I want to read quite an extended passage
tonight, which will be the text for the
sermon to follow.
Genesis 15, and a little of 17 when
I come to it later.
After these things, the word of the Lord
came unto Abraham in a vision, saying, Abraham,
fear not, Abraham, I am thy shield and
thy exceeding great reward.
Abraham said, Lord God, what wilt thou give
me, seeing I go tireless and scared of
my house as Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abraham said, Behold, to me dost thou
give no suit, and one born in my
house is my heir.
Behold, the word of the Lord came to
him, saying, This shall not be thine heir,
but he which shall come forth out of
thine own bow shall be thine heir.
And God brought Abraham forth abroad and said,
Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars
if thou be able to number them.
And he said unto him, So shall thy
seed do.
And Abraham believed in the Lord, and he
counted it to him for righteousness.
And he said unto him, I am the
Lord.
I brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit
it.
And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I
know that I shall inherit it?
This man wanted confirmation he wasn't satisfied with
Bible teaching.
He wanted confirmation in the witness.
Lord God, whereby shall I know that I
shall inherit it?
And then this becomes this awesome passage.
God said unto him, Take them hather of
three years.
And she goeth of three years old, and
a ram of three years old, and a
turtledove and young pigeons.
And Abraham took them unto him, all these,
and divided them in minutes, and laid each
piece one against another.
But the birds he divided not.
When the powers came down upon the carcasses,
Abraham drove them away.
But when the sun was going down, a
deep sleep fell upon Abraham, and low and
poor great darkness fell upon him.
He said unto Abraham, Now I have assured
thee that thy seed shall be a stranger
in the land that is not theirs, and
shall serve them, and they shall afflict them
four hundred years.
And also the nation whom they shall serve
will I judge.
And afterwards they shall come out with great
substance.
Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace.
Thou shalt be buried in a good old
age, but in the fourth generation they shall
come hither again.
For the iniquity of the Amorites is not
yet full.
God stopped speaking, and the narrative begins again.
It came to pass that when the sun
went down, it was dark.
Behold, a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp
that passed between those pieces.
In the same day the Lord made a
covenant with Abraham, saying, Unto thy seed have
I given this land, from the river of
Egypt unto the great river of the river
Euphrates.
We skip chapter 16 and look at 5
verses in chapter 17.
When Abraham was nineteen years old and nine,
the Lord appeared to Abraham and said unto
him, I am the Almighty God.
Walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between me
and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
And Abraham fell on his face, and God
talked with him, saying, As for me, behold,
my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt
be a father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called
Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham, for
a father of many nations have I made
thee.
Now, I with hesitation preach on this, for
I feel myself not worthy to be here
at all in these two wondrous chapters, because
here is found the beating heart of living
religion.
This man, Abram, had no Bible, no church,
no religious tradition, no Bible teacher, no evangelist,
no hymn book, no Bible school.
He had only his empty, hungry heart and
God.
And here we see the ancient fountain of
worship.
This goes back to the roots of true
religion, back of all denominations, back of all
churches, back of all forms of worship, back
of those things we take for granted, organs
and pianos and singers and preachers, back of
all that.
So there was nothing like that then.
Here was a man, nevertheless, who met God.
Now, this is every man's judgment and every
man's condemnation and every man's hope.
And let no man hide behind what he
fondly believes and tells others is a religious
problem.
Father Abraham stands for every man.
He is the father of them that believe.
And he had no religious problems, or if
he did, he took them straight to God.
He said, God, you tell me this.
Now, wait a minute, how about that?
God answered him, he talked to God.
His religious problems he took straight to God.
How many people there are in hell who
are there because they fooled themselves into believing
they had religious problems, when all they had
was sin and no desire to be rid
of it?
Father Abraham, I repeat, stands for all men.
And this man had an experience with God.
He met God in living encounter.
You will notice that God stepped over the
threshold into Abraham's experience, into his intelligent experience.
Abraham and God met face to face in
living encounter, Abraham with a living being he
called God.
Notice here and elsewhere in the story, the
word of the Lord came to Abraham.
He didn't take a course in something, but
the living, vibrant, audible word of the Lord
came to Abraham.
And the Lord appeared unto Abraham, and the
Lord went up from speaking unto Abraham.
And Abraham said to God, and God said
to Abraham.
Now, here was experience.
You will notice, I think I've said this
before and called attention to it, that I
believe in religious experience.
