The People of God 06 a Saved People — James K. Boswell

Real joy having you here tonight, and that's really wonderful singing. You're doing exceptionally well. Some I haven't seen before, I'm glad to see you here tonight. Some have probably come in just for the first time to the campus, and it's lovely having you, and I trust that I'll bless you, and grant you much joy for coming along.

Before we sing our chorus, let us just read our scripture. Deuteronomy 33, and verse number 29. Deuteronomy 33, and verse number 29. Someone said the other day, you know, you give us six messages in one.

And I said, well, I am not a good housekeeper. Spray the table well. What may not be for you may be for somebody else. Just keep what belongs to you, and leave the rest. So, you know, now I've been told I talk very fast, I don't know about that, do you?

Eh? Oh, yeah, yeah. That's true. That's true. I ought to try and be a Scotsman, try and save my breath a bit more, don't you think so? That's right. I was just saying the other day, I, last year I had seen three spaces from my throat.

Not because I wanted, others thought I ought to do it, so I've done it, you see, to please them. And all three of them told me to shut up. In a word, they told me to put the brake on and just talk my only tone of voice.

Don't yell and don't whisper. It takes far more out of your voice to whisper than it does even to yell. But just talk with an ornery tone. The only way to get rid of the calluses on the vocal cords is to rest them away.

To cut them off would be no use. We just rest them away, and so we'll try and do that, eh? It's not easy resting them. My wife tells me I'm always talking. I never stop talking. That is my ideal, don't you think, you're talking, my talking.

I get paid for my talking, you don't. Now, here it is, then. Verse number twenty-nine. Happy art thou who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy health, and who is the soul of thine excellency, and thine enemies shall be far liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon their high place.

Let us have a chorus, shall we? It matters to him about you, it matters to him about you. All the day long, all the night through, he's caring for me and he's caring for you. His nurses are tender, his love is ever true.

It matters to him about you. At hand's good, they don't know this chorus. Oh, I see one or two. It's lovely having you here tonight. See, you just sing a thing once at the park or the pub, and they get it.

Isn't that true? So let us have it. Thank you. It matters. That's exceptionally good. I know you can do better than that, so come on, sing it right up. You make a mistake, don't worry about it. If you don't know it, just sing la-la-la, but please do something.

Will you? Everyone, right?

It matters to him about you. That's my pleasure. It matters to him. His nurses are tender, his love is ever true.

Now, let's all rise and just sing it once more, eh? Rise and change your positions. That's right. You're so comfortable there. There's lovely plush cushions, you know, and after a busy day out there on the shower board, in the garden, washing ironing, ironing too, sometimes making Irish stew.

I don't know what you've done today, but you've been all so busy, and here to come into the confines of delightful little chattels, nice warm atmosphere, and the speaker speaking so slow and so deliberate, so conducive to go off to sleep, isn't it, eh?

So come on, we're singing now, right, all together.

It matters to him. That's wonderful. It matters to him.

By the way, would you like to have a real special treat? Would you? You really would? Well, my wife will come and sing it with me. Oh, now, I'll never hear the end of this from night after night over to night.

I never will. Now, you listen to this.

Let's start it. Did you hear that? Thank you. Thank you. It matters to him. That's right, dear. He's caring for me. And he's caring for...

You've got it now, haven't you? Thank you so much. You've got it, haven't you? So, no excuse. I'll tell you why I did that. Because, you know, the Seed and the Bahamas wish that fervor stopped seeing that his wife's singing.

You see? So, they got the word, then. You see? They can't get it from me.

They can get it from Agnes. So, let us have it once more. And everybody knows it now, right? It matters to him. It's his love ever true.

You can go this time, Mrs. Adel. It's all right. Right. These words then are in verse number 29. Oh, people saved by the Lord. It's good to know when the Lord has saved us. We're looking at this this morning.

Salvation by Grace Through Faith

But the word happy. Happy are those who are saved by the Lord. What must I do to be saved? What is the answer altogether? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. For by grace are you saved through faith, that none of yourselves is a gift of God, none of works, lest any man should boast.

Oh, people saved by the Lord. I wonder if all this very fine group tonight are included in that, Oh, people saved by the Lord. If you are not, I trust it will be the very night when you'll come into living, vital union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

You know this, this people saved by the Lord in seven different pictures this morning, all in the one verse. We know that they are a happy people. And you look at that tonight. And they're a unique people.

