And for the past five weeks, we've been
looking at what I've entitled the Bible Analysis
of Man, and we've put the searchlight of
the Scriptures upon man.
And we looked at created man, and then
we looked at the fallen man, and the
saved man, and the spiritual man, and the
carnal man.
And then we put man on the operating
table of the Bible, and we have looked
at his conscience, and we looked at his
understanding and his memory.
Last week we were looking at his imagination,
and found that man, even when he knew
God, he became vain in his imagination.
And his foolish heart was darkened, and professing
himself to be wise, he became a fool.
We're moving on another step this evening.
We're looking at man's body this evening.
That is, we're looking at man's body in
its total sense, the whole body.
Because in nights to come, we shall be
looking at man's body in many particular senses.
You see, I want to look at man's
eyes, because we're going to learn a lot
about this eye-gating, how the devil used
it on many occasions.
And then we want to look at man's
ears, man's lips, want to look at man's
knees.
Then we want to look at man's feet,
and we're going to look at man's body
in many particular senses.
But tonight we're just looking at man's body
in the total sense.
And when we look at man's body tonight
in the total sense, we must look at
it in a mortal sense.
You see, as you look at this body
in its totality, we must never forget that
I'm just a mortal, and you're just a
mortal.
You see, there's a thing called sin inside,
and because of sin comes death.
And if Jesus tarries for another hundred years,
and I don't think he will, but if
Jesus tarried for another hundred years, we would
all die.
Yes, we're dying.
You see, this outward man that we're thinking
about tonight, the body in its total sense,
it's just mortal.
Some years ago we had an old character
in the meeting here, and oh, he was
a dear old soul, and yet, you know,
when he got a pain at all, it
was the most dreadful, horrible pain that ever
was, that he had a tool that was
really aching, well, he would really think his
leg was coming off, you know, this sort
of thing.
And I went to see him once in
the hospital, and they had been tidying up
the ward, and they'd put the screens on
him, and I think they frightened him.
And when I went round the screens, he
said to me, I'm dying.
And I said, so am I.
And you know, this may be news for
you, but you're dying.
Not very nice to you, not good you
are, you know.
This outward man is perishing at this moment.
And so we must not forget that this
body, it's mortal.
This is a mortal body.
But we don't only want to look at
it in a total sense, and then in
a mortal sense, but we want to look
at it in a new mortal sense.
Because you see this body, I'll one day
assure you on that seat it shall put
on immortality.
That'll be a wonderful day, and there'll be
no more death for it, and no more
pain, and a lot of other things.
Now, this is a very difficult subject, because
there are so many angles to it.
There's this total sense, there's this particular sense,
there's this mortal sense, there's this immortal sense.
And then we shall have to differentiate between
the Saviour's body, and the saved man's mortal
body, and the unfaithful man's mortal body.
Now, be very careful about what I say.
I said the saved man's mortal body, and
I said the unsaved man's mortal body, and
I only said the Saviour's body.
I didn't say that.
I don't think that death had any claim
from him at all.
I'm fairly sure about that.
Now, you see, as we sit here this
evening, we're dying men.
He wasn't a dying man, he was a
man that was going to die.
Did you get the difference between the two?
Yes.
There was a place set apart, and all
that sort of thing, and he must set
his fate as a friend to go there,
and when he goes there, you know, even
there death has no claims on him, he
must step into death.
Yes, we are dying men, but he was
a man who was going to die.
And we must try to get the differentiation
between all these things.
And that's a very big step for us.
Now, tonight we just want to look up
the saved man's mortal body, and the triune
God.
That's what we're trying to do this evening.
We'll need an evening or two of this,
and I can tell you there are some
pretty deep depths in this.
Sometimes they straggle me, and I need to
just get on my knees, because it is
deep.
The well here is very deep, and humanly
speaking, we have nothing to draw with.
And there must be a great dependence on
the Spirit of God to lead us into
all truth.
But I think that when God said, let
us make man, the us will tell us
that the triune God was in on the
job.
It was God who was speaking, and this
is what he said, let us make man.
