If I ever get to be pastor of a church, I'm going to start out with five row of benches right down at the front. We get them filled, I'm going to put in the sixth one. If we fill them up, I'm going to put in the seventh one. I don't like to speak to a divided audience. I appreciate that. Brother Henry heard this down in Pine Bluff and he's asked that I sing it. I was out on the Broadway of sin and despair Crushed neath my burden of sorrow and care My constant companions were trouble and doubt Then Jesus came down and lifted me out. He lifted me out. Of the deep miry clay He settled my feet In the straight narrow way He lifted me up to a heavenly plain, and he flooded my soul. Each day with His grace I was wandering afar from my Savior and home Fainting and weary in sand that I roam I needed a hand to turn me about Then Jesus reached down and lifted me out. I was building my home on the dry shifting sand. casting my lot in a cold barren land. You're due now for I, I heard Satan shout, but Jesus reached down and lifted Let me out I've started for heaven My heart filled with song Wandering is over My sins are all gone through Jesus' own blood, cleansed within and without. Oh, praise His dear name. He lifted me out. He lifted me out. Of the deep miry clay He settled my feet In the straight narrow way He lifted me up to a heavenly plain, and He floodeth my soul each day with His grace. I long to see people who know a little bit about the gospel of God's grace, have a baptism of tears, a baptism of holy passion. I long to see us set on fire. There is nothing on earth as terrible as naked truth that isn't soaked in tears and the Holy Ghost. I'd rather be a free will or for God than to have some conception of truth and to make that glorious truth of the sovereignty of God an excuse for my cold heart. For years I have been alarmed about my own and about all of us people who dare to make the claim that we're trying to preach the gospel by which God saved men. One of the great things that's said against us all over the land as I go about is that what we preach dries up our tears and our zeal. And in far too many places, a wrong conception, not the right conception of the gospel, has done exactly that thing. I long to see this become more and more a place where this beautiful linoleum will feel the splatter of God-given, God-wrought tears, so that God will be able to say, I saw your tears, and I heard your prayer. I wonder if 13th Street Baptist Church could do something like what I'm going to tell you about now. I was in Rochester, New York, some years ago. 350,000, 400,000 people. It's the hotbed of Catholicism and modernism and liberalism and everything. And after I'd been preaching a week, an old farmer called up the pastor and said, if you've got some time, I want to come down and talk to you a moment. And the old farmer came down and wrote out a check, had a check written out for $2,600. And he said, I want that man's message. I want the people of Rochester to hear it. And he said, here's a check. And he said, I want you to buy radio time with this money. And when it gives out, I'll write you another check. The pastor said, brother, you're not a rich man. He said, no, but the Lord blessed me and I've got this money. I don't need it, and I want Rochester to hear this message. Pastor got on the phone and called me, and I came down, and I said, Brother, this is too big a burden to place on me. I appreciate it, but don't all suppose we bought time on the radio station. I said, and we didn't. have any evidence of response at all about it, brother, do you still want to invest this money in the radio, whether we get any response at all?" I said, I can preach, but only God can give me in faith. He said, I'm not interested overly in the response. I'm interested in the opportunity that I want to have a part in affording people a hearing to work. So there in that office, the pastor began to phone. He phoned the big 50,000-watt radio station that never had had a preacher on it in all its history. They made the appointment to see the manager, and by the grace of God, some way or another, they sold us. three 15-minute programs per day. And then we got on two other stations. I preached nine times a day over the radio for four more weeks. And then the pastor got up that night. We would go on there the next day. And he asked his member, told what the farmer had done. and ask his membership if they thought he was in the flesh in what he was going to suggest to them, that the membership covenant to phone every phone number in Rochester in the next four days. The women were to sit at the home, who were not allowed to spend every waking hour when they weren't doing something else, and all the men the different shifts, and they made a covenant. to take the phone book, time was wasting, and give an invitation to everybody that answered the phone, representing around 400,000 souls. Not that many families, but that many souls. And they did it. They did it. They did it. I don't know how many people I preached to over the radio. nine 15-minute programs a day for four more weeks. I won't know till I get to the judge. And that farmer who furnished the money, it was God's money, he just was a steward. But he challenged us in the past to challenge the people. Honestly, folks, I want everybody in the world to hear the gospel I preach. A multitude of people can preach it better than I can, but the man never