1 00:00:04,830 --> 00:00:06,770 And we've looked at sage man. 2 00:00:08,490 --> 00:00:14,190 And last week, we put man upon the 3 00:00:14,190 --> 00:00:16,630 operating table of the Bible. 4 00:00:18,310 --> 00:00:23,490 And with the blade of truth, we operated 5 00:00:23,490 --> 00:00:25,730 and we looked at man's conscience. 6 00:00:27,270 --> 00:00:29,410 And I want to thank you for some 7 00:00:29,410 --> 00:00:31,509 of the letters that I received in the 8 00:00:31,509 --> 00:00:32,490 weeks of the past. 9 00:00:32,490 --> 00:00:35,090 It's so kind of you to write. 10 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:41,840 But it's a mighty subject, man's conscience, because 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,420 we found out that this conscience that was 12 00:00:46,420 --> 00:00:50,240 given to Adam, right at the very beginning, 13 00:00:50,820 --> 00:00:55,620 a conscience that was clear then, we found 14 00:00:55,620 --> 00:00:59,040 out that it could become a defiled conscience. 15 00:01:00,940 --> 00:01:03,640 And then we found it could go further 16 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,440 away from God and its usefulness and become 17 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:08,900 a feared conscience. 18 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,460 And then we found that some superstitious people 19 00:01:15,540 --> 00:01:19,000 could be easily annoyed by things that we 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,520 do, and it would become a wounded conscience. 21 00:01:22,620 --> 00:01:26,240 And we went on through looking at this 22 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,720 mighty faculty of conscience. 23 00:01:31,940 --> 00:01:38,000 And I said last week that conscience was 24 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,660 the thought-judging faculty. 25 00:01:41,740 --> 00:01:45,080 All the thoughts that come here, it is 26 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,980 conscience that judges whether they're right or wrong, 27 00:01:49,020 --> 00:01:50,820 in the first instance, of course. 28 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,400 Oh, I know we've got the Word of 29 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,760 God to keep us right, and I know 30 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,700 that the Holy Ghost is within every believer. 31 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,220 But the faculty is there, nevertheless. 32 00:02:06,420 --> 00:02:08,520 And next week we're going to look at 33 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:09,639 man's memory. 34 00:02:11,860 --> 00:02:18,580 And, you know, that's the thought-retaining faculty. 35 00:02:20,020 --> 00:02:22,300 If you have a good memory, it's a 36 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:22,880 great thing. 37 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:26,200 And it's a great thing for preachers, of 38 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,100 course, because you've got to memorize and you've 39 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:33,640 got to remember and retain, and this is 40 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:38,020 the faculty that retains and recalls. 41 00:02:38,780 --> 00:02:42,140 But tonight we're looking at man's understanding. 42 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:47,000 You see, this is another part of this 43 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,440 wonderful mind that God has given to us. 44 00:02:51,620 --> 00:02:54,420 You see, up here we have a brain, 45 00:02:55,220 --> 00:02:59,980 and all the brain specialists know the different 46 00:02:59,980 --> 00:03:04,600 departments of that brain, the different faculties, they 47 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:05,220 call it. 48 00:03:05,220 --> 00:03:08,220 You see, you've got a memory up there. 49 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,780 It may not be as good as mine, 50 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:12,680 but it does all right. 51 00:03:13,980 --> 00:03:16,520 And you've got an imagination up there. 52 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:20,640 It's just imagining things, you know. 53 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,700 And you've got an understanding up there. 54 00:03:25,620 --> 00:03:30,240 That's quite different from memory and imagination and 55 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:30,760 conscience. 56 00:03:32,140 --> 00:03:35,340 And so we're going to look at man's 57 00:03:35,340 --> 00:03:36,980 understanding this evening. 58 00:03:38,340 --> 00:03:42,360 You know, Solomon was the wisest man that 59 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,280 ever lived, apart from Christ. 60 00:03:45,540 --> 00:03:48,180 You remember he asked God to give him 61 00:03:48,180 --> 00:03:48,660 wisdom. 62 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:52,260 Well, let me show you something that he 63 00:03:52,260 --> 00:03:55,720 penned in the book of Proverbs, and we're 64 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,060 at chapter three, please. 65 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,820 The book of Proverbs, chapter three. 66 00:04:13,060 --> 00:04:15,019 And at verse five, this is what he 67 00:04:15,019 --> 00:04:17,880 said, when he's talking to all the people 68 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:18,600 of the Lord. 69 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:23,380 He's saying, Trust in the Lord with all 70 00:04:23,380 --> 00:04:30,230 thine heart, and lean not unto thine own 71 00:04:30,230 --> 00:04:31,250 understanding. 72 00:04:32,790 --> 00:04:34,310 Want you to get that. 73 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,200 You see, when we come to this mighty 74 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:47,660 doctrine of the understanding, man's understanding, it divides 75 00:04:47,660 --> 00:04:50,340 itself into two parts, just the same as 76 00:04:50,340 --> 00:04:53,080 heart will divide itself into two parts. 77 00:04:54,260 --> 00:04:56,880 You see, there's an old nature in here, 78 00:04:57,420 --> 00:05:01,260 and it's deceitful above all things, and it's 79 00:05:01,260 --> 00:05:04,540 desperately wicked, and Paul said, In me that 80 00:05:04,540 --> 00:05:07,440 is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. 81 00:05:08,620 --> 00:05:10,280 Ah, but there was a day when I 82 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:12,120 was born again, and I got a new 83 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:13,320 nature, a new heart. 84 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,640 And when we come to the doctrine of 85 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,300 heart, we've got to see it in two 86 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:24,160 different ways, and it's the same with understanding. 87 00:05:25,580 --> 00:05:29,140 You see, the old man's understanding won't do. 88 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,180 That's the Jacob side of the believer. 89 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,520 You see, Jacob, he climbed his own way 90 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,260 right through all in his own. 91 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,460 He maneuvered with his own understanding how he 92 00:05:45,460 --> 00:05:48,600 would get the birthright, and how he would 93 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,700 get the blessing, and how he would get 94 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:52,400 the beasts. 95 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:54,440 He stole the sheep. 96 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,900 He was leaning on his own understanding. 97 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:04,040 And Solomon is saying, Trust in the Lord 98 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,260 with all thine heart, and lean not unto 99 00:06:07,260 --> 00:06:08,500 thine own understanding. 100 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:11,800 Now, this is why he said that. 101 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,720 Let's go to Ephesians, and we're at chapter 102 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:17,240 four. 103 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:24,080 The letter to the Ephesians, and we're at 104 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,260 the fourth chapter. 105 00:06:33,540 --> 00:06:37,640 And Paul writing to these saints, these born 106 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,860 -again believers at Ephesus, he said this in 107 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:48,100 verse seventy, This I take therefore, and testify 108 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:51,580 in the Lord, that ye henceforth, that's a 109 00:06:51,580 --> 00:06:54,200 great word, isn't it, talking to believers, that 110 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:58,780 ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, 111 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:02,680 in the vanity of their minds, having the 112 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,880 understanding darkened. 113 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:07,820 Well, I want you to get the hold 114 00:07:07,820 --> 00:07:08,280 of that. 115 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,520 Because I don't think that we grasp just 116 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,660 what the fall meant for us. 117 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:21,360 You see, it's true that God made Adam 118 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:21,940 perfect. 119 00:07:23,700 --> 00:07:26,980 And it's true that God created him, that 120 00:07:26,980 --> 00:07:29,260 he came from the hand of God. 121 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:35,580 But it's equally true that when by disobedience 122 00:07:36,620 --> 00:07:40,040 to the will and word of God, that 123 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:40,860 sin entered. 124 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,960 Then a great many things took place that 125 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:47,820 we just don't get all at once. 126 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,720 You see, he spiritually died at that moment. 127 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,720 And we'll go into that in the night 128 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,640 to come, when we come to spirit. 129 00:08:01,930 --> 00:08:03,750 Oh, but there were a great many other 130 00:08:03,750 --> 00:08:04,910 things took place. 131 00:08:05,370 --> 00:08:09,690 You see, his understanding became darkened. 132 00:08:11,210 --> 00:08:14,370 Oh, that's a bit of a handicap, you 133 00:08:14,370 --> 00:08:14,650 see. 134 00:08:16,230 --> 00:08:19,430 You see, when you're not saved, your understanding 135 00:08:19,430 --> 00:08:23,030 is darkened, and then the devil comes along 136 00:08:23,030 --> 00:08:27,670 to blind you even more, that you're in 137 00:08:27,670 --> 00:08:28,250 the dark. 138 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:34,059 And that's the reason that we should never 139 00:08:34,059 --> 00:08:36,299 lean on our own understanding. 