Apostle's Doctrine - Part 2 — G.W. North

The Prisoner of the Lord and the Authority of Doctrine

Beloved, let's go straight into the Ephesian letter, shall we? You will recall that yesterday morning we came into that fourth chapter, Amen. And I'm ever so glad to remind myself of the opening words of the chapter, that it's the prisoner of the Lord that's talking to me.

He meant by that that his thoughts were captivated by the Lord. His spirit was captivated by the Lord. I'm dead sure, I shall say living sure, that it's absolutely right then. They're the men I want to listen to.

Strangely enough, you know, since the theme, or at least the sort of pivotal point of it all, is the idea of doctrine in these morning sessions, although I trust we got something of the doctrine of the house of God last night.

But it wasn't put out on that level. I was interested to hear the foundation of a certain movement where a lot of brethren came together and sort of they decided that God had been moving. They'd get out a sort of a scheme of doctrine.

And it was pretty evident from the evidence in the book that it was a sort of a real hodgepodge. Somebody said this and somebody said that and sort of thrown into the sieve and things fell out. And in the end they came out with a scheme of doctrine.

You'd be surprised if I told you which denomination it was too. But here is the great theme, beloved. I repeat, I'm glad that I'm reminding what a prisoner of the Lord, not a man who's imprisoned by his own ideas and concepts.

And I remind you again that what you think is a bondage to you. It will bind you to life, what you think, or certain aspects of life. I know that fundamentally it's the Spirit that is giving you progress or process.

Activity of your life will come on the way you think. That's important for us to understand. Okay then. Yesterday morning you will remember that I recalled your attention to the script that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of course, as we're told in the first chapter, that He's the Father of all who is above all and through all and in us.

I'm going to say us because I'm in the you. I hope you are too. In us all. Alleluia. And I pointed out that He only begot one body when Jesus Christ was incarnated. He didn't have a twin. There were no triplets or quadruplets.

One. Alleluia. I'm glad of that. It focuses it. There were not two bodies in the flesh. And there are not more, there is not more than one body in the Spirit. And you and I are either in it or we are out of it.

Alleluia. And that's a tremendous thing to think. And I pointed out too that in that one body there's one Spirit. Verse four. It's on that I want chiefly to dwell this morning, beloved. One Spirit. One Spirit.

The Spirit of Christ and Evidence of New Birth

Now either you and I have one Spirit or we haven't. But the Spirit that you must have, I just mentioned it, though I want to deal with it more fully this morning, is obviously the Spirit of the Christ.

It's the body of Christ. It must be the Spirit of the Christ. And I am at liberty to judge whether you are in the body if I do not find the Spirit of Christ in you. I should like to hear your testimony but I shan't believe your testimony just because I hear it.

You understand that? I shall want your life to prove it. Because it's the Spirit that is life. Whether the Spirit is dead in you, that is if you're not born again, that's the life you're living according to the state of your spirit.

So am I. Do you understand that? It's always the Spirit that is life, whether it be just natural life or in the sense of life with a capital L, what we talk about as the life of Christ. It's the Spirit that is life.

That's what the Scripture says. Amen. May I then bring you into the Corinthian letter. And what I say to you, beloved, I say in the knowledge of the tremendousness of what I'm saying. You know, I repeat it.

I may hear your testimony. I may, I mean, you're a complete stranger. I just meet you. But I am not bound to believe unless I can test it. Because this is what John says in his epistle. He says, test the Spirit.

And he's not meaning test them to see whether there's a demon around. He's meaning you're to test the Spirit of everybody. You can test mine this morning. I invite you to. I want to know. And that's the whole thing.

I've had to test people's spirits all over the world. I don't go as the great tester and expert, but I mean I have to because I've got to keep alive wherever I go. That's right. And not be slain. And I go into this company and I go into that company.

Hallelujah. And so we have to live. And we are to try the Spirit, whether they are of God or man. And, you see, this is the, if you like, the, I was going to say almost the weakness and its likeness. There's, it's always in the divine paradox.

You will know on this earth that they go together, strength and weakness. The strong points of people usually are their weakest points. That's why, for instance, if I may, this is sort of introductive, but I want you to get the whole background and know my approach, my mental and spiritual approach to it.

That's why when people I meet present, you know, I want to read people, people say, I know perfectly obviously about the strongest woman you've ever met. Whoever talks like that. They give you the exact opposite position.

