Amen. Well, it's a joy to be here. I'm telling the pastor I had to be in Asheville this morning. I've been on the road all day, it seems like. I feel like I've been to Egypt and back. Of course, if you've been to Asheville, you've been to Egypt. That's about the truth of it. It's called, they're making reference to it being the San Francisco of the East Coast and trying to make what they have out on the West Coast what we will have here. But anyway, I thought I had everything lined up and on our timing and everything. That didn't hardly work out, and it very seldom ever does. But anyway, I appreciate you going on, carrying on the service, and felt the presence of the Lord when I walked in. Amen. I appreciate that. A lot of times you can go to a service and be there two or three hours and not feel the presence of the Lord. It's good to be in the house of God. Amen. And I was telling the pastor, I know when we booked the meeting that I told him that I'd be here, plan to be here. We booked Monday through Friday. But I really felt impressed that I needed to be at our church last night. And I didn't mean to throw y'all in a tailspin or cause any problems there. But I definitely needed to be there. And the Lord did a great work. In our church, we've had some people that's, you know, had that far away look in their eye. Still coming to church, they're there bodily, but that's it. Hello. I'm not going to ask your pastor if he has any like that. But I about know every pastor does. They're there bodily, but they're not there spiritually. I wonder how many, don't raise your hand, but I wonder how many here tonight is here bodily. but you're not here spiritually. You've been in the service the whole time, physically, but where's your mind been? Did you know you cannot worship God without your mind? Now I know that's just a simple statement, but that's the truth. And I'm not talking about, you know, unconscious. I'm talking about being in here physically, but your mind's elsewhere. Are you listening? Now the preacher, see the preacher can't just come in and sit down on a pew and rear back and enjoy the cushion. He's got to have his mind on the service. He's got to have his mind on what's going on. But a member or just someone sitting in the pew can slide in there after a day's work, wore out, tired, sit on that comfortable pew and your mind can be watching TV, your mind can be listening to a country song or a rock song, or kids can be playing a video game in their mind. Hello. You can be catching a fish in your mind. It happens in church. Amen. Of course, if I went to some of the churches that people go to, I believe I'd just about soon be sitting on a bank catching a fish. But I'm not talking about being on a bank catching a fish. I'm talking about being on a pew catching a fish. Say amen right there. How many Sunday morning services... I'm preaching good already. How many Sunday morning services have the legs cut out from under it because people sit there while the man of God preaches thinking, where are we going to go eat after service? Amen. You can't worship God without the engagement of your mind, the involvement of your mind. And I prayed there a while ago, Lord bring in the wonderings of our mind. Captivate our attention. God's got to have your attention. Amen. Is He speaking to us tonight? Can I have your attention, please? That's what the word behold means. Behold, behold I stand at the door and knock. What's he saying with the word behold? Can I have your attention please? Amen. Does he have your attention tonight? Does he have our attention? Outside this church, at home, at work, does he have our attention? Amen. I believe Paul knew what he was talking about when he said, to be carnally minded is death. You know, we independent Baptists, you know, we've confined carnality to just be a two or three item subject. You know, I'll tell you right now, I'm not carnal. I dress right. And I believe you should. But you can dress right and be as worldly and carnal as you can be. Amen. Well, I tell you, I don't do this and that. Well, you can have a bunch of don'ts in your life and still be carnal. Some of the most wicked, trouble-causing people that I've ever had in the ministry had a bunch of do's and don'ts in their life. Yeah, people wasn't trippin' over the lady's dress, they was trippin' over her tongue. Your dress don't impress me if you've got a forked tongue ten foot long. Critical gossip, tailbearing, always stirring up strife. Amen preacher! Well, amen. That's good already. God helped us to be involved in the house of God mentally. Amen. You ought to try to get prepared for church before you get here. Amen. Mentally. Get your mind right. Get your heart right. Amen, it's hard to do that, you know, if you don't get in prayer and just get in somewhere. You know, most times Sunday mornings is such a hassle and a rush and, you know, just a rush, rush. If you're not careful, that's the way you'll come through them doors in that same gear and that same mentality. And, you know, God says be still. and know that I'm God. Sometimes we need to just get quiet before the Lord and let God help us tonight. Amen. Well, I know without a doubt God wants me to preach out this. Matthew chapter number 11. If you'll open your Bibles there, please. And we'll look at this passage of Scripture together tonight. A very familiar passage, but I trust that God will help us to not allow the familiarity of the Scripture tonight to rob us of attention. The Bible said in verse 28 of Matthew's Gospel, chapter number 11, come unto me, this is Jesus speaking now, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you And learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Let's pray. Father, thank you for the reading of your precious, inspired, infallible, preserved Word of God. We thank you for that today. We pray, Lord, that you will help us tonight, Lord, to be mindful, sensitive, and be directed, Lord, of the Holy Spirit. Lord, I pray that you'll get on us tonight, Lord, with that unction that makes preaching challenging, that Lord puts conviction in our life, puts a desire in us, Lord, to want to turn from sin and carnality and flesh and self and turn unto you and to follow you as a sheep and as a disciple, Lord, unashamed of you. Lord, I pray that you will help us tonight. Dear God, to get personal tonight with this church. Lord, I know that general truth will not be responded to, but personal truth will. So I pray that you will challenge us tonight, confront us, deal with us, stir us up, Lord. Do that that will produce lasting fruit in our life. May there be evidence and may there be fruit at the judgment seat of Christ out of this service tonight. Lord, may we all pray tonight that we will never be the same as a result of the service tonight. Not because of personalities, not because of any particular person's presence, but because you come and because you moved in this place and we responded. It's one thing, Lord, for you to move. It's one thing for you to speak. It's one thing, Lord, for you to work. But it's another for us to yield. It's another, Lord, for us to say, yes, Lord. I pray you help us tonight. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Of course, I'm not going to preach on these, but there are three words here that stand out that are very important, and I'm just really going to look at one of them tonight. There is the word come, take, and learn. Note those three words. Those three words identify responsibility. Come, take, and learn. All three of these words are in the active voice. So what does that mean? That means the subject is the doer of the action. Amen. Who's the subject? You are. The one he's talking to. Come unto me. That is, you do it. Take my yoke upon you. That is, you do it. Say amen right there. Learn of me. That is, you do it. You know why we don't have revival? We're not doing what God is telling us that it's our responsibility to do. Write it down in your heart. Revival is a responsibility subject. Amen! Deadness comes in the church. Distance comes in the church. Defilement comes in a church when we fail to be responsible. I make this little statement everywhere I go. I've made it for years. And it's been one statement, I guess, probably has done as much to stir our church as any one statement. And that is, it's a happy day in your life when you realize that your spirituality is your responsibility. I've had people that's been in church for years upon years. Other churches came and hear that statement. And they said, preacher, we've never heard that before. We've never thought of it in that fashion. How many church folk think it's the preacher's business for you to be spiritual? That's why a lot of preachers have ulcers. Say amen right there. I'm a victim of ulcers. That's why preachers, many of them are about two inches from quitting, is because they're not only carrying their own load and trying to maintain their own spirituality, but they're trying to carry the spirituality of the church, they're trying to carry the spirituality of the young people, they're trying to carry the spirituality of the ladies, and also the men. And God never intends, you hear me now, God never intends for one person to be spiritual enough for two people. Hello! Write it down, friend, that comes straight off the press. I'll have to write that down when I get home, if I don't forget it. God never expects one person to try to carry the spirituality of two people or more. Because when you try to do that, then you've spread out and your spirituality is suffering. I think the Shulamite had it right in Song of Solomon chapter 1. Other vineyards have I kept, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. You're not careful. Mamas, you'll get so busy with your children and watching after them, and that is your job, and that is your ministry, and that is your responsibility. But if you're not careful, your spirituality will go out the window. Daddy's if you're not I didn't get up here to preach none of this Hey, man, I'm telling you when you if you're not careful, you'll be so busy. You're doing what's right Amen providing for your family provided for your home at this if you're not careful business will produce backsliding I've often said it and I believe it that if the devil can't get you back slid He'll just get you busy and accomplish the same thing. I I believe that, don't you? Amen. Amen. Young people, if you're not careful, you'll get so distracted. You'll get so preoccupied with other things. Amen. And before you know it, look around and you're wondering where in the world God is in your life. Amen. Responsibility. I can preach right there, and I'll tell you what, your flesh don't like it. My flesh don't like it. I want that spirituality that's automatic. But I haven't found that in the Bible. Amen? Hey, write it down. You'll never be spiritual accidentally. It'll never be accidental that you're spiritual. Your spirituality will be intentional when you on purpose make choices that is conducive to your spiritual life. Amen. That's right. Hello. Amen, Jesus. Help us now. That's right, isn't it? Amen. Our churches would have so much power in it that sinners couldn't stand it. Like Psalms 1 presents, that sinners cannot stand in the congregation of the righteous. There ought to be so much light in here