(Fury of Fire) 03 - Shrinking Back to Destruction — Milton Green

Revelation Versus Tradition

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Christ’s Revelation and the Walk of Faith

It's good to find out you're free, isn't it? I'm going to tell you something. Jesus has something to get excited about, hasn't he? God, after he'd spoken long ago, through the prophets, through the Fathers, in many portions, in many ways, in his last days, has spoken to us through his Son, whom he's appointed heir of all things.

And through him, he's made the world, and you and I are to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please him, bearing fruit in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God. We're strengthened in all power, according to his glorious might, for the attaining of steadfastness and patience joyously.

We're giving thanks to the Fathers, qualified as to share in the inheritance of the Saints in life, having delivered us from the domain of darkness. Now, he's transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption and a forgiveness of all of our sins.

Do you receive that? Well, praise God! In Hebrews 10 and 6, we're going to be looking at those tonight, a little early, but one of the things I just want to wind up about last night. We know that we are bearing the fruit of the flesh and rebellion and selfishness.

We come, we repent, Jesus Christ becomes Lord of our life. Then we have the walk of faith, which is led by the Spirit of God. And the Spirit of God leads us to put to death all the works of selfishness.

It cleanses our heart from all rebellion. And when our heart is cleansed from all rebellion, we love our neighbors as ourselves. That's what the gospel does. Is that right? That's how the Word performs its work in us.

That's how you're born again into the Word of God. So I want you to see something about that. See, that's the way to eternal life. We'll see it over in 2 Peter, but right now I want you to look with me in Luke 10.

I want you to see this in Luke 10, a lawyer asks Jesus a question. In Luke 10, you don't want to hear any stories from that, do you? In Luke 10, verse 25, And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and put him to the test, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Now, is that a good question? This man asked Jesus, and here I want you to watch very closely what the answer is. Jesus is going to answer, and he said, This is correct. This is the way you have eternal life.

Verse 26, And he said to him, What is written in the law? Jesus said, What is written in the law? How does it read to you? And he answered and said, You shall love the Lord your God with how much of your heart?

Now, folks, how do we ever think that we can read these things in the Word and we can come some other different way? It's the powers of darkness that would have you to think that you can come with a divided heart and make...

Would he be Lord if you just come with part of your heart? Tell me. Let me ask you again. Would Jesus be Lord if you just come with part of your heart? See, this is missed. See, this is missed. This is why doctrines today, carnal doctrines today, they don't even have to deal with the powers of darkness or the flesh.

Look here, you get you a false security. Your heart falls in love with a false security, you don't need to buy it. Cast the Word behind you. Now, we're talking about it. He said, Come with all your heart.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, will, and emotions, your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind, and you're going to what? You're going to love your neighbor as yourself, and that is the way to eternal life, because Jesus said, You have answered correctly.

If you do this, you will live. Now, you know, Jesus encountered some different people. They had idols, the rich man, and different things like that. They didn't have all their heart. Now, he's talking about getting rid of all his possessions.

Is that right? I mean, you only come with all your heart. There's no provision. The word here about a disciple. A disciple is someone who has all their heart. He doesn't love family, the world, the things in the world, anything more than he does the Lord.

Grace, Sin, and Obedience in Romans 6

Now, I want you to look at me in Romans 6, because we want to clear up something about what grace is. Grace is perverted just like love has been perverted. In Romans 6, and just real briefly, we're told not to walk in sin.

Is that right? Or not to practice sin? In Romans 6, verse 1, what shall we say then? Are we to practice sin that grace might increase? Or, another way to put it, shall we continue in sin that grace might increase?

Now, your Bible right here says, May it never be. That's not what traditions say, but that's what your Bible says. May it never be. Amen? May it never be. How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

We know in verse 6, knowing this, that the old man, the old cursed nature was crucified with Jesus, that the body of sin, all the rebellion is going to be done away with, that we're no longer going to be slaves of sin.

For he who has died, when you die, the old man dies, you're free from sin, so it's put to death. Amen? So, now, are we supposed to be a people that's no longer under the law? Is that right? We're led by the Spirit of God and we're no longer under the law.

