Dressing the Lamps & Burning the Incense (02/10/2002)

Persecution, Church Break-Ins, and the Men’s Meeting

Back over on this side of the building, we have new shutters on the windows placed because of some visitors we had the night before last. And the interesting thing about it, Brother Otis' class this morning, he discussed the verse where it says you have not yet been tempted, was it tempted to blood or not yet, not yet resisted temptation unto blood, that's what it was.

And when you think about the persecution that we get in America, it's so silly compared to what people have gone through in Hebrews chapter 11 that we studied this morning in Sunday school where they were sawn asunder and just all killed by the sword and on and on and on.

This country's been so blessed. And yet, at the same time, I'll bet that it's been 25 years, I'll bet in the last 25 years there's never been a church broken into in this little town. And in the last six weeks, there have been four broken into at least.

And so times are changing. And we don't know why this happens from a human viewpoint. We don't know if this was a gang initiation or satanic worship or just little kids trying to ring a doorbell and run, except they're bolder than we were when we were kids.

We don't know exactly what it is. But it did offer a wonderful opportunity for fellowship yesterday for Brother Charlie and June and Russ and Brenda and Trudy and myself. And it was blessed. We had a good time together, didn't we?

Thwarts the old devil when we have fun and persecution, doesn't it? And the Lord did protect us because they came in and roamed all around and they really didn't do much damage. They didn't take anything except three of my Civil War chest pieces and they probably took those so we can identify these kids later when we catch them.

So be thankful that the Lord watched over this place. They didn't get in this part at all. So our nursery is pretty much destroyed, though. We're going to have to have the carpet removed with all the glass that's on it and replace that window.

And insurance will take care of that. So interesting times we live in, though, isn't it? We're going to have a men's meeting this afternoon and discuss this a little bit about some precautions we might want to take in the future.

Exchange Life Ministries and International Discipleship Literature

But also, more important than that, we're going to discuss just for a few moments this afternoon with the men our missions thrust. And one of the things that I want to bring up has to do with an idea or actually a ministry, but it's an idea brought to our church by Brother Roy Frenk.

And I'd like for you to come up, Brother Roy, just for a few minutes. I want him to, just in a nutshell, I want you to tell them what you told me about this idea that you have and how it's different than in the past.

The idea seems to have been to distribute Bibles all over the world, which is a wonderful thing. But come up and tell them about this idea because it's something I would like to discuss with the men, but I'd like the church to know a little bit about it even before that.

There is an international, really a worldwide counseling ministry now loosely affiliated called Exchange Life Ministries. It started a few years ago in Denver, Colorado by a man named Lee Lefebvre. There is a Dallas, in New Orleans now, I think, office associated with it, started by Dr. John Best, who used to teach at Dallas Seminary.

Dr. Best left the seminary and started this ministry in his living room. A couple of y 'all here have been to the Exchange Life conferences. Charlie, you've gone, haven't you? You didn't go to one? None of y 'all have gone to one yet?

Okay. Anyway, they have a weekend conference that takes Friday night and Saturday and Friday, Sunday maybe, and then a workshop where they teach you to work with the material a little bit. And then you can go on through either a nine-month weekly training program, or you can go to Denver for two months.

When you finish the advanced training program, they call it, which a bunch of us over at BBC went through a few years back, about ten years ago, you have to do a project. And when I went through it a few years ago, my project was suicide.

And I'm pleased to announce that both of my victims are still alive today. I'm not sure why. Surely it wasn't my fault. But anyway, one of them's in Fort Scanton, one of them's in Idaho, Iowa. But one of the ladies that went through the workshop, her project was to take the conference notebook and turn it into this little booklet.

She did the graphics on her home computer. Her name is Sally Racketts. Sally's in California now, recovering from what they thought was a cancer surgery. She got the announcement that she had cancer, and her husband lost his job on the same day.

That was a great day last week. Anyway, Sally produced this little booklet, New Life in Christ. And we started handing these out over at the bakery. And it occurred to me one day that I didn't have anything in Spanish, and about 95 of the people in the bakery are Spanish.

