For the past eight weeks, we've been looking
at this great subject of demonology.
In that long word, just means the doctrine
of the devil and his angels.
That's what we have been looking at for
the past eight weeks.
And the first week we looked at Lucifer,
the leader of this great diabolical demon army.
And then we took one week on this
great word, principalities, and we found that these
principalities were really demon princes, because there's a
tremendous lot of princes among the demons.
You remember that Beelzebub was a prince of
the demons.
And we looked up their activity, because this
is one of the great armies that Satan
controls, these demon princes, and they work in
the political realms of this world.
They just go against the governments and the
parliaments.
They're out to deceive the nation.
And they must have a crowd of them
about Ulster at this time.
Sometimes I think they take the politicians around
in circles.
Never mind, that's not my realm.
Then we moved from principalities to powers, these
demon powers.
And we watched them coming against the physical
frames of some people.
There was a woman who was bound, bent
in two for eighteen years.
This daughter of Abraham whom Satan hath bound
these eighteen years.
Some people who were possessed by demons were
blinded.
Some were dumb.
But we watched them coming against the physical,
and we watched them one evening coming against
the mental realm.
Because demons come against folks' minds until they're
oppressed of the devil.
Jesus went about healing all who were oppressed
of the devil.
Do you know folks who were oppressed?
I know hundreds of them.
The woman of Canaan came and said, My
daughter lies at home grievously vexed.
Oh, there's a great one for you.
They're working in the mental realm.
Then we saw them coming not only against
the political and the physical and the mental,
we saw them coming against the spiritual.
Because you know if you're going to be
out and out for the Lord, then you'll
find yourself in a warfare.
And you've got to learn, of course, that
the weapons of your warfare are not carnal
but mighty through God.
You have to learn all about the wiles
of the devil.
You have to know what to do with
the fiery dots of the wicked.
You have to tremble when you hear the
roar of the lion.
You know how to deal with the angel
of light.
So we looked at these demon powers coming
against the physical and the mental and the
spiritual.
One evening we looked at Satan or the
devil and his angels coming against the eternal
Son of God.
How many charges he made right through that
whole lifetime of Christ on earth.
Right from he was a baby.
Right to the cross.
But not the cross.
The Lord Jesus met his own foes and
spoiled principalities and powers.
And then through death he destroyed him who
had the power of death, even the devil.
And then we've been looking not only at
Lucifer the leader and these principalities who are
princes in the political realm.
And these demon powers in the physical and
mental and spiritual and coming against the eternal
Son.
But we've been looking now for, this is
our second night, at the rulers of the
darkness of this world.
You see this is another army altogether.
My Satan has this army of his well
organized.
That he has a part of it going
against the political, a part of it against
the physical, the mental, the spiritual.
But he's got a great force that goes
against the evangelical, against the gospel.
They're called the rulers of the darkness of
this world.
Last Tuesday we looked at this word darkness
very carefully.
And we noted there's such a thing as
physical darkness where you go blind.
And there's such a thing as literal darkness
just like the darkness that's outside.
And then there's such a thing as mental
darkness.
Where the understanding is darkened.
Then there's such a thing as judicial darkness.
Why the sun refused to shine when Christ
was dying for my sins.
And when God comes in wrath in the
great tribulation on the nations of this world.
Why the sun will be darkened.
And the moon will even refuse to give
a light.
And the stars of the heavens shall fall.
It's a judgment day for this world.
And we learned that there was not only
physical and literal and mental.
We learned that there was such a thing
as eternal darkness.
Where people go to the blackness of darkness
forever.
Yes they do.
And let me tell the Russellites.
If people were being obliterated that would be
senseless to talk about them going to the
blackness of darkness forever.
What would be the use of using all
the adjectives.
But we found out that not only is
there such a thing as physical and literal
and mental and judicial and eternal.
We found out that the day we were
saved we were translated from the power of
darkness into the kingdom of God dear son.
And the word power is an old Greek
word which means authority.
Which means the kingdom.
So that we split this world in two
tonight.
And there's the kingdom of darkness on the
one side.
And there's the kingdom of God's dear son
on the other.
I wonder if I made everybody stand up
who were absolutely sure that they were translated.
