This evening I want to speak to you,
in the very limited time we have left,
on this thing of walking in the Spirit.
Unless you're willing to daily walk in the
Spirit, forget about any experience you had last
night.
Forget it.
It will work.
In fact, I have a friend, he's had
more crisis experience than any fellow boy I
know.
He once gave me a list of his
crisis experiences.
He had the abiding in Christ experience, reckoning
dead experience, risen with Christ experience, sanctification experience,
faith crisis experience, power of the blood experience,
trusting experience, Keswick experience, dedication experience, seated with
Christ in the heavenlies experience, Holy Spirit experience,
consecration experience, burning heart, Emmaus Road experience, rest
of faith experience, Ian Thomas mystery of God
experience, forsaking all experience, look at that Jonathan,
group confession experience, true discipleship experience, OM conference
experience, and wash down with taste of new
wine experience.
And after all that he lived for months
in total defeat.
And last night you may have had an
experience with God.
You may have been filled with the Spirit,
wonder, but unless tomorrow you're ready to walk
in the Spirit, it will not last.
Unless tomorrow you're willing to deny self, take
up the cross and follow Jesus Christ, as
he commanded, it will not last.
We must take the whole counsel of God
or not take any of it.
Lonely confuses.
We must take not only the blessings, but
the responsibilities.
We must not only take the crisis, but
the process as hard and as cross grain
it may be to our particular way of
life and our particular fancy.
Again and again Jesus gave those words.
If any man come after me, let him
deny himself.
Tomorrow in the back of that truck, you're
going to have to deny yourself.
When you get down in those French villages,
you're going to have to deny yourself.
And if you're not willing to deny self,
and take up the cross, and Jesus said
in one place daily, and follow him, the
experience will become invalid.
God wants to give you young people a
daily experience, a daily revival, a daily filling.
And he wants you to walk in the
spirit.
Here in Galatians chapter 5, we have wonderful
words.
We have a description of this great conflict
that we're in, in verse 17.
For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and
the spirit against the flesh.
And these are contrary, the one to the
other, so that we cannot do the things
that we would.
That's the picture of the spiritual man.
You will never come to a place in
which the flesh is annihilated, or the old
man goes away, and takes a holiday.
This warfare described in Galatians 5, 17, is
going to be your lot the rest of
the life.
The sooner you realize it, the better you'll
be able to combat it and live.
The flesh lusteth against the spirit.
And this is a description of a man
who is walking in the spirit.
And the answer, of course, to this conflict
is just that, walking in the spirit.
Walking in the spirit.
I want to just read that from this
living letter.
I want to read this verse from this
wonderful living letters.
Galatians 5.
The one I want to read now is
verse 16 about walking in the spirit.
I advise you to obey only the Holy
Spirit's instructions.
He will tell you where to go and
what to do.
And then you will always be doing the
wrong thing your evil nature wants you to
do.
So you have this battle within you.
The spirit lusting against the flesh.
And in some ways, the one who you
feed is going to win.
There's a verse in the Bible that says,
Give no occasion to the flesh.
I like that verse.
Give no occasion to the flesh.
If you feed your mind and your soul
with the things of the world, the world's
literature.
I'm speaking now of unacceptable literature.
I'm not speaking of reading the Encyclopedia Britannica
or studying Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist or something.
But if you feed your mind and your
soul with worldly things, worldly ideas, you're going
to build up the power of the flesh
and the flesh is going to win.
But if you feed the spirit, the word,
prayer, spiritual fellowship, confession, praise, many things we
mention in these days, you're going to build
up your spiritual power and you're going to
be able to walk in the spirit.
All young people walking in the spirit.
Basically, what we're talking about is maintaining the
spiritual life.
And Jonathan, in what he said tonight, has
already covered a lot of the areas, especially
things that we must forsake.
And I want to, just in closing, and
I just pray you'll never forget, just leave
you with some things for maintaining this spiritual
life.
Basic, but we must not forget them.
Try to understand.
It's very important you understand what we're saying
tonight on top of what we talked about
last night.
Very important.
Otherwise people get twisted ideas and they wonder
why they made a commitment and now they
aren't sort of floating along.
