Revival Series 1 - Part 1 — Leonard Ravenhill

Samson and the Secret of Spiritual Strength

Our text tonight is in the 16th chapter of the book of Judges. Judges, the 16th chapter, reading verse 6. And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict me.

One of the old European versions of the scripture has an extra word in this text, and the extra word is secret. So then the text reads, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict me.

Now you may not want to accept that word secret. You say it's not there by inspiration, and that's true, but it's there by influence anyhow. This is a question of a woman of the world to a man of God.

It will be a great day, and God hasten it, when the world again begins to ask the church, what is the secret of thy great strength? I believe right now the world has a suspicion that the church has no strength.

The Puritans and the Holy Spirit

About 400 years ago in England we had a breed of men, a very unusual breed, most Englishmen out, but they were a very unusual breed. By any standard they were giants, morally, spiritually, intellectually.

And history has classified them as the Puritans. Quite a number of them, but I think the tallest of them, theologically, spiritually, was John Owen. John Owen left us a massive volume on the Holy Spirit.

That isn't my interest right now. My interest is this, that he criticized men this way. He said the sin of men, he said the sin of men in the Old Testament was against the Father. The sin of men in the New Testament, he said, was against the Son.

And the sin of men in my day, he said, 400 years ago, is against the Holy Spirit. The sin of men in my day, he said, 400 years ago, is against the Holy Spirit. I think if he came back he wouldn't need to modify that criticism in any way.

I've said, as we'll say tonight, say of the night, that I believe that this is the most perilous hour in the history of America. In the last two or three years I have been able to preach at the National Convention of the Southern Baptists, at the Florida State Convention, at the Texas State Convention, and at each of them I've said I would like to give all the preachers a sheet of paper and a pencil, and ask them to write on that piece of paper what or who they think is the greatest threat to America today.

And I've said, and still say, that I don't think 10 percent of them could give me the right answer. They might start off with the devil and finish with the Democrats, and in between have drink and dope, and I don't know what else, divorce?

But I believe the greatest threat to America tonight is God. If you haven't read any books by Francis Schaeffer, who is a full-blooded American in one sense, I think one of the great spiritual intellectuals of our time, he's running the Liabri Fellowship there in Switzerland.

It's a rescue station for intellectuals. Some kids from the richest homes in America, kids that have had the very best of everything. Their daddy's own planes and yachts. They lived in millionaires' homes.

They've had the finest of education, but they hit the gutter. They got caught in the vortex of modern life. And they've made their own pilgrimage there to the Liabri Fellowship in Switzerland, with a language something like this.

Look, Dr. Schaeffer, you're our last hope. If you don't have the answer, we can't find the answer in the churches in America. But I'm interested in this observation he makes in his book called Death in the City, which is only about a dollar and a quarter, and if you want something to upset you, read it.

He says, remember this, that God has given up on the cities of America. They rejected him, and God has rejected them, on the basis of the first three chapters in Romans. But then he says this more disturbing thing.

He says, remember that in China, eight hundred years ago, eight centuries ago, every leading town and city in China, eight hundred years ago, had a thriving evangelical church. Where is that church tonight?

God said that he was married to Israel. God said he divorced Israel. God says ultimately he'll remarry Israel. In between, God hasn't bothered with Israel for two thousand years. She's been the football that every nation has kicked around.

Five times in history, they have been almost annihilated. God hasn't bothered with Israel, the people he married for two thousand years. What makes you think he didn't walk out on America, or England?

You don't legalize abortion, you don't take living babies out of living mothers, and where do the babies go? Mind your own business, maybe your dog ate them this week, for dog meat. And I'm not facetious.

Nevada has legalized prostitution. England has legalized homosexuality. We have nine million alcoholics. We have roughly 30 million people on some kind of drugs. We have an all-time high in venereal disease amongst kids under 15 years of age this past year in America.

And England is very much the same. You see, you only shake your finger at God and break his law so long, and God walks out on nations. Just like he does on men, he says, my spirit shall not always strive with man.

And one of the terrible things about preaching is that while some people come forward and say they'll take Christ for eternal life, there are others who say no, not openly, secretly. In that very moment they say they're dead, as long as God lives.

Because there comes a time when God knocks at the door of their heart for the very last time, and then he goes. This story of Samson to me is a story of a superman. To me, Samson is a type of a spirit-anointed man, he's a type of a spirit-anointed church.

