Daniel Rowland was a part of a group of Welsh revivalists during the Great Awakening which, under immense persecution, made a huge impact for God. Hear his amazing and often unknown story! Plus his most famous sermon.
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00:00 --> 00:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Revived Farts is a production of Revived Studios.
00:08 --> 00:11 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Troy Angel and you're listening to Revived Farts.
00:17 --> 00:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, who can, without both amazement and delighted rapture, behold the God of all glory, stooping to take notice of man,
00:31 --> 00:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Every episode we bring you a different voice from history and a sermon that they delivered today.
00:37 --> 00:44 [SPEAKER_02]: We're going back to Wales in the mid-1700s to listen to a sermon by a Daniel Rowland.
00:44 --> 00:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Troy, how are you doing today?
00:48 --> 00:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I'm doing good.
00:50 --> 01:05 [SPEAKER_01]: We are, and what I would call the wet season, which there's the dry season of the rainy season, but as the rainy season begins to, I wind down as a strong word, there's like a temporary month or two at the end of every of these seasons.
01:05 --> 01:08 [SPEAKER_01]: That's just, everything is just soggy and wet.
01:08 --> 01:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Everywhere you go is just wet.
01:10 --> 01:15 [SPEAKER_01]: I just feel like, oh, and everything's just moist and wet from having been soaked by these heavy rains.
01:15 --> 01:19 [SPEAKER_01]: and then everything is too humid to really dry off even when the sun is out.
01:20 --> 01:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm in the middle of the throes of the wet season here just waiting for it to move to the dry season so I can go outside without needing to worry about bringing an umbrella.
01:30 --> 01:31 [SPEAKER_02]: How about you, Jill?
01:32 --> 01:38 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like we are similarly in an Indonesian wet season here in Kansas City area.
01:38 --> 01:38 [SPEAKER_02]: We've had a lot of rain.
01:39 --> 01:39 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just been rain.
01:39 --> 01:46 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it is spring in the, you know, April, showers, showers, showers, showers, showers, Thank you.
01:46 --> 01:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
01:46 --> 01:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
01:47 --> 01:48 [SPEAKER_02]: It's not like it's not uncommon.
01:48 --> 01:49 [SPEAKER_02]: I suppose.
01:49 --> 01:53 [SPEAKER_02]: But, uh, and it's actually quite lovely temperature-wise.
01:53 --> 01:55 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like like we're like 70s and 80s.
01:55 --> 01:57 [SPEAKER_02]: So, that sounds really nice.
01:57 --> 01:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
01:58 --> 01:59 [SPEAKER_02]: It is.
01:59 --> 02:00 [SPEAKER_02]: It's actually not terrible.
02:00 --> 02:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Other than you get to choose Maddie if you go in the grass type things.
02:05 --> 02:08 [SPEAKER_02]: So Altonal first world problems, I guess both can't complain to it.
02:09 --> 02:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, sounds like things are good.
02:10 --> 02:12 [SPEAKER_01]: I know you're pretty busy.
02:12 --> 02:13 [SPEAKER_01]: I know you just got back from a trip.
02:13 --> 02:14 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even have another trip.
02:14 --> 02:16 [SPEAKER_01]: coming out soon and he has some big projects.
02:16 --> 02:22 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're at this kind of into the school year on our side last five to six weeks of school.
02:23 --> 02:28 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you know any teachers, you know that's usually a pretty actively busy season as well.
02:29 --> 02:29 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's just those things.
02:30 --> 02:34 [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm excited to be able to get in here and record some good episodes with you, Joel.
02:34 --> 02:37 [SPEAKER_01]: It's always a pleasure to be able to bring these out.
02:37 --> 02:38 [SPEAKER_01]: And, uh,
02:38 --> 02:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, yeah, it's just it's just exciting and I really like this episode.
02:42 --> 02:54 [SPEAKER_01]: This guy Daniel Roland is I say this all the time We've been doing this show for Really rounding up almost the seven years here very soon and I I wonder if there's a more oftenly coded phrase then
02:54 --> 02:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I never heard of this guy until this episode, but he's a really cool guy.
02:59 --> 03:03 [SPEAKER_01]: It's certainly in the top tiers of that maybe right next to how do you say this name?
03:03 --> 03:05 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to say it wrong, please don't get mad.
03:06 --> 03:09 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's definitely an often quoted statement, but I'll say it again.
03:09 --> 03:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Dana Roland, really cool guy.
03:11 --> 03:14 [SPEAKER_01]: I never heard of this guy before, but he was awesome.
03:14 --> 03:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And not only that I like him, and the sermon you're going to hear.
03:17 --> 03:20 [SPEAKER_01]: But the guy who recorded it, he's a gentleman.
03:20 --> 03:43 [SPEAKER_01]: from that side of the world so you'll notice it in the accent is a great guy got through his really cool and when he sent it back he was like wow this sort of in was great I get really touched me and I was like yeah I think so too this is just a really special one so highly I'm excited for everyone to be able to listen to it and excited to hear this guy's story and then when I was putting together this story it was the yet again just wow what an amazing person but
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09:29 --> 09:33 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, uh, should we talk about Daniel Daniel Rowland?
09:33 --> 09:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely Daniel Daniel Daniel Rowland Daniel Rowland.
09:37 --> 09:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Daniel Rowland, uh, famous pastor from Wales.
09:40 --> 09:46 [SPEAKER_02]: And we don't get a lot of people from Wales, but one, uh, of our favorites that we've had in the years past.
09:46 --> 09:50 [SPEAKER_02]: You might know, uh, we talked about Christmas events from time to time.
09:50 --> 09:51 [SPEAKER_02]: He comes back up reoccurringly.
09:51 --> 09:52 [SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk about man.
09:52 --> 09:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Remember you remember Christmas events?
09:54 --> 09:55 [SPEAKER_02]: He was one of our favorites.
09:55 --> 09:56 [SPEAKER_01]: He has a great name.
09:56 --> 10:05 [SPEAKER_01]: You got even Christmas evidence that alone makes you stand out, but also Christmas Evans is genuinely one of the best I mean, talk about a gym.
10:05 --> 10:06 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how I didn't know about him before.
10:06 --> 10:15 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't If I could redesign seminars and Bible colleges, the things I would put in there now, and one of them I would put in there is some required reading from Christmas Evans
10:15 --> 10:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's keeping our whale helping to keep our whales roster up, boosting those numbers, but our man today Daniel Rollin came about a century before Christmas Eve.
10:27 --> 10:29 [SPEAKER_02]: So we're going back even further.
10:29 --> 10:33 [SPEAKER_02]: Daniel Rollin was born in 1713.
10:33 --> 10:42 [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, these articles, they list the city and the region and the area, he's in none of them are real words.
10:42 --> 10:45 [SPEAKER_02]: They're all just complete gibberish.
10:45 --> 10:47 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, Troy, I'm going to make you try to pronounce some of these.
10:47 --> 10:48 [SPEAKER_02]: You always know.
10:48 --> 10:50 [SPEAKER_02]: I always have the names to pronounce.
10:50 --> 10:51 [SPEAKER_01]: You try to pronounce them.
10:51 --> 10:53 [SPEAKER_01]: It's because you start the episode.
10:53 --> 10:59 [SPEAKER_01]: So the names and places are born and they end up falling on you in the parish of this is a nine or is this like how many letters is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 8, 8, 9, 8, 11, 13 letter word with two vowels in it.
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11:08 --> 11:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, how is that, how is somebody supposed to know how to say that?
11:12 --> 11:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Near long, githo, carton of shire, carton, carton of shire, that one looks kind of normal.
11:18 --> 11:21 [SPEAKER_01]: I apologize, however well, solicitors, but you're a country.
11:21 --> 11:23 [SPEAKER_01]: I come on, chill and I, we've been all over the world.
11:23 --> 11:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I live in multiple countries in Asia and I still haven't even, I haven't even a hint of an idea.
11:28 --> 11:31 [SPEAKER_02]: How are I supposed to approach these words?
11:31 --> 11:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're rough.
11:32 --> 11:37 [SPEAKER_02]: They're, I mean, and something about how the whales are labeled in towns here could do to be revisited.
11:37 --> 11:41 [SPEAKER_02]: I wonder if current cities are just as...
11:41 --> 11:46 [SPEAKER_01]: They probably know you, okay, if you're from whales, I know you have a beautiful language of Welsh and you want to preserve it and it's culture.
11:46 --> 11:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I get it, I get it, but from an outside perspective, when you create a 13 letter word with only two vowels and one of them's an E on the very end of it, like, what am I supposed to do?
11:58 --> 12:02 [SPEAKER_02]: the English language is not equipped to handle such words.
12:04 --> 12:19 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so his father, he was a record a rector in the church of England in 1697 and he expected his children to come up in his ways Daniel and he had a brother named John as well.
12:19 --> 12:20 [SPEAKER_02]: And so
12:20 --> 12:30 [SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of how they were trained and brought up was to kind of take over his dad's duties as a rector in the Church of England But it seems like his brother got the job John got the job.
12:31 --> 12:38 [SPEAKER_02]: They both got ordained in London around the age of 20 and his brother would stick around and and kind of preach along side him
12:38 --> 12:59 [SPEAKER_02]: for a little bit before kind of getting promoted and it sounds like moving off to go do other things with with a with a bigger church leaving kind of Daniel behind with his little congregation and Daniel recounts these days of preaching to his little congregation and
12:59 --> 13:01 [SPEAKER_02]: Marveling at, you know, it's kind of a small cry.
13:01 --> 13:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Like he wasn't bringing in a whole lot of numbers and after a little bit of investigating, he found out that there's a church down the road that had a really popular pastor that was like really, like he was a great speaker and he was bringing in the crowds, basically stealing all of his, you know, all of the towns people were going over to his church and not coming to his church and so, you know, being a little bit,
13:24 --> 13:43 [SPEAKER_02]: early on and unsure of his ways he decided hey I'm gonna take whatever topics the popular pastures preaching on I'm gonna steal that and kind of mirror that mimic that and start preaching that at my church and you know what it it worked it's hard to get started growing
13:43 --> 13:48 [SPEAKER_02]: But he sees his congregation genuinely starting to come to Christ.
13:48 --> 13:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Like there's professions of faith, and he is getting this reputation.
13:52 --> 13:54 [SPEAKER_02]: He's becoming known as a good speaker.
13:54 --> 14:03 [SPEAKER_02]: As a funny speaker, as a sweet speaker, he starts seeing kind of, you know, the essence of revival breaking out with his, within his congregation.
14:04 --> 14:05 [SPEAKER_02]: But, and here's the twist.
14:06 --> 14:06 [SPEAKER_02]: I love this.
