Revelation 19 (2 of 5) — Leonard Ravenhill

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready. Let us be glad. It doesn't say let them be glad. But even in this very hour in which we live we ought to be glad because at least we're heading.

But at least I trust all of us are heading for the the marriage. You know it seems to me that it's very significant here that neither the The names or the numbers of the guests invited to this wedding are mentioned here.

No names, no numbers just a statement. Give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb is come. Now I'm not going to attempt to describe this because nobody ever did. No one ever will because to try to describe the marriage supper of the lamb is is putting a strain on all language.

If you were able to switch from one language to the other there is no way of describing the Indescribable any more than you can fathom the infathomable. I think of the colored man who said one day I've got such a text.

I'm going to unscrew the unscrew inscrutable. Well, you can't even do that. This is beyond definition. It is certainly beyond description. Let us rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb is come and.

And His wife has made herself ready. Now this presupposes something that I only discovered actually this morning. You know well enough that this person here described is the king of kings and the Lord of Lords.

The Titles and Glory of Christ the Bridegroom

He has more titles than I can remember. He is the king of kings. He is the Lord of Lords. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the bright and morning star. He is the son of righteousness. He is the heavenly bridegroom.

He is the first and the last. He is described as a lamb and a lion. He's the Lamb of God. He's the lion of the tribe of Judah. He is a lamb because he is of course the king of meekness and he is described as a lion because of his majesty.

Now a king like that is going to have a wedding. He's going to have a marriage and since he is the king of kings He's going to have the bride of all brides. It's going to be the marriage supper of all marriage suppers.

And the man who had nowhere to lay his head at this time will will have inherited the whole earth. And the Word of God says that the whole earth shall be filled with his glory. I think it is essential as we sang in that lovely hymn, and I I certainly like that majestic hymn that we sang Just a few minutes ago.

Lo he comes with clouds descending now remember this of course. You know this that that no portion of the Bible is invalid. And then it seems to me that when Jesus makes testament in himself there's always an added luster to it.

Remember how the Apostle Paul talks about the the many Manifestations of the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. He was seen of 500 brethren at once he was seen of some going down a certain road.

And then he says last of all he was seen of me also now. That's that's a marvelous pyramid of truth. And then the capstone of it all is in the book of the revelation where he says I am he that liveth and was dead.

And behold I'm alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of hell. Well if you weren't Quakers you'd have said hallelujah, but I'll excuse you hmm. Maybe you're quaking on the inside. That's all right.

But isn't that a superb? Word that he gives us there. I am he that liveth and Was dead and behold I'm alive forevermore. So that speaks of eternal life, and he has the keys of death and of hell. Some people think an old bachelor in Rome has them.

He says he has the keys of the kingdom, but he's a liar anyhow. Jesus has the keys. And he's not going to surrender them any time anywhere to anybody. But remember the background of this whole book. In the first chapter of the revelation it says in verse 4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia.

Grace be unto and peace from him. Notice the Way that this is this crime not which was. But rather in the present tense from he which is and which was and which is to come now surely we would have said he who was and He who is and he who is to come, but here you've got it straight.

He is the Christ who is. He is the eternal I am. It is repeated again in the eighth verse. I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending the Lord which is and which was and which is to come. Now keep this in your mind.

Will you remember that whoever wins the election on Tuesday either of them are leading us down the road to world government. Mr.. Ford said last night you are the people who decide now. He's lying. He knows he doesn't even decide.

It's the insiders who desire who decide what's going in America that the president has no voice. Except to say yes, and no like the King of England Queen of England. The insiders are the authority not the president.

The Coming of Christ and the Final Resurrection

Now keep this as a background. Behold he cometh with clouds. Now I won't not be wonderful. Hmm he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and. Also, they which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him now.

That is the constant background of the book of the revelation. It doesn't matter how puzzling it seems it doesn't matter when you you're on a bloody battlefield like get some like The battle of Armageddon or in some other sphere remember the background is that he is alive forevermore.

He has the keys of the kingdom and That he's coming and every eye shall see him now. Don't think it means everybody living just now. It means everybody from Adam till the last person born the final resurrection.

The whole multitude which no man can number like the stars of heaven for multitude and like the sands of the seashore. That you can't count. Every eye shall see him. They didn't all get healed when Jesus was around in case you don't know.

