A Storm Arose, Christ Arose - Leonard Ravenhill — From the Pulpit & Classic Sermons

The Majesty and Presence of God

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This week we have Leonard Ravenhill with his message. A storm arose Christ arose.

We have and we ask no lust of our own. But we thank you that you hear our feeble call. Our cries Are very spasmodic as it were adoration. We are glad Lord as a company in your presence who cease not to say by day or night.

Holy, holy, holy Lord, we need to rediscover more of your majesty more of your glory more of your awesome presence. But I can't help but think as we sing this song of the millions today who bowed down to idols of wood and stone.

They've called from broken hearts to Stone images that have no hearts. They've cried with loud voices into ears stone ears that cannot hear. They've cried for help to hands that cannot move. They've called for deliverance and the feet of stone.

They cannot come. Lord God help us to treasure our light. We want to thank you for tonight for every good and perfect gift. We want to thank you tonight for the precious blood and all the people said.

And we thank you for the precious book and all the people said. We thank you for a hope that we have and all the people said. We thank you Lord that you redeemed us. You bought us not with corruptible things such as silver and gold.

Christ’s Sacrifice for Sin

We thank you tonight for the permanent offering Jesus made that once in the end of the age. He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. He didn't need the Virgin Mary. He didn't need cherubim to help him.

He gathered all human sin and all human iniquity. We think of your Lord Jesus staggering up the hill to Calvary. Not just bending over a load of wood but bending over billions of sins. Because the word says the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

But it will take eternity to fathom that. We wonder what Him says. Thou didst not spare thine only son. But gavest him for a world undone and freely with that blessed one thou gavest all. We lose what on ourselves we spend.

We have our treasure without end whatever Lord to thee we lend who giveth all. Lord give us an expansion in our hearts. The psalmist prayed enlarge my heart Lord enlarge us that we may hold more capacity for your grace more capacity for your compassion.

More compassion for a dying world. Lord we thank you and tonight we can really sing he lives within my heart, but Lord we think of millions in our own country. As the hymn says fast bound in sin and nature's night.

They're just as dark as though they were somewhere out the Amazon. They have education and that illumination and social standing but there's a center in them an area in them that's dead. It has no relationship to God.

Spiritual Death and the Need for Awakening

Lord God make us conscious. We're walking amongst. We're walking amongst dead people who are walking. They walk they see they buy they sell they eat. They do all their things, but Lord they've no living relationship with the living God therefore.

They're not living. They're still dead In trespasses and in sin and that word grips me so often Lord lately. They're without hope no wonder. They commit suicide no wonder they do the devilish things. They have no hope either in this world or the next Lord their eyes are blind their intellects are still dull.

Lord you must awaken. We can't awaken them by argument by logic by preaching by threatening Lord. It's your operation. We long for the Holy Ghost to come Lord. I Think of the time when you came in the great American revival in I don't know under Jonathan Edwards there in the 1600 1674 or something.

And he says that people down the street visibly were under conviction their faces were drawn as if in pain they were in pain. They were in soul pain. They were in guilt pain. They were in condemnation pain and yet Lord you use some very simple men to awaken them Lord this is the greatest need we have in our nation.

We need an awakening. We need a divine intervention Lord all our crusades and operations. They're just little drops in the bucket as the hymn writer says vow must save and thou alone Lord there's no help outside of your majesty outside of your mercy outside of your grace.

Lord we thank you for hearing us tonight. We bless you that we're accepted in the beloved even at this moment. We thank you Lord as we've already sung tonight. We know in whom we have believed and we're persuaded that he's able to keep that which we've committed unto him against that day.

Breathe on your word afresh tonight Lord. Come with holiest distance as we pray Lord we don't know how to pray as we ought. We can bring needs and situations, but Lord we want the Spirit of God to birth something in us tonight.

Lord make this a birth chamber. I pray Again we ask thee make this meeting a tragedy to the devil Lord as he looks down or wherever in the world he is Lord that when he looks here He'll say there's one spot covered with blood and I can't get victory in that area.

That our lives are covered with that same precious blood. Lord we thank you again. Thank you for the precious people who've come tonight. Again quicken your word to our hearts in Jesus name. Thank you.

I was thinking that while I was praying you know when When Napoleon was conquering Europe He conquered so many different countries. But on the map England Which is a place I visited and that England is always a red.

