Revival (Alternative Version) — Leonard Ravenhill

We've got Jacob back. If you don't know who he is, he's there. The prodigal has returned. He's been in Mexico and had a real time of blessing. I asked him, now don't preach. Speech, but not preach. He's going to tell us of something that happened through a group down the back lane, some of you know them, the Calvary Commission.

And about a young man that went there. Well, now it shows.

Larry, I mean, you've been with the work in Mexico. Larry and I got saved about 14 years ago in a school of Bible where a thousand kids got saved in a week. And Larry has gone down and been with the Calvary Commission really since they were founded.

And in six years, and I know the last page is supporting this issue there substantially, they have raised up in the city of Belize the largest Protestant orphanage. And I mean, it is the heart of the Catholic stronghold.

And they've raised up a church of 150, which in the city of Belize doesn't seem like very much mere use of the Methodist. They've been there 90 years. They've got less than that in the Baptist over 100 years.

They've got less than that. I can believe that. They've sent out 32 missionaries. Wonderful. Out of that fellowship in two to six years. Hallelujah. And they are presently purchasing property. They've grown out of the facilities that they're in now.

And they're planning on keeping that because that's a direct outreach into downtown. The neat thing is, I mean, they're reaching out to the poor. And they're catching a lot of poor people. But also dentists and doctors and lawyers and even judges are being saved.

Wonderful. And we're seeing some real miraculous things down there. And they're presently moving down. The church that Larry has raised up under him, the disciple of the last six years, the fellow who is going to take over the work there.

And he's going to the border. And there's going to be two Bible schools. One on the Mexican side. And one just a couple of miles away on the American side. So they can be trained nationals to go back in as missionaries into South America.

And then train Americans on the other side to go into Central and South America and reach people with the gospel. So it's really exciting things happening down there. Wonderful. And I hope that you all are in the center to be praying for us.

Well, maybe we'll select you to be our missionary to go join them. He's learned some Spanish this last two or three weeks. He can say si and he can say senorita and senor. But that's the end. But he was blessed and that's great to hear that.

We had a great meeting last Sunday night. I don't know, maybe a thousand people. It was a great joy to make such a number of enemies in one meeting. Well, that's my job. The fellow introduced me. He said, what should I say?

Say nothing. Just say, Brother Len Rayfield. When I said, I said, well, just say trouble has come. He didn't, but it came. And the Lord built the place up. And I guess the room was thrice as wide as this in this lovely church.

The place was jammed out with people weeping, seeking God. We started at half past six and finished at about ten. And they were still there praying and seeking God at ten o 'clock. And that's what we need to see.

Well, that was great. As we finished the meeting, a young man came up to me and he said, do you know Penny? No, I don't know Penny. That's all I ever carry. It's all my wife will let me have. Who's ever Penny in my pocket?

Don't have it tonight. I said, who's Penny? Penny Lee. No. You don't know who she is? No. Well, he said she was speaking at a college in North Dakota three weeks ago. And she's in pro-life. And most of pro-life folk blast, you know, what they're there to do, which is good.

But this girl not only has, she has an eloquence, a natural eloquence. She not only has a great concern about abortion, but she has an anointing of the Spirit. And she linked it with, with sin and the cross.

And a man jumped up in the meeting, he said, oh God have mercy on me. I've paid for three abortions for my girlfriends. Somebody stood up and screamed out, I've committed this, I've done that, I've done the other.

And just a wave of confession like that, just went over the place. And he said the meeting lasted 30 hours. Now I've told you what will happen when Revival comes. You better not, you better set the timer.

You know, people use timers on their weapons for all kinds of things. Set it for 30 hours, one Friday night, we'll pray all through the night. Wouldn't you like that? I would. We'll do that sometime, we'll arrange a night.

We'll let the older people slip out for an hour and sleep and come back. No we won't, because if we did, Jacob would go. He said people were so convinced and convicted they were leaning up against the wall for eight hours at a stretch to try and get to the microphone and make declaration of how they wanted to be purged and so forth and so on.

He said I've never been in anything like that. I said I haven't been in meetings quite so long. I've been in meetings where brokenness has come. I met people who went through the Shang Tung Revival. And when Revival comes, we've never seen Revival, don't know a thing about it.

