The Anointing of God — Jim Cymbala

Conference that I want to thank everyone for, all the folks over here have been so gracious to my wife and I. In case you don't know anything about the Brooklyn Tabernacle or our ministry, 26 years ago my wife and I came to a run-down building in downtown Brooklyn, a depressing situation with less than 20 people in the church.

The first offering I took on a Sunday morning was $85. That was the total tithes and offerings for that service. We were in the ghetto, inner city, drug and alcoholism all around us. But on top of that, I had never been to seminary.

I was a basketball player in high school and college and came into the ministry in an unusual way, which I won't belabor now. And my wife, although she's won two Grammy Awards now, my wife has never learned to read or write music technically.

She's not trained, so she can't read or write the music that she's producing where other people are singing it. So next to that verse in the Bible, God uses the foolish things of this world and the weak things.

My picture is right there in the Bible next to that verse along with my wife. Because God's not looking for talent. God's looking for availability. God's not looking for geniuses because He knows everything already.

The Lord is just looking for somebody who He can break and make and fill and use for His glory. So it's a real honor for us to be here. We had four services yesterday in New York City, and we got on that airplane early this morning.

But we really counted, as I said, an honor to be here to minister the Word of God. I'd like you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of 1 Thessalonians. And I want to read some portions of Scripture.

And if you don't mind, I'm going to ask you to read little clumps of verses because it's not one particular sentence I want to focus on, but it's an aroma. It's a fragrance. It's an atmosphere that I want to direct your attention to today.

Paul's Loving Ministry in Thessalonica

In 1 Thessalonians, the second chapter, Paul is talking about his ministry among the people there in Thessalonica. And we pick it up in verse 5 as he's reviewing his time with them. You know, I'm reading from the NIV, you know that we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed.

God is our witness. We were not looking for praise from men, not from you or anyone else. As apostles of Christ, we could have been a burden to you, but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children.

We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us. Then look down at verse 17, same chapter. But brothers, when we were torn away from you for a short time in person, not in thought, out of our intense longing, we made every effort to see you.

For we wanted to come to you, certainly I, Paul, did again and again, but Satan stopped us. For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes?

Is it not you? Indeed, you are our glory and joy. So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens, and we sent Timothy, who is our brother and God's fellow worker in spreading the gospel of Christ to strengthen and encourage you in the faith.

And then in the third chapter, verse 6, he's giving the account now of Timothy's return. But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us just as we also long to see you.

Therefore, brethren, in all of our distress and persecution, we were encouraged about you because of your faith. For now we really live since you are standing firm in the Lord. Now, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters in the ministry, people on the platform, let's talk, we'll cut all the preacher's talk, and let's just cut to the chase because the hour is late here and I want to really open my heart to you about something of real concern.

Ministry Entrusted With the Gospel

You know, this conference is so important and what happens in each session is so important because the calling that we have and what we're involved in, we're not selling thumbtacks. We're not slinging hash somewhere.

We have been entrusted with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you're here in this building and you're involved in service for God, you have been entrusted by God, chosen before the foundation of the world, not because of anything in you, but just God's sovereign choice.

You've been entrusted to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ in the part of the vineyard where He's put you. And I want to remind all of you here today that at the end of your life, you and I are all going to stand at the judgment seat of Christ.

And the quality of our work is going to be reviewed. Why these sound guys and guys who are helping from the church, why they're really doing it. Are they doing it for a buck? Are they doing it to be noticed?

Or are they doing it out of a real service for the Lord? The Bible says God's going to check and look into the motives of the heart. Why is Jim Cimbala preaching? Why is he in the Brooklyn tabernacle?

What kind of preparation goes into those sermons? Why is he preaching? What's his relationship with those people? You're not going to be reviewed by your peers. It won't matter who thinks you're hot. Your Sunday school numbers won't mean a bit of interest to God.

Because he's not looking at quantity. One of the disturbing things about the ministry today is that when you talk to 99 out of 100 pastors and you say, how is your church doing? They talk about three things.

The attendance, the budget, and the plans. The attendance, how many they're running. The budget, how much money they're taking in. And how big their building is. And how extensive it is. And none of those three things are mentioned in the New Testament.

