(Forging the Vessel of Recovery) 2- the New Cruse — B.H. Clendennen

The Vessel of Recovery and the Remnant

We're going to continue on in this thought, the forging of the vessel of recovery. And it's our contention that God has always had to have a vessel that He could put into what it requires to heal the whole stream.

That's in history, in the Bible, there's always had to be that remnant that God could start over with. That 7 ,000 that refused to be a part of the spiritual conditions of the day, the Daniels, the Samuels, the Benjamins, those that represented a new beginning with God were a people that God had separated unto Himself and refused to allow them to be a part of the spiritual conditions that prevailed in their time.

They represented a new beginning with God which we will deal with in these series of lessons as we point up the features of such a vessel. Yesterday we asked and showed that it will be, that we will obtain in this generation the results and the achievement of the first generation.

Somebody is going to. And for that to happen there must be raised up a vessel unto God that can be that vessel of recovery. Now today the message I have given it a title, A New Cruise. I'm going to read in 2 Kings chapter 2 verses 19 through 22.

2 Kings chapter 2 verses 19 through 22. Then I'm going to turn over into Mark's Gospel chapter 9. But listen to these words. And the men of the city said unto Elijah, or Elisha, he's been called down to the city.

They've got great troubles there in the vineyards. Something's going wrong. Problems have set in. Now the man of God is called. Isn't it remarkable and wonderful that in the Bible whatever the problem was, whether it was political, whether it was agriculture, or whether it was spiritual, whether it was to appoint a king, they called a prophet.

Today we want to separate God from all the affairs. Amen. You watch today Mr. Mondale and those in the upper echelons. They don't want the church to have any voice at all. The homosexuals say what he wants to say.

Advocate homosexual rights. I think that's an insult to the minorities of this nation. If there ever was an insult to the minorities, the true minorities, that is. They want to allow that homosexual to have his rights, to have his say, to be able to teach in our schools that his is an alternative lifestyle, that your children are just as well-off homosexuals as there are hertosexuals.

But they don't want the church to say anything. What we believe doesn't count. If I stand up and say that I'm against abortion, I'm against homosexuality, then because I'm a Christian, they are saying that I'm trying to bring the church and state together.

But here they're having trouble with the vineyard and they call the man of God. They know that all the problems of this world are theological problems because we did come from the hand of God. Here he got it.

And the men of the city said unto the prophet Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of the city is pleasant as my Lord seeth, but the water is not, the ground is barren. There's something missing here in the water.

And he said, Bring me a new cruz and put salt therein. And they brought it to him. And he went forth into the spring of the waters, cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I've healed these waters.

There shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. So the waters were healed unto this day. According to the saying of Elisha which he spoke. I've been to that world seven times. Coming out of Africa, Egypt.

Not just a tourist, but I came through that land. And every time I've gone there and got a drink of water, at that fount where that water flows from, the man of God healed it 4 ,000 years ago. It's still well today.

I said it's still well today. What God does, He does good. He doesn't patch work. Whatever God does, He does well. Now we come and we're talking and speaking in these days about a vessel of recovery. That God is forging now that's going to usher in the coming of the Lord and the revival that will precede that coming.

I believe we're on the threshold of the mightiest move of God since Pentecost. I believe that. I don't believe we're in it. I believe it's coming. You look and you can mistake shabbos for substance if you want to.

But they are the grass roots and groundswell of a move of God in this country. There's a hunger for reality. A third generation of Pentecost are tired of gimmicks and games and are earnestly seeking for reality and that revival is going to come.

The Church as the Vessel, Not the Cure

We come to the vessel itself. In Mark chapter 9, let's just turn there for a moment. If you like, I'm going to read verse 50. The prophet said, Give me a new cruz, put salt in it. Then verse 50 of the 9th chapter of Mark says, Salt is good, but if salt have lost its softness, wherewith will you season it?

Have salt in yourselves, have peace one with another. And the Bible said to the real believer, You are the salt of the earth. The vessel that God will use. Now, the church is the vessel. Listen to me closely.

It is not the cure. The church is the vessel. But the church is not the cure. The vessel contains. The Bible talks about a vessel of honor and a vessel of dishonor. And the only thing that makes a vessel honorable or dishonorable is what's in that vessel.