14:06 --> 14:08 [SPEAKER_02]: This is the end of the first act twist here we got.
14:10 --> 14:11 [SPEAKER_02]: He wasn't a believer at this time.
14:11 --> 14:12 [SPEAKER_02]: He wasn't saved.
14:12 --> 14:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so some of them weird, right?
14:15 --> 14:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine a pastor preaching, but he's not saved.
14:19 --> 14:20 [SPEAKER_01]: And it does happen a couple different times.
14:20 --> 14:23 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember, and I feel bad, I should remember this.
14:23 --> 14:31 [SPEAKER_01]: It was only about two years ago, but we had a pastor, another guy on the show, who got saved, like reading his own sermon, like, as he was reading it to the congregation.
14:31 --> 14:33 [SPEAKER_01]: He was like, this is true, I should believe this.
14:34 --> 14:42 [SPEAKER_01]: And then there's another, there's a, in this era, there's a, he's just kind of the growth the beginning of the Methodist movement,
14:42 --> 14:56 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's a couple different famous Methodists who were, you know, trying to follow God before they became, quote unquote, say, George Whitfield has a moment where he kind of goes to the same thing, the Wesley brother seemed to as well.
14:57 --> 15:01 [SPEAKER_01]: And we have a listener who, you know, email us one time, like, hey, look, John Wesley's actual conversion date.
15:01 --> 15:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Highly scrutinized scholars don't necessarily agree with him, but,
15:05 --> 15:18 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're not trying to get into that, but it's just saying it's like a thing that happens at least 1700s and Roland just joins this odd pattern at this time of a guy who's preaching and in ministry and trying to honor God or at least is in ministry, but he isn't actually saved.
15:19 --> 15:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Roland, on the other hand, I think more so than what Field and Wesley brothers would, I think he kind of knew he wasn't.
15:25 --> 15:34 [SPEAKER_01]: like he's copying stuff from the other guy because it's working, I don't think it was that he, you know, he did need an experience of God like the Wesley Brothers or withfield necessarily.
15:34 --> 15:41 [SPEAKER_01]: I think he genuinely was just like I'm in the church because that's what Madad did and what my brother did and I'm just doing what works here.
15:41 --> 15:47 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I don't, I don't get the impression that he was, he doesn't seem to understand it.
15:47 --> 15:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to read the story of his conversion as it happened because it's fascinating cool and they wrote it down.
15:53 --> 15:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Griffith Jones, the pastor who was preaching when he gets saved.
15:58 --> 16:04 [SPEAKER_01]: He hears that the famous pastor kind of is in town, he goes, but he's in a bad attitude, he doesn't want to hear this guy, he thinks he's better than him or something.
16:05 --> 16:09 [SPEAKER_01]: And while this guy, Griffith Jones is preaching to this congregate to this like,
16:09 --> 16:23 [SPEAKER_01]: meeting, he sees Daniel Roland and Griffith Jones says he could not help but notice a young man stood out blatantly in the congregation and manifested an arrogance and defiant spirit as he preached.
16:23 --> 16:34 [SPEAKER_01]: This young man was Daniel Roland and Griffith Jones was so moved by this man and what he saw that he stopped in the midst of his sermon and was induced there and then to pray to God for this young man.
16:34 --> 16:38 [SPEAKER_01]: that God would remember him, bless him, and use him for the salvation of many souls.
16:39 --> 16:45 [SPEAKER_01]: The prayer was heard, and the preaching, blessed, and Daniel Roland was awakened, smitten, and healed, and Christ.
16:45 --> 16:48 [SPEAKER_01]: He now preached more vigorously than he ever had when he wasn't.
16:49 --> 17:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Many hundreds, and this is the first revival, so then it right, like, pretty much right afterwards, becomes a Christian, and he starts to help, you know, not long afterwards, lead a revival, which we'll talk about in just a minute, but what a wild story, I can't.
17:02 --> 17:06 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I preached a few sermons that I can't imagine just stopping and being like, I'm gonna pray for that guy.
17:06 --> 17:08 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it was public, I don't think it was.
17:08 --> 17:09 [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe it was, I'm not sure.
17:09 --> 17:11 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was just a private prayer like he's preaching.
17:12 --> 17:13 [SPEAKER_01]: He stopped, he's like, God, that boy right there.
17:14 --> 17:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And how, what was that face that Roland was making?
17:17 --> 17:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what was he like, how, it's just such an interesting one.
17:21 --> 17:27 [SPEAKER_01]: So I thought that was a cool, very interesting story, but I do think in our 70 years of doing the show, this is the first time.
17:27 --> 17:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Now the first time someone got saved to the sermon, that's very common.
17:30 --> 17:34 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the first time someone got saved because the guy preaching was looking at him.
17:34 --> 17:38 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh my goodness,
17:38 --> 17:49 [SPEAKER_01]: like I've never heard of that and hey, maybe if you're a preacher or you're in Bibles study or you work with people and you see somebody scalling at me and maybe try it out, try the day and try the Griffith Jones work and say, Lord, help that one.
17:50 --> 17:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I can see a youth pastor or maybe pastor or somebody using that one there.
17:54 --> 17:59 [SPEAKER_01]: Let us know as it is successful with you as it was with Griffith.
17:59 --> 18:08 [SPEAKER_01]: So then he actually goes back, Roland meets that other pastor, he'd been kind of copying the sermons from, but doing like a better job of, and he goes and meets with them.
18:08 --> 18:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And then guy goes, hey, let me give you a quote, so Roland had a problem, he was really good at making people feel guilty, but that was it, he would make them feel really guilty.
18:17 --> 18:28 [SPEAKER_01]: So he'd be like, you're a terrible sinner, you're awful, you lie, you're blah, blah, blah, and he'd be like, okay, we'll see next Sunday, I don't think he ended it like that, but he wasn't sharing the gospel.
18:28 --> 18:47 [SPEAKER_01]: and when he was told like the other pastor was like hey you're really you're really good at what you do but you need to share the gospel and he was like you know he said you need the balm of the balm of the medicine you're getting them you're you're hurting them but you're not giving the medicine afterwards and in in role them was like I don't know if I'm good I don't know if I'm like ready for that I'm only kind of new to this stuff
18:47 --> 18:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And the preacher said, preach on it until you feel it.
18:50 --> 18:51 [SPEAKER_01]: No doubt it will come.
18:51 --> 19:03 [SPEAKER_01]: If you go on preaching the law on the manner you do, you will kill half the people in our country for you thunder out curses of the law and preach in such a terrific manner, no one can stand before you.
19:03 --> 19:07 [SPEAKER_01]: So he's good at preaching that law and making people feel bad.
19:08 --> 19:10 [SPEAKER_01]: But he needs to start preaching the gospel too.
19:11 --> 19:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Like you need to share the Jesus and the hope afterwards, or you're gonna end up killing half the country.
19:15 --> 19:16 [SPEAKER_01]: What a statement to make.
19:17 --> 19:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Roland soon while preaching the gospel would see kind of this revival start to break out in his congregation.
19:25 --> 19:28 [SPEAKER_02]: Many people started coming to Christ whenever he was preaching.
19:29 --> 19:32 [SPEAKER_02]: He has a relatively small church.
19:32 --> 19:33 [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's in the mountains.
19:33 --> 19:34 [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of hard to get to.
19:34 --> 19:36 [SPEAKER_02]: It's not a huge town or city.
19:37 --> 19:38 [SPEAKER_02]: But
19:38 --> 19:50 [SPEAKER_02]: He consistently had 3 people that would come every week in his congregation sometimes getting up to 5 people, so that is wild, especially for this air, especially for this geography.
19:50 --> 19:58 [SPEAKER_02]: He preached at the same church for 50 years, and early on he started leading revivals with a man named Howell Harris.
19:58 --> 20:04 [SPEAKER_02]: and the two of them brought future famous hemorrhiders and revivalists to Christ in their era.
20:04 --> 20:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Eventually, they heard about what Jonathan Edwards was doing in New England at this time, and they realized that this great awakening wasn't local to their area.
20:15 --> 20:15 [SPEAKER_02]: It was global.
20:15 --> 20:17 [SPEAKER_02]: It was going on all over the world.
20:17 --> 20:22 [SPEAKER_02]: There was something that was happening with the gospel worldwide.
20:22 --> 20:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Likewise, what they were doing became known by both George Whitfield and John Wesley when they came and visited them.
20:31 --> 20:34 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's just kind of, it's popping off worldwide.
20:35 --> 20:37 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I can't wait ideally in my head.
20:37 --> 20:49 [SPEAKER_02]: My optimistic head, 400 years from now, people are going to look back at the 21st century and kind of be making similar connections to people that are alive right now.
20:49 --> 20:57 [SPEAKER_02]: So-and-so, new so-and-so, and then they were talking to so-and-so, and-and then this big revival, you know, started a little worldwide, that'd be cool, that'd be cool to see.
20:57 --> 21:08 [SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to think that we are on a trajectory that would see that reality come to pass, and that people would be talking about a hundred years now, like we do these people.
21:08 --> 21:08 [SPEAKER_01]: I agree, Joel.
21:08 --> 21:11 [SPEAKER_01]: That would be really, I mean, we would be incredible to live through.
21:12 --> 21:23 [SPEAKER_01]: And I do wonder, that's actually an interesting question where their Christians alive during the great awakening or some of these pivotal moments, and they didn't realize they were in the great awakening of those pivotal moments.
21:23 --> 21:27 [SPEAKER_01]: That'd be kind of an interesting one, like, oh, that was that's what that was, we didn't even know.
21:27 --> 21:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, it wasn't always easy though.
21:29 --> 21:33 [SPEAKER_01]: This is actually a time of great persecution in England.
21:33 --> 21:34 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's so weird.
21:34 --> 21:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I kind of mentioned this now and then throughout the years.
21:36 --> 21:39 [SPEAKER_01]: It's weird to think of England, persecuting Christians for sharing the gospel.
21:40 --> 21:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, but that's exactly what happened.
21:42 --> 21:44 [SPEAKER_01]: And it happened to John Wesley.
21:44 --> 21:45 [SPEAKER_01]: We've covered that before George Wipfield.
21:45 --> 21:46 [SPEAKER_01]: We've covered that before.
21:47 --> 21:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And here it is happening to, uh, Roland over in Wales as well.
21:50 --> 22:00 [SPEAKER_01]: At one point he's arrested, but the trial kind of acquitted him, again, for just preaching the gospel and sharing Jesus, at another point a mob will try to injure him, but he's able to kind of get away.
22:00 --> 22:04 [SPEAKER_01]: At another point while Harris is preaching one of the mob's grabs.
22:04 --> 22:06 [SPEAKER_01]: One of George Wiff feels companions.
