Three-Fold Vision - Part 4 — Leonard Ravenhill

How beautiful the sight of thee must be, thine endless wisdom, boundless power and awful purity. Oh jesus jesus. Dearest lord forgive me if i say to very love thy sacred name a thousand times a day burn burn within me love of god.

The Call to Sanctification

Burn fiercely night and day till all the dross of earthly love is burned and burned away. We want to go and get sanctified. Put your knees to the ground raise your hands. Get. There are millions of people filled with time.

The Upper Room and the Need for the Holy Spirit

Come on. Be honest. Are we here to talk truth. How many people are in the upper room about. What about what. 120. I have it written in my office. I know the man that broadcasts to the world every sunday.

Dan vetzer. You know that. Just he's in florida anyhow. And he's written in it. He sent me the book he's written in it. There are now 120 million pentecostals and charismatics in the world. He came to my office.

I jumped on him. I said dan listen. You say there are 120 million black white yellow in asia asia minor africa new zealand the islands of the sea the solomon islands netherlands. 120 million people in the world there are only 120 in the upper.

Oh my god. What's wrong. Is there another holy ghost that we don't know. Or is it like they say we should have areas in our life. Lord touch this. Take the bad things. Take the failure out of my life.

Worldliness and the Jezebel Spirit

But there's something to leave. You know almost every magazine in the last year has had something about jezebel. Have you read those things. Jezebel is worldly jezebel. Is this. Listen. I'll get the whole place on my head.

I'm gonna do it. The jezebel spirit is worldly ness. A very famous preacher came to our house as a lot of them. And what time do you eat in the morning. I said. Well we take breakfast eight o 'clock. My wife has everything ready by eight o 'clock.

Wonderful. He comes out shaved dressed up. Uh waited. Is your wife coming. No she she takes a little longer. His wife came out at 10 o 'clock. Good lord. She did much paint on us. The queen mary the big.

The teeth were flaming red. Her eyes were black. Women used to be ashamed. You said black eyes. They thought your husband punched you. Now they go buy the stuff to make black eyes. No wonder women are late for church.

There's a pencil eyebrows in. Stick on the false fingernails. Get in the false teeth. Put on the wig before you go to church. You are you. Are you the real. You is someone normal. You don't make me angry.

We went to a house and a little girl said we've got a new pastor. Oh i like his wife. She's blonde hair. She was what you call. I call a uh. Oh yeah. Yeah. She's a kind of blood. But she's what i call a a suicide blonde died by her own hand.

Vanity, Appearance, and the Image of God

My precious god. Recently i saw that a woman said she's introducing women wear more trousers. Didn't know why. Because a woman sticks her hands in her pockets. Like then she stretched. She thinks she's masculine.

I married a woman. I don't want a man. But somebody said adam got eve not steve. I've never seen my wife with a spot of powder on a face. You know why. Because when i was a little boy we made up a poem.

Little dabs of powder. Little drops of paint. Make a girl's complexion something. But it ain't. You see every time you spend two hours with all the little making up. You're insulting god. You didn't make me right.

I'm not attractive. Why. Why do you get made up. Do you think god stands on duty. The door is. Has he judged. God looks on the outside appearance. My god. You think he did these days. You go to a church to sew makeup.

You think you're trying to rehearse for a film contract. Oh. You're meddling. Sure i'm meddling. How many. How long come on. How long does it take you to get ready to go to church sunday mornings. When you put that time into prayer.

How much money have you spent in the last 10 years on makeup. Come on. Why do you give it to mission. It's all right. I talked the other day with a man. I was a meeting. Wonderful boy. I went to them.

I told them the greatest statistics in america on abortion. How many people die every year of smoking. How many people die every year driving cars when they're drunk. How many people do this boy. Boy.

Did they thank me afterwards. Sure. Because hitting a man out there. If i talked to you about vanity and makeup you fellas speed it off off the hook. Listen lady. Don't make it. Make yourself up to come to church.

Make yourself up before you go to bed. I tell fellas don't look at that girl twice at seven o 'clock. And i go seven o 'clock in the morning to look at the old rank. You get cheated. Why are you stressing this.

The Bride of Christ and True Spiritual Beauty

Because one of my favorite chapters is about the bride of christ. I think david. Is it. Psalm 45 the king's daughter is all glorious. What in a hairdo. Some of you women the past few years have spent more on hairdos than you give to missions.

Vanity Before the Judgment Seat of Christ

There's going to be a day when we're all disgusted and shocked and amazed at the judgment seat of christ. A lady not far from us. And you know a name. I won't tell you. Why not. Paul doesn't. He's not afraid to expose people.

Is he. Oh i'd like to go to a pentecost. Me. Would you. Listen. I'm going down the street and there's peter. We're in john. I say hey peter. I want to ask you a question. Boy you had an anointing sunday morning.

I never thought ananias was such a hypocrite. And safira. Good lord. I went home and said our pastor killed a couple this morning. Now peter don't you go home and kill all the hypocrites in your church.

There'll be nobody left. How many people went to church the next sunday huh. David used a phrase i love this morning. I used to say to my class my friday night class. I want to so live that jesus is comfortable living in me.

Living Under God's Will

One of my tutors at cliff college used to use. Well they did use again this morning. By the way the epistle of james used i'm going to so and so. No no. You don't know even tomorrow. Never mind next year.

It says if god wills i'll go.