Are You Running for Jesus — G.W. North

Perhaps a fitting climax to these nights in the past when we've been thinking about the great altar and burning for God, amen, that your life should be consumed for God. If I was to say to you how many of you sang that in reality and would be prepared this moment to quit all for that, you would really get on your feet.

I don't mean in the world of never never or fantasy, reality and move with steady pace to its fulfillment instead of one more memorable soon forgotten evening. Just amen. I'll sing it tomorrow night. I thought I was, you know, I'd forgotten I wasn't going to be here tomorrow night and I'm preaching somewhere else and I thought that perhaps tomorrow night again we could sort of be on our theme and there I could sing him then and so on.

But tonight is our last night together. I'd forgotten that. We'll leave this time. Praise the Lord. Turn to scripture and see what God has for us tonight from his word. Speak to you from the book of Galatians, the Galatian letter.

Paul’s Crucifixion with Christ

So far as we know, this is the one letter that Paul wrote with his own hand. He usually used a secretary, as we would say, an amanuensis is the way we talk about it publicly, whatever that may mean. But he dictated his letters, in other words.

But this one he wrote with his own hand. I don't know exactly what that means, but I expect that it means that it's something that's dearer to that. Of course, you know, some people say to me, now you write a lot of letters, wouldn't you like to have a secretary?

Can't you use a dictaphone and all this business? And then in the end it comes down to, but it would lose that sort of personal touch, wouldn't it? Yes, this is what I usually say. Yes, and some letters are far too intimate to share even with a secretary and a mechanical thing that goes by keys.

For they have to deal with great problems and needs. It may be that this was something that was burning in the heart of Paul when he wrote to these Galatians. And in this lovely chapter that we're going to look at, we shall see something of the one known simple, basic truth that he had in his heart and imparted to these people.

Some of you that know me fairly well will also know that I sometimes like to start at the end and work back to the beginning, which I am going to do in this chapter. For it is at the end of the chapter that the whole key to everything he has to say is revealed to us, and it's in verse 20.

I, he says, am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

And this is really the whole of Paul's secret. Glory be to the name of the Lord. He has revealed it. If at all it didn't lie in anointings or all these sort of words that get bandied about us in this charismatic era that we've reached.

All things so far as Paul was concerned was that he had come to a time in his life when he had stood with God against himself and had taken the death sentence on himself completely. He hadn't dodged it.

He hadn't sort of wanted to use Jesus Christ as a way to escape from penalty for sin and banishment forever. He'd seen that God's great giving in Jesus Christ was that he should bring his Christ into a man.

And that he had provided the whole secret at the cross of Calvary. I think that too few people have discovered the great secret of the cross of Calvary. I don't think we really believe it's as great as it is.

I don't think we do. I think that we sentimentalize about it. I think we weave poems around it and all sorts of things. But how few people have come to the great secret of what God accomplished on the cross.

It's an unknown cross. I'm not talking about whether we know it's this sort of shape or whatever it is. That's not what I'm talking about. But the cross to God was something so vast and wonderful. Without it he was bereft of means to fulfill what he wanted to fulfill.

In people's hearts and lives. Hallelujah. And he took the cross principle that had ever lain in his heart. And at last Paul saw it. He came to this place where he saw what God was after. God wanted a power whereby he could put men and women to death without putting them through pains of the body and the flesh.

Without having their bodies impaled on a cross. Without having them crowned with thorns. He found this way of bringing men and women full of self and self ambition. Man and woman and bringing them to an utter end of that kind of existence.

For existence it is and what a miserable existence at that. And releasing men from the bondage of self of in this marvelous way whilst retaining the personality intact to deal with their core of self centeredness which is the root of all sin.

It's the breeding ground for all sin and whilst it remains in a man or a woman for all the blood that God shed and for all his grace to forgive and for all his mercy he could never get through to bringing that man or woman into a clear place where he or she can be what God wants them to be.

For they are to be a transcription of Jesus Christ in the world. The whole marvelous revelation of the cross is for this. There had to be a place for redemption. There had to be a place for bloodshed.

There had to be a place and a time for dealing with all that. But these were only means to an end. That Christ may come and dwell inside a man or a woman taking up his abode there. So that man that woman now I hope you're listening to this because this is the key and the center of everything that God is doing.

