Father, we thank Thee that as we bow before our God, we can worship Thee in spirit and in truth. Above all, for our Savior, Thy Son, Jesus the Christ. For the Holy Spirit, the person of the Holy Spirit, who shall not speak of himself, but shall glorify Christ. And so we glorify Christ in our worship tonight and in gratitude to thee. Come, our God, and through the word of God, anointed by the Holy Spirit, speak to our hearts. In Jesus Christ's name, and for His sake and glory only. We all ask these things of Thee, our Father in heaven. Amen. 2 Kings 22, verse 1. Josiah was eight years old. Was eight years old when he began to reign. And he reigned, he reigned 30 and one years in Jerusalem. That's two. And he did that which was right. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in all the way of David, his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. Now, beloved, this remarkable and noble tribute, recorded in God's sacred word, was given of young King Josiah, who reigned over the southern kingdom of Judah from 640 to 609 BC. Undoubtedly, undoubtedly under the guardianship of Judah's elders during his youth. Second Chronicles, 34 verse 3 to 7 records that he began to seek the Lord He began to seek the Lord at the age of 16 During his eighth year on the throne And at the age of 20 At the age of 20, he courageously and uncompromisingly stood against all the evils of the land, which the nation had embraced during the decadent reigns of his grandfather and father, King Manasseh and King Amon, who, 2 Chronicles 33 verse 9 records, who made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err and to do worse than the heathen. Worse than the heathen! Then, in 622 BC, at the age of 26, Desire authorized and commissioned Hilkiah, the high priest, to oversee the repairing and the restoration of the temple of God in Jerusalem. The repairing and the restoration of the temple of God in Jerusalem. And it was then that Hilkiah, the high priest, discovered something that brought the nation to a standstill. That brought the nation to a standstill. 2 Kings 22 verse 8, and Hilkiah, the high priest, said unto Shaphan, the scribe, I have found the book. I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. He read it. Verse 10, And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book, and Chaffin read it before the king. And it came to pass, it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes he rent his clothes, that is, he tore his garments. Verse 19 records that he rent his clothes and wept before God, and wept before God. Chapter 23, verse 1, and the king sent, the king sent And they gathered unto him, they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. The king went up into the house of the Lord. And all the men of Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people all the people, both small and great. And he read in their ears all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all their heart and all their soul to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people, all the people stood to the covenant. Now, beloved, although this is beyond doubt one of the greatest events recorded in biblical history. Although this is beyond doubt one of the greatest events recorded in biblical history, it tragically, it tragically was not a true revival. It was, at the most, the obligated response, the obligated response of the nation to their godly young kings' desperate longing for them as his people, to seek God and to serve him with all their hearts as he so nobly had done from his youth. But it was an imposed national reformation. It was an imposed national reformation and did not reach the hearts of the people who were steeped in apostasy and sin, steeped in apostasy and sin as a result of the decadent evil reigns of their former monarchs. And although God mercifully stalled His righteous judgment upon them, until after the death of their godly young king. In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar marched the Babylonian army against Judah, taking into captivity Jehoiachin, Jehoiachin, Josiah's son, together with all the extended royal family. and all the nobility across the land and throughout that land with all the temple treasure. Then in 597 BC, the Babylonians marched a second time against Judah, this time taking into captivity the entire Judean army with all prominent people and craftsmen, all prominent people and craftsmen throughout the land. Then in 587 BC, they besieged Jerusalem. They besieged Jerusalem and eventually destroyed the city completely. Destroyed the city completely. 48 years later, 48 years later, in 539 BC, Cyrus, king of the Medo-Persian Empire, conquered Babylon. conquered Babylon and no doubt through the influence of the godly prophet Daniel. He not only sanctioned, but he also financed a return expedition of the Judeans, of the Jews back to Judah, to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple of the living God, he said, of the living God. And so in 537 BC, 42,360 Judeans returned to Jerusalem. 