Walking in the Glory — David Wilkerson

Walking in the Glory — David Wilkerson

To a prayer meeting because I had a conference for ministers. I hadn't gone out in years and the Lord released me to go to this conference in Springfield and a few thousand ministers and their wives and literally, I felt the undergirding, the power of the presence of the Lord in my preaching as never before in my life and I promised the Lord I wouldn't try to make anything happen, but it was the second night on a Tuesday night I had preached and there was a special time, it was, I prayed, I said, Lord, if you want me to speak to pastors once in a while like this, you're going to have to show me or this is my last one and because I knew the word was getting through and then I said, let's just wait on the Lord and there were three prophetic utterances, one after another, and the third prophetic utterance, the man of God just broke down and started weeping and there was absolutely holy weeping and brokenness that took place and they come, begin to just flood the front and confessions before the Lord and I spent probably half hour just going up and down with ministers.

There's a minister's wife on her knees just just crying her eyes out and she had just discovered her husband had had an affair, a minister, and wanting to forgive him. He's broken and one after another confessions of brokenness and emptiness and burdens and just falling on my shoulder weeping and it was the most incredible sight I've seen as far as the breaking power of the Holy Spirit.

It happened exactly the moment this church was praying, exactly the moment this church was praying because they, after I preached and just waiting on the Lord, I said, folks, back in New York right at this time, I have a whole church praying for you that God will meet your need and touch you and you could feel the power of that and I want to thank all of you that were here and praying.

Thank you for it very very much. Now I want to continue, if you'll pardon, I won't be screaming much tonight, but don't don't worry about me. I have the anointing so everything's fine. I've been talking to you about the glory of God.

In fact, that was one of the messages I preached in to the pastors. Now we're talking about the glory of God. This can become one of the most boring things that you've ever heard if you don't have a heart for God.

If you don't have a heart for intimacy and communion with God, you won't pray for an understanding because you see the Holy Spirit has to open these truths. Unless the Holy Spirit does it, it's just not so much nonsense to you because if you're a Christian you want to learn, but even though you love the Lord, unless you pray that the Holy Ghost give you an understanding, you won't see it.

And I want you to open your heart. This is the third in a series and tonight I want to talk to you about walking in the glory. Walking in the glory. I spoke first about the glory of God, second the effect of the glory of God, and then the effects of the glory of God, and tonight walking in the glory.

Heavenly Father, I ask you to give me strength. I know that you touched me this afternoon for a purpose. Lord, I want to bring this to this particular body tonight. You knew who would be here tonight, and you knew who needed this, and Lord I pray that we ask you while this is being preached tonight that you will give us an understanding ear and an understanding heart.

Lord, that we would catch a glimpse of your glory and walk in it. Oh God, I pray for a special touch from you tonight. I thank you for this church, Lord. I love those men and women you surrounded me with that are intercessors and prayer warriors and godly people, and I love this church for its heart for you, Jesus.

A choir that's so dedicated, and an orchestra, and all of the workers, Lord, the officers and maintenance, everyone here was so given to you. But Lord, if we don't have a vision of your glory, we're not going to be ready for the perilous times.

We won't have the spiritual strength. So, God, by your spirit tonight, open our eyes and our understanding, I pray, and quicken my body, I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. I believe that the understanding of the glory of God, its power and its strength, is the only thing that's going to keep us in the days ahead.

It's the only thing. That's why I want God, I want you to ask God to help you understand it. I'll eventually be putting this in a small book, especially for this church, because I believe that strongly that it's that important.

Moses and the Revelation of God's Nature

Now, remember the first message, just to rehearse, I'll go quickly through the first two messages just for foundation for what I want to share with you tonight. First of all, we learned that the glory of God is a revelation of the nature of God, who he is.

Remember, Moses was sent out with no explanation of who God was other than I am. And then he began to pray, Oh God, show me who you are. You say I am, but what does that mean? I want to see your glory.

And God took him aside in the cleft of a rock, and he caused him to get a revelation of the glory of God. And it was this, I am, what this is, the God revealing the I am to us and to Moses. I'm the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sins.

We learned that the glory of God is not just his splendor, not just his dominion over the nations. That is a special glory of his, but that's not the glory that he wants us to know him by. It's not the explanation he gives us, an understanding of what he wants us to have in communion, intimacy, and relationship with him.

