President Trump Tells Rush: ‘Iran Has Been Put On Notice’ To Not ‘F*ck Around With Us’

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Photo: Under the Obama administration, US sailors were taken hostage by the Iranian mullahocracy.

The President has our back. Who do you want in the White House — a proud American, the architect of Mid-East peace,  who will defend our interests against a jihad terror regime or a demented segregationist who will see that the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism gets nukes?

Donald Trump Tells Rush: ‘Iran Has Been Put On Notice’ To Not ‘F— Around With Us’

By Jordan Davidson, The Federalist, October 9, 2020:

President Donald Trump made his position on Iranian-support for terrorist groups very clear on Friday during an interview on “The Rush Limbaugh Show.”

“Iran knows that and they’ve been put on notice,” Trump said. “If you f–k around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.”

https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1314632922033541121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1314632922033541121%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2020%2F10%2F09%2Fdonald-trump-tells-rush-iran-has-been-put-on-notice-to-not-f-around-with-us%2F

The word was censored on the delayed radio broadcast due to FCC profanity guidelines, but left as is in Limbaugh’s live stream.

Trump has taken a hard stance against terrorism linked to Iran in the past. In January, he ordered a fatal drone strike on Iranian Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani who was reportedly planning imminent attacks targeting hundreds of Americans in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and other countries.

He also pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal pioneered under the Obama administration in order to ensure that U.S. economic and security interests were protected.

Trump joined the conservative radio host on Friday for two hours, calling it a “virtual rally” while he continues to recover from COVID-19.

During the State of the Union in February, Trump and First Lady Melania Trump awarded Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Limbaugh had just publicly announced that he was suffering from “advanced lung cancer.”

“Almost every American family knows the pain when a loved one is diagnosed with a serious illness,” Trump said. “Here tonight is a special man, beloved by millions of Americans, who just received a stage 4, advanced cancer diagnosis. This is not good news, but what is good news is that he is the greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet, Rush Limbaugh. Thank you for your decades of devotion to our country.”

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago

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mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

Right so the Leftist cowards send’em $1.7 billion in cash and kisses their @$$ez…!

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago

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AncientOrthodoxEcclesia
AncientOrthodoxEcclesia
3 years ago

The rulers of Islam only know two things that act as levers in this world; fraud and force. American politicians dealt with the Muslim rulers much as they would their fellow Washington elite comrades; ”let’s make a deal!”, men with no fixed principles other than power and wealth. The Muslim rulers love power and wealth, sure, and dealt with them deviously as their ”prophet” and their ”god” commands them. The only thing left to do is to warn them that force is now at play, and that American power is still such that it could end their dreams of world conquest for a long time.

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago

How about forever –

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

Sounds just the Democ-rat MO = “the enemy within the gates”.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

Trump, you must think your supporters forgot this…

Iranian tanker violates U.S. sanctions again, carrying Venezuelan crude on the return trip
By LUCIA KASSAI on 9/23/2020

https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/9/23/iranian-tanker-violates-us-sanctions-again-carrying-venezuelan-crude-on-the-return-trip

(Bloomberg) –After defying U.S. sanctions by shipping a cargo of oil condensate to Venezuela just last week, Iran is using the same ship to help the Latin American country export its crude.

The Iran-flagged supertanker Honey, also known as Horse, is loading Venezuela’s top exported grade Merey 16 at Venezuela’s government-controlled port of Jose, according to a shipping report seen by Bloomberg. The shipments give some respite to the nation’s hobbled oil industry, as most shipowners avoid doing business with the country for fear of sanctions.

The vessel, which just discharged 2 million barrels of Iranian condensate , turned off its satellite signal to avoid detection after the U.S. was able to intercept 1.116 million barrels of gasoline going to Venezuela in August. Bloomberg reported that the ship was discharging its contents in Venezuela last week though ship-tracking signals still show the ship off the coast of Dubai.

This was just a successful test of your lack of will to board and search.

Next time the tankers will carry short range missiles armed with small EMP nukes.

How do I know this? This is what I would do!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Trump is dangerously naive. America deserves a smart patriot with guts as President!

Sgt Snuffy
Sgt Snuffy
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

YEAH LIKE HARRIS AND BIDEN ??? OR HARRIS AND HILLARY ??? OR HOW ABOUT HARRIS AND PELOSI ??? ARE THOSE YOUR PICKS FOR POTUS AND VP ??? OR WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE EMPEROR XI OF CHINA ??? IF IT WAS REALLY UP TO POTUS TRUMP HE WOULD HAVE TAKEN OUT IRAN, THE NORKS AND CHINA ALONG TIME AGO.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Sgt Snuffy

Comprehend what you pretended to read.

Your MORNIC mistaken choices are not patriots.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Offer an alternative to Trump then before you bleat like a leftist sheep. I really doubt that you have a clue and would not know a patriot if you fell over one.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

WRT his policies towards muslums and muslum states Trump could be better. I really think that’s all CharlieSeattle is saying. His criticism doesn’t imply he supports the Dem0rats. For all we know CharlieSeattle could be voting for Trump — I know I am.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago

Here he is fighting for re-election and we are being petty. I can totally criticize his failure to act on islam but this is NOT something that anyone can do in one sweep. It has to be gradual and slow so that it is scarcely noticed, just like how muslims and communists do it. A sudden anti-islam stance would alienate far too many potential voters. Look at the other “conservative” leaders in the west who are far more useless. There are a lot of Trump voters who expect fairness honesty and ethics and a direct attack on muslims would alienate them. If I were POTUS things would be different but I am not and he is. He is not perfect but look at what he has endured and what he has managed to do despite the handicaps.
Charlie Seattle is a Trump voter IMO but he expects too much and is a little delusional in his expectations.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

I see your points CS, criticism of Trump doesn’t imply support of his opponents.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Such as ? Some of us have it and some of us do not. but you are FULL of it.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

He is naive, possibly kept that way by his advisors and the Deep State muslum collaborators in the C_I-A, F_I-B, State Dept. etc.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago

Within the president’s first six months in office, I am certain that he readily found that out.

However, as many developers HAVE to be, he’s an optimist … strongly optimistic. He probably thought that “the next one will be better”, simply because they called him, “Mr, President”.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

His 5th grade playground vocabulary and weak understanding of the US Laws and how Government works makes me doubt his education and IQ.

All said, Trump was the only Patriot standing on the stage in 2016 with the other 16 e/GOP RINO’s!.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

But your vocabulary, legal political understanding and IQ are better? ROFLMAO!!!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Yes, it takes a very intelligent man to see that.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Better not look in the mirror then as you wont see anything.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

You are so jealous and fearful of the truth because you have neither!

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Not exactly a reply is it? Just some half baked concept you have about someone who dares to disagree with your posted trash. Commiserations!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Thx ,….. AGAIN 4 not disagreeing!