42,360 Judeans returned to the Holy Land and to Jerusalem, led by Shasbazar and Zerubbabel. The rebuilding and restoration of the Temple of God was eventually completed in 516 BC. Later, In 458 BC, a second return, expedition, exodus, back from captivity in Babylon to the Holy Land. A second expedition was sanctioned by Artaxerxes, to whom Queen Esther was married. Artaxerxes authorized an uncomprehendably God-fearing man, an uncomprehendably God-fearing man called Ezra to oversee and to lead the expedition. Thirteen years later, a third and final return of the Judeans from Babylonian captivity to Judah and to Jerusalem was led by Nehemiah. And so there were three deportations and three returns, three deportations into captivity in Babylon from Judah and three returns from captivity in Babylon back to Judah and Jerusalem and Israel as a whole. But tonight I particularly, tonight I particularly want to consider the second return. In 458 BC, sanctioned by Artaxerxes and led and overseen by the uncomprehendably God-fearing Ezra. We read in the book of Ezra, chapter 7, verse 6, this Ezra, this Ezra went up from Babylon, and he He was a ready scribe in the law of Moses. That is, he was skilled in the law of Moses. Verse 10, for Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord. That is, to study the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. for Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it. Literally, for Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the law of the Lord and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel. Now, beloved, upon their return to the Holy Land on the 4th of August, 458 BC, Ezra set himself to the task. Ezra set himself to the task of recording the names and their tribes of every single person that had returned from captivity in Babylon to Judea before him and with him. He then allocated He then allocated competent and godly men into positions of authority to restore order and governance throughout the land. He then wrote in chapter 9 verse 1, now when these things were done, when these things were done, The princes, the princes came to me saying, the people, the people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the land, doing according to their abominations, doing according to their abominations. Verse three, and when I heard, when I heard this thing, I rent my garment, I rent my garment and my mantle and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard. and sat down, astonished. Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away. And I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice. And at the evening sacrifice, I rose up from my heaviness. And having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees and spread out my hands unto the Lord, my God, and said, Oh, my God, I am ashamed. I am ashamed and blushed to lift up my face to thee, my God. For our iniquities are increased over our heads, and our trespasses grown up unto the heavens. Verse 10, We have forsaken Thy commandments. We have forsaken Thy commandments. Chapter 10, verse one. Now, when Ezra had prayed and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him, there assembled unto him out of Israel, a very great congregation of men and women and children. For the people wept. The people wept very sore. That is, the people wept bitterly. Nehemiah 8, verse 1, And all the people gathered themselves together, All the people gathered themselves together as one man, that is, unitedly into the street that was before the water gate. And they spake unto Ezra, the scribe. They spake unto Ezra, the scribe, to bring the book, bring the book, bring the book of the law of Moses. which the Lord had commanded to Israel. And Ezra, the priest, brought the law before the congregation, both of men and women. and all that could hear with understanding upon the first day of the seventh month. And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday. before the men and the woman and those that could understand, and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. And Ezra, the scribe, stood upon a pulpit of wood which they had made for the purpose. Verse five. And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people. And when he opened it, all the people stood up. And Ezra, bless the Lord, the great God, And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground. The Sebenbe and the Levites. caused the people to understand the law. The Levites caused the people to understand the law and the people stood in their place. So they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly and gave the sense that they expounded and caused them to understand the reading. Verse 9b, And the Levites that taught the people said unto all the people, this day is holy unto the Lord your God. Mourn not, nor weep, for all the people wept. All the people wept when they heard the words of the law. Verse 10 be, for the joy, the joy of the Lord. is your strength. The joy of the Lord is your strength. Verse 13, And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand, even to understand the words of the Lord. Chapter 9, verse 2, and the seed of Israel. The seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, from all the ungodly heathens. The seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God one fourth part of the day and another fourth part they confessed and worshipped the Lord