It's not a physical or spiritual manifestation. It's not the result of some high praises and some ecstasy. Now, there can be manifestations once you get the vision. Once you see who he is, you will weep.

I have been in my study, and when he begins to show me his love and his goodness and his mercy to such unworthiness, I weep over it. Or there'll be manifestations that they come out of the womb of this understanding of the glory of God.

Folks, you and I don't have to pray for a revelation now of the glory of God. It's been given, absolutely given to us. Secondly, we learned that this revelation of God's glory has a powerful effect on those who see it and those who pray for an understanding of it.

Moses, at the first sight of the glory, as soon as it dawned on him that God was not just the God of law and wrath and terror. Now, up to this time, even Moses said, I trembled and was terrified. He was terrified at God.

But he sees his glory, and he sees now that God's not just law. He's not just wrath. It's not just the thunder of Sinai. It's not the lightning and the piercing trumpet that made him tremble and shrivel in fear.

He's now seeing the love of God, who God is, that God is love. Now, up to this time, this man had prayed. He petitioned. This man had a wonderful face-to-face relationship with God, but it was one of this great God of power and splendor and revenge and anger against sin.

But now, for the first time, immediately after he gets it, he worships. The first time, the Bible mentions that Moses worshipped God. You see, this is what happens. All worship has to be based, all true worship is based on a revelation of God that he has given himself, of his goodness, his mercy, his grace, his readiness to forgive.

That's all a part of worship. You cannot worship unless you have. It's impossible to worship God unless you have this revelation that he wants us to have of who he is, that he's a God of love. He's a God that is tender.

And until you have that foundation under you, you can't worship. You see, we're to worship in spirit. A lot of people worship in spirit, but they don't worship in truth. And the truth is this revelation of glory of who he is.

So once you have that, you're worshipping, truly worshipping in spirit and in truth. And we know that it changes your countenance. The countenance has to do with the way you live. It has to change the way you live.

You're not a materialist anymore. You're not thinking of just yourself. And then also we learned that when you get to glory, one of the effects of it is that you change in your relationship to others, being kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.

In other words, you've seen and tasted the glory of God. Now you be a reflection of that glory to other people. You see, the revelation of the glory of God affects everything there is about us. And you don't get this revelation by somebody laying hands on you.

You don't get it just by going to somebody's seminar, some great teacher and getting your tapes. You can't even get it in the Bible school here unless you pray for an understanding. This revelation is given in one way, laying hold of what he's already spoken.

It's the laying hold of the revelation that he's already given. Now, that's the background I want to go now into the walk with God. I call it communion with God because walking with God is nothing more, nothing less than having intimacy or communion with him.

Communion with God Begins with Receiving His Love

Communing with the Lord is actually a love affair as between a husband and wife. It is mutual affection. Now, listen to me, please. I've heard Christians talk about intimacy. I hear that all over the United States.

People talk about their intimacy, boast about their intimacy. The revelation of his, or they say, I walk with God or I know him. But let me tell you this, and hear it good because it's the foundation of the word that I want to give to you tonight.

The revelation of God's glory to us has everything to do with communion with him. If you don't have this revelation of his glory, it is impossible to communion with God. It's impossible to have intimacy with him.

Now, communion consists of two things. Receiving the love of the heavenly father and loving him back in return. Receiving this revelation into your heart, laying hold of it. You can spend hours daily telling the Lord how much you love him.

I mean, you can just go all day long going on and on and on. Lord, I love you. You know I love you. I'll love you more tomorrow than I love you. I've always loved you, Lord. I'll love you, love you, love you.

But if you've not received his love, there can be no communion. There is no intimacy until first you have become secure in the revelation of his love for you. We are encouraged, the Bible said, enter his gates with praise, enter his gates with thanksgiving.

But why does he give such a bold invitation? Because he takes it for granted that you have believed the revelation of who he said he is. You know who you're coming to now. You can come with praise and thanksgiving because you know you're not coming to a hard man.

You're not coming to a heavenly father who just wants to put a rod on your back. You're not coming to one who is just trailing you, waiting for you to fail and say, I caught you. You are coming to one who has revealed himself to you in all of his goodness.

