Father, we thank you for your health of soul tonight. I think of Wesley when he said, "Perfect health restore my soul to perfect holiness and love." Lord, we thank you that you are the one who heals all our diseases, not just physically but even spiritually and morally.

We're glad for that marvelous word, that measureless word in Hebrews 7:25. Lord, in which your word declares He is able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by Him. As we sang this hymn, Lord, I am pressing on the upward way. New heights I am gaining every day, still praying as I am onward bound. I want to scale the utmost height, Lord, as we sang that, my mind flashed across those wonderful people listed there in Hebrews 11. Some of them had to leap across a chasm as it were, but they found faith to do it. Others discovered that their faith did not remove mountains but you gave them strength and courage to climb over them.

That word recurs in that epistle; they endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Lord, I'm afraid so many of us have seen the things around about us. People are seeing change that they can't account for circumstances they never dreamed of. But Lord, we bless you that through Jesus we can be more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

We thank you for every precious believer in the world tonight. We're surely a minority in a minority but Lord, we bless you. You have many tonight in many kindreds and people and nations and tongues that have been redeemed from all iniquity. You put a new song in their mouths even praise it unto our God.

Think of the psalmist who says, "He lifted me up from a horrible place not only lifted me up he set me up on a rock and attuned me up." Because He said, they put a new song in my mouth not only thank you. You're in this business of making bad things into good totally transforming.

Again, we bless you for this uttermost salvation. Tis a fountain full and free, pure, exhaustless, ever-flowing, wondrous grace it reaches me. But I think of the apostle with all his fabulous theology. The magnificence of his conception of redemption and of God.

And all he wrote to us in that letter to the Thessalonians that the Lord will come with ten thousand of His saints. And Lord, we think at that moment, we don't hear much about it. It's put on one side, even by the redeemed. But Lord, we know you're coming to take charge in a new and wonderful way.

Not to set up a temporal kingdom, but an eternal kingdom. We thank you for the saints who have gone before us. We have to sing, Lord, in truth, brothers, we're treading where the saints have dropped. We think again of Hebrews where it says they were martyred. They endured affliction. They were persecuted and tormented of whom the world was not worthy.

The world thought they weren't worthy to live in it and you turned it round and said the world isn't worthy of them and you took them through the fire and the flood and the flame and the persecution and the trial to shape their characters for eternity. Not to be glad, you don't play tricks. You are a perfect plan for each of our lives if we're willing to walk in the light as we sang tonight.

And Lord, we leave that as a secret. If we step out of the light into the darkness, we get into chaos, we get into confusion, we get into difficulties, we get into sin. But Lord, we thank you, enable us to walk in the light and we thank you for the light of His word.

Again, we thank you. This book, not only has a line of blood from Genesis to Revelation, but it covers us stained with blood, the blood of martyrs. We thank you for those. Think of those many in England who put their hands in the flame first because they had recanted and yet they slowly let that hand roast and the crowd jeered.

Lord God, we think of the glorious reward they'll have. We can't remember the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury at that time but Lord you've left an indelible record in history that men would endure physical suffering even to the death choking in the flames not able to see with the tears in their eyes because of the smoke and yet Lord they did it as they endured as seeing Him who was invisible.

Lord God, we live in a world where people want to believe in what they can touch and what they can see and what they can handle and what they can value but Lord we bless you. You've changed our concept of that. We thank you we know in whom we have believed we thank you that we do have a home eternal in the heavens, a house not made with hands.

How we bless you for that beyond our concept we thank you for the glorious kingdom you're going to set up. We thank you for the day when we shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and all the saints of the ages. Lord what a celebration that will be beyond our comprehension beyond explanation but Lord we know that you keep your promise.

You said it in your holy word but remember again tonight the suffering church people like us in Russia who have no freedom or in Afghanistan which slowly bleeds to death while the United Nations looks on but Lord you're looking on from another angle. There are people there who worship you there in spirit and in truth today they've blessed you for food as though they had a banquet when it was only a crust they've thanked you for what they have though they're only rags.

