Show Me Thy Glory — John Rhys Watkins

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Moses Asks to See God's Glory

Exodus 33, we'll begin at verse 12, and it says this Moses said unto the Lord, See thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people, and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

Now therefore I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight, and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence will go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us up, not up hence. For within shall it be known here, that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight. Is it not in that thou goest with us?

So shall we be separated, and I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken. For thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

And he said, Thou cannot see my face, for there shall no man see me and live. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock, and it shall come to pass whilst my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in the cliff of the rock, and I will cover thee with my hand while I pass by, and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back pass, but my face shall not be seen.

May the Lord bless his word to us tonight. Our focus tonight for this message is upon that very small yet all-encompassing phrase of Moses in verse 18. Show me thy glory. This is the heart of the message.

This is the message for us tonight. I want to focus upon that clause, not only in seeking understanding of its meaning, but also with conviction to turn this into a corporate prayer, an individual testimony.

The Church's Need to See God's Glory

You have to receive this tonight experientially. I do not intend to preach the message in a technical or dry theological sense. Rather, the desire here tonight is to stir the heart of the church that we may have the blessing, the blessing of seeing the glory of God unveiled to us in the inward parts.

David cried that he might know God, that he might have truth in the inward parts, that inner man, that born-again, that spiritual man on the inward parts, and this glory being revealed. This is the vital need of the church today.

The church is in need. You see, there is no evidence in the church in Wales today that the glory of God is being manifested. There is none. The church is fragmented. It's cold, it's dead, and it's dying.

There is no evidence that the church is what the church claims to be. There is no evidence there, but God is alive. And just as God was alive to Moses and those people in the wilderness, God was still there.

If the church is dead, God is still alive. This is a vital message for the church that we come back to understanding what the glory of God really is. You see, the background of the text is one of desperation for the Israelites.

We live in a nation today very much like these people. We're desperate. The church is desperate. If there's no desperation in the church today to see the life of God back in this nation, we're not the church.

If you're cold to these things, you're not part of the true church, the church of Jesus Christ. This is a time of desperation for the Israelites. You see, Moses, he'd gone to Mount Sinai to receive the patent for the tabernacle and the law.

He was receiving instruction concerning the house of God, the priesthood and the ministry of sacrifice. But the patience of the people, oh, it had run thin. They'd grown weary waiting for this man. They believed that the man of God, Moses, he's not going to return.

They believed that he died. And if the man of God had died, these people believed that God had died with him. They were so sure of it. So they gathered to themselves another man and persuaded him to make them God of gold.

A God that would reflect their prosperity. A God that would minister unto their natural desires. This is the God that they desire. We see so much of this in Wales today. A God that is not the God of heaven.

A God that is false. A God that is nothing more than a golden calf. Now, if you study this passage in scripture about Lee Israel, you'll see the Antichrist there. You'll see, you'll find where this man comes from.

You'll see what he rises up from. You see that word Baal. There's nothing wrong with the name. The name means husband. Jehovah was the husband of Israel. But they were ascribing everything to something that was not Jehovah himself.

His nature. His name. His power. His authority. Could only be revealed in the inward parts. And through that glory. Nothing tangible. Nothing outward. No display of gold. Nothing to touch. And their carnal, natural, humanistic desires.

Everything of God was leading these people to this place. But they'd grown weary. Weary, waiting for God. The church is like this today. Tired. Sick and tired. For a hundred years, we've spoken, prayed for, and preached about revival.

We've waited patiently. But the patience of the saints is wearing thin. Now is the time for the church to be stood again. It's at the hour when the church least expects God to move, that God must move.

He must move. He never moved on the greater, larger part of the church in 1904. He moved upon a handful of people. He moved upon them that would not be moved by what the world said. Would not be moved by what the church said.

They believed God. Mr. Roberts and those around him. If they prayed one prayer, it would have been this. Show me thy glory. We need it, not just for ourselves, our churches. But for our community. And for this nation.

Israel's Idolatry and the Fear of God

The whole of Israel had been brought out of Egypt on a great wave of revival. Not very long before this wave crashed upon the rocks of apathy and unbelief. The nation began to fall from grace. Now the Lord was ready to punish them.

