We're going to read again Psalm 84.
I think we'll do it by this time,
don't you?
Hey, how amiable are thy fabernacles, O Lord
of hosts!
Mine so long-est, yea, even fainter for
the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh cries out to
the living God.
Yea, the sparrow has found a house, and
has swallowed a nest for herself, where she
merely hath gone, even thine altar, O Lord
of hosts, my King and my God.
Blanted are they that dwell in my house,
they will be still praised indeed.
Blanted is the man that strengthens indeed, in
his heart on the way to them, who,
passing through the valley of Bacchus, made it
a well, but ain't all so full as
the pool.
They go from strength to strength, every one
of them in time appears before God.
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer,
give ear, O God of Jacob.
Behold, O God, our shield, and look upon
the faintest unanointed, for again my cause is
written upon.
I have rather be a doorkeeper in the
house of my God, than as well in
the tent of wickedness.
For the Lord God is a solemn shield.
The Lord will give grace and glory.
No good thing will he withhold from them
that walk uprightly.
O Lord of hosts, bless the man that
prospers indeed.
Now, the Lord without his blessing is a
public reading of his word, please your hearts
and minds.
And now, we want to encircle thoughts around
one or two scriptures here.
It might be a real help to us
in a practical way in our everyday living.
We'll be looking these past days at God's
prescription for real true lasting happiness.
We notice the prescription, and the ingredients in
this prescription, though you were not with us
all morning, I want just to go back
over them here we are.
In verse number one, you have the recognition
of God in the light.
In verse number two, you have the desire
for God, and in verse number six, you
have working with God.
In verse number eight, speaking to God, and
then in verse number 12, trusting in God.
Now, that is the prescription, and these are
the ingredients.
We were looking at one ingredient Sunday morning,
and in Sunday evening.
We'll take another look at it tonight, the
recognition of God in the light.
In verse number one, we'll recognize him as
the God of power, the God of power.
In verse number three, the God of provision.
Also, in verse number three, the God of
preeminence.
He is my King and my God.
Then, in verse number eight, the God of
purpose.
God's great purpose in saving our souls.
Then, verse number 11, the God of protection.
Even if we want to go on with
the last half of the morning evening, in
connection with the God of preeminence.
I thank God for the exercise in many
of your hearts as a result of the
Lord's Day meetings, and for those who are
concerned about the secret of that victorious living
as a result of being utterly beautiful and
controlled by the Holy Spirit himself.
Now, remember, friends, that the only way we
can really know real joy, real peace, real
victory, real purity in our hearts and in
our lives is by allowing the Holy Spirit
to entwine us to infill and to control
and to dominate every part of our lives.
Now, his great mission in enthralling us is
that he will not speak of himself, but
his come to manifest and to magnify the
Lord Jesus in us and through us to
the glory of God the Father.
Remember how the Apostle Paul says in 2
Corinthians 4 verse number 11 that the life
force of Jesus might be made manifest in
or through our mortal flesh, and that's only
possible as the Holy Spirit who enthralls us
is allowed to control us and to dominate
us.
Now, let me ask you again tenderly tonight,
has there been a moment in your life
as a Christian when you've got away by
yourself and said, Lord I know that my
body is the dwelling place of the Holy
Spirit who is in me?
Now, has that truth dawned upon you?
Not really as a doctrine, not really as
a text of scripture, but as a living,
vital reality that in your heart and in
my heart we really know that the Holy
Spirit has taken us into God, that his
spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are
the children of God.
So, the Bible is crystal clear and says,
if you have not the Spirit of Christ,
you're not of his.
Now, the Bible says the Holy Spirit came
into our lives that very moment we were
born again.
When my earl I ventured on Christ a
calling glance, the Holy Spirit entered and I
was born again.
And now, here's a great job I want
to think through.
Remember in John chapter 7 we read, Lord
Jesus is secretly saying, if any man thirst,
let him come unto me and drink.
Then he goes on to say that he
that drinketh the water of which I shall
give him, shall have in him a well
of water springing up into everlasting life.
Now, I'm quoting John 4 verse 14, but
now I'm going back to John 7 verse
38.
This is what we read, but he in
this state, he of the Spirit.
For the Spirit has not yet been given,
because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Because Jesus was not yet glorified, and he
also said in the very same scripture, that
from your inner man and from my inner
man shall flow forth rivers of living water.
Your life and my life will prove to
be a broad outshining of the angelic Christ.
May his beauty rest upon me, that I
seek for us to win, and may they
forget the channel seeing only him.
Oh, to be saved from myself, dear Lord,
oh to be lost in thee, oh to
be no more I, but Christ who lives
in me.
May I repeat that again, this state, he
of the Spirit.
For the Spirit has not yet been given,
why?
Because Christ was not yet glorified.
May I say this very tenderly, there are
many of God's beloved people who are to
be saved, to be born again by God's
Spirit, but they don't know the joy of
this wonderful fullness.
They don't know the joy of the abundant
life, simply because the Spirit who instilled us
has not been enlarged in Christ, Lord of
all.
