1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,680 The deeper life, what is it, and how 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:06,260 can I enter into it? 3 00:00:08,810 --> 00:00:11,470 I really haven't a text, but I have 4 00:00:11,470 --> 00:00:16,270 been reading this verse in chapter six of 5 00:00:16,270 --> 00:00:21,930 Hebrews, therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine 6 00:00:21,930 --> 00:00:22,610 of Christ. 7 00:00:23,930 --> 00:00:30,030 Let us go on unto perfection, not laying 8 00:00:30,030 --> 00:00:33,550 again the foundation of repentance from dead works 9 00:00:33,550 --> 00:00:36,490 and of faith toward God, of the doctrine 10 00:00:36,490 --> 00:00:38,630 of baptisms and of the laying on of 11 00:00:38,630 --> 00:00:40,550 hands and of the resurrection of the dead 12 00:00:40,550 --> 00:00:41,590 and of eternal judgment. 13 00:00:43,010 --> 00:00:44,970 Let us go on unto perfection. 14 00:00:45,790 --> 00:00:46,870 It has been a sort of an overall 15 00:00:46,870 --> 00:00:47,310 text. 16 00:00:48,850 --> 00:00:52,450 Then I have also shown from 1 Corinthians 17 00:00:52,450 --> 00:00:56,850 3 and other passages of scripture that one 18 00:00:56,850 --> 00:00:59,490 of the great problems, even of the early 19 00:00:59,490 --> 00:01:03,989 Church, was that of the static Christian. 20 00:01:05,230 --> 00:01:07,330 It is one of the great problems today. 21 00:01:08,410 --> 00:01:10,190 I think it is a problem even greater 22 00:01:10,190 --> 00:01:12,090 than that of getting people converted. 23 00:01:13,150 --> 00:01:17,190 The problem of the static Christian, how to 24 00:01:17,190 --> 00:01:23,190 get a Christian interested in becoming more than 25 00:01:23,190 --> 00:01:27,810 an average run-of-the-mill type of 26 00:01:27,810 --> 00:01:29,250 believer that you see everywhere. 27 00:01:31,830 --> 00:01:35,170 And so many of us become static, or 28 00:01:35,170 --> 00:01:35,890 are static. 29 00:01:37,610 --> 00:01:40,370 It is the static Christian is one who 30 00:01:40,370 --> 00:01:42,390 is retarded in his progress. 31 00:01:43,290 --> 00:01:46,470 Paul said, What doth hinder you? 32 00:01:46,690 --> 00:01:49,610 You did run well, but now you are 33 00:01:49,610 --> 00:01:50,090 hindered. 34 00:01:51,510 --> 00:01:57,110 And thus the progress is stunted and retarded, 35 00:01:57,650 --> 00:01:59,150 and the growth stunted. 36 00:02:00,510 --> 00:02:02,250 And then there is the lack of moral 37 00:02:02,250 --> 00:02:06,070 dynamic which every Christian ought to know. 38 00:02:06,710 --> 00:02:10,630 Now, this is the static Christian, and I 39 00:02:10,630 --> 00:02:14,070 believe that if we will listen, we will 40 00:02:14,070 --> 00:02:15,410 hear God speaking. 41 00:02:15,610 --> 00:02:19,010 He that hath an ear to hear, let 42 00:02:19,010 --> 00:02:22,150 him hear what the Spirit saith unto the 43 00:02:22,150 --> 00:02:22,490 churches. 44 00:02:23,910 --> 00:02:26,070 And I believe that if we hear what 45 00:02:26,070 --> 00:02:29,870 the Spirit says in our day, we will 46 00:02:29,870 --> 00:02:32,950 hear God say, Moses my servant is dead, 47 00:02:34,710 --> 00:02:40,350 therefore arise, go over this Jordan, and into 48 00:02:40,350 --> 00:02:44,370 the land which I have given to you. 49 00:02:45,150 --> 00:02:47,570 Every place the sole of your foot shall 50 00:02:47,570 --> 00:02:49,930 tread upon, that have I given you. 51 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,440 I believe we will hear the Spirit of 52 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,360 God say, Let us go on unto perfection. 53 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,260 Let us go on beyond repentance from past 54 00:03:02,260 --> 00:03:02,700 sins. 55 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,300 Let us go on beyond forgiveness and cleansing 56 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:09,220 from past sins. 57 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,300 Let us go on beyond the impartation of 58 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:15,200 divine life. 59 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:18,920 Let's be sure, however, that we get these 60 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:21,560 first things settled first, to the point of 61 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:22,680 absolute assurance. 62 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,860 There can be no deeper life until there 63 00:03:25,860 --> 00:03:26,920 has been life. 64 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:30,000 There can be no progress in the way 65 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,400 until we are in the way. 66 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,620 There can be no growth until there has 67 00:03:35,620 --> 00:03:36,360 been birth. 68 00:03:37,780 --> 00:03:40,660 And all the efforts toward a deeper life 69 00:03:40,660 --> 00:03:46,700 will only bring disappointment unless we have first 70 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:50,060 settled the matter of repentance from dead works, 71 00:03:50,780 --> 00:03:55,040 and the forgiveness of sins, and the impartation 72 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:56,700 of divine life in conversion. 73 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,560 But now to break down the deeper life, 74 00:04:02,820 --> 00:04:06,140 I want briefly to mention that it's two 75 00:04:06,140 --> 00:04:08,900 things, as I shall say today. 76 00:04:08,980 --> 00:04:10,480 It's more than that, but two I want 77 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:11,480 to mention today. 78 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:15,459 One is a complete forsaking of the world, 79 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,060 and the other is a turning wholly to 80 00:04:19,060 --> 00:04:20,420 the Lord Jesus Christ. 81 00:04:20,540 --> 00:04:24,140 That's not only my opinion of it, but 82 00:04:24,140 --> 00:04:26,060 that is what the Bible teaches about it, 83 00:04:26,620 --> 00:04:29,820 and that is the standard formula that has 84 00:04:29,820 --> 00:04:32,760 come down to us from the very early 85 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,000 days of the Church. 86 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:36,720 You will find it written into the great 87 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,360 hymns of the Church, and you will find 88 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,900 it written into the great books of devotion 89 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:45,180 of the Church down the years, that these 90 00:04:45,180 --> 00:04:48,960 two things are necessary for a Christian who 91 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,920 will go on and break the static condition 92 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,600 and become a flowing, moving, progressive, dynamic Christian. 