Broken or Brokenness — Leonard Ravenhill

Uzziah’s Pride and the Judgment of God

OK, so remember that this man had restored the economy, he had put down the Philistines and all the other enemies then he decided that since he conquered the economy, and since he had conquered all his enemies and since he had restored the nation in every way, that he would take over the priesthood and remember the King Uzziah, in the year that King Uzziah died, Uzziah decided to take over the priesthood and it says that four score men, plus one, plus Uzziah, tried to stop him from going to the altar.

Now a man has to be demon possessed to fight off 81 men, and he threw them all off and he began to minister, and immediately the judgment of God came on him and he became a leper, and they took him to what they call the Larsa house, or the leper colony.

Now there's a lovely book, do you have that book by Alexander White on Bible characters? Terrible, I picked that up, let me see, 60 years ago I picked that up, I was 20 years of age. So do some arithmetic, three volumes on the Old Testament, three volumes on the New with the greatest insights I've ever read, you can get the whole six volumes in one volume.

Now it cost you $18 .50, Bible characters by Alexander White, W-H-Y-E, it says cry. What does it say? All that thou wouldst render heavens. What does all do? To me it expresses the inexpressible. This man's language is beggared, he doesn't know what to do.

It's language used in extremity, it's language used in time of grief. Remember when they came and said to David, your son Absalom has been killed. Well Absalom had been trying to take the crown off his father's head and the throne from under him.

They said your son Absalom has been killed, he didn't say that's good, he says, oh Absalom he cried, oh it can only be said from a broken heart, a heart totally selfless. What did Jeremiah 9 say? He says, oh that my head were waters, my eyes a fountain of tears.

I have no language but I know that God understands. Jesus looked over Jerusalem, he's coming down the hillside and he sees the streets where Jeremiah and Isaiah and all the other saints used to walk and he says, oh Jerusalem, it says he wept over Jerusalem.

Now remember what he did? He wept first then he whipped them. Some preachers whip the congregation but don't whip them until you've wept over them. He wept and wept over, oh your day is almost through.

National Corruption and the Holiness of God

I believe America's day is almost through. I believe our generation is very near the end. As Stump Brother said tonight, he'd heard somebody say that the one of two things is coming on us, either revolution or revival.

And in the very streets that you walk, before too long there'll be martyrdom. We're on the verge of total collapse in this first chapter again. I remind you, he says, look the body, your body collectively as a nation, there's no soundness in you from your foot to your head.

There's wounds and putrefying sores that cannot be bound up or mollified with ointment. There's no cure for them. I want to read something, I don't usually read other people's stuff but I'm going to do it tonight.

I got this brochure, you need to get one, it's called Bible and AIDS it's written by one of the most respected preachers in America today. Dr. James, what's his name, Kennedy, Kennedy, good Coral Ridge Baptist Church.

Presbyterian. Oh right, that's right, somebody's jumping on me here, good, Presbyterian. Did you say that? I was going to say I'll see you tomorrow if you did. You see, America isn't going to be killed by Russia, forget it.

Do you think Russia's going to bomb America when we're feeding it? Do you think she's going to drop bombs and blast all the corn acres out in, what do you call it, Kansas, that area? She's not going to blast it, every time she's dying.

We revive Russia, we revive Russia, we've done that again and again. If we withheld food from Russia there'd be a revolution that would clean the country up in the next year but we're determined to feed it so she can come back and kill us, no.

She'll bomb us maybe, I doubt it. We're killing ourselves, we're on a course of self-destruction. We don't need the enemy, good Lord, we've given him all he can get out of us. Listen to this, it says of the 14 ,125 people now known to have contracted the acute form of AIDS roughly one half of them have already died.

This infection continues at the present rate, there will be 64 million people permanently infected with the slow manifestation of the disease. That is to say in five years there will be 64 million people with the virus in their blood and nervous system and in their brain.

