God saves lost people, and salvation is not something that we can do for ourselves, but rather something that God does for us.
In this sermon, the preacher opens the letter to the 34th chapter of the book of Ezekiel. He emphasizes the importance of talking about the Lord and not just complimenting young people. He mentions four things that made him invite people to sit before the Lord, including the thickness of God's overlock. The preacher encourages believers to believe in God's word and not seek praise from others, reminding them that God sees everything. He also encourages young people to study the Bible and emphasizes the importance of getting into the Word of God.
Full Transcript
Now we open the way to the thirty-fourth chapter of the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel, chapter thirty-four. I want to compliment the young people, as they might find I have been places where the young people get spared the unfair assistance, and I'm so glad that you have some young ladies and gentlemen here, that do not, that you haven't knocked down in the very well.
Now, the best I've been able to find the mind of the Lord, I want to start a line of truth from the book tonight, and continue in the same, on the same line through Friday night. Now, in a Bible conference, the preacher has to see if he can be of help, to see if he can, because this is the day of men killers. Nobody knows anything what God has to say, but we tell you what a man has to say.
And people dip in on a preacher, and they like him, they may come back and let him for something else, but I'm sure they're going to want him. Now, I don't have time for those people, they're going to go anyhow, and I ain't got no time to do with them. But I am interested, either in an evangelistic campaign, in preaching to a man, who may have a lost sentence, but under the gospel, the law and the gospel, they'll cut loose, it might be, but you can't ever get to the place where you can say what God will do, but it might be, that God might bring him to see himself as he is.
The preacher will tell you that if you do something, God will do something blind to you. Mercy is optional, you see. Now, God must do right, and He may show mercy.
Isn't that right? God must do right, and He may show mercy. The preacher says you walk down the aisle, and he's going so far as to say he's lying to you. The preacher says get down on your knees, and ask God to save you, even though he's lying to you.
He's an enemy of your soul. God's preacher will say, God may show mercy to you. That's as far as it goes.
Isn't that right? That's as far as it goes. So now I'm going to, tonight, through Friday night, be on one thought. And that's this thought that God saves a block of people.
God's in the business of saving the lost people. And it takes at least four nights to have them lost. Now, I don't know whether you can get that or not.
That comes under every old business. Some of us have to drop out and go to the place where you're standing tomorrow night, what's called Fanny's, but there ain't no Fanny's going on. But that comes under every old business.
Most of you that don't go to hell being lost, what you call your church. But I always, sometimes when I have the time, I travel a thousand miles. And the risk is that a man who knows nothing about the Bible, seeks me.
And you can well afford, many of you people who claim to be saved, especially every unfaithful person you come in contact with, you can well afford, that yeah, these four Bible messages on this subject, God saves lost people. Lost people. It's huge to know that it's raining tonight.
If tomorrow night's not raining, the rain is tonight. Then Thursday and Friday, there's a lot of rain. I want us to pursue this subject.
You young people got your Bible? Where are your Bibles? I've been preaching to you, and you didn't see your Bible. That's wonderful. Now I'm not trying to be conservative.
But every person, every different faith, and I'm just another faith. And you say my name's Barney. See, here I am.
Here I be. Not God. You just gotta find out what that says.
If I knew it in my heart, I wouldn't preach some faith. But I would not stand up here and tell you what I preach to folks, all I can do is say that I believe it is. Because I'm not God.
See? And I'll tell you right now, you better not believe something called Brother Bill. People tell you so. Or Brother Barney, or anybody else.
But you know, for 27 years, I've been in each house of God and church, preaching for pastors and people that don't believe what I say. And we have lost a son. And I was under a little assembly.
He started preaching about two, three nights. I watched the poor people. And I watched them.
They're just standing there looking at me, and one eye was looking at the pastor. They don't know whether I'm preaching the truth or not, and they're watching to see his reaction. If they like him, if he likes what they're doing, they like it.
If they don't like the pastor, if he don't like it, they don't like it. If they get whatever, they say they like it. They don't know whether it's true or not.
Most of them got a Bible, but they ain't ever opened it yet. They all say, church is Christian, but people over here ain't getting their time. They all say, my word shall judge you, but you think he's just playing mumbo-jumbo.
He meant business. His word. Not God's promise, but his is going to judge you.
You better find out his word. And you're not a Catholic, are you? The Catholicist Society is a Catholic priest. And I was a Catholic in the last war.
