The Tears of Calvary
by Ernest Angley
February 2021
The Lord began to speak to me about divine tears some months ago, and I was shocked to hear Him say that His people were to cry the tears of Calvary; so I pondered it. The tears of divinity are not like our tears; water does not run down the cheeks of God. A human tear is a drop of salty fluid spilling from your eye, but divinity cries without actual tears running down your cheeks. In this final hour, saith the Lord, we must have divine tears from God to cry for the lost. We must shed the tears of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in this final hour.
God’s Tears Began in Eden
God cried many tears when He discovered that man and woman had sinned in the Garden of Eden. As time went on, the people became so wicked that God decided He would destroy them. In Noah’s day, God cried when He closed the ark door knowing He would have to destroy everyone shut outside the ark!
After Noah’s family had completed the ark, God left the door open for seven days to give anyone who wanted to an opportunity to enter it. In those last seven days of mercy, God cried with intense yearning, love and compassion because He wanted the people’s evil hearts to change. If the people would just cry for mercy, confess their sins and ask for His forgiveness, He would make them holy; but no one outside the ark asked for forgiveness. How God wept as His great hand swept down to close only eight souls inside the ark of safety! The rest would be destroyed.
God cried when He turned Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt because it broke His heart. He had sent two angels into Sodom and Gomorrah to bring out Lot’s entire family; but only Lot, his two daughters and his wife started for safety. God cried when He knew all the rest of the people in those cities would be killed because they had sold their souls to the devil.
Oh, how God wept when Lot’s wife disobeyed the instructions the angel had given, and she turned to look back. Even then, Lot and his daughters had to go on because judgment had fallen. God knew His righteous judgment would hurt them and that their road ahead would be rougher without a wife and mother. Had the family remained intact, their way still would have been difficult. God saw their tears, and He cried with them. His divine tears were mixed with their human tears.
God Cried over the Israelites
God cried when Israel failed Him because He had worked so hard to save them and bring them out of bondage. Oh, how He cried when they made a golden calf! God told Moses, Thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt (Exodus 32:7,8). Israel turned their backs on the living God, and they did not see His tears.
God has cried many, many times down through the years, and He also gave His tears to the prophets. Jeremiah wept over the rebellious children of Israel so much that he is known as the weeping prophet. The prophets cried God’s tears many times over the disobedience of man! They cried over Israel, and God cried with them; but no tears have ever fallen from Heaven from the beginning of mankind like the tears of God that fell at Calvary. If you could have seen those tears, they would have looked like the flood in Noah’s day that covered the whole Earth.
The shortest verse in the Bible says it all—Jesus wept (John 11:35). Jesus had tears of compassion at Lazarus’ tomb for man’s sorrow and despair. Jesus cried over Jerusalem saying, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate (Matthew 23:37,38). Those tears of Jesus were hopeless tears because Israel would not accept Him or His love.
God’s Tears Blackened the Sun
God the Father had heard His Son praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done (Luke 22:42). Human tears were rolling down the cheeks of Jesus, and God was crying Heaven’s tears. Jesus was very God and very man, so He was shedding the tears of a man and tears of divinity in the garden that night. His tears came from a broken heart, and that is sad indeed!
When Jesus was nailed to the Cross of Calvary, what agonizing cries went forth! He cried, I thirst (John 19:28). Jesus had such great compassion that even in that awful condition, He assured the repentant thief hanging on the cross to His right, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43).
With human tears, Jesus cried out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me (Mark 15:34)? Calvary’s tears of love and compassion flowed when it seemed to the human part of Jesus that the Father had forsaken Him, but that was not so. The tears of God falling from Heaven blackened the sun, and thick darkness settled upon the Earth.
The voice of Jesus was lifted one last time in a great cry of divinity that would echo and re-echo for eternity when He said, It is finished (John 19:30). That meant the plan of redemption for all mankind was finished. When Jesus died on the Cross, every man, woman, boy and girl could find their way to Calvary.
