What to Do if You Don't Want Revival — Greg Locke

The Glory of God in Solomon’s Temple

2 Chronicles, chapter number 7, actually going to begin in verse number 1. 2 Chronicles 7 and verse number 1. The Bible says, Now when Solomon had made an end of playing, the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house.

And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house. And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good, for his mercy endureth forever.

Go to verse number 12, we pick up our reading. And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place for myself, one house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven, that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people, then notice this all-familiar verse, If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my faith, and turn from their wicked ways, then when I hear from heaven, we'll forgive their sin, and we'll heal their land.

Now my eyes shall be opened, and my ears attended to the prayer that is made in this place. And as we begin our series of meetings this week, I want to preach on this subject, What To Do If You Don't Want Revival.

Thank you so much. You may be seated. Let's bow our heads and hearts and pray, and ask the Lord to bless our time together. What To Do If You Don't Want Revival. Now my Father, I do pray that you would empty me completely of myself, and fill me completely with the power of the Holy Spirit of God.

Lord, thank you for these my friends. I pray that you would bless them as they listen to the Bible. And Lord, I've got enough spiritual sense to know that not one person has come here today to hear me, but we've all come to hear from thee.

So I pray that you'd use the word of God in a special way. If there be one who has joined us in church, but has never come to Christ, I pray the Spirit of God would convict them of their desperate need of the Savior.

Lord, today I believe when God's people get right, lost people will get saved. And so I pray for we as your people, that you'd reclaim the backslidden today, that you would call those who are disobedient back to yourself.

And Father, you would certainly restart and revive and rejuvenate our hearts around the word of God. And we'll thank you for what you'll do. We thank you for stirring us through the singing. And I pray now that you'd change us through the preaching.

And we'll thank you for it. For it's in Jesus' name we ask it and pray. Amen. In 2 Chronicles 7, verse 14, we have probably one of the most familiar verses in all the Bible, especially Old Testament, when it comes to the subject of revival that we're dealing with this week.

But if we're going to understand and appreciate verse number 14, I want you to back up and get the context of verse number 1. Notice what your Bible says, 2 Chronicles 7, verse 1. The Bible says, Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house.

For twenty solid years, Solomon had been a man that was building works for God. Thirteen of those twenty years, he built his house. And several of those years, he built the Immaculate Temple of God. Can you imagine something that was built every single day except for the Sabbath?

It was built out of gold and silver and bronze and beautiful statues and marble and wood and just about every major thing that you can imagine that was expensive went into this piece of artwork for seven solid years.

But in 2 Chronicles 7, verse 1, we have the context of the dedication of that temple. This building's been around for many, many years. I believe Pastor said this auditorium was built in the early 1900s.

And you weren't here and I weren't here, but I know one thing. There was a dedication day of this building. And in 2 Chronicles 7, there was a dedication of the temple of the house of God. And the Bible tells us that Solomon got in the pulpit and he was the man of God that was going to pray and dedicate this building to God's presence.

The Bible tells us that when he lifted up his voice and when he prayed, when he made an end of praying, the Word of God specifically says that the fire of God fell out of heaven. It consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

And out of years of study on the Bible, I have not found a better phrase for the subject of revival than the end of verse number 1 where the Bible says,. And the glory of the Lord filled the town. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we may have some singing this week.

We may have some preaching this week, be it good or be it bad. We may have a lot of people come and we may have some people saved. But I'm telling you, what would be a marvelous, miraculous, supernatural thing is for us to be able to leave this building and not say, My, what singing, my, what choir music, my, what preaching, my, what an offering, my, what a crowd, but my, the glory of God is certainly strong at the house of God.

And that is exactly what happened in 2 Chronicles 7. We have an Old Testament, heaven-sent, heart-felt, Holy Ghost revival taking place in one chapter of the Word of God. But notice what your Bible says in verse number 2, would you?

In verse number 2 of 2 Chronicles 7, it gets even better than that. The Bible says,. And the priest, the Levites, the preacher boys, if you will,. And the priest could not enter into the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house.