140 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,200 Oh, no, you need to be born again, 141 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:40,640 you know. 142 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:45,100 Let's go to Ephesians chapter 1, so you 143 00:08:45,100 --> 00:08:45,980 see the difference. 144 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:57,360 Ephesians 1, and verse 15, Paul's talking to 145 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:01,160 these believers, Wherefore I also, after I heard 146 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,320 of your faith in the Lord Jesus, It's 147 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,240 great to hear of people's faith in the 148 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,340 Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints. 149 00:09:10,940 --> 00:09:13,480 You know, when a fellow truly believes, he 150 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,100 begins to love the saints. 151 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,800 You see, six months ago, before some of 152 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,720 you got saved, you wouldn't come here, because 153 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,160 you weren't saved, you know. 154 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,060 Once you've got faith in the Lord Jesus, 155 00:09:28,020 --> 00:09:31,380 and you're looking for help, and looking for 156 00:09:31,380 --> 00:09:34,640 food, then you come along, and we're glad 157 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:35,340 to see you. 158 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,200 He says, Wherefore I also, after I heard 159 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:40,980 of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and 160 00:09:40,980 --> 00:09:44,840 love unto all the saints, cease not to 161 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:46,500 give thanks for you. 162 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:50,000 Thank God for every one of you. 163 00:09:51,020 --> 00:09:54,580 If you got saved at workman's mission, or 164 00:09:54,580 --> 00:09:58,420 you got saved in the free Presbyterians, or 165 00:09:58,420 --> 00:10:00,700 you got saved in the Methodists, no matter 166 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:04,400 where you got saved, we just thank God 167 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:05,560 for you getting saved. 168 00:10:05,780 --> 00:10:06,440 Why wouldn't we? 169 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:09,420 Oh yes, it's wonderful. 170 00:10:11,220 --> 00:10:14,480 Oh, Dr. Chalmers was asked this question once. 171 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,920 He also said, Would you preach for six 172 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,240 weeks every night, doctor, Sunday and Saturday, and 173 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,460 every night in between? 174 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:27,200 And at the end of six weeks preaching, 175 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,800 if only a little boy of twelve was 176 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,100 saved, would you do it? 177 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,340 He said, Certainly I would do it, should 178 00:10:35,340 --> 00:10:37,100 it might be my little boy. 179 00:10:39,050 --> 00:10:40,110 That makes a difference. 180 00:10:41,610 --> 00:10:43,650 It doesn't make a matter of where you 181 00:10:43,650 --> 00:10:45,730 got saved, so long as you got saved, 182 00:10:45,850 --> 00:10:46,910 we pray the Lord. 183 00:10:48,510 --> 00:10:50,190 Yes, and we pray for you. 184 00:10:50,730 --> 00:10:53,470 Maybe we don't get credit about praying for 185 00:10:53,470 --> 00:10:53,710 you. 186 00:10:54,730 --> 00:10:57,150 He says, Wherefore I also, after I heard 187 00:10:57,150 --> 00:10:59,610 of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and 188 00:10:59,610 --> 00:11:03,010 love unto all the saints, cease not to 189 00:11:03,010 --> 00:11:05,530 give thanks for you, making mention of you 190 00:11:05,530 --> 00:11:08,570 in my prayers, that the God of our 191 00:11:08,570 --> 00:11:12,730 Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may 192 00:11:12,730 --> 00:11:17,010 give unto you the spirit of wisdom, and 193 00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:19,970 revelation in the knowledge of him, that the 194 00:11:19,970 --> 00:11:24,000 eyes of your understanding, being enlightened. 195 00:11:24,730 --> 00:11:25,450 Now that's different. 196 00:11:26,610 --> 00:11:27,470 Did you get that? 197 00:11:27,470 --> 00:11:29,650 Because if I used that phrase on my 198 00:11:29,650 --> 00:11:31,490 own, and I started to talk about the 199 00:11:31,490 --> 00:11:33,910 eyes of your understanding, somebody would say he's 200 00:11:33,910 --> 00:11:34,670 gone off the rock. 201 00:11:36,310 --> 00:11:37,730 No, not a bit of it. 202 00:11:37,770 --> 00:11:40,010 This is a figure of speech and you're 203 00:11:40,010 --> 00:11:40,390 alone. 204 00:11:41,070 --> 00:11:45,370 You see, when Adam fell, this old understanding 205 00:11:45,370 --> 00:11:46,530 was darkened. 206 00:11:47,090 --> 00:11:50,150 And the devil comes along to blind the 207 00:11:50,150 --> 00:11:52,130 minds of them that believe not. 208 00:11:52,350 --> 00:11:54,430 He's determined to keep us in the dark. 209 00:11:55,450 --> 00:11:58,430 But then one day the light shone in. 210 00:11:59,610 --> 00:12:02,590 And God, who commanded the light to shine 211 00:12:02,590 --> 00:12:06,250 out of darkness away at the beginning, it 212 00:12:06,250 --> 00:12:08,650 was God that shone into our hearts. 213 00:12:09,430 --> 00:12:11,030 And that day we got saved. 214 00:12:12,450 --> 00:12:17,570 Now, you see, when you get saved, God 215 00:12:17,570 --> 00:12:19,810 enlightens your understanding. 216 00:12:20,950 --> 00:12:23,090 You're a new creature, you see. 217 00:12:23,090 --> 00:12:26,130 You see, it's perfectly true that there's an 218 00:12:26,130 --> 00:12:31,090 old nature there, and it's darkened. 219 00:12:31,830 --> 00:12:34,590 Or that it's perfectly true there's a new 220 00:12:34,590 --> 00:12:39,190 nature there, and that the eyes of the 221 00:12:39,190 --> 00:12:41,850 understanding of the new man is enlightened. 222 00:12:42,990 --> 00:12:44,870 Where do you think I'd ever find the 223 00:12:44,870 --> 00:12:46,750 things in this book without that happening? 224 00:12:48,930 --> 00:12:51,480 So, I think you can see that the 225 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,260 doctrine divides itself into two, doesn't it? 226 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,280 There's a natural understanding and there's a spiritual 227 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:00,100 understanding. 228 00:13:01,540 --> 00:13:03,400 I think we'll get this better if we 229 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:08,500 come to 1 Corinthians, and we're at the 230 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:09,400 second chapter. 231 00:13:10,860 --> 00:13:14,680 1 Corinthians, chapter two. 232 00:13:19,450 --> 00:13:22,430 Well, I think we're at the portion now 233 00:13:22,430 --> 00:13:25,590 that every one of us, we need to 234 00:13:25,590 --> 00:13:26,890 learn this early. 235 00:13:27,850 --> 00:13:30,110 Want all you young preachers to learn. 236 00:13:30,730 --> 00:13:33,430 Want all the Sunday school teachers to learn. 237 00:13:33,930 --> 00:13:36,330 Want all the believers to learn this. 238 00:13:37,890 --> 00:13:40,170 We're at 1 Corinthians, chapter two. 239 00:13:40,290 --> 00:13:42,150 We're at verse nine, just for the sake 240 00:13:42,150 --> 00:13:42,710 of time. 241 00:13:43,790 --> 00:13:48,830 But as it is written, I have not 242 00:13:48,830 --> 00:13:52,750 seen nor heard, neither have entered into the 243 00:13:52,750 --> 00:13:54,970 heart of man, the things which God hath 244 00:13:54,970 --> 00:13:56,650 prepared for them that love him. 245 00:13:57,950 --> 00:14:00,510 And you see, I'm perfectly sure that the 246 00:14:00,510 --> 00:14:03,790 phrase, neither have entered into the heart of 247 00:14:03,790 --> 00:14:07,310 man, should be, neither have entered into the 248 00:14:07,310 --> 00:14:11,230 heart of the natural man, the old man. 249 00:14:12,610 --> 00:14:14,590 Are you of a perfect light to say 250 00:14:14,590 --> 00:14:15,850 to me, how do you know that? 251 00:14:16,370 --> 00:14:17,830 I'll tell you how I know that. 252 00:14:18,650 --> 00:14:20,410 I'll read it over for you again and 253 00:14:20,410 --> 00:14:21,250 you'll find it. 254 00:14:22,690 --> 00:14:24,670 But as it is written, I have not 255 00:14:24,670 --> 00:14:27,290 seen nor heard, neither have entered into the 256 00:14:27,290 --> 00:14:31,230 heart of natural man, the things which God 257 00:14:31,230 --> 00:14:33,570 hath prepared for them that love him. 258 00:14:34,110 --> 00:14:37,070 But God hath revealed them unto us. 259 00:14:37,750 --> 00:14:38,610 Did you get the us? 260 00:14:39,410 --> 00:14:42,050 Because if God is revealing them unto us, 261 00:14:42,110 --> 00:14:43,390 then we know about them. 262 00:14:44,050 --> 00:14:45,830 Or that there are folks who never know 263 00:14:45,830 --> 00:14:47,010 about them. 264 00:14:47,830 --> 00:14:49,270 Yeah, they don't see them. 265 00:14:50,250 --> 00:14:51,910 Their eyes have not seen. 266 00:14:52,770 --> 00:14:54,750 Their ears have never heard. 267 00:14:55,490 --> 00:14:58,430 It has never entered into the heart of 268 00:14:58,430 --> 00:15:02,870 the natural man whose understanding has darkened. 269 00:15:03,390 --> 00:15:05,570 Oh, but the day we were saved, we 270 00:15:05,570 --> 00:15:09,950 were born again, and God hath revealed these 271 00:15:09,950 --> 00:15:11,030 things unto us. 272 00:15:12,230 --> 00:15:14,510 Now, do you see it coming out clear? 273 00:15:15,730 --> 00:15:19,550 He says down the chapter, verse 13, which 274 00:15:19,550 --> 00:15:24,650 things also we speak, not in the words 275 00:15:24,650 --> 00:15:28,410 which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy 276 00:15:28,410 --> 00:15:33,390 Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual, but 277 00:15:33,390 --> 00:15:36,070 the natural man, that's the word in its 278 00:15:36,070 --> 00:15:39,550 proper place, no, but the natural man receiveth 279 00:15:39,550 --> 00:15:42,290 not the things of the Spirit of God, 280 00:15:42,390 --> 00:15:44,190 for they are foolishness unto him. 281 00:15:44,750 --> 00:15:46,050 Now, will you get this a little bit? 282 00:15:46,210 --> 00:15:47,850 Neither can he know them. 283 00:15:49,210 --> 00:15:50,650 He can't understand them. 284 00:15:52,770 --> 00:15:54,830 You see, I go to the Queen's University 285 00:15:54,830 --> 00:15:58,010 twice a week, and I talk with all 286 00:15:58,010 --> 00:16:01,430 the professors, and I talk with the doctors 287 00:16:01,430 --> 00:16:02,670 who lecture there. 288 00:16:03,670 --> 00:16:07,890 And I'd be amused, you know, absolutely amused 289 00:16:08,690 --> 00:16:10,950 at the ignorance of these men. 290 00:16:15,060 --> 00:16:16,800 If you see, these men are in the 291 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:17,240 dark. 292 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,620 They're just natural men. 293 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,680 And let's make this quite clear, it doesn't 294 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,260 matter about your degrees. 