The Holy Spirit (John 14) — G.W. North

The Holy Spirit and the Letter F

Now, we'll turn to the scriptures, and I want to talk to you concerning the Holy Spirit. And I want to use the letter F. Years ago, when I used to live down here in the south of England before I moved north, now I've come back south but west, we used to be trained in what we called our young people's fellowship in our church by our godly pastor.

He used to do much with us in the things of the spirit, of the Bible I mean. He never taught us anything much about the Holy Ghost, I'm very sad to say that, but he did teach us much of this blessed book.

One of the ways he taught us of preaching, and he used to put us out much in preaching in the district, was to get your thoughts sometimes under a letter. Now, years ago I dropped all this kind of preaching.

It dropped off me, I don't quite know what it was, but it left me. But still, sometimes, occasionally, the Lord does speak to me along these lines, and so I want just in this simple manner, under the letter F, to speak to you concerning the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Promises the Comforter in John 14

And I would like to turn with you first into the Gospel according to John, and the great 14th chapter. In John chapter 14, where the Lord Jesus, as you know, drawing toward the end of his earthly life, calls his disciples aside into that large, furnished upper room, and there they prepared the Passover, and there the Lord its this great supper with them before he suffered.

And he spoke to them concerning the Holy Ghost. It's a wonderful thing when the Lord Jesus speaks to us concerning the Holy Ghost. It seems that mostly he confines his remarks about the Holy Ghost to his disciples.

He didn't speak a lot openly to the outside world concerning the Holy Spirit, but to his disciples. He said some very, very simple things, and I think that we want to take at least one thing from what he said under this letter F in this portion.

If you look in verse 15, he said, If you love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him.

But you know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be. And so, right of all, first of all, beloved, we need to see that the Lord Jesus gave his reason for not speaking to the world about the person of the Holy Ghost, because of this very simple reason.

The world could not receive him, that is, the worldling couldn't see him, and therefore would not receive him. But he was talking to his disciples, who still couldn't see him, but nevertheless, he was expecting them to receive the Holy Ghost.

In other words, let's learn this first of all, that when we speak concerning the Holy Spirit, we are in the faith realm. In the faith realm. The Lord doesn't expect the person outside to receive the Holy Spirit.

This fact, that they can't see him, and there are people who are so bound up in material things, that they cannot believe anything that they don't see. You will remember that this is how he took Thomas to task, in the end, in the resurrection, just before we quit the gospel story, and go into the acts of the apostles.

You remember he said to Thomas, after specially coming for Thomas' benefit, and showing Thomas his hands and his side, and inviting Thomas to thrust his finger into the print of the nails, and his hand into the hole in Jesus' thigh.

He, and Thomas saying, oh my Lord and my God. He said, Thomas, because you've seen, you believe. Thomas had not reached the realm of faith. He said, but blessed are they who have not seen, and yet believe.

This thing that is. And mark it well, beloved, if we are in this room tonight, and we to some degree, or perhaps to a greater degree, who are disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, he is expecting you to believe.

He's expecting you to come onto the ground of faith, and it's in this whole realm. Re-emphasize this, before we are through tonight. I may re-emphasize this, that in this realm, where the Holy Ghost is concerned, and remember it's between you, and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, you are expected to come right over onto the realm of faith.

If you're going to be a believer anywhere, and in anything, you've got to believe here. And there is our first F. The next thing I would like you to see is in the same portion, where he said that he will pray the Father.

If you love me, you keep my commandments, I will pray the Father, and he will give you another comforter. Even the Spirit of Truth, the Blessed Holy Ghost, he said that the Holy Ghost will be given to you from the Father.

The Father's Gift of the Holy Spirit

Now you will remember that this isn't an isolated thing. If you know your scriptures well enough, and your mind can go back, and you're in the 11th chapter of Luke's Gospel, you will know that there he says the same thing.

He says, now if you, being evil, and he's talking to his disciples, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Ghost to them that ask him. Jesus knew that the Blessed Third Person of the Trinity had to come from the First Person of the Trinity.

That, oh, the Holy Ghost is Father's love gift unto men and women, at the request of Jesus, in sheer joy at having received his son back home into his bosom. This is the wonderful thing. You will find, if you turn with me, for instance, into the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, that this is the same thing.