Understand Calvary’s Tears
Divine tears bring in the lost. At different times, the Holy Spirit has said God’s people must have the tears of Calvary in this final hour of the Church. What are the tears of Calvary composed of? I wanted to find out; so I said, “God, you will have to teach me the tears of Calvary. People need to know about them.” I heard a person express concern because they were not shedding tears for the lost, but human tears are not the tears of Calvary. Understanding the tears of Calvary can make all the difference in your life as a soul winner. There is nothing like the tears of Calvary.
The tears of Calvary bring rejoicing when the lost are brought in. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him (Psalm 126:5,6). Human tears will not be enough to reap the end-time harvest of souls because human tears are weak and can be insincere, but the divine tears of the Godhead are always true and from the heart of God.
The only way you will be able to rescue the lost in this final hour will be to shed the tears of divinity; there is nothing like them. In those divine tears are all of Heaven’s love and compassion and all of the Godhead’s yearning for souls to come and be cleansed through the blood of Calvary.
When Jesus climbed Mount Calvary, the weight of all the sins of humanity rested upon Him. What a sacrifice He made! We would not be able to cry the tears of Calvary for the lost without that great sacrifice. The Early Church cried the tears of Calvary, and thousands of souls were saved in a day. They cried with the same compassion in their voices that Jesus had, and they had His same love and sacrificial tears.
A Vision of Eternity
Stephen cried divine tears for souls, and that is why he had compassion for those who were stoning him even though he was in great pain. Rocks pounded his body, and his blood poured out. He would soon be dead, but he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep (Acts 7:60). Stephen had the same love, the same Spirit and the same tears of Calvary Jesus had.
Through the tears of Calvary, Stephen could see beyond this life into eternity. The tears of Calvary will not blind you as human tears do; they will give you clear vision of the eternal fate of a lost and dying world. They will give you vision of the lost world Jesus died for and help you to see the value of lost souls as He saw them. When you cry the tears of divinity, you see the magnificent plan of salvation spread before you; and you feel God’s great yearning for all people to come to Him. When you cry Heaven’s tears, you are color-blind and nationality-blind, and you love everyone because God made them all.
The Bride of Christ will shed Calvary’s tears night and day in this final hour. Her tears will be like those of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. They will be tears of Heaven’s compelling love, faith and compassion.
When you cry for the lost, you will give no thought to sparing yourself as you reach out to them with your whole heart. You will say, “Anything, Lord, to bring in the lost. Call on me night and day. Call on me for a long or a short fast. Call on me, Lord! I will lose sleep. I will go hungry because of your compelling love that abides on the inside of me. It is no longer I that liveth, but you that liveth in me; and since divinity lives on the inside of me, I have the tears of Calvary.” Your heart will swell within you as you say that, and it will ache for the lost to come to Jesus.
Cry for Souls
The black clouds of tribulation are billowing on the horizon like angry smoke from a gigantic furnace, but they will not deter you. You will be like the Master Himself and cry as He cried, holding nothing in reserve. Your tears will be tears of such great strength and power that they will draw angelic beings down from Heaven to join you in helping to bring in the great harvest. There will be no self in those tears, and you will not be asking the price you will have to pay. Your cry will be as the Lord’s was: “I will give everything. I will give the last drop of blood I have to bring in the lost.”
It is thrilling to be able to cry, “Whosoever will, let him come to the Lord”! But the importance of sending that glorious message to the lost will not mean to you what it should until you have the tears of Calvary. If you are “at ease in Zion,” there will be lost sons and daughters who will not come into the Kingdom because you will not have the Calvary tears to draw them. It took the tears of Calvary to bring God’s salvation to mankind, and it will take the tears of Calvary to serve it.
