(Christ Formed) 02 - Christ as for Us — Ed Miller

Well, good evening again brothers and sisters in the Lord. It's been a good day in fellowship with him. As we come to the study of God's Word There's a principle of Bible study that is absolutely indispensable a Principle that we cannot take for granted.

And that is total reliance. Upon God's Holy Spirit He gave us the Bible. He inspired it in the first place. He breathed it and he's near enough to breathe on it again. And to make it live He desires to do that and so we can end up with a revelation of the revelation.

Relying on the Holy Spirit to See Christ in Scripture

This is the Word of God. But then God breathes on it we see him. There's no process of academics on earth That can press through to the revelation of Christ. We are not glorifying ignorance. Not saying don't study.

We need the human side. But all we need the divine side. I want to share two actually three verses. Before we pray together the first is in the book of Ephesians chapter 5. In chapter 5 verse 13 and 14 all things become visible When they are exposed by the light.

Everything that becomes visible is light and for this reason it says a weak sleeper and rise from the dead and Christ will dawn on you. That wonderful words wake sleeper rise from the dead and Christ will dawn on you and so if you're sleeping.

The voice of the Son of God that raises the dead he wants to dawn on you. Here's the other verse. It's from Luke chapter 9 verse 32 and This is just part of that verse. It says this is the transfiguration, you know.

And it says and when they were fully awake They saw his glory. Wake sleeper and Christ will dawn on you rise from the dead and When they're fully awake They'll see his glory. So let's not only ask the Lord to wake us up.

But let's ask the Lord to make us fully awake to see his glory, that's Bob Father. We know it's a great thing to ask but thou art a great God. And so we come now and we ask it. Make us fully awake that we might see the glory of the Son of God this evening.

We ask in Jesus name. Amen, I know some have joined us since we began and so Those sheets around. If you don't have one, they are in the back. All right, does everyone have one of those? Okay, if you don't lift your hand.

All right. Thank you. There's another one up there. Okay well, welcome to our second look at the 30 years the years of preparation of our Lord Jesus Christ. We're looking at those 30 years and the events that took place in the first 30 years not in an isolated way.

Christ as the Second Man and Last Adam

But in order that we might see God's heart as Jesus. From a seed all the way to a prepared Person who could give redemption to the world and become the perfect Savior and the perfect priest. We're looking at this section as a whole.

We're not really concerned with All of the different things we can see in those 30 years. But this morning in our introduction, let me just lay that before you. I Suggested three things that are so crucial in my understanding to lay hold of God's heart in those first 30 years.

The first is what I think is the chief revelation of our Lord Jesus during those 30 years. He came on earth to be the second man. He came on earth to be the last Adam. He came on earth to represent us to be our substitute to live in our place in our stead on our behalf.

He was our representative and I attempted to show you that great revelation of the Lord. The second thing I wanted us to see is that our great Representative the second man the last Adam lived in our behalf as our substitute and He completely obeyed.

Maintained a simplicity and a loyalty to his Holy Father God so at the end of the preparation Heavens could open and God could say this is my beloved son in Him. I'm well pleased He satisfied God. And the third thing we saw and with that will begin this evening.

We saw how God revealed our Lord Jesus in that 30 years. And as I suggested this morning, you'll not find another segment of scripture. I don't believe. That gives us Christ in the same way. There is no other block of scripture.

There is no other segment. No other unit of scripture. That presents in a more graphic way the progressive revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's beyond dispute. In this section we see Jesus maturing and Jesus.

He begins as a seed and he begins to mature and he comes and becomes an infant and then a child. Then a young adult and so on all the way to maturity. You can trace it. You can study your Bible and trace the events.

Not all the events. God doesn't tell us everything. This is one of the great illustrations of the principle of intentional selection. God does not tell us everything. The Bible is not the record of everything.

It's the record of Jesus. It's the record of salvation. It's a story of redemption. And so God gives us those things that show us redemption and show us our Lord Jesus Christ. I Tried to find verses that actually said here's why I came.

Why Jesus Came: His Mission of Redemption

Let me just quote a few. I'll give it machine gun style. Luke 19 10 The Son of Man has come To seek and to save that which is lost. John 18 37 for this cause I was born into this world to testify of the truth.

