Loved the story of the “stolen purses” It is scary how many people think they can keep “stealing purses”(sinning) and they are automatically forgiven because of the cross.
Almighty God, Please give us someone as bold and and God filled as Leonard Ravenhill to show the modern church what the real gospel is. In Jesus Name Amen
I'm so glad that I came upon this. This man of God is so real, I love it because he tell it like it is. We need more preachers like him. I am blessed to have a pastor who loves people but hates sin. He has signs and wonders following him. He's so anointed, a man of integrity.And Very humble.
6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1 John 3: 9-9 KJV
Great sermon!! Great truth!!!! Praise God!!!! We all truly fall short!!! Because of Christ we have the strength to be the children God wants us to be!!!
Every time I hear Ravenhill make a joke I smile, because he reminds me that holiness - and he was a devout and godly man indeed - is not divorced from humor.
Apelles KJV again you I see you've commented on a few of his videos brother let me tell you what he preached was all based on the Word of God and it was all truth truth revealed to him by the Holly Spirit out of a place of intimacy never say someone is a false prophet unless their fruit speak for itself but this mans fruit is clearly not that of a false prophet
@ Apelles I would advise you to tread carefully. by their fruits you will know them! What fruit did Mr Ravenhill bear in his lifetime that is still enduring after his death? And what fruit are you bearing now?
it's true the sin will eat at youuntil you break down and confess it and give it over to God and cry out for Him to forgive you and ask the Spirit to kill the deeds of the body.
Asking whether Lordship salvation is required just baffles me. Yes Jesus must be Lord if He is not LORD then you don't know HIM. NO believer keeps on sinning read 1 John 3 very clear. We may stumble but we are over comers through Jesus Christ.
One can sin and sin again when he gives in to temptation. Some people need to be delivered of cerrtain things, especially that sin which so easily besets him. God is a God of love and He will forgive us of our sins and remember them no more; that sin is covered under the Blood of Jesus, God no longer remembers it; however, that does not give any of us a license to sin.
Has anyone by chance read the book by Steve Gallagher Intoxicated with Babylon? Phenomenal book! Ravenhill wrote the forward, which in itself is very moving!
He means those who persist in sin on purpose, who use grace as an excuse to sin, saying, I can continue in this sin willfully and just lean on God's grace. A believer cannot continue in a sin once the Holy Spirit has brought it to their attention and convicted them of it in sanctification. Once I became a believer, God chastened me severely for sins, and once he did, I couldn't do them anymore. I fell sometimes, but the punishment and chastening from God was and is severe.
Perhaps my wording was wrong. But it does say in Hebrews that God disciplines his children. We who are saved are not eternally punished in hell, but we are chastened and disciplined and if we are not, then we are not true sons. Hebrews 12:8
Paul didnt stuggle with sin. Romans 7 was paul talking about a man(possibly himself) preconversion under the conviction of the law, Paul said deliver the man to satan so he MAY be saved, not he would be saved certainly. Did you even read the verses i gave? i dont think you did. Paul say fornicators will NOT inherit the kingdom of God (1 cor 6:9) (Ephesians 5:5) (Hebrews 13:4) is he contradicting himself now? I think you should read those verses i gave and rethink your position based on the bible
Ezekiel 18:24-26 New International Version 24 “But if a righteous person turns(A) from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness(B) they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.(C) 25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’(D) Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust?(E) Is it not your ways that are unjust? 26 If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it; because of the sin they have committed they will die.
I think you read the scriptures with a slight bend. What about Matthew 19:26 which says ".... With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” If all things are possible with God, then why doesn't God do all possible things? If it is possible to do all things in Christ, then why aren't we doing everything that is entirely possible?
Well, if you are no longer sinning and have reached sinless perfection, then it logically follows that you are claiming to be without sin (sinful acts - not a sin nature)...
The truth is that Christ Bled, Died, Resurrected and Ascended. It is here that we find that God revealed his power to deliver us from the grip of Satan and Sin Rom 6. It is here that you come to know God and Jesus Jn17:3. It is here that you see Adam crucified and CHRIST resurrected 1COR15:22. It is here that you come to be in a position of authority higher than Satan and his demons Eph2:6. It is here that you are positioned as a SAINT and no longer a SINNER 1JN3." BE HOLY AS I AM HOLY"!
Human choice doesn't cease the moment God energizes the spirit. In reading your other posts you obviously believe that believers stumble, yet not sin every hour of every day. Well, I would agree. I think your idea of "go on sinning", and my idea of "go on sinning" are slightly different. When you begin to legalize the believers obligation towards holiness, you miss the spirit of the message....
Really? Tell that to Paul who struggled with his sin. Tell that to the man who was sleeping with his fathers wife, was excommunicated from the church, in 1 Cor. 5, and then Paul said that his spirit would be saved. Why would Paul command the church to judge this man, and in the very next few verses, tell them that we don't associate with the sexually immoral, but NOT meaning those of the world? That makes no sense now does it? Clearly this man was a believer, and Paul was judging him...
