Worship (Part 3 of 3) — Leonard Ravenhill

Treasuring the Word of God

Okay, let's look at the book. As I like to remind people, I always use the, which version do I use? Living Bible, King James Version. An old lady said to me in a meeting one day, she brought me this Bible, she was hugging it, it was a beautifully bound, she said, I've got a living Bible.

I said, lady, I never knew there was a dead one. It's been living ever since it was translated. In England, of course. Wycliffe made a promise, and I think of it so often, you know, you talk about the Wycliffe translators, or the Wycliffe, as we say in England.

I remember that one man, a bishop, decided he would put the Bible into the hands of the plowboys. Used to be tied up in the Latin tongue, that's what it's been in South America for centuries. And he said we'd make it to be in everybody's hand.

And I went into an old church in England, in the north of England, where they still have a chained Bible, one of these huge things, and it's on a little shelf in the wall, and it has an iron chain on it, and people used to come as often as they could and read from the Word of God.

There's a record in history where a man said that a man came and offered him a whole wagon load of hay for one page of the Bible. We don't treasure it, you see, it's commonplace. Buy it for a dollar, find some old copies in Goodwill if you want.

And it doesn't mean too much to us, very often. When we sing, Beyond the Sacred Page, I think that, I seek thee, Lord, I think of how often men prefer the sports page in the magazine, in the paper, particularly Monday morning.

If you stay around here long enough, there'll be a fever, let's see, about three months away. It's called cowboy fever. And if you go into Dallas, they talk more about the cowboys than any other subject.

That was tested by a secular newspaper. What is the main theme in Dallas? Oh, the cowboys. And that's a city full of seminaries and big churches. It's a city where two years ago, when the Dallas Cowboys played the, what, Pittsburgh Steelers, they put a giant screen up in the first so-and-so church in town so that they could find the results.

And somebody kept running in and saying, you know, sign language. Never thought of saying how many people were lost or gone to hell while they were preaching. The Word of God is the Word of God and it's never going to change.

It's guaranteed that the heaven and earth will pass away, but His Word will not pass away. Okay, let's read now from the first chapter in the book of the Revelation. Revelation chapter 5. And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and sealed on the back.

It was sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof. And no man in heaven or earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book neither to look thereon.

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not. Behold, a lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof.

And I beheld, and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.

Worship as the Highest Calling of the Church

And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. Well for the last, the previous two sessions we talked about worship. To me this is the most efficient section in the church of Jesus Christ.

Again we've taught people to witness. Knock on doors, do this, do that. Well that's not wrong. We've taught people to witness and we've taught them to work. We have not taught them to worship. I wonder how many sermons you've heard totally on the subject of worship in your life.

I have never heard one. And Dr. Tozer told me one day as we sat together talking, he said, Len I have never heard a sermon yet on worship. You see we've got the idea that as soon as you say the most important thing is get a bundle of tracts, go on the street, get witnessing.

That is not the most important thing. I found some of the most good-looking girls in the world on the streets in New York when I worked with Dave Wilkerson there nearly twenty years ago. Gorgeous looking girls, prostitutes, who could quote the scriptures, sing blessed assurance from beginning to end.

Dad knew so much about the church and they'd been born of the Spirit, had gifts of the Spirit, and yet they were prostituting. Boys that had been in the front line of the church who'd just got away. And I'm convinced of this, that the greatest thing in the world is not to be a soul winner.

Just as you hear people say sometimes, you know the great commission of Jesus, the last words of Jesus were going into all the world and putting, no they weren't. The old preacher says that telling he doesn't know what he's talking about.

The last word of Jesus is in the book of the Revelation where he says to about six out of the seven churches repent. That was his final word. I have found missions. I think the one particularly who came to me after a meeting in England in a stately old mansion and he put his arm around my shoulder and he wept.

There's a book written about his achievements. He lived on the roof of the world which was Tibet for years. Wore sackcloth around his legs and let his beard grow partly to keep warm and couldn't go out without things around his eyes and face.

Lived as a missionary. Oh it's all about suffering. Talk about these guys that have been fighting that foolish war there in the Falklands. Freezing to death some of them. Frostbite in their fingers, frostbite in their feet.

