Sodom Had No Bible — Leonard Ravenhill

To the pastor who isn't here, and to the staff who are here for this privilege, this week. It's been a very reflecting week for me. I can't remember when I worked with a group more compatible than this group, Kind Christian Confederate Gentlemen.

And we ask you to pray for us as we go on our way. We certainly will remember to pray for you. Sometimes when I go to a place, they say, we're glad to see you're back. We don't often see, they're glad to see my face.

The Kingdom of God and the Coming of the Son of Man

We'll be glad to see you're back. But again, we remember to pray for you, and I'm sure you will pray for us. I want to read some verses now from the 17th chapter in the gospel as recorded by Luke, and reading from verse 20.

Luke chapter 17, reading from verse 20. And when he was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come. He answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation, neither shall they say, Lo here, or Lo there, for behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

He said unto the disciples, The days will come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not see it. They shall say to you, See here, or see there. Go not after them, nor follow them.

For out of the lightning that lightneth out of the one part of heaven shineth unto the other part of heaven, so shall also the Son of Man be in his day. But first must ye suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In that day he which shall be upon the house doth, and is stuffed in the house, let him not come down and take it away. He that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

Remember Lot's life. The text is just so free, very simple, and yet to me very provoking words. Remember Lot's life. The disciples were watching Jesus, when he disappeared. For the second time in less than fifty days, they were losing him.

He taught them to pray, thy kingdom come. And there wasn't a sign of it. He finished the first part of his ministry in a circus act. They put a faded torn robe of a heathen king on him. They put a reed in his hand, and they put a crown of thorns on his head, and they pushed him around.

Pilate to Herod, Herod to Pilate, Caiaphas handled him, everybody handled him. And he who said, pray thy kingdom come, ended on a scaffold. Very difficult for you and I to appreciate this. They'd invested all they had on him.

They'd given up fishing businesses. One of them gave up a career as a gentleman's official. And it all ended in apparent failure. And then suddenly he appeared to them, and now again he's disappeared.

He's literally going up in the sky. They're watching him go. They didn't believe him the first time. He said, if I die I'll rise again. I have power to lay down my life. I have power to take it up. But they forgot it.

And apparently they were going to forget this. They'd forgotten again what he said, because Jesus said, if I go I will come again. And as he went up, reversing the law of gravity, because he had power, they heard a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son.

They heard the voice of the angels saying, this same Jesus shall also come in like manner as you're seeing him go now. So there is the voice of Jesus, I will come again. There is the voice of the angels, he will come again.

And then the great apostle Paul said that Jesus would come. And so we have this threefold certainty. You know tomorrow something like, I think fifty million letters will be crossing America. Mine are always late.

But they'll be crossing America, about fifty million. And every one of them bears the mark of the birth of Jesus Christ. He came once and not many people anticipated his coming, and he's coming again.

Contrasting Christ's First and Second Comings

But the two comings are very different. The first time he came nobody saw him jump. The next time every eye shall see him. The first time he was escorted with a mere handful of angels. The next time he's coming with ten thousand of his saints.

The first time he came he came to poverty. The next time he's coming to pageantry. The first time he came he came to misery. A house with wall to wall dung. And cobwebs for curtains. And animal urine smelling all over the place.

And only the heat of the animals to heat the building. The first time he came to misery, the next time he's coming to majesty. The first time he came as a lamb, he was led as a lamb. But not next time.

The next time he's not coming as a lamb, he's coming as a lamb of the tribe of Judah. The first time he came they put on his head a crown of thorns. We've sung that majestic hymn of Bridget twice this week.

We could have sung it tonight. I love it. I never get tired of it. Crown him with many crowns. The lamb upon his throne. The first time he came he came as the king of the Jews. The next time he's coming as the king of kings and the lord of lords.

The first time he came he never travelled out of that tiny little country that we call Palestine. The next time he comes he's coming in the language again of Isaac Watts that Jesus shall reign where 'er the sun does its successive journeys run.

The first time he came he came to die. The next time he's going to raise the dead. The first time he came he came to redeem us. The next time he comes he's going to reign over us. It was Charles Wesley who taught us to sing the hymn gentle Jesus, meek and mild.