That man or woman from that time should live an entirely Christ centered life. By the change that takes place you know it by everything that happens you know the way their life is geared from that moment.

You know the way they move up. You know they don't come on to some idea that's moving about in a generation. They have got the revelation of the word. The eternal word. They have to learn what's happened to them.

They have to be taught of God. That's a great thing. There always has to be a beginning. When a man or a woman is born of God then they don't know anything. This is one of the tremendous things. They don't know anything yet of this great kingdom into which they've come.

Learning the Christian Life from God

One of the greatest obstacles to people living the Christian life is that they think that if they get saved when they're say 25 then they are 25 years old and they're not. And they think they know something and they don't know anything.

And you see a baby it's alive and you give a baby a rattle. You know it's a rattle but you've got to tell that baby it's a rattle. It's a rattle. It's a rattle. It doesn't know it's a rattle. You have to tell it it's a rattle.

It doesn't know you see. And neither do you. You have to be told. You have to be taught that the things you've got in your hand if you like. The things you've received you have to be taught what they are.

If only people would believe that they said such if they come and say when they're 40 they think they know a lot. They will not receive the fact that they don't know anything. They won't receive that.

And it's this carnal mind that comes to bear on spiritual reality that ruins the life. Amen. And nobody at least few there are who accepts the great truth that they shall be all taught of God. Nobody believes that.

And that's the fundamental thing in the new covenant. Every man has to be taught and taught of God. But you see if you get born again when you're 35 or 25 or perhaps even 15 now you've read so many books you think you know something.

You don't know anything. I mean you've read Watchman Me. You've read all these books. You think you know something. You don't know anything. If only men and women would believe that. If only men and women would come to the basic secret that's revealed in this verse.

I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me in the life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Amen.

First of all to know that you've come to love and you've been wonderfully loved and before you believed about it now you'll know it because he's living inside and he's your living love inside and you're all aware of it.

Amen. It's not something you're trying to pull down out of the skies. It's not something you're trying to extract from adverse circumstances. You'll know it. Doesn't matter if the devils confront you or the world turns upside down.

Whether you lose everything you've ever gained you should have already accounted it loss anyway. Doesn't matter whether your business collapses whether your wife dies whether your husband turns bad on you whether your children go renegade.

Doesn't matter whether England goes from bad to worse. Don't matter. Inside loving you. That's the first. That's the basic operation of it all. He is living inside and he's loving you on the inside and what does it matter what happens outside much.

That's the basic thing. How did you get there Paul? Oh I was crucified with Christ. I submitted. I yielded. I gave myself up to this to die with him. Glory be the name of the Lord to die with him. Oh I don't enter the cross.

I don't come on the cross at the point of redemption from sin. I don't come there. I don't come there coming there via betrayal and via the whipping post and via the denial and via the bloodstained way.

I don't come that way. I don't come there via buffeting spitting scorning shaming. I don't come that way. That was exclusively Jesus's way. Everything that he did in the flesh in the body was exclusively his way.

But what he did in the spirit beloved was your way. Join him there that he died as you and how many of us believed it. God doesn't think we've believed it unless we have joined it and he believes we've believed it.

It's a great place to come. You see that you've been crucified with Christ and you're not trying to believe something positionally but you've entered into it experimentally. Too much has been built on positional presentation of truth.

It has to be taught us to come to the glorious place of identification with the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm crucified with Christ. The way you can come into this life is to be crucified into it. Nevertheless I live.

You've got to be crucified in the life. You cannot live it. You cannot experience it. You cannot know it. Life as God talks about life. I cannot know this and as I go God's way into it. He lives in me and then of course it's all tremendously here it's not my responsibility.

When I'm at this place I'm going to talk about responsibilities in a moment. But where I start it's not my responsibility. Now I'm not struggling to believe this or that or the other. Here comes some chap called Northeast.

Got white hair. He thinks he knows everything. He tells you this that and the other. Says you should believe this and you should believe that and you should believe that you see. And all the time you don't try to live by believing this and believing that and believe the other.

You live by what Jesus believes. Living in you. And you live by his faith. The faith of the son of God who loves me gave himself to me. I'm living by his faith. I have no responsibilities here. It's entirely his.

