Only Purged Branches Bear More - Ravenhill Sermon

yeah well declares the spirit and the bride say come what do you think of that day that day beyond our understanding beyond our comprehension when we shall see the King in all his beauty brighter the lair three suns greater than the greatest deserving and receiving the honor and the glory due to his name not we thank you've given us that vast sleep in those words every knee shall bow I believe hard even atom will be there everybody from creation until the consummation at one moment will bow in at Jesus acknowledge that Jesus Christ is a glory to the glory of the Father that he's the son of God to the glory of the Father we bless you tonight for this redemption that he purchased for us through the old rugged cross still despised by the world but it has a magnetism for us it was there on the cross he died he suffered for us we unclean things are made clean through that blood we heard a far-off word made to draw nigh to the precious blood we thank you we can still sung triumphantly what was written two hundred years ago that there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins and sinners plunging if that flood lose all their guilty stains we thank you lord you didn't just redeem us eighty or ninety percent and leave us to work out to salvation with in half we bless you that you accomplished as i socotra said in him christ the tribes with adam boast more blessings than their fathers lost we thank you that it's in him and in him and through him that we have our being it's because of him at thy right hand though we dare to come with boldness tonight we should be stunning as it were a million miles away from that flowed but we have boldness to enter in by the blood not of bulls and goats not even martyrs who died for his sake but through the blood of the everlasting covenant a covenant that never has to be rewritten a covenant that cannot be broken a covenant which you made for time and eternity for us poor sinners no one alone Wesley said over a thousand tons to see my great Redeemer sprays if we had them Lord and we had a thousand the capillaries for every one of the thousand tongues it would not be enough if you had a thousand lives to let your feet it would not be adequate if you had a thousand hearts to love you will with they would not be enough if you had a thousand wills to serve you with they still would be inadequate the lobby's sang it so often then in a nobler sweetest song we will sing thy power to save but when every one of us will sing better than humans ever sang where they were opera singers anything else we will outshine them all in that they will out-sing them all will have enjoyed Lord joy in five minutes inside eternity then this course silly world has had in all the years of its drama and opera and theaters and films another thing God it's a superlative experience you give us and is the superlative thing you're going to do in and fleurs we bless you Lord our ambition tonight is to please you and in all things in our lives even now cradles we are with mistakes that we made and misunderstandings that come yet we bless you our supreme desire is to bring glory to Jesus Christ son of God we thank you for the going forth of your world today we dare to think that in some part of this sick dying world that somebody has heard the name of Jesus for the very first time somebody has taken a pen and translated a word or two out of the scripture after struggling maybe years with a vocabulary giving their genius not to scholarship as the world knows it but in cast putting a bridge between the unknown God and an unknown language as they struggled to bring light and be light to those who will hear the story we just pray law they'll have more acceptance of it and more faithful to it and more diligently in diligent in studying we have been but we bless you for this book tonight this wonderful book no that it not only not only has a thin red line from Genesis to Revelation the Lord is very covers of stained with blood the blood of martyrs men who died at the state to give it to us and yet millions of Christians to them not even open this book not even Kannada they've opened their bank books their notebooks and other books but this book no lord help us to cherish it we don't know how long we'll have it it could be taken away from us as it's been destroyed in Russia and elsewhere the Lord we pray that we may be able to say with the psalmist thy word have I hid in my heart it has a controlling factor in our lives because it's truth and you desire truth in the inward part and we can have it unless it is hidden in our hearts us as a psalmist David had it Lord make it our vocabulary make it the language love that we delight to share with others we thank you to fill of him writers I thank you today for something that you heard yesterday about that this brother sold him blessed assurance what a wonderful thing it's done loading I've been it's brought more blessing there may be a million sermon and to sing not about one but the saying that Jesus is my committee a standard that man blessed assurance [Music] okay we're going to look for a short time anyhow in the gospel recorded by John chapter 15 one of the best-known chapters in abide legged but looking at it for another reason tonight I think there's a section here of this gospel that just begins in the thirteenth chapter and gosu to the seventeenth but notice the last verse of a previous chapter the last verse of chapter thirteen says that the world may know I love the father as a father I love the father neither father gave me commandment even so I do arise let us go hence so obviously they're coming out from the Last Supper now which way they went nobody actually knows but it's right when he says let us go hence then he said I am The True Vine some have suggested that he still finished this message while they were still in the in the room where they had this celebration which may be true the other suggestion is that he went by the the temple went past the upper dome crossed the book Kidron and there on the side of the roadway he saw the vines anomaly designs but it because it was nighttime but he saw the branches have been taken from the vine that were being burned the other thing is of course if you go back to Psalm 80 the Lord says he took a vine out of Egypt he took the children of Israel out of Egypt and put them so they'd spread through the whole earth if you read Isaiah on this same subject I forget where it is now it is it and you said in that's half he calls the vine at the generous plant the vine is symbolic of Israel as a nation there's nothing more beautiful of a dime and there's nothing more prodigal in its growing you know I hear people say it something is as American as ice cream and apple pie so ladies forget the apple pie make a wonderful pie out of grapes makes a gorgeous pie remember math we haven't had one for two years but anyhow but take the seeds out of the