You've got to get down now to daily
walking with Jesus.
And that will involve daily forsaking all.
Jonathan's talked about that.
That's my first point.
I'm not going to say any more.
And that brings me to my second thing.
And I'm going to do this very quickly.
You've got to learn the secret of repentance.
You'll never live the Christian life if you
don't learn how to repent.
The quicker you learn and the quicker you
repent, the happier you are, the faster you
go.
Why do you, and you know you do,
buck the Lord when He's trying to get
you to repent?
This is something, I don't know, in a
miraculous way I've learned.
Just two nights ago I was talking to
someone back there and I said something that
was an exaggeration and it was somewhat unkind
about another place.
And I went in my room, Spirit of
God touched my heart.
It was an exaggeration.
It wasn't the exact truth.
It gave a wrong idea.
I said, okay, thank you Lord, excuse me,
now I've got some things to do.
Right back, you go back and apologize and
tell that person that you exaggerated.
Oh now, Lord, it's so embarrassing.
He thinks I'm spiritual.
Imagine me, the international coordinator of OM, doing
this thing.
He finds out and he'll tell somebody.
This thing will spread and Lord, I'll be
through.
Well, fortunately it didn't go that far in
my thinking, but that's the way the devil
likes to get us to think.
Instead, because I know this secret by His
grace, all in a matter of minutes I
turned around, I walked out, I said, look,
what I said was just exaggerated, it's wrong,
I shouldn't have said it, forget it and
forgive me.
Now, I know a lot of things that
I repent about.
Most people don't, they don't repent because I've
asked people.
We're hardened, we don't like to repent.
Yeah, in our own hearts, yes, but going
back to somebody saying, brother, I'm sorry.
Brother, it was me who stepped on your
cup last night and broke it.
I'm sorry.
Now, there's no sin about breaking a man's
cup, but there is sin if you fear
him and fear your reputation and so you
won't admit it.
That's sin.
And the fear we have of one another,
the fear of being exposed, the fear of
the mask falling off keeps us from repentance
and that cripples us, quenches the spirit and
kills the walk in the spirit.
Keep a short account with the Lord.
Repent of anything He touches your heart.
I've met very few people who repent too
much.
They certainly will be a unique little group
up in heaven.
I'm going to look for them when I
get there.
There's the group in that corner that repented
too much.
Reminds me of the other little group that
you probably won't find many of.
Over there, there's the group that showed too
much love.
Boy, they will be a minority group.
Young people, if you want to maintain the
fullness of the spirit in your life, learn
to repent of anything the Lord touches you.
Don't dwell on it.
I never dwell on it.
I forget it immediately.
I'm not introspective.
I don't believe in it.
But I believe in dealing with sin smack
hard on.
And that's one of the biggest things that
has kept me going.
Not the perfect life.
Not being in some kind of spiritual ecstasy
all day long.
But short accounts.
Oh, you've got to see that, young person.
You've got to see that.
Because if you don't, you will not walk
in the spirit.
You will not.
Next thing you've got to do, you've got
to make this book your bread and butter,
your breakfast, lunch, and supper, your midnight snack,
your afternoon tea, your elevensies, dear English friends.
I tell you, I love that country, England.
I love it.
So many reasons.
Someday I'll give you my message.
One hundred reasons why I'm thrilled with the
British Isles.
And I have such a love for that
country that I just want to see so
many leave.
So it's only when they leave that they
appreciate England.
That's right.
Some of you don't appreciate your own country.
And you leave, and then you come back.
After five years in O.M., you'll be
a better Englishman.
That's right.
And I'm very patriotic to many different countries.
But I believe with all my heart, we've
got to devour this book.
I admire certain people.
Some of them may be some of them
are so steadfast in the faith, so strong
in the Lord.
And many times when I've talked to them,
I found their secret, intense meditation on the
Word of God.
How many of you have memorized more than
200 verses of Scripture?
Raise your hand.
You don't want to boast.
Just raise your hand anyway.
Just so I can see.
Be honest.
A few, four, five.
Muslims in Egypt memorized the whole Quran to
get in the Al-Azhar University.
We've got five people that have memorized 200
verses.
