Reality & Paul 4 — George Verwer

Living God, these have been precious days together. It is our prayer that the spiritual weather within our hearts may be equal to the weather you have given us outside. And yet at the same time, may we know that when it rains, actually it's just as much a blessing as when the sun shines.

Because that water, that rain is the greatest thing many parts of this earth need. And oh Lord, may we not have the human viewpoint of things, but may we have the divine viewpoint. Speak to us in this final time together from your word.

We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. It's an awesome thing when God begins to pour truth into our hearts, because we are then responsible for living out these truths and for aiming in this direction. And I want us to look at verse 2 in Hebrews 4.

The Word Must Be Mixed With Faith

Of course, many people believe Paul wrote Hebrews. Some say he didn't. It's still the truth of God. Paul was only a channel, he was only a pipe. You know, there's a great danger sometimes among Christians that they begin to admire the tap, and admire the pipe.

No doubt you have a tap in your kitchen, water comes out of a tap. When you're thirsty after doing something, you go in there, what do you do? Polish the tap? Admire the tap? Isn't this a lovely tap? Not generally.

A wise man wants the water. And I'm just a tap. Paul was a tap, a pipe, a channel, whatever word you want to use. So it doesn't matter whether he wrote Hebrews or not, it's from God. Verse 2. For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

For we are believed to enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. Then he goes on to speak about this rest of faith.

Verse 9. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Verse 10. For he that is entered into his rest is also seeked from his own works, as God did from his. Verse 11. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

The word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing ascender of soul and spirit, the joints and marrow and as a discerner in the thoughts and the intents of the heart.

Keeping this in view, let's just realize that all that you hear this week, whether it's from me or Eric Hutchings or an angel, unless it is mixed with faith, it is of no value. And as we come toward the end of this first week, and we have much ministry in our hearts and in our heads, we must realize there comes a time when we must mix it with faith.

If we're speaking about the victorious life, there comes a time when we have to stop speaking and stop listening and appropriate by faith. I was wrestling with this, thinking about the meeting, and realized that I was not really believing God for you.

I was not really believing that something is going to happen as a result of these few days together. Usually speaking, perhaps some of my leaders and members of the Board of Directors say, you waste your time in some of these small meetings.

The other summer I went up to Dingwall, Scotland, and I was out having some time with the President of our Board, Mr. Val Greve from Manchester, who is a lawyer up there. He said, what are you doing going up to Dingwall?

He said, you've got to preach in the strategic centers. And I said, well, that's okay. I'll just go where the Lord leads me. Thank you very much. I went to Dingwall, Scotland. We have one of the strongest prayer groups in our whole work worldwide right there in Dingwall.

They may not be many. They gather regularly for intercession and nights of prayer. They committed this little meeting out in nowhere in the middle of August, the worst time of the year. Hundreds came to that little meeting out in Dingwall, Scotland, including pastors from the We Free Church all over Scotland.

People drove in from the Isle of Skye. People came in from other parts, and God moved in that little out-of-the-way meeting. It wasn't that many. Someone may say, well, you know, what are you doing a week down in battle with this little group of saints?

Not many university students, not many potential Hudson Taylors in the crowd. Of course, you never know. But I believe God sent me here and God put me here. I don't believe it's in numbers. I believe he has something very real and very special for many of you.

I trust that you'll take the word preached and mix it with faith. If you want to try to understand Operation Mobilization, let me just say this. Operation Mobilization is a movement. It started very small.

It stayed quite small for many, many years. People see it today. They don't see it in years and years and years and years. A bunch of nobodies battling the evil one and pressing forward. But it's a movement of people who want to live what I have been talking about this week and, of course, much more.

The Early Growth of Operation Mobilization

And I thought before going on expanding, I would just pick up a little where I left off. Just to tell you what happened to this little group of young people who went to Mexico, there were only three of us on that first trip, five of us on the second trip.

As they began to mix the word, these principles we've been talking about in these days, we're going to review them again in a minute. But as they began to mix it with faith, this is what God did. Let me give you in a few minutes a history of what happened from those early days.

The word spread to several different colleges. Nights of prayer began to spread from one college to another. People were converted. People came back to the Lord. Skeptics were about to overthrow the Christian faith in universities, came to realize through seeing God answer prayer that he was alive.

You know, if I had to believe that all the answers to prayer I had seen in 20 years, thousands, thousands, that this was coincidence, I would need more faith, more faith than simply to believe that God is alive and answers prayer.

