The Lord is the portion of my inheritance
and of my cup.
Thou maintainest my lot.
The lives are fallen unto me in pleasant
places.
Yea, I have a goodly heritage.
I will bless the Lord who has given
me counsel.
My thoughts also instruct me in the night
season.
I have set the Lord always before me.
Because it is at my right hand, I
shall not be moved.
Therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue
rejoices.
My flesh also shall rest in hope.
As far as we've got this week, isn't
it?
I want to consider mainly the last verse
which says here, Thou wilt show me the
path of life.
In thy presence fullness of joy, thy right
hand pleasures forevermore.
The Father, He planned the way.
The Son, He opened the way.
The Holy Spirit, He shows us the way.
The Father planned it, the Son opened it,
the Spirit shows.
Speaks here about joy, fullness of joy.
There you have the quantity, fullness of joy.
Thy right hand, you have the dignity of
this wonderful joy.
And then you have pleasures forevermore, and there
you have the duration.
The quantity, the dignity, and the duration of
this wonderful joy and these wonderful pleasures.
And notice what it says, I will show
thee the path of life.
There is life out of death.
It's a principle running right through scripture.
If we are going to live, we must
die.
Except the corn of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abides alone.
But if it dies, the same bringeth forth
much fruit.
Thank God tonight for the much fruit.
Know this before your heart, I want you
to think of this wonderful song.
Remember again, in thee do I put my
trust.
Now you come right down to this last
verse.
Thou wilt show me the path of life.
Why, in thee, and in thee alone, have
I placed all my trust.
Lord, thou art enough, the mind and heart
fulfilled.
Fix my eyes, O holy Lord, on thee.
That with thy beauty occupied I elsewhere none
may see.
Why am I stressing this last verse, especially
in a meeting like this?
I'll tell you why.
There was a time in my life when
I was out in a full-time ministry,
ministering all over the British Isles, seeing many
people trusting Jesus Christ, seeing that the family
was established here and established there.
One day traveling along in a double-decker
bus in the city of Birmingham back in
England, I was meditating upon being in Christ
and being in Adam, and I was just
a young preacher.
And all of a sudden, just as if
a voice spoke to me audibly, said, Jim
Boswell, you're trying to patch up a man,
to make a man refined, cultured, respectable, religious.
A man whom I finished with two thousand
years ago.
You were completely corrupt, you were rotten, there
wasn't a good thing about you.
Even all your respectable, religious, cultured flesh was
just corrupt in my sight.
And I put you upon a cross.
I put you upon a cross.
And when my son died, I saw you
there, dying in my beloved son.
And now I see you no longer as
in Adam.
I see you in my son, holding without
blame before me in love.
And now, here's the glorious truth.
Not only did it reveal to my heart
that I was in Christ, but now that
Christ by His Spirit lived in me.
Oh, I was so happy, I shouted glory
right out in that double-decker bus.
It was a divine revelation to my heart
that Christ literally lived in me.
That He was the very life of my
life.
Now, I knew this theoretically, I knew it
doctrinally, I knew it scripturally, and I taught
it all over the British Isles.
But I did not know it experientially until
that particular moment, when the Spirit of God
revealed to me that Christ lived in me.
We were in a place in England for
about five years.
When we got into this particular area, we
met about five Christians.
A college friend of my wife had been
there conducting a crusade.
Psalm 65 was professed salvation.
When we got there, we couldn't find five
of them.
Oh, the danger of bringing people to a
profession without any heart regeneration.
Oh, my friend, I'd rather go through a
whole crusade and never see a soul professed
than to see a whole crowd of mere
professors.
By God's grace, we never go through a
crusade or even a week's meeting without seeing
someone, how some others come through for the
Lord Jesus Christ.
So we were in this particular area.
It was the Lord's Day between Christmas and
the New Year.
And we got that little group together.
And like Mr. Willing, we showed them a
New Testament church from the Word of God.
And the Lord's table was there.
We gathered around the Lord Jesus.
And from within, we taught them the truth
of a New Testament church and the breaking
of bread.
The following Easter, we baptized 21.
And we went on like that.
The assembly began to grow and develop.
Many were attracted by the ministry of Christ
from other denominations.
And they took their place in the assembly
of God's beloved people.
But the dirt came into that assembly.
Souls were not being saved.
God's people were not going on in victories.
I should have loved them to be going
on.