22:06 --> 22:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if he went to visit them or he happened to be in the crowd or what, and they kill him.
22:10 --> 22:15 [SPEAKER_01]: They legitimately kill one of these guys.
22:15 --> 22:21 [SPEAKER_01]: for sharing Jesus and for not doing it the way the Church of England wanted or or or something.
22:21 --> 22:28 [SPEAKER_01]: It's very strange how like upset these people were getting and 1741, the persecution got even worse.
22:28 --> 22:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Churches started closing their doors to him and that was because a periodical and article basically a newspaper of their day had written a hit piece on him.
22:36 --> 22:46 [SPEAKER_01]: and his friend Harris saying, you guys just do it for money, you just do it for attention, you do it for applause, and you like the enthusiasm, the energy, the drama basically of it all.
22:47 --> 22:49 [SPEAKER_01]: And this meant, led many people to doubting their true intentions.
22:49 --> 22:50 [SPEAKER_01]: There's no evidence.
22:50 --> 22:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, these guys are literally kidding beat up and thrown in jail.
22:53 --> 22:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody's going to do that for the money of the applause.
22:55 --> 22:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that's really happening here.
22:56 --> 23:00 [SPEAKER_01]: You could certainly get applause in money in easier ways than that.
23:00 --> 23:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but if people basically read and go, I don't know, maybe do I want to bring this guy to my church sin?
23:06 --> 23:08 [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of like he's got drama attached to him.
23:08 --> 23:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's just close the door on him.
23:10 --> 23:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and another place, Harris is, you know, traveling to come in here.
23:14 --> 23:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Guy hit with stones and dirt by a mob and surrounded the house he was preaching at, and he had to run away and escape.
23:20 --> 23:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And another location, Lola Nilar, that's the name I think of it.
23:24 --> 23:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Roland had his own stones and stuff thrown at him and the mob chased it literally chased him out of town And he had to run for his life and made it she'd get away at Aber I'm taking all the all the intensity of this story out or trying to pronounce these names So just another town in miles a man aimed a gun at Roland and pulled the trigger But the gun did not fire so I mean literally Roland could have died and it was just the gun did fire.
23:48 --> 23:50 [SPEAKER_01]: God wasn't done with him
23:50 --> 23:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and another occasion, people laid a plan to blow him up.
23:55 --> 24:01 [SPEAKER_01]: They were going to plant a bomb, if I, if I read it correctly, under the stage, you're at the church and just explode him.
24:01 --> 24:07 [SPEAKER_01]: But the plan was discovered by accident, and they weren't able to follow through with it.
24:07 --> 24:25 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's pretty intense persecution, not for like a political leader, a political movement, or anything of that nature, but for a guy sharing Jesus with people, that's his quote-unquote crime that is leading to this much drama.
24:31 --> 24:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so there's a lot more we could say about rolling in his impact on whales in the world.
24:38 --> 24:49 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like with a lot of people, he did have his seasons of drama to deal with his buddy as partner there, Harris, and him would split up for a time.
24:49 --> 24:54 [SPEAKER_02]: From what I can gather, it seems like they on their travels, Harris was hanging out.
24:54 --> 25:13 [SPEAKER_02]: with a married woman is my is what I'm getting from this and Roland kind of called them out on it said hey uh not okay my man and they ended up arguing over it and and then they kind of split ways had had a little bit of a falling out uh is is what I've catharted from how I read the story
25:13 --> 25:20 [SPEAKER_02]: And there's other, there's other little bits of drama around like local bishops that were in the area and some some family stuff.
25:20 --> 25:27 [SPEAKER_02]: I debate how much to get into it or not, but none of it really seems to have tarnished his work or what he was doing there.
25:28 --> 25:35 [SPEAKER_02]: He was still pretty much always held in in high regard, despite people attempting to sabotage him in his ministry continually,
25:35 --> 25:41 [SPEAKER_02]: In his 70s, he had quite the respect amongst other pastors.
25:42 --> 25:50 [SPEAKER_02]: It said that there were over 100 pastors at a time that would come to him four times a year for council.
25:50 --> 26:00 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, the logistics of this, I don't know how this was set up, but apparently there was a four-time a year like Pilgrimage Counseling Session where people would
26:00 --> 26:06 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, these are other pastors in Wales that would come to him and take counsel from him.
26:06 --> 26:15 [SPEAKER_02]: There was a Sunday that they counted 14 people that came to the service to take communion.
26:15 --> 26:18 [SPEAKER_02]: And again, he's 70 years old at this point.
26:18 --> 26:22 [SPEAKER_02]: Imagine being 70 year olds and handing out communion to 14 people.
26:22 --> 26:23 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know the math on that.
26:23 --> 26:30 [SPEAKER_02]: They had to have had some type of system or assembly line in place that is a very long church service.
26:30 --> 26:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Would have been interesting to see.
26:31 --> 26:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I would have loved to see it.
26:32 --> 26:41 [SPEAKER_01]: I would have been curious, like, I mean, they must have had some idea that many people are going because how many congregations even have, you know, 14 people's worth of
26:41 --> 27:10 [SPEAKER_01]: bread and wine so I mean it must have been not completely unheard of and it must have had some morning but um yeah just just that's a lot of people especially because he's not in a major city city and he's not you know this is not the modern era and this is happening in the 1700s so it is kind of crazy to think that somebody with that much impact and I had never heard his name while running a church history podcast for almost 70 years maybe that's my own ignorance maybe
27:10 --> 27:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Despite all that, people still saw him as a pretty normal guy.
27:13 --> 27:21 [SPEAKER_01]: There was a story in anecdote, I found a really like this anecdote because I love these kinds of like little, here's who they really were as people certain stories.
27:21 --> 27:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of us do, and an evangelical preacher who was going to go on to be his own kind of man, something he was going to be an important to, but he was kind of younger.
27:28 --> 27:32 [SPEAKER_01]: He bumped into him at a bookstore and he couldn't believe it.
27:32 --> 27:33 [SPEAKER_01]: He was like, what's the power?
27:33 --> 27:40 [SPEAKER_01]: It was just a bookstore in London buying some books, just being a normal guy.
27:40 --> 28:10 [SPEAKER_01]: was a great preacher like yourself needing the extra knowledge you've got it all already kind of thing and you know the guy was like oh that's you know it's fine I'm just he likes three books kind of thing late seventies and I was like that's just cool you know he doesn't send an air and boy off to get it he's not he's not too good he's he's pilot he's in his late seventies but he's still at the London bookstore you know in town pile and up on books before he heads back home kind of thing I don't know why I just like that story it made me I wouldn't mind I hope that what if you know I'm in my seventies I'm still piloting up on some books the reading to get
28:10 --> 28:17 [SPEAKER_01]: He died around the age of 80-ish or so after being unwell for a couple days, his life was incredible and we really only packed part of it.
28:17 --> 28:21 [SPEAKER_01]: We could easily do future and hopefully we'll do future episodes with Roland.
28:21 --> 28:29 [SPEAKER_01]: One thing that, just another anecdote tidbit from his life, he apparently was a huge fan of scripture, a love scripture, and people said you could ask him any verse.
28:29 --> 28:31 [SPEAKER_01]: You can walk up and say, hey, where is this verse in the Bible?
28:31 --> 28:34 [SPEAKER_01]: And you can tell you the reference every time, which I
28:34 --> 28:36 [SPEAKER_01]: If that is true, that is absolutely incredible.
28:36 --> 28:37 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what it's family says.
28:37 --> 28:43 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a game you play with the most like, hey, you pick a verse randomly from somewhere and you'd watch, you'd be like, that's number 23.
28:43 --> 28:45 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's incredible to think about.
28:45 --> 28:55 [SPEAKER_01]: In the following sermon, one of the only eight of the sermons that are in English, he references 45 different verses and passages in the sermon.
28:55 --> 29:04 [SPEAKER_01]: In terms of how long the sermon is, that's over a different one verse or passage, more than one verse or passage for like,
29:04 --> 29:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Now listen, as one of the great evangelists of 300 years ago, preaches to us from Revelation 320.
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29:34 --> 29:39 [SPEAKER_00]: behold is the first word of the text and it is not the least significant.
29:39 --> 29:48 [SPEAKER_00]: It stands there like a star or a signpost pointing us to the weighty and important matter contained in the sentence that follows.
29:49 --> 29:59 [SPEAKER_00]: For this word holds an eminent place throughout the Holy Scriptures and it is generally used as such purposes as these to awaken our faith.
29:59 --> 30:07 [SPEAKER_00]: behold a virgin will conceive and bear a son and will call his name Emmanuel, Isaiah 714.
30:08 --> 30:21 [SPEAKER_00]: To stir up our hopes and expectations, behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give to every man according to his work, Revelation 22, 12.
30:21 --> 30:31 [SPEAKER_00]: to excite our love, behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.
30:32 --> 30:33 [SPEAKER_00]: One John, three, one.
30:34 --> 30:42 [SPEAKER_00]: to alarm our fear, behold, he comes with clouds and every eye will see him, revelation 1-7.
30:43 --> 30:54 [SPEAKER_00]: To stir up our joy, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which I'll be to all people, Luke 2-10.
30:54 --> 31:03 [SPEAKER_00]: to enliven our gratitude, behold, bless the Lord or you servants of the Lord, Psalm 134 verse 1.
31:04 --> 31:12 [SPEAKER_00]: To move our compassion, behold is there any sorrow, like unto my sorrow, lamentations one verse 12.
31:13 --> 31:29 [SPEAKER_00]: And finally, to engage our full attention to some momentous truth, that we may carefully observe its many excellencies, as here in the text before us, behold, I stand at the door and knock.
31:30 --> 31:36 [SPEAKER_00]: What an astonishing discovery these few words make when they are properly considered.
31:36 --> 31:40 [SPEAKER_00]: What an assembly of wonders they set before our eyes.
31:41 --> 31:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, who can, without both amazement and delighted rapture, behold the God of all glory,
31:53 --> 32:13 [SPEAKER_00]: who can, without holy awe, hear that the perfectly holy God, free from the slightest strain of impurity, should condescend to enter the heart of man, which is nothing but a mass of uncleanness, and dwell there as in his temple.
32:14 --> 32:27 [SPEAKER_00]: and yet, oh happy reconciliation, oh blessed union that God and man should be brought under the same roof and to the same table.
32:27 --> 32:30 [SPEAKER_00]: This is truly wonderful.
32:30 --> 32:39 [SPEAKER_00]: How fitting then that the word behold, so rich and full of meaning should be placed at the entrance of this text.
32:40 --> 32:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Behold, the great God bows the heavens and comes down to the sons of men, not armed with thunder, nor clothed in unapproachable majesty.