But Lord you see beyond that you see them in a robe of righteousness. And you see them again in that day when there's no poverty, no suffering, no hardship. Lord, we think of women bearing babies as we're told with a shot and shell of hell going up at them, cringing there. Nobody to attend them, no doctors, no midwives, and in terrible, terrible difficulties.

Lord, we bless you that they are enduring again as seeing Him who is invisible. Lord, we thank you there are some people in this chaotic world who have a faith that's unshakable and a peace that's indestructible and a joy that's unspeakable it can't be rationalized because it isn't rational it isn't natural it's supernatural.

We thank you for those Lord who are walking tall in the midst of adversity and calamity and tragedy and affliction. Think of that hymn again, a part of which says "Of these saints they climbed the steep ascent to heaven Through peril, toil and pain O God to us may grace be given to follow in their train."

We thank you for the privilege of worship tonight. Grant that we may worship you in spirit and in truth. In Jesus' name let's sing the first and second standards only of number one.

If you were here last Friday you'll remember we had a very precious word from Gracie Greer very feeding, satisfying word he spoke about the body I want to take it up from another angle tonight from the epistle of Paul to the Romans chapter 12.

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If to man through his word. But again, I'll finish this. He had completed the cycle of human sciences and was aware of their nothingness. Isn't that something? He'd given his genius and in every round he'd exceed every he touched the top of the mountain heights; he touched the top of everything. He was a superstar in every science you can mention, that man has, and he threw his hollow inside, and it's rubbish. We didn't sing it, but we love to sing about him. I lay in dust, lives glory dead—that's easier said than done.

But then he turned his thought to religion, and from that time until he was 39, in his 39th year, he was always infirm and suffering. And he molded the French language in a new way. But let me read something more wonderful here. I've mentioned to you more than once, and I get profoundly moved when I think of Lugridge's statement concerning Solzhenitsyn, one of the greatest brains in the world today.

When he came to England, the BBC told him to take the lid off and show Russia who it really is. And he didn't. It shook the nation. When he came here, not one of the TV stations would let him speak. We don't want to know what's wrong. We don't want to know the corruption in Russia.

But remember that genius was in a bed. He slept every night on a bed of rotting straw with urine running around and silk. In a dark place, hardly any light, and across from him there was another old stinking bed. Every night, a man reached into his ragged clothes and pulled out little bits of paper and uncurled them and read them and smiled and laid back.

They gave that man more brutality; they gave him more suffering; they gave him more hardship; and they gave him less food. And tortured him, and never once did he wince, never once complained to men. He smiled at everybody that smote him. He embraced men as though he was embracing some gorgeous woman.

I love you, I love you. Charles Henson says to him, "How in God's name did you do that?" He said, "I did it in God's name. Jesus Christ came into my life, and it was there in that stinking hole."

Sultan Hidson had been to these cathedrals in Russia and never heard the voice of God. And he sees a man totally lost. He doesn't see as men see. He doesn't think as men think. He's on his feet on earth. His thinking is in eternity. He's embracing hardship. He's embracing the mercy and the love and the greatness of God.

And Sultan Henson said, "When I saw that, there must be a living God." And the man said, "Well, Christ lives in me. He must do." No one else could bear it. You turn and curse your enemies. You get violent. Instead of that, you're so submissive. You are like Jesus Christ.

Well, listen to this. This is the other end of the scale. This fellow Blaise, that's spelled B-L-A-I-S-E, in the dawn which followed the unforgettable night, of the 23rd of November 1654. Blaise in complete surrender to his savior withdrew into the solitude of Port Royal de Champs and very likely it was there on the occasion of a monthly meditation he wrote his admirable mystery of Jesus.

But this is what Blaise says: "In a servant transport of love, I actually heard the Lord Jesus say to me, 'I was thinking of thee in my agony.' I've said such and such drops of blood for thee." The moving dialogue reached a culmination of grandeur when Jesus finally rested from Blaise. The words of utter consecration, "Lord, I give thee my all."

From that moment, one of his firmest convictions was that Jesus will be in agony until the end of the world, and we must not sleep until that time.

