Much Fishing but Where Is the Catch — Leonard Ravenhill

Much Fishing but Where Is the Catch — Leonard Ravenhill

Okay, let's look at the other gospel recorded by John. Remind you again. There are not four Gospels. There's only one gospel told by four different people. If there were four Gospels, we'd need four Calvary's and four resurrections.

John chapter 21 verse 1. I'm reading it as I tell you so often. I'm reading from the Living Bible the King James Version. After these things Jesus showed himself to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias.

On this rise he showed himself they were together. Simon Peter Thomas called Didymus and Nathanael of Cana of Galilee and the sons of Zebedee. They're not mentioned there now just the sons of Zebedee and two other of his disciples.

That means seven. One of the great classic pictures of all time is a picture by Raphael the miraculous draft of fishes it's in a. It's where it's in. It's in Spain in the Cathedral they can keep it. I don't want it.

But it's a wonderful picture all the world came to see. Its colors were so vast so gorgeous. Every detail is so beautiful until one day an Englishman by the name of Ruskin went to see it. And when he saw it, he laughed and they thought you know, he was crazy.

What's wrong with the pictures that I'm trying to find out what's right with it? Well number one where was a miraculous draft of fishes on the Sea of Galilee. The Romans changed the name you remember to sea of Tiberias because the other a Caesar Tiberius.

He was on the Sea of Galilee. Well, he said what's the dome of st. Peter's doing in the back? The artist had put the dome of st. Peter's in Rome at the back of the picture of the painting then he said.

Secondly how many men were in the boat at the time? Seven he's got 11 in the boat. Who's the man leaning over the boat with a lace collar and lace cuffs? Oh, that's Peter. Now if you if you've never faced with a lace collar and lace cuffs, you've never fished in your life.

So you better get lace and cuffs. They see that's the idea of saints when you get dressed up. You're living a certain place. You're hiding the monastery. You do lots of disciplinary things to try and work out or prove your salvation.

The Disciples’ Fruitless Night of Fishing

Okay, let's go to those three. You've got all these men now seven of them. Simon Peter said unto them notice I go fishing. He didn't say will you go fishing with me? He said I go fishing. They said to him we also will go with thee and they went forth and entered into the ship and that night.

Who fishes at night? In these days commercial fishermen do that in those days they didn't. But you notice when you want to run away, there's always something handy a donkey you can jump on or a ship. There was a ship there and immediately they got in the ship and went off in the dark.

And that night they caught nothing. Maybe you remember in the fifth chapter. There's a likely a story very much like this. Another miraculous draft of fishes, but there's a difference. In the story in the fifth chapter Jesus is in the boat in this one.

He's outside on the shore and all him says by faith, let me wrestle and He will perform with Christ in the vessel. I smile at the storm. But that's the secret with Christ in the vessel. Christ the center of the personality.

But here he isn't there. He's away on the coast. They've been out all night. You know what I think about that night. I think it was the longest night never lived. The coldest night never lived. The loneliest night never lived.

The darkest night never lived. The roughest night never lived. Why? Because Jesus wasn't there. They thought they could manage it. You know what this is. This is that part of that miraculous period where Jesus had risen from the dead and he has 40 days with them.

He doesn't stay with them very long. He goes in and out. That's right says here after these things after what things? Well, if you're going to the first in 20th chapter, it says the first day of the week he cometh then cometh Mary Magdalene and others.

But notice what it says here. Verse 14 in chapter 2 says this is now the third time that Jesus showed himself. No, it isn't. It's more than that. No. No, wait a minute. There's a caution light here. It's the third time that Jesus shows himself to his disciples.

It showed himself to others before that but this is the third time he comes to the disciples. Well, they went forth we said in verse 3 and that night they caught nothing. The coldest darkest loneliest.

Longest night they'd ever live. They'd seen his wonderful works right after the resurrection and from the resurrection up to the. From the resurrection to the ascension there are 40 days. 40 is always a time of testing in the scriptures.