Well, how do you think you move from being under the law? Because you quit sinning. Amen? And if you're practicing sin and walking out of sin, you're walking out of the law. Is that right? Well, it's interesting how that thing, something so simple, gets so turned around.

I think you just get too smart. Look at there in verse 14. For sin shall not be master over you. Now, let me tell you what this is saying right there. Listen to me. Look at me. No sin is going to be master over you.

No sin is going to be master over you, because if any sin is master over you, you're practicing sin. Amen? It becomes an idol. Put Colossians 3, 5 after that. It becomes an idol. You're loving that thing more than you love.

No sin shall be master over you. For you are not under the law, which means when you're not under the law, that means you're not sinning. Amen? But you're under grace. Now, there's a church right there.

See how that's the real church right there. See how it gets turned around? You're not under the law. You're not under the law, so you don't sin. Sin is not going to be master if folks are under the law.

Don't say you're under the law if sin is mastering you. Amen? All right, now the next words, 15. What then shall we sin because we're not under the law? Now, is that a good question? Now, no way shall the church sin because they're no longer under the law.

Shall we sin because we're no longer under the law, but under grace? Well, there it is again. Same old thing. God forbid. May it never be. Do you not know that when you present yourself to someone as slave for obedience, you're a slave, the one who you obey either of sin, which if sin's working in you, what's working in you?

Death is working in you. If that's what you repented from, amen? What did you repent of? You know, most, I guarantee you, I guarantee you that most people that call themselves Christian couldn't even tell you what the curse of nature is.

They couldn't even tell you what the sin of nature is. I guarantee you they can't. They couldn't explain it to you. Now, let me ask you something. If someone doesn't understand what the sin of nature is, tell me what they repented from.

And then give some people like that a false security and tell them how righteous and holy they are in their stiff-necked stubbornness before God. Give them a false security. That's how you shed blood.

Pervert the Word of God, that's how you shed the blood. Perverting the Word of God. That's Ezekiel 33. So, you're slaves of the obedience either of sin resulting in death or obedience. Now, that obedience is called works.

Folks call that works. When you start obeying the Word of God and you talk about walking in the Spirit and things like that, brother, you have. That's where you get pushed off the cliff. Obedience to the Spirit.

If somebody says, Lord, they're telling you what to do, aren't they? Huh? Why do you call me Lord and Lord and don't do what I say? Amen? So, it's obedience. And obedience, what does that result in? That's walking right in God's eyes.

But thanks be to God, though you were slaves of sin, you have become obedient. There's that word from where? The heart, which is the real you. Now, remember that heart is you. The heart is the real you.

You're living in this carton right here. Amen? The heart is the real you. But you came obedient from the heart to that form of teaching. That's the gospel. To which you were committed. Your heart's committed and you become obedient to it.

With the heart, you know, listen. You can say that Jesus Christ is the Son of God died on the cross and was raised from the dead. That doesn't mean anything. If it's not coming from your heart. Where the heart man believes in the righteous, where the heart man believes in the unrighteous.

Well, if he's believing in the righteous, you're going to know him by his what? If his heart has believed in the righteous, you're going to know him by his fruit. If his heart has been believed in the unrighteousness, you're going to know him by his fruit also.

Amen? You're not going to know by his membership or anything else, seniority or anything else. You're going to know it, but you're going to seek because the issue is the heart. Because the heart is the real you.

Now, may I tell you something? If you believe in the righteousness, the gospel is going to cleanse your heart from all sin. You're going to love your neighbors as yourself. What about that? Now, how are you going to change it unless you're building another tower into heaven?

Do you think the powers of darkness would like you to walk out of this stuff? Sure, they've got you. Another gospel. Now, and having been, we're freed. You get freed from sin and you become slaves of righteousness.

You know what a slave of righteousness is? That becomes a servant. You're walking in love. That's what a slave is. I mean, do you know something, folks? The happiest you've ever been in your life is when you've given something to someone you love.

God made you that way. Just think about it. The time that you're giving somebody something that someone that you love. Now, God has made you this way and this stuff has been interfering with continually filled with joy, can fill the spirit of God and everything he's wanting to do for us.

Are you hearing me? We're not, it's not taking a word to heart. So we see the way into heaven, the eternal life. We see it again in verse 22. For now, having been, you're freed from sin. If you're freed from sin, that means the old nature, cursed nature is dead.

