Hebrews, the eighth chapter.
The Holy Spirit is writing and explaining to
us the relation between the earthly and the
heavenly, the Old Testament and the New, the
Old Covenant and the New Covenant, Christ and
the High Priest of Israel.
And he says, this is the sum of
what we are talking about, that we have
a High Priest who is set on the
right hand of the throne of the Majesty
in the heavens, that he is a minister
of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle
which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Man pitched the tabernacle of Israel at the
command of God, but there is another tabernacle
pitched by God which man had nothing to
do with.
It is above and the other was below,
and the one below is a shadow of
the one above.
For every High Priest is ordained to offer
gifts and sacrifices, wherefore it is of necessity
that this man, Jesus, have somewhat to offer
also.
For if he were on earth, he should
not be a priest, seeing that there are
priests that offer gifts according to the law
of Moses, who serve under the example and
shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished
of God when he was about to make
the tabernacle.
For see, saith he, see that thou makest
all things according to the pattern shown to
thee in the mount.
Now I want to talk about this.
See, saith God to Moses, see to that,
that you make everything according to the pattern
shown to thee in the mount.
Plain enough.
Why?
Because God was making an earthly, temporary tabernacle
with its services, after a permanent and eternal
tabernacle above.
That's why.
He showed him the pattern.
I want to talk about that a little,
and before we do, let's pray.
O God, time,
like an ever-rolling stream, is bearing us
all away.
We have one fewer Sunday we will have
tonight to prepare ourselves for the tabernacle above
than we had last week.
Prepare our hearts now, we pray, to hear.
We confess to thee we have no confidence
in humanity, for the end of all flesh
has come before thee, but our confidence is
in thee.
Speak, Lord, thy servant here.
Speak, Lord, we are hearing, and we want
to obey.
We pray thee save us from listening, always
listening, hearing again the truth over and over,
and doing nothing about it.
O God, instruct our hearts, inform our minds,
capture our wills, and make them thine.
Bless us as we hear and speak, and
may it be said that we are not
able to resist the wisdom and spirit by
which the word is spoken.
For Christ's sake.
Amen.
Now, in this quotation where God told Moses
that he was to make the tabernacle and
have it made, after a divine pattern showed
to Moses in the mount, the way of
worship was being opened here for Israel, a
new way for them, by blood.
There was to be the tabernacle with its
altar of sacrifice made of brass, where beasts
were offered, and the altar of incense, typifying
prayer.
Beyond that and within the Holy of Holies
there was the Ark of the Covenant with
its golden lid, called the Mercy Seat.
And over that golden Mercy Seat there were
two cherry bens with their wings outstretched toward
each other, and between the wings of the
cherry ben there burned the awful fire, which
the old Jews called the Shekinah.
And then there were to be priests, of
course the priests were there, important that they
be there, anointed priests, born priests, and then
anointed to exercise their function as priests.
Garments they had, all symbolic and typical of
heavenly things, and the high priest, typical of
the great high priest who was to come.
And of course that took a great deal
of constructing.
They had to construct altars, and this Mercy
Seat, and this Ark of the Covenant, and
these tables, and the walls, and the curtains,
all these had to be made.
And Moses, I want you to note, was
not permitted to draw a single plan, not
one.
In making of the veils, not one man
was allowed to draw the pattern.
Moses might have well been able, as he
was a learning man, and as we know
now, a genius in his own right.
He had lived in Egypt and had seen
beautiful buildings there about the palace where he
grew up as a boy, the supposed son
of Pharaoh's daughter.
And yet Moses, though he could have been,
I'd be happy to live in a house
that Moses designed, a man of that ability
and a man of his experience and age.
But God said to Moses, Now Moses, I
want you to make this earthly tabernacle so
that it will be a reflection of the
tabernacle above, so that the light that shines
down from God upon this area will reflect
back what it sees, and that that it
sees will be your earthly tabernacle.
This will only be here for a little
while.
Shadows don't remain very long.
The light continues, but the shadows go.
So he said, I want you to make
this, and don't you dare improvise.
Don't you take any liberties with the score.
Don't you tack on anything.
And don't you in your hurry say, Now
this isn't necessary.
Don't you do it, Moses.
You stay by the pattern shown to thee
in the mountain.
Because if you fail me in the making
of this, then there will be an imperfect
reflection of the shining glory above.