The Elusive Anointing and Holy Ghost Revival

The two most elusive things in the world tonight, what are they? While we've been in the Bahamas the last three years, there was a scare, the newspaper articles, they thought they'd rediscovered the lost island of Atlantis, but discovered they hadn't.

And right now for some reason I don't know. There are two expeditions on the Himalayan ranges trying to find the abominable snowman. If they were trying to find the abominable showman, I could give them the names of six evangelists.

But they're trying to find the abominable snowman. Are these the most elusive things in the world? The abominable snowman and the elusive lost island? No no no no no. The two most elusive things on God's earth tonight are number one, personal anointing by the Holy Spirit, and number two, Holy Ghost revival.

In every other area you can energize, organize, get money. And you just sweat in your labor when it comes to it. God won't anoint you because you're a millionaire and he won't refuse you anointing because you're a pauper.

God won't send blessing because you have this gorgeous church and I think it's very beautiful. And he won't bypass it either because you have it. You see God is sovereign and there are certain things that men must do if God is going to come and bless.

Samson is a title of spirit anointed man. I suppose it's fortunate for mankind that only once in maybe a thousand million men you'll get a man who wants to dominate the whole world. We've had a few of them in history.

Remember they told you at school perhaps that Alexander the Great at 27 years of age conquered the world and sat down and wept because there were no more worlds that he knew how to conquer and he was only 27 years of age.

And then in my day almost conquered the world, his name was Hitler. Prior to him, a little, small, copulent Corsican by the name of Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, almost conquered the world.

And one day he gathered together his warlords. On the wall of his office he had a great map of the world and he snapped these men to attention and he plunged his index finger around the ragged edge of the great country.

And then he said to his generals, gentlemen there lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! He said this in before the battle of Waterloo, which happened to be on June the 18th which is tomorrow and it's my birthday.

You know where I'm staying. And uh but on the battle day of the battle of Waterloo with his ambition to conquer the world he ran his finger around that country. There is the sleeping giant. Let it sleep!

He said if that country ever wakes up and discovers its mineral wealth and harnesses that mineral wealth for its manpower, let the rest of the world out. That giant will shake the world. If you're interested, the country that he outlined was China.

America's biggest headache tonight. Russia's biggest headache. Doesn't the book of the revelations say somewhere around about the ninth chapter that one day 200 million men will come marching from the east?

From where? Well they don't have 200 million in Japan. The only country could be China. Do you remember you being patched up to your ears to make atom bombs and hydrogen bombs? And wasn't it Mr uh who was the president?

Wasn't it that Baptist president Truman? No wonder he made so many mistakes. But anyhow, wasn't it Truman that said after that bomb was dropped on Hiroshima or Hiroshima at 16 minutes to 8 on the 6th of August 1945, if there's another war, if the world is threatened, we've got the bomb the first week and get it over.

About 50 ,000 bodies of the choicest American boys in Vietnam in the telly. That was a lie. You've been patched your ears to make atom bombs. We don't use one of them. Why? Because when America dropped that bomb, as I say, at 16 minutes to 8 on the 6th of August 1945, she had the big stick and she was telling the world what to do.

But remember tonight, China that has no conscience has an atom bomb. You don't need aircraft. All you have to do is to make an intercontinental ballistic missile and put a warhead in it and shoot the thing and boy, they can blast us to smithereens.

Interesting, isn't it? Mr Brezhnev, Leonardo Brezhnev, is going to have a political reception tomorrow with pomp and circumstance and white-gloved soldiers and Germans and beauties. And he hates us like the devil.

And Nixon doesn't hate him much less anyhow. But we'll play hypocritical games with politics. Did you nearly roll out of bed the other night, was it Tuesday or Wednesday? They shot the thing off across the water there, one of those rockets.

At 3 .30 in the morning it rocked your house and your windows. And it was a new gadget that's going around in space right now and it's specially put there to listen in for anything that Russia sends over and relay and release a message within seconds once Russia starts firing these missiles which they know we have and we know they have.

For the last 12 years some men are under the mountains there in Colorado have marched down under an area that's thicker than this place with concrete and they simulate pulling a switch. They never pull the right one because it has a bit of wire on it so they won't.

But if they pull the right one, rockets would shoot out from all over America to blast everything in the sky. And the article I had on that says the men who are waiting for Armageddon. China's our biggest headache.