Let your mind go to the Master Himself as He holds the whole world in one hand and just one soul in the other. That one soul is worth more than all the wealth of the world. What would a man give in exchange for his soul? He should be willing to give the whole world if need be. You will never really weigh souls like the Master did until you have the tears of Calvary. When you can shed the tears of Calvary, souls will be paramount; and no sacrifice will be too great to win them.
What will it cost to be the soul winner God wants you to be? When you have the tears of Calvary, you will say, “I don’t need to know the cost, Lord; just give me the grace and courage I need to pay it. I will never ask what it will cost. I will pay whatever it takes to win souls.”
A Vision of the Damned
Through the tears of Calvary, the Lord gave me a vision of the damned. He took me to the brink of that awful place called hell. I never dreamed I would see anything like what I saw that day, and the vision of it was so real. I leaned over the edge of hell, and I could see way down. The smoke of torment was rising around me, and the damned had no way of escape.
Suddenly, I thought about my Bible, and I began frantically searching for it because it seemed only the Bible could help those tormented souls. I always had my Bible with me, but I couldn’t find it. Then the Lord spoke and said, “They are out of reach of my Word and my love.” Oh, how I cried human tears. They were so hot that they seemed to burn my cheeks! Never had I experienced such a vision before.
I felt so helpless as I looked at damned people and could do nothing to help them. If only I could have let down salvation’s scarlet thread for them to climb out. Oh, what I would have given to have done that! How I yearned and cried for them. How I would have loved to have rescued them from such a terrible fate, but it was too late. The scarlet thread of the blood could no longer reach them. They had sinned away their day of grace and scorned Calvary’s tears.
My mind has traveled back to that terrible vision again and again. I can be preaching in the pulpit and pleading for souls to come to Jesus when suddenly, I’m back in that vision of the lost. Suddenly, I’m on the brink of hell and looking down into that smoke of torment, and I think of that time when I had no Bible. It is wonderful to have the tears of Calvary and be able to sow the precious seed of the Gospel. It is the life of Jesus and the plan of salvation, but woe to those who reject that message of truth!
You Can Have Power over the Devil
It is terrifying for a soul to be on the verge of plunging into hell! God has used me, a servant of His, to rescue more than one person in that position. In a few more days, they would have been in eternal torment—a literal, burning hell. As all the compassion of Calvary flowed through me, I was able to rescue some of those lost souls, not because of my human desire but because of Calvary’s tears. Through those tears, I was able to wade on in and get inside their hearts.
It is dreadful to look into a soul and see the demonic spirits that bind that person. With the tears of Calvary, you can recognize the demonic spirits that bind people; and I thank God that with those Calvary tears, you can cast out demons. You have all the power and strength in the name of Jesus to use. With the tears of Calvary in your voice, you cry, “In the name of Jesus, come out to enter that person no more!” Then the spirits have to obey.
The tears of Calvary will be the greatest glory of the Jesus Church in this final hour, and they will give the Bride much power to win the lost. Life and strength are in the tears of Calvary. As the tears of Calvary go into the highways and hedges, the lost are compelled to come in. We cry, “Come to Jesus! Come to Jesus!” The voices of God, the Son and the Holy Spirit are in the tears of Calvary.
You will not accept the tears of Calvary until you accept the One who shed those tears and let Him wash away all your sins and make you a new creation in Christ Jesus. Only the redeemed can cry those tears. Thus saith the Lord, sinners will never be able to cry the tears of Calvary. Remember that those tears are filled with all the compassion of the Almighty, all His love for mankind and all His yearning for human beings.
Partakers of the Divine Nature
The tears of Calvary are available to you; but to be able to use them, you must set self aside and take on the divinity of the Lord. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (II Peter 1:4). How wonderful and thrilling it is to be partakers of His divine nature and have divine tears of love and compassion. Those tears will melt stony hearts, and they are the reason so many people are coming to Jesus.