Selfishness is gone. Is that right? Shake your head. All right, if you're freed from sin and you are enslaved to God, I mean, all your deeds are having been wrought in God, walking in love, you derive your benefit.

Now, there's a benefit, see. It's going to result in what? Sanctification. What is sanctification? Listen, that's removing all sin from your heart. So it's sanctification. And then what's the result of sanctification?

There you see it. The outcome is eternal life. Now, that's the way into heaven. But it goes ahead and says, if you want to walk in sin, that's the way to death. Is that what it said in that? The way to sin is death if you're going to walk there.

Amen? You know, you better not walk in. You better not practice it. You better stay before the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ and get that heart clean. Because you are commanded to walk in peace and when you're not in peace, you're supposed to get before God, if he's Lord.

That's how you're going to know, because it is a walk of peace. Right? All right, that's what the Lord teaches us. Now, just quickly, let me just clear up a couple of basic things right here in Ephesians.

Sanctification and the Cleansing Word

Turn to Ephesians 5. So we get this thing clear about sin and grace. So I want you to know that I understand what grace is. Grace is that God's Spirit is available in the world. Amen? To purify and sanctify you.

Now, that's what grace is. But you will suffer in the flesh and you will walk in Jesus' walk. Unless two are agreed, how can they walk together? When you make covenant, two become one. Amen? This is how we become one mind and one heart.

Now, in Ephesians 5, just quickly, verse 5. Now, we decided last night, when we read something, we're going to act like it's not in there. Right? For this you can know with certain. God said something certain.

No immoral person, or what is that word? Now, an impure person. You know that's the opposite from a pure heart. That's the opposite from sanctification. Are you hearing me? No impure person, no covetous man who is an adulterer.

We'll find out what an adulterer is quickly in a minute. Has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ. Our God. Now see, look here. If someone, if you follow a false teacher, a false prophet, a teacher that loves another gospel, he'll have something from higher learning.

Well, isn't that real complicated right there? But he'll, he might tell you what the Greek is. You know, you just can't know. You know, don't you do what that says. You know, after all, this is what's got our hearts.

Are you hearing me? Now, I'm going to tell you something. If you're into these things, you don't enter into the kingdom of God. And I'm going to tell you what. It's all over your Bible. It's all over your Bible.

And I'm going to tell you something. This is not condemning you. This is to build a fear of God in you. That's it. This is walking love. All right. Now the next verse. Let no one what? Deceive you. See, that's where Eve got deceived.

Eve got deceived. Look here. The power of the darkness led Eve to the tree of rebellion, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life, the tree of death. And said, Eve, and here was the first doctrine, the demons.

God has said, when you eat of that, you're surely going to die. Eve, Satan said to Eve, here comes the doctrine of demons. Adam and Eve already had the gospel, but Satan told Eve, he said, you can eat off this tree, you surely shall not die.

In other words, you can walk in rebellion, you surely shall not die. Reckon, doctrines of demons changed any since Eve ate off the tree? Sure, you can walk in rebellion. You can practice them. You're walking the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life.

You surely shall not die. Explain it away. Explain it away so this works. Because this is what has the hearts of people. And the only thing, when this gets your heart, you get a stumbling block right in front of your face.

And the only thing you can see in this Bible is what fits in that doctrine. That has preeminence. This becomes number one. And that is doctrines of demons. To draw your heart away from. So you can never be led into any truth if something else has your heart.

Amen? Okay? Now, let no one deceive you. Was Eve deceived? Now, if you do your word study on being deceived in the New Testament, you'll see exactly that deception comes when you think you want double money.

You just do your word study on being deceived and watch. And that's where you're warned over and over and over about unrighteousness, righteousness, deception, and a divided heart walking in rebellion to God.

Do not be deceived. Let no one deceive you with empty words because of these very things right here. The wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. That's what you're repenting from. Therefore, you better not be partakers with them.

Just quickly, just hold your place right there. Colossians 3, verse 5. I want to get just a few basic things right here. Therefore, Colossians 3, verse 5. Consider the members of your earthly body. You're dead to immorality.

