(Audio) The Heavenly Executive — James A Stewart

He was strong in faith, giving glory to God, being fully persuaded that what God had promised he was able also to perform. And I have been praying for quite a number, quite a long time now, for a certain sum of money for a mission work.

I already know where to place that money, strategic places around the world, because in our ministry of gospel projects, our work goes right through the whole world, behind the Iron Curtain into Hong Kong, right in Soviet Russia, as well as other parts of the world.

And I have to confess to you that my faith has not yet risen to have that money. Now, will you pray for me, because the moment I have that faith, that money will be on the foreign mission field, where it's greatly needed just now.

And somebody asked Mr. Mueller, are you the great man with the great faith in God? No, he says, I'm the little man with the little faith in the mighty God. And that's just the way I feel tonight. And I pray, oh God, give me more faith.

Faith for God's Provision

Faith, mighty faith that promises and looks to God alone, laughs at impossibilities and says it shall be done. And as we look out over the vast harvest field of the world, and as we see our needs as pastors and evangelists in material ways, as well as spiritual ways, we say, oh God, who is sufficient for these things but thou alone?

And I believe, my brother, my sister, if we had this united faith, that all these mountains would disappear. And I have known God just to laugh and laugh at me after I've doubted sometimes, you know, about something going to happen, and God made a fool of me.

He sent me the check, and one check, one gift and one check. And he said, huh, look at that, what about trusting me again? Oh, ye of little faith. I will overturn, overturn, overturn him, and it shall be no more, until he comes whose right it is, and I will give it him.

Faith. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now tonight, I am going to speak to you on the ministry of the Holy Spirit. I could go on this subject night after night for several months, and all the various applications of this ministry from Genesis to Revelation.

We have a small outline of the work of the Holy Spirit in a little book in the back of the table called The Glorious Third Person, that you can use as a church study guide with some Bible class if you care.

Now, I want tonight just to speak in a very simple way. I have never spoken on the outline that I'm giving you tonight. I've never spoken on this outline before because God has been speaking to me along this outline why I don't know.

And I want those of you who are older in the faith to bear with me, because the message is so simple. You know, it's just like the unsaved. It's just like the gospel meeting. We preach the clear, simple gospel of Jesus Christ over and over and over again.

It's the same message over and over again. And maybe many believers say, well, why does the pastor talk the same thing over and over again, repetition after repetition? For the simple reason there's unconverted people in the congregation.

And one night the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ is going to shine in and they're going to be saved. And I feel about, I call sometimes Bible conferences evangelistic meetings for defeated Christians.

Evangelistic meetings for defeated Christians. And I told my wife after our engagement, I said, now remember, you must never preach one single message unless it's going to revolutionize some life. The message must revolutionize some life.

And look to God to revolutionize somebody's life in the meeting. No matter what Bible conference it is, if it's only a little devotional talk to a woman's missionary gathering. And we have discovered, as we have traveled in different parts of the world, that we have taken it so much for granted that everybody is filled with the Holy Ghost.

And everybody knows about the ministry of the Holy Spirit. And I think we can say it's like the unconverted people hearing the gospel. An evangelist comes along and the invitation is given and the person gets saved.

And then they say, why? I never heard your pastor preach the gospel before. Yes, they did. But the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ didn't shine into the darkened soul. And you know, I may come to your church and give a message on the Holy Spirit.

And your life may be entirely revolutionized. And then you could go to your pastor and say, why didn't you preach that before the way Brother Stewart preached? And the poor pastor is bewildered. Of course he preached on the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Just the same way. But you see, suddenly the light dawned upon that soul. And they left the meeting completely revolutionized. And so, those of you who are old in the faith, you just bear with me tonight in this simple outline.

Paul's Prayer for Spiritual Fullness

I'm reading from Ephesians chapter 3. And this is Paul's prayer, as you know. Ephesians 3 verse 14. That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory. To be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man.

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. That ye, being rooted and grounded in love. May be able to comprehend with all saints. What is the breadth and length and depth and height. And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.

That you might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think. According to the power that worketh in us. Unto him be the glory and the church by Christ Jesus through all ages.

Well without end. Hallelujah. Now, first of all, concerning the ministry of the Holy Spirit. He inaugurates and he incarnates. Now, for example, we read in Hebrews 10 verse 20. We're beginning in verse 19.

