The Tabernacle (2 of 2) — G.W. North

We'll perhaps all turn to the scriptures for honor and singing, and you will remember that yesterday morning we were considering the whole truth of the tabernacle as it is in the second book of the Corinthians.

The Tabernacle as a Picture of the Believer

I want to continue there, praise God, this wonderful revelation that God has given us that we should see that we are tabernacles, the tabernacles, and that we are a mixture if you like, an unmixed mixture, but mixtures are all right.

You know that mixtures are always muddles, don't you? Mixtures don't mean confusion, you like mixtures, ever so much. For instance, if you happen to be a man and you've got a wife, and you went home one day, and on the table when you sat down to your meal, your wife put a handful of flour and a handful of raisins, and some marge, or some lard or butter if you're better off, and some peel and some glassy cherries, and said, there you are, I'd rather have it all mixed up in the cake with milk, that's what I want, I don't want this, I want mixtures, the right mixtures, and it's this, beloved, that the Lord wants us to understand.

In fact, so much comes from mixture in our life, I mean, you just think of that old saying, wherewith you can combat, or it used to be thought you could, when I was a boy, and I'll date myself if I'm not very careful, when I was a youth, people used to come up with this kind of answer, or they thought it was a slick answer to the evolutionists, that couldn't explain this, that, and the other, and you were supposed to say, how is it that a brown cow eats green grass, gives white milk and yellow butter, how does it do that?

Is that evolution? It's a rich mixture, that's right, and this is how things happen, somehow the cow gets it all mixed up inside, turns out lovely milk, and butter, and cream, it's beautiful, and so the Lord shows us his glorious truths, I think yesterday morning we got as far as the glorious perfume, you will remember, in chapter 2 of 2nd Corinthians, that we are, verse 15, unto God, a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish, to the one, with a savour of death, unto death, and the other, the savour of life, unto life, and who is sufficient for these things?

Well, the only answer to that, of course, is God. The only one that's sufficient for those things is the blessed Christ himself. Without him we could never have become this glorious perfume, this unique and wonderful mixture, this compound after the art of the apothecary.

Hallelujah. Now then, this morning I want us to go into other things, and perhaps we shall complete our study together. You will know that the laver stood between the altar of sacrifice at the door of the tabernacle, and it led directly through in straight lines from that altar to the Ark of the Covenant, a straight line from one to the other.

Regeneration, Renewal, and Sonship

And they had to go via the laver, which we have quite clearly interpreted for us in the Titus letter, which we are told is the laver of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed forth upon us abundantly, that we being justified should be made heirs, you see.

Justification must lead to heirship. Justification can be made to servants. But this is the thing that old Abraham in the scene complained about. He said to God, he said, what are you going to give me?

Seeing that there is this Eliezer of Damascus, his steward, his servant, he said, is he going to inherit all things? And God said, no, I'm going to give you a seed. You're going to have a real heir. It's not going to servants, it's going to sons.

Amen. What a tremendous thing this is for us to understand that via the great road of justification, when we're thinking theologically or analytically, we come to regeneration. And that, beloved, is the marvelous thing for us all to understand.

Of course, it was the same cross where it was all wrought out. It's in the same spirit that it's all made vital to us. But whatever we do, beloved, we mustn't linger about in servanthood. We mustn't linger about there.

We've got to know this blessed and wonderful sonship. And so these people, they had, as you know, if you weren't here yesterday morning, we'll point it out again. Here is the lever in the third chapter of the second book of Corinthians in verse 17.

And you see, it's connected with the Holy Ghost. Now, the Lord is that Spirit. And where the Spirit is Lord, or where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And only the sons have liberty. Praise God.

Nobody else but the sons have this glorious liberty of God's house. You remember, Jesus pointed this out in the New Testament. In the eighth chapter of John, do you remember it? Where he said that the servant does not abide in the house forever, but the son does.

Hallelujah. And that's why he said, now, if the son shall make you free, there's liberty, you shall be free indeed. Hallelujah. That's, you see, in the ancient tabernacle. You will know this, beloved.

There was no rest for the servants at all. They never had rest. There was only one place of rest in the tabernacle. It was called a mercy seat. And God sat on that. The servants never sat down. They were always on their seat.

They always were walking to and fro, to and fro, round and about. Oh, hallelujah. But they never sat down. Only God sat down. Only those in the family sat down. The servants keep on their feet. You can always tell them.

