Wood here, and stuff, and stuff, so it has to come in, and we leaders have to watch this, in the Union Life, we've got to watch Union Life, what's that? Nothing, what's the magazine? Nothing, unless it's Christ coming through, we've got to watch it, then it becomes Union Life, or some other stuff like that, sects or something, anyway, the moment they become there, and the point is that life comes out, and sometimes God will lead you to extreme ways, to demonstrate that, and here he led, and the phrase, of course, clearly God uses some phrases, in this great book, it's a wonderful book on faith, the agonies of faith, what he calls the night of faith, as against the night of consecration, K -N -I -G -H -T, he says, all the world likes it, you know, in the old pictures of the old Crusaders, and dedicate their swords, go and kill people, go in the chapel, there you have pictures of them dedicating their swords, we all admire people who dedicate, dedicate yourself, faith is crazy, faith isn't dedicating yourself, faith is killing yourself, and night of faith, Abraham's a fool, Abraham, I doubt if he told his wife that one, I think he kept that privately done, hell, I knew a thing or two, but this is a high thing, a night of faith, a person who goes the absurd way, there's nothing in the glory of the flesh left that God won't consume, that's the night of faith, as against night of, anybody, oh look at that magnificent dedicated person, that's still hell, but the real dedication, that was the dying itself, Jesus was the night of faith, he died a criminal, he died a failure, God, Jesus didn't leave one success behind on earth, he was placed only in that dimension, in the resurrection, and so here God uses this phrase, the teleological suspension of the ethical, by which he means, the fulfilment was to suspend the ethical, God's teleological is fulfilment, God's person is fulfilled by suspending the ethical, the ethical was don't murder yourself, don't lie to hide those crimes, be true, suspend the ethical, you never know, so the lesson to us is don't judge, we had it yesterday with Samson didn't we, don't judge when he went and married a Tunisian woman, don't judge, leave a person to God, if we think they made a mistake, let God take the mistake away, that's how they learn, and God's always beautiful, he builds up mistakes, he doesn't destroy, he doesn't come to destroy, he comes to edify, he builds up the mistakes, so he's saying that, and he's saying to them, which this whole letter is now, faith is something which he's producing, well we know that now, we don't take condemnation, this is, we keep on, now we are producers, we are producers, if we're not it's the Holy Ghost better get showing us, we won't get searching around for ourselves, we are producing the Christian life of Christ, like we have, okay, that's all, but he's just saying to us, that is it, that this life, faith is production, faith is a new life lived, which has it in the background, and it's not the same as something which Millie has mentally affirmed, can even produce an assembly like the devils, but it's not followed through by the evolved life, then he moves into a, well some of you want to go to the tongue, again he, the upper aspect, a tongue is a physical member, it expresses a mind and a spirit and a voice and a word, so he comes down to the tongue, he always deals on the upper level, the tongue speaking, what the tongue produces, because the tongue is the agent, like we are the agent of God, the tongue is the agent of what that spirit in the mind has told me, and the thoughts I have, and the expressions that come up through my tongue, he gives a little word about teachers there, it's an honour to be a teacher, but he says, you're a teacher, be sure you know what you're teaching, he puts it in there, we're going to talk about this, he says, my brethren, be not many teachers, the word here is masters, means teachers, they receive greater condemnation, judgment, they put it in negative words, I mean, greater judgment of what you teach, for a million things we make mistakes, in other words, if you teach, know what you're teaching, that's all, be a teacher, if you're given that, be a teacher, I find that very much myself, I need to know what I'm saying, whether I'm mistaken, I mean, it must be to me a truth, if it's mistaken, I must give what I see to be true, I'm not trying to pretend something, because I'm responsible, I give out, rightly, because in those days there wasn't print, so we are voicing expressions in books a great deal today, which couldn't be in those days, so we may say the tongue includes the printed words today, when they scream out, and he's saying there now, it's good, they said, if you are a teacher, know what you're teaching, because you pick it up, we believe in interchange, your brother picked you up, are you right, why do you say that, what proof you've got of that, and you should know, and many of us who do, we find that lots of us are coming, we'll be coming up, many of us are coming up, many of you are, thank God, don't be afraid, don't hold back, if you've got it, give it, it's just a warning, be sure what you're giving is what you understand