Now this God insisted upon, and warned Moses
not to vary any from the pattern.
And this springs out of a twofold presupposition,
or threefold.
One is that redemption is wrought out by
God and not by man.
I want you to hear this, my brethren
and sisters, that redemption is wrought out by
God and not by man.
There isn't any place in the head of
a man or in the fingers of a
man, however skilled or however brilliant, for redemptive
plans or purposes.
God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the
world began, and it doesn't need any editing
on my part or on the part of
any living man.
And then, in this presupposition, that true religion
is revealed by God, and that it is
not discovered by man or constructed by man.
Christianity grows downward from heaven, not upward from
the earth.
It doesn't stand upon the earth, its roots
are in heaven and it grows downward, so
that man has nothing to say here at
all.
True religion is revealed.
There are many religions in the world that
man has constructed, and some of them are
very beautiful and meaningful and all that, but
they are not redemptive religions.
They are not redemptive.
And God says, this true religion which you
are to enjoy comes from heaven above, and
all you ought to do now is to
simply let the light above shine down and
reflect the glory that is above, and when
you pull away the Old Testament mirror, there
is no more any reflection.
That's gone, but the eternal world above remains.
But there is a third presupposition, and that
is that salvation is received from God and
not achieved by man.
I want you to hear that, that salvation
is received from God and not achieved by
man.
If salvation had been achieved by man, even
a little bit, even one percent of it,
then God would have said, Moses, I'm giving
you a 99 percent perfect blueprint.
You can doodle a little and write in
and improvise and put in anything you want
to put in, because I allow you one
percent.
God said, No, Moses, one hundred percent is
from Jehovah thy God, so don't take liberties
here with the pattern.
Now, heaven will tell earth how to build,
remember that, and heaven speaks and it is
for earth to listen.
And heaven commands and it is only for
earth to obey, not to ask questions, but
to obey.
Heaven calls and it is for earth to
answer, and heaven invites and it is for
earth to respond to the invitation.
We in the New Testament church have also
been handed the pattern, and that pattern consists
of things which are eternally true, which are
revealed by God, commandments laid down by God,
eternally true, and true for all nations and
for each single nation, and for all persons
and for each single person, and true under
all conditions, and not relative.
You know, there is what they call the
relativity of morals.
One of our boys attended a state university,
and he came home.
He's gotten over it since.
But while he was going through the mill
of getting his basic degree in this university,
he was talking loudly and swinging his arms
and trying to set the old man straight
on the relativity of morals.
He said that morals are not fixed, they
are not absolutes, they are relative, they float.
And it depends upon the angle you see
them from.
For instance, in Canada and in the United
States and most of the Western world, monogamy
is morally right.
That is, one man takes one wife.
But that is not a fixed thing, that's
not an absolute.
Under some cultures, a man can have as
many wives as he can support.
And therefore, it's just as right for a
man to have five wives in Turkey as
it is, if they do, I don't know
what they do in Turkey, but just as
right for a man to have five wives
as it is for a man to have
one wife in Canada.
And he said, you see, the morals are
relative.
Well, I smiled him down, and he got
over it and he learned better.
But you know that there's no relativity.
When you come to the things of God,
brother, when you open your Bible, you put
away this woozy idea of relativity, of this
floating standard of morals.
God speaks, and let the world listen.
O earth, hear the word of the Lord.
When God speaks, it's for us to listen,
for these things are eternally true.
I can lean back and quote with the
best of the Anglicans and the best of
the Methodists and the best of them all.
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth, and in one
Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of
the Father, begotten of him before all worlds.
And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the
Lord and Giver of life, who with Father
and Son together is worshiped and glorified.
I believe these things, they are true.
And so the New Testament is the pattern
shown us in the mount.
It is the mere reflecting from God above,
the truth.
Not truths that are relative and floating, the
truths that are true beyond debate.
There is not another side to them.
This is the day of the panel discussion.
I said a panel discussion is half a
dozen people pooling their ignorance.
Nobody knows anything about it, but they sit
around and discuss it in one town where
I won't tell you what town it is
unless it slips out, and if it does,
I won't mind too much.
But they have a young people's crowd there,
and they meet.
They have one older man, and he is
older in body, and he is the moderator.
These young people will raise a question about
the scripture, a question about morals, a question
about something that has to do with faith.
