Power, Love, and a Disciplined Spirit - Part 1 — John Follette

The healing point, thou art the balm of Gilead. And so many times in the rush and hustle and bustle of life, all that confusion and racket gets into our spirits, gets in and troubles us. Teach us how to rest in thy presence, in silence sometimes, and expose our hearts and all that we have to be, that you may come to us in that healing measure, that the balm of Gilead, that soothing power of the spirit of God, may move upon us.

We need it so much in these days. We ask thee again as we open this word, that thou art pleased to bless it to every heart. May each one of us find the portion which is adequate. And in the end, not for our self-aggrandizement, not for our selfish aims, but in the end it shall all reflect to thy glory.

And we love to have thee high and lifted up, more and more thou art bringing us to it. Oh, to return to the very first vocation laid upon man, that he should glorify and adore God, his creator. So today, bless us again as we look into the word, for Jesus' sake.

Amen. Speak of silence in my heart. It's so much more refreshing than anything that he can do. I'm a creature of moods, we're all made differently. And I'm always pleased when he brings me into what I call a holy hush.

It's the hush of the spirit. He doesn't want the spirit agitated. And duly, unduly concerned. Rest in his presence. Rest in his presence. I conduct retreats. I've been in the camp living in many, many years.

I can't take them to tell the truth. I can't take them. But God does give me gatherings of people who are spiritually minded and in tune with spiritual movings of God. Who are initiated, I say, already into the things of the spirit.

And so God gives me a time of retreat with them. Now they are people who've known me for years and have followed the teaching which God has laid upon my heart. And are enough in tune with it to move with it.

I don't have to do any coaching with them. I don't have to lay any foundations for them. That's all taken care of. I want them all saved and healed of the spirit. And have all the gifts. I want that all taken care of.

Now I say, come on, let's go into the things of God and into the spirit where we belong. And so I have a ministry trying to lead them in. But what I'm getting at is this. We have no programmed meetings.

We sit in the presence of the Lord. And I remember one time when we had silence. I have somebody in this group this morning who was in that very meeting. And I got up in the morning. When I got up in the morning, I felt such a strange silence in my heart.

Just a strange silence. And I thought, isn't this strange? I have this at home when I'm alone in my own doings with God. He understands that. And behold you, when I went to have this service, I had no message at all.

And God said, I want this a time of silence for these hearts. Get to them. And God put us under a silence. And you remember we didn't talk to each other all day, excepting the very necessary things. Breath at the table.

Will you please pass the salt or the pepper? All day. I never spoke a word. But we sat there through that whole period in a silence. And you know, you just felt like walking on your tiptoes. Without thinking.

Without thinking. You just felt. Nobody told him to do that. Isn't it nice when you do things in the Spirit without being told? Without being said, now we will lift our hands. No. Lift them when the Spirit is moving and He lifts them.

But, now we will lift our hands. Now we will all... No, no. You can't do that. Worship isn't conducted by machinery. It's birth of the Spirit. So, that was a strange day. Because none of them had ever had a period like that all day.

I said, go where you are. Alone. Be quiet. Go away. Even don't discuss religious things together. Try once to be still. And you know, I even yet to this day, hear little repercussions of that very thing in the hearts of those who were there.

They never forgot it. Because God was able to do certain little things in their hearts and lives that He couldn't do all the while I was trying to teach. He has such different methods. In our early days.

You will excuse me referring to our early days. In the early days of our outpouring of the Spirit, 50, 51 years ago when I was brought in. We gave... We had no program at work about it. The Holy Spirit led the meeting.

And I've been in meetings, even with the students when we would get down before the Lord and we wouldn't pray one prayer in the prayer meeting and be there for two hours and not one prayer offered. Why?

You felt so out of order trying to make up a prayer. You couldn't pray. You couldn't... You couldn't pray our Father in Heaven. It would seem so strange. Because it wasn't the time for prayer. And I've been in times when you couldn't keep but pray.

The prayer was just like a moving of God and everybody was in prayer. Nobody said, now we will all pray. You prayed. You don't know why or how, but you prayed. And there was that whole moving of the Spirit of God like that in prayer.

I've been in sometimes with our meetings when there was no preaching, no praying, but just a worship. Worship and song and worship. You see, that's when you let God do things. And we don't get in the road with our patterns and our ways of thinking and doing.

