Revival - God's Finger Pointing — Lou Sutera

We were down in Michigan, and a revival broke out in a little community of only 250 people. How do you like it? A community of 250 people in a church where they only had 250 or 300 people attending. And God started to work.

People came in from the country, you know, a rural setting. And God started to work, and people started to come from everywhere, and they jammed 900 people in that little building. What a time, everywhere.

And Mel Johnson, the man who speaks on the radio, Christian Radio Stations, his program Tips for Teens, he has that 15-minute program around the world. I don't know how many radio stations he's on. He was holding meetings 30 miles away, a friend of ours, and he heard what God was doing, and when he'd get finished his meeting, 30 miles away, he'd get in his car and he'd drive across the countryside to come to see what was happening, because he had heard God had moved in in such a way that we couldn't even get to preach until about 10 o 'clock at night.

I'd start preaching quarter to ten at night, and here comes Mel Johnson into that revival two nights in a row. And on the second night, he'd arrive about 9 .15 after his meeting was over and drive 30 miles.

He was still there in plenty of time. And he came in the second night and said, Mel, come on to the front and express to the people what you sense is happening in this community. And he said, I know it's revival.

Here's what he said. He said, why, I had to park so far away from the church that I had to ask the people how to get to the church. Well, directions how to get to the church. But he said, even the cars looked revived.

You know how Mel Johnson could say with his sense of humor, even the cars looked revived, he put it that way. But he said, I knew it was revival as soon as I stepped in and heard the singing. I could tell.

And the joy of God amongst God's people, he said, there's a holy hilarity about revival when God releases his people. Isn't that what Psalm 126 says? Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our, let's see, our heart filled mouth filled with laughter and our tongue filled with singing.

And then we speak to the heathen, the rejoicing that comes when God sets his people free. That's Psalm 126. He said, I knew that. He went on to describe why he knew God was working. He could sense it as a man of many years experience.

Then he made one more statement. He said something like this. He said, but of course you people know what revival is, don't you? Well if the people down there did, I didn't in relation to what he was going to say.

And he said, of course you know what revival is. He said, many women revival is simply God's finger pointed at me. That was his definition of revival. And there I was, the evangelist in that crusade that was going on in such a way.

Revival as God’s Finger Pointing at the Individual

And I never, to this day I haven't told Mel Johnson that when he made that statement, if the other people knew that, that was fine. But God seemed to say to me, there's the cue, Lou. Revival is God's finger pointed at me.

And that truth started a gel in my heart. And if you've ever heard anything that has come out of Saskatoon, and in the revival in 1971, that statement, God's finger pointed at me, came from that occasion that I've just told you about.

That's where I was born. I haven't told Mel Johnson, I was just today saying I ought to feel guilty that I haven't let him know how God has used that one little expression to go around the world and bless so many hearts and zero the truth right into the individual.

Revival, God's finger pointed at me, and Brother came tonight to express it even before this message. That's what it's all about, revival, God's finger pointed at me. Revival is the opening of your heart and your life to Almighty God.

Pastor in western Michigan said these words. He said, revival is like lifting the lid off of a person's heart and letting God look in and you see what God sees. A preacher in western Canada out on the west coast, he said, can it be that God meant even me?

Revival is God's finger pointed at me, and God broke the heart of that pastor, and in his testimony he said, I couldn't believe it. He said, can it be that God meant even me? Oh, how proud we can get, even as clergymen.

He said, God was speaking even to me. Haggai chapter 1, verse 5, don't turn. I'll have you turn to another scripture. But simply these words, now therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, God speaking from heaven.

What does he say? Consider your ways. Three words, consider your ways. Oh, isn't it interesting to point a finger at everybody else? Ralph said it the other night, oh, how we love to point a finger at somebody else because when we do, he said, we forget about something, that when we do, there are one, two, three pointing right back to ourselves.

We always get one out there, but there are three coming back, right? So remember, when you point your finger out, three are coming right back to you. The message of God is consider your ways. I believe we've just about come to a place in this crusade where God would have you and me as individuals shut ourselves in with God and forget about what everybody else is doing and how everybody else is acting and ask God, Lord Jesus, would you dare speak to me and let revival be your finger pointed right at me and show me what you find.