I believe in it in full accord with
the Christian Church, back to the Apostles and
back to our Lord Jesus Christ himself.
I believe in spiritual experience.
The trouble with this is that we believe
without confirmation.
We do not have it confirmed in our
hearts.
God needs not to confirm anything in himself,
because God, being true, cannot lie.
But we need confirmation within ourselves, and we
don't get it, and the result is we're
very pale, poor, anemic, disappointed and dissatisfied Christians.
I believe in spiritual experience, and I love
definitions.
I've got to be careful lest I bore
my audience with definitions, because if I'm talking
about one thing and you're hearing something else,
I might as well stay at home and
so would you.
But if we're going to get together to
know what I mean, then you're going to
have to have me define a bit.
By definition, I give you this, that experience
is conscious awareness, conscious awareness.
To be aware of something, you can't break
it down any further than that.
You are aware of something, that's it, awareness.
Then to be consciously aware, not to be
asleep or to have it happen in your
subconscious, but to be consciously aware, conscious awareness
of something.
That is, the conscious intelligence, the conscious personality
of the man or woman or young person
is aware of something.
Conscious awareness of something by somebody.
That's the definition, and I'm defining it, defining
the definition.
Conscious awareness of something by somebody.
Now, what was Abraham conscious of?
He was consciously aware.
What was he aware of?
God.
Who was it that was aware?
Abraham.
So we have conscious awareness of something by
somebody, and I positively defy any theologian or
preacher in the world to take that away
from the Church of Christ.
You have a right to be consciously aware
of meeting God.
You have that right, the confirmation and inward
knowledge, the witness within you.
And when I say this, I am not
giving you my personal beliefs about it.
They are my personal beliefs, but I mean
that I am not interpreting it out of
my own personal erratic convictions.
This was believed by the fathers down the
years.
There lived a great preacher in the days
of the awakening.
In fact, God used him to bring about
the New England awakening.
His name was Jonathan Edwards.
They said of him that he was one
of the sixth great intellects.
They said that he was one of the
most successful men that ever lived.
The world said that about him.
And this man, Jonathan Edwards, wrote a book
called The Religious Affections.
And the religious affections in his day meant
the religious emotions.
And he was a Calvinist now.
He was not a Methodist, he was a
Calvinist.
He was not a member of the Salvation
Army.
If he had been a Methodist or a
member of the Salvation Army, the fundamentalists might
have spiked him and said, Well, he's an
Arminian.
He didn't happen to be an Arminian.
Wesley was, but he was a Calvinist, a
good old John Calvinist.
And yet he believed in the religious emotions
to a point where he wrote a book
in defense of them.
And when they accused him, because there was
so much emotion in his revivals, he stood
up and defended the fact that when a
man meets God, there is an awareness there
that lifts his heart to rapture.
Now, God, I say, stepped over the threshold
of Abraham's conscious experience into his conscious life
of awareness.
Notice how this affected Abraham variously.
One time Abraham fell on his face and
God talked with him.
Ah, that's it.
Abraham fell on his face and God talked
with him.
I don't think that you ever find in
the Bible any neat little picture that sums
up the right place for Abraham and the
right place for man and the right place
for God better than this.
God on his throne speaking and Abraham on
his face listening.
That's always the ideal.
God to do the talking and man to
do the listening.
And in the conscious presence of the world's
awful mystery, in the conscious presence of the
world's awful mystery, I charge it upon us,
my brethren, I charge it upon the modern
evangelical Church that we are not consciously aware
of a presence.
We are not consciously aware of God.
God is twice removed.
We hear not God's voice, we hear a
recording of his voice.
We see not God's face, we see a
painting of his face.
We hear not the sound of his voice,
we hear an echo of the sound.
We are always once removed from God.
What is revival?
It is when we stop looking at a
picture of God and look at God.
When we stop hearing an echo and hear
God's voice itself.
When instead of having God in history, we
have God in experience.
The Church now is satisfied with the God
of history, the Christ of history.
And we have God in history and Christ
in history, but we don't have God in
living personal experience.
That's why we're so dissatisfied and so empty
and we have so little vivid, vibrant joy
in the things of God.
But here was the man Abraham in the
conscious presence of that awful mystery, the world's
awful mystery, that someone has called the Mysterium
Tremendum.
The awful, the awful, the mysterious, the mysterious
and tremendous, awesome being, the majestic God who
lives in his universe.
