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Studies in Psalm 16:-07
James K. Boswell
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In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of spreading the Gospel and not just hearing it repeatedly. He urges Christians to be proactive in sharing the message of God and not just passively attending church. The preacher emphasizes the need for Christians to have a genuine concern for others and to actively help those in need. He also highlights the importance of having a transformative mindset and not conforming to the ways of the world, but instead seeking to understand and fulfill the will of God. The sermon references various Bible verses, including John 3:16 and Romans 12:2, to support these teachings.
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Once we have got to try and get a pure mind by way of remembrance. Oh, you're right. We'll sing it once more, but please do something, will you? All right. And let's try reading this calendar. Ready for this morning? Maybe that fits in so well. Now, I thought Greenwood Hills was a marvellous conference, and it really was, and Boyd, Nicholson, one's ministries seemed to dovetail the one into the other. We knew each other very well. I've never been with our brother Christian before at a conference. I've been there, but I've been doing the ministering, and he has not, at various conferences, but I've never been at a conference where I've been so conscious of the Lord's presence, and not only the ministry, but circumstances dovetailing one into the other, proving again the Lord Himself has been really speaking in one way or another to all of our hearts. I kind of think we all came here with a real exercise of heart, with a real purpose within our breast, to find out God's will and God's plan for our lives. I trust all of us have really found His will, His blueprint for your life during these days. Rancho, then, the text for today, July the 21st, He are bought for the price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's. He are bought for the price, being ye not servants of men. 1 Corinthians 6, 20 and 7 and 23. Now, here is a little comment. It is not a fragment of you that has been purchased, but the whole. You would hardly presume to say that the price was inadequate, yet you do not seem to say so. How much of your time is the Lord? Do you dress, feed, employ your body as unto the Lord? Is your tongue, your hand consecrated all to Him? Your memory, imagination, hope, your love and faith, your house and business, your influence? Could anything be more concise and dovetails so well into what we have been listening to all week? Now, Mr. Bourne was not here, but the Spirit of God is in here. And see how things are just synchronizing so beautifully? Now, here is the little verse, the body. Lord Jesus, Thou hast bought me with Thine own precious blood. On Thee, O Lord Divine, I will walk the heavenly road. One is my great salvation, no price have I to pay. Now from my heart I will praise Thee and live for Thee each day. May that be the desire of your heart and my heart as we are about to leave this mountaintop. Back to Psalm 16, shall we? And we'll just read it. Again, to stir up our pure minds by way of remembrance. Have you still got those lovely lemon-sweet peas? I trust you have. Probably you'll claim, say, I'm also slave to a little rage, and I don't know, but I still like it. Verse number one. Preserve me, O God, for indeed do I put my trust. Remember the verse our dear brother read this morning regarding our trust? In the Lord, if we trust on Him, we shall not slide. Now isn't that lovely? We trust on Him, we shall not slide. Preserve me, O God, for indeed do I put my trust. In my soul, Thou set on the Lord, Thou art my Lord. I have no good beyond Thee. There's a few more points to go away with. Indeed do I put my trust. Thou art my Lord. I have no good beyond Thee. To the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent in whom is all my delight, their sorrows shall be multiplied at haste, and after offer gifts to exchange me for another God. I am quite sure all the other gods have been dealt with. I am quite sure all the idols have been dethroned, and Christ enthroned. Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer. I'm not going to offer anything that does not bring glory to God, nor take up their names into my lips. The Lord is a portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Now I'm in tennis, my Lord. The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places. We've proved that. Yea, I have a goodly heritage. The Lord is a portion of my inheritance. I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel. My arrangement or my thoughts also instruct me in the night season. I set the Lord always before me, because at my right hand I shall not be moved. We tried to stretch yesterday morning. We were about to leave this mountain top. Remember, I set the Lord always before me, because He's at my right hand. Remember Isaiah 41.10. He's holding our right hand. Hebrews 13.5. I will never, no, never let go your right hand. So remember the God of the mountain is the God of the valley. The same holy one says, let us go down now. Let's go down. The people down there needing this message, needing this light, is I'm coming with you. I'm coming with you. You're not going out alone. He's coming with you right back into that home, into that office, back to that hospital, into that lab. I'm going with you. Do you believe that, children of God? Oh, as we said the other morning, no squinting. Don't try to one eye upon Christ, one eye upon your circumstances. Turn both eyes upon Jesus. Look full into His wonderful face, and you'll find the things of earth becoming strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace. Don't try to get one eye upon your feelings, one eye upon self, and one eye upon trying to do that. You'll get despondent and discouraged and really down in the dump. No, no, both eyes must be focused upon Him. The eyes of your understanding, the eyes of your soul, linked up with the Lord Himself. Now, here's the point. Therefore, what is it therefore? What is it therefore? You go back to verse one. In Thee do I put my trust. Thou art my Lord, I have no good beyond Thee. The excellent, the saint, in whom is all my delight. No God is my light beside Thee, Lord, I know not any. Lord, Thou art my portion, Thou art my inheritance. Lord, Thou art my counselor. Lord, Thou art my instructor. Lord, I set Thee always before me. You're at my right hand, holding my right hand. Lord, You've promised never to let it go. Therefore, my heart is glad. Isn't that true? Therefore, my heart is glad, and my glory, my tongue rejoices. You just can't help it, dear children of God. Therefore, my heart is glad. Truly, your heart's been bubbling up with good matter, hasn't it? Bubbling right up. You've been contemplating the Lord of life and glory. Your heart has said, why? It's head on the children of men. He's altogether lovely, and with him another can be compared. Now look at verse number 10. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to seek corruption. Aren't you glad, my friend, this morning that the cross is empty, and the tomb is vacated, and the throne is filled? Again, I would draw your attention to this. Look, ye saints, the sight is glorious. See the man on sorrows now. From the fight, return victorious every knee. To him shall bow, crown him. Crowned become the mighty. Victors prowl. But now hear again the psalmist say, I will show thee the path of life. In thy presence fullness of joy. Thy right hand pleasures forevermore. They say, can it be any better than it is here? Oh, my friend, we are not even starting. We haven't even touched the fringe of the fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore. I sometimes go homesick for heaven, and the glories I there shall behold. The joy of all joys. The glory of all glories. For me to see him, and to fall at his feet, and say from our heart, Worthy, O Lamb of God, art thou. Receive honor and glory and power and dominion, both now and forevermore. But, beloved, if this glimpse of love is so divinely sweet, what is it going to be about? His gladdening smile to me. Now, I cannot but think the coming of the Lord is very, very near. And it may be this very day, the listening skies now dumb, will hear the bridegroom's voice saying, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. No doubt some of you are already booking up to come back next year. I trust you all have signed up for next year with the desire of bringing others with you. But listen, you may not be here next year. I believe the Lord's coming is very, very near. We can almost hear his footfall on the threshold of the door. And our souls, our souls are longing to be with him evermore. Your heart and my heart says, Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Even so, come today. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Catch up thy bride away. Oh, how my heart is yearning, longing for thy returning. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Even so, come today. Wouldn't it be wonderful had we just finished the conference with the Communion, sir? Wouldn't that be wonderful? Brother Willie referred the other day to being at Kittage. Over 5,000 people. I've been there many times. There, my friend, were those 5,000 people gathered together remembering the Lord Jesus Christ on a Friday. On a Friday, there you are, remembering the Lord Jesus. What joy! There may be wishful thinking in my part, really. And I would like for those who come when we're gathered like this and gathered around themselves, wouldn't it just be wonderful to hear fulfilling His last loving request when He said, Just do in remembrance of me and in that very attitude of worship and adoration to hear Him saying, Rise up and come away. Wouldn't that just be wonderful? Oh, may the reality grip your heart with my heart this morning. Now, we want just to think again of a little bit. Some of you last night, in fact, not all of you came forward here, but I know others in their own hearts utilize the Lord Jesus Christ. Last night, we met our dear friend sitting in the hall. We've been waiting for us. Went across. We got down to brass tacks. He said, Some years ago, I trusted Christ. But he said, I actually got extra employment. And he said, It was the downfall of my spiritual experience. He said, I began neglecting my quiet time, neglecting my Bible, neglecting prayer. And it caused a vacuum in my own life. I got just so busy. I got too busy for God. And he said, During these days of comfort, it's broken me down, and I want to come back. And he came right back. That was wonderful. But when he got upstairs to his wine, he said, I've got to... See, you don't need to tell me. He said, I've already done it myself. I've already done it myself. And the other jaws are just... Since I was waiting... He said, I was standing in the hall over there with a baby. Now, he wanted a grandchild. So, I was waiting for you to go forward. And I was coming forward with you. I was going, Oh, isn't that amazing? And I kind of think right here in this auditorium this morning, that many of you right here who did this with God last night in your own heart, that you'll never openly confess. So, I'm so glad the Lord knows your heart. Isn't that true? But let us be honest. Let us be sincere, deftly, downright honestly before the Lord. Honest with Him. Honest with ourselves. We need that just before we go back home. Because we're going to be tested upon our ministry. Not only in the giving of it, but on the hearing of it. And we both must give an account when we stand before the judgment as seed of Christ. And this morning, I want you to think. And I want you to turn back with me, if you will, to Romans chapter 12. Romans and the 12th chapter. But I want also to quote to you, if I may, the verse you've already read from the calendar. 1 Corinthians 6, 19 and 20. It says, What know ye not? You are not your own. I really quote it as it really is. Know ye not? Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and you are not your own. For ye are bought for the price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God. Now, come to verse number one of Romans 12. I beseech. Notice the language here. No conscription. No compelling. I beseech. This word beseech is a beautiful word. Means wooing to win. It's a picture of a young man getting down before his young lady. He's seeking to woo her. It's a holy state of matrimony. Wooing to win. The old college brethren used to say to us younger fellows, Woo hard for Christ. Woo hard for Christ. I was conducting a wedding at St. Catherine some time ago. And at the reception, the bride's father got up to give a speech. He said something like this. He said, Forty-five years ago today, I got done on my knees to propose to my bride. So it's taken me all that time to get back on my feet. And here's the word right here. I beseech. I beseech. I would woo that I might win. That's the very thought here. And notice what it says, now the subject. It says, I beseech you therefore, brethren. Brethren. Those who are saved. Those who have been justified. Those who have been sanctified. It says, I beseech you, brethren. And I, a former only, here this morning. And that great heart of love would go up to your heart with my heart. It says, I beseech you. Oh, I would woo you. I would woo you. I would woo you to present your body. To present your body. A living sacrifice. But more than Paul is here. More than John Boswell is here. The Lord Himself is here. The Lord Himself is here. And He's looking into your heart as He looks into my heart. It says, I beseech. I love you. I gave my all for you. Oh, will you respond? Will you reciprocate? That's what He's calling for this morning. And from your heart and from my heart. Time was allotted to develop this. It says, notice the motive now. It's by the mercies of God. By the mercies, I beseech is the language. The subject, brethren, those who are reborn again. And this is the Gospel to the Christians. Bringing us to a point of definite decision. Am I going to yield? Or am I not going to yield? Am I going to present my body? Or am I not going to present my body? The same as in preaching the Gospel. In preaching, something we say, we're preaching the Gospel. I can understand how they can go out. I can understand it was so callous, and so callous and so cold. Why don't they respond? But my friend, I'm more concerned about the Christians. I can understand the Christians, why they don't respond to a verse like this. I don't. And it breaks my heart. It really does. When