295 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,120 You can have all the degrees in the 296 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,780 world, but if you're still a natural man, 297 00:16:32,780 --> 00:16:36,540 I'll tell you this, the things of God 298 00:16:36,540 --> 00:16:38,380 would be foolishness unto you. 299 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,200 Yes, and you can't know them. 300 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,060 You need to be born again to know 301 00:16:45,060 --> 00:16:45,520 things. 302 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,240 We could make somebody stand up in the 303 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,920 sleeping room in a couple of weeks saying, 304 00:16:51,460 --> 00:16:53,120 oh, but you know, they're beginning to know 305 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:53,820 things now. 306 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,220 The whole thing's changed, you know. 307 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,300 They never knew these things. 308 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:01,700 Oh, but they know them now. 309 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,319 The lady that was singing here on Sunday 310 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:08,500 evening, she sang that old hymn, If I 311 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:11,760 am dreaming, let me dream on. 312 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:14,579 And I remember, you see, it was old 313 00:17:14,579 --> 00:17:18,280 Gypsy Smith who wrote that, and I remember 314 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:18,760 that. 315 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,160 And he wrote it, one day he entered 316 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,859 into a railway carriage, he stopped out, and 317 00:17:25,859 --> 00:17:27,260 there was a man in front of him, 318 00:17:27,260 --> 00:17:29,880 and the old gypsy, you know, was always 319 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,200 on the go for God. 320 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:34,600 Yes, he was just ready to talk to 321 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:35,820 everybody he came to. 322 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,520 And he was quite a clever fellow, Gypsy 323 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:40,860 Smith. 324 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,860 I'll tell you a story in between this, 325 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,320 and I'll get back to the other one. 326 00:17:46,820 --> 00:17:50,500 He was leading a donkey from the gypsy 327 00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:53,260 camp one evening, and the whole lot of 328 00:17:53,260 --> 00:17:55,620 fellows outside the university, you know, all said, 329 00:17:55,740 --> 00:17:57,040 oh, look at this fellow coming with the 330 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:58,940 donkey, and thought they'd take a hand out 331 00:17:58,940 --> 00:17:59,240 of him. 332 00:17:59,780 --> 00:18:03,420 And one big fellow said, how much would 333 00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:04,420 you like for the donkey? 334 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,680 And the old gypsy said, why would your 335 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:09,100 mother be able to keep two? 336 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,700 Well, you know, you, he was quite a 337 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:21,380 clever fellow. 338 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:24,520 He was a gypsy, all right, but he 339 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:25,220 was all there. 340 00:18:28,020 --> 00:18:30,200 But when he got into the train that 341 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:32,040 day, there was a gentleman on the other 342 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,900 side of the carriage, and he said, you 343 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:36,460 know, I'd like to tell you how I 344 00:18:36,460 --> 00:18:37,040 got saved. 345 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,800 He started to tell this fellow how he 346 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,560 got saved, and everything about it. 347 00:18:42,660 --> 00:18:44,980 And at last the fellow got outraged and 348 00:18:44,980 --> 00:18:47,040 said to him, you're dreaming. 349 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,940 And the old gypsy started to write then, 350 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:53,060 and he wrote one of the most beautiful 351 00:18:53,060 --> 00:18:57,920 hymns we have, If I am dreaming, let 352 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:58,860 me dream on. 353 00:18:59,820 --> 00:19:01,320 My sins are gone. 354 00:19:03,230 --> 00:19:05,370 And he went on with that wonderful hymn. 355 00:19:05,530 --> 00:19:08,850 You see, there are men in this world, 356 00:19:09,630 --> 00:19:12,810 and they've got honors at Queens, and they've 357 00:19:12,810 --> 00:19:15,230 got honors at different universities. 358 00:19:15,870 --> 00:19:18,950 Sure, I see some of the Highlander boys, 359 00:19:19,610 --> 00:19:21,470 and I see some of the Japanese. 360 00:19:22,210 --> 00:19:24,850 And you know, they can do the job. 361 00:19:24,850 --> 00:19:28,090 They're here in chemistry, and they're here in 362 00:19:28,090 --> 00:19:29,110 the medical field. 363 00:19:29,530 --> 00:19:31,350 And you know, they work so hard that 364 00:19:31,350 --> 00:19:32,550 they come out with honors. 365 00:19:33,430 --> 00:19:35,770 And they get honors at Queens, but they 366 00:19:35,770 --> 00:19:39,950 go back home and kneel down before stones 367 00:19:39,950 --> 00:19:41,950 to worship idols. 368 00:19:43,010 --> 00:19:46,650 Doesn't make them spiritually inferior, you know. 369 00:19:48,190 --> 00:19:50,910 If you're a smart aleck in this meeting, 370 00:19:51,210 --> 00:19:53,270 and you're not saved, let me tell you, 371 00:19:53,270 --> 00:19:55,970 you know nothing about the things of God. 372 00:19:58,860 --> 00:20:00,280 You're a darkened soul. 373 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,260 And until you're born again, you'll never understand 374 00:20:05,260 --> 00:20:06,500 what we're talking about. 375 00:20:07,260 --> 00:20:09,520 Let me show you this bit again. 376 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,360 Watch it very carefully now. 377 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:19,660 Verse 14, But the natural man receiveth not 378 00:20:19,660 --> 00:20:23,200 the things of the Spirit of God, for 379 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,040 they are foolishness unto him. 380 00:20:26,140 --> 00:20:28,280 Try to tell them about the man on 381 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:28,840 the cross. 382 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,260 I was talking to a doctor at Queens 383 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:34,720 the other day about the sacrifice of the 384 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:34,960 cross. 385 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,980 He said, I can't understand this. 386 00:20:39,180 --> 00:20:40,980 I don't understand this at all. 387 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,440 Why should a man have to go and 388 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,160 get his wife? 389 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:44,500 Why? 390 00:20:46,820 --> 00:20:48,900 I said, do you believe there's a God? 391 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:50,880 I don't believe there's a God. 392 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,520 What kind of a God do you think 393 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:53,960 he is? 394 00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:57,940 Is he a holy God or a non 395 00:20:57,940 --> 00:20:58,760 -holy God? 396 00:21:01,050 --> 00:21:02,490 He says he's a holy God. 397 00:21:04,630 --> 00:21:06,870 So let me get to the end of 398 00:21:06,870 --> 00:21:07,090 it. 399 00:21:09,060 --> 00:21:11,600 You can't have a God who steals, can 400 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:11,840 you? 401 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,180 You can't have a God who covets, can 402 00:21:15,180 --> 00:21:15,460 you? 403 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,060 You can't have a God who murders, can 404 00:21:18,060 --> 00:21:18,360 you? 405 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,400 Do you want them to love thieves? 406 00:21:22,420 --> 00:21:25,640 Let them not be a sacrifice for their 407 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:26,180 sins. 408 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,020 They couldn't make the sacrifice. 409 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,660 For he so loved that he gave his 410 00:21:33,660 --> 00:21:34,020 son. 411 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:36,340 There he is now. 412 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,440 I don't know whether it's in his head 413 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:39,180 or not. 414 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,500 You see, I just happen to know that 415 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:47,120 he doesn't know and the preaching of the 416 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:52,320 cross is foolishness unto them that are perishing. 417 00:21:53,420 --> 00:21:55,540 Sure, I know that all the time. 418 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,960 That's why I did such tricks in the 419 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,680 meeting to get Congress. 420 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:04,140 Sure, God's not working. 421 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:05,420 They'll never get paid. 422 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:09,100 Take God to put the light in. 423 00:22:10,220 --> 00:22:11,740 Don't go pushing them now. 424 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,600 Just pray to God and preach the truth. 425 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:16,940 But you can see this. 426 00:22:16,940 --> 00:22:20,680 The natural man receives not the things of 427 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,220 God for they are foolishness unto him. 428 00:22:23,860 --> 00:22:26,620 Neither can he know them. 429 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,740 He cannot understand them. 430 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,940 Because his understanding is darkened. 431 00:22:33,980 --> 00:22:34,900 Can't you see that? 432 00:22:35,860 --> 00:22:37,840 You know, our Lord Jesus said to the 433 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,080 men of this day, you can discern the 434 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:42,240 face of the sky. 435 00:22:43,020 --> 00:22:44,580 Oh, they can do it in this day 436 00:22:44,580 --> 00:22:44,960 too. 437 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,320 They tell you all about what's coming to 438 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,340 pass for the next day in the weather 439 00:22:50,340 --> 00:22:51,320 and all the rest. 440 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,360 And the old folks bless and say red 441 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:56,680 at night is the fear of the light. 