I don't have that much faith. Maybe somebody does, but I don't have that much faith to believe that I had seen 20 years of coincidence. Any more than I have faith that I can go to Switzerland and find some little bits of steel and copper, what have you, and put it into a bucket and shake it a few thousand times, and I'm going to bring out a Swiss watch.

I don't have that kind of faith. It's easier for me to believe that this watch was built by a Swiss watchmaker. You don't need so much faith for that, do you? As we look at the wonders of this universe and the galaxies and the intricacies of the human body, and when we think of all the answers to prayer, it's all just a great shout that God is God, and he is not dead, and he is answering prayer.

So God answered our prayers. We prayed for labors. He gave us labors. We prayed for bookshops. We opened six in two years in Mexico, and we only did it in our holiday period as we had to get back to college.

We asked for faithful Mexicans, and he gave them to us. Then we started to claim faithful Spaniards, and after six months in Mexico, after I graduated from Moody Bible Institute, I went over to Spain, and within six months, he gave us these faithful Spaniards.

It was these Spaniards of all places, because Spain was closed back then, that launched Operation Mobilization in Europe. I remember we were having a couple of days of prayer and some fasting in the mountains of Madrid when God gave us the go-ahead for Operation Mobilization.

Before that, we never had that name. In fact, the name came to me when I was coming back from Russia in 1961. I sort of made a number of rather interesting booths and got myself arrested, and as I came back, I went up into the mountains of Bavaria, and I was spending some time atop of a tree singing and praising God.

It's one of the few places you can go without disturbing anybody. It was there, as I thought of these great armies of Europe clashing and murdering and butchering one another, and this name, Mobilization, somewhere had been in my mind.

It was basically originally a World War II, or before that term, Mobilization. I thought, what if God could mobilize an army to move across this country, hundreds of young people, thousands, and then it could spill over into the closed countries in an unorganized way.

I went back to Spain and shared this with these Spanish brothers. I'd been meeting in the nights of prayer there. They'd already sent out secretly gospel literature to almost everybody in all the telephone directories in the nation, and they had many, many other ways of getting the Word of God out in Spain.

We opened a Catholic New Testament shop in the center of Madrid when the land was closed. People couldn't believe it. Christians were stirred by this, and people would come and they'd see Catholic New Testaments and Catholic Bibles, and this would really speak to their hearts, and then if we knew that they could be trusted, we would give them a little card and they'd go down the road and up a few blocks, a few flights of stairs through two or three doors.

There was the hottest load of Spanish Christian Protestant literature that Spain had ever known, and yet through that literature brought in secretly to Spain, tremendous things took place. I think of Daniel Gonzales, the young Spaniard whose life was turned upside down through the book Calvary Road.

Daniel became the leader of our work until it became completely nationalized, and we turned it over completely into Spain, and you know what God has used him to plant three churches. That one brother whose life was originally turned upside down through that one little copy of Calvary Road.

You know, it's amazing how God uses the printed page. Well, that summer in 62, these Spaniards really set the pace, and because they took over the work in Spain, I was able to come to Britain. I came to Britain in February of 1962.

The first place I spoke, that was a network conference organization. I don't think, I'm not sure if it exists anymore, but not long after being here I sensed that this was a place God wanted me to make as my home base, and apart from Spanish, I didn't know any other language than English.

God uses sometimes this kind of providence, but we saw God work, and within a few months we had 90 English young people join with the others around the continent, and that summer, which was largely mass distribution, that's why we've been stuck with that literature image, because that first summer we had such a short time, everybody was so new, our burden was to flood out 25 million pieces of literature in seven weeks, which had never happened in the history of missions, and God did it.

God did it. For the next summer we asked God to do 10 times as much. We asked God for 2 ,000 people. People said we were crazy. Hardly anyone ever knew about us. Everything was against us in so many ways.

We had no money. We had no financial resources. Contrary to public opinion, there has never been any big money behind this work. Even people who know about this work, who have big money, have hardly ever given.

God has not worked that way. No, he may in the future. I think it's some of the biggest gifts we've got. It looks like a really large sum of money from a German youth fellowship. It involves hundreds of young people who caught the vision and just give their little bit, and it adds up.

That German youth fellowship has been one of the biggest contributors to the ship project, and the widow's might is still God's method. The widow's might is still God's method. Oh, how quickly we seem to forget that.

