HOLY
SPIRIT'S FIRE:
KEY TO REVIVAL
~ A Desperate Call to God for Help ~
By Pastor Max Solbrekken,
D.D.
"Oh that Thou would Rend the heavens,
that Thou would Come Down, that the mountains would flow down at Thy presence.
As when the melting FIRE burns,
the fire causes the waters to BOIL, to make Thy NAME known to
Thine adversaries that the nations may tremble at Thy presence." (Isaiah
64: 1)
In his powerful appeal to
Almighty God for help in bringing Israel back to a place of repentance and
righteousness, Prophet Isaiah used words like “the melting FIRE burns” and “the FIRE causes the water to boil”.
ISAIAH was zealous for His Lord and wanted
the godless nations to give glory to the Almighty. A Revival of Righteousness
among the Hebrews would also have a godly, moralizing effect on the pagan nations!
He would have known of ELIJAH the great 'Fire Prophet' who brought Israel back to the worship of
Jehovah. He had challenged the prophets of Baal and the prophets of the Grove
to a showdown on Mount Carmel. The Prophet declared: “The God who answers by fire; Let Him be God.” Israel would then
KNOW the true and Living God!
Elijah prayed: “Hear me, O Lord, hear me,
that this people may know that Thou art the Lord God, and that Thou hast turned
their heart back again. Then the FIRE of the Lord fell, and
consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and
licked up the water that was in the trench.
“And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and
they said, The LORD He is the
God; the LORD He is the God.” (1 Kings 18:37-39)
DON’T PUT OUT THE
SPIRIT’S FIRE!
The Holy Bible states: “Our God is a consuming fire.” (Heb.12: 29) Wherever He is, there is
always Fire! What happened on Mount Carmel was expected. God always backed up
His prophets who spoke the truth in His Name. And He often used FIRE to
demonstrate His power and bring about His will on earth!
ST. PAUL admonished the
Church: “Quench not the Spirit.” (1 Thess. 5: 19). He was saying, “Don’t put out the Spirit’s FIRE” or “Don’t extinguish the Spirit’s FLAME.” He knew the tendency of human carnality and pride, in
wanting to do everything ourselves, to be self-sufficient! Fire can burn itself
out if not stoked and fed with oxygen. We must guard the fire in our
spirits, by staying full of the Holy Ghost!
HOWELL HARRIS, (1714-1773)
preached in large open air meeting across Wales. In two years He walked 2500
miles between crusades. In twenty years he had reached Wales. He stated: “A fire was kindled in my soul and I was
clothed in power…I could have spoken to the king were he within my reach…such
power and such authority did I feel in my soul…”
It was said, 'the words flowed scorching hot from the
preacher’s heart. He would go on thus, pouring out old things and new for 2, 3,
and even 4 hours. Under the power of the Holy Spirit, hearts were broken and it
was not uncommon for people to come
under such conviction that they would cry aloud to God for mercy while he
preached'. Twenty thousand people attended his funeral.
WILLAM BOOTH and his wife
Catherine founded the Salvation Army
in 1865. They chose as their slogan, ‘Blood
and Fire’, referring to Jesus Christ’s BLOOD shed for the
remission of sins and the Fire referring to the FIRE of the Holy
Spirit.” He stated: “The tendency of
fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has
tended a fireplace knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.”
In 1892, William Booth wrote the well-known
hymn, ‘SEND THE FIRE’. It is filled
with Gospel Truth, Biblical Doctrine and Great Commission Admonition. You can
sense the presence of God by reading the words and the Holy Spirit fire burns
when it is sung!
SEND THE FIRE
Thou Christ of burning, cleansing flame,
Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire! Thy blood-bought gift today we claim, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire! Look down and see this waiting host, Give us the promised Holy Ghost; We want another Pentecost, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
God of Elijah, hear our cry:
Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire! To make us fit to live or die, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire! To burn up every trace of sin, To bring the light and glory in, The revolution now begin, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
’Tis fire we want, for fire we plead,
Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire! The fire will meet our every need, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire! For strength to ever do the right, For grace to conquer in the fight, For pow’r to walk the world in white, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
To make our weak hearts strong and brave,
Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire! To live a dying world to save, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire! Oh, see us on Thy altar lay Our lives, our all, this very day; To crown the off’ring now we pray, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire! |
THE GREATEST SIN IS TWO-FOLD!