442 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,500 Red in the morning is the fear of 443 00:22:59,500 --> 00:22:59,880 the morning. 444 00:23:00,020 --> 00:23:01,620 And they're really always right, you know. 445 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:04,040 And they can discern the face of the 446 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,300 sky but they can't discern the time they're 447 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:06,860 living in. 448 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,700 They don't know how near they are to 449 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:10,680 eternity, you know. 450 00:23:11,860 --> 00:23:13,320 But they know about tomorrow's weather. 451 00:23:15,750 --> 00:23:17,370 Understanding is darkened. 452 00:23:18,890 --> 00:23:19,410 Yes. 453 00:23:20,410 --> 00:23:22,350 Now, I want you to get the hold 454 00:23:22,350 --> 00:23:22,890 of this. 455 00:23:24,490 --> 00:23:26,770 There is a spiritual understanding. 456 00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:30,620 See where we are the way down in 457 00:23:30,620 --> 00:23:31,080 the notes. 458 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:34,460 Now, I want you to get this bit. 459 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,000 There is an evangelical understanding. 460 00:23:38,820 --> 00:23:41,340 Can I just quote this to save time? 461 00:23:42,980 --> 00:23:44,640 Paul says, I know. 462 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:46,640 I know. 463 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,900 It's the old Greek word for understanding. 464 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:56,500 He says, I know whom I have believed. 465 00:23:57,900 --> 00:24:00,800 And I'm persuaded that he is able to 466 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,380 keep that which I've committed unto him against 467 00:24:03,380 --> 00:24:03,780 that day. 468 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:06,000 You know, if I were to make everybody 469 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,500 stand up who knows this? 470 00:24:08,260 --> 00:24:10,160 Oh, what a flock we would have initially. 471 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:12,580 There's a whole lot of us. 472 00:24:12,580 --> 00:24:17,040 And we never passed the 11 plus. 473 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,640 And we never did very much at school. 474 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,840 And we're nobodies at all. 475 00:24:22,260 --> 00:24:24,100 And there are folks with us who are 476 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:24,600 architects. 477 00:24:25,060 --> 00:24:27,980 And there are folks here who have progressed 478 00:24:27,980 --> 00:24:28,940 in business. 479 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:30,600 And they're smart businessmen. 480 00:24:30,860 --> 00:24:32,580 But we would all have to stand up 481 00:24:32,580 --> 00:24:33,440 together, you know. 482 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,300 Because we've got this understanding tonight. 483 00:24:37,660 --> 00:24:38,520 We know. 484 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:42,920 We know that we are not redeemed with 485 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,300 corruptible things such as silver or gold. 486 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,300 We know we're redeemed by the blood of 487 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:47,680 the Lamb. 488 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,640 You see, I can go on with this 489 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,120 for ever so long. 490 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,020 Because we know that Christ is coming. 491 00:24:55,220 --> 00:24:57,300 And we know that when he shall appear, 492 00:24:58,740 --> 00:25:00,260 we shall be like him. 493 00:25:01,180 --> 00:25:03,280 That's the spiritual understanding. 494 00:25:04,580 --> 00:25:07,920 Now, there's a devotional understanding, too, and it 495 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,120 comes into us. 496 00:25:09,660 --> 00:25:12,580 Let's go way back to Luke's Gospel, chapter 497 00:25:12,580 --> 00:25:13,940 24, please. 498 00:25:15,740 --> 00:25:16,800 Luke's Gospel. 499 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,560 And we're at the 24th chapter. 500 00:25:24,980 --> 00:25:28,260 And you remember he walked the Emmaus Road 501 00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:29,340 with them that day. 502 00:25:31,020 --> 00:25:32,680 What a thrill it is if you go 503 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,360 to Palestine and you walk that old Emmaus 504 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:37,700 Road. 505 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:40,440 I walked every yard of it once upon 506 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:40,940 a time. 507 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:44,780 And the thoughts that come to your heart 508 00:25:44,780 --> 00:25:47,400 of how Christ walked with them and how 509 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:52,180 he began at Moses and all the prophets 510 00:25:52,180 --> 00:25:55,420 and expounded onto them in all the Scriptures 511 00:25:55,420 --> 00:25:57,000 the things concerning himself. 512 00:25:57,140 --> 00:25:58,440 And what a day it must have been. 513 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,440 And he revealed himself to the Jews that 514 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,820 evening down at the table in the little 515 00:26:06,820 --> 00:26:08,860 cottage in Emmaus. 516 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,140 And in faith of these two, verse 33, 517 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:15,800 and they rose up the same hour and 518 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,120 returned to Jerusalem. 519 00:26:18,540 --> 00:26:20,500 You know, that was quite some doing because 520 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:22,200 it's a long way, it's eight miles. 521 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:25,500 And when you walk for eight miles in 522 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:30,080 the burning sun, you know, you get tired. 523 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,660 But these folks were so thrilled with Christ 524 00:26:33,660 --> 00:26:37,700 that they're going back to Jerusalem and found 525 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:41,260 the eleven gathered together, Judas was gone, of 526 00:26:41,260 --> 00:26:44,180 course, and them that were with them, saying, 527 00:26:44,580 --> 00:26:48,100 the Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared 528 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:48,660 to Simon. 529 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,640 Somewhere that day, the Lord Jesus appeared to 530 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:52,960 Simon. 531 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:58,060 You remember how Peter had denied him, how 532 00:26:58,060 --> 00:27:01,560 he had said, I don't know him, how 533 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,640 he had denied him with oaths and curses. 534 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,580 And then when the Lord turned and looked, 535 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,420 he went out and wept bitterly. 536 00:27:08,740 --> 00:27:10,840 And I think he was alone for the 537 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:11,620 two days. 538 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,560 And then when the Lord rose on the 539 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,940 third day, you know, he went round to 540 00:27:16,940 --> 00:27:17,580 find Peter. 541 00:27:18,660 --> 00:27:22,780 I've always thought of seeing Peter way out 542 00:27:22,780 --> 00:27:24,760 on the mountain there, maybe the Mount of 543 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,000 Olives, sitting alone. 544 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,040 And he was crying. 545 00:27:28,660 --> 00:27:32,420 He had blasted everything, yet he loved the 546 00:27:32,420 --> 00:27:32,660 Lord. 547 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,100 He had blundered badly. 548 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:37,140 And then somebody sat down beside him and 549 00:27:37,140 --> 00:27:39,140 put their arm round him and squeezed him. 550 00:27:40,420 --> 00:27:41,660 And it was the Lord. 551 00:27:42,260 --> 00:27:43,420 He'd come for Peter. 552 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,160 Very wonderful, you know. 553 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,120 And here's the story now. 554 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,560 The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared 555 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:50,060 to Simon. 556 00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:52,560 And they told what things were done in 557 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,600 the way and how he was made known 558 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:55,040 of them. 559 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,640 They came in with their story. 560 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:58,560 You know, when he was at the table, 561 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,560 just the way he bricked the bread, we 562 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:01,420 knew it was him. 563 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,040 And as they thus did, Jesus himself stood 564 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,140 in the midst of them. 565 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:08,300 Here he is. 566 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,900 And said unto them, Peace be unto you. 567 00:28:14,140 --> 00:28:17,260 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed 568 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:18,540 they had seen the Spirit. 569 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:20,880 He scared them. 570 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,120 And he said unto them, Why are you 571 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:23,560 troubled? 572 00:28:24,180 --> 00:28:26,640 Why do thoughts arise in your hearts? 573 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,020 Behold my hands and my feet, that it 574 00:28:30,020 --> 00:28:31,060 is I myself. 575 00:28:31,220 --> 00:28:34,300 Humble me and feel, for the Spirit hath 576 00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:37,400 not flesh and bones, as you see me 577 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:37,680 have. 578 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,800 And when he had thus spoken, he showed 579 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,920 them his hands and his feet. 580 00:28:43,540 --> 00:28:46,340 And while they yet believed not, for joy 581 00:28:46,340 --> 00:28:48,840 and wonder, he said unto them, Have you 582 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:49,620 here any meat? 583 00:28:49,620 --> 00:28:51,520 And they gave him a piece of a 584 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,100 broiled fish, and often honeycomb. 