Witness Of The Spirit - Leonard Ravenhill Audio Sermons

the Epistle of Paul to the Romans and the 8th chapter Romans and chapter 8 you may or may not remember that I know you weren't living then seventeen hundred seventeen hundred and seventy two a man by the name of Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born he became one of the outstanding critics of the day later not when he was born but later and he wrote those things one thing that is outstanding of his writings was a thing called the Ancient Mariner and it was acclaimed and disclaim he was born in when 1772 died in 1834 but he said this epistle of Paul to the Romans in his opinion of course one man's opinion isn't everything he said this is the most sublime thing that was ever written it's amazing epistle when I first came to America my first trip in 1950 there was a book critic by the name of Wilbur Smith a very outstanding almost a genius he had a private library of 25,000 books I think I'd like that number too well he said if this is the most sublime book that has ever been written the Epistle to the Romans others the eighth chapter is very peak of all the revelation and it is a lost sublime part of the most sublime book I think within the eighteen hundreds of the hem written he turned the lights it turn the light how pure the soul must be there's a phrasing at him that always sticks with me the writer speaks of the Holy Spirit's energies the Holy Spirit's energy it was he moved over chaos in the beginning you remember louder it brought cosmos odd order it was he who moved over men some that plant one climbed a sycamore tree Amos was a herdsmen David was a king these strange character of different characters were all inspired by the Holy Spirit of God in be in these days when there's some disregard for the Old Testament I want to remind you again that all that's ALL Scripture is given by inspiration of God and even this day it's profitable to us the energy of the Holy Ghost breeds all through Romans as far as I'm concerned in fact there were 26 references to the Holy Spirit in the Epistle of Paul to the Romans and if I remember eighteen of them are in this very chapter I've imagined you before that Romans 7 is a funeral march Romans 8 is a wedding march I think if Paul had known it after he wrote Romans 7 he would have strung out of my bondage sorrow and night Jesus I cannot see great him after my sickness into my health out of my poverty into thy world out of my sin and into thyself Jesus I come God had to continue to remind the tune of Israel remember thou lost a bondsman never forget I'll be ashamed of your birthplace I don't care if you were born in a gutter don't get it to a born of a harlot you have life can't be made as much as science tries it can destroy it in fact it's making a 11:00 now to roast us all and it can't just decide what temperature but we're time to beat the Russians of it that life is the most precious thing Romans 7 full of darkness and death I'll say this and repent afterwards but I sometimes think that many of the modern preachers are beveled advocates I heard the greatest holiness preach and ready sex-positive in the road 50 60 years ago 50 years ago and he gave a traffic sermon unholiness many face and said now look I'm not preaching sinless perfection but you know now they're we're more afraid of holiness than we out of sinfulness that's a great weakness of the church today he finished up by saying that remember with all this amazing comprehension of God the Apostle Paul finished up saying all elected not that's a life from hell he did not finish there the happening never chapter after Roman sin and it's called Romans 8 to me the Apostle Paul is the best example of this on theology every preacher should be that and then with an experience is that this is not 9 it's good enough to be nine but it isn't like a man with an experience is never at the mercy of the man with an argument I had to jump out of a burning Hotel in Chicago in 1950 you'll be amazed at the advice I got afterwards how I should have done it I should have jumped in' and tipping the head over heels coming down all the counsel I got after I've been through odd horrible experience after that's a privilege should have sat down and said hey five Department wait I'm drawing a plan I have to get out of this place I haven't have some experience I don't want to repeat it don't want to tell you about it either but you see this man's life breathes everything he preached it dares to say what few men dare to say what things II as followers of readers of my testimony what things you have seen and heard in me doing the God of peace be with you ask your preacher I'm solidary say that they he said to you go ahead I go read what I read do it I read following my footprints and when you get to the addressee I'll be accountable for the way you've draw because you'll follow me you know when you read this chapter first of all they say it's chapter there's nothing tremendously exciting about it I think it doesn't give you any goose lumps or what have you on the cold turkey pimples or anything else it seems very plain at first but dr. Sangster wrestling's the very marvelous man used to say by the way we need to be close readers of the New Testament it didn't mean really close without this you know he mayn't get down and don't skip it don't get through it quickly meditate on it it's a lost art the summary says I will meditate in thy precepts meditation contemplation brings revelation look how he begins yes he's finished their verse 24 of the previous chapter a wretched man that I am who should deliver me from this death the law can't do it but the answers in the next verse I thank God through Jesus Christ my lord with my mind I served the law of God that with my flesh the law of sin what do they mean he's sinning no he says I am my body this body of mine is going to serve the law of sin which is death if manhattan's have sinned there would have been no death but he says this body most likely will serve the Lord death of sin and of death he says there is therefore now no condemnation the Kiva's let me jump - it is down here in two verses verse 15 and verse 16 we have not received the spirit of bondage again interfere that you've received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry father that's what it really is father father that the eternal God who sits on a throne behind lift to a lofty one who inhabited the son of it is my father be remanded ourselves of this last week Abraham never called him father nor the desire not the outstanding prophets of the Old Testament but we are permitted by the grace and mercy of God because we being God was contracted to a span an incomprehensible made man the heavens of heavens cannot contain and yet is packed into the room of the virgin how do you explain that you can't and you know then you can explain our eternal life was put to death on the cross that is therefore now no condemnation let me go back I'm sorry verse 15 you've not received a spirit of bondage again but the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father or father father the spirit itself that's a terrible translation the spirit isn't him he's a person then and you again that