Remember the practical illustration we gave on Sunday
evening regarding the coronation of the Queen, and
how the Archbishop said
to the peers as he presented Elizabeth to
them, gentlemen, I present you Her Royal Highness
Elizabeth.
Are you now ready to say a homage?
And with one voice and one heart we
said, we are now ready, Crown Queen.
And many of us along the evening were
faced up with the very same challenge, as
Christ was presented to her heart in the
energy of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit through the servant was saying,
Are you now willing to enthrone him, Lord
of all?
And what was your answer, Lord, this evening?
We could not stay neutral at this particular
point, and we said, Lord, I am willing
to crown him Lord of all, and let
the Holy Spirit take over, and he does
the enthroning according to 1 Peter 3, verse
number 15, where it says, that Christ will
be sanctified as Lord, well in our hearts,
by whom?
By the Holy Spirit.
Now, that is what he wants to do
in your life and in my life.
He wants that Christ might be enthroned Lord
of all.
So, he has come just now, and rather
for us, but we never can prove the
delight of his love until all on the
altar we lay, for the feverish shows and
the joy he bestows are for those who
will trust and obey.
And therein lies the whole secret, my brother
and my sister, if you want to know
God's plan, God's purpose for your life, then
it is everything upon the altar, without reserve,
without condition, and that being so, then we
shall know what is good, and perfect, and
acceptable will.
Let's come a little closer now, but that's
not before our hearts.
But before I leave it, may I ask
you again, have you come to that place
in your life when you have enthroned the
Lord Jesus as Lord in your heart?
And have you really prayed, reign over me,
Lord Jesus, reign over all within.
Make me a loyal subject to thee in
every day.
In full and grand surrender, I give myself
to thee.
For thou in that appointment didst give thyself
to me.
I own no other master.
My heart shall be thine throne.
My life I give in full to thee,
O Christ, for the unknown.
In the life of each believer, there is
a throne and there is a cross.
If Christ is upon the cross, and self
is upon the throne, there is no real
peace, there is no real joy, there's no
real victory, there is no real truth.
But when it takes the other turn, and
Christ is upon the throne, and self is
upon the cross, then there's an inward tranquility,
there's an inward serenity, there's an inward joy,
there's an inward peace the world cannot give
nor take away.
But, O beloved, recognizing the truth of that
fact, your life will then be fruitful.
You shall enter into the joy of the
abundant life through faith in Christ.
May I give you an illustration?
Alas, it is borrowed.
In fact, Mr. Harold Wabash, when we sometimes
minister together, he uses the illustration.
I want to quote it.
Here it is.
Sitting on the top of a mountain is
a little piece of thunder, and the thunder
says to the mountain, I am greater than
you are.
The mountain said, greater than I am?
Hard to make that out.
But a little piece of thunder is perfectly
correct.
Whereas the mountain's door lies a curb, a
little piece of thunder is God's grace to
the life.
So you're going around the festival area, looking
over into the meadow, you see there a
majestic oak, and sitting right on the top
of that oak is a little ladybug.
I call them ladybugs, and you call them
ladybugs, don't you?
So there they are, sitting on the top
of the earth, and all of a sudden
a ladybug said, I'm greater than you are.
The earth is greater than I am.
God will see my wonderful, powerful plants, and
all the wonderful timber, and all the beautiful
leaves.
The little ladybug is perfectly correct, you know.
Whereas the earth has only God's grace to
the life, the little ladybug has organic life.
But you couldn't do.
You can go.
I don't mind going to the zoo.
I'm terrified they'll keep me.
But you can go.
The darling one was taking me to the
zoo yesterday morning, after a moment of the
ocean's day.
I said, I don't want to be kept
there, but you're all right, you see.
So you go to the zoo.
I'm going into the zoo by the little
garden gate.
I can see the little garden, and all
of a sudden you see a great big
Jumbo.
And Jumbo said, you're going up in Jumbo's
back, and that little boy is 80 months,
two years, probably two and a half years
old, and all of a sudden Jumbo said,
Jumbo, Jumbo, I'm greater than you are.
Jumbo's is greater than I am.
God will see my great powerful body, my
four powerful legs, and I'm going to trumpet
upon them with jealousy and horror.
And you see a big face line.
But you know, Jumbo's perfectly correct.
I mean, this boy's perfectly correct, you know.
But it's Jumbo.
He's only got animal life.
Little boy has got human life, animal life,
more greater than we believe, of course.
But then a boy, an 18-year-old,
who's been working for a professor, in fact
he's still working for a professor, but on
a Sunday evening he launched a gospel meeting.
He told a clear simple statement of the
gospel, that Christ died for our sins according
to scripture.
He was buried on the third day.
He rose again from the dead among the
dead, and half-blazing of trust in that
living person, none of the king devils was
alive for evermore, and blazing of confidence and
trust in him, and receiving him by his
angel heart who had his eternal life, will
be saved.
And thank God that boy believed that testimony.
The exorcise stays in Jesus Christ, and it
is gloriously conferred.
