In this sermon, the speaker discusses the life of Moses and how he went through different stages of learning and growth. The first 40 years of Moses' life were spent in Egypt, where he learned to be something and gained wisdom. The next 40 years were spent in the desert, tending sheep and learning to be nothing, which was a valuable lesson in humility. The final 40 years were spent leading the children of Israel through the wilderness, where Moses learned that God was everything. The speaker emphasizes the importance of recognizing that God alone is everything and that He puts individuals through various experiences to teach them this truth.

Well, we're starting a new series this evening, and I've entitled it, Men God Made. And for the next twelve or fourteen weeks, we're going to look at the training techniques of the great teacher. How the godly character of these men was developed under the mighty hand of God. That's what we're after. Wanting to see these men in the school of God. And how God developed them into the men He desired should serve Him. Now, some of them were in the school for quite a long time. Next week we'll be looking at Moses. Remember, Moses lived for 120 years. And if you divide the 120 by 3, it gives you 340. And it is very remarkable in the life of Moses that the first 40 years was spent in Egypt. He was known to all in Sunday as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. In fact, this should be an impressive promise, because this was the title he bore. He was called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. And he spent 40 years in Egypt learning, learning to be something. He was learned in all the wisdom of Egypt so said in his book. And then you'll find something happened and he had to run from Egypt. And the next 40 is at the backside of the desert tending a few sheep. That's a bit of a change, a new class he's in. God has put him into a new class. And while the first 40 was spent learning to be something, the next 40 is spent learning to be nothing. That's a good class, and when you graduate from that you're getting on in school with God. But the last 40, ah, that's the most important 40, the last 40 was spent in the wilderness with the children of Israel as they led them through the wilderness. And while the first 40 was in Egypt learning to be something, and the second 40 was at the backside of the desert learning to be nothing, the last 40 was spent in the wilderness learning that God was everything. That's when he graduated. So that's the sort of thing we're going to do in the days to come. We're going to look at the training techniques of the great teachers. How the godly character of these men was developed under the mighty hand of God. I want to say a word about an atheist club that's in America just at this moment. And they have printed the book. And they have the pictures, or supposed to be pictures, of all these great men of God. Abraham, and Moses, and Jacob, and David, and so on. But these pictures are sort of repulsive pictures, criminal, diabolical. And you know they've got a lot to say about each character. When they talk about Abraham they say he's called the friend of God. And yet this man is the man who was prepared to sacrifice the purity of his wife to save his own skin. How could he be the friend of God? Or what kind of a god is it that would make such a creature his friend? When they talk about David they have a repulsive picture there. And they say this is the man after God's own heart. And then they point out that he committed adultery with another man's wife. And then to cover his sins he murdered her husband. And then they talk about the man after God's own heart. Talk about the terrible things that Jacob did, and the lies he told his old blind father. And then say that God is proud to be called the God of Jacob. Now this is an atheistic club at its finest. In this club are supposed to be men who have letters at their names and have come through universities professing themselves to be wise. They have become fools. Now let me say right away that all they said about Abraham and all they said about Jacob and all they said about David it's all perfectly true. All perfectly true. But you see when they're trying to indict God because of the sins of these men it's the old game of sitting in the Saviour's face again and throwing stones at the God of God. Don't let's forget that God condemned Abraham's sin and Jacob's sin and David's sin. And he gave his own son of the sacrifice on the cross to put away that sin. But these men won't touch Christ behind that. What have they got to say against him? They have no indictment to place on his head. Thank God he's still faultless and spotless and sinless and kindless. And it was this spotless, sinless, kindless holy Son of God who became the Lamb of God. And the sins of the past that was covered by the type of atonement that were laid on him on Calvary he thanked God he carried them away forever. Oh how terrible it is Now tonight we're going to start with Abraham and remember that Abraham is one of the great characters of the New Testament as well as the Old. I'm sure it will surprise some of you when I tell you that Abraham is named 74 times in the New Testament. That's remarkable, isn't it? Yes, you remember that our Lord Jesus talked about Abraham how that Abraham rejoiced to see my day. And you remember that then Stephen was standing before the Sanhedrin that he took this Jewish council back to the day that the God of Glory appeared through our father Abraham. You will find that a great part of the letter to the Romans is taken up with detail after detail about Abraham. You find it after whole chapters in Galatians all about Abraham. And the longest paragraph