Hebrews 11 - Part 3 — Leonard Ravenhill

Lord, we can sing tearfully because of its agony, but joyfully because of its blessing to us at the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light. We thank you that you didn't demand any payment from us.

We thank you, Lord, that you didn't expect certain standards of morality, but just as we are, we came. You said, just as you are, come, and that's how we came. And you said, him that cometh, I will in no wise cast out.

Lord, we are so varied here tonight. Our backgrounds are so varied. Some of us no doubt brought up in strict morality and Christianity, others far, far away from God. But Lord, we think of this little girl there, we pray be her comfort in that well tonight.

But Lord, we were in a pit far deeper and you reached down and lifted us up. Not only lift us up, but set us up. Not only set us up, but tuned us up, put a new song in our mouths, even praise is unto our God.

Lord, we think of many thousands, maybe millions in the country tonight, delirious over the World Series. But Lord, we thank you that we have something more intoxicating. We bless you for a perpetual intoxication, if it means joy unspeakable and full of glory.

There's love and life and lasting joy, Lord Jesus, found in thee. But we bless you, Father, that you delivered us from this present evil world. Tonight, we are marching to Zion, the beautiful city of God.

We intend to make it by the grace of God. And you said, my grace is sufficient for thee. Lord, every one of us tonight is a debtor to somebody who prayed for us when we didn't care. Tonight, we're going to pray for others who don't care.

They wouldn't even thank us, they're not even interested. The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. And yet, Lord, we're so unconcerned. They wouldn't even thank us, they're not even interested.

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. And yet, Lord, we're so unconcerned. But Lord, as we sang just a minute ago there, along my imprisoned spirit lay. Lord, we thank you for the day when our chains fell off, our bondage, our secret bondage.

You broke it, you set the fetters off and made us free. We bless you tonight, we know in whom we have believed. We're persuaded that he is able to keep that which we've committed unto him against that day.

Lord, we bless you for your holy word. Open it to us, we ask in Jesus' name. And the other one owns it all, her daddy's estate. What a difference in the size, look at the little thing and this big guy.

Do you want to say that a few minutes? I have to read the scripture, I don't like a dedication. This is a dedication service. We don't sprinkle babies. Some people do, but that's the way they catch cold.

So we keep clear of that. You know where this is from, at least I hope you do, I'll just read it. The child grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. That's from Luke chapter 2 and verse 40.

In Luke chapter 1 and verse 80, it says the same thing almost, with one exception. The child grew and waxed strong in spirit, but was in the desert until the days of its showing forth. That one, of course, is about John the Baptist.

In the second one, the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, and he was filled with wisdom. The next thing it says concerning him, he went into the temple. He came to pass after three days. They found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of doctors, a twelve-year-old, both hearing and asking them questions.

Remember what it said here in the first reading? He's not only growing in grace, waxed strong in spirit, but he was filled with wisdom. The proof here is at twelve years of age, he's sitting in the temple.

There were three synagogues. The first one was for the doctors and lawyers and the super saints of their day. And he goes into the third synagogue, into the inner part of the temple, like the holy of holies.

And here's a twelve-year-old boy, what does it say? Verse 47 says, they that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answer. The previous verse says he asked them questions. I'd like to know what he asked them, wouldn't you?

It would be very, very interesting, but I don't have a clue. But the fascinating thing is that he went into that inner part of the temple, where the learned doctors were. And almost all Bible teachers, scholars anyhow agree, that the greatest of the Hebrew scholars was Hillel.

And he was living at that time, he was almost a hundred years of age. And he was revered, partly because of his age, and secondly because he had a kind of super wisdom. And here's a little twelve-year-old boy, asking questions, of the most learned man in the world at that time.

He was almost a hundred years of age. He had a rival by the name of Shammar, and he was there at the same time. I checked this to find out, so you couldn't tell I was making this up. And there's another one called Jonathan.

He was a compiler of the Chaldean holy books, as they call them. Then there was another one by the name of Jonathan. There was another one by the name of Simon. He was the son of Hillel. And then guess who the last one was that was there?

Nicodemus, that later was going to come into the life of Jesus. And here's a twelve-year-old boy, asking them questions, puzzling them. And they were astonished at the wisdom which proceeded from him.

They were astonished at his understanding and his answers. I don't believe they put a question to him that he didn't answer. Not as God, but as a specially anointed child. You know, we waste so many years in the lives of our children.

