Are We Longing for Repentance — Leonard Ravenhill

Jesus' Invitation on the Last Day of the Feast

Think just really about this, verse 37, in the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried. One version says Jesus stood and cried with a loud voice, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.

I shared some thoughts last Sunday morning about this, but it's been stirring my heart ever since. You know, when we teach children about heroes in the Bible, we usually teach them about David and Goliath, or Samson, or Daniel in the lion's den.

I think this chapter is incomparable for courage. It was the last day, the great day of the feast, and this feast was the last feast in the Jewish calendar. There were seven great feasts. According to Leviticus, in three of them only men were allowed to go.

But in this last feast, this is the last feast in the year, and this is the last day on the last feast, and this is the last feast that Jesus himself will attend. It says that he went up into the temple.

Oh, look at verse 5. For neither did his brethren believe on him. Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you, but it hateth me, because I testify of it, and the works thereof are evil.

Go ye up to the feast, I go not up to the feast. Now, verse 14, in the midst of the feast, Jesus went up. Now, why does it say he's not going to the feast? And then, right in the middle of the feast, he goes to the feast.

It seems to me that this is a lesson to us in conserving our time. The three main feasts, I think, in the Jewish calendar were still celebrated, or still are celebrated in the Christian calendar. Passover, which is a type of our Lord Jesus Christ, dying for us, and then there's a feast of Pentecost that they had, which we still celebrate, remembering the upper room.

But this third feast we do not keep in our Christian calendar. It's not yet come. It's the time of in-gathering. Again, three of the other feasts only males were allowed to go. This final feast of the year, people came in from 70 different countries.

As a matter of fact, the Jews previous to this killed 70 bullocks, one representing each country where their people were dispersed. The last day, the great day of the feast. Now, this actually followed immediately after the super day in the Jewish calendar, the day of atonement.

Remember, the priest went and shed blood for the people, and then he took two goats and he, I don't know how he chose, he chose one goat, that he would lay the blood upon that goat and take it to the wilderness, put the sin of the nation on that goat and send it out into the wilderness so that it was lost forever.

A type of God taking our sins and putting them behind his back, never to be remembered against us anymore forever. The other blood was taken in a bowl and it was taken, put onto the, into the Holy of Holies and put there on the mercy seat.

The Salvation Army used to have a great chorus they sang at their altar calls. They didn't sing just as I am without one plea, they sang, Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel. Here bring your wounded heart, here tell your anguish.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Scores of thousands of people were sung into blessing through that marvelous chorus. When I was a boy, which was last century, by the way I feel tonight, but anyhow, it's a long way back.

Earth has no sorrow heaven cannot, okay. Now this is the last day, the great day of the feast. It's estimated, I don't know how, that more than a million people crushed into the city for this last final feast.

If you go into the Old Testament you'll discover that they took branches of trees. I remember seeing a lot of these in India when I was there. Lots of people make homes like that out of branches of trees and then plant leaves in between to protect them from the rain or the heat, whatever it was.

And so there's this celebration. Now Jesus went up in the midst of the feast and verse 15 says the Jews marveled saying, How knoweth this man letters? Or maybe there's a marker on that letters which in the margin says, How is it this man has wisdom?

He's never learned. He's never been to the school of the rabbis. Where is he from? We know who he is. He's illegitimate anyhow. He's the son of Joseph, they actually say. We know his father, we know his mother.

But he went into the temple and taught. Now in the first place I want to know how he got in the temple. He must have had to fight his way through the crowd and the temple was always guarded by temple police.

But he gets through the crowd, he gets into the temple and he goes and stands in the pulpit. That must have been pretty shocking. How can a man who isn't ordained go in the pulpit? Isn't that beyond reason?

Excuse me. But people think it is today even. When saith this man wisdom, never having sat at the feet of men. But if you turn to the eighth chapter, not now but when you go home, he says, I was taught of my father.

So there he had the greatest teacher of all. You know John that wrote this gospel has been called the Plato of the New Testament because it's the most profound chapter maybe ever written. Now you may or may not remember, I guess you do, you wise scholars, was it Plato was the student of Socrates, one of the wisest men who ever lived.

And so they said that this man is as wise as Plato. No, you see poor Plato only had Socrates. He may have been the greatest intelligence in the world at the time, but he didn't have the Holy Ghost to teach him, so he's still ignorant.