And I think we've overdone it a bit. Jesus wasn't always gentle. He wasn't always meek. He wasn't always mild. One day he turned to the Pharisees and he said in the morning it will be foul weather you say amen.

It will be foul weather today because the sky is red. In the evening he said it will be fair weather the sky is red. Oh you. Some hypocrisy says can you see, can you read the sky and not read the sign of the times.

I think he'd say that very same thing if he came back to us. Sometimes I think the only thing that we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. That's the most pathetic condemnation of human kind.

We do not learn from history. I'm getting quite old. This week I have a birthday. I was thinking tonight I was in a hot house a few years ago and it was my birthday. I was 46. The man in the house said well anybody in this house gets a dollar for every year of birthday.

And so he gave me a packet with 46 dollars in it. I thought I might have got a hundred like that this week. I didn't get one. But anyhow I'm old enough to remember World War I. Before it and after it.

I'm old enough to remember that that majestic catastrophe ended at 11 o 'clock in the morning on the 11th day of the 11th month. 11 months from the signing of the armistice with Turkey and 11 months from the time that Alan D entered into Jerusalem.

Do you think that God was trying to tell the human race in 1938 that we were entering into the last hour of human destiny? A sequence of 511s again. The war terminated at 11 o 'clock in the morning on the 11th day of the 11th month.

11 months from the signing of the armistice with Turkey. 11 months from when Alan D entered into Jerusalem. People say to me often, as I guess they do to other men, well do you think we're living in the last days?

And I say definitely not. We're not living in the last days. Well our pastor says we are. You'd better give him a nudge. You've been asleep a long while. We're not living in the last days. Don't you realize that this book, the church was born in the last days.

The book of the Revelation speaks about things which will shortly come to pass and they were written 2 ,000 years ago. And it is as if John is continually saying, little children, it is the last time.

And in the wonderful, fabulous book of Hebrews we've studied to some degree this week, it begins, God who at Sunday times and in divers manners spake unto the fathers by the prophets, half in these last days, 2 ,000 years ago.

Then on God's clock I suggest you tonight, it's not even five minutes to the midnight hour. It's not even one minute to the midnight hour. I believe we're living right on the edge, just before the final stroke of the clock that will bring Jesus Christ back.

Jerusalem, Prophecy, and the End of the Age

An event in history that didn't matter too much to us was the war in 1967. One of the signs of the end of the age is when you see Jerusalem surrounded with armies. Has it ever been more surrounded than it is tonight?

When you see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, look up! The Redemption draws nigh. 1967, less than 3 million Jews fought more than 30 million Arabs. And the Jews lit the Arabs. Somebody else received, Rabbi, how it was that they accomplished one of the greatest wars in history, one of the greatest military upsets in history, in six days.

The devout old Rabbi bowed his head and said, have you forgotten the scripture says, six days shalt thou labour? What does it say? They shall fall by the edge of the sword, 21, verse 24 of Luke, you don't need to look at it.

Jerusalem shall be propped down at the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And the Jews, pardon me, the Gentiles, have been shutting down Jerusalem since Nebuchadnezzar 2 ,500 years ago.

Moshe Dayan is certainly not a devout Jew, he rather makes fun of religion. He's only got one eye but he seems to see quite a bit. And he walked up to the Wailing Wall, those last stones, the remnants of Herod's Temple, and put his finger on one of those stones and said, this is the hour of the Jew, this is our holy of holies, I'm not a religious man, this is our holy of holies, this is where the saints were, this is where the patriarchs were, this is the most sacred place on earth for the Jews, we've got it and we'll never surrender it again.

I don't believe they ever will. I believe that began the countdown for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. When you see Jerusalem trodden down of the Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles and when it's released, that sets the alarm clock for the end of the age, and it started in 1967.

There were as many angles to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, theologically, prophetically, as there are spokes in a wheel, and one can never cover them a night like this. You could spend a whole night about the Antichrist, you could spend a whole night concerning the Jews.

Maybe the most dramatic way for people, remember again, and I remind you of this, that God was married to the Jews and he divorced the Jews and he's going to remarry the Jews. Now I believe, and I think my dear friend David, I noticed that little text that he just sent in, and I believe he says, if you, that this is not only the midnight hour for America, it's the midnight hour for the world.

