Three-Fold Vision - Part 2 — Leonard Ravenhill

King Uzziah’s Early Faithfulness and Prosperity

There was some searching stuff said this morning we all need to reconsider. In the year that King Uzziah died, let me say this quickly, what do you know about King Uzziah? I'll give you his life story in a few words.

Look at the second chapter of Chronicles, chapter 26, and read from verse 1. Let me read it quickly. All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years of age. What's your boy at 16 doing? Gathering baseball cards?

He's 16 years of age. It's mentioned again in verse 3. He was 16 years of age when he began to reign. He reigned 52 years. What's 16 and 52? Come on, 68? Look at verse 4. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amazigh did.

He sought God in the days of Zechariah and had understanding of visions of God. He had that at 16 years of age. He understood God. He understood visions of God. He sought other men of the prophets like Isaiah.

He sought Zechariah. Can you imagine him asking counsel of these amazing men? Now let me read this quickly to the end of that same verse. It says as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.

He went forth against the Philistines. Verse 7. God held him against the Philistines, against the Arabians, against the Gerber, the Mehunim, and the Amorites gave to Amazigh all these things. Then go on and read.

What did he do? He raised the economy of the nation like no other king had ever done. They raised the peak of their standard of living. They had the greatest armies. Not only that, he had wisdom. Look, it says in verse 15.

He made Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men. And he built towers and bulwarks to shoot arrows and stones. Remember, they had wooden cities. And they hurled against those wooden cities tremendous slabs of stone.

And look what it says. His name spread far abroad. He was marvelously helped till he was strong. But when he became strong, his heart was lifted up to vanity. And he went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense.

Prosperity, Pride, and the Fall of Uzziah

Don't you say this? And he said, I got all the doctors together. They all bowed down to me. I got all the economists and they bowed down. I got all the rulers, the theologians, they bowed down. I got all the political people, they bowed down.

Now I'm going to the temple. I mean, I'm the big shot on earth. He was helped until... Many of us can stand adversity. We fight over. We can't stand prosperity. One of my heroes is Dave Wilkerson. My dear wife and boys.

And Nancy, we were with Dave 30 years ago when nobody knew him. But since then, God has poured blessing on him. He's one of the most courted men in the world. He was in my office. He told me he spent $60 million cash buying a church building.

He spent another building a million dollars. Another one two dollars. But nothing has spoiled him. And he still retains his integrity. You know, it's one of the few churches that I hope people go up there.

I was amazed when I got there. There were more people at the altar before the meeting than after. They were praying down the power. You were wondering, God's name. You could almost go to hell and preach.

If it's all that battery of preaching. Sometimes he doesn't make an altar call. He said, by the way, the prayer meeting he said, I said, listen, we're going to sing. I'm going to give an exhortation. And I'm going to say pray.

And he said, Len, they pray in 62 languages. All at the same time. It doesn't confuse God. I said, you pray in tongues. Sure. Those are all Japanese. Those are all people from Vietnam. Those are all people from other countries.

62 languages. No other church in America does that. He said, if God convicts you, don't come and kneel at the front here. Turn around and talk to people. So one man, the man comes down. He says, well, I've got something to say.

David says, turn around and say. Here's millionaires, multimillionaires, street girls, criminals. All in that audience. And the man turns around and looks at them and tremblingly says, I lived in New York and I murdered 10 people when I was here.

I dismembered 4 prostitutes when I was here. David says, all right, come and see me at the DA tomorrow. And they took him to the DA's office. The DA said, well, I can't touch you. There are certain laws that don't allow me.

A few weeks after, a man came forward. I thought he was virtuous. He said, I didn't kill 10 people. I only killed 4. I didn't chop 4 women up. I only chopped 2 up. And that goes on nightly in New York and big cities.

And we go to sleep. And God looks from heaven and sees the church asleep. David goes down to the gutter most and the upper most. It's one church that makes me proud. I'm not just proud. I know him. I know him as a personal friend.

