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Knowing God By Jack Nattress

Now I'll just give a little introduction to what we are going to say, and we'll use various scriptures as we go along.
I know that we normally have a New Testament reading, but we'll read from the New Testament later.
Now I'd say as an introduction, if it were in the range of a human capacity to conceive a time when God dwelt alone without his creatures, we would have a grand and a stupendous idea of God.
There was a time when his creatures did not exist.
And there was a season when the sun had never run his rays nor flung his golden rays across the space to gladden the earth.
There was a time when that had not been done.
And an era when the stars, they didn't sparkle in the firmament, and there was a time when all that we now behold of God's great universe was, it was yet unborn.
It slumbered in the mind of God we could say, it was uncreated, it was non-existent.
Yet there was God.
After all, blessed forever, though no seraph sang his praises, though no mighty angel flashed like lightning across the sky to do his will, there was a time when God, in solitary, in awful splendor, we were not necessary to his being, we didn't add to his happiness.
He was self-existent, we say, if we can understand that term, and all was did exist.
Yet he sat as king on his throne, the mighty God, forever to be worshipped.
The dread supreme in solemn silence, dwelling alone in eternity.
And the light from his own countenance, forming the brightness of his glory.
God was, and God is, from everlasting to everlasting, says an Isaiah often, from everlasting to everlasting, I am God.
And when it pleased him to make his creatures, does it not strike you how infinitely the creatures he made are beneath himself?
How we are in intellect, with intelligence, in intelligence, we're infinitely beneath him.
We must admit that.
And how soon his creatures began to compare themselves with him.
How soon the devil told his lies and brought creatures down until they followed the devil who wanted to be like the Most High.
And men today have entered into the God business.
That's not my view.
I've got my own view, they say, they're entering into the God position.
And today, when we think of the majesty of the Almighty, and the power and the wisdom, and the unspeakable glory, and men use his name as a swear word, constantly, all over the world, especially in our own land.
How dreadful are his creatures for him.
The glory of an almighty God, and his name is taken so lightly.
Now, in a sense, men like Satan have sought the claim to the throne of God, yet it is
one of the objects of Jehovah to teach mankind that he is God, and beside him there is none
else, as we looked at the scriptures and saw.
And whatever God's attributes were before creation, they're the same today.
They never change.
God never changes.
But they'll remain forever.
What the Latin says semper idem, always the same.
What his attributes were before creation, they're precisely the same.
His power is undiminished.
His wisdom is undimmed.
His holiness unsullied, his veracity is immutable, and his word is forever settled in heaven.
This is the God with which we have to do.
How we should seek him, our very eternal existence, is utterly dependent upon him.
Now, the gradual disappearance of the knowledge and feeling of majesty in the church is a
sign of danger, and it is.
We heard of one church this morning where sort of liberal men are able to form their
own opinions, and they don't take the almighty's word as the word of God.
Some of it is to them.
We hear it everywhere, and our God has now become a servant.
Men think he's a servant to wait on their will.
They will do this, they will do that, when it pleases them.
Some have heard the gospel, I know that men have heard the gospel hundreds of times and
men have calmly said, when it suits me, I'll come to the Savior.
This mighty God.
Now we say the Lord is, we sometimes say that word wrong.
The Lord is my shepherd, we say, and that's not what we ought to say.
We should say the Lord is my shepherd, and there's a world of difference between the
two statements, and the church has surrendered a once lofty concept of God and has substituted
for it a concept so low and so ignoble as to be unworthy of thinking, worshipping men.
They speak about him up there.
They speak about all sorts of things, and now that the God that very often that is peddled
in pulpits everywhere in all forms of churches is not worthy of the worship of sensible thinking
men.
The sovereignty of God may be defined as the exercise of his supremacy, and one of his
letters to Erasmus, who was the great humanist, the great intellectual man of the 1500s, Luther
said, your thoughts of God are too human, and it could be said today in many cases.