We have a crowded meeting a few weeks ago, it's Revival, I don't believe that. Revival closes taverns, Revival closes dance halls, Revival hits the devil. It isn't just people getting moved emotionally and stirred.

Good Lord we millions of people have had that in America in the last two or three years. But where are they? Have they become prayer warriors? Anyhow he said it just swept on and he said I was awed. Here's this young woman with such a blazing anger against impurity, against sin and such a love for Christ and such an anointing and so uplifting the cross in all its power that people just melted.

And he said for over, I think actually he said 34 hours that meeting went on. Well I rejoice in that. Do you? Then a man called me this morning and he called me about some books which is always good of course.

Don't tell Jacob he'll be over at my house. Oh I told you about some books? I said yes. He said I told you about my pastor? I said yes. He said he'd just been behind the Iron Curtain, didn't go for a trip.

What in the world did he go for? Well some of you have heard about the Moravian Church have you? You know the Moravians had that prayer meeting that lasted from as I like to use the figure from here when the clock just got to 11 the Holy Ghost came on the 23rd of August 1727.

That prayer meeting lasted 100 years without breaking. Little boys and girls chatted in prayer. 100 years. Tremendous upbringing, tremendous breaking. You could go at 2 o 'clock in the afternoon there were people praying.

2 o 'clock in the morning, 12 o 'clock midday, any hour of the day. For 100 years. No wonder they were the pioneer missionaries actually. The best since Pentecost. I've told you there were 2 young guys sitting across here.

Revival, Persecution, and Costly Commitment

Last Sunday morning I preached in a ballroom that was jammed and folks standing outside. There were 2 blonde young men. And I pointed to them and I said you know young fellows like you stood on the slave blocks.

Down there in St. Thomas and Antigua. They stood on the slave blocks. They were part of these precious black men and they auctioned them. You know they looked at their teeth and punched their bellies and checked them.

And then these blondes got up and stood there. Who's your master? God. What are you doing here? I want to be a slave. What do you mean a slave? There's no way onto the plantation but to sell yourself.

And they were auctioned like cattle. And when they went into the fields to plough. Instead of using 5 oxen or 5 whatever else they would use, horses. They used 5 men. And there was an unwritten law amongst them.

It was spread back to Germany. Spengler was one of the leading preachers there. And the law is that when you've been sold on the block and they take you out. They take 4 of the men with you. You get in the middle.

Because if you get to this end you can't shout right over there. Get in the middle then you can witness on both sides. They put iron collars around their necks. Until the iron cut into their necks and they got thrashing.

Necks. They put a belt around them with big studs in it. And a chain and they became the human horses. In the scorching heat. I've been down in those islands and it's hot. That was the only way they could get in.

We don't have that now. God help us. I get so blazing angry. I was in a Bible school. I said listen the Mormons. Their law is this. That your son or your daughter must go to the mission field for 2 years.

And be financed by the family. If you have 6 children. You have to pay for the 6 of them. The church doesn't pay. When they go they have to make a confession. They have to sign that they won't write home.

They won't write to their girlfriend. They won't watch TV. They won't phone home. They can't go to movies. They have the strictest discipline of anybody outside of West Point I think. I said in that famous Bible school.

I said in God's name. Could you get students here. If you said you can't write home for 6 months. You can't write to your girlfriend. You can't phone home. You can't write letters. You can't go out off the campus.

Day and night you have to get buried into this thing. They are buried into that damnable thing called Mormonism. And yet they are sacrificed for it. They put us to shame. No wonder Jesus says some of these zealots.

When they really get on fire with their devilish thing. They will encompass sea and land. And they will be 7 times more deadly and damned at the end. But where in God's name are we? It's time we got serious about being serious about revival.

Well this man that called me said. Well my pastor is back from behind the Iron Curtain. He went there to help and uplift the people. And he said when he got there. There is a young couple. Now young is in quotes.

There is a young couple there he went to visit. The girl is I think 81. No she is 80. And her boyfriend is 91. And they have been behind the Iron Curtain for years planting churches. And they said you know we are having a wave of ease.

And it's not good. And he said the young people said please. Pray that the government will tighten things up. Because when we had affliction. And the old man has been beaten up. And some of the young people have been beaten.