There are some frightening days ahead of us. What is prophesied in the 12th chapter of Hebrews there, that there is coming a period in human history when everything, economically, socially, religiously, morally, everything that can be taken will be taken, but the kingdom that cannot be taken will remain.

The Greatest Threat: A Sick Church in a Dying World

I said at the Southern Baptist Convention, I got there once, I'm sure the only time I ever will, but somebody has to shake the dry bone. And I said if I gave you a paper and pencil and asked you to sign on that paper what or who you think is the greatest enemy to America, you could start with the devil, finish with the Democrats, in between I'd divorce and drink and dope and I don't know what, and you'd miss it entirely.

Because I'm convinced tonight, with all the power of my being, should I die five minutes from when I finish preaching, I'd answer to God with a clear conscience that I believe the greatest threat to America tonight is God.

I remind you he divorced the Jews, he's left them alone for two thousand years, five times in the history of the world have almost been annihilated, and God would let them be kicked around like a football, they'd be imprisoned and ostracised and penalised and victimised, and God looks on and doesn't bother.

You see one day they took the son of God to the cross, and as he went there he said, please just let me say one thing to you, you're not stealing my life, I have power to let it down and I have power to take it up.

And I want to tell you something, you're not rejecting me, I'm rejecting you, your house is left unto death for me. Two thousand years God hasn't bothered with the Jews, they may hold their money back into the world, they may control the movie industry, they control banks, they control most of TV and what have you got.

But as regards the blessing of God he totally ignored them. God walks out on the nation that he married and then divorced. It will make you think that almighty God, the holy being in eternity is determined on America or England tonight.

The most frightening scripture almost in the book of the Revelation, it's a terrible book. It takes you to the edge of the hell and you see millions there in torment, it takes you to heaven and you see the darkness and wonder of it.

But it also says this concerning the church, if you go so far and you don't repent of your sin I'll remove your candle stick. Now remember again of one of the most brilliant and modern American writers, Francis Schaeffer.

Francis Schaeffer says in his book Debt in the City which he says again, dealing with Romans 1 through 3, God has rejected the citizens of America already, they've cut their noses at him. We break God's laws and we have to keep people in Godly trust and legalize abortions.

And Denver, Colorado, a state out there, I forget the name for a moment, has legalized prostitution in the so-called Christian country. We're more drug addicts, we're more perverts, we're more divorces, we're more illegitimate children, we're more kids with VD, under 16 years of age than any country in the world.

I've lived in some of the subculture of New York and walked it at midnight, walked it at midday, been there in the mayor's special research into drug addiction and who controls it in America. And yet when you've done, when you've told me that America has reached the bottom of the pile, when you've told me of the threat of communist power, and Dreeves is laughing on his plane going home tonight.

He's got everything, hasn't he? The dollar has never been more fixed, but he managed to pull another one. They still owe America one point, well, five billion dollars from the last war, but he said, I want 400 million of credit we'll pay in about 30 years.

And he got the finest terms and he sold us some gas. But I noticed the other day, Senator Jackson said, we buy this, whatever it is, a hundred cubic feet, say, per annum, we buy it for 70 cents and they're going to generously sell it from Russia at two dollars to us.

The grain bins across the nation are empty tonight according to HH Countrywide. That's why you pay so much for your steak. We give it all to Russia at a cut price. We have no gas. At the end of the street there I saw a gas station.

No gas for big time. We've no meat. We're at the bottom of the high low than we've ever been in the history of America. We've no morality. We haven't much of a government right now according to Watergate either.

But when you've told me the worst, and when you've chanted the last bomb that Russia has and the last bullet and the last menace, and if you like you can steal and cheat on the secret plans they have to destroy America.

And when you've said it all, I tell you, there's one thing worse than the whole accumulated threat to America tonight, in my judgment. And that is a sick church in a dying world. I read you this scripture from the 17th chapter of Luke, briefly.

Remembering Lot: Materialism and Spiritual Decline

Jesus has in front of him his disciples and immediately behind them are the Pharisees and under pressure from these men. They're asking, what should be the sign of thy coming and the end of the age? And Jesus said certain things and then with three words he throws our minds back three thousand years to three people.