Isn't that a marvelous thing? The Bible tells us that the preacher couldn't even get in the pulpit, clip his lapel microphone on his tie, open his mouth and preach the Bible because God was doing all the preaching that day when there was revival happening in the temple of God.

And that's a marvelous thing. And that's a miraculous thing and we ought not take that for granted, but wait just a minute, these people did. They were in the midst of a revival meeting from God, but yet they were also in the midst of apostasy and rebellion and idolatry and iniquity.

And God breathed upon them whenever they dedicated that temple after seven years of hard labor and hard work. And God was going to honor them for that, but yet it was only going to be a short-lived blessing because notice what your Bible says in verse 12, would you?

In verse 12, the Bible says that God comes to Solomon and the Lord appeared to him by night and said unto him, I have heard thy prayers and have chosen this place to myself for sacrifice. So God was happy about the place.

But notice verse 13, if, if there is implying the fact that if they don't do this, I'm going to, if I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people, God said, listen, you better get right with me.

You better not take my grace and my mercy and my longsuffering for granted. He said, because if you do, He said, I'm going to remove my hand of blessing and I'm going to put upon you my hand of judgment.

I'm going to send locusts to devour the land. Now to you and I, that may not be a big deal, but to these people, it was a very big deal because they were an agriculture type of people. They were farmers.

They had the crops. They had the cotton and the maters and taters and so on and so forth. And God said, you keep messing around with sin and I'm going to send locusts and I'm going to send worms upon the land to devour it.

He said, furthermore, the ground is going to be dried and parched like an old piece of leather. He said, there's going to be no rain from heaven and my judgment hand is going to be unmerciful upon you.

But then God said, there's something that you can do. Notice verse 14. If my people, that's not the devil's crowd, that's not the bootleggers and the drunkards and the fornicators. No, no. That's not Hollywood's crowd.

That's God's crowd, you and I this morning. He said, if my people, which are called, notice, by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then, I like that word, then.

T-H-E-N, it means been and only been. Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. And a million and one times we've heard revival preached from 2 Chronicles 7, 14 and I've preached on many an occasion, but I've learned something these past six years of holding revival meetings.

Why Some Church Members Resist Revival

You believe anything you want to, but there are some people in this building and there are some people in every single Baptist church I'm privileged to preach in who really and honestly in their heart, if their true intentions were to be well known among everybody, they really don't want revival.

They're kind of the average Joe Blow, Joe Smoes, Sadist Crow type of Christian. They enjoy a little bit of singing. They enjoy a little bit of preaching. Every now and then, about once in 55 years, they come to the altar to get right with God because they're too good for that.

And there are some people, like it or not, a pocket of resistance that really don't want revival. They enjoy going along like they're kind of these Christians who, you know, lay around on Sunday morning until the sun warms their feet.

Sunday school's not important to them. They come for preaching time. You never see them on Sunday night. You never see them on Wednesday night. And they really don't want revival. So you know what, I'm going to preach to you today on what you can do if you want to stay that way to the day you drop dead.

There are four things you can do if you don't want revival this morning. You say, well, brother, this message is for me because I'm not interested in revival. I'm not interested in singing. I'm not interested in preaching.

I'm not interested in getting right with God. Well, wonderful, I'm preaching to you and there are four things you can keep on doing and I promise you one thing, you're doing them right now. And there are four things in this verse that you and I can do if we really do not want the blessings of God.

Now understand, the first one I'm going to give you by way of the text is going to seem to be inverted. I will do that on purpose. Notice what your Bible says, verse 14. If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways.

Somebody said that a short pencil's better than a long memory, so you might want to write four things down. Number one, if you don't want revival, first and foremost, just be prayerless. Just be prayerless if you don't want revival.

Prayerlessness and the Necessity of Seeking God

You know, it's an amazing thing. We talk about prayer. We sing about prayer. We teach about prayer. We preach about prayer. But I wonder how often and how regularly you really pray. The Bible says in Daniel chapter 6 and verse number 10, now when Daniel knew the writing was signed, he went into his bedroom with his windows being opened and his chamber toward Jerusalem and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he did before time.

It does not take a rocket scientist and a brain surgeon to figure out that every person who was ever used greatly of God in the Bible were men and women who were used because they had an intimate walk with Almighty God.

