Audio Sermon: Repent, Repent, Repent — Leonard Ravenhill

The book of Psalms is actually the Jewish hymn book and with all the modern songs that we have nobody has reached the heights of worship and adoration that David the Psalmist had. That wonderful psalm, Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, is there a modern tune to that?

You don't know? You know it? Oh, I won't ask you to sing. It might be as bad as Mike. But we'll find it one day. Well, how many psalms are there? 150? Out of the 150 there are 8 penitential psalms. I believe all of them were written by David.

Psalm 51 and the Prayer for Mercy

Out of the 8 penitential psalms, one is the greatest and that surely is the 51st psalm. I want to read a part of that right here. Have mercy upon me, O God. According to the multitude of Thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash me truly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in Thy sight, that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest. Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Behold, Thou desirest truth in inward parts. In the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness of the Lord, which Thou hast spoken, and may rejoice.

Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Thy presence. Take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, and uphold me with Thy free spirit. Then," that's after he's been restored, after he's been liberated, "...then will I teach transgressors Thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto Thee.".

Conviction of Sin as the Glory of God

I was thinking of, I think the brother mentioned earlier tonight about the glory of the Lord. Some people think the glory of the Lord may come like the Shekinah glory. I think the glory of God comes when people who have been concealing sin for years suddenly feel conviction and they rush for mercy.

A brother told me tonight about a meeting in Wisconsin, I think last night. There were about 1 ,500 people there. The preacher was preaching on repentance. Before he got halfway through, a man ran up to the altar and said, I need to repent, I'm living in adultery, I need mercy, I need mercy.

I think that's the glory of God. When suddenly the human heart is exposed to the glare and majesty of God. Leonard Bernstein, as many of you know, is considered one of the greatest conductors. I think he's conducted, what, the New York Philharmonic, or New York one state opera or something for years.

He's considered a maverick because he breaks every law in the book. He'll jump off the podium when he's conducting, or he'll join in the singing. And the other guys don't like that, it's not highbrow enough.

But in his own right, he's one of the world's greatest classical professional pianists. And years ago, a friend of his was in Europe, and he bought a piece of dog-eared manuscript that he paid a small fortune to receive.

He came home to Bernstein's apartment in New York, and he said, I want you to play this. And Leonard Bernstein looked at it and said, I can't play this. He said, you can, you won't, but you can. He said, I can't.

Why not? Where did you buy it? I bought it in Europe. It was written by a man 200 years ago, playing one of those majestic organs in one of the great cathedrals of Europe. And he said, it's a masterpiece.

So Leonard Bernstein said, I know that, but I can't do it. He said, why not? You've got the music. He said, listen, if I'd been sitting up in that choir loft, if I'd heard that maestro really playing that piece, if I could get all his moods and cadences, maybe I could imitate it.

But you see, he's 200 years away, and I just can't get the strength, I can't get the measure of that man. I can't just interpret him by his music, whether they were black and white dots or whatever they are.

You know, that's something akin to the problem of a preacher. I'm reading to you a manuscript tonight that was written about maybe three, four thousand years ago. The atmosphere, the book itself carries no atmosphere.

The only hope that we can get through is that the Holy Spirit of God who inspired this will take it tonight and inspire it to you. Only then does it live. The Bible itself says, the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

David’s Confession and the Three Prayers of Psalm 51

Now, this is an amazing psalm. If you read it carefully, you'll discover it's a monologue. There's nobody in it but David. He doesn't even talk about Bathsheba. He doesn't talk about murder. He talks about himself.

Have mercy upon me, O God. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, cleanse me from my sins. I have sinned against thee. He isn't pointing the finger at anyone else.

And he comes with this gorgeous word that we have here. One of the greatest in the vocabulary of the theologians, have mercy upon me. He has no excuses. Again, I say this is a monologue. In your Bible it's written on beautiful paper.

It's written with black ink. It's punctuated with stops and commas and all the laws of grammar. Actually, this psalm is written with blood. It's punctuated with sobs and with tears and with brokenness.

This man isn't dictating this to a charming young secretary that's tired of him. He's talking to God. He's a man that's crushed in a load of sin. There are at least three prayers in this wonderful psalm.

In the first verse he says, have mercy upon me, O God. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Read it carefully when you're home. There are three different words for sin.