in the great chapter of Hope which is Hebrews chapter 11 the longest paragraph is given to Abraham. You see from the notes tonight I've called it his credentials. You know Christianity claims him father of the faithful. And indeed when you trust Christ you are called the seed of Abraham. That's what believers are. And you know that Judaism tonight claims him the father of the nations. You go and ask Dagan tonight who Abraham is he will soon tell you. And you will find that Islam and all the Arab world tonight and the Muslims they all look back to Abraham. So he is quite a character. I want you to get the hold of this. Now I want to go back tonight to his country because it's always good to start with the man's country if we don't know something about him. The air we put him in the school at all. And let's go back to the book of Genesis chapter 9. Book of Genesis and we're at chapter 9 and this is the place in the chapter where the sons of Noah went forth out of the ark. Three of them, Shem, Ham and Joseph This 19 will do us. We're at Genesis 9 and 19. These are the three sons of Noah and of them was the whole earth overspread. Verse 18 gives you their names Shem and Ham and Joseph. Now these are the sons and from them the whole earth was overspread. We'll look at this on more than one occasion. Then chapter 10 begins to give you the sons of Japheth. You see when these bloods came out of the ark you'll find if we trace them carefully that they went in different directions because Japheth went north. And you'll find that Ham went south and the colored nations around the equator came from him. You'll find that Shem went right southeast. And that's the one we're after this evening. Interestingly, sons of Japheth you see Genesis 10 and verse 2 the sons of Japheth see the first one, Gomel as the old word for Germany I suppose you know that, don't you? Well if the German doesn't know then nobody else does. Yes, and that's where they came from. And you'll find that nearly all the good looking fair-haired, blue-eyed, lovely men they come from right up there because that's where Japheth went. I'm sure we're related in some way but we differed. Where I came from, you know Newtown on They used to say that all the terrible things came from America but the devil himself came from Newtown. It wasn't me, I had nothing to do with it. But here are the sons. Now when you go down a bit you will find the sons of Ham there in verse 6 and it's interesting to see the crushes there, the misery the old word for ages and so on. And then when you come into chapter 11 see chapter 11, verse 10 these are the generations of Shem this is the father's son that went right out east Shem was a hundred years old and begot Artaxad is the bird and verse 12 says Artaxad begot Salah and verse 14 says Salah begot Eber and verse 16 says Eber begot Peleg and 18 says Peleg begot Reu and verse 20 says that Reu begot Zerug and verse 22 says Zerug begot Nahor and verse 24 says and Nahor lived nine and twenty years and begot Terah and it says in verse 26 Terah lived seventy years and begot Abram that's where he came from. Now that's very interesting for us because we find that these are the generations of Terah there in verse 27 you'll find in a moment or two when we get into chapter 12 let me just do this for you now chapter 12 11 will do us and Terah took Abram his son Lot the son of Haram his son's son and Terah his daughter-in-law his son Abraham's wife and they went forth with them from the Ur of the Chaldeans that's the bit I was asking now I want you to see how far they drifted from the Ur rested on Mount Ararat and this fellow Shem came out and went east and they'd gone and gone and gone you know where Ur of the Chaldeans is if you look them up and find the Persian Gulf and go north and go north east a little bit you'll find the old mark of Ur of the Chaldeans now that's where they had got to wanted to get the hold of it now there's something told us about Ur of the Chaldeans in some of the great history books and I was travelling on today and it said that this was one of the great trade routes of the world at that time it meant that all the great trading long caravans of people selling, bringing commerce from one place to another that Ur of the Chaldeans was one of the main spots now I think this is true that we think you know, we think that when we look back and we say that Abraham was born somewhere or at least he lived for a while in Ur of the Chaldeans away in the metropolitania of Babylon, this country I think that we've got the idea that it is sort of back in the era now let me tell you that all the scholars are agreed that in those days it was greater than London and greater than New York it was the big place in the world then and we need to get the hold of that I wrote this down today a tablet was discovered recently and it revealed there was a school in Ur of the Chaldeans greater than either Oxford or Cambridge so one should get the hold of it one should sort of see the place and get this into perspective this is how it is so I want you to get the hold of this as our brother behind me will know that in all the big cities with all the education and all the commerce and all the money and all that everything there is always sin and great sin when Paul walked into Corinth which was the metropolis of his day he began to write out a catalogue of all the sins we don't need to go over them tonight because they're not nice to go over adultery and all of that men acting like women this didn't begin in Liverpool a long time ago and it's a long time back since men ran after men you know it goes way back a long time but way back there you know there was this sin and of course idolatry and evil religion and all