1 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:03,740 Dr. Tyler and Julian Fong, lithium, chapter 3, 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:04,540 verse 10. 3 00:00:06,990 --> 00:00:12,490 In verse 10, that I may know him. 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:16,960 Now, today I want to talk about this, 5 00:00:19,260 --> 00:00:20,780 that I may know him. 6 00:00:23,590 --> 00:00:25,570 In the first place, I believe that God 7 00:00:25,570 --> 00:00:27,350 created the heaven and the earth and all 8 00:00:27,350 --> 00:00:28,490 things that are there in it. 9 00:00:28,610 --> 00:00:31,130 Everybody that believes this is Jewish, say amen. 10 00:00:32,170 --> 00:00:34,370 I believe that God made the heaven and 11 00:00:34,370 --> 00:00:35,970 the earth and all things that are there 12 00:00:35,970 --> 00:00:38,650 in it, and I'm going to believe that 13 00:00:38,650 --> 00:00:39,950 he made all his creatures. 14 00:00:41,150 --> 00:00:43,710 And he made each one his kind of 15 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:46,370 life, so he is rich. 16 00:00:47,390 --> 00:00:49,970 The kind of life that he chose for 17 00:00:49,970 --> 00:00:50,290 us. 18 00:00:51,070 --> 00:00:53,190 And when he adjusted that kind of life 19 00:00:53,190 --> 00:00:55,710 to an environment which he chose for us, 20 00:00:56,330 --> 00:01:00,070 and as long as each living creature stays 21 00:01:00,070 --> 00:01:04,110 in its own environment, and lives the kind 22 00:01:04,110 --> 00:01:08,410 of life God gave us, that creature fulfills 23 00:01:08,410 --> 00:01:10,330 the purpose for which it is made. 24 00:01:11,250 --> 00:01:14,350 And God being who it is, there can 25 00:01:14,350 --> 00:01:17,750 be nothing better than a creature higher than 26 00:01:17,750 --> 00:01:18,110 this. 27 00:01:18,750 --> 00:01:21,890 He fulfilled that for which God made him. 28 00:01:21,890 --> 00:01:22,410 Now, that's all. 29 00:01:22,450 --> 00:01:23,550 You can't go higher than that. 30 00:01:24,430 --> 00:01:26,490 You can put statues in your parks. 31 00:01:26,690 --> 00:01:29,890 You can write their names on the walls 32 00:01:29,890 --> 00:01:30,970 of famous buildings. 33 00:01:32,410 --> 00:01:35,490 You can give them prizes of all sorts, 34 00:01:35,590 --> 00:01:38,830 noble prizes, influential prizes, and every kind of 35 00:01:38,830 --> 00:01:39,310 prize. 36 00:01:40,170 --> 00:01:42,570 Or you can canonize them if you wish. 37 00:01:43,030 --> 00:01:45,110 And it's all been told, and it's all 38 00:01:45,110 --> 00:01:48,890 been said, they cannot say any more of 39 00:01:48,890 --> 00:01:50,450 this creature than this. 40 00:01:50,650 --> 00:01:51,630 God made him. 41 00:01:51,930 --> 00:01:53,810 Gave him a certain type of life. 42 00:01:54,350 --> 00:01:56,610 Gave him an environment to inhabit. 43 00:01:57,350 --> 00:02:00,270 And he has lived in that environment, and 44 00:02:00,270 --> 00:02:03,970 in relaxed confidence, has lived the kind of 45 00:02:03,970 --> 00:02:04,830 life God gave him. 46 00:02:04,870 --> 00:02:05,490 Now, that's all. 47 00:02:05,590 --> 00:02:09,710 The angels and archangels and each person and 48 00:02:09,710 --> 00:02:11,730 each person and each saint and each prophet 49 00:02:11,730 --> 00:02:13,930 and each prophet can't go any further than 50 00:02:13,930 --> 00:02:14,290 that. 51 00:02:16,410 --> 00:02:20,210 Now, it says here that the angels did 52 00:02:20,210 --> 00:02:23,470 not let their churches stay, but let their 53 00:02:23,470 --> 00:02:24,450 own habitation. 54 00:02:25,050 --> 00:02:27,930 God has reserved in every country, cities, and 55 00:02:27,930 --> 00:02:30,270 in darkness, for the judgment of the great 56 00:02:30,270 --> 00:02:31,490 day. 57 00:02:31,650 --> 00:02:35,010 Do we see a certain order of beings, 58 00:02:35,350 --> 00:02:38,210 or a certain number of beings of an 59 00:02:38,210 --> 00:02:41,450 order, that let their churches sit? 60 00:02:41,550 --> 00:02:43,650 That is, they let the place for which 61 00:02:43,650 --> 00:02:48,590 they have been created, and anyone, anybody, any 62 00:02:48,590 --> 00:02:52,890 intelligent creature, any moral creature anywhere, to leave 63 00:02:52,890 --> 00:02:58,750 this prophecy and escape will know only its 64 00:02:58,750 --> 00:03:03,530 secrets and pains, because they not foretold the 65 00:03:03,530 --> 00:03:05,570 end for which they were created. 66 00:03:06,530 --> 00:03:09,770 Now, that I said generally, of any living 67 00:03:09,770 --> 00:03:13,550 being anywhere, the incidental evidence is that you 68 00:03:13,550 --> 00:03:18,070 and I are willingly part of this system 69 00:03:18,070 --> 00:03:20,710 because we're scared shit. 70 00:03:21,530 --> 00:03:26,010 We're afraid to use our religious imagination, and 71 00:03:26,010 --> 00:03:28,210 we're afraid to believe what the Bible teaches 72 00:03:28,210 --> 00:03:28,670 us. 73 00:03:29,150 --> 00:03:32,370 The Bible talks about angels, and dark angels, 74 00:03:32,490 --> 00:03:36,810 at least one, and parrots, and cherry of 75 00:03:36,810 --> 00:03:42,810 them, and watchers, and holy ones, and principalities, 76 00:03:42,910 --> 00:03:45,970 and powers, and we and I insist on 77 00:03:45,970 --> 00:03:47,530 people, that's all. 78 00:03:47,930 --> 00:03:51,930 We are afraid to rise and let our 79 00:03:51,930 --> 00:03:57,650 faithful imagination encompass the wonder of the whole 80 00:03:57,650 --> 00:04:01,250 universe, the whole of beings. 81 00:04:02,210 --> 00:04:05,190 Now, God created man in his own image, 82 00:04:05,730 --> 00:04:08,290 and there's no other creature as this person. 83 00:04:08,870 --> 00:04:12,350 I cannot find any scripture where God said 84 00:04:12,350 --> 00:04:14,450 he ever created a cherub in his image, 85 00:04:14,470 --> 00:04:16,589 nor a cherub in all of these places 86 00:04:16,589 --> 00:04:19,250 in his own image, nor an angel or 87 00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:22,810 archangel or principality or power, but it's clear 88 00:04:22,810 --> 00:04:24,510 that God made man in his image. 89 00:04:24,650 --> 00:04:27,630 God said affectionately, let us make man in 90 00:04:27,630 --> 00:04:29,790 our own image, poor in the image of 91 00:04:29,790 --> 00:04:31,210 God's created being. 92 00:04:32,030 --> 00:04:34,410 Then came the blessed life, and man began 93 00:04:34,410 --> 00:04:37,030 to live in his soul, so that man, 94 00:04:37,150 --> 00:04:40,090 now here it is, you can take this 95 00:04:40,090 --> 00:04:43,270 out, make it quiet, misquote it, and make 96 00:04:43,270 --> 00:04:46,310 a radical out of me if you want 97 00:04:46,310 --> 00:04:48,890 to do it, but I'm sure you won't, 98 00:04:49,110 --> 00:04:54,650 but as originally created, man was more like 99 00:04:54,650 --> 00:04:57,310 God than any other creature that ever was 100 00:04:57,310 --> 00:04:57,770 created. 101 00:04:58,270 --> 00:05:02,070 As originally created, man was more like God 102 00:05:02,070 --> 00:05:05,450 because of no other creature did God say 103 00:05:05,450 --> 00:05:08,450 he made him in his own image. 104 00:05:09,130 --> 00:05:11,970 And a wise old German Christian says this, 105 00:05:12,490 --> 00:05:15,910 there is nothing in the universe so much 106 00:05:15,910 --> 00:05:17,490 like God as the living soul. 107 00:05:17,970 --> 00:05:20,170 Now, of course, he takes for granted and 108 00:05:20,170 --> 00:05:25,150 admits that man's soul is sinful and lost, 109 00:05:25,710 --> 00:05:28,930 and in that sense, sin is not like 110 00:05:28,930 --> 00:05:29,250 God. 111 00:05:29,310 --> 00:05:31,690 In the soul, a sinner who shall die, 112 00:05:32,330 --> 00:05:35,530 but there is something basic in human nature, 113 00:05:35,950 --> 00:05:37,950 and in the soul of man that can 114 00:05:37,950 --> 00:05:40,850 become more like God than anything else in 115 00:05:40,850 --> 00:05:41,370 the universe. 116 00:05:41,370 --> 00:05:42,870 I wish you could believe that. 117 00:05:43,390 --> 00:05:45,230 I wish that we could accept that as 118 00:05:45,230 --> 00:05:46,790 a part of our truth, and not be 119 00:05:46,790 --> 00:05:48,870 afraid that if we take it and say 120 00:05:48,870 --> 00:05:51,550 we believe it, somebody will charge us with 121 00:05:51,550 --> 00:05:53,170 believing man's all right. 122 00:05:54,190 --> 00:05:55,750 Man's not all right. 123 00:05:55,850 --> 00:05:57,310 Man's a fallen creature. 124 00:05:58,170 --> 00:06:01,030 Man went down like a automobile that left 125 00:06:01,030 --> 00:06:03,410 the highway at a curve, and went over 126 00:06:03,410 --> 00:06:07,390 a jolly downwind among the rocks, and man 127 00:06:07,390 --> 00:06:08,570 is not all right. 128 00:06:08,670 --> 00:06:09,570 Man is lost. 129 00:06:09,710 --> 00:06:11,150 Man is not damned. 130 00:06:11,250 --> 00:06:14,490 I heard a preacher this afternoon talking about 131 00:06:14,490 --> 00:06:16,750 my poor, lost, damned soul. 132 00:06:16,830 --> 00:06:19,270 No, no, never call yourself damned, brother. 133 00:06:19,690 --> 00:06:21,530 You're lost, but you're not converted. 134 00:06:21,690 --> 00:06:23,390 You're lost, but you're not damned. 135 00:06:23,730 --> 00:06:25,330 That's another thing altogether. 136 00:06:26,070 --> 00:06:29,010 But God created man to know him, and 137 00:06:29,010 --> 00:06:31,290 he created man to know him in a 138 00:06:31,290 --> 00:06:34,330 sense and to a degree that no other 139 00:06:34,330 --> 00:06:35,490 creature can know God. 140 00:06:36,010 --> 00:06:38,090 The creatures that are in the presence of 141 00:06:38,090 --> 00:06:40,110 God may not know God as well as 142 00:06:40,110 --> 00:06:42,970 the man-soul that God has made in 143 00:06:42,970 --> 00:06:43,590 his image. 