It's in flaming red on the map. And one day when his warlords were telling him what to do. He said Except for that red spot there I could conquer the world. You know I like to think of that the devil looks at Calvary and says if it were not for that red spot I could conquer the world.

Jesus Calms the Storm

Okay. Let's come to the word. We're going to read this good book part of it. The gospel recorded by Luke chapter chapter 8. Let's read from those 25. They've come out of that situation the storm. You know when the ship was being battered there.

And I don't like reading that story. I'll tell you why they were in the middle of the sea and the waves were beating the boat around and they walked Jesus. He better sell him go to sleep. It says that he couldn't sleep it couldn't eat because the multitude were after him.

He's having a nice rest in the boat and these poor puny little disciples go and wake him up and say don't you care that we? Perish. Wouldn't you thought they'd have said if they loved him. Lord you're gonna drown.

But they were so full of me me me. In that right Braces that it is so it must be kind you Care us down not that we perish. Lord, don't you concern? I can't get white wall tires for my automobile. Poor lady in grief.

She said it's gonna be cold. There's a frost two mornings ago, and she's looking for a fur coat and can't find it. And yet there are people at this very moment trapped under that debris there in El Salvador screaming for help.

It's hell on the way to hell because Catholics want to die with somebody making a sign of a cross. What did he say absolve or deus and gives them the last rites and there they are trapped groaning in agony.

Terrified to live and terrified to die. You know we don't know most Americans don't know the value of America anyhow. You've got to come from Europe to find it out and most Christians not know the value of Christianity.

You've got to come out of bondage and sorrow and night and darkness of self-righteousness and be free. Is it wonderful he took he took control of the whole thing? There's another story that version of this it says as they were crossing the sea a storm arose and in the same verse it says.

But he arose and there was a great calm. There's some divisions for a son. It's a preacher message a storm arose heroes. Well if Jesus still the storm here can be still the storm in your life. You're in a storm your domestic storm your business storm.

That's his business. Okay, that's 25. He said unto them What is where is your faith. And they being afraid one of saying one to another what manner of man is this? So he commandeth even the winds and the water and they obey him and They arrived at the country of the gatherings which is over against Galilee.

Deliverance from Demons and the Authority of Christ

And he went forth to land him there met him out of the city a certain man which had devils a long time and He were no clothes neither abode in any house, but in the tombs. And when he saw Jesus he cried and fell down before him with a loud voice.

I Like the version in Mark 6. Because it says there that he not just he fell down. But he fell down and worshipped him. He fell down before him and said with a loud voice What have I to do with thee. As I've said many times that the greatest honor in the world was given to the Apostle Paul.

When when those men tried to cast demons out and the demons said Jesus we know and Paul we know. So many of these preachers. Oh, I want I want to be rated with Billy Graham at all. Roberts. I don't care a hill of beans about them the nice guys.

I'm concerned what God thinks about me not my rating in the level of evangelist. I may be the worst preach in the world. I don't think I am but I could be. That doesn't matter what rating we have of men if God has no rating on us.

Cried with a loud voice saying what have I to do with thee thou son of God or is another place. It says thou holy one thou holy one. Even devils recognize the holiness and majesty of God. What about to do with thee Jesus thou son of the most high.

I beseech thee torment me not Jesus him saying what is my name? He said it is Legion and Legion means there. Legion is the minimum is 5 ,000 and the largest number is 10 ,000. Now think of hold up for a minute on the cross.

Jesus said I could call 10 legions of angels. 10 legions of 10 ,000 is a hundred thousand. He could have called them, but he didn't. You know he could have done what those men said come down from the cross wouldn't have been terrified if he did.

You know that's the biggest temptation to you and I when you've made a decision to live at a certain level come down from the Cross say these are those people don't fast. Those people don't sacrifice.

Those people don't. Well you're not those people. God Almighty's called you to something higher and nobler and purer and stronger. And if you want to live like the worms around you, that's your business.

I don't. As I've told you so much. I'm tired of sick to death of mediocrity. I'm tired of preachers all on one level using the same gimmicks using the same gadgets. God's gonna do something I'm sure of that.

Where are we now? Verse 30. Jesus asked him saying what is our name. He said legion because many devils entered into him. And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. See the devils are afraid of him.