Now, you see, when God formed man, or
at least the material part of man, this
total mortal body that we see now, when
God formed man out of the dust of
the ground, and of course as he formed
him out of the dust of the ground,
he immediately implanted a spirit within him.
And man at that second became a living
soul, and it was the triune God making
the triune man.
Because man is body, and soul, and spirit.
But we're just looking at the body this
evening.
But while it was made out of the
dust of the ground, and as Jesus studies,
unto dust shall it return.
There are never any arguments on that side
of things.
The scientists tried to find so many places
where it came from, but there are never
any arguments at the other end of the
history of some man.
It's unto dust.
And dust thou art, and unto dust shall
thou return.
Now, while God formed the material part of
man out of the dust of the ground,
let's not forget that this body was faithfully
and wonderfully made.
Let's not make any mistakes about that.
You could get the eye specialist to come,
and he could talk to you here on
this very platform for an hour each evening
for a week, and he wouldn't touch the
depths of the wonders of the human physical
eye.
And, of course, we know we have brain
specialists.
And we had one in us, sir, that
we lost in the car wreck, Mr. Calvert.
And I suppose he was probably noted as
the greatest brain specialist in the world.
And I'll tell you, he could loss us
about the wonders of this computer of ours.
They are building computers now that are altogether
amazing.
And yet it's the computer up here that
connects everything in that computer and sets it
and puts it to do what it's supposed
to do.
And there will never come a day when
the tin box down there controls this computer
up here.
And that's very wonderful, you know.
Yes, and take your heart, and we don't
want to linger on this, but all the
wonders of it, how it goes on for
70, 80, 90, 100 years, night and day,
pomp and pomp and pomp, and there it
is.
Wonderful it is.
So, I think we can settle this, that
when the triune God, out of the dust
of the ground, made this material body, this
total body that we're thinking about at evening,
you know, it was fearfully and very wonderfully
made.
And I want to say this just now,
let me get this over, that when the
triune God made this very wonderful body of
ours, he made it for himself.
Let's get the hold of that little bit
now.
It wasn't just the thought of placing that
loose, you know.
But of course, you see, this man, this
body and soul and spirit, this man that
was so fearfully and wonderfully made, this man
rebelled against his maker.
This man disobeyed God.
And it was by one man's disobedience to
God, of course, the God that made him.
It was through this disobedience that sin entered.
And you know, man has gone on with
this disobedience against God.
And we see men from all classes and
creeds and colors, men of all ages, and
they rebel against God, they don't care about
God.
And you know, man that was so wonderfully
made, he takes drink now, and he fills
this body with drink.
Yes, he does, yes.
And sometimes when I go to see some
poor old drunkard in his last throat of
life, and his liver has cleaned on, and
he's lying back in his chasten, he blames
God for this.
I'm afraid it wasn't God.
He just played the fool, that's all, and
wrecked the car that God had given him,
as it were.
If you bought a Rolls Royce, it'd cost
you a lot of money just now.
And you began to drive it night and
day, without water, and without looking at the
oil, and you didn't care.
I'll tell you, it'll go bust on you
one of these days.
And you don't need to blame the Rolls
Royce for it, it's the boy that's driving
that's to blame.
So you see, although he was fearfully and
wonderfully made, you see he disobeyed God, became
vain in his imagination, and his foolish heart
was darkened, and professing himself to be wise,
he became a fool.
He's playing the fool when he fills this
body with drink, and he's playing the fool
when he fills this body with drugs.
Yes, when they're lying in their last throats,
you know, they blame God.
And you know he's playing the fool when
he fills this body with dirt.
It's this pornographic stuff that's sold in the
secret papers, and some people take them into
the bedroom and chew them all night long.
And do you any good, you know?
You're playing the fool, that's what you're doing.
And if you fill this body with drink,
and drugs, and dirt, you'll fill it sooner
or later with disease.
And then death will come.
And if you're not saved, you'll be damned.
And we'll have something to say about the
unsaved body in the lake of fire, you
know.
I heard Dr. Ironside talking to a specialist
one morning.