93 00:04:57,280 --> 00:04:59,740 There must be a complete forsaking of the 94 00:04:59,740 --> 00:05:03,760 world and a turning wholly to our Lord 95 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:04,580 Jesus Christ. 96 00:05:05,860 --> 00:05:08,880 Now we'll talk first about this forsaking of 97 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:09,340 the world. 98 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,240 It's entirely possible to be religious and not 99 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,320 to have forsaken the world at all. 100 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,860 The proof of this is that you will 101 00:05:20,860 --> 00:05:25,440 find professed Christians wherever, or at least almost 102 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,760 wherever, you will find non-Christians. 103 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,360 I want to be as broad-minded and 104 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,920 fair as I can about this, and I 105 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,420 suppose there are places where you will not 106 00:05:37,420 --> 00:05:39,640 find men claiming to be Christians. 107 00:05:40,180 --> 00:05:44,340 I don't know whether gangsters who habitually and 108 00:05:44,340 --> 00:05:52,740 as a system destroy by death those who 109 00:05:52,740 --> 00:05:56,520 are their rivals, take them out and shoot 110 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:56,720 them. 111 00:05:56,780 --> 00:05:59,780 I don't know whether you would find any 112 00:05:59,780 --> 00:06:03,180 professed Christians among or not. 113 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,100 Although I do know this, that when certain 114 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:10,260 gangsters have died by the bullet, they have 115 00:06:10,260 --> 00:06:13,500 been mumbled into the kingdom of God and 116 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:16,180 squirted into the kingdom of God by oil 117 00:06:16,180 --> 00:06:20,000 and all the rest, and their leaders have 118 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,760 tried very hard even to get those bloody 119 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,760 men into the kingdom of God, unsaved, unblessed, 120 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:30,660 untriven, unforgiven, and without time even to say, 121 00:06:30,740 --> 00:06:32,360 God have mercy on me, a sinner. 122 00:06:33,420 --> 00:06:34,960 And yet people try to get them in. 123 00:06:35,060 --> 00:06:40,340 So I presume that there are those who 124 00:06:40,340 --> 00:06:42,340 claim to be some kind of Christian who 125 00:06:42,340 --> 00:06:46,820 even engage in the mutual extermination of each 126 00:06:46,820 --> 00:06:49,200 other for the sake of the South Side 127 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,180 or the North Side or the West Side 128 00:06:51,180 --> 00:06:51,600 racket. 129 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,660 I do remember of a young man who 130 00:06:54,660 --> 00:06:57,180 was a murderer who was sentenced to the 131 00:06:57,180 --> 00:06:59,100 chair a few years ago and was to 132 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:04,100 die out here in Cook County Jail, but 133 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:07,680 they set his death hour for a certain 134 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,900 day and then later reversed it and changed 135 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,080 it because they said it fell on a 136 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,060 holiday of his religion, and they didn't want 137 00:07:15,060 --> 00:07:16,620 to put him to death on a day 138 00:07:16,620 --> 00:07:18,440 that was a holiday of his religion. 139 00:07:18,660 --> 00:07:20,520 So they changed it so he didn't have 140 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,320 to die on a holiday. 141 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,760 So I suppose that you will find Christians 142 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,620 just about everywhere, or men who claim they 143 00:07:27,620 --> 00:07:28,740 are Christians, I mean. 144 00:07:29,260 --> 00:07:31,540 Certainly you will find them at the racetrack, 145 00:07:31,940 --> 00:07:34,100 and certainly there never has been a sporting 146 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:40,200 vendor so vile and violent and vicious that 147 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,900 you will not find Christians sitting around there 148 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:45,080 with their New Testament in their hip pocket. 149 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,240 And I don't think that there is a 150 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,840 gambling hall where you won't find some kind 151 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:51,740 of Christian there. 152 00:07:51,860 --> 00:07:54,860 I don't think that there's any worldly pleasures 153 00:07:54,860 --> 00:07:56,260 where you don't find them. 154 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:00,660 It's possible to be religious and not to 155 00:08:00,660 --> 00:08:01,800 forsake the world. 156 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,180 Yet nobody can be a Christian in the 157 00:08:06,180 --> 00:08:09,280 right sense of the word until he has 158 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,400 forsaken the world. 159 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:15,700 Second, it is possible to forsake the world 160 00:08:15,700 --> 00:08:18,600 in body and never forsake it in spirit 161 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:19,260 at all. 162 00:08:19,780 --> 00:08:23,520 It's possible to forsake the world externally and 163 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:25,240 still be worldly inside. 164 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,880 Now, the situation with the monks and the 165 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,000 nuns down the centuries has been exactly that. 166 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:34,679 Now, I'm not saying this is the Protestants, 167 00:08:34,740 --> 00:08:38,120 I'm letting themselves say it. 168 00:08:38,820 --> 00:08:42,500 Some of the great Christian souls were those 169 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:46,240 who tried to reform these monasteries and nunneries, 170 00:08:46,780 --> 00:08:49,140 and to get them to be in their 171 00:08:49,140 --> 00:08:52,220 real inner life what they were in their 172 00:08:52,220 --> 00:08:53,680 external, outer life. 173 00:08:54,420 --> 00:08:56,680 They were hidden away from the world in 174 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:00,420 their bodies and dressed a certain way in 175 00:09:00,420 --> 00:09:02,620 order that they might be separated from the 176 00:09:02,620 --> 00:09:02,960 world. 