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Febru ary 1991

Topics: Bride of Christ,Calvary

Volum e 3 The Tears of Calvary

by Ernest An gley

The message on the tears of Calvary is especially for the Bride of

Christ. Through heaven's understanding, every member of the

bridal company should treasure the tears of Calvary. With love,peace, yearning and compassion, Divinity cries. It is not

necessary for actual salty tears to run down the face in order to

cry the tears of Calvary. The ingredients in the tears of Calvary

are from heaven.

Many in the past have not accepted the tears of Calvary, have not

let them become part of their hearts. But in this final hour, we

must cry the tears of Calvary with all the love, joy, peace,

longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and

self-control that were in the tears of our Lord. These are the tears

of Divinity, and we are to be partakers of His divine nature.

Whe reby are given u nto us exceed ing great and precious

promises: that by these ye m ight be partakers of the divine natu re, having escaped the

corrup tion that is in the world through lust (II Peter 1:4).

Those in the past with the tears of Calvary have paid dearly for them. Because the cost is so high,

few people have cried them. Jesus paid the price to bring us those tears; it cost His place of glory

in heaven in exchange for a place of persecution and ridicule here on Earth for over thirty years.

Taking on the form of a servant, Jesus came bringing the tears of Calvary for all to use. Hemadehimself of no repu tation, and took u pon him the form of a servant, and w as made in

the likene ss of men : And being foun d in fashion as a man, he hu mbled himself, and

becam e obed ient un to death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:7,8). Jesus did not

have a life of ease. In Luke 9:58 we read:And Jesu s said u nto him, Foxes have holes, and

birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath n ot whe re to lay his head. Not a

bed to call His ownthe Son of God came down from heaven to this.

It cost Him a crown of thorns, shame. He was spat upon; His beard plucked out. In the Garden of

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Gethsemane His sweat became as blood as He cried the tears of Calvary.

The tears of Calvary always command heaven's attention; angels take note. The Brightest Jewel of

heaven was given for those tears. Divine tears shed by human beings is made possible through

Jesus, the Son of the Living God. Jesus paid the price to make these tears possible; He paid it all,

and all to Him we owe. Daily, some of you are willing to pay this price; you have come on into the

greatness of the Lord, into the mighty outpouring of the rain of the Holy Spirit just like those in the

Upper Room did on the day of Pentecost when the rain first fell.

Ponder the great work, the signs, wonders and miracles performed in the beginning of the church

age through those who possessed the tears of Calvary. Then realize that those works will be done in

this hour, only on a much greater scale, as God pours out His Holy Spirit. And it shall com e to

pass in the last days, saith God, I will pou r ou t of my Spirit up on all flesh (Acts 2:17). It

is marvelous what God is doing in this last and final hour!

You have the same tears, with the same love, the same peace, joy, longsuffering, self-controlthe

same everything they had. Victorious tears, they reach the lost as well as heaven's throne everytime they are shed.

As long as the tears of Calvary flow they bring hope, faith for our lost. No matter how stubbornly

and determinedly loved ones have hardened their hearts, we can still have hope and faith for their

salvation through the tears of Calvary. As Divinity cries through us, the love, the faith of

Godeverything that God usesflow.

How much will it cost for the tears of Calvary? Everything, everything. If we want to be like Jesus,

we will have to give the way He gave. He held nothing in reserve. How can we do less?

What did Simon Peter pay for the tears of Calvary? He didn't have them at first. When the Lord

called him to discipleship, he had only human tears. Perhaps he cried when he dropped his nets to

follow Jesus. It may have saddened him to think he might never pick them up again. A lot of us

cried when we started out with Jesus; most of those tears, however, were cried over self, over what

we were leaving behind. Peter had difficulty finding the tears of Calvary; in fact, he almost missed

them. At times Peter had been used by Jesus in a great way, and yet at other times he failed the

Lord miserably. Once close enough to Jesus to walk the waters, close enough to pull out a fish withtax money in its mouth, Peter backed away from Jesus in His most trying hour.

The night Jesus cried those tears of agony in the Garden, Peter should have been right there crying

divine tears with Him. Peter had known the touch of the Master's hand, had lived with Divinity for

three years, seen Divinity perform wonders and miracles, raise the dead. Yet he wouldn't yield all

so that his understanding could be enlightened; he yielded to his own spirit rather than the Spirit of

Jesus. In the Garden, Peter used the sword, cut off a man's ear. He was ready to fight in his own

way. Then said Jesus u nto Peter, Pu t up thy sword into the sheath (John 18:11). Put up


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your sword, Peter; you will need a different sword, different tears to shed: tears of Divinity.