Unlike some evangelists, like some Bible teachers, I
began to thrash them and tell them to
go home and get things put right.
There's a naked man in the camp.
There's something causing this blockage, this stoppage of
blessings.
There must be someone here living in sin.
Monday morning, after a very busy Lord's Day,
I was alone in my room.
And I tell you very humbly, very frankly,
in the closing moment of this particular conference,
the Spirit of God put His finger upon
all the trouble in my own life.
I wanted souls saved.
I wanted God's people living in newness of
life and walking therein to God's glory.
You say, surely that's a good desire.
The desire was all right, but the motive
was not pure.
There was an impure motive.
I wanted to be thought a great preacher.
I wanted to be thought a wonderful Bible
teacher, a wonderful soul winner.
And God stopped the blessing.
He will not share His glory with another.
He must have all the glory.
He must have all the praise.
I'm getting right down there before the Lord
Jesus.
He is cursing down my feet.
All I could get from Him was Psalm
16, verse 11.
I will show thee the path of life.
Now I said, Lord, what is it?
Lord, show me this way.
And just as a boy said, look at
verse 10, Thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell, nor suffer thine holy one to
seek corruption.
And then I saw there was something in
my life that had to die.
And again, the same boy said, You have
given your wife.
You have given your child.
You have given your money.
You have given your talents.
You have given your time.
But, Jim Boswell, I want you.
And I thought the Lord was every part
of me until that particular moment.
Then I thought it was easier to give
my loved ones, to give my money, to
give my talents, and to give my service,
than to give Jim Boswell.
And oh, that battle raged as it has
been raged in many a heart here during
this particular week.
You have been brought face to face with
the challenge of Christ becoming Lord in every
compartment and department of your life.
Thank God for those who have entertained, who
are now rejoicing in that glorious joy that
Jesus Christ is Lord over all, blessed in
your life for His own pleasure.
But now, getting down before the Lord Jesus,
I remember praying this prayer.
Oh, Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself
to Thee, for Thou, in Thine atonement, didst
give Thyself for me.
I owe no other master.
My heart shall be Thy throne.
My life I give.
Henceforth to live, O Christ, for Thee alone.
And Lord, if it please Thee, don't show
me one token of result until I reach
the glory.
Beloved, that was a crisis that's led to
a continuance.
That was a knack that's led to an
attitude.
And there's never a morning before I leave
my room.
Many times during the course of the day,
I look up and say, Lord, I'm still
Thine own.
O Lord, look after Your property.
It's in danger.
I recognize I'm no longer my own.
I belong to Him.
Now, there's a lot of years since that
has happened in my life.
And I thank God for that crisis that's
led to a continuance, to that desperate, deliberate
act.
To me, it was just desperate, deliberate as
the moment I was born again.
It was that moment when I wholly, completely
surrendered my life to the authority of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Let me ask you, lovingly, what about you?
The following Wednesday night, the whole assembly had
come together, and humbly I confessed the whole
thing to them.
As for their forgiveness, and I should be
judging then, O I then realize how easy
it is to preach, how easy it is
to stand up and tell others when all
the time one's own heart may not be
right toward the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have a grave, grave concern about traveling
in unfelt truth, preaching what I am not
in the good of myself, all the danger
of that, the danger of it.
And beloved, I remember confessing the whole thing
to the assembly.
And my friend, the tears that flowed that
night, what happened by God's grace, the blockage
was removed, blessing began to flow.
Then the Lord said, it's time for you
to move on.
And my friend, we thank God for that
glorious crisis moment when we recognize we are
no longer our own, and we belong to
Him.
Spirit and soul and body, time, talent and
treasure, all placed at His disposal by His
matchless grace.
Now with all that before your heart, let
me come back to the verse.
I will show thee the path of life.
My friend, we want life, and we want
life in abundance.
Now I want you to turn with me
for a few moments tonight to Romans chapter
6, the sixth chapter of this wonderful book,
the Romans.
Now this is a classic on this wonderful
subject.
And I want to go somewhat slowly here.
And I want you to follow me very
carefully from the Word of God and just
see what He says, not what the preacher
is saying.
Verse number 3.
There are three things here the Lord wants
us to know.
He wants us to know, first of all,
the meaning of our baptism.
It says in verse 3, Know ye not?
Now Paul is writing to those saints at
Rome.
He says, Know ye not?
Just as he wrote to Saint Corn, he
said, Don't you know your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost who is in
you, which you have of God, and you
are not to own your body for the
price.
Therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are God's.
O my friend, may I ask you lovingly,
have you had this revelation?
Do you know that you are not to
own, that you have been purchased by the
precious blood of Jesus Christ?
O my friend.
And he says, Your body, your spirit, your
soul, the whole personality belongs to Him.
He says, Now do you know this?
Have you handed yourself over to the rightful
owner?
He purchased us that He might possess us
without any reserve and without any condition.
Now regarding our baptism, for remember the Bible
says, the Lord says, Why call ye me
Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?
You are drawn near to me with your
lips, but your heart is far from me.
Dr. Stephen Alford, he said these words, Partial
obedience is total disobedience in the reckoning of
God.
Did you get that?
Partial obedience is total disobedience in the reckoning
of God.
He is referring to Thessalonians, that is to
say all the Amalekites.
Stamp them out completely.
Don't leave one trace of the Amalekites.
He spared Agath, he spared the best of
the flock.
He partially obeyed.
But what happened?
He lost his kingdom and he lost his
life.
Then I repeat with all sincerity, partial obedience
to partially obey is to totally disobey in
the reckoning of God.
You won't get any credit or any recognition,
my friend, for partial obedience.
The Lord says it's total commitment, complete obedience.
What does it say?
We can never prove the delights of Islam
until all on the altar we lay.
I thought me might have sung tonight not
part of my heart, but all of my
heart I give to thee.
Not part of my heart, but all of
my heart I give to thee.
What does it say?
We can never prove the delights of Islam
until all on the altar we lay for
the favor he shows and the joy he
bestows are for those who will trust and
obey.
Then on fellowship's week we will sit at
his feet or we'll walk by his side
in the way for he says we will
do where he sends we will go.
Never fear, oh, make trust and obey.
And his commandments are not grievous.
Oh, the joy of this maxist love.
Now notice what verse number three says.
Verse number six.
Know ye not so many of us were
baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his
day.
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
into day that like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of
the Father, even so we also should walk
in units of life.
For if we are being planted together in
the likeness of his day, we shall be
also in the likeness of his resurrection.
There you have the meaning of your baptism.
Now if your baptism doesn't mean this then
whether it's baptism is just a farce.
It's just a farce.
You've got to recognize, my friend, you've been
baptized into his day.
Planted together in the likeness of his day.
We're saying this morning we are in Christ.
In Christ.
We thought of that one little scripture.
God with us.
Emmanuel.
Then remember the last phrase of Matthew's gospel.
I am with you.
The original text.
I with you am.
The great big capital I.
The small with you.
The capital am.
And that's where we are.
We are lost in the great I am.
We are accepted in the beloved.
It's wonderful, isn't it?
Now go to verse number six for the
sake of time.
Here's something else he wants me to know.
Knowing this, our old man.
All I am is a child of Adam.
All I am by nature.
Knowing this, our old man was crucified with
him that the body of sin might be
destroyed, made it operative, put out of action,
unemployed, rendered idle, discharged.
It's all the same Greek word.
I like it, my friend.
I give the illustration the other night from
Matthew's gospel where the people were standing in
the market square.
And the Lord said, Why stand you all
day idle?
It's the same Greek word.
The same word.
Why stand you all day idle?
You know what they said?
Because no man has hired me.
A friend of mine was going along on
a railway compartment some time ago.
There were three people there on the train
and the one that played car.
They wanted him to join in.
He very politely said, It's impossible.
I haven't got my hand with me.
And they looked and said, What do you
mean?
He said, No.
The cards I play hand with, play cards
with, are idle.
They're idle.
These are the Lord's hands.
Now, have you got it, my friend?
It may not, my friend, be your hand.
Maybe it's some other part.
But you've got to render all pertaining to
your old life idle.
And I want to say this again.
The old man, the old nature, can't operate
unless you employ him.
He can't operate unless you're willing to operate.
Unless someone has hired me.
And the only one who can hire me,
my friend, is your will.
Your will.
We'll see that just in a moment.
We must hurry.
The body of sin might be destroyed.
Henceforth, we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed.
I come three times.
Freed means justified from sin.
Somebody beggars, they've been found guilty of murder.
They've been found guilty.
The moment of execution arrives.
You grew up, my friend, in the jail
yard of Edinburgh.
You see a notice on the door saying,
John Brown was justified this morning at eight
o'clock.