And probably this great scholar Erasmus, he resented such a rebuke from the son of a common
minor.
He probably resented, and the same charge could be pictured against the vast majority
of our preachers today and against those who instead of searching the scriptures for themselves
lazily accept men's teachings.
No man is to accept the teachings of another.
He must have this Bible in hand, and when I'm preaching or any other man on earth is
preaching, we must compare it with the scriptures, because if they speak not according to this
word, the Bible says there's no light in them.
We are to be healthy in our minds, and we are to consider, and thank God for people
who tell us the truth.
Thank God when they speak, when they speak on any manner of preaching, expository or
any other kind, with their Bible in their hand, our wonderful ideas, and we are to listen
to them, but we still in our hearts are to compare it with the word of God.
Now to countless thousands, the God of the Bible is unknown.
Even professing Christians know little of him.
I say that with order.
Countless thousands.
Men imagine that the Most High is moved by sentiment rather than principle.
His pure, eternal, holy principles.
If God, if we could say that he is governed, it is by those, not by the sentiments of man,
and the low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause
of a thousand evils amongst us and the world.
The low view of God.
Went into his shop once, and a young woman behind the counter, who for years and years
and years been in the church, where the gospel was truly preached, and I asked this young
woman, how are you going, how are you growing?
She says, I'm alright, I've got a good job, I says, you know I do not mean that.
I says, how are you going spiritually, she says, you're talking about him up there.
She said like that.
What a concept of God, him up there, and how awful, just the kind of thing that we have,
and a brand new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error
of Christian thinking.
He is infinitely above the highest creature.
He is the most high Lord of heaven and earth, subject to none, influenced by none.
God does as he pleases, and only as he pleases, always as he pleases, none can hinder him.
He says, my counsel shall stand, I will do all my pleasure.
We have that in Isaiah 46, 10.
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times of things that are not yet
done, saying, my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure, God says.
He doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven, we have this in Daniel, and amongst
the inhabitants of the earth, none can stay his hand.
We're dealing with an irresistible God, whose power is awful.
Daniel 4.35, God is God, in fact as well as in name.
You see, it's not only in name, it's actual fact.
He is God, and he is on the throne of the universe, directing all things and working
as Ephesians 1.11 tells us, working all things after the counsel of his own will.
And isn't it wonderful?
When I think of those scriptures, I think it's wonderful, because this is the God with
whom we have to do, the unchangeable God of unchangeable power.
And can't we put our confidence and trust in such a way?
God's name, as it is said out in the word, is both a glorious name, full of majesty,
and also a gracious name, full of mercy.
As I, last week for the first time, for many months or even years it could be, I had a
bit of time on my hands trying to orient myself in the change in my position, instead of going
to work constantly.
And I did go down the street a number of times and look around, and trying to settle myself
in this new position, new state, I find myself.
But I'll tell you what I didn't find.
All through the streets of Newcastle, all through the business places and with the men,
no knowledge of God, no word of God, no thought of God, anywhere.
The streets are bereft, absolutely.
The shops and the literary places, no word or sign of God.
In a sense that God is erased from the hearts and minds of the people as much as our modern
world can do.
No sign or anything that a God exists, and if you think for a moment, I believe that
you'll agree with me.
The mighty God, the God of the universe, the eternal God, whose name should be everywhere
in our hearts and voices and in our printing and everywhere.
In the world our city is saying, no God for me, and I can't help but think what a mighty,
wonderful task that we have to make our God known as much as a little church and community
can in every possible way, especially by the press, by the printing and by the word.
Unknown God there in our city.
Now his sovereignty is gloriously displayed in his eternal decrees and temporal providences.
His sovereignty.
No matter what happens, we have a dry time, but God sends the rain in time.
He still looks after his creation, still feeds his people, still looks after good nations
and evil nations, good men, bad men and indifferent men, Christians and others, God and his providence,
still looks after them, patient.
