How to Walk With God — Jack Hyles

Fellowship With God as the Purpose of Creation and Redemption

But the reason God made us in the first place was to fellowship with us. What the human race is really all about is that God wanted a people with a will to choose to fellowship with himself. That's really what creation is all about.

If a person never fellowships with his Creator, then he missed the entire purpose of life completely. You know why God gave his Son to die on the cross for us? He gave his Son to die for us because he loved us.

But way, way beyond that, or before that, God gave his Son to die for us because God wanted us for his Son. The purpose of all of redemption is, first and foremost, a way for God to get us back to himself.

God wants us. God loves us. God wants us to walk with him, to fellowship with him, to love him. And far beyond God's desire to let us live forever for our sakes, God wants us to be with him for the sake of his dear Son.

Enoch and Noah as Examples of Walking With God

It is said of two men in the Bible that they walked with God, two men. Both of them are men who live before the flood. It is said of Enoch, Enoch walked with God. It is said of Noah that Noah also walked with God.

Both of these men were saved from the flood. Noah, through the flood, a type of the Jews who will be spared through the tribulation period. Enoch was lifted out of the world before the flood, a type of the Gentile bride of Christ lifted out at the rapture and spared out of the tribulation period.

It is said of these two men that they walked with God. Now, across the country where I preach, and I preach somewhere, as you know, every week, usually in another state, almost always another state, but across the country, we have question and answer sessions.

In fact, last week in Wisconsin, I was asked this question up at your college, fellows. Dr. Hiles, what would you advise a young preacher, or young, yes, a young preacher, if you could only advise him one thing?

That question is asked me more than all the other questions put together by young preachers. And the answer is always the same. Very quickly, I answer it this way, walk with God, walk with God. Every week of my life, I walk up this aisle to this pulpit and kneel right behind this pulpit in an empty room here in this auditorium.

And I pray, among other prayers, I pray this prayer, Dear God, let my people hear a man Sunday who has walked with God Monday through Saturday. You have a right to hear a man who has walked with God. Now, I've said this before.

I don't, I am, I make no pretense of being a good Christian. I make no claims to have apprehended. But this one thing, honestly and truthfully, I can say, I do know God. I don't mean I've been saved. I have been saved.

But I know God. I know God. Paul said that I may know Him. Now, Paul was already saved, but he said that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. I may know Him.

Walking With God Is More Important Than Christian Activity

Ladies and gentlemen, all the church work that you can do will never take the place of your walking with God. Sing in the choir, beautiful numbers, sing specials. That will never take the place of your walk with God.

Be a deacon. Go to all the meetings. Help draw up the budget and guide the affairs of this church, but that will never take the place of your personal walk with God. Be in the school. Teach courses in the college.

Be on the faculty of the grade schools, high school. That will never take the place of your walk with God. God did not redeem you primarily so you could teach school, or primarily so you could preach, or primarily so you could be in the choir.

First and foremost is God wants you, you, you, you, and me to walk with Him. That's what it's all about. Young people, you're supposed to walk with God. Deacons, you're supposed to walk with God. Choir, you're supposed to walk with God.

Enoch, walk with God. Noah, walk with God. Now I want you to notice several things about the walk. In the first place, I want you to notice the beginning of the walk. The beginning of the walk that Enoch took with God.

The Bible says Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah. Who was Methuselah? He was the son of Enoch. Methuselah, who lived longer than anybody has ever lived in the history of the world. Methuselah was the son of Enoch.

Parenthood and the Beginning of Enoch's Walk

God came into the home of Enoch and He placed a little boy. No doubt something like this happened. Enoch held that little boy in his arms. He named him Methuselah. The word Methuselah means, when he is dead, it shall be sent.

What does that mean? God would not send the flood until Methuselah had died. When he is dead, it shall be sent. And God held off the flood. For one young man, one man, I say young man, good night, 960 some odd years of age, one young man, God held off the flood because of Methuselah.

But no doubt Enoch looked at that little boy. God had placed in his arms, placed in his home, and Enoch said, it is time I walk with God. I have a responsibility. I have a baby. I have a son. He is going to look at me.

He is going to emulate me. He is going to copy me. Well, I can recall as a kid, my dad was a big fella. Bob Keyes remembers my dad. My dad was a big fella. And he had a big bay window. I am sorry to say it.