Read down through the chapter, you find that this Jesus, verse 32, has God raised up. He's saying, he's given account, an account of what's been happening beforehand. He's telling these people what it's all about, because these people had heard them speaking with other tongues.

They'd heard the magnifying God, and they got no explanation for it, except to say that they were drunk, or something like that. I never knew many drunken men who could speak a foreign language, but still, there it is.

They could speak languages they never had any idea about. I know they can talk a lot of gibberish, I know they can babble like a baboon, and I know sometimes they get very lucid when they've had enough to loosen their own tongues in their mother language, but I never heard of a drunken man speaking fluently and gloriously the praises of God in another language.

Did you? Never heard of it yet, but still that's what they said. It's amazing the excuses that some people will put up when they come up against God. Apparently you've got to be able to explain everything away.

If you want what God has, you haven't got to bother about giving an explanation, you've got to receive it. If you wait for an explanation, you'll never get in. The wonder of it. Peter is saying, well here it is, Jesus, God raised him from the dead, we're witnesses, he says, and in verse 33, therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this which ye now see and hear.

Very clearly, we're all to understand, beloved, and understand so tremendously with all the graft of our spirits, and this should settle us all, praise him, that just as Jesus was the gift to the world, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, and whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, so the Holy Ghost is the gift of the Father unto the church, unto the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is God the Father's gift, through Jesus Christ, to his own. Amen. Yes. Let's see some Father. We want to have the answer to this great thing that was voiced in John 14, when Philip said, oh Thomas said, show us the Father, and it suffices us.

The answer to it is, oh, if you really want to see the Father, if you really want to know the Father, you'll have to have the Holy Ghost want to know the Father. I'll go back, he says, I'll ask Father.

Amen. Wonderful. Father, some people down here want to know you. These children here, they want to know you. He taught them to pray, our Father, which art in heaven, but they hadn't got a clue who they were praying to, except that there was God up there, you know, and he was in heaven, and he taught them that, but now they wanted to see the one that they'd been praying to.

They wanted to know the one that they'd been taught to pray to. You see? So he says, I'll go home, and I'll ask Father. Now, you needn't worry, it's all promised. He's been promised to me. He went back home, and he received the promise of the Father.

Christ's Ascension and the Promise of Pentecost

That's what he did. One of the great reasons, beloved, why Jesus ascended up on high. He ascended up for many reasons. I couldn't begin to list them, even if I knew them all, and I think that there are lots of things that are hidden from us, beloved, not specifically revealed in the Bible.

No, we know that he ascended up on high, and he led captivity captive. We know that he went back up to heaven, and he showed himself to his Father. He was the identical Jesus. As he'd been taken down from the cross, he showed himself to his Father, and he went back to Father's bosom, and he was the accepted sacrifice.

Praise God. That's a glorious thing. You ought to be very glad you can't see Jesus on the earth now. I meet people that say, well, if only we could see him. Nay, nay, nay. The fact that you can't see him is your guarantee.

He is the accepted sacrifice. He's gone now. It's all been accepted. Everything that Jesus has done, thank God he's not on the earth for you to see him today. He's been accepted up in heaven. He's not a wandering spirit.

Amen. He's gone back to Father's bosom with directness, and he presented his blood there in heaven, and virtually said, now then, Father, keep your promise. Keep your promise to me, Father. The Holy Ghost in that manner and measure that we agreed before I went to earth, and give him to me for my people.

Hallelujah. He received the promise from the Father. Now, what you must understand about this, beloved, is that in this great Godhead of ours, there was a deliberate plan, forethought, foreordained, planned in eternity, and the coming of Jesus down to this earth, and his life, and death, and burial, and resurrection, and ascension, and enthronement, as I but steps in this wonderful plan.

All of them, glory be to God, and he received from the Father, the Holy Ghost. This was it, to pour that blessed spirit down upon those people who were gathered in that upper room in fulfillment of what Jesus had told them to do.

They stayed there, and through Jesus, they received the gift of the Holy Ghost. Plan that you should have a parallel, glorious, and wonderful experience. Did you know that? Did you know that age now, and it's the age of the Spirit, we're in the day of the Holy Ghost.

Today, beloved, it is intended by God, because of the virtue of that blood, and the glory of the fulfillment of that part of the plan. It's the intention of God to absolutely shower the Holy Ghost down upon you in deluges greater than the flood.

