I Almost Destroyed My Marriage.

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I wanted to think just really about this

verse

7 in the last day the great day of the

feast Jesus stood and

cried one version says Jesus stood and

cried with a loud voice saying if any

man thirst let him come unto me and

drink I shared some thoughts last Sunday

morning about this but it’s been

stirring my heart ever

since you know when we teach children

about heroes in the Bible we usually

teach about David and Goliath or Samson

or Daniel in the Lion’s

Den I think this chapter is incomparable

for

courage it was the last

day the great day of the

feast and this Feast was the last feast

in the Jewish calendar there were seven

Great

feasts according to Leviticus in three

of them only men were allowed to go but

in this last Feast this is the last last

feast in the year and this is the last

day on the last feast and this is the

last Feast that Jesus himself will

attend it says that he went up into the

temple oh look at verse five for neither

did his Brethren believe on him then

Jesus said unto them my time is not yet

come but your time is always ready the

world cannot hate you but it hateth me

because I testify of it and the works

thereof are evil go ye up to the feast I

go not up to the

feast now verse 14 in the midst of the

feast Jesus went

up now why does he say he’s not going to

the

feast and then right in the middle of

the feast he goes to the

feast it it seems to me that this is a

lesson to us in uh conserving our

time the three main feasts I I think in

the Jewish calendar were still

celebrated or still are celebrated in

the uh Christian calendar Passover which

is a type of our Lord Jesus Christ dying

for

us and then there’s a feast of Pentecost

that they had which we still

celebrate remembering the upper room but

this third Feast we do not keep in our

Christian calender it’s not yet come

it’s the time of in

gathering again three of the other

feasts only males were allowed to go

this final Feast of the Year people came

in from uh 70 different countries as a

matter of fact the Jews previous to this

killed 70 Bullocks one representing each

country where their people were

dispersed the last day the great day of

the

feast now this actually followed

immediately after the super day in the

Jewish calendar to the day of

atonement you remember the priest went

and shed blood for the people and then

he took two goats and he I don’t know

how he chose he chose one goat that he

would lay the blood upon that goat and

take it to the Wilderness put the sin of

the Nation on that goat and send it out

into the Wilderness so that it was lost

forever a type of God taking our sins

and putting them behind his back never

to be remembered against us anymore

forever the other blood was taken in a b

and it was taken put onto the into the

holy of holies and put there on The

Mercy

Seat the Salvation Army used to have a

great chorus they sang at their altar

calls they didn’t sing Just As I Am

Without One Plea they sang Come To The

Mercy Seat fervently

kneel here bring your Wounded Heart here

tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow

that heaven cannot heal scores of

thousands of people were sung into

blessing through the that marvelous

chorus when I was a boy which was last

century by the way I feel tonight but

anyhow it’s a long way back Earth has no

sorrow Heaven Can

okay now this is the last day the great

day of the feast it’s estimated I don’t

know how that more than a million people

crushed into the city for this last

final Feast if you go into the Old

Testament you’ll discover that they took

branches of trees I remember seeing a

lot of these in India when I was there

lots of people making comes like that

out of branches of trees and then plat

leaves in between to protect them from

the rain or the heat whatever it

was and so there’s this

celebration now Jesus went up in the

midst of the

feast

uh and verse 15 says the Jews marveled

saying how knoweth this man letters or

maybe there’s a marker on that letter

which in the margin says how is it this

man has wisdom he’s never learned he’s

never been to the school of the rabbis

where is he from we know who he is he’s

illegitimate

anyhow he’s the son of uh Joseph they

actually say we know his father we know

his

mother but he went into the temple and

taught now in the first place I want to

know how he got in the

temple he must have had his fight his

way through the crowd and the temple was

always guarded by Temple Police but he

gets through the crowd he gets into the

temple and he goes and stands in the

Pulpit that must have been pretty

shocking How could a man who isn’t

ordained go in the Pulpit isn’t that

Beyond Reason excuse

me but people think it is today

even when sth this man wisdom had never

having sat at the feet of men but if you

turn to the eighth chapter not now but

when you go home he says I was taught of

my father

father so that he had the greatest

teacher of

all you know John that wrote this gospel

is being called a Plato of the New

Testament because it’s the most profound

chapter may be ever

written now you may or may not remember

I guess you do you wise Scholars that’s

uh was it Plato was was the student of

Socrates one of the wisest man who ever

lived and so they said that this man is

as wise as Plato no you see paor Plato

only had Socrates he may have been the

greatest intelligence in the world at

the time but he didn’t have the Holy

Ghost to teach him so he’s still

ignorant we put men in Pulpit because

they’d got

degrees but you can have 32 and still be

frozen but today there’s such an

emphasis on scholarship isn’t there oh

we’re getting a new pastor he’s got a

ba but my sheep used to say that every

time I looked at them

[Applause]

