All right, so tonight I want just to
speak to you from Amos, you needn't turn
your Bible because you know the verse very
well.
I would like to expound the context of
the verse, but of course then I'd be
back preaching in an hour.
So we'll just keep to the verse itself.
Amos 3 and 3.
Can two walk together except they be agreed?
Now this verse has been on my heart
and mind for several days before coming to
Milldale.
Can two walk together except they be agreed?
Now the literal Hebrew is can two walk
together except they make an appointment.
Now please remember that when we make little
changes in our King James Version that we're
not discrediting the scholarship of the translators of
our King James Version.
Because they were men of God, they were
born again, they were fundamentalists, not like those
who translated our New English Bible.
Both in Great Britain and America the majority
were modernists.
And so when there's a little slight alteration
you see in our King James Version, there
must be some reason.
Because after all these men use Hebrew better
than I know it, and you Greek better
than I know it.
For example we have there in Ephesians 2
.10, for we are his workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus unto good works which God before
ordained that we should walk in them.
Well if some wise guy like myself comes
along and says that's the wrong word workmanship,
that the original word is poem.
P-O-E-M.
And so some bright fellow stands up and
he preaches a sermon about poetry, that we're
God's poetry or God's poem.
But if you, well why didn't they say
that, if that was the Greek?
Well you see if you start thinking of
it, for we are, why did they translate
for we are his workmanship?
Well what is a poem?
A poem is a masterpiece of the poet.
And so we are the masterpiece of God,
you see.
We are the masterpiece of God, for we
are his workmanship.
We are his new creation in Christ Jesus.
And so we are the masterpiece of God,
his workmanship.
A sinner saved by grace.
And so you know if the root meaning
of the literal Hebrew of this verse is
can two walk together, how can two walk
together except they make an appointment?
Why on all the earth do these brilliant
scholars say how can two walk together except
they be agreed?
Well I think the verse would go something
like this.
How can two walk together except they make
an appointment and agree together?
Now the root word of this word agree
comes from the Jewish tabernacle.
And it was called the tent of the
meeting.
And you will find again and again it
was the place where God appointed to meet
with them.
For example we have there in Exodus 25,
22, God says there will I meet with
thee.
Now that was at of course at the
mercy seat.
The tabernacle was the place of meeting, the
divinely chosen appointed place where God and his
people met.
So I think we could translate it or
just simply record the verse this way.
How can two of us walk together except
we make an appointment and agree together?
Now first of all we must be friendly
to agree to walk together.
Now you know you think I'm sociable but
I'm not a sociable man at all.
You know I'm not a sociable man at
all.
Usually they telephone in Nashville to Mrs. Stewart
and say is your husband gone?
Is James gone?
And she agrees.
She says yes and they say oh hallelujah
we'll come up.
You see because I'm not a sociable man
because I would rather you see have my
intercourse with God than my intercourse with man.
And I would rather just be walking with
God and alone with God than with anybody
else.
And if I paid all the social visits
and all the social calls in the city
where I live I would not be a
man of God at all.
A man came, I said to a man
not too very long ago I said I
never see you why don't you come and
visit me?
Well he said I did.
He came one Sunday afternoon with my wife
and we hammered at that back door.
We rang the bell but you couldn't hear
us because you thundered us out because you
were praying.
We could hear you outside when you were
praying inside.
Well we must you see I'm not a
social man at all.
I love people but I'm anti-social I
can assure you.
But you see before you can walk together,
agree to walk together, you must be friends.
Now a lot of people would like to
walk with me.
A lot of people would like to walk
with you.
Now when they start dating in Britain they
don't say now will you give me a
date.
They say would you give me a walk.
Because in my days there were very few
young people in Britain even today have automobiles.
And so they say to the father, the
mother, even in Europe very politely excuse me
Mr. Jones, excuse me Mr. Smith, could I
take your daughter out for a walk?
You see this is the European way still.
Especially of course among evangelicals.
We never date without the mother and father's
permission.
And they say to the mother and father
can I excuse me Mr. Smith, I've just
come to see you.
Not in church of course.
They go direct to the home and say
could I take Mary out for a walk?
And the father says yes, you may take
Mary out for a walk.
Well who wants to walk with a young
lady that you don't love.
And so you have to love a person
to walk with him or you're bored to
death.
