True Revival - the Presence of the Lord — Leonard Ravenhill

Okay, we'll look at the prophecy of Isaiah chapter 4. Isaiah chapter 4, I read from verse 1. In that day shall seven women take hold of one man saying we will eat our own bread and wear our own apparel.

Only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and Glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them That are escaped to Israel of Israel.

And it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy. Even everyone that is written among the living in Jerusalem when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.

And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion and Upon her assemblies a cloud and smoke by day and The shining of a flaming fire by night night. For upon the glory shall be a defense.

There should be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day from the heat and for a place of refuge and for a covet from the storm. Last week you remember we considered in part anyhow The prayer of Elijah when he called down fire from heaven.

As I've meditated over that I wonder the people didn't rebel because they didn't need fire. They needed water. Had been a drought for years and you get away the end again the Prophet never seeks vindication.

If you read that chapter again It said that Elijah said let it be known this day that there is a king a god in Israel and that I am thy servant. He wasn't concerned first of all about his acceptance. Whether they would say the truth prophets or a false prophet.

Let it be known this day that there is a god in Israel. And that's the hallmark of people Who really love God they want his name to be glorified and vindicated? Now here it tells us that there should be a cloud and Smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night.

Now skip back a little here into Genesis 14. Sorry. Chapter 15. After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision saying fear not I have Abram. I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.

In verse 6 It says and he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness. And he said unto him I am the Lord God that brought the out of her of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it and he said.

Now God has made a promise to him. God has committed himself to him. He has seen God in a vision. It's seen God. He's heard God in verse 1 these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision.

There's the vision saying fear not Abraham. I am thy shield and I exceeding great reward and God has promised him land and an inheritance and Verse 6 says he believed God it was accounted to him for righteousness.

But then he says in verse 8 Lord God whereby shall I know that thou shalt inherit it. Now we think of these men like Abraham as having a kind of a cast-iron faith. It never wavered. It never had any questions, but God has already pledged this omnipotence to him.

I Am thy shield not that I'll put a shield between you and your situation. I am your shield not that I'll put Gabriel there. Not that I'll put one of the super angels if you like a cherubim or I will be there.

I will be between you and your enemies and Though God has given him that stupendous statement and promise and made a covenant with him. He says and how shall I know that I shall inherit this land in verse 8 let's get down to verse 12.

The Sun was going down a deep sleep fell upon Abram and Lo a horror of great darkness came upon him and he said unto Abram know the surety that thy seed shall be estranged in a land. That is not theirs and shall serve them and they should be afflicted four hundred years.

Come on. Do you love God enough to ask him to lift the veil and let you see what's coming in your life a year from now. He's a chosen vessel unto God and God says you that your people are going to have for 400 years a horror of great darkness came upon him.

Right after a stupendous revelation he'd had a vision of God and from that vision of God he goes to a horrible Indescribable darkness. There was a great book written years ago. I think I have a copy. I've never read it.

And it's called The dark night of the soul. If I remember I'd it was written by Mother Teresa. Well, I can get enough depression without reading that kind of thing. That those periods come they have to come.

Jesus went into the horror of the darkness of Gethsemane. As I said often enough and people question it. Jesus did not die on the cross that he died in the garden that's the result of him dying. A Man isn't a martyr because he's burned at the stake.

He'd already died to life a long while before that this proves. He's a martyr and yet the Lord says and He says verse 8. How shall I know Lord God whereby that I shall inherit the land? Why didn't God say well, listen, are you questioning me?

I gave you a vision of myself and my glory. You saw me you heard my voice and you still question you're still uncertain. No, the Lord doesn't rebuke him. Verse 17 says it came to pass that when the Sun went down and it was dark.

Behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces in. The same day that Lord made a covenant with Abraham Saying unto thy seed have I given this land from the river Euphrates Unto the great river in Egypt.

What was a sign of God's presence a smoking lamp? How shall I know, you know when my glory comes in the midst of that situation a smoking furnace and a Burning lamp in the same day that the Lord Made a covenant with him.

Chapter 17. And I will make my covenant between me and thee and will multiply the exceedingly. And he fell upon his face and God Talked with him saying ask for me. My covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

But the thing again, I want to emphasize is the presence of God is in that burning furnace that burning lamp of that furnace. A Fire is symbolic obviously of the presence of God and of the power of God.