ba so what’s a ba or an Ma I’ve got a ba

I’m born

again and I’ve got my Ma I’m marvelously

altered I’ve got my PhD sometime I’m a

post hole digger but anyhow there you

are I would love to know what Jesus

taught wouldn’t you

Martin I’ll tell you it was so

Sensational that those people those

rabbis and others sat with their mouths

open they marveled at

him what did he do did he unveil the

mysteries of Daniel’s

image did he tell him some of the most

unheard well only unheard of things they

had never heard but they marveled at

this

man now it’s a wonderful thing that

Jesus ever got into this place why again

I say because he had to push his way

through a million people outside he had

to push his way past the temple

guards and he comes into the

temple Mercy hon us what’s he doing

here in the second chapter he says he

went into the temple he called them a

den of Thieves well that’s a way to get

the welcome mat out isn’t it

anyhow you say to a bunch of the most

learned men in the world you’re a bunch

of Thieves that’s what he said

not only that he kicked over the money

changers

tables kind of like the Irishman said

everything that’s for me is against

me don’t you think they squinted that’s

the man that kicked over our money

tables our money went rolling down the

street

there this is a man who said we’re a

bunch of Thieves and robbers we hold

truth from men we’re blind guides

leading the blind why don’t they kill

him look what the first verse says I

after these things Jesus after what

things after all these

Miracles you know if we don’t get the

background of some of these stories we

miss the Majesty of

them you know between Malachi and

Matthew you’ve got 400 years of Darkness

without any prophetic light and then

like Haley’s Comet streaking over the

sky at black midnight a rugged ragged

man come

came he was an awkward man he was a

Baptist but anyhow

there’s some Baptists here tonight okay

don’t tell your pastor I said that you

see the amazing thing is the first man

that ever preached the baptism of the

Holy Ghost was a Baptist why don’t they

keep up with

it huh and why do the Pentecostals run

their flag up they they’re years behind

the Baptists preach it long before the

Pentecostals were ever

born you see truth is nobody’s property

isn’t that great

no man has a monopoly of wisdom I’m

getting there bit by bit but

anyhow I’ve been looking for it for over

seven somebody asked me today how long

have you been saved I think about

60 five what 65 years nearly 65 years

but you know I still feel I’m an amateur

I still feel I’m groping I’m still still

think I’m in waters to the ankles not to

the knees or the loins or Waters to swim

in in know world of God is like an ocean

somebody said it’s so beautiful a lamb

can Splash in the water here an elephant

can swim in it up

there some of the most intellectual men

I know I know two of them

they’re they’re the humblest of

men oh I love the hymn we sang tonight

oh worship the king his

wisdom’s when you saying his robe is the

light and his canop is

space ask scientists are too proud to

believe in eternity they do believe in

Infinity they shot a tin can up there 2

or 3 years ago into space It’s Already

Done 250 million

miles isn’t it silly that wise men down

in Houston sit down and talk to a tin

can up there and tell it turn right turn

left if I did that they’d say he’s got

religious men you but they’re scientists

they’re wise you

see but there’s no wisdom beyond the

wisdom of this book

I told somebody today I do I think what

one of our sons has done for years

learned a new proverb every

week and you’ll be smart if you at the

end of the year you’ve got 52

Proverbs the most amazing book of wisdom

maybe in the

world Jesus came into the place where it

said you’re a den of Thieves he walked

into the midst of it and it says they

wanted to kill

him now it says in verse 19 did not

Moses give you the law and yet none of

you keep the law isn’t that a nice

insult huh looking right in the eye of

the most learned men in religion in the

world Moses gave you the not one of you

keeps

it so he’s he’s getting a real scorecard

isn’t he he’s kick the money Chambers

out of the out of the place he’s call

them a den of

Thieves again I say right after that 400

years of Stillness there came this

amazing man John the Baptist

he shocked their

culture he upset their

theology nobody’s going to church why

they’re all going to hear a man out in

the wilderness what’s he doing raising

the dead no he isn’t he’s raising

hell did he raise the dead no he didn’t

raise a dead man he raised the Dead

Nation dear Lord we could do with the

John Baptist in every city in the nation

tonight some of you now are taking it

easy you say we relax LA and be raptured

now we’ve got Mr uh Reagan in Reagan

can’t do much for

us oh the issue of politics that we went

through just

now people say it wasn’t politics it was

something moral it wasn’t something

modal it was something

spiritual we could have a nation full of

Nicodemus is and they’d still be

lost did not Moses uh verse 19 did not

Moses give you the law and yet none of

you keepeth the law why go ye about to

kill

me verse 25 then said some of the J them

in Jerusalem it’s not this of whom they

seek to kill but he speaketh boldly and

they say

nothing now come on this this place this

uh marvelous Temple was no little room

like this this wouldn’t even go on the

platform it held at least 6,000

people there was a day when there was a

riot one of the priests tripped up and

Spilled the holy water and there was a

stampede and fighting broke out and it’s

estimated that nearly 2,000 people were

either seriously injured or

killed now Jesus goes up into the midst

of the feast with the eyes of

everybody those frowning Pharisees and

those dumb what were the other Sadducees

all the Pharisees liked him because he

raised the dead and the Sadducees said

there isn’t such a thing as a

resurrection that’s why was s that’s why

why they were sad

youy thank you I thought the penny might

drop after a

while oh they love to hear him because

he believed in and not only believed it

but he actually raised the debt the with

our theology it’s all on the Blackboard

our theology is all in textbooks it has

no life it has no breath it has no power

it has no

Authority how in the world did Jesus

stand in the middle of that crowd of

vexed angry

people he’d antagonize

them he’d reveal their spiritual

bankruptcy they were just getting over

the shock of John Baptist standing there

in the wilderness

they couldn’t fathom it why are people

going read the third chapter of Luke

when you go home even the Roman soldiers

went nfield would call them the Lesser