The thing has been ruined because of that. Nobody's able now to get it back into shape. I haven't any hopes of it ever getting into shape. That's quite impossible. But we can salvage some people from it and help them to see something of reality.

This morning when our precious brother sang, I asked him yesterday, would he sing that? Because it always does something to my spirit. God, it will do something to your spirit. There's spirit in that.

Whoever got that thing together has something of the Spirit of God. It sounds, it vibrates through the whole thing. The words and the music, the bomb. Now, bomb in the area. Oh my God, help us. No, you couldn't get any bomb.

You'd get confusion. But if you let it move quietly over your spirit, how will you get bombs? Bombs would seep down into your spirit. So I thank our precious brother. It's nice to meet him again. I knew him when he was like this and was entertaining in his home with his brother and his lovely mother.

And I've known these folks, Sister Marie Brown and the rest of them for quite a while. Now to see them growing up in God and God able to pour through them. Continuing this lovely message of life and life and truth from one truth to another.

Now I was handed one copy of my book telling you that I think 24 of them got here so far. There were 24 books arrived yesterday but there were 38 orders for them already. So you see, they went out and then all the rest of them hanging.

One man ordered even five of them. So he must have thought there was some value to it. This is a book, Broken Bed, that I have written, put out by Springfield and has several messages in it which I'm sure will be helpful to you in the days to come.

Now if you have a copy, new creation that we are. God is making us. We are not made, we are born. But there is not very much growth or maturity in any one of us. Your birth does not make you a grown person.

Your birth merely gives you the potential for your living. That's all. That has to be taken hold of and by the grace of God He will cause you to grow. We've had it before, but you'll have to listen. You see, I'm a teacher and I have the prerogative and the right to repeat.

Isn't that good? I'm not a preacher. I'm not an evangelist. I would like to be a teacher if God would only help me. I'm among those things they call in the church, helpers, a kind of little helper that goes around God's little child that runs around helping people.

So I'm a helper. I have met, I don't know that I've ever met a real, what I would call a teacher. We have plenty of people who give Bible readings and they give expositions for your homework. I hope you're still working on it.

In the early church, that lovely, lovely question of this. He has placed in the church all these gifts. He didn't place them in the world. He placed them in the church. They have a reflex out here in the world.

But he said he had placed them in the church for the edification of the world. No. For the salvation of souls. No. He placed them in this mystical body. This witness for its edification, maturing. How many know that's in the Bible?

That actually is in the Holy Bible. You can find it in Corinthians. You'll find it in Ephesians. Paul is terrific when he gets into Ephesians. Why? Well, when Paul is writing in Ephesians, he's not writing his first elementary epistles about justification by faith.

Did you know he... How many know Paul couldn't write Ephesians when he's writing justification by faith? Well, no! Not at all. He hasn't come to that place. Can't offer up Isaac a few days after he's born?

No. God doesn't require it. But God is going to get that Isaac. Don't worry about it. He's going to bring him to the place of the offering. But he doesn't come in a day. It takes a long time to build up that faith, that insight, that trust, that understanding of God that he can dare to say, alright, here is Isaac.

You can't do that in a minute. None of these things come in a minute. He placed in the church, in the body, all these gifts for its culture, for its education, for its development, for its growth. Well then, if that's so, it seems to me this strange mystical body of Christ that has projected itself down through two thousand years, it seems to me that ought to have signs of vitality and spiritual insight and spiritual discernment and a quality of life, a quality of life, a quality of life that is only forthcoming because of the results of the gifts operating.

And when those gifts in the church can operate, you know, there will be a manifestation of life that we don't have now, or didn't you know that? It will be. Because it is only produced through that. You can't produce it any other way.

All of the mechanics which people use today for that, it's all foolishness. You can't do it. Your life has to be produced because there is a correct functioning of all of the gifts in that body to produce the life, and the life will come.

That's right. Because it's a law. It's a law. An element of life that I often wish we could see. Now we say, I am saved. I have the life of God in me. I know, dear brother, dear sister, I know that very well, and I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about an element, a quality of life, not a manifestation out here, but a life which will eventually manifest out here. But it has to be here first because of just this thing. Obedience to the laws of the Spirit.