I know I'm on my feet a lot, but I mean spiritually now. They don't rest. They don't sit down. I mean, it isn't that they've got a lot of work on, in that sense. We have to have a lot of work, don't we?

I mean, you have to wake up about six in the morning and start straight away. And then whilst you're having breakfast, you talk to someone as well. And then you go to a meeting and you preach. And then you have a meal and you talk to somebody all the afternoon.

And then you come to the evening service. That goes on for four hours. Then you keep on until one o 'clock in the morning and you go to bed. That's the proper way to be a son. And the whole glorious thing about it is that the Lord constantly ministers.

Beholding the Glory and Becoming Like Christ

We'll see this great ministry of the Lord to us from this blessed truth of the labour. And here we go. We all, with unveiled face. That's your word open. We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror.

I pointed this out yesterday morning, that the labour was made of the brazen mirrors that the children of Israel bought out of Egypt. We behold the glory of the Lord and we are changed into the same image.

My glory be to God. This is the purpose of the labour, beloved. Amen. You see, you're told in Titus, hope your mind can nip to and fro in these scriptures. In Titus you're told that it's the labour of regeneration and renewing.

Now this is what the renewing is about. Renewing me right back up into the perfect image of the Son. Now that's what the renewal is. Hallelujah. This likeness was lost in the garden of Eden, beloved. Lost in paradise.

The likeness of God was lost in paradise. It just wasn't paradise lost. It was what was lost in paradise. That was the tremendous and terrible thing, beloved. They lost this grey, reflecting likeness of the God in whose company they lived and with whom they walked and talked.

Elastic. And God's great ministry is not only to regenerate us, but in this regeneration, and only because of it, to renew this marvellous image of the Son. That's why he said to the children of Israel, you're not to make unto yourself any image at all.

It's God who's going to make the image. Hallelujah. He's going to make the image, renewing us right back up into, if it is back, I don't know quite what to say, but renewing us up into that glorious image and likeness of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

What a marvellous thing it is, beloved. Now, in the Hebrew, this word, Leva, really means the living river. That's the Hebrew root. The word Leva has come from. The living river. Amen. And I don't know how you imagine this Leva was made, but it was really made as like a big system, you know, not too big, on top, and it had a foot, and the water used to run down from the system at the top to the bowl at the bottom.

You know, so the priests could wash their feet in it, you see. Like that. They didn't have to go, oh, that's what I did up here to wash my feet. God's very sensible. He put it down there, in the foot.

You've got to be clean in your feet, you see. Right down there, you see. And it's so marvellous. And the water used to run down like a little river from the top down to the bowl at the base. And it was the living river.

Amen. And that's why when you read, say, in the restored temple of Ezekiel, I don't know whether you've done this, in Ezekiel's prophecy, there's no laver, but a river that runs from under the throne and under the threshold of the door.

A river. No laver there. Have you noticed that? Well, keep reading. And the whole glorious thing, beloved, is here, and in New Jerusalem. No more sea. That was the new name for the laver in Solomon's temple.

No more sea, but the river. Here it is. Running from out the throne of God down the golden street. And if you walk up the golden street, your feet have to be clean. Hallelujah. It's all so marvellous, this great thing that God has said.

And you walk upstream to the throne. Oh, that's equated by the mercy seat, but we'll leave that for a moment. We can't get there yet, but we've got to see the whole glorious plan of God. The Bible is one.

Amen. God has buried His methods of dealing, but He's never buried His principles of truth. Amen. And here we are then, beloved, in this great and glorious place. And I want to tell you, beloved, that this is the only way you'll ever keep new.

Having got newness, you'll only keep new. Having got a generation by power from God in the Spirit, which is regeneration for us, you'll not keep in this marvellous dynamic power of the generation unless you constantly keep in the laver.

You've got to keep there. Never get away from new birth. Because this is the thing that's been lost. You see, you've got to see that in your Bible, you go to the Old Testament, they had redemption. They had the blood.

They had justification. They had salvation. They had sanctification. All these marvellous themes that preachers like to preach on, but they never had regeneration. You'll not find that in the Old Testament.

They never had reconciliation, and they never had regeneration in the Old Testament. These are the distinctive features of the new covenant. Hallelujah. And it's because we've lost the truth of reconciliation, as we were talking on Sunday night, always talking about atonement instead of reconciliation, and it's because we've lost the truth of regeneration that there's an over-emphasis and a going-wrong on the baptism in the Spirit.