We travel to the mission fields with the tears of Calvary, and over 100,000 people have been saved in just one service. Did the tears of human beings do that? No, the tears of Calvary did. God’s people and God’s messenger had the tears of Calvary, and they melted those hearts of stone. The tears of Calvary will dispel the darkness and cast out the evil of Lucifer. The power of human tears has brought about changes of mind and altered verdicts, but the tears of Calvary are much greater!
Oh, Bride of Christ, the tears of Calvary will do great wonders and miracles in this final hour. The Bride of Christ is the apple of God’s eye, and she is walking in Jesus’ steps and wearing His shoes. Her garments are spotless; the wrinkles and blemishes are all gone. She carries the precious seed of the Word, which has been watered by the tears of Calvary; and it is her roadmap and her most valuable possession. The Bride knows she can bring every person out of darkness who will accept that precious seed; so she sows that seed with the tears of Calvary crying, “Come to Jesus! Come to Jesus!” For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12).
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners (Song of Solomon 6:10)? She is the Bride of Christ, but many will not recognize her. She is beautiful in the eyes of God but terrible to the enemy. She goes forth like a mighty army and tramples devils underfoot as she takes authority over demonic powers.
The Bride will cry with the same voice Jesus had and command demons to come out in the name of Jesus, and they will have to obey. The powers of darkness that bind people will not be able to hold them unless the people want to be held. Thus saith the Lord, if a faint cry for God is within that devil-possessed one, that one will be delivered in this final hour and set free.
It’s Almost Midnight
With the strength and confidence of Heaven, the Bride cries, “Our Lord cometh! The coming of the Lord is upon us!” With the tears of Calvary, the Bride points out the Bible prophecies that are being fulfilled in our day and lighting her way. She is not despondent over their fulfillment because the Bible plainly says that peace would not last. Although the nations are crying for peace, the Bride knows they are headed for the Battle of Armageddon. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape (I Thessalonians 5:3).
You can’t allow yourself to be deceived by anything that is happening in the world today; but if you don’t have the tears of Calvary, you can be deceived about the things of God and about the soon-coming of the Lord.
Jesus said, Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors (Mark 13:28,29). The Jewish nation is represented in the Bible by the fig tree, and that tree is now blooming. The events leading up to Armageddon are beginning to take place, and the world will soon see the horrors of the Antichrist and the Great Tribulation.
Just before the Tribulation Period begins, Jesus will come again to take His Bride from the face of the Earth. That is why the great rain of the Holy Spirit is now pouring down to prepare people for the Rapture. Without the tears of Calvary, you won’t recognize the glory of this hour...or the danger of it.
The tears of Calvary will compel you to be wide awake in all that God has said and promised—the promises of God come to life with the tears of Calvary. “Oh, Lord my God, above all, give us the tears of Calvary for a lost and dying world! Help us not to be callous or have a spirit of indifference.”
Thus saith the Lord, unless you carry the tears of Calvary in this final hour, indifference will be yours. You will either be sleepy or asleep at the midnight hour when your Lord comes, and you won’t be watching; but with the tears of Calvary, you will be sowing, watching and seeing. You will know that all God’s prophecies are being fulfilled. You will be listening because you know your Lord will come. You will know the hour you live in, and you will know it is almost midnight.
Tears Tore Heaven Apart
Oh, the tears of Jesus! He denied all of self, and that is what we will do when we have the same tears He cried. Jesus paid the price God the Father called Him to pay, and we must pay the price He calls us to pay with the tears of Calvary. Those tears tore Heaven apart and spread all over Heaven. Never before had Heaven shed tears like the tears of Calvary. In this final hour, I’m sure plenty of divine tears will fall in Heaven.
Pure and clean vessels here on Earth will also be filled with Heaven’s divine, Calvary tears. Thus saith the Lord, in this hour, there will be the greatest cry that has ever been for lost humanity. More voices than ever before will cry with the tears of Calvary as the Bride takes her final walk.
