Who Are God's Anointed — Leonard Ravenhill

David’s Repentance and Psalm 51

Sometime or another all of us are Captivated with the idea that a chapter that we've read suddenly kind of comes to life. You wonder why you've read it so many times and haven't seen what you're seeing today.

Some of you read this I won't say how many years ago. It wouldn't be fair. I Read it 60 years ago. Anyhow, maybe 70, but it's a favorite psalm. There are you remember 150 psalms and. And roughly roughly half of them are written by David.

Out of the Psalms he wrote there are eight penitential Psalms. But this is the greatest of all penitential Psalms. Remember the history of David right here. Is that he stained on one hand with the murder blood on one hand?

And on the other hand the black stain of adultery and. You remember that that Shakespeare has. Isn't it Lady Macbeth looking at that spot of blood on her hand? And she says in their own language this damp spot all the perfumes of Arabia can't take it out.

And now when you think of it, it's awesome today that men have gone to gods of stone and wood crippled with guilt and Burdened and anxious because they know inwardly that there's a condemnation and yet they find no relief.

I'm amazed the Church of Jesus Christ drags its feet as it does. We've got the most explosive and the most expensive message the world has ever known. That Christ is able to save sinful men. One of the wonders about this time.

I'm going to leap through it quite a bit. But one of the wonders is this that I didn't find this till about a few years ago. The psalm is a monologue. There's nobody in it, but David have mercy upon me O God.

According to thy loving kindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies brought out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Against thee the only have I sinned.

You say no he sinned against Bathsheba. I don't think he did he sinned with her. But it's his self right through the whole psalm. Brought out my transgressions. Is it interesting he comes asking for mercy.

Whenever did a king do this you know kings used to whether they do now or not I don't know. They used to believe in the divine right of kings. They could do what they wanted to do. Like King Uzziah when he managed the government and managed industry and got his army going and raised the economy and did everything with a Magic touch and then suddenly decided to go into the temple and minister holy things and God took hold of him for that.

When would this as it happened before or since? I'll tell you what Mary Queen of Scots would have done in in Scotland. She would have said well this may be true of me, but I want to tell you this. I'm above the law.

James a second would have sworn witnesses hired witnesses to swear away the testimony of Bathsheba. Muhammad would have produced a revelation authorizing both his crimes. Charles a second would have publicly abrogated the seventh commandment.

Queen Elizabeth not the present one the one 300 400 years ago, she would have suspended Nathan. You know what's wrong with our day. As I answer before God, I believe that evangelism is being killed in America by evangelists.

They're not preaching evangelism. They're preaching forgiveness. Let's look at this just skipping through quickly. Have mercy upon me O God according to thy loving kindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

And those are different words. He has for sin in verse 1. He calls them transgressions in verse 2. He talks about iniquity in verse 2. He talks about sin. You see the wretched evangelism of our day has changed his vocabulary.

There are no adulterers anymore. They're just having an affair. There's no iniquity. It's just infirmity. There's no wickedness. It's just weakness. And therefore it doesn't burn because God won't honor it.

This is God's language we should use it. It's God's kingdom. We're affecting last week. I'll use an illustration. It's lived with me since. Sometimes when I didn't want it in the middle of the night. We were dealing with Luke 16 last week talking about the man in hell.

He could see he could hear he could feel and there in down there in the depths of hell. He can see a way there into eternity into Abraham's bosom. And he could hear in hell. I believe one of the agonies of hell is they'll be able to see everything that's going on in heaven.

And there's no chance of getting out. I Wrote a brother the other day a week ago. And I said, you know, we need some bumper stickers. Stickers with hell has no exit. Mercy call me. Yes. He said I've got the bumper stickers for you.

I said, well, I don't know have them. Oh I'll put one on mine front and back if you like hell has no exits. The present church doesn't even either of hell exists. We talked about one saved always say why don't we talk about once lost always once once a man gets into that state?

He can never get out. I imagine a young man. He's his daddy and mummy talked to him about God. He heard his mother pray and thought it was sentimental. He's a big swashbuckling boy. He's gonna live his own life do its thing.

He wakes up in hell and sees the marriage supper of the lamb. He sees his mother with a glorified body. He sees his father with a glorified body. He sees that multitude which no man can number. They can hear in hell and I guarantee that when that choir of a hundred and Forty-four thousand musicians play they'll hear it in hell.

Dear old William Bull died in 1912. I never saw him. Oh, yes, I did. I saw him once when the tiny top. Now a friend was a picture of him on the refrigerator door, that's a that's a cold place for a man who preached hellfire all his life.