There are three different words for cleansing that he uses here. But here is a man bowed down in guilt. Have mercy upon me, O God. You see, nobody I think in the whole Bible ever exposed his heart to the gaze of people as much as did this wonderful man David.

He was the darling of his nation. He was a young man. They had had a king before him who was very great and very wonderful. But before very long, people were marching down the streets, having parades.

And they were singing, Saul has slain his thousands, but David defends his thousands. This man is hitting the charts. He's written the most quoted, most wonderful psalm in the whole of the Word of God.

That 23rd psalm, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not run. Can't you see him on the side of a hill there in Israel? Many of you, of course, have heard Keith Green, at least you've had his records. He used to come to my home often, too often sometimes.

Two or three times a day. Sometimes he'd bring his guitar, and I used to tease him about the thing. He used to say, there are no guitars, guitars are backs ridden harps. Can you imagine David there on the hills of Bethlehem, when I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained, what is man?

People are still asking the question. You know, there's a guy on TV sometimes. When he's there, I like to hear him. He's called Carl Sagan. You know Carl Sagan? He's a what? Atheist? Unbeliever? Do you know that man blessed me to death?

He's so stupid. Well, isn't it amazing, a man of the intelligence, a PhD, has spent thousands of dollars trying to find out where he came from, and he doesn't know where he's going. Isn't that stupidity?

He's like a man sitting at the airport with his baggage and a $10 ,000 suit and a big ring, and you know one of these Evangelist watches, $12 ,000. And he's sitting there, you say, where did you go? Oh, I don't know.

I've got all this luggage, I've got all my, but I don't know where I'm going. You say, boy, you need your head checking. But you know, I like Sagan for this reason. Let me say this, amongst other things I've always wanted, I've never had one.

I'd like a powerful telescope that looks away there into infinity almost. And Carl Sagan says, you know, we've discovered there's not one Milky Way with billions of stars, there are hundreds of Milky Ways with billions and trillions and quadrillions and textillions of stars.

Great! It blesses me to death. Why? Because it says in the 40th chapter of Isaiah that God knows the stars, he counts them, and he knows all their names. Isn't that lovely? For an atheist to admit that?

That God counts the stars, he knows the names of all of them? Well, if he knows the stars, surely he knows my name. And he remembers I'm dust, that's what the psalmist says. He knows our frame and he remembers that we are dust.

But here is a man, he's had all the opportunities, the greatest opportunities that any man has ever had in history. He rules over a great nation. And he can control armies, he can control governments, but he can't control his passions.

He's in trouble here. And it's attributed, of course, by all the writers, it's attributed to the psalm of King David. Well, I wrote a little note here tonight. I was thinking about the different men in history.

Here you have a man, and he's dressed with gilts. Every time he hears a baby cry, it tears him up on the inside. He remembers the child that he gave to Bathsheba. Every time he looks out of his castle, he sees a soldier standing there.

He remembers the brilliant young man he put to death, he planned his death. And here he is condemned, lashed with guilt, tormented within a man. You know, the least emphasized work of the Holy Spirit today is conviction of sin.

We want the blessings, we want the fruit, we want the joy. But I'll tell you, the most miserable man in the world is the man who really gets to know conviction of sin. Do you know why the world's in a mess it's in tonight?

It's not politics, it's not Hitler, it's not the cult, it's not the devilish things that people teach me. The reason we're in this mess in America, what I call this moral desolation and spiritual destitution, is due to one thing.

The pulpit has lost its authority. The pulpit has lost its vision. The pulpit has lost its power. We're comfortable with sin. Nobody commits adultery anymore, they're just having an affair. There are no fornicators, they're just having premarital sex.

Nobody's guilt anymore. Oh, you don't preach condemnation, dear God. I mean, aren't you burdened enough with taxation and the possibility of the invasion of Russia and other things? But when it comes down to the issue of dealing with this little thing in here that we call the heart of man, there is only one answer to the problem and that is the answer of the cross of Jesus Christ.

The Cross, Judgment, and the Final Accountability

I think one of the greatest hymns ever written, let me put it backwards, I was preaching in a conference in Wisconsin in 1953, I think it was, and as we finished the service, somebody struck up So I'll Cherish the Old Rugged Cross.

