The Cost Of Discipleship by Leonard Ravenhill

Christ I have fed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able to bear it neither yet nor are ye able for you yet carnal for whereas that is among you envying and strife and divisions are ye not carnal and walk as men for why one sat I am of Paul And another aim of the palace are ye not carnal who then is Paul and who is a palace but ministers by whom he believed even as the lord gave to every man I have planted a palace watered but God gave the

increase so then neither is he that planteth anything neither he that watereth but God that giveth the increase One of the most forgotten men in the church at least amongst the so-called Great Men it was a man by the name of Henry Varley he was a great preacher and on one occasion he shot out a statement which has come a kind of become a kind of classic in the vocabulary of preachers he said the world has yet to see what God can do through one man who is totally committed to Jesus Christ Well it was

a kind of an arrow shot at Adventure but in the audience there was a young man he he wasn't that he learned his education was almost zero but he kind of caught that thought as it went past no no man the world has not yet seen a man who is a hundred percent committed to Jesus Christ and so he said under his breath well by the grace of God I'll be that man all he did was sell shoes In a store there in Chicago and some of you know him I'm sure his name was dear

Moody you know when I think of that I always take issue with it because I'm quite sure that that was not a true statement the world has yet to see are you suggesting God had to wait 2 000 years that Jesus had to find the man that he could totally inhabit because all self and sin had been purged out of him and his will had been surrendered and his Personality he was a love slave to God well I write at the beginning of History Christian history there was a man who was so totally sold out

to God that we I don't think I've ever seen these like sins you remember His Story begins as far as we're concerned going down the Damascus Road and in the 26th of Acts where he gives his testimony before a gripper he doesn't cover the blemishes He doesn't try to minimize the the wicked Zeal that he has he doesn't say I'm sorry and trembling and blushing that I I have to admit that I was a murderer he says I went down that that road and I was going to exterminate the whole Church of Jesus Christ being

exceedingly mad he says not just mad he was Blazing with anger to think that some people are following a man who died on a cross Do you think they wouldn't go to the temple and offer sacrifices and regard the high priest and go through all the different and uh very wonderful things on the calendar of the church or their Church but going down that Damascus Road God got hold of that murderer and made him a messenger he got all of the persecutor and made him the greatest preacher ever He got hold of the executor and

made him the greatest expound of the Gospel that the world has ever seen he says giving his own testimony that when he went down that Damascus Road that the Lord appeared unto me he revealed himself to me that later he says he revealed himself in me he daringly says over and over you remember Galatians 2 20 quoted so often that I am crucified with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me I believe that's the most awesome thing any man can say this side of Eternity not that he walked on the

moon not that it's in the who's who the only who's who I'm insisted in God's who's who let me get up there there'll be some sharks I think the greatest thing that could ever cross your lips is to stand and say to the World of Flesh the devil the in-laws and outlaws Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh not when I shuffle off this Mortal coil as Shakespeare says but the life I now live in the flesh surrounded with all the adversities and temptations and trials and all the

things that can come and yet Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Paul has an amazing pedigree he forgets it all as he ends his letter to the Galatians he says in the 14th verse of chapter six but God forbid that I should Glory save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ by which the world is crucified to me and I am crucified to the world now there's a thing you

and I have never seen we have never seen the agonizing death of the man on a cross Oh well of course in the days of the Romans it was a sport immediately A man was nailed to the cross he lost all his rights and if you ever get nailed to the cross you'll lose all yours too immediately was nailed on the cross and he was exalted the people could do as they like they could throw a bucket of cells on him they could throw their rotten eggs they could Stone him he had no rights And

before he died his eyes would be gouged out his ribs would be broken blood will be dripping from him and everybody got excited particularly if it was a kind of a Brabus who was there deserves all he gets he's destroyed other people's lives he's rape people he's broken people's minds and and so they go on with a list of things that he'd done and he should die a thousand deaths but as soon as the bell told in the city They didn't stay there they went back into the city at six o'clock they could see that

bleeding victim there was nobody there at six o'clock in the morning on the arms of the cross with the vultures they'd pick out the eyes they'd tear the body the blood would run out then the dogs came out of Jerusalem and and licked up the the the blood as they did the blood of Jezebel nobody wanted to photograph it they Didn't have photography but nobody wanted to see it a bloody spectacle a manual zinners were hanging out a man whose body is so distorted you could have it tell it was a human friend it had

been lashed with rocks it was covered with filth it had only excrement and every other offensive thing and Paul says when I said goodbye to the world I said goodbye to a filthy thing The world is crucified to me it's a filthy world it's a corrupt world but not only that he says I'm crucified to the world people would save the Apostle Paul here's a man he's got Acres of culture he's got a colossal intellect he'll be a greater high priest and Hillel or any other high priest you ever had in history and the fool

of a man he's been so Charmed with this Christianity that he's resigned all that He could have in the world yeah it's easy for you and I to sing with Isaac Watts were the whole realm of nature mine I'm afraid we don't do it Love's so amazing so divine this man had a revelation of God that I don't think anybody's had before our sins I'm quite sure he quoted with fervency God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son he sees the great Expanse of the world why look at this man's staggering

life he began his life in the historic Capital the world Tarsus he ended his life in the military a capital of the world Rome he went to the intellectual capital of the world in the 17th of Acts there and and and they discovered this little undersized man when they saw him they said his bodily presence is weak and discovered He had a staggering scintillating intellect they quoted poetry answered with poetry they quoted philosophy answered with philosophy they quoted their history he answered with their history this man is all round he's fully developed man and they're

staggered by this amazing man and then he came to a situation that the great Scottish preacher Called some years ago I'm trying to think of his name as James something but anyhow years ago he said they listened intently to Paul they were staggered that they said the Jews should know much so much about Greek history Greek philosophy I'm sure he'd read play to all the other stuff but then as a great preacher says he took the trumpet of the Resurrection He went down the street and when he saw the street it was lined with churches

as we would say it was lined with places of worship oh this this this doesn't stagger too many of us does it we just got down the street and said there's a Roman Catholic Church that's Jehovah's Witnesses that's the moments where the hair Krishna meet there and the moon the arch meet there and so on does it stir you that those people have Been treating teaching false gods and they've raped people's minds just as a man might rape a girl's body it says in the Sleepy Elizabethan English that when he saw all these people colossal

intellects many of them and yet they were tricked and duped by false religion and it says in the Sleepy Elizabethan English that his Spirit was stirred within him I'm not very fond of the Amplified Except where it agrees with me that the Amplified doesn't say his Spirit was stirred within him he says that when he saw all these people tricked seduced by by deceiving Spirits he was angry about it do you ever feel a holy anger okay can you push over there's a quite a lot of people wanting to come in would you move that

way and let them sit at the end here on the end seats if you can Move to the center and then they won't have to move everybody else we're gonna have to put a gallery up Louis there's some seats ahead uh one two three four five six seven now we'll have to take another offering they came in late we're dealing with First Corinthians chapter three and talking about At the moment we're talking about the 14th verse of of the uh epistle to the Galatians where Paul says laughs God forbid that I should Glory no man

ever had a pedigree greater than the Apostle Paul of The Tribe of Benjamin of the Seed of Abraham he has everything going for him again I say I believe he had a colossal intellect I think he had a very Brilliant mind uh he he met the philosophers I said he began his life in the ancient capital of the world Tarsus he went to the intellectual capital of the world which was Athens and he reasoned with them there and yet there is no Epistle of Paul to the Athenians why well I'm not going to criticize Paul