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Disagreeing with a poor deluded fool is tantamount to cruelty to an animal. But someone has to point out that delusions are not normal.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago

I do not call someone fed bull effluent by his advisors naïve unless he fails to realize it and Trump has.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

I doubt that you would do anything if you were POTUS as you could not handle the flak, or the lack of bureaucratic support, let alone the open hostility of almost ALL the MSM and their celebrity trash. While I agree with the point WRT that tanker you cannot tell me that you know everything about it nor prove that Trump has done nothing as you are not included in any briefings so climb down from you high horse.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

I have a better insight than most. Instead of bytchin you should be taking notes.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

From a delusional website poster? You are kidding!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Ignorance is bliss, enjoy!

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

You define it so very well and thus are an expert upon it.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

You must be some lucky man’s past or future Ex-Wife.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Ahh you move from criticizing the posts to criticizing the poster. I guess that is a win for me. Many thanks.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Thx 4 not disagreeing!

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Thank you for not disagreeing with what I posted in reply. I guess you finally realized the truth.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

You ‘Leftists’ lie and have no truth! We both know that.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Something from you, with which, I can finally agree.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Something from you, with which, I can finally agree.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

What the hell are you on about now? Take your medication before I resort to your levels.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Wear sun glasses when you look up to my level!

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

As you missed the smiley I take that at face value so…
Megalomania! That confirms my opinion of you. Please take your medication and see your health service person.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Thank God you are not President!

Are you sad John Bolton was fired too? He also wanted a war with Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba etc. Don’t you think it’s time to stop trashing and blaming Trump for everything? Sometimes you sound like a SOROS troll….

You are an angry guy and I don’t believe it is only about Trump…. you have other issues…..
Find some peace in your life….

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Irrelevant!

I describe how Iran can use Trump’s failure to stop the tankers as a means of an EMP attack.

Geesssss, you are thick.

patd
patd
3 years ago

It’s nice to have a real American back in our WH!!!! Much better than the muslim butt kisser!!!

Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar
3 years ago
Reply to  patd

Real Reason Demonrats tried Impeaching Trump

Dems were paid by Iranian lobbyists to support Nuke deal http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/democrats-payroll-of-iranian-lobby/

And their holdovers still support it.

Its all about money. Anyone pays them they will sell out American interests.
china, Iran, qatar even pukistan know it and they have been screwing up America for decades now

All their paymasters were calling on them to Impeach Trump as he is screwing up their Anti-American agenda

you won;t hear this in any of the corrupt media. including Leftists run Fox news.

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago
Reply to  Amit Kumar

lenin said they’d sell the capitalists the rope they will hang themselves with –

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

The Communists are pikers in comparison to the muslums.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

Well Trump’s Threats Worked. Iran’s main proxy terrorist group in Iraq backed off, now calling for a cease fire. Trump / Esper had worked out 80 terrorist targets to be hit in Iraq
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Iran: Trump is MEAN to threaten us. All we did was to kill thousands of Americans and terrorize the world for 40 years, and for some reason Trump is pissed off. Why?
Rule # 81: Islamists are poor at consequential thinking.
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

And notice that Iran backed off immediately in Iraq just after Trump made his remarks. Trump’s remarks came right after he saw intel that Iranian proxy terrorists in Iraq [Kataib Hezbollah] planned to storm the US embassy in Baghdad and take hostages.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Iran: Trump is MEAN to threaten us. All we did was to kill thousands of Americans and terrorize the world for 40 years, and for some reason Trump is pissed off. Why?
Rule # 81: Islamists are poor at consequential thinking.
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mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

“The root of all evil is the * LOVE of money”
– Jesus
So guess what Entity rules this worlds monetary systems and inturn political systems- then by virtue the greed in the heart of man.
Look where that got Epstein/Maxwell and their unGodly gullible wealthy victims all million + billionaires = the lot of’em dumber then dirt…!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  mtman2

mtman: Yes, and evil never ends well
Psalms 34:17

17 The face of Hashem is set against evildoers, to erase their names from the earth.

https://theisraelbible.com/bible/psalms/chapter-34#verse-1

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

JOEL 2:
12) “Now, therefore,” says the Lord,
“Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
13) So rend your heart, and not your garments;
Return to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm.
14) Who knows if He will turn and relent,
And leave a blessing behind Him—
A grain offering and a drink offering
For the Lord your God?

15) Blow the trumpet in Zion,
Consecrate a fast,
Call a sacred assembly;
16) Gather the people,
Sanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders,
Gather the children and nursing babes;
Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber,
And the bride from her dressing room.
17) Let the priests, who minister to the Lord,
Weep between the porch and the altar;
Let them say, “Spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not give Your heritage to reproach,
That the nations should rule over them.
* Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’ ”

The Land Refreshed…???

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  mtman2

Thanks for this mtman.
Psalms 1:6
Because the LORD knows the way of the just, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.
King David wrote the Psalms.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Tho the ‘just’ must return to the Light for that Providencial hand.

The “porch” is man flesh the “altar” is the Spirit.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  mtman2

Money is their god.
Money gives them power to control us and that is what they are trying to do.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yes and I believe the manipulating Luceferian spirit of that “monetary control” goes back before Egypt + Babylon – pre Flood.
And was over Judeans in Jesus time on Earth thru the same corrupted Pharisee’s totally sold out to “monetary control” and fully part of the very “money changers” installed in “their temple’ as being the only overt act of violence Christ committed in driving them out…

I believe “they” once driven out by Hadrian’s 70ad genocide are the ones going North as the Judeans scattered to the 4winds.
That in knowing how to wield power and control thru “mammon” ARE the predessessor ‘ancestors’ of the very Globalist’s that ended up controlling the nations of Europe = and are yet today as well in OUR faux/fiat monetary FED-system the (D)’s finally installed here over us all unConstitutionally.

In connecting these dots Brothers- it seems it is “they” (the Judeans in name only) whom Jesus called the “Synogogue of Satan”.
Tho not for nothing for “they” are that particular cabal whom learned to “alchemize” money out of thin air to now own the world and want a NWO knowing only Atheism can accomplish this.
This is why they seized on Atheist Marxism as their vehicle to subjegate nations, society’s, cultures and religions by dumbing them down es thru educational systems to “bear the fruits required to pull it all off[seen in OUR streets this very day as todays “useful idiots”].
SEE
“Communist Goals for America” for no Christ honoring Scripture embracing culture would nor could fall for their planned NWO –
SEE
“The deliberate Dumbing Down of America” –
by Charlotte Iserbyt – a giant Christian Patriot in OUR time.
She is 90 now + has many Utube vids and her website.

I’ve tried to point these things out over 10yrs time as to these connecting dots down thru the ages but seems to pass over people heads having been fully indoctrinated by re-assembled history to be read only a certain way and its all incorrect.

