Ephesians (Part 6) — Les Wheeldon

But again and again, we are surprised, aren't we? Just taken a little bit, on the words about the greatness and the love of our God. Isn't it wonderful, just to be together. Now, in this chapter 6 of Ephesians, if you turn to verse 10, it tells you the word, finally, all right, finally, my brethren.

The Armor of God and Spiritual Warfare

And he begins to talk about warfare, all right, he begins to talk about warfare. He says, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. And put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles, or the tricks of the devil.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness, or wicked spirit, in high places.

All right, that's what he says at that point. Now, he's talking here about wrestling. Now, we all know that we must fight, don't we? We all know that. You may have heard the story about the man who had on his... who saw a cocoon, and he'd seen butterflies struggling out of the cocoon, and he saw how hard it was for them, so one day he cut the cocoon with a scalpel to make it easy for them to get out.

And when he had cut the cocoon and released the butterfly, the butterfly died, because it had come out without a struggle. And if it had come out with a struggle, it would have loosened its wings, and its wings would have been ready to unfold, but because it had not struggled, because it hadn't fought, it died.

Now, that's the truth for all of us. We must all face facts. And some of the difficulties we face are because we have to learn to fight. Let me read you another verse, which just now the Lord directs me, and I read this morning in a daily reading.

It's in the Judges, actually I read it last night. Let me read Judges chapter 3 in this context. Just to read a quick verse there. It says, These are the nations, verse 1, which the Lord left to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel has had not known all the words of Canaan, only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least, such as before knew nothing thereof.

He left them a few enemies to teach them how to fight. Right, amen. So you see, God leaves things around for you to fight. He leaves the odd enemy lingering around for you to fight. Do you wonder this, that even the presence of the devil in the world at this time is in the end for our good?

He doesn't know it, but he is. Are you getting husky like I am? Are you getting husky? We'll get back to that one. But we have to fight, we have to wrestle, and the Lord does grant us, by his grace, to have obstacles in our path.

Do you know that the obstacles we leave in our path, are not obstacles, they are settings. At first you see them as being against you, later you see that they help you. It's the same with things like burdens.

You get a burden from the Lord and you think, well this burden is going to be quite hard to carry, but you find if you do carry it, if it's from the Lord, that the burden actually carries you. That's strange, isn't it, that burdens can carry you, but they can't.

Because, you know, if you're going to meet a man with a burden from God, he's ripping along faster than somebody who hasn't got one. It's true, isn't it? Somebody's got a burden from God, they're flying.

They may not feel like it, but you know you can feel it. That something's happening to them, they're going on, they're praying, they're wrestling, they're going on, they're discovering, and another person's got no burden at all from God, he's just sitting there, got some kind of peace.

Of course if you give yourself a burden, and you put a burden on yourself, it will crush you, and destroy you. That's what we do. We say, oh I'm going to pray, I did this once, I asked a confessor in church, a teacher of the people, I once said, Lord give me a soul every week.

I don't know if you can hear that, I said, Lord give me a soul every week, I'm going to pray with a soul every week, and I did this. I had to write a letter to people, I told people I was doing this, I had to write a letter and say I've made a big power mistake, it doesn't work.

It was for me, it crushed me, to the point where I was down there on the ground, and I thought, well it's just not working. At first I tried to think, there was this one coming, that's wrong, and then there was that one coming, it's got a bunch in my throat, and then there was a burden, couldn't keep it out, it wasn't from God.

And I was trying to imitate somebody else, who I knew, alright, and it crushed me. And I'm sure we've all had different things like that, sometimes you wanted to have a certain kind of prayer life, and you say, I'm going to call out this, and you put the burden on you, you struggled under it, reluctant, then you found that you feel so defeated at the end, you feel worse off than at the beginning.

If you stayed on in what God was doing with you, walking with God, you wouldn't have felt so defeated. Oh well, the Lord, gracious in me. So this verse in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12, we wrestle not against flesh and blood.

Now, you know, that word, powers and principalities, occurs again, previously in this book, in chapter 1, it says, far above all principality and power, that's where we were last night, that Christ is exalted far above all principality and power, and dominion, and might and dominion, and every name that is known, that's verse 21, not only in this word, but also in that which is to come.

