Two Roads Two Destinies 10 Ireland st.chapel — Worth Ellis

Heaven as a Prepared Place and a Prepared People

1 Peter, in the first chapter of the first book, Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, is a stranger scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Lithuania, selects according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedient and staking of the blood of Jesus Christ, which unto you in peace we multiply.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath forgotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. To an inheritance interrupted and undefiled, but fated by the way, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith and through salvation, ready to be revealed at the last time.

Now, keep your fingers there because we'll be back in the will of God. Turn to the Gospel of John, chapter 14, John 14, verse 1. Let not your heart be troubled, you who believe in God, believe also in me.

In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself.

That's where I am, where you may be also. In the 11 o 'clock service this morning, when we considered this subject itself, we learned on the authority of the Word of God that the presence of those of the certain souls of the wicked dead is both a place and is also a state of existence.

When we study the Word of God, we shall be found at the same and be said of heaven. That place referred to here by the Father's house is referred to by the Apostle Peter in chapter 1, where we read, we shall learn that heaven is both a place and is also a state of being.

That place, Jerusalem, Jesus shall take all of his redeemed people when he comes. The subject of heaven's delight, we trust, shall be much more of a blessing to our hearts than that awful subject that we considered this morning of eternal punishment.

It has been well said, and perhaps most of us here have heard it said, that heaven is simply a prepared place for a prepared people. We will make it just as simple as that and consider this subject under two headings.

First of all, the preparation of a place, and then, secondly, the preparation of a people who are going to the place. One thing we learned a few minutes ago, if you remember when we spoke on the subject of the door, that the Bible wanted to temple both in many ways and to exist in eternal life and the forgiveness of sins, and that the temple of heaven has a door which means of access in the presence of God.

You notice the Lord Jesus said, I am the door, thou me if any man enter in he shall be saved. But, we learned that the central passage of the word of God has depth, profound depth to them that we have yet to climb.

This we shall learn also tonight from this passage, considering heaven, and I must confess to you that it is not an easy passage to interpret. Somehow or other, I think I have been filled with a lot of superficial thinking in my reading and interpretation of the word of God.

Let not your heart be troubled, says the Lord Jesus, we believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. I said to you, when I go, I will show you, and I go to prepare a place for you.

I remember one time when I was riding through the countryside, I heard a man in the country music station picking away on his guitar and singing a song with something like this, Father, I don't want a mansion in heaven, just give me a cabin in the corner of glory land.

You ever heard that? That provoked me to talk, but when I do get to heaven and I see the Lord Jesus face to face, will I either have a mansion or a cabin in this place called glory land? I heard him sing, servant of God, and on occasion menacing on the subject, saying that we each have a mansion in heaven being built by the Lord Jesus out of the materials that we send on in the name of faithful service of God.

When he said that, I held my head in shame and said, Lord, if we're going to live in a shanty like that, I might as well stay down here, and I believe that somehow or another our theology is influenced too much by our hymn lullabies.

The songs that men have written about the word of God has followed our thinking, I'm afraid, far too much. In connection with the Lord Jesus being for some 2 ,000 years involved and engaged in a gigantic construction program, building a mansion for everyone's regime by his blood, I think we ought to notice, first of all, that he said, in my father's house are many mansions.

They were already there. So, I am persuaded, first of all, that I feel a contradiction when he is not there building a mansion for me, because when he first referred to mansions, they were already there.

Some other translators give this passage, in my father's house are many abiding places, there are many ruins, many residences. To me, with the symbolic language speaking, not so much of a place in the way of a palatial mansion in which I shall live for all eternity, but rather a place of acceptance with God.

It is difficult to notice, at least, that this word mansion here is the only time it is found in the entire Bible. It comes from a word in the Greek that means abiding places, very similar to another word found in the 23rd verse of this chapter, and this is the secret to its interpretation.

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words, and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, make our abode with him. Now, in verse 2, this is the only time mansion is used, and it means an abiding place, a place to stay, and in verse 23, the only eugenical word is translated by the word abode.