grapes unless they I our best man's coming to lunch because you'll have trouble with the seed but it makes a wonderful dish okay let's look at it skip three quickly I am The True Vine now Jesus loves that word of John Lowe's that word if you go through his Gospel which I did today he says true no less than 20 times I am The True Vine I am the true light I am the true bread and the true door remember that sarcastic statement by who was it who said what is true Pontius Pilate he could not believe anybody told the truth they didn't in Rome where he came from and they still don't in Rome anyhow but Pontius Pilate said well what is truth come along what you talking about the Buddha died saying I'm searching for truth Jesus started by saying I am the way the truth and the life thy Word is truth when he the spirit of truth is come where hedged in with truth eternal truth truth you can't argue with truth that never there is but Jesus says I am the vine the true as it is in the Greek I'm The True Vine and my father is a husband man now look at the promise you got a promise in verse 2 every branch in me that beareth NOT fruit he taketh away every man that branch that beareth routine purchase it so in verse 2 you have a promise of fruit now look at those eight hidden is my father glorified that ye bear much fruit so first you have the promise of fruit and then in the 8th verse they you have a proficiency if you like a fruit bearing twice 8016 go down to 16 you have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go forth and bring fruit and that your fruit should remain verse 2 the promise of fruit verse a pensive fruit verse 16 permanence in fruit bearing every branch diverse to every branch in me that beareth NOT fruit he taketh away you know there are many unique things about this study we can't take tonight you know there are corresponding chapters in the Old Testament to what you find in the New Testament where it says here about abiding remember 91st psalm how's it begin say yeah well it's the same thing said in the Hebrew in here I'll now go from John 15 over to Ezekiel 15 was it say the word of the Lord came unto me saying son of man what is the vine 3 more than any other tree or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest he asked what it says he answers a question in verse 2 shall would be taken that off to do any work come on have you got any furniture at all made of the wood of the vine nothing years ago I was in Canada to speak of the conference with her a very old veteran Christina michelin's missionary he'd been in the Middle East he had a wonderful display of curios he had a curved dagger that one of the kings Saudi Arabia gave to him he had all kinds of wonderful things have been there for 40 years he had something made of Redwood I said is that from a redwood tree he said no it's from a cedar of Lebanon those 100 years old it was cut down and I had this kind of dish made out of it well what's this this isn't like that no this is myrtle tree I said myrtle he said yes myrtle trees only growing to countries in the world Palestine to use Akali of Israel myrtle only grows in Israel and in America which I suppose proves you one of the Lost Tribes but anyhow that wood is not grown in any of the countries but I said well that's beautiful yes I saw man make that dish out of myrtle this was made out of the Redwood oh no that's right out of a seed of Lebanon I said well tell me this you've been in the Middle East for forty eight have you ever seen anything made out of the wood of the vine no I never thought of that scripture says you can't even make a piece straight enough to put a peg on it it's all twisted and now the root of the vine was the Word of God say about Jesus he has no form nor comeliness no beauty that we should desire him boy it's outrageous today I can't turn the radio on but one woman is smiling with a lovely T another woman has some shower if you get this you have a complexion like mine so you know I didn't buy it come true just look at United might be so beautiful that beauty and yet some 45 says what the king's daughter is what fun good old glorious within in word cosmetics I can't tell you to go to the pharmaceutical store and get that I can tell you how to get in word beauty and that's what the log after you know we have a saying in England beauty's only skin-deep an old friend of mine said most of us must need skinning let me go back now to the yes John again I am the finder true my father is the husbandman every branch in me that beareth NOT fruit he taketh away but notice this many millions of people read this and skip it it's the branch look there's the truth that gets the knife he doesn't bother with the dead branch if you go out west you'll see all along the road call it this binary call it that buy a free sample the first time you enter the thought goodness what's it like if you go to every place do you know what they have literally they have cups not as big as your finger and they have filled a much a sample you better have a cavity you lose it all free wine I looked at those vines sometimes not if I can help it I sometimes click the hedge otherwise I let Martha do it in honor preferring one another but you and I get it I click like this but I know this when a man is trimming of I need doesn't do it that way it selects a piece a selects a piece there he does it tediously carefully do you know a branch that has borne a cluster of grapes this year will never be gone other bunch he asked us Everett every branch that beareth NOT fruit he taketh away I remember of Monday afternoon in 1941 going into a big Baptist Church in the city of Bath there was what was called a second Advent testimony League and guy king though two guys called guy the old guy King and the younger guy King and he spoke that afternoon on John 15 I remember only one thing that he said every branch that beareth NOT fruit he taketh it away but men gather them not God men gather them he interpreted that as a Roman Catholic Church with his so corrupt that at the end men are going to gather it and put it to death and burn it up and I believe the most prostituted interpretation of Christianity the world has ever known it's a lying lying system but every branch that beareth NOT fruit he taketh away but every branch that beareth fruit he purged of aids that it may bring forth more fruit what's God doing in your life I've had so many young ministers this week I know they say I'm doing this I'm doing that I'm doing that didn't I'm after I say you mind shutting up what for I say God Almighty isn't interested that much in your ministry he's not no is interest in your Christian character he don't care what church you build in one sense it's yoga knees after its refining your personality it's pruning your personality it's cutting this off that it may bring forth more fruits you see the vine will run away if you let it go it would fill a room like this with leaves I remember a cliff College once