I've had all who read Sybil Baxter's Wake
My Heart this morning.
Only one.
Well, well, well.
That's probably because I read it too.
There it is.
But you know, I'd like you to get
that book.
I think it's about $4.95 or something,
probably.
The $5 really was spent on A Wake
My Heart by Sybil Baxter.
And this morning his text is Psalm 55,
22.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
shall sustain thee.
And you'd have thought that Sybil was right
here with us in this particular meeting.
Things are just tearing in so beautifully, you
know.
One thing he said really got me was
this.
As you commit, as you yield yourself to
Him, you unload your burden upon Him.
Now, isn't that lovely?
No, it is to unload the burden apart
from your yielding yourself.
As you yield yourself, commit yourself to Him,
so you unload the burden upon Him.
He's not only the sin bearer, He's the
burden bearer too.
Our dear Daddy got home from his work
one day.
He's carrying a great big parcel.
And so his little daughter met him at
the door and said, Daddy, please pick me
up.
Oh, he said, Daddy, I can't pick you
up.
See, I got this parcel.
Oh, Daddy, just please pick me up.
I want you to carry.
I can't carry you, Daddy, because I got
this parcel.
Then at last, he said, it's for your
mother.
Well, as they said, Daddy, I'll tell you
what, Daddy, just you let me hold the
parcel, then you can carry me too.
Have you got that?
Just let me hold the parcel, then you
can carry me too.
Now, that's the thought of coming, and as
we yield our lives entirely to Him, so
then we find He carries the burden.
I love that, you know.
That meant a lot to me.
But now as we go back to verse
number 5, where it says, The Lord is
the portion of my inheritance.
He maintains my cause.
That's what it says here.
Let me read it.
The Lord is the portion of my inheritance
and of my cup.
Thou maintainest my lot.
The lines are fallen to me in pleasant
places.
Yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Now, you will remember the children of Bethel
as the land of promise is theirs by
inheritance.
Now, get that.
It was theirs by inheritance.
But now they must realize they had to
enter in and possess this inheritance.
And every place they put the sole of
their feet, that belonged to them.
Now, please get it.
It was theirs by inheritance.
But they had to enter in and possess
that inheritance.
Now, all that God has for you and
has for me has been given to us
in His own beloved Son.
The darling of His own heart.
I want you to get that.
So, beloved, we must appropriate by faith all
that God has provided for us in His
beloved Son.
God will never give us anything apart from
the Lord Jesus Christ.
All that God has for us, all we
can ever expect to be, is all because
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
His work upon the cross and His work
now at God's right hand.
Please let that sink in for one moment
because it fits in so beautifully with what
we had a little earlier today.
We come to recognize the glorious fact that
the Lord Jesus, God finds all His delight,
all His satisfaction, all His pleasure in Him.
And just to think that God has given
to us the very delight of His own
heart and with Him has given us all
that we need both for time and for
all eternity.
Oh, what a privileged people.
What a wealthy people we really are because
of His matchless grace.
Way yonder at the model castle, the Scottish
residence of the Queen, on the estate there
was a dear lady.
She had one son whose name was Charles.
And he said to his mother, she was
a dear widow, says, I'm going across to
Australia and I'll try and make good, I'll
try and be as kind as I possibly
can, mother.
She wasn't too keen about his going away,
but he went.
Some days afterward, another some months afterward, about
11 months afterward, the factor of the estate,
I went down and just paid her a
little visit.
Says, how are you getting on, Mrs. Brown?
Oh, says, very well.
Says, you know, I'm Miss Charles.
I miss him very much.
No, she said, he was my breadwinner.
Well, but do you ever hear from him?
Oh, yes, faithfully right.
And faithfully, once a month, he sends me
a pretty picture.
A pretty picture.
And so, she says, but doesn't he send
you any money?
Says, no, he always sends me a pretty
picture, but pretty picture is pretty dry eating,
isn't it?
Says, it can't buy very much.
So the fact is, may I see those
pretty pictures?
And so, she got all the 11 letters,
all tied up with lovely pink ribbon, typical
mother, you see, coming from her son.
And so, he got them done.
Now, I don't want to read the letters,
Mrs. Brown.
I only want to see those pretty pictures.
And there they were.
He put them all up on the table.
He said, Mrs. Brown, I knew Charles was
an honest boy, a straightforward boy, his integrity
far above par.