A Catholic priest that had to survive those picture shows the boys could go to. And they put up on this chapel, you know, the picture shows, it was on the base, and they're buying towns and he said, all right, the Catholics will go to you. And I just said, it's all right.
There was a person that came up to me in Oklahoma one time and he said, he was trying to get me straightened out on something I said. And I asked him, I said, well, what do you do about Catholicism? He said, I don't know. But I said, all right, we'll tell you what's going to happen.
And we could get to where we were at the time. And I said, well, I don't know what's going to happen. And he said, I don't know.
I don't know. And he said, I don't know. And he said, And I said, well, I'm sorry, it's all right.
And I said, you better clean that up on your own! And he said, all right, we'll get you straightened out off Calvary and you'll be I said, yes, I just made one request. If you sing that song, people I've got in the sense say that song was a great deal on the line. Song to sing.
Okay, let you just come into your heart. I'll let you pour two quarts of corn whiskey and three migraines of cocaine and dope down my throat. I'm going to let her have to endure being in a place that calls herself a Baptist Church that'll sing a rotten song like that.
Now, that isn't that. Some of us out here let the big fat let Jesus come into your heart. Poor little Jesus.
He's standing on the outside of big news and he can't make a move until big news decides he can make it, isn't that all? And yet, that's what you call it all. Come on, get down. I don't want folks to drink with you.
I'd rather get drunk, wallow in a drunken grave, and live in a house of prostitution six days a week, and come to the house of the Lord on Sunday morning with a beard and a tie, and engage in a fasting that would let any unfaithful son of this child of ill, even some of you Americans, that he could let the Lord do in. What I'm trying to do is to preach a big God and a little sinner. Now, I want us to spend four nights on the truth that God is sovereign, and that he's in the business of saving who he will, not the ones that are saved.
You insist that you ought to have the right to vote for who you want to represent you as President of the United States, don't you? Don't you? And you know you've passed for the right to pick out a bride. And your life continues. Over in North Carolina, they just had them jumping ships now about the autonomy of the local church.
I wonder if any of you read about that trial they had over there when they were with the democracy of the local church. It was an analysis of the first time that this church was in court. And boy, they just a-hooping and hawing over there.
That boy must have done that. And everybody's talking about the fact that this little local church right here is the sovereign body. Well, that's good preaching.
It's a good thing to do. This church is not a sovereign body. It's under the rule and authority of the sovereign Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
This church hasn't got a right to make a single move until it weeps before God and prayer until unanimously every member of it has the same mind from God. It was in final business meetings where we decided God's goodness by a political vote was boring as hell. Then we had Rob Shaw.
We don't even let him run the church. We got robbed. Isn't it amazing that you talk about a sovereign like King Elizabeth II.
Well, that's a good way of thinking. He's one of our king's best representatives. He's sovereign.
And the sovereign state of Mississippi. They didn't tell you about that on the segregation bill, did they? Huh? And the sovereign local church. And they want the state to be sovereign and the government to be sovereign and the queens to be sovereign and the church to be sovereign, but they're not willing for God to be sovereign.
I'm betting my life, dear ones, that the reason that nobody under conviction of their need of being saved by the blood and bone of the spirit, and the reason you folks keep that little old parish in such a rivalry, what I have a revival. It's a million miles away from the scripture. A million miles.
All it's all about praying for revival. It's the devil and not a revival. Now, you think that's true? Now, you listen to Rob Fine.
I take it you've come together. I don't ask you to believe what's said. I just want you to listen to it and then you can chew it like an old cow.
Chew it as good. Spit it out if you want. Read.
All because churches now have to have a little spurt once in a while and get all revived up. It's because the churches are full of people that don't know the Lord. Of course, the fellow that knows the Lord don't need a revival.
He's got one going on in his heart all the time. And it's just time to get the unsaved church members to act a little better. You know, they used to do.
They didn't teach themselves. You know, like we just do. And we get some people to quit some of their bad habits and we put them under the water and show they're saved.
And if they used to, they always had to pick you up with them again and they go back in the world. We call them backsliders. In spite of the fact that they're backsliders, they're sitting inside of God for a long time.
And that time in the old system, that time talking about unsaved people. We build up a whole doctrine of backsliding to make comfortable the unsaved members of our churches every time they get revived. That's right.