So we know that Christ is over every other demonic power, or human power. If you look into chapter 3, it says in verse 10, so the intent that man, to the principality and powers in heavenly places, might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God.

Sitting, Walking, and Standing in Ephesians

So the church is teaching the powers about the wisdom of God. We are teaching that the powers are lessened. Amen. Now, just to fill in a bit of understanding about the book of Ephesians, just, if you notice, there's a very famous book written about Ephesians, called Six Walks Down.

If you've ever heard of that book, it's a famous one. I've not read it, but anyway, I don't know if it's good or not, but anyway. He takes that title, because the book is dividable, divisible, into three parts.

If you look at it, if you read this book, you'll notice that the book did help a lot just by the title. It's amazing, isn't it, how just titles can help you. But in this chapter 1 to chapter 3, you find that the key word is to sit.

From chapter 4 onwards, the key word is to stand and to walk. And in chapter 6, from the verse we read onwards, the key word is to stand. So, first of all, you sit, and you receive revelation, and God gives you understanding.

And remember that we're only the church by revelation. We're not the church by natural power, in any sense at all. If we gather together and agreed certain things, that would not make us a church. We're only the church by revelation.

Well, you know, we are the church, and it's revealed that we're the church. Because we can't even tell what we are, because it's invisible. It's an invisible thing to be the church, it's a strange thing to be a church, because we are seated, according to this book, in heavenly places.

And if you think I look good, I'm sitting in heavenly places this morning, or maybe you think I've had a bad night or what. But, you know, I am seated in heavenly places, permanently. And if you don't know anything about this book, you think I'm cracking or something, to say the least.

You know, if you've never heard anything from this, if you were completely new this morning, you'd think this fellow's cracking. What's he talking about? He's not in heaven, he's in hell. But the church lives in the revelation that she has a position in God.

The other side of that revelation is that if you're not in the church, that is, in heavenly places, but in Christ, that's got to be revealed to you. The only thing is, if that's not got to be revealed to you, then anything's got to be revealed to you, that you are in Satan.

Very much of all. You're either in one or the other. Either in Christ, or in the body of humanity of sinners, headed up by Satan, who is the chief power among the powers and principalities. So, you've got that position that the church must sit and be at rest.

We can only receive revelation in rest. We can only prophesy in rest. We can only preach in rest. We can only do the things that God wants us to do, unless we can't do them any other way. You can't bless anybody unless you're in rest.

You find in chapter 4 it says, walk. And you walk. And you see, the walk is the practical living. He speaks in chapter 4 about the life of the church. He's talking about the way you are with each other, you love each other, you forbear with each other, you put up with each other, but that's not just putting up with each other.

It's actually overcoming and loving each other. Despite everything you don't like, you love each other. You don't have impatience with one another. That's where you have to walk in your relationship with each other.

You know, if you're walking with somebody, whoever walks with somebody, if you ever walk with somebody who's got a very fast step, you know, you're trying to keep up with them, you're sort of lagging behind, you're moving away, you've got to walk together.

That person, and you're struggling to keep up. Or if you go walk with somebody who's very slow, and you're struggling to go ahead, you have to walk with each other. Somebody's got to go either faster or slower, haven't they?

The one who should change is the one who goes too fast, isn't it? In his walk with Everest, in your walk with the Lord, the Lord knows you too. He's got a bit your pace, you know, he won't drive you too fast.

He's very good. He gives you a walk that is just right for you. You can't go on as others go on, but in your walk together with people of God, you find where the other one is at, and you walk with them.

Amen. You seek to find out. I've only found here or so in these chapters that you have to work in various things you walk in. In practical, you go into chapter 5 and you finally start talking about marriage.

Marriage, Singleness, and Contentment in Christian Walk

That's practical. Sometimes, I don't think I ever shall, I'd love to talk about some of the awful difficult subjects that are concerned in this walking, but I just know that the Bible's whole thing of marriage and being single and all the different things about it.

One of the things I noticed, as I've read the scriptures concerning that very often, is that it is vital that people get out of impatient striving in those realms. In other words, find contentment in your lot.

Don't try and change things. It's the key. So many people are striving, single people wanting to be married, married people wanting to be single. I know a lot whose lives are miserable because they're married.

