Moved by the Holy Ghost 1991 — Leonard Ravenhill

Women of Faith: Catherine Booth and Jackie Pullinger

I think it's 80 years, tomorrow afternoon, since I first went to a Saturday meeting. I was four years of age, so guess how old I am. And I remember 60 years ago, spending an afternoon with the most distinguished woman preacher in the world.

Her name was Catherine Booth. She was the daughter of the founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth. But just a few weeks ago, I spent some time, my precious Martha, with a woman that I think is the most anointed woman in the world today.

She hasn't looked church, she doesn't own a penny, she hasn't got two dresses, nobody on her staff owns a car. She lives in a room 15 feet by 15, her bathroom is 4 feet by 4, with a toilet there. She has a little tap, a drip of water as big as your finger, she catches water in it and warms it, puts some soap on her head and throws the water over her head and that's the shower she has.

The Queen the other day, when she was in, where was she, in Miami, she didn't drop in to see us, but anyhow, she helped Mr, what do you call him, Schwarzkopf, Schwarzkopf, can't say it. She gave him a nice hood, well she doesn't give that to ladies, she gives them an MBE, a member of the British Empire, and she gave that MBE to Jackie Pullinger, who I think is the most anointed woman in the world today.

I mean to listen to her, we started our meeting with 2 ,500 people, in three days we had 9 ,000 people there in the civic center in Anaheim and she just reduced the whole place to tears and brokenness, there was no thunder and shouting and drawing and voting and all that business.

But one thing amongst others that really stuck in my heart was this, she said there's only one place in the world where today they're having revival, do you know where it is, it's in America, and God's left America long ago, we million dollar crusades and nothing happens.

We've had million dollar crusades for 25 years, you tell me one city that's had revival through them. We have 500 evangelists in America, we don't have one revivalist. Evangelists seek popularity, prophets shun it.

The thing was this, well she said they're having revival in China, okay, and this is a country, remember, that Mr. Bush is trying to get us to link up with, and she says our young people, look at these young ladies here tonight, they go down the street, they go to a gospel meeting and disappear and they haven't been seen since.

The communists keep gathering up van loads of young people and take them away, they disappear. No politician's going to say that, I'd tell Mr. Bush if I got half a chance, but we want some cheap cotton or something from over there.

We've nothing to take over there, in fact, some of the people over there say don't bring us American evangelism. One man said recently, young Americans come over here, they show it, they bring their guitars, they sing for three days, and then they go to America and live in luxury.

But Jackie, you stayed with us. And she said, looking at the walls, she said a man came out of prison recently, he'd been there 27 years for preaching the gospel, and when he came out, his face was the colour of the wall, he'd been in solitary confinement for years, and people sent news ahead that he's coming back to his village.

He didn't have a Bible under his arm, he didn't have a little cassette, he'd just walked down the village street and the whole village came and repented, they knelt in the street and cried to God. There's a Christian, there's a man who for 26 years has been in prison.

He's been beaten, he's been without food, he's been in solitary confinement, and yet the glory of God is on him. You see, you want to get the glory of God by coming to a meeting. She almost scorns those of us who go from meeting to meeting to meeting.

I tell you, when I listened to that woman, I felt like, well, I had to follow her preaching, as a matter of fact. And I've never felt as, well, I always feel unworthy of preaching anyhow, but to follow that amazing woman, I'll tell you how it happened.

She was English, as you would imagine, and she said to a vicar in the Church of England, I'm tired of giving a dollar for missions, I'm tired of stand up, sit down, say a prayer, do something. What should I do?

And off the cuff he said, get on a boat and wherever it stops, get off and stay the rest of your life. She did that. 19 years of age, playing a classical oboe in the, what do you call it, the Philharmonic there.

And little thinking about what that oboe was going to mean anyhow. Let me say this. She got on the boat, it stopped here, it stopped there, stopped at Singapore, stopped somewhere else. Then it stopped in Hong Kong and she got off the boat.

She was 19 years of age, she's still there at 44. She goes to the gutter most. Martha said to her in her house, Jackie, what's the most difficult thing you've had? She smiles so sweetly and she said, Martha, I'm a very public person, I love people, I love people, but I love quietness.

My biggest difficulty when I went to Hong Kong was to share my bedroom for 18 years with prostitutes. Sometimes 12 of them on the floor, sometimes half a dozen men, sometimes criminals, the most wicked men that there are.