He has to be in me so powerfully that he exerts his lordship over me. That his personality dominates my personality. His faith comes from me. If he can't teach me his faith he's a failure. He's the world's success.

He's God. He lives in me. He communicates his faith to me so that I find living easy. The best thing it is to be able to live like that. Are you living like that? The son of God loved me. It wouldn't have been much love if he knew all he did was outside cracking a whip saying come on believe this now.

Get on believe that. That's not love. I might think I was a horse trained in a circus. He comes inside. He lives in there. He communicates in the way he knows. In the way he only can do. His faith to my heart.

And then if I live that way I only believe the things he believes. I'm not struggling to believe what some say. Oh so and so this so and so that. Now we all want to believe. Nothing is more crushed and condemned because you can't believe what some here brain fellow is saying or what some somebody's putting out here.

You ought to believe. Look at so and so's book you see. And all this business. Beloved you start to live not by so and so's book but by God's book. Son of God. He gave himself for me. I'm living by his faith.

Now he knows me. He loves me. He's not going to start saying he loves me. He knows what I can take. How much I can take. Like mothers I see them. Because the fellowships are so young. So I meet girl meets boy.

They get married. They have babies. And then you see you see mothers measuring out bottles and shaking them up. Put the top on. And I go two ounces six ounces. It's no good giving them a steak and kidney pie.

He knows they know exactly what. Basically he's loving. Wonderfully he's faithful to you. And you will live by his faith. If you will only think that you know nothing. Let him teach. The biggest hindrance to God amongst Christians is what they know.

But the Bible never holds out what you'll know.

It's who you'll know.

Christ living in him. That's the intimacy of knowledge. Praise God. And now this is a wonderful thing. And this is how it all starts. And I want to point this out to you. The next verse. The next phrase in the first phrase in the next verse.

Not Frustrating the Grace of God

I do not frustrate the grace of God. Now you have frustrated God's grace. Now he'd be very gracious to you. But you're frustrating his grace. Unless you let him come through to this position in your life.

And therefore you are frustrating his purposes. Would you? You'll never burn out for him. Never. Unless you go right through with his great grace. Are you there? It's more than grace just to forgive you.

It's absolute grace that he'd live in you. Or me. What is that him we used to see? I wonder what he saw in me to suffer such deep agony. Oh the love that sought me. Oh the blood that bought me. Oh the grace that brought me to them.

Are you there beloved? Is Christ living in you? It's a dream unless you are crucified. He's not prepared to share your heart with you. He's got to be there. He's not prepared to share your life with anybody.

Not on these realms. Bless the name of the Lord. All right. Now once you got there. You've made a start. And now we've got to finish at a certain time. So I must keep my eye on my watch. Half past nine o 'clock is it all right?

I'll try and be through in time. Let's go. But you see the Bible is so full of truth. However can you? I mean if I preach day and night now if I died. I'd just about get through a chapter I think if I really concentrated.

Here is the great truth of God. Let's move on. I want you to look with me now in verse 17. Where Paul is speaking. He says if while we seek to be justified by Christ. We ourselves also are found sinners.

Is therefore Christ the minister of sin? Now if you've got to this great place. You have to realize that Jesus Christ is not the minister of sin. If he's in you he will not minister sin to you. So now you will know who's in you.

He is not the minister of sin. Glory be to God. He does not allow sin. He never sinned himself and he won't allow you to. He never told lies of any color or description. He never compromised with the evil to save his job.

Or to retain a comfort a customer. Or anything like that. He beloved. He was absolutely free of sin. And he's the one that's come to live in your life. Oh glory. Lord you won't minister sin to me. Isn't this a marvelous thing.

Listen the person that lived in there prior to him ministered sin to you. Sin was ministered in your own heart. You hadn't a chance in the world. You fell every time because he that was living inside was ministering sin.

In your own heart and in your own life. What a dreadful state. And what's this great cross for? To get rid of him. The minister of sin. Get him out of you. Hallelujah. Let the minister come in from God.

Let the minister come in. Jesus Christ with his marvelous ministry. He'll minister to you all the basic things of his natural life. When I mean natural I mean naturally God. What he will minister to you beloved.