None of those three things are even mentioned. Our religion began meeting in caves and upper rooms. In Jesus' seven letters to the church in Revelation, we don't know what one of them was running on Sunday morning.

It could have been Laodicea was running 4 ,000. But it didn't matter because they all were going to be vomited soon out of the Lord's mouth. Smyrna or one of those other churches might have been running only a faithful couple hundred.

But they were people who were really in tune with God. God was reviewing not quantity or numbers. Big buildings God gives to cults. We know that by being here in this city. Big buildings don't mean anything.

Large amounts of money don't mean anything. God gives that to people who curse him. The Brooklyn Tabernacle is going to be reviewed. My ministry is going to be reviewed by what kind of people are in the Brooklyn Tabernacle.

What are we making of the Christian church? And this is an awesome day that we live in because the church of Jesus Christ has been invaded by technicians. Not men of God, not men of prayer, not men of the scriptures, but clever people.

People who are better with computers than the Word of God and on their knees. And they have brought in a revisionist theology that has now revised what the church is. And I want to remind all of you today, nobody has a right to change the church of Jesus Christ.

You didn't found it, Jesus founded it. You don't have to reinvent it, just do what the book says. God doesn't need any creative thought. How many say amen? So the Bible tells us that days like this would come.

The Church Called to Prayer and Holiness

Men have come in now and revised what the church is. Instead of a spiritual organism, they continue steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and in the fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers.

We have made it. How can you get people for one hour on Sunday morning into the building? That's a church. I want to remind you tonight, that's a meeting of people for one hour. And now it's don't mention sin.

Don't get anybody's face. User-friendly, seeker-sensitive nonsense that will never wash when we stand before the one whose eyes are like fire. It's never going to wash when we stand before Him. So what has happened, ladies and gentlemen, is we have this pathetic situation where pastors tell me they can't let the meeting run past an hour because everyone's looking at the clock.

They'll walk out even while you're serving communion. So go home and watch an NFL game that's going to go on for three hours. Or an NBA game that's going to go on for three hours. And doesn't somebody think this is not what God intended when He started the church?

I mean, doesn't that dawn on anybody that the people today don't want to be in the presence of God? They're shortening the meetings, shortening the meetings. Prayer meetings died out decades ago. Sunday night services are going the way of high-button shoes.

And we're hiding behind doctrinal statements and the fact that we've programmed these little Protestant masses for one hour and people come. But listen, trouble is looming. When I played basketball, you didn't do it by faith.

You had a scoreboard. And when you were playing for eight or nine minutes and the score was 22 to six, the coach called a timeout. And we'd go over there and nobody looked and said, isn't this fun? We've got nice uniforms with gold trim.

The coach would say, we're going to change. We have to change. We're going to press or we're going to go into a zone press or we're going to run the ball or slow the ball down or go to man-to-man or do something.

But we're losing. So we change. We are now divorcing in the church at the same rate as outside the church. The divorce rate is just as high, people professing Christ in the church as outside of the church.

And last year, evangelical ministers divorced at the highest rate in history. Church meetings are getting smaller and there's less mention of sin because pastors have yielded to, I've got to accommodate the lowest carnal denominator because some of these people give big money.

And if I offend them by following the Holy Spirit and letting the meeting go too long or really step on their toes, they'll leave and my budget will go down. So I'm going to have to dance with them and sacrifice the teaching of the true word of God.

But brothers and sisters, I plead with you in the name of the Lord. Your work is not going to be reviewed by people. Your work is going to be, my work is going to be reviewed by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

And we cannot compromise to keep the numbers up. I mean, what does it matter what the numbers are if the people don't want to be in the house of God? I talked to well-known ministers, well-known ministers who write books, who are famous, who tell me over a cup of coffee privately off the record, Jim, I couldn't have a prayer meeting in my church.

Nobody would come. They'll pay $15 for a Christian concert to hear a Christian singer, and for free they won't come into the presence of God and call upon the name of the Lord. For free. And yet every revival has been characterized by what?

Great teaching, great pulpiteering, eloquence? Never. Prayer. When God's people, when His people begin to pray, something good begins to happen. And am I the only one embarrassed in America that's a minister when you hear ministers pressing these political buttons and saying, isn't it terrible we don't have prayer in school?

