I'm going to ask you to turn tonight
to the Book of Acts, Chapter 22.
Last evening I spoke to you along the
line of Paul's definition of what it meant
to be a Christian.
Tonight I want to come at the same
truth, I hope I'm led of the Lord,
and just ask the question, what does it
mean to be S-A-V-E-D,
saved?
There isn't anybody in the world tonight who
gives the slightest evidence of being a captive
of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is in
wrecking his brain and searching his heart to
find out how we can represent Christ in
this age where the spirit of Antichrist breathes
down our necks, where everything that's worth believing
is under severe attack, where preachers
all over the world are taken out, and
where it's a question of whether we're going
to have any open churches in America two
years from now, and a deeper question of
whether we've got a right to stay open.
I believe, don't make it so, that everyone
who names the name of Christ and makes
a good confession, say, Amen, to the fact
that you realize something has died and that
new thing has not yet been born.
I'm dead certain that we can get all
the labels we want, we can call ourselves
fundamentalists and Bible believers and grace people, and
making them what label we put on ourselves,
that we're going to have to come to
the hard-core discipline of the New Testament,
or we won't have any right to claim
to be Christ's representatives, for nothing short of
utter, utter, abandoned commitment to the redemptive program
of Christ Jesus is going to enable us
to keep our heads above the water.
I believe last fall it was, as I
left you, dear people.
I went north to Pennsylvania, as I recall,
and then to Canada, and I believe I
went first to Canada.
I'm not certain.
But up in Pennsylvania, Pastor said, I want
you to take a couple of hours, I
want you to take out in that country.
And he took me out to the training
center of the New Tribes Mission.
I was challenged there, since I do not
believe there's a bit of difference in being
a witness for Christ in the jungle and
in Pasadena, since I believe all this foolishness
about Lord called me to be a missionary,
was born in hell and not in the
Bible, since I believe the day God saved
me gave you a ministry and made you
a missionary, since I believe the Commander-in
-Chief has a right to transfer one of
his missionaries anytime he wants to.
I saw something there at that training center
that I said, if this doesn't take place,
we don't quit being so pious and so
fundamental and so religious, and we don't do
some hard thinking and quit being religious as
a substitute for being obedient and have some
congregations that are made up of people who
are not a disgrace to the grace of
God, learn how to endure hardness as a
good soldier of Christ, quit this piousity that's
about to put us out of business.
I'd rather have a church full of folks
that get drunk every Saturday night, rob poor
banks and come and repent Sunday morning and
go out and put his arm around some
old devil and love him to Jesus, than
this religious Pharisee-ism that we call fundamentalism.
I learned that all those young men and
women, I watched them and they showed me
their training ground and what they had to
do.
I recommend it to this church and this
school and every church.
I believe the church now that is not
an institute training to do battle in this
day has no right to exist.
No youngsters before they send them over to
do missionary work for what we call the
heathens, they spend two years sleeping on the
ground.
It gets cold up in Pennsylvania, but since
the natives are going to preach to all
sleep on the ground, the youngsters have to
learn how to sleep on the ground.
And then three months out of every year,
the two years those youngsters are there, they
have to live off the earth.
Learn to live off of berries, acorns, pork
salad, whatever you can find lying around, because
that's the way the folks they're going to
preach to live all the time.
I ain't going to join that mission group.
I want to be religious, but I don't
want to get radical around here.
Of course, I believe that there's a hell
perhaps.
Men ought to repent to a certain extent.
They're going to be punished probably, but I
don't want to get too deeply involved, and
you don't either, do you?
We're going to get involved, but we're going
to be out of business as sure as
God made green apple.
This business of substituting attendance on a place
of service for obedience to Jesus Christ is
already out.
We just haven't found it out.
I want to talk to you out of
the book tonight again on what it means
to be saved.
What does it mean to be saved?
Every church in America is split wide open
on this subject.
I think that it is of Satan, not
of God, for churches to split over doctrine.
I don't believe any of us know enough
about any doctrine to fuss about.
But I wish that the Holy Spirit would
favor us with his presence one more time
and reveal the awful split in all of
our churches over this question of what it
means to be saved.
For I think we'll find out that most
of our churches, this one included, to be
saved means an eternal joy ride of talking
a good ball game.
But in the New Testament, it's a white
horse of a different color.
I believe that God has shut us up
and brought us to this hour, and put
us in a cave like he did Elijah,
and caused us to be all by ourselves
because he's not been pleased with what we
preached to men and women when we had
an open door to reach them.
