(John - Part 32): If Any Man Will Do His Will, He Shall Know — A.W. Tozer

About the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. And the Jews marveled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

Willingness to Do God's Will

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. Now that verse 17, of course, is the key verse here. And the grammatical position of the word will, fifth word from the end, or fourth word from the end, if any man will, not quite accurate in the King James Version, I think every other translation, as well as all commentators and Bible teachers will explain.

But what our Lord said here was, if any man is willing to do God's will, he shall know. Now I want to speak on that tonight. Sometimes people may ask the question, What do they teach at the Alliance Church that's different from what they teach in any fundamental church?

And the answer can be given very clearly tonight. What we teach, and what we believe to be the Bible, not different from what others teach, but will lay an emphasis where many do not. It will transpire as I go along.

Now when our Lord had been up there teaching, they marveled at him, these Jews, and they said, How does this man know letters, having never learned? How does he know learning? Margin has it, having never learned.

Apparently our Lord, or at least they thought he had never been at school, never had studied in the regular schools. If they had in the regular schools, I think the schools in those days mostly consisted of a rabbi coming and teaching, having little groups that gathered rather than schools as we know them now.

Our Lord evidently had never attended that kind of rabbinical school. So they said, How does he get his wonderful doctrine? Seeing that he had never been to the schools of the rabbis. Now this tells us a good deal about them.

It tells us, for instance, that they held truth to be intellectual merely. They held truth, and you can spell it with capital letters if you please, they held truth to be intellectual merely, capable of being reduced to a code.

And then to know truth was, therefore, it was only necessary that they learn to read the code, that they learn it. And they learned it by memorizing it, reading out loud, and memorizing it. Some of them had no books of their own.

Most of them had no books of their own. They memorized it in school and had it in their memory. And that was their conception of truth. Apparently, not only do I gather that from this verse, but I gather it from the whole book of John.

That their thought about truth was that it was an intellectual thing, just as we know this is true. Two times two makes four. That's true. But it's an intellectual truth. It's the truth of the mind. All you have to do is learn the multiplication table up to two times two, and you've got that.

And they had reduced divine truth to that space. Now, to them, there was no mysterious depth in truth, no nothing beneath and nothing beyond. Two times two made four. Nothing beyond and nothing beneath.

And it was just exactly here where they parted company with our Savior. For our Lord Jesus constantly taught the beyond and the beneath. And they saw no beyond and they saw no beneath. They only saw the two times two made four.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt remember this Sabbath day, keep it holy. Thou shalt, thou shalt not, thou shalt. And then all the rabbis had overloaded this with commentary. And they were all built upon the idea.

I wonder if I should say all. I know that there was a noble group within the larger group that were on the side of the Lord, and they might have not been in this group that I am reducing by generalities to the enemies of Christ.

There were some that were not his enemies. Now, remember this, that these believed, evidently here, that the words of truth are the truth. Now, my brethren, here is a basic mistake in Christian theology.

And it is not simply splitting hairs, no, no. If it were splitting hairs, I wouldn't bother. But it is, because it has a moral and spiritual consequence, it is vastly important. They believed that the word of truth was truth.

That if you had the word of truth, you had the truth. If you could repeat the code of truth, you had the truth. That if you were living by the word of truth, you were living in the truth. And this was exactly where they parted company with our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, our Lord Jesus tried to correct this inadequate view, for it is partly correct, but it isn't fully correct. And he showed the heavenly quality of his message, and showed that he was simply a transparent medium through which God spoke.

He said, my doctrine is not mine. I am not a rabbi teaching doctrine that you could memorize and repeat. What I am giving you is not that kind of doctrine at all. He said previously, I say nothing for myself.

What I see the Father do, that I do. And what the Father speaks, that I speak. And what I have seen yonder, I tell you about. I am a transparent medium through which the truth is being spoken. And you believe that the way to truth is to go to a rabbi and learn it.

But he said, that's not the truth, because that approach to truth is an inadequate approach to truth. And here, it seems to me, is where the weakness lies in modern Christianity. Now, I'm going to tell you something here, my brethren.