Now Abraham was lying face down before this
awful mystery, this awful one who filled all
and who was present and who was pressing
in on Abraham and rising above him and
defeating him and taking away his self-confidence
and overwhelming him and yet inviting him and
calling him and pleading with him and promising
him and drawing near to him.
This is God, beloved.
In our day we have reduced God to
where we can get hold of him and
manage him and push him about.
For the great God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ rises beyond our consciousness and
rises beyond our ability to lay hold and
rises beyond all of our questions into his
infinitude, the mighty great God.
And this is the God that approached Abraham,
this is the God, this God.
Later on he approached mankind in his own
flesh, man's own flesh, and they called his
name Immanuel.
But all of it was God trying to
get to do, God approaching man.
And yet this God was the terrible God
that made Abraham lie down on his face.
I ask you, what better are we than
cattle, as Tennyson said?
What better are we than sheep, than sheep
that nourish a bland life within the mind?
If we live, live and buy and sell
and get gain and eat and sleep and
marry and propagate and get old and die
and never during all this time do we
ever meet the God, the God of Abraham,
the Mysterium Commendum, the awful majesty that sitteth
upon the throne.
John said that he was called up hither
and he saw a voice, or saw a
door open and he heard a voice saying,
Come and see, and he came and he
saw a throne.
A throne was set in heaven and one
sat on the throne.
And he that sat was to look upon
like a barrel and a jasper stone, a
sardine and a jasper stone.
And there was a rainbow round about the
throne in sight like unto an emerald.
And there sitting in awful majesty within the
circle of the green rainbow was the great
God, before whom the beasts and the elders
fell down.
Now I say, what are we better off
than the sheep out in the pasture field,
if we never sense this, if heaven is
silent and the night unpopulated?
There that great English poet Wordsworth wrote that
well-known and often quoted and badly quoted
and misquoted sonnet in which he said, The
world is too much with us.
He was disgusted and sick in heart.
The world is too much with us.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Getting and spending, I wonder if he lives
now, I ought to say.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Little we see in nature that is ours.
We're the orphans of the world.
Little we see in nature that is ours.
This moon and this wind that will be
howling at all hours, but is up-gathered
now like sleeping flowers.
For this, for everything, we're out of tune.
And then he burst out in a daring
line in which he said, Great God, rather
would I be a pagan suckled in a
queen, yeed outworn.
I'd rather be a heathen without a knowledge
of the Bible and brought up in an
outworn pagan creed.
So that standing on some peasantly I might
have visions that would make me less forlorn.
That I might see old prophets rising from
the sea or hear old Titan blow his
wreath at dawn.
And something in my heart responds to the
great English nature poet.
He said, I'm so sick, I'm so sick
of getting and spending and being a pawn
of the world and seeing nothing but money
and houses and clothes and people.
He said, I'd rather be a heathen and
stand on the shore of the ocean and
imagine I saw Proteus rising or heard old
Titan blow his horn.
And at least have something than to have
nothing.
I'd rather be an Indian stretching his hands
toward heaven and calling out to Ditchegumi or
some other god.
I mean it, I mean it!
Than to be a half-hearted Christian coming
into church and going out again and going
off and reading a chapter and not knowing
what's in it and never having a sense
of God there.
Full of self-confidence and a soul all
clogged up with pride and inventions and food
and comforts and things to read and places
to go and things to see.
So we spend our time running from one
place to another, looking at this and running
and looking at that, getting old while we're
doing it, coming near to the judgment.
And Christ warned, what shall a man profit
if he gains the whole world and loses
his soul?
And over here in the book of Luke,
Jesus our Lord, and we have his uttered
words, his recorded words, I think we ought
not to sleep tonight until we've done something
about this.
Take heed to yourselves, said our Lord Jesus,
lest at any time your hearts be overcharged
with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of
this life.
So that day come upon you unaware for
as a snare shall it come on all
in the dwell on the face of the
holder.
Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye
may be accounted worthy to escape all these
things that shall come to pass and to
stand before the Son of Man.
Where is the teaching?
Where is the teaching that everybody that's accepted
Christ, he's okay, the Lord will come and
we'll all wear crowns and rule over cities.
He says, Jesus says, watch ye therefore and
pray always that ye may be accounted worthy
to escape these things that shall come to
pass and to stand before the Son of
Man.
If it was automatic, why should we have
to watch and pray?