I was sent to the gardener when I got to the Glass House of others because this room he was up there somewhere I said mister slin I have a note he came down and I'm trudging through leaves he cut this side he pruned this side of the of the vine and the leaves are about this thing I went trudging through this side was all cut like a man whose half his hair shaved and the other night I said you're doing quite a job he said yes he said you come back in August or September and you'll see there all those things will be growing and they do that in food I went back in September and he let me look at them what good is it looking at them he never offered me a sample there they were though he had done his pruning so well and every branch that beareth NOT fruit he takes it away every branch that beareth fruit he works on it what's he doing I thought make Bracy he was coming he's not here tonight Bracey was telling me the other day something I said to him about growing something and he said I heard something the other day I read something it was very good I want it now an acorn no an oak tree is an acorn that still its ground is not good so if you're only an ache on sticky ground our teacher had us going to the northern part of Sherwood Forest which came up to the edge of our city gathering acorns when we came we put one on each desk and the teacher said now come here tell me what's in it's a con smart me I had the answer right away I said an oak tree no I'll show me what is it's not an onion there's not an oak tree in that a can't know there's a forest in it there's a tree at the other end of our city which is over a thousand years old so we're told it has a fence all round so nobody can get near to it it has one branch that still produces better the trees about this wreath the middles all hollow that one branch every year came out and it bore water to a cone having had it born in a in a hundred or a thousand years of they said isn't that the true of a life I've told you about a man that got saved in the meat in nun in a meeting in a hospital the wildest wickedest man in the British Empire shipped him from India to England in us in an iron straightjacket and the poor guy was just humiliated to death there is in bed with 30 other people in the ward 30 other men rather well he got saved one night you know I soon Lee gave him a Testament and the lady said this can mean your salvation not me and the wicked this man is a British Empire well all you have to do is really mean it say Lord Jesus I'm wicked sinful I deserve to go to hell save me and he'll save you thank you he said and if she put the testament to the side of the bed so just before he went to sleep he took a little view of it well that woman said and she's a lovely face she must be a good woman and before he slept he said Lord Jesus and the wickedest man in the British Empire or in the world saved me you know he woke up in the morning quite early in the morning and all the bells of having had been transferred from heaven into his heart he was so excited he was soit well that was a word excited so I reached out of bed and he got all his Testament and he just opened it like this and he read it what do you think it said head is a man the biggest drunkard in the British Empire the biggest liar the big it's the biggest everything when you open the scripture he read the prayer of faith shall save the sick he said god what a book last night I prayed all my sins went away all I say is heal me and you'll do it heal me Lord Jesus and he said nurse or she ran seen him get wild and man come back what's wrong with you hallelujah why he never said hallelujah Jews we profane what's wrong with you he said last night I said Jesus save me he saved me and just now I said Jesus hear me can he's healed me how do you know I feel it inside call the dogs I'm going home he wore a nightshirt you know the old ones had that these ladies were ruffle to appear right up here and trailing on the ground they brought the doctor the matron of the hospital the the general of the hospital and made him sign that he was taking himself out of their hands finally after arguing they brought his trousers as you say or slacks if you want I said what is the end of brother he said I've done all me my nightshirt and I believe he would I'd love to have seen him going through that stately city of Perth in Scotland trailing his bridal gown behind him everybody's saying much like not doing dinner you said it has said what he did before me so often I was embarrassed to death he got blessed in a streetcar that's no place to get bless you get blessed amongst nice people with lovely clothes on in the streetcar we had a got a blood-red snow white sky-blue experience I'm as happy as a lark and it's freezin eagle and it's sunshine and smiles and strawberries and cream hallelujah the guy in front of him working at his newspaper those fella down there going this race when he's going that way all this thing that did old man why he got blessing a shot too you know you may say the the spirit what you say the spirit is under the control of the spirit of prophets and the control of this prophet or something well he was the lost consolee forever getting blessed he wont me at one morning to us out jack hit me in the red with his elbow we're sleeping in a bed you think that king-sized beds a new good night we other meaning with us as big as a field I could have a scene and it were those you know where you sink right down in feathers I saw the top of his head and in Germany said come on brother let's praise God I said it's too rocket that as mother said will make any difference I said there are people next door well let them come and join us he said that man was the most thrill he never lost the joy of salvation he had trials and tribulations the preacher in the church that he was in almost hated the sight of him because people would say eh that strange old man was in our shop the other day you know he came in to buy something and he stayed nearly an hour magnifying the Lord boy there's gonna be a noise when he gets to heaven well why did I tell you all that well anyhow because the joy of God's salvation oh because that one woman went into Christ he led another man to Christ that man went to China took a tank seating a thousand people and had some of the biggest revivals after him you said that how many of you have read the book streams in the desert good I was going to say nothing I want but the lady that wrote streams in the desert said that he was his name Burns was another Briggs there that's right Briggs mr. Briggs were saved because this man that wore immaculate clothing walked down the gutter in London because God told him in the middle of the night watch it I love you Jesus I'll do anything he says well in the morning get on your hands and knees and crawl down the gutter don't think how mad you said you'd do anything do it he got down on his hands and knees in the gutter with all the dirt people