I Don't know your heart, of course, and you don't know mine. I'll tell you very frankly. I'm getting weary of going to meetings where there's no presence of God. The presence of God Was there in that shaft of fire over the tabernacle didn't matter where they moved it the pillar of fire was there.

Moses saw the presence of God in the burning bush. Ezekiel had many many visions of the fire of God. It was a call of fire. You remember on the lips of Isaiah that purged him and sent him forth. To speak with tremendous prophetic urgency.

It says here that the cloud of smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night upon the glory Shall be a defense. There should be a tabernacle for the shadow in the midst of the Of the daytime from the heat and for the refuge and a covet from storm and rain.

Okay jump now down into the gospel of John as we say. A John's interpretation of the gospel in chapter 1 verse 29 says the next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and Seth behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.

This is he of whom I said after me cometh a man which is preferred before me. For he was before me and I knew him not but that he should be made manifest to Israel. Therefore am I come baptizing with water.

And John bear record saying I saw the spirit Descending from heaven like a dove and it abode upon him and I knew him not but he that sent me to baptize with water the Same said unto me unto whom thou shalt see the spirit descending and remaining on him remaining on him.

We caught it so often the spirit came upon him but the spirit remained upon him. Well, if he needed the Spirit of God upon him every moment of his life, I'm sure I need that. It's a pillar of fire and come over that over the tabernacle Monday Wednesday and Friday the people would have been disturbed.

There's a permanent evidence of the presence of the Living God. Again, I don't know about you, but I'm aching. For the day when I go into a sanctuary and we don't have to try and work the spirit up and clap our hands and kick the furniture around.

But the presence of God is so real that I'm almost breathless with his majesty and with his glory. That day will come if I'm kind of scripture here, well, it's eluded me for the moment, but anyhow. There's a promise of the presence of God to the children of Israel.

Remember there was darkness in Egypt that there was light in the homes of the children of Israel. The scripture I was looking for it was where it said that the presence of God will be in the homes. You know in the world's revival every every house became a tabernacle.

Where they've been profanity and cursing and fighting and all the cruel things that go on with depravity. I Talked with some people that went through the Welsh revival. They said you wouldn't believe the neighborhood.

There's never any voices raised. Every house your pastor was singing come Rhonda guide me all thou great Jehovah. Everywhere you went there were prayer meetings. People would start bargaining in a shop and stop and suddenly they start magnifying the Lord.

No, that is coming at a day in which Jesus as Isaac what said in one of his hymns Jesus shall reign. Whatever son that it's excessive journeys run his kingdom stretch from shore to shore. Till moon shall wax and rain no more.

You see there was a permanent mark there the spirit of the Living God was there evidence by fire. Now isn't it true in your church sometimes the heats up there next time you go, it's cold. Sometimes you can feel the throb of eternity the next time you feel you're in a morgue.

It shouldn't be that way. That's not God's desire. God's desire is for permanent power a permanent revelation a Permanent quickening that when people step into that atmosphere that just as you walk into a room and say oh this room is too hot.

Cool it down. That we go into the sanction. We're overwhelmed awed. By the majesty with the holiness of God my heart craves for this. And I won't be satisfied until God comes in such awesome majesty. Until sometimes the preacher won't dare to stand up and interrupt the presence of God.

Even though he may have a burning heart. Remember they went down the road to Emmaus before the Holy Ghost was given and their hearts burned within them. I need the quickening of the Spirit of God every moment of my life.

More when I preach more when I'm commissioned to do something, but I need thy presence every passing hour as the Himmleritzer says. Because not that thy grace can foil the tempter's power. When I heard about this horrendous thing earthquake that happened almost 80 minutes past 7 yesterday morning, and it shook some parts of Houston even and Shook cities 200 miles away.

I thought of that word in Romans 8 that talks about the whole creation groaning. Actually, there's a groaning amongst people. There's a dissatisfaction materialism is saturated. They can't get any further in it.

You put a sponge in water and release it. It will fill itself, but there's a limit to it and There's a limit to satisfaction on the level the human level. But where will people go to find life? I had a refreshing experience yesterday a man called me.

And he said I have an appointment with you at 2 o 'clock. I said, thanks. I've forgotten all about it. I had prayed for it, but previously I admit that This young man came well. He's young he's 45. Everybody under 50 things are young anyhow.