Now when I go on a ship by
myself across the Atlantic, my family's not with
me, you know, I'm anti-social right away
because you see there's four men sleeping with
a cabin with me and I've got to
spend five and a half days with these
fellas and I'm anti-social because you see
I just don't know who they are.
And I've got to eat with them, sleep
with them, and I've got to be with
them, close contact with them for five and
a half days maybe.
So I just give them yes sir, good
day sir, my name is, what's your name,
and that's it by the end until I
get to know them.
So you have to be very friendly with
a person to agree to walk with them.
Now I would like to make this an
entirely spiritual message, you know, but only about
walking with God.
And that would be wonderful, but I have
to make it practical as well and maybe
I'm all mixed up.
But if you, you must love the Lord
to want to walk with him.
And look, you see, he walked with God
and he walked with God because he loved
God.
And you see, you will never walk with
your brother and sister except you love your
brother and sister.
In other words, you will never have holy
intercourse and fellowship with them unless you love
them.
And you know, one of the greatest joys
of the Christian life, after having fellowship with
Lord Jesus Christ himself, is having fellowship with
those who love them.
As I said to you the other night,
the greatest sacrifice a missionary makes is not
leaving his family and not leaving his home
or his country, but is leaving his own
home church.
You can say to the missionary, what is
the greatest sacrifice you have made?
And they'll say, oh, giving up my own
home church while they miss the fellowship of
the saints.
And then, of course, before we can walk
together, there must be a perfect agreement as
to the appointed meeting place.
Now, of course, our meeting place with our
walk with God begins at Calvary.
Of course, I could bring that out about
the Masses and so on in the tabernacle,
but that's not my idea tonight.
We must have a definite agreement, the place
of appointment.
Where will we meet?
And then, of course, there must also be
an agreement about the direction of the walk.
Which way are we walking?
And then the termination of the walk.
Well, I want to be very definite in
the way I'm walking, the course I'm walking.
And according to Ephesians 2, I used to
walk according to the course of this world.
But now, glory be to God, I'm walking
in fellowship with God, and I'm walking on
the pathway of holiness.
And my direction is heaven, and my termination
is heaven.
Now, my destination is not a halfway destination.
I have determined to walk with God until
the day he translates me home to glory,
like Enoch.
Enoch was not, for God took him and
he walked with God.
And surely there is no believer here tonight
who has any reservations whatsoever.
I mean, you couldn't be a believer if
you had any reservations.
I don't care, you could be bounced underwater
by every Baptist preacher in the state, but
I still say you're a baptized candidate going
to hell, if you don't have the desire
to walk with God all the way to
glory.
I have never had a desire during the
past 43 years, at any time, not even
for one minute, just to walk with God
for a short way, a little bit distant.
No, I have decided to follow Jesus, as
we say.
And so there must be a perfect agreement
as to the direction of walking, it's a
direction toward heaven.
And the destination of the walk, and that
is glory land.
And glory be to God, Peter could say,
I'm kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation.
And we have made up our mind that
we're going to walk with God right to
the very uttermost, and through all the dark
days and all the bright days, right to
the very end.
And then of course, there also must be
an appropriate agreement about the theme of the
conversation of the walk.
Now, they tell us, of course, that if
you love each other, you don't need to
talk too much.
It's only those who don't love each other
that keep on talk, talk, talk, talk, talk,
talk, talk, talk.
I don't know.
But the wife loves to be reminded occasionally
from her husband that he loves her all
right.
That's all right.
But I couldn't, I wouldn't enjoy walking with
anybody if we didn't talk, because that's when
I talk to my wife, when we have
a walk together, and I don't let her
talk.
I do all the talking.
But never mind, we talk.
And we must agree together the theme of
the conversation.
Now, you can imagine that when they were
having, going on the camels and having their
walk on the camels, that Isaac and Rebecca
had only one theme of the conversation, and
that was Isaac.
You see, at the early hours of the
Sabbath, and Rebecca.
And she would just keep on saying, tell
me more about Isaac, tell me more about
Isaac.
Now, we have agreed, the moment God saved
our souls, we agreed at this place of
a Calvary, that the theme of our conversation
to glory was going to be the passion
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, brother and sister, when you get together
with another brother and sister, then make sure
that in some way the Lord Jesus Christ
is the theme of your conversation.
