Six hundred and sixty-seven, please.
Six, five, seven.
There comes to my heart one sweet refrain,
a glad and a joyous refrain.
I sing it again and again, sweet peace,
the gift of God's love.
Six, five, seven, please.
There comes
to my heart one sweet refrain, a glad
and a joyous refrain.
I sing it again and again, sweet peace,
the gift of God's love.
Six, five, seven, please.
There comes to my heart one sweet refrain,
a glad and a joyous refrain.
There comes to my heart one sweet refrain,
a glad and a joyous refrain.
I
sing it
again and again, sweet
peace, the gift
of God's love.
Oh, wonderful, wonderful day, sweet
peace, the gift of God's love.
Oh, wonderful,
wonderful day, sweet peace, the gift of
God's love.
We're now ready to start this evening.
And you can see that this is the
twelfth week of this subject.
When we say the twelfth week in Ulster,
you almost get the things mixed up, you
know.
But it's just the twelfth week of this
subject.
We've been looking at this matter of depression
for the last eleven weeks past.
And this is number twelve.
Next week we'll be thirteen when we look
at how we can continually overturn.
But I want to look at what the
twelve teachings do to the cause of some
of the saints of God.
And I want to look especially at the
four teachings of Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses.
I want to take these two very specially
and carefully this evening.
Because I believe that both of these cults,
with their four teachings, upstart and distrust and
depart the souls of some of the children
of God.
And I want to do this very carefully.
Now if we look at Mormonism just for
the moment, that is history, and we don't
want to dig all night on the history.
It started with a man called Joseph Smith,
as he was born in 1805.
And then he was just sixteen years of
age.
I want you to start to get this
into your mind.
He's just a lad that has seen, he
claims that God had taught him to be
a prophet of the Lord.
And he desired to be called a prophet
of the Most High God.
And this is just a lad that has
seen, remember, I want you to get this.
This is the calendar of this movement.
And then he was just fifteen years of
age.
He claims that the angel Moroni, and I
assure you I know nothing at all about
the name of any such angel.
It is not in his book.
But it warns that the angel Moroni blesses
and tells him there were gold plates hidden
in a certain place.
And this lad who claimed to be a
prophet of the Most High God went and
he said he found these gold plates.
And there was writing on them.
And he said it was Egyptian hieroglyphic.
And Egyptian hieroglyphic, very hard to decipher.
But he also said that the angel Moroni
showed him a spot where there were two
crystals hidden.
And when he got these crystals he called
one of them the Urim and one of
them the Samum.
And he said these two crystals enabled him
to decipher these plates of gold with this
Egyptian hieroglyphic writing upon it.
And because he was enabled by this means
to understand the writing, the Book of Mormon
came into production.
He wrote the Book of Mormon.
Now some of the Egyptian, readers of Egyptian
hieroglyphics, desired to come and see the plates
so that they could read it for themselves.
But when people began to trespass it, and
especially these men who understood this particular kind
of writing, these golden plates miraculously disappeared.
And I assure you that nobody saw them,
only Joseph Smith, at least he says he
saw them.
Gilbert Pitbay, who made a year and a
half of studying every detail of this thing,
he says that was, had persisted, one of
the greatest religious hoaxes of all time.
There never were any hoaxes.
He never found them.
It's a religious hoax.
Now it's also mentioned in the history of
this culture that Joseph Smith was arrested then
after this, and was charged with a great
number of offences.
And among them, gross immortality of a young
woman.
And people were so annoyed at his behaviour
that the prison where he was held was
stormed one evening by a riotous crowd.
And it was there he met his death.
He was killed, people were annoyed.
You see, he called this company the Mormons.
But they would love us to call them
now the Latter Day Saints.
They're changing the name a little.
But then I don't want to take up
time talking about the founder.
I would think that's a waste of time.
Nor I don't want to take up the
time in talking about the past of the
place.
Nor I don't want to take up the
time of my talking about the fault of
this book called Founder.
I think, you know, we would need to
deal with the teaching.
What does it teach?
And how does it differ from the Bible?
And how does it upset young people?
And now I shall have to quote from
some of their writings to get you the
proper teaching.
I shall tell you this.
This is what the Mormons say themselves about
God.
It's the boys that come round the door
and knock the door.
To a Mormon, God is Adam.
That's what they say.
Now, big and young, he penned a book
called The Journal of Discourse.
And in volume one.
And at page fifty, this is what he
said.
So this was his own writing.