lives who preaches a better gospel than I do. That's not boasting, that's just so. The gospel is revealed to me. Brother, I'll fight you over that. I won't fight over anything else, but I will that. If I, as a member of 13th Street Baptist Church, I'd want everybody in this whole section to hear your message. I believe in it. I believe in it, and I hope you'll get to where you believe in it enough to baptize it in tears. They that sow in tears. That's still true. I do not necessarily mean tears that run down your cheeks, but I mean tears that are in your voice and in your heart. God knows. I think we'll ask you to respond about it tomorrow night. I don't know, this may be in the flesh. I don't know of anything you've got I want, but I think we share a desire for men to hear about a God who's determined to have a family of people that love him. That's a great conception, it's the Bible conception. And I'm going to challenge you to think about it. In two days' time, I expect the membership could blanket this city at least by telephone. If you got one response out of a thousand, you'd be doing good advertising. That's what the folks who advertise on television. If one person out of a thousand buys their products, they'll keep on. They say that's getting the job done. But ours is not to get men to God. Ours is to get God's message to men. Any way on God's earth we can do it. Amen? And I don't know whether that's just me mutin' all over it. You say, well, everybody's a church member. Well, nearly everybody in America is. But that's all right. If they're saved, they won't get mad at you. And if they're not, at least you might get a little gospel over the telephone. Amen? That's right. Well, you can think about it, and I'm going to ask you what to think about tomorrow night. Tonight I'm going to speak to you, I anticipated, it rained all day, that I'd have a better opportunity tonight to speak to the 13th Street Baptist congregation, where perhaps fewer visitors than any knife, and I wanted to talk with you from the nineteenth chapter of the book of the Acts of the Apostles, the book of the Acts of the Apostles. And I wanted out of my heart to bring, if God will help me, and help me not to be in the flesh but in the Holy Ghost, to challenge my own heart afresh tonight as I try to be used of God to challenge every child of God here tonight about what to me is the greatest ambition I have, and I hope it will be the greatest ambition this Church has, and the greatest ambition that each individual Christian here has. For thirty-five years I've been trying to preach. Twenty-eight of those thirty-five have been spit, hitchhiking from one place to another. And I've wanted to be known in hell more than anything on God's earth. Long since I took steps. I won't know at the judgment whether God was in them or not. I think so. that fixed it so I'll never, as long as I live, be known much here on this earth. But I want to be known in hell. I'd rather be known in hell than to be known by the powers that be here on this earth. And I want to read to you tonight about a man who was known in hell. And this man has been divinely ordained to be the pattern that you are to shape your life by. This man's a man by the name of Paul, and he tells us in Timothy that God saved him as a pattern for all who should hereafter believe. And I want to be like Paul. That's the reason I've never been able to go on a pension and never have got like him. If I ever do, it's still out in the future. Paul was known in hell. The devil knew about Paul. The demons that do his business here on this earth now, they knew about Paul. Let's read about him, a man who was known in hell, in the eighth verse of the nineteenth And he, that's Paul, went into the synagogue and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. And when divers were hardened and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, He departed from them and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Taranus. People told me, all of my ministry, Brother Barnes, if you hope to be a successful evangelist, you must never engage in anything that's controversial. But Paul did. He was down after three years just arguing and spitting all the time about who Jesus was, as he was. And then God says, well, now I won't preach on anything controversial. Every inch of ground in the Word of God is the subject of controversy now. You can't touch the Bible any way on God's earth now without getting in a fight in this religious world. And the Apostle Paul, who's to be our example, he spent three months, I think I said three years, three months, disputing and persuading of the things concerning the kingdom of God, and they wouldn't listen to him. And he went and took the disciples and went down to a school, and daily he disputed, he argued with people, he taught them, he brought truth there in that school. And he did that for two years. Verse 10 says this, continued for the space of two years, so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the words of the Lord Jesus. both Jews and Greeks. Now, that's some minister, wasn't it? In two years' time, the whole outfit heard the word of the Lord Jesus. And God, now watch it now. Now, get this carefully. Paul did the disputing. Paul did the persuading. Paul did the teaching. Paul did the persuading for two years, and then God did something. God confirmed what Paul preached. God has to do the confirming, and