the Trinity is not composed in this way the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit is not a junior partner in the Godhead he is equal with the father equal to the Sun every month have you said it the Holy Spirit is totally incapable of doing anything small you say that where my salvation wasn't dramatic I've never been a prostitute I've never been a thief and come on it took the mercy of God the blood of Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost to redeem you and regenerate you you're the product of the triune God it didn't happen just because you note down and said I'm a lousy rotten sinner and I deserve hell no no agencies have been working before that you could say that it used to be years ago yes years ago years ago preachers used to be preached about previant grace you know that means it means all the times God interfered in your life and you're ready to slip into hell and they rescued you like that when you're going to do a somersault into destruction and they came an unseen hand an unseen power and restrained you but neither being caught fear might have been some other thing but preeminent grace was there you did not make the first move to God he made the first move whew the Spirit Himself bears witness with us but it knows us up yeah I Knights you might say to me did you see Sonny James in the meeting say yeah no I didn't i saw the Shelly lives in nobody's ever seen it not even his wife which may be good but anyhow all I've seen is the house in which you live you are a spirit godly that God is a spirit and as an old hymn says stood it to spit it out uh speak you've not received the spirit of bondage the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit not our emotions not our thinking not out intellect I understood it capable only of being touched by God the level of the spirit you can put my body to that you can put my spirit to that the spirit bears witness how does he spare witness bear witness well this first verse said there is therefore now no condemnation for if you were Methodist I'll have you seen that great old hymn of trust restless and can it be that I should get how many of you know that wonderful what a pity it is in our book these Baptists are only 200 years behind those catch up some of these days [Music] don't found on me now because I got the advantage I can point you out see but that's when Wesley row but and can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior's blood dydy for me who caused this pain for me who into death pursued amazing love how can it be that thou my god should start for me the second standard says no condemnation now I'd read you see I never have joy bows or much excitement in it well that's not the point I don't have a slipping into a meeting after I preached as a meeting in Ireland I went in and the as I'm ending the schoolmaster of the district very fine Christian was there he's brave that's it high when the altar call was given his daughter a very bright fifteen-year-old rosy-cheeked blue-eyed Irish girl went down to the altar he said would you please help my daughter when she comes back I will if I can she went up to the altar last week when this man called oh so when she came up I said come on let's go here your daddy wants me to talk with you what happened tonight tell me this what happened last week you went up to the altar last week why I was tormented with guilt I was weighed down with condemnation I was haunted with memories what happened well I went to the front they tell me what to do what happened nothing I got up in the morning I was just the same felt my guilt since I disappointed God she went down the list again well then I said what happened tonight he said what I just went up to the front and I said the same thing again what happened nothing are you sure well I don't feel any excitement we used to sing a hymn you shall have the joy the ringing in your heart no joy bells ringing in my heart you said but that's not the point what's the point you said that when you end up to that altar last week and this week you have brought down with condemnation and guilt and haunted with memories afraid of exposure what your daddy and mummy would think did you really pray sincerely God be merciful to me a sinner did you really say I believe Jesus died for my sins even mine as John Wesley said he paid that at a quoted line on the 24th of May 1738 they said I believed at that moment self-righteous man brilliant scholar in a impeccable morality I believed at that moment I passed from death unto life his brother to other colossal intellect his brother too is an outstanding teacher and he wrote this book remember he has no hideous crime record he never polluted some woman's life he never stole he was impeccable in his morality but he wrought this lovely verse again in the same hymn and can it be that I should gain and he says no condemnation is the second stanza and then he says a long long night imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and is a man you can put your finger on him you can falter in anything in his life he was a perfect straw a perfect gentleman and none of unclouded revelation of God as far as he knew but there came a moment when he said along my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night then I diffused a quickening way I woke the dungeon flamed with like night chains fell off what chains not change of depravity in the sensory things the chains of fear the chains of false religion it changed change of false teaching that I said to that girl well just wait a minute please don't run away you said last week that you felt condemnation lashing you conscience will burning in you fear is on you yeah I feel the bigger criminal as anybody on gods you feel it now a little face it no mr. Rader I don't feel give it I don't feel largely guilt I I don't feel a burden trust me one night you've got the witness of the Spirit why because if he doesn't witness with condemnation II witnesses who enjoy witnesses with peace you don't need much witness of the spirit if your belt battling in you later all they do but sometimes when the enemy comes but you know they're deep down in your heart that there is no condemnation no condemnation now I'd read this look at verse 34 I like the who Scooby I thought you're copying me ok 9 verse 53 who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect it is God that justified always he that condemneth it is Christ that died who is even at the right hand of God the Father making intercession verse 30 taught who shall separate us from exercise come on fool come on where are you come on bring your condemnation no condemnation now I dread why not who is he that condemneth it is price that died can anybody contest whether their men or demons or theologians can you contest the substitutionary death Jesus Christ it is Christ that died who's at the right hand of the father making intercession or supplication can anybody contest his supplication he's at the right hand of God can anybody come test his sovereignty who is wrong the power of sin nobody can contest him he made one perfect offering once at the end of the age when billions of sins were on him I tried to preach a couple of weeks ago about