Having therefore breath and boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. By a new and living way which he has opened up for us. Or a freshly slain way as we have in our Greek testament. Our blessed Lord Jesus Christ inaugurated a new and living way.

He opened up the new and living way. And glory be to God he performed the opening ceremony. He inaugurated a new and living way. The veil that kept man from the presence of a holy God was rent in twin from top to bottom when he died.

And he inaugurated the freshly slain way. And he not only brought himself into the holiest of all. But he brought every one of us in. And we all follow in as our fire leader. Now because the Lord Jesus inaugurated and performed the opening ceremony.

For the new and living way into God's holy presence. He paved the way for the Holy Ghost to come. And so the Holy Spirit inaugurates and he incarnates. Just as Bethlehem was the incarnation of the Son.

Pentecost was the incarnation of the Holy Spirit. Oh you say but yes it's true. You say but the Holy Ghost came like Christ. Yes. The Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost just as definitely as the Lord Jesus Christ came at Bethlehem.

But you say but the Holy Spirit has no body. The Lord Jesus had a body. Yes. The Holy Spirit has no body but he has a body. The church is the body of the Holy Ghost. And so as we read in the last verse of Ephesians 2.

The church is the habitation of God through the Spirit. And so on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit inaugurated a new dispensation. And he became incarnate into the church of Jesus Christ. The continuation of the incarnation God still dwelling in human flesh.

The Holy Spirit's Ministry to the Sinner

And then for example the next ministry personally to the sinner is he informs, he interrogates, he indicts, he invites, he introduces, he impregnates. May I say that over again? He informs, he interrogates, he indicts, he invites, he introduces, and he impregnates.

Now first of all he informs. The Holy Spirit tells the sinner about the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. That Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and was buried and arose again the third day according to the scriptures.

Living he loved me, dying he saved me, buried he carried my sins far away. Rising he justifies freely forever. One day he's coming, oh glorious day. And I have known Russian Orthodox, Greek Catholics, Muslims, Jews, all classes who were informed by the Holy Ghost.

Concerning just the truth of John 3 .16. And they were saved the first time they received the information. And then he interrogates. You know this word in John 16 .18, when he is come he will convince.

And the idea behind the Greek word is that it's the cross examination of a witness. The cross examination of a person and because of this cross examination he's discovered guilty in the sight of the law of the nation.

And the Holy Ghost interrogates. And because he interrogates he convicts us and he convinces us that we are lost and undone. And thus he indicts us and says thou art the guilty sinner, thou art the one that crucified the Lord Jesus Christ.

And then he invites us. Revelation 22 .17, the spirit and the bride say come. And let him that hears say come. And let him that is a thirst come. And whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely.

You have an expression there in Hebrews 10 .29, doing death's fight to the Holy Spirit. Now you know the Holy Spirit is the great evangelist of the Son of God. The greatest evangelist in the world. And I can think I can call every leading evangelist in the world by their first name, including the American ones.

But I want to say to you, the greatest evangelist of the Son of God in the world is the Holy Spirit. And the Holy, you see, the Holy Spirit ought not to be here. Let's understand that. The Holy Spirit ought not to be here.

Who ought to be here? By the Lord Jesus. But why is he not here? Because the world says away with him, away with him, crucify him, crucify him. And the Holy Ghost came on the day of Pentecost to bring home to the unsaved their damning sin of Christ's rejection.

And so he's the great evangelist and the Spirit and the bride say come. And his ministry is to invite lost guilty sinners to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. And so it's called, the apostle says in Hebrews, you're doing death's fight to the Spirit of grace.

And the word death's fight means insulting. And the sinner insults the Spirit of grace. Why is he called the Spirit of grace? Because he's preaching the gospel, the grace of God through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

And the sinner damns his soul when he insults the Holy Ghost and says, no, I don't want Jesus Christ as my savior. And then he introduces, do you know that you would never have known my dear brother and sister, the Lord Jesus Christ, your glorious redeemer tonight, if you had not been introduced to him by the Holy Spirit.

That's why I love the Holy Spirit. That's why I love the Holy Spirit. I told you, I mocked and laughed at my mother and said, no, no, no, no, no. And again, again, I rejected and insulted the Holy Ghost, but he loved me so much.