But she so lived there that people say, if you want to see a Christian, go see Jackie. When I was talking to her, I was thinking when I sat with the daughter of William Booth, she was about 20 years of age.

She wasn't very athletic. She had the curvature of the spine that she inherited from her mother. And William Booth, of course, used to kick everybody to the ends of the earth, but he said to his children, don't you go.

So Catherine, the second Catherine said, I'm going to France. She went to the underworld of France and rented a building there. And within three weeks had a revival. Professors from the Sorbonne were there, these long bearded wise men of the world.

Prostitutes were there. Men would come to the altar, take daggers out of the socks, take guns out of the socks and kneel there and weep. And there these titled ladies of England left their stately homes.

You see, there's one thing that's more attractive than anything. And on God's name, I tell you this, you never have to advertise a fire, whether it's in a man, whether it's in a church, whether it's in a community.

All we need is men and women on the fire. We don't need more money. We don't need more organization. We don't need broken, bankrupt actors to come and sit on the platform of our conferences. Forget it.

Let's go back to God. Well, there's my introduction. Shall I preach now? I could talk all night about Jackie, but I won't. Let me give you a text and do something with it from the second letter of Peter, 2 Peter chapter 1.

Prophets Moved by the Holy Ghost

Have you got it now? I'm reading from the NIV, the never-improved version, King James. King James, the never-improved version. There it is, NIV. Oh, you just woke up. Thank you. At least you're asleep.

You're not asleep. Second letter of Peter, chapter 1, and verse 20. And knowing this first, that prophecy of the Scripture is of no private interpretation. For prophecy came not in the old time by the will of men, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Do you get that? What are prophets? Prophets are holy men. Prophets are lowly men. Prophets are lonely men. Prophets are direct. Prophets are daring. Prophets are difficult. In the last two years, I've traveled much of the country in conferences of up to 89 ,000 people with some of the most famous so-called prophets in the world today.

Then people say, do we have any prophets like Jeremiah? No, we don't. These are prophets of God. You see, the little church I went to in England, their talk was very popular in England at the time. They used to make the difference and say this, and I've heard it on TV and you have years ago.

The difference between the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament and the Holy Spirit in the New Testament, in the Old Testament he was with them, and in the New Testament he was in them. That's not true. Look at the first epistle of Peter and the first chapter, verse 9.

1 Peter 1, verse 9, Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls, of which salvation the prophets have inquired such diligently and prophesied of the grace that should be unto you, searching what?

Or what manner of time? The Spirit of Christ which was in them. The Spirit was in them. Then look for a moment at the third chapter of Acts and verse 22.

Is that verse? I think it is. No, that's not the text. I wonder which one it is. Yes, I'll find it now.

Acts 3, 22, okay. Moses, listen, Moses truly said unto you, A prophet your Lord your God shall raise up of your brethren like unto me. Isn't that astounding? If Jesus said that, if Jesus said there was a prophet like me and his name was Moses, that would be one thing.

But God says there is a man called Moses and there will be somebody raised up eventually who is like Moses. What was Moses? He was an intercessor. He prayed like no other man that ever lived except Jesus.

But let's go back again to that verse. In 2 Peter 1, Holy men of God spake, did you get this? As they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Do you remember that story in Acts 26? Is it 27? Where Paul was on a ship and there were 270 people on it and the ship got in trouble and they threw out the baggage.

They threw out the lifeboats. They threw out everything they had. It's a type of the church that's in darkness and going into further darkness. We're going to throw everybody overboard. Three years from now your money won't be worth a dime.

Not even the gold you stashed away. We're going into the greatest tribulation the world has ever known and the church isn't ready for it. And my prayer is the same as dear Joyce tonight. I mean, I should be in Hong Kong tonight actually.

I should go from Hong Kong to Taiwan, Taiwan to New Zealand, New Zealand to somewhere else. But I'm where God wants me and that's all that matters to me tonight. To be here where God is, to say something, to share something which is superior, important to you.

God is looking for men and women full of faith and of the Holy Ghost. But it says that when they couldn't do anything with that ship, it says, well, we let her drive. That same word in the Greek is used here, moved by the Holy Ghost.

How does the Holy Ghost move? Doesn't it say in the beginning he moved over the face of the earth? There was darkness over the face of the earth, there was chaos and out of chaos he brought cosmos. What about these men here?