He just knew it all.
He said, you know, it can't be done.
You can't take a body that has flesh
and bones, and put it into the lake
of fire, and it's going to stay there
for all eternity.
It can't be done.
Remember, doctor, it is only dust.
Ah, that's right, said the doctor.
He said, but you've seen the gas mantle,
haven't you?
You've seen the gas mantle put on, have
you?
And when you light it, it goes up
in the flame?
I'll tell you, it's only dust.
And after it's burned to take the fire
from then on, if you touch it with
your finger, it'll all go into dust.
But as long as you let it sit
there, it'll endure the fire forever, so long.
And if man can do that with a
gas mantle, God will set unsaved out for
the lake of fire for all eternity.
But we'll come to that in another matching.
Once you get settled down to this.
You know, it's not until man is horrendous
to his God, and does body and soul
and spirit at his feet, that this body
begins to come into what God made it
for.
It was made for the triune God, and
that's what I want to try to get
round to this evening.
We're looking at the total mortal body this
evening, and we're not going into the immortality
this evening.
We're just wanting to see this mortal body
being used to the triune God.
Now that was a long introduction to it,
but that's how you do things sometimes.
We're at Philippians chapter 1, please.
Paul's letter to the Philippians, and we're at
Philippians chapter 1.
And there is no discussion whatsoever among the
scholars about the writer of this letter to
the Philippians.
It was Paul.
And he's writing to this little assembly at
Philippi, and in Philippians chapter 1 and verse
12 he said this, But I would that
ye should understand, brethren, that the things which
happened unto me hath fallen out rather unto
the providence of the gospel, so that my
bonds in Christ are manifest in all the
palace and in all other places.
You know, this character Paul, I want to
assure you that Paul was the man who
realized that the believer's body, first of all,
was for the magnification of Christ.
This mortal body is for the magnification of
Christ.
You know, I'd like you to see this
little man, if you could.
Everybody's persuaded he was a little man.
I don't think there are any doubts about
that.
You know, the Corinthians, when they wanted to
criticize him, they said his bodily presence is
weak.
I think he was a very small man,
but he wasn't a small strong man, he
was a small little man, little weak I
mean.
I suppose if I used the word consumptive
I would be sort of describing the body
of this man.
And you see, just a little fellow, I
don't know his height, I would love to
know.
I'd love to know his weight, I'd love
to know his chest measurements, and I'll bet
you I would surprise this meeting if I
could give a little weakling of a creature.
I'm sure he'll forgive me if I say
a miserable little Jew.
I want you to see him now, because
this is the body we're talking about.
And I want you to see where he
was at this moment when he's writing this
letter, he's in the prison cell at Rome.
Let's make it quite clear it's not one
of the cells in the Cumberland, you know.
Oh, no TV or central heating in here.
Oh no, this is a dark, dark dungeon
of a Roman cell.
And can you see this little man?
Here he is, he's chained, his little thin
wrist is chained to a mass of soldier
that sits at his side every day.
And this is what he's saying, but I
would ye should understand brethren that the things
which happened unto me have fallen out rather
unto the prevalence of the gospel, so that
my bonds in Christ are manifest in all
the palace.
Ah yes, you know, although he was in
the prison here, it was the prison connected
with the palace of Nero.
And you know, there was a great talk
throughout the palace about this wee man.
This wee man didn't cry or anything like
that, as they did before.
This wee man rejoiced every day.
This wee man knew that he could talk
to this big soldier about Christ.
And that was a great thing for him.
He just felt the Lord has put me
in this all dark, dark dungeon of a
cell and sent me to this big fellow.
I'll take you to heaven with me.
And many of them were saved, you know.
There are no doubts at all that many
of these soldiers could save.
Just flip over to the last chapter of
this letter to the Philippines.
Here's how he ends the chapter at verse
22.
All the saints salute you, chiefly they that
are of Caesar's household.
Oh, there were saints in Caesar's household.
Oh, they get there now.
Oh, well, they came in here, you know,
and they had to sit for maybe four
hours with this fellow.
