Walk (A Browse in John) — G.W. North

You know, during the course of a series of meetings like these, I go through several different stages. I don't know whether you do. I... not exactly moods, but stages. It isn't wrong to have moods, if they're the right ones.

Harriet Beecher Stowe felt very hardly about her husband because she said he used to cultivate indigo. I hope you know what that means. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a writer. She expected you to understand her figures of speech.

She said her husband used to cultivate indigo, and you know what color indigo is, don't you? That's right. In other words, he just used to sink into his black, dark moods, and that was that, and he used to cultivate them.

Now, those kinds of moods are wrong, absolutely wrong. But you know, God has moods, and he inflects his moods into scripture, so that the languages he used, both Hebrew and Greek, have moods in them which the English doesn't quite have.

This is why God wrote his book originally in languages that were far more flexible even than the English, so that we could get shades of meaning, and tones, or overtones, or undertones, and he wanted to get this over to us, and it's a precious thing.

You know that, don't you? So this is why we have a habit of saying it's not what you say, it's the way you say it. That's right, isn't it? Even the simplest of words, they partake of the nature, and the spirit, and the mood, and the meaning.

A word changes its meaning according to the way it's said, although in various letters, as the word itself, it can never change. But we inflect into it, we bring the power of our spirit into it, we make things mean something just by the tone, and this of course is the important thing, because it's the tone that always indicates who you are, or what's your meaning.

You know it's very important for you to understand, it's most important for us to understand, because you see, it's love or hatred that inflects tones, isn't it? It's an attitude of spirit. This is the thing that counts, and these are the things that count.

God is love, so God is the word, you see? And the word God spoke always was love, and that's wonderful. And though he had sometimes to say some things that were rather, well, nasty as you see them in bare print, you know, how shall ye escape the damnation of hell, and words like that, yet beloved, they're all so beautiful and real.

Browsing the Scriptures Through John's Gospel

Well, I usually, long-windedly, take a long time to come round to what I want to say. What I want to do with you this morning is browse, and I always get to this stage in a conference, the place where I want to browse.

You get this in music, if you're a musical type, I don't know what you are. If you are a musical type, for instance, there's Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, you see, or if you're a mathematician, you want to play Bach, who seems to be able to calculate any space he can put a note in.

That's Mark's gene, that's Bach's genius, if it is a genius, but there it is, and you see, or you get the melancholy of Tchaikovsky. Most people who are melancholic like Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, because he was a melancholic and he was a demon-possessed man, so if you like that miserable kind of heavy melancholy of Tchaikovsky, be careful, you haven't got an evil spirit in you, for like appeals to like.

You need educating out of it, didn't you know this? That is what it's all about, we're in this world, we're in this realm, we're affected by the moods, by the spirits of these things, you see. Sibelius, well, he partook of the moods of his country, you can get it in all his music, and the general mood of the Finns is one of depression and downcastness, melancholy.

You know that, of course, that's why I say when you get down amongst the fiery Italians, you get those lovely overtures of, oh, you're not musicians, I thought you were. You know, who wrote La Scala di Seta and The Thieving Magpie, that's right, that's him, you see, there it is, you get it amongst these, as you move, you can only reflect what you are, you can't, it comes out in music, it comes out in poetry, Durham Thomas, for instance, that somebody thinks he's a poet, some people think he's a poet, he was a pervert and a drunkard, died in a drunkard stupor, Durham Thomas, in a drunken brawl, you see, Handel was a gourmet, an absolute pig of a man, Handel, sorry to shock you, but he was.