What do you do with men like Zechariah? What do you do with men like Elijah? What do you do with men like Isaiah? These are awesome men. You see, we have such a petty idea of the Holy Ghost. We don't know God.

Divine Guidance and the Holy Ghost

I'm going to speak either tomorrow night or Sunday morning, I don't know which on a message God gave me. You see, I was taught as a little boy in England and I got a lot of wisdom there. Man proposes but God disposes.

Now, last year I was ready to go to London to preach in the London arena, 11 ,000 people a night. A friend of mine rented it for 168 ,000 for four days. We were going to have three meetings a day and I anticipated going because people were coming from Australia, New Zealand, India.

All the evangelical preachers of Europe were going to be there and then suddenly I didn't feel well enough to go. So I said, well, I'm not going. But then I wanted to know, why did God not let me go? Because I don't go to a meeting and preach.

I'm not on hire. I'm not a taxi cab. So I come here this weekend. It took me three months to prepare. If you give me $100 ,000, you won't pay me. It took me six months to prepare to go for six days and then the Lord said no, so that's okay.

So I waited on God and He gave me this word. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. The other thing He gave me, which I'll share tomorrow night or Sunday morning, as it was in the days of Noah.

Do you know this is the most critical crisis America or the world has ever been in? What does it say in the Bible? In the last days there'll be... What's the scripture you say, Martha? Without... With no exits.

Without... Oh, perplexity. What's the scripture though? I've forgotten even where it is. One of those blanks came up right now. Okay. But it talks about the last days there'll be troubles in the world anyhow without... with perplexities.

In other words, there's no way out. There's no way out. Why in God's name are we bowing the knees to Gorbachev? He's the bloodiest man in the world. He supervised the rape of Afghanistan for ten years.

He supervised the rape of Romania for the few years that they had power. He was behind the terrible massacre in Taninium Square last year in China. He got his legs under the table in the White House for the first time in history.

Right before him all the homosexuals had a meal there. That's never happened in history. If we're going downhill, how much quicker can we go? There's only one answer to the situation in the world today, not just America but the world, and that's the Holy Ghost revival.

If we don't do that, we'll have the biggest bloodshed in history. And so I told you to give attention to what God wants us to hear tonight. Holy men of God speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Well, as I said, I didn't go to that meeting but I was on a plane with Martha in January of this year going to the conference in New York and I...

No, not the conference in New York, conference in California. And I just looked out of the plane and I saw what looked like sheets and sheets or acres or miles and miles of snow and I nudged Martha, I said, Darling, look at this snow.

And then the captain said, Look to the right window and you'll see the white sands of New Mexico. And I thought, Boy, they look beautiful. And just like that, this text came into my mind, moved by the Holy Ghost.

The Annunciation and Costly Obedience

And then a more stupendous thing. Look at the gospel recorded by Luke for a minute, will you? What would happen to you? Come on, friend, let me ask you a question. Supposing as you were getting ready this morning, packing your bag or putting gas in your car, suddenly an angel came and stood to the side of you and began to communicate, would you ask for his visa?

Would you say, Are you really an angel? We're not used to seeing angels. Well, here it says in the first chapter of the gospel recorded by St. Luke.

Now look at verse 28.

The angel came in unto her and said, Hail, thou art highly favored. The Lord is with thee. Isn't that something? An angel comes from heaven to tell a young woman, The Lord is with thee. But wait a minute.

Look at verse 35. The Holy Ghost will come upon thee and the power of the highest love shall shatter thee. That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Come on. How many times have you read that?

It doesn't mean that much to you. This young woman wakes up in the morning. She's an ornery woman. Her womb is empty. The Holy Ghost comes upon her and at night time her womb is filled with God. What do you think she felt like?

She goes to her boyfriend and says, Joseph, I've got something to tell you, darling. And he says, What? Is it very important because I've got something to do? No, no, no, no, no. Nobody in history has ever had this.

What do you mean? She says, Have you ever read the ninth chapter? Have you heard the rabbi, the high priest in the temple reading the ninth chapter of Isaiah when he says a virgin shall be with child?

He says, Well, darling, I've heard that a hundred times. She says, Well, I'm that one. No, she didn't say that. She wasn't allowed to say it. What do you think he thought? Her belly begins to swell. She gets bigger and bigger and bigger and says, Well, I want to ask you, but I didn't ask you.

