Npg Summer Session 81 Tape 6 - Union Life Women's Week — Norman Grubb

The beginning of this tape is Norman's morning prayer with no microphone.

The Redemption of Humans Through God's Indwelling

...from Thailand and Japan, Spain and France and all over the place. And then these rivers, little pools, ripples flowing around. People coming alive, like Alfredo just said, people come alive. We suddenly saw a youth at the school, and there he is.

And this is to happen. It happens in different forms by all of us, by all of us by our faith. All of us by our local ripples going around us. We should hold it, we don't make them up. No, we don't do any self-effort.

You are going to do it, we just say it, we just be ourselves. Let's do it. And through the larger numbers, you see. You find now you've all really been joining Brian here, and my name, I've always been his name, my friend from England, and here's my nephew coming along in, and I don't know who all the other poor wretched creatures have been dragging in there.

And so we have pity, we have pity for them now, we have pity for them. And so we thank them. They never ate in the river, never ate in the river. We don't say anything about ourselves, but this is a little, little form of your total truth, of your total truth is you dwelling in humans.

It's a redemption, that's all the total truth. So we're equally saying thank you Lord, as I was doing the same. There's a half a dozen other union life things going on. Thank you, we'd be glad to find them.

We'd be glad to find any books that point totally without lowering it to you. And so anyway, anyway, but while you want it this way, you keep it going. When you're finished with this, drop the outer stuff.

That which is in us can never be dropped. So we're thanking you together. We thank you for this last day together now. In death one day, in your name, Amen. Well, folks, we've had our week together now.

This is our last day. As far as the morning sessions are concerned, I've aimed for the center of our understanding and hopefully inner commissioning and inner understanding would be around the final operation to the spirit in us and as us, as intercessors.

Intercession as a Commissioned Calling

The medium intercession and the being an intercessor and the product of intercession. Able to say to the other world, say we come unto God by him, free. An unchangeable spirit ever lives to make intercession.

So we've piled up into just one session. What we usually, next week, we spend most of the week doing. The starting stages, from stage little child and young man and all that, needs very thorough examination by those who haven't been that way and very often never heard these things before.

But we take them for granted. The majority of us here had already heard and by the grace of God soaked in and had soaked into us by the Holy Spirit the reality. Not only being born in the Spirit, but being walking spirits.

Walking Christ. Christ regaining his property. Out from the devil's head. The marvelous human property. The special soul. And we therefore, the liberation expressers. That of course we tried to pack into the one day.

And a few asked a few questions I have down here. But not that many. And then we sought to pack in the next days some more thorough examination of the settlement into the third level, which is by a confirmation of the Spirit as much as the settlement into the second or first level.

The Spirit tells me that's what you are. That's what you are. You are now eternally, forever, an intercessor. And I'm not saying intercessor meant the loosening up by the Holy Spirit, the detachment from anything that has gone.

Then the reattachment on another level. The detachment of that human love grab stuff. These are my this, my that, my that. Detachment of that. The total attachment is he, but inside his attachment, then because he's other love, back comes his other love attachments for other people.

But they're detached attachments. That's the difference. They're detached attachments. They aren't that grab love. They were. They were serving love and blessing them, thankful for precious people, thankful for our loved ones, and so on, and of course necessary concern for them and so on.

So we went through some of that great Luke 14 detachment chapter, discipleship chapter, which is the hidden background of this apostleship, which means you are a commissioned intercessor. And we again said, remembering, we gradually learn, this is by faith, it's already done, it's by faith, by faith, it isn't death I ought to become that.

If he's got me, I am that. He may need to confirm to me he is that. He may need to make me know that I'm detached. Well, he'll do that. He'll do that. But we say we are. We don't say we shall be. So we moved on then into the recognition of the fact that we are, therefore, commissioned apostles, fathers, priests, taken from among men, ordained for men, in things pertaining to God, not pertaining to flesh and society, pertaining to God, of course, they become God people.