Hebrews 10 5 I Come to do thy will. Oh God. Hebrews 2 9 he came to taste death for every man. 219 to render powerless Him who had the power of death 217 he came he was manifest to become a merciful and faithful high priest.

John 3 16 to give life to those who believe. Hebrews 9 26 he was manifest to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. First John 4 14 to be the Savior of the world. Ephesians 5 27 to purify unto himself a holy people.

John 10 10 to give life and to give life more abundantly. First John 5 20 he came that we might know him who is true. Every one of those verses referred to three and a half years not 30 years. Not amazing.

That's all ministry. He came to Set us free to die for us to be our Redeemer. But before he could start his ministry he had To be this and then he had to grow into this and then he had to grow into this and he finally matured And became a perfect Savior and now he could bring redemption now ministry can begin.

As he came he comes. As he matured then He matures now. See we get so excited about being his servants and his ministers. I Ministered for him a Long time before he ever started ministering through me.

Because until he matures this way in this way in this way in this way that prepares him for ministry then and now. And I'm suggesting and that's where we ended up this morning that our Lord Jesus Christ Came to be a representative then.

To show us he wants to be a representative now In our lives. He lived a life that pleased the father then and he lived a holy life. To show us that he does it now. He wants to live in us now and please the father bring satisfaction to him maintain our simplicity and devotion to Christ and honor him and Here it is.

He was progressively revealed then. So that he that's how he is now. If you notice the sheets that I handed out. That's the simple little outline that we're going to follow as he came he comes. As he worked then he works now and as he was progressively revealed then in exactly the same way illustrated by those marvelous familiar Bible stories.

He will be progressively Manifest in our heart. I told you the prayer I've been praying for myself and and for all of you for this weekend comes from Galatians chapter 4 19. It's a sigh of the Apostle Paul.

He says I'm in labor. Like a woman is in labor in travail. He said I travail over you and he's relating to Christians. Until Christ be formed in you over and over again in our privilege. To be together and to share the precious word of God and the revelation of Jesus.

We have talked about the importance of growing in Christ Jesus. Not this weekend. This weekend is Paul's side. Christ formed in you not you growing in Christ. Christ growing in you. And I hadn't planned to say this, but let me say it by way of encouragement.

The Seed of Christ and Progressive Spiritual Maturity

You know how in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 11 when God laid down all the principles illustrated by nature. And he talked about the seed that produces seed after its kind. An apple tree will always give apples.

Pear tree will always give pears. Grapes will always bring forth grapes. And first John tells us That his seed abides in us. What's my hope for being conformed to Christ one day? My hope is that the seed brings forth after its kind.

And I have the seed. I have Christ in me. And I'm telling you this by way of encouragement. Some of you may have loved ones. Your hearts are broken and you look at their lives and you say I know they accepted Christ.

I know things were going right, but they got so messed up. They got off the path. They got off the trail. You'd be encouraged. Christ will mature in that one if that seeds there it's going to come. And we're going to look at some of the stages and we'll review how Christ was.

But it was we'll remember. Yes, it was that way when he was a fetus and when he was an infant and a young adult and we'll see the stages Christ has determined. This is not something you do or I do. And I speak this.

Boldly, but carefully. It's not even something you let him do. He's gonna do it. And he's going to do it after the pattern of the 30 years. We need to watch that. We need to see that. Until Christ is formed in you now.

Lillian wanted me to warn you of a problem with this whole approach. And the problem is that maybe you will try to measure yourself and say is Christ a 12 year old in my heart. Is Christ still an infant in my life?

Don't go examining that because at every stage of life you have every stage it doesn't go away. It's like that little stream that goes into the brook that goes into the river that goes into the sea. We leave the rudiments, but we never leave them.

When's the last time you recited your ABCs. But you use them every day in different combinations in different ways. We never leave our ABCs. We don't recite them anymore. But we still have them and so you'll see all of these principles in every stage.

But in a special way, you'll see Jesus as he grows and the way he grows in the gospel record. That's how he wants to grow in your life. The way he grows in the gospel record. That's how he wants to grow in my life.

The way he matured then in his body. Is the way he wants to mature again in his body. May God help us as we look at these things. We're going to follow that little outline first as a fetus then as an infant then as a young adult and finally as a mature prepared adult.

