Blessed Are the Pure — Leonard Ravenhill

Lord, we're glad to make our expression of our faith and our joy in the borrowed language of these poets. We thank you for those lofty moments of inspiration, and we thank you for those deep moments of brokenness, when the fountains of their spirits were opened and they put on record those momentous experiences, those crisis experiences, perhaps, that they had with thee.

We think of Isaac Watts saying, when I surveyed the wondrous cross, and we don't know whether he meditated on it for an hour or a day or a month, but we thank you that he made an expression that we like to borrow.

We have sung some profound things. We trust that we've sung them with our understanding as well as with our emotions and our voices. We thought of that phrase again, content to let the world go by, and it could mean so much and be interpreted so many ways.

We can be so content in what we have, we let it go to hell and it doesn't bother us. We can be content to let it go by with all its riches and honors and not let it in any way make us feel inferior, because we belong to a nobler race than the race of men.

We thank you for this expression of this marvelous, infinite, matchless grace. And Lord, if we borrowed the language of angels, we couldn't describe it. It isn't within the possibility of human vocabulary or human understanding until we get to the other side of into eternity to know what that grace has really meant.

We'll never understand until you throw, as it were, the curtain on one side and show us that the heartbrokenness of God when you turned away from your son on that cross. Oh God, what a wonderful miracle that you should ever love us enough to give your only begotten Son, not a son, not an archangel, but to give your only begotten Son, to build a propitiation for our sins.

But we thank you for such grace, marvelous, infinite, matchless. We think of the Apostle Paul with his righteousness, his pedigree, his intellectualism, standing as tall maybe as any man that ever lived and maybe as morally correct because he said concerning the law he was blameless.

And yet when he saw the greatest sin was not adultery or lying or murder, but he said the greatest sin was to rebel against God, he put himself in a bracket that he wouldn't let anybody push him out of when he said, I am the chief of sinners.

And even after he'd tasted experiences that maybe we'll never know this side of eternity, he was prepared to call himself the least of all saints. There are not many candidates for that position. We see saints even swaggering.

We see preachers strutting. We see people who have not got spoiled with this world's riches, but they get spoiled with spiritual riches. And they become superior and arrogant. They expect us to bow to them or obey their commandments or fall in fear before their prophecies.

Give us that wisdom which is from above that we may discern what is flesh and what is spirit, what is human zeal and what is God-directed wisdom. Lord, we know so little we confess about this spiritual life.

We'll be amazed one day when we get to heaven to see what trivialities kept us from exploring the possibilities of grace. Sometimes we get a burden and we hardly get it. We want to run away from it. We think again of a woman carrying a child and as the days get nearer, the pain gets greater and the suffering and the sleep get shattered and everything else.

And there have been people down the ages you've trusted with the birthing revival and bringing blessing. They've had superhuman, they've had divine inner fortification. They've had an inward grace that makes me surpasses our knowledge.

Lord, we trust that we're further up the road than we were even last week. We say again, Lord, it's wonderful to think that we can love thee and and to say that you get better each week and we trust that you look on us, you can say the same of us.

We're improving in wisdom and sense, spiritual sense, not just common intelligence. We might find that with instructions from psychologists or teachers or universities, but we seek something that this world can't buy and sell, this world can't trade.

We ask that we may pursue it, continually pursue it. Not be satisfied with anything less than the fullness of God. The provision there is through Jesus Christ. We thank you for this quiet hour and pray the words of our mouths, the meditation of our hearts may be acceptable in thy sight.

As we sit here, most of us I suppose have been well fed today. We're pretty well clothed, we have comfortable seats. We think of the suffering saints in Russia and China and other countries. Lord, may be our very worst day.

May be better than their very best day. In physical, material, visible things. Oh God. We ask again for that quickening by your Spirit. That will give us that holy compassion. Give us that profound, profoundly disturbing feeling.

You know this life is a paradox, Lord. You've told us if we want to go up, we have to go down. You've told us you want to gain everything, we have to lose everything. If you want to find life, lose it.

If you want to lose it, keep it. Lord, that's the puzzle for the average philosopher, but it isn't in the things of the Spirit. As we leave this house today, we pray again the things of earth may have grown strangely dim.

While at the same time they become almost intolerably heavy to bear. This again could only be real to us as your Spirit teaches us. We thank you again for the book, the Word of God. Not only has it got blood in from the first book to the last, it's got blood on its covers.

It was given to us by martyrs, men who were burned at the stake to give it to us. And we esteem it so lightly very often and we read it so carelessly. And often other books. To some people the sports page is better.

At times we are amazed that people say they can't really read without falling asleep. But we see houses loaded with sports magazines and if they can read those, they can read this. Except this isn't the love letter of God to them in the way it should be.

Give us all a deeper appetite for thy Word. Help us to read it again as a love letter from thee to our heart. Man cannot live by bread alone. The rocky fellows can only wear one suit at a time and live in one room at a time and drive one car at a time.

They're as limited as us. And yet they can't live except they live or we live in the Word of God. So we thank you for it. You make it so much to us, a pillow on which we can rest our weary heads. And sometimes it's a knife that wounds us and sometimes it's a balm that heals us.

Pray for every heart bowed before thee this afternoon. If there are those burdened, we pray they roll that burden on thee. There are those who are harassed, we pray that this will be a pausing time, a resting time.

Like the heart that panteth after the water books when they rest here. Before we get out to the world that's going to pursue us again tomorrow. May our light shine before men. As one, I think, Francis Ridley Havergill said, Live out thy life within me, O Jesus, King of kings.

Be thou thyself the answer to all my questionings. We want thee as Lord and Master of our lives, that we may be thy love slaves, carrying the burdens you give us, running the errands you put upon us, and doing the will of God continually.

The Beatitude of Purity and Seeing God

These things will give you praise in Jesus' name. In the fifth chapter of the gospel recorded by Matthew for a while, we should really come to the, almost the supreme verse in the chapter if we get to it.

I'm not sure we will. The eighth verse is, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. In the Old Testament, the children of Israel used to have their guidance from God through the prophets.

And you remember there came a day when they wanted to be like other nations, and they wanted a king, and so God gave them a king. He allowed them to have a king. There's a very significant phrase in God dealing with Israel that I've never preached on, but it's a very wonderful phrase, and it's a very painful one.

God granted their request, but he sent leanness into their hearts. Did you ever have an experience like that? There are times when you push God, but I'll push God, let's say we push God, and he'll grant you your request, because you're not grown up enough for him to rebuke you with hope.

But he'll send leanness into your soul. I think of a man in Wales a number of years ago, a very godly man, and he had one child, and she was of course the darling of his heart, and the child took sick.

And the doctor said there was no hope, he was going to die. And he clenched his teeth, he's not going to die. He didn't go to bed that night, didn't eat, didn't sleep, didn't drink, fasted and prayed, and he demanded of God that child should live.

And the child lived. And she was 18 years of age, just a beautiful high school girl, she got into trouble and dragged his name in the gutter and the whole family, and he said he spent a whole night mourning that he'd argued with God 18 years before that she had to live.

The Kingdom Parables and the Pearl of Great Price

A nice lady case, but there it is. But God granted their request, and he gave them a king. The kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ to me gets increasingly fascinating. You know, one is a number you can't divide, you can cut it into two halves, but you can't multiply it by one.

You can't divide by one, you can divide by two. And Jesus all the time is talking about two things, a broad way and a narrow way. The kingdoms of this world and the kingdoms of our garden of his Christ.

And right through the whole of the teaching of Jesus you find two things. Now, there are a series of parables which deal with the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. And one of them is the kingdom of the pearl.

There is a kingdom, of course, a story, a parable about a man going across a field and stumbling over a pot of gold. Don't you wish you could do that? And he sold everything and went and bought the field.

Then there's a story of a man that had a goodly pearl. And some people suggest the goodly pearl is the church, and Jesus is the one that came to seek it, and he gave all he had, his lifeblood, to get the pearl, to get the church, which is not true.

Because the man already had a bundle of pearls, and Jesus doesn't have a bundle of churches. And while the emphasis is put on seeking a goodly pearl, that is exactly what the scripture does not say. It says there was a merchant seeking a goodly pearl.

The emphasis is not on the pearl, the emphasis is on the merchant. Now what did he do? He gave everything he had in order that he might buy that one goodly pearl. J. H. Jowett taught me many years ago, I won't tell you how many.

He said the man had been gathering pearls all his life, but one day he sold the pearls of comparative worth for the one pearl of superlative worth. I'll give everything I have in order that I may just have this one pearl.

That reminded me of Paul when he writes there to the Colossians. And he talks about coming into the family of God. And this is what he says, these things that were gain to me, I counted loss, L-O-S, loss for Christ.

In the next verse he says, J, doubtless I count all things but loss. He's got a bit further than losing. He counted them but loss, and he says he takes all these collectively, and he counts them all but loss.

And then in the next verse, or the same verse rather, he says, for whom I've suffered the loss of all things. The loss of all things. You know, it really is ridiculous, though it's done over and over again, it will be done tonight.

Total Surrender to Christ's Kingship

People suggest when you get saved, come to the Lord, come with all your sins. Give him your sins. What does he want with them? Don't do God any good, don't do me any good. Is that all God is after? Do I go to an author to confess my sins, whether they're very mild sins of a child, or diabolical sins of an ultra-criminal?

Is that all I come with? My sins won't do God any good. It's not my sins he's after, it's me he's after. It's much easier to give him my sins, than give him myself. And therefore, what the Lord Jesus Christ is after, he's wanting my total surrender to his kingship.

Now if you have a kingdom, obviously you're going to have laws. Every kingdom has, whether they're kept or not, there are certain laws that abide in every kingdom. And there are certain laws that are kept in the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now this kingdom business is, I guess it's under suspicion. Because if you talk about kingdom, somebody will point down the street and say, yes there's a Jehovah's Witness hall down there, a kingdom hall.

Well they're about as far from the kingdom as anybody could be. But the importance of the kingdom is stressed in this way. I counted this week and found that 55 times in the Gospel according to Matthew, 55 times he mentions the kingdom.

In Luke he mentions the kingdom 44 times. In Mark he mentions the kingdom 20 times. In John he mentions the kingdom 5 times. Now these are the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Now you look around this afternoon, we're not such a smart bunch are we?

One or two smart men, a lawyer, a businessman, I don't never claim to be very smart. I don't suppose any of you are on the social register in the state are you? Do you move with the upper crust intellectually?

Are you in the 400 of the leading scientists in the country? We're a pretty normal bunch. But take a second look, are you sure that that's right? We're the most wonderful people on earth. That is if we're born again.

What shall we do to enter into the kingdom of God? There's only one way in. Now there are very many wonderful kingdoms in the world. There's a club in this country that nobody can enter unless you must basically have a million dollars.

I'm not a member in case you're getting suspicious. You cannot join that club unless you have a million dollars and you pay your dues very exactly on a certain day. Now there's another group that if you have a thousand million dollars you can't enter.

You can only enter because you've made some tremendous research and discovery in the area of science. It's another kingdom. Wealth won't get you into that kingdom. Now there's another kingdom in which you can enter because you're an artist and you've made some production that's been honest.

Either in painting colors or sculpting or something. In other words there are all these different kingdoms and there are different ways of entering into these kingdoms and they're exclusive. You can't get in because you have a friend.

You can't get in because your friend is a scientist but he doesn't have a million dollars. Well I have a friend who has a million dollars but he's not a scientist. So they put their barriers up. You can't enter.

And yet the most restricted of all the kingdoms is the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. A man cannot enter the kingdom of God on his social standing, on his prestige or any other thing. Now in case you think that this is not very wonderful let me stress it this way.

The Kingdom's Citizens and Heavenly Reservation

Jesus was talking one day about a time. You see this kingdom stretches. How does it stretch? Oh you say Isaac Watts says there's coming a day when the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ.

And in that lovely hymn it says his kingdom stretches from shore to shore. Till noon shall wax and wane no more. Herb was saying that we all need a lift now and again. I've got more lifts this last week or two considering the kingdom of God I've ever got in my life.

Do you know why? Because it started away not when Jesus was on earth but earlier than that. Do you know why? Because Jesus said in the eighth chapter of Matthew there's going to be a day. Now did you ever feel kind of oh boy I wish I'd been able to go to that group.

You know it could be in a banquet amongst Christians. I mean the better class Christians you know. Twenty five dollars for a breakfast or something else you know. And you go and oh sure you put your real earrings and other things in.

Because there's a lot of social caste amongst Christians you know. Did you ever feel you'd like to have sat next to Pat Boone? Or some other star? Oh there's a lot of hero worship. Did you ever figure this that one day if you follow a faithful to God you'll be able to sit down with Abraham and Isaac and the greatest saints of all the ages in the kingdom of God?