And they said look the young people are as firm as a rock on the atonement. They are as firm as a rock on the sonship of Jesus Christ. They are as firm as a rock on the work of the Holy Ghost. And the young people said will you pray that God will intensify the persecution.

Because when we were persecuted we were pure. We were pressed up to the wall. Either you had to make a total confession. A total commitment and live all out for Christ. Or else you are in serious trouble.

You had to become a communist or something. And he said the young people were begging. Pray the government will tighten things up. We want a pure church. But we want one here. God knows we want it on our conditions.

Don't disturb our lethargy. Don't disturb our status quo. Don't disturb our formality. Let's have nice Sunday services with nice quiet meetings where nobody gets disturbed. I'll tell you what we need some hellfire preaching.

We need something that troubles us. We need to leave the sanctuary with anointed eyes. That know how to weep. He said you see these young people there. He said the way they pray. Of course they can't run out and play tennis you see.

They can't go to the basketball court. They can't go to the baseball court. The diamond whatever you call it. It's either Christ or nothing. And he says they are so sold out. They are so deliberate. They are so holding on to the word of God.

It made me wonder what we are doing in America. Well that's true of England and other countries. But it won't be long like this. It can't be. Either God in mercy comes and rends the heavens and visits us.

Or he comes in judgment. As I told the crowd Sunday night. Maybe our option is this. Either concentrate in prayer or pray in concentration camps. I'm not angry about them having a rock concert down the road.

They'll have one in a week or two. Thousands go. And lots of them could be here tonight but they don't. They don't want showmanship. It's Christian entertainment anyhow. Let me get my head chopped off.

What do I care? I had it chopped off before and stuck on again. So I'm doing pretty good. But it's a desperate hour. When I heard of this man coming back from behind the Iron Curtain. He said I've nothing.

How could I uplift them? All I could say we'll be praying for you. But he said their zeal, their passion and their vision. And their longing. If there's anything else to strip. Strip us. If there's anything to tear away.

Tear it away. We don't want to stand in your way. We're not too concerned about that. We want nice little comfortable meetings. Somebody say some sweet things. Don't shout too much. Make it nice and easy.

Spoon feed us. Be nice and quiet. Open your mouth. Here's a lollipop. Here's a Christian lollipop for you. This is the salvation I'm used to have. When the Spirit of the Living God moved. You don't have to.

I would not. I do not ever have an altar call with singing. I refuse to stir people emotionally. I challenge people last Sunday night. There are all kinds of preachers, doctors. What have you got? I said right now don't come to this altar to get blessed.

Forget it. Don't come to this altar for help. Come to die. The altar is for one of two things. Sacrifice or death. If you don't want to do it, well go home. If you want to do it, get up. And you know, just as I pressed the button, they jumped up all over the place and stampeded to the altar.

The son-in-law of the founder said, I never saw it like that in my life. Well, I said, I didn't do it. I wasn't sticking a pin in everybody. They were so, and then when they got there, they were groaning and weeping and acknowledging how little prayer they had.

Isaiah's Vision of Conviction and Cleansing

I preached on Isaiah 6. I said, remember, here's a prophet of God and what does it say? It doesn't say, Lord, my prayer life is a little bit slack. Could you help me? Lord, I'm sorry I'm behind on my tithing.

I said, tell me what he did say. He said two things. I'm undone and I'm unclean. And that brought him deliverance. And we beat around the bush. We blame this and that and the other. There's not a power in America.

You can combine communism, Mormonism, Romanism, ritualism, humanism, all the other devilish things together. They're not holding revival up. It's the church. She's unclean. She's greedy for money. Somebody asked me the other day about the prophet.

I said, you tell a prophet he never asked for money. He didn't. It's an insult to his holy father. God will supply. I've lived by faith. I remember leaving Ireland. The lady said to me, do you really?

I said, best I know how. She said, could I ask you a question? Do you trust a faithful God? Or do you trust God's faithful? Pretty good one isn't it Bill? Anything? Prayer of faith. Right, hurry up. I hope the postman's here soon.

It's all going to be shattered. I have a long letter on my desk now that brought my heart this week. A couple got up in years now. A few years ago there was an appeal for money and we gave a five figure sum we had for our retirement.

Things have gone different since. Husband's lost his job. We're in tight spot financially. The man that got our money owns five houses in other people's names. But he owns them. He said, I wrote to him and said, listen, we're just broke now.