He was a remarkable man and one day he decided he would go to Australia because they'd had revival with the Salvation Army in Australia and remember the the Salvation Army. Maybe in its whole existence from the time he inaugurated it under God to the time He died never had as much money as some of the gospel corporations around here.

The lifeblood of modern evangelism is not the Holy Ghost for the blood of Christ. It's money. God hastened the day when America goes bankrupt. Except for the fact the poor would suffer more. That's the only thing that keeps me from praying.

God smashed the banks. They're going to smash anyhow in the next five years. 100 100 banks closed in America last year. 130 will close next year with Tom a Lady wrote to me today from the interfaith bank in town here.

She said I suppose you know that we're laying off 2 ,000 people across the nation. They're laying about 50 off down at the interfaith in town. The conditions are very bad, and they're getting worse, but here's a boy.

He can't get out. He sneered he ridiculed his mother and father. He drank rich liquors and wines while he was living there isn't a spot of water in hell. And he's right his mother's there drinking wine the wine of the kingdom.

He wouldn't listen to her now. She can't listen to him. They're going to tell me that the fundamental Church of America believes in hell. I won't believe you try. You think the empty seat here tonight if all the believers around here really believed in hell.

We'll be here storming heaven to get God's glory down. It's an eternal separation. There are three different words here for sin. Verse one again transgressions and those two iniquity and then at the end of that verse sin.

By the same talking there are three different words for washing or cleansing. Verse one is blot out. That's erased something like a blackboard, and it's completely obliterated. You know I think many of us well some of us didn't have a very bad history anyhow but some of you have a bad history.

One of the things is you you find it hard to forgive yourself and Some of your neighbors find it hard to forget, but every day you ought to send a hallelujah to heaven. He forgives me forgets. Usually a chorus when God forgives he forgets.

When God forgives he forgets. He'll no more remember our sin doesn't matter how much you may have sinned enough to damn a million people he forgave it. And it's thrown into the sea of his forgetfulness.

I told you about the man in England a rough boy, and He was always disturbing the church. You know I didn't know it's supposed to be quiet. Supposed to be Methodist, and it was a morgue. But he kept shouting hallelujah if anybody touched him he ripped the air you know.

One day he went to see his preacher the new preacher sent for him and said come in to my office. You know you disturb people on Sunday nights. We had a man in our church like that. He was great. I loved him.

He was a funny-looking guy, but you know when he was getting a go. Oh everybody jump you know. There's old Joe. There's old Joe. Well glory we need some folk like that. You know some people are quiet like me and some are noisy.

So this fellow went into the office of the preacher and the preacher said I've got a friend in there now now be quiet be quiet. He said read this book so he's reading an encyclopedia, and he thought that boy.

He won't find a thing there to praise God for. Well that were what he thought. Ten minutes after the fellow shouted the biggest hallelujah he'd ever heard the priest said what's wrong with you. That's not a Bible.

It's not a hymn book. It's not a history of the church. What are you shouting? Hallelujah for he said it says that off the shore of the Philippines. There's a hole in the sea. They've never measured the depth of it.

Some parts of the ocean have 26 ,000 feet of water. They can't find the bottom. They can't get a plumb line to go to the bottom. Hallelujah. What's a hallelujah for? He said because the Lord has cast my sins beyond the depth of the sea and if the devil tries to get me get drowned anyhow.

Maybe his theology wasn't very good, but boy. I'll tell you what it's great when you know it isn't it. Nobody can write them up. No give them bring them up. They're fully paid for Jesus paid it all in that sense for us.

Revival, Repentance, and the Danger of Manufactured Religion

Anyhow he goes on. You see there are three prayers in this marvelous marvelous psalm. We could stay a week on it. We won't I promise you. The first is a prayer of a sinner have mercy upon me. Oh God. Have mercy.

I Love the old hymn that says depth of mercy. Can there be mercy still reserved for me. How many times did you accept the hear the gospel before you accepted it? I'm sure I heard it hundreds of time. And there's a patient loving God wanting to invade my life and me stupid little me shuts and almighty God out of my life.

If I'd obeyed him the first time I heard the gospel had to be a hundred miles further up the road spiritually than I am tonight. You know every meeting is full of tragedy. I Don't care whether people come to the altar or not.

I'm no longer mesmerized by altars. We've killed the church. We've killed mission. We've killed ministry with altar calls. I told you what the precious men said in the where was it 1500s? Where that wonderful man preached that message on the sinners in the hands of an angry God?

