Where Is Your Strength — Leonard Ravenhill

Shaking That Can Be Shaken

I believe we're at that period in history which is described at the end of the twelfth chapter in the epistles of the Hebrews, when everything that can be shaken is being shaken, so that the thing that cannot be shaken will remain.

I know the reconstructionists are going to rebuild America, but Arnold Toynbee, who is the greatest of modern historians—he must be, he's English—but Arnold Toynbee reminds us that 19 times men have built what they call a permanent civilization, and the thing has fallen down.

And I want to prophesy it will fall down again, too. I was introduced as a—I'm not a doctor, of course there's nothing wrong with being a doctor, it doesn't damage you too much. When John Wesley had been preaching for fifty years, somebody approached one of his most prominent preachers and said, well, Methodism won't last much longer because you have no doctors as preachers.

And the young man said, well, our theology isn't sick enough to need doctors yet. So now you know why there are so many doctors in the church, we're so sick. In fact, without being facetious, I think the most tragic thing at this moment in history is a sick church in a dying world.

A sick church in a dying world. I better give you a text. It's in the book of Judges, chapter 16. Chapter 16 and verse 6, And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Delilah’s Question and the Church’s Strength

This is a question of a woman of the world to a man of God. It will be a great day, and God hasten it, when the world again begins to ask the church what's the secret of your great strength. I believe in the present world situation, when everything's falling down.

Oh, we thought those boys in Wall Street were impeccable, they wouldn't steal a penny. They didn't. Dear Lord, they went in for millions. One of them's got, what's he got, ten years, five years in jail?

But he's allowed to keep three hundred million dollars, I'd go to jail for three hundred million too. If somebody gave me it, I'd have time to study and pray. There are just three kinds of people in the world today.

Those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles. Actually, there are two kinds of people in the world. Not black and white, not rich and poor, not communists and the other type, or if you want to put it theologically, not Calvinists and the other bunch.

There are two kinds of people in the world, any nation in the world over. Number one, those who are dead in sin, and the other, those who are dead to sin. Those who have the world of flesh and the devil beneath their feet, and those who are kicked around like footballs, and some of them even profess his name.

This man, in my judgment, is one of God's supermen. I'm not quite sure of this. How many of you are from a seminary? Oh, wonderful. I'm going home. I'm not quite sure, but I think I'm right in saying that Dr. Carl F. Henry was the founder editor of Christianity Today.

Is that right? You're not quite sure. Go back to class tomorrow. I believe he was the founder editor of Christianity Today. He retired, he sent out, I think it was 200 letters, to what he called the 200 most intelligent preachers in America.

That's a fallacy. I didn't get one. But this was his question. I remember Leighton Ford answered it pretty good. The best answer was given by Elton Trueblood, a Quaker philosopher. The question was this, what do you see for the Church of Jesus Christ by the year 2000?

Which is what? How many years away? Twelve? Twelve years away, when our country will be in a bubonic plague called AIDS. What do you see for the Church of Jesus Christ by the year 2000? I'll give you an answer.

The answer of the Quaker philosopher, Elton Trueblood, was this. By the year 2000, I see the Church of Jesus Christ as a conscious minority, surrounded by an arrogant, militant paganism. I swallowed that, went to bed, woke up about two or three o 'clock, turned it over in my mind.

What did this guy say? By the year 2000? The question is, when wasn't the Church a conscious minority, surrounded by an arrogant, militant paganism? It was launched from the upper room, a bunch of unlettered, ignorant men.

Boy, you better fight for academic distinction these days. These men came out of the upper room, intellectual slobs, nobody's. Let me tell you about two of them. They were, they weren't on the Dean's list, they were on nobody's list.

One was called Peter. He was always a terrible ignoramus. You know, he's a fisherman, that's all he'd ever done, fish. But let me tell you, he wrote two books, First and Second Epistle of Peter, that are still lasting, and he hasn't got any royalties yet.

He's going to get them in the kingdom. The other was a fellow called John. He gave us the most beautiful thing ever written in English, the Gospel according to Saint John. Then he wrote the First Epistle, then the Second Epistle, then the Third Epistle.

And to prove his ignorance beyond doubt, he wrote the book of the Revelation, which the big shots over the road don't understand. Now if that's ignorance, I'm a candidate for ignorance. I've written a few books, I'm sure they'll last a hundred years, but anyhow.

These are so-called ignorant men, but they had the anointing of God and that's what matters. So here is this fellow. What shall I say about him? Will he upset the status quo? He was an embarrassment to his people, he was an embarrassment to his enemies.