Surgeon General Dr. C. Edward Koop says AIDS could be the epidemic of the century and beyond that. AIDS researcher Dr. Alvin Friedman Kine of New York University says it will probably prove to be the plague of the millennium.

This millennium, this thousand years that we're in. Keep in mind that 75 million people have already died since the end of the last millennium, since the end of the 1800s. They've died in the bubonic plane known as black death.

Another researcher estimates that 10 of the world's population will die in a few years. 10 of the world's population, that's 450 million people. What's the church doing tonight? Praying? Interceding?

Is Shalini crying like this blessed man is crying? He knows the corruption of the nation, he knows God is a holy God. 40 times through the prophets of Isaiah he calls God the holy one. He says he's the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity.

Get a concept of God, it will change your life. Read the 41st chapter of Isaiah over and over and over. He says he sits on the circle of the earth. He says he counts the stars. You know there's an arrogant little guy on TV, what's his name?

Carl Sagan. He's the only one that was there at creation. 45 million years ago he was there, he witnessed everything. Will he be remembered a hundred years from now? You smart boys get a book, it's out again in paperback.

Blaise, what's his name again? Pascal. Have you read his pensées? You need to read his pensées. At 12 years of age that guy invented one of the greatest things in history. Another at 19, another at 23.

He's the most remarkable brain the world's ever had. He'd finished all the sciences, mentioned the sciences. He'd exhausted them all before he was about 28, he died at 39. And he quit every science in favour of giving his life to Jesus Christ.

And he says there's nothing in any science that's going to redeem men, which is an obvious fact. We have to come back, as we would say, to the old rugged cross. Another health researcher estimates that 10 of the world's population, that's 450 million.

What are they going to do? They've got to help. You'd think they'd learn, wouldn't you? You see, the tragedy about being a prophet is nobody takes any notice of you. For a hundred and twenty years people saw Noah build the ark.

They saw him put the roof on the thing. And remember once he went in the ark he never came out. They looked in, they couldn't get in. But for a hundred and twenty years they laughed and scorned and ridiculed him.

What, for building an ark? No, for preaching. What does the scripture say about him? If you say to anybody, what do you know about Noah? Oh, he built an ark, that's not what he's remembered for in the scripture.

If you look, isn't it, in Jude where it says he was what, a preacher of what? Righteousness. You can preach anything under God's heaven, but don't preach righteousness. Preach about drugs, preach about venereal disease, preach about drink.

Preach about anything, but don't preach righteousness. Wasn't it Zechariah that was stoned between the altar and the doorpost for what? For preaching righteousness. What did that precious little man Paul do?

Boy, I've told you, when I get to heaven I've got him cornered for the first five thousand years. So you keep away. I want to find out all he knew about Romans. And what he doesn't know I'll tell him, but anyhow.

What did he do? He got before Felix. And what did he do? He reasoned of what? Sin and what? And, judgment to come. I guess many of you, you've heard message on the second birth. You've heard message on the second coming.

You've heard message on the second Adam, the rosen one, it's the last Adam. But you've never heard a sermon, how many of you ever heard a sermon on the second death? Huh? The eternal death. I fully expect that the judgment, most of our preachers will be charged with criminal negligence.

It's not what they're saying they're going to have to account to God for, it's what they withhold. Most of these guys say, well you can't do any better. There's one preacher almost famous in town here.

He covers the sin of his people, the weakness of the people. Well, we're only human, we're only human. Well, in God's name, we're not human if we're born again of the spirit of God, we should be superhuman.

We should have a new nature, a new heart, a new life, a new understanding. But you see, what we do, we say to people, well you know, I heard one of the greatest preachers. Let me see, 19, what was it, 36.

I think. Preaching in England, and he gave a marvelous message on holiness. And then he finished up with Romans 7. He said, this is where Paul finished, that mighty man of God, that's a lie from hell he didn't.

He quoted him, he says, well listen to what he says, oh wretched man that I am. Wait a minute, what does he say in Galatians? Oh, in Romans 7 he says, it is not I, it's sin that dwelleth in me. And that's where he was, that's a lie from hell.