The one thing we must NOT do, is rely on our own wisdom and
strength! We must never think that we can do the work of God ourselves,
without relying totally on the Holy Spirit! The great Apostle realized that the
Blessed Holy Spirit can be easily grieved (Eph.4: 30, 31) and
marginalized. That is a major sin committed in the Church today!
During a live interview over
Newfoundland’s Radio Network in 1968, the interviewer became convicted
by HOLY SPIRIT and asked if I would take the remaining ten minutes to answer
the question: “What is the greatest
mistake the Church has made in 2,000 years?”
I answered: “The greatest
mistake the Church has committed in its nearly 2,000 year history is two-fold:
Number one: They have taken the leadership of the Church out of the hands of
the HOLY SPIRIT and placed it in the hands of mere mortals, and Number
two: They have rejected the Word of God, the Holy Bible, which He (the Holy Spirit) has anointed.”
After I finished, I invited
all the listeners to pray the Sinner’s
Prayer with me. As we were walking
together toward the main entrance, the Manager and an Associate came walking
quickly toward me. I wondered if they were going to ‘ball me out’, for making
their head commentator and interviewer break down on the air.
But, NO! They said: “All the lines are jammed. Seventy thousand
people have been listening. Our Television Station is across the street.
Please, do the same thing over there. They are waiting for you now!”
The two most important
things the Church needs today is the Power
of God and the Fire of God! Jesus
Christ, the Head of the Church promised: “But ye shall receive POWER after that the Holy Ghost is
come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all
Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts
1:8)
And JOHN THE BAPTIST stated:
“I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the
latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: He shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost and with FIRE.” (Luke 3:16).
He was speaking about JESUS,
the Baptiser in the Holy Ghost and fire! He would accomplish two great things: Shed
His holy Blood on the Cross for the sins of the world, and Baptize His Church
with the Holy Spirit and Fire!
When the Jews heard him utter
those words, they knew that something special was about to happen in the
spiritual life of their nation. When God chose Israel through which He
would send the Messiah, He called ABRAHAM to be the Father of the nation. The
Lord promised him a son even though Sarah was barren. After about twenty – five
years the miracle happened and Isaac was born.
GOD CALLS ABRAHAM BY
FIRE!
The Holy Record states: “And
it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a
smoking furnace, and a BURNING LAMP that passed between those pieces. In
the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: Unto thy seed have I
given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river
Euphrates.” (Gen.15: 17, 18)
The HOLY SPIRIT was present
in the FIRE that awesome night as the Almighty revealed
to Abram His supernatural power. Later, God changed Abram’s name to Abraham and
confirmed the everlasting covenant He was making with the Nation of Israel! He
had confirmed the COVENANT with Blood, symbolized by circumcision of all males and through the Holy Spirit by the presence of the coals of
FIRE.
The Bible says: “As it
is written, I have made thee a Father of many nations, before Him whom he
believed, even God, who quickens the dead, and calls those things which be not
as though they were.
“Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
Father of many nations, according to that which was spoken: So shall thy seed
be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when
he was about a HUNDRED years
old, neither yet the DEADNESS of Sarah’s womb:
“He staggered not at the PROMISE of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God; and being fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was able also
to perform. And therefore, it was imputed unto him for righteousness.”
(Rom.4:17-22)
GOD CALLS MOSES BY FIRE!
After the Hebrews had been
in Egypt for four hundred years, God brought them into a land flowing with milk
and honey as He had promised Abraham. He called His chosen leader by FIRE. Through
the providence of God, Moses had survived the Egyptian genocide against Hebrew
male babies, and was even adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter.
When Moses was "come
to years", he killed an Egyptian who was abusing a Hebrew slave.
Fearing retribution from Pharaoh, he fled to the land of Midian where he became
a shepherd. After forty years in
the desert, Moses was ready to lead the children of Israel to the Promised
Land. God would fulfill His promise to Abraham!