And you know, he was the nicest character
in the world, and he was so happy
and so gracious and so Christ-like.
But he led these big men to Trost,
to Caesar, and now they're sending greetings to
the other saints.
Well, I want you to go on with
this first chapter, go back to it.
It says, But I would ye should understand,
brethren, that the things which happened unto me
have fallen now rather unto the furtherance of
the gospel.
Of course, he will get saved, because he
was in prison.
So that my bonds in Christ are manifest
in all the palace and in all other
places.
And many of the brethren in the Lord,
wepting confident by my bonds, are much more
bold to speak the word that I have
said.
You know, he was a great inspiration to
the other folks.
You know, if you had been in the
prison next door, you couldn't have cried.
Not with this sweet fellow singing in here.
You'd hear him singing, you'd hear him praying,
you'd hear him preaching.
My, the joy of the Lord was on
this wee man's face.
Yes, it is.
Now, I want you to get the hold
of this, so that they're much more bold
to speak the word without fear.
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and
strife, and some also of goodwill.
The one preached Christ of contention, not sincerely
supposing to our affliction to my bonds.
There were boys that went round about the
palace in all, and they started to mutter
about Christ, thinking that they would get Paul
into more hot water.
I didn't worry him, these fools.
But there were other folks who spoke out
of love, but the other of love, knowing
that I am set for the defense of
the gospel.
This is what men, notwithstanding every way, whether
in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached,
and I therein do rejoice, yea, I will
rejoice.
I think you must always rejoice when real
gospel preachers come about.
You may have quibbles about where they come
to, but you should have no quibbles about
the Christ they're uplifting.
Not at all.
And this was Paul's idea of things.
He says, but men, notwithstanding every way, whether
in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached,
and I therein do rejoice, yea, I will
rejoice.
See, he was full of joy.
For I know that this shall turn to
my salvation through your bread and the supply
of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, according to
my earnest expectation and my hope, that in
nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with
all boldness, as always, so now also Christ
shall be magnified in my body.
Ha ha, that's the bit we're at.
That's the bit he knew about, you see.
He says, you see, they've stuck me in
this dungeon.
Ah, well, while I'm here, standing on this
old muddy floor, for there were no tiles
on it, while I'm in this dark prison
cell, Christ shall be magnified in my body.
Oh, what a character this is.
You see, when we talk about magnifying Christ
in our bodies, what are we talking about?
Oh, I want to forget the whole, we're
not talking about Baptist or anything like that.
You see, this little man, all that we
could see in this tiny little body, all
that we could see, just this little Jew,
and you know, there was love in this
little body for every soul that came into
contact with him.
Let me tell you, it was the love
of Jesus.
Let me tell you that night and day,
this little man was beaming with joy again
and again in this letter.
He says, Rejoice!
And again I say, Rejoice!
He's on his tiptoes, you know.
And it's the joy of the Lord Jesus.
I'll tell you, you can't go to this
prison cell night or day at any time
without finding him in perfect peace.
Oh, yes, he was magnifying Christ, because it
was the love of Christ, and it was
the joy of Christ, and it was the
peace of Christ.
And when they did things to him that
they had no right to do, he never
complained.
It was the long-suffering of Christ.
And all the time, this man was the
gentleman.
Yes, it was the gentleness of Christ.
It was the goodness of Christ that they
were seeing.
This little man had faith.
This little man just knew how to be
content, whether he was in poverty or whether
he had plenty.
This little man was filled continually with the
Spirit of God that produced Christ in his
life.
That's the man of God.
You see this, don't you?
This is his unchanging ambition.
You see, you must get this quite clear.
In the middle of verse 20 he says
that, In nothing I shall be ashamed, but
that with all boldness as always.
This was his ambition right from the beginning.
So now also, even when I'm in this
prison cell and these chains are on my
hands, Christ shall be magnified.
That was his unchanging ambition.
What an ambition to have.
Yes, he knew what this body was for.
It was for the magnification of Christ.
You notice a little bit more there.
He says, With all boldness as always, so
now also Christ shall be magnified in my
body.
