All to Jesus - Part 2

For instance, where he's going to buy his new home, what vocation he's going to study for as a student, where he's going to go next year on vacation, how he's actually going to spend his money, who's really going to run the church that he goes to. All this is embraced in his salvation and nothing less than that, of course, will do. Anything less than that shortchanges Jesus Christ and keeps him of that for which his blood was shed.

God is looking for men and women who will be totally, totally, totally sold out to him. You'll get stoned by your critics, you'll be lonely. I think the last time I went into my office, my dear Paul was in the chair there and he said, Daddy, I've realized this.

If we're going to walk in holiness, we're going to be lonely people. I don't believe that any man is greater than his prayer life. I don't believe that any church is stronger than his prayer life.

There was a day when men sang, holy, holy, holy, and oh, worship the king. And they talked objectively about the greatness of God. Then we backslid into that gutter where we still are, where everything's about I. I'm so happy, I'm so blessed, I'm so nice, I'm so good.

I'm I, I always I. Well, the difference between heaven and hell is the difference between God and I. Keep that in mind always. And our churches, I am confident, from across this land of ours, are filled with people that are going to miss salvation, miss heaven by 18 inches, because they have their salvation up here in an intellectual comprehension, rather than down here in a spiritual experience and the presence of the Son of God. My dear friend, listen, the forces of evil are crowding on full pressure today.

And there's a spiritual warfare which will never cease until time runs out. And the Church of Jesus Christ has got all the equipment, all the buildings, all the plans, all the methods, all the theory, and all the technique, but no power to move men to God. And I say that to my own heart.

We've never been so well-equipped, but to lacking in endowment. Now, for this, each one of us is personally responsible. The result is they die all around us, and we say they never bachelored, because they never were regenerated to start with.

To accept him is to accept him with a revolutionary acceptance. It's to accept him completely, all of him to all of me. It's to accept him exclusively, and not any other hope but him.

He alone is my hope.

It's to accept his friends as my friends, his enemies as my enemies, his ways as my ways, his rejected as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my rejected, as my

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They were told that they were a hell of a hell.

They weren't so sure, but they figured they'd better be on the safe side, so someone said accept Jesus. Their primary reason for accepting him was to be inured and immunized against hell. They wanted to have an insurance policy.

And so their primary concern in Christ is that he fulfill what they'd accepted him for. They were so grateful when they learned that Jesus Christ had died for them, that they wouldn't have to die. And, well, put it in more colloquial terms, they were so happy when they learned that Jesus had taken the wrath for them, if I may express it that way.

They were so happy that he died. They have mistaken their pleasure at the fact he suffered for them as being the witness of the Spirit. But their whole concern about Christ is that they should be protected from suffering and from punishment.

They've only met the forgiving Christ, and they've never gone beyond that. When they want to see someone saved, actually what they want is to see someone else come to the place that if they die, they won't go to hell. When they speak of revival, what they mean is to have their hearts feel the same joy that they felt when they first came.

There's an upper limit to their interest in the Church and in Christianity, and it all relates to them. They have met the forgiving Christ. There's a second group.

These are the people that have met the utilitarian Christ. They were in great need, and they prayed, and when they prayed, they saw that they were