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  THE FOUR W'S 02 THE WILL OF GOD
  by Stan Ford
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Summary: The sermon explores the will of God in various aspects of life,
emphasizing the importance of understanding and following His guidance.

Duration: 1:01:14 Topics: "Gods Will", "Spiritual Transformation"
Scripture References: Psalm 40:2-7, Romans 12:1

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In this sermon, the preacher begins by introducing Romans chapter 12 and
emphasizes the importance of not conforming to the ways of the world. He
encourages the audience to be transformed by renewing their minds in
order to understand and follow God's perfect will. The preacher then
quotes from the 40th Psalm, highlighting the wonderful works of God and
the importance of delighting in His will. The sermon concludes with the
preacher expressing gratitude for the audience's presence and reading a
portion from the 12th chapter of the Epistle of Romans.

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coming. I want, if I may, to read two portions of the Word of God in the
40th Psalm, and then in the 12th chapter of the Epistles of the Romans.

The Old Testament, first of all, the 40th Psalm. Now, those of you that
have been with us in past evenings know that for the four evenings of
this week we are considering together four subjects. Last night we dealt
with the Word of God and how to read it.

Now, I don't know whether that's the correct expression. I don't know
whether I ought to say we dealt with it. We touched it anyway.

The Word of God and how to read it. Tonight we're going to look at the
will of God and how to know it. The will of God and how to know it.

As the Lord will help us tomorrow night, we'll be dealing with the
worship of God and how to present it. And then on Thursday, if the Lord
helps us, we'll be dealing with the work of God and how to do it. And
then, of course, Friday night is the special night.

It's for young folks now. Now, please, they've invited me. So you can
come however old you are, because I'm older than most of you.

So don't say Amen as loud as I can. Hear me? About the only time I get
them to say Amen. But there we are.

But on Friday night, if you please. On Friday night, it's the youth
night, but it simply means that. Now, let's clear up something about
this youth night.

It simply means that on Friday night, I'll be speaking the help of the
Lord in a special way for a message that will reach young people. Now,
sheep and lambs feed together. So, all of us be here on Friday night.

All of us be here. And I believe, I don't know, they haven't told me
yet, haven't told me yet, but I believe some of the young folks are
going to do something. I don't know what they're going to do.

Stand on their head maybe, I don't know. But Friday night, let's be here
and bring all the young folk along you possibly can to Friday. But this
evening, the will of God and how to know it.

The fortieth psalm, if we may. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he
inclined unto me and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an
horrible pit, out of the mire clay, set my feet upon a rock, and
established my goings.

He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. Many shall
see it in fear, and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man that
maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as
turn aside to lies.

Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works, which thou hast done, and
thy thoughts which are to us wise. They cannot be reckoned up in order
unto thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can
be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering, thou didst not desire. Mine ears hast thou
opened. Burnt offering and offering hast thou not required.

Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me. I
delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within my heart.

Romans chapter 12. Romans chapter 12, as we may be. What tremendous
verses are these? This chapter that is the commencement of the last
section of this wonderful event.

Romans chapter 12. I beseech you, therefore brethren, by the mercies of
God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to this
world. Says J. B. Phillips, don't let the world crash you into its mold.

Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of
your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect will of God. May the Lord just add his blessing to the reading
of his own precious word. Now you were given a chorus, and a chorus
sheet, and we couldn't gather tonight without singing the chorus today.

If you were not given a sheet, please raise your hand and someone will
bring you one. Oh, I can see the folks that came in on the sign. None?
Do you mean they've all gone? They've all gone? Would you kindly bring
them back when you come tomorrow night? You remember what I said the
first evening, you are permitted to take them with you, but no further
than the door.

Now please, look, oh I say, they need the gospel here, if they're not
they. Right, thank you, that's it. Ah, there we are.

Well, it's one between two, one between three or something, or
something. Let's start off, if we may please, with the little one that
we sang the last time I was with you, number one, and I feel that maybe
tonight the Lord's got something to say for us in this little song.
Number one, let me be a little kinder, let me be a little blinder to the
thoughts of those around me.

Are we ready? Thank you. Let me be a little kinder, let me be a little
blinder. Hands up everyone who couldn't have sung a bit better if you
tried.

Put your hands on that. You couldn't have sung a bit better if you
tried. My wife's got her hand up anyway.