Many of us have been ready to stand up for Jesusin our own way. We've prepared to serve Him

on our terms, to cry for the lost the way we want, walk paths of our own choosing instead of the

Master's. Not willing to leave our lives in the hands of God, we said,Lord, I commit everything to

you; but we really didn't. Everything's on the altar, Lord; however it wasn't. We told the Lord, I

believe you, and yet we doubted Him. We declared, Lord, my soul, my heart, my very being is

filled with your love; and still we were afraid. Peter was like that. At times fear took him over; it

sunk him after he began walking on the water. Fear overwhelmed Peter when Jesus was arrested,

when he discovered he couldn't use his sword. He didn't reach out for what Jesus had, for the

power of Jesus.

The only way we can serve the Lord without fear is to take what He brought, what He paid for. It

all is available. Jesus didn't bring anything from heaven that we don't need, didn't use anything on

Earth out of our reach. We need the whole Jesus, the whole Christ, all of Him; and we need His

kind of tears. Jesus didn't cry over Himself; He cried tears for the lost. Tears of Divinity flowed,

bringing salvation and healing to a lost and dying world.

We don't know if Peter stood close enough to Jesus at Calvary to hear His cries, to make out His

words; we do know he was afar off in spirit, in love, in faith. Miles and miles away. Peter put

distance between himself and the old rugged cross, such a vast distance! He should have beenthere helping cry the tears of Calvary; he should have understood what made up those tears. He

should have been there to explain Calvary to those who didn't understandbut he wasn't. Peter

cried for himself, human tears.

And the Lord turned, and looked upon Pe ter. And Peter remembered the word of the

Lord, how he had said un to him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

And Peter w ent ou t, and wept bitterly(Luke 22:61,62). Peter was weeping over his sin, over

what he had done to Jesus in cursing and denying Him. Jesus had tried to explain the crucifixion;

at one time Peter had rebuked Him for talking about it. At other times Peter confessed Jesus to be

the Son of God. But when the Son of God talked about His dying, Peter slammed the door. He

didn't want to hear the truth. He should have been waiting outside the tomb when Jesus rose from

the dead. Had he shed the tears of Calvary with Jesus, he would have been there. Peter's example

teaches us all never to fail the Lord.

Peter had difficulty growing up, and some today are just like him. They just can't grow up; they're

not willing to do things God's way. In this final hour it will cost you to walk with Jesus, to carry on

His work if you want to do things His way. It will cost you to have His thoughts, to be rid of your

opinions; but you must let them go before you can accept what thus saith the Lord.


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The prophets of old cried with the tears of God: Thus saith the Lord! Thus saith the Lord! Thus

saith the Lord! And the Bride of Christ will cry in this final hour. Her cry will go up to be heard to

the ends of the Earth, saith the Lord; and it will be Thus saith the Lord! Thus saith the Lord! With

her spotless garments, her life as pure and clean as the Christ's, the Bride will be a holy vessel filled

to the brim at all times with heaven's greatness.

Peter, Peterit took the resurrection of the Son of God to change him. When he knew that Jesus

had conquered death, hell and the grave, he repented. Watching Jesus ascend back to heaven,

Peter then heard the angel say:Ye men of Galilee, w hy stand ye gazing up into heave n?

this same Jesus, w hich is taken u p from you into heaven , shall so come in like man ner

as ye have seen him go into heaven (Acts 1:11).

Peter, a changed man, headed for the Upper Room. Others followed. In obedience to the

command of Jesus, they were there to receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost, the power from on

High. When Peter came down from the Upper Room, he had the tears of Calvary never to lose

them again. He would shed the same tears that Jesus shed when He was here. All the love,

compassion of Jesus were now His.

Peter, the Bible tells us, on the day of Pentecost stood up before a multitude that so recently had

called for the death of Jesus. He was the one delivering the message of Jesus, that powerful

message of the crucifixion and resurrection. Filled with conviction, his words throbbed with the

tears of Calvary. Boldly Peter proclaimed: Therefore let all the house o f Israel know

assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, w hom ye have crucified, both Lord

and Christ (Acts 2:36). You crucified the Just One, the Son of God, cried the tears of Calvary inhis voice. Self had been put down; and Peter stood in the power, in the greatness of God.