Don’t mistake the tears of man for the tears of Calvary. I say again that salty water running down your face does not necessarily mean you are crying the tears of Calvary for the lost. The difference between human tears and the tears of Calvary in your life depends on how much of Jesus is in your heart and on how much of His love, compassion, yearning and divinity you have. What greatness and mighty wonders are in those tears!
You can combine every mother’s and daddy’s tears from the beginning of time, but they still will not have the effect and power of the tears of Calvary. There are many kinds of human tears, but they do not compare to divinity crying for the lost. Millions of people have come and gone on the Earth, and thousands of years of tears have been shed in this sin-cursed world; but none are like the tears of Calvary.
Take On the Mind of Christ
We must be totally possessed by the Holy Spirit in this our final hour because we can only cry the tears of Calvary through Him. He came to help us cry those tears.
Today, we owe the Early Church so much. They were totally possessed by the Holy Spirit; and they had to become just like Jesus in order to cry the tears of Calvary, take on the mind of Christ and sow the precious seed of the Gospel. The mission God had entrusted to them was vital to all the generations to follow, and it is still vital to us today. It is no wonder the Apostle Paul tried so hard to convince people to take on the mind of Christ! He wrote, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5).
Only when you take on the mind of Christ can you really understand the terrible danger of a soul being lost from the presence of God. It is difficult to visualize a person in hell when they are still walking here on Earth, but you can do that through the tears of Calvary. If a loved one dies without God, most will not accept that the person is in hell even though that one lived an ungodly, degraded life and did not repent before death. Only through the tears of Calvary will we be able to come to grips with such a disaster. We will face the grim truth because of the divinity that lives on the inside of us. God does not shield His people from the reality of hell; those who walk close to Him know there is a literal, burning hell.
The Message of the Hour
Let Heaven cry the tears of Calvary through you for the lost. Yield to God’s will and to the message of the hour. When you cry the tears of Calvary, Jesus, God the Father and the Holy Spirit cry with you. We must cover the Earth with the tears of Calvary as we go forth to sow the precious seeds of salvation and the Holy Ghost baptism.
Remember that only through the tears of Calvary can we come rejoicing as we bring in the sheaves of the harvest of souls. Nothing less than the tears of Calvary can bring them all in. The tears of Calvary mean great sacrifice and complete surrender to the Lord, and we are to be under subjection to His holy, divine will every moment we have left. We can’t back down or push Him away, and there are no reservations in the tears of Calvary. With them, we will love and cry for the lost as we love and cry for our own souls.
Prayer and Fasting Cure a Lukewarm Spirit
Many of God’s people have not gone beyond human tears in crying for the lost. They think they are carrying a great burden for the lost; but when the time for all-out sacrifice comes, they back away and are unwilling to pray and fast in order to gain the power needed to shed Calvary’s tears. Jesus told the disciples, Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:21). Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men (Matthew 4:19). But not until the disciples shed the tears of Calvary did they know what following Jesus in soul winning really was.
The disciples received the tears of Calvary in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost as the Holy Spirit took them over and possessed them. That infilling marked the moment the Church of Jesus Christ truly went into operation, and that was when soul winning began to take place the way it was intended. Thousands were swept into the Kingdom. At last, divinity was living on the inside of men and women in the form of the Holy Spirit; and He was crying the tears of Calvary through them.
As time passed, things changed. Self-tears entered the Church of Jesus Christ and took the place of Calvary’s tears. It was a tragedy. When the Church became lukewarm, it stopped preaching the message of hell; and many preachers will not preach it today. They won’t preach the judgments of God as recorded in the Bible either. They tune out everything of God except a little love story, but God called His ministers to preach the whole truth; and they will if they have the tears of Calvary. Without those tears, ministers simply tickle the ears of those who listen to them. They avoid sound doctrine and destroy the very souls they are supposed to be helping and winning for the Lord.
