I Have All - I Am Full — Leonard Ravenhill

Paul's Contentment in Prison

Let's look at the epistle of Paul to the Philippians, Philippians chapter 4 and verse 18. But I have all and abound, I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odor of sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

Somebody attempted to give us another beatitude. I don't know what attitude the man was in when he said it. I don't know whether he was smiling, or cynical, or smug, or satisfied, or sincere. But if beatitude was this, blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.

It sounds a bit cynical, but there's an awful, awful lot of truth in it. And I'm quite sure that the Apostle Paul, on a higher level than that man said it, had already made this his way of life. He was not disappointed, because he expected nothing from the world in which he lived.

He had written it off, and they had written him off. And the cost of his discipleship, to use a phrase that Bonhoeffer liked so much, the cost of discipleship to him was this, that when he wrote this marvelous verse that I've read to you just now, he was in prison.

The sweetest note that the Apostle sang was when he was in prison. I don't know whether we'll have to go to prison to make some of us sing, but anyhow, that's true in his life. And you remember that the background of this epistle was this, that he went to a place called Philippi.

And being the good preacher that he was, he landed up in jail. And he decided to sing praises, and he sang his praises at midnight, and you remember that there was something tremendous happened, and the jailer was converted.

He had a ministry in Philippi, and one of the outstanding converts there was a girl with a familiar spirit. And the Apostle was able to cast that spirit out of her. Now, he did write on another occasion about the gospel of the grace of God.

He said, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female. You could break that down this way and say, there is neither bond nor free, that is race distinction.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, that is race distinction. There is neither bond nor free, that is class distinction. And there is neither male nor female, that is sex distinction. Or you could say, as a result of his preaching in Philippi, that a very beautiful lady was the one who first gave him comfort, and gave him an ear, Lydia the Seller of Purple.

She was a patrician, that is, that she was somebody high up in society. It's usually said that she was of Asiatic descent. And so he was a means of converting this patrician, this lovely lady. He was a means of converting a woman with a familiar spirit.

She was a prophetess. He was a means of converting a jailer, and he was a, well, let's say, a man who would punish. And so you see, each scale of life was met by the apostle in this one single incident.

Philippi had been established by a very famous Roman. In fact, it's usually credited with being the first foundation stone in the Roman Empire. And Paul seems to have always been a strategist in this, that he didn't go to the small town, he went to the main cities.

He went to Ephesus, and he went here to Philippi, and he went to Rome. Because everybody crossed through those cities, and he set up shop, if you like, where everybody would see that he was there. And he didn't hesitate even to go to the synagogue, and he didn't hesitate to call fire from heaven, as it were, in hostility from himself to himself.

I find it tremendously challenging that a man who has braved everything that it is possible to assail his body, his mind, and his spirit, now an aged man, I'm sure his eyes weren't straight. I'm sure his cheeks were pleated where stones would rip them open.

I'm sure his chest was all scarred with rough stones that had been thrown at him. I'm quite sure he limped. Because, you see, one day he was taken to a city called Lystra, and they stoned him there. They left him outside of the city saying, well that's the end of him anyhow, we finished that.

And I don't wonder that a man like this, you see, the great thing to me about the Apostle Paul is this, he's the best example of his own theology. You can't fault him anywhere. Everything he says he did, everything he talks about he was.

He made up his mind that Christ came and Christ said, look I'll take your human nature, I will be all that you are, in order that you may be all that I am. Now you could sit down and think of that for a week.

Christ said I will become all that you are, minus of course human sin, that you may become all that I am. That is, on the level of a man, not sharing his deity, but being made a sharer, a partaker, as the word says, of the divine nature.

You know, sometimes we're kind of rebuked because we accept things by faith. Well, you need faith to accept things that you can't reason out. There are some things you just can't reason out, and therefore you accept them by faith.

Not that we'll ever explain God. God cannot be explained, He can be experienced. Now I say again that Paul says here, and he's writing to these people, now he's in Rome and he writes this, and this seems, it seems ridiculous, it's nonsensical.

He says, I have all, and the bound, I am full. If you trace the story back, you'll find that part of his imprisonment at Philippi was this, that he was in favor with the Roman God, and he was allowed to live, he said, in his own hired house.