He kept on pressing home upon me the claims of the Lord Jesus Christ. And brother, never forget in true evangelism, it's the Holy Ghost that does the work, the Holy Ghost that gives the invitation. And then he impregnates, you know, the Bible is called the sword of the Spirit.

And we are born of water and of the Spirit. And the water is speaking of the word of God. And as we have in 1 Peter 1, 23, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but by the incorruptible, but by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.

And then you remember James 1, 18, of his own will begat he us through the word of truth. And then this, that verse, the Lord woke me up one morning last week with this verse. Verse 21, receiving with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Now the engrafted word is the implanted word. And the Holy Ghost implants the seed of the word of God into your heart and conscience. And he impregnates the seed of God into your heart and life. And the result is according to 2 Corinthians 5, 17, a new creation in Christ Jesus, hallelujah.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. All things are passed away and behold, all things are become new. Now how do you know you are a new creation in Christ Jesus? Because friend, you have a new set of appetites.

The things you used to love you now hate. The things you used to hate you now love. Now if you don't love communion and walking with God you're not saved. If you don't love the word of God you're not saved.

If you don't love the Christ of God, you're not saved. If you don't love the Saints of God you're not saved. He impregnates. And the result is a new creation in Christ Jesus. And then friend, his next ministry is he inducts, he installs and he initiates.

Union with Christ and the Body of Christ

Now in the Scottish Presbyterian Church we say when a minister is going to become the minister of that particular parish or pulpit that he is going to be inducted in such and such a Sabbath morning. The Episcopalians, they say, I think it is the English Episcopalians, that our minister is going to be installed on February the 27th and we invite you to his installation.

Well glory be to God friend, I discover that I have been inducted and I have been installed and I have been initiated. Because I read in 1 Corinthians 12, 13, for in one spirit have we all been baptized into one body, whether we be Jew or Gentile, born to free and we have been all made to drink into that one spirit.

Now the moment you repented of your sin, the moment the impregnated word became a living reality in your soul and you were born again supernaturally, that moment friend, you were installed and inducted and you were initiated.

In other words, you were placed by the Holy Ghost into the mystical supernatural body of Jesus Christ. And you were first united to Christ the head of the church and united to every other member of the body.

Say hallelujah somebody. Do you know this? I always feel sorry for Christian people who have to be initiated into some secret society of air. Glory be to God friend, I have been initiated into the finest society of men and women the world wide over.

Do you know friend, that I have been undersented of death by the Gestapo. I have been undersented of death by the Russian secret police. And believers friend, by the hundreds in Eastern Europe, were willing to lay down their life for me.

Even husbands with wives and children. I want to say to you friend, there are no people on earth like the aristocracy of God. And glory be to God friend, we can come at this camp meeting and we can have this blessed glorious fellowship.

You can meet a Chinese, you can meet a Russian, you can meet a Japanese, you can meet an Indian, you can meet any person. And if they are born again and have the indwelling Holy Ghost, instantaneously he is your brother, he is your sister in Christ.

And just as if you have known him for millions of years. Oh thank God for that. And then friend, I would like to say that he inhabits Galatians 4 and 6. Because ye are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba Father.

The moment you are born again, that moment the Holy Ghost took up his residence, his royal residence in your heart and life. And thus your body became the temple of the Holy Ghost. Now he also ensures, we have in Ephesians 1 .13, that after that ye believed and heard the word, the truth of your salvation, you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.

Now God the Father is the sealer and the Holy Spirit is the seal and I am the one that is sealed. And I am told in Ephesians 4 .30, and grieve not the Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed until the day of redemption.

Now rejoice that you have been sealed, but don't forget the exhortation, grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Now what does this mean? This seal, I can't go on about the seal, but because I am inhabited by the Holy Spirit and because he has ensured me, I have his seal upon me, then the word of God says, the apostle says in the 14th verse, I have received the earnest of my coming inheritance.

The Spirit as the Earnest of Our Inheritance

Now this earnest, this word arabon, we use in everyday Greek commercial language as the young ladies engagement ring. It's an old Phoenician word and they used it for trading commerce. The initial down payment, the installment payment, and as in our French Bible it reads the down payment.

And in my country of Scotland, for example, two of the world champion drivers, motor racers are Scotsman, Jim Clark and Jack Stewart. They live beside us. Now Jim Clark, he'll be down in Florida soon at Sebring to win again.