It doesn't say John Brown was hanged or
executed.
John Brown was justified.
He's justified in the eyes of law by
death.
He pays a penalty death.
And he's justified.
No one can accuse him.
There ain't any claim against him now.
And, friend, tonight, because we are being crucified
with Christ, we are completely justified.
No one dare raise the accusing finger.
It's a grand thing to be a child
of God.
So there's something more.
Verse number eight.
Now, if we be dead with Christ, we
believe we should also live with Him.
Now, verse number nine.
Here's the third thing he wants me to
know.
First of all, the meaning of my baptism.
Secondly, the meaning of my call.
Crucifixion.
That when He died, I died.
He not only died to bear away my
sin, praise His name, but when He died,
I died.
He bore Jim Boswell.
All I am is a child of Adam
away out of the reckoning of God.
And God reckons by grace I am crucified
with Christ.
Oh, the wonder of this glorious truth.
I shudder I'm not going too fast for
you.
Oh, I will just wait or not the
Spirit of God may reveal it to you
that when the Lord died, you died.
Don't try and feel dead.
Believe what God says.
Now, here's the third thing.
He wants to know our co-resurrection.
Our co-resurrection.
Verse nine.
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead
dieth no more.
Death and no more dominion over Him.
For in that He died, He died unto
sin.
Once in that He liveth, He liveth unto
God.
Now, please, oh please, that is all in
the reckoning of God.
God sees each and every believer crucified with
Christ, buried in Christ, raised in Christ, ascended
in Christ, and seated in Christ now in
glorious victory.
Now, that is a fact.
Whether you enter into it experientially or not
is another story.
But this is where God sees each and
every believer.
Now, my friend, that is your position as
a believer in Christ Jesus.
But how is it going to become a
natural fact in my life?
Verse 11 becomes ours.
What God has reckoned by grace, He wants
us now to reckon by faith.
And in verse number 11, likewise, likewise reckon
yourselves be dead indeed unto sin.
But alive unto God through Jesus Christ the
Lord.
There's a two-fold reckoning in that verse.
There's a negative and there's a positive.
The negative, I reckon myself dead indeed unto
sin.
Positive, for the life unto God through Jesus
Christ our Lord.
And this is the only way out of
Romans 7 where you are a captive into
Romans 8 where you become more than a
conqueror.
The only way you can live in Romans
8 out of Romans 7 is through Romans
6-11.
It's the bridge that brings you from Romans
7 into Romans 8 and never to go
back into Romans 7.
Oh my friend, this is vital.
This is for you, dear child of God.
He wants you to enter into this tonight.
All this can be yours if you like
allow the Spirit of God to enthrone Christ,
Lord of all, in every part of your
life.
Now I go back over verse number 11.
The word is reckon.
This is an accountant's word.
Put it to the account.
Reckon upon it.
To society above the clouds with gloriously converted.
Two weeks after they were saved they were
really popular girls.
They were invited to a dance.
They sat down and they saw the body.
They read over the invitation.
And then they remembered as the evangelist said
to them if any question arises always go
to the word of God and you get
the answer.
And God in His wonderful providence and grace
laid in the Colossians chapter 3 where it
says in Colossians 3 set your face on
things above.
Then it says ye are dead.
Ye are dead.
And your lives are hid with Christ in
God.
And those two young converts only two weeks
old wrote back and said we had your
invitation.
We cannot come.
We died two weeks ago.
And you got it, my friends.
They were reckoning upon the fact that it
all belonged to the old life.
See what the Spirit of God did in
the simplicity and honesty the Lord led them
to that text.
We have died and our lives are hid
with Christ in God.
Oh, is this real in your life tonight?
Do you know the joy of it, my
friends?
Now reckon you shall be dead unto sin
but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
Now know this.
You may know it.
That touches your mind.
And you may reckon that touches your soul.
But not know the power.
Not know the power of the resurrection life.
You may know it theoretically in your mind.
And your soulish aspect may say I reckon
upon it.
No, the reckoning in the world will never
bring this power into your life until you
come to verse 13.
And what you know is your mind.
And what you reckon upon is your soul.
Now you act upon with your will.
And what verse 13 says may I read
it with you.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteous understanding.
But here it is.
But yield yourselves unto God.
I'm afraid so many have tried.
They've come to Romans 12 once and have
been pleased with their yield of life.
And they've tried with all sincerity and it's
never fizzed.
It's never worked.
