Would you please open your Bible with me
this morning at the prophecy of Ezekiel and
the 47th chapter.
Ezekiel 47, as we turn for our Lord's
Day meditation this morning, to the first 12
verses of this wonderful Old Testament picture of
New Testament experience.
If you are finding the place, will you
allow me to say what a great joy
it is to be able to be back
here at Keswick this year, as never a
year passes but day by day we pray
for you, and I'm so glad to be
home again this week, and to have the
joy and immense privilege of ministry here at
this great convention.
I can but hope that through the years,
when for a while at least God has
called me to another land, that somehow what
I say to you this week may be
just sharing with you some of the things
that the Lord has been seeking to teach
me.
It needed a removal of 4,000 miles
to teach some of the lessons in the
master's school.
I look back through the years, I could
say truly great has been thy faithfulness, but
alas how often great has been my stubbornness.
Self dies hard, doesn't it?
This picturesque book, picture chapter rather, contains a
wonderful Old Testament parable which points us to
some of the great resources that are in
Jesus Christ.
And I thought that this morning, the first
Lord's Day of this convention, we should consider
together some of the fullness that God has
for us in Jesus Christ our Lord.
I am sure that we are living in
days which immediately precede the return of our
Lord Jesus Christ in power and glory.
The end is perhaps nearer than we think.
Wherever you go today, in whatever land you
may visit, you find tension, problems that are
overwhelming, the sense of pressure and strain.
And alas, so often this spirit has crept
into the life of Christian people.
And we discover missionaries on the field who
are broken.
We discover pastors in the homeland who somehow
haven't got what it takes, with the result
that so often after one term of service
the missionary returns, perhaps never to go back
again.
And the pastor moves from one pastorate to
another with incredible speed, facing the pressures and
finding themselves, ourselves, without spiritual resources adequate to
face it all.
Truly, Satan is crowding all pressure upon the
Church in these last days.
And it is quality and not quantity that
is required in Christian service, a caliber and
integrity of Christian life which alas is all
too rare in these superficial, streamlined days in
which we live.
I want to ask you therefore to consider
with me this Old Testament picture, because it
describes to us so perfectly, I believe, what
God has for us in Jesus Christ by
his Spirit, for days like these.
I am convinced that the message of the
Keswick Convention, quite apart from being a partial
answer to the need of the world, is
the total answer to the need of all
our hearts.
I am sure today that we are not
considering a convention which is merely a sideline
or a side issue, but we are considering
something which is the message, the strategic message
of the Church for the hour.
And if we haven't got that message burning
like a fire in our hearts, we're going
to collapse in these last days, instead of
standing our ground and fighting through to the
end and remaining victors on the field.
The Old Testament, indeed the Word of God
as a whole, is an Eastern book, and
therefore its pictures are couched in the context
of an Eastern setting.
And that's why it is, running right through
the book, you have a picture of a
river.
The people of the land knew something about
barrenness and desert.
Often the heavens would be as dry and
the earth as iron.
And therefore, running through the book, you recall
how frequently you have phrases such as, flood
upon dry ground, I will pour water upon
him that his thirst stream in the depth.
And the prophet Isaiah says, in the wilderness
shall waters break out.
The psalmist says, there is a river, the
streams whereof make glad the city of God.
The godly man is like a tree planted
by a river that bringeth forth his fruit
in his season, whose leaf never withers.
And the Lord Jesus takes up the theme
when he says, if any man thirst, let
him come unto me and drink, and out
of his inner man shall flow river of
living water.
And the apostle John, given a vision of
heaven, of the new Jerusalem, of glory that
is yet to be, was shown that in
that place there's no need of the sun,
and there's no need of the moon, but
there's a river.
A river as clear as crystal that flows
out of the throne of God, and out
of the throne of the land.
And so all through the book, you've got
the picture of a river.
A river which makes all the difference between
barrenness and fertility, between dryness and fruitfulness, between
desert and garden, between a wilderness and that
which blossoms with glory for the Lord Jesus
Christ.
The picture of a river.
And if we would understand the meaning of
this, surely the writer of the fourth gospel,
as he explains the statement of our Lord
when he said, out of his inner man
shall flow rivers of living water, said, this
spake he of the Holy Spirit, which they
that believe on him should receive.
For the Holy Spirit was not yet given,
because that Jesus was not yet glorified.