And this was one of their leading teachings.
When our father Adam came into the garden
of Eden, he came into it with a
celestial body and brought Eve one of his
vows with him.
You can see why he just put that
little bit, one of his vows, with him.
Because in the early days, the Mormons practiced
polygamy.
They had three or four wives.
I don't know whether one was three or
four.
But this is Joseph Smith's own writing.
When our father Adam came into the garden
of Eden, he came into it with a
celestial body and brought Eve one of his
vows with him.
He is our father and our God.
The only God with whom he has to
do.
These are the teachers that founded all.
What would you do with this tripe when
you have a real Bible in your hand?
Yes, this is tripe of the deepest depths.
He says, the Mormons' job was flesh and
bones.
He goes a little further.
He says, then the Virgin Mary, this is
his own writing.
Again, quoted from Volume 1, page 50.
When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus,
the father had begotten him in his own
likeness.
He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.
And who was the father?
He was the first of the human family.
Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the
flesh by the same character that was in
the garden of Eden.
So he is bringing out the doctrine that
Adam sort of reappeared and had intercourse with
the Virgin and the production was Jesus Christ.
Now I don't think I've ever heard anything
more blasphemous than that.
These are the boys that come to the
door and look stunned to you.
Cocks and all the rest of it.
This is the tripe that's behind it all.
I'm telling you that this is diabolical of
the deepest guy and I don't think that
some of you knew it was half as
diabolical as it is.
What I want to show you this evening
is that the false teaching that the Mormons
bring, they deny the purity of our Lord
Jesus.
They deny that Christ was God.
They deny the reality of the God in
His action.
And they deny the personality of the Holy
Ghost.
They say He's not a person.
Actually the book before me says the Holy
Spirit is robbed of His personality and is
regarded as a divine fluid.
He's just a sort of influence.
He's not a person at all.
Now let's tackle this teaching from the word
of God.
You see, they believe exactly what the Mormon
and what the Jehovah's Witnesses believe.
Because the Jehovah's Witnesses will not believe that
Jesus Christ is God either.
You see, two or three students at the
door, some musical, knocked the door, opened the
door, looked at them, knew immediately who they
are.
And the big fellow said to me, do
you teach that Jesus Christ is God?
That's right.
It could be proven from the Bible, yes
sir.
Is that a Bible below your arm?
Must be a good one when you have
it.
So we're new stewards.
And here's what I did.
Now you young folks there.
We're looking at the book of Revelation and
we're in at chapter one.
The book of Revelation.
And we're at the first chapter.
And I read to these two characters this
eight verse.
Some of them are speaking and you can
find out for yourself.
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega.
The beginning and the ending.
Hath the Lord which is and which was
and which is become the Almighty.
And I read this verse to the two
men at the doorstep.
And I said, if I take the first
two words and the last two words, they
read like this.
I am the Almighty.
So I said to the big one, who's
talking?
Who's saying this?
It's quite easy, isn't it?
Because it says in the middle of the
verse, Hath the Lord.
And the word Lord is John.
And I said, that's right.
That's quite right.
So you're quite in agreement with me that
this is Jehovah.
Yes, we're in agreement that this is Jehovah.
So I said, you will be in agreement
when it says, I am Alpha and Omega
that Alpha and Omega is Jehovah.
Yes, he said, that's right.
There's no getting out of it, everything in
the verse is Jehovah.
I said this, you agree that the one
who says the beginning and the ending, that
the one who claims to be the beginning
and the ending is Jehovah, is the Almighty.
He said, that's right.
Oh, I said, no, we're agreeing so far.
And John says, verse 10, I went on
reading, John said, I was in the Spirit
on the Lord's Day and heard behind me
a voice out of a trumpet saying, I
am Alpha and Omega.
So it says it's the same person talking.
Then there's no getting out of it.
You can't have two people who say, I
am Alpha and Omega.
He says, yes, that's the same person, that's
Jehovah.
And the person that is Alpha and Omega
is also the first and the last.
Of course, the beginning and the ending would
cover that anyway.
So the person that's talking in verse 8,
the person that's talking again is Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first
and the last.
That's sure about it now.
Says, yes, that's the law.
And I said, John said in verse 12,
and I turned to see the voice that
speaks with me.
Turned around to see this person that was
speaking.
And being turned, I saw seven golden cans
of sticks and in the midst of the
ten cans of sticks one like unto the
son of man.
I said, now, who is he now?
Took a breath and looked at the big
fella and the wee fella looked at him.
