(The Church in the Last Days) 05 - Possessing the Land — Milton Green

Revelation Versus Tradition

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Prayer for Revelation, Healing, and Deliverance

I just thank you for each one here, and it's come to hear you, to see you, Jesus, and hear your Word. Now, we just boast in your presence, and you being here, Lord, and we just come to receive the Word.

And Lord, I just pray that you just quicken this Word to each one here. I pray, God, that you change the hearts, and renew their minds, and lead them into all truths, and I pray that your healing and deliverance will just prevail here tonight.

Praise in our hearts, and in our mouth, and Lord, you're just so worthy to be praised, and you're so precious, and we want to thank you. Lord, I want to ask for this anointing tonight, and I just receive the anointing.

We receive the weapons of our warfare, the finished works of Calvary, and we receive the fruit of the Spirit. And Lord, we just want to minister and just receive your love. We just, we just reach up to the throne right now, and receive your love, and peace, and grace, and fruit right now, in the name of Jesus.

And thank you, Lord, for the peace, and grace, and love that's ours in Jesus' name. Praise the Lord. Well, amen. Turn to Hosea 2. How are you? How'd you rather me tell my stories tonight? Don't want to hear my stories?

Hosea’s Betrothal and the Lord’s Case Against the Land

Turn to Hosea 2. Hosea 2. Now, you know where we're going to be dealing with the last days this week. Now, folks, many of you were not here this morning, and I don't think, the ones of you here, I think, would agree with me.

I've not heard a stronger overcoming in my life than what I heard this morning. Is that a truth? Now, folks, this, see, we've been hearing about holiness, we hear about righteousness, and we hear about love and everything, but I tell you what, it all got put together this morning, what you're supposed to do to do it.

Isn't that right? Isn't that right? I mean is in the Word, and that's strong. And if you, if you didn't miss it, I hope you'll try to, if you did miss, I hope you'll try to get the tape. I would love for everyone here to hear that.

And boy, it's something. Now, you have to, if you, when you're going to deal the last days, you've got to either deal with, you've got to go through Hosea some, as I have with many of you, or through Jeremiah, so you can kind of get the flow of the last days.

And so this is what we're going to do briefly in Hosea. Hosea 2, 19. Hosea 2, verse 19. Now here it is. I will betroth you to me forever. I wonder who he's talking about. That's the type of the Lord. Yes, I'll betroth you to me in righteousness, and in justice, in loving kindness, in compassion.

I would betroth you to me in faithfulness. Then you all know the Lord. Amen? Isn't that beautiful? That is so beautiful. In chapter 4, verse 1, Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel, for the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land.

Wonder what the case is the Lord has against us. Are we supposed to be the sons of Israel? Are we the new creation, Galatians 6 is talking about? All right. Here's the problem. There is no faithfulness, or kindness, or knowledge of God in the land.

Here's what's going in the hearts and mouths of people. There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing, adultery. They employ violence or perversion so that bloodshed follows bloodshed. You know how you shed the blood of the righteous?

Teach them form, formalism. Teach them traditions. Draw them away from the Word and godliness. Verse 3,. Therefore the land mourns. The man of land. Where's the land right here? I tell you, that land.

Are we supposed to be 1 Corinthians 3, 9? We're supposed to be God's field. And see, when you get the wrong seed on this field right here, I'm going to tell you there's going to be mourning going on. You hear me?

And we know that the enemy's seeds come in through our mind, and it gets in our heart if we don't resist the devil. Is that right? Okay. Therefore the land mourns, and everyone who lives in it, they languish, they lack force, they're weakened.

And who's there with them? The beasts of the field, the birds of the sky. Do you understand? Do you have any idea who those are? That they own this right, the powers of darkness. And also the fish of the sea disappear.

And here it is in this typical congregation of people, yet let no one find fault. Let none offer reproof. Now let's don't upset anyone's cursed nature. For your people are like those who contend with the priests.

So you're going to stumble by day, and the prophets are all going to stumble with you by night, and I'm going to destroy your mother. Who's the mother? Church. That's the one that gives birth, the bride.

All right, my people, why are they destroyed? For lack of knowledge. When you already know it all, you can't get any more, can you? My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge.