The next morning, going into the land, there
he finds the professor very busy with some
research.
They go in somewhat timidly, saying to him,
Professor, yes, Professor, I'm greater than you are.
The professor stops what he's doing, his little
statement stops, he's in doubt.
Greater than I am, greater than I who
I am, is yes, I am in who
you are, all right, Professor, but still I'm
greater than you are.
Well, how do you make that up?
Well, last night I went to launch a
gospel meeting.
I visited the head of the gospel party,
and I believed him, and I received Christ
my Lord and Savior.
And sir, I'm not only got human life,
but I got both human life and spiritual
life.
Sir, I'm alive from above.
Sir, I've been born again by God's Spirit.
Sir, and sir, you've only got human life,
but I got both human life and spiritual
life.
Now, the boy is perfectly correct.
So, now, I'm coming right into this group
tonight here.
There are not too many of us here,
but I'm going to bring it right down
here.
Now, I'm speaking tonight with all professors, that
is, with all saints of Christ and Lord
Jesus, that is, with all seed and with
our own Lord and Savior, should it be
one here who is praying, who is loving,
who is great.
Here, I tell you frankly, you've never yet
stopped to live.
You're just existing.
And remember, when you were born to this
world, we were all of us.
We weren't all there when we were born.
I'm saying it, we weren't all there when
we were born.
What would you mean?
Well, man is struck out as being, made
up of spirit and soul and body.
And when God said to Adam, if you
don't eat of the rock, God will surely
die, that didn't Adam and Eve partook of
that forbidden fruit, they died.
Or, said someone, that's not true, for Adam
lived well over 900 years, he had sons
and daughters.
My saints, though they did not die physically,
they died spiritually.
And from that love, until the last day
he was born into the world, that spirit
called his death, he was all gone.
And that's why we must be born again.
Please get with me.
God just told, and also in the book
of Proverbs said, the spirit of man is
the candle of the Lord, and when Adam
sinned in that garden, that candle was snuffed
out, that light was snuffed out.
So, not only are we born again in
the condition of spiritual death, but also in
the condition of spiritual ignorance and spiritual darkness.
Not only dead, but in darkness, and that's
why when we're born again by God's spirit,
we are quickened into light, and that spirit
chamber of ours which is in darkness is
illuminated by the incoming of the light of
the world, and that's what happens when we're
born again, that those who receive light, which
is the light from above, that those who
receive a spiritual life, eternal life, that spirit
chamber of ours knows God now, we commune
with God, we address him as our own
father.
Is it only all the children of God?
Isn't God the father of all mankind?
Certainly not.
He's the creator of all mankind, it's only
the fathers who believe in his son.
Galatians 3.26 says, now are he the
children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
John 1.12, but to as many as
deceived him, to them did he power to
become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on his name, which are born
out of blood, not of the will of
flesh, but of the womb of God, from
the infant born of God, that means I
receive his very life, I become a partaker
of the divine nature, I receive his life,
and that spirit chamber of mine is quickened
into light, and I receive light, and so
the message of God is saying, life, life,
eternal life, Jesus alone is the giver, life,
life, abundant life, glory to Jesus forever.
When we were born into the world, you
can't imagine it was not, but when we
were born into the world, we had no
life given to us, corresponding with the sphere
in which we were coming.
We were coming into a natural sphere through
the natural life given to us.
Say yes?
Now how did we survive in the water
element?
Then that we'd been swimming about with little
fins going, and a tail behind us, but
we were not to live in the water
element, we were to live in an atmosphere
through the natural life given to us.
So, I can see that that's quite sound
logic, and I'll tell them in the new
room.
Heaven is a heavenly sphere, it's a spiritual
sphere.
Blank and blood, where men will inherit the
kingdom of God, and beloved, no matter how
clean, how cultured, how refined, how consecrated, that
life of yours may be, I want to
tell you, no matter how religious or sentimental
it is, no matter how many ways you've
gone through, no matter how goody-goody you
may be, thy strength and length should be
borne again by God's Spirit, that afterlife will
never fix you for a heavenly sphere.
It's a spiritual sphere, it's a heavenly sphere,
but the moment you receive Christ and you're
born from above, that's the term, you're born
from above, that moment you receive Christ, it's
not a case of becoming a religious, but
it is of obeying some commandments, of receiving
some creed, and that creed of receiving a
person, and that person is Jesus Christ.
May I help you?
And the moment you receive the Lord Jesus,
as the Old Testament says, this is 1
John 5, verse 11, here it has to
stand half-life.
Here it has not to stand half-life.
So, it's not a case of merely believing
about Christ, that will never be right.
We must believe into Him and receive Him
by faith into our heart, and the moment
we receive Him, that moment we receive life.
I was in Brigham Young recently, down in
Winnipeg State, and after meeting a young woman
who had been brought up in a Christian
home, who's part of, is a businessman, but
a very full-time teacher.
He's very excellent in the Lord's work, and
this girl is a Sunday school teacher, she's
a counselor at the camp, she'd gone to
her name's Bible school, but last Thursday night,
down at Riverside, that girl found out she
had never been saved at her.