their God. Worshipped the Lord their God The greatest and most urgent need, the greatest and most urgent need of our world today is for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ worldwide. The greatest and most urgent need of our world today is for the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ to begin to seek God desperately for revival. To seek God desperately for revival, as desperately as these, the people of God, did here under the ministry, the life and ministry of this godly man called Ezra. The greatest danger this world faces today, the greatest danger this entire world faces today, is if the church of our Lord Jesus Christ worldwide refuses to begin to seek God desperately for revival. refuses to seek God desperately for revival as desperately as these, the people of God, did as recorded here in the Old Testament through the life and ministry of this godly man called Ezra. Sow to yourselves. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Church of Christ. Reap! Reap in mercy! Break up your fallow ground! For it is time to seek the Lord! It is time to seek the Lord! Till He come and rain righteousness upon you! Hosea 10-12 Oh, church of God. Oh, church of God. It is time to seek the Lord desperately, desperately. When? When the word of God lies buried. in the ruins of today's compromising evangelical churches and movements worldwide. It is time to seek God desperately when the word of God lies buried in the ruins of today's compromising evangelical churches and movements worldwide and has been replaced Dangerously and sacrilegiously replaced with entertainment! With entertainment! And entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy, the great Leonard Ravenhill cried. Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. that I would dare to add to this profound statement of Mr. Robin Hill. Entertainment in the house of God is the devil's substitute and counterfeit of the joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord. which is the result of repentance and confession and pursuit of God's righteousness with all our hearts and souls, concerning every facet of His holy commandments throughout the sacred book. The church of our lead Lord Jesus Christ generally worldwide has buried the sharp edge of the sword deliberately and carefully and brazenly for fear of offense. for fear of offense and has replaced it with entertainment, dangerously replaced it with entertainment, to draw the crowds and keep them happy. rather than to preach this book distinctly, no matter what the cost. That is, faithfully, fully, uncompromisingly, unapologetically, fearlessly, Our old preacher said, I'd rather have three rows filled with people who want the full word of God without restriction or apology than to have a church full of hypocrites like you all are. Oh, did he pay the price. But within three years, that church had turned to God because of the courage of this man. who wanted the book, even though everyone cried out, you're out forever if you ever preach these things again, that they don't want to hear from this book. Oh, the church generally has replaced the holy scriptures being preached distinctly, fearlessly, every aspect of the word of God, fearlessly, no matter what the consequences are, sir, and replaced it with sacrilegious entertainment by entertainers that tragically emulate most of the godless entertainers of the world. In their showmanship, even in their dress code, everything is the world brought into the church, and all we have is a stage of worldly entertainment to keep what? The world happy in the church. and going to hell. But that doesn't matter. It's the crowd that spells success. It's the tenth, their tithing that spells my success. Don't offend. Stop preaching this book distinctly. Even if they go to hell. Oh, you don't say it, but what are you doing? You say I'm angry when I preach? So was Christ in indignation at the mockery of God's house and God's religion. And look, by the religious leaders of the ordained religion of God, when Christ came on earth, Oh, church has not the time of come for us to cry as one man, as one man that is unitedly to the leaders of the evangelical movements and churches worldwide. Bring the book. Bring back the Bible. All the blood is on your hands. Forever! Would Christ have said it less with indignation than I have before you judge me? Sir, lady, then you judge him if he would have. Church of God, The time has come for us to seek God desperately when the Word of God lies buried in the ruins of today's compromising evangelical churches and movements worldwide and has been replaced, firstly, with entertainment. Secondly, with so-called prophecy and endless manifestations. This thing that has happened to a large percentage throughout the entire world of what is called the Evangelical Fundamental Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where prophecy and manifestations, endless manifestations, have replaced the authority of God's Word, which is literally buried apart from the few isolated verses most out of their context and not in the light of the rest of the chapter or scriptures which don't say what they say. Prophecy, they have Bible colleges, they have