I'll also reject you from being my priests. Since you've forgotten the word of the law of God, I'll also forget your children. In other words, the hedge is down. Look in verse 9. And it's going to be like people, like priests.

In other words, it's going to be like, instead of being like the Jesus, the teacher Jesus, it's going to be like a man, whatever, you know, that's whoever the heart, or whoever your heart goes after, that's who you're going to be like.

Like people, like priests. So I'll punish them for their ways. I'll repay them for the evil of their deeds. Let's look in chapter 10 just a moment. Chapter 10. Now, in Exodus, it talks about building an altar.

Uncut Stones, Formalism, and Spiritual Idolatry

Look at me just a second. And he says, when you, I think it's 20 -25, or 25 -20. But 20 -20, well, I'm going to tell you, I shouldn't have said, I should have said somewhere in the Bible. Exodus, I think it's 20 -25.

I've got another Bible, and I didn't bring my reinforcement here, and this Bible has everything in the wrong place. Verse, chapter 25. Oh boy, I'm sure I messed that one up. Huh? Well, I looked there.

I was looking at the wrong place. That's what happened, and then you got a new Bible. 20 -25. There it is. Yeah, just right exactly where I said it was. And if you make an altar of stone for me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for you willed your too long, if you're going to profane it.

Now, look at me, folks. The Lord was telling them, when you go to build an altar, you build it up, just put uncut stones, just pile them up. Now, he said, if you wield an iron tool on it, you're going to profane it.

And so, why does he say, if you wield an iron tool? Because if they start taking iron tools and start making it fancy, then the altar will get people's hearts, says the Lord. Amen? Is that right? Now, in chapter 10, I mean in verse 1.

Now, where's Israel? We're Israel today, aren't we? Spiritual Israel. Israel is a luxuriant vine that's empty, degenerate. He produces fruit for what? Himself. That's who his fruit is produced for. The more his fruit, the more altars he makes.

The richer his land, the better he makes the sacred pillars. Makes them bigger, better, thicker. Their heart is what? Faithless. That's reading the bearer of the fruit for themselves. You don't have any faith in the Word.

You have, you bear fruit for yourself. Now, they must bear their guilt. The Lord is going to break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars. Verse 3. Surely now, you know, people, look at me, folks.

People who are sitting, do you believe that people are sitting in buildings and trusting that building to take them into heaven? It's going to be the vehicle that carries them into heaven. You know what God is seeing in their hearts?

He's saying, well, you know, there's no fear of God in people like that. In other words, the building is going to be the vehicle that takes them into heaven, and you know, and God says, well, what do we need with Jesus?

We got this building here. Are you hearing what I'm saying? We got this building that take us into heaven. So that's what God says, and this is exactly what it says here in verse 3. Surely now, they'll say, we have no king.

It puts us in their heart, for we do not fear the Lord. As for King Jesus, what can he do for us? They speak mere words. With worthless oaths, they make covenants and judgment. There's a judgment right there with the words.

Judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. Look here where the judgment comes out. Right here's the field, and that's where judgment springs up. Okay? Now look at verse 12. So with a view to righteousness, reap in accordance with kindness, break up your foul aground.

That's repentance, isn't it? You better start sowing your words from your heart. You better be speaking the words of the Lord, right? Amen. For it is time to seek the Lord until he comes to rain righteousness on you.

Now, in verse 13, you have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have beaten the fruit of lies or traditions, because what? You have trusted in your ways and in your numbers. Amen? Now, let's see what the anger of the Lord is.

Let's see about these numbers right there. Turn with me back to 1 Chronicles 21. 1 Chronicles 21. 1 Chronicles 21. 1 Chronicles 21. Look with me in verse 1. Then who stood up? Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.

Is that right? So David said to Joab, go to the princes of the people, go number Israel from Bathsheba even to Dan, bring me word that I may know their number. Verse 3. And Joab said, may the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are, but my Lord the King, are they not all my Lord's servants?

They're not yours. Why are you letting your heart go after it? Why does my Lord seek this thing? Why should he be the cause of guilt to Israel? Now who caused David to number Israel? Satan did. Now look in verse 7, because that's where he's going to get his heart.