Napoleon said over a century ago, century and a half, there lies a sleeping giant, let it sleep. If China ever decides to yawn and stretch and go on the march, let the world look out. All right, you don't like politics, let's change it.

The Sleeping Church and the Power of the Holy Ghost

Instead of seeing Napoleon there, instead of seeing a map of the world, see a map of the ages. Instead of seeing Napoleon, see the devil. And he brings all the demons out of hell and he says to them, there, see that?

He runs his finger around the ragged edge of something, what is it? The Church of Jesus Christ. And he says, there is the Church of Jesus Christ to sleep, let it sleep. Because if the Church of Jesus Christ ever rediscovers the power of the Holy Ghost and harnesses what it already has to the power of the Spirit, let the earth look out, and let hell look out.

For the Church anointed in the power of the Holy Ghost is the greatest power after the power of a triune God. Tell me where in the secret of thy great strength lies. I first heard about America when I was a little boy in a school in England.

I had a teacher I didn't like. I never had one I did like, as a matter of fact. But this one I particularly didn't like. She didn't like me either. I don't know why. I've always been attractive, but anyhow, she didn't like me.

And she thought I didn't know much, and I knew she didn't. And she told us a story, the best known story, I don't care whether you go to Russia, or Africa, or wherever you go around the world, there's one story that's known above all other stories in America, about America.

You know what it is? The story of Ritland Winkle. He was a Republican, but he's very famous. And she told me about this man who went up a hill, and he fell asleep, and when he came down the hill, he got involved in argument with a group of people.

All I know, she said he slept for 20 or 50 years, she wasn't sure. And that's all I learned about the man. And that's exactly what the story is, which proved her ignorance anyhow. You see, the story is this, that when he went up the hill, there was a sign hanging outside of the tavern.

On it was painted the head of George III of England. England had a lot of money in America at that time. When he came down the hill, they had painted out the face of George III, and they had painted the face of another famous Englishman.

Did he get his name? George Washington. You didn't know he was English? How ignorant can you get? But anyhow, they had erased the face of George III, they had painted there the face of George I. What's the secret of the story?

Is the story secret that he went to sleep for 20 years? No! The secret is this, he slept through a revolution. And I tell you with all the power of my being tonight, I believe that's what the Church of Jesus is doing in this very moment.

Sleeping through the greatest moral, spiritual, social, economic revolution in history. America can't hold together five more years, nor can mankind, none of the present systems that we have. A week tonight, I'm going to preach, God willing, on the second coming, the King is coming.

Tomorrow night, I want to preach on revival praying. Tuesday night, I believe on vision. Wednesday night, if the Lord gives us permission, on the judgment seat of Christ. Thursday night, maybe on the cross.

Friday, on problems in the Christian life. Saturday night, there'll be no preachers unless these boys do it. I'm not preaching twice a day, every day. Scripture says, six days, shut down labor. They've already put me on to Saturday morning.

That could cost you a thousand dollars, but that's all right. And in case you are going to give me anything this week, let me tell you this, you'll give me all that you can, because I won't take a penny of it.

I've got three sons on the mission field, I've got one that needs money right now, whatever comes in this church, even if you give me ten thousand dollars, I'll give him every penny. I won't take any expenses on it for eating or traveling or anything.

It's all on the mission, so you'll know I won't get a dime. All right. The Lord asked the question, what is the secret of thy great strength? Abnormal days demand abnormal men with abnormal methods and abnormal messages.

Samson as a Normal Man Used Supernaturally

And Samson is one of the most abnormal men in the Bible. You know, we've got this man kind of mixed up in our thinking. Whenever you find a picture of Samson, you'll find him a kind of colossus. You know, he's got muscles like watermelons and muscles on his chest like a range of mountains, and that's exactly what he wasn't.

Of course he's read mythology, maybe a half. Read about Atlas carrying the world on his back, Hercules kicking a range of mountains over. Or if you're not so well educated, Jack and the Beanstalk, let me come down to your level.

But every man is a giant, he's a Hercules, he's a colossus. Now I don't think women are stupid, always. Can you imagine a woman looking up to a man 19 feet? You see, here's a picture, here is the average man in Israel, and here is Saul, head and shoulders above the average man, and here is Goliath, head and shoulders above the man who's taller than the rest of them, and here is a colossal Samson up there.