the Lord Himself is telling you, Oh, I got everything when I was saved. But wait a minute, my friend, did you? Did you? You got all that God had for you in Christ, but have you appropriated it? Have you appropriated it? All your own? Have you entered in? You never will until you yield. Until you surrender, until you commit your whole life entirely to Him. And notice, I beseech you, brethren, children of God, that ye present by the mercy of God. I love this. And notice those mercies for one moment. How very precious it is. You got the assurance of pardon, and of peace, and of power. Now these are your children of God, that yours now by receiving Christ as your Lord and Savior, but now He comes again and says that ye present. Now that is the method. And then at your handing over, you give a gift. Don't be an Indian giver. Don't give them gonads back. Oh no. Oh no. You give, and you give, my friend, wholly and completely. Remember in your heart, in my heart, there's a throne, and there's a cross. If self is upon the throne, Christ upon the cross, there's a tug of war, up today and down tomorrow. Irritable, moody, sulky. Oh, it's all there. All there. You're losing your temper over the deep end. Oh, children of God, listen. Self upon the throne. But when this is reversed, and the only way to get self off the throne is by allowing the spirit to enthrone Christ, Lord of all. The thing I got through to my good friend last night was Galatians 2.20. A threefold deliverance there in that one verse. A deliverance by death. I am crucified with Christ. A deliverance by dethronement. It's no longer I, but Christ that lives in me. And when Christ is enthroned, self is dethroned. And the only way to have the dethronement is to enthrone Christ, Lord of all. You can't put self upon the cross. You can't get rid of your old self. Why? You may struggle and strive, but that'll never do any good. You must allow the spirit of God who indwells you, and I'll deal with this in a moment, to enthrone Christ, Lord of all. And enthronement is the dethronement of the old self-life and all the inner serenity, all the inner tranquility, all the joy unspeakable and full of glory. Deep does. That doesn't mean you're going to be immune from testing and from trial and from temptation and from suffering a thousand times. No. You may get more conscious of those, my friend, as you're doing it, but oh, there's a deep set of peace. Why, Lord, you've got the steering wheel. You're not just a steering wheel for an emergency. You've got the steering wheel, Lord. You know exactly where you're steering, my little life. You're at the controls, Lord. Is He the control of your life? Has He got the circumstances under control in your life? Or do you try to help Him out a little bit here? Help Him out a little bit there? He wants complete control. Under thy sway, Lord, under thy sway, all is victorious under thy sway. How we not say, Peter, then stand from our hearts during these days. Have thine own way, Lord. Have thine own way. Hold o'er my being absolute sway. Fill with thy spiritual all shall see. Christ only always living in me. The message, a death presentation, you say here, don't you? We say presentation back on the other side. A death presentation. You present your gift. You hand over. Now, have you done that? Can you go back, honestly, to a moment in your life when you're deathly and deliberately handing over your body? To the indwelling Holy Spirit? If not, you've never yet started to live. You don't know this abundant life. You don't know the joy of Christ living in you. You don't know this. You know Him in the abstract, field-ethically, scripturally. But, oh, His Spirit witnessing with your Spirit. You know nothing at all about that. All this can all be yours this morning. This joy can be yours. Go home. Lord, not only with me, look up mountains. Be right down here with me in the kitchen. Down here in the basement. Lord, wherever. You're with me all the way. What a wonderful Lord is all of. A little further and show me. There's something else I want to touch this morning. Present your bodies. Now, not only the area. Your bodies. The whole personality. The whole man. The whole woman. Completely hand it over. This is very precious. Time will not develop that either. I wish we were just starting the week's conference now on this one verse alone. But here it is. And notice again. The quality is a living sacrifice. Now, it's much more difficult for you to live a living. Be a living sacrifice in the office. Or in the hospital. Or in the lab. Or right there in the school. On the campus. Than to die at the stake as a martyr. Oh yes. It's more difficult to live this out and out Christian life. The father's for a God. Than it is to die at the stake as a martyr. For he doesn't take a martyr. As glory ever after. But day by day. Moment by moment. A living sacrifice. Holy. And I love this. Don't