If I'd have been like Jesus I'd have gone and healed the whole bunch. He went there one day to a gathering of paralytics and blind and lame and all the other bunch and he healed one and walked away. We couldn't have done that.

We don't wanted to show. We don't wanted a cloud to chase after us. But you know one day every eye it doesn't matter it's Fanny Crosby whose eyes were never opened. As long as she lived it won't make any difference.

One day every eye shall be open. The eyes of the blind shall be open. The ears of the deaf and stop the lay will leap as a heart and the tongue of the dumb sing. So I'll listen for you. The tongue of the dumb are going to sing that day all right.

I'll watch you very closely keep my eye right on Lady sitting in the middle there all right and the tongue of the dumb shall sing. Now I say again remember this presupposes something. You see there are other weddings of in the 22nd chapter of a 22nd chapter of Matthew.

There's a wedding in The 14th chapter of the gospel of Luke. There's a wedding now again. No number is given here. I don't know who's going to be at the wedding. And at least I don't know who the bride is.

Well, I'll be generous and honest and tell you I don't know who's going to the wedding even. Nobody's numbered nobody's named. It just says there's going to be a fantastic marriage one day. How long did you prepare for your wedding.

Oh I know some of you girls since you were six years old, but I mean Your parents how long. Oh she's going to get married now. Let's put this away. Let's save this let's do the other. The mother lives for that day the bride lives for that day.

Do you know God has been picking people from the beginning of the world for this marriage. Isn't it great you can't buy a ticket? Isn't it great that God isn't going to choose us by our social standing or intellectual standing or theological knowledge?

The Invitation to the Great Feast

You see do you remember that there's a feast made it's called a supper. And this man made a very elaborate spread and He sent for people to come and and eat at his feast and what did they do? He said there was a certain man made a great feast or a great supper, and he told many people to come.

He sent his servants out at supper time saying come for all things are now ready. And they all with one accord began to make excuse. Boy that sounds like today. Asked somebody in that talk to somebody about Jesus.

They'd more interest in the corn plaster. Asked them to come to the house of God where God furnishes a table. They're more interested in going to McDonald's. Asked them to get excited about the fact that one day he's going to put the key in every grave and it matters not whether It is a Caesar or a prostitute or a bishop or a bricklayer that one day every grave is gonna.

Because he has the keys of death and hell and they couldn't get excited if you put a firecracker under them. But if somebody gets a touchdown the cotton ball will rock with one side to the other with a thousand.

Man they sweat they they don't need to take something. You know they don't need to go dieting all they need to go football match. They can lose 20 pounds some of those guys they sweat and fuss and carry on.

You ask them to get excited about somebody being redeemed and they say so what somebody got sick. Well, you can hardly blame them and we don't get too excited about it anyhow, can you. Isn't it something that that here is a man he makes a very elaborate feast and somebody says hey come the feast is ready and he says You know what?

I'd like to come but frankly, yeah, I bought a piece of ground and it's the only chance I have to go see it. Well, he was of the earth earthy at any rate. Wasn't he he bought a piece of ground. I Say the feast ready and here's your ticket.

No, I bought ten oxen and I'm gonna try them. That's buying a pig in a bag. Did you ever buy cattle. You haven't seen he he made a bid on the oxen and he hadn't even seen the third man. I can understand him a bit.

He'd married a wife and She wouldn't let him go. She wasn't in subjection. All right, and she he'd married a wife and she said you can't go. Now that doesn't mean very much. Does it. It doesn't seem very much except when you realize that they not only rejected the host.

They rejected the cost. The banquet is ready. The feast is spread. No, no, of course. I I know I'll have to eat. Oh My. I Wonder how fat you would be pardon me I wonder how overweight you would be if you ate as much of the Bible as you eat of food.

Hmm. Man, we can go days without reading the Bible, but we can't go along without food. What a bless. Oh, it was another beatitude. Blessed is the man who invented McDonald's. I mean, you know when you're down the road you can always slip in there and if you can't get in there you can get a Whopper a bit further down the road and if you miss that you can get a taco or something.

What a blessing. There's so much food. We really dig our graves with our teeth. Don't we this man is going to eat all right, but you see he's going to put it off. This man isn't going to be looking at cattle all his life, but it's.