that people of darkness can't stand it. They'll either have to get in or get out. It's not that we run them off, it's that they're so convicted, and that they're so condemned by the light of God's Word, and the holiness of His presence, that they can't stand it, and they have to get right. Where's the conviction at in our church? Sinners, in fact, sinners, most of the time, when they leave the church, they can shake our hand and say, we enjoyed it. You know what that is? A slap in the face when sinners can come in and listen to holy music, holy songs, listen to holy Sunday school lessons, listen to holy preaching. And my friend, about the holy Son of God and the holiness of God. And they can enjoy it. You know why? We're missing that old time Holy Ghost conviction. Sinners don't mind us having good services. Y'all better just perk up now, amen? Because I didn't get up here to say none of what I've been saying. Amen? Are you listening? Oh yes, friend! They don't mind us having good singing and they don't mind it being somewhat lively. Now they don't want no conviction. They don't want none of that. They can't handle that. Amen? God help us. Well, that's right. I'm gonna try to get off of that, but listen. On that responsibility, come take and learn. Responsibility. You know what? If we would do what we already know we're supposed to do, we would have revival. We wouldn't be trying to have revival, we would be having revival. Most revival meetings is geared to try to get God's people to do what they already know they are supposed to do. Amen. I don't know what y'all are feeling, but I'm feeling the presence of God. I'm feeling the amen of God. I'm feeling the yes sir, preach, preacher of God in my soul. Amen. I want to tell you, friend. Come on, preacher. Amen. Amen. We welcome the Holy Ghost. Amen. Oh, I want to tell you tonight, you do not sin in ignorance. You sin with knowledge. What do you mean, preacher? You know what shape you're in, and you know why. You, none of us in here will ever have to come to the altar and say, Lord, you're dealing with me, but I don't know about what. One lady come to the altar one time, told the preacher, said, Lord's dealing with me, just like I said. Lord's dealing with me, but I don't know about what. He said, well get in the altar and guess at it. She got in the altar, a few minutes, she stood up, glowing, shouting, crying, said, whoo! Preacher said, how is it? She said, I guessed it, first thing. We know what's wrong. Amen. We know when we say what we shouldn't say. We know when we do what we shouldn't do. We know that. Amen. We know that. The Holy Ghost lets us know that. This church, my church, any church needs revival because people willingly does what they know they're not supposed to do. Praise God for this church. It's a good church. I guarantee there's some people in this church that belong to this church. You're not right with God and you know it. And probably the truth is other people knows it. It's hard for you to not be right with God or to be wrong with God and keep it personal and keep it private. It'll get out on you. Amen. Amen. Your family will know it. Amen. I heard a man say one time, he's stupid when he said it. I'm not sin. You know what I said? I will let your wife testify. Yeah. We know what 1 John said, he that saith he hath sin is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Amen. You know, hey, if we had people getting older than that and deal with the bad attitudes they already know exist in them. deal with the offenses that they already know is in their life and hindering them spiritually. If they'd go ahead and just get in the altar and do it, we wouldn't have to preach five nights to try to get God's people right. We could be preaching to sinners and see them get saved. When people gets right, I said it the other night and it's all through the Word of God, when people gets right, people get saved. Amen. When there's a revival of repentance, getting right with God, coming clean with God, getting rid of the inner sin, the private sin, the secret sin, the mental sin, the social sin, getting rid of the sin of omission. That is sin that we're omitting the things that we should be doing, that we're not doing. Him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin. and then get right about the sins of commission. That is the sins that we know is wrong and good. Amen. That's right. I made a statement similar to that in a church not long ago in Revival. And I was just starting to preach. And I said something along those lines. You know, you know, hey, there's no need for us to go on. There's no need for us to go on in another night or even go on in this service. You know what's wrong. Why don't you deal with it? I mean right now, why don't you deal with it? You know what's wrong with you. Why don't you deal with it? Boy, they started popping up everywhere, going to the altar, weeping and crying, getting right with God. Needless to say, I didn't get to preach that night. I was going to preach to sinners, and I made an appeal before I even read my scriptures, and I told everybody, I said, I'm going after sinners tonight. And I know it's in vain to go after sinners if God's people's crossed up with one another, if there's somebody wrong with the pastor, if there's hard feelings in the church, amen? If there's ladies crossed up with each other, if there's men crossed up with each other, if there's young people crossed up with each other, Amen? Are you listening? The Holy Spirit of God will trip over a bad attitude. The Holy Spirit of God can so easily be offended by a bad attitude, harboring ill will, harboring hurt feelings toward a fellow