You know, that's a sort of unique ambition.
He wasn't worried about the party, and he
wasn't worried about the name of Paul.
He wasn't worried about anything.
It was just Christ alone that he wanted
to magnify.
Oh, what a unique ambition.
Can you see this bit quite clearly?
What an uncanny ambition.
That with all boldness as always, so now
Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether
it be by life or by death.
That's uncanny, isn't it?
He said, I don't mind.
If this is where I must die and
I must leave this spot to go to
heaven, this is as good a spot to
leave to go to heaven as anyone.
He didn't mind.
Did you see that?
He got this thing right, you know.
He realized that this body was made, first
of all, for the magnification of Christ.
How did he get that?
Now, let's turn over to 1 Corinthians now,
and we're at chapter 6.
We'll turn back to 1 Corinthians, chapter 6.
Verse 15, and he's saying some wonderful things
here, you know, and I don't want to
waste with them.
Verse 15, Know ye not that your bodies
are the members of Christ?
And he's talking about your bodies.
Shall I then take the members of Christ
and make them the members of Enharlot?
God forbid.
What?
That's the way a preacher talks sometimes.
What?
Know ye not that he which is joined
to Enharlot is one body, for tooth doth
he shall be one flesh?
But he that is joined unto the Lord
is one spirit.
Flee fornication.
Every sin that a man doeth is without
the body, but he that committeth fornication sinneth
against his own body.
And he shouts this what again?
And when you see these what's or pauls
right through the letters, you can write behind
it, what a teacher.
This is the way the teacher really gets
about the job, asking questions.
Sometimes I give the boys at the hill
a text, and I say now ask a
lot of questions.
Who wrote it?
When was it written?
To whom was it written?
Why was it written?
What is it teaching?
Just ask questions till you see how it
goes.
But here's what he said to you, verse
19.
What?
Know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost?
You know what a teacher is here.
Let me do it this way for you.
And then what a truth is here.
Your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost.
And then can I say this?
What a temple is here.
See this body, never mind about the size
of it, never mind about anything else about
it.
This body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost.
What a temple is here.
What a truth is here.
What a teacher is here.
And if I were going through the scriptures,
and I was proving to you that when
the Holy Ghost comes in its dispensation, he
comes to indwell and he comes to stay
with you forever, Jesus said.
Yes, you know we're sealed with the Spirit
until the day of redemption.
What a tenancy it is.
He's not just going to be a tenant
for a week or two.
Right to the end of time and then
forever.
So I think you're grasping this, aren't you?
What a teacher is here.
What a truth is here.
And what a temple is here.
And what a tenancy is here.
And what a tenant is here.
You know, the temple of the Holy Ghost
is your body, and you are not your
own.
You are bought with a price.
I think that sometimes we forget this thing,
you know, that this is not ours anymore.
And you know, when we come to look
at different parts of the body, the particular
parts, and we look at the eyes, and
we look at the lips, and we look
at the ears, and we look at the
hair, and we look at a whole lot
of things about it, remember it is not
your own.
That's the bit we'll have to get around
to.
So I know that some folk think they
can do with the life.
They're afraid they can't.
I'm afraid you're bought with a price.
I'm afraid the great thought is you're not
your own at all.
Yes.
Now he's preaching well.
He's a great teacher.
What a teacher.
What a truth.
What a temple.
What a tenant.
What a tenancy.
What a thought this is.
Now I want you to get this bit.
What a task this is.
You see, therefore glorify God in your body.
That's the bit.
You see, I think you can see what
I'm getting at.
That Paul realized, this little man realized when
he was born again, that this body, it
was for the magnification of Christ.
It was for the habitation of the Spirit,
except of the third person.
It was for the glorification of God.
It was made for the triune God, by
the triune God.
It was made to magnify the time.
It was made to be a temple of
the Spirit.
It was made to glorify God.
Now that's the mighty thing, because that's the
task, you see.
You see, as we go through this, we're
going to find out that these all sort
of work in together.
Because when the Holy Ghost gets us just
the way he wants us, oh, it's perfectly
true that we've got the Holy Ghost.
