Message on Peter — Leonard Ravenhill

Peter’s Call to Holiness

The following message was delivered by Reverend Leonard Ravenhill during a regular session at the Christ for the Nations Institute. His message is on Peter and based on 1st Peter chapter 2.

I'm going to look at the first epistle of Peter, the first chapter, first line, the first word. First epistle of Peter, the first chapter, and the first verse, and amongst other things, anyhow, the first word, Peter.

Let's read verses 15 and 16. Verses 15 and 16. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, which is really all manner of living, because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.

One of the threads of truth through this epistle is the emphasis on holiness. You'll find it again if you look just across the page. That is, if your Bible's like mine, it may be over the page, of course.

The second chapter, verse 5,. Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house and an holy priesthood. In verse 9 of the same chapter, You're a generation, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.

And then over the page, that's more wonderful still, the third chapter, verse 5,. After this manner in the old time, holy women. Isn't that wonderful? Holy women. They could do with a lot more. All right.

Purity and the Spirit-Filled Life

Now the, What we want to consider this afternoon is the, is to kind of circle round and round and round this text and try and discover what is consistent and what is not consistent with a spirit-filled life.

We're called unto holiness. And in verse 22 of the first chapter again, he says, seeing that ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto one feigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart.

Now there are no, there are no degrees of purity. If you go to buy butter and you say, is this butter pure? And they say, well about, you know, 96 just 4 straightening. You say, fine. My mother-in-law's coming to lunch, just what I need.

No, you wouldn't say that. You'd, you'd say, no, I'm not taking it. It's not pure. Now there are degrees in strength and there are degrees in wisdom, but there are no degrees in purity. And either your heart and mine is pure or it's impure.

And God has demanded him, of us, that we worship him in spirit and in truth. And again, he says, blessed are the pure in heart. Not that they shall see God, but that they see God. The pure in heart see God.

Those who are not pure in heart don't see God. They see the devil and demons and I don't know what. And you know, you've got to watch. I don't care how smart the boy is that stands behind this desk. But you just suspicion him.

If he talks more about demons than about Jesus Christ, he's off the track. As soon as we become more demon conscious than Christ conscious, we're in trouble. And don't take any notice of preachers. They're the dumbest fellows around.

Always measure what they say by the Word of God. And, and whatever you say about demonology, remember, you come back to the Word of God. And the Scripture says, greater is he that is what? Are you sure?

You're sure it's not greater is he that is in heaven? Oh, right, you're right, sure. Greater is he that is in you. Than he, that's the prince of the power of the air, the devil. Isn't that nice that you can, you know, have him under control?

Somebody said, you put a ring on a woman's finger, she'll keep you under her thumb all her life. But, but it's a bit like that with Satan, you know, really, that you and I have power, all that. Now, now you may not have it, that's your fault.

Jesus said he wanted to give us power over all, not some of it, but all the power of the enemy. And when the church rediscovers that, we'll be on the road to revival. So God desires holiness. Now, what is consistent with a holy life?

Or if you like a spirit-filled life, if you're a Nazarene or a holiness person, a sanctified life, go on, I'll go along with it. Just, just, just really what is there that is consistent? Now, let's start with this first word, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ.

Peter’s Transformation into an Apostle

That's a very interesting word, Peter. He was the problem boy that Jesus had. Do you know that, that Jesus not only spoke to Peter more than he spoke to any of the individual disciples, but he spoke more to Peter than he spoke to all the disciples put together.

And conversely, not only did, was that true, but it was true that Peter spoke to Jesus, not only more than any of the other disciples, but all the other disciples put together. Now, this is rather startling here, isn't it?

Peter, an apostle. Man, he really made it. You know, in the ministries that are given to men, and remember there are 17 gifts of the Spirit, I'll let anybody fool you, there are 9, there are 17. And remember the first ministry gift is that of an apostle.

Apostles and prophets and so forth, forth. And Peter has come from being the kind of retarded, rebellious little fellow at the back there, until way, way, way now he's come really to maturity, and he is classified here as Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ.

Now, when Jesus found him, he said to him, thou art what? Simon. And thou shalt be Peter, Simon. Do you know what that word means? Well, in our language it means disintegrated. You've all got a lot of loose ends.