I believe I saw a good one. Would you like to come up and sing with me,
sir? No. Oh, there we are.

Well, now that's your confession, but two people all confess you could
have sung better. Did you put your hand up, did you? I didn't think so,
because I don't need you to. You're as bad looking as we had yesterday.

Are we ready? Come on, let's try the second verse. Thank you. Let me be
a little braver, when temptation bids me waver.

Let me try a little harder to be all I am. I say it every time we sing
it, but I want to say it again. Oh, how I long that this may be true in
my own life, that I might be a little kinder, a little blinder to the
thoughts of those around me, that I might crave a little more.

Oh, praise God for those words, may they be true in our experience. Now
we're going to sing a chorus that's an English one, a children's one,
and we all know it. If you're black, or if you're white, or if you're
fat, or lean, God loves you.

Do you know this one, you brethren in the front? Don't you? Your
education has been neglected. All right, I tell you, we'll have to sing
this one now. If you're black, or if you're white, or if you're fat or
lean, God loves you.

If you're short, or if you're tall, or if you're in between, God loves
you. You come up and sit with me, brother, right up here. It doesn't
matter about that, I know you've got laryngitis.

You develop laryngitis very quickly. If you refuse, I'll come down and
pick you up. If you can do it, just you listen, it goes something like
this.

It's just a children's chorus, but it goes like, thank you. If you're
black, or if you're white, or if you're tall, we don't want you to know.
We don't want it spoiled.

You know it isn't often you have a chance of listening to good singing
like this. Is that right? Right. Yes, that's right.

Now there we are, we'll try it again. Thank you. If you're black, or if
you're white, or if you're fat or lean, God loves you.

If you're short, or if you're tall, or if you're in between, God loves
you. He loves you when you're happy. No matter what you look like, no
matter what you've been, God loves you.

Ready, come on everyone now. It's just a children's chorus, but we sing
with the boys and girls. And I want to tell you it's true.

God loves you. Whoever we are, God loves us. So away we go.

Thank you. If you're black, or if you're white, or if you're fat or
lean, God loves you. It's good to go back to Sunday school again, just
to remind ourselves of the basic truths of the Christian faith.

You know, some of us, we get so occupied with deep theology, we forget
that God loves us. But he does. Now, we've time for just one more
chorus.

Which one would you love? And you choose the next one. Number six.
Number six? Number six? Number six.

I hope I know it. Oh, let the Lord have his way. I think I know it.

Let the Lord have his way in your life every day. Thank you. Let the
Lord have his way in your life every day.

Just a little bit, love. Thank you. Let the Lord have his way, in your
life every day, oh there's no... Oh, I know I've said this so many
times, but I remember when we first introduced this little call.

I was leading the Bible readings among the young folk who were way
yonder in Larne, in Scotland. A crowd of young people from all over
Scotland had gathered for that weekend, and the Lord was helping. And we
introduced this little chorus, and I don't know who it was, but every
time that we started a Bible session, as this crowd of young folk just
sat quietly down waiting for it to come up to them, always, someone
would start the little chorus, let the Lord have his way.

I trust that we were teaching the Epistle to the Romans, I trust what we
said influenced many of those young folks. But I've heard from all over
the world, of people in those Bible readings who were influenced by God
through that call. And as you know our friend with the Child
Evangelization Fellowship has now printed it and got it in one of their
corners.

But tonight let me say this, if the Lord has his way, in my life every
day, what a blessing it will be for my life. And for others as well. I
pray that might be the result of our report here today.

Well God and Father we do bless thee together for the opportunity of
being here, and every evening we thank thee for the wonder of being able
to sing together and smile together. But this evening, as we come to thy
word, we have to confess that we're going to deal with a subject that
sometimes is so difficult for thy people. By the Holy Spirit be our
teacher tonight.

And grant that each one of us may go on this place, saying of the truth,
Not my will, but thine be done. For Jesus' sake. Amen.

Amen. I am certain because we have read from the twelfth chapter of
Romans and from the fortieth psalm that most of you have gathered what
is on my heart tonight. For no one could read the fortieth psalm without
coming to this absolute conclusion.

That the man that's spoken of in the fortieth psalm is none other than
the Lord himself. What glorious words, lo, I come! In the volume of the
book it is written of me. I delight to do thy will, O my God.

