Receive a New Heart, Mind, and Nature — Hans R. Waldvogel

Salvation Means Transformation, Not Mere Comfort

David says, I wait upon the Lord because from him cometh my salvation. Oh, that's a wonderful thing. Some people have an idea that to be saved means to have God fix a comfortable place for them in heaven.

That's the idea they have. How could God ever let anybody go to hell? Why, God is good, sure. He'll take people and just make a comfortable place for them in heaven so they can continue the dirty work.

No, that isn't God's salvation. He works. He changes. The choir sang a while ago. Wonderful. And immediately I had in my mind a story that church history tells. The Roman Catholic church history. You know, that's different from the real church history.

That's full of tales. They tell how that Jesus, when he was a little boy, he took clay and made sparrows out of them and then he blew at them and then they'd fly. They believe that stuff. And so they tell of a council, a convention they had somewhere in the third century and some great theological problem came up.

Some question had to be solved as to the theological worth of it. And they couldn't somehow agree. They wrangled back and forth. Finally one saint wanted to come. A saint that everybody had a lot of confidence in because a miracle-working saint was along and had two donkeys with him.

One was red and his servant went to those two donkeys and ran away. How can we continue the journey? He went to the saint. The donkeys are dead. They're lying dead. The heads are lying there cut off. The saint didn't bother himself.

He knew something about Philippians 4, 6. That made an awful mistake. He put the red head on the white donkey and the white head on the red donkey. Why tell it has done? Tomorrow you woke up with a red head.

Pretty great miracle. You'll get your face in the paper. My, it does more wonderful things than that. The Apostle Paul says, I testify in the Lord that you don't walk like other Gentiles walk anymore in the vanity of their minds.

Putting Off the Old Man and Putting On the New

The old man with his feet. And you put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Can you tell of a miracle like that in your life? To the Thessalonians, everybody tells how you turn to God, to church, not to an evangelist or to some idea, but you turn to the living and the true God to serve him.

He came to you. He came not in word only. We were among you for your sake. Listen to God on our part, receiving his word. Not like those donkeys. But how about a new heart? How about a transformed mind?

This mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus who humbled himself in order to save us, to lift us. Let this mind be Jesus. That you put off concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lust.

And put on the new man. Glory to God. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect. Nicer faces. You'd be the first one to let him do. My father was telling how picture when those things were absolutely new.

And he saw this moving picture, showed an operation where some fellow was having a piece. He didn't like it. So he had it amputated and put a new head on him. And the nurse fell in love with him and chased him out of the operating room.

To have a new nature. Oh, beloved, this sounds funny, but I just want to wake us up. That's all. I just want to awaken our consciences. Have I cooperated with God who says nothing avails before him but a new, a new.

Has God been operating on you? It's a new nature in you. I've been down cooperating with Jehovah. Listen, it's a hard job, but it means. But I know what I'm the advance. He didn't let me go on. I found out you can not maintain the function of the Holy Ghost.

You cannot live a spirit filled life and still be proud and conceited and sensitive and selfish and ambitious. But what do you I thank you because you're on the job to make us like God to die. They'll sanctify them through the truth.

Sanctification Through the Truth

Give me the truth. And when a minister complained to me that people were lying about him, I said, you ought to be glad they don't tell the truth. God of heaven that shows what's on the inside. But not only that, he shows me the fountain open in the house of David for sin and for uncleanness.

And he points me to the resurrection power of the son of God, that you might know the existence of his house. Oh, that's how God works. Not a little bit. The change he makes when he subdues my mind to himself.

And those evil thoughts don't occupy my mind anymore. They don't bother me anymore. And selfish thoughts don't dominate my thinking anymore. And loveless, unkind thoughts don't find an entrance in my heart.

But Jesus had joy, gentleness. You like to have a new spiel. You got to work. Thank God and beloved. One will be. What will happen to think depends on what happens to me tonight. What happens to me every time God gives me his word.

Forget it and neglect. So great salvation. Or do I recognize that a great thing has taken me in his hand. And he has not chosen the noble or the mighty or the strong things that are not. That he might bring to naught things that are.

Even you and me. Oh, how wonderful it is to have God graciously visit us. So that we knew. He that walketh in the midst of the candlesticks has walked in our midst. He out of an intense of my heart. He is.

Called me by my heart has done. It doesn't take him a long time. Because it's the exceeding greatness. And righteous. But he baptizes us into. And don't you know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus.