There's nobody like them. And they're a saved people. They're a shielded people. They're a defended people. They are a vindicated people. And they are a triumphant people. Then we brought the word happy up in this initial letter.

H-E-P-P-Y. I know I am. I'm sure I am. I'm H-E-P-P-Y. Remember, what was the first one? The cavalry, the honor. The happy man is a holy man. Then he is an assured man. Then he is a powerful man.

And he is a peaceful man. And he is a yielded man. And without looking at your notes, that was absolutely wonderful. My, you must have wonderful memories, eh? So there it is. Yes, we are a happy people.

Tonight we're going to take the word saved. And we're going to break it up in this initial letter. The capital A-S-A-V-E-D. Still spells saved. A-S-A-V-E-D. A-S-A-V-E-D. I know I am. I'm sure I am.

I'm A-S-A-V-E-D. Are you in that too? Amen? Amen. Oh, the joy. Oh, people saved by the Lord. And you'll find how it dovetails to what is the other. The happy man, the saved man. Five letters in each word.

We're going to deal with the word saved now. Tomorrow morning, the one right in between, unique. We are a unique people. No people like us. That is to say, who is like unto thee? Oh, people saved by the Lord.

May I let you into a little whisper? Don't tell anybody I said this. Especially those that come to the evening meetings. But I enjoy the morning meetings far better. I love you all here tonight. I really do with all my heart.

I mean that. And I love having you here. But there's a power and there's a grief about those morning meetings I've never yet experienced in the evening meetings. No, I wonder why. Is it because you're all so fresh?

Have a real good night's rest? And my friend, nice brisk cup of coffee and you come out here in a spurt of expectancy and your minds are alert and absolutely wide awake. Is that why? A dear brother in the swimming pool said to me this afternoon.

He said, Jim, if I go to sleep this evening, you won't mind. I know something. He's moved his seat from the front to the back. I won't tell you who he is, mind you. I won't tell you at all. But it may be possible, you know.

That's why you've gone to the back tonight. Maybe a little drowsy. That'll never do, will it? Rigel. That tomorrow morning we are a unique people. O people saved by the Lord, who is like unto thee. O people saved.

I love that, don't you? Rigel and the cavaliers, the saved people, they are a sealed people. They are sealed. And it says in Ephesians chapter 1 and verse number 13, we are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise unto the day of redemption.

Grieve not the spirit, says Ephesians 4, by which you have been sealed unto the day of redemption. The saved people are a sealed people. The sealed reminds me of three things. One, ownership. It means you belong.

I travel rather a lot. And sometimes put JKB on my shirt or on my handkerchief. Now she does not let me do that because they want people to know it belongs to me. That's one thing I know. That shirt, that handkerchief, belongs to me before that seal was put on it or the initial was put on it.

Now listen. It's because we have been purchased by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus that we are being sealed unto the day of redemption. The seal is not something after conversion. Sometime after.

You don't receive the Holy Spirit sometime after you're saved. No. On believing on the Lord Jesus, you receive the Holy Spirit. When my all I ventured on Christ the toiling blood, the Holy Spirit entered and I was born of God.

Now notice the seal is the spirit in the believer. It is a mark of ownership. It's a seal that can never be broken. A seal that can never be erased. Once in Christ, in Christ forever. Thus the eternal covenant stands and we are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Calvary, Pentecost, and the Indwelling Spirit

You remember way back, John, during the book of Exodus 17, the rock had to be smitten and from the smitten rock gushed out the thirst quenching waters. What is the lesson? Calvary without Pentecost is incomplete.

Pentecost without Calvary is meaningless. The rock had to be smitten before the waters could gush out. The Lord Jesus had to be smitten at Golgotha before we could know the joy of the coming of the Holy Spirit.

In the Bible, when you read a word of static, stationary, it always refers to the Word of God. Water running, streams, rivers, springs, it always refers to the Holy Spirit. And because now the rock was smitten and the waters come gushing out, reminding us of Golgotha and then Pentecost.

In the book of Leviticus, the high priest's ear had to be first anointed with the blood. The thumb of his right hand was the blood. His great toe of the right foot was the blood. Then upon the blood came the oil.

The oil on the blood and ear, the thumb of the right hand and the great toe of the right foot. What is the lesson for us? There must be redemption by precious blood, cleansing by the blood, before I can know the coming and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

For as the springs of water, the gushing water, remind us of the Spirit, so does also the oil. The oil is a picture of the Holy Spirit on the ground that shed blood. My friends, thank God for all who have got the anointed ear, whose ear has been opened, whose ear has been digged, and your ear is in tune with the Spirit tonight.

Thank God all whose hands have been anointed and for service. Thank God for anointed service, whether in Sunday school, Bible class, denouncing the glad tidings, teaching God's people mystery work, whatever that ministry may be.

A ministry in the Spirit must know the anointing and the empowering and the energizing of the Holy Spirit, then a walk anointed by the Holy Spirit. Yes, my friends, when we know this, we shall walk in the Spirit and we shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Now, that is just a brief outline. May I just come again to this all-important point? We shall never know the joy of a full-orbed Christian life unless I am conscious of this fact. There has been the cleansing of the precious blood in my own life and the indwelling.

Dear one said to me only the day after the service, one I got a great regard for, loved very much in the Lord Jesus, came up and said, no, I was saved a long time before I knew the Holy Spirit indwelt me.

Now, please get that. And one after another has come up to me and said, I did not realize the importance of the Holy Spirit in my life until this morning. Now, you may have heard a lot of ministry about the Holy Spirit, doctrinal teaching on the Holy Spirit, the personality work of the Spirit.

You have heard it. But it has not penetrated. And remember Paul said, Know ye not your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost who is in you? And friends are those who are reborn again by the Spirit of God.

They are really saved. Oh, we know the fact they have been saved. They don't know the joy of the indwelling Holy Spirit making real in them all the life of the risen Christ and all the joy of that new life in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I wonder in this very fine assembly tonight, do each one of us here know this all-important glorious truth, the Spirit of God indwells me. Because remember, remember, if you know the cleansing virtue and the efficacy of the precious blood in your own life, then, my friend, the Spirit has come and He is not only indwelling you, He is sealing you.

And I want to stress something here. It's not enough, my friend, to know the Holy Spirit indwelling. I must know Him infilling, controlling and dominating each part of my life. We are saved and we are sealed and that seal can never be broken.

Not only does it remind me of ownership, it reminds me of security, of security. I know how secure is that one who is sealed by the Spirit. I repeat, that seal can never be erased, that seal can never be broken.

Cleansing is a mark of identification, is a mark that you belong. And you got the seal, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, my friend, tonight because you belong, because you've been bought with a price, not silver nor gold, by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus and the life of Christ.

Lord, I know I am not my own. I have been purchased with Thine own blood. Lord, in all sincerity I pray, O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to Thee, for Thou and Thine Atonement give Thyself to me.

I own no other master. My heart shall be Thy throne. My life I give, henceforth to live, O Christ, for Thee alone. Thank God, the saved man, the saved woman, boy or girl, they are sealed and they belong.

You're not your own. You've been bought with a price, that precious blood of the... Now, let me ask you very lovingly, what are you now doing with that life that belongs to another, that belongs to another?

Acceptance and Union with Christ

I'm sorry. Not only are you saved and sealed, but you're saved and accepted. And accepted. I find people want to be accepted today. They want to belong. We are the same person, both belong and they are accepted.

Isn't this wonderful? The Bible says we are accepted in the Beloved. Ephesians 1, verse number 6. I like that little phrase in Romans, chapter 8, verse 31. God for us. Matthew 1, 23. God with us. Others, some are more precious.

1 John 4, 16. He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Thank God tonight, not only is Christ indwelling us, but we are in Christ, and there's an indissoluble union. Our union can never be severed.

Union can never be broken. Thank God tonight, I repeat once, we're in Christ. We're in Christ forever. Thus the eternal covenant stands. Tonight at God's right hand, the Lord Jesus, in all his inflexible holiness, in all his intrinsic rightness, in all the glory and the wonder of his own glorious person.

Now listen, the very same acceptance and acceptability whereby God has accepted his beloved Son, so has accepted you and accepted me tonight. No stain, no spot, no blemish, not any such thing. As Christ is before the Father, so are we right down here at the path of the palms.