Well this is exactly what happened with the missionaries in those days. And yet that missionary admitted the fact that he had lost his devotional life on the mission field. Again I quoted the fact the doctor told me that as I looked at a piece of rug there in front of his desk that he laid as he said on his belly for five and six hours at a time without offering one word of prayer and without saying one word of praise he just worshipped.

Prayer, Praise, and Worship

We go to meetings now they say everybody raise your hand and worship. That's not worship that's praise. Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with God himself.

As the old hymn says my goal is God himself. I start every congregation somewhere now I stop in the middle of a service sometimes when the glory of God seems to be on the verge. I want to ask you a question tonight.

Did you come to this meeting tonight to meet God or to hear a sermon about him? 99 of people that will flood our churches on Sunday I'm convinced do not go there to meet God. They do not expect a confrontation with eternity.

They go to hear a sermon about God. They become kind of theological technicians. Oh he wasn't right there you know. He believes in the pre-tribulation rapture. Brother that fellow you know you should put him on an island in the middle of the ocean.

They do not meet God. Again in the three months from now when the Cowboys are playing hardly any church you can get out of Sunday morning before say hey well do you think Tony's gonna score the first goal this afternoon?

What are the odds? How many you know how many what do you call them touchdowns are we gonna get over them? It's the total conversation. Therefore football is their God. What preoccupies your thinking and your time the most is your God.

So prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings and worship is preoccupation with God himself. Now we don't follow this in America but in Europe in almost every denomination or if you like as the old lady said every abomination.

But anyhow in almost every denomination people stand to sing. We don't. We sit there. I was in a meeting the other day a few days ago. A fellow comes in and looks at his girl and you know rolls his eyes at her and then we sang a hymn.

He slips his arm around her. Boy I felt like punching him. I saw a fellow do that in a church not long ago. He slubbers down, big slub of a guy with his arm around the girl. I said listen if you want to do your courting go outside.

This is somebody playing the piano at one of the Sunday morning services. He wouldn't chew gum in the presence of the Queen of England or the presence of the President of the United States. What would your attitude be if Jesus was standing physically in the midst of this place tonight or when you go to worship?

Do you think you might dress a little more orthodoxly or you'd not want to whisper or do anything? Well listen if it takes his physical presence or something wrong with your thinking because where two or three are gathered in his name he's here.

And he's in every service and either he leaves it with joy or I dare to say he leaves it with sorrow. Okay then speaking generally in European and other churches they stand to sing we kneel to pray but we prostrate ourselves to worship.

Falling Before the Glory of Christ

Just go through the book of the Revelation. I tick that some of them off here in chapter 1 verse 17. I'll take the first instance where do you remember what John says that when he saw Jesus I fell at his feet as dead.

Now come on I know we like exciting meetings. Did you ever ponder that? Who's saying this? John. And he specifically marked out as the disciple whom Jesus loved. John is the one who used to lay his head on the shoulder on the bosom of Jesus and hear that divine heartbeat.

And he was with him those three and a half years and he was with him in his Gethsemane. He was one of the chosen three you know. He was there when Jesus raised Jairus's daughter. He was there on the Mount of Transfiguration.

He was there in the Garden of Gethsemane. And yet as familiar as he was with Jesus he says when I saw him in his resurrection splendor I fell at his feet as dead. Now come on one of the before too long you're going to stand before a thousand billion people.

You won't have your husband, your wife, your sweetheart, your deacon. You're going to stand by yourself in the presence of the Christ of God. Do you think we'll be talking about the man upstairs like these vulgar so-called converted film stars do?

If John fell at his feet as dead. John sees him now. Not the man of Galilee. Not the man whose beard is plucked and somebody spits some phlegm and somebody cracks him on the face and somebody puts a blinder on his eyes and says come on prophesy.

You supposedly know everything. He says I saw him his eyes were like flames of fire. His feet were like burnished brass. His face is like the sun in its strength. His tongue is a sharp-swedged sword.

His voice is like what the sound of many waters. You know I love this book it mystifies me. To me the book of Revelation is a book of mystery and it's a book of majesty and it's a book of misery. It's the end book in the Bible.