Weak human tears have nothing to do with God's message; only the tears of Calvary make it come

alive in the hearts of men. Because of the tears of Calvary, people were pricked in their heart,

and said un to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and b rethren, w hat shall we

do? Then Peter said unto them, Repen t, and be baptized every one of you in the name

of Jesu s Christ for the re mission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy

Ghost. Then they that gladly received his word w ere baptized: and the same day there

were added un to them about three thousand souls (Acts 2:37,38,41).

Calvary's story cannot really be told without the tears of Divinity; it will not bring God's results

without those tears. But with the tears of Calvary, God's results will be manifested in this final

hour. Jesus had told the disciples:Verily, verily, I say unto you , He that b elieveth on m e,

the w orks that I do shall he do also; and greater w orks than these shall he do; becau se

I go unto m y Father (John 14:12).

Now self has been totally conquered for Peter. Jesus is the One Peter is talking about when he

writes:Wh o his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tre e, that we, be ing dead


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to sins, should live un to righteousness: by whose stripes ye w ere healed (I Peter 2:24).

With the very same compassion as the Master'snot only for the lost but for the sick and

afflictedthe tears of Calvary will adorn the Bride night and day.

Self must be totally conquered for all who make up the Bride of Christ. You can't talk God's will but

then disregard it, acting on your own, and still expect God's results. You are going to be under

great stress in this hour, distress, pressure. What will flow from you in these trying times? Will it

be misguided temper like Peter's before he conquered self, before he shed the tears of Calvary?

What manner of person are you? Do you lose your temper, or do you have self-control?

If you can't control your own spirit, then you can't give it over to the Holy Spirit. You must be able

to control your own spirit, bring it under subjection to the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit can use

you one hundred percent. Sure, it will cost you; it will cost a crucifixion of self, of ego. Self must

die and stay dead if Christ is to live within. With Christ living within, you will stand with the tears

of Calvary as Peter stood before the multitude.

Peter now had understanding of the tears of Calvary. Without asking the Lord the price, Simon at

last is ready to pay. Arrested, questioned about the work of the Lord, shut away in prison, Peter

knew the tears of Calvary had all the strength, all the help he needed. The tears of Calvary are the

reason the angel of the Lord went into prison and brought him out. And be lievers w ere the

more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women (Acts 5:14). Peter states in

Acts 5:29,We ought to obey God rather than men. He was beaten for his obedience; it was

the price he and other believers had to pay. Persecution, torture, murder threatened, but for Peter

there was no backing down.

Now abou t that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the

church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And becau se he saw

it pleased the Jew s, he proceede d further to take Pe ter also (Acts 12:1-3). Stephen had

been killed, now Jamesmen close to Peter. Why were they killed? Were they all going to die?

What would happen to the message of Jesus? Peter didn't question the Lord; he was ready now to

obey the Lord in everything. Persecuted, tempted, tried, treated like the scum of the Earth, Peter

was paying for the tears of Calvary. But he knew they were worth any price.

See Peter on his way to be crucified, crying the tears of Calvary. Salty tears are not running down

his cheeks as he cries for the a lost and dying world; they're the tears of Calvary. Oh Lord, raise up

vessels to carry on your message after I am gone! Peter cries the tears of Calvary for those about

to crucify him as he thinks: My Master took this walk years ago. I wish I would have wa lked it

with Him. He didn't forsake me then, and He hasn't forsaken me today; He is with me still. Oh

wonderful, loving Master that you are! You have been so good to me. You were with me in


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prison, out of prison, in persecutions. I'm not worthy to die like my Master. With all the love, the

peace, the humility in the tears of Calvary flowing forth, Peter requested, historians tell us, that he

be crucified with his head down. It took the tears of Calvary to decide such a thing, the love of

heaven. Crucify me with my head down!

Peter died a victorious death. When He gave his last cry before the soul took its flight, it was with

the tears of Calvary. No self pity; no human tears for self, just the tears of Calvary flowing for lost,

sick, afflicted, dying humanity.

Peter had paid a great price for those tears, but imagine what an experience was in store for him as

he walked down the avenue of glory to meet the One face to face who had brought those tears of

Calvary to mankind!

Realize how valuable the tears of Calvary are, oh Child of God. I treasure the tears of Calvary more

than I do all the silver and gold on planet Earth. Caressing the tears of Calvary in my spirit downthrough the years, I have cried with those tears: Oh God, give me the lost at any cost! Oh, God,

don't let me live if you aren't going to give me souls. So many times I've told Him that. God, I have

to win souls! I must have souls for my hire. Above all else, give me souls! The need for finances is

very great, but instead of crying out for them I cryGod, give me souls!

