Lookout mtn.conference 1973-06 Philippians — Stan Ford

Paul as a Pilgrim in Philippians 3

11 verses, Paul as a pastor. We saw that man as he was reflected, and then we saw that Paul as a prisoner, and we saw him rejoicing. And then we saw Paul as a preacher, and we heard him requesting. When we come to chapter 3, it seems to me that here we have Paul as a pilgrim.

The Pilgrim’s Journey From Vileness to Transformation

He starts off in a very real way in this scene of vileness and wickedness. He speaks of dogs as evil workers, and he takes us on through life's journey until that blessed day when the Christ shall come who shall change our vile bodies.

There on the pilgrim journey, the Apostle unfolds the pains that he must face, and the desires that he has. You and I on the pilgrim journey, again and again, have also to face that which is claimed of us as a Christian.

Rejoicing in the Lord and Warning Against False Teachers

Really, brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same thing to you, to me indeed, is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision, for we are the circumcision which worship God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh, if any other man thinketh that he hath, whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more. Circumcise the eighth day of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, and Hebrew of the Hebrews, was touching the law a Pharisee.

Concerning theo, prosecuting the church, touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gained to me, those things I counted last for Christ. Yea, and doubtless, and I count all things that last for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things.

And do count then, but done, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is to the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith, that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His being made conformable unto His death, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Jesus Christ. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press towards the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

May the Lord bless you with the reading of His own precious words. It seems to me, when I turn to this third chapter of this very wonderful letter, that there are so many things the apostle is bringing before me.

As a pilgrim, he looks ahead, and looks around, and looks back. First of all, it seems to me that what he brings before us is that he tells us what he has learned about his enemy. It's good for us to be told that.

It's good for us to be reminded that the Christian pathway is not a pathway of pleasant ease. Again and again, that which is used as the simile of a saint, is that of a soldier, a warrior, a fighter. And there are enemies that we have to contend with.

And so Paul starts off, it seems to me, by telling us what he has learned about his enemy. He continues to tell us how he lives by the Spirit. Then he goes a further step, and having told us what he learned, and tells us how he lives, then he goes on and tells us how he leaves his path.

He tells us what he has learned, and how he lives, and what he leaves. He goes on to tell us, for the pains he longs. Of course, every one of you gather the words I'm going to use to close. Looking forward to that blessed day, when he shall change this body of humiliation, the apostle says, surely, I want you to understand what I'm looking for.

Firstly, then, he starts off by telling us what he's learned of his enemy. And he dares to say, my fellow brethren, rejoice in the Lord. What a wonderful statement to commence a talk concerning his enemy.

He doesn't say fear, he doesn't say be afraid, he doesn't even say watch in this particular point. But he says rejoice, and rejoice in the Lord. Then he says, these are your enemies, beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision you feel about it, brethren and sisters.

An Unclean Character and Unscriptural Doctrine

But, it seems to me, when we think of these three things that are mentioned, that first of all, we have brought before us the fact that our enemies are those who have an unclean character. He tells us about their unclean character, and he doesn't make matters, he doesn't try, because he thinks to be gracious, to cover over their character.

He says they're dogs. It is in the minds of most of you, as we take this word upon our lips, that which was written by Peter, that which was written by the wisest man, and yet the most foolish man in the Old Testament.

You will remember that when Peter writes of dogs, he writes of those that he dares to call those that are false. He quotes from the wisest words that were spoken by the wisest fool, and he dares to remind us that, just as a dog is turned to his own vomit again, so, indeed, do false teachers turn to their falsehoods.

It's not necessary, really, for me to say it is, that the dog returns to its vomit for one reason, and one reason only. The dog returns to its vomit because it's a dog, because it's a dog. It's its character, and it's an unclean character.

Whenever there are wises among God's people, or there are wises in an area, false teachers, and we'll soon see they're false teachers, there have arisen in our day and generation a large company of men and women who dare to stand at almost every street corner, at almost every doorstop, and tell us that Jesus is not God.

They dare to say that he was nothing more than like all the archangels. They dare to deny every principle of holiness of them, that they are false teachers, and their character is a dog character, and I apologize to no one for making that statement, when a person comes and attacks the personality of my Saviour.

