The Cross and the Two Humanities — T. Austin-Sparks

Once more, O Lord, we ask for the miracle of the opening of the ear, the inner ear, the opening of the inner eye, that by the Spirit of the living God we may hear and see what it is impossible for us to hear and see but for Thy supernatural work.

Lord, do this. We pray for Thy glory in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. We are occupied with what the Apostle Paul in the end of his letter to the Galatians referred to as the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Cross Throughout the New Testament

In the opening and introductory time we just mentioned that in every book of the New Testament the cross is to be found in either a definite and positive statement or it is to be found by implication in what is written.

That is, everywhere in the New Testament the cross in some way is kept in view. And then we went on to break that up and in the letter to the Romans last night we were seeing the all-inclusiveness of the cross, how in that letter the cross is seen as touching every dimension, every realm, every sphere, every aspect of life.

It all gathers into that letter and the cross is seen to be central to it all. Now after the all-inclusiveness we begin to break it down by looking at some of the letters as far as we are able to get this week and that will not be very far.

The Cross in First Corinthians

And this evening we come to the first letter to the Corinthians, the cross in the first letter to Corinthians and it is here in what I am going to call the cross and the two humanities. You need not be worried for the moment about the title.

You will understand before we are through, I think. But let us just be reminded of how definite the cross is in this letter, right at its early part in chapter 1 and verse 17, verse 18. For Christ sent me, not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void, for the word of the cross is to them that are perishing foolishness, but unto us which are being saved.

It is the power of God unto us who are being saved. It is the power of God. In verse 23, but we preach Christ crucified. Chapter 2, verse 2, I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.

See how soon the apostle is on the basic matter of the whole letter. I want for a later purpose just to add to those passages the fragments known well to you from the letter to the Hebrews. Chapter 4, verses 12 and 13, beginning with a conjunction of very real significance, of which we will look, or to which we will rebel later.

Chapter 4, the continuation of chapter 4. The word of God is living and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joint and marrow, and quick to discern the thought and intent of the heart.

And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight. For the moment, just note the thought of the heart. Have you ever thought with your heart? Common way, isn't it, of speaking about thinking, is to think with our head, the thought and intent of our heart.

The Corinthian Situation and Paul’s Ministry

So just leave that for the time being. Now to the message, and in order to really understand and to appreciate the place of the cross in this first letter to the Corinthians. It is important, indeed it is essential, that we know the situation to which the letter was addressed.

So with the briefest introductory words, let me remind you that the Apostle Paul was in Corinth for two whole years, and what we know of him, about his visits and his ministry, lead us to the very certain conclusion that he wasted no time during those two years.

He did have a habit of preaching all night. One young man, at any rate, knew something about that. For two whole years the Apostle was there in Corinth, and we may conclude that for hours on hours every day he was ministering.

Then he went away, and he was away from Corinth for four or five years. During this time a very terrible deterioration in the situation, the spiritual situation set in, and rumors of it reached the ears of the Apostles, brought by members of the household of Chloe, evidently I think the servant in that household, who visited the Apostles and brought the report of this sad and tragic spiritual deterioration.

Apollos was dispatched, and he went to Corinth to investigate and returned to the Apostles with the news that it was all too true. The situation was indeed very bad, and the Apostles sat down to write letters.

He probably wrote three letters, one possibly lost. We have, and in the first letter which we are now considering, the situation is uncovered. The tragedy is exposed. We have this saddest, perhaps most terrible of all the New Testament documents, as to spiritual declension.

I pause there for the moment, not rushing on, to once more indicate that it is not the amount of teaching that you have that guarantees your spiritual growth. You and I would agree that if the Apostle Paul, the Apostle Paul, what we know of him, were with us for two whole years, every day pouring himself out, as he said in another connection at another time, making sure that they received the whole counsel of God.

If the Apostle Paul had two years with us, well, that would settle the whole matter of our spiritual growth measure. Going on, not necessary. We are very, very little things compared with Paul. Here we are having ministry day after day, three times a day.

It's no guarantee of anything. He learned the lesson that the Apostle came to teach in this letter, this first letter, by which such a terrible, almost unthinkable result would ensue from his ministry.

So he wrote the first letter, and this letter does disclose a lot of terrible things. You know what it contains, about the behavior of these Christians, the courage, going into law before the world and the ungodly against one another.