144 00:06:44,170 --> 00:06:45,050 Don't you see? 145 00:06:45,510 --> 00:06:47,610 Don't you see that there has to be 146 00:06:47,610 --> 00:06:50,710 a degree of life there which enables a 147 00:06:50,710 --> 00:06:51,990 man to know God? 148 00:06:52,330 --> 00:06:54,810 Don't you see that the cat there under 149 00:06:54,810 --> 00:06:57,530 your table, or the dog there lying on 150 00:06:57,530 --> 00:06:59,730 the right, you put a record on. 151 00:06:59,810 --> 00:07:02,390 You put on something by Mozart that Beethoven, 152 00:07:02,990 --> 00:07:05,430 and he'll never even open his easy eye, 153 00:07:05,530 --> 00:07:08,050 because there's nothing in that cat's nature that 154 00:07:08,050 --> 00:07:10,390 can understand Beethoven or Mozart. 155 00:07:11,070 --> 00:07:13,110 So go on, as you have at home, 156 00:07:13,210 --> 00:07:16,830 some of the fine records of London, the 157 00:07:16,830 --> 00:07:19,690 great choir there, singing Christmas carols. 158 00:07:20,190 --> 00:07:23,330 Well, no dog will get up and go 159 00:07:23,330 --> 00:07:25,330 over and sit down and gaze, in spite 160 00:07:25,330 --> 00:07:27,450 of that little eye he knows his master's 161 00:07:27,450 --> 00:07:27,810 voice. 162 00:07:28,250 --> 00:07:30,130 No dog ever looks into a photograph. 163 00:07:30,850 --> 00:07:32,110 He lives with curiosity. 164 00:07:32,190 --> 00:07:35,310 He can't appreciate it, because he hasn't got 165 00:07:35,310 --> 00:07:38,590 the kind of life that can appreciate it. 166 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:42,140 It's a two-year-old baby. 167 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,080 We thought as church that our grandchildren were 168 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:51,340 unworthy, because when we would play a music, 169 00:07:52,380 --> 00:07:53,620 they'd show their little bodies. 170 00:07:53,740 --> 00:07:55,220 Then we'd find out all the babies do 171 00:07:55,220 --> 00:07:55,500 that. 172 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,920 But everybody's like that. 173 00:07:57,980 --> 00:07:59,500 They'd show their end of them. 174 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:01,400 They've got an end of them to do 175 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:01,520 it. 176 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,780 God puts them into the rhythm of the 177 00:08:03,780 --> 00:08:04,140 universe. 178 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:06,620 Now, I'm not afraid of rhythm. 179 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:08,860 I don't go for Elvis Presley, but I'm 180 00:08:08,860 --> 00:08:13,080 not one afraid of rhythm, because the beat 181 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,580 of God, the up, down, north, south, east, 182 00:08:16,780 --> 00:08:20,420 west, it drops the music to me as 183 00:08:20,420 --> 00:08:21,000 a little baby. 184 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,880 And so, the little babies are born into 185 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,000 the stream of it, as a creature born 186 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,080 into the water, into the stream. 187 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,580 And when they're old enough to hear music, 188 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,720 they're old enough to smile and close up, 189 00:08:34,179 --> 00:08:36,960 because it's the dance of life that God 190 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,419 gives them that kind of music. 191 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:40,280 Remember, Billy? 192 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:43,059 God made us to know him in a 193 00:08:43,059 --> 00:08:44,960 way that no other creature can know him. 194 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,300 He made us to know him into a 195 00:08:47,300 --> 00:08:49,220 degree that no other creature can know him, 196 00:08:49,220 --> 00:08:52,040 because no other creature has quite the capabilities 197 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,160 that man has. 198 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,780 Certainly, the angels have capabilities. 199 00:08:55,980 --> 00:08:58,000 They're holy angels, and they obey God. 200 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,760 And certainly, the seraphim are on the throne 201 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,940 of time, in the fire of God, and 202 00:09:03,940 --> 00:09:04,880 they know God. 203 00:09:05,500 --> 00:09:06,640 But they don't know God. 204 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:09,360 If man will know God, redemption has been 205 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:09,800 completed. 206 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,400 For God means that man should be higher 207 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:13,020 than the angel. 208 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,180 God made him a little while lower than 209 00:09:15,180 --> 00:09:17,200 the angel, so he might really be higher 210 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:17,880 than the angel. 211 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,260 And when it's all over, and we know 212 00:09:20,260 --> 00:09:22,720 that we are known, we shall rank higher 213 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,220 in the hierarchy of God than the very 214 00:09:26,220 --> 00:09:27,100 angel himself. 215 00:09:29,220 --> 00:09:32,200 But my brethren, man by himself lost his 216 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:32,620 knowledge. 217 00:09:33,860 --> 00:09:34,780 He lost it. 218 00:09:35,620 --> 00:09:37,520 I read about it over here in Romans, 219 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:38,920 the first chapter. 220 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:42,140 Because that when they knew God, they glorified 221 00:09:42,140 --> 00:09:45,080 him not as God, neither were thankful, but 222 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,940 became vain in their imaginations, and their true 223 00:09:47,940 --> 00:09:49,320 heart was darkened. 224 00:09:50,140 --> 00:09:52,040 And even as they did not like to 225 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,740 explain God in their knowledge, God gave them 226 00:09:55,740 --> 00:09:58,420 over to a reprobate mind to do those 227 00:09:58,420 --> 00:09:59,820 things which were not convenient. 228 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:01,980 As one version says, to do this great 229 00:10:01,980 --> 00:10:02,440 collapse. 230 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,340 So that man by his sin lost his 231 00:10:06,340 --> 00:10:09,680 knowledge of God, so that now man, though 232 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:12,660 he has the potentiality to know God in 233 00:10:12,660 --> 00:10:14,800 a way no creature in heaven can know 234 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,300 God, he still does not know God because 235 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:20,000 his conduct is unweighted in his high origins, 236 00:10:20,540 --> 00:10:23,400 and his heart is filled with a huge 237 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,860 emptiness, if you know what I mean. 238 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,120 And so, that's what the matter is. 239 00:10:29,780 --> 00:10:32,200 That's why we have these crises all the 240 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:32,540 time. 241 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:34,860 That's why I was treasuring this Christ I 242 00:10:34,860 --> 00:10:37,620 chose, who directed me in his chastity. 243 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,640 Oh, where do you go unless the next 244 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,180 man who's elected president is the anti-American, 245 00:10:42,980 --> 00:10:46,000 and they turn out to be anti-Christian? 246 00:10:47,660 --> 00:10:49,600 Well, what's the matter with it? 247 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,040 They told us it's science and philosophy and 248 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:58,160 psychiatry and psychology and sociology, and all of 249 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,260 this is all the preparation which remains. 250 00:11:01,980 --> 00:11:04,800 Indeed, we should all, men should all be 251 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,360 like brothers, each other's brothers. 252 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,680 But we're hurting each other more than ever 253 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:12,480 since the beginning. 254 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:17,620 There's more hatred and more suspicion and more 255 00:11:17,620 --> 00:11:21,820 treachery and more firing and more extreme odds 256 00:11:21,820 --> 00:11:25,680 and more sceptery and more telling out. 257 00:11:26,620 --> 00:11:28,800 Whenever there has been since the beginning of 258 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,580 the world, what's the matter? 259 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:32,660 It's because man is filled with a vast 260 00:11:32,660 --> 00:11:33,160 emptiness. 