on those open street cars look now look at that poor idiot then he stopped and knelt up and talked to about twenty men gave him his testimony they said in a factory out to it they didn't talk football all they talked about was a crazy man at the door but suddenly said I'll tell you what that man's real otherwise he wouldn't do that he must have been the biggest lad and the biggest drunker than the most obscene vocabulary it must have been true well I wouldn't go here and not like him well brick said Oh God Briggs went and that night Briggs got saved the little woman dared to give this drunken man this fighting man attract he in turn spoke to Briggs god help him Briggs rented China and had revivals young men in China was set on fire why there's the chain reaction it's they it's the Acorn bringing forth not just an oak tree but bringing forth a forest those little fella here singing the hymns with other hymn book tonight that was good give you an A+ get the hymns into the children's minds get the truth into the children's mind okay buying me abide in me and I knew well we separate the two to say you know on we we labor the point I am the vine and the other branches but he's the vine and he's the branches and he's the root he's everything we sing such extravagant things geez you lover of my soul thou all Christ out all I want Plus what Plus nothing if Christ isn't Lord of all he isn't Lord at all it's all or nothing I'm satisfied with him the question is is he satisfied with me he gave himself unreservedly have I give myself unreservedly take my life and let it be my life I say he wants me entirely well the the the the husband man he's looking all the time he sees where fruit will come and so he cuts this off it'll separate you from a friendship maybe he'll separate you from a career maybe he's on business that you may bring forth much fruit maximum fruit for his glory let me just look here a minute in Philippians chapter 2 Philippians chapter 2 verse 13 not always sit this is if you if you take it carefully this is breathtaking Philippians 2:13 what does it say it is God not Gabriel not circumstances not the enemy it is God that worketh in you it's God that's doing the pruning it is God that worketh in you for what reason to will and to do of his good pleasure is anything more wonderful than to relax as you go to bed tonight and say I brought pleasure to the heart of God it didn't make a new world it didn't make a new set of planets it didn't put another Sunday he said out of that one man in Texas that one woman in Texas they gave me pleasure today doesn't say they're angels are giving pleasure or Archangels maybe they do it says what is working in you is mate you say I don't get much praise in it that's not what he's after it's after working something in you for his good pleasure you sang about the old rugged cross I don't know why we skip the verse somebody jumped it we miss the third verse the old rugged cross what did it die for took pardon and sanctify me not mainly to get me out of sins where the sin out of me as I said to all this one thing for the boat to be in the sea it's another thing that the sea to be in the boat you see we don't preach full salvation anymore you know so these business boys thought they got a jump on God and established Full Gospel businessman that's okay the banner of the Salvation Army you know it was full salvation full salvation law fountain deep and wide streams for every London nation from the saviours wounded side none need perish all they live for Christ hath died loves resistless currents weeping cleansing me from all I sinned so far I picked up a magazine together I didn't pick it up it's maydel to me till it shall it showed some young Americans I think they are English maybe I don't know girls with that skirts you know swinging and dancing playing music right by the Eiffel Tower or that other stupid place their notre-dame Cathedral in front of notre-dame Cathedral I think they were and it said the French people were sewing dress so engrossed in watching these young people dance if not filling I guess the devil trembles when girls dance and sing music I can help but think of a precious old lady the daughter of the founder of the Salvation Army I've mentioned her before the mallow show 20 years of age at 28 19 years of age she was a feminine Billy Graham in England she went and rented whole sleeping four or five thousand where no woman had ever done it except her mother and she priest and saw the glory of God she didn't gone dance in the streets and play The Salvation Army she rented a basement in a lousy building and those pretty ladies have never even put up their own hair they had servants they came from mansions they came from castles you never have to advertise a fire they were so thrilled William bull the Britney's Salvation Army song thou Christ of burning cleansing flames and the fire by blood God gift today we claim send the fire look down and see this waiting huh give us the promised Holy Ghost we want another Pentecost or not sure we want it we need it to make these weak hearts strong and brave send the fire to live a dying world to save send the fire the fire will burn up every trace of sin the fire will bring the light and glory in the revolution now begin some of that new one the men came from the Sorbonne the greatest universities all around Paris and they listened to this precious frail-looking English and woman that in editing the curvature of the spine from a brilliant mother mrs. booth and befallen the whole city was rocking the hellhole were talking about this pretty little English lady the taverns the nightclubs the society the front bench might be filled with long bearded men who were teaches in a Sorbonne sorts of the languages taught mathematics taught sign they were spellbound no singing no cantering no fancy stuff the glory of God fills a temple you don't need a showmanship every time you have your mind and those of your advertising bankruptcy hi in God's name did these men move that generation you pretty women don't forget where were you putting up and make it rich or poor the fact is that if God gets you in a nun shoe he lose you the greatest need we have at this point I believe our mothers in Israel by that I mean that if somebody handed a newborn spiritual chart you can nurture it and say yes I'll show the steps that you need the study you need I'll pray with you I'll be your comfort up your strength until you find your feet spiritually but that precious woman came back to me when I saw that newspaper this week I was so angry you pay the fare for 20 college kids to go to France to dance go to France to give out a few drinks when one woman two or three women actually could go in a filthy basement the queen of the prostitutes came to hear them lifted a skirts up and dance and the Marisol said if you want to dance just wait a minute Pharaoh declared hundreds of chairs away and those Salvation Army instruments played