Do you think any hearts are perverted today because of the numbers that go to numbers? Absolutely. Now look in verse 7. And God was displeased with this thing, so he struck Israel. Verse 8. And David said to the Lord God, I have sinned greatly.

Look over in verse 14. So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel, 70 ,000 men of Israel fell. Folks, do you realize today that they were trusting in their way and their numbers over there? Do you know that you can find a security in your heart and you start building on the wrong foundation?

You can see if numbers get your heart, then you can change the Word of God so you can have numbers. Are you hearing me? See, this is perverted. These are the things that the powers of darkness do to people when they're not in the war.

They get deceived by it. And then a man can take some of the things of God with a little charisma and everything, and he can take the things of God and draw you to himself and say to the Lord. And who do you think is going to work with a man like that?

Well, the powers of darkness that do everything to talk to people and make him look good, he takes away and they draw it to him. What is this thing that when people... See, I've seen the power of God put people out, just grow weak.

But what is this thing where somebody shows up and they pray for people and some people fall over and everything, and just like their Hollywood idol just came to town or something like that, oh, his power, oh, look at that, and they go away quoting this man instead of quoting the Lord Jesus Christ and the Word and boast in the man and let your heart be drawn.

Who do you think would cooperate with that? Do you think any of that goes on? Anything is a real thing of God. Satan is ready to have the counterfeit. Are you hearing me? Now, that's not to say that somebody can't be playing the spirit.

I'm not talking about that. But folks, I've got to follow him because the whole world fell out. Do you think a bunch of demons can make somebody fall out? Huh? Well, surely they could if you'd be a big enough idiot to follow a man.

Absolutely. I'm not saying that unkindly. I'm just telling you the truth. All right, now, let's see what the anger of the Lord is. We see that... Let's just see what the... Turn with me to 2 Samuel. Now, who was it that moved David to number Israel?

David’s Census and the Anger of the Lord

All right, 2 Samuel. Turn back to the left a little. 2 Samuel. And then I want you to turn with me to chapter 24. And we see this same account right there. And we see 2 Samuel chapter 24. And we're going to start over on verse 1.

Now, again, the what? The anger of who? Oh, the anger of the Lord burned against Israel. And it what? Cited David against them and said, Go number Israel and Judah. Now, folks, who's the anger of the Lord?

Satan is the anger of the Lord. Now, look at me, folks. When you don't want to choose love, you want to choose rebellion. And when you choose rebellion, the hedge is down, and the anger of the Lord comes in.

Who do you think created Satan? He sure did. When did God lose control of Satan? It's only going to take one angel to put him in a pit. You understand that, don't you? Folks, beware and watch your mouth if you ever boast in the power.

Don't ever try to get rid of some stronghold and go around boasting how strong it is. You're going to get to keep it. Jesus, from the psalm, is stronger than anything that can come against you. Amen? All right, now.

Ephraim, Worldliness, and the Coming Enemy

So let's just continue, and turn with me back to Hosea 7, okay? Hosea 7. Hosea 7. Hosea 7, verses 8. All right, now it's talking about Ephraim. Israel, you know, that's a type of the people of God. Ephraim mixes himself with the world, the nations, right?

Ephraim, verse 8, has become a cake not turned. Do you know what that means? It's harlotry, right? Strangers devour his strength. I wonder who those strangers are. Who is it that comes to devour him, weaken him?

Yet he does not even know it. Gray hairs are sprinkled on him, yet he does not even know it, and he's just dying in it. Though the pride of Israel testifies against him, yet they have neither returned.

That means repenting to the Lord their God, nor how they sought him for all this. They don't repent or return. So Ephraim becomes like a silly dove. They're without sense. That means foolish, a foolish heart.

They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria. When they go, that's the world. I'm going to spread my net over them. I'm going to bring them down like the birds of the sky. I'm going to chastise them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.

What that is really saying right there, that he's just going to let the heads down on them when they practice sin. In chapter 8, do you all think you're hearing a trumpet blow today, folks? Absolutely.