...and I wasn't twisting your words. I was stating a logical conclusion from the phrase "no longer sinning after having been a sinner". It is impossible to "no longer sin" just as much as it isn't possible to continue in it. Any other conclusion misses the point...
I did not see your reply in this thread so I thought I would address it here anyway. Certainly, all things are possible in Christ. I don't think anyone is debating that. However, we who are saved do sin. Though I believe this verse is to non-believers, I think it applies to anyone - 1 Jn. 1-8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. We don't live out Christianity through anecdotal stories...
@theawakener7 not sure what scripture you are referring to, since clearly you are not christian, given your way of carrying yourself (and therefore i am not your "bro"). and yes, there is a big distinction between eternity past and future, since we didnt spend eternity past in heaven, we will spend eternity future in heaven. you were the one who said that God sends His children to hell.. how did you come up with that one?
@theawakener7 ah so im guessing you are a universalist, since im guessing you are using 1john2:2 as "everyone is saved"? is that right? even the sons of the devil that Jesus spoke about? heres some verses for you too: rom8:21,mk12:24,jn8:44,ac13:10,rev21:8,gal5:19-21,1cor5:9-11,col3:5-6
How amazing it was that the old testament saints were able to live blamelessly without the indwelling of the holy spirit. I've always marveled at that lol!
@jacksmack77 @ 2 corinthians 5:17----1 john 2:4----1 john 3:9-----john 3:5---- this is regeneration and without regeneration you have not salvation:see john 3:5 Jesus said it not me
I have read and taught these verses for years. They are not stand alone verses. They must be harmonized with the rest of scripture, unless you are a Nazarene and have reached sinless perfection. Which is it?
God doesn't punish his own - only brings judgement for persistence in sin and chastens to prevent that persistence. I did not at all get that out of what I heard. Perhaps he should be more clear....
Well, if I were a Calvinist, I would certainly think as you do. God said that He is not willing that any should perish, so why do people perish? Because of human volition. God doesn't cause His children to fall, but yet they fall. To say that only those who don't fall are God's children is the circular dementia of Calvinism to which you might be a follower. Just because you "don't like it" when people use certain words, doesn't make anything more or less, or at all true or not true...
Great preacher, and preaching, yet he is wrong about forgiveness. We cannot understand why, but Christ has forgiven all of our sin - past, present, and future. There is NO SIN that Christ did not forgive at the cross. If there is a sin not forgiven, then Christ must get back on the cross and sacrifice himself again because he left some sin out of His first sacrifice.
So,is Ravenhill in favour of asceticism then? "Do you know why you need entertainment? Or any of us? You only need entertainment when you've lost the joy of the Lord. And when we've no joy we need entertainment. And when we've entertainment we've no joy." He makes several more statements to this effect. I can't clearly understand this as anything but a total rejection of private leisure including reading fiction, watching television, having a hobby, and playing sports. Is he really denouncing these things as having no place in the Christian life? Are we to have no past-times at all? I don't see this attitude in Scripture.
When you have the Holy Ghost, you desire to live Holy and detached from all the weapons from Satan. TV is poison, Music is just technique. Love not this world otherwise the love of the father is not in you.
When you spend all of your time doing the Will of God, reading your Bible, telling people about Jesus, helping the poor and going to and building up churches, you have no time for entertainment, God did NOT save you so you can sit in front a TV 24/7 while there's a lost world out there dying in their sins
The more u have of Christ the more u relaize everything in this world is not "entertainment" u say it's unbiblical? Paul himself said he wants nothing of this world because it all is curropt!!
Loved the story of the “stolen purses” It is scary how many people think they can keep “stealing purses”(sinning) and they are automatically forgiven because of the cross.
"I bid the world goodbye, not tearfully but cheerfully!" Truth!! Praise Him!
Almighty God,
Please give us someone as bold and and God filled as Leonard Ravenhill to show the modern church what the real gospel is.
In Jesus Name Amen
I'm so glad that I came upon this. This man of God is so real, I love it because he tell it like it is. We need more preachers like him. I am blessed to have a pastor who loves people but hates sin. He has signs and wonders following him. He's so anointed, a man of integrity.And Very humble.
6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1 John 3: 9-9 KJV
@@Rileyed We may sin sometimes, but not everyday
Have you stopped sinning? Great!!
Thank Jesus for repentance and a new creature.
Praise the Lord keep up the good fight and work!
Great sermon!! Great truth!!!! Praise God!!!! We all truly fall short!!! Because of Christ we have the strength to be the children God wants us to be!!!
Every time I hear Ravenhill make a joke I smile, because he reminds me that holiness - and he was a devout and godly man indeed - is not divorced from humor.