He said, Well, I can't tell you anything. I can't tell you anything. And then she goes from him and she has to tell the high priest. Can you imagine the gossip? Listen, do you think you're going to get the Holy Ghost to revolutionize your life and stay in the status quo?

If you say you're in a meeting tonight and in the mercy of God He moves you and you say tomorrow, Last night God moved on me in that meeting. It changed my life. Listen, there's only one proof of that.

It changes your lifestyle. You can't store it in your mind because you're going to know a bit more about the Holy Ghost than last meeting you were at. God didn't ask you to be a walking library. He asked you to be a God-filled personality.

What do you think was in Jerusalem? Somebody says, I want to tell you something. You won't believe this. You know all these soldiers that camped around and there were at that time. Hundreds of soldiers camped around Jerusalem.

And you know Mary, which Mary? There's a hundred Marys go to the temple. You know, Holy Mary. You know the one who always goes in the corner. She always prays with that woman a hundred years of age. Hannah.

Isn't that something? A woman went to church every day of her life for 80 years and never got tired? That Simeon went and prayed every day? All the old people go up in that corner. There's old Simeon with his long beard living in his house.

I'm not going to die till I see the salvation of God. Do you know, in the last three years, people have come from seven different areas and nearly as many countries to my office and without knowing it, each of them have told me, Oh Simeon, you're not going to die till revival comes.

That's great. I'm willing to hang around a couple more years just as long as Social Security doesn't run out. No, I don't have a newsletter if I want it. It's okay. I'm trying to trust the Lord anyhow.

Well, what's the news? Well, you know, my brother-in-law's friendly with a high priest and he says that Mary, you know little Mary, of course all kinds of girls are getting pregnant with all these soldiers running about, but Mary, Mary says she's carrying a baby and Joseph isn't the father.

What? She's let Joseph down? No, no, no. She just says, No man did this. I've had no meeting with a man at all. But she adds blasphemy to it. She says God did this. You get filled with the Holy Ghost, you lose a lot of your friends, and then you have to say God did this.

That's not one way to get rid of your husband, by the way. But we don't think of that, do we? The Holy Ghost will come up. Do you think she knew that the Holy Ghost had come upon her? Do you think she got up next morning with her hands on her tummy and saying, The Christ of God is in me?

I'm the only woman in history that would ever have this privilege. That's wonderful. Maybe she didn't sleep for a night or two. But the gossip is round town. Oh, Mary, I saw today, you know, she smiles and she's so gracious, and, you know, she acts as though she doesn't even know what's happening, and she's pregnant.

A single girl like her. I've always told my daughter, I hope you'll be like Mary. Mary's been a role model. She's at every meeting that's spiritual. She never missed a feast of Passover, or tabernacles, or anything else.

And now she's in this mess. Boy, that gave the gossips a lot of stuff to talk about. And she looks back and says, Well, how many times I've been in the temple, and I've heard them read the ninth chapter of Isaiah, A virgin shall be with...

But I couldn't believe it. Look at me. Supposing I say that there's another Jackie Pullinger here tonight. Do you think so? Is God in the same business? He found a 19-year-old girl with a university degree from a middle-class family that today might be married with a bunch of children and living in a mansion in England, and she lives in the rottenest hell hole in the world.

She doesn't go out till 11 o 'clock at night. She goes down an alley, and at the end of the alley, 20 feet is where she sleeps, she goes down 10 feet, stamps her feet, claps her hands, so the rats won't get in the house when she opens the door.

She has to drag them back. Then she goes out and she finds women. Can you imagine there are women in Hong Kong at 60 years of age that have prostituted for 45 years? Do you know who hates Jackie the most in Hong Kong?

The professional missionaries. They want to soil their hands. She doesn't say everybody should be like me, but thank God there's a model there. Well, I'll tell you what happened one night. A bunch of guys came into a meeting place.

They threw the chairs through the windows. They smashed the doors and tore the place up. They passed their dung off and picked it up and smeared it all over the walls and then went out. And she came in to see the place wrack and ruined and all the chairs broken, all the sacrificial money spent and the place is broken up and human excrement on the wall and it's stunk like a skunk.

All she did was wash it off. The men that did it had a sudden relapse and they went back to one of the greatest bandits in the nation. They went to the den of the worst, rottenest, wicked men that murder and rape.

It's their lifestyle and they rob and do every damning thing they can do. And they went back and said to the chief, You know, we got in Jackie's place tonight and we feel bad now. We broke the place up.