And he's a tender-hearted, loving, caring, forgiving father. So he said, that's why you come into my courts with praise and thanksgiving. You're thanking me for who I am to you. And folks, I go into his courts with praise, into his gates with thanksgiving, because I know who I'm going to.

I know who he is. I know he'll never turn me down. I know he cares about everything and he wants to take every burden I have. I know that before I walk into his presence. Hallelujah. Yet so few believers have laid hold by faith on God's love for them.

They live with little or no concept of communion with God. Or they can read their Bibles. They even say, Pastor, I don't understand. I pray, but I have such confusion in my life. I read my Bible, and yet there's so many things going wrong in my life.

There's no order. And I don't know what the problem is, because I pray, I read my Bible, I love the Lord. And the problem is, that they have never laid hold of God's love for them. They've never truly grasped this truth, that in my weakness, in my failure, he loves me.

He's a Heavenly Father who cares about everything that I'm going through. This is the only way that a soul can be brought into rest. The only way that you can have rest in your soul is to be so convinced.

And you live your life like this because I'm convinced that I come to a Heavenly Father. No man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father. He has revealed Him.

Christ has revealed Him as a Heavenly, loving Father to us. Now, not only does He love us, He is in love with us. There's a difference. I'm not talking about general corporate love for all mankind. I'm talking about God having objects of love that He is absolutely in love with.

As He looks upon you as the Bride of Christ, there is an affection, there is a love that is absolutely incredible. It's not just the love that simply endures your mistakes. It's much, much more than that.

This love is manifest. This love that God is, is manifested in two ways. It's manifested in His resting and in His rejoicing over us. The Lord thy God, listen to it. Zephaniah 317. Now, listen to me. If you're a husband or a wife, a married person, if you have known true love, you're going to know what I'm talking about.

You understand this. You understand that in true love there's a rest and there's a rejoicing. Zephaniah 317. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty. He will save. He will rejoice over thee with joy.

He will rest in His love. He will joy over you with singing. Now, in this passage, God is saying, is said to rest in His love. In fact, in Hebrew, that means He shall be silent because of His love. The real meaning, He will be silent because of His love.

Know what He's saying? I have found in you what I'm looking for. It's settled. I have no complaints. I have no fault. I am totally satisfied. I'm not looking elsewhere. I seek no other love. I am settled in this relationship.

I am fulfilled by it. I will not take it back. I'll never remove it. I found what I want. I am settled. Now, folks, until you understand that that is God's love for you, when you come to the cross and you turn to Him with all your heart, God turns to you with such affection and such love, and it's a love that is settled.

He says, I found in you what I'm looking for. This is what I created man for. You bring a joy to my heart. In fact, the Bible goes on to say, He takes pleasure in you. He rejoiceth with singing. You put a song on his lips.

I know he's a spirit, but if he can speak, he's got lips, so to speak. And you put a song in the heavenly Father's very being, and the word used here is tripadaria. It means to leap as one overcome with joyful ecstasy.

To leap is one who's been overcome with ecstasy. Is anybody getting this? I'm talking about, you're sitting there, and I'm talking about a God who's leaping all over heaven about you. Who's singing over you.

Can you conceive of such love that He leaps with joy with His Son over you? Can you receive in your soul that God Himself is telling you about being in love with you? Can you conceive and accept that He loved you before the world was and before you were created?

He loved you in your mother's womb. Before you were born, He counted every part in your body. He found you. He loved you even when you took on Adam's ways. He loved you even when you became His enemy.

He went out after you, and He took you in His arms, and He came back. He said, I knew what you'd be like before you were born. I loved you in spite of that. I've been with you through it all. I brought you back.

I loved you then. I love you now. I'll always love you. Now, if God so loved you when you were so deep in sin, enough to send His own Son, how can you even think that He would love you less when you're going through a hard and difficult time, or even when you fail?

Folks, I believe I know why Christians now, I've asked this question so long, I think I know now why Christians don't pray, a lot of Christians don't pray, and why they know so little about communion.

They have a sad and twisted view of the Heavenly Father. Do you remember the man who hid his talent? Actually, he was hiding himself and his talent. He hid because of his twisted view of the Heavenly Father.