We called it a beer belly. That is what it was. A big bay window. And dad wore his britches way down like that, is the way he wore his britches. And dad would walk like this when he walked, like this, with his feet sticking out like that.

And dad walked down the street like that. When I was two years old, I walked like that. And I can recall trying to jump right in where dad's footprint was, like that. And why? He was my dad. He was my dad.

And Enoch looked at little Methuselah, and he said, he is going to walk in my footsteps. What I am, he'll likely be. What I say, he'll likely say. My habits will likely be his habits. The kind of life I live is probably the kind of life he's going to live.

I think I'd better walk with God. Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah. Hey, maybe you better walk with God if God has given you a son. Hey, maybe you better walk with God if God has made you a mom or a dad.

Little leopards have stripes because mama and papa leopards have stripes. Every little crow is black because the mama crow is black. What you sing, your kids will sing. You curse, your kids will curse.

You drink, your kids will probably drink. You smoke, your kids will probably smoke. You don't go to church, your kids probably won't go to church. But if you live for God, your kids will probably live for God.

And if you read your Bible, your children will probably read their Bibles. And if you walk with God, your children will probably walk with God. And so Enoch said, I've got a gift from God. I've got a boy.

I'm going to walk with God in God's name. If you're a mom or dad, walk with God. That's one reason you ought to walk with God. Somebody's looking at you. Somebody hears you. You men, they get smart to curse at home.

God pity your wicked mouth. God pity that kind of language. When you've got a boy or a girl hearing what you say, little eyes are on you. Little ears are listening to you. Little eyes watch what you do.

Little feet follow your feet. So Enoch looked at that little bundle of flesh and he said, I'm going to walk with God. That's how he began to walk. Now, let's go to the walk itself. What does it mean to walk with God?

Moving Forward and Growing in Grace

How can a person walk with God? In the first place, you've got to go forward to walk with God. It didn't say Enoch stood with God. It says Enoch walked with God. It didn't say Enoch took his stand for God.

It says Enoch walked with God. Now walking implies going somewhere. Walking implies growing. If you are not growing in grace, you're not walking with God. If you're not a better Christian today than you were last year, you're not walking with God.

If you're not going forward, you're not walking with God. I'm pressing on the upward way. New heights I'm gaining every day. Still praying as I onward bound. Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. Lord, lift me up and let me stand by faith on heaven's stable land, a higher plane than I have found.

Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. God needs people to go forward with Him. I want to give more to God this year than I gave last year. I want to win more people to Christ this year than last year.

I want to serve God more this year than last year. I want to do more for others this year than last year. I want to set out for God more this year than last year. I want God to have more of me this year than He had last year.

I mean, just keep on going and keep on growing and keep on going higher and keep on doing more for God. You can't walk with God unless you're walking, moving forward. Let me ask you a question. Are you any less a Christian tonight than you ever were on your best day?

Are you any less than you were at the best moment or hour of your life? Then you're backslidden. Backsliding is sliding back. You might be the best Christian in this room tonight, but be a backslider.

You may be the best person in this room, but if you're less than what you once were, you're slidding back. You're a backslider. You're not walking with God. You're not walking with God unless you're growing in grace.

Including God in Every Area of Life

You've got to go forward to walk. But the next thing I want you to notice in walking with God is this. You must include God in everything if you walk with God. Did you know the word, and you college professors will know this, you Greek students will know this, you Moody students that take Greek, the Hiles Anderson student, anybody that knows Greek knows this.

The word walk in the Bible is the word in the Greek peripeteo, P-E-R-I-P-A-T-E-O is about the way we pronounce it. It comes from the word perimeter. It means the whole round, the whole round. Walk with God means the whole round is with God.

The whole round is for God. The entire life is given to God. So if you walk with God, you peripeteo, that means God is in every part of your life. The entire life circle belongs to God. And that means that if you're going to walk with God, you must include God in everything that you do.

Have no secrets between you and God. Keep nothing from God. Invite Him into every room of your house. Let God into every crevice, every spot. Let God in your business. Let God in your personal life. Let God in your play.

Let God in your school. Let God in your living room. Let God in your dining room. Let God in your kitchen. Let God in your bedroom. Let God in every room. I was out here in Hessville visiting one day, and I went up to the door of the house and all the doors were open.

It was summertime. All the doors were open. You never saw such a messy house in your life. I'll tell you, papers were everywhere. And I looked through in the bedroom, and the bed was unmade, and the cover was on the floor.

And I looked in the kitchen, and dishes hadn't been washed, I'm sure, since Japheth got off the ark, I'm sure. And dishes, I never knew anybody could have so many dishes, and all of them were dirty. And the lady was saying to a little child, You little brat, you ought to wring your neck.

And I rang the doorbell. And suddenly she looked, and the child said, Mom, it's the God-man. And so I, I'm the God-man. And so the little child said, and the mother, she said, Go to the living room.

Get all that junk out of the living room. And they threw it, they threw junk in the bedroom and the kitchen. And there was no room much for any more junk in either room, I'll tell you for sure. And the mother said, You little brat, if you squeal one thing bad, if you're not a courteous little thing, I'll wring your neck.

Hello, Pastor Glock. Come in. It's so good to see you. Liar. It's so good to see you. Come on in. She shut the door to the kitchen. She shut the door to the bedroom. And she said, and the living room was pretty nice within.

And she said, it's so good to see you. And I said, you have a lovely home. Could I see through it? Oh, she said, you've seen, you've seen it all and you've seen the living room. But I said, I'd just like to see the bedrooms and see how big they are.

Oh, she said, you wouldn't be interested. Well, I said, yes, I would, too. I said, what kind of kitchen do you have? She said, oh, you wouldn't want to see the kitchen. I said, I'd just like to see the kitchen.

And she said, OK, if you must. And I said, I must. And one look at the bedroom and I think that's all I want to see. I just thank God there was a place where there was some some order. And she didn't want that's what many of you are.

Dear Lord, come on in. My living room. Of course, I've got a den that I want you to see. Don't you remember over there in the book of Ezekiel? The God took the prophet to a hole in the wall down in the in the house of God.

And he said, drill a hole in the wall and look through. And the leaders of Israel, the Sanhedrin, the priests had all kinds of filthy things down in the chamber of their imagery. And the temple was beautiful.

But down in the bottom, there was a wicked chamber, all kinds of dirty, creeping things in the chamber. Let me ask you a question. What's in the chamber tonight? That place where nobody goes but you. That place your wife never sees.

That place your husband never enters. That place the pastor never go. Never, never, never sees. That place where your folks at work. I mean, down in here, the inner chamber where you live and nobody else ever goes.

That place where you go at night when you lie down to rest. What's the secret there? The inner chamber, the hiding place, the secret place. Listen, you're only as good a Christian as your chamber is. You're in what do you say?

Drill a hole tonight and look at the chamber of your imagery. What do you see there? Pride? Get it out. What do you see? Jealousy? Get it out. What do you see? Hatred? Get it out. What do you see? Envy?

Get it out. What do you see? Greed? Get it out. What do you see? Anger? Get it out. What do you see? Gossip? Get it out. What do you see? Evil thoughts? Get it out. What do you see? Dirty attitudes? Get it out.

Listen, you will never know what it is to walk with God until you say, Dear God, come into every room of my life, my living room, my den, my bedroom, my kitchen, that inner chamber, that secret spot. I'll have no secrets.

David, the 19th Psalm, David said, Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Now he goes on down to say in the same psalm, Let the words of my mouth, but more than that, the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O God, my strength and my redeemer.

Now when he said, Cleanse thou me from secret faults, David was saying, Lord, cleanse thou me from faults I don't even know I have myself. Reveal to me, shine the searchlight of God's word on my soul, reveal to me faults that I have not even learned about myself.

You want to walk with God? Now listen to me. If you want to walk with God, you'll have to let God in on every phase of your life. Young people, if you want to walk with God, you can have no secret places, no secret chambers, no room where God is not welcome, nothing in your life where you could not welcome God.

Men and women, if you want to walk with God, you'll have to say, Dear God, come in. Parapateo, walk with God, the entire circle with God. That's what it really means, walk with God, the entire circle with God.

Abiding and Living With Christ

There's a third thing. If you're going to walk with God, you're going to have to live with Him. Live with God. John 15, verse 4 says, Abide in me. Abide in me. John 15, verse 7, if ye abide in me. What does it mean?

The word abide means live. By the way, listen, I'll teach you some Greek. The word abide there is the word mone. We've spelled it m-o-n-a or m-o-n, short e, mone. In John 14, verse 2, Jesus said, In my Father's house are many mansions.