So I went to Sally a few years ago, and she said, well, you get it translated, and I'll get it published. And that didn't seem like too big a chore. So after our fourth translator, and about two years later, the Lord brought a Spanish pastor named Pedro San Jaime to visit, of course, and he lives here now with daughters from college.

And he's doing some counseling ministry, and he attends over at BBC and teaches it in the rural college. They're going to go back to Spain someday. But he's been a Spanish pastor and counselor. He's got a doctorate degree, on and on and on.

And he got this done for us in Spain, Nuevo Vida en Cristo. It was an interesting little project, because our translator was in Spain, our linguist was in Dallas, our author was in California, and I was the electronic switchboard that plugged all these people in on the internet.

It took about a year, but we finally got it done in Spanish. Our primary outlet now for these is Cuba. There are two mission boards that we work with that take these to Cuba when we have some money to give them to them.

One is World Health in Lynchburg, Virginia, and one is East-West Ministries up in Dallas. But in the last few weeks or months, somehow or another, we got in touch, oh, through this internet connection, we got in touch with this lady who had come over from Russia named Diana Gritskovich.

She's a Chernobyl survivor over in the United States for cancer treatment, and she wanted to do some translation work. So I sent her one of these, and she started working on it in Russian. And then out of nowhere came a man named Victor Zhuromsky, who was an exchange life teacher working in Russia now.

So we plugged Diana and Victor in on the internet, and they're working on a Russian translation of New Life in Christ now. Our primary outlet for this is going to be someday, Lord willing, Russ' play, The Judgment Day, which is traveling around through Russia.

And I just sent Diana an email yesterday and told her to hurry up with the translation because we have two outlets in Russia for the book waiting for it now, Russ' play and Victor's ministry. I hope Russia someday will be our primary outlet.

But the extension of this is someday our goal is to set up a whole ministry of discipleship literature. It occurred to me in the course of human events and meeting these people all over the world primarily on the internet that almost every country in the world has Bibles, and almost no countries in the world have evangelistic literature translated into their language.

Almost nothing is translated. So Dave and I are talking about setting up an organization called, what are we going to call that, International Discipleship Literature, IDL, and translate booklets like this and try to get it out to countries where the people have Bibles but have no way of explaining or understanding using the Bibles.

So right now we have it in Spanish, and this has gone to Cuba, Guatemala, Brazil, Spain itself, I think the Philippines, some folks in Florida, Mexico, and I don't know how many states, and our primary outlet around here though is in the jails.

Thousands of these have gone, I guess, into prisons and jails. I take them to the Corsicana jail and just hand them out to everybody, and the jailers are real open. Well, we have a kind of little internet link, you know, with folks here and there and yonder, and we've had, I don't know, numbers, but lots and lots of people have come into contact with this little book and then written back that they accepted Christ after they'd gone through this little book.

But we've seen broken families restored, suicides averted, people saved, people in emotional shock waves have their lives straightened out. A man wrote to me a couple of years ago and he said, he said, my wife has been in a debilitating depression for eight years.

She, I have to do the dishes for the kids, I take the kids to school, all she does is either sit in the room or sit at the computer, she doesn't even, she won't go to church, she won't go out of the house.

He said, how does the Lord handle the tough problems? And we put her on a prayer chain and sent her a little yellow book and started an internet connection with her. And I've saved all of her letters on a CD disc.

And now she's back in church with her family, she's been working a job, and her and her husband have been taking, I don't know if you're familiar with Bill Gillum videos, Lifetime Guarantee. They've taken the Gillum videos out to other family members and now we're doing a little internet counseling with her sister-in-law who is about to leave her husband and run off with some other men.

And she got them in the yellow book. So it just goes on and on and on. The interesting thing about this little book is I've seen a lot of things and movements and ideas and notions such as going to churches and people being pulled apart.

And everywhere this goes, people are pulled together. I've never seen anybody taken further from Christ or their family or their own personal antagonists after going through a little yellow book. We were talking to a lady just the other night, Russ and I were, and she was explaining all of her insecurities and the absence of that and the other.

And she'd already had a little yellow book, she wouldn't read it. And we talked for a while and I said, Lady, every question you've raised is answered very plainly in the yellow book. Everything is answered.

What it does, it goes through the idea that God has a plan for how life should work, what went wrong and how to fix it. And it focuses on how to fix it, not what went wrong. That's what I like to say.

So we are moving the, hopefully, the game plan is to move the money ministry from, believe it, Bible Church over here because it's so hard to get to the man that runs the money over there. He works out of town, he has three jobs and he's just totally out of reach.

So I do not handle the money. There's a few supporters that send money in. I think we've got about four or five hundred dollars in the account now. But my name is not on anything and I don't touch the money.

The church handles all the money. I send out appeals and the money comes back to the churches and they pay the bills. I have invoices at home we can send to Sally and the publisher. And now they've moved the warehouse to my son Brian's garage for the Spanish books, New Life in Christ, Nuevo Vida.

He's pretty stoked, yeah. So our goal is to move the money ministry to Park Meadows and let y 'all take care of that and we'll continue the other ministry of just contacting the folks and getting the books out.

But once we get them over here, anybody's welcome to get them out. In fact, I could use more help getting them distributed. It costs about, they send them to me for 85 cents a book and they come in blocks of 230 in a box.

So it costs almost 200 dollars to get a box done. 50 of them? No, not 50. Thank you, appreciate your time. But I want to put it in a nutshell if that's possible for me to do. The big idea that is so unique to me, I like big ideas.

My favorite thing in life is to think about big ideas and then get other people to follow them through. In fact, it'll be June's job to follow through with the big idea of us taking care of that money in a different bank account in the church.

But basically what that would be all about is just simply his ministry would come under the corporate shell of our church so that it gets tax exempt benefit and we just have a separate checkbook for it.

And if he needs one, he'll go up and see June at my office and he'll get one of his checks signed and so forth. So we can handle that very easily. We'll discuss that at the men's meeting. But I wanted you to hear a little bit about it from Roy so you know what we're talking about.

But the great idea, the big idea that I saw and it is the fact that this country has sent Bibles and New Testaments everywhere in the world for years and years and years. And no one to my knowledge has sent a Bible study help and put it in different languages.

Like you get a Bible, think about yourself when you first got saved and you had this book. Did you know where to start? You probably tried Genesis. About the time you got midway through Leviticus, you started throwing your hands up saying I need help.

I don't know how to study this book. And when I first got saved, Rocky Freeman gave me a little yellow book called Your Life in Christ, which is not exactly the same as that book, but it was very similar.

And it is the first Bible study I did as a brand new baby Christian. And I don't know where I'd been if I hadn't had that book because that was my first step after baptism. In his ministry, the whole idea is to supply that first step in different languages.

The same places all these Bibles have gone, follow them up with a Bible study help. And I've read through this one. It's very sound. And, you know, Roy and I've got some ideas. In fact, I've written one little Bible study for brand new Christians.

I'd like to put it in with these and translate it, get it translated in there. There would be other material that we can add to this through the years. So I think it's an excellent opportunity for a worldwide mission outreach from this local church.

And Roy brought it to me a few weeks back and I wanted him to mention it to you. We'll discuss it some more in the men's meeting and then later with the whole church. Let's turn to Exodus chapter 30 and verse 1.

The Duty of Dressing the Lamps and Burning the Incense

We're talking still about the duties of the believer priest as pictured by the priests of the Old Testament times. And this morning I want to speak to you about the duty of dressing the lamps and burning the incense.

Dressing the lamps and burning the incense. Turn to Exodus chapter 30 and verse 1 and let's pray together. Father, we thank you so much for your word. We thank you for your Holy Spirit who makes it come alive in our hearts and minds as you speak to us by your word and by your spirit.

Lord, we would be totally blind without it. And so we thank you that you speak to our hearts, you energize us, you move us into your will, you reveal the duties that you have for us each, specifically each of us as you've given us gifts and purpose in life.

And Lord, we pray that as we look at this duty that each of us has that you would put it in our hearts to do this, to do it right, to do it well, and to see the glory of it. We ask it in Jesus' name, amen.