James chapter 4 and verse 8, draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you. But you notice who's supposed to take the initiative. The Bible says we draw and He draws. Jeremiah 33, 3, call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.

Somebody says, well, okay, Brother Rock, if you know so much about the Bible, if God promised great and mighty things, how come we don't see great and mighty things? Well, I'm glad you ask. The Bible tells us in James 4, He hath not because He hath not.

Matthew chapter 7, verses 7, 8, and 9, asking it shall be given you, seeking it you'll find. Knocking it shall be opened unto you for everyone that asketh receives it. To him that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened unto him the promise of God that if we would believe as preachers said this morning in Sunday school, by faith and trustiness that He would give us the petitions that we ask, but I wonder how much you pray.

I wonder how much you pray for your spiritual condition. I wonder how much you pray for friends and families and relatives and associates and so on and so forth. I wonder how much time you've spent in prayer, if any, for this revival meeting.

You know, it's an amazing thing. Jesus said in Luke 18, 1, He takes a parable unto them to this end saying, men ought always to pray and not to faint. You know, I like to study characters in the Bible.

You know, when you study individuals, you begin to see their characteristics come forth and, you know, if there's anybody I want to pattern my life after it's people that were used of God mightily in the Bible.

Whenever I study certain people, sometimes I get perplexed, sometimes I get blessed, but I'll be honest, when I study the life of the disciples, I get confused. Now this is Tennessee and I'm from Tennessee and I'm just a little old redneck hillbilly just like the rest of you so I can say this.

These fellows were uneducated, backwoods, mountain boys, bowlegged, loudmouthed, barefooted, nobody. They'd never been to seminary, they'd never been to Bible college, they didn't have a completed copy of the Bible, they didn't have fancy clothes, they didn't have any of those things, but here are men who were uneducated and what little education they did have spiritually was pretty ill, if you will, and yet the Bible tells us that these men under the power of God turned the entire known world upside down.

And I wonder in my heart sometimes, how in the world could God use such uneducated hillbilly rednecks? And I wake up and look in the mirror and say, uh oh, that's exactly how you did it, amen. But nevertheless, here are men in the Bible who didn't even realize whose presence they were in until after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For three and one half years they were ignorant of the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ for the most part, and I think within myself, how did God use them? And I believe with all of my heart here's the answer.

One day they were tired and weary, their flesh was worn out and they were starving to death. They'd been preaching and teaching and they'd been running all over the country and they decided with Jesus and his itinerant evangelistic ministry.

One day a spokesman, one of the disciples, comes to the Lord Jesus and says, Lord, I'm going to speak on behalf of the others and we have one simple request of you. Jesus said, well, what is it? I'll do anything you want me to.

And by the way, they were not just in the presence of a son of God, but yea, God Himself, and He could have done anything just like that at their beckoning call. And here's what they said, well, Lord, we have one simple, stirring request.

Would you teach us how to pray? Now you think about that just for a moment. On the surface, I'll be honest, if I can say it this way, it sounds pretty generic, does it not? I mean, it sounds pretty kindergarten-like.

It sounds pretty elementary. They could have asked to do all these grand and glorious things and they simply said, Lord, we want You to teach us how to pray. I don't know about you, but if I would have been one of the disciples, I would have said, Lord, teach me how to pray.

Jesus’ Bold Preaching and the Call to Prayer

Never a man speak like this man speak, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes and Pharisees. And you believe anything you want to about that Bible sitting in your lap, there has never been a greater preacher on the face of God during humanly speaking than the Lord Jesus Christ.

He was not always the meek and mild baby Jesus. I'm telling you, when Jesus got in the pool pit, He bowed His back like a bandy rooster, jumped up on a hickory stump, opened His Bible and opened His mouth and He preached thus saith the Lord.

He didn't care if the scribes came. He didn't care if the liberals were there. He didn't care if the moderates and the New Evangelicals were there. I'm telling you, Jesus was a bold Bible preacher. He was not afraid to confront sin.