Well, Abraham, back again to Abraham.
You know, Abraham got a hold of an
idea, just one good idea, sometimes better than
a whole book.
Abraham got a hold of one good idea,
and it was this, only God matters.
Now from the known to the unknown is
a good way of reasoning.
You can't get a hold of the unknown
until you get a hold of the known.
Jesus said, if you don't know the things
of earth, how can you believe if I
tell you the things of heaven?
So let's read a little from the known
to the unknown.
Let's begin by saying that everything is best
when it's fulfilling its design.
Everything is designed for something.
You can use a ballpoint pencil for, I
don't know, a half a dozen things, I
suppose, but it's best when it's being used
as a pencil.
You can use a piano to stand on
to hang a picture if you want to,
but that's not what pianos are made for.
You can put pictures on it or a
flowerpot if you want to.
That isn't what they're made for.
They're made to produce music.
That's what they're built for.
And they're best when they're doing that which
they were designed to do.
There's an intelligent purpose in the creating of
a piano.
The man who made a piano didn't say,
I'm going to make a piece of furniture
and use it for anything.
It's going to have 19 uses.
It has one!
And that's to get good music out of
it.
And when it comes to us, look at
your eye.
Your eye just has one purpose.
Just one.
It's up there, stuck two of them, stuck
side by side, and they're there for a
purpose.
They are the lenses through which your soul
sees, through which your mind takes in the
scenes around you.
So that's what your eye is for.
And then you have an ear, two of
them, stuck one on each side of your
head.
Now what's your ear for?
They're to hear with.
Your eye is designed to take one kind
of a wave and a pulsation of energy.
And your ear, another.
Now you can use your ear to hang
glasses on, of course.
They're useful.
I've often wondered what we'd do without them.
They're that few Scotch tape, I suppose, to
hold them on.
But here's your ear.
Now your ear is best, your ear is
best when it's doing the thing God designed
it to do.
And so it is with everything else.
Everything has a design and a purpose.
And it can be perverted to another purpose.
So God was saying to Abraham, now listen,
Abraham, I'm trying to get a message through
to you.
I'm trying to tell you something, Abraham.
Can you listen to me?
And here it is.
Abraham, you were made in my image, and
you were designed for one purpose, and that
is to be a retainer at my court,
and that is to be a worshiper at
my throne, that is to glorify me and
live in my presence and rest not day
and night through eternity, crying, Holy, Holy, Holy
Lord God Almighty, and be happy beyond the
power of all mortals to understand.
That's, Abraham, what I created you for.
Don't forget it.
You thought I created you for something else,
but you're wrong.
This is what I created you for, to
worship me.
Do you know, my friend, that's what you're
created for.
You're first to be a worshiper.
That's what God made you for.
God put a harp in your soul, and
he's the only one that can get any
music out of it.
God put that harp there, that image of
himself there, that you might take it to
him and that he might use it and
that he might play on that instrument and
bring forth high music to fill all the
heavens above.
So this is what Abraham had to learn,
to glorify God.
Abraham, only God matters, God was saying, and
I say this to you tonight, you don't
have to come back and listen, but I
say to you now, only God matters at
last.
And if you get everything settled with God,
then you get God within the compass of
your spiritual experience.
He'll untangle everything else.
All problems are spiritual problems at bottom.
All problems are spiritual.
And if you get God, everything else will
iron itself out for you finally.
And it doesn't make much difference whether it
does or not, for you've not got a
long time to stay around.
And the Lord God appeared unto Abraham, and
there he built an altar unto the Lord
who appeared unto him.
Now well do I know that the only
altar now is the one in the glory
where our Lord Jesus Christ is.
Well also do I know that the idea
of building an altar and worshiping before an
altar is as old as Abram's, and nothing
is teased down the years.
So when I talk about building an altar,
remember I don't mean a wooden altar to
which you put your elbows.
I mean an altar in your heart.
What does the hymn say?
My heart, the altar, and thy self, the
flame.
Ah, this encounter with God Almighty, this wondrous
encounter.
You see, God had been there all the
time, but Abraham had just now got acquainted
with him, really.
And this has been true of every great
person, all the great souls, the great Saints.
Why is it that we write the stories
and the lives of the great men?
I've written two biographies, three, I guess, if
you count small ones, of great souls, great
men who in this generation met God.
And they were all alike.
They were different.