The Holy Spirit Cries
The tears of Calvary are the only tears the Holy Spirit cries. Have you ever experienced the Holy Spirit crying through you? When I was a little boy, there was a time when two ladies—an evangelist and her pianist—cam to our church; and the amazing story of the pianist really marked me. After she had found Jesus, her wealthy family claimed she had lost her mind and placed her in a mental institution. She had been disowned by family and had given up everything to follow Jesus. What a great price she paid! Her family probably wanted her institutionalized for life, but the doctors decided she wasn’t mentally unbalanced after all; and she wasn’t. She had just taken on the mind of Christ, and her people hated that holy mind.
I had never before heard the Holy Spirit cry through a person; but as the woman’s story was being told, the Spirit of the Lord came upon her with a cry of great compassion. As I listened to her, God’s love flowed through every part of my body while cold chills ran up and down my spine. That cry of the Holy Spirit held the attention of everyone in the building, and it happened several times during that meeting. I will never forget how the Spirit of the Lord came upon her and that cry of love and compassion went forth. That woman traveled from city to city and town to town telling her story. She carried the precious seed of the Word of God and watered it with the tears of Calvary.
Heaven Gave All
There is a price to pay for the tears of Calvary and to sow the precious Gospel seed with those tears; but with the help of the Lord, we can all pay that price. Everyone can have the tears of Calvary.
God gave His whole heart when He gave Jesus for a lost world. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). God gave all He had to make the tears of Calvary. All of Heaven was included in making those tears that must be shed for a lost and dying human race.
After Jesus ascended back to Heaven, He sent the Holy Ghost to dwell in the hearts of everyone who would accept Him. That was a great sacrifice for Heaven, and it has been a great sacrifice for the Third Person in the Trinity of the Godhead to live in human bodies. He works and sheds tears of grief because people will not obey; but the Bible says, Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30). When we disobey and fail God, it prevents the Holy Spirit from crying the tears of Calvary through us; and He is grieved. His sacrifice has continued down through the years, and it still continues today.
The Lord has made nine fruits of the Spirit available to mankind, and you can have them. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance (Galatians 5:22,23). Just nine supernatural fruits are needed for the tears of Calvary to flow, and those fruits are produced in our lives through the Holy Spirit.
Jesus had the nine fruits of the Spirit; and since He needed them, how much more do we need them! He gives us everything He had in the tears of Calvary through the power of the Holy Spirit. Yield to the Holy Spirit. Only as you give over to Him can He produce His nine fruits in you and flow the tears of Calvary through you in your voice, your vision, your hearing and your whole being.
Again, do not be deceived into thinking physical tears flowing down your cheeks mean you have a real burden for the lost. Human tears alone have been used many times, but they generated only weakness. Had the tears of Calvary been flowing, souls would have been won. I repeat that human tears are not strong enough to accomplish the work God wants done; it takes the divine tears of Calvary. Nothing less will do His work in this final hour.
Paul Gave All
Paul had the tears of Calvary; and he wrote, I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh (Romans 9:1–3). Paul was willing to be cursed if it meant his lost brethren would have Heaven. Only through the tears of Calvary could he make such a statement and demonstrate such great love.
If you have the tears of Calvary, you can cry at the end of your journey here on Earth as Paul did, For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing (II Timothy 4:6–8).
Both Paul and Stephen had the tears of Calvary. Remember that Paul was willing to be cursed if it meant that the people of Israel would find salvation. When Stephen was being stoned to death, he forgave his murderers with his last, dying breath. They were partakers of the divine nature.
You Must Have Divinity
With the tears of Calvary, we too can be partakers of Christ’s nature and become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones (Ephesians 5:30). When we are a part of the Lord, we can live like Him, act like Him, talk, work, sing and cry like Him.
You can’t shed the tears of Calvary without the Holy Spirit any more than you can do the works of God without divinity. Man within himself cannot bring souls into the Kingdom; it takes divinity.