And you know what's the matter? It's because for two generations we have dishonored God and put him down in the dust and elevated man on the throne. And now the whole caboodle of what we call Christianity is an effort to comb the hair of men in the right way and sprinkle those water on them to make them smell a little better and let them go on their way. And I'm going up and down America screaming and crying and thanking God.
We're beginning to get a hearing and young preachers are beginning to see some truth and bless. God the Lord is beginning to bless. And I'm singing that it's high time that we quit calling ourselves Christians and quit calling ourselves Christian churches until we elevate one more time by the absolution of our own hearts.
Almighty God put him back on the throne where he's been all the time. He's been with nobody except ourselves. This generation needs to be told over and over again that it's not a question of what they will do with Jesus.
It's a question of what the Lord is going to do with them. Eight years ago I went down to this church in Kentucky. And after the meeting the pastor got up and asked the church to forgive him if it was that I didn't know the gospel.
I had learned what the gospel is in the meeting. From now on I was going to preach the gospel and bestow it to people to attend all the holy service. I was going to pour all of our soul into the cup and all of this junk about winning people to Christ out to win and all the personal workers were going to kill him off.
It wasn't that messy without all of you personal workers getting out and bushing them up, you know. And that we're going to turn the table and bring it back to the holy spirit where it's been all the time, you know. We just thought he wasn't doing a good job out there so we helped him out.
You know you can win so many more people in the holy spirit because the ones you win go on to hell and the ones who win get to heaven. But you get them on the name of the church and get a big record, you know. Why you'd win, why you'd go out there and win 15,000 people to Christ till midnight tonight using the method that we're taught to use.
All you've got to do is just believe some verse of scripture and get down on your knees and tell God you're sorry for your sin and ask him to forgive you and you'll feel a little better. Yeah. Like you had it down the whiskers.
That's the same thing. And then when you get that feeling goes off and you go back to church, you know what to do. Let the preacher give you a little academic and that'll make you feel better about your son.
And this Christian is assisted back to the Monday night after the meeting. They've got all the terminals set upon them and set for an open fire place and burned them up. That's the best thing that happened to all the preacher's sons.
They're burned up between now and tomorrow night. Ain't no chance. And the young assistant pastor, I like to hear him say it.
He had one sermon brought to New York. I'm sure you've got one like it. I used to have it.
On the place that Pilate asked of the Jews, what then shall I do with Jesus which is called the Christ? And this young preacher had a sermon on it and he borrowed it from somebody else and he said, now you've got to do something with Jesus. I don't know why. Most of you never met him.
I don't know that I've got to be in his eyes and how he acts. Now I'm thinking the wrong way. I don't know whether I've got to accept or reject Christ.
Sorry, but the sinner never gave me. I never met him. You know, Christ never done reveal to him.
He don't know one thing about him. How you can reject somebody you don't know? I never have been able to understand. And how you can accept something you know nothing about? No, I've never been able to understand.
But the preacher said yes, he had to. He said, now you've got to be merciful. He said, you've got to accept it or reject it.
Well, that's the perfect revelation. I think so. You think so? Is that who you are? You've got more people than you can count on to stick their hook and eye and go through emotions and call it salvation? You know, at that time I believed the very next day.
Who would have heard the son of God say to Pilate, thou can do nothing with me except the Father give you power. And the people called Pilate said, Pilate, you can do nothing with me unless the Father gives you power. All this generation has been taught that there is Jesus.
And it's up to you to take him or reject him. And they say they ain't quite ready right now. And I'll get around to it when I please.
This generation needs to have the privilege. And I cry out to the killing somebody that's not me. Not me.
Not me. Not me. Not me.
Not me. Not me. Not me.
I don't know what you going to do with Jesus. I don't know what he's going to do with you. But he's saved in you.
You're just blessed with God's knowledge that he's the Father, quickness in you. He'll even save his son. Quickness in you.
Oh my, oh my. You mean to tell me you made a decision to accept Christ and you'll save him? I won't save anybody. Because you can't accept Christ.
That's an impossibility to you. You better listen to me. You better listen to me.
My God is not subject to your decision. You are subject to it. Whether you accept the hell or heaven is determined by whether or not God almighty saves you or passes you by.
Now if God has to do something with everything that's being offered to you, God's going to save you or pass you by and save you there. It's going to be one of those things. God bless your life.
You're just as helpless keeping from saving the world as you're helpless to get him to save you. You're in good hands. The more I'm up here, the more I'm up preaching what they put down in their confessions of faith, the more I'm up preaching the truth that God almighty's in the business of showing mercy to whom he will and being gracious to whom he will.
