Duncan Campbell's Testimony — Duncan Campbell

Revival as a God-Sent Awakening

In the book of Sam, and together we shall read Sam 85. Sam 85. Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land. Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people.

Thou hast covered all their sins. Thou hast taken away all thy wrath. Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. Turn us, O God, of our salvation and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

Wilt thou be angry with us forever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Wilt thou not revive us again that thy people may rejoice in thee? Show us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

I will hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people and to his saints. But let them not turn again to folly. It is only his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. A kisser shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good, and our land shall yield her increase.

Righteousness shall go before him and shall set us in the way of his step. The Lord will bless that reading from his word. Now return with me to verse 6. Let's read verses 5 and 6. Wilt thou be angry with us forever?

Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Wilt thou not revive us again that thy people may rejoice in thee? I mentioned the other evening that I would be speaking this afternoon on principles that govern spiritual quickening.

And I would also tell you something of how God in his mercy met with me and brought revival to this heart and life of mine. Wilt thou not revive us again that thy people rejoice in thee? These words of the psalmist express the heart cry of many of God's dear children today.

It is without question a growing conviction in many quarters that unless revival comes, that is, a God-sent revival, other forces that are out to defy every known Christian principle will take the field.

Indeed, the observant eye can already see shadows aslant a world that is ripening and ripening fast for repentance or judgment. In that conviction there seems to be a growing hunger for God to manifest his power.

And so intense is the hunger and so deep the longing that the cry of the prophet of old is frequently heard upon the lips of God's children. O that thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might flow before thy presence.

You will observe that in that prayer of the prophet two mental things are suggested. Unless God comes down, mountains will not flow and sinners will not candle. But if God comes down and manifests his power, if God shows his hand, if God takes the field, mountains of indifference, mountains of materialism, mountains of humanism will flow before his presence.

And nations, not just individuals, but nations shall be made to tremble. We haven't seen nations trembling, but we have seen communities, we have seen districts, we have seen charities in the grips of God in the matter of hours.

Revival Compared with Evangelistic Success

When God came down, it is true that we have seen man's best endeavor in the field of evangelism, leaving the community untouched. We have seen crowded churches, we have seen many professions, we have seen hundreds, yes and thousands responding to what you speak of here as the altar call.

But I want to say this, dear people, and I say it without fear of contradiction, that you can have all that without God. Now that may startle you, but I say again, you can have all that. When he wrote, the kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men churches becoming filled with God.

There's a difference. Oh no, crowded churches, interested in church activity, possible on mere human level, community untouched. Full evangelism, and I use the word successful, Revival is this, in evangelism you have the two, the three, the ten, the twenty, and possibly the hundred making confession of Jesus Christ.

And at the end of the year you are thankful each half of them are standing. But the community remains untouched. The public houses are crowded, the dancing saloons packed, the theater, the picture house patronized by the hundred.

No change in the community. In revival, when God the Holy Ghost comes, the winds of heaven blow, the community becomes God conscious, a God realization, middle age and old. So that as in the case of the Hebridean revival, 75 of those saved one night were saved before they came near a meeting.

The fear of God beginning with where the difference comes in between evangelism and revival. That is why I say our only hope is not in crusades. Thank God for all that's been accomplished. Thank God for all that is being done through mission.

In Scotland we have also workers in Canada. And we thank God for all that is being accomplished of ministers and evangelist and workers bringing one here and two there to a saving that confronts the Christian church today.

A dissertation from God. I'll illustrate what I mean by an incident that happened not in the race or in Jewish, but on the small island of Berna. I was addressing the Bangor Convention. The Bangor Convention.

Could you direct me to the nearest minister? We have no minister on the island just now. Both churches are vacant. Would you then direct me to the nearest elder? Yes. The nearest elder lives in that house on the hill.

So I said to the lad, would you mind going up to the elder and tell him that Mr. Campbell has come to the island. And he asked, what Campbell? Tell him the Campbell who was on the island of Lewes. So the young lad went up.

And after a few minutes came back and said, Hector McKinnon was expecting you to arrive today. And you are to stay with his brother. And he has asked me to tell you that he has intimated a meeting in the church for 9 o 'clock tonight and he expects you to address.

