1 00:00:00,330 --> 00:00:03,050 Welcome to From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:03,550 --> 00:00:05,050 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:05,050 --> 00:00:07,170 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:07,170 --> 00:00:09,930 Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers 5 00:00:09,930 --> 00:00:10,190 too. 6 00:00:10,790 --> 00:00:13,350 This week we have Hans Wadwalgal asking the 7 00:00:13,350 --> 00:00:15,149 question, are you a living epistle? 8 00:00:15,590 --> 00:00:22,490 We begin again to commend ourselves or need 9 00:00:22,490 --> 00:00:26,670 we as some others, epistles of commendations to 10 00:00:26,670 --> 00:00:30,050 you or letters of commendations from you. 11 00:00:30,750 --> 00:00:34,070 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, 12 00:00:34,470 --> 00:00:37,230 known and read of all men for as 13 00:00:37,230 --> 00:00:40,450 much as ye are manifestly declared to be 14 00:00:40,450 --> 00:00:44,830 the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written 15 00:00:44,830 --> 00:00:47,030 not with ink but with the spirit of 16 00:00:47,030 --> 00:00:51,430 the living God, not in tables of stone 17 00:00:51,430 --> 00:00:53,930 but in fleshly tables of the heart. 18 00:00:54,470 --> 00:00:57,190 And such trust have we through Christ to 19 00:00:57,190 --> 00:00:59,610 God, were it not that we are sufficient 20 00:00:59,610 --> 00:01:02,590 of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, 21 00:01:02,930 --> 00:01:06,210 but our sufficiency is of God, who also 22 00:01:06,210 --> 00:01:08,590 hath made us able ministers of the new 23 00:01:08,590 --> 00:01:11,950 covenant, not of the letter, but of the 24 00:01:11,950 --> 00:01:14,350 spirit, for the letter killeth, but the spirit 25 00:01:14,350 --> 00:01:15,230 giveth life. 26 00:01:15,890 --> 00:01:18,490 But if the ministration of death, written and 27 00:01:18,490 --> 00:01:22,030 engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the 28 00:01:22,030 --> 00:01:25,390 children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the 29 00:01:25,390 --> 00:01:27,990 face of Moses, for the glory of his 30 00:01:27,990 --> 00:01:33,010 countenance, how shall not the ministration of the 31 00:01:33,010 --> 00:01:34,610 spirit be rather glorious? 32 00:01:36,090 --> 00:01:39,270 Now the Lord is that spirit, and where 33 00:01:39,270 --> 00:01:41,010 the spirit of the Lord is, there is 34 00:01:41,010 --> 00:01:41,450 liberty. 35 00:01:41,610 --> 00:01:44,950 But we all, with open face, beholding as 36 00:01:44,950 --> 00:01:46,790 in a glass the glory of the Lord, 37 00:01:47,230 --> 00:01:49,970 are changed into the same image from glory 38 00:01:49,970 --> 00:01:52,910 to glory, even as by the spirit of 39 00:01:52,910 --> 00:01:53,390 the Lord. 40 00:01:54,130 --> 00:01:56,930 I came into the meeting tonight and saw 41 00:01:56,930 --> 00:02:00,110 the heaven rolling away and the glory of 42 00:02:00,110 --> 00:02:03,730 God descending, and was reminded of the words 43 00:02:03,730 --> 00:02:05,650 of Jesus, where he said, Were two of 44 00:02:05,650 --> 00:02:08,930 you or three are gathered in my name, 45 00:02:09,030 --> 00:02:10,650 there am I in the midst, I thought. 46 00:02:11,110 --> 00:02:13,370 Well, the Lord Jesus really has a plan 47 00:02:13,370 --> 00:02:15,430 with every meeting, or he wouldn't bother to 48 00:02:15,430 --> 00:02:16,470 come around, would he? 49 00:02:17,990 --> 00:02:18,970 You think so? 50 00:02:20,310 --> 00:02:24,590 But you know, it's been a source of 51 00:02:24,590 --> 00:02:27,390 unceasing wonderment to me how that he always 52 00:02:27,390 --> 00:02:28,550 manages to come. 53 00:02:29,270 --> 00:02:30,250 Praise the Lord. 54 00:02:30,350 --> 00:02:33,090 Sometimes people don't pay very much attention to 55 00:02:33,090 --> 00:02:37,310 him, but he always manages to come, and 56 00:02:37,310 --> 00:02:41,210 he always manages to manifest himself. 57 00:02:41,630 --> 00:02:43,990 He must have a real purpose in it. 58 00:02:44,330 --> 00:02:46,010 He must have a real plan. 59 00:02:46,410 --> 00:02:48,390 And wouldn't it be interesting to find out 60 00:02:48,390 --> 00:02:50,050 just what God's plan is? 61 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,420 Why, sure, when I come to meeting, I 62 00:02:54,420 --> 00:02:55,600 come to meet my Lord. 63 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:57,980 And if the Lord has a plan, well, 64 00:02:58,040 --> 00:02:59,240 what is my plan? 65 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:02,580 What did I come for to this meeting? 66 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,760 Did I come because I was compelled to 67 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:06,040 come? 68 00:03:06,660 --> 00:03:08,560 Or because it was the right thing? 69 00:03:08,620 --> 00:03:10,260 Or because I wanted to meet somebody? 70 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,340 Or did I come to meet the Lord 71 00:03:13,340 --> 00:03:15,900 and to have him take hold and carry 72 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:16,840 out his own plan? 73 00:03:17,220 --> 00:03:19,180 Beloved, the day will come when everything will 74 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:20,040 depend on that. 75 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,840 Everything will depend on whether the Lord is 76 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:24,560 at his way. 77 00:03:25,380 --> 00:03:29,460 We are vessels, even vessels unto honor or 78 00:03:29,460 --> 00:03:31,080 vessels unto dishonor. 79 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,520 I saw a man make a vessel in 80 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:34,740 the rookery in Cincinnati. 81 00:03:35,740 --> 00:03:38,380 He took the clay, and he kneaded it 82 00:03:38,380 --> 00:03:40,220 like my mother used to knead the dough 83 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:41,260 when she baked bread. 84 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,720 But he kneaded it very, very well, and 85 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,580 then he took it and, wha! 86 00:03:46,980 --> 00:03:48,880 I wish I was a potter then. 87 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,780 And he had a rock there, a flat 88 00:03:53,780 --> 00:03:54,160 rock. 89 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,160 And he had a muscle, believe me, on 90 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,520 that poor clay. 91 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,040 It just flattened out like this. 92 00:04:03,620 --> 00:04:06,220 And then he kneaded it again and kneaded 93 00:04:06,220 --> 00:04:08,000 it again and then again. 94 00:04:08,340 --> 00:04:08,740 Whaa! 95 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:14,040 It just delighted me somehow. 96 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:18,540 But he took it up, and then he 97 00:04:18,540 --> 00:04:19,300 kneaded again. 98 00:04:19,420 --> 00:04:21,300 And he kept that up for a while, 99 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:22,720 and then he put it on a wheel, 100 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,980 had a wheel there and started spinning that 101 00:04:24,980 --> 00:04:25,520 thing around. 102 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:27,760 And then he put his hand into that 103 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,200 clay, and he began to mold it. 104 00:04:29,820 --> 00:04:30,800 My, that was beautiful. 