He finishes up in Galatians 2, it's not I, it's Christ that liveth in me. You can't be sin-controlled and Christ-controlled. You see, if you talk about having victory over sin. People say, Ravenhill preaches sinless perfection.

I've told you, I preached in a university a while ago. A very brilliant preacher, the head of his denomination, national broadcaster priest. And he preached on salvation, but boy, he left a needle that no elephant could get through.

So I went on the platform, youngsters were there, you know, getting his autograph, getting his photograph, pictures. I went behind him and touched him, I said, I don't have much time, I'm not a hero worshipper.

I enjoyed most of your message tonight, but you made a great loophole for sin. He said, what do you mean? I said, you were talking about sin. How it defeats us, how day by day it has dominion. I said, I was thinking of the woman that came up to Jesus.

And Jesus, she was a rotten woman, everybody knew her history. And she came up to Jesus and Jesus said to her, go and sin less. What? I said, that's what you preached. He said to a woman at the other side of the cross, before the blood was effected.

Before the Holy Ghost was given, go and sin no more. We don't sin because we have to, we sin because we want to. Some men would be faithful to the marriage vows if they lived to be a thousand. Their trouble isn't women, their trouble is wealth or maybe wine or something else.

We've turned everyone to his own way, the scripture says. But there's deliverance through the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. Oh, well, they come up and say, well now, be careful, you know. We need a little bit of sin to keep us humble.

Why not have a lot and be real humble? If you say, well, these young people have to sin. Put a notice in the door, in the church and say, these sins are permissible this week. What are they? Lying, cheating, lust, what are they?

There's not one sin in the whole list of sin that will do you any good. It's all hindrance to the flesh, to the mind, to the spirit. Well now, I'm going to read through this, I better get on, or you'll be here till breakfast.

Intercession in a Nation Under Judgment

But can you swallow that? 450 million people die within a few years. All going to perdition, what's the church doing tonight? Having bazaars, having fun? Are we standing in the way? Alexander White sees this amazing prophet, he says, here's Isaiah on his knees.

And he's a leper's rag on his lip. Because he's seen Isaiah with a leper's rag taken to death. And so he identifies himself, Lord, I'm undone, I'm unclean. Notice he doesn't say, destroy my enemies. He doesn't say, I'm behind in my prayer life.

He doesn't say, I'm behind in my tithing. He says, I'm undone, I'm unclean. Those are the two hardest things to get anybody to say. If I say, you come here, I'll pray with you. But you tell God, you're unclean.

What do you mean unclean? Well, you're unclean, that's all the word of God says. You know, there are two kinds of people in the world, only two kinds. Not black and white, not rich and poor. Not literate and illiterate, not free men and bond men.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who are dead in sin and those who are dead to sin. That's the division. And it's as far as the east, it's from the west. Paul says, I am crucified, not I was.

Again, the biggest challenge to your life and mine. Once you make a complete surrender to Jesus Christ. And die with him according to Romans chapter 6. The challenge is, come down from the cross and save yourself.

Your pastor doesn't fast like you do. Your pastor doesn't get up in the middle of the night. Weeping and praying for the lost. Somebody else doesn't make the sacrifice. Why don't you do? Because God's making you that.

Why not them? The distinction is when you submit your will in totality. We sing, take my life and let it be. Take my lips and let them move. Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful. Take my heart, it is thine own.

Take my will and make it thine. But the last thing is, take my will and make it thine. My dear sweet wife was nursing in a hospital in England. Supervising a very large hospital. I went over the mountain one day.

In a little car that you could almost put in the In the trunk of my friend's big car. Just a little wobbly thing, it was weak. The wheels had rheumatism and the. The motor had asthma. And I had to put it in bottom gear to get over the mountain.

And I stopped, I looked across the valley. And there were two streams coming down the side of the hill. Bouncing on the rocks, they looked like milk, they were white. And then I noticed when they got so far, they'd be.