Obedience to walk in the pattern which God has made, and not what we have made. For instance, in that early church, there was a manifestation of the life of Christ in that early church that had power enough that it could move a whole nation.

Do you remember it did? How many remember it moved a nation? I know Rome was terrifically affected by it. How many know this nation has ever since been affected by it? Well, what is this? In that early church, there was a manifestation of the life of the Holy Spirit in those instruments which did not come just because they had the baptism of the Spirit and had miracles and spoke in tongues.

No, it didn't come that way. Those are manifestations. We accept them and let them go for what they're worth and that's that. I had it so brought to me, I was in Rome. I had some meetings with the Italian Assembly in Rome and of course they had me to go to visit all these historic places.

And I remember going to the old Colosseum. That great, tremendous old ruin. It's a magnificent thing. And I went way up in the top galleries up here and I began to look down. And here was the arena where in the early days our Christian brothers, our Christian sisters, other members of this body were taken just simply for their testimony.

And the wild beasts were released out of the very gates. I saw the gates, I saw them. They were released and they could come and devour them. How did they go home? History tells us they went home rejoicing.

They would stand with their arms up looking up to God with thanksgiving and praise and the glory of God upon them. They were martyrs for Jesus' sake. Did they do that because they had the baptism of the Holy Ghost?

No. They had that but that didn't do it. A lot of people who have the baptism of the Holy Ghost today and even have miracles that could not stand it. Do you know them too or don't you know them? Do you think that in three minutes the baptized beast that we have today having such glory and they say in three minutes you're to be taken into arena.

How many of you think they would say hallelujah? No, they wouldn't. They'd say get the police. There's something wrong here. When I looked at them a strange conviction came over me. Just a strange conviction.

And I thought oh my God. Holy ground. Blood has been spilled here. These early Christians. That gave them stamina to die. Now they have the baptism. I get so tired of that. How many know there are thousands of people who have the baptism and they could not take it.

They do not have that inner hidden element of the light and the love, the Agatha, the love of Christ in them. No, they don't. Put in them today to meet a difficulty let alone alive. No, they don't. You know they don't.

Travel with me. Would you jump? I say Lord only by thy grace can I stand it. It would have to be something more than the fact that I have the spirit dwelling in me. People, you do too, who have the spirit dwelling in them, baptized in the Holy Ghost, speak in tongues, can preach and pray and do miracles.

Can't face a lion. Why? Because they can't face themselves five minutes. No, they can't. No, they can't. They wouldn't want themselves exposed out here for five minutes. No. Well, if you can't face these simple, simple things, how can we face the lion in the arena?

You won't. You can't. You'll be devoured. We're talking here about a power that has been given and he says I will give them power. Power, as we said yesterday, to become my witness. Now, that strange group of Christians who move back and forth, hither and yon, do you think they were such a powerful people that every one of them could do a miracle?

I don't think so. It's an element of life, an element of the Spirit, the Agatha of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, resting in them, that they moved under the impact and power of that until that whole thing gathered together became a dynamic thing in the hands of God that they could move and push the nation over here and push it over there.

How? Well, it's like something that I wish we had in the church today. I'd give anything in the world if I could see something like that in the church. Wouldn't you? How many would like to see that? I would.

I would like to see that in the church. It's not forthcoming. Who wants to expose our family skeleton? I want to drag out the Pentecostal skeleton and shake him this morning. I could do it, but I don't want to do that.

Sure. Anybody who knows anything at all knows there's plenty of skeletons, but who wants to air them? No, shut them up. Let's keep quiet and paint the door open. You can't fool God. And you can't fool a lot of people.

Even people outside of Pentecost can see through it. They really do. People outside of Pentecost can see through it. And some of our own precious people can't see it yet. People, aside from just my local people of Pentecost, sure, I'd move with all of them.

And I think I'll tell them a little of that, shall I? I said I don't dare to tell many. But you know there are hungry people all over who are not in our Pentecostal group. I mean intelligent, lovely spirits.

Intelligent people. Cultured people. Who are just as starved as any person who comes here. A year or more ago, I was contacted by a member of the Christian Fellowship. It's a Christian Fellowship which is in our colleges and universities all over the country.

They are, it is a group of Christians in the university or college who have experienced salvation. That's about all they ever have, have dealt with. They have found a reality in Christ. But they have exhausted just that circle, you see.