105 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,700 He just drew it up like this, and 106 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:35,800 he made a nice vase or a vase. 107 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:38,900 Culture people say vase. 108 00:04:40,860 --> 00:04:43,060 And I thought, my, isn't that a beautiful 109 00:04:43,060 --> 00:04:43,780 vase? 110 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,180 I thought, now it's all finished. 111 00:04:45,540 --> 00:04:46,960 It's beautifully shaped. 112 00:04:47,340 --> 00:04:48,520 But he wasn't satisfied. 113 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,680 He took a knife and he slashed it 114 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:51,620 right through the middle. 115 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,700 And then he measured the walls of that 116 00:04:54,700 --> 00:04:56,740 vase, and he found they weren't equal, they 117 00:04:56,740 --> 00:04:57,580 weren't just right. 118 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,500 And so the whole process started all over 119 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:00,760 again. 120 00:05:01,140 --> 00:05:08,400 Now, he had a plan, you He, he 121 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,140 just didn't. 122 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,140 He was just clay in the potter's hand. 123 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:14,780 And isn't that what God says, ye are 124 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:16,920 the clay, I am the potter. 125 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:19,680 And his plan is to make a vessel 126 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,540 out of you and out of me, thank 127 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:21,880 God. 128 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,180 And that vessel, and you know when this 129 00:05:24,180 --> 00:05:27,600 fellow got through with the vase, I thought 130 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:28,380 he was through with it. 131 00:05:28,460 --> 00:05:30,600 He said, oh no, now the process begins. 132 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,240 Now that vase is going to be put 133 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,660 into the oven, a burning, fiery furnace. 134 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,600 And there's no door to that furnace. 135 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,740 It's going to be masoned into the furnace 136 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:46,480 so that he can't get out, even if 137 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:46,900 he tried. 138 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:48,580 There's no way out. 139 00:05:48,660 --> 00:05:50,640 He's got to stay in that fire for 140 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,400 38 hours, if I'm not mistaken, until it's 141 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:58,380 baked through and then it's a vase that 142 00:05:58,380 --> 00:06:00,940 is fit for a king. 143 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,380 And indeed, the rookery in Cincinnati, you know, 144 00:06:04,460 --> 00:06:07,780 sends out its wonderful crockery into all parts 145 00:06:07,780 --> 00:06:08,300 of the world. 146 00:06:08,420 --> 00:06:10,460 It has a world reputation. 147 00:06:10,940 --> 00:06:13,320 But my God has an eternal reputation. 148 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:13,880 Hallelujah. 149 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:22,740 We are not all going to be in 150 00:06:22,740 --> 00:06:24,320 Brooklyn forever. 151 00:06:27,110 --> 00:06:29,650 The bums have moved to the West Coast 152 00:06:29,650 --> 00:06:31,150 and we're going to move up. 153 00:06:36,340 --> 00:06:41,240 Well, it's important for us to get hold 154 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:41,680 of it. 155 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:43,280 Praise God. 156 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,180 He saved us and called us with a 157 00:06:47,180 --> 00:06:48,820 holy calling. 158 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,340 Oh, that the Holy Ghost might make it 159 00:06:51,340 --> 00:06:54,020 real to us, that we're called with a 160 00:06:54,020 --> 00:06:57,240 holy calling, that God has a mighty plan 161 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,640 and he likens this plan to the work 162 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,140 that Moses did in Old Testament times when 163 00:07:03,140 --> 00:07:04,560 he gave the people the law. 164 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,380 And the law made nothing perfect. 165 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,640 He says the gospel was preached to them 166 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,640 as well as unto us, but it didn't 167 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,600 do them any good because it wasn't mixed 168 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:16,320 with faith. 169 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,380 What the law could not do, it cannot 170 00:07:19,380 --> 00:07:20,180 do today. 171 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,500 God had to find a better way to 172 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:28,640 make a vessel unto honor, sanctified and made 173 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,000 for the master's use. 174 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,780 And nothing blesses a minister of the Holy 175 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:36,600 Ghost Church more than to see God moving 176 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,680 and molding lives and changing life. 177 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,760 But nothing blesses the heart of Jesus Christ 178 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,240 more than to look into a meeting like 179 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,240 this and to see men responding to the 180 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,120 Spirit of God. 181 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,780 Our sister said a while ago, we need 182 00:07:52,780 --> 00:07:53,900 meetings like these. 183 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,100 We do more than we know. 184 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,900 We need Holy Ghost meetings. 185 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,780 We need meetings where the Spirit of God 186 00:08:03,780 --> 00:08:04,980 can speak to us. 187 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,600 But more than that, we need meetings where 188 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,420 we can hear what the Spirit says unto 189 00:08:10,420 --> 00:08:13,560 the churches, where our hearts are circumcised and 190 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,980 worked upon by the Holy Ghost. 191 00:08:16,260 --> 00:08:17,260 That's what I need. 192 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:18,620 I need it every day. 193 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:21,300 When I read that scripture text where it 194 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:24,080 says the word of God is quick and 195 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:28,200 powerful and sharper than a two-edged sword. 196 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,020 You know how many people are tired of 197 00:08:30,020 --> 00:08:30,180 it? 198 00:08:30,660 --> 00:08:31,679 They've told me so. 199 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:33,880 They've told me that to my face. 200 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:36,140 We don't like to hear this message all 201 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:36,600 the time. 202 00:08:36,940 --> 00:08:38,640 One man came to me this meeting. 