You're dead to impurity. You're dead to passion. You're dead to evil desire. You're dead to greed. All these things amount to what? Idolatry. They amount to idolatry if you practice them, if you don't give them up.

They're idolatry. Now, I'm going to tell you something. If Jesus Christ is Lord of your heart, your fruits are going to show it. Your heart's going to change. Amen? Impurity is not going to be Lord. Passion is not going to be Lord.

Immorality is not going to be Lord. Evil desire is not going to be Lord. Greed is not going to be Lord. All of it is idolatry. It becomes disorder. Now, look at verse 6. It's on account of these things that the what?

That the God comes. Well, let me ask you something. Do these things come against the law? Let me ask you that. Talk to me here. Do these things break the law? Do these things break the law? Well, did we see that the law brings wrath?

No, we didn't. Did we see that last night? Did we see the law brings wrath? Right. So what is the wrath? What is the law for? For those who are walking under the law. Amen? Do you understand the moment you start walking under the law, you're chastised right then?

And if Jesus Christ is still your Lord, you'll overcome it and you'll walk back in peace. How many of you see that? Hold up your hands. This breaks the law. The wrath of God. All right, let me ask you something.

Can God... I don't know how to word this. Can anything displease God more than this right here? When he talks about wrath? You've seen somebody irritated. You've heard somebody angry. Now, this is wrath.

Huh? Doesn't sound like he likes it, does it? Well, he cursed the whole... every human being there is because he... Adam and Eve. Because the sin of Adam and Eve did this. Amen? When did he change? Folks, do you understand our traditions being killed in you?

And me? Huh? Been deceived. We have been deceived, so what do you do when you're deceived? You can always check right here to see. Right here is the way you find it. Now, if some person can blind lead the blind, you go to the pit, but you come back here, and this is what the Lord is leading us to do today.

He's showing us things we've been deceived about. It's the grace and mercy of God. Amen? Okay? Now, the wrath of God... And verse 7, In these things you also... you once walked, which means you're not walking there when you were living in them.

You're not living there because you're no longer walking along. Is that plain? But now you also put them all aside. You put aside anger. You put aside wrath. You put aside malice. You put aside slander.

You put all this selfishness. That's a beautiful speech from your mouth. Amen? Now, back in Ephesians 5, we said, verse 15, you better be careful how you walk. You better not walk as unwise men or foolish men, but you're going to walk as a wise.

And we know that verse 27 talks about the church. He's preparing for himself. It's holy and blameless. And how is this church going to be holy and blameless? As you see it in verse 26, this is how he makes the church holy and blameless.

He sanctifies her. How do you sanctify her? The word washes and cleanses your heart. Right there you said, Having cleansed her by the washing of water of the word. Now, tell me something. How can the word wash your heart when something else has got your heart?

If it got out, the word can't wash your heart. Because you won't take the word to heart. This is why people sit in meetings like this and they start getting peace and everything because their heart begins receiving the word.

Do you understand? I used to watch a lot of people in these early meetings that I was in just go, I mean, God just all over these people. And there are, I mean, in this word and saying in this word. And it's an interesting thing, all the things that come up to start drawing a person's heart.

Religious things are good. You know, maybe gifts. Maybe casting out demons. Maybe any number of things like that to just start, just to hone in on one thing and you see the difference in them. It's different.

Because standing in this word and being washed in the word of God, you can't even know how to walk. You're going to be deceived if you're not doing it all the time. You'll start drifting and drifting and drifting and drifting.

Amen? So that is a church you come at. Now, is a person holy and blameless if they practice sin? I can't hear you. Turn to Hebrews 10, please. Hebrews 10. Now, what do you think the wrath of God is? Can I tell you what it is?

Let me explain something. I don't remember what all we covered, but I want you to know the power of the darkness, the spirit of God is the fire and the spirit of the devil is the fire. Amen? Now, let me just show you something.

When your heart is in agreement with the rebellion, you've got the spirit of the devil working on you. When your heart is in agreement with God, you've got the spirit of God working with you. And I want you to know that demons aren't blessings.

And if anybody's bothered with that, just get adjusted to it because, see, that's some stronghold you've been taught because it's all over your Bible and you've got to talk about it. Talk about all the gospel.

