buried and rose again.

And don't come round telling me that you're preaching the gospel if you never get to the cross in the message. For I think you don't know a thing about it. Christ sent Paul not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest, lest the cross of Christ should become of no effect.

I go to gospel meetings, I never see the cross. Sometimes I never even hear about the cross, those are not gospel meetings. That's baloney, that's what that is. Friend, let's give this bit for ourselves.

Not only must this gospel be preached, but it must not be preached in words only, not at all. That's what's up with some of our evangelical meetings. They dot every i and spook every c, and they're still as dead as after.

To be preached will the Holy Ghost send down from heaven. Once in a decade, it's to be preached to the end of the age. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, and lo, I am with you even unto the end of the age.

Exposition and Exhortation in the Last Days

Ah, this is a demand, a demand for separation, a demand for evangelization. We're to go on evangelizing. God pity the church when she stops us. We're to get out evangelizing, evangelizing. Once you get this demand, have a look at 2nd Timothy again, and we're at that great fourth chapter.

It's a tremendous one. 2nd Timothy, chapter 4, Paul's saying to young Timothy, I charge thee therefore before God. And the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead that is appearing in his kingdom, preach the words, the instant, end season, out of season.

Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all lungs, suffering and doctrine, for the time will come. Yes, here now, the last days, you see. And you know, there is not only a demand for separation, and a demand for evangelization, but there is a demand for exposition, for words.

That's what he's saying to you, preach the words. I'll tell you, he's telling him when to preach, end season, out of season. I think I told you once before, I went to a funeral once, and all there must have been 500 men, so I thought I would preach the gospel with all the might I had, and took my time about doing it, you know.

And the old undertaker, he was nearly as dead as the man he took to the grave, put his arm around me coming out. I don't like an undertaker to put his arm around me. He said, you know, I don't think that we should preach at these funerals.

Let me just tell you a word of practice, nobody worrying about what you think. Nobody at all. The Lord that sent me, told me to preach end season and out of season. So if it's out of season for you, it's all right for me.

And I preached at a funeral just this day, and I had the captain of the brigade, the boys' brigade, hang me up tonight. The boys' brigade were at the funeral march, nice to see them. He said, Mr. Maughan, I'm ringing you.

There were two of the boys saved after the funeral service today. I said, I praise the Lord. End season, out of season. And you know, he not only tells us what to do, when to do it, but how to do it. Hear the word reprove.

Hear the word reduce. Sometimes they don't like me, because I reduce them. I'll go on doing it. I've got a word in this book for it. I'm not taking command from any usurper. You haven't got the guts to do it.

I'll always have the guts. Don't you worry yourself. The word reduce is in here, you know. And read it over and over and over from me, Pastor. Because that's what I'm supposed to do. With all our suffering and suffering.

You see, the demands of the last days. There's this demand for separation. There's this demand for evangelization, right to the end of the edge. There's this demand for exposition. Here's one that I want to take a bit of time with.

Faithful Assembly and Mutual Exhortation

Have a look at Hebrews chapter 10. Letters of the Hebrews, chapter 10. Verse 25. Hebrews 10, 25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another in so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

You know, when you come to this great letters of the Hebrews, I believe, of course, it was written by Paul. I think I could prove that. I can prove it to my own satisfaction anyway. And of course, he was writing it through Hebrew Christians.

You will find that in the letter, Paul puts himself among the Hebrew Christians at times, and he talks like this. Let us go on to perfection, and this will we do. Does that sometimes. But Paul knew very well that among these Hebrews, there were some who were jaded after revealed light of the gospel, and could see right well that Christ was the end of the law for righteousness, and yet they were standing undecided.

In fact, you know, they were beginning to slip away. And sometimes Paul puts himself in among them as a Jew. You see, he can put himself in among the Hebrew Christians as a Christian. He can put himself in among the undecided Jews as a Jew.

And he can say, how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? And all through the letter, you've got to watch the two companies. Paul's again and again may come up, you know. See the end of this letter, chapter 10, this chapter 10.

Watch the two companies here. He says, but we are not of them who draw back unto prediction. It's not predictable. He's talking about the Christians. Now, we are not of them which draw back unto prediction.

But of them that believe to a saving of the soul. That's what Claudetus is. Mind you, Paul could get things terribly clear. And you'll find that this goes on right through the letter, and you've got to watch it.

And now in this wonderful text, in verse 25, you can see the two companies again. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is. Now, when you come to talk about the assembling of ourselves together, it's a very wonderful phrase.