you? Notice the character. It's so holy. It's holy. I love this. No impurity here. It makes motive. No ulterior motive. It's a holy sacrifice. And notice the object. Will you please? Acceptable unto God. There's the whole thing. And the whole thing may become acceptable unto God. Do you want to be acceptable before him? Do you want a real joy in your own heart? Bring real joy to his heart? Here's one way you can do it this morning. Dear children of God. As this all dear child is saying. My child give me your heart. And once he's got your heart. He's got everything. Isn't that true? Once he's got your heart. He's got my heart. He's got the whole man. For everything's treasured up there. For out of the heart are the issues of life. Now notice the sanity of the whole thing. It is this. It is your reasonable. Your logical. Your rational service. You know what the original word is? It's your spiritual worship. It's an act of spiritual worship. For you this morning to present your body. A living sacrifice. The same thought brought up. Remember? In Luke chapter 22. Verses 19 and 20. Where the Lord says. This is my body given for you. This is my blood shed as for you. I love that don't you? My body given. My blood shed. Now he gave his body. His body. Now that brings me to a point. What is the reason for my giving? Just because he gave his body. And because he gave his blood. Why should I hold back? There was no reservation. No condition when Christ gave his all. The same thought here. Present your body. This is my body given. This is my blood shed. Now he says. I have beseeched you. I implore you. I plead with you. Give your body. A living sacrifice. But please. Oh please. Don't try and come to Romans 12.1. And told you've been to Romans 6. That I'm so glad that got through to so many hearts last night. Because to come to Romans 12. Let that go to Romans 6. You're just trying to consecrate flesh. Consecrate your old man. And God's old man is being crucified. But as those are alive from the dead now. You come and present your body. A living sacrifice. I love that. Don't you? Wholly acceptable to God. With your reasonable service. Now a young boy back yonder in Scotland. A young teenage boy. In a country assembly. As the offering was being taken. It was being taken up an aluminum plate. And as that plate came to this teenage boy. With sincerity. And downright honesty. And tears rolling down his young face. He put the plate on the floor. And he stood right in that plate and said. Lord all I am. All I have. I give to Thee. Now that is worship. That is worship. Giving. And you're going to give us an act of worship this morning. And true gratitude. For all he's done for you. For all he wants to do in you. And friend he's got far more to do in me than to do through me. Do you know that? For all he's done for us. All he wants to do in us. And for all he wants to do through us. Now come with me please to this next part. Verse number two. Now notice the outcome. It's free food. Be not conformed to this world. Here it's going to be lived out now. No more conformity. Not to be pressed into the mould of this present age. That's my friend. No conformity. But be transformed. Transfigured. Changed. And notice now. By renewing of your mind. By renewing of your mind. That you may know what is that good. Or you may prove. What is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Now may I just pause here. I want to deal for a moment with that word renewing. The renewing of your mind. Now many of you last night in your own hearts. And some publicly. Came to that point of yielding. Lord I am with all sincerity. No humbug. No veneer. No varnish. But deep down in your own hearts. You yielded to Him. And to the Spirit's control. Now notice. Probably this morning. What did you do? What did you do? Did you look up and say. Lord I am still Thine. That's renewing your mind. When temptation crushes past me. Renew your mind Lord. Look after your property. It's in danger. Remember you belong to Him. A girl had a terrible temper. She was a very sweet girl. A lovely good looking teenage girl. But God met her. And God saved her. But she had one besetting sin. It was that nasty temper. Before she was converted. And after God met her. And God saved her. The real transformation took place in her young life. And some of the older sisters got really jealous of her. Because she began to grow and develop and mature. With a woman's primity. She just simply shone. And some of the women got very jealous of her. The older women. And say one woman said in a catty kind of way. Do you have a very bad temper? Do you have a bad temper anymore? Do you lose your temper now? In a very sweet way she said. When I'm tempted. When Satan comes knocking at my hard door. And asks me to fly off the handle. I just say. Please Lord Jesus. Will you answer the door? And when Satan sees him. I'm sorry I'm at the wrong door. And