And then we sat down he began to cry he said I've waited four years. I've prayed since I got your book why revival taris and I got revival praying. And he said I still get up at 2 and 3 o 'clock in the morning and read the chapter why revival taris then read something From the prophets and I go to my room and weep or I march up and down the tabernacle with my hands raised and magnify the Lord.

He said brother, maybe there's something burning in me. There's something that won't keep quiet and yet my people don't want to hear. They're relaxed, you know the theme right now is relax and be raptured.

And I'll tell you what if we knew the Lord was coming at the end of the week most of us will put our house In order he said there's something burning and I have offered God. He said here's my wife. She'll tell you I've offered to lay my ministry down.

We're building a lovely home. I've no money, but I'm building a home. The church isn't building it. I'm building it by the help of God. And he said I'm prepared to lay this church down. I got it from the grassroots.

God gave me a touch of revival in the community and I've got favor with the community. Speaking naturally I have everything I want but I haven't. I haven't got it. He said I don't know God. I'm not intimate with God.

I want to be able to touch him. I want to be able to hear his voice. I'm not satisfied with a crowd and not satisfied with my wages. I'm not satisfied to be accepted. He said, you know a while ago. He said I was going down the road.

He said I've made records. I have a good voice. I've traveled as a singer. And I was going down the road and I put your tape on the judgment seat. And he said you said well, what will you say the judgment seat.

Some of you will say I made records. He said that slew me. I pulled the car off the road and repented. Nothing wrong in making records. It's wrong when they become your idols. It's wrong again when they become your satisfaction.

I said well again, you know the key to the whole thing. According to Jesus who is the greatest master of all he said blessed are the hunger and thirst. He said well, I've got a perpetual hunger. I can't feed enough.

Well, I said if you know that we sing that hymn guide me. O thou great Jehovah. And we turn the last verse around feed me till I want no more. I'd like to eat like that. So just one meal and not spend time eating the rest of my life spend it in prayer and quietness.

If you find a secret like that Let me know Dale or Betty. Betty does a cooking. All right sometimes no, I can't be satisfied physically by one meal and Jesus Christ is the bread of life and he's a satisfaction.

It's a paradox. But everything in the Christian life is a paradox. If you're going to go up you go down. Either the exalted himself. She'll be a base. Either humbled himself. She'll be exalted. Save your life.

You lose it lose your life. You'll save it. Now. That's not logic by anybody's reasoning. It's totally paradoxical, but how true it is. John Wesley said what I had I gave and what I kept I lost. I Discovered that early in life.

He said and determined to give away everything. I'd live at the absolute minimum, which he did. You see there's a permanence with the abiding spirit of godliness. We see the spirit comes not to glorify me to help me to preach help me to sing help me to do something do exploits.

The supreme work of the Holy Spirit is to make me more like Jesus Christ. By whatever means he does it if the fire has to burn more faithfully so be it. You know, it's easy to sing all to Jesus. I surrender is doing it that matters, isn't it?

When God begins to strip when he takes this away when he takes that away and he's not touching somebody else. Wasn't it? Somebody came to Jesus one day and said tell my brother to do this that Jesus said what is that to thee follow thou me.

God is making me. I Told a young man yesterday God isn't concerned about your ministry. My he stared at me. And his wife looked sideways as much thing are you crazy? I said no, he's not concerned about your church.

You're not concerned about your ministry. It's concerned about making you a man of God. It is concerned with making you equal commensurate with the situation that lies in front of hers or in front of us.

No, I don't want the horror of great darkness. I'd rather not have it. But if going through that great darkness going through that Gethsemane means death and then death means resurrection, so what is there any alternative.

As a hymn that says it is the way the master went. Should not the servant credit still and that's all he is the fire leader. It's easy to say. I want the faith of Abraham. Do you want the trouble Abraham had and the trials of the testing?

But one thing I got out of that, you know is this when he said well, how will I know you'll do it? He's seen God. He's heard God and he still doubts God. How will I know and God says well, I'll let you know when you divide that sacrifice.

There'll be a burning fire a Lamp of burning go right through my presence is fire. I suppose the hardest thing in life to bear really is loneliness. Unless it's ridicule, you know when you decide you're going to lay all on the altar and live entirely for Jesus Christ.