breeds outside of the law they were

fascinated when they heard him nothing

like this in Rome Caesar has nothing

like

this here is a little strange man with a

leather girdle around his loins and old

camel skin around his neck and people

are swarming from

everywhere what does he say

read the four

laws he uses that word nobody likes

repent

repent not only confess your sin forsake

your sin repent run away from

it then Jesus comes up

afterwards I don’t know where all the

order is in this but you know I I was

reading today the last verses of the

20th chapter and the

21st somebody has estimated it that if

you could take all the events that are

mentioned in the gospel recorded by John

and put them in a line they would only

give you 21 days out of the three and a

half years that Jesus

ministered I’ll go further than that I

say if you took Matthew Mark Luke and

John and take all these historic

events that this miracle had upset the

whole town don’t you think when the next

day after he turned water into wine that

everywhere they were saying did you hear

what he did

they ran out of wine last night and he

turned water into wine this is the man

that tosses people out of the synagogue

this is the man that kicks over the

extortionist this is the man that says

to learned

Men You’re the enemies of

God he’s

merciless you know we we are preaching

an acceptable gospel today make it as

painless as we

can and all we do is give people a shot

to put them to sleep so so they’ll get

to Hell

quicker we need some Hellfire preaching

on repentance amen amen one old

definition says repentance is to leave

the sin I’ve done before and show that I

Earnest grieve by doing it no more

amen if a man is genuinely born again

all things pass away all old things pass

away and All Things become new

so here we have Jesus right in the

center of the uh

crowd you see for six days what happened

they had a wonderful performance what

are they thinking

of Jesus stood there where the priest

had stood every day for seven

days and then the Temple Orchestra came

with their instruments and the temple

choir came and they went down the

shoulder of the hill to the pool of

silom and they did that go gold and

vessel into the pool and the priest

carried it on his shoulder with pump and

Circumstance and he went and poured it

out to what to remind them of

what that when they cried there in the

in the wilderness they had no

water and God told Moses to Smite the

rck and he smot it told him to speak to

it the second time he still smoted it he

got into

habits but they were commemorating that

tremendous event when that River

followed the river of Lies follow them

wherever they went and the rock that was

smitten that was Christ the word of God

say so for seven days they’d seen this

performance everybody stood on one side

and bowed when they came back oh you

think what God did God that put the

Stars up there God that one day parted

like you part your hair he parted the

rivers the water and over a million

people passed

through this is our

God they’re commemorating the

Miracle on the last day the great day of

the feast they did not go through that

performance and Jesus went and stood

there I if I were an artist I’d want to

paint

this I think around the world out

galleries I’ve been I’ve seen all kinds

of pictures about the Lord I’ve never

seen a picture of Jesus Jesus standing

here in all his moral Majesty why in

God’s name don’t they go punch

him why do somebody do what they’ve

already put an Assassin’s threat on him

we’ll kill him the people say well why

don’t you kill him he’s standing there

he’s no bodyguards There’s No Angels

around him well actually I think he had

a bodyguard of

angels I think he stood there in his

moral majesty and they could feel what

we call Vibes going out of him of the

glory of God that they de go near

him I say I say I think this is one of

the most gorgeous pictures of

Jesus in the Hall of the New

Testament but the last day at the great

day of the feast it says Jesus stood and

cried Isaiah says my servant shall not

cry in the streets well he’s not crying

in the street he’s not crying in the

street at all he’s crying in the

temple he’s crying to a particular crowd

of people

but he had insult to

injury I remind you again you’d already

call him a den of Thieves he’d already

tossed the money changers out he’d

stunned them with the Miracles that he’d

done and yet this is what he says to

them these people have a monopoly of

God didn’t they have ancestry like

Jeremiah and Isaiah and these huge

enormous characters

but this man comes this unlettered man

this

usurper this man with no backing stands

in the middle of the holy of holies as

far as they’re concerned it’s like me

rushing into the Vatican and shouting

Hallelujah and starting to praise the

Lord wouldn’t G down too well I’d like

the chance

though and there he is in the middle of

the

feast and listen to what he

says if any man hey hold in a minute you

can’t say that Jehovah is the god of the

Jews The Ten Commandments are given to

the Jews all those giants you talk about

spiritually who subdued kingdoms and

wrought righteousness and stopped them

out of land they’re all Jews why do you

dare to say to this Cosmopolitan crowd

here if any man

come I think one of the most beautiful

things that even Paul said my great

favorite preacher the Apostle Paul then

what he says in two what is it in the

second of Corinthians chapter 5 is it

5:17 don’t look now look after and find

out I’m wrong but

anyhow do you remember what he said If

any

man didn’t he say that what did he

say

pardon right I’m glad they not all

sleeping that’s

great if any man anywhere at any time

being Christ he may be the most Twisted

perverted caral clu stinking man in the

whole

world but if the miracle of regeneration

comes in he gets a new heart a new mind

a new

spirit a new inlook a new outlook new

everything we’ve forgotten about the

Majesty of the new

birth people just nod their head and say

the sin is pray and go straight to hell

down the aisle that they after they’ve

leaned their head on the shoulder of the

pastor do you know I doubt if five% of

professing Christians in America are

born

again true of

England I asked that giant of the man

Buck sing the man from IND do you ever

meet him out there Brothers You’ve got

to see him this time he’s getting old

he’s about 86 he is a man

he’s a man that’s going over the world

and he goes to the railway station

without a penny and orders his

ticket I believe in faith but not

fanaticism I mean you

know I mean you what if you embarrass

God but you don’t embarrass

God but I asked him one day of all the