32:52 --> 33:19 [SPEAKER_00]: not wrapped in thick darkness as when he descended upon Mount Sinai before the children of Israel, nor as might captivate every eye accompanied with music as when he had entered the sanctuary, when singers went before musicians followed after, but instead he comes in the form of a
33:19 --> 33:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Though he could shatter gates of bronze and cut bars of iron into, though with a single breath he could tear mountains from their foundations and burst open the very gates of hell, yet he does not come demolishing our houses or levelling them to the ground.
33:38 --> 33:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, he humbly stands at our doors.
33:45 --> 33:52 [SPEAKER_00]: behold, and admire the patience and humility of our incarnate God.
33:53 --> 33:55 [SPEAKER_00]: He stands at the door.
33:55 --> 34:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Every word teams with wonder and almost surpasses belief, I stand at the door and knock.
34:05 --> 34:20 [SPEAKER_00]: It would have been an astonishing act of humility if it had only been an angel, the guardian of some mighty monarch, or one of the holy prophets, or even the least of the wing's serifs had stooped so low.
34:21 --> 34:37 [SPEAKER_00]: But it is I, the Prince of Peace, the King of Glory, the Supreme Lord of Heaven and Earth, the one who is the constant object of adoration among all the hosts above.
34:38 --> 34:40 [SPEAKER_00]: I stand.
34:41 --> 34:54 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not sit upon a throne of state, I do not recline myself upon an easy couch, I stand to show my readiness to enter, and my patience in waiting to be admitted.
34:55 --> 34:57 [SPEAKER_00]: I stand at the door.
34:57 --> 35:04 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not comfort myself in a warm and pleasant room, nor rest my weary limbs in a soft pavilion.
35:05 --> 35:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I stand at the door, without cover or shelter, where the cold frost chills me, where stormy winds beat upon me, where my head is filled with dew and my hair with the drops of the night.
35:20 --> 35:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I stand and not.
35:23 --> 35:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Not like the harleur in Proverbs, who spreads her snares for the unwavery traveller, not like the men of Sodom at lots door ripe for every wickedness, not with my hands folded in idleness, like loiteres in the marketplace.
35:40 --> 35:48 [SPEAKER_00]: But I knock, I make a direct appeal to the very persons who salvation I seek.
35:50 --> 35:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not knock once and then depart, like one who does not care whether he is received or not.
35:57 --> 36:05 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I stand and knock to see whether they will open to me and allow me to make them happy.
36:05 --> 36:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, what is man?
36:08 --> 36:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, even the greatest of men, that you, the omnipotent god, at whose presence the heavens tremble, from whose mouth precedes devouring flames, whose voice shatters rocks and strips bare the forests should stand at our doors, and knock.
36:29 --> 36:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what miracles of grace are found here.
36:33 --> 36:37 [SPEAKER_00]: How many golden veins lie hidden in this rich quarry?
36:38 --> 36:44 [SPEAKER_00]: By your help, O Lord, I will dig for some of them and bring them to light.
36:46 --> 36:51 [SPEAKER_00]: At the very surface of this mine, the first thing I find is the person, I.
36:52 --> 36:56 [SPEAKER_00]: The second is his posture, I stand.
36:56 --> 37:00 [SPEAKER_00]: and the third is his action and knock.
37:01 --> 37:11 [SPEAKER_00]: The glorious person who stoopes to stand at the door of our hard hearts and knock is none other than the mighty God, Isaiah 9, 6.
37:12 --> 37:16 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, Isaiah 40, 28.
37:17 --> 37:26 [SPEAKER_00]: The radiance of whose glory is so great that the Son itself by comparison is only an orb of darkness.
37:26 --> 37:29 [SPEAKER_00]: He has no equal.
37:30 --> 37:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Neither all the men on earth nor all the shining myriads of glorified angels in heaven can in any measure, compare with him who is the Messiah, the God-man.
37:45 --> 37:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Consider him in his conception.
37:48 --> 37:52 [SPEAKER_00]: See him who is truly God becoming truly man.
37:53 --> 38:02 [SPEAKER_00]: God of his father, without a mother, man of his mother, without a father, the true Malkizidek.
38:02 --> 38:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Consider him in his birth.
38:05 --> 38:11 [SPEAKER_00]: He who inhabits eternity dwells for months in the womb.
38:11 --> 38:18 [SPEAKER_00]: He who has neither beginning nor end humbles himself to be born into our world.
38:18 --> 38:23 [SPEAKER_00]: The everlasting Father becomes an infant of days.
38:24 --> 38:28 [SPEAKER_00]: The one who is the word is unable to speak.
38:29 --> 38:36 [SPEAKER_00]: He, who upholds all things by his power, is himself upheld in the arms of a young woman.
38:38 --> 38:42 [SPEAKER_00]: The invisible Jehovah is seen by poor shepherds.
38:42 --> 38:50 [SPEAKER_00]: He who feeds every living creature, nurses, David's Lord is called David's Son.
38:50 --> 38:56 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord of all becomes the servant of all.
38:57 --> 39:10 [SPEAKER_00]: In the beginning of creation, man was made in the image of God, but now behold, God appears in the form of a man and is truly man.
39:11 --> 39:15 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the most astonishing miracle ever witness.
39:17 --> 39:23 [SPEAKER_00]: the sun, once stood still in its course, and its shadow was turned back 10 degrees.
39:24 --> 39:39 [SPEAKER_00]: These were events of great wonder, yet they shrink into nothing when compared with the descent of the sun of righteousness from heaven to earth, from the father's bosom to a virgin's womb.
39:40 --> 39:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Well then, may we say with one of the ancient fathers, I will no longer marvel at the vastness of the earth, the waxing and the waning of the moon, or the boundless expanse of the heavens, through which innumerable worlds revolve.
39:57 --> 40:06 [SPEAKER_00]: But I will marvel and adore to see God in the womb and the Almighty in a cradle.
40:07 --> 40:10 [SPEAKER_00]: rejoice, old father Adam.
40:11 --> 40:17 [SPEAKER_00]: For your wife Eve has brought the promise seed, who will bruise the serpent's head.
40:18 --> 40:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Rejoice Abraham, mighty Patriarch, for the day has arrived which you longed and earnestly desired to see.
40:28 --> 40:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Rejoice you holy prophets, for your prophecies have been fulfilled.
40:34 --> 40:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Rejoice all people for the Son of God has become man.
40:40 --> 40:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Rejoice you women for a woman has become the mother of God.
40:47 --> 40:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Rejoice you virgins.
40:49 --> 41:02 [SPEAKER_00]: For a virgin has conceived and brought a son.
41:03 --> 41:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Rejoice, you who sit in darkness for the son of righteousness has risen.
41:10 --> 41:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Rejoice, you hungry for the bread of life has come down from heaven.
41:18 --> 41:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Rejoice, you sick and wounded for the physician has come to heal all your diseases and to remove all your pain.
41:30 --> 41:32 [SPEAKER_00]: and oh, you sinners.
41:33 --> 41:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, you chief of sinners, rejoice and be exceedingly glad for a saviour, a saviour is born.
41:45 --> 41:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Sing, oh, sing praises to God in the highest, for his good will towards the vileest of men.
41:56 --> 42:18 [SPEAKER_00]: here, the melodious strain of St. Christostom on this joyful occasion and join your voices with his, oh the height and depth of God's mercy, oh the tender compassion of the love of Jesus, oh lovely Redeemer, a most lovely plan of the heavenly paradise.
42:19 --> 42:21 [SPEAKER_00]: What could have drawn you from there?
42:22 --> 42:26 [SPEAKER_00]: What force could have driven you out of the palace of your glory?
42:26 --> 42:28 [SPEAKER_00]: None but yourself.
42:29 --> 42:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing but your infinite love and unparalleled goodness.
42:35 --> 42:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Here, let us pause and consider why and for what purpose?
42:41 --> 42:46 [SPEAKER_00]: This great and good being humbled himself and stooped so low.
42:47 --> 42:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Was it to increase his own happiness or to add anything to the splendor of his sovereign authority?
42:55 --> 42:55 [SPEAKER_00]: No.
42:56 --> 43:00 [SPEAKER_00]: It was to do us good and to make us happy.
43:01 --> 43:05 [SPEAKER_00]: He cannot be benefited by any of his creatures.
43:05 --> 43:17 [SPEAKER_00]: If his blessedness depended upon them, or were in any measure increased by their homage, he would have created them much sooner.
43:18 --> 43:22 [SPEAKER_00]: But how is the sun better off having the earth?
43:22 --> 43:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it warmer or brighter in its rays?
43:26 --> 43:30 [SPEAKER_00]: in the same way what can our God receive from us?
43:31 --> 43:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Our goodness if we had any does not extend to Him.
43:36 --> 43:49 [SPEAKER_00]: We may attempt to eclipse His glory by our perverseness and rebellion, but we cannot
43:49 --> 43:57 [SPEAKER_00]: the father delighted in the sun and the sun in the father and both mutually delighted in the holy spirit.
43:59 --> 44:13 [SPEAKER_00]: The sun does not shine more brightly because many eyes beholder, likewise the great God himself declares how little need he has of man, Psalm 50 verse 9 to 12.
44:14 --> 44:27 [SPEAKER_00]: He has no more need of creaturely help to make him glorious or happy, than the stars need a net to carry them along their course, or the sun needs a glowworm to brighten its radiant beams.
44:28 --> 44:43 [SPEAKER_00]: If we were all to perish, he would suffer no more loss than a king would from the death of a hundred, or even a thousand paralyzed and helpless beggars who daily crowded his door and lived on his generosity.
44:45 --> 44:58 [SPEAKER_00]: God's grand design in raising so many splendid structures and filling them with such multitudes of creatures was that he might pour out his kindness and widen the reach of his benevolence.
44:59 --> 45:11 [SPEAKER_00]: He formed us in order to give, not to enlarge his own happiness.
45:11 --> 45:15 [SPEAKER_00]: but to whom does he show this astonishing laugh?
45:16 --> 45:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Not to angels, but to men, to poor worms who dwell in houses of clay, to sinful, polluted dust.
45:26 --> 45:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Leprus Miriam, when her flesh was half consumed by disease, was not nearly so lethsome as we are because of sin.
45:36 --> 45:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Our finest garments are filthy rags.
45:39 --> 45:44 [SPEAKER_00]: We are lame and blind, full of wounds and festering souls.
45:44 --> 45:50 [SPEAKER_00]: We are a generation of vipers, the true offspring of the old serpent.
45:51 --> 45:58 [SPEAKER_00]: We are enemies to Jesus Christ in our thoughts, in our words, and in our deeds.
45:58 --> 46:02 [SPEAKER_00]: we hate him without course, with deadly hatred.