I do not believe God is going to
give us another hearing in my day, until
with iron-core discipline we quit making a
joke out of what it means to be
saved by the grace of God, and that
when we go out to witness, we'll have
something to say.
And I don't believe God is going to
put his fire on us until we get
back to the gospel that transforms men and
women and settles some things at the beginning.
I'm so tired of this nice gospel that's
made us invent 1,700 different terms to
make this generation of nice little people who
have gone through some sort of emotion and
profession or something like that, and we've had
to invent all of these terms.
I hear them talking about, he's a born
-again Christian of some other kind.
He's a praying Christian, that means of some
other kind.
He's a consecrated Christian, that means of some
other kind.
Now, that's a bunch of sassy prayers.
He's a Christian who loves the Lord, that
means of some other kind.
He's a Christian who served in the Lord,
that means of some other kind.
He's a Christian who is all out for
Christ, that means of some other kind.
Now, that's not so!
That's what our trouble is.
We just want to come on back for
ourselves individually and go a little more into
Bible truth and find out whether we got
the slightest reasonable evidence to call ourselves a
captive of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, I don't know whether this is so
or not, but I believe it.
I just do not believe that we're going
to have any kind of fire except false
fire until we get back to the gospel.
And the gospel is the power of God
unto salvation, not your testimony, not you telling
somebody what great things the Lord has done
for you.
There ain't no power in that.
The power is in the gospel.
And we just, well, camp here a while
and just say something and come out behind
our alibis why it's been 40 years since
we've had any church members who could do
anything else except go out and try to
get somebody to take Jesus.
They've already taken him a dozen times.
Or go out and try to get somebody
to come and hear somebody preach, when the
only kind of personal work there is in
the New Testament is to go out and
preach the gospel, just like Peter did to
old Cornelius.
And I hope this school will tear up
and burn up before tomorrow, and this church
will be wiped off the face of the
earth, the world's in bad enough shape, unless
we're ready to come under Christ's discipline, quit
playing rumble peg, quit making a joke out
of what God does when he revolutionizes a
man and changes him by his grace, and
learn the gospel and go out and have
time.
You can get a sinner still, don't waste
time trying to get him to do anything,
telling the thing that's got power to transform
men.
It's the God's truth that we've got to
quit being little babies and wanting somebody to
believe that we are the people in whom
the Lord has triumphed for his power and
grace.
And it's got to come to the place
where we've got to take down our sign
and quit claiming to be a child of
God, unless we're full of the gospel and
just spout it off every time we can
get a fellow to stand still.
Now, there's been none of that.
There's been none of that.
All this feverish activity of the flesh, we've
been using it as a substitute for doing
what we're commanded to do.
The Lord never did tell the Church to
go into all the world and tell what
Jesus means to you.
The Lord never did tell the Church to
go into all the world and try to
get somebody to make a decision.
The Lord never did tell the Church to
go out and try to get somebody to
come here and somebody to preach.
I guess those things are better than nothing,
but we've got to the place now that
better than nothing ain't going to get the
job done.
We're going to have to start doing what
the Bible says.
We're going to have to start the school
now, and if you can, quit being so
bloomin' religious for a little while and just
come on and be an old sinner saved
by grace, I hope, and sit at the
feet of the Master, Teacher and the power
of the Holy Ghost, until the Lord, having
worn out your traditions, can send an army
out from this place to do what the
Lord told you to do, preach the gospel.
You don't believe that, but it's so.
Imagine the Lord having to kill the Apostle
Peter, and finally got the Apostle Peter to
leave some of his prejudice behind, and he
sent him down to that old Cornelius.
The first thing Cornelius did was say, Cornelius,
I've come down here to ask you if
you will take me.
And he said, well, we've got Brother Jackson
preaching for us, and we'd like you to
come out to one of the services.
He didn't say that, did he?
No, he just opened up the book and
preached.
And that's what everybody's going to have to
start doing.
That's the truth.
This is the hard part.
You've got any scripture for it?
I dead sure have.
Acts 22.
Let's look at this passage briefly.
Three times in the book of Acts we
have the account of that dramatic experience when
Saul of Tarsus was on his way to
Damascus on destruction bent, and the Lord Jesus
Christ confronted him, revealed himself unto him, and
lifted him prostrate, conquered him, saying,
Lord, what wilt thou have me do?