Yeah, I'm with you with Beethoven, brother, yeah, Beethoven himself was a man who was undoubtedly under demonic troubles at times, and it's tremendous, and you know, like so many people who are under demonic troubles, sometimes, when they're normal, they can fly to the sublime heights, take the marvels of his violin concerto, for instance, if you know how to move in his, the dialogue between the violin and the orchestra, all right, sorry, I'm not giving you a lecture on music, the wonderful way he went, and then, you see, he was a man who recovered from a big illness once, and he wrote a quartet, you will know it, I suppose, in thankfulness to a deity, he didn't know God, but he realised there was a deity somewhere, and he wrote that, the Thanksgiving Quartet, and so on, all right, I must get off this subject, I'm not talking to you about music this morning, but I will say this, if I'd have had a choice, I would have made that my career, but God altered it, that's if they would have had me, they might not, with some of the comments I have to offer, because, I mean, Sir Donald Tovey of those, he didn't comment from a spiritual angle, he only commented from a musical angle, and I may not like spiritual comments on music, but these are the greatest approaches, beloved, and I just want to browse this morning with you in the scripture, and I think that if I'm going to take anything to browse in, I shall have to go to John, I always have to go to John when I want to browse, because, you see, well, I suppose one of these times you'll stop coming to conferences where I am, because you say, well, he's sure to be talking from John, sometimes, and I know it all, well, I don't, you see, that's why I keep browsing in it, and if you think, or ever think you get to the place where you know it all, beloved, you're sunk, you're finished, and so, again this morning, I was in John, and I was in his epistle where we were yesterday morning, and I think this will about make the third time we've been in John's epistle in this week, or in these days, three meetings running, is it, oh, was it last night, we were, we went in John last night, oh, I've forgotten, oh, did I, sorry, well, I never, well, OK, well, as a matter of fact, you see, you'll always discover this, it doesn't matter how you preach, if you're a proper preacher, I don't mean somebody who gives a twenty minute homily, or something like that, which isn't worth going to listen to, but if you're really going to preach, you always have to finally come back to John's language, always have to do that, it's impossible to be a real preacher of eternal life without coming to John's language, you know, you preach, behold the Lamb of God, well, that's John, you see, you're going to preach the gospel, anything like that, you, you must come here, because the others didn't talk like this about Jesus, not that they didn't know him like this, but they didn't do it, you see, this is what John's gospel is concerned about, beloved, it starts off with telling you that he's the Lamb, and so John's gospel is simply to enable you to have a look at the Lamb, that's what he does, you remember, it says that John the Baptist, on the second occasion, when he said, behold the Lamb of God, it says, he looked upon him as he walked, and that's what John's gospel is about, Jesus walked, as the Lamb, and you're allowed to see him as the Lamb, you know, the lovely Lamb, when he turned the water into wine, for instance, everybody went and congratulated the, the, the, the governor of the feast, and they said, Jesus stood by, he'd given it, but he never said a word, he let everybody else get the congratulations, you see, you've got to look on him as he walked, this is it, and this is what John's gospel's all about, and you'll find him, in the third chapter, in the fourth chapter, you'll find him dealing with the woman of the world, and, you know, as you go through, you'll just see him as he walked, he walked one day, say, take the fifth chapter, this is always the Lamb, he walked one day to a pool in Bethesda, and he sees a man lying there for thirty-eight years, been ill, and he says, would thou be made whole, and the man says, yes, I, well, you know, in the end, he sort of got round to it, so Jesus said, well, take up your bed and walk, you see, and the fellow took up his bed and walked, and looked round for Jesus, and he disappeared, you know, what's happened, where, where's he gone, who was it, he was, I don't know, that's the Lamb, see, you might have said, behold the hero, look, he made this man walk, whoo, see, you get up on the platform, and everybody has a look at you, wonderful miracle gift, and they write magazines about you, with glossy pages and pictures, don't you see, but Jesus didn't do that, he, you've got to look on the Lamb, as he walked, that's what it's all about, because you're supposed to be like that, you see, I'm browsing, obviously, this morning, I'm not, I'm not, I should get into trouble, because there's a gentleman here, he reckons I always ought to announce my subject first, and then he can get down to it, you see, you see, well, I haven't got a subject, call it browsing, I'm a ruminant this morning, you know what a ruminant is, don't you, all right, good, and this, this is the, the whole glorious thing, and you look on him, and this is what his gospel is about, you see, I'm just writing these things so that you know, you know what eternal life is, you see, that's what he says, I mean, he doesn't put it that way, I put it colloquially, in the end of his gospel, he said, now, I'm writing this so that you know what eternal life is, you see, marvellous, isn't it, that was eternal life, so I thought eternal life was being saved, Jesus, Jesus wasn't saved, you get it by being saved, but you've got to know what it is, when you've got it, you see, have a, have a look on it, he says, this is what it is, of course, I know you see him in the other gospels, but the other gospels set forth his, his works more, you see, he went here, he healed those, he did this miracle, and he healed those thousands, he did this, and it's all so right, of course, and it's proper, and they have their part to fulfil, but oh John, he says, now you'd better have a look at this eternal life, in the beginning, you see, we get it right from the beginning, and he starts way through, and you just see him, the Lord, what he was like when he shut himself up in a, in a room with his disciples, he starts off by absolutely loving them till he can't stop himself, he loves them and loves them, and it pours out of him, he thinks of his own eternal security, he knew that he'd come from God and went from God, oh, you see, and he gets a bowl of water, and he gets down, and he washes their feet, you see, that's him, that's what he did, he got to, I want these men to have it, you see, what can I do, got down and washed it, did he do it just to show how humble he was, like Uriah, he didn't do that, that was him, loving, loving, pouring, down there, this life, beloved, have you seen it, and what it's all about, because you've got to be like it, and if you're not like it, you haven't got it, do you know why I can't act like a pig this morning, because I haven't got a pig's leg, I don't run around here snorting on four legs, rooting about in all the filth, I haven't got a pig's leg, so I can't do it, I can't come and sit on your ear and sting you, because I'm not a wasp, it's right, it sounds funny, and I can't feed off the tops of the trees, because I haven't got a long neck like a giraffe, that's true, I haven't got it, and it's no good telling me about it, but if I've got the life of the lamb, that's it, or else you haven't got it, this is what I tell myself, you know, I tell myself this, I hope sometimes when you, if you listen to me preaching, oh he's putting it a bit hard, well, I say, Lord I haven't got it, so I've got it, one of the two, I want to face reality, I don't want pretty little sermons, I don't want them, I don't want charismatic, charismatic, charismatic, I don't want that, if I've got it, I've got it, it's the life I want, that's right, you see, the other Gospels are concerned with the charismatic, three of them, if you like the charismatic, the miracles he did, the marvellous prophecies he gave, and all this, and they're fine, they have their place, but old John says here, come on, and notes it, put right at the last, get your foundations right, let's have a look at this life, let's see what it is, of course he will tell you about a few miracles, but each one of the miracles he did, they were, they were all tended, they were all slanted, if this be the word, at making him appear, I was going to say nothing, he healed this man who slipped away, he changed the water into wine, let's take the miracles, you see, and, well that's something, let somebody else get the credit for that, he fed to 5 ,000, you say, well now then, there you are, John's 60 fed to 5 ,000, but you know he fed to 5 ,000 don't he, he let the others feed him, he didn't do it, you see, he kept in the background, the hidden source of it all, don't you see, the disciples, the apostles, there were the people walking around, bless you, bless you brother, bless you, marvelous, you see, and you go right the way through, he stands at Lazarus' tomb and he didn't even go to the house first, he didn't go to the house, where all the crowds were, he stopped outside, you see, and some said, Jesus has come, so up goes Martha to Jesus, you see, and he says, where's Mary, so at last she goes back and she says, the master's come, he's calling for you Mary, so up goes Mary, then the others began to realize, you see, when they got there, found Jesus weeping, where have you laid him, off he goes, rolled away the stone, he didn't do it, you see, he didn't do it, he kept right in the background, but he was walking in communion with his father, and the third time he said, well father, I know you hear me always, that's why I said take away the stone, father, and then he says, Lazarus come forth, he says, go on, you take the clothes off him, you see, do you see this lamb, or did you think it's a matter of building a big pulpit, great big advertisements, getting a string steel band, having about four or five people to testify how they came from black magic to Christ, or something like that, beloved.