He's a typical of those, the people who know their God. And get that, it's from Daniel 12, isn't it? The people who know their God, not the people who know their Bible. There are tens of thousands of preachers in America who know their Bibles, they're not that much good to God.

The devil doesn't know they're around. And they gloat over their intellectual power. It doesn't say the people that do know their Bibles, it says the people that do know their God. There's a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

Every man that comes in my office, I ask him this question, doesn't matter, and they come from all nations of the world for some reason. I looked the man in the eyes the other day, I said, do you know God?

He said, well I was saved. I didn't ask if you were saved. Everybody's saved from the White House to the jailhouse these days. Do you know God? Uh, well, uh, well, well apparently you don't. The people that do know their God, there's going to come a sifting over our generation beyond any other sifting the world has ever known.

And if we don't know God, we won't make it. So this woman comes to this man of God and says, tell me I pray thee within the secret of thy great strength lieth. One of the greatest military strategists in history, in fact many nations use his, use his textbooks today, was a man by the name of Napoleon.

He fought the Battle of Waterloo on the 18th of June, 1845. That's my birthday, not the year, just the day, 18th of June. Make a note of it, please. He had been more than conqueror in every battle that he'd been engaged in.

Then he got up to an obstruction. And one day he gathered his warlords together. And in his office he had a huge map of the world. And he ran his finger round the ragged edge of a great country. And they were not very attentive, so he snarled at them again, attention!

Look at this! And he ran his finger round the ragged edge of a great country. And he birthed that classical phrase, their lives a sleeping giant, let it sleep! Because he said if that giant ever awakes and harnesses its mineral power to its manpower it will shake the world.

He said that in 1815, 1845. What country did he outline? China! With a population now of a thousand million people. With a million people on its borderline, terrifying Russia, that's why Russia's afraid to move.

The Sleeping Giant and the Power of the Holy Ghost

Change the figures. Instead of saying, their lives a sleeping giant, China, let it sleep. Change the figures. Show us history. Change the person. Instead of, instead of Napoleon, put the devil there. And the devil causes all his demons to stand in front of him.

And he outlines something on the world map, if you like, on the map of the ages. He says, their lives a sleeping giant, the church of Jesus Christ, let it sleep. If it ever rediscovers the faithfulness of God and the power of the Holy Ghost it will shake the world.

And there's our secret. There's no secret in stretching your intellect if your soul is shrinking. What's the good of having a colossal mind if you don't know God? You see, the x-ray can take a photograph of my throat, but it can't find my song.

I wish it could. You can take a photograph of my heart, but you can't find my affections. You can show me my brain, but you can't show me my mind. The human personality is still the most complex and most amazing thing in the world.

And I believe we're going to move into a sphere of Holy Ghost power this world has never dreamed of. Their lives a sleeping giant, let it sleep. How many preachers, do you know what, coming in the car I learned something today.

One thing, don't drive as fast as your pastor does, he's crazy. And the other thing was this, he's a bit of a football fanatic, I was trying to get quite near the crazy ball game and all the way here, but he's going to repent in about half an hour.

Some of these preachers are boasting. We have three Sunday morning services. Somebody in my office the other day told me, I come from California, we have five Sunday morning services. What do you do? After the first hour, do you say to the Holy Ghost, get out of here, somebody else wants to come in?

Five Sunday morning services, they don't have one Sunday night service. If you want to know how popular the church is, you go Sunday morning. If you want to know how popular the pastor is, you go Sunday night.

If you want to know how popular God is, you go to the prayer meeting. I don't even have a church, I have a prayer meeting. I've got one of my full-blooded Americans, Indians with me tonight. If you get rowdy, watch out, you're in trouble.

Another dear brother from Oklahoma. Just a prayer meeting of about 80 to 120, 30 people. This brother comes from Oklahoma every Friday night, right down to, we have it in the basement of last day's at 7 .30, in case you want to come.

Two lots of people, brother, from Houston. Two lots of people came down from Detroit. They come from all over the nation. Does that make me happy? Yes. It makes me sad. Why in God's name, why in God's name do they pass 500 churches on the way to find one prayer meeting?

This is, this is the most critical hour in history. I believe our choice is this, concentrate in prayer or pray in concentration camps. God help these little children. America will not exist another ten years, nor will England, unless we have a Holy Ghost revival.