I'm just going to say this he didn't talk about Redemption what he did say And they couldn't believe it he took the gospel trumpet to his lips and he sounded the resurrection you see they did have an altar to an unknown God and he said that's the unknown God I declared to he made the heavens and the Earth his son died and rose again and he was resurrected and they showed him the gate no we can't listen to that kind of stuff from there he went from the intellectual capital of the world And he'd been

also later he'll go to the religious capital of the world Jerusalem but he steps down from the place where they worship the brain to the place where they worship the body currents in the days of the Apostle you didn't have to string a hundred adjectives together about a man's corruption and his licentiousness and everything else you just tagged him with one word he's a Corinthian and immediately you knew he was the thy list of the vile And the old German commentator mayor not FB Meyer he was English but if the other mayor a German commentator

says this blessed and Sublime miracle of God that a Church of Jesus Christ could be established in Corinth Shakespeare said you can't make a a purse out of a sowzier God can do better than that he can take the most depraved despised and rejected man and make them sense to God It says in the first of Samuel that he lifts the beggar from the dunghill and makes them princes unto God I remember about 15 or 16 years ago when we're working with Dave Wilkinson in those days when David was hardly known and yet we had

a full house this side of the prayer Chapel was filled with girls this with men and a little fellow stood up and he said brother Raven has come to preach for us little Puerto Rican follow his face was Radiant and he said before he sang We Stand Up and sing the national anthem Oh I thought baloney sing the national anthem right before I preach I didn't get what he said he didn't say seeing the national anthem he's saying our national anthem he said we sing Our National Anthem so I thought the Puerto Ricans must have

one and he stood up there and he not he Started to sing Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a Wretch like Me I once was lost but now I'm found to his grace that taught me it was Grace and you know before we got to the end when we've been there ten thousand years he changed it to 10 million it wasn't bad 10 trillion would have been better but he he got there and you know there wasn't a dry eye and those girls were Being prostitutes some of them carried guns everyone had been

changed the tears were slowing they used to make other people weep now they're weeping why Amazing Grace sure Paul loves the word God so loved the world that he gave his only son and then afterwards he rise to Ephesians he not only loved the world and gave his son he says he loved me that he says Christ gave himself for the church that Greater than loving the world and loving the church he says do you know what he did he loved me do you ever fall at his feet and say thank you Lord for saving

my soul not our souls thank you for blotting out the horrible record of thy sin some of you didn't have much and it's true that those who have been saved from much love much you remember that brilliant King he was Mentioned this morning in Psalm 51 . he says what he Lifted Me Up out of a horrible pit this hand was running with crime and and this was adultery and my history was rotten and he's asking Lord uh just just to kindly forgive my sins and I'll go about my business knowledge that somehow the relationship

is kind of restored and all is well he goes further than that he says search me In a Psalm 139 I know my heart try me and know my thoughts and see if there'd be any wicked way in me he says in that 51st psalm I want truth in the inward parts oh that's cutting close isn't it not just out of my mind and my conscience but in the inward part the central register of my being that truth may be there Paul finishes his letter to the Galatians Oh it's so beautiful he doesn't have his

tongue in his cheek and say you know I wonder if I've done the right thing I could have had a good influence for for God if I'd stayed in the old place and I had a worldwide reputation and uh no no no no no no no no I like what he says at the end of the chapter there I'm reading from the living Bible King James uh And the 17th verse of the last chapter says this I like it listen to his Defiance from henceforth let no man trouble me I bear in my body the

marks of the Lord Jesus I think Muffet translates that henceforth let no man trouble me I bear in my body the brands of Jesus Christ or they knew what he meant in the temple of Heracles in the days of slavery a man would run away from his Taskmaster Brutal task master and he would rush to the temple they had priests there they were they were on guard day and night often asleep but anyhow that's what preachers are and you might have to wait in the preacher up and you say I I hope who he says

have you escaped yes I've escaped brand me brand me well choose new weapons what what you know like we brand cattle here which God do you want to be branded with He chooses this Stigmata he chooses the the brand of a certain God and he's branded on his hands can you imagine him putting his hand out clenching his teeth and that flesh sizzles when that hot iron goes on it he slips down his togar if he was wearing one and he's branded on the back of his neck he lifts up his foot and he's branded

on his instep Paul says don't trouble me I'm branded I've had the marks of a slave I'm a bun slave of Jesus Christ I have no will of my own I've no rights of my own there's an old hymn established on that very theme let my hands perform his bidding let my feet run in his ways let my eyes see Jesus only let my lips speak forth his praise all for Jesus all my beings Ransom Powers all my thoughts and words and doings all my days and all my hours This man is no professional preacher

preaching is not a profession it's a passion man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all not a profession a passion there's no breath of professionalism anywhere in the ministry of Paul and thank God there's no breath of commercialism either Peter said in his day that Assam will Make merchandise of you that could be more true than the day in which we are living I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus I bear here at the back of my neck a brand which tells you that this part of my being my

thinking My Philosophy is that of Jesus Christ my teaching my feet isn't it staggering how how far this Amazing man went look at these mystery Journeys without airplanes without trains God put something in him the stupid world tried to get it out of him but God put something that is something in him and and they lasted him 195 times and they couldn't whip it out of him and he hung on a piece of wood in the Mediterranean for 36 hours and they couldn't wash it out of him and they tried to threaten it out of

him That almighty God put something in there you see they were not trying to kill the Apostle Paul the idiots they were trying to kill Jesus Christ because Christ lived in him and he says I don't know whether to desire and depart or be here because it's not much better off up there in one sense I still got Christ inside he says his life is head with Christ in God so you see this man moving Establishing churches one amazing thing and I I often say this to Young preachers who ask me about preaching and I

don't know much about it I've been trying to do it for about 60 or just over 60 years now it's still a mystery I think as the Pastor said this morning you see some people have got everything out in one two three four if they have I throw the book Away the older I get the more I realize great Is the mystery of godliness why isn't God brooding over our stained glass windows in America this morning why isn't it brooding on our super multi-million dollar TV and radio programs with all the Flash and show they