When I first came to this state, for
the first time I had the Negro spiritual,
I thought they weren't cute.
I don't think so now, but when I
first had them, I thought they're awfully cute.
And one of them was, if I remember
right, the one I liked the best was,
I feel so much better, do you know
that one is ever done here, talking about
this good old way, I feel so much
better talking about the Lord, hallelujah.
Now, you know, you can go about gossiping
and talking about other brothers and against other
brothers and sisters, and what will happen, you'll
get farther and farther and farther away from
the Lord.
And he, and I tell you another thing
that Mrs. Stewart and myself have discovered in
our Christian experience, even though that what you
say about the brother and sister may be
right, somehow there's a deadly coldness comes into
your heart, as if there's an ice pack
in your heart.
Now, you see, that is why many times
those who earnestly contend for the faith lose
their love for the Lord Jesus.
Now, we ought to be earnest to contend
for the faith and stand up and denounce
modernism in every shape and form.
At the same time, we must be very
careful that we maintain our love life with
our blessed Lord.
Now, we have a sister that we know
very well, and she never enters any home,
but within three or four minutes she's changed
the conversation around to the Lord Jesus Christ.
I had a letter from one of our
young missionaries back home on furlough, and she
said to me, Dr. Stewart said, I'm so
glad I'm going back to the field.
And she said, because, she says, we're invited
out to a home.
And she says, when I leave the home,
my heart is empty, because we have talked
just about empty things.
But she says, back in the mission field,
when I leave the homes of our believers,
we talk about the Lord.
When I go back home, my heart is
full.
Now, we have to talk about practical things.
You've got to talk about, I needed a
clean shirt tonight.
I had to tell my wife I did.
Well, you have to be practical.
We're not in heaven yet.
But somehow or other, we must let the
theme of our conversation be as much as
possible, the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know, I just wept when I read
during the journals of John and Wesley, when
he said that when he went to Herrnhut
in Germany, it's now in the Soviet zone.
He said, when I went to Herrnhut in
Germany, and I stayed there among the, stayed
there among the Moravian brethren, the Zinzendorf people.
He said, for the first time in my
life, I was among a heavenly people, because
we had a heavenly conversation.
It was heaven and earth.
And they were left together in this community,
hundreds of them.
They had their own town, can you imagine,
and all born again, all loving the Lord,
their own city.
Hundreds of them.
And he said, the theme of the conversation
was the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, it's so easy in these days to
get away from the theme of our conversation,
our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
And then, you know, there must be also
the decision of the theme of the conversation.
When you go about, now I think, I've
been talking to pastors, and I think also
to the, to, to Brother Manley, too, that
I'd like to see some walks here.
And I had a dream, I hope it
comes true.
All the dreams I have don't come true,
because I was captured the other night and
arrested by the Russians, so I hope that
doesn't come true.
But anyhow, I had a dream, and I
could see a walk there, and it said
the Maranatha Pathway.
Then there was another sign, and it read
down the way, the Emirate Highway, you see.
And then another said Canaan Road.
Well, when that ground gets a little bit
dry, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could
have some gravel around there, and then during
the conferences, a brother can hitch up with
another brother, and a sister can go with
another sister, and walk down the pathway, and
just talking about the Lord.
How are you, brother?
How are you, sister, since the last time
I saw you?
And what's your experience with the Lord?
You see, the old Methodists, they had what
they called class meetings in Great Britain.
And the, and all these meetings, they had
them twice a week, and everybody stood up,
you see, they didn't have passers at all.
They didn't need passers, just a waste of
time, because they all ministered, you see.
And so they all stood up, and they
told what God had done for them that
week.
They had an up-to-date God.
Now, I think that that's one of the,
the beauties of a conference, or a camp
meeting, is where we can meet brothers and
sisters from other, other places, other states, and
churches, and, and churches, and say, let's go
for a walk, and then just let's talk
about the Lord.
You tell me how you were saved, and
I'll tell you how I was saved.
You tell me how the Lord is leading
you, and I'll tell you how the Lord
is leading me.
And then, you see, when you begin to
talk about the Lord, there's a love comes
there.
And there's a little bit of a, a,
a, a, a tear, maybe, in the eye.
And then there's a, there's a pang in
the heart.
And then there's a burden comes.
