1 00:00:01,860 --> 00:00:13,920 Second letter to the Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and 2 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:15,120 verse four. 3 00:00:18,700 --> 00:00:27,390 He was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth 4 00:00:27,390 --> 00:00:30,390 through the power of God. 5 00:00:32,980 --> 00:00:40,350 We also are weak in him, but we 6 00:00:40,350 --> 00:00:44,330 shall live with him through the power of 7 00:00:44,330 --> 00:00:44,770 God. 8 00:00:50,180 --> 00:01:01,450 He was crucified through weakness, yet 9 00:01:01,450 --> 00:01:05,310 he liveth through the power of God. 10 00:01:07,910 --> 00:01:18,540 Here in one brief, concise statement is gathered 11 00:01:18,540 --> 00:01:27,270 all that the days from what we call 12 00:01:27,270 --> 00:01:30,990 Good Friday to Easter Monday represent. 13 00:01:30,990 --> 00:01:36,680 On the one side, the cross. 14 00:01:40,210 --> 00:01:41,510 He was crucified. 15 00:01:44,330 --> 00:01:46,630 On the other side, the resurrection. 16 00:01:48,290 --> 00:01:52,180 He liveth by the power of God. 17 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:07,780 And then the statement is carried forward into 18 00:02:07,780 --> 00:02:10,240 the life of believers. 19 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:18,040 Principle and the experience of the Lord Jesus 20 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:24,180 is transferred to Christians. 21 00:02:25,180 --> 00:02:31,880 We also are weak in him, but we 22 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,600 shall live through the power of God. 23 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:44,160 He was crucified through weakness. 24 00:02:48,890 --> 00:02:53,610 This is the cross at its very lowest 25 00:02:53,610 --> 00:02:55,690 and deepest level. 26 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:06,760 It is indeed a picture of utter weakness. 27 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:17,860 You cannot read any of the accounts of 28 00:03:17,860 --> 00:03:27,750 the trial, condemnation, crucifixion of Jesus without 29 00:03:27,750 --> 00:03:36,790 being impressed with his apparent helplessness and impotence 30 00:03:38,230 --> 00:03:39,410 and weakness. 31 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,840 So it does appear and seem. 32 00:03:47,140 --> 00:03:51,980 And yet, this is not a statement marking 33 00:03:51,980 --> 00:04:00,480 that Jesus was crucified because the adverse forces 34 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,360 were too strong for him. 35 00:04:05,390 --> 00:04:07,690 That is not what it means. 36 00:04:13,210 --> 00:04:14,690 That is not what it means. 37 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,519 When it says he was crucified through weakness, 38 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:26,160 it does not mean that those forces, be 39 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:32,420 they human, be they of the world, be 40 00:04:32,420 --> 00:04:36,520 they satanic, were too strong for him. 41 00:04:41,420 --> 00:04:50,220 This statement of his being crucified through weakness 42 00:04:50,220 --> 00:04:58,120 contains the profoundest secret of God's way of 43 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,060 redemption and victory. 44 00:05:04,330 --> 00:05:06,090 We shall not understand it. 45 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:13,340 We shall not understand anything in the Bible 46 00:05:13,340 --> 00:05:21,280 if we do not see it in its 47 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:24,540 largest setting and content. 48 00:05:28,270 --> 00:05:29,890 I want to say that to you. 49 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,560 It is a very important key to anything 50 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:37,180 in the Bible. 51 00:05:39,730 --> 00:05:42,830 For there are very few things in the 52 00:05:42,830 --> 00:05:46,730 Bible which can be taken by themselves. 53 00:05:51,690 --> 00:05:57,230 We have to see everything in its main 54 00:05:57,230 --> 00:05:59,970 setting and connection. 55 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:07,860 And here is an example, a great example 56 00:06:07,860 --> 00:06:09,560 of that fact. 57 00:06:14,670 --> 00:06:20,630 What is this profound secret of God's method 58 00:06:20,630 --> 00:06:23,530 in redemption and victory? 59 00:06:24,530 --> 00:06:31,670 What is the great, the full setting and 60 00:06:31,670 --> 00:06:39,440 context of this statement about his being crucified 61 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,520 through weakness? 62 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:47,480 It is this, nothing less than this. 63 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:55,600 It is almighty God operating in a great 64 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,060 reverse movement in this universe. 65 00:07:02,950 --> 00:07:10,070 The cross of the Lord Jesus is God 66 00:07:10,070 --> 00:07:13,490 acting in reverse. 67 00:07:16,220 --> 00:07:18,920 Now you do not know perhaps what that 68 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:19,760 means. 69 00:07:20,490 --> 00:07:24,220 If you go back again where we have 70 00:07:24,220 --> 00:07:31,280 been several times in these days, to that 71 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:40,600 great disruptive, disorganizing, disintegrating movement 72 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:48,360 amongst angelic, creative beings, of which the Bible 73 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:56,600 tells us, when one of the superior angels 74 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:10,690 made a bid for power in heaven, made 75 00:08:10,690 --> 00:08:16,130 a bid for authority in his own right, 76 00:08:17,570 --> 00:08:25,850 set himself to be an independent, self-sufficient 77 00:08:27,930 --> 00:08:33,830 center of a movement, head of a movement, 78 00:08:35,830 --> 00:08:40,750 and evidently made his thoughts and ambitions known 79 00:08:40,750 --> 00:08:49,120 among angelic hosts, with the result that he 80 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:50,900 gained a following there. 