Now, the Lord said, notice, I go to a place where I will live. So, what we want to look at tonight is the preparation of this place, and see if we can determine from the Word of God just what the Lord Jesus Christ is teaching here.

I'll give that it is incumbent upon those who take upon themselves a certain responsibility, a gifted or trusted clone of God who preaches and teaches the Word of God to remember that, first of all, we are responsible to give the interpretation of a passage, that is, what the verse is saying, what the Word is teaching, and then, secondly, the application.

And, I confess, I gave you that the interpretation of this statement I brought to prepare a place for you is, by no means, insufficient. Now, there is this possible interpretation, and here I would not for a moment dogmatize.

Christ's Priesthood and the Heavenly Place

The Lord Jesus Christ could be speaking, as far as the interpretation goes, yet what he's teaching here is prophetically of his work as the heartbeast of his people in full serval of the pipe to the Old Testament priest.

The New Testament doctrine of propitiation or salvation through faith in Jesus' blood rests upon the Old Testament and an executive type. The priesthood of Christ, who is treasured at the right hand of God, rests upon the Old Testament type of the priesthood of error.

In Leviticus chapter 16, it is interesting to notice that, on the great day of the cross, when the high priest went into the holiest of all country here, not without blood because, first of all, he had to offer a sacrifice for his own sins and then for the sins of the people.

And, if a nation is a priestly person, when he went in through the tabernacle and behind the veil into the holiest of all, we read three times in the 16th chapter of the book of Leviticus where the work of atonement is sacrificed by the Lord Jesus, coupled with his priesthood, there is the groundwork in the 16th chapter of Leviticus that is developed here in the Hebrew.

We learn here three times it is stated that, when the Lord Jesus went into the holiest of all where the heart of the covenant was, that God should now meet with thee there upon the mercy of it being the curry of them, we read that three times he had to make an atonement for the holy place.

One time it is translated as erecting the holy place in two times of atonement, and atonement had to do with the sprinkling of the blood, and it teaches us this that, if the very presence of God had to be reconciled by blood, it teaches us of the infinite holiness of God and the tremendous love fixed between the likes of you and me and a God of such tremendous holiness as that.

Now, when this priest went into the holiest of all, he reconciled the holy place or he made an atonement for the holy place. Now, one commentator suggests that this is the fault you have in Hebrews chapter 9, and I'd like to read you the verses because I already have them marked down here, and I'm afraid if I let you turn through them we might get bogged down.

But, listen very carefully in connection with the text. It says that almost all things about the law occurred with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission. Listen to Hebrews 9 .23, it was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these.

Now, the patterns or a picture or type of the things in heaven were the various parts of the tabernacle where God met with man in the holiest of all. Now, the writer says it was necessary that the patterns of things in heaven should be purified with these, that is, animal sacrifices.

But, look, the heavenly things themselves were better sacrifices than these, but what is a better sacrifice than bulls and goats and calves? It is the Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world.

Therefore, Hebrews 9 .24, the verse that follows, says that Christ is not in it of the holy places made with hands. That's the tabernacle which is but a picture or figure of the truth. This is heaven itself.

Christ is not in it of the holy places made with hands where the priest went and sprinkled the blood to make an atonement for the holy place, but he has entered into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for a while.

One commentator suggests that perhaps the interpretation of this passage is a fulfillment of the rabbinical type, and just as the high priest entered the holiest of all and made an atonement for the holy place, and making it accessible through his priesthood through the nation of Israel by way of that text, even so the Lord Jesus earned his resurrection, and four days after he went back to heaven, and he is there as our great high priest, and by virtue of his sacrifice he is reconciling the very holy places in heaven and making them accessible to the likes of you and me.

This is only suggesting that it certainly is not tangible, because it is a perfect fulfillment of the Levitical type. These are the religious in chapter 16 of the book of Leviticus. Personally, I would like to accept that myself, as the interpretation of this statement, I go to prepare a place for you.