Did you ever take a grain of sand and put it under a microscope or a magnifying glass? It's very interesting, just one grain of sand, not the whole beach, just one grain of sand. And put it there on your hand and take a magnifying glass, and you'll discover that there are peaks on that grain of sand, and there are cavities in it.

Now, you didn't need to come here to know that you can't build with sand, we know this. We used to sing in Sunday school, building a house not made with hands, and not built on the sand, but on the rock.

But if you take that sand and put it under pressure, those peaks will fit into those cavities, they get locked in, and then you get what we call sandstone. We used to live in the ancient city of Bath in England.

The Romans were there in 55 BC, and there was an abbey. There still is a very beautiful abbey in the centre of the city. And the foundation of the abbey was laid in the year 444. Now, the main structure of the abbey has been pulled down a couple of times, but there's still a magnificent piece of work there.

And it's laid on a foundation of sandstone. Now, had it been sand, the storm would have got it over and everything else would have destroyed it, but because it has a firm foundation, because under pressure, those little bits of sand were put together, knitted together, they became useful and substantial.

Now, Jesus says, you're Simon, you're disintegrated. You've got too many loose ends, but thou shalt be Peter. We were up in the north of the United States last year, the year before, and we went out to a farm to dinner.

And outside of the farm, they had a lot of amazing pieces of rock, way out in the wilds. And a fellow came and he gave me what looked like a piece of wood. He said, here, and put it in my hands and I nearly collapsed, because it wasn't wood.

Oh, it was wood. What do you mean, it was, it wasn't? Well, it was wood and it isn't wood, put it that way. It's petrified. Supposing you change the emphasis, it's petrified, isn't it? It was a piece of wood centuries ago, you could clip it off with your finger, it was soft, but it went through processes and calcified, and now it's petrified.

It's the same word, it petrified, it becomes substance and strong. And when Jesus found Peter, he was undependable, volatile, oh boy, boiling over one day, you know, like you are. And then the next day, just about frozen and ready to go anywhere one day, and a team of horses couldn't get you here this afternoon.

Well, some people here this afternoon. But you see, this is it. This is always a danger, in my judgment, of working meetings up to a place, you know. Now, I'm not again, I'm not saying this any wrong sense of clapping hands and getting excited.

But you know, there's a psychological point in a meeting. There's a big meeting not long ago, where an evangelist took an offering, it wasn't what he expected, huge tent. So later he said, now, you know that offering didn't really come up.

Oh, but the Lord's blessing is, we should take another offering, we need it. And then when he got the people really ready to go, and just before the healing line, he said, you know, I feel the Lord so near, and I feel He's telling me to take another offering.

Now, he was a liar, and I'd have stood up and told him so too. Well, maybe I'd just have, I wouldn't have been as rough as that. I'd have just shouted out, thou shall not steal. But, you know, you can work.

There's a marvelous psychology. Any fellow knows when he's established rapport with a crowd. This is why so often a preacher will start with four or five jokes to condition. It's called conditioning. And it gets very dangerous.

Because you see, very often you can't get motivated unless you get steam up to that level. Now, you ought to do it by your will and not your emotions. It's truth in the inward parts. The thing you trust the least, or should trust the least, is your feelings.

You'll go by feelings, you'll be in trouble. Remember a friend of mine going to kneel at an altar with a fellow who was having a rough time, and he said, what's your trouble? He said, oh, everything's been going wrong.

He said, I've had it rough. I wish you'd pray for me. He said, well, I'll pray for you. But what really is your problem? He says, I don't feel saved. Oh, well, he said, I've had a rough week. I'll tell you what, I'll pray for you and then you pray for me.

Do you feel married this afternoon? Some of you look it, but I mean, do you feel it? Do you feel married? Do you have to feel married? Do you have to be primed up to a certain place before you can get activated for the Lord?

You shouldn't do. Now, Peter has gone through this whole cycle of changes. The Lord has dealt with him. He's no longer shifty. He's been through the furnace of the upper room. And not only that, but he's really got a long way on.

And Peter is called an apostle. You know, in Paul's letter to the Romans, he writes to the saints. Now, you imagine a mailman comes to your house tomorrow morning, and you happen to be at the door. And instead of putting the mail in the box, he comes up and says, you know this, I've been reading this once or twice coming up the street.