Because if you remember Lot's wife, you must remember Lot. You remember Lot, you must remember Abraham. The story begins in the 11th chapter of Genesis. It goes right through to the 19th chapter of Genesis.

In the language of Charles Dickens it's a tale of two cities. It's a study into attitudes. It's a man who refused to be mesmerized by the materialism of the world and it's another man as we would say a Christian and he fell for the whole thing.

It's a little fellow that started off in Ur of the Chaldees and he was nameless and homeless and wifeless and childless, positionless, possessionless. And he got on the Guinness spiral, you know, rags to riches, one cabin to one house, super edition of it.

And he climbed up and up and up until he became the mayor of a city and a judge he sat in the gate. And then judgment came and he ended where he began. He ended nameless, wifeless, almost childless, positionless, possessionless.

He had nothing to cover him. Not only is it true that we do not learn from history, we do not learn from the Chaldeans in the word of God either. We're smarter than we are. Isn't it strange that concerning one of the most fantastic things in history, that Jesus cuts it off by saying remember Lot's wife.

Who in the world is interested in Lot's wife? Why did Jesus say remember Lot's wife? Was he wicked? All women are wicked. I mean, well sure they are. You say what about men? Doesn't the Bible say men shall wax worse and worse?

Oh yes, evil men are waxing worse and worse. And if you knew some of the schemes to rot and destroy the youth of America tonight you wouldn't sleep for the next four nights and you'd take all the barbiturates you like.

They'd never have been fixed on you. If you knew the cunning of hell to destroy our generation we'd be dead. Evil men are waxing worse and worse. What about women? Oh brother, they've been getting worse ever since Adam's rib to women's lids.

Is that in your notebook? Right. Oh yes, they're getting worse. Their situation's getting worse and worse. Why remember Lot's wife? Well she wasn't more wicked than anyone else. If Jesus wanted he could have chosen some other wife.

Wife of maybe Samson, maybe the wife of Ahab, Jezebel. He isn't choosing someone who's exceptionally wicked, he's choosing somebody in the language of the word of God that he or she who is often reproved and hardened her neck was cut off suddenly without remedy.

Where did he get his wife? I don't know. Would you like to suggest he got his wife in Ur of the Chaldees? All right, I'll accept that. If he got his wife in Ur of the Chaldees she was a member of the world's first missionary party because Abraham was the first missionary in history.

And even though she lived against this colossal spiritual figure and was a member of the world's first missionary party she perished. Maybe he didn't get his wife in Ur of the Chaldees. Maybe like so many men in the Old Testament he got his wife by the side of a well.

And I can see him rushing in one day and saying to his uncle, I want to carry something. And he said, you told me. I told you what? You've fallen in love. I've seen men like you before. You've just fallen in love, that's all there is to it.

Oh, but you've never seen a woman like this. Oh, uncle Abraham, in fact you've got the reason I'm just not sure this is an angel or a woman. Well there's one thing for sure, no man goes looking for a witch.

He may get one, but boy he doesn't go looking for one. She's so beautiful. And I can hear the old man saying, wait a minute, do you remember where she comes from? Remember this, she's one of the lesser breeds without the law.

She's heathen as we would say. This thing won't work. Dirty. Love is not only blind, it's deaf. It doesn't take any heed. And the story goes on. It tells how these men prospered. The hand of God was on them.

And one day Abraham calls his nephew Lot and he says, Lot, look I want to talk to you a minute. I was looking from the hilltop there and your herdsman was striving with my herdsman about a piece of territory.

Now this is Christian as we would say. Why don't we settle this thing? If you want to take that side of the valley, I'll take this. And if you take that, I'll take that. And he says, oh, uncle Abraham.

You see, there was one thing uncle Abraham did God didn't want him to do. He went into Egypt. And the young fellow had big eyes and he saw Egypt and its flesh pots and its prosperity and its gilts and its gold and its glitter.

And then uncle Abraham said, which side of the valley is it? Well, he was going to live on that ground for two. There's no grass there much. And not only this side of the valley has green grass and beautiful water, but there's sodden.

And he pitched his tent toward sodden, that's all right. Oh, he got his eye on the main tent. Boy, I'll make some millions here for this trip. And uncle Abraham said, you want that side of the valley?

