An Urgent Message to God's Elect — B.H. Clendennen

Confession as the Foundation for Revival

I come to you at this very, very critical time. I have a message I believe, if ever in my life, is from God. I want to read 1 John chapter 1 verse 9 and 10, that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we say that we have no sin, then we make Him a liar and His word is not within us. Now most of you in this vast audience around the world know that I personally am passing through one of the most difficult times of my life at this very moment.

Personal Suffering and a Worldwide Prayer Meeting

But I'm sure there's a purpose in the whole. I have for some time begged God to not let me die until we've shown this generation His power, this poor deceived generation His power. Somehow I feel that this all is connected.

Now the reason I feel so strongly about this is because the attack on me has produced a worldwide prayer meeting and calls are coming from around this world, from churches, individuals, letting me know that they're fasting, praying, believing God for total absolute victory.

The Possibility of a Final Move of God

Now I sincerely believe that this prayer meeting could produce the final move of God that you and I have been praying for. Now understanding that in my present physical condition, if God does not give me a miracle, which through your prayer I believe will happen, but if not, this could very well be my last communication with you.

Therefore you can be sure I weigh every single word that I speak. First of all, the Spirit of God has dealt with me very strongly that for that revival to come, there must be deep confession and repentance on the part of you and I, the elect of God.

Removing Spiritual Obstacles from the Church

The river of the Holy Ghost must be able to flow through us. Therefore there must be nothing in us that would prevent the flow of this river of life. We must humbly come before our Heavenly Father and ask His forgiveness.

Hear me, ladies and gentlemen, and earnestly seek His direction and guidance. We know His word said, Woe unto them that call evil good. But that's exactly what we have done by allowing the flesh a place in our worship.

We confess before God that we have lost our spiritual. We must confess before God that we've lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that we've questioned the absolute truth of the word of God by preaching so many other things.

We've professed a love for the word, but have ignored it. We arrogantly have given ourselves the title of Pentecostal, professing more power than all others, yet lack the power to witness to the lost, let alone live holy lives.

We've worshipped other gods and called it prosperity. We've learned more from religious TV stars than the Bride and Morning Star. We've ranted against perversion in our street, but refused to confess that it was the compromise in the word of God in the church which produced such perversion in the first place.

Compromise, Injustice, and the Loss of Holiness

Romans chapter 1, 25 and 26. By remaining silent, we've empowered the purveyors of perversion in the pulpit, in the voting book, yet dare call ourselves holiness. We've murdered the unborn with our silence in the pulpit.

We've prostituted our values because of our loyalty to our party, our union, our ancestors, our prejudices. We've committed the sin of racism by condoning the wrongs of the past and the present. Others have committed the sin of racism by their unforgiveness and search of revenge.

We've neglected the poor in lieu of the appearance of more spiritual goals. We've lazily prepared to preach, satisfied with replacing anointing with noise. We've rejected to train up our children in the way that's right, then blame the devil.

We've complained because prayer is not allowed in the school, yet a vast majority of the church members have no altar in their home. We've abused power and called it apostleship. We revere the high and mighty among men and disdain little men who are much more holy.

We've closed our lips to the concept of holiness to be more sensitive to the appeal of the laws. Not since the Pharisees accused Jesus of being Beelzebub has Christ been more dishonored than with this user-friendly gospel.

Modern Church Trends and the Loss of Biblical Reality

We've become user-friendly without confessing it. We've shunned the past as archaic, have accepted the trends of the modern church. Our worship is guided by the top 40 gospels instead of truths embedded with the gospel.

Our arrogance drives us through the night, oblivious to our ineffectiveness and our distaste for learning. Others trust in their learning and forget their living. We hastily judge other groups, presuming our perfection, preferring our unique tradition over unique relationship.

We've lost the vision of God as results for the most part. We're unconscious of the destructive process going on. We don't know the way back to reality because we've lost the vision, my God, of where we've fallen from.

We've confused noise with power, flamboyancy with anointing, charisma with calling. We've replaced conviction with counseling, sin with tolerance. We've erased the reality of hell from the Bible to be loved by those who hate our God.

Pastoral Complacency and Neglect of the Great Commission

We ascribe on paper to the second coming, but it's rarely preached, taught, or expected. We go on our merry way, driving past the loss, preaching weekly to those who have already heard. We've created a climate where we're more interested about our own needs being met than the needs of the community.

We're pastors with a maintenance mind designed to make everybody happy. Their commitment is not to the Great Commission. It's to clean restrooms, neat bulletins, deluxe potluck suppers. We have young pastors who are more discontented what others have done, but have no problem with what they have not done.

We have pastors content with no progress, using the excuse of doing everything they know but unwilling to learn. We have too many people who grovel over TV religious stars, who squander your money on limousines, mansions, airplanes, and evangelism goes undone.

Drifting from Obedience into Compromise

We have more people vying for position than we have signed for souls. We drift toward compromise, call it tolerance. We drift toward disobedience, call it freedom. We drift toward superstition, call it faith.

We cherish the indiscipline of the lost self-control and call it relaxation. We make light of perilousness and delude ourselves into thinking we shake legalism. We slide toward godliness and convince ourselves we've been liberated.

Due to discontent, we replace the presence of wisdom with carelessness, thinking all risk is better than none. God help us to turn to God. Listen, if we're going to see revival, then there's going to have to come repentance and confession on the part of the church of God.

A Final Appeal for Purification and Repentance

If we'll separate the vial, that is the flesh, from the spirit, God said we can be His mouth and that's all that's necessary. I beg you today, church, hear me. I'm talking to a people, maybe my last message to you, but there must be individually and collectively a repentance on the part of the elect of God.

Hear me today. God, purify our hearts. Turn us back to the truth and reality of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh God, let it be so today.