Amen? How are you going to learn about it? And so, when these things are in your life, I mean, you lower the hedge on yourself when you sin because we say something about putting up your weapons and you tear down all speculation, thoughts and arguments.

You exalt themselves against the Word of God and you bring every thought captive to the beatiness of Jesus. Hebrews talks about your senses being sharpened to discern good and evil. Amen? Now, you can't figure this all out in the natural.

Absolutely not. Because in the natural is the works of the law. But in the works of the... When you... Everything that Jesus says, see, he takes your weakness and you take his strength. You become strong in the Lord.

This is how you become strong in the Lord, to have his weapons. Amen? All right, then you're stronger than any stronghold and anything the devil can bring him in. That's the way you become that. But you only become that by walking in covenant.

You have to choose. And we're going to read there a little later in 1 Peter 5. But after you've suffered for a while, I mean, you suffer and you prove that you love God more than you do yourself. Look with me in verse 20.

Now, we know the hedge comes down on sin. Verse 20, for if... Now, see, I can use this scripture later, and later on I'll come back to this right now and you're going to see it different. But I want to just read part of it right now and then later on, at some point, maybe tomorrow night, we might come back again.

But I want you just to see what this is saying right here. It's skipped a lot. Verse 26. For if we go on sinning... What? Willfully, after receiving the knowledge of the truth, after you receive the word of God, you go on sinning, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sin.

Who is the sacrifice? Jesus? Well, if you're not coming to Jesus, may I ask you, are you having your heart cleansed? Well, if you're not having your heart cleansed, you're choosing against God. Is that right?

Is that right? If you do it willfully, you're willfully... That means God doesn't have your will. He'll give your will to Satan. Is that right? Okay. When you do this, a certain terrifying expectation of what?

Judgment. Sounds like a hedge is down, doesn't it? And the fury of fire. We're going to learn a lot about fire tonight. There's a fury of fire which is going to consume the adversary. If your will is against God, are you an adversary?

If you stand and speak against God, are you an adversary to God? Anyone who set afire the law of Moses, he died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. We saw that over. You've probably seen this in Number 15 where the man went out on the Sabbath day to get a load of wood and God says, kill him.

Stoned him to death. When did God change? Do you see how he is about rebellion and sin? When he explained the way? All right, now look today, right now, 29. How much severe punishment? We're not going to act like that's not in there.

How much severe punishment do you think he will deserve who tramples underfoot the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God and he regards something as what? What's that word? Unclean? You remember the scripture there that says you cannot be unevenly yoked.

You can't walk with the devil. Your hearts cannot be tied to a temple. A God can walk with someone that has a temple of idols that won't give them up. Amen? He said, come out from the midst of them and do not touch what is unclean and then I'll be a father to you and then when you come out you'll be sons and daughters to me.

Is that right? Amen? Are you all with me? Okay. But he regards it as unclean. Now let me ask you something. Is the word of God supposed to cleanse you from all rebellion and sin? Well, if you sin willfully, are you regarding the covenant as unclean?

You justify rebellion to God? Is that right? Are you seeing what I'm saying? Okay. The blood of the covenant by which he has what? You regarded the covenant here, the gospel that's supposed to sanctify and purify you, you regard it as something unclean.

It's the word of God. Everybody's seeing that, aren't you? You regard it as unclean. This gospel, this word, which is supposed to sanctify and purify your heart, you want to sin willfully, you want to practice sin, want to twist and pervert grace and say it's all right to do these things, you insult the spirit of grace.

That's what your Bible says. For we know, God says, that we know him who said, Vengeance is mine. I repay, and again the Lord will judge his people. And I want to ask you something. Did he make, is he making this sound like a practice in sin?

Like, oh hum, this is God speaking. Amen? Is that right? This is God speaking. The Lord will judge his people. Now your Bible goes on in 31 to say, it's a terrifying thing. It's terrible. It's terrifying.

If a person could know, if you have understanding about it, if you can comprehend, it's the most terrifying thing that can happen to you, to fall into the hands of a living God. But remember the former days.

Now remember the former days, back earlier. After being enlightened, you were actually first enlightened about Jesus and everything. Is that right? Before you were enlightened, you had to receive some light.