Now you can't imagine a woman going to a man and saying, I pray bloody, what's the speed of every great strength? It's pretty obvious that you'd think a man, I'm not going to suggest he was no bigger than the staff here, that wouldn't be right.

But by the same token, I don't think he was six feet thick to six foot seven. He was a normal man doing abnormal things, and everybody asked the question, you lock him up in a city, he carries half the city away with him.

He meets a lion and destroys it. Two thousand men come from West Point, he picks up the jawbone of an ass and slays them. When I said in one meeting, the Lord doesn't use the jawbone of an ass anymore, one of those nasty little ladies on the front seat said, yeah, he does at our church every Sunday.

But, the jawbone of an ass? Why are you so sure he wasn't a giant? I always thought, I have a Bible and it has a picture of Samson. He's a huge man. I'll tell you why, because the sign is written outside of your church there, not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

Again, the Word of God says, the lame take the prey, and to those who have no might, the increase of strength. Again, the Word of God says, he takes the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are not.

No flesh should glory in this presence. It is a normal man doing abnormal things. He is an embarrassment to his enemies. He's a very epitome, he's a very answer to that text that says, that when you're walking in the spirit, no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.

Oh, but in all things we are more than conquerors through him. You see, over and over and over again, it says in his life, the most precious thing you can say, if any man decided, he said, I would rather have this than you give me a check for ten billion dollars tonight.

But it says, it's whatever this man does, what nobody else could do. It says of him, the spirit of the Lord rested mightily upon him, and you can't get done by college or seminary, till God's prerogative is to give it to those who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and so desperate that they'll do what this man did, as we'll come to the end of the story and find out.

The woman says, what is the secret of thy great strength? What do you have that nobody else has? What's the mystery? When you have this energy, this supernatural power. You see, the church began by being supernatural, she's ending by being superficial.

She began in the upper room with a bunch of men agonizing, and she's ending in the upper room with a bunch of women organizing. The world doesn't ask us this question anymore, does it? What is the secret of thy great strength?

Trust, Obedience, and the Nazirite Vow

What is the secret of thy great strength? He gives the answer, he says, if you fasten me, verse 7, if you fasten me with seven green whips that were never dried, then I shall be like another man. No, I wish he did say that, he didn't.

What did he say? He said, if you fasten me with some of those vines that climb around the trees, if they're green and they're not brittles, strap me up with them. And if you fasten me with seven green whips, I shall be a brittle.

No, no, no, he doesn't say that. He says, then I shall be weak like other men. You know, the greatest curse of modern Christianity is that there are too many of us that are too much alike. The sense of normality, all the reach for the stars in business, a fellow says, I'm not going to sit behind this desk all the time, I'm going to own the business.

A fellow goes to university and says, I want to graduate with honors. The athlete will give all his time. Look at that fellow, Mark Stitt. Oh yes, he may be earning five million, he has his own yacht and everything now.

But I notice he says, for the last four years particularly, eight years in all, I spent no less than eight hours in the water every day. I was determined. I'd do what no other man did. And I tell you this for nothing, an experience of God that costs nothing, is worth nothing, it does nothing.

If you're going to get this anointing by the Holy Ghost, then keep it. You'll have to wade through blood and fire to get it, and you'll have to face hell to keep it after you've got that anointing. So the devil doesn't fear organizing, he fears agonizing.

He doesn't mind our brilliance, our genius, our intellectual power, he fears that somehow we link our impotence to omnipotence. And that won't cost you a penny except a broken heart. It may cost some of you boys a few silly hours with your girlfriends.

The other night God moved on that church in Merritt Island, and many young people came for, maybe sixty people came out one night. There was a moonlight madness sale, and my dear wife and the lady with us at the time, they wanted to get some bargains, we went along.

This young lady came up to me breathless in the mall there, and she said, but the devil's doing all he can to keep me from praying tonight. I met a lady the next day, and she said, you know, the next day, and she said, you know, I just met one of our young kids, a girl sixteen, that trusted God to fill her with the Spirit last night, and she went home and prayed the whole night through, at sixteen years of age.

Does that sound foreign to you? You may be sixteen, never did that. I met a boy at seventeen, he said radiantly, this is the first time, I met a boy at seventeen, he said radiantly, this is the first time in my life I've invited the Holy Ghost to take full control of my life, to take full control of my life, control of my life.