81 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:02,780 Many fell to his scheme and entered into 82 00:09:02,780 --> 00:09:10,220 complicity with him to take the power and 83 00:09:10,220 --> 00:09:17,980 to be independent of God by being a 84 00:09:17,980 --> 00:09:23,590 law unto themselves, to have it in themselves 85 00:09:23,590 --> 00:09:30,710 and not to have it in God and 86 00:09:30,710 --> 00:09:31,370 from God. 87 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:42,990 That revolt disrupted heaven's harmony, the harmony in 88 00:09:42,990 --> 00:09:43,750 the universe. 89 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,860 We are told late in the New Testament 90 00:09:47,860 --> 00:09:52,040 that the angels which kept not their first 91 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:57,720 estate but are reserved in everlasting change. 92 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:00,980 That's what happened. 93 00:10:01,580 --> 00:10:02,500 That's when it happened. 94 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:04,400 What happened? 95 00:10:10,340 --> 00:10:17,490 It was a bid for power, to take 96 00:10:17,490 --> 00:10:19,910 power out of God's hands and to have 97 00:10:19,910 --> 00:10:26,250 it in their hands, to forsake the position 98 00:10:26,250 --> 00:10:33,150 of being dependent upon God, and being independent 99 00:10:34,850 --> 00:10:39,010 to make a course of their own without 100 00:10:39,010 --> 00:10:40,630 reference to God. 101 00:10:42,990 --> 00:10:52,740 Revolt against the throne, being cast out of 102 00:10:52,740 --> 00:10:56,960 heaven, being cast out of heaven. 103 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,560 That leader came into this creation. 104 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:10,580 We know that with that same evil ambition 105 00:11:10,580 --> 00:11:20,640 he injected the idea into the mind, into 106 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:28,010 the thoughts of man, and in effect said, 107 00:11:28,010 --> 00:11:35,230 Look here, why should you be bound and 108 00:11:35,230 --> 00:11:42,310 limited by obligation to God, by dependence upon 109 00:11:42,310 --> 00:11:48,170 God and have to have everything by reference 110 00:11:48,170 --> 00:11:48,870 to Him? 111 00:11:50,190 --> 00:11:52,810 Why not be a law unto yourself? 112 00:11:54,510 --> 00:11:59,980 Why not be as God, be as God? 113 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,780 Knowing and therefore being able to do. 114 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,760 Have the seat of things in yourself and 115 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:11,740 not in Him. 116 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:19,480 Take things into your own hands and assert 117 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,180 your independence. 118 00:12:21,180 --> 00:12:26,180 That's the meaning of it, the heart of 119 00:12:26,180 --> 00:12:27,720 it, the nature of it. 120 00:12:29,740 --> 00:12:33,460 And what had happened in heaven was repeated 121 00:12:33,460 --> 00:12:34,420 on earth. 122 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:40,560 Man fell to the tempter, to the suggestion, 123 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:47,100 and Adam took himself out of the realm 124 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:52,910 of God and fell into another realm which 125 00:12:52,910 --> 00:12:54,250 was not of God. 126 00:12:55,550 --> 00:13:00,810 Now you notice the whole principle, the whole 127 00:13:00,810 --> 00:13:06,510 nature and motive of that two-fold movement 128 00:13:07,070 --> 00:13:11,910 was a quest for power. 129 00:13:13,290 --> 00:13:18,210 A quest for power on the part of 130 00:13:18,210 --> 00:13:19,770 the evil one and man. 131 00:13:21,590 --> 00:13:29,590 A way of independence, rejection of divine authority. 132 00:13:36,780 --> 00:13:40,160 And there's a long and terrible history connected 133 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,900 with that beginning. 134 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:47,020 The whole history of the human race is 135 00:13:47,020 --> 00:13:51,420 just the history of man seeking preeminence. 136 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:56,680 Man seeking superiority. 137 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:04,790 Man seeking to have in himself what alone 138 00:14:04,790 --> 00:14:06,270 belongs to God. 139 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:13,680 Man hating anything in the nature of submission, 140 00:14:14,020 --> 00:14:16,280 subjection, subordination. 141 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:21,820 Hating authority. 142 00:14:31,710 --> 00:14:34,290 Are we not seeing that in our own 143 00:14:34,290 --> 00:14:34,790 time? 144 00:14:36,170 --> 00:14:38,370 Have we not seen that in our own 145 00:14:38,370 --> 00:14:42,430 lifetime with the most terrible results? 146 00:14:43,370 --> 00:14:48,410 It just seems that there can never be 147 00:14:48,410 --> 00:14:51,530 a movement in this world but someone will 148 00:14:51,530 --> 00:14:52,690 try to go one better. 149 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,240 It's so nationally and internationally. 150 00:14:59,820 --> 00:15:02,420 It is so socially, it's a part of 151 00:15:02,420 --> 00:15:03,140 human nature. 152 00:15:03,740 --> 00:15:07,760 In the social world someone sees something that 153 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:12,940 someone else has, wears, or possesses in some 154 00:15:12,940 --> 00:15:18,340 way, and they imitate but try to just 155 00:15:18,340 --> 00:15:19,380 go one better. 156 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:21,300 It's like that. 157 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:28,560 All the terrible story of criticism. 