We broke all the chairs. We broke all the tables. We smashed the windows. And the bandits said, go back and apologize. They said, what? Go back and tell her you're sorry. You don't understand. I mean, there isn't a chair to sit on.

There isn't a thing. We smashed everything that's smashable. We smashed. We can't go back to Jackie. She won't forgive us. Here's a man who can cut your throat without spitting. Rape your daughter in front of her eyes.

Steal your money. Blast everything you have. And when this other rascal says, We can't go back to Jackie. He says, he says, She won't forgive us. And the bandit says, This dirty, filthy man whose hands are running with blood says, Go tell Jackie you're sorry.

But she won't forgive us. She has to. She's a Christian. Isn't that something? And a bandit knows that, and we don't know it. Dear God, we get offended because the pastor went twice to one house in the same street and missed us.

How easily we're offended are. Yes, yes, yes. It's very nice when she says, That little thing inside of me is the redeemer of the world. He's prophet, priest, and king. He's the only one the Holy Ghost ever conceived in history.

And he's the only one that will be conceived that way. Okay, that's very nice. But what would you do when you come to this second chapter in Luke? Listen to this. Verse 34 says, Verse 35 says, Do you hear that?

This woman who had heard over time and time again, She heard the high priest quoting the ninth chapter of Isaiah. But she'd also heard the high priest quote Isaiah 53. What does it say in Isaiah 53? None of you remember?

Thank you. He was ruined for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. She's bearing the man that's going to bear the sin of the world. She's going to see him on the cross naked. She's going to see a man that walks up and down penniless like precious Jackie does.

You talk about prophets. Do you know Plato was a prophet? Do you know Plato prophesied? Long before Jesus was born, Plato said, One day God will come to this world with bare feet. He'll have no home. He'll be a homeless, penniless man and we won't know him.

And it came to pass. What do you think people said when they saw the belly on that little girl? Look at the dirty tramp. Messing around with the soldiers. She talks about holiness and gets pregnant. She talks about fasting and there she is.

She'll never bring that child. She's too small and everything. They said every damnable thing about her. What did she care? Listen, if you get through with the Holy Ghost, you won't care a snap of a thing about the opinion of people.

Whether they like you or hate you. What difference does it make? In that big conference one day, 9 ,000 people said, Let's sing a chorus. Maybe some of you know it. Jesus loves me. This I know. Do you know they went into ecstasy about it?

They hadn't sung that since 50 years ago. The greatest thing you'll ever learn this side of eternity is, Jesus loves me. The Apostle Paul said, He loved me and gave himself for me. I don't care if he died for the world.

I don't care if he died for the church. He loved me. A bloody man going down the road, my hands running with blood. And he transformed him and made him the greatest man of his day. Maybe the greatest man that ever lived after Jesus Christ.

The Fullness of the Spirit and the Cost of Discipleship

So Mary has a... Would you like God to give you an unveiling of your life from here to the end? Do you know what will happen in another 25 years in America? People will be crucified in the streets for following the Lamb.

If you won't join the Roman Catholic Church, they'll burn you to death or something like they've always done. Like they're still doing in South America. That battle is coming up. It's either be totally Christ or be committed to Christ.

Or else get tied up with the harlot church. Filled. Mary was filled physically too. But what's the next thing the Holy Spirit does? He comes on a bunch of men. And they were gathered together where? In the upper room.

And they were filled with the Holy Ghost. It's in Acts 2 .4. But you know, why do we get stuck there? I made a quick note of this just yesterday. Oh, we're filled with the Holy Ghost, Acts 2 .4. But it says in the 6th chapter, do you remember what it says about Stephen?

He was a man full of what? No, before that. Full of faith. Lots of people are full of the Holy Ghost. We're not full of faith and of the Holy Ghost. It says in Philippians 1, We're filled with the fruits of righteousness.

Paul prays for the Colossians. They may be filled with the knowledge of his will. How many of you are stumbling around? You don't know which way to go. You young people, I don't know whether God wants me on the mission field, wants me here, wants me there.

Find out God's will and do it. Get on a boat and go to Hong Kong or King Kong as far as that goes. As long as you know you're in the will of God, all hell won't stand against you. And then it says in 2 Corinthians 7 .4 that they were filled with comfort.

And then in Ephesians 3 and verse 19, you remember that fantastic verse? Well, I'll remind you of it. Ask somebody to preach on it, will you? It's the most stupendous thing I know of this side of eternity.