I accept you as brother. You got robbed. You're going to hell because you think you saved, because you did something.
When I meet you in heaven, you'll say, Thank you, brother, for telling me the truth. I tell you, because of some decision you make or some prayer you make or some feeling you have, you are lost, my friend. You are lost.
Salvation is what God does for you, not what you can do for him. Salvation is God almighty taking an old rock on the hill down, that you can walk in peace in, that you get good as you are, that you go to prayer, that you learn, that you're going to hell because you're just as thankful that you're going to hell because in heaven, you climbed up on God's throne, that you meditated, so that you'd learn things from that throne. And God almighty has taken the one that will rise to you and to save you.
Yes, he did, he did. The most solemn thought in human being, levitate, sit back, lay on your feet. In the corner, one of God's going to save you, or pass you by, let you go to hell.
In the middle, one of God's going to save you, or pass you by. And let him, God's going to show mercy to you, or pass you by, don't you wonder? Oh, God bless you today. Worship to the Lord God.
You've got a right to do with me as you please. Oh, God bless your soul. If you walk down the aisle and confess Jesus, he'll save your life for you.
Oh, God bless you today. That's all I'm calling. Chapter of Ezekiel.
Now, this is just a little outline of what I'm talking about before, not just in part. In the 34th chapter of Ezekiel, what I tried to say to you, God saves whom he will. And in the 16th verse of Ezekiel chapter 16, God says, I want you to follow.
Now, you have to open that, because if you don't have it open, you'll swear I'm not reading out of the Bible. But I want you to see what God says. Ezekiel 34, 16.
God says, I will seek that which was lost. I like that, don't you? And bring again that which was driven away. And will bind up that which was broken.
And will strengthen that which was sick. But, I will destroy that and the strong. And will feed them with goodness.
Now, God's going to do one two things to you. He's going to seek you, and save you, or he's going to destroy you. You're in his hands.
Now, if you don't like that, you can roll up your sleeves, get on your hands, God took that out of business. If you want to, but that's it. If you don't like that, you can take your bucket seriously, and cut out that verse.
34, chapter 3, verse 16. Now, don't talk about bondage. I didn't like the Bible, but there we have the solemn statement that God's going to seek some people, and he's going to destroy them.
And to say no, because I will seek that which was lost, but I will destroy the fast, and the strong. Upon the attitude, in reference to that attitude, there's a fellow that says, that's just inherent to the flesh. There's a fellow that says, oh, if you understand all that, you'll destroy.
It's given us in the New Testament, in the 19th chapter of Luke. Turn if you will to Luke chapter 19, and we'll read verse 10. And then we'll look at verse 10, just a moment.
Now, I hope you're still with me. You don't have to if you don't want to. You don't have to come back.
That's when you're in the Lord. I'm here to help, but I'm not here to give holy things to God. I'm not here to cast pearls before sun.
It wouldn't waste five seconds of my time on anybody that's not interested enough in your faith to see this thing. Well, you better roll up your sleeves and say, I don't want to go to hell. I want God to save me.
Know this? If you did that about 40 years, and listened to the truth, and tried to drop out two miles a day, it might be about 40 years from now to drop miles to you. I don't know if it'll be worth it. But it might.
Mercy is optional. If you don't want mercy, then who do you want it for? Try it for us. And in Luke 19 and 10, my love says, before we read the rest of the text with the past, you have to understand that when we read it, we're going to have to go back to the basis verse, because this verse starts with an explanation of what's gone before.
He says, the Son of Man has come to seek in the things that have been lost. My Lord, you think anything of that? My Lord said, it's bound to be so. My Lord, look at that verse just a little bit.
Let me read it like it speaks today. My Lord said, the Son of Man has come to make salvation available for all the lost. All came and died to make salvation available for all the lost.
And what is this? The Son of Man has come to make a man to seek in the things that have been lost. I wasn't talking about what have you left me. The same things just come to us.
And you can't do it like you left me. Poor little things. Little, little things.
But if he's just that little, I don't do that to him. But if he's so little, we've got to raise you up and do something. Isn't that right? Don't get mad at him.
He's been raised on that rock. You're going to go to hell if you don't pull it out and get the truth. Whatever that word lost means.
Whatever that verse means. My Lord didn't come down here to make an effort to do something. Now let's see what that verse says to me.