the contrast between the Christ on the back of a donkey going down the streets of Jerusalem with two or three thousand people scolding ridiculing no doubt the Romans used to sing an emperor go down the road with his slaves or his captives chained to the wheel of it here's a man on a donkey good night is he starting a kingdom but church has made a lot of that on Palm Sunday we've made that a little of the man on the donkey when he comes on a white horse charging through the skies then without saying a word he faces 200 million people he has no sword in his right hand because he had seven stars and yet what is in the ninth of Revelation right after the marriage so if you get the bloodiest battle that's ever been the Battle of Armageddon blood is going to flow it's from the ground up to the bridles of the horses and it's two hundred miles in length you talk about a holocaust that's a super super super Holocaust Jesus Christ with authority and power we lost sight of that do you know why we're not impressing the world because our God is too small studies - paralyzed they're not concern to go through art galleries and see what Rubens or Raphael or somebody else painted three centuries ago another pit the picture sell for ten million dollars how can you have a dead service of the Living Christ isn't it come on I get angry when young people say our church is about as exciting as a Tupperware party well join um wait it is a Christ of God his substitution cannot be contested his supplication cannot be contested his sovereignty cannot be contested Isaac Watts among his great hymns wrote one Jesus shall reign wherever son death its successive journeys run his kingdom stretch from shore to shore to moon shall wax and wane no man no more blessings abound whether he reigns the prisoner leaps to lose his change the weary find eternal rest and all the sons we want are blessed where he displays his healing power death and the curse are no no more in him that tried with Adam bore small blessings and their fathers know that our people have gone to graves today never heard the name of Jesus Christ 2,000 years after he was here on earth I'm haunted by the five almost five billion at least in excess of four billion people that never heard the name of Jesus yet they look like most likely to hear the name of rock-and-roll stars and hear the name of Jesus Christ chapter 8 again verse 1 that is therefore now no condemnation and not one of you can even squeak a hallelujah for that what a miserable crowd hmm when we went to the Methodist Church I used to love to watch an old man wasn't too old sitting across here across the other big hefty guy he had a very great job as a garbage collector but you know what he'd been rescued from the verge of hell and I felt sorry when we had a strange preacher and they sang ham and can it be because he was in for trouble as soon as they stopped singing the old boy they would raise a hand it looks as big as a shovel to me put his hand up like this and he ball out about ten keys out of order along my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night dine I diffused the quickening I woke the dungeon flavor and he get those big happy boy like an earthquake I got scared when he got there my chains fell off my heart was free I rose and I went forth and I followed in and he did you know we think we have been safe from that with another rotten rate of record a rotten past whether if you knew how many heartbeats away away from eternity and intercepted you on the road to destruction they take eternity to open our eyes that is therefore now no condemnation for those of us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death that's right said in verse 15 you've not received the spirit of bondage again interfere but we have received the spirit of adoption how many of you tonight have adopted I don't mean spiritually thank you or I got some information there I mean adult it has been around in England this week over a princess who was discovered she's now she's in the royal family she's been adopted of parents with criminals and the German SS army or something in Boise and babbit she found out she was adopted we have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry and we were outside the Covenant of God but now we can try Abra father because he's brought us in we have some schools in England they're called public schools well them is called Eaton at Eton you have to get your towels there it's only a boys school of course upon me but the day your child is born you have to read this to that child to go to that school it's a screw for royalty mostly princes rich people those private schools are called public schools I don't know why anymore then when you finish a meat school period you call it the commencement how in the world can it be conventional and it's the end of the thing tell me after but this public school this little boy went to a public school that you always have more money than anybody else the use of take big boxes we call them tuck boxes fill with candy and fruits and all kinds of stuff this is a fellow always had enough that when other boys are drawn out it's a here here here here give them a quarter give them the Apple give them candy one day a little boy came up to me says listen just you're snobbish just because your daddy owns an ill and the owns half of the town and a chauffeur drive you to school in a Rolls Royce you know better than we are I've got something to tell you to the man you called daddy isn't your daddy you say that again I give you a bloody nose he won't offer it it's not you done it when he goes home he does straight out of the car went into his that is a library that it says come son you're home for Christmas do you know what I've got for you I've got the pony you wanted and I've got what's wrong he said look at me straight are you my daddy what are you my father when the boy go back to school the other teen was there to jump on him and he said did you ask your daddy yeah well he's your father no he's not you're laughing when I told you is how you give me a bloody nose what are you laughing about well he said he took me to the window of the library and he showed me sir you see that town over there I owned about three-quarters of it you know the big castle that you go to in summer well that belongs to me too and that yacht that we sail on that belongs to me too and not only that but I've got millions and millions of pounds in the bank I've got thousands of acres of land I am one of the richest men outside of the royal family you're not my daddy no what happened one day when the night when the bombers came to Liverpool your parents were killed and it's literally true they used to go around with trucks or vans after the Harwich and pick up two that were terrified that breathing and wounded and they didn't know who they belong to and the kids didn't know very often anyhow he said we went to they took me to a big home for boys one day my daddy and mummy he my foster dad if you want they went to that place and said we want a boy and the matron said well we have five hundred five hundred to choose from he said then they reduced it to fifteen then they reduced it to five and my daddy said let's take five