Are you willing to pay the price to shed the tears of Calvary, willing to die for Jesus' name's sake, to

suffer? Are you willing to pay any cost, no matter how dear, that you may have the tears of

Calvary? Or will you be content with human tears alone in this final hour? Will heaven behold the

tears of Divinity or salty human tears rolling down those precious cheeks?

Man may not recognize these tears of Divinity, but heaven does. Heaven sees that love, that faith

flowing just as clearly as we see tears running down the face. The Lord knows when we cry the

tears of Divinity; the angels mark the tears of Calvary wherever they appear. Never do they run

down the cheeks of the littlest Child of God without being acknowledged by heaven.

Angels had seen and heard God cry Old Testament days as man turned away from Him, but they

never thought such a price would be paid to allow human beings to cry the tears of Calvary. No

longer were God, His Son or the Holy Spirit crying by themselves; now man could cry the tears of

Divinity.

Stephenwhat price he paidthe supreme price of the martyr's death! Why? The enemy raged

because Stephen , full of faith and powe r, did great wonde rs and miracles among the

people (Acts 6:8). How was Stephen able to have all that faith, all that power to do the wonders

and miracles? Through the tears of Calvary. That godly love and faith produce miracles; that godly


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faith and love specialize in the Word.

False witnesses rose up to accuse Stephen; the Bride of Christ will be confronted by false witnesses,

toothe Judasesby all kinds of trials and temptations. Will you let them defeat you or will you

allow them to make you strong? What will happen to you, oh, Child of God, in this final hour? You

have free choice; you can choose the tears of Calvary if you pay the price, if you sacrifice the way

the Early Church did.

Stephen preached like a man from another world; he described his accusers perfectly when he

said:Ye stiffnecke d and un circumcised in heart an d ears, ye do always resist the Holy

Ghost: as you r fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have no t your fathers

persecu ted? and they have slain them w hich shewe d before of the coming of the Just

One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and mu rderers: Who have received the

law by the disposition of angels, and have n ot kept it. W hen they heard these things,

they were cu t to the heart, and they gnashed on him w ith their teeth (Acts 7:51-54).

Such a message! Not with hatred or malice did Stephen preach it. He preached it with the tears of

Calvary.

Stephen, so young to be killed, didn't contend with God. He beheld God's glory. But he, being

full of the Holy Ghost, looked u p stedfastly into heaven , and saw the glory of God, and

Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heaven s opene d,

and the S on of man stand ing on the right hand of God (Acts 7:55,56). Stephen in his dying

hour didn't speak of the stones, the hatred in his accusers' faces. He didn't plead for his life; he

asked God to forgive his murderers.

The tears of Calvary feel the need of salvation for the persecutors of the cross. The tears of Calvary

have compassion for those in sin, warning:You must be free from all sin if you would see heaven.

With his last breath, Stephen, moved by the tears of Calvary,kneeled down, and cried w ith a

loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And w hen he had said this, he fell

asleep (verse 60). We don't hear him asking the Lord to ease his pain, to save his life; he didn't

cry human tears for himself, but divine tears for the lost, the same tears Jesus cried on Calvary's

tree. Father, forgive!

Any minister possessing the tears of Calvary will warn of the judgments of God for sin and

disobedience. In the love of God, His judgments flow forth as a warning to all to bring them into

total obedience to Him. The judgments of God are coming; everyone without the saving grace of

Jesus Christ in his or her heart is facing them. Our only protection is the mercy and grace of

Calvary. Those without the tears of Calvary will not warn of God's judgments; for they won't have

the message ofThus saith the Lord: destruction is coming! Turn to Him; He is your refuge in the

storm!

The book of Revelation is considered by unbelievers to be a mystery; its judgments aren't real to


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them. Those with the tears of Calvary, however, know all the horror described in Revelation will

come to pass. The tears of Calvary embrace heaven, but the tears of Calvary are very much aware

of the reality of hell. The tears of Calvary accept eternal joy and bliss for the believer, and they

accept eternal damnation for the unbeliever.

The tears of Calvarywhat will they cost you? They will cost you friends, loved ones, perhaps your

own companion. But whatever the cost, the tears of Calvary are worth the paying.

You won't be popular with the message of living free from sin, but the tears of Calvary present the

truth: Freedom from all sin. For sin shall not have dominion ov er you: for ye are n ot

unde r the law, but u nder grace (Romans 6:14). If the Son there fore shall make you

free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36).