The Priesthood of All Believers

Faith, priests, taken from among men, ordained for men, to let them, to them themselves, become co-priests with us, co-God expressers. Because, you remember the, the original commission, give it to me, you'll be, you'll be, my memory, his early commission in Hebrew, in, in, at Horeb, that they be a nation of priests, all priests.

Therefore, that means the whole human, the whole human family to be priests. Because a priest is your, your, your, your delight is that you will be a means by which other people will find what they need.

What they need, of course, is God as them, and whatever that means to eternity. So it's, the original, Israel ought to be, not have, have a priest, to be a nation of priests. At that time, they couldn't take it, for a period of days.

Actually, they could only take place through Jesus Christ. But now we are a nation of priests. So we, got that, and then we went in a little bit, some, into the, what does, shall we say, the structure of intercession, and we found that intercession is direct commission.

It's the highest privilege, is a commission that grabs you for life, a major commission. Only God gives those things, you have those things, faith, you can take it by faith, if you'd like to be that, you can say, God, you're one of those, I expect you to make me, no, I'm a, a total commission, a, a, a major commission person.

Don't, don't you ask, don't just say, I take you for granted, because that's, that's what a priest can be, I expect you to make it true. I've had fathers, fathers, because I've found out, priesthood now, in the unlimited, the, the, the, the distribution, of this, this key.

That, people are, are walking Christ, people are really not, they're but God. And they've seen that, this can't have a house, so several have already said, couldn't it either? And you find nearly all who are, a commissioned priest, in the union life, say that, well I guess it can be, I'm done for a miserable me, so it can be.

Of course, I'm driven, what more can there be, than God all in all, God all in you, and God all in everybody, what can there be more? It's a joke to think there can be. But you have to know from God, that even then, there are local commissions, I mean, everybody may not be called to be, what we call union life, which is a term, God may blow that term out of the air, it doesn't matter.

But while it is convenient, because actually you do have to have a name, some of us do say, well this is a, this is a cooperation now, we've got a cooperation, well we are, interrelated, on our homes, and so on, interrelated by magazine, and our worship, as part of this, God getting to the whole world, the whole body of the, the body of Christ in the world.

Paul's Two Commissions and the Body of Christ

It's the second commission, the fulfilling of the will of God. I told you from the beginning, Paul had two commissions, which I had shared a little bit, Christ to the lost world, the whole world to hear Jesus, died for them.

And the fulfilling of the commission, was to the body, and the suffering to the body, because it's the body that kills you. The world bypasses you, the, the, the body of Christ, are too sensitive, and they'll beat you up.

You're, you're, like we just heard, it's from the body you get it. So it's the body which, which will hurt Paul, not, not, not the world. And Jesus, of course, Jesus was crucified by the church, not by the world, the church of that day.

And, so, so, there, but, therefore we are hoping, we say, I'm sure it is, some of you may say, weak, saying, yes, well I'm cornered, I must say also, maybe if we share a little later today, some of you may say, well I can't help it, I'm in this thing, God's made me see, I'm part of something, I can't go, wriggle, I wriggled and screamed and howled for 50 years, I still scream and howl, but I can't get away.

So I wrote a book called, Once Caught, No Escape. So, poor me, and worse you. So, so that's all I can say for you. But I'm hoping, maybe it's very weak, some of you may say, yes, I say it in the spirit now, I see it in the spirit.

But we say it carefully, because what's the thing? The thing is nothing. Your life is, but it is, we are saying, at present, we don't know of a known agency. If so, please let us know. We don't know any agency, who what we, presents what we call, total truth.

Total truth, means you have a, a final death to the law. The final, first death is to sin, and death to the world, but the final death of women, is death to the law. The law is, the law of course, is that little bit of you ought, that little bit of, operating self, you ought, you ought, you ought.

