Queen of the stars, good day, I'm redeemed,
I'm redeemed, From all that sorrow that man
is to bear, I have been redeemed.
I'm redeemed by love divine, glory, glory,
righteousness, I now resign, I
have been redeemed.
I'm redeemed, I'm redeemed, I'm redeemed, I'm redeemed,
I'm redeemed by love divine, I
have been redeemed.
Since I started, since
my sweetheart
is dead, He's
sweeter than
he's ever been, A
sweeter being.
What have you done recently for one of
your elders?
I hope that you minister to them in
some fashion they have ministered to you, and
one way that you might be a real
help to them is to put into their
hands one of these two books, Battle for
the Bible, or The Lord of the Churches.
Both of these books will give them food
for their souls, something to read of, something
to refresh their own spirit, and they're really
nominal in price.
You might have a young fellow in your
local church that's interested in the assemblies of
God's people and concerned about their growth, and
it would be very good that they would
have put into their hands, and they would
consider your little consideration and the $3 investment,
although they won't know that that's what the
price is, and you can put The Lord
of the Churches into their hands and have
a double effect, give them something special, not
only a signed copy by Mr. Davies, but
there's a little chart in the front page
on the Book of Revelation in the seven
letters, but there's an extra little study material.
These two books and others are over at
the bookstore.
You really should make a little bit of
an investment in some of the volumes that
are here, not only that our brother doesn't
have so much to carry home, but that
you begin to have a ministry and a
joy of giving to some others.
Not just for your own library, but take
something home to give to those that are
interested and concerned and must encourage them to
get some good spiritual food under their belt.
Won't you do that?
The facts of the Bible will be excellent
for some of your more mature Christians and
those that are interested or concerned in the
welfare of the truth of God's Word and
the preserving of it amongst God's people.
Look at Judges Chapter 13.
Judges Chapter 13, 14, and 15 afford for
us the view of the 12th Judge, but
not the Lance Judge.
Due to your attention on the very first
opportunity, this word is used rather specially in
this particular area of the Word of God,
and although in other places when the same
word, Judge, is used, it has reference to
discerning good and bad.
But through the Book of Judges, and through
the first two people in the Book of
Samuel, Eli and Samuel, it is used in
reference to a deliverer, one who is overruling,
guiding, and providing for God's people.
And, once again, like when we say the
word Reformation, you think of the Reformers, but
a period of time.
So, from now on, I trust that when
we think of the Judges, we do not
merely think of the Book, but rather a
period of time in the nation's history that
was at a low ebb, necessitating the raising
up of a king, and God ultimately bringing
in His chosen king, suggestive of the time
in which we live just prior to the
coming of our blessed Lord.
Judges 13, 14, 15, and 16 carry for
us information regarding the life of Samson, and
our little chart that we have suggested might
be of some point of interest, not meant
to be an interpretation, but an application of
the clues that are seen.
We see Samson coming in at the end
of the church period, just prior to the
coming of the Lord.
Some of his characteristics, the enemy that he
fights against, the fact that he never actually
triumphs over the enemy.
The enemy lingers, and the one who triumphs
is the king that comes, David.
And, of course, in fulfillment, our blessed Lord
is alone the one who will be able
to straighten out what is suggested by the
Philistine domination.
The last two sections, chapters 17 to the
end of the book, afford for us two
very sad circumstances.
Once, at Paul's priesthood in chapters 17 and
18, chapter 19 through the end, introduces to
us the perverted judgment.
Great civil war, impure ideas, inconsistency amongst God's
people.
No doubt the incidences themselves happened earlier, but
are comical at the end of the book
to show the devastation effect and the low
ebb of the nation.
They end up in a violent civil war,
more concerned over the dignity of a woman
than God's honor.
It's a sad, confusing, and almost, for some
sensitive consciences, a really repulsive story, and yet
it's been carefully preserved for us to see
the very sad circumstance that characterized the end
of this book, and the reason why the
people were clamoring for leadership and a rule.
Unfortunately, they wanted a king rather than God's
control and submission to the unseen rule and
leadership of the Lord.
The oppression, the seventh oppression on the nation
of Israel given to us in this book,
is given in chapter 13, verse 1.
The children of Israel did evil again in
the sight of the Lord, and the Lord
delivered them into the hands of the Philistines
forty years.
It is the longest oppression to which God's
people are submitted in this book.
We are introduced here to a new enemy.