Hezekiah and the Cleansing of God’s Temple

2 Chronicles, in the Old Testament, chapter 29, 2 Chronicles, chapter 29. I love this community because you'll love the word of God, and I love to give God's word because I believe there's power in the word of God.

2 Chronicles, chapter 29, Hezekiah, verse 1, Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, twenty-five years old, Hezekiah began to reign, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

And Hezekiah did that which was right in the sight of God. Good way for a king to start, according to all that David his father had done. He in the first year of his reign, in the very first month, the very first year, the very first month, Hezekiah the king, it says, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and he repaired them.

And he brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together in these streets and said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

Now I want to ask you and ask myself anew and afresh. My Bible tells me in the book of 2 Corinthians that my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. My body is the temple of God, and I believe in these days God is saying that we need to act even like Hezekiah, that we should go in and repair the doors of the temple of our lives before God, and we should carry out of our lives all filthiness out of that place, the holy place.

Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, if you're a Christian. Know ye not, says Paul, don't go without knowing, don't live without the concept overriding your life, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, and you have that of God.

You are not your own, you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body, this temple of the Holy Ghost, and glorify God wherein your spirit, which are God, the body and the spirit, belong unto God.

Christian out in western Canada and Surrey, B .C. said, We've been praying, Lord, send a revival to our church. She said, We have found out that it is not our church that needs revival, it is we, it is we.

Revival Begins with Judgment Within the Church

The message of revival, men and women, people say, What is revival? I tell you, the message of revival is not an easy one. It's a message that cuts, it burns, lacerates, it probes, and it wounds. But if it wounds, remember the Bible says, Blessed are the wounds of a friend, faithful are the wounds of a friend.

The message of revival is like the surgical operation. You need surgery, and without that surgery you would die. And the message of revival is that surgical operation. It's the laceration of the heart, without which the spiritual power of our life ebbs away.

Revival, men and women, begins in judgment. It has always been so. People think of revival as joy and ecstasy, and it's wonderful. Think of that. That may be the ultimate result, but that's not where revival begins.

Oh no, revival implies heart-searching condemnation on all inbred sin. Revival begins with a transformation in my heart, the choir sang in my heart, and that's where it begins. Let's lay the level. Let's drop the plumb line.

Let's test the balances of our life tonight. Let's see something. Let's see that when God Almighty brings revival, He'll find me right where I live. He'll find you right where you live. He'll correct the falseness of our lives, and then He will sit in judgment on all of our compromise and all of our backslidden heart and our backsliding our heart.

He will sit in judgment on it and point it to us. He said that represents a backslidden heart, or that we should have it in our day. Follow me with your Bible to Psalm 37, and let us follow some tremendous scripture along this theme.

Psalm 37, verse 28, for the Lord loveth judgment and forsaketh not his saints. They are preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. I draw your attention to that statement, for the Lord loveth judgment.

We never think of a God who loves judgment. I said to the students at the Bible College this morning, God is primarily not a God of judgment. He's God of love. He's a God of blessing. He's concerned about blessing us.

And now I read tonight in the scripture, for the Lord loveth judgment. Tremendous truth. What is it? He forsakes not his saints. What kind of a judgment is it that God loves? He loves to judge his people.

And he's saying to you and me tonight, that if I can judge my people, that's the way for me not to forsake my saints. When I judge them, this is the way to bring them to the operating table, as it were, to the surgery table, to cut away those areas that are not right, because I love them and I don't want to forsake them, and therefore I bring them to judgment.

He loves to bring his people to judgment for the cleansing and the purifying and the cutting away of the draught that keeps them from knowing him in his fullness. God who loves judgment and forsakes not his saints, they are preserved forever.

Turn to Isaiah 61. We see the context in Isaiah 61, verse 8. Again the statement, Isaiah 61, verse 8, Isaiah 61, verse 8,. For I, the Lord, love judgment. There it is again. I, the Lord, love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offerings, and I will direct their work in truth.