It says, I'll give you a free thing. Make me one of three things. I'll give it to you and you can take the charge.
That's what it means that some people weren't lost and didn't need to be saved. Well, whatever that verse means, everybody that's lost won't be saved today. He came to save lost people.
And to do what? Make it possible for them to be saved? No. He came to what? Save us. He has made it possible for us to be redeemed because He already redeemed.
Because He has redeemed us. He didn't make an effort to do anything. But lost, like this word lost means going to save.
Thank you, God. Boy, we find we get into that very late. Except that interpretation that some people weren't lost and didn't need to be saved because the Bible teaches that all sin comes over those that probably did it just to then do a loss and nothing comes out of it.
But that's where the word lost means. One thing in the 10th verse of the 19th chapter of Luke means lost. In 2nd Corinthians chapter 4, the word lost as described every human being.
In the 10th verse of the 19th chapter of Luke, the same word lost describes what sin means. What sin means, Paul? A son of man comes to keep the sins that which was lost. I wonder if he's talking about Indian folks back there in the middle times.
One of them was lost. You know, most people are not lost. They're exactly where they ought to be when they're sinned and God's going to leave them there and send them there.
They ain't lost. All of them throw their shoes. Those don't get lost, do they? Exactly where you ought to be and God's going to leave you there and send you there when you die.
He gave you a tongue that was ever strong. And the son said, I'll go down there and redeem them. Not fast food, but redeem them.
I'll go down there and suffer and love them and save them. I'll go down there and purchase repentance and save them. I'll go down there and save them.
But they still haven't been found yet. You know what it was? It's good to say he came down there to save them and save them. That was the law.
You know what it was? That's the fact that he came down here to do. He's going to do it. It can mean one other thing.
This is what it actually means. It doesn't mean that some people don't need to be saved. It doesn't mean that Christ came down here and he can save them.
Because if Christ came down here to save everybody we still haven't made enough out of them. Huh? How many of you believe that he saved everybody up to now? You believe that? You believe that? That they came down here not to try. They came down here to seek and not to make a mess of it.
But to do what? They're saying he didn't save them. Come back with me. Whoever this law is, he's taking time to save them, isn't he? You believe he saved them? No.
Because that means everybody then that Christ didn't save them. Because of that scenario, if Christ died in the same sense that everybody didn't get time, he's not saved up out there on earth. But the God created him down here and died for the people God created.
And he's going to save everyone. If you want to know if you haven't heard that, you can listen to it. If you haven't heard it, you want to hear it.
I told them I heard it. I started my message tonight and if some of you are still in the four-and-a-half-foot-high hill here and some of you thought that God could be pleased to get the law, bless God and let good news. God save law people.
Amen. Amen. Christ saves law people.
Praise God. I'll tell you what that verse means. It means that there's a man coming here, the Lord Jesus Christ going down the road and the girl is coming out of a box with a list of this all in it, you know.
Some of them, they think they're going to take part in the system and some of them are counting the money and some of them are signing the list to buy it and some of them are signing the list to buy it and leave it. And one of them was passing by and he said to her, I'm in a room of prayer and I've got something that you must tell me. And he had her walking along with Jesus.
And as they were going back here, the man behind her said to her, it couldn't be easy because the door was open and the man was crying out to see him or something and the picture says, when the Lord comes through, he's there. But there was a fellow that wanted to see him. He came back.
He came up to Jesus Christ and he said, I can't go anymore and they're going to bury him now because he is a fellow that wanted to see him. And he had to come back to the picture of the Lord. He was taken away in the night.
And all of a sudden, he came back. And he said, Lord, I've been there. And they're laughing the folks and they said, I'm going to take back what I got before and I'm going to give it back to all those folks.
Well, that's the truth. I don't know how people that tell you, but they don't say it over until they're old. Well, from now on, it's going to be different.
And they had a candle lit in the presence of the lady and the leader of the choir. They began to jumble. And they said, we ought not to associate with that fellow that's here.
He owes the land and the river. They murmured. But that is to the man who was a sinner.
Do you know what they did? The Lord never had a kind word on the city of Elizabeth. He said, I'm all right. He put his arms around the poor stallion woman in favor.
The woman took him to her house with the dress and never said a word to her except, woman, that thing do forgive me. She didn't give me an answer. Her great-granddaughter was licking her, licking her right on the outside and got the pill on the inside and nobody warned her.
