Revival Forum 89 - Part 2

Everyone needs one, A Whole Armour of God. It's today. How many of you may know the book The Whole Armour of God by Godel? Do you have it? Let me see your hands. Oh good, only two out of all of you. It's a wonderful book. It's 1130 pages. It's $36. We can send the announcement address and get it for $18. It was written like most of the classics in the 1600s, and it's the most stirring. I gave Wilkerson a copy of that five years ago. When I came back he said, hey, while you're on it, we had a vacation in the Bahamas. We should be there now. We get our free flights and our free holidays. But this glorious atmosphere here, you know, where you can freeze every night, is more attractive. So how do you address the people that we are living in a day and age where everything is getting worse and worse and worse? There is no way God's going to send a revival. Let's hang on for dear life and pray for the rapture. But you have no right to believe and to storm the throne of heaven in faith, believing that God is going to send a revival. He tells you in the Bible things are going to get worse and worse. How do you answer those people? Well, I answered it this week this way. When the world population was five million, did God love it? Yes. Does he love it less when it's five billion? If God isn't willing that many should perish when it's five million, is he more willing that many should perish now? You see, the trouble in the world today, the stagnation, the moral desolation in America, and the stagnation in America is not due to the strength of humanism. It's because of the weakness of evangelism. People don't get born again when they come to the altar. They leave it, they come damned and they leave it damned. They're not born. People can't be born in five minutes, put off ten million sins and transgressions and violations of the law of God. They can't change the way of life, put off the old man, put on the new man by just standing there in tears. And I told you last night, when I heard that guy say on TV, come forward it'll only take a few minutes, I went to bed and cried. I say that he's a leading evangelist in America, telling people who are dead and trespassing, they're not bad, they're dead. The prodigal didn't say, my son is bad, he says he's dead. It's no fun to look on a congregation. Maybe I said yesterday, a hundred years ago, that great art critic in England, what was his name, John? John Ruskin said, preaching is 30 minutes to raise the dead. I thought that was facetious, it's scriptural. All those lovely people you have, executive people, deacons, nice people, wealthy people, poor people, hippies, yuppies, what have you got? There they are. They're dead. And we're the ones that transmit life. But dear brother, I believe we're going to see a Pentecost that we love, Pentecost, Pentecost. I'll tell you what, nobody's going to stick his name on it. Shraggart's had his chance to evangelize the Lord, messed it up, all around us. They've had millions of dollars, what have they done? They've brought disgrace to the name. People ridicule it, but God isn't jealous, God. God's going to raise up, and I pray for Romania and behind the bank on every day of my life. People want to tell me now that God's bypassed America, don't waste your time. Why? Was it as dead in the days of Jonathan Edwards? What is revival? Well, I think it was an old American, I think it was E.M. Bounds said, that E.M. Bounds is the breath of God on a situation that threatens to become a corpse. We're very near death in America. There's no time for a new reformation in the denominations. He's going to raise up new men with new vision. I want to preach on vision tonight, God willing. And we've got to have vision and passion. God's got to upset our whole schedules, our lifestyle, our way of eating, our way of living, our way of socializing in the church, God help us. Sure you can get a hearty church, if you put a chicken supper before the prayer meeting, they'll come for the chicken supper. You got the chickens, you'll drop the crowd, because they're all chicken, but anyhow. I believe, I didn't believe there was going to be an awakening. Okay, God has given me the privilege of knowing praying men. There's a little fellowship of people in a town called Zion, Illinois, you know where that is? And it's still there. There's one or two original people that were there with Dowie. And I went there, they asked me to talk with a man, he's upstairs in bed, normally. He speaks with a mic to the congregation downstairs every morning. Do you know what happened to him? I walked in, he thanked me, he said, Mr. Ray, you do me an honor, I've read your books. I said, please don't say a word. My mother said, if ever you go into royalty, you never turn your back, you, and when I back pedaled to the door, I said, I want to thank you. Do you know that man, Andrews? God called him to go to Israel, and he mastered Hebrew, and when he got there, God said, go back. He said, but people gave him, do as I say, go back. Intercede for America. What did he do? For 30 years, he prayed from 10 o'clock in the night, till 5 o'clock in the morning, by himself. Oh, you talk about David Brin, and I said, I'm talking about our day, I'm talking about the one I talked with. When they carried him in his little wooden casket out of that room, it was the first time he'd been out of the house in 12 years, never out of the house. How does a man Ray Tamey's fire? He's not only seen men are lost, men are not merely lost in your church, they're robbers. The robbing God of the right to use their personality. The robbing God of the right to use their time. The robbing God of the right to use their tongue. Dear God, Saturday, they shout till their hoarse. They're frantic on Saturday, at the sports arena, they're frozen on Sunday. And here is a man, he said, listen, I am not a bit weary. And this is a staggering thing to me. He said, Mr. Ray, there's going to be an awakening before Jesus comes. And I forgot it till Martha reminded me the other day, he said, there's going to be a revival that will sweep 1 billion people into the kingdom of God. Well, that's a lot. But there are 5 billion in the world. Are the other 4 billion going to hell? There's a man around the country now, I don't know if, have you met Paul Kane yet? Well, Paul, I've ministered with him a few times lately. He's an amazing man. He used to get 30 and 40,000 people in his meetings. He deputized for Bill Bunham. And then he disappeared. I heard of him in 1950, when I first came to America. I didn't meet him till about 20 years after. And then I met him recently. And he said in a meeting we're in, he said, God has revealed to me there's going to be a moving of the Spirit of God. And what? And 1 billion people will be born again. And he mentioned your country, dear brother. What do you call him, son? He mentioned your country. Those other countries are in the belly of Russia now, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania. Dear God, when I was a boy, we had a family who used to come from Estonia. I think there were what, ten in the family. They all played different instruments. And they set our church on fire. Well, where did they disappear to? Dear God, you say my church would never pray. Get some conditions from this brother about what's happening in their country. You know, the two most pleasant looking men in the world right now are the two biggest enemies of the cross. One is the Pope, another is Gorbachev. And they fooled us. They fooled us. We may not have a collision with communism. We'll have one with Romanism. It's a deadly enemy because it says Mary is Coridentrix and Mary is a mediator before God. But going back to this, there never has been a situation in the world as difficult as today. We've never had all the cults that we have now. I see the nations being squashed like this. This wall is moving in this way. It's cults this way. Wall is moving this way. It's the occult. And these things are rampant. My dear country of England again, in the last 25 years we have closed 600 branch churches of the Church of England alone. Leave out the Methodists and others. But in the place of 600 churches we have now 600 mosques. The greatest revival in the world right now is amongst the Muslims. Why? Because they're prepared to die.