We put men in pulpit because they've got degrees. But you can have 32 and still be frozen. But today there's such an emphasis on scholarship, isn't there? Oh, we're getting a new pastor, he's got a BA.

But my sheep used to say that every time I looked at them, BA. So what's a BA or an MA? I've got a BA, I'm born again. And I've got my MA, I'm marvelously altered. I've got my PhD, sometime I'm a post hole digger, but anyhow, there you are.

I would love to know what Jesus taught, wouldn't you, Martin? I'll tell you it was so sensational that those people, those rabbis and others, sat with their mouths open, they marveled at him. What did he do?

Did he unveil the mysteries of Daniel's image? Did he tell them some of the most unheard, well, only unheard of things they'd never heard? But they marveled at this man. Now, it's a wonderful thing that Jesus ever got into this place.

Why? Again, I say because he had to push his way through a million people outside. He had to push his way past the temple guards. And he comes into the temple. Mercy on us, what's he doing here? In the second chapter, he says he went in the temple, he called them a den of thieves.

Well, that's a way to get the welcome mat out, isn't it? Anyhow. You say to a bunch of the most learned men in the world, you're a bunch of thieves. That's what he said. Not only that, he kicked over the money changers' tables.

Kind of like the Irishman said, everything that's for me is against me. Don't you think they squinted? That's the man that kicked over our money tables. Our money went rolling down the street there. This is a man who said we're a bunch of thieves and robbers.

We hold truth from men. We're blind guides leading the blind. Why don't they kill him? Look what the first verse says. After these things, Jesus, after what things? After all these miracles. You know, if we don't get the background of some of these stories, we miss the majesty of them.

You know, between Malachi and Matthew, you've got 400 years of darkness without any prophetic light. And then like Haley's comet streaking over the sky at black midnight, a rugged, ragged man came. He was an awkward man.

He was a Baptist. But anyhow, there's some Baptists here tonight. Okay. Don't tell your pastor I said that. You see, the amazing thing is the first man that ever preached the baptism of the Holy Ghost was a Baptist.

Why don't they keep up with it? Huh? And why do the Pentecostals run their flag up? They're years behind. The Baptists preach it long before the Pentecostals were ever born. You see, truth is nobody's property.

Isn't that great? No man has a monopoly of wisdom. I'm getting there bit by bit. But anyhow, I've been looking for it for over 70... Somebody asked me out today, how long have you been saved? I think about 65.

What, 65 years? Nearly 65 years. But you know, I still feel I'm an amateur. I still feel I'm groping. I still think I'm in waters to the ankles, not to the knees or the loins, or waters to swim in. You know, the Word of God is like an ocean, somebody said.

It's so beautiful, a lamb can splash in the water here, and an elephant can swim in it up there. Some of the most intellectual men I know, I know two of them, they're the humblest of men. Oh, I love the hymn we sang tonight, O Worship the King.

His wisdoms, when they sing, His robe is the light and His canopy space. Our scientists are too proud to believe in eternity. They do believe in infinity. They shot a tin can up there two or three years ago into space.

It's already done 250 million miles. Isn't it silly that wise men down in Houston sit down and talk to a tin can up there and tell it turn right, turn left? If I did that, they'd say he's got religious mania.

But they're scientists, they're wise, you see. But there's no wisdom beyond the wisdom of this book. I told somebody today, I think what one of our sons has done for years, learned a new proverb every week.

And you'll be smart if you, at the end of the year, you've got 52 proverbs. The most amazing book of wisdom maybe in the world. Jesus came into the place where it said, you're a den of thieves, He walked into the midst of it, and it says they wanted to kill Him.

Now it says in verse 19, Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keep the law? Isn't that a nice insult? Huh? Looking right in the eye of the most learned men in religion in the world, Moses gave you the law, not one of you keeps it.

So he's getting a real scorecard, isn't he? He's kicked the money chambers out of the place, he's called them a den of thieves. Again, I say, right after that 400 years of stillness, there came this amazing man, John the Baptist.

He shocked their culture. He upset their theology. Nobody's going to church. Why? They're all going to hear a man out in the wilderness. What's he doing? Raising the dead? No, he isn't. He's raising hell.

Did he raise the dead? No, he didn't raise a dead man. He raised the dead nation. Dear Lord, we could do with a John Baptist in every city in the nation tonight. Some of you now are taking it easy. You say, we'll relax and be raptured now we've got Mr. Reagan in.

Reagan can't do much for us. Oh, the issue of politics that we went through just now. People say it wasn't politics, it was something moral. It wasn't something moral, it was something spiritual. We could have a nation full of Nicodemuses and they'd still be lost.

Did not Moses, verse 19, did not Moses give you the law and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? Verse 25, Then said some of them in Jerusalem, It is not this of whom they seek to kill, but he speaketh boldly.

And they say nothing. Now come on, this place, this marvelous temple was no little room like this. This wouldn't even go on the platform. It held at least 6 ,000 people. There was a day when there was a riot.

One of the priests tripped up and spilled the holy water and there was a stampede and fighting broke out. And it's estimated that nearly 2 ,000 people were either seriously injured or killed. Now Jesus goes up into the midst of the feast with the eyes of everybody.

Those frowning Pharisees and those dumb, what were the others, Sadducees. Oh, the Pharisees liked him because he raised the dead and the Sadducees said there isn't such a thing as a resurrection. That's why they were sad, you see.

Thank you, I thought the penny might drop after a while. They loved to hear him because he believed in, and not only believed it, but he actually raised the dead. The trouble with our theology, it's all on the blackboard.

Our theology is all in textbooks. It has no life, it has no breath, it has no power, it has no authority. How in the world did Jesus stand in the middle of that crowd of vexed, angry people? He'd antagonize them.

He'd reveal their spiritual bankruptcy. They were just getting over the shock of John Baptist standing there in the wilderness. They couldn't fathom it. Why are people going? Read the third chapter of Luke when you go home.

Even the Roman soldiers went. Macefield would call them the lesser breeds outside of the law. They were fascinated when they heard him. Nothing like this in Rome. Caesar has nothing like this. Here's a little strange man with a leather girdle around his loins, and old camel skin around his neck, and people are swarming from everywhere.

What does he say? Read the four laws. He uses that word nobody likes, repent. Repent. Not only confess your sin, forsake your sin. Repent, run away from it. Then Jesus comes up afterwards. I don't know what all the order is in this, but you know, I was reading today the last verses of the 20th chapter and the 21st.

Somebody has estimated that if you could take all the events that are mentioned in the gospel recorded by John and put them in a line, they would only give you 21 days out of the three and a half years that Jesus ministered.

I'll go further than that. I say if you took Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and take all these historic events, like this miracle that upset the whole town. Don't you think when the next day, after he turned water into wine, that everywhere they were saying, did you hear what he did?

They ran out of wine last night, and he turned water into wine. This is the man that tosses people out to the synagogue. This is the man that kicks over the extortionists. This is the man that says to learned men, you're the enemies of God.

He's merciless. You know, we are preaching an acceptable gospel today. Make it as painless as we can. And all we do is give people a shock to put them to sleep so they'll get to hell quicker. We need some hellfire preaching on repentance.

One old definition says repentance is to leave the sin I've done before and show that I in earnest grieve by doing it no more. If a man is genuinely born again, all things pass away. All old things pass away, and all things become new.

So here we have Jesus right in the center of the crowd. You see, for six days, what happened, they had a wonderful performance. What were they thinking of? Jesus stood there where the priest had stood every day for seven days, and then the temple orchestra came with their instruments, and the temple choir came, and they went down the shoulder of the hill to the pool of Siloam, and they dipped that golden vessel into the pool, and the priest carried it on his shoulder with pomp and circumstance, and he went and poured it out.

To what? To remind them of what? That when they cried there in the wilderness, they had no water, and God told Moses to smite the rock, and he smote it. Told him to speak to it the second time, and he still smote it.

He got into habits. But they were commemorating that tremendous event when that river followed them, that river of life followed them wherever they went, and the rock that was smitten, that was Christ, the Word of God says.

So for seven days they'd seen this performance. Everybody stood on one side and bowed when they came back. Oh, you think what God did! God that put the stars up there, God that one day parted like you part your hair, he parted the rivers, the water, and over a million people passed through.

This is our God. They're commemorating the miracle. On the last day, the great day of the feast, they did not go through that performance, and Jesus went and stood there. If I were an artist, I'd want to paint this.

I think around the world art galleries I've been, I've seen all kinds of pictures about the Lord. I've never seen a picture of Jesus standing here in all his moral majesty. Why in God's name don't they go punch him?

Why doesn't somebody do what they've already put an assassin's threat on him, we'll kill him. The people say, well, why don't you kill him, he's standing there, he's no bodyguards, there's no angels around him.

Well, actually, I think he had a bodyguard of angels. I think he stood there in his moral majesty, and they could feel what we call vibes going out of him of the glory of God, that they'd then go near him.

I say now, I say, I think this is one of the most gorgeous pictures of Jesus in the whole of the New Testament. But the last day, the great day of the feast, it says Jesus stood and cried. Isaiah says, my servant shall not cry in the streets.

Well, he's not crying in the street. He's not crying in the street at all, he's crying in the temple. He's crying to a particular crowd of people, but he adds insult to injury. I remind you again, he'd already called them a den of thieves, he'd already tossed the money changers out.

He'd stunned them with the miracles that he'd done. And yet, this is what he says to them, these people have a monopoly of God. Didn't they have ancestry like Jeremiah and Isaiah, and these huge, enormous characters?

But this man comes, this unlettered man, this usurper, this man with no backing, stands in the middle of the holy of holies as far as they're concerned. It's like me rushing into the Vatican and shouting hallelujah and starting to praise the Lord.

Wouldn't go down too well, I'd like the chance though. And there he is in the middle of the feast. And listen to what he says. If any man, hey, hold it a minute, you can't say that, Jehovah is the God of the Jews.

The Ten Commandments are given to the Jews. All those giants you talk about spiritually, who subdued kingdoms and wrought righteousness and stopped the mouths of lions, they're all Jews. Why do you dare to say to this cosmopolitan crowd here, if any man can?

I think one of the most beautiful things that even Paul said, my great favorite preacher, the Apostle Paul. Remember what he says in 2, what is it, in the 2nd of Corinthians, chapter 5, is it 517? Don't look now.

Look after and find out I'm wrong, but anyhow. Do you remember what he said? If any man, did he say that? What did he say? Pardon? I'm glad you're not all sleeping, that's great. If any man, anywhere, at any time, being Christ, he may be the most twisted, perverted, carnal, cruel, stinking man in the whole world, but if the miracle of regeneration comes in him, he gets a new heart, a new mind, a new spirit, a new inlook, a new outlook, new everything.

We've forgotten about the majesty of the new birth. People just nod their head and say the sinner's prayer and go straight to hell down the aisle after they've leaned their head on the shoulder of the pastor.

Do you know, I doubt if 5 of professing Christians in America are born again. I asked that giant, the man Buck Singh, the man from India, do you ever meet him out there, brother? You've got to see him this time, he's getting old.

He's about 86. He is a man. He's a man that's going over the world and he goes to the railway station without a penny and orders his ticket. I believe in faith, but not fanaticism, I mean, you know. I mean, what if you embarrass God, but you don't embarrass God.

But I asked him one day, of all the professing Christians in India, how many have saved? He said about 2 .5%. What about the Christians in America, brother Singh? He said 2 .5%. I'm astounded, bewildered, confused, baffled, when people tell me in America we've 75 million people filled with the Holy Ghost and with the rottenest nation on earth.

Come on. It says here that Jesus stood and cried. One version says with a loud voice. It was not a shriek. It was not a scream. The Greek word implies that he did it with authority. He did it loudly. He did it emphatically.

He did it with emotion. Why? Well, I'll tell you what I discovered last week in this, and I've preached on this 40 or 50 years, never found it. Here he is in the temple, two or three, four, five thousand people around him.

And he stands there and he cries with a loud voice. Why? Because time is running out for these people, and they're dumb and blind. They don't know it. They'd had the law. They'd had the prophets. They'd had one of the most amazing men in history previous to Jesus coming.

And what did they do? They got rid of him too. Chopped his head off. Jesus stood and cried with a loud voice, in my judgment for this reason, that he knew that time was running out, that God's Spirit does not always strive with men.

There's a cut-off point. I'm trying to think of a verse here. I can't remember right at the moment. I believe that Jesus is running in his mind, going through history. God gave them a margin of deliverance for the time that John Baptist was here.

They still did the same thing. They'd had the law. They'd had the prophets. They'd had the most amazing men in history. They'd repeatedly got into captivity. This may not be a good definition, but my definition of a fool is a man that falls in the same hole twice.

That's exactly what Israel did. They'd been in captivity for 400 years under Pharaoh. Wouldn't you think that they'd shun everything that would in any way defile them in the sight of God? And yet they're just coming here after 400 years of captivity again.

Let me look at a verse here. Matthew, what is it? No, that was only another reference. Matthew, anyhow, you can put it down if you want. Matthew 13, 54. When he came to his own country, he taught them.

The verse I want is not that verse. It's Luke 11, 50. Remember, he said to them, Which of the prophets of your fathers not killed? Now look what he says here in the 11th chapter of Luke and verse 47. Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

They're trying to wash away guilt by making memorials to famous men. There's no sign of repentance. Come down in the verse. Verse 49. Therefore also said the wisdom of God, Who is the wisdom of God? He is.

I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute. Now here it is. I believe this was eating the heart of Jesus Christ when he stood there in the temple and they were going through a dead formula that didn't mean a thing.

They had altars but they had no fire. They had preachers but they had no anointing. They had no sign of life or the authority or majesty of the holiest being in the world, God. So listen to what he says.

Verse 50. The blood of all the prophets which were shed from the foundation of the world may be required of what? Of this generation from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple.

And verily I say unto you it shall be required of this generation. Do you wonder he was heartbroken? What happened? His prophecy came true. Within a generation Titus invaded Jerusalem in one of the greatest massacres ever and blood flowed to the bridles of the horses.

And Jesus is standing here. Remember the story of the man who had business and he sent his men out into the fields to work? They didn't honor him. Last of all I'll send my son. God has sent a whole column of prophets.

Finally he sends John the Baptist the firebrand that wakened the nation and they did away with him. And now they've got the Son of God they're going to do away with him. And Jesus says listen this generation, all the blood of the prophets that's ever been shed from Abel right down to this day is going to be shed in your day.

Before very long they're going to reject him. What did they do? They turned away from him. But instead of them turning away from them he turned away from them. Your house is left to you desolate. The Jews, a remarkable nation but they've been desolate from that day to this.

They've had no power they've had no prophets. They've been preserved in the mystery of God. If any other nation in the world asked America for the money the Jews have asked we'd have kicked them in the ocean but we'd give them everything they asked for.

Billions. But as soon as America turns her back on the Jews you can dig the grave for America. Hitler brought the chief rabbi in my day 1939 he brought the chief rabbi into his presence. He told him what he was going to do with the Jews.

The old rabbi sat there with his nice long beard and Hitler said you were sitting there pondering what were you doing? Well your excellency he said my people were almost annihilated years ago by a man called Pharaoh.

I know about that. Did you know we have a flat cake I think they call it matzo. Matzo. I've eaten yards of it. It's tasteless but it's better than nothing. That's about it. But anyhow it's a memorial to Pharaoh.

And then there was a day when somebody decided to liquidate the Jews and a young lady stood in the way Esther didn't she? Esther. And the Jews have a little cake memorial of that called a hamantash I think it is.

Little thing full of seeds. And Hitler said well your excellency I was thinking we made a flat cake to remind us of Pharaoh and we have an oval cake with seeds called a hamantash I was wondering what kind of cake we could invent to remember you.

And would you believe Hitler showed him the door? They're in for trouble don't make any mistake about it. But Jesus is standing there weeping he's stammering out he cries with a loud commanding voice he had no amplification and five or six thousand if any man thirst let him come unto me.

He sees her at the end of the line. Surely he had a word of knowledge if anybody had and he knew they were going to be massacred slaughtered if they didn't repent but they never repented. I think that broke his heart in that feast.

You dumb blind people how long are you going to walk here and say Moses walked here or somebody else walked here or maybe before this there was a great marvelous temple that was built by Solomon. And yet you go through your what does that water mean that you poured out of it?

Not that much. You just tell your children well that's something your father's great grandfather saw one day away in the wilderness. It had lost its meaning. As God is my witness I believe that thousands of people will take communion this Sunday and it doesn't mean that much to them.

They don't think of the blood of Christ. They don't think he turned God's anger away. They don't think he rescued them from eternal hell. If they did they'd either weep for joy or weep for sorrow. But they weep for nothing.

This unrepentant crowd they're going to turn the sun. No he says you're not rejecting me I'm rejecting you. There's a fantastic verse in Lamentations. This is hardly a book you read for any fun or joy is it?

If you don't know where it is it happens to be in your Bible it comes right after Jeremiah. Lamentations chapter 2 verse 1. How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel and remembered not his footstool in his anger.

The Lord hath swallowed up the habitations of Jacob and he hath not pitied. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He hath brought them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

Verse 4. He hath bent his bow like an enemy. He stood with his right hand as an adversary and slew all that were pleasant in the eye of the tabernacle and of the daughter of Zion. He poured out his fury like fire.

Here is the people that said God is our God. Okay take him for good or ill. Whether he has a smile or he smites you look what he says here in verse 5. The Lord was an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel.

He has swallowed up all the palaces. He has destroyed their strongholds. He hath increased the daughter of Judah with mourning and lamentation. He hath violently taken away his tabernacle. They suddenly realize that God is their adversary.

The God who delivered them over and over again. He sent angels to deliver them. He delivered them in a hundred different ways. But now his anger is kindled against them. What do they say. Well of course.

Maybe God has moods he'll change. No not on your life. Do you think of anything more devastating than coming down to verse 10 in this chapter. The elders of the daughters of Zion sit upon the ground and keep silence.

Here you have these charming women. This is what they do. They've cast dust upon their heads. They've girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads. Now here is Jeremiah.

He says my eyes do fail with tears. He says my eyes are blinded with tears. I'm choking with grief. Listen my bowels are troubled. My liver is poured out for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Because the children of the sucklings are in the streets. They say to their mothers where is the corn and wine. You see little children here in a state of destitution. When they know the anger of God is kindled and he's destroying their priesthood and destroying every treasure they have.

The children say where is the corn and the wine. Oh you've told us mummy that our gampars and others they came out of a barren wilderness and they came into a land flowing with milk and honey. But the glory has departed.

I'm convinced that when Jesus stood in the temple that day he was thinking of the day when the glory of God filled the temple. Do you remember the time when Solomon stood there and the glory came down and the priest could not minister for the glory of God in God's name.

When are we going to see that the glory filled the temple. And now the temple is a museum. Now the temple is just a place of historic value to us as a nation. There's no sign of life. Our altars have no fire.

The glory of God doesn't fill the temple. The priests have no prophecy. How can we be worse. You can hardly find anything more desperate than this. My eyes are blinded with tears. My bowels are troubled.

My liver is poured out for the destruction of my nation. Can you imagine a pastor of a nice fashionable church going in next Sunday morning with his nice suit on feeling on top of the world and suddenly weeping and saying my bowels, my bowels are troubled.

My liver is poured out. They'd think he was nuts. The deacons would rush up and escort him out to the vestry. There's no despair. How many Pentecostals do you think will be beating their breasts this Sunday and saying oh we remember the glory of God as a Zeus's tree.

We remember when the rivers of God flowed out there from a people who were poverty stricken in material things but rich in God. Where are the Nazarenes. The days they had of glory when Dr. Brethre he founded that organization and the Pilgrim Holiness people or the Methodists or the Salvationists.

Do you know why we don't cry and weep and feel our bowels are torn. And our livers. Because we've never seen the glory of God. That's why we're content to tread a theological doctrinal treadmill until we're weary and we drop into bed tired out.

We haven't departed when I ought to. There isn't an angel Gabriel or Michael. Nobody could say we deviate it from the truth of Baptist teaching or Pentecostal teaching or somebody else's teaching. We have no passion.

We have no brokenness. Jesus is torn. He knows that the day of rejection is almost over. He knows that outside of that street he's going to walk in in a few minutes before long it'll be full of blood up to his knees that those people who have no time for God will be screaming for mercy.

And it's too late. They're going to be slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands maybe a million people were destroyed in the days of Titus when he invaded that city. You remember the scripture that says O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets.

Why don't we change it and put O America America thou that killest the prophets. Three thousand radio stations in America today have broadcast something of the gospel my country that gave the world the Bible that gave the world Methodism that gave the world the Salvation Army the two greatest revivals since Pentecost is now as dead as the dodo.

We're wanting to make a short term investment. Aren't we and get the glory of God on one night of prayer or one evening of prayer. Or I've added two ten more minutes to my praying each day. Do you wonder that the writers of the Hebrews said we have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin.