Forsaking God — B.H. Clendennen

I'm going to read from Hosea chapter 4 and verse 6. My thought forsaking God. Hosea chapter 4, verse number 6. Father, thank You for the reading of the Word of God this morning. Thank You to anoint us to speak and to hear.

May this Word find a lodging place in our hearts that we are here today. As we come to the final moments perhaps of these times, let us be the people through which You can work. Amen. Hosea 4 and 6. My people are distored for lack of knowledge.

Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee. Thou shalt be no priest to me, seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God. I will also forget thy children. What a frightening thought.

I will also forget thy children. You know, God in some way must find our life, that He may either reward it or punish it. Somehow or another, He has to find our life, who we are, what we are, and what our intention.

Now, this case in Hosea's time, He will get to the parents through the children. My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. Now, there is a word omitted here that gives a force to the impeachment that God brought.

That word should, I think, read literally, My people are destroyed for the lack of Thee knowledge. You see, the article is missing. There in the translate, for the lack of knowledge. But they are destroyed for the lack of Thee knowledge.

There is only one knowledge on this planet worth acquiring. Reject any information that attempts to take the place of inspiration. Has no place. Information is useful only within limits. For information is a changeable quantity.

It changes. It's easy by the very fact of enlargement and self-correction. It will change. Information all of the while. A few years ago they said eggs will kill you. Now they want you to eat them. It's just a constant changing thing of information.

So when information begins to take the place of inspiration, it's time to be rejected. But inspiration is the Spirit of God. The Spirit is a genius that unites all things, interprets all things, and in a sense, governs and directs everything.

The Spirit. Now, the Bible is consistent with this claim. We forget that. But the Bible always, never moves a principle. It is consistent always in its claim. It never lowers the spiritual tone. For nobody, no one, doesn't matter who he is, what he is, it never lowers.

Under no circumstance will it modify its claims or the challenges of God. It doesn't matter. We have judges in America. They don't interpret the law, they make the law. It's according to who's before them.

But it doesn't work this way. Before God, all are equal. And God never modifies their preachers that believe because of their importance that God will look over certain things in their lives. But they have become fools in their own rights.

Putting God First in Every Area of Life

If God is not first, then there'll be no settlement of the condition. No time, no place, if God isn't first. But with God at the right place, that is, first in our life, all other considerations, all other ministries, all other actions assume their right relation and process.

If you and I keep God in the right place, then everything else will fall in place and be right. There's no question here that God is dressing His people. And there's no question to me it's not ancient Israel, but the 21st century Pentecostal church that He's talking to here now in Hosea.

He's talking to us, having rejected the knowledge of God, the church of our time, and have changed that which meant to be the holy of holies, the dwelling place of God, having changed that into a purpose-driven, user-friendly, worldly religious institution.

No longer, no longer for the great part, as is it the dwelling place of God, it's become that that man has used for his own works. It has become the religion of Baal where man uses God instead of God using man.

Now because it is of the world, the world hears it. That's most of the mega-churches that you have today. They have reduced, amen. Dr. Cho himself said, I began to preach repentance and turning to God.

I got beat, spit upon. I was maltreated. I went back and after much prayer, my message was God wants to bless you. I can tell you God wants to bless you if you get right. But He has no blessing until we come under God to His place.

Now because it's of the world, that is the institution called the church, the world hears it. So we have the so-called mega-church, whose faith is not in God, but in the number of people that attend it.

When Churches Replace the Cross With Popularity

We'll do anything to increase the crowd. Whatever. Any kind of a game, a scheme, whatever. Because our faith is no longer in the God of heaven, but in how many people we have in that church. You ask a man, how's his church doing?

Well, I had 150 last Sunday in Sunday school. When we numbered Israel, we invited a curse. Because it was no longer God that we looked to, the church rose or fell on how many people were there in that service, instead of the presence of God.

Now the driving purpose of the purpose driven is not to produce saints of the most high God, but a religious people who never really come to know God in a born-again, sanctifying experience with God.

It's just to fill the church. Not with saints, but with people. It doesn't matter. This is evident in the message preached today. You must not mention the cross. I was in California in a church not far from where I was preaching.

Refused you the right to bring a Bible to church because you might offend those that didn't bring one. The terror may be offended because you brought a church. This has become the normal. The message preached, don't mention the cross or sin.