Prepared for redemptive ministry and the pouring out of his life. This evening then to really if you don't count the introduction the first lesson the starting point. Conception a whole lesson tonight is about the time when Jesus was in the womb.

Christ Formed in the Believer: The Virgin Birth as a Pattern

That's early. That's young. And we want to spend the whole time just looking at that wonderful time the nine months of Mary's pregnancy. Every her message on the nine months of medicine. This will be fun.

As you would expect the principles we share will be closely connected to God's instrument Mary. Now before we look at this more closely. Let me mention this. It's not an accident, you know. That Mary is God's first picture of the church in the New Testament.

There are many pictures of the church. The bride and the groom picture of the church the head and the body. The foundation and the superstructure the new Jerusalem. Many pictures of the church in the New Testament.

But the first picture is this virgin from Nazareth. What is Mary's great contribution to the history of Redemption? And I'll tell you what it is in one sentence. Mary's great contribution to the history of Redemption is God used her to give Christ to the world.

What's the great contribution of the church to the history of Redemption. And the answer is to give Christ to the world. How did Mary do it. And the answer is the Holy Spirit. Formed Christ in her and in the fullness of time she gave Christ to the world.

How does the church do it? And the answer is the Holy Spirit forms Christ in her and in the fullness of time. She gives Christ to the world when the Virgin Mary had Christ formed in her. She identified with the Lord Jesus in such a way that there was no human explanation in fact.

The opposite was true and she identified with him outside the camp. What was true of Mary. The picture of the church is true of the church. Wonderful wonderful picture so in our discussion of Christ as a fetus Christ in the womb Christ that young we can't leave Mary out.

She's so connected to that picture and. So we'll be looking at the principles in terms of that dear instrument of God now if you glance at that outline That I gave you you'll notice under that first heading there are four stories.

And each of those stories contains a principle when you cover that much scripture in one message. You got to take big steps and I'm going to go into detail. We're not looking at it in an isolated way.

We're trying to see God's heart in the whole thing and so I want to show you the big steps the great principles. Now before we begin our look at this first story Gabriel Sent by God to the Virgin Mary.

I want to call attention to the difference between conception and birth. I'm sure you're all familiar with that difference. You know that there are many months between conception and birth and we all probably are able to recite our birthday.

But if I asked you to name the day and the hour and the moment that you were conceived. You might in a general way even nine months before that. But you couldn't nail it down you couldn't pinpoint the exact moment of the birth.

We have a birthday. But we don't when we give our eggs. We don't unless I'm giving Lillian's age. I always include the nine months. She gets upset with that because I don't do it in my own calculation.

Usually when people give their testimony. When they say I was saved on such-and-such a day. Well for me, I know the day January 29 1958 there was a crisis in my life, but usually you're describing the birth.

You're not describing the conception. The fact is God began working long before that crisis. When you raise your hand or sign the card or came forward or sat across from some counselor or something like that.

This is very precious in my heart because I think I shared with you before. The struggle my dear wife had she didn't have a date for her conversion. She grew up in a Lutheran home, and they were just so Bible centered and and she just The truth of God and it bothered her and she every time there was an invitation.

We went through it again and again and again, and she got saved again and again. She went forward signed card could get no assurance. And I did not tell you before the how it was finally sealed. I think I did.

I didn't. Well I hadn't planned it, but let me just tell you that finally after several years of this we knelt down together and I started to pray and I just asked the Lord to give her assurance and she just kept crying and there was no assurance.

And after a long season of prayer I started singing and I began to sing. Thank you Lord for saving my soul and I sang it once and She just cried and I sang it again and she just cried and I sang it again and I don't know how many times I sang it and then she joined in and when she sang Thank you, Lord.

For saving my soul a sweet peace came over her heart and she got assurance. Because she stopped saying please and she started saying. Thank you. And she entered into that great assurance. Well, I tell you that because.

Usually when people give the date they give the wrong date when our Lord Jesus was talking to Nicodemus of heavenly things. Remember he gave the illustration of a heavenly thing. And he used the wind as an illustration.

And he says the wind blows where it wishes. You hear the sound. But you don't know from whence it started and where it's going. Now I used to think that's God's picture of the Holy Spirit. It's not. Read the text.