Eternal Life as a Life That Is Lived

Now I'm not saying these things haven't got a place, don't misunderstand, but I want you and I, and this is what I face, when I'm in my room alone, and if I come to public places, I want to present it to your heart too, this is the life, this is what it is, this is the genuine life, it's like all the way through, I mean, you've got it even in nature, this is why sometimes in the Bible, I'm really ruminating this morning, and I'm browsing, because often I take the whole Bible as my text, I'm counting on you knowing the Bible, if you don't know the Bible, you'd better get to know it before the next conference, get to know it, you see, and no penalties if you've only really just started to read it properly as you should have done, no penalties, but some of you older ones who say you've been Christians for ten or how many years, I'm not allowing you to get away with it, you mustn't, there's no excuse for you, but I'm a busy person, well, you're not the only busy person in the world, I hope you know that, generally people are so busy because they don't know how to organise things properly, organise themselves, I can remember when I used to start work very early in the morning, finish very late at night, and I think I read the Bible through nearly three times in twelve months, it's all according to what kind of a heart you've got in you, what kind of an appetite, what it is you really want, I know I was naughty, and all you young people, that is everybody under twenty, I'll count you as young, you can put your fingers in your ears, I used to read it when I was eating the meals, I know you shouldn't do that, but I did you see, so it might do some of you parents good to encourage your children to read the Bibles when they're eating their meals, instead of being so stuck up with Victorian stuffiness, not that it isn't good to keep your table unlittered, because you've only got a small table, but the whole thing is, you've got to get at it, well now, this is what you see in the Bible as you know, tells you, does not even nature itself teach you, you remember that, see you can be taught the truth of God in nature, now I know it's got nothing of redemption in it, and I know that, but nature itself can teach you some things, you see, you look out here, you see the fruit trees, the apple trees, what are there, if there aren't any black currant bushes there will be, and you'll find flowers all round, and you'll find chickens, and you'll find bees, don't get too near to the bees, and you'll find cows, and all this sort of thing, and you look round, where did it all come from, let's be all naive, who made all this, where does he live, can't I see him, no, you see, all the manifestation of this, but himself hidden, you see now, when Jesus comes on earth, the manifestation, take up your bed and walk, where's Jesus, hidden, where is he, what man was he that said, I don't know, the man that healed me, said take up the bed and walk, well where is he, and until Jesus goes and finds him in the temple, he hasn't got a clue, isn't it lovely, you see, so nature itself teaches you, we haven't even got common sense, so how do we expect to have spiritual sense, now then beloved, this is John, and at the end of his book, you know, he says, well I've written these things, that you might believe, well let's have a look at it shall we, this is in John chapter 20, oh praise God, hallelujah, at the end of the 20th chapter of John, this is what you read, many other signs, verse 30, Jesus truly did, in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book, but these are written, that you might believe, that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that believing, you might have life, through his name, and then we go into his epistle, and you know how it starts, you remember don't you, how we read it the other morning, that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen, which our eyes have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of life, for the life was manifested, you see, this is what he says, it's just so, he's continuing, years after, oh I don't know quite when it all happened, and he's writing this, this is what we saw, and that believing, you might have life, now then, here's the life, now he's going to tell you in his epistle, as we were saying, now if you've got this life, this is what it is, now this is why I like John, I like to get hold of the Ephesian letters, and let my mind go soaring, if it will, into all the superlatives, and all the glory of the revelation of church truth, and it's marvellous, and I don't know whether I've got a head for the heights or not, but I always come back down here, if what's the use of me dreaming dreams about sitting with Christ in heavenly places, if it only be a dream, and it will only be a dream, if I haven't got my feet right down here on the earth, in this marvellous life, that God is talking about, and living it, in all it's fullness, and so you see, when you finish up the epistle of John, this is how it finishes up, verse 13 of chapter 5, these things have I written unto you, that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, you see, the first one was not that believing you may have life, now he's saying, that I've written this letter, that you may know you've got it, amen, that you may know that you've got it, and what a tremendous thing it is, and so the last, the right at the end of the epistle, we read this, and we know in verse 20, that the Son of God is come, that's blessed, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and that we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ, this is the true God, and eternal life, and so we're right on this lovely ground, beloved, as we were thinking yesterday morning, John progresses from believing to knowing, and he gets from knowing to confidence, he uses the word confidence, and then in the end he's finished up with understanding, it's a tremendous thing, knowledge, confidence, understanding, beloved, I hope it's like that with you, knowledge, confidence, understanding, what a tremendous revelation it is then, beloved, when God speaks to us, to bring us into these marvellous things, and I confess to you that this is what my heart loves, it may be, I don't know, I know all the advice of men is, man know thyself, that's the summary of human philosophy, man know thyself, and of course you know the revelation of scripture is, man know thy God, that's very different, and according to here, it's man know thyself in thy God, alright, eternal life, here it is, we may know him that's true, verse 20, and that we are in him that is true, that's man restored to his original position, for as we were thinking last night, it all started with an election in God, in God's thoughts, God willed me into being in himself, so I have to be of him, he thought way back there in a past eternity of me, willed me there, and now I know I'm in him, you see, now you're right, you're back there where you came from, isn't that a tremendous thing, and here's your understanding, really enlightened now, when you're back here, and you're not living in the world at all, you understand that don't you, you're only walking down here, you're not living here, you live in God, you walk down here, Jesus said that, he said, I live by my father, don't you believe I'm in my father, and my father's in you, well Lord we thought you were, you see this is what they first started when they started to follow Jesus, he looked round when two were following him on the day, when John Baptist announced him as the Lamb of God, and they started to follow Jesus, he looked round and saw them following him, he said, what are you seeking, they said, where do you live, that was the first question, yeah, you find it in John chapter 1, where do you live, he said, come and see, come and see, one of them was old John, who wrote this, he found out, in him, don't you see I'm in my father and my father, I'm only walking down here, John Baptist looked on him as he walked, that's right, you're only walking down here, you think you live at Rorah, you're utterly mistaken all you people, get it out of your head, I don't live at 25 Belmont, I'm soon leaving anyway, but I don't live there, hallelujah, hallelujah, live in him, when will we see this beloved, this will colour everything you do, if you think you live down here on the earth, you strive yourself to death to get the best home, better than all the Joneses and the Jameses and the Johns and everything, because you live in down here, that's what you're doing, but if you're living in God, and if we really did, if the church had really lived in God, we wouldn't have had our young people running up on drug trips, because they saw through the materialism that was called Christianity, not that they had an excuse to go and sin, but this is it beloved, they saw through it all, bless God they did, we're living in Jesus, we're living in the Father, got this great and marvellous life, we're understanding, and it's as well for us to see this, beloved in fact we must, it's absolutely important that we get this deeply into our hearts, because you see, we're dealing with absolute reality in God, oh I don't know what you think about it, but always trust God to be completely honest with you, always trust Him, say things, and sometimes as we read our Bible we get the things He says a little obscured, we don't see them clearly as God intends us to see them, often the writing itself obscures what God wants us to see and understand, come with me for instance, we'll take an instance of this, and we'll move on, I'm in the fourth chapter of this first epistle of John, and as we get down to the end of, well at least let's come to the end of the third chapter, He that keepeth His commandments, verse 24, dwelleth in Him, and He in Him, and hereby we know that He abides in us by the Spirit which He hath given us, praise God, He's given us the Spirit, and we know that He abides in us, isn't this wonderful, this is what He said in the fourteenth chapter of His Gospel, then we come down into the fourth chapter and we read, we're not to believe every spirit, now you and I beloved are so to be in touch with one another that we're in touch with spirits, we're in touch with spirits, when I come near to you it's your spirit I want to touch, as a matter of fact I do, don't know whether you touch mine or not, sometimes we're not always aware of it because what we see is the colour of somebody's eyes or whether they got fair hair or dark hair or whether it's curly or straight or whether their nose is that much long or not, this is the kind of thing we sort of notice, but we've got to come to one another and we meet in spirit, we contact spirit, and you're not to believe every spirit, you have the Holy Spirit given to you, if you are a child of God, and there He is, and I meet your spirit, and immediately I know, I know you, you know, I know you, you see if everybody was to come down onto the basic reality, they'd get the charismata in proper perspective, you see great discernment that man's got, you're all supposed to be able to discern spirits, that's the thing, yeah go on, let that sink in now, that's the basic thing about life, you're not to believe it, well if I don't know them, I'm the worker, what are you to tell me whether to believe them or not, are you aware of spirit, now I did say are you aware of demons, this is how it gets translated, people twist it in their minds and think, oh my goodness, I don't know we're on the shoulders or, just there, let's go and sprinkle that curtain with the blood of Jesus and all that business, God save us, we're not even saying, we've drifted into the magic realm, hallelujah, did