that's what I long to see in my day. God confirmed it. Now, don't get excited. I've been in this quite a while. I'm not fixing to go off on a tangent. I'm going to keep on God willing. I think I can almost promise you this as one preacher, I'm going to stick to my last. If there's any miracle working done around my ministry, God will do it. I'm going to keep preaching. That's all I can do. I can dispute and persuade concerning the things of the kingdom of God. That's what Paul did. And while Paul was taking the truth of God about Jesus Christ, God came on the scene and he wrought special miracles. by the hands of Paul. Now, I want you not to get scared of this, but I want to call your attention to some of this. Now, we need it. God knows I need it. We are awfully afraid that we're going to give man a little glory, and that's a well-intentioned proposition to be afraid of. But I call your attention, my friends, that the three times that the message of salvation has to do with the turning or converting of men and women, it is a turning and a converting that is performed by men. God called Paul to turn the Gentiles by his ministry. Isn't that right? And God raised up John the Baptist to prepare a people, isn't that right, that would receive Christ. And in the book of Hebrews, at chapter eleven, God isn't quite as afraid where he'll make a theological mistake as some of us. He gives Abraham credit. He said by faith Abraham did things. Abraham did some things. Yes, sir. God did it, but he did it using the hands of Paul, do you see it? I don't know what we all camped there for a long time. Don't you get mad at me. But those of us who speak much of the sovereign purpose of God better watch out now. Here's something else that's true, that God's sovereign purposes ought to be worked out through surrendered men and women whom he owns, and whom he commissions, and whom he empowers. That's right. It's not too far till we can get into the position of our old primitive Baptist people. God wants to convert the heathen. He can do it without our help. No, sir. They shocked me some years ago when I needed to be shocked that God wrought special miracles. He's one did the miracle, weren't he? But ladies and gentlemen, he did it. by the hands of Paul. Yes, he did. Yes, he did. Here's a man that God could work miracles through him, using him. God brought special miracles with the hands of Paul. And here's some miracles in a way, so much so that from the body of Paul were brought under the sick handkerchiefs, or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them, and God did the miracle working, but he did it by the hands and the body of Paul. Now a sovereign God has been pleased to entrust the gospel to earthen vessels. A sovereign God for this age has been pleased to entrust the working out of his eternal purpose to us who have this treasure in earthen vessels. And what God does now in this day of grace, ladies and gentlemen, he does not do it apart from, but he does do it through his people. A lost sheep will never be saved apart from a saved sheep seeking. God seeks lost sheep now through saved sheep. That's right. That's right. I've had the desire all week, don't get mad at me, to stick a pin in you folks and get you on fire. I'm not one bit interested in orthodoxy unless it's sitting on a fire. I want us to get on fire. I want us to have something afresh. This isn't new. I'm calling remembered things you already know. But I say to you that we need, as under God I have to have it, and I think maybe you do, in the name of God. Will you face it that God Almighty has entrusted the gospel of the glory of his grace to people like us? And we mustn't let it stop with us. We must just be channels. And we must be on the lookout for every opportunity for God to bring things to pass by our hands, by our hands. Now, in verse 13, certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus. They were as orthodox as all get out. These fellows said they took it upon themselves. Now watch it. They took it upon themselves. God didn't entrust it to them, but he asked his people. They took it upon themselves to call out over them which had evil spirits. Now that's good. But they said, now you evil spirit, you get out. And they did it on the authority, or they took it upon themselves to do it, on the authority of the name of the Lord Jesus. We abjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches. And these fellows that did that were seven sons of one Sheba. And he is a Jew and chief of the priests, they are the ones that took it upon themselves. I'm not talking to you tonight about taking something on yourself. I'm talking to you and me tonight about facing up afresh to something we didn't take on ourselves, but which was entrusted to us, was entrusted to us. and under God the cry of our heart. If we're doing everything that we as individuals know, and as a church gathered together know, from the preacher on down, to faithfully proclaim the things concerning the Kingdom of God, ladies and gentlemen, you can call us whatever you want. Our churches had better face this now. You'd better get to where you know what it is to wait on God in intercessory prayer for God as it pleases him today to confirm what we're preaching. We can't confirm it. Only God can confirm it. Only God can do things with it, and I don't want God to do anything he don't want to do. But under God, if the cheap way God is glorified