If ever words were spoken of Jesus Christ, those words were spoken. And
yet, in the twelfth chapter of Romans, we were reminded of this
tremendous fact. That we are called, as those who know and love the Lord
Jesus, we are called to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable under God, which is our reasonable service.

We are told that we must not be conformed to this world, but transformed
by the renewing of our minds that we might be able to prove what is that
good and perfect will of God. There was one who did the will of God. He
is our savior and our example.

You and I are exalted to follow in his footsteps, and be the doers of
the will of God as well. So I'm going to liken the Lord Jesus, and turn
to him again and again, if I may use the expression, to draw lessons
from his life as to what it means to do the will of God, and then seek
to apply it in your own life and mine. As I think, indeed, of what God's
word has to say, I am utterly amazed that men and women are always
looking for difficult things when it comes to the understanding of the
will of God.

Please, if I can manage to struggle on till October, which is October,
Mary and then If I can manage to struggle on till October, I've been
married forty years. Mary's a fool. I know I've got it right.

But there we are. Now I'll let him work it. When we were first married,
there were many things about her I didn't know.

Of course, there are a lot of things I don't know about her now. I won't
tell you what happened today when we were out to lunch. I won't do this.

I only know this. I only know. Now we've been together for forty years,
and I can almost tell you what she's going to do, and tell you what
she's going to say.

I can almost tell you in certain circumstances what her mind is. Because
we've lived together. I suggest to you that the very first thing for any
of us, knowing the will of God, is that we live with her.

We live with her. Then we're not continually saying, well what's the
will of the Lord in this circumstance? Well what's the will of the Lord
in that circumstance? We have read his words, and having read his words
and lived with him, God in his wondrous grace unfolds his will and his
mind. And sometimes I want to make a confession.

Sometimes I couldn't open my Bible and say, look I know this is the will
of God, because here it is, right here. You see there are so many things
in my daily actions the Bible doesn't speak about. For instance, if I
needed to buy a new car, I could open my Bible and tell you what one to
buy could have.

Of course, what I would do is I'd say my name's Gordon, and I'd rather
like to have my name right on the front. As a matter of fact, there's a
dear brother here who has been extremely kind to Mary in the past. He's
loaned us a truck so we can get about, and I've been glorious like that.

It's just right on the front in great big letters, F.O.R.G. And I can
dodge all you queer people who ride on the wrong side of the road. Of
course I can with a truck like that. But you see what I'm getting at?
There are many things in life.

There are many things in life that I can't open my Bible and say, look
I've got a passion in a verse that's telling me what I've got to do in
this particular circumstance. But when I live with Jesus Christ, my life
then is lived for his law. And the first thing I say is, what would you
have to do? What would you have to do? I want, if I may be, to speak of
a number of things this evening.

I want to speak of the will of God as to our motivation. As to our
motivation. I want to speak of the will of God as to our morality.

Need to say something about that in the days in which we live. I want to
say something about the will of God, not only as to our morality and our
motivation. I want to say something about the will of God as to our
marriage.

And I know there are some young folks here who maybe are contemplating
marriage, but have not yet reached that stage. But I've got something to
say to you. And I want to say something about the will of God, if the
Lord may help me, as to my church membership.

Now there are many other things, of course, that I will be making
records. But it is around these four headings that I want mainly to pass
my remarks on. First, the will of God as to my motivation.

As I start to live out my life, what is the will of God? Well, the first
thing about the will of God for my life is this, that I should be
saying, and that's the first thing, however we may be, never let us
forget this, that the word of God leaves us in no doubt whatsoever that
it is his purpose, it is his will, that I shall be saved. That I shall
yield myself to him, and know the forgiveness of sin that comes through
his shed blood on Calvary's rock. The first chapter of John contains one
of the loveliest verses in the Bible.

You remember the glorious words of verse 12, when you and I are informed
of the tremendous thank that each one of us must receive. To as many as
received him, to them gave he the right to become the sons of God, even
to those that believe on his name. And then it goes on and says this,
who were born, who were born, not according to the flesh or the will of
man, but the will of God.

And I want to start this evening by asking a very obvious question. I
trust it does not sound discourteous, because far above everything else,
madam above everything else, I would be courteous. But may I ask you,
have you received Jesus Christ? Have you received him? The tragedy is
that we are living in a day when there are men and women who imagine
that salvation is by human descent.