There might be several of them blowing. Verse 1, put the trumpet to your lips, like an eagle the enemy is coming against what? The house of the Lord. Now this is what we've been reading about, everything that we're reading right here.

It's a type of the enemy coming against the house of the Lord. I mean it's to show us today, right? Now let me ask you something. Anyone that just gets historical revelation out of this word is not going to see anything like that.

They would violently. Because the only thing they get out of the word is history. They don't get present and future. You understand what I mean? Okay. Now, put a trumpet to your lips like an eagle, the enemy comes against the house of the Lord.

Why? Because they've transgressed my covenant, broken the covenant, and they rebel against my word, my law. Verse 3, 2, They cried to me, My God, we of Israel of the church know thee. Israel rejected the good, you know the good is the word, the enemy, so the enemy will pursue them, kings, but not the maid.

Now do you think, folks, look at me folks, do you believe any flesh is ruling and reigning over people across the land today in the name of God? Now that's the kings it's talking about because people's hearts just, oh, there he comes, you know.

I mean, just bow their hearts to many, many things, theology, intellect, academic, bow down before it, you know, like, you know, the natural mind understands not the things that God didn't think that they have to, everything that they hear, they've got to hear through one certain man or two men or whatever like that.

I'm going to tell you, what happens to the body of Christ in that? See, that's to get your heart. Who do you think would try to work against you to get your heart and have you set up flesh as kings? I mean, when you've got flesh as kings, you've got idols in your heart and you have power so darkness is destroying you.

And I want to tell you something, God is tearing this down today. Okay. So, verse 4, they set up kings, but it's not the maid. I didn't put these men in there. They have appointed princes or leaders, but I didn't know it.

And with their hundred dollar bills, their silver and gold, they've made idols for themselves that they might be what? Cut off. What does John 15 say? The branch is going to be cut off if it doesn't bear fruit.

Isn't that right? Well, you're not going to bear fruit and fall a knife through flesh. It goes ahead to say there, in verse 5, He's rejected your cast. Oh, Samaria is saying, My anger burns against them.

Now, what did we just see? Who the anger was? Satan. And so what is he going to do? He lowers the hedge and here comes the power of the darkness. Is that right? I mean, they've got a cast. It means an idol in their heart.

Is that correct? Okay. How long will you be incapable of innocence or impurity, whatever? Look at verse 7. For they sow the wind. Now, what are we supposed to sow? We're supposed to speak as oracles of God.

In other words, we speak as Jesus come down from heaven. But when you're sowing the wind, you're just sowing words. That's the same reference as making Ephesians 4, Don't be carried away by every wind of doctrine or every word of doctrine.

See, because here's how you sow. Where do you sow at? From your mouth. So they sow the wind. It's just words. And what do they reap? They reap the whirlwind. Now, that's the anger up there of the Lord.

That's the powers of darkness. The hedge is down. The standing grain has no head. It yields no fruit. In other words, they don't bear any fruit. Look, folks, when somebody is just receiving good stories and words and everything instead of the Word of God, how is that going to produce fruit in you?

How is it going to have any grain? Absolutely it's not. Now, should it yield, strangers, that's the works of darkness, are going to swallow it up and that's exactly what you see in the parable of the Word that they come along and eat the seed.

Is that right? Now in verse 8, Israel is swallowed up, just devoured right there. They are now among the world. They are worldly. They are like a vessel in which no one delights. Is that it today? For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey, all of them.

Ephraim has hired lovers to use the world's methods to do God's work. Now, we're talking about the inmate comes against the house of the Lord. Is that right? All right, let's go to chapter 14. And these are idols.

Repentance, Fruitfulness, and the Wise Heart

Now, chapter 14, verse 1. Return. That means repent. Verse 1 says, Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have what? Stumble. That means you've staggered and stumbled in spiritual darkness because of your iniquity or sin.

Take your words with you. Let these words that win, take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him, Take away all sin. Receive us graciously. They represent what? The fruit of our lips. If we repent and change, the fruit of the lips is we're going to be speaking blessings instead of curses, right?

Okay. Assyria will not save us. We will not ride on horses. Riding on horses means fall of flesh. Nor will we say, Our God to the works of our hands. Do you see that, folks? To build things. Look at me, folks.