261 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,500 He was created to know God, but by 262 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:40,240 his sins he chose the gutter and would 263 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,180 like not to have God in his knowledge. 264 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,660 He says man is like a bird trapped 265 00:11:44,660 --> 00:11:46,780 in a cage, like a fish taken from 266 00:11:46,780 --> 00:11:47,240 the water. 267 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,280 And so, man instinctively craves for the image, 268 00:11:52,020 --> 00:11:55,200 and misses it, misses the eternal being, misses 269 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,020 the life, misses the life, misses the friends. 270 00:12:00,740 --> 00:12:02,440 And that's what you never really see on 271 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:02,800 earth. 272 00:12:04,020 --> 00:12:05,720 It's like a 15-kid getting into an 273 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,920 old banged-up car with pipes and hammers, 274 00:12:09,220 --> 00:12:10,680 and go out on the prowl looking for 275 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:15,940 anybody, not anybody in particular, but anybody to 276 00:12:15,940 --> 00:12:18,300 cause down in the deep soul of him 277 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:21,300 is the knowledge that sometime you've got to 278 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:24,960 die, that this world isn't enough, and there's 279 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,520 a don't understand, and don't take the win 280 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,140 on them, and turn to shame, become perverted, 281 00:12:35,100 --> 00:12:37,340 and like the alcoholic refuse the gutter and 282 00:12:37,340 --> 00:12:38,100 love the gutter. 283 00:12:39,580 --> 00:12:41,520 What does the Bible teach about the now 284 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:42,800 knowing God, the truth? 285 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,320 Well, it teaches that God can be known. 286 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,200 It teaches that God was not abandoned in 287 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,780 any way, as he abandoned the angels of 288 00:12:52,780 --> 00:12:53,140 sin. 289 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,040 Why did he abandon the angels of sin? 290 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,640 Because they were never made in the image 291 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:58,780 of God in the first place. 292 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,560 They were made more physically capable of moral 293 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:04,140 and spiritual perception, but they were not made 294 00:13:04,140 --> 00:13:04,980 in the image of God. 295 00:13:05,060 --> 00:13:07,600 Why did not God abandon man? 296 00:13:07,780 --> 00:13:09,600 Because man was made in the image of 297 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:09,920 God. 298 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,840 Before God gave man a chance, he sent 299 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:14,380 a redeemer. 300 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:17,380 How does the Bible teach that man can 301 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:17,980 know God? 302 00:13:18,660 --> 00:13:20,880 It teaches that in Christ, and through Christ, 303 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:23,760 he is the image of the indivisible God, 304 00:13:23,820 --> 00:13:25,800 the brightness of his glory, and the strength 305 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:26,700 of his justice. 306 00:13:27,660 --> 00:13:29,620 Our old father said this about us. 307 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,600 I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, Lord 308 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:34,600 and begotten Son of God, begotten of Him 309 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:35,540 before all ages. 310 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,220 God is God, light of life, very God, 311 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:39,980 very God, begotten, not made. 312 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:42,860 He is the one substance of the Father, 313 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:45,220 by whom all things were made. 314 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:48,560 And this is what the Bible teaches. 315 00:13:49,340 --> 00:13:52,520 It teaches that everything that God had is 316 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:53,120 Christ's. 317 00:13:54,060 --> 00:13:57,000 Don't listen to the liberals who say God 318 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,700 revealed himself through Christ. 319 00:13:59,140 --> 00:14:01,940 Don't listen to the liberals who say that 320 00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:04,560 it was that Christ reflected more of God 321 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:05,700 than other people did. 322 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,320 Don't listen to the liberals who say that 323 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,240 as one piece of metal might be more 324 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:16,980 radioactive than another, so certain individuals are doomed 325 00:14:16,980 --> 00:14:19,020 to die in a way that other individuals 326 00:14:19,020 --> 00:14:23,920 aren't, and they are therefore religious geniuses, and 327 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,960 that Jesus Christ was the supreme religious genius, 328 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,100 touching and reflecting more of God than any 329 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:30,560 other man. 330 00:14:30,740 --> 00:14:36,040 Don't listen to that, because all that amounts 331 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,560 to is to himself, Jesus Christ. 332 00:14:39,980 --> 00:14:43,100 Jesus Christ was not a receptor of deity, 333 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:44,480 only though he was that. 334 00:14:45,020 --> 00:14:47,500 He was not the revealer of deity, only 335 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:48,800 though he was that. 336 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,900 He was, and is, and always has been, 337 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,880 and never shall cease to be God, Light 338 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,040 of Life, God of God, very God of 339 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,260 very God, begotten, not created. 340 00:15:02,460 --> 00:15:04,520 He told that all that God had is 341 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:05,400 Christ's, is. 342 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,160 He told that no Jesus Christ is to 343 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,740 be back at the ancient fountain again, back 344 00:15:10,740 --> 00:15:12,900 at the ancient fountain again. 345 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,180 We don't say this is the result of 346 00:15:16,180 --> 00:15:18,760 advancing years, because I felt this way when 347 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,160 I was converted at 17. 348 00:15:20,380 --> 00:15:23,920 I certainly didn't have developed this far, but 349 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,500 I went back to the roots of my 350 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:25,860 being. 351 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,060 But I tell you, my brethren, as we 352 00:15:28,060 --> 00:15:32,400 shall go on into artificiality so far, that 353 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,960 it's a wonderful thing by one wonderful quick 354 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,800 act of our souls' impatient care to go 355 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,960 back to the ancient fountain of our being 356 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:45,120 and start over again. 357 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,300 And there is no God for ourselves all 358 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:52,460 over again, back where Adam started, back beyond 359 00:15:52,460 --> 00:15:56,180 where Adam started, back beyond where the world 360 00:15:56,180 --> 00:16:01,360 began, back beyond where the angels began, back 361 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,220 at that ancient, glorious, heavenly fountain we call 362 00:16:05,220 --> 00:16:07,520 the dream of God, the shining of. 363 00:16:08,220 --> 00:16:10,640 And in Jesus Christ, we go back there. 364 00:16:11,660 --> 00:16:14,580 In Jesus Christ, we leave all the environment, 365 00:16:15,460 --> 00:16:17,600 and we go back to the ancient source 366 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:18,440 of our being. 