Christian Literature and Faith-Filled Provision

Well, we saw miracle after miracle in God providing funds for that 25 million pieces of literature, most of which we paid for ourselves. People don't give this stuff to you. People think, oh, the Bible Society.

The Bible Society? You have to buy from the Bible Society, and we lose our discount if we don't pay in 30 days. And we see the Lord bring in the funds to buy these tons and tons of literature. In 1963, God gave us this larger army and 200 tons of Christian literature, and we just praise God for all that happened.

This began to spread then into the Middle East and 64 into India. People said, Indians will never do this. All we'll get is unemployed. It will work. Yet God called Indians out, some of them leaving very good jobs and good salaries to come and to live and to walk by favor in this spiritual warfare.

And I can't begin to tell you what has happened in India. Those that have been converted, churches that have been stirred, so many things I could not go into. Again and again, our backs against the wall.

I remember times we had no money. We didn't know where any money could come from. Once we were up meeting in Bolton or Atherton up in Lancashire. It was the end of the summer. We had not yet paid for all of our literature bills.

We had this policy that we'll not move out in the spring, I mean in the fall, in September, that's when the OMU starts, if all our bills aren't paid. We don't borrow money, we don't take loans, any of this kind of thing.

We will buy literature in 30 days just like any other business. And so we decided we're not going to buy any more food. Those who feel mature enough will fast. And the others will eat what's left until there's nothing left.

We're going to believe God for the. And we had bills at that time for 25 ,000 pounds, and that was an amount of money. Think about it. You've heard of movements that operate on a shoestring. Well, I can tell you, this movement doesn't operate on a shoestring.

Half the time we can't even find the shoestring. But we went to prayer and fasting and waiting upon God, and remembering the night of prayer around midnight, that God filled our hearts with faith that he would provide this money.

He would launch us out. This was the year we launched the first teams into India, and the main thrust into the Middle East. Even for that conference, we had the most horrible accommodation. We were just jammed in the same room.

We lectured in, ate in, slept in. It was just very wild, very difficult days. And then around midnight, we decided to sing a song of praise and thanksgiving and adoration, because we knew God was going to bring the victory.

A letter had come around five o 'clock from Holland to our Dutch director. The Dutch were up in another room praying in Dutch. And that letter had gone around the special delivery, I don't know, but until midnight, it didn't get open.

Around midnight, this letter got to the Dutch director and he said, you know how people carry a letter in their pockets? I decided to go up to the Dutch and tell them that the Lord had filled us with faith that this money was coming.

People didn't know about this need. Prayer partners didn't know about this need. And as I went up to go up to the Dutch prayer meeting, he came down the stairs with this letter, the biggest gift we'd ever had from the Netherlands, over 9 ,000 Dutch guilders, a couple thousand pounds.

That was the break in the dam. And after that, God brought in the funds. Many of the young people sold their possessions. This is one of the things that has brought the greatest criticism to our work, especially in the early days, because we have sold our possessions, anything we could get our hands on.

We even sell used postage stamps, because we saw this in Acts 2, we saw this in Acts 4, and we said, why doesn't this happen in 1975? Why are our homes so clogged with junk? Half of what we don't even need?

When missionaries don't have Gospels, they don't have Bibles, they don't have even the basic tools to do the job. And remember World War II, when Winston Churchill said, give us the tools and we'll finish the job.

In so many places, the national workers around the world want to do the job, and they're crying unto us, give us the tools. Every week we have to write nationals who are begging us for tracts and say, there are no tracts.

Print them on leaves. Christians have all the furniture they want in their homes, and Christians have so many things that they don't need. Let them print their Gospel tracts on leaves. 19 years ago, God spoke to me and said, you're never going to buy a piece of clothing again.

I said, what? You're never going to buy a piece of clothing again. You're going to trust me. Others can, you cannot. You know that little tract? Others can, you cannot. I don't have that policy for the other people in O .M.

It's something a little similar. And for 19 years, of course now it doesn't mean much because people have heard it, and of course I have more clothing and I know what to do with it. So that's past now.

But in those days, the early days, no one knew about this, and yet God provided. And in O .M. worldwide, with 900 people on a full-time year program, almost 2 ,000 in the summer, we hardly ever buy clothing because God brings it in.

