Representing Christ — Bill McLeod

Christians as Little Christs

Years ago, I heard a pastor say, I was a very young Christian at the time, and he said, the word Christian means little Christ. I thought, hey, that's neat. That's really neat, little Christ. It says the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.

You read about that in Acts. And so we don't know how this happened, maybe because they were like Christ. It must have been something along those lines. Little Christ. Well, I smoked a lot when I was younger, and I smoked pipes and cigars and cigarettes and enjoyed it.

And my mother used to really bawl me out, you know. I'd say, show me the Bible. And she couldn't. So I went on, you know. I remember one time smoking a cigarette, ashes dropping on the page of the Bible.

Just blew them off, you know. Kept on going. My mother would give me a join, you know. And then after this happened, that is when I heard the guy say this. I was sitting there smoking. I just said, it hit me like a thunderbolt.

I'm a little Christ, and I'm smoking? What am I doing this for? Never touched tobacco again. It was all over, just like that. Nobody talked me into it, just the Spirit of God, you know. And so he does that.

So we are little Christ. And we need to remember that people don't read our Bible, they read us, right? They don't read our Bible. But they do read us, they watch us. And like Paul said, we are made...

The Greek word there is theotron, which means theatre. We are made as theatre to the world, to angels and to men. And whether we like it or not, we're being watched day and night. Not only by people in this world, but by demons and angels, good angels, and by God Himself, of course.

And so, if we're a little Christ, let's be a little Christ to the glory of God. Well, the Bible says in 2 Corinthians chapter 3, Paul said, for as much as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Now, he said they were manifestly declared to be epistles of Christ. Well, didn't the church in Corinth have a lot of problems? Yes, it did. Well, how could he say this? They were manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ.

I'm sure it means that most of the church was right. There were some people in the church that were not right. And that's true, I suppose, any period in the church's history. Epistles of Christ. And we are that.

We're supposed to be that. We may not like the idea that we're on stage as Christian believers, but we are. It's God's way of getting the gospel around. And God is looking for people, remember, the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong in behalf of those whose heart is perfect towards Him.

God is looking for people that He can pour His Spirit through. Did you ever hear the story of Batai? There's a buffer state between China and India called Nepha. No missionaries were ever allowed in there.

Batai and the Power of a Willing Heart

It may be different now, but years ago, no missionaries ever been in there. There's a lot of missionaries out of Sam in India, Baptists and others, and they were trying to get into Nepha. And they were not able, so they asked God to send someone out.

Then a hospital at Tezpur, and one day a young man showed up named Batai from Nepha, very sick. They nursed him to health. Then he found out they had a Bible college, and he wanted to go to Bible college, but he couldn't read or write.

So they let him go for three weeks, and then they gave him a diploma. And the diploma was tied to a little ribbon. All it said was, Batai has done his best. And he's gone. Six months later, he comes back out, and he says, how do you start churches?

I said, why are you asking? Oh, hundreds have been saved. What? Oh, I've been preaching everywhere. Hundreds have been saved. He said, they're beating at my door day and night, wanting to be saved. So they showed him what to do, and he went back in again.

And sometimes, you know, those mountain streams in the north, they're kind of cold. And sometimes they have a fire burning, but they're baptizing. And he baptized sometimes 68 or 100 people at one time, you know.

And he'd flake out, and deacons would catch him, drag him out of the river, stick him beside the fire, warm him up, and stick him back in again, you know. He couldn't read or write, but he had a heart that was right.

And God used him. And God was looking for people like that. You don't have to have a big education. You have to have a big heart, you know. Living epistles of Jesus Christ, known and read of all men. They're reading you.

They're reading me. They're watching us. And you can't get away from it, no matter what you do. Some people try to hide it, and they're never happy. They're always unhappy when they try to hide it. I have a friend back home named John Sparks.

John Sparks: From Religious Argument to Evangelism

One or two of you may know who he is. John was a mink rancher and a Christian. And he loved to argue predestination. Nothing pleased him better than to argue on election and predestination. He never ever won a soul to Christ, never even tried.

Didn't know he was responsible to do that. But one day on the mink ranch, and I've seen that lantern. There was an old lantern hung on a log in one of the buildings there. It had been there for years.