Now explain that as you will. There was a man who on the morning of the day that I sat in the church in Bangor Island decided to spend the day in prayer. He was concerned about the parish, particularly concerned about the state of the young people.

Growing up of indifference to God and to the church, his wife told me that on three occasions he went to the door of the barn where he was praying and she heard him pray, God, I do not know where he is but you know and you send him.

About 10 o 'clock that evening he was possessed of the conviction that God had described and that I would be on the island on this particular day. Hence the intimation that I would preach in the church at 9 o 'clock that evening.

We went to the church, quite a considerable congregation gathered, about 80. The service was a very ordinary service. Indeed at the end I wondered after all if I was led to the island but there were men there nearer to God than I was.

My dear people we've got to be honest. This old man that I already referred to came to me and said, I hope you're not disappointed that revival hasn't come to the church tonight but God is hovering over us and he will break through.

Here is a man near to God. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him. We are now walking down from the church. The church is on a hillock. The main road is down about 300 yards beneath, below the church.

The congregation are moving down and we are walking behind them when suddenly, oh this is what I'm getting at, noting the difference between evangelism and revival. Suddenly the elder stands, takes off his hat, stands Mr. Campbell.

God has come.

God has come to see what is happening. And I looked toward the congregation and I saw them falling on their knees among the heather. I heard the cry of the penitent and that meeting that began at 11 o 'clock that night continued on the hillside until 4 o 'clock in the morning.

The island was by God, by God. Was it because Campbell went to the island? Banish the thought, banish the thought. I thank God for the privilege and how thankful I am that I was near enough to God in that pulpit to hear his voice.

Hallelujah. I've often thought of that. Oh, I've often thought of it. If I was out of touch with God, if I was not in the place where I could hear the voice of the Savior, the voice of God, would Bernara have missed that mighty visitation that took the island from center to circumference?

I question if there was one single house on the island that wasn't visited that night. An awareness of God, a consciousness of God seemed to hover over the very atmosphere, the very atmosphere seemed to be charged with the power of mighty God.

That's revival. Note the principle into operation. He, my people, called by my name, humble themselves and pray and seek my faith and turn from their wicked ways. Then their land there was least. One man on that island was made subscript in God's covenant engagement.

Listen to the prayer who knelt in a barn for a day. Principle that governs spiritual quickly. Oh, that God may find a people ready to fulfill and to comply with the governing principles relative to spiritual quickly.

The Sovereign Origin of Revival

Now let me touch first of all on the origin of revival. You have it in this verse. Wilt thou not revive us again? My dear people, we do well to remember that in the whole field of Christian experience is and remains with God.

We want to remember that. Thought, feeling, endeavor must find their basis, must find their end. The sovereign mercy of God. Now I believe that. I believe it with all my heart. I remember making that statement at a conference outside of London some time ago.

And at the close of the conference, the chairman overheard a certain titled lady say, that was a wonderful address that we listened to, but I don't agree with all that he said, particularly to the sovereignty of God.

But we must not forget that the dear man was born and brought up among the hills of Scotland. And well, that is his background and he can't help it. Hallelujah. Yes, my dear people, let me say again, but I listen to say, that I do not believe in that nullifies man's responsibility.

God is the God of revival. But we are the human agents through which revival is possible. Found that man, postman of Banner. I believe this to be the reason for so few making contact with Christ that is vital to be one of the most disturbing features of present day evangelism.

Let me say present day evangelism is our overemphasis on what man can do. Come to the front. Raise your hand. Respond to the altar call. Jesus on behalf of you. God have mercy on us. I say God have mercy on us.

Mercy of God. Let's get that clear. Not more time on theology. It's New Testament theology. It's Old Testament theology. I am tired, positively tired of this gospel of simply believing. Oh, there's a difference between human faith and saving faith.

I heard a prominent evangelist in Britain say something that really startled me. He said, you exercise faith in a plane. You go into that plane and you exercise faith that that plane will take you to your destination.

You go into a schemer. You exercise faith in the schemer and in the captain and crew to take you to your destination. In the promises of God. Did you ever hear or listen to such nonsense? That's human faith.

That's human faith. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ, he liveth in me. And the life that I now live in the flesh. I live by the faith of Paul. Oh, no. Oh, no. That wouldn't get him very far.