203 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,520 He says, you ain't got no faith. 204 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:42,700 If you had faith, you wouldn't always talk 205 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:43,540 about humility. 206 00:08:45,580 --> 00:08:46,960 That's how people talk. 207 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,840 Another one said a woman, a lady or 208 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,280 a would-be lady said, I don't want 209 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,240 to hear about coming down all the time. 210 00:08:55,580 --> 00:08:57,180 I want to be somebody. 211 00:08:58,380 --> 00:09:00,540 Beloved, you will be somebody. 212 00:09:01,190 --> 00:09:05,620 A vessel unto dishonor, but oh God Almighty 213 00:09:05,620 --> 00:09:09,220 has a wonderful plan and I'm not going 214 00:09:09,220 --> 00:09:11,840 to please Him until I become clay in 215 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,400 His molding hands, in His masterful hands. 216 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,200 That's what God provides because the law made 217 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:20,460 nothing perfect. 218 00:09:20,860 --> 00:09:26,360 The Lord amended perfection, didn't it? 219 00:09:26,780 --> 00:09:29,220 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 220 00:09:29,220 --> 00:09:30,780 all thy heart. 221 00:09:31,220 --> 00:09:35,000 Oh, what perfection God demands in my heart. 222 00:09:35,380 --> 00:09:37,920 He wants my whole attention for Himself. 223 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,100 He wants my very body for Himself. 224 00:09:40,540 --> 00:09:42,240 He wants my soul and my spirit. 225 00:09:42,580 --> 00:09:46,540 The God of peace sanctify you wholly and 226 00:09:46,540 --> 00:09:49,900 I pray God your whole spirit and soul 227 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:54,000 and body be preserved blameless unto the coming 228 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,260 of our Lord Jesus Christ. 229 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,700 Beloved, we need Holy Ghost meetings. 230 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,360 We need meetings where Jesus Christ walks in 231 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,360 the midst and where He speaks His word 232 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,280 and where He says, I know your works. 233 00:10:04,820 --> 00:10:06,800 I counsel thee to buy of me gold 234 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,000 fried in the fire. 235 00:10:08,260 --> 00:10:10,940 You're wretched and miserable, poor and blind and 236 00:10:10,940 --> 00:10:11,240 naked. 237 00:10:12,060 --> 00:10:13,880 I don't mind someone to come and tell 238 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:14,460 me that. 239 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,780 Missionary told us how one day man came 240 00:10:18,780 --> 00:10:19,400 to his door. 241 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,240 It was in Arabia and the fellow had 242 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,260 never had a bath in all his life. 243 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,220 And so the missionary wanted to take him 244 00:10:27,220 --> 00:10:29,180 into his house for a few days, but 245 00:10:29,180 --> 00:10:30,800 he offered him a bath first of all. 246 00:10:31,060 --> 00:10:32,480 This man was so indignant. 247 00:10:32,620 --> 00:10:34,640 He was so insulted. 248 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,900 He said, well, who do you think I 249 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:37,200 am? 250 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,200 You think I'm so dirty that I need 251 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:39,680 a bath? 252 00:10:41,260 --> 00:10:42,900 Beloved, that's the way saints are. 253 00:10:43,620 --> 00:10:46,220 When God Almighty offers them a bath in 254 00:10:46,220 --> 00:10:49,420 His own blood, when He lets His own 255 00:10:49,420 --> 00:10:53,200 veins flow blood, blood, holy blood. 256 00:10:53,620 --> 00:10:55,900 When He says without the shedding of blood 257 00:10:55,900 --> 00:10:56,760 is no remission. 258 00:10:57,220 --> 00:10:59,520 If we hide our sins, we shall not 259 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:00,220 prosper. 260 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,600 But if we confess our sins, how many 261 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:05,860 people hide their sins? 262 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:07,180 They're never cleansed. 263 00:11:07,340 --> 00:11:08,520 They're never purified. 264 00:11:08,820 --> 00:11:09,920 They're never changed. 265 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,200 God says we're changed into His image, His 266 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:14,780 image, His image. 267 00:11:14,860 --> 00:11:17,580 David says, I shall be satisfied when I 268 00:11:17,580 --> 00:11:19,180 awake with my likeness. 269 00:11:19,540 --> 00:11:21,700 Has God Almighty been able to implant into 270 00:11:21,700 --> 00:11:24,180 your heart this desire to be like Jesus? 271 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Has He implanted in your heart a conviction? 272 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,280 Has He been able to show you that 273 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,420 all flesh is grass and all the goodliness 274 00:11:33,420 --> 00:11:33,960 thereof? 275 00:11:34,220 --> 00:11:35,500 Why am I so proud? 276 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:39,720 Why am I so proud and become insulted 277 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,460 when somebody offers me a bath? 278 00:11:41,460 --> 00:11:44,120 Or when the Holy Ghost shows me my 279 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:44,820 true condition? 280 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,280 Why is it that I'm ashamed to confess 281 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,760 my sin or to have somebody tell me 282 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:51,400 my faults? 283 00:11:51,740 --> 00:11:51,920 Why? 284 00:11:51,980 --> 00:11:53,320 It's because they don't want to get rid 285 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:53,600 of them. 286 00:11:54,540 --> 00:11:56,820 Or maybe I haven't seen the beauty of 287 00:11:56,820 --> 00:11:57,840 the Son of God. 288 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:00,840 Oh beloved, what the law could not do, 289 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:02,920 God was bound to do somehow. 290 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,240 God is bound to have a people that 291 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:05,800 are clean. 292 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:07,680 He's going to have a people that are 293 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:09,520 like Jesus is holy. 294 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,840 Beloved, that's a wonderful call, and God made 295 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,520 that call before He made the world. 