You know, when we assemble here on Sunday morning, and we come into this building, that is a literal assembly of people. But that's not what's involved mind here. You see, you could get a crowd in a hall, and it wouldn't be a real spiritual assembly at all.

Gathering in a place and gathering to a person is two different things. And if we've got any spirituality within us at all, we will find ourselves being drawn out and gathered to a person. That's what you call an assembly, spiritual assembly.

And the Lord is in the midst. And they gather around him. You know what some of these Hebrews were guilty of? They were forsaking Christ. That's what this phrase, forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, means.

Turning their backs on Christ. This is how they became apostates. All they had been enlightened, they had tasted the good word of God. Ah, but they were turning round. In fact, I'll go as far as to say this.

The first indication of backsliding comes when a man lies in on Sunday morning. That's the first indication. And if you're not getting out on Sunday morning to remember your Lord, let me tell you right now there's something wrong with you spiritually.

And if you go to somewhere where they don't have a table to remember the Lord, there's still something wrong with you. That's the most important thing that I will do any week, is sit down and be taken to Calvary and see the Lord's death.

You know, if you find there's any flipping going on, you know there's a demand on you to exhort. It is not only a demand of separation, and a demand of evangelization. Not only a demand of evangelization and exposition, but the demand to exhaust one another.

And so much the more, as you see the day approaching, one, in the last days, let's talk to each other. If you're so much in love for the living, I'll talk to you. You're more aligned in now. I'll tell you to go down to the cellar and talk to you.

It's exhorting. Say, this is not the things that we're doing on Sunday morning. Yes, it is exhortation, isn't it? It's a demand. And so much the more, as you see the day approaching. Have a look at this one now.

Grace, Holy Living, and the Blessed Hope

This is Titus, and it's the second chapter. Titus, the second chapter. I love this Reverend verse. It says, For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. And I don't see any limitations in that at all, none whatsoever.

I don't think that you can draw a line and limit the grace of God. I think that the grace of God goes out over every inch of earth, to the furthermost parts of the earth. And I think we'll find the grace of God right through the whole dispensation, every moment of it.

And I think the grace of God, of salvation for every man who's willing to come and trust Christ, there can be no limit of that. And then it goes on to say, the grace that bringeth salvation is the grace that teaches us.

You know, this same grace is teaching grace, and it's teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust, that we should live soberly, righteously and godly in the present world. Mind you, I can see no limitation, and I see no grounds for amalgamation with the world.

And then the grace that says, and the grace that teaches, is the grace that turns your eyes toward the heavens, looking for a blessed hope. Ah, this is the expectation of every real man of God. I remember preaching with James McCandrick once, when he preached the most few verses at the end of 1 Thessalonians.

You turn to God, for my good, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his son from heaven. And I always remember how he did it. You turn, he said, that was your salvation, the day you turn, to serve the living and true God.

He said, that was your occupation from that day forward. To wait for his son from heaven, that was your expectation. You know, there is a demand being made upon us. In these last days, it's a demand of separation, and a demand of evangelization, and exposition, and exploitation, and expectation.

We should be looking for the Lord. And as you know about old Horatio Bono, as he opened the curtains in the morning, he would hold them just for a second and say, Maybe today, Lord. Maybe you'll come today, Lord.

And as he would close them at night, he would hold them again and say, Maybe tonight, Lord. Maybe tonight. He lived with his eyes on the heavens, expecting the Lord to come. Now, look at this one. This is Romans chapter 13.

Awakening from Sleep and Living as Light

Letters to the Romans, chapter 13. The way down there, verse 11,. And thus, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep. For now is all salvation meaner than when we believed. The night is fast spent, the day is at hand.

Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. You know, I think this is a tremendous word. Paul says, Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.

That's the text I'm taking for Sunday morning. And I say again, It's high time, because of the opportunities we have missed. It's high time, because of the enemies that cloud around us. And I'll do a dozen others on Sunday morning.

All I want to say, It's time for that church to wake up. Time to wake up. Time for every individual Christian to wake up. And I'll tell you why he says this. He says, Now it is high time to awake out of sleep.

For now is all salvation meaner than when we believed. I think the boys that talk about being lost again, and partial rapture, are going to have a bit of bother with this text. I'll tell you why. Because these Christians, they really believe.

Salvation is nearer than when we believed. Yet the sleeping Christians, the careless Christians, the lackadaisical, they look warm, they're lying down. Ah, but they're not going to miss salvation. How old are they sleeping?