I wrote the life of A.B. Simpson,
the life of Robert Jaffrey, both of them
being Canadians, and the life of the Irish
plumber, Tom Hare.
That, of course, was only brief.
But, you know, they were as unlike as
it could possibly be imagined.
Dr. Simpson was a cultured, well-educated, trained
theologian.
Dr. Jaffrey got his training on the jump,
and his education wasn't tremendous.
And he was a great missionary.
Tom Hare has no education.
You think he got inspired by King James
Version, you know.
More or less, he knows better.
But he says he believes that the Lord
exercised a certain something over those translators that
he didn't over anybody else, and he may
be right of that.
But Tom doesn't have much education and knows
it.
And he's an Irishman with a red face,
so red that if you put a match
on the thing, it would burst into flames.
You know, just a red hot face he's
got.
But how different they were, those three men.
But they were alike in one essential.
They had all had an experience with the
living God.
And God had said the same thing to
all of them, only God matters.
And if you'll get right with me, everything
else will work itself out for you.
And they all built an altar.
If we had the names of all of
them who had been found of God in
the waste-piling wilderness and had built the
altars, how many would there be, wondrous!
Yes, Lord, there would be the great and
there would be the small, there would be
rich and there would be poor, there would
be high-born and low-born, there would
be kings and there would be peasants.
But they would all be alike in this,
that they met their great God Almighty.
And something changed them, and something changed inside
of them.
And the complexion and color of the universe
changed for them.
And they looked out and saw something they
had never seen.
As the hymn says, something glows in every,
where is it, the priceless eyes they have
never seen.
They saw something different.
They saw these men after they had met
God, they looked out upon the world and
they saw a different world.
And I have heard many a man testify
and I have read the testimonies of men
that after they had met God in living
experience, in living encounter, that they saw that
the whole world changed for them.
Buddy Robinson, whom I quoted this morning, said
when the Lord filled him with the Holy
Ghost, he was so blessed he went out
and hugged the trees.
He said he grabbed a tree around and
hugged the thing.
I can understand that.
Everything looks good when God is in your
heart.
Everything looks good when you see it through
the glow of worship and the aura of
divine enjoyment.
Everything changes.
Tell me that Simpson one time was a
little late in getting to meeting and a
young fellow was sent over to get him.
He got over there and he couldn't go
in because the door was partly open and
they heard a voice coming out and they
were just saying two words and saying them
over and over again.
The old man was looking up and with
his eyes open was saying two words, And
it was that saying of Yes, Lord!
that made him into the great man that
he was.
God was on the throne and he was
lying face down and God was speaking to
him.
And that's the picture we got in Abraham
back there in the seventeenth chapter of Genesis.
Now that mysterious presence, that fire, that great
darkness, that awesome thing that we read about
there said that there was a deep sleep
fell upon Abram and lo, a horror of
great darkness fell upon him.
It came to pass that when the sun
went down it was dark and behold a
smoking furnace and a burning lamp passed between
those pieces.
And the same day the Lord made a
covenant with Abram.
Here was not only experience, here was experience
in fire, here was experience in mystery and
majesty and awe and wonder.
That feeling of personal nothingness came upon the
man Abraham before the object, the object that
we call God.
So Abraham was bewildered and confounded and captivated
and transported and ravished and fascinated.
All this came to the heart of the
man.
This was what made Abram Abraham.
Now I wonder if you have heard from
God.
How blessed are your ears if you have,
if you are disturbed by this simple little
outline I have given tonight.
If you are disturbed by it and you
feel something in you, how blessed are you
for there are thousands like you and just
as good and just as wise and just
as educated who don't feel a thing tonight.
They don't feel a thing and the way
they respond is to say that leaves me
cold.
Thank God it doesn't leave you cold.
Thank God.
I want to know whether you will build
an altar.
An altar is wherever.
There is one altar up there and the
Lord the Lamb is there.
But wherever you put your elbows down and
lift your face heavenward, there is an altar
for you.
I want to read a little hymn to
you as I bring this to a close.
A little hymn and I want you to
think of your own spiritual life and say
to yourself did I ever meet God at
all?
Do I know God?
Listen to this man as he worships God.
Now you can't sing this hymn.
It's irregular in verse form and you couldn't
sing it and people wouldn't sing it anyhow
because they'd rather sing something else.
But this man wrote this.
Oh, blessed Trinity.
Holy, unfathomable, infinite.