Is also why in knowing the history seen by family a 100 yrs ago not in history books caused me to spend 10’s of thousands of hrs in research beyond my fathers retold personal history to connect these hidden dots which explains the tight connection of it all over the last century. America was used and drawn into the pages of that untold history = all right before OUR eyes yet not seen nor intended or allowed to be by an “Unseen Hand”.
I could write a book here but that’ll come about later if there is one – Hope must be OUR cause…!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Amit Kumar

The U.S., specifically Trump, is a stumbling block to their agenda.
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Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

Trump’s assuming the leadership role, from the very outset, has been like a football coach taking over a failing program, there is so much he has to undo before setting about to instill a winning culture.

Iran jacking with the US is the equivalent of a gnat crawling up an elephant’s leg with rape on its mind.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

Tho if it’s a tick – can spread di-sease and even death…!

PHAETOR HERKAN
PHAETOR HERKAN
3 years ago

President Trump should give order to destroy all nuclear facilities in Iran – ASAP & BEFORE the election!

Let me add: It is not about destroying lives of normal Iranian citizens, who are tortured and terrorized victims – first of the persian shaw (by the way with the help of US government) and after by mullahs since 7 decades.

Irans horrible muslim government – with unnumbered suicide bombers, with intercontinental missiles – won’t hesitate to detonate nuclear bombs all over the planet once in their possession.

On the way to rule the planet muslims never cared about human lives and never will.

If the dictatorial Democrats win the election, they will immediately start new wars in the ME, China would attack the US – hundreds of thousands of American soldiers and millions of US Americans would die, since the wars would reach the whole Western countries and the US, and would be fought on US soil too.
The plans and scenarios have long been in the Democrats’ and their foreign allies drawers.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  PHAETOR HERKAN

If the US attacked Iran it would be interesting to see how the muslum OIC or muslum controlled OPEC and/or UN would respond.

PHAETOR HERKAN
PHAETOR HERKAN
3 years ago

1. It is a defense – and not an attack – to disarm an enemy who declares his most important goal being the destruction of USA
2. OIC is a Paper Tiger with Megaphone, collaborating with the global enemedia
3. UN is a congregation of mostly criminal corrupt string-puppets collaborating with the global enemedia
4. Decapitating islam is the only way to stop islamic infiltration/occupation/delition of the Western World.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

Likely applaud it for many reasons…!

durabo
durabo
3 years ago
Reply to  PHAETOR HERKAN

Let the Israelis do it: they have bigger balls than we Yanks.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  PHAETOR HERKAN

John Bolton, is that you?
Israel can handle it and we will back them up if Trump is President if they need it.

jerrys
jerrys
3 years ago

A vote for a democrat is a vote for islam to place America under sharia slavery!
Like rust, islam never sleeps in its insidious infiltration of our country. The dupe of the black population to carry out the korans mandate of removing statues and heritage from countries it invades. The numerous acts of arson, the rapes, stabbings and murders all calculated to wreck America so the the Omars, obamas, Ellisons and the army of moslems invading our government at every level will eventually destroy the constitution and demand sharia.
A vote for a democrat is a vote for islam!

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

TRUMP = still fearless in standing for what he believes…!!!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

I hate that picture of our military. It was a set up. Obama thoroughly enjoyed humiliating us.
That won’t happen under Trump. At best we will have four more years of sanity under Trump.
You’d better vote Trump.

If Biden gets in our country will become hell on earth. With ongoing fraud and activist judges and others denying it like Mitch McConnell, it is a real possibility Harris/Biden could win. It will be Harris who will take over from Biden and pack the Supreme court with unqualified “diversity” people – maybe a tranny too! DEMS and other idiots love what is unnatural.

Your rights won’t matter. DEMS like you ignorant and easily led. They’ll mange your entire life for you – what you eat, wear, say and do. Gun rights and freedom of religion will be a memory. Biden really meant this –

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mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yes well many normal “extraordinary” AMERICAN’s care more about what they mean then anything except the Word’s of God and the Christ whom fulfilled them –
as Job clearly described in Chapter 19:

23 “Oh, that my words were written!
Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
24 That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!
25 For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;
26 And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,
That in my flesh I shall see God,
27 Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
28 If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute Him?’—
* Since the root of the matter is found in me,
29 Be afraid of the sword for yourselves;
For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
That you may know there is a judgment.”

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  mtman2

That’s where you and I are okay regardless of the outcome. It is distressing to watch what’s going on but we can warn people from a secular stance or from a Christian stand point. Some seeds will take and some won’t. Others try to rationalize being an atheist. Still others have created their own Gospel that fits how they want the world to be. Ultimately it is the eternal that matters more than the temporal. Many are determined to rationalize their way to hell – they know it better – LOL! Never mind that you can clearly see prophecy playing out right before our eyes – they still proudly diss Him.

The other day I had a thought… there are still some things we love and enjoy on this earth but as it gets darker out there.. maybe this is His way of weaning us off that too. Trump will do what he can but he is not our Messiah. Any peace in the middle east is temporary but why rain on their parade?

Luke 8: 4- 15

[4] And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
[5] A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
[6] And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
[7] And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
[8] And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
[9] And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
[10] And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
[11] Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
[12] Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
[13] They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
[14] And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
[15] But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Take care mtman2.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Times a gettin close felix 1999…
I believe you’ll absorb this readily Brother…!
On my text of JOEL 2:17
Leonard Ravenhill – Weeping between the porch and the altar