That's why when you, you know, this is sort of crazy, talk about strong. So strong they're determined to be weak. Sounds strange, doesn't it? But it's absolutely true. That's why you find the Scripture saying, the weak say, I'm strong.

For that's where the strength is made perfect, in that weakness. The real weakness. And here then, we come to know the power of spirit. I've never been a drinker. I wouldn't know one drink from another.

But you know that spirit drinks are always more powerful than bruises drink. Spirit drinks. And the Lord wants us to know. I only talk this way because I've got an average intelligence. I know the difference between what is distilled and what is brewed.

Redemption of the Body and the Trumpet

Here then, is the theme that we need to come upon. And I invite you to turn with me into the whole concept of new birth. I'm not going back on this morning. If I preach tonight, I might come onto it tonight.

But in the whole background and concept of new birth, everything is spirit. My body does not get born again. Do you understand that? It's not even covered by present redemption. The body is not redeemed.

Hallelujah. That's a tremendous thing. We shall all know what the redemption of the body is if the trumpet blows while we're still on the earth. The blessed power of the redemption then will galvanically go through us.

Like a stroke of lightning. You won't be shocked. And we shall be chained. Chained so that we can go out like a chucklecock. You know what I mean? Out to be with the Lord. That would be wonderful. Somehow gravity will cease to have any power.

But it's a marvellous thing to know that it's all a spirit. Now you get that deep down in your mind. Now come on the connection between the spirit and the mind before we're through. If not this morning, we've got three more days after today.

Then I shan't finish the seven things. But still, never mind. There's always next year. And in this great sixth chapter of 1 Corinthians, we find this. This was a verse that absolutely astounded me many years ago now.

And if you've read something that's been written about it or heard about it, I must apologise to you. But I want you to know that the realm in which I live, I live mentally. I mean this. That is in my thinking.

And I live emotionally too. And I live in my soul in these realms. I don't know where you live. According to your spirit, that's where you live woman, man. Do you understand that? Here it is. And in this verse, it's a tremendous thing when it came to me.

And it says, I could go through the whole lot but we'll cut it short. In verse 10, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. You can inherit a lot of other things from God.

But you won't inherit the kingdom. You become heirs to certain things from God by the very fact of being born of your mother. Whether you've been aware of it or not. Last night we were born into God's house.

Keep that clear. Here's a tremendous thing. That these people shall not inherit the kingdom of God. You can come under the grace of God. You can come under the provisions of God. You can come under all kinds of things of God.

But you won't inherit the kingdom of God. You've got to be born again for that. John. In this next verse, And such were some of you that you are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

So, you were washed by the Holy Ghost. You were justified by the Holy Spirit. And you say, Oh, but it says I'm justified by Christ. That's right. So you are. The justifying act was done by the second person of the Trinity, Christ on the cross.

The Holy Spirit did not have any personal blood. The Father did not have any personal blood. Though I want to tell you the blood is the blood of God. There's a booklet. Here is the thing. It's God's blood.

It's Father's blood. It's the Spirit's blood. Though they didn't actually shed it. In other words, all three of the Trinity operate in redemption through that one blood. Amen. And you were justified through the blood, through the cross.

Actually, personally, it was done through you by the Holy Ghost. He'd come for that reason. And this is how He glorified Christ. When you read, He comes to glorify me. That's right. And He comes in the name of Jesus.

He's delighted to act in Jesus' name. That's right. And Jesus said this. He said, The Father will send Him in my name. We put the emphasis on the end, because, you know, we've almost gone overboard about the name, the name, the name.

Almost. It's almost become like an open sepulchre kind of thing. Almost. Be very careful about this. You say, The Father will send Him in my name. You say, but He's saying, Him. The Father is going to send Him in my name.

That's right. These things are before. The tragedy in the Church is wrong reading of Scripture, not understanding the Spirit. Therefore, the accent comes wrong. And the emphasis is always, you must keep reading this Bible until the spirit of everything enters into the flavour of your thinking.

Till you throb with God. Till you think with God. That's what it's all about. Unless the Bible's being wasted on you, except to bring you some kind of information called good news. It's wonderful. And do not pray, think I'm belittling that.

It isn't the belittling of the Scripture, it's the magnification of it that's on my heart. The bringing it up into its right, correct Word of God. And what a marvellous truth it is. To sink into our hearts.