I pray this summer, every spare moment, you'll
memorize the Word of God.
I had hundreds of verses in my mind
and heart before I was two or three
years old in Christ.
It was my strength.
I said in university, in physics class, the
teacher used to get carried away talking about
his grandmother, and I'd be writing all my
Scripture references in my physics book.
I almost failed the course, but I learned
to honor Scripture.
I don't recommend that.
But, oh, how much time is going to
be wasted in the back of those trucks?
How much time standing in the queues?
Tomorrow morning, you may not get out of
here tomorrow morning.
No, you think all this, this is mythological,
this stuff they give you about six and
seven o'clock.
I hope it isn't.
I tell you, when Graham Scott gets going,
things do move a bit.
What if you do sit here all day
tomorrow?
Just think of all the Scripture you can
memorize.
Oh, this is so important, and I'll show
you why.
And the complete proof of it from Scripture,
Colossians 3, 16, Let the Word of Christ
dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching
and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your
hearts to the Lord.
That's the exact same description you find in
Ephesians where it says, Be filled with the
Spirit.
You ever notice that?
Exact same description of what happens.
But, what does it say there?
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you
richly.
You see that?
The most important way to maintain the fullness
of the Spirit is letting the Word of
Christ dwell in you richly.
In fact, this Scripture seems to show them
as being synonymous.
Fill your heart with the Word.
Memorize.
Meditate.
Discuss it.
Oh, may the Word of God and Jesus
be the topic of our conversation.
We waste so much time in nonsense talk.
Over the table.
Now there's time for loose talk.
And it's good to talk about current events
and things that are happening.
I don't believe we're to walk around all
day being serious.
You couldn't do that and quote Scripture anyway
because some Scriptures really make you laugh.
They really do.
I mean, when I first go to the
ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be
wise.
I went out once and watched the ants.
I tell you, it was the funniest thing.
Have you ever watched the ants?
And many other verses are just fantastic.
Especially these verses in which Jesus Christ explains
and answers certain questions.
And so, we've got to feed on the
Word.
We've got to feast.
Memorize and meditate.
That will enable us probably more than anything
else to walk in the Spirit.
I'll tell you right now, I'm so frustrated
because I know I've got to end.
So much I want to tell you.
I believe this meditating and memorizing the Word
will help you in your emotional problem more
than almost anything else.
A number of you have expressed that you
have emotional problems, tensions, fears.
And you've come up to me, you've asked,
and I can't give you the time.
For every one hour I spend in the
pulpit, I spend six in counseling and in
private conversation with people.
But I can't do it all here.
But the thing that I see that will
help you, it's not a cure-all for
everybody, but the biggest thing I can say
in this area of emotional difficulty, meditation on
the Word of God.
That's right.
Do you have fears?
Take 100 verses that talk about fear and
memorize them.
Then write me if your fear isn't gone.
That's right.
And I believe that the Word of God
in your heart and in your subconscious, where
most of our problems are, will cleanse and
will fortify and will renew.
The Bible speaks of the renewing of the
mind.
Speaks of being clean through the Word spoken
unto us.
And young person, if you're not willing to
get serious about this book, forget this conference.
It will never stick.
If the only thing I do in this
conference is get you into this book, I
will have done more than I could ever
do in all my preaching.
Memorize, meditate, feast on the Word of God.
Let the Word of Jesus Christ dwell in
you richly.
Will you do that?
Walking in the Spirit.
The next thing, very quickly, you must determine
to have an honest, real prayer life.
Prayer, young people, is not firstly asking God
for things, especially when we're young in the
Lord.
It's praise.
It's confession.
It's pouring yourself out to God.
Do you have emotions that bottle up in
you?
Psychiatrists say that all of us have hostility.
Some of them say we're all potential murderers.
I know that I am.
Before I knew Jesus Christ, I hated people
with such a hate that I wanted to
kill.
I played war games from the age of
5 to about 12, and I loved to
kill.
And lately, this has come up more and
more in psychology.
We all have hostility.
And you'll see this come out in different
ways.
You know what happens with most evangelicals?
They know hostility is wrong.
It's not good to get angry.
You're not supposed to do this, especially conservative
and introvert temperaments.