I'm all about that.
You see, this is where I come through
sometimes when I argue with these people.
And I hear them chatting all the time,
and they say, you know, you get saved
one day, and then you wait for months,
and then there comes a time when you
get so surrendered, and you're so wonderful, and
you're so holy, and you're so nice, that
the Holy Ghost enters into you.
No, I don't believe that truth.
I'll tell you why I don't believe it.
Because we are talking about the Corinthians, and
Paul's talking about the Corinthians, and we're saved,
there's no question.
If you go to first Corinthians, first chapter,
he's writing on to the saints at Corinth,
who are sanctified in Christ Jesus.
Four saints, they were born-again believers.
Oh, but when you go to the third
chapter, Paul says, I could not speak unto
you as unto spiritual.
Here yet crowned on you walk as men,
the strife and divisions among you.
They weren't holy.
They're not trying to tell me they were
holy.
Oh, this is the crowd that the Holy
Ghost has been driving.
They've got the Holy Ghost, oh, but the
Holy Ghost hasn't got them.
That's the bit we've got to settle just
before we leave tonight, haven't we?
Because if this is going to be the
habitation of the Spirit, and for the magnification
of the Son, and the glorification of God,
we just have to know a little bit
more.
Let's go to John 15 for a moment.
John's Gospel, chapter 15, and I want you
to get this very neatly, and I'll try
to just be easy and quickly with this.
Lord Jesus is walking towards Gethsemane, and if
I'm right, where the upper room was, if
he left that upper room that I believe
is in a certain spot, then he came
down those stone steps and on to a
little cobbled street, and it runs right up
to the temple.
Then you can go through one of the
gates into the temple, and you can cross
the courtyard, and the beautiful gate of the
temple is on the other side, and you
go out through it, you go down the
valley of Jehoshaphat, and you cross the Keaton
River, and you're into Gethsemane.
And I have sought to measure that out,
and walked along it, and tried to visualize
a lot of things.
You see, our Lord Jesus is walking, and
I believe he has come to this gate
into the temple.
And I'm told in those days that there
was some sort of golden work on the
gate.
It was a vine, and it may well
have been thought.
You can argue with me about that.
I believe it was here he stopped, and
he looked around at these followers of his,
and he said, I am the true vine.
I'm the true vine.
Now, he paints the picture here.
He says, I am the true vine, and
my father is the husband vine.
And in verse five he said, I am
the vine, ye are the branches.
And all I want you to get is
just to see the vine, and see the
branches, and see the husband vine, just looking
up for the fruit.
And if you've got that, I think you
can get this quite quickly.
You see, when he says, I am the
true vine, he's talking about all the sufficiency
in him to meet every need.
And when he talks about the branches, he's
talking about our responsibility to utterly handle this
need, this sufficiency for our need.
And when he talks about the father, he's
talking about the expectancy of the father.
So, if you've got this quickly, you can
see the sufficiency of the saviour in the
vine, you can see the responsibility of the
branches in the branches, and you can see
the expectancy of the father, because he's expecting
something from this vine, these branches.
But when he goes on talking about the
branches, you'll see this.
At verse two he says, every branch in
me that beareth not fruit is taken away,
and we're not lingering with that.
Every branch that beareth fruit.
Now, there were branches that were bearing fruit.
And that's a great thing, you know, when
the branches begin to bear fruit.
Then, of course, he just pruned it, because
the word purges it is just the word
for pruning, and we all know something about
that, more or less.
He purges it that it may bring forth
more fruit.
So, he talked about fruit, and then he's
talking about more fruit.
And it's great to see the branches bearing
fruit, and then it's great to see them
bearing more fruit.
Now, he said this to them, therefore abide
in me, and I in you, as the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself.
If you're going to work away on your
own, and try to work your own brains,
lean on your own understanding, and think that
your own everything will do, then it won't
do.
Jesus said, the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine, no
more can you.
I am the vine, ye are the branches,
he that abideth in me, and I'm him
the same.
I've always loved that word, the same.
