...ship and her son, Mr. Elliot, and Mr.
Elliot, much work in the kitchen and looking
after so well in every way.
We appreciate it very much and pray the
Lord will continue to bind our hearts together.
Bill, I don't know if you can hear,
there's a seat right here if you...
Yeah.
But, I mean, if you're more comfortable there...
I can't hear back there.
You can get a front row seat.
Yeah, that's good.
But we have appreciated it very much and
I've asked the Lord in the last year
or so if and when we were to
go out that the Lord would cause an
importation to be made.
Otherwise, I don't see much value in going.
Right.
And Paul said that when he went to
Rome, he desired to go to Rome.
But he said he believed and trusted that
when he went that, he said, I desire
to be with you that I may impart
unto you some spiritual gift, some spiritual benefit,
some spiritual grace.
That was his desire in coming.
But then he went on, he said, that
is, that together with you we might be
comforted together by the mutual faith, both of
you and me.
And so it's not just an importation, but
it's also a receiving.
And as you give, that's how you receive.
And when Jesus sat there by the well
and the woman of Samaria came along, God
had ordained that meeting.
And I like to see, I like to
notice in the Scripture, once I saw the
truth of that interaction that God causes with
his saints, how beautifully it works.
Jesus had to go through Samaria.
He didn't tell them why, but he had
to go.
He sat there in the well.
The disciples went to buy bread.
And while they were away buying bread, he
was ministering to the devastated woman from Samaria.
And because he was ministering to her, he
was being fed.
And when they came back, they said, Master,
we've brought some food for you.
He said, I have meat to eat you
know nothing about.
And they whispered around, I wonder if somebody
was here feeding him.
He said, my meat is to do the
will of him that sent me.
And he finished his work.
So that was his food.
That was his food, to minister words of
life to others.
And we discover that.
We should more and more discover that.
I'm not just speaking of a clergy-laity
arrangement.
I believe God is going to take away
that nickel-latent thing of the clergy and
laity.
And make one loaf of his people.
And we anticipate that as God continues to
bind our hearts together.
Also writing to Philemon, Paul said that he
prayed that the communication of Philemon's faith might
be effectual in the acknowledging of every good
thing that is in you or in us
by Christ Jesus.
In the acknowledging of what God gives us
is a communication of that faith.
I don't think we know too much about
this communication of faith, this impartation one to
another.
At least I should say there's much, much
yet to know in this realm.
Where the body of Christ literally edifies itself.
Until we come to that place where we
are truly that bread of God that he
has for the church about us and for
the world about us.
God wants us to be that bread.
I know Jesus is the bread of life.
And I know as we partake of the
elements which he has ordained, which we call
the Lord's Supper, we're remembering the Lord's death
till we come.
We're remembering him as the bread of God.
But Paul said writing to the Corinthians, the
cup of blessing which we bless, is it
not the communion of the blood of Christ
or participation in the blood of Christ?
The bread which we break, is it not
the communion of the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 10, 15.
The bread which we break, is it not
the communion of the body, is it not
participation in the body of Christ?
And the reason is not that there's anything
miraculous in the bread or in the cup.
For we being many are one bread, one
body.
So that's why there's participation in the blood
of Christ and in the body of Christ
because we are one bread, one body.
And because we're one body and we're joined
unto the head, then as together we partake
of communion with him, there's a mutual work
being accomplished in our heart.
For we being many are one bread and
one body.
Notice that.
We are one bread.
Christ is the bread, I know.
But as we participate of him, we become
that bread.
In this world where there's so much need,
God is preparing a body that will be
bread for the hungry.
For we are all partakers of that one
bread because we partake of him.
That's the only way we can be the
bread of life for others.
He is the bread of life as we
partake of him.
God's purpose is that we become one bread,
one body.
And so this work that God is doing
by way of forming the body of Christ,
I think in too many instances it's assumed
that, well, we're the body of Christ and
things are going along pretty good and we've
got the gifts of the Spirit functioning and
so we just carry on this way until
the Lord Jesus comes.
But God is really just beginning this work
by way of making us one in Christ
Jesus.
And he will continue that good work until
he has accomplished the desire of his heart,
the desire of God's heart.
And we know what that is.
For Jesus said, Father, I have given unto
them the glory which thou hast given me
that they may be one as thou, Father,
art in me and I envy that they
may be one in us.
So that's the unity that God is after.
I know you go to these conventions and
they have these big signs that they all
may be one.
And it looks so impressive.
And a thousand people there and singing the
songs of the unity of the body of
Christ.
We're all one because we're all washed in
the blood.
And I know that's right in God's purpose.
In the provision that he's made at the
cross and in the resurrection that we all
be one.
And so God declares his purpose and his
intention before it actually is worked out.
I wish we could understand that.
Because of things which be not as though
they were.
And so that's the way it was with
Abraham's faith.
He believed in the Lord and the Lord
countered unto him for righteousness.
And he hadn't yet become, he hadn't yet
appropriated that thing that God promised.
But God countered his faith for righteousness because
it says that Abraham believed in the God
who calleth the things that be not as
though they were.
And so, because it's going to be.
And so he calls the things that are
not as though they were.
And like we mentioned this morning, I think,
that God chooses the base things, the things
that are despised, the things that are weak,
things that are foolish.
And he goes on down the list.
Yea, the things that are not.
To bring to naught the things that are.
Well, how can he use nothing to bring
to naught the mighty things and the great
things on the earth that must be brought
down?
Because in these people whom he calls nothing,
he's going to bring forth a new creation,
making them to be a vessel for his
honor and glory.
So he sins that, but in the meantime,
he has to reduce it to nothing, that
he might have all the glory.
God said to Jeremiah, go down to the
potter's house.
Some of these prophets did some strange things.
They didn't know why they were doing it,
but they could hear that voice so clearly
that they were willing to obey.
Went down to the potter's house and went
in.
Oh, just come to see what's going on.
Fine, you know, just look around.
And the potter was busy making a wheel.
On the potter's wheel.
He was making a vessel, I should say.
I've seen pictures of them, how they do
it.
Turning the wheel and forming this vessel.
And suddenly something happened and it cracked up
and he just destroyed the whole thing.
He just put it all together and crumbled
it all up.
And he started over.
And he made a vessel as it seemed
fit for the potter to make it.
And so then the Lord said, I just
brought you down here to show you that
my people are just like clay.
And if it doesn't turn out the way
I want, I know how to reduce it
back to a mere pile of clay.
And can I not do this with my
people?