Thou art all life and love and light.
Holy Trinity, blessed equals to thee one God
we worship thee.
Oh, blessed Trinity.
In our astonished reverence we confess thine uncreated
loveliness.
In our astonished reverence did you notice how
when a man called Immanuel walked in Palestine
how he astonished everybody?
Not by miracles but by his Just as
the man they'd shake their heads and say
this is wonderful.
We'd never seen anything like this before.
Even when he was hanging on a tree
and was crucified the hard-hearted and hard
-headed Roman soldier fled away and said surely
this was the Son of God.
In our astonished reverence we confess thine uncreated
loveliness.
Oh, blessed Trinity.
Oh, simplest majesty.
Oh, three in one.
Thou art forever God alone.
Oh, blessed Trinity.
Oh, unbegotten Father give us tears to quench
our love and to calm our fears.
We couldn't sing that without being hypocritical.
How many are there in fundamental circles?
How many are there in the Christian missionary
alliance that have to pray that God will
give them tears to quench their love lest
it consume them?
I find a great difficulty to find enough
love to warm my hands at.
But he had to pray that God would
quench the fire for fear it would burn
him up.
Oh, unbegotten Father give me tears to quench
us tears to quench our love to calm
our fears.
blessed Trinity.
Bright Son who art the Father's mind displayed.
Thou art begotten and not made.
Oh, blessed Trinity.
Co-equal spirit, wondrous Paraclete.
Thy deed of Godhead is complete.
Here was a man who had met God.
Here was a saint on his knees.
He can't sing this carelessly.
He couldn't.
Oh, blessed Trinity.
In the deep darkness of prayer still at
night we worship thee blinded with light.
Oh, blessed Trinity.
Oh, would that we could die for love
of thee.
Incomparable Trinity.
Our Father's had this flame.
Where is that flame, that living flame that
shone so bright in days of old?
We don't have it because we haven't experienced
it.
We've come in by saying, I accept Christ.
We've signed the card, we've joined something, and
we've not met God.
For if we have been born again, some
of us haven't been well-born.
The idea that all Christians are alike is
ridiculous.
Just might as well say that all babies
are alike.
Some babies are born premature and almost die.
My brother, eight years younger than I, was
born a premature baby, and he had something
wrong with his neck.
His head was over on one side, and
they carried him around on a pillow for
days, weeks, I think.
He finally came out of it and became
quite an athlete as he got older.
Would you tell me that he was born
equal to, say, our son, Roland, who bounced
into the world hallowing, full of energy and
life and health?
But my poor little brother was born into
the world premature and undersized with his head
off on one side, barely able to make
a little mewing sound like a kitten.
Would you tell me that all babies are
born alike?
No.
They are born with varying degrees of perfection
and energy and life, and so in the
kingdom of God.
Some Christians are born into the kingdom, barely
making ends.
Some are born with a bounce, and you
hear from them as soon as they arrive.
They cry, Abba, Father, and they fill the
church with the sound of their voice.
Others may barely get in and hang on
the edge until you don't know whether they'll
live or not, and they have to be
put in oxygen tents in order to keep
them alive at all.
Here was a man who was well born.
Oh, blessed Trinity, in our astonished reverence, we
confess Thine uncreated loveliness.
These were the saints who met God.
How about you?
What's the way in?
The way in is by the blood.
There is a way for man to rise
to that divine abode in offering in a
sacrifice the Holy Spirit's energies and advocate with
God so that through the wonder of God's
love and goodness, the sons of misery and
night can dwell with eternal life through the
eternal love.
The blood of Jesus Christ is the way
in.
The safe way in.
The protected way in.
The only way in.
The door that is sprinkled all around with
precious blood.
You can come.
You can come now regardless of what your
past has been, regardless of how you failed,
regardless of how long you've dragged half in
and half out, regardless of how many times
you promised and how
many times you promised
and how many promised and how many times
you promised and how many promised and promised
and how many times you promised and how
many times you promised and how many times
you promised
and how many times you how many promised
and had to what you and worked hard
to do it.
The biggest thing is the heart and the
heart is not to say that God had
blessed her and that the truth she read
would bless her heart.
There's emotion in God's direction here and I
rejoice to see it.
Now let's follow him.
Let's obey.
We're going to stand and sing this song,
the seat is wide open here, you come
sit down here.
Will you do that?
While we stand.
All right?