Through the years, somehow or another, people gave me bottles, beautiful bottles, and I wind up not a collector of bottles by desire, but just because a lot of them came to me. My wife was given a bottle by an old gentleman that had found the Lord and it was a liquor bottle.

One of the most beautiful bottles I've ever seen in my life. She's got colored water in it. There's nothing wrong with that bottle. Some folks think it is, but I said, You keep that bottle. Nothing wrong with that bottle.

What was wrong was what's in the bottle. We are honorable or dishonorable by what is in us. But I must always remember that I am not the cure. I am the vessel in which the cure is to be placed in. Now, failing to recognize that truth has led the church into a whole position as a whole rather, the church as a whole into a position that is false.

That is, believing herself to be the cure, the church's only concern is physical growth. That's the only concern of the church. When the Bible talks about it in Isaiah chapter 9, of the increase of God's government, there being no end.

He wasn't talking about numbers. He's talking about the spiritual content of that vessel. Listen to me, church. We are not the cure. We are to contain the cure. And when the church believes she's the cure, then her only desire is physical growth.

And the result of that is the world is cursed with a large empty vessel that for the most part is absolutely ineffective spiritually. We have very little effect against the darkness. Am I speaking the truth?

I mean we have more religion than you can count, but yet we have very little effect against the darkness of our day. An organism can only produce after it's kind. Send a worldly church to Africa and it'll produce the same thing that it is.

It doesn't matter. You don't further God's cause by just promoting religious systems or worldly churches. It is only as we allow that river of God to flow from the vessel of the church do we produce the real and the living God.

We cannot give what we do not have. If we do not have the Holy Ghost and life of God within us, then we cannot be the healer of this world. We cannot be that which will produce the deliverance. Because we are not the deliverance, it is to be in us.

Salt as Recovery, Preservation, and Permanence

We said last what the vessel is. Now the passages that we read are bound by a common tie, namely salt and what it signifies. Isn't that right? The ones I read in 2 Kings 2, chapter 19 through 22, the Gospel of Mark, chapter 9 and verse 50 have a common tie, S-A-L-T, and what salt signifies.

Now throughout the Scripture, salt stands for recovery, preservation and permanence. Salt stands for this. The first passage, we have the waters of Jericho lacking in some constituent which resulted in the miscarriage of the trees.

When it looked like something good was going to happen, it didn't happen. I watched all the promotion of religion come to naught. Everything was there. All the billboards were out. The advertisement on the TV.

Everybody knew that God was coming to town. But when it was all over, the trees miscarriage, there wasn't anything left. When the racket died down, it was an empty sound. God hadn't been there and we had just gone through another pace of religion.

This is exactly what was taking place at Jericho. There were the trees, the water, the field, the labors, much energy, good motives, but it all stopped short somewhere. It never did produce. They never got to eat an apple.

Amen. Everything else was there. They had the trees, had the land, had the labors, had good motives. Amen. But it all stopped short. Does that sound familiar to you? I said, does that sound familiar? Somebody said your property was missing and this absence made everything else futile as to the ultimate results.

Everything else futile as to the ultimate results. Now, while it is salt that is vital and most important thing, it is a cruise that I want to talk to you about today. We know the salt is the vital thing, but the vessel itself must be considered.

And this is what I want to talk to you about in this lesson today and in the ensuing lessons as we continue on this week. Now, our attention is first drawn to Elisha's request for a new cruise. Now, that's a small pan or a dish.

This is what the man of God demanded right on the start. They said to him, we got troubles here, the water is messed up, the land is barren, we're not seeing any production at all. And the man of God said to him, bring me a new cruise.

Bring me a new cruise, a small pan or a dish. Now, why use a vessel at all? Why did he want a cruise? Why a vessel at all? Why not a handful of salt? Why not just bring me a handful of salt here? Or why a new cruise?

Why any cruise? But especially, why a new cruise? And that is the point. For a work like this, a vessel must be specially prepared. Please hear me if I believe under God, if the work that's being done in this world today is the preparation of that vessel, calling it out, bringing it out.

It's always been an Israel out of an Israel in the midst of that great body of believers. There has always been that remnant that were totally dissatisfied with what is going on. They weren't caught up in all the glamour and the shout of religion.

They could see beyond the facade. They saw that when all of it died down, there was nothing they could really bite on, chew on. When all the leg stretching was over with, those that really had a short leg are still crippled.