Tell us that, really, that doctrine doesn't matter. What matters is duty, and I think I have spoken enough here for you to realize that I believe that duty and doctrine are linked together. If a man is wrong concerning his doctrine, it will not be long before he's wrong concerning his duty.

Speak of this particular class, when you see those who deny God, is it not long before their uncleanness will be seen? And I need not remind you that there are countless numbers of children who have died, and adults who have died, because these people have refused the very simplest of medicine to them.

The unclean character springs from an unclean doctrine. He goes further, and he speaks not only of their unclean character, and he calls them dogs, but he speaks of their ungodly conduct, as he speaks of evil workers.

Evil workers! If the church at Pillow Pie, as they heard him speak, or read that which he wrote, I wonder if the church at Pillow Pie remembered the time when he walked down through the main street of their town.

Even true, even in error, they remembered how he rebuked the evil spirit that was in the town. The remarkable fact, which you know this of course, is the remarkable fact that the Apostle Paul was driven out of many cities by Gentiles.

On one occasion, he was driven out by Jews, and both the occasions when he was driven out by Gentiles, it was because of money. The Jew would say to Brother Harry, you know, we both say you would think that it's Jews that would drive us out because of money, but here were Gentiles, and these Gentiles saw that they had lost their worldly gain.

They had this man cast into prison, and eventually... Evil workers! Brethren and sisters, I dare suggest to you, that maybe, you know, it broke our heart, didn't it? It did mine. It's rather shocking.

I don't know how you stood up and told us this, but in a Christian convent, someone would break into a convent... A little straight words from you young folks, you say, but I want to have a little straight word with you.

As a Christian, not as an Englishman, but as a Christian, I've been on that list on one or two occasions, and I've listened to some of the way you young people have talked to the girl who takes you up and down.

None of you say please, and I've only heard two or three of you say thank you. So you say, why the young folk? Well, I'll tell you why, because I haven't heard an older person not say please, or an older person not say thank you.

You young folks here, this is a Christian conference, and I'll tell you the first thing I found out when I was converted, and by if ever you saw a rough punny upon it, the first thing I learned when Jesus saved me was that he expected me to be a gentleman.

I haven't always succeeded in God's forgiveness. One of the characteristics, and one of the characteristics of being a Christian, is that we shall be godlike. The apostle starts off and says, these are the enemies of the church, those that come in, those that come in and they have an unclean character, and they have an ungodly conduct.

And listen, something more, he says they have an unscriptural creed. Listen what he says, beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. They have a creed that's unscriptural. ...to bring, or they would try to bring, there into the church of Phillipi, there which was the home in which we lived, brethren and sisters.

Is it not a fact that we ought to be looking at our enemies? We know how to deal with them then, don't we? I don't know very much about it. Maybe I don't know much about it now, but there was a time when I did know a little bit about fighting.

And I'll let you into a secret. Whenever I knew that I had to get up in front of another man, my brother who looked after me, he'd find out all he could about it. And many a time we'd try and see a past film of his fighting.

Who would I have been if I'd have stood up in front of a man to try and fight him without knowing all I thought about him? In our Christian experience, in our local assembly, in our church, in our witness of God, let's have a look.

Let's see our enemies, and let's remember they have an unclean character, an ungodly tongue. Let's beware. But then, having told them of what he's learned about his enemies, now he tells them of how he lives by the Spirit.

Worshiping God in the Spirit

He dares to say that for us who love the Saviour, for you Christians of great wonder in Phillipi, and for me, though I be in a prison in Rome, never let us forget that we have a new approach, for we worship God in the Spirit.

Oh, a new approach. If it not now along lifts the breeze, if it not now drains my heart, but now from our spirit there rises to God with the aid of Jesus, which is acceptable to heaven. Did not the Lord Jesus say to the woman at the well, the Father seeketh such to worship him?

And they that worship him must worship him. If you and I come to know Jesus Christ as our Saviour, then the first thing we've got to do is to realize that we live by the Spirit, for we have a new approach to God.