There are men and women who imagine that salvation is by human desire.
There are men and women who imagine that salvation is by human design.
But if ever there was a verse in the Bible that completely answers that,
it's John 1 and 12.

Who were born? Not of flesh. I know very little really of your country.
And so I refuse, as it were, my lessons on my own.

One of the tragedies in my land is that very frequently, when asking
someone if they know the Lord, if they're a Christian, if they've been
born again, they look at me and say, well what is it I am, a Hottentot?
I was born in England. Yes, but being born in the stable doesn't make
you a horse. And I won't say this, my friend.

My Bible says, I didn't say it, my Bible says, who were born? Not of
flesh. Young woman, your mother may love you so. Your father may love
you so.

Young man, you may have been raised in a godly home, but you'll never
find yourself in glory just because your mother, a Hottentot, or when I
look at my own children, when I look at my grandchildren, how simple it
would have been for me to have said, I'll choose Christ for them. They
had to choose Christ themselves. You are not more than that.

Some of those Jews could look into the face of the Saviour and say, we
have Abraham for our father. Didn't do them a bit of good. Jesus said to
the right reverend Nicodemus D.D., and all the rest of the letters after
his name, he must be born again.

But a person is not born of human descent, nor is he born of human
desire. Who were born not of flesh, nor of the will of man. Do you know
I meet some people who always have a desire to be a Christian.

They desire to be right with God. But the tragedy is this, they don't
receive Jesus Christ. They don't receive Jesus Christ.

Now you may have the greatest desires in your life, you may desire to
live a holy life, you may desire in the words of our little chorus to be
a little kinder, to be a little blinder to the thoughts of those around
you. But you'll never, never, never be a Christian until Christ comes in
to as many as receive. It is not by human descent, it is not by human
desire, it is not by human desire, nor the will of the flesh.

We may set as it were an example, we may paint a picture, we may try and
run for that vision. And please, please, please, all of you who know me,
know that I don't stand up and speak about others. But I think there are
enough religious creeds in America I must confess sometimes I wish you'd
keep them here too.

But there are enough religious creeds here in America that prove beyond
a doubt that men make designs when it comes even to religious things.
But you're not saved by design. You can have all the fancy religions in
the world in my Bible sentence to as many as to those that believe on
Him.

You know I've got God wondering that any of us might be in a moment's
doubt as to what it means to receive God. I'll tell you what it means to
receive Him to those that believe on His head. Have you received Him?
There's been a time in your life that this is the will of God for you.

This is the will of God that you shall receive Jesus Christ into your
life that you shall believe on Him. And the motivation of our life is
the fact that we come to know Him as our Savior. You know there's a
lovely verse way there in the epistle of John it's the 23rd verse of the
3rd chapter of John 1st epistle and this is what it says this is the
commandment.

Now we know the will of God now don't we? When God gives us a
commandment we know His will. This is the commandment that you should
believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another. Can I
repeat that? Believe on the name of Jesus Christ and love one another as
He gave us this commandment.

Or rather than this if you've received Jesus Christ the proof that you
have received Jesus Christ will be that you love one another. May I
repeat that? May I repeat that? When you have received Jesus Christ the
proof that you have received Jesus Christ is that you love one another.
This is the will of God.

I passed a little comment at the conference down at Ben Liveness here I
can't remember the context in which I said it but we just were going
through a little of the Gospel of John and I was pointing out that you
know it's quite hard to understand it's never been explained at all but
the Gospel of John I don't know, is it terrible when you forget I
didn't. But there it is, I passed this comment we were going through the
Gospel of John pointing out how every Gospel deals with a different
context We started in the Gospel of John chapter 10 I'll be happy to go
right through it chapter 10 Good shepherds give us this light The 11th
chapter not the sacrifice of love the 11th chapter of sympathy Lazarus
is dead The shortest verse in the Bible, Jesus wept the comment of the
people Do you love one another?

Are you prepared to sacrifice for one another? Or do you just say, oh I
love them, I love them It costs us something if we love one another I
tell you, the sacrifice of love the sympathy of love Chapter 12 Come on,
let me ask you What's chapter 12? The story of Mary with her alabaster
box The story of anointing the Savior The story of Judas and some of the
disciples saying What purpose is this waste? And the words of Jesus He
turned on those disciples and said Leave her alone Sacrifice of love
Sympathy of love You're not very good at spelling are you?