And he said, you know, he has not
let you down.
Mrs. Brown, these pretty pictures are all his
trillion banknotes.
They're all his trillion banknotes.
To her, they were just pretty pictures.
And then, my friend, you see what I'm
getting at?
And there are so many people that see
this wonderful life in Christ Jesus, they stand
back and admire it, and all the time,
they are going round like spiritual paupers.
When the Lord wanted the cash in, my
friend, this morning, and appropriately always provided for
us, in the dying of his own beloved
son.
This illustration, alas, it is borrowed.
I got it from the late Harold Harper,
a man whom I'm greatly indebted to.
To me, one of the finest Bible teachers
or expositors you had on this continent.
I miss him very much.
But anyway, dear Mr. Harper, told this illustration
about a man going away in a Mediterranean
cruise.
And he took with him on this cruise
packages of crackers and some cream cheese.
He didn't want to be hungry as he
went on this particular cruise, so he took
these things along with him.
After two days, and of course, the point
was, some of the folks said to him,
how are you getting on in the cruise?
Always said, wonderful sailing, beautiful weather.
But he said, those crackers and cream cheese
are getting rather stale.
Aren't you going down and enjoying the meals
we're having in the dining room?
Why, we're having four courses for breakfast, just
about as good, beloved, as Luke's mountain.
And they say we're having as many at
seven for lunch, and as many as eight
and nine we're having for dinner.
Oh, yes, I know.
Every time I pass by that dining room,
that smell comes up, makes me ever so
hungry.
Prince, I can't afford it.
You can't afford it?
No, it's, I can't afford it, so I
can't go down.
Isn't that, haven't you got your ticket?
Says, yes, I got my ticket, all right.
But he says, still I can't afford to
go down and have my meals.
And the man looks at him, man, don't
you realize all your meals are included in
your ticket?
Says, pardon?
Says, don't you know all your meals are
included in your ticket?
You know what happened to crackers and cream
cheese, don't you?
He just went overboard, and he went down
to the next meal, and my, didn't he
have a wonderful day again?
May I pause you one moment?
You may say, oh, the stupidity of that
man.
May I just pause?
What about you?
Now, let's be honest.
What about you?
Are we just like that man?
All that God has for us is treasure
documents, a diary of His own, speaking readily,
when we receive Christ, we receive the ticket,
and everything God has with it.
Isn't it just amazing?
He is my peace.
He is my love.
He is my life.
He is my liberty.
He is my purity.
He is my victory.
All that God has for me is treasured
up in the Lord Jesus Christ, for He
wants me to enter in and to appropriate
by simple faith all that wonderful vision He's
made for us.
No one little voice says, the Lord is
my shepherd.
That's enough.
Now, isn't that true?
The Lord is my shepherd.
That's quite enough.
And we can truthfully say, my God shall
supply all your needs according to, not out
of the abundance of, but according to His
riches and glory in Christ Jesus.
Oh, let some of you wonder that, come
over to our spirit life again, as we
go back to this text.
Why?
The Lord is the portion, my neighbors, and
of my cup.
This wonderful cup of salvation, this wonderful cup
of deliverance, I trust we've all known the
joy of drinking from the cup of salvation.
Remember, beloved, for the Lord Jesus, He was
a cup of the wrath of God.
And He drank that cup right up to
its biggest bit of dregs.
And now nothing but blessing is left for
us.
Nothing but love.
Oh, come today and receive the cup of
His salvation.
Drink, my friend, at that cup of salvation,
and know the joy of this wonderful deliverance,
and enter in to your wonderful inheritance.
The Lord maintains my love.
Isn't this lovely?
Then you can truthfully say, the lines are
falling onto me in pleasant places.
I know a couple with us here who
live in the park of the palms.
And you know, it's a wonderful place.
One of the best places this side of
heaven I know.
I go there quite a bit, and I
appreciate it every time.
But you know...
Pardon?
Halfway to heaven.
Halfway.
It's halfway to heaven.
Very good.
But you know, they go into the swimming
pool fairly early in the morning, and last
thing at night.
And you know He said to her the
other night, the moon was shining, that little
breeze was going through the trees, the birds
were chirping, there was a little storm, the
stars all twinkled up there in the heaven,
and everything just lent itself to romance, everything
just so confused.
He said, you know, Vera, He said, you
know, you know, the Lord has placed us
a line in pleasant places.