Yeah it's the end book because it goes beyond the end of time. It goes into eternity. Of all the so-called theologies if you like or mystical interpretations of eternity this is the only authentic one in the whole world.

And you'll be very wise at your age since you're so young to read this book very often. John here is well actually the fourth chapter begins a division in this book. If you look at let me give you those other chapter verses pardon me about falling at Peter's dead.

Chapter 1 verse 17. Chapter 5 verse 8 and then 14. Chapter 7 and then verse 11. Then 11 verse 16. 19 verse 4 and then verse 10 and 22 and verse 8. All right let's come back. Let me just say this too in Matthew 28 you remember that the two Marys had been to the tomb and as they were told to go away and declare the news suddenly they were confronted with Jesus.

Do you remember what they did? They fell at his feet and they worshipped him. They fell at his feet and they worshipped him. In case I forget later can you remember a time when you went into his presence not to pray, not to ask for money, not to ask him to get you out of a difficulty.

Not even just to worship him. What is worship? Worship is a concentration of adoration and love, meditation and contemplation. Adoration I think we mentioned and love. And then concentration because if you don't concentrate you'll end up maybe with transcendental meditation.

You've got to keep your mind on this thought that you're there to worship God. Now you're not going to get there in a weekend. There's a young man I was thinking of. He's 30 miles away from here. He's 32 years of age.

He prays 10 hours a day. Now it's no good you saying well I'm going to start praying too. You won't. There's a man in this building two weeks ago who prays 8 hours most day and often 16 hours a day. These men never get the picture on front of Christianity Today or Billy Graham's decision or last day's ministry paper.

They do not want to be exhibits. They're not seeking the praise of man. They shut it. They flee from it. You see what adoration really is, oh we can say so many things about it, is a love relationship with Jesus Christ where you contemplate at one time one of his aspects is holiness, his mercy another time, his long-suffering, his patience, the power of his redemption.

You know we get sometimes a bit woozy and we say thank you Lord for saving my soul. Well how often do you thank him? There's an old hymn that says fill thou my life O Lord my God in every part with praise that my whole being may proclaim thy being and thy ways.

Not for the lip of praise alone not even a praising heart I ask but for a life made up of praise in every part. Praise in the common things of life its goings out and in. Praise in each duty and each deed however small and mean.

Worship Through Humility and Service

So shall no part of day or night from sacredness be free but my whole life in every step be fellowship with thee. I'm just thinking of going to a worldwide evangelization crusade meeting about 40 years back and a very charming girl, oh boo, when she came in, whoa, had she personality, had she style.

And everybody kind of looked. Oh she had a gorgeous fancy blouse on, a hair do you know, high heels and zee all the you know stuff ladies have. And they said we're going to ask Miss so-and-so from America to give a testimony.

So she went up with a big smile and she said well my name is so-and-so you know and I graduated first in Bible school then I went to certain University got my degree in so-and-so and I kind of got a vision for the world and so forth and I came down here to the worldwide evangelization crusade and felt I knew all the answers you know my personality was all in order I got it all everything was under control and the first night I was here they said well the rising bell goes at six in the morning and you're allowed about an hour for prayer and meditation and then seven o 'clock breakfast then 7 30 you get your assignments.

Here I was she said I don't know how many languages she spoke and I got my degree in this something else and finished Bible school and got all these kind of diplomas and I got my assignment a big old steel bucket about that depth with scrubbing brush and soda and soap and they told me to wash all the toilets out in that one level I was on.

What in the world are they doing don't they realize my ability? I mean across the Atlantic you can go to school all these years and spend money to get an education to brush toilets out stinking things that they are old-fashioned English toilets are terrible but anyhow let's pass over that and me me and she said it was down on my knees scrubbing the floor that I realized yeah you'd like the glitter you'd like to be projected in front you'd like to display some abilities you have you know it will help you a lot if you get this in your mind that nobody that ever lived ever did God a favor if ever you think that little grain of sand on the edge of eternity that happens to be your personality is going to upset the world if it gets moved forget it.

Somebody said if you want to know how valuable your life is you fill a bucket with water and roll your sleeve up and push your hand right to the bottom of the bucket and pull it out. And the hole you leave is the impression you've made in your lifetime pretty demanding.