367 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,100 "'Pick on it, blissful center, rest,' said John 368 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:24,860 Lewis, and wrote, Now rest, my long-divided 369 00:16:24,860 --> 00:16:29,240 heart, pick on it, blissful center, rest.' And 370 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,400 so back at the ancient source of our 371 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,600 being, we find the beginnings, we start all 372 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:35,980 over. 373 00:16:37,660 --> 00:16:40,980 Jesus Christ, that I may know him,' said 374 00:16:40,980 --> 00:16:42,660 Paul, that I may know him. 375 00:16:43,380 --> 00:16:46,040 Now, my question tonight is why Christians know 376 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:47,960 Christ so little, and know God so little. 377 00:16:48,820 --> 00:16:50,520 Well, I'd like to say to you this, 378 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:52,420 that not all of the Godhead can be 379 00:16:52,420 --> 00:16:52,700 known. 380 00:16:53,620 --> 00:16:55,280 If you serve with any of them, it'll 381 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,880 be a most wonderful thing for us, because 382 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,360 a real good tricking down is good for 383 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,980 Christians sometimes, because then you're tricking them back 384 00:17:04,980 --> 00:17:06,079 to where they belong. 385 00:17:07,079 --> 00:17:08,619 And if any of you have the idea 386 00:17:08,619 --> 00:17:10,839 that you know pretty well all that can 387 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:14,280 be known about God, you're just about to 388 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,220 burst, and we're warning you just about two 389 00:17:17,220 --> 00:17:19,240 more of the six-pound pressure, and you'll 390 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:19,460 go. 391 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:22,380 And when you go, it'll take God a 392 00:17:22,380 --> 00:17:24,380 long time to get you back together again. 393 00:17:25,020 --> 00:17:28,900 Dear brothers, not all of the Godhead can 394 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:35,380 ever be known, because that being that was 395 00:17:35,380 --> 00:17:39,840 capable of knowing all of the Godhead would 396 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,560 have to be equal to the Godhead. 397 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:45,620 Just as you can't pour a cup of 398 00:17:45,620 --> 00:17:49,520 water into a vessel holding less than a 399 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:50,860 quart. 400 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,220 Same, you can't pour all the Godhead into 401 00:17:54,220 --> 00:17:57,340 a ceiling with anyone being less than God. 402 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,220 Now, I have quoted before what some of 403 00:18:01,220 --> 00:18:04,760 the ancient fathers said in arguing for the 404 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:05,100 Trinity. 405 00:18:05,260 --> 00:18:06,540 They said, look, I didn't like this. 406 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,180 God, the eternal Father, who is beneath, and 407 00:18:10,180 --> 00:18:12,440 is God beneath me, and is love, and 408 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,340 he is love, who told the very nature 409 00:18:16,340 --> 00:18:18,020 of love is to give itself. 410 00:18:19,380 --> 00:18:23,100 And he could not give his love fully 411 00:18:23,100 --> 00:18:26,620 to anybody which was not fully equal to 412 00:18:26,620 --> 00:18:27,020 him. 413 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,880 He told her he had an ancient son, 414 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,420 who is equal with the Father. 415 00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:38,460 And the eternal Father poured out his love 416 00:18:38,460 --> 00:18:41,140 into the son who could contain it, and 417 00:18:41,140 --> 00:18:44,600 contain all of it, because the son is 418 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,720 equal with the Father. 419 00:18:46,660 --> 00:18:48,500 And then he said to his wives and 420 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:51,340 to the old brethren, they said for the 421 00:18:51,340 --> 00:18:53,520 ancient father to pour his love out on 422 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,600 the son would mean that the medium of 423 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,180 communication had to be very close to the 424 00:18:58,180 --> 00:19:00,060 father and the son, and that was a 425 00:19:00,060 --> 00:19:00,620 holy door. 426 00:19:02,260 --> 00:19:03,640 So, there you have the Trinity. 427 00:19:04,260 --> 00:19:06,720 The ancient father in the fullness of his 428 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:12,820 love, pouring his love to the son who 429 00:19:12,820 --> 00:19:14,620 can be equal to the spirit and the 430 00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:14,900 father. 431 00:19:17,580 --> 00:19:20,360 So, not all of the Godhead can be 432 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:21,480 known by man. 433 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,680 The limitless infinite spirit being is called God, 434 00:19:25,860 --> 00:19:29,300 filling and surrounding and enfolding and upholding. 435 00:19:30,140 --> 00:19:32,460 But all that can be known of God 436 00:19:32,460 --> 00:19:33,540 is revealed in Christ. 437 00:19:34,700 --> 00:19:38,200 And when Paul said, when Paul said that 438 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,040 I may know him, that I may know 439 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:42,500 him, no one will know him. 440 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,040 He is not intellectual at all. 441 00:19:45,020 --> 00:19:46,900 You don't know God, but you know the 442 00:19:46,900 --> 00:19:49,140 mother's occasion table, or know the mother's code. 443 00:19:49,140 --> 00:19:51,360 And I was a kid, 16, and so 444 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:54,840 I learned the mother's code, and I could 445 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,140 send me a few messages, or not too 446 00:19:58,140 --> 00:20:00,160 well, but I was working on them for 447 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,940 a while, you know, go over the old 448 00:20:02,940 --> 00:20:03,800 telegraph instruments. 449 00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:09,820 And I didn't know almost anything, practically nothing 450 00:20:09,820 --> 00:20:10,520 you can't learn. 451 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,000 But it's intellectual. 452 00:20:14,380 --> 00:20:16,580 And Paul said that I may know him. 453 00:20:17,260 --> 00:20:18,680 He did not mean him intellectually. 454 00:20:19,820 --> 00:20:22,500 He meant by experience, personally and consciously. 455 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:28,140 He meant that I may know God personally, 456 00:20:28,140 --> 00:20:32,020 myself, spirit touching spirit, and heart touching heart, 457 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,520 and conscious knowledge of God. 458 00:20:36,300 --> 00:20:39,540 In all the old Henry's truth, Paul, I 459 00:20:39,540 --> 00:20:40,640 get to heaven, and I'm going to hunt 460 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:41,940 some of these old fellows up. 461 00:20:42,300 --> 00:20:44,300 I'll be satisfied to sit in this grave 462 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:47,480 for a thousand years, but after that, if 463 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,680 I get up enough courage, I'll go hunt 464 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,060 up some of these dear old fellows. 465 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:53,220 One of them will be Henry Sousa. 466 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,740 And Henry Sousa said this, there is a 467 00:20:56,740 --> 00:21:01,300 vast difference between hearing a little piece be 468 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:03,520 played and really hearing that one has been 469 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:03,940 played. 470 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,820 Now, it's one thing to hear that there's 471 00:21:07,820 --> 00:21:08,500 been a concert. 472 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,620 It's another thing to have heard the concert. 473 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,940 It's one thing to hear that there has 474 00:21:13,940 --> 00:21:17,000 been a planet suddenly discovered, but it's another 475 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,780 thing to have days on that planet. 476 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,000 Now, this describes almost all Christians. 477 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,580 Not all, certainly, but a great many. 478 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:27,500 Too high percentage of Christians. 479 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:31,000 They've heard, they've been completely told that they've 480 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,160 never heard this in text. 481 00:21:33,340 --> 00:21:35,940 They know God only by hearsay. 