I said, who is this son of man
now?
He said, it's the Lord Jesus.
I said, that's right.
Is this one doing the talking?
He says, I don't think so.
I think he just came along at that
time but he wasn't doing the talking.
It was Alpha and Omega.
It was the first and the last that
was doing the talking.
Very well, I said.
Anyhow, he has arrived on the scene.
He's here.
And then it gives the whole description of
him.
One like unto the son of man, clothed
with a garment down to the foot and
girded about the breast with a golden girdle,
his head in a pair of white wool
and so on, his feet like on the
burnished grass, he has in his right hand
seven stars and so on.
And John chapter 17, verse 17, when I
saw him, I turned at his feet and
said, Tell me whose feet he's fallen at.
He says, the son of man.
That's right.
Good for you.
When I saw him, I turned at his
feet as dead and he laid his right
hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not,
I am the first and the last.
He took the book off me now.
And that's enough.
There, isn't it?
And just in case there were any arguments
about it, you see, the Lord Jesus goes
on speaking.
It says he laid his right hand upon
me, saying, Fear not, I am the first
and the last.
I am he that liveth and was dead.
And behold, I am alive forevermore.
And this is the Christ of Calvary.
And this is the one who calls himself
the first and the last.
And that's the beginning and the ending.
And that is the Alpha and the Omega.
And that is the Lord.
Do you like to have a duel with
me?
Oh, I don't think there's any argument in
it.
I don't think there's any argument in it
at all.
Of course you can do it simpler than
this.
You can take a text like this.
Unto us a child is born.
Unto us a son is given.
I said, who's the prophet talking about?
The Lord Jesus is.
Good for you.
Yes, the child was born.
The son was never born.
The son was given.
Unto us a child is born.
Unto us a son is given.
And the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor.
Listen to this book.
The Mighty God.
And again, you know, they look at the
book.
Oh, there is no quibble.
You see, when I turned to John's gospel,
have a look at John's gospel for a
moment, John chapter 1, I
said, you know, John began his gospel like
this.
In the beginning was the Word.
And the Word, capital W, was with God.
And the Word was God.
And in verse 14 it says, And the
Word was made flesh and broke among us,
and we beheld His glory, the glory out
of the only begotten of the Father, full
of grace and truth.
I said, you know, that's the Lord Jesus
there, made flesh and broke among us.
And yet it says the Word was God.
Now, I know that they have a Bible
printed on their own.
They usually carry it with them.
It's a translation.
And they have that first verse translated like
this in the last phrase, And the Word
was a God.
As you know, it doesn't say that the
Word was God, the Word was a God.
I said, do you see the Word you're
translating, a God?
It's a whole lot of times in this
chapter.
For instance, look at this.
See, verse 6.
There was a man sent from God.
Have you translated it?
There was a man sent to my God.
No, they haven't.
Because they did.
Oh, no, they can let it go this
time.
Because they can't do anything else.
They can't say a man sent a man.
Ah, but it's the same word that they
have twisted up the chapter.
But I said, why didn't you keep up
the translation?
You'd make a right fool out of yourself
if you did.
I don't think there's any argument here.
Don't forget that these, these men who are
the messengers of the devil will come knocking
at the door so politely.
Remember the things that they hold and teach.
And the things that they say about our
Lord Jesus and about the Blessed Virgin Mary.
I wonder if the Roman Catholics put up
with them.
Yes.
I don't think there's any argument about Jesus
Christ being God.
I think it's too clear.
I could take the rest of the note
on it, all right.
And you know they have an argument about
the resurrection.
And it's the very same argument as Jehovah's
Witnesses.
You know they don't think that he rose
again from the dead.
Have a look at John's Gospel, chapter 2.
This person, you know.
And the Jewish Passover was at hand, and
Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
And to see him going up to the
city.
And found in the temple those that sold
oxen and sheep and doves and the changes
of money-shipping.
And when he had made a scourge of
small trods, and he drove them all out
of the temple and the sheep and the
oxen and poured the changes, money, and over
through the tables.
Still, you can scarcely get this all in,
can you?
You see, our Lord Jesus Christ walked into
the temple.
And you know there's a big long table
in the temple.
Oh, as long as the whole building is.
And all the money changes are there because
the Jews were coming from all over the
world for the Passover.
And they're making money here.
This is what they do in the bank,
yes.
If you've got an idea that the bank
lends you money or gives you money, you
must be a fool.
They tell you money.
