Read It, Preach It! — Bill McLeod

Walking in the Spirit Rather Than Fulfilling the Flesh

I'd like to read a couple of verses from Galatians 5, and 16 to 18, and then 24 to 26. This I say, then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.

These are contrary, the one to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would or that you want. But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law. 24. They that are Christ have crucified the flesh with the affections, the margins of the passions, and lusts.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, empty glory, provoking one another, envying one another. I think my text would be verse 25 that simply says, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Which means, of course, it's possible to live in the Spirit, and yet not walk in the Spirit. What's the difference? Well, in Romans 8 it says you're not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of Christ dwells in you.

So if you're born again, and God's Spirit lives within you because of this, then you're no longer living in the flesh. You're now living in the Spirit. But you may not be walking in the Spirit at the same time.

Obviously there's a difference. Sometimes the difference is not recognized. I don't think much is taught about walking in the Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit, yes, but walking in the Spirit, I think it's a very important truth.

And I want to spend a little time this afternoon with that. Jesus, you remember Matthew chapter 4, and Mark also, he said, come after me, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Just recently I quoted this verse in a meeting, and this lady came and said, what a relief!

And I said, what do you mean? She said, I've been trying to make myself a fisher of men, and it's been a total flop. It hasn't worked. But when you quoted this verse, she said, something just came alive inside my heart.

Christ will do it if I'll follow Him, if I'll walk in the Spirit then, if I'll walk after Him. And to her, it was just a brand new revelation. In Luke's gospel, chapter 2, you remember, Simeon, the man that says that the Holy Spirit was on him, and it was revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he'd seen the Lord's Christ.

And then it says, he came by the Spirit into the temple. So he was walking in the Spirit. The Spirit led him to the temple, and he got there just in time to meet the parents of Jesus with baby Jesus in their arms.

They brought him to the temple to do for him after the custom of the law. And there was this godly woman, Anna, she was well past 80. She came in, it says, that instant. And she was much like Simeon. It doesn't say this, but I'm positive it was so, that the Spirit was on her.

And she, too, came by the Spirit into the temple in that instant. And she had a revelation from God that this child was the Christ, and she spoke of Him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

These people were walking in the Spirit. In John 12, Jesus Christ said, If any man serve me, let him follow me. You know, it's possible to serve him in my way, not in his. And so, if any man serve me, let him follow me.

I may be serving him, but not really walking in the Spirit, not really following him. In John 21, if you remember, when Jesus was restoring Peter from his backsliding, and they had a little talk and a little walk along the beach.

Jesus was not one to embarrass people in front of others, unless it was necessary. And so they're walking down the beach, and it's getting a little hotter all the time. And then Peter saw a way out, and he saw John following.

And I guess John was trying to catch what was being said. It's very human, you know. And Peter said, Oh, what's he supposed to do? And Jesus said, Peter, if I will that he tarry till I come, what business is that of yours?

What is that to you? Follow thou me. Never mind about John. Never mind what John is to do. I have a work for you. You follow me. Or to put it differently, you walk in the Spirit, as the Spirit leads. We've had a number of people intern with Canadian Revival Fellowship.

And one of them was a young man, Dave Lockhart. He lives in southern Nebraska, and he was with me a couple of years ago on a crusade in Omaha. And he was really walking in the Spirit. He'd tell me what was going on.

He was walking down the street in Omaha one day, and he came past a beer parlor, and he could see through the window, and there was a half a dozen blacks sitting there. And he said there were great big guys, and God said, Go in.

Tell them about Jesus. He said, Hey God, I'm just a little white guy. Go on. So he went in. He said, I sat down, introduced myself, and he said, We had the greatest time for 40 minutes. I told them about Jesus.

And they said, Hey man, come back again sometime. This was really good. Then he was walking down the street, and there were three men talking together on a corner, and the Spirit said to him, Now go and talk to these three men.

Two of them will leave, one will be saved. That's exactly what happened. The church we were holding meetings in, they bought a new building, and the first floor was all offices, and the second floor was an auditorium which they planned to use for their church.

So they bought the building. They needed the money from below, so they still had these officers rented out, and one of them was a lawyer. And Dave Lockett had gone past his door and saw this sign, this barrister, you know, and he just had a burden for him.

