A Man of God Pt. 2 - Leonard Ravenhill — From the Pulpit & Classic Sermons

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This week we have Leonard Ravenhill with his message, A Man of God, Part 2.

The Need for Revival and Hunger for God

Young men in this country have never seen revival. They've never seen meetings that go until two or three in the morning. People that won't go home. Or if they do go home, say, I can't eat, I can't turn on my TV, I'm so hungry for God.

I'm so tired of my neighbor's going to hell. My daughter came home and tells me she's pregnant. My son came home, he's on drugs. There's all kinds of messing, even amongst believers, even amongst the pastors' children.

So we need to rediscover the value of a human soul. Our people need to be taught what repentance is, what the atonement is, what forgiveness is, what pardon is, what justification is, what the witness of this is.

They don't know. They want to kneel down, live five minutes, pass from death to life, and become a full-blown Christian. It can't happen. Jackie Bollinger was here, and we were talking about people being converted.

She said, well, a man knocked at my door recently, and I went and I said, well, let's call him Bill. That wasn't his name. Oh, Bill, come in. No, no, Miss Jackie, I'm being a bad boy. I left you 13 years ago.

You took me in. I was a drug addict. I was a drunkard. I was a fighter. I was a bad man. And I got saved and filled with the Spirit and spoke in tongues. But then I just went to the devil. The devil took me.

I left my wife and child. I took another woman. I've been in and out of prison. I know. I've seen your record in the newspaper. But he said, I've been wicked for almost 13 years. I've done everything shamelessly.

But three months ago, in my prison cell, Jesus came to me. And I was saved again, and he's restored me to have his peace, to have his joy. But he said, Miss Jackie, I want to tell you that every night for the last three months, I've wept two to three hours every night.

And she thought she would comfort him. She said, well, Bill, you don't need to do that. Your sins are under the blood. I'm not worried about my sins. What are you worried about? I'm worried about the fact that for 13 years, I've denied God the right to use my tongue and use my heart and use my mind and use my thinking.

And I'm sorry. She said, that's the best case of repentance I've ever heard. Well, this one isn't just saying I did these lousy things, but I've denied God the right. What could I have been if I had? What would Swaggart be if he hadn't messed his life up?

He might have been a new deliverer for this nation, but the devil got him. And now he's arrogant. He says, it's no business of yours. They tell me when he said that two weeks ago, the audience stood up and clapped and gave him a standing ovation.

He'll gather thousands of people living in adultery and devilry. They don't care. I just hope God spares him. I mean, if I were God, I'd cut the guy off. He's had his second chance. Adam didn't get a second chance.

Judas didn't get a second chance. Why does Swaggart expect it? But we're in that day now where sin doesn't mean much to us. I mean, I weep over the guy, but what does Jesus do? He's crucified the Son of God of faith.

Judgment, Christian Work, and Defiling the Temple

I was reading last night to Martha. I said, darling, look, I don't understand this. In fact, I wrote to a friend at 2 o 'clock this morning where, what is it, 2 Corinthians 3 says, the fire shall try every man's work and what, not what size it is, but what sort it is, and then, but the thing that balls me over, maybe you fellows can help me.

Maybe that's why the Lord sent you today. And I'm serious about this. I think it's 1 Corinthians. Yeah, 1 Corinthians 3, that's right. Yeah, man. 1 Corinthians 3, isn't it? Or 13. Yes. Everyone's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it.

Well, let's put it in a nutshell. Dear brothers, when you and I go to the judgment, we're not going to have our passports checked. We're going to have our baggage checked. What have we been collecting all our lives?

Okay, look at verse 13. If anyone's work shall be made manifest, the day shall declare it, because it will be revealed by fire. The fire shall try every man's work, what sort, not what size it is. Now, if every man's work abide which is built thereon, he shall receive a reward.

Now look at this 15th verse. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved by fire. Now look at verse 17. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.

Now what do you do? God's going to destroy that man. Did Jimmy Swigert ever think he's standing for 5 billion people, or you and I will? With all the archangels there, all the apostles of the New Testament, all the prophets of the Old Testament gazing on me, and God reads my record out.

We've lost sight of the judgment. If we began every meeting in the light of the judgment, we'd be prostrate before the end of this service. You wouldn't think about running home to turn the lousy TV on.