Now, that's a saying, and yet we sing that hymn, "Crowning with many crowns," who every grief hath known that wrings the human breast. I looked up one of the great old English, really Welsh preachers, Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, and he agrees exactly with what this man says that Jesus Christ is suffering now; he's the head of the body, the body is suffering.

We sometimes say, "Lord, Stretch forth thy arm." How can he? I'm the arm. You're the arm. If he's the head, he's the head. You don't have two heads. That's why you've no head like the Pope on earth. He's no head.

I could tell you what he is, but I won't. But this man is totally abandoned to Jesus Christ in exactly the same degree, I think, that the Apostle Paul was.

You see, all that Paul is doing here in the twelfth chapter, he's working out, at least in my judgment, what he said in the sixth chapter. That if we're genuinely born again, you know, I'm so sick of altar calls, I'm so sick of people going up and sniffling at the altar for five minutes.

How in God's name have you time to tell them? If anybody comes to the altar, I'm going to stay there an hour if need be. Oh, are you sorry for your sins? Sure. They repented. How do you know they cried? How do you know it's not remorse?

Do you think they deliberately said, "Love, I'm putting off the world, the flesh, and the devil?" And I'm putting on the Lord Jesus Christ? I renounce all the hidden things of dishonesty.

You see, the new birth is a miracle. There's nothing on this earth like it. If any man be in Christ, I don't care how tangled he is, I don't care how deep he is in sin. If any man be in Christ, it's a new creation.

Tell me, the people that come to the altar. Give me the names and addresses. I'll go to the house. Before the weeks, ask the wife, "Is your husband new?" Children, "Is your daddy new?" No, he's still angry.

What? People say, "I'm saved." What do you say from hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from anger? If you're not, you're not saved. You may have given up some dirty habits. Maybe you don't smoke to do this. But are you a new creation? Is your appetite just keen for God as it was for sport?

How many millions of people professing Christians watched the, what he called the games, the reason they had the baseball World Series.

And people stayed up till midnight. They said, "What was it, about two weeks before the end that one game lasted 16 hours?" Those people couldn't stand six minutes over 12 o'clock on Sunday. That's all they get out for the Cowboys.

All this morning they said on national TV that the PTO cost $175 million to build and Jimmy and, what's her name, Tommy, expecting to spend a billion dollars before they're through. God help them. A billion dollars for that junk? I'll tell you how to test your spiritual life. The more joy you have in God, the less entertainment you need.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. Entertainment is the devil's game. You have to pay for entertainment. You can have joy in the misery, in adversity, in calamity, in tragedy.

What did we sing? "It is well with my soul." The man that wrote that had lost his son. He trained his son to take over a multi-million dollar business. The son died. Right after that came Chicago. He lost all his property. Right after that he lost four daughters at sea. And then he could go home and take a piece of paper and write, "When peace like a river had tended."

His world had dissolved.

The psalmist says, "My heart is fixed." You better make up your mind. That's the only thing that is fixed. There's nothing else fixed. The weather isn't fixed. Your feelings aren't fixed.

He says, so many of us live on emotions. I feel good. So what? What if you feel rotten? Does that mean the kingdom of God has fallen apart? Oh, I've disappointed the Lord. Well, he doesn't disappoint me or you.

He's on the victory side all the time. But anyhow, in Romans 6, Paul says, "Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed."

Now there's the body. The body he's talking about here is this. I never said carcass; you have. No, I mean carcass I have. This is the case inside of all kinds of wonderful things.

I have my will. As I've told you, the x-ray can photograph your brain. It can't photograph your mind. It can photograph your throat, it can't show your voice. It can photograph many things, the liver, your kidneys and all the other trimmings we have inside.

But it can't show a picture of your emotions. It can't show your will, it can't show your zeal. The most mysterious thing on God's earth is human personality. And if it's corrupted, look how devilish it becomes.

Just going to bed last night, we turned on the news at 5 to 10 I think it was and they've been showing apparently a special on teenage prostitutes. Isn't it amazing in this country of all the industrialized countries in the world America has the highest percentage of teenage prostitutes and teenage teenage and all that kind of deal.