There's something more important just now of an eating. I've got to go test those cattle well apply it to the spiritual realm. Again I say he's not just rejecting the invitation. This man says do those stupid people know what I paid for this.

I didn't even have enough money. And so I went and borrowed money and I spent it and this is the gratitude you get for it. I'm so he said listen. Let me tell you this not one person that I invited is coming to the feast.

Not one go out into the highways and byways and compel them to come in. Now some people interpret this as the fact that of course the select people of God were the Jews and You remember what they did.

They wouldn't accept the prophets. They stoned them. God made the last effort and he sent his only begotten Son and they said this is this is the heir come. Let's kill him if we kill this one. You know the old Pharaoh isn't gonna bother with us anymore and remember when those poor stupid people in Jerusalem thought that they'd rejected the Son of God and He turned round and said just a minute just a minute want to tell you something you haven't rejected me.

I've rejected you. Your house is left desolate. For 2 ,000 years the Jews have been kicked around the world and nobody's bothered too much whether they were liquidated in Buchenwald and Dachau and elsewhere they've suffered an awful lot for their rejection the 2 ,000 year bill that they've been paying and the end is not yet.

They're still gonna get rejected. I think they'll still get kicked out of Israel once more before they stay there finally. And then the awful awesome battle of Armageddon which isn't too far off as you read this book.

But all right, the man has made a feast and they reject it. They don't want to eat. They don't want to drink. They don't want to be married. They don't want to sing. I've got a lot of material things on hand.

I must go see that piece of land. I Must go try that oxen. I Mustn't hurt the feelings of my wife in this situation. And the Lord says get out the whole bunch of you you haven't offered one reason only excuses.

Now by the same token, how do you think God feels when men and women reject his redemption? See the Savior long expected now in solemn ponder pray and the Saints by men rejected. Could you see them popping out of the graves.

Can you see a man saying burn this hand first because I signed my recantation with this. Can you see him turning to Ridley as Latimer and Hitler Ridley a burn to death in it at the stake in England and say cheer Up master.

This is very short. Remember eternity is very long. All these Saints are coming marching in one day. Why because they went to the banquet God prepared. He'd given the law he'd given the prophets. He'd given his only son and Israel rejected it all the Jews rejected it and so he brought the in the in the the Gentiles and He's been spreading that feast ever since.

Rejecting Christ and the Cost of Salvation

You see if you reject Jesus Christ as he comes knocking at the door of your heart. Remember this. You're not rejecting just the raw Knocking of that door. Remember this you're you're rejecting all the years of preparation God May you're rejecting a council chamber in eternity before he put the stars together and before the feet trees of the fields clap their hands.

Before the world was framed somewhere in eternity. There's a council meeting and The father son and the Holy Ghost said let us make man and at some point in that amazing hidden mystery Jesus offered to be the propitiation for our sins and The man who rejects rejects the sufferings of Christ.

You reject all the teaching the New Testament as well as the Son of God, but if you reject him you reject his teaching. You reject not only his teaching you you you reject shall I say his torment. In the garden of Gethsemane and and in the agony of the cross.

You reject his triumph because he rose again from the dead. You reject his promises for after all let's let's think about this fact here that the Christ here is Spoken of. As the King of Kings and Lord will you remember this look?

The Son of God is going to terminate all history. He's the fulfillment of all prophecy. He is the ruler of all eternity. Then why in God's name you reject him? Hey supposing Pontius Pilate could sit on that seat where you are this afternoon.

What do you think he'd do hmm? Supposing Caiaphas could rise from the dead and sit on that hard seat you're on. Do you think I'd have to beg him twice to yield his life to Jesus Christ? Do you think I if I could go to Judas and see him itching there?

As he threw down that money and said surely surely I've shed innocent blood. Or the Roman soldier that said this is the Son of God. Do you know that seat that you're sitting in this afternoon is worth a million dollars times a million dollars?

I'm more than that you're right brother. Herb love you woke up. I've spoke up. Worth more than a million million dollars. Man if old father Rockefeller bony old Rockefeller went to his grave at 95 if he could sit where you said he'd give it a dime.