And I can tell you they sell it
at a very good price.
Won't get any idea if you get anything
for nothing in the bank.
Or they sell money there at the shop
where they sell money.
They sell it there.
And they sell it where money changes.
And if you go to Jerusalem still, you'll
find them knocking around.
And if you don't watch, they'll sell you
money all right.
Jews are clever at this sort of thing.
And you know the table's lined with all
kinds of coins and money.
And our Lord Jesus gets a hold of
the end of it and heaves it over.
Can you hear the clatter of the money
on the tiles?
Oh, you know, if some of us did
this, we'd never be forgiven.
They say that to him again.
He's away there and he's doing something he
shouldn't do.
And they tell you it was the Lord
Jesus that did it.
Well, hear the clatter.
Shouldn't be in God's house.
Yes, when they built this place, I suppose
all the old saints gave money.
I remember when we were putting the extension
on and buying the factory next door.
I said to them, it was one Sunday
morning.
Now there's a whole lot of you here,
only kids.
You have no money, you're going to steal.
You're not included in this.
And a whole lot of old age pensioners,
you have no money.
Somebody needs to give you money.
But there must be a hundred of you
in the middle there.
And you can give me a hundred quid
tonight.
I'll tell you how much money I had
lying on that old table in there.
Over six thousand pounds that night.
And people gave us that to build a
house for God.
Not to break anything.
Take these things and throw them in God's
house altogether.
Not God meant them really, this Bible.
That's what it was built for.
The house of God.
Not tennis really, it's truth.
The Lord Jesus wasn't long of heaving the
table over and I would heave it over
just the same way.
Yes, I think we need to see that.
You know, he frightened them.
And he said in verse 6, King said
unto them, That so doth take these things
hence.
Make not my father's house an house of
merchandise.
And disciples remembered that it was written, The
veal of thine house hath eaten me up.
And we should still have a veal for
the house of the Lord.
Then the Jews got their second breath.
Then answered the Jews and said unto them,
What kind is your power unto us, King,
that thou doest these things?
You're acting as if you own this house.
You're acting as if you were really the
Messiah.
What kind is your power unto us that
thou doest these things?
Now Jesus looked them full in the face.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this
temple, and in three days I will raise
it up.
Now I think that if you were the
Pharisee, you see you would stand with your
hand up the trees, in a very pious
way, and you have your eyes closed, your
head down, and you don't see the picture.
You need to watch the picture at times.
Not that it was worth looking at or
anything like that.
But some of the gestures are really from
the Lord.
And the Lord Jesus said to them, Destroy
this temple, and in three days I will
raise it up.
You see they were not looking at him,
and they got the message wrong.
You see, then said the Jews, verse 20,
forty and six years was this temple in
building.
He would go and raise it up in
three days.
You see later on he was talking about
the temple he was standing in, the big
temple that was built for the worship of
the Lord.
He got the thing all wrong.
What Jesus said was, Destroy this temple, and
in three days I will raise it up
again.
And when I was arguing this, some of
these Jehovah's Witnesses got up and said, You
can't prove this, that it was pointed to
as wrong.
I said, it's a pity for you, you
know.
You don't read this book at all.
Watch what it says now.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this
temple, and in three days I will raise
it up.
Then said the Jews, forty and six years
was this temple in building, and would go
and raise it up in three days.
But he spoke of the temple of his
body.
Where did you get that bit?
Imagine a big fellow arguing with me on
the doorstep, and he doesn't know the next
verse that's coming.
It was the temple of his body he
was talking about.
See that little visit.
I will raise it up.
Not something like this.
Raise it.
Oh, we hear so much baloney, and they
walk away from the truth.
There is no trouble about the bodily resurrection
of our Lord Jesus.
You see, they come round so piously, and
the things they're hiding, that Adam is God,
and he's the father of Christ, which is
Christ of the deepest dying.
And they have all these corrupt things, and
many more, and polygamy mixed up among it.
And then they would deny the deity of
the Lord Jesus, and the reality of the
bodily resurrection, and deny the personality of the
Holy Ghost.
You know, they try to tell me, he's
just an angel, he's not a person, it's
just the name, it's just the thought of
power that comes.
Let's go across to the office of the
Apostles for the moment.
And we're at the Acts of the Apostles,
chapter 5.
The Acts of the Apostles, and we're at
the 6th chapter.
But a patient man in Ammonites, with the
provider, his wife, stole the possession.
They had a land that they didn't need,
and they were spending it, and they were
pretending they were going to give the money
to the Lord.
