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  QUOTE - RAVENHILL ON CONDTION OF AMERICAN CHURCH, 1985
  by Leonard Ravenhill
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Summary: Leonard Ravenhill warns that America will suffer for the sin of
the church, not just the nation's sin, and calls for a return to a
genuine, Spirit-filled faith.

Duration: 0:54 Topics: "Ravenhill Quote", "Church Accountability", "Spiritual Decline"
Scripture References: 2 Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 7:21, Romans 1:18, Galatians 6:7

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Leonard Ravenhill warns about the dire spiritual condition of the
American church in 1985, emphasizing that the church's failure to rise
above societal decay will lead to national judgment. He expresses
concern over the rampant sin and moral decline, stating that God's
patience is limited and that the church is complicit in the nation's
iniquities. Ravenhill argues that the church's commercialization of the
gospel and its desperate pleas for money reflect a deeper spiritual
crisis. He believes that rather than the nation suffering for the
church's sins, it is the church that will bear the consequences of
America's moral failures. The urgency of repentance and revival is
underscored as essential for the church's survival and the nation's
hope.

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If the temperature doesn't ride in the church anymore than we have it
now, America's going to go to hell in less than 10 years. We can't get
more disease. We can't get more venereal disease.

We can't have more babies put down the john. We can't have more
rebelling against God. He won't put up with it.

His spirit will not strive with men forever. He won't strive with
individuals forever. He doesn't strive with nations forever.

And I believe we're tempting the Lord. Nobody is more mutilated and
merchandise the gospel than America. Look what we do Sunday mornings,
begging, screaming for money.

I said for so long, for years, that because of the mounting iniquity in
the nation, the church is going to suffer for the sin of America. I
don't believe that anymore. I mean, I believe America is going to suffer
for the sin of the church.

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