and the women danced and kicked up the legs and shouted and the Marisol said you condemns 20 minutes as long as I can talk to any minute so they dance for 20 minutes she talk for 80 minutes and there was spellbound and they came to the altar they pulled daggers from out of the socks those men those prostitute women wept as they'd never wet before they never heard they'd gone to Notre Dame and thing the lousy sins in and out again they paid Peter Spence but they knew nothing of salvation they knew nothing of a witness of the Spirit they knew nothing of peace that comes through pardon and yet what God wants to do is exactly the same thing again there's only one thing will save America that's a Holy Ghost revival I heard these fellas on TV say you know America only America is sending food to Ethiopia I'll tell you something America's sending food to Russia at a reduced rate so Russia can be strong enough to rape Ethiopia every day rape Afghanistan every day few wait or the two weeks ago mr. Schultz said yesterday I was at a meeting of so many nations and we're not asking the Iranians we're not asking the people everyone we're not asking them to stop fighting we've told them to stop stop that war never said a word to Russia why don't we go to the help of about Gaveston because of oil there we're defending our oil and their investments which we don't like to hear but that it is we know what God's going to do a super work and I tell these young guys that can I rule I say listen my hair's faded so why we missed it I'm glad I've burned my life out for God 20 hours a day when I was younger walk will enter being what the breadth of England never went to bed for months and months months slept on the floor slept in the fields preached at midday in the streets preached at midnight in the street saw people yield to Christ got my team of young men Cecil they take their coats off put them on the ground and that we kneel on coach young men and women coming out to a movie how to listen spellbound and weep and kneel in the streets that's how Wesley turned England upside down they kicked him out of the cathedral the Bishop of Gloucester wouldn't allow the greatest preach of his to enter Gloucester and to the churches that was George Whitefield but dear Lord I guess when you heard George Whitfield then you heard the bishop you think the bishop was serving ice cream maybe he was a bishop that said he said you know wherever the paul the apostle went he had revival or when he went they'll be back they said wherever I go they serve tea that's about the right difference but God wants us to bring forth fruit not just necessarily fruit in the sense of soul-winning but once it's a in a six chapter of Romans it says that when you've been crucified with Christ the arisen with Christ you bring forth fruit unto art holiness wholesomeness peace joy rest sweetness so remember this read again when you go home quietly it is God which is working in you don't blame the devil don't blame circumstances just today and I never preached on the 23rd psalm what we rejoice the 23rd son the Lord is my shepherd he leadeth me where beside still waters he leadeth me wet in the green paths he leads me well into the valley of the shadow of death it's the same leader it's not my choice to say Lord I'd rather be by the still waters oh I love waters their reflecting I'd either been the Green Party says with what you needed a valley of shadow of death you need to die to your own ambition you need to die to success you need to die to your own ability leads me into into the valley of the shadow of death as much as the Legion into green pastures so it's God that worketh in you to will and to do of his good pleasure but notice what it says now do all things without memories do all things out murmurings or these few things not some things all things that you may be blameless and harmless the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation you know somebody came to me last Saturday said something to me you know I don't think anything's hurt me as much in my life but something that person said now if they said it just once you know I've said thinking I'm sorry for that I could have I wish I could recall I can but if this person said it once about me but this person constantly says it to certain people I've told you what Paul said none of these things move me he didn't say none of these things hurt me they hurt me that they don't move me but we need to be blameless and harmless notice we're not fatherís he's going to present us faultless but we're blameless I may say something but if I'm not vindictive if I know my own spirit how grieve over some things about the same token I'd no bitterness I'd know a wrong intention in singing but one day is going to present us before his father's flung faultless I remember that one of the teachers we had at school he lived in an old mansion down the road away from the little college the house he lived in is about 300 years old had a magnificent garden and the back door opened unto the River River Derwent but he grew some exotic flowers that have never been grown in England he got a lovely bed of them and the last thing he did he taught us part of the day taught the wives of people at Sheffield University the other part of the day the last thing he did was shut those great big gates about eight feet at 10 feet high put them together and locked the gate so nobody could take your egg public towers one morning he rushed through the gates went to the University a little girl was looking through the window and you saw a man come in he took out his pen I began to cut all the flowers oh she was enraged there's a long corridor in the house she went down the corridor did a few things came back when he came back at night in the sunset either all my flowers would look gorgeous when he looked everyone of this appeared he pulled the belly rang down the collar little girl came on he was his daddy daddy daddy close your eyes close your eyes daddy no peeking give me a hand I need to held her hand and she went down open the door and every jar she had in the house and every bottle had all these flowers she'd taken out of the garden he said what he did this for these cost a lot of money that beautiful she said daddy I saw man steal a bunch of them so I thought well I'll stop that so I brought them all in the house daddy so he wouldn't seen them she wasn't faultless but she was blameless she didn't do it vindictively she did the wrong whom she did with love let me go over now just for the midday took the Acts of the Apostles side to [Applause] promote here I think okay Acts chapter 16 verse 35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch teaching and preaching the word of the Lord with many others also now notice what they've been doing they've been preaching and teaching the Word of God some days are days after Paul said to Barnabas let us who's as poor Barnabas and who had just joined them Luke I believe let us