Heredity - Part 3 — G.W. North

Isaac in Gerar and the Repetition of Hereditary Sin

And we see this tremendous truth in the 20th chapter. Oh, sorry, no, I'm wrong there, that's still Abraham. It's Isaac I want, after he's married. 26th of it, thank you ever so much. It's because my eye fell on a Vimelick.

Isaac dwelt in Gerar, verse 6. And the men of the place asked Isaac of his wife, and he said, she's my sister. For he feared to say, she's my wife, lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, for she was fair to look upon.

And there the same thing repeated itself. Forget your father's house. And this is what happens. The sins of the fathers are repeated in their sons. Behavior patterns are set. How careful we need to be.

How careful we need to be. I find this again and again. Young people come to me, and I find that the same things that have happened in their parents are happening in them. Same thing. They repeat the things that their parents have done.

They may not set out slavishly to do so, but the same things come out. You can witness them. Trace them back. The same sins. The same foes. The same bearing. And it's there. It happens in my family. It happens in yours.

We're all somewhere along our line of heredity. We've all got murderers, blackguards, drunkards, twisters, fornicators, wicked people. If you go back far enough. All a lot of us. Isn't that right? I mean, you may not know your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.

If you go back far enough in your history, you'll find that you're related to a dishonest gardener who got the sack for stealing the fruit. Got turned out of the garden. His name's Adam. If you all go back far enough.

Original Sin and Humanity's Descent from Adam

You see, this is the whole thing. This is where we had our beginnings. In league with Satan. Let's go back into the New Testament, shall we? Although it's really moving on. And we come into the Gospel according to John.

Good old John. Chapter 8 of John. See? Chapter 8 in John. Notice the consistency. It starts off with a woman taken in adultery. You get the same cowardliness taken in the very act. Then I'll ask you a question.

Where was the man? Where was the man if they were taken in the act? No, they bring the woman. There you are. You're ashamed of yourself, you men. Let's all be ashamed of ourselves. The woman. And they bring the woman.

And it's in adultery. You know the whole story. Bless the Lord. He said to her, Where are thine accusers, woman? Woman, where are thine accusers? You love and trace through this use of the word woman and trace through the use of the word Mary.

It'll be a blessing to your heart if God gives you spiritual understanding. Woman, he said, where are those thine accusers? Doesn't any man condemn thee? She said, no man, Lord. And the only man there was on the earth.

They'd all, others, have cleared out anyway. He said, neither do I condemn thee. Hallelujah. You see? Glory be to God. This man, the man, he hadn't come to condemn. Bless him. Goes down the chapter. All right.

Freedom from Sin in John 8

We come to the chapter and we, we read these words. Um. Oh, I don't know what's where. I don't know where to break in and where not to break in. I think we ought to read. Um. We be Abraham, see verse thirty-three.

And were never in bondage to any man. How sayest thou you shall be made free? Jesus answered them, verily, verily. I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the slave of sin. And the slave abideth not in the house.

Here we have it again. He's on the house. Abideth not in the house forever. But the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free. Indeed. Hallelujah. Praise him. Ha ha.

This is a thrill. I know that you're Abraham's seed. But they were the seed of that which connived a lie and sowing fear. That's what they were the seed of. On the flesh side. They weren't the spiritual seed.

This is the great truth that God wants us to see. I know that you're the seed of Abraham. He said, I know all that. But you seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with my father.

You do that which you've seen with your father. See, that's it. That's the law that governs it. Here's the law of heredity. Amen. Coming in. They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said unto them, if you're Abraham's children, you do the works of Abraham.

If you're God's child, you'll do the works of God. That's the implication. You'd better let the implication sink in. You do the works of your father. Let's go on. But now you seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I've heard of God.

This did not Abraham. You do the deeds of your father. Then said they unto him, we be not born of fornication. We have one father, even God. Jesus said unto them, if God were your father, you would love me.

For I proceeded forth and came from God. Neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear my word, you're of your father the devil. And the lusts of your father you will do.

He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there's no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not.

Praise God. I'm not praising God, because naturally we're of our father the devil. Every one of us, in our first birth, come down from that line. Every one of us. And until we are born again, we cannot stop doing the works of our father.

That's going right back to Satan. And we cannot help repeating the works of our forefathers, as we've inherited the original Satanic seed, as it came down to us through the particular branch of the human family of which we've been born.

And this is the whole truth. Behaviour patterns are set. Glory to God, they're set. I'm glad they're set. I'm glad they're set, because they're set in Christ. I'm glad there's no whimsy behind this. I'm glad it moves on eternal law.

I'm glad that once I've been born again from on high, then the life is eternal, and the behaviour patterns are set, and the glorious spiritual laws are going to work out in me, if I will be obedient. I will believe God's word.

If, and only if, I will continue the way I began. The way I came into my eternal life is the way I must continue in it. All the glorious simplicity of it all is caught us in the beginning. And if only we would walk in that simplicity of spirit, of perfect trust, utter abandonment.

There is no cost. None. It will stain what we are when we're a true child of God. There's no price to pay. None. Hallelujah. It's all gift. You only think there's a price to pay because you're conscious of flesh, and conscious of human beings, and conscious of worldly advantage and gain.

That's why you think there's a price to pay. There isn't any price to pay. Hallelujah. It's all a gift, but people won't have it. They get into their minds. That's right. They start to think, and they always think themselves up into a blind alley, or else a maze, or a spiral chute down into the depths.

One of the two. Go round and round. Instead of living in total abandonment under the Lord, Lord help me. If I understand the gospel, it's all based upon these primitive things. Amen. The two things that God is expecting of all mankind, irrespective of nation, of creed, of breeding, or what it be amongst men, the thing he is expecting of us all is, in Romans 1, these two invisible things of God we're expected to know, basically.

We who have had the gospel are more responsible than those who have not the gospel. But each one is in the measure that God finds them responsible to God. Here it is, 20. The invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.

Here are the two things. His eternal power and Godhead. Amen. Now, if we'll remain conscious of his eternal power and his Godhead, that puts everything right. You may say, that's oversimplification. It may be to a complicated mind.

Clever minds can't bear oversimplification. But simple beings love it. That's right. Real simplicity. Eternal power. Glory to God. And his Godhead, dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily in our blessed Lord.

I'm conscious of his eternal power and Godhead in a new and glorious and remarkable way that the unborn again ones are not conscious of. And we, yielding up to these basic things, beloved, shall become the glorious creatures that God wants us to become.

This God brought off the primitive revelation, for that's the primitive revelation. Doesn't matter who they are. Worldwide, steeped in ignorance, they know perfectly well that that slab of stone didn't create the weather.

They know that some totem pole didn't put that sun in the sky. They all know that. Alleluia. And God will hold all heathen responsible for that when they come to the great white throne. He won't judge them on how they've treated Christ, if they've never heard.

But it's your duty to make them hear about Christ. But he'll judge them on these two counts, every man and every woman, providing all things are equal and they're not born autistic or something, as we speak about it.

Though, God, I want to tell you, beloved, where was I not so long ago? First one I'd really met, God met an autistic man, completely schizoid, and I don't know what he didn't do for him, apparently. God can do all sorts of things.

It's a marvellous thing what God can do. We're moving in the realms of eternal power. And His Godhead! Man, this is marvellous, isn't it? And God is bringing us through on these great levels of truth, beloved.

You being born again in Father's house, are you? Has the Son made you free, really free? And are you forgetting that old Adam? You see, the real tragedy oftentimes with people is that they... I mean, it's been said to me since I've been here, at Cliff's this time.

Someone came to me and said, But, you see, the old Adam isn't dead. The old Adam isn't dead. And when I reaffirmed that he is dead and buried, and that's that, I said, oh, but who's the temper? I do this, I do that, I do the other.

And on went the terrible unfolding of this. But, my beloved brothers and sisters, the Bible says that our old man is crucified. Let's have a look at it. Surely I haven't got to tell you where to find that.

The Crucifixion of the Old Man in Romans 6

That should be a well-thumbed place in your Bible. All right, I'll say it. I won't look at any one. It's in Romans chapter six. You see, when you read through Romans, as I pointed out, I tried to yesterday, very quickly, introducing ourselves to this whole subject.