The book of Matthew is the 40th book in the Bible. Because the the Jews and the world at that time was tested by Jesus Christ in their midst. What did they do with him? 40 days. You say that's not very long on vacation.

I'll tell you what. It's a long time in the hospital. I never cast on you think it's 40 years. It's a long time when you're unemployed. It's a long time when there's a serious sit. 40 40 40. You know most of us we can't be very nice people we don't even like our own company.

What do you do if you left alone you get on the phone and talk to somebody around the corner to Mary Smith or somebody? Else. It's torture to live by yourself, isn't it? But not if the Lord's there. Here's a most brilliant man that ever lived almost it says in the seventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles concerning Moses.

He was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in word. No, no, he stammered. He was a statesman before ever. He touched the Ten Commandments. He's learned in the courts. And all the wisdom of the Egyptians, I believe in your astrology.

Maybe he spoke ten languages. He'd been raised as a royal child. Then God takes him and sticks him on the backside of the desert for 40 months. No, that's the wrong version. The right version is 40 years a third of his life.

Mercy, would you like to it? Go from a royal banquet boy, you've got your gorgeous clothes on and your jewels and. Everybody bows down when you come down the street and then the sheep go past and say nay.

You know. Can't recognize him. Who is this guy around here this stranger 40 years on the backside of the desert. What was he doing learning? No unlearning in you too much. Most of our pulpits are loaded with guys that know too much.

But they don't know God in the way they should. 40 days 40 years on the backside of Jesus son of God. 40 what? Days where. In the wilderness. John Baptist a whole slice of his life on the backside of the desert.

Solitude, Unlearning, and Knowing God

We had a young man came. I think he drove eight hours last week to come to this prayer meeting going out. He says it's had an impact on my life. He wrote me a beautiful letter this week and He said I'm gonna get alone more.

I'm gonna read the whole armor of God. I'm gonna get that little book written in what 1519 by Isaac Ambrose. Looking on to Jesus three words. He wrote 700 pages on those three words. I'm gonna get up alone.

You see the trouble with people going to school Bible school. They get to know their Bibles. That's not the point. Do they know God? Do you know God. You can cause scriptures to run out of your ears almost but when you come to a situation they don't help so much.

It's knowing his presence. It's knowing his power. It's knowing his peace. These treasures that money cannot buy and they're not thrown to us like that God is making you. I'll come to that in a minute.

Jesus Meets the Disciples on the Shore

Jesus said unto his disciples. Now first for when the morning was now come after that terrible night Jesus stood on the shore. But the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus said unto them children.

Maybe there's a mark in your Bible there that is in mind. There's a one there and in the margin at the side side. It says he said unto them sirs. He didn't use the term of endearment to usually use little children.

He said sirs in other words. He's talking challenging them like men. Jesus said unto them sirs have ye any meat. And they answered him no. And he said unto them cast on the right side of the ship and you shall find.

They cast there for now and they were not able to join for the multitude of the fishes. Now when you get the other story earlier in the chapter chapter 5. What happens you have more men in the boat. What happens?

Jesus says cast your net on the right side of the ship. Is the right side the wrong side. Yes, there is. Because in those days it didn't fish over the side they fished at the back. They put a drag net like they still do in European countries.

They put the net behind and dragged it through the waters and Jesus says cast your net on the right side of the ship. These are expert fishermen and these are. What is he? He's a man who works with a hammer.

What does he know about fishing in the first story in the fifth chapter you read it. It's amazing there he said to Peter I Will make you a fisher a fisher of men. Now he's telling about a fish for fish.

But that's not the humiliation. There's a jubilation there. They cast on as he told them and they were not able to draw for a multitude of fishes. Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said unto Peter it is the Lord isn't amazing.

You see he was a first to recognize Jesus. What a difference when you see Jesus? Peter was the first to recognize him. That John was the first to act and Peter was the first to act. John was the first to see because love can see.