He started to pray for him, and he prayed and said, God, give me a chance to share the gospel with him. Well, the Lord has different ways of arranging things, you know, and here's what happened. He came into the building one day, Dave did, and he was walking down the hall, walking rather quickly, and the lawyer came up from his office with a big bunch of books in his arms, and Dave hit him and knocked the books flying all over the floor, and this is how they met.

So he helped the fellow gather things together, and the lawyer says, And who are you? So he told him, and the lawyer stood and said, Could you give me an hour of your time right now? Went back in the office, locked the door, and just opened his heart to Dave, and Dave opened his heart to him.

He didn't accept the Lord, but David learned the secret of walking in the Spirit, and many times, dear people, as Christians, we're afraid of this. We don't know what kind of a situation God will get us into.

We don't feel comfortable with unknown situations, unprepared for situations, whereas we're supposed to be prepared all the time. The Spirit may lead any time in something that we hadn't thought of at all, and we have to be open to this.

Philip, the Ethiopian, and Immediate Obedience

If we live in the Spirit, let's also walk in the Spirit. Now, in Acts chapter 8, you remember that Philip was preaching, and the great things that happened, many people were saved, people were delivered from the occult, and you call it probably a large, a large work, and God called it from a large, powerful work, to a very small thing.

He told him to go down to a certain highway. He had something for him to do there. So he went, walking in the Spirit. He gets there, and he's looking around. There's donkeys, perhaps elephants. I've been in India, and you see a little wee man riding on, it's the most ridiculous thing you ever saw, you know, a man riding on an elephant.

It seems like a terrible waste, I was going to say, of horse power, of elephant power, to be carrying one man. But you'll see that, and people riding camels, and a guy went past me in India one day, and he had a bicycle with three wheels, two at the back, one at the front, and he had a live pig tied down underneath somehow.

I don't know how he managed. It was ridiculous, but it was part of life. So here's this man, he's standing by this highway, and all these strange things are going by. Now what does he do? And the Spirit said, join yourself to this chariot.

Let me ask you a question. Do you think we can have this kind of guidance today? A lot of Christians don't believe that. That was just for the apostolic age, that mysterious apostolic age. No it isn't.

I don't know whether he heard a voice, or he got a strong impression, or how it happened, but I know this. He knew what God wanted him to do, and he did it. And when he got there, what was happening? The guy was reading Isaiah 53.

See how God prepares us? Now he had to get this guy, Philip, from where he was, down to this highway, and get this guy in his chariot there at exactly the right time, so they can come together. And he leads the man to Christ, and baptizes him.

Didn't have any instruction classes or anything? Strange. He hadn't read our manuals, I guess. Anyway, I remember once years ago, I had to get to a certain town to meet a certain man, and unfortunately, all I had was his first name.

Well, to be perfectly frank, I've forgotten his last name. You know, the people that laugh the loudest usually have the same problem. So here I am. What am I going to do? I didn't have the guy's phone number, I didn't know where he lived, didn't have an address, but I had to meet him.

So what did I do? I committed to God, said, God, you do it. I don't know how you're going to do it, but I know you can do it. So I got to this town. It's a town of about 15 ,000 people. I'm driving down the main drag, just wondering what to do, driving slowly, and I saw a sign, post office, and a strong impression I should stop and go in and buy some stamps.

So I came down, I turned in like this, and the fellow walked by the front of my car. So I think to myself, now wait a minute, 175 miles, and I mean, God, if he gets the two of us together and did it just like that, isn't it wonderful how God can do these things, if we walk in the spirit, and are not afraid to trust him, to trust him, to lead us and guide us from day to day, as he can and wants to do.

Jack Rempel and God’s Providential Direction

There's a fellow in Manitoba, Jack Rempel, he was a bush worker, a pumpwood cutter, a great Christian, one of these real, you know, real strong John the Baptist type witnesses, tackle anything, anybody, anywhere.

Lived in the bush. And there was a trail, you wouldn't call it a highway, just two ruts in the sand, a trail through the forest where he lived. And one morning, God showed him very clearly, he was to go down to a certain trail, which went to nowhere, to an old abandoned mill site, a sawmill site, and he was to go down to this road and build a fire.

So he built this road, he told his wife. She said, well it doesn't sound, are you feeling okay? He says, honey, it's as clear as a bell, it's what God wants me to do. So he did. He's sitting by this fire at night, wondering why he's there.