I've shared many tremendous things with him. But there's something eaten into the heart of that man that he goes there and pours out his life. This same thing happened here. Can you imagine everybody saying, we've got the most wonderful king in the world.

He's a whiz kid. He's raised the economy. Industry has changed. All the farming has changed. Education has changed. Everything he touches is going to go. This wonderful kid, of course he's getting older now.

Then he suddenly decides he'll take the church on. What does he say? Verse 16 says, When he was strong, his heart was lifted up to destruction. He transgressed against the Lord his God and went to the temple of the Lord to burn incense.

And Azariah the priest went after him and with him four score priests. That's four score in one night. Eighty-one men jumped on this man. He must have been demon possessed. He tossed it all off. Off and he was going to burn incense.

What happened? Do you see it? In the year that King Uzziah died. Uzziah is my idol. Uzziah is the greatest man that ever lived in this country. Uzziah has changed the economy. Uzziah has changed our style of living.

He's the wizard. He's the greatest guy we ever had. All the nation was turned to him. But God is a jealous God. You see the trouble with Azariah. God is eyes on Uzziah. And in the year that King Uzziah died.

Can you imagine? Everybody sees this man going into the temple. Have you heard the news? He fell dead. What a brilliant king. We can't live without it. We'll have to. Do you remember some guys were going to turn this country around a few years ago?

They had what I call religious humanism. They were the model majority. They were going to turn the country around. No sirree. If America is ever turned around, God will turn it around. Nobody else will.

National Reform, Religious Humanism, and the Need for Prayer

This fellow won't go along. I heard this story the other day. There's a barber shop in Alabama with a sign outside. Haircuts. $200 while they last. After that $6 .50. What's an arrogant man do like that?

Listen, it's not the trouble in the White House. It's the trouble in God's house. Oh, they're all going to get together in 1994. With King Cho or somebody. And they're going to have 40 days of fasting.

Why in God's name don't we have it now? Is it a showpiece? Who lies all night between the altar and the doorpost? The deacons will kick you out. Now let me say this quickly. It's a terrible thing. Do you know the same thing that happened in 65 B .C.?

The famous ruler of that day was Julius Caesar. And he got friendly with Pompey. And Pompey married the sister of Julius Caesar. And he became more famous as a leader. Pompey became more famous in Rome than Julius Caesar.

So Julius Caesar banished him to the ends of the earth. Which happened to be Israel. And he went there with ships loaded and horses. Horses with skirts, or you'll call saddle cloths. Beautifully embroidered.

The men wore breastplates. And on their heads they had helmets with feathers and all the show. And all the people came out to see them. And then one day, when they looked around the city. Pompey said, what's that building there?

Oh, that's the house of God. What do you mean God? We've got many gods in our country. No, that's the God that made heaven and earth. He lives in there, yes. Well, I'll go there tomorrow. Do you know 3 ,000 people followed him?

They fell on their knees and cried, don't go in, don't go in. You sighed, did that mean die? Oh, I'm a Roman general. He went to the temple, they tried to resist it. Okay, Dr. Who was it now? Dr. Dr. Critchwell has a book.

He describes this king coming down. He comes through the court of the Gentiles. He comes through the court of Israel. He comes through the court of women. He comes through the court of women. Then he comes up a big curtain.

That's at least six inches thick. Well, what's that? Oh, that's the curtain behind that. That's the holiest of all. That's where God lives. Tear it on one side. So they struggle with it and they pull it on one side.

And he expected to see blinding glory. There was nothing there. And Pompey exploded. He said, I came all this way. You tell me your God is there and he's not there to see me. It's total darkness. And he blazed off in his anger.

The Absent Presence of God in the Modern Church

Where is God? Where is God? Where is God? What do you do with the modern church? You come to the tennis court and the volleyball court and the other courts. And teenagers come to find God in a sanctuary.

