Witnessing — Rolfe Barnard

Witnessing — Rolfe Barnard

Chapter 16. We wish to read together the last part of the Lord Jesus told about the destiny of two men. One whose name was Lazarus, the other, the spirit did not see fit to name. One of them felled sumptuously here on earth, and he died and was buried.

The other was a beggar, he died and was buried. And the Lord Jesus lifts the curtain between eternity and time, lets us see that their situations were reversed. And the one who was buried so well in this life is suffering in torments in the life to come.

And the one who was a beggar in this life, feasting on the riches of God's goodness for his people. One of the men, the rich man, does not cry to get out of hell, but he cries that his suffering may be relieved.

And the answer is that when a man dies, all the mercy that God has for men and women is this side of the grave. And the other answer is that there is a great gulf, and it's fixed. It cannot be moved, and there cannot be any travel between the land of bliss and the land of torment.

In other words, this rich man is assured here in this passage of scripture that his destiny is sealed, that there shall be no surcease from his awful, awful torment. Then beginning with verse 27, this rich man is made to turn his attention back to this old earth.

Having found out there's no hope for him, he turns and he speaks in this way. Then he says, I pray thee, therefore, Father, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house. He asks that the father send him and touch his finger in the water.

Come and bring that finger that has touched water and bring it and put it on his father's tongue. He's been told that couldn't happen. So he said, O Lord, I pray thee, therefore, Father, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, back down on the earth, by our five brothers, that he may testify unto them, lest also they come into this place of torment.

Abraham said unto them, There are Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. He said, No, Father Abraham, but they won't listen to them, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. He said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one the dead.

There is a sentence in that expression that we cannot get around. That is, that the only escape from the torments of the life to come is the exercise of real and genuine and lasting and heartfelt repentance in this life.

This man said, If you send somebody from the dead and let him testify to them, they will repent. He's saying that I'm in hell because I didn't repent. He's saying they're headed for hell, and the only way of escape is Bible repentance.

The Church's Failure to Preach Repentance

We're living in a generation that's going to wind up in hell. Your neighbors are going to wind up in hell, your children. Many of them reared in Sunday school, but more interested in the things of the world than in the things of God.

It amazes you to see youngsters now when we tell that they're saved because they've made a profession of faith, and we do not see them in time except on Sunday morning. And they're at home tonight glued to a television or radio, or they're doing something, or they're getting their lessons, or they're down at the movies, or they're going to see Grandma.

And yet we call them Christians, and we find out we do not recognize that this is the day when men make professions but do not repent, when men claim Jesus but do not turn from their sins, when men claim to be saved but hold on to their darling, but we're dead apart from a heart forsaking turning from our sins.

No one is saved who has not turned from all of his sins in such a way as to never go back to them. There's no going back in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ. No one is saved who can be happy in any kind of sin.

Is that right? That's so. And we're living in a generation now where people are going to hell. They're going to hell from our churches. They're going to hell from our homes. They're going to hell all about us because they've missed repentance.

They've missed repentance. And the only way on earth, listen to me, the only way on earth they're going to be kept out of hell is by the churches of the living God, either becoming full of sane people or full of people who are obedient.

I look in your faces tonight, and I know every last one of you are in the same shape I'm in. You either need to be saved, you miss Christ, or you need to be obedient and walk in paths of holiness and come to areas of consecration you never heard about and learn to love the word holiness instead of make fun of it.

That's what we need, isn't it? My friends, the only hope is for the churches to get on fire. Somebody said the gospel will be determined by how it works inside. And our churches today do not have a testimony now.

Nobody's afraid of us. Nobody much is under conviction because of the holy garments that the people in our churches wear today. Sinners are not screaming for mercy but watching us live. We talk with them, we walk with them, we have intercourse with them.

We invite them to our services, and they know that it's not much reality in this generation's going to hell as sure as I'm standing here, unless a fire can be started in the house of God. There has never been a revival since time began that has advertised revival for when the fire starts.

People come to see a fire. People come to see a fire. Most places I go, the whole meeting, church days and membership and nights, they let us have the building to hold the meeting in. And most of them don't show up Sunday morning.

Some of them, a few, show up Sunday night. Monday night, not so many. And if we get crowds, we have to get them from vistas. You go to Burlington, you can't get a corporate guard where these folks come from unless they have a few of the members and vistas come from other churches.