296 00:12:16,540 --> 00:12:18,480 And when He said to Noah, that's a 297 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,420 strange thing, after He had destroyed the humanity 298 00:12:21,420 --> 00:12:24,800 and destroyed the Son of God and the 299 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,440 giant and the cultured people, the whole generation, 300 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,260 He says, the end of all flesh has 301 00:12:32,260 --> 00:12:33,140 come before me. 302 00:12:33,340 --> 00:12:33,660 Why? 303 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,120 Because it has destroyed and wrecked and defiled 304 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:39,120 its way before me. 305 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,420 And because the heart and the imagination of 306 00:12:42,420 --> 00:12:45,500 the human heart is only evil continually, and 307 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:48,440 people will not be instructed by my Spirit 308 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,940 anymore, the end of all flesh has come 309 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:51,480 before me. 310 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,100 And when He had saved Noah and his 311 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:59,280 family, He said, now be fruitful and replenish 312 00:13:00,060 --> 00:13:01,620 I read that in one of the old 313 00:13:01,620 --> 00:13:03,140 -time Lutheran translations. 314 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:10,540 He says, God knew that out of the 315 00:13:10,540 --> 00:13:14,000 great multitude of people that would be born 316 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,220 after the flood, only a trickle would care 317 00:13:17,220 --> 00:13:17,780 for God. 318 00:13:19,140 --> 00:13:22,840 Only a small company would listen to what 319 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:24,860 the Spirit said to the churches, but He 320 00:13:24,860 --> 00:13:27,400 knew that some would, and He foresaw them 321 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:28,980 before the foundation of the world. 322 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:30,120 He knew your name. 323 00:13:30,380 --> 00:13:31,580 He wrote it in the book. 324 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,020 And before the foundation of the world, He 325 00:13:35,020 --> 00:13:38,540 chose those whom He foreknew. 326 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:42,600 He says, then He also did predestinate to 327 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,040 be conformed to the image of His Son 328 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,200 that He might have be the firstborn among 329 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:48,920 many brethren. 330 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:53,960 Oh, beloved, we're not called to waste our 331 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,500 time in the works of the flesh and 332 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:59,240 to waste our time after a while in 333 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,000 remorse, in eternal remorse. 334 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:05,640 God has called us with an holy calling, 335 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,920 and He that has called us and appointed 336 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,380 us is God, who also hath filled us 337 00:14:12,380 --> 00:14:14,180 with the Holy Ghost. 338 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,360 You remember that story the Greeks tell of 339 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,320 Pegasus, of a horse that could fly, wonderful 340 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:31,200 animal, eyes that spat fire, a mouth out 341 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,340 of which came smoke, and he had wings, 342 00:14:35,540 --> 00:14:37,820 and he was destined to fly over the 343 00:14:37,820 --> 00:14:38,380 clouds. 344 00:14:39,060 --> 00:14:40,940 And he belonged to a young student, and 345 00:14:40,940 --> 00:14:43,220 this student had a wonderful time riding on 346 00:14:43,220 --> 00:14:44,380 back of Pegasus. 347 00:14:45,420 --> 00:14:47,320 But one day this poor student got so 348 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,200 poor he had to pawn his clothes, he 349 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,760 had to pawn everything, and finally had to 350 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:52,560 pawn his horse. 351 00:14:53,140 --> 00:14:54,640 And he pawned him off to a farmer, 352 00:14:54,740 --> 00:14:56,460 and the farmer didn't want him, but he 353 00:14:56,460 --> 00:14:58,420 gave him just a few dollars for this 354 00:14:58,420 --> 00:14:58,720 horse. 355 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:00,640 He said, what good is a horse with 356 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:00,920 wings? 357 00:15:01,220 --> 00:15:02,840 So he took a pair of shears and 358 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,940 he clipped the wings. 359 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,900 And then he hitched the horse to a 360 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:10,900 plow with a cow. 361 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,720 What are you hitched together with? 362 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,160 Poor Pegasus. 363 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,540 He was pulling the plow, and the farmer 364 00:15:23,540 --> 00:15:24,700 hit him. 365 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,380 And poor Pegasus wasn't accustomed to work like 366 00:15:28,380 --> 00:15:30,600 that, and the cow kept pushing him with 367 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:31,020 his horn. 368 00:15:32,460 --> 00:15:34,580 And it was an awful team. 369 00:15:35,180 --> 00:15:37,680 Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. 370 00:15:37,820 --> 00:15:40,040 Listen, you'll get no place if you are. 371 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,980 Our fellowship was with the Father, and with 372 00:15:44,980 --> 00:15:47,760 his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 373 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,180 Beloved, this is serious business. 374 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:56,520 And one day this student made some money, 375 00:15:56,620 --> 00:15:58,700 made a few dollars, and first thing he 376 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:00,180 did was to look up this farmer. 377 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,940 And this horse's wings had grown again. 378 00:16:03,780 --> 00:16:06,260 And he saw the poor horse sweating there, 379 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,260 and the cow mooing, and it was a 380 00:16:10,260 --> 00:16:11,140 horrible sight. 381 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:13,620 And so he went to the farmer and 382 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:14,880 he said, how much do you want for 383 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:15,340 that horse? 384 00:16:15,420 --> 00:16:16,660 Oh, he says, you can have him for 385 00:16:16,660 --> 00:16:17,080 nothing. 386 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:19,300 He says, I'm disgusted with it. 387 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,280 He just, well, you know, the world knows 388 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,220 us not, because it knew him not. 389 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:26,920 We're made for heaven, not for this earth 390 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:27,300 thing. 