I met another of my life. I met another teenager joyously, I met another teenager joyously, and he said, my, this is transforming, God has come into my life as never before. I went to get a hair trim the other day, he ducked all I got, nearly.

As we came out, my wife and I met a fine-looking man, he said, Brother Radner, man, he said, I could shout and leap down this mall, I've been looking for answers, and I found the answer to spiritual power of anointing this.

I'm a new man, I'm energized by the Spirit of God. Fasten me with seven green ropes, they fasten him, he gets out. That's not the secret. No, he says, fasten me with seven new ropes. And they fasten him and he gets out, because he said, if you fasten me the ropes, I'll be weak like those other guys around here.

But they fasten him, he gets out. Now, he did have to wear long hair. He was a Nazirite. A Nazirite had three things incumbent upon him. He could not drink wine, a sign of worldly pleasure. He could not touch anything dead, a sign of people who are dead in trespasses and in sin.

He could not have his hair cut. Now, just having long hair isn't the secret of power. If it was, many of our churches would explode. No, no, it's not a case of long hair. What's the secret? Somebody asked me that in the office.

I'll tell you what the secret is of the Christian life. For tonight, next night, every night of your life, trust and obey, there's no other way. I don't care if you go to theological cemetery, seminary, or I don't care how much learning you have, the whole secret is this, trust and obey, there's no other way.

Whatsoever he says to you, do it. When I was youth leader in the church I went to, we had a tremendous time. We had many people saved. We had fantastic meetings. And I remember asking God to take full control of my life.

But it meant partying company with girlfriends and boys. Oh, you've read about Sherwood Forest and the fellow that used to go down there, Robin Hood. Well, I didn't go robbing anybody. I went in the Sherwood Forest to pray that night.

Took my mother's little pedigree dog, I walked over the golf links, I got down under the wildbracken, the wild fern. I got up in the morning before six, particularly Sundays. While everybody else slept, I went across into the forest, got under the bushes and prayed.

And if I've had any secret in my life, the only thing I know is that I'd given God time, all the time I could, to talk to me as well as me to talk to him. Fastening with rods? No. Fastening with weeds?

No. Unlock my hair and fasten it to a beam and then when you get my hair fastened there, I'll be powered. And they did that. And he shook his head and nearly pulled the house down. And then she said, now that's not the secret.

And he said no. And you know what she did? It's an old trick women have if they can't get their own way. She pulled these spots out. You know she said, you don't love me. And of course he said, oh yes I do.

Oh yes, I'll tell you what my secret is. My secret is I'm a Nazarite. I've kept every vow that God has asked me. I haven't touched wine, I haven't touched anything dead, I haven't had my hair cut. And with the instinct that women have, she knew right there she'd got his secret.

Samson's Defeat, Blindness, and Grinding

Now she had said repeatedly during the Philistines Do you know that you can cut this man's life down into three simple things? First, what did they do? They dined him. Secondly, what? They blinded him, put out his eyes.

Thirdly, they ground him. Put him in the basement and make him tread round and round and round and round and round. Rounding farm for the Philistines. But wait a minute, there's something else. If Samson is a type of a spirit-filled man, and I'm persuaded he is, if Samson is a type of a spirit-anointed church, and I'm sure he is, then later in the chapter it says that he was going to Timnath.

Now he could go that way to Timnath, or that way. Didn't make any difference. The road was just as short, because he was going to see his girlfriend. The road's never long when you're going to see her.

But he must not go that way. Why not? Because there's a lion in the way. Now if Samson is a type of a spirit-anointed person, the lion must be a type of the devil, who goes about his roaring lion, seeking whom he may defile.

And when Samson went down the road, the lion thought, boy, my, I'm going to have a good lunch today. Look at this fellow coming. I'm just going to tear him up. And Samson thought the same thing. He's going to tear the lion up.

He had his mother and father with him, and he said, Mummy, Daddy, will you sit round the corner? I've just got a little bit of business to do. And when they went round the corner, he took hold of the lion as though it were a kid of the goats, and he ripped it apart, and he threw it down.

That's wonderful, but the next statement in the verse is more wonderful. It says that after he destroyed the lion, he said nothing about it. I'm sure a woman couldn't have done it like that. But anyhow, Samson destroyed the lion, and he said nothing about it.

Oh, if we'd destroyed the lion, we'd have photographed it. We'd have stretched it out. It was the longest, strongest, heaviest, fiercest, terriblest lion in the whole world. And I killed it all by myself.