passes on. Simple. But have you learned that? That's renewing your mind. You're not your own. You're not your own. There was a boy at school. Terribly troubled by a big bully. This bully was continually after this boy. And one day he saw his big brother in the playground. And he ran behind his big brother. Then from behind his brother he said. Come on now it's a bully. Come on now he said to the bully. So when the bully went up. The big brother took over. And dealt with the bully. Now listen. Even though you've yielded. You've got a bully. He's not going to leave you alone. Oh no. That you're not to try and fathom in your own strength. Because you're defeated before you start. But then remember you've got one. And through him you're more than a conqueror. Just trust it. When the temptation comes. Look Lord. Lord in thy name I refuse that thought. I refuse to be despondent. I'm quoting from Proverbs 18 verse 10. The name of the Lord is a strong power. The righteous run into. And they are saved in that strong power. And friend as you. When you just feel like getting down. And the only way the devil can really get you through your body. Through your five senses. That's why I say. Yield your body to control the indwelling Holy Spirit this morning. And then what's going to happen. When he comes all these families to look up and say. With all sincerity. In the name of Christ I refuse to be despondent. I refuse to be discouraged. I refuse to be afraid. When that stupid impure thought passes through your mind. In the name of Christ I refuse that thought. You're renewing your mind. You don't belong. Got what I'm getting at? You yielded. You continue to yield. Last night was a death night. There's another thing about rededication. You don't rededicate. Not at all. You don't even re-yield. You come and say. Lord this is all part of the initial yielding. But this morning. Normally put his finger upon certain areas of your life. That you did not yield last night. You didn't even know about. For all you knew of yourself. All you had you yielded last night. And you meant it with all sincerity. But this morning. He's put his finger upon some other area. Now what are you going to do? You don't go back and re-yield. Say Lord this is all part of the initial yielding. And you'll yield that area too. And what joy will be your joy and his joy? The renewing of your mind. How I wish I got down to the vertices. I was really meant to talk this morning. On getting a missionary vision. I really did. That was my theme. The missionary vision. Because as you're just about to leave this mountain top. May I just suggest this to you. I'm trying to dovetail in my good brother's message. With you. The missionary vision. Now here's a mouthful. I'm glad it's coming on the tape. Because you were never able to remember it. Here it is. A missionary vision is the blending together. Of correct information. With spirit begotten inspiration. That leads to death and action. Now can you remember all that? Let me have to go back again. It is the blending together. Of correct information. With spirit begotten inspiration. That leads to death and action. Now listen. Vision without mission is visionary. Whereas mission without vision is drudgery. And I want you to get this. A vision is only of value. When it becomes the inspiration of vocation. You know that? Now you've had a wonderful vision on the top here. A wonderful vision. You've had a wonderful vision of the Lord Jesus. His claim upon your life. And many of you. I don't think all of you have yielded to His pleading. And responded to the entreaty. Oh now listen. That vision will only become of value. When it becomes the inspiration of vocation. You've got to act upon what you see. Act upon it. In the power of the Spirit of God. May I just draw your attention to this very, very quickly. Where there is no vision, that people perish. Isaiah says, And the year the king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up. And it may be right here in this 1972 conference at Lookout Mountain. Your Uzziah has died. Your Uzziah has died. As long as you die for fifty-five years of a lie. You'll never hear the prophet saying, I saw the Lord high and lifted up. Oh no. What is the Uzziah? There is a man often stand betwixt me in thy glory. His name is Selph. My calm of Selph. Stand betwixt me in thy glory. Oh, mortify him. Mortify him. Put him down, my Saviour. And exalt thyself alone. And because you've come to recognize that great big capital lie cancelled up. And shall become absolutely nothing at all. A man going up the door said to me one night, Jim, I've learned the secret. I am absolutely nothing. It's easy to say that, you know. A man said the other night, He said, Jim, will you pray? I am absolutely nothing. I said, that's just what you are. And he didn't like it. He didn't like it. Another woman came and said, I am proud. I am humble. What a