The early Pentecostal meetings, brother, used to go at 8 in the morning and stay till 5 or 6 at night. They had a meal on the grounds, particularly in America, and then have an afternoon session and an evening session, have three or four sermons.

I don't know why you have to go to that. But this is, nobody's answering my question. Him shall God destroy. Not his record be destroyed, but he shall be destroyed. How can a man mix with a harlot when he knows his body is the temple of the Holy Ghost and that is all in his head?

I mean, the body is the temple. Isn't it awesome when you think, two men, five years ago, had the world at their feet. Jimmy Swigert got arrogant because God called him to evangelize the world in the first place.

That's wrong. He said that nobody would go to. David Wilson went to him two years before that mess up. He went to PTO two years before and told them, and they wouldn't listen to him. It's no good saying they're no friends.

They were so arrogant, they became alone to themselves. Nobody dared correct them. They wouldn't listen to counsel. They got on a crest, as they say in the world, they got on a roll. Swigert's taking three million a week in.

I hear he still takes in nearly a million a week. But where's the power? I'm not looking for a modern Elijah. I'm looking for a kind of a hundred Elijahs in different areas to come.

The Fear of God and the Coming Judgment

Would you respond to this passage of Scripture from Isaiah? In light of what you're saying. In Isaiah 29, verse 13, it says, Wherefore the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men. Their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men.

It's all being watered down, I mean, don't fear.

The fear of God and not the Spirit of God teaching us the fear of God.

Yeah, but, I mean, you got the, again, the more I've read the last month of Noah, I just think I've read the Bible with my eyes closed before. He was moved with fear. Did he think, what do you think happened, dear brother?

The first ten years after he told those people he's building the ark, don't cut that tree down. Adam used to know that tree. What are you doing, ruining the countryside, cutting your trees down? What are you doing all lying there?

And he's got his family with him that were wonderful. I mean, they weren't 17, 18-year-old kids. They must have been 100 years old. But anyhow, the fact is, after ten years of salvation, you old fool, there used to be a man going up my gump, I says, an old man went up and down there with a white beard, with his hands raised to heaven.

Remember, they'd never seen a Bible, they'd never seen a priest, never seen an altar, never seen a sacrifice. And yet, Enoch walks up and down, doesn't care a hill of beans. And God made a hole in the sky, and he saw something that hasn't happened yet.

The Lord cometh with 10 ,000 of his saints. We think gentle Jesus, meek and mild, is coming. Forget it. Everybody likes that name. Charles Wesley wrote it. What about, I wrote to a guy this, what did I say, 2 o 'clock, 3 o 'clock this morning?

Lo, he comes with clouds. When he comes, it's going to be terrible in his majesty. Nobody's going to jump on his knee or say, Popper, I've come to see you. Forget it. We're going to fall. I mean, if John fell at his feet as dead, and John used to lay his head on his bosom, what are you and I going to do?

But we don't live in that realm. We don't live in the realm of the spirit. We live in the realm of reason. And we've reasoned, oh, God is a loving God. He doesn't send my judgment. He does, and he's going to do.

I think we're heading for the next, unless a miracle happens, we'll have a financial crash within three years, a bankruptcy, which may do something. But on the other hand, I don't believe that if we had two earthquakes, and one went north to south, and America was in four pieces, that people would repent.

They only repent when conviction of sin comes. You can't deny the Holy Ghost his office right. When he is coming, you'll convict of sin and righteousness and judgment to come. We don't live in that area.

I mean, nobody expects Jesus to come today. They say they do. But if they do, he that hath this hope in him, purify. He doesn't say when he is come, he'll give us 24 hours gnosis. If we're in purity, he'll call us.

If we're in purity, he won't call us. When we should be like him, not an hour after he comes, not a day after, but that very moment, if I'm not walking in the will of God, in known purity, I don't believe we'll be taken.

Doesn't matter if you're a pastor of the biggest church in town, ten times as big as Billy Graham. Won't make any difference. All our ideas are perverted anyhow. There's not much meekness. Blessed are the meek.

They shall inherit the earth. Oh dear God, where is the meekness anymore? Oh, we have the biggest church in town. We're on so many radio stations. Oral Roberts used to say that. Swaggart said it. So what's it got then?