Nothing around, hear a squirrel or something in a tree. There's no traffic on the road, it's not a highway. A fellow named Roy North, with his wife and his hired man, had bought 70 acres outside Winnipeg, and this place where Jack was, was 70 or 80 miles from Winnipeg, and he bought some, this acreage, and he was coming with a three-ton truck and all his worldly belongings, he was going to start a mushroom farm in the Winnipeg area.

And he's driving through this sandy land forest reserve where Jack Rempel lived, and he got stuck in a mud hole. That night, wasn't a Christian, and so they couldn't get out of the mud hole, and they didn't know what to do.

There was nobody for miles around. They were really concerned. Is it going to be any better in the morning when the sun shines? We won't be able to get out of this mud hole. So they started walking. They came across a little trail.

They thought, well, maybe we should go down this trail. And who's on the trail? Jack Rempel with a fire. And they met. They told Jack the problem. Oh, come on, come on. Great, great. So he takes them into his house and he fed them and everything and witnessed to them and got out in the morning with a tractor and pulled them out of the mud hole.

And this guy, Roy North, he was Jack's style and type, only he was not a Christian. He was one of the worst blasphemers. He didn't drink. One of the worst blasphemers in Canada. They said he could curse for a half an hour and never use the same word twice.

And he had a violent temper, but he liked Jack. He liked his style. I mean, Jack really hit him for the gospel see. So he said, Jack, why don't you come and work for me when I get the mushroom farm off the ground?

Jack said, I'll think about it. And he did. He went and worked for him just outside of Winnipeg a few miles. Well, Jack worked there several months and witnessed to Roy. Nothing happened in Roy's life, but he really watched this guy, Jack, really liked him.

And he got a witness, allowed him to clear. And one day Jack said, Roy, I hate to say this, but I'm going to quit. I want to go back to the bush. I just missed the bush. And so Roy was very sorry. And the next day a Jehovah witness called at Roy North's mushroom farm.

And Roy was not a Christian, but he hated Jehovah's witnesses. And he was building a mushroom house out of cement blocks. You know, they're up about this high sitting in the wall. He just hired a man when his car drove him and he recognized right away they're JWs.

So they got out, introduced themselves. And he says, you got any literature? Yes. Give me some. So the guy gave him some. Got any more? Yes, we've got a box. Give it, give, give me it all. He said, I want all of you, everything you've got.

So they gave it to him. And he takes this literature. Remember he's building cement blocks and he pushes it down in the holes and the blocks. He puts the mortar on to raise the blocks, you know, and they got the message.

And they took off. And you know what they did? The Lord did the next day. I was starting a church in the area. I'd often gone past this mushroom farm and the Lord said, go in. So I went in. Now let me back up a bit.

Some of you know, a pastor named Norman Pipe used to pastor in Simcoe, Ontario. Had a church there and I think a Bible school as well. Yeah, see some heads nodding. Norman Pipe used to always walk around with his pockets full of candy.

And anytime he saw a kid, he gave him candy. And Roy North had no connection with the church at all. His mother died when he was five. He told me he thought she was a Christian, but his father abused her so badly she died.

The last he saw of his dad, his dad was chasing him down the road with a pitchfork. He said, if the old man had a copy, he'd have killed me on the spot. You know, one time they sent two policemen out to bring his father in for some misdemeanor.

And he took these two policemen and cracked their heads together and draped them over the barbed fence and phoned the detachment and said, you better come and get your buddies. They're not feeling too good.

They came down with eight policemen. And Roy said, he watched the thing. He said, was it a battle Roy? He said, that almost won. Anyway, this was the background. But whenever Roy North thought about preachers, he thought about Norman Pipe and Norman Pipe just happened to be a Baptist.

So when I pulled up, he told me later, I thought you were either a Mormon Jew or a witness because I had a young guy with me, a Christian fellow. And he said to George, let's give him the same treatment.

But when I said I was a Baptist preacher starting a Baptist, a Baptist? Oh, hey man, come on in. Norman Pipe. And the three of them accepted Christ and joined our church, got baptized. He's living in Spencer, Iowa now.

He's a millionaire now. He made a lot of money growing mushrooms. And he's been, he was a tremendous witness for Christ. Women couldn't stand him. He was entirely too rough, you know, but men liked him.

