God Raises Holy Men — Leonard Ravenhill

God Raises Up Holy Men Through Surrender

God wants men. He wants women full of the Holy Ghost purified until they've no will take my will and make it thine. It shall be no longer mine in perfect unison with him. God doesn't raise up denominations.

Wesley, Whitfield, Luther, and Carey Shaking the World

He raises up men. Then out of the men, maybe something grows. God raised up Wesley Charles and John before that he raised of course George Whitfield who was the torchbearer actually. But look what happened.

They shook the world. Luther he shook the world. Carey went to India when the Baptist struck the beards and said no young man when God wants to save you he's omnipotent and sovereign. He'll save them without you don't believe that God is sovereign, but he works through human agencies.

Eternity, Judgment, and the Coming of Christ

Dear friend I'm not going to heaven for the weekend and you're not gonna. You're not gonna go to hell for the weekend if you don't say we're going forever and ever. And Paul says I want to tell you the things that motivate me.

I have a home eternal in the heavens. I have a home. Can you think of us in eternity everlasting bliss everlasting joy? As the hymn says it will be worth it all when we see Jesus. We'll wish that we carried heavier burdens will wish that we'd live more sacrifice.

It's too late. There's no you turn before the throne of God remember that. Whether you're a sinner going to the judgment seat. There's no you turn you wish to God there was but there won't be. There's no you turn for the believers either.

Savonarola and the Power of One Holy Man

No matter whether you talk about Finney or Wesley or Savonarola a Man that never claimed to be filled with the Holy Ghost. Savonarola shook a whole city from center to conference. He toppled the papacy toppled corruption.

He toppled the leaders. He toppled the magistrates. He toppled the noblemen. He made the king in his cast castle to tremble just one man one man. I know these are the evil days in which we're living. As it was in the days of Noah even so shall it be in the days of the sunning of the coming of the Son of Man,.

The Church’s Indifference to National Brokenness

I preached to some hundreds of preachers two weeks ago. At nights, I guess we'd about 1 ,200 there and God did some real work. But one night a big shot professional preacher I won't give you his name.

Anyhow he said oh, here's a conference with about 2 ,000 people the first night. He said there's only one hymn we can sing to start this revival. I thought oh, you'll sing all hail the powers of Jesus name.

You know they sang America the beautiful. If he hadn't have been so big I'd have pushed him off the platform. I think What in God's name do you start a conference a revival conference singing that? So I had to have my pennies worth, you know next day.

I said what do you mean America the beautiful? Our jails are packed our divorce courts are packed. We're broken in mind with drugs. We're broken in body with sex perversion. We're broken with drunkenness.

Where's America beautiful? Where's England beautiful none of them? They're dark. They're polluted. They're in bondage. They're captives to drink. They're captives to sin. They're captain to every devilish thing there is.

But the church doesn't care. As I've told you I've broken in our minds through drugs. We're broken in our bodies through sin. We're broken in our divorce rate. Everything's wrong except the church. The church isn't broken-hearted about it.

Prayerlessness and the Church’s Failure to Intercede

Jesus is but we're not in one year 1 million Teenage girls will become pregnant and of them 200 ,000 will be aborted. I'm not reading about Sodom and Gomorrah. I'm reading about America. Well, you can't get a prayer meeting going hardly in any churches.

Young guys phone me and say mr. Rayleigh I'm trying to get a prayer meeting in the church, but they don't want to come. They don't want to pray. You know why they don't come because they've no prayer life at home.

If they had they come with something kindling in their hearts and Want to explore then they go to a prayer meeting. You don't have to grind something. I want to come every night with a burdened heart.

I want to live with a burdened heart. I can't live otherwise. As I say, I'm. I'm sick of the mediocrity in the church. Well, it says concerning Noah. He was a preacher of righteousness. You can preach anything today.

The Second Coming, the Second Death, and the Loss of the Young

Preach the second blessing. Preach the second coming. Preach the second death. No. We don't talk about the second death but it's there in the book and Time is running out. And I'm sick to death as I've said more than once of the devil having monopoly of our young people.

He's got them where he wants them. You see if we're not careful. We'll see as other men see all that girl. She's an honor student. That boy's a quarterback. Come on, forget it. That's how the world thinks.

He's either saved or lost. He's either fuel for the flames of hell or he's a person that's going to wear a diadem in the presence of Jesus forever. And once we get eternity conscious all our values change all our interests change.

We won't be seduced by trivia. We won't be occupied with trivia. We say God. I want to live a hundred percent as I've told you. I want to live so that without a minute's notice I could walk straight into heaven.

I Don't have to say well Lord hold off. I've something to put right. I have some repentance to make. I had a bridge against somebody. I want to said no no, no, no. No, you know. Once I start living like Christ thinking like Christ seeing the world in the eyes of Christ seeing material things in the eyes of God.

The Coming Day of Vengeance

The world looks insane. It's a madhouse. I get up every day and say dear God this world's dark man. It's breaking your laws and you hold your peace. But he said as it was in the days of note, there's a vengeance coming.

There's a day of the day of vengeance of our God. The moon hasn't yet turned into blood or the Sun turned into darkness, but darkness covers the earth even now and God is one key one thing everyone knows to be living a hundred percent for him totally.

Careless of as to what we wear whether it's valuable or not. Only as we live in righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Again no goes in the ark and he's there for years. Up to that time the preparation time.

Noah’s Ark as a Picture of Salvation

He's scorned. He's ridiculed. They laugh at him and they'll do that with you. But what do you think happened five minutes after the door was sure remember? He put everything in the ark, but one thing God says you put a light in the window put the animals, but there's one thing you can't do.

I shut the door. And when I shut the door no man can open it. As soon as the clouds darkened the heavy thunder rolled. What did they do? I believe every man jumped on a horse and got out of town. They'd been warned day after day after day year after year they'd gone up and snared and scorned and ridiculed the man who was building the ark and Then when the heavens broke and the water came from beneath and water from above I guess they jumped every horse and camera an elephant.

They had to try and beat it out of the town. But they saw the water coming in. Nor had built an ark. What did you it cut himself off from the rest of the world when he got in that ark that ark had to be his?

Christ as the Believer’s All-in-All

Entertainment is joy is peace everything. Well, come on if it's a type of Christ lying God's name doesn't it satisfy people? Why isn't Christ your all-in-all tonight as it says in Philippians? He is all-in-all.

Why isn't Christ all your joy? Why isn't Christ all your peace? Why isn't Christ all your happiness? I'm trying to get you grown up too quickly. Some people think no I don't you'll be walking around as cripples ten year from now and when you get some spiritual muscle some spiritual strength some spiritual vision some spiritual intelligence.

A Call for Spiritual Strength and Holy Anger

The devil is running away with the world because the young Christians aren't standing up as they should. I Want you to cry out to God come on now don't leave the praying just a three or four. And don't pray forever pray and quit don't go around and around Satan believe it.

But somebody pray for these youth tonight. Can you think of a million girls this year that have run away and most of them have been lost forgotten? Girls being sold to prostitution see that on West 44 West 42nd Street in New York and the other great cities and the devil just putting a bigger cancer in this country the whole world in what's called humanism and freedom and it's bondage and it's death and it's Disease and it's damnation and it should make us angry in the spirit.

There is a holy anger. Human anger does bitterness holy anger their sorrow.