is in the saving of helpless sinners, under God I'd love to see a revival where a thousand are saved. Well, one's saved now, wouldn't you? That wouldn't make God mad. These seven sons of Sceva, they said now to these people, these spirits, they attempted to bring the name of Jesus into society there, and they said to these evil spirits, you get out in the name of this Jesus whom Paul preaches. You get out. And verse 15 says, And the evil spirit answered, And this mocks me today, this mocks me, this haunts me today. The evil spirit answered and said to these seven sons of Sceva, Jesus, I know. I've had some dealings with him. He's given me a good deal of trouble, this evil spirit said. And then he said, Paul, I know, that I'm acquainted with him too, that he'd given me a right smart trouble too. Then he said, what I think Satan must be asking of us today, God help us. Who are you? Why should we pay attention to what you say? Now, these seven sons said, you can do it in the name of Jesus. One thing, to have it all fixed up, this is truth. And they went at it in the name of truth, in the name of Jesus, they said, you get out of there. There's just one thing they lacked. They lacked authority. They lacked power. And so the evil spirit just made fun of them. And he said, Jesus, I know, but you don't speak with his voice. And Paul, I know. I don't know who you are. Who are you? Who are you? It's a fact. Whether it be in the will of God, I'm not certain. But it's a fact that you and I are living in a generation that hardly knows we are around. It's a fact that we are dead sure not troubling Satan much. It's a fact. It's a fact. I'm not here to preach on demonology tonight, but if you don't believe Ashland's infested with demons, ask your policeman. Ask your doctors. Ask your chief of police. Ask your sheriff. I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, we little dream of the awful bondage that Satan has this generation of hell-bound sinners in. And I am a novice at it. and don't know how to go about it, and everybody says, don't go off on the deep end, and I guess I'll keep round on the edges and let the world go to hell. But we as church people today seem to know nothing hardly about the binding of Satan and the loosing of his captives. But there's something in the Bible about And I'm as certain as I'm preaching to you tonight that unless we can find some churches that'll begin to take seriously the battle that we're in. We are not battling men. We are battling principalities and strongholds of saints. And old man Caldwell said to me a hundred times, and you've heard him preaching, I expect he said it to you. Ladies and gentlemen, the only spirit that can handle the spirit of this age is the Holy Spirit. And it's time we quit giving lip service to it. Our churches must be turned. Not simply to places where the truth is proclaimed, but in the places where the warfare is pursued against the principalities and powers that abound this evil age to where our gospel falls off of them like water off a duck's back. They're blind as bats and bound as they can be, and they'll never be saved. unless they are loosed from the bondage of Satan. I take my, I take back water from no man. I've tried to stay with what little truth I could learn. But the older I get, the more heartbroken I am that we seem to think that truth is the answer. Truth and the power of the Holy Spirit is the answer, and only God can furnish the latter. Here we are, in a demon-infested city, if you please, with man blinded by the God of this hand and foot by Satan to the power of sin. And it'll take more than truth, brother. It'll take the gospel preached in the Holy Ghost. The gospel preached in the power of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost sent down from heaven to confirm by whatever miracles he pleases. I don't know nothing about that. But that's got to be our priority. Methods we used five years ago are five years too old now, honey. We're in the And we're getting licked, because we've not yet learned that a Christian is truer to himself, he's truer to the gospel, on his knees, than any other place. For years you've heard it here, that when Christians get down on their knees to pray, they all believe what you folks try to preach. They get up on their feet, and their little old weak heads, they'll come in to argue and doctrine. But when they get down on our knees, we recognize the salvations of the Lord that only God can say. We all do that. We all do that. Here's a man that I earned the highest accolade that I've ever heard spoken of a human being. The forces of hell knew Paul. Jesus I know, and Paul I know. Henry, who are you? Ralph, who are you? We're not going to handle this generation in the way that God expects us to handle it. then we'll leave the results with him, we'll have to do that, unless we take more seriously than we've ever taken in our lives the fact that the truth of God must be baptized in the Spirit of God, and that every member of our churches that's heard the true gospel is a criminal if they do not get on a stump having been filled with the Spirit, and begin to preach these things concerning the kingdom of God with a prayer in our hearts, that God will confirm what we preach. Paul was known in hell. They knew about him in hell. You know, sir, he is a preacher that hell had no rest while Paul was alive. These demons said, that fellow Paul, he worries us to