We worship him not just to the lip, not just to our creed, not just to the fulfillment of certain requirements in the particular fellowship with which we gather. We worship him. We have a new approach to God, then he tells us we have a new allegiance.

A New Allegiance to Christ

Our allegiance is not now to our city. Our allegiance is not just now even to our country or to our family, although with all my heart I believe in allegiance to one's city and to one's country and to one's family.

I believe the 13th of Romans is still in the Bible. Some time ago in the city for me to visit the mayor, the Lord Mayor. Down to the, what we would call the city hall, I went in company with two or three of the elders.

The mayor's secretary informed me that at a certain time I would be ushered in to his august presence. The following day when I went, the little man sat there with his gold chain around his neck. He started to tell me how good he was, you know.

I mean, he was the mayor of the city of Swansea and he was the president of the old age and he was a member of the Baptist church and he went to the pleasant Sunday afternoon. You know, the parishing sinner has awakened.

It should have been, but it's not. And along he went. He told me I had five minutes, he took, and they told me I only had 15 minutes with him. And I got set up. And after he carried on for five minutes, I just butted in.

I said, you'll excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but I came here to read the scripture to you, sir. Would you mind just sitting there for a moment while I read the word of God? And I took out the Bible and I read the 13th of Romans.

You know, I can see him now as he roams and he gets him in his gold chain. I reminded him that the powers that be were ordained of God. It wasn't just the electors that put him there. I believe beyond it all was the hand of God.

And after speaking to him for two or three minutes.

Along this line, I said that, Mr. Mayor,.

The chapter closes with these words, sir. Touch ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh. As simply as I know how, I sought to protect Jesus Christ. The powers that be are ordained of God.

I dare say that every one of you young men and young women who sometimes feel that you want to rise against establishment,.

You need to read again the 13th of Romans.

Then I want you to understand this, that our greatest allegiance is not to our king or to our country or to our city or even to our family. Our greatest allegiance is to the one that we should put on, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Here the apostle dares to say, we have a new approach, but we have a new allegiance. We rejoin in Jesus Christ. I bet you good Americans get a bit fed up with us English folks sometimes, don't you? Yes, I know it.

I don't mean to say I don't like it, but of course you do. I mean, I know this. I can't help it. You know, I'm always sort of voicing in the fact that I'm an Englishman. I won't tell you what we think of you when you come to our country.

I only know this, that isn't it wonderful for us to rejoice in Jesus Christ? Oh, that we're brethren and sisters in the Lord. I think this is one of the loveliest things.

That we could ever, ever say, that we have a new approach,.

For we worship him in the spirit, and we have a new allegiance, for we rejoice in Jesus Christ the Lord, and we have a new attitude. We have no confidence in the flesh. Isn't that wonderful? We have no confidence, a new attitude entirely.

No Confidence in the Flesh

Why? We're living in a day when folk have so much confidence in the flesh, aren't they? Brethren, sisters, please. I've worked, as many of you know, quite a number of months in the gear among undergraduates in Cambridge, and I am not an academic.

I don't profess to be, but every time I stand in the university, and I'm the only non-academic that has preached a university sermon in Cambridge for 40 years, and I don't say that boastful. Whenever I stand, I always start off by saying I am here not because I have qualifications to be here.

I am here because you have invited me to be here. The day you stop inviting me will be the day I stop cunning, and yet I go every year. But I want to say this, as I have said to them a score of times.

I don't know why it is that we are living in a day that we imagine a man has the right to preach the gospel on our platform because he's got a PhD in some subject. Ultimately, you're the finest engineer in the world, but that gives you no qualification to stand here and preach the gospel.

The greatest list of letters after your name that prove you to be a man of clear thinking and great ability, but it's not that that gives you the right to stand and tell men and women of Jesus Christ, it is this, that we have no confidence in the flesh.

You've gathered. You know, I'm glad I gather with a cup of your graces, ladies. Oh, I love all those that love me. Oh, God, deliver me from error during lesson. I went home to England some time ago. After having spent a great amount of my time.

Among men that were great academics,.

Many of them wonderful theologians, some of them the books they have written on your book, case has you, I went down to a little meeting at the slopes of the Blackdown Hills in Somerville. It's just a little place, there's a pub.