thing to say. May I help you? May I help you right here? My, I warn you, get the vision. A clear vision. No squinting of your adorable Lord Jesus Christ. In all his solitude, dignity and glory. Now listen. When he had the vision, then he heard the voice. Whom shall I send and who will go? Then he volunteered. Here am I. Send me. And when self is standing in the way, you'll never hear the voice. And your step will never volunteer. Isn't that true? John chapter 20. What do I read? I see the Lord there in the upper room. They saw him. They saw the little prince in his hand. He saw the spirit of him sighing. Then he heard the voice. As my father sent me, so send I you. So send I you down into that valley. But I am coming with you. I am going. What is he saying? Matthew's gospel. Go and move. I am with you all the way. Isn't that a wonderful consolation? And it was that great man of God. The late H.A. Dr. David Livingston, it's said. Wrote in the margin of his Bible. Again, Matthew 28, 19 and 20. The words of a perfect gentleman who has never failed to fulfill a promise. Got that? The words of a perfect gentleman who has never failed to fulfill a promise. Go and move. I am with you. The mystery of vision. What is he saying? Your mind must be informed. You must think. You must think. Your eyes. Now get this. Your eyes must see. And please get the telescopic vision. Not just a microscopic. Your own little assembly. Own little airtight compartment. Get the telescopic vision. What is he saying, John 1, 2, and 3? Behold the Lamb of God which is with us in the world. For God is full of the world. He is gathering up from a nation of people for His name. And ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you. And ye shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, in Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth. Remember the last verse I quoted from Matthew? Go ye into all the world. I would like you today, after I have finished talking with you and get away by yourself, to spend ten minutes alone for the last two verses of Matthew's Gospel. And know that there is no parole on I. I command you. I command you. Not only must your mind think and your eyes must see, but your ears will hear. Your ears will hear. Come over and help us. The Macedonian call is coming from all over the world. Coming from your own neighborhood. From your own district. Come over and help us. Their hearts yearning and longing today. Near you could place one thousand missionaries in India. And each missionary could have five hundred and fifty villages themselves without another missionary. So great is the need. T.D. Studd said, No man should hear the Gospel twice. But others have never heard it at all. And they go on preaching and preaching to God our Gospels. The Christians night after night. Sunday after Sunday. All ninety-five percent are Christians in our Gospel meetings. And all around the name of God, Christ is our God without hope in the world. All of our love for you is unspoken well off. That's true. But God said, Go and tell. Go and tell. Now what are you doing? You're warming a seat in your own chapel back home there? Having a nice cushy time? Are you concerned about this? Take me to my next part. Your heart must feel. Your heart must feel. Your mind must think. Your eyes must see. Your ears must hear. And I told them what I was going to say. Oh, I wish to God I could say. I just dove to Him right in with all He's been giving us. Now your heart must feel. Your heart must feel. Oh, for a passionate passion for souls. Oh, for a heart that yearns. Oh, for a love that loves unto death. Oh, for a love that burns. Lord, lay some soul upon my heart. And love that soul through me. And help me, Lord, to humbly do my part. To win that soul for Thee. You may be a businessman. Give the customer the best you've got in your establishment without loving your customer. You may be a lawyer. You may work hard upon your client's case and get them through successfully without loving your client. You may be a doctor. With aid of your nurse. You may work hard and long upon that patient. Probably endangering your own life in doing so. And bring them back to health and fear. You can do that without loving your patient. But you'll never be a winner's soul without love. You'll never know, never be a winner's soul without love. Love is God's way. Love is God's. And pray what we need from this conference at the moment. Anything else, I think, is a mighty baptism in the love of Calvary. The love of God shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Spirit. Go forth, burdened, my friend, with a concern for men and women. And all for God's glory. Our heart must feel. So the mystery is. One you've had right here on this very platform. At least, you had it, your column shows this platform, exactly. For this dear man. Another. The man I'm speaking of. The two men. One's a striking