I started in Romans and pointed out how that Paul there, writing to Gentiles, didn't go back to Jewry or Israel. He went back to nature. When you're dealing with heathens, don't try and deal with some subtle point out of the tabernacle.

The whole wonderful truth, beloved, is that God will approach them on this very human, natural ground. And He knows how to do it. And so, you'll find that He doesn't deal with Moses. He does mention David, but He deals with men like Abraham, chapter four.

And in chapter six, He deals with Adam, you see. In chapter seven, He deals with the wretched man. See? That's right. Put it down. It's all there. And when you get to chapter nine, and ten, and eleven, and He's moving through those passages, He deals with, who are, that old man that replies against God.

He's dealing with the rebellious man coming from the carnal mind. It's all there. Make notes of it, you preachers. These are great subjects for you to explore, and expound, and see the way that God moves in His revelation to mankind.

And in the sixth chapter, we're told so, so clearly, beloved, verse six, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not be slaves to sin.

Glory be to the name of the Lord. Isn't that marvelous? Now, every one of us, outside of Christ, we've got to acknowledge that old Adam was our old man. Now, this is why nobody should call their fathers the old man.

It's most disrespectful. I hope you don't refer to your father as the old man, and your wife, or sorry, your mother as the old woman. What a most disrespectful way to talk about them. Our old man, and we've all got to sort of have some real share in this, he belongs to us all.

He was crucified. Now, listen. It's because you will persist in talking about my old man that you're in trouble. You can't see what God's done. You're really tied up with yourselves. He's our old man.

Glory. I don't mind saying this. Old Adam is our old man. Yeah. Now, listen. Jesus Christ slew Him. Slew Him. God in Christ slew our old man. That's right. He did, and He not only slew Him, crucified Him, but He buried Him.

How about that? He buried Him. That's what it says in this chapter. Glory be to God. We've been baptized into death. Amen. Now, if you've been baptized into Jesus Christ, beloved, know this, that you were baptized into Him at the point of death.

Boom. You weren't baptized into Him at the point of His sufferings for sin on the cross, but it was in the moment of His departing that you were baptized into Him, when He released His Spirit, there was room now for you to be baptized into it.

Glory to God. And the whole tremendous truth lies here, that we were baptized into His death. Alleluia. And we were buried with Him by baptism into that death. Glory. That's a marvelous thing, isn't it?

The old man is crucified, and he's dead, and he's buried. Christ finished him. And you say now, well, what's all the trouble I'm having then? What's all this business of, where did it all come from? Simply this, beloved, it's ever so easy, really.

Reading Scripture Carefully: Romans 6 and Galatians 2

Turn into the Galatian letter. It's because people do not understand the Bible, and that in its turn is because they don't read the Bible properly. This is really our trouble, beloved. I cannot impress this on you too strongly.

You must take hours, and days, and weeks, and months, and years, and you must read your Bible. And you must read it carefully. If you can't read the Bible, this is one of the dreadful stories I hear, talk of people, they say, they're saved, they're baptized in the Spirit, and they can't read the Bible.

Doesn't make any sense to me. I want to know what kind of a baptism they've had. I don't understand these people. Well, you know what I mean. I don't know their experience in the sense of understanding.

I don't know their experience at all. Glory be to God. You haven't all got to be Bible expositors, that's not the point. But you should be able to read this book and just sanely take in what it says and what it means.

It's God's word to you. Whatever's the use of the Bible to you then? Why didn't God not give us a Bible if He gave us something that was double-dutched, tied up twice, and you have to stand on your head to begin to read it?

Why did He give us the Bible? Amen. And it isn't because it's in archaic language. It's in the language of the Spirit. That's why people don't understand it. That's the real trouble. Now listen, beloved.

You've got to get down and read your Bible. And read it carefully and prayerfully. And we'll turn to Galatians 2, and verse 20. And Paul says, I am crucified with Christ. Now, he's not talking about our old man.

Now, I mean, the very language tells you. Here's your distinction. In Romans 6, our old man was crucified, dead, and buried. That was the end of him. Hallelujah. If Christ couldn't kill him, then we're all lost.

If it isn't true, beloved, what's the use of this gospel we're preaching? It's done. But, beloved, see here. It's I now, as distinct from our old man, me, I myself, as a human being. I am crucified with Christ.

But now, you won't find a tomb here. There's no grave here. I'm crucified, but I live. Here, I'm always on the cross, so I live. I'm permanently crucified, me, I myself. This horrible man named North.

And when you discover yourself, beloved, even after Christ has dealt with the old man of sin in you, you're pretty rotten. Well, ugly rotten. Let me put it that way. You're not all glorious with it. This is the whole tremendous thing, beloved.

You see, brothers and sisters, I want to impress this on you. Let me plead with you. The root of everybody's trouble, beloved, is self. They want to blame the devil, or they want to blame the old man.

Oh. It is as near tea time as that. It's a quarter to five. Oh, dear. What time's tea? Oh, all right. Pardon? A little bit? Amen. Let's go on. People want to blame the devil, or they say it's old Adam, because they don't believe the Bible.

And the last person they'll blame is themselves. After God has dealt with the old Adam, there's still I myself to be kept crucified. There's no tomb for me. There was a tomb for old Adam, and he was buried in it by the power of Jesus Christ.

But I've got to be constantly on the cross to live no longer I. Nobody can live off the cross. Nobody. You die off the cross, you live on it. They took him off the cross, old Adam, and buried him. Hallelujah.

And that was it. But it's I myself, with my aesthetic tastes, my perfectionism, this that I love, my ethos, my ego. I can't blame old Adam for that. It's me. You see, I happen to be born as the last child of a man named North and a woman named, I don't know, Caroline Eliza Johnston.

I've got some Scots blood in my veins. I don't know. That should cheer up some people. I don't know whether it should or not. But I was born as the last child, you see. And I bring in the impress of the North, and it's horrible.

Horrible. Beloved, what transpired in the garden has gone to its extreme of perversion and twisting as successive generations of being born. Amen. That's what's happened. They've gone to the extremes.

You see, and you'll find people so emotionally unstable. And you'll find some people, they're always wanting to break down and cry. That's not a sin. It's a weakness of the personality. You know, some people, they think they're born to be.

I had a woman come to me not so long ago. You're not surprised afterwards in that she didn't yield to anything that was said to her, that she finished up in the local mental hospital. She said, she thought, she said, oh yeah, she was a Christian.

She'd been saved, I don't know how many years. And she thought that God had brought her in and would be a great joy bringer. She said, I'm always making people happy. I'm always making them laugh. I said, if you don't stop it, you'll go to hell.

I'm saved. I said, what from? You tell me what you're saved from. If you aren't saved from sin, then you're not saved. That's all there is in it. All people want to do is to make Jesus a sort of an insurance policy.

Saved from going to hell. It's a terrible place. I don't want to go to hell. Jesus is here to save you from sin. That's the greatest, one of the greatest miracles of all. Be saved from self. And be changed into his likeness.

That's all there is. It's not only the basic nature change at new birth, where the old man is dealt with. So I'm brought into another family and into Father's house. It's the change into another personality as well.

So that I have the loveliness of Jesus. So that I have the strength of character of Jesus. So that I have the balance of Jesus. That's a fruit called self-control. It's given in Galatians 5, 22 to 24.

So that I have the peace of Jesus. See? So that I have the joy of Jesus. Glory be to God. That's it. So that when the pressure's on, and when the terrors of hell are gathering round you and trying to get hold of you, and Jesus spoke of that, you know, in Pentecost, in Acts 2, when Peter quotes, he quotes from his very psalm that talks about it.

So that when these pressures are on, and when everything's breaking down, and everybody's forsaking you, and all right has gone wrong, and everything that's good seems to become evil, and there's no hope, and there's no ray of sunshine.

And there it is. Condemnations and accusations and every single thing that it seems that men and women can treacherously lay upon you or the devil can stroke you with. It all presses in on you so that your keepers would shake and your back would bow and your head would ache.

And I don't know what, so that you can stand to those conditions. My peace I give unto you. Peace I leave with you. Ah, what a person. These things I say unto you. And you're walking to Gethsemane where one of your own disciples is going to betray you.

And you say, I've said these things unto you that my joy might, you might have my joy fulfilled in yourselves. Love one another as I have loved you. Think of it. That's right. That's the person. Say, it's impossible.

Don't you deny the faith. It's possible. Of course it is. That's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. So that you don't let flies throw cushions round the room or stamp your heel or if you're better mannered, sort of speak icily and walk out.

Yeah, it doesn't matter what cultural background you come from. Whether you came from the gutters of Bethnal Green or whether you were born in Buckingham Palace. This is the whole truth about it, beloved.

I hope you see your calling. I hope you see what it's all about. Most people would rather have power to perform a miracle than power to put their own personality right. That's what's gone wrong with Pentecost.

I don't mean Pentecost in the scripture. You know what I mean. I hope you do, anyway. Amen. A transformed person. Glory be to the name of the Lord. Break the behaviour patterns. How can it be done? The cross.

You've got to stay there and then you'll live. Where did Jesus live as a man? As the supreme man? Where was the moment of His most supreme and glorious life? Where was it? Where did He live His greatest hours?

On the cross. He lived on the cross. Nobody could kill Him. He had to yield His own spirit up. He lived on the cross. Crucified with Jesus. I can bear the utmost. Is that right? God help me. I'm using language representatively of you.

That's it. Oh, I can't put away sin. I can't atone for one lie. One act of deceit. I can't atone for it. But oh, if I'll live on the cross. How did that man Paul go through? There comes a time when a man sees that if he, taking advantage of the new birth, uses it only to promote himself, he's the biggest cheat there ever was.

And God breaks the behavior patterns. Snaps them. Finishes them. See, you've got this in Romans 7. Oh, this wretched man in Romans 7. He cannot break his behavior patterns. He can't do it. Struggles. He fights.

He believes. He better believes. He prays. He meditates in the Lord day and night. With my mind, I serve the Lord. I delight in the Lord God. But he couldn't break his behavior patterns. He couldn't do it.

He was beaten. There are some who believe that this is the Christian life. Do you? The key to Romans 7 is in the first verse. You just read it. Tell you all about Romans 7. It's in the first verse. I speak to them that know law.

He's a man under law. He's not a man under grace. Amen. He's not a man under grace. This is what grace says. Listen. Sin shall not have dominion over you. You're not under law. You're under grace. This is what grace says.

This is a marvelous thing. Praise God. What is grace? How does grace work? Oh, I just glance at my watch. I suppose I really ought to stop. There's a tomorrow. But the whole wondrous revelation of God beloved is that we can come right out of that old father's house.

Wretched Adam. God's his own. Amen. Jesus Christ crucified. That spiritual nature. That spiritual bent. That spiritual thing that's away from God. That which always takes its leads from Satan even under the guise of religion.

Jesus Christ slew it. Beloved. The Son makes us free. The tragedy, the tragedy of it is even that our, sometimes our Bible expositors put us wrong. I'm sure this is true. I'm not throwing bricks in any direction, beloved, but we're together here and we've got to see the ground of truth on which we stand.

Israel's Delayed Entry into the Promised Land

People say this. But you see, even when God brought them into the promised land, they were all fighting. Out go the Anakims. Out go the Girgashites. Out go the Hittites. And so the implication is you've got to do this fighting all the rest of your life even if you're in the promised land.

Well, what nonsense that is. That was their own fault. They should have been in there 40 years earlier. But because they wasted their time in the wilderness, when they got there they had to fight. This is the trouble.

God's intention was to have them in the promised land in about 11 days. Thank God we got across there. But they waited 40 years. Look, let's go back just to Joshua. This is the trouble. Even our princes of Bible expositors have put us wrong.

God forbid that I should speak in such way against any. But the worst of it is even that our, sometimes our Bible expositors put us wrong. I'm sure this is true. I'm not throwing bricks in any direction, beloved, but we're together here and we've got to see the ground of truth on which we stand.

People say this. Ah, they say, but you see, even when God brought them into the promised land, they were all fighting. Out go the Anakims. Out go the Girgashites. Out go the Hittites. And so the implication is you've got to do this fighting all the rest of your life even if you're in the promised land.

Well, what nonsense that is. That was their own fault. They should have been in there 40 years earlier. But because they wasted their time in the wilderness, when they got there they had to fight. This is the trouble.