In the city of Leeds, where I lived in England, the revival came. It came because there was a little man there, he was unlettered, he had no degree, but boy, did he have a burning heart. And he labored, and he had three breakdowns, not mentally, but physically. You know why? Because he fasted so much. But he had authority. Paul says in Ephesians 6:19, “Pray for me, that utterance may be given me.” In other words he means, let the Word be endued with that mysterious thing that you can’t define and nobody can give. The thing that we call unction. The anointing of God! If money could buy it, my, some of you would sell your house to get it, but you can’t get it with money. And you can’t get it at the university. We are trying to marry Christianity to prosperity, and popularity, and personalities. And it isn’t working. Oh, you can preach the prosperity doctrine because that feeds our carnality. Look, why don’t those men that preach that go to the third world to preach it where they need it? I know wealthy people, many of them are lovely people and I believe God lets them have a ministry in supplying needs. But when the church of Jesus Christ is prosperous, she never has revival. It’s when she’s poor. Prayer is the language of the poor. “Bow down Thine ear and hear me, for I am poor and needy.” The self-satisfied don’t need to pray.
The self-sufficient don’t want to pray.
The self-righteous cannot pray. But the man who realizes,
“I need something outside of anything that’s human at all,”
he wants to bathe his soul in prayer. I went to a little Bible school in England, there were only thirty five students, but I’m glad that the man who was the principal was a man of prayer – Samuel Chadwick who wrote the book “The Path of Prayer.” The weakest meeting in almost any church without exception is the prayer meeting. And when we are not strong in prayer we are saying to God, “We can manage.” (Of course, we shall pray if we have an invasion, we shall pray if we have a famine – we have a great “utility” God.) Very often we say to young people, “Now look, you have to read your Bible and maintain your prayer. You need to maintain your prayer life to maintain your Christian life.” No! Not so. Not so. You need to maintain your Christian life in order to pray. The greatest expositor in the world living today told me personally, “I don’t have any trouble. I delight to expound the Word. My books…” he wrote many, many books, but he said, “I’ve always found prayer so tough. I just find prayer the most difficult thing in the world.” Read the Acts of the Apostles and all you read about is prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer. When they had prayed the place was shaken. If you want to read the prayer life of Jesus you would read the Gospel according to Luke because in every instance he gives Jesus as a praying man. I remember a series of meeting we had in Wales in 1949. After three days a lady, Mrs. Lewis, said to me, “Brother Ravenhill, this is the nearest thing to the Welsh revival that we’ve had.” That was forty years after the Welsh revival. “Mrs. Lewis, what’s the point of identification?” “Because we walk up the hill now as we walked then.” And she explained, “Last night, the night before, the night before that,” she said “it wasn’t until we got to the cross roads and bid each other ‘good night,’ that we realized that nobody had said a word. We were so awed with the majesty and the presence of God.” Our people don’t get off the door step of the church – “Hey,
do you think the Cowboys will win today?” It’s dribble! It’s nonsense!
When did you last tiptoe out of the sanctuary when you dare not say a word?
The church has to rediscover two things.
One, the majesty and the Holiness of God, and
the other, the sinfulness of sin.
Prayer is not the easiest thing in the world,
Prayer is the hardest thing in the world.
Prayer is the most demanding thing in the world. I had the pleasure of praying very often with Duncan Campbell, a man God used in the Hebrides revival, 1950 onward. I asked him one day about a certain event, he said, “Yes, that’s right. When I was ministering the place was like iron; it seemed as though God was a million miles away. And my message was like throwing a rubber ball at the wall, my words came back on me.” In front of him were all kinds of ministers, but he didn’t say anything to the preachers and the deacons and the elders. He pointed to a boy sitting over there, called him by name and said, “Laddie, will you pray?” A sixteen year old high school boy! And he stood up, and he said in his Scottish way, “Ach, what is the good of praying if we are not right with God?” And he began to quote Psalm 24, “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? He that hath clean hands and pure heart.” and so forth and so on. “And when he’d finished,” Duncan told me, “The stillness of eternity was on the building.” And the boy prayed 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 45 minutes. And then, when he prayed as though he could see the invisible he said, “Satan.” Oh, I’ve heard people say this almost facetiously
in some meetings, “Get the Devil out of this place.” The young boy stood there and said, “Satan, I rebuke you. Get out of this territory! In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. I plead the blood of Christ, BE GONE!” And just as though a switch was pulled in heaven God came on the meeting,
He came on a tavern at the end of the road and people left it.
He came on a dance at the end of the road and people left it. We have to drag people to the altar; there are no altar calls in the New Testament if you want to be REALLY scriptural. Altar calls are an invention for when the Holy Ghost doesn’t deal with people. This boy prayed, the Holy Ghost came and that whole community vibrated with God. You see preacher, you’ve only two things to do, not twenty two. You are not supposed to be the janitor and running a business and finding about the church’s bank balance and all that junk. If you are going to be a true Biblical preacher you got two things to do according to Acts 6:4, give yourself continually to prayer and the Word of God. That’s all you have to do. Who is going to visit the sick? The deacons. Who is going to bury the dead? The deacons. (The Scripture clearly says, “Let the dead bury the dead.” – I like to tease, you know.) You see, we want the church to function our way. “God bless our plans.” “God bless what we do.” When Alexander McClaren went to that great big church in Manchester, England – and I’ve ministered in that church – seats maybe a couple of thousand or so – the deacons, great bearded fellows they were in those days, asked him a host of questions which he answered. Finally they said, “We’ve asked you to be the pastor of this great church. We’ll give you a new house, we’ll furnish it, we’ll buy you a carriage and pair,” as we say in England, “and we’ll give you a large salary.” After they went on, and on, and on, they asked, “Will you accept this?” And he said, “All right, I’ll accept it – that is if you accept my terms.” “You have terms?” (You know most churches think when they get a pastor they are renting a Hertz car. You better come and fit in!) “And what are the conditions?” And he laid some down, but one vital thing that he laid down was this, “I shall do no visiting.” Dr. Tozer, I loved that precious man and talked with him often, just the two of us in his office and prayed with him. Dr. Tozer never went to Bible school, he never went to the seminary. Yet he was one of the most learned men I ever met. I stayed in the house of a member of his church and she said, “You know what? I have gone to his church twenty five years and he has not been in my house five times.” But I’ll tell you what, he spread the table, and that’s all you have to do. You know brethren, you never have to advertise a fire. You don’t have to advertise it in the news paper, forget it. You let the glory of the Lord fill the temple; people will come from hundreds of miles. Because it’s starvation everywhere. My phone rings constantly, “I’m going to move here, I’m going to move there. Do you know a church that really is on fire for God? A church where they have all night prayer meetings?” No church should function these days without a whole night prayer. What do you want… social standing? Do you just want numbers of people? Do you want to fill the pews? Or do you want fire? I said last night, I think the greatest honor that was ever given to a preacher in history was not given by men, it was given by demons. When those demons said, “Jesus I know and Paul I know.” Come on preacher, do you think if the devil has a danger list of the ten most wanted men in America you are one of them? I would rather be the last man on the devil’s danger list than the first man on any honor roll you could give us about preaching. I’ll say it again: brother, if you are not known in hell you are not worth a hill of beans. We must realize we are not just fighting a local situation, we are not fighting drug addiction, we are not fighting massive pornography. We are surrounded by an arrogant, militant paganism. If you told your grandfather forty years ago that forty thousand homosexuals would march down main street, he would have said, “Not in America.” You know what? Adultery and divorce is getting to plague proportions even in the church of God. We don’t have decent morality in some churches, never mind spirituality. We don’t elect deacons because they are full of the faith and the Holy Ghost – we appoint them because they own two Texaco stations and a hot dog stand. Another thing Jesus did, He prayed all night before He chose His disciples. If we prayed all night before we chose our deacons, I guarantee half of them wouldn’t get in… if we had to get the witness of the Sprit about it. You see, I have people saying, “Why don’t you write a book about some methods of revival.” No, no. I can’t do that. We don’t need to find the formula for revival. The formula for revival is in the Word of God or else there isn’t one. The formula of revival is:
Preachers need to hit the altars and weep because they have no tears.
Groan because there is no moving of the Spirit of God.
Apologize to God that we’ve kind of manipulated the supernatural.
Now, I am not just thinking of miracles of twisted limbs and other things. I think the greatest miracle that God can do is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that unholy man holy and put him back in an unholy world and keep him holy. But we are more afraid of holiness today in the church than we are of sinfulness. If an unclean man with an unclean spirit does unclean things, if a man that’s vile does vile things because he has a vile spirit, surely the man who has the Holy Spirit in him will live a holy life. I don’t ask people if they are saved anymore, forget it, everybody is “saved;” it doesn’t mean a thing. Don’t ask a man if he is born again, just look gently at him, it doesn’t matter who he is, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Methodist or Mennonite, just say, “Brother, does Christ live in you?” Well, isn’t that the standard of the New Birth? Isn’t that what Paul says, “Christ in you the hope of glory”?