And that was the lesson he had to
learn.
It's the lesson we have to learn.
We don't like it when you come down
to zero.
But that's God's plan.
That he might make the vessel that he
chooses to make.
Why didn't you do it the first time,
Lord?
Well, I suppose he would if we were
totally obedient.
But somehow it seems that we have to
go that route of being reduced to nothing
that he might lift us up.
The Lord killeth, the Lord maketh alive.
The Lord bringeth down to the grave, he
bringeth up again.
Why does God do that?
Well, it's just his way of devastating a
people and bringing them down to death so
that he might impart to them resurrection life.
When we see that, of course, it gives
us great courage because when things go to
pieces, it looks, God, what in the world
is wrong?
I've been seeking you and I thought I
was getting somewhere and suddenly everything collapses.
But then you read something like that and,
fine, Lord, start over.
Start over again.
Do a new work.
Do a new thing.
Not that the past is all a failure
because the past and the remembrance of it
is that which has humbled us and devastated
us and brought us low so that we're
ready to let God do what he wants.
Ready to go God's way that he might
be glorified.
So God's intention is to make us one.
Not just to make us one, but one
with him.
If we could once see that, we could
change our whole concept of this matter of
division and unity.
When something comes in, you know, to a
church and there's a split and they divide
asunder and they're scattered and the man who
is responsible for it, he's castigated, you know.
He came in and he split our church.
And it might be he did that.
It might be God that did it.
Jesus said, I came to send a sword
into your midst.
I didn't come to bring peace.
I came to send a sword to divide.
That doesn't sound right.
What about uniting?
Well, he has to divide before he can
unite.
He has to kill before he can give
resurrection life.
I came to divide.
And I think of this.
A.W. Tozer, I read a little article
here a month ago.
He said, what we need is that the
Lord to separate, to begin separating these people
in the church.
And I just forget the phraseology.
But what he meant was what I'm talking
about.
We need that thing to come down to
separate and divide because there's so much mixture.
And God is going to separate.
That's the message of the unity of the
body.
He's going to separate, take away everything that's
unclean, everything that's not of Him, everything that's
flesh.
And so, we say the devil did it.
And in most cases, I think it's God
that divides these great structures by way of
purging and judging and scattering them that they
might know that God is not interested in
building a big system where everybody is one
and they're all working together in some kind
of machinery and the Holy Spirit is nowhere
to be seen.
I'm told one of these Chinese brethren that
came over from Red China when he was
departing, he told someone, I'm amazed how much
the church in America can do without God.
They've got so much money and wealth they
can just do about anything they want without
God at all.
And God wants the people totally devastated as
far as natural things are concerned that He
might begin to bring forth the unity of
the Spirit.
Join Spirit with Spirit.
Join us to the heart of Jesus and
you to the heart of Jesus.
This one to the heart of Jesus.
And suddenly we're one because we're one with
Him and for no other reason.
I've quoted this Scripture before, but I'm going
to emphasize it a little more.
God has tempered the body together.
Where is this here?
1 Corinthians 12.
God has tempered the body together having given
more abundant honor to that part which lacks
that there be no schism in the body.
So we're not going to eradicate schisms in
the body by coming up with a structure
that says you obey your leader and he
obeys the leader over him and he obeys
the one over him.
And I mean the Roman Catholic Church of
course is perhaps the classic example of that
kind of unity where everything is under a
headship here in the earth right on down
the ladder.
But we have the very same thing in
Protestantism.
And God wants to do away with all
that as He tempers the body of Christ
together making us one in Him.
Joining us under Him.
So if you go into a machine shop
and you pick up a handful of steel
filings that have come off the machine, or
you can maybe moisten them a little and
crumple them together in your hand and maybe
have a ball of it.
But just let someone hit it or let
it fall on the floor and it's shattered.
If you take a magnet and put it
down there and lift it, it's all clinging
one to another because each one is clinging
to the magnet.
And so that's the difference.
That's the difference.
If we're clinging to Him and every member
in the body is clinging to Him you
can't avoid being one.
So God has a way of doing that
and He's doing it.
I'll read back a little further in 1
Corinthians 12.
Paul had been emphasizing the necessity of recognizing
the various members of the body.
The eye cannot say to the hand I
have no need of thee or give the
head to the feet I have no need
of you and so forth.
May much more of those members of the
body which seem to be more feeble are
necessary.
God's going to demonstrate that.
Right now we tolerate the feeble members.
Well, He doesn't do much.
They don't say anything.
They don't seem to be.
And not only that, but they themselves sit
there sort of Lord, I feel so helpless.
I can't do anything.
I don't seem to have gifts that are
in any way helpful to anybody.
They're lacking.
And I know there's people here tonight who'll
say I don't have much.
I'd like to.
They love the Lord as much as any
of us, but don't seem to have much
to impart.
God is looking down and considering that situation.
He's concerned about that.
Those members of the body which we think
to be less honorable, upon these we bestow
much more abundant honor.
And our uncommonly parts have more abundant commonness.
For our commonly parts have no need.
But God has tempered the body together having
given more abundant honor than that part which
lacks.
Now God's doing that.
And we're going to see in the days
to come such a tempering of the body
that you and I are going to be
amazed at some of those members of the
body which have lacked.
Didn't feel that they had much to impart.
Felt deprived.
Ahana people who loved the Lord very much
and God loved her very much.
But somehow she didn't seem to be bearing
fruit like her rivalry who had many children.
But God did not give Ahana any children
and God loved Ahana.
And it seems to be something consistent in
Scripture that when God would bring forth a
certain vessel, a certain special vessel for his
honor and glory, his mother was barren.
Rachel was barren.
Ahana was barren.
Sarah was barren.
Manoah's wife was barren.
Elizabeth, wife of Zechariah, was barren.
They're mentioned by name and it's specially mentioned
that they were barren because God was going
to bring forth something special in this one
who was barren.
And I know that there is that people
in the church who love the Lord.
And yet, Lord, I'm not fruitful.
And God hears their cry.
He sees the cry of their heart.
You and I are going to be amazed
when we see that fruitful in poetry.
It's not only caused them to rejoice with
great rejoicing, but the people of God are
going to say, God has done great things.
So, we anticipate that.
God is certainly going to do it.
He's going to hear the cries of a
praying ahana.
When she comes to the place, like I
think I mentioned the other night, where in
such desperation because of her barrenness, she said,
Lord, You give me a man child and
I'll give him back to You all the
days of his life.
You give us this fruit that we ask
for, Lord, and it will be Yours.