In the tears of Calvary, the message goes forth loud and clear: He that com mitteth sin is of the

devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the S on of God wasmanifested, that he might destroy the w orks of the devil (I John 3:8). For if we sin

wilfully after that we have received the kn owledge of the tru th, there remaineth no

more sacrifice for sins, But a ce rtain fearful looking for of judgm ent an d fiery

indignation, w hich shall devou r the adv ersaries (Hebrews 10:26,27). If you willingly sin

against the Lord, Jesus is no longer your sacrifice. In the tears of Calvary is no compromise.

John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus, possessed the tears of Calvary: the love, peace, joy,

self-control, faithhe embraced it all. From his mother's womb he had the Holy Ghost. He grew

up full of the Holy Ghost, in the power of God and with the tears of Calvary for lost humanity.

Repent! rings loud and clear in the tears of Calvary. John the Baptist believed in repentance:In

those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the w ilderne ss of Judaea, And saying,

Repen t ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 3:1,2). Had John the Baptist not

believed people must be free from all sin, he would have baptized everyone. But when he saw the

Pharisees and Sadducees coming to Jordan where He was baptizing, he said, O generation of

vipers, who hath warne d you to flee from the w rath to come?e very tree which

bringeth not forth good fru it is hewn dow n, and cast into the fire (verses 7,10). Bring

forth therefore fruits meet for repe ntance (verse 8). When you repent with an honest heart,

determined not to sin again, you find forgiveness. You are delivered from your sins.

John refused to baptize those who had not repented of their sins.

Thank God for people like John the Baptist so willing to pay such a price! What will you pay? To

have the tears of Calvary, you will pay many times. In one way or another it will cost your life,


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giving a little at a time, day after day, or giving it all at once. You're at the crossroads now, and you

must decide which way to take.

I was at the crossroads years ago. The Lord had given me the gift of discerning of spirits, and all

hell was boiling over. Ministers who had been my friends for years and years turned against me,

fighting the gifts of God that were in my life. Forget what you have received, they were telling me.

Renounce the gifts of God, deny them? I could no more deny the gifts of God than I could have

denied my hands. Standing at the crossroads I heard man say, Go this way; but I heard God say, If

you walk with me, if you have my gifts, you must walk straight ahead, put everything, everyone

on the altar, and be willing to die for my name's sake. No one but God knows how I was

persecuted, how I was cast down.

Seeing all that I was going through, my wife Angel would ask at times, "Honey, what does God

expect of you?" I would tell her, "I don't know, but whatever it is, I will pay." That's all I told

Angel, and it's all I tell God. False accusation of fanaticism, that I had gotten into the power of the

devil, came against me. To think that anyone would dare call the precious power of the Holy Ghost

to be of the devil was a terrible grief to me. Before the Lord I would weep, fast and cry out to Him.I put all of the altar, all my kin, everything and everyone. I found myself standing before God,

willing to die for Him. Persecution brought me into this willingness; the tears of Calvary for a sick,

afflicted, lost and dying world helped me to do it. I told Jesus I wanted to be like Him, that I would

pay any price. I wouldn't count my own life dear.

You will have to do likewisethe Early Church did. Now it's come your time, saith the Lord. You

stand at the crossroads. Some of you are being tempted to hold onto people who will draw you

back into the world. You're afraid of what they will think if you make a commitment to Christ, what

they will say and do. If you give into that fear, you will fail God. Stand up and put your life into the

hands of God, to live or die for His name's sake. I would rather die today than fail God tomorrow.

I can't fail my Lord.

God made an empty vessel in the form of a man, and that vessel stayed empty until God filled it

with Himself. He called that empty vessel Adam. Breathing into that form, God created in Adam a

living soul; Divinity was in him, giving him life. Until he failed God, Adam had it all; nothing was

lacking. Everything in the tears of Calvary was in that first manbefore he gave in todisobedience. Had Adam not fallen from grace, Calvary never would have been necessary. But

man lost Divinity, and Calvary was needed to make the way back to God. When man lost Divinity,

he lost its benefits and turned back into an empty shell. He had come to the crossroads and taken

the wrong way. Man was separated from His God. Without God dwelling within, people are just

shells, empty vessels that can't be used, that refuse to be filled.