Justification, Sanctification, and the Work of the Holy Spirit

And this is what I'm most concerned about. I'm not concerned about lecturing to you at these morning meetings, these court lectures. I'm concerned in imparting truth through flesh and blood to you, by the Spirit.

That's the thing I'm concerned about. I'm not concerned whether your mental powers can grasp it. I know while you'll still be gasping to grasp in the mind, the Holy Ghost will come right under your garter and hit you in the heart.

And that's how it is with God. If you're open. And the Lord wants it to happen. It's all been done by the Holy Ghost. That's why Jesus went home to leave the field clear for Him. If I don't go, He said, the Father won't send Him.

He cleared the field, if you like. Did all that was necessary. Made the great redemptive act. Did the blessed work of justification. God must justify you if you come right by faith. Nobody can put a pistol at God and say, you must do this, but He must.

We were discussing some of this around the breakfast table this morning about discovering the law that operates it all. It's all a matter of law. God must do it. Amen. He said, sure, you can't make God do anything.

No, no, no. It's the must of His own being. As when Jesus said, I must do this. I must do that. There was a law operating in all. He just had to. His whole consciousness was concentrated on the law of God.

Far exceeds the fine lines all that Moses wrote. The law of life in Christ Jesus. The law of life in God. The law that governs salvation. Really get on it. You see that the Holy Ghost came. And when you said, Lord, save me, the Holy Ghost did it for the glory of Jesus.

He came to do it. Like Jesus came to do Father's works for Him. All right. He washed, He sanctified me in the name of the Lord Jesus. He did it. By the Spirit of God. Isn't it wonderful to know that here is God, if you may put it this way, saying, this is my Spirit toward you.

This is my Spirit toward you. This is my vital essence. This is my true self. This is all my strength. It's all my hope. It's all my intention. This is my Spirit toward you. Can't you feel it? With words, that darken.

This is what, why the Holy Ghost comes. He just doesn't, just doesn't come to wash you, sanctify you, justify you. And you may think that's got it the wrong way around because you've been taught first justification, then sanctification.

And I'm teaching you that the Holy Scripture reverses that. And nobody gets justification without sanctification. It used to be days long ago now when I taught differently. And here you see it's the whole scheme of doctrine.

Something's got to be slotted in somewhere to make it appear logical. But I believe, and I'm Quaker here, that Quakers always believe there's no justification without sanctification, and I'm honoured to stand with them.

Now there are further degrees of sanctification. Don't let me blot that out. And if you're going to have something logical, you say, well God can't make you holy until first you're just. But I don't know whether you can put justice beyond before holiness.

I don't know whether you can. Only in mental schemes. Not in actuality you can't. This was the thing that illuminated me in the beginning when the great doctrine of the New Covenant came forth. Hallelujah.

Amen. I want to say this, that nobody was justified in becoming a priest. Let me go back. It's all illustrated in the Old Testament. Until first they were washed in the labor. We were on it last night.

I didn't stop to detail it. The great seed was washed in there. He was sanctified in there. And he was never justified in his position of priesthood until first he was washed in the labor, or if you like it, the seed.

Never. You see, because we've been so structured until the structure of doctrine has become like a coffin round us. I once said to a man who lives in this city, now, don't think it was Bernard. And it's nobody in the room either.

Don't think it was something whispered over a breakfast table or underneath a dinner table. It wasn't. They were going a long way back. I was in a meeting with him. He still lives in this city. And I said, what we are needing is a new, new doctrine.

He said, I say, amen to that, brother. He's an honored man. He's not, you know, sort of a nobody, if I may say that. I don't mean you're nobody. It's the whole truth. But he still sticks to the old. Here is the truth.

Union With the Lord and One Spirit

When that blessed Holy Spirit comes and works in you, this is what happens. Verse 17. You're joined to the Lord and you become one spirit. There it is. There's only one spirit in the body. That's all.

You're joined to the Lord and you become one spirit. Hallelujah. Oh, a unified spirit being joined to the Lord. Somehow, I come home. Now, the text of all this, as I've already said, isn't just that a man stands up and testifies and says this.

It's the proof of it. That when you come home, if I may put this in, that it's the Father who's the Father of Spirit. So, I'm quoting from Hebrews 12 now. God is the Father of Spirit. It was in the beginning.

Let's keep this clear. There are many, many lines we could take up on this, but I'm quoting now the text. All right. I've come home. I've become one spirit with God. Hallelujah. I've got to have this spirit in me then, haven't I?