brother or sister. It will grieve the Holy Ghost and hinder God working. Say amen right there. I'm on target. I don't have to have nobody in here telling me amen. I know by the witness of the Spirit of God I'm on target right now. No doubt about it. Amen. Yes sirree. Probably some of that crowd's not even here tonight. Willfully laying out of the house of God. I don't know that. I don't go to church here. I know, I've been in this thing long enough. I've been pastor long enough and pastoring long enough too, amen. I know, buddy, how people can get when they get crossed up with the church and the direction of the church and the leadership of the church, then you have revival, they'll stay at home. Or if they do come, they'll plop down on a pew and make it very evident that they're bulled up and blowed up like a big bullfrog. You ever seen that? They don't care. Yeah, you look real spiritual. I guarantee there's at least a hundred sinners want what you've got. Amen? We need a revival of maturity. People growing up, being responsible. Amen? It's your responsibility to pray. It's your responsibility to respond to the commands of God. It's your responsibility to deal with sin when it gets in your life. Amen. I could stop now and give an altar call, I think. I didn't get up here to say none of those things. Amen. But I know when the Holy Spirit is whispering in my soul, say these things, do this, go this direction. Amen. Amen. Somebody better get in. Better get right. I'd hate to stand before a holy God and Him let me know. And that may be a part of the judgment seat of Christ. He let us know on what He intended to do, what He wanted to do, what He desired to do, but was hindered to do. I'd hate to face Him with this revival effort. And y'all got Brother Alfred Willis coming next week. Who is it you got Sunday? Brother Rain Sunday. What a line-up. What an opportunity to have an old-fashioned, heaven-sent revival. that would shake this part of the country. Do you realize that God... I know y'all have had some great meetings. Did you know this could be potentially the greatest meeting you've ever had? Am I going way out into the realm of impossibility if I said that God could save a hundred people in this revival? Would that be so far out that it's unreasonable and it's not even possible? God can save. He don't have a problem of saving. He has a problem of people. Working through people. God works through people. And when we're wrong and we're crossed up and we're not what we need to be, then that limits God. You wouldn't, oh my soul, help me Lord. We may preach from Dan to Beersheba tonight, amen. You wouldn't get in the way of a fire truck, would you? Coming down the road, lights are flashing, sirens going off. Would you purposely get in front of them, slow down, or else pull crossways in the road? You say that would be a fool to hinder an emergency worker. Would you get in the way of an ambulance? Would you get in the way of a rescue squad trying to get to an emergency? No! You've done it and I've done it. Pull over to the side of the road. Make sure the way is clear. But God is on a much greater task. He's trying to obtain something far greater. And how many of God's people are in the way, bulled up, and blowed up, and mad, and got the poochie lip, and wanting their way, and selfish, amen. Eat up with self-importance. I can't believe that they would do me that way. Have they done you worse than Jesus was done? Wait a minute, we might as well just preach right there. Have you been done worse than the way that you have done Jesus? I never have had anybody do me worse than I have done Christ. Say amen right there. That's right. Lord help me Jesus, I'm trying to mind the Lord. I don't know. God's trying to break in this thing tonight. Are you listening? I'm not scattered. I didn't come in here half cocked. God met with me coming up the road. I knew exactly, I've known, actually I've known since Tuesday night what God wanted me to preach tonight. I like it when I'm preaching one message and while I'm preaching one message, God gives me the hmm of what he wants me to go next. I like it. That don't happen often, but it's been happening here. The first night, I knew clearly what God wanted me to preach. While I was preaching, God gave me that nudge of what He wanted me to preach Tuesday night. Tuesday night, God showed me what He wanted me to preach next. I'm not rambling. I'm not rambling. I guarantee you, there's some people in here that think I am rambling and wish that I'd get on what I originally planned. You say, boy, it's hot in here preaching. No, it ain't hot in here. It may be getting hot on your pew. We want revival, we just don't want to get right. There's not a person in here or a person that belongs in this church that would verbally stand and say, I don't want revival, I don't want to see revival, I hope we never have revival. Never would say that. But they don't want to change. They want the effects of revival, they want the emotions of revival, but they don't want the change. Amen. Well, I don't know where to go now. Some of you done got your wagon loaded. Help us Lord, and it ain't funny. What I was laughing at was how God can just park and load us up and get right in our face and deal with us and speak to us. Amen? That's what, I'm not here, and you know that, I'm not here at all to impress you. And you're not wanting me to do that, and I'm not wanting to do that. I'm not here to just give out a little sermonette. Go through a little outline, give an illustration or two, and go home. I'm interested in God dealing with us personally. I want the doctor, when I go to the doctor, I want him to deal