He said, I knew you, that you were a hard man. And there are many Christians who say there's no way he could be dancing over me, and no way he could be singing and so in love with me because I have so failed him, I've got such reproach on his name at times, only he knows what's in my heart.

How could he possibly sing over me? How could he possibly love me during the struggle that I'm going through right now? See, this is why so many don't pray, because they have this twisted view that God is just a God of wrath, he's a God of judgment, and that's the only way they know him.

The Heavenly Father’s Love and Discipline

Now, I have been in homes over the years where I've seen a happy child, or two or three happy children, playing in the kitchen, and all of a sudden, the father walks in, and I've been there where they run and grab mom's apron, and they run from him as though he were a tyrant.

Evidently he was a mean father. You will never ever see those children go near that father, only when he demands it, or he asks something of them. You'll never see those children jump up in his lap and laugh with him and be embraced.

They would dare never embrace him. Some of you have had a father like that. Don't judge your heavenly father by that measure. That's not your heavenly father. And I think this is why many people pray.

They say, I would like to pray, I'd like to be in communion with the Lord. But you see, you've never had this revelation of his love. And every time you sin, you have a tendency to run and hide. And you say, well, I've been forgiven so many times, I'm afraid I've passed the point of ever being forgiven again, and if you just reject me, there's no way he's ever going to reject you if you turn to him in repentance.

He will never reject a repentant heart. How can you but run to a heavenly father and embrace him when he writes love letters to you? That's what this is. This is a love letter from the heavenly father.

How do you run from somebody who tells you he's in love with you, that he yearns to be with you, he's ready to embrace you, he tells you that he has nothing but good thoughts about you, he loves you in spite of your failures, he's waiting to give you your repentant cry, who tells you he's settled in his love for you, he is pleased, he's happy in his love, he gets pleasure just thinking of you, he enjoys your company, he never tires of supping with you, he sings about you, he leaps and dances when you respond to his love, he says to you, Satan tells you, you're useless and worthless, but I tell you, you're my joy.

Folks, if you've ever been in love, you would know something about what I want to tell you now. I suppose a man is away on a business trip, and he calls home, and he says, Honey, I want you to know that just the thought that you're there loving me, that you love me so much, brings strength to me, it's going to be my strength for the day.

I have that letter that you wrote to me, and I've read it twice already, and what a joy. And honey, I'll tell you what, I'm going to have a tough day today, but just knowing that you're there thinking of me, and you smile over me, and I know, I'm just overflowing now, because your love is so great to me.

That's the Heavenly Father. He wants you to get up in the morning, the first thing in the morning, and call him. Folks, you say, Oh, you go back to that telephone to heaven jingle? I'll show you a thousand places here where he says, Call me.

Hallelujah. Here's where communion begins. Here's where communion begins, right here. Lord, I don't know why you love me, and I don't understand all of it, but you yourself have told me that you are love, that you are mercy, you're goodness, you're tenderness, and you're long-suffering, and forgiving.

You say, quote the rest of it, Brother Dave. The rest of it says, and he would not a-quilt the guilty, but the guilty party, friend, are those who simply do despite to that grace and mercy, who frustrate it, who, in spite of knowing it and seeing it, turn away from it, says, that's fine, but I can't let go of my sin.

Hallelujah. You say, well, Brother Dave, wait a minute. It borders on blasphemy to me. For you to think that he would love me in my sinning ways. Now, listen closely, please. He does not love your sinning ways.

He loves you in spite of your sinning ways. But listen closely, please. Our God is a loving God. He's not just a loving God. He is love. The Bible says, you know, you tell me, I believe in God. Well, then you have to believe He is love because the Bible says He is love.

God is love. But we have a God who knows. He loves so much, He chastens you when you sin. Have you ever been spanked by the Heavenly Father? I had a father who loved me so much, he wouldn't let me get away with anything because he knew it would damn me.

You've heard me tell about my father's spankings. He had a big leather belt. They used to sharpen straight-edge razors with him. And he hung it on a nine-penny nail going down the basement. And when I did wrong, he never spanked me that moment.

He waited until the next day until he wouldn't be doing anything in anger. And he said, Come on, David. And I knew I had a personnel meeting with my father. He said, No, I'm not mad at you, David. But I see God's hand on you.