Now, that's a test. Once or twice already during these sessions, I've said this. You've got to be able to, you know, let me say it again, because it's so easy to be misunderstood. And because, and this is the bondage of your thoughts, you're talking about, oh, is it this?

Is it that? Is it that? No, it's none of those things, unless you're thinking the right thing. Truth. This is the web of your mind. You're held by a thousand silken strands that you call thoughts. And they're holding you like a spider's web holds a fly.

And God intends that in himself, so not quite like a spider's web and a fly. But that's the truth. What I mean by these things, beloved, is that you've got to sense God. Not devils, let me say that again, let me say that again.

Not sense that they say, you say, well, the Bible talks about it. I know, I know, I know, but I don't read in it, don't you see? People keep drumming out the Bible and beating out the old, old stuff. And it's about time we all got sick of it.

Living in the light. Walking in the light. I said to some people sitting on a form outside the church, that's the plan for the church, I said this morning, you speak Sunday, I said you'll finally sit there 12 months you'll just about get brown.

You see, you've got to live out in the sunlight. You've got to live there. This is the whole thing. I seldom say a thing but there's some meaning behind it. Seldom. I've learned that we haven't got to use a lot of language.

In fact, all your language means something when I hear you talk. And that's the important thing, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a little jollification among yourselves, that's not what I'm talking about.

It's, it's, it's, there's got to come a time that I mean, when you're showing God that everything that has some meaning from God in it or about God in it. And the Lord help it, you may strive one way or another, but you are building up a personality that is used in language, in attitudes, in tones, and you cannot get away from it.

Although you may testify opposite to what I hear and see in you. Amen. Surely this is not, this is the Christ, says the woman. What did she hear? This is her time to say, if you'd have asked me, you know, just a God, I'd have given you living water and she'd have said, well, where are you going to draw it?

And she went away. You are joined to the Lord. You become one spirit. Hallelujah. No, I'm not bothered by invading spirits. No, I'm not oppressed by spirits. No, I'm not. You may be, then you need a new experience of God and a very radical one.

No, these spirits don't get into me if I don't want them. But if I want them, then I'll let them in and I'm going to talk to you about that. You might think, what in the world, where is he going? All right, I'm going places.

Christian Liberty and the Limits of Expediency

Let's move on and see what the truth is. Because you see, the matter of being a child of God is not just God and I and no one else. That's the tremendous thing it is to understand the truth. And this is why, in this same chapter, Paul talks like this.

All right, now listen. Verse 12. I don't know whether you've learned this one. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient. What you and I have got to do, beloved, and we've all got to keep on learning it because life is a constant thing, is only to live by expediency.

We don't. We want to live voluptuously in all the grand array. And this is what people say, look at the promises, ooh, you live by expediency. And in the second letter Paul wrote to these Christians, this was their trouble.

They were living in all the lovely voluptuousness of youth and that and that and all things are yours and Paul's yours and Cephas is yours and they're all yours. Ooh, let's have a marvellous time. This galaxy of burning, shining stars, I'm asking many, many, many of them, millions upon millions and millions of miles away from you.

It's only the light of them shining on you. I don't think you've reached them yet. Here is the thing, that God wants us to see, you live by expediency. And in the second letter Paul said, necessity is laid upon me.

I rejoice in necessities, he rejoiced in expediencies and necessities. But he's a free man, he's not one of those who believe that. God's free but he needs to do something. You say, what? Of course he does.

If he wants me as his child, then he needed to give me second birth. He moved on necessities. If he wanted a new creation, with ugly people like me on it, transformed by his grace, I trust. Why did Jesus go to the cross?

Because he needed to go to the cross. Didn't he? You say, ah, but not in himself. Of course he needed to go in himself. You say, what? Yes, of course he did. He was under orders from his father, and in order to keep his sanctification, he needed to do what father told him to do.

It's common sense, isn't it? So this idea of freedom and liberty that's crept into the church and so on, is nothing more than license to the flesh. And the Lord wants us to move on in truth. Not become sauerkrauts sitting around glooming over a big black Bible.

I don't mean that. The little black Bible's not too bad. Ah, I mean it. These are the ways that the devil's got in. God clear our minds. Let the wind of the Holy Ghost blow through everything. That's how it was all announced on the day of Pentecost.

A great big wind blowing. And the Lord wants us to see this. Here it is written. All things are lawful for me. I will not be brought under the power of any. Hallelujah. Knees to the belly, bellies to the knees.