It won't be mine.
I give it back to You.
And it's one thing to make that commitment.
It's another thing to keep reminding yourself and
reminding God, God, I made that commitment, but
I need Your grace.
That whatever You give me for the benefit
of the body of Christ, the glory will
go back to You.
He's going to give abundant honor to those
parts that lack.
And that's why there's still a lot of
division in the body.
That's why there's schism in the body.
Don't come up with a whole bunch of
schemes how to eradicate the system.
You'll come up with another structure of some
kind that has been tried over and over
again in my own lifetime.
I could probably point out a dozen or
more structures like that that were designed by
men to keep a certain order and unity
in the body of Christ.
And they all dissipate.
They all crumble.
God's way is by putting His glory and
honor upon the feeble members that have not
been imparting to the body of Christ that
which God intended, which Paul says are necessary.
Those feeble members are necessary.
Because of that, there's a schism in the
body.
But Paul says when he gives this honor,
there will be no schism in the body
because the members will have the same care
one for another.
As it is, there is a man with
a great gift of healing.
Well, he has a healing line and a
hundred come through and we hope maybe there
will be a dozen or so healed.
I'm not saying that isn't God's purpose to
have great gifts of healing in the church,
but I anticipate the day when the healing
will flow from the body of Christ.
Right in the congregation there will be these
feeble members to whom God will give a
gift of healing.
Right in the congregation.
The trouble is now with the system we
have, if they have that, they'll say, well,
you've got to get up now and leave
your home, leave your husband and get out
there and show the world.
I'm talking from things I've seen.
This woman had a great gift of healing
and deliverance and the church persuaded her.
Leave your home now and go to Africa.
We're going to Africa.
You've got to come with us.
We're going to minister there and you've got
this gift.
You can't sit around there washing dishes.
Devastating her husband and coming back herself devastated
because that's not God's intention.
God bestows His glory upon you.
Come to the assembly and share with one
another or out on your job or whatever.
Just be the vessel that God wants you
to be for His honor and glory.
Without being subjected to the persuasion of the
ecclesiastical system that says if you've got something
like that you've got to get out and
show the world that you're God.
Then the body of Christ will have that
care one for another.
It's a dynamic gift that up and running
through the four corners of the earth.
Stay in the body of Christ right where
you are until God.
He's fit to change it.
He can lead you by His Spirit and
you can hear His voice.
If you're committed to Him, you'll hear His
voice.
You'll know what to do.
But if you don't know what to do,
well, just stay put is what I would
say.
Stay put and wait until you hear His
voice and then obey His voice.
He tempers the body together.
The word means thoroughly mingling.
Thoroughly mingling the body together.
I talked a little this morning about harvest
time, which is the time of bringing in
the grain, bringing in the grain.
The time of threshing.
When the threshing machines come and there's a
bringing in of the harvest, a time of
great rejoicing.
A young sister up our way had a
dream recently about the possibility of harvest time.
And she saw the people of God coming,
ordinary people.
Oh, some with a sickle.
Some with something a little more sophisticated.
Some with some bigger kind of machinery.
But they were all coming with harvesting equipment.
And she said the thing that she saw
in the dream that was so outstanding to
her was the joy on the people of
God as they were harvesting.
There was such joy.
This is harvest.
Why the joy?
Because he that goes forth and weepeth bearing
precious seeds shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him.
There's a joy of God's harvest that's coming
in.
And harvest time is here.
It means the bringing in of the grain
into the harvest floor to be stripped of
the chaff that the pure grain might remain
there in God's garner until he sees fit
to do something else about it.
And I want to talk about that for
a little while.
That the grain isn't just brought into the
garner to store it there forever.
It's brought there for another purpose.
And you know what the purpose is.
For as the rain cometh down and the
snow from heaven and the water there, that
it may cause the things that are sown
in it to spring forth and bud that
it might give seed to the sower and
bread to the eater, so shall my word
be that goeth forth out of my mouth.
It shall not return unto me void, but
it shall accomplish that which I believe and
it shall prosper in the things whereunto I
have sent it.
Did you see the connection in those two
verses?
God says he sends forth his word into
the earth as the rain and as the
snow.
That it might cause the things that are
in the earth to spring forth and bud
that there might be a harvest.
God says my word will not return to
me void.
If I send forth that word to do
that, that's what I'm going to have.
If I send forth the rain and the
snow to water the seed that was planted,
then I'm going to reap a harvest.
So the husbandman is waiting for the precious
fruit of the earth.
And has long patience for it till it
received early in the latter rain.
He went over that.
The latter rain, the rain from heaven to
cause the seed to spring up and grow
that it might bring forth fruit for two
purposes.
Seed for sowing and bread for eating.
And so this harvest that's coming forth, there's
seed there for sowing.
But you say it's harvest time, isn't that
the end?
I know.
But when God gets this good seed, He's
going to sow some of that too right
in harvest time.
Because the Prophet said He foresaw the day
when the plowman would overtake the reaper.
And the threader of grapes, he that sows
seed, is going to do such a quick
work that as they're reaping, the plowman will
be behind sowing more seed.
What are you doing there?
This is harvest time, I know.
But I've got to sow some of this
good seed.
Overtaking the reaper.
You hurry up because I want some of
that seed.
God wants to plant it in the earth.
And the threader of grapes, he that sows
seed.
Harvest time.
Time of ingathering, yes.
But He wants seed for sowing and He
wants bread for eating.
The world is famishing for the bread of
life.
And we try our best to tell them
that the bread of life is up there
in heaven.
The world is in darkness for want of
light.
And we waste our efforts saying, well, the
light is up there in heaven.
Jesus is gone.
He's the light of the world.
As long as Jesus was here, He said,
I'm the light of the world.
But you're the light of the world.
As long as He is here, He's the
bread of life.
And He's given us these elements of the
communion to demonstrate it.
That as we partake of it, we'll partake
of Him who is the bread of life.
We might become the bread of life.
For we being many are one bread and
one body.
For we are all partakers of that one
bread.
If we truly partake of the bread of
life, we become one loaf, one bread.
So God is in the process of mingling
us together because He's preparing a loaf for
the hungry.
Seed for sowing, yes, but a loaf of
bread for the hungry.
A few thoughts from Leviticus 2.
Leviticus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, I think,
5, 6 chapters talks about the various offerings
that God ordained in Israel because no one
offering could adequately portray all that Jesus was
and all that He became when He died
on the cross.
And so we have all these different offerings.