They have been mentioned indirectly.
By this time, they have thoroughly emigrated out
of Egypt, have permeated the southern part of
the land, and are gradually crowned in many
different areas in the whole southern section of
the land.
They have five cities and five lords that
rule those basic cities that constitute their dominion.
Their scheme or pattern was an infiltration of
the land.
It was not a direct attack as such,
but gradually an overrunning and a permeation of
the land, and gradually getting more and more
control.
This subtle form suggests to us professions of
Christianity which is more evident after the Reformation
in these later years.
They were not out of Egypt by way
of the shed blood of the Passover or
going through the Red Sea.
They came out as emigrants, moved into the
land, and might be what is suggested by
our Lord as those that are sown, the
seed that is sown, the children of the
devil, that will not be extricated until the
Son of Man comes and removes, takes the
true harvest, and removes all that chaos.
They suggest a profession of Christianity that we
face, and feature the Philistine history that are
constantly in opposition to God's people.
They seem to be almost doggedly, belligerently just
parroting, you know.
Even, for example, in the time of Isaac,
it meant just filling up the wells that
he brought.
Just parroting, contention, division, and strife.
There they are permeating and controlling the land.
Scripture gives only the name of Palestine to
the Holy Land when it speaks of judgment.
The word Palestine comes from this Philistine rule.
It's the longest oppression, 40 years, and there
will be no deliverance either by Samson nor
any until the coming of the king.
And there is no deliverance from profession of
Christianity.
The church is filled, the professing church, the
kingdom if we could call it in a
broader sense, is filled with those that profess
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our Lord promised that circumstance to be so.
That will not be corrected until he himself
returns and removes those that are his own,
and then comes back to make a discerning
judgment in his kingdom.
Israel has been crushed by 40 years of
oppression.
There is no cry on the part of
the people for a deliverer.
Raising up of Samson is a sovereign act
of God.
He ultimately must come in and prepare in
his way to bring a deliverer in.
It shows remarkable interest and concern in God's
people.
There was a certain man of Gorah, a
family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah,
and his wife was barren and bare not.
The angel of the Lord appeared unto the
woman and said unto her, Behold, now thou
art barren, and barest not, but thou shalt
conceive and bear a son.
Now, therefore, beware, I pray thee, and drink
not wine, nor strong drink, and eat not
any unclean things.
Lo, thou shalt conceive and bear a son,
and no razor shall come on his head,
for the child shall be a Nazarite unto
God from the womb, and he shall begin
to deliver Israel out of the hands of
the Philistines.
Before we look at this portion, I'd like
to draw to your attention two or three
characteristics, and then we'll come back to this
particular paragraph and what follows.
This is a lengthy portion, and we could
not do justice to his whole life.
You might like to make a chart sometime
on the upper left-hand side of your
chart, and a paragraph heading, and then a
second column of content, and a third column
the opposition, and whether or not he was
moved by the Spirit of God, and a
lesson to be learned.
Six columns across, and then read through his
life, and you'll find out that his life
very easily breaks into paragraphs, into experiences, obvious
relationships, good and bad, and where there is
much to glean just from your own experience.
We mustn't overlook that in chapter 14, verse
1, Samson goes down to Timnath, a city
amongst the Philistines, and saw a woman in
Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
He came up and told his father and
his mother, and he said, I have seen
a woman in Timnath of the daughters of
the Philistines.
Now, therefore, get her for me to wife.
At the end of verse 3, get her
for me, he reaffirms to his father, for
she pleases me well.
The lust of the eyes.
In chapter 16, in verse 1, Samson went
to Gaza and saw there a harlot, and
went in unto her.
The lust of the flesh.
Verse 4, and it came to pass afterwards
that he loved a woman in the valley
of Thorek, whose name was Elilah, the pride
of life.
You can see how these threefold enemies, the
lust of the eyes, the lust of the
flesh, and the pride of life, are illustrated
by these three women in this man's life.
The first two are passive, objects of his
attention and interest, and his own self-indulgence.
The third is an aggressive, satanic attack upon
God's servants because of his own indulgence and
his own arrogant pride in his relationship with
this woman.
A sad pitfall for this man.
Lessons to be learned by all of us.
These things are not to be relegated merely
to the sins of manhood, but they come
in similar forms to others as well.
We need to be aware of fulfilling the
desires of the body and of the mind.
This is truly the lust of the flesh.