And before you know what you're doing, both
of you are talking, saying, now, what are
we going to do for our blessed Lord?
What are you going to do for your,
our blessed Lord?
My spiritual father, Mr. Tom Ray, never, and
never ended, never let a conversation end, or
a, you know, with anybody, without saying, now,
what have we accomplished?
And my wife used to laugh, because every
time you would talk with me, when we
would just say, about to shake hands and
go away, you'd say, now, James, what have
we accomplished?
In other words, he didn't just want hot
air.
You see?
And he never ended up any conversation.
Now, this man was a living miracle, because,
you know, he lost blood every day.
He, he was a, a dying man.
And he, he went on preaching until he
was seventy-four.
But he was a dying man when I
got saved under his ministry at fourteen.
He was a dying man.
But you see, he, he just had hemorrhages
after hemorrhages.
But you see, every conversation, now, what have
we accomplished?
Now, we have a lot of, a lot
of hot air around our conversation.
And I believe, friend, that there must be
a definite decision about, about, say, there must
be a definite decision concerning the theme of
our conversation.
We know it will be Christ.
But it's another impossibility for me to talk
about my Lord that I don't want others
to know about him.
And you see, my first burden used to
be for the unsaved, that they might get
to know him.
And then my second burden was that believers
might get to know him better.
And then the Lord changed around my ministry.
My ministry is first to believers and then
to unbelievers now.
Every time I, I, I get a vision
of my Lord, my heart breaks and I
have to write, you see.
Why?
That other believers might get to know my
Jesus better, and love him better, and serve
him better, and do something for him.
And you know that when you, the more
you get to love him, the more you
want everybody to know him.
And you say, I have such a wonderful
Savior that everybody should know.
And so you have to agree if you're
walking together in a church like this.
Even a man and a wife together, a
family, you know.
My mother agreed.
She, my, my father, you know, was 14
years ill in hospital.
My father went home to glory about six
months after I was saved, just, just before
I was 15 years of age.
So I didn't know my father too much.
That's why you don't hear me talk too
much about my father.
But my father was a wonderful man of
God.
And he, he had a, used to go
to bed every night with a thank you
hymn book and sing, started to sing right
through the voice of the foghorn.
And he was always singing every night.
He sang three hours every night at home,
nonstop.
I'm glad he wasn't a preacher, but never
mind.
And there he was, singing.
But my mother, she gathered us around and
she, and she said to us, now, even
before we were saved, now you said, remember,
this family has only one purpose for living.
And we knew, same old thing again, we
called it trite these days, same old thing,
just to live for Jesus and one soul.
Mother said, that's the only, only thing you're
here to live, live for, is to win
men and women for the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you know, the mother of the Salvation
Army said to her daughter, Katie, remember, you're
a child of destiny and the world is
waiting on you.
No fancy telling a little girl of seven
years of age that, Katie, you're a child
of destiny and the world is waiting for
you.
Now friends, there must be an agreement.
If you walk together as a church, if
you walk together as believers, just say, even
if you're engaged to be married or two
young people, no matter who you are, man
and wife or a family, there must be
a perfect agreement.
And what is the, what, and the decision
concerning the walking with God, after you've had
this immediate conversation in Christ, then you get
together and say, now, what am I going
to do?
What are we going to do for our
blessed Lord?
And then you agree together by prayer.
You get along with God and you agree.
Now there's always something wrong if husband and
wife disagree.
Now, of course, if they're both are saved,
usually it is the Holy Spirit reveals to
the husband, not the wife, usually reveals to
the husband and the wife in a way.
Now, Abraham, we blow up Abraham, but I'm
for, I'm for his wife every day.
I never talk about Abraham, very rare, but
Abraham saved his wife, even more faith than
he had, because she didn't know where she
was going.
She just was going out with her husband
because God called her husband to give up
everything.
And it was a very wealthy man.
He'd be a millionaire, Abraham, and leaving everything
behind to go out.
And she, and she didn't, she didn't even
make grumble about packing up her bag and
cases and going.
She just followed her husband because the Lord
called her husband.
But you see, there has to be a
perfect agreement together and say, now, Lord, what
I'm going to do.
I was not a perfect agreement.
You wait on the Lord and you talk
lovingly to each other, whoever you are together.
And as a church, you talk lovingly to
each other.