Are you kidding? We don't have prayer in the church. The Bible never indicates there was prayer in the Roman Empire in schools. But the early church seemed to be doing pretty good because they had prayer meetings in the church.

Why should they pray in school? I'm all for prayer in schools. But wouldn't it be better to begin in church? And wouldn't that say something about my ministry? Wouldn't that say something about anybody's ministry here?

If the people don't want to be in the presence of God, how good could your sermons be? How sound is your doctrine? Your doctrine might be sound, but something's missing. Ladies and gentlemen, we're in a position now where people do not want to be in the house of God, but they're renting filthy videos, they're watching television hours on end, watching sports they know more about than Michael Jordan and the Apostle Paul.

This is not the church that Jesus had in mind when he died on the cross. This is not the church described in the book of Acts. And you can write me off as a fanatic, but I'm trying to stick with the Word of God.

Justification, Heaven, and the Reality of Spiritual Desire

Now, I've often asked the question, why would God send to people, why would God send to heaven the people in our churches when that's the last thing they want to do is be in His presence? No, I'm serious.

I believe in justification by faith. I know Reformation theology, but I'm asking you a question. If Mr. and Mrs. Jones are looking at the clock after one hour, one time a week, and then are going to go to their real life to do the things they really enjoy, why would heaven be heaven to them?

Why would they want to be there, and why would God send them there? I think it's time for us to humble ourselves and look at some of these things. Because, you know what, if I'm doing something wrong, I want God to break me now and change it.

I don't want to find out at the judgment seat of Christ that I was just building on puff. This American church system is so skewed that sometimes when we read the Bible, this is like a foreign element to us.

Every time there was a crisis, they just gathered to pray. And God would send His Holy Spirit and something wonderful would happen. We live in a very challenging day right now. A very, very, very challenging day.

Because these revisionists have come in and are telling us that the numbers and the building and the budget means you're doing well when it doesn't mean you're doing well. All my wife and I will be able to present to the Lord is the quality of these people.

Are they really hooked up and want to live holy lives? Are they living in the Word every day? Do they have an appetite for prayer? Are they really filled with the Holy Spirit? Are they lukewarm and ready to be vomited out of the mouth of the Lord?

And I don't want my life to go to waste. My wife and I are killing ourselves in New York City. Four meetings on Sunday each, at least two hours long. Yesterday was a long day for me. But I don't want to find out at the end of the day that I was building something that God say, Who asked you to build that?

The people don't even know me. Who asked you to build that? Oh, well, I got that from the tradition I got growing up. I didn't ask you to do your tradition. I asked you to do the Word of God. So, ladies and gentlemen, Paul's reference in 2 Corinthians 3 jumps out at me right now.

Competent Ministers of the New Covenant

He says, I don't need letters of recommendation from you or to you. You're my letters of recommendation. I don't need credentials. You are. What did he mean? You Christians are the result of my ministry.

God wrote by the Holy Spirit, not with ink on the tablets of stone, but by the Holy Spirit in the tablets of your heart. God wrote through my ministry because He's made me a competent minister of the New Covenant.

I would say the greatest need today in America is for a revival to hit the ministry so that we would become competent ministers of the New Covenant, not of the letter that kills, but of the Spirit that gives life.

In other words, from what I can ascertain, Paul would come into a place and have a ministry in God where he could take pagans with no Bibles, no New Testaments. He couldn't exegete. The book of Hebrews hadn't been written yet.

With no New Testaments, no money, no leverage with the government, no moral majority, none of that other stuff that we complain is the problem. Oh, that is, to me, it's ludicrous to say that Mr. Clinton or the Democrats or the Republicans are the problem.

What, or cults or demons, what could stand against a church that's full of Jesus Christ? How many believe that? Say amen. You don't see Paul, you don't see Paul complaining about Emperor Caligula or Nero in the New Testament.

Let them do what they want to do, but let the church arise. Let's be filled with the Spirit of God and the Word of God. So, Paul was a competent minister of the New Covenant. That means that you can be an incompetent minister of the New Covenant.

By definition, if he said, God made me a competent minister, that means I could be an incompetent minister. I could mix law or Mickey Mouse organizational stuff instead of the pure Word of God and be an incompetent minister of the New Covenant.