Well I looked at them anyway. And then I drove off to the hospital, I came back. I stopped again and I noticed those two streams had become one. We sing a hymn sometime, written by Edwin Hutch. Breathe on me breath of God, till I am wholly thine.

Till all this earthly part of me glows with thy fire divine. Breathe on me breath of God, until my heart is pure. Until with thee I will one will. The last thing the Lord gets of us is our will. We'll give him our lousy sins, but what about our will?

You chose the hymn tonight, all to Jesus. I surrender. Is that right? Have you lived in total surrender today? Have you? Has your mind been the mind of Christ? Has your conversation been the conversation of Christ?

You see this man is so blazing with the holiness of God. And he knows how pure a people must be. And yet they become idolatrous, become unclean. The scripture says, you sow to the wind, you reap the whirlwind.

Holiness, Sin, and Divine Intervention

Well this is a very wonderful country to live in. I know when God sent me and why I had to come. But you see America gave the world Two of the most abominable modern religions. We gave the world Jehovah's Witnesses.

We gave the world Mormonism. We sow to the wind, we reap the whirlwind. There are more gurus in America Than any other nation in the world outside of India right now. And if you stand at some universities out in the west.

They'll stone you. There was a man in town here, he was blinded As a result of being hit on the head with a brick. They kicked him, they kicked his teeth in. These athletic fellows you know. The girls scream for when they get a touchdown.

And that man is handicapped for life, why? Because he preached holiness, because he preached righteousness. And so they stone him and broke his body up. But there's gurus there now. And they sit by the thousand in the sunshine every day.

And listen to that whiskery old rascal. Not to make you a rascal because you have whiskers. But anyhow, he's a whiskery old rascal. I did that to relieve some of the brethren around here. I'll tell you what, we're in a tragic situation here in America.

Continue, OK. The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine of Great Britain In August of 85 said AIDS, AIDS would produce a self-sustaining epidemic. Lentivirus it's called. Indeed it will produce a lethal pandemic.

Throughout the crowded cities and villages of the third world. Of unparalleled magnitude In history. The former Secretary of Health of Human Services Margaret Heckler declares AIDS is the number one health problem in America today.

The head of the task force of AIDS in California Dr. Merle Sandy said it is a major medical catastrophe. How fast is the epidemic growing? In 1983 it was noted there was a doubling every 20 months. A doubling of those that had the disease.

In January of 85, that's two years after. They said it was doubling every 10 months. By October 85 it's doubling every 6 months. According to statistics of the Center of Disease Control in Atlanta. At any rate if it's not stopped by January 1993 There would not be a single American alive.

Did you see that? That's from what? It isn't even English, it's American. The statistics at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta Said that the present rate if not stopped by January 1993. How far is that away?

6 years. 6 years. There will not be a single American alive. By other authorities that is considered conservative. Other health officials say that by June 1991 There would not be a single American left.

That's just 6 years from now. Where did it come from? Well that doesn't matter to you too much. It has already reached epidemic proportions In some parts of Central African nations. All 10 which refuse to submit to the extent of the infection.

To the World Health Organization. They won't give statistics. There are estimates in some cities. The rate is as high as 20 to 70 of the populations. How is AIDS spread? It is spread by blood. I noticed the TV said that some of these girls now in Hollywood.

You know when these guys pick them up and kiss them. Good night, I wonder if they're kissing them or swallowing them. When I used to look at them. Takes them so long. They're refusing to kiss them because you can get AIDS by saliva.

You don't have to have sexual contact. It is spread by blood, by semen, by serum, by urine, by tears, by saliva. Thirdly, it can be transmitted through blood transfusions. It takes 2 to 6 months for a person infected to produce the antibodies.

Let me go a bit further here. It is estimated that an extremely large number. I've heard the number up to 70 of hemophiliacs in this country have the virus. There's a lot of misunderstanding disseminated.