You know what we do with it?
Repress it.
And someday, poof, it pops.
People are cracking up all over the place.
Repressed hostility, repressed emotion, is at least 50
major sicknesses you can develop just through repressed
hostility, repressed anxiety, repressed bitterness.
Oh, I tell you, I wish I had
more time for this.
You've got to pull the cork out.
You've got to open up.
And I believe, firstly, the Scripture teaches not
opening up with one another, that's part of
it, but firstly, opening up with God.
Look at the psalmist David.
How did he pray?
The Psalms are just one outpouring of the
emotions of David.
It's fantastic.
It includes hatred, doesn't it?
It includes desire to get even.
It's just all poured out before God.
If you and I would pour ourselves out
before God, let all of our hostility out,
tell Jesus all about it, your emotions, your
fears, your anxieties, your frustrations, pour it all
out.
I want to tell you it will revolutionize
you and it will help you to walk
in the Spirit because if you don't take
it out on the Lord and cast it
on the Lord, you'll probably take it out
on some other team member.
That's right.
Honesty in prayer.
Oh, I think it's one of the greatest
things.
Do you know I pray as I preach?
I'm such a tank of emotions that if
I see one person falling asleep in the
meeting, I get a complex.
I want to tell you I am definitely
a potential mental case.
There's no question about it.
I'm so sensitive about certain things and people's
problems.
I go running around.
The other day we had a toilet paper
crisis over here in the boys' bathroom.
This threw me into a state of anxiety.
Ha, ha, ha.
Not because of myself.
But because there were fellows outside the toilet
who were, you know, they were expressing this,
this, this, this won't do.
So I ran out.
The first person I got, I think it
was Frank Deason, said, man, get some toilet
paper.
Where's the toilet paper?
And I'm, I'm so sensitive this way that
I get involved in all these things.
I would just do, I mean, you, you
crack up in this work because the toilet
paper crisis is nothing.
When you get to India, it's two years
of toilet paper crisis.
And if there's anyone still asleep, you're unusual.
But you know what I do?
Even as I'm speaking, in between saying something
to you, I'm praying in my heart.
Lord, it's all yours.
I'm not going to let it condemn me.
I'm not worrying about it.
It's yours and I need it.
And I just keep throwing it on the
Lord.
I believe, one of the greatest verses in
the Bible, pray without ceasing.
And I just keep throwing my emotions onto
the Lord.
See, a doctor told me that I had
a high combustion engine.
That means I burn a lot of energy,
my mind works fast, my body burns up,
high metabolism, a lot of emotion.
And so if I don't cast my burdens
on the Lord in prayer, and then I
turn to praise and worship, I'll never make
it.
And I just say to those of you
who have emotional battles and are emotional as
I am, the secret is prayer, worship, praise,
casting your burden on the Lord.
Go out in the woods.
I go out in the woods and I
really use a loud voice.
I've only used moderate voice here.
I just go out and I just sing
and praise the Lord.
Sometimes I do a handstand and I have
so much energy.
If I don't get rid of it, someone
is liable to get hurt in the daytime.
Prayer is the secret.
Walking in the Spirit.
Casting your burden upon the Lord.
Some of you men that have battles in
the area of purity and impurity, women the
same, until you learn this kind of prayer,
this kind of spiritual exercise, this kind of
throwing your emotion upon God, throwing your hostility,
throwing your lust upon God, letting Him bury
it, until you learn that you never will
live in victory.
That together with disciplining the body, which means
exercise.
You know, it grieves me to see the
stomachs of so many evangelicals hanging out over
their belts.
I'm not desirous of seeing people like me.
It's the other extreme.
But I think men and women should try
to keep themselves in some kind of physical
condition.
Because in some parts of the world it
is a bad testimony.
That's right.
You go out witnessing in India to starving
people and you're round and firm.
Ha!
Looks a bit funny, doesn't it?
And I've had Indians, I want to tell
you, one time an Indian was blasting away
and saying, giving us the gospel, it's worthless.
You have so much.
And I looked at that Indian, I said,
look.
And I pointed to his stomach.
And I did something, it's not so unusual,
I just pulled my shirt up, I said,
you look at this.