So is everyone who's born of the Spirit? It's not the Holy Spirit. It's those who are born of the Spirit. It's God's illustration of the Christian and according to that verse nobody knows when it started and Where it's going and so if you don't have a date.

Don't worry about it. It isn't when did you trust Christ? It's are you trusting him this moment? I'm going to ask you to turn please to Luke chapter 1. Let's read this text together begin at verse 26 now in the sixth month.

The angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee named Nazareth. To a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph the house of David and the virgin's name was Mary. And he came into her and said hail thou are highly favored the Lord is with thee.

But she was greatly troubled at the same and Casting her mind what manner of salutation this might be. And the angel said unto her fear not Mary. For thou has found favor with God. Behold I shall conceive in my womb and bring forth a son.

Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He will be great and he shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Mary said unto the angel how shall this be? Seeing I know not a man. And the angel answered and said unto her. The Holy Spirit shall come upon you upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee.

Therefore also the Holy Thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God. Behold Elizabeth thy kinswoman. She also has conceived a son in her old age. And this is the sixth month with her that was called barren.

For no word from God shall be void of power. Mary said behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. Let me come straight to the first principle illustrated by this text that sort of implants the life of Christ into the believer in the very beginning of Christ's life in Mary.

The very beginning of Christ's life in those pictured by Mary is Connected with the word virgin. The first principle has to do with virgin. Luke chapter 1 verse 27. He was sent to a virgin. The angel came to a virgin.

There can be no life of Christ Apart from the principle of Virginity and so we need to understand that principle now. I think you're quite familiar with the theologians view of the virgin birth. You know they insist upon it.

They say that's a cardinal thing. You've got to believe in the virgin birth. That's one of the essentials. That's fundamental. You've got to believe that you gotta believe in the deity of Christ. You gotta believe in salvation by grace.

You gotta believe in the bodily resurrection. You've got to believe in the return of the Lord Jesus Christ and in that list. They put you've got to believe in the virgin birth. So they have a whole list of Essential these you can't get away.

Now do you believe in the eight points of the plenary verbal inspiration of scripture? Oh, you know you're a heretic. See they label you. They believe you've got to have that and so they believe you've got to believe the virgin birth.

Or you're a modernist. You're a liberal. You're a heretic. So on. Now the theologians give us two reasons for the virgin birth. The first one is that they say it enabled Jesus to be born without a sin nature.

They say that the sin nature comes through the man and by not having a father. Then Jesus was free from the sin nature. I've never been able to make that my own. Well, I can't say I never I used to make that my own but I'm very uneasy about that now I know he was born without a sin nature.

I'm just not sure it's because Mary was a virgin. I think it might be because the Holy Spirit overshadowed her and do the mighty miracle. It might be that simple. But anyway, that's one reason they like it.

And the other reason is because it enabled Jesus to bypass the curse of Cornelia. Do you know what I'm talking about? Let me give it to you in a nutshell. I don't want to waste time on this. Let me give it to you in a nutshell.

Are you familiar with the fact that when you come to the genealogy of Jesus? In the gospel record there are two of them. Matthew gives one and Luke gives one and if you look at them, they're not the same.

You say how come they're not the same and the answer is that Matthew? Chapter 1 verses 1 to 16 in his genealogy. He traces the line through Joseph the stepfather of our Lord Jesus and he goes all the way back and shows that Joseph is descended from David and Luke traces Mary's genealogy and Goes all the way back and shows that she's descended to David.

He said well, why do we need to trace the line through Joseph and Mary? We just gotta prove Messiah is the son of David. We could have done that with one of them. Why do we need two? David had two lines one of his Descendants went this way and one went this way through Nathan and it's this line.

That was the royal line. Kings couldn't come through Nathan. They had to come through Rehoboam and through Solomon. They had to come through this line. And so you trace this line the royal line the kingly line and you end up with Joseph.

The problem is just before you get to Joseph you get to a guy named koinonia and Sometime he's called Johanna chin and Sometime he's got a couple other names but the point is Matthew 1 11 he messed up and Jeremiah in Jeremiah chapter 22 likes this curse verse 30.

Write this man down. Childless a man who will not prosper in his day. No descendant of his Will ever sit upon the throne of David. So they got a problem. If you want a king, it's got a country this line.