the rest of it so I hope you've got the hold of that let's go over to Acts chapter 7 for the moment I don't want to waste too much time displaying down the foundations of where he was brought up sort of style it's not what we're after but I think it's important for all the young folks here you see Stephen was a great preacher in the early church and these Judaizers arrested him and like they did with the Lord they brought false witnesses against him it says in chapter 6 verse 13 they took up false witnesses which said this man seeketh not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us and all that sat in the council the whole Sanhedrin 71 of them looking steadfastly on him saw his face as having the face of an angel it didn't upset them too much you know being a man of God filled with the Holy Ghost doesn't get upset with a crowd like that then said the high priest he's asking the questions looking at the prisoner he said are these things so? and this is how Stephen began and he said men brethren and father for when you're saved you know and filled with the Holy Ghost you have respect to everybody around you all the false promises just look at the council and say men, brethren, father pardon then he said this the God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Charon or the word Charon is the one that's in the original now this is something that we don't know properly that the God of glory appeared to this man now we don't know exactly what way he appeared don't come around and ask me because I don't know I know the glory of God is a great thing but I know the God of glory is greater than the glory of God and it was the God of glory that appeared to him now I've got to get something over to you let's go to Joshua for a moment the book of Joshua and we're at chapter 24 Joshua and we're at the 24th chapter Joshua's coming to the end of his day here verse 1 and Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to check him he called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers and they presented themselves before him and Joshua said unto all the people Thus saith the Lord God of Israel your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old times I want you to get the hold of this because that's very important even Terah that's way back there the father of Abraham and the father of Naper and they served other gods I want you to get that because that's most important and when we're talking about the other side of the flood we're talking about the other side of the Euclidic just in case you've got the thing wrong so that Abraham came from the other side of the Euclidic from one of the causes way back in that great wonderful place of education and life and commerce and dressing and riches and all the rest of it but without that religion they worshipped idols back there well that's something we need to pay attention to let's get this settled let's go to 1 Corinthians for a moment and we're at 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and I'm not wanting to waste time about this but I would really like to say something about this 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 19 Paul's writing to these Corinthians and he's saying to them what say I then? that the idol is anything? or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devils because where you get idolatry idols, worship where you get men worshipping idols let me get it over to you it is demon worship let me get it over to you that Abraham was a demon worshipper before he was gone and we go back to Joshua are you back in Joshua? Joshua 24 verse 2 they served other gods and verse 3 says and I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood and led him throughout all the land of Canaan and multiplied his feet and gave them Isaac see verse 14 away down there and therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and truth and put away the gods which your father served on the other side of the flood yeah they were still there somewhere I wanted to get this because I wanted to get that this is what he was called from the God of glory calls him you know here's this man and let me go back to Genesis 12 to get this bit settled also because you have to do a teaching like this to get it properly Genesis 12 is where the call comes and the Lord said unto Abram get thee out of thy country and so on I'll go back to that in a moment so Abram departed verse 4 says as the Lord had spoken unto him and Lot went with him Abraham was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran let me get that over to you too because that also is most important if you take Abraham's age sometimes he lived on till he was one hundred and seventy five years of age that's when he died lived a good old day in those days now if you're living seventy of those years of demon worship of almost half his life he wasn't a kid when he was called out he was over seventy years of age when he was called out of this he lived almost half his life in the darkness of demon worship and the psychologists around us will say if you live the half of your life worshiping demons or doing all kinds of sins nobody can save you it is baloney when the God of glory comes up he can save you alright he's quite able to dispense the darkness and smudge the feathers and make you a new creature no matter who you are the fellow sitting back there tonight Chuck McCullough he boozed all his life either one day God came in and saved him there was no more bother with him after that we didn't have to chain him to keep him out of the pubs or anything no so we've got all these sort of things sort of sorted out you can see the character he became when you look at the New Testament seventy-four signs mentioned he's got a