Leonard Ravenhill Quotes from “The Revival Hymn”
Source: SermonIndex – “The Revival Hymn” Audio Transcription
1. No Finality in the Christian Life
“Keep this in mind from an old man, there is no finality to the Christian life this side of eternity. We pray that some of us may go to our own funeral tonight and die to self and end all the failure and all the weakness.”
2. What Are You Saved From?
“If I was to ask you tonight, ‘Are you saved?’ you say, ‘Yes, I am saved.’ When? ‘Oh so-and-so preached, I got baptized and...’ Are you saved? What are you saved from—hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?”
3. Are We Compromised?
“And there’s no room for Him in the inn. He got a bit older, there was no room in His family, His family turned on Him. He went to the temple—no room in the temple, the temple turned on Him. And when He died there was no room to bury Him, He died outside of the city. Well why in God's Name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it that the world couldn't get on with the holiest Man that ever lived and can get on with you and me? Are we compromised? Are we compromised? Have we no spiritual stature? Have we no righteousness that reflects on their corruption?”
4. The Man Carrying a Cross
“As dear Dr. Tozer used to say, ‘Len, you knew one thing about a man that was carrying a cross out of the city—you knew he wasn't coming back.’ We just come from an altar and we go back the next week and we're as fascinated, we haven't spent a half hour with Jesus but will stay two stinking hours in a movie house. And Paul says that's what the world is to me—it’s a system of corruption and rottenness and vileness. It's anti-Christ from the word go. Is the world crucified to you tonight? Or does it fascinate you?”
5. A New Demonstration of Christianity
“What is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then it vanisheth away... That world outside there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity, it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.”
6. Paddling on the Edge of Grace
“We are still paddling on the edge of the ocean of the possibilities of grace. Put a holy dissatisfaction in us tonight.”
7. Whisper in My Ear… Cleanse the Pulpit
“Whisper in my ear that Satan has moved you up. He says you’re getting to be dangerous to his kingdom. He says you’re spoiling his plans, you're thwarting his purposes, you’re pulling down his strongholds. We’re not pulling things out, we’re building pretty little churches and little rooms for people to sit around. If Jesus came back, He wouldn’t cleanse the temple. He would cleanse the pulpit.”
8. Anything You Love More Than Jesus
“Anything that you love more than you love Jesus Christ is an idol. Don’t care what it is. I’m embarrassed to be part of the Church of Jesus Christ tonight, which is totally radically different from the New Testament—so impoverished, so blind, so powerless. I’ve come to this conclusion: there is a move of God in America today but not amongst the unsaved. It’s amongst the redeemed who are determined by the grace of God to be part of the bride, and to be part of the bride you’ve to be divorced from everything in the world.”
9. You Stink With Pride
“We’re in grave danger when we let our accomplishments become the ground of our confidence. Oh boy, how we want to be esteemed. How we want to be respected, how people should realize what precious gifts of the Spirit I’ve given. You know why they don’t? Because you stink with pride, that’s right.”
10. What Wesley Left Behind
“John died in 1791, converted at 35. Turn that round it makes 53. Add them together it makes 88. Because he was saved at 35, preached for 53 years. And you know what he left when he died? He left a handful of books, a faded Geneva gown that he preached in all over England, six silver spoons somebody gave him, six pound notes: ‘Give one to each of the poor men that carry me to my grave.’ And that’s all he left: six pound notes, six silver spoons, a handful of books, a Geneva gown and ah… there's something else… what was it, the other thing? Oh, I know, something else he left—the Methodist Church.”
11. Tired of Reading About Revival
“I’m tired of writing about revival. I’m tired of reading about revival. There are more lost people in the world tonight than ever in the history of the world. And God wants some men who are really drunk, intoxicated with the Spirit of God, who have a love life with the Lord Jesus that He can ask anything of you and you’ll do it.”
12. Word for the Year – Rejection
“The more and longer I live, the more I find I don’t know. Two years ago, God gave me a word, for the New Year. I don’t go scattering through The Book to find one. The Lord gave me a word: ‘Rejection.’ Great!”