Well, teenage prostitution in the most privileged nation in the world. Sure we've more bathtubs and telephones. Sure we've more divorces too. Our jails have jumped to capacity.

It shows a total ineffectiveness. I called a guy the other day and he was mad about it. I said, "I'll say it's somewhere else. Let me speak on national TV."

The biggest enemy to revive in America is evangelism. We're getting people out weeping and saying this and there's no change, there's no transformation. They're not new creations. They don't wake up with all the joy bells ringing.

They don't suddenly find everything has withered in the world.

What's the script? I don't know if I caught it earlier. Worldlings prize their gems of beauty. Sing to gilded toys of dust. Boast of wealth and fame and pleasure. Only Jesus relies on us.

You see, to men like Pascal, the world, he says there's nothing in it. I've tried every science, medical science, every other science, and they're all hollow. And from here he said, "Every beat of my heart, every thought of my mind is Christ."

And he lived in that constant agony.

He says, well, Christ is there. He's grieving over his church. I believe the church in America or England tonight is more grief to God than all the corruption and prostitution and drunkenness.

We're playing a game. We're afraid to get down to the issue.

You see, the thing I love about this precious man, Paul. He's the best example of his own theology.

As I've said to you often, I used to say in street meetings every week: "What was he going to say?" He comes from behind that. Oh, a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

Paul is saying, "You present your body a living sacrifice. Do you know what God will do? He'll break open areas of your being you've no idea of."

This is a man, remember, he's bloody; his hands are bloody. He's going to stand one day at the judgment seat. Why did he leave?

And he didn't.

So what happened? What you saw, you read.

The same thing happened with him.

He was put to death.

But Paul says, "I am crucified with Christ." I have no rights. I have no choices. My hands are his. My mind is his. My will is his. My devotion is his.

But they're the most cruel form.

You know, I'm trying to write a book on the judgment scene. It's awesome.

I believe that thousands of American preachers and English preachers will be charged with criminal negligence when they get to the throne of God.

They haven't declared the whole counsel of God.

Do you know the silly thing that so many preachers say? Oh, well, we're only human.

We're only human.

That's what the Mohammedan say.

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S. We're not human. We should be superhuman. We have Christ's livingness. We should be in harmony with heaven. And if we get off the beam immediately, the Spirit bears witness with us. What's that hymn? The comforters. Were you singing? Well, I forgot it. No, I gave you the wrong thing there. It's a heavy hymn they sing now. I'll have to make some notes. See if I can dig it up anyhow.

Oh, the hymn is "Our blessed Redeemer," ere he breathed his tender last farewell, a guide and comforter bequeathed with us to dwell. He came sweet influence to impart a gracious willing guest where he can find one humble heart wherein to rest and his that gentle voice we hear soft as the breath of Eden that checks each thought and calms each fear and speaks of heaven.

I saw a man writing on a board. You've got this in your heart and that and the other. Listen, I can't memorize that. I need an inward monitor. I need the Holy Spirit to constrain me. He's there to constrain me when I'm lagging and restrain me when I'm going too fast.

But here's that gentle voice we hear. There's an inward voice of the Spirit of God and Paul knew that because he talks about walking in the Spirit. He talks about being crucified but he talks about resurrection life.

A man didn't have any choice about the cross. There were very, very many kinds. There's a cross like an X and they stretched the man's arms up and his legs and crucified him that way. There was a cross that was just a straight piece of a tree and they crucified him this way.

The worst form of crucifixion was they took the man who committed murder and tied him to the body of the man he'd murdered. So there you put the corpse down and you lay the man on the corpse and then you strap his living hand to the dead hand, the living hand to the dead hand backwards, his legs to his legs.

You stand him up and say, "Get going, get going." And he staggers carrying this. That's what Paul's referring to. The Romans knew that. They're carrying the body of this death.

And yet the miserable preachers say, you're going to sin as long as you live. Well, if that's a sin in God's name, tell me what sins I can commit what I can commit.