It's rather funny. It says that this letter is addressed to Saint Mary Smith. Who would this be? Is it you? Well, no, no, I mean, kind of a Christian, kind of a Christian, but I wouldn't say I'm a saint.

I'm not really a saint, you know. Or one came for your husband, addressed Saint John Smith, and you say to him, hey, take this back. He doesn't live here. My husband a saint? Well, that's what the scripture says, doesn't it?

Oh, it says we're called to be saints. It doesn't say that in the Greek. It says we're called saints. You see, we've got such weird ideas. If you were in a certain religion, you'd have to be dead a hundred years, and they'd have to dig you up and find some flesh on your bones, and that would prove you weren't just as mortal as anybody else.

And therefore, they'd make a saint of you. I think of the church in Scotland that they were building, and they had designed it very well, and they had beautiful Gothic windows, and they quarreled as to what they'd do.

Well, yes, we will have stained-glass windows. But what should we do with the stained-glass windows? Have some pictures of, say, Bible scenes. No, no. Ah, one man said standing there, I'll tell you what we'll do.

We'll put saints in the windows. And there's a little lady sweeping some debris up there, and she nudged the architect. She said, wouldn't it be better to have them in the pews? And, you know, I kind of think it would, don't you?

I mean, it's all right having them in the windows, but boy, we could do with a few more in the pews. That reminds me of Oliver Cromwell when he came to this very abbey that I used to stand outside of it on a Sunday night as it closed and have a street meeting.

And at one side of the great towering, well, beautiful towers that seemed to go to heaven, there were angels ascending and descending. Now, I never saw angels in my life, and I never saw any like that because at one side, the angels were ascending as you would go this way.

But do you know what they were doing on the other ladder? Coming down head first. Now, I don't think even angels would do that, do you? But Cromwell reached up with his sword and knocked the heads off them.

He couldn't stand the palaver. He said, well, people are poor and needy and you build these fabulous places. And I kind of agree with him on that level. But he ordered that they took everything out of the churches.

The country was short of money. Take all the silver images. Take all the gold images out and bring them out here. And then they took them and they put them in a crucible and they made them, of course, into liquid and turned them into currency.

And when the men who had scouted inside of the cathedral came out, they said, there's no silver crucifix here and no golden crucifix. There are some statues of the saints. So he said with a twinkle in his eye, well, wouldn't it be nice to change them from statues and put them in the fire and get them into circulation?

Well, that's what I feel about it too. I'd like to get a lot of saints into circulation. But you'd have to get them in the fire first. And this is where we back off. But Peter had gone through these processes.

Because God is showing us what He can do when He gets a man in total subjection. So you have now Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. And not only that, he's quit from being a fisherman to writing books, which is always good.

And he's writing to the elect according to the foreknowledge of God. All right. Let's get to verse 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

The Resurrection and the Lively Hope

There's a comma there. Let's make it a stop for a moment. The resurrection of Jesus Christ, Sir Ambrose Fleming, sometimes called the inventor or father of penicillin, said on one occasion, the best attested miracle in the world, the best attested fact in the world, is the miracle of the resurrection.

I remind you again that every work of the Holy Spirit is a major work. He created the world that we're in. He created this book. That's why it's indescribable, indestructible. He created the Christ of God in the matrix of the Virgin Mary.

And when Jesus is lying there dead, remember Romans 8 says, the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead. Now I think this is one of the most graphic things in the whole world. You know, when I used to get under the weather sometimes, or get heavier, discouraged and so forth, I would read Romans 8, 28 and so forth.

I don't do that anymore. Forget it. You cannot, you're privileged. When I see this world that somehow seems it's going to go over and go under, and hell is going to be let loose, and everything that's threatening civilization, all I have to do is ponder the majesty and the wonder of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

No, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is not a miracle, it's a million miracles. If He doesn't rise, I don't rise. If He rises, I rise. I was going to say, do you see visions and dream dreams? You know, the Bible says we should.

At least young men see visions. They don't now, so they take drugs and have a trip. And that's the church's fault. If you were really where we ought to be, we'd be seeing visions and we'd be dreaming dreams, and seeing wonderful things of God.

