God Gives Blessing to Produce Fruit — George Warnock

Vision for God’s Ultimate Purpose

I want to pursue a little this matter of our vision and our expectation, our intention for doing what we're doing, our intention for gathering together, God's intention in the body of Christ. And God wants us to see the ultimate that he has intended for his people, for his Church.

Otherwise, where there's no vision, the people perish. And whether that refers to being lost, there's a perishing of God's purposes in us if there's no real vision. And so God wants us to see what he has in mind, and that what he does along the way is never to be considered in any sense an ultimate.

But we're prone to make ultimates of experiences. They used to do it in the Church, you get saved, and then the days of Wesley, and after that, and I'm not denying the fact that God did do another work in people, and he called it sanctification, and then Pentecost comes along and no, there's still the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

And so now we've got the full gospel, it's saved, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost, and you've got the whole thing. And God wants us always to know there's much, much more. No matter how far we go, there's still much more.

And when we pass into the great beyond, there's still much more. Heaven isn't going to be a boring place. It's not going to be boring. Oh, I saw that yesterday, I saw that. If God is God, there will be an eternal unfolding of his heart to his people.

I have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the hearts of men the things that God has prepared for those that love him, but unto us God hath revealed them by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things.

Spiritual Life Requires Continual Growth

Why is God's Spirit given to us? Well, going up in Pentecost to give you power. Well, that's one aspect of it. But you go through the scriptures and you find that we're so inclined to say, this is what it's for, and then leave it at that.

Instead of recognizing that anything that has life is unfolding, has growth, never stagnant if it has life. And the life of God is not stagnant, it's continual growth. And it begins here. That's the thing we want to emphasize.

It begins here, and God wants to continue it here, not just get a few experiences and then, okay, I'm ready for heaven, Lord. And then when you get older, Lord, please take me, Lord, please take me. And I realize, perhaps, the burden of old age has been heavy on many.

You'd sooner go than stay, but I believe in God's ideal. You don't retire, your work's done. And I know it doesn't happen that way very often, but you don't have to die of disease or shouldn't, but we're not blaming anybody.

We just recognize that the church is not in that place where God wants it to be. Moses lived the 120 years, and that was under the law. He was the minister of the law. Oh, we're under grace that's far greater than what Moses had.

And Paul says that, but then you talk about some of the things that Moses saw and experienced, some of the things that children of Israel experienced. If we had one tenth of it, you say, why are we spiritual?

Learning from Israel’s Cloud of Glory

For instance, the cloud of glory that hung over the camp of Israel every day and night for 40 years. And there was a camp up in Ontario, Canada, where I heard in the days of great revival at the beginning of this century, that light of God would hover over this tent.

People coming from a distance would see it and come to it, forget the name of it. And I heard about that, how tremendous. That happened over the tent of Israel for 40 years, every day. It became so common, it was no longer a miracle.

It happens every day, you don't consider it a miracle. I mean, the very sun rising and setting is a miracle, but well, it's happened that way all our life, so it's no miracle. In the hearts of God's people, it becomes so hard that we get so accustomed to God's gracious benefits that no longer wonderful, no longer cause for thanksgiving, it's there, it's always there.

And so the constant burden of God's heart that leads people on, how far? As far as God will take you. But you say God only wants to take us here. Be careful you don't go too far. God doesn't lay out restrictions.

Don't go too far here. He's always inviting us. Come further. But you say I might get swamped. Well, that's what he wants, if you use an illustration. We invited Ezekiel to measure a thousand cubits and took him through the waters.

And the waters were to his ankles. He invited him to come another thousand and the waters were to the knees. Come further. And the waters were to the loins. Come further. But you know, it gets scary. You go too deep and you've got all kinds of people warning you.

Don't get deep. I remember a letter we got up when I was helping up in the school there many years ago. The time of the revival. I like some of these writings except they go off the deep end sometimes.

But I enjoy the writings. I remember writing back and I told him the story about Ezekiel's vision. He went on a thousand and the waters kept getting deeper and deeper. And then I says he went another thousand cubits and walked off the deep end.