Again, did Jesus say to a wicked woman, go and sin less? He said, no, go and sin no more. And she didn't have the cross, and she didn't have the book, and she didn't have the Holy Ghost.

Christianity is not a sinning religion, it's a victorious religion. Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good, merely he came to make dead men live.

If you wonder, the blessed book, through Paul says, he talks about the offense of the cross. It's the cross that's the offense.

Also, Paul says, "I tell you, weeping, they're enemies of the cross of Christ." The Roman Catholic Church isn't an enemy of Christ, she's an enemy of the cross, because she says, the Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ, the most adulterous ones in the world.

And you get all these heresies. They're not enemies of Christ. They're enemies of the cross. Because the cross is against sin. It cuts across, as Martha often says, it cuts across everything. It cuts across our desires and everything.

So here is an ant. And he's going down the road and somebody says, "Oh, I knew that man had mud." See who he's tied to? He's struggling with the body. He falls down and sleeps and wakes up and sees those glassy eyes.

The corruption in that body gradually comes into him. But I see him going down the street and I see a Roman centurion and I say, "Excuse me, that man is a friend of mine." Can I cut him loose? I want to cut the ropes from his hands and his feet. Can I do that?

He says, "Yes, thank you." He says, "Wait a minute. There's one condition. What's the condition?"

Immediately you cut that corpse from your friend. That corpse will be attached to you. Will you do it? Oh, no, thank you.

But Jesus says that body of sin, he took that body of sin to the cross. But we leave people in Romans 7. Paul finished up by saying, "Oh, that's a lie from hell, he didn't." But he says in that chapter, it's Christ, it's no longer I hate sin that dwelleth in me, but go up the road, he says, it's not I hate Christ that liveeth in me.

You can't be sin-dominated and Christ-dominated. You can be sin-dominated or self-dominated, and after all, Romans 7 is only about self.

Take a pencil and check every time he says "aye" - 31 times is it? 36 you've got another version okay. It's 36 times.

And then you go into Romans 8. What does it say? He uses I only twice. Verse 18 and verses 38. I reckon.

And I am persuaded. You can't do anything else.

But you see, Romans 7 is a self-centered Sin-centered chapter. Romans 8 is a Christ-centered chapter.

And I've told you I'm going to finish with this. You know there are two great works by Milton - Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Do you know when he wrote Paradise Lost? Just after he got married.

Do you know any of what paradise he gained? A few weeks after his wife died. That's a historic fact.

But when I read it, Romans 7 is a funeral march. I, I sin as dominion, sin as dominion. Come on, tell me in God's name.

You see, the antagonism is between the world. You can't love the world and the things of the world. If any man loved the world, I don't get how you'd water it down.

Well, it's something we do in church. Well, if it's worldly, it's worldly. It hurts God. The games they have in churches, the banquets they have, all that junk.

The scripture says, "If a man's hungry, let him eat at home." I got to a place that I won't even eat out on Sundays. Last Sunday, I preached my heart out.

For two and some hours Saturday night went to bed didn't sleep too much got on in the morning had a snack and I thought mercy I'm going to have to refuse to go to dinner because I don't believe I should eat out on Sundays and lo and behold the Lord in mercy had arranged us to go to a mansion and we had a sumptuous meal it wasn't a bit like McDonald's.

Gorgeous English style, you know, great big polished table and silver and none of these stupid paper napkins. An abomination. Pure linen. It was gorgeous.

You know, I was thinking, I thought, boy, when we get to the marriage stuff of the Lamb, wouldn't it be wonderful? All the saints, it will be worth it all when we see Jesus.

Five minutes inside of heaven, we'll always sacrifice more and deny ourselves more and worship more and adore him more.

I tried to preach on Sunday morning on worship and the whole place was just aglow with the power of God and people said there was more conviction this morning. I never said the world about sin. I thought about exalting him. I thought about getting in harmony with the heart of God.

But you see we live in such a shabby day you can be worldly you can come to the altar sniffle and say a prayer go back to the world smoke and drink and fool and dance and if it's covered in the church it's alright.

