The Happy Man 02 God in Us — James K. Boswell

Well, I'll probably teach a new one tomorrow night, God willing. Thank you. Now, John's Gospel, Chapter 1, please. What were we talking about this morning? Who can remember? What was the first point? God with us.

And the second? God for us. And tonight? God in us. Very good. Right, so then John, Chapter 1, we're reading from verse 9 through verse 14. John's Gospel, the first chapter, verse 9. Then it was the true light which lighted every man that cometh into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on his name.

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the world became flesh, and tabernacled among us, and we beheld his glory. The glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Now the first epistle of John. John's first letter, Chapter 1, and verse number 2. The first epistle of John, the first chapter, verse 2. For the light was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal light, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us.

That which we have seen, and heard, declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. One last scripture, the second letter to Corinthians.

The Corinthian letter, the second, and Chapter 4. That's really sweet music, I do like to hear the rustling among the leaves. That's really wonderful. 2 Corinthians 4, verse number 6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, for the ecstasy of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, now that is the earthen vessel, yet not distressed, that's the treasure within.

We are perplexed, that is the vessel, but not in despair, that's the treasure within. Persecuted, that is the vessel, but not forsaken, that's the treasure within. Cast down, that is the vessel, but not destroyed, that is the treasure within.

Now may I read it as it is? For we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed, we are perplexed, but not in despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Cast down, but not destroyed, always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.

That the life-oils of Jesus might be made manifest in our bodies. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life-oils of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Now the Lord add his blessings to that short reading from his word to our hearts tonight. We were thinking this morning of that expression, God with us, reminding us of his presence, God for us, reminding us of his peace, that tonight the theme is God in us, reminding us of his power.

The Ideal Life and the Indwelling Christ

I want to talk tonight a little bit on the ideal life. Not wife, I've already got her, and that would be a subject alone. But life, the ideal life. Sitting on the top of a mountain one day was a little piece of fungus.

The fungus said to the mountain, I'm greater than you are. Now it's perfectly correct. The mountain had no life, the fungus had vegetable life. Going along the dusty lane and looking over into the meadow, there is the majestic oak.

Sitting on the top of the oak was a little ladybug. Bird? Bug. Ladybird in Washington. Ladybug. And the little ladybug saying to the oak, I'm greater than you are. You know, the little ladybug is perfectly correct.

The oak may say, look at my powerful trunk, look at my beautiful branches and lovely shady leaves, but it's perfectly true. Whereas the oak has only vegetable life, the little ladybug has organic life.

You go to the zoo. You can go. I'm terrified to go in case they kick me. But you can go. And you know, going round to see on Jumbo's back, a little boy sitting up there in a special seat for a little boy going round on Jumbo's back having a little ride.

All of a sudden Jumbo, the little boy says to Jumbo, Jumbo, I'm greater than you are. Jumbo says, greater than I am? Don't you see my big powerful body, my four powerful legs? I've got a trunk at one end and a tail at the other.

You see I'm greater than I am? What do you mean? But the boy's perfectly correct, you know. Whereas Jumbo's only got animal life, the little boy has human life and animal life of a far greater degree.

A young teenager works for the professor at the evening gospel meeting on the Sunday night. He hears a clear annunciation of the gospel. He believes a testimony given concerning Jesus Christ and receives him by faith into his heart.

Next morning he goes into the lab and the professor's very busy in some research. But the boy must openly confess he has a newfound joy in Christ. So he goes up to the professor and says somewhat timidly, P-P-P-P-P-Professor.

Yes, my boy? P-P-P-Professor, I'm greater than you are. The professor stops what he's doing, takes his finsnips off and poops them down. Greater than I am? Don't you realise who I am? Yes, I know who you are, sir, but still I'm greater than you are.

Explain yourself, my boy. Well, as it lay aside I went along to the gospel service. And I heard a clear testimony concerning Jesus Christ. How did he die for me and rose again from the dead for me? I believe that statement.

Now receive Christ, my Lord and Savior. Now, Professor, I've not only got human life, but I've got both human life and divine life, spiritual life. Whereas, Professor, you've only got human life. The boy's perfectly correct.