585 00:28:54,620 --> 00:28:56,640 And he took it and ate before them. 586 00:28:57,220 --> 00:28:59,780 And he said unto them, These are the 587 00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:02,180 words which I speak unto you while I 588 00:29:02,180 --> 00:29:05,240 was yet with you, that all things must 589 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,660 be fulfilled, which were written in the law 590 00:29:08,660 --> 00:29:12,760 of Moses, and in the prophets, and in 591 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,720 the Psalms concerning me. 592 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,480 Then opened he their understanding. 593 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,200 Oh, yeah, that's wonderful, isn't it? 594 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,280 Because, you know, he began to open up 595 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,420 the first five books of the Bible. 596 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,880 It's called Moses. 597 00:29:30,740 --> 00:29:33,220 And then he's opening all the prophets. 598 00:29:34,020 --> 00:29:36,340 And then he's opening all the Psalms. 599 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,540 Oh, you know, this thrills me. 600 00:29:39,620 --> 00:29:45,080 Because these pictures and prophecies and wonderful statements 601 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,620 in the Psalms, they belong to my Lord. 602 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:49,900 He's real. 603 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,240 The one who died and rose again, He's 604 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:54,860 real. 605 00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:58,420 My friends, this evening, let's get this thrills 606 00:29:58,420 --> 00:29:59,840 me to my very toes. 607 00:30:01,420 --> 00:30:03,220 He's alive and He's real. 608 00:30:04,740 --> 00:30:06,040 And what's more, He's mine. 609 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,340 And what's more, He can open this old 610 00:30:10,340 --> 00:30:11,180 understanding. 611 00:30:12,580 --> 00:30:14,780 Sure, He has helped me for years. 612 00:30:15,660 --> 00:30:18,980 Everything I have, and everything I am, and 613 00:30:18,980 --> 00:30:22,320 everything I ever hoped to be, I owe 614 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,240 everything to Him. 615 00:30:24,980 --> 00:30:27,080 Yes, He just opened the understanding. 616 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:29,780 And I see things in the Psalms, and 617 00:30:29,780 --> 00:30:33,000 I see things in the prophets, and I 618 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,460 see things in Moses. 619 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:38,220 It's the Lord, isn't it? 620 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,220 You know, that's a devotional understanding. 621 00:30:42,780 --> 00:30:47,780 Now, let's go way back to 1 Chronicles, 622 00:30:47,940 --> 00:30:49,000 chapter 12. 623 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:53,000 First book of Chronicles. 624 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,560 Just take your time now and find it. 625 00:30:58,620 --> 00:31:01,500 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 626 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,900 and then 1 and 2 Chronicles, and we're 627 00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:09,020 at 1 Chronicles, and we're at chapter 12. 628 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,140 It's a mighty chapter, because it's here that 629 00:31:14,140 --> 00:31:16,920 you find David, the way out in the 630 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:17,320 wilderness. 631 00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:20,500 And it tells you all the people that 632 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:23,020 came to stand beside him when he was 633 00:31:23,020 --> 00:31:25,060 despised and rejected of men. 634 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,000 And it gives all the names, and we 635 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,580 don't want to go into the names. 636 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,340 Verse 1 says, Now these are they that 637 00:31:34,340 --> 00:31:37,980 came to David to take Glad, while he 638 00:31:37,980 --> 00:31:42,080 yet kept himself close because of Saul the 639 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:42,820 son of Kish. 640 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:45,680 You see, Saul was hunting for him every 641 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:46,160 day. 642 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,060 He had six hundred warriors at his heels. 643 00:31:50,860 --> 00:31:53,160 He wanted to take David's life, and this 644 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,400 book says he hunted David on the mountains 645 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,620 like a partridge. 646 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,560 But although David was outside the camp, there 647 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,260 was a lot of people who was willing 648 00:32:05,260 --> 00:32:07,600 to bear his reproach, and they were standing 649 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:08,260 with him. 650 00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:10,900 And then it tells you all the folks 651 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,240 that came and the tribes they came from. 652 00:32:14,460 --> 00:32:17,160 And way down at verse 32 it says, 653 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,520 And of the children of Ithaca, there came 654 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,220 a lot of people from Ithaca, which were 655 00:32:25,220 --> 00:32:29,340 men that had understanding of the times to 656 00:32:29,340 --> 00:32:30,820 know what Israel ought to do. 657 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,760 That's a mighty thing, you see. 658 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,900 That's a dispensational understanding. 659 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,700 I'm afraid this is what's lacking in our 660 00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:41,380 land today. 661 00:32:44,110 --> 00:32:46,050 You know, it's a great thing to be 662 00:32:46,050 --> 00:32:49,870 saved, and it's a great thing to get 663 00:32:49,870 --> 00:32:54,830 an enlightened understanding, and it's a great thing 664 00:32:54,830 --> 00:32:59,030 to have an evangelical understanding, just to know 665 00:32:59,030 --> 00:33:01,790 that, well as I was blind, now I 666 00:33:01,790 --> 00:33:03,470 see, just to be sure of that. 667 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,420 And it's a great thing to have this 668 00:33:07,420 --> 00:33:10,300 dispensational, where you feel that when you read 669 00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:12,160 and look into the book, that the Lord 670 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,440 is opening your understanding, just to understand the 671 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:16,800 Scriptures. 672 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,800 But I think, you know, what we need 673 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,580 is quite a lot of teaching on the 674 00:33:24,580 --> 00:33:25,700 times we're living in. 675 00:33:26,940 --> 00:33:28,760 Living in dreadful times, you know. 676 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:32,260 I think every Ulster man and woman knows 677 00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:33,580 that to a certain extent. 678 00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:36,380 But I don't think that we know the 679 00:33:36,380 --> 00:33:38,340 times we're living in the way we should. 680 00:33:39,940 --> 00:33:41,760 Let me help you just for a moment. 681 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,600 Let's leave that and let's come over to 682 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:55,160 2nd Timothy, 2nd book of Timothy, and we're 683 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,260 at the 3rd chapter. 684 00:33:59,460 --> 00:34:04,830 2nd Timothy, chapter 3. 685 00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:15,500 Now, he's talking to Timothy, and don't let's 686 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:16,480 get away from that. 687 00:34:16,820 --> 00:34:18,699 It's time to teach this young fellow. 688 00:34:19,020 --> 00:34:21,520 He's saying, this know also. 689 00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:24,540 And the word know is the old word 690 00:34:24,540 --> 00:34:27,239 for understanding, this understand, he's wanting him to 691 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:27,760 understand. 692 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,080 That in the last days, perilous times shall 693 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:33,500 come. 694 00:34:34,580 --> 00:34:37,620 Because he's wanting this young fellow to have 695 00:34:37,620 --> 00:34:39,260 an understanding of the times. 696 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,360 And I believe we're in the last times 697 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:45,800 now. 698 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,880 And perilous times have come. 699 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,320 Now, you'll notice where these perilous times will 700 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:55,100 come from. 701 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:57,040 They'll come from men. 702 00:34:57,460 --> 00:34:59,400 He says, this know also, that in the 703 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,180 last days, perilous times shall come from men. 704 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,180 We have bothered with men. 705 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:09,080 For men shall be lovers of their own 706 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:09,580 selves. 707 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,360 That kind of men, covetous men, boasters, boasting 708 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:23,020 men, proud men, blasphemous, blaspheming men. 709 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,220 I want you to hold on to that 710 00:35:25,220 --> 00:35:26,860 word, blasphemous. 711 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,880 Disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy men. 712 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,340 Why did God put all these words in 713 00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:34,620 here? 714 00:35:36,220 --> 00:35:37,400 Is to fill a book up? 715 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,160 Oh, not on your life. 716 00:35:42,180 --> 00:35:43,860 We want to just hold on to the 717 00:35:43,860 --> 00:35:46,440 blaspheming men and the unholy men, because they're 718 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:47,360 going to give us bother. 