Talk about a foundation for holy living. Oh God mine eyes thy holiness have seen. Did you see God's holiness? The standard of it. The glory of it. The sweetness of it. The attainability of it. It was at that time that I told you tonight when I met this great stanza.

This hymn. Oh my heart loved it. Amen. Praise God. He's come to minister to you righteousness, holiness, faith, rest, high. He's come to minister these things to you. Inside here. Not here. Here. And inside your glory be to the name of the Lord.

You've got a minister in you as well as a Lord. What kingly grace. What princely love. He's living in you. Let's move on. Why every one of these verses is worth a night's preaching is it? I think so anyway.

And we'll look again. Listen look at verse 18. If I build again the things which I destroyed. I make myself a transgressor. When did you ever come to a place in your life when you went in for destruction.

Total and universal destruction in the whole of your life. When did it ever come to you? Isn't this the tragedy of people? No destruction. The destructive power of the cross is phenomenal. And unless you and I see this.

We're going to miss the positive side of it. The wonder of it all. Hallelujah. Have you ever had a great destruction? Where was I? Oh I remember out in Canada. When I was out there last fall as they say.

Fall it's an ominous word isn't it? It's a theological term. But that's when I was out there. And we had some meetings in this place called Stouffville. And some young men came. There was a young man.

He'd been brought by somebody else. He wanted to see me afterwards. We found a quiet spot. We got up in the corner. And he went through all his stories. I said yeah you've been in drugs haven't you? He said yes.

I said you've been in contact with evil spirits. And he said yes. And he went right through. And boy he looked it. He looked freaked out. He got beads around his neck. And something hanging on here. And chains and bangles.

He looked more like a woman than he did a man. God give us some masculine men. They'll never be like Jesus Christ. These men. Jesus Christ was a man. And a he-man. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Men trying to look like women.

Because of some freakish ideas they've got. Soft. He got all these beads, bangles, jingles and jangles and troubles. So I said to him, are you wanting to be freed? Do you really want to get free? He said yes.

I said then take those things off your neck. He went. I believe I've still got some of the remnants of it in my case. Lots of. Out they went. Off they came. Destruction. You're not surprised he got free are you?

God cast the devils out of him. Made him a new man. He got to a place. Destruction. That destroyed the image of the life in which he'd be living. People are building up an image. And presenting an image.

Glory be to the name of the Lord. He destroyed it. Now listen. If you're going to be a man. That's going through with God and you women too. You must not build again the things that you've destroyed. Now start thinking back in your life.

Especially if you've been saved a long time. Have you started to build again the things you've destroyed? Because when God came to you it was such a dynamic work. And they all started to creep back. Didn't you see that all the unclean things in the sheet.

That Peter saw contained creeping things of the earth. The creeping things. They're not only great roaring lions that come to frighten you. There are creeping things. They creep back into your life. And the things that once you denounced and renounced and got clear of.

There they are. They're in your home. They're in your life. Now if you build again the things that you've destroyed. Thou destroy the glory of the life that you say you've received. No more building in old materials.

Hallelujah. Ouch. A lot of it. Think of that hymn of Jesse Porter Heads. A clatter. The rubbish that people have got. Thinking they're going to build this up. Into something for God. You're building a tomb.

And you're the one that will lie in it. Nothing of that. You don't build anything. Jesus Christ is not the minister of sin. And he will not build in any materials that he has destroyed at the cross. None of them.

And you mustn't do it. If you're going to live for Christ. By the time we're through tonight. You will be able to measure up and see whether you've ever really begun to live for Christ. You will know whether or not you are a born again Christian.

Or whether you aren't. Or whether you were once really born of God. And now look at you. Now the Lord has got to have this thing down on a real foundation. Do you remember the story of the Ephesians? You do don't you?

Destruction of Occult Practices

That Paul went there to preach this glorious gospel. All sorts of things went on at Ephesus. They worshipped Diana of the Ephesians. They had great astrologers and stargazers. And I don't know what prognosticators.

They had men that knew how to get in touch with the devil. Mediums. Witches. Wizards. They had great books written about them. Mighty tomes. And then God moved in. Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.

And something happened there when that man Paul went on. And it happened so really. Beloved that all these people that were in power over people's hearts and minds. Oh how terrible is this lust for power.

That dominates people's hearts and minds. I'll do anything to have power over their fellow men. Or power here or power there. Hellish power.