The next morning I was going to cross for breakfast, I had to speak at nine o 'clock, and here's a lovely lady walking over the grass, and she said, well, that was a great meeting last night. I said, it was, I noticed, as we began to sing at the end, So I'll Cherish the Old Rugged Cross.

The tears were coming down your face. It's a wonderful hymn, isn't it? She said, yes, my husband wrote it. Well, it was doubly nice. So, you know, we've got to go back to the cross. The biggest lie, I think, the devil has put on our generation is this, that in history we passed Jesus Christ coming up the road 2 ,000 years ago.

That's a lie from hell. He's ahead of us. Whether you go the broad way to destruction or the narrow way, you're still to confront Jesus Christ. You may not hear it, you may hear his voice, and this is why it may him tonight.

You've heard his voice often. You've heard your mother praying for you. You've heard somebody pleading for you. You've heard that voice, and you're deaf and deaf ears. But listen, when you're lying in the grave there, at the voice of the Son of God, you'll get up at that very moment.

There's no option about it. You see, we're all heading up for the final checkout. Whether you're a saint or a sinner, you're cramming. Whether you know it or not, you're cramming for your finals. I wanted to preach, which would take me about three days.

In fact, I preached on it one night for three and a half hours. No, correctly, three hours and 20 minutes on the judgment seat. But I can't do that. I want you to know something, David. You're welcome to this pulpit any time you want to come.

You forgot to tell him, so I told him. And when you come, I'm coming with you. So, I certainly love to meditate on that. I'll tell you what, it terrifies me. I go into my office between midnight and two o 'clock, and some days I don't even pick up my pen.

I didn't kneel. The majesty of God is so real, the awesomeness. But this whole world is going to the final checkout counter. There isn't a sin that's being committed unless it's under the blood that won't be brought to light.

The last thing that's crossed the mind of Senator Kennedy is he's going to meet that girl that drowned at Cappaquiddick. She didn't drown. For the simple reason when they got her body, she had no water in her lungs.

I understand she had a baby in her belly, whoever caused that. But he's going to stand. There'll be no exoneration. There'll be no pope to plead for him. There'll be nothing he can bring as a sacrifice.

He's going to stand there, Mother Kennedy, but as an honored sinner in the sight of God. Every sin that man has done is going to be brought to account in that grave. Can you think of that? Isn't it awesome that the church slanders when this is so true?

That men and women have not been alerted. When did you last preach on flee from the wrath to come? When did you last preach that all wicked shall be turned into hell and nations that forget God? We don't preach that anymore.

The sting has gone out of our preaching. There used to be a time when conviction of sin came and people went home. And what did they do? They couldn't speak. They go home now if they're troubled and they turn TV on and watch it all the way.

They're terrified of facing reality. But here is a man again confronted with his sin. And I acknowledge my transgression. God can do nothing until he confesses sin. My note on that was this, that Mary Queen of Scots would have said, I'm above the law.

The law doesn't apply to me. But it does apply to her. Mohammed would have invented or produced at least a revelation that would absolve him from both crimes. Charles II would have publicly abrogated the seven commandments.

Queen Elizabeth would have suspended Nathan. But this amazing man doesn't do anything of the kind. He faces up to the fact that he needs mercy. I love that hymn that says, Mercy there was grace and grace was free.

Pardon there was multiplied to me. There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary. What's wrong with this man? He's the most famous man in the world. He's had more victories than King Saul has. The people in the streets are singing, David, Saul has slain his thousands and David his tens of thousands.

He's riding a great wave of popularity. He's put down his enemies, the Philistines. Everybody trembles at him. This anointed, richly anointed shepherd boy. How amazing, what a lesson. Everybody else would have chosen Ahab.

Oh no, that's not his name. His brother anyhow was a tall, handsome man. And David is only a shepherd boy. Isn't that a wonderful story of David and Goliath? I love that story. I like to see that little boy David with his sling.

And he went out and what did he do? The first thing he said, I slew a lion. Then there came a bear. I took the lion and I caught him by the beard and punched his nose and sent him home. Then there came a bear and I destroyed the bear.

Now comes Goliath, boy I'll get rid of him. And Goliath is saying, Who's this little creature coming here? He didn't realize this man, that stone he had in his sling was more powerful than an atomic bomb.