158 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:39,790 Criticism, denouncing, defaming, reproaching 159 00:15:40,790 --> 00:15:43,770 is just after all the working of that 160 00:15:43,770 --> 00:15:46,750 inhuman nature which must put down the other 161 00:15:46,750 --> 00:15:48,590 one in order to get on top. 162 00:15:49,550 --> 00:15:51,570 It's a horrible thing in this universe. 163 00:15:53,210 --> 00:15:55,070 Everywhere that thing is at work. 164 00:15:55,790 --> 00:15:56,590 That nature. 165 00:15:57,550 --> 00:16:03,630 It's just this spirit of power politics in 166 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:04,130 everywhere. 167 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:11,060 What a fight there is today. 168 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:12,360 International. 169 00:16:13,380 --> 00:16:16,180 Just to be ahead of the other one. 170 00:16:17,660 --> 00:16:19,500 Ahead of the other one and above the 171 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:20,000 other one. 172 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:21,720 And there's no end to that. 173 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:23,780 There is no end to that. 174 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:25,540 Except the end. 175 00:16:26,220 --> 00:16:28,160 The end of the destruction of the race. 176 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:30,700 The destruction of the race. 177 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:33,760 God's creation. 178 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:36,240 The spoiling of the earth. 179 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,220 The enemy knows what he's after. 180 00:16:39,860 --> 00:16:41,000 What he's after. 181 00:16:41,380 --> 00:16:42,580 To spite God. 182 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:46,840 In his, in the spoiling and destroying of 183 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:47,480 his creation. 184 00:16:50,430 --> 00:16:53,270 That's the setting and the context of this. 185 00:16:54,870 --> 00:16:59,150 God is not going to fight the enemy 186 00:16:59,150 --> 00:17:00,790 on his own ground. 187 00:17:03,450 --> 00:17:05,990 And one of the laws, mark you, of 188 00:17:05,990 --> 00:17:08,030 the Christian life is just this. 189 00:17:08,030 --> 00:17:13,030 You cannot meet carnality with carnality. 190 00:17:14,690 --> 00:17:20,690 You may not fight spiritual battles with carnal 191 00:17:20,690 --> 00:17:21,190 weapons. 192 00:17:22,710 --> 00:17:26,329 You must not give what is given to 193 00:17:26,329 --> 00:17:26,790 you. 194 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:34,860 Two different realms with God altogether. 195 00:17:36,580 --> 00:17:38,040 And so we come to this. 196 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,420 He was crucified through weakness. 197 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,480 In the cross of the Lord Jesus. 198 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:50,160 All that evil thing. 199 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:55,320 Which arose in the heart of Lucifer. 200 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,620 And did its mischief in heaven. 201 00:17:59,220 --> 00:18:02,980 And then produced its fruit in earth. 202 00:18:02,980 --> 00:18:09,040 All that evil thing of ambition and pride 203 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,160 and quest for power. 204 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,260 Has got to be undone. 205 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:16,780 Has got to be undone. 206 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:18,620 Destroyed. 207 00:18:21,020 --> 00:18:23,800 He was crucified through weakness. 208 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:33,950 It's the picture of man absolutely 209 00:18:33,950 --> 00:18:37,750 emptied of all selfhood. 210 00:18:38,630 --> 00:18:45,630 In terms of self-sufficiency, self-strength, power 211 00:18:45,630 --> 00:18:46,350 in himself. 212 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:51,100 That's one side. 213 00:18:52,740 --> 00:18:55,540 Now we have noted in these gatherings that 214 00:18:55,540 --> 00:18:59,160 that has ever and always been God's method. 215 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,800 With those who have come really into his 216 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:04,100 hands. 217 00:19:07,350 --> 00:19:11,630 There is one principle, one law, one truth 218 00:19:11,630 --> 00:19:14,510 running right through the Bible. 219 00:19:14,510 --> 00:19:16,910 Right through the Old Testament. 220 00:19:17,770 --> 00:19:22,050 That whenever and wherever God took up a 221 00:19:22,050 --> 00:19:23,790 vessel and an instrument. 222 00:19:24,610 --> 00:19:29,050 By which to show for his power. 223 00:19:30,110 --> 00:19:35,050 He did not make something according to the 224 00:19:35,050 --> 00:19:37,350 standards of this world. 225 00:19:37,970 --> 00:19:40,830 In greatness and importance. 226 00:19:41,870 --> 00:19:44,870 He proceeded to empty that vessel. 227 00:19:45,830 --> 00:19:48,670 And to bring that vessel to the place 228 00:19:48,670 --> 00:19:53,010 of absolute and utter dependence upon himself. 229 00:19:55,270 --> 00:19:58,310 Study all your Old Testament characters in relation 230 00:19:58,310 --> 00:19:59,710 to God in the light of that. 231 00:20:01,330 --> 00:20:03,730 Study Israel in the light of that. 232 00:20:04,790 --> 00:20:05,590 Just that. 233 00:20:06,510 --> 00:20:11,050 It's a great weakening, emptying discipline. 234 00:20:14,050 --> 00:20:15,710 To take away all self-confidence. 235 00:20:16,410 --> 00:20:18,350 All self-sufficiency. 236 00:20:19,230 --> 00:20:20,710 All self-assurance. 237 00:20:22,270 --> 00:20:26,050 All the power and the authority from man 238 00:20:26,050 --> 00:20:26,470 himself. 239 00:20:27,650 --> 00:20:31,690 So he did with Abraham. 240 00:20:33,350 --> 00:20:34,990 And all who followed. 241 00:20:35,770 --> 00:20:36,450 Just that. 242 00:20:38,270 --> 00:20:42,470 God's law of all his activities was the 243 00:20:42,470 --> 00:20:47,750 law of emptying of all self-pride. 