You see the kind of judgment God likes? He likes the kind of judgment that brings us to truth, to direct our work into truth, the judgment that purifies us. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, when I can lead my people into truth, when I can judge them.

I love to do it, because then I can make an everlasting covenant with them. Their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people. All that see them shall acknowledge them.

You see what judgment will do for God's people? That they are the seed which the Lord has blessed. This has the connotation of God dealing with Israel, but it's a tremendous physical principle of God who loves to judge his people, because he wants to reveal himself to them, he wants them to walk in uprightness of heart, that he can keep his covenant with them, and he can let the world know that they are his people.

Prophetic Images of Purification and Holiness

Zachariah chapter 14, Zachariah chapter 14, the next last book of the Old Testament, Zachariah chapter 14, and verse 20, Zachariah chapter 14, verse 20. In that day, Zachariah 14, verse 20, in that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord, and the pots of the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts. And all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them and seize therein. And in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

The Canaanite is the enemy of Israel, the Canaanite represents the evil one, and God says there shall no more be the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts. God, again, purifying his people, and on the bells of the horses, holiness unto the Lord, and on the pots, holiness unto the Lord.

Our God. Turn to Malachi, the next book, chapter 3, verse 2, Malachi chapter 3, verse 2. But who may abide the day of his coming, and who shall stand when he appeareth? For he, God, is like a refiner's fire.

God is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller soap, we think about God like that? And he shall sit as a refiner, and a purifier of silver, and he shall purify whom? The sons of Levi, the priests, as it were, those in charge, oh that God should find me as a man of the word of God, one that should be pure, that I shall let God be the refiner's fire in my life, and he shall purge them as gold and silver, put them through the fire for the purging and the cleansing.

Why? In order that they may offer unto the Lord an offering of a lot of busy works. No, that I may offer unto the Lord a lot of activity for God, that I may offer unto the Lord what? An offering in righteousness.

When God looks at my life, he wants coming from my life an offering in righteousness. I am ready and willing to allow God, the refiner, to put my life through the fire, through the purging, through the cleansing, that the dross should be burned away, and I, as a man of the word of God, giving the word to God's people, that he should start in my heart before I ask him to start in your heart.

He is a God of judgment and a God of purity in the lives of his people. Let's take it into the New Testament, 1 Peter chapter 4, after the book of Hebrews, James and 1 Peter chapter 4, the words of the Apostle Peter, 1 Peter chapter 4, verse 17.

1 Peter 4 .17, For the time is come. What time is it? What time is it in Winkler, Manitoba? For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. Judgment must begin at the house of God, and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Judgment must begin at the house of God. It's a God who loves judgment, to purify his people and cleanse his people, to reveal himself to his people, that they can reveal God to the world.

But it first starts in the house of God, and then to the sinner on the outside. 1 John, we turn from 2 Peter to 1 John, chapter 1, verse 5, 1 John chapter 1, verse 5. This then is the message which ye have heard of him, and declare unto you that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Walking in the Light and Receiving Cleansing

God is light. It doesn't say he's love, it says he's light. In him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with God, if you and I in this meeting tonight say, I have fellowship with God, you have fellowship with God, the word of God says, we walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

But if we walk in the light as God is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But if we confess our sins, there's an answer for our sin problem. He is faithful, he is just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

My little children, says the beloved John, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. Don't say you have to sin. But he says, if a man sin, he has an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ. Don't live in a mentality saying, I have to sin.

I don't need to sin. But if I sin, thank God there's cleansing and there's forgiveness. My heart attitude ought to be, oh Lord, that I do not presuppose sin. That I don't plan on sinning. That's the heart that's pure before God.

It's the heart that does not pre-plan sinning. But because of the flesh, and the weakness of this old flesh that hangs on us, there come those times that in a moment of weakness, in a moment of temptation, we might yield.

Thank God, in the word of God says, my little children, I write that you sin not. But if any man sin, he has an advocate. My heart's desire is that I should not sin. And that's the heart that's pure with God.

A heart that does not pre-plan sinning. What am I saying to you? If we walk in the light, God is light. What's the issue of revival? The issue of revival is whether I'm willing and ready to push my life into the light and out of the darkness.