They were able to see. And today, God is concerned Himself with the recovery of that vessel that He can put that salt in. For such a work, for such a work as a healing of those waters, required a new cruise, a special vessel.

It required that. But the question is, what is the nature of the work to be done? What is the condition needing to be dealt with? It is the loss and absence of vital, distinctive something. Everything else is there, but that certain something is missing and it must be recovered or there will never be a real harvest.

That's what the work is. That's what God is after today. The machinery is there. Look about you. There's organizations. There's money. There's preachers. There's pulpits. There's property. There's everything you can think of.

But something is still lacking in reaching the communities for God. Now, the modern spiritual counterpart of this is that things have degenerated into indefinites, vagueness, and uncertainty as to real meaning of life and spiritual purpose.

So how can you travel around conventions, preaching? You know what I'm saying. In fact, there is an uncertainty. There is a vagueness about things today. If you were to really corner the average Christian in the average church, he doesn't even know why the church exists.

He don't know where he's going except he talks about going to heaven. He has no idea on this earth why he has been born again, why God commands him to be filled with the Holy Spirit or her to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

There's an indefiniteness. There's an uncertainty. Things don't mean what they used to mean. When I say 35 years ago, if you were to talk about praying through, everybody in the church knew what you're talking about.

It doesn't mean that anymore. It's like communism. Peace means one thing to them. It means something else to us. Praying through, walking with God, holiness, sanctification are vague terms that are hardly ever defined in the modern church today.

That's what we're dealing with. That's what God is dealing with. And for that, there has to be a vessel that represents that. Ladies and gentlemen, you don't put new wine in old bottles. And that's more than just that which claims to be born again.

We're dealing with God, dealing with a situation that's lost its distinctiveness. You know, hell's way of robbing the church is to take that church and destroy it by making it something that God never intended.

Making it something that God never intended. Robbing that church of its peculiarity, its distinctiveness, and robbing it of that something that makes it different in this world. We are different. I'm not of this world.

Amen. I belong to God. I'm a pilgrim and a stranger here. And I don't mind telling you I feel like a foreigner in this world this morning. I stay in a motel in the city. I'm a stranger in that motel. I go into their restaurant to eat.

And they're over there drinking their liquors and carrying on with a conversation that I'm not a part of. I know that. But I'll tell you another thing. With that Bible laying on that table, they know I don't belong there.

That I'm from a different world than they belong to. And the devil's whole business is to rob that church of its distinctiveness. And this is exactly what takes place. There's a difference of meaning and the tragedy is so many have gone on with the form and failed to see that the power is no longer there.

There is a difference. We just carry on. We have all kinds of spiritual gurus. Amen. Let me tell you something, folks. We have reached a place in the Christian church and I'm going to deal with this at length where the church has been reduced to a cult.

Because Christ isn't really the center of it. I'm not talking about all churches. I'm talking about religion as a whole, what we call Christianity. And today, in a great part of what we call Pentecost in this country, I call it the Neo-Pentecostal crowd.

Amen. They are not, that church is not presenting Christ as the way. They are presenting to a lost world a set of principles and beliefs. Therefore, Christ is no longer the way. He's just become another Buddha that's come to tell somebody the way.

He didn't come to tell you the way. He said, I am the way. We have today abundant life, success seminars, positive confessions, seed face, all kinds of things that are presented to people as the way out.

But let me tell you, the blind man in the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Mark didn't need a message on sanctification. He needed the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and he received his sight. That's all you need this morning.

If you find Christ, you have found life. If you find everything else and don't find Him, you are dead in your sin. There's a difference. The world don't know it. The church don't know it. They're going on with a form and not recognizing that there's no power there.

No power there. Just moving on, moving on. Amen. The question here is, what is it? What have we lost? The original meaning is not there. Things said and done do not mean what they did in the beginning.

Resurrection Life in Acts and the Missing Ingredient

And most people don't know it. Now listen, if we take the book of Acts as a model, hold on to it. If we take the book of Acts as the model and the epistles as a revealing truth intended by God to be the abiding basis of what came into being in the book of Acts.

You hear me? If we take the book of Acts as the model and the epistles as those that reveal to us what took place in the book of Acts, we cannot fail but to be impressed with the presence of certain thing which made everything at that time very much alive.