There is no salvation without divinity. Divine blood had to be shed; a sacrificial offering had to be made in order for man to be accepted in Heaven. Human blood cannot enter Heaven; only divine blood can. That is why it took divine blood to make man into a new creation that would be acceptable to God.
After Jesus had shed His blood at Calvary, He walked down the avenue of Glory with that divine blood and said, “Father, here it is. I have given all.” Because the atoning, divine blood of Jesus is eternal, our salvation is eternal. The blood of Jesus will never be contaminated. Thank God for the blood! Thank God for the blood tears of Calvary!
What Will You Give?
The Early Church gave their lives for the message of salvation and the tears of Calvary; what will you give? Are you caught up in making a life of your own and preoccupied with family and friends as though you will be on Earth forever? What will be your priority on that morning when the sun rises on your final day on Earth before Jesus comes? Will you be somewhere shedding the tears of Calvary? In those final moments, will the Holy Spirit be flowing every tear of Calvary through you He possibly can for the human race? This last and final hour before Jesus comes again is such a crucial yet glorious time.
Doing the Master’s Will
Behold the Glorious Church! Her vision is clear; her hearing is sharp, and she is taking in all the Spirit is saying and doing. The Bride is walking in the holiness of Jesus, and she is not contaminated by the world; it holds no lure for her. Her eyes are on only One—Jesus. She longs for the time when He will come as she completes her final preparations.
The Bride is sowing the precious seed of the Gospel, and she is doing the Master’s will that He has commanded her to do. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen (Matthew 28:19,20). And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come (Matthew 24:14).
The Bride is busy with the great “go-ye” that Jesus proclaimed. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations (Matthew 28:19). There is no “go-ye” without the tears of Calvary, and that great commission of Jesus could not be obeyed until His followers had those tears. Jesus told them, 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). Only after Jesus’ disciples received the power of the Holy Ghost were they ready to go into all the world to preach the Gospel to every creature.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:17,18). With the tears of Calvary, the Bride will deliver multitudes of devil-possessed people. As those tears flow forth to deliver, the devils will not be able to hold on to many of the people they once had under their control. The tears of Calvary have the power of deliverance, liberty, freedom and greatness in the Lord.
The Holy Spirit Intercedes
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:26,27). As the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us through groanings we cannot utter, He flows forth the tears of Calvary through our vessels of clay. He is divinity living on the inside of God’s yielded children and making intercession according to the will of God.
This is an hour of total submission, and we must never grieve the Holy Spirit. We must not do or say anything that would hinder Him from having complete freedom to use us as He did the Early Church in the very beginning. All the love, peace and compassion of Heaven can flow through human beings when divinity lives in their hearts and produces His fruit daily. That is miraculous, and the whole plan of God is miraculous. Miracles and healings take place today because of the divinity that lives in the hearts of men and women. We are partakers of His divinity and of His nature. We have become like Him through the tears of Calvary.
See the Whole Plan of God
Long ago on a hill far away stood an Old Rugged Cross. The eyes of those who loved Jesus were filled with human tears when it seemed as though that Cross meant defeat. After they received the tears of Calvary, they saw the whole plan of God with the clear vision of those tears; and they delighted in being totally obedient to it. They reached out to Calvary and paid the price. It cost many lives, but they willingly laid them down so the precious seed of the Gospel could flourish.
We dare not sow that precious Gospel seed any other way but with the tears of Calvary. We dare not be without those tears one moment of the day or night. We dare not meet one lost soul without the tears of Calvary and the precious seed of the Gospel no matter what the cost may be.
Of course, we will have to deny self and make many sacrifices to come under subjection to all of God’s will. But as the Master said, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God (Hebrews 10:7). When you come in His Spirit and with the tears of Calvary, you too will be able to truly say, “God, I have come to do thy will.”