Don't command us to go out into the deep. And there was a herd of swine feeding on the mountain and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. Then went the devils after the man entered into the swine.

Well, I'll tell you why swine are smarter than men. As soon as these hogs found they had the devil in them they all committed suicide. Well, they smart. The man had lived with a devil in him for years as soon as these things felt this horrible power in them.

They all fled and committed suicide. What happened something wonderful? They ran into a steep place into the lake and were choked. When they that fed them saw what was done. They fled. Why did they flee?

Why were they afraid? They fled in the city and they went into the country and They went out to see what what was done and Jesus care and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the Devils were departed sitting at his feet clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid.

What's wrong with them? They're afraid of the man when he's full of demons. They're afraid of him when he's full of God. The most dangerous man in the world is a man filled with God a man that's linked to omnipotence.

It links his impotence to God's omnipotence. And there's an unbiblical code as the man's voice said unbiblical code of life from the Lord to me and to you. So, what did he do. They were afraid they fled and went into the city.

They found a man sitting at the feet of Jesus clothed in his right mind. Isn't that wonderful? He'd been happy to live in tombs. Dear Lord, what a place to live. Some people don't live in them. They just go once a week Sundays.

The Fear of a Transformed Life

I've told you I believe that when I look at it not tonight, but the average church when I see rows of people. It's death row. It's rows and rows of dead people. They've got religion. They take communion.

They pay their tithes. They talk about but they're dead. They did no living relationship with God. The church couldn't be in the condition it's in if every so-called church member was really born again of the Spirit of God.

It's a supernatural life. Notice it says that when he was running around in the tombs, he was naked. As soon as he gets sober and sensible he gets clothed. You know what happens in foreign countries? They tell me mistress I went in New Guinea and I went up through the country and there were tribes there with hardly a g-string On but you know as soon as they get saved they want covering.

Now in America the more stylish you are the less clothes you wear. See these kids on football painting their faces like savages and these daredevil groups and I don't listen to rock music, but there's such a Horrible horrible fever bit around the country and God won't put up with that much longer.

When People Reject Christ’s Disruption

What happens? Verse 37. The whole multitude of the country of the gatherings. They rallied the crowd and they as they besought him they entreated him to depart from them. Why? What did he done? He'd taken a man who'd been a menace and then they didn't sleep because he's Leaping in the tombs and he'll do all kinds of devilish things and now that man has been sobered and brought.

Are they turning him out of the city because he healed the man? No, what are they turning out the city for because he destroyed their property they were running hogs and they were not allowed to have hogs as Jews and So Jim Jesus went he destroyed all their capital if you like to put it that way he told all them Spoiled all their material possessions and they were furious about it.

You know, it's a strange world. If you do good, you'll get you get murdered. If you do evil you get murdered. So what a world of insane people, you know is a communist that first said to me Leonard I know what you stand for.

I want to tell you one thing theologically is the only thing ever told me he said to be insane is to be insane. Now you could go to a theological cemetery and not learn that. To be in sin is to be insane and it is what sin is profitable.

Why do people cling to sin? Why do they buy it? Why do they sell it? Why did they eat it? Why did they drink it? Why do they plan their lives around it? They're mesmerized by it. This poor man is possessed of evil spirits and he's not ashamed to be naked.

He's not ashamed to do the things he's done. But once he gets clothed and in his right mind. He's totally an acceptable wonderful man, but they lost all their property to get Jesus out of here. You know, we say Jesus comes.

He's a prince of peace. Jesus comes to bring a sword. He divides people. He divides families. I've told you before a very when we had a crusade in the city of Bath in England. We had some aristocratic girls.

A Converted Life Bears Public Witness

Some of them had danced in Buckingham Palace and they were related to royalty and whatnot. One very lovely young lady came to the altar one Saturday night. I preached on Psalm 51 Mary Barton and she knelt there, you know, so stiff and with her hands up and prayed.

I asked her what she wanted. She wanted to get saved. She got saved. What did she do? She wouldn't drink sherry before dinner. She didn't want to smoke. She didn't want to go to the county ball. She didn't want to go with the upper crust of society.

Her mother came to see me a month after said what have you done to my daughter? I said nothing. What did I do to her anyhow? Well, she's been a good communicant in the Church of England all these years and now.