You can't read the book of Acts without on every page saying there's life here. There's something here besides man. Isn't that right? You read that book and then you go to the epistles and you discover the revelation of what is there that made it different from everything else.

No, you can have all the form, you can have the best preacher, the best orator, but if that something, that something of the book of Acts is missing, then the ultimate purpose of God is lost and you may as well be a Islam or anything else if that isn't there.

Now, when we recognize, we take the book of Acts as a model, we recognize there was something there that made everything alive and there's only one praise in the Bible that expresses the effect of that great something and it is resurrection life.

That's the only thing. Life. Listen. The missing ingredient in today's religion is life. We feign it. There's no life there. So we say, now everybody, we're gonna dance together on this one. When life springs up, you may dance or run.

There's no life there, you gotta turn some on. So we pretend. We pretend. It is a taught Christ, it's a taught tongue, it's a taught dance, it's a mechanical gift, it's all right down here and the ungodly can blow his beer breath in your face while he practices what he calls his glossolalia.

I'm not being critical, I'm being truthful. I'm telling you folks that where this life is, you don't have to pretend it's there because all form of life will manifest itself. There's certain things about life that tell you what kind of life it is.

Amen. Hogs grunt. Ducks fly. Chickens cluck. And Holy Ghost filled people worship God. You don't have to go through all of this struggling and straining trying to get them to do it. There's something in there that produces that.

There is a life. Oh listen, I married one of the best cooks in Texas. I've been married to her for 38 years and hope if he tarries that long I'll keep her that much longer. Amen. But she never, never had to beg me to come to that table.

Just rattle that plate and I'm sitting down there. Yes sir. I've been born again for 35 years and nobody ever had to plead with me to lift my hands and worship God. I've been loving Him for 35 years. There's a life in me that automatically reaches out toward Heaven.

Oh brothers and sisters this morning I'm talking about a vessel and the missing ingredient today is life. Our problem is life. Get life, everything else will fall into place because the kind of life that prevails in us will produce the vessel as to what it is.

Will mold us. You are a product of what you believe and what you are comes out of the ideas you've accepted and made a part of yourself. Life. The Bible said life is light. John 1 and 4 said in him was life.

L-I-F-E. And that life was a light of men. Now wherever he went, wherever he went, if he came under this tent this morning in person, if there's a devil possessed person under this tent, the devil in that person would cry out.

Do you know why? Because light turned on him. The evil devils and evil men don't like light because their deeds are evil. But whenever he come in, light shined. He had life in him. That life exposed the devil for what he was.

Before he left, he said to the church, you are the light of the world. What made him light? Life. What makes us life? Life. L-I-F-E. When that vessel was filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, 3 ,000 evil wicked people immediately said, what must I do to be saved?

They'll do it again if we get the life of God. If that vessel is right and that light is in there, the thing missing is life. Life convicts. Light convicts. Problem today in semi-darkness. Just a little flicker of light here and there.

That's worse than no light at all. My baby girl, she's 34 years old now, 33. And she always was afraid of the dark, kind of. So always had to have a little night light in her room. And then in the hallway that led to the bathroom, at the end of that hall, we had a little night light right in the middle, just like that is a hall, right in the middle.

You know, it didn't give you no light. All you could do is see the light. And when you got in the hall, if you just walked toward that light, everything's going to be all right. You know you're not going to run into the wall because you know where that light is.

Unless one of them kids left a skate in the middle of that hall. Then you break a leg. While it's in that semi-darkness that you stumble over them hypocrites, fall over all that false mess. Turn the light up and expose everything for what it is.

And the missing ingredient in the modern church is life. Turn that light on. Let the church turn that light on. Brother Williams, now women will be safe on them streets out there again. The devil will flee.

Got any bugs in your house when you turn your light on tonight? They're going to try to get under the carpet, under the refrigerator. They can't stand light. Let the church turn the light on. Let it shine down the streets of America.

I'll tell you, the evil, wicked, awful things out there will find a hiding place. It's the church I'm talking about. That missing ingredient is life. Listen, we have the buildings, the organization, the education, the music, the preacher, but it all stops short.

The Holy Spirit, the Church, and the River of Life

What was it that produced the atmosphere and spirit of life in the first century church? The Lord Jesus Himself. The Lord Jesus Himself. Listen, Jesus had been glorified and the Holy Spirit had come as the Spirit of the glorified Lord to glorify Him on earth through the church.

