Pray louder! He is a god! Maybe he is day-dreaming or relieving himself, or perhaps he’s gone off on a trip! Or maybe he’s sleeping, and you’ve got to wake him up!
–Elijah in 1 Kings 18:27 (GNT)–

How stubborn can you be? How can you be so heartless and disobedient? You’re just like your ancestors. They always opposed the Holy Spirit, and so do you!
–Stephen in Acts 7:51 (GW)–

It might be said that the greatest revivalist sermons were by Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and Charles Finney–because they, more than any others, emphasized extremely vivid and terrifying imagery of the lake of fire, urgent fervent emotional warning calls to recognize personal sin, repent and be converted immediately, and to not delay because today is the day of salvation. The following sins were named and argued against: pride, vanity, deceit, disobedience to God, apathy, fornication, moral laxity, and drunkenness. Confident, bold, or impressive is what we mean when we say, “That’s gangster” in slang. Its not an endorsement of criminal behavior; its just a street way of saying, “That dude’s really got some guts.” We might even say, those are the OGs (the original gangsters) of such: yeah…Edwards, Whitefield, and Finney would be the OGs of that really bold, confrontational hellfire preaching. There’s no doubt about that. And up to the point of fever pitch belligerence and indignation breaking out, I’d point at Billy Sunday, Leonard Ravenhill, and David Wilkerson–these last three especially. Them are some GANGSTER holiness preachers! They actually had to rub shoulders with real gang members at different stages of their lives. Some tough preachers!