Isn't it wonderful?
Right there in the swimming pool.
Oh!
Oh, well, I think that is just wonderful,
eh?
Right here on Lukat Mountain, again the lines
are falling onto us in pleasant places.
And the thought, here is the boundary line,
there is the promised land, cut off by
a spring, severed here, and all the Lord
could say, the Lord is in the lines
that have fallen onto me in pleasant places.
Dear John, the cup of salvation.
You know, the job is wonderful delivered, and
all the wonderful inherits you because you are
complete in Christ.
You are made full in Christ.
And our dear brother said to me, oh
dear, this morning, he said, when the Christians
realize, when they realize, there are two words,
commitment and submission.
And when there is commitment and submission, then
you know what he said, Mr. Tinker, you
know what he said to me?
He said, you know, the Lord gave me
such joy as I speak that I don't
think the human body can take anymore.
Now, isn't that just wonderful?
There is a man getting on in years,
dear lady, too.
I know the joy of this ministry for
years and years, but he said, you know,
the Lord is so real and so precious,
he said, I don't think the human body
can take anymore.
Now, have you got salvation like this?
There is a joy you've got like this.
See, happiness depends upon happenings.
If my circumstances are favorable and continual, then
I'm happy.
But should a north wind of adversity blow
in upon my circumstances, as it did last
night for Ray Harper, Ray Harper, remember, in
the picture, as a north wind of adversity
blow in, then I lose all my happiness.
But, beloved, joy does not depend upon circumstances.
Joy does not depend upon surrounding or environment.
Joy depends upon a relationship to a person.
And that person is Jesus Christ.
And no circumstance can alter that.
There was Paul, remember, in that Roman dungeon.
We were in that Roman dungeon a few
months ago, right there in Rome.
We saw the very change that mangled the
wrist of that dear man.
And we saw the very stop to which
his feet had been placed, his back had
been lashed, and his eyesight had failed him.
And yet that man writes in the letter
to the Philippians, 19 times, oh joy!
He knew the joy, beloved.
Paul had a happy night of turning adversity
into advantage.
He turned opposition into opportunity.
He turned the prison into a pulpit.
He turned persecution into praise.
Why?
Because he was in right relationship with the
Lord Jesus Christ.
And I warned you to get that.
And when we are in a right relationship
with Jesus Christ, He is the unspeakable gift.
And with Him He gives us unspeakable joy.
A joy unspeakable.
And He gives us foretaste of the unspeakable
glory.
And you can but see with my heart
here during these days, if this glimpse of
love is so divinely sweet, what is it
going to be about?
His gladdening smile to me.
Yes, about His tranquility.
Oh, the wonder!
Oh, the joy!
Oh, the ecstasy!
In anticipation of that moment when we are
going to see Him.
And we are going to be alive.
And the last verse of the psalms is
that fullness of joy and the pleasure forevermore.
But we know something about that right here
now, don't we?
Oh, the sweet.
As our brother said this morning, He is
giving us now the earnest.
The earnest.
We've got the earnest of the inheritance.
And the earnest is so precious.
What's the full realization going to be?
So wonderful, said, I have not seen His
ear heard.
He has entered the heart of man.
Oh, that God prepared for them to love
Him.
But He revealed to us by His Spirit.
Oh, the wonder!
And when the Queen of Sheba came, I've
seen all the glory and the majesty and
all the loveliness and all the wealth of
that dear man Solomon.
She said there was no small strength left
in her.
And she cried, Why, the half has never
yet been told.
And when we get home to glory and
receive in all His glory, Oh, we'll be
just lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Say, why, Jimmy, you never told me half.
Why, Zin, you never told me half of
the glory in that coming day.
Aren't you glad you're a Christian?
Aren't you glad you're a child of God?
Aren't you in the good?
Aren't you just enduring it?
Are you just enduring your salvation?
Are you enjoying Christ?
Is there reality to you every moment of
every day?
I love that, don't you?
A little farther, shall we?
I'm still in the same verse, verse number
six now.
The lines have fallen on the unpleasant places.
Yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Some years ago, quite a number of years
ago now, way back in Britain, we were
doing some visitation work from door to door
with one of the elders in the assembly.
We were inviting people into the crusade, and
a man over a few comes and says
to me, says, excuse me, but is your
name Boswell?
I said, yes, that's my name.
He said, are you in a relation to
the Boswells?