But here's a man that's cursed and said after him. No thing ever I'll bet Satan was rejoicing when I got cursed. He's saying I did it. I stopped the messianic line. See the problem. Could Joseph the stepfather of Jesus inherit David's throne?

The answer is no and he's in the right line, but he's cursed. God said nobody after the curse can become a king. He had a legal right. But that's all we have. Could the natural sons of Joseph the brothers of Jesus have become king.

No. Why? Because of the curse the curse of koinonia, they couldn't get past the curse and so you got the problem. The King's gotta come through this line. He can't come through this line. There's one answer to that but theologians point out.

And that is that God virgin birth the devil. He got it on the curse by the virgin birth so that Christ coming through that line Had a legal right to the throne. But because he was not naturally through that line He bypassed the curse.

So he has a legal right to the throne and through Mary. He has a natural right to the throne because she also came from David. There's no answer in the universe For Messiah. Except the virgin birth, but that misses God's heart.

That's not why God told us about the virgin birth. Technically, that's true. But there is a principle and that's what I'm after. So let's look at the principle of the virgin birth. I think if you ask the average Christian.

What's the principle of? Virginity of the virgin birth. I think Nine times out of ten, they would say purity holiness. Virtue. Cleanliness. Morality of virgin birth piety, but I really don't think that's the principle here.

Was Mary chosen? Because she was holy. She was a virgin. In some places they have a teaching that's called the Immaculate Conception. And what they mean by that is not that Jesus was immaculately conceived, but his mother was Mary was.

We're not talking about holiness here. I think that misses God's point. I think the principle of the virgin birth is grace. Let me show you where I get that Luke 1 34. Mary's answer to Gabriel was this.

How can this be? Since I know no man. That's a point. I was going to do something and Man's left out. That's the point. This has to be done without flesh. That's the point of the virgin birth. This has to be done and man can't have a part in it.

How's it gonna happen? She said if you don't leave man out of this. You know his answer verse 35. The Holy Spirit will come upon you the power of the Most High will overshadow you and for that reason the Holy Child Shall be called the Son of God the Holy Spirit.

He'll form Christ in you. That as I understand it is the first principle of conception. You go back in your mind when Christ was first formed in you and somewhere Along the way somebody told you or God dawned it on you or you read it man has no part in this.

It's only God's work. That's how it begins with the virgin birth the discovery that it's not by man. But it's by the Lord. When Isaiah said in his prophecy a child born in a son given in Isaiah 97 he adds the zeal of the Lord will perform this the zeal of the Lord will perform this.

See, it's got to be a miracle. With Elizabeth it was too late for man because she was old. With Mary it's too early for man because she's young. Luke chapter 138. Mary responds. Behold the bond slave of the Lord may have begun to me.

According to your word notice what she didn't say. She didn't say Lord. I've understood what the angel said and now I'm ready to do something. She didn't say what shall I do? She said be it done. Unto me all I'm doing is done.

That's why guys there when he saw the Lord. He said I'm undone. As you're doing it's undone. So this is the very beginning of the life of Christ in us. Somewhere along the way we hear that it's not by flesh.

It's by spirit. It's not by works lest any man should boast it's by the Lord. It's the principle of the virgin birth and in that precious hour. The Holy Spirit forms Christ in us now at this stage. When we understand that it's God that man has no part in it that it's not by works.

If you read the record you see that Mary when we begin to look at her life and and what change takes place. And the only thing I can see is I read this now don't forget. It's so small you can hardly perceive it.

But she is filled with the exuberance of emotional joy. She has a new song. That's the Magnificat and she begins to sing this song praise to the Lord. Because God has written a new song in her heart. And it's at this point she begins to say my soul was magnified the Lord.

My spirit rejoices in God my Savior at that point. When Christ is first formed in you. You don't know a lot. But you know this much it's not by works. That's what you know. It's not by works. It's by the Holy Spirit.

And all you say is be it done and all of a sudden your heart is filled with joy, and you have a song in your heart a Magnificat of praise that comes out of your heart. That's how it is at the beginning.

When Elizabeth said to Mary and her greeting can be said to every virgin who's ever come to God apart from flesh. Luke 1 45 blessed is the one that believed that there would be a Fulfillment of what had been spoken by the Lord.