And almost this same thing, incidentally, although not the same, but almost the same in essence, will appear in Moody Monthly for January issue. So you see, I'm not too heretical and too far from the track on this.

But nobody else says it, and I wonder why it's not being said. And it's amazing that anybody is saying it, I guess, in this day. But here it is, that the battle line today, the warfare today, is not necessarily between the fundamentalist and the liberal.

Now, there is a difference, of course. The fundamentalist says, God made the heaven and the earth. The liberal says, well, that's a poetic way of stating it. Actually, it came up by evolution. The fundamentalist says, Jesus Christ was the very Son of God.

The liberal says, well, he certainly was a wonderful man, and he's the master, but I don't quite know about his deity. And there's a division between them. But I don't think the warfare is there anymore.

The battle has shifted from that field to another field, now more important. I went some years ago to Gettysburg with some preacher friends, and we walked around and drove around over Gettysburg. And we saw the plaques and explanations given there, and we fought again the old battle of Gettysburg via reading plaques and notices telling us what had happened there.

But nobody had died in Gettysburg for a very long, long time. The battle had come there and been fought and moved on and ended. And the battle of Gettysburg was now a historic fact, something in history, but there was no fighting there.

I heard no boom of cannons. I saw no dead soldiers. I heard no clash of swords. I heard no scream of dying horses. I saw no fight. I only saw where the fight had been. Now, there are those who are still waving their bloody swords over their head with the bloodies dried on it.

There's no fresh blood between liberalism and fundamentalism. It's been settled. Those that are liberals are liberals, and those that are fundamentalists, they know what they believe, and we stand. And the fight isn't there.

Evangelical Rationalism Versus Evangelical Mysticism

But here's where the fight is, ladies and gentlemen. The warfare, the dividing line, is between evangelical rationalists and evangelical mystics. Now, I'll explain what I mean. There is an evangelical rationalism which these Jews have.

They said the truth is in the word, and if you want to know truth, go to a rabbi and learn the word. And if you get the word, you've got the truth. That's evangelical rationalism, and we have that today in fundamental circles as big as my grandmother would say, as big as a sheep.

I don't know why that girl used that figure, but she'd say, devil's in that fella, big as a sheep. And we have that among us, big as a sheep. The doctrine, if you learn the text, you've got the truth.

Now, that's evangelical rationalism. And ladies and gentlemen, it will kill the truth of Christianity just as quick as liberalism will. And it will do it in a more subtle and deadly way. For the liberal stands over there and laughs and says, I don't believe your inspired Bible.

I don't believe your deified Christ. I believe the Bible in a way. It's the record of the high moments of great men. And I believe in a certain mystic communion with the universe, and it's all very wonderful.

But I don't believe as you people believe. You can spot him, you see. You train your glasses on him and there he stands. He's got his uniform on. You can tell he's on the other side because he's got the other uniform on.

But your evangelical rationalist wears our uniform. And he comes right in wearing our uniform and says what the Pharisees, the worst enemies Jesus had while he was on earth. They say, well, truth is truth.

And if you believe the truth, well, you've got it. And they see no beyond. They see no mystic depths, no mysterious heights, nothing supernatural or divine. They see only that I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.

And we've got the text and the code and the creed. And that's the truth. And we pass that truth on to others and they pass it on to others. And we build Bible schools to teach that truth. And we have denominations dedicated to that truth.

And the result is that we die spiritually. And we're dying spiritually. I know there's an awful lot of talk about revival. I understand America is having a revival. It's sweeping us from coast to coast.

The reason I know it is I read the British news. There are British papers. They say so. But they're not over here. I haven't seen it anywhere. And I don't think you have. And I don't know anybody. And I never discovered anybody that did.

I know there are big evangelistic meetings. But the very brethren who are running those big meetings will be the first ones to say, these are not revivals. These are simply evangelism on a big scale. Now, what about the evangelical mystic?

I don't like the word mystic because you always think of a fellow with long hair and a little goatee and acts dream and strange. Maybe that isn't a good word at all. But I mean the spiritual side of things.

That the truth is more than the text. There is something living in there that you've got to get through to. The truth is more than the code. There's a heart beating in the middle of the code and you've got to get there.