Now, we are not concerned tonight so much with the type and the status, but we are interested in the gospel, and so I am opting tonight for what I believe to be a proper and a permissible application of these words.

The Lord says, I go to prepare a place for you. What do you mean? As far as it applies to us, if these words had been spoken by the Lord after his resurrection, then I would have had no problem at all.

It would have been very simple, but it was not when he was first resurrected that he would have made this statement, but it was prior to his death from the cross. And, in view of this, I like to think that what the Lord is trying to teach to you and to me when he said, I go to prepare a place for you, that he had in mind was death upon the cross, and the place that he prepared by dying upon the cross is not to look like, say, a palatial mansion, and these abiding places were already there, but they were not accessible to us because the Bible describes it as your sins that are separated between you and your God.

There is only one thing that keeps us on the path of God, and that is sin. Therefore, in Hebrews chapter 9 verse 26, we learn that the value of the sacrifice of Christ has been of no more avail to take away sin than animal sacrifices, and thus he has often suffered since the foundation of the world.

But now, once at the end of age, that he appears to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And, if the Lord Jesus had not put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, none of us ever would have had access to the presence of God.

And so, let's look at this passage tonight, not in some fanciful, demonic fashion about mansions in heaven, but let's look at it in a practical, scriptural manner as it relates to the sacrificial death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, again on a day that is not accessible in the presence of God.

It's a place that he prepared. It's not so much a literal, stalling place, but a means of acceptance. I'm sure that all of us know anything at all about the word of God, or about the character of God himself, but immediately agree that there could be no possible place for any of us in the presence of God apart from the death of the Lord Jesus.

Christ's Death as the Grain of Wheat

Now, let's look at the first chapter, if it's possible, and he himself sets this to a truth for an ever-forceable way. Notice the first chapter in the 20th verse, and there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast.

The claim came, therefore, to Philip who was of Bethsaida, of Galilee, and desired him saying, "'Sir, we will see Jesus.'". Now, this suggests that, to me, the force of these words is not some person of death, but some careless look they wanted to take at this miracle worker.

But, the force of the statement here, we would like to get to know this one. We would like to get to know this one who forgives sin, and then Philip comes and tells Andrew, and again Andrew's going to tell Jesus, and immediately, then some come with a request to not get to know him and really see him.

Jesus answered him saying, "'The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified,' and then that very familiar passage, "'Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone.

But, if it die, bring forth not three.'". Because, without three, there could be no place in the presence of God. For us, no access, no means of access to God. Now, before a grain of wheat, so long as it abides alone, it cannot bring forth three.

Now, for example, you take a grain of corn or some other seed, and you can have it in your kitchen and leave it on there year after year after year, and it will not live life. It will not reproduce. And, one of the rules of the law of agriculture and of husbandry and farming, the Lord teaches us this, that every seed in order to reproduce and to give life, or to have life within itself, it must die.

Remember the first chapter of the gospel, it's gone. The Bible declares that in him was life, and that life was the light of men. But, this life, or the light, will never be released except Jesus Christ die unto the judgment of the wrath of God, and be raised from the dead.

Now, he says, if a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it brings forth much fruit. But, unless it does this, then it will abide alone. Everyone that's in the night is aware of the fact that if the Lord Jesus Christ had not fallen into the ground of the grain of wheat, by and under the judgment of the wrath of God against him, they would have been compelled to abide alone in heaven forever.

There were many lengths of abiding days when Lord Jesus had a right to go back any time he chose to do so. One thing that makes me more appreciate my salvation, and I hope that we'll learn more and more of the floating of this, is the voluntary merit of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

The Word of God explicitly teaches that the Son of God did not have to die for our sins. He did not have to. He was under no obligation whatsoever to die for our sins. Not only that, but God himself was never under the obligation to change the first rule.

He chose to do so, and that's because he loved us. And, you see, beloved friends, there are two doors to heaven. And, don't be shocked that one is a door of protection into which the Lord Jesus could have gone any time he chose to do so.