Fellowship With Those Prepared by God

All right, hold on a moment, please. What principle is illustrated by the mutual exchange of greetings? between Mary and Elizabeth. I'll leave the portion to you to read in your own leisure, but I'll sort of tell the story.

I'll try to tell the story in terms of this wonderful principle at this point Christ has been conceived in Mary. I don't know if she knows it yet or not. There's no manifestation of it outwardly at this point.

Christ is in her so small and so in percent. He's just a seed. There's no outward manifestation. Except if you look at her emotional joy and her excitement. But we think in reading the record that she does have this wonderful song and Now all of a sudden the next thing we see is that there is it's almost a million.

She has this Gravitational pull this desire. To go be with someone who's been prepared by the Lord and who has had a similar experience. And she's inclined now to go immediately to Elizabeth you know how God tells us that John the baptizer is the forerunner of crimes.

And how he was the voice in advance and how he got people ready prepared to meet the Lord. Well, here's the first record of it. You see God used John the Baptist To prepare Elizabeth and Zacharias. Even though at that time it was only a little bit of a work and his mouth and his ears were shut because of unbelief.

Yet God had begun to do a work and Mary sensed it and Mary begins to gravitate now to her relatives house. Born on you, it's not by works. It's by the Holy Spirit. You bow before the Lord. You didn't even know what to pray.

Maybe not these words, but it came out this way be it done. Be it done. You do it. You remember he did it he came in the words. And then that holy moment you were filled with excitement and joy and your heart was bubbling over all sides.

And you found yourself strangely attracted to others who had been prepared by God in a similar way. And you began to run to them. Must have been a wonderful time of fellowship that Mary had with Elizabeth and Zacharias.

I would have loved to have been there. They've been prepared by God. Christ is just a fetus in Mary's heart at this time in her womb been prepared and Someone is about to bring Christ to their door. The interesting story is Mary brings Christ to Zacharias and Elizabeth.

Christ so small you can't even begin to see him, but he's there. He's there indeed he's there. Mary comes to the door, and I'm not even sure if she knew if she was pregnant. Till she got to the door and Elizabeth addressed her as mother not mother to be.

How can the mother of my Lord come here. Already has Christ in her the fellowship. They must have had those three months never uncomfortable reading verse 42 and 43. Luke chapter 1. She lifted up her voice with a loud cry and said blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

Whence is this? To me that the mother of the Lord Should come to me. I'll be honest with you that that passage has bothered me. It's to Mary centered. I Speak as a fool. You know that It's to instrument center.

Mary seems to be bigger than Christ. You know why? Because Mary is bigger than Christ at this stage. She is bigger than Christ. And the Lord who brings Christ to your door Is sometimes bigger than the Christ they carry as they bring Christ to your door.

Try to follow me. I read this and I understand how some people can venerate Mary when they read a passage like this. Elizabeth did not say how is it that the Lord should come to me? He said how is it that the mother of my Lord should come to me brothers and sisters in Christ.

This is describing a very early stage of the development of Christ. And when he is that young in those early stages when Christ is so small you can hardly see him. There is a tendency to look to the instrument that brings Christ to your door.

Rather than to the Christ that they bring. My firstborn son sits back there. David it was named after the man who brought me to the Lord. He's not named after the David of the Bible. I have nothing against the David of the Bible.

But I'll tell you the man who brought me to the Lord David craft. I Was in high school at the time. He was the captain of the football team. I was a nerd. He was the valedictorian Of our class the most popular kid in the school.

Tutored me in chemistry. He took me to church every week. Took me to youth for Christ rally in 1958 where I first met the Lord. Better believe I made my son after him. Was I instrument-centered. Sure I was.

How could it be that the captain of the football team would come to my door? That's how it was. How can it be that the valedictorian would come to my door? He picked me up in his car. I was somebody in his eyes.

As he brought me to Christ. You see at that time. I had a very unhealthy attachment. High school year, but it's funny. Because Dave Kraft was now. He was the man and everybody knew David and under his thing.

It says that he's going to be a medical missionary in Africa. You want to read mine? Listen to this medical missionary in Korea. Why would I write something like that. I'll tell you because a very precious instrument Brought Christ to my door and at that time I Couldn't see Christ.