Just a month ago the United States News and World Report said Not a single doctor or nurse in the nation is known to have caught disease. But last month it reported or it was reported that 2 nurses had caught the disease.

Just a week after 18 health workers in the country have contracted disease. Now keep in mind the Centers of Disease Control estimated a year ago That there were possibly 500 ,000 people who had the virus.

Which has not yet demonstrated any symptoms. They raised the 500 ,000 to a million. Now they're saying it's 2 million. Other sources are saying there may be 3 million in this country Who are presently carrying AIDS virus, HTLV -3.

A virus which they will never get rid of. And they're able to pass it on at any time in their life. Through one of the 6 bodily fluids we've previously mentioned. Keep in mind we have examined some of the 14 ,000 people Who have demonstrated the acute cases.

Where the victim does not know how he got it. They have been studied 3 million people who have contracted the virus. They haven't all been studied yet. Which is to say the doctors don't really know how it was passed on.

The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in August 1985 said This disease may be easily transmitted by close, non-sexual contact. Let me just quote this quickly. What are the costs? This year the government will spend 126 million in Washington on research.

But that's only a tip of the iceberg. This year alone we will spend 500 million on patient care. It costs $140 ,000 per patient. To treat people with AIDS. From the diagnosis to death. It may cost as much as 2 million.

For the seriological testing of these people. Do you know how many people have the disease? Chlamydia, do you know what that is? What's chlamydia? It's a disease that girls have contracted. Estimate 2 million girls in America have chlamydia.

What does it mean? It's something which affects the womb. And makes it impossible for them to bear children. You see, we're murdering children. When we want them, we won't get them. We have them, we throw them away.

How much longer is God going to be patient with us? When you hear the authorities saying That we are facing pandemic unparalleled. When you hear the authorities say We are facing a pandemic unparalleled in human history.

Which could wipe out 450 million people. We're not talking about hysteria. We're talking hard, painful, miserable facts. Now let me read you something here. This comes home On top of what the people are doing.

The homosexuals are demanding much more. They presently have before the congress A gay bill of rights. House Bill Dash 230. In Dallas, the homosexuals According to the Dallas Gay News Blood terrorism.

Which means if they do not get their demand. They're going to pass the word around the country That all gay men deposit blood in the blood banks. They're going to hold us to ransom. It's a terrorism through blood.

It's not the Russians. It's not that madman Gaddafi. It's our own people. They know what it costs. They're going to die in three years. What do they care? They don't believe in hell, so what? Have a good time, do as you like.

It doesn't matter if you damage your life Or anyone else's. They're going to pass the word That every gay man in the country Shall deposit blood. New York's Mayor Koch Passed an executive order Requiring all Christian ministries Receiving funds to hire homosexuals.

He recently swore in The first professedly homosexual judge Richard Fowler. This shows you despair. Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research Recently discovered that one in five Or 20 of the homosexuals Have actually tried to commit suicide.

Soon by the way Virtually every homosexual will attempt suicide. Are homosexuals born that way? The Kinsey report asked them the question. The response from 90 is We were not born that way. It wasn't through families or anything else.

Now look at how we're defending this. In New York City Children with lice in their hair Are not allowed in the classroom. But children with AIDS are. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A public health officer is mandated by law To remove health certificates From any worker handling food Who is known to have one of 36 contagious diseases.

But AIDS is not amongst them. Now somebody said These fast food services. Many of the guys get in there. Are homos. It's an easy job Doesn't require much skill. If they sneeze over that food they're preparing.

It can transmit this horrible Deadly, devastating thing to any of us. But they won't let the kids go to school If they have diphtheria. If they have scarlet fever. They can't go. They can go if they have AIDS.

Coach or whatever you call it. Has opened a school in New York Just where the children who have this disease can go. Now here's what the doctor says. I think the iniquity has filled up the cup of God.