God is a jealous God. Paul said, But for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works. Ministers of righteousness, but ministers of Satan.

Purity, Christian Perfection, and the Word of God

Don't you think that like when you talk to some people about victory in the Christian... Oh, well, my righteousness is as filthy as eggs that will get saved. What does John say? He that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous.

I mean, you can't be part of this. I mean, there are no degrees in purity. There are degrees in life. There are no degrees in death. That man's dead. This man isn't. He's injured. He's incapacitated. He has a mind problem, physical.

But you preach Christian perfection. They laugh at you these days. Purity. Then you're scorned. But as Christ said, he hath this hope in him purified himself. And Paul writes to the... to the Peter, rather, in his first epistle, Ye have purified your hearts by faith.

As I said to a congregation, you're just as spiritual as you want to be. All these men here only have the same Bible I have. They used it better. It's only 24 hours on the clock. I could do with a 48-hour clock.

And I'd still use it.

Now are you cleaned by the word which I've spoken unto you? Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his flesh, not taking heed thereto according to thy word?

Yes. Well, it goes on to say that very thing, doesn't it? Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin, not just occasionally get victory. I mean, dear God, what's the difference between us and others?

Oh, speaking in tongues. Mormons speak in tongues. Every devout Mormon speaks in tongues. But they live like devils, a lot of them. There's only one thing I think the devil can't fake, and that's a holy life.

He's tried to do it through monasteries. But going back a minute, I don't know if you read it, and I don't know whether I read it recently, in two different accounts, where two different men said, if I could now, I would start a Christian monastery.

What they mean is, like the Bible school I went to, there were no TVs in those days. There were radios. You couldn't take a radio. You couldn't take an automobile. When you went on the campus, you stayed from October till Christmas.

They went home for a few days, came back and stayed till Easter. You couldn't go off the campus except have a haircut. You couldn't go shopping. You couldn't drive a car, anything. There were no girls there.

They were too distracting. And we were shut up. You came here to know the Word of God, and they did a pretty good job. But now, dear God, I know a boy that went to ORU. His daddy, as an agency of cars, he gave him a new car, bought him a new typewriter, bought him new clothes, a new set of golf clubs, everything he had.

And within a month, he wrapped the new car around a lamppost. Total wreckage. Called back and said, oh, oh, don't come home, don't come home. Mommy's bringing a new car tomorrow. And that's all they did.

Back him up like that. Oral Roberts says he has 4 ,000 young people there full of the Holy Ghost baloney. How could he have 4 ,000 if there were only 120 in the upper room? His people go to, they can't dance on the premises, but they go to other places to dance.

Why don't there be places where they say students are spending all night in prayer, in intercession. We've never been in the mess we're in now. We're nearer judgment than we've ever been in America and England.

Spiritual Decline in the Church and Among Young People

I think England and America are the modern Sodom and the modern Gomorrah. They never had the chances we have. They never had the Bibles, they never had the seminars, never had all the Christian periodicals.

How many, at this moment, how many teams do you think there are around America either going around teaching spiritual warfare or something else? Every magazine you come out, we've got something new. And we're feeding jaded appetites.

If we once had a Holy Ghost revival that say got all of a dozen out of a hundred men in a factory and they began instead of going to lunch, they had a lunch, then they had a prayer meeting or something which soon spread, but we don't know that.

And I don't know by what I read we're going to do the same thing the next ten years we've done, the last ten years we've done nothing. But it's like Spurgeon said, you see there's a stick there and it's the most crooked stick I've ever seen.

Don't argue about it, put the straight stick at the side of it. You see the truth with our young people, brother, they don't know. They don't know what they believe. Like John Fred Wolf has one of the biggest Southern Baptist Church in Mobile.

I've preached there and he's put a new building up since 4000. And he says we feel responsible for 11 ,000 students in this area. But he said I wonder why it is in their sophomore year, which is what the second year they're in college, they leave church.

Well you can guarantee those kids went to daily vacation Bible school, most likely went to a Christian camp. I guarantee 99, 95 have made a profession of Christianity. When they get away from home, I'm not going to go to church.