The issue is, God says to me, it's a painful thing. But God's asking us in Winkler, Manitoba, when we say we need a revival in Winkler, we need a revival. What are we saying? God is saying to you and to me as individuals, am I as an individual, are you as an individual ready and willing to take your life and push it out of any dark areas and push it into the light of the holiness of God?

Duncan Campbell, the man of the Hebrides revival, said he used to go out and hold meetings and take a group of young people to sing a song in the meetings. And one night coming back from one of those meetings, the car broke down.

Car broke down, there was no street light and he didn't know what to do. He had no flashlight, couldn't get in the motor. There he was over there in the Hebrides and no way to get that car fixed. There as he looked, he was driving right along the bay.

And in the days of the world war and there was a minesweeper coming through the bay to clear the mine of any, to clear the bay of any mines that the enemy might plant there. And the minesweeper had a big light on it and the light was beaming onto the shore.

And Duncan Campbell, there he was with his automobile stuck and three or four young people in the car. And I guess maybe he took them along because they knew the kind of car he had. He might need them.

Well, there they were. He couldn't fix the motor because he had no light to see inside. But when he saw that minesweeper and the minesweeper saw, the man running the minesweeper saw Duncan Campbell, not knowing who he was, but saw this car stuck.

He held that light steady instead of moving it on. He held it fixed right there at that one spot. He was saying to Duncan Campbell, in other words, if you could only get that car up into the light. I can't move my light anymore, but there it is.

I want to stop and keep it right there. If you could only get your car up into the light. And Duncan Campbell seeing that big spotlight coming ashore, he unloaded those young people and he said, go on out and push.

And they pushed and they pushed and they pushed till they got the car in the light. And when the light shone into that motor, they were able to find the shorted wire and on they went. Don't you think Duncan Campbell had an illustration in his sermon that next Sunday morning?

Oh, what was the illustration? We had no help until we were willing to push the car into the light. We could do nothing until we're willing to push the car in light and ready to do it. And God is saying that to you and to me.

And you and I can be spectators here, bystanders at the working of God in Winkler, Manitoba in these days. We can watch and say, isn't it wonderful what God is doing there and what God is doing there.

And now God is speaking to that one and God is touching that one. And all the time, because we are unwilling individually to recognize that revival is God's finger point at me and willing to push my light into the light.

What's light? God is light. Walk in the light as He is in the light. And what will happen? We'll know our need for the cleansing of the blood to be applied to our heart, the blood to be applied to our heart, the cleansing from sin.

And then we have fellowship one with another. That's what's happening in the ladies' meetings today. That's what was happening in the men's meeting yesterday. That's what's happening when we all see ourselves in the light of God and we quit comparing ourselves by everybody else round about us and we say, I'm as good as the average Christian.

Where did you get that standard? Walk in the light as God's in the light. We get our eyes off of each other and we close ourselves in to a holy God. And as the light reveals the dark areas of our life, we're willing to do something about them.

The Judgment Seat of Christ and Accountability

Tremendous truth. But what is this all about? The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5, 10,. For we must all appear at the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in his body. According to that, he hath done whether good or bad.

What am I saying? You know it, men and women in Winkler, Manitoba. You folks know the word of God so thoroughly. And you know the fact that there are two judgments awaiting us. There's a judgment called the great white throne judgment.

That's the judgment when any man and any woman is not a Christian, he's going to have to face the great white throne judgment. And he's going to hear the condemnation of Jesus when he says, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting flame.

I never knew you. That's the judgment for the unconverted man. But the Bible says there's another judgment. There are other judgments as well. But I point you to attention to the judgment seat of Jesus Christ.

And that's what is recorded in 2 Corinthians 5, 10. We must all, we as God's people, must all appear at that judgment seat of Christ. That every one of us shall give an account of the deeds done in our body, not our intentions, not what we are planning on doing, but what we have accomplished, done in our body according to that we have done, whether good or bad, the judgment seat of Christ.

Now the question I ask you tonight, would you like to stand there tonight? Would you like to stand at the judgment seat of Christ tonight? Would I like to stand at the judgment seat of Christ tonight?