Father's delight to do it. Break in at this point and say, and that's so absolutely true, and I would testify to you all that providing you will go the way of God, you too can come into this glorious place.

That this life that God has for us is not a life of precarious believing, fighting to hold your own, seeking to keep your nose above water, struggling not to become worldly and atheistic, and all this business.

Oh, it's a life. It's a life. Oh, let's go right on, shall we? And here, because in this same glorious chapter, we have the next thought. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, in verse one, all was one accord in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with utter tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Being Filled and Baptized With the Holy Spirit

Oh, what a glorious truth is here, beloved, and you've all got my next F, I'm sure, that the Holy Ghost comes to fill, Father, to fill us, Father's seat of approval, a glorious commission from heaven.

He's come to fill us with the satisfaction of God. He's come to fill us with that glory that just filled Father's heart and Jesus' bosom when they came into that glorious union again, if I might use that word, oh, when they were there together, and the Holy Ghost has come to fill us with this glory of satisfaction, this wonderful knowledge, this wholeness, this safety, this eternal love, this abundant life, this that made the bells of heaven ring, and the elders fall down and worship God, and the angels to wave their palms, and the glory of God to be revealed.

This is what the Holy Ghost comes for. Pray for others, get concerned about others. Jesus got rid of everything because he was concerned about you and me. He took sin and then got rid of it, and then got rid of them, amen, for us.

He saved others himself, he couldn't save, neither can you save yourself if you're giving salvation to others, you've got to give yourself away. This is the tremendousness of it, beloved, but oh, when this Holy Ghost came, he filled them, filled them, filled them.

That's the answer to it all. Never came and gave them a little alleviation from their troubles and burdens, and just give them five minutes flash of intercourse with heaven, he kind of filled them, blessed be the name of the Lord, and they weren't big enough, so he spilled out of them.

That's right, they weren't big enough. Ask people to receive the Holy Ghost, that's why the call's out tonight. Something with you, approach the Bible, you must distinguish between the Old Testament and the New.

If you don't, you'll miss so much, it will answer a lot of your problems. So you will not find in the New Testament, in the New Testament, I mean in the true New Covenant, you will not find that anybody was filled with the Holy Ghost until they were baptized with the Holy Ghost.

In the Old Testament, you will, you say, oh yes, I can remember, you say, oh John Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb, but he wasn't in the New Testament, he said he was only the friend of the right group.

He's written about in the New Testament, then so is Abraham and Moses, but he belonged to the Old, that's right, he belonged to the Old, and God moved in a different way in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, nobody is ever filled with the Spirit until they're baptized with the Spirit.

I want to make this very clear to you, because there's a subtle teaching about today that says you can be filled with the Spirit, but don't talk about being baptized in the Spirit, don't talk, talk about being filled with the Spirit, it doesn't upset people.

Well, if people get upset with Bible, well they must get upset, they've got to get their offenses cleared with God. I was at a conference once, I remember, and a man, a lady was there, and she came up to me afterwards, and she said, she said, oh brother, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, she said, but you know, we think you ought not to speak about being baptized in the Spirit, you ought to talk about being filled with the Spirit, it doesn't cause offense.

Well, haven't you boss, anybody so offensive as God? Haven't you anybody that caused people so much trouble and upset as God? Jesus said, you're going to be baptized in the Holy Ghost. Oh, Jesus, don't say that, say filled, please Lord.

Well, you can't. Nobody was filled with the Holy Ghost in the New Covenant. Remember, the New Covenant didn't start till the day of Pentecost. The blood had to be presented in heaven first. It wasn't over when Jesus died.

It wasn't over when he rose either. It wasn't over until, beloved, he presented that blood there and stepped into his great high priestly office. Oh, hallelujah. Yeah, glory. He received the promise of the Father, and just waited for God's clock to come right, and nobody was filled with the Spirit until they were baptized in the Holy Spirit, not in the New Testament.

You let that sink into your hearts, and if other people get offended, don't you get offended. Move on in this great realm of what God has for you. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost. That's wonderful.

I say to the Lord tonight, before I go to sleep, Lord, everybody in that room was filled with the Holy Ghost. I mean this room, with the Holy Ghost. Because they won't submit to being baptized by Jesus.

Jesus saved me. I'll say, Jesus, forgive me. Jesus, blot out all my sins. Jesus, let me go to heaven when you die. Jesus, let thy blood speak for me. Well, what for? You have the right to be filled with the Spirit.