46:03 --> 46:14 [SPEAKER_00]: And we won't stop hating him until the old heart is taken away and he gives us a new heart.
46:14 --> 46:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Here what the great Jehovah declares.
46:18 --> 46:22 [SPEAKER_00]: As for your birth, on the day that you were born, your navel was not cut.
46:23 --> 46:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Nor were you washed with water to cleanse you.
46:26 --> 46:28 [SPEAKER_00]: You were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in cloths.
46:29 --> 46:41 [SPEAKER_00]: No eye-pitted you to do any of these things for you, to show you compassion, but you were cast out in the open field, to the loading of your person on the day you were born.
46:41 --> 46:54 [SPEAKER_00]: And when I passed by you and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, live, Zekil 1646.
46:54 --> 47:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, conscience, conscience, awake from your deadly stupor and ponder, ponder deeply the height and the depth of redeeming love.
47:10 --> 47:18 [SPEAKER_00]: behold, the ever-blessed Emmanuel has compassion on those who no one else will pity.
47:19 --> 47:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, even he who sits in throne above surrounded by countless obedient creatures who never resisted his will or opposed his authority has mercy on those who have no mercy on themselves.
47:38 --> 47:47 [SPEAKER_00]: If people are not moved by this astonishing truth, if they do not feel its powerful force, their hearts must indeed be hard.
47:48 --> 48:06 [SPEAKER_00]: If they are not struck with deep amazement at such mercy, then heaven and earth will unite to accuse their more than inanimate stupidity, and to marvel that such a degree of insensibility could dwell in human minds.
48:07 --> 48:14 [SPEAKER_00]: This leads me secondly to consider the posture of the one who is seeking our attention.
48:15 --> 48:17 [SPEAKER_00]: He stands.
48:18 --> 48:28 [SPEAKER_00]: To stand implies readiness at every call and a willingness to give help whenever it is desired or even permitted to be given.
48:29 --> 48:41 [SPEAKER_00]: When Stephen was about to be crossed beneath a storm of stones, he saw the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
48:42 --> 48:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Acts 755.
48:45 --> 48:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Christ had often been described as sitting there when the trials of his church were less bloody, and required no such immediate and vigorous aid, but Stephen saw him standing.
49:00 --> 49:22 [SPEAKER_00]: The great captain of his salvation had his eye fixed upon him, and like a mighty warrior with his sword girded upon his thigh stood ready to rush into the midst of the battle and give his weak servant the victory, though in one sense he might seem overcome.
49:23 --> 49:28 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Lord Jesus stands at the door in my text.
49:28 --> 49:34 [SPEAKER_00]: And His posture is a clear sign that He is ready to take possession of our hearts.
49:35 --> 49:40 [SPEAKER_00]: If only we have grace enough to open to Him and let Him in.
49:41 --> 49:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what a blessing it is to be a dwelling place for the sacred Trinity.
49:47 --> 49:53 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the special privilege that makes heaven itself
49:54 --> 49:59 [SPEAKER_00]: and behold, Jesus is ready to bestow this privilege upon us.
50:00 --> 50:07 [SPEAKER_00]: For unless we should be enticed by the charms of this vain world and so be hindered from accepting it.
50:08 --> 50:16 [SPEAKER_00]: He, almost as if in an agony of love, breaks out into this tender wish.
50:16 --> 50:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that there was such a heart in them, that they would fear me always, due to honor me five, twenty-nine.
50:26 --> 50:29 [SPEAKER_00]: With what moving words does he plead with us?
50:30 --> 50:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Return, return, O Shulamite, return, return that we may look upon you.
50:38 --> 50:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Song of songs, six, 30.
50:41 --> 50:46 [SPEAKER_00]: And with what deep size and floods of tears does he weep over us and cry?
50:46 --> 50:54 [SPEAKER_00]: O Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you.
50:54 --> 50:58 [SPEAKER_00]: How often would I have gathered your children together?
50:58 --> 51:03 [SPEAKER_00]: As a hen, gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
51:04 --> 51:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 23, 37.
51:08 --> 51:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus does not play a part, nor does he act as a hypocrite when he weeps.
51:15 --> 51:18 [SPEAKER_00]: He is no pretender and wears no mask.
51:18 --> 51:25 [SPEAKER_00]: It is either our propensity or our misery that draws tears of sorrow from him.
51:26 --> 51:31 [SPEAKER_00]: And if he is grieved, it is because of the hardness of our hearts.
51:32 --> 51:35 [SPEAKER_00]: He would have us lay hold of his mercy.
51:36 --> 51:39 [SPEAKER_00]: but we sadly let it fall from our hands.
51:41 --> 51:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is the source of his uneasiness.
51:44 --> 51:48 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the ground of his complaint against us.
51:49 --> 51:54 [SPEAKER_00]: If he were not willing to enter, he would not stand at our door.
51:55 --> 52:01 [SPEAKER_00]: But his very posture reveals his readiness to come beneath our unworthy roof.
52:02 --> 52:17 [SPEAKER_00]: behold, the king of glory, standing at the door of slaves, who prefer the devil's shameful chains to his glorious liberty, and would rather serve in hell than reign in heaven.
52:17 --> 52:24 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why our blessed Lord rings his hands and cries out in heart felt sorrow.
52:25 --> 52:33 [SPEAKER_00]: You will not come to me that you might have life, John 5, verse 40.
52:34 --> 52:38 [SPEAKER_00]: My God, what words are these?
52:38 --> 52:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Surely they are sharp enough to split the hardest rock.
52:43 --> 52:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, have our hearts been turned into stone?
52:47 --> 52:52 [SPEAKER_00]: And even if it has, his patience is not exalted.
52:52 --> 53:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though we reject his grace and despise his goodness, he still stands at our door.
53:01 --> 53:08 [SPEAKER_00]: He takes no offense, he stands at doors that have never yet been open to him.
53:08 --> 53:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Though he is treated with neglect and often with contempt and scorn, such is the long suffering of my redeeming God that he calmly injures the roughest treatment and delays his departure from this unwelcome place.
53:27 --> 53:37 [SPEAKER_00]: He has the power to burst open every door by force, but he has the patience to stand and wait to be received.
53:38 --> 53:45 [SPEAKER_00]: He could strike us dead with lightning, but he would rather soften us with his gentle dew.
53:46 --> 53:54 [SPEAKER_00]: For 40 years, he bore with Israel in the wilderness, though his soul was grieved by that stubborn generation.
53:55 --> 54:12 [SPEAKER_00]: In half that time, he could have tortured every nerve in their bodies and crushed their entire frame, where is the man who would have endured a brother so long, especially when provoked, and when he had full power to take revenge.
54:14 --> 54:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet his compassions do not fail, and therefore they were not consumed.
54:22 --> 54:28 [SPEAKER_00]: At another time, he lamented their rebellious spirit despite all their obligations to him.
54:29 --> 54:36 [SPEAKER_00]: The children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth.
54:36 --> 54:43 [SPEAKER_00]: The children of Israel have only provoked me to anger by the works of their hands, says the Lord.
54:43 --> 54:53 [SPEAKER_00]: This city has been a provocation of my anger and my fury from the day it was built until this day.
54:55 --> 55:00 [SPEAKER_00]: was Plato, the philosopher, able to resist ever showing rage.
55:01 --> 55:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Did Socrates keep himself cheerful during Xanthropy's violent temper and unruly tongue?
55:09 --> 55:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Even Job couldn't have had perfect patience.
55:13 --> 55:18 [SPEAKER_00]: That living portrait of patients set before us in Holy Scripture.
55:18 --> 55:23 [SPEAKER_00]: The patience of some men is great.
55:23 --> 55:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet it cannot be compared with the Redeemers, any more than a single drop can be compared with the ocean.
55:31 --> 55:35 [SPEAKER_00]: God alone is patience itself.
55:37 --> 55:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what a pity it is that there should be such creatures in the moral world that can draw a poison from such a sweet flower.
55:53 --> 55:57 [SPEAKER_00]: They reason in their hearts, if they do not openly say it.
55:58 --> 56:00 [SPEAKER_00]: He delays the execution of his threats.
56:01 --> 56:05 [SPEAKER_00]: These warnings are inventions of the clever meant to deceive the weak.
56:06 --> 56:13 [SPEAKER_00]: All things continue as they have been from the beginning of creation, and will likely continue so forever.
56:14 --> 56:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Where is this long-expected destruction of this material world?
56:19 --> 56:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Where is the promise of his coming?
56:23 --> 56:35 [SPEAKER_00]: where in the book of God, and sooner will heaven and earth pass away than one small list part of it fail to be fulfilled.
56:37 --> 56:47 [SPEAKER_00]: What you call delay, oh foolish people, is nothing but the exercise of God's gentlest attribute toward you.
56:48 --> 56:55 [SPEAKER_00]: the goodness of God, or to lead you to repentance, not to harden you in your sins.
56:55 --> 57:07 [SPEAKER_00]: He will come, and with these very eyes, you will behold him, to your eternal shame if you live and die in your present, wretched condition.
57:08 --> 57:18 [SPEAKER_00]: But I spare you, and I turn again to the door, to see whether the lamb is still standing
57:18 --> 57:22 [SPEAKER_00]: and he is, blessed be his name.
57:22 --> 57:29 [SPEAKER_00]: He is still standing there, but for how long, forever?
57:29 --> 57:31 [SPEAKER_00]: No.
57:32 --> 57:35 [SPEAKER_00]: The longest day must end.
57:35 --> 57:38 [SPEAKER_00]: The brightest sun will set.
57:39 --> 57:45 [SPEAKER_00]: long does our Lord's patience endure, slow is his wrath to be kindled.
57:46 --> 57:52 [SPEAKER_00]: But when it does begin to burn, all the rivers in the south cannot quench it.
57:53 --> 58:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my soul, answer him while he calls, open to him while he knocks.
58:01 --> 58:10 [SPEAKER_00]: May the love of Jesus wrestle with you and prevail, may you not resist him as others do.
58:12 --> 58:20 [SPEAKER_00]: sometimes they put him off with trivial excuses saying, I have no time to run to the door and open to you.
58:20 --> 58:23 [SPEAKER_00]: I have more important business at hand than attending to you.
58:24 --> 58:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Come some other time.
58:26 --> 58:28 [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot admit you now.
58:28 --> 58:31 [SPEAKER_00]: You see, I am having other guests over.
58:31 --> 58:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Certain favoured companions for whom I have the highest regard.
58:35 --> 58:42 [SPEAKER_00]: They may be offended by your presence, and I must not offend those whom I truly love.
58:42 --> 58:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Go away for now, and when the house is clear, or when I have a free hour in a convenient opportunity, I will send for you.
58:52 --> 58:58 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the usual reception he meets with in our world.