You used to live in this area forty
-five years ago.
I scratched my head and said, I'm afraid
I can't remember back as far as forty
-five years.
And then, I mean the circus people.
Now, that put me in a dilemma.
I said, I certainly don't know.
Well, he said, we've been watching you, and
you resemble Esther Boswell very much.
And he said, if you belong to that
tribe, you're coming into a wonderful inheritance before
long.
All I could think were these words, I
have a goodly heritage, the Lord is a
portion of my inheritance.
By the way, I never tried to find
out whether I belonged to the circus tribe
or not.
But sometimes, when Peter, our son, was much
younger than he is today, and I used
to watch him go through his acrobatics, I
began to wonder, did I really belong?
But here it is, and please go down
to the next verse.
Verse number seven.
Now, notice this, will you please?
The Lord now is the life of your
life.
He is the life of my life.
Now, again, we are complete in Him, and
He, by His Spirit, lives in us.
Now, let me ask you lovingly, have you
realized this truth?
I don't mean theoretically.
I don't mean doctrinally.
I don't mean scripturally.
I mean as a definite spiritual reality, the
witness of your spirit, that He lives in
you.
Please notice, one of the first evidences of
the filling of the Holy Spirit, He gives
us a noble awareness of the presence of
the indwelling Christ.
I was speaking some time ago at a
conference at Hackensack in New Jersey.
John Smart and the late Richard Hill were
the other two speakers.
Mr. Hill said he wanted to speak first.
I never heard that dear man speak before.
I heard him many times after that, but
not until then.
And he had listened to me speaking many
times, but I never heard him speak.
I was so glad he said he wanted
to speak first.
And, you know, I was so taken with
his lovely flow of the English language.
His words were so choice, so rare, so
fresh, not a word out of place.
And I was so enthralled with this.
Had you asked me what he was talking
about, I wouldn't have been able to have
told you.
And we came near the end of his
message, and he said these words, I've taught
it in every country in the world.
I've done it theologically, doctrinally, and scripturally, but
never until three weeks ago did it dawn
upon my spirit life that Christ literally lived
in me.
Now, did you get that?
Never did it dawn in my life until
three weeks ago that Christ literally lived in
me.
I changed my message and spoke in Galatians
2.20. No longer would I but Christ
that lives in me.
And I finished up with a spirit-filled
life, and John Smart cracked what he was
going to speak on, and he gave a
beautiful doctrinal outline of the filling of the
Spirit of God.
Now, let me ask you, have you had
that revelation?
Because we heard in this class yesterday, that
salvation is a revelation, and so is this
new life in Christ.
It's a revelation.
You can't work yourself into this, just you
can't be got in salvation.
You're appropriate by faith.
What did Paul say in Galatians 1.16?
And it pleased the Father to reveal where?
His Son in heaven?
No, His Son in me.
Darby's translation, and it pleased the Father to
unveil His Son in me.
The Spirit of God takes aside the veil,
and reveals Christ in the believer.
Oh, the wonder, the glory, then you can
sing, for the salvation is this, that Christ
lives, where does he live?
He lives in me.
I love that, don't you?
Now you come down to this verse here,
and it says, and I love it, that
He, I will bless the Lord, who has
given me counsel.
He now is my counselor.
He is my counselor.
Isn't that lovely?
We're living in a day, you know, when
there's a great need for spiritual men among
us, a great need for spiritually minded sisters
among us.
Our young people in high school and college
have problems that we never had.
And those young people want someone they can
go to with complete confidence and unburden their
heart to them, and know that what they're
telling them is not going to be told
to anybody else.
If you break the confidence of a teenager,
you'll never gain that teenager again.
And when they come to you with complete
confidence and they unburden their heart to you,
oh my friend, take them to the Word
of God.
Take them to the Word
of
God.
Take them to the of Take to the
Word of God.
Take to the of Take them to the
Word of God.
Take them to the Word of God.
Take to the Word of God.
Take them to the Word of God.
Take them to the Take to
the Word
of to the Free And that's far more
devilish than all the other things put together.
You know that?
Many a carrot's been torn to bits over
the telephone wires.
Isn't that true?
Many a thing's been revealed over telephone wires.
Now you often think those telephone wires could
speak.
Brethren, brethren, please get this.
The Lord is the light of your life.
He wants to think through your thoughts, will
through your will, look through your eyes with
compassion, to love through your heart, to speak
through your lips, to work through your head,
and to walk out in true letter.