to be truth, not something you just picked up and theorised, as far as you know, to you this is truth, my great friend King God again, said a word which is great to me, the truth that edifies is truth to me, the truth of evidence, that which feeds me, that's truth to me, may not be all truth, it might not even be truth, as far as I know, because we try to relate our truth to the word of God, that's why we keep the word of God, it's our safeguard, but it must edify, I'll give, oh that's real to me, it doesn't give to other people, we only give what we've got really, and if we give to the heart, it heart speaks to heart, and heart is edifying, if I give what's real to me, it's something that echoes in you, heart to heart, a mind bores so often, because you know it's only mind, and let's come down into the edify, I like to explain, truth that edifies is truth to me, and that's what I pass on, then he speaks about the universe, the power of the tongue, well we all know that, I mean we are ruled by tongues, we come here by invitation, most like, it's geared to what we've heard somebody tell and advise and see, it comes through the tongue, the tongue of course can be devilish or heavenly, it can be stirring up hates and fears and pornography and all stuff, or it can be pointing, uplifting people in truth, so when you look at it, most come, everything comes through tongues, and so tongue, if he says the tongue turns like the bitumen in the ship, like the rubber turns the helm, or like the bit in the horse's mouth, he says, so tongue is the real, and then he says, he speaks of a lady, he says there's a devastating tongue, is it set on fire of hell, a tongue of fire, we get a little touch of the spiritual there, because spirit is fire, God's fire, fire isn't this thing that burns, it's not the form, it's not the form, God is fire, life is fire, everything is fire really, that's why you just catch a thing in the spark, it's only how far hidden, the atomic fire, it's fire, and so spirit is fire, and he says here, the tongue is a world of iniquity, it defiles the whole body, set on fire of hell, set on fire of hell, so that's the thing, they put hell where it belongs, hell isn't a place out there, a lake we go to one day, it's here, hell is a condition, a spirit condition, a condition of self -awareness, hell is, I'm for myself, and therefore I hate this, and love that, and grab that, and all that, all that governs self, and behind that's a spirit of hell, set on fire of hell, because that's all hell is, hell is merely what is in heaven, that's not true, the only truth in the universe is heaven, heaven is God is love, heaven of course is the whole thing is heaven, this is the kingdom of heaven, heaven is God's expression of love, that's heaven, and we're heavenly people, we make expression of God is love, the other, it's hell, because it's greed, and selfishness, and hate, and jealousy, and fears, and lusts, and things that stream out of our tongues, so he's saying, and then he adds, he gets a little closer to, no man can tame it, now he's getting a little toucher there, okay, no man can tame it, well then he says, what do you do, this is how he brings it out, very cleverly, he first says, this tongue stirs the world up, and sets you on fire, the tongue can set the course of lakes on fire, burns you up, the thing, the angry thing you said, the rotten things you said, they'd burn you up, and burn your neighbor up, and influence things, and stir the world, and the tongue's a devil, or an angel, and he speaks about the devil tongue here, set on fire, hell, then he says, there's something more about time, you can't tame it, he says, who's ever tamed a tongue, he says, every kind of beasts, and birds, and serpents, and things of the sea, chapter three, verse seven, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind, the tongue can no man tame, it's not only evil, full of deadly poison, then he suddenly turns around and says, but you've got a problem, now you were a tongue like that, you were a redeemed person, you were born of the spirit, and begotten, actually I missed one little thing, when I was talking about proceeding from the being give and get, into the law of liberty, he says, watch for the engrafted word, it's very subtly put here, I go back a day, he says, listen to the engrafted word, now that's the inner word, so he slips in again, you move to the outer word, the word of truth, we're begotten, that's wonderful, the old willy begot us, he's begun, now he says, listen, don't get your old nauseated tongue in the way, don't get argument, and don't get rushing into forms of self, and the self -expressions which get in the way, listen, listen, for the engrafted word, that's in verse 121, it's put into you, it's part of you, that's the inner word, that's the inner Christ, that's the law of liberty, listen to that one, move into that one, that's where he's moving into the union of life, now you see, he brings up this problem, well now what, you aren't like those, well you used to be, but the tongue is just a hellish thing, but he said, we have an ambivalent tongue, we have a double tongue, he says, here, look, we're Christians now, we're