Now, in chapter 15, after a great battle,
we find the first time that we have
a record that Samson has a personal relationship
to God.
In chapter 15, in verse 18, after a
tremendous battle where he slew thousands, he saw
a thirst and he called on the Lord
and said, Thou hast given this great indifference
unto the hand of thy servant, and now
shall I die for thirst and fall into
the hand of the uncircumcised.
But God craved a hollow place that was
in the jaw, and there came water thereout.
When he had drunk, his spirit came again,
and he revived.
Wherefore he called the name thereof, Hankara, which
is in Lehi, unto this day.
And he judged Israel in those days to
the Philippines twenty years.
Twenty years were this man's ministration that some
way allayed the opposition to the coming of
the king, to the true deliverer.
He carried on in some way faithfully, but
this is his first experience in a relationship
with God, and when he comes to the
end of himself and his physical strength, which
was his personal strength, he knew it well,
he tried it himself in, but when he
came to the end of himself after a
conflict, and in fatigue he raised his voice
and he called upon the Lord.
It's the first record of having any spiritual
or social intercourse with God.
I wonder how many of us have spent
long periods of time seeking to serve the
Lord without personal relationship with him.
Samson may be at his spiritual height at
this little period where he acknowledges his weakness,
his utter dependence, and in fatigue and tiredness
he calls upon God, and God graciously calls
a great spring of water to come up
miraculously and to provide refreshment and nourishment, and
thus it becomes a significant product, the place
of the core spring.
I trust that you have sometime in your
life known what it is to come to
the end of your own self, and find
the necessary physical or emotional or spiritual fatigue,
and have learned to kneel down in your
bedroom or your office or your car or
wherever you are into a sanctuary of silent
communion with God, and learn that God can
refresh you.
Inner strength dwelling up within, even though you're
in the desert, you can sing unto the
Lord and realize that God wants you to
acknowledge your weakness.
The moment you and I are weak, then
he can become strong.
That's a familiar thing in this world, that
in his weakness there is strength.
The second that is recorded, and the last
time it happens in the end of chapter
16, he has been blinded, he has been
humiliated and shamed, stripped of his dignity and
his usefulness to God, he becomes scorned and
mockery for the enemy.
Verse 28, And Samson called unto the Lord,
and said, O Lord God, remember me!
I prayed, and blented me, I prayed, only
this once, O God, that I may at
once avenge the Philistines for my two eyes.
Then Samson took hold of the two middle
pillars upon which the house stood, and on
which it was borne up, the one with
its right hand, and the other with its
left.
Samson then let me die with the Philistines,
and he bowed himself with all his might,
and the house fell upon the Lord and
upon all the people that were therein.
So the dead which he flew with his
death were more than they which he flew
with his life.
Chapter 16, verse 31, and the very last
phrase, He judged Israel for twenty years.
In the end of the preceding chapter, to
hear everything in the end of the scene,
he accomplished nothing for God, and God just
reminds him that he did judge Israel for
twenty years.
He died in shame for his death was
a spiritual victory, a practical victory over his
enemies, and I think that many of us,
in some way at least, have been taught,
whether we understand it in our personal experience
or not, that it is in our death,
the death of our old man, and a
sense of our having been crucified with Christ,
that we ourselves would pass that judicial sentence
against ourselves.
So, that's what crucifixion is.
Crucifixion is not synonymous with death.
Crucifixion is condemnation that issues in death, judicial
condemnation that issues in death.
Our Lord Jesus and two men on either
side of him were crucified, but they were
quite alive, and the crucifixion never took our
Lord's might.
He voluntarily, by a sovereign act, dismissed his
fury.
So, crucifixion is a condemning judicial sentence against
ourselves, and it's a great blessing when, once
at the end of his life, he can
pass this and say, Lord, let me die.
Now, he's crucified.
We should be spiritual.
Call on the Lord in our weakness, find
him to be our sustaining strength, and then
call on him afresh, and say, Lord, let
me die.
Put an end to God's harm, and allow
thy eternal spirit to create Christ within, and
allow him to flow through.
But, this all comes about in the whole
narrative, in all the foundable mentions, because of
a remarkable, divine appointed call on the part
of God.
When I interviewed Jessica East, I would like
to mention a few very simple, practical illustrations
to show how this might come in, and
it's great importance for you and me.
Here's a woman who has never been crucified.
Here's a woman who has never born a
child.
Here is a man separated from his wife.
She remains anonymous.