You know, it seems as though he'll never do it. He swings it around and lets it go. This man has armor everywhere. His breastplates, his armor on his legs, his armor on his hands and his arms. And he's totally protected.

And yet he has a little space here above his visor. And the stone went right through and right into the head of Goliath. And you know, such a thing never entered his head before. Next thing he's laid out.

What a foolish thing. God takes the foolish things. Dear God, now you can't go to many schools. You can't be a preacher. I get young men distressed. I want to go to a school. I want to go in the ministry.

They say you can't go in the ministry until you've got an education, until you've got a degree. So what? Our pulpits are full of degrees now. What are they doing? They're in splendid isolation. The emphasis is on the ice.

Salvation for the Broken and the Power of the Gospel

It's amazing here. Here is a man loaded with guilt, as I say, condemnation. You know, somehow we think that the salvation that we offer is only for the down and out. It's only for the men who've got messed up.

It's all right to be in New York. We work, David and my other son and Martha, we work with David Wilson when he first started in New York 26 years ago. And he gathered up the scum of the earth, as it were.

Prostitutes came every night to the place. Guys won't tell you how many people they killed, how many murders they've been in. Gang rapes, gang murders, and the filth of the earth. It was an abomination to listen to it.

But how wonderful to be able to call Hebrews 7 .25 to somebody who says, listen, there's no hope for me. I've been in prison 12 times. I've been in so many rapes. I've been in so many murders. I've got a lust for all that's wrong and all that's sinful.

And then you tell them that. And you know what? They had religion. They had crucifixes around their necks. Many of them never missed a mass or missed something else. And yet they were perfectly dominated by sin.

And then you say there's one by the name of Jesus. He's able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by him. Somebody mentioned yesterday that wonderful book of Bunyan's Children's Progress. Boy, Bunyan was some preacher.

Do you know when he lived? He lived in the reign of Charles II of England. Do you know who was the leading preacher in that day? Nobody but John Owen. The greatest preacher in history at that period. The greatest preacher to all of some of the Calvinists.

John Owen has about 16 volumes of sermons. I've had about 6 of them. I've never read them. He's a great preacher. Every time Parliament opened the King sent for John Owen. You must give some orations.

Every time there was some distinguished gathering of celebrities from the world tell Dr. John Owen he must appear in the Royal Chapel and he must preach to us on a certain subject. So this man had favor with the King.

He had favor with the elite of England. One day he was summoned into the presence of the King. So he thought, well, I suppose I'm going to get a commission to preach somewhere. And the King in his archaic English said to him, listen, Dr. Owen, I want to ask you a question.

You are the greatest preacher in England today. You have a colossal intellect. You have marvelous reasoning. You have rhetoric. You have scholarship. You read it all together. You're the most stirring preacher that there is.

Is it true that you've been going up the road to listen to a babbling Baptist by the name of John and it is a John the Baptist? John Bunyan. So he said, yes, your honor. He said, you, the greatest preacher, you go to listen to an uneducated man like John Bunyan?

He said, yes, sir. I went into a shed where the roof was leaking and the walls were not very secure. The wind was blowing in. The rain was blowing in. And I listened to him for four hours. I stood there astonished at the power of a man.

The authority he had. The wisdom he had. The strength he had. It was like arrows shooting into my heart. I would listen to him for hours. I don't understand why you do that. Well, said Dr. John Owen. Listen, sir.

I would gladly take off my robes. He has to wear certain robes in the presence of the king. I would gladly take them off and throw them at your feet if I could preach like that man. That unlearned, unlettered man.

What happened at the upper room? Did they all come out with degrees? Well, the one thing for sure, they didn't come out to do mimes. Can you imagine them coming out of the upper room with white face and white hands doing silly stuff that they have these days?

They came out of the room in the energy of God, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Pentecost in Scripture is married. It's married to poverty. It's married to power. It's married to persuasion. It's married to prisons.

It's married to persecution. Pentecost today is married to prosperity. It's a million miles away from Pentecost. There has to come another time when we not only sing what we sang tonight, but actually we say, Lord, I humble myself at thy feet.

I'm totally unworthy that I should even be the least of one of your disciples. So go back to John Bunyan. Remember in his story he talks about the man who turned his back on the city of destruction to go to the city of God and he tells him to follow that shining light and he followed it and then the pilgrim says, I came to a place that was somewhat ascending.