She found out she had never been saved
at her.
She knew the feeling, she knew the taste
of Scripture, she knew the phraseology, and everything
she'd passed had been in a really good
bond with before everyone else, and in her
own head, had seen how everybody thought she
was a Christian, that night, saying, listen, listen,
God's picture of her near, God's picture of
her near perfection, and she came out to
recognize she was trying to live her life,
she had never survived, she had never survived.
There she goes, had gone out for meetings,
and tried to dedicate herself to Christ, tried
to dedicate herself to Jesus, and nothing happened,
it didn't fit, it didn't work.
Two months after, probably after that camp meeting,
probably after two weeks, everything was wonderful, you
know, everything was wonderful, but oh, it just
didn't fit again, didn't work.
Two months later as well, in that inquiry
room, she had been dealt with by a
young school teacher, somewhat older than herself, and
the two of them were actually in tears.
We went into that inquiry room, she began
to tell us the story, I know the
girl very well, you know, and I greatly
loved her, and I would really die for
her, and that would never be fair, because
of her honesty and absolute sincerity.
As a teenager, she actually hated them, I
mean that, she hated them, because she tried
to lead them away from the name of
Christ Jesus, and she tried, she rebelled, and
she started all of us with a sort
of rebellion.
She rebelled against the Bible reading at the
table, when the family gathered together, when she
saw her sister, her younger sister, reading the
Bible, reading the Bible, having a bad time,
just sitting, trying to make a fool of
me, that's all she did, trying to shred
me, tear me, that's all, and all this
was going on in her heart, as she
rebelled, she was trying to survive herself alive,
what the hell, what the hell is she
yelling at, what is she yelling at, what
do you got to yell about?
It was all this rebellion in her heart,
rebellion in her heart, and she got on,
and she let not the spirit guide me
to follow the pattern, and she said, Uncle
Jim, Uncle Jim, is it possible I'm not
saved at all?
Is it possible I'm not saved at all?
I said, that's what I didn't imagine, you've
never been saved at all, and you're trying
to dedicate Christ to Christ, and he's been
all the way to come before me, I
will destroy.
He's got to dedicate a new life in
his own hands.
He's getting down on his knees, that guilty,
righteous group of Jesus Christ, to receive him
as our Lord and Savior.
I said that this last Thursday night, that
was the Thursday before, last week, God and
God and God, the very same thing happened,
the very same thing happened, and I'm saying,
time after time, I am coming across all
these young people, all the people, who are
finding out the moment of the propension, that
no text is scripted, but there's no there's
no title, no teaching of a part in
Christ, and they don't know Christ, they don't
know him, they know about him, but they
don't know him, and there's no life.
My brother, my sister, may you search your
heart, not in the presence of God, you
can't live a victorious, happy, joyful, Christian life,
a peaceful life, a great Christian life, and
you've got that life to start with, and
you're really born again.
A lot of people come out, I thought
it was a big sort of backslider, and
they come out contending, all the banks are
submissively, and they get down and down, saying,
God, God has given us a spirit that's
able to diagnose a case, and to discern
a case, and we know when a person
is really a true believer, there's deathly bankruptcy,
but at least we know those who have
just confessed, they've never stood forward at all.
They've never stood forward, they've never really been
born again at all, and they've come to
find that their spirit is poor, it's not
restoration, it needs life, it needs life to
be born again, and thank God for those
who are coming around.
I live in Coruscant, I live in Coruscant
with my friend, this is quite some time
ago, I've been in Coruscant for years, I've
been a preacher, preaching the gospel for years,
brought up in a Christian home, we all
are soft-faced, we all are crazy, all
are jinxed, you use a little boy to
tell people the gospel?
You don't sound like that, you don't sound
like that.
So, this particular Saturday night, we're seeing the
valley of dry bones, there's a rally for
Christians.
Both inquiries were tested, tested, as men and
women were beating their hearts about Christians getting
right with God.
Christians getting right with God, they see that
spirit fast.
The Bible doesn't start with a man gathering
souls, that's the outcome of the Bible, the
Bible starts with you, the Bible starts with
me.
So, they want to see a mighty movement
for the God like we in the Bay
Area.
I didn't expect it to start in a
field, it must start in your heart, it
must start in my heart.
They come and say, oh, that's an almighty
Bible, you start that revival in me.
That night that Coruscant came forward, you see
a growing guy in stains, he says, Jim,
Jim, when I feel for you, you come
to town.
Says, what is it?
He said, I know in my own heart,
I know in my own heart I've never
been born again, but because my father and
all the others, all Christians and all outstanding
preachers, I didn't want anyone to know that
was a fear in my soul.
He said, I can't go on like this,
I can't go on like this.
And he said, Jim, I must be born
again.
And that man, my friend, I got down
to his heart and it came right through
for Jesus Christ, his glory to come for
me, that this is Saturday, I baptize him
again with the blood of others on the
Monday night, and that he was baptized in
the service that man had given the ministry.