But he didn't stay there too long. The man got moved on, or he died, and therefore the apostle Paul fell into a different situation. And he says a little later that, all the saints salute you, chiefly they who are of Caesar's household.

And it wasn't an uncommon thing. In fact, it was a very pretty ordinary thing in those days for a man to build an enormous palace, and then underneath, like you have in say Warwick Castle in England, were the areas where the slaves were put, or where the prisoners were chained to the wall.

Now Paul was never minus that chain. Wasn't it when he stood before a gripper that he said, a fester stood up and said, my, you almost persuade me to be a Christian, and he said, I would that you were as I am, except for these bonds, except for these chains.

It was a sign of humiliation that a man dragged a chain, like today a convict, and he struggles with a chain between his legs. And even if this man was allowed to go free in the street as he was sometimes, that mark of condemnation was on him all the time.

He had to drag that weary chain with him. It was an identification that he'd lost his freedom. It was an identification that they'd humiliated him and robbed him of everything that he had. He was spoiled.

And yet, listen, there's no embarrassment to the Apostle Paul. He takes that chain of iron with him as though it were a chain of gold. He's as happy in his bondage. You see, here he's living down here in a basement.

Will you notice what he says? I could have been comfortable, but the springs in the bed were rough last night. The air conditioner wasn't working. And I couldn't get a drink of cold water. And my mail's been held up for days.

And, you know, the food isn't quite as good as the other prison I was in. You notice this, that Paul never whines? He never whimpers? Why doesn't he whimper? Why doesn't he whine? Because he says, Christ dwells in my heart, and I can no more whine than Christ whines.

Christ never whimpered? Oh, the height of really being lost in God, lost in Christ as the Apostle was. He's downstairs, and he's chained to the wall when he sleeps. The other man's upstairs with a silken couch.

The man up there is terrified he'll be assassinated. Paul isn't. He knows nobody will bother with him. His freedom is he's already an outcast. His liberty is he's already protected. This man is delicate and says, we don't have to eat this again today, do we?

Oh, it's boring. I mean, after all, we did it. Well, these are leftovers. Oh, leftovers. You offend the dignity of my lovely appetite. Paul down there gets the scraps that fall from the rich man's table, unless, of course, the slaves ate them in between the two places.

And then he says in his heart, I've got meat to eat that ye know not of. This man walks about and says, do you know that I have power from Caesar? The Apostle Paul says, do you know I have power from a man who's going to live when Caesar's been dead a thousand million years?

He lives in a world they know nothing about. He has freedom. While the man upstairs is in bondage. The man upstairs has a delicate appetite. This man has said, I've learned, he says to these very people, I've learned whatsoever state I'm in, therewith to be content.

Now, should we change this into a testimony meeting and let you all say the last time you quoted that? Huh? He doesn't say I've learned some conditions, he says I've learned whatsoever state I'm in. Not that I speak in respect of want, he says.

Do you know one of the most stirring things to me about this epistle? This is a love letter. He uses a personal pronoun here almost a hundred times. He speaks twenty times in different ways about contentment and joy and rejoicing.

Contentment, Eternal Treasures, and God's Provision

Oh, come on, what do you mean? Are you bluffing us? Are you putting on an act? Do you want everybody to hear that when you really got your back to the wall and you'd only half the skin on it, that you really kept your chin up and you sang in the night?

You see, this is not an epistle of some people that are living in comfort and an easy street. It's a man who's lost everything. You see, again, as I've said to you before and it sounds facetious, when you have nothing, you don't have to worry you lose anything.

And Paul had nothing. He had no reputation. He certainly had no money. He had no creature comforts. You couldn't go in his cell and sit down because there was no chair to sit on. He couldn't offer you some refreshment because he had no refreshment to give.

Everything that the eye could see, everything that the five senses could feed upon had already been demolished. And that's why he says to the believer, listen, listen, set your affection on things which are above.

Do you know why? Because the market never changes there. Because the supplies never run out in eternity. He giveth more grace as the burdens grow greater. It would be horrible if you thought there was less grace tomorrow than there was yesterday.

If your burden is twice as big tomorrow as yesterday. But he says, he giveth more grace as the burdens grow greater. Listen, these very people, he says, my God shall supply all your needs. Do you want to see a living example of it?