theological institutes, with one thing that people go to learn, how to prophesy. They have some prophetic utterance, prophetic words from God, listen carefully, for God's sake, Church of Christ, this book is the finnest prophecy. the complete prophecy of God. We dare not add to it. We dare not take away from it. We dare not add to this book. The day we allow one man to say he has further revelation and prophetic utterance from God is the day we open ourselves to danger. gullible, dangerous territory, doctrinally. As individuals, we can be accused, as churches, as nations, as entire movements, we can be told that this book buried in the chaos and confusion of so much of today's modern evangelical churches and movements, doctrinally, through their so-called prophetic ministry and endless manifestations that have literally taken all authority, taken the place of any authority of this book preached distinctly. That is fearlessly, fully, uncompromisingly, unapologetically, faithfully, in its entirety. I dare you who say you have messages from God just to get back to this book, the prophecy. Listen, John Wesley, sorry, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, many others that I'm missing out, Wesley and on and on and on, all agree. Wesley actually redefined on all the statements of the great church leaders of the Reformation to come up with this conclusion in this statement that they all agreed with, that the word prophecy in this dispensation as edifying as a gift from God, that enjoyment from God, is nothing more and nothing less than anointed preaching. Bury Luther then, you new prophets. Bury Wesley, call him an heretic, erroneous. Who are you? Are you in dangerous territory, sir? and putting the church in terrible danger of men saying anything. You see, Peter tells us in 1 Peter 2, 3, prophecy of the Word, the prophecy of the Word. When Menstead would stand before Christ and say, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? It is clearly taught in every single commentary of every single man that ever moved the multitudes in this world to God, without exception, that expounded, commentated, as anointed, unctionised, preaching and teaching of the holy writ of God in the light of eternity. Wesley's perfect wording. That's all it is. Preachers will cry, have we not preached in thy name? In its context, agreed with by the greatest theologians that ever lived. And are you to say they are heretic, sir, now that you have taken over with bearing the book and have further revelation? Oh, be careful, Church of Christ. Has not the time come for us to cry to the leaders of these movements and the preachers, unitedly as one man, unitedly, till they unnerve in what they're doing? Bring back the book, for God's sake. Bring the book. Bring the Bible back. We dare you and preach with anointed, unchronized preaching and expounding of the holy writ of God in the light of eternity. Oh, get out of the pulpit! For everyone's sake. and gullibility heaped to themselves, teachers having itching ears who turn away their ears from the truth, who receive anything, including this, that is buried God's Word. Oh, Church of God, we need to desperately, unitedly cry out in the Word of God when the word of God lies buried in the runes of the chaotic, confused manifestations, when the word of God lies buried in the runes of today's compromising evangelical churches and movements worldwide generally, and has been replaced firstly with entertainment, secondly with manifestations, with prophetic utterances and endless manifestations, Thirdly, through hyper-dispensationalism. I, of course, agree with any sane person who is truly born again and reads and studies his book as the goal of every day of his life, let alone in his life. I agree. Of course there's dispensations that we have in the Bible. Of course there's dispensations. I am a dispensationalist. Of course we are. But when you allow our teachers to dispense of between 80 and 90% of the entire Bible as irrelevant, that's doing the devil's work, Church of Christ. You're busy doing the devil's work. How can we allow them? Let me shock you. In the most evangelical fundamental institutes throughout the world today, there are tragic teachings going on in your greatest and most trusted in the past years of evangelical fundamental preachers. They are teaching that between 80 and 90 percent of the entire Bible is irrelevant. Sir, we're in danger of giving them a beautiful black leather-covered book with a few pages in it left that they have the right to preach on that's even relevant. and that is not meaningless to today's dispensation, the gospel dispensation. I wonder if the day is not coming when the institutions we once revered and send our children to and preachers will not, when they hand them their degrees at the end of their course and ordain them, they'll hand together with their degrees that they've been brainwashed with, Beautiful, hard, black leather covered, not one page in it left to preach on. And let me tell you, Church of Christ, from my soul, if we let them alone and do not rise up and cry out as one man, unitedly, to unnerve and to stop these people because of their academic authority, we're too scared