We have a run to it to get redemption this afternoon. There isn't a man who hit it as we say with success whether he's a footballer or an inventor or a genius or some other. Kind you've been talking about Beethoven and Chopin and Mendelssohn and the whole rest of them.

And man I wouldn't have mentioned half of what I mentioned this afternoon. They'd have been running to this author weeping and wailing and saying let me find him. Let me know him unto know his life eternal.

As I say you can blame the modern preachers for a lot of things. But they've done one thing no other race of preachers ever done. They've managed to make Christianity dull. Our professors poor dead dumb creatures.

They are I. Be preaching to a whole bunch of them before long all PhDs, and you know they don't worry me a hill of beans. I don't care a hill of beans if they're professors, and they've gold medals as big as frying pans.

They wouldn't worry me. If God gives me a message they may be need it more than anybody even a student sitting behind them. Man the most electrifying thing in the world is the fact. That you and I as we sing so often I know in whom I have believed and I'm persuaded he is able to keep that which is not amazing.

He's keeping that that you committed to him. Hmm. It wasn't a million dollars. It was your eternal soul, and you know what he's committed himself. Then he'll keep you in that great day of judgment when you stand before him.

It doesn't matter if your record's a mile long. You remember one of those days when Martin Luther had the depression he was sitting in his cell. And he said the devil came in. And he started writing on the wall.

And he wrote all my sins. I'd forgotten them. Sins of the flesh sins of the spirit sins of youth sins of manhood and he wrote round the other wall. And he wrote right and he went on and he wrote and he wrote and he wrote.

He covered the walls he covered the ceiling. He'd almost filled the whole place with all my sins and he stopped he said I said to him. Well Lucifer, why did you quit writing? Oh, he said mr. Luther I I I couldn't dredge up any more sins you ever committed.

Well, then he said keep writing. I told you there's nothing to write. There's just one thing to write. What is that? He said right over all of them the blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanseth us from all sin.

There is no record. I know in whom I have belief and we're inviting people that they can escape Condemnation they can escape hell they can escape all the final judgments of God for sin. And yet they say no, no, no, no, no.

The Danger of Delayed Repentance

Do you remember like Felix? He said some more convenient day. Or almost persuaded. I'm almost persuaded but you see I may be promoted in the Roman Empire. You see there's so much hanging on this if I step out of this fear into this I I step out of splendor and and and all the success of life and I follow a man that you say died and rose.

Again, it's incredible. You even asked me it's an insult to my intelligence and he says wait a minute, sir. You belong to a kingdom that perishes and he has an everlasting kingdom. Your Caesar will die, but Christ will never die.

There'll come a time when the Roman Empire is dissolved, but his kingdom never fails. He rules over earth and he rules over hell. Almost persuaded now to believe. Almost persuaded Christ to receive seems now some soul to say go spirit go thy way some more convenient day.

Or you're too smart to go to hell. You've made up your mind. You're gonna get saved. You're gonna you're gonna gamble. You're gonna get saved at 11 o 'clock. You're gonna you're gonna be like the dying thief.

He got saved in the 11th hour. I've got news for you. You'll die at half-past 10. You think you're gonna keep an eternal God waiting knocking at the door of your heart. No, sir I pray they have me excused.

Why? Why don't you want to be saved? Come on, give me an intelligent answer. Why don't you want to be saved if you're not saved you can't offer me one valid reason. You might offer me ten excuses. You can't offer me one sensible reason for rejecting the Son of God.

Not one. Why do you reject? Well, do you remember that Pilate said? When he said well, uh, they said we don't want this man. Pilate gave a very interesting answer there and I've never heard anybody preaching it that I remember he said, but ye have a custom.

I thought of it when Bobby chose that hymn today. Customs of life, fashions of life, pleasures of life. They cheat us. Are you saved? You're back for it. All right. Well, let's we'll pray with you at the end of the meeting.

Worldly Customs That Keep People from Christ

Jesus he's the pilot says. Ye have a custom. What's a custom? I mean you have a custom in the house, don't you? You say grace. Do you say in the restaurant? Lady nods her head. Thank you. It's convenient to wear glasses when in a restaurant.

Notice how many people take the glasses off and do this just before dinner. Tell you my friend who was out with a very famous man. You all know his name. He wrote one of the great modern songs over in a restaurant in California.