Her money would be less fitting.
Now if you live in the kingdom of
God's dear son.
On this planet at this time.
The initial job for all of us believers.
Is to bring the light of the gospel
to them that sit in darkness.
Some of us can bring it because God
has gifted us to preach it.
And others have to bring it because they
have money to give towards the preaching of
the gospel.
And those who can neither preach nor have
pounds.
They usually can pray.
Need to pray you know.
I think this is an essential bit of
getting this gospel on.
And so all of us have got to
pray for an extra ferul.
Bringing the light of the gospel to those
that sit in darkness.
I was trying to educate the class last
week.
On just what the devil and his angels
do.
When a mighty effort is being made to
bring the light of the gospel.
And we found out that the God of
this world blinded the minds of them that
believe not less.
The light of the glorious gospel should shine
in.
And I went into this blinding last week.
Found out that Nicodemus who was a rabbi.
When you say ruler you say rabbi.
He was a rabbi among the Jews.
While he was a very clever fellow in
many ways.
The old devil had his mind so blinded.
That he didn't even know his need.
This is the thing that you must get
the hold of.
As you are a gospel preacher.
You are preaching to people sometimes.
And they don't even know the need.
If you say to the minister.
Then they don't even know what you are
talking about.
And you remember the rich young ruler.
Oh he was so anxious.
He ran.
He marched.
He was the fellow that kept all the
commandments manward.
And I think he was a nice character
in many ways.
And when the Lord Jesus tested him you
know.
He said go and show all that you
have.
And give to the poor and come and
follow me.
And he found out in a split second.
The thing that was lacking.
The thing that was lacking was this.
He neither loved God nor man.
Because Christ was God and he wasn't following
him.
And man was poor and he wasn't giving
him his money.
Sometimes you find people.
Who come to meetings and get all excited.
And they don't know their own hearts.
And you have got to expose it for
them.
When the prodigal came home.
He thought he was too bad to be
saved.
It's the devil's plot.
Oh I've met hundreds of people.
They think they're too bad to be saved.
Oh you'll never get beyond the reach of
grace you know.
Where sin abounded grace did not.
Then there are some people in this world.
And they think they're too good to be
lost.
By when they're shut out at that day.
And the doors shut they'll knock.
And they'll say Lord.
Open up the door.
We have eaten and drunk in my name.
And in thy name we have even coughed.
The devil will say.
Never knew you.
He didn't say I used to know you.
And I don't know you neither.
I never knew you.
There are a whole lot of religious creatures
running about.
And they're going to hell.
They're playing with religion all the day.
Going down the slopes to hell.
And the door will shut in their face.
And they'll wonder what's up.
Oh well the Lord will explain it to
them.
Up the great white throne when he opens
the books.
He'll just tell them all about it.
So we looked at this grinding last week.
And that's where we have to stop in
the north.
And we're going on a bit more with
this sheet of north.
I don't think we'll get to the end
of them tonight.
But we'll just go as far as we
feel God should make us go.
There are no times when I can't be
tried or muddled or anything like that.
I'm out for the night.
I don't know about you.
I thought I'd put this stew on about
eleven.
Oh well.
There it is.
Let's go to Luke's gospel to start this
evening.
Will it Luke's gospel?
Chapter eight please.
And the Lord Jesus is preaching here.
Verse four.
Just to get the proper connection.
And when much people were gathered together, and
were come to him out of every city,
he stayed by a barrable.
And this is the barrable.
The sower went out to sow his seed.
And as he sowed, some fell by the
wayside.
And it was trodden down, and the fowls
of the air devoured it.
Some fell upon a rock, and as soon
as it was sprung up it withered away,
because it lacked moisture.
Some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang
up with it and choked it.
Others fell on good ground and sprang up
and barefoot and hundredfold.
And when he had said these things, he
cried, He that hath ears to hear, let
him hear.
And his disciples asked him, saying, What might
this barrable be?
And he said, Unto you it is given
to know the mysteries of the kingdom of
God, and don't get worried by the word
mysteries.
It just means the revelations of the kingdom
of God.
You remember Paul talking to the Corinthians and
saying, Behold, I show unto you a mystery.