God shall destroy those if and them. Now, listen. I'm approaching my point more particularly. Or Paul's point. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord. And the Lord for the body. And God has both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by his own power, knowing not that your bodies are the members of Christ.

Now, I've become one spirit with Christ, but my body has become one of his members. All right. Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? Knowing not that he which is going to an harlot shall be one flesh, but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

Fellowship as Spiritual Union

And then we go on to the temple that we could have touched on a little last night. Somebody frightened me, said I'd been preaching for two and a half hours, but we checked it up. It was an hour and a half.

I apologize to you if it was too long. Here is the whole truth, beloved. Look. You not only have to become one spirit with the Lord, but you have to become one spirit with each other. Now, this is why he's talking about harlots and people.

You become one spirit. That's what the secret is. If there are going to be, let's just say a specific number, a trillion, billion people in Christ, and it's only one spirit, you've got to become one spirit with each other.

You not only have to receive the spirit of Christ, you have to receive the spirit of me, too. Did you know that you are to receive people's spirit? That's why I said I need to receive any spirit if I don't want to.

This is the whole thing, beloved. And this, if I may say so, is the secret of fellowship. They continue in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship. Wonderful things. In other words, they receive the spirit of the apostles.

You say, what, they're human beings. What you're trying to tell me, surely, is they receive the Holy Spirit through the apostles. No, I'm not. They did, of course, but that's not what I'm saying. That's the secret of fellowship.

You don't have fellowship with anyone whose spirit you do not receive. All fellowship is spirit. You can have U-A-L on the end of it. Let's see what the Bible says about this, shall we? This will open your eyes to truth.

And this is what will make you say, well, I don't have fellowship with him. I don't seem to have fellowship with her. Do you know why? You didn't receive her spirit. You didn't receive her spirit. Now, there may be reasons for that.

I'm not, I'm just explaining that. I'm not trying to do anything other at the moment. I'm not talking about why's. I'm talking about how. Oh, this is so good, isn't it? I love this. Let's, where shall we go now?

Let's go to the second epistle of the Corinthians. And in this lovely second epistle, you hear Paul talking like this. We'll read it, but it's the same thing. It comes out in the power of the Spirit. Having therefore, chapter 7, verse 1, shouldn't be divided from chapter 6, but there it is.

Having therefore these promises. What promises? Well, you must read back in the other chapter. These promises. Dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Receive us. What was Paul saying at the moment? He wasn't saying, no, no, we're going to visit you. We're planning to come to your country or your town. No, he wasn't saying that. The trouble with the Corinthians is that they had got to the point where they had rejected Paul's message.

They'd come and say, oh, I've received Peter's message. Well, that's because of what I've received. And that's why he wrote his letter. You have to receive the Spirit. Let me illustrate this. It's the most modern illustration.

I could go back long, long years, but I mentioned this somewhere else not so long ago. I was visiting in a church. It wasn't this one, obviously, so it wasn't in yours if I'm looking around. No. OK. And a girl, a young lady, came, stayed off from me a long time.

I know you all, you know. I know you. Stayed away a long time. And one day she got in a company where she couldn't get away. And the conversation turned and she came on. Let me tell you a story. She was an unmarried mother.

She'd gone wrong. She'd left the particular place where things went wrong and took her baby with her. I'd grown up. And it all came up. I said, well, are you still in contact with this man? I know. She said, I know.

I can't get away from him. I can't get away from him. I said, you know why you can't get away from him? She said, well, because he kissed her. And she got a court order sent to her. Nothing to do with that.

He was in her hair, as they say. She'd received his spirit. And she couldn't get away from him. That's why you can't break with him or with her. You've received their spirit. And you can't get away from spirit.

David, I took her into a mall. I said, you see, she's there. It's all spinning. You see, you receive the spirit of that man. You receive the spirit of that woman. See? And they're not necessarily evil spirits, capital E, capital S.

But there may be an evil spirit in this man. The man's spirit may be evil. The man's spirit may be good. The woman's spirit may be bad. The woman's spirit may be good. So you receive them, and that's why you can't get rid of them.

And until you stand up and re-get them, this is all part of the truth of deliverance, my dear precious brethren, who minister in this realm, you will accomplish nothing if these people won't do it. Nothing.

You may pray. You may stop up all night with them. They may want your advice, and they may shimper and coo, or they may break down, or they may do anything. Let me talk you out of a, what I think is a fairly vast experience without boasting.