You read 1 Corinthians 7, you'll find one strange thing about that chapter. Everybody's trying to get into something else. He's talking to singles who wanted to get married, people who wanted to leave their husbands, people wanted to leave their wives, people wanted to get divorced, people who were divorced wanted to get remarried, people of this and that.

And he says, look, just let everyone abide in the calling. Learn to be content. Let rest come upon you before you ever think about doing anything else. Walk, walk, learn the things that are hard. Sometimes you can have a revelation that takes you right up to the heavens, and then the next day you've got to go back to your life and you've got to work it out and walk with it.

You've got to walk in a pattern of life that may be very, very hard for you. But remember that you must learn that equally as learning the revelation, otherwise you'll become a totally unruly person. You must become spiritual and practical as well.

Alright? Learn these things. He goes on to talk about how husbands and wives should be together, and the wonder and the glory of marriage. And that is, just as he talks in another place, about the wonder and glory of being single.

There's a calling in them. Discover your calling. Discover the wonder and glory of what God has called you to. Don't look at somebody else's and try and get there. But he goes on to talk about how we should live together, and various things, practical things.

And then he goes to chapter 6, he's talking about children, servants, work, how you should work, what you should do at work. There's no doubt that that's the place, especially if you're a man working in a factory, or a woman working in a factory, that's the place where you really have to know.

Because there's no doubt that when you're in a factory you soon become the target of everybody else's scorn. You stick out like a sore thumb if you don't swear, and of course you do. And that's where you have to really lay your life down as a witness for Christ.

That's where it is. But you see, when you come to this chapter 12, sorry chapter 6, not chapter 12, chapter 6 verse 12, you've got this wee wrestle. But you see the thing is, the order of truth is that there's revelation, there's our working, and there's warfare.

The strength of our warfare is in this realm, is based upon being spiritual and real. Not just being spiritual, and not just being real, but being all those together. Then you can stand and fight. And don't think that I'm saying that there's a process of ten years getting your spiritual side sorted out, then ten years getting your practical side sorted out, then you begin to go into chapter 6 where you have warfare.

No. What you do is you learn spiritual things, you learn practical things, and you learn warfare all together. And you find that they're all interlinked, all the time. And as we said the other day, sometimes you have to go through, this is one of the things about sanctification, that sometimes you've got through issues, when you were younger you had certain problems, you fought those battles, you got over them, and then you have a time of even walking, but then you find another battle comes, and you have to work something out again, and it's not easy.

It comes again and again. So look at this verse 12 again, just look at this word, chapter 6 will say, The principalities, powers, rules of the darkness of this world, wicked spirits in high places. Now, they are there, they exist.

Christ and the Church as One Flesh

If you look back into chapter 5, and look at this verse 31, we read this already, for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and those who shall be one flesh.

This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Notice he's speaking concerning Christ and the church. And look at that verse 31, in the context now of Christ and his church, for this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined unto Christ, and those who shall be one.

All right? Now, in this realm of powers and principalities, I'm going, as I said, we've talked a little bit about them already, and I say I don't want to become, I have no ambition to become an expert on these things.

I'm not curious, over-curious about them. But I want to point out to you some of the ways in which the powers and the principalities actually affect people, and ways in which you must actually be separated from them, because the powers and principalities actually come through your father and your mother.

All right? There you are, I've got you thinking now, haven't I? Got you thinking. What do I mean? You see, when we think of the powers and principalities of, let me say, let me say your powers and principalities, you will recognise very easily.

Heredity, National Identity, and Spiritual Powers

When I was in Cameroon, we lived in an area which was overlapped by about three tribes, about 80 of the town we lived in was one particular tribe, called the Bamiloke tribe. That tribe has about two million people, out of the population in the country of about, say, ten now, and there are 150 tribes in Cameroon.

Now, you would agree with me, wouldn't you, that tribe has a power, a principality behind it. You would have no doubt about that, wouldn't you? And isn't there something about what they do? I mean, in that particular tribe, when a person dies, I won't go into all this, but they worship the skull, so you can imagine what they do to get that far.

Anyway, they bury the skull of the person in the house, or sometimes in a little hut. I hope I'm not upsetting anybody. Anyway, they pour, then they pour wine and oil and all kinds of things, and I won't tell you all that they pour down there, leave it to imagination.