719 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,800 Verse 3, without natural affection, toothbreakers, false accusers, 720 00:35:53,580 --> 00:35:57,760 incontinent, fierce men, despisers of those that are 721 00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:58,000 good. 722 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:02,820 Let's get a bit into these blaspheming men, 723 00:36:02,980 --> 00:36:06,080 these unholy men, these despisers of those that 724 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:06,880 are good men. 725 00:36:08,420 --> 00:36:10,560 And if you're going to talk about trickers, 726 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,460 heavy and high-minded, lovers of pleasure more 727 00:36:14,460 --> 00:36:18,220 than lovers of God, then he says something 728 00:36:18,220 --> 00:36:19,540 that would startle you. 729 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,500 Having a form of godliness. 730 00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:27,580 How can blasphemers have a form of godliness? 731 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,960 How can unholy men have a form of 732 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:32,460 godliness? 733 00:36:34,180 --> 00:36:36,740 How can those that despise those that are 734 00:36:36,740 --> 00:36:38,300 good have a form of godliness? 735 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,200 I want to know. 736 00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:41,400 I'll tell you. 737 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,420 You see, we're in the last days, and 738 00:36:46,420 --> 00:36:48,440 we're going to have trouble from then. 739 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,940 And I think we're going to have more 740 00:36:49,940 --> 00:36:50,700 than we imagine. 741 00:36:51,640 --> 00:37:00,380 You see, just last month, I want you 742 00:37:00,380 --> 00:37:05,060 to get this very carefully, the Archbishop of 743 00:37:05,060 --> 00:37:09,100 Canterbury, yes, I want you to get this 744 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:14,140 now, very, very carefully, he was preaching at 745 00:37:14,140 --> 00:37:21,320 the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral, and he called, 746 00:37:22,380 --> 00:37:25,860 this is out of the Times in London, 747 00:37:26,860 --> 00:37:29,680 it's dated the 26th of the first 78, 748 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,220 and it says, the Archbishop of Canterbury preaching 749 00:37:35,220 --> 00:37:39,200 at the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral calls for 750 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:44,680 true and urgent unity with Rome, and thus 751 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:49,060 exposes the real objectives of the ecumenical dialogue. 752 00:37:50,260 --> 00:37:54,580 Because the real objectives are one world church 753 00:37:54,580 --> 00:37:57,620 headed by the Pope and the Roman Communion. 754 00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:06,020 The purpose, the pursuit of the Archbishop's objectives 755 00:38:06,020 --> 00:38:09,740 would destroy Her Majesty's coronation oath. 756 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:14,360 You see, our Queen, you remember her being 757 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,120 crowned, do you? 758 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,620 And she took an oath to be a 759 00:38:19,620 --> 00:38:21,700 defender of the Protestant faith. 760 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:29,160 Now if the Archbishop gets his way, then 761 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,400 our oath will be worth nothing. 762 00:38:32,740 --> 00:38:36,840 And this paper said, the pursuit of the 763 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:41,100 Archbishop's objectives would destroy Her Majesty's coronation oath 764 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:44,980 and the Protestants' accession to the British throne. 765 00:38:47,460 --> 00:38:49,520 Then it adds, and it's not afraid to 766 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:55,120 add, Archbishop Coggan is culturally unworthy of the 767 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,300 trust committed to him. 768 00:38:57,540 --> 00:38:59,500 And if he were honest, he would resign 769 00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:01,220 and join the Church of Rome as a 770 00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:01,980 sincere convert. 771 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,820 Now here's what he actually said at that 772 00:39:05,820 --> 00:39:06,080 meeting. 773 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,680 Now I'm quoting his actual words. 774 00:39:08,780 --> 00:39:16,060 He said, Should I not be asking, as 775 00:39:16,060 --> 00:39:20,260 indeed I now do, for the forgiveness of 776 00:39:20,260 --> 00:39:24,920 the Roman Catholic friends, for the lingering attitudes 777 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:29,820 of suspicion and coldness, even sometimes of contempt, 778 00:39:30,580 --> 00:39:33,560 which characterized us up to fifteen or twenty 779 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,140 years ago, and sometimes do still. 780 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,440 And should not that confession of sin be 781 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:45,380 sealed in joint participation in the sacrament of 782 00:39:45,380 --> 00:39:46,300 Holy Communion? 783 00:39:47,820 --> 00:39:53,100 Archbishop Coggan wants one church with the Pope 784 00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:56,360 at his head, and we've got to go 785 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,800 back to have communion at the Roman mass. 786 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,500 Let me tell you again what this book 787 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:05,220 says now. 788 00:40:06,220 --> 00:40:07,420 Watch it again. 789 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,560 We're in the last days, and we're entering 790 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:18,680 into perilous times because these blasphemers, these unholy, 791 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,160 these men are going to have a form 792 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:28,340 of godliness, not the ecumenical movement, but denying 793 00:40:28,340 --> 00:40:29,520 the power thereof. 794 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,500 We'll tell you what God says. 795 00:40:31,820 --> 00:40:34,520 Form such family! 796 00:40:35,980 --> 00:40:37,540 That's what God says. 797 00:40:38,180 --> 00:40:40,760 Paul Coggan says, go in! 798 00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:44,040 Do you mean to tell me that we 799 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,860 could go in to sit down at the 800 00:40:45,860 --> 00:40:46,780 pagan mass? 801 00:40:49,290 --> 00:40:52,130 There's a million priests lifts a river every 802 00:40:52,130 --> 00:40:54,950 Sunday morning and shakes it, and they say 803 00:40:54,950 --> 00:40:56,510 they create Christ. 804 00:40:56,870 --> 00:40:58,150 It is blasphemy. 805 00:41:00,660 --> 00:41:02,560 They could never create Christ. 806 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,800 And then they put the river on the 807 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,460 altar, and they crucify Christ. 808 00:41:08,460 --> 00:41:11,160 They will never crucify him again. 809 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,960 He lives in the power of an endless 810 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:14,500 life. 811 00:41:15,980 --> 00:41:18,420 See, Spurgeon, who was a holy man of 812 00:41:18,420 --> 00:41:22,480 God, called this religion a bastard religion. 813 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:24,720 And it's nothing else. 814 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,000 That's where we're heading for. 815 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:30,200 That's where we are. 816 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,880 And your old arse, Peter, would take you 817 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,180 down the drain, wouldn't he? 818 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,160 I wouldn't even bother getting some of us 819 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:38,740 through the gate. 820 00:41:43,630 --> 00:41:46,090 We have no notion of down to that 821 00:41:46,090 --> 00:41:46,390 mountain. 822 00:41:46,730 --> 00:41:48,770 And if you're stuck in the big church, 823 00:41:49,950 --> 00:41:51,130 it's time you were out. 824 00:41:52,230 --> 00:41:54,090 Form such family! 825 00:41:54,390 --> 00:41:55,410 And that's not my words. 826 00:41:57,990 --> 00:42:00,370 We're beginning to understand, aren't we? 827 00:42:01,750 --> 00:42:04,610 But some of us are so tarnished with 828 00:42:04,610 --> 00:42:08,730 tradition, and we're so afraid to upset. 829 00:42:09,770 --> 00:42:11,870 By God, you would nearly step in Rome. 830 00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,050 It's a pity of you. 831 00:42:15,490 --> 00:42:18,290 They have no notion of Diocese or Pope. 832 00:42:19,250 --> 00:42:20,710 Not for a second. 833 00:42:22,290 --> 00:42:23,690 Not for a second. 834 00:42:24,110 --> 00:42:24,870 That won't work. 835 00:42:26,190 --> 00:42:28,970 Yes, this understanding is the mighty thing, isn't 836 00:42:28,970 --> 00:42:29,310 it? 837 00:42:30,510 --> 00:42:33,790 Because you see, we need an evangelical understanding, 838 00:42:35,230 --> 00:42:39,350 and a dispensational, and a devotional. 839 00:42:40,210 --> 00:42:42,390 Now, let me do this for you. 840 00:42:42,490 --> 00:42:43,730 The time is moving on. 841 00:42:45,030 --> 00:42:47,310 It's come to 1 Corinthians 14. 842 00:42:48,850 --> 00:42:51,350 Because we hear a whole lot of crap 843 00:42:51,350 --> 00:42:53,270 about tongues these days. 844 00:42:54,210 --> 00:42:56,470 More than we've ever done before. 845 00:42:56,670 --> 00:42:59,730 Well, just watch me reading the chapter with 846 00:42:59,730 --> 00:43:00,250 you now. 847 00:43:02,130 --> 00:43:06,010 Because you know that when Pentecost came in 848 00:43:06,010 --> 00:43:11,430 its fullness, that God gave, on that particular 849 00:43:11,430 --> 00:43:14,510 day, this special gift. 850 00:43:16,030 --> 00:43:21,090 So that little nucleus that was to be 851 00:43:21,090 --> 00:43:23,650 the foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ. 852 00:43:23,990 --> 00:43:26,290 And they were enabled that day to speak 853 00:43:26,290 --> 00:43:28,950 to men of other languages, only to Jews, 854 00:43:29,030 --> 00:43:29,490 of course. 855 00:43:30,850 --> 00:43:32,650 And they were able to speak in their 856 00:43:32,650 --> 00:43:33,250 own languages. 857 00:43:33,250 --> 00:43:35,770 And remember, if you go back to the 858 00:43:35,770 --> 00:43:37,670 Acts chapter 2, and I can take you 859 00:43:37,670 --> 00:43:39,510 on out there if you wish. 860 00:43:40,090 --> 00:43:41,290 There was no interpreter. 861 00:43:44,170 --> 00:43:46,230 You see, I cornered a big fellow at 862 00:43:46,230 --> 00:43:47,590 King's not so long ago. 863 00:43:48,270 --> 00:43:49,350 He says, you do this? 864 00:43:49,670 --> 00:43:49,930 Yes. 865 00:43:51,550 --> 00:43:53,250 Same as on the day of Pentecost? 