we can afford them my mother said you can manage them so they decided not to have anybody that means they chose me but Annie said all that I've told you is all yours I've changed your name I've changed your station in life I've given you more than you could conceive as a little boy and you tell you friendlies when you go back to school now what else did he say he told me to tell you that when they wanted a boy they had 500 to choose from but when you were born your out to have you whether they wanted you or not [Music] you think I'm going to be worried what this rule says about my simple trusting of Galilean merchants who died for nice things and know this sure about it listen I've passed from death unto life he changed my name II changed my destiny he's going to mansion lay that pond he's got eternal life laid out for me he's got the most glorious company they all could ever dream of I'm going to be the marriage supper of the Lamb and you know what else I'll have to change my sex I'm going to be part of the bride but there's no sex in so there's no sex in soul listen don't waste your sympathy I'm the child of a king I'm belong to a royal priesthood a holy nation I can call the makeup right now my dear sweet wife garden is gorgeous I said to her tonight darling you've done a great job the Roses and gorgeous it looks so wonderful and we have a beautiful plant spread out like this not quite like that Bernie has spread up he's called Bugan Villa but there's a lot of it goes over in the Bahamas glorious colors red and blue ish tangerine fight magnificent oh that gun when I see it I think of a word of Isaac Watts when he said he made the stars as heavenly flames he counts their numbers called their names his wisdoms vast and those know about he put the color in all of them he shaped all of them and that 90 God the everlasting father the Prince of Peace oh my god I can talk with him on the I try one-to-one level and I want in my closet I can turn back the pages of the history and all I can say when I turn the back is great is thy faithfulness to individuals to colonies of people to nations of people great is I faithfulness the Spirit bears witness and always with joy bells but with peace and though I need peace one I need joy those it's the most to lose this thing in the world in our last 100 years there have been 1,800 peace pacts between the nations and we're further from peace now that we were when we started why there's no answer jean-paul Satre the great French critic says this the present generation thank you the present generation of people he says we've come to an impasse for the nations of the world at this given moment of time that brilliant philosopher says there is no way out well there isn't why did we wake up to that long ago it's a problem nobody can solve can God solve it no he can't he has solved it we've got every answer we need in the Sermon on the Mount because the one basic problem that humanity has is we can't get on with each other it's a problem of human relationships man and wife children and parents churches fellowships all except last days well anyhow [Music] blessed are the peacemakers now it's blessed are the peacemakers blessed are the meek we think is blessed are the weak meekness is the strongest that Jesus is the only person ever tried to found the kingdom of meekness his first call to men was come unto me for I am meek the main part of his message the Sermon on the map is meekness Paul writes about the gentleness and meekness of Jesus Christ but gentleness today means softness and meekness means weakness but meekness Jesus was the meekest man that ever lived but twice in tens of temple when you have done in the temple the second time after cleaned it out ones and raised everybody's madness against two but he did it that's why when he was on his way to what we call the triumphal entry into Jerusalem it was up done the cleanse of temple gate why did they kill it he was defenseless except the other all of the Angels how about if nobody could get through blessed are the meek do you remember there's a record of Moses he was the meekest man in all the earth mercy needed it with a sister like he had maybe that father loves making unique I'll get getting you ready for a wife Moses the meekest man you know but when he came down from the mountain and they were making a golden calf he was angry he was mad with them Jesus was the meekest man look what a pity we can't get on TV and blast this into the ears of it you have one of two options right now to submit to the blood of the Lamb or wait and meet the wrath of the Lamb and there's no creature on earth I'm tall which is more fierce than a ram there's got madden it's closing impossible to get all of it no anything with it it can get away from a man or a team of men right now God in this in his mercy is still giving us some protection I don't think it's gonna last long within five years real of collapses and America we never dreamed of right now there is the day of mercy a day of grace godly the god of mercy but he's angry with the wicked every day stick that on your bumper sticker they'll burn your car verse 2 says the Lord the spirit of life in Christ Jesus had made me free free from the law of sin and death ok verse 3 for what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh that the right business of the law may be fulfilled not destroyed he comes and give me power to keep the law in Pecha bleah Foca crazy to see the Old Testament isn't for today well that's a fine thing to give the world in it they want to commit adultery they want to lie there on duty tell them now that the Ten Commandments will obsolete forget it Jesus says I came not to destroy the law but to fulfill we have to keep the model laws long as there are men on earth the ceremonial laws not ours we don't have to go through all the ritual or ceremonial law thank God God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin okay get that for a minute God's sending his own son so the son was sent in the likeness of sinful flesh so the son was seen first he was sent then he was seen in the likeness of sinful flesh he was a sent one he was a seen one in the likeness of right and for sin he was a substitute one he condemned sin in the flesh he was a sinless one the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who wrote that after the flesh but after the spirit verse eight or verse 7 the camel mind is enmity against God it is subject to the law of God neither can it be carnality is not subject to the law of God there's no law of God that will cancel carnality in your life he doesn't curb it or control it he cleanses it he removes it the carnal mind is enmity against God it is not subject you can put all the laws you like come on you know you drive down the road there I 20 does everybody keep the speed limit don't blush I see you're blushing though that's all right you shouldn't do it you can legislate you cannot legislate righteousness in this nation there was a tremendous try is ago and I was a young man to legislate the drink business prohibition came it did it stop it not on your life it made the Kennedys multi millionaires we're told Al Capone was paying a quarter of a million in tides every week to