And we call it revival. The world is going to hell because it missed repentance. And we cannot expect our houses of worship to be filled or overflowing with men and women hungering and thirsting after God until the churches once more either get full of saved people or the ones of us who are saved get filled with the Spirit and the Lordship of Jesus Christ shall be regnant and marked on our bowels.

And people say, there's somebody who's been bent to the rule of Jesus Christ. And brother, this world, when it sees the gospel works inside our churches, it'll come to watch the fire burn. Now we're down to just that.

We've tried everything else. Some evangelists I know will not think of trying to hold a gospel service without having a movie. Most of them have a movie. Every night they say, we can't get people to come to hear the word of God.

And we can't, unless a fire is built. We can't, unless God's got some people that are saved and hungering, thirsting, ready to confess every known sin and ready to be done with everything that there's any doubt about.

We're such broad-minded people now. And the only difference on earth between us and the outside world is we claim to be Christians and they don't. Neither one of us know much about it. And all that while, the world's going to hell.

I want us to think pretty seriously tonight about this very simple statement. This world's going to hell because it's missing the Bible way of repentance. And the only thing between this generation and hell is the testimony of people who know what repentance is by experience.

Who know what it is to hate sin and run from it and live godly, holy lives. And whose lives by the holiness of them will strike conviction in the hearts of people. Is that what you want? I think that we cannot go on too much longer now.

Turning wheels within wheels. Having our sons to school and preaching. Our training unions preaching. Our prayer meetings. Our so-called revival meetings. And we'll come in and go out like we came. We do not need God.

And we do not know what holiness is now. This is a generation where people are afraid of holiness and not afraid of sin. And we'll never see the Shekinah glory of God in our churches and the world will never come to see what holiness is.

We walk again in paths of holiness. The only thing between this generation and hell, the only hope of winning this generation is that the fire of the Holy Ghost shall be started in the meeting houses that were called churches of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I wonder if I'm speaking to anybody who claims to be a Christian and there's the least thing in your life established as any question at all. Brother, you better get out on your knees. You better not leave this house tonight.

If you do and you ask me to come here to lead you in revival and you're a member of this church and you're one of these church members going around here and saying, I don't think there's anything wrong with this and I don't think there's any more harm in this and this and that and I don't think God will send me to hell for this and I don't believe this is as bad as something else, why, it's a judgment, it'll be terrible when God charges you with the blood of sinners on your hands.

Oh my God, think of it. This world, hell and God, missed repentance and their only hope is for people who know repentance. They hate all sin. They hate every kind of sin. They run from every kind of sin.

You can't get them to entertain the idea of sin. They've met God. They know what a hard forsaking of sin is. They're not willing to be guilty of anything about which the least possible question can be raised by God or man.

Oh my, so that's Christianity. That's the evidence of salvation. These men and women run up and down this country. They smoke the same brand that the world does, drink the same brand the world does, go to the same shows the world goes, listen to the same things the world listens, talk the same language the world listens.

They advertise the mockery of religion. They do not advertise prostrating Jesus. And they're helping, not only going to hell themselves, but they're dragging everybody they know along with them. And the only hope of rescuing the perishing and careful of dying and seeing a breath of revival and seeing men swept into the kingdom of God in your day and mine is the people who know God in repentance and faith and hate sin with all their souls of sin and walk from it and love God and bear the mark and rule of his reign in their lives filled with the Spirit.

A Genuine Testimony Before the World

...testimony to this generation. I listen to a man talk about things of eternity. If he, if I know him and I know the gospels work with him. I listen to a man if I know that he's been brought to the place he hates sin.

I listen to a man if I can see in his life the marks of his devotion to and love for the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's the only kind of people this world will listen to. Ladies and gentlemen of Calvary Baptist Church, you need not expect God to visit in revival power if there's a person here who's willing to engage in anything about which there's any question.

There are two statements in one verse of scripture in the Bible that mark a child of God. Let me quote. Nevertheless, the foundation standeth sure the Lord knoweth them that are his and let everyone that nameth the name of the Lord depart from all iniquity.

This is a generation, listen to me. This is a generation of so-called Christians who want to do everything they possibly can and still not go to hell. People come to me and say, Brother Barnwell, God send me to hell for doing so and so.