And that's the word mino in the Greek. Now, you Greek teachers know this is true. The word mone and the word mino. Now, I don't mean mone, like you didn't put in the plate tonight. But the word mone, Russell Anderson says, he doesn't know many long words.

He knows two syllable words, like mone, partments, divbins, and such things as that. But mone and mino. Now, abide in me. That's the word mone. In my Father's house are many mansions. That's the word mino.

Comes from the same root word. Now, I'll teach you something. It means manor. The word manor comes from the word mino, mone. Same root word. You ever hear somebody say, Where's the manse? What denomination calls a passage of manse?

Presbyterian. You ever hear anybody say, Where's the manse? That word manse comes from mino, or mone, or mansion. Mansion. The word abide and the word mansion are the same in the Greek. What our Lord is saying is this.

Mansion in me. And He said the same thing, In my Father's house are many abodes, or mansions. What's He saying? He's saying, I have a mansion for you. Someday, I'll go and prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself.

That where I am, there ye may be also. But now listen, listen, listen. He says, Until you come to my mansion, I'll let you live in one now. And what is that mansion? Walking with God. Abiding with Christ.

That means if I can abide with Christ, that means that I have reached up to heaven and brought my mansion down to earth where I can live in my mansion temporarily while I'm waiting for the final mansion.

I'm going to mone someday with Christ a mansion in heaven. Until then, I can live in my mansion as I abide and live with Christ. Tis heaven to me, where 'er I may be, if He is there. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.

Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine. That's what, heaven came down and glory filled my soul. What is it saying? It's saying that we're going to heaven. But while we're waiting to go to heaven, we can have heaven come to us and we can live in our mansion now.

Now, listen. Let's see. Let's see, Brother Bob, what are the names of those Mexican restaurants down in Dallas? El Chico? El Phoenix? Let's suppose that I wanted to go to Mexico to get some Mexican food.

I don't eat Mexican food anymore. I don't have an ulcer. I have a church. And they sort of affect you the same way. And I don't eat Mexican food. Enchiladas and tortillas and all that kind of stuff. Bill, you've been eating a lot of it, I can tell.

But anyway, let's suppose that I was in Dallas and I wanted to go get some Mexican food. So I'd go to El Chico. Now you go to El Chico, you walk in, and a fellow meets you there with a Mexican sombrero he wears.

And you walk in, and a couple of fellows are playing guitars, or as Brother Bob says, guitars. Guitars, a Greek word that means guitar. And they're playing south of the border, down Mexico way. You couldn't do it that well, Doc, because you sing loud.

But you can do that. But anyway, they're singing Mexican songs. And a lady comes up, and she has on a Mexican outfit. And we have Mexican food. We have a Mexican menu. And what is it? Are we in Mexico?

No, we're not in Mexico. But somebody has brought a little bit of Mexico up to Dallas, don't you see? Over to Chicago. And that's what we can do if we abide in Christ. Now listen to me. You're not going to walk with God until you live with God.

I mean, get up in the morning and live with Christ. And all day, live with Christ. And go to bed at night and live with Christ. There's no substitute for it in all the world. You can have heaven now. But you're going to have to live with Christ.

Worldliness and Knowing God Through Hardship

Now listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. We have got far too much of the world in our lives. I don't mean drunkenness. I don't mean adultery. I don't mean just lewdness. I don't mean just hot pants.

I don't mean just dirty songs. I mean materialism. We've got too much desire just to have the next dollar. Or a nicer car. Or a better house. Or we're more concerned about getting a promotion. Most of us are too cosmos-minded, world-minded.

And not enough Monet-minded. Or Mino-minded. Heavenly-minded. Mansion-minded. If you're going to walk with God, you're going to have to live in Him. If I wanted one thing for my people. You know what I want you to have.

Honestly. I was thinking about the kids over a while ago. There's one thing I want you to have. I want you to know God. You know, in the dark hour, Bob, when you're facing the Grim Reaper. And when there's nobody there but you.

It's an awful nice thing to look up and say, Now, God, I need your help. I need your help. It's an awful nice thing to know God. Abide with Him. You know, I've learned in these... When I first came to Heaven, I learned to know God.

I really did. I thought about those days. Saturday morning, I got up, walked out, and somebody had thrown a brickbrick at my windshield. But we were broken into all the pieces. It reminded me of the days when they put a sign.