the Roman Church because he was running the underworld of liquor in Chicago you cannot legislate carnality the cameraman is enmity against that's a terrible word it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be so when they that are in the flesh cannot please God over us an escape a hatch for us isn't it they did in the flight as long as I'm in this that's not what it says he's talking about your fleshly nature which is quoted there in Galatians 5 the works of the flesh all the horrid things the temple apply all those things if you are in the flesh you cannot please God well that's a Bri that isn't it till you come to the next verse where it says but you're not in the flesh now what do you do you're not in the flesh sin shall not have dominion over you that's law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath raised me from the dead here not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be the Spirit of God dwelleth in you I tell you this is spirit spirit spirit all the way through 26 times in the book and 18 times in this one chapter it's the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus when Paul says o wretched man that I am who should deliver me from the body of this death he says I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord I do not like flying in airplanes he somebody came to me and said the Lord told me to buy you a lid jet for three million dollars I know it doesn't know the Lord because the Lord knows I don't like planes but I'm still fascinated when I see a plane with four hundred people on and four hundred of eight hundred pieces of baggage and all the gasoline weight and the thing goes I don't know up it goes if I took a piece of paper and let go of it it won't go off even if I tell it to it would go to Hammond a feather comes on the breeze it goes up for a saying then it goes down you can talk about depravity has been human gravity if you like the something in us that pulls us down but the larvae spirit of life in Christ isn't good why does like Jake go on like that because it has a greater thrust you know this I remember once being outside of Chicago I thought that no it was it was double some other thing and through the sky could see attractive planes coming in a long way off a little battle but you know when they got about a mile a half a mile from the airport suddenly they put all the blasts up and the exhaust without pouring black smoke why he wants to stop how does he stop puts the power on right because the slowly goes the bigger the pull of gravity is and any pilot will tell you it's much harder to bring a plane down than to get it up in the sky you've got to keep a perfect balance with it as soon as he slows those engines that gravity pulls like that Nestor thrust you as to what's that control that he has there to see he's got perfect balance there is no answer to the same question except in the cross not in going to the cross but getting on the cross not Christ being crucified for me but me being crucified with Christ and when that happens the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus that may be free from the law of sin and of death I said there's nothing very volcanic in this Delta mercy that is so explosive you say but I've got a bad temperament maybe you have woman told me one day see mr. Rainey I love having my devotions I loved services I love singing but I'm temperamental I say excuse me you said your templum ending I said is it your temper or your mental no just say that I think it's something I was born with hmm maybe it won't if it doesn't have to stay with you they've been the flesh cannot please God says verse 8 verse 9 says now look at this majestic thing here here not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be listen the Spirit of God dwells in you that's verse 9 verse 10 if Christ being you verse 11 if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead well you come on you've got the Spirit of God the spirit of the son in the stage of the Holy Ghost rolling in you put them all together you think these what Paul is talking about verses 8 9 and 10 I put it at the bottom of my Bible here this is 8 9 and 10 equal the fullness of God Paul says in Ephesians 3:19 e93 19 it may be filled with the fullness of God if you had the residency of God the Father by his Spirit and the residency of the son and the residency of the Holy Ghost is not much room left for anything else is there are you telling me that God the Father in His Holiness godless from His Holiness God the Holy Ghost in His Holiness are prepared to coexist with that vile temper of yours to exist in that little shrine of your heart when you're secretly lusting and dominated for something which is altogether against its holiness at the end of the Ephesians as a statement I think one of the greatest in the Bible it says it begins in Ephesians 2 by saying that we are in subject to the devil the world and the minion of the devil but it finishes by saying yi-yi-yi-yi-yi folk who read it you are the habitation of God by the spirit if you knew there was some drug or somebody who could cure you at every possible 30 of getting defiled by disease when you go to them there's a fountain filled with blood Calvin wrote in the days of wesley and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there have I not may I but there have I though violence he in the sight of God washed all my sins with you cannot be pure and impure at the same time you cannot be common and spiritual at same time because it's very scripture says the carnal mind is enmity against God and it says in Romans 7 to become we made it his death get into this bunker without the carnal Christian forget it if you're calm you're not saved to become demanding his death who's dead the sinner is dead interest reside in sin he's not just bad he's dead he doesn't need help in his life Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men build essentially he came into the bat was to make dead men live after my bondage Sauron is that throb isn't it either my sickness until I have rather my poverty in survived out of my sin because you see you go through I mustn't breathe I'm going to preach this a week on Sunday under feet on Romans 8 we are opening the new building by the way in Bama week on Sunday and while I remember because I forget this coming Tuesday and Wednesday after preacher Jimmy Swaggart college somebody says shall we pray for your said no pray for him I know the word God will give me all I need is pile to deliver it I got two mornings to preach to a thousand of our students and others that will come will you pray when is it and firstly that God will do something a little bit surprised okay but that's what it's all about anyhow kind of think about him Wesley organic Jesus line all-victorious love shed in my heart abroad then shall my feet no longer Rove rooted and fixed in God my steadfast soul what does profile pray that he may be steadfast and unmovable is that a poetic green you say you preach sin therefore face the don't beat anything if I can never heard a man preach it in my life you make it sound as though it's impossible to say no that's not at all I'm not saying it's impossible to sin I'm saying it's possible