death. Who are you? You never have given us any trouble. Eh? If a man has a life, does he put it under a bushel or no? Ladies and gentlemen, if God in goodness brought you into the light of the gospel of the glorious God, set it up on a hill and let it shine. Don't hide it under a bushel. I thought I was going to get shot in New Orleans. People tell me about that church had the truth. They go out and tell people who wasn't in Bondtown had the truth with them, and I shocked them. I said, it's not so in the first place. No man ever had all truth. We got some of it. None of us got enough of it, but what, we'd better be humble about what little we do? No, that's right, isn't it? And then I said that God has promise that truth will get the job done. The apostle Paul just relied on one thing, that he might preach in the power and the demonstration. God would have to furnish the demonstration. That's confirmation, and that's the need of this hour. You could not find a better prepared and better preacher thirty-seven years old than your own pastor. But he ain't good enough to get the job done without a church that learns how to not be satisfied until God confirms the message. I doubt if Brother Henry can preach any better than Brother Spurgeon. and the heart of his congregation ever got to hear him preach, there's in the prayer room underneath the pulpit waiting on God every time he preached. Three hundred souls on their knees before God every time Mr. Spurgeon preached, all the time he preached. for a confirming word from God. Who alone can pierce the spirits of men? Who alone can take the scales off of men's eyes? Who alone can energize the perverted wills of men? Who alone can illumine the darkened minds of men? who alone can break the awful, awful hellish hearts of men, who alone can make the revelation real to men and women. Paul was known in hell. I think the imps in hell Got on the telephone every time Paul started somewhere else. One little imp phoned down Thessalonica, boys, you better get ready. Paul's on his way. I wish that so were me. I wish I knew how to give that devil more trouble than he ever gave me until right now. Oh, Paul never did let the demons rest. He invaded their territory and hell knew no peace. while he is alive. I've tried to think about him. Where did he sharpen his edge? I know how far ashore I fall, and I'm not fussing with anybody. I'm challenging you, and I'm challenging me. God knows that battle is red hot. It's red hot. You don't think it is. Get off your comfortable seat of truth and invade the devil's territory sometime. And begin to witness. You'll find out the war's on. Find out the war's on. Find out. Where did Paul edge his blade, make it so sharp? And I've tried to study what the Scriptures say about him, and I think I see just four things, and the introduction's been longer than the message. First thing about old Paul is, he actually—short enough now—he actually, K-N-E-W, knew that Jesus Christ was God's Son. and that he had invaded this old earth, and that he is God's only remedy. Now, here's a man that the Holy Spirit vouchsafed a look at the crucified, risen Christ. And what Paul saw on the road to Damascus was not a picture of the glorified Son of God. of the crucified Jesus. And he found out that the very person he'd been seeing was the bastard son of a fallen woman. He found out that that Jesus that he'd said he ought to, he got what was coming to him, he found out by personal sight and by personal hearing, he heard his voice and he saw it. And Paul never could be shaken. Come hell to high water, Paul knew one thing. He knew that Jesus was the Christ. Ladies and gentlemen, we just worked camp here a little while. What mama thinks about it will not get the job done. In God's name, don't go to hell trusting anything less. any first-hand knowledge of who Jesus is. I'm telling you, if Jesus is God's son, that settles everything. And a man's a fool to go to hell taking anybody's word for it. I say to you, you ought to become a seeker after God until God reveals his son to you, just like he did to Paul. You say that's one thing I know, bud. I know who Jesus is. He's the eternal Son of God. I saw him, and I heard him. I think you preach around here, don't you, that salvation is a seeing and a hearing of Christ? We hear him. We're saved by his call. We're saved by our look at him. They're the same thing. Listen to me. Paul saw him, and he heard him. And under God, if I was you, I'd quit calling myself a Christian. I'd seek him if it took the rest of my life until I could stand up and say, I've heard him too. I've seen him too. You can tap your Bible, Brother Ronnie, but you can't tap one thing if you've heard the Lord. And if you've seen the Lord, that settles it, Brother. That settles it. Oh, my soul, you'll never get bigger than what you can believe. You'll never get bigger than what you can act upon on the testimony of God. And you and I don't have a Damascus road, but we've got the revelation of God in Christ. And I'm saying to you that nothing short of a subtle knowledge that you have yourself that Jesus Christ is God. manifest in the flesh, that it was God in a man who died on a cross, that God did raise him from the dead, that he's alive now, and I can in old W know it. I know it. I know it. I can't know it for anybody else, but under God I know it for myself. Hard to shake a man that's seen the Lord. Hard to shake a man that's heard