The wondrous glorious truth. Oh, is this real? Is it vital? When I recognize tonight that I am in Christ, that he is the very life of my life, I find my portion in Christ. He finds his portion in me. I find my inheritance in Christ.

He finds his inheritance in me. I find my life in Christ. He finds his life in me. Oh, beloved, how closely and how intimately we're linked up with our adorable Lord Jesus. He is the very life of our life.

He is love. Not only am I in his love, my friend, the very love I love him with, he's first given to me. The wonder of this wonderful love. Yet tonight we're accepted in the beloved. Are you here? Are you in Christ?

Are you still out of Christ? In Christ accepted? So near, so very near, more near I can't be than the person of God's dear Son. I am as near as he. So dear, more dear I cannot be for the very love with the love of the Son such is his love for me.

Noah and his family were in the ark, safe and secure in the ark. All outside the ark perished. They might have been in, but they would not believe the testimony of Noah. Standing on the top of the highest mountain, climbing the highest tree upon the top of that mountain, looking out there upon the ark, the only means of salvation of the Jewish state, one state from within, from darkness into light, from death into life, from bondage into liberty, from judgment into acceptance.

But they did not take that step. And I think I see them, and I think I hear them saying, why, we could have been in the ark, we might have been in, but the only means of salvation. Now listen, all in that ark were safe and secure.

There was pitch within and without the pitch. The flood of judgment could not penetrate that pitch. All outside the ark perished. Was it God's fault? Was it God's fault? By their own death and deliberate choice, they chose to stay outside and they perished.

I looked round this intelligent congregation, and I asked you lovingly, where are you? Are you out? Or are you in? I'm not asking whether you've been christened, or confirmed, or vaccinated, or a church member, or a communicant, or a preacher, or a deacon, nor an elder.

I asked you lovingly, are you in? And there's only one way. Christ said, I am the door. By me, if anyone enter in, he shall be saved. What is Romans 8 verse number 1 saying? There is therefore now no condemnation, no judgment of them that are in Christ Jesus, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sin, in whom we have been accepted in the beloved.

Oh, aren't you glad you're saved? Amen. Aren't you glad you're a child of God? My friend, there you are, you're sealed, and that seal can never be broken, and you're accepted, and as he is before the Father, so are you tonight, right down here, the one of it all.

Victory Through Identification with Christ

One more point. These, we are victorious. Not only are we saved and sealed, saved and accepted, but we're saved and victorious. I like this, don't you? Oh dear. You know what I saw just now? Somebody just yawned.

Thank you, yawned at once. That's terrible. Only half way through the message, too, eh? When is it going to be the time to get to the end? May I help you a little? Here is victorious. Thank God for it.

Saved and victorious. Two claims in 2 verse number 14. Thank ye unto God, who on Sunday gives me the victory. Is that what it says?

Thank ye unto God, who always causes the triumph through Christ Jesus.

Paul in Romans 7 says, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? Then he said, I thank God, for Jesus Christ, our Lord. The only way of deliverance, my friend, is through Jesus Christ.

Paul 32 times used the personal pronoun I in Romans 7. I, I, I. He was an I specialist. He cancelled I and he cancelled I. At the end he says, O wretched man that I am. No wonder he was wretched. The man, the woman, is always self-occupied and self-centered.

They are a wretched kind of people. And they try to make everybody else wretched with them too. I thank God for their lives of old wretchedness. And the same with Paul. Who shall deliver me from this body of death?

And they turn away from themselves and cry, I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Beloved, the catchment in Romans 7 becomes a conqueror in Romans 8. It says in Romans 8, 37, We are more than conquerors through him that loveth us.

Isn't this wonderful? And please, the only way out of Romans 7 into Romans 8 and to live there is Romans 6, 11. And what does Romans 6, 11 say? Likewise reckon yourself to be dead indeed unto sin. That's the negative side.

But alive unto God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, that's the positive side. If you're taken up with the negative reckoning, you get melancholy and morbid. I've died for that. I've died for that. Take the positive side.

Why am I alive unto God? He's now my life. And when temptation crosses your pathway, as soft as it does, you say, Lord, take over in this situation. Lord, look after your property. It's in danger. That's what it means.

You're reckoning alive unto God. You're no longer your own. You belong to him. A letter yesterday from a very fine young man, high school teacher, who's now in full-time service to the Lord. God is using him very mightily in Pittsburgh.