I looked round this very fine congregation and a lot of intelligent people. Now I'm wondering, I know fine we've all got human life, we've all got physical life. Because we would not be here if we had not that special life.

But I wonder, are we the possessors of spiritual life? This ideal life? This life which is life from above? Is it possible for one believer to go to another and say, they will never say this because it proves to be untrue, I'm greater than you are?

See, whatever do you mean? John 10 .10, the Lord Jesus says, I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it known abundantly. All believers have life. All believers are not in the good of the abundant life.

The moment I receive the Lord Jesus, that moment I receive life which is life indeed. Life which is life from above. Spiritual life, divine life. I become a partaker of the divine nature. I become a child of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

The moment I love the Holy Spirit and call on Jesus Christ as Lord, I know the abundant life. Is this ideal life I want to talk about a little further this evening? You know, when we were born into the world, we weren't all there when we were born.

You think, what? If God will talk for yourself, I am and I am talking for you too. Because it's perfectly true. We weren't all there when we were born into the world. See, man's made up of spirit and soul and body.

Spirit, I am God conscious. Soul, I am self conscious. Body, I am world conscious. And when God said to Adam and Eve, The day thou eatest it up, thou shalt surely die. And when Adam and Eve partook of that forbidden fruit, immediately they died.

Oh, you say that's not true. They lived well over 900 years. They had sons and daughters. No, beloved, they did not die physically, they died spiritually. And that spirit father man that knew God, that communed with God, that worshipped God, from that moment until the last baby born in the world, that spirit father's dead toward God.

And that's why we must be born again. That's why we must be born. Not physically born, but we must be born from above. The Lord said to Nicodemus, that very intellectual man, that religious ruler, he said to him, Nicodemus, ye must be born again.

You must be born from above. He turned and said, how can I be born when I'm old? The Lord turned and said, that which is born of flesh is flesh of earthly life. That which is born of spirit is spirit of spiritual life.

Ah, my woman, I say unto thee, you must be born again. In the moment I receive the Lord Jesus, that moment I receive life. 1 John 5 verse 12 says, he that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

You see, life begins when Jesus comes in. The most tragic verse in the Bible is John 1 verse 11. He came unto his own, his own received him not. The most triumphant verse is the very next one. I know it's very poor English to use to many conjunctions, but this is what I'm going to use.

But, as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood. You don't evolve into becoming a Christian. You don't grow up into becoming a Christian.

Which were born, born into the family of God. And the Bible says, which is born not of blood. So you see, this is not hereditary. Because mom and dad are Christian, that does not mean I'm automatically going to become a Christian.

I must be born not of blood. Not of the will of the flesh. No act of my own. No will of my own. My good name, my good character, my benevolence. My friend, these will never bring about the miracle of the new birth.

It's not by the will of the flesh. Neither is it by the will of man. No act that any man can consider upon me. Whether it's a christening or confirmation, baptizing by immersion, laying on of hands. No my friend, these will never bring about the miracle of the new birth.

I must be born of God. Now may I repeat the verse as it is. Which were born, not of blood. There you have Eve. Nor of the will of the flesh, there you have Saga. Nor of the will of man, there you have Rebecca.

But of God, and there you got Mary. Four mothers in that one verse. May I help you right here tonight dear child of God? Let us go back to that moment. When you bowed as a poor penitent sinner before the Lord Jesus.

I acknowledged him as your Lord and Savior. And from your very heart you said Lord Jesus, I thank thee for dying for me. For bearing the penalty against my sin. For rising from the dead for me. And here and now I receive thee.

Coming to my heart Lord Jesus. Beloved there is no salvation apart from receiving Jesus Christ into the heart. Believing all about the Lord Jesus. Believing historical facts concerning Christ. Will never bring about the miracle of the new birth.

Believing in Christ Rather Than Merely Believing Facts

A young university grad came to me some time ago in Calgary, Alberta. He said Mr. Boswell what is the difference between believing in my mind. And believing in my heart. Looking at him I said Gordon. Do you believe in the virgin birth?

He said I have never doubted the virgin birth. I said do you believe in the virtuous life of Jesus Christ? The holy symbolism of God? He said I have never doubted the sinlessness of Christ. I said do you believe in the vicarious death of Christ?