you ever find Jesus doing that, that's the life, you ought to read John's Gospel, that's the life, that's what it is, that's how it's got to be lived, that's the kind of language to you, it's all so lovely, what you've got to do beloved is be a lamb, see, and now, when we move in this realm, we know spirit, we're supposed to know spirit, and we must tell what the spirit of God is, hereby know ye the spirit of God, verse 2, got to know that, spirit of God, must know that, then when you get down the chapter, you read something else about the spirit, verse 13, hereby know we, that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his spirit, now note the difference, he's given us the spirit, then he gives us of, hallelujah, that's what we all do, we all give of our spirits, that's what you do, you give of your spirit, don't you, now that is what the teaching in chapter 3 is all about, you know, it's no good you saying you love one another, if you don't give to one another, and when we give, we give of our spirits, so when you talk to me, or when you meet me, or when you smile at me, or frown at me, you're giving me of your spirit, and that's why in many churches for instance, shall I say this, the collections are down, every week, collections are down this week, because people are giving of their spirit, they're mean and parsimonious, they'll argue black's white, and they'll lie like truth to tell you they can't afford it, that's right, I'm not being cynical and hard, that's right, they'll lie like truth, and when it comes to it, and if you went and lived with them, you'd soon see it wasn't right, the extravagance and the wastage in the home, isn't right, people will buy great big cars that only do 15 miles to the gallon, when they could have one that did 40 or 50, you see, I mean even in the car world, now I know if you're supposed to run a bus, because you get a bus filled up, well that's different, all this kind of, and people give of their spirit, my beloved brothers and sisters, you know the spirit, even if you've got any intelligence, after all, we're all moral intelligences, and we all know, beloved, it's plain as a pie still, and you're giving of your spirit, God has given of his spirit to me, and this is again, if I may say this, why I like this epistle of John, because it gets right down to these basic things, hallelujah, and I know, I know this, let's have a look here, God talks so, so plainly, look at verse 13 again, we'll read it again, hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his spirit, now I know I live in him, because I'm getting everything of his spirit, everything of his spirit, he's given unto me, you see this, you must check out, are you getting everything of God's spirit, oh you get the absolute quintessence of it all, right out of his spirit, all his words come from his spirit, all his works come from his spirit, all his gifts come from his spirit, all of them, he lavishes out bountifully, all the sweetness, all the comfort comes from his spirit, so much so that the Holy Ghost is called the Comforter, all his forgiveness comes from his spirit, I was thinking a little earlier this morning, human brains, minds are marvellous things aren't they, things you can think of in about half an hour, and I was thinking, I don't know when this morning, of Jesus again, and he said, when they crucify you, father forgive them, forgive them father, they don't know what they're doing, because spirit determines attitude, attitude comes from a fixed disposition, hallelujah, you've got this, I hope you're getting this very clear, and they crucify you, what do you say, if your spirit, if your attitude is fixed, if your disposition is right, forgive them Lord, see, that's it, think of it, it's a high standard, hallelujah, it's a high standard, of course it is, did you ever read in Luke's gospel, forgive me for going outside of John at the moment, but in Luke's gospel, chapter 6, did you ever read it, well now, one of my advice to you is, sometime today, read it, Luke chapter 6, and in this, he comes along and he said, the Lord's saying this, he said, do so and so, so and so, so and so, no, don't do so and so, he said, you may be the children of the highest, he told them that before they were born again, told them that, he said, you've got to be the children of the highest, if you follow me, the highest, praise God, bless God for everybody that puts the standard right up there, we've had enough of it being trampled down in the mud up there, and so, I know, and now let's go on you see, he's given us of his spirit, and this is the only way you can really see, now I might detect your spirit when I come up close to you or meet you, but when you start giving me of your spirit, I see you then, I know you, I know you then, when you start giving me of your, and you can't help giving me of your spirit you see, you might be very polite and very nice, but it's unavoidable, and that's when I see, I've got it now you see, and then I can testify, I didn't say run about and talk about you behind your back, that's sin, I can testify, but now let's have a look at another point, and isn't the Bible so tremendous, I hope you understand that really get down on a Bible study, taking it week by week, in just the book of Ephesians, three years, hallelujah, that's how powerful the word is, but we are here beloved, listen and it says, the father sent the son to be the savior of the world, now those words to be thee, are not there in the Greek, and the best way, or the better way to write that would be, if you could do it with the Bible, is to write son stroke savior, you know when you write them together, not son hyphen savior, but son stroke savior, meaning the same, because that's what you're being told, he sent the son savior of the world, that's what it is, he sent him, he was the savior, well now you see, not