professing Christians in India how many

have saved he said about 2 and a

half% what about the Christians in

America brother Singh he said uh to and

a

half% I’m astounded bewildered confused

battled when people tell me in America

we’ve 75 million people filled with the

Holy Ghost and with the rottenest nation

on

Earth come

on it says here that Jesus stood

cried one version says with a loud voice

it was not a

shriek it was not a

scream the Greek word implies that he

did it with

authority he did it loudly he did it

emphatically he did it with

emotion

why well I’ll tell you what I discovered

last week in this and I’ve preached on

this 40 or 50 years and found

it here he is in the temple two three 4

5,000 people around him and he stands

there and he cries with a loud

voice

why because time is running out for

these people and they’re dumb and blind

they don’t know

it they done the law they done the

prophets they’d had one of the most

amazing men in history previous to Jesus

coming and what did they do they got rid

of him

too chopped his head

off Jesus stood and cried with a loud

voice in my judgment for this

reason that he knew that time was

running

out that God’s spirit does not always

strive with men

as a cut off

point trying to think of a a verse here

I can’t remember right at the

moment I believe that Jesus is running

in his mind going through history God

gave them a margin of Deliverance for

the time that John Baptist was here they

still did the same

thing they’d had the law they’d had the

prophets they’d had the most amazing men

in

history they’d repeatedly got into

captivity this might may not be a good

definition but my definition of a fool

is a man that falls in the same hole

twice that’s exactly what Israel

did they’d been in captivity for 400

years under Pharaoh wouldn’t you think

that they’d shun everything that would

in any way def them in the sight of

God and yet they’re just coming here out

of 400 years of captivity

again let me look at the verse here

Matthew what is it

now that was only another reference

Matthew any you can put it down if you

want to Matthew 13:54 when he came to

his un country he taught them the verse

I want is is not that verse it’s Luke

11:50 remember he said to them which of

the prophets of your fathers not killed

now look what he says here in the 11th

chapter of Luke and verse 47 woe unto

you for ye build the sepers of the

prophets and your fathers killed them

they’re trying to wash away guilt by

making memorials to famous

men there’s no sign of

repentance come down in the

verse verse 49 therefore also said the

wisdom of God who is the wisdom of God

he is I will send them prophets Apostles

and of and some of them they shall slay

and persecute now here it is I believe

this was eating the Heart of Jesus

Christ when he stood there in the temple

and they were going through a dead

formula that didn’t mean to

thing they had altars but they had no

fire they had preachers but they had no

anointing they had no sign of Life all

the authority and Majesty of the holiest

being in the world God so listen to what

he

said verse 50 the blood of all all the

prophets which were Shed from the

foundation of the world may be required

of what of this generation from the

blood of Abel unto the blood of

Zacharias which perish between the Altar

and the temple and verily I sayto you it

should be required of this

generation do you wonder he was

heartbroken what happened his prophecy

came

true within a generation Titus invaded

Jerusalem in one of the greatest

massacres ever and blood flowed to the

bridles of the horses

and Jesus is standing

here remember the story of the man who

had business and he sent his men out

into the fields to work they didn’t

honor him last of all I’ll send my son

God has sent a whole column of

prophets finally he sends John the

Baptist the fire brand that wakened the

nation and they did away with him and

now they’ve got the Son of God they’re

going to do the way with him and Jesus

says listen this generation all the

blood of the prophets that’s ever been

Shed from Abel right down to this day is

going to be shed in your

day before very long they’re going to

reject

him what did they

do they turned away from

him but instead of them turning away

from them he turned away from

them your house is left you desolate the

Jews are remarkable Nation but they’ve

been desolate from that day to this

they’ve had no power they’ve had no

prophets they’ve been preserved in the

Myer of God if any other nation in the

world asked America for the money the

Jews have asked we’d have kicked them in

the ocean but we give them everything

they asked for

billions but as soon as America turns

her back on the Jews you can dig the

grave for America

Hitler brought the chief Rabbi in my day

1939 he brought the chief Rabbi into his

presence he told him what he was going

to do with the Jews the old Rabbi sat

there with his nice long beard and

Hitler said you were sitting there

pondering what were you

doing uh well your Excellency he said uh

my people were almost annihilated Years

Ago by a man called pharaoh

I know about that did you know we have a

flat cake I think they call it matsi mat

sace that’s

so I’ve eaten yards of it it’s tasteless

but it better than

nothing that’s about it but

anyhow it’s a memorial to

pharaoh and then there was a day when

somebody decided to liquidate the Jo and

the young lady stood in the way Esther

didn’t she Esther

and the Jews have a little cake Memorial

of that called a hamach I think it is

little thing full of

seeds and Hitler said well your

Excellency I was thinking we made a flat

cake to remind us of pharaoh and we have

a noble cake with seeds called a hont

tach I was wondering what kind of cake

we could invent to remember

you and would you believe hatler showed

him the door

they’re in for trouble don’t make any

mistake about

it but Jesus is standing there

weeping he’s stammering out he cries

with a loud commanding voice he had no

amplification and five or 6,000 If any

man thirst let him come unto

me he seeser at the end of the

line surely he had a word of knowledge

if anybody had and he knew they were

going to be Massac slaughtered if they

didn’t repent but they never repent I

think that broke his heart in that Feast

you dumb blind people how long are you

going to walk here and say Moses walked

here or somebody else walked here or

maybe before this there was a great

marvelous Temple that was built by

Solomon and yet you go through your what

does that water mean that you poured out

every not that much you just tell your

children well that’s something your

father’s great-grandfather saw one day