You know I actually preached 500 messages. They're still in print and there's only one of them. That's full of wrath the others are full of love and full of mercy and full of grace. But those preachers got together.

Gilbert Tennant was one. His son was Gilbert George Whitfield Davenport a whole host of mighty men in America. We don't pay tribute to them. We pay tribute to film stars and sports sports people. But they made a covenant together and remember they never staged a revival ever.

That brother could have waited why preach his message on the sinners in the hands of an angry God and remember it wasn't staged. It wasn't advertised it was in the ordinary course of preaching when the Holy Ghost came in that phenomenal thing and shook America.

But they made a covenant together as I say they didn't stage it. Jonathan Edwards could have said we're going to have a revival, but you know mr. Whitfield is the greatest preacher since the Apostle Paul.

He'll arrive. He'll arrive in about four days. Do not happen. The navigation instruments were not very good in those days. And they missed the port they were after they missed it by 150 miles. That's a long way to swim isn't it?

150 miles off course. And if they'd announced that Whitfield was coming he wouldn't have been there anyhow. But the Holy Ghost came. But those men covenanted together that they would not pluck. I like the figure that we will not pluck unripe fruit.

We're getting people saved you don't know they lost. You have to sing an emotional chorus because the Holy Ghost hasn't stirred them so we started emotionally. Oh, we're insisting on repentance. I made up my mind.

I keep a little book in which I have a lot of notes. You should read them you think they were Solomon's. I mean you think there's someone else's. And when I put the other morning about two o 'clock I was in my office I put this down.

There is no repentance to repentance without restitution. Remember the man in the scripture that says if I've done anything wrong I'll pay fourfold back, but always raising that storm about abortions, and that's okay.

But I'll tell you what there are far more spiritual abortions than physical abortions in America. In natural birth you birth you three things you've conception gestation and birth and you have the same thing in true revival.

And you can't speed it up. What I liked about the I'm reading a Kind of brief history of revivals in America right now the times when men would go into meetings and they'll be stricken tormented. You don't get that anymore.

Come the Lord loves you just as you are. Well. Why get changed if he loves you just as you are. If you're a prostitute stay a prostitute it still loves you. If you're a drunken if you beat your wife up don't beat her as hard, but still beat her.

Come on. Have some sense. God doesn't love you as you are. He's angry with a wicked every day. Mercy is open to them, but they rebel and they pile up their rebellion every back pilot their judgments. I like to hear the Welsh people sing.

I think they're the best singers congregational singers in the world. And have a great him. And when I read this first verse. Where David is his? Supply as a supplicant. I think of the hymn. They sing great God of wonders all my ways displayed and attributes divine.

But countless acts of pardoning grace above all other wonders shine. Who is a pardoning God like thee or who has grace. So rich and free and say this quickly. When what was Leonard. Leonard Bernstein a few years ago was the maverick conductor of the New York Philharmonic?

Somebody brought him a piece of dog-eared manuscript and said play this. He's a brilliant concert organist pianist. He's all right. I can't you can you won't. I can't you can. I can't. Why not? You say this is 200 years old it was written in some man in the loft of a great Cathedral.

If I could get behind him and catch his spirit how he played it. I don't know how he played it. I Need the spirit of the man. Well, how do you get the drift if you want to say that? About this time it wouldn't pulsate with life unless the Holy Ghost who wrote it inspires it.

But when you see this man, he's a king. What did he say have mercy upon me. I Acknowledge my transgression. My sin is ever before me. Look. He looks out of the window and he sees a soldier a handsome young man standing there with a not with a gun.

But standing there with a sword to defend his king. And when he sees that smart young man. He remembers that he sent the best captain that he had in the army to his death so he could steal his wife. He looks through the window and he sees his sin.

A baby cries and he remembers the child he fathered to us. Fever. His sin goes in his ears. His sin goes in his eyes. We try to get people reconciled to God and they don't know they've been enemies against God.

I'm not a wicked man. I'm not a vile man. The biggest sin in the world is not adultery rotten as it is and all that corruption. The biggest sin in the world is to say I run my life and not God. As I say Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good.

That's a fringe benefit. He came to make dead men live. There are some very admirable men. I know some men I'd rather trust. They're unsaved. I'd rather trust them in business than Christians, but this man is having a terrible time.