Not I, but Christ in every look and
in every action.
That may be a practical note, but I
want it to become a reality in your
life and my life.
And remember, one of the greatest military leaders
the world has ever known was a man
called Joshua.
Yet Joshua failed here.
Remember, when your neighbors came, all the disguised
and old clothing and old moldy bread, old
white skin.
Remember, it says, and Joshua did not take
counsel at the word of the Lord.
The greatest tragedy of Joshua's life was right
there.
He did not take counsel at the word
of the Lord.
Oh, brethren, to take time to get at
home with God, at the word of God,
and on bended knee.
And my friend, more often be the Lamb
of your heart, I will bless the Lord
who has given me counsel.
People run here, they run there, they're right
here, they're right there.
And it only takes time to recognize the
very answer is within them.
Christ himself is the answer to your every
question.
He's the solution to your every problem.
Christ is all around.
He's all.
Do you believe that, my friend?
Oh, I will thank God for Godly counsel.
We thank God for spiritually minded sisters, and
there's a real need for them.
But listen, if you're putting that counselor, that
sister, that brother before the Lord, there's more
harm than good to you.
More harm than good.
Friend, Christ alone must fill our vision.
Christ alone must occupy our heart's affection.
And I repeat with all sincerity, that Godly
brother, that spiritually minded sister, or taken with
an open boot and on bended knees, they
go back to the what Allah says to
the Lord.
That's why we should have a working knowledge
of the Word of God.
As God's people, we should take time to
get along with God in the Word of
God.
Oh, how important this really is.
And by doing so, we shall be transformed,
changed in the glorious image.
Remember that wonderful scripture, in Isaiah chapter 9,
verse number 6, Unto you a son is
given, proving his divinity.
Unto you a child is born, proving his
humanity.
And he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the
Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of
Peace.
And may I pause here.
You drop the comma between Wonderful and Counselor,
and what you read, He shall be a
Wonderful Counselor.
And what does Psalm 73 say?
He says, I will guide you with my
counsel, and afterward receive you to glory.
Isn't that just wonderful?
And maybe there's a very davish another thing,
Sky is now dumb, with a brightened voice,
saying, Rise up, my love, my fair one,
and come away, far above the clouds.
Yes, I will guide you.
Now notice the very next phrase here, because
it's precious to me.
My reign, or my thoughts also, instruct me
in the night season.
My thoughts instruct me in the night season.
Now remember, He is the light of our
lives.
He now is our Counselor, and it says,
He instructs our thoughts in the night season.
Beloved, watch your waking thoughts.
Watch your waking thoughts.
But as a man thinketh in his heart,
so is he.
So is he.
Philippians 4.8, What super things are true,
honest, just, pure, lovely, virtuous, good reports, think
on these things.
Do you ever take time to think of
your thought life?
Do you ever take time to weigh up
or remember?
He weighs our thoughts.
He weighs our actions.
He weighs our notice.
A simple illustration here.
A little practice, it's a little secret, and
I want to give it to you.
As I switch the light out at night,
I feel all sincerity and humility.
I whisper.
If I'm alone, I say audibly, about wonderful
Lord Jesus.
And I go to sleep with that in
my mind.
Wonderful Lord Jesus.
Or, Oh precious Lord Jesus, how lovely thou
art.
Come abiding rule in my heart.
I never stop telling the Lord that, you
know.
Break every special light, please let me see.
Then I shall be precious to me.
And as sure as I awake in the
morning, my waking thoughts are wonderful Lord Jesus.
Got that?
You go to bed, my friend, with that
in your mind.
Go off to sleep.
Oh, He's a wonderful Lord, and as sure
as you awake in the morning, your waking
thoughts.
What a beautiful thought to rise to, isn't
it?
He is Lord of all, blessed forever.
Two evangels were sleeping together in the same
room.
The one was disturbed as he thought of
the other talking in his sleep.
But the other did, and this is what
he heard.
I believe you'll hear a lot of secrets.
But he heard, wonderful, wonderful Jesus, who can
compare with thee.
Wonderful, wonderful Jesus, dearer than all thou art
to me.
Wonderful, wonderful Jesus, oh, how my soul loves
thee.
Fairer than all the fairest deeds of thou
to me.
He was communing with his Lord upon his
bed, and the Lord was instructing his thoughts
in the night.