not to sin the scripture says were kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation all those boys have been up on the moon there and upon their honor to get to the moon they got halfway up there they're coming back I have a bundle of papers in my office at least I had a unless I get my grandchildren when the Apollo 15 went up to the moon they took some pictures there and they took a little Bible and they sent me one of them from the what we call it now NASA it says on it this little Bible that was take this this was taken on to the moon by a member of the crew of Apollo Apollo 15 I have this thing in my office they sent me a lot of pictures and they said one of them said the most amazing thing we've got used to looking up at the moon and it has no props on it just a ball up in the sky and he said when we got up there we saw the world hanging like that looks strange to see the world I just left no props on it no pedestal just there strong in space you're not amazing my dear sweet wife lived in Melbourne Australia for some years I went and priests around Australia and you know on the on the sphere of the world they Australia's down here and the ocean is there you think that isn't wonderful you a handful of water on the bottom of the bucket and get it so they get recklessly you can't get it to stick and yet God hangs the world upon nothing it took us billions of dollars to find that job said that thousands of years ago boy am politicians dumb he hangs a world upon nothing this papers thin I've used this illustration before maybe I caught a fish over in the Bahamas in the sea of course I remember it was about 34 inches long and it weighed 34 pounds we took it back to the house and we gave it to the cook of the precious black woman I think she could cook a shoe and make it tender that I'm glad she didn't of course but then they gave me some fish and said would you like that fish no no taste what did you put some salt on it no why should I put salt on it it's been swimming in the salty water in the world for the last 25 years and the skin is only a speaker's Liz and yet that fish can live in that atmosphere year after year after for a generation or a decade and another decade and the salt doesn't go through that little thin skin but you tell me that God can hang the world on nothing and keep a fish in the ocean for 25 or 125 years and the salt doesn't get in but he can't keep me from sin in a lousy world like this that the blood can't protect me that the promises of God can protect me that the Holy Ghost can particularly well go home and dream we're so used to a crippled church will be unbalanced if we see the church start moving in the Holy Ghost the spirit of him that raised up Jesus under that easel also it says he shall quicken your mortal bodies and I'm learning to frame this a bit more not for when I die but every day that I live let me go to another verse here before I finish likewise the spirit the mighty Holy Ghost verse 26 health of our infirmities the Holy goal what's your infirmity it's nothing about a physical infirmity talking about some spiritual weakness the spirit also helpeth our infirmities so he deals with our weakness I recognize my infirmity and claim on him and he comes and makes up that I have a deficiency my infirmity we know not what we should pray for us we out so he deals with our ignorance he makes sense a session follows according to the will of God so he makes up clown insufficiency he deals with my weakness he deals with my evil he deals with my insufficiency you wonder that we sing Wesley's him Jeju level of my soul bowel Christ I talk I want to tell you something God has no after thoughts Calvary was not enough after thought God hasn't to find a solution to the day which I live the church has to rediscover it we've got the answer to all sin to murder and lying and incest and less than all the diabolical things of Hell have all been answered in Jesus Christ the average church had gotten down the same thing every Sunday the Lord died for your sins sing a lovely him they don't know anything about being emancipated all they want is forgiveness how many people want their fetters broke they're lying spirit their lustful spirit they're deceitful spirit their spirit of temper their spirit of pride that spirit of uncleanness God doesn't have to find an answer the blood of Jesus Christ God's Son is adequate but I have to go and submit myself to him most 26 says that spirit itself or himself maketh intercession for us verse 34 it is Christ that died ye is risen again who is at the right hand of God who maketh intercession for us so in verse 26 you have intersession in verse 27 T of intersession inversely 24 you have intersession now there's an awful lot said about predestination you know what people do they amputate it oh you were predestinated to it I had a man in my office recently he was so strong I'm treated or what God knew the moment you were born and he charted your course in you the moment you die I said you're telling me that last year that God supervised the flushing of a thousand fetuses are a million fetuses down the down the John come on man you say he was a fraud ordained them not that child when it came from the womb God knew it would be shoved down in a toilet and flushed away or something will be put in its mother that little thing could be torn up in its mother's womb is that your God sure we predestinated to what this verse 29 who he did foreknow also he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his son that's predestination I'm predestined to be holy I'm predestined to be pure I'm predestined to walk in the light as he walked in the light as he was so are we when we get to heaven no no sir as he was so we in this world we're trying to put it all off so when we get to the other side I'm told a popular preacher in town says there's no victor till you die shut the place up and become a they can preach that the big stumbling block in the world tonight is not poverty and all these it's all captured in one little word si n it explains every wrecked home every wrecked life the failure of every government system and every other system below the spirit of luck I love that phrase so the spirit bears witness to my life he bears witness because I have no condemnation he bears witness right because I have the spirit of adoption boy I would like to wake up tomorrow morning and feel like I wasn't in the kingdom would you not be hardened or you're big enough about six foot four you feel secured I wouldn't in this world I can wake up in the mud and sing with confidence we now draw nigh and father a blur father cry the spirit ancestral blood and tells me I'm born of God this is Dutch too if you're not born of the Spirit he can't bear witness you're a child of God if he has to witness to come their nation to guilt to sin my dear wife wrote something for me last week is really interesting a man taking the place of his brother in jail a man went along he said your brother was sentenced to five years roughly yes and you said you would take it yes what are you doing he said I've taken his penalty but I can't take his guilt I've taken the punishment he still bears the guilt but Jesus took the punishment and