The biggest enemy to revive and I'm telling you again. In America today or England is this wretched interpretation of salvation that you just come up and say a prayer. It's radical, it's miraculous. It's being a new creature, a new heart.

As God says what in the Old Testament to Ezekiel, "A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I give you." When a man gets a new heart, I'm glad my daddy got a new heart.

My daddy drank so much beer he couldn't even walk to the tavern and come on, he brought the barrel in the house. And he was a heavy smoke and whatnot.

I remember the transformation. He got saved through one of the great men in the world's revival. But he was a completely new personality.

The family tree, whatever the tree is, goes back about 200 years as all Catholics. And when daddy got saved, they cut him out of the will, kicked him out of the family. But he became a saint.

As I've told you, the best thing he ever did for me was take me to a night of prayer when I was 14. I saw my big, strong daddy take his coat off and pray and sweat while the shirt stuck to his back, along with a few other men.

A completely transformed personality. You've never seen one? Look at Spencer. There's one. Where's his brother?

Beside of him. Two years ago, lost in drink, lost in drugs. Hated the white men. Now loves them. Takes a lot of grace to love us too, Spencer. But he does it.

You see, we're trying to get something done from TV. We'll never transform America via TV. God wants transformed personality. He wants that man that people say, oh, the girl says he's a deacon in the church.

You know, he tells off for a joke sometimes. He makes suggestive things. God is one to put entirely new personalities in offices, in homes. We should have covered all this up.

Let me just cross it and then leave it. What is it now? In Deuteronomy, okay. Deuteronomy chapter 6. Deuteronomy chapter 6 Verse 1: These are commandments And the statutes and the judgments Which the Lord your God commanded to teach you That ye might do them in the land Not just believe them but do them in the land That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God.

Jump down into verse 4 Hear O Israel The Lord our God is one Lord You see Israel When it says here Setting up his commandments Hear Israel, the Lord thy God is one Lord They come out of idolatry. God has separated them.

You know, we don't value our privilege In the Old Testament economy There was one man alone He could go into the Holy of Holies And he could only go one day In one year for one race of people And yet you don't have to wear an adornment You don't have to put on priestly garments Through the blood of Christ You can go right in.

But he set them apart to be a holy people And that's what God wants in his church to do. He wants a holy people. Not people who talk holiness but live it. They have victory over sin. They have meekness and temperance. And all the fruits of the spirit. They're irrefutable.

As I said last week to people, why should you expect the world to believe the Lord when you don't behave the Lord? It's your behavior that cancels it. They know more about hypocrisy. You say, I don't know what standard it is for a Christian. Ask a sinner. He knows. He knows the standard. He knows you should be gracious. He knows you should be loving. He knows you should be on the point of being offended and hurt and touchy and all the rest of it.

He's wanting to see Jesus Christ live in you and live in me.

Verse 4, he says, Beware lest thou forget the Lord who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt and from the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord by God and serve him and shalt swear by his name.

Verse 15, the Lord by God is a jealous God. You know, we think now because God isn't intervening in the affairs of men, he can't intervene. But the reason is he has patience, he's long-suffering.

I think we're at the end of our tether as a nation, as a generation.

After all, there are what? 600 million copies of this book in America That's free for every person, not free for every family, free for every person 650 million copies of the book And some people don't have a copy.

As I've told you, there's that old man in Siberia I heard about the other week. Nearly 80 years of age, walking in Siberia, one of the worst climates in the whole world. He has one page of the word of God which he treasures. And he carries it about and he goes to a farm here and somebody there.

And he's letting people cry. He can't have a meeting, it's illegal in Russia. But he cherishes that one page.

And people stare at it and he reads it. And he's led people to Christ.

There's a man in rags in a prison. And he unclosed bits of paper every night. What do we do with the word of God?

Dear Lord, you've got preachers who don't read every day. Read it for Sunday to get some material. It says here, these are the commandments of God. Teach them to your children and to their children.

And then let it be a household conversation, it says. As I look back and think how many have the Bible out and have family devotions. It's gone.