to. No! If we do not rise up and cry out, bring back the book, give us back the whole Bible, sir. Don't teach or tell us that 90% is irrelevant. For us to preach from or believe in could in any way have any rightful place to be brought from the pulpit of God anymore. who in their right mind that hasn't lost totally their sensibility spiritually could honestly endorse what is happening because of academic principles and professors theologically. I'm almost scared to say get a doctorate. The time has come, I believe, for the church to redefine Fundamentalism. Fundamental evangelicals used to stand alone of every denomination, perhaps one in a whole denomination, fundamental. What does that mean? Sir, I don't ask you if you believe in all today's modern translations, in all today's modern compromising teachings, that buried this book mostly in its entirety. I ask you, do you still believe and endorse that every word from Genesis 1 to Revelation is relevant? Of course we know the context, but in the light of the rest of the scriptures, it's vital to know the heart of God. There's nothing in this book we didn't need to understand even the cross. even to grasp something of the meaning of the cross, to understand the teachings of the New Testament that had taken nearly 80% of the Old Testament is the New Testament, almost word-perfect, this side of Calvary. And in their context, but in the light of all the rest of the Scriptures, we need to teach what God put two-thirds of the Bible. Was that a mistake? And not for the church, by the way, but for this generation, who suddenly had wisdom that outweighs Spurgeon, Wesley. These men never, ever, though they believed in the dispensations that are vital, they never turned the rest of the Bibles irrelevant. They preached from it. They expounded, they taught the people until nations turned to God under their ministry. And you, sir, what do you leave our preachers to bring the nations back to God with? The time has come for us to seek God desperately, desperately, when the word of God lies buried brazenly and sacrilegiously and blasphemously in the ruins of today's modern compromising evangelical movements and churches worldwide and has been replaced with entertainment, firstly, with so-called prophecy and endless manifestations. with hyper-extreme dispensationalism. And fourthly, through most of the new translations of our Bible, which buried the text that was King James, It was good enough for the Spurgeons, the Wesleys, the greatest preachers that moved the world to God, and there are millions who never ever questioned the authority of this. And now take the new versions and find me a page, especially the New Testament, that does not have written this verse is not found in the oldest manuscripts. That is Westcott and Hort's manuscript. That almost every new version, 99% some man said to me, has endorsed and thrown away the text that was faithful, that moved millions to God and never doubted by the greatest preachers that ever lived without exception. Our generation has to have another text that casts doubt upon the divine inspiration of the spook. But what doubt? Tragically, you will find these little insertions, this passage, eight verses omitted and so on, is not found in the oldest known manuscripts. These, doubtfully, were divinely inspired but were inserted later on by people who had leanings and wanted to put their leanings into the scriptures so wrong texts were written. And so Westcott and Hort, who weren't saved, by the way – anyone that doesn't doubt that – how could they be saved? They were spiritists. They didn't believe. They didn't believe in the divine inspiration of Genesis. They believed in the theory of evolution, embraced it, endorsed it, and unashamedly taught it. Who didn't believe in the divinity of Christ? Sir, go back to the history books and see if I'm now blackening their names unrighteously. Are we to fear what was known of them when they gave the world the text that has been taken up by almost every new translation. Because it is the oldest manuscript doesn't mean it was the one God wanted. Let me tell you, in the time of Christ, in the time of Paul, in the time of Peter, there were heretics writing. They find Gospels according to Judas. Yes, these things were written in those times by people who didn't love God, who didn't know God. Heretics wrote them. Yes, these manuscripts, the earliest, oldest of the manuscripts that we now have taken our text from that cause doubt and omit, because it's all omitted. You think they weren't heretics then? But why did God, or don't you believe God the Holy Spirit had the power to preserve his word throughout the centuries? To bring nations and millions to Christ through the greatest generations of our gospel. Dispensation. Didn't he have the power to preserve and to bring about what was to be used to reach the masses through the greatest preachers that we'll ever name that preached and bury the heretical, nonsensical, perverted text of unsaved men? didn't believe in eternity. Why is it that these little abbreviations, or total, in many, total big gaps, totally, they won't even put it in. Look at your Bibles, for God's sake, and ask yourself, why is it that