He said, yes, I'll take that side of the valley. And uncle Abraham says, well, that's all right. You see, if he'd been a gentleman, he would have said, uncle Abraham, you're the older person and you should make a choice.

It's not my privilege. I would still be in awe of the Chaldeans, but for your kindness, you choose that side if you want. Abraham sets off to go away. And the Lord said, and I like the way the Lord talks to him.

He said, Abraham. And he said, here I am. He said, go back and stand on that rock you're at. Look north, south, east, west, all, A-L-L. All the land that bows to you, I'll give it to thee. But my nephew's just taken all this territory.

No, no, no, he hasn't. He's just borrowed it. I'm going to give you the whole, and he gave him the boundaries of the area where he was to inherit, and they're still going to inherit that, the Jews. And uncle Abraham went up the mountain.

And Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom. He did his banking and his business there. He got involved there. He became very important there, and God said, this isn't good. I'll have to accept this business.

And so you'll have a battle of five kings against four. And they came and invaded the city. And they tore rope around the neck of Lot, and they dragged him out of the city, and they took his calf, and they took his treasure.

And somebody ran after this wonderful man, and ran up the hill and said, Abraham, they've taken your nephew, Lot. Use the phrase David used this morning, old Abraham might have said, let him stew in his own juice.

I've been warning him a long time. He's getting back slid, and he's not worshipping God. He never comes up the mountain and offers sacrifice and talks about being spiritual. And he told him no. Instead of that, uncle Abraham took over two hundred servants.

He was a rich man. And he went and rescued Lot out of the hand of his enemies. And as Abraham and Lot were coming down the road, they met this mysterious, majestic, marvellous Melchizedek. And immediately Abraham saw him, he bowed his feet, and he worshipped him, and he offered him tithes.

The young man didn't. He was in a hurry. Thanks, uncle Abraham, I've got to get to business again. I lost all my property, and I'll have to get. No, Abraham worshipped and he offered tithes. The young man didn't offer any tithes.

He was far too busy. Say true? Far too busy. He went back to business. Recovered some of his losses. But he didn't merely go and pitch his tent to old Sodom. He went and lived in Sodom. And as bad as it was that he went and lived in Sodom, the trouble was Sodom got into him.

Abraham was on the mountain, communing with God. This man is getting more and more involved, extending his territory, deepening his investment, feeling more success and security. Two daughters were born to him.

And he married them off to Sodomites. We've changed the word for Sodomy. It's a dirty word, and we try and make it a bit smoother with homosexuality. England has legalised the damnable thing. And America's pushing to legalise it.

Abortion, Divorce, and the Moral Collapse of Society

And I've got news for you teenagers, you'd better live very near to God, because for the days just up the road, and I expect to see them anyhow, but it's going to be the most terrible days in history.

Because you don't legalise abortion. You don't take living babies out of living women. And what do you do with the living babies? Mind your own business, the government says. If somebody buys them for dog meat, you wonder your dog licks his lips, you say men wouldn't be as bad as that.

If they'll take living babies out of living women, they're bad enough to do anything. And we're a Christian country, we're not a communist country, and we've legalised abortion. Nevada's legalised prostitution.

Some of the filthiest films ever shown have been so now. We've reached an all-time low in morality or immorality. And you don't break God's laws. God watches the divorce talks of America and England every day, and marriages are broken, and kids are tossed around.

I think there's about twenty million battered children between fathers and mothers that are reckless. What do you expect to inherit in the next generation? Fatherland and mother. England and America. So they're the modern fatherland and mother.

You see, it will speak your heart out. Kids in America don't care about the children. Those kids maybe don't know how well that they care. They laugh at the preachers. Of course, you love each other. I'll tell you one thing going around the world, you'll never find heathen children that are rude.

They may not be educated like you are. Some could hardly say they're ABC, but they sit up miles when you tell them a gospel. It runs in your ears now to some of you kids, and you'll land in hell unless you repent anyhow.

He not only picked his tent towards Sodom, he went and lived in Sodom. He married his children off to Sodomites. And do you know one reason that God blessed this amazing man Abraham? You'd hardly guess.