Here I am, sitting in a lousy prison cell. And as a matter of fact, he says, if I came right down to it, I'm really feeling sorry for you because you don't have as much victory where you are as I have right down here and I've got nothing.

And in having nothing, I've got all things. You see, a fire doesn't make a man a martyr. It reveals he is a martyr. If somebody stood you by the wall this afternoon and shot you because you say, well, I, yes, I'll stand by Christ instead of communism or some other thing, that would just reveal that somewhere else you'd already made your decision.

As I've said so often, Jesus did not die on the cross. He died in Gethsemane. The will was surrendered to his Father. The cross was the physical evidence of something that he'd done hours before when he sweat with great grief and agony and said, if it be possible, let this cup pass over me or all thy billows have gone over me.

It's my opinion, you may disagree, but it's my opinion that after the Apostle Paul himself, nobody ever stood as tall in spiritual life, after Jesus himself, nobody ever stood as tall as the Apostle Paul.

He says, I have all things and abound. In a prison cell, hey, come on Paul, you don't have a change of socks and you know it. Why don't you own up to it? You don't have a spare shirt. Why don't you admit it?

What do you mean you've got all things? Well, he says, all you need is air to breathe and that keeps you alive. You don't have money jingling in your pocket. You don't need a lovely home. You don't need a marvelous palace like this king that lives above my head.

I have all things because I only live on one level. I only have one interest. I only have one joy. I only have one goal. And there is nothing can cut me off from that. You see, on that Damascus road, he says that Christ revealed himself to me.

And then God took him to that great school, the University of Silence, and he was there for three and a half years. On the Damascus road, he said Christ revealed himself to me. But in the wilderness, he said he revealed himself in me.

I'm afraid the great population of so-called Christians, Christ has revealed himself to them, but I wonder how far he's revealed himself in them. I wonder what the degree of abandonment as God runs, as it were, his slide ruler, takes my temperature this afternoon.

And I may preach with zeal and a little effort and a little joy and a little sorrow and a little anguish, but I wonder when he gets right down there into the center of my being and takes my temperature, what degree of reservation there might be right now.

Is it showmanship? Is it zeal? Is it my hatred against worldly systems? Or is it my pure love to him? You see, Paul gives us a catalogue there in the second letter to the Corinthians, and verse 11, he spells out some of the things that had come to him.

In verse 24, 2 Corinthians 11, he says of the Jews, five times received I forty stripes save once. Thrice, listen, thrice, three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Thrice I suffered shipwreck.

A night and a day I was in the deep. In journeyings oft, in perils of the waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine own countrymen, in perils of the heathen, in perils of the city, in perils of the wilderness, in perils of the sea, in perils amongst false brethren, in weariness, in painfulness, in watchings, in hunger, in thirst, in fastings, often in cold and nakedness.

Hey, they aren't very good wages for a man that sold everything he had on that Damascus road, are they? This man could have been sitting up on a chair in the university because he had a greater colossal intellect, I'm sure, more than Hillel, the greatest of the rabbis that ever lived.

And here he says, I'm in weariness, I'm in fasting, I'm in pain, painfulness. Oh, you have to have pain when you're spirit-filled. Well, he had anyhow, didn't he? Hunger? Well, that's what he said. You know, I'm staggered, honest I am, and I'm not fooling.

I'm staggered that when this man went into Philippi, he didn't go around and say, spread the news, spread the news, spread the news. Do you know who's come to town? Paul the Apostle. I've done more than any man that ever lived.

I do everything Jesus did. He raised the dead, I raised the dead. He cured the sick, I cured the sick. He drove out devils, I drove... Why did he set up shop and shake the whole heathen city with a healing crusade?

It's amazing how little he does of that. Now, that's not wrong, it's right, it's beautiful. It's wrong when you need it for entertainment and give you a lift. You see, Paul's center and circumference, his beginning and the end, his source of everything is Jesus Christ.

More Than Conquerors Through Christ

Now, I say in this epistle, he uses the personal pronoun a hundred times, but as in every other epistle, his whole philosophy is geared and he centers people not on Paul, not I, but Christ. And he exalts him and he uplifts him.

When he finished writing that longer epistle to the Romans, you remember the end of it where he sums it all up beautifully and he says, and I think, could I put these together, they don't sound right, but there's a holy swagger here.

