Revival (Joseph) — Leonard Ravenhill

We've got Jacob back. If you don't know who he is, he's there. The prodigal has returned. He's been in Mexico and had a real time of blessing. I asked him, now don't preach. Speech, but not preach. He's going to tell us of something that happened through a group down the back lane, some of you know them, the Calvary Commission.

And about a young man that went there, well, now it shows.

He's from Leon, Mexico. He's with the Calvary Commission. Larry, how many of you are familiar with the work in Mexico?

So, Larry and I got saved about 14 years ago in a school revival where a thousand kids got saved in a week. And Larry has gone down and been with the Calvary Commission really since they were founded.

Six years, and I know the last page is the fourth initiative, they have raised up in a city of a million the largest Protestant work there. Great. And I mean, it is the heart of the Catholic stronghold.

And they've raised up a church of 150, which in a city of a million doesn't seem like very much to mere usual. The Methodists have been there 90 years. They've got less than that of the Baptists over 100 years.

Yes. They've got less than that. I can believe that. Not only that, they've sent out 32 missionaries. Wonderful. Out of those, they've been through 60 years. Hallelujah. And they are presently purchasing property.

They've grown out of the facilities that they're in now. Correct. And they're planning on keeping that because that's a direct outreach into downtown. And the neat thing is, I mean, they're reaching out to the poor, and there are just a lot of poor people, but also dentists, and doctors, and lawyers, and even judges are being saved.

Wonderful. And they've seen some real miraculous things done there. And they are presently moving down the church. Larry has raised up hundreds of disciples in the last six years. There's a fellow who is going to be taking over the work there, and he is going to the border.

And they're going to open two Bible schools, one on the Mexican side, and one just a couple of miles away on the American side. Great. So they can be trained nationally to go back in as missionaries into South America, and then train Americans on the other side to go into Central and South America and reach people with the Gospels.

So there's some really exciting things happening down there. Wonderful. And I know that y 'all are concerned to be praying for us.

Well, maybe we'll select you to be our missionary to go join them. He's learned some Spanish this last two or three weeks. He can say si, and he can say senorita, and senor. But that's the end. But he was blessed, and that's great to hear that.

We had a great meeting last Sunday night. I don't know, maybe a thousand people. It was a great joy to make such a number of enemies in one meeting. Well, that's my job. The fellow introduced me, and he said, what shall I say?

Say nothing. Just say, Brother Len Rayfield. When I said, I said, well, just say trouble has come. He didn't, but it came. And the Lord broke the place up, and I guess the room was twice as wide as this in this lovely church.

The place was jammed out with people weeping, seeking God. We started at half past six and finished at about ten. And they were still there praying and seeking God at ten o 'clock. And that's what we need to see.

Revival as Conviction, Confession, and Transformation

Well, that was great. As we finished the meeting, a young man came up to me and he said, do you know Penny? No, I don't know Penny. That's all I ever carry. It's all my wife will let me have. I used to have a penny in my pocket.

I don't have it tonight. I said, who's Penny? Penny Lee. No. You don't know who she is? No. Well, he said she was speaking at a college in North Dakota three weeks ago. And she's in pro-life. And most of the pro-life folk blast, you know, what they're there to do, which is good.

But this girl not only has an eloquence, a natural eloquence, she not only has a great concern about abortion, but she has an anointing of the Spirit. And she linked it with sin and the cross. And a man jumped up in the meeting.

He said, oh, God have mercy on me. I've paid for three abortions for my girlfriends. Somebody stood up and screamed out, I've committed this, I've done that, I've done the other. And just a wave of confession like that just went over the place.

And he said the meeting lasted 30 hours. Now, I've told you what will happen when revival comes. You better set the timer. You know, people use timers on their ovens for all kinds of things. Set it for 30 hours, one Friday night.

We'll pray all through the night. Wouldn't you like that? I would. We'll do that sometime. We'll arrange a night. We'll let the older people slip out for an hour and sleep and come back. No, we won't, because if we did, Jacob would go.

He said people were so convinced and convicted, they were leaning up against the wall for eight hours at a stretch to try and get to the microphone and make declarations of how they wanted to be purged and so forth and so on.

He said, I've never been in anything like that. I said, I haven't been in meetings quite so long. I've been in meetings where brokenness has come. I met people who went through the Shang Tung revival.