177 00:09:03,620 --> 00:09:07,400 And yet some of these great souls declared 178 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:11,940 that these who had thus separated themselves were 179 00:09:11,940 --> 00:09:19,300 more surely and certainly worldly than some of 180 00:09:19,300 --> 00:09:21,320 those who were not thus separated. 181 00:09:21,860 --> 00:09:25,980 So we have Bernard, and St. Francis, and 182 00:09:25,980 --> 00:09:29,580 we have Teresa, and Nicholas of Cusa, and 183 00:09:29,580 --> 00:09:32,800 Richard Rowland, John of the Cross, and you 184 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,740 could name them one after the other of 185 00:09:35,740 --> 00:09:40,720 those persons who were trying hard to rouse 186 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:45,360 the Church that they might be inwardly what 187 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,040 their profession showed them to be outwardly. 188 00:09:50,180 --> 00:09:57,140 Now, Walter Hilton lived 200 years before Luther 189 00:09:57,140 --> 00:09:59,860 was born, and so he never heard of 190 00:09:59,860 --> 00:10:01,540 Protestantism or the Reformation. 191 00:10:02,340 --> 00:10:06,160 And yet Walter Hilton, the English Christian, was 192 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,740 such a Christian that he wrote a series 193 00:10:08,740 --> 00:10:11,000 of letters to the nuns in a certain 194 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,200 convent and warned them of the very thing 195 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,440 I'm talking to you about. 196 00:10:17,020 --> 00:10:19,420 And they called that series of letters The 197 00:10:19,420 --> 00:10:20,500 Scale of Perfection. 198 00:10:20,580 --> 00:10:22,040 It's a most wonderful book. 199 00:10:22,140 --> 00:10:23,280 Don't ask to borrow it. 200 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:24,600 I'll tell you where you can buy one. 201 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,280 But this Scale of Perfection, the opening part 202 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,060 of it at least, is devoted to this. 203 00:10:30,780 --> 00:10:32,880 It is devoted the same to these sisters. 204 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,060 Now listen, sisters, you have come out of 205 00:10:36,060 --> 00:10:38,160 the world and closed the door on yourself 206 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,560 and put on a certain garb which indicates 207 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:43,540 that you're separated from the world. 208 00:10:44,220 --> 00:10:47,660 Now, said Walter Hilton, look out, ladies, that 209 00:10:47,660 --> 00:10:50,620 you don't take the world with you into 210 00:10:50,620 --> 00:10:54,360 the monastery or into the nunnery and be 211 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,140 as worldly in there as if you were 212 00:10:57,140 --> 00:10:58,160 out on the street. 213 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:01,920 He said, remember that it's a forsaking of 214 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,960 the world in your heart that makes you 215 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:05,760 unworldly. 216 00:11:06,380 --> 00:11:10,780 And so there were several great chapters written 217 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:15,340 urgently warning these women that it was entirely 218 00:11:15,340 --> 00:11:17,620 possible to put on the garb of the 219 00:11:17,620 --> 00:11:22,620 nun and to live in a nunnery, and 220 00:11:22,620 --> 00:11:26,840 still at the same time be worldly inside. 221 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,660 So I say it's possible to be religious 222 00:11:32,660 --> 00:11:36,100 and not to forsake the world, and it's 223 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,600 possible to forsake the world in body and 224 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:40,940 not in spirit. 225 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:46,720 And it's never possible, however, to forsake it 226 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,680 in spirit and not forsake it in practice. 227 00:11:50,380 --> 00:11:52,760 Now, I feel it necessary to mention this 228 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:57,040 because there are some supposed broad-minded Christians 229 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,740 who will do almost anything that anybody will 230 00:12:00,740 --> 00:12:01,060 do. 231 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,840 I've noticed this, brethren, maybe I've mentioned it 232 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,980 before, but I've noticed this, that in this 233 00:12:08,980 --> 00:12:12,100 day in which we live, all you have 234 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:14,940 to do is to add for God or 235 00:12:14,940 --> 00:12:17,980 for Jesus onto a thing, and lo and 236 00:12:17,980 --> 00:12:22,140 behold, that which the Church has repudiated and 237 00:12:22,140 --> 00:12:25,460 all earnest Christians have written years is suddenly 238 00:12:25,460 --> 00:12:26,260 sanctified. 239 00:12:27,060 --> 00:12:30,140 I'm doing it for God, I'm doing it 240 00:12:30,140 --> 00:12:31,040 for Jesus. 241 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,320 And if you can just get for God 242 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,760 or for Jesus, those little prepositional phrases dangling 243 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,300 on the end, and lo and behold, that 244 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:44,140 which wasn't ever counted right by the Church 245 00:12:44,140 --> 00:12:47,700 down the generations is now suddenly counted right, 246 00:12:47,980 --> 00:12:50,620 because we've added, I'm doing it for Jesus. 247 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,160 That takes in almost everything that the world 248 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,780 has ever done, and I'm expecting one of 249 00:12:58,780 --> 00:13:03,140 these days to hear about the association of 250 00:13:03,140 --> 00:13:07,140 Christian bartenders who are doing it for Jesus. 