She doesn't want to do anything when she comes home. She won't take drinks with us. She doesn't want to play cards. She's not sociable. What's wrong with her? I said it's not wrong with her. It's you.

I Said she's been put in a right mind. I Problem she hasn't a problem. You know that girl went to Afghanistan. I think when I hear the news she went there and labored for about 10 years in the most difficult situations.

She went to the poorest hospital in London and people didn't know who she was. I Was preaching in London at a Catholic convention. I think it was a lady came to me and I'd made reference to this lady said it was that girl's name.

I'm Mary Barton. I said yes, she said well, she was my roommate at the hospital. It's an old Jewish hospital in the slummy areas of London. She was my roommate for three years and never gave me a clue that she was a society girl that she'd studied music.

She studied on one of the modern masters in in in Belgium Painting and she'd had all the benefits of any never said a thing about it and yet she said there was something when she was in the room there was a presence there a Presence without saying a thing.

Good night that girl I think had worn the most fashionable clothes ever that what couple of years or more that we were in Bath. I never saw anything Spectacular on her tone just a radiance. You know around Bath there are seven seven hills and I held a street meeting on Saturday.

I had to go to the police court about it two or three times. And Thursday afternoon and you know what I'd do I'd look for these American soldiers coming and Polish soldiers and French shoulder shoulders soldiers and English and I put Mary Barton up on the box boy was she beautiful you see the boy she was and Mary would stand there and give a testimony how for years she'd been so self-righteous and prayerless and the Bible was like a mouthful of sand and I've come into a living loving relationship with him a face ready and guys would halfway walk halfway through the ring and look up at her and she'd stand there and Just tell how beautifully a life had been transformed.

She had no a criminal record she had no record of drugs. She was as clean and upright as a girl in any girl in the world. But she said I found those a vacuum in there. There was an emptiness. There was some space that only God couldn't fill but I'll tell you when it came and she went through the Offices in the Admiralty with the upper crust of the British Navy and a really bore witness.

For the Lord Jesus Christ now that that is in the authorized version, but it's good. Now what happens to this fellow was 38 now when the man out of whom the devil had been cast Came to him that he might be with him.

But Jesus sent him away. Wouldn't it be nice if you could live in meetings all the time. He wanted to become an extra disciple. Oh if I could live with you Lord, I could get victory. If I could just stay around here, but it's when I get outside.

Testifying to What God Has Done

Well, that's the test isn't it a character? Test of our spirituality test of our strength test of our vision test of our qualities. Oh Could I stay with you. Jesus says no go about your business go home and tell the folk there what's happened return to thine own house verse 39 and show how great things God has done unto thee and He went his way and published throughout the whole city what great things God had done for him.

What's the result when we read it? Bill there came a man by the name of Jarvis a ruler of the synagogue and he fell down at Jesus faith you notice they always fall at his feet and Asked him he would come to his house.

He had one daughter one daughter only one daughter and she was 12 years of age and she lay dying. But as he went the people thronged him and a woman having an issue of blood 12 years, which has spent all of it.

Jairus’s Daughter and the Woman with the Issue of Blood

See that. The little girl was 12 years of age. She bought 12 years of joy 12 years of love 12 years of happiness in a home and suddenly she's dying. Now you have the opposite here. You have a woman with an issue of blood the Greek word There is hemorrhaging.

She was hemorrhaging blood. And now it doesn't look too dramatic when you see it here in the King James or some other version. This woman had an issue of blood for 12 years. Do you know that means in?

The Jewish economy if you read the book of Leviticus a woman with an issue of blood was an outcast. She could not go to the temple or the synagogue. She was unclean. She looked unclean. She smelled unclean.

Her husband divorced her. She can't go to a family she can't go to a friends. She's like a leper walking with his hands up and so shaking a bell and saying unclean unclean. This is one of the best-known women in town.

Don't you think maybe that Jairus was a bit irritated? My daughter's lying there dead and you're bothering with it's a dirty scum. Everybody knows this woman. She should be put out of the way entirely put her in the valley down in the valley where let Jesus was crucified before he went there.

Where all the unclean. Now she had an issue of blood 12 years in it and not only had she difficulty. Not only had she misery. She had poverty because she sold everything she had in order to pay doctors.