And when revival comes, we've never seen revival. Don't know a thing about it. We have a crowded meeting a few weeks ago. It's revival. I don't believe that. Revival closes taverns. Revival closes dance halls.

Revival hits the devil. It isn't just people getting moved emotionally and stirred. Good Lord, we millions of people have had that in America in the last two or three years. But where are they? Have they become prayer warriors?

Anyhow, he said it just swept on and he said, I was awed. Here's this young woman with such a blazing anger against impurity, against sin, and such a love for Christ and such an anointing and so uplifting the cross in all its power that people just melted.

And he said for over, I think actually he said 34 hours that meeting went on. Well, I rejoice in that. Do you? Then a man called me this morning and he called me about some books which is always good, of course.

Don't tell Jacob he'll be over at my house. Oh, I told you about some books. I said, yes. He said, I told you about my pastor. I said, yes. He said, he'd just been behind the Iron Curtain. Didn't go for a trip.

What in the world did he go for? Well, some of you have heard about the Moravian Church, have you? You know, the Moravians had that prayer meeting that lasted from as I like to use the figure from here when the clock just got to 11 the Holy Ghost came on the 23rd of August 1727.

That prayer meeting lasted 100 years without breaking. Little boys and girls traveled in prayer. 100 years. Tremendous upbringings, tremendous breaking. You could go at 2 o 'clock in the afternoon there were people praying, 2 o 'clock in the morning, 12 o 'clock midday, any hour of the day for 100 years.

No wonder they were the pioneer missionaries actually. The best since Pentecost. I've told you there were two young guys sitting across here last Sunday morning I preached in a ballroom that was jammed and folks standing outside.

Revival and the Witness of Sacrificial Missions

There were two blonde young men and I pointed to them and I said, you know, young fellows like you stood on the slave blocks down there in St. Thomas and Antigua. They stood on the slave blocks when they brought up these precious black men and they auctioned them.

You know they looked at their teeth and punched their bellies and checked them. And then these blondes got up and stood there. Who's your master? God. What are you doing here? I want to be a slave. What do you mean a slave?

There's no way onto the plantation but to sell yourself. And they were auctioned like cattle. And when they went into the fields to plow instead of using five oxen or five whatever else they would use, horses, they used five men.

And there was an unwritten law amongst them. It was spread back to Germany. Spengler was one of the leading preachers there. And the law is that when you've been sold on the block and they take you out, they take four of the men with you, you get in the middle.

Because if you get to this end you can't shout right over there. If you get in the middle then you can witness on both sides. They put iron collars around their necks until the iron cut into their necks and they got thrashing necks.

They put a belt around them with big studs in it and a chain and they became the human horses. In the scorching heat I've been down in those islands, it's hot. That was the only way they could get into those.

We don't have that now. God help us. I get so blazing angry. I was in a Bible school. I said listen, the Mormons, their law is this, that your son or your daughter must go to the mission field for two years and be financed by the family.

If you have six children, you have to pay for the six of them. The church doesn't pay. When they go they have to make a confession, they have to sign that they won't write home, they won't write to their girlfriend, they won't watch TV, they won't phone home, they can't go to movies.

They have the strictest discipline of anybody outside of what do you call it, West Point I think. I said in that famous Bible school, I think, God's name, could you get students here, if you said you can't write home for six months, you can't write to your girlfriend, you can't phone home, you can't write letters, you can't go out off the campus.

Day and night you have to get buried into this thing. They're buried into that damnable thing called Mormonism and yet they're sacrificed for it. They put us to shame. No wonder Jesus said some of these zealots, when they really get on fire with their devilish thing, they'll encompass sea and land and there'll be seven times more deadly and damned at the end.

Where in God's name are we? It's time we got, as I say, it's time we got serious about being serious about revival. Well this man that called me said, well my pastor's back from behind the Iron Curtain.

He went there to help and uplift the people and he said when he got there, there's a young couple. Now young is in quotes. There's a young couple there he went to visit. The girl is, I think, 81. No, she's 80.

And her boyfriend is 91. And they'd been behind the Iron Curtain for years planting churches and they said, you know, we're having a wave of ease and it's not good. And he said the young people said, please pray that the government will tighten things up because when we had affliction and the old man has been beaten up and some of the young people have been beaten and they said, look, the young people are as firm as a rock on the atonement.