I'll do anything. These men were men of power.

But when Christ came beloved. They went home and got all their books and bought them all out. And burned them. All the recipes for deviltry. All the spells for black magic. All the lot. Burned them. Burned the rubbish all together.

Glory be to the name of the Lord. When did this devastating phase. When did this real power come to your life. When did it happen. Put your finger on the time in your life man or woman. If you can't it's never come.

Not feeble believing. Crying out of the dust. That's where we start. Oh God hear me. Oh God help me. Lord come. Lord I believe you. Lord forgive me. Yes that's where we start. But glory be to God when he comes.

You're in the dust and see what power does. He makes Adam out of the dust. He's into him. He's up. And he's a king in creation. That's power to you. When did it reach your heart like that. You see if you lived in a foreign country.

Now we've got Paul and Di here tonight. I dare say they'll back me up. I hope they don't let me down on this. I won't call on them. I'll see by their faces whether they agree or disagree. But if you lived in a foreign country.

I mean you know say India or some of these other countries. Where they they're animists and worship false gods. And they're you know idolaters. And Muslims and all these other people. When they come to Christ beloved.

They are expected to make a clean sweep. Amen. And they do. Hallelujah. They make a clean sweep of it. Praise the name of the Lord. And they're liable to be found at the bottom of a well. Between a knife between their shoulders too.

For doing it. It's no soft thing. It's soft in England. It's real. And they're expected to make the break. They're expected to come and get baptized in water. They're expected to come and make a stand for God.

But Englishmen oh no. You just carry on. This is your boy. Topic of conversation. Now my beloved brothers and sisters. Don't you let the devil deceive you. You have got to go in. And this is what you have to do.

You've got to make a great destruction. You've got to do it. He comes in as I said. That's his responsibility. Now it's your responsibility. Out it goes. Hallelujah. And the blueprint of it in your mind.

To which you've been moving your life for the last 10 -20 years. Has got to go too. The things written in ambition. That great driving power inside you. All got to go. Hallelujah. How do you know whether God's going to radically change your life.

Within the next 12 months. And want you somewhere else. Here then is the tremendous thing. You've never seen the great demands of Jesus Christ on your life. He's not the minister of sin. He won't dance to your tune.

He won't fit into your ideas. You understand it. He ministers the glorious things of God. Amen. Let's go right on then shall we. Why this is tremendous thing. Remember in verse 16. We speaking as a Jew.

Here to Jews. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law. Verse 16. But by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus Christ. That we might be justified by the faith of Christ.

And not by the works of the law. For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. You've got to remember this. That no works that you can do. Will ever bring you to justification in the sight of God.

You must not attempt to live to justify yourself. In the sight of God or in the sight of men. That's the proof. One of the great proofs that you've been crucified with Christ. For the human spirit loves to justify itself.

For what it does. It loves to vindicate itself. That's what it will do. This is the proof that the death has taken place. No self justification. Amen. Look at Jesus. He goes as a lamb to the shore. He doesn't even seek to raise his voice to justify one thing he's done.

You read. Through his trial. And death. And sin. He never justifies anything. Hallelujah. He says I ever spoke openly asked him. That's right. I did this. I just asked him. Never, never. Beloved. Here's the proof that the work of Christ has been wrought in your heart.

And if you stop justifying yourself. You wouldn't have been having that argument with your husband. And you wouldn't have had this argument with your wife. Or with your parents. Or with your boss. Well, he was doing this.

That there's no excuse for you to do it. No, of course, there has to be reasonable explanation. Here then is the root of the things that divide ham homes and families. Self justified vacation. Vindicate yourself.

Clear your name. No. As I said this morning. If you tend to live to your name. You'll go down in the dust where your name belongs. So share the Lord. Show us the real truth. Let them say what they say.

Let them do what they want to do. Glory be to God. Justification for your heart must come from God. Amen. We're justified by the faith of Jesus Christ. What a marvelous thing it is. Let's move on again.

Walking Uprightly According to the Gospel

Verse 14. Perhaps we'd better start a bit earlier. Verse 11. When Peter was come to Antioch. That was Paul's base, you know. I withstood him to the face. Because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James.