Nobody's going to put Humpty Dumpty together again. That's not a nursery rhyme, that's theology. All the king's horses and all the king's horses. Man is fallen and depraved and you'll never put him back together again, neither the reconstructionist nor what the other.

Oh, the guy's preaching restoration, what a lovely thing. What do you mean by restoration? Everybody get together? That's no good. If you mean restoration, the Bible, I am for it. If you demand that Acts 6 is a descriptive condition of a deacon from here to eternity, that deacons are full of faith, that the Holy Ghost, they do signs and wonders and miracles as was a deacon's Bible standard, I'll pray for restoration.

If you're evangelist, I'll explain in the 8th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. And remember it was Stephen that, it was Philip that saw a city rocking from one end to the other under the power of the Spirit of God.

You see, the supernatural is unfashionable today, I'll come to that a bit later. Anyhow, here's a fellow, he's a terror to evildoers. Everybody's afraid of him. They've tried to sabotage his plans, they've tried everything, they don't work.

So what do they do? They bring a woman in. You usually get a woman in the plot, don't you? Don't say anything Martha, tell me after. The women come in the plot. So Delilah comes and says, tell me I pray thee.

How did you lift those gates and carry the holiday in on top of the hill and leave it there? He picked the whole thing up and took it away. You see, what the artists do, we've such a conception. Everything America has to be big, doesn't it?

If it's not big, it doesn't count. Okay, he didn't say amen, but it's true. I've traveled many countries of the world, and when I have a free day, I often go into art galleries. One reason, because they're free.

When I go in, I ask at the desk, I say, do you have any biblical characters? Yes, in Rome so-and-so, there's this picture, do you have a picture of Samson? Every time I've seen a picture of Samson, he's way up there, ten feet high.

No, it's even bigger than that. It says Saul, the king of Israel, was head and shoulders above everybody else in Israel. That's Saul, head and shoulders above everybody else in Israel. And we portray Samson as being head and shoulders above him.

That doesn't make sense. I know women ask some very difficult questions. Do you think a man's going to look up to a man 15 feet high and say, body, what's the secret of your strength? He'd most likely say, Wheatish.

He wasn't physically stronger, how do you know? Because I happen to read Hebrews 11, time would fail me, it does me every time I preach. Time would fail me to tell of Gideon and of Samson, who threw his muscles?

No, who threw faith. The big money men have had their day. I used to say, the church in America is going to suffer for the sin of the nation. No, the sin of the nation is going to, the nation is going to suffer for the sin of the church.

We've lost our authority, we've lost our power, we've lost the miraculous. What's the good of going with a lot of Bible outlines to a foreign country to try and fight Mohammedanism? You may find a guy much quicker than you are.

This book is supernatural from beginning to end. You see, you've got three pictures here. First is a picture of Samson. The people that do know their God shall be strong to exploit, and somehow he had a relationship in faith with the eternal God, and his enemies were powerless against him.

The Bible begins, well let me say, let's take a picture of Samson. Then it's, he too is a picture of Israel. She began in the miraculous. What's happened? She's lost her power. She's in a terrible mess now, but she'll be worse a year from today.

I believe the time of Jacob's trouble has not yet come. The most, next ten years, will be the most fascinating years in history. And I'm sick of the church standing on the side of the road watching the parade go past with people going to hell.

The reason the world is going to hell fire tonight is because the church has lost holy ghost fire. Half the preachers in the country have been snoozing this afternoon, or cruising, one of the two. Sitting with their feet up, watching a ball match, and the nation's going to hell.

Are you going to tell me that they believe that this Bible, that when a man dies without God he perishes and goes to eternal hell? Don't believe it for a minute, they don't. Let me assure you, preacher, or young preacher, preaching is not a profession, it's a passion.

It's not a passion, it's an obsession. It's this one thing I do, forget anything else. Don't get on somebody's board, and some other board, enough people are bored anyhow. Stay by this one thing, this one thing I do, Israel began in the miraculous.

I've often wondered, I don't know why, you know, in the ark, not the Noah's ark, the other ark, they had the, what did they have, the tables of stone and Aaron's rod that budded. I wonder why they didn't have that staff that Moses had.

He divided the sea like that, isn't that amazing? Isn't it fantastic, all the miracles they had? Remember Moses got angry and smote the rock? What did he do? He smote the rock once, that's all. And he got forty years punishment for it.

Adam sinned once, got kicked out of the garden for it. Now we sin freely, and it doesn't worry us at all. Well, people say, well, Ravenhill preaches sinless perfection. I don't. I say that while everything in the flesh is possible to sin, it's possible for a Christian to sin, but it's possible for him not to sin, too.