I speak at U.P. Camp Conference.
I used Conference for two weeks with a
brother from down here in the Carolinas.
What am I, Tennessee, in the Carolinas?
Very fine brother.
And we were listening together.
And we were going down to Flint, Michigan.
And we were going to be there for
the weekend.
He was going to be one assembly hour
than the other.
And we came together for a united meeting
Sunday afternoon.
So they both stayed in the same house,
the same room in fact, but in twin
beds.
On the way down from U.P. Camp,
I was rather struck.
Because two state policemen, troopers, had been kidnapped
by four Jews.
And they had taken the revolver from them,
taken a car from them, and let them
go in a forest.
Two of the Jews had been captured.
The other two they were looking for.
And every time they came to an intersection,
they stopped, they got rifles and revolvers, and
they were looking for the other two teenagers.
During the course of the evening, in the
middle of the night, I hear my good
colleague saying something that says, Take the girls,
but don't shoot.
Take the girls, but don't shoot.
And there he was.
Sunday morning, I said, John, whatever were you
saying in the middle of the night?
He said, what do you mean?
I don't know what I was saying when
I was sleeping.
He said, that's certainly true.
You were saying something about, take the girls,
but don't shoot.
I said, yes, I never did.
I said, oh yes.
I said, you're watching too much TV, John.
You know what I'm saying?
Take the girls, but don't shoot.
Now, what was it?
He got the subconscious, those men coming with
the rifles.
He said, take the girls, but don't shoot.
I'm quite convinced the Lord was not instructing
his thoughts in the night season.
There's the whole thing.
But a message being given to us in
the middle of the night.
Isn't that true?
W.
Ferdinand knows Mr. Willie very well.
That dear man, he's got a notebook beside
his bed.
And even the darkness crippled down from the
Lord's giving in the middle of the night.
All the joy.
Recognize the beauty.
The Lord instructing us.
See, he's now the life of our lives.
Do you see that?
We are complete in Christ, and Christ lives
in me.
I trust that's true of all of us
here this morning.
Oh, I trust there's not one here who's
outside of all this.
Oh, I want you indeed to know the
Lord Jesus.
And you'll come to know my reality in
your life, day by day.
And Mrs. Markles, a mother at Mid-South,
some seven or eight years ago, I asked
a question one day, what is a Christian?
And we just explained her ABC language, what
a Christian, who a Christian really is.
And she'd been brought up Christian, confirmed, church
member, good living woman.
And the Lord has opened her heart.
Why, I'm not a Christian at all.
I've never been saved.
And God let her, and God saved her
right there.
Right there.
Oh, there may be some mother right here
this morning, maybe some dad here, some sister,
some brother here, and you're not yet saved.
You have not yet received the Lord Jesus
as your Lord and Savior.
There's no better opportunity than now to enjoy
real life.
Life with a cattle ale.
Mrs. Ronson is saying this, raising this up.
Do I put a cattle ale at life?
It's life with a cattle ale, isn't it?
It's life, and it's life in abundance.
The wonder of it all.
This can be used this morning.
Do you like or need a thing?
There's quite a majority I trust.
He's come into my heart.
He will, you know.
He really will.
And there's no better opportunity than right now
for you to come to know the joy
of having received Christ, and know the joy
He's received you.
And I repeat, this is an indissoluble union.
You can never know, never be lost.
Once you're in Christ, you're in Christ forever.
Thus the eternal covenant stands.
Her brother says, This morning we are sealed.
Sealed.
That seal can never be broken.
It's a mark of ownership.
A mark of security.
It's a mark of identification.
That seal can never be broken.
He's the same as Sunday school days.
And on each he says, He's on secret
signs.
They that have my spirit, they said, dear
mine, this can be your joy today.
Now little father, shall we?
I just want to just kind of close
in this point, because our beloved brother wrote
this before us again this morning.
Verse number eight.
I set the Lord on Sundays before me.
Is that what it says in your version?
Even in your English version it wouldn't say
that, would it?
No, no.
I set the Lord always before me, because
with my right hand I shall not be
moved.
I shall not be perturbed.
I shall not be disturbed.
What does the Bible say?
They that love thy Lord, nothing shall offend
them.
Isn't that precious?
You see, a gentleman is one who never
gives offense.
A meek man is one who never takes
offense.
Now did you get that?
A gentleman is a man who never gives
offense.