No, there we are I say Leave her alone We've got to sacrifice again
Enough Very good, not quite right Leave her alone Oh, I thought we'd
have a few more than that No, I thought we'd have all got that The
support of love Here they turn the criticizer And Jesus looks at them
and says Leave her alone Oh, I wish there were a few Christians like
that, don't you? When someone comes along And is critical of another who
loves the Savior Mostly the faith will tell them why Wouldn't it be nice
if some of us would have said Leave her alone That's what it means for
love I say, chapter 10 Sacrifice chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Right
top of the class Not only a good singer I say, he takes a towel and
guards himself And washes the disciples Brethren, sisters It's no good
saying we love one another It's no good saying it We've got to show it
That's the will of God Knowing the will of God To know it is to do it To
read his word Know in the volume of the book If ever anyone did the will
of God I delight to do thy will, oh my God What's that?

What's this? What support? What service on present day? Make this church
in our own church Where you love one another That's what it's about
That's our motivation The motivation of every action Is that we love him
and having loved him We seek the loved one I say The will of God as to
our motivation The will of God as to our morality I don't often have
people come to me and say Mr. Forrest, I'm having difficulty about moral
things I'm not sure of the will of God Or I have them come to me
sometimes And say, Mr.

Forrest, I wonder if you'd pray for us I wonder if you'd help us I'm not
quite sure of the will of the Lord I'm not quite sure of the will of the
Lord But I don't often hear them talk about morality And yet I wish
sometimes they would For this is what the word of God says 1
Thessalonians 4 and 3 This is the will of God Even your sanctification
Even your sanctification That you should abstain from fornication For
God hath not called us Unto uncleanness, but unto holiness All around us
today Isn't it awful?

All around us today, young and older people And don't you young people
imagine older folks Don't have to face the pressures Maybe they have to
face them more than you But all around us there are Pressures that are
unclean And vile And wicked You walk down the street you can hardly see
a hoarding Without some picture on the hoarding Of some half-dressed
woman or something All around us there seems to be pressure I don't know
about you But I'm often saying this, I don't know why, but I'm often
saying this Do you know I long really for some of those old-fashioned
adverts We used to have You had them here in America, we did in our
country We used to have a wonderful one, you know, Hell Pork Sausages
You wouldn't know any of that then, but they're real fun Hell Pork
Sausages A great big piece

In a hide, pulling a cart With a pound of sausages on the cart And
underneath, drawing his own conclusion Oh, I say That's the sort of
advert I want You know, something's going to happen But today, all
around us there are pressures Immoral pressures Young people, oh please,
let me talk to you like an older person Let me talk to you like an older
person Let me talk to you as I speak to my own children And my own
grandchildren Keep yourself pure, keep yourself pure Holiness is the
will of the Lord This is the will of God Even our sanctification Oh, we
love to talk about salvation But don't you forget Romans 7 and 8 As well
as Romans 5 and 6 Our sanctification But you know, there's something
more, isn't there That the Lord Jesus is our wonderful example of it I
delight to do thy will, oh my

God And as I said, was it last evening That the Lord Jesus is the only
one Who began his life where he finished it And finished his life where
he began it Never you forget that Let that be drilled into your being
The only one who began his life Where he finished it And finished his
life where he began it I reminded you, and I dare say it again That holy
thing which shall be born of thee Shall be called the Son of the Queen
It's easy to say of a little babe That holy thing What she say when all
the forces of hell Have attacked that babe Oh, what did they say He
offered himself without plot to God Oh, what did they say What did they
say And as I think of him One alone will set apart The will of God In
our motivation, the will of God In our morality The will of God in our
marriage Now the

Bible leaves us no doubt about that The 22nd verse of the 5th chapter of
Ephesians Has something to say to men And to women It starts off and it
says Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands As unto the Lord And
husbands, love your wives May I repeat that Husbands, love your wives
Even as Christ loved the church And gave himself for it It tells us, and
will you please note That it has more to say to the husband Than it does
to the wife Would you please remember this That it's speaking to the
husband Says, so ought men to love their wives As their own bodies For
he that loveth his wife loveth himself This is the will of God My
friend, you don't need to go away to a Bible college To understand that
You don't need some revelation from heaven Some voice coming out of the
sky This is the