And I could get people into the building, but not into God. Here's the problem in New York City. How are you going to get a crack addict into God? Church won't change him. God has to change him. A competent minister of the New Covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit that gives life.

Somehow, he led them into God where they opened their hearts and got filled with the Spirit and they were transformed. A lot of the preaching we do today is nothing but New Testament legalism or Old Testament Christianity.

We're telling people what God's Word says and how many will come up and promise you're going to do it now. Make a commitment. Make a promise and promise you'll keep it. That's not Christianity. Christianity is not a commitment religion.

It's not a promise religion. It's a supernatural religion. It's Christ in us, the hope of glory. It's God working in us both to will and to do according to His good pleasure. So that brings me to this today that I would like to leave with you.

Paul's Message: Preach the Word

I've been studying for a lot of years now, God, how can I become a competent minister of the New Covenant? I don't want to be a preacher. I saw that growing up. Manipulate the microphone and press buttons of what people want to hear and glad hand everybody and you can so easily become mechanical and worse than that.

Just phony because you're running the church game. Just keep it going. But how do you make a difference? And when God put my wife and I in downtown Brooklyn, that's not exactly the Bible Belt. I can't live with this song and dance that I heard growing up of people talking about what God once did in the Welsh Revival, what God once did in the Great Awakening or the Second Great Awakening or in Moody's meetings or Finney's meetings in upstate New York and all of that.

Or I heard sermons growing up about the great move of God that will come one day before Jesus comes. But I've noticed that some men have been in the ministry 30, 40, 50 years and never seen a move of God.

Talking about what once was and what once will one day be. But you know, your life can go by like that. And I figured, now why would God put my wife and I in downtown Brooklyn, surrounded by all this need, surrounded by drug addicts, surrounded by pimps and prostitutes and straight people and crooked people and black and white and brown and yellow and red.

Why would God put us there? Just to hold a fort with 40 people? Or 20 people? No, there must be something better. I mean, what's that verse in Acts mean? And the hand of the Lord was with certain men from Cyprus and Cyrene when they went to Antioch.

And the hand of the Lord was with them and multitudes turned to the Lord. Knew nothing about Jesus. No Bibles, no press, no choirs, nothing. No church buildings, no legal religion. How did they do that?

I'd rather live just one year and see God's hand be with me than live 40 years and just be shuffling cards. Well, there's this from the life of Paul, because Paul is our model as a preacher. The Lord gives us so much about him and the Word of God so that we can study about him.

And I think two things about Paul's life have been studied and analyzed a lot. First of all, Paul's message, and that's important. Paul preached the Word. He told Timothy, preach the Word. Don't give people your opinions.

Preach the Word. Don't go by novelties, pastors. Preach the Word. There's all kinds of stuff out there being blamed on the Holy Spirit. When anybody tells you the Holy Spirit made them do something that's not in the Word of God, say bye-bye.

Because it has to be in the Bible. How many are with me? Say amen. The Word. I was at a recent conference a couple years ago. In fact, part of it helped me instigate me to write this book, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire.

And I heard this technician, this minister saying that he has a new insight into demons and their seed. There's territorial spirits, but if you get his books and learn his formula, you can bind the spirits for an entire city or an entire area.

He said in this conference, Paul didn't even know how to do that. Oh, that got me mad when I heard that. The New York came out in me. I was like, what? What did you just say? So I later sent a message to him.

If you're so smart and you know all these things, why don't you come to New York and Chicago and do it? Don't write books and sell it. Do it. I'd like to learn. Dave Wilkerson and myself and a lot of other pastors, we're preaching and praying and plotting there in New York asking God for a breakthrough.

But if you can just bind all the spirits by some formula, come and do it. Just don't write books. Do it. That's when everyone gets quiet. But that's not in the Bible. If that was in the Bible, Paul would have told us.

He would have bound all the spirits in all those cities that were whooping him and throwing him in prison. But today we live in novelty. So I just want to remind you, let's follow what Paul's dictate is.

Preach the word. Preach the word. Let's understand law. Let's understand gospel. Let's understand the difference between the old and the new covenant. Let's remember that the just shall live by faith, not by making promises.