But our Lord has been glorified, and the
great gift of the church is the Holy
Ghost, and the one answer to your need
and my need, and the whole family of
God throughout the whole world, is the Holy
Ghost.
O breath of life, come sweeping through us,
revive thy church with life and power.
O breath of life, come cleanse, renew us,
equip thy church to meet this hour.
I trust that is the cry of your
heart today, as it is of mine.
Let me therefore ask you to look at
this Old Testament parable of this New Testament
truth of Christian experience, and see how perfectly
it pictures to us that which God has
for his people in Jesus Christ.
In the first place, will you notice with
me in this chapter the essence of the
river's power, the source of it.
In the first verse we are told that
this river proceeded out from the threshold of
the temple, out from the mercy seat, from
the very throne of God.
And my beloved people, the life which God
communicates to every one of his children at
the moment of our new birth, has its
source at the throne, a throne at which
justice has been satisfied, a throne to which
Jesus Christ has risen and ascended, and from
which he has received the promise of the
Holy Spirit to pour upon bankrupt, beaten, hopeless,
defeated humanity.
And the life that Christ bestows upon us
is throne life, dominion life, victory life, overcoming
life, delivered life, resurrection life.
This is the life that is imparted to
the child of God at the moment of
his new birth.
True, it is the purpose of God to
reduce the flesh to nothing more than dust
and ashes, but he doesn't want to leave
us in the dust, all dusty.
He wants to lift us up in the
power of his resurrection, that we might be
able to say with the Apostle Paul, the
law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has set me free from the law
of sin and death.
The life that Christ has given to you
is sovereign life, victory life, overcoming life, and
that life dwells in every one of us
this morning, if we are believers.
But not only the source of it, this
chapter shows the course of it.
For we are told in this same verse
that the waters came down at the south
side of the altar, of the altar.
And the only way this life, this victory
life, this overcoming life, can reach this world,
and indeed can reach the child of God,
is by way of the cross.
Dominion prone life does not come to the
child of God by chance, by caprice.
God has no favor.
It does not come to us by the
force of circumstances.
It comes by virtue of the blood that
has been shed, and the price that has
been paid, and the atonement that has been
made.
And because a full and free atonement has
been made for all our sins, the man
who by faith has claimed that forgiveness may
step up to the throne of God and
claim his right to the share that is
his in the risen life of Jesus Christ.
This is a life that comes to us
by covenant, by covenant which has been sealed
by blood.
And the essential outcome of Calvary is Pentecost.
But may I remind you, my dear hearer
today, that Calvary precedes Pentecost, not only historically
but experimentally.
And if I may avoid becoming involved in
theological controversy, but indeed quoting words that were
such a blessing to me when spoken from
this very platform by Dr. Graham Scroggins, when
he said, the great problem with the church
today is that she's on the right side
of Calvary and the wrong side of Pentecost.
The right side of forgiveness and the wrong
side of power.
The right side of peace, but the wrong
side of deliverance.
And there can be no Pentecost without a
Calvary.
This life of victory and power flows freely
into the hearts of the child of God,
but it only comes to him by way
of the cross.
And I could never have a Pentecost until
I have accepted the principle of identification with
Jesus Christ in death at Calvary.
You see, beloved, the essence of sin is
arrogance.
The essence of salvation is submission.
And there is no experience of power in
the life until I have come, bent and
broken and humble, and at the end of
myself to find Jesus Christ in death at
the cross and there to meet him as
a man crucified with him to discover it
is upon the crucified life that comes the
fullness of the blessing of the gospel.
When I am saved, I am introduced to
a life that is based upon the principle
of total submission to the sovereignty of our
wonderful Lord.
The source of this life?
The throne.
The cost of this life?
The cross.
The force of this life?
Will you notice that this story tells us
that the river had not gone more than
one mile, indeed not as much as that,
before it was so deep and so powerful
that there were waters to swim in?
And would you observe, please, that there is
no tributary from earth which has contributed to
the impact of that river upon earth from
the throne?
No human river has added to its flow.
Nothing that has had its source on earth
has contributed to the power of that river.
Its strength and force were owed entirely to
the fact that there was a constant continuous
flow of life-giving power from the throne
and from the sanctuary.
And there is nothing that I can do
in life that I may add for my
ministry or to equip me for my Christian
service to that which God gives me in
the Holy Spirit.