I live by the faith of the Son of God. I live by the faith of God. Now, I'm convinced of this. And campaigns would not be producing harvest of incidents. Recognize the Lord. That means that they may not find him tonight.

They may not find him tomorrow night. They may not find him next week. They may not find him for a month or for six months. They're going to find him. Or God is not true to his covenant engagement. Oh, let's get this clear.

Leaving Anxious Souls in the Hands of God

It comes into revival. That's why I could count upon my fine fingers all that I spoke to abut their soul during the whole of the three years I was in the midst of it. You see, in the northwest of Scotland, if you were to press yourself and your advice and your help upon an anxious soul, you'd be inclined to believe that it was man's work.

Just man's work. And he would much rather be left so that God himself would handle him. That's why we have known people for weeks and longer in distress of soul before light broke in upon them. But you go back to those villages today.

I'm glad I see Mr. McFarlane of the faith mission here. He was up in Lewes not so very long ago. He was in a village that saw the mighty movings of God. I never spoke to one single person in that village in an endeavor to help them to find a savior.

We just left them to God and God did it. And that's why you haven't a single backslider in the whole of that community. Oh, my dear people, friends, God does a work, he does it well. You can go back. You can go back again.

And you'll find them pressing on with the God that revealed not only himself to them but revealed himself in them. God, said David, God is the God of our salvation. The fact of ultimate reality, is of God.

I was asked recently to help a young woman. She was a nurse in Glasgow, now home in the Hebrides, and she was in terrible distress of soul and the distress continued for a long period. Her father thought that perhaps a word from me might help her, so I called.

And I found the young woman in a terrible state, fearfully distressed about her soul. The sense of guilt, the sense of unworthiness, and behind it all the question, am I in the covenant? Am I in the covenant?

So I knelt beside her and did my best to help her. And I quoted that great verse of scripture that I so often quote, John 10 and 27. My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish.

Never can any man pluck them out of my Father's hand. I quoted it again and I tried to point out the two supreme characteristics of the sheep for whom Christ died. They hear his voice. Have you heard his voice?

Oh, have you heard his voice, young people?

Have you heard his voice?

It's different from the voice of man. The voice of the shepherd speaking the word of conviction, speaking the word of pardon, speaking the word of assurance, speaking the word of power. Have you heard the voice of the shepherd?

I spoke along these lines and then she looked at me through a peer and said, Mr. Campbell, I thank you for your kindly words of counsel but surely, surely as a minister you believe that a verse of scripture won't save you.

Have you got it? Oh, have you got it? There are thousands today living under a self-created delusion given birth to phantasmistic rules but a verse of scripture. Listen to the point. The promise can't be sure till the blood we get under that cleanses us through.

Let's go on the promise that I'm under the blood. That's it. Amen. That's it. Beyond the sacred cave, be the Lord. My faith yearns for thee. Thou living word spoken. Living word spoken. Or are you just holding on to a verse of scripture?

Oh, she said, surely you are not suggesting that a verse of scripture will save me. My heart cries for Jesus. My heart cries for Jesus. Five days after that revealed himself in us. Revealed himself in us.

Upon the promise. He feeds upon the word that brings her to Jesus. The origin then goes in the way God works. I think we've seen that. But his agents are his people. As I already said, he's the God of revival.

He is sovereign. But as I already said, I quote again, we do not believe in any conception of sovereignty that nullifies my responsibility. To say as many do today, well, we can do nothing. We've just to wait for the wind to blow.

Well, that may be a very accommodating doctrine to a man that is in Zion. But it will not stand in the light of the divine revelation. My people called by my name will pray. I wonder how many of us are praying.

Human evil is possible. Let me ask this question. The place where God can trust you with revival. He is sovereign, supernatural. He comes down and in his sovereign purpose and why is it to place this threshold in athronism that we can do, that we can trust.

Fellows, with God, I'm sure some of you will have heard of that lovely Scottish saint by the name of Murray MacKay died at 27, but left his mark, an indelible mark on Scotland. Murray MacKay was wonderfully juiced in revival prior to the disruption of 43.