the guilt no condemnation I dread it's possible for me to live as close to God on earth as I would if I were in heaven thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth I am Earth I was came out of the earth I'm of the earth earthy Jesus Christ made it possible this must be right because burden said it and he wasn't Pentecostal what they spoke just a little faith will get you to heaven a little more faith will bring heaven to you you know your children you parents your children should be look on you as though you'd stepped out of heaven getting out of bed in the morning with a bad temper or something you should walk before them every day and my and children say my mother is the holiest woman on earth I've a letter on my desk now is written in 1724 by the by the daughter of what soon name Arthur Philip oh good I told us before Jonathan Edwards she says my daddy is a gravel-voiced rough looking man and he's fierce in the tent in the pulpit that he is a lamb when he's home but my mummy she's nine years aged boy she's got a vocabulary an awesome vocabulary when my mummy comes out of a prayer chamber in the morning she said she needs a veil over her face do you think children don't know your ambition shouldn't be to be a successful missionary first of all other successful ministry your your ambition should be no but now you're conformed as far as God can do it it'll keep doing it conform to the image of his son the gentleness and meekness of the Lord Jesus Christ give me a couple of minutes here verse 13 says if ye live up to the flesh you will die but if through the spirit you do mortify the deeds of the body now come on you're an experience of God 10 years ago isn't good enough tonight you are filled with a spirit maybe you've been leaking the question is not when you were fill the question is are you fill are you filled with a love of God I have filled with a knowledge of God are you filled with the will of God and she live after the flesh use of that but if through the spirit you mortify the deeds of the body never that great phrase of Paul's in 1 Corinthians 9 when he says I keep my body under you've got to have rest for your mortal bodies you can have rest but don't be lazy the big difference you've got to eat for you awful body but don't be a glutton keep your body under control it's the temple of the Holy Ghost be ambitious but don't be covetous you see it's a partnership I have with God and you have with God it's not all God's business it's mine as well let us lay aside every what's the weight in your life what's the thing that destroys your prayer life what's the thing that this surge of devotion racquetball I had a man of brilliant man in the British Navy one of the high officers and he lost his anointing do you know how ridiculous stamp collecting he could read his Bible in greetings of marvelous teacher but he got occupied with stamps he spent a fortune in stamps he had racks and racks of books they were lot he said one day I'll tell you my British Colonials are for 1,200 pounds that was about fifty thousand dollars at that time just one section of his stamps his wife said he used to say when he came home from the Admiralty he get his Bible up we would talk he they explained this in the Greek and something but now he said it wasn't TV collecting stamps collecting stamps he had more than anybody else he had some price stamps remember again the simple thing but it's true the good is the enemy of the best the devil doesn want you to get drunk or dissipated he wants to get your life attached to something else as long as he can draw you away from holiness and draw you away from holy contemplation and draw you away from meditation and draw you away from obedience he doesn't care how he does it the simpler the trick is more devastating if you through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the bed these are the body shall live as many as are led by the Spirit of God by the sons of God how do I know the spirit bears witness because he leads me that's right I don't have to tell you that I have to have an inward obedience not inward obedience will soon show most plenty so we know that the whole creation groaneth this groaning comes in three times verses 26 and 28 we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now not only they but ourselves also have the through firstfruits of the spivot well brother if you've got the firstfruits whether the final fruits going to be if we've got a peace that passeth all understanding if you've got a giant speakable of faith unshakable and our will unbreakable dear lord what's the ultimate going to be if I can have these in my mortal flesh what's it going to be going to get a glorified body that's the last thing in this verse even we ourselves groan within ourselves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of the body I skip one great verse there the sembène if we're children where there's of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ you know Jesus Christ want to share all the riches of his Redemption with me I think of a family in England they had a lot Island actually they had a lot of money they were very highly respected great social standing great crowds with pedigree cattle and everything you can imagine and when the family was up everybody respected their children but something went wrong in the family and they prosperity turned to adversity and the esteem people had for them went the very opposite way now the children were all listed with father and mother people sneered at the children Oh your old dad can do they should all dab into the remember the time when you were the most respected people in the whole community and now you're the most despised what would happen the son shared the glory of his father socially and financially when they were very wealthy and then when the thing turned the other way he had to bear the shame and look at this just a second hmm another thing I want to coat here from Romans 8 you could say that we're the heirs of God there's the dignity but wait a minute if children then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ if so be what you can't separate from it if you're going to share his glory you must share his suffering now notice what it says if so be that we suffer with him not for him the millions of people suffering for him in Russia tonight they won't bow the knee to the government it doesn't mean they're suffering with him they're suffering for him they know it's Christians they should take this way if I suffer with him I share his grief I share his anguish how many people do not you call them friends you can go in your days of joy and your days of prosperity if you will collapsed if shame came over your house if your daughter got into a silly your son asani would you go freely to them and say listen this is my condition right now if I'm going to suffer with him I'm going to see the world of he sees it these eyes of mine remember again revelation 3 says to a church I counsel thee to buy of me I saw but that was what they exported they exported it to the world because they didn't have shades and they go down the roads or across the deserts and like you get snow blindness you'll get Sun Blender and the Lord says