482 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,420 And I don't want to be harsh and 483 00:21:38,420 --> 00:21:42,060 hard on people, friends, but it's my conviction, 484 00:21:42,060 --> 00:21:44,520 a growing conviction with me, that that's what's 485 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,920 the matter with it now, what's the matter 486 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,160 with the church on earth, the gospel church, 487 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:53,260 the believing church, that we tend to know 488 00:21:53,260 --> 00:21:54,860 God only by hearsay. 489 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,460 Some have never heard of him except by 490 00:21:58,460 --> 00:22:00,560 hearsay, and others have heard him and known 491 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,100 him, but only faintly. 492 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,880 We've heard only faint echoes of God's voice. 493 00:22:05,900 --> 00:22:08,080 Instead of ever hearing the voice of God, 494 00:22:08,620 --> 00:22:11,880 you can always tell a man or a 495 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,700 woman who's been into the presence and come 496 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:15,140 out. 497 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,620 There is a vibrancy in the testimony that 498 00:22:18,620 --> 00:22:20,260 you won't find anywhere else. 499 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,980 I claim I can know as much about 500 00:22:23,980 --> 00:22:26,480 a place by reading about it as most 501 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,860 people who go there, but everybody that goes 502 00:22:29,860 --> 00:22:32,440 and travels abroad and comes back, they always 503 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:33,400 smile at that. 504 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,620 If you've actually been there, you'll know it 505 00:22:36,620 --> 00:22:38,080 in a way you can't know if you've 506 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:39,580 only read a book about it. 507 00:22:40,740 --> 00:22:42,980 Most Christians have only read a book about 508 00:22:42,980 --> 00:22:43,960 God, that's all. 509 00:22:45,460 --> 00:22:47,400 They've heard the faint echo of the voice 510 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,600 of God, they've seen a reflection of the 511 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,040 light of God, they've seen a photograph instead 512 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:56,320 of God himself, and their personal knowledge of 513 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,720 God is very slight. 514 00:22:58,740 --> 00:23:00,720 And I don't want to hit your game, 515 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:02,720 so I will if I ask you, but 516 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,620 I would say that I'm afraid that a 517 00:23:04,620 --> 00:23:07,420 lot of us here, for all our education, 518 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,520 we don't know God for himself very much. 519 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,240 Church attendants and fellowships and kings lean on 520 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,280 each other all the time, and we have 521 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,340 faith and fellowship and religious activity, and all 522 00:23:22,340 --> 00:23:26,280 the various religious crops lean on each other. 523 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,140 But that's one thing, my brethren, that's one 524 00:23:30,140 --> 00:23:30,500 thing. 525 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,000 Jesus had that. 526 00:23:32,380 --> 00:23:34,520 He had his brethren, he had his work 527 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,780 to do, he had his healing, raising from 528 00:23:36,780 --> 00:23:39,840 the dead and opening eyes and unstopping ears, 529 00:23:40,860 --> 00:23:44,360 answering questions and blessing people who had that. 530 00:23:45,060 --> 00:23:47,480 But he also had a personal knowledge of 531 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:52,260 God that was firm and real to an 532 00:23:52,260 --> 00:23:54,960 individual, so that when he went into the 533 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,160 mountains to pray and waited on God all 534 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,400 night, he didn't think that he was alone. 535 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:02,720 But God was there. 536 00:24:04,620 --> 00:24:06,720 You know, as modern Christians say, we should 537 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,860 do this and do that and go here 538 00:24:08,860 --> 00:24:11,460 and go there, and the result is we 539 00:24:11,460 --> 00:24:13,180 know God only by his praise. 540 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,240 We hear a bit sweetly, but we never 541 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,140 hear it said for ourselves. 542 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,240 You know, we want things instead of God, 543 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,820 because God wants to give himself. 544 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,160 God wants to impart himself in his gifts. 545 00:24:32,740 --> 00:24:35,880 Preparations from God earn you gifts of danger, 546 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:37,860 holy gifts of danger. 547 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,560 If I were to pray for all the 548 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,660 seventeen gifts in the epistles of Paul, the 549 00:24:43,660 --> 00:24:45,280 gifts of the spirit, and I got them 550 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:46,900 all, they'd be dangerous to me. 551 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,800 Sweet and good, and God didn't give himself. 552 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:52,780 Listen, God wants to give you himself. 553 00:24:53,020 --> 00:24:55,380 Didn't I say a while ago, and isn't 554 00:24:55,380 --> 00:24:57,360 it true in the fifties that when God 555 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:59,500 creates an order of life, he creates an 556 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,040 environment for that life? 557 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,200 And when God made man in his image, 558 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:05,700 and revealed him by the blood of the 559 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:08,440 Lamb back to that image, is not God 560 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,080 the environment of the Christian? 561 00:25:11,340 --> 00:25:13,560 Today, see, we call the earth and the 562 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,160 environment for hell, and the air is the 563 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,140 environment for burn, and the earth is the 564 00:25:20,140 --> 00:25:23,200 environment for the nightcrawler and the mole, but 565 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,440 the heart of God is the environment for 566 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:26,840 the Christian. 567 00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:29,440 And God meant that we should live in 568 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,340 that heart of God, and the great dream 569 00:25:32,340 --> 00:25:35,180 from heaven is that we want God's gifts 570 00:25:35,180 --> 00:25:36,620 and don't want God's. 571 00:25:37,260 --> 00:25:40,380 And even in the church today, given in 572 00:25:40,380 --> 00:25:41,740 the church, it's the same. 573 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,120 And if God gives you a rose without 574 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:47,120 giving you God, he's giving you a rose 575 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:48,800 with a thorn, and if he gives you 576 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,260 a garden without giving you himself, he's giving 577 00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:52,560 you a garden with a serpent. 578 00:25:53,740 --> 00:25:57,400 And if he gives you wine without giving 579 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,680 you God, he's giving you that with which 580 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:01,800 you may restore yourself. 581 00:26:03,620 --> 00:26:05,320 And God wants to give you himself. 582 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:12,260 You and I, we've got to re-figure 583 00:26:12,260 --> 00:26:17,940 this modern Christian God-free benefit. 584 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:20,420 What we can get out of God. 585 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,520 You write a book, anybody can write a 586 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,500 book now, you tell us, anybody. 587 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,360 All you have to do is write a 588 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:30,780 book on 17 ways to get things from 589 00:26:30,780 --> 00:26:32,520 God, you'll have immediate sales. 590 00:26:34,340 --> 00:26:36,480 14 ways to have peace of mind in 591 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,120 the world over the church. 592 00:26:40,490 --> 00:26:43,290 How we can bring God to our service. 