He was not afraid to preach against immorality. We're living in a day when people say, well, if you preach on sin, you can't build a church. Well, bless God, leave it unbuilt then. I'd rather preach to five people who love the Bible than 5 ,000 people who can give a flip of a wooden nickel and Jesus was not in it for the static clothes.

He wasn't in it for a parsonage. He wasn't in it because His name was going to get in some major periodical. No, no. Because Jesus was preaching the faith of Almighty God. In every word Jesus when He drew a crowd, He never had to give away pizza.

He never had to give away leather jackets. He never had to have a bingo rally and give away some big, you know, Volkswagen or Mercedes Benz. He never had to do that. Everywhere Jesus went, people just followed Him in mass.

I mean crowds were amazed to hear what Jesus had to say. I call Him the Magnetic Messiah and that's exactly what He was. He had a magnetic message when He stood in the pulpit. Everybody set at attention and they were absolutely overwhelmed with the words which ushered forth from His mouth.

Now the Scribes and Pharisees didn't like that, but that didn't bother Jesus any. That wasn't going to stop His preaching. He was on a mission from His Father. He came to preach just as the Lord and that's exactly what He did.

Now know what Robert Schuler and his liberal robe wearing buddies say out in Long Beach, California? They get up in their cool bits, you know, he's got that television program called The Hour of Power and there ain't one ounce of power in it and I promise you that right now.

He gets up and says, well, ladies and gentlemen, the problem in America are the preachers who preach on sin and hell and condemnation. No, Mr. Schuler, the problem in America is the false preachers like you who won't preach on sin, who won't preach on hell and who won't preach on condemnation and the problem in our churches is we've substituted everything in the wide world for the straightforward preaching of the Bible and you cannot accuse Jesus of that because Jesus was a preacher but the disciples did not say, Lord, teach us how to preach.

They didn't even say, Lord, teach us how to teach Sunday school. Boy, we had a magnificent Sunday school lesson that really stirred me up in the book of Habakkuk. Boy, I love that book. But I'll tell you what, there's never been a Sunday school teacher in all the world that can hold people out of tension like Jesus Christ could.

You know, when Jesus got in the pulpit to teach and to preach, nobody was looking at the clock on the back wall and thank God you don't have one here and you've got a picture of the rapture, amen? I'd preach all day looking at that.

Nobody looked down at their watch. Nobody was giving themselves a manicure and cutting their toenails and fixing their false teeth and digging their nose and popping bubblegum and taking notes. I'm telling you, when Jesus taught Sunday school, everybody listened.

They were like a bunch of kids in a candy store sitting on the edge of their seat listening to what He was going to say. But the disciples didn't teach us how to do that and I believe that. As a matter of fact, this one stumped me.

They didn't even say, Lord, teach us how to perform miracles. And that's an amazing thing because you study your New Testament Bible and you will not show me one miracle Jesus performed in private. Not one.

God knows we've already got enough secret service agents as it is today. He did all in public, friend. He wasn't ashamed one bit. And guess who was there? The disciples started with them. They were there at the marriage supper of Galilee when Jesus turned the water into wine.

And it wasn't Jack Daniel's liquor, by the way. Jesus turned it into it. The disciples thought and Jesus said, hey, give it to the people. They were there. Hey, they were there in John chapter number 6 with a little boy whose name is not even given.

I couldn't even tell you what his name is. Greg, Steve, George, Billy, Bob, I don't know. But the Bible said he was a lad. L-A-D. Just a little kid. Maybe 13 to 14, 15, 16 years old. And the Bible said that he had just some little old insignificant lunch of a couple of hush puppies and some sardines and Jesus took it and fed 5 ,000 men plus the women and children just like that.

And guess who saw it? The disciples. But how do you know? Because Jesus told them to pick up the 12 basketfuls that remained. They started with a brown paper bag. They ended with a BFI dump truck full, friend.

And the disciples saw every bit of that. One of my favorite miracles in the Bible is John chapter 11. Man, I love the raising of Lazarus. You talk about a miraculous story. Here's a man who was on life support.

Jesus was told about it. He said, don't worry. He lingered around for two days. It took him two days to get there. By the time he got there, Lazarus had been dead for four solid days. And Martha comes running out and keeps crying and squalling like a baby.