Bang, right between the eyes. That's style. It's not always right, but sometimes it is. When Roy gives his testimony, when he gets to the part of the story about the fire by the road, he just falls. God was looking for me.

I wasn't even a Christian and God was looking out for me. And it was true, God was. See, God put it all together. Jack Grimple might've missed it. If he'd been like some of us, we're dead and cold. We don't know what God is doing and going.

You know, nothing's going on and nothing ever happens. We wonder how we hear stories like this, but well, how can this be? It never happens to me. Well, maybe you're not ready for it. I mean, we're not walking in the spirit the way we should be.

And so we're not open to what God may, what God may say. So Philip went. He obeyed and led this Ethiopian Europe, the treasure of the whole country of Ethiopia, led them to Christ and baptized them. And the eunuch went on his way rejoicing and Philip got, matter of fact, he got a joyride in a helicopter.

Remember it said that in Acts 8, the spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, the eunuch saw him no more. That's unusual. I've never had that happen or even come close to it, but it's quite possible. Don't be surprised if it happens when you're walking in the spirit.

Waiting for the Holy Spirit’s Timing

In Acts chapter 13, five men, Barnabas and Paul and three other men, it says they ministered to the Lord and fasted and the Holy Ghost said, separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work for until I've called them.

Now that's clear, isn't it? Why isn't it clear today? It's not clear today because we do it in other ways. We have to evaluate everything. Ever seen these things where you have a great big thing, you know, and a pin and you have to push a pin in certain places, you know, it goes on for several hours.

Then they evaluate this whole I'm not saying this should never be done, but I'm saying that seems to take precedence to other more important things. And so they went, but you know what it says? They had also John.

Why? That's the human element. They had also John to minister, but John didn't stay with them long. Why? Because he was never called of God. The Holy Ghost didn't say separate me Barnabas and Saul and John.

So that was their choice. And John departing from, he went back to Jerusalem. I'm not surprised. God never called him to go. And here's where we make mistakes. We add things on that God didn't plan for at all.

And then these things cause us problems because we're not really in our choice, walking in the spirit, waiting for God to lead. We like to do things in a hurry. I see these highway signs that says, slow down and live.

We didn't do the same thing. Slow down and live. Give God a chance to talk. When I was with a Shannon's mission years ago, I was in a little town called Westgate, Manitoba, and you couldn't drive in there.

It was just a railroad. You had to either walk into the bush. I think I came in on a train and there was a little mill there. It wasn't a store. It wasn't anything, just a little mill and maybe 15 families at a schoolhouse and 14 or 15 people showed up and nobody accepted Christ.

But a little girl about eight stayed behind. And she said, I want to talk to you. And I said, okay, what's on your mind? She said, I heard a preacher on the radio and he said something from the Bible and it's bugged me ever since.

I said, what'd he say? Oh, she said, I don't remember Bob, but it said, be still. Oh, I said, be still and know that I'm God. That's it. She said, where is it? So I showed her, she said, what does it mean?

It's just bugged me day and night. I said, honey, listen, Jesus wants you to be quiet so you can hear him talk. And he wants to talk to you. He wants you to understand you're a sinner. You have sinned against God.

I explained the whole thing and she accepted Christ. This was 40 years ago. I have never seen the girl since, but you know, over the years, the spirit would bring her to my mind occasionally. And the minute he did, I prayed for her.

Dear God, bless that gal, wherever she is, keep her hand on her, bless her. Then I might not think of her for months. I think of her again, the Holy Spirit brings her to my mind. You know, it says praying in the Holy Spirit as he leads.

I have a daughter who's a missionary in the Philippines, Lois, my second oldest daughter. And she and her husband were doing deputation work in Vancouver or in the British Columbia, rather, uh, several years ago.

And after one of the meetings, the preacher's wife came to my daughter and said, are you Bill McClough's daughter? And she said, yes. Why? You look like him, she said, my poor daughter. And it was this girl, this pastor's wife, that was that little kid I led to Christ years before.

And she told my daughter, your daddy led me to Christ from that verse in the Psalms, be still and know that I'm God. We aren't still enough. Wait on the Lord means wait be silent, all flesh before the Lord, for he has raised up out of his holy habitation.