The first one is the burnt offering which
we've touched on at times.
The burnt offering, which is described as a
voluntary offering where we present ourselves to Him
a living sacrifice.
And that's the first offering that God requires.
That's the one that Hannah gave.
Lord, whatever You give to me, I give
back to You.
That's the sacrifice that Jesus committed Himself to
when He came into the world where He
says, sacrifice and offering are whole burnt offerings.
In whole burnt offerings, He says, you have
had no pleasure.
Then said I, lo, I come to do
thy will, O God.
And so God had no real pleasure in
those whole burnt offerings because it signified, typified
the offering that Jesus would become when He
became that whole burnt offering.
And so when He came, and in prophetic
insight, the psalmist was saying, you haven't had
delight in sacrifice and burnt offerings.
But then I said, speaking prophetically, of Jesus,
lo, I come to do thy will, O
God.
And so Jesus coming to do the will
of God, the will of the Father, was
the fulfillment of every burnt offering in Old
Testament sacrifice.
The fulfillment of them all who became the
burnt offering that was well-pleasing in the
Father's sight.
I know you've all heard and we've heard
of how when Jesus died on the cross
in the last moment, hanging there on the
cross before He expired, He cried out, My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
What a cry of desperation.
The Father had always been with Him, whom
He always obeyed, walking in total obedience with
the Heavenly Father.
And suddenly it seemed the Heavenly Father had
turned His back.
And in a sense He did, as the
sin offering.
The sin offering.
He had to suffer the agony without even
the manifest presence of God upon Him.
But as the burnt offering, the Holy Spirit
was there offering that burnt offering unto God
as a sacrifice well-pleasing in the Father's
sight.
And nothing pleased the Father more than the
fact that His Son obeyed Him all through
His life and even unto death, even the
death of the cross.
He so satisfied the heart of God that
God raised Him from the dead and exalted
Him in His own right hand above every
name.
That's why God raised Him from the dead
and exalted Him as King of kings and
Lord of lords.
It wasn't because He accomplished the work of
redemption and so now you can come back.
In a sense you might say that's true,
but in the full meaning of it, it's
simply this.
Because He was obedient, because He humbled Himself,
because He obeyed the Father even unto death,
even the death of the cross.
Therefore, God has highly exalted Him.
And so as the burnt offering, He was
totally acceptable, well-pleasing unto the Father.
The next offering is here in Leviticus 2.
When any man will offer a meat offering,
which is not fleshly offering, but a meal
offering.
As you know, the word meat is often
used in the Scriptures, not for flesh, but
for food.
And this was a grain offering.
When any man will offer a grain offering,
a meal offering unto the Lord, his offering
shall be a fine flour, and he shall
pour oil upon it and put frankincense thereof.
And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons,
the priests, and he shall take thereof his
handful of the fine flour and of the
oil thereof with all the frankincense thereof.
And the priests shall burn the memorial of
it upon the altar to be an offering
made by fire of a sweet savor unto
the Lord.
And the remnant of the offering shall be
Aaron's and his sons.
It is the thing most holy of the
offerings of the Lord made by fire.
And if thou bring an oblation of a
meal offering bacon in the oven, it shall
be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with
oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
And so they took this fine flour.
And so what happens to the grain?
Bread for the eater, seed for the sower.
Bread corn must be bruised, Isaiah said.
Bread corn has to be crushed.
Seed corn has to be planted in the
earth.
Bread corn has to be crushed.
And so this grain is crushed exceedingly fine
until it's fine flour.
Paul says you're one loaf, one bread.
I don't understand, nor will we understand, I
don't think, until it happens, what's involved in
the crushing of the body of Christ to
make us fine flour.
I think they've known it in some countries
of the world.
I don't think we've known it.
I just want, by His grace, the Holy
Spirit will enable us to give us insight
into the things of God.
Like we read the other day, I believe
it was, Paul having declared some tremendous truths,
he had to pray that God would give
unto the people the spirit of wisdom and
revelation and the knowledge of Him.
The eyes of their understanding being enlightened that
they might know what is the hope of
God's calling.
Because unless the Lord reveals truth to us,
we might say, yes, I see it, but
the Lord must make it vital to us.
And only He can do it by His
Spirit.
For the Spirit searcheth all things, Paul says,
yea, the deep things of God.
Because no man can receive anything from God
unless God reveals it to him.
And He's given us of His Spirit that
with that Spirit within us, we have a
voice within us by which we can hear
what the Spirit of God is saying.
And so He gives us His Spirit that
we might receive the things and understand and
partake of the things that are freely given
to us of God.
Not in words which man's wisdom teaches, as
Paul says, but which the Holy Spirit teaches
comparing or combining spirituals with spirituals, is what
it says.
The spirituals that are in the heavens, the
spirituals that are in the heart of God
combining it with those spiritual things that are
in us which He has given us.
And so that's the only way we can
partake of those spiritual things in the heart
of God is by the Spirit He's given
us.
And so having given us all a portion
of His Spirit, He now wants to make
us to be blended together, mingled together as
fine flour.
As the crushing begins to take place, we
must not think that some strange thing has
happened, but rather to understand God wants to
make a loaf to feed the hungry.
He wants to reveal Himself as the Bread
of Life to the masses, but all we
can say now is He's there in heaven
somewhere.
God wants to demonstrate in the earth that
His bread is not far off.
It's nigh us.
It's here in the earth.
It's in the people who are crushed to
fine flour and then mingled with holy oil.
God has tempered, mingled the body together, giving
more abundant honor to those parts which lack.
That tempers the body.
It mingles it together.
It causes each to have concern for the
other because a gift of the Spirit imparted
to an individual if he's truly walking with
God will be upon him a stewardship that
he has to impart to others.
It's not ours to magnify ourselves.
It's His gift that He puts upon a
servant in the body of Christ to dispense
that gift to others that they in turn
might receive this grace, this honor, this glory,
that they might have something to impart to
somebody else.
That they, receiving this grace from the Lord,
this anointing, this enablement, whatever, might have something
to impart to somebody else so that there's
a continual interchange, there's a continual pouring one
to the other.
As we walk with the Lord individually and
as we come together and the Spirit of
the Lord is there, let Him mingle us
together by holy oil, not by any other
means, but by the holy oil of God,
the Holy Spirit.
He knows how to mingle us together, giving
more abundant honor to those which lack, taking
out all the lumps, crushing up all the
lumps so that there's no unevenness in the
body of Christ.
If a man took profit and there's the
eye of the body, not one great eye
bulging out there.