593 00:26:44,770 --> 00:26:46,570 And the printer can't keep up with a 594 00:26:46,570 --> 00:26:47,190 book. 595 00:26:48,410 --> 00:26:51,190 We work up God for what we can 596 00:26:51,190 --> 00:26:55,010 get out of him, and that's the great 597 00:26:55,010 --> 00:26:58,790 blight that arrests itself, the great blight that 598 00:26:58,790 --> 00:26:59,830 arrests upon us. 599 00:27:00,850 --> 00:27:04,810 The sovereign God wants to be loved for 600 00:27:04,810 --> 00:27:09,010 himself, and he wants to be appreciated for 601 00:27:09,010 --> 00:27:09,710 himself. 602 00:27:10,690 --> 00:27:13,010 And more than that, that's only part of 603 00:27:13,010 --> 00:27:14,450 it, not even a half of it. 604 00:27:14,490 --> 00:27:16,370 The other part is that he wants us 605 00:27:16,370 --> 00:27:19,650 to know that when we have him, we 606 00:27:19,650 --> 00:27:21,030 have all the rest. 607 00:27:21,810 --> 00:27:24,710 Jesus said it in another way, fifty-first 608 00:27:24,710 --> 00:27:27,510 the kingdom of heaven and his righteousness, king 609 00:27:27,510 --> 00:27:29,410 of God is righteousness, and all your sins 610 00:27:29,410 --> 00:27:30,910 shall be added unto you. 611 00:27:31,530 --> 00:27:33,130 Why does God forgive sin? 612 00:27:34,310 --> 00:27:36,770 He forgives sin because sin is the trouble 613 00:27:36,770 --> 00:27:40,170 that chains between him, God, and us. 614 00:27:40,930 --> 00:27:42,670 And if God is ever going to know 615 00:27:42,670 --> 00:27:44,670 us and we know God, the trouble has 616 00:27:44,670 --> 00:27:46,570 to be removed, so God forgives sin. 617 00:27:47,670 --> 00:27:50,330 Why does God pour tears on us when 618 00:27:50,330 --> 00:27:52,250 we trust in the living and the dead? 619 00:27:52,650 --> 00:27:54,390 It's in order that the spirit when he 620 00:27:54,390 --> 00:27:55,970 comes will take the sins of mine and 621 00:27:55,970 --> 00:27:57,030 throw them unto you. 622 00:27:57,590 --> 00:27:59,770 Why does God answer prayer in order that 623 00:27:59,770 --> 00:28:02,490 in answering prayer he might unveil his own 624 00:28:02,490 --> 00:28:03,610 face to us? 625 00:28:05,370 --> 00:28:07,050 And why has God given us the scriptures 626 00:28:07,050 --> 00:28:09,210 that through the scriptures we might know God? 627 00:28:10,630 --> 00:28:12,930 The scriptures, my brethren, are not an end 628 00:28:12,930 --> 00:28:13,650 in themselves. 629 00:28:13,790 --> 00:28:15,410 You hear them talked about as though they 630 00:28:15,410 --> 00:28:16,630 were an end in themselves. 631 00:28:16,730 --> 00:28:19,390 No man can believe more fully in the 632 00:28:19,390 --> 00:28:22,530 verbal inspiration of the scriptures as originally given 633 00:28:22,530 --> 00:28:23,190 than I do. 634 00:28:23,890 --> 00:28:26,950 But verbal inspiration, or any other series of 635 00:28:26,950 --> 00:28:29,610 inspiration, when it makes the Bible an end 636 00:28:29,610 --> 00:28:33,990 in itself is a dangerous thing, because the 637 00:28:33,990 --> 00:28:35,670 purpose of the Bible is not to lead 638 00:28:35,670 --> 00:28:37,930 you to the Bible, the purpose of the 639 00:28:37,930 --> 00:28:39,730 Bible is to lead you to God. 640 00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:43,490 And the Bible is a lattice through which 641 00:28:43,490 --> 00:28:46,410 you look and see how beloved, gathering, lives 642 00:28:46,410 --> 00:28:50,990 with the dew on his hair, as it 643 00:28:50,990 --> 00:28:52,290 was in the song of Solomon. 644 00:28:53,210 --> 00:28:57,550 The Bible is the ladder, the Bible is 645 00:28:57,550 --> 00:29:00,130 the means of communication, the Bible is the 646 00:29:00,130 --> 00:29:03,330 entrance in, and the Bible is never an 647 00:29:03,330 --> 00:29:04,210 end in itself. 648 00:29:05,210 --> 00:29:08,550 If a modern vocation means God, means God, 649 00:29:08,550 --> 00:29:11,490 oh, that God would raise up somebody that 650 00:29:11,490 --> 00:29:14,170 could say it, that could make us church 651 00:29:14,170 --> 00:29:19,850 kids, that could make the Orthodox church kids, 652 00:29:19,970 --> 00:29:25,370 the Bible people, the fundamentalists, we evangelicals, that 653 00:29:25,370 --> 00:29:27,990 could raise up somebody that could make us 654 00:29:27,990 --> 00:29:28,470 spirits. 655 00:29:29,610 --> 00:29:35,610 We've undergone, for so long, indoctrination and brainwashing, 656 00:29:36,810 --> 00:29:40,490 and the kind of things that make God 657 00:29:40,490 --> 00:29:42,910 to be our servant, instead of our being 658 00:29:42,910 --> 00:29:44,050 God's servant. 659 00:29:46,270 --> 00:29:48,990 And we're like that somehow if we pray 660 00:29:48,990 --> 00:29:51,230 God change money, and he does. 661 00:29:51,330 --> 00:29:53,070 I described it that the first few years 662 00:29:53,070 --> 00:29:54,510 of my ministry, if I said he paid 663 00:29:54,510 --> 00:29:55,710 money in, all that's not. 664 00:29:57,170 --> 00:30:00,150 So, I believe God changed money, but it's 665 00:30:00,150 --> 00:30:05,010 pretty cheap when you get all excited because 666 00:30:05,010 --> 00:30:06,010 God changed money. 667 00:30:06,950 --> 00:30:09,370 Somebody over in the Bowdoin Valley was praying 668 00:30:09,370 --> 00:30:11,990 for money to buy an outboard motor. 669 00:30:12,150 --> 00:30:13,490 They needed an outboard motor. 670 00:30:14,370 --> 00:30:15,930 Of course they were praying for it. 671 00:30:16,010 --> 00:30:17,690 Can't you see what they weren't praying for? 672 00:30:18,330 --> 00:30:21,270 And somebody over here heard them, and told 673 00:30:21,270 --> 00:30:24,430 us any $350 should buy them a motor 674 00:30:24,430 --> 00:30:24,970 over there. 675 00:30:26,010 --> 00:30:27,350 I believe in that. 676 00:30:28,250 --> 00:30:30,610 But that's, what you might say, that's down 677 00:30:30,610 --> 00:30:32,010 on the level of the routine. 678 00:30:32,130 --> 00:30:35,130 There's something grander, and higher, and finer, and 679 00:30:35,130 --> 00:30:36,150 richer than that. 680 00:30:37,670 --> 00:30:40,230 And if God doesn't give himself over there 681 00:30:40,230 --> 00:30:43,210 along with the motor, he'll wreck that motor 682 00:30:43,210 --> 00:30:43,630 himself. 683 00:30:44,970 --> 00:30:47,450 God wants to give gifts, but every gift 684 00:30:47,450 --> 00:30:49,190 he gives, he wants to give himself in 685 00:30:49,190 --> 00:30:49,990 gifts. 686 00:30:50,570 --> 00:30:52,190 And that's the wonder of it, my darlings. 687 00:30:53,030 --> 00:30:54,370 He wants to give himself. 688 00:30:54,830 --> 00:30:56,770 But how does you as God, you as 689 00:30:56,770 --> 00:30:59,370 God, use God to get you God? 690 00:31:00,570 --> 00:31:02,670 Use God to give you safety? 691 00:31:03,670 --> 00:31:05,970 Use God to give you peace of mind? 692 00:31:07,290 --> 00:31:08,650 In heaven, at last. 693 00:31:10,390 --> 00:31:10,930 All right. 694 00:31:12,270 --> 00:31:16,490 If God was 50 years old, he would 695 00:31:16,490 --> 00:31:17,950 say, God, I don't know. 696 00:31:18,850 --> 00:31:21,390 My heart craves thee, I want thee. 697 00:31:22,430 --> 00:31:26,050 My heart is, my heart is pained, nor 698 00:31:26,050 --> 00:31:28,070 can it be at rest till it finds 699 00:31:28,070 --> 00:31:29,210 rest in thee. 700 00:31:30,490 --> 00:31:34,410 And I'd rather have thee and nothing, than 701 00:31:34,410 --> 00:31:36,590 to have everything rolling in my way. 702 00:31:38,110 --> 00:31:40,410 You can't be sure God's making you prosperous, 703 00:31:40,630 --> 00:31:41,230 businessmen. 704 00:31:42,750 --> 00:31:44,670 You can't be sure he can't. 705 00:31:44,710 --> 00:31:47,010 You're prospering, you say, because you're tired. 706 00:31:47,150 --> 00:31:48,410 Well, go ahead and cry. 707 00:31:48,570 --> 00:31:49,930 That works all right with me. 708 00:31:51,250 --> 00:31:56,500 I think you should, but if you're prospering, 709 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,160 you're not coming from God's care. 710 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:05,080 Maybe the economics level of the day makes 711 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:05,600 you rich. 712 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,020 Maybe you're pretty sharp, cutting corners. 713 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,860 You'd better have God in your band than 714 00:32:12,860 --> 00:32:15,840 have all the riches in the world and 715 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,100 not have God with you. 716 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,940 God is searching for those who were put 717 00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:24,600 beneath the cloud of forgetting, the verdict of 718 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,360 all the things that ever God has made. 719 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,280 For he is a jealous lover and he 720 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:31,740 suffers no rival. 721 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:35,280 And he don't want anybody to stand in 722 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,560 there and take his place or even bring 723 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,460 no one to take his place. 724 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,560 He wants us to seek him, to seek 725 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:44,100 God. 726 00:32:44,900 --> 00:32:47,220 And to dedicate him, let me, somebody asked 727 00:32:47,220 --> 00:32:49,260 him about seeking, and he said, well, let 728 00:32:49,260 --> 00:32:50,060 me tell you something. 