Oh, it was something you couldn't understand.
It would be silly to say, I show
unto you.
The mysteries of the kingdom are just truths
that God reveals that would never have dawned
upon any human intelligence on its own.
You see, there is the mystery of godliness.
Why, we would never have thought that God
would have come down and walked on this
earth in flesh.
God manifested.
And the mystery that Paul was talking about,
I show unto you a mystery, was just
this.
We shall not all sleep, you know.
All the believers will not die.
You know, we may get out of this
planet yet without dying.
It would never have dawned on anybody on
the road.
Everybody thinks, or every unsaved body thinks, that
everybody is going to die.
No, we're not.
Moses said to me, you'll not get out
of this without dying.
Would you be too sure now?
Because I might rise to meet the Lord
in the air.
Oh, to go without dying.
And so he's saying to them, unto you
it is given to know the mysteries of
the kingdom of God, but to others in
parables, that seeing they might not see, and
hearing they might not understand.
And then he began to explain this.
Now the parable is this.
The seed is the word of God.
Now, there are other translations of that word,
word.
Some of the translations translate it like this.
Now the seed is the saying of God.
Because I think that you can see that
the word of God and the saying of
God is just the same thing.
But it's getting you near the truth.
There's another translation which says, Now the seed
is the message, because the word, the
saying, the message, there's all a oneness about
them.
They're allowed to translate like that.
But I think, you know, when you begin
to see this, you don't think so much
about a book, the word of God.
You are thinking about a message that God
is sending.
It's the gospel he's talking about.
That's what we go with.
We're going to Saul in the kingdom of
darkness.
It's the gospel we take.
Now the seed is the message of God.
Those by the wayside are they that hear.
You see, these rulers of the darkness of
this world, it is this great demon army
who are dedicated to keep this world in
darkness.
Now the rulers, that's a mighty word, of
the darkness of this world.
So that when I stand up here Sunday
by Sunday to preach the message of the
gospel, I just know exactly what their enemy
is.
For the half an hour I need to
punch in, you know.
I know there's a mighty force resting on
me.
And it gives me the greatest delight in
the world to battle them.
They're not afraid of them, you know.
And I know that first of all, I've
got to get the message in through the
darkness.
Not just praying with words or headings.
I've got to get this message in through
the darkness.
The God of this world has to end
the truth.
But I also know, you know, that when
I have got it in the truth, the
devil doesn't run away.
He will take it out again if he
can't.
Because he doesn't only try to stop it.
He tries to steal it.
Ah yes, you young preachers must sit up
and take notes.
Because you don't only need to know what
you're preaching, but you need to know what
you're up against, don't you?
Well he tries to stop it getting in,
and we looked at that, how he tried
to stop it getting in.
Now here you can see quite clear, those
by the way, say they that hear the
gospel, then comeeth the devil and taketh away
the word out of their hearts.
Left!
What's he afraid of?
You see, if you preach the gospel right,
if you preach Christ and him crucified, if
you testify the gospel like this, that Christ
died for our sins, that he was buried,
and the third day he rose again according
to the scriptures.
You know, if you can get this in
through the darkness, and you bring Christ to
these people, the devil knows, oh wait a
minute for you friends that get afraid at
times.
You know the devil knows that if you
believe you're the saviour, he takes away the
word out of their hearts, listen to it,
lest they should believe I'm the saviour.
That's his knowledge.
He knows and I know.
I know when I bring you Christ, that
Christ who died and was buried and rose
again, I know that if you accept him
as your saviour, I know this, the minute
you believe you'll be saved and so does
the devil.
The two of us know.
Now if I've got it in, he's got
to get it out, lest you should believe.
See the job or the bottle it should
be called, if Christ has stopped at getting
it, and if he can't stop at his
privacy.
Now we looked at how he tried to
stop it, with blinding the mind of Nicodemus
so that he didn't know his need, and
blinding the mind of the rich young ruler
so that he didn't know his heart, blinding
the prodigal until he thought, well I'm too
bad to be saved, and blinding these other
religious hypocrites until they thought they were too
good to be lost and he blinded them.
Now how does he get this seed out
again?
This is the bit we need to know.
We've got to fight this properly.