244 00:20:49,340 --> 00:20:51,020 For the reason that we have seen. 245 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,580 He's going to destroy and undo this mischief. 246 00:20:59,220 --> 00:21:00,320 That's the Old Testament. 247 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:04,100 The New Testament. 248 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,200 Come to the teaching of the Lord Jesus. 249 00:21:07,140 --> 00:21:08,880 The teaching of the Lord Jesus. 250 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,360 Well his teaching is all on that line. 251 00:21:15,020 --> 00:21:16,320 All on that line. 252 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,160 You're not allowed to turn on your persecutors 253 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,460 and give them what they give you. 254 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:28,880 Indeed you have got to give them just 255 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:29,380 the opposite. 256 00:21:30,900 --> 00:21:31,600 Just the opposite. 257 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,260 You're not allowed to vindicate yourself. 258 00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:41,080 Stand for your own rights. 259 00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:46,700 Seek to preserve your own reputation. 260 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,140 And show that you're as good as the 261 00:21:50,140 --> 00:21:50,400 other. 262 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,860 You're not allowed to do anything like that. 263 00:21:53,260 --> 00:21:55,860 All his teaching is of that kind. 264 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:03,600 His warning in his teaching is always that 265 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:08,460 his servants, his disciples, his followers will have 266 00:22:08,460 --> 00:22:10,400 to go the way that he himself went. 267 00:22:11,900 --> 00:22:12,620 Despised. 268 00:22:15,590 --> 00:22:18,390 And rejected of men. 269 00:22:20,250 --> 00:22:20,970 Despised. 270 00:22:27,340 --> 00:22:30,340 And being despised. 271 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,040 Not answering back. 272 00:22:36,340 --> 00:22:36,820 His teaching. 273 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:38,280 His example. 274 00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:42,580 In life and in death. 275 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:48,980 This is the heart of that amazing but 276 00:22:48,980 --> 00:22:51,940 marvelous silence. 277 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:57,940 When, as a sheep before her shearers is 278 00:22:57,940 --> 00:23:01,980 done, he opened not his mouth. 279 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,900 As a lamb led to the slaughter. 280 00:23:09,750 --> 00:23:10,590 Unresisting. 281 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:19,260 From the story of his encounter with some 282 00:23:19,260 --> 00:23:22,560 of those who tried to trap him and 283 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:28,060 corner him and worst him by arguments and 284 00:23:28,060 --> 00:23:28,660 questions. 285 00:23:29,940 --> 00:23:32,360 It was not in self-defense in those 286 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:32,740 cases. 287 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:37,700 We know quite well that he could bring 288 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:41,240 forth an argument or a case or an 289 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,060 answer that would send them all out in 290 00:23:44,060 --> 00:23:45,280 perfect shape. 291 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:48,960 Perfect shape. 292 00:23:50,220 --> 00:23:50,740 How? 293 00:23:51,780 --> 00:23:52,660 Game the game. 294 00:23:53,940 --> 00:23:55,220 He just did it very simply. 295 00:23:56,020 --> 00:23:56,720 Very simply. 296 00:23:58,970 --> 00:24:00,490 Trying to ensnare him. 297 00:24:02,050 --> 00:24:02,990 Is it right? 298 00:24:03,330 --> 00:24:05,330 Is it right to give tribute to Caesar? 299 00:24:08,150 --> 00:24:09,370 You see the trap, don't you? 300 00:24:10,350 --> 00:24:12,310 The trap that they've set for him. 301 00:24:16,150 --> 00:24:17,150 Well, you know his answer. 302 00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:27,920 Show me the coin whose superscription is this. 303 00:24:30,140 --> 00:24:30,700 Caesar's. 304 00:24:33,750 --> 00:24:34,310 Caesar's. 305 00:24:35,430 --> 00:24:36,710 Stamped upon the coin. 306 00:24:37,970 --> 00:24:40,230 Render to Caesar the things of the Caesar. 307 00:24:40,970 --> 00:24:43,010 To God the things of the God. 308 00:24:44,610 --> 00:24:45,470 They're silenced. 309 00:24:45,830 --> 00:24:47,370 We could go on with those things. 310 00:24:47,990 --> 00:24:56,470 He could very, very skillfully and effectively have 311 00:24:56,470 --> 00:25:01,510 made out a case for himself and put 312 00:25:01,510 --> 00:25:05,490 both the Jewish authorities and the Roman authorities 313 00:25:05,490 --> 00:25:10,090 to complete shame if he had been so 314 00:25:10,090 --> 00:25:12,450 disposed that he was silent. 315 00:25:13,890 --> 00:25:15,010 He was silent. 316 00:25:16,430 --> 00:25:19,110 He knew that for this purpose he came 317 00:25:19,110 --> 00:25:19,790 into the world. 318 00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:23,210 That this was the will of God for 319 00:25:23,210 --> 00:25:23,530 him. 320 00:25:24,130 --> 00:25:26,870 He would make out no case by which 321 00:25:26,870 --> 00:25:29,930 he might escape this thing. 322 00:25:33,570 --> 00:25:35,210 Something has got to be undone. 323 00:25:37,510 --> 00:25:42,550 That temporal power in Rome. 324 00:25:43,150 --> 00:25:46,590 That religious power in Israel. 325 00:25:47,630 --> 00:25:50,370 Oh, it was a mighty power in this 326 00:25:50,370 --> 00:25:50,690 world. 