58:58 --> 59:10 [SPEAKER_00]: He sees sin, the greatest enemy nurtured and cherished within, but he himself is shut out as unworthy of admission.
59:11 --> 59:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet I stand, says the unwaired Redeemer, at the door of a sinner, the worst of all my creatures, while my sworn enemies feast inside the house, and are welcomed with the warmest reception.
59:28 --> 59:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, heart, heart, heart, open to me.
59:34 --> 59:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Open, but what must be opened, the heart,
59:41 --> 59:46 [SPEAKER_00]: not merely the door of the lips, but the door of the heart must be opened.
59:47 --> 59:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed, both must be opened, for our Savior says, when you pray, say,
59:54 --> 59:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Luke 11, verse 2.
59:56 --> 01:00:08 [SPEAKER_00]: We must not only meditate inwardly but also speak with our tongues for the confession of the mouth and the belief of the heart must go together, Romans 10, 10.
01:00:08 --> 01:00:13 [SPEAKER_00]: He does not desire the bark of the one without the root of the other.
01:00:15 --> 01:00:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the service of the lips, when the heart takes no part in it, is an abomination in his sight.
01:00:23 --> 01:00:30 [SPEAKER_00]: His constant demand is, my son, give me your heart, Proverbs 23, 26.
01:00:31 --> 01:00:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not regard your outward appearance, your eyes lifted towards heaven, your knees pressed to the ground, your hand striking your breast, these have no weight with me.
01:00:44 --> 01:00:54 [SPEAKER_00]: A gift of eloquence, if it is not seasoned with love, we'll profit you nothing, one Corinthians 13, verse 1 to 2.
01:00:55 --> 01:01:00 [SPEAKER_00]: The heart is a pearl of greatest worth, surrender it to your God.
01:01:00 --> 01:01:05 [SPEAKER_00]: He would rather have it than all the glittering diamonds of this world.
01:01:06 --> 01:01:12 [SPEAKER_00]: all your sacrifices without it are nothing but empty offence.
01:01:12 --> 01:01:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing will be accepted without the heart.
01:01:16 --> 01:01:23 [SPEAKER_00]: prayer is a kind of heavenly conversation, a dialogue between the soul and its maker.
01:01:23 --> 01:01:27 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a chain that binds heaven and earth together.
01:01:28 --> 01:01:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it brings the Lord near to us, for the Lord is near to all who call upon him, Psalm 145 verse 18, and yet what are our prayers?
01:01:41 --> 01:01:43 [SPEAKER_00]: If they do not flow from the heart,
01:01:43 --> 01:01:49 [SPEAKER_00]: They are nothing but solemn mockaries, deserving of curse, rather than a blessing.
01:01:52 --> 01:02:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I proceed now in the last place to consider our Lord's activity while he stands at the door of our hearts.
01:02:01 --> 01:02:03 [SPEAKER_00]: He knocks.
01:02:04 --> 01:02:06 [SPEAKER_00]: How does he knock?
01:02:06 --> 01:02:08 [SPEAKER_00]: By the ministry of his word.
01:02:09 --> 01:02:11 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a mighty knocking.
01:02:11 --> 01:02:15 [SPEAKER_00]: What fortress can resist its power?
01:02:15 --> 01:02:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The weapons of our warfare says Paul, are not of the flesh but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds.
01:02:25 --> 01:02:42 [SPEAKER_00]: casting down imaginations and every lofty thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ to Corinthians 10, verse 4 to 5.
01:02:42 --> 01:02:51 [SPEAKER_00]: mankind has bronze foreheads, necks of stone, and hearts encased in ribs of marble.
01:02:51 --> 01:02:56 [SPEAKER_00]: They do not bleed, they do not bend, they do not blush.
01:02:57 --> 01:03:08 [SPEAKER_00]: But the word is the hammer that breaks the rock within them, and the Holy Spirit is the fire that dissolves and melts it.
01:03:09 --> 01:03:15 [SPEAKER_00]: even if they block their ears, like the death snake, and refuse to hear the voice of the charmer.
01:03:16 --> 01:03:18 [SPEAKER_00]: However, skillfully he charms.
01:03:19 --> 01:03:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if they press one ear to the earth to fill it with the filth of covetousness, and fill the other with lustful songs or coarse revelry, yet some of these very snakes have been charmed by the word and captivated by its sweet
01:03:38 --> 01:03:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Their death years have been opened by the melodies of heaven.
01:03:43 --> 01:03:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Their hearts have been unlocked, and the music of the gospel has thrilled through every joint and marrow of their being.
01:03:53 --> 01:04:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Air and silver bells have awakened them, and now there are no songs like the songs of Zion.
01:04:00 --> 01:04:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Now there is no pleasure like the pleasure of true faith.
01:04:06 --> 01:04:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, how barren and unfruitful is the human soul until the word descends upon it like rain and it is watered by the dew of heaven.
01:04:19 --> 01:04:33 [SPEAKER_00]: But oh, when even a few drop drops have entered and soften it, what a rich harvest of grace they produce, what precious fruits spring up within.
01:04:34 --> 01:04:43 [SPEAKER_00]: is the heart so full of malice that the most humble plea can scarcely obtain pardon for the smallest offense.
01:04:44 --> 01:04:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it as hard to appease as difficult to come as the roaring sea when lashed by the fiercest storm?
01:04:53 --> 01:05:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it a covetous heart, so grasping that no scene of distress can move it to a compassion, and no object of misery can draw a single coin from its clenched hand?
01:05:08 --> 01:05:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it a lustful or adulterous heart?
01:05:12 --> 01:05:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Never satisfied, as impossible to fill as the sea with gold.
01:05:19 --> 01:05:38 [SPEAKER_00]: even if it is so, when the word drops upon it like rain and distills like you, like gentle rain upon tender plants and showers upon the grass, due to
01:05:39 --> 01:05:42 [SPEAKER_00]: In a moment, the stone is turned into flesh.
01:05:43 --> 01:05:58 [SPEAKER_00]: The raging sea is hushed into calm, and the mountains of the desert are clothed with herbs and flowers, where shortly before, not a single green blade could be seen.
01:05:58 --> 01:06:04 [SPEAKER_00]: see the mighty change that Grace brings about in the human heart.
01:06:05 --> 01:06:19 [SPEAKER_00]: It transforms Zacchaeus, the hard-hearted, grasping tax collector into a man who restores what he unjustly took and becomes a compassionate helper of the poor and distressed.
01:06:20 --> 01:06:27 [SPEAKER_00]: It claims the furious
01:06:27 --> 01:06:31 [SPEAKER_00]: It cloves A Hab in St. Kloff and Ashes.
01:06:32 --> 01:06:38 [SPEAKER_00]: It brings Felix to such anguish of soul that he trembles like a leaf on a tree.
01:06:39 --> 01:06:48 [SPEAKER_00]: It moves Peter to leave his nets and then enables him to catch thousands of souls at once in the gospel net.
01:06:49 --> 01:06:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Behold.
01:06:51 --> 01:07:00 [SPEAKER_00]: The world was converted to the faith, not by the magicians of Egypt, but by the outcasts of Judea.
01:07:01 --> 01:07:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Before these men, the exorcists could not stand.
01:07:06 --> 01:07:16 [SPEAKER_00]: The words of fishermen are read, says Augustine, and the educated debaters yield them the crown of victory.
01:07:16 --> 01:07:27 [SPEAKER_00]: those taken from the nets, refute philosophers, overthrow the strongholds of idolatry and plant Christianity upon their ruins.
01:07:29 --> 01:07:43 [SPEAKER_00]: They could truly say what the Roman emperor spoke only in arrogance and boasting, vene, vedi, vici, I came, I saw, I conquered,
01:07:43 --> 01:07:55 [SPEAKER_00]: for they conquered as many nations as they encountered, not with the edge of the sword, but with the sword of the mouth, which divides soul from spirit.
01:07:56 --> 01:07:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh nations!
01:07:57 --> 01:07:59 [SPEAKER_00]: What has come over you?
01:08:00 --> 01:08:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh sea!
01:08:01 --> 01:08:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Why did you flee?
01:08:02 --> 01:08:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh Jordan!
01:08:04 --> 01:08:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Why were you driven back?
01:08:06 --> 01:08:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Why oh mountains did you skip like rams and you hills like young sheep?
01:08:23 --> 01:08:31 [SPEAKER_00]: God's mercy is a theme fit for angels to comment upon and a subject worthy of their eternal praise.
01:08:32 --> 01:08:37 [SPEAKER_00]: It is one of his dearest attributes, the delight of his own heart.
01:08:38 --> 01:08:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven itself would be hell without it.
01:08:42 --> 01:08:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Here, how the triumph and choirs sing and lift your voices with theirs, the Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
01:08:58 --> 01:09:08 [SPEAKER_00]: His mercy is over
01:09:08 --> 01:09:10 [SPEAKER_00]: over all his works?
01:09:10 --> 01:09:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it extend even to the starry skies above our heads that vast canopy studied with so many shining lights that gilded vault which bounds our farthest sight?
01:09:24 --> 01:09:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, higher still.
01:09:27 --> 01:09:34 [SPEAKER_00]: His mercy reaches to the heavens, Psalm 36, verse 5.
01:09:35 --> 01:09:38 [SPEAKER_00]: it pervades all of creation.
01:09:38 --> 01:09:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven and Earth O Lord are full of your mercy.
01:09:45 --> 01:09:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Moses, speaking of God's goodness to Israel, says he kept them as the apple of his eye.
01:09:54 --> 01:09:58 [SPEAKER_00]: He carried them on his wings like an eagle.
01:09:58 --> 01:10:05 [SPEAKER_00]: He gave them the increase of the fields to eat and made
01:10:05 --> 01:10:15 [SPEAKER_00]: He fed them with butter from cattle and milk from sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan.
01:10:15 --> 01:10:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Due to honor of E32, verse 10 to 14.
01:10:20 --> 01:10:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, for the strength to speak directly to your consciences, which of you has not experienced that the Lord is good.
01:10:33 --> 01:10:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Who among us is not a monument of his mercy?
01:10:38 --> 01:10:46 [SPEAKER_00]: We sit beneath our own fig tree, we bask in the life-giving warmth of his son.
01:10:46 --> 01:10:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Our bones are filled with marrow, and our inward parts are satisfied with his hidden treasure.
01:10:55 --> 01:11:00 [SPEAKER_00]: We cannot say with the apostle, silver and gold we have none.
01:11:02 --> 01:11:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, how gently he knocks, arise my beloved and open to me, behold, I stand at the door and knock.
01:11:18 --> 01:11:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Thirdly, he knocks by afflictions.