Then these young people tear it all to
shreds, and some thin burst of the champion
will pipe up and give his opinion.
Why doesn't he shut up and let God
talk?
He doesn't know anything about it anyhow.
He isn't dry behind the ears, and if
he were as old as Methuselah and as
wise as Plato, he wouldn't have any right
to introduce his own opinion into the word
of God.
See, they'll make it after the pattern shown
me in the mount.
Don't doodle, don't improvise, don't stick in a
single board or plank.
Don't put in one thread into the garment
of God.
Don't you dare lay one foundation or put
one pillar upright except God tells you to
do it.
This is the hour when they are telling
us preachers, now don't be dogmatic.
Don't be dogmatic.
After all, there is another side to things.
There is another side to everything you say,
and there is another side to everything I
say, but there is only one side to
what God says, and that's God's side.
And we therefore dare not allow ourselves to
take another side and begin to debate.
The word of the Lord is not debatable,
and the commandments of Christ are not there
to be discussed by a panel.
They are there to be obeyed in humility
and tears for the power of the Holy
Ghost within us.
So remember that.
These are built into the Christian faith.
They are the threads which God works into
the holy garment, and they are the philosophy
by which all men live.
This Bible I read in that profound magazine
that somebody sent to our house, or at
least it comes there, Reader's Digest.
You've got to shake your head to get
to the depths of that profundity.
But anyway, this fellow was saying in a
recent article that we have to develop space,
we have to go out there.
He said, If we don't, we'll stagnate.
And he said, Remember one thing, that when
we get out there, that rash religious statement
that God made man in his image will
be ticking like a time bomb under the
faith of Christians, ready to blow up in
our faces.
We'll go out there and find a green
creature with bug eyes, or one in the
middle of his forehead and antennas on his
head, and say, Take me to your leader.
Well, we'll go there and we'll find that
all that we knew about or believed about
God is all wrong.
Oh, I don't know who that fellow is,
but I do know you couldn't be any
wronger if you said that this two times
two made twenty-nine.
Because he's just wrong, that's all.
The word of the Lord stands.
Here it is.
What are you going to do about it?
The words that I speak unto you, they
are spirited and they are truth.
The words that I speak unto you shall
judge you in the last day.
These are my words, says God, and let
no man add anything to them, lest he
be cursed, and let no man take anything
away.
There they are.
They are not for me to edit and
tinker with, they are for me to believe
and obey.
For there is no other way to be
happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.
Now, we're committed to the Bible pattern.
We're committed to it, and no man has
any authority to add anything to it, and
no man has any authority to subtract anything
from it.
No man has any authority to alter it
in any way, and no man has any
authority to remold it nearer to the heart's
desire.
No man has any authority.
See, they'll make all things after the pattern.
But some are afraid of this.
They're afraid of a man like me.
I am very happy that a woman went
out of this church roaring mad one time
when I preached here.
You didn't know that, did you?
Well, a young lady, and she was here,
a very brilliant young lady, and I preached
and said, You have to believe in the
Deity of Christ, you couldn't be a Christian.
She went stomping out of here roaring mad,
and she said, That ignorant man, that he'd
say a thing like that, that you have
to believe in Jesus Christ to be a
Christian!
Well, she can stay as far as I'm
concerned or swing both ways in this church.
But I don't think that's ignorance, I think
that's faith, and he has well confirmed it
to how many millions throughout the world.
How many have gone out and died with
light in their face, singing the songs of
Zion, because they believed that he was God,
a very God-begotten, not created.
That the man whose name was Jesus was
God manifest in mortal flesh.
Some people are afraid of this kind of
teaching.
They don't want to be confined, they say.
They don't want to be fenced in.
They feel that that narrow, very narrow, and
to hold any dogmatic views like that is
to be narrow and tame and static.
But that's the devil's argument, because the answer
to it all is that all our miseries
in the world are the result of our
not believing it.
All the miseries in the world stem originally
from our human race not having followed the
patterns shown them in the mount.
The Lord laid down a few certain rules
for them and said, If you want to
live in the light of my face, live
like this.
They thought they knew better.
Eve got fooling around and thought she knew
better than the rest, and the result is
this mess that we're in.
There won't be a tear shed in the
world today, around the whole wide globe.
But what is the result?
A salty, bitter tear squeezed out of broken
hearts.