And kept that part of the price.
His wife was to be imprisoned to it,
and brought a certain part, and made it
under the Apostles' feet.
Now, there was nothing wrong with bringing a
certain part.
If they wanted to steal a possession they
didn't need.
And they would bring a certain part, and
say we're giving you a certain part.
There was nothing wrong with that.
But if you steal a possession, and bring
a certain part, and say we're giving you
everything we've got for the possession, and you're
telling a lie, then there is something wrong
with that.
They were pretending to be what they were
not.
And kept that part of the price, and
the word kept that means they hid it
somewhere.
His wife was to be imprisoned to it,
and brought a certain part, and made it
under the Apostles' feet.
Then she walked before the assembly.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hast thou taken
so thine heart to lie to the Holy
Ghost?
I want to know how you can tell
lies to an infidel.
I want to know.
I have a right to know.
One of these fellows out the door said,
you know, it's just something like the flu.
It just attacks you.
I want to tell lies to the flu.
My, it would make you cry, wouldn't it?
Oh no, you can only tell lies to
a person.
So the Holy Ghost was a person.
And you could take scriptures like that, there
must be at least 30 or 40 of
them.
And you could show the personality of the
Holy Ghost without any trouble.
You see, this is what goes on with
these people.
And they deny the deity and the reality
of the bodily resurrection and the personality of
the Holy Ghost.
You know, Jehovah's Witnesses, the part of their
history I want to call for you just
now is that the founder was Charles King
Russell, K-A-Z-E is the word,
and he was a dripper.
That's what he was, he was a dripper.
And in 1884 he founded a society called
Zion Watch Charles Society.
He founded that.
Now I'm told that he was a great
orator.
But he bitterly opposed all the assemblies of
God's people and all the teachers who taught
them and all the clergy in the land.
And if you listen for two years you'll
find that Jehovah's Witnesses have carried this and
this came opposition on to this day.
Against all the teachers of God's will.
Yes, he died in 1916.
And their new leader was Judge Robert Ford.
And he died in 1942.
But before he died he gave the Jehovah's
Witnesses this new sample called Jehovah's Witnesses.
You see, they were first the Watch Charles
Society.
Then they were the Millennial Donors for a
while.
Then they were the International Bible Students for
a while.
And then they got this new title.
But again it's not the founders or those
kind of facts we need to deal with.
You know, we want to get the teachings
because it's the teaching that exposes the erroneous
doctrines that being hauled and juggled and real
hidden facts.
You see, they don't believe in the doctrine
of salvation by grace alone.
Let's go over to Philippines and we're at
the 2nd chapter of this great letter to
the Philippines.
Paul is saying to these saints of Philippi
in the 2nd chapter, end of verse 12
Wherefore my beloved, as you have always obeyed
not as in my presence only, but now
much more in my absence work out your
own salvation with fear and trembling.
Now it's not very many years old that
a Jehovah's Witness who was a secondary school
teacher and don't be upset about that bit
either.
Because let me tell you that the natural
man doesn't make a matter what degrees he's
got doesn't make a matter of what test
of my hands on the wall or what
university he came from.
This book says that natural man will see
but not the things of God they are
foolishness unto him.
Never can know them.
And you can go just as clever as
this world will give you credit for but
you can't see the things of God unless
you're born again.
And this secondary school teacher who thought she
was clever was born in a certain temple
in a certain kingdom in Austria.
She came in to see me one night
and this little rascal behind the wall there
she said, I don't like your preaching.
And I said, you're only one of thousands.
There are thousands who don't like my preaching.
What have I done now?
She said, you know, you're always talking about
being solid Bible.
I said, I beg your pardon dear.
The Bible talks about being saved by the
grace.
The Bible says we're saved by grace through
faith.
Not of works.
Just by grace.
And there came a time that grace did
much more than Bible.
So you see I think we've got that
all wrong.
And I want to show you what is
said in the Bible.
And she turns to her and steps through
and she reads this bit very carefully to
me.
And work out your own salvation with fear
and trembling.
That's what I believe she said.
I said, Herbie, I think you're old now.
She said, it was Paul.
It was Paul who told me that.
He said, that's right, you know.
I said, do you know who I turned
it to?
Because when you take up a lesson you
better know who's writing it and you better
know to whom it is written.
And she didn't know the author to that
bit.
I said, I'll tell you the author because
it's in the first chapter and in the
first verse.
Paul, I'm familiar to that.