And perhaps part of the great trouble today
in the world, in the Church, why we
don't really see a breaking out of the
revival for which our hearts are longing, is
that we have substituted machinery for the dynamic
of the Holy Spirit.
I have never known an age in which
the Church is so equipped with things and
so lacking in imbuement of power to move
men to God.
So much has to be substituted programs and
planning and equipment and gadgets for the mighty
sovereign moving in of the power of God's
Holy Spirit.
Across my desk I am sure every week
there must come at least fifty advertisements of
all kinds of material which are guaranteed to
produce quick results at little sacrifice on my
part, and could take away from me the
blood and the sweats and the toil and
the tears and the travail of Christian ministry.
But I know that all these things are
empty and futile and hopeless, and the only
secret of revival is when the Church and
the Child of God get back to recognize
that the source of all blessing is the
throne and the cost of it is the
cross, and the power of it is in
God's Holy Spirit and in His Holy Spirit
alone, the essence of the power of the
River.
And it is a great thing, surely, in
human experience when a Christian comes to understand
the tremendous, glorious, thrilling secret that every demand
that can ever be made upon any of
us as we live our lives within the
center of the will of God in subjection
to the sovereignty of Christ, every demand that
can ever be made upon us is met
by the Holy Spirit within us, and He
is adequate.
My dear brother and sister, if I hadn't
discovered that secret, I'd have been out of
the ministry and in a mental institution with
a breakdown long ago.
I'm sure I would.
For it is the discovery that God's Holy
Spirit is adequate for me in every situation
as I live my life day by day
in the will of God that changes the
Christian life from drudgery to luxury, to discover
that every day there are adequate resources in
God's Spirit dwelling within my life each day,
the essence of the River's power.
But would you notice with me in the
second place in this chapter what I have
called the effect of the River's flow?
Surely when this happens in the life of
a child of God, it's evident by certain
signs that follow.
Certain unmistakable characteristics will mark out the life
of a man who's experiencing the blessing of
God and living day by day in victory.
Certainly there are.
Here are some of them.
I notice the first one is given to
us in the seventh verse.
The first effect of the flow of this
River is what I would call fertility.
Behold, at the bank of the river there
were very many trees on the one side
and on the other.
And in the twelfth verse, whose leaf shall
not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be
consumed, because their waters they issued out of
the sanctuary, and the fruit thereof shall be
for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
What a lovely picture that is of what
begins to happen in the life of the
Christian who has discovered that his resources in
the Holy Spirit are adequate.
Do you notice that as the River pursues
its path, its course, it has attracted growth
to its bank?
There's a remarkable production of fruitfulness and fertility.
Trees are there that have dug their roots
deep into the riverbed, and they're drawing constant
strength from the waters of that river.
You see, God's resources in Jesus Christ by
His Spirit, they're not just a flash in
the pan, not just an occasional emotional upheaval,
not just a week at Keswick for a
convention and then fifty-one weeks down in
the dump.
That's not Christian living.
It's a day-by-day increasing fertility and
fruitfulness and growth, for the moment that I
discover in a crisis in my life that
it is no longer I but Christ in
me that matters.
The moment I begin to live on that
principle, that crisis issues in a day-by
-day experience, an increasing experience of fertility and
of fruitfulness.
Let me say, to apply this very carefully
this morning, the fruit of the Holy Spirit
in life, beloved, is not success as the
world counts it.
If that were true, some of the greatest
saints in all the world have been total
failures.
It is not success, it is character.
And the ninefold fruit of the Spirit in
Galatians 5.22 is no more and no
less than the reproduction of the character of
Jesus Christ through a life that has yielded
to him in obedience and in faith.
And very often I have noticed that that
character is reproduced far more effectively in days
of adversity than in days of prosperity.
I have a calendar in my study, and
I'm so grateful to the friends who send
them over to America.
It's a calendar of Scotland.
It has some of the lovely pictures of
Scotland on it.
And I was looking at one a little
while ago.
It has a picture of Glen Lyon there.
And there was the River Lyon flowing through
the Glen and tumbling over the rocks, just
fresh and life-giving, so vital it seemed,
so crystal clear.
And as I was thinking about this message,
I thought to myself, what a perfect picture
that is of Ezekiel's prophecy.
And then I began to question.
For I noticed that the side of the
river, there were no leaves on the trees
that were there.