He, that is Peter, did eat with the Gentiles. But when they were come. He withdrew and separated himself. Fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him. In so much that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly. According to the truth of the gospel. I said unto Peter before them all. If thou, being a Jew. Livest after the manner of Gentiles. And not as do the Jews.

Why compelst thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? Hallelujah. Listen. You must walk uprightly. You got to walk uprightly. In every situation. Before all people. Are you walking uprightly? If you're not upright.

Then you're crooked. Bent. Twisted. You and I must walk in righteousness before everybody. Are you walking uprightly? Uprightly. I didn't say stiff and starchy. Uprightly. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Are you upright in your business transactions? Are you upright in your shopping dues? Are you upright in your family? In your work? Do you walk uprightly? Before your neighbors? Before your children, your parents?

Do you walk uprightly? Hallelujah. Now the Lord insists that you walk uprightly. And you got to walk uprightly as this verse says. According to the truth of the gospel. Not according to the set of cronies that you mix with.

You got to walk uprightly. Praise God. Before everybody. Hallelujah. Chiefly before the Lord. Before your subordinates. And before your insubordinates. You've got to walk uprightly. Everywhere. Are you doing that?

Hallelujah. These are simple fundamental things of the Christian life. And God knows nothing more powerful to get you upright than the cross. That's straight up enough. When the old bent, crooked, twisted, perverted self has been crucified.

Hallelujah. That'll put your back up straight. Get nailed on that cross. It's true that it is beloved. For us to understand what the Lord is saying to us. Now you see. It's so important. And to Paul it was so important.

That he was prepared to go into contention with Peter. Now this is something at apostolic level. You may often have wondered about these verses saying. Well fancy that. Paul rebuking Peter. Now if you come from a certain background.

You may not like this. You might think it was Peter always putting everybody right. But Paul put Peter right. And the great thing about Peter was this. That he even led another apostle astray. And that was the apostle Barnabas.

For Barnabas was an apostle too. And they were carried away by Peter. Now why did Paul rebuke Peter? Well you say because he did this and did that. No no. It wasn't just that he did. It was never never really the things that he did.

And they never are the things that you do. They are dealing with the reasons why you do them. That's the most important thing. Now then why did Paul rebuke Peter? Was it a temporary slip up? No. I'll tell you why.

I've already drawn your attention to it tonight. There was a time in Peter's life when God came to him on a rooftop. And he let down from the heavens a sheet. In which were all these creepy things. And all the unclean things.

And it was God's way of showing that there was no difference between the Jews and the Gentiles. And he'd had a revelation from God. But he'd gone back on his revelation. That's why God rebuked him. That's why Paul rebuked him.

He'd gone back on his revelation. I know many people who've done that. They've gone back on the revelation that God has given them. Paul says I rebuked him before the morning. Now you must not go back on your revelation.

You mustn't think you know it all. God adds revelation to revelation. But you must not go back on any one of them. Amen. When people go back on the revelation that God gives them. They carry other people along with them.

Barnabas had never had Peter's revelation. Though he was an apostle. There's great difference between men on apostolic level. I don't want to discuss that now. But here then is the tremendous truth for all our hearts to understand.

You've got to go on with God. It's progress all the way. And you've got to walk uprightly. You haven't got to do anything beloved. That's at all hypocritical. This word dissimulation is the same word as hypocrisy.

Say was Peter a hypocrite? He was acting hypocritically at that moment. Paul says so. They were carried away through this kind of action. Why? Fear. Afraid. You haven't got to be afraid of what he thinks.

Or what she thinks. Or whether this group accepts you. Or whether that group doesn't. You must walk uprightly according to the revelation that God has given your man. It's an entrustment from God. Hallelujah.

Walk while you have light. Walk in the light. That's what Jesus says. Keep walking. Let's move on again. Oh, this is a tremendous thing. Let's look right up higher. And in verse 9, talking about James and Cephas and John.

See these great apostles. Got a great array of apostolic names here. Paul, Barnabas, Peter. John. James. Well, it says they seemed to be pillars. Well, praise God. Now, this is another thing. Listen. You don't go.

I'm talking to beginners. Because all you older ones can listen to me too. We don't mind them listening to me. They know a lot. But here's the tremendous thing. Listen. A man has to seem to you to be what he is.