I hear an awful lot about gifts of the Spirit, that’s all right.
I hear less about the fruit of the Sprit.
I hear less still about having your fruit unto holiness.
I hear less still about bringing forth fruit meet for repentance.
You know why some people don’t believe in our converts? Because they don’t go back and clear up the dirty mess that they’ve made as far as they can. Restore the stolen money…maintain the baby of the girl they got into trouble… some other thing they should do. Bring forth fruit. A healthy tree doesn’t bring forth fruit. It’s the tree that has all the flowing life that brings forth fruit. One day Napoleon ran his index finger round a great country, he was talking to his generals and he said, “There lies a sleeping giant, LET IT SLEEP!! Because,” he said, “if that country ever wakes up and harnesses it’s man power to it’s mineral power it will shake the world.” The country he outlined, in case you are interested, was none other than China, our biggest headache. See the devil standing there, he isn’t running his finger round a map, he is running his finger round the church of Jesus Christ and he says, “There is the church of Jesus Christ asleep, LET IT SLEEP!!” “Because if it ever rediscovers the power of the Holy Ghost, if it ever rediscovers the resurrection power of Jesus, it will shake the world.” I wonder how much of our lives is dominated by the Spirit of God. No, no, no, we can’t go to the congregations. Let the priest weep between the altar and the door posts. I walked round the front of the podium one day, in a distinguished, wonderful college, fourteen hundred students listening. I just walked round and said to the professors, “Gentlemen you are teaching young men to be preachers. In one sense, they are going to guide the church in the future days. Tell me this, do you have for them a course on weeping? And if they graduate, do you have a course on howling?” An old professor came and sat at the back in one of my meetings. He believed in old blood and fire, hell-fire preaching and holy living and a church being something which God deposited in the world just to show people how He can redeem us and get a bride for Himself. And you know, all the other professors in that university say, “That old man is senile.” I like an old statement that was made I think by Montgomery, “All earthly things with earth will fade away, but prayer grasps eternity.” And if we’re going to see as God sees… Praying, just recently, the Lord seemed to say this to me, “If you claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit the things that grieve the Spirit will grieve you.” Who does the Lord cast His burdens on? Does He roll them away into the oblivion? No, no, no. He says, “My yoke is easy, My burden is light.” We don’t want people to think we’re depressed. I mean, everything is depressing outside, why cover it over? We are heading for judgment faster than you could ever think unless there is a divine intervention. And the key, again, is the priests weeping. The priests howling. We sure need
a heaven born,
earth shaking,
hell-terrifying revival. And it only comes through brokeness, it comes through honesty. It comes when we admit, which is true of most around these days, that we just have a form of godliness – thank God we are not filthy and we are not dirty and we are not drunkards and we don’t have a spare woman or something, we are pretty good. Ha, yes, that’s just like Israel. They got out of Egypt and they got to Kadesh-barnea and instead of going to the promised land they got stuck. Kadesh-barnea was supposed to be a gateway and it became a goal.
It was supposed to be a thoroughfare and it became a terminal.
It was supposed to be a stepping stone to something else, it
became a stumbling block. Let me wind this up. I was reading, and I guess I read it every week or I recite it to myself, that amazing chapter that we call the Faith Chapter in Hebrews 11. Faith is mentioned twenty four times in that chapter. I believe the key is not just the word faith, I believe the key is the 6th verse – “He that cometh to God must believe that He is.” He is what? He is everything that He said in this Word. And then, you know, I read Hebrews 11: “They subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, women received their dead come to life again.” I read that and I knelt down to pray in my office and it’s as though the Lord said, “Say that again.” And so I said it, “Lord, these people far off there, they subdued whole kingdoms, they wrought righteousness, they obtained promises, they stopped the mouths of lions, women received their dead come to life.” And, as somebody said this year, “and not one of them had a Bible.” Did you ever consider that? Let me take you back to a time when God’s chosen people wondered around in sheepskins and goatskins! Now we’ve a land flowing with milk and honey – and churches flowing with mink and money. As though God looks on the outside. Forget it! He looks on the inside. Those people never had 66 Books. And you know what, if the world lasts another 100 thousand years, which it won’t, but if it did, God doesn’t have anything to add to that Book. He’s said all He is ever going to say to man. In my youth, I used to go listen in a Bible class where Dr. G. Campbell Morgan used to preach very often – a fascinating Bible teacher. And I remember in my early teens I thought, “One day I’ll stay behind and ask him what kind of a Bible he has because all that stuff he has isn’t in my Bible.” I don’t care whether you are thinking of Finney or Wesley or Booth, or any great majestic figure that has ruled in the church of God and seen revival, not one of them had a bigger Bible than you and I have. It’s the same Word. Again, we better make our minds up whether it is absolute or obsolete. I’ll tell you what, if this Book doesn’t have the answer for a rotten, corrupt, stinking world, there is no answer for it. We’ve out sinned Sodom and Gomorra. Do you know there are 600 million Bibles in America? Would you try to guess how many millions or billions of Bible cassettes there are in the nation? Would you like to try to estimate how many seminars there are? Or seminaries there are? Or Bible schools? Or how many Gospel messages are preached throughout the nation? And that we’ve got 500 radio stations that broadcast something of the Gospel. Let me give you the other side and I quit. We are the most broken nation that we’ve ever been in history.
We’ve more broken homes,
We’ve more broken hearts over those broken homes.
We’ve more broken little kids because of those broken homes.
We’ve more minds broken by drugs, We’ve more bodies broken – over a million girls last year got pregnant under 17 years of age. And people were marching a few years ago, “Stop the war in Vietnam, stop the war.” “No right to kill people,” and yet it’s estimated in the last nine years we’ve put more than 10 million babies to death before they left their mother’s wombs (in a Christian country. My Lord, what happens in a heathen country!) Do you think God Almighty is going to wink at our sin much longer? I don’t.
And the legislators can’t help us, and the banks can’t help us,
and the government can’t help us,
and money can’t help us. Our help cometh from the Lord. And the only way is in submission and brokeness. That we get and say, many of us,
“Lord, I don’t have the vision I used to have.
I don’t have the passion I used to have.
I don’t have the concern I used to have,” not for America, for lost souls. Lost souls first, America second. I am convinced the key is in the ministry. Maybe the way to start revival in your church is to stand up next Sunday morning and say, “Look, I want to tell you, I’ve had no passion for the lost. I shed no tears for lost mankind. I’ve so many other things I am interested in.” I believe one key to the apostle Paul’s life was this, “This – one – thing – I – do.” He lived God. He thought God. He prayed God. That’s all. You can lash him, you can’t whip it out of him.
He can float on a piece of wood in the Mediterranean a night and a day –
thirty six hours, you can’t wash it out of him.
They tried to starve him, you can’t starve it out of him.
He’d had a vision of the cross, he’d had a vision of the resurrection power. He’d realized the greatest thing this side of eternity is to be a God filled man. And goes out and proclaims that message, whether he goes to Jews, to barbarians, the Greeks, the intellectuals. He is as at home in the intellectual capital of the world, Athens, as he is in the religious capital of the world, Jerusalem. God never, never intended His church to backslide. God never intended His church to function with anything less than Apostolic Christianity. And it’s time to call the church to prayer. I believe if we were as spiritual as we think we are we would have gone to church yesterday in sackcloth and a handful of ashes to put on our heads and mourn that the Glory has departed. I can almost hear Duncan Campbell saying how they cried in Scotland, “Oh, that Thou wouldst rend the heaven and come down.” You see, we’ve never seen God move ’til He’s stopped the traffic.
‘Til people in the shops are singing.
‘Til the lights don’t go out week after week.
‘Til the Holy Ghost is moving in factories. He’s done that in other revivals. He has called us to stand in the gap.
To be the repairers of the breach. To bring the powers of the world to come on this materialistic blind day in which we live and this sleepy Laodicean church. When He was on earth He cleaned the temple. I feel it needs cleansing again, from worldliness… from materialism… May the Lord help us to search our hearts as well as search the Scriptures. Help us to be honest and admit that we’ve failed, seek the place of prayer, and the place of cleansing and the place of anointing. May we be a vital link between His Eternal Spirit and this troubled, lost world outside. May His glory shine forth again. Copyright © 1994 by Leonard Ravenhill – http://www.ravenhill.org/
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mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
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Times a gettin close felix 1999…
I believe you’ll absorb this readily Brother…!
On my text of JOEL 2:17
Leonard Ravenhill – Weeping between the porch and the altar