I've given the ministry, here we go, the
theological way that Christ was my living repartee
in his heart.
Knowing you, the coming again of the Lord
Jesus, are you really saved?
Are you really born again?
But I've been just got stopped three days.
I know it's your job, you sit down,
you almost own it, I know you almost
got a knife, jump, own it, jump, I
believe all this, and you can believe all
these and then go to hell.
And yet go to hell.
My friend, believing that such a truth will
never save your soul.
You must place your faith in a person,
that person is Jesus Christ, and you must
receive that person by faith into your heart.
And when you receive him, you receive life.
Not life is going to manifest itself, but
life will manifest itself.
And you tell me you're born again, Christian,
your life may be changed or transformed, but
coming radically wrong, you put faith in Jesus
Christ.
Radically wrong.
But tonight, many of us here, I trust
all of us who say, I know what
he's saying perfectly true, because thank God I
know I'm born again.
Thank God I know I've passed from death
unto life.
Thank God I know I've come from darkness
into light.
And I know Christ by living these energies
in my heart, and in my mind, within
my mind, living those things.
And can you simply see no longer I,
but Christ that lives in me.
Earth, heaven, sky, deep in this, that Christ
lives where?
In heaven?
Christ lives in me.
He sometimes sings, he walks with me, he
talks with me, a long night's not away.
You ask me how I know he lives?
He lives within my heart.
No one my love is involved.
Then he does come into my heart, and
you receive him.
Then you prepare to become the son of
God.
And what God has to know, you're a
son, you're a child of God, and if
God's not yet assured what we shall be,
then we know that when he shall see
what we shall be, my sins shall be
completed at the age.
Now, let me ask you, I come back
to this little illustration I was giving you.
It's possible that in this grand group tonight,
that someone may go to another and say
they will never do so because they're proof
of his truth.
Go out and say I am greater than
you are.
It's possible.
I know you will never do a thing
like that, but I'm getting this.
Christ said I am come that ye might
have life, and that ye might have it
more abundantly.
I believe every born-again Christian has life,
and every born-again Christian is not in
the enjoyment of the abundance of life.
You know why?
Because Christ is not law.
Christ is not law.
The moment we receive Christ, that moment we
receive life.
The moment we allow the Holy Spirit to
inform Christ, Lord of all, that moment we
enter into the joy of the abundance life.
And that's where this grace and I started
to tell you all.
I also had a vision of how these
guys got lost.
I looked up and saw the look of
Dave and that old little boy, some tiny
girl.
His brother, he got upstairs to bed and
got in the bed in there, and his
mother went out with a tucking rod to
tuck him well into the night, and she
said him good night before she went through
to her own room.
He was just sick when she was doing
this, by the way.
This night she went up to do so.
When she got up there, lo and behold,
she found herself asleep on the floor.
On the floor.
So she picked him up, brought him to
the bed, and tucked him in there the
next morning.
George, when I came upstairs last night to
teach you good night and tuck you in,
I found myself asleep on the floor.
How did you get there?
Why did you come in?
Why must you come and teach me the
things I've got in?
I've heard all the questions like that.
Now all my mother has gone to sleep.
They've gone to sleep.
They've got life right now, but it's not
life in abundance.
It's not life in abundance.
They've given Christ a praise, but they've never
given him a preamble to it.
They've given him a praise.
He is a prominent praise, but they haven't
given him a preamble to it.
He's not Lord over all.
No one's ready for evermore.
My brother and mine, this is the first
time in your life and mine.
Are you just getting in the office, or
is he on the phone?
If you can't draw your mind how the
Holy Spirit tonight is like, you may many
say, turn up and worship the Lord is
God.
That's a very important point.
Now let me show my heart.
I'm going to sit down with you to
verse number eight.
Verse number eight.
This is now, O God, O Lord God
of hosts, hear my prayer, the dear O
God of Jacob.
We are no longer here, come in here,
no longer we've got to pause and think
of that.
Because it does not say O God of
Israel, it's O God of Jacob.
Remember Jacob was the old sister, Jacob was
the old supporter, Jacob could not be relied
upon.
He was a real, a real sinner.
You know Jacob tried to see his father
-in-law, he did it once, but he
found his father-in-law sitting in the
same time as he came.
He never tried to see his in-law,
it never worked.
It never worked.
And so he found his father-in-law,
he tried, you know, to remember that wonderful
picture here.
Why don't you get this, that this is
God's great purpose in saving your soul and
mind.
Please, it's not in here that God is
saved from hell.
Oh no, oh no.
It's not a great purpose to go down
to eternal burning, oh no.
And God is saving your heaven.
I said the other evening, that's a very
negative, purely official gospel.
God's great purpose in saving your soul and
mind is this, is that his son who
is received in your heart, that his life
might be re-lived and reproduced in you
and in me to the glorious God the
Father.
God wants the life of his son to
be lived in the home, in the office,
in the school, on the campus, whether as
a teacher, a professor, as a student, a
mother, a child, whatever the case may be,
that through your life and my life there
might be a reproduction of the life of
Christ.