Some have come to Romans 6 and they've
been knowing about it and have reckoned upon
it.
They say it doesn't work.
I reckon, I reckon, I believe but it
doesn't work.
You know why?
Because they've never yielded.
And my friend, you'll never get anywhere until
you yield.
You never will.
You've got to come to this place of
yielding.
It's complete commitment.
Complete surrender.
The Holy Spirit can't feel what you're holding
on to.
He can't take control of your controlling too.
It must be unconditional, unreserved, complete commitment to
Him.
Are you willing for that tonight?
Are you willing?
Are you willing to yield?
The sad thing about it is I'm finding
young people in my ministry all over this
great North American and other continents in the
world they're entering in and all the people
say, why I've known that truth all my
years.
All my life, I've known it for 40
years.
And they sit in carnality.
They sit in carnality.
Their lives are wasted.
Completely wasted.
Do you know why?
They're too proud.
It's going to take too much out of
you tonight you older Christians to get to
your feet and say it's Christ and all
for Christ.
Too much.
It's going to touch your pride, isn't it?
You've been brought up with this all your
life.
Richard Bennett, that dear man of God who's
out in California from California, he's up there
now in British Columbia with some friends of
mine going to listen to him.
I pray with them, go and listen to
him.
They say, Jim, Jim, we've heard it all
our lives.
And it made me cringe inside me.
And I say, your lives are barren.
Your lives are unfruitful.
Your prayers are useless.
You do all theoretically but you never enter
into experientially.
And your lives are empty and barren.
I'm not teaching a new theory here to
you, old man of God.
I'm not teaching my friends some new doctrine.
Darby, Stoney, Bennett, Denny, Dennett, McIntosh, Mother, Craig,
Coates, all those men taught a present deliverance
from the power of indwelling spirit by yielding
to the indwelling spirit.
And no wonder this pair of men would
have power for God in those days.
And spurred to this, had they continued as
they started, they would have moved the whole
world.
They would have moved the whole world.
Where are we today?
Men, my friend, and women are coming up
and saying, Jim, I heard that 40 years
ago and I haven't heard it since.
Young people are coming up and saying, Why?
Is this something new?
We've never heard it.
I know many have heard it with the
ear but they've never heard it with the
understanding heart.
They've heard it.
And by God's grace, you're hearing it again
tonight.
And I wonder what you're going to do
about it.
I will show you the path of life.
You must die.
You must attend your own funeral.
Have you ever done that?
Have you ever come to praise my friend?
Have you ever come to praise...
Are you taking God's word against your own
self?
Are you seeing yourself there?
Are you saying, Lord, I see myself tonight
dying under sin.
I'm alive under God.
Somebody said to George Mother years ago, Mr.
Mother wasn't sick of your success.
The dear old man stood toward the ground,
he said in humility, there was a moment
in George Mother's life when George Mother died.
He died to George Mother and to his
desires and all his fences.
He died to his brethren, to their opinions
and to their criticism.
And from that moment I sought to please
only one man by His grace.
And that man is Jesus Christ.
Have you died?
Does life out of death heal you?
In act of your will.
Yield your members.
Yield.
Now, this has got to do, my friend,
with Christian character.
You know it.
You're writing upon it.
And now act upon it.
Yield.
As you the Bible says, Yield yourself, yield
your members as instruments of unrighteous understanding, but
yield yourself unto God.
Not your neighbor, not your brother, not your
sister, not your wife.
Yield yourself.
I know men, and I know parents, are
quite willing to yield their children, some are,
to the mission field.
They're willing to yield their money, yield their
service.
But they'll hold back themselves.
And all they're giving you is just haywood
and stubble.
Haywood and stubble.
Or go up in fire.
Only what comes from a whole-hearted, yielded
life.
The greatest dearest service you have in this
near North American convent, that dear man.
I had been in their assembly for eight
weeks, the year before.
We were having sick servants in the day,
commencing at six o'clock in the morning.
That dear man would be doing surgery nearly
all night.
He'd come down, down to the prayer meeting
and pray.
He asked if I'd go back the following
year.
And I said, I'll come for a bunny,
I can bring Colin Anderson with me, to
help in the young people's work.
He said, yes, bring him.
We went.
That dear surgeon, an executive in a very
large firm, another dear man, asked if I'd
go up with him for coffee one night
after the meeting.
Said, Jim, when you were here last year,
we criticized you.