He could have gone directly back to heaven from the time of his appearance of age in his manger until he died upon the cross. The Lord of Glory could have made his exodus out of this world and gone back to the place from which he came by virtue of the fact that he was God himself and above his own flesh.

He could have gone in by the door of protection, but faith was revealed in the Hebrew epistle that the Lord Jesus Christ had been admonished in the holy place by his own God having obtained eternal redemption for us.

And, do you not see that if the Lord had chosen to go back by the door of protection, he would have been forced to dwell alone forever? For, tonight, even in heaven, Paul tells us in light of the Trinity that the Lord Jesus Christ alone has the mortality to dwell in the presence of God.

But, you see, the Son of God chose to go back to heaven by the door of sacrifice in order that he might take the life that he would have back there with him in a day to come. And so, the grave of Jesus fell into the ground and died.

He had life in it, but it did not impart life to others except with God. I remember a few years ago, before Life Magazine went out of business, that there were some beautiful pictures. I used to admire the pictures.

The only thing in the magazine worth looking at was the pictures. And, I remember when they had pictures of this dam they were building over Egypt, collecting coal, hydroelectric projects, and irrigation on the Nile.

I believe the name of it, if I can have it again since it's enunciation, is the Aswan Dam. But, they had these elaborate pictures of these things with pyramids and other artifacts, and they set them up in blocks and numbered them, and transported the whole business up to a higher elevation.

So, when the dam was completed and the area was inundated, these things would not be under the water. They would stay there for prosperity. And, the article went on to say this, that when they started to dismantle and tear down one of the pyramids, they found inside there a tomb of one of the Pharaohs.

And, found him right running hard, lying in his homemade coffin, and there he was. But, in the same room, they found a bag or something full of wheat. Now, they guessed that this beast had been there for 2 ,000 years before the Lord Jesus died, which makes it approximately 4 ,000 years now.

This is a few years ago, and this beast had been there in this place for almost 4 ,000 years. They cooked it, they tended it, and it came up, and it went forth through. But, you see, until that beast poured into the ground, and died, then it didn't live.

And, neither could the Lord of Lords, until he lovingly and willingly, with the will of the Father and the love of you and me, fell into the ground and died, and was raised in the third day of his power and endless life.

And now, he has made it into that place into the presence of God. I believe this is what he meant when he said, I go to prepare a place for you. Look at an interesting passage in the 13th chapter of this gospel, which, incidentally, is the introduction to the entire passage of the Father's house in the 14th chapter, verse 31 of chapter 13.

Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. Then, in verse 34, he says, A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have loved one another. Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, where art thou? Jesus answered him, Where do I go? Thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me after the end.

Now, Peter said, Lord, where are you going? Now, he said, Peter, the place is no better than where I'm going right now. You have spent time with me. Come along a little later. And, the reason Peter couldn't go there was because the Lord had not yet died, and Peter had no means of access into the presence of God.

Now, I hate to take away from you any personal comfort you get out of a project that the Lord is supposed to be on in heaven and build in a mansion, and I don't think we do any honor to the word of God by being overly sentimental in our interpretation of the Bible.

And, it defeats a hungry soul without letting our emotions and our imaginations run wild when we look at the word of God. In my Father's house are many of those. I'm going to prepare a place for you in a way where Jesus died upon a cross and prepared a means of access that you and I may someday stand face-to-face with the Lord Jesus in the presence of God and feel perfectly at home.

The Heavenly Inheritance Reserved for Believers

Now, turn to 1 Peter, chapter 1. You should have the paper there, and let's notice the preparation of the people for the place. Now, if the preparation of the place has been effective for us at such tremendous cost, then we will be sure that we are not going to slip in there, and that we ourselves must be prepared for this wonderful place.

My heart was blessed a moment ago when I read in verse 4 of 1 Peter, chapter 1, of an inheritance. Notice, as you can see, the spirit of God uses to describe this inheritance. First of all, it is incorruptible.

Now, notice the very opposite is said of that which God provides as contrasted that which man does in this world. The inheritance, first of all, that he has reserved in heaven for us while kept by the power of God is that it is incorruptible.

