In the 38-minute message entitled, “Pharisees of Our Day,” Pastor A. W. Tozer poses a solemn question: “Can it be so that a man can be orthodox, sound in his creed… loyal to the church of his fathers, and still be blind, cruel, and bigoted—and wicked?” Is a common sinner the real enemy, or is it the self-righteous religionist, who cares not at all for the lost? In Luke 14:1-6, Jesus saved a man who the religious leaders would not and could not heal. “Brothers and sisters, shall it be religion or shall it be Christ?”

There has been and is not any greater preacher in the 20th century than AW Tozer. In this sermon you will be provoked as a preacher to ensure that the miracle of sincere repentance follows the plow. God works as long as His people live daringly: He ceases when they no longer need His aid. As soon as we seek protection out of God, we find it to our own undoing.

The June 16, 1957 message entitled, “The Kingdom of God Is Not In Words,” is 30 minutes in length, and was preached at Southside Alliance Church, in Chicago, Illinois. From chapter four of First Corinthians, verses one through five and fifteen through twenty-one, Dr. A. W. Tozer stresses the absolutely indispensable role that the Holy Spirit plays in convicting men of sin, in the teaching of the Gospel, and in the preaching of the Word. The pastor aptly declares, “You can’t have power without the words, but you can have words without the power, and a lot of people do.”

This is a lively sermon preached by Tozer on the importance of doing all that we do accompanied by prayer. He contrasts this with what the world accompanies their doings with: ex. money, influence, committees... Tozer is really preaching out of his heart in this sermon, calling the Church back to the simplicity of prayer and trust in God's sufficiency.