391 00:16:28,170 --> 00:16:29,640 He has saved us. 392 00:16:29,740 --> 00:16:32,200 It made us a peculiar people, praise the 393 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:32,480 Lord. 394 00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:36,040 And so he unhitched the horse, and as 395 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,320 soon as the horse felt the Master's touch, 396 00:16:38,860 --> 00:16:40,400 a quiver went through his body. 397 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,620 His eyes began to spit fire. 398 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,500 His mouth opened, and the farmer stood back. 399 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:50,660 And this young student swung himself on the 400 00:16:50,660 --> 00:16:55,780 back of Pegasus, and the farmer stood there 401 00:16:55,780 --> 00:16:56,680 with open mouth. 402 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,160 He said, oh, we shall not all sleep, 403 00:17:00,260 --> 00:17:01,380 but we shall all eat. 404 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,540 Glory, glory to God. 405 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:12,300 Will you pardon me? 406 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,859 I see so many hitched together, not with 407 00:17:17,859 --> 00:17:20,160 a cow, but with a mule, or with 408 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,220 a donkey, or any old thing, and you 409 00:17:23,220 --> 00:17:24,520 don't belong there. 410 00:17:30,770 --> 00:17:31,990 Glory to God. 411 00:17:34,170 --> 00:17:35,710 Now let's see, where was I? 412 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,600 Whom he did foreknow, them he also did 413 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,760 predestinate to be conformed. 414 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,580 And while the law was not able to 415 00:17:46,580 --> 00:17:48,020 do it, God had to find a way, 416 00:17:48,380 --> 00:17:50,260 and that way is Jesus Christ. 417 00:17:51,460 --> 00:17:54,600 Jesus alone, and he who walks in the 418 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,700 midst of the seven golden candlesticks, he is 419 00:17:57,700 --> 00:17:59,400 not interested in the backsliders. 420 00:17:59,820 --> 00:18:01,700 He is not interested in those that are 421 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:02,600 half-hearted. 422 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,980 He says, I'll move that candlestick out of 423 00:18:05,980 --> 00:18:07,480 your place, except you repent. 424 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:09,520 He wants perfection. 425 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,860 The Apostle Paul said, the Spirit of God 426 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:13,900 works in me mightily. 427 00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:14,800 For what? 428 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:18,540 To present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 429 00:18:18,540 --> 00:18:22,720 And God, who is tremendously patient with us, 430 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,920 there comes a time when he says, Ephraim 431 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:26,980 is turned to his idols. 432 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:28,160 Leave him alone. 433 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:29,760 But where are we tonight? 434 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:32,540 Are we being changed? 435 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,800 He talks here about the Spirit of God 436 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:36,680 being Lord. 437 00:18:37,460 --> 00:18:39,240 Oh, that's it, beloved. 438 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:43,680 Only where the Spirit is Lord, the devil 439 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,360 is not Lord anymore. 440 00:18:45,540 --> 00:18:47,000 That's why he says there's liberty. 441 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,960 Where the Spirit is Lord, the lordship of 442 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,320 the flesh has sinned. 443 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,780 If we live in the flesh, we shall 444 00:18:54,780 --> 00:18:55,380 die. 445 00:18:55,740 --> 00:18:57,460 Oh, how many are dead today. 446 00:18:57,940 --> 00:19:00,320 They live in the flesh, and the works 447 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,060 of the flesh are manifest, which are these, 448 00:19:03,180 --> 00:19:06,020 and then he names them all, adultery, fornication, 449 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:12,060 unclean, evil concupiscence, covetousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, 450 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:18,340 variance, emulation, wrath, strife, sedition, heresy, murder, drunkenness, 451 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,080 revelings, and such like, of which I've told 452 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,740 you often that they which do such things 453 00:19:23,740 --> 00:19:27,060 shall not inherit the kingdom of God, but 454 00:19:27,060 --> 00:19:31,660 the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, 455 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:33,120 peace. 456 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,480 How holy is the fruit of the Spirit, 457 00:19:38,780 --> 00:19:40,360 where the Spirit is Lord. 458 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:42,460 That's the difference. 459 00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:43,540 What does it say? 460 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,140 We don't need letters of commendation from you 461 00:19:47,140 --> 00:19:48,000 or to you. 462 00:19:48,420 --> 00:19:52,840 Ye are our epistle, written not with ink, 463 00:19:53,060 --> 00:19:55,520 but with the Spirit of the living God. 464 00:19:55,660 --> 00:19:56,820 That's number one. 465 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:58,780 What do you do with the Word of 466 00:19:58,780 --> 00:19:59,320 God? 467 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,720 When Moses got the tables of the law 468 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,040 from God, he talks about the ministration of 469 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,820 death, which was engraven upon stones. 470 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,980 Moses had to stay there forty days and 471 00:20:13,980 --> 00:20:18,000 forty nights while God wrote those words upon 472 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,340 the tables of stone. 473 00:20:20,260 --> 00:20:21,080 What a job! 474 00:20:21,740 --> 00:20:24,100 Forty days, forty nights. 475 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:26,520 And when he came out of that cloud, 476 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:27,780 his face shone. 477 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,680 Something had happened to him. 478 00:20:30,780 --> 00:20:32,500 I was so happy this morning coming to 479 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:34,020 church with our children. 480 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,780 They were singing all along the way. 481 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,120 When they got tired singing English, they started 482 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:41,500 singing German hymns. 483 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:44,820 They put some of us older ones to 484 00:20:44,820 --> 00:20:45,100 shame. 485 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,340 They claimed, we can't talk German anymore. 486 00:20:47,460 --> 00:20:48,960 Your German is sauerkraut. 