Revelation, Illumination, and the Living Word

Now the question is simply this. Is the body of Christian truth enough? Or does truth have a soul as well as a body? The evangelical rationalist says all I talk about the soul of truth is poetic nonsense.

The body of truth is all you need. If you believe the body of truth, you're on your way to heaven and you can't backslide and you'll be all right and everything will be over and you'll get a crown in the last day.

Now otherwise stated, is revelation enough or must there be illumination too? Wars have been fought over this Bible. I don't mean literal wars. I mean verbal wars have been fought over this Bible. Is this Bible an inspired book?

Is it a revealed book or not? And of course you and I believe that it is a revelation that God speak all these words and that holy men of God speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. And I for one believe that this Bible is a living book that God has put in here and that we dare not add to it nor take away from it.

It is revelation. But now the question is not anymore is this revelation? But the question is, is revelation enough or must there be illumination? And the evangelical rationalist says revelation is enough.

And this church says and I say and there's a growing number of people on the North American continent that say it in unison with me, revelation is not enough. There must be illumination within the soul before revelation can get to your soul.

It isn't enough that I hold an inspired book in my hand. I must have an inspired heart. There's the difference. There is coming to our movement a man. I'll not name him now. We hope to have him here. He's coming next April.

There's a man in our movement who was with another society that is with a great missionary, a well-known missionary society. And he was down in the South and got there with the group that believe that, or the rationalists who believe that the truth is enough, the code is enough.

You come and say I believe in Christ, join the church and you're in. And God Almighty met him and came down on him with floods of glory and the wings of love binked over his soul as they did over Phineas and Dave gone by.

He made a trip over to the city of Chicago and came to my study. And he said, Mr. Tozer, I've been lighted out of my society. I've been attacked by men whose only argument, only accusation was that I believe in the miraculous divine element of grace.

I believe not only in grace as being here in the book, I believe that grace must get into the heart. I believe that the new birth is a miraculous act of God within the soul. He said they attacked me on that and told me that was heresy for me to get out.

And who attacked him and who threw him out? Fundamentalists did it. My brethren, evangelicals did it. The evangelical rationalists that says if you but believe, everything is all right. And they did it in that day.

They said, how about this man here? He never sat at a rabbi's feet and he hasn't memorized the text and he doesn't have the truth. And he said, you don't understand. He said, I speak from my father. There is a level of truth you don't know about.

The doctrine above yonder, God's given me and I'm a transparent medium through which that doctrine shines. And said in effect, there is a throbbing soul of truth as well as a body of truth. You can memorize all the Bible and I believe in memorizing.

I do memorize and I believe in it. But you can memorize all the text of the scripture and when you're through you've got nothing but the body. There is a soul of truth as well as a body. There is a divine inward illumination the Holy Ghost must give us or we don't know what it means.

And there's the difference. You say, what's the difference between the Alliance Church and the average fundamentalist? There is one of the differences. The difference we believe in conversion is a miraculous act of God by the Holy Ghost.

And we believe that there must be or something wrought in the spirit that the body of truth is not enough that there must be illumination. That an inspired revelation is not enough there must be an inward illumination.

Now Christ's conflict with the theological rationalists reveals itself in the Sermon on the Mount and the whole book of John. Just as the book of Colossians is a long argument against the Manichaeans and the book of Galatians is a long argument against Jewish legalists so the book of John is a long inspired and passionately outpoured book trying to save us from evangelical rationalism the doctrine that says the text is enough.

Textualism, ladies and gentlemen is as deadly as liberalism. Mere textualism. Now, revelation, I repeat, can't save us. Revelation is the ground upon which we stand. Revelation tells us what to believe.

It's the book of God and I stand for it with all my heart. But there must be, before I can be saved there must be illumination there must be penitence there must be renewal there must be inward deliverance or we're not saved.

I have no doubt in my mind that many people are eased into the kingdom so-called that never get into the kingdom at all. They are jockeyed into believing in the text and they do. But they have never been illuminated by the Holy Ghost they've never been renewed inside their hearts.