This young man, along with other young men, have been trying to come to Romans 12 .1 and present their bodies as a living sacrifice, holy unto God. Holy unto God. And they tried with all sincerity and with all heart before the Lord.

And they came and they presented their bodies. And they tried their hardest to consecrate.

But after a few days, it didn't fit. It didn't work.

One day, going along there, not knowing about the situation, I yelled out. I'm not doing it tonight. These words. There's no good coming to Romans 12 .1 until you're into Romans 6. Because otherwise, you're trying to consecrate flesh.

Consecrate your old man. You must come to Romans 6 and recognize your old man crucified with Christ. And my friends, you all of you, finished the cross 2 ,000 years ago. And now, as one is alive from the dead, you come and present your life to Him now.

A living sacrifice. Alive unto God. Like a narrow. He went home to those young men. And they saw the truth. And they've been trying to consecrate their old man. But God said, I finished my old man. I put the old man upon the cross.

And they reckoned upon that. And reckoned, alive unto God. And alive unto God. Now they came to Romans. And what happened? What happened? Jermaine could tell you this. Since last May, we were there. This is years ago since that's happened regarding Romans 12 .1.

Last year was in the month of May. Thirteen new gospel outreaches have started. Three new assemblies have started. And over 600 people have been saved. Because young men were willing to do business with God.

We were having 200. Night after night. Coming along to a converted store. They opened the door. They came in. It smelt. Those young people, my friend, were there. A hippie type. Long beard. Long hair.

Many of those people have been pushers. One young fellow got five bullet wounds in his leg. From a pre-conceivable revolver. But those young people were there to do business. There was a short word of prayer.

No music. No singing. And I was on for two hours of solid Bible teaching. There were no books and Bibles. And there were my friends who asked me that, leading others to Christ. Some would just say to themselves, they're out on the street the next day, so I can lead others to Christ.

And I believe from Ernie Osby, only yesterday, saying, Thirteen new gospel outreaches have started. And he said, three new assemblies have started since last May. Because young people, and thank God the older ones are right with them.

Mr. and Mrs. May came along. Some others. And they were absolutely astounded at the reverence and the attention those young people gave to the Word of God. Night after night we finished with these words.

Have thine own way, Lord. Those young people broke down and sobbed. I went back there just a few weeks ago. Grandmothers, five grandmothers, parents, all their brothers and sisters were led to Christ.

Why? Because I preached. No. Because of the transformation of those young lives. There's been a transformation of young sons and daughters. Praying, don't try and come to Romans 12 .1 until you've been to Romans 6 .6.

All the way, my friend, to Romans 7. And again, I'm quoting Dr. Northcott Day. All the way to Romans 7 to Romans 8. Romans 6. And verse number 11. Likewise reckon thyself to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Oh, the wonder of the glorious truth. No wonder I sing from my heart. Reckon thyself to be dead indeed to sin. Crucified with Christ, he now may reign within. Raised together with the Lord,.

Thus the Spirit doth afford victory for you.

How may I know victory from any crime? Commit thyself to Calvary, consent to die. God we have gained is seeming loss. We die to live. And his life comes as to the cross. My life I gave only in the measure which I have wrought in my whole life.

Crucified with Christ moment by moment, day by day. Mine with no Christ. All this fullness living in me. It happened in the land of Georgia some years ago. The first football game, huge football match I've ever seen in my life.

I was taken there by one of the young profs from the Georgia Tech. My alleged clients from years before. And being on the faculty of the wonderful Vanity's Point. Georgia Tech were playing Auburn University in a cup tie.

I had never seen the American football before and I didn't understand one thing they were doing. I couldn't understand those men putting fifty pounds worth of padding on, a crash helmet and a face guard to go and play a game.

I didn't understand that at all. And I saw those twenty-two full-blooded men fighting for that little pumpkin. I couldn't understand that either. And when they got under this little huddle, I thought they were having a prayer meeting for the next move.

I didn't know what they were doing. When the crowd stood, I stood. When they yelled, I yelled. I didn't know what I was standing up for. I didn't know what I was yelling about. It went on like that. By the third quarter I was getting well into it.

And by the fourth quarter I was well into it. And when I stood I knew what I was standing up for. When I yelled, I knew what I was yelling about. And Georgia won forty-four to seven. It was a glorious victory for Georgia.