God knows who she is.
The head of this household, the knower, is
named.
I want you to follow their actions and
their relationship together.
You want to depart from the study of
the book of Judges as such, and gather
something very simple, something very pertinent, to those
of us who are married, and those of
us who at some time think that we
might like to enter into this very noble
and profitable, but sometimes tiny, human relationship.
The woman came and told her husband, please
remember now, the very unsophisticated life you're seen
with, the very modest, simple form.
Here is a woman who has been out
in the field somewhere, and a man has
come to her and said, you're going to
be pregnant, you're going to bear a child,
and this is what I want you to
do.
Rather than keeping this to herself, rather than
having apprehension or doubt or questioning, she has
a very open relationship with her husband.
She has no fear that he is going
to hold her upset.
What does the husband feel like?
He comes back, they have never had a
child, this is a logical desire, and then
she comes in and says, well, I've been
out in the field, and I met a
man, and I'm going to have a baby.
There is much room for suspicion, evil thoughts,
innuendo, doubt in the relationship together.
But, there is a spiritual health between this
man and this woman, a confidence, and a
mutual trust that is tremendous enough to keep
it off.
A man of God came unto me, and
his countenance was like the countenance of an
angel of God, very terrible.
For I asked him not whence he was,
neither told me his name.
But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt
receive the bearer's son, and thou shalt drink
no wine or strong drink, neither any unclean
thing that a child should bear, and thou
shalt rise to God from the womb to
the day of his death.
All of Manoah's answers, doubt, questioning, enigma, accusation.
Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, O
my Lord, let the man of God which
thou didst send come again, that I might
check on this very self, and teach us
what we shall do unto the child that
shall be born.
Father sent a remarkable disposition into Grant.
Although his wife had received the divine revelation,
although she is to be the vehicle, and
she is to be the one blessed, he
immediately enters into his responsibility, which is, what
shall we do to train this child?
When you cradle that little one in your
arms, did you carefully raise your heart to
God, and say, What shall I do to
train this child?
Or was it possible that you weren't even
there?
Have you ever assumed responsibility for the raising,
and the training, and the guiding of your
children?
I have no doubt that at the judgment
seat that I shall be deeply responsible for
my family, for the weaknesses, for the frailties,
for the ineffectualness, for some of the hurts
and wounds, for some of the carelessness.
I know that I am responsible for those
eternal souls, my wife and my children, and
at the judgment seat, I must be answerable
for them, as of March, not in totality,
for their adult lives, but in some measure,
the word of God makes it abundantly clear.
Being a father and a husband is plated
with deepening responsibilities in a perverted, singed curse,
and flesh-entertaining world in which we live,
and it means that we must keep a
vigil upon ourselves and our loved ones, and
his immediate answer is to turn back to
God and entreat him, Lord, give us divine
instruction.
What shall we do to teach this choice?
And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah,
and the angel of God came again unto
the woman, and she sat in the field,
but Manoah her husband was not with her.
Now, note that carelessness.
Obviously, it is Manoah's wife who is the
fetus open and sick for divine revelation.
She is the one that God has chosen.
She is the one, apparently, if we read
the story aright, that is in some way
sick, whether for God's choice or by her
own attitude or disposition, she receives the instruction.
She is the one that is communicated with.
It is she that is the object of
fellowship and communion with God, and we can
see shortly she is the one that is
divinely instructed, much more of a spiritual angel.
But, nonetheless, there is a remarkable balance in
this family youth, and it is this family
that God has chosen to raise up and
deliver for the nation of Israel.
Whatever Samson turns out to be, it's not
to be laid upon the shoulders of this
man and woman.
God has chosen this family, and they shall
be the ones to bring this shining one,
for that is what Samson's name means.
In faith, they say, he will be the
shining demigod for the nation of Israel.
The angel comes again to the woman, but
Manoah her husband was not with her, because
God did not know that person.
So, he chose this, that we might learn,
and the woman made eight, and ran and
showed her husband.
And said of him, Behold, a man has
appeared unto me.
Talk!
Now, she doesn't sit and get everything that
she can, and says to herself, Well, where
are the Noah's impacts in the shop today?
Have I got something to sell him?
That's not a disposition.
She tries to hold him in her insight
or understanding.
She wants to share with him.
She recognizes and accepts in her role, and
you shall see immediately that Manoah is very
balanced, very mature.
There's many a Christian man that resents his
wife's time spent in Bible study.