You know there's a man in the meeting
now, and I'm sure if I asked him
to stand up he would stand up alright,
but we don't need exhibitions.
You know he told me this, which I
preached in the Wellington Hall when I was
on a mission with great victorious people of
the Church when the late Stuart of very
hallowed memories was there.
And those were great days because we went
to the Wellington Hall because the Church was
being rebuilt in fact, and we kept the
meetings at the same time as the other
meetings at seven o'clock on Sunday night,
and we were filling the Wellington Hall into
the Minor Hall with maybe fourteen or fifteen
hundred people at seven o'clock, and there
was some drawing on a Sunday evening.
There's a businessman who's in the meeting now.
And the fellow he was doing business with
then, he went in to sell him, I'll
say shirts, that's not exactly what he sells,
and I don't want to put you on
this trail too tight, but we'll say he
went in to sell his wares, and the
fellow said to him, did you ever hear
Willie Moseley?
He says, I've had a lot of bottles,
I've never had.
Didn't you go with me and tell him
that?
No.
He says, I sold him a lot of
stuff, and I think I sold him because
I said it was gone.
That's the sort of way it goes sometimes.
He says, I went along, and you preached
on the horrors of hell, and the only
one who could save me from the horrors
of hell.
He said there were two things were absolutely
clear to me.
I could see the place I was going
to, and I could see the person, the
only person who could save me from God.
So I must have been getting about the
job.
I'd got it through the darkness, all right.
He says, I trembled in my shoes.
I knew it was God.
I knew my hour had come.
I never thought it would come like that.
He said I had to hide the tears
when I got in the car.
He said to me, what about it?
He says, he's a pretty tough preacher, isn't
he?
He says, you'll come home for tea.
Home for tea.
He says, I was sure he would ask
me the right to proceed.
And when we got in and he introduced
me to the wife, and we went into
the big room, he started the tough business.
And from then till 12 o'clock, that
mighty tough business.
Do you know what he would do?
The devil was using him now to take
the seed out of me.
And if you only take people to meetings
for your business, I hope you'll stop it.
No, you're no servant of the Lord at
all.
You're a cook.
You're only bluffing your way around.
And he was stealing the seed.
The old devil was using him now.
There was a young lad in the meeting
here, you know, just at this moment.
And I led him to the Lord about
two years ago.
And as we knelt, I could feel him
trembling.
He really trembled and gave his heart to
the Lord.
And when I got off of my knees
and he sat on the chair, I said,
John, and that's not his name.
I said, how is it you weren't saved
long ago?
He says, do you remember?
Do you remember some time ago that you
preached on the great white throne one night?
He says, you know, that night I should
have been saved.
You see, I'm always anxious to know what
happens.
He says, I've learned all my life.
I says, what happened to you?
He says, you see, I knew the Lord
had spoken to me.
I should be saved.
I got into the car with my daddy
and mommy.
And daddy and mommy are here too, you
know.
And my daddy said, weren't those fingers a
crook?
And he started to ridicule the fingers.
I'll have to go very easy here because
I'll start trouble.
Nora wasn't the organist, so you're in the
clear.
He says, wasn't that a sister of an
organist?
I said, okay, don't move.
And he says, my mama helped him.
And the two of them criticized the meeting
the whole way home.
And I gave it up.
Do you know what you are doing now,
do you?
They were looking for the devil that night.
Well, if she does it, you're a resource,
aren't you?
It may have been in hell.
Only the Lord was gracious.
My, Summer, you do open your mouth, don't
you?
Sometimes when I stand behind this platform and
see the gospel going in mighty power, I'm
an old-fashioned warrior, you know.
I watch the people go down there, and
then I see something.
And I watch the expressions on their faces.
I feel like hunting something.
You don't know anything about fishing.
It's your trouble.
You don't sit on the bank and throw
stones in the water when you're fishing, you
know.
Oh, I've seen the sea been stolen before
many, before my eyes.
I know people who brought folk to the
meeting, and they were convicted and took them
home.
And they had such a spread and such
a party and such a hallelujah night that
the whole thing was over.
And all that.
Now, you learn them now.
You must be very careful, you know, with
sinners.
You're not there to clown with sinners.