The Bible says:
“Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of
Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the
mountain of God, even to Horeb and the Angel of the Lord appeared
unto Him in a FLAME of FIRE out of the midst of a bush: and he
looked, and, behold, the bush burned
with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
“And Moses said, I will now
turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside
to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said MOSES, MOSES. And he said: Here I am. And He said, Draw not nigh hither: put off
thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
“Moreover He said, I am the
God of thy father, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. And
the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people which are in
Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know
their sorrows;
“And I am COME DOWN to
deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of
that land unto a good and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey…”
(Ex.3:1-8). The Angel of the Lord was none other than God the Son, in a Theophany - God the Son appearing as
the ‘Angel of the Covenant’!
God said that He had SEEN the affliction of His people, He had HEARD their cries for help
and He KNEW their sorrows. He was going to DELIVER His people from Egyptian bondage and He was
commissioning Moses, the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter, to LIBERATE them
and lead them into the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey!
The Lord had prepared
His man! MOSES had spent forty years
tending sheep. He was prepared to lead a rebellious nation of slaves for
another forty years through the wilderness. After hearing the VOICE of GOD and
seeing the burning BUSH of FIRE, his life was changed and he became the Great
Lawgiver under God, giving Israel and the world the 'Ten Commandments', from which came the British Common Law used by all civilized, democratic
nations.
Unfortunately, out of
agitation with the Hebrews he made a colossal mistake by striking the ROCK
twice instead of only speaking to it. God was angry with Moses and barred him
from entering the Promised Land. The
Rock was a type of Christ! (Nu. 20:
10-12; 1Cor.10: 4). His DEATH was final. He does not need to be struck again!
After ten powerful plagues
against the ten gods of Egypt, Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egyptian
slavery "with a high hand", the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar
of FIRE by night. The Holy Spirit was leading them and protecting them!
"And the Lord went
before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way; by
night in a pillar of FIRE, to give them light; to go by day and
night: He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of FIRE by night, from before the people." (Ex.13: 21, 22)
GOD CALLS SOLOMON BY FIRE!
Although Elijah is called 'The Fire Prophet',
God always came down in FIRE when sacrifices were made in His name. Going back
to Cain and Abel's sacrifices at the Gate of the Garden of Eden, we read: "The
Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering, but unto Cain and his offering, He
had not respect". (Gen.4: 3-5)
Why did the Lord accept Abel's offering but not Cain's
offering? When Adam and Eve sinned, God immediately instituted the sacrificial
system. He killed an innocent animal which would be their substitute. The
blood would atone for their sins and the skin would clothe them.
How did Cain know that God was not pleased with his sacrifice
of "the fruit of the ground"? The HOLY FIRE that burned up Abel's sacrifice did NOT consume Cain's
bloodless sacrifice! Whenever God was pleased with a sacrifice the FIRE always
fell!
When SOLOMON dedicated the temple, he rehearsed before Israel
the history of God's dealings with his father David and with His people.
Solomon prayed an awesome and powerful prayer unto Almighty God (2 Chron.6:
14-42)
Then the FIRE fell,
as was expected. Here is the Holy Record on this momentous event: "Now when Solomon had made an end of
praying, the FIRE came down from Heaven and consumed the burnt
offering and the sacrifices; and the GLORY of the Lord filled the house. And the priests could not enter into the
House of the Lord, because the
glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house.
"And when the children of Israel saw how the FIRE
came down , and the GLORY of the Lord upon the house, they bowed
themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped,
and praised the Lord, saying, For He is good: for His mercy endureth forever."
(2 Chron.7: 1-3)
Almighty God said: "If I shut up heaven that there be no
rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilences
among My people; If My people, which are called by My name, shall HUMBLE
themselves, and PRAY, and SEEK My face, and TURN from
their wicked ways; Then will I HEAR from Heaven, and FORGIVE their
sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chron.7: 13, 14)
GOD CALLS ISAIAH BY FIRE!
Isaiah was about eighteen years old when King Uzziah died.