The servant of Jesus Christ through all the
saints.
In Christ, Jesus, Richard and Philippi with the
British and Deacons.
You see, I'm impressed with this.
There's a New Testament assembly.
Christ is the exalted.
Christ is the constituted.
New Testament assembly.
There's a difference there.
And we don't know this thing until we
know that certain people knew it.
It could already just mean saturated, peculiar people.
Because that's what the Lord's people should be.
Saturated, peculiar people.
And they cut that big, long phrase short
by saying, saints and not saints of God.
And you see, in this assembly church must
come and teach people.
So I said, it has to be church
to do a New Testament assembly.
And if you can't tell us where you
got saved or something about your salvation or
how the Lord came and called you out
of darkness then we won't let you in.
We don't have all those people in this
assembly.
Not a bit.
Oh no.
And then of course the assembly has to
give in.
And we have a real open New Testament.
And you're supposed to know they look like
a real group.
And it is ridiculous, this group.
It's an old word for shepherds.
Or for elders.
It's the same word.
Shepherds.
That's it.
Elders.
And there are elders in the New Testament.
And then there's all this money that we
talk about.
It has to be paid for.
And the election has to be paid.
And the process to be looked after.
And there's a thousand and one things that
have to be taken care of by the
bishops.
That's what they're here for.
And that's their job.
And they have to look after this place.
And I have a discernment.
If they say we're painting this red, white
and blue I have to say hallelujah.
And if they say we're painting it green,
white and blue I have to say hallelujah
Christ.
I have nothing to say.
It's got nothing to do with me.
They look after all the material things.
And I must say they do it very
well.
And everything is taken care of.
And drop it down.
And if you want to turn it up
and find where all your money went then
you turn them black and white.
That's all there.
And so this is a new testament of
family.
Love of the saved man who can shepherd
the flock.
And the visions of saved men who can
take care of the material side of things.
And the believers are all separated saints.
Well they knew a portion of what I
said to them.
Surely people are fed already.
This is not them getting paid.
You don't do things to be saved.
You do things because you are saved.
Well don't they put their trust before the
house of Christ.
It's said by grace there's nothing that you
could do would merit salvation.
Oh no, God offers a full, free, present,
perfect, eternal salvation by grace alone.
Must be accepted from God's hand by faith
alone.
Oh but when we get saved, God works
certain things into you.
You see I said to the school teacher,
You know mother, you stop reading so soon.
That's what she left out.
You see, except love, therefore my beloved.
And the very fact that he used the
word beloved is showing me something to believe
in.
I've never always obeyed and I can prove
it.
Not as in my presence only, but now
much more in my absence.
You see God comes to an assembly of
his own people.
And by his Spirit and by his will
he walks into the house.
And it comes, and it comes in the
morning and you're finished.
Somebody comes along and says, you know, that
message was just for me this morning.
He says now don't give me any nettles.
The Lord's talking to you.
It's the Lord working in your heart.
Now you go home and work it out
now.
Do what he wants you to do.
And you don't want to be saved, you
do because you are saved.
And when you're talking about working out your
own salvation, you're only working out what God
has already worked in because you're already His.
You see, they don't know the doctrine of
grace.
And they don't know the doctrine of the
immortality of the soul.
You know, I've had more arguments about this
than I would care to remember.
Dr. Eilers had told me this story that
he had told to me once upon a
time when I was just alive.
He said, you know, I had just turned
the car into this marketplace.
I saw a tent, a big tent, a
tent.
Oh, there was a banner on the top
and it said, $10,000 will be paid
to the man who can prove from the
Bible that man has an immortal soul.
He laughed and said, this is money for
fun.
And being a poor man, it's costly to
use it.
So he walked into the tent and looked
around.
Poor little man with a bow tie on.
He says, oh, you're the man that's been
in the wanderings.
He says, have you come to tell me?
He says, I have, yes, come to tell
me.
And the little man got his Bible and
said to Eilers, I have, here's this Bible.
All you need to do is read it.
It says, if you can find the word
immortal soul in that book, I'll give you
the money.
The old doctor took a gentleman to argue
against the thing like that.
He said, well, the word's immortal soul and
not in the Bible.
The little man said, do you believe that
you have an immortal soul?
Eilers said, I believe that, I can prove
that.
He said, you must be afraid to believe
something that's not in the Bible.
Dr. Einstein said, you think I'm just a
mortal soul.
At the moment that I die, that's all
there is about me.