To smite them. To utterly consume them. Oh, this is the awfulness, the terror, the fear of the living God. If God rose Moses today and said, Moses, you go and preach in Swansea. I don't believe Moses would come and preach a message and call Jesus loves you.

I believe that the message would be that this fearsome, awesome God. Our God, the Bible says, is a consuming fire. You see, our souls would fare well with God if we could learn tonight this message of Moses.

If we could know, if this could be our experience. Seeking God for the glory. The wrath of the Almighty at this time was about to be poured out upon Israel. The justice of God demanded that these ungrateful, unbelieving, apostate people.

They should be wiped from the face of the earth. This is our God. This is the gentle God. In chapter 32, the Lord commanded Moses not to cry for them. Them that danced naked and worshipped the gods of gold.

Them that were intoxicated with a promiscuous liberty. Them with a shameless devotion to their personal wealth. Them that had no fear of God. Don't cry for them, Moses, he said. Let them cling to them gold.

Let them lust for one another. Let them be what they really are. Don't cry for them. Oh, you can feel that pain in the heart of Moses. You can see it welling up within him. All of it he sees coming to the end.

God had offered, I'll smite this nation. I'll destroy them. I'll put them to powder. I'll begin with you, Moses. But that's not enough for Moses. He loves these people. God has called these people. He knows the call upon the nation.

You see the tears of the intercessor. Are more than able to quench the fiery wrath of God. The pitiful sobs so pleased of a man upon his knees. Are able to melt the heart of God. Situations, people, nations are changed by the prayers of the saints.

We've lost this message. We've forgotten this. That if we change a nation. If we could change our families. If we could change a people. Then we must be a people of persistent prayers. Not wait for a hundred years.

Revival, a remembrance party. That will do nothing to stir the living God. It's a day in, day out devotion to God. A people that will come. And seek to melt his heart. Through our prayers. Through our tears.

Through the intercession of the local church. Not bringing in some bigwig. That's been on some TV evangelism explosion. But the local church. Your church. The churches that you belong to. Those churches seeking God and finding his heart.

Having him to stir your own fellowships. If he doesn't stir you from the pulpit. You'll not stir them outside in the streets. It's the local church. When the people have turned from their shame. When they repented of their sin.

Once again the Shekinah glory of God. It would be seen. Moses then pitched the tabernacle outside the camp. And the glory of the Lord descended. And the entire nation rose up and worshipped God. That's every man, woman and child.

True Worship and the Church's Testimony

You see true worship is always a spontaneous result. Of knowing the real presence of God. Big bands. Large choirs. Wonderful choruses. They're all meaningless. And ineffectual in ministering to the Lord.

Unless worship is inspired. And charged through an inward knowledge. That will proclaim and magnify this truth. God is in his holy temple. Where is God tonight? We pray sometimes. Trying to pray Christ out of heaven.

When he's there in his temple. He's in his church. We need to be stirred up to know. Where this God is. It's not a question of God coming out of heaven. It's allowing God to break through this tabernacle of clay.

Are we keepers of this Christ? Or are we just prisons of him? We owe a testimony to the world. We owe a testimony to the people of Swansea. That our God lives. Our God reigns. They're not interested in what the bible says.

They're not interested in anything on the TV. They want to see does it work. Before Mark was set free. He saw that the gospel had worked in the life of Julie. Everything that she was set free. God could set that man free.

Lee was the same. Pattern after pattern. It's always the same. God always displays his son in a man or a woman. This is how he reveals Christ. He's called the church to reveal this Christ. The nation knew that God had come.

So they rejoiced. They rejoiced to a man. They danced and they worshipped. But remember this. They had just done that. Just before. In front of a golden calf. They sing the same songs. They'll dance. They'll kick their shoes off.

They were doing flip flops and everything else. Everything else they did. The only difference was they did one thing. In an immoral sense. Naked. Now it was different. There was great conviction. They knew God is in the temple.

They dare not mess about. You dare not be a hypocrite. When you know God is in his house. They knew that their man. Moses. Their intercessor. Their leader was standing there. In the midst of the glory.