729 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,120 If anybody comes seeking, he's telling you to 730 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,140 seek him, to seek any more than more 731 00:32:55,140 --> 00:32:55,520 love. 732 00:32:55,660 --> 00:32:56,740 Don't listen to them. 733 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:58,600 Don't listen to them. 734 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,920 The only truth of the order, listen to 735 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,620 me, that which is more God, seek to 736 00:33:05,620 --> 00:33:06,960 know the shining God. 737 00:33:07,540 --> 00:33:09,880 You can't all know all that God had. 738 00:33:10,060 --> 00:33:12,140 You can know all that God had revealed 739 00:33:12,140 --> 00:33:16,280 in Christ to your soul infinitely more than 740 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:17,200 you now know. 741 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,300 And if the church of Christ would come 742 00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:23,520 back to this, and would get so blinded 743 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,560 and furious and stop feeling and would begin 744 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,200 to seek for God himself, then all the 745 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,220 gifts of God would come along with God. 746 00:33:32,860 --> 00:33:35,040 And all the blessings of God would come 747 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,060 along with God. 748 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,380 We want the fullness of the spirit. 749 00:33:38,540 --> 00:33:39,640 We want clean paths. 750 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:40,980 We want the principle within. 751 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:44,160 We want love divine, all love excelling. 752 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,900 We want all of that. 753 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,880 But if we seek those things apart from 754 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,900 God, we've only found the rose and the 755 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:53,240 thorn. 756 00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:57,120 But if we find God, then we'll find 757 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,940 all of these things, seeing God. 758 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,480 And better I say a thousand times, may 759 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,020 God through Jesus Christ take him away. 760 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,800 If you say, I have accepted Christ and 761 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,780 I am he good, oh very wonderfully good, 762 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:12,620 that's good. 763 00:34:13,139 --> 00:34:14,480 But do you know him? 764 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,480 The man Paul had been converted to when 765 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,120 he was one of the world's great Christians, 766 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,159 when he wrote that I may know him, 767 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:23,659 and that I may know him and the 768 00:34:23,659 --> 00:34:28,900 power of his suffering, he made conformable unto 769 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:29,620 his death. 770 00:34:30,699 --> 00:34:33,100 He was plowing on and plowing ahead, and 771 00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:35,280 that it appeared to be that the knowledge 772 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,020 of Jesus Christ, he had what he called 773 00:34:38,020 --> 00:34:40,540 the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus 774 00:34:40,540 --> 00:34:43,960 my Lord, the excellency of the knowledge of 775 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,340 Christ Jesus my Lord. 776 00:34:46,540 --> 00:34:48,080 My friends, this is what you and I 777 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:48,679 are here for. 778 00:34:49,380 --> 00:34:51,179 Somebody wants to know what the legal life 779 00:34:51,179 --> 00:34:51,460 is. 780 00:34:51,460 --> 00:34:54,219 I almost withdraw from the term anymore. 781 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,660 I almost shrink from hearing it, because everybody's 782 00:34:58,660 --> 00:35:00,860 talking about the deeper life, but nobody seems 783 00:35:00,860 --> 00:35:01,620 to want God. 784 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,340 God's given for life. 785 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:04,900 Jesus Christ given for life. 786 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,540 And as I plunge further into the knowledge 787 00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:10,680 of the kind God, my heart moves out 788 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,060 into God's presence, and there's less of me 789 00:35:13,060 --> 00:35:15,620 and more of God, and the life becomes 790 00:35:15,620 --> 00:35:20,100 deepened and strengthened in God, so that this 791 00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:21,780 is the next step, that I might know 792 00:35:21,780 --> 00:35:22,080 him. 793 00:35:23,180 --> 00:35:25,280 And anything that keeps me from knowing him 794 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:25,980 is my enemy. 795 00:35:26,660 --> 00:35:28,300 If it is a friend that stands between 796 00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:30,920 him and me, that friend is an enemy. 797 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,300 If it is a gift that stands between 798 00:35:33,300 --> 00:35:34,960 him and me, that gift is an enemy. 799 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,560 If it is a remission that stands between 800 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,440 him and me, that remission is an enemy. 801 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:42,080 If it is a defeat I had once, 802 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,360 and I allow that defeat to get me 803 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,480 down, and stand between him and me, I'm 804 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:47,240 the forget type. 805 00:35:47,740 --> 00:35:49,860 Forgetting all the things that are past, I 806 00:35:49,860 --> 00:35:51,360 plow forward and press on. 807 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:53,940 And if it's a victory that I have 808 00:35:53,940 --> 00:35:56,960 back there, that victory stands between me and 809 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:57,800 the knowledge of God. 810 00:35:58,060 --> 00:35:59,980 I've got to put that victory behind me. 811 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,600 Well, I suppose I might as well stay 812 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:03,060 in bed. 813 00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:05,640 I don't know whether anybody knows what I 814 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:05,840 mean. 815 00:36:05,940 --> 00:36:08,260 I know everybody goes to God before I 816 00:36:08,260 --> 00:36:09,200 think some of you do. 817 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,320 But, dear friend, do you see what I 818 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:11,580 mean? 819 00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:16,280 That, that, that all of this heathening of 820 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,320 the gospel by, by making God our church. 821 00:36:19,940 --> 00:36:22,000 God running around with a basket, giving away 822 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:22,440 presents. 823 00:36:22,540 --> 00:36:24,060 A throne of diamonds like John of New 824 00:36:24,060 --> 00:36:25,880 Rock, or a neat scramble for the diamond. 825 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,100 A crown of new diamonds. 826 00:36:27,180 --> 00:36:28,280 You know, I've talked about it. 827 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,460 I found a crown that had the image 828 00:36:30,460 --> 00:36:31,500 of God on it. 829 00:36:32,220 --> 00:36:33,400 Wonderful, isn't it? 830 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,720 But nothing compared with the deep knowledge of 831 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:39,500 God himself. 832 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,240 Knowing, knowing, you know this knowledge of God, 833 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,140 nobody's out of you. 834 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:48,760 Nobody's going to have you out of it. 835 00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:51,580 They can come and point that sick, angry 836 00:36:51,580 --> 00:36:54,420 finger at you, and call you every name 837 00:36:54,420 --> 00:36:55,280 the law permits. 