I'm not going to say with all the details of it. The moral decline to such a low, low level, almost unthinkable, you might say the very lowest level of intellect, moral level. Division. There are divisions among you.

There are divisions among you. Well, evidently, some, as Corinth, were exercised about the situation, and they had sent to the Apostle 11 questions for him to answer. Read that for you. They're answered in this letter, 11 questions.

The Questionnaire and Spiritual Perception

But the point, oh, let it come home to us. It's going to hurt us. It really is going to hurt us. It's going to pierce us. If we listen to 18, it's going to be like the 2-H chord. Listen then. After all that ministering, of such a man pouring out his heart perhaps night and day with tears, because the Lord had said to him when he arrived in Corinth, I have much people in this city.

I have. After all that, out of the heart of this church, there comes this questionnaire. 11 questions are not very profound matters. Indeed, rather simple matters, some of them. You would think, oh, surely they've got past that.

But the point is indication, indication. An almost utter lack of inward spiritual perception, judgment, understanding. A lot of mental questions, perhaps on practical matters, but questions. I dare not say what I'm almost inclined to say.

No reason just is full of mental questions, indicating how little we have inwardly of divine understanding. Well, by the way, that's how it is here. It's a bad situation, isn't it, on almost every aspect of life.

And you would hardly think of the Christian life, because there was a time when first handling this letter, I said, well, are these people born again people at all? Is it possible that such people should be Christian?

That's the position to which the apostle addressed himself. And right at the outset of his addressing himself to the situation, he introduces in this threefold way with such precision, the cross. I decommend, I made up my mind, I resolve.

There's no nothing among you. They'd be the Christ. And him, Christian. Now you got on to the line you see there. These people were not on the line of the cross apparently, and that was the reason for the situation.

That explains everything. They were on another line. That is what we are going to come to presently. They were on another line. And it was the line of this world brought within the area here of Christian thinking.

Always the most dangerous thing with the most terrible results. Of course, you would think that to be addressed like this really has no application. Well, wait a minute, please. I'm not saying that in this congregation or in this company these sins are being perpetrated.

Immorality of the graphic type and form and other such things. Moral kind. I don't know about division. I know about division. Depends on what you mean. You see, after all, divisions are in the spirit before they are on the outside.

Let's leave it for a moment. It may not be, and it may yet be, that some of these things are true. Whether all or few, they represent a position, a situation, which is a denial of the cross, which will explain Corinthian position, which is, as Paul calls it, a position of carnality, which means, if you haven't grown at all, I could not speak to you, because I'm spiritual, but as I'm a psalmist, we are yet babe.

Babe, after two years of his ministry like that, and being left for another four or five years to work it out, always still babe. Still babe, as you would know. You're not yet able. What a terrible position.

Now I say again, whether that be wholly or only partly the situation with us, any of us, we are in the presence of some thing that is going to be our deliverance from any such cause or situation sooner or later.

That is why I express that little fragment, we who are being saved. The cross for those who are being saved. Well now, this whole letter just is built up upon two words, two words which represent two different humanities, two contrary kinds of people, who can be in Christianity and who can be Christians.

I'm not talking now about saved and unsaved. I'm talking about we who are in the course of being saved, who we got inside. We're on the road. And even so, if this letter means anything, even so, after we have come in and are the Lord, on this mysterious ground mentioned by the Apostles, beginning of the letter, so kind he is and generous unto the saints which are at Corinth.

Well I won't stop with that. That's wrong ideas of what a saint is. A saint is. A few or three weeks ago I came upon something that I thought was very good. This matter of sainthood. A mother took her little girl to a church building with stained glass windows.

And there were figures in the windows, the stained glass windows. The little girl looked to see. Said to her mother, Mother, who are those people? The mother said, oh, they are the saints. Those were girls, put that in her mind, went away.

There to afterward the mother took the little girl to the home of the dear old child of God. And it was a wonderful time with this old believer. And when they came away, the mother said to the girl, She's a real saint.

Stained glass windows and saints. How can these both be saints? And she thought and thought. And she said, oh I know. I know now what a saint is. A saint is one who lets the light through. A saint is one who lets the light through.

Well I don't know how much these Corinthians were letting the light through, but Paul said they were saints. The point is they were on the inside of the Christian community. And on the inside you can have these two humanities represented by these two words which I'm going to give you.