There's a holy swagger, he puts his shoulders back and he says, all right, well, just a minute before you chop my head off, let me tell you something. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, distress, famine, peril, nakedness, or sword?

As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We're counted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things, not some of them, we are more than conquerors. Not we just skip through and then finish up exhausted.

He says, when I've finished, I have a surplus left. He says, I'm persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers. You see, he's not only fighting something, he said, there's the sword, nakedness and the sword, they have to do with the body.

You can't put a sword through my spirit, you can put a sword through my body, but he says, I triumph over that. And then he says, also, there are principalities and there are powers. Do you remember he uses that same word in writing to the Colossians in the first chapter?

He says, for by him, that is Christ, by him all things were created that are in heaven, in the earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Do you remember he finishes Ephesians 6 saying the same thing?

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers. I'll tell you what, the church has got by pretty well until now, but it's my guess, no it's my certainty, that we're going to have a lot more to do with principalities and powers in heavenly places in the next few years than we've had in the past few.

This is a fight to the death. This is Satan's last great drive before the final outpouring of the Spirit of God. And Paul doesn't hesitate to say that he's wrestled against principalities and powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world.

And yet I remind you again of this text in which he says, but I have all. He not only says I have all, he says I abound. I not only abound, I'm full. He's a shirtless, homeless, moneyless, wifeless, childless, positionless, possessionless man, singing in glory, when the world has done its very best.

And he said, I've told you over and over again that the matter's not about tribulation or distress or famine or peril. What can separate us from the love of God? Again, you can wall me in, but you can't roof me in.

You can cut me off from fellowship. You can take my Bible, take my church, and what do I do? Well, before God, it doesn't take that much to upset a lot of us, does it? A little adversity. Oh, I wonder what the Lord's doing.

Has he forgotten about us? Hey, you were brave. You told him not long ago in prayer that you'd take anything. And so he says, all right, I'm going to try you out for a season. Where are my resources when it comes to that issue?

Suffering as Christian Calling

Now, Paul is reminding this people that he himself is in jail. He's in a bad situation. But if you go to chapter 1 and verse 29, he says this, For unto you it is given on the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which he saw in me, and now here to be in me.

The same conflict. You're going to suffer for his sake. In the second chapter, he says in verse 15, that he wants them to be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and a perverse nation.

Coming over into the third chapter, he begins to excite them in praise and adoration. You see, I reminded you that a hundred times he uses the first personal pronoun, because he's showing them what Christ means to him, but he's keeping their eyes on Jesus Christ, the son of God.

Again, in twenty different ways he talks about peace and calm and quietness and rejoicing and exaltation and worship. Now, there's one great omission in this chapter I only discovered, I think it was this morning.

Do you know he says nothing in this chapter about sin? He says nothing in the epistle about sin. He wrote the next epistle in the same place, at least he wrote it in prison in Rome. But in the next epistle, he has to take up a cudgel, he has to fight, he has to do some combat.

You see, some people have crept in and said, well, we don't deny Jesus is the son of God. We deny that he made a perfect atonement for sin. And man, that pulls everything there is in the apostle Paul.

You can tread on him, but you don't touch Jesus Christ. You can beat me and bruise me, you can cast me into the Mediterranean in a night and a day in the deep, that's all right, I'll take it, but you don't touch the son of God.

He loved me and gave himself for me. He has a holy passion, he has the fire that took men down to the martyr's place. He doesn't mention sin. Would you agree if I say there are some things harder to deal with than sin?

Come on, you know there are. You know there are certain sins, if Satan tempted you, get out of here, I have no interest in them. The average believing man is not tempted to adultery and drunkenness and thieving and all those other abominable sins of the flesh.

But there are some things harder than sin, and the apostle had to face them, and you and I have to face them. He had to face betrayal by some of his closest friends. He'd invested a great deal and trained some young men.

For instance, he says, Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world. Demas had been a firebrand, Paul would never have had him. The men that swore their allegiance not to him, they swore their allegiance to Jesus, and I say in God's name, if men couldn't listen to the apostle Paul, they couldn't listen to Gabriel.

And they took issue with him on one thing, another thing, and they found a place of separation. Do you know why? The cross got too difficult to bear. They couldn't bear the scorn of the world, and so they compromised with it.

Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world. He doesn't say he committed adultery. He doesn't say he murdered somebody. He doesn't say he did something obscene. He says the world, the world, the world got a pull on him.

And finally he gets to the place where those giant men at the side of him, do you know what he says? I don't think he said it with his tongue in his cheek. I don't think he was crying on somebody's shoulders.

He says, well, all men forsook me. Nevertheless, the Lord stood by me. You know when you'll find who's your dearest friend? When everybody quits you but one. I know you didn't say amen, but that's still true.

Everybody quits you but one. Do you think it was easy for this man? He's up against the Roman Empire. He's up against the might of the Greeks. He knows the Jews hate him with a perfect hatred. You see, he's got everything going for him.

He's got nothing going for him. He's a tribe of Abraham, a tribe of Benjamin. Everything a good Jew wanted he had. He was circumcised the eighth day. You know why they circumcise a child on the eighth day?

If you circumcise it on the seventh, it would bleed to death. It's circumcised on the eighth day. Isn't it marvelous the Bible knew that before modern science knew it? But you see, you don't have to try and reconcile the Bible with science.

You can't reconcile them. Jesus didn't come to reconcile us to this world. Forget it. Sure, I think we need more godly men in government if we can get it. But I'm going to tell you this. You'll never reconcile Washington or London to Jesus Christ.

That is not the purpose of redemption. The purpose of redemption is that men should be reconciled to God. Then reconcile with each other as far as possible. But we're in a world system. And it doesn't get any better.

It's getting infinitely worse. Satanic powers are engineering everything they can for the downfall of this great country. And I'll tell you again, the White House isn't going to save it. God's house will save it.

If God's house is cleansed, then really in the place you ought to be in. But Paul says, I've got everything going for me. I'm circumcised the eighth day of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, of the seed of Abraham.

Good night. That's about as much as you could take. Then he says, I'm not only a Pharisee, I'm a Pharisee of the Pharisees. My dad was one of the outstanding men. And I have everything open before me.

And you know, he says later, he's not only of the tribe of Benjamin and the seed of Abraham, so he's got it religiously, he says, I've got it socially. You know, I'm a Roman, I'm free-born. You don't mean that.

Yeah, yeah, my father had the freedom of the city. Oh, the Roman soldier said, I bought my commission. At least my daddy bought it for me. He's a lot of money. You're free-born? Yes, I'm free-born. And I think under his breath he said twice.

But he was free-born. He was free-born as a Roman, he was free-born as a Christian. I think he would have loved Isaac watching him, maybe sang at the end of the day. Every day, my richest gain I count but loss.

Oh, how easy to sing, how difficult to do. Huh? My richest gain I count but loss. Where's my testament? Let me look here. All right. But he says the very thing in that next verse. Verse 7 of Philippians 3.

Those things that were gained to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count things. No, no, no, no, read it. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered.

The Cost of Total Surrender

Now, he doesn't try to be too heroic. He doesn't say, listen, you know, I'm not built like you. It's so marvelous. You know, when God filled me with the Spirit, He took my emotions away, He took my nerves away, He took everything away.

And I don't feel like you, I'm sorry for you, but I'm just not built like that. Paul didn't say none of these things hurt me. He said none of these things wound me. Of course they hurt him. The more sensitive you become, the less of self you have and the less of other things you have, the more sensitive you become in the Spirit and it's harder to take.

The irritation of the world, the blindness of the world, the folly of the world. The thing that gets under my skin now is that preachers are talking the language they talked 25 years ago. I want to tell you we're on a collision course.

In America, in England, in all the, we're on a collision course. Number one, we're on a collision course with communism, I'm sure of that. Number two, we're on a collision course with God, because God gets angry with nations as well as individuals.

But poor Paul says he suffered. Man alive, when they whipped him, he says, I was whipped, what? Five times I received 40 stripes. What's 540? It's 200 and 200 minus 40 stripes, save one. So that's 195.

It was a whip and on the end of every lash there was a long piece of spiked copper. And he was tied to a whipping post. And you know what? If they hadn't have tied him, he'd have stayed there. He wasn't going to run away.

He'd already asked for what I didn't ask for. You see, everybody wants joy, bells and happiness. And you turn God's house into a pigsty almost. Everybody wants to eat and do everything. But I'll tell you what, nobody wants to travel in birth.