And Jim's a fine boy. And Jim's got a sheep farm. And his daddy has a sheep farm. And his father, when he was a younger man, would go with his father and they would go to the market, you see. And this was the time once a year they were hiring the help for the farms.

And Mr. Clark and all the other elderly farmers would come along and say, now what about you, would you like to work for me? And the man said yes, but what wages will you pay me? And how many bedrooms do you have in the cottage on the farm?

And they would say, well now what about your wife, is she strong, is she healthy? What about your sons and daughters, what can they do? And then they would come to the agreement and then the father, the worker, would be handed over a coin.

And we said he received the RLS, A-R-L-L-S. And he would go excitedly to the other farmers and they would say, have you been hired yet for the year? Yes, he says, how do you know? There it is. You see, I've got that from Mr. Clark.

He's hired me and I'll start with him three months from now. That was the earnest. And if you read my book on Murray MacChain, you see, you will find that nobody in Murray MacChain's church or Andrew Boner's church could ever take communion unless they got the token.

And the first thing they would say after we're born again, have you got the token? And the poor, crass, fallen, young convert would say, no, I haven't got it yet. I haven't got it yet. They may give it to me next year.

I haven't got it yet. They weren't good enough to sit at the Lord's table. They weren't holy enough, you see. And you couldn't get to the Lord's table without the token. I can show you these tokens. And nobody sat at Murray MacChain's, nobody.

And sometimes in these gatherings they had to meet outside like here and there would be 5 ,000 sitting down at the Lord's table. All the tables spread. And there would be thousands there. And one poor preacher preaching to 5 ,000 there.

Another preaching to 5 ,000 there. Another preaching to 5 ,000 there. And it took sometimes 25 ministers to serve the tables. But nobody could get to the Lord's table without the token. Now what was the token?

When you got that token, that was the earnest of the inheritance. That was the down payment. The seal was the fact that it's the earnest, you see. That you can participate in the Lord's table. And the indwelling Holy Ghost and the seal of the Holy Ghost upon me is God's pledge and guarantee of my ultimate glory.

Oh friend, you'll excuse me, mention my mother because these are precious days for me as you can understand. My mother just went home. And I am now writing about my mother. And my brother already telephoned me that he's written a poem about mother.

And you see, we, I said to mother when she was dying there, we were expecting her to die any time. And they sent for us and we thought she was going to heaven. And she clasped my hand and she said, Hallelujah James.

Her face all lit up with glory. Almost 89 years of age. She went on her 89th birthday. And she says it's wonderful, isn't it? And isn't he wonderful? You see? And her face was all lit up and we were just talking about the Lord.

And then she said to me, oh she said, what will it be upstairs? Eh? What will it be upstairs? Glory be to God. We've got the token down here. We've got the earnest down here. The earnest of the indwelling Holy Ghost.

Taking the things of Christ and revealing them unto us. And if it's so, if this is just the earnest, if this is just the installment, oh glory be to God. What will be the future inheritance? Oh friend, friend.

I lie back in bed at night and I get so excited. Saying, oh that will be glory for me. What will be glory for me? When I'm transfigured and transpondent like my blessed Lord and I see Him face to face.

Oh yes, how wonderful. And then will you notice that he indoctrinates. As we have in John 16, 13, the Lord Jesus says when He the Holy Spirit will come, He will guide you into all truth. Now this is what I want you dear pastors, oh especially you dear pastors.

Please put that down. He indoctrinates. You know, our churches are filled with dear brothers and sisters who have never been indoctrinated in the truth of God by the Holy Ghost. And you know it's possible, like my dear wife, to go through university and go through four years of seminary.

And have maybe 16 years of education. And never been taught of the Holy Ghost. You have no excuse, brother, sister. You have no excuse for not knowing the Bible. And if you were to ask me what was the greatest need of the hour?

It's Spirit taught men and women who know the book. And who taught them the book? The Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost. And oh friend, we need almost all the churches, all they know is what the pastor has taught them.

Oh I thank God for the minister this week. You blessed pastors in your teaching. But oh it's a tragedy if all your congregation knows what you taught them. How wonderful it is to have a congregation like Spurgeon had.