There was a wall on this side and a wall on the other side and then right ahead of me I saw a cross. And when I gazed upon the cross, the burden loosed from off my back, fell from off my shoulders, rolled down the hill into an empty sepulcher and I beheld it no more forever and he gave three leaps for joy.

I think one for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Holy Ghost. Listen, a Baptist got delivered of his sins and gave three leaps for joy. Well, dear God, what shall the Pentecostal do if he gets rid of all this stuff?

He ought to have a war dance. He ought to magnify the Lord. Listen, my guilt is gone. Sure it's the sinners and it's the scholars. The highest family in English history at that period when John Wesley was around was the Wesley family.

John Wesley's grandfather was a bishop, his father was a preacher, they were all hymn writers. So John Wesley, family Charles Wesley, came into a living relationship. Listen, he was a communicant. When that man got saved he was as clean as Nicodemus.

There wasn't a thing you could lay on him. He didn't smoke, drink, swear, do anything. He took sacrament. He even went to pray with men at three o 'clock in the morning when he wasn't saved. Dear God, my problem with Wesley is he's more spiritual when he wasn't saved than I am when I am saved.

He loved the lost. He came to Georgia to rescue the Indians, he said, who were without God and without hope. And he slept where? In some nice hotel. No, he slept on the ground. Woke up in the morning with his hair frozen to the ground.

Couldn't release his arm in the frost. Got one arm released, released the other, got his legs free, got his hair free out of the mud, stood up, and he said, I brushed the frost off my coat and I sang the doxology to magnify God.

And he wasn't even born again yet. He had such compassion for people in their ignorance. Dear Lord, I'm sick to death of this psychology stuff. I don't find the psychologists, Christian psychologists, getting on a boat and going up the Amazon and then going up the Orinoco River to another place.

There are Indians there who have been there two thousand years. They're without God. They don't go and rescue them because there's no message. They come messing up Christians. Oh, these poor little Christians, always trouble.

Somebody comes with a soft message and soothes you, you know, and says, well, dear ones, you're really a problem. Your image is too small. Well, if you're a Christian, you shouldn't have images anyhow.

Hark the herald angels sing, says Charles Wesley, and glory to the newborn king. Adam's likeness, now effaced, stamped thine image in its place. So Charles Wesley has an experience of God. Maybe his greatest hymn was,.

And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Saviour's blood? Died he for me who caused his pain? For me who him to death pursued? And here you have this scholar, this gentleman, this brilliant man, accepting to royalty.

And then he writes this verse, No condemnation, now I dread. You know, so you look so nice tonight and inside of you there's something twisting, condemnation, guilt, unconfessed sin, rebellion against God, and you'll never have mercy.

I don't care what you do. You can go through the ritual, you can be baptized and come out. All you do is you're going to dry sinner and come out a wet sinner. But this man has been radically born again of the Spirit of God.

And if any man, I love that, there's such a defiance in that word of Paul, is it in 2 Corinthians 5, 17? If any man be in Christ, any man, anywhere, at any time, if you have a message less than that, you'll then go to the heathen at the Amazon.

You can't go to people in those far off countries in bondage. You can't go down the street to the prostitute. You can't go around the commerce of the drunkard. And listen, be very careful. He may turn round and ask you, you're preaching victory over sin.

Do you have victory over sin? Do you have victory over lust? And are you pointing the way? You know, our young people, they have so many signposts pointing the way. We don't need guideposts to point the way.

We need guides to lead the way. We need guides in the pulpit. We need guides in the Sunday school. Anyhow, this man is burdened with guilt. He's born down with guilt. With grief. And so he comes and he cries, Have mercy upon me, O God.

According unto the multitude of thy tender mercy, blot out my transgressions. Wipe me truly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Against thee the only have I sinned. You say, that's not correct.

He didn't just sin against God. He sinned against Bathsheba. I'm not sure he did. He sinned with her. But I'm not sure he sinned against her. She's part of the deal. But he doesn't blame her. He says, He says, I am the sinner.

You know, we all know what's wrong with somebody else. But it comes to me being feeling condemnation and guilt and we start making excuses about it. But it's an amazing thing again. And he says, Against thee only have I sinned and none this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest.