Keep you in suspense for a minute or two. I'm wanting to lay a very sure foundation for what I'm saying. I'm not just giving you doctrine, truth and theory. I'm here to get right down to root with the Christian life.

That is what we all want, isn't it? We want reality. All right. These two words then that constitute this whole letter are the basis upon which everything that follows in the New Testament rests. Until that is settled which is represented by these two words you can't go into 2 Corinthians for that's a big advance upon the first.

You cannot proceed to Galatians. We're still moving on. You cannot go into Ephesians or Philippians and Colossians with all that they represent of the mind, the thought of God for us. You cannot go on to any of them until this issue is settled.

Two Humanities and the Foundation of Christian Life

And herein I see the sovereign providence of God by the Holy Spirit in putting this as the first practical application of the cross in the Christian life. For I say upon this, this rests everything that follows right to the end.

And this distinction represented by the two words explains the very incarnation itself. It explains the baptism of the Lord Jesus. It explains the anointing of the Lord Jesus with the Holy Spirit. It explains the battle into which the Lord Jesus was precipitated with Satan and his kingdom.

It explains the very cross itself including the resurrection. It explains the advent of the Holy Spirit, the very coming of the Holy Spirit. And it explains the training under the Holy Spirit's government of the life of a Christian.

That's a few things, isn't it, fundamental to the Christian life. You've got them all? All those things are explained by the two words that I am going to remind you of. And if I added one other thing to all those that I have mentioned, I would add the building of the church.

Because that comes here, doesn't it, in chapter three, out of foundations in no man's way. With the standard which is laid, let every man take heed how he builds thereon. It's the building of the church and it's the building of the Christian life.

And there are two possible issues, two possible issues connected with that building depends on what you put on it, on the foundation. Would he stumble going up in flames and smoke and you being saved get as by fire and all your life's work gone up in smoke?

That's a terrible prospect. Do you possibly think that's possible for you, for instance? Or, on the other side, shows, soda, precious stones, which I'm not going to explain as symbols, the things which will abide and secure not just the faith and creeping into heaven.

We have a way of saying in England, I don't know whether you say it, by the very skin of your teeth, just getting in. Or, having an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom. These are the issues bound up with this basic distinction represented by these two words.

Are you ready now for them? Here, of course, if you were reading Greek New Testament, you would be more impressed than with the English translations. These Greek words are simply tsuki, tsuki, or tsukika, whole, or wholish.

The other words, pneuma, or pneumatica, spirit, or spirit, whole, or spirit. In our translations, that Greek word tsuki, or tsukika, is translated natural. But what we've lost in that translation? Natural.

The natural. That's poor, isn't it? The natural man. Ah, no. This is a species of humanity. This is a kind of person, or race, humanity. This isn't a very far prize. It only describes a change of a letter from tsuki to psychic.

Are you getting nearer now? A psychic or a wholish humanity. Or, in contrast, the contrast of a different species of beings, a spirit, a people of not just, and only of whole. I say the whole letter is built upon that contrast, that distinction.

And that helps us write into this letter, doesn't it? Why all this situation? Why this expansion, this spiritual decline? Why this state of being? Why these quarrels, and contentions, and sissons, and divisions, and this constant assertion of the ego?

I am a whole. I am of a quarrel. I am of... For every one of you who says this, I, every one of you says I, that's a kind of humanity. It's the humanity of selfhood, of the ego, of the assertion of man's soul.

And you know what the assertion of the soul is, or what the soul is. Look again into the legend. You've got it so clearly defined. They're craving for worldly wisdom. You know all that the apostle has to say right at the beginning of the letter about the wisdom of this world?

The wisdom of this world. Why talk to these people so much about wisdom of this world? Oh, because they're very interested in the wisdom of this world. The wisdom of this world. Philosophy, if you like, but that's too technical a term.

Natural, holical wisdom. The wisdom of the soul. Which is just the intellectual realm to begin with. Intellectual Christianity. Covers a lot of ground, a lot of things. But just this projecting of the mind into things with a thousand and one, more than eleven questions.

Curiosity and interest, you know, and playing with scripture in the mental way. Going out in the natural mind into the realm of the things of God. And the apostle has something to say about that. The intellectual side of the soul.

And intellectual Christianity. A mental thing after all, after all. Interest in Christian things, in Christian truth, in the Bible, all that has to do with Christianity. An interest that is merely a mental interest.