It's not impossible for him to sin, it's possible for him not to sin. If we don't have victory over sin, the Mohammedans don't, the Buddhists don't, the Confucianists don't, we've got the one message, the old rugged cross.

The best attested fact in history is the miracle of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. One of the great English preachers, there are a lot of them, I heard many of them sixty, seventy years ago.

I'm in my eighty-first year now, so, no, I'll soon be in my eighty-second. Still going strong. I've got a volcano inside, it gets hotter every day. You know, the resurrection is uniquely the message of the New Testament.

It's a message more of the New Testament than the blood is, actually, the cross. Dr. Parker was preaching once, and he said, there's the tomb of Jesus, and there's the stone over it. And then to make sure that Jesus was inside of that tomb, they put wax round, and sealed it up, made it airtight, we would say.

And then the Romans came and put stamps all over it, the sign of Rome, the King's sign. So there you have the stone, and the seal, and the wax. Well then I did a bit of homework on that. Isn't it amazing?

You know, many unbelievers in the world have more belief in the Bible than we have. How come it the Romans sealed that up, and put sixteen soldiers to guard the dead body? What? That's hideousy. But there's Christ behind that stone, there's the stone, there's the seal, there's the wax.

Sixteen soldiers. And then what? Well I believe the devil said, listen, I'm not sure that he'll escape again. And he rallied every demon in hell and said, listen, put your shoulder to that stone. But before you do that, rake up all the sins of the ages, and put them against that stone.

We don't know what this man's going to do. He's declared he's the Son of God with power. It's been declared he's the fulfillment of Isaiah. We know he was born of a virgin. We know his life, he opened the eyes of the blind, the dead were raised.

He powered over death, he powered over demons. Come on now. And the Word of God says, in such was some of ye. We're supposed to carry on that tradition, where are we? Scraping the surface. So there's the stone, there's the wax, there's the seal.

Every sin committed is rolled against that stone. Then every demon in hell is told to put his shoulder to the stone. So there you have the stone, the seal, the wax, the sins of the world, the demons, all there.

And Satan says, hold it. And there was the first countdown in history. It wasn't at Cape Canaveral. It was at Resurrection Month, with every demon looking on, and every angel looking on. And the devil terrified, lest Jesus should break the power of death and the power of sin.

And remember at the end of Revelation he says to us, I have the keys of death and of hell. And suddenly Satan says, there's only ten more seconds. And he goes to start the countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3.

He's just going to say one, and the Holy Ghost beat him to it. Because it says in Romans chapter 8, the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead. And immediately that seal burst. Immediately everything was liberated.

Satan was conquered. And so you get a bunch of men. Some years ago, my dear wife and a friend, we stood on the southern lip of the Grand Canyon. Any of you ever seen the canyon? How many have seen the Grand Canyon?

The rest of you should be ashamed. What do you go to other countries to see them for? Spending taxes here, and your spare cash. Well, I looked at the, there was a little stone there, and it had what they call a legend on it.

And it said the river across is seven miles away. It's 450 feet wide, it's 45 feet deep, it's the Colorado River. Look at the bottom. The Navajo Indians are there. The wall at this side is a mile high.

The wall at that side is a mile high from the canyon bottom. And there's the river. And as we stood there, I just had a thought like this. Supposing a two-year-old child was down at the bottom of that canyon.

Could it climb a mile-high wall? No. Could it climb that wall? No. Could it swim that river? No. To me, it was a picture of the Church of Jesus Christ in the upper room, a church born. They came out with the same color hair.

They were the same men that went in, except they were purged and anointed by the Holy Ghost. How could they get out of the mess they were in? That the canyon this side is the Roman Empire, the greatest military machine in the world.

They can't climb it. This side, the intellectual power of the Greeks. That river over there is the Jews with their monopoly of God and the Scriptures in their language and what have you got. And that little bunch of men came out of the upper room.

Well how in God's name do you explain it? I have preachers from all over the world come and see me. I don't care what breed they are, pardon the phrase, denomination or abomination if you like. I asked them this, is the Pentecostal Church in your country very powerful?

Well yes, some of them are. Well tell me this, about a hundred and twenty men in the upper room with women burst out and within a few years they pierced the intellectual power of the Greeks. They penetrated the Jewish monopoly.

They didn't use the Roman roads, they gone to the best parts of the world. 55 BC, the Romans were in England 55 BC. But then these other precious men followed on the roads that were made. How many? A hundred and twenty.