They sat down to this ten or fifteen dollar Lunch and This very famous man just whipped off his glasses wiped his eyes started eating. My friend's friend said hey just a minute. Let's say good. I said it when.

Well, did you see me just now? Oh. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was a bluff. You wanted you wanted people to think you're wiping your eyes. Well, then he said you say great. So he took out his handkerchief and spread it on the floor in this fashionable restaurant.

Heavenly Father shut up huh, oh. You say well, but don't embarrass me. I mean, you know like whisper it. Let's be very careful of it. I mean, it's an awful thing to say. Thank you. You know. It's disgraceful to offer a petition in a place where I don't know they might be drinking liquor at the next table at smoking.

And you say well, and then you would split very slowly. Be nice if we stood up in some fashion of a restaurant one day and said just a minute. Let's everybody sing praise God from whom all blessings flow.

You might get thrown out, but it would be nice anyhow. Why aren't you a Christian because of a custom? So some some habit that binds you which is accepted with other people and yet. It's that one thing that keeps you from the Son of God because of conscience.

Conscience, Conviction, and Spiritual Suicide

You remember in the is it in the holy war? I Hope you're all reading Bunyan to your children. If you aren't you should be and after that read the holy war after you've read Pilgrim's Progress. He calls the heart of man the town of Mansoul.

He says it's under the under the dominion of Diabolus. Which is a which is not the name for the devil. And he says there are times when mr. Conscience gets so trouble that that he begins to scream out in terror and.

When he does he says. Then mr. Diabolus wants to wants to gag him. And put him down in a dark room and keep him from crying out. But he has an awful job to do it. He calls Bunyan calls Conscience he gives names to everything doesn't he mr.

Two-faced? That's for church members and. Then he has another one. He calls mr. Recorder conscience, you know conscience conscience conscience. You try and dull it you try and take the edge off it. You get into the place.

It doesn't trouble you as much as it did, you know, you can steal a penny. It doesn't trouble you and then you steal a little more and before long. You're an expert thief you tell a little lie and cover it with a big one and before long you're an expert liar.

Conscience has been drowned. And yet I want to tell you something. Your conscience will be the most alive part of you if you should go to an everlasting hell, you know that. Why did a man in perdition cry out?

Hmm good. Okay. Hold your peace for a minute. Let's pray with you after but listen what what made conscience? What made a man cry out conscience did it? What made Ahab say has thou found me or mine enemy?

Conscience did it the little inward monitor in the soul of a man? And you've got to struggle a long while with that. You know, we think a man commits suicide when he swings on the end of a rope or shoots himself.

Do you know that a people commit spiritual suicide in nearly every meeting where God the Holy Ghost is? God has no obligation to come to another day after this afternoon. Not once He offered these people a seat at the banquet.

They rejected it. He says see this bar the door. Don't let one of them ever come in again. We say sometimes well some more convenient day. You're not the Word of God says CT the Lord. While he may be found I'll tell you this some men die in agony trying to find God and God walks out and leaves them in hell before they get.

There he has an obligation. Or in mercy he does come again and again to many but by the same token he's an obligation to come. No, I can't come because I married a wife. I can't come because I have some territory that I bought.

I can't come because I have some yoke of oxen and so forth and so on. Until a man has made his peace with God until he's been to that feast. Which a hymn writer calls the feast of love. Until he's come as a sinner broken.

Confessing he is a sinner. He can't go to the marriage supper of the Lamb. He must first come to the supper which is open for sinners. And isn't it wonderful when the elect select wouldn't come. The good master says well.

Do you know what you don't think. I'm gonna waste a feast like this. Go after the harlots go after the drunks go after the lame. Go after everybody that will come and bring them in and tell them the feast is free.

Well, if it hadn't have been you wouldn't have got there. So cheer up. If you needed a son of nanny if you needed social standing if you needed intellectual qualifications you may have been as far off as I was or Would be.

But he says come and whosoever will boy. That's a big word. When we were children we used to try and find the longest word in the dictionary you play at that. You're more sophisticated. One lady must be as old as me.

She isn't but she's not all right. You know the longest word we found was anti Disestablishment erinism that's quite a word. We used to kick a lot of that's not the longest with the longest word is whosoever and wheresoever and whatsoever I Like Paul's word in in the second of Corinthians verse well to Corinthians 517 where he he puts a great big sign over the door.