He slew a lion. He pushed the devil back, and he said nothing about it. I'm looking for a revival, and I'm sure it's coming. A Holy Ghost tidal wave that's going to engulf the whole world, and they're going to have such a riot, a revival, that no man will steal the glory.

Spiritual Authority and the Judgment Seat of Christ

He slew a lion. Let me ask you a simple question. Not so simple. All right. Do you push the devil around, or does he push you around? In Australia, a lady said to me after one service, Mr. Ravenhill, I've had a terrible day today.

I said, you look like it. I've never seen a more miserable face. Mr. Ravenhill, do you know what happened today? I said, no, I couldn't guess. When I got out of bed this morning, the devil was standing on the rug at the side of my bed, and he's never left me all day.

I said, lady, how conceited can you get? After all, if the devil's been in your home all day, he hasn't been anywhere else in the world. Satan can't be in two places at the same time. God can, Satan can't.

Demons might be. He might sublet certain areas, but Satan can't. I looked him straight in the eye, and I said, lady, you say Satan's been with you all day. I seriously doubt he even knows you're living.

Does he know you're living? I got saved when I was 14 years of age. I never doubted it, never been ashamed of it, talked round the world about it. And according to this book, when I was born again, my name was written in the book of life.

I'd like to get it written somewhere else, not in Westminster Abbey. I've never been a competitive preacher. I don't think, care whether you think I'm the worst you've ever heard or the best. It won't move me either way.

I say what God wants me to say. But I'd like to get my name written somewhere. Do you remember in the days of the apostle Paul, he cast demons out of some people. Jesus did that. Everything that Jesus did Paul did.

And one day he cast demons out of a person. Do you remember the time when Jesus cast demons out of a man that had a legion of them in him? And if you take demons out of a person, you must put them somewhere.

They can't live disembodied. They can't float in there. They have to occupy something or somebody. And you remember that Jesus took a legion of demons out of a man. And if you think pigs aren't smarter than men, tell me this.

When he put the demons into the swine, they committed suicide in about 40 seconds. The man had had the devil in in 40 years, and he wasn't smart enough to commit suicide or bad enough. But the pigs wouldn't even have the devil in.

And hell is so bad, the demons said, don't send us back from whence we came. Now, one man one day said, I'm not getting on. I'd like to be famous. I'd like to do something. And somebody said, you find a man with a demon in, cast the demon out.

This is what you do. You say in the name of Jesus Christ, if Nazareth come out of him, the demon will come out. The man tried and it worked. The demon came out of the man. But he never sent the demon anywhere.

So the demon turned around and he beat up the preacher. Kicked him, bruised him, and finally he came back and he said, listen preacher, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, you I never heard of you. I think the most embarrassing thing of all the embarrassments, to quote Dr. Tozer again, I can remember him saying to me one day, Len, not many of us are going to stand erect at the judgment seat of Christ with all our talk and all our boasting.

Not many of us will lift our unblushing heads. Most of us will bow our heads in the presence of the Holy God. I think the most terrible moment of trembling. When we stand there alone, without your pastor, without your wife, without your husband, you stand there as an individual.

Remember you've had as big a Bible as I have or anybody else that ever lived and you have to give an account to God for this word that he gave you. I think the most embarrassing thing will be when God calls Satan to bear witness.

I wonder, I wonder what do you say? I wonder if you say Jesus I know and Paul I know and Ray Gill I know or Billy Graham I know, will he say he knows you? Do you ever draw a line and take your rights in Jesus Christ and draw a line by the precious blood and then put the promises of God against it and the power of the Spirit and say, yes yes Satan you shall not pass that line.

Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare

When I was a boy in a little church I attended in England they used to talk a great deal about Pastor Fetler of Latvia. Latvia got absorbed in the United States and Soviet Russia. They used to talk to some degree about a German, Pastor Blumhart.

Blumhart was reading the word of God one day and he read that terrible statement. If he were always asking God to do something, God says do it. He said, Lord tie up the powers of Satan and Jesus says listen I gave you power over all the power of the enemy.

And they sent to Blumhart and said there's a girl down the road there she's demon possessed. She sits up in bed, she'll tear her clothes, pull her hair, she uses the most obscene language, she vomits some green stuff out of her mouth and she's the most terrible person we've ever met.