It says you, you, you, you mortal beings, you can be filled with all the fullness of God. Can you fill what's already full without emptying it? No, yes you can. Look here, I put all the lights out in this room.

Let's say a couple of hours ago maybe there wasn't anybody in it and people start coming in. The room was empty, you fill it with people. The room was full of air, otherwise they couldn't breathe. Then we put on a switch, we fill it with light.

It's full of people, it's full of air, it's full of light. We can turn up the switch and we can fill it with heat. It's full of people, it's full of light, it's full of warmth. And I take a spray and I can fill it with perfume.

It's filled and filled and filled. Well, that Greek word there, be filled with the Spirit, is actually be being filled with the Spirit. It's not something that happens once, it's continually there. Jesus says, if you abide in me, you will get your prayers answered, simply because you use God as you go shopping.

Do you abide in him every day? Does he tell you to go to a certain place and meditate and he shows you your whole career crucified? You make up your mind to be a lawyer and God says you can't be a lawyer.

You make up your mind to get married and God says you can't do that. I went to a conference some years ago, walked up to the front, and there were about 800 college people there. And as I bowed in prayer, somebody just grabbed my knee and I looked.

They're the most gorgeous girl I've ever seen. I think gorgeous cheeks and bright eyes. And she said, Do you remember me? I said, Sure, I do. I remember you. She said, Do you remember you preached on Isaiah 6 one night?

Woe, lo, go? I said, Sure, I remember that. She said, Well, I went home and the Lord spoke to me and she said, You said, Wait before God. You told us of a vision of eternity, a vision of God, a vision of deity, a vision of depravity, a vision of duty.

I said, I went home and I prayed and God said, Now forget all about any courtship. For the next three years, pray and study and meditate. I said, I just said, But Lord, this boyfriend I love, he's the most handsome man in all the university.

He won't be single another month. The girls will be after him. I said, What happened? She said, Oh, he's wonderful. I said, Look, he's coming. Here comes a man, of course, modern young man, nice mustache, tall, handsome like me and not like somebody else.

And she said, Well, Mr. Raymond, I want to tell you something. When I went home that night, I made a pledge to God, All right, I'll never talk to a boy again. I'll never have a date with a young man until you release me to meet that fellow.

He went home and the Lord said to him, Forget all about that pretty girl for three years. I'll take care of her. And she said, We met just recently. I haven't dated anybody in three years. He hadn't dated anybody in three years.

And each of us said God has kept us. And so we're going to get married. So there you are. Cancel your relationship with your boyfriend. Not with your husband, just with your boyfriend. But, oh, you know, most of us are trying to get, We want God's maximum blessing on minimum deposits.

And he doesn't do that. God will remind you of a whole spirit and soul and body, he says. The Spirit of God. Have you noticed Jesus never did anything until the Spirit of the Lord was upon him? He knew he was the Son of God when he was twelve years of age.

But he waited until he came up out of jail. And then what happened? Oh, I want to be filled with the Holy Ghost. You clap your hands, you shout, you have a wonderful time. Wait a minute. You told God you want to be like Jesus.

What happened when Jesus was filled with the Holy Ghost? He was immediately led of the Spirit. He wasn't led of the devil. He was led into the Spirit for forty days in the wilderness. Are you prepared for that?

You can't have God's blessing on your terms. But go read on to the next chapter. He returned in the power of the Spirit. He didn't return a nervous wreck. The devil tempted him for forty days, sexually, every way.

He was tempted in all points. And the devil never took advantage of him because he was a God-filled man. How filled was he? Look at Isaiah chapter 11 a minute. Isaiah chapter 11. John 3, 34 says what?

He was given the Spirit without measure in John 3, 34. But here in Isaiah 11, listen. There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse. A branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.

Did you hear that? The Spirit of the Lord. The Spirit of wisdom, number two. The Spirit of understanding, number three. The Spirit of counsel, number four. The Spirit of might, number five. The Spirit of knowledge, number six.

And the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge after the sight of the eyes nor reprove after the hearing of his ears. He shall judge with righteous judgment. Come on, dear friend. Don't you wish those things were exercised in your church?

That your preachers or your deacons had the Spirit of wisdom, the Spirit of knowledge, the Spirit of power, the Spirit of revelation. They were not fumbling around wondering what's going to happen. But you don't get that by just going to a meeting for one night.