That's what Jesus said. You talk about going to see the coronation of the Queen of England. I remember coming into Chicago in 1952 when a famous artist met me there. A very godly saintly man and he said you'll be having dinner with us tonight.

So I'm usually where it's free and I went. And his wife said if you've been in England. Oh we've been to England three times today. I said wonderful how did he do that? In a jet age? Well TV they've shown the coronation of the Queen three times.

Did you see it? Well that's in the old days when black and white TV was a miracle you know. Before we became smart and got colours in it. Now you imagine seeing that pageantry and pomp and circumstance you know.

And hear them playing wonderful music. And all the kings of the earth marching in glittering tiaras the ladies had and crowns and staffs and garments. Oh brother what a show the greatest show on earth.

And then after that you go to a banquet in Buckingham Palace. Now this lady said if you'd been in England would you have been at the coronation? I said no. She said why not? I said maybe because my name is Ravenhill and not Churchill.

But supposing I'd gone to the door at the coronation. And I'd said the god, the big god, life god stopped me and said what's your name? Ravenhill let me search the social register. I said no there's a Lord Ravenscar, there's a Lord Ravenseed.

There's a Lord Raven, but no Ravenhill. Sorry. In any case you look down there and I look and I see on every one of those seats. There were 3 ,000 seats in the abbey. And they put extra seats in. We had a neighbour Lord Belmore when we lived in Ireland.

I went into his great big office one day. His study lined with ancient manuscripts and there were two chairs. And there was a little clip on the back of two of them. And on one it said Lord and the other on the Lord and the lady.

And I said well these chairs are beautiful. Oh yes, yes, yes. His lordship sat on this chair at the coronation. And her ladyship sat on that chair. And afterwards they were allowed to buy the chairs so they could bring them home.

So Lord Belmore showed everybody the chair where he sat at the coronation. And they're going to leave it for their children and their grandchildren. Your daddy, your grandpa sat on this chair at the coronation.

Isn't that marvellous. And the guard said you see sir if you got in, well that wouldn't be any good because every seat has a name on it. And if you got into the coronation you couldn't sit down because your name isn't on a chair.

Oh I see. I suppose you feel very bad about that. No I don't feel either bad or sad or mad. I feel great. Well why? It's the greatest thing in the world. The coronation of her majesty and you can't get a chair.

And I look at him and say sir do you know there's going to be a coronation before long. And I've got a seat reserved. And it'll make this coronation look like the dishes in the kitchen thing. And I know I've got a seat because it says in 1 Peter 1 there, there's a place reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.

Now if that doesn't give you a shot in the arm you're in trouble. You see any other kingdom you can enter by wealth. Wealth is the key. Whether it's the wealth of the ability to play golf, they're fighting now for world championships in tennis and sports.

And you need wealth of skill. Or you need wealth in, material wealth to get into some kingdom. You need intellectual wealth to get into some of them. But this is dependent entirely on one thing. You see this, this, this doesn't pass up at all.

Your social standing, your financial standing, your intellectual standing. This is a strange kingdom. It's a kingdom so different from every other because it says if you're going to enter it, and only twice in the Beatitudes does it actually tie the kingdom in with a Beatitude.

And it says first of all, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. And then from poverty you jump right down. As I say, if it began by saying blessed are the pure in heart, we'd all back off.

It doesn't say that. I would imagine that if Jesus is going to lay a foundation for his kingdom he should say, listen the first thing is this, you better get the first commandment straight. And the first commandment is, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and spirit.

But he doesn't start with loving God first. Why? You see the Bible already recognizes that we have a love. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. And if I'm going to love God supremely, I have to let every other lesser love go out of my life.

That he alone may have an unrivaled position in my life. But we jump from poverty, blessed are the poor in heart. And the next time it's tied in is that blessed are they who are persecuted for theirs is the kingdom of God.

Now those are areas that we don't go to naturally. We don't like to be called poor, most people don't. There are not many people, honest to goodness, could you look in God's face this afternoon and tell him that you're willing to take ten times as much trouble as anybody else in San Antonio or anywhere else.

Ten times the burden for the loss, ten times the grief for the fact that this church is so paralyzed as she is. You see, well this is all so negative isn't it, we're always on the heavy side. Sure because everybody else is having a joy ride.

You can't read the story of the word of God, and particularly when you come down to apostles and others without finding they were men and women who carried the load that nobody else wanted to carry. But they found a sufficiency of grace and a sufficiency of strength in the Lord to do that.