He isn't there. We're trying to worship a God that isn't there. How many times do people call me and say, Mr. Raymond, there's something wrong in our church. There's somebody, something missing in it.

Not something, somebody. Can you have a dead meeting if the living God is there? Did you ever see a wet eyed preacher preach a dry sermon? Nobody will teach you to weep except the Holy Ghost. I've prayed with Dave Wilkerson and seen tears run down his face when we knelt in his office together, praying for the next move of God to move, as we would at that time, living in, down in dirty old Brooklyn.

I don't know a man until I've prayed with him. I know some of the great so-called prophets. No, I don't know a single prophet. Prophets don't go into big posh hotels and have nice meetings. Prophets go to the highways and byways.

I'd like to see somebody stand on the steps of the, of the, what do you call it, the Capitol and raise his hand and say like, Elijah, there'll be no rain for these years. They don't do that. I know where you come from.

Anybody knows that. But God's going to raise up those men. All right, what did he do? He had a vision. He had an upward vision of deity, an inward vision of depravity, an outward vision of beauty, an upward vision of the holiness of God, an inward vision of the helplessness of himself, an outward vision of hopelessness.

What is holiness? Holiness is soul health. What does Wesley say? To perfect health, restore my soul, to perfect wholeness and love. All right, I'm going to hurry up. Get through this. What is the greatest need of the hour?

The Holy Spirit’s Fire and the Necessity of Revival

You can't buy it, you can't organize it. It's for the Holy Ghost to come. And as David said this morning, he doesn't dwell in a temple made with ants. He doesn't go in a super mega church with 6 ,000 seats.

He doesn't go to Westminster Abbey. He doesn't go to St. Paul's Cathedral. He finds men. He found a little man in China once by the name of John Sung. Wherever John Sung went, he had revival. He found an American by the name of Jonathan Goldforth.

Wherever Goldforth went, there was revival. God inhabited the man and dispossessed him of all he had. Okay. One of the recurring things in the diary of John Wesley is that about a quarter to nine on the 24th of May, 1738, suddenly the Holy Spirit came.

Here's a man of impeccable morality. He's a scholar. He's a gentleman. He's a teacher at Oxford University. And suddenly the Holy Ghost came upon him. And he was born again of the Spirit of God. It gives you the time about a quarter to nine, the 24th of May, 1738.

The fire of God fell. And the world was different. Jesus talked to 500 brethren at once. I think they were all invited to the upper room, but only 120 came. Yet the 320 went. 380 talked about the miracles Jesus did and everything.

But these men said, I need God more than anything else. Just think quickly. You think of all the... I forget the exact number, but it says, King Solomon made 120 ,000 altars for sheep. Another 70 ,000 altars for animals.

And nothing happened. People said, look at all those animals. They make good food. Look at all the priests standing there. Nothing happened until he prayed again and the fire fell. Then what happened?

Elijah is on Mount Carmel. I don't know how many million people were there. Nobody does. The royal family was there. Ahab was there. Jezebel was there. The royal people were there. And here is a man of God alone.

And he says, the God that answers my fire. Let him be God. And suddenly the fire came. But the fire didn't just eat the sacrifice. It licked up the water. It licked up the dust. It licked up the stones.

There are stones over there in Hawaii. They've been there since creation. But when they had a recent earthquake, they melted and flowed down the hill. If you've done anything else, there's nowhere else to destroy them.

But the fire did it. No wonder William Booth, all he had was an old wife, well too old. See the curvature of the spine. He steps in the gutter. He's a half Jew and half gentle. And he wrote the battle hymn of the Salvation Army.

Thou Christ of burning, cleansing flames, send the fire. Thy blood-born gift today we claim. Send the fire. Look down and see this waiting host. Give us the promised Holy Ghost. I believe in child evangelism to a degree.