A different real estate company every Sunday put a sign out in front of our house and said, For sale. They were giving us a hint. And back in those days, they got a petition up and said, Sign the petition.

Vote. Signature here. Sign here if you want a house to go back to Texas. I got the petition. I signed it. I wanted a house to go back to Texas back in those days. But I recall I get a phone call in the middle of the night saying, If you walk in the pulpit, we'll kill you.

And I get a phone call in the middle of the night, and a female voice said, This is Bubbles. I'm waiting for you. Good night. I've forgotten all about the appointment we had. But she said, This is Bubbles.

I'm waiting for you. And I said, Oh, I'm sorry, Bubbles. But anyway, Oh, Bubby. Sorry, Bub. But, And they set the house on fire. Our garbage, Our garage is hooked up to our house, And the garbage can's inside the garage.

And they set the garbage cans on fire. And so forth. And I didn't know anybody. And I couldn't understand you. You folks couldn't talk plain. And you still have a problem with that. Art Schneider will never learn.

And you couldn't talk plainly. And I'd say, Okay, everybody. Let's go by and get somebody and carry them to Sunday school next week. And you'd say, Carry them? Carry them to Sunday school? Carry them?

You didn't, You don't know English? And you'd say, You'd say, Meet out in the logee after the service. I'd say, Logee? Logee? And you recall when I sang that solo by myself up here. All men were over there.

And I myself sang a solo. And so you sang the all men at the end of the songs. And I sang one by myself. And made a fool of myself. No, I didn't make a fool of myself. I revealed I was a fool. And I was.

But you know what? I learned to walk with God. I didn't know much of anybody. And you'd have your weddings. And I didn't know anybody much. And I was homesick. And I was lonesome. Folks, Did you know that for 16 months, I'd wake up in the middle of the night.

And I'd be dreaming of one of you folks. Suffering in the hospital. Or having trouble. And I'd wake up crying. I want to get to you. I want to get to you. They need me. They got trouble. They need me.

And I'd say, I've got to go. And I'd be up in the middle of the bed trying to go back to help you. And I'd wake up and find out that I really wasn't there at all. And,. And,. But I learned to walk with God in those days.

Obedience and Agreement With God

Oh, how sweet to walk with God. Why? How? Abide with Him. Live with Him. Know Him. You want to walk with God? The next thing, Always do what He says. Always do what He says. Abel 3 .3 says, Can two walk together except they be agreed?

Always do what He says. Be willing to go where He says go. Be willing to be what He says be. Be willing to say what He says say. Be willing to do what He says do. Just at His command. If He says go to China, Go to China.

If He says stay here, Stay here. Just go where He wants you to go. Always be willing to agree with Him when He says do something. To walk with God means to agree with God. That means every word in the Bible you agree with.

That means everything He says do, you do it. That means anytime He says, I want you to go, Some folks say, I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord, As long as it's not out of the state of Indiana. I'll be what you want me to be.

No. I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord, As long as it's not overseas missionary. No, that won't do it. I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord, As long as it's not out of Texas, Bob. That won't do it.

I'll go where you want me to go, As long as it's in the South. That won't do it. I'll go where you want me to go, As long as it's close to home. That won't do it. I'll go where you want me to go, As long as it's Florida.

That'll do it. That'll do it. Oh, that won't do it. I'll go where you want me to go, As long as it's California. That won't do it. I'll go where you want me to go, As long as there's not any snow. That won't quite do it.

I'll go where you want me to go, as long as it doesn't get below zero. That won't do it. That won't do it. I'll go where you want me to go. It doesn't matter where. I think this is true. I hope it is.

If the Lord said to me tonight, I want you to go to China, I think I'd go to China. If the Lord said, I want you to go to Africa, I believe I'd go to Africa. Why? Because I want to walk with God. I want to do what He wants me to do and be what He wants me to be.

Soul Winning and the Great Commission

You want to walk with God? Include God in everything. Live in Him. Always do what He says. Number five, and I like this, if you want to walk with God, you've got to go soul winning. You've got to go soul winning.

The Great Commission, go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things, watch them come out of you, and what?

Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. If you do what? If you go and teach all nations. And so if you go, look, Mrs. Keyes, when I was a kid, somebody would come to my house, and Mother knows this is true.