You see the Jews thought they had a monopoly of God and that's why they got Jesus. They got mad with Jesus. Jesus says whosoever will let him come and drink of the water of life freely. And the Apostle Paul says in to conic in in to Corinthians 517 that whosoever Shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved whosoever.

Wheresoever and whatsoever if any man be in Christ not not some men any man be in Christ their new creation. All things are passed away and all things have become new. Well then having been to that wedding and remember if you go to the 22nd chapter of Matthew.

There's a wedding there and somehow some man slipped in without a wedding garment. Get out and then preceding that story of the of the supper in the 14th of Luke there. It reminds us that when you go to a feast it says take the lowest place.

The Wedding Garment and Righteousness

Did you ever go to a banquet and see how near you were to the head table? Hmm. Oh, I've seen people do that say wait, did you happen? Would you slip up there and Would you see if we're on the first table or the second table and he says sir you're on the end.

The end table. Yeah. Yes. There's another Williams, but I'm mr. BJ Williams not mr. JB Williams. Have you got it straight and he goes and says yes, mr. JB Williams is up on the on the table of honor. Mr. BJ Oh My god a man got there.

Do you know when we get there all our self-esteem will be blown to smithereens. No, sir, II if you and I don't have a wedding garment. You may know all the theology in the world and you know. It may Bible text you may know them backwards way and you may have prayed the church organ not here but somewhere else and.

But you won't get in because of that you see the only one that gets in is the one that has a wedding garment and. And that's the garment which is given to us a garment of righteousness. Which will match the crown of righteousness Paul speaks of which he says the Lord is going to give us in that last day.

Now What I'm interested in this afternoon Is to go back to the second chapter. Or is it the third? It's the third. I guess he's talking to which church here Philadelphia. Let me go further the last church.

Verse 14 unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans right these things saith the Amen. The faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God. I know thy works thou art neither hot nor cold.

So then because art neither hot nor cold I will spew the out vomit the out of my mouth. Now notice. This is to the church. It's not to the sinners to. Because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and of need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

I counsel thee to buy of me goat. Now this is to a church. Will you remember this? This is the last church. The other church is the church at Ephesus we say so often. Well the church at Ephesus had lost her first love.

No she had not. No she had not. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says the church at Ephesus left her first love. She didn't lose it she left it. She made up her mind to go second-class spirituality.

She found another love as well as a love for God, but when you come to the Laodicean church, it's the seventh. It's the last church. This is the Laodicean age in which we're living. There is not a word of compliment to the church at Laodicea not compliment.

Complaint. Complaint. Oh. She doesn't say that. She lives in Laodicea. There were three things that made Laodicea rich. One. They had the greatest gold exchange in the world too. They made the most beautiful clothes in the world.

And three. They had something that they ground to a powder and it made eyes solve. Do you see the irony of this? This church is strutting and listen to what she says. I'm rich. I'm increased in goods.

I've need of nothing now. That was a definition of herself. You see she got so lost in the materialism round about her. Instead of the church affecting the world the world had come into the church like it has today.

It's materialistic. It's worldly. Because he doesn't have the joy of the Lord. You've got us clowns and all the other trimmings and concerts in the house of God God's name. Let's be honest. The Word of God says in my presence is fullness of joy.

I Don't think it means you're excited and you have a smile from ear to ear. There are times when I think the sanctuary should be filled with groans and sobs and sorrows. We sang this afternoon one of the greatest hymns man of sorrows.

What a name. I can't get too thrilled about that in the sense of feeling joyful. I feel the awesomeness. He was a man of sorrows. Why did I might have joy? He was an outcast and I might be brought in.

He was poor but I might be rich. And this church says you see we live in Laodicea it happens to be the gold capital of the world and We want you to know we don't take any offerings in our church because we've so many millionaires support us.

We're rich and increased in goods. And we have need of nothing. You know, I can't get over a picture I got in prayer one day about that church. The church is always described in the New Testament as a woman not as a man as a woman because she should bring to birth.

And she says to herself Well, I'll tell you what. I'm the last of the churches and I'll tell you something else. I'm the greatest and there's never been a church as right. You should see my people come to church.