Or if he has discernment to hear what
the Lord is saying, not one big ear
bulging out to one side, but tempering the
body together that there isn't this schism or
this grotesque appearance in the body of Christ,
but it becomes that beautiful body that God
has ordained.
So the mingling goes on, the tempering goes
on, which means a mixing and a mixing
and a mixing and a mixing until you
have dough.
But God doesn't want a lump of dough.
Nor do you and I.
Then he puts it in the oven.
Without bringing an ablation of a meal offering
bacon in the oven, it's got to be
mingled with oil.
Don't think when the fires of God fall
on this old world that he's out to
burn you up.
He's out to burn up all the works
of man, all that carnal wisdom, all that
might of man, all the power and the
wisdom of man.
Because you might just say, broadly speaking, the
world is looking either for power or for
wisdom.
I think you could pretty well put it
all in that category.
The Jews look for a sign.
The Greeks look after wisdom.
Those who are looking for power, whether it's
in the realm of finance or in the
military or in the intellectual realm or whatever,
then those who are looking for wisdom.
I didn't know, as I said, when I
came here that this is sort of a
center of learning and a very high form
of wisdom that is being searched out here
in this city.
I think it's significant that right here in
this place, the intelligence of God is going
to cause both the wise and the weak
in this little city to come together in
one body united by the fact that they're
bowing at the cross, which means not just
I receive you as my Savior, Lord, but
I receive you as the way.
I will walk in that way, bringing His
people to a place of foolishness, weakness, baseness,
despise of man, yea, the things that are
not, that with that He will bring to
naught all the might, all the armed might
of the nations, all the political might of
the nations, all the intelligent wisdom of the
nations, bringing it to naught that the wisdom
of God and the wisdom of the cross
might be seen and shine forth in this
world of darkness to heal it, to bring
healing to this old world.
Bacon in the oven, so when the heat
comes, yes, He's going to burn up the
chaff with unquenchable fire, but He's going to
baptize His people with that same Holy Ghost
and fire, that same fire that burns up
the chaff.
He's going to burn up the chaff in
our lives.
And as we are humbled together and mingled
together, crushed together in the mortars of God
and then mingled together with the oil of
His anointing and put into the ovens of
His fire, come forth is that bread that
God wants by which He will reveal Himself,
the bread of life, to the world about
us.
For if thy oblation be a meal offering
baked in a pan, or if thy oblation
be a meat offering baked in the frying
pan, I don't know.
God has...
God has different kinds.
Different kinds of fires.
Different kinds of pans.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Yeah, God's got that for the meal offering.
And the Passover, a feast of the Jews,
was nigh.
When Jesus then lifted up His eyes and
saw great company coming to Him, He said
unto Philip, When shall we buy bread that
these may eat?
And this He said to prove Him, for
He Himself knew what He would do.
Let's understand that principle in God.
Here you are and you're confronted with tremendous
needs.
And God says, What are you going to
do about it?
Oh, we'll vote and we'll organize a crusade
and we'll, you know, we're quick with suggestions.
But God isn't asking for our suggestions.
He's got something to work on.
He's asking us that to prove us, test
us.
Are we going to come up with the
right answer?
Are we going to say, Oh, I've got
an idea.
Well, 200 penny worth of bread, it's not
much, but we can give everybody a little
crumb.
He had somewhat of an idea.
But this He said to prove Him.
People say, Oh, I was challenged.
God challenged me with this.
So I had to do it.
He presents the need to you to see
what your reaction is.
There's only one solution.
And it's there in their midst.
There it was, right in their midst.
Andrew gathered a little boldness.
You know, I bet he hated to mention
this.
But he thought, Well, I feel I should
say it.
There's a lad here who has five barley
loaves and two fishes.
Of course, that doesn't amount to much.
Pardon me for suggesting that, but I just
happen to notice there is a lad here.
And in one of the other Gospels, Jesus
said, Bring them to me.
Make the men sit down.
We're running off to the villages to try
and buy 200 pennies worth of bread.
Just give a crumb, it won't solve the
problem.
I know the world is filled with tremendous
needs.
Think of India as perhaps one of the
most needy places.
And yet, every once in a while, like
just last week, a tremendous storm or earthquake.
And you wonder, Oh God, why?
Why to India?
They're so poor now.
And because God is a just God, you
just wonder, what will it be like here
and in our country when God visits our
nation?
But they write, and I always mention this
to them, not to excuse myself, because we
have tried to send a little money from
time to time, but you just know it's
less than a drop in a bucket.
And so, you know, you send them a
few dollars.
You know, it doesn't make any difference hardly.
So I point out to the brethren there
in other countries, Philippines, Nigeria.
I get a lot of mail from Nigeria.
There's a great hunger there.
And I send them about 200 books a
month.
I send more books to Nigeria than any
other country except the United States.
To me, I don't know why.
It's that way.
I know God's preparing bread there for Africans.
Preparing a loaf.
For that, what used to be called a
dark continent, but I doubt if it's any
darker than America.
Anyway, bring them to me what you've got.
Five loaves, two fishes, bring it to me.
And I'm sure that in any nation on
earth, whether it's the church or Jesus Christ,
and I'm sure there must be a church
in every nation, if they seem to be
in their own eyes but like five loaves
and two fishes, if somehow God would be
pleased to reveal to them the mystery of
this parable.
It actually happened, but in a sense it
was a parable that God would be able
to meet every need in every nation on
earth with just a handful of people that
are there.
If they're willing to become that loaf that
God wants them to be, I know God's
going to do that.
He's going to do that.
He wants to do it with you and
I.
Because though there are large flourishing churches on
this continent, there isn't much life going forth
because it is, as Jeremiah said, my people
have committed two evils.
They've forsaken me, the fountain of living water.
And they've hewn for themselves broken cisterns that
can hold no water.
Bringing in anything to try to replenish this
little pool until the water becomes stagnant, stale,
poisoned.
Bring in another charismatic preacher to pour in
a little fresh water.
And they're rejoicing for a season in the
benefits of God's Spirit being poured out.
But it doesn't last because the pool is
bound to become stagnant.
God hastened the day when that river of
life will so overflow the banks that these
man-made pools will just vanish away in
the river of life.
The bread, the dough, goes into the oven.
Then there's bread for the hungry.
Jesus says, Bring the bread to Me.
We never, no matter how far we go
with the Lord, come to the place where
we're anything apart from Him.