I presume it's the first after religion. But nevertheless, this Lord's Day morning in the dear brother row, I was brought up in the school where we were holy priests before the breaking of bread and royal priests after the breaking of bread.

You know something about that. Where before the breaking of bread, there was no ministry at all. We were there to offer our sacrifice of praise to God. After the breaking of bread, royal priests, you had something for the saints.

Now I do not see that line of demarcation as clearly as my brethren did, but it has left a mark that I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've ever taken part before the breaking of bread in ministry.

But this Lord's Day morning, just a handful of us, I felt desperately constrained, almost as though the spirit was pushing me. And I rose to my feet and I opened my Bible into the 19th of John and I read those tremendous words.

Do you remember how it rings before us, the wonders of heaven times over his, his cross, his hand, his mother, his gun. I just read them and sought to direct the attention of God's hope to the Christ.

We were there to remember. And I sat down and when I sat down, a dear brother from the country wrote to me. Oh, he dropped his H's and he was as bored as Napoleon of man could ever be. He rose to his feet.

Not one of you would have invited him to preach. He opened his Bible and he said, I wonder if I could turn to the epistle to Colossians. I won't try and speak as he did for you'll need an interpreter.

But he read his will, his mind, great love. As I lift the liturgy, and lift the blessed wave off it. And I came out and I walked down the road. Arm in arm with my wife. And I couldn't help but say it.

I said, Mary, isn't it lovely, my dear? Isn't it lovely, my dear, that we gather with a company of Christians where that could happen. Where those that love the Savior could present him to the Father.

And I want to say this, brethren. And I want to say it from the depth of my heart. I appreciate every man and woman that has reached the heights in their particular academic studies. God forgive me that I waited so long before I ever turned my mind to those things.

I left school when I was a boy at 13 and a half. And I had to go back when I was a man. I only know this, that I have no confidence in the flesh when it comes to ministering Christ. But I have every confidence in him.

And I thank God I'm among a company of folks with those that have something on the Lord. I'm glad I had it.

Now I was going to get it in, but I wanted to get it in. Ah, I thought you did. Ah, I thought you did. Ah, praise the Lord, it's good.

Leaving the Past Behind

And I'll tell you something more, brethren. He not only tells us what he's learned of his enemies and tells us how he lives by the Spirit, but then he tells us how he leads his past. Isn't that great?

He speaks of his past, you know. Why, he says, as to ritual? I was circumcised. Why, as to race? I'm at the spot of Israel. I'm at the world line of Benjamin. And as to zeal? I persecuted the church. But I'll tell you something.

Although my ritual and rank, although my race and my zeal, none could reproach me for, yet these things I counted lost. What we're going to do tomorrow night, we're going to have a good old-fashioned,.

You know, none of these old pictures. We're going to have a good old sing-song.

We're going to gather around, and we're going to sing the praise of the Lord. And I'd like to share with you how I spent too many years of my life without Christ, and I don't like remembering. But I want to say these things, they mean nothing.

If I can tell you that Jesus Christ could take a person like me and make him his own, then I'll be glad of that tomorrow night. I'll be glad of that. But, ah, brethren, here he tells us what he leaves.

He says, I leave my past. But then he tells us not only what he leaves, but what he longs for. And this is where I want to stay a moment or two. Oh, isn't this wonderful? But there, from verses 8 to 19, he tells us what he longs for.

Longing to Win and Know Christ

In verse 8, he says that I might win Christ. In verse 10, he says that I might know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffering. That will be said, that I may have. I also am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Here's a longing deep within his heart, in fact. He longs first of all, he says, that I might win Christ. Oh, I want satisfaction in my life, that I might win Christ. I confess this to you, that for a long time, this was a real puzzle.

That the man that had written this had known Jesus Christ for many long years. And I said to myself, that I might win Christ. I thought he knew Christ. Had he not met him on the Damascus road, on this of the noonday sun?

Had he not received his commission? But I might win him. There's still much in Christ for me to win. A classic example of this text, is an Old Testament story, don't you? Do you remember the story of Othniel?