Spiritual Formation and the Responsibility of Parents

In England, it's compulsory to go to school at five. Our boy, that now has a PhD, was reading, I think, when he was three years of age. We waste so much time. Don't waste time with your children. If I remember right, the great hem-writer, Isaac Watts.

Let me check on Jack here. Do you know his history at all? I think he could speak Greek when he was seven. And Greek and Latin at nine. And I don't know one or two other languages. You see, back in those distant days, you know, when they didn't have high schools, and poor souls didn't have TVs.

Isn't it shocking what they had to go to school and no cheerleaders? They went to school. To expand the brain, to expand their understanding. A whole host of those men that we call the, I call them kind of supermen, the men that we call the Puritans, were all knowledgeable of three or four languages by the time they were twelve.

The schools, our boys went to, they had to take a second language at about, what, eleven years of age? Seven. I was behind, you see. I was always behind at school. I'm always behind Martha. She's ahead of me.

Seven years of age, you have to take a second language. They say by the time you're five, is it five years of age, you'll develop most of your intellectual powers. And yet we waste them. One way to waste your child's mind, or a quick way to send them to hell, is buy them their own TV for Christmas.

And don't monitor it. You see, the problem, if you start educating your children, and really getting them lined up, the thing is by the time they're thirteen, they'll be smarter than you are at thirteen.

That's very rough. And it's very rude of me to say it, so I want to emphasize it. It's an awful responsibility, actually, to be a parent in these days. It's going to get more and more difficult, particularly as this terrible new age is breaking down on us.

They're going to have to be rooted and grounded. It's no good yelling, put the Bible back in school, I don't care a hill of beans whether they do or not. I want to see the Bible back in the home. Not prayer back in school, prayer back, how many of you take your children every day of your life and pray with them and read the word to them and explain it to them?

If you don't, you're not a real Christian father. I asked a woman one day, boy, she was a lovely looking woman. She was what they called a suicide blonde. Do you know what that is? Died by her own hand.

She got very angry. Well, you're not a suicide blonde, so don't worry. She got so angry when I talked about sin and so forth. She said, I want you to know, I'm offended by your English tongue. I said, fine, come tomorrow night, you'll be offended more.

She said, I'm offended. She said, do you know what? I belong in aristocratic American family. I am a pure-blooded American. I looked her blue eyes and the blonde hair, I said, what reservation are you from?

Boy, was she furious. I doubt if she's got over it now, and that's five years ago. Come on, I'm trying to lay heavily on you the responsibility of being a father or a mother in these evil days in which we're living.

There's a whole list of presidents of the United States who all in their turn, unconscious of each other, paid tribute to the fact that they read the Word of God almost every day of their lives, or it was the underpinning factor in their lives.

It's going to get harder and harder in this country and other countries to really stand by the Word of the Living God. Well, my prayer for these precious children is this. As the child grows, oh, how will you rejoice how they grow physically, which is good.

Emotionally, which is good. Intellectually, which is good. But spiritually, this is an amazing thing. You know, Mrs. Booth, the mother of the Salvation Army, as we call her, she had... I forgot how many children she had.

We used to have families in those days. We don't have them anymore. Jonathan Edwards, he prayed. Jonathan Edwards prayed. I've got this in a book. Jonathan Edwards prayed and read the Bible 13 hours every day of his life, and he had 12 children.

Twelve children. Did you know him personally, Dick? Well, you answered so powerfully, I thought you knew him. But Mrs. Booth, if I remember right, says that her children never cried after they were six months old.

Think of that. And then when they got a little older, she went to bed every night, and before they slept, put her hand under the head of the baby and said, and then kissed it, and going out of the room said, Darling, sleep, the world is waiting for you.

Not the town, the world. Every one of them became outstanding personalities. I saw two of those children. A guy went in about 50-odd, grey hair, which is a sign of learning, isn't it, brother? I met him, I met his oldest daughter, the Mara Shaw.

I see some kids of the Maranatha group have been to France, and received very well. They danced in front of that dame, and they were well received. Isn't that wonderful? Christians going all the way to France to dance and do mimes?

Dear God. Educated people pay all that money, all that Bible study, to dance? Oh, it's a Christian dance, of course, if there's such a thing. It's a crazy dance for everything. But in the 1900s, the Mara Shaw, the oldest daughter of the founder of the Salvation Army, she went with a group of young English women, and they rented a basement in one of the big factories in the middle of France, in the middle of Paris.