Some people think in teaching about God's sons
being manifested in the earth that we're making
ourselves equal with Christ or trying to make
ourselves equal with Christ.
And there's no such thing.
If it's the truth of God, it's simply
this.
God wants us to be so joined unto
Him that it will be His life that
goes forth, His words that go forth, His
Spirit that is imparted, the bread of life
that we become in union with Him, the
water of life that we become as we
are immersed in that river of life and
flow in His purposes.
Remember not the former things, God said, nor
consider the things of old.
I'm going to do a new thing in
the earth.
I will open up streams in the desert
and a way in the wilderness.
God's plan all proceeds from Him and only
from you and I as we are in
union with Him.
Never apart from Him.
Apart from Him, we are zero.
Jesus said, Without me, you can do nothing.
And that doesn't mean without my help you
can't do anything.
If I help you, you can do great
things.
The Word is apart from me.
He's talking about the branch and the vine.
And He says, If the branch doesn't abide
in the vine, if it's severed from the
vine, severed from the vine, you can do
nothing.
And I believe there are great religious programs
functioning in the earth severed from the vine,
doing great things in the eyes of men.
God looks down and says, It is nothing.
Somebody told me.
I don't know who the man was and
I wouldn't mention his name if I knew.
But he was a very powerful evangelist, did
great things.
And God said to him, Set thy house
in order.
Everything that you have done is wood, hay
and stubble.
Because in the day of Christ, it doesn't
matter how great the work is you do.
If it's wood, hay and stubble, it's not
going to be weighed.
Our works are not going to be weighed
on a pair of balances.
Our works are going to be thrown in
the fire.
And the fire itself shall prove every man's
work what sort it is, not how much.
That's pretty awesome.
It doesn't matter how much.
It's not going to be weighed.
It's going to be thrown in the fire
and the fire itself shall prove every man's
work of what sort it is.
So the men sat down and numbered about
5,000.
And Jesus took the loaves.
And when he had given thanks, he distributed
to the disciples and the disciples to them
that were sat down.
And likewise to the fishes as much as
they would.
Jesus took the loaves.
See the process?
Grain pulverized to flour, mingled with oil.
You have a lump, put in the oven,
comes out as bread.
Brought to the Master again and broken in
his hands.
So we've got a long ways to go,
haven't we?
But it doesn't need to take long to
get there if we go God's way.
And it met every need for perhaps 15
,000 people, 5,000 men besides women and
children.
Let not our hearts be hardened by the
miracles that God will do When great things
are accomplished in the name of Jesus, often
our hearts are hardened like these people's hearts
were hardened.
They didn't understand the miracle of the loaves
and fishes.
They rejoiced that here was a miracle worker.
And it so thrilled them that they immediately
decided we're going to force them to be
our king.
And when Jesus therefore perceived that they would
come and take him by force to make
him king, he departed again into a mountain
himself alone.
The teaching goes forth that Jesus came and
presented himself as the King of Israel and
that Israel rejected him.
And therefore, he set them aside.
Israel wanted him as their king.
They were going to force him to be
their king.
But Jesus didn't come to be that kind
of a king to satisfy the carnal desires
of that nation or any other nation.
He came to be a redeemer.
He came to redeem them from that carnality
that was in their hearts that caused them
to want to make a king out of
a miracle worker rather than realizing that his
mission was to become the bread of life
and that he would lay down his life
for them.
Every need was met with five loaves and
two fishes.
Five, is that not the number of the
fivefold ministry?
Two is really a number of the body
of Christ.
Does that come to understand it?
Because our human body is in twos.
Left, inner, right.
Left, inner, right arm.
Left, inner, right leg, foot, lungs.
It speaks of the corporateness of the body.
Five loaves at least speaks of the ministry
in the body.
But together in the hands of Christ, mingled,
broken together.
I believe God is going to tear down
the Nicolaitan system.
Not to say that there won't be apostles
and prophets, teachers and so forth, but there
will be one with the body.
They too will be mingled together in the
body of Christ.
We become one bread, one loaf.
Still have a valid ministry.
In fact, then and then only will that
ministry be really valid when together we are
mingled with the body of Christ.
Become one with them as we are one
with the Lord.
And together becoming that one bread that God
intended us to be.
That's why we partake of the communion.
That's why we partake of His blood and
of His body.
For we are one bread, one body, for
we are all partakers of that one bread.
After His resurrection, you remember the story how
Jesus joined the two disciples who were walking
to Emmaus.
He walked together with them as a stranger,
communing with them.
He saw them sorrowful and dejected.
He asked them what their trouble was.
Haven't you heard?
This one, Jesus of Nazareth, a prophet great
and mighty before God.
We thought He was going to be our
Redeemer.
We thought He was going to save Israel.
He was turned over to Pilate and they
crucified Him.
That was three days ago.
We heard some rumors that He was alive,
but how do we know?
We haven't seen Him.
And the stranger said, O fools, and slow
of heart to believe all that the prophets
have spoken.
And beginning in Moses and all the prophets,
He began to unfold the Scriptures to them
concerning Himself.
And their hearts burned within them.
And they heard those words so clearly, but
they didn't really see Him.
And as they came to a juncture in
the way, and these two were going to
Emmaus, the stranger took the other fork of
the road, started to walk away from them.
Oh, they said, Come, abide with us.
That's what the stranger wanted to do.
But he gave the impression that he was
going in another direction.
Always remember that.
It appears that he wants to get away
from us.
He doesn't really.
He's proving us.
It's how anxious we are.
Well, it was nice talking to you.
Oh, they said they constrained him.
God is totally sovereign in everything He does.
He does in great sovereignty.
We must always recognize that.
But when His sovereign purposes are being fulfilled,
He requires that response.
He requires that response from our hearts.
He comes very sovereignly, but He requires our
response to welcome Him.
He knocks at the door.
He could open the door and walk in,
but He won't do that.
He knocks there at the door.
He says, If you'll open the door, I'll
come in.
Well, can't you open it yourself?
Yes.
God could force His will upon us.
Once in a while He might do it
because He is the sovereign God.
But even if He does it once or
twice, the time will come when He'll require
your response because He's dealing with us as
with sons.
I say He might do it sometime.
Don't tell me that God didn't sovereignly choose
the apostle Paul, going along with nothing else
in his heart but to wipe out the
church of Christ and God smote him down.
He says, Why are you persecuting me?
He smote him down as one did on
the road to Damascus.
No wonder Paul talked much of election.
He knew God chose him.
But he was responsive to that call.
He says, I was not disobedient to the
heavenly vision.