And the, and the, the, the, in other words, the death, the release of self, of anything to do with being, self-managed, is a Satan. The law comes in, to show you're self-managed, that's Satan. And that death is, the release, as I said, is not death to self, it's death of the self, to sin.

Sin is self-centeredness. And the, so the final death, is the law. Because the law finally shows up, the final issue, which you still think, you should be something, or are something, or something about it.

You haven't seen, that you are simply, Satan-managed. And you, you never were self-managed. He kidded you. You were always a Satan-managed. Because you're always married, by the deity in you. Which deity?

Oh, now we're Christ-managed. That's so, the final death is there. Therefore, we are saying, I don't know. I mean, that precious, little scripture, little book, that I use for years, The Life That Wins.

Precious little thing, by that, it used to be a, a sort of, oh, funny joke, even joke, papers in, in America. It's name should be, very well-known, witness of Christ, of my older generation. And that little, Life That Wins, still goes.

It's a powerful, powerful little book. It has the, it has a great deal, of the retracement, but that includes a law. Now you've got to become this, you must pray more, keep up your prayer life, keep the good, back on the law.

And that's about the highest book, I knew. Little tract of it, distributed thousands of them, in my earlier days. So, I have to say, I want to be creative, I don't know, practically no literature, except Lanyon's.

Lanyon has his difficulties, because all good people, have their difficulties, so he has his difficulties. I'll leave them out, for the time being, unless you want, a private, private explanation. He's terrific.

But, I don't know. I'm seeing, I have been led now, by sort of a, my last, verbal shout, before I go, but maybe, a book, that's coming in print now, Yes I Am. I've written, Who Am I? Yes I Am, is a sort of, the same, stronger at some point, stronger around, the nature business.

Some clearer things, and leading into this fact, that the end is, you say you are. We're saved, because a man, called Jesus Christ, said, I'm Jesus Christ, Son of God, because he said so, we're saved, because that's why, they crucified him.

He said, that's what I am, and what I am, I'll say I am. I am God's illustration, I am the Son of Man, and I'll say so. And therefore, we're to rise up, and say, who are we? We're Christ walking, in our human forms, whatever term you like to use, Christ in us, as us, but something which is, a little extreme, a little disturbing, to anybody who clings, a little bit of self, self development, or something.

And there's a cutting edge, on it. So I brought out, this last book, with the last, um, um, um, um, presentation, and I've sought, to give very strong, uh, scriptural, all along. So I've sought, to be able, to show here, the Bible says it, the Bible says it, because who am I?

What the Bible says, doesn't matter. The Bible says it, the Bible says, so I'm hoping it may become, a kind of definitive book, on human terms, in our build up, until God gives a better one. Uh, and in the last, uh, uh, at the far end, I put on the last page, this, the fullness of this hymn, if the Lord says, so I am, I don't say, yes the Lord says, so I am, then I am.

I say, so the Lord says, so I am, yes I am. So I've got 25 things, where the Lord says, I'm so and so, yes I am, and I put the script at the end, shut people's mouths. That'll be the last, the last addendum of the thing.

Union Life Without Institutionalism

I'm only saying, at the present, may God show us differently, I don't know who else, puts this in total, they do less have them. And I, still less try to do anything, to be called a, a union, a fellowship, or a, we're trying to make no, an organisation, we have no memberships, no fees, no stuff like that.

We're just bound, by enough binding, a magazine really binds us, and our fellowships, our conferences, and our interrelationships. We're trying to avoid, all the build up, you know, pay more and so on, declare so and so, and all that stuff.

So to keep us, we're just members of the body of Christ, that's all. The fact is, if we see right, every member of the body of Christ, must come here. If the ultimate is, that every member of the body of Christ, Christ means, handling his world.

And God doesn't mean, handling the world, as humiliation, but he does the handling by us. Which means, he operates as us. Everybody, the whole body, has got to come to this. What else can there be? So, therefore we boldly say, we're saying, what we can see, can only be this.