You can take the feet off them.
The devil can use you.
So you see that sometimes he stops it
and sometimes he steals it.
And even when it gets in and he
can't get out of it, he doesn't give
up, you know.
Sometimes he swallows it.
Oh, he chokes it.
The cares of the richest.
He chokes it.
Oh, I learned my business, you know, when
I learned it.
I learned how to preach the gospel and
every other thing connected with it when I
learned it.
I know it's Christ I need to preach
all the time.
I know I've got to get it past
the darkness.
I know that it's not by my might
or my persuasive powers, if I ever had
any.
I know it's not by might or by
power.
I know it's by the Holy Ghost.
I know the devil will try to stop
it, but I know that I can beat
him.
I know he will try to steal it.
And he can always get enough mugs around
the gospel meeting to help him out.
I know he will try to smother it,
and I've seen it done.
I'm only using things that I know, where
the young fellow saved him not long ago.
And if I don't do easy, you'll get
this.
Big boy, strong, 17, knelt with me, trembled,
gave his heart to the Lord.
Went home and said, Mommy, I got saved.
Of course, she was running about with the
teddy boys then.
She says, I'm delighted.
Put your hands on them.
Where did you get saved?
In the back.
My God, you didn't go to the Baptist.
Oh, delighted to see him saved.
All right.
But not he.
She says, you'll never put your foot in
it again.
Hell, I've knocked the leg out again.
Goodness gracious.
Oh, we're home back in work again.
You're okay.
Yes.
Oh, no, he'd never come here.
She took him to the big church when
they had a dead minister.
We had a big fellow saved here not
so very long ago.
Went home.
I'll tell you where he is tonight.
He's drinking up the town with his father.
And his father beat him.
He says, you'll never go back.
You'll come to the Brutus with me.
He's smart.
He likes names and addresses.
He's like a top of my choice.
Oh, still fighting a battle.
Oh, some of the old badgers are out
there to get you.
You wouldn't know a thing about it if
you think it's a Sunday night.
It's too much to stay at home.
We happen to be fighting a battle here
all the time when you're sleeping.
And down through the years, there's been hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of them.
You see, demons don't only grind the mines.
They steal the sheep.
We'd go to the Philippines.
And we're at the third chapter.
Letter to the Philippines.
And we're at the third chapter.
And Paul writing to this church at Philippi.
Verse 17, he said.
Third chapter, verse 17.
Brethren.
You can see he's writing to believers.
Brethren, be followers together of me.
It's a man to be pretty near the
heels of the Lord to talk like that.
Be followers together of me.
And mark them which walk so as ye
have us for an example.
For many walk of whom I have told
you often, and now tell you even weeping,
that they are the enemies of the cross
of Christ.
You see, there are men down here who
are enemies of the cross of Christ.
Because I believe, you see, that in this
battle, the rulers of the darkness, these demon
powers that work for Satan, they don't only
grind the mines and steal the sheep.
They oppose the cross.
You know, I'm going to say one or
two good things just now, and I'll make
no apology whatsoever.
I've held my own here for 20 years.
And I've never muzzled, I've never been muzzled,
and I never will.
If you don't like it, you'll no need
to come back.
We don't give profits whether you do or
not.
Say it louder than you.
You're getting weaker, that's for sure.
You see, when anyone opposes any of the
fundamentals of the faith, they oppose the cross.
You see, the virgin birth happens to be
a fundamental of the faith.
And old Weatherhead, he was one of the
presidents of the Methodist church, you know.
And if you're a Methodist, you should blush.
That's what you should do.
And I'll tell you what he said, and
if you don't believe me, I'll find you
wearing rooters.
He said that John the Baptist's father, who
is Zacharias, he said, Zacharias shut the virgin
Mary up in the temple and kept her
there for three months until he knew she
was pregnant.
And that's where Christ came from.
It's blasphemy, it's blasphemy of the deepest dying.
It's blasphemy not only against Christ, it's blasphemy
against Mary and against John the Baptist's father.
His book says that Zacharias walked in all
the commandments of God blameless.
Old Weatherhead never did.
I'll tell you, if he was committing adultery
with a wee girl from Galilee, he would
not be blameless.