Acts 9, Acts 22, Acts 26.
Acts 9, Luke does the talking.
Acts 22 and 26, the Apostle Paul does
the talking, and you're familiar with his experience,
an experience that settled something, that from there
on out the Apostle Paul would just be
interested in one thing.
And he said, Lord, you call the shots,
what wilt thou have me do?
The old Aunt Pabner said, When I was
a boy I went to the old-fashioned
altar, and I went through the motions the
brethren told me to do, and I didn't
know much what was going on.
I didn't know one doctrine from the other
when I went down there, or after I
got up.
The only thing I knew when I walked
out of that little church building that night
was that I was under a new mask.
That's exactly what happened to Saul of Tarsus.
Everything is not settled in a person's conversion
experience, but this is, that from now on
out there is just one thing that will
make me think, what wilt thou have me
do?
And so the Lord was kind to Paul,
and he sent a fellow by the name
of Ananias, verse 12.
Ananias was a devout man, according to the
law, having a good report of all the
Jews which dwelt there.
This fellow Ananias came unto Paul and said,
Brother Saul, receive thy sight.
In the same hour I did, and I
looked up upon him, and he told me
what had happened to me and why it
had happened.
Here it is.
Ananias said to Paul, that God of our
Father hath chosen thee.
Young preachers, if you decide to tackle the
doctrine of election, study it at least 30
minutes before you do, because it's been butchered
all over this country, and it's been made
an enemy of the gospel, and it's led
so many people to turn the grace of
God into lasciviousness.
And that means they haven't got it right.
Study it under this aspect, that God of
our Father hath chosen thee.
What for?
That three things would be true of you.
First, that thou shouldst know his will.
Oh, you little pecker would run round here
and say, and ask him to find out
what the will of God is.
Well, he'll show it to you when he
sees it.
All you need to do is get saved.
The will of God!
That's why God chooses people, that they would
be able to live in a God-ordered
world where the only way that works is
to be in the will of God.
Away with our easy salvation that's got us
in the mess we're in, that is utterly
separated from doing the will of God.
I'll tell you why God laid his hand
on you, Paul.
I'll tell you why he crossed your path.
I'll tell you why he revealed himself to
you, so that you'd know the will of
God.
This is the biggest thing between the eternities,
the will of God.
This is the only place a man can
fit in, in this world, for this is
God's world, and I want you to know
it.
And then I want something else.
Second thing, the reason God chose you is
that you might see that just one.
He'd reveal himself to you.
This is worth fighting for.
I'm just not going to waste my time
trying to get somebody to change their belief
in a certain doctrine, just make you a
little meaner.
Hear me!
But I will fight, and please God, whatever
it costs, I've been in this battle, that
salvation comes to a man when, with
eyes of faith, he sees Jesus Christ, not
believe something about him.
They're in the person here whose belief right
now is as sound and orthodox as the
devil's is.
But Paul, I went down and interfered with
you and laid my hand upon you!
Thou mightest see that just one.
Third thing, that thou should hear the voice
of his mouth.
Now, honey, until these three things are about
you, are true of you, for God's sake,
don't touch the doctrine of election, and for
God's sake, don't say nothing about being a
Christian!
This is it!
What kind of an animal is a Christian?
He's a man or a woman who's been
apprehended by Almighty God, and the will of
God has been made central in his life.
That's what conversion is.
And it's been made central in his life
because he can say, Lord, I believe some
things, but I've seen somebody.
And that somebody is the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I have not only seen him, but
I've heard of him.
One hundred and sixty-seven times in the
New Testament, salvation is ascribed to a sinner
being enabled by the Spirit of God to
respond when God calls him to the gospel.
One hundred and sixty-seven times.
If you haven't seen him, shut up.
If you haven't heard from him, shut up!
This world's confused enough as it is.
And if you haven't been broken and triumphed
over, until the only freedom you want is
the freedom to do the will of God,
for God's sake, shut up and come to
the morning speech and get right with God
before you go out to represent him.
Now, is that just your opinion?
No, sir.
These three things have got to be true
in your experience, or you are misfit.
The 15th verse says, God chose you and
brought these three things in you, for he's
got something for you.
For thou shalt be his witness unto all
men of what?
What you believe about something?
No, sir, of what you've seen and heard.
And this isn't optional.
It isn't that God's people ought to be
witnesses, it is that God's people are witnesses.
And God's people are witnesses of what they've
seen and what they've heard.