And he did. He got in waters to swim in. And that's what God wants. But we want to have a little bit of solid footing. You know, you just don't feel comfortable. You can touch bottom. I remember once before, I can't swim very well.

But when we moved to the coast, I read a book on how to swim. So I'd go down and I'd paddle around. So I knew how to float and then I lost fear. But boy, I remember one time the tide was coming in and I could hardly touch bottom.

And I was going back to shore there. It's a little scary if you can't touch bottom. God wants us to come to a place where we can't touch bottom. And don't be afraid if it's in the river of life. Oh yes, if it's in some muddy stream that man has concocted or some muddy cistern.

Yeah, that's dangerous. But God wants us to flow in his river where we lose control. We lose control. Oh, that's scary, I know. But where the Spirit of God is in control. Then that's not scary. Because he's the one who brought order out of chaos.

The Spirit of God Brings Order and Life

He moved upon the face of the great deep in the beginning. And through the Spirit of God, all things are held in their orbits. And we marvel at it. How universes and galaxies and planets and stars are all up there.

And billions and billions of them. And yet, somehow, this little planet, this little speck of dust in which we live, it survives it all. You read of scary things sometimes. What might happen if one of these big asteroids hits us.

And what it could do is wipe out life on the planet. And that's so. It won't happen as long as God's in control. Unless that has something to do with the burning up of the elements of this old earth that God might bring forth a new one.

God wants to be in control. And when we say that, it's not an autocratic thing that we should think of. Like we think of when we're under control. But we should think rather of being under the control of Him who is total life, total love, total light, total truth.

The author of all peace and harmony. How wonderful to be under that kind of control. I remember once reading in a version that had marginal reference in it. And I came across this scripture here in Mark 1 where there was a man in the synagogue with an unclean spirit.

And he cried out saying, let us alone. What are we to do with thee? And there was a note there, that word with. And it said, the Greek said in. And then the note said, he didn't just have his unclean spirit, he was in it.

And he said in the note, it meant he was dominated by it. He was under the control of it. He was in it. And I never, I don't know if that thought remained with me concerning what I was to discover later.

That the same word is used for those who are in the spirit, in Christ. Not just that they have the spirit, but were in the spirit. And if that's true of that evil spirit. And people recognize how awful it would be under the control of an evil spirit.

How beautiful to think that God wants to take away that evil spirit of control and cause us to live in another spirit, the spirit of Christ where he's in control. And yet it still seems abhorrent in the minds of most Christians.

I must always have my control of myself. God wants to be in control. Not in an autocratic sort of way, but in the spirit of life. How healthy we would be if the law of the spirit of life and Christ Jesus had control of these mortal bodies.

And I believe God wants to do that. I believe he will yet do it. Before immortality. I'm not talking about immortality. God leaves us in a body of mortality that we might be able to suffer with Christ.

But our Lord Jesus did not die of any cancer or tuberculosis or some kind of disease that fastened itself upon him. Though he took that to become our salvation and our healer. But he lived in a mortal body.

But nevertheless, a body that was healthy and strong. And the only time he became weak was when for our redemption. He who was the great and mighty one became weak for our sake. This just comes in passing here.

Abiding in Christ and Being Immersed in God

But the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. God's full intention in giving us the spirit is that it might become a law within us. Not just something we have to possess to use. To minister by it.

To do things for God by his spirit. He didn't just give us his spirit as something for you and I to control. As often seems to be the case. Especially in ministry. Where God has given certain authority and the thought seems to come I'm in control here because God has made me to be apostle or prophet or whatever.

But rather the spirit of God wants to be in control. And that no matter how great that ministry is God wants that minister to be under the control of that spirit. And I believe that's what God means. Where Jesus said abide in me and I in you.

You know we read that. Memorize it. Very simple. Abide in me and I in you. Begin to contemplate that. I believe we have depths of revelation of the spirit of God that we haven't hardly touched yet. We know what it is for Christ to be in us.

Do we not? Christ in you the hope of glory. Do we know? Can anyone here say they know in some great experience what it means for us to be in him? In an experiential way. You say what's the difference?

There must be a difference if Jesus says I want to abide in you but I want you to abide in me. And it's a simple illustration of course. This person goes down to the river and fills up his glass with water and he's got river water in his glass.

But then he, and I won't do it, he throws it in the river and then the cup's in the river. Immersed. And we make much of immersion in water. Because I believe the word baptism implies that. Immersed in water.

How much emphasis do we place upon this matter of being baptized immersed in the river of God? Immersed. And living there, there are heights and depths in God that we haven't touched yet that God wants us to touch to experience in this life.

I have not seen, nor hath ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for those that love him. But I trust God has revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Knowing the Depths of God by the Spirit

And I believe brethren can confirm it that we use the word deep things as a translation of a word that it's one word the all things that, you know, I don't know Greek very well. And I believe that word says not in deep things as if, you know, we've got to know these deep things of God, but the depths of God.

Look it up sometimes. We might know the depths of God. Give me a new thought. The depths of God. And we're born for the depths of God. And I'm not talking about deep mysteries of the scriptures or theology, but the depths of God.

The deep things of God. The depths of God. That God wants to bring us into. How Paul prayed for the Ephesian church that they might I like the book of Ephesians where Paul would begin to utter these unsearchable things and yet using the Greek language to portray it to say it, and yet knowing that there's a language beyond any Greek or Hebrew or Spanish or English or German that man cannot speak.

Maybe in the spirit, maybe in tongues sometimes we speak some of that. We call it the unknown language. The things that God is so far beyond us that they're unsearchable. And the heart of God, how is he going to reveal himself to us in my English language or your Spanish or your German or your Hebrew?

How is he going to talk to you in the language of heaven? Use your language, but your language with 25 letters, 26 letters, how can God reveal himself in that? There's another language that if we do not have we cannot comprehend the things of God.

And that's the language that God bridges by his spirit. And so that's what Paul meant when he said what things know the things of man but the spirit of man? What do you know about mankind if you're not a man?

Very little does an animal know about any human being. Yet sometimes we say they're very intelligent, somehow they can relate a little. But what? Who knows what's in man except by the spirit of man? Then he says, well then who knows what's in God but by the spirit of God?

That's why how vain it is to think that by intellectually we can figure out the heart of God. Because only the spirit of God knows that. And so Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 2 maybe we'll just turn to it a minute, 1 Corinthians chapter 2, now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

He gives us the spirit not just to make us happy or jump or dance or preach or minister or oh you could go on and on. He gives us the spirit of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

He wants us to know what he's freely made available to us. He's already told us that eye hasn't seen it, ear hasn't heard what God's revealed, what he's prepared for us. But he says God is revealed among us by his spirit.

For the spirit searches all things, yea the deep things, the very depths of God himself. God gives us, poor humans of the dust, nevertheless capable of receiving his spirit because we're made in his image.

He gives us that spirit and that spirit might search out those things in God. And so here's Saul of Tarsus knowing Greek and Hebrew to perfection and never really knew God because he didn't have the spirit.

I studied Greek and Hebrew, not Hebrew, Greek a little in time and I wasn't able to pursue it and I often regretted it and I still regret it in a sense. But I think God gave me courage to know and to understand that some of the great theologians that knew Greek and Hebrew to perfection yet never really come to know the Lord in great depth.

And that to have the spirit of God he can reveal to you these unutterable things in the heart of God that no earthly language can unveil. And yet we're very thankful for our translators, for those who have given us the concordances and those who know Greek and Hebrew God has always provided those because he is concerned about maintaining the integrity of the written word of God.

The Living Word and the Written Word

But let us never be disturbed if somehow, sometime the Bibles are all taken up and confiscated and destroyed. The living word, the true word still remains during steadfastness. And God could raise up someone to stand before the people and declare it if there's no Bibles.

I know a man who would do that. A man who had the gift, you might say, of the Bible. Not that he could quote Genesis 1 right on through. He couldn't. He didn't read the Bible much. But when he stood to minister he'd quote scriptures.

That's about all he would preach for a half an hour to three quarters of an hour. And he'd say, take your Bibles, and he'd be standing there without a Bible. He shall know that I am the Lord, comma, when I have opened your graves, comma, O my people, comma, semicolon, colon.

Just like that. I mean, accurately. A gift that God had given him. It wasn't walking with God. Well, I'm going to, Lord willing, come back to some of that. Because I want to talk about going on to know God.

And not to stop short in any benefit he has given us. Any blessing he has given us. Never to think, I've got this blessing. I've got one, two, three. I've got the third blessing. And so finally I've got it.

Because the blessing from God is not the fullness of God's intention. It's what that blessing will do. Let's take note in the scriptures when God says he's done this in order to do that. Pay attention to it.

Because if God does this, well, that's great. And it is great. Might be tremendous, but if it's in order that something else might happen, we better see what God has in mind that might happen. And so when he says, I've poured out my gifts upon the church and I've raised up, I've given to the church gifts from my own heart.

Spiritual Gifts Must Produce Ministry in the Body

When he ascended on high, he led captivity captives and gave gifts unto men, apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers. Isn't that great? God's restored the apostolic, the fivefold ministry and that has become the theme of the church in this last half century almost, forty, fifty years.

And God did emphasize it because he did that. He restored gifts to his people. And when God restores anything to his people, for a season he'll emphasize it greatly. But he doesn't want us to stop there.

So God's intention in giving the gifts of the spirit, precious as they are, his intention is something else. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till.

Till. Well then if it's till something, when that comes, well then these others somehow have got to be put in the background. So it hasn't come yet, so we shall thank the Lord that he's given us gifts and blessings and ministrations and we anticipate he'll do much more in the days to come because there's been a perversion of many of the gifts that God has given.

There's been misuse of them. People have become disillusioned because of much that's gone on. Not that it comes from the gifts of God, but it comes by reason of the fact that those who have these gifts have not realized God's intention in giving them and feel they're in control rather than recognizing when God makes an apostle or prophet he wants that apostle, that prophet to come under the control of the Spirit of God and his ministry is going to be valid.

And not denying that if he doesn't come under that control, that mind might still have power. He may still have power without coming under the control of the Holy Spirit. But it'll be to his own loss.

It might benefit the people of God, but it will not benefit the one who is manifesting that particular gift or ministry. It's necessary that we understand these things because God's people have become so disillusioned in seeing mighty men of God, so-called.

God says don't call any man mighty. But we see these mighty men of God and they become heroes and they men become totally captivated by the great things they do. And God's people have been disillusioned when after a season somehow they fail, something happens.

They get so disillusioned. Many of them quit church. They don't want to go anywhere. They don't want to hear any more preaching. Because they do not understand that you can have all the gifts of the Spirit.

You can have all power, all wisdom, all knowledge, prophetic utterances. And if you don't have love, it profits nothing. Paul said that. We say, yeah, I know, but we don't pay much attention to that. And we think, well, a man couldn't have all that and not have love.

But he can. And so if we know that God's ultimate intention for his people is to come unto love, but then that's what we'll pursue. And Paul says, desire earnestly spiritual gifts. But follow after love.

You don't follow after spiritual gifts. You follow after love. And so let's continue a little. There's a message here in Ephesians chapter 4. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry.

Ministry Exists to Equip Every Believer

So then the ministry is given to minister Christ to the people that the body might be edified, that they might impart to the people of God something to enable them to be ministering servants in the house of God.

For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of ministry. So what we call fivefold is in their ministration to impart something to God's people that they might be ministers. And I'm not talking about anything clerical, anything to do with the clergy.

The intention of ministry is to produce ministry in the body of Christ so everyone in the body has a ministry. Everyone is called to ministry in the body of Christ. You can't make it happen. But that's the intention of ministry.

And I say this, if the ministry that God has spent for the edifying of the saints, for the work of ministry, and for the building up of the body of Christ, if it doesn't build up the body that every member has a vital function in that body, that ministry has failed.

And I don't see much desire as I hear and read of these big prophetic apostolic conferences where thousands come to it to listen and to go away admiring the great teachings they got, the great apostles that spoke, the great prophets that minister.