Because we've lost the truth of regeneration, amen and amen, we've got to see that this is the great and distinctive thing. You know, some of the marvellous truths in Isaiah, for instance, when we're talking about the Holy Ghost is this, I will pour water on him that is thirsty.

See? But you see, the priests, they didn't have to drink at the laver. There was no inward work. It was always outward and typical. Though it represented the Holy Ghost, in which they were first entirely bathed or plunged.

Alright? This is what Jesus said in John 13. He that's bathed, he that's had his initial great plunging, immersion, total washing, he only needs to keep his feet clean after that, he said, walk with this tremendous thing, you see.

But they never had to drink at the laver. But when it comes to God's moving in his new great dealings with his people, he said, I'll pour the water on him that's thirsty. Glory. God intends to flood everywhere in this, beloved.

He intends everything to get flooded. And of course, if everything gets flooded, nobody will be able to avoid it. This is the great and wonderful thing that God wants us to see. And these priests had the privilege of typically showing us this.

And where they came back to the laver. And there, as they stooped to wash their feet, their feet, they could see their faces reflected in the mirrors from which the top cistern was made. And then in the water down, as they looked, they could see their faces too.

Hallelujah. So they had to keep coming back to the laver. You see? Oh, coming back to the laver. And I want to tell you, beloved, that there they didn't have any veils on their faces. They looked in and they saw exactly who they were.

Amen. They saw exactly what they were like. Or did they? Have you ever thought you've never seen what you're like exactly? A mirror does not tell you exactly what you're like. You're the other way around.

That's right. You have a look in the mirror and see. Go on, you have a go. Isn't that right? Yes. You're the other way around. The reflection is the other way around. This is the wizardry of a mirror, you see.

And so they never, never, never quite knew the truth. They were always so near and yet so far. That was the whole tragedy. They had the veil there. They got so near to it. I expect they could go up to the veil and go like that, you know.

No further. That was it. And there were so many people like that. They were so near.

They were so near. Jesus said this once to a man on earth. He said to him, you're not very far from the kingdom. He was so near. And, you know, I'm constantly meeting them. By the hundreds, really. They're so near.

But they're not really there. But, you see, the washing, beloved, in the laver was for the moving into the holy place. Where do you go from the laver, priest? The holy place. That's where I go from the laver.

Hallelujah. I live my life and do my business in the holy place. Oh, isn't that lovely? Yes. And there were lots of people like that. You know, when Jesus was born on the earth, one of the things the angels said to Mary was this.

The holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And lots of the disciples, figuratively speaking, of course, came to the holy place. They came to the holy thing with Jesus. But they never got within the veil of his flesh.

See, they got as far as the holy place. They could feel him. They could get healing from his rose just by touching, for instance. They could get blessings. Oh, they could get everything. Words coming from within the veil out.

They could get all that. But they never got in. Nor could they. Nor could they. Till the Lord dealt with the veil. But, wait a moment. Let's go further, shall we? The laver, praise the name of the Lord.

You went from the laver into the holy place. And we've already dealt with that because we had to from Ezekiel, Exodus 30, yesterday morning. They came straight in to a place where there was no, where the natural was excluded.

Now, it wasn't all excluded. There was an always open door down there where the light of the sun of the day came in. It was never glaring, of course, because there was a great cloud over the tabernacle.

A great cloud over it. And they could come in there and there was daylight there. But when they got in, they were in half natural light and half artificial light. The light that wasn't natural. In fact, the deeper they went in, the nearer they got to God, the further they got away from the natural.

The Veiled Gospel and the Light of Christ

And right up there, up against the veil, there stood on either side a table, a showbread, and a candlestick. A seven-branched lampstand. And you know that the oil, the golden oil in there, just gave itself up to light.

That's all it did. It just flowed and yielded itself up to make light there. Over against the veil and over against the golden table and the table of showbread. The further they got in, the more they got into the light of the Holy Spirit.

All right? Let's read about that. Is the lampstand in 2 Corinthians? Oh yes, the lampstand's here. Here it is. It isn't mentioned, but the light is. Here it is. If our gospel, in verse 3 of chapter 4, be veiled, it is veiled to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, that's the Greek, I've changed it, the light of the gospel of the glorious of Christ, who is the image, he's the image, bless God, should shine unto them.

And we preach not ourselves, but Christ, Jesus, the Lord, and ourselves, your slaves, for Jesus' sake, for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts. Note, I'm going to come on to the Greek now.