In the city of Leeds, where I lived in England, the revival came. It came because there was a little man there, he was unlettered, he had no degree, but boy, did he have a burning heart. And he labored, and he had three breakdowns, not mentally, but physically. You know why? Because he fasted so much. But he had authority. Paul says in Ephesians 6:19, “Pray for me, that utterance may be given me.” In other words he means, let the Word be endued with that mysterious thing that you can’t define and nobody can give. The thing that we call unction. The anointing of God! If money could buy it, my, some of you would sell your house to get it, but you can’t get it with money. And you can’t get it at the university. We are trying to marry Christianity to prosperity, and popularity, and personalities. And it isn’t working. Oh, you can preach the prosperity doctrine because that feeds our carnality. Look, why don’t those men that preach that go to the third world to preach it where they need it? I know wealthy people, many of them are lovely people and I believe God lets them have a ministry in supplying needs. But when the church of Jesus Christ is prosperous, she never has revival. It’s when she’s poor. Prayer is the language of the poor. “Bow down Thine ear and hear me, for I am poor and needy.” The self-satisfied don’t need to pray.
The self-sufficient don’t want to pray.
The self-righteous cannot pray. But the man who realizes,
“I need something outside of anything that’s human at all,”
he wants to bathe his soul in prayer. I went to a little Bible school in England, there were only thirty five students, but I’m glad that the man who was the principal was a man of prayer – Samuel Chadwick who wrote the book “The Path of Prayer.” The weakest meeting in almost any church without exception is the prayer meeting. And when we are not strong in prayer we are saying to God, “We can manage.” (Of course, we shall pray if we have an invasion, we shall pray if we have a famine – we have a great “utility” God.) Very often we say to young people, “Now look, you have to read your Bible and maintain your prayer. You need to maintain your prayer life to maintain your Christian life.” No! Not so. Not so. You need to maintain your Christian life in order to pray. The greatest expositor in the world living today told me personally, “I don’t have any trouble. I delight to expound the Word. My books…” he wrote many, many books, but he said, “I’ve always found prayer so tough. I just find prayer the most difficult thing in the world.” Read the Acts of the Apostles and all you read about is prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer. When they had prayed the place was shaken. If you want to read the prayer life of Jesus you would read the Gospel according to Luke because in every instance he gives Jesus as a praying man. I remember a series of meeting we had in Wales in 1949. After three days a lady, Mrs. Lewis, said to me, “Brother Ravenhill, this is the nearest thing to the Welsh revival that we’ve had.” That was forty years after the Welsh revival. “Mrs. Lewis, what’s the point of identification?” “Because we walk up the hill now as we walked then.” And she explained, “Last night, the night before, the night before that,” she said “it wasn’t until we got to the cross roads and bid each other ‘good night,’ that we realized that nobody had said a word. We were so awed with the majesty and the presence of God.” Our people don’t get off the door step of the church – “Hey,
do you think the Cowboys will win today?” It’s dribble! It’s nonsense!
When did you last tiptoe out of the sanctuary when you dare not say a word?
The church has to rediscover two things.
One, the majesty and the Holiness of God, and
the other, the sinfulness of sin.
Prayer is not the easiest thing in the world,
Prayer is the hardest thing in the world.
Prayer is the most demanding thing in the world. I had the pleasure of praying very often with Duncan Campbell, a man God used in the Hebrides revival, 1950 onward. I asked him one day about a certain event, he said, “Yes, that’s right. When I was ministering the place was like iron; it seemed as though God was a million miles away. And my message was like throwing a rubber ball at the wall, my words came back on me.” In front of him were all kinds of ministers, but he didn’t say anything to the preachers and the deacons and the elders. He pointed to a boy sitting over there, called him by name and said, “Laddie, will you pray?” A sixteen year old high school boy! And he stood up, and he said in his Scottish way, “Ach, what is the good of praying if we are not right with God?” And he began to quote Psalm 24, “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? He that hath clean hands and pure heart.” and so forth and so on. “And when he’d finished,” Duncan told me, “The stillness of eternity was on the building.” And the boy prayed 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 45 minutes. And then, when he prayed as though he could see the invisible he said, “Satan.” Oh, I’ve heard people say this almost facetiously
in some meetings, “Get the Devil out of this place.” The young boy stood there and said, “Satan, I rebuke you. Get out of this territory! In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. I plead the blood of Christ, BE GONE!” And just as though a switch was pulled in heaven God came on the meeting,
He came on a tavern at the end of the road and people left it.
He came on a dance at the end of the road and people left it. We have to drag people to the altar; there are no altar calls in the New Testament if you want to be REALLY scriptural. Altar calls are an invention for when the Holy Ghost doesn’t deal with people. This boy prayed, the Holy Ghost came and that whole community vibrated with God. You see preacher, you’ve only two things to do, not twenty two. You are not supposed to be the janitor and running a business and finding about the church’s bank balance and all that junk. If you are going to be a true Biblical preacher you got two things to do according to Acts 6:4, give yourself continually to prayer and the Word of God. That’s all you have to do. Who is going to visit the sick? The deacons. Who is going to bury the dead? The deacons. (The Scripture clearly says, “Let the dead bury the dead.” – I like to tease, you know.) You see, we want the church to function our way. “God bless our plans.” “God bless what we do.” When Alexander McClaren went to that great big church in Manchester, England – and I’ve ministered in that church – seats maybe a couple of thousand or so – the deacons, great bearded fellows they were in those days, asked him a host of questions which he answered. Finally they said, “We’ve asked you to be the pastor of this great church. We’ll give you a new house, we’ll furnish it, we’ll buy you a carriage and pair,” as we say in England, “and we’ll give you a large salary.” After they went on, and on, and on, they asked, “Will you accept this?” And he said, “All right, I’ll accept it – that is if you accept my terms.” “You have terms?” (You know most churches think when they get a pastor they are renting a Hertz car. You better come and fit in!) “And what are the conditions?” And he laid some down, but one vital thing that he laid down was this, “I shall do no visiting.” Dr. Tozer, I loved that precious man and talked with him often, just the two of us in his office and prayed with him. Dr. Tozer never went to Bible school, he never went to the seminary. Yet he was one of the most learned men I ever met. I stayed in the house of a member of his church and she said, “You know what? I have gone to his church twenty five years and he has not been in my house five times.” But I’ll tell you what, he spread the table, and that’s all you have to do. You know brethren, you never have to advertise a fire. You don’t have to advertise it in the news paper, forget it. You let the glory of the Lord fill the temple; people will come from hundreds of miles. Because it’s starvation everywhere. My phone rings constantly, “I’m going to move here, I’m going to move there. Do you know a church that really is on fire for God? A church where they have all night prayer meetings?” No church should function these days without a whole night prayer. What do you want… social standing? Do you just want numbers of people? Do you want to fill the pews? Or do you want fire? I said last night, I think the greatest honor that was ever given to a preacher in history was not given by men, it was given by demons. When those demons said, “Jesus I know and Paul I know.” Come on preacher, do you think if the devil has a danger list of the ten most wanted men in America you are one of them? I would rather be the last man on the devil’s danger list than the first man on any honor roll you could give us about preaching. I’ll say it again: brother, if you are not known in hell you are not worth a hill of beans. We must realize we are not just fighting a local situation, we are not fighting drug addiction, we are not fighting massive pornography. We are surrounded by an arrogant, militant paganism. If you told your grandfather forty years ago that forty thousand homosexuals would march down main street, he would have said, “Not in America.” You know what? Adultery and divorce is getting to plague proportions even in the church of God. We don’t have decent morality in some churches, never mind spirituality. We don’t elect deacons because they are full of the faith and the Holy Ghost – we appoint them because they own two Texaco stations and a hot dog stand. Another thing Jesus did, He prayed all night before He chose His disciples. If we prayed all night before we chose our deacons, I guarantee half of them wouldn’t get in… if we had to get the witness of the Sprit about it. You see, I have people saying, “Why don’t you write a book about some methods of revival.” No, no. I can’t do that. We don’t need to find the formula for revival. The formula for revival is in the Word of God or else there isn’t one. The formula of revival is:
Preachers need to hit the altars and weep because they have no tears.
Groan because there is no moving of the Spirit of God.
Apologize to God that we’ve kind of manipulated the supernatural.