We must work until day is done and the midnight cry goes forth, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him (Matthew 25:6). We will trim our lamps with the might and the power of the Holy Spirit as we go forth in the glory of the Holy Spirit Himself to meet our Lord in the air.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus (Revelation 22:20). We are waiting for your coming, Lord, but we are not idle because that would be no way to wait for your coming. We are clothed and armed with everything we need to win the lost at any cost. We are busy shedding the tears of Calvary, and we are co-operating with the Holy Spirit night and day so we will not come up lacking in anything as the precious Gospel seed is sown.
All Tears Wiped Away
The tears of Calvary will flow until that great and marvelous day we read about in the book of Revelation. On that day, the Lord will dry our human tears and then wipe away the tears of Calvary from the eyes of His Son, the Holy Spirit and Him. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new (Revelation 21:4,5).
There will be no more tears because there will be no more lost souls to cry over. Those who answered God’s call will have Heaven for all eternity, and not one life will ever be contaminated by sin in Glory. There will be no need for any more tears—human tears or the tears of Calvary—but I’m sure the Lord will have the tears of Calvary bottled up in Heaven as an everlasting memorial.
If you want to know God’s timetable and where we are as the Bride of Christ in the Holy Scriptures, the tears of Calvary will let you know how limited our time is. Honor God, and He will bless you greatly.
I have carried the tears of Calvary all these years, but the Lord had to break down their meaning and explain them to me so I could explain them to others. I have been willing to sacrifice everything, and that is why God has been able to use me. It is amazing to me how He has done that.
I had the tears of Calvary, but I did not know all that made up those tears; and I was not able to separate them from my own tears and yearnings until the Lord taught me about them. Man did not teach me, and I had never even heard anyone talk about the tears of Calvary. My knowledge came from God. Now, in the time of the end-time anointing, you have come into the great and wonderful reality of the tears of Calvary. Will you help shed the tears of Calvary in this final hour?
The Sinner’s Prayer
Sinner, don’t you want the tears of Calvary? If so, you must first have the power in those tears that will destroy all corruption and wash away every sin stain. God told us that the sacrificial blood flows in the tears of Calvary. If your heart is not right with God and you want your sins to be blotted out by the blood of the Lamb, pray this prayer with me now: Oh, God, save my soul! I am so sorry that I sinned against you, but I have come home; and I’m going to serve you, Lord, for the rest of my life. I believe in Calvary and the blood of Calvary, and I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins. Come in, Jesus. Come on in!
If you meant that prayer, Jesus has come into your heart. Go on to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and you will be given the tears of Calvary through the Holy Spirit Himself as you yield to Him daily.
Thus Saith the Lord:
Yea, saith the Lord, this is your hour of great victory. This is your hour of great deliverance. This is your hour of great harvest. Be not troubled; do not be in a state of despair. There will be many tears of heartache. There will be many tears of tribulation and persecution, many tears of despair; but be not troubled by your tears of despair.
I will give you strength, and my love will help you with those tears. I will breathe upon you again and again; I will be with you all the time. My Spirit will be poured out to you without measure. My glory will be upon you, and you will be glorious in my sight; but you will be hated by the world. You will be hated by those who hate me. Think it not strange when they turn from you. But I will love you with an unending love; I will give you an unbelievable joy, and you will have unbelievable strength. Your vision will indeed be clear, and you will hear that which you have never heard before. You will be alert in my Spirit and conscious of my Spirit. And you will not grieve my Spirit as some have grieved my Spirit in the past. You will be alive in my Spirit; and my Spirit will be reality to you like your hands, like your eyes and like your feet.
I will be able to deal with you in a way that I have never been able to deal with you before. I will be able to deal with you as I have longed to deal with you, and fellowship with you as I have longed to fellowship with you. You will be conscious of my presence day and night, and you will know in your heart that I will never leave you nor forsake you.
You will do my work; you will do my will. You will have the tears of Calvary; and you will sow my Word throughout the Earth, saith the Lord, in this your final hour.
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