Remember that beautiful little booklet.
I like to put in the hands of
everyone here tonight.
The booklet is this, and it's written by
Josh Chapman, Burn to Reproduce.
Burn to Reproduce.
And that's why we're born again.
We'll burn to reproduce.
Is your life a productive life?
Is your life reproducing?
Is your life re-manifesting the life of
Christ?
Now get this, deep down in us all.
Jacob, the old sinner, the unreliable man who
could not be defended upon us all.
But remember there was a time he came
into the blight and there was a crisis.
The crisis came into the blight, and the
crisis was this.
A son was raised from us, Jacob, remember?
And then a breaking of the day.
And then remember how Jacob kept clinging on.
He kept clinging.
He said, I will not let you go.
I will not let you go until thou
slay me.
And the place of clinging became the place
of contention.
And he complained and when he said, that
was by me, he knew nothing about me
now.
Nobody knew him now.
Nobody thought of him now.
He didn't.
I'm Jacob.
I'm your sister.
I'm your supplier.
I'm the one to be defended upon.
I'm Jacob.
And then the place of contention became the
place of breaking.
Remember?
And Jacob was broken as stone to stone.
Broken as stone to stone.
And that even tonight, the reason why you
have never been intervened and pervasive, pervasive in
Christ, and then the reason why because you're
enjoying what's all yours in Christ is because
you've never been broken.
And God knows it's time to stand in
your light tonight.
And if you're willing to be broken, He's
willing to break you right there.
Right there.
I don't know what it may be.
I do not know what it may be.
But coming in and keeping you from entering
into pervasive, pervasive in Christ, and entering into
all the forms of yours in Christ, He
saved all his brothers.
But Jacob was broken.
And the place of breaking became the place
of breaking.
Isn't that wonderful?
Don't you forget that outline.
The place of clinging became the place of
contention.
The place of contention became the place of
breaking.
And the place of breaking became the place
of breaking.
And if you want God's blessing, you too
must be broken.
We too must be broken.
And God's got His own way of doing
the breaking.
He really has.
But my saying on it, you want God's
blessing for your life is a priceless thing.
A priceless thing.
It means everything upon order.
Someone who's never come through with the life
of his life on this earth, on this
earth will be laid.
Are you willing for this tonight?
Are you just going to go drifting through
life without any aim, without any purpose, without
any plan?
Do you have God's blueprint for your life?
Are you scared of taking a wrong turn?
Are you going to go God's plan for
your life?
God's blueprint for your life.
It's going to be a marvelous life, a
controlled life, a dominated life, with all the
power and energy of a man-made holy
spirit.
Wait a minute.
What does it mean to say, Thou shalt
be no more Jacob, that is you.
No more the substantial, but the Prince of
God.
The Prince of God.
You'll be a part of God, you'll be
a part of man.
You'll prevail with God, you'll prevail with man.
And beloved, listen, only as I know the
joy of that priceless character of going here
and getting along with the Lord Jesus, and
this is one of the first evidences that
I am really in the enjoyment of this
new life.
I have the right to be alone with
the Lord.
I have the right to be in His
presence.
I have the right to know His will
for me through His word.
And the Lord of God becomes a real,
willing, bountiful gift to my heart, not being
me a dry dust.
All in all, taking a duty and trying
to drive myself away through a dirty picture.
All in all, when Christ becomes Lord of
the new antichrist, to the new desire, the
new longing and new delight in getting along
in His presence, I will know the joy
of really gripping God for man, than going
out and gripping man for God.
I will know the joy of having victory
and pride with God, than going out to
gather in the forest and study early in
the afternoon, trying solemnly to forget what he's
done with the world, that that is a
shall be no more, no more Jacob.
You young Christians, come again to the example
of no more of this picture, the no
more of this picture.
Just pray to Him, and pray to remember,
when it comes to no more, there's coming
far better in store.
In the name of no more of Jacob,
let us begin.
He will.
The Egyptians whom you've seen today, you'll see
them again no more.
Get this, the Egyptians whom you've seen today,
you'll see them again no more forever.
Have you gone to the cross?
Have you seen the eminence stripped dead of
power in that cross?
He stripped in totality of them power to
be no more than slaughtered and starving over
in his pasture, the enemy, the old, the
evil of the old lands, the world, heaven,
hell, and all the peoples.
Have you seen them there?
Have you seen the last of them?
The Egyptians whom you've seen today, you'll see
again no more forever.
Then you go on, no more the servant
of the son, it's no more I the
Christ, another God.
Your sins and iniquities I will remember no
more forever.
There's coming no more to strip death.
Come with God to the father, enter into
the garden by faith, for peace that life
will bring into your heart, you young Christians.
Now, why don't you get this?
We, Christ and Jesus of Nazareth, just before
this call, we'll read again another name.
The name is Jessurim.
Jacob, Israel, Jessurim.
Jacob was a prophet.
I never said sorry, it came to me
as a very strange thing by the way.