You can play sports here, you can go down to the sea and bathe, you can have a walk. Why do they deserve like that? I mean why don't they have an appetite for God? But they don't. I mean three weeks ago, the fellow that's taken up the, to be assistant of Dr. Criswell, he blasted Baylor University, the mess it's in.

But then guys tell me going to Baylor, it's not known any longer as a spiritual place, it's known now as a, well it's a liberal arts college and it's known mostly for its football team. But why do the kids suddenly have no appetite?

When they get teenagers, get away from home, well I won't have to go to church, my folk have made me go every time. There's no appetite. So there's no relationship with God. And if we spent time at the altar and took them through step by step what it means to become a Christian.

Your life is hid with Christ in God, you're not your own, you're bought with a price that you've no time of your own, you've no money of your own, you've no interest of your own. Christ must become a complete master.

We don't do that. And unless we do, we're not going to have a change. I mean there are people that are really hungry, there are people that meet Dave Wilkins and folk on the streets who are like, I've never seen a Christian in my life.

Well, what they say, the average church member is just like us, very often they're smoking until they go in the meeting at the last minute, when they come out it's the cowboys or something, where's the difference?

And it isn't there. But it all comes down, I don't care whether it's swagger or PTL, it comes down, it breaks down with personal devotion to Christ. They quit praying, they quit reading the word of God, they haven't time.

And therefore they start rotting from the inside. There isn't a nation big enough to destroy, America will destroy ourselves, the present rate of development in herpes and AIDS is appalling. The lid hasn't been taken off the thing yet.

I don't think the government dare tell us what's happening in the country. It's the same in England. But where are God filled men? I mean, Swaggart says, the day after, he'd been in that trouble, I was going to step down and let my son take over, but I woke up full of the Holy Ghost, no, he woke up full of tongues.

He gave his tongues and he took it, that's a sign. But the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. I see a girl wearing a big ring and she says, well, Jack gave me that. I go back to the church six months after and say, well, oh, did you get that?

Oh no, we quarreled after that. But you're still wearing the ring. Yes, well, of course, Jack's gone, but he left his ring by the same token. The Holy Ghost has gone, but he left his gift. The gifts and callings are without repentance.

Revival History and Transforming Grace

Who moved London more than Irving? Edward Irving in his day. Carriages jostled each other, Parliament suspended so they could run out near this great oratory. Every kind of sign and wonder built that colossal church.

Then finally, stood on the platform and said, I am the Son of God. I've kept this veil to you, but now here I am. There's everything. Men call him the 13th Apostle. There's no questions about what happened.

There's a whole book on him. I have it. And you've got all these amazing moves. I guess you've read something of Wigglesworth. Have you read John G. Lake? John G. Lake's books are published now by Christ for the Nations.

There's four of them. That man is... Well, here I'm standing here and I talk with Wigglesworth. Wigglesworth is here. I'm here. John Lake is up there. He talked about apostolic Christianity and it all.

Beyond anything we've ever known. I don't think it's the only answer. I think the answer is when people are so transformed and no longer mean and no longer selfish, no longer covetous, but they give themselves...

I mean, when children say something happened to my daddy, he's been a Baptist for all his life or something happened or my daddy's been a Methodist or now my daddy's been a charismatic, but something suddenly changed.

He's become different. He's Christ-like. He speaks gently to my mother. He's concerned about us. It isn't, well, I'm going to the World Series whether you like it or not. Or I'm going to a ball game, you know, Super Bowl.

And I said to these preachers, you say, I can't take three days off. I say, you took more than three days off to go deer hunting. You took three days off to go fishing. Why can't you pastors set the standard and say there's going to be a meeting for pastors at least one day a week or one night a week and we get together.

We evangelicals really lay hold of God for revival in our city. These kids around here will raise money to go to Hong Kong for three days or go to South America. But when they come back as soon as they get off the plane, their compassion dies.

What are you going to do with kids like that? And they'll keep doing it as long as we want them. You know, oh, we took a number of our people from our church. We took them on a cruise. But you're touching the elite of the church all the time.

You've done that year after year and the poor people are struggling. If you can take six or seven days off for a cruise, can't you take six or seven days off for a nation that's going to hell? What do you want to do?

Kids lying in the street fornicating? People clobbering a man on the head and stealing his watch? That's sin to become before your eyes, before we feel. I mean, how many... It's all right to say I want to be like Jesus.