Until it has finally become full. And God is beginning to pour out his wrath Upon this country. Well that's a very sick thing. I don't know what it did for you. It made me cry, I'll tell you that With all our privileges.

With all our education system. With all our health system. And yet people voluntarily get this thing. Almost all of them get it. They know what it's going to cost them. And yet 450 million. A third of the world's population.

It says further on Before long. Within the next 10 years. A third of the nation's. The population of the world Could be wiped out. Not with an atom bomb again. Not with an invasion from Russia. Because men love darkness rather than light.

Because they love their sin More than they love righteousness. I wonder how many of us would like to see a prophet. I would. Are there any prophets in the land? Not that I know of. There are men who preach with prophetic urgency.

That doesn't make them prophets. Prophets are the strangest of all men. You see a man running down the road. There's a chariot behind him. He's a man who's been with God. His name is Elijah. Considered a fanatic.

But a man who could pray And bring fire from heaven. He said he prayed the rain fell. He prayed the fire fell. He prayed the people fell. Who of us has a hold on God like that? Who of us has a brokenness over our nation?

Brokenness, Revival, and the Prayer Meeting

We're a broken nation again. We're broken with divorce. Children's hearts are broken Because their parents are neither here nor there. People are broken Because they're mentally gone through disease. Their bodies are broken through drugs.

Their homes are broken through drink. We've never been as broken as we are now. The only thing that isn't broken. The church isn't heartbroken about it. The status quo is just the same. Nice Sunday morning service.

Oh such sweet people have such nice. Forget it. How many people do you have in your congregation? I don't know if you're a pastor or not. Maybe you are. How many people do you know That don't sleep at night?

They weep and groan. Because we're so near to judgment. There's nothing going to stop this epidemic. You can be sure of that. There's no science. There's no syringe. There's nothing that medical science can give us.

It's going to be divine intervention or judgment. But at the rate we're going. Our doctor told us Martha reminded me yesterday. Our doctor told us that two years ago. They said the second year of this AIDS Would double up on the first year.

And then they got it to Not a year but to ten months. Now they've got it to six months. Well it's galloping. It's worse than that cataract of fire That you saw If you saw TV. When that mountain was moving.

That mountain of What do you call it? Volcano. There in Hawaii. There's only one thing will stop this. And this is again a divine intervention. And this is why this man is crying Oh God. Here we are, we're bankrupt.

Our religion is no good. Our elders are no good. Our priests are no good. Why have we disturbed you? Why have we made you so unhappy? He says it further down in verse 7 Of this 64th chapter. Oh let me go back a minute here.

He says in the first verse again Oh that thou wouldst render heavens and come down. In verse 4 he says. Since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear. Neither hath I seen or God beside thee.

What you've prepared for them that love him. Doesn't that sound like Paul in 1 Corinthians 2? And verse 9 when he says I hath not seen, ear hath not heard. Neither have I entered into the heart of man.

The things that God can do. In other words he's saying Our generation hasn't moved. He says oh that you might come. That the mountains might flow. Remember this man has had a vision Of a holy God. And the vision he had in Isaiah 6 Is a vision of Jesus Christ.

That's what it says in the 12th chapter of John. It's seeing Christ exalted High and lifted up. I ask you come on. Some of you haven't been before. I'm glad you're here. I hope you come again. When did you last tiptoe Out of your sanctuary Sunday morning?

You couldn't say a word. You were so overwhelmed With the majesty With the holiness With the power of God. I hear a preacher saying On Sunday morning sometimes God is sweeping over this place. Ten minutes after He shuts the thing off.

They rush out Light up the cigarettes They rush to eat. They do every crazy thing. In the Welsh Revival One of the outstanding things was People wouldn't speak for an hour Or two hours After the meeting closed.

They didn't even leave the sanctuary. They were so bathed In the majesty In the holiness And glory of God. They wouldn't leave the sanctuary. We're not captivated like that. Next week when we come When we start the quiet session Which we start usually Ten minutes before I'm going to leave it open.

