Are You Comforatble Yet? — Leonard Ravenhill

Which I said to you the other day that I liked that definition by Dr. J .B. Phillips, who teaches English anyhow. But J .B. Phillips has a son to own. He's being in the home of the actual imposter. He's fighting with life.

Love That Requires Crucifixion

Why? Because the love of God. He demands that we're crucified. Yes, he says this in the terms of Jesus Christ. He's fighting against God for everything. He's fighting against Christ. And short of breath.

This is the terms of Jesus. I also offer to Jesus Christ. We're together as a bunch of intellectuals to study psychosomatic medicine. This is the terms of Jesus Christ. I'm a slave in the Holy Ghost. Let me finish my words.

Comfort in the Modern Church

Come to the atmosphere we're in. He told me it was a cold, wintry night. We had a pretty cold winter last winter. He spoke first. And he got up and stood up and said, My dear friend, this Wednesday night, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for coming to church.

It is a terrible night. The wind is blowing and it's most uncomfortable. And you've come to church. Oh, I'm going to give them all a clap right on the spot. They were so marvelous that they come to church.

And he said, I want to thank you from the depths of my heart. Oh, you ladies are the dearest. He got up and he said, I'm glad to be here tonight. And I would like to add my personal gratitude that you people left your central heated homes and got in your beautiful heated cars and came to this heated church to sit on these nice soft pews.

And we'll walk 15 miles to church and on down to Stoke to get pork on the house. You know what they are? Those three things. And then on top of that, crocodiles. And you all are so beautiful. The softer you get, the softer you get.

Readiness for Persecution

Oh, aren't we wonderful? I sometimes wonder what will happen when persecution really does come. How many of us will stand the test? And we've done what it takes. You've done theology. You've done a lot of creed.

Paul's Afflictions and Christian Endurance

You've done a lot of living. You've done a piece of wood in the Mediterranean for 36 hours. In weariness, in fastings, in painfulness, in tribulation, in distress, in famine, in peril, in nakedness, in sword, in hell, in the deep, in hell, in my own countryman war.

It's the only thing the devil can shoot at him. And he comes up smiling at the end of it. And he says, you know what? God's never going to treat me better than they treated you in. And if they treated the Son of God right, what do you expect about this?

Strength Through the Love of God

I want to tell you something. I've got something inside of me and I won't break up under it. Because the love of God again is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost.

Choosing Affliction Over Sin's Pleasures

Choosing rather to suffer affliction. Come on, you idiot. Sit down and count the cars. Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the children of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin. Come on. I remember the first time I was in an alliance meeting and they sang a hymn, to be like Jesus.

The Cost of Being Like Jesus

Oh, I want to be like Jesus. And immediately I thought, do you? Do you really? Do you want 40 days in the wilderness with the devil? Do you want to be considered mad by your relatives? Would you really like a Judas in your life?

Would you rather like a Thomas in your life that would doubt you? Do we want to be like him? He was the master of a situation like this. His strength is made perfect in weakness. Somebody slapped him on the jaw.

Christ's Suffering and Refusal to Defend Himself

Could have breathed on him and shrunk him like a fly dying. He never exercised his authority for his own defense or his own success. You men that have beards, somebody plucked your jaw and grabbed that and pulled the flesh out, you'd jump.

They did that to him. Somebody got a mouth full of phlegm and spit in his face and in his eye. Doesn't do a thing. Come on, you idiot. Sit down and count the cars.