Moses was well aware of this wonderful fact. He's in the midst of the glory. It surely would have been enough for him. Experimentally. To have lived the rest of his life. With the assured knowledge. That he had met with a living God.

Imagine the churches today. That would have had Moses testifying in their pulpits. I stood in the glory of God. I built a tent for him. I was there when the Shekinah. The holy smoke. Came down upon me.

Imagine every church. Every pulpit. Would want such a man. But it's not enough for Moses. This experience is not going to be enough. He's been touched of God. But he needs more. You see in type. Moses is a saved man.

He's a Christian. Just like you and me. Not only does this man Moses know the name of God. But the Lord also knows the name of Moses. This statement is much deeper than a mere acquaintance with a formal name.

To know someone's name. Is to know their nature. Moses knew the name of God. Jehovah. Not only judgment and wrath. But he was also full of grace. And full of mercy. This is how God was revealed to Moses.

His grace and his mercy. We read it in that chapter. He drew a line. Whoever is for the Lord cross this line. Whoever is not for the Lord. Kill them. Three thousand were slain. Three thousand died. This is our God.

He is judgment. He's wrath. But he's grace and mercy. For those that will walk his way. This is God's word. That's God's voice. There is nothing in between. There isn't an intermediate state. There's no man's land.

It's not there. You're either for him. Or you are against him. The Lord knew the nature of Moses. It was meekness. God knew this. Because this was the work of God. In Moses. The Lord was sculpting his nature.

Making this man a humble. A bow down. A weak. A low in spirit man. Moses was being conformed to the image of God. The conformity. Caused him to become a man. With great needs. The closer you get to God.

The more you'll be like Jesus. The greater you are. The greater you are in the sight of God. In that conformity. The greater you know your needs are. You have a great need. If there is no need. If there is no sense of any need within us.

It's because we're nothing like this Christ. We're nothing like the conformity that God says is there for us. It's there for us. This is what the gospel is about. That we be conformed to the image of Christ.

That we be made like him. In nature. In the same way. That Christ represented God. That we would represent Christ on this earth. Though he's the one, this man. This Moses that intercedes for the needs of others.

Hunger for Christ and Conformity to His Image

There is now deep within the soul of Moses. A greater need. Greater than national need. There's a burning desire within this man. He's the one that is thirsting. He's the one that is hungering for the glory.

He's the one that's driven to despair. He's the one desperately pleading on the other side of madness. Lord, show me thy glory. He's already had so much of God. So much more than the rest. But he's the one driven to this despair.

Where he cries out. God, show me thy glory. This should be the pulpits Christ. This should be the cry of the pulpit. That God reveals the glory in the man. That we can preach this message. Oh, that the church should be stirred.

And to call out tonight upon the glory of God. That it would be seen within us tonight. That we'd leave this place with faces shining like Moses. That we'd go back tomorrow to our own fellowships. And people would say, where have you been?

What happened to you last night? It couldn't have been because Wales played a game of football. Must be because we've met with the risen God. The more you have of God, the more that you'll want of him.

Those who do not seek, they do not have. You see, Mark was a drug addict. Couldn't get enough of those amphetamines. Couldn't get enough of the cannabis. But now he's a Christian. Hopefully he'd be addicted to the things of God.

He'd be addicted to the ministration of the saints. He'd be addicted to Christ. He'd be addicted to God Almighty. I hope that addiction is never taken from him. I hope he hungers and thirsts continually.

Panting to the point of despair. That he finds God in the fullness. And when he's found him, he's still not satisfied. He has to keep going. He has to keep seeing that inward revelation of Christ. Multiplying and growing and producing.

And producing fruit. That this river of life can come forth from this man's soul. That he can reach and touch his family. The lost in his community. What is the glory? What is this glory? First of all, it's not a mere visible manifestation of majesty.

It's not that. The glory of God is an inward revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's an expression of God's satisfaction with his own nature. Glorification is the full measure of Christ. Manifested through a person.

God has not saved a single person here tonight for the sake of salvation. You hear me tonight. You're not saved for the sake of salvation. Salvation is not something in itself. It cannot be separated from Christ.

Salvation and sanctification are first and foremost for the benefits of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Savior. It's for his benefit. The salvation has come to mankind. We enjoy, of course. We reap those benefits.