pretty good at blessing God, we're pretty good at saying unpleasant things about man, but of course God doesn't say unpleasant things, God only sees blessing and cursing, the Bible never sees grey, never sees black and white, so to say an unpleasant thing is to curse them in God's sight, see, it says here, thereby bless me God the Father, that we curse them, we don't go think we're cursing, but we are cursing, we dare with faith pray, it's cursing, that's Shakespeare, he's done good things every now and then, so he says, oh, but what's the problem, we do that, now what, we ourselves, we're new people, and we praise God, and of course this took me a long time to see it, it's like that statement, it caught me for a long time in 1 John, where John says, that if a man says he loves God and hates his brother, he's a liar, but he loves not his brother, we have seen, how can he love God, we have not seen, and I said, that's not fair, because God's very nice and you're very nasty, so what if he's not God, I can't stand you, until I find your God, that's it, see, then only when I say you're God, then if I don't love you, I'm not loving God, because that's what God is, that's the union come out, and he says, that's the same here, you know, oh, we bless God the Father, oh, I don't good, I can't stand that person, I'm cursing them, that we curse, how's that, now he gets, this is where this, again and again, the subtlety comes in, unspoken almost, catching the logical how to see it, and you have to go back to your answer, to Paul really, he says, look here, he says, how can that be, he says, you can't have a fountain sending out two waters, he says here, you can't have a fountain that sends out at the same place sweet water and bitter, can't do it, oh, he says, you can't have a sweet tree bearing olives, or a vine bearing figs, so he said, a fountain can't put out both salt and fresh water, see the logic, you've got something wrong, you can't, we're not both, you can't be both, you're not both, you're one, come on now, you're one fountain, you're the new fountain, you're the fountain of the spirit, and the pure fountain of the spirit, uses a positive word about brothers and sisters, as it does a positive word about God, and therefore, you're not the fountain, it's a little mud coming en route, as the water threw out the fountain, a little mudded en route, that's all, don't mistake the mud for the fountain, you see, back again, find out what you are, you're not a double person, you've not got double partialities, or double estimates about who people are, or double questionings about God's guidance and so on, you're not a double person, you're a single person, you're in the law of liberty, and so don't say you're double, say you've got a pure, a firm, you've got a pure fountain, a fountain of love, a fountain of appreciation, and we go at it, we go at it, we do, and we, I think, as we go on, a little more, a little more, we think positively, and I find I check myself much quicker, I check much quicker, I say to myself, you know, I know, I really, it's quite a message to put that side to that side, because I see, I should put God's side above the person, well, you check up, but that's not me, that's the other coming in, the false thing coming in, the double coming in through the fresh, through the tempting me, let's say something that my utter mind sees, and my utter tongue responds, that's not I, I say, that's not I, don't take that, if it's said, it's forgiven, don't take it, and stay on the positive, you're a fountain, a fountain can only produce one type of water, you're a tree, you only produce one kind of fruit, so you see, I catch it each time, and bring them back out of the double, from the double mind, and from the double, that's it, all right, involvement into the single, and then he says, and that's a heavenly wisdom, and a hellish wisdom, it's come down to the tongue, he says, have your conversation, in meekness of wisdom, have a good conversation, show your, it says, now show us a good conversation, meekness of wisdom, heavenly wisdom, so that the outstream is mainly, it's pure, because it's genuine, it's peaceable, it's meek and peaceful, it can be entreated, you can listen to what other people have to say about what you're saying, it's producing peace, and it's sincere, and honest, and impartial, and that's the sweetness of heaven coming through us, that's the, that's, that's what's called the wisdom from above, he doesn't say the wisdom from, he only speaks of wisdom from above, he says, this wisdom, the wisdom that is from above, is pure, genuine, and peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, that's the character, gentle, easy, can accept words from other people, and listen to what they say, it's genuine, it's not partial, and this is peace, this is, and we know it ourselves, we know it ourselves, this is the heavenly wisdom, this is Christ, in the way, sometimes the challenge comes, but we don't live, live peaceably, sometimes you have to move, sometimes you have to move the challenge, but you don't live, even then you do it with tears as it were, even then the point isn't the challenge as much as the love, but this is