There won't be one, but the result of
people thinking they knew better than God knows
about things, and taking things out of God's
hands and taking them into their own.
If Adam and his people, his race that
followed Hadro, had obeyed the pattern in the
mount and lived the way God told them
to, there would be no cold war and
no hot war and no graveyards and no
bereavements and no cancers and no tuberculosis and
no murders and no rapes and nothing.
But there would have been a race, and
there wouldn't have been a stagnant race.
Can you imagine?
Brother, I don't understand.
There are two ways to be dumb.
One is not to go to school at
all, and the other is to go too
long.
I think that some of these people have
been in school too long.
Can you imagine saying to a sardine, take
a sardine out as long as my little
finger, take him out into the middle of
the vast, rolling Pacific and put him down?
Just before you put him down, you'll say
to him, now sardine, you're going to have
to run around the ocean a while, you're
going to have to hunt other oceans because
they don't just stagnate.
How long would it take him to stagnate?
It would take him a million years, and
he wouldn't have found the borders of that
vast, rolling, undulating sea.
And God has given us this wonderful world
with its high-peaked snow-capped mountains, and
he's arched over it the star-studded sky,
and he's made the winds to blow through
her valleys, and he's clothed her with green
and decked her with flowers.
And he has said, this is yours now.
Everything you put your foot on belongs to
you.
I've given this to the sons of men.
And then we get all anxious and say,
if we were going to go and look
out, you don't stagnate, brother.
Why, my dear friends, we don't use one
-third, we don't use one-twenty-fifth of
the brains we already have now.
We spend our time fooling around, and the
result is we're not developing the mighty pattern
that's within our own nature.
So I'm not going to stagnate because I
don't go to the moon or go somewhere
else up there and float around.
I'm doing pretty well down here, thank you.
And if you come to know God, you
can go on to know God, because we're
not dealing with matter and space and time
and law and motion, we're dealing with the
Eternal God, who made the visible and invisible.
And God being the Eternal One and God
being the Infinite One, you could take all
the creatures that God ever made from the
holy watchers beside the throne to the amoeba
there in the seawater, and they could all
search into God for all millions of years
and eternities to come, and they wouldn't have
found even the touch of the hem of
his garment.
So let men stagnate out there in the
world, but Christians don't stagnate, because we have
God.
And God is the everlasting, self-renewing fountain
that never gets stale.
So I say that our mistake is in
thinking, and the mistake we've made all down
history is that we know better than God
knows.
God says, see, thou maketh after the pattern.
And we say, well, we'll partly do that.
We're glad for the inspiration of the pattern,
sure.
Sure, it's wonderful to have the inspiration of
the pattern, but we don't think that it's
necessary to stay by the pattern.
If we do, we'll stagnate.
Well, if that's true, then the one who
goes the farthest from the pattern and is
the freest ought to be the happiest man
and the freest man.
But you know it's not so.
If it's true that keeping the word of
the Lord binds us and makes slaves out
of us, and repudiating the word of the
Lord and breaking the commandments of Christ sets
us free, if that's true, then the man
who's the farthest from God ought to be
the freest man.
But it's just exactly the other way around.
The man who's the farthest from God is
the greatest slave.
Look at the man who has gone the
farthest and who is away from God.
I tell you, that war and murder and
all the rest, they're the free ones.
This dope fiend down here that has said,
let's cast God's cords from me, he has
been temporarily freed from the commandments of God,
but he's got a monkey on his back.
He is now a slave to dope.
And that young fellow who has forgotten why
he was born and hides in the hedges
of the city of Chicago, Illinois, they have
beautiful parks.
You've been there and of course you know
it.
They have them here too, and they make
a great deal out of those parks.
There was a park down off 67th Street
and north, a lovely park, and it had
a hedge all the way around it.
You know what they had to do?
They had to remove that hedge.
Now I'll give you three guesses why they
took that hedge down.
Beautiful, carefully trimmed hedge went all the way
down one street, down another street, down another
street.
And you could look in there, and of
course there were openings and gates where you
could go in, and then you were in
a park.
You know why they did?
Because young men hid in the hedges and
jumped out and attacked women.
And to get rid of this hiding place
for morons, they had to take away the
hedge.
Cut them away so they wouldn't have a
place to hide.
There's your free man.