251 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,140 They say, Oh, we're not like the world, 252 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,520 we're not serving up this poison just in 253 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:15,480 our own name. 254 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:18,920 We used to before we accepted Christ, we 255 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,500 used to deal this out for our sakes, 256 00:13:22,580 --> 00:13:24,160 and the money we made out of it. 257 00:13:24,260 --> 00:13:26,140 Now we're doing it for Jesus. 258 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,020 Now, we haven't got that far yet, but 259 00:13:29,020 --> 00:13:31,380 give us time, brother, we're on our way. 260 00:13:31,940 --> 00:13:33,760 And all we have to do is wait 261 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:38,360 a little, and we will sanctify almost anything 262 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,040 by saying you can do it for Jesus. 263 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,260 I warn you, brother, you can't do anything 264 00:13:45,260 --> 00:13:49,900 for Jesus that Jesus wouldn't do, and you 265 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:53,700 can't do anything for God that God has 266 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:58,440 interdicted and turned the canon of His judgments 267 00:13:58,440 --> 00:13:59,040 against. 268 00:13:59,980 --> 00:14:02,260 The only thing that I can do for 269 00:14:02,260 --> 00:14:04,880 God is that which is holy like God, 270 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,220 and the only thing that I can do 271 00:14:07,220 --> 00:14:11,160 for Jesus is that which Jesus has allowed 272 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,460 and permitted and commanded me to do. 273 00:14:16,790 --> 00:14:18,650 But to live like the world and say, 274 00:14:18,790 --> 00:14:22,190 I'm separated from the world in spirit, I'm 275 00:14:22,190 --> 00:14:24,550 separated in spirit, and I don't have to 276 00:14:24,550 --> 00:14:26,450 come out of the world because I'm separated 277 00:14:26,450 --> 00:14:27,070 in spirit. 278 00:14:28,410 --> 00:14:30,950 I know where that came from, boy, I 279 00:14:30,950 --> 00:14:32,270 know where that came from. 280 00:14:32,330 --> 00:14:34,270 If you would sniff that a little, I 281 00:14:34,270 --> 00:14:35,570 know what you'd smell. 282 00:14:36,170 --> 00:14:39,590 You'd smell brimstone, because that argument came from 283 00:14:39,590 --> 00:14:43,390 hell and certainly belongs there and doesn't belong 284 00:14:43,390 --> 00:14:44,630 in the Church of Christ. 285 00:14:45,390 --> 00:14:49,410 Never possible to forsake the world in your 286 00:14:49,410 --> 00:14:52,430 spirit and not forsake it in reality. 287 00:14:53,650 --> 00:14:55,230 Now let me give you an example of 288 00:14:55,230 --> 00:14:55,910 what I mean. 289 00:14:57,490 --> 00:14:59,850 Bible examples I have here, Noah. 290 00:15:00,910 --> 00:15:03,070 God said to Noah, I'm going to destroy 291 00:15:03,070 --> 00:15:07,310 the world, make thee an ark, make up 292 00:15:07,310 --> 00:15:08,650 a gopher wood, and so on. 293 00:15:09,930 --> 00:15:11,710 And Noah did that thing. 294 00:15:12,990 --> 00:15:16,410 Now, suppose that I'd preached on separation from 295 00:15:16,410 --> 00:15:18,510 the world and I'd have said to Noah, 296 00:15:18,590 --> 00:15:20,330 Noah, don't you think you ought to get 297 00:15:20,330 --> 00:15:21,010 into the ark? 298 00:15:21,570 --> 00:15:24,730 Boy, Noah said, that's the old-fashioned idea. 299 00:15:25,130 --> 00:15:26,810 After all, what is the world? 300 00:15:27,170 --> 00:15:28,790 Give me a definition of what you mean 301 00:15:28,790 --> 00:15:29,330 by the world. 302 00:15:29,590 --> 00:15:31,710 The Church can't agree on what's meant by 303 00:15:31,710 --> 00:15:35,050 the world, and therefore I'm separating from the 304 00:15:35,050 --> 00:15:36,030 world in my heart. 305 00:15:36,110 --> 00:15:38,150 But I'm going to stay right down here 306 00:15:38,150 --> 00:15:40,470 on the ground and sleep under the bush 307 00:15:40,470 --> 00:15:43,770 and eat off the tree and live like 308 00:15:43,770 --> 00:15:45,930 other people, but I won't be like other 309 00:15:45,930 --> 00:15:48,210 people because I'm separated in my heart. 310 00:15:48,710 --> 00:15:50,450 You know what would have happened to Noah? 311 00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:53,570 He'd have been sending up bubbles before very 312 00:15:53,570 --> 00:15:55,410 long when the fountains of the great gate 313 00:15:55,410 --> 00:15:58,430 broke and the rain came down and the 314 00:15:58,430 --> 00:16:00,210 flood covered the mountaintops. 315 00:16:00,410 --> 00:16:05,030 Noah's carcass would have floated and bloated and 316 00:16:05,030 --> 00:16:06,670 distended along with the rest. 317 00:16:08,030 --> 00:16:10,310 But Noah knew that to forsake the world 318 00:16:10,310 --> 00:16:11,470 meant to forsake the world. 319 00:16:11,650 --> 00:16:13,250 So it said he went into the ark 320 00:16:13,250 --> 00:16:14,950 and God closed the door. 321 00:16:15,170 --> 00:16:15,910 Take Abraham. 322 00:16:16,930 --> 00:16:19,050 God said to Abraham, Get thee out of 323 00:16:19,050 --> 00:16:22,590 thy country and out of thy way from 324 00:16:22,590 --> 00:16:24,950 thy kindred unto a land which I will 325 00:16:24,950 --> 00:16:26,050 show thee. 326 00:16:27,130 --> 00:16:30,890 Now Abraham could have said, Now I have 327 00:16:30,890 --> 00:16:33,270 had a call from God to forsake my 328 00:16:33,270 --> 00:16:36,330 country and my people and to go to 329 00:16:36,330 --> 00:16:37,210 another land. 330 00:16:37,870 --> 00:16:40,030 But he said, I don't think I should 331 00:16:40,030 --> 00:16:40,870 take that literally. 332 00:16:41,070 --> 00:16:43,090 I think that that means forsake them in 333 00:16:43,090 --> 00:16:45,010 spirit, and so I'm going to live right 334 00:16:45,010 --> 00:16:47,330 here in Ur of the Chaldees, but I'm 335 00:16:47,330 --> 00:16:49,590 going to go into the Holy Land in 336 00:16:49,590 --> 00:16:50,190 spirit. 337 00:16:51,410 --> 00:16:55,110 No, my brother, Abraham had to go out 338 00:16:55,110 --> 00:16:56,070 in fact. 339 00:16:56,990 --> 00:17:00,090 And so Abraham departed and Lot with him, 340 00:17:00,310 --> 00:17:00,710 it says. 341 00:17:01,190 --> 00:17:03,710 Abraham went and took some people with him. 342 00:17:04,470 --> 00:17:06,170 Then take Lot, for example. 343 00:17:06,290 --> 00:17:09,650 When Lot finally got into Sodom and became 344 00:17:09,650 --> 00:17:13,270 mayor of the town, the angel said, Escape 345 00:17:13,270 --> 00:17:16,010 for thy life and look not behind thee. 346 00:17:16,770 --> 00:17:19,650 Well, Lot could have said, he could have 347 00:17:19,650 --> 00:17:21,670 even written several articles on it. 348 00:17:21,690 --> 00:17:23,210 He could have had a debate on it 349 00:17:23,210 --> 00:17:26,890 and a panel discussion on it, especially among 350 00:17:26,890 --> 00:17:29,210 young people who don't always know it all. 351 00:17:29,970 --> 00:17:32,030 He could have said, Now let's have a 352 00:17:32,030 --> 00:17:35,290 panel discussion on Escape for thy life and 353 00:17:35,290 --> 00:17:38,190 look not behind thee, what it means. 