Isn't it kind of difficult to think the world will function when I die. I have trouble about this sometimes. You know if I die I mean all these societies are going to collapse. Oh no no no no. Okay. Well what's the secret of keeping going on going on going on.

The secret is worship. The secret is a love relationship. I think there's an old book Dr. Tills used to talk to me about called the eternal marriage. He used to read all the mystics. We don't have mystics now.

He just misfits. But he loved to read in that in that area people that seem right out of touch with life. And they're not really out of touch with life at all. Now this book is the book of the revelation.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ

And often preachers will say we're going to read now from the fourth chapter of the book of the revelation of Saint John. There isn't such a book in the bible. The book of the revelation is the revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John.

And the revelation the apocalypse as it's sometimes called means the unveiling. You read again again in the word of God about mysteries in the scripture. Mysteries in the scripture. Well a mystery is not something that cannot be solved.

A mystery is something that has not yet been unveiled. For Paul says you remember on one occasion behold I show you a mystery. This has been veiled until now. I take the veil away. Now here's one of the most amazing things I think in this whole book in the fourth chapter it says in verse one.

And I looked and behold a door was opened in heaven. And I've said this before but I'll say it again for some who are not here that I think I'd love to do this. I would like to do every time I go to a meeting.

I'd like to so be anointed of God and have some revelation from God that somehow let me put it this way. If I could right now I push the door open in heaven. Do you ever sneak a peek through a door. I did as a little boy mother said.

Now you don't go into the living room the drawing room as they call it the guest room. Something in there you're not to see. First thing I did was tell my sister it was there and go look at the thing.

You know usually open the door like this just about an inch. If you could see into eternity for five minutes you would never be the same again. You never grumbled. You never backslide. You'd never vary in your Christian life.

You'd never vary in your passion for the loss. Remember the song that says one day the things of earth will grow. Or today it's supposed to be the things of earth grow. Strangely. When we get up there and look back the things of earth will look strangely grim.

We wish we hadn't spent so much time on valueless useless things. Remember there's no u-turn at the throne of God. When you get back and see your life where God tried to block you doing a thing and you pushed your way through or gave you some warning and you ignored it.

But he gave you the chance to sacrifice or do some other thing that the average person doesn't do. A door open in heaven. Well we can push the door open a little more here in this fifth chapter he says I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back sealed with seven seals.

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice. That's a that's a common reference in the book of the revelation. A loud voice no weakling. Somebody with a trumpet sound as it says in the first verse of the fourth chapter.

And there was a voice I heard it was. It was a sound of a trumpet. Well if you've been in a camp where you awaken in the morning with a trumpet blast you know something what it means. And here this angel is making a proclamation.

There's one sitting on the throne proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof. Now listen to this dreadful thing. No man you know that the greek actually there says not even one.

As though you're saying come on. What do you mean. No man no man in heaven or earth or under the earth was able to open the book and to look there on. Now what is this book that's sealed with seven seals.

Well it wasn't a book like this. They didn't make books like this. They made books in a scroll. And they would. They don't write from the. We write from the right to the left. The jews write from the uh right to the left.

No. Wait a minute. We we write from the left to the right. The jews write from the right to the left. The japanese write the other way. If you figure it out you'll find everybody writes towards the cross.

And this book is sealed. It is a scroll. There it is. It's rolled up like this. And when a man has made the first part he puts a seal down and that part of the book cannot be open. And then he writes another series and he seals it again.

There are seven seals. But the first part of the book may be open while the back part is rolled up like a scroll. And it's sealed. Now why is it sealed. Well in the customs and manners of the jews of old if a man lost his territory if for some reason uh he couldn't afford to keep it or he got into debt or something they would take all his manuscripts all his uh whatever you want to call them and bind them all together and seal them.

Well in this case it says they were sealed with seven seals. And in the jewish economy a thing that was sealed with seven seals became a standing sign of an alienated inheritance. In other words the title deeds of all the property was sealed up.

And john says there's no man found worthy. Now come on. Stretch your mind a bit right now john is on the isle of padmas. Unless i'm seriously mistaken you will find some of the greatest truths you ever discovered are not in meetings however intelligent and zealous the preacher may be.