Admittedly, it's easier to pray for that in an affluent country where there's extra clothing around. But of course, a lot of young people don't want to wear second-hand clothing. He knew it was a good energy to wear second-hand clothing.

It made us fit. I never had anything that fit. Where do you find anything that fits someone my size? I'm so out of proportion, I can't even find shoes that fit my feet. So I couldn't play tennis much.

Playing one game at Bear Island, my toes were bleeding. But, you know, it's just so thrilling to see God work. People said, well, this guy was a fanatic. My early days, I was a little more, perhaps slightly more extreme than now.

I wouldn't buy soap. I used to go to the shower in the YMCA, Lord, I'm trusting you, there's got to be some soap. Somebody's left some soap. Lead me to the right shower stall, oh Lord. For one year, every time I went, someone left me a bar of soap.

God works like that. I was listening to Corrie Ten Boom this morning. You didn't know that she was here. You missed her, sorry. But I was listening to Corrie Ten Boom this morning on tape, and she was sharing how she tends to worry, and she was sharing how she's learned how prayer can combat worry.

And she was with her sister in the concentration camp, and she had a cold, and she said, I don't have a handkerchief. And her sister said, well, let's pray for a handkerchief. Corrie Ten Boom, how silly, how can we pray for a handkerchief?

Nope. Sister said, we're going to pray for a handkerchief. About her end, a prayer for a handkerchief. Corrie was sort of, you know, half smiling, prayer for a handkerchief. Suddenly there's a shout outside the window in the concentration camp, and there's a lady outside the window.

Corrie, I've got something for you. What? Yeah, look, it's a gift, a handkerchief. This lady in the concentration camp had found an old sheet and cut up in pieces and felt burdened to give them to her friends, and as she was doing it, the Lord spoke to her heart, give one to Corrie Ten Boom.

Meanwhile, Corrie's sister, Lord Jesus, please, you know how they say it in Dutch, provide the handkerchief in some such way. God is concerned, and I could tell you hundreds of stories, call it fanaticism, call it whatever you want.

I did it because I believed that God wanted me to put the little money I had into Gospels, into Bibles, into literature, because I believe men are lost, because I believe the book of Acts, because I believe the words of the Lord Jesus, except you forsake all that you have, how can you be my disciples?

Radical Discipleship and Sacrificial Living

I remember once, one of the very first dates with my wife. She wasn't my wife then, and I never thought I'd ever find a girl that would marry me with all my crazy ideas, but I told her in the very beginning of meeting, as we were studying the book of Acts together, giving out tracts and going house to house, I did everything I could to scare her away.

This was my method with women. I told her she'd probably end up being cooked in New Guinea in a cannibal's pot. She wasn't interested in me in the beginning. That was pretty wild for her, but she was a bit challenged by the whole thing.

I said, I'm not going to spend any money on you until we're married. Then, of course, I had the obligation, because I'm getting my food at school, you're getting your food at this. She was staying in a hostel, so no need to spend any other money.

Food and raisin, content. Of course, there were times when this became a little complicated. Once we were sitting on the beach in Chicago, and we were talking and sharing, and lunchtime came, and I often skipped lunch.

I'd done a lot of fasting in those days, and I thought, well, this may not be right to inflict this upon her. Maybe she doesn't want to miss lunch. So I committed to the Lord. Lord, you know I don't want to spend any money.

Every 10 pence is 50 more gospel tracts, and I don't want to spend any money. We'll get a good meal when we get back home tonight. It's not that we're not eating, but Lord, your will. Maybe she should have a sandwich or two.

Committed to the Lord. There we sat. Some young people came behind us, had lunch, munching away, sandwiches, apples. Stomachs began going, Lord! I cried out. Then they left, and they threw a big bag, a big American paper sack, into the dustbin.

I don't remember what I said to Drina, but I went over the dustbin with great courage, and I took out the bag, and there were sandwiches that had not been unwrapped. There was fruit that had not been touched, and she had her lunch.

Now, if I only saw this once every alternate week here, you know, it's a coincidence. I have seen God's hand for 20 years working this way. Whether it's 50 ,000 pounds to purchase an ocean-rowing ship from the Danish government who thought we were crazy because we weren't a reputable shipping company.

When I signed the contract, we hadn't even organized the company. They had no company. When they saw this money come in from all over the world right the day it was due, the day before it was due in Denmark, they knew that God was God.