But look, the first countdown was not at Cape Canaveral. I think the first countdown was that resurrection morning. I think the devil thought he got it all sewn up. As you would say, it's in the bag. We've got him just where we want him.

After all, he said, destroy my body and I'll rise, and not only that, I'll raise the world as well. But he's done nothing about it, has he? And on that fatal morning, I imagine Satan now says, look, look, we've had him there three days.

I was just in there and I touched him, and he's as dead as any man that was ever around on this earth. He's really, really, really stone dead. Now look, we've only about ten more minutes to go. We've only five, we've only one.

Now there you have Jesus lying stone, dead as a stone he's lying on. And he hasn't finished his work, he's got to do far more than die. He's got to rise, and more than rise, he's got to ascend. And he's lying there on the slab, and Satan says, we've got him where we want him.

Just a minute, there's one thing we've got to do now. You see, we've got Jesus there dead, and we've got the stone over the grave, and we've got wax over the stone, and we've got seals over the wax, and we've got soldiers against the wax, and the seal, and the stone.

Now, one other, two other things. One is we've got to put the whole sin of the world against that stone, and that'll keep him down. And to make doubly sure every demon in hell, you come on now, come on you demons, and they scour hell and bring every demon from every hole he's ever been living in.

Now look what Jesus has to do. He has to rise from the dead, he has to get under the sin of the whole world, he has to get out of the grip of billions of demons, he has to break the stone, and the wax, and the seal, and the soldiers.

And Satan says, hold it, just about five more seconds, and if you can do it, we can fill hell and run the universe. Come on now, five, hold tight, tight, tight, four, three, two, one. I sometimes wonder, was it Wesley?

I think it was Charles who wrote the hymn, low in the grave he lay, Jesus my Saviour. I think maybe there was a twinkle in his eye when he wrote, vainly they watch his bed, Jesus my Saviour, vainly they seal the dead, Jesus.

And then when he says, finally, my, I wish I could switch you into heaven right now, and hear a thousand million angels singing, death cannot keep its prey. Jesus my Saviour, he tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord, up from the grave he arose.

With a mighty triumph over his foes, he arose a victor over the dark domain, and he lives forever. And he says, because I live, ye shall live also. Now I don't need somebody to tell me in a prophecy, or some other thing, half of our prophecy is vanity.

Do you think I'm dumb, I can't read my Bible? All some people do is store something in the Bible, and stand up and say it's a prophecy, forget it. It may be an exhortation, that's all right, but it's not a prophecy.

All the prophecy I need, apart from very isolated cases that are here in this book, I'll tell you one prophecy, I know the doom of the Roman Church, and I know the doom of Catholicism. Because God has told me the gates of hell won't prevail against us.

The ultimate triumph of the Church of Jesus is guaranteed. Because they're going to come out of every kindred and nation and people and tongue. And he's going to reign forever. Oh, but there's something Jesus has to do yet.

Christ’s Once-for-All Sacrifice

The supreme day to the Jew was the day of atonement. And when the high priest left his house to go into the temple there, nobody there put a finger on him. He must not be touched by any human, they'd be impure.

And if that was so, he'd have to turn back. And so very carefully the road is swept, and it's guarded, and the high priest comes out, and he's going there to take blood and put it on the mercy seat. But nobody must touch him.

The sacrifice has been made that the blood hasn't been put there yet. Now Jesus has died. Not only died, he's risen from the dead. He's blasted the gates of hell off their hinges. He's led captivity captive and given gifts unto men.

But there's one thing he has to do yet. He has to ascend to his Father. And nobody must touch him before he ascends. And a wonderful worshipping woman. Oh, that resurrection morning was the greatest morning in his life.

And do you know what? It was the most disappointing morning in his life. Do you know why? There wasn't a single soul that believed him. Not one of them. I would have thought Peter would have been waiting for his resurrection.

No, Peter hadn't made it. I would have thought that harlot that he forgave. No, I thought that the one man out of the ten, you know, he healed ten. That's about the percentage you get out of healing meetings.

If you get one in ten following the Lord of healings, you've done mighty good. Oh, if we had more healings, forget it. If we had more healings, we'd have more Christians. People will follow anybody for bread and butter and free surgery and Medicare.