01:11:23 --> 01:11:29 [SPEAKER_00]: They are God's messengers, and their appeal is close and urgent.
01:11:30 --> 01:11:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that they might succeed in their mission.
01:11:34 --> 01:11:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that they might turn us back to the Lord our God.
01:11:38 --> 01:11:44 [SPEAKER_00]: For this very purpose they are sent, and it is better to have them than to be without them.
01:11:47 --> 01:11:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Demetrius once observed that people are unhappy because they have never truly felt misery.
01:11:53 --> 01:11:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Sangtified affliction is a precious blessing.
01:11:58 --> 01:12:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Ten lepers came to Jesus Christ, yet nine of the ten turned away from him once they were healed.
01:12:07 --> 01:12:12 [SPEAKER_00]: It was laparishi that brought name in the Syrian to the prophet in Israel.
01:12:13 --> 01:12:20 [SPEAKER_00]: The prodigal son remembered his father's house only when he was feeding swine.
01:12:21 --> 01:12:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Had the messenger of Satan not been allowed to buff it, Paul, he might have dishonoured his God by becoming excessively exalted.
01:12:31 --> 01:12:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Affliction have often produced great good even in the wicked, and they always tend to draw believers nearer to God.
01:12:44 --> 01:12:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Manasa, Nebuchadnezzar, and others had reason to thank God for these mercies in disguise, which became the honoured instruments of their conversion.
01:12:59 --> 01:13:11 [SPEAKER_00]: If success always attended our efforts, and if we were strangers to bodily sickness and mental distress, what vain creatures we would become?
01:13:12 --> 01:13:21 [SPEAKER_00]: How we would wonder, like blazing comets from our true center of rest, spreading harmful influence far and wide.
01:13:22 --> 01:13:32 [SPEAKER_00]: When Alexander imagined himself to be great, great indeed was the flattery that ramed in his court.
01:13:32 --> 01:13:39 [SPEAKER_00]: It wrapped itself around his heart and described immortality to him, calling him a God.
01:13:40 --> 01:13:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And, since we are naturally inclined to think more highly of ourselves than we ought, and to place excessive value on outward honours.
01:13:51 --> 01:13:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Alexander eagerly swallowed the tempting bait.
01:13:56 --> 01:14:05 [SPEAKER_00]: He did not discover his error until he groaned in the midst of the poison cup and was carried out from the fatal feast half-dead.
01:14:06 --> 01:14:18 [SPEAKER_00]: But then he knew that he was a man, yes, a mortal man, behold, how much better adversity is than such prosperity.
01:14:20 --> 01:14:36 [SPEAKER_00]: The poor are not exposed to such extravagant flattery, and therefore the bubble of pride cannot swell so large within them.
01:14:36 --> 01:14:44 [SPEAKER_00]: what makes home more pleasant than having been tried by many hardships and surrounded by dangers while abroad.
01:14:45 --> 01:14:52 [SPEAKER_00]: If it were not for the frost and cold of winter, we would not so gladly welcome the return of summer.
01:14:54 --> 01:15:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was when the prodigal sun was eating pig scraps that he thought
01:15:03 --> 01:15:15 [SPEAKER_00]: by contrast, the memory of the full pots of Egypt and the abundance they enjoyed there caused Israel to despise even Cainan itself.
01:15:17 --> 01:15:21 [SPEAKER_00]: When do our hearts beat slowest towards heaven?
01:15:21 --> 01:15:26 [SPEAKER_00]: When do our souls long leased for our eternal home?
01:15:27 --> 01:15:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't it when our pride is clothed in silk?
01:15:31 --> 01:15:45 [SPEAKER_00]: When we wear the finest embroidery, when rich is flowing upon us like rain falling on a fleece of wool, when honour smiles upon us, and when everything we undertake, prosperous.
01:15:46 --> 01:15:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Alas, success without grace is the greatest curse that can fall on us.
01:15:54 --> 01:16:02 [SPEAKER_00]: David's most beautiful Psalms were written in his deepest troubles and amid floods of tears.
01:16:04 --> 01:16:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore he could say, it is good for me that I have been afflicted.
01:16:10 --> 01:16:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Blessed is that rod which deserves our warmest gratitude.
01:16:15 --> 01:16:23 [SPEAKER_00]: The rod that drives us away from our sins and dislodges our idols from our hearts.
01:16:25 --> 01:16:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Fourthly, he knocks by his judgments.
01:16:30 --> 01:16:34 [SPEAKER_00]: In the way of your judgments, O Lord, we have waited for you.
01:16:34 --> 01:16:37 [SPEAKER_00]: In trouble we looked for you.
01:16:37 --> 01:16:44 [SPEAKER_00]: We poured out a prayer when your discipline was upon us as our 26th verse 8.
01:16:45 --> 01:16:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes he knocks at the door next to us.
01:16:51 --> 01:16:54 [SPEAKER_00]: By striking our neighbors, he warns us.
01:16:54 --> 01:16:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Their punishment is meant to be our lesson.
01:16:59 --> 01:17:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
01:17:04 --> 01:17:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Luke 13, verse 5.
01:17:07 --> 01:17:11 [SPEAKER_00]: If the seeders fall, let the fig tree's tremble.
01:17:11 --> 01:17:15 [SPEAKER_00]: They too may be uprooted by the same storm.
01:17:16 --> 01:17:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Though the cloud gathers at a distance, it may yet break over our own heads.
01:17:23 --> 01:17:30 [SPEAKER_00]: The sword that has drunk the blood of others may not be satisfied until it is stained with ars as well.
01:17:31 --> 01:17:38 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the next house is on fire, should I sit unconcerned and warm myself by its flames?
01:17:39 --> 01:17:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Might a spark leap from it and catch my own roof?
01:17:44 --> 01:17:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe nearo sang while very burnt.
01:17:48 --> 01:17:53 [SPEAKER_00]: But let the losses of others serve as warnings to us.
01:17:53 --> 01:18:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Happy is the one who learns instruction from another's correction and prepares for his own safety when he sees the judgments of God hovering nearby.
01:18:08 --> 01:18:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Fifthly, he knocks by the law.
01:18:12 --> 01:18:18 [SPEAKER_00]: The law shows us sin in its true colors and in its proper form.
01:18:18 --> 01:18:22 [SPEAKER_00]: as it was first given a made thunder and lightning.
01:18:23 --> 01:18:28 [SPEAKER_00]: So it still descends like a thunderbolt upon the human heart.
01:18:28 --> 01:18:35 [SPEAKER_00]: It strikes with irresistible force and causes dreadful devastation wherever it falls.
01:18:36 --> 01:18:44 [SPEAKER_00]: It sweeps away every false foundation and utterly destroys all proud and groundless
01:18:46 --> 01:18:54 [SPEAKER_00]: The experience of thousands gives witness to this truth, though proud hearts deny it and flee from it.
01:18:55 --> 01:19:01 [SPEAKER_00]: and so the law cries loudly in the sinners ears when he is first awakened.
01:19:02 --> 01:19:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, miserable creature, the wrath of God is revealed against you and already kindled within your soul.
01:19:10 --> 01:19:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Your sins continually feed the fire, and it will burn you down to the depths of hell, unless you open your heart and allow Jesus Christ to enter and extinguish it.
01:19:24 --> 01:19:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not say with the Church of Leia de Cier, I am rich and have need of nothing.
01:19:31 --> 01:19:37 [SPEAKER_00]: For you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked.
01:19:39 --> 01:19:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not flatter yourself with the empty notion that your soul is safe and that your condition secure.
01:19:46 --> 01:19:51 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the groundless confidence of every unregenerate person.
01:19:52 --> 01:20:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Rather, admit conviction in its full strength and let it humble you to the very dust, this is the voice of the law.
01:20:03 --> 01:20:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Until it has knocked at the sinner's heart, he thinks little about fleeing from the wrath to come.
01:20:12 --> 01:20:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Pull himself testifies, I was alive without the law once.
01:20:18 --> 01:20:24 [SPEAKER_00]: I had a good opinion of my spiritual state and saw myself in no danger.
01:20:25 --> 01:20:30 [SPEAKER_00]: But when the law came to me in its convicting power, I died.
01:20:32 --> 01:20:36 [SPEAKER_00]: All my lofty thoughts and towering hopes drooped and withered.
01:20:37 --> 01:20:45 [SPEAKER_00]: One stroke of the law overturned my entire structure of self-confidence and laid it flat.
01:20:46 --> 01:20:54 [SPEAKER_00]: So, sinners, you must hear something like this before you will ever be concerned for your souls.
01:20:55 --> 01:21:04 [SPEAKER_00]: You will never be truly awakened until you have heard the law proclaiming this alarming judgment against your consciences.
01:21:04 --> 01:21:06 [SPEAKER_00]: You have fallen away from God.
01:21:07 --> 01:21:10 [SPEAKER_00]: You have broken His covenant and transgressed His laws.
01:21:11 --> 01:21:13 [SPEAKER_00]: In you, there dwells no good.
01:21:13 --> 01:21:21 [SPEAKER_00]: You are dark in your understanding, weak in your will, and utterly unable to help yourselves.
01:21:22 --> 01:21:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Why think I have plenty?
01:21:25 --> 01:21:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Why should I beg?
01:21:28 --> 01:21:32 [SPEAKER_00]: But when I come to see my own poverty and weakness,
01:21:32 --> 01:21:36 [SPEAKER_00]: I will turn all God's demands into petitions.
01:21:37 --> 01:21:46 [SPEAKER_00]: When He says, turn, turn, I will earnestly cry back to Him, turn us and we will be turned.
01:21:47 --> 01:21:59 [SPEAKER_00]: When He says, understand, I will pray, Lord, help us to understand.
01:22:00 --> 01:22:05 [SPEAKER_00]: The language of my heart will be Lord, teach us to pray.
01:22:06 --> 01:22:15 [SPEAKER_00]: If God gives what He commands, then let Him command whatever He pleases, so said Augustine.
01:22:17 --> 01:22:29 [SPEAKER_00]: You must remember this, although we have lost the power to obey, God has not lost his
01:22:30 --> 01:22:45 [SPEAKER_00]: If you were to lend a sum of money to someone, and through carelessness or extravagance he squandered or lost it, would you not still have the right to demand repayment, even if he had nothing with which to pay you?
01:22:46 --> 01:22:47 [SPEAKER_00]: So it is with us.
01:22:48 --> 01:22:54 [SPEAKER_00]: We received all in Adam, and we lost all in Adam.
01:22:55 --> 01:22:59 [SPEAKER_00]: You might say, Adam's fall was without my consent.
01:22:59 --> 01:23:01 [SPEAKER_00]: I had no part in it.
01:23:02 --> 01:23:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I answer.