And then as you wait upon God, there
is a common agreement.
Now, if there's a disagreement, it's a bedevil.
Remember that?
It could be, if there's this harmony, it
comes from hell.
It can't come from heaven.
Because we are told in Psalm 133 that
the harmony, the agreement among God's people is
something beautiful.
How beautiful.
We read there in Psalm 133 and 1.
How beautiful, how wonderful, how glorious it is
when believers dwell together in unity, in perfect
harmony and agreement.
And there's a holy love permeating the atmosphere
of the church.
And we all agree together.
And the Holy Ghost, he wouldn't tell me
one thing and tell you another thing.
It's such a possibility.
I remember I visited a small assembly belonging
to the Open Brethren in Great Britain.
And they were astonished when I wrote and
I said, I feel the Holy Ghost wants
me to come to you for a one
-month meeting.
There was a little handful of believers.
They had no money.
They had just a little hut to meet
in.
When I got there, they said, Jimmy, we're
so glad you've come, sonny.
You know that we have written to many
outstanding evangelists to come, and everyone is booked
up solid and can't come.
So they've told us.
And then I went to another big Brethren
assembly with about a thousand members.
And you know what the correspondent of that
Brethren assembly told me?
He said, Jimmy, we're so glad you've come
for this month of August.
But 25 evangelists have written us that they
feel the letter of the Holy Ghost to
come for this month of August to us
for a meeting.
Well, some of them are telling a lie.
Some of them are lying.
And you see, when there's disagreement, it's of
hell.
It couldn't be of God.
There must be a perfect harmony.
And you see, our home is a replica
of heaven.
You see, it should be a place of
laughter, a place of fun, a place of
discipline, a place of holy joy and holiness.
And the church is just heaven and earth,
heaven begun below.
And there should be such love and harmony
in the church like as if we're in
heaven together.
These are very difficult.
I have a very difficult day.
Past weeks, I haven't told Mrs. Stewart, because
you can't just tell your wife everything.
But you know, getting connections with, reconnections with
our friends behind the R.M. Curtin has
hurt me so much.
It gives me such sadness.
You know, you say, well, it's 22 years
ago since I was in that home.
It was 20 years ago since I was
in Romania.
And just the other day, we're in correspondence
with one of our missionaries.
We can't send him any money because he's
in Romania.
And we're in correspondence now with him after
maybe 24 years.
And we're only human.
When we feel a little bit of sadness,
time is passing, and then we haven't seen
him for 24 to 20 years or so.
And this sadness comes into our heart.
But how wonderful it is that when we
can all come together.
And the reason why I have this sadness
is because these were churches, holy churches.
And many of these dear brothers and sisters
have gone home to glory.
And I'm writing to the young generation.
And you see, it is wonderful.
I won this young generation to Christ.
And then they write me back and say
that their children are serving the Lord.
Isn't that wonderful?
You see, this is the second and third
generation.
I haven't seen them.
They send me pictures postcards, pictures of them
now.
But the reason why I get so sad
I can't meet with them is because that
was heaven on earth.
And you know, when the revival comes, people,
people think, if this, if heaven is anything
like this, I couldn't stand it any longer.
Oh yes, sure.
And say, if the Lord Jesus Christ walked
in that building in this golden night, I
tell you, what would you do?
And that's what revival, the Lord's among us,
the Lord and all his wonderful power and
glory.
And there's that wonderful love and that wonderful,
perfect agreement.
And now, are we going to agree together
to do things for the Lord?
Now, thank God for Grant and Guinness who
said, attend great things for God, expect great
things from God.
Now, you know, when God has a job
on hand or a contract on hand, it's
the man or woman of faith that gets
the job every time.
And God is looking for men and women
who can trust him, who could launch out
into the deep.
And you know, I have long plans.
You know, not only, I'm looking for the
Lord to come any day, but I've just
got to carry on as if the Lord's
not coming any day.
John Wesley said, he would just carry on
if he knew the Lord was coming tomorrow.
He said, I'd do just exactly the day,
what I just exactly do tomorrow, what if
I knew the Lord was coming tomorrow, I'd
do exactly the day what I did yesterday.
He was ready to do the Lord.
Doesn't mean now because the Lord's coming, I'm
not going to help in the camp meeting.
I'm going to do nothing.