Sure they will. They followed Jesus by the thousand. But when he laid the conditions of discipleship, they quit. Nobody waiting for him that resurrection morning. And before you throw your handbook at them, I wonder how many mornings this week the Lord expected you to worship him and he didn't make it.

Maybe this very afternoon he wanted to get to somebody, they didn't make it. No, they didn't hurt me. I don't care if there's two or two million. I don't care. I preached to thousands and thousands in ballparks and I preached to a handful of lepers way in Thailand.

People with their fingers off and their legs off and their eyes hanging out and they stunk like a manure heap. And nobody went near them. Will you go? Sure I went. I even shook hands with them. Do you know it was one of the happiest meetings?

There were people without fingers and with their cheeks all eaten away and their ears off and the legs eaten off. And do you know what they were saying? They're trying to do with stumpy, bleeding hands with pus running down.

Do you know what they're trying to sing? My Jesus I love thee I know thou art mine. I tell you boy, that moves you till you feel as though you're torn up to bits inside. Nobody there that resurrection morning.

Nobody. But one woman came a bit late and even she got it wrong. She supposed he was the gardener so she kind of figured he didn't make it. Didn't she? Boy, it's dangerous to suppose when you're talking about Jesus, isn't it?

Do you remember on the road, I'm going to talk one morning maybe about it in the few mornings I'm left before I run out of time. One morning about a couple, the most privileged couple in the whole world.

Do you remember them? They were privileged to have a little boy called Jesus. And do you know what? They lost him. Now what do you think Mary did that night? What would you do if you lost a 12 year old boy?

Cry yourself to sleep, wouldn't you? And didn't find him the second day, so she cried herself to sleep the second night. But how in the world did they go to a big, big revival meeting like that and they got a day's journey and it was time to go to bed or have the evening meal and they what?

Supposed he was in the company and he wasn't there. And this woman at the grave supposed he wasn't there and he was there. You know some people think you need a cathedral and stained glass windows and everything to have the Lord there and a choir and acolytes and all the... forget it.

As I say, I've had one of the greatest meetings I've had with about I don't think more than 20 people right in the heart of Thailand in a leper colony. Or if you don't watch it, the devil will say, you know, the Lord isn't with you right now.

You should have done this or done that. No, no, no. You watch him. But let's not suppose too much. And yet this one woman didn't come and she wanted to seize him by the feet. What did he say? Touch me not.

Touch me not. You know somewhere in the long last night I don't sleep too much at nights anyhow but last night I was thinking of this you know I came to this conclusion I don't think that one precious drop of blood from the Lord Jesus Christ fell to the ground.

Not one drop. I think invisible angels caught it. What is this man going to do? Why are they guarding the way? Nobody must touch him and defile him. He's going to offer blood. Ah, but what does Hebrews 9 where 13 somewhere there say?

If the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit. You see this priest goes and takes blood but it's corruptible blood.

Therefore he has to go every year. But the blood of Jesus Christ is incorruptible. It says in this very text you're not redeemed with silver and gold but with the precious blood of Christ a lamb without spots.

The priest has to go every year. He appeared once at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself to hell with the mass. Don't tell me about Pentecostal Catholics. The mass is blasphemy.

It hasn't to be done over and over again. He appeared once in the end of the age. You don't need a man as a mediator. You may be the poorest little woman that scrubs the kitchen floor down. I don't care.

In the eyes of God you're a princess and the woman next to you this afternoon may be a millionaire or so I don't know but she has no more standing with God than you have. We don't need priests and vestments and altars and candles.

As a witty friend of mine used to say we're not saved by Greece, by grace. And so let's keep that in mind. The precious blood. I believe that that precious blood was caught and Jesus had to present his own blood to the Father.

A perfect offering. He was the Lamb without spot. He had finished the work that John, we spoke of Friday night, said behold the Lamb of God. You know I think the devil had a headache. From that very day John said behold the Lamb of God.

I think the devil had nerves until the final moment when Jesus triumphantly presented his blood and Satan knew that it was no good. He had to give up. Now he tries to fool us that this isn't a perfect offering but it certainly is.

The Inheritance Reserved in Heaven

All right. We have a lively hope. We're going to talk about this Friday night so plan to be away. Thursday night I mean. Sorry, sorry, sorry. About the resurrection. About the judgment. The resurrection.