327 00:25:52,110 --> 00:25:55,650 It looked as though it was more powerful 328 00:25:55,650 --> 00:25:56,330 than he. 329 00:25:57,190 --> 00:25:58,670 The son of God. 330 00:25:59,550 --> 00:26:03,650 See the Jews, the Jewish rulers playing with 331 00:26:03,650 --> 00:26:03,950 him. 332 00:26:04,950 --> 00:26:06,270 Playing with him. 333 00:26:06,890 --> 00:26:07,810 Mocking him. 334 00:26:10,050 --> 00:26:14,670 Having carried out their trumped up charge and 335 00:26:14,670 --> 00:26:18,250 case and passed their sentence upon him. 336 00:26:18,950 --> 00:26:21,050 They, as it were, tossed him into the 337 00:26:21,050 --> 00:26:23,890 hands of Pilate, the Roman leader. 338 00:26:24,650 --> 00:26:27,370 Who began to taunt and play with the 339 00:26:27,370 --> 00:26:29,690 Jews in return about him. 340 00:26:30,150 --> 00:26:33,410 But here was the victim, apparently. 341 00:26:34,030 --> 00:26:37,690 The plaything of this world power on both 342 00:26:37,690 --> 00:26:38,330 its sides. 343 00:26:39,610 --> 00:26:41,070 The religious and the temporal. 344 00:26:41,790 --> 00:26:42,350 Apparently. 345 00:26:43,690 --> 00:26:44,650 The plaything. 346 00:26:45,490 --> 00:26:46,830 The pawn. 347 00:26:49,290 --> 00:26:52,930 And deliberately, deliberately letting them do it. 348 00:26:54,350 --> 00:26:57,430 He's going to destroy that power on both 349 00:26:57,430 --> 00:26:57,990 its sides. 350 00:26:59,890 --> 00:27:03,030 He's going to bring down that authority to 351 00:27:03,030 --> 00:27:03,730 the very dust. 352 00:27:05,410 --> 00:27:09,870 He's going to humble that thing beyond recovery. 353 00:27:11,530 --> 00:27:12,410 To do it. 354 00:27:12,410 --> 00:27:16,990 He cannot do it on the basis of 355 00:27:16,990 --> 00:27:21,530 man's strength and power and sufficiency. 356 00:27:23,630 --> 00:27:24,590 Not at all. 357 00:27:24,730 --> 00:27:27,850 All that must be emptied out because he 358 00:27:27,850 --> 00:27:32,490 is there in his cross the representative of 359 00:27:32,490 --> 00:27:34,190 this Satan. 360 00:27:35,050 --> 00:27:39,630 Governed, dominated, energized humanity. 361 00:27:40,110 --> 00:27:41,490 When he is made sin. 362 00:27:41,490 --> 00:27:49,120 And in himself as we have sung in 363 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:50,520 our hymn. 364 00:27:50,660 --> 00:27:51,920 What a hymn that is. 365 00:27:52,780 --> 00:27:55,600 Through weakness and defeat. 366 00:28:00,540 --> 00:28:01,220 Through weakness. 367 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,620 On that side he's going to do it. 368 00:28:06,850 --> 00:28:10,630 He must empty all that out in himself. 369 00:28:11,670 --> 00:28:13,530 Be crucified through weakness. 370 00:28:17,060 --> 00:28:19,600 But he lives by the power of God. 371 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:27,920 There's all the difference of two realms. 372 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:29,560 Two realms. 373 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,200 Between the great power of Satan. 374 00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:35,460 The great power of this world. 375 00:28:36,180 --> 00:28:37,860 The great temporal power. 376 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:45,380 The power of human strength and sufficiency. 377 00:28:45,620 --> 00:28:47,860 All the difference between that and the power 378 00:28:47,860 --> 00:28:48,300 of God. 379 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,920 And room has got to be made for 380 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,120 another kind of power to come in. 381 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,300 You know dear friends if you have any 382 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:02,420 spiritual experience at all. 383 00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:05,740 That while you hold on God stands away. 384 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,240 While you will not let go he stands 385 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:10,640 apart. 386 00:29:12,020 --> 00:29:15,460 While you are in strength. 387 00:29:15,460 --> 00:29:18,460 The Lord just lets you get on with 388 00:29:18,460 --> 00:29:18,760 it. 389 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,200 It is never until you let go. 390 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:25,660 Until you yield. 391 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,080 You surrender. 392 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,760 You subject yourself to the will of God 393 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,180 whatever it costs that God steps in. 394 00:29:34,580 --> 00:29:35,500 And undertakes. 395 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,000 And does the thing. 396 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,260 The law of the spiritual life comes right 397 00:29:40,260 --> 00:29:40,520 home. 398 00:29:41,140 --> 00:29:42,140 We know it to be true. 399 00:29:42,820 --> 00:29:45,000 Some of us have fought to have our 400 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:45,540 own way. 401 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,160 We have fought. 402 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,340 We have stood for what we wanted. 403 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:53,340 And we have known that in those times 404 00:29:53,340 --> 00:29:56,940 they were the times when the Lord was 405 00:29:56,940 --> 00:29:58,740 not by any means with us. 406 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:01,680 And he was letting things take their course 407 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,500 until we came to this path. 408 00:30:07,020 --> 00:30:08,620 Yielded to God. 409 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:11,140 Then things changed. 410 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,800 Or began to change. 411 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,700 That is the principle you see of the 412 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:17,100 cross. 413 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,520 There is a strength in us that has 414 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,520 got to go in order to make room 415 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,240 and way for the strength of God. 416 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:32,040 He was crucified through weakness in order to 417 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,600 undercut. 