It was the revivals of MacKay and Boner and others that led to that great disruption when the free church left the establishment. Murray MacKay said this, If we are to walk worthy of our high and holy calling, we must live in daily consideration of the greatness and glory of Jesus.

That's it. In daily consideration the greatness and the glory of Jesus. The man who is there is just the man that God can trust. With revival he is sovereign, but I'm the instrument that he wills to use.

Oh, tell me, friend, tell me, are you there? Now I want to close my talk by telling you something of how God in his mercy met with me. I think I must go back to the days of my conversion. I was converted under strange circumstances, I cannot take time to tell it all, but I was a piper and a step-dancer, and I was playing in a concert and dance outside a room when God spoke to me.

God spoke to me in the dance. I had a praying father and a praying mother. I left the dance and went home, shut myself in the barn, knelt among the straw prepared for the horses in the morning and cried, God, I do not know how to come, I know not what to do, but if you'll save me as I am, I'm coming now and God save me.

God save me. And I stand here today that never for one single moment had I ever any occasion to doubt the work that God did in my heart that morning. God did a sovereign and supernatural work and such a glorious work.

I believe that I can honestly say that God every part of my being bodies wonderful experience, and I'm not talking of sanctification or the deeper life. I'm just talking of a soul born again when God does the work.

Surrendering What Is in Your Hand

But shortly after that, I joined the forces and found myself in France during the First World War. And I wasn't long there until I discovered that there were powers resident within me that were more than enough for me.

You see, I was cradled in the midst of godliness and I was sheltered in a godly home. But now I found myself in the midst of extreme ungodliness, extreme ungodliness. And I soon discovered, as I already said, forces resident within me that were more than enough for me.

Again and again I cried, Oh God, speak the word of deliverance along this particular avenue. However, to make a long story short, I'm in a cavalry charge. And in that cavalry charge, I at last found myself lying on the battlefield, badly wounded.

Thank God, a young trooper of the Canadian Youth of Europe with a dramatic confrontation with a mighty god. Now Moses, what is that in your hand? And if he finds what is in his hand, we look at ours. What is in your hand?

A degree? A series of degrees? What is in your hand? An ability to speak? An ability to think? What is in your hand? A musical ability? What is it? Somebody you love? Some plan you wouldn't abandon for the world?

What is it? An estimation of yourself? An image that you have of who you are and how great you are? What is it you have in your hand? Something good? Something bad? What is it you have in your hand? And whatever it is God says to you, throw it down.

Lord, I don't understand. I've never concluded that my gift was anything that would ever bother you. Don't care. Throw it down. Now listen. As long as Moses held in his hand that rod, it could do no more than Moses could do because it was nothing more than a common rod in the hand of a common man.

Now I'll tell you something else. Not only could it do no more than Moses could do at his very best, but as long as there is something in a man's hand, in a man's life, whether it's good or bad, that has never been thrown down before God for his approval or disapproval, for his sanctification, it has a serpent in it.

I've known men whose preaching ability was the worst enemy they had. I've known men and women whose abilities in the flesh at last hung like a serpent and poisoned their lives because those talents were never thrown down and sanctified before the Lord.

And I can see that serpent as it writhes and hisses on the ground looking for somebody, looking for somebody to inject its venom into. And I can hear it as it hisses on the ground and I can almost hear what it is.

It's self. Self. For you see, that thing which stands between you and the fullness of the Spirit, that which stands between you and the fullness of power, whatever it is, whatever reason you give, it's that old serpent's self.

And he threw it down and it became. Moses said, Moses, now you can pick it up. But I'll tell you what I want you to do. Pick it up by the tail because it'll never be yours primarily. It'll be mine. I'll handle the business then.

You pick it up by the tail. Moses picked it up and the Bible says it becomes a rod again in his hand. But remember now, something has happened to it. If you'll read very closely that book again, you'll find that in the latter part of the chapter it very subtly says, and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

It had never been referred to as the rod of God before. Now it was the rod of God in the hand of the man of God. Before it was the common rod in the hand of a common man. Now it had been thrown down before the Lord, desnaked, deselt, and put back in the hand of the obedient man.

Now it was the rod of God in the hand of the man of God. Do you see the difference? Do you have a talent that you're using for the Lord? Throw it down. Do you have a plan that you're absolutely certain pleases the Lord?