He would have broken the commandments.
Another of the modernists said that Christ was
born of a German soldier who took Mary
out one night.
My, it's enough to make your blood run
cold, isn't it?
One of the modernists says that the father
was Zacharias.
Another old blasphemer, he says it was a
German soldier.
How would he know it was a German?
They just love to belittle Christ.
Now watch me very closely.
If either of these modernists, and there are
many others that we can't take time to
bring into this, if either of them were
right, I'll tell you this.
First of all, Zacharias would be a bad
man committing adultery.
Secondly, if Mary lay down with either Zacharias
or a German soldier, she's a bad woman.
If Jesus Christ is born of either one
of them, he's a bastard.
Don't you shift in your seat.
That's an English word in your dictionary.
If we don't know the father of a
child, bastard is the word.
All the children are soft.
If either Zacharias or a German soldier was
the father of Jesus Christ, then Jesus Christ
was a sinner.
He was born of a sinful mother by
a sinful father.
He's a sinner.
This book that I read out of, it's
a fraud.
The book tells me it was the Holy
Ghost that came upon the virgin, and she
conceived and brought hope to some.
If the woman is a bad woman, if
the father is a bad man, if the
child is a bastard, if the book is
a liar, I can tell you this, the
cross is no use.
You can't go home and go nearby there.
Let's shut the place and spend the money.
These men are enemies of the cross.
Then you'll want to honk them or get
out of it.
What are you stopping us for?
We need to get out of that sort
of thing.
Let one of the Baptists in the north
of Ireland speak like that, and I leave
this church or this church leave them.
That name will not be out there anymore.
He put up with that for a second.
I'd take the brush from that fellow down
there that brushes the streets and do it
gladly.
It's all nonsense like that.
And some of you half-blind, old fools
of Nazareth, you're stuck in it.
You won't get out.
You would not run along, would you?
I'd stand up for old Rutherhead and Soper.
Wouldn't you?
Soper wrote in a book that our Lord
threatened with merely...
Yeah, I told you.
They're enemies of the cross, and you don't
think I put on thick gloves for this
game, do you?
You know what old Nicholson said.
If you want the cat to catch mice,
don't go putting weapons on it.
Yes.
I think you've got the hold of that,
you know.
Men are enemies of the cross, lest...
You see, this is not lifting Christ up.
This is lapping Christ down.
You know, we'll go another step further tonight.
Not only look at the blinding of the
minds and the feeding of the feet and
the opposing of the cross.
Let's have a look at this bit for
a moment.
Come to 1 Timothy, chapter 4, please.
1 Timothy, and we're at the 4th chapter,
verse 1.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly.
Isn't that a great phrase?
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly.
I will tell you what Knox, the Roman
Catholic translator, put forth.
Mind you, it's a great translation that it
is.
Here's how he put it.
Now the Spirit speaketh with inspiration.
That's what expressly just means.
With inspiration.
Oh, Knox got it all right.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the
latter times, and I'm sure we're in the
latter times, some shall depart from the faith.
And when we talk about the faith, we're
talking about the whole body of truth that
has been given to us.
They shall depart from the fundamental.
And his reason, giving heed to seducing spirits
and doctrines of devils.
Oh, that's the mighty phrase that's there, isn't
it?
Doctrines of devils.
You see, that's the teachings of devils.
Of course you would know that the devil
couldn't teach the truth, that he was a
liar from the beginning.
So what these demons are doing, they're corrupting
the truth.
I think that probably this is where we
have the biggest and most toughest bit of
the battle.
I know when the devil grinds the minds,
it's tough.
I know when he gets silly folks to
steal away the sheep, or smother it.
I know that these men who are the
enemies of the cross, who oppose the cross,
I know they're hard to battle with.
But I think in these last days we're
going to see more of this than anything
else.
We're going to see these seducing spirits in
the last days, so the Spirit expressly tells
us.
And these doctrines of demons or devils, you
can see what they'll do, speaking lies in
hypocrisy.
Auld Williams, the Quaker translation, translates it like
this, speaking lies with a straight face.
Great old character, that.
Speaking lies with a straight face.
There are thousands of them around.
Having their conscience shared with the hot iron.