We criticized your ministry.
We thought it was second blessing you were
teaching.
But he said, Jim, our wives ain't ordained.
Our wives saw it and they ain't ordained.
And they knew the joy of this new
life in Christ Jesus, this life and life
and abundance.
Their prayer life became revolutionary.
Their prayer that Bible said, it became a
new book to them.
And then they began leading souls through to
Jesus Christ.
They were listening to us preaching.
They were saying, oh, beautifully constructed, beautifully put
together, work perfect in your delivery, but there's
no power.
No power.
And they said, Jim, we still don't know.
You're just a Boswellite.
You're a Boswellite.
That's, we twailed our wives, you're a Boswellite.
They said, Jim, we see the truth and
we want to enter in.
And those men, those strong men, that neurosurgeon,
that God, that man, he bowed and confessed
the tears rolling down his face.
That executive said, I see it all.
I've been given $65,000 a year to
admissions, mainly to Dominican Republic.
And I gloated.
I rejoiced to see my name at the
bottom of that check as I was sent
to the Admissions Service Committee.
I rejoiced.
And I said, oh, he wouldn't stutter.
Oh, he wouldn't stutter.
Those two men broke down in a sob
-like tune that came through for Jesus Christ.
The lies are completely transformed about you.
Yield yourself.
Slip down to verse number 16, please.
Jesus says here, Know ye not to whom
ye yield yourselves servants to obey?
His servants ye are to whom ye obey,
whether sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness.
But God be thanked that ye were the
servants of sin, that ye have obeyed from
the heart that form or mold of doctrine
which was delivered you.
Four words I want you to get.
The first word is know.
The second word, beloved, is reckon.
Now you may know, and you may reckon,
and not know the path.
And you never will until you yield.
Until you yield.
And this is a death-delivered act.
Just as definite, young people get this, just
as definite as the moment you receive Christ
into your heart is that moment when you
stand to your very feet and you're bowing
your head and you're saying, Lord, I yield.
Lord, I surrender my oath.
Or it may be in the Lamb's lovely
hymn.
Take my love, O Lord, I pour at
Thy feet as treasure store.
Take my self, and I will be ever
only all for Thee.
Yield yourselves.
Y-I-E-L-D.
Here's an acrostic for you.
Yield yourselves unto God.
I, immediately, don't leave it till tomorrow because
you're compromised and you won't do it.
Do it right now, my friend, even now
as I am speaking.
Look up and do business and say, Lord,
Lord, I may not understand all this means,
but I know You're talking to me.
You've been talking to me all week, Lord.
I can know this, Lord.
And Lord, I yield.
Lord, I yield.
All I am, all I have, Lord, I
yield, and I yield to Thee.
I do it immediately.
Then eat entirely, the whole man, all your
members, your intellect, your eyes, your ears, your
tongue, your hands, your feet, your intimate members,
the whole man, the whole woman, boy or
girl, hand it over without any reserve.
Yield your members.
This has got to do with Christian character.
And you'll never be enemies for God, do
you?
You never will.
All your service, your Sunday school work, your
Bible study, just He wouldn't stubble until you've
come to recognize, my friend, all.
He must be Lord of all, or He's
not Lord at all.
Entirely.
Lovingly.
The Son of God loved me and gave
Himself for me.
Oh, my friend, our sister's sons are neither
entering into that heart of love although that
great heart of love is toward you tonight,
toward me.
Listen again.
The Son of God loved me and gave
Himself for me.
And I take the last three words and
I respond as I read them backwards and
I pray from my heart, HRV, me, for,
Himself, love, responding to love, love so amazing,
so divine, demand, shall have my heart, my
life, my all, oh, isn't He worthy of
this?
Isn't He worthy?
Yes.
Ten thousand times, ten thousand.
He alone is the worthy one.
Then these, decisively, is a decision that leads
to a habit.
You decide.
You continue to decide.
It becomes habitual to look up and say,
Lord, Lord, I'm not my own.
I'm Thine.
Lord, I'm Your property.
Oh, have you prayed that?
Dear members, terrible drunkards, God met them and
God said and transformed his life.
One day, standing by one of the saloons,
and there he's carrying one of those old
-fashioned Singer soul machines on his shoulder, one
of those treadle ones.
The bartender's standing at the door and he
says to him, I say, Jock, I say,
man, that salvation's making you strong.
He says, yes, there was a time when
I couldn't carry a dime past your door.