And I'm not going to let this go by the books. You've sinned. You did wrong to me. You did wrong to God. First of all, I want you to know you've wronged the Heavenly Father. And then he'd quote the scriptures, Spare the rod and damn the child.

Then he'd say, Lean over the bed. Kneel. And he didn't mean to pray. And I would scream before he touched me. We all do that, even before God ever touches us. We're screaming, Oh, God, let me out of this.

You haven't even gotten in it yet. Down across my backside, quoting scriptures, Spare the rod and damn the child. That wasn't the hardest part. The hardest part always came next. My dad with tears said, Come on, hug me now.

He hugged me. My dad died when he was 54 years old. And I knew a loving father. I know he spanked me because he loved me. Oh, no, he doesn't let you get away with sin. But he said, I'm not going to let it damn you.

I'm not going to let it take you away from me. I'm not going to let it ruin your soul. I love you too much. I paid a price for you. The blood of my own son. The Bible says he will reprove and rebuke with all authority.

But he said, With long suffering. With long suffering. I wish I had met a prophet of God when I was a young preacher who would have taught me this. There's nothing I want more for this congregation than to get this into your soul.

Because until you're secure in knowing that he absolutely loves you and will not give up on you, you're going to live in terror. You can't grow. There's no communion. The Lord said, Before you commune with me, you have to lay hold of this by faith.

It can't be had except by faith. I lay this Lord to you by faith. I receive it by faith. I get up every morning and I come into his courts with praise and thanksgiving knowing that I go to a just and holy God, but one who is tender.

He loves me. And I go to him every day and I just thank him for his love. And that love is my strength throughout the whole day. I was in bed for the past, some past 40 hours and very, very sick. And I couldn't pray.

I couldn't read my Bible. But I was absolutely at rest in the love of God. This is the only thing that can heal your soul. This is the only thing that can come against the lies of the devil when he says, No, you're too unworthy to pray.

You're too unworthy. You've gone too far. You're not like other Christians. You've got a streak in you that is evil. It could be your grandfather, your great-grandfather. Something passed down to you.

Foolishness. No. I have a revelation. God said he loves me. Now, let's go to the other side before I close. The other side of communion and walking in the glory is loving him back. It's not only that I receive his love, but I respond in light to him.

Loving God and Keeping His Commandments

Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might. We give back to God the same thing. We give back love.

My son, give me thine heart. When somebody is said to be in love, they say he gave his heart to her or she gave his heart to him. You give your heart. The Lord says, Here, I give you unmerited love. You didn't earn it.

Folks, you didn't just one day decide to get up out of your sins and walk away and come to Jesus. No way. The Spirit of God, the love of God reached down into your wilderness, first showed your lostness, then made you so miserable in your sin.

I call them Holy Ghost miseries. He gave you the Holy Ghost miseries, and then he came to you and embraced you, convicted you, sent you the Word. He did it all. He came after you. You didn't go after him.

He found you. I hear people say, I found Jesus. Well, folks, he's never been lost. Here in his love, not that we loved God, but he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. We love him because he first loved us.

1 John 4 .19. Our love is the same thing. We give back. When you truly love him, you come into this rest and rejoicing. This rest and rejoicing. There must be a delight in him. David said, Whom have I in heaven but thee?

And there is none upon earth I desire beside thee. Now, until you come to that point, you can't have communion or intimacy. Until you come to the point first, he has loved me, and I rest in that. I'm convinced of his love.

I receive it. I get up every day and I live in the strength of that. Now, I give him my heart. I don't look any further. I am settled in it. Remember what I told you it means? That I look no further. I'm not looking for anything else to give me satisfaction.

I don't look for it in a husband or wife. I get that on a fleshly, earthly realm, but the full satisfaction in every area of my being comes from loving and delighting my soul in him. He's my delight. Coming to his house should be a delight.

Reading his words should be a delight. Folks, when you know how much he loves you, that should put a delight in your soul. And God says, you really don't respond to my love until you get happy in me. Until you get rejoicing in me.

Until you rest in that. For as the Father loved me, so have I loved you. Proverbs 8 .30. Don't turn there, but I'll read to you a Scripture the Lord showed me. And I want you to listen closely to it for just a moment.