We were dealing mainly with atheists, or whether we're praying for toothpaste. Of course, I'm sure that when most people God often generally leads them to buy it, but at least we should pray before we spend the Lord's money.

We're to be faithful stewards of God's money, and Jesus Christ, and the apostles, and the Word of God talks more about some of these things than most of us dare to admit, because the Bible is a very practical book.

Anyway, this kind of lifestyle, this vision, this emphasis began to spread, especially among students, thinking people. They realized that Jesus Christ in many, many ways was a revolutionary, and God gave us those Indians, and then God gave us some Turks, and then God gave us some Arabs, and the work just continued to explode every summer, every holiday, and then, of course, the year program began to grow from 200 to 400, and now some 800 or 900 young people.

Many failures, many setbacks, many mistakes, and yet a demonstration in the 20th century that these principles we have been talking about, in fact, it's not evangelical talk. It's not something we let go through our heads at a conference and put into our notebook and say, well, isn't it wonderful?

The Christian faith is certainly true, but it's something that gets into our spiritual bloodstream, and we begin to live lives that are different for his honor and for his glory. Well, there's a lot more I'd love to say, some of the things that have happened with the ship.

You just can hardly believe the answers to prayer. Some of the things that have happened in the Muslim world, some of the things that have happened in countries where I can't even give you the name of the country.

I don't know if you knew that the ship had actually visited the Maldive Islands, 99 Muslim, no Maldive Christian, closed country, island. The Ministry of Education sponsored the visit of the ship. 700 New Testaments went out among these people.

The young people started reading this 15 years ago, just in preparation for our visit. Oh, what God did right there in this most closed, forgotten, there is no Christian literature or scriptures in the Maldive language.

Most people don't even know where it is. Actually, it's just southwest off the corner of India. By keeping these things in mind, all the principles we've seen in the life of Paul, all that we've been talking about all week, keeping this in mind, what should we do?

What should we do? I've discovered that this tape is shorter than I thought, and I wonder if anybody has another tape. Do you have another tape? Thank you. We've got one here. Oh, he's just ran. It's a demonstration cassette.

And with these things in mind, all that we've talked about all week, and just as using OM in the way of illustration, and there are many other illustrations we could give from other movements, other people, other spiritual works, other men of God.

Taking Inventory of the Spiritual Life

I think we're now at the stage, and this is my last opportunity to speak with you, where we need to take an inventory. We need to really get personal now in these closing moments and take inventory. We perhaps have been doing this all week, but then let's just do it in the way of review.

Let's ask ourselves some basic questions based on what we've heard from the life of Paul and from the teaching of Paul, which of course we've only touched on considering all that he's given to us. Number one, you may want to make a list of these.

You may want to review this list from time to time. How is my motivation? A .W. Poser said your Christian life can get no higher than the motive that drives it. Your Christian life can get no higher than the motive that drives it.

Paul's saying the love of Christ. We have to pay more attention to motivation. It's so easy, as we mentioned, as we saw, to do things for the praise of men, to be seen by others, we come into a spiritual environment and so of course we tend to be more spiritual.

We get into another environment and we tend to be pushed by that environment. In these days the man who lives for Christ has to be a little bit stubborn. He has to put his foot down and say, here I stand when it rains, when it blows, when the sun is melting and I'm burning up, here I stand, I'm God's work.

Now I know the devil of course can use our stubbornness and I don't think we should be stubborn on minor points. I don't think we should be stubborn in dividing one against the other as Christians. I'm not talking about that so often.

It so concerns me. Christians have so little contact with the world, in reaching out into the world, that they all caught up among themselves, dividing and subdividing and arguing and splitting hairs over every peripheral issue one could ever think of.

The same person who's found blabbing so much at times among Christians, he barely opens his mouth out with people in the world. The fact is he's scared. We get very secure among the saints, but emotionally we're still the same insecure babe in Christ we were 10 years ago.

There's a danger of becoming spiritual monastics. And you know when you get involved with people in the world, you know, just get down, if you have a chance on your way home, those of you going north, would you go through Blackwall Tunnel and spend one half an hour and drive around the east end of London?

Because I want to tell you that is a different world and we need to be conscious of that world. There are areas there where there are tens of thousands of immigrants. And don't look down on these immigrants because it wasn't so many years ago when British people were living in the very same flats and they were living lives just as low and lower.