just to be the savior, he was the savior, and that's why, and this is the point I want you to see, that's why he called him Jesus, because God calls a thing what it is, that's right, he calls you what you are, always call his name Jesus, he said, he's going to save his people, in other words, he'll not only call you what you are, but he'll call you what you do, you better know your father, he'll call you what you do, that's you see, that's where your testimony comes from, I testify, he's given me of his spirit, so I call him now what he is, I testify he's my savior, you see, I call him what he is, I call him what he's done, because what you are, you do, that's what you do, what you are, if what you do is get up in the morning and start giggling and giggle all day long, then you're an inconsequential non-entity, we don't want anything to do with you, that's what you are, keep giggling, from the morning you get up, or if you get up and all you do, you start crying as soon as you get out of bed, and you cry every day of your life, and you cry all day long, well you know what you are, that's it, that's what you are, God calls everything what it is, isn't that lovely, I know where I am you see, with him, and this is a precious, precious thing, this is how it is isn't it God, why does, why does Jesus say father, well that's what he is, and that's his name, his name is father, you see, but what do you mean by that, well what I say, his name is father, you know I want to say this because there's a kind of a teaching about today that Jesus is the name of God, all of God, and it's wrong, father, I wouldn't be baptised in the name of only Jesus for all the money in the world, father is his name, oh but it's not a name father, but it is, that's where the whole idea of father, see we make it a title, but it's his name, all right, once you see that, father, Jesus, that's their names, and the whole glorious truth beloved lies here, he calls him what he is, when you get to heaven, you will say, now what am I going to call the first person of the Trinity, you call him father, that's who he is, don't you see, and he projected who and what he is into humanity, and now we make it a title, well he's my father, oh but you say what's his, oh his name's Bill, you see, or Jimmy, or Jack, but he's my father, but it isn't like that with God, that's his name, father, hope you've got that clear, and I hope it'll undo a lot of mischief, we're called what we are, amen, that's a tremendous thing, he sent the son of Saviour, glory, isn't this a precious thing, he did exactly what he is, now it's like that with us, and we've got to be like this, this is why we've got to be in God, and why we've got to move in this tremendous being, I've got to know I'm in him, ah, to know him, his life eternal, his glorious true and living God, and Jesus, well beloved, if I go up to the beginning of the chapter, chapter, verse 2, hereby you know the spirit of God, every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh, I've missed out the words that aren't there in the original, read it again, hereby know ye the spirit of God, every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God, that's how he's really got to come to you, this is what he said you see, in John 14, he said now I'm going away, but I'll come to you, I'll come to you, and he comes to us beloved, he really comes to me, it's so real this, it's so fundamental, it's so down to earth, it really reaches us, it brings us out of this idea of all being up in the air, Jesus Christ come in flesh, that spirit's of God when he confesses that, where's Jesus Christ in you, oh he's always in the midst, well that's right, he is in the midst, where's Jesus, oh he's up in heaven, where's Jesus Christ, mind you, like some people, I'm going to say stupid people, we don't want to call people names, but they really are silly, they say oh go to Glastonbury, it's thin there, do you know what that means, when they say it's thin at Glastonbury, what do they mean when they say go to Glastonbury because it's thin, oh the sort of veil between flesh and spirit is so thin there, and they think they can touch God anywhere, they don't know they're touching the devil, that's what they're doing, they're all deceived, all along, it's a tremendous thing, there are certain spots where the devil works much more than others, I won't equate you of them, I've had to find out because of the long way Jesus the Lord has led me, not that I go to these places, but I find out, and because I find out I avoid them, I don't know what you do, God beloved wants us to be in this relationship with himself, where Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, that's what it means when the scripture says that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, your body, when your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, then and only then will Jesus Christ have come to your flesh, we sing oh come to my heart, don't we, don't you, well that's a beginning, he wants to come, it's got to be, you've got to live it in your home, you've got to live it, 24 hours a day, when we do this the people who really believe us, they'll not only contact spirit, but they'll contact flesh, and they'll decide that you're a clean person, they'll decide that you're a holy person, and that's what they're supposed to do, they're supposed to be able to tell, that we're walking, walking, walking with the Lord, all the way, and this will prevent us from the sort of suddenness of so much that happens in people's lives, now I know we all have a sudden conversion, that starts that way, when something really takes place, God meets us low from that moment we're changed, that's passing from death unto life, and of course you expect that to be cataclysmic, just as Jesus passed from death to life, when Jesus passed from death to life, what happened?