I do not believe in child evangelists. Oh, our church is sending six teenagers. Why, God, they've defeated themselves. I see a newspaper and it says there's a Japanese girl coming to the Carnegie Hall.

She's 14 years of age. You say to her, play Paganini and she'll play this. Play that and she knows everything. And she stands there and does it. She's 14 years of age. Then she goes off in the Carnegie Hall next week.

A boy comes from Poland. He's the greatest pianist since Paderewski. So you've got children that are leading the world in music. You've got children leading the world in some other sciences. But you don't find a 14-year-old boy going to, what do they advertise for?

We want a few good men, who are they? The Marines. You don't find a 14-year-old boy in the Marines. Sure, I'd like to see a girl play the violin that makes the world stagger. She's 14. She spends 10 hours a day.

I was reading the live story of, the other night at 2 o 'clock in the morning, actually, of the new study that's come out on Jonathan Edwards, the greatest brain that America ever had. What does it say?

I thought about Todd David. And Paul too. Oh, Jonathan Edwards preached one sermon on sinners in the hands of an angry God, but he prayed 500 on love. Said no dimensions. Do you know what he did? The night before he prayed sinners in the hands of an angry God, he gathered the most prayerful people in town and many of them for a week and fasted.

You can't have revival without travail. Do you know what Jonathan Edwards did when others were riding horses and having fun? He read his Bible 13 hours a day. He made himself available to God. Tear down.

Holiness, Vision, and the Call to Go Beyond

I've prayed it hundreds of times. God, don't let anything live in me that should die. Don't let anything die in me that should live. Don't narrow my vision, stretch my vision. I'm going to eternity with God.

Eternity, as you heard this morning, is the habitation of God. You read up. There are 66 books in the Bible. There are 66 chapters in Isaiah. You know where the Bible is divided? Well, Isaiah is divided the same way.

Read how many times in the first section, at least 12 times the holiness of God is mentioned. In the second section, 17 times the holiness of God. God is holy. Somebody said, 200 great holiness preachers in America.

Every time you open the Bible it's holiness. He did this, look. He said, You don't have to open it. It's on the cover. One thing we don't do in America. The only one of the Ten Commandments we remember.

Remember, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. People go shopping on Sunday. They go to Canton Fair. Find all the bargains. I wouldn't, you couldn't take me out to dinner on Sunday. I wouldn't go.

I'd like a new car. I wouldn't go with you on Sunday to buy it. I keep the Sabbath high because God says keep it. Remember Sabbath day to keep it. God gives you six other days. Can you shop six other days?

God only asks for one day a week. No. When the Holy Ghost comes, every day is a holy day. I don't want to be holy on Sundays for an hour. I want to live a holy life, a pure life, a clean life. That comes alive.

And I've met people this last few months by telephone, by letter, by my office door swinging open all the time. There's something more. There's something more. There's something more. I'll say two things in quick.

When those big lumbering galleons of Spain pulled out from Spain on the ebb tide, there's nowhere else to go, they disappeared over the horizon. On the coins of Spain at that time it said this, me plus ultra.

Me, N-E, plus ultra. No more beyond. Because ships had gone out, never come back. But then kilomers came back. When kilomers came back, they changed the coins. They issued new coins and left me off. And so it read instead of me plus ultra, no more beyond, it read more beyond.

Some of you got out of Egypt, but did Egypt get out of you? Dear God, it moves me to tears. How many people went into the promised land? Even Moses didn't make it. Maybe a million people or more went out of Egypt.

But how many went to the promised land? How many of us possess our possessions? You're a child of God. Oh, I'm only a human. Forget it. God says if you're born again, you're the best one to honor. God says if you're born again, you're an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ.

You have every right to have dominion over sin, sickness, but the power of God, and live a life of victory and power in the Spirit of God. More than conquerors, through him that loved us. Not Christ in history, or Christ in heaven merely, but Christ liveth in me.