It was taken in wintertime, apparently.
Now I began to ask myself, is this
a real picture of Ezekiel, or isn't it?
And I thought about it, and I looked
at the twelfth verse in this chapter, where
we read, it shall bring forth new fruit
according to his month.
And isn't it true that one of the
evidences of spiritual life, and one of the
marks of fertility, is that the man of
God is reproducing the character of Jesus Christ
most of all in his spiritual wintertime?
You see, the fruit of the tree is
for medicine, and the margin says, for bruises
and for sores.
And the older I get in life, the
more I meet men of God who are
bruised, and who are sore, and who have
been wounded in the battle of life.
And the ability to minister to such depends
entirely whether I have learnt to triumph in
my spiritual wintertime.
I wonder if you know anything about fertility
in wintertime.
Perhaps you're a young Christian, and perhaps you
thought that the Christian life is all sunshine.
It's all springtime, and summertime, and blue skies,
and everything so wonderful.
But maybe God has brought you through that
and beyond it, and you've been going into
autumn where the leaves are being sticked, and
into wintertime where the life has gone underground,
and everything seems barren, and there seems to
be no success, and no fruit, and no
conversions, and no blessing.
And God has brought you into the treasures
of darkness.
Do you know anything about that?
What a wintertime our precious Lord has.
When Isaiah, speaking of him in the 50th
chapter, says, the Lord hath given me the
tongue of the learned, that I should know
how to speak a word in season to
them that are weary.
I gave my back to the smiters, and
my cheek to them that plucked off the
hair.
I hid not my face from shame and
spitting.
What a wintertime.
But oh, what fertility.
It's in Screwtape Letters, that masterpiece of C
.S. Lewis's, where I read that Screwtape writes
to his nephew and says, listen to this,
be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never
more in danger than when a human being,
no longer desiring but still intending to do
his master's will, looks around upon a universe
from which every trace of him seems to
have vanished, and asks why he's been forsaken,
and yet he goes on of it.
Do I know something of fertility in days
like that?
And look, an evidence that a man has
entered into life in Christ in fullness.
The effect of the river's flow will be
healing, for verse 8 says, these waters go
down to the desert and go into the
sea, and the waters shall be healed.
As I go on in life, which passes
so quickly, oh, how many estrangements I'm finding.
Estrangements on the mission field, where the testimony
of the missionary has been spoiled.
Clash of temperaments, individualities, personalities.
For a whole missionary testimony is going to
pieces because missionaries are at cross service.
How true it is, not only on the
mission field, but in the home church, where
churches are split from top to bottom, often
on very secondary issues of doctrine.
How often the great hope of the church,
the blessed hope, the return of our Lord,
is made, instead of a centre of comfort,
is made a centre of controversy.
And oh, how in many Christian homes, and
who knows, perhaps would care this, where even
in Christian homes, husband and wife are living,
merely to keep up the appearance where there's
estrangement.
Estrangement between parent and child, husband and wife,
sweetheart and friend.
Oh, the unhappy estrangement.
What's the answer to them?
Brother, sister, listen, lift the barriers and let
the river come in.
Lift up the barriers, break them all down,
take down the bars and make room for
the river of God to flow in blessing
and in victory through your home and through
your mission station and through your church.
Oh, that God would do this.
The effect of the river's flow to heal.
There's a balm in Gilead that makes the
wounded whole.
There's a balm in Gilead that heals the
sin-sick soul.
Oh, that you and I today would just
humble ourselves that much to stop vindicating our
own ways, to stop demanding that we are
proved right and everybody else is proved wrong,
to stop insisting upon our rights because we
have no right except to do the will
of God, and just lie today on our
faces broken at Calvary that the Holy Spirit
may move right in and heal.
And the effect of the river's flow is
life, for verse 9 says, everything shall live
whither the river cometh.
Oh, I know the chapter speaks of a
great multitude of fish and people have often
used this to indicate that where the Holy
Spirit is you will get multitudes of conversions.
You may, you may not.
Jeremiah didn't have many.
Isaiah didn't have many.
Our Lord in his ministry didn't have many.
It may be that way, but it may
not.
But this much I tell you, when the
bars are down and the Holy Ghost moves
in, then wherever he moves there's life.
And the prayer light that has gone to
pieces becomes alive again.
And the book that has gone dead takes
life.