from the Lord. Brother, that's got to be tremendous, and that's what it means to be saved. I think that the second thing that teemed the edge of Paul's blade, made him known in hell, was that revealed truth. This book, if you please, revealed truth, held him like a vice. Ladies and gentlemen, here's a man, and he's to be my patent, who actually believed this was God's Word. He's just shown up lately. Now, I'm not just preaching now, I'm down for something. It's a whole lot easier to talk about this to do. Under God, do you have any greater need, I don't, than to actually believe what this book says. Not to argue about it, just to believe it. This is it. This is God's Word. Paul believed it. Brother, he quoted it all the time. He got out of a tidy as in by quoting it. He actually believed it. He'd say, I'm persuaded. He said, it's a settled thing with me on the testimony of God. That settles it. I'm persuaded. I'm persuaded. I don't know about you, but I'm persuaded. I've listened to God's testimony. That settles it for me. I wouldn't stake my eternal welfare on something you said. I've got to have some belief that it's on God's testimony I've put my faith in Jesus Christ. Somebody wrote a book, and I read a sentence of it. I forget the book or the man's name. He said someday a simple child of God is going to pick up the book and read it. Just believe in it. Make the rest of us ashamed of ourselves. Just believe in it. Just believe. Reveal truth. Just held him in a vice. Kept him steady in the boat. Couldn't shake him. He said, I'm persuaded. It's settled. I know whom I believe. It's all settled with me. Knowing, therefore, the terror of God. He knew something about it, the testimony of this book. He believed the book. And that's the reason he'll pray when he's asking the people to pray with all prayer and supplication. For all the saints in the needle say for me that I may be granted utterance, utterance, that I may speak with boldness the mystery of the gospel, utterance. Somebody has said that the greatest contribution that John Knox made to Scotland when he saved Scotland for the gospel. It was one time when the multitude 5,000 strong were in that great church, I forget the name of it, Cathedral, to hear him preach. And they waited, and finally Mr. Knox came out from the cubbyhole and stood up before the congregation and said, We shall all rise, please. He said, We'll be dismissed. I have no utterance." And he dismissed them and sent them away. Rather than preach to them out of himself, he dismissed them. Utterance in the Bible means authority. And what gave Paul authority when he went out, as maybe some of you will do tomorrow, to give a witness to somebody? He spoke with authority because he believed this was it. There's no doubt about it. Unless we can speak with authority, this world's in bad enough shape that it don't need some more question marks. They need somebody to speak with authority. Paul said, pray for me, that utterance shall be given to me. Don't let this just be the public preacher. God knows, elect yourself a committee of one. Pray for one another that assurance may be given to all of God's people in these awful days, that they may speak with boldness the mystery of the gospel with authority. This is it. This is God's Word. I never get tired of reading that account of Paul when he writes back to the church at Thessalonica. And he reminds them that when he was over there, something took place that I long to see again and again and again. In the second chapter of the first book of Thessalonians, at the thirteenth verse, the apostle Paul says, For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because when you receive the word of God, which ye heard of us, is the word of God, and Paul said, I preached it, and ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth the word of God. Paul said, I came over there and brought you the word of God, and you received it not as my word, but as God's word. You have to have utterance to do that. You have to have authority to do that. You have to know what you're talking about. You have to believe this book. This is God's truth. A man who trusts his life and his destiny to anybody except on the testimony of God is a fool. And Paul said, I came over and preached, and was praying for him. And he had utterance, and he spoke with authority. And people heard it not as the word of men, but they heard it as the word of God, which it is in truth. And the word of God does what? It effectually worketh also in you that believe. Utterance, utterance. I think my time's already gone. Let me just mention two other things, I won't preach on them, I'll let you go. What keened the edge of Paul's blade? Why was he known in hell? Why did Caryl Carroll have much trouble? Demons say, we know you. Don't know those seven sons of Sceva, don't know about old Ralph Barnett, he spent his life going down to London, haven't been able to kick up enough dust to bother the devil much, but Paul I know." Well, not only because he knew Jesus, he really knew him, and he believed the Word, but also he was learned about the destiny of sinners. Knowing, therefore, the terror of God, we persuade men. Come on now. Come on. We persuade men. We persuade men. We persuade men. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. nor by faith, nor being warned of God of things not yet seen, moved with fear and prepared in heart, scared him, he ran scared.