This is speaking of Christ. This is Christ speaking. Then I was by him as one brought up with him, and I was his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth. And listen, and my delights were with the sons of men.

Now let me tell you what that means. And it's one of the most powerful verses in the Scripture. The Lord is now speaking this time on earth. This is written before he came to earth. It's a prophetic word.

He said, I come to give myself a sacrifice, and my Father delights in me. I'm the joy of his being. He foresaw all of his sons that would be gathered into his own body, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.

That's you. That's me. We are the sons mentioned here. And Jesus himself is telling you now, listen to this. He's telling you, just as I was the delight of my Father, I always have been from the beginning.

Do you know that Jesus created the heavens and the earth? He was there when the heavens and the earth were created. The Bible said they were created by him and for him. All things are in him. It's all about Jesus.

And he said, I have been my Father's delight, and all the sons of man that come to me by faith and become part of my body, as surely as God delights in me, he delights in my body, which is the church, which is my bride, he delights in you.

Hallelujah. He delights. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous. You say, well, Brother Dave, how can I really love him? Well, there it is. This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.

Verse John 5, 3. You say, well, Brother Dave, and I'll tell you what I did once. I got so consumed by wanting to love him a number of years ago, I went through, in fact, this is the Bible, and you'll see it all through the New Testament, all through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

I dug out every commandment. I think I found fifty-some. I finally gave up. I said, oh my goodness, I can't begin to. And these are just the words of Jesus. Because everything he said is really a commandment.

But that's not what he's talking about. His commandments are two. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, all thy heart, all thy soul, all thy mind and strength, and your neighbors yourself. He said, this is the fulfillment of all the law and the prophets.

There are two commandments. You love God with everything that's in you. You hold nothing back from him. And you love your neighbor as yourself. Now, let me tell you something. You cannot be in communion with God.

Loving Others as Evidence of Communion with God

You cannot walk in the glory of God if you have a grudge against somebody, if you're not forgiving somebody, if you're holding somebody out. If you have anything at all in your heart in the way of bitterness or unforgiveness, there's no possibility of having communion with God or walking in his glory.

You can say, oh, I thank God he loves me. I'll tell you, you can pray till you're blue in the face. You can shout all over the church and talk in tongues, all you want. But the Bible says very clearly, you have to go there before I close.

First John. I'm just standing here thanking God he's given me enough grace and strength tonight to complete this now. First John 4. Beloved, may I ask you a question? Back here, balcony, whoever you see and hear me now.

Get closer. You may think it's a childish question, but it's not. How many truly want to walk in a revelation of his glory? Raise your hand. And know that you're truly loving him with everything that's in you.

Listen to verse 20 and 21, if you will. Start at verse 19, brother. First John, fourth chapter, verse 19 and 20. We love him because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, what is he?

He's a liar, for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen. How can he love God whom he hath not seen? In this commandment have we from him that he that loveth God love his brother also. These are my closing words now.

If you have something against somebody, you just don't run to God and say, forgive me, Jesus, I'm so sorry for that. No. First, be reconciled to thy brother, then come and offer your gift. A lot of people say, well, oh, I took it to the cross, I've forgiven.

No, the Bible says be reconciled. Be reconciled. Otherwise, it's all a lie. There's no communion. It's a lie. I thank God for his love. I thank God that I can stand before this congregation, look every one of you in the eye, and say that if you have, even the desire you have for God has come from the Holy Spirit.

You don't have it in you. I don't have it in me. We are not capable of loving God in the flesh. It's all a gift of God. How thankful we ought to be. Folks, you talk about manifestations. The manifestation that I'd like to see is just what I saw among those ministers when a melting spirit of the Holy Ghost came down.

The tears began to flow and the hands went up when suddenly it dawned on them. In spite of the burdens I carry, in spite of all my fears and guilt and everything else that life has thrown at me, one thing does not change.

His love. His love is not like our love. Our love is like that of the disciples. I'll never leave you and turn around and walk away from you. It's not the love that says, I love you, Jesus, and then grows cold or lukewarm.

His love... He said, I'm the Lord thy God, I change not. The only settled thing in your life can be this revelation of the glory of God in His love for you. Now, folks, I don't know whether you got it or not, but I know I got it.