It was rusty, and the lamp was black. It had never been cleaned. And there was cobwebs all over it. And he was walking by it, and the Lord said, John, that's you. And he just stopped. What does he mean, you know?

What do you mean, Lord? You don't have any light? You aren't helping anybody? You're dead. Just then we had meetings in Winnipeg, and John attended. People, he came forward five times to meet with God.

When I saw him coming that fifth time, I thought, oh, no. Not again. What's going on here? But he said, you know, every time I went forward, he dealt with a certain area of my life. There was so much rock in my life, and God couldn't do it all at once.

He phoned me one night, and he said, Brother Bill, I'm lying here in pieces on the floor. Can God put me together again? I said, well, if he took you apart, he can put you together, sure. And after the fifth trip to the altar, the next night, during the sharing time, he came running up those stairs to the platform, a shining face, and he told us what had happened.

He said, I'm free. I'm free. I'm free. And he started soul winning. The church he attends, several years ago, they needed a pastor. They asked me to take on for a while until they could find a pastor, which I did.

And so I asked John to take me around to meet the people, and I'd be a home saver. How did you find Christ? And they pointed to John, you know. How did you find the Lord? Well, John, he led me to Christ, you know.

The church hired him as a full-time director of evangelism. You couldn't get him into an argument on election and predestination if you tried. That's all gone, you know. He's a real saint of God. But he had to be knocked down and torn apart.

Sometimes it's hard because we're tough, you know. But I remember one gal who argued with God and did her own thing, and she said, I was a very proud, stubborn person, but I discovered that God was more stubborn than I was.

And so he is, of course. Okay. You know, we're told in Ephesians that God gave gifts to men, and then he gave gifted men to the church. And he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints and for the work of the ministry under the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Measuring Ourselves by the Fullness of Christ

Now it says over in 2 Corinthians 10, but they, measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. If you're not wise, you're a fool. So you're not to measure yourself by some other Christian.

Billy Sonny said sometimes Christians, when they're backslidden and they want to stay that way, they find some Christians who's more backslidden than they are, and they lay this Christian on the floor, and they lay alongside him and then they holler, Hey, look, I'm taller than he is.

But it's the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That's what it's all about. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers are there to perfect the saints, to bring the saints to this position, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

So if you're comparing yourself to someone else, you better quit, because God says you're just not wise. You're not to do that. Okay. We need that help sometimes, I'm sure. What is the goal of our instruction?

The Goal of Christian Instruction Is Love

1 Timothy 1 .5 says, The end of the commandment, or as one translation says, the goal of our instruction is love, rising out of a pure heart and out of a good conscience and out of a genuine faith, from which some, having swerved or not aiming at, have turned aside unto vain jangling or unto a wilderness of words.

And some Christians, it's all talk. And it's never about God, you know. They just talk. I don't know if they like to hear the sound of their voice or what it is. But some of them are talking machines, you know.

They never say anything you can get anything out of, but it does, you know, fill in the silent lapses of time that sometimes occur between people. Turned aside unto endless talk. And in the same chapter, 1 Timothy 1, it says, verse 19, Holding faith and a good conscience, which some, having put away concerning faith, have run their ship on the rocks, one translation says.

And we keep meeting Christians who've run their ship on the rocks. They're shipwrecked, and sometimes they never change. They never get out of it. They just stay. They don't learn. Mainly because they don't know the Bible well enough.

You know, I've got over 3 ,000 books in my library, but I trade them all for a good copy of the Bible, you know. And, you know, Christians today were book-wise and Bible-ignorant, you know. And I sometimes say too much about that.

So, if I do today. Some missionaries in Mexico were telling us they had perennial revival in their churches because the people knew their Bible so well. And once a month, they had a clean-up session.

The missionaries would deal with the business, and they'd go to the back and sit and wait. And somebody would get up and walk over. Some lady would walk over to another lady and say, You was just a big gossip.

Oh, and they'd get it settled between them, you know, in front of the congregation. Make it right if it's true. And somebody might get up and say, You was an adulterer. This would go on, you know, until the whole place was cleaned up once a month.