But we hinder our glorification. If we see salvation and sanctification apart from Jesus Christ. Cannot separate them. The last time that I preached in Swansea. A man came up to me after the meeting. And he complained that I pronounced two words wrong.

I didn't come to give a lesson on English literature or linguistics. It's not my thing. The biggest word that I know is wheelbarrow. And I've never used that in any message so far. Never used that word.

I don't know English literature. I don't know these things. But I know something very simple. Every word that you have. They're all found between the A and the Z of the alphabet. Every one of them. Every word that's ever written.

All of English literature. Everything that's ever written. You'll find them between those two letters. The A and the Z. Outside of them, there's nothing. Absolutely nothing can be written or spoken outside of those letters.

It's the same with Christ. He's the Alpha, the Omega. He's the A and the Z. There is nothing outside of him. Everything is inside him. When we take salvation as a thing in itself. And detach it from Christ.

It is not salvation. We must see these things. The things that have happened as part of this Christ. He must be central. He's God Almighty to us. He's the Lord Almighty. He's the abundant Lord. He wants to have his will amongst us.

And the will of God is to reveal his glory in his people. When we understand what the glory is. It will bring about a spirit of inexpressible joy, peace and love. This is because Christ is filled in the heart.

Life begins to walk in perfect harmony with its surroundings. The glory of God is built in its rest for the soul. It's contentment and it's satisfaction. Regardless of situations. We're happy when things go well.

And we're sad when we're disappointed. But the glory of God. Regardless of situation and circumstances. There's a peace within that heart. John wrote in his gospel. And we beheld his glory. The glory as of the only begotten Father.

Full of grace and truth. This is the Lord Jesus Christ. Full of grace and truth. That is his glory. Who can say here tonight then. That we have no need to behold this great glory. I'm not talking about understanding it theologically or mentally.

But being shown that glory inwardly. You see if you pray any prayer tonight. Please pray that God. You show me the glory. Show me thy glory. You show me Jesus Christ in the inward part. Let me know that he's there.

He's alive and he's manifesting himself through me. Give me the power. Humble me. Break me. But reveal that glory in me. You see which one of us would not trade. The treadmill of this world for absolute rest.

All of us. We weary people. Modern life is a curse. Who would not exchange the dark trials of life. For the serene beauty. The light and the life of heaven. Who would fail to replace the anxiety of modern living.

With an unwavering peaceful satisfaction. Who would refuse such a blessing. I pray no one here tonight. But there are people that would refuse these things. Those that love their money and the things that money can buy.

They'll refuse God. Those who have no shame in the nakedness of this generation. They'll refuse God. Those that drink in secret all the pleasures of this world. They will refuse God. You see we have to search ourselves.

The Bible says while it is day. Because the night cometh when no man will work. No man will search. You see do you have this cry deep within your soul. Do you have it? And can you hear it? That still small voice of God.

Is it crying out tonight for you? Lord show me thy glory. The glory in the Old Testament. It was the Shekinah. This was to be veiled by the tabernacle. It was an awesome and fearful presence. When the Shekinah descended.

The people knew that God was tangibly present in the tent. There was an unconditional reverence. A total surrender. A knowledge that went beyond all understanding. God had come. And they knew that he'd come.

That he was in the midst. When they saw the glory. The irreligious charisma that was soon exposed for what it really was. It's the works of the flesh Aaron. The gold, the calf, the dancing. It's just the works of the flesh.

It says in the book of Hebrews. That they could not endure that which was commanded. Even Moses said. I exceed in the fear and quake. No man could be the fullness of the glory. It came with the law. It was the ministration of death.

Yet Moses cried out. Lord show me your glory. No fear of death. No fear of that burden upon him. God Almighty show me thy glory. Admire this man's appetite. His zeal. The desire. The spiritual veracity of the man.

Admire the courage. The bravery. The defiance and the audacity. To come before this God. This man Moses cut away through the law. He cut his way through death with the prayer and supplication. Because he knew that there was a way through that glory.

This man, this type of believer. Knew that there was a path within the glory. This man, this one man. Knew that there was a way to secure. So great a revelation. Not only for himself. But for his people.