Is that right? You were enlightened, and then you endured a great conflict of sufferings. Is that right? In other words, you become a public spectacle. Do you know how you become a public spectacle? Because the world out here walks in pride.

So when you don't walk in pride and when you just humble yourself and as the world calls, you want to be the doormat, you don't hit back, you don't strike back, you don't do these things, you look pretty square, don't you?

The world doesn't understand that kind of love. They don't understand that. So you become a public spectacle when you quit war and eat the flesh because all the world wars and eats the flesh. And when you quit war and eat the flesh, which means sinning.

And this is what happened to you when you were first enlightened and Jesus Christ became the Lord of your heart. Amen. A humble person doesn't look like he has good sense in the world. Not their way of thinking, see.

Because in the world right now you step on the whole bunch, get to the top, get all you can, can all you can get. See, that's how the power of the Lord gets your heart. But part of you became a public spectacle through what?

Reproaches. And where do you think the tribulation comes from? The tribulation comes with the words and things like that. People attest you to see if you've got just a little bit of reputation and everything.

If you do, you'll come over because you want to look good to them. See, persecution, see this is how persecution pulls you away from the Word. It makes it so hard and the powers of darkness and people bring so much pressure on you and everything.

So finally it's so hard to stand you on the Word of God, you just kind of move over where you can kind of, you know, get their approval too. And then what have you done? You're getting the Word taken out of your heart.

They bring the affliction and the powers of darkness to used people. They don't even suspect it. Capture them and they don't even know it. Embarrassment of flesh is little used but the powers of darkness.

Flesh always opposes the Spirit. This is why anything spiritual ever comes out in your life, you can always expect the devils and the people they've got captive to come and put water on it. Flesh always attacks the spiritual because the powers of darkness control them.

Now let's read 33 again. This approaches and there is the tribulations and partly by coming shares with those who are so treated and that's the body of Christ. Amen? Well, now let's look at verse 35. Therefore do not throw away your confidence which has a great reward.

Now let me ask you something. How do you lose your confidence? You throw away your confidence by sinning. Because when you have a sin in your heart, what happens? Your heart what? Condemns you and then when your heart condemns you, you don't have confidence.

This is what it's talking about. Amen? So he said don't throw away your confidence. Don't walk in this sin. You throw away your confidence. You walk in sin because when you have sin in your life your heart condemns you.

And when your heart condemns you, when your heart condemns you, you don't get much from God. You know that, don't you? Amen? Let's see it again. Therefore do not throw away your confidence which has a great reward, for you have need of what?

You endure. You saw it up there in verse 32. You endure the great conflict of sufferings. You endure affliction. Is that right? You endure tribulation. You endure reproaches. Is that what he's saying up there in 32 and 33?

You endure them. So, folks, are you seeing what I'm saying? Huh? When you get sin, you get to the sacrifice and get your heart repented. Go to the sacrifice. His name is Jesus. And get cleanse of it. Amen?

And then when you have peace you got confidence. You know why you got confidence? Because you're walking in love. And that's what everything that we're saying right here. Right? For you have need of endurance so that when you've done the what?

What is the will of God? The will of God is to walk right in God's eyes. Not in your own eyes. Not according to somebody... Well, let me put it this way. There's not a Lutheran righteousness or a Catholic righteousness or a Methodist righteousness and, if I'm permitted, a Baptist righteousness.

There's only one righteousness. There's only one righteousness. It's what looks good through God's eyes. And it's what we're all supposed to be looking for. That's what makes us one heart and one man.

Jesus! Amen? For you have need of endurance so that when you've done the will of God, then you're going to what? What do you get? You do the will of God and you don't have sin. And then what do you get?

You get a promise. Now, let me just tell you another verse. Same thing. John 15, 16 says that you've been called and you've been chosen to go and bear much fruit. And not only to bear much fruit, but your fruit remains.

Now, you cannot bear fruit unless you're putting to death sin against God. You cannot bear the fruit. You can't walk in love! Branch is not going to do it. Quit trying, branch. It's not going to work.

It's the work of the law. You can't do it. It's the grace of the Spirit of God that's going to come and cleanse you. You have to submit to it. You're going to... You're going to suffer! He'll wish to come after me.