866 00:43:55,090 --> 00:43:56,610 He says, no, I can't do that. 867 00:43:58,580 --> 00:44:00,740 No, I says, you're afraid to say that, 868 00:44:00,820 --> 00:44:02,720 because I can get you boys out to 869 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:04,260 Queen's Hill in just two ticks. 870 00:44:04,260 --> 00:44:08,600 I can get you Chinese and Japanese and 871 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,760 all the rest of them, and you can't 872 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:12,640 speak English. 873 00:44:13,620 --> 00:44:15,400 You're mumbling about there. 874 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:17,640 Yeah, I get sick with it. 875 00:44:18,980 --> 00:44:21,500 Let's really stand up and be counted now. 876 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,340 What's me doing this for, you see? 877 00:44:25,140 --> 00:44:28,000 He's talking to these people at Cairns who 878 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,280 were playing about with this. 879 00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:32,280 He says, follow after charity. 880 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:33,900 That is, follow after love. 881 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,220 Desire spiritual gifts. 882 00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:37,840 That's right. 883 00:44:38,740 --> 00:44:41,380 God's an honourer that he may prophesy. 884 00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:45,120 That word prophesy is just preaching, isn't it? 885 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,880 For he that speaketh in a non-known 886 00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,940 tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God, 887 00:44:52,980 --> 00:44:54,360 and this is what they try to get 888 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:55,340 something out of. 889 00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,900 For no man understandeth him. 890 00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:01,700 Well, let's keep this preaching, because we're on 891 00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:02,920 the understanding tonight. 892 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,120 You see a fellow standing up in the 893 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,120 church, and he's preaching to a Jew in 894 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,720 the backseat, and the Jew came from Germany, 895 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,940 and in the area of the church this 896 00:45:14,940 --> 00:45:17,620 gift was there, and he could speak in 897 00:45:17,620 --> 00:45:18,040 German. 898 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,280 Ah, but no man in the church was 899 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,580 understanding what was going on. 900 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,300 No man was understanding that. 901 00:45:24,540 --> 00:45:25,240 Let's get this. 902 00:45:26,580 --> 00:45:28,500 Now watch this very carefully. 903 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,560 Albeit in the Spirit he speaketh mysteries. 904 00:45:33,460 --> 00:45:35,720 But that just won't cover this thing, you 905 00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:35,880 know. 906 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,580 But he that prophesieth, speaketh unto men through 907 00:45:40,580 --> 00:45:43,940 edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 908 00:45:44,940 --> 00:45:47,460 You see, that's what preaching's all about, to 909 00:45:47,460 --> 00:45:49,480 edify, and to exhort, and to comfort. 910 00:45:49,860 --> 00:45:52,200 He that speaketh in a non-known tongue 911 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:53,980 edifies himself. 912 00:45:53,980 --> 00:45:55,600 Now this is the bit. 913 00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:57,220 Watch the next phrase. 914 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,440 He that prophesieth, edifies the church. 915 00:46:01,100 --> 00:46:02,760 How does he edify the church? 916 00:46:02,860 --> 00:46:05,340 Because the church understands what he's saying. 917 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,140 I hope you understand what I'm saying. 918 00:46:08,940 --> 00:46:11,060 Now, if a fellow's going to talk in 919 00:46:11,060 --> 00:46:13,680 tongues, if he's going to edify himself, he 920 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,300 must understand what he's saying. 921 00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:16,300 Ask any woman. 922 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:19,800 No, they don't understand. 923 00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:22,620 They don't understand a word of God. 924 00:46:22,620 --> 00:46:25,040 They just all amalaphalic and all, and that's 925 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,680 a fucking good any time. 926 00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:27,840 Yeah. 927 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,040 I'll tell you this. 928 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,180 The man that's had the gift when the 929 00:46:34,180 --> 00:46:35,880 gift was here, the gift is not here 930 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:36,180 now. 931 00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:43,080 The man could understand because he edified himself. 932 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,220 Now watch this again. 933 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:47,420 We'll go further with this. 934 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,500 I would that ye all speak with tongues, 935 00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:53,700 but rather that ye prophesied. 936 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,400 For greater is he that prophesieth. 937 00:46:57,740 --> 00:46:59,240 Oh, they don't like that bit. 938 00:46:59,940 --> 00:47:01,700 Than he that speaketh with tongues. 939 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,700 Except he intempted that the church may receive 940 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:06,240 edifying. 941 00:47:06,740 --> 00:47:08,460 You see, if this fellow stopped into the 942 00:47:08,460 --> 00:47:10,980 German and the Baptist, somebody will have to 943 00:47:10,980 --> 00:47:14,370 tell the church what's all, what's going on. 944 00:47:14,610 --> 00:47:15,070 Yes. 945 00:47:15,230 --> 00:47:17,210 They counter-catification all the time. 946 00:47:17,950 --> 00:47:21,190 Now brethren, verse 6, I come unto you 947 00:47:21,190 --> 00:47:22,290 speaking with tongues. 948 00:47:22,290 --> 00:47:23,870 What shall I prophesy to you? 949 00:47:24,150 --> 00:47:26,650 Except I speak to you either by revelation 950 00:47:26,650 --> 00:47:29,110 or by knowledge or by prophesying or by 951 00:47:29,110 --> 00:47:33,390 doctrine, and even things without life giving sound, 952 00:47:34,010 --> 00:47:37,490 whether pipe or harp, except they give a 953 00:47:37,490 --> 00:47:39,210 distinction in the sounds. 954 00:47:40,170 --> 00:47:42,370 How shall it be known what is pipe 955 00:47:42,370 --> 00:47:42,910 to harp? 956 00:47:44,130 --> 00:47:45,910 You know, if a fellow came here with 957 00:47:45,910 --> 00:47:48,930 a violin and just rolled, they all go 958 00:47:48,930 --> 00:47:51,430 across the thing back and forth, you wouldn't 959 00:47:51,430 --> 00:47:53,310 understand a thing about it, would you? 960 00:47:54,530 --> 00:47:57,290 Oh, but if he played the Sass and 961 00:47:57,290 --> 00:47:58,550 the Father of War, you would of course 962 00:47:58,550 --> 00:47:59,910 know what it was all about. 963 00:48:00,510 --> 00:48:01,810 It's just the first thing that came to 964 00:48:01,810 --> 00:48:02,310 my mind. 965 00:48:02,490 --> 00:48:03,050 That's all right. 966 00:48:05,270 --> 00:48:07,550 Now let's get this quite clear. 967 00:48:09,010 --> 00:48:13,570 Verse 8, For if the trumpet given on 968 00:48:13,570 --> 00:48:18,090 certain sound, who shall prepare himself for the 969 00:48:18,090 --> 00:48:18,410 battle? 970 00:48:19,630 --> 00:48:21,810 You know, the bugler out in the front 971 00:48:21,810 --> 00:48:23,510 there was the colonel. 972 00:48:24,150 --> 00:48:26,070 If he would play retreat when he should 973 00:48:26,070 --> 00:48:27,830 be playing advance, you know, we're going to 974 00:48:27,830 --> 00:48:29,030 get into a bit of a muddle. 975 00:48:30,650 --> 00:48:31,370 Oh, listen. 976 00:48:31,790 --> 00:48:33,790 What we are working round is that the 977 00:48:33,790 --> 00:48:35,510 thing is understood all the time. 978 00:48:36,790 --> 00:48:39,250 And if the thing is not understood, then 979 00:48:39,250 --> 00:48:40,790 nobody's getting nothing. 980 00:48:43,590 --> 00:48:44,410 Watch this. 981 00:48:46,070 --> 00:48:48,570 For if the trumpet given on certain sound, 982 00:48:48,630 --> 00:48:50,430 who shall prepare himself for the battle? 983 00:48:50,430 --> 00:48:53,590 So likewise he, except he uttered by the 984 00:48:53,590 --> 00:48:55,770 tongue words easy to be understood. 985 00:48:55,950 --> 00:48:56,690 Did you get that? 986 00:48:58,690 --> 00:49:00,610 Because that happens to be right there. 987 00:49:02,270 --> 00:49:04,870 Because even when the gift was here, it 988 00:49:04,870 --> 00:49:06,170 was an understanding. 989 00:49:07,830 --> 00:49:10,330 My, the tripe that's put over for guns 990 00:49:10,330 --> 00:49:10,790 today. 991 00:49:12,330 --> 00:49:13,870 I'll tell you it's tripe. 992 00:49:14,810 --> 00:49:16,130 Watch this again. 993 00:49:18,090 --> 00:49:20,770 For there are, it may be so many 994 00:49:20,770 --> 00:49:22,890 kinds of voices in the world, but none 995 00:49:22,890 --> 00:49:25,390 of them is without signification. 996 00:49:26,430 --> 00:49:29,150 Therefore if I know not the meaning of 997 00:49:29,150 --> 00:49:32,330 the voice, I shall be unto him that 998 00:49:32,330 --> 00:49:34,650 speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall 999 00:49:34,650 --> 00:49:36,070 be a barbarian unto me. 1000 00:49:37,150 --> 00:49:39,470 Even so ye, for as much as ye 1001 00:49:39,470 --> 00:49:42,090 are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye 1002 00:49:42,090 --> 00:49:44,630 may excel through the edifying of the church. 1003 00:49:44,910 --> 00:49:47,130 And ye can't edify the church if it 1004 00:49:47,130 --> 00:49:48,170 doesn't understand. 1005 00:49:50,330 --> 00:49:53,410 Therefore let him that speaketh in an unknown 1006 00:49:53,410 --> 00:49:55,610 tongue pray that he may interpret. 1007 00:49:56,450 --> 00:50:00,530 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, 1008 00:50:00,650 --> 00:50:04,650 my spirit prayeth, but my understanding, watch this, 1009 00:50:05,230 --> 00:50:08,510 you see sometimes these men got up to 1010 00:50:08,510 --> 00:50:10,670 pray in another language. 1011 00:50:11,310 --> 00:50:14,250 But all the time they understood what they 1012 00:50:14,250 --> 00:50:18,130 were praying, but their understanding was unsuitable to 1013 00:50:18,130 --> 00:50:18,590 the meeting. 1014 00:50:20,090 --> 00:50:22,310 If I stand up and pray in German 1015 00:50:22,310 --> 00:50:25,250 and I understand every word I'm saying, it 1016 00:50:25,250 --> 00:50:26,490 is no use to you. 1017 00:50:26,910 --> 00:50:29,990 My understanding, remember he understands. 1018 00:50:31,410 --> 00:50:32,690 You won't get none of them. 1019 00:50:32,990 --> 00:50:35,170 This day for three, we understand. 