away in the wilderness

it had lost its

meaning as God is my witness I believe

that thousands of people will take

communion they sun in it doesn’t mean

that much to

them they don’t think of the blood of

Christ they don’t think he turned God’s

anger

away they don’t think he rescued them

from eternal hell if they did they’d

either Weep For Joy or weep for for

sorrow but they weep for nothing

this unrepentant

crowd they’re going to turn the sun no

he says you’re not rejecting me I’m

rejecting

you there’s a fantastic

verse in Lamentations this is hardly a

book you read for any fun or joy is

it if you don’t know where it is it

happens to be in your Bible it comes

right after Jeremiah

Lamentations chapter 2 verse

1 how hath the Lord covered the daughter

of Zion with a cloud in his anger and

cast down from heaven unto the Earth the

beauty of

Israel and remembered not his foot stole

in his anger the Lord has swallowed up

the habitations of Jacob and he hath not

ped he has thrown down in his wrath the

strongholds of the daughter of Judah he

has brought them down to the ground he

has polluted the kingdom and the princes

thereof verse four Heath bent his bow

like an like an

enemy he stood with his right hand as an

adversary and slew all that were

pleasant in the eye of the Tabernacle

and of the daughter of Zion he poured

out his fury like fire

here is the people that said God is our

God okay take him for good or

ill whether he has a smile or a Smite

you look what he says here in verse five

the Lord was an enemy he has swallowed

up Israel he has swallowed up all the

Palaces he has destroyed their

strongholds Heath increased the daughter

of Judah with mourning and lamentation

he has violently taken away his

Tabernacle they suddenly realize that

God is their

adversary the Who deliver them over and

over again he sent angels to deliver

them he delivered them in a hundred

different

ways but now his anger is kindled

against

them what do they say well of course

maybe God has moods he’ll change no not

on your life do you think of anything

more devastating than coming down to

verse 10 in this

chapter the Elders of the daughters of

Zion sit upon the ground and keep

silence here you have these Charming

women this is what they do they’ve cast

dust upon their heads they’ve GED

themselves with sackcloth The Virgins of

Jerusalem hang down their

heads now here is Jeremiah he says my

eyes of do fail with tears he says my

eyes are blinded with tears I’m choking

with grief listen my bowels are troubled

my liver is poured out for the

destruction of the daughter of my

people because the children of the

sucklings are in the streets they say to

their mothers where is the corn and

wine you see little children here in a

state of

destitution when they know the anger of

God is kindled is is destroying their

priesthood and destroying every treasure

they have the children say where is the

corn and the

wine oh you’ve told us Mommy that our

gares and others they came out of a

baren Wilderness and they came into a

land flowing with milk and

honey but the glor is Departed

I’m convinced that when Jesus stood in

the temple that day he was thinking of

the day when the glory of God filled the

temple do you remember the time when

Solomon stood there and the glory came

down and the priest could not Minister

for the glory of

God in God’s name when are we going to

see

that the glory filled the temple and now

the temple is a museum

now the temple is just a place of

historic value to us as a

nation there’s no sign of life our

altars have no fire the glory of God

doesn’t fill the temple the priests have

no prophecy how can we be

worse you can hardly find anything more

desperate than this my eyes are blinded

with tears my bowels are troubled my

liver is poured out for the destruction

of my

nation can you imagine the pastor of a

nice fashionable Church going in

next Sunday morning with his KN suit on

feeling on top of the world and suddenly

weeping and saying my bowels my bowels

are trouble my liver is poured out they

think it was

nuts the deacons would rush up and

escort him out to the

V there’s no

despair how many Pentecostal do you

think will’ll be beating their breast

this Sunday and saying oh we remember

the glory of God as Aza Street we

remember when the rivers of God flowed

out there from a people who were poverty

stricken in material things but rich in

God where are the nazarin the days they

had of Glory when Dr Brey founded that

organization and the pilgrim Holiness

people or the Methodist or the

salvationist do you know why we don’t

cry and weep and feel our bows and Tor

and our livers because we never seen the

glory of God that’s

why we’re content to tread a theolog

logical doctrinal treadmill until we’re

weary we drop into bed tied out we

haven’t departed one iota there isn’t an

angel Gabriel or M Michael nobody could

say we deviated it from the truth of

Baptist teaching or Pentecostal teaching

or somebody else’s

teaching we have no

passion we have no Brokenness

Jesus is

torn he knows that the de rejection is

almost

over he knows that outside of that

street he’s going to walk in in a few

minutes before long it’ll be full of

blood up to his

knees but those people who have no time

for God will be screaming for mercy and

it’s too late they’re going to be

slaughtered by the hundreds of

thousands maybe a million people were

destroyed in the days of Titus when he

invaded that City

you remember the scripture that says oh

Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest

the

prophets why don’t we change it put oh

America America thou that killest the

prophets 3,000 radio stations in America

today broadcast something of the

Gospel my country that gave the world

the Bible

that gave the world methodism that gave

the world the Salvation Army the two

greatest revivals since

Pentecost is now As Dead

As the

Doo We’re wanting to make a short-term

investment aren’t we and get the glory

of God on one night of prayer or one

evening of prayer or I’ve added two 10

more minutes to my praying each day

do you wonder that the rightous of the

Hebrews said we have not yet resisted

unto blood striving against

sin every drop of blood from Abel to

Zachariah when they had that Row in the

temple right down to the very last

person is treasured by God and listed by

God and everybody who’s being marted in

Russia Today every drop of blood was

recorded in heaven or China or whatever

it was

I’ll go back in our own history here

some enormous men some of the greatest

preachers since Pentecost walk these

streets are rode the

horses one of the greatest men the only

man that out rode uh Mr Wesley Wesley