Now, I am not just thinking of miracles of twisted limbs and other things. I think the greatest miracle that God can do is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that unholy man holy and put him back in an unholy world and keep him holy. But we are more afraid of holiness today in the church than we are of sinfulness. If an unclean man with an unclean spirit does unclean things, if a man that’s vile does vile things because he has a vile spirit, surely the man who has the Holy Spirit in him will live a holy life. I don’t ask people if they are saved anymore, forget it, everybody is “saved;” it doesn’t mean a thing. Don’t ask a man if he is born again, just look gently at him, it doesn’t matter who he is, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Methodist or Mennonite, just say, “Brother, does Christ live in you?” Well, isn’t that the standard of the New Birth? Isn’t that what Paul says, “Christ in you the hope of glory”?
I hear an awful lot about gifts of the Spirit, that’s all right.
I hear less about the fruit of the Sprit.
I hear less still about having your fruit unto holiness.
I hear less still about bringing forth fruit meet for repentance.
You know why some people don’t believe in our converts? Because they don’t go back and clear up the dirty mess that they’ve made as far as they can. Restore the stolen money…maintain the baby of the girl they got into trouble… some other thing they should do. Bring forth fruit. A healthy tree doesn’t bring forth fruit. It’s the tree that has all the flowing life that brings forth fruit. One day Napoleon ran his index finger round a great country, he was talking to his generals and he said, “There lies a sleeping giant, LET IT SLEEP!! Because,” he said, “if that country ever wakes up and harnesses it’s man power to it’s mineral power it will shake the world.” The country he outlined, in case you are interested, was none other than China, our biggest headache. See the devil standing there, he isn’t running his finger round a map, he is running his finger round the church of Jesus Christ and he says, “There is the church of Jesus Christ asleep, LET IT SLEEP!!” “Because if it ever rediscovers the power of the Holy Ghost, if it ever rediscovers the resurrection power of Jesus, it will shake the world.” I wonder how much of our lives is dominated by the Spirit of God. No, no, no, we can’t go to the congregations. Let the priest weep between the altar and the door posts. I walked round the front of the podium one day, in a distinguished, wonderful college, fourteen hundred students listening. I just walked round and said to the professors, “Gentlemen you are teaching young men to be preachers. In one sense, they are going to guide the church in the future days. Tell me this, do you have for them a course on weeping? And if they graduate, do you have a course on howling?” An old professor came and sat at the back in one of my meetings. He believed in old blood and fire, hell-fire preaching and holy living and a church being something which God deposited in the world just to show people how He can redeem us and get a bride for Himself. And you know, all the other professors in that university say, “That old man is senile.” I like an old statement that was made I think by Montgomery, “All earthly things with earth will fade away, but prayer grasps eternity.” And if we’re going to see as God sees… Praying, just recently, the Lord seemed to say this to me, “If you claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit the things that grieve the Spirit will grieve you.” Who does the Lord cast His burdens on? Does He roll them away into the oblivion? No, no, no. He says, “My yoke is easy, My burden is light.” We don’t want people to think we’re depressed. I mean, everything is depressing outside, why cover it over? We are heading for judgment faster than you could ever think unless there is a divine intervention. And the key, again, is the priests weeping. The priests howling. We sure need
a heaven born,
earth shaking,
hell-terrifying revival. And it only comes through brokeness, it comes through honesty. It comes when we admit, which is true of most around these days, that we just have a form of godliness – thank God we are not filthy and we are not dirty and we are not drunkards and we don’t have a spare woman or something, we are pretty good. Ha, yes, that’s just like Israel. They got out of Egypt and they got to Kadesh-barnea and instead of going to the promised land they got stuck. Kadesh-barnea was supposed to be a gateway and it became a goal.
It was supposed to be a thoroughfare and it became a terminal.
It was supposed to be a stepping stone to something else, it
became a stumbling block. Let me wind this up. I was reading, and I guess I read it every week or I recite it to myself, that amazing chapter that we call the Faith Chapter in Hebrews 11. Faith is mentioned twenty four times in that chapter. I believe the key is not just the word faith, I believe the key is the 6th verse – “He that cometh to God must believe that He is.” He is what? He is everything that He said in this Word. And then, you know, I read Hebrews 11: “They subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, women received their dead come to life again.” I read that and I knelt down to pray in my office and it’s as though the Lord said, “Say that again.” And so I said it, “Lord, these people far off there, they subdued whole kingdoms, they wrought righteousness, they obtained promises, they stopped the mouths of lions, women received their dead come to life.” And, as somebody said this year, “and not one of them had a Bible.” Did you ever consider that? Let me take you back to a time when God’s chosen people wondered around in sheepskins and goatskins! Now we’ve a land flowing with milk and honey – and churches flowing with mink and money. As though God looks on the outside. Forget it! He looks on the inside. Those people never had 66 Books. And you know what, if the world lasts another 100 thousand years, which it won’t, but if it did, God doesn’t have anything to add to that Book. He’s said all He is ever going to say to man. In my youth, I used to go listen in a Bible class where Dr. G. Campbell Morgan used to preach very often – a fascinating Bible teacher. And I remember in my early teens I thought, “One day I’ll stay behind and ask him what kind of a Bible he has because all that stuff he has isn’t in my Bible.” I don’t care whether you are thinking of Finney or Wesley or Booth, or any great majestic figure that has ruled in the church of God and seen revival, not one of them had a bigger Bible than you and I have. It’s the same Word. Again, we better make our minds up whether it is absolute or obsolete. I’ll tell you what, if this Book doesn’t have the answer for a rotten, corrupt, stinking world, there is no answer for it. We’ve out sinned Sodom and Gomorra. Do you know there are 600 million Bibles in America? Would you try to guess how many millions or billions of Bible cassettes there are in the nation? Would you like to try to estimate how many seminars there are? Or seminaries there are? Or Bible schools? Or how many Gospel messages are preached throughout the nation? And that we’ve got 500 radio stations that broadcast something of the Gospel. Let me give you the other side and I quit. We are the most broken nation that we’ve ever been in history.
We’ve more broken homes,
We’ve more broken hearts over those broken homes.
We’ve more broken little kids because of those broken homes.
We’ve more minds broken by drugs, We’ve more bodies broken – over a million girls last year got pregnant under 17 years of age. And people were marching a few years ago, “Stop the war in Vietnam, stop the war.” “No right to kill people,” and yet it’s estimated in the last nine years we’ve put more than 10 million babies to death before they left their mother’s wombs (in a Christian country. My Lord, what happens in a heathen country!) Do you think God Almighty is going to wink at our sin much longer? I don’t.
And the legislators can’t help us, and the banks can’t help us,
and the government can’t help us,
and money can’t help us. Our help cometh from the Lord. And the only way is in submission and brokeness. That we get and say, many of us,
“Lord, I don’t have the vision I used to have.
I don’t have the passion I used to have.
I don’t have the concern I used to have,” not for America, for lost souls. Lost souls first, America second. I am convinced the key is in the ministry. Maybe the way to start revival in your church is to stand up next Sunday morning and say, “Look, I want to tell you, I’ve had no passion for the lost. I shed no tears for lost mankind. I’ve so many other things I am interested in.” I believe one key to the apostle Paul’s life was this, “This – one – thing – I – do.” He lived God. He thought God. He prayed God. That’s all. You can lash him, you can’t whip it out of him.
He can float on a piece of wood in the Mediterranean a night and a day –
thirty six hours, you can’t wash it out of him.
They tried to starve him, you can’t starve it out of him.
He’d had a vision of the cross, he’d had a vision of the resurrection power. He’d realized the greatest thing this side of eternity is to be a God filled man. And goes out and proclaims that message, whether he goes to Jews, to barbarians, the Greeks, the intellectuals. He is as at home in the intellectual capital of the world, Athens, as he is in the religious capital of the world, Jerusalem. God never, never intended His church to backslide. God never intended His church to function with anything less than Apostolic Christianity. And it’s time to call the church to prayer. I believe if we were as spiritual as we think we are we would have gone to church yesterday in sackcloth and a handful of ashes to put on our heads and mourn that the Glory has departed. I can almost hear Duncan Campbell saying how they cried in Scotland, “Oh, that Thou wouldst rend the heaven and come down.” You see, we’ve never seen God move ’til He’s stopped the traffic.
‘Til people in the shops are singing.
‘Til the lights don’t go out week after week.
‘Til the Holy Ghost is moving in factories. He’s done that in other revivals. He has called us to stand in the gap.
To be the repairers of the breach. To bring the powers of the world to come on this materialistic blind day in which we live and this sleepy Laodicean church. When He was on earth He cleaned the temple. I feel it needs cleansing again, from worldliness… from materialism… May the Lord help us to search our hearts as well as search the Scriptures. Help us to be honest and admit that we’ve failed, seek the place of prayer, and the place of cleansing and the place of anointing. May we be a vital link between His Eternal Spirit and this troubled, lost world outside. May His glory shine forth again. Copyright © 1994 by Leonard Ravenhill – http://www.ravenhill.org/
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DVader
DVader
3 years ago