01:23:03 --> 01:23:12 [SPEAKER_00]: If an earthly king were to grant a rich inheritance to any one of you on these terms, it will be yours and your heir's forever.
01:23:12 --> 01:23:15 [SPEAKER_00]: If you obey me in all that I require.
01:23:16 --> 01:23:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't your disobedience, should you fail to meet those terms, forfeit your right to the inheritance, and deprive not only you, but your ares also of all claim to it?
01:23:30 --> 01:23:31 [SPEAKER_00]: So it is with us.
01:23:33 --> 01:23:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Though we have lost the power to a bay, and like Samsung have lost our strength, yet with God, all things are possible.
01:23:46 --> 01:23:52 [SPEAKER_00]: When he said, let there be light, there was light.
01:23:53 --> 01:23:59 [SPEAKER_00]: When he sends his word, he is able to heal you.
01:24:01 --> 01:24:05 [SPEAKER_00]: It is in this confidence that I now speak to you.
01:24:06 --> 01:24:20 [SPEAKER_00]: And if divine power accompanies the word, I do not doubt that you, dead as you are, may be awakened to a sense of your danger and stirred to an earnest desire for Jesus Christ.
01:24:21 --> 01:24:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that he would speak to you as he once spoke to dead Lazarus saying, come out,
01:24:30 --> 01:24:32 [SPEAKER_00]: all in the words of the prophet.
01:24:32 --> 01:24:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, dry bones.
01:24:34 --> 01:24:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Here, the word of the Lord.
01:24:38 --> 01:24:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that it might be the very hour in which the dead among you hear the voice of the Son of God and live.
01:24:50 --> 01:24:52 [SPEAKER_00]: John 5, verse 25.
01:24:54 --> 01:25:02 [SPEAKER_00]: It is his voice alone that has this life-giving power in every age of the world.
01:25:03 --> 01:25:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Let ministers therefore never imagine that they can convert souls by their own gifts or persuasive eloquence.
01:25:12 --> 01:25:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Let them depend entirely upon his promise.
01:25:18 --> 01:25:25 [SPEAKER_00]: look, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.
01:25:26 --> 01:25:40 [SPEAKER_00]: And if any are brought to the Lord, it is this one who stands at the door and knocks, who is the true and effective cause of it.
01:25:41 --> 01:25:46 [SPEAKER_00]: It is the Holy Spirit who convicts the world of sin.
01:25:48 --> 01:25:55 [SPEAKER_00]: who then is poor, and who is a polys, but servants through whom you believed.
01:25:56 --> 01:26:02 [SPEAKER_00]: One plants, another waters, but God alone gives the increase.
01:26:04 --> 01:26:10 [SPEAKER_00]: May He grant that increase abundantly this day.
01:26:10 --> 01:26:20 [SPEAKER_00]: While I, the least and most unworthy of his servants, bring my message to a close with the following weighty considerations.
01:26:21 --> 01:26:27 [SPEAKER_00]: First, consider who I am begging you to open your hearts to.
01:26:28 --> 01:26:38 [SPEAKER_00]: It is to him who gives you life and who preserves it, to him who shed his blood for you and shows you kindness every moment.
01:26:38 --> 01:26:44 [SPEAKER_00]: He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
01:26:45 --> 01:26:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that this very day you might be brought to see him as he truly is, the chief among 10.
01:26:56 --> 01:27:08 [SPEAKER_00]: As the prophet once prayed for his servant, so is my earnest prayer for you, my dear heroes, that the Lord God would open your eyes.
01:27:10 --> 01:27:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Secondly, consider what it is that I ask of you.
01:27:15 --> 01:27:22 [SPEAKER_00]: It is simply this, that you would make room for Jesus Christ in your hearts.
01:27:23 --> 01:27:39 [SPEAKER_00]: I greatly fear that he has no place in your affections, that like the people of Bethlehem you reserve the best rooms for self and sin, while he is put off with a stable and a manger.
01:27:41 --> 01:27:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Lamb of God.
01:27:43 --> 01:28:00 [SPEAKER_00]: patient, spotless lamb of God, set up your throne in our hearts, and enable us to cry before you, Hosanna to the king of saints.
01:28:01 --> 01:28:06 [SPEAKER_00]: consider what you will receive if you open to him when he knocks.
01:28:07 --> 01:28:09 [SPEAKER_00]: What blessings will follow?
01:28:10 --> 01:28:14 [SPEAKER_00]: You will have God and all his fullness.
01:28:15 --> 01:28:24 [SPEAKER_00]: On earth you will receive the abundance of his grace and in heaven an eternal weight of glory.
01:28:24 --> 01:28:26 [SPEAKER_00]: He will be with you here.
01:28:27 --> 01:28:29 [SPEAKER_00]: He will support you in death.
01:28:30 --> 01:28:47 [SPEAKER_00]: And in that last and terrible day, when the heavens will be torn apart like a veil and rolled up like a scroll, when his almighty arm will stop the sun in its course and shatter the whole frame of the universe.
01:28:47 --> 01:28:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Then,
01:28:52 --> 01:29:04 [SPEAKER_00]: He will strengthen you to behold the dreadful convulsions of a dying world without fear, without a single anxious or troubling thought.
01:29:05 --> 01:29:10 [SPEAKER_00]: He has prepared glorious homes for all who follow him.
01:29:12 --> 01:29:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what tongue can describe the beauty of Emmanuel's land?
01:29:17 --> 01:29:21 [SPEAKER_00]: What pen can sketch its
01:29:22 --> 01:29:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Eden itself, compared with the heavenly paradise that we will see is a barren and thorny wilderness.
01:29:32 --> 01:29:40 [SPEAKER_00]: To this blessed stay, may the God of infinite mercy bring us all.
01:29:50 --> 01:29:55 [SPEAKER_01]: This sermon, it's hard to pick out one part of the sermon I enjoyed.
01:29:55 --> 01:29:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned at the beginning, I think it's a great sermon, and I enjoyed it.
01:29:58 --> 01:30:10 [SPEAKER_01]: The person who spoke it also told us it was a really great sermon, but if I can pick one little quote out of here that I think is really cool, prayer is a kind of heavenly conversation, a dialogue between the soul and its maker.
01:30:10 --> 01:30:12 [SPEAKER_01]: It is a chain that binds heaven and earth together.
01:30:13 --> 01:30:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it brings the Lord nearer to us for the Lord is nearer to all who call on him.
01:30:18 --> 01:30:21 [SPEAKER_01]: and yet what are our prayers that they do not flow from the heart?
01:30:21 --> 01:30:26 [SPEAKER_01]: They are nothing but solemn mockery is deserving a curse rather than a blessing.
01:30:26 --> 01:30:27 [SPEAKER_01]: What a great line.
01:30:27 --> 01:30:28 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you pray in that way?
01:30:28 --> 01:30:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you see your prayers as a conversation between a solace maker, bringing the Lord close to you and really, truly bringing you closer to the Lord?
01:30:36 --> 01:30:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it something that has just become an empty rhythmic ritual that you do?
01:30:40 --> 01:30:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Do your God this, this, and this?
01:30:41 --> 01:30:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Or is it a conversation between your
01:30:43 --> 01:30:44 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's maker.
01:30:45 --> 01:30:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I think I mean, there's so many things on the sermon.
01:30:46 --> 01:31:00 [SPEAKER_01]: I think a very good But if you just picked out that one part of it, and you just made all your prayers from this point forward a Conversation with the idea that my soul is right now talking to it's maker and we're getting drawn closer together because He hears those who call on him.
01:31:01 --> 01:31:13 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it would really remind us that our prayers are effective and they really do matter While you're praying pray for a five thoughts pray for the sermon pray for these sermons to go out pray for these podcasts to do well
01:31:13 --> 01:31:19 [SPEAKER_01]: and just pray you did put, we ask you to put our show in our work before you, in prayer.
01:31:23 --> 01:31:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for listening to today's episode of Revived Thoughts.
01:31:36 --> 01:31:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Big thanks to Gun 3 for reading another Revive Thoughts sermon, Troy, you've got that special relationship with Gun 3.
01:31:45 --> 01:31:48 [SPEAKER_02]: It's neat to have that connection to have a mirror in the show.
01:31:48 --> 01:31:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Guthrie is a really nice guy.
01:31:50 --> 01:31:52 [SPEAKER_01]: I met him a few years back here in Indonesia.
01:31:52 --> 01:31:58 [SPEAKER_01]: He was visiting and he told me he started listening to our show and it was really, really, he was really, I was like, wow, that's awesome.
01:31:59 --> 01:32:01 [SPEAKER_01]: And he asked it, you know, if you could read some sermons for us.
01:32:01 --> 01:32:02 [SPEAKER_01]: So this is not his first one.
01:32:02 --> 01:32:06 [SPEAKER_01]: He also did a really great Christmas Evan sermons a little while back.
01:32:06 --> 01:32:07 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe.
01:32:07 --> 01:32:17 [SPEAKER_01]: So definitely go check out that other one and it is I he's one of the few people where I feel like I I know him as a listener, but I actually met him before I knew him as a listener.
01:32:18 --> 01:32:18 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a great.
01:32:18 --> 01:32:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a cool guy But I still put him in that category of really cool people.
01:32:21 --> 01:32:25 [SPEAKER_01]: I met because of the show Someone else I met because of the show Marcella.
01:32:25 --> 01:32:29 [SPEAKER_01]: She was extremely kind to my family and I recently we were really grateful
01:32:29 --> 01:32:31 [SPEAKER_01]: to meet you Marcella and your family.
01:32:31 --> 01:32:33 [SPEAKER_01]: So thank you so much for all that.
01:32:33 --> 01:32:36 [SPEAKER_01]: The people that listen to this show, you are without it out.
01:32:36 --> 01:32:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of the coolest kindest, greatest people out there.
01:32:39 --> 01:32:41 [SPEAKER_01]: And I have not met a lame one yet.
01:32:41 --> 01:32:45 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess it's possible they're out there, but I'm fully convinced that they are not.
01:32:45 --> 01:32:47 [SPEAKER_01]: If you listen to my thoughts, you are just
01:32:47 --> 01:32:55 [SPEAKER_01]: and it leads class of humans and I feel privileged and sure to let us do that we get to make these episodes for and you and with you.
01:32:56 --> 01:32:58 [SPEAKER_01]: We ask that you just continue.
01:32:58 --> 01:33:11 [SPEAKER_01]: I said at the end of the accident, the end of the par outside again, just pray for the show, pray for Joel and I, in all the different projects and things were a part of and pray for these podcasts that they would edify the right people, get into the right people's hands and that the people who God needs to hear them will hear them.
01:33:11 --> 01:33:14 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Troy and Joel and this is Revifex.