these omissions, these questions, these little question marks, this was not found in the oldest manuscript, this is not divinely inspired, these next few verses, it was added by some heretic. Why is it that they always do that with the most essential doctrines of our faith? the divinity of Christ. Oh yes, one man said to me, who nearly crucified me, for daring to say such a thing. Two actually. but there is the divinity of Christ.' I said, no, sir. He showed me, I said, yes, I agree. But why is it that 90%, actually nearly 97%, of every other verse that affirms Christ's divinity and is the foundation for the divinity of Christ, is either omitted entirely or cast out upon as of the originals and therefore not – why is it? Where is it heading? The last few verses you say and justify your versions, why did they do that? Why did Westcott and Hawke do that? Why do we do it? The verses that justified, that gave us the basis for the vital doctrines of our faith, the divinity of Christ. Eternal judgment, omitted, verse upon verse, passage upon passage. This is not an... It casts doubt on the divine inspiration and authority of the word of God. It takes away, robs, buries God's word. In this Tragic generation of academic theologians, influencers, and choicers. And if Spurgeon was here tonight, sir, he would say it more emphatically than I have. Wesley would have walked out and refused to preach to people who had most of these new versions. as I believe Leonard Rabindranath once did. Eternal judgement, holiness. Suddenly, Romans 8. No condemnation to them which in Christ Jesus. A little insertion in most of the new Bibles. The next few verses are not found in the Old Testament. Who walk, not after the flesh, but after the spirit. For they that are after the flesh, to bind the things of the flesh. For they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit. Listen, sir. The conditions of not being condemned are righteous living, holiness without which no man shall see God. I'm not talking about sinless perfection. I'm talking about radical. transformation by the Holy Spirit when you're saved, that you are a new creature in Christ. All things have passed away, all things have become new, and this speaks in relation to one thing, sir, not your choice of food or clothing, but righteousness. not imputed by grace through faith, but imparted by the Holy Ghost to fulfil the conditions of what God says is true salvation. Now, there's a few of you that want to crucify me. Please wait until I'm finished. Isn't it? Answer God, isn't it so? Answer God. Even if the Bible has been buried in the ruins of today's modern, compromising, academic, theological influences of the church generally worldwide. Oh, the time has come to seek the Lord desperately, beloved. Has not the time come for us to, as one man, as one man, that is unitedly cry out to their unnerved, stop. Bring the book in its entirety back. Give us the Bible without all the doubts and everything that the unsaved men who lie in hell now gave a text. made us academically say, because it's the oldest, it must be the best rubbish. Because it's the oldest doesn't mean it's the best, sir. But did God lose power when he buried that oldest through most of the gospel dispensation? Because we're right at the end of it now. When the Jews return, the time of the Gentiles is over. And that's happened, the Jews have returned in 1948, my lifetime. This dispensation is nearly over, sir. Be careful what you do with the last generation, nearly seven billion, whose blood will be in your hands if they don't believe this eternal judgment. If they don't believe Jesus was God, manifest in the flesh. Do you know they are writing a Bible now, and God, I am too scared, I am honestly too scared to say who is publishing it, because you won't believe it, that not one verse in the entire Bible, Old and New Testament, could possibly relate anything of the divinity of Christ. Now, who is behind that? Go and ask them where they are getting the money from. But it's coming, and we're so gullible we'll take the next person because it's easy reading. Ha! Rubbish. You can't understand thee and thou, there's something wrong with you. When you're saved, the natural man cannot receive the things of God, but the spirits, the moment the spirit is in your life, this book becomes a lie, the letter kills, but the spirit gives life! And you know you're saved when this book bursts alive, sir. These and thou's aren't a problem, you're just unsaved. who can't understand a thing of that book and take easy reading that buried the holy book, sir. Oh. Finally, the people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the land, from the godless, heathen, doing according to their abominations. Now, beloved, of course In the immediate context, anyone would know that speaking about intermarriage, which God forbade of the Jews to keep a holy people for the Messiah and right to this generation. Don't you dare believe the dispensation that this dispensation has no place for the Jews. So then you have to really bury prophecy. of what God says would happen to Israel right before he comes. Wow! And in the time of the... They have a prominent role as a nation to this day. If