He had about 8 ,000 members and all could preach almost as good as he. They were taught of the Holy Ghost. Any of Spurgeon's elders, deacons, Spurgeon had a hundred deacons. Anyone could take his place and at the moment notice the drop of the hand.

And they're the principal preachers. He indoctrinates, he'll guide you, he'll lead you, he'll take you by the hand. Get the book and say, Holy Ghost I don't understand. And say, Holy Ghost please teach me.

And he'll indoctrinate you. And friend, you'll stand. There's nothing friend, in the time of persecution, nothing will make you stand than a real deep spiritual insight into the word of God. I had a little fella, there's no right to call him a little fella because we're both the same age, 17.

And he was my Bible expositor and I was the evangelist. He was blind. And he had a white stake so that he wouldn't be knocked down as he crossed the road. He had a Braille Bible. I don't know if you've seen a Braille Bible.

You know the old Braille Bible, sometimes you had about, maybe carried with you 14 volumes that completed the whole Bible. And when this little fella, you know, brought his Bible with him the other side had to carry it to the pulpit.

And then, you know, the pastors would come from miles around. Only 17 years of age. And he would start this way. And oh brother. You talk about the fella shouting over there. Oh brother. He started to magnify Christ, the Holy Ghost.

Opening up the book through him. Oh Frank, we just had to cry glory, hallelujah. Glory, hallelujah. I couldn't stand it. I heard him. You know when you travel with your own evangelist you know you get fed up with them, don't you?

Fed up with the song, fed up with the preacher, whatever it is. You know, but I want to tell you Frank When this little fella, 17, started to teach the word and magnify the Lord Oh I said, I had to get out almost every time.

I couldn't stand it any longer. He just magnified Jesus. Now who taught him? He never went to, he left school at 13 years of age. Who taught him? The Holy Ghost. And that is why I would say to you dear pastors try and bring along your people to these conventions.

Bring them by the hundreds. And let the Holy Ghost teach them through the word and then when you go back with them you'll be able to go deeper and deeper and deeper in the word of God yourself. And then may I hurry, he interprets.

The Holy Spirit as Interpreter and Guide

Now you know the fundamental idea of an interpreter is that he is a guide. And the fundamental idea about the guide is that you will not be a babes in the wood you will not be a stranger, you see, in that foreign country.

The country will not be foreign to you. You will feel perfectly at home in that country. Because the guide's business, the interpreter's business is to interpret the country to you. And to inform you everything about that country, its history, its music.

Everything. Now the most perfect example of the Holy Spirit as the interpreter is in Genesis 24. And there you find that the servant is sent for a bride for Isaac, the father's son. And you know the work of that servant, of that guide was to meet every need of Rebecca until she saw Isaac face to face.

Glory be to God. And the work of the Holy Spirit of God is my interpreter, is my guide is to tell me more about my Isaac and to meet every need I have until I see my blessed Savior face to face. The interpreter.

And then you know, he invigorates. He invigorates. This has been a great verse of mine for years. Romans 8 -11. But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you. Or if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you How?

By his spirit that dwelleth in you. He invigorates. I believe this has nothing to do with anything spiritual. This is the mortal body here and now. I don't believe this is the transfigured body when we're going to see the Savior face to face.

I believe this is now and we have to claim it. We have to claim it. My mother-in-law is from Dallas, Texas. But she lives in Montgomery, Alabama. And my mother-in-law has been a guest over again and again and again.

And just about five years ago she took a terrible heart attack. And the doctor said you'll not live. She couldn't move, do nothing. And one day she felt, when she was in bed, an inward urge to go to the church that day.

And she said to her daughter, my sister-in-law, telephone the pastor and tell him to send a car. I'm going to church. But my sister-in-law said, mother, you don't need that bed. She said, send for the pastor, I'm going to church.

I'm a being God. And she went to the church. And she sat at the back, propped her up. And as the minister was expounding the word of God that morning, the Holy Ghost said, you go forward. And mother got up and she walked for the first time for years.

And she walked the whole way from the back of the church to the front. And she was healed. Amen. I was with her as I passed through Montgomery. Mother, I think is, my mother-in-law, I think is 85 years of age.

A dear old brother came to me with twinkling eyes in Copenhagen many years ago. And he said, Brother Stuart, he says, here's an olive oil. And he gave me a little bottle of olive oil. And I said, what's that for?