thought of a picture of the land he lived in and the mighty place that Ere of the Chaldees was I'm not exactly sure how God made himself known to him I just know that the God of glory called him that's all it's almost the same with each one of us I go back to the day when I stood with no shoes on my feet and an old torn shirt and a coat pin with a safety pin and the God of glory came and shook me and let me tell you all about it I just know it happened and I was there when it happened now we're getting down to things now you've seen his credentials in this country and his form now God had to put him into the school now and he was cursed with something sometimes sinners find out that there are things about them that they never really knew were there until they get these even old nature, it's a queer old nature I'm sure you've found out about it before now but we're going to find this out now putting him into the school now now we're at Genesis 12 really only starting but maybe the clock will stop for some reason or something that old clock, I hate it all right we're at Genesis 12 now the Lord had said unto Abraham he didn't only appeal it to him he called him and this is what he said get thee out of my country because I don't think that God said you'll leave here in Hollywood I don't believe that stuff you may try to tell me it's all right I believe that I am deceiving because I'm a new creature an old thing fuck off won't you try to tell me there's any other case of salvation but I don't believe a word of it you tell me that you can flirt about with the film stars and tell me you're a new creature I'm afraid I don't believe you I don't believe that Robert I think you've got to get out and there's a whole lot of things that we all have to get out of and maybe there's some things that some of you would have to get out of yet you're only in the school now remember it's the school with us it's the technique that God made man of said to Abraham get thee out of my country and from my children and from my father's house unto a land that I will show thee he didn't tell him the land but he just said unto a land that I will show thee and if God says you know I'll show it to you sooner or later you can bank on it and I will make of thee a great nation thou and I will bless thee make thine end great and thou shall be a blessing and I will bless them that bless thee we cursed him that cursed us and Hitler found out, didn't he? the Holocaust he was doomed before it was finished, wasn't he? and now he thought he would stand on his hind legs and grab millions from Russia and drop off there the Jews oh he hasn't got a chance God cursed him sometimes I pray that God will curse the IRA and I mean it for the blood it shed in this country and I'll tell you if the curse of God comes out of Hitler I don't think that I should creep into a hole for anybody God says I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse us thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed because Christ was going to come through him so Abraham departed or Abram as his name was then as the Lord had spoken unto him and Lot went with him and that's the bit you see you see as I go down this chapter now that we're in you see I detect that while he had faith oh I know he had faith I know that the God of glory appears and I know that he heard the voice of God and I know that Hebrews chapter 11 says by faith Abraham when he was called obeyed and went forth not knowing whether he went on or not but I believe that while he had faith he had fear he was somehow afraid to go along now he was asked to go along get thee out of my country he obeyed that and did it and from thy kingdom oh no not him he needed some reason not to have his side just at that moment sometimes God calls some of us you know and there are men who would love to go and serve the Lord they need to have somebody with them afraid to go along and I'll tell you if you're going to be the servant of the Lord and I'm sure the man behind me knows this you need to stand alone with that and if you're not prepared to stand alone I don't think you'll ever be much use yes he was afraid he was afraid of going along so he took a lot with him and then you'll find out this it says verse 5 and Abram took stead of his wife and lot his brother's son and all the substance that they had gathered and the souls that they had gotten in heaven and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan and into the land of Canaan they came it's a long journey from one of the Chaldeans and I think the caravan route in those days was that you go right up the side of the Euphrates and you go up to a spot where you turn and you go southward through the Syrian desert you would come to a place called Haran in there and eventually you would come to Damascus in the desert, way out in the desert there and then he came on down into the land of Canaan verse 6 and Abram passed through the land onto the plain of Shechem onto the plain of Moreh and between the night was day in the land it was the land of Canaan and if you go on the trip with our brother Mr. Gardner I'm sure that you'll be taken to these very spots and it's very interesting to stand there and say no this is where they came to and all the rest of it now when he got there it says in verse 7 and the Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto thy seed will I give this land and I can never make anything out of that only what it says it came forth to Abram and he said you know unto thy seed will I give this land it belongs to them Abram sees according to the flesh unto thy seed will I give this land and there he builded an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him and he removed from them some to a mountain