No thought, it seems to me, in those great ministers of so imparting something to God's people that they become ministers in the body of Christ. I'm not saying that is universal, but that's the sense you get.

As long as you uphold this five-fold ministry, everything is lovely and that's magnified. And it's till this work has been accomplished in the body and then the schism will disappear in the body of Christ.

I discovered that recently. God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to those parts which lack that there be no schism in the body of Christ. How? 1 Corinthians chapter 12. Yea, I cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

Nay, much more of those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary. God says, God looks down and he sees you when you say well, I love coming to church, I love fellowship with God's people.

I don't have anything, of course, but I love God's people. I like to hear the word and you recognize you're feeble. That's a good attitude to have. But God is not pleased until he has put such honor upon you that you become something that the rest of the body cherishes as being vitally essential in the body.

Instead of thinking, well, poor guy, nice guy and all that, but you know, he doesn't have any great value. And it might be so because of his neglect. But it might be so also because there hasn't been an administration of the truth of God in power to these people to impart to them something that that feeble person needs.

God's intention is to take those feeble members of the body and to put more abundant honor upon them. Because those members of the body, that's verse 23, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor.

And our uncommonly parts have more abundant commonness. For our commonly parts have no need that God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacks, that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care one for another.

House Churches and the Distribution of Ministry

So you see the system we have, the care is on the pastor. If it goes and goes from 1 ,000 to 2 ,000, well, you've got to build a temple to seat the 2 ,000. You'll go that, build one to seat 3 ,000. I don't know what you'll do if the whole city is converted to the Lord.

And that's nothing to do with expansion in the body of Christ. Nothing to do with enlargement in the body of Christ. We met a man from India a year ago. Pastor Joseph, he calls himself, from Bombay, India.

Struggled away there for a year with a small group of people like any normal pastor. Very concerned and interested in his people, and yet somehow always so many troubles and problems. He sought God in prayer and fasting, and God said, don't try to build up this church, but establish home churches.

Let the people gather a few in a home, and then when that home is filled, go to another home. I don't know when he started that. A few years ago. And last year when he spoke, when he told us this, he says, today there are thousands of churches in Bombay.

Fifteen people, twenty people, that's about it. They won't go to the Christian temples, because they've got their own temples. Hindu temples, Sikh temples, they've got all that. But the person living in this little humble cottage, a neighbor will go over and say, come and visit us tonight.

We're going to have a gathering. And they get converted. And first thing you know, that house is filled up. And there's an elder in charge, and an elder might be in charge of, when I say in charge, I mean hopefully under the Holy Spirit.

Maybe two or three under him. And then there's another home, and another home. And a year ago, he said there was a thousand house churches, and he might go away two months and come back, and there's twenty-five, thirty more house churches.

And I'm not saying that's to be the explicit pattern. I'm just saying that it's God's way to divide in order that there might be true unity and that the schism might be eradicated. To divide in segments that there might be administration of the body by God putting honor on all these members that sit there and say there's nothing to do.

Oh, we'll make you a choir leader. Oh, you can be the youth leader. You can be the leader of the seniors and creating ministries in order to keep a Babylon functioning smoothly. You want to keep all under control.

The real reason for this the megachurch system is really to keep control. And you know that, and they know it. It's to keep control because if it gets too scattered, we can't control it. They want to flow in the river.

Living Water Versus Human-Made Cisterns

But this river of life is not dangerous. He will cause you to flow in his purposes. Thomas says it's full of water. What did man do then? How come we end up in the state we're in? God said through Jeremiah my people have committed two evils.

They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters. And they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. Now I thought of those two evils. Which is the worse? To forsake him the fountain of living waters, but if you recognize it, hurry back to the river.

But no, we don't have the river. We don't have what we had in the Zusa Street. We don't have what we had in the Great Awakening or the Wesleyan Revival. We don't have that, but we want to retain some of the flavor of it.

So when Wesleyan's dead, they organized the Wesleyan church. When he's dead and gone, instead of seeking God for a new river, if the streams are drying up, not a new river, but the opening of the one that they channeled off into human cisterns.