He laughs at the patterns shown in the
mount, and the commandments of Christ mean nothing
to him.
He's free.
He's following his own desires.
He's an unsuppressed animal.
But you don't dare let your daughter go.
Our daughter Becky was 19 years old, I
think.
Well, she was off to college before we
would ever let her go anyplace alone.
Even when she came out on the train
from working in a bookstore down in the
loop, I'd meet her.
Didn't like it.
She felt she was making a baby out
of her.
But I was determined that these free men
who were free to follow their lusts like
a goat, I was just determined that they
weren't going to beat her up.
So if it was true that we Christians
are slaves and that there is a great
deal of slavery and bondage in obeying the
commandments of Christ and living in obedience to
the faith of our Fathers, then we Christians
should have shackles on our wrists and the
beatniks and the rest should be the freest
people in the world.
Exactly the opposite is true.
We're free as birds and the beatnik is
a slave.
A slave.
The bearded beatnik with his feet up in
espresso coffee between his brown unscrubbed teeth.
He is a slave to the opinion of
the beatnik crowd.
He is a non-conformist, he says.
And as a non-conformist, he is slavishly
conforming to his non-conformity.
So my dear brother and sister, always remember
the patterns shown us in the mount.
The four Gospels, the book of Acts, the
book of Romans, the Corinthian epistles, the Galatian
epistles, Thessalonians, and all John and all the
rest.
These are the patterns shown us in the
mount.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them,
he it is that loveth me.
And he that loveth me shall be loved
of my Father, and we will come unto
him, and make our abode with him.
And the man to whom God has come,
and in whose heart God dwells, is a
free man compared with the man who is
trying to be free in his own right.
The murderer and the drunk and the dope
-fiend and the suicide, they are free from
the commandments of Christ, but they are slaves
to the devil.
But the Christian, according to Paul and according
to Christian experience, gets free from the bondage
of Satan and becomes a happy servant to
Jesus Christ the Lord.
You know, there are households where the servants
are better off than a lot of householders.
And in the kingdom of God, the humblest
servant that serves by the kitchen sink is
a happier, freer man than the Lord of
the man across the street if he's not
a Christian.
I'm not apologizing for being a Christian.
Don't imagine that.
There was a day when I looked up
to learned men and felt that they were
so learned that if ever I'd ever find
out what they knew, I couldn't believe the
Bible at all.
But I had an itch in my head
to find out what that was they knew,
that they were supposed to know, that was
to invalidate what I believed.
And so I did a little reading on
my own, I read a book, and I
find out that nobody knows enough, and I
venture to say nobody can ever know enough
to invalidate one word of the scriptures or
to prove wrong one single sentence from the
book of God.
Careful that you follow the pattern shown you
in the mount, sir.
You won't go wrong.
If you listen to people, you'll go wrong.
Listen to the editors and the fellas who
feel that they must amend the word of
God and change the truth, modify it, you'll
go wrong.
You'll come under bondage to yourself, under bondage
to the world and to the devil.
But if you will go free, you will
find that freedom lies in obedience to laws.
And so the Christian is free when he
is obeying his Lord.
He's the freest of all beings, unless it
would be the angels above.
The airplane that flies up yonder is obeying
certain laws of aerodynamics, law of gravitation, and
all kinds of laws.
Sometimes when I have nothing else to do,
usually I ride on an airplane, but sometimes
I read the literature that explains about the
various engines and all the rest, and I
find out that there isn't a single thing
in all that great plane, not a thing,
it's accidental.
It's all put there in obedience to a
law which God Almighty has given to the
material world.
And if the law is broken down, plunges
the machine into the mountain below, or into
the sea.
So it is with music.
My friend Dave Lutzweiler, who's here from Chicago,
our friend, staying as a house guest over
the weekend, he is a little bit nutty
on music, and we're alike on that.
And so we've been enjoying listening to the
great composers.
Beethoven, who is my favorite, and his, and
Mozart, and a few of the others.
Well, you know something?
I don't know how to compose anything.
I composed a hymn tune one time, nobody
ever sang it.
But outside of that, I'm not a composer,
but this much I'll tell you.
That every sonata, every trio, or quartet, or
symphony, every single page of the music of
the masters are obedient to law.
If you don't obey those laws, you've got
nothing but junk.
Some of these modern composers give us a
cacophonous welter of badly disjointed, hateful sounds.