They've never been renewed. Now, there's a secret in divine truth altogether hidden from the unprepared soul. This is where we stand in the terrible day in which we live. Christianity is something you reach up and grab but there is a preparation of the soul before a man can believe in Christ savingly.

There's a preparation of the heart that our fathers talked about. There's a preparation of the mind a preparation of the life and a preparation of the inner man before we can savingly believe in Jesus Christ.

Spiritual Discernment Through the Holy Spirit

But somebody says, is it possible, Mr. Tozer, to hear the truth and not understand the truth? Listen, Isaiah 6, 9. Hear ye indeed, but understand not. See ye indeed, but perceive not. Isaiah 6 then says that it's possible to hear and not understand.

It's possible to see and not perceive. 1 Corinthians 2, let me read some here to you. You'll excuse my doing it. I know nobody ever likes to hear anybody read passages. But let me read this to you, what the good old King James Version says.

Paul is writing, it says, My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power in order that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Now the way the theological rationalist understands that is this. He says that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the word of God. Paul didn't say that at all. He didn't say that your faith should stand in the word of God.

He said your faith should stand in the power of God. It's quite a different thing. Albeit, he said, we speak wisdom, but I'll skip that now. Go down to this one. Verse 9, but as it is written, I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of a man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man that is in him?

And in his like manner the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

There we have the man of God saying, I came preaching and I preached with power that would illuminate and get to the conscience and to the spirit and change the inner man in order that your faith might stand in the power of God.

My brethren, your faith can stand in the text and you can be as dead as the proverbial doornail. But when the power of God moves in on the text and God sets the sacrifice on fire, then you have Christianity.

Then we call that revival. Not revival at all. It is simply New Testament Christianity. It's what it ought to have been in the first place and wasn't. So, my brethren, let's remember that there is grave danger in the terrible day in which we live that our faith should stand in the text, that we should believe in belief in place of believing in the truth.

The Son Reveals the Father

Now let us look at Matthew 11. See what he says here, familiar to us all? At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and the prudent and hast revealed them unto babes.

Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son but the Father. Neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

So there we have the doctrine taught plainly that there is not only a body of truth which we must hold at our peril, there is a soul in that body which we must get through to. And if we don't get through to the soul of truth, we've only a dead body on our hands.

The Church can go on holding the creed and the truth for years and generations and grow old and die, and new ones come up and receive that same cold and gold and die, and then some revivalist comes in and fires his guns and gets everybody stirred, and prayer moves God down on the scene, and revival comes to that Church, and people that had only thought they were saved get saved, and people who were only believing in a code now believe in a Christ, and they say that's a revival.

That's simply a coming in of New Testament Christianity. That's what it should have been in the first place. And it's not any deluxe edition of Christianity. It is not any highly spiced up and beautified kind of Christianity, because that is Christianity, right.

That is Christianity. And a man will go along in the Church and believe the text and quote them and memorize them and teach them and maybe become a deacon and get on the board and all the rest of it. Then one day under the fiery preaching of some passing man or maybe the pastor, he'll suddenly feel himself terribly in need of God, and he'll forget all of his past history and go to his knees and begin to pour out his soul like David in confession and will leap to his feet and get up and testify, I've been a deacon in this Church 26 years and I never was born again until tonight.

That happens. That happens, gentlemen. What happened there? Only this happened. That man had been trusting the dead body of truth and he had forgotten that truth had a soul. Then some evangelist or some inspired preacher let him know or maybe God taught him in secret that truth had a soul as well as a body and he dared to get through and push through but penitence and obedience and right living and right doing until God honored his faith and flashed the light on him.

And like a lightning flash out of heaven it leaped in on his soul down from God's heaven above. It leaped to his spirit and all the text he'd memorized now came alive. Thank God he did memorize them and all the truth he knew suddenly now bloomed into life.

That's why I believe we ought to memorize. That's why I believe we ought to get to know the Word. That's why I believe we ought to fill our minds with the psalms and the great hymns of the Church. It won't mean anything to us until the Holy Ghost has come but when he has come then he'll have fuel.

The fire without the fuel won't burn but the fuel without the fire is dead. And the Holy Ghost will not come on a church where there is no biblical fuel. There must be Bible teaching. We must know the text.