The folk you thought loved you most will turn against you easiest. The Apostle Paul. I Think the greatest man has ever lived after Jesus himself. He got together a group of men all full of the Holy Ghost, but his pace was so quick.

It's fasting for so long. His zeal was so strong. They wouldn't put up with him. They quit. All men forsook me nevertheless the Lord stood by me when he lost everything he gained everything. We want to give a limited amount to God and expecting to pour his bounty unlimited blessing for a minimum deposit.

God says not so I Gave my all in my son. I expect your all to be given to me. It's a lonely way. It's a hardly work hard way. That young man looked at me and waited a minute. He said you mean to say that my ministry doesn't.

I'm not saying your ministry doesn't count. I'm saying it's not number one thing in your life in the sight of God. Other deficiencies in your life. Yes, I've moved up in my prayer life, but I've got not the groanings which cannot be uttered.

I Don't know anything about traveling. I don't know anything about tears. Essentially when I go I discover in the center of myself. I have some self-pity. I have some restraint. There are things I'm holding on to.

Well until you let them go. And you really sing as a hymn writer says nothing in my hands. I bring simply that I you can't grasp something if your hands are full. You can't learn of God if your head's full.

You can't learn of God if your heart is full of something else. It's the stripping. That's the problem. We want to be clothed, but who wants to be stripped? And then it's God's way with us. It's the only way.

You wouldn't think the backside of the desert will be the place where God's going to reveal himself, but he did that to Moses. Again in that defense we have that marvelous defense of Stephens. And he begins to tell the fathers and the elders of Israel there.

Our father God revealed himself to Abraham in Mesopotamia. That's like saying you're going just walking through Las Vegas in a nightclub and suddenly the Holy Ghost came. God doesn't do it that way anymore.

But the only way that he could get to Abraham Was to get to him in a place that wasn't much more than a forest of idols and hedonism and superstition and darkness and. Yet a merciful Holy God came and presented himself there in the midst of all that idolatry.

I dare to think that every day in some part of the world God is revealing himself where there's no sanctuary where there's no building. Where there's no priest where there's no Bible. That some people are making discoveries of God today in prison cells they've been there maybe 10 years 12 years, and this was the day when God came as result of their faithfulness as a result of their intense desire for God.

And he said last week this amazing man John came in the wilderness after 400 years of darkness. And no prophetic light. Then he comes brighter than Haley's comet a. Still no voice and suddenly his voice.

He came with a message, which is so badly needed in the day in which we live you hear people saying well of course the last word of Jesus was to the church in which he said go into all the world. That's not true.

It's not the last word of Jesus. That was the last word of Jesus to the disciples. The last word of Jesus is given about six or seven times in Revelation repent repent repent repent, that's it. That's the mission that word to the church.

The church has halted somewhere between the upper room. Calvary in the upper room we're trying to capture the attention of the world with something we have instead of something he has. We've got to the bottom of the barrel the different things we're doing in these days.

A Lady called me the other day. She's in our town. The leading Evangelical church in the town so-called they've had aerobic dancing for women and now that they got women and men aerobic dancing. That'll be some sight.

Anything to try and capture people bring them in but again. There's nothing more fascinating than fire. And there's nothing more fascinating than the fire of the Holy Ghost. Again in the world's revival when the spirit came on those blaspheming miners.

Some of the roughest men in the world. They take their lunch in a little basket or sometimes in a handkerchief. They call it their snap. When it came to lunch time or snap time they said instead of talking football and talking sport and talking all that you'll hear all.

That in Bible colleges if you go. All they do is talk about the latest films about the football teams about the baseball scores. But when it came to the world's revival the spirit of God came all over the coal mine.

There were groups of men. They'd be singing come Rhonda guide me. Oh, they're great. Then they quit and they start praying and all over the man. You could hear the surging of the voice voices of men crying for revival.

That revival did not stay in Wales. I think it was Seth Joshua that was one of the leading figures and. And he and one or two other men had been anointed in that revival and they asked for this very same thing.

The spirit of the Lord remained upon him. Stay upon us stay upon us. It meant loneliness. It meant fasting. It meant weeping. It meant isolation. But they went from there to the cyclops hills in India and had revival there.

Praying hide was a key figure there, too. The fire was permanently there from there. They went to China. And they had an amazing revival in China. And when the fires were late all over the country. They said we're going to Korea and the Chinese people said never never they're too phlegmatic.