They did that because, you know, what the Bible says, it says, Exhort one another daily, well, it's called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Have you ever exhorted another Christian?

Most Christians have never done that. We preachers do it, but then sometimes we do it professionally, but not in other cases where it ought to be done. Exhort one another daily. And you've never done that?

Hey, wait a minute, how come? If you don't, people will be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, and the church will get cold, you know. This kind of ministry is needed. Exhort, I say again, Hebrews chapter 3.

Exhort one another daily. And it says it again in Hebrews chapter 10. The congregation, 400 people, how many have exhorted another Christian in the last month? Another hand goes up, you know. In the last six months, you might get a couple of hands, you know.

Why is that? We just don't take the Bible seriously. And people are not writing books about things like exhorting one another daily. So we don't get it. Do you know among Muslims, by the time a Muslim is 10 years old, he knows the whole Quran off by heart?

I've read the Quran, made notes on it. I don't know how they can do it, but they can do that. But the average Christian, if you offered him $10 ,000, he could not accurately quote 100 verses from the Bible.

I'm talking about the average Christian. We know it so poorly. We love it, but we ignore it. And we need to do something about that. The goal of our instruction is love. I used to say to myself, boy, you know, it would be possible to be projected back in time and just show up at one of those sessions of Jesus with the Twelve.

Just to sit in and listen. And then in John 17, the Lord said, well, you can do that. Here's what it said. Christ said, And I in them. So the goal of his instruction to the Twelve was to produce 12 men who were filled with the love of God.

And Paul is picking up, and it's an echo. The goal of our instruction is love. Rising out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of a genuine faith. A lady once dragged her husband down the aisle, and he was an unwilling captive, and I could see that.

And she got him to the front, and she says to me, Talk to him, he's backslidden. So I began talking to him. He said, Preacher, look, he said, I appreciate your kindness, but he said, I'm only here to keep her from tearing me apart.

He said, If I hadn't come when we got home, she'd spend a couple hours just tearing me apart. And he said, I just want to keep peace, you know. I'm not ready for this. So I turned to her and I said, Are you a Christian?

Of course I'm a Christian. Are you filled with the Spirit? Of course I'm filled with the Spirit. How do you know you're filled with the Spirit? I speak in tongues 30 minutes every day. I said, I asked you how you knew you were filled with the Spirit.

That doesn't tell me you're filled with the Spirit. It does so, she said. I said, It does not. And finally she said, Well, I have a couple of problems. Her husband was going like this, you know. I said, Tell me about your little problems.

Well, she said, I have a terrible temper, and she said, Sometimes I lose my temper, and I even curse sometimes when I lose my temper. Oh, I said, What other little problems do you have? And she said, I'm insanely jealous of my husband.

And he was shaking his head, yeah. And I said, You're not really filled with the Spirit. You're full of self. Why don't you do something about it? She dropped on her knees and really wept her way through to God, you know.

I don't know what happened to him. Nothing happened to him at that moment, you know. I was talking to a Pentecostal preacher one time, and I said, I can prove that you're not a Pentecostal. We're good friends, you know.

He said, You can't do that. I said, Yes, I can, from the Bible. So I said, When you speak in tongues, do you speak in tongues according to 1 Corinthians 14, or according to Acts Chapter 2? And I knew what the answer would be.

He said, I speak in tongues according to 1 Corinthians 14. I said, Then you're a Corinthian, not a Pentecostal. Because, you see, in the day of Pentecost, they spoke in tongues that people could understand.

But in 1 Corinthians 14, that's not how it is. You speak in an unknown tongue. You speak not unto men, but unto God. But in Acts 2, they were speaking unto men. So he wasn't a Pentecostal. He was a Corinthian.

He got a big laugh out of that. He'd never heard this before. Anyway, the goal of our instruction is love. Rooted and grounded in love, it says in Ephesians Chapter 3, if you remember. And we as Christians are supposed to be that kind of person.

Love That Forgives Tragedy

Blanche Johnson, Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, her husband was a doctor. And there's one or two of you here who know the family. And they were on holidays in Japan, or in China. And they left their four children with her parents.