rode 240,000 mil on Horseback Bishop

Asbury wrote rote

200

uh 2,400 I think exceeded Wesley anyhow

you’ve had a host of great J what about

Jonathan

Edwards s have been reading that story

this week I

think the man who set stamp eternity on

my high bold not Prosperity God help

us i p those poor guys over there in

Dallas at the Judgment seat that are

leading people down the Garden Path

looking for

wealth when the church is poorest she’s

richest in God Amen the blessed Apostle

says I have nothing I have no home I

have no protection I have no Creature

Comforts I have no rights I have nothing

but I possess all things and it wasn’t

some auditory it wasn’t some sweet

saying he demonstrated he had all things

eat power over demons eat power over

death heat power of adversity he can

rejoice in prosperity or in adversity in

season out of

season lash him 195 times he sings

Hallelujah lock him in a stinking prison

in in Rome he writes four of his

greatest Epistles to the Philippians and

Colossians and Hebrews and

Ephesians I think all hell out a day’s

holiday when Paul

died but this is the man who says I

travail in

birth this is the man who daringly says

I could wish myself a curse the literal

word is damned if need be for my

brothers

now you might say this is way above our

heads well stand

up

grow the trouble is we’re all locked up

come on I I maybe get shot for days

that’s okay we all live in a little

theological play

pen we’re scared to death to disagree

with some I’m not asking for Rebellion

I’m asking you to stretch your soul not

your mind that Mr mundale said he tried

it it didn’t work

so but stretch your

soul move in the a of this come on this

thing troubled me last Saturday night I

hardly slept a win I tossed on my bed I

cried I wept I

groaned God in heaven what’s my

generation

doing we’ve all the equipment we more

Bibles we more interpretations of the

Bible we more tracks we more books on

the holy go in any generation ever but

we never had less power it’s all in

print on

bookshelves like most of our praying

is I’m sure in that great day I’ll

discover when Jesus stood in the temple

he’s Looking Backward and remembering

the marvelous Deliverance of God and

then he’s looking forward because he he

had said already after wind times

running off always does do you remember

he met a woman there in the fourth

chapter of John and he he said uh give

me a

drink and if you knew who it was you’d

ask of

him and he put in you a well of water

springing up to everlasting

life now he says I’m that well of water

but wait a

minute go back to John 4 a minute here

pardon me John

7 37 if in the last day the great day of

the feast Jesus stood and cried saying

if any man thirst let come unto me and

drink and he that believeth on me listen

as the scripture said out of his belly

shall flow Rivers out of whose belly

mine

no well whose well look at the next

verse this spy of the

spirit I like John Wesley’s hymn gez you

Lover of My Soul remember a verse

section in it says Thou of Life The

Fountain art freely let me take of thee

spring thou up within my heart and rise

to all all

eternity this spy of the spirit who was

not yet given why the Holy Ghost was not

yet given

way told you

here because Jesus was not

glorified look you can pray your heart

out and weep and fast and knock your

head on the wall and ask for the Holy

Ghost but if he’s not glorified in your

life before that you’ll not get the Holy

Ghost if there’s bitterness in in your

life if there’s Strife in your life if

there’s anger in your life if you secret

lust shout to high

heaven beat your breast get out in the

field and yell ah head off W make a bit

of difference until Jesus is glorified

till he knows he has full control of

your life your spirit your soul your

body your mind your

will he won’t come and take take up his

AB

Bo now let get this straight remember

this they

these men that went to the upper

room they’d already received the Holy

Ghost read John what does John

say that while they were gathered in the

upper room Jesus came and he breathed on

them I always think of Abraham you

remember a a a b r a m Abraham and God

breathed on him

Abraham never the

the Holy Ghost is not given because

Jesus is not yet glorified Jesus has to

go through Gethsemane the hell of an

Agony of being separated from God he has

to descend into the abyss he has to go

and announce his victory in hell to

demon spirits and then he ascends on

high and like the high priest to present

his blood in the Holy place he takes his

own precious Priceless blood and present

it to the Father the Holy Ghost is the

coronation gift of

Jesus if I do not Ascend he will not

descend if you don’t do some house

cleaning curse your own habits list them

tell God what they are what your failure

is prayerlessness powerlessness lack of

vision lack of Tears lack of compassion

lack of love for lost people

I don’t know be forious here but you

know each time I’ve seen on the TV a

little crooked woman there that’s made a

fortune out of saying three words

where’s the

beef what’s it got to do with you

brother this said if I had a church now

over my puppet I’d have this in big

capit letters where’s the

grief let people go to hell what do we

wor it we’ve got a nice Sunday coming up

we’ve got it all planned we’ve outlined

the hyns we know when the quet will

stand up and sit down and Miss Jones

will stand up and sit down when she sng

and something else and we’re give the

pastor a little more time now he has 21

minutes today instead of

20 I could walk on my knees onto the

platform some Sundays I’ll tell you that

quite

honestly the biggest job in the world is

not running the White House it’s running

God’s house

Jesus is not

glorified he’s not glorified with the

selfishness in the life of so many

Christians me first me second and me

last does he have priority in everything

in my life in my eating in my sleeping

in my social life will I push others on

one side to give him

time the greatest gift this side of the

world is to be filled and not OED and

kept Anointed with the holy spirit of

God do you know what it’s trouble with

our generation I’ll tell you the highway

of Christian Living is strewn with the

wreckage of has

beans remember preaching in Australia

the pastor you know like they do on the

platform talk behind his hand you see

the man over on the right that big man

with a ball head yes do you know that 15

years ago he was the greatest man in

Australia he had an incredible

anointing he was all almost as he had a

torch in his hand going through dry

grass everywhere he went he set cities

and towns on fire he lost

out he got caught up in M money and

something