Prayer, Travail, and the Indwelling Christ

I was trying to, I thought I knew worse. By the way, you can't buy this book. If you want it, a thousand dollars, you can have it. And I'll give it permission. But you can order a book from Jack. Dr. Towles put many of these great hymns together, particular favors.

But I was looking for a hymn I thought I knew well enough, and I couldn't find it. Charles Wesley says this, Come Jesus Lord with holy fire. Come and my quickened heart inspire. Cleanse in thy precious blood.

Now to my soul thy self reveal. Thy mighty working let me feel, since I'm born of God. Then he says this. Let me go back a second. What does this say? The cherubim couldn't look on God. They had six wings.

With two they covered their eyes. They couldn't bear to see the holiness of God. With two they covered themselves. They couldn't bear the holiness of God to touch them. And with two they flew away. It reminds me of Psalm 80.

Do you remember it? O thou that dwellest between the cherubims, come down. Three times in that psalm. Cause thy face to shine upon us. If God smiles on me, do I care who frowns on me? If God loves me, do I care who hates me?

If God whispers in my heart, I'm walking the light, do I care what somebody else says about me? Because I don't do miracles and raise the dead, forget it. Do you get what Wesley says? This fabulous preacher, this man of impeccable morality, this great scholar, less than myself, O do not give.

You didn't ask God for that, did you? You asked God for tons and he gave you what you asked for. He asked your blessing, he gave you a blessing. Do you think that makes God happy? He's looking to make you his habitation.

You don't go to bed when you want. I suddenly woke up this last five or six years. I go to bed at nine o 'clock at night. I get up at twelve. I get two or three or four hours study. The phone doesn't ring.

People don't tell me. I've had the best times with God, particularly reading 1st and 2nd Epistle to Paul to I better drink this or somebody will get disappointed. Not very good. Tell me, do you think you could really tonight stand in invasion of God, he'd tear away your vanity?

Maybe your whole business is you love to see your lovely self in the glass. Do you ever see yourself in the mirror? Okay. Do you remember the church in the book of the Revelation? Oh, young people say, I'm going to fulfill the Great Commission.

What is it? I don't know. Oh yes, Jesus said go ye into all the world. He said that to the twelve. It's the last word of Jesus. Not the last word of Jesus. It's the last word of Jesus to the twelve. The last word of Jesus in the book of the Revelation seven times.

Repent. Repent. Repent. Supposing the Holy Ghost came tonight. That's what I pen for, don't I? Well, I've got a pencil in my hand. Supposing the Holy Ghost comes. Let it be Mr. Marcus. If you have bitterness in your heart, and unbelief, he puts a black cross on your forehead.

If you have an undergiving spirit, he puts a blue cross there. If you have a jealous spirit, he puts a yellow cross there. If you have an envious spirit, he puts another one. He doesn't do that. He doesn't deal with us as he did with Miriam for gossiping.

Isaiah’s Vision of God’s Holiness

What does this man say? In the year the king is there, I saw the Lord. Maybe nobody else did, but he saw the Lord. And I said, Woe to Israel. No. Woe to the chief priest. No. Woe to the money makers. No.

Woe is me. I'm undone. We all know what's wrong with the other person. What's wrong with you? Then what? Here is the altar. It's got strips of meth on it. It's a sacrifice. From the sacrifice, blood is dropping down onto a live coal.

You see a thousand bumper stickers. God is love, but God is fire. My God is the consuming fire. He's going to consume the world in fire one day. This is the only time in the Bible where cherubim, a man's cherubim, cherubims were put at the garden so they wouldn't go back in the garden of Eden.

They drove Adam and the other people away. But the cherubim comes with a pair of tongues. He takes a live coal from off the altar. The blood is dropping onto it. Symbolic of the cross. The live coal is blazing.

Symbolic of the Holy Ghost. I hate people that have the baptism. Forget it. Pin somebody. Will you baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire? Fire. William Booth says to his fire, We want the fire. Will you please send the fire?