418 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:38,020 Undercut and empty out all that which had 419 00:30:38,020 --> 00:30:42,420 come in to this cosmos that invaded this 420 00:30:42,420 --> 00:30:43,260 creation. 421 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,360 From this usurping power. 422 00:30:50,730 --> 00:30:54,570 Usurping power of Satan. 423 00:30:59,790 --> 00:31:00,530 Undoing it. 424 00:31:01,350 --> 00:31:02,590 Well that is the context. 425 00:31:03,990 --> 00:31:06,170 You cannot understand the cross until you see 426 00:31:06,170 --> 00:31:08,690 it related to that eternal issue. 427 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:17,420 Then on the other side he lives by 428 00:31:17,420 --> 00:31:18,580 the power of God. 429 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:22,340 He lives by the power of God. 430 00:31:34,250 --> 00:31:38,590 We said in our opening statement that here 431 00:31:38,590 --> 00:31:42,210 is the cross at its lowest and deepest 432 00:31:42,210 --> 00:31:42,810 level. 433 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,080 Touching bottom. 434 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,000 The utter weakness. 435 00:31:57,630 --> 00:31:58,830 How the picture changes. 436 00:31:58,830 --> 00:32:02,360 In a very short time. 437 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,980 In a very short time. 438 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:08,660 The power of God comes down from heaven. 439 00:32:12,450 --> 00:32:17,990 And begins operations by completely converting. 440 00:32:19,830 --> 00:32:20,670 Transforming. 441 00:32:22,330 --> 00:32:25,370 The first members of the church. 442 00:32:26,370 --> 00:32:32,650 The men who up to that time had 443 00:32:32,650 --> 00:32:37,090 resented with all their soul. 444 00:32:37,610 --> 00:32:39,970 Resented this idea of weakness. 445 00:32:41,570 --> 00:32:44,730 He spoke of being put to death. 446 00:32:45,630 --> 00:32:47,330 It was an intolerable idea. 447 00:32:48,690 --> 00:32:49,970 An intolerable idea. 448 00:32:50,970 --> 00:33:00,260 When he was crucified they were offended. 449 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:02,100 Stumbled. 450 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,460 He had suffered defeat. 451 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:13,660 And undoing something inconceivable. 452 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,180 Unimaginable. 453 00:33:17,420 --> 00:33:21,640 The whole of this human nature rose up 454 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,660 against such an idea. 455 00:33:23,860 --> 00:33:24,520 Conception. 456 00:33:24,860 --> 00:33:25,420 Such a thing. 457 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:32,380 If that happens. 458 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,260 Then the day is lost. 459 00:33:36,460 --> 00:33:37,680 If that happens. 460 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:39,800 Everything is gone. 461 00:33:44,140 --> 00:33:45,440 Look at them on the day of Pentecost. 462 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,320 When the other power. 463 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,360 Not of man but of God comes down. 464 00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:54,740 There is a wonderful chapter the fourth of 465 00:33:54,740 --> 00:33:55,420 Acts isn't it. 466 00:33:56,340 --> 00:34:02,100 When they beheld the boldness of Peter and 467 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:02,620 John. 468 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:12,280 And perceived that they were unlearned men. 469 00:34:15,110 --> 00:34:18,429 Well they just had no explanation. 470 00:34:19,210 --> 00:34:19,830 No answer. 471 00:34:21,290 --> 00:34:24,630 They were completely defeated. 472 00:34:25,710 --> 00:34:28,150 In every attempt to explain and understand. 473 00:34:28,770 --> 00:34:30,050 That the men had got the secret. 474 00:34:31,670 --> 00:34:34,170 This Jesus whom he crucified. 475 00:34:54,639 --> 00:35:02,200 And who was crucified through weakness. 476 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,160 This Jesus. 477 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:04,560 In his name. 478 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,100 What a revolution in these men. 479 00:35:08,660 --> 00:35:09,160 But now. 480 00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:10,480 Now. 481 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,940 It's not their own strength. 482 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,440 It is not their own authority. 483 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,440 It's something from heaven. 484 00:35:21,860 --> 00:35:24,780 Completely changed their standard of values. 485 00:35:25,780 --> 00:35:27,980 Their ideas about power. 486 00:35:30,070 --> 00:35:30,810 And they go out. 487 00:35:31,570 --> 00:35:33,070 Into this world. 488 00:35:33,950 --> 00:35:36,050 And meet it on both its sides. 489 00:35:36,050 --> 00:35:41,350 The religious system of Jewry worldwide in its 490 00:35:41,350 --> 00:35:43,150 hostility. 491 00:35:44,510 --> 00:35:45,950 To their lord and master. 492 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,960 The temporal worldly power on its pagan and 493 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,120 heathen side. 494 00:35:54,020 --> 00:35:55,880 In its antagonism. 495 00:35:56,660 --> 00:35:59,300 They meet it full force. 496 00:36:01,180 --> 00:36:02,260 And overcome it. 497 00:36:03,380 --> 00:36:05,620 Not by human strength. 498 00:36:05,620 --> 00:36:09,360 Often in the direst weakness. 499 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:11,560 In every way. 500 00:36:11,940 --> 00:36:12,600 Temporal. 501 00:36:13,460 --> 00:36:13,920 Physical. 502 00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:19,900 Where they could never naturally stand up to 503 00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:20,660 the situation. 