But we're only members of the body, and we're then saying, all the body of Christ, if they knew it, we aren't saying no, any new thing. This happened the moment, Jesus Christ came into your life. The moment you're born again, you're this.

It's not, it's not gaining something, it's recognizing something, it's already there. It's not gaining some new thing. No, no. It's not, as all my friends, it's not says, it's not, do, do, do, it's done, done, done.

Which is a phrase, I like very much, my friend Evelyn, Evelyn Nissel, in Charlotte, in the, in the, it was a good statement, that, sort of, further, cliche for us, not do, do, do, but done, done, done.

So it is, so, we're carefully saying, we're not saying any new thing, we're saying, you are that, you silly fellow, wake up. That's why, I think, God continues to laugh, he laughs, we're so silly. And enjoy, enjoy that foolishness, I think.

So I, I expect to go to a laughing God, laughing at me first, and other people, and I laugh with him and other people. That's all. But, so I'm saying, we're saying that, aren't we? It isn't a new thing, it is the only truth, that every born again person is a walking Christ, they just don't know.

And they are, and it's the Cessna who don't know. As I told you, if you're born again, you can't help wanting to be somebody else, because the spirit of other love got you. The boy you're born with, the spirit of other love, not self-love.

So you can't help when you're born again, oh I wish my neighbor had eternal life, oh I wish, that's all, you've begun to be the Cessna. You just haven't found out it is full implication, Cessna. So we're saying, that we're looking around, all the time, and wanting if anybody can put, occasionally folks see this, I have to stay hesitating even there.

It's rare to meet individuals who know the whole thing. Because the whole thing is what you are. As I say, dead to law is the last one. We say dead to law, most people think, I mean just the law of your own sins.

No, it's the law of the misused self. Because law, the last sin is the misused self. Satan using self, as if it's you. That's the last sin. Satan making you think that self you is Satan you. And you think it's you.

That's the last sin. That's the last form of sin. And that's what the law is, to pin you down to the last form of sin. You ought somewhere. As a you should respond. That's what the final end is, not dead to sin, or dead to law, dead to law.

That's Paul's great revelation. It comes out in Romans 6 -8, of course, famously. And I say, of course there are, but it's a very, I don't know, even individually, to meet people who know the whole business.

Maybe. Certainly I don't know groups, or churches. Some are getting too close to it. One of the problems, I think, with churches are, unless it's a bishop who sees the whole thing, it's too much to die for.

If you see the whole thing, what can you do, but give the whole thing? You said that just now. You said, well you can't stop it until you've got it. If you can't stop those rivers, they will burst out.

Giving God's Word Without Pleasing Men

If you know, you must give it. But, you see, therefore when ministers say, well I have a mixed congregation, some are beginners, some are unsaved, some are carnal Christians, that's not the point. You don't, Paul said, I don't please men, I give God's word.

That's his whole message in relation to, I please men, I don't please men. What's getting wrong? I've got to give God's word, if I die for it, everybody else dies for it. That's all. That's the point.

You don't please men, I give a little bit for the babies, a little bit for the unsaved. I mean, there may be times when you preach, and of course, preach hell and sin to the unsaved, and of course, that's included.

But I mean, you don't hang your, of course you do that on certain areas, that's part of it. That's for the unsaved. But inside the saved, oh, I couldn't give it too much. You don't please men, you keep what God makes you.

If you make it you, you've got to. And I say, well, I know one precious man, he's one of the leading ministers in this nation. A very precious man. One of the big, even local, monthly church. And he does know Christ, he knew.

When I first heard him talk, give some talks, a year ago, I had the morning service, I went to the service, the crowd was, of course, very affluent, beautiful choir, but it was spiritual. His prayer was spiritual, his reading was spiritual, his message is spiritual man.

He said, you people must you must have the joy of the Lord. So when I saw him after, I said, I called him by his name, he gave me a little tug of the way. He got this Christ in you through our old connection.