How does he die upon that cross he dies for you? Yes I do. He said Good Friday tells me Christ dies. Looking at him I said do you believe in the resurrection? He smiled as he said of course I do. He said I can't put a date at the top of my note paper.

Look at a date on my calendar or a date in the newspaper. Without believing these historical facts. That Christ came into the world and he died. And he arose again the third day. Did all dates point from that resurrection?

Looking at him I said do you believe in the ascension? That this living Christ is now ascended back into glory. A living man. And being a good Anglican he said of course I do. Ascension Sunday tells me Christ went back into heaven.

I said Gordon you believe all this with your mind. You give a mental ascent to historical facts concerning Jesus Christ. And yet you leave him standing at your heart door. You leave him standing at your heart door.

I said now once you have believed with your mind. Will you not say thank you Lord Jesus for dying for me. Rising from the dead for me. And here and now I receive thee coming to my heart. That young man clasped my hand and his hand twice the size of mine.

And he said I'll do it now and together we bow. And that young man received Christ. That moment he believed with his heart. That moment he began to live. A young couple going round together are very much attached to one another.

And she believes he loves her. She believes he cares. She believes he is well able to look after her and to support her. Now she believes all that was of mine concerning him. Then that great moment comes when he pops the question to her.

Asks for her hand in marriage. You've all passed through that I know. And so there it is and if you haven't well I can't do too much about it. But there's the whole thing you see. Now and he asks for her hand in marriage.

And she believes in him. And she's got enough confidence to say yes I will be happy to marry you. She believes all about him. She believes in him. But still she does not belong to him nor he to her. And so that day they stand before the officiating pastor.

And that pastor says to this man. Willst thou have this woman to thy lawful wedded wife? And he says I will. And somebody says has wilted ever since. I will. And with that I will he committed himself to that woman.

Then the question is. Willst thou have this man to thy lawful. No. To thy lawful a wedded husband. And she says I will. I will. And now please with the I will of committal. They commit themselves one to the other.

They believe about each other. They believe in each other. But now they believe on. And to believe on means you receive one another. How do I know? John 1 12 says. To as many as receive him. To them gave he power to become the sons of God.

Even to them believe on his name. To believe on him is to receive him. And the moment you receive Christ. That moment you receive light. And light from above. That's my first point for you tonight. And I want to ask you before I leave it.

Have we all in this very fine congregation tonight. Become the presenter of this spiritual life. See I'm not presenting a religion. Nor a code. Nor a creed. Nor a catechism. I'm not presenting my friends certain ethics.

I am presenting to you tonight a living Lord. One who became dead. But who's alive forevermore. And who longs to come into your heart.

And when you receive him. He transforms your whole life.

And you can sing. What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought. Since Jesus came into my heart. Isn't that just wonderful? What a change comes in when you receive him. Of with Paul you can cry.

It's no longer I. But Christ. That liveth in me. The wonder of this you know. A great theologian. The late John Nelson Darby said. Christianity is not something put on from without. Christianity is the outliving of the inliving Christ.

You see. I love this. Life works within. And love works without. And now having received life. We manifest a new life by love. The wonder of it all. Have you tonight received this new life? Are you alive in Christ Jesus?

Ah here is the ideal life. Life. Life. Eternal life. Jesus alone is the giver. Life. Life. Abundant life. Glory to Jesus. And forever. Now. Firstly. His life is alive from above. And I want depending upon the Holy Spirit.

To bring before your hearts tonight the life. Of our adorable Lord Jesus Christ. Oh I'm depending upon him to fill our vision. And occupy our hearts alone. With the Lord. And the first part is this. His life.

Christ's Life From Above

Is alive. From above. It's I came down. From the Father. Isn't that lovely? I came down. From the Father. I come that ye might have life. He came right down from heaven. You see when we were born into the world.

We had a life given to us. Corresponding with the sphere into which we were coming. We were coming into a nasty sphere. So God gave us a nasty life. To correspond with the sphere. Had we to live in a watery element.

Then tonight our little fins would have been going. And our tail behind us. But we were not to live in a watery element. We were to live in a nasty sphere. So God gave us a nasty life. To correspond with the sphere.