with me. I don't want him to come in and talk about the patients down the hallway. What good is that? What good is that? You would never go back to a doctor like that, would you? Come on now. Amen. I believe God's gotten personal tonight. I tell you what I believe I do, and I'm not giving an invitation as such, but I'm telling you what I believe I do. If God's done rung your door knob, door, door, what is it? Doorbell, thank you brother. If God's already knocking at your door and letting you know, hey I have got your number. God's letting you know, hey, I've done hymned you up, I've been on your trail, and a man of God has come in here, don't know nothing about nothing, and he has preached and read your mail already. You know what you ought to do? You ought to get right with God. You need to get right with God. I've seen it happen. I've seen it just similar like this right here. I've seen God break in and apologies start. I've seen parents apologizing to their children's Sunday school teachers because they drug around on Sunday morning and hindered their children from getting into a class that had a teacher that had prayed and studied and come ready. And the parents didn't think enough of the class to get their children in there. I've seen that. I've seen them apologize to the preacher. I've seen different ones, singers in the church, sing, apologize one to another due to jealousy. Revival's not far away. It's just on the other side of getting right. It's just on the other side of getting right with God. Amen. You get wrong, you're responsible for that. You're not wrong because of what somebody else does. You're wrong because you responded wrong. What you do should not affect my spirituality. And vice versa. But if you're wrong with God tonight, and you're crossed up in your heart with God, you know you are. This dear lady right here, you testified about that on Monday night, about last week. You knew you weren't right with God, you just, you got that thing fixed up. Probably nobody even knew that but her. Need to keep your eye on your spirituality, and when you get going in the wrong direction, you need to be responsible to deal with that. Now this is a strange service tonight. There's no strange spirit in here. I'm telling you, God is speaking to hearts. No question about it. Amen. And when I left the pew, I did not intend on saying any of these things that I've said. And I'm confident God is speaking to somebody's heart. And I don't know I'm not a prophet, neither is the son of a prophet. But I don't know what the rest of this revival is hinging on tonight. That's how serious this meeting is tonight. Brother Willis, you can't beat him. I don't think y'all have heard him. Some of you have on the internet. But I'm telling you, our people loves him. Our church would vote me out in a second and vote him in if he'd come. You will eat him alive. But if you get crossed up with God, it don't matter if you had the Apostle Paul coming in here Monday. It don't matter who's preaching. If you're not hating the Word, revival is stuck in the mud and stopped. Are you okay with that? Are you okay with this church continuing on in the way, whatever shape it's in? Are you okay with sinners coming and leaving lost? Are you satisfied with dry and dead and defeated services? God help us. Well, I don't know. Amen. Let's pray again. Father, I want your will to be done tonight. Lord, I've been in this thing long enough. And I'm not a know-it-all. I'm not a novice. Lord, you've talked to me. You've schooled me. You've let me, Lord, walk some of the paths, Lord, that we're even seeing tonight. Lord, I didn't get up here to say any of these things, but I prayed today and I prayed it tonight. Lord, get me personal with this church. Get me personal, Lord. And Father, I'm confident, Lord, just as sure as my name's what it is, that for the last few minutes, dear God, we have been... Lord, you have had us, Lord, with the crosshairs on Ridgeview Baptist Church. There's no question about it. Lord, I know, Father, I know when I'm saying things that's just guessing. But I know when I'm making statements. And I know, Lord, when you're speaking, Lord, through us. And there is a witness of the Holy Ghost to that effect. Lord, I'm praying right now that every man, and every woman, every boy, every girl in here, that's not right with God, and not right with a brother or a sister in the church, not right with a family member in this church, or outside of the church, that they'll get in their saulter and say, God, I intend tonight to be a responsible Christian. I am going to do what you have commanded for me to do. Disobedience will stop revival. Obedience will swing the door wide open in revival. Father, I pray right now that you will help everyone to be obedient. Because right now at this point, Lord, I'm not real certain exactly what you're wanting me to do. Lord, when I came in the service tonight, I thought surely this is what you wanted. But Lord, I'm confident, Lord, for the last 25-30 minutes, ever how long it's been, God, you've been speaking to me and speaking through me, Lord. If it's going to be heated, there will be help. But if it will be rejected, Lord, how serious a matter that is. Lord, if you'll show me what you want me to do, Lord, I'll do it. Lord, I'm not here, Father, to go through some particular order of service, particular... Lord, anything. We're interested. I am interested. I know this pastor, Brother Sexton. I know him well enough to know that he wants the will of God. He wants you, Lord, to come through this place confronting people, dealing with people, speaking to people, And Lord, you've put your holy finger, there's