And they're hungry for something. So there's a Christian Fellowship in Harvard, believe it or not. There's a Christian Fellowship at Cambridge. There's a fellowship at Yale. At Wellesley. At Dartmouth.

All of those colleges have this Christian Fellowship. And you know some of those people are very hungry for God. They came and we did our, I mean, they said, we know, we have read what you have and some of our members have heard you teach.

And you have what we want. Would you come and minister to us? Wasn't that a lovely opening. Two, four. And no more. And drop dead. How do you know I do better than that? Now Lord, here's such a wonderful place.

Do well. And you know, I had a wonderful session with them. These were Harvard, I think they took me to the Harvard grounds and put me in the hall. I said, that's all right, I'm not scared. And God gave me a lovely, lovely time with these college men.

And they brought some of their teachers along. Did it mean anything? Yes, I'll tell you why. That was in the fall. When spring came, they said, we're having a conference up way up in Canada. Now, it's 400 miles north of Canada, up in the woods on the lake.

And they have a splendid outfit. And here are these lovely students. It was co-ed because we had the fellowship group from Radcliffe, Wellesley, Darden, all of them. And here they came, and they said, would you consider coming and acting as a teacher in this conference?

We have three others. We have Dr. Winston, and several degrees behind his name, and several others, and the Lord said, go. I said, Lord, I don't want to get mixed up with all that stuff. I'm out of that.

You called me out of that long ago. But he said, they're hungry. I want you to go. All right, then you give me the grace to do it. So I went. We had a wonderful time. I was dealing with the Book of Luke.

And all of them carried their own New Testaments in Greek, of course. Well, that bothered me. I had Greek, so I said, that's all right. You want to read them in Greek? Go ahead. So he lectured from his Greek.

Isn't it strange? When it came to be my period, there was an entirely different atmosphere, absolutely different atmosphere. And then, after we had dealt with several of them, one of the leaders came to me and he said, would you consider acting as a spiritual advisor for this group because we are conscious that you have touch with God and know things that I think would be helpful.

He said, there are students here who are frustrated, and disappointed, and confused. Will you help them? I said, if God gives me grace to do it, I'd be happy to. And I acted as a spiritual consultant for that group.

I didn't put this in the evangelist, so you don't have to spread it. They think that I was getting them. Oh, you know, I've lost my faith or something. I know there's some lovely spirits to be reached.

So, beholder, they asked me back the next fall. And on the sly, on the side, I've had at least four or five sessions with these students. This last fall, they took me to Harvard University and put me in the hall, and some of their teachers with them.

Now, get the actor effect. After all of this, they come and ask me to come to their home in private to talk, which I did. No, when they get home, they're down on their faces, see? And I'm praying all the time, Lord, just for Jesus' sake, just give to them a good baptism.

Wouldn't it be nice? Wouldn't it be nice? And so they said, would you consider coming to our home? We have entertainment for you. We can sit up all night. Could we tonight to talk? I said, if you want to.

And pray? So, I spent the night with them. It's nice. Now, what I'm getting at is this. We can't have this lovely, beautiful, wonderful thing that God is doing, cramped into just a two-by-twice thing.

You can't do that. Because there are people out here waiting and reaching, wanting it. So, what do they want? They're not following me. They deserve, there's something of God somewhere in this thing, and they want it.

So I give them the literature, and I'm coaching some of them on it. This last winter, I had one of the Harvard boys, who was a millionaire's son, wrote me and said, would you let me come and spend a day or two with you?

I want to pray. I want you to help me. I said, surely. I have a guest room if you want to come. And we had a wonderful time. I said, what are you doing? Oh, it's this in June. They've got me all lined up.

We're taking a flight to Europe, you know, on a money, everything but no God. And he says, I know that. He says, you know, I've never had any discipline, and I have found thus far in my Christian experience, just as far as I have gone, that discipline is one of the most necessary things.

And he says, Paulette, I've never had it. I've had everything I've ever wanted, from a bicycle to a yacht. When I was only 12, they sent me abroad with a tutor to get rid of me. It's a spit home, of course.

And that poor, starved, lovely, intelligent person running around wanting God, do you know there are more of them? There are. They're everywhere. And we had a wonderful feast, wonderful time. And God is blessing them.