He was much fatter than I was.
He shut up and he really listened.
He really listened.
You know, I'm a lot more comfortable out
in India than the fat fellow walking around
with his big stomach sticking out.
Some people are that way and they can't
help it, but some can very well help
it.
A little exercise, a little running, a little
less eating, a little more work.
Work is a dirty word in the 20th
century.
That's right.
And we're flabby, we're loose.
And I think it's a sad thing in
the sight of God.
And I, this goes right to my next
point, I believe unless you're willing to deal
blows to the body, get serious about exercise,
about taking care of the temple, I don't
believe you'll walk in the spirit.
Because we're physical and spiritual, and we've got
to, we've got to deal blows to our
body.
My heart just aches for some of you
who have no exercise program.
It is not normal to live without exercise.
Some people get it automatically in their work,
fine.
But if you aren't getting it automatically in
your work, I would say sooner or later,
if you have no exercise program, you are
in trouble, and I don't care how spiritual
you are, and I don't care how many
verses you memorize.
The total man is God's program.
And if you can't discipline yourself in little
things, how are you going to handle the
big tests that are coming?
And time and time again, I've seen in
young men who fall into sin and lust,
the key behind, no programmed disciplined life.
No exercise.
You see, also, listen, this is very important.
When you exercise, when you work hard, you
work off a lot of emotion.
This is very important.
Many, many men have said, this isn't some
little jig that's come out of my brain.
Many men have said this.
When you work hard, and you exercise, a
lot of your emotions, a lot of potential
lust, potential irritability, potential frustration goes off.
This is why it has been proven that
people with more leisure and less work are
more exposed to mental breakdown.
Hard working farmers, hard working villagers, you'll hardly
ever find a nervous breakdown among them.
It's city people sitting around, all their emotions
pent up.
Leisure.
Loose living.
And these people, their minds and their bodies
eventually can't take this abnormal way of living.
It's an abnormal way of living.
That's why I like this book selling.
A lot of people I watch get involved
in personal work.
As they're one year in personal evangelism, they
don't do any hard work, always counseling and
talking to people.
It's good work, but watch their stomachs go
out.
Sitting around all day talking to people, it's
not God's way.
And if you're involved in that work, you
must have an exercise plan.
Take your converts on a run, do something.
Because I think it's sickening that 75%
of the people who pastor our churches are
fat.
And bishops, huh, incredible.
Out in India, all these big fat bishops
driving big huge cars, living like kings, coming
into churches, people are barefoot, starving.
They can barely get up into the pulpit.
Oh, I tell you, this is the thing
that grieved Lenin.
This is the thing that grieved Lenin about
the phony church in Russia.
He used this as one of the greatest
wedges against the Tsar.
He said the priests are fat, the priests
are full, and the people starve to death.
Let's have a revolution.
And if I had been there, which side
do you think I would have been on?
Of course, I would have been on Lenin's
side, and so would many of you.
Lenin wouldn't take sugar in his tea during
times of need in the Soviet Union.
Committed, disciplined, dedicated, fanatic for the cause of
hell.
Where are such men for the cause of
Jesus Christ?
That's what I want to know.
Where are they?
Discipline their bodies.
Discipline their minds.
Oh, I yearn for such men.
And if you're not willing for that, forget
last night's experience.
It'll soon be a bad dream.
Forget all your spiritual clichés.
It'll soon be an epitaph on your spiritual
tomb.
We've got to get down to buffeting and
disciplining the body.
The Word teaches it again and again and
again.
Only one thing more I say, and that's
simply this.
If you want to walk in the Spirit,
of course, there are many other things.
We just don't have time.
But if you want to walk in the
Spirit, witness in the Spirit, keep witnessing, keep
sharing, keep giving.
That's why I often challenge people, come a
year on O.M. I'm not afraid to
say that.
That's not pressure, young people.
That's just an invitation.
Think of all the pressure your parents are
giving you in other directions, huh?
Think of all the pressure your college will
give you.
Do this, do this, take this course.
If you don't do this, you'll be nobody.
If you don't get this degree, you'll never
get a job.
Tremendous pressure.
Francis Schaeffer said, the average university student in
our day is brainwashed.