go again and visit our brethren in every city that we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they do you know let's go and see the nice dear folk that love us so much we're being to a stormy passage let's relax a little and visit these dead old friends this is after they preach the Word of God and taught the Word of God what happened verse 37 says Barnabas determined to take with him John whose name was mark but Paul thought not to take him with him and the two departed from Pamphylia and went not with them to work and the contention was so sharp between them that it departed that's something the contention it wasn't just enough let's pray about this no boy they got the hands up as it were each other even after preaching and teaching there's a stern difference here nobody's allowed to give way once a give way Paul felt not good to take with him with them and they departed from Pamphylia went not with them and the contention was so sharp between them that they departed asunder one from the other and so Barnabas took mark and sailed into Cyprus and Paul chose Silas and departed so these two mighty men of God were split one went one way the other went the other I'm trying to think of a scripture here can't just think of it anyhow a bit later look at Philippians 2 no no it's not there but let us gain what kind of a man now do you mean what Paul says he writes and says lo bring mark with him with you because he's profitable to me he cast him out he's no good he'll be in the way and here you find this amazing man with all his theology and all his love but after you've said everything you can about John the Apostle is the apostle of love but he wasn't the one that wrote 1 Corinthians 13 the Apostle Paul had a more profound concept of the love of God than anybody and that there was time when he made mistakes he was wrong even party to that that's the toughest thing some things you can see the Lord take out of your life but when the Lord comes and takes a friend out of your life that you've leaned on boy that's very very costly I've seen brethren divine I couldn't understand it and I don't think we should do it some people say always test this sanctification listen the world of flesh and the devil will test them you keep your fingers out of it let the Lord do it it is God that worketh in you I'm not going to assist the enemy if I can help it I want to be a helper I want to bring forth fruit that personality of yours can be governed by God it is God that worketh in you to will and to do of his good pleasure for some reason I thought of a thing we used to call off in England Mendelssohn the great as a pianist wasn't a penis there were no pianos then it in him perhaps he got it played a great Cathedral or and one day he went in when the organist was playing this fabulous organ and he climbed up into the Oglala and slipped on the edge of the slip down the edge of the seat and he listened to this mouse do you know they had to kick all that they paid us first with the fetus with the hand my sister used to do that I love to watch this man sat spellbound this young man and finally said sir would you mind if I just played your organ for maybe five minutes he said young man this is when the greatest organs in the world I paid it for so many years how old I had not thought it was about 22 or something no no son you can't play my organ finally Mendelssohn's said something that made the man pick his isn't about music and he said the discuss with a little and he said all right young man just five minutes so he slipped up the organ shiny seat you know and the young man moved over a Mendelssohn began to plan he brought the house down the man said weeping he said who are you well sir he said my name is Mendelssohn did you write this write that write the other yes playing my organ to think I almost missed the one opportunity of a lifetime to let you take over this organ and bring out of it what I've never brought out of it it just needed your genius from my purse on my organ you know I see that as your personality things in it you don't know a thing about God didn't try to make you happy about yourself it turned again to the place where you will too will his will we sing that hymn greed on me breath of God till I'm a till I'm holy nine till all this earthly part of me glows with I five divine breathe on me breath of God what still verse until my heart is pure until with thee I will one will one final thing one my dear mother she was supervising a hospital over in Manchester near Manchester and out in Sheffield about 45 miles away I had a little English car it had go in them be going they in the boots or what you call go in the trunk of a Cadillac today little thing like an orange box poor thing it couldn't get over the hills I put it in the bottom here he couldn't get it over the mountain those staggering Mountain thing I did know the twelve hundred feet high I put in bottom gear and struggled up and everything and it was groaning it had indigestion in the motor and rickets in the wheels the most horrible thing I ever drove in my life but one night going one day going over I noticed a lot across the valley and there were two streams coming down bouncing down the hillside there being a heavy rain look like milk being poured out and suddenly they became one and I just didn't looked at them but when I was coming back some days afterwards the rainfall had ended and saw the trees are very small but I got a lesson out of those two two beautiful streams suddenly converge you couldn't tell the one from the other and that's what God wants my will in his will take my will and make it nine it should be no longer mine we sing that don't we take my life and let it take my will and then immediately we become stubborn I'm going to do this well you better eat James what does Jensen is Epistle before you sail do this don't sound all this you say if God wills I'll do this if God wills I'll do that what we do we bring our plans and say Lord I want you to will this with me and he said go on so then you get into trouble he's a husbandman and in case you don't know there's no complete maturity for any of us this side of eternity we'll be going and maybe I could say we'll be groaning every time honey clip a lot I needed that I said you don't need it it's a green fruit you let this thing go appear like this all of it I know pay you get leaves and God cooked it off here then all the energy that were doing there he drives it into here and the fruit is better but wait a minute the last thing way to be his truth what a husband when the husband the nasty the first one partaker of the fruit when I saw those grapes in California astounded grapes bunches this size Texas side awfully big bunches of grapes they were beautiful and a guy comes along the other kind of a wheelbarrow a basket there and he takes a knife goes true like that at least ten degrades it's such a blue you know blush on the blue he just threw them down a gentle