have the greatest areas where God is breathing this morning is amongst people that are in poverty and in need the Africa in the god upon me the the Revival in nagaland which is north North East India I read a report of brother sent recently he went expecting a finite like Revival we think we're going to make a carbon copy and say Lord double it that way no no you know Don't Rock the Boat in the 11th of July in the Wall Street Journal which I'm sure many of you take because of your interests Investments that

uh in the Wall Street Journal for the 11th of July it says I was going to bring the document I forgot it but it Says that an Evangelical Revival is moving over America just now but it's having little effect that's like saying there's an earthquake from California to New York last night 8.6 on the Richter Scale but nobody felt it you talk about the fullness of God what Paul did you know right after he was born again after that miracle happened on the Damascus Road I'm glad one man stayed to listen what God had to

say that morning he didn't just pray he listened and God said ananias get up and go to the street go straight and that's the house isn't it great to know that God knows your name and address Postman may forget it but God knows it and he goes down and says to him brother Saul that must have startled him I mean he was going to kill that man and he goes and says brother Saul The Lord hath appeared unto thee for this purpose to make the minister and you know only God can make your minister nobody

else can do that they may teach you a few things in Bible school but they never make you a preacher the Lord hath appeared to thee and then he disappears he goes into the wilderness God revealed himself in him I hope you understand my language here I Believe in that period of three and a half years that Paul became spiritually pregnant I believe the spirit of God burst all these Epistles which afterwards he would give birth I believe he burst all those churches because he writes afterwards doesn't he to the Galatians and he says little

children for whom I travel in birth you talk about out of him shall flow rivers of Living Water 14 Epistles if You give him Hebrews and I think he wrote Hebrews as well 14 matchless Epistles I remind you again Christianity was not served up to the World on the silver platter Christianity were served up or it was born in a sophisticated totalitarian society and Jesus never said anything about slavery all these boys are rushing to Washington they then put God's house right but they want to put the White House right The answer to our present

moral and political and every other dilemma we have in the nation will not be solved in the upper room of the white in upon me in the oval room at the White House it will be solved in itself at all in the upper room in God's house the way the preachers are rushing to Washington you think that the politicians were the salt of the earth they're not they come to their own house in order Never mind us God strictly forbid that Israel should go down to Egypt for help and all these boys are rushing to

the politicians we're going to get the Bible back in school well I'm not too worried about that I'd like to see the Bible back in every home then forget the school some of us want the stool teacher to do what daddy and mommy should do Do you wonder when each surveyed the Wondrous Cross I think we slip over that way you ever see us are there on the road in our meticulous he is he gets that well there are many names for it let's call it a telescope that he gets it then he looks and

the wave to each other and he goes this way that oh a man's very very careful when he does a surveying job no man surveyed the cross the Wondrous Cross on which the prince of Glory died like the Apostle Paul my richest gain I count that last yes sir he did it over and over and over again after all if you lay the cross on the ground he points north south east and west it has a message for the whole world if you stand it up it points to a topless heaven and a bottomless hell

and the arms as Charles Wesley said the arms Of Love That Compass me with all mankind embrace Paul has no fear do not eat any of you fellas would do it do you know what he once did he said I bow the knee to the father and because he bowed the needs of the father he never bowed the need to anybody else neither demons or politician or Kings he stood there Regal isn't it something that there's a a man There's Suave and his gorgeous robes and his beautiful rings and all Society gasping when Felix walks

in laughs and before he finished Felix's knees were knocking together it says Felix trembled it goes to one of the most distinguished men of the day and what does he say you almost persuade me to be a Christian I'm on the very verge of it Paul says I would to God that you are even as I am Except for these chains isn't that lovely he has his chains on the difference between Paul and the man on the throne the man on the throne had changed but they were on the inside Paul's chains are on the

outside he had none on the inside he was free free from the fear of men free from the fear of consequences free from anything the devil might put on him or other People from henceforth he says let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus I'm afraid that Paul would look on with compassion and real pity on our feeble faith I sometimes say this is a day of thin Theology and fat preachers I'm sure it is there's no sentimental Christianity with The Apostle Paul there's no such thing

as coming to the cross and just getting your sins forgiven oh no no no no no the man who only wants his sins forgiveness trifling with Christianity he needs more than his sins forgiven he needs more than that hurried record maybe he was sin enough to damn a thousand people and God In His Infinite Mercy when you confess and you plead and you're brokenhearted and your penitent And you repent he takes that record and flings it into his eternal backyard is like never to be remembered against us any more forever but man needs more than

forgiveness he needs cleansing he needs more than cleansing he needs indwelling he needs to get to read to the bondage of sin he becomes a bond servant of Jesus Christ now I said Paul came to the in the Intellectual Capital where they worshiped the brain and he came down to current where they worship the body the continual talk in Athens was wisdom the continual talking currents was wickedness I I don't read he sent out a letter asking for support to get there I don't really made reservations in the Holiday Inn or somewhere this man is

prepared to follow the step of Jesus every way as Far as possible somebody said to a friend of mine recently who might be doing some building for God he said listen let me give you a word of advice don't build anything that will embarrass you in a few years that's a very good point I see God's money going in stately buildings and swimming pools and tennis courts and I want to vomit with a world starving with a mission fear leading money Paul attacks Corinth well he doesn't go with his philosophical stuff he doesn't Dazzle them

with his knowledge he says listen he begins the epistle doesn't it by saying uh I'm not coming to you with enticing words of man's Wisdom almost saying I just tried that out at the last place and those those philosophers and stoics and epicureans and others they they Marvel They open their eyes they were staggered by what I said but I didn't get through to them and so I'm going right back back back to the foundation some years ago there was a professor in America his book has recently been republished I think I'm not sure if

it was at Yale not Princeton he was only in his 40s when he contracted a terrible disease His body began to droop he began to shuffle he tried to get an answer to his problem and he couldn't and so one day somebody said to him you need to go to Paris there's a doctor there now this was when ships were slow not even fast ships and certainly no planes when he got to Paris somebody said to him no no no we don't have the answer uh I I think you'll find it in Geneva and Geneva

they said no we we don't have The answer here the answer is in Austria he got to Austria and somebody said no the answer is in France he got to France he said it's across the channel in England in England they said no no no no we don't have the answer the The Physician who has the answer is there in Scotland when he got there the physician says I'm sorry I I don't have the answer to it We've done some investigation but we've got no answer like our day we can diagnose cancer we can't cure