He didn't sit down and dictate this. I Tell you I didn't write it. He didn't write it in the lounge chair drinking orange juice and eating the grapes of escrow. This man is writhing on the floor. This paper I have is Indian paper and it's beautiful type.

But this wasn't written with his hand if you can take the figure of speech. Here it's written in black ink on paper. It was written in blood and in tears. It's not he didn't punctuate it with commas periods and all the rest.

He punctuated with sobs and cries and groans. This man is prostrate. He's last with conscience. He's a load of guilt. He's condemnation. A baby scares him to death because he fathered when he shouldn't father.

He sees a soldier polishing his uniform and he knows that he sent the best man that was in the army to his death. You find people do that they'll commit sin and then they'll tell a lie to cover up their sin.

It's the way of the transgressor all the time. But again, I say this man is. He's stricken, but I'll tell you what when God redeemed him he was just as marvelous for God. Remember the Psalms he wrote.

He wrote the 23rd Psalm. It's a lovely psalm. Where does it fit into his own history? He says he went down into the valley of the shadow of death. I haven't read this. I dug it up myself and it may be wrong, but I'm sure it's right.

I believe the valley the shadows death and when he went down there to fight Goliath and That Goliath says I'll break you over my knee and feed the birds with you all. Israel is looking on the king of Israel is looking on Jonathan's looking on the kings of the the Captains of the army are looking up and here's a boy never had a moment of military training.

Dear God, I wish half the preaching in the country. I've been to cemeteries seminaries. They get so confident and cocky with their Greek and their Hebrew. What have you got? I know a little Hebrew. I knew it in New York.

Used to repair my pants. I Know little Greek. He keeps a station on 8th Avenue where I park my car. That's all Greek and Hebrew. I know. We used to have a man testify in the open air. He would say I haven't been to college, but I have the blessed knowledge that my sins are forgiven him.

I'm on my way to heaven. That's a good as Shakespeare ever said. I acknowledge my transgression. My sin is ever before me. Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight. That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judges.

Behold, I was shaped in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me. I said there are three different words in the first two verses for sin. There are three different words for cleansing in the first two verses.

There are three prayers in this psalm. The first prayer is a prayer of a sinner have mercy upon me. The second prayer is that is a prayer of a backslider restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Of course, there are no backsliders anymore.

You know that of course. We were about 50 million people in the nation out of fellowship, but you can't find backsliders anywhere. They buried the grandfather. He was the last backslider in their church.

They haven't had any sense. Don't you think the church today is lively as it is. Professor to be is in a big delusion. The devil cheated us. What do you do with the man like this is broken-hearted because three times he mentioned brokenness.

The Methodist used to sing a hymn. Blessed are the men of broken heart who mourn for sin with inward smart. We don't mourn for sin. People just come in will whisper in their head. Just tell the Lord you're sorry.

They come to the altar damned and they say a prayer and go out damned. Except a little after that they get baptized and tithe and cause that fits you for the kingdom of God. They stress works, we're not saved by works, but boy if you if you die untied you go straight to perdition.

That's what they imply. Anyhow, isn't it? Make me to hear joy and gladness. Verse 11. Take not. Cast me not away from thy presence. Take not thy Holy Spirit for me. Come on now. Who's the most miserable man in the world tonight.

A man begging at the street corner. A blind man? The man they showed on TV the other day or a few a couple of weeks ago they dragged him out of the debris there in the in Mexico City. They had to amputate his legs.

He left his legs behind in a debris. They sawed his legs off and one of his arms is broken and now he's no legs and there is handicap for life. The most miserable man in the church is a man in the world is a man that God has walked out on.

Well, I don't believe he ever will. Well, then you don't believe the scripture. Why does David cry here take not my Holy Spirit from me? Because he'd seen a king by the name of Saul. And he was anointed and he was filled with the Holy Ghost and he prophesied but he died a suicide.

What is he and do he saw him go here? He go there. He tries to find deliverance. He can't the last thing he does is cringing at the feet of a dirty filthy spiritus medium and Says bring up Samuel and Samuel came up the only genuine appearance I think ever in history.

And what did the king say to him? He said I've sinned and He said yes, you have sinned. He thought oh, no. No, no Kings Have a special permit, but the day that the spirit said Samuel said you have sinned.

But here he is wandering around. God has taken his spirit from him. It says clearly. Do I believe that happened? Yes, I do believe it does not often but I believe it does. I Used to take teams of young men around England college fellows.

And they were all much smarter than me having to help them if they weren't. We had one young fellow had been saved from a spiritus mediums home. He had been a spiritus medium. God miraculously saved him.