on the east of Bethel and fixed his tent having Bethel on the west and Hai on the east and there he builded an altar unto the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord there's no doubt at all about him being saved you know he was a Lord now he was away from demon worship and Abram journeyed going on still towards the south and there was a famine in the land now that's a funny thing why call them out why take them so far why bring them in why say this is the land I'll give this land no what God was doing God's going to test them out now how do you know if God calls you into something see some of you young ones you're about to go into the work of the Lord and you know you're praying and the Lord opens up the door and you can see it and he has spoken to your heart and you're so happy oh you test yourself you're ready to run home he didn't like the famine he feared the famine I'll tell you he's on down to Egypt that's what the test is it says Abraham went down into Egypt to sojourn there and that was a sad day because I'll tell you that when he went down into Egypt he brought an Egyptian woman home with him when he came back again and from her came Ishmael and that was a sad moment you see it's this fear that's there he's afraid of almost everything and then this indictment it says in verse 11 and it came to pass when he came near to enter into Egypt he said unto Pharaoh his wife behold now I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians shall see thee that they shall say this is his wife and they will kill me say I pray thee thou art my sister so this is the indictment that the Atheists leave against him and it's the right one he was prepared to sacrifice the purity of his wife to shed her skin see the little phrase they will kill me he was afraid I think you're beginning to see this fella in the school oh I know he has faith I know all about him he's got a whole lot of faith oh but there's something here that God will have to deal with it's fear it doesn't work well you know like putting water in the bedroom doesn't help it at all you'll find if you go right through the story that again and again and again that this terrible thing that belonged to him it comes up and somehow if you don't examine the whole thing you know you get the idea he was so wonderful oh well he had this you know this curse that he faced he was afraid now where do you see God putting him in the school? we're going into chapter 13 now and he comes back from Egypt he is yes and it says verse 5 and Lot also which went with Saban had flocks and herds and tents and the land was not able to bear them that they might grow together for their substance was great so that they could not grow together and there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle and between the knights and the peasants that dwelt then in the land and Abram said unto Lot let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen for we be brethren and I said on one occasion this is the first time the word brethren is in the book and I say to him he's into trouble for this well said this at the brethren conference once you know because I do get myself into trouble sometimes and an old brother who was very nice to me William Gilvery was he was one of the greatest characters that ever lived I think something comes to my mind now and I'm sure God needs me to tell you this I'll go back to this if the Lord brings me back you know one of the brethren preachers was preaching on insurance and oh boy he gave the meeting some shit about insurance that you shouldn't insure your house and you shouldn't insure, you shouldn't insure nothing it was all the same and old Gilmer was sitting beside me and I gave him my elbow and I said why you think you can be sent to me just wait a minute and when this dear brother had preached gathered up his Bible, his books down the steps out on the street and told them of the meeting and old Gilmer got up and went down the aisle and I got up and went down the aisle and we were not after him and as the dear brother was putting the keys into the door of the car old Gilmer says I hope you're not driving it without insurance yes so the day I was preaching here and I said this is the first time that the word brethren is in this book and they're fighting old Gilmer was behind me and he said this please Willie look at the next verse because Abraham said is not the whole land before thee separate thyself he said he was still preaching separation you know it was very nice wasn't it yes this is what Abraham said he's getting rid of the young fellow that's the bit I want you to get a hold of he's beginning to grow up he's beginning to graduate he says he knows now I can go without you maybe I'd be better without you oh you'd always be better with the Lord and the baby including you yet I can see him having the courage here this is what I meant courage to separate and I think if you go on into the next chapter maybe we can do this quickly you'll find that chapter 14 it's the place where the four kings go to war with the five kings you'll find in verse 1 there are four kings and it says in verse 2 these need war and then he says that's the first time there was war in this book first time and of course the four kings overcame the five kings and Mark was taken prisoner because he was dwelling down in Sodom then you can see these kings here the five are mentioned in verse 2 war with Baal, king of Sodom and that's where Lot was dwelling, he was taken prisoner and then old Abraham had enough courage to get up in the middle of the night and go and tackle the four kings on his own now and he overcame them and he delivered Lot and the point I want to make is that when he came back you see now Chesapeake