He's begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection. Now what has he begotten us to? Ah come on now. Put it down in black and white. I don't have to. It's in the next verse. Do you know what it says?

He's begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. To what? Three things. To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.

Shall we break it down? What does he say? Blessed be the God and Father. Right. Verse 4. To an inheritance incorruptible that's beyond the reach of death undefiled that's beyond the reach of sin that fadeth not away beyond the reach of time.

Now that's what God has reserved for you. If you're redeemed. If his spirit is indwelling you, he has redeemed you. And he's reserved in heaven for you an inheritance. If some of you are anticipating an inheritance, my, you really look forward to it for a long while, don't you?

You say, my, I you know, I'd like to get that inheritance it's so much, it's so much, it's so much and you feel the pinch of poverty and all the time you know there's all that wealth there. Now you and I have an inheritance reserved in heaven for you.

An inheritance incorruptible, beyond the reach of death undefiled, beyond the reach of sin, reserved in heaven for you beyond the reach of time. It's reserved in heaven for you. Hmm? Do you think it is really?

When I, 1952 I flew, no, no, no, I took a train into Chicago and a very famous American artist met me there and took me to his lovely home and we had dinner. And his wife said we had a great day today.

I said, good. She said we have well we've been to England three times. I said well you've done awfully well to go to England three times in one day. Oh we've been by TV the Queen was crowned today. And we watched the ceremony.

And we enjoyed it so much we're going to watch it tonight at 10 o 'clock we hope you'll see it. It's marvellous to see a Queen crown. I said I guess it is. And she said if you had been in England would you have been at the coronation?

I said no lady, my name's Ravenhill not Churchill. And so she said wouldn't it be nice to go to a coronation? Do you think you could have got in? I said don't think I had a chance. We used to live, before we came to the States we lived in an old house in the middle of some fields, actually a castle if you want to be romantic.

It was the remains of an old castle anyhow. And it had been there for 300 years, nice old place. And across from us was a very very fine castle, a beautiful castle a few miles away in the fields owned by Lord and Lady Belmore.

And I went across there one day and was walking around his beautiful beautiful library. The kind of library I'd like to have about as long as this room. And it was really wonderful. But right in the middle I walked up to two chairs there.

And they were beautifully embroidered. And on the corner there was a little tag and it said on one Lord Belmore and on the other Lady Belmore. Well they'd been to the coronation about a year before they'd been to the coronation of the Queen of England.

And there are 3 ,000 seats in the Abbey and so they had to put seats down the aisle and people who sat on the chairs in the aisle were able to purchase their chairs. And so they brought them home so they could say well this is where the chair your uncle was at when he saw the coronation or your father or your grandfather, you know, like the thing you kind of hand down.

And there were those lovely chairs. They were very proud of them. Now if I'd gone to Westminster Abbey that morning of the coronation and I'm going in and the big tall lifeguard there says where are you going?

I say see the coronation. You are. Well I'd like to. What's your name? Ravenhill. Oh let me see. Oh no. Oh no no no. There's a Lord Ravenmore and there's a Lord Ravencroft but Ravenhill you just aren't in the list.

Thank you. I suppose you feel very unhappy about that. No, no I'm not a bit worried. No. Not worried? Oh the kings of the earth are here. The great famous people are all here. This is going to be the greatest show on earth.

And you say you're not worried. And I mean I'm not worried. Why not? Well sir I'm going to a coronation soon that will make this one look like the dishes in the kitchen sink. And you know what? I've got my reservation in right now.

That's what it says doesn't it? Well why do you get under the weather? Because somebody upset you this week. What are you doing under the weather anyhow? You should be on top of it. Or you nod your heads and say hallelujah.

But boy when you're roughing it tomorrow and something. Will it be as happy then? See? Something else isn't it? Somebody says you mean you're a Christian? I mean didn't I see your car coming through Las Vegas the other week?

Yeah you did. Went through it. Lousy hole that it is. Some Christian entertainers there of course. But apart from that. What do you want me to do? Sit down and cry because you despise me? You know that that coronation only lasted a few hours.

But I'm going to one that's lasting forever and ever. King of kings and lord of lords and he shall reign. And I'm going to see all the kings of the earth kneel down before him and I'm going to shout and praise and magnify the lord and woo.