else I believe the only first thing

God’s Earth that gives the devil any

nerves is a holy ghost

man I’ve seen God do all kinds of

Miracles people jump out of bath chairs

blind people get the sight when we

prayed crippled AR I’m out of that now

you think I lack compassion well you

have a right to think it there’s

something greater than that yes the

greatest miracle that God can do is to

take an Unholy person out of an Unholy

World make that Unholy person holy put

them back in an Unholy world and keep

them holy Amen in the midst of a crooked

and perverted and perverse

generation spent a little time yesterday

with Dave Wilkerson and he said Len I’ve

come to this conclusion

5 years from

now I don’t think any Christian will

dare to have a TV in their

home there’s some new invention you can

get put it on the top of the house I I

think he said about $100 you can get all

the corruption you want from all the

stations around this country and if it’s

powerful enough other

countries we’re saturated with

worldliness the king of America there

isn’t one yes there is tell his name

sport he has a wife what’s her

name

entertainment think of the billions that

they

get think of the billions that go into

the liquor business the billions that go

billions go into

pornography does it disturb

us I’d like to see every Church in the

nation shut down for a week at

least why should I preach to you God

knows I’m adding condemnation to you

tonight you can’t handle the truth

you’ve already got you’ve had it for

five or 10 years you can’t handle it why

should I bring you more truth why should

I give you the challenge of having a

Spirit-filled life out of his inmost

being when he is resident out of my

inmost being will flow Rivers not

trickles rivers of Living

Water what kind of rivers rivers of

Mercy rivers of compassion what will

melt my eyes to

tears rivers of love that will let me go

to the most perverted and wicked and

crooked

people that helps me to look at the TV

and not see a bunch of

skeletons dear lady here said the other

day she was tremendously moved I was it

was on last night

again those million people in

Ethiopia somebody says that’s a

contrived

famine I could give you names of men who

contrived it

too a million people may die in Ethiopia

and more than a million in Africa

there’s a woman with a withered breast

and little things sucking sucking

getting nothing she gets some water and

that kid’s glands are so swollen when

she pulls the water it goes all over him

down his but he can’t even take

it well I want to tell you

tonight I believe the same thing happens

in our churches every Sunday people are

choking and we’re trying to pull the

Water of Life into them and the poor

souls are so damned and lost they can’t

take it

they’ve listened to the same preacher

year after year says the same things in

the same way he hasn’t shed a tears

since he left his mother’s

womb he went to the Seminary and got a

big fat head and a shrunken

soul I wonder God Almighty doesn’t keep

his promise what’s his promise he keeps

his promise all right then before long

I’ll tell you what he’s going to do he’s

going to spew most of the not

Christianity but

Christendom organized

financially backed

religion that can’t turn this why do we

send people to other countri we can’t

even save our own

country little guy on TV said give me

more money my message should go into

Japan

why they’re lost are

they you know how many deaths how many

murders they have in Japan in a year 20

we have that in a day in New York

state what’s a good of taking they turn

around and say go back and clean your

own country

up we two precious men from Poland in

our house the other week day wilus

brought them they were amazed they said

when they saw people come out of church

and light up

smoke oh you would never see that in

Poland Poland is wedged between a rock

and a hard place an inflexible Roman

Church and the devilish power of

Communism but you know what they have no

homosexual

sexuality they have no gay communities

they have no

pornography come on we can’t even clean

that lousy stinking stuff out of the

nation never mind go convert japane I

know they need to be saved I’m not

saying they won’t

be now I can draw a picture as black as

anybody I

guess I believe we’re going into the

darkest

days that Humanity has ever

known so dark they make the Dark Ages

look like

midday doesn’t it say that in Joel

before the final break there’s going to

be a day of darkness and

gloominess but you know I got some help

today brother a when I was pondering

that the story of Egypt in Egypt do you

remember it says there was darkness in

Egypt but light in the houses of the

children of Israel yes yes Darkness Doom

is going to settle over the capitalist

system and every other system

communism people are going to scream for

light in its

Darkness I read a statement here let me

see if I can find

it Darkest Day in History is coming but

what you know what I believe the most

glorious day is coming

too this writer said says the

dispensation of the law could only end

in Tribulation and the curse for it is a

ministration of death but the

dispensation of Grace must standing

glory and victory because it’s the

ministration of

Life religion continues to patch up that

which Christ has declared useless here’s

a phrase for you the veil that was rent

in the temple was rent in Twain we’re

trying to stitch it

together flesh continues to Ru in the

place of the spirit instead of the blood

of Christ there is the work of man

instead of the new birth there’s moral

real instead of the Holy Spirit there’s

fleshly

entertainment the day of the Lord is at

hand it should be a day of Glory a day

of light a glorious

light the day of the Lord is at hand

even the end of the

ages and great should be this display of

God’s glory it should be light glorious

light or it should be Darkness gross

darkness and it will depend upon our

position before God just as all the

Wrath and judgments were due to the

preceding Generations were Heap together

and laid upon the generation of the

Christ and laid upon the pardon me laid

upon the generation of Christ today

remember when he said the blood of all

from Abel right down to this day will be

upon

you he shall therefore be Great

Tribulation such

as such as was never known from the

found foundation of the world but it

shall also be a great Glory such as was

never known before from the foundation

of the world one class it shall be a day

of darkness and gloominess to the other

as the morning spread among the

mountains then he says this focal point

in history is coming the glory of Moses

day is for us the glory of David’s