Lord, if you'd have been here, he wouldn't have died. If you'd have been here, he wouldn't have died. And he said, hey, your brother's going to rise again. Now, I believe in all my heart, Martha went to an independent Baptist church because she gave an independent Baptist study two letters.

Well, I know he'll rise again at the resurrection of the last day. Jesus said, no, no. I'm not talking about a resurrection. I'm talking about the resurrection. I'm the resurrection and the life. Though he were dead, if you'll believe in me, he'll live, Jesus said.

And the Bible tells us that Jesus looked at her and said, said not unto thee that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God. Then they rolled away the stones from the place where the dead was laid.

And Jesus lifted up his voice and said, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead, did you get that word? D-E-A-D, literally, physically, clinically dead. Came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes and a napkin was about his face and Jesus said, loose him and let him go.

And the disciples were there to see the raising of the Lamb. Dr. B .R. Lakin, a great preacher from West Virginia, yesterday, you've heard him, I'm sure, he said this, he said the reason Jesus had to be specific and use the word Lazarus is because when he stands in a graveyard and starts calling people up, bless God, the whole dead crowd would get up because Jesus is the Son of God.

And he had to be specific and the disciples were there to see those mighty miracles. They were there when he filled the waters in Mark chapter 4 and they scratched their chins in amazement and bewilderment and said, what man of man is he?

Even the very winds and waves obeyed him. Well, then out there when over 2 ,000 demons came out of one man's body in Mark chapter 5, at one time, certainly they were, they saw what I call the maniac who became a missionary.

And story after story, miracle after miracle, message after message, Sunday school lesson after Sunday school lesson, the disciples were there and at one time said, Lord, teach us to preach, teach us to teach, and teach us to have this magnificent power at our fingertips.

They simply said, Lord, teach us to preach. Now, for my simple observation and study of the Bible, I believe with all of my heart, here's exactly why they said that. Because for three and one half years, they were so intimate with the Lord Jesus.

They were so close both spiritually and as far as proximity was concerned, they knew Him so well that the disciples knew that every sermon He ever preached, every Sunday school lesson He ever taught, every miracle He ever performed was a direct result of His prayer life with His Father.

And they did not have to learn to preach like Jesus. They had to learn to play like Jesus so they could preach like Jesus. Sunday school teachers, they didn't need to learn how to teach Sunday school and build a class like Jesus.

They learned to play like Him so they could teach and they could build a Sunday school class. And they did not need that miracle working to have their fingertips because Jesus said, if you just learn to walk with God, greater works shall ye do.

Than I have done. And yet the Bible tells us.

Humility Before Prayer and Revival

Right here in 2 Chronicles 7 that God came to these people and said they need Solomon to learn how. And I want you to back up if you would and look at the first part of the verse, would you? And I inverted it on purpose and you'll understand why.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray. You know, the pastor didn't tell me what Sunday school was going to be on. I didn't get with the pastor and say tell me all the promises of your church and I'll preach on them.

Never have done that, never will do that by the grace of God. If the Holy Spirit can't tell me what to preach, I'm in the wrong business. But I love it how the Holy Spirit orchestrates things and puts it all together because if you were in Sunday school, we learned something about pride.

You know what the Bible says? If you don't want revival, number one, be prayerless, but number two, just be prayerless. Just be prayerless. You say, brother, why'd you invert it? But why does the Bible start with humble themselves?

Why doesn't it say first they need to pray? But why doesn't it say first that they need to seek my face? Why doesn't it say first that they need to turn from their wicked ways? I'll tell you why. Because you won't pray, you won't seek his face, and you won't repent and turn from your sin unless you humble yourself.

And the Bible says right here, these people were filled with arrogance and cockiness and a proud and haughty spirit. Proverbs 16, 18, 5, go up before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Do you know there's one verse in the Bible that tells us why there's a 75 divorce rate in America?

One verse in the Bible that can tell us that. There's one verse in the Bible that can tell us why churches split. You know, in the past six years, I've been to being over 300 baptist churches. And I've preached to some Christians who've been in about that many as well.