Othniel and the Desire for a Closer Relationship With Christ

He's been alive. Do you remember the story of this man, Othniel? The son of Cana, Caleb's younger brother. So Caleb, an old man, came to the last city, Kerjacsepher, that had to be overthrown in the promised land.

He had stood at the foot of the hill and cried, give me this mount, when it came to Heblon. But now Kerjacsepher is the lone city that remains inhabited by the giants in the land. He's an old man. And he says, I tell you what I'll do.

He that take us and smite us and take us, Kerjacsepher, I will give him my daughter, Axler, to be his wife. Now I've got a strong feeling that Axler must have been a very beautiful girl. She was a girl of his old age.

She really loved him. I think she was a beautiful girl. I can't think of any man who would risk his life for someone who wasn't. Nevertheless, then he said, you can have my daughter and be your wife if you're hungry to eat.

And there was found a young man of Neil. Now he was already in the family. He was her cousin. But he wasn't satisfied just being in the family. He said, I want her to be my wife. I want that closer relationship than just being in the family.

I say, are you in the family? Are you in the family? What sort of relationship do you want with Christ? A closer one? It seems to me the story of, here's a little outline for some of you young preaching fellows, that it's the story of love wanting.

The story of love. He wanted. Do we really want Christ? This is where it all begins, you know. A man wants the Lord Jesus. He can have him. The tragedy is that for many of us who say we love the Savior, we don't really want him because it's desperately uncomfortable to have him with us every moment of the day.

But he says, I want him. And if you want Christ, there's a mountain to climb and there's a fight to go into. I want to say this, though. There's no mention of them. No mention at all. But you won't forget that when this young man, Art Neal, went to fight against Kerr, Jack, Clever, other people went with him.

They're not mentioned. They never got asked for it to be their wife. They had no payment for what they did. And I've proved over the years whenever you see a young man, a young woman, an older man, an older woman who wants to win Christ, the whole church will stand behind them.

And off he went. And he went and he conquered the city and back he came, you know. Now I want to say something to you young lads that are contemplating marriage. Now, I've been married for 34 years, this is why you can tell by the hand I look.

But let me say something. Let me say something to you young men, though. Blessed is the man who gets a beautiful girl for his wife. I try to say this. Blessed is the man that gets great, good theology, beautiful wife.

Twice blessed is the man who has brains as well as beauty. And Austria was given an answer and I'll let you into a secret. If she wasn't a lady, and I must be courteous, I would say she was a bit crafty.

Instead of that I'll say she was brainy. And she said, listen, if I'm going to be your wife then I have a right to expect you to keep me at the standard I've been used to. Maybe it's the old grandfather coming out in me.

But I think that's about it. The right to expect you to keep me at the standard I've been used to. I'll tell you what to do. You go and ask my father for a pass. Now she didn't go first. Oh, brave. She sent him first and off he went.

And you remember that he was given a parcel of land. He was given the pass. And when she'd sent him then off she goes. And isn't it remarkable what she says? She says, thou hast given me. He didn't, he gave it to her husband.

Thou hast given me also springs of water. When he got the land she went because if he'd have gone the second time father would have said I've already given you the dowry. But she knew she could twist him around her finger.

And off she goes. Brethren, sisters, may be it foolish but I want to tell you this. I thank God I came to Jesus Christ. And because he loved me he gave me salvation. And I praise God because of the love of the father for his son.

He has given me in Christ all things for it to be to enjoy. He's given me not only the land but he's given me the upper springs and the nether springs. He's given me that which I need to make my life tougher.

That I might win Christ. And we want to win Christ. Oh brethren, what does Jesus mean to us today? That he didn't mean last year. He says not only that I might win Christ but that I might be found in him.

Why, to win him tells us of satisfaction. To be found in him tells us of sanctification. Not having mine own righteousness which is of the law. That righteousness which comes by faith. I'm glad of the 30th verse of the verse of Corinthians, aren't you?

Christ is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. I'm glad I'm sanctified in Christ. This is my position. God grant I might know something of it in my condition. My position.

That he says not only that I might know Christ and that I might win Christ but he's, that I'm sorry that I might win Christ and that I might be found in Christ. But he says well that I might know him.