Brainwashed.
We've got to get this degree.
We've got to do this.
We've got to be this.
We've got to go here.
And so to give a simple invitation to
consider a year of practical evangelism, of learning
how to witness, of disciplining the body, of
feasting on the Word of God, of majoring
in prayer or praise, I don't think that's
pressure.
I think it's just giving you a fair
chance to consider all the possibilities for what
God may want to do.
I praise the Lord for everyone who goes
home from this crusade.
And I pray you'll shake your town and
your college for Jesus Christ.
But some of you know very well you
need more than a summer of this kind
of training.
You've been playing around too long.
Your life has got far too sloppy, far
too undisciplined.
You're miles behind in the spiritual race.
And I believe you need a year in
a special clinic.
And in some ways that's what OM is.
A year of learning what it is to
walk in the Spirit.
A movement not for the committed.
Don't be deceived.
Not for the dedicated.
Don't be deceived.
This is a movement for spiritual cripples.
This is a movement for sinners.
This is a movement for those who will
admit they're weak and don't know how to
walk but want to learn to walk and
learn to witness and learn to fight and
learn to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
And it's to those people we open up
the doors of our year program.
Pray about it.
It may be part of God's answer for
you to walk in the Spirit and to
learn what it is to walk in the
Spirit.
You'll not learn overnight.
You'll not learn in the summer.
There'll be many falls.
But praise God, as we've talked about many
times, He will pick you up.
Repent.
Confess.
He will pick you up.
And if you sin again, remember, as far
as God's concerned, it's the first time you've
ever done it.
So repent and get up again and walk
in the Spirit.
Daily fullness.
Daily rest of faith.
Daily walk.
That's God's provision for you.
Take these principles.
They're simple, young people.
They're not complex.
And make them the goals and the practices
of your life.
And as you fail, He'll pick you up
like the Nepali soldier who's learning how to
swim.
And He'll throw you back again.
And you shall learn.
May God give you the grace.
Many of you, I'll never have the chance.
I shouldn't say this because it makes me
emotional, but I may never have the chance
to speak again.
And I pray, don't take lightly what you've
heard in this conference.
Whatever you do, your life hinges on what
you do with these principles that are written
across the pages of God's Holy Word.
Don't take it lightly.
Get desperate and determined.
You'll walk in the Spirit and not fulfill
the lusts of the flesh.
That's God's provision.
Take it daily.
It does work.
Let's pray.
Now, this may be a bit unusual, but
I believe there were some who wanted to
stand last night and ask God to fill
them with His Holy Spirit.
And they didn't.
They couldn't.
The devil had them confused.
They couldn't move.
And I just feel constrained.
I don't care what time it is, but
I feel there may be one, there may
be two, there may be a few more
who wanted to stand last night and you
didn't.
But if you had the chance, you would
beg me to give the invitation tonight, and
so I'm going to give it.
If you want to take the step tonight
that perhaps you should have taken last night
and believe that God will fill you and
enable you to walk in the Spirit, I
want you to stand right now.
Praise God.
God was very patient.
He waited for you all day.
Just very briefly, I'm not going to take
much time.
Commitment that others made last night, you heard
the message.
Now you've had further explanation.
To the Germans, I explained more in detail
this afternoon.
You want to say, Lord Jesus, fill me
tonight.
Take me across Jordan tonight into the Promised
Land and teach me what it is to
walk in the Spirit.
Anyone else?
Very quickly.
Maybe you're one of those like me.
You don't like invitations.
It's okay.
God uses them.
Many were very, very thankful for the invitation
last night.
Maybe a visitor just came in tonight.
You're not sure what it's all about, but
something is tugging, pulling in your heart.
You stand and say, Lord, I believe.
Change my life.
Make me a disciple, soldier.
Fill me with your Holy Spirit.
Praise me to Him.
Father, in the name of your Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ, pray for those that tonight
are standing before you, hungry after you, wanting
to be filled with your Spirit, and we
ask together as a company of your people,
fill them.
Change them.
Teach them to walk in the Spirit, putting
into practice these basic revolutionary principles.
Give them the grace as they cast themselves
at your feet.
For we ask in the name of Jesus.
Amen.