Mark is very strong about that. Mark has a kind of contempt for doctors, I think but they'd spent she'd spent all the money one physician another physician running everywhere and Finally she comes to Jesus.

I'm gonna reverse 43 again the woman having an issue of blood 12 years spent all the living upon physicians now it could be healed of any of them and She came behind him. I like that. Why did she come?

Faith That Reaches Through the Crowd

This woman would never go in a crowd. She had to walk at the other side of the road. Everybody says look she's coming this dirty vile woman. She's been put out of the synagogue out of the temple out of her home out of her family.

It was she was ostracized on everything simple level spiritual and social and every other way. Why did she come to Jesus? Well, I think what I'll tell you either what I think. I'm sure I'm right. Because in verse 39 again, the man who are being healed of demons are cleansed of demons.

He published throughout the city the whole city. I Imagine he stands in the market square and somebody says, you know, I've seen that money. He's usually gashed he cuts himself with stones. He used to be naked his body was all torn.

Notice his eyes sag. Notice the marks on his body. He's bruised himself afflicted himself. The devils have tormented and there he is standing and saying that man Jesus that you don't like. Do anything that he can to got a kick when he saw the big old fat priest there and priest usually fat anyhow.

And he saw the priest there and he saw the scribe and he saw the Pharisees. And he says I want to tell you Jesus done it. Your religion is sterile. Your theology is stagnant. Oh. You read with sonorous terms in a temple the 35th chapter of Isaiah that when he's come the eyes of the blind will be open the ears of the deaf and stop the Lame will leap as a heart the tongue of the dumb shall sing and when he does it you turn on him.

This is a very son of God. They say go to hell. We don't want you. And it's like that today. It's still people will not come to Christ, but they may have life. They've got a substitute. They've got a little bit of something called pleasure and satisfaction.

They see these were real deliverances. She came behind him. I like that. She didn't get in front of him as much as say you're not getting by till they do something for me. She didn't say I work to him.

She didn't bring him a gift in The seventh chapter you have one of the most beautiful stories in the Bible where the woman brought an alabaster box of ointment and again came to his feet and Remember he turned and rebuked Peter the man who had been a leper and been healed.

And he said I entered your house. You gave me no water. You gave me no kiss. You didn't do anything for my feet, but this woman since the moment I came in I've not ceased to work to kiss my feet. Wash them.

She said I'll wash his feet. Sure. I will not with water with tears. I'll give my alabaster box of ointment and She put it on his feet as well as his head and then she took her hair and dried his feet with the hair of Her head.

What happened. The fragrance she poured out on him came back on her. You know very often. We don't come out of the sanctuary or the closet with any halo around us. We don't stay long enough we burden everything throw it all on God.

He's waiting to say get my ear and say something to me. He needs me to come with some power of another world on me. With an authority from another world when the message for another world unless we do this generation going to hell.

Touching Christ by Faith

And then quickly he came behind him and Touched the board of his garments. I looked up one of the old references and it said that the The priest used to wear a long garment then he wore a scarf and he threw the scarf over his shoulder and there were tassels on it because in Leviticus it said the priest must have a blue tassel and This this writer said you know this woman came up behind him and touched that tassel.

She didn't do anything of the kind the scripture said she touched the hem of his garment. How in the world did she get there? I mean the crowd around Jesus says who touched me and besides to look are you crazy.

Look at this crowd jostling look. Everybody's knocking trying to get near you. You're the greatest man in the world. They're trying to you know you can be in a crowd and never touch Jesus. You can go to a meeting.

I'm sent enough to know I'm not much. I've sent enough to know that God would arrange a meeting like this. Or if I preach to a thousand to two thousand people. I've said this there's one man in this meeting that God wants the rest of you close your ears if you like.

This is God's appointment with one man in this meeting. We look for crowds. Where do they go after we get all our decisions? But like God speak to a man he'd never forget that meeting. I Mean people now say I remember you preach so many years ago.

Do you remember me? How in the world do you remember all the faces. No I don't when you remember that night you preached on so-and-so you preached on. So-and-so you preached on so-and-so. You know we can talk, but only God does the speaking.

There's a crowd, but I don't believe Jesus ever looked at a crowd as a mob. He looked at them as a group of needy individuals. He didn't see the mass. He saw the individual. He doesn't see the mass here tonight.