Yeah, right, they’ll really pay attention. Like they did when they shot down our recon drone and Trump did nothing.

tonvar
tonvar
3 years ago

Almost all wars in the Middle East are between Iranian backed Shia factions and the Saudi/Kuwait backed Sunni factions. The Gulf wars made it look like the U.S. took sides with the Shias that caused resentment among the Sunnis. By taking out the Shia war-lord Soleimani who was causing as much instability in the region as Sunni war-lords like Al-Baghdadi, the U.S. has balanced out this equation and served notice that anyone using violence to achieve strategic aims that harm the U.S. will not be spared. This is also why countries that were mortal enemies of Israel have shed their fear of being de-stabilized by Iran and are lining up to make peace with it.
The countless generals who line up cushy Washington jobs either in the Government or as Middle East experts after a stint there are naturally up in arms against Trump. The swamp is indeed being drained.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  tonvar

Shia, Sunni?? Who cares. Kill them all and let Allah sort them out.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Yes all 1.4 billion of them. Much as i agree with that in theory, in practice such an overt action would do more damage to the west than to islam. The muslim leaders have to be shown proof of what will happen to them IF they continue their support of the jihad and subtle, indirect actions are the WTG there. BUT! It is all wasted while ONE leftist remains in a leadership position in the west. There would be NO muslim problem if it were not for the Left. THEY are the primary enemy.

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