He has to spend the time at work,
have on the road, eat some snacks.
She wants to share something with him, and
he tastes a little bit.
Oh, you don't do well, Henry.
But it's a little something of an offense
for our ego.
We feel like we should be the ones
that know.
Why should she be teaching me?
I can't allow her to know that she's
instructing me.
I will look kind of disinterested.
Why?
Because we have some kind of a veneer,
self-protection.
In reality, the ego is a lack of
humility.
We'll say it's self-protection.
And you just cannot receive from that weaker
vessel that which is hers to give to
us, which she wants to share.
And your very capacity to acknowledge, dear, I
never knew that.
Oh, thank you for that insight.
That will weld your relationship.
Instead, you continue to read the paper in
apparent disinterest, and you have ruptured a cozy
bond.
You're breaking the very thing that you want
to say.
So, acknowledging weakness is not to be weak.
It's to strengthen your tie with your loved
one.
To be able to receive from her the
demonstration that she can give.
She runs, and agents destroy him, and Noah
arose, typed with his wife, and came to
the man and said, Are you the man
that spoke to my wife?
I am.
Now let thy words come to pass.
How shall we order the child, and how
shall we do unto him?
Do you see his concern?
He wants his child to be raised for
God.
Father, bring up your children in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord.
Husbands, we need to love our wives.
Act officially here for a woman in your
life, for when Christ may be made official
for you.
Self-sacrifice to him.
Support him.
Fortune and friendship by the word of God.
That's the ministration that is out in Ephesians
5.
That's our side of the relationship.
Raising and cleansing, nourishing, bringing up life, cherishing,
protecting, hovering over your mother and your children.
That way of suffering and sustaining will cultivate
within that mature woman's spirit and soul the
willingness to abandon herself to you and to
be able to fulfill God's command to her,
which is so typical for her.
The most typical thing for a woman to
do is to submit to you.
Because she knows you too well.
But she's urged to do it as a
civil lawyer.
But how much more comfortable and how charmingly
delightful it is when she can do it
in response to the vigilant love.
It makes no difference what her attitude is
to you.
It makes absolutely nowhere different whether she receives
your love and attentiveness and care.
You have chosen this woman.
You have committed yourself to her.
And now, until the day the Lord breaks
that union, you are to love and care
and cherish and nourish and give of yourself.
And thus be preparing yourself for the noblest
of servants.
To be an overseer and treat with godly
maturity nearer the end of your life and
be a true elder and shepherd God's people.
You have learned much through raising your own
family.
Now you turn to the sheep, to the
family of God.
Manoah is glad to see his responsibility.
And, of course, now he wants to respond
in some way.
He wants to come back and give to
the man.
Let me give you a present.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
What's your name, anyway?
The angel says in verse 18, Why ask
that thou hast not my name, seeing it
is wonderful and secret enough to be known?
Manoah is such a kid with a neat
offering, an offering upon the rock unto the
Lord.
Relationship with God produces worshippers.
His desire to give back to God.
He offered it upon a rock unto the
Lord, and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah
and his wife looked on.
It came to pass when the flame was
upward toward heaven from off the altar, the
angel of the Lord ascended into the flame
of the altar, and Manoah and his wife
looked on it and fell on their faces
to the ground.
But the angel of the Lord did no
more appear to Manoah.
Then Manoah knew that he was an angel
of the Lord.
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall
surely die because we have seen God.
But his wife said unto him, If the
Lord were pleased to kill us, we would
not have received any burnt offering and a
neat offering at our hands.
Neither would he have showed us all these
things, nor would he at this time have
told us such things as these.
Spiritual instruction.
Insight into God's healing.
Thank the Lord if you have a godly
spiritual one.
And if not, pray and ask the Lord
that you might be given grace to be
able to continue to minister to her, and
through the use of the word of God,
create a spiritual atmosphere that will give her
the desire to be what she should be
to you in the spiritual realm, as well
as the physical.
Jeremiah and Paul both had a deep sense
of having been called by God to the
service of God before their birth.
The apostle said, While I was in my
mother's womb, it pleased God to call me
to separate me from his house.
Jeremiah listened to the Lord speak to him
in chapter 1, giving us an insight into
what divine knowledge means.
God says, I knew you before you were
born, and I ordained you to serve me
and go to the meeting.
An astounding thing, isn't it?