I just have to keep saying this over and over that we recognize that that river of the Holy Spirit that John talked about that was to flow out of our innermost being didn't come down on the world in general.

It flows from that throne to the church and from the church to the world. If it can't flow through the church then the world's going to die for the want of revival because God's not pouring His power out from heaven on Greensboro.

He's pouring it out on that vessel prepared and from that vessel to the world. It's always been that way and Jesus is risen. Ezekiel saw the throne and the man in the throne and the river coming from the throne to the church from the church to the world and the Bible said that along the banks of that river that healed everything that it touched were many trees many trees you hear me?

You know what trees are in the Bible? Unless specifically stated trees are people along the banks of that Holy Ghost River are Spirit-filled people produced by the river and the leaves of those trees healed the nation.

Not political parties but the leaves of those trees. Oh listen the vessel must be if there's going to be a river there has to be something for it to flow through something for it to flow through. The Lord Jesus Himself made real on this earth by the Holy Ghost through the church.

Jesus was alive in that first century church and the world knew it. I said the world knew it ladies and gentlemen. You didn't have to run no full page ads in the Jerusalem Post. They knew something down there in that church.

There's hypocrites falling dead there's dead folks made alive there's thousands of people being saved the preachers are total fanatics they preach in the street the religious crowd says you can't preach in the street and so the next thing you find them standing in their own pulpits preaching.

There's a line pressing, pushing. You know you have this saying of the Lord Jesus Christ when He was on this earth I must needs go to Samaria I must needs go to a certain place I must, I must. What's He talking about?

There's something there. There's a life there. There's an ingredient there. It isn't born out of some kind of special appeal to get somebody to go to Africa. It is I must go to Africa. Oh hallelujah. Oh no ladies and gentlemen you don't find that kind of stuff in the book of Acts.

You don't find making some kind of groan and a beg and an appeal for somebody to go somewhere. They must needs go. There was a life there. Grow them. Oh hallelujah. Jeremiah said I'm not going to talk no more.

And he said it can't help but talk. My bones are on fire. There's something inside of me. I got to talk. Whether you want me to talk or not. Whether you want to hear what I got to say or not. I got to talk.

In that motel room this morning I thought my soul would catch a fire. I wanted to scream at the walls. Yes sir I had to say. Oh listen I had to scream at the walls. Brother Schambach said to me do you need a car?

No sir. I don't need a car. I'm not going anywhere but the motel and the tent. I come here to say there's something in I must needs speak. I must needs go to Samaria. I must needs go to Africa. I must needs go to India.

I have... The religious world can't understand that. But Lord Jesus listen not just being saved in that book of Acts from something is not being saved unto something but it was the Lord Jesus himself.

Christ as the Center of Salvation and Service

I hope you understand what I'm saying. Oh today I got saved and I got this and I got delivered and that's about as far as it goes. Thank God for that. But let me tell you in that first century church it wasn't being saved from something or unto something.

It was the Lord Jesus himself captivated that life. Listen. Listen. The message of salvation all focused on who the Lord Jesus was. Listen. And they ceased not to preach that Jesus was the Christ. Not a mere treatise on evangelical theology but it was a presentation of the Lord Jesus Christ.

They never one time felt that they was called to cities to teach you how to manage your money or to be successful. They came to Corinth. They came to Athens. They went to Beirut. They went to Tyre. They went to India to introduce men and women to a person called Jesus.

That's all. They knew that salvation was a relationship between a man and his God. They knew that it was a personal intimate relationship with Christ. They had no seed faith message. What they had they ceased not to preach Christ.

They ceased not. Listen. The message was never complete until the people saw Jesus. I never saw this until I read in the Gospel of Luke where Jesus quoted Isaiah. He came from that wilderness temptation.

Stepped into that pulpit of Nazareth. Opened the book to Isaiah and said The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor to bind up the broken heart and give sight to the blind.

And the Bible said at that point he closed the book. And that's where it caught me. He closed the book. And he said this day is this Scripture fulfilled? I said oh God. They want us to preach ten minute sermons.

They want it all over in an hour. They want the singing, the offering, everything over in twenty minutes. But I said no sermon ought ever be preached, finished and the book ever closed until they saw Jesus.