He went into the temple to seek God, not knowing what would happen to his
nation. It was then that the Holy Spirit showed up. The Bible records:
"In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphims; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his
face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly."
What an experience this man had, as he actually saw God
the Son, in all in His glory. He saw The LORD sitting upon a throne. He saw the
seraphims which covered their faces and feet in God's presence and heard them
cry, Holy is the Lord!
"And one cried unto another, and said, HOLY, HOLY,
HOLY is the Lord of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory. And the
posts of the door moved at the voice of Him that cried, and the house was
filled with smoke.
“Then said I, Woe is me! For I am UNDONE; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live
in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the
Lord of hosts."
God's holiness made Isaiah cry out: "I am a
sinner. I am undone. I live among a sinful and unclean people, because my eyes
have looked upon the thrice holy God!" In the presence of Almighty
God, the prophet felt his nothingness and his weakness and his sinfulness. He
cried out for mercy! Oh, how we must reverence Almighty God!
"Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having A
LIVE COAL in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
and he laid it on my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy SIN PURGED. Also I heard the
voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and Who will go for us? Then said
I, Here am I, send me." (Is.6: 1-8)
The Holy Spirit was in the FIRE that touched the prophet's
lips! When the LIVE COAL from the holy altar touched the young man's lips, he
received the assurance that his sins were gone. And immediately, he heard the Voice of the Lord calling him into
service for Him!
The Book of Isaiah is called 'The Gospel of the Old
Testament' and every major doctrine of Christ is found in that book!
They include the virgin birth of Christ (7:14); Names of Deity given to Christ
(9:6); the Spirits of God resting upon Him (11:1,2); Satan's defeat by Christ
(14: 12-17); Day of resurrection and judgment (26: 19-21); and the Baptism of
the Holy Spirit (28: 11,12).
THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER!
"Then said Jesus
to them again, Peace be unto you: as My Father hath sent Me, even so send I
you. And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said unto them,
Receive ye the Holy Ghost." (John 20: 21,22)
"But when the COMFORTER
is come, Whom I will send unto you from
the Father, even the Spirit of Truth which proceeds from the Father He
shall testify of Me. Nevertheless I tell you the Truth; It is expedient that I
go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I
depart, I will send Him unto you.
"But when HE IS COME, He will reprove the world
of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment: Of sin because they believe not
on Me; Of righteousness, because I go unto My Father, and ye see Me no more; Of
judgment because the prince of the world (Satan) is judged.
Howbeit when He, the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, is come, He will
guide you into all truth; for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He
shall hear that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come.
“He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine and, and
show it unto you. All that the Father hath are Mine, therefore said I, that He
shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you." (John 14: 26; 15: 26;
16: 7-11, 13-15)
HOLY SPIRIT FIRE FALLS!
The Holy BIBLE records the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Day
of Pentecost, ten days after the ascension of our Lord and fifty days after
Christ's resurrection from the dead. St. Luke writes:
"To whom also He
showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being
seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom
of God: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they
should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the Promise of the Father,
which, saith He, ye have heard of Me.
"For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be
BAPTIZED with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. But ye shall receive
power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be
witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto
the uttermost parts of the earth…" (Acts 1: 3-5, 8)
More than five hundred
men saw Christ at one time in Galilee after His resurrection from the dead
(1 Cor.15: 6) and I'm sure that all 500 would have heard His command to tarry
in Jerusalem and WAIT for the Promise of the Father, the Blessed
Holy Spirit, to empower them for His service.
The QUESTION is, "WHY
did they not all wait for the Blessed Holy Spirit's arrival with His great
power? And is this a pattern that we see in the Christian Community of
Believers today, with many not waiting in His presence until they are filled
with the Holy Spirit? Is it laziness, a lack of desire for God or plain and
simple ignorance on the part of Pastors who have come out of Bible College or
Seminary like so many sausages out of Schneider's Meat Packing Plant?”
Where were the 380
who had been commanded to WAIT for the 'Promise of the Father'? Apparently,
they were too busy or afraid or felt they were good enough and didn't need
this 'noisy, shouting, tongues-talking religion'. Think of what they
missed: The blessed Holy Spirit coming into them with His love, mercy, grace,
and power!