kingdom is for us the glory of Solomon’s

kingdom is for us the glory of the

restored temple in Ezra’s day is for us

and the glory of Elijah’s day

come on the devil’s going to do his

worst but God’s going to do his

best as I’ve used the phrase for you

there’s going to be a Pentecost that

will out Pentecost

Pentecost I believe the glory of the

original Pentecost was greater than the

glory in Solomon’s

Temple I don’t know how many were in

that Temple at that time I know a bunch

of unlearned uneducated men and women

were in that upper

room and they went out no Financial

backing they didn’t go out to do

Miracles tell your a miracle they did

after Pentecost they didn’t do before

Pentecost then they run back to Jesus

and say even devils are subject to us

we’ve done many mighty works but that’s

not the greatest thing the greatest

thing is that you that were lost without

god without hope your names are written

in the book of life amen

do you know what I’m sick of I’m SI of

see sick of seeing so-call revivals or

blessing where men get the

glory I believe there’s going to be a

visitation of God where no man will get

the

glory men won’t dare to open their

mouths and try put a crown on somebody’s

head because he has a super anointing

that this world has never

known I’m getting old but and I’m

getting tired tonight physically but

I’ll tell you what I’m not tired in my

spirit

I have to wear glasses but my inward

vision’s all

right somebody wrote the other day and

said brother Ry you’ve been praying more

than 50 years for revive I believe

you’re going to live to see it so do I

otherwise I’d say Lord Take Me Home

Tonight course they haven’t got a grave

plot yet but

anyhow what are we going to do hang our

hops on the

Willows you see when the glory departed

and the people lost the Majesty of God

what did they do they were taken captive

in Babylon and they said sing as the

Lord’s song in The Strange Land they

said we can’t we can we can marry

Christian words to rock

music they were carried away to Babylon

but babylon’s good to

us you can give some of money to Babylon

you get a tax credit for

it babylon’s very kind to us these days

it doesn’t put us in

prison there are some things to pray

urgently before we had a young man here

last year who had a Revival in Caracus

Venezuela by faith he went and took a

great big bull ring that held I don’t

know what he got he got 20,000 tonight I

think

25,000 uh at the

weekend I had a letter from him today

another brother had a letter from him

this week you know logus has a who is it

belong to logus

boat come on

operation mobilization that logus boat

went to China and they had no trouble

they let them Dock and let them take out

their

Bibles they went to veneo earlier a few

weeks ago and the police got hold of

them made them lock up the

ship and then the police bombarded the

ship broke Windows took everybody out of

the ship and put them in jail for a

while and let them go you see the pope

is going to Venezuela

so now for the time being let’s hope it

changes you cannot get a visa to go into

Venezuela as a

missionary they do not want any

Evangelical activity they don’t want

anybody’s eyes to be open they want to

bring the false priest there who is

Antichrist not the Antichrist but he is

Antichrist

anyhow I wind they up listen Paul says I

tell you even

weeping they’re enemies of the Cross of

not enemies of Christ Rome is an enemy

of Christ it has him everywhere on on a

cross it’s an enemy of the Cross of

Christ because it says Mary is equal

Redemptive in Redemptive power you can

pray to Mary or to Jesus it’s optional

not

so Jehovah’s Witnesses talk about Christ

but they’re

Antichrist they’re enemies of the every

denomination Mormonism latterday Saints

my

foot why because they reject the blood

of

Christ the Mormons re reject the blood

of Christ Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the

blood of Christ all the modern

socalled religions reject the blood of

Christ we’re not too worried about it

are

we I tell you I told God I don’t care if

I never go out of my house or out of

this area

again I don’t care if after weep and

Gran and fast and Tra I don’t not care

Hill beans about

that what the church has had in the last

25 years hasn’t moved America to the to

to near heaven with all the millions of

dollars we spent so God has to do a new

thing and he’s going to do a new thing

and that’s why I love to come to last

days and talk to you folk and you others

that come in from other places you’re

the hope we grhe heads had our

day what are you going to do just talk

talk about the history oh finny finny

finny forget

finny finny f i n i is Latin for for

Finnish so finny with

finny and get down to the word and read

through the apostles and read through

the prophets and tread with these men of

Sorrow here is a man of sorrow standing

in the midst of hostility standing P me

in the midst of because this Feast was a

feast of joy and they were happy and

laughing and clapping their hands and

going to hell at the same

time they were squeezed in they were

slaved I Think Jesus was reaping for

that the whole nation was in slavery to

the Roman

Empire and they were in slavery to

Godless

religion you know we have the biggest

task on our hands that any Generations

there are more lost people

tonight than ever they have been in

history

and we

sleep not just

physically we sleep

spiritually there’s an old old him I

hope it’s in him I’m going to ask you to

sing it let me ask you tonight here how

many of us here have lost children or

lost parents raise your hand let me

see is that enough to drive us to our

knees drive us to tears

tell God we don’t care if people think

we’re insane so what I’ll tell you what

we won’t be embarrassed at the Judgment

seat that we fasted and prayed and wept

and got out of step with some

denomination or bunch of

cranks the Holy Ghost wants to come in

me in his

fullness and you and pour out Rivers not

trickles not when you just feel like pre

but taking hold of you like a river that

you see sometimes on TV and the river’s

in full flood and it sweeps houses away

it sweeps away cars it sweeps Away Big

Trees there’s nothing can stand there is

no hope this generation will fill hell

quicker than any other generation we’re

so corrupt unless God in Mercy fills us

unless you say Lord there’s nothing I

want I don’t want some new watch for

Christmas some new I want a new

anointing I want a new revelation I want

a new quickening

see if I can find

this now I want you to sing it just

not emotionally but spiritually it’s a

tremendous hymn 207 let’s stand and sing

it let’s try and see these lost Millions

at home and abroad is

reing e