And the devotional life of the child of
God, which has just fallen apart because he's
been so busy, begins to live.
And the Bible takes on a new meaning,
meaning wherever the Spirit comes there's live, there's
life.
And where there's been the marks of death
and a cold, dead, dull testimony, when the
river begins to flow, all the light that's
visible in the moment, the essence of the
river's power, the effect of the river's flow,
healing, life, fertility, the essence of that river's
power, the throne, the cross, and all the
force of it in itself, not because of
anything we can ask.
But one more brief word in conclusion.
Somebody would say to me today, this is
wonderful, but oh, how do I get there?
Let me conclude by a word concerning the
experience of the river's depth.
Three times in this chapter I read that
Ezekiel said, a man came alongside me with
a measuring line in his hand, and he
measured the waters, and he brought me through
until there came a moment when he couldn't
bring him through.
He never got through.
He just arrived into such abundance of blessing
that there was no way through.
It swamped him.
First the man with the measuring line came,
and the waters were up to the ankle.
Kezik stands for abundant life.
Kezik stands for life in Canaan.
Kezik stands for life in Romans 8.
Kezik stands for victory because the New Testament
stands for victory.
And a man whose only ankle deep in
the water is giving a great big display
of himself.
He's out of Egypt, but he's in the
wilderness.
He's never got into the life of victory
and deliverance.
He knows something of forgiveness of sins, but
nothing of deliverance from the principle of sin.
He knows something of what it means to
be on the right side of pardon, but
not the right side of power.
He's just ankle deep.
He's a Canaan or Christian, full of self,
always sensitive and touchy, no mark of growth,
just living in an awful spiritual business, wilderness.
Brother, sister, let me ask you today, oh,
that I may just be out of the
picture in all of this, but the man
with the line of his hand might stand
right alongside you now and measure where I,
ankle deep or has he brought you through.
Then he's down to his knees.
He took me through and the waters were
up to the knees.
And may I suggest to you this picture's
a man who's discovered that himself he's bankrupt
and he's started a life of pleading with
God.
He's got his knees into the water.
And this man is beginning to pray.
This man's beginning to hunger.
This man's dissatisfied with all that he can
ever be apart from grace.
He's been ankle deep in the river for
years and he's sick of his testimony and
tired of his witness.
And he knows he just can't go on
any longer like this.
So he's on his knees.
It's a great thing when a God gets
a Christian there, not as a form of
quiet time, but when he's really on his
knees.
The eighth virgin, that great Prince of Preachers
says that prayer, prayer is the autograph of
the Holy Spirit upon the regenerate heart.
And when Paul sent, when rather an Ananias
was sent by the Lord to speak to
the Apostle Paul, and when he protested and
said, oh, but Lord, I'm afraid of him.
The Lord Jesus said, you don't need to
be afraid of the man Ananias.
Behold, he prayeth.
Self-righteous, bigoted, proud religious Pharisee.
He's broken.
He's on his knees.
He's praying.
He's pleading with God.
You'd only be afraid of a man like
that.
It's a tremendous thing, beloved, when the Lord
is the outcome of meditation upon these truths
creates in our hearts a deep hunger for
himself.
My good friend, Dr. Tozer, of whom I'm
sure you've all heard, and many of whose
articles you've read, wrote just recently in his
book, The Pursuit of God, and said this,
everything these days is made to center upon
the initial act of accepting Christ.
We are not expected thereafter to crave any
further revelation of God to our souls.
We are snared in the coils of a
spurious logic which insists that if we have
found him, we no more seek for him.
This is set before us as the last
word of theology and orthodoxy, and the heart
theology of a great army of fragrant saints
is rejected in favor of a smug interpretation
of Scripture, which would have sounded strange to
Augustine and Rutherford and David Braynard.
Oh, that the language of the hymn might
come to us afresh today.
I hunger and I thirst.
Ye living waters burst out of the rock
for me.
Remember, brother and sister, if you're at Keswick
today and you're hungry, you're healthy.
Hunger is a sign of health.
And if you've no hunger for God, you're
sick.
May God create in all of us an
appetite which only Jesus Christ can satisfy.
Down, Christian, down upon your knees, if you
want the blessing that God would give you.
Then I find that he brought me through
and the waters are up to the loins.
Doesn't that picture strength, the place of strength
and the place of authority?