God's intention was to have them in the promised land in about 11 days. Thank God we got across there. But they waited 40 years. Look, let's go back just to Joshua. This is the trouble. Even our princes of Bible expositors have put us wrong.

God forbid that I should speak in such way against any. But we've got to know the truth and it's only the truth that will set us free. And it'll stop us making excuses for ourselves and it'll shut up all the loopholes that the devil wants to use.

You see, do you know as soon as they got into the promised land, 40 years late, it says this in chapter 2, there are spies sent by Joshua. They go down to Jericho. When they get to Jericho, they are taken by a woman, a harlot named Rahab.

See the woman again, here it comes. Never mind, I want you to build this up. I'm not going to tell you this significance. You think for yourself before God. And the woman Rahab takes them into her house on top of the wall.

And she begs certain things of them. But listen to what she says. Verse 8 of chapter 2 of Joshua. Before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof. And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land.

And that your terror is fallen upon us. And that all the inhabitants of the land faint, melt away actually is the word before you. Because we've heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea. Hallelujah.

You see, immediately the land was wide open to them. They all melted, failed. But because they hung about for 40 years, they had to fight when they get in. That's the trouble with so many people. That's the trouble.

And so people preach it as a law now that you've got to fight. Because they don't even understand the Bible. They should have gone straight in. Hey, hey, they're defeated.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

And they're ready to take this place. Well, it says there they went over already armed. Well, of course, God's not silly. Of course, He prepared them already armed when they'd hung about for 40 years.

He still loved them. Didn't He feed them with manna in the wilderness? He still loved them. He didn't say, oh, I'm packing up with you. He still fed them even though they were sinfully wandering. He still gave them shoes that didn't wear out.

He still gave them clothes that never wore out. In the wilderness. He came and dwelt amongst them in glory even in the wilderness. But I shall undo a more excellent way the truth. And few there be that find it.

I've got to stop. Because we're right launched on something now. I'll leave it there. If Norman gets a chance to preach tonight, I won't preach to you about these things. The whole tremendous thing, beloved, is that God is...

I hope He's opening your eyes. I hope He's opening your heart too. There are those who build up doctrines of deliverance upon what the giants are going to be cast out after you're born again.

You see, they could find it in the Bible.

Well, the devil could find ground in the Bible to tempt Jesus with. Don't you see? It was a misapplication of the thing. That's what it is. God loveth this life. Why, praise God. Old Caleb, you know. He had the same spirit in him that he had when he crossed Red Sea.

Come on, let me go up there, he said. Ah, but you're 80. Hallelujah. Look at my mediator when he was 120. His eyes hadn't dimmed. Come on, give me this mountain, he says. Everybody's quaking about the Anakins up there.

You know Anakins means long-necked. They've got great big long necks. Giraffe neck people. You see them up there. And they look ever so high, but it wasn't only because they've got a long neck. If their neck had been ordinary, they'd have been all right.

They'd have been more or less the same size as anybody else. That's what the word Anakin means. Long-necked people. You see. And, and, and, and, come on, give me this mountain, he said. Why, this is what the Scripture says.

He'd got another spirit in him. He'd wholly followed the Lord. It's the Caleb's you've got to look at. These are the people that tell us the truth. These are the people that show us the thing that's right.

So God makes these things clear. Nevertheless, there is a word for us all who suffer in these personality defects, and these quirks and twists, and the patterns that have been set in our lives. There is a way, and tomorrow, if you come at three o 'clock, we'll, we'll look into it.

Now, I've sent you away with some flagons and some cakes of raisins. You're all right. You can go to your tent, but still send you away hungry. Let's pray. That's right. That's right. You're flying us away.

Don't struggle to get in. You'll be fighting him off. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Just believe him. Amen. It's so simple, beloved. So simple. Glory. If you listen to Paul, it's one of the most wonderful things he ever said in the Bible.

You may not think so. He said, you're dead. He wrote, he wrote some of it. He said, you're dead. You're dead, he said. That's right. Now, good job, too. Praise God. Your life is hid with Christ in God.

Oh, hallelujah. Now, you've got to be in the spirit, unless you'll never know anything about death. Would you try to think that out? He hides it from the wise and the prudent. He only reveals it to babes.