they're not saved through the blood of Christ and repentance from rejecting Christ as their Messiah, they'll never get to heaven. I don't believe that rubbish. But the Jews as a nation are prominent. Beloved, the point was not for them to not intermarry that was being brought here. The great thing here was they were defiled through this. And the New Testament teaches the same thing as was taught to the people of God there, be not unequally yoked with unbelievers. God tells us throughout the New Testament to marry in the Lord. It is vital. What was theirs is the New Testament teachings, but of God's children washed in the blood of all nations. throughout this land, throughout this world, to not be unequal because of what doing according to their abominations is a great problem here. Don't doubt that is what's being cried by God in the light of all the scriptures, sir. It is tragic, and may I ask this generation that we ourselves also have not separated ourselves from the people that the ungodly heathen of the lands, doing according to their abominations. Ezra 6 verse 2 speaks of such as had separated themselves from the filthiness of the heathen of the land. This is the point. This is the grief. This is what God was condemning. Come ye apart and be ye separate, God says. Where did that end? Abstain from all appearance of evil. James 4 verse 2 says the adulterers, the adulteress is speaking to Christians. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Does that not put fear in your hearts? Answer God, now, if you have a heart. If you have one eye out of respect to your eternal soul, answer God. Know ye not that the friendship of the world, that doesn't mean you don't care for their souls and try to win them, but when they win you, When you're no longer there to win them, they're winning you. In compromise and worldliness that you haven't even got the right to testify to them again. You're so stooped with compromises. Oh, be careful. Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is not to win the world, sir. That we all have a responsibility beginning with the world in our home is the enemy of God. Tragic. Tragic. Do we care about these verses? Every single one of you, even preachers, I ask this. I ask you to have the courage worldwide if these videos actually manage to get out of this door. Have you kept yourself unspotted from the world, sir? Answer God. Have you kept yourself pure? That's your side. You have a choice after salvation. Or do you sit here spotted by the world, your peace with God spotted, your testimony so spotted you haven't got a testimony in most people that know you wouldn't accept it without laughing in your face because you're so like them, you do what they do. What a tragedy. Has this generation not had the same said everywhere about them who walk out of the evangelical churches, walking and leaping and praising God and everything else that goes with the emotional trash that's there today? Oh, dancing. We don't mind getting them dancing. We wouldn't mind if they danced down the aisles. When did it come that they danced down the aisles? We want that all the way to hell. So long as you get them dancing, walking and leaping and praising God, oh yes. The joy of the Lord. Keep them happy. Don't offend them now. Don't upset the whole atmosphere. You have joy. Sir, you have no right to have joy if you're guilty of all that God condemns. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, James says. Why don't we preach that? You have no right to laugh in God's presence under this book with the people of God. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness! God's Word says, who is he speaking to? No one. No one. Let me tell you. People who attach themselves to the Church of Christ, who are in the world. Let me tell you. I think it was Rabinow that said in Why Revival Tarries, the Church is at home in the world. That's why the world is at home in the Church. because we just like them. Well, aren't you? Aren't you? Even you preachers that will condemn me through this message, aren't you? Why don't you just once answer God and not man, and not your conscience that's so seared with a hot iron that I don't know how you can preach if you are guilty of these things. And, in closing, may God please give us another Ezra. Whose prayers, brokenness and shame and fear bring a nation, the people of God that is, to weeping again. through this book, to repentance and separating themselves from the people, the ungodly. I think the time has come for us to go and witness to the ungodly and then turn away and run screaming for help, to not be drawn back. Does it so matter, your friends, that your soul means nothing to you or Christ's death for it means nothing to you? Knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death not only do the same But have pleasure in them that do them. This is people. God will condemn people who know Let me shock every one of you life is so short But that's going to be the greatest shock you've ever had in life every one of you when you think it started. It's ended You think you got along? I walked away from every friend. Sorry, they ran from me. They laughed at me. They mocked me. I found one years