Ravenhill on Conviction

Some people love God because He gives. We have this wretched prosperity stuff. Why do people think gain is godliness? Paul never glamorized the gospel, it's a bloody gory gospel, it's a sacrificial gospel. I believe the cardinal ethic of Christianity is sacrifise, not success! Sacrifise!

The most precious thing we ever handle is the human soul. There is only one way to heaven there are a million ways to hell. What do you do to go to hell? Do nothing. Just do nothing, that's all. You don't have to blaspheme the name of Jesus, you don't have to be an adulterer. Just coast on! The greatest sin is not adultry, the greatest sin is to say, "I can manage my life without God".

We say, I wonder why God doesn't burden me, do you know why? Because he cant trust us. We arent strong enough to carry the burden. We don't need more light, this will only make it worse at the judgment, we need more obedience. Some of us known for years what we should do, but we hold back. Some of those awesome words Jesus spoke, "I have many things to tell you but you cannot bear them."

I don't want to stand before all the great saints and God say to me, "You were so pre-occupied I couldn't get through to you, and if I could you weren't mature enough to handle it."

I believe when we get inside eternity everyone of us will wish we sacrifised more, prayed more, loved more, grieved more, wept more.

That's a convicting message with Excerpts from Ravenhill (not perfectly verbatim).