God was so gracious and sovereignly dealing with
him that it brought forth a response from
that day forward that at the slightest beck
and call of God upon his heart, he
was willing and obedient to go God's way.
So rejoice in God's election and His electing
purposes without making a doctrinal issue out of
it.
And be quick to respond every time you
hear His voice or feel the impulse of
His heart.
And so he gladly went with them and
sat down at the table and they began
to eat.
And suddenly, their eyes were opened and they
saw Him because of the breaking of the
bread.
As they break bread, they saw Him anticipate
this happening.
We know He's with us.
We know He talks to us.
As a stranger, He tells you these things
have to happen.
The Son of Man must suffer.
God's people must suffer with Him.
But when we're going through the suffering, it's
hard to see His face.
But He says, don't you know it's written?
It's written.
Didn't Jesus say, if any man will be
My disciple, he must take up his cross
and follow Me?
Yeah, I know.
I know.
And we hear that voice, but we don't
see Him.
But when He's completed the work and there's
the breaking of the bread, He will be
revealed and we will see Him.
I believe there's coming a revelation of the
Christ where we'll see Him as clearly as
the disciples saw Him after He rose from
the dead.
Just as real as what Paul saw Him
when he saw Him on the road to
Damascus.
I believe he's got that for his people.
But it's going to await the day when
you and I are mingled together, baked in
the oven, become that bread, and committed into
His hands to be broken as bread for
the hungry.
We're going to see the living Christ revealed
in our midst.
I used to think Joseph was a little
bit...
What's the word?
Potty?
And his poor brethren came down starving and
wanted bread.
He gave them bread, but instead of running
up to them and saying, oh, listen, I
recognize you.
You don't recognize me, do you?
You don't know me, do you?
I'm your brother Joseph.
God had to break them first.
God had to break them.
So Joseph devastated them.
Kept one of his brothers as a hostage.
Put him in prison.
They had to go back to their old
father in Canaan and tell him, what did
you do with Simeon?
I had to leave him there.
Why did you tell him you had another
brother?
That was concerning Benjamin, wasn't it?
I got a little ahead there.
So they told the story.
And they said, we've got to take Benjamin
with us before we can go back.
Why did you tell him you had another
brother?
Well, we couldn't get away from him.
They said, do you have any other brothers
at home?
I don't know if he actually said that,
but that's what they told their father.
And so time went on.
He said, you better go back to Egypt.
We can't.
He said, you won't let Benjamin go.
And he told us, you won't see my
face till you bring Benjamin.
We're not going.
Then Benjamin will go.
Oh, you sons of mine, me have ye
bereaved of my children.
Joseph is not and Simeon is not.
Now you'll take Benjamin away.
All these things are against me.
Everything's against me.
And in actual fact, everything was working out
for him.
And that's true of you and I.
Only it doesn't appear that way.
But we have to come to that place
no matter how devastating.
And it's easy enough to say, and I
have and you have, when a person is
devastated, you quote that Scripture, all things work
together for good to them that love God.
But when you're going through it, you don't
quote that Scripture to yourself.
But that's why it's good to have a
body walking in unity.
That when one is down, the other can
comfort him.
And Paul said to, I forget which one
of the churches, he comforted us that we
might be able to comfort those that are
in any affliction by the comfort where we
ourselves are comforted.
Comfort of us in our trials so that
when you're in trial, then we can comfort
you with that same comfort that we received
when we were going through a situation.
And God does that.
So that in the tempering of the body,
it isn't that the whole body is suddenly
devastated, but you'll notice one, two, three, four.
It goes around the circle until the time
comes when we know Him better and we're
mingled with oil and God puts us together
in the oven.
But we're one, and that oneness is something
that will be a strength to God's people.
And the fathers of God, though they will
burn hot, will recognize that God is preparing
a loaf to bring the bread of life
to His people.
And so they came back with Benjamin and
Joseph made a great feast for them and
set them down at the table in the
order of their birth.
He brought out Simeon and he joined them.
We won't go through all that, but you
know what happened after that.
He sent them away again and brought them
back because they found the silver cup in
Benjamin's sack of all things.
So now Benjamin was in trouble.
Just as his father said, you're going to
take Benjamin now and now Benjamin's in trouble.
Joseph scolded them and he said, I'm going
to keep Benjamin here as a bond slave
and the rest of you go on home.
Here was your opportunity now, boys, how much
love you've got for one another.
God was breaking them to bring forth this
love, this love in the family of God
which was superficial, filled with a lot of
conceit, a lot of lying, a lot of
deceitfulness.
There's much of that in the body of
Christ.
God was breaking them until they had come
to a place where they had hearts of
compassion.
And Judah steps forward.
Please, he says, bows down before him as
Joseph saw in his dream.
Please, for my father's sake.
He'd be devastated.
I promised.
I swore I'd bring Benjamin back home.
And let me take his place.
And God brings that into His people who
are willing to lay down their lives for
the brethren.
Christ is going to reveal Himself.
Joseph couldn't hold himself anymore.
He couldn't hold himself anymore.
He says, I am Joseph.
And God brings about this brokenness in the
body of Christ and this willingness for God's
people to die one for the other.
Christ will be revealed.
And the one whom we've heard and yet
couldn't see Him, He will declare, I am
Jesus in your midst.
We say, Lord, we've heard of You by
the hearing of the ear, but now when
I see of Thee, therefore we abhor ourselves
and repent in dust and ashes.
And Joseph at that time has a storehouse
full of grain enough for every need in
Egypt and in the land of Canaan because
he became that broken vessel in God's hand
who went on before to prepare bread for
the people of Egypt and for the people
of Canaan for his own brothers.
God bless this word, dear heart.
Lord, we thank You for this time together.
We thank You for the fellowship of Your
people.
We thank You for their kindness and love
toward us, for their care for us, for
the life that we have received, Lord, by
being able to minister life to them.
Lord, I'm aware that I spoke words from
Your heart, and I thank You, Lord, that
You sent us here because in giving forth
words of life, we ourselves have been strengthened
and blessed and received from them in the
communication of our faith one to the other.
I thank You for bringing together these people,
Lord, for Your namesake.
We do not know what is coming in
any specific sense of the word, but we
do know, Lord, that You will not be
satisfied till there will be a people even
here in this city, as in every place
that calls upon Your name, living bread for
the starving multitudes around us.
Cause us to know, Lord, that the trials
You lead us into are intended merely to
make us to be a humble and a
contrite people that tremble at Your word, that
as we go through the fires of testing
and trial, Your intention is to bring forth
bread for those who are hungry.