They're as firm as a rock on the sonship of Jesus Christ. They're as firm as a rock on the work of the Holy Ghost. And the young people said, will you pray that God will intensify the persecution because when we were persecuted we were pure.

We were pressed up to the wall. Either you had to make a total confession, a total commitment and live all out for Christ or else you're in serious trouble. You had to become a communist or something.

And he said the young people were begging, pray the government will tighten things up. We want a pure church. Oh, we want one here. God knows we want it on our conditions. Don't disturb our lethargy. Don't disturb our status quo.

Don't disturb our formality. Let's have nice Sunday services with nice quiet meetings where nobody gets disturbed. I'll tell you what, we need some hellfire preaching. We need something that troubles us.

We need to leave the sanctuary with anointed eyes that know how to weep. He said you see these young people there. He said the way they pray, of course they can't run out and play tennis, you see. They can't go to the basketball court.

They can't go to the baseball court, the diamond, whatever you call it. It's either Christ or nothing. And he said they're so sold out, they're so deliberate, they're so holding on to the word of God, it made me wonder what we're doing in America.

Well, that's true of England and other countries. But it won't be long like this. It can't be. Either God in mercy comes and rends the heavens and visits us or he comes in judgment. As I told the crowd Sunday night, maybe our option is this, either concentrate in prayer or pray in concentration camps.

I'm not angry about them having a rock concert down the road. They'll have one in a week or two, there'll be thousands go. And lots of them could be here tonight, but they don't, they've no appetite. They want showmanship, they want, it's Christian entertainment anyhow.

Let them get my head chopped off, what do I care? I had it chopped off before and stuck on again, so I'm doing pretty good. But it's a desperate hour. When I hear of this man coming back from behind the Iron Curtain, he said, I had nothing, how could I uplift them?

All I could say, we'll be praying for you. But he said their zeal, their passion and their vision and their longing, it doesn't matter Lord, if there's anything else to strip, strip us. If there's anything to tear away, tear it away.

We don't want to stand in your way. We're not too concerned about that. We want nice little comfortable meetings and somebody say some sweet things, don't shout too much. Make it nice and easy, spoon feed us, be nice and quiet.

Open your mouth, here's a lollipop. Here's a Christian lollipop for you. I want to see some meetings like the Salvation Army used to have. When the Spirit of the Living God moved, you don't have to drag, I would not, I do not ever have an altar call with singing.

I refuse to stir people emotionally. I challenged people last Sunday night, all kinds of preachers, doctors, what have you got? I said right now, don't come to this altar to get blessed, forget it. Don't come to this altar for help.

Come to die. The altar is for one of two things, sacrifice or death. If you don't want to do it, well go home. If you want to do it, get up. And you know, just as I pressed the button, they jumped up all over the place and stampeded to the altar.

The son-in-law of the founder said, I never saw it like that in my life. Well I said, I didn't do it. I wasn't seeking opinion, everybody. They were so, and then when they got there, they were groaning and weeping and acknowledging how little prayer they had.

Isaiah 6 and the Call to Repentance

I preached on Isaiah 6. I said, remember, here's a prophet of God, and what does he say? He doesn't say, Lord, my prayer life's a little bit slack, could you help me? Lord, I'm sorry, I'm behind on my tithing.

I said, tell me what he did say. He said two things, I'm undone and I'm unclean. And that brought him deliverance. And we beat around the bush, we blame this and that and the other. There's not a power in America, you can combine communism, Mormonism, Romanism, ritualism, humanism, all the other devilish things together.

They're not holding revival up, it's the church. She's unclean, she's greedy for money. Somebody asked me the other day about a prophet. I said, you tell a prophet, he never asks for money, he doesn't.

It's an insult to his Holy Father. God will supply, I've lived by faith. I remember leaving Ireland, a lady said to me, do you really, I said, best I know how. She said, could I ask you a question? I said, go ahead.

She said, do you trust a faithful God or do you trust God's faithful? Pretty good one, isn't that Bill? You see, prayer of faith. Let's hurry up, I hope the postman's here soon. It's all going to be shattered.

I have a long letter on my desk now that broke my heart this week. A couple got up in years now. A few years ago, there was an appeal for money and we gave a five figure sum we had for our retirement.