I counsel thee to buy of me I saw he says to the same one I counsel thee to buy of me clothing and they were the greatest exporters of wealthy clothing in the world he says I counsel thee to buy of me gold they are the greatest Gold Exchange in the known world at that time everything they both think God says it's nothing it's all materialistic it will perish with the unit using I counseled me to bribe me realize all that you may see and I say I want you tonight don't pray that Elisha means I want to see if God sees he's over ahem both of a hand that says old take the dimness of my soul away I don't want to wake up in heaven and look at all the things I've made I could have seen I'm prepared to step out of track and there's one of your old saying in America as I'm prepared to march to another drummer the philosophy if you wanna call it that this book is contrary to everything the world has all its standards all its values all its goals they're totally ranked when you put them under the microscope of the Word of God and the whole thing about the success of the Holy Spirit is getting the witness of this pivot that there's no condemnation in my life that guilt has been removed but I can walk triumphant in his name that I can be like him in this present evil world if I'm going to share in his bounty sometimes he witnesses with groanings that cannot be uttered that's not according to our idea we thought he'd give us ecstasy all the way and he'd pull all bit God isn't and pull down the mountain is going to give strength to get over them he's going to make it the most popular person on earth he's going to give you a close relationship with him that you won't have a hill of beans about anybody else's opinion or thinking little boy says well I don't care what you think my daddy changed my name I'm receiving all is well I receive a mansion I can have that Rolls Royce I can have the yacht I can have everything he changed - he changed my nature boy I love to read this book do you I read about a book of life in Revelation I believe that book of life has the name of everybody from Adam Wright to the final trumpet blasts that's the book of life the Lamb's Book of Life is different the book of life God put on record when I was born the Lamb's Book of Life he put on when I was born again we've got three wonderful sons and they were born we have to get their names register they were sent to London the Somerset house that has the names of every Christian doesn't they know we're not every Christian every English person in the last 200 years oh I suppose making microfilm now they've stacks and stacks and rooms millions and millions of copies of birth certificates the Queen of England has a bunch of children you know what she has the honour of I think our children in the same book as mine has something if only one book for the brief Empire my children's names with that the Duke of Swan shows name of Lord Chancellor then Willy on my worthless name before his father's face and in the New Jerusalem a point my solar place you think I'm going out to the begging elements of the world the junk houses of this world the rock-and-roll Christian rock they call it Christian rock it is you think an imbalance to be a child of a king every man that's falling in hell at the final judgment will wish he lived the pure life which he lived a holy life we she lived in obedient life that's a bit too late when the final curtain begins to fall you today you've been sewing without knowing it you've been putting threads in your garment for eternity you've been building your character we're not going to wear the same things in heaven in fact all people going to hell are not going to be punished the same they're going to be beaten with some with many stripes on with you strike I can't tell wait wait till the all the pimps and all the Mafia and the fault that run the underworld a standard a gentlemen seat of Christ after Balboni and then he consigned them to everlasting hell I'll chart a little early if you don't I can't wait till the roll is called I see people of every kindred and tribe and time coming but all to the be part of the bride with all for the wedding feast if they've been obedient because you know well enough there were ten virgins not five harlots and fibered and it was midnight and it was time to go in and five of them made it and five didn't where did the side that didn't go outer darkness work it out for yourself son eternal darkness it's a temporary punishment because he eventually got into the marriage so crime convinced of that but they were shut up and they knocked on the door what did the one inside say I know you not in the seventh of Matthew he said to those big multi-billion dollar evangelists who said we've healed in your name cast out Devils razor that he said I never knew you it doesn't fade out of these he says I know you not that all was running out their testimony was read their prayer life was in rags come on not be too kind to yourself don't assume that Peters waiting inside the gate just to clamp a big crown up six Decker crown with diamonds and rubies forget it we cannot earn anything for our salvation but we have to earn everything from our reward we'd only awarded according to our Labor's our faithfulness great is thy faithfulness somebody else had another those great is my faithfulness the only thing that rejoices the heart of God's were fathers I know is number one my obedience to him my faithfulness to him my worship of him I can't make him rich well there you are take too much time still we're going to pray some pray for us at Jimmy Swaggart so happy there Wednesday and Thursday I'll be back for Friday night the way that's their brother ray ray Dorsey to bring the message either a messy job a report on his recent visit to India I don't know which but I'll take the song song part of it we join Joyce on this and then we'll have the message so please come I'm not asking to take all the time now to pray for my meeting I'm asking you what time we have left to pray what's on your heart maybe it's a burden for this nation someone told me about four nights ago on the 700 club one of the greatest economists in the country said that if and when all the banks go down in this country only 2% of the money in the banks is covered with insurance in a bit some shops it's not the collapse that's coming that troubles meets the collapse that we have already the probably collapsing morality collapsing spirituality powerlessness of the church we must be an embarrassment to God there's a spirit bear witness tonight that you're displeasing him have you condemnation in your heart have you bitterness have you got some grudges from Genesis and pride no wonder your life is hampered puts contract on your own by some eyes of tonight by obedience by repentance say Lord I don't care what it costs take the dimness of my soul away take the impurity away for the precious blood take care of my weakness the weakness in my intercession I don't doubt the sacrifice of Jesus it's perfect I don't doubt the power of the Holy Ghost I just doubt because it's not working in my life so let's pray for a little season

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Published: Sat Oct 13 2012