It's much more powerful and much more real. Keep your eye on your version, whichever translation you're using. God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, is he that hath shined in our hearts to the light of the knowledge, or unto the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.

Amen. No wonder this image shines to us. We're not looking in dim brazen mirrors now, out in some figurative thing. We're not looking down into water that either shows the sole of my feet or the length of my nose when I go to wash my feet.

That's that. Not that. But we've come, beloved, into the exact image. Amen. We've come to it. Praise God. What a marvellous thing. This is why, in the New Testament, there's never any excuse. If you get into a New Testament experience, never any excuse.

Hallelujah. He that commanded the light to shine out of darkness. You see, he's really going back beyond the tabernacle. He's going back to creation, where we were last night, when he said, Let there be light.

And you will notice that where the light is mentioned in Genesis 1, the face also is mentioned. The face of the deep. Hallelujah. The face of the deep. And your face mirrors what's in your deeps. What you are deep down there, you've only got to live long enough, despite your skill at camouflage, you've only got to live long enough before it's on your face.

By the time a man's about 40, it's there, ineradicable. Hallelujah. And Elizabeth Arden can't do anything about it. It's there. Hallelujah. I suppose that's why most people fly to Elizabeth Arden. Or the makers of Old Spice.

The tremendous thing about it, beloved, is there. He who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, is he that has shined in our hearts unto the terrible distorted features of Jesus on the cross? No.

No. Hallelujah. Unto the light and the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Glory. Glory. No wonder it's the gospel of the glory. Do you preach the gospel of the glory or the gospel of the agony?

What do you preach? Do you preach the gospel of the glory? He's shined in our hearts. Unto the knowledge, this glorious light, is the enlightenment of the heart and the mind that's in the glory and understands the glory.

And has come out of everything else.

Praise God, I've got two pairs of glasses, so it's all right. God does this. Isn't it there, yes, sir? Do you see what you've been robbed of? What did Adam and Eve lose in the garden? Glory. Of course they lost their glory.

Amen. So they started to cover up straight away. They lost their glory. Their unveiled glory. They lost it. So they started to veil themselves up. Oh, but it's only right, yes, yes. Of course, an accommodation to sin and to need.

Hallelujah. Making ourselves decent. That's right. But God doesn't come just to make us decent. He comes to restore us to the glory. Hallelujah. Oh, there's nothing indecent about glory. And if you're glorious, you're not being decent.

The whole tremendous truth lies here, beloved. Amen and amen. We've got the light as well. Amen. Have you got it? See, now if this good news be veiled, it's veiled to you, you're lost. That's what it says.

I mean, I'm not writing a Bible. I'm not manufacturing anything. Hallelujah. And when it comes to those that are lost, it comes veiled for a start because you couldn't stand the glory right at the beginning.

It comes veiled in flesh. We're pointed to the cross where He hung with His dripping flesh and His blood, blood, blood streaming from Him. And we say praise God for the fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins.

You know that chorus. Praise God that the sinners neath that flood lose all their guilty stains. Then it comes up. I believe it. I receive it. Did you ever learn that chorus? You ought to. Or at least learn the truth of it.

Be careful what you sing into your souls, won't you? The whole wonder of it all lies here.

The person that's here. And this is what He says. We have this treasure. We have it. We've got this treasure. We've got it. I've got this treasure.

In this earthen vessel. Hallelujah. He calls it an earthen vessel here. He calls it a tabernacle in chapter 5. Same thing. Amen. Hallelujah. Shine there in heart. Oh, this is so precious, beloved. God has so constituted you and me in the heart, in the deeps, in the center of us, that we can have it all and all at once.

No divisions. No departmentalizing. No this compartment and that compartment. Hallelujah. For you know these great truths, beloved. I'm absolutely sure. There then is the great lampstand. The light. The light of the glory of God.

In the face of the glory of God. In the face of Jesus Christ. And as you behold it, this is what we are told, in chapter 3 verse 18, when we behold the glory of the Lord, we are changed. We are changed, beloved.

Changed. Hallelujah. The trouble with that tabernacle, this is why God did it away, did away with it, is that it was always casting shadows. The light was in one place, and there was a shadow here, and a shadow there, and a shadow there, you see.

That's why we talk about shadows to do with the Old Testament, you see. There were shadows there. When a man walked, he came up, you see. He walked in and his shadow was cast before him. There's lots of people like this.

Their shadow gets into the holy place and they think they're in, because the light's behind them, you see. And it casts their shadow in. It's marvelous, you see. And then as they walk in, there's no shadow in front of them.