Now, if you don't leave all earthly inheritance, it eventually will be corrupted. Do wait until you get involved in one, and see how few of them have ever had anything against their mother, and begin to fight with their mother over money that the parents have foolishly left them to argue over.

Inheritances, all earth's inheritances, will be corrupted because it involves human nature, but that which the Lord has for us by the way of inheritance in heaven, first of all, it is incorruptible, and secondly, it is undefiled, and bless God, it pays not away.

You know, as well as I do, that in contrast, if you're involved in an earthly inheritance, when the inheritance tax is taken out in the law, you see, it not only pays but it disappears. But, thanks to that inheritance in glory, bless God, it's paid it not away.

And, what I like about it, here it says it's reserved in heaven for you, and in the next verse it says we are being kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

So, I equate this passage here with the father's house of which the Lord was speaking in John chapter 14, and he tells us that there's an inheritance reserved in heaven for us, and we are being preserved here on earth for it.

We are being kept by the power of God through faith. So, then notice a reference now, please, those things that are taking place in the lives of those for whom this inheritance was being preserved, and they have been prepared for heaven for this inheritance.

Election and the Spirit's Sanctifying Work

And, there are at least three things we'd like to notice, and see that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not set forth here. Now, notice in verse 2, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father.

Now, surprise! Election is in the Bible. Surprise! Election is in the Bible. Don't ask me to explain it to you because I can't. All I know is, glory to God, I've been elected, and I am about to lose the joy of my salvation trying to figure out the election.

Suffice it to know that those who are reserved for that inheritance in heaven, they say that they are the elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. We're not going to linger here except simply by words.

It is entirely simple to say that this speaks of the position that givers are going to receive Jesus Christ and the family of God as the members of the body of Christ. Now, we should notice, though, the first thing experientially.

The election is established in eternity, but the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that which transpires experientially, then we come to know the Lord Jesus is through the teaching of the gospel. And, notice, the first thing that happened to these people who were being reserved for an inheritance reserved in heaven for them, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the spirit.

Now, when I saw that, and the first time it had dawned upon me, I took my glasses off, and I took my vaccination out, and I wrapped them in dirt so that I don't make it recurrent. When I got complete, and I looked, and I saw again that the first thing, lo and behold, much to my surprise, the first thing experienced in it that transpires in the spirit of a sinner when he's saved by the grace of God and the sanctification of the Holy Spirit of God.

And, believe me, this is hard for me to accept. While I have never been inconstantly enshrined, at least we have been exposed to what some believe that, first of all, we are saved, sanctified, and thank God with the Holy Ghost.

So, when I looked into the word of God, it's still here that these people, the first thing that happened to them, they were elected according to Father and Father through sanctification of the spirit.

Now, may I suggest that what we have here is symbolic praise referring to the conviction of sin without which no one can be saved. It is speaking of the territorial ministry of the Holy Spirit of God, which precedes faith in Jesus Christ, and in the sovereign grace of God.

I don't know if anybody knows, but that's the name of the work for me. Oftentimes, when thinking about this subject, if you could go away with me to way down on the other side of town, and where I was born in 1917, I remember that, as a boy, we had in our home there in that house, on the wall, a picture of a flood.

It was a little picture of a flood with a glass front on it, and there were many women and a little children hanging into the rocks, and the waves were dashing up the rocks and all. And, that had been well over a half a hundred years ago, and I remember that picture until this day very vividly etched upon my memory.

In retrospect, the sanctified ministry of the Spirit of God is a parable of how receiving Christ might have begun there. I don't know, and I never will know, unless the Lord is pleased to take me aside and let me in on it where I get to heaven.

This is not the condition when I put my faith in Jesus Christ when I was 27 years old, but the first thing that takes place in the life of a person who becomes a Christian is the conviction of sin or the sanctification of the Holy Spirit of God.