Not only that, but you go from the intellectual and you find yourself immediately, in the next sentence, in the presence of another aspect of the soul. That is, the desire for power. The desire for power.

Look at the world today and you'll see what that means. The desire, it's the lust for power. Power politics and power this and power that. To have power in your hands. To wield power in this world and over lives.

Coming from yourself. You're searching of yourself to get it. And don't tell me that any one of us here, any one of us is not infected by that. You will come to me. Someone will come to me. And in a very humble and lowly voice, tell me what a poor creature he is or she is.

And all along that line and that tone, and I'm listening more inwardly, and what am I really hearing? I'm hearing the murmuring of an inferiority conflict. And an inferiority conflict is one of the most evident signs of the desire for power.

It is indeed an advanced Christian who is saved from this desire of being somebody and something, or let me put it the other way, of not being ignored. Not being ignored. Oh, it's a testing thing, isn't it, this?

Being ignored. Taken no notice of. Walked over and walked past. They didn't even look at me. Ah, here's the desire for power, subtle and deep as the devil himself. There is a false humility, you know, which is the essence of pride.

To say, Lord, that I am not as other men. That the boys are the hypocrites, are the pharisees of Christ. This desire for power, and the apostle puts his finger upon this in his letter, the power of God and the power of men are in two different realms, he says, all together, and the power of God is seen mainly in the weakness of the cross.

The cross, because it is a symbol of human weakness, is the symbol of heaven's mightiest power. But how can men look at it like that? But leave that a minute, coming back. And another aspect of the soul, the soulish humanity, in the emotion.

Now you've got to be very patient with me. You really have to. I'm going to get it. In the emotion. There can be so much of the soul in the spiritual realm. Paul says these people, more than any others, were blessed with spiritual gifts.

Tongues, what for? Perish not. Big gifts. What is this? Are people like this? Are people like this? Boasting of their gifts? Flooring in their spiritual gifts? Are these powers? No doubt, so much in that realm that often they would obsess you with it and challenge you with it and put you really on the spot over it that if you haven't got these gifts, well, you're written off as a Christian.

The emotional aspects of this. And let me say, and this is where I get myself into trouble, but I've got to be patient. You see, spiritual gifts of this type are no necessary proof of spiritual character and spiritual character.

You may have them all and be an immature child if this letter means anything. They are not proof of spiritual maturity at all. Because the apostles had them before Calvary, they healed the sick, cast out the rest of it with divine powers before ever the tragedy of their breakdown, the crucifixion, and being patted all abroad and forsaking Him and leaving Him everyone.

Sometimes they had the gift. No guarantee of safety. Do you understand? To be just so much so equal emotion and interest and fascination. I'm not saying that there are no true spiritual gifts, but you see, there we are.

This is all on a natural basis, but after all in the Christian world, the Christian life. It can all be, all this, intellectual, volitional, emotional, all this, and yet such a poor spiritual condition.

The Spiritual Man and Spiritual Discernment

Now this is down to the word of God. I wouldn't dare to say these things to myself, but here it is. This is a humanity. On the other side, over against that, with such emphasis, such emphasis, the apostle places He that is spiritual.

The Corinthians who had had so much teaching, so much given to them of divine truth, then he says, He that is spiritual is discernible. He is able to weigh things up and come to right, heavenly conclusions about things.

He has spiritual judgment, spiritual perception. But this holical man, the natural man, is our translation. He cannot, cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God. He cannot know them. It's always a spiritual man to see, to understand, to humanity.

Is it hard to receive, dear friends? I don't think I'd be altogether wrong in saying there's a great deal of this kind of thing amongst Christians. Christians in the world today is not here. It's like this.

The inconsistency, the contradiction, the limitation of spiritual life and understanding, you can be evangelical. In America you call it fundamentalist. You can be that and not be a spiritual person. I have met many who would lay down their lives for the fundamentals of the faith, the deity of Christ, the inspiration of the scriptures, and what not.

And I can't have any fellowship with them on the things of the Lord. There's a bigger gap, it seems to me, between an evangelical Christian and a spiritual person as there is between an unfaithful and a faithful.

You know what I mean. A really spiritual person, where things flow and you can talk and get on with the things of the Lord in the most blessed, living fellowship, it just comes out. Spiritual person, and with an evangelical Christian so often, if you begin to talk about the Lord, they raise their eyebrows and open their mouths up.