the heavenly wisdom, and we know it ourselves, he says that's another kind of wisdom, he hasn't given, he just said that, it doesn't dissent, it doesn't dissent from above, he doesn't say any more, he just doesn't say that, that's, that's where there's bitter envy and strife, what strife, we know it, what's his arguments, envy is a bad word, because we have it more than we think, we're not so conscious of that one, anything, because basically we feel somebody has got more than we have or something, so that doesn't come and produces the discord, and so the real is the concord and the discord, generally speaking, art is a word of concord, peace, love, in other words, discord, watch it, and he said that produces peaceable fruits, by operating on the peace level, we produce, we produce a flow of life, the fruit of righteousness is shown by that, meaning that harmony, so that's what he said about tongue, how about it, I better try, I don't know, a little more to say, we'd stop there for a moment, a little more to do on James, covering the last two chapters, apparently among the believers, there's a great deal of worldly greed and competition going on, we'd almost think it's strange, perhaps we shouldn't, perhaps I live in a kind of atmosphere where I don't meet that, as it is, but here it was, and he was speaking to the believers, and said you get fighting among yourselves, because you have desires, you want certain things, and you can't get them, and then you even kill to get them, because you might kill the person's reputation as well as their body to get them, and then you can't get them, and then you get fighting, and then you haven't got them because you asked, because you didn't ask, then you can't get them, when you do ask, you ask for notice, a pretty gloomy picture, that's the first four verses of chapter three, because you're out of self -interest, because that wasn't true, you see, it's always the same thing, it's like they were captured by the flesh, and this, but apparently the flesh is not made, perhaps it does on some, so we have a desire, earthly desires, and ambitions, and covetousness, and this and that, and even use, get fighting our neighbors about whether it was in church affairs or not, I wouldn't say so here, and even using prayer as a means for getting what I want, this isn't a passage on the technique of prayer, it's on the misuse of prayer, and then he comes right out and says, you see, if you have any other love with Jesus, you're an adulterer, straight out, this is where he says, you're an adulterer, you're an adulteress, no you're not, that's friendship with the world, enmity with God, who says that I'm a friend of the world, and enemy of God, no two measures, so there's only one love, your love isn't your husband, or your wife, or your children, it's only Jesus, it's only them, as they're given to you by Jesus, as forms which you can love, persons you can love, you've got a soul lover, and a soul involvement in life, that's Jesus, God, Father, Son, Spirit, if you have any rival love, he's an adulterer, if you give way to it, of course, you can be tempted there again, he doesn't touch that, doesn't even try, they went much farther than temptation here, and he'd be going into things which were divided objectives in life, as he says, get it clear, you can't have two loves, you can't love Jesus, and then have, and really be grabbed by some love of this world, maybe it's to do with finances, or position, or persons, or family, you can't have, so it's drastic, if you've got any other love to rival Jesus, you're an adulterer, you're having an affair with another woman, you can't have that, so that's a strong measure, isn't it, the person we need, even though we may say we don't seem to fit him exactly, fighting to get some personal, yet you never know in life, a better man in business, a better salary, or by -passing this person, or downgrading that person to be able to slip into his position, so you see it can rise in subtle forms, can't they, or of course in friendships, rival, because somebody wants to cut somebody else out of a friendship, or as I say, even the wife, and husband, and the children taking to a place which only belongs to Jesus, as an exclusive place for Jesus, well of course if you're a Jew, you've not said that, you're not you, oh poor you, if you're not you, which of course I've seen you, you're finished, but that you are, you are, you are that love, it isn't really love with a person, it's like you are that person, it's the, I admit the duality in unity, that when you have unity, he isn't, like you love him too, people who don't know you, you get mistaken about that, they say well, yeah but I, I have God, I'm going to meet him face to face, and Jesus, how can I say I'm one, you can't say it, you don't know it, but it's of course the same principle, the truth, the hard truth is one and yet three, they're one, yet they're three, yet they're one, so you can't argue with those who don't know duality, you only say they can only pick something up from you, you know that this is your, your, your centre of your peace, and your, your, your sufficiency and all, I'm not I, I'm this person did it through me, uh