it we're so busy putting billions into armaments we let thought die on our doorstep so we'll have enough stuff to destroy other countries isn't that wonderful don't have the answer he came back he was tempted on the ship almost to Throw himself overboard one day he was going down the street not far from Princeton the man said to him excuse me sir aren't you Professor James he said yes well you're very sick isn't amazing people to State the obvious I was lying in plaster from my chin to my toes I jumped out of the burning

hotel in 1951. I brought my back in three places my Left leg was in three pieces my feet were in both broke now hey I'm lying in bed you know can't turn can't do anything can't shave can't feed myself my darling wife watch me day and night and somebody walks in and say hello brother Angela you're sick no I'm just getting ready to play tennis can't you see I got my my tennis things on it's pouring rain and you're soaking someone says oh it's raining oh thanks For the news shivering with cars it's cold yeah

that's why I muffled up to my ears it's cold you're sick you need to find a a deliverer friend there's no Deliverance I've been all over Europe I've spent a fortune so he said if you go down the street knock on the door of song so and tell him John sent you why does he have the answer The professor went and knocked at the door just a little laboring man came his hands were not you know those smooth gentle hands that could take a scalpel and do surgery they were all knotted and now then and

the man obviously wasn't very well educated the professor said uh as you see I I have a terrible disease and it's it's it's Galloping it's it's getting hold of me quickly and I I do want to get rid of it and I understand You have a cure for it the man said well uh I can pray for you the professor said what he said I can pray for you I I can I can put some oil on your head and uh Professor James said my psychology was saying that won't work I was saying you can't

kneel in front of this ignoramus you with a couple of phds No but you see the phds didn't do anything for him and all this philosophy didn't know anything for him so he went in the house and he said sir whatever you say I'll do it the man said kneel down he knelt down a little fella got some oil put it on his hand Pepper would have enjoyed doing this put some oil on his head I've done that thousands of times I think but it's a learner to some of us brother Here the professor's waiting

he thought some flash would come from heaven or something the man put his Trembling Hands on the head of the the great professor and he said a few things and then he said in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth be made whole the professor jumped out I found there's all ten thousand vaults Of electricity touch me oh yeah my legs are all right yeah I'm great I don't I don't know how it happened the little man said I don't either they said that God was faithful to answer prayer the point is he went Halfway

Around the in order to answer find an answer and we're going all around the world we're trying to find an answer through psychology and Paradise and part of that And heaven knows what and the answer is in The Old Rugged Cross so despised by the world it's got every answer to our human dilemma or even sickness and mental disorders I don't care how you emphasize the tragedy that Adam brought into the world are you going to suggest to me that there is no way whether human heart can be cleansed did Satan pollute the very Foundation

of human society and and God Has no answer to that pollution I like that him break now the bread of life I like the phrase and it says that then shall all bondage cease and all Fetters fall had seen men and women redeemed from corruption he'd seen them transformed and now he's writing to them 18 months afterwards and he says yeah colonel yeah carnal he uses two different words in the Greek Here for carnality and I'm not going to struggle with them this morning I'm sure you're not too interested the point I want to emphasize

is this he says he he babes in Christ you know when a man is going to split a diamond he he has to be very steady he looked at it from different angles he'll he'll magnify any little crack he could split the wrong way and just be no more valuable than a much glass he's very very careful Or in England we guard the Queen's Jewels the crown jewels they're surrounded with with an electric fence you can't steal them it's an impossibility nobody ever tried yet anyhow I think of Michelangelo when he was cutting the head

of David out of stone or his pieta careful less oh one slip and that original piece would mean that the nose was tipped off of the ear And it would be spoiled but no man ever cut a diamond Michelangelo never worked with more accuracy no mother ever had a child that burned the heart like the care that the Apostle Paul gave to his church the tragedy was so much evangelism is we record them a statistics and the preacher goes on next night this Apostle Paul was no no no no no no no no no fly

By native evangelist the most precious thing we ever handle is the human soul the payeto one day will go up in dust the system Chapel will be blown to smithereens that the soul of a man will live forever and ever and ever and ever either an eternal Darkness or Eternal Bliss Heaven is impeccable Joy there'll be no sorrow Hell is eternal misery there's no joy there is only one way to Heaven There are a million ways to hell what do you do to go to hell nothing just do nothing that's all you don't have to

thumb your nose at God you don't have to blaspheme in the name of Jesus you don't have to be adulterer just Coast on for the greatest sin in the world he's not adultery the greatest sin in the world is I can manage my life without God that's the greatest thing Paul has established the church but now he's deeply deeply concerned about them he says their babes in Christ if you were here about a month ago you heard Leland Paris who is the ywam leader for the Americas Northern South America he introduced his message by saying

that he had been in a meeting about a week before with Bill bright and a few others Bill bright the founder of the campus Crusade said this That the campus Crusade recently took a poll of Christians in America and this is what he said I I've chewed this over I've laid away and awake at night thinking of it Bill bright said that on their own confession 95 of the people in America who profess to be Christian and it would be true of other countries 95 of the Christians in America said they were one of two

things either I am carnal a carnal Christian Are number two I'm a baby in Christ let me transfer that into the uh out of the spiritual world to the social world and I'm not being facetious it's like listening to the radio tomorrow morning or your TV program and the one who's addressing it says this we have just taken a poll of all the men in the Air Force and in the Army and uh the men that are steering our great big multi-billion dollar uh what do you call them aircraft carriers and the men who Are

piloting those Jets at greater speed than sound and the men who are driving the tanks and the men who are Manning the silos and the intercontinental ballistic missiles we've checked them all and we find that the nation is being operated militarily by Cub Scouts wouldn't that shock us what I'm going to bed at night and there's a fellow a little dwarfy boys on on board A multi-million dollar aircraft carrier Cub Scouts I think if we digested that we might not have had any meetings from then till now we might have been on our faces asking

God Almighty but listen here's the thing why is Paul arguing here with these people he says because I feed you with note and not with me you've no digestible you've no spiritual digestion well listen an American alone right now we have I Dare to say this before God I believe we have hundreds of millions of gospel cassettes and we've millions of gospel books and we've hundreds of Bible schools and we've hundreds over the year we have hundreds of seminars and we have people memorizing the scriptures I mean about 5 000 radio stations who every day

give some part of the scripture and yet with all this stuff to Feed on dear God where are we with all this stuff to feed on 95 of us are spiritual cripples spiritual infants spiritual babes oh it's not the only time he says that in Ephesians 4 where is it and verse 14 he he's careful about the Ephesians that Ephesians 4 14 that henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the Slate of men and cunning Craftiness whereby they lie and wait to deceive you is

fearful for the Ephesians babes in Christ because they're babes they're not able to carry burdens I can remember when I was a little boy I'd go into the garden we had a flower garden as we say in England a vegetable garden and I'd try and pick up a bucket of potatoes and I'd strain and dad say put it down you'll hurt your back When I got to be about 13 I'd go in I'd see half a bucket and I'd pick that up and carry the half bucket father put it down you'll carry the full one

you're strong enough to cut it now if God all nights he only gives us strength or burdens equal to our strength will be in a bad way what we need is strength for the burdens of this day I don't believe the Church of Jesus Christ has ever faced the hostility I believe the world today and in areas of the church is filled with lying spirits and doctrines of devils Paul is jealous for The Old Rugged Cross and you remember what he says there are some people who are enemies of the Cross of Christ now notice

what he says he doesn't say that enemies of Christ are not they're smart enough to use the name the Mormon Jews the name of Jesus the Mormons say they have gifts of The Spirit the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about Jesus and the kingdom that their enemies of the Cross it's the blood that is an offense to them their enemies of the Cross of Christ I wonder what he'd say in our day I say going down the streets in Athens is that it was stood he was angry babies children full of self-pity self-interest self-seeking Self-concern me first