James and Jacob, that's a plan in the
Old Testament.
There it is, Penelope and Jacob, the Old
Testament, here now, no more Jesus.
My request is to get into a close
enough.
There must come a crisis in you now,
and in my life, and we're going to
go on with God.
Are you going to be the man God
wants you to be, or the woman God
wants you to be?
This crisis must come, and it will become
no more I the Christ.
Our old man was, in the past tense,
well crucified with Christ.
For the value of sin might be discarded,
henceforth it is no more self-same.
Things are not as they may have always
been.
What a wonderful thing.
But Jessurim now, do you know what Jessurim
means?
Do you know what it means?
I wonder if I can see it properly.
I'll try to, but it just means my
value.
Did I say it all right?
My value, that's all it means.
That's right, there it is.
So what does value mean?
You know?
What does value mean?
All right, do you know what value means?
Very good, very good.
Very good.
That's what it means.
It means my upright one, my soft one,
my holy one.
Can I give you an example?
Your husband's going to work in the morning,
the wife goes to a date with him,
because he's advised, he doesn't support her.
See, I'm talking about the good old fashioned
days, you know, when the men went to
work in the morning, and the wife went
to a date with him, but usually the
wife goes to work, and the men sit
at home.
It's the good old fashioned days I'm talking
about, you know.
And when the wife goes, I mean the
man goes, the wife goes and keeps him
advised, advised on him.
Now, what does it mean?
It just means this.
He's going to go into a busy city,
he's going to come in contact with all
different types of people during the course of
the day, but you're my soft one.
I can depend upon you, I can rely
upon you, and the other hand now, he's
leaving it in the home.
He seems to be coming in contact with
all different types of people during the course
of the day, but you're my soft one.
I can depend upon you, I can rely
upon you, you're my upright one, you're my
holy one.
Listen, no more daters.
They couldn't be friends at all, but now
they're children, but coming between is the prince
of Israel, the prince of God, the Christ
has taken his place.
No more daters, but they're children, and what
comes next?
And I will tell God what found him
at his first date, and there will be
floods upon the dry ground.
Get it?
My brother, my sister, she'll have the goodness
of getting like a blossom, like a rose.
She wants springs of living water springing up
in your soul.
From his palm, she wants spiritual fields and
beautiful fruits, like a treat to the glory
of God.
Hear this, listen.
When he comes cross us, when he comes
cross us, you're seeing a moment of God's
cross down there being like a third part
of it, like a third part of it,
but when he comes cross us, then, beloved,
there shall be floods upon dry ground.
There shall be springs in the desert.
There shall be springs of living water.
There shall be fruits of the glory of
God, and listen, that God's great purpose is
saving your soul and mind.
Got that?
That God's great purpose is saving your soul
and mind.
You know, the Christian life is a wonderful
life.
It's a wonderful life.
Do you know this life?
A little deep down in your heart, have
a Jesus picture, and stay from hell.
Hallelujah!
That's wonderful to say hallelujah for there, and
you'll stay for the country, and God's great
purpose in saving your soul is this, and
the life of his son might be a
real issue.
Your body, my body, day by day, let
me Christ come into your thoughts.
Willing who you will, looking up who you
are, compassion upon the multitude, Christ keeping your
lips and using your lips to speak for
his praise, to sing for his praise, to
tell out the message of beginning and end,
and Christ is very simple, it takes very
lightly and down just to lift it.
Christ is very, as he becomes Christ walking
around these three levels, he becomes Christ in
form, Christ in order, Christ keeping the truth
behind us, yes, Christ keeping that title, Christ
feeding that sin, Christ feeding that drug, it's
Christ, early Christ.
In every loop, I mean every action, it
becomes Christ lurking around in three levels.
What a difference that makes when you recognize
that truth from the holy statement that Jesus
was, not I, but Christ.
I received an estate convention some time ago,
please don't tell me off on that, but
I received an estate convention, and sometime afterward,
and during the interview, a man came walking
down the aisle and he said, I'm transforming
what I've never seen before, and I said,
what is that?
He said, I'm a secret smoker.
I said, I don't know what about smoking,
is it wrong?
I said, I'm about to smoke in Germany,
and he made it his way.
I was in my ministry, a conscious ministry.
He said, I know you say about smoking,
but when you think about Christ being the
life of your life, and Christ's life is
not a single kiss, that is not for
me.
I could never think of his pure life
being a lipid dream, and I'll never smoke
again.
I'll never have.
That very same day, two women were sitting
reading in the aisle of that church, reading
their hearts out, reading each other's shoulders.
Someone said, will you go cross me the
psalm with these women?
Now, I am very careful about doing that.
I'm very careful.
I would not do it with brethren without
trying to ensure the women's problems, but two,
cannot seem to be right on the line
with them.
Two, they strike up you, they're all around
thinking they don't want you anymore.
You know, what is the meaning?
Well, I've been in hell for three years,
and it's only been for three years.
I've been struggling for over three years.
I don't know how many years I've been
in there.
You know, but you still got the love
life flowing through that heart.