He sees an individual. He knows every shade of Obedience or disobedience in us. He knows every degree of faith or unbelief in us. There's nothing hidden from him. This woman came. How did she come? Well, let me look here in chapter 6 and verse 8.

Tower 6 verse 8 says he knew their thoughts and Said to the man which had a withered hand rise up. He knew their thoughts. Remember the other scripture says he knew what was in man. This woman is behind him.

He knows her thoughts. He knows he feels the vibes. If you want to say that he knows she's coming. She's coming with a worshipping heart and adoring heart. She doesn't go to anybody else. Again she doesn't speak to him.

He doesn't speak to her. He doesn't say well. You're a foolish woman. You you had a fortune and you spent it you've been going to physician year after year after year after year until you're totally bankrupt.

Look at your body. It's withered and look at your face. You're in a wretched condition. You're weak and you're wicked. And you're an outcast of society. But he says who touched me. I Remember the first time I went to a meeting of Miss Coleman and she the voice good night worse than mine a voice like a rope under a door.

And she stood there. She said he touched me. I thought oh who's who talking? But I'll tell you what it moved me. I'd never heard that song before he touched me. How he touched me know that song. He touched me.

Something happened. Something. And you sing the verse shackle by native heavy burden, you know, it's Go by Jesus. Touch me stand up really sing it. He touched me. Jesus said somebody has touched me for I perceive that virtue has gone out of me.

It's also translated power. It's also translated life. This woman that spent everything she had trying to find life. Well again, how did she get there if she touches the hem of his garment behind him?

Desperation, Holiness, and the Fear of God

She must have pushed past the men and women that were there determined. You see this is a case of desperation. This is where God is bringing a lot of us. He's going to bring the nation to desperation before long financially.

He's going to bring us more and more to desperation where meetings won't satisfy us. It'll have to be the living God in the midst of a people with the living word and the living Resurrected Christ speaking so that every meeting vibrates with eternity.

What do you think she felt like? Immediately she touched him and divine life holy life eternal life quicken that mortal body. I guess it was like touching. I know nothing about voltage. What a Hundred or how many volts would give you a shock?

You don't know. What an ignorant crowd anybody know. Gracie you should know smart boy like you oh. Thank you, okay. Flashlight battery. But anyhow. Do you think she could touch the living? Christ of God who is the way the truth and the life who came that we might have life.

You know he throws his arms out and Wesley says the arms of love that compass me. Would all mankind embrace. Remember what Jesus one of the sayings that he had was Him that cometh unto me. I will in no wise cast out.

He's healed a man full of devils. He's gone to Jairus his daughter and healed her showed his power over death. And he comes to this woman and purifies her. Now look in the ninth chapter. At the end of the last one the previous.

The verse at the end says that of those 55 a spirit came again. She rose straightway, and he commanded them to give her meat and her parents were astonished. But he charged and they should tell no man then next verse 1 of chapter 9.

Authority Given to the Disciples

Then he called the twelve disciples and gave them power and authority over devils and to cure diseases and He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. Come on now not pray for the sick heal them.

I've seen God do many miracles. I'm hungry for them in one sense, but I want to see that God do the greater miracle. I want him to raise up people who are dead in Cespas and in sin people who are tormented with demons of lust demons of Drugs and every other demon.

But you see why he had authority was this he'd done it all in front of their eyes. Isn't giving them a theory. The woman doesn't care to him and say I know you've done many things. Will you be holding a healing seminar seminar next week?

I would like to come. She can't fool around with that. She's got a desperate need for 12 years. She's been haunted day and night with it, and she's been cast out as I say from the temple. Divorced her husband lost her family and she's an object of scorn as well as pity.

This is my one chance. I don't care what they do. Don't you think she was a marked woman ever after that. Don't you think she was marked for two reasons. Number one. She dared to do what no women did.

She pushed through the crowd and touched the greatest man living in the world the Son of God and Said but I'm desperate. There's only one place. You know I want to see conviction of sin where people can't sleep.

I'd rather Keep people away with prayer. It's better than they don't sleep for five nights and spend five billion years in hell not sleeping. I've been so disturbed move broken reading about hell. Nobody preaches about it anymore.