We must have the body of truth here. The Holy Ghost never comes into a vacuum. But where the Word of God is and we have the fuel then the fire falls and burns up the sacrifice. Well, let us go on. Jesus said, and here really is the text, Jesus said, If any man is willing to do my will he shall know he shall know the doctrine, he shall know the teaching.

Obedience as the Path to Illumination

Now, this body of truth can be grasped by the average normal intellect. All you have to have is a reasonably good IQ, you know, anywhere up around the 80s, and you'll get the truth all right. You can even stand up before the presbytery or the baptistry.

Isn't that an awful way to use the word? But anyhow, you can come before the examining board and pass all examinations and become a pastor. But you can grasp truth. But brethren, only the enlightened soul will ever know the truth.

And only the prepared soul will ever be enlightened. And what is the preparation? Jesus said, If any man is willing to do my will, the light will flash in on him. If any man will obey me, God will enlighten his soul immediately.

But we make Jesus Christ a convenience. We make him a lifeboat to get us to shore, and then we kiss him goodbye. We make Jesus Christ a convenience, a doctor to help us when we're sick, a guide to find us when we're lost.

We make Jesus Christ a convenience, a doctor to help us when we're sick, a guide to find us when we're lost. And we reduce him simply to a big friend that helps us when we're in trouble. Oh, that's not Christianity.

That's not historic Christianity. That's not biblical Christianity. Jesus Christ is Lord. And if any man is willing to do his will, the truth flashes in on the man. You haven't been willing to do God's will up to now.

Now, tonight you say, I'm willing to do the will of the Lord if I die for it. All right, illumination will start in your heart. That's repentance, my brethren. Repentance is when I have been doing my own will, and I decide to do the will of God, and I tear myself loose from my own will as a vine.

It'll rip loose from the wall. And I turn myself around to do the will of Jesus Christ. And then as I do begin to do the will of Jesus Christ, the light begins to come in. And instead of it being in my head here and now, it gets down into my spirit.

Even so, Father, for so it seems good in thy sight. No man can know the Son except the Father tell him, and no man can know the Father except the Son reveal him. I can know about God, that's the body of truth, but I can't know God, which is the soul of truth, unless I am ready to be obedient.

Somebody called me on the phone. I get an awful lot of phone calls asking me where texts are and so on. And I got a phone call from, oh my, some office here in the city, some evangelical office, and said, I'm about to deliver a talk on discipleship.

Have you got any books on discipleship? And I combed through my mind and I said, I'm sorry to tell you, sir, that I do not have a book on discipleship. I preached on it, and the theme of Keswick was discipleship.

But I said, I don't have any book on discipleship. What is discipleship? It is obeying Jesus Christ and learning of him and following him and doing what he tells you to do, keeping his commandments and carrying out his will.

That's discipleship. And that kind of person is a Christian and no other kind is. But that's why we're in the terrible rut we're in. To find out the condition the Church is in, don't find out whether it's fundamentalist or not.

Find out whether it's an evangelical, rationalistic Church that says the text is enough, or whether it is a Church that says the text plus the Holy Ghost is enough. And this Church believes that before the word of God can mean anything inside of me, there must be obedience to the word.

The Witness of Obedience and the Assurance of Salvation

Truth will not give itself to a rebel. Truth will not impart light to a man who will not obey the light. If we walk in the light as he is in the light, what? We have fellowship one with another in what?

The blood of Jesus Christ, what? Cleanseth him from all sin, for us, from all sin. So there's a walking in the light, there's obeying the word of God. If you're just obeying Jesus Christ, you can't expect to be enlightened.

You can stand on a text and go down and maybe perish. But oh, there's an illumination. I know what Charles Wesley meant when he wrote The Spirit with Answers to the Blood and tells me I am born of God, don't you?

I know, then I didn't have to have anybody come around and tell me. Nobody had to come. The person that has to be told he's saved, a year later somebody may tell him he isn't saved. What kind of a miserable business is that?

No, sir, you can know you're saved. Hath the witness in himself. That's in the text too. That's in the Bible. Hath the witness in himself. That's the witness of the man who is obeying. He shall know, he shall know.