gentle lay them down no he's got 500 other bunches old Bank back then it takes to make shoulder and he put them where Oh the other lovely velvet City there and he laid them on the side forget it you had a dump truck and it's all in a dump truck I thought my goodness what kind of civilization is this then they took the dump truck and dumped it a Jew would expect in a factory if you go to Italy you'll see they have a block of stone something like this and it's carved out it's hollow and the front was a tiny little hole they bring the grapes and put them in there and the man rolls his trousers up and he jumps in there and did he wash his feet cause he didn't is washing them in the grapes and he says the grapes Kirti and out comes the juice it's tortured it's pulverized hold your horses friend you think you're going through it now you wait till a bit later when the Lord says now it's ready for you to graduate into another degree or you'll think you've been a baby the rest of your life what does Paul mean tell me some of you theologian what does Paul me when he suddenly cuts off that love story 1 Corinthians 13 and says when I became a man I put away childish things in God's name what does he mean is that the moment he was crucified with Christ Jesus when he was 13 went into the temple is that what Paul speaking oh I don't think so it's not about spiritual things I've told you I heard me weep I've cried over it many times in this room when I stand by myself be called billions of people that judgment see I don't got to point to me and say Ravenhill when you in Texas had many things to tell you but you couldn't bear them you weren't mature enough I don't need to say that I don't need to be any maturing the other side of eternity I believe your rewards will finish at least your opportunity to mature will end at a judgement seat it won't all be crowns will become them nation for some because he says clearly in his word some will suffer loss did he ever smile when he lost anything there for billions of people the Apostle Paul's working Jeremiah Izod is looking all the Saints of dead are looking at Paul and reigneth standing before the judgment seat of Christ listen friend you've only here to eternity to mature and once you slip over the edge of time into eternity with it on the broad way the narrow way there's no u-turn to go back it's direct to the throne direct to the throne and what a hallelujah time it's going to be for men like the Apostle Paul and the heroes of faith and then how embarrassed some of these guys are gonna be that making fortunes out of the gospel the Lord wants you and I to become mature he wants us to be accept his burdens don't anybody else then through this one thing a lady that used to come to the prayer meeting with Martha well when she was in hospital this lovely Scots girl Molly Molly Molly Molly hood mother I know it was Molly and she's a broad Scottish you know a Brogue like some people have and I remember she came in and the floor of the building was woody was a wooden building anyhow and I remember she got down with a bang that night and she began to pray with a lovely drawl from Glasgow of all places Lord she'd say Lord with about four hours in it Lord and he rolled all of ours this world and I remember that one night she prayed Lord she said I do not want to carry burden that Devil Makes for me I will not carry burdens the church makes for me I will not carry burdens the pastor wants to put on me Lord I'll carry all the burdens you under put on me boy I learned more in that message and all the broadcast sermons already my life I think it's stuck anyhow that one night she prayed so passionately she's a beautiful character do you know the measure of your maturity can be measured by what God burdens you in you say I'm carrying bigger burdens than ever well God's more confidence in you doesn't he say if you think of burdens getting too heavy you make with the burden you make a way of escape but if he thinks you're mature enough you let you carry the thing he made the last your wife the carrot or your friends or your past is asking you again he's making you is not making the deacon in your church is not making that friend of is making you he don't care what how to really now big it is how small it is he's concern with the size of your head know the size of your heart how much you love it how much you adore him how much you're living for him for his will for his glory I'm so sick of men getting the glory of God I've been there's going to be an outpouring of God's Spirit and fellows we don't even know the names of them and an expect these star preaches on TV to be the first should be last they being first long enough that they last the bits of all washer women and Unwin old judge Minh see with crowns glittering beyond all the Crown's of other people why because humbly meekly I could give you the names of some a hundred years old lady I went to see a finger around for others think of my two fingers when I went to see her as if a daughter said my mother is is totally blind totally deaf and we don't have much brother I mean when you go in the house don't look around so we went up these windings steps in a stone old building here's this is a lady lying on the bed face was a as yellows could be her fingers around about this with bony arms I put my hand out she was blindness have told him ah she said a hundred years of age and I was to tell you the truth hours I didn't want to say I just squeezed the ham and I tried to holler inner ear but she couldn't hear me but she knew there's something that you know she said she no sight no ears no teeth nothing in the house you wonder given of five dollars for everything in the room the bed was the bedroom living room everything and as I held her hand up Bonnie Han she said there's crooning crooning crooning I think my friend what in the world is she mean then she kind of think crown him crown him Lord of all do you think I stood there I was melted to tears here's a blind poverty-stricken deaf woman no teeth no anything nothing she can see nothing she can enjoy and yes she another son was a tremendous preacher she said he had delight every day is to say crowning Lord of all all that with the under sacred throng she said in Scouts he could understand it item Oh but his youngest we are to Supreme a fault is it a bit late to do it when you get there in God's name why do we do it now when you take a time out of every day to crown in don't come begging say I'm come for anything as I tell you prayer is preoccupation with our needs praise this preoccupation with our blessings worship is to occupation with God himself my goal is God himself not joy not peace not even blessing that thee and to get there is going to do a lot of pruning so be cautious be careful but if you mean business God means business it isn't want it to be mediocre god help us the church is so mediocre today I'm so sick of walking amongst Dwarfs I want to see some Giants