It's like trying to set water on fire. But they went by the same fire. Because it was the same Holy Ghost. Because the hearts are the same need. There was no profit-making. Nobody was trying to establish a denomination.

They didn't even ask for offerings. They went and poured out their hearts in prayer and intercession. God is going to bring us back to that. I'm sure of that. You may think I'm overboard. That's all right you stay on board.

I'm still believing God is going to send a Holy Ghost fire in the Tyler area. I Don't care where? Don't care if we have to take a storefront. Shop sometimes if he can't get in anywhere else. Let's make a place where he can get it.

It's blessed to have nothing. Paul said he had nothing and he possessed all things now. We've all things and we've got nothing. When we've no self-esteem. When we no goal except his glory. When we're not after some denominational label.

When we're not seeking to out bid somebody else in Sunday school numbers. I Think today when David numbered Israel God rebuked him the boys the numbers game these days, isn't it? How many numbers in Sunday school?

How many buses are you running? It's numbers numbers numbers. I Think we ought to get out of numbers into exodus make an exodus and maybe God will come with fire on us. You heard me say this often enough.

I'm going to say here then we're going to pray. I Read and read and reread Hebrews 11. Those amazing people who subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness obtained promises stopped the mouths of lions. Women received their dead raised to life.

Tell you what, it's gonna be a wonderful thing at a judgment when these people have never been listed the unlisted heroes. We don't know who they were. They wandered around in sheepskins and goatskins being destitute afflicted and tormented.

Where? When was it? I Don't know. I don't care, but I know God has a record of it. One day we're going to find these people marching up to the front while some of the big TV evangelists are still trying to get into heaven.

But they're going to go up to the front to be honored with the Lord Jesus Christ. Nobody's who became somebody's and Exalted when they get into the presence of the eternal King. Why. Because they obeyed God they were obedient to the heavenly vision.

I was thinking of that him a favorite of mine. Anyhow, I've got about 3 ,000 favorites. John Wesley's favorite. It was written by a pretty petite little French lady a hundred years before Wesley was born.

Come Savior Jesus from above. Assist me with our heavenly grace empty my heart of earth love. That's where it starts. Jesus won't be rival with anything in your life, whether it's success money position social standing or intellectual power.

Come Savior Jesus from above assist me with our heavenly grace empty my heart of earthly love and for thyself prepare a place. Nothing very dramatic about that. But then she says nothing on earth do I desire that thy pure love within my breast.

This only this will I require and freely give up all the rest wealth honor pleasure and what else this short enduring world can give. Tempted you will my soul rebelled for Christ alone resolved to leave.

They will I love and be alone with pure delight and inward bliss to know thou takes me for thine own. Oh, what an happiness is this? Henceforth may no profane delight Divide my consecrated soul possess it thou who has the right as the Lord and master of it all.

Now Wesley said that not only said it he did it but an outstanding scholar in his day laid his scholarship at the feet of Jesus. His parents. I'm I've read were the most important people in England after the royal family and he surrendered everything to become an outcast.

One day he met a young man by the name of George Whitfield. And he said mr. Whitfield. You don't preach in the sanctuaries. You don't preach any longer in the cathedrals. He said no, sir. Did Jesus preaching cathedrals?

No. Well, mr. Wesley, why don't you come with me into the streets? And in his diary John Wesley says I condescended today to become more vile and I preached with no roof over my head and I preached without stained-glass windows.

I preached with no bishops around me. I preached but I preached again as a dying man to dying men as Later was said in the well have been said before that actually but he said from that moment there burned in me a fire an irresistible fire a Burning a life called from off the altar.

It's an amazing thing that this brilliant scholar was taken to the coal miners in Bristol. They used to go ahead George Whitfield at 5 o 'clock in the morning. You can get people listen there for $5 each at that time.

Not two or three thousand. They worked in the coal mines all night. They came up and Whitfield was I with his a holy anointing the man who said every time I preached I saw the fires of hell waiting to consume my congregation.

A lady saw him standing there. It was a portly man. Even when he was young and he tears rolled down his face and bounced off his tummy onto the little woman standing there. And she said mr. Whitfield three times.

I've heard you today three times this day and three times I've been wet with your tears. Why do you weep? Because that you don't weep. My heart break for that heart of yours that won't break. The miners listened to him at 5 o 'clock in the morning and they said the tears made tracks through the dust.