Thank God until they saw the Christ. He said I'm the one he's talking about. This Scripture is fulfilled. You've seen the Savior and you can close the book. All any man ever needs and the answer to every problem of life is to see the Lord Jesus.

If I preach Christ preach Christ, preach Christ until you see Christ whatever your need is. He met. Bartimaeus sat along that road blind. He heard with his ears. But he never had been in contact. Now to see in the Bible doesn't mean seeing with these eyes.

A lot of people see with these eyes. Don't see anything else. It's to see with that heart. Amen. He heard the noise coming up the road and said what's all the racket? They said Jesus of Nazareth is coming by and immediately that blind man broke out in a religious fit.

Thou son of David have mercy upon me. You could hear the echo along that road haunting those that come in. Men said hold your peace. Hold what peace man? He'd been blind all his life. He never had no peace.

I said he never had no peace. And so he cried the louder and the Bible said Jesus stopped and he saw the Christ. That's all he needed to get his eyes. He closed the book. If I have to preach from 9 o 'clock till 6 o 'clock in the evening I ought not to quit preaching until men see Jesus.

When they see Jesus then the need is met. Those that don't have time to wait to see Him are never going to be healed anyway. If Bartimaeus said well I really would like to stay and see Him but I had plans to set up my begging business down the road a ways I'll wait till next time.

He'd still died blind. It's when we see Jesus. Whatever it takes to see Jesus. Whatever it takes to find the Lord. And to see Him will produce sight to blind eyes. Freedom to devil possessed spirits. It is seeing the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's all. Amen. They cease not to preach Jesus. Listen. That's what brought salvation. But what was true in salvation in that first century vessel was also true in service. In the acts of the apostles.

Service is never something appended to salvation as a further consideration. Never! One of the striking omissions of the book of Acts is any kind of appeal to service. I challenge you. Read it when you go home.

They're not up there saying oh would some of you young people be a missionary. Would some of you go preach? Would some of you witness for the Lord? The church goes through all kinds of ordeals trying to get people out on the street to witness.

The problem is they never have received for the most part what they ought to have. It's going to be an awful thing when the rapture takes place to find out how many people thought they were going to make it and didn't make it.

And they didn't make it because they maybe never did know Him. There's more people in the church that never met Him than you dare to dream of. No, listen. Service wasn't something appended to salvation as another consideration.

You won't find anywhere in there, pastor, where they're begging anybody to go anywhere. No, no. You don't find that. That come along because of this Christ. Because of this Christ. That was their listen as an automatic thing.

Service was never the result of organization or special appeals. It was spontaneous. It was free. It was natural. It was at all times, in every place, under all circumstances, irrepressible testimony.

There arose a great persecution. They were scattered abroad. And what did they do? They went everywhere preaching Christ. That's what the testimony... It was irrepressible testimony. There's an old gentleman in my church who's going to be 93 years old if Jesus tarries and he lives February the 19th.

The old gentleman had been a preacher for 70 years. Amen. He told me, he said, you know, Brother Clinton, when I first come in to the Assemblies of God, that's the organization he's with, and he said, those days, if you wanted to get papers to preach, they didn't call you in there and ask you three or four little questions.

He said, they brought you in to a fellowship meeting, and they had asked that young preacher to pray. And if he could pray without preaching, they said, he's not ready yet. How about that? You know that?

If he ain't no life in him, leave him at home. How'd a young man come to me? He felt called to preach. He told me that. And he said to me, he said, I want you to get me some meetings. I've got to get out of here.

I said, what do you want to get out of here for? What do you got to say to anybody? I can't even get you to a prayer meeting. The world's got enough bad preachers that won't go to a prayer meeting. Why do they want you out there?

Well, he left the church, but I'm not going to promote any kind of mess like that. If you won't come pray, you can't get him in a Bible study. If you not have life itself, you can't give what you don't have.

Suffering as the Fruit of Knowing Christ

Oh, listen. The Holy Spirit glorifying Jesus in their heart produced the service. The revelation of Christ was to them and in them so great they could not help but serve. Kindly listen. What is true in salvation and service was also true in the secret of their ability to suffer.

I know we cringe when we talk about suffering. We don't hear nothing like that. Man, I got talking last night. I said, oh, say that again. If you live godly in Christ Jesus, you will suffer. Through much tribulation, you're going to enter into that kingdom.