They won't obey laws.
Jazz artists claim that what makes jazz is
refusal to obey the laws of music.
They say, we just help ourselves.
Sounds like it, all right.
Sounds like it.
I expect fully, when I'm passing over, if
God allows us to get that close to
the belching fires of hell, on my way
to heaven, I fully expect to hear a
jazz combo down there, because it's that kind
of music, that kind of music.
But the great music, all is obedient to
the laws of God.
And you could transfer some of the great
melodies from Beethoven's symphonies right to the throne
of God and sing them there.
We sang one this morning, this dumb hymn
book, excuse my expression, I don't mean the
hymn book, I mean the editors.
They call him Francis Haydn.
Oh, that's Franz Joseph Haydn, that's Papa Haydn,
that's one of the greatest of them all.
And we sang his hymn, his tune to
the glorious things of thee are spoken.
And you could, this crowd could rise in
the grace of God to the right hand
of the throne and sing glorious things of
thee are spoken to Franz Joseph Haydn's tune
and not be in any wise out of
place.
So I say, keeping of the laws of
God to make us free, in the breaking
of this make us slaves.
So it is with beauty, so it is
with the stars that shine in the heaven
above, and so it is with all of
the world of God.
If you obey the pattern shown in the
mount, you'll be free and happy and completely
at rest, and you'll be able to develop
all of the hidden potentials that lie within
your own nature, it's a common expression from
the world.
But if you refuse or if you fail
or if you let the word of God
lie while you read Pogo, I read Pogo
too, but only after I read the word
of God.
And Pogo is funny.
But I also think there's nothing funny in
the book of God.
Here it is, this holy book.
God help us to love it and to
live in it and to live by it
and to eat it and to drink it
and to lie down on it and to
walk on it and stand on it and
swear by it and live by it and
rest in it.
This is the book of God.
See that thou do all things according to
the pattern shown me in the mount.
Clean up your life, bring it around to
the harmony of the word of God.
If Moses had come and had found some
of his workers and he said, what's that
thing there?
Well, he said, I don't know, I was
just improvising.
Well, he said, take that out and burn
it.
Stay by the pattern shown me in the
mount.
And if Moses or any Paul or somebody
were alive today and come to our average
church, they'd find a great deal that's just
improvising on the part of people who ought
to know better.
Let's obey God.
Let's do what we're told to do.
Let's have faith and then let's be obedient.
Let's believe what he tells us to believe,
do what he tells us to do.
Let's not make the mistake of trying to
believe what we should do and do what
we should believe.
There are things to do and there are
things to believe.
And the things that are to do are
to be done, not believed.
And the things that are to believed are
to be believed.
So let's believe what's to be believed and
do what we're commanded to do and there'll
be the two wings of the bird that
take us up to God.
Somebody asked the old saint, which is the
more important, prayer or the reading of the
word?
He said, which is the more important to
a bird, the right wing or the left?
So which is the more important to a
Christian, believing or obeying?
I answer, which to the sparrow that flew
to the housetop?
Which little wing was the more important to
him?
Both are equally important.
So we must believe God's word and we
must obey it.
And by those two wings, a man will
rise to God.
Faith and humble obedience in his faith to
the Lord himself.
So the truest Christian is the freest Christian.
And I think I'll close there and say
that the gospel of Jesus Christ sets slaves
free.
But you say, my experience with Christians hasn't
taught me that they're the ideal people you've
described this morning.
The reason is, very few Christians are prepared
to go with God all the way.
They go part of the way and then
they be improvised.
They follow the Lord until things look a
little sticky and then they say, well, there's
no use to get radical about this and
be a fanatic.
I think I can reason this out myself.
So they have a panel discussion and decide
on what the Lord really should have said
there.
The result is, of course, confusion, lukewarmness, which
God will spew out of his mouth.
Oh, let's come back to the book, will
you?
Or rather, let's go forward to the book,
for we lag so far behind it.
Here it is.
Thank God for the book.
See that thou do all things after the
pattern I've shown you in the mount.
See that your faith conforms to my revelation.
See that your footsteps walk in my path.
If you do that, I'll be an enemy
to your enemies and an adversary to your
adversaries.
And I'll look after you.
And when hoary hair shall thy temples adorn
like lambs, thou shalt still on my bosom
be born.
Amen.