487 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,660 And these twins, they want to sing German. 488 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:53,220 They do. 489 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:55,420 They sing like the Germans themselves. 490 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:57,380 But they sang a song that I didn't 491 00:20:57,380 --> 00:20:57,640 know. 492 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,120 They said, when Jesus came into my heart, 493 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:02,060 something happened to me. 494 00:21:05,060 --> 00:21:05,980 Do you know that song? 495 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:07,900 Do you have that testimony? 496 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,080 Something happens to you when Jesus comes in. 497 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:16,520 Something happens. 498 00:21:17,180 --> 00:21:18,440 What does, what happens? 499 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:19,900 Why he takes over. 500 00:21:20,820 --> 00:21:21,940 Where sin abounded. 501 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,920 And we all know that sin abounded. 502 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:27,320 Oh, how it binds our souls. 503 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,240 How flesh bound us. 504 00:21:29,580 --> 00:21:31,960 How pride binds us. 505 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,300 You know, our greatest enemy is the pride 506 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:37,620 of our heart that will not let us 507 00:21:37,620 --> 00:21:41,540 bow and submit to the Spirit of God 508 00:21:41,540 --> 00:21:44,920 and let him be Lord and Master of 509 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:45,820 our lives. 510 00:21:46,460 --> 00:21:48,740 And God, in his great mercy, comes and 511 00:21:48,740 --> 00:21:53,660 calls us to repentance and offers us a 512 00:21:53,660 --> 00:21:54,360 new born. 513 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,280 Offers us Jesus. 514 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,520 When, when Brother Lardong traveled through Switzerland with 515 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:02,880 me, I took him to my hometown. 516 00:22:03,460 --> 00:22:05,660 And he said, where's that little house of 517 00:22:05,660 --> 00:22:06,620 the chimney sweeper? 518 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:07,580 I showed it to him. 519 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,240 Everybody knows about that house because it was 520 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:12,660 a dilapidated affair. 521 00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:15,540 From top to bottom, all the windows were 522 00:22:15,540 --> 00:22:15,820 broken. 523 00:22:15,980 --> 00:22:17,760 Everything was dirty and filthy. 524 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,080 This chimney sweep was drinking all the time, 525 00:22:22,180 --> 00:22:24,200 drinking away all his money, so he had 526 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:24,900 no money left. 527 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,240 But one day, he died. 528 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,460 He was found choked to death in the 529 00:22:29,460 --> 00:22:29,760 ditch. 530 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,160 And somebody else bought his house. 531 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:35,200 And then we children were surprised to see 532 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,320 workmen come. 533 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,660 And they started to clean up that place. 534 00:22:39,140 --> 00:22:40,200 They fixed the foundation. 535 00:22:40,380 --> 00:22:42,040 They fixed that whole house from top to 536 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:42,300 bottom. 537 00:22:42,580 --> 00:22:44,060 And they made it so pretty. 538 00:22:44,180 --> 00:22:45,640 It looked like a dollhouse. 539 00:22:46,380 --> 00:22:49,600 Fresh paint, everything freshly made. 540 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:52,100 It was just like a new house because 541 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:54,120 a new boss had moved in. 542 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,400 When Jesus comes in, something happens. 543 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:00,100 Ye are our epistle. 544 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:01,680 Everybody will know. 545 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:02,940 You don't have to do a lot of 546 00:23:02,940 --> 00:23:03,340 talking. 547 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,040 Everybody around about you, people who work with 548 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:10,070 you in the shop, boys and girls in 549 00:23:10,070 --> 00:23:15,570 school, your neighbors, how quickly they'll know the 550 00:23:15,570 --> 00:23:16,070 difference. 551 00:23:16,590 --> 00:23:18,170 They know that a new boss has moved 552 00:23:18,170 --> 00:23:18,310 in. 553 00:23:18,330 --> 00:23:19,150 Who is that boss? 554 00:23:19,610 --> 00:23:21,550 Why, it's the Spirit of the living God 555 00:23:21,550 --> 00:23:23,330 and where the Spirit is Lord. 556 00:23:24,950 --> 00:23:27,190 And where his law is received. 557 00:23:28,190 --> 00:23:31,070 And beloved, when he is Lord, why he 558 00:23:31,070 --> 00:23:34,110 says, Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and 559 00:23:34,110 --> 00:23:36,070 do not the things which I say? 560 00:23:36,330 --> 00:23:37,930 How we treasure the Bible. 561 00:23:39,050 --> 00:23:42,670 This New Testament, he says, Ye are the 562 00:23:42,670 --> 00:23:46,170 epistle of Christ, written by the Spirit of 563 00:23:46,170 --> 00:23:48,730 the living God, known and read of all 564 00:23:48,730 --> 00:23:49,010 men. 565 00:23:49,230 --> 00:23:51,390 That's the new covenant God made with his 566 00:23:51,390 --> 00:23:51,730 people. 567 00:23:52,090 --> 00:23:55,070 He says, Not as I did in Egypt 568 00:23:55,070 --> 00:23:57,030 or when I brought them out of Egypt 569 00:23:57,030 --> 00:24:00,110 and wrote my law upon tables of stone. 570 00:24:00,430 --> 00:24:01,810 But he says, I'm going to give them 571 00:24:01,810 --> 00:24:04,350 a new heart and put my Spirit within 572 00:24:04,350 --> 00:24:08,070 them and write my law into their hearts. 573 00:24:08,770 --> 00:24:10,330 Beloved, how is it tonight? 574 00:24:10,430 --> 00:24:15,210 Has God Almighty taken over in my life? 575 00:24:16,190 --> 00:24:19,110 If he has, it must have been because 576 00:24:19,110 --> 00:24:20,750 I've made him Lord. 577 00:24:21,470 --> 00:24:23,950 If I make him Lord, I'm not going 578 00:24:23,950 --> 00:24:26,930 to be a hypocrite and say, Lord, Lord, 579 00:24:26,990 --> 00:24:29,150 and then do what my flesh wants me 580 00:24:29,150 --> 00:24:29,550 to do. 581 00:24:30,090 --> 00:24:34,610 Or my evil nature, my pride, my conceit, 582 00:24:34,930 --> 00:24:38,350 the works of the flesh are eliminated. 583 00:24:38,810 --> 00:24:39,990 Christ has come in. 584 00:24:40,370 --> 00:24:41,790 Jesus is on the throne. 585 00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:42,670 Hallelujah. 586 00:24:43,010 --> 00:24:45,150 Oh, how glad we ought to be for 587 00:24:45,150 --> 00:24:47,090 this ministration of the Spirit. 588 00:24:48,270 --> 00:24:49,330 Praise the Lord. 589 00:24:49,470 --> 00:24:51,750 Ye are not in the flesh, but in 590 00:24:51,750 --> 00:24:52,290 the Spirit. 