354 00:17:39,050 --> 00:17:42,090 And while they were discussing it, the fire 355 00:17:42,090 --> 00:17:44,690 could have fallen and destroyed Sodom and Lot 356 00:17:44,690 --> 00:17:45,510 along with it. 357 00:17:46,210 --> 00:17:50,410 But Lot knew that Escape for thy life 358 00:17:50,410 --> 00:17:54,730 meant, Get out of Sodom and stay out, 359 00:17:54,770 --> 00:17:56,230 I'm sending fire on you. 360 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,300 Then when those first Christians were told that 361 00:18:02,300 --> 00:18:03,840 to love the world and the things of 362 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,560 the world meant that man didn't love God, 363 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,440 they didn't hold discussions on what the world 364 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,740 meant, or what was meant by the world, 365 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,340 or how far they could go and still 366 00:18:14,340 --> 00:18:15,220 please God. 367 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,280 They got out of the world and they 368 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,580 separated themselves completely from everything that had the 369 00:18:22,580 --> 00:18:23,440 world's spirit. 370 00:18:24,620 --> 00:18:27,340 And the result was they brought down fury 371 00:18:27,340 --> 00:18:28,720 on their own heads. 372 00:18:29,660 --> 00:18:33,360 And that same world exists today that existed 373 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:33,840 then. 374 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,180 And hear me say this again, some of 375 00:18:36,180 --> 00:18:37,700 you have told me you don't believe it, 376 00:18:38,100 --> 00:18:39,940 but listen to me while I tell you 377 00:18:39,940 --> 00:18:43,280 again, and repeat it again, and the great 378 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:47,140 God Almighty either now or later will confirm 379 00:18:47,140 --> 00:18:50,640 the truth of it, that the world is 380 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,260 no different now from what it was when 381 00:18:54,260 --> 00:18:57,820 it crucified Jesus and martyred the first Christians. 382 00:18:58,540 --> 00:19:00,780 It's the same world. 383 00:19:00,780 --> 00:19:04,880 Adam is always Adam wherever you find him, 384 00:19:05,060 --> 00:19:06,500 and he never changes. 385 00:19:09,070 --> 00:19:11,250 And the reason we get along so well 386 00:19:11,250 --> 00:19:15,610 is that we have compromised our position, and 387 00:19:15,610 --> 00:19:17,930 we have allowed the world to dictate to 388 00:19:17,930 --> 00:19:20,750 us while we, in turn, are permitted to 389 00:19:20,750 --> 00:19:23,090 dictate a little to the world, and so 390 00:19:23,090 --> 00:19:24,770 we have compromised it. 391 00:19:26,090 --> 00:19:27,770 And the result is there are very few 392 00:19:27,770 --> 00:19:35,190 people that are in any way embarrassed from 393 00:19:35,190 --> 00:19:35,770 the world. 394 00:19:37,930 --> 00:19:40,970 I'm afraid if we ever get too popular 395 00:19:40,970 --> 00:19:44,050 or the community accepts us here, I'm afraid 396 00:19:44,050 --> 00:19:44,590 of that. 397 00:19:45,070 --> 00:19:49,510 The church that this unsaved worldly community accepts 398 00:19:49,510 --> 00:19:52,930 is never a church full of the Holy 399 00:19:52,930 --> 00:19:53,390 Ghost. 400 00:19:53,990 --> 00:19:56,290 A church full of the Holy Ghost who 401 00:19:56,290 --> 00:19:58,450 is separated from the world and is walking 402 00:19:58,450 --> 00:20:01,230 with God will never be accepted by the 403 00:20:01,230 --> 00:20:01,770 community. 404 00:20:02,570 --> 00:20:05,250 It will always be looked upon as being 405 00:20:05,250 --> 00:20:06,750 somewhat off-center. 406 00:20:07,770 --> 00:20:11,410 So maybe if the laws are such that 407 00:20:11,410 --> 00:20:15,490 you're protected, then civilization is such as it 408 00:20:15,490 --> 00:20:18,170 is now, you won't be attacked, but you'll 409 00:20:18,170 --> 00:20:19,750 be looked upon as being a little bit 410 00:20:19,750 --> 00:20:20,330 off-center. 411 00:20:23,270 --> 00:20:27,110 Now, somebody says, you preaching brother told you 412 00:20:27,110 --> 00:20:30,230 that everybody should probably get in a spacesuit 413 00:20:30,230 --> 00:20:32,830 and zoom out of here and get away 414 00:20:32,830 --> 00:20:33,430 from the world? 415 00:20:33,590 --> 00:20:35,690 No, I'm not saying that at all. 416 00:20:36,630 --> 00:20:40,330 I am saying that there is a part, 417 00:20:40,810 --> 00:20:43,470 a world that is not the world God 418 00:20:43,470 --> 00:20:45,230 means when he said forsake the world. 419 00:20:46,030 --> 00:20:49,530 You can eat and work and live and 420 00:20:49,530 --> 00:20:52,650 drink and sleep and bathe and grow and 421 00:20:52,650 --> 00:20:55,650 beget your kind and bring them up. 422 00:20:55,970 --> 00:20:57,810 God made that. 423 00:20:57,970 --> 00:20:59,710 That's not the world. 424 00:21:00,550 --> 00:21:04,850 The world is that organized thing filled with 425 00:21:04,850 --> 00:21:09,250 unbelief which has got to amuse itself and 426 00:21:09,250 --> 00:21:14,870 which is built upon doubts, unbelief, self-righteousness, 427 00:21:15,670 --> 00:21:16,950 and Adam. 428 00:21:17,930 --> 00:21:21,130 And the other, of course, Jesus was in 429 00:21:21,130 --> 00:21:23,590 the world, but not of the world. 430 00:21:23,990 --> 00:21:26,330 There's no contradiction here in what I'm saying. 431 00:21:26,850 --> 00:21:30,110 I'm making a distinction between that part of 432 00:21:30,110 --> 00:21:34,270 the world which is divinely given to plant 433 00:21:34,270 --> 00:21:38,270 and reap and cook and eat and sow 434 00:21:38,270 --> 00:21:41,950 and do our work and live in the 435 00:21:41,950 --> 00:21:43,970 world meant it to be so. 436 00:21:44,050 --> 00:21:48,590 And that's not worldliness, but the worldliness is 437 00:21:48,590 --> 00:21:52,270 the pride of life, the pride of the 438 00:21:52,270 --> 00:21:57,530 eye, and the longing of the ambitious soul 439 00:21:57,530 --> 00:22:00,910 for position, and all of that which the 440 00:22:00,910 --> 00:22:04,170 world does because of the rising of its 441 00:22:04,170 --> 00:22:05,170 sin within it. 442 00:22:05,490 --> 00:22:11,410 All that's the world, and it overflows into 443 00:22:11,410 --> 00:22:15,610 a thousand things that the Church has habitually 444 00:22:15,610 --> 00:22:16,590 rejected. 445 00:22:16,910 --> 00:22:19,950 Down the years, the Church has rejected. 