I've seen that fellow when we used to preach middays and midnights. Catching people coming out of the legitimate theaters or movie houses. I've seen that young fellow hold a crowd spellbound for an hour while he just told his testimony of deliverance.

He was marvelous. I Sat at the feet of dr. G Campbell Morgan. Maybe one of the greatest expositors ever and yet this young fellow when he had the anointing could outpreach Campbell Morgan. But he got slack he backslid you know where where everybody starts.

Yes, a deacons run away with a woman. He's backslidden. Oh, that's a fruit of his backsliding. He backslid man backslid months ago in his prayer life in his devotional life every backslide that starts there.

So if you're chilling off in your experience of prayer if Jesus isn't as real and as wonderful if the word isn't sweeter than the Honey in the honeycomb get on your belly and groan. I saw that young man as I say move audiences.

There were six of us we were pray you should preach. I preach one night the others were preach. Finally he quit he had a church. And then he got into some company that was rich and he got into a high state of living.

The last thing I heard about him was he took off his clerical collar and banged it on the table after a Sunday night service. And he walked out and he became a terrible drunkard. Smoking drinking sinning women sure.

I Would almost cringe when he preached about holiness and the majesty of God and yet that guy goes and sells out. Did he go to hell? That's not my business. I'm telling you you can lose the anointing of God.

In fact, I guarantee 90 of the preach in the country have lost it if they ever had it. The anointing of God is the hardest thing to get this side of eternity and it's the most difficult thing to keep.

Because we begin to develop our own personality our own eloquence our own style instead of having the thundering anointing of God that makes people tremble as I read about these men tenants and others that preached and People would go home and weep the whole night through and fast the next day and weep the next day.

And they couldn't be consoled. You can whisper a scripture into their ears until God put the fire of condemnation. Out through the blood of Jesus Christ. They were the most miserable men on earth. Now God help us.

Holiness, the Fear of God, and Spiritual Presence

We've got we've got homosexuals in pulpits. We're ordaining homosexuals. Sin doesn't appear sin to the church. Never mind to the one outside. The word says there is no fear of God before there are there's no fear of men in the world.

There's no fear of God in the church. How many people tiptoe into the sanctuary expecting to meet God. Did you come here to meet God tonight. I Preach to a good-sized congregation last Sunday night. Away there in Irvine, Texas the other side of Dallas.

I Asked them did you come here to hear a sermon about God? Did you come to meet God? He says restore him to me that oh, come on, and you just read the charts. You know King Saul was up here and he's lost his job.

Number one is David. He's selling all the records. People in the street are clapping their hands and singing. Saul has slain his thousands. But David is tens of thousands. Come on your number one up on the chart.

You're the greatest King. You've subdued the Philistines. You've subdued all your other enemies. Don't get too worried just about a little trivial break in your devotional life. A bit of coldness. But once a man has tasted the fire of God, he'll never be content till he gets back there.

There are no preaching. Only England used to say if you had the fire you won't be content with the smoke. Restore them to me the joy. The Methodist again, I have to quote them because I was raised a Methodist went to a Methodist college.

But they used to sing a lovely song the joyful news of sins forgiven. One of the preachers every Sunday morning gives you a little bit of scripture there what we have seen and heard with confidence. We tell.

But the old Methodist hymn says what we have seen and heard with confidence. We tell and published to the sons of men the signs infallible. With joyful news of sins forgiven of hell subdued and you can't get a squeak out of anybody.

You say I didn't live a very bad life, I mean I wasn't lifted out of a horrible pit. I've got news for you. You were going to a horrible pit worse than all the pits in the world put together. You're going to an eternal hole a place called hell.

There's no way out. I'd love to say I'd love to be in a crusade. I'd love to be in a town Where there came a deluge of Holy Ghost conviction where people can't sleep at night. They don't want to buy. They don't want to sell.

They don't want to go to a restaurant. They don't to buy new clothes. They suddenly realized that they are bound for eternity either eternal life or eternal death. But that isn't ours anymore. It would be free preached properly.

It would be free prayed properly. It would be free fasted properly. We're trying to become millionaires by paying a dime and God says no. Again revive will only work one way and that's God's way. It says restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.

Because I told you before the place where I met my precious wife I preached on this psalm in 1937 and A woman came to the altar. The tent was almost empty. She crawled practically up to the front. She was the ugliest woman I've seen and I've seen some ugly women in my time, but anyhow.