and therefore of course I only have one love, which is because I am that love, I'm mixed up in it, I can't have a rival love, I'm very tempted, I can't have it, if I don't know that, I can have rival loves, that's the getting it here, here are those who have this divided outlook, I haven't recognised it, I haven't, that divided outlook is a false thing, it was crucified with Christ, it's not real, they have, Christ has crucified the flesh with his affection for love, uh, God's the midnight glory, the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, but I'm crucified, the world, the world to me, I am crucified, John, uh, Galatians 3 tells us that I'm crucified, the world's crucified, I've crucified the flesh, so they're not, not real, what's crucified isn't, isn't real to me, it's way up there, so it's a, it's a falsely rival love, but it doesn't appear rival until I know this union, then I say, oh I'm not that, so again you come back, the only answer is to know the union, and because they didn't know you, they were being caught up by some of these things, and to some extent they were, uh, involved in the, uh, rival loyalties, and the even twisty ways of doing things, of gaining things, uh, which, by which they can be said, you're an adulterer, you, you're in love with another woman, that woman is the world, so it's good just not to be searched, because I trust it would have been searched, but say, hey, I'm not, I don't accept that, uh, I may have had temptations that way, I don't accept that, or, uh, we can appear to be called out, it's an appearance really, it may be real to us, we may really have a rival love, and do battle with it, and our trouble is doing battle with it, of course, because we've mistaken an illusion for reality, so it is possible if we don't know the union, that we are grabbed by, uh, rival affection, uh, rival anything, and we know that, I've known that, I know that, but don't take it, point is you take it, you fight it, you take it, that's it, and, uh, you say, no, that's not, that's not real, I just don't, that's not the, I only have one love, that's God, and my love is to love people for their sake, not for my sake, or to love things for their advantage, not for my advantage, for, uh, others' advantage, then you're free, because the other love's always free, um, so it may be that they, everywhere, caught up by rival love, and didn't know how to fight them, and they had to admit, falsely admit, that they were slaves of God's love, slaves to rival love, and so, in this case, um, James Godfrey, pretty rationally, and he says, I've got the exposure, and cleansing, and humbling, and crying out to God, um, he says, uh, don't you know the, the spirit that dwells in you lusts into envy, that's a queer phrase, and there are two interpretations, one is that it's our spirit lusting for, it shouldn't, I don't think that's right, if you don't know the spirit of God, then you lust him to get you right, he, he, he's jealous for you being wrong, and he's there working on you, I like that much more, don't you know the spirit of God working on you, to, to deliver you from these false things, um, and then, and then he says, it's there, of course, God gives abundance of grace, um, God, uh, he says, he gives more grace, abundance of grace, and again, the second group, uh, area of grace, he says, we've got plenty of grace, well, of course, it's not explained, the grace we know, is to be brought to the recognition, affirmation of the union, the recognition, the realization of the union, then the illusion of the other, that's just in the cross, but he doesn't explain that, he says, but God does give grace, and he says, and he says, you've got to humble yourself, you, all right, we're hopeful to believe as they were humble, we hope, no, no, it doesn't imply they were, but they knew they had a business to have these rival loves, so, and God exists, the power, but if you come now and say, yeah, I shouldn't have it, now you're sorry, then you submit yourself to God, and they said, you do that to the devil, and you resist the devil, because the submission is useless, when you can't see two ways, you submit yourself to God, you can't resist the devil, not really, you don't see him, he's gone, because the devil's out, he was put out by, put out, uh, uh, works to be destroyed by Jesus Christ, and, uh, so we're not, we have nothing to say to the devil, he's out, uh, but we, we resist him by affirming who we are, not by fighting him, the more you fight the thing, the more you make it real, we resist, the more you resist the thing, the more you affirm it, that's why you don't answer the temptation by resisting it, you say, uh, uh, uh, it's not there, um, uh, that's why I use that, that phrase that Jesus used in, uh, the Sermon on the Mount, he said, uh, uh, uh, uh, if, uh, your adversary, he said, agree with your adversary quickly, while he's in the way with you, your adversary's someone opposing you, because you don't agree with him, he'll gladly put you in prison until you pay up for starving, and the idea is, if you're, if you, um, uh, fight your adversary, or, and your temptation, uh, something grabs you, you fight him, he'll get you.