On the way home, my good friend stopped a stop sign. Always a good thing to do that. I got fined twenty-five dollars for not doing it one day. Anyway, the poem is this. A man was standing on the side of the street and said, Say Butch, who won.

My friend was an all-year class at a college. He was also a champion wrestler for the Southern College. He writes his name as Butch. He writes his name as Hosea. And so, he said, say Butch, who won? He said, we won.

Forty-four to seven. I pulled his coat and said, Butch, you told that man a lie. He said, I never did. We won forty-four to seven. He said, you never did. You never played in that game. You have no right telling that man we won and you didn't play.

But don't you understand, Jim, that team was chosen to represent this college and because the team and the whole college shared the victory. Jim, whole Georgia shared the victory. It's a wonderful day in Georgia.

I know that, all right. But you have no right telling that man we won and you didn't play. You told him a lie. He goes all backward again. I said, don't you understand that team was chosen to represent the whole college and because that team won, the whole college shared the victory.

They were only chosen to represent the college. And because I'm identified, the college, I share the victory. So I said, I don't care you told that man a lie. He said, haven't you any gray matter at all?

I said, not very much. So you've got to go backwards. He said, don't worry, Butch, I understand perfectly what you're saying. But listen, friend. For the last three weeks, I've been trying to get into your skull that when Christ died upon that cross, you died.

His death is your death. And just as you did not literally claim that day that you shared the victory, you did not literally die upon the cross. The name did not go through your hands nor feet. You died in the presence of your representative.

And his victory is your victory, Butch. Oh, I said, Jim, how stupid I've been.

I said, yes, I thought that for three weeks.

Beloved Butch, have you seen that truth? That when Christ died, not only did he die to bear away your sin, but when he died, you died. His death is your death. You died in the presence of your representative.

And now his victory is now your victory. Thanks be unto God who has given us a victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. And we are victorious because we are a saved people. May I say this very lovingly, yet with all sincerity, a defeated Christian is a contradiction in terms.

There is no need for any man or woman named in the name of Christ to live a defeated life. You can know victory every moment of every day. Moment by moment I am kept in his love. Moment by moment I fly from above.

Moment by moment the glory shall shine. Moment by moment, O Lord, I am thine. A man named John Watt, back in Scotland. 1914 -18, Watt was called up to the military service. He was married, three lovely children.

He had a friend, a bachelor, no responsibility. His job exempted him from all military service. He was in an A1 condition, physically, mentally, very much alert. He went to his friend and said, John, I am going to your place.

I am going to fight in your place, my friend, you must let me go. No, no, objected John Watt. Oh yes, I am going to fight in your name. I will fight with your number. But John, you have got three children and a wife.

I have got no one. Let me go. He went. And everything went wonderfully well until the last clash. And he was killed in that last clash. The last war broke out. John Watt had worked from the war office to report.

Three letters he got, he ignored them all. Then he sent a recruiting sergeant saying, saying, why aren't you reported? He said, you have no claim upon me. He said, aren't you John Watt? He said, yes, I am John Watt.

He said, well, you are a tax payer. He said, yes, I am a tax payer. He said, well, why don't you report? He said, go back and look up your war record. You will find I died in the last war. Pardon? He said, you go back and look up your record.

You will find I died in the last war. And he went back and, true enough, John Watt, on a certain day, in a certain battle, died. John Watt did not literally die. He died in the person of substitute. But John Watt reckoned upon that fact.

And when his letters came, he ignored the letters. There was no claim upon him. He told the recruiting sergeant, you have no claim upon me. I died. Friend, the old devil, your old master, your old wife will send you letters.

You have got to ignore them. You have died in the person of your representative. His death is your death. His victory is now your victory. Very fine. A girl came to me at Bible school some time ago. A young high school teacher.

Well, she said, Uncle Jim, that's just a figure of speech, I'm trying so hard to crucify myself. Ernie Woodhouse was there too. And said, I'm trying so hard to crucify myself. And I said, my dear, you're trying to do the impossible.

She said, why? Now, if for a chance you're able to get a nail through your feet, a nail through this hand, who's going to put a nail through this hand? She said, I never thought of that. She said, well, I don't feel dead.

Well, do dead people feel?

Oh, how stupid I am. How stupid.