met him and blessed him verse 21 in our chapter 14 and the king of Sodom said unto Abraham give me the person, he had taken Lot a prisoner seek the goods to thyself and Abraham said to the king of Sodom I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord the most high God the possessor of heaven and earth that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet you know this fellow is graduating first of all he's got the courage to step through and go it on his own now the way God wanted him to and he's got the courage to say no to all the things of this earth that would have made him rich now he's graduating he's beginning to see his God you know it's the people that know their God that are strong and then they begin to do excellent now let me get along through chapter 22 so you can see how it works out we're just looking at the screws there are so many details it doesn't matter chapter 22 is very interesting it begins like this and it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham and I don't like the word tempt because the book tells me that God tempteth no man I think it was just another test it's an old word it can be translated tempt or test when the thing comes from the devil it's tempt when it comes from God it's test God tested Abraham and God said unto him Abraham and you'll find in a moment that this thing took place at night and I can see him cuddled up in the corner of the tent I think he lived in a Bedouin tent in those days he's living listening to this old rule corn churned up in the tent corn, no electric lamp or anything let's get it like that all but ignores the voice of the Lord out of the darkness comes a voice he knows Abraham he immediately answered hear am I and the voice said take now thy son thine only son Isaac whom thou lovest and get him into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of being tested isn't it wonder what they would have done I'll tell you he's not afraid anymore I'll tell you this fellow has graduated and you're going to see that you know the next verse says and Abraham rose up early in the morning oh he would have lay on the dinner time and turned it over and said my lord this can't be right you know can't take his life there was no argument he responded immediately without a quiver saddled the ox and you see him saddling the ox and asked anybody else to do it and I'll tell you that when God calls you and wants you to serve him you know there are little things you've got to do for God to didn't walk around the camp and say you know I'm the big man that's going to give my son to be oh no he's saddling the ox see him putting the dress under the ox and buckling it up to you and it also says and cleared the woods yes he was preparing to serve God and if you're going to serve God you you've got to get rid of all the things you've got to be prepared to do little tiny things you're not just a big fellow you know you're not a servant of God if you are and it says he he rose up and went on to the place of which God had told him and I'll tell you that's something I was pointing out to some of the young folks that the word place is four times in this chapter it says he went on to the place of which God had told him and the next verse says on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place you know when God came to him in the tent in the middle of the night he was in Beersheba and then he started out you know and then he saw the place on the third day saw the place sometimes when you see the place that God wants you to fill and what he wants you to do and what he wants you to give and what he wants you to be some people turn back too much you know can't go through with God and you'll find this that verse nine says and they came to the place is what you call going through with God I'm sure the last steps of this hill they were trying ones he wasn't afraid you know he knew what he was going to do he was going to put the lard on the altar and lift the knife and plunge it into his breast and he wasn't afraid he believed in his heart that even when a billet ate your bedding that you can raise him again from the dead and when he lifted the knife to plunge it the voice came from heaven and said Abraham lay not thy hand upon the lard for now I know that you are gladiating Peter I know about you now you have gladiated yes Abraham called the name of that place for the fourth time started from the place he saw the place, he came to the place called the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh you know God was everything I think we're going to find in all these studies that God puts men through the school and does so much to them until they graduate like this they know that God, and God alone is everything every butler I hope they don't think money's everything and I hope you don't think the butler's everything oh if we can go through maybe fourteen men and see God putting them in the school and learn night after night that God and God alone is everything then these studies will be worthwhile it's in a couple of verses just three hundred and twenty seven three hundred and twenty seven all for a faith that will not shrink oppressed by every thought that will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe that will not murmur nor complain beneath the chastening law but in the hour of grief or pain and lean upon his God just those two verses thank you for the faith that will not shrink oppressed by every thought that will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe but in the hour of grief or pain and lean upon his God but in the hour of grief or pain and lean upon his God Lord keep us in the school and teach us and bring us to the spot where God is everything for thy name's sake Amen