Because it doesn't make a matter what your
name is, and it doesn't make a matter
what your academic standard is, and it doesn't
make a matter what your intelligence is.
If you can just abide in the vine,
it doesn't make a matter who you are,
the same.
You may be an old lady from the
hills, and you can't read or write.
If you can only learn to abide in
the all-sufficient one, you're going to bear.
Now, I want you to see this.
I am the vine, ye are the branches,
he that abideth in me, and I'm him
the same, bringer forth, now I've changed it
again, not fruit this time.
Because it talked about fruit, and then it
talked about more fruit, and it talked about
not fruit.
Now, when you go down to verse eight,
it says, Herein, herein, is my Father glorified,
that ye bear not fruit.
That's the way.
Yes, you see this old body, you see,
I have trusted Christ, I've got faith in
Christ.
And I'm learning, and I'm still learning that
everything I'm going to need right to the
last step of the journey, everything is found
in its totality in Christ.
And if I can just abide there, you
know about the vine and the branches, you
know the branch has to depend, that's a
great word, has to depend on the vine
in spring and summer and autumn and winter.
It has to depend all the time.
Yes, that's a great thing, you know.
But there's a little bit more about that,
because it says, he that keepeth his commandments
abideth in him.
I've almost got it, haven't I?
Because this whole big thing about abiding is
just trust and obey.
I've never learned any other thing.
I know this book from Genesis the Revelation.
You can come and talk to me about
holiness or higher life or superstantification or whatever
you like, and I will tell you, you
can't even talk about holiness.
They don't believe believers, baptism is a command.
If it's not, I can find it for
you.
I'll tell you this, you've got to obey.
And if you obey, you know, obey promptly.
And if you trust continually, then there'll be
much fruit.
Old picture came to me last Thursday night,
it says, you want to talk to me,
boy.
Everywhere you go, people are saying, what's the
secret?
They said, there's no secret.
I'm a bigger fool than you are.
I'm weaker than you are.
I'm nothing.
You seem to think there's something in me.
You won't have a better sense.
Weigh you and learn to trust the Lord
and obey Him.
That's all.
There's no secret at all.
It belongs to you too, if you trust
Him or you shouldn't.
And if you obey Him in every detail
and every command, then this came and bringeth
forth much fruit.
And herein is my Father glorified.
Paul had learned this.
This body was for the magnification of Christ.
By life or by death.
Somebody said to me, you've cursed the IRA,
you're going to get shot one of these
days.
What about it?
You don't think I shut up, do you?
Not a bit of me, I have no
notion of shutting up.
I shall say what God wants me to
say, no matter about anybody.
I talk to God about the things I
say and determine the second.
By life or by death, Christ shall be
magnified.
Yes, this body is the temple for the
spirit, for the habitation of the spirit.
I'm not my own.
I should glorify God in this temple.
Oh, can't you see what Paul realized?
That this body, this body of ours, this
total body, it's for the child God.
Have you got it now?
Now, we've got to get in the deeper
stuff than that.
I thought I should take the night along
that line.
Oh, there's a lot of things about this
body, you know.
You see, we've got to have a look
at Christ's glorious body, and all the wonders
that are there.
And then our immortal body, this body shall
put on immortality, and what a day that
will be.
Yes, she wants to play a bit of
music.
Very good.
We'll sing one verse of 637.
637, please.
My spirit, soul, and body, Jesus, I give
to thee consecrated offering, thine evermore to be.
My all is on the altar, Lord, I
am all thine own.
Oh, may my faith ne'er falter.
Lord, keep me thine alone.
637, listen for the tune, please.
Amen.
Don't forget these records of Eric, that's all.
Lord, we bow at thy feet.
We thank thee for this book.
What a wonderful book, Lord.
We thank thee for this body.
What a wonderful body.
Oh, Lord, help us to realize it's for
the triune God.
Help us, Lord, to magnify.
Help us to be the habitation that we
should.
Help us to glorify thee.
Part us in thy fear, and with thy
blessing take us to our homes in safety,
for thy name's sake.
Amen.