later who dragged me into this alley, this wrinkled, broken life. What do you want? Don't you know who I am, Keith? He was the weakling, the little weak one of the group I ran around with in my unshaved days. He said, oh, we mocked you. You were a joke, too good for us. We stood in the streets pretending we preached like Keith Daniel, laughing, mocking. But Keith, not one of us is laughing anymore. And then he named all my friends that had died in sin. And then he did something terrible a few days later. Yes, I lost all my friends. I was mocked. Just wait. If you could just open your eyes to see 10 years from now, 20 years from now, if God tarries, what they are. You'd lose them tonight without hesitation to find truth in God. And you who play the fool, oh God have mercy on you. God looks for a man. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro. You notice that word to and fro is spoken of two people in the Bible. Satan, the roaring lion, walketh about to and fro throughout the whole earth. He said to God when God says from whence comest thou. From walking up and down, to and fro, and up and down throughout the whole earth. What? Seeking to show himself. Yes, to show, as a lion does, destroy lives. Has thou considered my servant Job, with old Job going around? Are you going to be a Job, or what? What are you? You sit in conventions like this, and your heart is waiting for the world. Unreservedly, fearlessly, what's wrong with you? For God's sake, wake up before you go to hell. And you Christians, before you send people to hell, by losing the right to tell them about hell, as you play the fool, doing according to their abominations, and not separating yourself in a way that they know you will never compromise. Never. Oh God, give us another Ezra. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth seeking to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. God said that. At what point God can say that of such base creatures as we, I don't know, but he does. And he found Ezra. The difference between Ezra and Josiah. Josiah was a king. That was an imposed, obligated reformation. Ezra was a scribe, he wasn't even a prophet, like the rest of the Bible, who moved nations to God. And he brought the entire people of God back to God in such a revival. that still staggers the powers of hell that we can speak about that's possible. It is time to seek the Lord, Church of Christ. Desperately, as desperately as these, the people of God, here, sought God through the life and ministry of the godly Ezra that God found in the Word, uncompromisingly, fearlessly preaching the law, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. I preached on that. I don't even know how many years ago, why we have to preach the law. I preached on the history of the Bible. Two years ago, And I brought in one little section of the modern versions to end from the beginning of every single thing recorded in this holy book, where its orange ends were and how God compiled it in the canonization and what the devil did to try and wipe it out through Rome. And now, in our generation, through the things I've named, the greatest and most urgent need of our world today. Don't doubt this Church of Christ. is for the church of our Lord Jesus Christ to begin to desperately seek God for revival, as desperately diseased the people of God here did under and through the life and ministry of the godly Ezra. But the greatest danger, the greatest danger our world faces today, the entire world, is if the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ worldwide does not begin to desperately seek God for revival, as desperately as these people recorded in God's Word. If my people And I believe that's written dispensationalists for all generations. Everything was given and written for us as examples and to know the heart of God's New Testament. Nothing was not essential to know the heart of God. If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and confess their sins and turn from their wicked ways. My people, you can have to turn. There has to come a moment when that can happen to the people of God. There I will hear from heaven. I will hear from heaven. I will forgive their sins and will heal their land. And if your land is destroyed by sin and depravity and loses everything of greatness that God gave it because of the generations of your forefathers that sought God desperately and found him. If you lie in ruins destroyed as a nation, America, it's because this generation refused to seek God, to begin to seek God desperately for revival. Don't blame the government. I blame the church that didn't get on their knees while they could. and get right with God desperately through revival. And let me assure you, on our knees there's no army on earth that can compare with what God will do with the army of God on their knees. No other weapons but this. Doing battle against the powers of darkness, the history of your nation will change overnight and turn totally. But if you don't, You'll be scared to walk out of your front door soon, sir, even you theologians that hate me for preaching this. I guarantee you, with what comes to this world, because of the church's refusing, Can we stand, please?