Things have gone different since. Husband's lost his job. We're in tight spot financially. The man that got our money owns five houses in other people's names, but he owns them. He said, I wrote to him and said, listen, we're just broke now.

We sent you those thousands of dollars years ago. Can't you do something for us? He said, now don't you? And she said one or two things pretty rough. And he wrote back, don't touch the Lord's anointing.

She said, I wrote back and said, you're not anointed. I said, good for you. I'd have signed it myself. God's going to break every idol on which we're leaning. Everything that's of the flesh is going to go.

Every organization and system is going to go. God's going to show us his glory. Nobody's going to stick their neck, I'm sick to death of men stealing God's glory. You see names outside of these places.

I don't want anything with my name on it. We steal the glory. I believe Oral Roberts came as near as anybody to moving this nation and maybe the world if it stayed with Pentecostal holiness and kept away from the junk and the money.

But God's a jealous God. And he's going to find some young men. We old grave fellows, you now brother Farrar, myself, we missed, and gray ladies too, we missed the turn in the road. God's going to send us some young men and you don't know the name of one of them.

A precious black brother there I see. Some little black boy up in Alabama been driving a school bus today. God got an anointing for him. He's taking this girl. These other women want to scream. They all want ministries.

Here's a young lady fighting with all the power she has on pro-life. And yet the Holy Ghost comes on her meeting after meeting. There's brokenness. There's no thundering. There's no screaming Ichabod.

There's no crying against sins in a silly angry way. She uplifts Christ and says here's your answer. Here's your solution. Here is purity. Here is forgiveness. Here is pardon. Here's a miracle in your life more than in your body, in your soul, in your emotions, in your whole being.

And that's what young people are wanting. Well I'm supposed to preach. Should I do that or shall I? Let's read a little anyhow from Genesis 37. I'm not going to take it all. I'll take some another time.

But I want to share some things here. But let me just say this. As we go to prayer let's pray for behind the iron curtain. Let's pray for Penny Lee that God will continue to use her. She won't get spoiled with success or money or something.

Start building big offices and need a big staff and all that other stuff. She will be kept humble and broken with a vision and a passion and just sweep on like another Marashal in our day. And then let's pray of course for the world that Jacob was able to witness down there in, where is it?

Lyon is it? In Lyon over the border. And for the Indians if we don't we'll have Spencer after us. Okay. Genesis 37. And Jacob, or Israel his other name was, dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger in the land of Canaan.

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph being 17 years old was feeding the flock with his brethren. And the lad was one of the sons with the sons of Bilhar and with the sons of Zilpah his father's wives.

And Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. You know some people are trying to spot this guy. As far as I know he's the purest character apart from Daniel in the whole of the word of God. I don't believe he came gossiping.

I believe he came bringing an accurate report of the condition of the nation and the nations round about. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age and he made him a coat of many colors.

Let's go back a minute there. He was 17. How many young men do you know at 17 or women that God could trust with what this man went through? Of course he lived in the shadow of his famous father wrestling Jacob.

I think he must have heard his father praying and interceding time after time until his roots, his personal roots were going deeper and deeper. And God trusted him. You see we think God trusts us with prosperity and nice things.

But you don't build character that way. You build character in adversity. And I believe that adversity and trial is the university God trains his saints in. And here's this 17 year old boy then. Israel or Jacob loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age and he made him a coat of many colors.

Joseph’s Rejection and the Cost of Holiness

Verse 4. When his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him. Come on. I don't believe you can love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength without people hating you.

Why did they hate him? Was he a better marksman with his bow and arrow? Was he swifter on his feet? I don't think so. They hated him. Why? Because he was close to the heart of his father. His father loved him.

And they saw the relationship of the father with the son. I remember we were up in the hills, well, the other side of Seguin there, some years ago. I went to speak. And a fellow came up in a big car. He had his private plane and everything.

And he asked me about my sons. I said, I have three sons. He said, I have. He said, two of them, they come for everything. Dad, I need a new baseball. I need this. I need to go to a camp. I need money for that.

I've got one son. And he said, he never asked for anything. He's always somewhere around the house. When I come in, he comes and nestles up the side of me and says, Dad, it's lovely to have you home again.

I so enjoy your company. And he said, you know, that boy does more for me than the other boys with all their skills in sports. They always show me their trophies. They always tell me where they're going.