She didn't ask to come. And he turned to that guy and he murmured. But because he didn't listen to the people in the center of the name of Jesse at his church, I was denied anything from you folks.
I've been denied everything you say to people. I don't like to get lost. Oh, don't ever get too lost.
You should be glad when the gospel comes and says that the cross was actually saved, actually redeemed by his own precious blood of the lost people. Our Lord didn't come down here in the house so he could have his people. He came down here and died so he had to.
God freed him of people who would ever die. And the Lord came down here and died for his own people. I love you and I love you.
The Lord is with you in everything. That's why he came to speak his truth. I have people already with me.
He can have you get cars and things and pancakes and everything you want. But if you just let him walk, he has nothing to say about it. He has his thoughts made.
He says, oh, I love you and I love you. Well, I'm going to go on about this later. I have some good news.
I don't know if they make some of you mad if you're a ghost. But if it's a sheep that my Lord hasn't saved yet, it's going to be all for good. Not only lost people.
Oh, Lord! You're going to get lost forever. The Lord doesn't just become lost. Ha! He has to be saved.
He has to get old before the Lord gets me lost. I know that's just something about God. But I have the fact that the Lord has to get lost before the Lord gets me lost.
And I did what I said when he saved me. I said I'm going to get all lost by myself by my God. That's all I said.
This is all I said. This is it. We have to come lost.
And if we don't get lost, we all won't get found. Most of these church members love me like they do, but if you come get me saved, most of them won't be successful. But when I tell you to come lost, you'll find nobody.
When the devil comes around, there's no brother. Now he's coming. Now he's coming.
He's going to take you out. He's going to cripple you. He's going to take you to the hospital.
He's going to take you to the hospital. He's going to take you to the hospital. God Almighty is in the business using the means he appointed before he was ever assigned to get rich people lost.
I want to talk to you just briefly now. And then we'll pick it up again tomorrow night if you're there. And then we'll pick it up again tomorrow night.
But I want to tell you just a little bit about how my job is to go back with one of your own thoughts. I realize that's when you're in the Lord. I've seen people in what world that you live in.
I don't think that's when you're in the Lord. You ain't been to a lot of old churches. They say, I know I'm sinning because I used to get lost.
I don't now. Well, I don't know about that. The average person that has never been to a church.
You just about got a deacon with a jacket. And that's just about the same evidence that you were saved. And they'll say, well, I used to have it.
I'm about to have it. And the Lord said, here is one of you, that big old devil there. Well, there's no such thing.
Now, the thing on God's responsibility. He ain't in the business of shaking up people's habits in the business of giving people new hearts. You can come down here and get you a quick cup and take a rest and drink a bit with me.
And the fact that you used to be a devil, you now don't. Why in the first place, it's all your fault. I'll get to heaven and throw you a quick ton of your devil pills to hell.
And they'll rip you off, huh? Starting to leave you in your very own hell. It's good to save you. You're a devil in production.
And all of this is a good work. And when you're born, not when you're created. You're created now, but when you're born, you're born where it fills your heart and corrupts nature.
And it's what God has told me, and it keeps me from getting worse. It ain't about keeping lies and hypocrisy. It's how you fill your mother's womb.
It's how you're up, baby, and low, and down, and sick. It ain't about how you save or drop. It's how you save or drop.
Because everyone saves better. He says, I know how to save. Don't know how to save in a month.
He said, drop. He said, drop. Now, just think about it.
Look, before you are a low-down animal. And if I said that you could get God's love, could that indicate, but say if you are a natural-born, you're going to get God's love. That'd be wonderful.
Now, it's the people who sit out saying, lost! And when you get to bummed off, he says, I've lived a long time, and I've proved it in every way. And if you haven't already saved, let's look at everybody that's saved. And then we all yell about lost.
I want to go to hell and come back to them all I've been to, except Jesus. So they'll walk down there and kiss the preacher's hand. So they'll walk down there and kiss the preacher's hand.
I'll go to hell to save and say, well, get out of here when I'm eating that God's food, for I've lived a long time. You know what I'm saying? I said, I had to say, I always feel better when you've got a grandmother who understands what you're saying. For death, for life, for sin, for heaven! It doesn't matter where it comes from.
It's in your life, by God. It's in your life. So I said, well, I've already had a job for you.
Woo! God's just slowly knocking on your door. You think God's gonna let anybody in the building with a bag on themselves? All the praise from there below. Isn't that right? You have just seen a big part in your salvation.