The love life is going to flow through
that heart.
You know, I don't have got to go,
I think.
You've got the same thing at the same
time.
You see, when the love life is going
to flow, it's going to be fabulous.
It's going to flow from all around.
You're going to be in love with your
heart.
I'll be excited about you and I'll be
right with one another.
They'll never be in love with each other.
They're all going to love one another.
Now, I don't expect this problem to be.
I don't hope, and I don't say myself
enough, that to occur.
How does it may be?
I must tell you, I love my brethren
and my family very much.
It's not, will we do that tonight?
And remember your favorite approach is, that service
is going to be no longer all that
Christ needs in you.
God wants you to understand that you and
I, and my life, must prove to be
a brother and sister of the one and
only Christ.
None of them will lose sight of us
all together through any pain.
I didn't hear much today, and I didn't
hear anything today, and I didn't hear anything
earlier, but as I was looking down the
street in North American apartments, I come across
a lot of Christians who are suffering from
a medical disease.
A terrible disease.
It's a diabolical disease.
It's a sinister disease.
You know what it's called?
You listen carefully.
It's called perpendicular to the personal pronoun I.
Remember?
That great big I.
I, I, I, I, to be I for
Christ.
It's trying to give you a whole lot.
It's trying to give you a couple of
I's, and the couple of I's, and the
couple of I's, and there's a whole lot
that's underlying there.
You know that.
And I want to get, it's that great
big I.
I, I, I, I, I, it's my life.
All I need in the whole isle is
the presence of Christ.
There is no longer I, but the presence
of Christ.
And I'm here for you.
Let the deliverance by death, I am keeping
time to time.
Let the deliverance by beholding is no longer
I, but Christ.
Let the deliverance by dedication, the Son of
God loved me and gave himself for me.
Take the last sentence, the Son of God
loved me and gave himself for me.
That sentence, himself for me, himself for me,
himself for me.
Now read it backwards.
Read it backwards, and do you believe it?
It shall be me for himself.
In this past that's met with loss, by
a deathly act before the Lord, and it's
not henceforth, by grace, it shall be me
for himself.
I meant to speak in verse number 11
regarding God of protection.
Now to give you that entirety, will it?
He is the Son and He is the
Spirit.
He is the Son.
He is the Spirit.
He is grace and He is glory.
Grace is glory to God.
Glory, grace in cool rain.
I'd like you to think that through again
for one moment, and teach me to go
forward again, how that the name of the
Lord is the firm power, the righteous unoffensive,
unmerciful prayer, that stays in that strong power.
May I help you in the blood of
Christ that's changing, in the name of Christ
that is complete with faith, in the name
of Christ complete with faith.
I meant to be in this space, but
I see my time's almost gone.
May I leave that with you?
In the blood of Christ that's changing, in
the name of Christ that's complete with faith.
Forever your trial may be, forever your difficulty
may be, just look up and see, in
the name of Christ, how the truth will
be studied.
And you're afraid when you're talking, you have
to be afraid, because you're suffering from an
inferiority complex.
And when you're getting you down, you wonder
what's wrong with you, I was thankful one
day to go into a hospital, a young
man there, and he was suffering from a
nervous disorder.
He was an accountant, and he got to
tell me something, and I said I didn't
know any more about him, I think we
need a spiritual advisor.
And somehow that was sent to me, and
I went down to his cellar, they heard,
they said, I found he was a Christian,
he was born again, and I said regarding
certain things, maybe he was blind, God revealed
him, but he died, he craved, he went
away.
And I said let it go, they told
you he was going to have shock treatment.
I said if you do what God will
tell you, you'll never need the shock treatment,
you'll be perfectly healthy, you'll be fine.
Oh, he said, I'd like him half way.
And he said, I'd like him half way,
I know I'm not fit for this job,
and I know they're going to promote it,
but I'm not fit for it, I know
I'm not fit for it.
And they're looking.
Christ is stripped from society, and he has
me, and nobody saw him through the cross,
but it was God.
Satan is a deceitful soul.
The only thing that can touch you is
through your body, and when your body's tired,
it's the only thing that can touch you.
Let us be honest, I sat alone, and
they held me, and delivered me out of
all my fears.
Now to get them to end that, that
verse, once we've done the other verse, and
then when that very thought comes into your
mind, you're not looking for the door, you're
looking in the name of Christ.
I refuse to be a fool.
When the devil comes to the top of
this country, in the name of Christ, I
refuse to be a fool.
Remember, there was pain in the ground, but
the victory in that name, that name of
the Lord was a strong power, cutting my
long, sorely sought, that was, that was death,
and he was fine, and he was never
to be found.
He loved me so much, that there was
victory in the name of Christ, and when
the thought comes into your mind, whatever it
may be, I want to tell you, you
claim that victory to be the name, but
in the name of Christ, I refuse to
be a fool.
In the name of Christ, I refuse to
be a fool.
In the name of Christ, I refuse to
be a fool.
Remember, the victory in that name is not
ours, but Christ's.
When you have to be a fool.