I never heard of children choosing to fast I can hear them I've heard them when they turn their nose up you know it spaghetti or something like that it wouldn't be Italians if they'd turn the nose up at spaghetti but uh some other things you know usually it's cabbage isn't it oh spinach if only somebody could get ice cream to taste like spinach it would be great No no no they want to be very choosy in what they eat and what they drink you say sometimes I wonder God doesn't burden me you know why because

he can't trust you that's why you're not strong enough to carry the burden Isaac Watson wrote When I Survey the Wondrous Cross also said this if God Almighty should call me to control six universes not six worlds six whole universes I would joyfully do it because he give compensating Grace but he said I wouldn't want even to look after six sheep without his guidance no it's easy to be emotional there's nothing wrong with emotion you've got to have some emotion but it's wrong when that's all there is children they love people but they only love

emotionally who do they love most oh Auntie Bessie Of course our sisters are far nicer personality but a sister happens to be poor so when they hear Auntie Betty comes they climb up at the windows she's coming she's coming why because she always brings a gift and they just live it on that basis because she gives and gives and gives and some people love God because he gives we've got this wretched Prosperity stunt Paul's very clear isn't he doesn't doesn't he say oh right into Timothy there that you'll come a day when people think that

gain is godliness some of God's choices Saints don't have another shirt to change read the current issue of Readers Digest I'll borrow it to beg it steal it do something hmm steal it and take it back but anyhow there's a tremendous article there this Month on allows a country we've forgotten you see I I've got a feeling not because I'm English get forget my tongue I've understood here since 1950. if I I didn't love the country God sent me here he didn't send you you had to be here you had no option about it most

of you all right don't look so sad but I came because God told me to come I'm not okay But let me go back to this I believe that the church is facing the greatest hostility I believe that there's war in the heavens like there hasn't been like back in 1896 at that time 95 96 when the Keswick convention was founded and Mrs Penn Lewis was one of the founders of it really no she wasn't the Welsh Revival came out of out of kezi but Mrs pen Lewis in those days said That we're having an

unprecedented invasion of evil power and we've had two bloody World War since then I was going to say I'm convinced of this that right now as a nation you know we're suffering for the sins of our fathers for what we did to the people in the days of slavery we're suffering for it because he lets us suffer unto the third and fourth generation we're suffering for the destruction in Vietnam we're suffering because uh Mr Nixon and Kissinger said we were not bombing Cambodia and we've been bumming them a year and now the the the these

nice people were trying to be friendly with Mr Carter says we can still establish a second uh you know uh what does it phase two of salt salt treatment salt treatment SALT Treaty the result treatment too if it goes through bloody deceitful god-defined they don't Hate on hate we're gonna try and get married politically to that rotten Harlot system well you better watch out because if we do there's going to be an awful lot of punishment I see people reaching into the Old Testament and quoting a scripture for America listen you can't take scriptures given

to Israel Israel and first of all in my judgment was not a nation it was the church The people in Israel couldn't marry like other people they could need like other people they couldn't even walk like other people they couldn't be socially like other people they were to be holy unto God are you suggesting we've ever been really holy to God it's two of the other nations I'm aware of that If ever God was looking for a man who as we would say Square the shoulders and carried a burden it's in this day in which

we live if ever we need to be alert that we don't get caught and trapped in false Doctrine it's the day in which we live if ever there was a day when we should put on the whole armor of God God in heaven you know they want bottles not battles they want the nursery not the armory How often do you go to a prayer meeting where you feel there's real engagement against principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world one of the most awesome things I think that Jesus ever said was

to his disciples I give you power over the Enemy No no no over all the power of the enemy and it includes sickness I admit that but it doesn't mean that merely there's only one power that can withstand the onslaught That's on all the nations of the Earth right now and that is the Church of Jesus Christ anointed with the Holy Ghost and there's an old saying that all is fair in Love and War and I'll tell you what if you stir hell up the devil will stir everything he can against you you'll get misunderstood

misrepresented and if you are not thick-skinned no no it's not of your thick skin if you're Not mature enough it'll get you down it's not the contradiction of Sinners that gets you down as someone says it's the criticism of saints that gets you down Eli thought that Hannah was drunk sure she was drunk she was drunk with God she was intoxicated she got through to God he was going to remove a barrenness Paul is God's intoxicated man he uses the two things together in Ephesians be not drunk with wine where in his excess but be

filled with the spirit why because when a man is Spirit-filled he's like a drunk man you will try to ridicule a drunk man he goes singing on his way you know you say you idiot and he says yes that's right I am an idiot my father was an idiot and you can't get to him he's drunk here another Spirit controls him I stopped on a street in Glasgow the first day of World War II and and and And a man came up to me a Scotsman it was Pitch Black it was a blackout and he

bumped into me and he says who are you I gave him my name you're not a Scotsman Nob he said you're an Englishman yeah can you fade oh no I said I can't fight oh you can't fight can you sing I said no I can't sing oh he stuck up Maxwell time brazer Barney Where early Falls the Jew he meant the Jew but that was near enough for a drunk man who's your father my father was Walter he says my father was son son then I knew he was drunk because he put his hand in

his pocket and offered me all his money when the Scotsman does that you know he's done hmm if I'd seen that man in the morning Sober I I'd have gone past and said good morning he may or may not say good morning as a Scotsman said he possibly looked at me and gone on you see there was something else that got control of him and therefore he's very vocal and he's very generous and he wants to tell me he's a Scotsman and he wants to let me know that he can sing and he wants to

tell me about his pedigree well isn't that what happens to a man who's really Filled with a holy ghost he's liberated from stinginess he's liberated from bondage he's liberated from fear he's liberated from consequences but for a moment I think the devil almost been his tongue when Paul said that because at the end of Romans 8 he says yes I thought tribulation distress famine Paradise he puts his shoulders back and says to the devil listen There's nothing present there's nothing in things to come there's nothing in height there's nothing in depth there's nothing in any