I was raised in England but never met a English man like this man of god big respect my elder
we need more Men of God like him!!
He was a man of Satan and a false prophet!
Apelles KJV again you I see you've commented on a few of his videos brother let me tell you what he preached was all based on the Word of God and it was all truth truth revealed to him by the Holly Spirit out of a place of intimacy never say someone is a false prophet unless their fruit speak for itself but this mans fruit is clearly not that of a false prophet
@ Apelles I would advise you to tread carefully. by their fruits you will know them! What fruit did Mr Ravenhill bear in his lifetime that is still enduring after his death? And what fruit are you bearing now?
pamela Edoho Well said.
Apelles KJV you are a reprobate..yes sir
please pray for my family we in all sorts of great trouble, please also pray for a girl a cripple i just saw who wanted to see her mother
I hope that you are doing well now brother. God bless!
Thank you for uploading this, I love have loved to have heard the rest of this amazing message!
Very true. I can whole say amen with my whole heart!
Praise God for the preaching of the Gospel.
Bless this man
this guy is amazing
Amen, so convicting.
it's true the sin will eat at youuntil you break down and confess it and give it over to God and cry out for Him to forgive you and ask the Spirit to kill the deeds of the body.
that peice was just a tease. I was enjoying it so well then it cut off. i would have loved to hear the whole thing.
so short and yet so powerful
"Be not conformed to this world (kosmos) but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind..."
Funny how so many miss this scripture!
Asking whether Lordship salvation is required just baffles me. Yes Jesus must be Lord if He is not LORD then you don't know HIM. NO believer keeps on sinning read 1 John 3 very clear. We may stumble but we are over comers through Jesus Christ.
James Peters Sr. Amen
I ask for prayer about going into the ministry, because I have a burden for souls. I’m in the valley right now and really need prayers.
One can sin and sin again when he gives in to temptation. Some people need to be delivered of cerrtain things, especially that sin which so easily besets him. God is a God of love and He will forgive us of our sins and remember them no more; that sin is covered under the Blood of Jesus, God no longer remembers it; however, that does not give any of us a license to sin.
Has anyone by chance read the book by Steve Gallagher Intoxicated with Babylon?
Phenomenal book!
Ravenhill wrote the forward, which in itself is very moving!
He means those who persist in sin on purpose, who use grace as an excuse to sin, saying, I can continue in this sin willfully and just lean on God's grace. A believer cannot continue in a sin once the Holy Spirit has brought it to their attention and convicted them of it in sanctification. Once I became a believer, God chastened me severely for sins, and once he did, I couldn't do them anymore. I fell sometimes, but the punishment and chastening from God was and is severe.
Perhaps my wording was wrong. But it does say in Hebrews that God disciplines his children. We who are saved are not eternally punished in hell, but we are chastened and disciplined and if we are not, then we are not true sons. Hebrews 12:8
Ravenhill sure was a man on fire for God. Can anyone tell me from which sermon this is taken? I would like to hear the whole sermon, you see :-)
Paul didnt stuggle with sin. Romans 7 was paul talking about a man(possibly himself) preconversion under the conviction of the law, Paul said deliver the man to satan so he MAY be saved, not he would be saved certainly. Did you even read the verses i gave? i dont think you did. Paul say fornicators will NOT inherit the kingdom of God (1 cor 6:9) (Ephesians 5:5) (Hebrews 13:4) is he contradicting himself now? I think you should read those verses i gave and rethink your position based on the bible
If your sinning against God you dont belong to Him..... Read 1 John 2:3-5 and 1 John 1:5-7
Good stuff m8!
Ezekiel 18:24-26
New International Version
24 “But if a righteous person turns(A) from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness(B) they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.(C)
25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’(D) Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust?(E) Is it not your ways that are unjust? 26 If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it; because of the sin they have committed they will die.
Is it possible for man to be free from sin.
I think you read the scriptures with a slight bend. What about Matthew 19:26 which says ".... With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” If all things are possible with God, then why doesn't God do all possible things? If it is possible to do all things in Christ, then why aren't we doing everything that is entirely possible?
Well, if you are no longer sinning and have reached sinless perfection, then it logically follows that you are claiming to be without sin (sinful acts - not a sin nature)...
The truth is that Christ Bled, Died, Resurrected and Ascended. It is here that we find that God revealed his power to deliver us from the grip of Satan and Sin Rom 6. It is here that you come to know God and Jesus Jn17:3. It is here that you see Adam crucified and CHRIST resurrected 1COR15:22. It is here that you come to be in a position of authority higher than Satan and his demons Eph2:6. It is here that you are positioned as a SAINT and no longer a SINNER 1JN3." BE HOLY AS I AM HOLY"!
So then it is possible to fall and still be a child of God?