They're always asking for money to go compete somewhere. This boy asked for nothing except to be near to me. And here we have a picture again, of course, of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was a son of his old age.

Well, whether it's right or wrong, I'm going to say Jesus was the son of the Father's old age. In this way that we read from Proverbs chapter 8. Proverbs chapter 8, reading from verse 12. I, wisdom, dwell with prudence and find out knowledge of which inventions.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride and arrogancy and the evil way. And the forward mouth do I hate. Counsel is mine in understanding. Sound wisdom. I am understanding. I have strength. By me kings reign and princes rule.

Down to verse 20. I lead the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways before his works of old.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning or before the earth ever was. There were no debts. Before there were no debts. And when there were no debts I was brought forth. When there were no fountains abounding with water.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I. You know that kind of dreary old hymn, at least they sing it in England for funerals. Oh God our help in ages past. There's a phrase in that always stirs me.

Before the hills in order stood all earth received her frame. From everlasting thou art God to endless years the same. A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone. Short is the watch that sets the night before the rising sun.

Well here as another part of the scripture says before the trees of the hills clapped their hands. He was there with the Father before there was a world. He was there in the executive, if you like to put it that way, executive eternity.

Verse 26. While as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens I was there. When he set a compass upon the face of the deep.

When he established the clouds above. When he strengthened the fountains of the deep. When he gave the sea its decree. And the water should not pass his commandments when he appointed the foundations of the earth.

Then was I by him as one brought up with him. I was daily his delight rejoicing always before him. Rejoicing in the habitable parts of the earth. And my delights were unto the sons of men. Verse 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me watching daily at my gates.

This I believe is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. The only begotten of the Father. He wasn't derived. He's from the very heart of God. Created again by the Holy Ghost. I don't know why people stumble over the virgin birth.

Do you Bill? I mean this is simple but it's profound. Because I found it out for myself. The question that puzzles me is this. Why should people wonder about the last Adam being born and he wasn't the last Adam.

He was born without a mother. When the first Adam was born without a father. Think about that. Where's the problem for God? He has none. We have the problem. But it's this mighty being. The first born.

Or the born of old age. The Lord let the world run so long and then he sends his son. Verse 3 of 37 says Israel loved Joseph more than his children because he was the son of his old age and he made him a coat of many colors.

Why? Because he was a treasure to his father. Because he was distinctive. I think it was to mark him out as the what was he? Who was he born of? Rachel. You know I get a lot of hope in this. People tease me about it but I do.

I get a lot of hope in this for the simple reason that one day Rachel got to the place where she didn't care about her what do you call these fancy dresses you wear? Oh designer dress that's right. Martha doesn't have one anyhow.

But anyhow it's nice to know you know. You know we show off a bit. She isn't concerned about her appearance. She doesn't come out neat as a competitor with the other woman in the house. The other woman has children she doesn't she's barren.

And she comes to the place one day I see her coming out I suppose it was a tent. She comes there and throws herself down before Jacob and she almost screams out Jacob give me children or I die. We don't pray like that God help us.

We pray as though well Lord this is our little petition and if it won't exhaust you would you kindly do this? If it won't baffle you will you kindly do that? I don't believe God answers prayer. He answers desperate prayer.

He answers prayer with blood in it. He answers prayer with tears in it. That's why I like to hear Spencer and some of these guys pray. She got to the place where she couldn't live. And when you and I get there and you can only say to God God I don't care if I live another day.

I don't care if I die in six months as long as I see the glory of God. I keep saying to God Lord I'm going to be like Simeon. He prayed and prayed and prayed with a little old woman a hundred years old and went up to other people there and he said I won't die until I see the salvation of God.

And they put the Christ of God in his arms and then he was prepared to go. Well I don't want to go until God rents the heavens. A dear brother prayed here the other night so beautifully I thought. And he said Lord I've been cheated.

I've been cheated. I've never seen revival. I've never seen rent heavens. You can have your revival so called cost a million dollars. They don't. They don't cost a dime. True revival costs blood, sweat, tears, grief, fasting, anguish where nothing satisfies.

The verse I wanted you to sing in beneath the cross of Jesus isn't there. It wasn't there tonight. Beneath the cross of Jesus but on the further side. No no not that one dearly. Beneath the cross. I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of thy face.