Quit talking about get the Bible back in school. Get it back in the home. Quit talking about get prayer back in school. Get it back in the home. That's where it has to come.

I asked the people last Sunday, what did you bring to the service this morning? A dollar for the offering? Did you come with a heart full of gratitude? Are you waiting till somebody sings, oh come let us adore him?

There's something here for infinitely more than that. And that's walking day by day and hour by hour and moment.

The Christian life isn't something we believe, it's something we behave. And if it didn't be behaving in my life, it's a mental thing. People believe mentally, they do not believe.

I'll be preaching next Friday night. I hope you pray for us. Thank you for praying last week. That was super.

Going down to New Iberia for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. I understand Friday night there will be lots and dozens and dozens of preachers. But you know, I just, I track up, I can't help it. I don't try to practice it. But when I talk about hell, and I say, you tell me you believe in hell, I don't believe you.

You wouldn't miss a single prayer meeting if you did. There'd never be a prayer meeting without tears. You mean people are going to be eternally falling and never reach the bottom? Eternally consumed and never die? Eternally dying and never get relieved?

You mean you believe in a hell like that? I don't believe you.

You wouldn't say, oh, it's only the family, oh, it's raining tonight. Yes, it's raining when you go to work. You turn back and say, call the shop and say, I'm sorry, I can't come this morning. Let somebody else do my office work. It's raining.

They'll lock you up, maybe.

You see, we're going to have to get right down to business. I'm sick to death of talking about revival. That's how dear Paul says, Daddy, it doesn't pay much to have good meetings. You sit and get happy. But a holy meeting. A meeting with the invasion of God.

And they're having some meetings like that down there now. There's stiff opposition. As you know, it's 100% Catholic. And yet God is gently breaking through.

And the young people particularly.

I'll tell you when a church is alive not because it's a big crowd tell me the young people are craving for prayer when God moved on my heart I said to the young people I'm going to ask pastor if we can pray Friday night

Who's coming? I said, just the young people. No, I don't know whether the young people should be all together. Well, you'll come anyhow.

So we prayed Friday night. And we got so blessed, we started praying Sunday morning. And I walked on the limits of this, you know, no traffic anyhow. We were Sabbatarians, we wouldn't even ride bikes on Sunday. We walked through rain, we walked through snow, we walked through heat.

But I'll tell you what, I look back and thank God for those days, those nights when we prayed as young people.

I owe two things to America. One that when I was 18, I read an abridged life of David Brainerd. When I read it, it slew me.

I lived on the edge of Sherwood Forest, so I went in the forest like brain and tied my mother's dog to the stump of the tree, lifted up my hands and there were some bushes there, some ferns.

Instead of going up and going up, they grow at the time and come in. So I crawl in there and yell at the top of my voice and pray.

Go dark of night, go early in Sunday morning before I went to the prayer meeting. And I thank God for that grounding.

The reason our dear Paul is as strong as he is, and God knows what they've done through, don't they? Have you ever asked for a dime of support?

There are adversity for every conceivable thing, and yet he stands like a rock. Of course, I'm not biased, but I think both the boys are great creatures.

And you know, you hear young men say, I want to be like my daddy. Well, I want to be like them.

Paul prayed four, five, six hours a night when he was 16 years of age. He kept that up.

I'm saying that to you to encourage your children and get them trained. They may be good, they may be nice children, but they need more than that.

They need to get established in the Word of God.

You young people, I pray for your young people. I pray for Betting and Dale's children every day. It's a hell of a world they're going into. You better wake up to it.

If they're not thinking, you can't live on borrowed religion. It's good to have a Christian home.

Comes a time when you're facing yourself. And if you have the strength inside, if Christ isn't resident, you'll go down. Present your body. Hey Lord, take my mind, take my heart, take my actions, take my will. I'll put it on the altar like marriage. It's a once and for all deal.

There it is. And then take your hands off and let him do the working out. Let him do the, have the authority.

As the old song says, ready to go, ready to stay, ready my place to fill.

Well, I won't be here next Friday night. Dick's going to take... Isn't that next