She was ugly. She was dressed in black. She was wrinkled as a prune. And she'd all the signs of death about her. She knelt and I said, can I help you said my name's mrs. Shepherd. I said so what mrs. Shepherd?

This has been a wonderful night. I said well, I didn't think it was super. The tent was nowhere near filled. You don't realize. No, I don't 40 years ago. I was one of the outstanding officers in the Salvation Army.

And I went out home after a meeting and I had an argument with my partner we'd quarreled over the hymns and Finally, I said well, I'll have my way and she wanted her way. I Went home after the meeting so angry.

I took off my uniform and I I just cut it to pieces. I took off my skirt and I cut it in strips. I Took my straw salvation on me bonnet and I put it on the fire and then I took my Bible. I ripped all the pages out then those big eyes began to weep.

Tears were bouncing off her craggy cheeks. She said mr. Rainier tonight. God spoke to me the first time in 40 years. When I walked out on God, I went to hear William Booth and he could thunder hellfire, but he never moved me.

I Heard the Holy Man Colonel Brangham. He never moved me. I Heard Commissioner Lawley outstandingly powerful in the Holy Ghost. He never moved me. I've been to meetings I've heard the world's great preacher.

No one's ever moved me. But she said when you read in the psalm tonight restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. I said God, that's it. I've never really smiled in 40 years. I never had any joy in 40 years.

I'm sour. I'm bitter. I'm antagonistic against God. I love nobody. I've opposition against everyone. I said, well, let's pray and we prayed and She surely cried that was about nine o 'clock Saturday night.

I said well, remember we have a prayer meeting in the morning at 7. I Stayed on after that crusade to time for that church together as it were and you know That woman was the first of the prayer meeting.

I've gone to the church at 7 o 'clock Sunday morning and she'd be ankle-deep in snow. She was never late for a meeting and she would say over and over again Oh that verse became so real with joy. Shall he draw water from the wells of salvation.

The joy of sins forgiven. The joy of being reconciled to God. The joy of having An eternal home in heaven. I noticed the other week they announced on radio J .B. Priestley an English playwright writer of popular books.

He made a statement once when I was in England about well, it's not about the 1930s. And he said I drove my car up to a great Church of England a monolith. Beautiful like a miniature Westminster Abbey and I drew my car to the side of the road and watch people go in.

There was one man and ten women and He said when they went in they looked as though they were going to the dentists. He said I waited till with they finished when they came out. They looked as though they'd been.

I Don't think every meeting should be exciting in the sense that we mean use common word. I think it should be inspiring. We can be broken with joy as well as sorrow. What do you sing visions of rapture now burst on my sight?

What do you mean? We know that when your eyes are closed. You mean when you get a revelation of the glory that's yet to be. As I've said before if I could push the door of heaven open just an inch and you could look in and see you'd never backslide.

Your prayer life would never go cold. You never say Lord. It's getting hard brother one side inside eternity. Will be embarrassed how little we really really really suffered and and prayed and worshiped God.

Brokenness, Cleansing, and the Holy Spirit

Let me leap over here a minute. He prayed the prayer of a sinner. He prays the prayer of a backslider. He's trying to get back to God, but look at verse 16. It says thou desire us not sacrifice. Why not?

There's another way to God both sacrifice. You have to bring different sacrifices for different sins you have to bring them to it. But he says you don't desire sacrifice, and he's still under the old economy of blood sacrifice.

What's he saying now desire is not sacrifice? God desires more than sacrifice. What you know it desires a broken and a contrite heart three times. He mentions brokenness here in verse eight make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

I've told you and I'll say to you less than a minute. I jumped out of a burning hotel in 1951 in Chicago. I brought my back in three places. My left leg was broken in three places. My feet were broken.

I Lay there at two o 'clock in the morning in the street. There's no place for a preacher to be. But I couldn't move my back was what my legs wouldn't function. A Man came around the corner. He said what are you doing here?

I was tempted to say playing tennis. What do you think I'm doing? He said you can't stay here. I said I don't want to he said get up. I can't. I can't walk. Well then he said you can't stay here. A car may come around the corner, and you'll get hurt.

Oh brother I'm making in every limb and my mind is going a thousand ways. My wife's 4 ,000 miles away with three boys. I'd no insurance. I'm lying in a Chicago Street in snow at nearly three o 'clock in the morning between two and three.

All the man says I've got to move here. He put his hands under my legs in my back and lifted me and everything in me screamed. The bones which thou hast broken is anything more painful than a broken bone.