Don't make the mistake of thinking everything is so bad now, oh if only everything would be like it used to be in Britain. If you say that, obviously you've never studied any history of your country, certainly not Charles Dickens or any other famous historian.

Sin has always been in this country. Hypocrisy has always been in this country. Now the great problem is it's all becoming more legal and more open and it seems, you know, seems to be just bursting out.

So of course in some ways it is getting worse. I would argue against that. When you go back into the white slavery that took place not so many years ago in London and child labor and, oh, if you've read any of the history of London, history is my favorite subject.

It's the word of God. Now we have these masses of immigrants and the way they live, jammed into little rooms and many of these people are very emotional and so every family has desperate needs. Every single family has desperate needs.

They were made pregnant by a boyfriend, which of course is just a normal course of events these days, and the mother, these were probably Greeks, very emotional. The mother visited the boy, married the girl and he wouldn't do it.

She just ignored it. They were in a chip shop and she reached and put the frying pan filled with boiling, boiling oil and poured it on this young man's head. Can you imagine? He ran around in utter screaming and agony for an hour, two hours before he was taken to the hospital and died.

Little family domestic problem. Many of the murders and killings in London, and they're happening all the time. In Detroit, where I had my conference in North America recently, happened within the families.

Now when you start getting involved with people, such as domestic problems, problems you think you have are going to become mighty small. And when Christians are not involved in reaching out into the lives of others, I don't know why, maybe because of an emotional need, then they tend to get involved more in picking other Christians apart.

Oh, look at the speck in Sam's eye. Look at this green and pink and purple speck in Susie's eye. Oh, look at this church down the road here. Do you know what happened at the breaking of bread last Sunday?

Oh, do you know what the deacon's wife has done over there? Did you see that girl? She was there at the breaking of bread and she didn't have a hat on. Christians get all caught up with all kinds of periphery, secondary things.

And some man down the road, five doors down, has just pulled a gun out of the dresser drawer and shot his wife. And if that Christian had done a little door-to-door work and had a little concern for their neighbors, it would have never happened.

It's been our privilege to see in our work many people saved from suicide. Murders have been prevented. You know, when you come on the N .B. Log Office, it's not a group of semi-school graduates. These are rough, tough, semen.

Our chief electrician was only converted at 46 years of age. He lived in such perversion and such sin, such before that, that he cannot talk about it. He's also been mentally ill. And God saved him at 46 and he has one of the most beautiful, solid testimonies on that ship.

He was just sitting in a meeting I took in Southport just a year ago. Nice job, he left the sea, no more of that. Nice job, factory, good pay, walked into my meeting in Southport. And God hit him. Now he's on the ship.

Always had battles. It hasn't been easy. Electrics is the biggest problem we have on the ship. And you know, he's just one of the souls to Christ. God has so used him. Many of these young men have tattoos up and down their arms.

You can't take those off. Our first captain, sailing captain, Bjorn Christensen, he was an alcoholic for 15 years. He was lying in a hospital bed in Norway. He was dead. His heart was enlarged, all kinds of problems because of alcohol.

He'd already been separated from his first wife. Some little nurse said, you know, have faith in God. He's able to work. And he did. He was saved. He was raised up through healing and through surgery.

And he became the first sailing captain on the Navy Live Ops. God is working. God is doing great things in our day. And in the midst of it all, we need to search our hearts and search our motives and move into action.

Love, Compassion, and Engagement With the World

The second question, how is our love and compassion? Actually, I've already got into that. How is our love and compassion? How important it is. Realize this is the crux of the issue. First Corinthians 13, penned by the Apostle Paul.

And I believe as we have love for these people around us, we're going to move. You may say, look, I have to be honest. I don't have love for people. Okay. You and I can join the same club. I don't either.

In myself, oftentimes people put me off. Trees, birds, squirrels, wonderful. Stars, tremendous. Any trouble getting on with animals? I don't know if any of you are in that category. People who say one thing and do another.

People who seem to live in their own little selfish world. And yet I can tell you the day I was born again, something came into me that is supernatural. The Holy Spirit of the living God, the third person of the Trinity and the Bible says that he, the Holy Spirit, plain in my wretched life, is that all these 20 years I have never found a person yet I could not love and by God's grace did not love and like.

Some people say to me, well, I love him, but I don't like him. What do you mean by that kind of schizophrenic remark? Do you love someone? You must be learning to like them. Sure, there may be things that bother you about them, but love covers a multitude of things.