591 00:24:52,410 --> 00:24:54,210 If so be that the Spirit of Christ 592 00:24:54,210 --> 00:24:55,010 dwell in you. 593 00:24:55,810 --> 00:24:56,530 That's it. 594 00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:59,490 And here's number one. 595 00:25:00,950 --> 00:25:02,390 The Spirit is Lord. 596 00:25:03,070 --> 00:25:04,770 His Word is law. 597 00:25:05,650 --> 00:25:10,210 In his Word does he meditate day and 598 00:25:10,210 --> 00:25:10,910 night. 599 00:25:12,370 --> 00:25:15,090 Beloved, there's a tremendous lack of that kind 600 00:25:15,090 --> 00:25:16,050 of Bible study. 601 00:25:16,150 --> 00:25:16,970 Do you know that? 602 00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:20,450 A fearful lack. 603 00:25:23,350 --> 00:25:25,370 I spoke recently of a minister I met. 604 00:25:25,570 --> 00:25:29,070 I've traveled halfway around the world, and he's 605 00:25:29,070 --> 00:25:29,930 an eloquent man. 606 00:25:30,010 --> 00:25:33,250 He's a man that could really preach, but 607 00:25:33,250 --> 00:25:34,150 he can't live. 608 00:25:35,870 --> 00:25:37,250 Can't get along with his wife. 609 00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:39,170 His children are a disgrace. 610 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,060 He does things that you wouldn't expect from 611 00:25:44,060 --> 00:25:45,300 a man of the world. 612 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:47,740 Why does he do that? 613 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,140 The Spirit is not Lord. 614 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,900 He has not bowed to Jesus Christ. 615 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,620 He has said, called him Lord, Lord, but 616 00:25:56,620 --> 00:25:58,820 when it comes to his own will, he 617 00:25:58,820 --> 00:26:00,360 says, I'm going to have my own way. 618 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,380 There's a power within him that rules his 619 00:26:04,380 --> 00:26:07,220 mind, his thoughts, his feelings. 620 00:26:07,220 --> 00:26:10,080 Isn't that what brought on the flood upon 621 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,420 the world of the ungodly? 622 00:26:11,620 --> 00:26:12,260 Exactly. 623 00:26:13,460 --> 00:26:15,620 If we live in the flesh, we shall 624 00:26:15,620 --> 00:26:16,100 die. 625 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,120 Listen, ye are the epistle of Christ, written 626 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,780 by the Spirit of the living God. 627 00:26:23,060 --> 00:26:25,960 I must give him time over this Bible, 628 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,340 and as I do, as I eat this 629 00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:33,020 bread that comes down from heaven, Jesus Christ 630 00:26:33,020 --> 00:26:34,120 gives me his life. 631 00:26:34,820 --> 00:26:37,000 He says, the Spirit will receive from me 632 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,860 and show it unto you. 633 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,680 Here's the New Testament, written not with ink, 634 00:26:44,380 --> 00:26:47,500 but with the Holy Ghost upon fleshly tables 635 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:50,180 of the heart, and ye are the epistle 636 00:26:50,180 --> 00:26:50,740 of Christ. 637 00:26:51,060 --> 00:26:52,840 Beloved Jesus is coming soon. 638 00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:55,540 We all feel it somehow, we all realize 639 00:26:55,540 --> 00:26:57,880 it, but how will I appear before him? 640 00:26:59,260 --> 00:27:02,580 Am I a commendation for my Lord? 641 00:27:03,540 --> 00:27:06,600 Is he able to lead me in triumph 642 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:07,760 everywhere? 643 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,260 Who always leadeth us in triumph? 644 00:27:12,660 --> 00:27:15,540 Can Jesus Christ put you any place and 645 00:27:15,540 --> 00:27:17,860 depend upon you to live for him, to 646 00:27:17,860 --> 00:27:18,680 shine for him? 647 00:27:19,140 --> 00:27:21,380 Can he put you into a difficult place 648 00:27:21,380 --> 00:27:24,740 where it's awfully hard to get along with 649 00:27:24,740 --> 00:27:28,140 people and depend upon you to still live 650 00:27:28,140 --> 00:27:32,780 a life of love and joy and peace? 651 00:27:33,140 --> 00:27:35,880 It will not be, beloved, unless the Spirit 652 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,040 is Lord. 653 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,220 Oh, how many times God puts us into 654 00:27:40,220 --> 00:27:43,140 very difficult places in order to show us 655 00:27:43,140 --> 00:27:47,720 that we're not rich in God, that we 656 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,820 have not become vessels unto honor, that Jesus 657 00:27:50,820 --> 00:27:52,080 Christ is not Lord. 658 00:27:52,460 --> 00:27:54,400 There's somebody else, Lord, and you can see 659 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,180 it on your face. 660 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,400 There's the mark of the beast. 661 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,140 The Bible says his name shall be in 662 00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:04,120 their foreheads. 663 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,640 Oh, when the name of Jehovah has been 664 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,860 placed upon your foreheads, he does it. 665 00:28:10,820 --> 00:28:13,460 It's because he has written his law upon 666 00:28:13,460 --> 00:28:13,940 your heart. 667 00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:17,320 Oh, think of how precious, how wonderfully precious 668 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:18,220 our hearts are. 669 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,580 God, taking these hearts and making them his 670 00:28:22,580 --> 00:28:25,520 kingdom, they're more precious to him than the 671 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:26,600 hearts of angels. 672 00:28:26,980 --> 00:28:30,080 He make us his angels' spirits and his 673 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,600 ministers a flame of fire. 674 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,700 But you and I are called to live 675 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:39,300 with Jesus Christ, to be united to the 676 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:41,140 Father and to the Son. 677 00:28:41,540 --> 00:28:43,460 These things are hard to talk about. 678 00:28:43,580 --> 00:28:46,400 It's almost too sacred, almost sacrilegious to speak 679 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:46,660 about. 680 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:47,960 It shouldn't be. 681 00:28:49,580 --> 00:28:51,740 It ought to be our bread and our 682 00:28:51,740 --> 00:28:53,340 water tonight. 683 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,880 It ought to be our life, our sustenance 684 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:56,220 tonight. 685 00:28:56,820 --> 00:28:59,720 It ought to stir our hearts to diligence, 686 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,600 to make our calling and election sure. 687 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,320 But we don't do that unless we give 688 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,680 God a chance to write this word upon 689 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:09,340 our hearts. 690 00:29:09,980 --> 00:29:11,080 It's a New Testament. 691 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,960 He that was rich became poor, that by 692 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,700 his poverty we might be rich. 693 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,060 How is it in my life tonight? 