He's blessing everywhere, not in this camp only. He's blessing everywhere. Blessing everywhere. So if you want to, you pray, you pray, Lord, get a hold of that group. The baptism of the Spirit on the fly, if they don't feel getting up in their professional work and hollering about it, God will hear them, God will bless them.

The Church as the Mystical Body

Now this first thing that he says is necessary to build this body, this Christian. But what is common of the Christian, it is common of the church. For the church, the mystical body, is made of all these different Christians.

The tutoring, the teaching that is given for the individual, how many of you know, it is for the whole body, because we're all one. Not for one, but for the whole body. Now he says, I have given you power.

Well what was that? The power that we spoke of yesterday. Power aside from merely power to get up and witness. You should have that anyway, before you ever get into the baptism. You ought to be able to stand up and say, Jesus saves me.

He didn't give them power for their service because they had already had power for their service and had gone out and ministered. He breathed upon them the Holy Spirit and they must have received it so they had the Holy Spirit.

So this baptism that he was bringing upon them was not that they should receive the Spirit, they had it. It wasn't that they should have some power to serve, they had it. Then what was it? He said it is the only dynamic by which this thing may be built.

I am building you.

All the you, you, you, that will make the body.

And I'm building the body. And therefore I have placed all of these personality gifts in the church for its edification. Now somebody gets nervous right away, they get the jitters. They say, my heavens, don't you have any place for the poor sinners out here?

Yes! I have a great big place for them. I've blessed every evangelist that's let loose.

If possible, we can get them saved. But that's not the great objective.

You have to get them saved to bring them in to the body. Where would the body be if your evangelist didn't feed him? Who would I have to work on if I didn't have somebody to get them saved and baptized and glorified before I can work with them?

Somebody has to do that. I always bless everybody who'll do that. Then I say, come along, now go on with God. Go on with God. So there is a place, and I'll do that some morning, I want to talk to you about destinies and objectives.

And don't confuse them. I may make a little chart here to help you with that. Then you'll see where all of our ministries come and all the work of the teachers and the evangelists and the preachers and the missionaries and the comings and the goings and the churches and I'll show you all that intense activity where it belongs in another message.

I have that in my philosophy. I have that in my scheme of thinking. It has to be there because it's a part of God's program. But I'm emphasizing another side that doesn't seem to be emphasized too much.

All of your ministry is reactionary. God is after you and he's after me first. That's terrible, but that's so. He'll let you ride along quite a long time before he can get access. But finally, he gets access.

And then, whoo to your flesh. Whoo to the old creation. Whoo to this old ego. Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! But I'll tell you something. There will be life, life, life, life, life. But it has to come through that process.

Power, Love, and a Disciplined Spirit

Now, after he teaches us concerning the necessity of power, why is it dangerous to do what so many people do? The impact of power, that strength, that glorious releasing that we feel when we are filled with the spirit.

How many of you know that's intense? It's intense. Very few can take it without becoming explosive or almost irrational with its moving. They got to go. They got to do something. Anything under heaven.

Pass out, pray. Preach. Whether you can or not, that doesn't matter. But preach! How many of you know.

That terrible thing gets intense? Whether you have a message or not, preach anyway! Hallelujah! Bless God! And bring down the power upon those poor sinners.

And tell them there is no other way. Hallelujah! You ought to hear me preach sometimes.

Boy, it's just wonderful. Boy, I wouldn't be caught dead doing that. No. Now they're all agitated. Now they're going,.

Their theme song is to the work, to the work,.

Carry on, carry on. Let us now capture the whole earth. Well, you see, you can't do that way. You can't do that way. He didn't say he's not only given us power, but he said he's given us something else.

He says, I have given you power, but I have also given you the power of love. Oh, yes! They say, that's just wonderful. Now we will all be full of the love of Jesus. And so we all develop a love complex.

I love you, you love me, and I love the heathen, and I love everybody, and you must love everybody. Whether or not just love becomes, you know, it's rather tiresome. Well, let me help you with that. Do you know that word love is not an emotional word at all?

If you want to talk into an emotional word, don't use phileo or some of the other ones. But don't use the word agapa. Agapa is the strong word for love, which is only measured by a law of sacrifice. Not phileo, a word that spells sacrifice.