That's why I don't believe for one moment. A man will ever live on the moon. That's a lot of moonshine. He may get there. But he certainly will never live there. God never gave man a life. To correspond with that sphere.

A nasty life or a nasty sphere. You see that's quite some logic. I can see that. Now listen beloved. Heaven is a heavenly sphere. It's a spiritual sphere. And the Lord Jesus says. Flesh and blood. My earthly life.

Will never inherit the kingdom of God. And so if I'm going to be in that heavenly. That spiritual sphere. I must have a life to correspond with that sphere. And that's why you must be born again. No matter how exemplary.

No matter my friend how respectable. Or religious. Or refined. Or cultured. Or educated. Your earthly life may be. It will never take you one step nearer heaven. You must have a new life altogether. And this life is not in religion.

This life is not in a church membership. This life is in a person. This person is Jesus Christ. And the night he stands right at your very hard door and says. Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hear my voice and open the door.

I will come in. And the moment you say come into my heart Lord Jesus. That moment my friend. You receive life. This life is a life above. This heavenly life. This spiritual life. And I want to get this across your heart.

This life can never be lost. Did you get that? This life. This life is a life above. This spiritual life. This life is Christ in you. Christ in you. This life can never be lost. So wonder it my friend.

Let the reality of the crypt of Saul tonight. And bow your down in worship. And in adoration. And in thanksgiving. And in true gratitude. Because isn't he worthy? A thousand times yes. Now secondly. Not only is he alive from above.

Which I trust we have all received. But it is a sinless life. A sinless life. His life is absolutely all pure. His life is absolutely perfect. It is a sinless life. A life absolutely apart from sin. In one John 3 verse 5.

He was manifest to take away our sin. But in him was no sin. In him no sin. He did no sin. He do no sin. There was no sin in Christ. You remember the wonderful picture back in Exodus chapter 12. It speaks about the little lamb.

The lamb had to be without blemish. It's head, it's legs and it's inwards. Had one little blemish been seen. One little pimple there. The lamb was to the start of no value. The blood could not be applied to the two sides.

Closed in the upper lintel of the doorway. The lamb had to be without blemish. What about God's lamb? When John the Baptist cried, Behold the Lamb of God which beareth away the sin of the world. Well, what about his head?

Well, allow that intellectual giant Paul to answer that. He knew no sin. No impure thought ever passed through the holy mind of the Son of God. Well, what about his legs? Practical Peter answered that by saying, And he did no sin.

Well, what about his inwards? John the Beloved. Who leaned upon his breast. He knew and so intimately said, And in him no sin. So his head, his legs and his inwards. Absolutely all pure. His father said, This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.

But in whom I find all my delight. You would say that's all right for the testimony of his father and his friend. But what about his foes? What about his enemies? Well, listen carefully. Pilate said three times over, I find no fault in this man.

Here the king said, I find nothing worthy of death in this man. Judas who betrayed and cried, I have sinned. And then I betrayed thee. And please notice a definite article there. It does not say, I have sinned, I betrayed innocent.

It's the innocent blood. The only blood that is innocent. The only blood that is pure. The innocent blood. I have sinned. He freaked out. And I have betrayed the innocent blood. Remember the fiends from hell, they cried, We know who thou art, O holy one of God.

So tonight the one who stands before your heart is the one whom all heavens, his father, his friends, his foes, heaven, earth and hell, they point to him and declare, a sinless, a perfect man. The only one without sin.

There was none other good enough to pay the price of sin. He only could allot the gift of heaven and let it in. Do you know him? Is he a reality in your life? Don't they? His life was a life yielded to the will of God the Father.

I came not to do mine own will, but the will of him set me. Not my will, but thy will be done. Firstly, his life was empowered, energized by the Holy Spirit. As the Holy Spirit energized him, so he spoke, and so he acted, and so he moved.

This led him full surrender to the will of God, to the word of God, and to the work of God. I am going back over these a little slower. I was asked to put the brake on tonight. I'll go a little slower now.

His life is a life from above. His life is a sinless life. His life is a life utterly yielded to the will of God the Father. His life is a life empowered by the Holy Spirit that leads in full surrender to the will of God, to the word of God, and to the work of God.