other creature that can separate me from the love of God so go back to hell where you came from you're wasting your time you can separate me from the church there are tens of thousands of precious Believers in jail this morning in Hell holes oh I'm sure Mr Carter hopes to pull off The hostages getting free and it may backfire on him but I still wonder again why 10 to 20 000 Jews and other people can get out of Russia every year and seven Pentecostals have been in the British in the American Embassy for the

last two years and we can't get them out and somebody challenged cards on his human rights he says yes but this isn't political it's uh it's a religious thing Well aren't they human too maybe that's a testimony to the power of Christianity they're afraid to liberate seven Spirit-filled people they might go and upset the world they might go and get into Russia and upset the rotten system Paul's blind he says I see neither Jew nor Greek nor Bangla nor freedmen if I see a king and he has a gold crown and all his ritual so

what in the sense of him he's dead Because you see the only two kinds of people in the world those who are dead in sin and those who are dead to sin babes in Christ one Mark is stubbornnesses young lady I think testified this morning of stubbornness and willingness to do what God says a lot of you hear this morning you don't need more light this this will only make it worse for you at the Judgment what you need is more obedience Some of you known for years what you should do in your whole day

children are very touchy aren't they of course you rationalize this you say no your trouble is you're so touchy I'm not touchy I'm sensitive you're full of pride I just have a lot of self-respect temper righteous anger and always work it out can't you if you want to Ourselves respect you're full of pride but aren't children very touchy aren't they very easily offended you know some others are not only offended what comes from other people we're offended of what God says to us one mark of carnality is stubbornness there used to be a great school

it isn't well it's got another name now it used to be in Chicago in 1950 when I first went there I've forgotten its full name as an Evangelical something and at that time Dr Harry Jessup was the pastor he came to England and preached I remember him saying his his sister had a beautiful little girl just just a model little girl and she was pretty spoiled and she always had pretty clothes and she had a pretty good mind and she she knew a poem with about 12 stanzas and the relatives were coming to dinner And

mother said now darling I bought you a new dress and after dinner I'm going to stand you on that chair and you're going to say your point yes Mommy and when dinner was over mother said I want you to hear now what what Peggy's learned she has learned such a lovely poem it's got about 10 lines in each standard there are 12 standards and my little daughter four is going to recite it for you come on darling she stood on the chair and Little Peggy stood up when My mother said Peggy say your peace Peggy

say your peace if you don't you're going upstairs Peggy again mother took it upstairs and put in a big old cupboard they hadn't put the latch on and sure enough she got so lost in the party she forgot Peggy was up there oh pig is upstairs poor little mate When she got up there she heard a nose funny she opened the door there was Peggy and she said are you going to say your piece he said no what are we doing just now she had a nice little list she said pitting I spit on your

dress I spit on your fur I spit on your shoes and I'm just waiting for more spit In other words she'd made up her mind she wasn't going to do as mummy says now let's let's break this down for a minute he says your babes and he diagnoses the trouble he says that is among you envy and pride and Division and the scripture says Envy is as rottenness of the bones you say will I be in trouble with pride I I know even more since I was saved I've been trouble with bad temper I've been

Trouble With Envy I I've been Trouble with doubt come on what are you going to do with it I've asked the Lord to help me well he won't help you why not because he says he won't no he won't help you to control it God never excuses sin what he does is execute it says take it to the Cross that's the thing many of us are they all like like the old lady she she had a dog a very very Nice dog image or a pedigree dog and a long long tail it should have been

cut off somebody asked her did she have papers for the dogs she said yes all over the floor but the dog you see this dog should have no tail it needs its tail cutting off right up to the rump there oh I didn't know that and I went a few months after the dog Got half a tail she says you've done it wrong you should have you should have cut it right up to his ramp no she said that's cruel I cut two inches off every month well that's what some of us try to do

you know I don't think I'll be as carnal next year as I've been this year I I don't think that I'll be as you know as touchy I think I'll grow up next year I don't think my temper will be as bad I I don't think I'll be as critical I don't Think I'll be as unkind I don't think I'll be uh you know so feeble in my prayer life I I don't think I'll be so self-centered again read Romans 7 itself centered 19 times I I go into chat and then go through the same

chapter and and count how many times the holy spirit is mentioned he's not mentioned once why because it's a self-centered life and you're going to Romans chapter 8 the Victorious Life Romans 7 is a funeral March Romans 8 is Wedding March Romans 8 7 is bondage Romans 8 Paul's singing out of my bondage sorrow night Jesus I come Romans 8 then 7 31 times III Romans 8 I only twice when he says I reckon and I am persuaded but 19 times the holy spirit is mentioned because it's a spirit-dominated life in chapter 8. almost the

last thing to say here let me read of this Again from Galatians Galatians 4. if you look at it a minute and and verse 1. this is the most devastating thing of all I think on this level of spiritual infancy now I say that the air as long as he is a child different not from a servant do you notice that here is a man or a boy say he's 13 14 years of age his daddy's left him a thousand acres A nice little Lear jet a lovely yacht 10 million dollars in money I'm here

that boy at 15 is as helpless as a servant that's cleaning the Stables why he's an ass his mother come true she bore the child to the man that died recently his relatives can testify he also has a birth certificate but he's not a bit of good The air as long as he is a child different not from a servant though he be Lord of everything but he is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father do you remember some of those awesome words Jesus said to the disciples I have many things

to tell you but you cannot bear them I say Reverend to almighty God don't say that to me at the Judgment seat don't let me stand before John Wesley And Finney and all the great Saints of the ages and say Ravenel had many things to tell you you're so preoccupied with this or preoccupied I couldn't get through to you and if I could you weren't mature enough to handle it said these are just spit texts out if you forgive that rough word is it easy to say you know in this generation we're going to fulfill

the word of Jesus where he said greater Things than these shall he do boy I'd like to see a start with some of the Lesser things right now I'd like to see a bunch of men go and say I'm going to stay in say somewhere like well if you're like nearby Dallas so it's teeming with Bible students what have you got but going to a city like finated and say I'm not moving out of this city until there are two moves until God moves and the devil gets out of the place We don't have any

body like that we'll fly by night we want our big love offerings Paul never glamorized the gospel it's a pretty gory gospel it's a bloody gospel it's a sacrificial gospel I believe the cardinaletic of Christianity sacrifice not success sacrifice five minutes inside eternity I believe every one of us will wish that we'd sacrifice more Prayed more loved more sweated more greed more wet more you know this really that after the acts of the Apostle I'm going to finish quickly after the Acts of the Apostles the whole balance of the New Testament is to the church

