1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:11,839 Speaker 1: Tonight's subject is the man within. The man within is 2 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:25,839 Jesus Christ. So how will I know that Jesus Christ 3 00:00:26,039 --> 00:00:34,280 really is within me? I hope to write to make 4 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,880 it just as plain and as clear as I possibly can. 5 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,640 I hope I tell you this, because last Monday night 6 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,439 I thought it was Claire. And the next day I'm 7 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,719 very dare afraid of mine called me and tell me 8 00:00:53,799 --> 00:00:58,880 that her pone had been busy all morning. There's so 9 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:04,879 many who've been coming over the years, were disturbed. It 10 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,879 was not clear to them, something said, simply disturbed, And 11 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,840 she herself was disturbed by an answer I gave to 12 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:20,000 some question asked after the meeting. I thought I had 13 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,480 made it player for tonight again. I hope I can 14 00:01:24,519 --> 00:01:31,920 make it Claire, how do I know that he is 15 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:37,280 within me? Or? Here? Let me first turn to a 16 00:01:37,359 --> 00:01:43,400 small little poem of Blake. It's called a Little Boy Lost. 17 00:01:46,519 --> 00:01:55,120 You'll find it in songs of experience. Not love another 18 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:08,599 as itself, nor venerates another. So nor is it possible 19 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:16,639 for thought a greater than itself to know? And God, 20 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:24,360 how can I love you or any of my brothers more? 21 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,120 I love you like a little bird that picks up 22 00:02:29,199 --> 00:02:34,599 crowds around the door, and when the priest heard this, 23 00:02:35,479 --> 00:02:38,759 he went into a rage and took the little boy 24 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,840 by his hair and led him up to the altar's 25 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:57,919 high and burnding, as he had Mary burned before. Here 26 00:02:58,439 --> 00:03:04,800 it is impossible for men are greater than himself to know. 27 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,520 So if I would know God, and God is greater, 28 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:18,039 then God has to become me that I may discover 29 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:24,879 myself as God. There is no possibility of my knowing 30 00:03:26,479 --> 00:03:32,280 greater than myself. Therefore, if the Lord God, who created 31 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:38,280 the universe, is greater and he wants me to know him, 32 00:03:39,439 --> 00:03:44,159 I can know no greater than myself. Therefore God becomes 33 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:48,680 as I am, that I may be as He is. 34 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:54,680 So Paul tells us in his letter to the Galatians, 35 00:03:55,439 --> 00:04:03,159 I have been crucified with Christ. I no longer live. 36 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:09,199 It is not I but Christ who lives in me 37 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,719 and the life I now live in the flesh. I 38 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:21,439 live by the faith of the Son of God, who 39 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:29,759 loved me and became me. He wanted my love, but 40 00:04:29,879 --> 00:04:35,879 I couldn't love something greater than myself, not loves another 41 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,199 as itself. Now I know the so called holy people 42 00:04:40,199 --> 00:04:42,399 of the world will scream like the priests in the 43 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:48,000 little poem, because they're not honest with themselves. All they 44 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 will say, I love my country, so I'll die for 45 00:04:51,079 --> 00:04:54,759 it is to draft me, and I have no choice 46 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:58,480 in the matter. And I love so and sos all 47 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,759 die for him, and all the pull up, and no 48 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,120 one really looks right into the mirror of his own 49 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:10,360 mind and is honest with himself. But Blake was not 50 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:21,399 loves another as itself, nor venerates another soul. Nor is 51 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:27,439 it possible for thought a greater than itself to know so? 52 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,600 Or Father, you want my love, well, then you've got 53 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,680 to become me, because I don't know you. I can't 54 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,879 know anything greater than myself. So would I know you? 55 00:05:39,199 --> 00:05:43,000 Will then become me, and then let me discover you 56 00:05:43,079 --> 00:05:48,759 as myself. I'm dis covering self. So he plopped and 57 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,879 planned the whole thing. When he became me, he brought 58 00:05:51,959 --> 00:05:57,160 the plane within himself. And then as I discoverself, I 59 00:05:57,319 --> 00:06:02,360 discover it through the plane, and I reveal myself as 60 00:06:02,519 --> 00:06:07,240 he who became me. So this is the mystery of 61 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:13,040 discovering this in a man. I am crucified with Christ. 62 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:19,000 It's the past century I have been for that is over. Now. 63 00:06:19,079 --> 00:06:21,680 Anyone who teaches Paul tells us as he said it 64 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:26,000 in his second letter to Timothy. Anyone, and they're those 65 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,839 who teach that the resurrection is over and passed. They 66 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,319 are upsetting the faith of self. It is not over. 67 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:40,240 It has started. It's continuing, but it's not over. It's 68 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,480 taking place in all in whom he became, and he 69 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,040 became all for he chose us in himself before the 70 00:06:48,079 --> 00:06:52,480 foundation of the world, and then came the descent. Now 71 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,720 let me illustrate it with a picture of Blake. You 72 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,319 might have seen this. I have it at home. It's 73 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,600 a fifteen by twelve forced not quite fifteen, not buy 74 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,480 twelve unfortun the mine