personality. Wonderful poor oratoring. He's eloquent. He's just so marvelous to listen to. The other, he can't preach for candy. He's got no personality. But Mr. J.B. Walsh, from the parents they grew up, from Britain, were sent by echoes of service to go and visit among those various mysteries. When they got there, they were absolutely amazed. To find so many assemblies established. And so many people born in the Spirit of God. And they began working amongst the natives. And they noticed something. That the native Christians had such a regard. And such an appreciation. And such a love. And they held in such high estimation. The man who could not preach. No, the man who had no personality. At the expense of the great orator. With all this wonderful eloquence. With all this wonderful personality. And they began working. And they found that this man, who had no personality, had led far more to Christ. Far more to Christ. And had seen far more assemblies established than the other brother. And they were concerned, after this, among the native elders. They said, no, he can preach like brother so and so. But my, doesn't he love us? Have you got it? Brethren, what we need today more than ever, is not eloquence of lip. It's eloquence of the love life. Lived in the power of the Holy Ghost. Is that not true? Oh, may we learn this lesson before we leave. Now, our mind must think. Our eyes must see. Our ears must hear. And our heart must feel. I wonder what your heart feels. Heart warming? Heart burning? The word of the Lord? The next part is this. Your hands must work. Oh yes, those lovely, lovely hands, Lord Jesus. Continue when you are doing all manner of good. Kneel to that Roman cross. Be sure your nail pieces. If you see these nail pieces, hand yourself. As my father said me to send I you. Your hands must work. When did you last write to a missionary? When did you last send a gift to a missionary? When did you last send a parcel? When did you last, my friend, try and help your neighbor? When did you last have an idea? At least two thoughts. Not only so, but your feet must go. Your feet must go. The Christian life is a going concern. Go and know I am with you. Let me not be one county and go into another county. Go to your next door neighbor. Go to that person sitting next to you in the office right there. Yes. Oh, I let my life speak. Well, the life without the life is hypocrisy. Well, the life without the life can be counted. So I trust you got it both ways, my friend, this morning, have you? But just then lastly, your lips must tell. Now you see how the whole thing all ducktails in together in this ever dear brother. Your mind must speak. Your eyes must see. Your ears must hear. Your heart must feel. And your hands must work. Your feet must go. And hallelujah, your lips must tell. I'm going to close. I'm not nearly finished, but I've got to close because you've got to go. Isn't that true? More ways than one. Stir me, oh, stir me, Lord, I care not how. But stir my heart in passion for the world. Stir me to go, to go, but nurse to pray. Stir to the blood-red banner be unfurled. Oh, land, still the heat and darkness lie. Oh, desert, where no cross is lifted high. Stir me, oh, stir me, Lord, till all my heart is filled with strong compassion for these souls. Till thy compelling mouth drives me to pray. Till thy constraining love reaches the poles, far north and south. In burning deep desire, till eastern waves are caught in love's great fire. Stir me, oh, stir me, Lord, till prayer is paid. Till prayer is joy. Till prayer turns into praise. Stir me, till heart and will and mind, all this holy line to you through all the days. Stir, that I learn to pray exceedingly. Stir, that I learn to wait expectantly. Stir me, oh, stir me, Lord, thy heart was stirred by love's intense fire. So thou didst give thine only Son, thy best beloved one, into the dreadful cross that I might live. Now listen to this. Stir me to give myself so wholly back to thee, that thou canst give thyself again to me. Stir me to give myself so wholly back to thee, that thou canst give thyself again to me. We're going to sing 151. 151. Now I want you to do something here, and I'm not going to ask you to come forward. One by one. We finished earlier this morning with that same thought. Take my life and let it be consecrated law to thee. Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise. So wonderful having you here. Been wonderful being with you. This our first visit to Lugard Mountain Conference. We've been on the mountain before, but not to the conference. The joy being with you. And I trust it's going to continue to bless you. We've got a very busy summer and winter and fall before us in the will of the Lord. 151. And I want you to do something. At the verse that applies to you, I want you to rise your feet. The verse that applies to you, I want you to rise your feet. Thank you. Take my life.