I said, brother, that's not, you don't have the joy of the Lord. You say, God is your joy. Don't say, have the joy of the Lord. Don't try to have what you've got. Don't try, which he may otherwise get it, you don't get it, you have it.

Oh, I said, next time I'm going to speak about choosing the love of God. I said, brother, you don't choose love of God. You recognize God's your love and you are the love. Oh, I said, brother, I have a large area of very affluent, established Christians, evangelicals.

They couldn't take this. In other words, he hasn't seen it before and doesn't die for it. If he saw it, he'd do it. You do the same. So my trouble with churches is, rarely will you find a minister who says, I've got to give this, if I die for it.

What happens? Of course, you get the resurrection and a whole new quality of fellowship and everything else comes out the other side. So it did. It was the minister that crucified Jesus Christ, the priest, the priest, they crucified Jesus Christ.

So, it's difficult. So, it's a very rare thing that I'm saying. I'm looking around and I want you to look around. If you know any others who really know, who cares what they call the union life or the upside down, any old thing called, jiggery-pokery, call them what they like.

Because that's all it is, anyhow. So, who cares? So, we're not saying it has to be union life, but we are saying, that's why maybe some of you, even this week, may feel sensible to else. It's what Peter said when Jesus was so unpleasant.

He said, there's got to be cannibals to be Christians before the Holy Communion. He said, you've got to eat my flesh and drink my blood. This wasn't at the Lord's Supper. He just said that after talking.

He said, you've got to eat my flesh and drink my blood. Well, I'm an African missionary. I know cannibals and I've seen it. He's so told there'd be cannibals. Just from the flesh. Eat his flesh and drink his blood.

It couldn't dwell in you. They left him at that time. And that's the time. He said, now, he said, remember, in John 8, he said, remember, words I speak are spirit. They found flesh. They are really spirit.

It's the spirit eating with me, really. But still, that's difficult to see until you do see little bits, like we see a little bit. But that's when he turned to the disciples and said, will you leave me?

And poor Peter, he said, well, he said, too much, shall we go? If you can only find someone with some sense, we'll go to him. There's no one else who's going to stick by you. So, you have the word to return love, we'll stick by you.

So maybe you've got to stick by you in love because nobody else has got any sense. Or, we are the only ones who have. I don't know what you are. So maybe. And so I'm saying, we have talked about there is a commission that grabs you.

Major and Minor Commissions

You become your life's commission, as it has been for mine. It took forms, first, for many years, to get him to go off because he had never been named. That's been a great epiphany. And then, to build up the people with whom he has been named, now, in who they really are, a part of the same Christian faith.

And then we said that inside the local commission, the major commission, there are minor commissions. So your life will be full of them. I've had lots of them. I've told you a little of them before. Or something which temporarily drives you.

Maybe a loved one. You've got to see that loved one through. Or children, or family affairs, or church visits, all sorts of things that in your ordinary life grabs you as a temporary commission. Inside the major commission, now, this is the temporary commission.

I put you here that God made you. I'll do something by those people, by you. I'll try to, in saving them or something, by you. So that the inside the local commission, the major is the minor. And then we went on the fact that it only comes with death.

Self's got to lie the wrong way around under Satan. So it's got to die the right way around to rise again. And we do the dying for other people. For Jesus' self took the dying for us. And then we share with him, and we're co-diers.

Suffering, Cost, and the Life of Christ

Now, we said they're dying for other people. So, there's a dying and a rising. This is the second form of the intercession. We call it commission and cost. There's one thing I'd add. I don't think I made quite clear.

It came out. I didn't make clear enough. Suffering is miserable unless you see it purposed. That's why I did say the basis of suffering, you must know God means what you get. Everything. God means that nasty person who says nasty things to you.

And all those pinches you get from the flesh of the world. God means it. That's what suffering is. See, when I say God means it, oh, I don't like it. OK, God is part of it. Then you enjoy your suffering.