446 00:22:22,420 --> 00:22:28,660 Now, the second matter is, turn wholly to 447 00:22:28,660 --> 00:22:30,060 our Lord Jesus Christ. 448 00:22:31,220 --> 00:22:35,180 First is, forsake completely the world. 449 00:22:36,820 --> 00:22:38,000 And that's all negative. 450 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:38,920 Notice that? 451 00:22:39,020 --> 00:22:40,080 That's all negative. 452 00:22:40,380 --> 00:22:43,140 Somebody says, "'Told you he's a negative preacher.' 453 00:22:43,140 --> 00:22:45,500 I believe in the negative and in the 454 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:45,840 positive. 455 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:48,860 I do not apologize for preaching negative. 456 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:50,720 I have a quarter here in my hand. 457 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:54,240 On one side is a head of Benjamin 458 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,740 Franklin, and on the other side is an 459 00:22:58,740 --> 00:23:00,700 eagle with its wings outspread. 460 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,480 And one of those is the negative, and 461 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:04,820 one on the positive side. 462 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,740 And the electricity that lights this building has 463 00:23:08,740 --> 00:23:11,720 a negative and a positive, and so their 464 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,020 negative and positive goes all through the world. 465 00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:18,320 You turn your back on the North, that's 466 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,800 negative, and travel toward the South, that's positive. 467 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,460 And so I turn my back on the 468 00:23:24,460 --> 00:23:25,400 world, that's negative. 469 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,000 And then I turn wholly to the Lord 470 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,640 Jesus Christ, that's positive. 471 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,380 And every effort to preach the positive without 472 00:23:34,380 --> 00:23:38,660 the negative is like dividing this quarter edgewise, 473 00:23:38,780 --> 00:23:41,380 cutting it through, and then trying to ride 474 00:23:41,380 --> 00:23:42,500 on a bus with that. 475 00:23:43,420 --> 00:23:45,260 He'd fling that back to you and say, 476 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:46,700 "'That's only half here. 477 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,740 You need the other side.' I'd better you 478 00:23:49,740 --> 00:23:51,800 say, "'I've got the head of Benjamin Franklin 479 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,220 there, driver.' I know, but I want the 480 00:23:54,220 --> 00:23:55,000 eagle on, too. 481 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:56,380 That's the other side. 482 00:23:57,060 --> 00:23:59,120 How can you have an electric light with 483 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:00,040 only the positive? 484 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:01,480 You have to have both. 485 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,920 And so if we're going to turn ourselves 486 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,020 wholly to the Lord Jesus Christ, there's going 487 00:24:08,020 --> 00:24:10,840 to have to be a complete forsaking of 488 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,860 the world, all that is worldly in its 489 00:24:14,860 --> 00:24:18,900 spirit, all that is wrong for sale, all 490 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:22,080 that is unlike Jesus, all that is unlike 491 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:22,600 God. 492 00:24:23,820 --> 00:24:26,040 You must forsake that no matter what the 493 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,300 world thinks about us. 494 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:28,740 That's negative. 495 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:31,700 And then turn wholly to our Lord Jesus 496 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:32,240 Christ. 497 00:24:33,260 --> 00:24:35,280 And this turning unto the Lord Jesus Christ 498 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:36,900 I want to talk about a lot more. 499 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:39,700 Next week I want to talk about that 500 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:42,780 a little more, and I want to talk 501 00:24:42,780 --> 00:24:46,680 also next Sunday morning, developing this thought further, 502 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,920 about the deeper life in Christ leading us 503 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,220 to a place where we're free in our 504 00:24:55,220 --> 00:24:59,740 hearts from fear and inordinate loves. 505 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,800 Now, it's this that gives the deeper life, 506 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,640 not the turning away. 507 00:25:05,740 --> 00:25:06,400 That's negative. 508 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,240 You can forsake the world, quit gambling, quit 509 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,020 drinking, quit smoking, quit living for the world, 510 00:25:14,780 --> 00:25:17,240 never go to any of the worldly places 511 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,680 of amusement, don't gamble, don't dance, don't do 512 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:21,540 any of these things. 513 00:25:21,580 --> 00:25:23,740 You can quit all that, and that's negative. 514 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,940 That has no power to impart any life 515 00:25:27,940 --> 00:25:28,800 of any kind. 516 00:25:28,980 --> 00:25:29,600 That's negative. 517 00:25:29,940 --> 00:25:32,660 But it's necessary before there can be any 518 00:25:32,660 --> 00:25:33,100 positive. 519 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,520 Well, the positive is, then, that you turn 520 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:39,560 to Jesus Christ. 521 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,920 That gives the power and the purity and 522 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,840 the deep satisfaction and the joy unspeakable and 523 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:47,580 full of glory. 524 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,500 The negative can never shine, the negative can 525 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:55,380 never be musical, the negative can never be 526 00:25:55,380 --> 00:25:55,840 fragrant. 