And one day her parents took their children out for a walk near North Battleford, Saskatchewan. And a drunk teenager ran into them. The grandma died instantly. The grandpa died the next day. None of the kids were hurt.

They were on the ditch side. They weren't hit. Then they had an awful time finding their parents in China. They got them back. And one of my son-in-laws had the funeral. I knew the family. I knew the grandpa well.

He'd been in some of our meetings. I remember him running to the altar one time. Anyway, when it was all over, Blanche, whose mother had been killed, and who loved her mother dearly, found out where this teenager, he was in jail, and she went to see him.

She told him who she was, and she said, You killed my mom, and I miss my mom greatly. But I just want you to know that I forgive you with all my heart. And I'd like to tell you how to become a Christian.

And that teenager got on his knees and got saved that day. Now, how could she do that? Well, she could do that because she knew what 1 Timothy 1 and 5 said, what Ephesians 3 was saying. We're supposed to be rooted and grounded in the love of God.

So no matter what happens, love takes over. Be not overcome of evil, the Bible says, but overcome evil with good. Often we get snowed under because of what happens, things people do or don't do and should do, or whatever.

Or they criticize us, and we sort of give up. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Okay. Holding faith in a good conscience, the goal of God's instruction. Let's line up with God's purposes then.

Are you filled with the love of God? Are you having a hard time in your home situation maybe? Or in your church situation? You don't know how to handle it? There's only one way to handle life, and that's by being filled with the love of God.

Christ, when he was reviled, did not revile again. When he suffered, he didn't threaten. But he committed himself, he committed his cause to God. And we have to do the same. And be patient and walk with God.

Letting the Word of Christ Dwell Richly

Colossians 3, there's a verse that says, Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom. I don't like those Bibles that have the sayings of Christ in green or red. I never recommend them, I don't like them.

Maybe you have one, don't feel badly at what I'm saying, but I'll tell you why I don't like them. Because it's sort of saying that, it's indicating that the only things Christ said are what's in green or in red.

And that's not true. It says in 1 Peter 1 that the spirit of Jesus Christ was in all the Old Testament prophets, so when Moses spoke, Christ was speaking. So when somebody says to you, you know, Jesus never said anything against homosexuality, you can correct him.

He said it through the Old Testament prophets. The spirit of Christ was in those Old Testament prophets. When Moses wrote against homosexuality, that was Christ speaking to us. The word of Christ was Genesis to Revelation then.

It's not even just the New Testament. It's more than that. And people, we need to know it. We need to know it well. Study to show yourself approved unto God. Not your husband or your wife or your kids or your parents or your pastor, but approved unto God.

Is God happy with the time you spend with His Word? That's the big question, you see. I remember speaking to a bunch of pastors, 40 pastors. We were set up at a very short notice, and they were having dinner, and they said, you'll have to speak while you're reading.

It was a little different, but I managed okay. And afterwards, a pastor came up, and he said, you know, Bill, he said two weeks ago, I threw my Bible on the floor. I haven't read it since. I haven't prayed since.

I really need help. And he did need help. And it was, I think if I remember rightly, it was because of some problems in the church. He couldn't handle it. He was just giving up on the whole thing, you know.

Never give up, because if you're giving up, you're giving up on God. You can't handle it? Great. I know someone who can. God can. And people, He knows how to do it, you know. Psalm 37, 5. Commit your way.

Whatever your way, as good or bad, commit your way to the Lord. Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. One translation says, He shall do it. We've seen it again, and again, and again. Preachers in trouble, maybe with their wife.

One preacher friend of mine, he struggled for 11 years, because his wife didn't think he should be in the ministry, and I kept saying Psalm 37, 5, Psalm 37, 5. He never got it, you know. But finally, he got it.

And he committed his life to God, and three weeks later, I was there when it happened. That gal, God just, He tore her apart. I mean, He broke her, absolutely broke her. Several years later, he said, Brother Bill, that was something only God could do.

He said, she goes so well with me now, you know. That really changed. Now, I think I mentioned before, did I? Maybe not, but a brother of mine, pastoring in Vancouver, and he had this Jehovah Witnesses congregation.