Behold, I was straightened in iniquity and in sin and I was straightened in my mother conceiving. He prays the first part of this wonderful psalm. He prays it to the sinner under condemnation under guilt.

And he uses three different words in the first two verses for sin. And he uses three different words there which I want to emphasize at the moment. He uses three different words there for cleansing. I'm talking here about the urgency to get rid of that thing.

If you had some diabolical disease and sin is the disease. Would you want to get rid of it? If you got rid of it would you keep quiet about it? If you got miraculously delivered from cancer by some medical prescription, wouldn't you feel obligated to run out and tell everybody that there's a deliverance for cancer?

That they can be healed and made whole? If a man... You know we ask some people are you saved? They say I don't know. Supposing you're walking up the road you have a sack of eighty pounds on your back and somebody snatches it off and you say I don't know.

Somebody says have you lost your burden? You say I don't know. Let me feel around. If you lost your burden you'd know pretty quickly that that burden had gone. And one of the most joyful things we sang tonight.

You know I'd almost like to stop the whole meeting and say listen you sang a truth tonight. Explain it to me. What did you sing? Blessed assurance. Why do you have assurance? How do you have assurance?

Again the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin. And the Apostle Paul as we mentioned yesterday about faith. In the ninth chapter of Romans he says I call the Holy Ghost to bear witness. Do you do that? Do I do that?

Can I call the Holy Ghost to bear witness that when I pray I pray with as much zeal and passion and longing and yearning in the secret place as I do openly? Am I as consistent there as I am publicly? The Holy Spirit bears witness.

It was the favorite preaching of John Wesley. He preached on that text more than any other text. The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are born of God. No condemnation Wesley says. Now I dread.

Jesus and all in him is mine. Alive in him my living head and clothed in righteousness divine gold. I approach the eternal throne and claim the crown through Christ my own. There is nothing more awesome I think than seeing God take the beggar from the dunghill and make him a prince unto God.

Some of Wesley's greatest preachers were the vilest men in the country. He gathered a bunch of men round him. They weren't intellectually his equal. They weren't socially his equal but spiritually they were his equal.

They fasted when he fasted. They submitted to all the rigorous life that they had to live in those days because they'd been emancipated. They'd lost their burden of guilt. They got a message to declare to others that he's able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God.

You know also people who go get neurotic and all this stuff it's due to the fact if you could push it right down it's guilt, it's condemnation, it's hidden sin that has to be cleansed. It has to be done away.

And so David prays here. Have mercy for me my past sins. And then he prays again. He mentions in this chapter he mentions the spirit three times. He mentions sacrifices three times. He says thou desirest not sacrifice else I would give it.

Well what can you do? There's no other way to go. We mentioned about it last night about Elijah. And what did he bring? He didn't bring a pair of turtle doves. He didn't bring a handful of meal or something.

The sacrifice of God out of broken and a contrite heart. A broken spirit and a contrite heart of God thou will not despise. That's so very seldom real in our lives is it? Brokenness. You know we've got used to sin.

We're used to it. People can sin without any fear anymore. Dear God it used to be in meetings the spirit of God would come like a cloud. People would go home and they wouldn't sleep. They'd keep awake night after night after night as in the days of Jonathan Edwards.

When the whole community was riveted with God and that's what I want. I want God to come on the community. Not just a blessing here and a healing there and a vision over there. I want the spirit of God to come until taverns are closed.

Nobody wants to drink. Until people don't curse. Until every home becomes a tabernacle where God lives. Where every father becomes a priest. He ministers the things of God to his family. Where he becomes a king walking in righteousness and holiness.

David here thank you. I thought we'd get a hallelujah before the week was over. It's pretty dried up around here. Okay. But here. Thou desirest truth in the inward path. That's an absent thing these days.

How many people have truth in the inward path? If we have truth in the inward path we'll have integrity. There isn't much integrity around anymore. There isn't much honesty around anymore. As I said before the missing feature to me in modern preaching there are three things missing.

Immensity, intensity and eternity. I would like to hear preaching till people can't do their office work. They can't do any other work. They say my number one priority is to get right with God. I want to get rid of this guilt.

I want to get rid of this shame. It's amazing how people can cover sin isn't it? You know we think of revival as a happy time. Oh boy we shouted, we danced with more blessings. Listen I talked with a man from years ago.