is black and white. Is simply 75 00:07:08,959 --> 00:07:12,759 the ladder of Jacob. While Jacob is lying flat on 76 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,000 his back, eyes closed, head turned to the right, and 77 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,680 resting lightly on his shoulder. But the arms are outstretched 78 00:07:21,319 --> 00:07:24,319 in the fall of across. And here he is stretched 79 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:28,720 out flat on his back, and then arms stretched out 80 00:07:28,879 --> 00:07:34,879 in the fall of across. Then comes the dream, and 81 00:07:34,959 --> 00:07:40,839 he has the ladder drawn in a circular stirway. The 82 00:07:40,879 --> 00:07:46,600 whole ladder is a circular stairway. Under those descending and ascending, 83 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:49,560 has told us. In the twentieth chapter of the Book 84 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,199 of Genesis, it is said in one of the ancient manuscripts, 85 00:07:54,279 --> 00:07:58,040 it was the god that God's descending and ascending. But 86 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:03,079 that's the E. Because the only have three manuscripts, the E, 87 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:07,720 the J, and the P. The E manuscript has it 88 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:12,120 the gods ascending and descending. The others have the angels 89 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,920 of God. But call it what you will. The gods 90 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,120 ascending and descending. All the gods descending are bringing something. 91 00:08:23,319 --> 00:08:25,759 One has a basket on its head. I try with 92 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:28,319 my magnifying glass to see the contents of the basket, 93 00:08:28,399 --> 00:08:30,720 that you could see something in it. But what it 94 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:35,159 is I do not know, but a wicker basket. One 95 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,480 has a picture on his right shoulder, a beautiful picture 96 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:44,120 that poles were fluid. It'slike Rebecca at the well, that 97 00:08:44,279 --> 00:08:50,320 beautiful picture. One has a scroll, one has the like 98 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,840 a vold. But each coming down has something, a talent 99 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,759 they're bringing down into this world. But each going up 100 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:03,919 has a child. Here is a little child on the shoulder, 101 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,960 a child in the arms, a little child being held 102 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:12,360 by the hand and being laid Each has a child 103 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,360 on the ascent. But all have a talent on the 104 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:25,200 way down. That is Blake's wonderful picture of Jacob's ladder. 105 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,679 Now here. Let me share with you what was given 106 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:39,720 to me this past week my friend Bill McGan. He said, 107 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,519 I have found myself. This is only a week ago 108 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,679 that he had this experience. I found myself in a 109 00:09:44,759 --> 00:09:48,399 dream that I was lying at the base of a 110 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:55,279 huge tree. Above me, up the roadway was an enormous dog, 111 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,759 a big dog, and it was barking at me. But 112 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,279 it was leased to a post, and I said to myself, 113 00:10:03,759 --> 00:10:09,679 I am all right because my friend has him. Then 114 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,960 I looked up and I couldn't see the form, but 115 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:18,240 here was the outline of a fiery being of light. 116 00:10:19,919 --> 00:10:23,559 And he started down with the door, and the dog 117 00:10:23,639 --> 00:10:26,240 in heat came down. I still could not see the 118 00:10:26,279 --> 00:10:30,159 actual form, but there was an outline of this fiery 119 00:10:30,279 --> 00:10:33,639 being of light. And as he came down there went 120 00:10:33,759 --> 00:10:41,480 past me. Then he unleashed the door and then melted 121 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,279 into me. At that as he melted into me and 122 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,399 became me, then I thought to myself, I must now 123 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,840 get up as fast as I can, and like lightning, 124 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,919 I ran up to the very falkners point and there, 125 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,240 I sayed to myself that the dog started after me. 126 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,440 I am now in the top room, and so I 127 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:09,039 am safe. The dog came. And as the dog came in, 128 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,840 he came over and licked me on the face. And 129 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:17,399 then I woke feeling thrilled beyond measure because I knew 130 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,600 it had tremendous significance. Well, Bill, if you haven't read 131 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:27,639 The Hound of Heaven, do so. Francis Thompson, it's a 132 00:11:27,759 --> 00:11:33,720 very small, tiny little poem. It's considered his best. Some 133 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,519 people think it is the best thing ever written. I don't, 134 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:40,720 but I think it's perfectly marvelous. It's the hung of Heaven, 135 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:45,679 which is klim, But the hung of Heaven is God, 136 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:51,960 It's God himself. He started off in these words. I 137 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:56,919 fled him down the knights and down the days. I 138 00:11:57,039 --> 00:12:01,279 fled him down the arts of the years. I fled 139 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:05,559 him down the labyrinthine ways of my own mind, and 140 00:12:05,639 --> 00:12:11,039 in the midst of tears I hid from him under 141 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:18,200 running laughter. Then the hunt continues as he is running. 142 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,320 And in the very end their voice now is the 143 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:27,399 hand of Heaven, which is God and speaks to him. 144 00:12:27,639 --> 00:12:34,600 And that our fondest, blindest, weakest I am he whom 145 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:40,480 thou seekest, thou bravest love from THEE who braveth me. 146 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,600 And that how it ends. It is simply the pursuit 147 00:12:45,639 --> 00:12:49,120 of God. What is he seeking me seeking your love? 148 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:54,600 For he cannot receive my love that he wants unless 149 00:12:54,639 --> 00:12:57,759 he who had into the love becomes me. For I 150 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:03,399 am incapable of knowing a thing greater than myself. So 151 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:07,799 he who is the greater must become me, actually becoming. 152 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,399 If he would have my love, that would satisfy him. 153 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,879 For if God is infun of love, he is a lover, 154 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,759 and a lover without a beloved is unthinkable, so he 155 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:23,240 needs to beloved. So Vie told I no longer call 156 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:28,360 you slaves. I call you friends. For a slave does 157 00:13:28,399 --> 00:13:33,559 not know what his master does. So now you are 158 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,000 my friends, he said, For all that I have heard 159 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,759 from my father, I have made known unto you. So 160 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:45,879 here he becomes as I am, that I may be 161 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:51,759 as he is. So in the descent he brought me 162 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,720 downe with him, and I went through all the fires, 163 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,120 all the afflictions, all the tears, all of everything. But 164 00:14:00,159 --> 00:14:04,919 I could not begin the ascent until I was born again. 165 00:14:06,799 --> 00:14:10,559 I had to be born from above. Unless you are 166 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,039 born from above, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 167 00:14:15,879 --> 00:14:20,720 Then Nikodimus said to him, how is it possible, one 168 00:14:20,759 --> 00:14:23,279 who is old, can he enter a second time into 169 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:27,279 his mother's womb and be born? And he answered, you 170 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:31,120 a teacher of Israel, and you do not understand this. 171 00:14:32,279 --> 00:14:35,360 Except you are born from about, you cannot enter the 172 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:40,360 Kingdom of God. Now he gives him the cue, as 173 00:14:40,399 --> 00:14:43,440 the wind blows where it wills, and you hear the 174 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,639 sound of it, but you do not know when should 175 00:14:46,679 --> 00:14:50,399 come or whither it goes. So it is with everyone 176 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,480 who is born of the spirit. The spirit and the 177 00:14:53,519 --> 00:14:56,960 wind are the same word, both in Hebrew and in Greek. 178 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,720 So he tells us what is going to happen. You're 179 00:15:00,759 --> 00:15:03,639 going to hear it. They will come as a wind, 180 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,639 this fantastic wind and unearthly wind. Then you'll know this 181 00:15:08,759 --> 00:15:11,200 is it. But it is so much a part of you. 182 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,279 You don't know until after the event, when the infant, 183 00:15:15,759 --> 00:15:19,759 and so you take your input out. It's the sign 184 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,559 of your birth from above, where now you discover who 185 00:15:23,559 --> 00:15:27,600 you are. You begin to discover God, for you are God. 186 00:15:28,639 --> 00:15:33,080 But not until God actually fuse is with you and 187 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:36,000 becomes one with you. So I can say to Bill, 188 00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:42,919 Christ is now your intimate companion of your soul. He's 189 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:47,200 now within you. And now all that is said of him, 190 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:51,720 you're going to experience the birth, the resurrection, the discovery 191 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,960 of the fatherhood. All these things will happen in you. 192 00:15:55,440 --> 00:16:00,279 They must, for he is fused with you. And you 193 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,720 saw Caleb the hung of heaven, and he comes over 194 00:16:03,759 --> 00:16:06,519 as a friend. He kisses you, that's what a dog does. 195 00:16:06,559 --> 00:16:08,159 But he lets you on the face. He kisses you, 196 00:16:09,679 --> 00:16:12,720 and he kisses only his friend. So you are told 197 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,840 in scripture. In scripture, but the way it's interpreted that 198 00:16:15,919 --> 00:16:21,919 he died for sinners, he died for his friends. He 199 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:27,840 died for those that he loved. God is infinitely merciful. 200 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,440 So here man is made a living beam. But he sleeps. 201 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:39,960 We are told he's dead. But mercy turned death into sleep, 202 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:46,320 and then the sexes rose to work and weep. But 203 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,600 not until mercy turned death into sleep did the sexes rise. 204 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,440 And they rose to work and to weep until that 205 00:16:56,759 --> 00:17:05,759 birth takes place from within. There's a little poem by Roki, 206 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:11,599 and it said, behold, old man within the maiden within 207 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:23,319 you creature, one from a thousand natures, creature, only just one, 208 00:17:25,279 --> 00:17:31,039 but never as yet, Beloved, she hasn't yet brought forth 209 00:17:31,799 --> 00:17:37,759 the child in fulfillment to the prophecy that here the 210 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:43,799 Lord himself will give you a sign a maiden will 211 00:17:43,799 --> 00:17:48,279 conceive and bear a son, and she should call his 212 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:53,400 name Immanuel, which is God with us. So you brought him, 213 00:17:53,759 --> 00:17:59,200 brought her fall through a thousand natures, all the horrors 214 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:05,559 you've gone through, you suddenly discover you haven't yet reedy 215 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:10,240 turned her into your beloved. For you're told it's the 216 00:18:10,279 --> 00:18:13,680 woman from about that brings this child into beings, and 217 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,599 the woman from below brings in these the garments of 218 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,519 these things that are slave guards. But there is a 219 00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:25,119 woman in man called the Jerusalem from about, and she 220 00:18:25,279 --> 00:18:31,240 brings children into freedom. And the Jerusalem from below is Hagar, 221 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:37,839 and she brings them into slavey. So here the woman 222 00:18:38,279 --> 00:18:44,359 within you create by the life that you leave. I 223 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,279 thought it so clearly when I saw this angelic bee. 224 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,200 You never saw this beauty in your life. At the 225 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,759 same time I saw this monstrous being one was the 226 00:18:55,839 --> 00:19:00,720 result of all of my misspen energies, all my violence 227 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:05,519 went right into this monster and all of my ideals 228 00:19:06,079 --> 00:19:10,240 and my faith that I kept when I was faithful 229 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:13,039 to the vision in time of travel, they all went 230 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,240 into this noble creature. And then came that moment in 231 00:19:16,319 --> 00:19:20,960 time when both confronted me, this beauty beyond measure and 232 00:19:21,079 --> 00:19:25,000 this monster. And when I discovered that the monster was 233 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,519 my own creation, I made a pledge to myself not 234 00:19:28,599 --> 00:19:32,799 to another, a redeemon. If it took me eternity, I redeemon. 235 00:19:33,759 --> 00:19:38,599 And before my eyes he melted, and the energy returned 236 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,319 to me who had misused it. And my energy felt 237 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,000 so great at that moment. At that moment, I never 238 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:51,720 felt such intensely set power. And this one loathed, she 239 00:19:51,839 --> 00:19:55,000 thought going to be destroyed. She is the maiden within 240 00:19:55,079 --> 00:20:01,519 me who brought forth the child. So every one is 241 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:07,000 actually this story is told by Rookie. Behold or man 242 00:20:07,079 --> 00:20:13,240 within the maiden within you, creature now or now one 243 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:19,480 from a thousand natures. Now this is the inner man. 244 00:20:20,759 --> 00:20:23,799 The inner man has powers beyond the wildest dream of 245 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,559 anything on earth. So let me share with you know 246 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,599 another one for a friend of mine who heard a 247 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:34,960 knight Sharon, and he said it happened to her here 248 00:20:35,039 --> 00:20:40,559 recently she got a new edition of the book called 249 00:20:40,559 --> 00:20:45,200 The Lost and Forgotten Books of the Bible and Eden. 250 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,799 She said, I sat there and began to read from 251 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:54,839 the beginning. When I got to the thirteenth chapter, the 252 00:20:54,880 --> 00:21:00,519 third through the seven verses, suddenly I went cold. For 253 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,960 here I am reading in her books supposed to be 254 00:21:03,079 --> 00:21:06,799 the Lost Books of the Bible and Eden, and I 255 00:21:06,799 --> 00:21:09,480 am reading an experience of myself that happened to me 256 00:21:09,559 --> 00:21:13,799 when I was fourteen years old. For when I was fourteen, 257 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,000 here I sat at the dinner table with my father, mother, 258 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:21,200 and sister. My mother had occasion to go to the kitchen. 259 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,440 I could see her through the door open the refrigerator, 260 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,440 and she called from the kitchen to me, and she said, Sharon, 261 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,759 would you like a glass of milk? And I said, 262 00:21:33,799 --> 00:21:37,440 I love it, thank you. I saw for it into 263 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,920 the glass, I saw put the container back, and then 264 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,519 she came in that the moment that she offered me 265 00:21:43,559 --> 00:21:49,279 the milk. At that moment, time stood still. I looked 266 00:21:49,279 --> 00:21:52,839 at my mother and here she is completely unaware of 267 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,200 what is taking place. Not a thing has moved. It's 268 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,279 all frozen. My father, my sister was like a blur. 269 00:22:01,519 --> 00:22:09,279 But everything is frozen. And time stands still, and suddenly 270 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,319 it all began to move. My father was beginning to 271 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,279 choose something when he couldn't and suddenly continued the action. 272 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,880 My mother continued the action. My sister and I jumped 273 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,680 from the table, ran to my bedroom, threw myself on 274 00:22:25,759 --> 00:22:28,559 the bed, and I was not but I could not 275 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,400 stop the tears. I cried and cried and cried. My 276 00:22:32,599 --> 00:22:39,559 parents justified it by saying, well, teenage emotionalism. All little 277 00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:42,279 girls go through it. She's fourteen years old. Boys go 278 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,440 through it. Just a teenage explosion, she said. At the moment, 279 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,839 I thought I was crying for every one in the 280 00:22:49,839 --> 00:22:53,359 world because they didn't understand it. The world is dead, 281 00:22:55,519 --> 00:23:03,279 it's animated by the Lord Jesus Christ who became us, 282 00:23:03,839 --> 00:23:07,599 and in her she is tasting of the powers that 283 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:12,000 will be hers in the New Age. And so one 284 00:23:12,079 --> 00:23:16,319 moment that it could have been several moments, but all 285 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,880 things continued as though these moments did not stand still, 286 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,440 and to them they did not stand still. Is what 287 00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:26,880 I asked my mother recently about it is no, he is 288 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:32,880 no memory of that, just an upset, And she asked, 289 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,279 is that similar to your experience of entering into a 290 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:40,359 place in spirit when everything stood still. I said, yes, 291 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,960 it's identical with that. You tasted of the power of 292 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,559 the age to come. Now Here, he said, as I 293 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,960 read the book, I was so frosen to see that 294 00:23:54,039 --> 00:23:57,000 here recorded in what is called the Lost Books of 295 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,119 the Bible and Eden and experience of my own that 296 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,960 happened when I was fourteen, that I quickly turned the 297 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,799 whole page over and all the pages to the very end, 298 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:09,279 just to get away from it. And here before my 299 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:15,279 eyes this is what I read. A cup of milk 300 00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:23,440 was offered to me, and I drank it. A cup 301 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,720 of milk was offered to me, and I drank it 302 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:33,240 in the sweetness of the night of the Lord. The 303 00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:40,400 son is the cup. He who was milk is the 304 00:24:40,519 --> 00:24:49,839 father Old nineteen of the Odes of Solomon. Then she 305 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:56,839 underscores the thought there is no escape, No, there isn't. 306 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,960 How would you tell the world that this whole vast 307 00:25:01,079 --> 00:25:10,720 world folly is dead and we descend into it animate it, 308 00:25:11,559 --> 00:25:19,200 or we descend with Christ and we animate it. And 309 00:25:19,279 --> 00:25:21,519 the whole thing goes on and on, and we play 310 00:25:21,599 --> 00:25:26,359 our parts at intervals. As we beginning to awake, we 311 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,680 stop it, we stop a few moments of it to 312 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,640 see the whole thing is dead, and then we become 313 00:25:32,759 --> 00:25:35,640 lost in it once more, and play it again. At 314 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,880 another moment we stop it again, maybe a year later, 315 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:44,160 maybe ten years later. For I've had these moments scattered 316 00:25:44,519 --> 00:25:51,359 over the years, and it's fantastic. You almost forget that 317 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,160 you did it before, and just all of a sudden 318 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,480 you stop it again to bring back to memory the death. 319 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,640 That is fair. So when Blake speaks of this as 320 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:04,359 eat eternal, there he knows what he's talking about. That 321 00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:10,119 here it is of the passage through eternal death and 322 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:15,960 of the awakening through eternal life. So the question that 323 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,279 disturbed the other night was when my friend Jack was 324 00:26:18,319 --> 00:26:22,759 here to night as concerning the one burnt through the wound. 325 00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:27,759 For I quoted from the ninth chapter of Hebrews that 326 00:26:27,839 --> 00:26:34,000 it is given to men to die once. Then comes judgment. 327 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,480 And then we are told for Christ was offered once, 328 00:26:39,319 --> 00:26:42,839 but he shall come a second time, not concerning any sin, 329 00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:49,519 but the save those who are eagerly waiting for him. 330 00:26:49,799 --> 00:26:53,880 His return is when he awakens in us. That's his return, 331 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,039 no being coming from here from without. For if there 332 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:04,480 be a Christ other than he who is crucified on us, 333 00:27:06,039 --> 00:27:09,559 and who rose and continues to rise in us. He 334 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:14,319 is a false Christ. There is no other Christ but 335 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:21,039 the Christ who was crucified on us. He rose in 336 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,200 John Brown, in Mary Smith, in so and so. But 337 00:27:24,279 --> 00:27:29,599 he's rising and he's continued to rise until all are resurrected. 338 00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:34,319 So the reverse is through the resurrection of Christ in us, 339 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,799 as we are told in Peter, Man is born from 340 00:27:38,839 --> 00:27:41,960 about through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the day. 341 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,599 What if you are born from about? Is the resurrection over? 342 00:27:47,759 --> 00:27:50,599 You have to say no that for those who teach 343 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,240 the resurrection is fast and over are upsetting the faith 344 00:27:54,279 --> 00:27:58,160 of suf It took faith, yes, but it is taking 345 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,119 place in every one the world. And when it takes 346 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,480 place in the individual, there is no doubt as to 347 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:10,319 what happened. He found himself rising within himself. Now here 348 00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:14,799 take the story of Jacob and the Latter. He came 349 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,920 to a place. It was late, and he took a 350 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,519 stone and used it for a pillar, put his head 351 00:28:21,559 --> 00:28:24,440 upon it. Now you think a man took a little stone. 352 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,200 Every night that you go to bed, you put sure 353 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,240 being on that pillow. The skull is that stone on 354 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,599 which you rest night after night. When I lay there 355 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,720 at night, I am on the stone. Then Luvia told 356 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:44,640 he saw this ladder that was set up from earth 357 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,400 to heaven, with the gods ascending and descending on the ladder, 358 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:55,039 and the Lord God stood above it. Now it said 359 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,000 stood above it, while the word vancillated above it. Lettley 360 00:28:59,119 --> 00:29:05,720 means it actually means the highest point. For the highest point, 361 00:29:05,759 --> 00:29:09,839 the drama is taking place in me. That final or 362 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:17,279 that serpentine letder is my own wonderful back. That's how 363 00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:20,519 I go up. So the top of it is my scar. 364 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,680 So when the Lord stood at the top above it, 365 00:29:25,759 --> 00:29:31,079 where is he standing the Lord entered Death's door, my 366 00:29:31,279 --> 00:29:36,480 scar with me when I entered and laid down in 367 00:29:36,559 --> 00:29:39,480 the grave, with me to share with me my visions 368 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:45,240 of eternity, my dreams until I wake, And when I wake, 369 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,720 I will know who I am. I am he and 370 00:29:49,759 --> 00:29:52,119 I will see the living closed. This stop these things 371 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:57,359 things here but the garment which I discard. It was 372 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,319 my emanation, But now I discard it as I've begin 373 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,480 now to ascend, and in the ascent I will take 374 00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:09,279 the sign of my work. I'll take the child. So 375 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,799 in that a sense, of Blake all had the child. 376 00:30:12,599 --> 00:30:16,400 Everyone a child, and it pains into the distance. But 377 00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:19,440 you can't paint it in that form with how would 378 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,960 you paint it within a man? So you've got to 379 00:30:22,039 --> 00:30:26,039 use your imagination when you see the wonderful picture. So 380 00:30:26,079 --> 00:30:29,599 you see a man lying sat on his back, and 381 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,039 then you see this wonderful circular stairway, and you think 382 00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:35,799 it's something on the outside. It's all within himself that 383 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:41,680 the drama is taking place. So this man within is 384 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:48,000 your own wonderful human imagination. It's the awakening of the imagination. 385 00:30:49,079 --> 00:30:56,839 But if I am incapable of knowing a greater than myself, 386 00:30:57,079 --> 00:31:00,720 and there is a greater than myself, that greater self, 387 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,039 if it desires me to know him, or it it 388 00:31:04,119 --> 00:31:09,319 must become me if I would know him, For it 389 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,880 is impossible for thought a greater than itself to know. 390 00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:18,359 If I cannot know greater than myself. And there is 391 00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:20,799 a greater than myself who desires that I could know 392 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,680 him more, then let him become me, and so he 393 00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:27,799 becomes as I am, that I may be as he is. 394 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:35,000 So this is our story concerning the inner man. Don't 395 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,240 be concerned about it, don't be frightened. It's the most 396 00:31:39,279 --> 00:31:44,759 fantastic play in the world, the greatest play ever completely misunderstood. 397 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,720 When certain little isms claim that they have all the truth, 398 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:55,720 truth is an ever increasing illumination. So though I said 399 00:31:55,839 --> 00:32:00,319 in one way I said I only die once, I 400 00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:04,799 am born twice, I am born into this world, and 401 00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:09,720 that I am reborn from above, which allows me to 402 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,720 enter the other age. There are two ages altogether. But 403 00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:17,039 I can use their word die in many ways. Paul 404 00:32:17,079 --> 00:32:20,240 said I die daily, Well, he doesn't mean it in 405 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:25,640 another sense. For instance, I die daily. I die daily too. 406 00:32:26,119 --> 00:32:29,960 If I change my ideas concerning anything. If an experience 407 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:34,039 of tonight forces me to change, sometimes only a little way, 408 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:37,799 but quite awkward, a radical change of the ideas that 409 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,160 I sponsor, well, then am I honest enough to face 410 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,480 the same audience and confess the change. I must be 411 00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:48,880 that honest. If tonight, an expansion and consciousness forces me 412 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:55,279 to modify or radically change the ideas that I champion. Well, Now, 413 00:32:55,799 --> 00:32:58,720 as I spend and expand, I've got to, for I'm 414 00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:02,400 ever expanding and therefore growing and outgrowing. So Paul said, 415 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:07,039 I die every day. Blake made this statement that death 416 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:10,759 is the greatest thing in life. There's nothing like death. 417 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,680 But he said, most people die so late and take 418 00:33:16,759 --> 00:33:20,400 such an unmerciful time in dying. God knows their neighbors 419 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,079 never see them rise from the grave. Well you see 420 00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:26,799 what a different concept he had of death. He had 421 00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:29,839 an enlarge meaning for the word death. He wrote his 422 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,799 own obituary, his epithet, the year before he died, and 423 00:33:34,839 --> 00:33:39,400 this is what he said. William Blake, who was very 424 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,759 much delighted to be with good company, born the twenty 425 00:33:43,799 --> 00:33:49,119 eighth of November seventeen fifty seven in London, and has 426 00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:55,440 died several times since. Well, you read a man's epithet, 427 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,880 and that's what he said. What he was growing from 428 00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,759 the time that he became aware that the world was 429 00:33:59,759 --> 00:34:04,599 all imagination. And so one day all these scientists got 430 00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:07,319 around and they were discussing about the vastest of the universe, 431 00:34:08,519 --> 00:34:12,880 this enormous immensity of space, and the speaking of light years, 432 00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:19,000 and he said to them, it's all false. Last evening 433 00:34:19,039 --> 00:34:21,559 I went to the heath and put my finger upon 434 00:34:21,559 --> 00:34:28,880 the sky. You doubt it. I doubt the whole thing 435 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,159 is within you. The whole vast universe is contained within men. 436 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,039 All that I behold, or a pair is without. It 437 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:40,119 is within in my imagination, of which this world of 438 00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:44,079 mortality is but a shadow, And so he would have 439 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:47,519 none of it. That God is not a mathematical design, 440 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,880 a diagram. God is your own wonderful human imagination. He 441 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,719 became you that you were actually know the infinity of 442 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,480 his own being, which is your being. For unless he 443 00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:03,679 became what could you do? You could never in eternity, 444 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:10,079 no more than yourself. Not in eternity, it is impossible 445 00:35:10,159 --> 00:35:15,599 for thought a greater than itself to know. Therefore, if 446 00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:19,159 I cannot know anything greater than myself, and there is 447 00:35:19,199 --> 00:35:22,599 a greater being, and he desires me to know him, 448 00:35:23,039 --> 00:35:27,480 I can't know him unless he becomes me. And so 449 00:35:27,639 --> 00:35:31,360 God becomes as I am, that I may be be 450 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,119 as he is. And therefore from then on its only 451 00:35:35,159 --> 00:35:39,719 self discovery. So people think of discovering God. I'm discovering 452 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,920 only myself. But I will read the story. What did 453 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,079 they say of God? Well, they said he was born differently? 454 00:35:46,559 --> 00:35:50,320 In what way was he born differently? Well, the one 455 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,599 who begot him, who brought him forth, didn't know a man. 456 00:35:54,599 --> 00:35:57,719 And it is said that he conceives of the Holy Spirit. 457 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,880 And then when those came to bear witness to this bird, 458 00:36:03,599 --> 00:36:06,039 they were told a sign would be given them, and 459 00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:09,039 the sign would be a little Dave Rapkin's farming clothes. 460 00:36:09,599 --> 00:36:14,800 That would be a sign. But he was born. That 461 00:36:15,039 --> 00:36:19,840 was the sign of his birth, only a sign. Well, 462 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,880 then all of a sudden it happened, happened to you? 463 00:36:24,119 --> 00:36:27,880 Or what else did he say? He said, thou art, 464 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,559 my son, to day, I have begotten THEE who is speaking, 465 00:36:31,079 --> 00:36:35,800 the Lord God? To whom did he speak to David? 466 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,599 And David recalled it in the second Psalm. I will 467 00:36:40,679 --> 00:36:43,440 tell of the decree of the Lord. He said, unto me, 468 00:36:43,599 --> 00:36:46,000 thou art, my son, to day, I have forgotten Thee. 469 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:50,000 Then comes and explosion where in your head where the 470 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,880 whole drama takes place, And what happens. Here stands David 471 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,239 and he is calling me father, and I know I 472 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,199 am father, and there's no way to know that I 473 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,480 am God the father or of his own son calling 474 00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:07,320 me father. So he is not compromising his gift. He 475 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:12,599 gives me his entire being. Now what comes next? He 476 00:37:12,679 --> 00:37:15,719 tells me that he's going to take his own blood 477 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,440 as the sacrifice of his journey, not the blood of another. 478 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,239 And all of a sudden, the veil of your told 479 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,760 is split from the top to the bottom, And that 480 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,480 I find the veil is my own body, as told, 481 00:37:29,519 --> 00:37:33,559 as is Hebrews. And the veil he rent the veil 482 00:37:33,639 --> 00:37:36,599 from top to bottom, and the veil of the temple 483 00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:39,679 was his own flesh. That I find my own body 484 00:37:39,679 --> 00:37:43,800 split in two and parted. I see the blood, living blood, 485 00:37:44,119 --> 00:37:46,280 and I am it. For life is in the blood, 486 00:37:47,119 --> 00:37:50,559 and I am life. And life is an activity of 487 00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:54,000 my imagining. Because I have discovered it, I imagine and 488 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,760 stopped it, and things froze. I released it, and they 489 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,599 continued working. I've froze it again, and they stopped, And 490 00:38:02,679 --> 00:38:05,639 so I fused now with my own blood. I didn't 491 00:38:05,639 --> 00:38:08,599 take a blood of a bull or a goat or 492 00:38:08,639 --> 00:38:11,079 any other blood. I took my own blood. And up 493 00:38:11,119 --> 00:38:13,679 I went in the form of a serpent. And as 494 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,199 Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must 495 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,599 the son of Man be lifted up in the same serpent. 496 00:38:19,679 --> 00:38:23,000 I manna. But now I know that happened to the Lord, 497 00:38:23,519 --> 00:38:26,280 for he calls himself the son of Man. But I 498 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,639 am a son of Man, and so up I wait 499 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,280 in that manner, and then we are told of the Lord, 500 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:38,119 that it was said anyone on whom you see the 501 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,519 dove descends, that of the Holy Spirit, descend and remain 502 00:38:42,639 --> 00:38:46,800 upon him, that he the Lord's annointed, and he will 503 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:51,599 baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Well they came that 504 00:38:51,639 --> 00:38:55,559 the dove descended in bodily form, which is simply the 505 00:38:55,599 --> 00:39:00,440 form that the Holy Spirit presents, as himself say. And 506 00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:04,000 it remained and smothered me with kisses, so that I 507 00:39:04,119 --> 00:39:06,599 know that the whole drama was unfolding with in me. 508 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,360 They'll go and tell it, tell it to everyone. As 509 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,760 they turned their back upon you, I have made your 510 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,159 foreade like a flit, and so you will keep it 511 00:39:16,599 --> 00:39:20,679 and will not turn back and modify it, because they 512 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,840 will not accept it or understand it. So you keep 513 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,599 going and don't matter. It doesn't matter what they do. 514 00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:31,559 If they are like fleet, I'll make yours even more so. 515 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,039 And so let the whole world faith isn't So it 516 