Only through the tears of Calvary could man be cleansed, could he find his way back to Divinity,

made holy. Only through Calvary. It would take tears, divine tears from on High, sacrificial tears


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to bring man back into that communion with God that had been lost. But that One who loved us so

greatly said, Father, I'll go. I'll go. And the W ord was mad e flesh, and dwe lt among u s,

(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten o f the Father,) full of grace

and truth (John 1:14).

The One who had helped create that first vessel of clay, Adam, now Himself lived in a vessel of

clay. He had come to restore man's fellowship with God. This vessel contained every godly quality

found in the first Adam before the fall, all of it. Sin had no dominion, no power over Him. Not

even death had power over Christ. He said, I lay dow n m y life, that I might take it again. No

man taketh it from me , but I lay it dow n of myself. I have powe r to lay it down , and I

have pow er to take it again (John 10:17,18). He did just thata vessel of clay with Divinity

living within.

Jesus was the second Adam. The first Adam had failed, brought death upon the human race, but

the second Adam came and conquered death, hell and the grave for all. Now other vessels are

filled, vessels of clay; they've been cleansed through the blood of the Lamb; Divinity has moved in

to tabernacle with them, to never leave them again. In life and death, the Lord dwells within. Whatprice victorybut, oh, what sweet victory it is! To be a Jesus overcomer is the greatest thing that

could be said about anyone on planet Earth today. You will not be a Jesus overcomer without the

tears of Calvary.

What a price the Apostle Paul paid! The Lord said,He is a chosen ve ssel un to me, to bear my

name before the Gen tiles, and kings, and the ch ildren of Israel: For I will shew him

how great things he mu st suffer for my name 's sake (Acts 9:15,16). Paul never saw Jesus inthe flesh, but now the Lord would show Paul the price he would have to pay. No one but Jesus

suffered like Paul.

Paul describes some of his persecutions in II Corinthians 11:23-30: In labours more abundant,

in stripes above m easure , in prisons more frequ ent, in deaths oft. Of the Jew s five

times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I

stoned, thrice I suffered shipwre ck, a night and a day I have be en in the de ep; In

journe yings often, in pe rils of waters, in p erils of robbe rs, in perils by mine ow n

coun trymen, in pe rils by the heathen , in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness,in perils in the sea, in pe rils among false brethren ; In we ariness and painfulness, in

watchings often, in hun ger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and naked ness.

Beside those things that are without, that which cometh u pon m e daily, the care of all

the churches. Who is we ak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I bu rn not? If I

mu st need s glory, I will glory of the things which conce rn m ine infirmities. In I

Corinthians 15, Paul writes that he died daily, was in jeopardy every hour.

In a vision Jesus came to Paul and said: My grace is sufficien t for thee: for my strength is


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made pe rfect in w eakness. What was Paul's response? Most gladly therefore w ill I rather

glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon m e. Therefore I take

pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in nece ssities, in persecu tions, in distresses for

Christ's sake: for whe n I am w eak, then am I strong (II Corinthians 12:9,10). Most gladly,

Paul said. He had the tears of Calvary.

In speaking of his infirmities, Paul is not referring to sicknesses and diseases. What then were

these infirmities? Paul in verse 7 refers to them as a thorn in the flesh, and he clearly tells us just

what that thorn was: the messen ger of Satan to bu ffet me, lest I should be exalted above

measure.

Paul didn't worry about being in need, for he said,My God shall sup ply all your ne ed

accord ing to his riches in glory by Christ Jesu s (Philippians 4:19). When he was weak, he

became strong in the power of the Lord, for the Lord took over his weakness and the Lord's

strength moved through him. How did Paul have such great vision of the Lord? He had the tears

of Calvary.

What will you pay? If you want the tears of Calvary they will cost you everything. They cost Paul

everything.

In Acts 14:19 we read that Paul was stoned and left for dead. No doubt this is the time he was

caught up into the third heaven that he speaks of in II Corinthians 12:2-4: I knew a m an in

Christ above fourtee n years ago, (whether in the b ody, I cannot tell; or whether ou t of

the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an on e caught u p to the third heaven .

And I kne w su ch a man, (w hether in the body, or ou t of the body, I canno t tell: God

knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard u nspeakable w ords,

which it is not lawful for a m an to u tter.

In Acts 16 we find Paul and Silas beaten with many stripes. Their backs are raw, burning like fire.