838 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,320 And when they see you, you'll feel bad 839 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,320 about it, but you'll know you know God. 840 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,600 They can come and argue with you, and 841 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,720 give you shit to prove you're all wrong, 842 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,840 and when they see you can say, well, 843 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,740 you're pretty good at torture, but I happen 844 00:37:11,740 --> 00:37:12,460 to know God. 845 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:13,740 You got things too late. 846 00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:16,360 You come to prove I can't, and I 847 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,340 met God before you ever came to prove 848 00:37:18,340 --> 00:37:18,600 it. 849 00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:21,480 So we can know God for ourselves, that 850 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:22,560 I might know him. 851 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,600 The good thing is, some of you are 852 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:26,160 finding him. 853 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:27,020 I know that. 854 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:28,920 Some of you are trying to. 855 00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:33,920 I've gotten letters, I've gotten phone calls, I 856 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,220 have had personal conversations, and I know that 857 00:37:37,220 --> 00:37:39,580 some of you are finding the Lord in 858 00:37:39,580 --> 00:37:43,800 a new, rich, deep, and wonderful way in 859 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:44,680 these last weeks. 860 00:37:45,220 --> 00:37:46,380 And I'm glad. 861 00:37:47,180 --> 00:37:51,700 But, uh, how about a direct, shanty-speaking 862 00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:52,700 call of prayer. 863 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:05,260 Now, before we do pray, why, we're going 864 00:38:05,260 --> 00:38:07,460 to find out, before I let you pray, 865 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,340 I want you to remember me. 866 00:38:11,810 --> 00:38:14,650 You're your own, your own lonely heart is 867 00:38:17,370 --> 00:38:21,490 talking back to you, and the enemy in 868 00:38:21,490 --> 00:38:23,090 you is bigger than you are. 869 00:38:24,490 --> 00:38:27,310 You're not sure, maybe, quite about it all 870 00:38:27,310 --> 00:38:30,590 intellectually, but your heart has to drop. 871 00:38:31,670 --> 00:38:33,550 Do you want to know what Paul knew? 872 00:38:34,870 --> 00:38:36,590 Do you want to know what God has 873 00:38:36,590 --> 00:38:38,170 revealed and given? 874 00:38:39,250 --> 00:38:41,470 It's been explained to me since I'm a 875 00:38:41,470 --> 00:38:42,110 year old. 876 00:38:43,610 --> 00:38:45,610 And if they say to me, Mr. Tozer, 877 00:38:45,670 --> 00:38:47,830 that I might have this grace, this courage, 878 00:38:48,170 --> 00:38:51,010 this faith to rise and put behind me 879 00:38:51,010 --> 00:38:54,650 and under my feet, whatever those plans are, 880 00:38:54,990 --> 00:39:02,790 ambitions, or hopes, or plans, or gifts, or 881 00:39:02,790 --> 00:39:06,270 victories, or anything that prevents me from knowing 882 00:39:06,270 --> 00:39:09,050 the Lord Jesus, would you raise your hand 883 00:39:09,050 --> 00:39:09,970 and be afraid for me? 884 00:39:10,030 --> 00:39:11,930 Anybody here, if you say, I do want 885 00:39:11,930 --> 00:39:12,330 to know. 886 00:39:13,370 --> 00:39:14,990 Put your hand up if you're going to 887 00:39:14,990 --> 00:39:15,250 pray. 888 00:39:16,270 --> 00:39:17,050 Say, yes, I do. 889 00:39:17,310 --> 00:39:19,630 Do you want to know? 890 00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:20,530 Yes, I do. 891 00:39:21,410 --> 00:39:24,150 Do you want to know? 892 00:39:24,830 --> 00:39:26,710 Yes, yes, yes. 893 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,240 God, for the hands that have gone, now 894 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:32,500 that's not the way to say it. 895 00:39:35,220 --> 00:39:39,600 Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, in the beginning is 896 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,580 the Word, and the Word is this God, 897 00:39:41,740 --> 00:39:44,100 and the Word is this man, and in 898 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:45,240 the beginning is God. 899 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,140 We thank you, Lord Jesus, that when we 900 00:39:49,140 --> 00:39:50,400 come to you, we go back to the 901 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:50,740 beginning. 902 00:39:51,980 --> 00:39:53,940 We go back as Paul, and back as 903 00:39:53,940 --> 00:39:56,600 Moses, back as Abraham, back as Adam. 904 00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,080 We go back to the beginning, the life, 905 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,400 the time, and the life of every man. 906 00:40:04,580 --> 00:40:06,100 Indeed, we sing of Paul. 907 00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:08,600 Indeed, we know of Paul. 908 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,580 We pray for him to be resurrected as 909 00:40:11,580 --> 00:40:12,140 a monk. 910 00:40:12,980 --> 00:40:16,300 In the name of thy Son, Jesus, we 911 00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:20,500 pray, Paul, that thou would take these young 912 00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:26,240 people, and these older ones, and lead them 913 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:30,540 to be pastors, and dream pastors, and see 914 00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:33,240 the ways that may be rough and hard, 915 00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:37,540 and painful and certain, but lead them, Lord, 916 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,080 lead them until all is behind them, everything's 917 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,980 behind them, and they put behind them everything, 918 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,280 everything, what they were, and what they are, 919 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,720 and what they're proud of, and what they're 920 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,460 ashamed of, and what the victories they've had, 921 00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:54,580 and the defeats they've had, and the mistakes 922 00:40:54,580 --> 00:40:55,240 they've made. 923 00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,000 Oh, may we lead these things on, and 924 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,520 teach them how to look forward and not 925 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,040 backwards, and keep right feet. 926 00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:10,060 You know, Father, that when you talk about 927 00:41:10,060 --> 00:41:13,200 these things, some come because they feel that 928 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,480 they'll be given a capsule that they can 929 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,840 swallow, or a text they can memorize, or 930 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,340 some one little tip they can do. 931 00:41:22,060 --> 00:41:28,820 Oh, God, it is not just received, but 932 00:41:28,820 --> 00:41:31,540 rather by the cultivation of the knowledge of 933 00:41:31,540 --> 00:41:35,180 God in Christ Jesus, by faith, and humility, 934 00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:38,180 and prayer, and trust, and confidence, and obedience, 935 00:41:39,140 --> 00:41:43,500 and pressing onward from the blasts and mountaintops 936 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:46,340 of tears and anger, and the thought of 937 00:41:46,340 --> 00:41:48,060 the mystery comes at the sunlight. 938 00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:52,860 Come, Holy Spirit of heavenly love, come with 939 00:41:52,860 --> 00:41:56,680 all our faith and power, and we pray 940 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,140 these, we pray God, we pray his love, 941 00:41:59,660 --> 00:42:04,060 and we pray for all of these, and 942 00:42:04,060 --> 00:42:06,360 we pray, Lord, for some who didn't request 943 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,180 a prayer for anything, but who could have, 944 00:42:09,220 --> 00:42:12,560 and who perhaps have this night without even 945 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,300 salvation, and we pray for all the churches 946 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:17,280 that are coming, bringing their services. 947 00:42:17,540 --> 00:42:18,940 We pray right now, it will be within 948 00:42:18,940 --> 00:42:20,360 a half an hour or so. 949 00:42:20,660 --> 00:42:22,600 Bless them all, Lord, and grant these churches 950 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,580 whatever they must, and they have to preach, 951 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,060 and whatever shepherd might find lost sheep, and 952 00:42:28,060 --> 00:42:30,800 whatever harvest he finds on hand. 953 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,000 There'll be victory in the church of Jesus 954 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,040 Christ this night, and we pray these throughout 955 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,500 all this hour, and we will this day, 956 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,980 we ask this in the name of Jesus 957 00:42:42,980 --> 00:42:44,780 Christ, our Lord. 958 00:42:45,340 --> 00:42:45,780 Amen.