This would be a terrible offense to the religious Ishmaelites. It would be a terrible thing if you preached the cross and preached sin. Every message preached must be carefully edited. I read this article.

They have committees. And the preacher gets his message. Then they all sit down. He's only going to preach once a week. And so they all sit down. And each line is looked at. I believe if you modify this, it might offend somebody.

Now if you would use a little different grammar, a little different emphasis here, I believe this is the way that it works out. You'd be surprised how large that occupies in the church. It's not a man of God hearing from God.

It's a committee telling the preacher. Now you've got people out there. If you say this, you're going to offend them. Don't deal with adultery because some of our deacons are kind of fooling with that a little.

So we keep them. They put a lot of money in the tier. And so be careful how you preach. This is not an exaggeration, folks. This is the way it has become. Amen. This is how it is. Now, every message must be carefully edited.

Every word must be weighed. Lest some poor person be convicted of sin and leave the house weeping. Might leave there disturbed. I was in a church. We had 150 people in a store building. I preached the message apart of what is the school of Christ.

The Trojan horse. I've dealt with what's got into the church. And when I gave the altar call, out of that 150 people, there's 125 of them in that altar weeping. I'm down there praying with them. All of a sudden, the pastor is on that microphone.

Everybody on your feet now. On your feet. He got them all up. I don't want you to go home like this. I don't want you to go home disturbed. Why, I just said I was going to be there three days. One night's enough of this for me.

Amen. You're not going to be able to deal with the heart of a human. You understand where I'm coming from. We are a people that I believe that God is going to use to bring that church. But there must be something God can point to.

There must be something. This is an example. Christ was that. And there must be a body of people that present Christ, or you'll never be able to show men and women out of the wilderness into which the churches come.

Separation From the World and the Loss of the Church's Distinctiveness

And they fortified Jerusalem unto a broad wall. Cities, as you know then, were fortified, have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in her glory. Mr. Spurgeon, a hundred or so years ago, whenever he was around, preached a message along that line.

He made this statement. He said, way back then, this is what stirred me. See, every generation faces pretty well the same thing. The church goes through that cycle. Mr. Spurgeon said the new Jerusalem must in like manner be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of non-conformity to the world and separation from its customs and its spirit.

Now, I don't know just what year that man lived, but that's when the great preacher said. He said, the tendency of these days, I said, Mr. Spurgeon, you could have lived in my day. He said, the tendency of these days is to break down the holy barrier and make the distinction between the church and the world merely nominal.

It'll be a sad day for the church, said Mr. Spurgeon, and the world, when the proposed amalgamation is complete and the sons of God and the daughters of men have become one again. Then shall another deluge of the wrath of God come.

Oh, you could have preached through our church, Mr. Spurgeon. You surely would have been on time to be in our time to bring that message from God. Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah fend, and come not you into Gilgal, neither go you up to Beth-Avon, or swear the Lord liveth.

Hosea. Bethel hath become Beth-Avon. You know, Bethel means the house of God. Beth-Avon means a house of vanity. It has become that. The transition from the house of God to a house of vanity. So the sanctuary becomes a stable.

There's nothing so sad how quickly the pure can be corrupted. That's one of the saddest things of history. The Reformation in 50 years had lost its force. In 30 years after Pentecost, the Apostle Jude wrote these words earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.

It was already becoming tarnished. How is the goal dimmed? How does it happen? All of these things. You see what a guard. As we talked in the last lesson, examine ourselves. We must always be careful that these things are not making an inroad into our lives.

You know, sometimes the preaching maybe it always whenever you hear the Word of God, you're always judged by it if it's preached. You're found guilty or not guilty. But we must always come under that of the Word of God.

It is there that we discover like I told you in the last, that man of God. He preached that night and I saw in my heart that unforgiving spirit of that man. And what a terrible time. On another occasion, I had a $100 bill.

I believe that may have been the first one in my life that didn't belong to somebody else. That was really mine. And so I kept it. That was a lot of years ago. And a $100 bill was a lot of money. And I kept it.

And I said to God, you know it's so easy to drift along preaching. You don't commit adultery. You don't go steal. But somehow or another you just lose that edge. You need somebody. Amen. To bring you under conviction.

And I said to God, I'll give this $100 to a man just preach me under conviction. Well, he came. He preached. Oh, he preached. When we got through out of the altar and I'd wept, he used up a box of Kleenex.