Who financed them? They had no finance. People say, we want another Pentecost, forget it. If we had another Pentecost we'd all be in jail, the preachers would be in jail within a month. Pentecost in the Bible is married to poverty, privation, persecution and pain.

They hardly got out of the upper room, they were slammed in jail, they had no army, they had no money. They didn't go pronouncing curses on the hierarchy of the Jews. And yet those hundred and twenty men went out and turned the world upside down.

Now here in Fort Worth and Dallas, you don't have a hundred and twenty people filled with the Holy Ghost, you have a hundred and twenty churches claiming to be filled with the Holy Ghost. Well why in God's name is there so much prostitution?

Why is there so much crime? Is your holiness just around the little fireside with you and your dear wives, sending a buck here and there to missions? Do you know what happened to those men in the upper room?

They were praying men. Dear Lord, two churches after, the whole property was rocking with the power of God. I had a dear black boy in my office this past week. His clothes weren't worth a dime. I don't know where he picked the shoes up, they were rotten too.

But as he talked I got so warm, I got so blessed. I asked him what he was doing in America, oh I've only been here a few weeks. What do you think of it? I said I'm disgusted with it Mr. Ravenhill. Our Christianity in Nigeria, where I am, is so different from here.

I said well what's your pastor like? Is he a very learned man? He said dear Mr. Ravenhill, my pastor is twenty years of age, and he said he is not the most anointed man in the church. The pastor is twenty, he has a pastor's heart, the assistant to the pastor is nineteen years of age.

He'll come in a meeting and see somebody's legs all twisted, and say brother Jesus wouldn't have that. I say to you in the name of Jesus Christ, walk, they get up and walk. He goes to the blind and says Jesus is what you're blind, and he pronounces a word that they can see.

I said in God's name keep him there, we'll put him on every TV station in America if he comes here. They'll revive the PTL, that means Pitch at the Listeners. And the 700 Club, and TBN, whatever that means.

But these young men are so innocent, you know what? And I say this cautiously, unkindly, though you, you stole me maybe, it's okay. They haven't had the disadvantage of being brainwashed. As I've said in one of my books, somebody's going to pick that Bible up one day and believe it, we'll all be shocked.

We don't need a new revelation, all we need is to get back to the book. Get down to prayer. Tell me this, when are we going to get serious about being serious about the most serious thing in the world, the destiny of millions of people?

I'm trying to write a book now on the judgment seat of Christ, it terrifies me. Almost every time I go to my office desk I break out in a sweat. I try to go to bed at half past nine at night, and get up at midnight, and take a few hours without getting interrupted by phone or telephone or people.

I was reading the 20th chapter in Revelation some months ago, and as I read in the chapter I came to that phrase that says, it talks about the second death. I've been going to meetings for 75 years, I've preached in some of the biggest churches in the world, some of the biggest conferences, but in 75 years of going to church I've never heard a preacher preach on the second death.

I've heard them preach on the second coming, the second birth, the second Adam, and there wasn't one, there was only the last Adam, and the second covenant. But never on the second death. I pushed my chair back and the tears rolled down my face and said, oh God, why doesn't somebody preach on this?

I pity the preacher. I pity you guys who teach in theological seminary. If you withhold the light, you may as well take scissors and cut it out of the Bible. You don't believe it and you pass your unbelief on.

I read that, and that tears crossed down my, and I can't read it now without weeping. There's a million roads into hell, there isn't one out. And yet you could stay all afternoon watching football, and America's on the verge of its greatest tragedy ever.

We can't live another ten years. We defied God, our homes are broken with divorce, our children are broken with grief, our minds are broken with drugs, our bodies are broken with liquor, everything's broken but the church isn't heartbroken over it.

And until she is, there'll be no moment God isn't going to hand us out a blessing. Dear God, we've lived on the highest rate, socially, of any people in history. We have the finest houses but not the finest homes.

We've more people making decisions and less disciples than ever. So I'm pondering that word, sitting in my chair, after two o 'clock in the morning, the second death. I was sure there was a voice, I'd turned my head, do you know what the voice said, as I was pondering turning over hell, turning over the second death, the voice behind me said, hell has no exits.

I tell my class often on Friday night, listen, I'm going soon to heaven, and I'm not going for the weekend. If you want to stay down here, stay, but you sang tonight about going up there into the glory land.