The Lord is in his holy temple, but all the earth keeps silence before him. You get into some of these noisy musical meetings. I will, I hope with my feet, I've done that a couple of times now, if you know what I mean, in meetings like that.

And then they say, oh, brother Bill, wait a minute, in the Psalms it says, play skillfully with a loud noise. So that's what we're doing. I said, amen. But back when that was written, they never had any amplifiers.

So unplug your amplifiers, play as loud as you want. I'll have no complaints. Spurgeon used to say that nonsense is not improved by being bellowed. He also said, that is good. He also said a lot of modern music is mermaid poetry.

Fair enough where it breaks the surface, but totally fishy in the lower parts. Then he calls some music in his day, wax nose, hymnology made to fit the face of any creed, you know, creedless stuff, stuff that doesn't teach anything.

You know, some of these people tell me the loud music stuff, you know, it gets us so excited about what? About God? No, not about God, just excited. So I watch people in some of these sessions. I don't go off.

I know it's going to be, but sometimes I get asked to speak at a place and I don't know what the preliminaries are going to be like. Then, like I said, I vote with my feet. People snake dancing in the aisle and stuff, you know, it's a strange day.

How did I get into that? I don't know. In Acts 16, Paul tried to go into a place called Bithynia and the spirit would not let him. He was led by the spirit. The spirit said that he was not to preach in Asia.

This tells me something. The Holy Spirit is the superintendent of all our operations, right? He's in charge. He knows what has to be done. So I hear of one denomination. They take aerial photographs over city.

And then from these photographs, they know how many churches they have in the city. And then they plan on building a church not closer than a mile to one of the churches they have. This is the basis on which they build churches.

And sometimes they build churches when they don't have a preacher or a congregation. Okay, so I'm not criticizing, but I'm saying it doesn't fit into the Bible too well. Why did the spirit say to Paul, you're not to preach the gospel in Asia?

That's in chapter 16. In chapter 19, what does it say about Paul and his ministry? All that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. So it wasn't God's time then in chapter 16.

It was God's time down the road. I remember in the Maritimes, in a small area of 40 ,000 square miles, not including Newfoundland. I think there's 600 Baptist churches. I've meetings with some of these churches, some Western churches as well.

And some of these pastors, a lot of them had three churches, four churches, five churches, which would have been fine. But here I am holding meetings in a church here and this pastor, he's got four other churches.

And one of them is just a mile down the road. I mean, you can see it. I said, this preacher, why don't you get these five congregation together and sell all the buildings and then build a decent building, have one good congregation.

He said, you wouldn't even dare mention it. They'd have my head on the chopping block in a minute. You know, don't try and tell me the Holy Ghost to raise that. He knows what he's doing. You know, I must grieve God greatly that we don't wait for guidance.

We just do it. We plan it and do it and it doesn't work out and we blame heaven for it. And that isn't right. If we live in the spirit, let's also walk in the spirit. Wait on the Lord for guidance. When you get guidance, do it.

May not seem right, do it. May seem foolhardy, do it anyhow. And God will always be with you in that. I was with a missionary one time. We were, we'd done a whole circle of camps and it was Saturday and we planned to go home.

We'd been away several weeks from our wives and families and we were anxious to get home. And then at the last minute we heard of a tiny little bush camp, 20 miles down a bad road, a brand new bulldozed road, if you know what that means.

Wintertime, rocks, roots, stumps, hard in the oil pan. Sometimes you lose it. And we looked at each other. Well, the first thought was there's only 14 men in the camp. That's not important, but we knew we had to go because we're committed to God to do this.

And so we went and all along the road, there's a truck abandoned here and a car abandoned there. And so they just decided it wasn't worth it. You know, one mile an hour, some places, we got there. And you know, we had one of the most powerful meetings I was ever in, 14.

I mean, heaven just came down over the place. We might've missed that, but we had to listen to what God was saying because sometimes he asks us to do something that cuts across our plans. Don't make your plans in concrete, make them in sand because God may want to change them overnight.

And the trouble is, we're not ready for that. We want to see several weeks or several months or several years down the road and plan, as the word is, sensibly. Okay. My wife and I heard a tape recently.

I just want to share that. It was a missionary in the Philippines from the States. And he was to start a church. He was a man of prayer waiting for guidance and God led him to start a church in Cebu city.