And I say, yeah, he'll send you. Not for doing so and so because you show you've never repented. If you'd repented, you wouldn't be finding out how much sin you could do and still get to heaven. You wouldn't be finding out how far you can run from sin.

God looks at the heart. God looks at the heart. Oh, hear me, hear me. This is serious with me. This is serious with me. God bless your heart. I burn about this. My heart bleeds about it. Listen to me.

This generation going to hell and the churches of the living God wading in gulliness, making fun of holiness, sneering at godliness. Well, old man, it's a fraud. We don't have enough cheese to spread on the crackers.

And we've lost our testimony. And nobody pays much attention to us. And that's why I'm speaking. When I remember that the prayer of this rich man is, he said on the human side, nothing that can reach my five billion, except hell.

But it knows what we get when you face the fact that the only thing on the human side, as far as you and I have got any part of entering into, the key matters in hell. The only thing is our testimony.

Our testimony. God help us. If it gives a broad-minded sound, if it gives an uncertain sound, if it gives a weak sound, if that of it is not lies that live or live in truth, that this gospel is the message of a supernatural death by supernatural gods, that there is not commonplace lies, but supernatural lies, lies that cannot be lived except by men who've met God and who know God in their experience.

Listen to me. Listen to me. That's what we need tonight. That's what we've got to have. If that's what you want to pray for, if that's what you want to confess to, if that's what you're after, then it's not a mockery.

But if we think that we can pull the wool over God's eyes and get men born in the kingdom of God over our unconfessed sins, over our broad-minded living, over our non-fellowship one with another, with anointed lips to witness to the supernatural work of grace that's been well in our hearts, and we know it's been working us and working somebody else, if we're not willing to do that, it's mockery to have church services.

It's mockery to say we're going to entertain Amen? That's right. That's right. Now, the two things tonight. First of all, if anybody's going to testify to this generation, it'll have to be us. If anybody's going to pray for men today, it'll have to be us.

Dead people are not going to come back to do our praying for us. Dead people are not going to come back to testify to our loved ones for us. This man sets them ladders back, and let him testify to my brothers and Abraham said, no, no, that's not the way God works.

That's not the way God works. Well, Lazarus has done his due, but now he's in good work. He's done all the work the sin he'll ever do, and God's not going to raise people from the dead to do the praying for this generation.

God's not going to raise people from the dead to do the preaching to this generation. God's not going to raise godly holy men of old who saw revival and paid the price and felt the breath of God and saw it move mountains and fill up valleys and sweep hordes of people into the kingdom of God.

It's not enough for us to read about them and pray that God will send them back. If anybody's going to warn this generation, if anybody's going to testify to this generation, if anybody's going to weep over this generation, if anybody's going to pray for this generation, if anybody's going to keep men out of hell, it's the men and women who know God in this day, in this day.

If anybody's going to witness in this community, it'll have to be the same people in the churches around here. If anybody's going to pray for them around here, you can't import somebody to do it for you.

Charles Finney and the Need for Present-Day Witnesses

I was in Utica, New York, some years since, and they took me down to a woolen mill a hundred years before. Charles Finney, God's greatest gift to evangelism, had been in Utica. It was not a very big place at that time, a city of 150 ,000 people when I was in it.

And he held a meeting, so did I. Nobody found out much I was in town. We had all the churches in the city that believed in anything. They came to get me. I had a big oath to them. Spent a lot of money on advertising.

Got me on the radio and passed out handbills and did all the things not many folks ever found out we were having a meeting. Just went right on, just went right on. And I went down, got a card. I had to get a card, and one of the pastors took me through a woolen mill a hundred years before that.

Charles Finney's in the city, and he'd been in that self-same woolen mill, and the Spirit of God was still working all over that city of Utica that when Mr. Finney stepped in, the building, all the workers coming acquainted with his presence quit working on the spinning wheels, the looms, or whatever they were, and just got down on their feet and sobbed and prayed under conviction.

People everywhere! And the owner of the spinning, of the woolen mill came to Mr. Finney and begged him to talk with the people and help them know how to be saved. He said to do nothing but cry and bawl and pray.

And he said, and said,. And Mr. Finney, when he went in there, they begged him to show them how to receive. I had to get me a card, and they forbade me to give out any tracts and told me not to speak to anybody that disturbed them.

You see the difference in Finney and me. Finney had the power of God, and I don't have much of it. Finney turned the city upside down, and nobody much found out Isaiah. Finney goes inside a woolen mill, and the people begin to scream and pray and beg him.