We sent you those thousands of dollars years ago. Can't you do something for us? He said, now don't you? And she said one or two things pretty rough. And he wrote back, don't touch the Lord's anointing.

I wrote back and said, you're not anointed. I said, good for you. I'd have signed it myself. God's going to break every idol on which we're leaning. Everything that's of the flesh is going to go. Every organization and system is going to go.

God's going to show us his glory. Nobody's going to stick their neck. I'm sick to death of men stealing God's glory. You see names outside of these places. I don't want anything with my name on it. We steal the glory.

I believe Oral Roberts came as near as anybody to moving this nation and maybe the world. If it stayed with Pentecostal holiness and kept away from the junk and the money. But God's a jealous God. And he's going to find some young men.

We old gray fellows. You and I by the farrah myself. We missed, and gray ladies too. We missed the turn in the road. God's going to send us some young men and you don't know the name of one of them. A precious black brother there I see.

Some little black boy up in Alabama. Been driving a school bus today. God got an anointing for him. He's taking this girl. These other women want to scream. They all want ministries. Here's a young lady fighting with all the power she has on pro-life.

And yet the Holy Ghost comes on her meeting after meeting. There's brokenness. There's no sundering. There's no screaming Ichabod. There's no crying against sins in a silly angry way. She uplifts Christ and says here's your answer.

Here's your solution. Here's a miracle in your life. More than in your body, in your soul, in your emotions, in your whole being. And that's what young people are wanting. What I'm supposed to preach.

Joseph's Calling and the Discipline of Adversity

Should I do that or shall I? Let's read a little anyhow. From Genesis 37. I'm not going to take it all. I'll take some another time. But I want to share some things here. Let me just say this. As we go to prayer let's pray for behind the Iron Curtain.

Let's pray for Penny Lee that God will continue to use her. She won't get spoiled with success or money or something. Start building big offices and need the big staff and all that other stuff. She'll be kept humble and broken with a vision and a passion.

And just sweep on like another Marashal in our day. And then let's pray of course for the work that Jacob was able to witness down there in, where is it? Leon is it? Leon. Over the border. And. For the Indians if we don't we'll have Spencer after us.

Okay. Genesis 37. And Jacob or Israel his other name was dwelt in the land where in his father was a stranger in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph being 17 years old was feeding the flock with his brethren.

And the lad was one of the sons with the sons of Bilhar and with the sons of Zilpah his father's wives. And Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. You know some people are trying to spot this guy.

As far as I know he's the purest character apart from David Daniel in the whole of the word of God. I don't believe he came gossiping. I believe he came bringing an accurate report of the condition of the nation and the nation roundabout.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a coat of many colors. Let's go back a minute there. He was 17. How many young men you know 17 or women that God could trust with what this man went through.

Of course he lived in the shadow of his famous father wrestling Jacob. I think he must have heard his father praying and interceding time after time until his roots his personal roots were going deeper and deeper.

And God trusted him. You see we think God trusts us with prosperity and nice things. You don't build character that way. You build character in adversity. And I believe that adversity and trial is the university God trains his saints in.

And here's this 17 year old boy then. Israel or Jacob loved Joseph more than all his children because he was a son of his old age. And he made him a coat of many colors. Thus for when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren they hated him.

Come on. I don't believe you can love God with all your heart soul mind and strength without people hating you. Why did they hate him. Was it was he a better marksman with his bow and arrow. Was it swifter on his feet.

I don't think so. They hated him. Why. Because he was close to the heart of his father. His father loved him. And they saw the relationship of the father with the son. I remember we were up in the hills.

Well the other side of Seguin there. Some years ago I went to speak and a fellow came up in a big car. He had his private plane and everything. And he asked me about my sons. I said I have three sons.

He said I have. He said two of them they come for everything. Dad I need a new baseball. I need this. I need to go to a camp. I need money for that. I've got one son he said he never asked for anything.

He's always somewhere around the house when I come in. He comes and nestles up the side of me and says dad it's lovely to have your home again. I so enjoy your company. And he said you know that boy does more for me than the other boys with all their skills in sports.