Seeing Jesus and the Illumination of Love

There's a hymn it isn't in our book. I wish it was written by. I'm not here in by forgot now. Let me quote part of it to you loved with everlasting love. Then let led by grace. Led by great. Led by grace that love to know.

Spirit breathing from above thou has taught me it is so all this full and perfect peace all this. Transport all divine in a love which cannot cease. I am his and he is mine. Heaven above is softer blue.

Earth around is sweeter green. Something lives in every hue. Christless eyes have never seen. Birds with gladder songs all flow. Flowers with deeper beauty shine in a love which cannot be. I am his and he is mine.

Something lives in every hue. Once your eyes get anointed you'll see what no philosopher can see. You can argue with them. You can educate them. You can teach them to twist the Greek and the Hebrew, but once God touches your eyes 20 odd five years ago nearly we worked when teen challenge wasn't known hardly.

My dear boys my dear wife and I worked in New York with Dave Wilkerson and the rest. I love to go over the Brooklyn Bridge. I didn't like it, but any I went and it comes into Canal Street. There's a sign on a wall there.

The building was crumbly old. Bricks were worn with age then they covered it to make it look nice. It says on the water Street. There's a book if ever you see it by it, and if you don't want it give it to me.

I Had it in England you can't find it now. The water Street mission. There's a man called Sam Hadley went in there one day. He saw this bunch of derelict men and prostitutes. He was one of the worst criminals in New York.

It actually defrauded one company. 125 times they had lived they had bills against him 125 times in every conceivable either and one night he got marvelously saved. Came into a real living relationship with the Lord, and he said I went out and I looked up into the sky.

You know he hardly knew there was such things as stars. And he said when I looked up, and I saw the stars. I thought that the eyes of Jesus looking down for me. And you know that man got such a marvelous revelation of God's mercy.

He said I never knew about God. I never saw the stars, but once I saw the stars I thought I thought about the one who put them there and His whole world was illuminated. He became one of the greatest soul winners in the history of New York.

When he was buried they stopped the traffic. People coming in town said are you burying the mayor of the town. Is this your senator. That's done. No, he's a broken-down drunken old tramp. That got redeemed and then he went to everybody else.

What did Wesley say? Wesley think about the grace that found out me all that the world might taste and see the riches of his grace. The arms of love that compass me would all mankind embrace. You see if you don't get some passionate love in your soul for the Lord you better check out and see if you are saved.

If you don't discover you've passed from things that used to be dead to you and now alive. Things that were alive and attractive are now dead. Okay. Verse 7 says in 21 of John the disciple whom Jesus loved said unto Peter.

It is the Lord. Now when Simon heard that it was the Lord he got his fishers coat about him for he was naked. Or the Greek actually says he was without his outer garment. He wasn't stark naked. You remember Jesus said if a man takes your cloak give him your coat also.

But anyhow. When this these men heard Peter say I go fishing they went. But he noticed when he got his garment and jumped overboard. They didn't all jump overboard with him anyhow. You know some people go so far with you and no further.

When did the other disciples came in a little shape now? Here's the is a humiliation. There are other little ships all around and they see these two expert fishermen. The rest of them Fishing and putting the the net over the right side of the ship.

That's a contradiction of fishing. It should be behind. But you don't mind being ridiculed. If you've got your eyes on the Lord if you're doing the task he gave you to do. Where's the humiliation and the other disciples came to the ship?

They were not far from the land. As soon as they were come to land they saw a fire of coals there on. Jesus said unto them bring of the fish which you have now caught. Jump down to verse 12. Jesus said unto them come and dine.

Christ’s Provision Before His Commission

You know, that's the greatest breakfast in the world. Come and dine. What does it say? Verse 9 says as soon as they were come to land they saw a fire of coals there and fish laid thereon and Then Jesus says come and dine.