That's what the blood's speaking for. The right to be filled with the Holy Ghost. ...filled with the Spirit, because they won't submit to Jesus baptizing them. Filled with the Spirit under the old covenant, said to Jesus, I have need to be baptized with thee.

He still needed to be baptized in the Spirit, although he was filled with the Spirit under the old covenant regulations. And he knew it. There's a great world of difference, beloved. Oh, there's a glorious company.

It's called the Church of Jesus Christ. Amen. A glorious exclusive body. I believe that God would include everybody in this room tonight. It's not exclusive in that sense. But I mean, in the whole of eternal reckonings, there is an exclusive body.

I don't mean on this earth trying to be an exclusive brother or sister or everything like that. That's not what I'm meaning. Or belonging to a select company. Not exclusive in all the doings and arrangements and ordinances of God, ordinations of God.

Throughout eternity, there is this exclusive body. Yes. Oh, there for a special purpose. Got eternal purposes for her. This is her baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire, as John said. Made no mistake about it.

They saw as it worked on their heads. Glory. The initiation of a new dispensation. The ear, shall I say, the mark, the hallmark of God, the Holy Ghost and fire. Should know the great tendance and fullness when the largest of our God should be given to men.

Oh, it's so wonderful. Have you ever known what it is for God to fill you, fill you, fill you. I know of a man. I know of him. I've never met him. He's gone to be with the Lord now. And a great friend of mine told me he used to live in this man.

And God so met him. He said when he came home from work and he used to put his key in the latch. He was a bachelor and he had a house of his own and he used to turn the key in the latch and he'd say, Good evening, Lord.

And he'd walk in and he used to go in his room and he used to have to say to God, stay a hand, Lord, stay a hand. He said so. He filled all the room where they were sitting. Consecrated building or anything like that.

Such things as sanctuaries in this sense, in the sense in which people try to mean it today. But oh, beloved Father. Do you know why? One of the basic reasons of it, just to satisfy Jesus heart. Jesus anything.

Father would. The cross. When he went to Christ, he said, I want the world to know that I love the Father. The Father says, I want the world to know that I love you, Jesus, who's the Holy Ghost. And only Jesus can baptize you in the Holy Ghost.

Only Jesus can bring you into this glorious fullness of the Spirit. In his manner, so could you argue. Well now, in our set, we use this lot of terms. Well now, look. Terminology doesn't matter. Terminology didn't save you.

Words and ways of speaking about it and phrases, beloved, they don't count. The thing that counts is that you have a personal dealing with the Lord Jesus Christ and that you come to him without any qualifications, any limitations.

Throw all your phrases away in case you're too small in your thinking and in your stating. And just come to the Lord as he is. Amen. You can even use the phrase I used when I came. I said, oh Lord, I don't know what it is I do want, but give it to me.

There you are. That shows you he does it for fools. I got confused. You see, I'd been taught other doctrines than this, but blessed be the name of the Lord when I got to heart reality, when I knew my need and none of this other stuff satisfied me.

Nothing at all. It's all right in its place, but you see, this is the fulfillment of it all. People getting along without this, why? Why? It's like having a queen sitting on the throne without a crown on her head.

This is the fulfillment of it all. This is the blessing of it all. You see, Jesus was up there and as old Wesley says, Jesus is glorified and gives the comforter to abide in all his people here. You see, it's the coronation gift.

It's the crowning glory that made Jesus go home. It was that only by going home in this great movement of the plan of God and personally securing the end of the promise, a father he could shed this forth upon us all.

Oh, all ought to be up jumping and shouting hallelujah. Perhaps I'm doing it for you. Amen. This is what God wants. You've got to be filled. Let's go on. This isn't the end of it. We're just moving in now.

The Holy Spirit Floods Believers With God's Love

In the Roman letter, chapter five. Oh, you know, the Holy Ghost is a marvellous person. And this is what we read. Chapter five, verse one. Therefore, says the scripture, Paul writing to these Romans, he says, being justified by faith, let us have peace with God.

Perhaps your version says that. That's the way the revival is. By faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have received access by faith into this grace, wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hopeth hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.

Weymouth gives it. The Holy Ghost is flooding our hearts. The love of God is flooding our hearts. That's my next step. The love of God is simply swamping us. Why, you know, sometimes on my way, oh, where I go so many places.