So you're talking another language. Now that is not untruth. That is truth. That is truth. There are many, even in what is called the ministry, leaders of God's people with whom you cannot have real spiritual fellowship on the things of God.

You can only just go so far. They're interested in Christianity. They're interested in foreign missions. They're interested in things. But when you want to get down and really have spiritual food to your heart's gratification, you cannot get it.

They're evangelical right enough, but they're not spiritual. It's so difficult to get this over. I think that you have enough understanding to appreciate what I'm saying. And this is the thing. I put all those things you see on this.

The Incarnation and the New Humanity

The very explanation of the incarnation is that God brought into this world a different humanity from ours. Another humanity of heaven and not of earth. Of God and not of man. Another humanity which this world could not understand or follow or appreciate.

The world knows you not for it knew Him not. It knew Him not. The incarnation was the introduction of a different humanity. A matter to dwell upon for many hours. The incarnation, the baptism. The baptism is the setting aside, in a sense, horribly of one kind of humanity and the bringing in of another.

Paul explains this. He later, in his paper, explains very briefly why. Why bury something that's good. Don't do that. No, it's rejected. It's a humanity that is discarded. Rejected by God. Unacceptable.

Only places burial. And the bringing in of another humanity. That's the baptism. The anointing. And there's all the difference of two races between an anointed and an unanointed person. Wants a lot of dwelling upon, doesn't he?

What is the anointing? Well, in a word, it is God committing Himself. Committing Himself. And to what does God commit Himself? The anointing. Now the battle. You see, immediately the battle set in after the baptism and the anointing.

And it was on one issue to try to get this man who has taken heavenly ground through death, burial, and resurrection under the government of the Holy Spirit to get this man to go back onto natural ground.

You think of it. Study it again. Getting off his heavenly ground. What a battle. All through life that is with us. Come down is ever the word of the tempter. Come down from the cross, we will believe.

Come down from that position you have taken. Come down. To your advantage to come down. You'll gain everything if only you'll come down. And how intense is that battle sometimes, isn't it? When you're up against it.

When you're on the cross in weakness and suffering and agony and alone the cross is meaning that to you. The battle does raise to take easier ground to sacrifice something, to compromise somewhere to get out of the offense of the cross.

The Holy Spirit’s Work in Forming a Spiritual Humanity

The battle. The battle of two humanities. What kind of person you're going to be. Of heaven or hell. See the battle. The cross shatters all this together. Again the Holy Spirit. Why the Holy Spirit? Why the Holy Spirit?

What's your answer to this? It's all being put into into little categories. The Holy Spirit this and that. If you don't do this you haven't got the Holy Spirit. You don't know anything about the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Why the Holy Spirit? To make a different humanity of it. A spiritual person. A spiritual person by the Spirit of God. May include many things but it's just that. The difference in what we are by the Holy Spirit.

And then I spoke about the training. What is the meaning of our training? Because as soon as we really get into the hands of the Spirit don't be discouraged in what I'm going to say. Don't be discouraged if you're here.

You're in for it. You're in for it. You're in for real discipline. Real training. You're going to get into a hard school for your natural life. For your soul life. Now that is going to be real training.

What the writer called chasing. Child training. Discipline. Oh what a hard school this is for the natural man. When our soul life is being charged. The mental side I cannot understand. I cannot see why.

I cannot explain the dealings of God. My whole mental ability is haunted and frustrated. I just don't know what. Think about the nature of it. Your soul being charged. It's going to come through only on the ground of your spiritual life.

That's what the Lord is after. Get us away from living on things. To living on himself. Alone. The starvation of our emotions. My word how we go into the deep freeze sometimes spiritually. No. Am I saying wrong?

I don't want to cause anyone to stumble. But there can be times. There can be times in the life of a child of God when he feels the Lord has departed from him. When you cry and I go. Oh that I knew where I might find him.

I go on the right hand but he's not there on the left and he is not there. Where is the Lord? Today. Yes. Truth. Why? Well this is a part of the training of the new man. A different kind of man. The emotional emotions are sometimes frozen.

All your lovely feelings are frozen. And you'll agree with the man who wrote. God forbid that we should invite it. But he did write where is. Where is the preciousness I knew when first I saw the Lord.

Where is the soul refreshing view of Jesus and his word. Return oh holy God. Return. Have you felt like saying that sometimes? Oh it's a normal spiritual life. Nothing abnormal about that. Nothing really in the design or anything strange about that.