And here Sam, at any time in his
life, could look back and surely know that
God had singled him out to serve the
living God, and divine empowering was his.
Young fellas and girls, those of you who
honestly have some care for this eternal, it
is of profound importance that you recognize that
somehow, in his greatest love, God has chosen
you to be his own.
And he has singled you out, and has
now walked worthy of that cause, being fruitful
in every good work and increasing in the
knowledge of God.
All think of the treasured blessing and enrichment
that is yours, like great men of old
have sinned, like any who has ever found
their heart to serve God, a deep, crushing
awareness that God is full, and young fellas,
he wants you.
And he'll do what he is able to,
proportionate to the degree to which you will
surrender to be what you should be.
Samson was separated by God, even in his
mother's womb.
Young girl, what you do today will affect
a child of your parents.
Clarence didn't know that, surely.
But God did.
He said it early in all the scriptures
in the Levitical lore.
And he reaffirms it here.
What you do with your life, and what
you're taking to your body, will affect that
little eternal plane that will be carried by
you and brought into life.
The family unit is of tremendous importance.
The marital relationship is consummated and brings great
pleasure and joy.
And out of that love comes an eternal
vehicle to be set aside for God.
And the early you feel that, and sense
that appointment, accepts the great dignity of God's
holy call, I argue none of that is
your theology.
It's just the revelation of God's word.
Young Halloween girl, God has called you for
himself, and he has separated you to himself.
And I have a deep condition in my
soul.
Some of you, even now, feel the pressure
in your life that God has been speaking
to you.
You know you have faculties and equipment, you
have body, personality, warmth, thought, and spiritual gifts
of the Spirit to yield to God.
Will you squander it like Samson?
Will you eternally go on with your life
just indulging what you want?
And he looked, and he looked, and said,
Get her for me, he pleaded with me.
Is that the way you shall wait, surely?
No, I think not.
You are going to respond to the tender
ruling of the Spirit, and acknowledge that there
is a great will of God for you.
Good work!
And God has our saying that you should
walk it.
Won't you seek them out in Holy Scripture?
Won't you respond with your devotion and heart?
Won't you be among those that will deliver
God's people from the Philistines?
The false profession, the rank hypocrisy of the
initial realm.
If you too will have a sense of
separation and identification with the Lord, Samson would
not drink elementary things.
Wine, fruit juice, raisins, grapes.
He let his hair grow long.
It was an external testimony that he was
identified with God, separated to God.
There will be those that might not want
your fellowship.
That's all right, you go on with him,
and he'll provide the kind of fellowship and
companionship and provision for you.
Dear young folks, you've sat under the sound
of God's word for a whole week.
You've been in the fellowship of God's people
and enjoyed it.
Many of you have not really missed the
world at all.
Some of you have been here for two
weeks.
You know that you need to answer to
God's call.
He has drawn you to himself.
Humbly, simply, Jeremiah would reason with God and
say, Oh, I'm a child, I can't help.
And God says, Don't say that, I'll be
everything that you need.
Just yield yourself to me.
I have sent and only served the Lord.
He said it himself.
When he called on the Lord, he found
repression.
When he called on the Lord, he ultimately
died.
In getting his life, he became a deliverer.
But you can start now, and anticipate that
your marital relationship, if you do have that
privilege and the Lord has allowed, will be
one of such warm balance, the acceptance of
your partner, the valuing of his and her
qualities, that you shall turn out to be
a full, mature unit, ready to be blessed
with God and used again.
For those of us who are a little
older, and ones who are never too late,
for you or me, to form our lives
in submission to what's suggested here, and to
the word of God.
The delightful relationship between Manoah and his wife,
Samson, at every opportunity, I pray that some
of these lessons will be waken by the
spirit of God, and press upon our conscience
in all their simplicity, and that even now,
in these quiet moments, you might resolve to
present yourself once for all to God, a
living sacrifice.
After all, it is that intelligent, mental sacrifice
of worship that you can give to God,
and if it's in response to the word
of God, motivated by the Holy Spirit, you
shall surely find a good and perfect and
incessant will of God.
I want to thank you very much for
your warm reception.
Allowing me to share God's word with you,
and a real pleasure for me to be
here.
Physical rest and activity, and the opportunity to
hear God's word ministered so refreshingly in a
penetrating and a swallowing way by our brother,
and a blessing from my soul.
And I trust that you carry home with
you much that will change your life, and
that together we might serve our blessed Lord
Jesus Christ.