The Bible states: "And when they were come in, they
went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and
Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Mathew, James the son of Alphaeus,
and Simon Zelotes and Judas the brother of James.
"These all continued
with one accord in PRAYER and SUPPLICATION, with the women, and
Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with His brethren...the number of names were
about an hundred and twenty." (Acts 1: 3-15)
TONGUES LIKE AS OF FIRE!
"And when the Day of Pentecost was fully come, they were
all with one accord, in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from Heaven
as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were
sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven TONGUES like as of FIRE, and it
sat upon each of them.
“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began
to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. But Peter,
standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto them, Ye men of
Judaea, and all ye that dwell at
Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
"For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it
is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the
prophet Joel; and it shall come to pass in the Last Days, saith God, I will pour out of MY SPIRIT upon
all flesh:
"And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on
My servants and on My handmaidens I will POUR out in those days of MY SPIRIT;
and they shall prophesy. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall CALL on
the name of the Lord shall be SAVED." (Acts 2: 1-4, 14-21)
Jesus kept His Promise: "And behold, I send the
promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye
be endued with power from on High." (Luke 24: 49); "And I will
pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide
with you forever:
"Even the SPIRIT
OF TRUTH; Whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither
knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I
will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
"But the COMFORTER,
which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach
you all things, and bring all bring to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said
unto you." (John 14: 16-18)
The Church was born on the Day of Pentecost as God poured out
His Holy Spirit upon about one hundred and twenty hungry souls! Again, He moved
by FIRE! And what was the outcome? After St. Peter preached His Pentecostal
message, multitudes cried:
"Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Then
Peter answered: "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the
Holy Ghost.
“For the PROMISE is unto you, and to your children, and
to all that are afar off, even to as many as the Lord our God shall call."
(Acts 2: 38, 39)
FERVENT IN SPIRIT!
ST. PAUL wrote: "I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but
be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that
good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." (Rom.1: 1,2)
Included in his list of duties to the leadership of the
Church, he adds: "...Fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
(Rom. 12: 11)
How does one remain FERVENT in the spirit? The answer is in total consecration to Jesus Christ,
obeying His Holy Word and being filled with His HOLY SPIRIT! It is in complete dedication to His Body the
Church, and the extension of His Kingdom!
The BIBLE says: "That we should be to the praise of His
glory, who first trusted in Christ. In Whom ye also trusted, after that ye
heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation: in Whom after ye
believed ye were SEALED with that Holy Spirit of Promise, which is the EARNEST
of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the
prise of His glory." (Eph.1: 13, 14)
"And grieve
not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye were SEALED unto the Day of
Redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger, and clamour, and evil
speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be KIND one to another,
tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you" (Eph.4: 30,31)
These verses prove that when a believer is born again by the
Word of God and Holy Spirit (1 Peter 1: 23) and receives the Mighty Baptism of
the Holy Spirit, he is SEALED until the day of his redemption.
THE HOLY SPIRIT SEALS US!
We are secure in Jesus when we give ourselves totally in
repentance and faith to Him and receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The
words 'SEALED until the Redemption of the Purchased Possession...' means that
He will keep us safe and secure until our life on earth is over and we are in
our eternal abode! We have been purchased by the precious BLOOD of Christ (1
Cor.6: 20) and are SEALED until we see Him face to face in Glory!
The Holy Spirit is the
Guarantor of our salvation; of course this means that we must continue
believing in and trusting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour! There is great
JOY in the Holy Spirit and the Bible says:
"Wherefore He saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise
from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk
circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days
are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of God
is. And be not DRUNK with wine, wherein is excess, but be FILLED with the
SPIRIT." (Eph.5: 14-18)
History
proves that only by obeying this holy precept is a revival of righteousness
possible. Down through the ages we have seen this pattern repeated: Repentance
of sin, receiving God's forgiveness, the infilling of the Holy Spirit,
intercessory prayer, the Spirit of love and compassion exhibited, and souls won
for Christ! Amen.Note: This is installment No. 1 of Max Solbrekken's New Book - soon off the press! D.S.