But the thing is, they worship it. Now, you would have no doubt in seeing that they are bound in that particular spirit, would you? That particular tribe is very, very bound in heathen worship. The churches in that particular tribe are all small, if there are churches.

There aren't many churches from that tribe. Big tribes, not many churches. But in the capital city, where there's a church that's quite big, maybe quite a thousand or more people now, the leader of that church, I was talking with him once, and he said that when they evangelise that particular quarter of the town where this tribe lives, they have particular difficulties, they have very little fruit.

All right? That's the tribe we worked amongst for most of the time. And you can tell that that is a particular power and principality. How did they become people under that power and principality? Well, there are two ways.

One is they were born in it, father and mother. And the other way would be if they decided, let me say, if a man left this country and went over there, and he said, oh, I like this, this is a good way, this is a good way of worshipping, I'll do the same, he would then come under the same power by his choice.

And so, he would come under the power that works in that tribe, either by birth or by deliberate choice. Because the whole tribe works, the whole spirit works through the tribe. You find people who leave that country, go and study in America and England for years, and they'll go back to their country, and when they get there, they'll still do the heathen traditions.

All right? That's very clear, isn't it? But you do realise that being born an Englishman, it is not putting you under a power and principality of that. Do you understand me? You know what the marks of our power and principality would be?

I don't know what they are, I'm not particularly interested. But one of them would be, let me say, your pride in being an Englishman. This great thing about your country. And you think, when it comes to this portion, a man leaves his father and his mother.

Part of that means that you're going to leave your nation. You're not going to be under the power and influence of being an Englishman anymore. You're going to renounce it. Now, renouncing, if you were to renounce being an Englishman, people might think you're docile, because there's no pride in being an Englishman anymore, is there?

Not many English people are proud of being English. A lot of them say, the country's a piece, if you understand what I mean. But I don't want somebody hyped up in a meeting on this kind of line. They suddenly said, you know, they suddenly said, I forgot the exact context, I think it was being said, there are no Americans in heaven.

Something rather provocative like that. And there's an American lady there, she's an evangelist, and she suddenly goes, pardon? Yes, there are. I can't agree with that. She understands. Now, if I said to you, there are no British people in heaven, I don't mean you'd be particularly bothered, would you?

You'd be like, oh no, hallelujah, there's only redeemed people there, no Liberians, no Nigerians. Self-regard, I don't miss anybody else. Burundis, no Burundis, no Kenyans, no Devonians, no Yorkshinans, no Yorkshinans.

Because you see, now there you've touched a good one, no Yorkshinans. Because you see, there's a mind working through the Yorkshinans, isn't there? We've all gone to Yorkshinans, don't name them. I won't give them a name, because there are a number you could name.

But the thing is that certain of the virtues of your father and mother have got to be renounced, renounced. Do you understand? Your pride in being, in a sense it doesn't so much figure in, I'm not talking about the, you know, we laugh about it, but it's the extreme nationalistic things.

We laugh about it because we hope that not many people are bound to it. But if you're bound to being Yorkshinans, you're proud of it, you've got to cut to it. It can be a very subtle thing. This pride in being British, you know, one of the things I think that destroyed this nation very much was, in a strange way, you understand me, I'm sure, I'll say it anyway, one of the things that destroyed it was winning the war, because we thought we'd won it.

And it's something, we won the war. Do you understand? Well, we didn't win the war. God decided which side prevailed in that battle. A lot of people lost the war who were British. They died. There was no glory, was there?

And we, you know, I'm not trying to say that any, I'm not commenting on the war. God knows the war, why it was fought, and God knows it was, it was God's grace that there was, the earth wasn't overrun by Hitler, and all that.

I'm not commenting on that. I'm just saying the fact that if it made people proud of being British, and thought that being British was superior to being German, then it can dam a person's soul. You do realize that?

Nationalism can dam a person's soul. And you find this in nations, you find it in families, you find powers that work through families, you find strange things like, I met a lady once who was, when she was very young, who got involved with something called moral rearmament, and she'd come under the power, it's actually about powers and principles, isn't it?