Would I like to put my head on the pillow this night in Winkler, Manitoba, and never wake up to face the light of another day? Would I be pleased? Would I be happy to do so? Would I lie on my bed and say, even so, Lord, I'm ready.

Even so, come Lord Jesus. Or if you want to take me, Lord, I'm ready. Where am I going? There's a judgment seat of Christ waiting me. In that time, everything done in my body, whether good or bad, is going to be revealed.

I tell you, my friend, it's a frightening thing to think about. God, the righteous judge, judging his people. What is this revival emphasis all about? I'll tell you, men and women, I believe that the blessing of these days is this is God's opportunity, the knocking at the door of our heart.

He's saying, can't I bring you to judgment now? Can't I bring you into the light right now? Can't I bring you to where you deal with the issues of your heart right now? Can't we get some things under the blood of Jesus Christ right now?

Can't we get them settled right now so you don't have to face these things at the judgment seat? Is God saying to us tonight, revival is judgment coming early, getting my sins under the blood, lest I have to face those sins in the face of Jesus, the righteous judge at the judgment seat?

Men and women, that is going to be a tragically painful day. And if that's a painful day, let us be willing to go through the pain today. Whatever the pain to be right with God is nothing compared to the pain that we'll have to go through in that day because we weren't willing to go through the pain right now.

Repentance, Sin, and the Pain of Revival

Can you get it? Oh, some people say, I don't like revival meetings. I'll tell you, my flesh doesn't like it. Your flesh doesn't like it. You don't like it when God's fingers pointed at you. I don't like it when God's fingers point at me because my flesh doesn't want to be dealt with.

It doesn't want to give up. It doesn't want sin to be called sin. It wants room to operate. The Bible says, make no provision for your flesh to fulfill the lusts and the desires thereof. It wants to operate.

A housewife in revival in a hundred mile house in D .C. said, it was painful. Jesus Christ revealed himself to me in a startling way. Not a gentle savior, but he revealed himself to me as a judge. He showed me what I was really like inside.

Where? The choir sang it. In my heart. He showed me what I was like inside my heart. In my heart, she said. And it wasn't pretty at all. Senator Ernest Manning, Premier Manning, former Premier Manning, Senator Manning.

Three weeks in a row in our crusade Edmonton, Senator Manning sat on the platform with us on Sunday nights. So totally identified with the need of revival in our day. Premier Manning said one night there in our meetings in Edmonton.

He said to that crowd in Edmonton. He said, men don't seek revival by their own inclination. They don't seek it by their own inclination. The flesh doesn't like it, he said. Revival is light and light reveals our sins.

And the flesh doesn't like it. The pastor said, everything about revival is repulsive to me. It is totally opposed to my self-life. A lady in Pontiac, Michigan after three nights, she said, isn't this disgusting?

Sure. She said, dealing with my neighbor's sin is always so much more pleasure than dealing with my own. Amen. Dealing with my neighbor's sin is always so much more pleasurable than having to deal with my own.

The pastor wrote us a letter like this. He said, I used to think of revival as a great, grand and wonderful experience. My mind was quickly changed six weeks ago when it happened to me. The end result is marvelous.

But the first break is extremely difficult and almost unbearable until a full surrender is made to God. It is a very humiliating experience when God points his finger at you. A mother wrote, I have said for so long, Lord, Lord, it's my daughter.

But the Holy Spirit said, no, you. Oh Lord, it's my children. The Holy Spirit said, no, you. One night as I was putting my daughter to bed before the meeting, my heart became so filled with the love of God.

Real love, she said, for my daughter. I know Jesus was doing a new work in me when before all the problems were my daughter. From a dad. A dad wrote to us. He said, my son asked, Dad, what's happened to Mom?

What's happened to Mom? The son wrote. She doesn't holler at us anymore. I just told him, son, Jesus has helped Mom to get rid of some of the garbage. And he's helping me to do that too. This week, he wrote, has been so very painful.

But oh, how good. That's the breaking the pain already to deal with sin. Henry Teichoff says revival is surgery, not a band-aid. Oh, we've been putting band-aids over the problems for so long. But God's trying in these days to bring us to surgery where we can have the surgeon's knife that makes a clean, definite, specific incision.