Wait a minute. Why doesn't he preach to Peter before he eats because Pete is exhausted. He struggled to the land. He's cold. He's wet and Jesus looks and Says Peter come come and dine. You won't remember this.

I don't know you good foot. Do you remember a chorus come and dine the master caller? It's a pity these focus are young. They don't know all the wise things that we know. The old old hymn we used to sing 50 60 70 years ago.

I sang it. Jesus has a table spread where the saints of God are fed. He invites his chosen people come and dine. There they met their hearts desire bread and fish upon the fire. To the hungry now he calleth come and dine and the chorus is come and dine the master calleth come and dine.

You may feast at Jesus table all the time. He will fed the multitude. There's an old lady there quoting it with me. It's Sonny's wife. So, I know how old she is now. That's a lovely chorus come and dine.

The master calleth come and dine. You may feast at Jesus table all the time. He would he who fed the multitude turn the water into wine to the hungry calleth now. Do you think they weren't hungry all night?

Cold the wind beating on them the wreck they waves washing up. They know special lovely garments and they were tired toil worn the longest night the loneliest night the coldest night the fiercest night.

And Jesus prepares breakfast. Do you imagine they stared at it, you know, that's one of the miracles brother Bracey had to come tonight to hear this. Where did he get the stuff brother Basie? Where did he get the stuff to make the breakfast?

Good. Thank you. That's what I thought. So I know you're wise now. You know what? You can never do the wrong right thing. You can't do the wrong thing at the right time. You can do the right thing at the wrong time.

Jesus one day Satan says look if you're the Son of God take that rock there and Change it into bread and boy, you'll fascinate them. He didn't do it and Satan says if you'll do it, I'll give you all the kingdoms of the world.

It didn't mean real estate because he knew the Lord owns the earth. He meant he giving the kingdoms of the world the intellectual kingdom the Greeks the military kingdom the Romans the religious kingdom the Jews.

Boy all heaven is looking in all hell and Jesus takes a rock and put it there and says become bread. It didn't it says to the devil that I'll do what I want not when you want. Then going past it says to a fish come here and the fish stood on its tail.

Sure, it did. I'd no feet. Well, if Jesus says look you go to the water boy, I wish he'd do it for me. He says you catch that fish. It's got your income tax money in its mouth. If you know any fish in your pond like that by the day we'll go back you imagine what a meal this was.

Those sacred hands That had nail prints in them. It shows his compassion doesn't it? Verse 9 look at verse 9. As soon as they were come to land they saw a fire of coals and the fish laid there on. Then in verse 12 Jesus said come and dine first.

He has a provision and then he has a compassion. You see it's no good. You go into the mission field just because you've learned a few scriptures. There are some things you must have if you're going to be a successful missionary.

Come to that in a minute Jesus said come and dine verse 12. None of his disciples dare ask him who are thou knowing? It was the Lord. Something you said the other day brother braces, too. You know There are times when the Spirit of God talks to you and there's a thing you can't do.

As the dead Quakers used to talk about having an authentic stop in the spirit. You see the Apostle Paul. Where are you going? He said I'm going to Bithynia. It's a wicked hell on earth. I'm going to Bithynia and he said going to Bithynia.

They end up in Macedonia. Why? Because God called him to Macedonia. Good thing he hadn't sent the newsletter out saying where he was going and he goes to Macedonia. Why? There are times when the Lord says no and you can't explain why the Spirit just answers Wesley's favorite verse in Romans 8 that so many preached most to tens of thousands of people if not hundreds of thousands.

That we have the witness of the Spirit. We used to sing a little hymn in England in the Methodist hymn book. Then on each he setteth his own secret sign. They that have my spirit these saith he are mine.

The Spirit bears witness. The Lord says you can't do it and you stop and everybody's amazed. Or you set on this course and Lord says no you go that way. Your daddy is disappointed. He expected you'll be a doctor or be something else.