You'll find some of your greatest revelations. The times you hear god's voice most clearly will be when you're by yourself. Could be unattractive. It could be in the office could be in some other place.

You see we we're all looking for tapes. You know that will give you uh as dr tozer said to me one day. Well then if you ever see a book on uh uh six easy steps to christian maturity uh would you be good enough to send it to me.

I said yes. I will send it to airmail. Well he said thank you. I'll make you a promise when i get it. I won't read it. There's no such thing as six easy steps. You can read a hundred biographies. God isn't going to make you the way made someone else.

Aren't you glad the lord makes us all so variable. I mean supposing everybody had a nose like yours and ears like mine. And you know just as though we come off a cookie cutter. Oh the variableness in human personality is amazing.

There are people that don't like spaghetti. That may it might sound difficult to you but they've got different appetites. Some people like modern art. I was in the house not long ago. A lady had this great beautiful picture just a great big yellow blob.

And she said what do you think to my picture. I said. She said do you know what it is. I said yes. She said. What i said. Somebody threw an egg on the wall. Oh don't you realize it's this. But no i said.

I couldn't realize. I could never have thought of that. In a fast. She thought it was wonderful. I'd have hung it in the what different values what different way. You the man that wrote this wonderful book of revelation was saint john.

Peter could never have written this. There's such variableness that then again look at this. This is stunning. The title deeds of the universe have not yet been liberated. And john says there was this multitude in heaven.

And a voice yelled out that echoed down the ages as it were echoed in eternity in the vastness of eternity. Who is worthy to open the book and to lose the seals. And no man. No not one. Another translation says no not even one out of all the multitudes that ever lived.

Say to that seraphim hey would you come and open this book. He says i can't do that. I can't do that. You said to that cherubim. Would you come. Your excellency. No. Oh jerry meyer i see you. Would you come down here jerry mine open the book can't do it as i would you come and do it.

No no. Well daniel. Oh the only two faultless characters i think in the old testament daniel and joseph. Hey daniel come on. Nobody can do it. Is that incredible. Of all the men in this book david and samuel and ezekiel and everybody else.

And not one of them can do it. They do not come forward. No man was found worthy. And i wept much. The other greek says there i broke loose in my utterance of grief. This word is only used twice in the new testament.

One is when jesus is going to jerusalem. And you remember he went down to whip them out of the temple. But wait a minute. Luke says before he whipped them he wept over them. Because you're going to tell somebody a piece of your mind.

You better weep over them before you whip them. And when he went over jerusalem they were saying we're getting rid of this man. He says oh god. Jesus says no. You're not kicking me out. I'm deserting you.

What is israel being bombed for tonight and blasted. Or at least he's doing it on others for the simple reason that for two thousand years you better watch it. You can't trifle with god. You can't obey him when you want.

You can't postpone going to the mission field until you get married or something else. He demands priority. No man was found worthy to open the book. Oh i see there's an uproar today about justice. You know what keeps me sane.

A lot of people think i'm not there yet. But i'm trying to get sane. And my balance is they shall not the judge of all the earth do right. That fellow hinkley got off three out of four people all over the nation said he should have been sentenced to something.

One of the most precious men in this community. Nobody sees him hardly lives down the valley there. He's a cinderella. He doesn't get much man. He doesn't get much money. But he does a super job. Little joe foss.

He goes into the prisons. Maybe you'd like to go sunday night six o 'clock. They're having their commissioning service fellows that have been in every rotten stinking filthy thing you can imagine. And god has redeemed them sanctified them.

And they're going back to work in prisons. He's telling the other day about a young man he says he is really blazing for god. In one of the prisons that i visit you get six months. No he just got 40 years.

Because somebody molested said he molested the girl. If i remember what joe said he didn't do it. He had about four minutes of embracing and so forth with her. But he said for four minutes he got 40 years.

Yet a man who nearly murders the president gets off and lives in luxury. No justice in the earth. But one day the judge of all the earth will do right. There's no opportunity. There's opportunity. But there's nobody there.