Do you have a self-image that you feel like really recommends you to God? Throw it down. Throw it down. You know, as a church, we've recognized that we have to throw down our spirituality. We have to throw down revival before him, or we'll get so wrapped up in the self of it that we'll get wound up in revival and leave Jesus out of it.

Wound up in the blessings and leave Jesus out of it. We'll continue by having to throw down things before the Lord so he can deself them and give them back to us, and we have his power. What is that in your hands?

Throw it down. Throw it down. Now this is where it gets exciting. God's not through. So here goes Moses with a rod in his hand. A rod? No. The rod of God. Now it is a rod cut to God. Here is a life yielded to God and a rod cut to God in the hand of the man of God.

And so he goes out. God says, Tell old Pharaoh to let my people go. And Pharaoh tried to compromise with him and Moses turned loose the plagues under the power of God. So Moses got up and finally said, Well, get out, good riddance.

And so they went over and they cut before them. And it was just, that was a little, just a few inches underneath the surface of the rock and he hit it just right and the water got back. God hit that rock so hard that there gushed out a fountain that met the needs of those people not just for that day but for days to come.

And the New Testament, Paul tells us that that rock followed them. And I think it produced about five million gallons a day. And that's just not a little, little trickle of water. Because when you hold up a yielded life and reassert that yielded is in the midst of any problem, seas are going to open and seas are going to close and locks are going to open and fountains are going to go down.

Because the power of God, listen, who yielded to God and his life is an unexplainable process, you need to feel that that's going to happen in your life. Amulet, of course, is going to be saw. It represents the work of Satan, the force, the cause of God.

There are always the amulets. Amulets may sometimes move through your life and through your heart and through your spirit. They may move through your bones. They may meet you head on in your job. They may meet you in the money, in the money world or in the social world or in the church world.

But you need to be sure that if you ever give yourself to the Lord, Amulet, he's going to hold up his hand and say, Halt! In the name of the law. And hold up the rod and you're defeated. Well, this is what happened.

Amulet came and fought with Israel in the valley of Lepidus. Now Moses is caught up. He says, Joshua, say what's to you? You give Amulet that. He went up on the hill and lifted up the rod of God. That's how he caught on, Moses.

And while he's up there on top of the hill with a mount, with a rod of God, lifted up, Joshua just calls Amulet to retreat. And directly, he's weakened in his arms, and he finds himself retreating. Happens four or five times.

And directly, Joshua gets back and looks a little. And Moses is up there. And every time Moses let the rod down, Amulet starts to prevail. And every time he caught himself and lifted it up, and he is there.

He's got the principle. Self is controlling a life. Satan is living when Jesus is controlling a life. He's living, and it'll be a peaceful battle until there's an arrangement to keep Jesus lifted up. You've got to hold Moses and drop his hands down.

One on either side. And you set him on a rock and picked him up where he sat and let that thing down. And he held it up. Moses' hands were heavy, and they took a stone and put it under him and he sat down, and he held it on there and his hands were on one side and the other on the other.

And the ministry of Christ on the hand was steady. This is such a good lesson. And Joshua, this is Emma,.

My friend, when we say we put the devil out of in the valley, but she gets the point. We're going to work it out, fellas. We're the teachers. We may try to be just church members prior to teaching, teach a Sunday school class and obtain the highest officers in the church.

We've had our place, but we'll never be any more than we at our best to be. And when we give ourselves.

To God, things begin to pull together and happen that we couldn't have made happen in a million years. Simply because when God moves in, takes control of the life, anoints that life with his power, things have got to give.

Do you realize that when this happens, seas open and seas close and water gushes out of locks and in dry land and enemies are defeated in the valleys of life? I want to ask you something. In order to answer that, ask your mother.

What is that in your hand? Reputation? What is it? A self-image? Throw it down. What is it? A family? Throw them down. I'm going to wait just a minute for a second. No, throw them down. I never really had my family until I threw them down before the Lord.

I pictured each of them in a coffin. I never had a ministry until I threw it down before the Lord and saw myself in bed with cancer of the throat. I never saw victory until I threw it all down and said, God, I yield it all to you.