Human choice doesn't cease the moment God energizes the spirit. In reading your other posts you obviously believe that believers stumble, yet not sin every hour of every day. Well, I would agree. I think your idea of "go on sinning", and my idea of "go on sinning" are slightly different. When you begin to legalize the believers obligation towards holiness, you miss the spirit of the message....
The Holy Spirit is in every believer whether they are in sin or not. However, he is grieved when believers persist in sin (Eph.4:29-32).
Where can I get this whole sermon?
So then you believe in Lordship Salvation like MacArthur and Ravenhill, Stott, Pink, et al....?
Really? Tell that to Paul who struggled with his sin. Tell that to the man who was sleeping with his fathers wife, was excommunicated from the church, in 1 Cor. 5, and then Paul said that his spirit would be saved. Why would Paul command the church to judge this man, and in the very next few verses, tell them that we don't associate with the sexually immoral, but NOT meaning those of the world? That makes no sense now does it? Clearly this man was a believer, and Paul was judging him...
...and I wasn't twisting your words. I was stating a logical conclusion from the phrase "no longer sinning after having been a sinner". It is impossible to "no longer sin" just as much as it isn't possible to continue in it. Any other conclusion misses the point...
I did not see your reply in this thread so I thought I would address it here anyway. Certainly, all things are possible in Christ. I don't think anyone is debating that. However, we who are saved do sin. Though I believe this verse is to non-believers, I think it applies to anyone - 1 Jn. 1-8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
We don't live out Christianity through anecdotal stories...
@theawakener7 not sure what scripture you are referring to, since clearly you are not christian, given your way of carrying yourself (and therefore i am not your "bro"). and yes, there is a big distinction between eternity past and future, since we didnt spend eternity past in heaven, we will spend eternity future in heaven.
you were the one who said that God sends His children to hell.. how did you come up with that one?
presently*
@theawakener7 ah so im guessing you are a universalist, since im guessing you are using 1john2:2 as "everyone is saved"? is that right? even the sons of the devil that Jesus spoke about? heres some verses for you too: rom8:21,mk12:24,jn8:44,ac13:10,rev21:8,gal5:19-21,1cor5:9-11,col3:5-6
How amazing it was that the old testament saints were able to live blamelessly without the indwelling of the holy spirit. I've always marveled at that lol!
@jacksmack77 @ 2 corinthians 5:17----1 john 2:4----1 john 3:9-----john 3:5---- this is regeneration and without regeneration you have not salvation:see john 3:5 Jesus said it not me
I have read and taught these verses for years. They are not stand alone verses. They must be harmonized with the rest of scripture, unless you are a Nazarene and have reached sinless perfection. Which is it?
God doesn't punish his own - only brings judgement for persistence in sin and chastens to prevent that persistence. I did not at all get that out of what I heard. Perhaps he should be more clear....
I'm surprised Ravenhill's making jokes.
Well, if I were a Calvinist, I would certainly think as you do. God said that He is not willing that any should perish, so why do people perish? Because of human volition. God doesn't cause His children to fall, but yet they fall. To say that only those who don't fall are God's children is the circular dementia of Calvinism to which you might be a follower. Just because you "don't like it" when people use certain words, doesn't make anything more or less, or at all true or not true...
Great preacher, and preaching, yet he is wrong about forgiveness. We cannot understand why, but Christ has forgiven all of our sin - past, present, and future. There is NO SIN that Christ did not forgive at the cross. If there is a sin not forgiven, then Christ must get back on the cross and sacrifice himself again because he left some sin out of His first sacrifice.
unconditional forgiveness is a lie.
So,is Ravenhill in favour of asceticism then? "Do you know why you need entertainment? Or any of us? You only need entertainment when you've lost the joy of the Lord. And when we've no joy we need entertainment. And when we've entertainment we've no joy." He makes several more statements to this effect. I can't clearly understand this as anything but a total rejection of private leisure including reading fiction, watching television, having a hobby, and playing sports. Is he really denouncing these things as having no place in the Christian life? Are we to have no past-times at all? I don't see this attitude in Scripture.
+Alexander Martin its because you are looking for a loophole in the scriptures so you can indulge in your selfishness. how about giving God all of you
+Lloyd George Same to you brother. Jesus mercies and love to you. I Love Jesus with all my being. I'm into him like he is in the father
When you have the Holy Ghost, you desire to live Holy and detached from all the weapons from Satan. TV is poison, Music is just technique. Love not this world otherwise the love of the father is not in you.
When you spend all of your time doing the Will of God, reading your Bible, telling people about Jesus, helping the poor and going to and building up churches, you have no time for entertainment, God did NOT save you so you can sit in front a TV 24/7 while there's a lost world out there dying in their sins
The more u have of Christ the more u relaize everything in this world is not "entertainment" u say it's unbiblical? Paul himself said he wants nothing of this world because it all is curropt!!