527 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,140 And the man can go to a cave, 528 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,580 you can go to a cave and leave 529 00:26:01,580 --> 00:26:03,760 it all in utter disgust like time on 530 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:04,180 a vacuum. 531 00:26:04,580 --> 00:26:06,360 Go into the woods and live in a 532 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:10,100 cave and still not have any power, any 533 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:13,660 radiance, any joy, any inward glory. 534 00:26:15,930 --> 00:26:18,610 It's turning unto Jesus Christ that gives that. 535 00:26:19,490 --> 00:26:21,090 And the two can be done in one 536 00:26:21,090 --> 00:26:21,390 act. 537 00:26:22,350 --> 00:26:25,150 If I'm facing north and God commands me 538 00:26:25,150 --> 00:26:27,550 to turn south, if I still remember, I 539 00:26:27,550 --> 00:26:30,670 don't know whether I could out-face or 540 00:26:30,670 --> 00:26:32,750 not anymore and do it in two motions. 541 00:26:33,130 --> 00:26:34,210 I used to be able to do it 542 00:26:34,210 --> 00:26:35,610 from the time I was in the service. 543 00:26:35,610 --> 00:26:38,970 But if God says, You're facing north and 544 00:26:38,970 --> 00:26:42,230 it's the wrong direction for you, thou facest 545 00:26:42,230 --> 00:26:42,790 march. 546 00:26:43,930 --> 00:26:46,670 You can turn from the north and to 547 00:26:46,670 --> 00:26:48,530 the south in one easy motion. 548 00:26:50,390 --> 00:26:52,810 And so when God says, Forsake the world 549 00:26:52,810 --> 00:26:54,550 and turn to Christ, it's one motion. 550 00:26:55,590 --> 00:26:58,190 I do it in one free easy act. 551 00:26:59,190 --> 00:27:01,190 And my turning from the world is my 552 00:27:01,190 --> 00:27:02,350 turning unto Christ. 553 00:27:02,930 --> 00:27:05,050 It doesn't always work that way, but it 554 00:27:05,050 --> 00:27:06,130 can be, I say. 555 00:27:08,140 --> 00:27:10,540 So the joy unspeakable is when we see 556 00:27:10,540 --> 00:27:15,240 Jesus' deep satisfaction. 557 00:27:15,420 --> 00:27:18,180 Suppose, let's hunt around for an illustration. 558 00:27:18,420 --> 00:27:20,520 Maybe it's ridiculous, but it will illustrate anyway. 559 00:27:21,420 --> 00:27:25,500 Suppose that somebody decided and had the power 560 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:26,660 to do it, and he had a lot 561 00:27:26,660 --> 00:27:29,620 of gremlins or angels or something at his 562 00:27:29,620 --> 00:27:32,460 command, and he said, Now I'm tired of 563 00:27:32,460 --> 00:27:33,020 this darkness. 564 00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:34,840 I'm tired of this darkness. 565 00:27:35,660 --> 00:27:38,780 I want you to wipe the heavens clean 566 00:27:38,780 --> 00:27:39,560 of darkness. 567 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,620 And he got a thousand or a million 568 00:27:43,620 --> 00:27:46,380 or two million or ten million gremlins, or 569 00:27:46,380 --> 00:27:49,040 some of the kind of imaginary beings of 570 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,780 Moss, and they mopped the heavens of all 571 00:27:52,780 --> 00:27:53,280 darkness. 572 00:27:54,940 --> 00:27:56,120 It would still be dark. 573 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,160 You don't have to worry. 574 00:27:58,260 --> 00:27:59,720 You go back to bed, gremlin. 575 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:02,780 Just wait till the sun comes up. 576 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,380 The coming up of the sun will do 577 00:28:05,380 --> 00:28:07,540 what all the mopping of the heavens would 578 00:28:07,540 --> 00:28:08,320 never do. 579 00:28:09,580 --> 00:28:11,100 Just wait for the sun. 580 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,440 So some people try, by the negatives, to 581 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,540 get themselves blessed. 582 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,680 They won't do this. 583 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,660 I remember one boy who wouldn't drink pop, 584 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,440 and he stood at a soft drink counter 585 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,780 over in Ohio and was very disturbed about 586 00:28:28,780 --> 00:28:31,380 a glass of pop. 587 00:28:31,460 --> 00:28:33,000 He said that he thought it was whirly. 588 00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:36,360 Well, he was an unhappy man, and I 589 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:40,440 have never seen a happy Christian yet that 590 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:41,720 was ever world conscious. 591 00:28:42,340 --> 00:28:42,640 Never. 592 00:28:43,740 --> 00:28:45,360 If he's trying to get loose from the 593 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,320 world, or if he's worrying about what is 594 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,260 the world, or if he's writing letters to 595 00:28:49,260 --> 00:28:51,220 find out what the world means, he's never 596 00:28:51,220 --> 00:28:51,940 a happy man. 597 00:28:51,980 --> 00:28:57,400 He's busy with these negatives, and I've never 598 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,860 seen a happy man yet that wasn't up 599 00:28:59,860 --> 00:29:01,260 with Jesus Christ the Lord. 600 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,860 The sun comes up and the darkness goes 601 00:29:03,860 --> 00:29:07,540 out, and not all the little creatures in 602 00:29:07,540 --> 00:29:09,600 the universe could wipe the heavens clean of 603 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,240 darkness as long as there's no sun. 604 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,160 But when the sun peaks up, the night 605 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,880 departs and the clouds flee away, and the 606 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,400 shadows are no more. 607 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,300 So when we turn with all our hearts 608 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:25,420 unto Jesus Christ our Lord, then we find 609 00:29:25,420 --> 00:29:26,380 the deeper life. 610 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,180 Then we find in him the power and 611 00:29:29,180 --> 00:29:32,560 the purity and the satisfaction and the joy 612 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,200 unspeakable and full of glory. 613 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:41,380 Nothing can't be something, and the negative can't 614 00:29:41,380 --> 00:29:44,900 sing, and negative doesn't smell good, and negative 615 00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:48,200 can't give off fragrance, and negative can't feel 616 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:48,660 delight. 