Throw it down. What is that in your hand? A football? Throw it down. Oh, God wouldn't do a thing like that to me. He might. But then again, he might give that football back to you and give you a new run in the power of God.

Throw it down. Boyfriend, girlfriend? Put it down before the Lord. Oh, God wouldn't take her away from me. He can't take her away from me. He might. But then again, he just might give her back to you and your relationship frankly back.

Throw it down. What do you have? A good reputation as a spiritual church? Throw it down. God might want to make not only your church a notable spiritual church, but an unexplainable miraculous church.

Throw it down. What is that in your hand? Weakenship? Throw it down. Throw it down. Then God will make that a rod in your hand with the power of God. I wonder how many people here tonight have something in their hands that's perfectly fine and good and noble.

If there's one thing you haven't done with her, give it up to the Lord. Throw it down. Relationship with husband and wife? Home? Job? Future? Car? What is it? Throw it down. Throw it down. Before you throw it down, the devil always has a piece of property that's a miracle.

Throw it down and God will clean it up and give it back to you. If he doesn't, he'll give you something better. Throw it down. What is that in your hand? You want to walk away tonight with a rod of God in your hand?

Every time you hold it up, a seal, open or closed, water will gush out of a rock to supply your needs or you'll meet an enemy and defeat him? God wants you to give it up, God. So he can give himself to you in unlimited power.

I hope about every head back. Now this is a moment of honesty. In a moment I'll be gone praising the Lord for the privilege of being here but I just want you to be honest now, God and yourself. I wonder how many people here would have to say tonight, quickly, as you have preached God has showed me something in my own life that I've never, ever thrown down before him.

And I want you to pray for me that I will be willing tonight to put it down before the Lord and over this plant and that thing before the Lord. I see you, God bless you. Jesus, I don't know what one of these things are but I sure do know that something wonderful is about to happen.

When we give it up to you, maybe an ear, maybe an advantage, maybe somebody. Lord, I just want to go through it again. I want to throw everything down before you. I want to throw my wife and wonderful church down.

I want to put down my minister before you. I want to put down my health before you. I want to put down everything I have before you. God, you take it. You give me back all of that which is sanctified and full of the power of Jesus.

I'm just asking you to make out of this whole ugly life of mine an unexplainable miracle that when folks see me they won't be saying anything about Jack Taylor but they'll be, they'll be less talking about Jesus Christ.

What a wonderful Savior he is to use a clod like me. Bless young people who need to throw things down. Bless adults who need to throw things down. I just want you, Lord Jesus, to have your way now. And we want to go away with a holy anointing in our lives in Jesus' name.

The Invitation to Surrender and Follow Christ

There's not going to be any pressure in an invitation. This is what it is, an invitation. It's tonight in your heart. You really want to give up that thing tonight. God, it's laid on your heart. I'm going to ask you to couple with your desire a visible move and I'm going to ask you to find yourself a place on your knees somewhere as near the front as you can get.

And I want you to throw that thing down before the Lord in a recordable manner so that you can point to that time where it's sacred rhythm and all of you became all of God. And I want you to do it right now.

Right now. 40, 50, 60, 70, right now. I don't want any way to embarrass you. But I want you to come right on right now if you have a real desire.

To couple that desire with action tonight. I want you to come right on. Right on. Maybe you need to talk to somebody. Maybe you need to talk to the preacher. He'll be here, you can find me. I'll be here, you can find me.

There'll be somebody else if you come right on. If you want to pray out loud, if you want to confess to somebody, if you want to share something that ought to be shared with everybody here, you do it.

But this will be a moment in which we just turn this service completely over to the Lord and I feel like I ought to say a word. I'll say it and you feel like you ought to say one. You just let God have his way and I want you to find yourself here.

I want you to throw that down before the Lord. You'll be with him now. You'll be sure you're with him. You can. Right now.

He's never been saved. You know what it's all about. You know why this church sits on this corner. I'm going to invite you to come to know Jesus. I'll be happy to meet you here and tell you how. Somebody else will be here to help you.

But friends, please tonight don't go away without Jesus. You're never more than a heartbeat away from a friend. And I pray you'll not go away without Jesus tonight. Young man, young lady, you'll never do anything, never do anything more credible, never do anything more noble than to come to Jesus.