1020 00:50:36,610 --> 00:50:37,950 Go on, pray. 1021 00:50:40,180 --> 00:50:42,720 I'll tell you, it was always understood. 1022 00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:46,180 Now it's gone now, and we don't need 1023 00:50:46,180 --> 00:50:47,340 it now, it has ceased. 1024 00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,740 Yes, and let me just go back to 1025 00:50:51,740 --> 00:50:52,340 where it ceased. 1026 00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:53,760 Let's go into the other chapter. 1027 00:50:55,060 --> 00:51:06,830 You see, we're at chapter 13, and 1028 00:51:06,830 --> 00:51:08,170 he's talking about love. 1029 00:51:08,990 --> 00:51:12,430 And he says in verse 7, love beareth 1030 00:51:12,430 --> 00:51:16,430 all things, love believeth all things, love hopeth 1031 00:51:16,430 --> 00:51:19,750 all things, love endureth all things, love never 1032 00:51:19,750 --> 00:51:20,290 faileth. 1033 00:51:20,730 --> 00:51:24,470 But whether there be prophecies, they shall fail. 1034 00:51:25,210 --> 00:51:26,170 Prophets are gone. 1035 00:51:27,130 --> 00:51:29,650 Whether there be tongues, they shall cease. 1036 00:51:30,910 --> 00:51:34,650 Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 1037 00:51:35,210 --> 00:51:37,990 For we know in part, and we prophesy 1038 00:51:37,990 --> 00:51:40,910 in part, but when that which is perfect 1039 00:51:40,910 --> 00:51:43,430 is come, then that which is in part 1040 00:51:43,430 --> 00:51:44,290 shall be done away. 1041 00:51:44,390 --> 00:51:45,910 Now here's how he explains that. 1042 00:51:46,250 --> 00:51:49,510 When I was a child, I speak as 1043 00:51:49,510 --> 00:51:50,630 a child, and I understood. 1044 00:51:50,770 --> 00:51:51,670 Let's get back there. 1045 00:51:52,730 --> 00:51:53,950 I understood as a child. 1046 00:51:54,210 --> 00:51:56,070 If he were a child, we'd have a 1047 00:51:56,070 --> 00:51:57,130 read one about this. 1048 00:51:58,030 --> 00:51:58,910 And I watch him. 1049 00:51:59,090 --> 00:51:59,750 He's just one. 1050 00:52:02,300 --> 00:52:04,900 You know, he can understand a whole lot 1051 00:52:04,900 --> 00:52:05,180 of things. 1052 00:52:07,510 --> 00:52:10,070 But you know, I can see that his 1053 00:52:10,070 --> 00:52:11,170 memory's all right. 1054 00:52:12,170 --> 00:52:14,250 Because when he comes into our house, he's 1055 00:52:14,250 --> 00:52:16,510 just out of the prom, and he looks 1056 00:52:16,510 --> 00:52:17,050 all around. 1057 00:52:17,690 --> 00:52:19,890 Then he knows down in the kitchen there's 1058 00:52:19,890 --> 00:52:21,330 a lot of things he can lift. 1059 00:52:21,870 --> 00:52:23,970 He lifts them off the refrigerator. 1060 00:52:24,950 --> 00:52:27,990 Now, they won't break, so we don't bother. 1061 00:52:28,390 --> 00:52:29,150 But away he goes. 1062 00:52:29,190 --> 00:52:30,790 He remembers them, doesn't he? 1063 00:52:31,870 --> 00:52:32,850 He lifts them. 1064 00:52:33,650 --> 00:52:35,870 But when he gets a wee bit bigger, 1065 00:52:36,050 --> 00:52:38,750 just a year or two bigger, you know, 1066 00:52:38,850 --> 00:52:41,270 he just understands like a child. 1067 00:52:42,850 --> 00:52:44,190 He's a child, you see. 1068 00:52:44,790 --> 00:52:46,590 I can remember his father. 1069 00:52:46,690 --> 00:52:48,330 I'll get into trouble for this, but never 1070 00:52:48,330 --> 00:52:48,710 mind. 1071 00:52:49,490 --> 00:52:52,890 I remember his father creeping across the floor 1072 00:52:52,890 --> 00:52:55,890 with a cowboy hat on and a big 1073 00:52:55,890 --> 00:52:58,550 scarf round his neck and a gondi song. 1074 00:52:59,610 --> 00:53:00,990 And he would creep round. 1075 00:53:01,090 --> 00:53:02,870 You would think there was a thousand Indians 1076 00:53:02,870 --> 00:53:03,590 in the house. 1077 00:53:04,370 --> 00:53:07,190 And his understanding was just like that. 1078 00:53:08,210 --> 00:53:09,830 That's a child's understanding. 1079 00:53:10,710 --> 00:53:12,630 Now, let the child be the child. 1080 00:53:13,550 --> 00:53:15,750 Don't be trying to put an old head 1081 00:53:15,750 --> 00:53:17,150 in young shoulders, you know. 1082 00:53:18,020 --> 00:53:20,110 Just let them play, you see. 1083 00:53:22,110 --> 00:53:25,350 Now, when the early church was going out, 1084 00:53:26,730 --> 00:53:29,630 these things that God gave to us were 1085 00:53:29,630 --> 00:53:31,390 just like childish things. 1086 00:53:32,630 --> 00:53:35,210 Don't you try to carry them on right 1087 00:53:35,210 --> 00:53:36,090 into this age. 1088 00:53:37,410 --> 00:53:38,670 You put them away. 1089 00:53:39,530 --> 00:53:40,710 We're men now. 1090 00:53:41,750 --> 00:53:43,030 Those things are gone. 1091 00:53:44,050 --> 00:53:45,890 That's what he's trying to tell them here. 1092 00:53:46,730 --> 00:53:48,790 He says you put away childish things. 1093 00:53:49,210 --> 00:53:51,970 This book has come in all its perfection. 1094 00:53:52,390 --> 00:53:54,830 All that God wants to say is in 1095 00:53:54,830 --> 00:53:57,330 there when that which is perfect has come. 1096 00:53:58,650 --> 00:53:59,150 Oh, see. 1097 00:53:59,910 --> 00:54:02,530 Somebody said, but that was talking about Christ 1098 00:54:02,530 --> 00:54:02,870 coming. 1099 00:54:03,710 --> 00:54:04,570 Oh, bladders. 1100 00:54:04,690 --> 00:54:08,550 Nobody ever talked about that when you mean 1101 00:54:08,550 --> 00:54:08,910 Christ. 1102 00:54:08,990 --> 00:54:10,590 You wouldn't call Christ that. 1103 00:54:11,930 --> 00:54:12,910 Not at all. 1104 00:54:12,910 --> 00:54:15,150 Put away the childish things. 1105 00:54:15,870 --> 00:54:20,170 Do you see that there's a supplication which 1106 00:54:20,170 --> 00:54:21,110 is understanding? 1107 00:54:21,310 --> 00:54:22,770 You know, if you're going to pray, you 1108 00:54:22,770 --> 00:54:24,130 must pray with the understanding. 1109 00:54:26,310 --> 00:54:28,630 And you must sing with the understanding. 1110 00:54:28,770 --> 00:54:30,670 We have a great singer in our meeting, 1111 00:54:30,810 --> 00:54:33,750 Mr. Eric Clark, and sometimes he goes to 1112 00:54:33,750 --> 00:54:36,370 Spain, and sometimes he goes to Germany, sometimes 1113 00:54:36,370 --> 00:54:37,890 he goes to Yugoslavia. 1114 00:54:38,550 --> 00:54:42,150 And he learns the hymns in their language. 1115 00:54:44,130 --> 00:54:46,670 And he's able to stand up and sing 1116 00:54:46,670 --> 00:54:47,510 in their language. 1117 00:54:47,770 --> 00:54:48,950 I bet he knows what he's singing. 1118 00:54:50,390 --> 00:54:54,550 Because he learns Rock of Ages left for 1119 00:54:54,550 --> 00:54:57,010 me in the Yugoslavian language. 1120 00:54:57,450 --> 00:54:59,190 He's singing with the understanding. 1121 00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:04,620 Friends, have you got the hold of this? 1122 00:55:05,860 --> 00:55:10,980 You know, God wants us to understand His 1123 00:55:10,980 --> 00:55:11,280 will. 1124 00:55:13,660 --> 00:55:17,660 He says through the Ephesians, understanding what the 1125 00:55:17,660 --> 00:55:18,620 will of the Lord is. 1126 00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,300 He wants us to understand His love. 1127 00:55:24,500 --> 00:55:27,960 Yes, to know the love of Christ. 1128 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:30,700 Oh, what a wonderful thing. 1129 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,420 You know, He wants us to understand His 1130 00:55:33,420 --> 00:55:34,000 sacrifice. 1131 00:55:34,620 --> 00:55:37,060 When we come to the table, if there's 1132 00:55:37,060 --> 00:55:40,480 no discerning, and that word is understanding, the 1133 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,920 Lord's body, well, the Lord will deal with 1134 00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:44,160 you. 1135 00:55:45,500 --> 00:55:46,680 Oh, have you got that? 1136 00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,180 Because the understanding is the mighty thing. 1137 00:55:51,980 --> 00:55:55,700 You see, friends, for folk to say that 1138 00:55:55,700 --> 00:55:58,300 God uses their lips when He has closed 1139 00:55:58,300 --> 00:55:59,840 their mind would be baloney. 1140 00:56:00,860 --> 00:56:03,300 He's taken your understanding away from you. 1141 00:56:03,300 --> 00:56:06,600 And when your understanding is taken away from 1142 00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,320 you, a devil can do whatever he likes. 1143 00:56:09,540 --> 00:56:11,380 God would never take that away. 1144 00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:13,320 That's a faculty that belongs to you. 1145 00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:16,460 Even when the gift was here, the man 1146 00:56:16,460 --> 00:56:18,560 understood what He was saying because he was 1147 00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:19,560 edifying himself. 1148 00:56:21,340 --> 00:56:24,460 Now, we're coming to memory next week. 1149 00:56:25,980 --> 00:56:28,180 Mind you, that's a mighty faculty. 1150 00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:35,600 Because, you know, even when Adam sinned, and 1151 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,980 the conscience could be defiled and even feared 1152 00:56:38,980 --> 00:56:43,460 from there on, and the understanding was darkened, 1153 00:56:44,460 --> 00:56:47,580 you know, there was something happened to the 1154 00:56:47,580 --> 00:56:47,980 memory. 1155 00:56:49,340 --> 00:56:51,640 Because, you see, a man can come and 1156 00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:56,440 look into this book and he can see 1157 00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:00,520 himself in the mirror of God's Word. 1158 00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:05,940 And the next word is straightway forgettable. 1159 00:57:11,620 --> 00:57:13,740 Lord, we bow at Thy feet. 1160 00:57:14,740 --> 00:57:16,720 We lift our hearts to Thee. 1161 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:18,280 We thank You for Thy Word. 1162 00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,760 We thank Thee, Lord, that so many of 1163 00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,440 us, we know whom we have believed. 1164 00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,480 And we are persuaded in our hearts and 1165 00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,960 souls to might that Thou art able to 1166 00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,600 keep that which we've committed unto Thee against 1167 00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:36,140 that day. 1168 00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:41,480 O Lord, make us to understand this book. 1169 00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:47,000 O Lord, make us to understand the times. 1170 00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:52,440 Lord, there's so much at work from the 1171 00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:52,780 devil. 1172 00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:57,800 O God, make us to stand in the 1173 00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,220 evil day and be counted. 1174 00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:06,820 Lord, bring us to see these mighty things 1175 00:58:06,820 --> 00:58:10,780 that Thou hast planted in this book, that 1176 00:58:10,780 --> 00:58:15,880 we might indeed be men that wait for 1177 00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:16,520 the Lord. 1178 00:58:17,740 --> 00:58:22,140 O Lord, part us in Thy fear and 1179 00:58:22,140 --> 00:58:24,740 with Thy blessings for Thy manship. 1180 00:58:25,340 --> 00:58:25,820 Amen.