And having to learn, you can't do a thing unless they reject. That's what's happening in Christ. People are rejecting Christ. What thing was rejected from the earth nearly 2 ,000 years ago? It's the Spirit coming in His name.

They're rejecting Him in the blessed Holy Ghost who comes to magnify. Who wants the Christ? Shining light. It's the most subtle deception of all. You've got to be joined to the Lord. Ha ha. And you've got to be joined to me, you see.

And I know in this room who's joined to me and who isn't. Is that important? Yes. Not because I'm important. But we're supposed to be in the same body. That's the important thing. And there is no fellowship apart from that.

And this is why I'm listening to the doctrine of this apostle. I'm listening to him. I think it's great. Amen. Receive us, receive us. And you'll have to open your arms and say, Oh, come on, Paul. Anyway, let's put it that way.

It may not be Paul today. It may be Patrick. We've got some Irish people here. Yeah. Yeah. Don't you see? Do you see? Or am I talking to dumb woods? Do you see? This is it. It's simple. It's sane. It's logical.

It's right. Of course it is. I say it's right. What I mean by that is everything responds to it. I know God made you like this. But you know, if not, we know more than animals. The trouble is, of course, our knowledge has gone wrong.

It's initiated before we get to Christ. But we come by this knowing faculty. Good old John. Amen. And we know. I know, for instance, this morning how many of you are passing me through the sieve of your mind.

And I know those whose hearts are saying, I know it. Those who look at it and say, Hallelujah. Go back to that Ephesian letter. In this Ephesian letter, we find in the fourth chapter, where we were, that Paul goes on, lower down the chapter, talking about the Gentiles.

This I say, therefore, verse 17, and testify. Now notice where he's testifying. In the Lord. Now if you're in the Lord, you'll hear me. Nothing wrong with your oral faculty. That's not what I'm talking about.

But you'll hear me if you're in the Lord. You will hear me outside of the Lord. Perhaps you can still hear. But here's the truth. Listen. You henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk. In the vanity of their mind, now see the connection between mind and spirit.

This is where I'm coming. In the vanity of their mind, have ye understanding darkened, being alienated, this is the reason for it all, from the light of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness, which you will know in the Greek, bears the sense of hardness, that's why he said, a new heart I'll give you, because of the blindness, hardness of their heart.

Who, being past feeling, note what I said about feeling, being past feeling, having given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all unfreeness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus, that you put off concerning the former manner of life, the old man, which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lust, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

The spirit and the mind are very much one. The spirit of the mind determines the way you think. There is, isn't there, oh beloved, you hear people talk, it's all there, beloved, it's that thing that you can't particularly describe.

How can you describe spirit? Coming through when you spoke, did you know that? Coming through every time you open your mouth, it comes through in your writings, perhaps you only write letters, but it comes through.

It's there, beloved, spirit is as unavoidable as breath, that you must breathe. You can hear murder in the cold, you can hear love, you can hear life in a person, you can hear death in a person, you can hear darkness, you can see death, in the spirit, light and sound, they're all the same.

You can hear and you can see the same things. They're all from the same thing, different nerves, different functions in the human body. But there is an inner receptacle in the mind and in the heart in all these things, interpreting them inherently.

And that's what God wants us to see, beloved. This is where fellowship holds. This is what it's all about. You've got to be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And until that happens, beloved, you'll kill people, you'll murder people, you'll offend people, you'll do the wrong thing, you'll think the wrong thing, you'll act on the wrong lines, you won't understand the theme of the spirit, you'll try to copy them.

But it's got to come through your own spirit, in you. This is all the glory of God in threading me, and I in death. That's what it's about. You know with some people, you have to put your defences up you keep them out.

I have to. You put up your defences. You know perfectly well that the spirit that's coming at you through that person, mostly they'll stay away from you. Though some are very subtle, they'll appear to be very nigh, but they're miles away.

Let me come into your heart. That's what fellowship is. So you sit over there, I'm not particularly pointing at anybody. Oh yeah, where is fellowship? Yeah, I know. I know. Well, we don't have to sit by them, I know.

I know, I know. But so does God, you see. And so does that other person. I know whether you're in fellowship with me. And you know whether I'm in fellowship with you. But we call ourselves Christian Fellowship.

What a terrible blasphemy. The Lord wants us to understand that one body, and there are a million others. Though you come into the body, and I come into the body, we're only in the body on one proposition.