Salvation is achieved.
I say, but, Jock, are you never tempted
now?
Are you never tempted to come in?
He says, yes, many times I am.
As I pass by and the smell comes
up, my old nature says, go and have
a drink, Jock.
Go and have a drink.
And he says, I just look up and
say, Lord, look after your property.
It's in danger.
And I get past all the temptations.
It's simple, but is it true?
Is it real in your life?
Just as clear as that.
Now, here's the next word, obey.
Obey.
Four key words leading you in, my friend,
to victorious moment by moment, day by day
living.
It's so vital, it's so precious.
You know.
You reckon.
And you yield.
Now, here's the proof.
Obedience.
My friend, if you'll love me, you'll obey
my word.
If you'll love me, you'll do what I
tell you.
And it's God's word says so.
What about believer's baptism?
Have you been baptized?
What about the Lord's Supper?
Do you break bread upon the third day
of every week?
What about come up from among them and
touch not the unclean?
What about the verse I'm quoting you now?
Heal your members as a delivered command.
Another command is be being filled with the
Holy Spirit.
Now, these are commands going into all the
world and preach the gospel.
These are commands.
Time will allow me to develop them.
As I close, please turn to Romans 12.
Romans 12, now I must close.
And notice please here the beautiful language.
May I help you now?
You can't.
You may.
And it won't work.
If you come to Romans 12 without coming
to Romans 6, it'll never work.
You've got to reckon, my friend, the sin
of the death upon all the damning nature.
See yourself upon that cross of the Lord
Jesus.
And now is one alive from the dead.
And alive from the dead.
Now you come.
And He says, I beseech you therefore.
Oh, look at the lovely language.
How wooing He is.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God.
By the mercies.
Not by the commandments, but by the mercies
of God.
Because you are pardoned.
Because you have been forgiven.
Because you are justified and sanctified.
Now by the mercies of God present your
body.
This word is a different word to the
word back in Romans 6 which says healed.
That's got to do with character.
This has got to do with conduct.
With conduct.
And my friend, what happens in Romans 6,
you've got to live out day by day
in a practical way.
Present your body.
Now let me ask you, leavening, have you
ever done this?
Have you ever done this?
Present your body as a living sacrifice.
See, now you are alive from the dead.
You are alive under God as a living
sacrifice.
Now you come and present your body as
a living sacrifice.
Holy.
Unto God.
This is not referring to God the Father.
Not to God the Son.
It's referring to God the Holy Ghost.
The Father doesn't need a body.
The Son has a body.
But the Spirit needs your body.
And He needs my body.
And He indwells you and He indwells me.
He wants you to heal that body in
His control.
Will you?
He wants you, dear Father, dear Mother, dear
Sister, dear Brother, to heal that body to
the Spirit's control.
Will you come and pray?
Have Thine own way, Lord.
Have Thine own way.
Hold over my being.
Absolute sway.
Hail, O Thine Spirit.
So all should see Christ only, always living
in me.
What does it say here in the same
verse?
Holy Spirit, unto God, which is your reasonable,
your logical, your rational.
It's complete sanity.
And may I say it lovingly and sincerely
with all my heart.
It's insanity not to yield.
And it's insanity not to yield.
Because then, see, all is done for you.
All He wants to do in you.
All He wants to do through you.
And just think of what you're losing by
not yielding.
It's a note of insanity not for you
to respond to.
This is gospel to the Christian.
I was down in Jamaica just a year
ago.
I was opening up a new chapel there.
They threw me down for this.
And Harold Waters was coming along.
In fact, we had, we bathed together each
morning and in the afternoon, rather.
And Harold said to me, he said, Jim,
the more I listen to your preaching, the
more I see you'll never lose your gift
as an evangelist, do you?
I said, why?
He said, the more we're teaching now and
the same, we're always preaching for a decision.
And when I preach to the Christian, I
still preach for a decision.
And I'm going to bring you to decision
tonight.
And you've got to decide.
You've got to decide.
And look at verse number two, because you
can't finish without verse two.
And what does it say right here, verse
number two?
Be not conformed as well, be transformed.
Transfigured, changed, by the renewing of your mind,
you may know what is that good and
perfect and acceptable will of God.
And beloved, you'll never know God's will for
your life until you come to Romans 12
.1. And the only way to Romans 12
.2 is through Romans 12.1. As you
fully surrender, you'll know God's will for your
life.