Now, somebody said, Brother Barnes, this is in
the realm of the supernatural.
Sure, sure.
But this is why God laid hold on
Paul.
And you've got to get your two plans
of salvation, or two Gospels, or something, or
you've just got to camp here.
This is it, this is it.
What does it mean to be saved?
What on earth does it mean to be
saved?
Now, there ain't a bit of use on
earth, us trying to deny the fact that
if any of us have ever got to
the Lord, it'd be a wonder.
How on God's earth anybody could have got
saved in the last 40 years is some
miracle.
For the biggest joke between the eternities is
what it means to be saved.
I've had preachers cancel meetings on me when
they heard that I said it, what the
Lord said it.
Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
that's good Calvinistic hard-shell orthodoxy, Lord, Lord.
Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but who
will?
He that doeth, present tense participle.
What?
The will of God!
And these folks that have got us some
little church like Brother Tyner and some little
theories and boxed up God so even God's
afraid to knock on the door, afraid it'll
be in the wrong dispensation.
Why, bless God, they said, well, the man
that preaches salvation by works, I never did
deny it, unless God Almighty lays hold on
you and fixes your soul that the one
thing that characterizes your life is doing the
will of God.
You're going to split hell wide open.
That's right.
You had to put up with that cruel
business for years, Brother.
I'm not talking to you about being baptized.
I'm not talking to you about joining the
Church.
I'm just talking about being saved, as if
there's anything in the New Testament that doesn't
smell like that junk.
We've made a joke out of what it
means to be saved.
It's a good thing we've invented all those
terms.
We'd be in a mess.
We liable to have to repent and lean
on Jesus Christ.
Some schoolteacher in a Baptist church in the
South, not long ago, a twelve-year-old
boy's class, a little boy asked the teacher,
Do you think Adolf Hitler was saved, was
a Christian?
And the teacher had been reading our books
and listening to us preach and attending your
Sunday school class and listening to all your
terminology and believing what she'd heard, the product
of what passes for salvation in your day
and mine.
And the teacher said, Well, son, we can
only hope.
We know he didn't live like you ought
to, but we can only hope when he
was a little boy he gave his heart
to Jesus.
Since when was salvation believing something?
Since when was salvation a transaction?
Since when was salvation something more than believing,
something more than a transaction?
Since when was salvation anything short of a
new birth, not into a peculiar feeling, but
a new birth into a new way of
life wherein one surrenders oneself utterly to
be an instrument of God Almighty's eternal redemptive
purpose?
That's salvation.
What does it mean to be laid hold
of by Almighty God, have the will of
God made known to you and made central
in your life, living that life in the
will of God, doing the will of God,
always looking at the growth of the one
whom by faith is more real to you
than mother or father or brother or sister,
always listening to the voice of his mouth?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we put back
in the hands of King Jesus the only
map he's got to direct our lives?
What does it mean to be saved?
Surely it means three things.
That faith which is the response of men,
that faith that cannot do anything except receive,
that faith that recognizes it can make no
contribution, it can only be a candidate for
blessing.
That faith of the beggar catching forth his
arms and hands for offering prayer, saving faith,
has got to mean at least three things.
It has got to mean the response of
the whole man to the Lord God when
he calls.
I'm not going to dwell on this, but
God only knows how much hell has been
caused and how many souls have been damned,
shouting hallelujah just two feet before they got
there, depending on this little stuff they call
the salvation of the soul today.
Thank the Lord for saving my soul!
But the Lord don't save your soul, he
saves you!
I'm well aware of the fact that something
in the Bible about man is a soul.
I don't know where on God's earth they
got this business about him having a soul.
He is a soul.
God breathed his breath into Adam and he
became a living soul!
He lives in a body and he's got
a spirit!
Jesus Christ came down here not to save
some phantom that's floating around that will enable
us to call ourselves Christians when it hadn't
affected us by this spirit and the whole
shootin' match, and when we haven't responded to
his call by the giving not of something
we call a soul, but the giving of
ourselves.
Nothing less than this total re-creation of
a hornet with something floating around in him
will pass for conversion.
And to have confidence in anything else, I
don't care how ancient it is and how
prized by conviction the religion it is, it's
to delude oneself.
I wish I knew how and you how
to get what I'm trying to say.
You see, salvation has utterly been divorced from
practical living now, because there's nothing saved about
you, brother Tanner, but something floating around in
the effect of that old body of yours
and that mind of yours, and you, you,
it's the commitment of oneself to Jesus.