Now is all salvation nearer than when we believed. Ah yes, he's absolutely sure as the Lord comes, these boys that are asleep, believers will go. There's no notion of them losing eternal salvation. They're saved and they're going.

But he's arguing from the fact, just because you're about to go out, wake up. That's what he says. Just because you're about to go out, then wake up. And I want you to notice this little bit that he puts to it.

He says, The night is half-bent, the day is at hand. You see, he's tossing up, isn't he? Yes, and we can toss up a lot more now. 1900 years past, toss it up now. Night is half-bent, the day is at hand.

And just because we're going up, to try to wake up his ear and talk up, when he wants them to shine, rise and shine, right now, shall I put it like that, it is a demand for radiation. Ah, we need to be shining in the last of the last days.

As he says, Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, let us put on the armour of light. You know, I was grittily thrilled when I read this the other morning. Have a look at it with me. It's Philippians chapter 2.

Blameless Witness in a Crooked Generation

Paul's letter to the Philippians chapter 2. Verse 14, he says, Do all things without murmuring and disputing. We should always be careful about the murmur. Lots of people talk under their breath. They get thrilled in the wilderness.

They think they're too warm, or it's too cold, or it's too long, or it's too short. Some of them talk about me being too loud. Go and mind your own business. Lots of deaf folks in here are terribly glad that I can speak up.

They come to the meeting and say, Mr. Moore, you're the only preacher of what we can hear. That's the one you've always wanted to be on your side. So, let's do all things without murmuring and disputing.

Watch this. That ye may be blameless and harmless. I tell you, that's a tremendous demand, isn't it? Blameless and harmless with tongues of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom he shines his light in the world.

We know our salvation is nearer than when we believed, and just because we're going up, now we need to light up. You know, friend, in these troubled times and all, I don't think that any man is signing for Christ when he has a gun.

I don't think so. I hear about believers with a loaded gun in their pocket. I tell you, you're not signing for the Lord. I'll tell you what the book says. Blameless and harmless. Don't you ever point a gun at anybody and pull the trigger, because you'll not be blameless and harmless.

Such of Jesus Christ as another way of living in that. It's a shame not to. Shame. Oh, I tell you, if we would wake up. My, if we could just get the whole assembly just waking up. You know, we had a mission here a few years ago, and I gave the assembly a lecture one day, and I felt that God was in it, and he talked to me as much as he talked to them.

And like that, you know, every man, just was on his feet. I said, I need five hundred pounds to run the mission. We're asking for no offering. I need five hundred pounds. There's a hundred of you somewhere in the cult that has a five pound load.

That night, I had fifteen hundred pounds. Ah, it was only the beginning. Every man was on his toes. Everybody going up to get somebody. Everybody going into the country. The young folks after young folks.

The old folks after old folks. We took the factory next door. We filled this church as full as it is now. We put a hundred and forty seats next door, absolutely packed. Ah, the church was on its toes.

Some of you down to sleep again. We're going up one of these days. Going up. Let the woman next door know your shame. She won't know your shame. She sees you fiddling about with a gun. It's radiation.

The Lukewarm Church of Laodicea

Yes, this is the demand, isn't it? Separation. Evangelization. Exposition. Expectation. Expectation. Radiation. I think the Church of the Laodiceans, Church of the Laodiceans, Revelation chapter three.

My, I want you to get a hold of this. This is like the church in the last of the last days. Yes, this is the church. The last one of the second. The Lord speaking to us in verse fifteen, I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.

I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and he's describing the spiritual condition of the church, their description. Cause thou art lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will chew thee out of my mouth.

You can see their description. You can see the danger. My, the Lord can lay any local church aside, you know. Lot of boys get the idea that they're the local church, and all they ever do is fight with one another on Sunday morning.

I tell you, the Lord can lay you aside no matter whether you're a brethren or Baptist or Methodist. The Lord can just lay you aside. Not tied to you or me, you know. This is the church he's talking to.

Cause I know your description. You are neither cold nor hot. And here's your danger. I'll chew you out of my mouth. I'll not use you anymore. I'm sick of you. That's why he's going to chew them out. And then he went on to say this to them, because thou art pious, I am lectured and preached with good and have need of nothing.

Knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. My, this is their delusion, you know. They're deluded. They think they're the whole team. My, it's so easy to get into this position where you think that you're everything.

God help us. Fancy a fellow sitting back and saying, I am a priest with goods and of need of nothing. And the Lord leaning over the ballast grid of heaven and looking under his feet and saying, thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.