it's not to sinners Paul writes of the church at thessalonica and says I'm praying night and day no no no he says I'm praying exceedingly he's praying the effectual servant prayer to the righteous man for The church yes for the church not that they'll get out of poverty not that they'll get out of slavery he's praying what he says I'm praying night and day what he's praying for their faith praying night and day exceedingly that your faith may be strengthened he starts The Second Epistle the first chapter verse 3 and says I Rejoice what that

your faith grows exceedingly his prayer Had been answered they and all just become millionaires or famous personalities they and all become evangelists and teachers and Prophets those things are there and I would to God they were more manifest than they are in these days I'd like to see the force of the guppy here I'd like to see the force around the corner there the white woman and over at Joe's and other places I'd like to see a place where we know there's a Man he's the prophet and he's the Evangelist and he's the teacher every

man standing in his own place the trouble is now the event the preacher wants to be everything in the average Church he wants to be teacher preacher prophet and everything else he ought to be glad he's one spoke in the wheel that these ministers were not given to boys and girls spiritually immature It must have been a great thing to follow Jesus for three years it must have been a great thing to be a Timothy for all what love Paul showed on Timothy he he kind of says it this is my spiritual Heir he's coming

after me and see how much read is Epistles if you want to know about preaching and read his Epistles the first and second of Paul to Timothy the air as long as he liveth as long as he's a child he's no Different from a servant that let him come to the age of maturity I have never never discovered the answer to this I'll discuss it with Gody sometime and you otherwise men here three wise men on the front row and uh but you know Paul isn't it amazing Paul is the most profound Theologian the judge

ever had and usually when we talk about Apostles we call John the Apostle the Apostle of love But he didn't write one Corinthians 13. Paul wrote One Corinthians 13. Paul says you want to know what my My Success is if he puts it that way do you know what it is he and he goes in in the well the second chapter of Corinthians five and he recites you know if the Earthly house is dissolved we have a home in the heavens and then he comes down he says do not the secret is the love of

Christ constrains me I told Brother Tony about three months Ago I said you know I saw a very daring thing today he said what did you see oh I said I was coming into a building and it said a gappy love on on the outside of it it's the greatest thing in the world I said Tony what we've done we've hung a sign on our gate that if you can't find Divine love anywhere you'll find it Agape if you can't find love that never breaks down you'll find it at a gappy if you can't find

love that bearth all Things believeth all things hope with all things we never give up on you I mean we stuck it on the wall out there now either it's true we're hypocrites love so amazing So Divine demands my soul my life my all and the point says love ever stands with open hands and while it lives it gives for this is Love's prerogative to give and give and give God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son Christ loved the church and gave himself for the church and if you love you

you he says you'll give your life for your brethren that doesn't mean you die for them it means you'll share your life it means every day when there's need you supply that need it's not just saying well shoot me instead of him that that's easy man you'll be out of it so you could blink your eyes you'll be in eternity got rid of Taxation and Everything it would be wonderful but when he comes down to sharing your life it's a very very different thing let me just look at what I'm going to take three more

minutes I don't know how much time I have I was reading in Romans this morning Romans chapter six you know you can't find in the New Testament any place where some of the disciples were saved That you can find the place where they would all filled with the Holy Ghost when the children of Israel came out of Egypt which is a type of the world and they left Pharaoh a type of the devil when they came out of Egypt they sang a song it blew away on the breeze but when when they went into the

promised land Canaan they built a permanent altar they built a pile of stones a permanent record that they were crossing into the Promised Land a land flowing with milk and honey and sometimes we suggest you get filled with the spirit that's the answer to all your problems that's the end of all your problems it is the beginning end that's where they start Jesus was filled with the Holy Ghost and immediately LED of the spirit Into the Wilderness do you know the baptism of the Holy Ghost can do for you and boy do we recite it

sure we should do I'll tell you what it did for those men in Acts 2. and so many people say I got an ax to experience but Acts 2 goes into Acts 3. let it actually get them in jail I know a lot of Spirit-filled people should be in jail but apart from that jail it's jail it's bondage the kind of bondage you put on a train When when the when the engine's snorting down the line and the only safety is that it's in control by those by those two strips of metal otherwise it's a

lethal thing and Madame Guillen says my freedom is thy Grand control the only the only freedom in the world is to get into bondage to God out of the bondage of sin into bondage for God now look what he says in the six of Romans Therefore we are buried with Christ therefore we are buried with him by with Christ by baptism we're buried into what into death verse 5 for if we have been planted in the likeness of his death knowing this that our old man our old self is crucified with him that the body

of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin now look you're either serving God or serving self or serving sin there's no Other areas verse seven Squad the text he that is dead is freed from sin no no it doesn't mean when this body dies the next verse goes on now if we be dead with Christ we believe that we shall also rise with him verse 9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead Death Dies no more death with no meaning over him foreign once but in the delivery living unto God

Likewise reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin I'll tell you what when that happens you never forget it when you go to your own funeral on your hymn sheet this morning I don't have mine would you give me him she we're not going to sing it for a moment but I like this hymn I was thinking of this before the meeting too so I got in line on two things if nothing else singing The Old Rugged Cross in this Hymn I will praise him look at the second stanza though the way seems straight

and narrow all I claimed was swept away my ambitions plans and wishes at my feet in ashesley I said in a meeting in Scotland as we close the years back I said if you let this be true in your life you'll let you'll bring your Ambitions your plans your wishes your own desires your self-life put it on the altar God will Burn it up and he'll do more with the ashes than you can do with your entire personality and I said if you want this blessing raise the hand a dozen people raise the hand and

I said anyone else a little woman at the back raise their hand like that down I said I saw it she got flaming red hair 15 years after my dear wife and I were in Manchester at a missionary meeting and the meeting was as flat as a pancake There was nothing in it the last man to speak sat down the man leading the meeting said would you like to hear a testimony yes and he asked a little redhead woman her legs were so short she couldn't even touch the car she kept doing this while the

preacher was preaching I thought yes I'd kick him if I could get near him too but I think it's because the language was shot and you know she stood up on that sleepy Audience that afternoon suddenly sprang to life on the edge of the sea she says I remember being in the cherryfield mission in Dundee's Carlton one afternoon I went to hear a certain preacher he couldn't come Rave and he'll preach no that can't be that little redhead woman I used to be afraid to go out in the dark a mouse run over the floor

I never Understand why a woman weighing 140 pounds jumped on a chair when a mouse weighing half an ounce so he's going to knock it over you think he was a bulldozer coming I didn't face a mouse I didn't face the darkness I didn't want to be lonely and she said Hallelujah that afternoon all I did was sweep the floor in the factory and the devil said you know the baptism of the spirit the endowment with power is only for intellectuals and Ministers and preachers and prospective missionaries it's not for Servant girls it's not for

a girl sweeping the fact of a floor you've no education but Ravenel said bring what you have and let God burn it up and she said that was my lifeline I ran to that altar that afternoon and she said the fire came and consumed all my desires and all my fears and all my tomorrows I'm just back from Africa been there Nearly 15 years oh I'm not afraid of my she said some nights there's a lion at the door oh she said I turn over and say go off I'm not on the menu tonight sometimes