And I stood there and saw the contrast, and I closed my eyes as my hot tears came. Oh, he's the raised Charles Finney from his grave. And they listened to him, and the answer came back as you know it would.

Charles Finney served his generation. He's got all his reward. If anybody in this generation, it'll be little preachers like you. That's right, Brother Meade. That's right, Brother Kettner. I don't know the big preacher on the top.

No man can get a crowd. I don't know anybody who's got much power on him now. We're just little-bitted, two-bit Christians feeling our way back. It doesn't even so much as honk a horn to recognize what's going on.

And we're just preaching this generation will ever hear will have to come from men who are alive today. Charles Finney is not coming back. Dead men tell no tales. I lived for three years in Rochester, New York, wife and I, before our last child, the woman I have now, was born.

She traveled with me. We had an apartment in Rochester, New York over the space of three years. And one time when I was there between meetings, an old deacon, 93 years of age, said, I want to go show you some things.

And I took him in my car, the old man, pretty old now, 93, and we drove over the city, and he told me about what happened when Charles Finney held a revival in Rochester, New York. He said, I was a kid of a boy, but he said, I remember it.

And he took me, now listen, this sounds like I'm making it up, but he took me to places right in the heart of the city now, and he showed me. He said, this is a spot, and over here's a spot, and down beyond is another spot, and over here's another spot.

And he showed me places long since repaved now, but he said in the meetings nearly 90 years ago, he said God's people wore out the pavement with their knees, praying for the souls of men. Oh, he said businessmen going about their business, they'd meet together, next thing you know they'd be down on their knees right on the sidewalks and pavements, absolutely oblivious to everything.

He said so much of it went on in that six-month revival campaign where over 100 ,000 souls came to God. He said they were so oblivious of business and everything else that they wrestled so, not knowing it, that they literally wore the pavements out with their knees.

And he said women going to market and going about the town, they'd congregate in little groups and next thing you know they'd be on their knees and said the women wore out the sidewalks and pavements with their knees, crying to God for souls.

And I stood there so hit me, God, and soft like my heart would break. And in my heart went up a prayer, oh, men and women, I sure came back. I'm not going to raise those people up back. They served their generation.

We'll have to find them in the circle of rapture. It's solemn to me. Men! That is a prayer. Those days back, and the answer comes. If anybody prays for sinners now, it'll have to come out of this generation.

Men and women, dead men are not going to come back and promote revival. Dead men are not going to come back and call people to repentance. Dead men are not going to come back and wear out pavements with their knees.

But, brothers, we've got no right to say God can't give revival until we are willing to do what has to be done by God's people in every generation to see an outpouring of power. I tell you, my friends, an atmosphere of Holy Spirit power in a church of God is the only thing, is the only thing between this generation and hell.

Revival, Prayer, and the Power of Corporate Confession

I went some years ago to Anderson, Indiana. It was my first experience preaching in a United Brethren church. From the pastor. It happened to be the second-largest United Brethren church in America. He told me so.

In his letter. Great, big church. And he wrote and asked me if I could come to him for a series of meetings, which he hoped the Lord would bless. Back around, I wrote him a letter and I said, I never preached in a United Brethren church.

And I'm a Baptist and I'm a strict Calvinist, as they call it. And I just do not know enough about what you people believe. And I thought, maybe you did not know enough about me. And I would be a gentleman if I came to embarrass anybody.

I would never like to go to anybody's church and preach so as to embarrass God's people. I recognize I don't know and I recognize you could differ with me and still be right. I recognize you could differ with me and we could still be saved.

I recognize that wisdom didn't come to an end with me. Be directly something you do not believe. And I thought that'd be the last of that. And he wrote me back. He said, Now, I knew what you believed.

I read lots of your sermons and I've been led of the Lord that your message would be a blessing to our church. And he said, we differ some doctrinally, but that we love the same Lord. And he said, if you'll come do the preaching, we'll do the preaching and we'll do the works.

And sure enough, I went. And it started on Sunday morning. I'll never forget it. They had a Methodist song leader from Indianapolis, a Baptist preacher, in the United Brethren Church. They had two great big choirs that cemented the scene.

And I called one of them the Black Legion and the other the Ku Klux Klan. Come on, one choir was in white robes and the other was in black robes. And they didn't get mad at me. And I never will forget.