The fire will meet our every need. We have a lovely fireplace in our house. In summertime we don't use the fire. But in winter I love to see a fire there. Fire is so wonderful. Friend, you don't need entertaining crowds with music.

All you need is a pulpit on fire because as my dear principal used to say to us, Gentlemen, you never have to advertise a fire. What happened when those illiterate men at Sousa Street, good God, had black hands?

God bring revival to America through a black man? They were hated like the devil then. Yet God comes on a Nazarene guy and all he had was a shoebox. I heard Dave Wilson say and he ducks his head into that shoebox.

He never looked up. He prayed and the Holy Ghost came. Do you know how the Holy Ghost came? People two blocks away coming down the street got under conviction. You don't need to sing Just As I Am 13 times.

I asked a man to go to a meeting. No, he said charismatic other churches have rituals. Every charismatic meeting is the same. Sing 14 choruses to him and then have a message. I'm not going. He didn't go.

We got into a rut. Do you know what a rut is? It's a grave with the ends knocked out. So if you're in a rut, you're in trouble. The great anointing with the Holy Ghost that David talks of. We don't talk about the beauty of holiness.

You can't worship God without it. How can you worship a holy God with bitterness in your heart and pride in your heart and cunniness. You think the prettiest doll that walks through. Everybody loves me.

I'm handsome. Forget it. The most beautiful woman ever led prayed. Well, I've never heard another one pray. Lord, six princes wanted to marry her. Madame Guillaume. Madame Guillaume said, Lord, take away my beauty.

He took away her beauty. He took away her husband. He took away her freedom. She was in a building with walls 30 feet thick. Think about the width of this. Why did they lock her up in there? She can't smash her way out.

What did she write when she was there? Oh, Lord, why do you treat me like this? I'm the greatest Christian. Oh, she wrote a little bird of my shut off from the fields of air, contended in this place to lie since God has placed me here.

Well, please the prisoner to be because my God is free to see. And I forget the other example. She talks about the bath. But she said, don't control me. Walls do not a prison make. Barriers, there's no barrier to God.

In other words, you can wall me and you can't roof me in. Why is not a Godless, most Godless Christian the world's important tonight? Bloody. Only half a leg, only one eye. They haven't had a decent meal.

They haven't had a bath for six months. They have to stand there and watch six men rape their wives. They thought a 13-year-old daughter, four or five men in turn would rape the precious little thing.

And God looks down and does nothing. Nobody's appointed a day when He will. Nobody's going to get by. At the judgment seat, I believe, Frank, there won't be rich and poor. There won't be great and small.

There won't be two kinds at the judgment. Those who are faithful and those who are unfaithful beat out faithful unto death. I think I'm weak, critically now. Weaker than I've ever been. I had a terrible disorder a month ago.

A sciatic nerve went wrong and I never outpainted my life like that. Oh, women say, women don't men don't outpaint men's lives. The greatest pain in the world is bringing a baby into the world. Not so.

The greatest pain in the world is traveling in Christ. What did Christ do? That's why you've no fruit in your church. You go to a meeting with some magic words. How can you be born? You haven't traveled.

If the blessed apostle with his colossal intellect and he wrote 14 epistles, if you get in Hebrews, if he says I travel night and day, then you Christ may be formed in you. Not that you may stop drinking and swearing and so forth.

Okay. He took a life coat off the altar. What did he touch? He touched him where he confessed I'm unclean. I think I'm weak, critically now. Weaker than I've ever been. I had a terrible disorder a month ago.

A sciatic nerve went wrong and I never outpainted my life like that. Oh, women said, women men are not praying for life. The greatest pain in the world is bringing a baby into the world. Not so. The greatest pain in the world is traveling in Christ.

What did Christ do? That's why you've no fruit in your church. You go to a meeting with some magic words. How can you be born? You haven't traveled. If the blessed apostle with his colossal intellect and he wrote 14 epistles, if you get in Hebrews, if he says I travel night and day that your Christ may be formed in you.