617 00:29:49,180 --> 00:29:50,100 Only the positive. 618 00:29:50,780 --> 00:29:52,960 Only when I turn my eyes and gaze 619 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,340 upon the Son of God and my inner 620 00:29:55,340 --> 00:29:58,780 heart is taken up with his person, then 621 00:29:58,780 --> 00:30:03,340 every instrument inside my music room gets tuned 622 00:30:03,340 --> 00:30:05,080 and music starts. 623 00:30:06,380 --> 00:30:08,940 Then radiance comes to the light and joy 624 00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:12,440 breaks out, and Peter said, joy unspeakable and 625 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:13,320 full of glory. 626 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:15,480 So it is. 627 00:30:15,980 --> 00:30:17,000 That's the deeper life. 628 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,540 Two acts can be done at once. 629 00:30:21,140 --> 00:30:23,680 Turning from the world, turning unto Christ. 630 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,780 Then all the natural things, eating and drinking, 631 00:30:29,020 --> 00:30:31,280 buying and selling, marrying and giving in marriage, 632 00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:35,120 and all the natural things which God created 633 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,340 to be done, and which are not of 634 00:30:37,340 --> 00:30:40,700 the spirit of the world, but are natural 635 00:30:40,700 --> 00:30:44,660 and of God, they'll all be sanctified, too. 636 00:30:46,460 --> 00:30:50,020 And they'll become fuel for the fires of 637 00:30:50,020 --> 00:30:52,600 the altar that rise day and night unto 638 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:53,040 God. 639 00:30:54,460 --> 00:30:56,660 So the common things, the things we call 640 00:30:56,660 --> 00:30:58,520 secular, won't be secular anymore. 641 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,820 The mundane things won't be mundane, they'll be 642 00:31:00,820 --> 00:31:01,600 heavenly, too. 643 00:31:02,620 --> 00:31:04,940 Because the commonest thing, the peeling of a 644 00:31:04,940 --> 00:31:08,480 potato, the commonest thing can be done for 645 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,240 the glory of God if we have turned 646 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,560 from the world and the world's ways and 647 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,180 are looking full in the face of the 648 00:31:16,180 --> 00:31:16,920 Son of God. 649 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,360 Then the sun will shine, and all the 650 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,580 gremlins of hell can't wipe the sunlight away. 651 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,220 If hell should send up a legion to 652 00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:31,160 wipe away the sunshine, it could wipe the 653 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,660 face of the earth and desperately follow the 654 00:31:34,660 --> 00:31:38,620 sun around the earth and never succeed in 655 00:31:38,620 --> 00:31:41,340 keeping the sunshine away from the earth, because 656 00:31:41,340 --> 00:31:43,040 when the sun shines on the earth, it's 657 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:43,400 sunshine. 658 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:49,720 So hell can't destroy your spiritual happiness if 659 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,000 you're gazing at the face of Jesus, for 660 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,340 he is the Son of Righteousness, revealing in 661 00:31:54,340 --> 00:31:54,820 his wings. 662 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,840 Turn from the world, turn full heart unto 663 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:03,280 Christ. 664 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,200 Next week I'll have more to tell you. 665 00:32:06,260 --> 00:32:06,720 Let's pray. 666 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:12,080 Our Father, we well know that spiritual things 667 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,340 can't be reduced to formulas, even though we 668 00:32:14,340 --> 00:32:15,520 struggle so hard to do it. 669 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:21,600 An impulse of faith, a sudden reckless daring 670 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,280 of the soul in its leap after God, 671 00:32:26,460 --> 00:32:28,600 could do more for us than all the 672 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,200 carefully laid-out sermons could ever do. 673 00:32:32,260 --> 00:32:33,560 But we've done all we can do. 674 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:38,660 We've appealed to the intelligence, made some explanations, 675 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,700 tried to say in our bracing modern English 676 00:32:42,700 --> 00:32:45,700 what has been said with great and stately 677 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:48,180 dignity in our Bibles. 678 00:32:49,260 --> 00:32:50,760 My God, now take this that has been 679 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,920 spoken and apply it to our hearts. 680 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,080 May we, one after the other, turn from 681 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,740 Adam's unbelieving world, with its self-confidence, its 682 00:33:04,740 --> 00:33:10,540 self-reliance, its arrogance, its pride, its mad 683 00:33:10,540 --> 00:33:14,860 pleasures, its love of wealth, its love of 684 00:33:14,860 --> 00:33:21,220 praise, its love of publicity, its inordinate love 685 00:33:21,220 --> 00:33:27,800 of clothing and of fine things and of 686 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:28,840 rich things. 687 00:33:29,980 --> 00:33:31,920 Turn us, we pray Thee, from it all, 688 00:33:32,780 --> 00:33:34,660 not only in our hearts but in reality. 689 00:33:37,730 --> 00:33:39,550 And then turn us to Jesus Christ Thy 690 00:33:39,550 --> 00:33:39,890 Son. 691 00:33:40,290 --> 00:33:41,290 We need him, Lord. 692 00:33:41,870 --> 00:33:43,450 If we gave up the world and didn't 693 00:33:43,450 --> 00:33:46,350 have him, we'd be in a vacuum. 694 00:33:47,810 --> 00:33:49,970 Thou'll quickly take us through that little vacuum 695 00:33:49,970 --> 00:33:53,290 and take us to Jesus Christ, who is 696 00:33:53,290 --> 00:33:57,830 the radiant source of everlasting life and peace 697 00:33:57,830 --> 00:33:59,990 and joy, world without end. 698 00:34:00,650 --> 00:34:02,110 We ask it in Christ's name. 699 00:34:02,350 --> 00:34:02,630 Amen.