504 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:21,540 At all. 505 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:22,860 Yet. 506 00:36:23,340 --> 00:36:24,600 This power comes through. 507 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:27,020 And on they go. 508 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,740 And the world is overcome. 509 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:33,280 The power of Satan. 510 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:35,020 Is broken. 511 00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:37,160 It's another power. 512 00:36:37,740 --> 00:36:39,180 Not the power of man. 513 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,360 And it has come along the line. 514 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,720 Along the line. 515 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,660 Of this emptying. 516 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:50,920 And weakening. 517 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:57,360 Of that old Satan dominated creation. 518 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:02,980 Where the principle of self-sufficiency has been 519 00:37:02,980 --> 00:37:04,640 altogether undercut. 520 00:37:05,820 --> 00:37:09,180 This is, dear friend, but an explanation of 521 00:37:09,180 --> 00:37:10,680 spiritual experience. 522 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:12,380 We've said it so often. 523 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:14,220 So often. 524 00:37:15,340 --> 00:37:18,620 Are you, are you a candidate for power? 525 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,600 Are you in quest for power? 526 00:37:21,380 --> 00:37:23,000 Do you ask for power? 527 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,920 That word and that idea of power a 528 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,340 great, a great idea for you? 529 00:37:32,460 --> 00:37:34,120 Oh, the tragedy. 530 00:37:35,220 --> 00:37:38,340 The tragedy of a misconception of power. 531 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,860 So many pray for the power of the 532 00:37:43,860 --> 00:37:44,580 Holy Spirit. 533 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:49,000 Yes, the Holy Spirit is mightily powerful. 534 00:37:49,980 --> 00:37:51,940 But their prayer for the power of the 535 00:37:51,940 --> 00:37:53,480 Holy Spirit is to make them. 536 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:55,960 In themselves something. 537 00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,480 A great preacher, a great missionary, a great 538 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,640 Christian worker or something like that. 539 00:38:05,910 --> 00:38:07,650 With a reputation of their own. 540 00:38:12,830 --> 00:38:15,270 If the Holy Spirit is going to come 541 00:38:15,270 --> 00:38:17,790 upon you and me and into you and 542 00:38:17,790 --> 00:38:19,330 me in terms of power. 543 00:38:19,730 --> 00:38:21,830 He's going to empty us first of all. 544 00:38:22,090 --> 00:38:24,890 Of all our own strength and reputation. 545 00:38:26,210 --> 00:38:28,230 Make no mistake about it. 546 00:38:28,990 --> 00:38:31,830 We must study the lives of these apostles 547 00:38:31,830 --> 00:38:32,330 again. 548 00:38:33,130 --> 00:38:34,810 And the chief of them, the apostle Paul, 549 00:38:34,890 --> 00:38:36,390 in the light of that great truth. 550 00:38:38,220 --> 00:38:42,100 Power of God did rest, did encamp upon 551 00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:42,700 these men. 552 00:38:43,580 --> 00:38:46,760 Would look at their idea of themselves, their 553 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:47,840 estimate of themselves. 554 00:38:49,140 --> 00:38:52,660 And see how they will all the time, 555 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,580 all the time be keeping this thing not 556 00:38:55,580 --> 00:38:57,440 only before their own eyes. 557 00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,020 But before the eyes of everybody else. 558 00:38:59,260 --> 00:39:01,360 That no flesh shall glory in his presence. 559 00:39:02,580 --> 00:39:05,180 That the glory shall be his alone. 560 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:10,720 Not one iota attributed to man in any 561 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:11,080 way. 562 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,440 Intellectually, emotionally, volitionally. 563 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:17,660 In any way, whatever. 564 00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:21,100 Man is not going to have his flesh 565 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:25,020 ministered to in the things of God one 566 00:39:25,020 --> 00:39:25,900 little bit. 567 00:39:26,540 --> 00:39:28,060 By the Holy Spirit. 568 00:39:28,740 --> 00:39:30,140 It's going to be of God. 569 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:32,580 And all of God. 570 00:39:33,460 --> 00:39:35,120 And all the glory is going to be 571 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:35,520 of God. 572 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,500 Now that's the law of Christ crucified and 573 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:40,440 Christ risen. 574 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:42,940 And now it's transferred to us. 575 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,220 To the church. 576 00:39:45,940 --> 00:39:46,980 To the believers. 577 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,360 And we also are weak in him. 578 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,460 I said it before today that there was 579 00:39:53,460 --> 00:39:59,280 probably no man alive who more than Saul 580 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:03,000 of Tarsus when he was dead had this 581 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,240 ambition for power. 582 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:08,980 You can see him. 583 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:11,820 He's just after power. 584 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,120 Asserting himself, taking things into his own hands. 585 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,400 Being the authority to bring everything down under 586 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:20,740 him. 587 00:40:20,740 --> 00:40:27,230 And there was no man after he met 588 00:40:27,230 --> 00:40:29,730 Jesus Christ and came into the power of 589 00:40:29,730 --> 00:40:38,480 his cross who more if as much exemplified 590 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,700 being crucified through weakness. 591 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:43,880 What a change. 592 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,460 What a change in that man. 593 00:40:46,460 --> 00:40:52,580 But have we any reason to question that 594 00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:55,260 the power of God worked in and through 595 00:40:55,260 --> 00:40:55,800 that man? 596 00:40:56,820 --> 00:40:59,200 Why the power that worked in and through 597 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:03,500 him two thousand years nearly ago is still 598 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:04,640 working through Paul. 599 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:10,200 In our own lives the same power comes 600 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,840 to us through his ministry. 601 00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:17,340 It's a power that overreaches time. 602 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,860 Overreaches all limitations. 603 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,340 It's the power of God. 604 00:41:26,140 --> 00:41:26,940 It's a costly way. 605 00:41:29,620 --> 00:41:31,600 This is what the Lord says, except a 606 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,380 man means when he says, except a man 607 00:41:34,380 --> 00:41:39,040 take up his cross and deny himself. 608 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:41,800 Himself. 609 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,900 I'd make difficulties for our friends in other 610 00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:50,880 countries with their language if I changed it 611 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,480 and said, deny his self. 612 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:55,680 But we English know what that means. 613 00:41:56,540 --> 00:41:57,320 His self. 614 00:41:58,460 --> 00:42:00,180 That's really what the Lord meant. 615 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:02,240 His self life. 616 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:03,660 His selfhood. 617 00:42:04,300 --> 00:42:04,840 Say no. 618 00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:06,400 Say no. 619 00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:07,640 Negative that. 620 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:09,940 You're not going to come in. 621 00:42:10,580 --> 00:42:11,680 You're not going to dictate. 622 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,120 You are not going to order my cross. 623 00:42:15,260 --> 00:42:16,200 Any self interest. 624 00:42:17,620 --> 00:42:18,600 Any selfhood. 625 00:42:19,220 --> 00:42:19,520 No. 626 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,920 I deny you a place and any right. 627 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,780 It's the Lord and the Lord only who 628 00:42:26,780 --> 00:42:30,020 is to be in the place of Lordship. 629 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:31,080 Dictating. 630 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:32,720 Determining. 631 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:34,120 Directing. 632 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:35,800 Supporting. 633 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:36,980 Supplying. 634 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,220 Mind is a life. 635 00:42:40,260 --> 00:42:43,200 Not a dependence upon anything that is in 636 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:43,560 myself. 637 00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:45,760 But utter dependence upon him. 638 00:42:46,980 --> 00:42:49,440 And the nearer we get to the Lord 639 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,960 Jesus in the depth of the cross. 640 00:42:53,620 --> 00:42:55,660 The lowest depths of the cross. 641 00:42:55,860 --> 00:42:57,280 Crucified through weakness. 642 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:02,300 So the nearer we get to the power 643 00:43:02,300 --> 00:43:02,960 of God. 644 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,720 The power of God. 645 00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:09,860 I think I've said enough about this passage. 646 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:11,640 There it is. 647 00:43:11,780 --> 00:43:15,200 We are confronted with tremendous forces. 648 00:43:16,180 --> 00:43:16,960 Great power. 649 00:43:17,900 --> 00:43:20,480 All around and within. 650 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,120 That power which is evil will win. 651 00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:28,820 Will gain. 652 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:30,580 Will succeed. 653 00:43:31,460 --> 00:43:32,820 Just in proportion. 654 00:43:33,540 --> 00:43:35,100 Just in proportion. 655 00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:40,240 As we live outside of Christ. 656 00:43:42,010 --> 00:43:44,650 Just in proportion as we live on the 657 00:43:44,650 --> 00:43:46,310 ground of our own selfhood. 658 00:43:48,650 --> 00:43:50,590 That power will be defeated. 659 00:43:51,530 --> 00:43:52,690 And neutralized. 660 00:43:53,350 --> 00:43:57,570 Just in the measure in which we live 661 00:43:57,570 --> 00:44:00,030 on the ground of Christ. 662 00:44:00,670 --> 00:44:02,710 Crucified through weakness. 663 00:44:03,330 --> 00:44:06,530 And living by the power of God. 664 00:44:06,530 --> 00:44:07,830 Shall we pray?