You!
Why, my soul, because we haven't preached that,
we've got this vile body heresy, and out
of the vile, vile body heresy has come
this situation ethics now.
And when had this situation ethics had been
for us fundamental Bible teachers?
Because we've separated salvation from any relationship to
this old hope that I live in, and
there ain't nothing wrong with this flesh.
This flesh of mine is not vile.
It ain't that old nature of mine vile,
but there isn't anything vile about this body,
and when we've lost that by separation, we
open the gate for what's happening now.
Hear me, saving faith is the response to
the all-out givenness of Jesus Christ.
That little took on me because I'll give
Jesus anything on God's earth he asks for,
except myself.
I'll quit chewing tobacco and drinking liquor and
quitting adultery and cussing and anything, but I'm
not going to relinquish myself.
If I had the money, I'd give you
a million dollars to help build your school
here, but I'm not going to dethrone myself.
And all the days of your life and
mine, salvation has been divorced from the utter
dethronement of S-E-L-L-self.
That's the reason I'm glad God never let
me be a pastor, having to fool the
bellyaches of unsaved Church members who are still
sitting on the throne where God says nobody
is to sit except Jesus Christ.
Glory upon glory, grace upon grace, mercy upon
mercy.
God turned his back on his Son, laid
the lash of his holy wrath upon him,
to buy Rothbard what on God's earth he
wanted with me.
I'll never know what he wanted all of
me.
And that's what salvation is.
What does it mean to be saved?
It certainly means that Rothbard is granted the
ability, if you can do it, but I
hope you will, greatest privilege and greatest miracle
that could ever happen to Rothbard would be
to have the ability to take the crown
of the universe off of my head and
put it on the head of Jesus Christ,
in order to surrender myself to the will
of God in Christ.
That's what sovereignty is.
It is salvation that leaves you still deciding
what you'll do is whether to die.
In the act, the crisis of conversion, this
business has to be settled.
If it's not settled, then it'll never be
settled by taking sooth and surf afterwards.
Got to make you a willing captive and
slave of the Lord.
I know this has been minimized, the dear
preacher, if I call his name, some of
the folks here tonight that I met this
summer would recognize him.
He said to me the other day, Brother
Barnes, send me some books and send me
some tapes.
He said, I know that God is God.
He said, it rings true in here.
I know God's sovereign, that just means that
he's God, not a pretender.
But he said, the preachers have all warned
me not to touch it, that it'd ruin
me.
Well, the lack of it's ruined what we
call Christianity today.
And I know we've minimized this.
And yet, absolute, total surrender to the
rule of Christ, the will of God, they're
the same thing.
Anything short of that is not saving faith.
A thinker today says, those who seek to
eliminate this frickin' element of absolute claim would
thus eliminate that which more than anything else
throws into sharpest relief the distinctive essence of
the living touch of God upon the human
spirit.
Ladies and gentlemen, you don't care what it
means to be saved.
It means it puts you to the place
where you do not have the luxury of
following your own desires.
You do not have the luxury of doing
as you please.
You've just got one thing, Lord, what will
thou have me to do?
It's just one cry of a Christian.
Now, to get saved doesn't mean that you'll
be perfect, but it does mean that you're
perfectly committed to one thing.
It doesn't mean that you walk a perfect
road, but you walk the perfect road imperfectly.
But it does mean, hear me now, for
anybody to claim to be a Christian who
could sleep five seconds or eat one meal
a day, that is to say, to be
saved, is to be holy.
When he's not conscious that he's not in
the will of God, that's sin.
I can't preach perfectly, but I can preach.
I can't live a perfectly holy life, but
I can live a holy life.
God says I must do some things, but
the only thing in the Bible God says
I must be is holy.
I must do gracious things.
He doesn't ask me to be gracious or
be loving, he just tells me to be
holy.
And holiness is conformity willingly to the
will of God.
That'll cure you of the bellyache if you
ever get saved, and does just one thing
count with you?
What's the will of God?
That'll keep you meddling in somebody else's business,
honey.
Keep you busy.
Why, Brother Barnes, you preach in Christian perfection,
so does the Bible.
You're either headed in that direction or you're
headed for hell.
God's not going to be satisfied with anything
less, and nobody's going to walk the streets
of glory that isn't utterly conformed to the
image of Jesus Christ.
God says for you to be holy, how
holy?
Even as I am holy.