I think it's somewhere, yes, somewhere up in the Midlands, at a certain place, we drew off one day for lunch. We were coming down, and my dear brother Bob Love was driving me. We stopped off for lunch.

We sort of turned in here, and worked our way around into this lovely little country town, and found there was a church, and a square, and a river running through, and a lovely bridge, and gorgeous trees there.

Well, what a wonderful place to stop and have. So we did. We got out our coffee, and we got out our buns, or whatever it was we were eating and drinking, and stretched our legs a bit. I think we must have been driving for about four or five hours.

So we decided we'd have this break. And I wandered round, you see. I got over against the church wall, and when I got to the church wall, I saw there was one of these, you know, boards that they had for measuring the depths of rivers, if you've seen them, you know, marked off in feet, or they had them in swimming baths.

And I went across, and I looked, and it had got a mark at a certain point. This was the level that the flood reached. Oh, not Noah's flood. This was the level that the flood reached in 19 so and so. You know, you see, they were so flooded that they marked it.

They're not there now, though. I walked, and the river's running very docilely, dutifully, under the old bridge. There's a fall down there, where they used to cross. Shows you how the river wasn't very deep at all before they built the bridge.

There was a time when it was. Now the Holy Ghost has come to bring you to glorious high water, Mark. Amen. He's come to start with the love of God, and this is why He's given. Since you're not struggling to believe, oh, we know that all things work together for good.

Then love God. You see? Or that, uh, you love me, Father. You know God so loved the world. See? You're not struggling to believe those things anymore. When God, when you let God have His way with you, when you let God He wants with you, He'll satisfy Himself in you.

He'll flood you with love. His own glorious love. The Holy Ghost comes, and only the Holy Ghost can do it. You say, well, then that, I, I, well, I do know something of the love of God. No, not something of it.

Flooded. When, what happens when you're flooded, don't you? Eh? Something like Noah's flood, that you could float on the top of it. No, no. You see, you're a person, and you're all shoved up inside. So He comes and floods you, and you go, that's how the rivers flow out of your bellies, Jesus.

He has to burst you wide open for that. He said, He, you have to be burst. You're so shut up. You're so concerned. You've cried and sighed and moaned and groaned and prayed and tried. Now you know you are.

There's only one thing for you. You're destined to be flooded. Glory. And it can't be till the Holy Ghost comes and floods you. And if you say He's come and you're not flooded, you are sadly crossed. Something's gone wrong.

Those miserable, mean, wicked, shut up, self-centered, groaning, I don't know what kind of people. Give them the Holy Ghost, Jesus. This is what we'll do. We'll give them the Holy Ghost. And Jesus said, Father, that's what you said.

And the Holy Ghost comes right down inside where Jesus never could get. The glory and the warmth and the power and everything fills up inside you. One of the most hellish tortures that have ever been devised on earth.

The Nazis did it, I believe, to put people in water and flood them with water. That's hellish. Now let me tell you the heaven living. Jesus said, if you're thirsty, you come to me and drink first. This is the grace wherein we stand that Paul talks about.

This is the grace we stand in. What's this grace? The unmerited favor of God. This place where I'm an utterly flooded, liberated person. Only be done by the Holy Ghost. He gives them a big day of Pentecost when God baptizes them.

See? Think of the hellish way. Holding them down under the water in the bath in and out. Blessings you can get for textual believing of Almighty God. No wonder they spoke in tongues on the day of Pentecost.

Don't wonder a bit that these people were carried away into the realm of prophecy and such likes as to the name of the Lord. You've got to know this great with love. The further most recesses of your personality, of your nature, wonders and reasonings of your mind carrying into everywhere.

This marvel. This is what it's all about. There are so many who seem to me never to get to this flooding place. A time ago, a place and I've been invited to speak there by a company of people in the things of the spirit to use the sort of general term.

Spent about an hour. Talked to them. Afterwards, the person invited me. I hear you speak about the baptism in the spirit. I wonder whether I've known this. This is what I mean when I say people seem to have a different baptism in the spirit from that which I got.

These beginnings have got 40. Those of you who were not here this afternoon, you will not know. You that were here will know the things that we thought of then. It's because people don't walk in this that they lose it.