Didn't have the doxology or anything. The pastor got up for the said thing, for the dead thing, and said, whoo! He had a voice you could hear a country mile. And he said, we gotta preach and we'll look for this meeting that never preached in the United Brethren Church.

And he's kind of scared. The people there looked at me like every one of them. Got out on their knees. The Ku Klux Klan got on their knees. They fixed the roads and the Black Legion got on theirs. And of course, we Baptists wouldn't do that.

We were too dead. Everybody prayed together. First time I'd ever been in a service like that. I never heard anything like it in my life. It wasn't foolishness. Just pray. They thought the Lord could hear them, you know.

A hundred people poured out there. I'll never forget it as long as I live. God saved a lot of people that first service. And that night, I was led to preach on the Blackest Sin out of hell. And a lot of those dead people claimed to live above sin.

That's a worthy claim. And I'll tell you right now, if you're not trying to live above sin, you're going to hell. I'll tell you that. You tell me you're saved and you're not striving with all your might to be perfect.

You're just as lost as you can be. You haven't made it yet, though. But brother, if you ain't trying, you've never been saved. You've missed Christ. Christ don't save people and leave them satisfied in sin.

Amen. There ain't no people that no Lord satisfies in sin. No. But there's some of them, they claim to be above sin. And that night, I preached on the sin, claiming to know Christ and not bringing others to Him.

And I'd been preaching about 20 minutes and the old white-headed woman, I found out she was the old mother of Israel in the church. She began to fall. And directly, she broke up my sermon. She came running down to the front and she said, Oh my God, I never saw it before.

So I tried to walk, tried to keep my God control in the sight of God. That's worthy. I bless God for that. I'd rather be a hermit than one of these Baptists that brags about how he lives and claims once he goes.

I was. And so, she said, I see it tonight. And she just stood there and saw it. She got control of herself. And she said, I've been guilty of the blackest sin out of hell and didn't know it. She said, I've been concerned about bringing others to Christ.

And she said, if God will forgive me. From now, my big concern is to live a holy life and invest it in fishing for the souls of men. That's right. I keep the average church member from talking to anybody.

There ain't bad enough sheep already. But if I can find somebody who is God, I say, second party. The only thing between this generation and the next generation is the testimony that somebody knows God.

You know what she did? She said, I'm going to call a prayer meeting if anybody wants to meet me. Meet me tomorrow night at 630. And the next night a thousand people were there. And I attended that prayer meeting.

And every night for three solid weeks, from one thousand to thirteen, fourteen hundred sometimes, nearly two thousand people met there in that vast authority for one solid hour before the service began.

And everybody prayed together. And I'm telling you the truth. I almost became a whore over me yet. They brought people from Indianapolis. They brought them from everywhere. Not the healing services. I didn't know a thing about it.

Don't know much now. But they brought them to that meeting. And brothers and sisters, a sinner could not get in the atmosphere of that meeting without being saved. That's their God's truth. I ain't never seen it in the Baptist church.

I ain't never been in the Baptist church where you could get anybody hardly to pray. I hope I've met my first. I've never been in a Baptist church where the people responded to the call to pray. I hope you will hear.

So help me God as a Baptist. I say it with shame. I've never held a meeting twenty to three years as an evangelist going up and down in the country. I've been in Baptist churches, groups of Baptist churches.

I got my first Baptist church yet to ever wait in to believe and worship. I hope I've come to my first. Don't pray. We don't pray. You call a prayer meeting to be a half a dozen. Most of you got to read the paper at the same time.

Smoke your pipe at the same time of night. Listen to the same program on the radio. The same New York Post, the Post. It's a meeting. You got to read the paper. Do you a single praying I don't want somebody to tell him how to say it.

That's revival, folks. That's revival. But brother, he's not going to wish it on you. I don't know the relationship between God, sovereignty in God, and the prayer of God's people. But I know the prayers of this people.

I know that. That shows you a foot and a half high. I know if you say, well, let's let God do it, he ain't going to do it. I know he won't. To pay the price in agonizing prayer and confession of sin, that's the answer.

And he'd stack the hearts of men and women and call sinners to scream out, what must I do to be saved? What must I do to be saved? Listen, listen, the only testimony, the only testimony between sinners and hell is the kind of getting out.