No man comes to their aid, but they have the incomparable comfort of the tears of Calvary. Those

tears brought a revival. And at m idnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto

God: and the prisoners heard them. And sudde nly there was a great earthquake , so

that the foundations of the prison w ere shaken: an d immed iately all the doors were

opened, and every one's bands were loosed (Acts 16:25,26). The jailor, horrified to see his

prisoners freed, drew his sword and would have killed himself. But Paul cried out that they were

all there; he should do himself no harm. The jailor called for a light, and sprang in, andcame trem bling, and fell down before Pau l and Silas, And brought them ou t, and said,

Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesu s Christ, and

thou shalt be saved, and thy house (Acts 16:29-31).

Those tears of Calvary shed by Paul and Silas brought a revival, an earthquake of power. The tears

of Calvary held Paul and Silas in prison until souls were won. Why were they beaten and thrown in

jail in the first place? Because they had cast a fortunetelling demon out of a girl, and the devil was

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When you do the works of Christ, there is a price to pay. All hell will come against you. How much

will you pay? If you do the works of Jesus, you are willing to die for Him.

The Early Church disciples walked those paths of commitment with the tears of Calvary. In the

tears of Calvary no sacrifice is too great for the lost, for the sick and afflicted. In the tears of

Calvary you find the fasting, the prayingheaven's prayersand you find the living Word in

glorious action.

Do you want to be like Jesus? Paul did. He writes in Philippians 3:10,That I may know him,

and the powe r of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made

conformable u nto his death. Paul wanted to know everything about Jesus, to know Him in all

ways. He would suffer like Jesus, cry with the same tears and use the power of His resurrection to

deliver many. Rise and walk, Paul told the crippled. He breathed life into a dead boy through

the great anointing and breath of GodPaul who once had persecuted Christians, had them

imprisoned and put to death for the sake of Christ! A consenting Paul held the coats of those

stoning Stephen. But on the road to Damascus, Paul met Jesus. Never afterward was he the same,

for he picked up the cross and took on the tears of Calvary, the power of that cross, thedeliverance. I admire him greatly; I study his life, weigh his words.

In this final hour, the Bride of Christ will bring about many earthquakes of power from on High as

she carries the tears of Calvary. As the tears of Calvary flow from her, the Earth will be shaken with

the power of Almighty God. What price will you pay to be a part of such an awakening? What price

will you pay to be the hand of God in this final hour? What price will you pay to be the vessel of

God, filled with all of His love, all of Himself the way Adam was in the beginning? What price willyou pay until you can talk like Him, act like Him, be like Him so that God will come down and walk

hand in hand with you in the cool of the day, talking to you as one human being would talk to

another?

In this final hour, with the tears of Calvary, we will walk hand in hand with our Lord. His voice will

be in our ears, and we will know the will of God, know what is about to take place in the hour in

which we live. We will see the harvest being brought in in abundance. As the sun is going down,

we will work. We will work till the close of day, until we hear that long-awaited shout:Hallelujah,

the King cometh! The King cometh! Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord!

With the Precious Seed, with the tears of Calvary, we will sow the message of Jesus throughout the

whole Earth. The tears of Calvary bring great results.

We took the tears of Calvary to Africa, and over one hundred thousand were saved in one service.

We took the tears of Calvary and one hundred seventy thousand miracles and healings took place


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in a single night. We took the tears of Calvary to a native woman who had carried her son on her

back all the way to the service because he could not walk, not one step. As we served tears of

Calvary, suddenly the boy began to move on his mother's back. She let him stand, and then

rejoiced to see him walk off as though nothing had ever been wrong.

We took the tears of Calvary, and I looked down into the crowd to a paralyzed sixteen-year-old

girl. She had been carried there, hopeless and helpless, placed on a blanket spread on the ground.

But we had brought the tears of Calvary, and suddenly that compassionthe same compassion that

Jesus used when he cleansed the lepersuddenly the tears of compassion of Calvary flowed, and

the Lord made her completely whole. As she stood, people began to shout and crowd around her.

Made whole through the tears of Calvary, she who had been paralyzed walked up onto the high

platform to give her testimony.

In Calvary's tears are all the power that Jesus used to heal the sick and afflicted, all He used to give

the blind sight, to raise the dead. The Bride will treasure the tears of Calvary above everything else

in this final hour. It will be her power, strength, greatness because she will be just like her Master.

She will talk like Him, believe like Him, hope like Him and have compassion like Him. You willnot be able to separate the Bride from Jesus; she is bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Glory

be to God for evermore! What rejoicing there will be in heaven in the final countdown time of the

great harvest as it is being brought in!