That's rather tight. But he says, I have given you that. Well, why? He says, this isn't an emotional word. I'm not saying now that you're all to get blessed because you're so full of the love of God that it just spills over on everybody, and I love you, and you love me, and we're just paralyzed in an epidemic of the love of God.

That isn't what he is saying. Do you know what he is saying? He says, I want you to know the difference between your words. When I use the word love here, or I use the word love there, be careful. We had a little analysis of it in John the other day when he said, lovest thou me, lovest thou me, and lovest thou me.

He didn't say that. Those two words, I won't go over that this morning, but there were two words. Jesus used one word, lovest thou me, and Peter used another. He said, yea, Lord, thou knowest, I am very fond of you.

He couldn't say it. Lovest thou me, yea, Lord, thou knowest, I am very fond of you. How many know there's quite a difference there? Well that's all lost in our English, but it's still there. Now your word love here is the word love which means a motive.

All action is motivated. Everything you do, in any act, every act you do, from eating breakfast to going to bed, or planting corn, every act is motivated. There has to be some motive, that of it, that causes this manifestation out here.

So he says, in one of the other places, I think it's in, of faith, that he says, faith that worketh by love. You remember that one? Yes. It was a faith manifested to do the thing God wanted, but he says the faith is operated under the motivation and the motive power of love.

Faith? All that has faith. Faith for everything. That's good, but wait a minute. If it is really effective in God's sight, not in the sight of people, because you can do a lot of things that people don't know beans from buttons in, a wonderful manifestation, but in the sight of God, he says that which is wrought by the motive of faith, he says, then that's all right.

Now in the building of the life, the field of motivation has to be gone over and he says, that which is provoked by, motivated by what? The love of Jesus Christ in the heart here. That love which is sacrificial.

The love of God which is sacrificial. He says that is a good motive. That's a good motive now for your operation over here. I want you to see it as it is in the word of God. How do you remember our lovely chapter in 1 Corinthians 13?

How do you remember that lovely chapter? That's a beautiful chapter. But so many never get this, the truth hidden away in there. They arrest it from its setting and put it on a little motto and love it because it's so full of love.

Love, love, love. Love never does this, love is like this. Love never does this, love is like this. Now where did you get that verse? You will never understand your 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians unless you read the 12th, 13th and 14th chapters all as one thing.

Scripture, Translation, and the Context of Spiritual Gifts

Now when Paul wrote, I wish we could remember this, when Paul wrote, I can't get over there, I can't get over this yoke, it keeps me back, but I'll try to get to it. When Paul wrote his manuscripts, you see, that he passed around from church to church, I had the privilege of seeing some of them in London in the museum there.

They have some of the old early parchments. They're not out on exhibition every day, but certain days they bring them out of the case and they're covered with black velvet and everything to keep them from light.

They're very choiceless because they're very rare. And they let us see them under glass of course. And here were some of those early manuscripts. And last summer I was able to see some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the original Dead Sea Scrolls.

That was nice to see. I'm always glad to get a little line out. Oh, this fish line is quite long. This is what we will find if you're looking at one of the manuscripts that Paul's writing. They will have one because that one's a little large.

Now that's this brittle old dry parchment. Yellow. You can hardly read it. And it begins right in this edge and those little Greek letters and words that go right from this edge right on this rail all the way through right on line after line after line after line after line till they get down here.

There are no paragraphs, no chapters, no anything. Just one great big page of words. So now you see the translators will have to help you with that. And so the translator, now get this, the translator is not inspired.

The word he has is inspired. Do you get a difference or no? This is inspired because the man who translates he is not inspired. He is doing his scholarship work on these old things because the rest of the people can't read them.

So what he does finally is to chop it up into chapters. He says that makes it a little better. And he uses a rule as a rule a certain method. That is if there is a thought content that can be covered by so much space then he finds there is a break and he starts talking about something else.

He will make a chapter of that. Then when he absorbs that thought that Paul is producing pushing out through there and he finds he changes his talk. He is changing now his teaching. He will start another chapter with it.

And so they have got a lot of chapters going. Well then somebody else got a clever thought and they said now let's chop the chapters all up in verses. I am glad they didn't go any farther. I don't know where we would be.

But the Lord stopped them there. With the verses. So when you think of Paul writing never think of Paul writing with chapters and verses. He didn't do that. He wrote in great mass. And the translators take some time out to put it in shape for it to chapters.