They always show me their trophies. They always tell me where they're going. They're always asking for money to go compete somewhere. This boy asked for nothing except to be near to me. And here we have a picture again of course of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He was a son of his old age. Well whether it's right or wrong I'm going to say Jesus was the son of the father's old age. In this way that we read from all upon me from Proverbs chapter 8. Proverbs chapter 8 reading from verse 12.

I wisdom dwell among dwell with prudence and find out knowledge of which inventions. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogancy and the evil way. And the forward mouth do I hate. Counsel is mine and understanding.

Sound wisdom. I am understanding I have strength by me King's reign and Prince's rule. Down to verse 20. I lead the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures.

The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways before his works of old. I was set up from ever lasting from the beginning or before the earth ever was. There were no debts before there were no debts.

And when there were no debts I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled before the hills was I. You know that kind of dreary old hymn at least they sing it in England for funerals.

Oh God our help in ages past. There's a phrase in that always stirs me before the hills in order stood or earth received a frame from everlasting thou art God to endless years of same. A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone.

Short as the watch that sets the night before the rising sun. Well here as another part of the scripture says before the trees of the hills clap their hands. He was there with the father before there was a world.

He was there in the executive if you like to put it that way. Executive eternity. Verse 26 while as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields or the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens I was there.

When he set a compass upon the face of the deep. When he established the clouds above. When he strengthened the fountains of the deep. When he gave the sea its decree and the water should not pass his commandments.

When he appointed the foundations of the earth then was I by him as one brought up with him. I was daily his delight rejoicing always before him. Rejoicing in the habitable parts of the earth. And my delights were unto the sons of men.

Verse 34 blessed is the man that heareth me watching daily at my gates. This I believe is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. The only begotten of the father he wasn't derived. He's from the very heart of God.

Created again by the Holy Ghost. I don't know why people stumble over the virgin birth. Do you Bill? I mean this is simple but it's profound. Because I found it out for myself. The question that puzzles me is this.

Why should people wonder about the last Adam being born and he was the last Adam. He was born without a mother. When the first Adam was born without a father. Think about that. Where's the problem for God?

He has none. We have the problem. But it's this mighty being. The firstborn. Or the born of old age. The Lord let the world run so long and then he sends his son. Verse 3 of 37 says Israel loved Joseph more than his children.

Because he was a son of his old age and he made him a coat of many colors. Why? Because he was a treasure to his father. Because he was distinctive. I think it was to mark him out as the what was he? Who was he born of?

Rachel. You know I get a lot of hope in this. People tease me about it but I do. I get a lot of hope in this for the simple reason that one day Rachel got to the place where she didn't care about her what do you call these fancy dresses you wear?

Oh designer dress. That's right. Martha doesn't have one anyhow. But anyhow it's nice to know you know. You know we show off a bit. She isn't concerned about her appearance. She doesn't come out neat as a competitor with the other woman in the house.

The other woman has children she doesn't she's barren. And she comes to the place one day I see her coming out I suppose it was a tent she comes there and throws herself down before Jacob and she almost screams out Jacob give me children or I die.

We don't pray like that God help us. We pray as though well Lord this is our little petition and if it's not if it won't exhaust you would you kindly do this? If it won't baffle you will you kindly do that?

I don't believe God answers prayer. He answers desperate prayer. He answers prayer with blood in it. He answers prayer with tears in it. That's why I like to hear Spencer and some of these guys pray. She got to the place where she couldn't live.

And when you and I get there you can only say to God God I don't care if I'm going to live another day. I don't care if I die in six months as long as I see the glory of God. I keep saying to God Lord I'm going to be like Simeon.

He prayed and prayed and prayed with a little old woman a hundred years old and went up to other people there and he said I won't die until I see the salvation of God. And they put the Christ of God in his arms and then he was prepared to go.

Well I don't want to go until God rents the heavens. A dear brother prayed here the other night so beautifully I thought. And he said Lord I've been cheated. I've been cheated. I've never seen revival.

I've never seen rent heavens. You can have your revival so-called cost a million dollars. They don't. They don't cost a dime. True revival costs blood, sweat, tears, grief, fasting, anguish when nothing satisfies.

The verse I wanted you to sing in beneath the cross of Jesus isn't there. It wasn't there tonight. Beneath the cross of Jesus but on the further side. No no not that one dearly. Beneath the cross. I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of thy face.