And Christians like that, you can't do anything with them. They're the stubbornest people in the world, that kind of Christian. They're just, they're nice about it, but they're as stubborn as a thousand mules.

They know. You ever have the experience of seeing something happen and then going telling it and being laughed at and kidded and pushed around and one fella tell the other fella that he said that and then they'd all laugh and they thought you'd been dreaming or taken too many aspirins or that you'd been partly asleep, accused you maybe of having your milk spiked, kidding you around.

They didn't believe it, but you'd seen it! And what you'd seen and heard and felt and touched, you knew was true. I was talking about an airplane one time many years ago over in a factory where I worked in Akron, Ohio, many years back, and there was a hillbilly from West Virginia there and he heard that fella talking about airplanes and he said, you can't fool me, there ain't no such thing.

He hadn't seen one and he didn't believe that airplanes were. But I'd seen them, I knew they were. And when once you have seen something, once you've experienced it, all the arguing in the world can't change your mind.

He that is willing to do my will, he shall have a revelation to his own heart, he shall have an inward illumination that will tell him and nobody can change his mind or argue him out of. If a sinner goes to the altar and you send a worker around with a marked New Testament to argue him into the kingdom, two blocks down the devil won't meet him in arguing back out again.

But if he has an inward illumination and he knows it's true because the Spirit answers to the blood and he has the witness within, he can't argue with that fellow, he knows. And he's stubborn about it.

You can bring this argument in, you can bring that argument in, but he says, I know. The fellow that I told this good many times, but in the hope that somebody here didn't hear it, about a happy Christian brother that worked in an office or a factory somewhere and somebody knew his spiritual condition, and he said, now there's a fellow going to argue against your position down here, he's going to lecture, and he's going to lecture proving you wrong.

I said, will you go and hear him? And the Christian said, sure, I'll go hear him. So he went and sat through the lecture, and it was powerful, and buttressed by every kind of argument. And when they were on the way out, the fellow grinned at this happy Christian and said, now what do you think?

Well, he said, the trouble is, I heard this lecture 25 years too late. He said, 25 years ago, God did for me what this fellow says can't be done. You can't argue a man like that out, he knows. He's not bigoted or arrogant, he's just happy, he knows.

The Spirit answers to the blood. And that's revival, ladies and gentlemen. But yet it's not revival either, it's normal Christianity. It's the thing that should be, that's the way we should be. But the text is, if any man is willing to do my will, he shall know.

Self-Renunciation and True Discipleship

But you say, I'm going to take a course at Moody's. I can't attend day, so I'm going to take a course by mail. Listen, and all the time you're holding out on God. All the time you're refusing to follow Jesus.

All the time you're hanging up on some point, something he told you to do and you won't do. And then you're going to take a course and learn all about synthesis and analysis and all the rest. You might just as well read Pogo, for all the courses in the world won't illuminate you inside.

You can fill your head full of knowledge. I'll lend you my Ellicott's new commentary, a wonderful thing. And you can get all the information about the Bible all over the world. But it will be up here.

But the day that you decide you're going to obey God, it will get down here. And you shall know the doctrine, you shall know. You will understand perfectly then. That is it, brethren. And this thing is so important that I don't think too much can be said about it.

Complete self-renunciation. If any man is willing to do my will. Only the servants of truth can ever know truth. Only those who obey can ever have the inward change. Only the true disciples of Christ can ever know Christ.

I stand on the outside and I can know all about it. I'm reading a book now called The Perennial Philosophy. It is a book about the inner life, the inner spiritual life by a man who is not a Christian at all.

He has an amazing penetration. He's sharply intellectual. He's a keen Englishman. And he stands outside and examines spiritual people from the outside. But nothing ever reached him. And you can do that.

And there comes a day when we're ready to obey him. Ready to renounce our own will and obey our God. And then in that day we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free. We shall pass through the outer shell of truth into the inner core of truth.

And suddenly there these things will come alive in us and come awake. And it will be springtime in our spirits. Now remember this. You can't argue around this. And you can read your Bible. You can read any version you want to.