And the better the incision and the more definite the incision, the more correct the healing. Painful, yes. But oh, the healing comes because of the definite incision. One lady said, Jesus removed my shabby rug.

He swept away the dirt. And He recarpeted my life. You know what our problem, men and women, has been for so long? I believe a lot of us are on tranquilizers and other kinds of pills for nerves, all kinds.

Now, I know there could be some physical problems that may make it necessary for us to have some of this. But I'm convinced that a lot of this is going on among evangelical Christians because we have been walking on the rug of our life and there have been some lumps in the rug.

And we've been feeling the lumps in the rug. But we haven't had the courage to ask God to lift the rug and sweep out the dirt under the rug and recarpet our life. We just sort of sweep them under the rug.

And we've swept so much under the rug. There's some people perhaps in this meeting, there's something in your life that has been swept under the rug. It's been there for 20 years. It's been there for 30 years.

And maybe even 40 years. And you've already told yourself, Why? Everybody else in the community has forgotten about it. I can forget about it. God, You know about it. But nobody else knows about it. I can forget about it.

And you need to make restitution. You need to make right. And the people are still involved. And you have the opportunity yet to make right. But you swept it under the rug and say everybody's forgotten about it.

Oh no, men and women. God doesn't deal with us like that. God is a God of holiness. And we can't play games with a holy God by sweeping things under the rug and think it's alright because man looks on the outward appearance and on the outward appearance all looks well.

But remember the choir sang, In my heart, in my heart, in my heart. And that's what it's all about. God looketh on the heart. God sees the heart. Psalmist David says, Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity.

Would you pray that? Would you pray, Lord, just go right through me? The word thoroughly could be the same word as go through me. Go right through me, O God. Would you pray that? Would you say with a psalmist, Order my steps, God, in Thy Word.

Get me right into Your Word. Put my steps into Your Word. And let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Don't let any iniquity have dominion over me. I'm giving no place for sin to have room in my life.

O God, order my steps in Your Word and I'll walk in it. Would you pray with a psalmist when he said, I said, Lord, be merciful to me. You see, that's judgment. Lord, I need mercy. Be merciful to me. Heal my soul, he prayed, for I have sinned against Thee.

Heal my soul. In my heart, they sang. Would you say, Lord, heal my soul tonight? The outward looks all right, but I need healing in the soul. Jewel White said it so beautifully in a prayer. She didn't know I heard her pray.

And when she got done praying, I jotted it down. She prayed, Thank You, God, for exposing our hearts to ourselves. Thank You, God, for exposing our hearts to ourselves. Ye people, says the psalmist, pour out your heart before Him.

In my heart, let me be a Christian. In my heart, let me love. In my heart, let me be like Jesus. And the psalmist said, Pour out your hearts to God. That's what we need in Winkler, Manitoba. Pour out our hearts to God.

Searching the Heart and Examining Motives

That's the prayer of the psalmist in Psalm 139, 23, and 24. When he dared pray, Search me, O God, and know my heart. Would you pray that tonight? That's when Revival's God's finger pointed at me. That's when I don't care about anybody else around.

O God, search me and know my heart. Know my heart tonight, O God. Know it. Would you pray it? And see, O God, if there's any wicked way in me. Anyone, lay your finger on it. Show it to me. Bring it up that I can deal with it.

I want to be clean. And lead me in the path everlasting. Oh, you need to pray that. You need to ask God to search your heart. Don't you try to do it yourself? Because the Bible says the heart is deceitful.

And above all things, desperately wicked. And who can know it? But I, the Lord, search the heart. And I try the reins of man. I try the heart to know what is in the man. To give every man according as his works.

God says, I know it and I can try it. He didn't say, you search your own heart. Oh, men and women, don't you go around trying to dig in your own heart and say, now what is it, what is it? You say, Lord, you show me.

You search me. You search me, O God. You do it. God is the only one that can go on the inside, you know? Nobody else can get through the five senses, but God can. That's why He's the only one that can search our heart.