If you don't see that, you'll be miserable. You'll suffer, but you show the suffering in suffering. You don't show the suffering in suffering. So the suffering is sort of hidden down beneath the glory.

The two go together. That's why I do stress that, I didn't stress enough. You'll get the suffering, but you must understand, oh, I don't see that. I only see God's purposes. Only God's purposes. Therefore, God comes to people and knock me about.

What God means is knock me about. He wants me to tear up my affections. He'll certainly tear up your affections. He'll do that good and hearty. He'll tear up your affections and you'll be criticized. The fellow believers often.

And so on. And it may affect this, that, and the other. You may be crazy in your church, and so on. Then you say, OK, God, you meant that. Now, don't start that way. Oh, you don't like that. Why should it be?

No, God means everything. So that's the key to the central area of intercession, which is what we call the cost. The dying and others may rise through our dying. Laurie says, a life in you. So it isn't poor miserable me and somebody else gets some life.

It's poor fond me and other people who are after my sufferings. Now, get that clear. That's in 2 Corinthians 4, where it says, in that thing that Laurie read to us and gave us a bit of exposition on, it says, always, verse 10, always bearing in the body the dying of all Jews, that the life of all Jews is in our bodies, not other people's bodies.

Oh, I look full of vigor and fun, or I'm being beaten about. So people don't see the beating about, they see the vigor and fun. See that? So the life has to be seen, not the other people first, in you first.

So it isn't a fulfilled intercession if poor hurts you and you hope somebody else gets some life out of it. It's God meant to hurt somebody and it's all part of God's privileged purpose, to have some suffering and other people may have life.

And your body shows it. Your body, the outer expression, your body shows the peace and the joy and the acceptance and the praise when you're not liking what happens to you. You say, man, that's all right, I meant that, that's all right, God meant that, but he's operating here all the time.

So, see that the life must start in your body first before other people's bodies. It isn't you suffer and other people get life. It's after that, after that, then verse 12, verse 11, for we which live always live on the cross, for Jesus sake, is a life also, in our mortal flesh, then, so then, death works out, I'm not in you.

The life in you is a product of that first life, life in them, first. And I as a living, that man, say to that bloody figure on the cross, remember me when I come to thy kingdom. What a king. Stripped, naked, torn.

King? I didn't see a king. He saw a king. He saw the spirit of a king on that cross. So he said, Lord, remember me when I come to thy kingdom. So you see, we're royal in our sufferings, a royal priesthood, that's what it is.

So we must be sure that we're being hurt and yet they say, all right, Lord, this is the way that you mean me, I'm praising you, you mean that I should have these reactions? You meant them to give me to me?

You meant that person hit me back? You meant it? All right, Lord. I said, all right, I'm your person, I praise the Lord, and I accept the hurt, but you're my glory and you're my joy. And they see it through.

I think I told you about my friend I'd just been seeing recently who wanted to run away from her husband because her husband went for so much, and she had to learn to accept from God, he meant to go for her, but you don't take that.

You're Jesus, you're enjoying Jesus inside you. So take what he says and let him point his finger at you, don't hit him back. But your answer really is, oh praise the Lord, I'm enjoying the Lord anyhow, he'll see then.

Your body is manifesting light. And he did, because now they have that coupling, becoming a very fine coupling. I told you a little bit about that before. So there is this second area in the intercession, and the gaining of the intercession is the positions of faith we're taking.

Faith as Repeated Possession and Completion

You take from the beginning of your intercession, the position of faith we're taking. We see these lighthouses of union life, as it were, all over the world. By faith we see them now. We are talking about moving to England, he's talking about going to Europe, and my friend is talking about going to Australia and so on.

But already little sparks. Now we see, now faith therefore sees your local intercession. So the gaining by faith is you take the better. Things happen, that person, I'm interceding, that person gets saved, that person is saved, I see him saved, I see the thing finished.