I came not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me, and to finish the work which I gave him to do.

My delight is in the law of the Lord, and in that law I meditate day and night.

Christ's Concentrated Activity

Fifth point. His life was a life of concentrated activity. I know no life so full of activity than the life of our adorable Lord Jesus Christ. Yet that life was never divorced from fellowship with, and devotion to the Father.

That's the secret. Many a night he spent a loathe of God all night. His locks would wait for the dew of the night. He had in time to eat, and in time to eat. His life was a life utterly filled with activity.

But I repeat this and will seek to emphasize it. He was never divorced from fellowship with, nor devotion to the Father. How they tried my faith to get him to be separated and relaxed in his own will, in his own power.

No, he was always in living touch with the Father. He was utterly devoted to the Father. Sixth point. His life was a life of unwavering faith in God. They tried again to deviate to the right hand and to the left hand.

Even Peter said, remember, pity thyself, Lord, pity thyself, this shall not be to thee. Thomas said in all sincerity, don't go there, they'll stone you if you go there. But my friend, Christ had a purpose in coming into the world.

He was undeterred in the cutting of that purpose. He would not allow them, my friend, to impede his progress. And he moved forward with an unwavering faith in God. I repeat that. His life was a life of unwavering faith in God.

He set his faith like a flint to go all the way to Jerusalem. And my friend, he turned to the right hand, not to the left. He went all the way, all the way. Lastly, his life was a life crowned with glorious victory.

A life crowned with glorious victory.

For him, he was a one for long suffering. A later life of glorious triumph and glorious victory. And look, he.

Seems to start his glorious. See the man of sorrows now. From the faintly turned victorious every knee to him shall bow. Crown him, crown become the mighty victorious brow. And O beloved fellow believer, this is the life that you present.

This is the life that I present tonight. It's a life which is a life from above. It's a life, my friend, absolutely sinless. You present the very life of the Son of God. It's a life yielded to the will of God the Father.

It's a life empowered and energized by the Holy Spirit that leads us in full surrender to the will of God, to the word of God and to the work of God. It's a life of concentrated activity. I love this with all my heart.

But my friend, this must never be divorced from fellowship with nor devotion to our adorable Lord Jesus Christ. In the midst of all our activity, some people are saying to us, we just can't understand how you go on.

You've been in the Lord's work for over 32 years. You've never yet had a holiday, never had a break. My friend, I say this humbly, I say it sincerely, and I believe we've learned the secret of moving forward and knowing the secret source of utter devotion to and knowing that Christ Himself is the very life of our lives.

He is our rest. He is our peace. He is our joy. He is our patience. He's just absolutely everything. It's all in Him. Matthew 11, 28 comes in and says, Christ says, come unto me, all ye labor and weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

This is a rest you'll get when you come as a poor guilty sinner. Remember the words of the old hymn. I heard the voice of Jesus say, come unto me and rest. Lay down, all weary one, lay down thy head upon my breast.

I came to Jesus as I was, weary and warm and sad. I found Him a resting place, and hallelujah, He has made me glad. But there is another rest in the very next verse. It says, take my yoke upon you and learn of me.

My yoke is easy, my burden is light, and ye shall find rest unto yourselves. Oh, this is the rest He wants us now to enter into as His own beloved people, coming to Him and knowing the joy, this moment by moment, day by day, resting in His love and drawing all our resources from the Lord Himself, the Risen Head.

There's a life of concentrated activity, devotion to and fellowship with the Lord. When you begin, and I say this very lovingly, when you begin to find the yoke chafing and rubbing and making it sore, when you find the Lord's work becoming a real burden, a real grind to you, it's no longer the Lord's work.

You're working in the energy of the flesh. And the quicker you realize that, the better. It's to be no longer I, but Christ working through me. He is our life. He is our strength. He is our patience. He is our love.

He's just absolutely everything, isn't.

He? This is the ideal life. He's life.

Some people come up to me and say, Mr. Bob, will you please pray the Lord will give me patience? When my wife prays for patience, the Lord usually sends me hope, tribulation and work of patience. Not quite as bad as all that, really.