A meek man is a man who will
never take offense.
He's gentle.
He's meek.
And that's the life you should live.
That's the life I should live.
A challenge?
A challenge.
They that love thy Lord, nothing shall offend
them.
What does it say?
I set the Lord always before me, because
with my right hand I shall not be
moved.
I want to just close with this.
In Matthew's Gospel, chapter 14, the Lord Jesus
sent the disciples away.
He goes to the mountaintop and is there
alone.
Alone.
A terrible storm breaks out.
The waves are mounting apart.
The Lord can pierce through the dark.
We heard about penetrating eyes.
The Lord can see in the dark.
I'm so glad about that, aren't you?
Aren't you glad you've got a Lord who
can see in the dark?
I love this.
He that knows the worst about me is
the one who loves me best of all.
There's only one who loves like this, and
Jesus is His name.
His wonderful name.
But He can see in the dark.
And piercing through the dark He saw the
light of His own in danger.
And He goes walking to Him over the
heaving billows.
I'm so glad I've got a Lord who
can do that, aren't you?
And the heaving billows of usual life toss
all around me.
Beasts toss, toss, oxen dance.
He comes walking to me over the heaving
billows and He says, TARZIO!
Only one word.
Be of good cheer!
It is I, be not afraid!
There be thou, Lord, bid me come to
thee.
Beloved, come!
And Peter says something I would never have
done.
Peter got out of that boat, began walking,
Lord, upon the water, and everything went all
so wonderfully well until Peter got one eye
upon the wave and one eye upon Christ.
He saw those waves mountainous high, about to
envelop Him and take Him down into a
watery grave, and He called out, Lord, save
me!
I'm so glad Peter didn't pray for twenty
minutes.
How do you pray for twenty minutes?
wouldn't he?
He said, Lord, save me!
And the Lord straightaway called out, O thou
little fish, wherefore didst thou doubt?
Now that word, dot, comes from the same
word as the word squid, the same root
as the word squid.
I know your word for squid means to
come into a point.
Into a point.
But the old Saxon word means cross-eyed.
Cross-eyed.
Looking two ways at once.
And the Lord said to him, Wherefore didst
thou think, Peter?
One eye upon the wave, one eye upon
me, one do, Peter.
How could Peter sleep with the Lord there?
The Lord of nature must have been the
Lord of nature.
And remember, O beloved, I love this, those
little waves were under the feet of his
Lord.
But those waves were Peter's circumstances.
Peter's circumstances.
And he saw them mountainous high, about to
envelop Him.
Two evangelists met one day.
The one said, How are you, my brother?
Oh, I'm not so bad under the circumstances.
What on earth are you doing there?
In them, but never under them.
Got that?
In them.
And what happened now is, under those circumstances,
Peter, if you get one eye upon your
circumstances, Peter, and one eye upon me, you
are going to sink, Peter.
Now, how many Christians are just like that.
They get one eye upon the circumstances.
If I could only get away from this
locality, if I could only get away from
this environment, if I could only get away
from this job, if I could only get
away from whores, I'd be a father to
a Christian.
Oh, no, you wouldn't.
No, you wouldn't, because you take your own
self with you, and you're the problem, not
your circumstances.
Isn't that true?
There's the whole thing.
Now, they get one eye upon the fellow
believer, and one eye upon Christ.
They get one eye upon the world, and
one eye upon Christ.
They get one eye upon poor self, and
one eye upon Christ.
And they all despondent and discouraging down the
dark.
Here it is, and I'm going to close
it there.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
Live fully in his wonderful name.
And the things of earth will go straightly
dim, in the light of his glory and
grace.
Please, we are hearing about those lovely eyes
of the Lord Jesus.
Now, you turn your eyes upon him.
Look on unto him.
Now, I want to close by singing him
a song, number eight.
Number eight.
We'll go on from there for my next
speech to you.
Number eight.
Now, I want you to notice this.
It says, Fight the good fight with all
thy might.
Please, this is not against the flesh and
the spirit.
This is the fight of faith.
Paul said, Fight the fight of faith.
Isn't that lovely?
And by faith, you're appropriate.
Fight the good fight with all thy might.
Notice this.
Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right.
We hold on life, and it shall be
thy joy, and crowned eternally.
Number ten.
Sorry, number ten.
Hopefully now.
Fight the good fight with all thy might.
Christ is thy strength,