And they hadn't been there many weeks before the place was jammed out with harlots, the worst criminals in town, the worst prostitutes, and people from the Sorbonne came. Grey-bearded lecturers, some of the greatest scholars of the day came and listened to this precious English lady, who spoke French better than the French.

But at the beginning, they were taught at home. But William Booth said, every one of you is born for a purpose. These precious children, they're not born accidentally, they're not born just to bring honour to their father and mother.

God has an eternal purpose for them. And I want to remind them that it's their business not just to see they grow a little longer and a bit fatter and smart intellectually, but grow spiritually. Remember that Hannah went every year to the temple.

She gave a child. Have you ever thought of the heartache? Every year she went, she took him a new suit, he grew out of the last one. Every year she had the wrench of coming home without that child. She gave him once and forever he was God.

The altar sanctified the gift. What you put on the altar you can't take back. What kind of a child did she have? You've heard me pray so often here and I still pray, both here and at home. I'm so tired of living amongst mediocrity, average people.

God's looking for unusual men, unusual women. And it doesn't begin in the pulpit, it doesn't begin just in the home or the school, or Bible school, it begins in the home. I'm going to take the Indian baby first because, not any preference, but just because the Indians were here before we were here.

So you see what I mean? What's the baby called? Don't give me an Indian name. Alison? Can I hold the baby? You better put your hand on the knife. Father we thank you for this precious life you've entrusted to these dear ones.

Dedication, Holiness, and the Calling of Children

Lord bless dear Alison. We ask that right from her early days she may hate that which is evil and cleave to that which is good. Lord we have need of saintly, holy women. We pray that she will grow up to be a blessing to her parents and an honour to God and a tremendous addition to the Church of Jesus Christ.

Sanctify her mind, sanctify her body, sanctify her emotions. Lord don't let there be one usual thing about this child, make her totally unusual. May she grow more rapidly in spirit even than her parents.

Lord make her spiritually illumined that she may be able to say even if they can't hear speak Lord for thy servant heareth. So we commit her to you Lord, here she is. However long she lives Lord, we believe that she lives to the glory of God.

One day in eternity this congregation will see this precious one mature in the presence of our holy God. Alison bless you dearie. She won't let me kiss her. Twenty years from now she'll let somebody else do that.

Maybe. Because daddy isn't watching. Oh wonderful, Hannah. Isn't that beautiful? I'm scared, you know, I think they might snap. Oh she's looking round. They're not laughing at you dear, they're laughing at me.

Lord we thank you for this precious babe. Thank you for trusting dear John and Linda. Loaning her, she's your property. Lord I praise you, they'll guard this precious one. But again there'll be inspiration to her.

That she not only read about the things of God but see the things of God in the lives of her parents. Again I ask that body, soul and spirit you'll sanctify her, take her for your own. May she grow up in maturity.

Lord I dare to believe for both of these babies there's a place of destiny. They're not just ordinary children. They're born of sanctified parents for a purpose. Not to add to the world's population but to add to the kingdom of God.

Both in their own lives and in the lives of others. To this end we thank you and we bless you. We bless dear Hannah in your name. Hold her tight, don't drop her. I've lost my burden. Let's sing a verse, this is my story, this is my song.

Faith as the Central Theme of Hebrews 11

If you weren't here the other weeks you won't know but anyhow for the next few weeks we're going to study Hebrews 11, the faith chapter. Let me remind you again that faith is mentioned more than 300 times in the New Testament.

Only twice in the Old Testament. You know there's a wonderful pattern in this Hebrews 11. Remember the common denominator is they had faith. It occurs that the key word in the chapter is faith. The key verse in the chapter is verse 6.

He that cometh to God must believe that he is. That he is what? That he is all he says he is. If you let down to chapter 7 verse 25 he is able to keep you safe to the uttermost. In another scripture he is able to keep you from falling.

In another scripture he is able to make all grace to abound to you. What's Psalm 46 begin with? No one remembers. Thank God. God is our refuge, he is our refuge. In other words he is our all in all. The first character mentioned in this chapter Hebrews 11 is who?

Able. Why? Because he worshiped. And the key to every success in our Christian life is knowing how to worship. I don't believe we know how to worship. I found a very smart, intelligent man this week came to my home.