Power of moral rearmament. It's a spirit. You've got to renounce the spirit. She had to renounce the fact that she'd been in moral rearmament. And she had not done that. And she said to me, I can imagine loving the Father, I can love the Spirit, but I cannot love Jesus Christ, I cannot love the Son.

She couldn't imagine it, she couldn't, it was something away, existing from her. And the reason was, because in moral rearmament, they do not believe that Jesus is God. You find the same thing in a number of sects like Jehovah's Witnesses and various things, and you will find that they will shape your personality, and you have to renounce it.

If you were an exclusive devil, you have to leave your father and mother. If you were in a certain group, if you were a Roman Catholic, you have to leave mother's church. You do. You have to say, I'll renounce the error I was in.

You have to consciously leave mother, whether it's your physical mother. Do you understand when I say that? I'm not saying that you begin to hate your mother, if it's your own mother. We said it in the day.

The thing that spoils the marriage is mother in law, isn't it? We laugh at it. Mother comes in and begins to be a third force in the family. Do you think that you're going to be able to follow Christ, if there's a third force in your thinking?

Do you think you're going to be free to follow Him, if there's a third force? You can't. And these powers want to possess you. You find that there are various powers, like Sister Gaines Israel. She should never be dominated by Israel.

Never. Israel should not become a force in her relationship with Jesus. Do you understand that, what I'm saying? Nothing should ever become a third force in my relationship with Jesus Christ. That is supreme, and if I allow it to, if I do not renounce it, I am trying to make a match that will not work.

If you were going to have ever been in a home where mother has come in and has got dominance, you notice that the order of God is broken. And you know what is most difficult about seeing a mother influencing a home?

You know what the most difficult thing is? It's because the man is shamed, isn't it? The manhood is denied. Well, the thing is this, that when the manhood is denied, in the relationship with the Lord, who is being shamed?

It's Jesus Christ. You're shaming Him. You're depriving Him of power. You're depriving Him of authority. Because, you see, you must have a love for Jesus that surpasses every other love. You must see that there is a possibility of being free.

I'll tell you another mother, or father, whatever way you speak to that, look at it, it can be the company you work for, it can be your career, it can be mother ICI, it can be, just simply, mother money, and the power, the principality is coming to dominate your life through mother money.

You know, in American money, they have this thing, they have the dollar bill, you know, they have a pyramid on it, and they'll be all seeing eye on top of the pyramid, and it's all this kind of thing, it's very dark and horrible, and you've got all that.

But then they have in front of it this little banner on the dollar bill saying, in God we trust. Have you seen the dollar bill? On the dollar bill they put, in God we trust. And it's absolutely true. The only difference is that their money is a dollar bill.

We know God is a dollar bill. That's what they trust in. We trust in the dollar, and it's our God. If I've got enough money, I'll be okay. The company will look after me, no it won't. The company will use you, abuse you, and spew you out when it's had enough of you.

I heard the other day about a man who'd worked for this company for so many years, I don't know, 20 years or something, he was given his notice, one minute basically, don't go back to your office, don't do anything, just don't come in.

That's what they do to you. But they demand your soul of you while you work for them. They do. They will have your soul. And you have to be careful that you don't become loud to your work and find that Jesus Christ is the shamed husband in the relationship.

Because you know these powers and principalities, you know what they do? They shape you. As I said that woman, she couldn't, her thinking was such, she couldn't worship Jesus, but she could when she renounced it.

She renounced it, she prayed and the Lord gave her a lot to Jesus. Isn't that wonderful? But you have to renounce it, you have to, and it's the same thing, you cannot worship him, you cannot love him, you can't have a relationship with him.

Israel, Family, Work, and Competing Allegiances

Let me just show you a verse in Ezekiel while we're on this subject. Ezekiel chapter, there's a number of verses in Ezekiel, but let's just look at Ezekiel chapter 19. Ezekiel chapter 19, verse 1, Take I up a laid lamentation for the princes of Israel, and say, What is thy mother?

You see again, you can see going back to Israel, you can see that this strong nationalism in Israel consumes men, doesn't it? It doesn't demand their soul of them. If you're called to Israel, then you must follow that call.

But no one should ever take Israel to be something that must demand something from you. Jesus Christ is the one we're married to, you remember that? You find it coming through here, he was here in this chapter.