God has used the life of Paul in a special way to bring me where I am today. Often I have lived with

Him through the Word of God. I never thought I could ever be worthy of one of the gifts of the

Holy Spirit; never would I have fasted and sought one of the gifts had the Lord not come to me thatnight I was dying and made me whole, telling me that later I would go on a long fast and afterward

I would have the gifts of healing. That was the first time I ever knew that I could and would have

any one of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. I was frightened, but I didn't have one doubt what He

told me was true. I was in His very presence, my body charged with the greatness of Him. Divinity

had taken over until I didn't physically have the strength to stand before Him. Helpless in His

hands, I was on His operating table. No wonder I love Him so; He gave me life when I was close to

death. I owe everything to Him.

The hardest time of all was when the Lord took my darling wife Angel. He came one night andsaid, "You will have to surrender Angel. Angel is not your source of power. I am the source of your

power." That was all He said; He left me then. His words burned upon my soul, heart and spirit. I

pondered them. Oh Lord, I've never thought Angel wa s my source of power. But the Lord speaks

in strange ways to His Children on Earth. I didn't realize what a source of strength she really was

to me. I didn't know that when she went home to be with the Lord, I would feel I couldn't go on

breathing without her, that I couldn't live. It is unspeakably agonizing to love someone that much

and lose that one. My breath didn't come right, but what did it matter; she was gone. I never knew

a valley could be that deep. But Jesus found me there; nursed me in a way no one else could, for


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the valley was too overwhelming. He carried me out of that valley with His pure love, His pure

strength, with His voice in my ear saying, I am the Lord that walketh with thee. I don't know the

many times He spoke those words to me before He finally pulled me out of that terrible valley of

death. One thing I knew: when Angel died, I died.

The Lord still uses those words of faith and comfort today when I need extra help: I am the Lord

that walketh with thee. All the tears of Calvary are in that statement. Why had God brought two

people together bound in such holy love and then separated them? To bring about His plan of

deliverance in this final hour, to bring about His plan to take the Gospel to the whole world. I

could have no other source of power than the Lord.

Nothing will stop us now. We have the tears of Calvary. I reach for His tears, and I cry His tears. I

walk in His strength with His voice in my ears. Oh blessed tears of Calvary! There is no need for

me to question my heart how much it will pay. It will pay all. I don't ever struggle with the cost.

Just to know I am in His will is enough. Just to know that I live in Him and He lives in me, that I

am chosen of Him to do His work, gifted by Him to preach His Gospel is enough, just to know the

angel of the Lord always stands by my side when I begin praying for the sick and afflicted. It'senough.

The tears of Calvary have brought about this ministry; they make up miracles services, ordered and

ordained by heaven. I never, never wrestle with ego. With the Apostle Paul, when the time comes I

will say, For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departu re is at hand. I

have fou ght a good fight, I have finished my cou rse, I have k ept the faith (II Timothy

4:6,7). No one can honestly say that without the tears of Calvary. Hence forth there is laid upfor me a cr own of righteou sness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at

that day: and not to m e only, but u nto all them also that love his appearing (verse 8).

What will we pay? We will pay all. What will we give? We will give all. How much will we

grumble and complain? Not any. We will glory in the persecutions and trials as Paul did. We will

suffer, and suffer much. It isn't going to become easier; but we will have more victory, more power,

more strength from on High as more people come into the Ark of the Lord to shed the tears of

Calvary. More harvest will be brought in as greater miracles take place. In the mighty, mighty tears

of Calvary, the gift of miracles at last will operate in perfection. God will shake the Earth one moretime with His power, and then the end will come, saith the Lord.

Lift up your heart in prayer and say: Oh God, I will pay! I will not let anyone hinder me, son,

daughter, husband, wife, friendsno one will hinder me. I put everyone on the altar as I present

myself to you, Lord. You have all of me. You will be first every day, every night that I have left. I

just ask for the tears of Calvary that I might help bring in the lost, that I might help the sick and

afflicted to receive miracles and healings from on High. I separate myself unto you. I give myself

into your ha nds like I have never given myself before. My desires will be upon you day and night,


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Lord. I will always run after you, yielding to your ways. No longer will I stand at the

crossroads. I take the stra ight, narrow love road, and I walk in your divine will. I have come to

do thy will. I want to be just like Jesus. I will pay as Peter paid, as Stephen, as Paul paid, as

others paid. I will pay the price to have all the greatness in the tears of Calvary. I will be

somewhere working for you, Lord, when you come or call. You will find me with the tears of

Calvary, crying for the lost, the sick and afflicted throughout the whole Earth. I love you Jesus! I

love you Jesus!

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