But I say, please, have you got the brainy idea that God's going to bundle up a bundle of patience, put some name upon it, drop it down, there you are, my dear, there is your patience? He doesn't do that.

He puts it in the circumstance where patience is required. And right there, Lord, take over the situation. Take over. And it's amazing how you trust in all He takes over. And you'll find Him in the serenity.

And you're at calm and you're at peace. Some people say, Lord, ask the Lord to send me love. And I pray, oh Lord, please send me love. Lord, I'm longing for love. Lord, I'm so lonely. Lord, I'm so unforgiving.

Lord, I'm so harsh. Please send me love. And they've got the brainy idea that God's going to bundle up a bundle of love, put the name upon it, drop it down, there you are, my darling, there's your love.

He doesn't do that. He is love. He is love. He's love for 75.

I remember that very person who always rubs you up the wrong way. You don't have these people, of course, in Park of the Palms. Oh no, it's such a wonderful, congenial atmosphere here. But there's a lot of people up north, way up there, you know.

They always rub you up the wrong way, you see. And you know, Lord, what happens now? You meet them on the street, and before you just probably pass into some shop and let them pass by until you get there.

You don't do that, of course. But that's what happens now. Lord, take over the situation. Lord, I love them through me. It's amazing how you find the love of God shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Spirit.

You see, He's love. He's love for 75, you know. I'm going to deal with that during these mornings, God willing. Now may I help you again as I close now. A life of cognitive activity, a life of unwavering faith in God.

Oh beloved, during these particular days, maybe during these past days and weeks and months, God by His Spirit has been speaking to you. He's been asking you to do some particular thing. And you've been fighting it.

You've been arguing with the Lord. May I suggest something to you tonight, that you move forward with an unwavering faith in God. Move forward, unflinchingly move forward with that faith centered and focused alone in Jesus Christ.

I was ministering in Gloucester, in England, some years ago at a convention. Then a speaker was Mr. John Williams, the chief constable of Northampton, a very fine Bible expositor. And I was much younger than I am now.

And this meeting had been held in a congregational church, a very large building, which was higher for the particular convention. And 75 of that congregation I simply did not know. But in the middle of my message I looked up at the gallery and said, young man, young mover, move forward with an unwavering faith in God.

A God calling to Africa, to India, to South America, probably saying to you some particular thing, He wants you to obey in His words, but move forward with an unwavering faith in God. Sitting up there in the gallery was a young man.

I didn't know him. But a great battle had been raging for a long time. As he studied his New Testament, he saw the truth of a New Testament church. It was very real and very precious to him. He saw the truth of the priesthood of all believers.

It was very precious to him. And, you know, he had a class of 40 young men. He led most of these young men to the Lord. And a voice said to him, now if you leave, what about that Bible class? What about that Bible class?

Probably a modernist will take over that class. And he succumbs to that every time. He could never think of a modernist taking over his class. So he stayed there. But now the battle raged. And he saw from God's Word the importance of being submissive to the will of God.

The Inherent Spirit saying to him, young man, move forward with an unwavering faith in God. Next morning he presented himself to his pastor, a very godly man. He told him what was on his heart. The pastor put his arm around him and said, John, if I were to do what I ought to be doing, I ought to be coming with you.

But this is my bread and butter, and I must stay where I am. John went into his class. He told his class exactly what he was about to do. He said, I don't want any of you to move because I'm moving. I want you, and I'm going to give you a verse of Scripture that brought me to this point.

And until your spirit reveals it to you then, don't move. If you move because I'm moving, you'll never be happy. But I want you to see exactly what God wants you to do. And then move forward as I'm doing with an unwavering faith in God.

I'm moving forward trusting Him to work it all out for His glory. Next day he presented himself, not a wonderful editor, no wonderful ornamentation, no wonderful music, no wonderful oratory, although there was a great gift there.

And they received him as a brother in Christ. Within 18 months, his whole Bible class were with him in that particular group. They'll honor God. He will honor. He'll never disappoint you. He'll never let you down.

Is God talking to you in some particular way? Is He talking to you in some particular way during these past weeks and months? This is the closing conference, the closing week. Now you want to try and gather together.