Because of his time in office? No, no, no, no. God said this. Abraham, he knows how to take care of his children. Do you know how to take care of yours? I was in the church a few years ago on the west coast, and after the morning service, a man came up to the front with his son.

And I was standing here, and I looked straight in his eyes. He was a huge, huge man with a big, big son. I guess I paid for the message, and I thanked him. He had a wonderful move that week. They had to take petitions down in the church, go up till the place.

People were wonderful this day. At the end of the week, the man came again, and he said, Sunday night, I want to thank you for this week. It's been very wonderful. And I said, well, fine. By the way, I haven't seen your son around.

Oh, no, no, he's been very busy this week. Very busy. He's a very gifted boy. He can pilot our family plane. You should see him handle our speedboat. We were on vacation, and he managed the whole business.

He's a great boy. Straight A student. All the girls like him. He's the best boy in the high school. Everybody likes him. But I said, he hasn't been to church one night. No, no, no, he's very busy. I said, why didn't you make him come to church?

Make him come to church? Well, I said, what does he weigh? About 200 pounds, big boy like that. I suppose when he's 19, I didn't know he was still in school. I said, 19? 19? He's only 40. I said, he's a huge man.

Why didn't you make him come to church? Make him? You know what he weighs? I don't care what he weighs. I said, he's got a man's body and a boy's brain and a boy's emotions and a boy's soul. Why don't you make him come to church?

Oh, I don't push my ideas on him. Does he go to school? I just told you he's a straight A student. He's a wonderful boy. You mean to say you don't have a single problem with that boy? Well, if we do have one, you'd be amazed what it is.

Do you know he can't get up in the morning? You can't get him out of bed. I said, well, fancy that. He's an athlete. He's too big, muscular boy and he can't get out of bed in the morning. I said, as a matter of fact, the other morning I couldn't get him out.

I took a wet sponge and rubbed it on his face. I said, boy, you're cruel. He said, yesterday morning he wouldn't get out. I got hold of the bed and I kicked the bed and dropped him on the floor. Oh, what a cruel father.

What a cruel father. What do you want me to do? I said, you don't believe I've been pushing your ideas on him, you're saying? You wouldn't make him go to school. You should go to his room in the morning and say, John, excuse me, but I'm in the business and I know you don't want to go to school and it's all right, my dear boy.

I just wonder if you'd like your eggs sunny-side up and how much toast we need and whether you want coffee. And then at 11 o 'clock, what would you like? Manson's Dew or Coke or Pepsi? And then at 12, what would you like?

Steak? He said, are you crazy? I said, no, are you? I think you are. You don't know how. Oh, my boy, his head, I must develop his head and look after him, but his heart. Abraham knew how to take care.

There is a law that was mentioned before, it's a moral universe and God established that law and you can't break it, but whatsoever a man saw that, shall he also reap. If you saw a thought, you reap an act.

If you saw an act, you reap a habit. If you saw a habit, you reap a character. If you saw a character, you reap a destiny. You train your children. I made up my mind nine years ago after my three daughters, if my boys did not follow the Lord, I would not preach until they did.

I'm not going to rescue your kids from hell if mine are going. I'm not going to tell you how to train your family if my children are prodigals and rebels. They're all on different missions for you tonight, the children, thank God.

He knows how to take care of his children. Some of you know where your pedigree cat is at ten o 'clock at night, but you don't know where your daughter is. You discipline in other areas, but not this area.

You'd be amazed if I were to ask you tonight for a show of hands, which I wouldn't not because I'm afraid that I won't, but if I ask you for a show of hands how many people here have a family altar, that every day the word of God is open and daddy kneels and prays and he protects his family before they go out.

With a waking, whatever time I wake, I usually get up early in the morning, before the dawn. The first thing I try to do is like Job, cover my precious boys so they can pray for themselves, and the first thing I do is say, Lord, now, thank you for this day.

I worship you. Put your hand on Paul, on David, on Phyllis, keeping this day. Yeah, the steps of these men are very interesting. Was it David this morning, was it talked about a friend, what a friend we have in Jesus.

You know I'm convinced in my heart, as I look at the aggregate reports of iniquity and sin and violence, and David could tell you quite a lot about the Mafia if he would, but he won't and he's sensible.