Radical Christianity and Gospel Witness

Our normal Christianity today. It is so lacking. It's just not enough. It's just not radical anymore. It's not the Christianity of the book. We're sometimes as evangelicals and all of that. We're sometimes more religious.

Than the people that we point to as being religious. It's not enough normal Christianity today. We have to become radical. We have to be different. We have to seek God. We have to find our way through that law.

Through the death. Find our way back to the glory. For the sake of our nation. We've been down on the streets today. In Swansea. I've watched these people preaching the streets. I've watched them tracking.

They did the same thing last week. People in Swansea do not know that the church exists. They do not know that Christ is alive. They do not know his name. We're not talking about the Muslims. We're talking about people that go to church.

They don't know there is a Christ. They don't know there is a savior. They don't know that they have a need. They don't know these things. We've been there. I've been there with the adults and watched them.

We've been there with young children. Jesus Christ pulled a child to himself. And said we should become like one of these. Come out here David. I've watched this boy today. How old are you? Nine. I've watched him handing out tracts.

I've watched the pain in this young boy's eyes. As we watched a tramp. A vagabond. A vagrant. Walk from side to side. Up and down the main street. David asked the question. Is he hungry? Why is he so scruffy?

Why does he look smelly? Can I give him a tract? Would God save such a man? There's more concern in this young child's eyes. Than I've seen in the pulpit. In decades. In decades. Unless we become like one of these.

Unless we become like one of these. A child. Nothing will change in Wales. Or people say. Perhaps we shouldn't be put in. As such a young child out in the streets. Until the adult church in Wales grows up.

And takes those streets for Christ. We're going to have to use people like David. You go sit down. Unless we become like a child. Radical church. We don't want to put children out in the streets. We didn't ask David.

He came with his parents. They couldn't take the tracts off him. But this is what the church should be. Not enough that we just be a modern normal church. We have to be radical. Paul write into the Galatians says.

But God forbid that I should glory. Saving the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. By whom the world is crucified unto me. And I unto the world. I unto the world. The cross is the way to the glory. This is what Moses discovered.

This is what every Christian must discover. The way to the glory. The way for glory. Is through the cross. What is the cross? It is the dying to all of selfishness in our life. It's that soul life dying.

It's the dying of all selfish aspirations. There is no other way. Except this way. The way that the Christian dies to self and dies to this world. There is no shortcut. There is no comfortable ride. It's still a dangerous journey to the far side of eternity.

But there is no other way. There is no other way. It's not through theology. It's not through your church creeds. It's not through your own acceptance of what the pulpit says. It's through that cross.

Christ working in you. Bringing you to his cross. And dying, laying everything down. Die at that cross that he might live through us. Oh God that he lives through the church. Moses asked the question.

Show me now your way. That I might know you. That I might find grace in your sight. And consider that this nation is your people. Oh I believe and I claim this for Wales. God that this nation is your nation.

This people in Swansea, it's your people. I don't believe he came a hundred years ago to tinker with the church. I don't believe that was the last manifestation that Wales will ever see. I believe God came in great power.

And I believe he's longed to come again and again. I believe he's longing to come today. If God can find those people that would cry show me your glory. Reveal this Christ in me. Not just for our sakes.

But for the sake of them on the street. Oh please go there. Go there with these people and watch the pitiful emptiness. The barren expressions. The wasted lives. The pain in people. The suffering on those streets.

Go there. And ask of God that he'd show his glory in you. Not a one of us here today hasn't got someone in our family that will go to hell. They will go there. And we become detached to that thought. We become detached saying if God wants to save them he will.

And if he doesn't then let them go. God desires that every man should be saved. Even more that every man has the right to accept or deny, refuse Jesus Christ. They have to. God help us in Wales. The land of revival.

If people are there on judgment day and they say they never even knew that Christ had lived. When we had our first revival crusade in Lough. I couldn't find the place. I stopped in the garage, the petrol station.

And I asked the girl, do you know where the church is? She said, which church? The church of Evan Roberts with the great Welsh revival. You know what? 1904. Shocked the world. Everybody knows about it.