Do I want to be like... Do I want Gethsemane? I've never heard a person yet, dear brother, and I've gone to church for 80 years. I've heard men say I was born again. I went to the cross. I've had my...

I've had my upper room experience. I've never heard a man say I've had Gethsemane experience. I've had broken... My dad was the nearest of that. My dad couldn't say grace at mealtime without tears. Right now, I have invitations to seven different...

I'm not going to one. I said, because if people say, what's happening in America? I can't say there's a revival anywhere, I know. I said, do you think I'm going to talk to them about the Holy Ghost revival when we're dying and doomed and damned here and we're running into worse trouble?

Altar Calls, Repentance, and Genuine Revival

Well, it's in the scriptures. What does God say? I can't give you glory because you honor one another. That's one of the biggest sentences we have. Like John Wimbledon wanted to eulogize me. And I said, if you do, I'll walk off the platform.

Well, I went to say, well, first of all, we talked about revival. He said, well, you told Bickle that in revival you don't make altar calls. I said, you don't? He said, I've never been in a meeting like that.

So I said, when we come, I said, let our David speak an hour before I do and our David's free now. He's pulled out from a church. He's free to go anywhere. I said, so David preached an hour. We had a 15 minute break and I preached for an hour and a half.

And while I was preaching, the whole audience broke up. They came in, hundreds to the front and wept and groaned and cried out audibly, make me clean, purify me. And that happened six days. We never had three one week and three the next.

We never had an altar call. We didn't have to. They came to the altar and stayed not five minutes, two and three hours calling on God. You read Luke chapter three, what does it say? John was preaching and the people cried out, what should we do?

And the soldiers cried out, what should we do? And the publicans cried out, dear God, when heathen men start crying out, what should we do? You know God's there. There's no pleading altar call. No, what did they say on the day of Pentecost?

Men and brethren, what should we do? We're panicking. The altar doesn't mean anything. Now they come out every week. We're romanizing our protestants. Oh, get your sins forgiven and go back and do the same lousy thing.

It's ridiculous. You don't do that if you go to death. When you die to self, you die to business promotion, you die to ambition, you lay it all out and say, we mean this with this, let God go on record, put us on record.

We're not going to do anything unless we get there. We've got to, what do we have not long ago? Do you remember A .A. Allen? A .A. Allen used to have meetings. You get 500 come forward on the way home to his hotel.

He phoned his call girl and she met him there. He died with liquor bottles, whiskey bottles all around his room. There's a whole bunch of men done that. You don't find anything like that amongst the old fashioned revivalists, true revivalists.

That's why I like, I like to read a book like this one on the accounts of revival. I mean, it's something we don't know a thing about, dear God, pity us. We say we have the same Bible, the same Holy Ghost.

Why do we get the same results? The menace of many of our meetings is we try to get people saved who don't know their loss. Come forward, the Lord loves you, the Lord loves you, the Lord hates you. Why do we put a stunk, instead of a bumper sticker, God loves you, God is angry with the wicked every day.

Oh, the wicked should be turned into hell, we'd soon be in trouble. Fools make a market sin. But we don't do that, we don't even preach it. But I know there's a hunger across America by the phone calls I get.

Guys are coming to a stone wall now. There isn't a church in this town that's having a move of God, they say. Well, pray till there is, get together.

Spiritual Famine and the Call to Prayer

The prophet Amos said, Behold the days saith the Lord, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in the land. Yes. Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord.

And shall not find it. Is that literally like no Bibles or is it that the word isn't a living word? It doesn't, I mean, you can read it. I go and hear a fellow and he preaches, there's no passion, there's no tears, there's no, you know, I'd rather, like Richard Baxter, I preached as if to never preach again and as a dying man to dying men.

You think these fellows are professional, he gets paid, and when he steps out to the pulpit, he says, hey John, what about a round of golf on Wednesday or Thursday? And immediately they switch from the spiritual and the eternal to some stupid thing.

I wouldn't take any notice of them anyhow. I'd say, Pastor, live it, live it, live it. Don't tell me to pray, meet with me in the church. When I got saved, and then after I touched the doctor's sanctified, there was a blank in my life, and first thing I went to the pastor, I said, Pastor, I want a prayer meeting on Wednesday night.