694 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,380 I ought to ask myself. 695 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,320 Love, joy, peace. 696 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,340 Do you find it difficult? 697 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,860 He gives us two methods here, or two 698 00:29:29,860 --> 00:29:32,300 wonderful holy things. 699 00:29:32,860 --> 00:29:35,320 First of all, to meditate in the Word 700 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,120 until we become a living epistle, and then 701 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:44,540 beholding the glory of God, as in a 702 00:29:44,540 --> 00:29:46,400 glass, the glory of the Lord. 703 00:29:46,460 --> 00:29:49,580 We've been beholding his glory tonight, haven't you? 704 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,760 We sit here in his presence, the sunlight 705 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:59,140 of his face, while with adoring wonder, adoring 706 00:29:59,140 --> 00:29:59,580 wonder. 707 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,980 How many times I've seen faces transformed in 708 00:30:02,980 --> 00:30:04,040 a meeting like this. 709 00:30:04,980 --> 00:30:06,060 Again and again. 710 00:30:06,660 --> 00:30:08,880 And I can see that people are looking 711 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,340 into the face of Jesus. 712 00:30:11,460 --> 00:30:13,660 Beloved, if we'd spend more time doing that, 713 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,400 we'd be more conscious of being transformed. 714 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:19,320 Transformed. 715 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:22,160 What kind of changes does God make? 716 00:30:22,580 --> 00:30:24,460 Why he changes us in his image. 717 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,700 It's unbelievable, unspeakable, but it's true nevertheless. 718 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,600 Oh, that's the thing I must experience. 719 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,300 And beloved, nothing will make my Christian life 720 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:38,340 interesting but following Jesus. 721 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,880 That's why to so many people the Christian 722 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,100 life is not interesting. 723 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:45,860 They're not being changed. 724 00:30:45,860 --> 00:30:47,060 They live for nothing. 725 00:30:47,180 --> 00:30:48,480 They don't know what they're living for. 726 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,120 Beloved, only the Spirit of God can make 727 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,940 these things real to us. 728 00:30:53,380 --> 00:30:56,100 And only as we follow in his way, 729 00:30:56,860 --> 00:31:01,680 waiting upon the Lord, the righteous who delight 730 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,960 is in the law of the Lord. 731 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,800 That's the beginning of the Christian life when 732 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,820 the Holy Ghost gives you the Spirit of 733 00:31:09,820 --> 00:31:13,360 wisdom and revelation, and you begin to eat 734 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:14,020 this Word. 735 00:31:14,020 --> 00:31:16,360 How different it is today. 736 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:18,800 How very different. 737 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,820 Now, it's my daily food. 738 00:31:22,020 --> 00:31:23,040 I eat upon it. 739 00:31:23,380 --> 00:31:24,620 I feast upon it. 740 00:31:24,940 --> 00:31:28,300 The righteous delight greatly in the law of 741 00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:32,040 the Lord, and he meditates there day and 742 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:33,840 night, and he's like a tree. 743 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,380 He draws life, life out of this Word. 744 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,940 Oh, it's not just intellectual understanding, but it 745 00:31:41,940 --> 00:31:43,520 feeds my soul. 746 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,940 It communicates to me the very divine nature 747 00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:48,060 of the Son of God. 748 00:31:48,420 --> 00:31:49,520 I am changed. 749 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,880 I am transformed into the same image. 750 00:31:56,140 --> 00:31:57,700 What will it be when we see him? 751 00:31:57,780 --> 00:31:59,780 Beloved, it won't be so very, very long 752 00:31:59,780 --> 00:32:02,720 until the pearly gates will unfold. 753 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:03,180 Huh. 754 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,060 Glory to God. 755 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,880 You know, when you just think of it, 756 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:14,580 just think of that vast throng, that vast 757 00:32:14,580 --> 00:32:19,240 throng that no man can number, all the 758 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,700 faces shining like the sun in the kingdom 759 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:26,640 of their Father, shouting hallelujah unto him that 760 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,440 loved us and washed us from our sins. 761 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,840 And you know, death and sorrow and suffering 762 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,800 and sin and flesh and world and Brooklyn 763 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,000 is all behind you. 764 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:37,960 And here's the new Jerusalem. 765 00:32:38,980 --> 00:32:41,560 Here's the Father and the Son and the 766 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,680 Holy Ghost. 767 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,340 Beloved, we're on the way. 768 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:46,480 We're in his hand. 769 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,640 He is shaping us tonight, changing us, seeking 770 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,120 to get into our hearts and into our 771 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,800 mentality, seeking to gain our attention, to open 772 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,460 our ear for the thing the Spirit says 773 00:32:59,460 --> 00:33:00,340 unto the churches. 774 00:33:01,780 --> 00:33:05,140 And when he has gained our attention, oh, 775 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,260 that word will enter into our heart like 776 00:33:07,260 --> 00:33:09,260 the seed of the kingdom and it will 777 00:33:09,260 --> 00:33:12,260 sprout and it'll bring forth that word unto 778 00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:12,900 God's end. 779 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,120 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 780 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,360 and Classic Sermon series. 781 00:33:18,860 --> 00:33:21,100 This week you heard Hans Wadvogel with his 782 00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:22,760 message, Are You a Living Epistle? 783 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:24,980 Tune in next week to hear Milton Green 784 00:33:24,980 --> 00:33:27,320 talk about the flesh and the power of 785 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,360 darkness on From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.