plainest truth of the word of God Do you know this is, I can't take you
through the epistle to the Ephesians Because I don't know it would be
good But this is the wonder about the epistle to the Ephesians Would you
young people please remember this There is not an epistle that lifts us
higher Than the epistle to the Ephesians In heaven there's places in
Christ Jesus And there's not an epistle that brings us down to earth
More than that one It may put our head in heaven But it keeps our feet
down on the ground It doesn't say love your wife in heaven Love her
where your body is Down here For if ever there was a need For the day in
which we lay For the Christian church To take its stand again For family
life If ever there was a need It's the day in which we live When we
ought to be saying to

our young folks Listen The loveliest thing next to being sad Is to be
united with someone you love The loveliest thing I'm not ashamed to say
this And she's here tonight I loved that girl when I married her And I
love her more now than I loved her when I married her Oh that doesn't
mean to say that we never had a cross word you know She's here so I dare
not say that Oh if you'd seen what she did at lunch You'd understand as
well I'm not going to tell you I'm not going to tell you I only know
this I only know this That this is the will of God Could I just take a
minute there Just to preach Not what will I do But my favorite wedding
song My favorite wedding song Is the last one Which is Aquila Antepenna
Now may I ask you good Bible-loving folks How many times have you
mentioned in the Bible

How many times have you mentioned Aquila Aquila What's Aquila You don't
work with him Who Oh I thought I was coming to a Bible-loving Although
someone at the right has No no you were wrong Well I was actually wrong
I thought you would have known I did agree That they're mentioned six
times in the Bible Aquila Antepenna And now you're all wrong Now you're
all wrong Three times They are called Aquila Antepenna And three times
They're called Three times the man's name Is mentioned first And three
times the lady's name Is mentioned first You know why Because God looks
upon a family as a unit for him When a poet Needed to be taught The word
of God more perfectly The scripture says that Aquila And Priscilla Took
him into their home And Then Taught Him the word of God more perfectly
Oh I believe

that this was the place And the church is a quiet place An important
place And I don't believe That this was the position In the home of the
quiet one You know Of course I don't There they taught More perfectly
This is among the words The word of God in our marriage The word of God
in our motification The word of God in our morality The word of God In
our church marriage Oh there is little doubt There is little doubt The
Acts chapter two Is addressed to everyone They that gladly Receive the
word of God They continue Steadfast In the apostles doctrine Fellowship
Rating of bread And prayer This is The will of God It is the will Of God
for our church membership For church membership Means church Partnership
And I want to say this to everyone Of you, my brother, my Sister, you
all Are

important in the local church There is not one person More important
than another We are members Of his body Now I know this Sounds strange,
but I think You will understand it When I finish what I have to say The
Lord had three bodies Now I know that sounds strange But please He had a
Material body The body in which you live Before now He has a memorial
body This is my body Which was broken For years But he had a material
body He has a memorial body He has a mystical body Not mythical body
That body Which is the church And we are members Of one body, every one
of us You are my brothers You are my sisters We are in the body of
Christ The church as you know Is likened to three things in the bible
It's likened to a building It's likened to a bride It's likened to a Box
Isn't it remarkable

You see that wall there It's pretty strong At least I hope it is But I
tell you why it's strong Because every one of those Consists lots of
bodies The bricklayer would put that up If he had made every Joint a
straight joint The roof would have skewed out Yes But the strength is
Because every one of them is necessary To the other We are in a building
We are in a body, each one of us Every part of our body Is important You
couldn't take a knife And cut every part of my body out Without the rest
of the body Knowing When it comes to a bride As I said the other evening
When speaking about the Holy Spirit as a person I reminded the Pope That
you don't receive a person In bits and pieces When I married Mary Forty
years ago We stood before the good gentleman And he said wilt thou and I
will be

sure away But you know When we stood together You know what happened I
got her in her entirety I didn't get an arm today and a leg tomorrow And
a knee the next day And a toe the following day Of course I didn't know
what I was getting But I got them all And if the Holy Spirit is a person
Remember this, you don't get the Holy Spirit In bits and pieces Remember
that And if Christ has a body He has a soul Never you forget that Every
part of us Belongs in him And it is necessary That we shall be Working
together At his body This is the will of God I suppose I ought to take
Just three minutes That will undertake Talking about knowing the will of
God And those difficult areas Like the problem of Business sometimes And
the problem of Maybe our education and so on

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