You've got it all over God in there. And do you know if you tell me the truth, if you got paid for something you did, if you brag all the way about what you did, you'll get your pay. You can't even do a nice little deed without telling everybody you want somebody to brag on you, don't you? I can't do it.
But there ain't gonna be nobody bragging on nobody unless the Lord will do it for you. Because we have God's precious presence rest on your knees and sit still. That's what it has to do.
It's that day, the 29th, evangelizing and he's an Indian, you know, in Northern part of New York. You young people ought to clean the kitchen, to go there and watch it, instead of reading the true story magazine and a lot of junk, listen to all the deep music and that stuff. Mix a little real reading in it.
They send you a book. I'm telling the people here now to drive big cars and have a lot of good books in your home. Five pages, ten pages, five pages, Generate 6 numbers, 670, about all the things they want to do, and all the good things they do.
And they talk about the law, and about education, and just what you do, and what you don't do. But all things about you. I love you about you.
He didn't also know when he came to see the strictness of God's holy law. The strictness, all you gonna listen to him, you know that too. He said what? Yes.
Inside your heart. About what was. And then it says, down out of the spiritual, look inside.
And then he says, down out of the spiritual, and so on. You got to tell him God's law? Amen! God, we will tell you what God's law is. Woo! I was in the army.
We were all in shabby places. My superior said, Barney, you can't do that. Of course, as a man can't have women and booze.
Last night, I had women. I said, Barney, you don't know what a hell man can. A little conception of the strictness.
And everybody in this room, this place is a hell. Poor deal. Between his law and God's heart, you know.
So David learned his law. He showed him the strictness of his law. And David rebelled against it.
God speaks straight. And then the second thing that God used, and he still does this, the sentence, he'll hand you up and put you under the law. Banner of death.
I'll tell you how. When you kind of got under those conditions, you're not going to go to hell. Nobody in the state is going to go to hell.
But you got God putting you under the law. And you're going to go to hell. But if you're strict with it, you're going to go to hell.
God puts you under the law, and you're going to go to hell. He puts you under the law, and you're going to go to hell. You're strict with it.
You're strict with that. But if you don't stay strict, and you stick to the law, you can go to hell. And you find out it's the strictest of all strict judges.
And the reason is always that you hate God's law. One day you bring this down now, watch this. That God requires faith.
And that you have no ability to be strict. Isn't that something awful, sir? That God requires that you believe on this side. If you don't, you're going to go on to hell, and yet you can't go to hell.
You may have heard that statement. He says, for all the sinners, all you've got to do is believe in Him. Why? Because He's alive.
That's all a man can do. You don't have to do that. But that's the only thing a man can do.
And yet he can't do it. And that God requires that unless you attempt and believe, you're going on to hell. And unless you attempt, you will be punished.
God requires it. And then he found out that the Bible says that he couldn't do it, and he found out the fine. Anybody that says they can't do it, you're wrong.
A sinner can't do a thing. You just can't. A sinner is losing $500 if he doesn't do a thing.
Well, now, I know you need to quit drinking whiskey, and sucking cigarettes, and going to Facebook, and chasing the women, and cussing, and a few of those things. But that little thing don't matter. It doesn't.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't even matter.
Sermon Outline
- I. God Saves Lost People
- A. God's sovereignty in salvation
- B. God's mercy and grace
- C. The role of human decision in salvation
- II. The Problem of Revivalism
- A. The focus on human effort and emotion
- B. The neglect of God's sovereignty
- C. The consequences of this approach
- III. The Truth of God's Sovereignty
- A. God's power and authority
- B. God's mercy and grace
- C. The importance of trusting in God's sovereignty
- IV. The Call to Repentance
- A. The need to recognize our sin and rebellion
- B. The call to trust in God's sovereignty and mercy
- C. The promise of salvation and restoration
Key Quotes
“God must do right, and He may show mercy.” — Rolfe Barnard
“You're just as helpless keeping from saving the world as you're helpless to get him to save you.” — Rolfe Barnard
“Salvation is what God does for you, not what you can do for him.” — Rolfe Barnard
Application Points
- Recognize your sin and rebellion against God and trust in His sovereignty and mercy.
- Trust in God's power and authority to save you, even when you don't feel like you deserve it.
- Let go of your human effort and emotion and trust in God's mercy and grace.