I'll tell you why, smart, he agreed with all I said. Which is unusual. In the course of talking he said, I don't think we can worship collectively. I said, I don't either. We can sing, remember again I say prayer is preoccupation with our needs.

Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with God. I don't know if I have that verse here. My goal is God himself. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but it's thee my God.

It is his to lead me there, not mine but his. At any cost dear Lord, any road. One thing I know I cannot say him nay. One thing I do I press toward my Lord. My God, my glory here from day to day and in the glory there thy great reward.

The first character then is able. What did he do? He worshipped. The second character is Enoch. What did he do? Worship? Maybe he did but he walked. Able walked, Enoch worshipped, the third character is Noah, he worked.

You see, faith isn't daydreaming. A simple definition is faith takes God as his word. Takes God as his word. I think in the first book I wrote I put a statement there that one day somebody's going to read the Bible and believe it and when they do Lord be embarrassed.

Do you know that makes preachers so furious? They say, boy I read your book ten years ago and I can't get over it. Oh wonderful, you mean I've kept you awake for ten years? Yes, you said one day we'll take the word of God and believe it.

Well come on, be honest. Why should you be able to complain again the world doesn't believe God if we don't believe him? There's two things Mrs. Boo said again to her children. No it wasn't Mrs. Boo, Mrs. Wesley said you have two things to do with the gospel, believe it and behave it.

We've been heavy on believing it but not behaving it. Dear Lord, if we brought everybody to the shoulder line who's disobedient to the word of God our churches would be empty. But remember, partial obedience is disobedience.

The Blood of the Passover and Obedience to God's Word

The way for the children of Israel out of bondage was what? To take a lamb and slay it. Maybe it was a pet lamb. We used to live in the old, kind of an old relic of a castle in England. The boys had, we had a lot of sheep about a hundred and fifty, no in Ireland.

And the boys each had a lamb. Boy they grow so quickly. Mary had a little lamb, they followed her to school one day. They used to follow our boys, used to get hold of them with the wool and pull them back.

We had to sell them one day. Oh boy don't upset the house. Here's a lamb you have to slay it. It isn't enough to slay it and take the blood and put in a bowl in the house. The angel of death would still come.

The blood has to be applied upon the lintels and the door posts. How many thousands of people are there who print our Bibles and don't know a thing about them? Build our churches and never go in them and I can understand why they don't in some degree.

Print the Bibles and don't read it and don't believe it. And they're going to have a greater judgment. I think every time you go down the street and see a cross on a church that will come up against us at the judgment.

The more I read of the judgment, I'm reading it by day and I can say before God by night. You know last night I slept all night, I couldn't believe it was me. I like to go to bed between nine and half past.

Go to bed half past nine, get up at half past eleven and get a few hours with the Lord. The phone doesn't, you know we were going to have a quiet day today, we had eight visitors today. I tell them listen, fifteen minutes, oh I've come five hundred miles I don't care if you've come from Jupiter.

My time is too precious, you get fifteen minutes. A guy came from England, you know that wonderful country of England, came a few weeks ago. I've come all the way from England, I say well sit on the chair where others sit.

Even if you come from Vannes, you sit there. And I gave him a little more than half an hour. You know the most precious thing we have we think is money. Don't spend your money frivolously but don't spend your time frivolously.

I'm only twenty, you may be dead at twenty one. You don't have a lease on life. The only thing any man in the world has is one beat of his heart, that's all. We need to sing take time to be holy. We need to worship one night we'll take a study now, worship God in spirit and in truth.

Cain, Abel, and the Sacredness of Blood

Let's go back now to Genesis read the story in the original, not in the original Hebrew just the original story in chapter four of Genesis I mean again from the King James Version of course Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and bare Cain and said I've gotten a man from the Lord and she again bare his brother Abel and Abel was a keeper of the sheep but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

In the process of time it came to pass Cain brought to the fruit of the ground from the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord Abel also brought to the firstlings of his flock and the fat thereof.

Why does it say the fat? To prove that he killed it. The fat isn't on the outside. It's telling us that he killed it in obedience. But the thing is where did he get a clue from? I don't believe he was in the garden when the first shedding of blood was not by man the first shedding of blood, that is the animal blood was when God took the beasts and killed them and made skin coverings for the Adam and Eve.

Do you think there's a clue in his mind God could have accepted something else but he killed beasts, covered us with the skin he shed blood and when that blood was shed our shame was taken away, we were hidden because of the blood that was shed.