When did you last hear a man daringly say to God, let me fill up the sufferings of Christ? That's something, isn't it? That's where our strength is proved. Disagree, but I'm convinced in the Old Testament, the sign of God's blessing in the Old Testament was prosperity.

The sign of God's blessing in the New Testament is adversity. What's your breaking point? And the hostility of the world is such that if you get just a Christian philosophy in your mind and believe in the virgin birth and believe in the resurrection and believe in other things, you'll break.

But if Christ comes and lives in you, and that's what Paul says. You know, I like to tease people. You get them just as mad when you tease them sometimes. And I say, if you go to a Pentecostal church, you say, well I got saved and I got filled with the Holy Ghost and I got some gifts, I spoke in tongues and everyone says, Amen, glory, glory.

Well that's great, what's wrong with it? You go to a holiness church, you're not quite as exuberant. You have to look a little sad maybe and say, I'm saved and sanctified. Everybody wonders whether you're saved and sanctified or saved and sanctimonious, but anyhow, you say it and it passes off.

But I say again, change your philosophy. And the night you're going to do it, take all your little children with you if you have them to church. And the preachers say, preachers, you know, my heart's overflowing, want it?

Stand up, sister, and testify. Stand up, brother. And you stand there and say, sweetly, you know, dear friends, I was once a sinner and a rebel, but well, now Christ lives in me. Christ lives in you. As I say, you sit down and your wife says, well, George, when did that happen?

I've been living with Christ all this time. You know, I never guessed that. Oh, I know you stopped spitting on the rug and swearing and drinking and carousing. But you know, I never realized. I mean, you get angry so soon and you get so bitter.

I didn't know. And then, of course, you try and rub it off on the old nature. And she says, well, you had that when I married you. But you said that now Christ lives in you. Well, that's the whole thing.

Christ Living Within the Believer

I wonder, I say to myself, well, look, here is this man. He's defiant of the devil. Man, he doesn't live on an earthly pain, merely. I wish I could find some thought like that. Honest to goodness, I do.

I go see them. One of the greatest men I ever knew was a little Pentecostal pastor in the city of Leeds. We went to a holiness church. If you went to the Pentecostals, you'd almost be re-baptized. But my dad and mum sneaked off, took a streetcar, cost a penny.

And we rode on the streetcar to town and then we hadn't a penny to go the other, so we walked it. But I loved to go to that church. Oh, it wasn't that they whooped it up, but do you know, there was a stillness, there was an atmosphere, there was something that even as a boy, I knew the difference.

That little fellow was unlearned and ignorant. He had never been to Bible school. He hadn't been spoiled by men's philosophies. But I'll tell you what he learned to do. He learned to pray. And you know, I liked to see him because whenever I saw him, of course, he only had one suit.

And it had to do for everything, weddings, funerals. You didn't know where he was going when he went out. You knew it was a funeral or a wedding or a church. But his knees were shiny on his trousers at the front.

Preachers' trousers are shiny now, not on the knees. But he would come and his trousers would be all shiny, you know. And you'd go in the meeting and you'd know when that man prayed. I felt he and God were on real good terms.

I felt he was like Spurgeon. Spurgeon said, you know, there came a day when I looked in his face. He looked at me and I looked at him and we were lovers ever after. I think that's beautiful. That's a whole life story.

Of course, a guy was shouting on the radio the other night. He said, neither Wesley wouldn't make it today and Finney wouldn't make it and Spurgeon because he didn't have the baptism. Well, I'd take their share anyhow for what he got.

Of course, others have said that. Don't worry about that. But isn't this the secret of Paul's all in all? He says, I don't live. Christ liveth in me. Yeah, we sang Mighty Fortress again. Good old Luther.

What did Luther say? Why, he said, used to be a knock at the door of my heart and I went to the door. I soon discovered what was happening. I knew that knock. It was Satan. And he said, Satan came one day and knocked at the door.

Said, Mr. Luther? And he said, I said, he doesn't live here anymore. Jesus lives here now. He's taken over. That Christ may dwell in your heart. Not that he may bless you. Not that he may give you some gift.

Under a 19, you know, we only stick by two or three. No, no, no. It's not that he may somehow put a halo on my head. Paul says, Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.