Just follow along with me and we're going to look at some things about this passage. I'm going to stop after verse 1 though because I want you to see a passage of scripture in the Bible in the New Testament.

So you might want to look over at Revelation chapter 8 verse 3 and put a hand there. So you'll be there because I want you to see it. But in Exodus chapter 30 in verse 1 it describes this duty, begins to describe the duty of burning of the incense.

And God gives specific details on how to build the altar of incense and where to place it. And all the little details that are in this Old Testament passage are just colors of the truth that the New Testament teaches about prayer.

We could know that we're supposed to pray and we can even know how to pray in many ways from the teachings of Jesus and the apostles. But this passage from the Old Testament gives us some colors that we would never see without it.

In Exodus chapter 30 in verse 1 it says, And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon of Shittim wood shalt thou make it. Now I want to stop right there and go to Revelation chapter 8 in verse 3 and make this connection so that we'll know what this altar of incense is all about and immediately know what it pictures.

Look at Revelation chapter 8 verse 3. And another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

Now we see the actual thing before the throne this golden altar of incense was the real actual altar that the one in the wilderness tabernacle was a model of. And so God gave them a model and said build it like this and that was a picture and a model of the real thing that was in the heavenlies before the literal throne of God.

And so we see a picture of the real thing here and we see these angels and they have golden censers of incense and he says that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. Now we're going to go to another passage in the book of Revelation at the end of the message in chapter 5 and it says very clearly in that that the incense is the prayers of the saints.

This passage says it's the prayers of all saints. So I want you to keep that in mind as we study through this what is being pictured by this incense is the prayers of all saints going up before God. Now let's go back to Exodus chapter 30 and verse 1 and see what we can learn from this passage.

This wood is from the acacia tree which grows only in the desert. It thrives in desert places especially around the Dead Sea. It is a very hard wood. It is a very heavy wood. It's indestructible by insects.

There are no ants, no termites that can destroy this wood. The tree can grow as large as 20 feet and it tends to do that in the most dry places and at some times of the year it has pretty little yellow flowers on it.

But this was the tree that they had out in the desert wilderness. God told them to use the wood of this tree to build this altar of incense. Now it's a beautiful picture because the wood pictures man.

The wood pictures man on the earth. The earthiness of man I guess you would say. But let's read on. It's interesting what else it says about this. He gives precise measurements in verse 2. A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof.

Four square shall it be, and two cubits shall be the height thereof. The horns thereof shall be the same. I believe that the precise measurements of this are for two reasons. One is because it was a model of a real thing in heaven.

But secondly because God is teaching us that prayer is to be precise. Now I don't want you to take that the wrong way. Prayer has been made by God to be such that the little child can pray. But the little child doesn't recognize perhaps how precise his prayers are.

And exactly how they have to be to keep from being blasphemous. Now as we grow older we can understand more of that by studying passages such as this. But the precise measure of this altar of incense proves to us that our prayers have to be done precisely as God says they have to be done.

We cannot offer them like we want to do. We cannot invent a new way to offer up this sacrifice of prayer unto God. We don't want to be the Cain. We want to be the Abel. We want to worship God God's way.

Much of this has to do with praise. So we want to praise God God's way. Verse two proves that there is a way and that it is very precise. Now let's go on to verse three and thou shalt overlay it this thing made of this hard gnarly wood that pictures man in the flesh and I don't mean that in the immoral sense I just mean in our bodies on this earth.

But look at verse three this same wood it says thou shalt overlay it with pure gold the top thereof look at the how specific this is he didn't just drop it and say overlay it he says the top the sides thereof round about the sides thereof and the horns thereof and thou shalt make into it a crown of gold round about you know what the gold pictures the gold pictures the perfections of Jesus Christ and so this wood was literally overlaid all around every corner with gold and one might say that this wood was literally baptized in Christ pictured by the gold now we're talking about prayer so keep that in mind here we have this wood totally baptized and surrounded by and engulfed by the gold which pictures the Lord Jesus Christ his perfect righteousness his perfections in every way now we go into verse four and two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it by the two corners thereof upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it and thou shalt be four places for the staves to bear it with all and thou shalt make the staves of Shittim wood and overlay them with gold.

Do you remember any other object that had to be carried in such a manner and was not to be carried in any other manner? The Ark and what happened one day when someone got a good idea of a better way to carry the Ark?

Killed him just like that they decided to put the Ark on a cart doesn't that sound like modernism? We have a more modern way to worship God. The church today in America is so filled with this modernistic type of worship and praise and yet God will not accept it unless it's exactly like God says it has to be done.

Now notice that this is carried this Ark is carried in the same manner as the Ark of the Covenant and yet this I didn't mean to say Ark but this altar of incense is carried in the same way. What does it show?

It shows that it is not touched with the hands of man. Now what could that picture for us with regard to our own prayer life? Don't you see that this signifies that your prayers ought not be touched by man they should they are totally between you and the Lord.

They're very private they're very personal, they're very intimate. They ought never be designed to please the ear of man especially public prayer in the church or any group they ought never to sound good to man, that shouldn't be the purpose of the prayer.

They are not to impress man, they are not to be touched by man they're very intimate. You know another thing that happens sometimes with modern prayer is man has been taught in churches in these last days that what prayer is all about is to get things from God to get things from God, sometimes even a thing for another person and that is just a roundabout way of allowing man to touch your prayers.

Our main goal when we go before God in prayer ought to be to please him and to bring glory to him and that his will might be done perfectly on earth as it is in heaven. That is the main purpose of prayer.

It's the only purpose of prayer I should say. And when man comes before God with any other purpose he touches the very altar of incense and totally defiles it. He touches it with his hand. So that's what is pictured here in verses 4 and 5.

Now let's go on to verse 6. We see yet another thing and thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony before the mercy seat that is over the testimony where I will meet with thee.

This had a particular place where it was to be placed if you can picture the holy place and it has the lamp stand on the left side and the table of show bread that we talked about the base bread on the right side.

And as you approach the very veil that goes into the holy of holies where the ark of the covenant was right at that place is where this was to be placed right up against that veil perhaps very close to it anyway be virtually impossible.

It would be impossible to get into the holy of holies without brushing up against this. That's where it was placed now it's interesting that it's placed directly before the place where God says he meets with man.

You see that in verse 6 he says before the mercy seat that is over the testimony where I will meet with thee. So this altar of incense is placed in a place right where God will meet with you. Which shows very clearly that you cannot get to the place where God meets with you if you don't go past this altar of incense.

There's no way to get there without prayer and praise very strategically placed man gains entrance into the presence of God via this altar of incense. Look at verse 7. Aaron shall burn their own sweet incense every morning.

Look when he does it when he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense upon. It doesn't mean upon the lamp. It means upon the altar. But he does it when he dresses the lamps. Now let's go back and review a little bit about these lamps.

What do they picture the lamp stand when he goes in. And it's his duty. And you can come all the way forward in time. You can go forward 1 ,500 years into the future from the place we're reading in Exodus and you find the father of John the Baptist going into the temple and fulfilling this role.

This very same role they were for 1 ,500 years later. They were still doing this the same way that God taught them to do it in the wilderness. Zechariah went in there and he went and as he made sure that he kept the lamps burning he then went to the altar of incense and burned incense.

He was doing that when the angel came and told him all about Jesus and all about his son that would be born named John and he came out speechless. And when the priest goes in and he dresses these lamps and he's already been commanded one of his duties is to never allow those lamps to go out.

And the reason is because the lamps picture what. Who can remember what the lamp stand. And the light on the lamp stand picture. Give me several things. Give me one Jesus Christ the light of the world.

What else does it picture about God about his nature. What would it teach us about his nature that teaches right eternally. And even for that you were thinking life means wisdom and knowledge like wisdom and knowledge of God.

But the fact that it never goes out. The duty of the believer priest in the Old Testament was to never let that light go out because if it did it destroyed the type it destroyed the picture that it gave of the fact that God is both eternal and omnipresent.

He is there with you everywhere you go sees everything you do. And he gives the knowledge and wisdom of the light of God as pictured his life. All of that is there. But brother Otis got. If you put them in order the last answer would be the light of the world which is Jesus Christ.

Now as he lit the lights he then remembers the next duty which is to go to the altar of incense and burn the incense. You cannot burn the incense without that light. You cannot send up prayers to God without Jesus Christ and the light that he gives to even give you the wisdom and knowledge to know what to pray for and how to praise him.

It would be totally impossible if the lamp stand is not here then the altar of incense means nothing. How many people in the American church today even know that they have to look and think about the light before they go to the altar of incense.

How many of them know that the altar of incense is shittum wood but it is totally baptized in Christ which means it has to be totally spiritually one. I don't think once they overlaid the gold. Brother Rush you're an engineer.

You might tell me was there any way to separate that gold from that wood. Once it was placed in there did it ooze into that wood and kind of become one with it. I bet it did. That would be an interesting study.

But that is the place we have to be before the prayers can go up. It's all pictured for us here. So it's interesting that as he goes to keep the lamp strand and it pictures the eternal light of God the eternal presence of God the eternal nature of God the wisdom and knowledge of God and Jesus Christ the light of the world.

He then steps to the altar of incense to offer up the prayers. He takes care of his duty to keep the lamps burning and at the same time is reminded to burn the incense. Philippians chapter 1 verse 11 says this being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God.

There is no way we can bring glory and praises or prayer unto God except by Jesus Christ. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 11 says. For both he that sanctifyeth and he that are sanctified are all one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren saying I will declare thy name unto my brethren.

Jesus says in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. That's a verse I had never seen before this year and I come back to it this morning because Jesus says in the midst of the church father I will sing praise to you from within us.

Jesus sings praise to the father. What a beautiful picture of the way prayer works and praise. Praise and prayer work the same way it has to be initiated in heaven. You can't have prayer of the chitim wood without the overlaid gold.

We can't simply take prayers to God in the flesh. It just won't work. In fact only by the oneness of our spirit where our spirit and his spirit become one at that place where we are truly filled with the Holy Spirit.

Can we pray and praise God. Only when that gold meets that wood and is overlaid and becomes one with it. Is prayer of any value at all. As we move on through this passage we see it's more than saying is it of any value.

It is dangerous if it comes in any other way. Verse 8. And when Aaron Aaron lighted the lamps at evening he shall burn incense upon it upon this altar a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

Just as the believer priest was taught to always keep that light burning which pictured the eternal presence of God the eternal wisdom and knowledge of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. He was told to keep the perpetual incense before the Lord throughout all generations to teach our children and our children's children how important this kind of prayer and praise to God is now.

Verse 9 and 10 are the last two verses we'll look at. But I want you to see these because they're very important in the context of this. He shall offer no strange incense thereon nor burnt sacrifice nor meat offering.

Neither shall you pour drink offering thereon not on this altar. This is for prayer. But offer no strange incense either. Don't send up any prayers of the flesh or of the world or of the devil not from this altar.

And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most holy unto the Lord.

This altar has to have the blood of Jesus attached to it as well. We see all of this. We see that fleshly carnal prayer is a strange incense unto the Lord. And it is dangerous to touch this with man's hand.

It is to be done in a precise correct way. Let me show you what that correct way is. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 15. Go ahead and turn there. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 15. While you're turning to that verse I'm going to read a couple of the verses above it to show you who we're talking about.

It says we have an altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle for the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought to the sanctuary by the high priest for sin or burned without the camp wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the camp.

Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city. Now we come to verse 15 is talking about Jesus Christ. It says by him. Therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.

You see that the continual burning of the incense was a continual offering of praise but it can only be done by him. That's why he had to stop by the lampstand first. That's why that the altar itself was wood overlaid with the gold of Jesus Christ totally baptized in Christ.

And then Romans chapter 8 verse 26 it'll give it is so clear I can't believe I missed it for 20 years of ministry. I knew the concept but I I didn't really see it in the scriptures until I saw this verse Romans 8 26.

And I saw it in the context of the fact that prayer has to be initiated in heaven. I had a teacher once that told me to add a coffee. Then I found this verse. It says likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities.