It won't be fair in that church. And now I'm going on from verse 11, if we may, of that verse that was. And we're going to see now not Paul, the pastor, but Paul, the prisoner. We're not going to see him reflecting. We're going to hear him rejoicing. So we will pick up the story that we made these in the 11th verse. I will talk to you next on this morning in the 11th part about the first chapter. Being filled with the first chapter, which are by you of Christ unto the glory and praise of God, that I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel, so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places. And many of the brethren in the Lord, who have seen confident in my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. Some indeed preach Christ, even of envy and strife. Some also of goodwill. The one preach Christ, of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bond. But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel, But then, notwithstanding in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice, for I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, according to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness. also, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour. Yet what shall I choose, I what not? For I am in a strait between us two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you, and having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith, that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ or me by my coming to you again. Only let your conversation be as it be cometh to the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your prayers that ye stand fast in one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel, and in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evidence token of perdition, but to you of salvation and that of God. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which he saw in me, and now here, the deans. That's a word of prayer. Oh, God and Father, we feel that we could not take better words upon our lips than the words we've found. We dare to ask that thou, by thy spirit, will be our teacher. We beseech of thee that this may be the case. Will thou make thy word to live here in this service tonight in such a way that we shall never forget the challenge that came to our heart to us in this place. Or Jesus' name. Amen. Just a reminder that this morning we were thinking of Paul as the pastor reflecting, and we saw a little of his gracious palatation. We carried a while as we thought indeed of his grateful heart. You will remember that as we came down that glorious chapter, we thought of also of his genuine sympathy. of a pastor, a real pastor, we saw something of his godly concern. But now we're taking a further step in our contemplation of this man and of the things that he has to bring before us. And we're going to think of him as a prisoner. We're going to remember that there here was a man away there in that Roman prison. And yet the wonder of it all is in the midst of that prison, again and again he cries, I bearing will rejoice. And I do rejoice, or here is the prisoner rejoicing. So what is it that enables a man to turn a prison into a palace? What is it that enables a man to turn those chains that are upon his legs and hands into the very emblems of victory? I reminded you that in the beginning of the history of the church church, So if I, the decade, what I dare to call, this band of Christian commanders, ten years has passed in Perth, his feet shrugged and stripped of that city. Now he lies in prison and thinks of the great mayor. He's going to set before them, and he is going by the spirit to set before us a plan of campaign that will bring deliverance and victory to any creed, and to any company, and to any country, and to any class of man or woman. He's going to lay before us a plan of campaign that will turn men and women into those who are not defeated Christians, those who can cry and sin shall not act. Dominion over me. Oh, it's important that we shall ponder together carefully these glorious words. Would you notice that first of all, this wonderful prisoner rejoices? And he rejoices, as he dares to remind us, that victory by Christ is that which can be manifest even in our bodies. Could I repeat that? That victory by Christ can be manifest even in our bodies. Take care, he will remind us that victory through Christ can be manifest in our body. For me to live in Christ, he's going to cry. Then he'll take us a step further, and he'll remind us that victory can not only be manifest in our bones and in our body, but he's going to remind us in the words that we read of his great bone. It's all that's happened that the victory of Christ can be manifest in our bones. Firstly, that the victory of Christ can be manifest in our bones. Let's see this man for a moment in this prison. It's a Roman prison. You have noticed many times I am sure how the Apostle Paul finds himself witnessing before the last of great men. There was a time when he stood on trial for his life and looked up into the face of the last of the Jewish king. Jews have never had a king since that day. Let me let you know a secret but not a secret. They won't have a king until he who's righted in the reign shall reign. before the last of the Jewish age. And now he bears witness before the last of the Roman Caesar. For this Caesar and Nero, who was the Caesar of this day, was the last of the Roman Caesars, bear as he witnesses to a great people that had left its mark upon the history of mankind, those Jewish people, as he stood before their last age. Now he witnesses before the last Nero, the last Caesar, What a deaf thought that Nero was. I don't need really to take you back to your school days, do I? But you will remember that it was said of this man, Nero, that when taught by the philosopher, who was his great teacher, to read and to write, there came a time when he wrote his signature on the first death sentence, and it is said of him that he went, Crying good to God, that I had never, I had never learned to write. Yet within a very few Greek months He had signed more death warrants Than any Caesar that Roman ever known This was the man you will remember That first of all poisoned his own St. St. Brother And I had put him to death He divorced and eventually Elled his own wife And talked to himself To be a debtor, a slave girl Who loved to be cut a period of nine months And then would take the debt This was the death thought, who took Christians and dipped them in oil, and then tied them to posts that had been driven in the ground, set them a light, that in the light time he could have his favorite sport, and by the light of burning Christians drive his chariot in London. The records of his deeds have been left in the history of mankind. Yet this apostle Paul dares to bear witness. He dares to cry that it is his bonds that will enable him to witness. He does the witness to the soldiers of that day. For every morning there was chained to his body a Roman soldier. And I know not the hour the soldier stood on repeat, but if it was twice a day, two times a day, his audience was changed. Two times a day he preached the same old sermon. to a new congregation. He dared to say these bonds, all these bonds, and yet it is through these bonds that I have been enabled to manifest in the palace and in all places the message of the Christian faith. I wonder why it is when you and I find the going hard and I speak of myself. I wonder why it is when we find the going hard that we're so apt to drop on our knees and ask that the Lord will take it away from us. Maybe I'm not speaking to you, I'm just speaking to myself. I only know that here was a man who was every inch of him a man. This man, although somewhat people in speech, and there seems to be little doubt from that which he's there, in the epistles of the Galatians, somewhat people of body. Yet in a state like this, in prison he was prepared to rejoice. Did he look back over his days and remember that Vin Zones had walked great congregations to stand before him? Is there a man or a woman here who would really believe that Ananias the High Priest would ever have sat in one of the services of those early churches? Yet there came a time when Paul was put in chains, and the people that came out to bear witness against him had amongst them, Ananias the High Priest, and he had to stand and listen Praise God for those barns! Shall I tell you something, brethren? Ananias will never stand before the great white throne, say no one told you. Is there a person here this very evening who would imagine for one moment that Pilate, the Roman governor, would ever have sat down in a gospel hall to listen to the great old preach? Because I think that's what a place he'd have preached in, but that, by the way, I only do this. filled and there as he passed. He never would have gone there of his own free will, but there came a time when they put chains on the legs and hands of this man, full of partners, and Felix, the Roman governor, passed. Listen to him preach. And I say, what a sermon. What a sermon. He shook his head and sat in, and I spread both of them with James on. Spoken teeth, but he saved it as a nickel. believe, that to tell us the orator would ever have gone to listen to this despised Jew. Why, Paul himself confessed that he was people of speech, that he was to tell us the orator. If you want to know what orators and lawyers are at to do, you go and read the story in the Acts again, and you'll see him how he starts off by slashering the person he's talking to, and saying that your great privileges stand before you, because under your rule we enjoy great quietness as liar that he was. Great quietness, the hardest people they'd ever conquered were the Jews. What if he tried to catch his ear? Do you think that man would have ever listened to the gospel, that they put chains on Paul's hands? He said, thank God for my bonds. I've reached to Ananias. I've reached to Phoenix. I've reached to Tantalus. I say, there came a time when they took me before the of those Jewish kings, and before good I bore witness and test of any, and before his voice burning. Brother and sister, is it not a fact that when tragedy comes and the bonds of faith on our hands and feet, it's then that God in his mercy enables the gospel to go out to others and we rejoice. Brother Hurley, would you mind me telling you, Father? Most of you know that Brother Hurley and his wife lost their boy. Well, very kindly, certainly, thank you. But they did not. These dogs came on death. Just this very meal time I sat at the table and heard Hurley and his wife said, They had greater opportunity, but when they did see the fact that neighbors came and were amazed and stood with tears running down their face, they were able to witness that man who came to hear those brothers and fathers. Our dear brother, who stood in front of us in the midst of the world, has gone through a great thing to come to do, it's not just the trembling preaching. But there comes times of tired, dread, of pain, difficult. from we cry I rejoice in my suffering not rejoice because of it but rejoice in it and there is manifest there is manifest the very victory of Christ in our bond or it enables us to hit all of the great people but it not only enabled him to preach the soldiers you know it enabled him to preach the saints sometimes that's the hardest thing to do Sometimes soldiers will listen and say, quote, shall I? But here we face, and this is what the Apostle said, many of the brethren in the Lord, wretching confidence in my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word with fear. It is a contradiction of courage. I mean, bold and fear. You don't talk about people. But who are afraid to get their bold? Ah, but you see, there are all sorts of fears that It's possible to be afraid of God, but that's not it. It's possible to be afraid of man, but that's not it. There is a fear of God that every believer should know. I hope my children fear me. I hope my grandchildren fear me. Now I believe I'm right in saying that never once in their life ever shown any evidence of being afraid of me but I hope they fear me I hope they fear doing anything that would disgrace my name I hope they love us so much that they would seek to live their lives out that we would not be disgraced I hope that you and I love the Lord Jesus so much that it is not because we're afraid of him but because we fear bringing disgrace to his name that we would do those things that are wrong. I hope that we fear with a love, even those that hate our Christ. Fear them with a love which says, I must pray that I'll never take the cost for them. I must get a message. I must tell men and women of Jesus. As you know, I have judged maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but a few months ago I was turns the matter. There are some things I can tell, there are some things I can't tell, and Mr. Wilson would have told you much more than ever I could, and he being in the middle of it would have known it so much better. But I went up with Dear Water Cannon, and we stood, and thus mannered, and we stood at the end of a little path leading into the bush. Dear Water Cannon, with a tears almost in his eyes, and a break in his voice, he said Sam. Do you see that? We were a thousand grand, and almost every one of them it was. In 1961, when what the African called a freedom fighter and what the Portuguese called the terrorists, when the fighting started, they brought out upon Portugal a large contingent of young militiamen who could neither speak the chouquey or any of the languages of us, and could understand not a word of the so-called Portuguese that the Africans had. One day they came into a mission station. On the Lord's Day morning, and 250 and more brethren and sisters and their children were gathered around the table on which a loaf and a cup had been made. As they marched into that mission station, that assembly, maybe I should call it, Catholic. They saw no evidence of burning candles or robes upon men who were priests. They saw no evidence of images that people found before or saw no jars in which holy water had been placed. And all they saw were a crowd of Africans scattered in a hall. So desperately frightened were these young militia boys. They thought it was a terrorist meeting. They just mowed them down with a machine. And I stood in Chelanda, and I saw an African brother across his blue body, another Christian at four, that where he's covered out was taken by the soldier. I saw in his young day his chest to us, and his body was covered in the most awful scars. It was hardly an inch of flesh that was not scarred. We could see them on his face, but we weren't sure whether they were ceremonial scars, but his body was covered. He told us how they bought him, demanded that he should tell them where terrors were, and he said there are no terrors, we will not worship him, please. They drove the banished him. They said they'd kill him, and in his quote in Portuguese he said, will you let me pray? And being driven to his feet he started to pray, and he didn't pray that they'd let him go. He prayed that God would save those souls. Are you an African? See, I've got a... feeling, no ignorant African at all, a saint of God. He allowed me to pray, and he prayed that God would save the soldiers, and an officer came up who could understand he spoke in Portuguese, and his plattering of choking. He kicked into a street, literally kicked into a street, and told him to go, go out into the bush, and he said, have you ever come back? For no man could pray like that and be guilty, but if ever you come back, we'd kill you. And two years went by, and the darkness of the night, completely naked, for all his clothes that come of him. He makes his way into the little mission station, goes through his hut where his wife is, and calls her name. And she thought he was dead, and it was some spirit in the night, and she cried in the top of her voice, and the village shabbled around. And he found the greatest tragedy that his wife, thinking he was dead, had married someone else. And I saw that dear brother, and he left that area of Bueller, and has walked hundreds of miles now on his own. With scars that will bear forever his love for Jesus. I saw him in Sri Lanka as an elder in the meeting seeking help God. And I tell you what I did, brethren, and I'm not ashamed of any one of them. I went back into the little hut I was staying in, and I went. I don't know what it means to be a Christian. And as we went to some of you read in your magazines, as we went into areas where there have been no missionaries since 1961. You're listening. There's not been a missionary since 1961. But some of the brethren that have gone from your district, some that have gone from my country, have laid a foundation that was good. And without exception, every place we went, when we went into areas where no one had been since 1961, without exception, the assemblies have more than trembled in number. More than tremble. Out of our bonds, we rejoice. We rejoice. Is it possible to know victory? You young Christians here, what are you doing with your life? You knowing something of victory even in the difficulties of high school and even junior school, it's possible. For here, he stands and he bears his witness to the soldiers and to the saints. The witness goes to those other Christians that the work of God might go on and the church of God might be proved to be the result of the siege of the blood of the man the apostle says I've got bonbon here I'm in chained in a prison but there are many a Christian as a result of what I'm going to they are what's waxing confident in my bonds and are much more bold to speak the word with fear and then he witnesses not only to soldiers and he witnesses not only to saints but he witnesses to And this thrilled me. You know, I'm going to shout hallelujah right at the beginning, because I don't know what I'll do at the end. Really, I am. I wonder how many of us would reach this stage, brethren, sisters. But the apostle there, he looks at these bonds, and he says, why these bonds have enabled me to preach to soldiers and preach indeed to saints, and it's enabled sinners to hear the word, not even through my lips, because there are some people that sin me. They hate me so much that they defy me, the city of Rome that they'll start preaching the gospel so that my authorities will say, it's all that man's fault in prison. We'll put more bonds on him. We'll make him suffer more. They go out in contention to preach the gospel. And the apostle Paul says, listen, I don't mind if the gospel's preached of contention. Seeking to add to my bonds, I'll rejoice. Oh, brethren, listen to me. What a lovely Savior we must have. what a wonderful Lord we must have to enable anyone to say look you can go and say what you like about me, you can do what you like I don't mind how much I suffer as long as my Lord's talking about you hold on up mate Sarah, forgive me but I will and I was reading this preparing for these few days with you and I was in a home not very far from here where a certain remain nameless a certain evangelist that's been having a city-wide crusade and I'm always interested on how people preach the gospel you see because I hardly ever hear anyone else and I was asking about him and I was hearing of some of the things that he'd been doing and I was knowing them as well however God can bless that do you know what I've been doing I've been reading the first of Philippians preparing for this, for this conference. Trying to get down and ask God for forgiveness. Oh, I don't see the way other people do things that in my way. I wouldn't do many of the things these others do, but God give me the grace to rejoice that Jesus is spoken well on. And the Christ is being on hell. And Paul said, even if it's preached up to penchant, this is the road to victory. Oh, brethren, sisters, we need this at risk. We need it in the day in which we live. God has had to teach me this lesson and take me up this next to teach it to me as well. But I want to praise God that something's going on with God. And I want to walk the path he'd have me walk. Though it may be a narrow path for me, that's the path I want to walk, but I'm not going to be critical of those that don't walk that path. I want to praise God. Praise God that the gospel is being preached. So we will see how of Christ enabled him to rejoice in his bond. And then not only in his bonds, but we find that the victory by Christ was manifest in his body. And this is a very real thing, isn't it? Verse 20, Christ shall be magnified in my body. He goes on, verse 21, for me to live is Christ and to die. Hallelujah. It's more of Christ. It's gain. In my body, he says, Christ is going to be, not manifest here, but magnified. Magnified. We can, did we not, that little chorus. Was it this morning, Mr. Son, leader, sir? Magnified the Lord with me? Oh, I thought about that. We forgot to look at that. But we did sing it, didn't we? Magnified the Lord with me. No, we didn't sing it. Oh, you ought to sing it. Blessed man of Calvary. You know, we were teaching the chorus to the children on the sands of Hoylake, ground for so many years. And at the end of the gathering, a boy came up to me and said, I understand. That horse, he sang, magnified the Lord with me. I'd never heard that one before. Oh. Well, Jimmy, what does it mean to you that to magnify the Lord? Did you know what he did? Standing on the shore, well, he said, I understand. You know what it meant to... You could almost see it in his hand the group, magnify you love. Magnify you. Going to sections later, come on, you know. Finding the clue. I don't suppose it means that, or maybe it does, doesn't it? Magnify. We couldn't magnify the Lord, could we? We can't make Christ any bigger than he is. He's the eternal son of the eternal father, glory to God. We can't make him any bigger than he is. But I say he's going to have more of us, can't he? more of him in us. Oh, that we might be as a magnifying glass, that Christ in us may shine out to others and men and women, may see a God magnified. Oh, he says for me to live is Christ. No, just in case, I don't know, just in case there's a person here tonight that's never got to life in Christ. Let me remind you, he's not saying this, but it's still true. He's not saying for me to have life is Christ. not for me to have life is Christ but that's true but that's not the verse do you want life you can have life in Christ well if there is someone here tonight that's never bound your knee to Jesus Christ do you know what the Bible says about you please don't come to me afterwards don't put a question in the question box I don't know what to do if you disagree with it get on your knees before God and tell him you don't believe him this is what God says of you you are dead in trespasses and things that's what it And you don't know how much you're dead in church rather than sin. But a man is condemned already because he believed not. But is it wonderful that there is life in Christ? Do you remember that silly story? I checked my toilet here the last time I was here. Maybe not my toilet around the district over the years. But do you remember that silly story, I tell? Of a man who read the newspaper, like my wife reads it. Like your wife, that's what I like. And I always write the same way. Work better than marriage. And the man was reading down the birth steps in marriage column, you remember? And as he looked round, Oh, oh, Harry, all that kind is. Oh, oh, a little boy, oh, very nice. Oh, a little, you're all not mad. You know the sort of remarks you've had. And then having looked at the marriage in the birth column, he suddenly looked at the death chart. And his voice nearly popped out of his head, and he read, We regret to renounce the death law. And there was his name. Suddenly, eh? And there was his address. But he wasn't there. Off he went to the newspaper. Right! And after going to this one and that one, eventually you remember, the assistant editor came down full of apologies, sir. We don't know how it happened. We printed it in good faith, sir. But don't you worry, we'll put it right, sir. Put it right? What are you going to do? We'll put your name in the birth column tomorrow morning. And I tell you something, ah, we've smiled that brethren, sisters, that's what he must have. He's written our name in the depths, hollow, dead in shrapnel and sin, and hallelujah, he wants to write our name in the Lamb's Book of Life. He wants to give us a new life, and he wants to know how you can get that life with him. Here it is. One John 5 and one. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ. that what is for God you trusted your life to the one whose name is Jesus the one who is the Christ you come to him oh listen we can get life in Christ but that's not what Paul said Paul is not saying I can get life in Christ he says for me to live is Christ for me to live is Christ day by day To live a life that's abundant, a life with a capital L, to use the words of Brinsley Clegg, For use with a capital Y, to have life and that abundance, then Jesus Christ needs to dwell within it. And he says, I tell you what I'll do, brethren and sisters, I will magnify the Lord in my body. I'll allow him to live his life out to me day by day. How can that happen? There's school, there's college. There's work, there's shown, to allow Jesus Christ to live his life out to me. Yet he's not this a possibility. Come with me for a moment, will you? You see the miracle that was performed that day, the gate, that beautiful gate of the temple. For the man who could neither walk nor run, seated outside of the beautiful gate, so near the blessing of God, just the gate between him, was bespoken in that temple. But there he sat begging by the roadside. Do you remember a few men, Ted? They didn't have any goals. They didn't have any school. As far as human education is concerned, they were not academic. But a problem they did have, that they had a pair of legs, and so they used those legs when they walked towards the temple. And they had a pair of eyes when they saw a man in need and they looked at him. And they had a pair of ears, and they said, Well, we listen to what he's saying. Well, we know what he's doing in the news. And they had hearts, and their hearts went out with him. And they had hands, and they stretched their hands towards him. And they had voices, and they spoke to him. Silver and gold, had we none. But such as we have, did we to thee, in the name of Jesus. Now we're going to find out what it was. And they used their eyes, and they used their ears. and they use their hands and they use their feet and they use their legs and they use their voice and they use their hearts and they use all they have. Should I tell you something? That night a man who could never walk and now he could walk never run, now he could run never walk, work, now he could work I've got a feeling that that night that man would have said I've never seen Jesus they did it in his name and But they use their hands for him, for me to live, is Christ. If you like to come to me afterwards and discuss minor theological points, or I'll tell you a dozen other things it means, but I'm not interested at the moment in minor theological points. I'm interested in a body that's going to manifest and magnify the Lord. Is not this what the Apostle meant when he wrote to the church at Rome itself? I wonder how many of those Christians in Rome knew what he wrote to the church about. But it's not this what he meant, that he dared to say that Crouch had to present your body as a living sacrifice, wholly unacceptable under God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world. Don't let the world press you into its moulds, said Philip. Don't let the world press you into its moulds. Be not conformed to this world, as be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, You may be, oh, I say, brethren, I wonder if those Christians at Rome knew what he'd written to the church in Philippi. What I've exhorted you to do is say, I have done that. That, speak to myself, you remember the words of my old friend Bill Patterson, you remember what Billy used to say, every time you point your finger at any one, point three fingers at yourself. Let me point three fingers at myself and say, He shall have the right to stand in the lost room and preach. And that he himself has not been. And the apostle lies in prison. He's been my body. Oh, yeah, he's been magnified in my body. Do you know me, Christian, to present your body? Do Christians and Philippians come to the end of the world? And perhaps here, the king. Then he goes further. He said, for me to live as Christ and to die. hallelujah it's gay no one it's gay there's more but I don't know very much about heaven do you oh you wouldn't tell anyone would you no I hate me as if we tried to exterminate our heaven but I don't know much about heaven I know lots of things that are not there you know there's no death there and hallelujah there's no distress there and there's no danger there because they keep the gate so there's no one in heaven to shut the gate someone might come in oh no no no I say there's no danger there and there's no distress there and there's no death there and I'll tell you something else there's no disease there either say some of you was talking to me the day I met the arthritis praise God he won't be up there finish with there and I'll tell you something more there's no death in there either but he's been shut up okay well then I mean to live is Christ is gone. More of us. Absent from the body, at home. At home, little. Just this week, just this week, it's Burlington. Someone came to me, and don't ask me how they haven't heard, but someone came to me and said, damn, the last one I heard you, you were over here with Bill Patterson. Well, that was 1950, 51, wasn't it? You know what this man said? He said, how is it? But what would he do then? Oh, shall he never been so well in his life? What happened? Never been so well in his life! Oh, Lord. Oh, he delivered Christ and died in the morning. Oh, brethren, sisters, victory by Christ will be manifested in our bonds. It will be manifested in our body. But I must rush to the plough, but my time has gone. victory in Christ will be manifest in our boldness as well. Our boldness as well. Oh, how the Apostle drives it home with all his heart. And in verse 26 it says, That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Christ. Jesus, for me, if I might come into you again, only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ. Would you notice waiting for in that boldness? that boldness was seen in their conduct, verses 26 and 27, and seen in their cooperation in the closing of Washington, where it was seen in their conduct, your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ, your conversation be has become of the God. It's not necessary for me to remind you that the Greek word translated in our Uruguay version is a word for your manner of love. That your manner of love, life. Of course, that incurred by our lips and by the neck. A matter of life. You can tell how a man lives by what he says. Of course you can. Oh, that we might boldly conduct ourselves in this scene, that men may rejoice, then by their cooperation. Verse 27. Stand past in one spirit, one mind, striving to together, striving together for the faith of the God. When one speaks of striving, one thinks indeed of something, where two folk are striving one against another, but it's not one against another, it's striving together. My brethren, sister, if you will pardon me, we'll say this. We do know that pumpkin is the same, but I gather. I don't gather with them because they're the nicest of folk. Sometimes they're not. I don't care with them because they're the most hospitable of them. Because sometimes they want me to stay in hotels. I don't care with them because they're the nicest of people. Or the kindness of people. They're the most hospitable of me. I don't care with them because they're the only Christians that I've saved in my life. I care with them because after 35 years of the daily reading of the Word of God, I love them with all my heart. I love them with all my heart. I want to spend my life in seeking to serve Christ and serve them. I love them with all my heart, but I make no apology for that. I only know this. That must be a Christian that I love. If only we would strive together for the work of the Gospel more than striving against him. only we to stay here alone. No much need to dare fall into the Lord if it means long, I'll return. In my body I'll allow you to live your life after me. In my progress it will be all for thee for the furthermore of the God-man, for God may it glorify you, a sinner to say that Christ is the devil. Now say it as I close. Now borrow the words of Harley's angriest. Holy is up to heaven's height. To feel it