Incidentally it's to do with Israel, but I'm not talking about Israel. Look at verse 2, and say, What is thy mother? A lioness. Look at that, eh? She lay down among lions, she nourished her whelks among young lions, she broke up one of her whelks and became a young lion, it learned to catch the prey, it devoured men.

What a thing to produce, what does mother produce? You know what mother wants? She wants the best for her sons, she wants them to be strong, she wants them to overcome others, she wants them to be the top ambitions for her sons, this is what they are.

You go and down, the nations also heard of him, verse 4, and were taken in the pit, they brought him with chains into the land of Egypt. Now when she saw that mother saw that she had waited and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelks and made him a young lion, and he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion and learned to catch the prey and devoured men.

Verse 10, thy mother is like a vine in thy blood. Do you see what he's saying? He's referring to the power of our heredity if you like, what we are from, what we've taken from the things we've received from our parents, certain national characteristics and so on, all these things, but in the end your choice between your life and being married to Jesus.

That's what we do. You could take it now in any sense because there are powers at work in our country, they are spreading their power, the drug culture is spreading its power, the fashion culture is producing people, it's changing their sexuality, it's ambitious to possess people, it's trying to form people, it's trying to possess them, you could look at it any way you like, and what I'm saying to you is this, whoever you are, you must renounce that culture, you must fight that power of principality.

You don't fight it by just saying, I will beat you in the name of Jesus, you fight it by having nothing to do with it. It's a battle, and the battle will come near to your soul, that something is trying to possess you and win you, and you know, you think like, something simple like music, pop music, there's a spirit coming through it, you take them in as simple as the television, there's a spirit coming through it.

I'm not trying to make you fight the spirit, I'm just telling you the truth, that you must fight the powers and principalities, you must declare war on them. We were bombarded by spiritual attacks during the election campaign, trying to win you to dogma.

If you caught up in it, into believing that dogma got this authority and power, and you put a bullet in your window, and you did this, you should be ashamed of yourself. You don't campaign for them, your vote should be secret.

How will you witness to the men from the opposite party, with a sticker in your window saying, vote? How will you do it? You get someone really going for the other party, all you'll see is your sticker, he won't listen to your love for Jesus, he'll know you're married to a party.

You shouldn't be. You shouldn't get drawn into it. People get drawn into it, they try to draw you into it. Believe me, it's a battlefield, there are men grasping for power, lioness, that's what it is.

It's a lioness grasping for power, trying to make her son successful, trying to shape them. And what is it that's really at the heart of it? Let's go back into Ephesians chapter. If this memory is reviving in your blood, it's something that God sent to your blood and you can't get rid of it, but you can, only by Jesus Christ.

Do you mean I have to change all my culture, or people wouldn't understand me if I did this? Well, it'd be good, wouldn't it, in one sense. You wouldn't understand them anymore. You wouldn't understand why they do those silly things that they do.

You wouldn't understand why people find joy in it, why they feel pleasure in it, why they feel down to it. Relax it, keep yourself absolutely clear for God. And in this chapter 5 of Ephesians, this is where we go, verse 24, we were there last night in a way, but look at verse 22 rather.

Christians, submit yourselves to the Lord. Do you understand what he's saying? Christ is the head of the church, verse 23, he's the saviour of the body, therefore the church is subject unto Christ. So let each individual Christian be subject to the Lord in everything.

Look at verse 25, husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. Do you know what Christ wants with you? He wants a relationship with you that is in love. He wants you to be married to him.

He is giving to you a marriage proposal. That's what it is. The whole thing we have in our hands is a love letter to us as individuals. And then he says, will you marry me? Will you be joined to me? There's also the question, will you leave your father and mother?

Will you leave it all? Will you leave everything? Will you renounce everything? On the heat at the end of the day they can't do anything, they can't pray, they can't fear God. You know what I'm saying?

I'm not saying that you shouldn't work ten hours a day. You understand it's difficult to comment on it. It's when it possesses your soul that you must. It's when it demands of you a marriage vow. And there are gentlemen's salaries now that are very inflated, but you know why?

They give you twice the salary of a normal man and they ask of you three times the labour. And you're clever enough to give it perhaps, over. So they get their money's worth, but to do it you've got to give your soul.