This is normal to anybody who is going right on with the Lord. You'll have these times when the soul of you is in great distress. And the only way out and through will be what you know of the Lord in your spirit.

How much spiritual life you have. How much spiritual measure you have. Working in our training. By setting aside this natural, spiritual, psychical life. And building up the spiritual man. Those are the two words representing true humanity.

The Cross and the Building of the Spiritual Man

And now you see the cross is introduced. This is not my philosophy. My construction. This is just what is here in this letter. I said and repeat. The letter is built and constructed upon these two words.

Two different humanities. The soul humanity and the spirit humanity. The natural man humanity. And the Christ man humanity. The apostle begins with a distinction. Presses his hope all the way through.

As the ground of challenge. Instruction and counsel and advice and warning. And concludes it. The whole thing. In the most glorious way. He says by this letter. You have to begin by becoming a spiritual person.

Your spirit born anew from above. The Holy Spirit having charge of you. Making you at the beginning a spiritual person. And right through growingly a spiritual person. And then what? Chapter 15. Says that which is natural.

Oh here we are. Our word again is that which is a little. That which is spiritual. And where does that land us? The spiritual body. The spirit is shown. That living spirit is shown. That which has been.

The work of the Holy Spirit. In us which we are. Really and truly in the innermost part of our being. What is called the inner man. The inner man. This. Born. Diverse. As a seed and given a spiritual body.

A spiritual body. Ah raising questions. Don't worry. I am so often asked. Do you think we shall know each other in the life afterwards? Yes and no. If you think that you are going to know me by seeing these people.

No. No. Not this body. Not this body. But a body given of a different order of spiritual body. I can't define the spiritual body. I have no time for it. For one thing if I were able. Place and blood cannot.

Says the apostle. Inherit the kingdom. No brother. He gives to each seed a body as it pleases him. Oh thank God. It's going to be in a body that after all pleases the Lord. Oh what troubles in this body.

You see why the apostle is saying in the course of this letter. And more in the next letter. Our outward man perishes. But our inward man is renewed day by day. Our inward man. In this we grow. Waiting to be clothed upon with our body.

Which is from above. Every seed a body is given. And then in that spiritual body which. I suppose is like the body of the Lord Jesus after his resurrection. That's all I can say. Or the body of the Lord Jesus on the Mount of Sons resurrection.

That is. A different type. A different humanity. It will be a humanity. You know one another as human beings. Not as angels. Don't sing again oh to be an angel. That's an inferior thing to what you are called to.

Oh no. We are not going to sprout wings. This is something we need far far higher. A spiritual man with a spiritual body. I think we may be learning a lot. I don't know. In our time we've lived. Now see men going into space.

Getting out of their spacecraft. Floating in the air. With a law of gravity absolutely nullified. But for them there has to be a special equipment. An artificial equipment to live in that realm. But we will need no artificial equipment when we are called up to meet him here.

And to live in that rarified atmosphere of heaven. It will be quite natural. You see what I mean. Well this is the difference in the humanity. It requires a different kind of person to do that doesn't it.

Different people. And finish where we go. It's the cross that effects this. Right at the heart of the two humanities. To bring one progressively down less and less. That's what's happening. How far have you gotten in this?

How are you saved? Oh I'm beginning to feel myself to be less than nothing. Poorest most inferior kind of being. Have you? Now this is not exaggerating. Exaggerating. Have you groveled in the dust of the consciousness of your own worthlessness?

That's all right. That's quite all right. Provided Master there is a corresponding spiritual growth of another species, another order, another kind. The cross is working on the one side as ever it was meant to do.

To bring one kind of man to an end. And on the other side to bring in a new kind of man. The cross does it. Now I must safeguard all that I've been saying by this. Don't anyone go away saying it's wrong to have a soul.

Wrong to have a mind. Wrong to have feelings. Wrong to have a will. If that's all the soul, then I must kill my soul. That Buddhism. The governing principle as you know Buddhism is the final annihilation of desire.

Oh God save us. No I'm not saying it's wrong to have a soul. What I'm saying is the soul is not to be the governmental thing. The spirit is to be the governmental thing. To control even our souls. Saying to our reasoning now look here there.

You may be thinking altogether differently from the way in which the Lord thinks. Let's take this to the Lord and get his mind about it. Our mind, our reasoning would say yes this is right, this is good, this is the thing.