I'm not going to break in. I'm going to let it go open. If you want to speak Speak Don't preach. Give an exhortation. I got blessed through this word. Give a word of testimony. Kneel down and pray If you want.

Turn the meeting upside down As long as you do it In the will of God Do it in the flesh. It's time for us To give room for God. These guys on TV They scorn the established churches. But every time you turn TV on They don't care whether It's swagger through.

It's a copy of last week. It's the same thing. They start at the same place. I've told you about this young Precious young man. I'm reading a book on him now. Evan Roberts In the Welsh Revival Only 26 years of age.

But come on At 26 years of age The record is He had already prayed 13 years for revival And he's 26. He didn't pick a book up One weekend and say God I want to be The most anointed man. It never bothered him.

He wouldn't let them advertise Where he was going. He goes into a church With 800 people packed in. And they've been sitting For an hour in silence. There are two kinds of silence One kills and the other creates.

If God isn't there It's stony and hard And brittle and unfeeling. But if God is moving There's creation in the stillness. He goes up to the front Sits on the front seat. This 26 year old young man. He isn't a committee Asks for no financial backing.

He goes to the front And sits on that seat Before 800 people. He sat there For three solid hours And never said a word. And then he stood up And preached for 15 minutes In the anointing Of the spirit of God.

What happened? The meeting went on Growing in power. He left it at 10 o 'clock. He didn't go around And saying I've been a great meeting. Do you know what I did? He got on his face At 10 o 'clock at night And prayed all through the night Till the next day For the next anointing.

The Secret Place and Spirit-Governed Ministry

What did the people do? He tiptoed out of the meeting. He'd given 15 minutes Of holy exhortation With the anointing of God As though he'd come out of eternity Which he had. You see our preachers As I've said to you.

And I'm going to wind up here. People ask me Why I say so much About the Puritans. Swaggart says The reason the church The nation is so Morally devastated. Is that people have lost sight. Preachers have lost sight Of the rapture.

Nonsense. Not one of those Puritans Ever preached the rapture. That theory hadn't been invented then. It isn't that we've lost sight Of the rapture. We've lost sight Of the judgment seat. He knows out of his own context.

Swaggart. He knows the ministers In the country. They'd scribe on a stack of Bibles. They believe that Jesus May come tonight. But they live in immorality. They live in uncleanness. He himself has said There's never been So much impurity In the church of Jesus Christ As today.

Why? We've lost fear of God. Oh people say Don't you realize. Those Puritans lived in a day. There were no telephones No computers No automobiles. What you're telling me. Is that they had more time On their hands.

Yes that's it brother. Forget it. That's a lame excuse. It isn't that they had more time On their hands. They had more eternity In their hearts. Those men lived for six days In heavenly places. Then came down with an anointing That you can't buy.

Anointing which is got by Dwelling in the secret place Of the most high. It's not a place you run into Fifteen minutes before you preach Or a day before. You know we try and bargain With God. Lord I've prayed so powerfully Before my meeting.

You must anoint me tonight. Forget it. Give me twelve people. Was it. Wesley said that. Then who else said it. D .L. Moody. I think. Give me twelve men Who are totally sold out to God Who hate sin and uncleanness And yield entirely Spirit, soul and body to Christ.

And he said I'll go and turn An area upside down. We haven't got a revivalist In the country tonight. We've five hundred evangelists. We could ship four hundred and ninety nine away. For what good they are.

I mean that. Where is the revivalist. Where is a man like Phileo. Phileo goes to a town When he lives. Taverns are closed And dance halls are closed. These guys go on TV Get a big love offering God help them.

But the city is the same. They get decisions. Oh thousands raise their hand To be filled with the Holy Ghost. It only took a hundred and twenty A pentecost. What's the difference Between their baptism and ours.

You see God is wanting To get some holy people Not clever people. People who are holy People who are indwelt by the spirit Governed by the spirit. People who can't go where they want. They ask permission.