The man who's discovered the secret, that they
that wait upon the Lord exchange their strength
for him.
The man who uses the language of the
Apostle Paul when he says in Colossians 1
29, I labor, striving according to his working
which worketh in me mightily.
He takes the measure along line and he
brought me through.
The two greatest lessons that I have learned
as a Christian, and I'm slow in learning,
are that God expects nothing, nothing at all
from Alan Redpath except total failure.
But he's given me the Holy Spirit that
I need not fail, that I need not
fail.
And all the blessedness of that life where
it is no more my struggle and my
effort, but his mighty power.
And lastly, in verse 5, we're told again
that I found there were waters to swim
in, a river that could not be passed
over.
Now look, here's the man out of his
depth and he's swimming.
And when a man is swimming, he's out
of sight.
You can only see his head.
And the head of every man is Christ.
And here's a man got to a place
where there's none of self and all of
Christ.
Where self is forgotten, unrecognized and unseen.
And in that man's life, it is Jesus
only.
The man with the measuring line.
And he stands by us all in this
tent this morning.
And listen, here's a river less than a
mile from its source.
And the man is out of its depth.
May I ask you very lovingly, how many
miles are you from the source of your
Christian experience?
When that glad day that Jesus washed your
sins away, but are you only ankle deep?
Or are you up to your knees?
Are you up to the loins?
Or are there waters to swim in?
I believe there's nothing so needed this day
at this convention than there could be in
your heart a new spirit of expectancy that
God will meet us in a new way
in this place.
D.L. Moody once said in Glasgow, one
day in New York, oh what a day.
I cannot describe it.
I seldom refer to it.
It's almost too sacred an experience to name.
I could only say God revealed himself to
me.
I had such an experience of his love
that I had to ask him to stay
his aunt.
I went to preaching again.
The sermons were no different.
I didn't present any new truth, yet hundreds
were converted and I would not be placed
back where I was before that blessed experience
if you would give me all Glasgow.
David Brainerd in the shade and cool wind,
wet with sweat as he prayed, drawn out
much for the world, grasping God for multitudes
of souls so preached that scores of stoic
hard-hearted Indian people were bowed down like
grass before a site.
Oh Lord, do it again and do it
at Ketting.
May I just give you, as I conclude,
this simple illustration.
Years ago I was taking a mission in
the lovely city of Dundee and I walked
alongside the River Tay with a good friend
of mine who was Baptist minister there at
the time.
As we walked along the river bank we
came to that great railway bridge that spans
that enormous river.
I don't know how long the bridge is,
probably over a mile long and underneath it
we saw great big concrete things sticking out
of the water.
All marked with seaweed and dirt and slime
and filth and shells.
Just the relics of a disaster that had
occurred there 70 years ago.
When an express train going over that river
in a terrible storm, the bridge broke and
the train collapsed and went in and hundreds
of lives were lost.
And as we walked along that day there
were all the evidences of that disaster.
A few hours later I came back alone
meditating upon an evening service.
As I walked I came to the same
place and I rubbed my eyes to discover
what had happened because there were no marks
of the disaster.
It had all gone.
The marks of filth and dirt were all
departed and all I saw was this lovely
beautiful railway bridge.
Of course in a flash of a second
I knew.
You know what had happened?
Of course you know.
The tide had come in, that's all.
The tide had come in and all that
ugliness of that disaster had disappeared under the
flow of God's river that had flowed there
and all we could see was the beauty
of that new bridge.
Listen brother my last word to you today
is that oh may you not leave Keswick
before we enter into what God has for
you.
I believe that God in his mercy and
love and in his purpose for all of
us in Jesus Christ by the Holy Ghost
wants to place in the very situation in
your life where there's been the mark of
disaster and all the marks of breakdown and
failure.
He wants to send the tide from heaven
from the throne in glory by the cross
into your heart and into your life and
out through it in healing and blessing to
others.
He wants to do that till there's no
marks of that former disaster and it's all
submerged beneath the tide of his fullness and
in the very place of your failure to
send you back to conquer in the power
of a risen Lord.
Oh may that be the blessing that God
may give you in Jesus Christ to all
of us the fullness of life by his
spirit and you needn't wait till next Sunday.
You can come with bankruptcy and emptiness of
heart and hunger of soul for the Lord
Jesus said blessed are they that hunger and
thirst after righteousness for they shall.