Amen. I shook hands. I left that $100 bill in his hand. He said, what's that for? I said, don't ask any questions. Oh, just enjoy. All of us need, is what I'm saying, somewhere along the line for God to deal with our hearts.

To open us up. Because we've become careless. We don't realize how we allow things to come into our hearts. When I went to Beaumont, started that church, we'd been there about two months and a family come in.

Conviction, the Holy Spirit, and Guarding the Heart

And they were fine people. They wanted us to have dinner with them on a Saturday night. Well, we was pretty skimpy along about them days. We was watching pretty close. There wasn't no sponsors. We was very happy to go eat dinner with them at night.

Well, when we got through with dinner, the wives were in there cleaning up the kitchen. Myself and him and my two children sat in his living room. And he had a television. We never had one until they were grown.

We should never have one. But I sat there and he said, Pastor, no matter who's here, on Saturday night, I watch Gunsmoke. And for the next 30 minutes, that deal was on. There was no sex. Not a lot of violence.

Six shooters shoot 40 times. But that is just one of them things. Amen. But I sat there. But on my way home that night, driving along, I was weeping so hard. I couldn't hardly see the road. And my wife said, What's wrong with you?

I said, God said to me, Would you dare sit and watch that trash on a Saturday night and deal with my people on a Sunday morning? It's so easy to get careless. She said, Oh, that's nothing. It is something.

Amen. You're not going to come out in front of that trash and touch a man's heart on a Sunday morning. The sensitivity. But if you're not careful, listen, when He said, the Holy Ghost said, when you hear His voice, harden not your heart.

You harden that heart, but listen to that trash. You get too many voices and you can't hear the voice of God. So we need God to probe deep into our spirits. Amen. The sanctuary becoming a stable. The altar be sold for bread.

The minister of the hunger of wickedness. The glorious turned into shame. And over the door of the temple, there's Ichabod. The glory has departed. Just a place to come. A place to play. A place to go through the ritual.

A place to appease our consciousness. Bethel has become Beth-Avon. A house of vanity. Thus we lose our character and the names in which we were baptized become associated with forms of shame, debasement, and a lot of other things.

The name of Jesus still used in that house of vanity associating that wonderful name with that which has nothing on this earth to do with Him. Here God speaks to the priest. How is the fine gold dim? Verse 7 tells it all.

It said, they eat up the sins of My people and they set their heart on iniquity. Think of that. They eat up the sins of My people and set their heart on iniquity. You see, He's talking here to the priest.

They live upon that. They pander to the people rather than expose their sins. They do not deal with the heart because there's no love for people. You know, my dad, he used to have to work me over once in a while.

And he said, it's going to hurt me worse than it does you. I said, not the same place. It must be a little different. But he knew, you know, he knew what he wanted. It's because he did. He loved me. And he wanted me to grow up and be a decent human being.

That was the purpose of life with him. And God said, whom He loves, He will chastise. Whether you want to be chastised or not, if God loves you. And if you're without that, He said, you're illegitimate.

You're not My son at all. Unless I deal with that heart. Amen. They pandered to the sins of the people. The priest seized upon the produce. Spent it their own lust. I've watched it. Everything. Everything.

Prosperity, Corrupt Offerings, and the False Altar

Oh my. This prosperity message. Nothing ever so corrupted. The church. The money has become. A friend of mine was in the service. They're going to take an offering. And he said, he was sitting on the front seat.

And his name was Rich. That was his last name. And he said, get out the biggest bill you got. And the people, they did. Because he'd been telling them how rich they're going to get. And he said, now you wave that up and you just cry, money cometh.

Money cometh. Money cometh. That's in the house of God. Why, he stood up and he said, Rich, leave us. He checked out. He checked out. I'm not trying to be funny. But you have to laugh or weep, folks. When you see the things that take place in the house of God.

Amen. God speaks of the priests here. Supposedly anointed men living on the produce of sin. I mean encouraging the people in things. So the priests are made fat by the iniquity of the people. And the Lord was moved in heaven in the direction of judgment.

He shook heaven and condemned those people who He had called by the endearing name, My people. He brought condemnation upon them because of what He saw in that house. You know, it's something to have a righteous God who ever invented Him.

Amen. How wonderful. You know, the prophets were accused of inventing that kind of a God. There were those that accused Him of it. But the inventors of a God, it was a noble dream they dreamed. The God that they invented, if that be so.

Amen. But His moral character disposes of any such theory. Amen. It does not lie within the scope of iniquity to dream holiness, folks. It's not there. Wherever that flesh takes a hold of that holy temple of God, it will become death-haven every time.

It will become that house of vanity where people come to exalt themselves. They believe somehow or another. It's not a broken-in-the-contrast spirit anymore. It's a proud spirit that's come to exalt itself.

It is something to have a righteous God. The Lord inquires about our gains, inquires about our produce, our enjoyments, and He'll not tolerate on His altar the results of sin. We have in the prisons in Peru one of the greatest revivals, I believe, in that Lurigancho prison.

They called it the worst prison in the world. In there, I was in there with this man, a drug lord. He was one of the Colombian drug lords. He'd killed many, many men. And when the judge sentenced him to there, he said, my heart failed me.

He was really bored again when I'm talking to him, filled with the Holy Ghost. He said, my heart failed me. When he told me, I knew when I come in there that I'm going to be raped. Everything I have is going to be taken.

I just knew. But he said, when I walked through the door, I met a young man with a necktie on, and he said, you're assigned to my section. I'll be your pastor. And he led me to God Almighty. He said, come to find God.

And he told me, he said, you know, I've got millions of dollars out there, amen, that's tucked away. And he said, I wish I could give it to you. I said, no, no. I would not want that. You can't bribe the altar of God, folks.

Amen. We tried that. We say, Ian justifies the mean. That's the way AT &T operates. But not the church of the living God. I said, that's not the way. That's not the way the church. He said, I wish I could give it to you.

I said, no, sir. I don't want that money. And you don't want it. He was so thankful that they put him in prison. He had found God. He said, they need to keep me here. If I get out, they will kill me. He said, because they know what's happened to me.

They never lose touch of you here. But God had wonderfully saved him. But yet, he was telling me that he had this. You know, a man has gained wealth like him by evil means. He may bring it to the church.

The church would ease its conscience with those words that Ian justifies. The means. But the Lord will not receive such a sacrifice. I promise you. He loves righteousness, truth, honesty, reality. He'll not turn his head when men try to bribe that altar.

He will not turn his head. The church, what I'm telling you, has forsaken God in a religious line. They really believe. They followed that flesh out there. And they're so excited about their Ishmael. They believe that God has blessed it.

Deception, Presumption, and the Need for a Holy Remnant

They come across America. It may have got over here. People were having oil in their hands. Or just, some of them had honey in their hair. You know, just everything shows up. One gimmick after another.

I preached 40 years ago. I said, you can believe that deception will become more artful as the end approaches. I had a woman one night. She come running up there. Had this oil. She said to her hand, I said, oh, sit down, man.

Don't run up here with that. I said, the Word of God has nothing to say about this. She hollered at me. I don't care what the Word of God says. It happened to me. Oh, I said, a lot of things are going to happen to you if you don't care what this Word says.

You know, people praying for an angel to come. He'll come. Don't ever forget it. They will one come, if that's what you're looking for. But we just come to excuse and to allow. Amen. Listen, and there shall be like people, like priests.

There shall be. They will become. They will follow that presumption into that desert. You know, sheep are colorblind. They don't know whether it's green or stubble. They can't have running water because that wool absorbs.

They're drowned. They're led into that stubble. They believe that it's green. The people do what they want to do, have what they like, and the priests say, you could not help it. You just couldn't help it.

The priests will reproduce what the people are doing, and the people's encouragement from the priests become more wicked all the time. Just move. The pulpit governs it all, all of the time. However it stands, it's difficult to believe that the holiest institution can be dragged to such a degree of corruption.

Corruption. California, one of the largest churches in California, is a black minister, the largest church. He put his wife away, found another, and he put his wife away, and they had a big wedding in the church.

I mean, there's no fornication. No, not just put her away. He said the Lord told him that they never were spiritually married, them two. That five or six kids got spiritual sound to me like. Amen. Here, he put her away, got him another, and the church just walked the thing right on in.

Hard to believe that the thing called his church could ever become that corrupt. You understand, I'm talking as individuals. You tolerate willfully in your life, that which God has dealt with you about, and I can tell you there will come a time you won't believe anything.

There will come a time when that will become the driving force of that life. There are priests, and when I talk about priests, you're talking about preachers, and you're talking about prophets, you're talking about them all.

There are priests who have no consciousness of sin at all. While there are others who condemn sin generally, but never particularly. They can always deal with it at a distance, but never when it's up near.

When it's right there in the house, keeping God at bay. He'll only outgrow this though, when he knows Christ better. He'll never tell he knows Christ better. Amen. When he is enabled to complete his faith, and he comes to know it's not necessary that he lives, but it is necessary that he preach the truth.

Only then. I've watched in this 52 years of preaching, the great Pentecostal church reduce itself to a man-controlled operation. I've watched organizations destroyed because it become a hierarchy of certain people.

It become a political thing. I've watched preachers politic just like they are here now, trying to gain an office. I've watched those. You know, Hitler was a very wicked man, but there's one thing he said I agreed with.

The only thing worse than not having enough help is having too much. Amen. When you create more offices, you're creating and inviting the inferior stuff. When people begin to seek offices politically, then it's no longer a movement now, it's become an institution.

It's no longer, it's just a religious debating society, and they don't know what they're debating about most of the time, because God is not present. But I said all that to tell you, church, we can't redeem ourselves.

We do not have to be a part of that. There is going to be a remnant of people that stand up and represent God in this final day. There are going to be. When Mr. Taylor come back from China, he was in London for a short time, and they said he was speaking to a very large congregation of people, and just for a few moments he went into a trance.

He just shut down and stood there transfixed. And when he come back out of it, he said to them, I just saw a vision of a move start in Russia, and swept down across Europe and across Europe, and Christ came back.

I believe we are there, folks. I do believe. God is preparing a vessel for that. God is awakening. You know that. You live here. I live in America. I see things that are happening. And you see them. There's a stir.

The cloud is not much bigger than a man's hand now. And you don't hear a roar in the mulberry tree, but the people listening for it are hearing it today. People are looking for that cloud. The only man who saw it is the man looking for it.

And I've been looking and I have seen that cloud. There is on the horizon a move of God. And I appeal to you in this time, you be a part of that. Give your heart. You can't be half-hearted in this. You have to give yourself to God.

Returning to the Gospel and the Cleansing Blood of Christ

And to redeem ourselves, certain things have to take place. We've got to come back and understand the value of the Gospel. The value of the blood of Jesus. Years ago when Pentecost was young in the state of Texas, a man of God felt called out way out in the west part of that state to build a church.

And he did. God began to move. And a rancher and his wife and young son, an 18-year-old lad, were the first ones to come in. They were fairly wealthy people. Very prominent in the community. Had thousands of acres of that land out there.

They came in, were saved, were filled with the Holy Ghost. But as the time went on, others come in. There's a young lady, beautiful young lady, a prostitute, came into the church wonderfully saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.

God saved her. She was broken. Come in. Well, the inevitable happened. That fine rancher's lad fell in love with that ex-prostitute. That brought the church into a state of division. There were folks who said, oh, he deserves better than that.

And they become this great battle inside the church. Finally, a church trial was called. It got that serious. That a church trial. They're going to make a decision on this. Well, the lad and his Mary, that was her name, weren't allowed.

But right in the middle of it, he walked in. He just pushed the doors open. It was small. The church wasn't much bigger than this. Very young at those times. And walked right down to the front of the platform.

They told him not to come. But he come, shut everything down, and said to those people, I do want to tell you that my Mary is not on trial in this house this morning. It's the blood of Christ. If it didn't cleanse her, it cleansed nobody.

But if it cleansed her at all, it cleansed her totally. No matter what you say, I will marry her. Amen. This is where we are. Come back to the value of what this is all about. The blood does cleanse. It does continue to cleanse.

If we walk in the light of it, we don't have to corrupt folks. You can live for God in the midst of this corrupt, evil generation. We can be a light that shines beyond our ability if we'll just come back to God and believe in the principle.

Be filled with the Holy Ghost. Every morning, pray your way back to the presence of God. He said they're renewed every morning. That's what God... Those mercies are renewed every morning. Don't talk to anybody until you talk to God.

Let Him be the driving force of your life. Dr. Joy, one of the great praying men of all time, he got up every morning at 4 .30 to pray. He prayed in his home on this particular morning. His testimony of his wife.

He'd got up. He always went down the other part of the house to pray. His wife never got up at that time. But she heard him when he hit the floor. And he was weeping and crying and groaning. And she ran.

Daddy, what's wrong with you? What do you mean what's wrong with me? Did you hear that paper hit the house? She said, what's it got to do with you? He who worships God earlier than I'll worship mine. He'll get up at 3 o 'clock to make a dollar.

We're too lazy to get up to talk to our God. Then we wonder. He's secondary in our lives. An hour, a little more sleep, a little more slumber, and you'll find yourself outside. They that seek me early, I will be found to them.

I know what that means. I don't mean when you're a teenager. That means early in the morning. All of Belfast is drunk last night. I can tell you 2 or 3 o 'clock in the morning they woke him up outside the door.

But they're snoring this morning. I can tell you, get up about 5. You won't have much interference with the devil. He's been drunk all night. You can pray better to get a hold of God early. They that seek me early shall be found to me.

Living for God, Speaking for Christ, and Walking in Holiness

I want to suggest to you here this morning in what little bit of time there is left here, we have to be back at 7, so I've got to get you out by 5. Amen. We've got to get on with this. First thing, there's certain things we can do.

Number 1, you can live for God. That's the key to everything. You can live for God. If you're not going to live for God, don't talk about Him. If you're a church member, if that's all you are, don't talk about Him.

Don't insult Him. Amen. Don't insult God. If your life doesn't measure up, if there's not a real desire to be the person of God, if you're not going to live for Him, what I'm saying, don't talk about Him.

I've had people try to talk to me about God, but I couldn't hear a word they said because of what they were. Amen. What they were was louder. They never walked with God. They had no regard for God. They had people in the church.

They were meaner than junkyard dogs. If you crossed them, they'd tear the whole house up. Yet, they wanted to be very spiritual at times. Amen. That's a disgrace to God. The first thing, let's set our hearts to be full of God, to walk in the Spirit of God, to be holy people.

Amen. Everywhere. All of the time. It is within the power of God's Spirit to make us holy early in the morning even. Amen. Anytime. Anywhere. We can be Christians. We can be Christians. So you can live for God.

That's the first thing that the church has to do. We that love God is to let our light shine everywhere we are. In the marketplace, wherever we are. We don't have to react. I read a testimony of two men.

They grew up together all of their lives. They were not brothers, but they went all the way through school. When they graduated university, John separated them, but they were closer than brothers for the most part.

And so every year, they spent their vacation together. One would go visit the other. The next year, they turned that around. Well, during the year, one of them was wonderfully born again. He found God.

And he went to be with his friend for his birthday and said they were there. And he witnessed to his friend about Christ. But that evening after dinner, the women were cleaning up. They went out to the newsstand to get a paper.

And all he had was a five dollar bill for a 25 cent paper. And he gave the man. The man cursed him and said, that's all you got. Stupid. Made all kinds of remarks about him. But he never said a word. Never said a word.

If you don't have the change, he said, I'll just do it without the paper. But when they left, his friend that wasn't saved said, I've known you all my life. You never would let him talk to you like that.

Why don't you pull him across the counter? He said, if I react, I'm no different than he is. If I allow him, if that devil can provoke me to strike back, I am no different than he is. We can live for God.

Then we can talk. You never know when you really talk. You never know what will come out. If you really speak for Jesus, they may not even pay you any mind. But you don't know. If in your heart, if you're really walking with God, and you speak to people about themselves, you never know what the outcome of that will be.

Just that testimony. You know, all of those people I told you about in that war, they were nothing. They were religious. I'm sure some of them Pentecostals. They were Baptists. They were Methodists. But they drank like I drank.

They chased women. They did it all. They were no different. They went to church. That's the only difference between me and them. They went to church. I had nothing. But when we'd come back to that island, we'd come off of Peleliu, we were decimated out of my battalion.

Only 80 of us were able to walk back aboard that ship. So they took us back to the islands where we were gathered, and they began to give replacement. They gave me a young man. He was 18 years old. One of the finer looking young men.

About six foot one. You couldn't have shaped him better with a chisel. He was absolutely everything. Just to look at him. Fine, fine looking young man. He had a Bible in his pocket. New Testament in his pocket.

They gave him to me. He said, he'll be in your gun. I took him in and introduced him to the six men in the tent. He's going to be there. I said, he's going to be one of our ammunition carriers. Give him his name.