(Clip) God's Judgment Coming to America — Leonard Ravenhill

God's Anger Against Sin

Wrath waxed hot against thy people. Now look at verse 22, And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my Lord wax hot. What do you mean? Because Moses had been in the presence of God and God was angry. And he taught holy anger.

The man that teaches you that the Holy Ghost is only joy and fire, he doesn't know a thing about the Holy Ghost. You'll get angry someday. I get angry. I'm angry now. How much longer do you think God's going to put up with the sin of America?

America's Unprecedented Gospel Resources

I'll tell you some statistics in a few days, not just about vice. I'll tell you things that we have that no nation in history has ever had. For instance, just one. I checked so I wouldn't make a mistake.

You've got some parts of the world like where Jackie says, I go into China and Brother Raymond, there isn't one Bible in the whole town. Do you know we have 600 million Bibles in America? Do you know we have 26 translations of the Bible in America?

Do you know in America and Canada between them, we have 450 Bible schools and 250 seminaries? Did Sodom and Gomorrah have a seminary? Did they have a Bible school? America fought World War I in the backyard of Europe.

America's Lack of Suffering and Coming Trouble

She fought World War II in the backyard of Europe. She fought the Middle East War in the Middle East. She hasn't suffered a thing. I got up one morning and opened the door and looked out and the neighborhood had disappeared.

I looked down the tree, there's a baby up in a tree. There's a man's leg sticking out of the debris. There's a chair leg sticking out there. Why? Because the Germans raided us in the night. America hasn't suffered that much.

I'm trying to warn you that we're heading for trouble. Let me tell you this, dear friend, with all the churches and everything we have, God, G-O-D, is N-O-T, not on trial in this critical hour in history.

The Church on Trial Without a Spiritual Answer

God is not on trial, His church is on trial. And she doesn't have an answer to the problem. We're like Mother Harvard, her cupboards are there. Where is the supernatural? Do you think Jack isn't filled with God when a woman comes running down the street and kneels in front of her and the woman's all pockmarked?

She's prostituted 40 years and she says tremblingly, Jackie, Miss Jackie, Miss Jackie, please take the devil out of me. I'm full of the devil and you're full of God. Will you please? And every day of her life, almost, she casts out demons.

She doesn't even claim to be a Pentecostal. She does claim to be a Christian. I've got the greatest Pentecostal preacher in the world coming to see me in three days. I'm going to ask him a question. One of the greatest Pentecostal theologians came to see me.

The Growth of Pentecostalism and the Azusa Street Standard

I have a stack of his books. And I said, I'm just reading the history of Azusa Street by Bartleman and it says on after the five page, the first page, it says on the second page there are 70, listen, 70 million spirit-filled Pentecostals in the world today.

And I said to him, listen, tell me this, is this record true? Are there 70 million spirit-filled Pentecostals? Oh no, Mr. Rainer, Bartleman wrote that five years ago. I said, well, what's the story now?

And he sent it up blushing. He said, Mr. Rainer, there are 120 million charismatic and old-style Pentecostals in the world today. Well, it was near enough, dear lady, I could almost, my finger is, and I said, listen, tell me this.

I know you've written stacks of books on theology. I know there are 120 Pentecostal churches in Dallas and nobody knows they're there. You want me, he said, no, there are not 70 million Pentecostals. I said, is a Pentecostal a man that's full of the Holy Ghost and speaks in tongues?

Distinguishing Genuine Spirit Baptism from Religious Claims

Yes. He said, there are 120 million of them in the world. I almost knocked his head off, I said, well, brother, tell me this, were there 120 million in the upper Rome? Oh no. I said, well, what's the difference between their baptism of the Holy Ghost and yours?

Don't tell me it's tongues. Every devout Mormon in Salt Lake City speaks in tongues. It's part of their religion. Spiritists speak in tongues. Who cares a hill of beans if you speak in tongues, if you're bad-tempered, if you're jealous, if you get the last ounce of money out of somebody, the last ounce of work out of somebody.

The Call to Return to Apostolic Christianity

Come on, we're a million miles removed from apostolic Christianity.