Paul's Loss, Tribulation, and the Sufficiency of Grace

Now Paul is in that position. Remember again, he says all things they were gain to me. What gain did he have? He was of the tribe of Benjamin, he was of the seed of Abraham. There's nothing higher than that to the Jews.

Of the Pharisees, he was the greatest Pharisee. The Pharisees are the greatest holy club on earth, you couldn't get into it. They were the tightest, most refined. They had bodyguards at the door, left anybody who should come in who was leprous, morally or any other way.

And so he says, in other words, my richest gain I count everything I had. And of the tribe of Benjamin, of the seed of Abraham, touching the law, blameless. A Pharisee of the Pharisees, he's got it all going his way.

And he takes everything and he says, I lay it all at the feet of Jesus Christ. And I suffer for him the loss of all things. Now when you've been able to strut around with the Pharisees and everybody bow down to you and regard you as a holy man.

And then you become an outcast. And then on top of that you say to the Lord, will you give me what nobody else gives me? And his joy was what? Totally paradoxes, paradoxical nonsense. You know what he says?

He doesn't say I have enough grace to keep my chin up. I don't manage to get through every day nearly exhausted and say, Lord, if there'd been 25 hours in the day, I'd just have collapsed. I couldn't have gone on.

Now I'm not saying you get there in a weekend, God forbid. You know what he says? He says, I glory in what? Tribulations, necessities, reproaches, adversity. You've got to go a long way up the road with the Lord before you get there.

Not where you just say, Lord, I got through and say, oh, thank you. Oh, I just made it. Oh, Lord, if the pressure had been on me, I would have collapsed. I'm just about through. He embraces it. I glory in tribulations.

That's really right, Herbie does. He smiled over it. He says, well, hallelujah, Lord, you gave me more chance. You know why? Because he says the only way to get grace is to need it. As I said before, you see, when God is giving out the gifts of the Spirit, in 1 Corinthians 12, what did he say?

He says, I gave to one this gift, I gave to another that gift, and I gave to somebody else that gift. He never said that about the fruits of the Spirit. He didn't say, I give to one the fruit of love, and another joy, and another peace, and another long-suffering, another gentleness.

No, no, no, no, no. He says, you may get by with one gift of the Spirit. You could even get by with none, as far as I'm concerned. I think I can prove that scripturally. But you can't get by if you don't have all the fruits of the Spirit, not just one.

Now the same is true of the beatitude. He doesn't say you have one beatitude and you don't need the other. He said you need them all. But the entrance, oh, the entrance. How difficult it is. Blessed are they, the poor in spirit.

Now I say this kingdom to me is marvelous by the people who are in it. I remember the first time I went to a Bible school, in case he doesn't show up. I went to a Bible school and I stayed nearly six months.

He couldn't put up with me. But anyhow, I remember the first time the president came in, he just looked round, just like this, and he said, gentlemen, I have one question to ask you. And by the pain on his face, I thought, my, he must be needing prayer or something.

He looked really sad. And he said, gentlemen, did the Lord call you to pray? Did he? If he did, nod your head. And we all nodded. And he said, it's a good thing he did, but I'm sure I never would. He said, you're about the most unpromising bunch of fellows I've ever seen.

It's a good thing he selected you. Well, isn't it like that in everything that God does? Huh? Oh, to grace, how great a debtor you sang this afternoon. Daily I'm constrained to be. Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter.

Thine my yielded heart to thee. Thine I am, O Lord, forever. You see, again, if I'm going to get all there is of God, God, why did the apostles say, He's richest, gainest, kindest? I suffer the loss of all things.

Why? Because Jesus did exactly that to come and redeem us, that's why. The only way he could make grace available was to leave all his glory in eternity. He called on one side all his robes and all his honor, and instead of somebody bowing and saying, Your Excellency, the Son of God, somebody spit in his face.

He never did a thing about it. Somebody ever pull your hair? You're a strange girl. If somebody didn't pull it, I pulled many a girl's hair at school, and I pulled my sister's, and the mother wasn't looking.

And sometimes she pulled mine. But I'm sure it always hurt more when she pulled mine than when I pulled hers. She'd get it, she'd get it and yank it. Wow, that hurt. And Jesus one day let somebody yank at his beard and spit in his face, and he didn't do a thing.