I'm going to carry on right on until
the Lord calls me home.
And I don't know when the Lord's coming.
So I have long range plans and that's
going to cost thousands of dollars.
And we're trusting God to send in these
thousands of dollars.
Now, every time I see my blessed Lord
and I walk with him, my heart craves
and my heart longs.
Oh Jesus, blessed Lord Jesus.
I want everybody in this whole wide world
to know you.
And I want to plant the bloodstained banner
of Calvary back into these towns and villages
in Britain where the gospel has died out
or his alm is died out.
And I want to get them my books
out to help to train these native pastors
and events all over the world that these
millions of Muslims and Buddhists might be saved.
Like in Indonesia, I suppose we sent more
of our books to Indonesia, these islands have
a hundred million people anywhere else.
We send them up with a thousand there.
And that you see, you can't look into
the face of your Lord and walk with
him and have a lovely time with him
and not have to come to say to
some day, what are we going to do?
What are we going to do?
We've got to do something for him.
You can make it, you can make up
your mind that if you're going to do
something for your blessed Lord Jesus, it's going
to cost you something.
It's going to cost you something.
You know, it's not easy.
For example, for your evangelist, if you leave
home, that's not easy.
You know, because they, you, you might think
living in a motel is a lovely thing.
It's all right for maybe one night, they'll
just leave it off and get away from
everybody or live in and live in other
people's homes.
Now it's nice living in other people's homes
occasionally, but sometimes if you live three or
four weeks, it's not so easy away from
the family, away from the children, you can
get lonely, strange places, new situations.
And you come into a church, you know
nothing about it.
And the pastor says everything's all right in
this church and they're ready for revival.
And he's telling a dumb white liar they're
not ready for revival.
And he's fooled you, you see.
And, and, and you can, when I leave,
when I used to leave, Mrs. Stewart could
always tell what was wrong.
I never wrote her when I came to
a church that needed revival because I was
in so depressed and darkness and fasting and
praying.
I couldn't let anybody until I got the
victory.
Now it's not, it's going to cost you
something.
And those who have to stay at home,
you've got to pay a price.
You've got to pay a sacrifice.
Now I know that when people get excited
to say that there's no such a thing
as sacrifice, well, I don't believe that.
I believe that when you live out this
life, there's a lot of sacrifice with it
and you feel it.
You know, we had one missionary and she
was telling an experience once in a church
that she had terrible news, her mother suddenly
died and the mother in Canada.
And she, and then, and she said, and
I couldn't go to the funeral.
And the pastor's wife said, and what did
you do?
Well, she said, what did we do?
Of course, she said that the missionary was
an automatic machine that couldn't wait.
She said, every missionary is human just like
you.
She said, of course, I just sat down
and cried.
Now it costs something.
You see, it costs something.
Not easy for your mother to be ill
and you're 6,000 miles away from her.
And trust God.
Not easy to have a sick child in
a mission field and no doctor within a
thousand miles.
And you can put it down in your
diary that if you're going to do something
for God, it's going to cost you something.
Maybe cost you the, even the, this is
the offense of the cross.
And you can get the offense of the
cross among believers as well as among unbelievers.
In fact, you'll get more offense of the
cross among carnal Christians than you will among
unbelievers because unbelievers respect people who believe what
they believe.
But it's the cold half-hearted Christian that
will criticize others who are trying to do
everything for Jesus Christ.
Now, if you have recently, you know, been
a critical to the Lord, and we've been
upset and saying, Oh Lord, that this is
a costing me a lot and costing me
money.
And I'd like to buy this and I'd
like to get that.
And if you've been as critical about that,
some of the things sacrificed in the Christian
life, you better go to the altar and
I can pass it.
You just say sometimes and you say, Oh
God, I just can't go any farther.
Just ask the Holy Ghost to give you
a gaze of the dying Lamb of Calvary,
and you'll be able to go farther.
All right, you'll be able to go farther.
But let us put it down a spiritual
value that if we are going to accomplish
anything for God, we've agreed together, Oh God,
we're, we're made this agreement.
This is what we're going to do for
you.
Then it's going to cost you something.
Mr. Stern might say we could write books
galore, just of a, a ordinary common people
and what it costs them to serve God.
I had a friend, a jeweler, if you
please.
And he gave, I think, four children for
the foreign mission field.