Now that's the gaining area of intercession. That's the cost, the commission, and the gain. The gaining area is by faith. It starts the moment you begin the intercession. But you must therefore, inside, the great pioneer of intercession in our modern days is that we sound.

His whole point was gaining by faith. So many of those issues will come out, I told you, little books are going to come out, maybe about Christmas, about Freud. His chief Welsh co-worker, a woman who was just about my age, who was with him for years, headed up his missionary school, and I know her very well, and she had a very deep understanding of his teaching.

And my suggestion, she's bringing out this book, which the CLC, Christendom Crusades is publishing, called, Reeshouse Explains Intercession. So you get the explanation, not that Michael Reeshouse is there, the explanation of intercession.

And there you'll see the battles of faith. He had to gain a free world. It took him days of it, until they could somehow know it was so. Because the world was being eaten up by Hitler, you Americans, you don't know what it felt like, one or two Europeans in those days.

He'd eaten up Holland, he'd eaten up Belgium, France, he was on the verge of eating up England. Except for our friend Reeshouse, Winston Churchill, shouting at him. And at that time, Russia was an ally with Germany.

All behind, not against Germany, with Germany. And America were over here, helping sweetly. And we always say, God bless your FDR, whether you liked him or not, we did. Because he gave us destroyers under the table, he gave us all things he shouldn't give.

You had to know, because you weren't supposed to help us. So we enjoyed him, if you didn't. And then of course, he came in later on to Pearl Harbor. But before that, the battle, this man, in God's eyes, he's a destroyer.

He wrote a book saying, God destroys those men, Hitler, Hitler and Mussolini were two big names in those days. You will not be allowed to keep the world closed. The world should be open for the gospel.

Here's the, we're taking the openness. Well, I won't go into detail now, he lost the reputation of it. The way he announced the date it would finish and so on, it's all there, because there's already a date of intercession.

But look at the thing today. He passed on, he really poured his life out. He had no concept of the spread that is today. We missionaries have staggered by what's happening today. The Church of Christ has arrived today.

It's the Church of India, the Indian Church of Christ. It's Congolese Church of Christ, Nigerian Church of Christ, Indonesian. It isn't we, Westerners, that are living in the Church of Christ. Christ living in the Indonesian, Bornean, East African.

It is coming to being today. There's a great seething interchange of witnesses through the whole world. And you can't stop in time. China's amazing today, isn't it, we know that. Hundreds of local hidden house churches are going on in China.

And more or less winked at. And even in Russia, they can't stop the gospel. So far more has happened through that man than though he said, it will be kept open. And he lost everything by doing it. But you see there the principle of faith as well.

You see the dying, as we did. And you see how they got it and they said, this is happening, we're safe. And he even gave a date. And that's where it deceived me. You're giving him to confirm it. They gave a date for the war to end.

The war didn't end that day. In fact, the war kind of burst out. That was after the first year of war. It burst out, so he appeared to be a false prophet. He held his celebration. He held it, beginning his great advance.

Taking on Germany, taking on Russia, taking on Holland and Belgium and France. The opposite. So of course, men of the faith said, where's the prophet? It didn't have a sense. There's a death in it. You see, we in hindsight know this.

Supposing the war had finished that day. We should be confronted with enormous trained armies of Germans. What should we be doing? The whole world would be confronted by great armours, hand-sewn armies.

They had to be destroyed to get the freedom. It took 12 years to destroy those things out. And then came the freedom of the world. So the actual completion took 4 years after the world had spoken. And so, yes, it's dead.

But all the massive things happen. It's happening. The mission is over. The mission is over. So you see there, if you study that, you'll see that faith is a very real thing. It's a taking and a repeating until you show you've got it and you're keeping what you've got.

If you've got a thing, it's happened. I'm saying it's happened. I'm sticking to it. It has happened. And you have to keep on with it. When it doesn't happen, it doesn't appear to happen. All that's involved in the gaining of the session.