Well, I've been there, my wife and I have been there. It's a large city, well over a million people. And so when he got there, how do you start a church? All they do is community census, ring doorbell, pound on doors, talk to people in the marketplace.

It's not what he did. He prayed, said, God, what do you want me to do? You know what the Lord told him to do? To phone the biggest banker, the manager of the biggest bank in Cebu city and share Christ with him.

So he phones and the secretary says, and why do you want to talk to this man? He said, I'm sorry, lady, I can't tell you over the phone. I can only tell him face to face, but I've got to see him. It's very important.

I've got to see him as soon as possible. So she tells the banker, the bank's okay, uh, put them on. So they talked and they arranged and he took this banker for dinner and led him to the Lord. So then he says to his banker friend, do you have any guys like yourself?

You know, you're good guys, probably Catholics and so on, but you don't know Christ personally. Oh, he said, I got a dozen friends like that. So they began to pray and God led them and they led all 12 of these guys to Christ.

This is how the church started. Not only to have a church, you had a financial base. These guys were quite willing to support him. Well, you remember what Jesus Christ said to Peter, you catch the fish and the money will be in the fish's mouth.

That's what he said. That's what he did. One day, this guy's phone rang and the fellow on the phone said, Mr, I heard about you and you know, God, and he said, I'm gay and I want out. Can you help me?

Hey man, he said, that's really interesting. We're just planning to have a meeting for homosexuals on Saturday morning. Can you come nine o 'clock? Get some of your gay friends and bring them. I mean, he set the meeting up just at that moment.

And so this guy comes with eight or 10 homosexuals Saturday morning and he worked with them for three months and led all of them to Christ and out of this gay stuff. One day a prostitute's phone and he did the same thing.

Hey lady said, this is interesting. We're just planning to have, we're going to have a meeting for prostitutes Saturday morning. Get some of your prostitute friends to come over. And so she comes over with six or eight gals and they got set.

And he just waits for guidance from God. And then he does these things. Sounds crazy. You know, he did, he met a fellow. This guy was a communist organizer. Everybody in the city knew him and he set up strikes.

He'd organized strikes doing it all the time. And he organized a strike for all the universities and colleges and so on in Cebu city organized a rally, the whole thing. And this guy, this missionary went to him.

He'd met him before and try to get near him. Couldn't get near him. The guy wouldn't listen to him, but he'd take him out for coffee. And the guy would just listen, you know, and that was it. Nothing would happen.

So he said, listen, you're going to have this meeting, talk about communism and talk against democracy and maybe talk against God a little bit. Why don't you share the meeting with me? And then I can talk about God.

The guy said, you think I'm crazy? He said, I wouldn't think of it. So he prayed and the Lord told him what to do. He got a hold of 15 students. He led to Christ. He said, come to this rally, told him where and when, bring a chair and space yourself in the crowd.

So you're not close to another one of our guys, all through the crowd seat. And when I blow the whistle, jump up in the chair and preach. Now that's quite simple. That's uncomplicated. And you know what happened?

This guy gets up to preach to top this guy, this communist organizer, and he blew the whistle. And these 15 guys jumped up in their chairs and started preaching. And the whole crowd broke up and here they are gathered around these chairs.

And this guy's in the platform looking at what in the world is going on. It's like saying that God's a jump ahead of the devil, isn't it? Well, he really is, but we're so many, you know, we're behind so far that God can't use us in ways like this.

It seems because we're afraid to trust God in unknown situations. We're afraid we might do something fanatical. We might make a fool of ourselves. Well, you might, but is that all that bad? You know, Paul said, we're fools for Christ's sake.

Whether you do it right or wrong, the world will call you a fool anyway for an evangelical. You know how it is today. But in Hebrews 13, it says that Jesus, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood.

He suffered without the gain. Let us go forth therefore unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. For here we have no continuing sin, but we seek one to come. And so we have to be prepared. We're going to walk in the spirit to do the unusual thing.

You can plan all your day and that's fine, but God may knock it all apart again. You just don't know. And we have to be ready for that. Before my wife and I knew better, when we were thinking of holiday time, we studied the weather map.

Where's the weather going to be next? It's going to be nice in BC, that's where we're going. It's going to be raining in Ontario, we don't want to go there. Raining in BC, let's go to Ontario, that's going to be nice.