Then as they walk further in, shadow starts to go behind them. Glory. Glory to be in this place where there aren't many shadows. Isn't it? The glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The dark shadows of the cross and of His suffering have gone.

The glory of the Lord lightens this place. And what is this regeneration, this total immersion, this glorious in-drinking, this flooding of the human personality by the Spirit, lifts no shadows anywhere.

The great dark clouds and the ugly blotches of God. Amen. Praise God in the glory, in the glory. Did you know that this is what Jesus Christ brought to men? Did you know that this is what it was all about?

We're so in the beginning. We're so worried because we don't know God. We're so worried because of our sin. We're so worried because of this. We're very anxious to make sure that all our sins are forgiven.

Bless the Holy Ghost for this. Bless the Holy Ghost. But the thing that comes upon your soul after this, if I may make my confession to you, is how nearly am I like you, Jesus? That's my concern now. My concern is, wait a minute, how nearly am I like Jesus?

Somebody said to me this morning, do you remember when you said, when you think of anyone like Jesus, this person said, I thought of my mother. I thought of my mother. Mother, will your daughter ever think that about you?

Father, will your son ever think that about you? When you said, do you know anyone like Jesus? I thought of my mother. I never met her mother. Do you think a greater compliment could ever be paid anyone?

Oh, she wasn't a great preacher. So far as I knew, she moved in the wrong sect. Exclusive brethren, for instance, have any say in the gift of prophecy. As far as I knew. I'm having a bash at myself in this.

The whole tremendous thing is, my mother, Alleluia, I saluted her mother in my soul, and somehow I traveled all the way back to desperate situations and knew and understood and glorified God for a mother that could leave that impression on her daughter's soul.

And amen. Greatest of these is love. Praise God. Alleluia. Now, beloved, we've got to reflect this glory of the Lord. Not by puzzling our minds and concentrating and marshalling up all the things we believe.

What you'll do by that is work pharaohs into your forehead. But by just reflecting, because you're so close. That's right, isn't it? I've got a mirror in my room where I'm sleeping. It's not much use to me.

I can't see Mattia in it. I can just about see this. I thought they must all be giants that live in this house. I'm not too small, but I wondered how Malcolm got on. You might see the top of his hair if he looked in it.

So I thought, well, I don't know. Then I spotted a little tiny mirror. I thought, this must be Malcolm's. About as big as that. I went up to him. I just wanted to see if it was right. I thought. I got ever so close.

I didn't stand over the other side. I said, oh, I can't see anything. The glory of the Lord. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia. And you know, this great table of showbread. I'm going ever so quickly this morning.

I don't know what we'll do tomorrow morning. It doesn't matter, does it? We'll have the Lord. And this great table of showbread. Where does that come? Well, we've already seen it. The word translated showbread is really bread of faces.

Bread of faces. You know, the Lord loves his people. He loved his people. And he devised ever so many means of always having his people in the tabernacle. Always. You understand that, don't you? I hope you do.

And one of the ways he devised of having his people in front of him all the time was he had twelve stones set in the breastplate of the high priest. There, God is always looking at that. You see? And this is really behind that statement that you love in Malachi.

Do you know? Do you know this one? About the Lord. He hearkened and he heard when his people came together to speak one another. And he caused a book of remembrance to be written, you see? For those that loved and fought on his name.

And he said, they shall be mine when I make up my jewels. He made up his jewels and he had them there. On the breastplate. On the ephod. Oh, hallelujah. Mind you, listen. I'm tempted now to go right off my subjectivities, because I like this one.

The pearl of great price wasn't there. No pearl. You know why, don't you? Oysters were unclean. And you'd only find pearls in oysters. And the children of Israel never knew anything about them. Unclean fish for them.

Not for you and me. And Paul, speaking for us, says I'm persuaded there is nothing unclean of itself. That's New Testament. Amen. And he'd been a terribly strict Jew. And talk about food laws, he'd kept them.

This is a tremendous thing. Isn't it marvelous how God can persuade your heart about all your stubborn ideas? And all your eugenics and some foolish and winding down your feeding habits. Praise the name of the Lord.

It's marvelous. But here they were, these jewels. God had them always in front of him there. And then, as though that wasn't enough, he had a couple big ones made on either side. They should rent six tribes and six tribes all there on his shoulders, on his breast.