Isn't that something. Do you really mean that. Lord I don't care about new clothes. I don't care about I want the sunshine. Why should America go to hell. Come on tell me. I won't go to other countries.

Let others go. God bless them. I'll pray for them. I do pray for them. I can't go to another country and tell them how to get revival when we're dead all around here. I want to see God Almighty move on Tyler.

I don't need a million dollars. All I need is the favor of God, the anointing of God, the revelation from God. The money I wouldn't care that much about it. I want to see something that is so stamped with deity that no man dare touch it.

He didn't stamp his name on it. Wesley never intended to raise Methodism. Methodism came out of Wesley. God raised a man. God found a man half Jew and half Gentile in William Booth and revival came and they swept through England.

And there are men around the country now. Unknowns are coming up with anointing, coming up with power, coming up with revelation. And God is going to embarrass us. And I'll be glad to be embarrassed I'll tell you that.

He made him a coat of many colors. I believe that was to distinguish him from his half brothers who were born of slave wives. He's the royal son. He has dignity. He has authority. Read the story. I'm going to take it here about Sisera.

Sisera had a coat of many colors. There are various people in the Old Testament had a special coat. It was a distinctive mark of somebody who's appointed to a particular task. They're separated to it.

Jesus had many colors. There's a color in the star. Who else had a star come across the sky when he was born? Who else was escorted to the earth with a heavenly host? And they weren't singing either. They were chanting about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Who else had the heavens open at the baptism like the Lord Jesus had? Who else had the revelation given on the Mount of Transfiguration, the glory of God? And it always just astounds me there that those three, and again remember the Lord does have special people.

He does have Peter and James and John that he selects out of the twelve. And then he selects John out of the three. But you have distinctive things about Jesus like the colorings. You have the mighty experience on the Mount of Transfiguration.

I've often wondered why they didn't fall before him, but they didn't because it wasn't the full glory. But God puts a special mark on his people when there's revival. People go around the street with a glow.

They go around the street with a joy. Everything they touch has life. You see, people say today, oh our job is to dispel truth. We're ministers. We're to dispel nothing of the kind. We're not here to speak truth.

We're here to spread life. You can have truth as dead as a doornail. A doctor told me one day twice two is five, twice four is eight, twice eight is sixteen, twice sixteen is thirty-two, twice thirty-two is sixty-four, twice sixty-four is what?

One hundred and twenty-eight. Then he said, has it done you any good? It's truth. What's there going to be thundering out of this book? It's dead unless the Holy Ghost makes it live. People go to sleep.

They're bored. Our job is to bring life. Jesus didn't say, I've come that they might have truth. He said, I've come that they might have life and have it more abundantly, have it overflowing in every part of their being.

Human Existence, Spiritual Life, and the Presence of God

You know, I realize today in a new way, it's really a very, very serious thing to live in the hour in which we are living. Not because the walls are coming in and the roof's coming in. It's a serious thing to have a personality, to have a brain, to have a heart, to have emotions, to have life.

What are they here for? For me to stir up and amuse myself and enjoy myself? No, they're his. The psalmist said upon an instrument of ten strings will I praise thee. What ten strings? I don't know. Say you use your two feet, your two hands.

That's two, four. You mustn't get lost here. Two eyes. That's six. And your tongue and your heart. You've got ten things there. You know, when God gets men like this, to realize again that he is God, you can't have blessing without cursing.

You can't have the life of God without the hatred of the devil. I don't care who you are. First Paul says that when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him.

For what? Had he been fighting them? Had he been stealing? Had he been getting somebody's birthright? As I say, had he been target practicing and lick them all? Was he the best athlete? No, he was near to the heart of the father.

And the father whispered secrets to him. Maybe he too had a prayer life something like his father's. His brethren hated him and could not speak peace unto him. But come on, tell me in the name of the Lord, why do you get up so upset that people hate you?

After all, Jesus was the purest man that has ever walked the earth. But they hated him. And who hated him? His own family hated him. He had to get out of his own home hadn't he at one time? His family was up against him.

And it says here that when his brethren saw their father loved him, you'll get your worst injuries from people who profess the name of Jesus. It was his brethren. You say, a Christian has done this, a Christian's been bitter, a Christian's been scornful, a Christian's ridiculed me, a Christian's slandered me.