The Power of Christ’s Resurrection

The power of his resurrection. I say this isn't satisfactional sanctification is it? The power of his resurrection. He is strength. Strength for the journey in the past. I say it's the loveliest, it's the loveliest story in the Bible.

How many times have you preachers talked about it? A legion of times haven't you? I couldn't do it as good as you I'm sure. You won't forget that he is the loveliest family text in the Bible. That I might know him.

Martha knew him. The power of his resurrection. Lazarus knew the power of his resurrection. And the fellowship of his suffering. And Mary anointed him as we were hearing from our brother just the other morning.

Why she knew the fellowship of his suffering. That I might know him. Do we know him? Martha knew him in the home you know. I wonder why it is whenever you ask a brother to preach about Martha, he takes the text about Mary.

And Mary hath chosen that better part. I don't want to hear about Mary, I want to hear about Martha. If you want the text about Martha, I'll tell you it. And Jesus loved Martha, her sister Mary. Mary's the one who's tucked in afterwards.

Jesus loved Martha. She knew him in the home. Oh I know she was comfortable with serving, but brethren and sisters, if that's the worst that could be said about us, wouldn't it be hallelujah? I mean most of us are not comfortable with service.

Whenever the saints want something done in the meeting, they're going to be chasing around to find us. She knew him and she knew him in the home. Isn't it lovely that her brethren and sisters, dare I say this very humbly, if my son, my daughter, if my grand, my grandchildren, and my son-in-law and daughter-in-law don't know that I'm a Christian, then I'm not one.

And Martha is to it, I'm not one. Martha's granddaughter was born. They brought her over. They have all our children. I took that little one in my hand in our home. We call her Rebecca. There we are. I read the lovely story to my children.

Just the family. That's all. Just the family. No one else. I read that lovely story to Sarah's daughter. Turn into a mother and say, take this child. Raise him for me. I will pay the wage. Oh that was her first time.

The allowance that was out paid enough. Oh dearie me, and what a responsibility that we might know him in the home. Dear sister, I dare say this to you. May I say it very lightly? Maybe in the church, your position is a quiet position.

But I tell you this, your position in the home and in the church is the most important. Power of his resurrection. Lazarus knew that, didn't he? Lazarus knew the power of his resurrection. Do we know it?

The Bible speaks of resurrection in three ways, does it not? Three very practical ways. The Bible dares to say this, that Christ is risen. That's the past. If we then be risen with Christ, that's the present.

And then it goes further and it says, and that dead in Christ shall rise first. And that's the future. To know the power of his resurrection. That Jesus lives and that day by day, his risen life can be lived out from me.

And I live it out until that day when hallelujah, I shall see him. And be like him. Don't say our end is light. Dare I say this, friends? That it's Mary, it's Martha you hear, and Lazarus knew the power of his resurrection.

Mary knew that. Hallelujah. She took her alabaster cloths and she anointed the Lord, didn't she? Do you remember what old Judas said when he was reminded of the other disciples? To what purpose is this waste?

They didn't know much about God, did they? Brethren, I haven't got time to drive it home, but I want to tell you this. I've got a wasteful God. You meet a man who's in touch with a wasteful God, he'll be wasteful too.

Come and say, oh, what purpose it is. It is because here was one who had a heart of love towards the person they poured the ointment upon. Have you ever thought of our God as a wasteful God? He's tremendous, really, isn't he?

Oh, what a wasteful God. You see, in nature, he's wasteful, isn't he? I was talking to a good brother who's a landscape gardener here. Where is he? He's about here somewhere. There we are, that's it, brother.

I hope you're a good one. Would you have a little word with this man about trees afterwards? I'll tell you this, we've got the most wasteful God in the world. You think of a sycamore tree. I mean, all you need to propagate sycamores is just one seed.

They propagate so quickly, don't they? If you've got one, you'll find them springing up all around you. The God puts on a sycamore tree, he puts over here on a full-grown seed. You only need to send one to propagate its species, but he's a wasteful God.

He gives you a thousand, ten thousand. I say, have you ever seen this? Oh, miss, by the way, I hope all you ladies.