On Friday night for the young people. Oh, well, it's not good for young people to meet together. I said, you come and supervise if you think we're going to fool around. So we started a prayer meeting on Friday night at seven, and we prayed till nine.

I started a prayer meeting at seven Sunday morning, and I lived outside the boundary of town. I walked to the prayer meeting, walked home for breakfast, walked home for the morning service, walked home for lunch, walked back for the afternoon service, walked home for supper, walked for the night service, and God began to move and people in the neighborhood got to say that had never happened before.

Revival Movements and Street Witness

But, you see, once you've been in that, it's like, I say, not Colonel Bringle, but Major Thomas said, no, Major Russell, that once he got back in the fire of the Welsh Revival, everything had been burned.

He got on the train and going home. He couldn't get back to London quick enough to tell that the Holy Ghost had fallen. I mean, the first greatest revival in England was the Western Revival that went to 90, no, the Western Revival.

And then the next one was the Salvation Army, which went into 70 countries in 90 years, not 70, but 70 countries. Dear God, they had the most amazing night prayer meetings and training students and getting down to the Bible and prayer.

And every week they were taken to a night of prayer and they were taken to street meetings somewhere in London. They were meeting sin head on, visiting taverns, talking to the harlots, which nobody does now except just about Dave Wilson and Tim Delaney down in the Motor City that was doing the same thing.

But we're all sitting inside for our Ted John webinar. So why do you sit inside a four-wall singing let the earth hear his voice? It doesn't make sense. Let the earth hear his voice. Get out. Stand on a box.

Call a man to witness. Call a woman to witness. Sing a hymn. You can't preach very much to crowds. But before long, you say we're going to be here every Saturday night for the next winter or summer. And they come with expectations.

They plan the shopping like people used to do with us. They planned to come shopping on Friday night and Saturday night because we're in the town square. And we didn't miss for three years. And our young people came.

You didn't have to whip them. They came eagerly, you know, giving a chance to witness. I said, if anybody stands on this box who isn't telling the truth, you interrupt them because I'm the leader. And I said, I'll check on them.

Don't let a man talk when he's not walking in it. If he's walking in it, if the man is in your factory, your office, if they're not telling the truth, come and tell me and I'll chase them off. Well, we didn't need to advertise in the paper.

Dear God, I was the best-known man in town. Even though the cathedral was only 300 yards away from us. It was a magnificent cathedral. I only got 500 Sunday night. They stood outside and lined up like a movie house.

But the cathedral got 50. So, where do you go? I mean, the cathedral is ornate. It had gold plates on the... or gold communion things and candlesticks on the altar. It was like a miniature Westminster Abbey, stained glass windows.

But what is that to the glory of God? I mean, our place was packed an hour before time. Our prayer meetings were packed. We had three prayer meetings a week and three street meetings. And that's why that church kept in continuous revival for the three years I was there.

And it's still there today. Well, brethren, what I want to say is either the Bible is absolute or obsolete. Which is it? Is God all he says he is? Is Hebrews 11, 6 what we need to rediscover? He that cometh to God must believe that he is.

What does it matter about Swaggart and all the rest? I know it's objectionable. It hurts. And people tell me now they're already cracking jokes about Swaggart. If God told me I could go on preaching, a guy told me the other night, somebody said, well, if God says he can go on preaching, the message is in why didn't God tell him there's a cop following him out the road in a car?

They're not as dumb as they appear to be. I think it all boils down to one of the oldest hymns we hardly ever sing it. Trust and obey. There's no other way. No other way. It's hard on the flesh. It's hard against the lifestyle of preachers round about us.

But what does God want? I'm not going to the judgment bar of the Assemblies of God or the First Baptist Church. I'm going to the judgment bar of Jesus Christ. And I live with that every day. His words that will judge us.

Yes. That's what he said. It's not what's just in the book of life. As Tozer said to me one day, he said, Leonard, I don't think I'm ashamed of what I've done since I was saved. It's what I could have done that troubles me.

And not what I did, but why I did it. God has been away the mortars. I mean, I had D. Campbell Morgan say, I had talked with a friend of mine the other day, and he'd been preaching in a church I love to go to.