Not that you may stop drinking and swearing and so forth. Okay. He took a life coat off the altar. What did he touch? He touched him where he confessed I'm unclean. I'm unclean. Someday, Debbie's going to come back.

I may never come back. I don't know. But Debbie will come back. I hope he'll preach one day on circumcision. There's a physical circumcision. There's a circumcision of the lips. There's a circumcision of the ears.

Let him preach it to you. He took a life coat from off the altar. Your lips are very tender, aren't they? I'm often, I like tea and I like it hot. Only crazy people drink cold tea. Okay. I drink, and I often wonder when I take my, my precious wife used to do surgery and take things out of the sterilizer with her bare fingers.

Now she can boil an egg, throw the hot water off and lift the egg straight out with her finger. I can't do it. I need a pair of tongs or oven cloth so thick. But she's got her fingers immune to that bad.

Are you immune to the Holy Ghost? Are you fighting off the Holy Ghost? You know you're weak tonight. This has touched my lips. What did David say in Psalm 51? Lord open now my lips that my mouth may show forth thy praise.

What kind of lips have you tonight sister? Are you the biggest gossip in church? Do you tell silly jokes with these lips? Other people are dumb, they can't. Are you a critic? Are you bitter? How, what do these lips do?

Glorify God? Wesley says oh for a thousand tongues, if you have a thousand tongues you won't live. What a difference, and he comes and annoys me, finally. Every man I've read of and I don't care what your theologians say.

The Resurrection, Ascension, and Waiting for the Spirit

I know there's a team going around the world saying signs and wonders rule termination. I don't believe that, so I'd like to see them. Here's the greatest miracle ever happened. Jesus comes to breakfast.

My God what a breakfast. Somebody takes a piece of bread and breaks it. And Jesus very graciously Jesus very graciously takes a piece of bread. Do you think that man ever forgot the resurrected Christ there?

He takes a piece of bread and Jesus puts forth his hand and suddenly the man who offered him the bread sees a hole through his hand. It's the only hand in the world with a hole, he knows it's Jesus. And he turns to the man, he takes a piece of of the honeycomb and he says brother here and the man's terrified.

I noticed that hand had a hole in it. And he says Jesus please share my honeycomb. Isn't that enough to keep you going the rest of your life? To see Jesus alive? To eat with Jesus? To feed him? No Jesus, I'd wait.

No no, we don't need to wait Lord. We know you're Jesus. We know. We know we see you now. We see those marvelous eyes. We hear you talk. We've seen your hands with holes. We don't wait, wait, wait. You can't live on emotion next time.

Next greatest miracle that was ever performed, what did he do? He led them out as far as Bethany and they saw him ascend. That's the second greatest miracle. He's not arisen from the dead. He ascends.

They see him. They eat with him. They talk with him. And then they see him ascend. But he says tarry. You'll forget about this emotion. As David said you might have a sleep or something. And the next day, it's all gone.

You go in the upper room. That was the most exciting place on earth. Have you ever thought of the waiting? We've been here 46 days, only 4 days to go. Wake up next morning, hey only 3 days to go. 2 days, hey tomorrow, tomorrow, who's coming?

God. Not blessing. My goal is God himself. What did A .D. Simpson write in that wonderful hymn himself? Once it was a blessing now it is the Lord. Once it was a feeling now it is his word. Once his gift I want it now to give it all.

And so he goes on. A .D. Simpson will receive the Holy Ghost. What did he do? He sold his house. He sold his carriage. He had the largest ministry in Louisville. A 5 figure salary that nobody else in America had.

No preacher. And he went to New York and bought a piece of land and built a tabernacle. I preach in that tabernacle. Now when he was there of course. But he launched one man launched the Christian Missionary Alliance which now has 1200 missionaries.