Now, if this speaks to this problem in your theological thinking, all you need to remember is the law of first mention, and it is set to death, that the way that the Spirit of God uses the word the first time in the Bible gives you a key to its understanding.

Now, here again, I mentioned in the beginning that our theology is too often influenced by our own life, and here our understanding of baptism and sanctification is influenced more by what we have heard about it than by what the Bible says about it.

Let me give you the first time sanctification is mentioned in the Bible, and then you answer to yourself, does it mean sinlessness? Does it mean the eradication of the old nature? All right, Genesis 2 verse 3, and God blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.

He made the Sabbath of sinless day and eradicated its old nature. It never had one. What did he do with the same day? He rested it and set it apart for a specific purpose, and that gives you an insight through the biblical meaning of the word sanctification.

A little later, in 2 Corinthians chapter 7 and verse 16, you read of a house that was sanctified, but the conclusive proof that sanctification of being sanctified does not mean that you may hold it over its parasitical self and sometimes abuse it in that manner.

Let me give you two passages concerning the Lord Jesus as he is speaking both times. In John 10 -36, speaking to the Jews, Jesus said, "'Say ye of him,' speaking to the church, "'Whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, that I blaspheme, because I say that I am the Son of God.'.

And here the Lord Jesus said to the Jews, "'Say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, and we do that God sanctified the Son.'". Do you believe that Jesus needed to be there?

Listen to John chapter 17 and verse 19. Jesus said to the Father, saying, "'And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the proof.'". And so, you see, sanctified means to set something apart for a specific purpose.

I want to give you two more proofs. We do not need to go far. Just a little bit to get out to the second Thessalonians chapter 2. Keep your faith here in 1 Peter, and I want you to notice another place, and then there's another one.

They're not as specifically clear as this one, but now we have read a passage in 1 Peter 1 and verse 2. "'For the first thing that takes place in the appearance of a sinner in becoming a disciple is a sanctification of the Spirit of God.'".

Second Thessalonians 2 verse 13, "'But we are bound to give thanks always to God to you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has funded the good and chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.'".

And, here's another inspired statement that says, "'Sanctification proceeds through leading and connection with the Christian experience.'". Well, in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, whenever the apostle Paul is naming a list of people who shall not inherit the kingdom of God, then he concludes categorizing these various kinds of sin and sinners, and telling the Corinthians believers that such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Listen to 1 Corinthians 6 and verse 11,. "'Then he believed wicked Corinthians who had been slain for the grace of God, and such were some of you that you are lost, you are sanctified, and you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.'.

And there, justification comes after sanctification. Now, is this perfect here? Well, if it is, it's because we make it that way. Remember the meaning of the word sanctification, and let me show you what I believe the Holy Ghost is teaching here about the preparation of a people for this place that Jesus has had foreseen upon the cross.

Sanctification as Separation for God's Purpose

Whenever we preach the gospel, we are continually racking our brain and looking for the preparation. Now, I'm not necessarily carried away with rest and leaders and things like that, but the prophet came to my mind when I was at South Venture, and he's going out for a half a day's work to cut out some cattle from the herd.

Now, he has in the enclosure in the corral, he has three horses. Now, these horses are expert at this. I don't mean to call them slaughterhorses or what you call them, but they are horses that cowboys use up in the train to slaughter cows and mash over them and cut them out from the herd.

Now, this man goes out in the corral, and he picks out one horse, takes them out, separates them from the rest, and takes them away from that king, puts the saddle on them, and gets them on the back of him, and that horse is a sanctified horse.

Now, that sounds silly, but it's the truth of the word of God. That horse has been separated from 19 other horses for the specific purpose of something the man that owns it had in mind to do, and the first thing to take place in the life of a sinner before he becomes a Christian is the Spirit of God begins to deal with him in a mysterious and inexplicable way, and don't try to explain it until you've established the place in which your practice is.

We would do well to remember what Jesus said to Nicodemus, that when horses are enlisted, here is the sound thereof, you cannot get out unless you come up the hill, and it's full as everyone that is born in the Spirit of God.