They hop from this one to this one to this one to this one to this one. A bunch of frogs on lily pads come sit in the back row and say, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. Do you know why that church split?

Do you know why people run preachers out of town and hang the dog and burn the cat and pop the tires on the car in the van? Do you know why churches can't get along over the cut of the fuse or the cover of the carpet?

Do you know why we have so many marriages.

That end in divorce? Do you know why we've got so many kids that hate mom and dad and mom and dad can't get along? Do you know why America's in the mess she's in, Proverbs 13, 10? Only by pride come a contention.

Now buddy, you can argue with a Bible preacher, but you can't argue with a Bible. It says only by pride come a contention. Every divorce, every argument, every church split has always been for one reason.

P-R-I-D-E. Pride. That's exactly right.

And the reason we don't pray is because we're flat. John 15, 5, the end of the verse, Jesus said, For without me ye can do what, church? Nothing. And until we realize that, we are stubborn and haughty and filled with ourselves, and we'll never have revival.

Because real revival comes to those who realize I cannot live myself. I cannot live for the Lord Jesus Christ. I cannot manufacture the power and the fullness of the Holy Spirit of God. I can't just get up and go on in the energy of the flesh over and over and over again.

Those who humble themselves realize we need the power of God. We need to be emptied of self and filled with the Holy Spirit and we must be Bible Christians. But yet, I meet so many people who go their own route.

They do their own thing. They go their own way. And there's a way which seems right unto a man, but the end of the way doesn't come. And how many people do you know who really and honestly want to humble themselves before the mighty hand of God that He may exalt Him in due time?

You say, well, Brother Locke, I'm coming this morning and I may be back a night or so to get in on things and see what's happening, but I'm just not real interested in revival. Well, good. Just be prayerless.

You won't ever have one. Just be proud and you won't ever have one. But the verse doesn't stop there. Go back to verse number 14 again, would you? If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray, now watch the words, and seek my...

You know, we're living in a generation of people who do not know what those three words mean whatsoever. Seek my faith. Somebody says, well, you know, before I go to bed at night, I'll read Psalm 117, the shortest chapter in the Bible, two verses.

I'll close my Bible now and lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep it. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to say, I've done my devotions for the day. And might I say to you, friends, that day.

That stinks to me, that stinks to you, that stinks to your preacher, and I know it stinks to the thrice-holy God of the mighty. We have this idea that we can just kind of seek God. He's kind of a, you know, a theological heavenly bellhop.

We got a little bell in our pocket. Ding-a-ling-a-ling. We just ring it and God comes down and gives us revival when we want it. When we don't want it, we just kind of shoot Him up in heaven and we tell Him to leave us be.

We kind of like the way things are going. We enjoy this. We enjoy that and the other thing. And Lord, when we need you, we'll call you. You pull up the limousine. We'll hop in the back and you take us to the buffet where we want to go.

And friend, that's not the God of the Bible. You've been reading the Reader's Digest Bible, but you've not been reading that King James Bible sitting in your lap because the God of the Bible is not at your beckoning call.

You're at His beckoning call. You do what He says. He's not going to stoop to do what you say, and yet we have so many people who do not seek the face of God. You say why? Because number three, you see, just be prayerless.

Just be proud and just be preoccupied and you won't ever have revival. You see, it takes time to seek God's face. It takes time to have the power of God upon your life. And by the way, whenever a preacher stands in this pulpit and preaches on such a lofty and holy subject, I don't put myself in the maitre basket.

I just seek His face more than I do. But I remind you, we'll never have revival until we do it. We'll never have revival until we get back to the place where we pray and where we humble ourselves and swallow our pride and we bow our back and say, Dear God, we're not going to get in sin anymore.

Dear God, we're going to live for You. We're going to read Your Bible. We're going to pray. We're going to be faithful to the local church. And oh, what a lack of commitment we see to the local church in the day and age in which we're living in.

We're teaching our boys and girls at the local churches like the local Mason Hall. It's like a Moose Lodge. It's no more big deal than the Golden Corral or the Walmart Supercenter. We have the idea that this little old building is some spiritual super-duper place and we come in and we dress our best and we smile our best and we say this and we go out and we live like the devil.