And it ain't working so good. We must face our sins. We must face it. My God, I'd rather you turn fervently and run me out of town than refuse to face the challenge of the message tonight. This world's going to hell.

This world's going to hell, loving its sins, weeding in its sins, rollicking in its sins. My God, can I call this? This is something responding. For times of confession and agonizing prayer, innocent God-given testimony, that's the need of this hour.

God chooses to work on the outside through the people on the inside. That's right. There are three ways that a child of God can testify to lost men and women. So far as I know, they're all the same thing.

But I say it's the same thing from three different directions. Will you listen to me? Are you interested? Are you listening to me? Do you want to be a faithful witness for Christ? Do you long that when we stand at the judgment, sinners won't point their fingers in our faces?

God help us. God help us. The first way we can witness to this lost and dying new generation that's missing repentance is by the power of a holy life. There's no substitute for it. As long as Baptists are content to be broad-minded and sinful, God will have to look to somebody else if he ever blesses this generation.

Oh, I'm sick and tired of people calling me a Holy Roman because I preach on Bible holiness. Why? They say, I tell them, I'm not a Baptist. Well, brother, you ain't a Baptist if you don't live holy life.

You're a disgrace. You've got no right to rather name Baptists if you do not walk in holy bonds of a being. Brother, I came from a long line of Baptists that sealed their testimony with their blood, and they believed and practiced holy living.

Holiness as the First Form of Witness

...power of a being. God said, be ye holy even as I am holy. And I said, I don't believe in that. I know. That's our trouble now. That's the reason you talk to somebody who don't pay any attention to you.

Who's under conviction, beloved, because of your holy life? That's a serious question. Who's under conviction because they've watched the sparklessness and the purity of your life? I do not speak of Pharisees or having somebody going around looking down on people, but I'll speak of people who've fallen out with sin and head over heels in love with Jesus.

That's the kind of holiness I'm talking about. There's no substitute for it. Brother, there's no substitute for it. This generation's dying for lack of sin. In the MP squadron, in the Air Corps and the Army, when I was a chaplain, they tied my hands.

The Catholics and the modernists hated me and followed me and tried to keep me from winning in the body of the Lord, from preaching the gospel and doing things else. Those chaplains were their world of living, their booze and their dirty jokes and their everything.

They'd preach in the morning and wallow around in some filthy movie house the rest of the afternoon, have their cocktails at night. That was your chaplain in the average, in the Army. They tied my hands so I couldn't do much.

I had an awful time. And so I was limited to gathering about me, mostly, in the Army, a few of God's boys. You could tell a Christian in the Army, brother, boy, he stuck out. You couldn't tell a Baptist.

Most of them was chasing women, shooting craps and getting drunk. But you could tell a Christian. I know what I'm talking about. You could tell a Christian. They stuck out, and they still stick out. They still stick out.

And I gathered them about me. I put them to witness. In 30 days' time, I had one bug fighter in the MP squadron bring 86 soldiers to me and said, Preacher, I want you to help me land them for Christ. Eighty-six boys in one month's time.

You know how he did it? He did it by a godly lie. The commanding officer of that MP squadron, that's the toughest in the Army, the policeman, was a Jew. And he said, When I have a boy in my squadron I can't do anything with, I turn him over to private soldiers.

And he said, I don't believe in your Jesus, but I believe in what that boy. You can't tell me, young man. All you need is to get saved and go to walking and obedience. And you can win young men to Christ, too.

If a bug private in the MP squadron in the Army can bring 86 boys in one month to Jesus, brother, you can bring some, too, if God ever masters you. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you the truth. That's right.

The power of the Holy Light. The power. There's no substitute for it. You can't invent something to take it, please. I believe in the doctrine of election. But I go a lot of places and find people, they're all so strong on election, but they ain't that strong on Holy Light.

And I remind them that nobody's elected except people who walk in holiness. Election is under holiness. He chose us that we should be made holy and without blame before him in love. That's right, brother.

You say, I don't want to go to elect. I want to see your garments, brother. They'll be pure if you want to go. That's right. That's right. The power of Mother Green. She has been raised in the church I had, the last church I had many years ago out in the state of New Mexico.

And one day in a Sunday morning service, I was led to the Lord, not with any high idea. I said, during the invitation, I said, let's break up this thing a little bit. And I want every man who's here this morning who owes his salvation on the human side to a certain individual.