Did I mention that? Maybe not. Anyway, he came to me after a meeting, and he said, How do you get a Jehovah Witness Converter? All my kids and my wife are red-hot JWs, and if I say something, they tell me I'm an agent of the devil.

I just get nowhere with them. What do you do? I said, Psalm 37, 5. What's that? So we went through it. He'd never seen that before. So we knelt together, and he committed, and I said, Listen, when you commit your family to God, it may get worse.

Don't panic. Maybe it has to get worse before it gets better. But remember, you've given this problem to God now. You're not worrying about it anymore. You're concerned, but you're believing. You're trusting now.

Trust. Always join Psalm 37, 5 with Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, you know, because the first one says, Commit and trust. The second one says, Trust with all your heart, and don't lean to your own understanding.

Now, it doesn't normally happen this quickly, but he walked into his home that night after the meeting, and one of his kids came and said, Daddy, you know, I'd like to be a Christian like you are. He about fell over in a daze.

He couldn't believe it, that God could work that quickly, you know. I heard a testimony down in Minneapolis. This lady gave her testimony one night in some meetings we were holding, and she told us how she had four sons.

Her husband died when her sons were small. She had to get a job, and she'd managed to get them all through school and all of this. And she said, But, you know, not one of them became a Christian. And so one night I had it out with God.

They were all away from the home. None of them saved. And I said, God, you failed. You took my husband from me, and I had to struggle and struggle. As you know how I struggled to make enough money to take care of them, and you didn't seem to care.

She said, You failed. And she said, You know, that's when the action started. And God showed me that I'd never ever believed Him to save her children, you know. I'd squawked and hollered about it many, many times, but I'd never believed God for it.

And she said, He directed me to Psalm 37 5. And she said, That night I committed my four sons and their wives to God for salvation. That was two years ago. She said, They're all saved now, all eight of them.

And she said, The minute I did that, God began to work. But you see, when you make this kind of a commitment, dear people, you have to believe God. Thank God. You keep thanking God. You don't stop praying.

You start thanking God that He's got the problem. He's got it now. You don't have it now. It's His problem. And He'll take care of it. People, I've seen it happen within a day, within two days, within three days, three weeks, three months, four years.

Persevering in Prayer for Family Salvation

In my mother's case, see, I came from a broken home, and my parents didn't get along. They loved us as four kids, but they didn't love each other. And so they split when I was a kid, maybe eight years of age.

And then we had to eat a lot of cabbage soup because my dad wasn't a cook. And we didn't know what went on. There was a court case, and mother was gone, and dad had us. And so it was. But in retrospect, looking back, was all of God, because my dad became a Christian when he was 75.

One day my dad said, Your mother's coming back, but you don't have to listen to her religious talk. I didn't know what that meant. She got saved, you see. And dad didn't like that, but he was glad to have her home, because she was a good cook, you know.

So she told us later on what she did. She got home, and the first thing she did, she said, I committed you four and dad to Christ for salvation. Psalm 37 5. And you know what happened? Nothing for 14 years.

Nothing for 14 years. She said one day the devil climbed on her back. She said, See, it doesn't work. This commitment to self and trusting God, that doesn't work. You see, Don was 23, my older brother.

I was 20, and my ex-brother, they were below me, and none of us were saved. None of us were showing any interest in things of God. She said, The devil almost got me that day, but not quite. She said, I threw him off my back before the sun went down, and I said, I'm just going to keep on believing God.

And one day Don came home and said, Mom, I heard Dr. Schaffer at Elim Chapel, and I got saved. Wow. And then a couple of years later, I was reading a book by the Reverend Clarence Larkin on the second coming of Christ.

I didn't know anything about his second coming, hardly much about his first coming, but I read this booklet through, and at the end of the booklet, about 80 pages, it said, Dear Reed, that was me. Can you say you're ready for his coming?

And my answer, of course, had to be no. If your answer is no, here's what to do. And I did it. In the basement of my parents' home, Craig Street, 452 Craig Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, there was a 2x4 nailed to the floor joist.

It was about eight inches from the floor of the basement floor, and I don't know what it was there for, but it was my altar. And I put both hands on that thing, and I cried to God and got saved. I went up the stairs about 14 at a time to tell my brother and my mother what had happened.