Cause us always, Lord, to submit ourselves into
Your hands for the breaking, knowing that in
the breaking of the bread that we shall
see Your face.
We long to see You and look upon
You.
Lord, we thank You.
We've heard Your voice many times, Lord.
We cannot be satisfied till we look upon
You and see You revealed as the Lord
in our midst, the Lord of the church,
the Lord of our hearts.
Bless these people, Lord, brother and sister Carlton,
and those who work with them here in
this place.
That Your name might be glorified in whatever
You intend to do, far be it from
us to say, whether it's enlargement or decrease,
for what is the difference?
As long as it is You that do
it.
And even if it is increase, it must
come to the place where we will decrease
that Christ might have the increase.
So in whatever way, Lord, You would lead
this assembly, we pray, Lord, that they will
be quick to give You the glory, the
honor and the leadership, that Your name might
be exalted and Your name uplifted, that in
the outworking of Your purposes they will indeed
be broken bread in Your hands to feed
the multitudes, Lord, who are starving and know
it not, who will come in that day
of famine looking for bread and will find
it in the house of Joseph.
We ask it in Your name.
Amen.
Praise Your
Father.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
Amen.
Praise His name.
Thank you.
I'm so glad to hear Brother Warnock say
those things.
Not all of what he said, but those
closing statements, I know, mean so much to
my heart.
Because as we read this book, Brother's books
over the years, one thing we wanted to
do was just hug him.
We just wanted to hug him.
Did you get that sensation?
It's not worshiping man.
It's not.
God has taught us we cannot worship man,
can we?
It will fail.
Oh, it's deadly.
But we knew by reading the man's books
that I just knew his life measured up.
That this word was born in the furnace
of God's fires and God's dealings in his
life.
Amen.
God had worked it in the very fabric
of his being.
And, you know, we all want to be
examples to the flock, but I believe this
man is an example to the flock.
Especially young guys.
Oh, it will save you a lot of
wear and tear.
Oh, God.
It really will.
God can overcome anything.
But dear Lord, there's no such thing as
an easy way or a shortcut, but I
believe the way of God is the shortest
way.
Amen.
It may be he's leading us for 40
years, but that is the shortest way.
But you can increase the length of that
journey.
Amen.
By disobedience, rebellion, going out ahead of time,
or just dragging your feet, or just being
passive.
Amen.
So we pray that this has fed you
and blessed you.
I believe this has been a feast of
tabernacles.
A foretaste of that which is yet to
come.
And we thank the Lord for that.
But we look for the things our brother
has spoken.
You know, this is good, but I don't
know about you, this has satisfied me, but
I'm just as hungry or hungrier than I've
ever been.
Amen.
And that's not being unthankful.
Dear God, if it's the Word of God,
it makes you want more.
It's like we're to taste and see that
the Lord is good.
And if we taste and see that the
Lord is good, what do you want?
More!
There's more.
That's our great battle cry here in this
church, there's more.
Amen.
Thank God.
I love you guys, and I thank you.
And one thing that was in my heart,
before I forget what I started to say,
was that in my heart, and I talk
with all the brothers, it was in our
heart, that we wanted this brother to be
blessed too.
And ministered back too.
And that he would see the fruit of
the Word he spoken.
And I know that brothers like him started
to speak this Word back in 51, and
like he gives credit to the brothers before
him, the thread that he brought all the
way down to the centuries.
Well, that began to create something.
You say, maybe some of you weren't even
born in 51.
You know, what's that got to do with
me?
That Word going forth in the earth created
us.
Amen.
Those faithful men and women throughout the centuries,
they've prayed for us, they've laid their life
down.
And it's building.
That building is being built up.
And we can't be made perfect without what?
Without them.
It was them.
All the saints that's gone before from Abraham
on.
Amen.
So we praise God for this.
And we just bless our brother.
We bless this dear wife.
Amen.
Where's Ruth at?
We bless her.
So we honor them and we just thank
God.
Well, we've had a good time.
The Lord has just put it in my
heart to cancel service for Friday night.
I think it would be good that we
had time to rest up a little bit
and just chew on this.
I just don't want to get into anything
else and just chew on this.
I encourage you to get the tapes.
They're free.
Okay?
We've got to get our tape duplicator fixed
again.
Once we do that.
So we're going to have some fellowship afterwards.
There will be some snacks.
By the way, John Elrod left his Bible
down here.
So make sure you get that.
Are there any comments or anything that anyone
would like to ask?
We thank God for our brother John Oku
that's here.
I was just thinking that I just sort
of believe that God brought this word for
all of us, but I believe there are
certain ones here that God gave this word
to really specially.
Amen?
And I believe people heard.
And I believe it's going to help them
make great gains in the Lord.
Anybody got anything that you'd like to keep?
I think the same thing that you said,
brother.
I know that this has made me, of
course, hungry like it has us all.
All of us.
That's me.
But this seems to, to me, the thing
where I find myself having this soul lacking.
Not that I wasn't before, but I feel
more so now.
It's like I want even more of this
word and even more of it now.
I also want to thank Brother and Sister
Warnock because I'm sure she's been just as
much of a support to him as anybody.
And just this word, just like you said,
this word that has come forward from this
vessel, it's helped quite a bit.
It's been such a revelation.
What I would hope and pray is that
if there would be other vessels just like
this one here that God would use in
even more of a mighty way.
And that maybe, well perhaps soon, maybe way
later, but that God would use some here
not just in this place, but in other
places where people call His name.
He would use them vitally, whether it be
in writing something or in history in some
way.
And we would see other powerful men and
women of God come forth.
Just like we see His brothers come forth
and others that come forth.
So I just want to thank Him too.
I just want to thank Brother and Sister
Warnock for being a blessing to me.
I didn't use a God enough to be
a blessing to everybody.
I know it really blessed me.
I guess being so young in the Lord,
I said it just made me kind of
sad.
It gave me something to enhance to kind
of grow up in.
Amen.
Bless the Lord.
Well, we just trust that the Lord will
lead according to His will Brother Warnock back
here.
I just know the Lord was telling me,
it's obvious he's a teacher.
It's obvious he's a teacher.
Amen.
The Lord told me that he was a
teacher among teachers.
And we just blessed that.
I just know God's going to really lead
this man more than...
And I know He's going to open doors,
but I think God's going to quit wasting
His valuable resources on people that's not hungry.
God's not going to have to beg people
anymore.