Do you understand that all across this land that man is building things and they come in and it's got their heart? They find a false security and things like that and it gets their heart. That's how you bow.

This is what the powers of darkness do. They are called in Daniel, they're the gods of wood, stone, silver, gold, brass, whatever. This is the works of darkness. You know, don't love the world, the things in the world, all that's in the world, the lust of flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boast of pride and laugh.

The powers of darkness use the things in the world to draw your heart. Do you understand that people have stone and wood and it's totally got their laughs? Huh? That's the reason Jesus said, don't worry about what you're going to eat or drink or wear because that's what the world out there does.

But as people of God, you don't worry about things like that because your heart is not here making a reputation or looking good or building your treasures here because you're building treasures in heaven.

Amen? If he's got all your heart, let's see. So this is what happens. The powers of darkness, they pervert something. They pervert it and they get people's hearts and get them drawn over to make idols out of the works of their hands.

And folks, men make doctrines and the doctrines get people's hearts. Men become kings and they just follow that and they've got their hearts. You wouldn't go to the Word of God. Let me tell you something.

See, take a structure and let it have somebody's heart and then come along and they hear something that does not fit in that structure and immediately they reject it. Immediately reject it. Why? They don't want to hear nothing else.

This has got their hearts. Amen? Prove them to hate people they've just merely heard about. That's not the Word. That's not love. But we're not going to say our God to the works of our hands anymore. For in thee the orphan finds mercy.

Now look in verse 7. Those who live in his shadow, that means the presence of God. When you get in his presence, we saw you're going to have clean hands and a pure heart in James 4, 6 -10. Those who live in his shadow, that means they've repented right there, will again raise grain.

That means you're going to bear fruit. Amen? And then they're going to blossom like the vine. Now let me ask you something. Does the blossom come before the fruit comes? Is that right? Okay. And his renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

O Ephraim, O church, O people of God, what more have I to do with idols? In other words, I want all your heart. I don't want anything in the world, the things in the world. You can have a red car, don't let that red car have your heart.

Amen? It's all right to drive a red car, but don't let that piece of steel get your heart. Amen? It's all right to live in a house. Don't let some big house get your heart. You come into a meeting house right here to worship the Lord, we're not going to let this steel and wood and stone have our heart.

Amen? We're not going to... Right? Okay. What more have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am... I wonder who this is talking. That's the groom we was talking about a while ago as being betrothed to.

It is I who answer and look after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress. Here it comes from me. I'm the one. It's from me comes your fruit. Can we tell His name? Jesus. Boy, I'll have Roland run up here real quick and sing, I'm a holy God.

Isn't that good? Huh? Praise Jesus. Now whoever is wise, what's the opposite of being wise? It's having a foolish and divided heart. Right? Now whoever is wise, a wise person comes to the Lord with all his heart.

Now look at me, folks. I want you to hear what I'm saying. Proverbs now, a wise... In the last days, in Matthew 25, they're going to be the wise version and the foolish version. The wise will come to the Lord with all their heart.

The foolish versions are not going to have any law. Oh, their lamps are going to go out and they're going to stumble away. They're going to go to the wise and want some oil. They won't know what's going on and everything.

But the door is going to be shut to them. Salvation is going to be shut to them. And this is the wise. Whoever wise, let him what? What's this word? Understanding. So a wise person has to understand. That's reading the foolish version.

Does not have understanding. Whoever is what? Discerning. The wise has understanding and discernment. Let him know them for the ways of the Lord are righteous. And you ready? And the righteous will analyze the Word of God.

The righteous will walk in it. Amen? Now then, when Jesus has all your heart, look at me folks. This Word right here, when Jesus has your heart, you love this Word more than you do anything else. Now when you come to read this Word, you don't do it for an exercise.

You come here to look in the mirror and see if your heart's lined up with Him. When you see something right here that doesn't line up with, it's in your heart, it doesn't line up here, this is how people get set free in these meetings.

Because immediately your heart just turns around. Say, I love Jesus more than I do this idol and these things in my heart. So you turn from it and that's how strongholds get lifted up and that's how you know the truth and the truth sets you free.