I've been in the coal mine in Wales and I've seen the coal miners there and. They have all the dust they sweat and then the dust the black dust of course sticks of their faces and the tears just streamed down their faces made tracks until they looked as though they've been chalked with white and.

And George Whitfield who was raised in a tavern Went to the ladies that wore their silks and satins in the beautiful castles and mansions of England. George George Whitfield did that. Wesley was born of their.

God took him to the other extreme. And then each of those men confessed they were burning. Charles Wesley wrote to him in which he said refining fire go through my heart. Illuminate my soul scatter thy life through every part and sanctify the whole.

My steadfast soul from falling free shall then no longer rove. While Christ is all the world to me and all my heart is love. I forget who it was. There's another great hymn that says see how great a flame aspires kindling by a spark of grace.

You know on the day of Pentecost the two most potent forces in nature were married wind and fire. Do you remember earlier this year one of the great fires out on the west coast that consumed? I don't know how many hundreds or thousands and thousands of acres.

We listened to the news at 10 o 'clock at night. We think we've contained the fire. It's died down almost everywhere. It's gone next morning. It was blazing with flames 20 30 feet high. Oh the wind came in the night and caught hold of the sparks and fanned it into this blaze.

The hymn writer says see how great a flame aspires kindled by one spark of grace. God doesn't raise up denominations. He raises up men. He didn't raise up Lutheranism again, he raised up Luther. He didn't raise the Wesleyan Church.

We became the Methodist Church. He raised up Wesley. He didn't raise up the Salvation Army raised up this marvelous young men half Jew and half Gentile William Booth and He put a banner up. I Still it.

I think they still have the banner. I don't think they have what it stands for. And on the banner it said blood and fire and He marched people through the street singing thou Christ of burning cleansing flames and the fire.

Thy blood bought gift today. We claim send the fire look down and see this waiting host. Give us the promised Holy Ghost. We want another Pentecost. We need it. You think we dare pay the price for him to make our weak hearts strong and brave.

Send the fire. To live a dying world to save send the fire. Oh see us on thine altar lay our lives are all this very day to crown the offering. Now we pray send the fire and People left castles and mansions and wealth.

Men who inherited get industrial plants left because fire is attractive. They've gone into the formalism of the Church of England being frozen to death almost and here comes William Booth. With a tattered Amalian crowd of ragged people poor people.

No personality people, but people on fire. But I've said before I don't think there was anybody equal to John Wesley in his day. They were not equal to him intellectually. They didn't need that. They were equal to him spiritually.

They were equal to him with hunger for God. They were equal with him with with longings for revival. And England at that time was as bad as she is now or even worse but God came in answer to intercessory prayer and He'll come again in answer to intercessory prayer.

We're not going to organize something for God to bless. He's looking people that have lost all confidence in themselves. Confidence in their ability confidence even in their message. Confidence in their eloquence.

The right down to rock bottom and say God Almighty. We're bankrupt unless you come. We have no power. Is America going to die. We can't live much longer as we've lived. I Heard a horrible thing this week reported.

There are thousands maybe tens of thousands of men with AIDS in the nation. They've openly said we're going to go and donate blood. We won't even admit. We've got this thing. We'll go somewhere where nobody knows us.

We're going to pollute America with AIDS. How diabolical can you get the fellow that runs the Church of Satan out on the west coast. I'm Told he's ordered that every one of those stations which they have across the nation now every Wednesday.

They're going to fast and pray for demon power to invade Christian homes in America and destroy it fasting and praying. They meet at midnight and pray and worship their devil their demon till six o 'clock.

Stand on the cross and blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ. The cults are running wild. Why? Why do you think you think the devil is going to interrupt his own work? They've got all the power of the devil behind them.

He doesn't block them. He doesn't resist them. He fights the evangelical testimony. He tried he fights the truth of God and heresy is strangling our nation. Every day we live. I thank God every day. I live for that mercy is extended another day.

We've out sinned Sodom without sin. Gamora. But people are going to be attracted by a star singer putting on a show. They're going to come when the Holy Ghost comes with such burning. Again, people did not not listen.

People did not go to church to get saved in the New Testament. They went because they were saved. They were saved by what they saw in transformed lives. They saw people supernaturally changed. They saw men who had demon powers in them converted.