I don't know whether I'll ever get back, if I do, one night I might preach on the judgment seat. That's going to be the most awesome thing ahead of us. You know, people say, oh, I believe in the rapture.

You don't. I'll tell you why. Some of you boys wouldn't be where you were last night, at midnight, if you believed in the rapture. I asked a seminarian that came in my office, what time is the, what time is the, what do you call it, the curfew in the seminary?

I don't know which seminary it was, except it's Dallas Fort Worth somewhere. He said, in the seminary, the curfew, weeknights, is ten o 'clock. What about Saturday night? That's two o 'clock Sunday morning.

I said, what in God's name are divinity students doing out till two o 'clock in the morning unless you've been to nights of prayer? Are you asking for a baptism of revelation? You say you want to be like Christ.

What do you mean? Do you want to get seminary? Do you want a crucifixion? What do you mean like Christ? That hell has no exits. Then I went to speak at a place and they let a whole bunch of fellows come out of a local jail.

They came in white suits. And as they came in, a friend said, these are parolees out of prison. And right on to that phrase, hell has no exits, the Lord put this on, hell has no parolees. Nobody's going in for a year or two, it's forever and ever and ever.

And we must all appear. Teddy Kennedy may have gotten up some privilege from the Pope, I don't know. He's going to stand at the judgment seat one day and tell us what happened to that girl at Chappaquiddick.

She didn't drown because she had no water in her lungs. She did have a baby in her belly. It's all going to be explained. Who killed, what do you call him, what's that union leader, Jaffa, Hoffa. The Lord knows all about it.

The mystery of the death of Marilyn Monroe, God, it's all going to be revealed. How long is it going to take? I don't know, we're not going anywhere. It might take two million years, boy, that'll be great.

You just signal to an angel, he'll bring you a glass of water, not, oh, this is poor water, but he'll bring you a glass of water out of the river of life, and fruits, as much as you want. Can you imagine Jesus sitting there judging the whole world?

Every nation kindred and turned. The Roman Empire will come back to life, the Medo-Persian Empire, the British Empire, every empire. Every bloody battlefield is going to ease the debt. Millions are going to be raised at the voice of the Son of God.

I thrill at that. Of course I can thrill at the sense of judgment of the unsaved. It's when you come to the judgment of believers that we're in trouble. Oh, I know there's some fellas in town here got more faith than the Apostle Paul, isn't that wonderful?

They say, if he had the revelation we have, he would never have had a thorn in the flesh. I'll tell you what, I'd rather the Apostle Paul rewarded the judgment than theirs, even if they don't have their private jets.

Think of all these epistles, fourteen if you give Paul Hebrew, and he's going to be rewarded in eternity for everybody that's been blessed because of them. Everybody that's been saved, emancipated. You see, this is the one message the world needs.

Forget the Quran and the Vedas and sacred books. This is the God-anointed book, this is the God-anointed message concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. So central is the gates of Gaza. Again the people that do know their God should be strong and to exploit.

Samson’s Secret, Nazarite Consecration, and Spiritual Power

Let me go down to the chapter a minute here. I don't have a clock, you notice that? You'll be home for breakfast, don't worry. Listen to the question, listen to the answer. Tell me this woman says, looking on this amazing man, what is the secret of your great strength?

Listen to his answer. In verse 17, Samson said unto her, fasten me with green widths that were never dried, then shall I be weak as other men. Now look, his enemies know he wasn't like another man, she knew he wasn't like another man, he knew he wasn't like another man, and yet he's going to forfeit it?

Do you know what I'm sick of in the church of Jesus Christ today? I'm sick of mediocrity. I'm sick of guys copying what the other guy does. I'm sick of men being anointed and then they stick their name on the thing.

I believe Almighty God's going to send us a revival and no man will dare put his hand on it. It won't be Aldo Roberts University or somebody else. It will be so gloriously supernatural that from A to Z, you won't have to force people to church, they'll run there to see the glory of God.

I told a man on the phone, yes he phoned long distance, some other country or somewhere. I said brother here's the situation today. We go to the house of God, we read the word of God, we sing the praise of God, we pray to God, but where is God?

Did you come here tonight to meet God, or to hear a sermon about him? Did you expect a confrontation with a God of glorious holiness? I like the hymn you sang tonight, it's beautiful, holy, holy, holy, all the saints adore thee.

That keeps me going. I don't preach for money. I've got millions of books out in about 15 languages, never made a penny out of them. I never asked for a penny in my life. I've had guys, oh my lawyers will come and set up a Revival Meetings Incorporated, tax-free.