Which is worse? To forsake the fountain or having forsaken the fountain to dig cisterns, holes in the ground to pour that pure water in in order to keep it pure because we're always afraid of heresies and false doctrines.

So if you have this little pool here, we can't control the river, but we can control that and keep it clean. And you know what happens when you pour water into a cistern to keep it clean? It doesn't stay clean.

It might stay clean for a month, a couple of months. And they think they've succeeded? God is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh. And the churches in this day and hour are excited about filling their cisterns with charismatic water.

They're excited about it. And there's a freshness about it for a season. And they call it a move of the Spirit that began when was it? 19th? And really it began as a river. But what began back whenever it was and what became known as the charismatics was a channeling of this wonderful flow into their cisterns.

Because they discovered it still works there. They can still talk in tongues. They can still heal. They can still prophesy. They can still preach. They can bring in the people. People are still blessed.

And we're not denying any of that. But it's not God's order and it won't last. Because God's intention is not blessing but the fruit of this blessing. And so back to Ephesians 4, where the perfecting of the saints.

The Measure of the Stature of Christ

And so there's a standard somewhere in Canada, no doubt here in the States, where this is the standard and anything that's made in feet and inches has to be according to that standard. It's set. It's fixed.

So anybody who manufactures tools or tape measures, it's got to be right on. Now let me tell you what the standard is when God says he wants to bring his people to perfection. And to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

I know it's too high but it's something God's doing, not you and I. I wish somehow we could emphasize that. It's just as much a work of God as when God soothed down and molded together a bunch of clay or whatever and formed a man.

And you know very well that if any other creature was around and says, there, that's the man that God's made. Stand up, Adam. You know it couldn't happen. But you don't have any trouble believing that God did that and then breathed into him the breath of life and became a living soul.

And so, oh, God did it. Don't think for one moment that what we're talking about is something that you and I are supposed to do or that some five-fold ministry is supposed to do. It's God who breathed in this life to bring us to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Not denying that it's God's people. I don't care if it's the humblest saint in the body of Christ comes over to minister to one of God's needy ones. He can, as it were, by the Spirit, breathe that life into them.

Not of his own volition, but if God the Spirit is in him, God will enable that to happen. So, we're not saying, well, oh, it's not possible. It can't happen. You know very well nobody can be perfect in this life.

I know that. I'm talking about God the Creator who when you look at that human body of yours and you say, isn't it tremendous? You're amazed at the functioning of the human body. A famous doctor wrote a book on it and likened it to the body of Christ.

I mean, you can't conceive of this. The wonderful unity and harmony and the ability to ward off disease and fight disease. David said, I was made in secret in the lowest parts of the earth. I know when he said that he was speaking prophetically of our Lord Jesus in the body that he was forming for Jesus and ultimately for this body of Christ.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect. And in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. And David, I know, was speaking concerning the Christ and the body of Christ.

It's something that God formed that we don't understand how he did it. We understand it concerning this human body. We don't understand it, but we believe it. How much more cannot the God who is the God of the spirits of all flesh, at the appointed time, stoop down and breathe into the body of Christ his own life, that they might rise up in the beauty of the stature of Christ?

It's going to happen. I don't know how quickly it can happen very quickly. Ezekiel saw it. God called him out to the boneyard, the valley of dry bones. And they were dry. And lo, they were very dry. I was thinking of my mother, come back from a meeting, and what was, oh Lord, it was very dry.

And God said, can these bones live? I mean, imagine Ezekiel standing in a boneyard and saying to Ezekiel, Ezekiel, do you think these bones can live? What would you say? What he said, oh Lord, I don't know.

Prophesy to them. I'm telling you, God is going to put a spirit of prophecy in his people. Thank the Lord for the prophets he puts in the church. He's going to put a spirit of prophecy in the people of God, where when they gather together in his name, and Jesus is Lord in the midst, and the spirit is in control, there's going to be a witness of Jesus, which God says is the spirit of prophecy.

The spirit of prophecy went forth. And as he prophesied, behold, and as he prophesied, behold, there was a noise, a shaking. I remember one time, because God emphasized that prophecy of Ezekiel very much back in 48 -49.