Paul's Methodology: Led by the Holy Spirit

We're supposed to lead people to trust, not to try. Number two, a lot of studies have been done on Paul's methodology. Not just his message, but his methodology. And that's very illuminating to us because you can't follow his method.

You study the life of Jesus, you'll never know what he'll do next. If you would go up to Paul and say, how long are you going to stay here? How would he possibly know? Some ministers think it's the greatest thing in their computer to have a three-year plan.

But Paul didn't even have a three-hour plan. He never knew when he would get arrested or when the spirit would call him someplace else. Or when he would get busted or thrown out of city or stoned. In other words, the methodology of the apostles was they were led by the Holy Spirit.

Don't you think we need a little bit of that in our churches today? Here, ladies and gentlemen, listen. There's never been a revival if you follow the bulletin. There's never been a revival if you follow the bulletin.

How many, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How many believe if God could lead the Israelites for 40 years, he could help us through one meeting? Say amen. In other words, what is with this over-organization?

Like the Holy Ghost is dead. I'm not for emotionalism and shooting from the hip. But this is so unnatural. You go into church, no wonder people aren't getting converted. It's not even the way anyone lives.

You came to my house, would I hand you a bulletin and tell you what we're going to do every five minutes? Oh, listen, some of the most wonderful things that have ever happened in our church have happened as we meet.

We have a general outline. But we want to say breathe on us, Holy Spirit. Lead us. Show us what choruses to sing. Show us what songs, what hymns to sing. Show us who should testify. And God, if I'm supposed to stop in the middle of the sermon, I'll throw my notes away.

But lead us by your Spirit. The earmark of every revival is the wind blows where it lifts. If you can't control God, you can't put him in a one-hour box and say you've got one hour to work. You can't tell God what to do.

He tells you what to do. Besides Paul's message and Paul's methodology, I want to get to what I think, though, is the missing thing. His message was the Word. His methodology was led by the Holy Spirit.

He had some goals. But even when he had goals, sometimes the Spirit of Jesus would forbid him and he couldn't go someplace. The Spirit of Jesus called him someplace else. But that's where the power of God is, to trust Him.

We're asking people to trust God with their lives. We can't trust God with a meeting. Now, here's the real point, though. The missing element that came to me years ago on a hotel room floor in London was this.

The Missing Element: A Baptism of Love

We studied Paul's message and Paul's methodology. But the secret of his power and his ministry was in something else that not many people talk about, and that is his heart. In other words, when a woman gives birth to a baby, there's an umbilical cord and there's a lot of mess.

But that's the way babies are born. And there's a bonding between a mother, especially, and the baby. Dad, too, but especially the mom. And we have made the ministry so professional and so mechanical and three points and a poem and a clever thing and a polished thing.

And then we're just punching these things out. But not too many folks are being changed. And one of the secrets of Paul, ladies and gentlemen, was that he had a baptism of love from God, even the love of Jesus Christ, like he showed on the cross, that was able to make Paul to be able to say things like this to the church at Thessalonica.

You remember when I was with you, I did everything. I worked day and night so I wouldn't be a burden to you. Tell me how many times you've heard pastors talk about their churches this way. You can judge the accuracy of my remarks.

For you remember when I was with you, I was like a mother nursing her baby. The picture in the Greek language is a mother taking down her dress and bringing the baby to her breast. And the very life of the mother going into the baby.

When I was among you, I wasn't some two-bit creature giving you something and then looking for a check or a love offering. I was like a mother nursing a baby. I wanted to give my very life to you. For he said I wasn't ready to just give you the gospel.

I was ready to go down for you. I was ready to give you my life. How many of us have that kind of relationship with our congregations? I meet a lot of ministers who their congregations are like a burden to them or a pain in the neck.

A lot of elders, another burden. And here's Paul saying, you remember when I was with you, I was like a mother nursing you at my breast. I was not just going to give you a sermon. I didn't have a sermon for you.

I was going to give you my life. I wasn't there for a dollar or for you to think, oh, what a great preacher. Do you think any mother thinks about her baby that way? And see with that kind of passion, a prayer is born that you can never teach.

When a mom has a baby, I was watching one of, I think, Pastor Thomas' children holding one of the grandchildren. When that baby was little, let's say it was three months old and it had 105 degree temperature, do you think you had to wake that mother up in the morning and say, now pray for the baby today, and at night walk with the baby if the baby cries?