But think of a mercy that you were not a doctor. He didn't kill anybody. But anyhow. You go to the mission field or somewhere else because he turned your feet out of the way. Verse 13 Jesus cometh and taketh bread and giveth them and the fish likewise.

This is the third time that Jesus showed himself to disciples. When he rose from the dead, so when they had dined. Jesus says to Peter lovest thou me after he dined. Why did he start lecturing him before?

Because Peter's exhausted. You know, there are times when we try to do things in our own strength. Zealous as we are don't mistake zeal for anointing. Just like prayer meeting sometime last week was almost disgusting.

It's a noisy noise is not power. I don't mind folks shouting when they pray, but let the other fella finish done everybody praying. It's a bedlam. We want to hear what people are praying. Okay Jesus says to Simon lovest thou me.

Loving Christ Before Feeding His Sheep

You see the first thing. Why do we get our wires crossed so much. God help us. You're going to the mission field. Let me ask you a question. Do you love souls? That's not the first question. Jesus didn't say will you die for me?

He says do you love me? Tell me once. Tell me twice. Tell me three times. I love you Lord. I love you. If you love me feed my lambs. If you love me feed my sheep. If you love me feed my my lambs again.

The first thing he requires of you is not brilliance. Organizing ability. A brilliant mind so you can translate the scripture. You may have all those and expire. I remember years ago and going to a fabulous mansion in England.

It was a Saturday afternoon conference. There was a man I wanted to meet I better. There's a life story written about him and I preached on prayer if I remember right. I preached on Elijah. As we went down the long hall in that gorgeous fabulous home.

He put his arm around my shoulder and gave me a hug and he said Len I Needed that today. He'd been living in one of the most dangerous mission mission fields in the world. And he said Len I want to tell you Of all things I lost my devotional life in the middle of a battle for God fighting heathenism translating scripture meeting witch doctors.

And yet it got boring it got tiring. Why. Because his personal love relationship with Jesus had gone down. I Talked with somebody this week who said that half the missionaries in the world should come back.

I agree with that. Because they've lost vision. Almost the last night. I was in New Zealand. I made many trips there. The last one some people came forward. I Went to a room to pray and a lady very beautifully dressed Came in.

I Said yes, I'll help you, but let me get a lady. So I got another lady to come in. This lady got down. She hardly got a nice to the ground. She started sobbing and groaning. I Don't want to go brother in it.

I don't want to go. I said go where go home. No, I leave New Zealand tomorrow for the mission field. I Don't want to go. Where are you going? She told me where she was going. I said, I know it's a very backward country.

It's a dirty country. It's a dangerous country. The food is back the bad the climates bad. The people are bad. I don't wonder you don't know. No, no, she said mr. In it, it's not that at all not one of those things.

The reason I don't want to go to the mission field is there's so much contention there so much bitterness so much envy. So much strife among the mysteries. There's so much carnality. I don't want to go.

I Tell you again as God's my witness. The American missionaries have not taken the gospel to countries. They've taken the American gospel. The British have taken the British gospel. We haven't taken the Word of God.

How can we take what we don't have? I Don't judge. Anymore, I just want to focus on you. But when people say somebody said recently our church is giving half a million dollars a year to missions. That's no proof of anything.

Except you have an affluent church. How many mysteries is your church sent out in the last five years. Check it. If they haven't sent any you're in a dead place. I don't care what the crowd is. Don't care how smart your preacher is.

The law of life is reproduction. I Sent for a book this week. I don't if you read it on the Presbyterian Revival in 1905. You know what? Once as a fire you can't tell how much it will spread 1904 and five the Welsh Revival soon.

You've read the book. If you haven't by brother Jack will Tell her coffee. It's called the invasion of Wales. It's about the best interpretation of the Welsh Revival. It's fabulous. The man God use was 26 years of age 26 the whole nation at his feet.