00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:37,480 doesn't really matter. I'm telling you the drama is not 517 00:39:37,639 --> 00:39:40,840 outside of you. The drama is injured. And that goes 518 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,400 for everything in your world. Your business is not on 519 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:49,480 the outside. Your business affairs is taking place within you. 520 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,639 You can be a success or a failure. It's all 521 00:39:51,679 --> 00:39:54,519 within you. The minuture turn on the outside and think, 522 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,840 he will help me, She will help me. They will 523 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:02,119 help me. You're lost. Doesn't need anything because he became you, 524 00:40:03,559 --> 00:40:07,280 and he's your own wonderful human imagination. That's who God is. 525 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,480 And so here when the priest took him by the 526 00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:16,639 hair and then took him up and said, what a 527 00:40:16,639 --> 00:40:20,480 fiend have we here? The little boy is not a 528 00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:23,719 little child. It's every person in the world. It's you. 529 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,920 It's me that we come to this conclusion based upondition 530 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,280 and men without vision trying to keep alive the traditions 531 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,280 of his earthly parents. He will call us a fiend, 532 00:40:36,599 --> 00:40:39,320 and if this day allows him to burn us, he'll 533 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,159 burn us. Before there were days when they were allowed 534 00:40:42,199 --> 00:40:46,840 to burn them and call them heretics. But that day 535 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,079 has passed for a moment, only for a moment in 536 00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:54,000 a circle. It come again, and they will take over 537 00:40:54,079 --> 00:40:58,679 and burnen. But those whom God afflicts for secret ends, 538 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,800 he comforts and heals and calls them friends. So the 539 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,599 miniature called a friend. That's important. And so when the 540 00:41:06,639 --> 00:41:08,920 dog came up, the hung of Heaven and kissed him. 541 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,760 He only kissed the friend, and so he's called the prind. 542 00:41:14,599 --> 00:41:21,199 So in him tonight, Christ is his intimate companion, and 543 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,760 he will never leave them, not in eternity. And so 544 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,599 he will lean against this. In time of trouble, he'll 545 00:41:27,599 --> 00:41:32,159 remember this experience. If things go wrong, he'll remember it shouldn't, 546 00:41:32,199 --> 00:41:35,760 but nevertheless it has. Therefore, I'll get back and recognize 547 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,239 the one who loves me, who not only loves me, 548 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:43,119 but he became thee. He melted into me. He took 549 00:41:43,159 --> 00:41:46,039 off the leash from the hound of Heaven, turned around 550 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,360 and melted into me, and he hasn't left me. And 551 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,519 then the hun of Heaven, who is the Lord himself, 552 00:41:51,599 --> 00:41:56,880 kissed me because he not kissed his son. But when 553 00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,280 you read a scripture've got to be so careful because 554 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,239 translation are strange. For instance, here's what I started off tonight. 555 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,280 In the King James version, they will put it in 556 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:12,960 the present tense. I am crucified with Christ. The real 557 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,880 translations is this I have been crucified. That is found 558 00:42:17,079 --> 00:42:20,400 in the revised standard version. But as we go on, 559 00:42:21,039 --> 00:42:24,760 the King James has a park Claarer expression, and it 560 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:31,159 is this the same word translated of in Son of 561 00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,239 God is the word that comes just before it, which 562 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:40,440 in the King James version is translated off, but in 563 00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:46,760 the revised stranded version is translated in as faulse or insence. 564 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:52,519 Let me pullet. I have been crucified with Christ. It 565 00:42:52,639 --> 00:42:57,400 is no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives 566 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:01,960 in me, and the life I now live in the flesh. 567 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,559 I live by the faith of the Son of God, 568 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:13,679 who loved me and became me, not my faith in him. 569 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,639 It's all the difference in the world, and the identical 570 00:43:16,679 --> 00:43:20,400 word translated of Son of God is the word that 571 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,760 precedes it. Therefore the King James version gives us the 572 00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,880 right translation, not the revised standard. It is not my 573 00:43:29,119 --> 00:43:32,440 faith in God I don't know exists. It is God 574 00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:35,840 who desires me to know of him and to love him. 575 00:43:36,039 --> 00:43:41,440 Therefore it is his faith that sustains the whole when 576 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,159 He becomes me. Now I take on this forgy of 577 00:43:45,199 --> 00:43:47,960 faith and apply it on this level in the world 578 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:54,519 of Caesar. But I am sustained by his faith, the 579 00:43:54,559 --> 00:43:58,320 faith of the Son of God, who loved me and 580 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,519 gave himself for me. How did he do it? He 581 00:44:01,599 --> 00:44:06,039 became me. He died, he forgot his infinite being, and 582 00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:10,159 took upon himself the form of this slave, the servant. 583 00:44:11,519 --> 00:44:16,320 And then I begin to expand, discovering more and more 584 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,639 of myself, which would be impossible if that greater had 585 00:44:20,639 --> 00:44:28,320 not become me. I hope that is clear, Knight. And 586 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,559 whatever I said in answer to my friend Jack's question 587 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,320 that confused a few of you, I regret it, but 588 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,920 I hope this will made it clearer.