Eternal Judgment and the Consequences of Life

Move out of the vast congregation. You know if you lived in in revelation war and realized the vast eternity into which we're going. I was preaching to a crowd mostly of university students a while ago i'm right in the middle of preaching as i said something i mentioned about going to hell.

And i remember just feeling as everything in me would burst. And i said all those people your neighbors the man that sits at the end of your table your son your daughter your brother they're going to hell.

And not for the weekend. It's the eternal prison house. A middle of a million roads go in but no roads come out in heaven. They cease not to praise god night and day. It says in this fourth chapter they cease not to pray but praise him by night and day singing holy holy holy in the lord.

What do they sing in hell. The harvest is past or somebody's ended and we're not saved. I don't think there's anything will keep you more on balance than reading again in this amazing book of the revelation.

No one was found with it. So i wept. It's the same heartbreaking sob that you get from the son of god when he looks over jerusalem when he says jerusalem. You mad folk you stupid bunch of people you've had the greatest men that ever came out of time.

They were god-made men. Elijah jeremiah daniel all the the biggest men that ever walked the earth morally or spiritually. And you dumb folk you know you got more lost in sheep and selling things and buying things and got lost in materialism like our generation has done.

Then last of all says well you won't listen to the prophets. God sent his own son and now you're kicking him out. And for two thousand years remember they've had no prophets. They've had no peace. And i think they're going to get a baptism before very long.

I kind of think maybe they'll get kicked out of israel again swamped out for a little season. And when they go back they'll go back because they're seeking messiah not to recover israel and its glory.

I wept much. I was heartbroken. I wasn't sniveling behind my hand. I opened my heart and i groaned and i traveled. And my god what's going to happen here. The title deeds of the universe. Nobody dare go and take the book out of the hand of him that sat on the throne.

One of the elders said unto me i like that. You notice in the previous chapter it was an angel with a loud voice. This is not an angel now. This is one of the elders one of the men who felt the cleansing of the blood of jesus christ who had felt his life revolutionized who'd had his whole thinking redeemed and all his personality put back into harmony where i was every bit of him was in rebelling against god.

And now god has smoothed him out and made him a saint and made him an elder. And one of the elders said unto me weep not behold the lion of the tribe of judah. This is in the 49th of genesis where where jacob talks to his son and the fourth son was what called what is called judah and he it means a lion.

And this is the end of the the line of the tribe of judah. This is the true line of the tribe of judah. And yet in the next verse he's not a lion he's a lamb. The line of the tribe of judah hath prevailed to open the book and to lose the seven seas and low in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts in the midst of the others to the lamb as it had been slain.

Uh not too long before the 1914 18 more. You won't remember that but i remember it. I remember war was declared on the 4th of august in 1914. Before that a little welshman by the name of um jeffrey stephen jeffreys.

He was preaching in a little place in a town in in welsh double l is you know you can say better if you have a cold finetly. And he was preaching away for all he's worth in just a mission with about a hundred people in.

And then oh people did oh. And he looked and there on the wall to just a common building white white plaster on it. And when he looked there was a traditional head of jesus christ about six feet with the thorns and the blood.

And he said to the congregation this is a sign of coming judgment. He went on preaching and again about 20 or 30 minutes after and he looked again and the head had disappeared. And there was a lamb with its head and its feet together.

Like that you see when we pray for revival we're asking for trouble. Because almost every revival has been followed by me has been followed by judgment. Look at the great boxer rebellion in in china. Well that followed a spate of revival.

Look at korea 1905 was swept with a tremendous holy ghost revival and then swept with judgment. 25 years ago i preached for oswald smith in that great church in toronto. And he told me about the time that he was in canada pardon me that he's in canada time.

He was in russia. And he went to those countries. You never hear a word about them. Latvia and some of you don't know the names of lithuania. And latvia swallowed up in the belly of the great rotten russian bear.

They saw a holy ghost revival where the lights didn't go out. That's revival. These silly little things we have brother joe bill smith is going to have a revival from sunny descent. That's hogwash. Not revival at all.

That's just to repair all the broken down christians that have broken down since the last revival. That's all our revivals are. Turn your tape over for the remainder of this message. Sticking band-aids on weak christians giving them clutches to limp on revival changes the moral climate of a community.