Amen? Because why? The Word cannot wash your heart from all evil unless you love Jesus with all your heart. You know why? You'll come to the Word and you'll pick and choose through there. Well, I'll take some of that.

I don't like this. We don't like this right here. Well, we'll take some of this over here. No, we don't like that. Well, you've got another Jesus. Now that's just plain. I mean folks, I'm not saying this to be cute or smart.

I'm telling you, I've watched these things. He's just gone on to be of the Lord. He went to hell. Tell somebody, I mean these things just need to be said. Somebody don't walk in front of a church building and go to heaven.

You make Jesus Christ Lord of your whole heart or you missed Him. Now, and you'll know them by their fruit. You know why you'll know them by their fruit? You're not going to know them by some certificate or card or anything.

You're going to know them because, brother, they're going to bear the fruit. Let me get down there where you are. Boy, this is strong. I'm going to tell you something, folks. The Word of God separates.

Now, just get adjusted. I'm going to tell you, I'm going to walk with the ones that are going to come to the Lord. I'm going to fellowship with those of the Lord that come with pure heart and cleanse yourself just like 2 Timothy 2 says.

We're living in a time of deception. Tremendous deception. I'm telling you, the fallen way has already taken place. Now, the Word has been lost and God's trying to show us some things and He's going to show us all the same thing.

There won't be no big shot in a bunch. It's just going to be Jesus. Is that plain? And I'm going to tell you what, the church of Jesus Christ, the people are going to be gathered around Jesus and all are going to be gathered around folks or intellect or academic or men or thoughts or doctrines or everything.

Amen? Praise the Lord. Now, I'm mad at the devil and I'm mad at everything that turns people away from the truth. And I'm not attacking people because I receive some grace and I pray to God that everybody that's ever...

I bless everyone that's ever hated me or anything. I just think I've got the grace to do that. I really mean that, but I despise things that cause people to go to hell. I despise it in my own life. Sin in my own life, I despise it.

I despise rebellion. I despise it when I see it and I want you to know I'm turning from it and I'm going to the light. And James 3 says, the body of Christ that come to light, it won't come through the back door either.

Is that playing? Okay. Now, whoever's wise is going to understand this. Whoever's discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord is right. Let God be true and every man be a liar. And the righteous are not going to analyze the Word of God.

They're going to walk in it. But transgressors, they're going to what? They're going to stumble. They're staggering and stumbling in spiritual darkness. That's exactly. Going to stumble. You know what you're staggering and stumbling for?

You won't know the way. Turn to Acts 7, please. Acts 7. If you get my black Bible, I wouldn't mind. These pages stick together and everything. You might start by looking in room 9 back there. Okay, brother.

Appreciate it. All right, now. Acts 7, verse 30. Let me just ask you something first. Is Moses a type of Jesus? Did he have the Word of God? All right, now. Moses, who was it that appeared in burning bush to Moses?

Let me tell you who it was. It was Jesus. Amen? Now, if you didn't know that, you're fixing to learn it. Okay? It was Jesus. Now, in Acts 7, verse 30. And after 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning thorn bush and appeared to Moses.

And when Moses saw it, it's called an angel here, you notice, and when Moses saw it, he began to marvel at the sight, and as he approached and looked more closely, there came the voice of who? The Lord.

Well, I don't think we call all angels the Lord, do we? I only know of one. All right, now. Verse 32. I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Japheth, and Moses. He shook with fear and he would not venture to look.

But the Lord said to him, Take off the sandals from your feet. Praise God forevermore. Isn't that wonderful? Isn't that sweet? Isn't that precious? Boy, I mean to get in the presence of God, I'll tell you what.

Take off the sandals from your feet for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. He said, I have certainly seen the oppressions of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them.

Now, I want you to know who's talking there is Jesus. Jesus said, I've come down to deliver them, and I'm telling you, he's still doing it. Come down, and I'm going to send you to Egypt. That's where he's wanting to send all of us.

Bring them out of there. Verse 35. And he wants us to walk along. Look at me. He wants us to walk along the hedges where there's peace supposed to be in the body of Christ because they're dealing with sin and rebellion.