Every afternoon, we'd go to the Keyes, Mrs. Keyes lived here, and there was a red brick house, red brick house next to you, and then a vacant lot right next to that red brick house. And then Drexel Tolan, that his name?

Drexel Tolan, and the plumbing place is right next door there. And so what we'd do every afternoon, baseball season, I'd run home, and take off my clothes, and change clothes, and put on a baseball hat, and run up to that vacant lot where Bob Keyes was.

And we'd play baseball. And Bob Keyes played third base. He never, look, here's the way he caught the ball. You know, most fellows catch the ball, you know, looking at it, and Bob Keyes goes, like that.

Always what? Like that. And we'd play ball, baseball. Now, when it got to be, when it got to be football season, we'd play football. But I'd always go to that same vacant lot and play football. And we'd get a little thirsty, go over, Mrs. Keyes, have us some lemonade, or some beer, some refreshments, some kind we always had.

And we'd go over and play football. And not only was Bob a bad ground ball catcher like that, but he always tackled above the waist. Always did. Come here, Doc. Of course, he got tackled above the waist, but, you know, most folks that tackle, they go like this, you know, get down here, bob it.

Like that. Always would. Never learned how to tackle. In fact, we had a Sunday school teacher one time named Troy Jackson. Troy Jackson was a little bitty fella, and he was a tremendous guy. And so Troy decided to have a football league for us kids.

So we had a football game, practiced the first time, and Troy decided to carry the ball. Troy weighed, what, 130 pounds, 135 or so, and he carried the ball. And so he came around. I can see it like it right now.

What's that fella's name? R. R. L. Armstrong? Lived up on Britain Street. And so we, R. L. and I, hit Mr. Jackson low, and Bob got the usual headlock on him. And so he went down, and he never felt led to get up.

He broke, we broke his leg. He was our Sunday school teacher. We absolutely broke his leg. Leg or arm? Arm. Shoulder. Shoulder. Okay, I'm sorry. That's in the Greek. But anyway, broke his shoulder. And the next morning, there he came to Sunday school in a cast.

Why? Was it a low tackle? No, it was his leg. His shoulder got broken. Guess why? Bob got him! Like that. Went down, like that. And then when it was no baseball season, our football, we'd play croquet.

And we'd shoot the ball through the wicket. And one day we were playing croquet, and I shot the ball right through the wicket. Didn't hit either side, right through. And Bob said, you missed. And I said, no Bob, I hit.

Went right through. Bob said, no, no Jack. He said, it went to the side. I said, now Bob, you're a liar, and you know it. And Bob did not feel led to be called a liar. He was not very impressed with my appraisal of his character.

And he said, it missed! And I said, it hit! And he said, it missed! And I said, okay, let's see if this will hit. And I took the mallet. You've seen a croquet mallet? I took the mallet and aimed it right at Bob Keyes' temple.

He almost went to heaven before the heart attack came, I'm never sure. He ducked, but I was always up there. Every afternoon, every afternoon. We'd throw our paper outs. We got older, and take off to the vacant lot.

Now, here's the story. If anybody came by my house after school and said to my mother, is Jack home? My mother would say, no, he isn't home. But I think I'll know where you'll find him. He'll be up at Keyes' house, in the vacant lot, playing ball with the gang.

Because that's where I always was. And if you wanted to fellowship with Jack, you'd go up there. That's where he usually is. And I ask you a question. Have you lost fellowship with Christ? Do you know where you'll find him?

You'll find him out soul winning. That's where he always is. That's where he always is. Have you lost your fellowship with God? Go soul winning. That's where you'll find him. I am with you always. Look, if I go soul winning, I know he's with me.

He says he's there. People all over the country say to me, Dr. Hiles, could I go soul winning with you? Every place I go, I've written some books on soul winning. Every place I go, people say, Dr. Hiles, could you take me soul winning on Tuesday afternoon?

Or would you teach me how to win a soul and go soul winning? I'll say usually, I'm sorry, I have appointments. I can't do it. I'll tell you what, Jesus will go with you. Jesus will go with you. He said, Lo, I am with you always.

Walking According to Scriptural Commands

You want to walk with God? Abide in him. You want to walk with God? Go soul winning. You want to walk with God? Then let him paraphernalia and everything. But there's something else. That is, you've got to walk in Romans 8, 4, walk after the Spirit.