I don't know whether that's the way or not. This I do know that one man brings an offering from the ground. Verse 3 Abel brought to the firstlings of his flock and the fat thereof and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering but unto Cain and to his offering he had no respect and Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell why didn't God accept the offering that's all he could bring?

I'll tell you why he couldn't accept the offering of Cain. Look in verse 14 of the third chapter the Lord said unto the serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all the cattle. Verse 17 Adam he said because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife watch it, I'm not facetious here, you hearken to the voice of your wife instead of me, you know Abraham disobeyed God and God says because thou hast heard a hearken to the voice of thy wife, God didn't speak to him for 15 years and I'm not thinking just literally of the wife there but somebody very close to you take their advice against the advice that God gives and God is a jealous God the purest of love has jealousy in it and God is a jealous God and we don't think of that, we think of his love all the time, he's a jealous God.

I wonder how much he gets, you know when you go to a meeting, oh I didn't get much out of that meeting tonight, but that's not the point, how much did God get out of it? Not did the choir sing well not was the sermon good, what did God get out of it?

Did he get worship, did he get adoration, did he get what he's looking for our only business on earth is to glorify God, is to get to know him intimately. I noticed that Dr. Weaver my dear old friend Dr. Tozer he knew God very closely and he did he wasn't the greatest preacher I've heard in my life.

I've heard preachers in many countries around the world and Tozer was not the greatest, but he had the most intimate fellowship with God than any man that I was ever with even to kneel with him you could almost feel some vibes as we might say coming from him, and when he prayed there was a holy ush, I prayed with him many times in a little office that was half a length from here to the window, and he didn't put books on the shelves, he stood them up this way so he wouldn't be bothered to read them.

He spent his time with God, worship adoration but the ground was cursed and he wanted to bring the ground that was cursed, the fruit of the ground and God said no that's why these folk that poor brother that got that million plus dollars from dirty, damnable dollars from the gamblers, bloodstain, sinstain or tearstain, beerstain, bloodstain, sinstain, and said it was an answer to prayer, that's a lie from hell, God doesn't want that well he was to help young doctors, listen there are more than a thousand with time Christian doctors in America, why can't they pack up and go to the most parts of the earth, nobody's challenged them to do it and they're not rookies, they're experienced for about 34 years of medical practice, they could finish years glory years instead of staying at home playing golf and doing some other thing, but God is a jealous God everything that he receives has to be pure even before he receives it, you couldn't take a lamb that was limping, that was lame, you couldn't take a lamb that had one eye out, you couldn't take a lamb with any defects it had to be an anti-type or a pre-type if you like of the Lord Jesus, a perfect lamb anyhow he says he brought his offering but verse 14 that we read again in the third chapter the Lord said unto the serpent thou hast done this thou art cursed, go down to verse 17 unto Adam he said because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wifeness eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying thou shalt not eat, cursed is the ground for thy sake and out of that cursed ground he tried to present a gift to God, it shall bring forth thorns and thistles, let's go now into chapter 4 so we'd save some time, unto Cain and to his offering he had no respect and Cain was very wroth.

He was very angry you know there's nothing, no anger worse I think than religious anger. I wonder why he was angry. I suggest to you that this was not the first time that this young man had made an offering to God and after Abel came away from worship which he did because he offered, he offered a lamb and I'm very very suspicious about people coming to the altar, the altar is for one of two things, death or sacrifice.

It's cheap to come to the altar now. I've talked with a man not long ago who goes to a big church 20 to 30 people come forward in our church every week. I don't know where they go, I guess I've had a dozen questions like that in the last month, where do all these people go.

It doesn't mean anything to come to the altar. People don't come broken hearted because of sin. They come and get a lift, they get an emotional lift. They feel better because they've said they're sorry my dear friend, when you think of the cross all it cost Jesus Christ notice that's the people now, you're saved, you take up your cross and follow him, we don't say that to Christians these days.

I kind of think that this young man had such worship of God and his brother had nothing but his miserable possessions. And when his brother comes back from worship, he'd been up the hills he comes back and he delighted himself in God and his brother thought, where in the world do you get this delight.

Where do you get this joy? You see people say it's boring to go to church, it sure is. I guess you heard of the preacher that said on Wednesday night next week, I want to meet all the board members in my church.