I hear some of the doctrines, and it's
only some remember, forbidding to marry, and commanding
to abstain from meat.
Of course, you know that the Roman Catholic
Church has taught that for a long time.
Because they forbid their priests to marry.
And there are certain days when they command
that meat should not be taken at all.
But I think that this is going to
get more deep than that, even in the
last days.
You see, we've come to a place that
they call the permissive society.
Oh, yes.
They talk out loud now against marriage.
I try to teach the young ones you
shouldn't get married.
You just go and live with some old
fellow for a while, and if it doesn't
suit you, clear out.
Now let me talk to all the young
ones for a moment or two about what
God says about marriage, and what Christ says
about marriage, what the Holy Ghost says about
marriage.
Let's go back to Matthew's Gospel for a
moment.
We're at chapter 19.
Matthew's Gospel, chapter 19, verse
3.
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him.
They were always trying to trap him, saying
unto him, Is it lawful for a man
to put his way as wife for every
cause?
And he answered and said unto them, See
how cleverly the master answered, Have ye not
read?
See, the answer to all your problems is
in the book, you know.
They only read it.
Have ye not read that he which made
them at the beginning made them male and
female?
They didn't come from monkeys, you know.
They were made.
In case you don't know what the word
made means, it means created, not evolved.
But we'll see that in a moment.
And the one who created them, male and
female, said, he spoke to them, he said,
For this cause shall a man leave father
and mother and shall crave for his wife.
Do you know what the God of creation
did?
He ordained marriage.
I suppose there's a lot of the little
fellows at home who think they know better
than God.
God brought these two together and he that
made them said, For this cause, they're drawn
together, For this cause shall a man leave
father and mother and let him get the
hold of it and shall crave for his
wife.
And if you're a father or you're a
mother in this meeting, like me, as you
have children in the market, if the hover
rose from right back there and they come
trotting to the house, knock on the door,
leave them home again.
Let them crave.
Oh, my dear friends, I think that sometimes
the fathers and mothers encourage the thing.
You're taught in this book that your sons
should crave for his wife.
Don't you be interfering with it.
That's what God ordered.
Yes, he did.
You know this, don't you, without me levelling
it out too far, that our Lord Jesus
Christ went to our marriage feast, blessed it
both by his presence and his power and
his word.
You know what the Holy Ghost says about
marriage in this book?
It says marriage is honourable.
That's what the Holy Ghost says.
I just bow before the Creator and before
the Saviour and before the Comforter and I
say your ideas of marriage are mine.
This permissive society is baloney.
These young girls will take a hand over
you and fool you on the shelf when
they're finished with you.
It would be better to go God's way.
And this talk about me, you know.
Oh, I think we can take a moment.
You're all right for a moment to nod
your head.
That's it.
Twice.
That's good.
I've got perfect liberty.
Did you say amen?
Amen.
That's good.
We're okay for another hour then, for an
hour.
All right.
You know, when I was preaching in Woodstock,
New Brunswick, Canada, oh, there was an old
fellow came in to lecture me one evening,
said to me, I'd like to have a
talk with you, Mr. Mullen.
I said, that's nice.
He said, can I come home with you
this evening?
I said, certainly.
Brought him home.
I was living with James McElroy in a
motel and they made the food and it
didn't make a mutter of a many.
Came home, it didn't bother me.
So it was okay.
He said to me yesterday as I passed
through that hotel where you were with the
gentleman, I saw you eating meat.
I said, I eat everything I get my
hands on.
He said, I think you need to be
instructed a little in the Scriptures.
I said, well, that's okay, brother.
So long as you put your Bible on
the table and not mine at this side.
So he put the Bible down and I
saw the fellow and I put my, it's
a sword fight now and I knew he
was going to get the worst of it,
you know.
Because he was going to have some blows
with the sword that I'd seen a thousand
times before and I knew I'd taken the
ear or two off him before this thought
would be over.
But this is how he did it and
I wanted to do it for you so
that if somebody does it then you'll know
where you are, how you feel.
So he took me back.
He said, have a look at Genesis chapter
1.
Now you have a look at Genesis chapter
1 and this is the sixth day and
it's verse 26.
And God said, let us make man in
our image.