That's what the Jehovah's Witnesses believed.
He said, look, I believe you're just a
mortal soul.
Einstein said, here's your Bible back, and the
thing is the word's mortal soul in that.
Einstein struggled with one argument.
He said, Einstein was a clever fellow.
A clever fellow says, they're not there.
Ah, he says, we must be too prudent.
Disgraceful.
He said, well, whether you give me the
money or not, I shall turn them to
the best, and here's the best, and we'll
not take the time.
The Lord Jesus said to his disciples, fear
not them, because I'm not going to kill
the body, but kill it, kill it, kill
it.
And he went on turning it up to
a band of Jehovah's Witnesses, arguing that there's
no such thing as soul.
Turned it up.
I said to my disciples, they'll kill this
body, but they'll kill it, kill it, kill
it.
The Lord Jesus differentiated between body and soul,
was he not?
And I can see one of them delving
into a big bag, and put a Greek
New Testament in it, and one of them
nods over and says, is it there?
He says, it's there all right.
I said, what are you going to do
about it?
The Lord Jesus differentiated between body and soul,
and you say there's no difference.
He said, fear not them, which are able
to kill the body, but cannot kill the
soul.
You know the difference?
What kind of prophet of man would be
good in the whole world and age?
His uncle.
They don't know the doctrine of the immortal
soul.
And you know, they're only telling lies about
the Trinity, because they don't know the doctrine
of the Holy Trinity.
I do a little bit of doctrine sometimes.
You know, little girl, children of God, not
very long ago, and I think that she
knew who I was.
I'm not sure about that.
I just was suspicious of her.
And I think that she knew who I
was.
And I said to her, hello.
Who do you belong to?
And she said, well, sorry, you know, I
belong to the 144th house.
But I didn't go into that with her.
I've been through that again and again and
again.
But I didn't go into it with her.
I just let her go on with that
thing.
And then she said, go on.
You believe that there's a Trinity.
Now, this was so top steam, that she
had all packed and so, and this is
what she was going to start a new
way.
She said, you believe there's a Trinity.
I said, yes, I believe that there is
one God and there are three persons, Father,
Son and Holy Spirit.
She said, you know, this is madness all
together.
There is just one God and there are
no persons.
It's wonderful.
So this is what I did with her.
I turned her to 2nd John, 1st, 2nd
and 3rd John.
You know about that.
There's 1st John and then there's 2nd John
and 3rd John and 2nd and 3rd John
and this short epistle.
And I said, dear, have a look at
this in 2nd John.
And this is what was taught to her
in verse 9.
He who has transgressed and died not in
the doctrine of Christ.
Now, I'd like you to take what that
says, the doctrine of Christ.
Because it's all about His birth and His
life and His death and His resurrection.
That's the teaching of Christ, the doctrine of
Christ.
He who has transgressed and died not in
the doctrine of Christ has not God.
He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ
he hath God, the Father and the Son.
I said, would you like to tell me
what the word God means, dear?
Now, she'd never been along this pathway before.
She was completely stuck.
I said, you know, when I went to
school and I didn't go many days and
I didn't prosper very well at school but
I didn't know what both meant.
The both, do you know?
She was afraid to answer.
Oh, the both, the Father and the Son.
You know this, don't you?
That when the Lord who was at the
gates of God is the day He was
baptized by a damn angel, don't you?
You remember it?
As He came up out of the water
and there He is on the bank, dripping
wet because He was baptized by a merchant
by John of Arctus in the river Jordan.
And He's coming up out of the water,
He's standing on the bank.
And by Jove!
So Heaven said, the Heavens opened.
What a mighty truth.
The Heavens opened and a voice from Heaven
said This is my beloved Son.
So there was somebody on the bank and
there was somebody talking up there and the
one who's talking, I know it's the Father
that's talking because He said, this is my
beloved Son.
And in between the two at that moment
was the giant descendant.
And the King descended like a God.
And there's the Father, and there's the Son,
and there's the Spirit.
And I would like to take a word
on that now.
I'm just fondly allowed for the believers, God
says to me that they need to do
God's work in the name that the Lord
will not cleanse in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit and there's the Trinity.
And Paul often closes these wonderful letters of
his little benedictions talks about the grace that
our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of
God our Father and the fellowship of the
Holy Spirit and there's the Trinity again.
And I don't think he has any trouble.
You know, I'm trying to keep quiet now
but it may not be good, but we'll
do our best.
Then Isaiah came on that wonderful day and
he could see the Lord.