He could have turned them into anything, and he didn't. You see, Jesus is the total example of everything that he teaches. He's the embodiment of all. You can't fault him on anything. If you read the Sermon on the Mount, he was the Sermon on the Mount.

Blessed are the poor in spirit. Who was more poor than the Lord Jesus? This is the way he came into the world. With suspicion over him, but he was born illegitimately. In his lifetime, he didn't possess anything.

One day he was tied up, and he says, Have you a penny? Yes. Loan me. As I say sometimes, the favorite text of most of the evangelists today is silver and gold. I have none. But can you imagine an evangelist having to say, Loan me a penny, would you?

Whose is the superstition? All through his life he lived. You talk about pouring contempt on your pride. Now, it's easy to sing that in church, isn't it? You know, when you're really emotional, it's a sacramental service, and you sing, I'm pouring contempt on all my pride.

Well, that's all right. If you pour contempt on your pride, it's all right. But if you don't pour contempt on it, it hurts, doesn't it? When they start making you such a negative nothing, and a nobody, and stripping you down.

And if you're not careful, you'll get under the weather. Until you say, well, wait a minute. You can go away, chip away as you like, chop away as you like, beat me as you like. Let me tell you something, when you're done with me, I'll be as valuable to God as when you started.

I won't be any less valuable in the kingdom of God, if you try and rub me out. It doesn't matter how you try to reduce me, I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to that marriage supper of the Lamb, come hell or high water, come criticism, come all the things that are mentioned in this chapter, I have a guarantee by the grace of God that His grace is sufficient to carry me through any situation in life, and come out triumphant at the end of the journey.

Don't you ever sing? We sung it, I'm sure, here, a hymn that's very beautiful, His love in time past forbids me to sing, He'll leave me at last in trouble to sing, while each Ebenezer we hold in review confirms His good pleasure to see me right through.

Let me get this through to you again, God doesn't play tricks, God is not capricious. If God does any pruning in your life, it's not for fun, it's for fruit. It's not necessary to make you feel better, it's necessary to make you better.

If you're going to live on feelings, you're going to be in trouble, because you've gotten down like a yo-yo. Yesterday it got to about 73 degrees, the day before it was about 33, I thought it was 13 round our yard, but boy, that wind was blowing, and I went out, and I cannot have it.

Somebody sent us a letter the very day, we're up in the cold in the north, it must be lovely in Texas in the sunshine. Boy, it was, 13 degrees, 17 degrees, the same as New York. No, no, I'm not going to be shielded from every blast, but I'm going to find this, that in every situation he gives, there is corresponding grace, there is corresponding power, there is corresponding patience.

You see, you can go to church and sing when you're weary in the middle of the week, sweet hour of prayer that calls me from a world of care. And I'll tell you something, in case you don't know, when the prayer meeting's over, you still go back to that world of care.

Prayer doesn't shift it, prayer just gives you grace to get through it. Prayer means that he fortifies you where the other man falls flat on his face and somebody says, well, how does she keep up? How does he keep up?

What's the secret of their lives? Because the king has come to indwell us by his spirit. And he makes it very clean and clear, in case you've forgotten, he says, listen, there are only two kingdoms in this world, and I'm getting to realise this more and more.

The Kingdoms of Darkness and Light

There may be 20 kingdoms inside of that kingdom, but there are only two great kingdoms in it. One is the kingdom of darkness, and the other is the kingdom of light. In the kingdom of darkness, things thrive.

The lions come out at night in the darkness to find their prey. I can remember lifting a rock in the garden when I was a boy, because a lot of creeping things are beneath. But as soon as I lifted them, they all scattered.

I never lifted it till my sister sat down in the garden at the side of me. It was the only way I could get rid of her. And I lifted the rock up, and she said, ah, there are people who cannot stand the light.

But if you're children of the light, you'll walk in the light. So one is the kingdom of darkness. It's called the kingdom of Satan. The other is called the kingdom of his dear son. One is the kingdom of darkness.

The other is the kingdom of light. One is a perishing kingdom. You see, the idiocy of the world outside is it thinks it can destroy Christianity. They thought when they put Jesus to death, it would be the end of the story.

How can you kill eternal life, do you know? Eternal life isn't a philosophy. I am the way, the truth, and the life. Well, how can you put eternal life to death? He was the light of the world. Blow the sun out, then I believe you can blow Jesus Christ out.