G Campbell Morgan came from London. SB Maya came from London. William Booth came from London. What? To see a man who could handle the Greek and Hebrew and fascinate the crowd hypnotize them. No, sir. That man had been praying it was 26.

He had been praying 13 years for revival. Had a guy call me about two weeks ago, mr. Rainbow, I hope it lands with my question. I said well, I'll try family's mother or something died. I said, I don't know if I can.

It's mr. Raymond. We've prayed and we fasted for revival and nothing's happened. I Said well brother, how long have you been praying and fasting? He said two days. Typical American, isn't it? Put them in the slot.

Wind the hand out it comes. Some of you women wish you could have your baby when you found you're pregnant. Have your baby in a week, eh? You carry it for what nine months, whatever it is, you know, there's a price to pay Presbyterian revival.

You could not become a member of the church unless you personally. Through your testimony at one another's soul to Jesus Christ not prayed with them and when they came to the altar that doesn't count.

Show me that you have life you've reproduced another Christian by the grace of God and Then when they found each when each person had Personally brought another soul into being prayed them through. Every church had to bring to birth another church.

Do you wonder they spread through the nation like wildfire you see? Sony in a Welsh revival went to the Cyclone Hills. That may ring a bell with you. If it doesn't that's a place where praying hide used to pray.

I Met somebody one day who prayed with praying hide man. I want to get all of that fell and lick in his face. Oh. You prayed with praying hide. Yes, I went to pray with him at quarter to three in the afternoon at a conference.

No, no, he said I'm speaking at quarter to three. I'll see you in the morning at quarter past nine. He said I went in the room and he said I waited 15 minutes for him to pray and he didn't pray. So I thought oh, well, of course he's waiting for me.

So he said I waited and Then he started to pray fellow thought stay out there and you're not coming in here. I'll never get to pray with this man again. No, I won't go to the door third time. Somebody opened the door and said brother hide.

It's a quarter of three or quarter till three you say quarter till three and you're to preach at three o 'clock. This man said ridiculous. It was quarter of nine when I read till nine when I knelt down here.

Quarters of nine to ten to eleven to twelve to one to two to three to four to three. Five hours six hours. It had gone like that. He said the fire was started in Wales. A man on fire went to the Cyclone Hills.

They had revival from there. They went to China. They had revival from there. They went to Korea. The Chinese said you can't go to Korea. They're so phlegmatic. They're not like us Chinese people. They went to Korea and had a bigger revival than they had in China.

Then he went back to China again. I've been reading a story this week. Dear Lord. There's a book called Joe, I don't know if you know it. Jack what was your five great missionaries mother? Five pioneer missionaries.

When I never I'd heard of him. I never read it. John Elliot at the side of him there's a man who had revival. Does it. There's a block of granite as big as this wall in in Dundee Scotland? I stood outside it says here the pastor of this church was John was praying Robert.

Robert Murray McShane get mixed up. Robert Murray McShane. He died at about 28. He traveled in birth. He went down to about a hundred pounds. He was skilled in Hebrew and Greek. The Lord said go to Israel.

He went to Israel when he got there. The Lord said hold off. He had to stay. He was sick. WC Burns is in that little book. We should get some of them. WC Burns followed Paul. Plants of Paulus waters. People say how long you've been preaching.

66 years. How many people have you led to the Lord? I don't know not the slightest idea. I've gone to churches where they said this is the best revival. Dr. Tozer said brother Rainer. This is the best revival in my church in 25 years.

The Alders were lined. We stayed till midnight. That's happened in many places. You know what a precious wife Is a gold medal nurse and she's a state-registered midwife in in England. I was and she's brought to birth babies in the ambulance babies when rats are running around the floor all kind boy.

I'm glad she didn't bring them home. I've gone to many places and seen travel of somebody else birth. I delivered the baby. We went to a town and saw town shaken from senators conference. We'd no money.

We slept in the tent ate in the tent. We stayed there eight weeks last week. Last year. I was invited to go back to that church and preach the 50th anniversary. Why. Because one morning when I was preaching I was sure it was a deacon.

You know how mischievous they are. A voice behind me said you're not the most spiritual man in this church. It was the biggest church holiness church in England. We more in our congregation Sunday mornings than any other church within 50 miles.

100 miles. And the Lord said you're not the most. I thought oh just like a Deacon, no, he wasn't a deacon. The little lady over there with a bonnet tied ribbon under a chin. You need to see that woman afterwards.

I asked about her. A man said, you know the little man on the front seat furnable. Yes, and that old lady. For 40 years there fasted and prayed for revival in this town and then new kids come along. He said we just had a blue shirt a nice tie and I was younger than I am now.

That was 1932 so you can guess I was sure handsome. That little lady's face would light up like an electric light in the prayer meetings. Lord, let your servant depart in peace. We've seen the salvation of God.

They prayed for weeks and months. They weren't concerned and anybody knew that they'd done it. She never once mentioned it in testimony meetings. If she testified she testified about maybe when Finney came to town.

Or that her grandfather was a circuit rider or somebody. But you see you you can't tell. I don't know who in the world dare say I've won so many souls. I haven't. The average preachers don't pray. God help them.

Prayer, Revival, and Spiritual Reproduction

I told you this new definitive study of Jonathan Edwards, I'm reading now. I opened the book. Sure. I would something knocked me flat. He prayed 13 hours every day he prayed and studied the Bible. It was common for men in those days.

Spirituality was not their priority. It was their life. It was their whole life. He's the man you may remember that said Lord stamp eternity on my eyeballs. He couldn't see a congregation. He saw eternity.

It was like that man that worked with Wesley for a while. George Winfield says when I see a congregation I don't see the wall at the back. I see the flames of hell the one to consume them. I have to plug my pants from the burning.

Where do you have preachers like that anymore? 13 hours every day with the Word of God and prayer. His secret was he lived in eternity six days a week and came down one day a week to declare what he'd seen.

Our preachers don't know blessed thing about that. I guarantee that the average preacher does not spend 13 hours a week. Never mind a day. Then I believe true Holy Ghost revival praying is preaching is to use it in a in a modern phrase I Believe true Holy Ghost.

Preaching is really open heart surgery. Instead of a scalpel, it's this word the Word of God quick and powerful sharper than any scalpel ever made in history. Dear God. When I was reading the other day about the famous Quaker one of the greatest ever as far as I'm concerned Stephen Grellet a brilliant Frenchman wealthy everything else.

When God met him I mentioned last week He was walking at the side of a forest when every leaf on every tree became a tongue and they began to chant eternity. Eternity eternity and he fell to the ground like Saul of Tarsus and when he got up he hadn't a thing of his own.

From that day. He says I'm a debtor to the whole world. And that precious man said this when I saw my vileness in the light of eternity. I groaned I cried For four or five days all night. I couldn't eat.

I couldn't sleep. Is the grace enough to come to a vile corrupt person like me? He won't. I'll be a sinner is the scholar scholar than a gentleman. They say we don't know a thing about conviction like that.

We want to sow the seed. On a break up the fallow ground sow the seed and water the seed and reap the harvest all in half an hour. It hasn't worked. You find this precious man. Well, he had come tell us put it one.

Contact with Jesus the first thing that's necessary. It love us now me Lord, I know sky love thee. The second thing is feed my sheep. Don't feed yourself. As I said last week Jesus didn't say to the rich young ruler go sell all our house and give it to the church.

Forget it. God help the preachers using all the money that's being used today. I Don't know about you. I don't have to respond the responsible for you every day now I say Lord, let me get nearer eternity today.

Not be better known not my book sell better. I'm going to eternity. There's no option about it. There's no option. We're going to eternity. There'll be no withholding Information like we've seen during this week with these guys lying.