Do you think you've got to tell a mother that? That mother's going to walk with that baby and pray. Why? Because there's a bonding. See, we're trying to teach people to pray who don't even care about other people.

And we pastors, unless we have a baptism of love, listen, I've been there. I know what this is about. I preach loveless messages. More about that later. But when you don't have a baptism of love, you just preach to look good in the pulpit and get through another meeting.

Love for the Lost in Ministry

That's what I did for months when I first went in the ministry. Just get through another Sunday. But like a mother nursing a baby, ready to go down and give my life for the congregation. One day it looked like I was going to give my life for the congregation.

A number of years ago, a man drew a gun on me in one of the Sunday services. He was in the back, Jewish fellow, troubled in his mind, and I got through with the message, and I was standing right here, and I closed my eyes, and I started to just entreat the people.

I got such a baptism of love. I started to plead with the people to come to the Lord. He was under conviction, but we didn't know it. And he just drew out a .38, and he held it, pointed toward me, walked out, came down the aisle, and walked up on the platform before the ushers could react with the gun drawn on me.

And my wife was playing the synthesizer, a piano behind me, and she yelled out my name, Jim, Jim, twice. And I'm telling people, come to Jesus. Meanwhile, I'm on my way to Jesus. And he walked across the stage.

My eyes were still closed, and he took the gun, and he just threw it down. And I heard the noise. I was startled. I opened my eyes, and there's a gun on my pulpit. This is not something I was looking for.

He started to run off the platform. I began to chase him, and he just got off and down the road, started yelling, Jesus, help me, because he had planned to hurt someone with that gun. And God's love so convicted him that he made up in his troubled mind the idea.

I've got to give this gun away to the preacher. He's the only one I can trust with it. So he walked up and threw it on my pulpit. We wept over him. Oh, I know what it is to preach when there's love in my heart, and I know what it is to just talk.

I'm so sick of just talking. See, Paul had this ability, this bonding that made him to have a passion. When my daughter was away from God 11 years ago, and my wife and I went through a two-and-a-half-year nightmare, when I entreated my daughter, I didn't say, dearly beloved, could you turn to Jeremiah 11 before, and I entreated her.

That's my girl. That's how Paul must have talked to them. Remember what he said in Acts 20 when he's giving a review of how he was to the Ephesian elders? Day to day with tears, I pleaded with you to cleave to the Lord.

We've lost that passion. Now we're interested in more what works in Sunday school. What's the new bus thing? We're never going to build a church with buses, because God never intended it to be built that way.

The Church as a Holy Ghost Intensive Care Unit

But then there's more than that. Paul goes on talking about this relationship, and he says, now you know when I was torn away from you. Notice, this is love talk like a boyfriend and a girlfriend. When I was torn away from you.

Not when my itinerary caused me to leave you. When I was torn away from you, but just in person, not in thought. I was always thinking about you. I tried many times to come to you, but Satan stopped me.

For in the day of Jesus Christ, what is my crown? What is my joy? What is my glory? Is it not you? Preachers, listen to me, pastors. When Jesus comes, the only thing you can show him are the people who love God, who have come in under your ministry.

What are you going to show Jesus when he comes? Your building? What am I going to show him? My book? He already wrote the Bible. When Jesus comes, I'm going to say, look at the carpet and the lighting we have in this new facility.

Do you think any of that matters to God? No, Paul says, my crown is not my visions that I had that I couldn't share with anybody. Or not that I wrote a good part of the New Testament. My crown, my joy, my glory is this.

Here they are, Lord, my people. Not your sermons or your books. That's all you can show, pastor. That's all my wife and I are worth. We have to present Calvin's and people and say, Lord, here they are.

How many pastors do you think think that way? How many pastors and Sunday school workers are thinking, this is my crown, this is my glory, this is my joy? You see, you can't teach this. Brothers and sisters, if there's anything that has to change in our country, if we're going to have a revival, is we can't teach things that only the Holy Spirit can do.

You can't teach love. We have right now the cult of the teacher. The Bible says there's room for teacher. But after the teacher teaches, you've got to get before God and get filled by His Spirit. He's the only one who can produce love.