Because they don't walk in it. Walks, then this is what the Lord will do. And if by sin or by stumbling or something he gets out of it, if he repents and goes back to God, then God will restore. Testimony of the saints of God.

You should know what it is to walk in this way with the Lord. Flooded with the love of God. Because you see the Holy Ghost is here to do this. It isn't what we conjure up. It isn't what we try. It's the Holy Ghost's job.

Just like it was Jesus' job to shed his blood. Just like it was Jesus' work to hang on the cross. And he did it. So it's the Holy Ghost's work to do this. And he does it. What Jesus did was once in the end of an age to usher in a new age.

And in this new age the Holy Ghost is doing just this. Thunder of Jesus into it. Into us. Bringing all of the fulfilled and satisfied complete good at home. And just uniting it. Bringing it all into Jesus Christ's manifest.

To put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Amen. That ended that. Amen. And as the new age has dawned, I tell you it's the age of the Spirit. Faithful to shed his blood to crucify sin. Faithful to do away with everything.

Faithful now to mediate the Spirit upon his heavenly ministry. Amen. Now the Holy Ghost is coming from the Father. Now the Holy Ghost is in the Holy Ghost. He baptised those being revolted by the Holy Ghost.

Amen. Amen. They were all immersed then. That's the testimony. The Spirit is the Spirit of fullness. Just to lie back and think no more. Just to lie back and struggle no longer. Just to drink it. He's filling this room.

Did you come here tonight with the intention of receiving? You see, they were there with the intention of receiving. Those men of old, they were there with the intention. That's why they came. I pointed out to you this afternoon those who do arguments no longer now.

The whole world troubled. Jesus the devil and all those. And their intense spirits matched the intensity of the love of God. The word. Spirit like this. You don't need me to remind you of this, I'm sure.

The well-known pestilence of the Spirit is love. There it is. Spirit is love. I'll provide you with that all at once. It takes time and circumstances to prove that you've got it. That's right. That's right.

It takes persecutions and troubles and trials to show that it's there. Don't doubt that it's there. Amen. It is. It just is. He's not trying to do it in you. That's what it is if it's there. Holy Ghost hasn't come to struggle with you.

Praise the name of the Lord. The Holy Ghost has come in sweet contentment to abide in you and bring forth all this fruit, suffering, so much more. Yes, in you. If it's not there, it's the Holy Ghost you need.

You're needing the precious Holy Spirit. It's no good what you were taught to believe. It's what the Scripture says. That's the proof. Life is here. You've got a peace that nothing can shatter. It goes on despite anything that happens.

Joy and Praise Through Tragedy

One of the most remarkable things about it is this. When troubles come, as troubles do, don't think that you never have any troubles. I remember once talking to a woman and she started telling me all the troubles.

And she said, oh, these are terrible troubles. And then she went on to say, and if you haven't been through, you don't understand. And I expect she was telling me that I didn't understand. So I said, is it something like this?

And I told her something that happened in our life to my wife and I. I didn't tell her what it was. I said, you mean something like this? Is it recognizable? Nothing could do it. Singing. You can't sing when tragedy happens.

That's it. I was. No, it ties up with heaven. It doesn't tie up with earth inside. I don't know what that's like. I've never been anywhere near that unless I am mentally doing it. I don't know what you think.

But what God has deranged my mind from thinking and acting like the earth does. And he's arranged it, rearranged it by heaven. It works, beloved. The song was sung by the Holy Ghost. River church, you see.

You mean to go and get somebody to bury my mum? Is it not? Remained off earth. Events and circumstances of the outside form absolutely indestructible situation and condition in the heart when the Holy Ghost is there.

They must heed upon it. He comes to do the work and he does it. Years ago, Jesus brought and to the best of my ability, I sought to keep right in the flood. I've sought to keep there. I have failed of it at times.

It isn't a man's failures you talk about. It's the success of Jesus. He does it. You see, beloved, you must understand this. That God's complete plan for you is an utter takeover by God to run your life.

You want to go flirting, fornicating, seeking the world. What do you want? Be very sure. Is it kissing, cuddling you? What do you really want? Be very sure. Because it's a takeover. The next minute, then it's safe.

Jesus has come to take over your life. Amen. Take it over. It's possible for my own actions now. Oh, but I am because I have the ability to control myself. The letter to Timothy, though the Holy Ghost is not directly mentioned here, but it is the work of the Spirit.