A fundamental expression of the Christian life is
doing the will of God on earth, regardless
of the cost.
Then there's submission to the sovereign rule of
God in Christ, must be present in a
saving relationship with Christ.
Now, if I believed this, I could understand
how come I spend most of my time
crying when I'm alone, talking to God about
my sins.
Of course, if I had this nice little
salvation that the will of God's optional, and
holiness is optional, I don't think I'd ever
have to do that.
I'm just like you are, brother.
Oh, my soul, when I see what it
actually means to claim to be a Christian,
I had a crisis experience, and my will
was broken, my evil heart was subdued, and
it left me a willing captive.
So where I've come from, I'm not alone.
I'm not alone.
I'm I'm not alone.
I'm not alone.
You know nothing about salvation.
What does it mean to be saved?
It means the response of Ralph Barnett, dethroning
myself, the enthronement of Christ.
How can I enthrone Christ but doing his
will, utter surrender?
And it means, in the last place, to
respond to Christ's giving of himself by surrendering
to be his instrument in his redemptive purpose.
Now, I got messed up here and preached
too long to you, but I ain't going
to let you go for another minute.
Listen to me.
I'm 64 years old.
I'm not as old as I hoped to
be, but I'm not as young as I
used to be.
For 36-and-a-half years of my
42 years as a minister, I've been hitchhiking
from one place to another.
I'm just going to share the deepest heartbreak
of my poor little ministry.
How in the name of God, Brother Jackson,
did we get off the track somewhere and
preach a nice little gospel that enabled men
and women to say, I'm saved, when they're
not from that hour on, knee-deep in
the business of saving sinners?
We just, well, face it, we've come to
a day now when in the pulpit and
the pew, you and me put together, we
don't give a hoot whether anybody gets saved
or not, as long as we live like
hearts.
We are disgraced in anything that smells like
being a captive of the one that God
ransacked heaven and emptied to come down here,
though he is rich and become poor.
Where on God's earth did we get off
the mark of speaking peace to our juniors
and intermediates, where they can't even sit through
a service at you and bubble them a
right nose?
There's nothing but salvation.
Where did we get off the track of
raising up this generation of you men and
women, and you haven't wept over a sentence
in so long you can't recall?
You don't know what it is to be
a saved person, because a saved person is
a commissioned person, as my Father has sent
me, even so sent me.
Why all the days of my life, only
the folks that have got a special call
are supposed to be Christians?
Isn't that awful?
We've got to face it, folks.
Folks come to me sometimes and say, Thank
you, Brother Barnard, for saving me.
Well, I did.
If I'm a Christian, I'm a Savior.
Who made me a Savior, the Lord?
When did he do it?
In John 20, he came and breathed on
his people the Holy Spirit and commissioned us.
He said, Now, Brother Coots, I want you
to do the same thing I'm doing.
He said, The Father sent me down here
to represent him, and I'm sending you to
represent me.
And we've got to be God for some
poor old sinner, with
a world on fire, with your next-door
neighbor that you can't even talk to, with
your children that don't hear a word you
say.
Oh, God, help us to take down our
sin and surrender ourselves to him.
And you can't surrender to him without surrendering
to his redemptive program, to be
a Savior.
As my Father has sent me, I'm sending
you.
This is what it means to be saved.
We curse out the Methodists for baptizing infants,
and we're just as bad.
We're baptizing folks who haven't the slightest conception
of the fact that God Almighty, in saving
people, buys them to possess them.
That his last word is not, I save
you, but I claim you are mine, you
are mine.
Oh, if we ever get to this conception,
God will have to get him some secretaries
to listen to the prayers and watch the
tears of us nice little church people, who
will not live another hour trying to
be saviors apart from the anointing of the
Holy Spirit.
For even Christ wouldn't sit out on his
mission until the Spirit came upon him.
God help us.
I was in Greensboro, North Carolina, and one
night the pastor got up and said, We've
got Miss So-and-So here tonight, and
she's a missionary, and is she going to
get up here and give us a word
of testimony and sing a special number?
And she did.
And when she got through, I got up
and I was hoping that I might get
their attention.
And I said, It's so good to have
a Christian here tonight.
There's no difference between being a Christian and
being a missionary.
Saving faith is saying, Yeah, my Lord, that's
it.
Let us bow our heads.
I wonder whether our heads bowed if you'd
join in singing, I hear the Savior's voice,
thrills unspeakable.