This represents, of course, the great name of El Shaddai. Lord God Almighty. Which means the shoulder and the breast. Whenever you think about El Shaddai, that's what it means. It incorporates the thought of the breast and the shoulder.

What a glorious thing this is. Amen. You see, he's always got them. And then, just as though that wasn't enough, every day he had twelve loaves baked. Every day, new bread every day. Praise God. Wonderful.

And to stop the priests having indigestion, he always made them eat bread one day old. That's right. Because the priests had the bread of faces. And every morning they went in and put another loaf. Freshly today.

I look upon you, my children. Freshly today. Marvellous. Newly this morning. The mercies are new every morning. That's what they could say. But in the New Testament, we say your grace is ever upon me, Lord.

Better than mercy is grace. We need mercy, but oh, hallelujah. You have to come to the throne of grace to find mercy. They came to the throne of mercy and they got mercy. But if you come to the throne of grace, you'll get mercy as well.

This is the tremendous thing. There, beloved. Hot. Hot. Hot. Not lukewarm. Hot from the oven. Right onto the table. No layer of this here. Right bang onto the table. All hot. Out of the oven. That's my people.

That's my people. The bread of faces. But what if you only saw the crust, Lord, and inside it was all milky. That's why it had to be fresh every morning. The crust would have remained the same. It could have gone green inside.

Being rotten. The face is upon the deep where God is concerned. Hallelujah. God connotes He combines all scriptural ideas. All glorious truth here. We come wherever we go. I go back. See these old priests of old?

They used to go back to the labor. You are an ugly old man. I mean, if any man is honest. He says, you are an ugly-looking old man. Ah, but I'm a precious jewel to God. You see, if his thoughts were right.

Perhaps he didn't think these things. It's only men that are in the Spirit can see these. Fresh and lovely and warm to you this morning, my God. Hallelujah. Yesterday's loaf has fed me. The bread of God has fed me.

Out in the wilderness they only had manna. Here they.

Ate the bread of God. Moses didn't give you the bread of God, he said.

Moses didn't give you that manna. God's giving you the bread. Hallelujah. Yesterday's loaf, my God, has fed me. Here I am this morning warm reflecting the glory. Ah, God's not some blind Isaac. He doesn't sit behind a veil all blind like some father time figure.

He's the eternal. He's not some groping Isaac that can't see. He says, just come, come. Smells right. The feels right. But if he could have seen, he would have known. But God isn't some patriarchal father figure tucked away there behind a veil of a tent.

That's where Isaac was living. Behind a veil in a tent. It's the glory. This is the life. These are the privileges, beloved. He was back again. Perhaps in his heart he was saying, oh God, oh God, oh God, I'm sorry.

I don't know what went through the man's mind. How can I know? I only know that these are the groanings which cannot be uttered that the Holy Ghost puts down in the deep, deeps of a man for which he can find no words and neither the Spirit himself express it consciously in understandable things.

They might even be mere platitudes if the Holy Ghost would give his tongue.

To those which he wouldn't.

But platitudinous thinking gets us nowhere. We're out of the school of Plato and the wisdom of men and the world. Hallelujah. I don't know what he thought. I know that in me the Spirit makes groanings for he is my eyes and he is my mind and he is my anointing and he is my priesthood and he is everything and he relates that to this.

Oh God, down in here you are what you groan inside. God knows you're groaning. If it's a real groan it's always the groans that show on the face. You always can tell the people that live in groanings and weepings you love, they show on the face.

These are the things that come out. They etch the character. They depict the inward condition. They infallibly mark out the spiritual state. Amen and amen. The disappointments. I speak a word now to those that are living in the mistakes they've made.

Some mistakes men and women make they can never undo. Even by the ordinances of God they can't undo them. And they've got to live in mistakes. Some mistakes you can put right. You make your mistake, you've got to live with it.

Even Father Abraham made his mistake. And the trouble in Palestine sorry, Israel now is a result of it. But nevertheless he lived with God in the midst of his mistake. And God can purify it all. And God can do it.

If you live in the knowledge of Him that by the divine power can make the mistakes glorious. Hallelujah. And make you radiant so that you're not a sum total of your mistakes showing up on your face. And the groanings of your own inadequacy.

But you're living in the glory of the Lord. The things I can't put right, I.

Leave with Him whose.

Righteousness exceedeth my own understandings. Hallelujah. That we should reap the benefit of Him who never made a mistake. And live in this glory that our God is doing. Amen. Amen. This is our privilege beloved.