no doubt about it, you've put your holy finger on some attitudes. You've put your holy finger on, Lord, some speech sins, and Lord, some mental sins, and some folk in the service tonight that's allowed their spiritual life to get slack because their attention has went to other things. Things that really don't matter. Lord, I pray Right now, Lord, somebody is going to have the key to this service tonight. Lord, I want your will to be done. I want you to speak to us. Continue to do so. Lord, this is serious business. Lord, at this church, Lord, I feel impressed to pray. It is the truth. I know it. Lord, if this church does not have revival, a returning to God, the power of God permeating this place, the power of God permeating this place, the presence of God permeating this place, that there will in fact probably, no doubt about it, there will be sinners that will wind up in hell over it. Because I am a living example, Father, that only a revived church will reach some people. And Lord, I was one of those. When you moved through that church in that seven-week powerhouse move of God in 1981, Lord, it shook me to the foundation of my soul. You revealed to me, God, that I had a head of religion and had a baptismal certificate and had a godly heritage of parents and grandparents, but I did not have you as my Savior. And I got saved that night, bless your holy name. Lord, it took a powerful, sovereign, supernatural move of God through that church to get me and to win other people to God. Lord, this revival is not just about what you're going to do here. Lord, it's about what you're going to do through here, through this church, what you're going to do around town, what you're going to do in this area, what you're going to do through missions. If this church has revival, dear God, it's going to affect the missionary on the field. It's going to affect sinners around this area. Revival is not optional, Lord. Please help us not to treat it that way. It is not an option. It is essential, it's crucial. If we don't have revival, we are going to stand before you ashamed of the unfinished task, unreached souls, unfinished business. God, help us tonight. Your will be done, Lord. Help me, Lord, to be sensitive, God. Sensitive, God, to your Holy Ghost. Lord, we don't need performance tonight. We need power. We need the power of God. Have your way right now, in Jesus' name. I want you to keep your heads bowed, eyes closed, just for a moment. I want to ask you tonight, if there's anybody in the service that needs to do business with God, needs to do business with God, I wonder tonight, would you be responsible enough to do that? Step on your pride. Step on your pride. Preacher, what will people think about me? You may need to come to your preacher and apologize. Preacher, I've been harboring ill will. He may not even know a thing about it. But you've been harboring ill will and you're not writing your thoughts toward the man of God. I don't know. Will you be responsible tonight? Will you be responsible tonight? Anyone? If you have need of the altar, would you come? If you're here tonight and you're not saved, God has arranged the service and ordered the service and God has rearranged the service and the direction of the service to just show you that this thing is not mechanical. The things of the house of God is not a machine. It is spiritual. And God is making this service what it is to get our attention. Brother Sexton, will you pray? The Lord wants you to pray, preacher. Oh, Spirit of God. Oh, Spirit of God, please. God, please move in power, Lord. God, this meeting could break, Lord, wide open tonight, Father. Yes, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, Jesus. Lord, please, dear God. Oh, God. Oh, blessed Lord. Oh, blessed Lord Jesus. Oh, God, have your way in Jesus' name. Oh, Lord. Yes. Amen. When God's people gets right, sinners will get saved. In the stillness of this moment here, let's just be sensitive. If you need to do something, Do it. If you need to go to someone, do it. If you need to get someone to come with you to pray in the altar, feel free to do that. If you need to apologize, if children needs to apologize to parents, husband and wife needs to get right. Whatever it is, right now is the time. Right now is the time to do it. I've been many a meeting. Brother Harvey can testify and others. It's very seldom I see God confront a church like he has tonight. Very seldom that happens. And that is a window of great opportunity for this church to take a big, big step to another level spiritually. You be responsible. That's it. Revival hinges on responsibility. And if you've failed, if you've sinned against God and you're not right with God, why don't you do that tonight? Why don't you get right tonight? There's folk in the altar doing business. You know if you're right or not. I'm not your judge on that. You know if you are or not. You know if you've been reading your Bible, feeding on God's Word, praying, walking with God, you know if you've been doing that. Would you come? You may not have gotten wrong with action, it may just be thoughts. having carnal thoughts. Amen. A song later, would you pray? I don't know your name, would you pray? Yeah, God, get on him, Lord, I pray. Oh, Holy Ghost. God, move in this place of mighty power, Jesus. Oh, God, we give you the reins of the service, Lord. We give you the controls. Lord, it's not about me, Father. It's about, Lord, your will. It's about, God, what you want. God, you have your way, Lord. Lord, this is not a reputation issue, Lord. It don't matter, Lord, what people think about me or what it makes me look like. I'm not the least bit interested in that, Lord. I want you to have your way. Lord, I want people to be in this service, be confronted of the Holy Ghost, do business with you, Lord. Oh, God. Oh, God, please. Lord, please, dear God, work mightily in this service. Yes. Oh, Spirit of God. Jesus' holy name. Yes, Lord. Folks doing business in the altar, be still and know that I'm God. God's got our attention tonight. All we need now is to give Him our action. Respond. Deal with whatever it is that we need to deal with. You young people, you may have a key to this service tonight. How's your spiritual life? Are you intimate and close with God? Would you come tonight if God's speaking to your heart? If God's working in your heart? Brother Harvey, would you pray, brother? God wants you to pray. Well, at least pray and let God speak to you now. You come to the altar if you need to. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Oh, God. Oh, God, have Your way, Jesus. Holy Ghost, I pray in Jesus' name, God, move in power, Lord, this thing, dear God. Oh, Father, someone, Lord, it's God right there in a tug-of-war match with you, Lord, pulling against you. God, please, dear Father, break their will, I pray. God, help them, I pray, to be responsible tonight, dear God. Lord, our Father, you know my heart tonight, God. Oh, Father, I, Lord, want your will, God, to be done. Oh, God, move in power, Lord. God, send an old-fashioned Holy Ghost revival. Lord, not for my name's sake, but for your name's sake, God, for the cause of Christ, dear Lord. Without revival, the cause of Christ will suffer. Lord, without revival, God's sinners will not be convicted of sin. Lord Jesus, you will not be glorified and praised and worshipped, God, like you deserve. Oh, Father, I pray, Lord, that you'll help us to know, Lord, that there's a lot of things, God, that we'll not do, Father, when we're distant, God, from you. Lord, help us, I pray. God, please, dear Lord, break in on us tonight. God, You're trying to. It's evident. It's very evident tonight. God, I'm not defeated tonight. Lord, I'm not discouraged, Lord, with the service tonight. Lord, I know in my heart, God, that You've led us. I know tonight, God, that You've spoken to my heart, Lord. statement by statement, and sentence by sentence, God, and Lord, and comment by comment, Lord. I know, Father, I've been there, Lord, and seen you do it, Lord, and God, you did it tonight, Father, and we pray that it will be received, and Lord, it will be responded to, and Lord, there will be a reaction, God, Lord, of the saints of God. There's folk here tonight lost without God. Lord, the Holy Ghost, Father, needs to deal with. Lord, they need saving, God, tonight. Lord, right there in the balance is tonight, Father. Lord, no doubt God can get saved tonight. Father, please, Lord, help every man, woman, boy, and girl, God, to do business with you tonight, Father. God, I pray, cleanse us, God, from head to toe, inside and out. God of every sin, Father, Lord, we don't want to grieve the Spirit of God tonight in any form, in any fashion, God. Lord, not even in the minute way, Father, we want You to have Your way, Lord. God, breathe in mighty power, Lord, at Ridgeview Baptist Church tonight, God. Lord, Father, I thank You. I thank you that you care enough to speak a word to us. Thank you for caring enough, God, to say to us, God, Lord, I thank you for that tonight, Lord. Oh, God, I thank you for it. Thank you for caring for us. Oh, God, help us tonight, Jesus, I pray. Yes, God. Have your way, Lord, I pray. Holy God, move in power tonight, I pray. In Jesus' name, God. Oh, God, help us, Lord. Yes, God, help us tonight, Jesus, I pray. Oh God help us tonight Lord. I pray you'd help us in Jesus. Yes, God. Yes, God. That's right. That's right, Lord. That's right, Yes, God. Yes, God. Oh, God. Yes. Yes. Yes, God. Yes, hallelujah, Lord. Yes, hallelujah. Oh, God. Yes, God, bless your name. Hallelujah, Lord. Oh, we bless your name. You're worthy tonight, God. You're worthy tonight, Lord, of praise and worship and honor and glory, Lord. You're worthy of homage. You're worthy of honor tonight, Lord. We praise you, God. We bless your name tonight. Hallelujah. Glory be unto thy holy, holy name. Holy name, God. We praise you, Lord. We praise you, God. We praise you, Lord. Hallelujah, God. Glory be to God tonight. Glory be to God tonight. Bless your holy name. Bless your holy name tonight, God. Oh, yes, dear God. Praise your holy name. Praise your holy name, Jesus. Oh, you're worthy tonight, God. Hallelujah, God. Bless your holy name, Jesus. You're worthy tonight, blessed God of heaven. Have your way in Jesus' name. Have your way tonight, Lord. Oh, God, have your way, Lord. In Jesus' name, I pray. In Jesus' holy name. In Jesus' holy name. In Jesus' holy name, God. Oh, Father, thank you, Lord. Thank you. Bless you, God, tonight. Hallelujah, Jesus. Oh, yes. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, God. Thank you, Lord, tonight. Thank you, Lord. Bless your name, Jesus. Yes, hallelujah, Lord. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Hallelujah, Jesus. Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you for loving us enough, caring enough to send us a word, speak to us, confront us, deal with us. Thank you, Lord, that you don't leave us to ourselves. Thank you for pursuing, thank you for docking and dealing and speaking. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord. Bless your holy name. Hallelujah, Lord. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Glory, glory, glory. Glory, Jesus. Glory, Jesus. Yes, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. I'll tell you folk, it's been, and I'm not just saying this, there's no benefit at all to just saying something. It's been a long time, preacher, since I've been in a meeting like this. You say, it ain't a glory meeting. No, but it's been a confronting, dealing, sober, speaking. It's been a while since I've been in a meeting like this, in my church or anywhere. And that right there shows me that God is definitely, definitely interested in Ridgeview Baptist Church. And I want to say this. I feel impressed to say this. God is not done with Ridgeview Baptist Church. God would have never moved in a service like tonight if he was done. That right there ought to flood your soul with joy. I've been in churches that I wonder if God wasn't done. You know why? He never spoke, never said a word. Are you listening? Never confront, never deal with anybody. But I didn't sense that here tonight. Amen. We want what God wants. Amen. Anybody else need to do anything? I don't have any liberty to go on any further myself. It's just like God brought us to that right there. What are we willing to do? Maybe someone's done business with God tonight and you want to... And I do believe this. If you get right with God as a church member, you'll want to get right with the church. And I don't see that much. Very seldom do you ever see that. But if you belong here and you get crossed up with God, you owe the church an apology too. Amen. Just get completely clean. Amen? Just get completely clean. And let's see God do something big. Anybody else? Anybody? Turn it over to the preacher in a second. Bless you, Sid. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen, sis. Bless your heart. Amen. Amen. I got a text today coming up the road from an individual, from a preacher. He asked me the question, is it a sin to be grumpy? How would you respond to that? Amen. Attitude. Yeah. It's not pleasing to the Lord. Amen. Amen. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. My mind, brother. Yes, sir. Amen. Amen, brother Harvey. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Sure. Right. Yes, sir. Me too, brother, me too. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Right. Right. I'm I'm I Amen. Amen. Sure. Yes, sir. Sure. Yes, sir. Right. Yes, sir. Brother man. Yes. Yes, He does. Yes. Yes. Amen. Yes, sir. It's not. No. Amen. Amen. Amen. Sure. Yes, sir. Amen. Yes, sir. Amen. Yes, sir. Yes. Yes. Amen. Amen. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Amen, brother. Yes, sir. Amen. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Mightily. Yes, sir. Amen. You know, a lot of times church folk don't really want services like this. They'd rather come in, sing three or four songs or ever what, you know, sing three or four songs, preach or get up, preach, dismiss, go home. They prefer that. Because services like this gets in the pew and puts responsibility in your lap to do business with God. Amen. Now whether you have or not, that's going to be between you and the Lord. But I'd sure hate to be in your shoes and go home tonight having purposefully disobeyed God. I'd hate to be in your shoes. Amen. I'm not defeated. This service has not defeated me. No sir, it's not defeated me at all. But I've been in this thing, Brother Wayne, long enough. I mean, I'm not a know-it-all for sure, but I know better than to go away from what God's doing and go on something else. I've done that before. And watch God leave the place. Amen. You don't need a sermonette. You don't need two, three points and that. You, you, we need, I need, we need God. We need God. and bless his name that he spoke to us and dealt with us tonight. Amen. And I said it earlier while somebody was praying or something I mentioned. Church is not mechanical. We've made it mechanical. We've made it a machine to where it's the same thing every service, same thing every Sunday. That is not the will of God. I've made this statement before. Where all things are the same, there's a lack of the Spirit. When things consistently are the same, there's a lack of the Spirit. Services, God does not intend to be cookie cutter. Same, just stamped out. Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, same old, same old, same. That is not the will of God. God does not duplicate. He originates. And He wants every service to be what it needs to meet the needs of the people that's there. Amen. Amen. Preach out. As far as I know, I've minded the Lord tonight. Amen. You said God told you what to preach next. He did. So I'm going to preach it probably tomorrow night. Well, you've heard the message from the man of God tonight. Has everybody obeyed the Spirit of God? I can probably answer that for you, but I'm not going to. I just want to ask you again, just be sure you have. I'll tell you what I'd like to do. I'm not trying to drag it out. I'm doing what the preacher did. I just want to be obedient. When I leave, I want to say I've been obedient. And so we're going to pray here. Sister King, if you'd come to the piano and just play softly. I think we ought to pray and ask God to help us now in the days ahead. We're just about halfway through this thing. been pretty sober tonight, hasn't he? Pretty sober, so. I don't know. Maybe you need to pray for yourself. Maybe you need to pray for your lost loved ones. I don't know. But I feel like we ought to pray. And when you get through praying, just slip back to your seat and sit down. Come on, y'all just slip on out of there with Brother Bud. And you husbands, bring your wives and pray with them if you'd like. My, how we need, how we need the Lord. You young folk, please try to touch heaven tonight. Let's pray tonight, then we're gonna just have, just let everybody get settled. It's beautiful