He says, I want you to anoint me with oil in the name of the Lord and pray for me. And I said, nothing, it doesn't look as if there's anything wrong with you. Oh no, he says, I'm fine, I'm fine. I said, well, why do you want me to pray for you?

He said, well, Brother Stuart, it's like this. I'm 90 years of age. And I haven't got a car. And he said, you're telling us that when revival comes, we're going to have meetings all day and all night for weeks.

And he said, you know, it's like this. He says, I've been every night now for three weeks. And he says, it's getting hotter and hotter and hotter and hotter and hotter. And he says, you know, I will have to have some special invigoration.

He used the Danish word. He says, I don't want to miss a meeting. I'm just scared to death. If I miss a meeting, that's when the Holy Ghost will come down. So he said, Brother Stuart, will you just kindly anoint me with oil in the name of the Lord.

I think he was a retired school director. Very intelligent man. Distinguished old gentleman. And I said, hallelujah, Brother. And I anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord. Placed my hand on him and asked the Lord for the Holy Ghost to invigorate him.

Amen. Glory be to God. And so he invigorates. He invigorates. Amen. And then, he inspires. He inspires. We have in Romans 8, 26, there's a breakdown in our prayer life. And if you have a breakdown in your prayer life, you have a breakdown in every department of your Christian experience.

And the apostle says, I've got a breakdown. We don't know what we ought to pray for. We don't know what to pray for. And we haven't got the power to pray. But he says, I've got wonderful news. The comforter, the paraclete, the Holy Ghost.

He'll come alongside and he'll help you. And the Holy Ghost will pray through you with groanings which cannot be uttered. And so glory be to God. There's no excuse for a breakdown in your prayer life.

Prayer, Intercession, and the Holy Spirit

He inspires me. And if I said, what would be the second greatest need in your church? I would say this. Men and women who can hold on to God. Men and women who are giants in prayer. And I would suggest to you that one of the problems we have for revival is we've got so few spiritual giants of prayer in our churches.

That's true. This summer in Ireland, in Northern Ireland, we had the privilege of meeting with giants in prayer. One beloved brother retired. And he was giving himself only to the ministry of prayer. And when that man got down on his knees, it didn't mean five minutes.

He was still there after three hours. He was a giant. And I said to his wife, I said, you've got a remarkable son. I said, what a lovely boy. I said, was he saved when he was five years of age? And she laughed and laughed.

She said, he's just saved. I said, what? That young man about 22 years of age just saved? Well, I said, why has he got such a sanctified look? Oh, she said, it's like this. She said, I knew it was now or never.

He was a football player. And I knew it was now or never. And I said, oh God, I will not eat. I will not take one drop of food until my boy is saved. And she said, I agonize and I faster in prayer. And one night when we come home, my son cried down from up above, Mother, I'm saved.

And now that young convert, about 22 years of age, can just as giant a prayer warrior as his father. I think of another elderly gentleman. And he was in all our prayer meetings. Whether a prayer meeting was two o 'clock in the morning, or six o 'clock in the morning, he was everywhere.

But he'd only one cry, oh God, save my, and they mentioned the name of his daughter. And you know, her husband wasn't a believer. And she ran away from home and married this unbeliever. And he kept on crying, oh God, save my daughter, save my daughter.

And you know what happened? He got a telephone call from his son-in-law. And the son-in-law said, Dad, I'm saved. I'm saved. And he used to say in the prayer meetings, Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord. He was an Irishman.

The Irish are wonderful the way they pray. Oh Lord, oh Lord. You never know what they're going to say next. They're so strange in their prayers. Oh Lord, oh Lord. I can almost hear the telephone now. Lord, is that her voice on the telephone now?

Telling me she's saved. And he'd keep on saying that in the prayer meeting. Four o 'clock in the morning, sometimes. And they'd say, Lord, I can hear her voice. Lord, I can hear her voice. I can hear her voice.

Hallelujah. Lord, I can hear her voice right now, right now. She's on the line. She's on the line. And my wife would telephone him almost every day and say, excuse me, brother, but is she on the line yet?

And you know, just before we left Northern Ireland, this man we were at a Bible conference in, he come in, and you'd just have thought the Titanic was moving and the Queen Mary. He come right in, and he said to my wife, there she is.