And I think the four of them died.
And he went because he hadn't got another
son to send.
Now, you know, sometimes we have to do
it through our tears.
Tears, tears, tears of sorrow, and other times
it's tears of joy.
And I'm a Scotsman, and of course, naturally,
my greatest joy is to be able to
have some money to give for the Lord's
work.
That's my greatest joy in life, to have
some money to give for the Lord's work.
And it's, and I say this, that if
we're going to evangelize the world, you know,
it's going to cost, it's going to cost
us sacrificially with money.
And you know, if we're going to evangelize
the world through the tap, through these campgrounds,
it's going to cost money.
It's going to cost blood, and it's going
to cost sweat, and it's going to cost
tears.
Because you see, the devil hates the camp
meetings.
I was asked by a very, very matured
elderly brother the other day, a very outstanding
American evangelist.
He said to me, Brother James, he said,
what is most important, a Bible conference or
a camp meeting?
And I said, a camp meeting every time.
Now we thank God for the Bible expositors.
Oh, I thank God for dear brothers, Brother
Sheehan, who is coming.
Blessed Bible expositors who could lift us up
to the heavenly realms in Christ and expound
the word to us and make our hearts
dance for joy.
And I thank God for the Bible conferences
and Bible expositors.
But oh friend, give me a camp meeting
any time, when we can call God's people
to repentance, and when we can make a
full surrender to the Lord.
And we can say, Lord, what will thou
have me to do?
Oh God, everything I have is thine.
Now, are you willing to make the sacrifice
tonight?
Will you get together and make the agreement?
Now we need these camp meetings.
Dr. Lee told me when he was here,
he said, Dr. Stewart, he said, this is
what our Baptist churches in America need.
I'll say something more than that.
I'll say, unless we have more camp meetings,
the evangelical fundamental Baptist churches will die out
in America.
I believe that.
And if there ever was a day when
we needed the Milldale camp meeting, it's today.
Now, let us get together in a holy
unity, and let's pray this money in.
Will we?
Pray this money in together in faith, as
I said, on Sunday night, that we'll be
able to go about saying, God did this,
God did this, God did this, God did
this, and you know, believers will come hundreds
and hundreds of miles just to see God
working.
Do you know that?
Do you know that people would come from
Australia just to see a revival broke out
here?
They would come from Australia, fly in from
Australia just to see a revival.
And you know this?
And people are looking, Christians don't see God
very much.
Their meetings are so lifeless and dead, and
their Christian life is so mediocre, and they're
just longing and hungering to see God do
some new thing.
And God says, behold, I will do a
new thing.
Let's expect and believe God to do a
new thing.
And let us pray mightily in perfect harmony
and unity concerning the camp meetings, and that
God will continue.
And when God sends in more money for
these camp meetings, there'll be all evidences that
the Lord did this.
And then, let me just say that if
we do not have the utmost question now,
of course, the, let me just say before
I close, the power of the unity.
And you know, of course, the verse is
Matthew 18 and 20.
But if two of you shall agree touching
anything, and the word is not so much
synchronized as harmonized, like a symphony orchestra.
That's the actual Greek word.
And there's a perfect harmony in the symphony
orchestra.
There's no discord.
There's perfect agreement.
Agreement of sound, you say.
Now, if two of you shall agree on
touching anything, it shall be done by my
Father which is in heaven.
Now, is the Lord Jesus telling us a
lie?
No, no, he couldn't tell a lie.
And you know, as good as sometimes a
few sisters could get together.
Now, please remember that if two sisters like
each other, it doesn't mean that I have
a clique against other sisters.
If some brothers here like each other, it
doesn't mean they have a clique against some
other brothers.
Oh, no.
It's just that some folks I like more
than other people.
But that doesn't mean I hate the rest.
I love everybody, you see.
We're all different temperaments, you see.
And so, we don't believe in cliques.
But it's good if two sisters can get
together, or two brothers, or three brothers, or
three sisters, and say, now, let's have a
prayer meeting.
And then you await upon the Lord, and
then you have perfect agreement what you're going
to pray about.
That's what that verse means.
And you synchronize, or you have a perfect
agreement together, like the symphony of an orchestra.
And you agree together and say, these are
the things we have to pray about.
I've seen before getting down together in Europe
with our missionaries, and it's been astonishing when
I've said, now, we're going to have a
time of prayer, what are the things we're
going to pray for?
And we all agreed.
In fact, there wasn't one thing extra that
we should pray about, because this was a
perfect agreement of the Holy Ghost together, that
we should pray for this one thing.
And then, of course, the closing question would
be is, what happens if we do not
have this agreement, this harmony, this divine appointment
one with another?
And, of course, that brings us to that
blessed breath in 1 Corinthians, or rather, 1
John 1, 7.
And we love this verse so much, and
we know we love this very, very first
practical chapter of the first epistle of John,
and how glorious and how practical it is.
And we think, and we delight ourselves in
this glorious fellowship, but it says in verse
7, but if we walk in the light,
not according to the light, but in the
light, that's where the Lord Jesus is, if
we walk in the light as he is
in the light, we are fellowshiped one with
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, present
tense or continuous tense, keeps on cleansing us
from all sins.
Now, this is not so much my Lord
and myself walking in fellowship together, but it's
my walking in fellowship with my wife, walking
in fellowship with my family, walking in fellowship
with my brothers and my sisters.
But if we walk in the light as
he, our blessed Lord, is in the light,
we are fellowshiped one with another, and the
blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, keeps us
on cleansing us from all sins.
If we confess our sins, God is faithful
and just, faithful and just to the sacrificial
death of his son, because we are justified
by his blood.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins, and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Now, when we are not walking in the
light together in perfect harmony, then there must
be confession of sins.
There must be that confession of sins.
And so, let us pray tonight that we
will have this blessed holy harmony.
Now, please pray.
We're going to separate as usual for a
little while.
The sisters can go for a few minutes
to the back, and we men will pray
here a little.
But I said I would keep this a
short meeting.
Oh, yes, I forgot.
I'll keep this a short meeting tonight.
So, we'll pray together where we are.
Let us
pray
together in the perfect harmony and unity, O
God, that come down in blessing upon our
services here tomorrow.
Now, you know that here you have a
tremendous responsibility, because the Savior is saying to
you of this church, you see, all authority
in heaven and earth is given unto me,
go ye therefore.
Because all authority in heaven and earth is
given unto me, go ye therefore.
I'm giving you my authority.
Go ye therefore into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature.
Now, you're a privileged people, and the devil's
going to fight you, because you see, you
have evangelists here, and they're reaching tens of
thousands every year.
You have the revival fires going out and
reaching thousands of homes every month, and you
have the missionaries.
You are missionaries, we are among your missionaries,
and we are going out preaching the gospel
of Jesus Christ.
And God has done already in just a
short few years amazing things in the camp
meeting.
Now, you know, he just delights to do
the miraculous, doesn't he?
He delights to surprise us.
And I never have any ifs or maybes
at all when I go to God in
prayer.
I have such perfect confidence that it's God's
will that he should bless me more.
I have perfect confidence that he'll bless me
more.
And so when we go to prayer, don't
say, oh God, if it be thy will
that we enlarge.
You see, never say that.
God wants to enlarge all the time, all
the time.
And get going and keep on going and
moving out to the very uttermost part of
the earth.
As I say again and again, it's not
a nice sound, but I'll often ask the
Lord, he could give me a better one,
but he hasn't, so I have to use
it.
And that is that God makes a fool
of us.
Oh, I could tell you stories of how
God makes perfect fools of people again and
again and again and again.
And while we're arguing, then suddenly God comes
in and he just sends in the money
while we're arguing.
I told you about one of our missionaries
recently.
I wrote her and I said, now, you
know, please, your room is so cold and
it's an old house.
And I said, you can't have your quiet
time of prayer.
This is a wonderful young lady of prayer.
And I said, you can't kneel in prayer
because you're frozen in the room.
I said, go and get wall-to-wall
carpeting.
I said, nobody in America is against you
having wall-to-wall carpeting in your bedroom.
And you can have a nice bedroom.
This is all the home you have.
And then you'll be warm and you can
kneel down and pray and go home with
God and get to business.
And I said, just you go on in
faith and order the carpet.
And she didn't have faith, nor just made
a perfect fool of her.
She could have done it three or four
times over and over.
Yeah.
And so let's expect great things for God,
attempt great things for God, and expect great
things for God.
Amen.
Let's pray.
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