700 turned up. They were all bored, what greater joy is there than being married to the will of God. And here, way there in the beginning this fellow has no, he can't pick up a bible. There is no bible, there's nothing written.

Maybe the spirit bore witness with him that this is the way to do it and I'm sure in his heart he knew his brother, I can't think this is the first time that Cain punched Abel on the nose I guess many times he was angry and envious of him.

He's so light hearted, he's so free he moves in a dimension I don't know anything about and therefore he got more and more angry. And then when the offering was received by God, the sacrifice the Lord said to Cain, why art thou wrath and why art thou, why is thy countenance fallen.

So in verse 5 here you have anger there's his first sin, anger. In verse 7 you have sin, this is the first time sin is mentioned in the word of God thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door and unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him.

Come down to verse 9 or verse 8 we read Cain talked with Abel his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him, I kind of think he'd beaten him up many times and maybe Abel didn't think it would be any worse this time than the last, but this time he slew him verse 9, the Lord said unto him, where is thy brother Abel and he said I know not, see what the first thing was in his sin he got angry and the second thing is he slew his brother and the third thing he became a liar.

Thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground. Let me remind you again briefly George Fox, you must read the life of George Fox, that famous Quaker the man that made leather breeches because his others wore out riding horses and praying he went into Litchfield, dear Martha and I used to drive through Litchfield in England, it has a cathedral with red stones two towers instead of one going through the town he said my feet began to burn so he took his shoes off, the Lord said take off thy shoes he put them under a hedge, he said raise your hand walk right through town, it was market day, they were selling cattle selling fruit, and he marched through town with his hands in the air at the top of his voice crying, woe unto Litchfield our bloody city, our preachers then say that of Tyler in the pulpit, never mind on Main Street woe unto Litchfield our bloody city woe unto Litchfield our bloody city, when he got through the city he said I felt such a relief, he said I thank the Lord for strength and the Lord said you'll need more, you can go back and do it again, do you think the Lord has no humour so he said I want to, and people came out of the butcher shop and the drug store was called the apothecary the man came out of the apothecary, they stayed who is this man, who is this wild man, oh he's George Fox he's founding a new branch of Christianity called Quakers, anyhow he walked through the city again and he said when I got to where my shoes were my feet were not burning, I'd put them on more than a year after he was staying in the home of a wealthy Quaker Cadbury's chocolate in England and they're Quakers and fries are Quakers lots of very very, as you say, multi-million dollar people are Quakers they're very rigid, they won't fight in wars, lots of things they won't do they keep the Sabbath rigidly, they take care of the poor share their money, build wonderful schools and children can go, or used to go free education, anyhow he went to this Quaker's house for supper and supper wasn't ready so the good man said go into my library, it's open it was all thee and thou, thou can go into my library and he said he went in, he took down a volume and he opened this great volume, and what did it say?

Litchfield, and he read 200 years before in Litchfield a bunch of Christians had been martyred and he said Lord, I didn't realise when my feet were burning the Lord said your feet were burning because those martyrs who had been there for 200 years their blood was crying from the ground he said my brother's blood cries from the ground.

I've told you there's a book, you should get it you fellows for your children too. What's it called? Martyrs? What's it called Jack? Pardon? No, no, no, a far better book than Foxes Martyrs Mirror, it's a big book it weighs six and a half pounds costs you 32 dollars, it's worth it you know as I handle that, I handle it today showing it to a pastor, the blood of everybody martyred the blood from every battlefield, whether you go back to France, Passchendaele, Benny Ridge, Somme what was it, 600 ,000 people destroyed in the Battle of Somme when I was a kid in 1914 -18 war all the people killed in the Franco-Prussian war in the Roman Empire, in the British Empire in the Medo-Persian Empire, all that blood cries to God from the ground, blood is sacred thy brother's blood crieth from the ground, and remember there's another scripture in Hebrews says the blood of Christ speaketh better things than the blood of Abel this is the blood of condemnation, thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground, Cain said Lord, in verse 13 my punishment is greater than I can bear.

You know I'm convinced of this that through revival meetings when the Holy Spirit of God begins to convict people it's like having open heart surgery without an anesthetic God opens the prison house of memory you can talk about the subconscious and all you like God only has to open that door by conviction, I remember preaching in that great Methodist church right opposite Abbey Theatre where George Handel first prayed the Messiah preached at a conference there on Psalm 51.