This is what it says.
The Lord high and lifted up.
And the King of angels said to him
bending his faces and crying Holy, Holy, Holy
the Lord of hosts.
And then Isaiah said, I saw the King
in all his glory.
And that's very wonderful to me because I
asked a Jehovah's Witness once who did Isaiah
see?
It's quite simple, he saw the Lord.
Isaiah says, now what do you mean when
you say he saw the Lord?
He says he saw Jehovah and we can
call the glory shining up.
He saw Jehovah.
He said, you know when he comes to
John's gospel when the people rejected the Lord
Jesus it says, this is what Isaiah said
when he saw his glory the Lord Jesus
glorified.
When you come to Acts 20 this is
the very same thing again that's said of
the Holy Spirit.
Ah, this trinity is everywhere in this book.
Isn't he the commodore?
I think that we won't need to fiddle
about with this.
Friends don't let these false teachings upset you.
You know, in the book, the kind of
corpse mix came from the book.
They did this kind of puzzle up.
And when I was coming up as a
youngster, I had the great privilege of having
Dr. Eilerside on one side and James McKendrick
on the other side.
And Dr. Eilerside said to me often the
greatest gospel teacher in the world is James
McKendrick.
And I could hardly differentiate in which one
was the best gospel teacher.
So I had a good learning, but James
McKendrick had this to me.
There are some things you don't understand in
this book.
And I confessed to myself there are some
things I don't understand.
Mind you, I've been 35 years behind this
desk in this class and we haven't done
too many things together.
And I've been preaching for 40 years and
I ought to know something.
He said there are some things you don't
understand.
I said that's right.
He said there are some things you can't
miss understand.
I said that's right.
I can't miss understand him that cometh unto
me I will in no way stutter.
I can't misunderstand come unto me I'll give
it little and a heavy burden and I
will give you rest.
I can't misunderstand the gifts of God's eternal
rest.
He said you know there's a lot of
things you can't misunderstand.
Never let the things you don't understand upset
the things you can't misunderstand.
What a teaching for a young fellow.
What a thing to grasp.
And the things that I don't understand I
will never let them upset the things that
I can't misunderstand.
Dr. Irons I'd read the big colored man
to the Lord one evening at a street
meeting in Minnesota and the next day on
the chair dreamed one of these fellows pulled
the Bible apart and so smart and clever
about it you know he had the whole
church crowded with this colored man standing in
the middle of them.
Dr. Irons I'd wondered how he was getting
on with it because this fellow was really
chatting the Lord about and he got up
behind him and looked at him and he
said what have you to say about it
now?
And he never turned around he said he's
a good talker and he has no beat
but something inside me tells me he's a
liar.
The greatest talker that I've ever seen handle
in meetings like this was Jock Hood and
I did a bit of traveling with him
and learned another side of the business and
on just the green one Sunday morning with
about a thousand people around him in the
street when the fellow interrupted the meeting and
the fellow said you know you're the greatest
this, that and the other and Jock said
open the way there, push them in let's
get them into the middle of this push
them right up, give them a hand there
boy push them right up you know he
hasn't cornered him said you going to argue
with me this morning?
Yes He said you read this book?
He said of course I've read this book
Thank goodness it's for evolution and then as
I read in the group what's on this
book?
He said I've read them all He said
have you read this Jonathan's great three volumes
big six volumes where he explains everything He
said I've read every word He said they're
better than that there's nobody called Jonathan there's
no bits of Jonathan he's a liar you
ought to let him out of England your
man's a liar alright get down to the
simplicity of the word don't forget to come
and learn how to overcome that contentment of
mind contentment may be yours continually next week
it's time to sing just two verses one
hundred and forty-one the Lord be with
us with kindness with kindness kindly a daily
hour Lord God damn it all Almighty Victorious
God and we'll sing the first and second
verses only one hundred and forty-one please
Lord God damn it all Almighty Victorious God
and we'll sing the first and second verses
only one hundred and forty-one please Lord
God damn it all Victorious God and we'll
sing the first and second verses Lord God
damn it all Almighty Victorious God and
we'll sing the first and second verses only
one hundred and forty-one please Lord God
damn it all Victorious God and we'll sing
the first and second verses only one hundred
and forty-one please Lord God damn it
all Victorious God and we'll sing the first
and second verses only one hundred and forty
-one please Dear Lord, part out there in
life here and with our blessing and take
us to our homes and festivals through Jesus
Christ our Lord Amen