all three meetings I wanna see em explode with the power and glory of garden I believe is going to happen we've got some of the real things to pray for tonight I didn't hit any of you take what was it United 1 occur at US News & World Report and if you take none nobody in one issue of July that an article that I understand and Shirley MacLaine she's woman that's gone off the deep end you know in talking with spirits I don't know she's done his spirits lying spirits teething spirits filthy spirit she's building an auditorium up in the hills where the skiing community go they have opinions would he go in fun Colorado when you tell the place I can't have anyone they'll Aspen Aspen I think is up there yes he's building boy when when I read it I was so rebuked he's building a place for meditation and even now when people go they have from what time is it from 8 o'clock to 10 to solid hours of meditation then in the afternoon 2 o'clock to 4 then at night 60 late and young people are going you realize these young people are sick to death of noise everywhere you go everything's blasting as loud as they can they turn the car radios on as loud as they can and now they finally they can sit and meditate and be taught and instructed and this woman is putting up this awesome thing of millions of dollars and these rich people are going and young people going to flock there because people are tired of noise and this good old book says be still another than God but we're not still the noisier we mistake noise for power and there is no power in it God is looking for a holy people of pure people a people that give him delighted people that get in pleasure when he does that he responds well another thing we really need to pray for tonight is the Indian brothers mostly a gun how many went up to them you don't like that me the boss is here we went up Oh fart no more anyhow those Indian brothers usually here and they've gone up to Oklahoma to a weather Indians color the power for two weeks ago and I understand it's not much different from it just 24 hours the debauchery drunkenness wild sex every damn little thing and these fellows are actually threatened not just morally but physically going in there on that very I'm not very reservation two weeks ago two men were murdered white men dead go he says you can't go they tear you apart and they're going right into the midst of that heathen darkness we need to pray and protect them I believe God not just there be saved physically but other people we've gone again of the Spirit of God melodies going up to that big affair that they have anywhere Washington this week let's pray about that even the banners could bring come conviction boy I might have ten minutes there sure would remind every woman that every baby she aborted you see it face to face of the judgment-seat the mother will see the baby she killed the child will see that mother that murdered it and that's true for evangelist everybody they bring to the front and leave them without being born again of the Spirit they'll see that chart at the judgment see we've turned the altar into a confessional like the Romans you don't get saved because you confess you lousy sins Judas did daddy even brought the money back did it say they no it didn't we've got to get back their friends again you teach young people know every birth physically in a miracle I understand there are two thousand possible things can happen to obey before it leaves its mother's rule but look at the dangers that our when we leave spiritual children without spiritual mothers if they really born again it's an awesome thing the most astounding miracle in the world to me either person to be born again to be completely delivered from bondage from sin from uncleanness putting off the old man putting on the new man renouncing the world of flesh and the devil renouncing all this pleasure which pump and it's pride and saying give me what Jesus my Lord crucified I very much doubt people are saved if they don't have an intoxicating love with Jesus if they don't quit the world of flesh and the devil of not the world you can't love the world and love Christ it's not possible some of you guys football season coming God pity oh I almost said our hopes have a stroke Sunday afternoon with your feet up if the sermon is a bit too long people can't stand a sermon oh hope the Cowboys are playing sure they are friend if you can't stand an hour sermon how in God's name do you think you can stand all eternity with him utterly impossible but we love the world we love the ways of the world we love the things of the world and until we wash our hands completely and say Lord all I need is Christ I want him 24 hours of the day I want to live move and have my being in the spiritual realm as little of the world as I can hack in God earn your living but enough to love anything except the Lord Jesus and love is worth and love is will we've got some folk coming from where Michigan next Friday night coming to the prayer meeting that night so they'll get warm twice I hope Texas weather in Texas prayer meeting well let's really lay this to heart now for melody and I don't make Christians are converging up there but lot some are going to testify and carry banners let's hope so the politician gets Strickland smitten in their hearts for supporting abortion I pray for these dear brothers amongst the Indians tonight and pray that somehow some church you have a church in town where it is better good in that nice this brother was really singing in the smiley I'm seen a smiling perspective in 20 years singing who are being smiled blessed assurance that's great I know some great Presbyterian preacher no no no I changed it no no I'm the boss and I'm here now I said we can't change it all we're going to stay here that's okay the place will be open we'll be here tonight come on good wonderful wonderful something else I can ask you this manner the Lord will remind you you know another thing it's not just those people are lost that's terrible but you know every one of them that they don't run their own life Satan runs them and those lives those Minds those wills could all be in the area where Christ uses them they're being wasted and they don't know it I know I want to seen awakening amongst the young people young men shall see visions all ones dream dream I dream as live as I can I hate going to bed as Martha praise the Lord the river of God is full of water God has no problems we have them where his problem we're the biggest problem the Lord has it's not wrong it's not humanism Mormonism any other reason if the Christians and they're holding up the blessing so let's go to prayer as a Lord enables us to play that's a good cause and then you can go out if you like if we sing what should we sing okay turn your eyes upon Jesus if you need to leave leave as we kneel and stay as long as you can and pray with us you

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Published: Fri Mar 08 2013