Never heard of it she said. I walked out across the forecourt and it was straight in front of me. She only lived a few yards from that place. She'd never heard of that great Welsh revival. If she'd never heard of that she'd never heard of Jesus Christ.

The Church's Calling and Intercession for the Nation

Oh God, that he'd come to Wales again. And I do believe he's longing to because this nation is his nation. It's his people. He must find this man again. Moses was already on that journey. Yet he asked again, show me now your way.

Reveal it to me again God. This man is not just called. This is a chosen man. He's been given a promise. And he's been given a task. And his calling is assured. I do believe that every one of us has a calling.

I do believe that every one of us that is saved is chosen. You have to be. You have to be chosen for a task. And if you find that task there will be an assurance with it. You cannot fail. The church cannot fail.

All that we have to do is find that way. The way of the cross. Accept our crucifixion. That Christ may live through us. Without the assurance for Moses the journey would be over. But the weight of the task not only determined the character of Moses.

But also fills him with a fear of failure. Not a failure in a personal sense. But in the sense that the whole nation is dependent upon his relationship with God Almighty. They depend on us tonight. They depend upon the church.

It doesn't matter if you're Baptist, Anglican, Pentecostal or anything else. Presbyterian. I couldn't name them all. If you're in Christ's church this nation is dependent upon you. Your relationship with God is vital.

It's vital that the church today. We come together because of the blood of Christ. We come together because of his cross. We come together because he said do this in remembrance of me. We come together because Christ said they'll know you for the love that you have for one another.

Oh this is the common ground. Common ground that we come because of Christ. Do this in remembrance of me. What a terrible responsibility. What burden for the people could be heavier upon the shoulders.

What burden could be heavier upon the shoulders of one man. Yet all of us must have the same state of mind concerning the people around us. Friends or families. They're blinded to these things. Yet they're dependent upon our relationship with Jesus Christ.

Just as Moses bears the burden. So must the true church of Jesus Christ. Not the ecumenical church. Not the organized church. Not the nominal church. Not the crazy church. But the church that has a hope of glory.

Has a driving force. Urging it to finish the call which it was chosen for. That's the church. The church with the drive. The church that is urging itself to finish that call. The call of God. As he called you tonight.

Talking to the church. And talking to Christians. As he called us. As he called us. Then we are chosen. An awesome responsibility is upon us. Don't take it lightly. You cannot. It's a burden that will crush you.

It is a crushing responsibility. Yes, it's impossible for us to imagine. But unless we offer ourselves corporately to the hand of God. And become that intercessor. With one hope and one desire. That God reveals his glory.

This nation will not be able to experience the awesome presence of the almighty God. Wales will go to hell. Unless we stand today. You hear me tonight. Now listen. This nation will go to hell. If the church is not stirred up.

If we don't find our way to God. If we don't find a full manifestation. If we don't have a revelation to give them. It will go to hell. Or we not sleep tonight if we could see hell. More importantly. We not sleep tonight if we could see Jesus Christ.

We not sleep tonight. Don't ask anybody to seek an antichrist or a revelation of hell or anything else. You find a vision of God. You find Christ inside. You'll not sleep. You'll pray for this nation.

Moses knew and spoke to the Lord directly. He said in verse 15. Unless your presence go with us. You might as well leave us here to die in the desert. Same for the church today. If the presence of God is not in the church.

Then we might as well pack up. We might as well go home and not come back to a church. If he's not in the church. I don't want to be part of it anyway. And I've been in many churches. Many meetings where God is not there.

There is no life of Christ. Most of the church today. We have prayer meetings. People do not pray. Simply because they've not been taught how to pray. The disciples in that ministry with Christ. Came to him and said.

Lord teach us to pray. You have to be taught to pray. To be encouraged to pray. To be instructed to pray. It's so vital. Without his presence in the church. There'll be no revival. And certainly no salvation for the lost.

The Cross, Discipleship, and the Glory of Christ

We've drifted so far away. From the significance and the necessity. Of the glorious presence of Christ. That we are as blind as those. Whose hearts are veiled. Are you listening? The church is blind today.

It says for the preaching of the cross. Is to them that perish foolishness. Oh how many Christians have you witnessed to. In this last year that said. We don't want to hear that old fashioned gospel. How many people James has told you.