I have to walk on the log in in the middle of the night with a man holding lights in front of me and there's a hippo with his mouth open at a crocodile I deliver a baby and he says I'll go Back with you because there's a man eating like no no it's all right she says I come back singing oh Blessed Assurance he took away my fear of man he took away my fear of death he took away my fear of consequences and she said when I an illiterate girl went to the Bible School

in in birkenhead I talked out in the top 10 students in languages in English and I couldn't write before I went there I went to the International School of languages in Paris and I came out on the Dean's List again and now in the Wilds of Africa living by myself in a heart whatever being terrified I'd have died the first day I don't understand Scotland I want to get back to Africa where God's working and she said that little Hut is filled with the glory of God like the Shekinah Temple or out of a life

that was so useless Still I laid it all at God's feet one last thing they shall give my age away but that back in the 1930s I know you know I'm over 21 so that's all right but back in the 1930s we were we were preaching doing Crusades in England we had a man by the name of Dan Phillips Dan had a tremendous voice a voice he'd been as wild as any man in World War one and he bore the scars of it both in his Mind in his conscience in his body one day a

young lady stopped him and taught him about the Lord and he got marvelously saved she was a beautiful young lady and she coached him along and they went to meetings together and finally fell in love with her and they fixed the date for marriage they went and bought all the furniture and stored it away he was standing in a meeting one night And they were singing what the man said was A Hymn of consecration is that my paper did I write on that I had one I wrote a verse that I was trying to remember

now it's on the inside oh I've got it here thank you okay the man's name was Dan Phillips there's a wonderful atmosphere in the Tabernacle in Manchester everybody felt God was moving but Dan felt specially because they were Singing this verse here I give my all to thee friends and time and Earthly store soul and body thine to be only thine forevermore let's sing that verse again say the leader here I give my friends and the Lord said look look this side here's the girl he's going to marry in so many months here I give

my all to thee friends I want your friend Time I want your time yet Earthly store all that furniture sell it and go to college and going out he said to her I I've got to tell you something it's very important well why didn't you tell me last night I didn't know I didn't know until a few minutes ago in the meeting in the meeting yeah yeah as we were singing here I give my all to thee friends in time I've sung that a hundred times but I I didn't sing it like today we've got

to postpone our wedding are you sure yeah I tried to back off but the Lord said to you do you love her more than you love me well I'll make it up to you you can get married you know I won't slay you but but my perfect will is that you you postpone your marriage and you'll sell your goods and you go to Bible School Or else he's a human being Paul said none of these things moved me he didn't say nothing so hurt me her eyes filled with tears and she said Dan that's beautiful

I'm glad you love the Lord more than you love me he went to Bible School he was the most illiterate man in the Bible School a friend of mine was at the college at the same time And one night he got a burden of prayer and he jumped up he ran down the corridor in his pajamas it's a school with men only and he ran down to what we call lecture hall number one and he got down to pray he prayed until the sweat poured out through his pajamas he couldn't even hear the door clicking

the door clicking the door clicking the door clicking the door clicking before the hour was through every man in The college was down on his face that college has never had a Revival before or sins like that one they were all preachers there were men who eventually were scattered to the ends of the Earth you see this silly nonsense you can you can have Jesus as your savior but not as your lord is purely unscriptural I believe we ought to be blazing man about this situation 95 of Christians in the nation are weak God can't

trust them with vision he can't trust them with burden you can't trust children with Jews they have no sense of values you can't trust them with something that needs bravery they're too timid you can't trust him with the burden you'll break them in the middle and I'm through with this in the middle of that marvelous marvelous unmatched Hymn of love that I'm sure was Paul's experience he Had found that love so amazing he had found a love that's always patient that's never rude he had found that love that darareth all things lashings whippings even his

Revival party broke up Spirit-filled men left him because they thought he was a fanatic in the middle of that amazing chapter it comes to a bump I think brother Godly I never understand he cried he suddenly breaks off and says when I became a man I believe there's a conscious entry That just as surely as the children of Israel knew when they got through the water and stepped on the promised land and said this is God's country there came a place in his life I renew I believe it was after God who revealed himself to

him and after God had revealed himself in him and then he had three intense years of study he'd even been caught up into the third heaven do you wonder you can't find two minutes backsliding in his life I think he saw everything John saw but God wouldn't let him write it down oh yes it will be worth it all when we see Jesus but between here and there there's a thousand pitfalls for some of you fellas of pair of sparkling eyes for some of you girls a very promising young man there's going to be a

great preacher and God wants you to burn your life out somewhere else for some of you just to be Godly fathers and mothers is an awful scarcity of them Right now says right along my sinful heart was striving to obtain this promised rest but when all my struggles ended simply trusting I was blessed if you come to this altar this morning I'm going to ask you to come for one thing because all I know about an altar it's for two things then or in the Old Testament for sacrifice and for death I could take you

to the place where I knelt once when I was about 18. considered to be the youth leader of the church and we'd seen some soul say I got the heels to meet on a Friday night at seven o'clock we prayed till nine I got them to preach to to meet at six o'clock Sunday morning and we prayed I went out in Sherwood Forest and prayed by myself weep and groan because I'd read David Brainerd he did it and I didn't know any Better and I'm glad I did it I'm not embarrassed nobody else show me

a pattern I sometimes think God sent me back to America for what I learned out of that one brief Abridged book of David Brainerd the man that died at 28 years of age burned out for God broken weeping the altar is for sacrifice let's not cheapen it The answer is for death and then when we die We rise again in newness of life when the priest was anointed in the well Psalm 133 the oil which is a continuous symbol of the Holy Ghost in Scripture the oil was put upon his head and it ran down

his face no no it ran down his beard and he ran off his beard onto his garments and it ran off his garments onto the floor it never touched the flesh If you read about the 25th chapter there of Exodus it says the anointing shall not come upon the flesh if you're not in the flesh or because there's so much flesh today so much of me of self of self-pity self-interest self-glory I say if you come to this altar come to die tell God I'm going to lose all my rights this morning tell him you'd

rather live six months With the anointing of the Holy Ghost in another 60 years without it telling you're pledging your hands and your feet and your mind all you know and all you don't know bring that wretched Pride that's always getting at you that Envy that's eating you up that jealousy that Mars you that temper don't ask for help ask God to nail it to the cross let's stand and sing this first hymn Shall we