Now there was three of us in the home, see. And my brother Bob woke up one day. He was sleeping with my brother Don, and he was shaking so bad, Don woke, and my brother was afraid he was going to die and go to hell, and so Don led him to Christ.

Then my youngest brother Keith, when he and his wife, when they got married, they promised each other when they were alone that they would never, ever become Christians. They shook hands, rather. And he wound up a preacher.

Yeah, I remember how that happened. You know, we committed Keith to God, and one day his wife phoned and said, You'd better come and talk to your brother. He's got some trouble. So he went to see me. He was sitting on the floor.

And I said, What's the trouble, Keith? And he said, I'm so low down, there's no way out but up. So she said, I'll take the kids so you can talk. So she took the kids away, and he got saved. When she came back in, I started talking to her.

It just wasn't the right time, you know. Boy, she lost her cool, and she was kicking the wall with her feet and beating on it with her fists and screaming, and it just wasn't the time. But two years later, she found the Lord as her Savior.

But I think of my dear mom. Fourteen years, and she hung in there. And some of you have given up after a year, you know. Come on, now. He is faithful to promise. Faithful. Hang in there no matter what.

No matter where your kids are. Believe God. We need to do that. It's part of the Christian life. Okay, let the Word of Christ dwell in your rich and all wisdom. The kings of Israel, according to Deuteronomy 17, they were supposed to write out a copy of the Law of Moses.

Writing and Studying the Word of God

And I suppose that meant the first five books of the Bible. Although sometimes the word law included all of the Old Testament. I don't think it meant that. But I do think it meant the Law of Moses, which is almost as long as the New Testament is.

And they didn't have typewriters or computers. They were supposed to handwrite a copy of the Law of God. Why? Because they were supposed to read in it day and night to keep their hearts from being lifted up above their brethren, it says.

And some other things are mentioned there in Deuteronomy 17. You know, I read that years ago, and I was really challenged. And I thought, hey, I'm going to write my own copy of the New Testament. And I did.

It took me two years because I only did it when I was at home and I was on the road quite a bit. And so I didn't. You know, I found something that really helped me. Because when you write it out, you have to be careful how you write it word by word.

You get it right, you know. And it helps tremendously. It helps to remember it. I also did Isaiah and Jeremiah and Proverbs and the Psalms. And I haven't completed the Old Testament. And maybe someday I will.

But I found it's such a help, dear people. It's in the Bible, right? Aren't you a king and a priest? Yes, you are, the Bible says so. Maybe you ought to do the same thing. It's a healthy, helpful exercise.

So, let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. I mentioned having over 3 ,000 books. When my eyes get tired reading the Bible, I read a book for a few minutes until my eyes get rested and then go back to the Bible again.

I try to study 12 chapters of the Bible every day. And not this Bible, but one I have with me. It's not here, but I have it with me. But, you know, I make my own cross-references. There are thousands of cross-references in your Bible to begin with.

Make your own cross-references and see what happens. I decided one time to go back and just count and see how many cross-references I'd made in this other Bible I had. And I'd made close to 16 ,000 cross-references of my own.

And I decided one day to just see. Now, it worked out to about 8 cross-references every time I studied 12 chapters of the Bible. One day it was 85. Now, it was very unusual. But, I just have the time of my life, you know, studying the Bible and doing this kind of thing.

It's fun. And it's wonderful. And it's helpful. And the devil hates it. And someone else loves it. The Lord, of course, you know. Doesn't it say, Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. Study to show yourself approved unto God.

A workman needs not to be ashamed. People have told me the reason they don't witness for Christ is because they don't know the Bible well enough. They might get asked a question they can't answer, and they'll be embarrassed, so they just don't do it.

That's not the way to handle it. If you don't know it well, get to know it well. Well, people tell me, But I can't remember. Well, I couldn't remember either when I started off, you know. And then I came across that verse that says, The Holy Spirit will bring to your remembrance whatever I said to you.

I thought if he could do it, then he can do it today. So, I asked him to give me a good memory for the Bible, and he did. But I have a rotten memory for other things. One time I took my wife to the store.