With its affections and love. The God that you might be partakers of. His divine gift. Nobody escapes the corruption. That is in the world through lust. God pictures it. He says there's none righteous.

No, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher. What comes out of their mouth is decay. Deceit. What a picture God gives. And we think my those are pictures God had. The souls of darkness. That is in the world through lust.

Repentance, Cleansing, and the Master's Use

Until you recognize. Your condition. And you cry like Isaiah. Woe is me. I have not seen the king. Wonderful what the Lord. My mother used to take a piece of soap and wipe. And wash my tongue. I tell you.

But I was careful next time not to say the naughty word to him. But listen, it's truly wonderful what the Lord has done. Did you ever wash your mouth? No time not to say the naughty word. That's salvation.

Everything else is a farce. The kingdom of God. And need for the master's use. Are you in his masterful hand? Can you say it's true? Girls in Germany. One had girls and the other one was a redhead. She was tough like some redheads are.

And this dark haired girl was kind of sweet, you know. And one morning when these two children got up. The people with the dark haired girl. She was so proud of her dark curls. And they said, oh look at.

And somebody else told her. The last thing she wanted was red hair. And then the red haired little sister said. Oh, no sin. And that wouldn't be a very great miracle. If your hair turned red overnight.

Or black. But what did God do this week for you? What has he done? The spirit of God. With his life giving word. And more than that, listen. He visits us with the exceeding greatness. And someday he shall change this vile body.

That it may be fashioned like unto his. That in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. I submit to his changing power today. And every day. I don't have to live anymore. I made such an awful job of it. Christ lives in me.

The Future Transformation of the Believer

The exceeding greatness of his power. Is not rectified. And women up there. Is God almighty sanctifying you? He'll certainly do it. He'll certainly transform you. And oh, what a joy. Beloved. It isn't a lie.

Joy. He blew the pipe. And all the rats come out of their holes. The tension. Is enmity against God. And they'd rather believe the devil than God. Monkey theory of evolution. Which has no hands and no feet.

And has no tail either. And has no common sense. Why is it? Because their carnal mind is enmity against God. Enmity against God. Rather than the truth. And Jesus Christ. He crowned upon his head. Said to Pilate.

Receiving the Truth and the Knowledge of Christ

That I might testify of the truth. That is of the truth. What has done. His family. Chapters of the scripture. Before I could read. I had him biased. As a child. But that did not give me a new heart. Ready to show me.

I saw the. And he inclined on to me. And heard my cry. And brought me out of him. On a sink deeper into it. Extended hand of mercy. He got to cooperate with him. Glory to God. He worked. Oh how graciously.

He has. My. That is to know. This meeting wouldn't stay here. If God almighty. Put out his screams. The corruption they live in. And if God almighty. And has given you a sight of Jesus. And of righteousness.

Which comes through the blood of Jesus Christ. You cannot be satisfied. I will be satisfied. When I wake with thy righteousness. Oh that's the wonderful thing. God is working on every day. Every time we come together.

It is truly wonderful. It is truly wonderful beloved. That he might give you the spirit of wisdom. And revelation in the knowledge of him. That's why he baptizes you with the Holy Ghost. That you might get acquainted with Jesus.

That you might love him. And that the eyes of your understanding. Might be enlightened. And you might know what is the whole. Beloved. No one can give you that knowledge. But the Holy Spirit. Spirit of the world.

The Exceeding Greatness of God's Power

That now worketh in the children of disobedience. You won't get it out of the illustrated newspapers. You won't get it in the funny. You won't get it in the television. You will not. Your closet has shut the door.

Your father's there. You wake up anybody's conscience. Tonight in this meeting. Someone that's been. Careless about. Following Jesus. And he wants you to have a sight. Of real. What is the exceeding. Riches.

Of the glory. Of his. Inheritance in the saints. And what is the exceeding. Greatness. Of his who believe. I saw something here. That interested me very greatly. Just one sentence. It's the new bread of life.

And here it is. And I always have to take off my glasses. When I want to see something. We cannot say that God will protect us. Too easy. In all. Jesus. I cannot claim. He raised him from the dead. And set him at his own.

In the heavenly places. Far above all. And every name that is named. Not only in this world. But also in that which is to come. And gave him to be head over all things. To the church. Which is his body.

You know. Those sentences. They bring to you a theological education. That you can't get anywhere in the world. You got to get it from God. The spirit that searches the deep things of God. Is ready. To enlighten you.

Oh son of God. My savior. How little we know indeed now. Let's pray together.