Isn't that something? Do you really mean that? Lord I don't care about new clothes. I don't care about. I want the sunshine. Why should America go to hell? Come on tell me. I won't go to other countries.

Let others go. God bless them. I pray for them. I do pray for them. I can't go to another country and tell them how to get revival when we're dead all around here. I want to see God Almighty move on Tyler.

I don't need a million dollars. All I need is the favor of God, the anointing of God, the revelation from God. The money I wouldn't care that much about it. I want to see something that is so stamped with deity that no man dare touch it.

He doesn't stamp his name on it. Wesley never intended to raise Methodism. Methodism came out of Wesley. God raised a man. God found a man half Jew and half Gentile in William Booth and revival came and they swept through England and there are men around the country now unknowns that are coming up with anointing, coming up with power, coming up with revelation and God is going to embarrass us and I'll be glad to be embarrassed I'll tell you that.

The Life-Giving Ministry of the Holy Spirit

Well he made him a coat of many colors. I believe that was to distinguish him from his half brothers who were born of slave wives. He's the royal son. He has dignity. He has authority. Read the story.

I'm going to take it here about Cicero. Cicero had a coat of many colors. There are various people in the Old Testament had a special coat. It was a distinctive mark of somebody who's appointed to a particular task.

They're separated to it. Jesus had many colors. There's a color in the star. Who else had a star come across the sky when he was born? Who else was escorted to the earth with a heavenly host and they weren't singing either they were chanting about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Who else had the heavens opened at the baptism like the Lord Jesus had? Who else had the revelation given on the Mount of Transfiguration, the glory of God? And it always just astounds me there that those three and again remember the Lord does have special people.

He does have Peter and James and John that he selects out of the twelve and then he selects John out of the three. But you have distinctive things about Jesus like the colorings. You have the mighty, mighty experience on the Mount of Transfiguration.

I've often wondered why they didn't fall before him but they didn't because he wasn't the full glory. But God puts a special mark on his people when there's revival. People go around the street with a glow.

They go around the street with a joy. Everything they touch has life. You see people say today oh our job is to dispel truth. We're ministers. We're to dispel nothing of the kind. We're not here to speak truth.

We're here to spread life. You can have truth as dead as a doornail. As Dr. Toth said to me one day he led twice to his five. Twice four is eight. Twice eight is sixteen. Twice sixteen is thirty-two.

Twice thirty-two is sixty-four. Twice sixty-four is what? A hundred and twenty-eight. Then he said has it done you any good? It's truth. What's the good of me thundering out of this book? It's dead unless the Holy Ghost makes it live.

People go to sleep. They're bored. Our job is to bring life. Jesus didn't say I've come that they might have truth. He said I've come that they might have life and have it more abundantly. Have it overflowing in every part of their being.

You know I realize today in a new way it's really a very, very serious thing to live in the hour in which we are living. Not because the walls are coming in and the roofs coming in. It's a serious thing to have a personality.

To have a brain. To have a heart. To have emotions. To have life. What are they here for? For me to stir up and amuse myself and enjoy my... No, they're His. The psalmist said upon an instrument of ten strings will I praise thee.

What ten strings? I don't know. Say you use your two feet. Your two hands. That's two, four. You mustn't get lost here. Two eyes. That's six. And your tongue. And your heart. You've got ten things there.

You know when God gets men like this realize again that He is God. You can't have blessing without cursing. You can't have the life of God without the hatred of the devil. I don't care who you are. 1st Paul says that when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than than all his brethren they hated him.

For what? Had he been fighting them? Had he been stealing? Had he been getting somebody's birthright? As I say had he been target practicing and lick them all? Was he the best athlete? No, he was near to the heart of the father.

And the father whispered secrets to him. Maybe he too had a prayer life something like his father's. His brethren hated him and could not speak peace unto him. But come on tell me in the name of the Lord why do you get up so upset that people hate you?

After all Jesus was the purest man that ever walked the earth but they hated him. And who hated him? His own family hated him. He had to get out of his own home hadn't he at one time? His family was up against him.

And it says here that when his brethren saw their father loved him you'll get your worst injuries from people who profess the name of Jesus. It was his brethren. You say a Christian has done this a Christian's been bitter a Christian's been scornful a Christian's ridiculed me a Christian's slandered me so what?