Now the carnal mind, that's the earthly mind, it sees God in nothing, nothing at all, not
even in spiritual things, but the spiritual mind sees him in everything, even in carnal
and natural things.
The true Christian sees God in everything, and his fearful justice has shown in the hell
of the dam.
We've got to remember this.
His justice will be shown one day in the hell of the dam, and his wise and powerful providences
manifest throughout the whole world with his gracious love and mercy in and unto his
church, his believing people here on earth.
His wise counsels, his loving kindness and mercy is exercised on a particular class of
people that's termed his church, his saved ones.
Now the world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God, and the church is famishing
for one of his presence, the church itself.
And there are people who wander into churches, who look and hope that they might see something.
I've repeated once before that Gendai, that many of you might know him very well or heard
of him, he was a leader of India, and in a sense although a heathen man, they considered
him a holy man.
So one time he went down and had a look at the Christian's religion, he thought that
he'd have a look to see if there was an answer for his darkened soul.
Went down and lived with them for a week or two, to a missionary set up in India.
And he left with these words, he says, I go back to my Krishna God, I know no other.
But he said, if the people here, if the people in this Christian establishment lived as they
speak and preach from their Bible, he said, I would believe that their God was real, but
their lives didn't match up to it, and it was actually, it was a Methodist mission.
And he considered it to be quite as ungodly as his own.
Now to most people, God is an inference, infer something that there is a God, he's just a
mere inference, not a reality.
He's a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate.
People just consider the evidence they've got and they deduct from that, well they must
be a God, that's all.
And he remains personally unknown to the individual, and for millions of people, he is not real.
The God of the Bible, whom we must know.
And quoting again from the text that we began with our series of meetings, this is life
eternal, that we know Jesus Christ, that we know the true God, Jesus Christ, whom he has
sent.
And to be saved, we have to know him, and as I repeat that statement to millions and
to hundreds of thousands in our own land, he is not real, not real.
And when we think seriously, we are confronted with the overwhelming majesty of God and the
priority of worship.
When we consider seriously, we realize that we should worship this eternal mighty God
with whom we have to do.
Why every thinking man that touches his Bible or reads it at all must realize that one day
at the end of the earth, when the judgment has come, when the great white throne judgment
has come, that he alone must stand in that awful presence and give account of himself.
Must stand.
It is appointed unto man once to die, but that's not the end of the sentence.
The rest of it says, and after this, the judgment.
Now then we must think again of the immense privilege of communion with Christ, the privilege
of being in fellowship with God in Christ, the immense privilege, and the incredible
wonder of being a Christian.
If you're not assured that you're a Christian, why don't let the night pass, don't let the
day pass.
Once I remember speaking to a school teacher and at first he was very angry and then he
seemed to be reconciled to the word and he said, what must I do?
What should I do?
And at the time, I don't know, I must have been a very, not a very good witness or something,
but anyhow what it said, God took my severe and harsh words.
I said, you see the row of trees under there?
There's no one there.
Go out and make your peace with God like a man should do and behold he did.
He did just that and that's what we all ought to do when we hear the message of God through
Jesus Christ our Lord, make our peace with God and don't put the time off, now is the
day of salvation.
Now I speak of the incredible wonder of being a Christian and the danger of anything superficial
in our church life or our practice, the extreme danger.
In Revelation 3 it tells us of these terrible words when our Lord said, I know thy works.
He said, thou art neither hot nor cold and God speaking said, I would that thou art either
hot or cold.
So then because thou art neither cold nor hot and he uses that terrible term I will
spew the out of my mouth.
Only God could use such a tremendous term and with our loss of the sense of majesty
has come the further loss of religious or consciousness of the divine presence and this
is what we need.
This is what we need in our homes, a sense in the awe of the divine presence.
We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in
adoring silence.
When God says be still and know that I am God it's speaking of this adoring and worshipful
silence.
Over against all this cloudy vagueness stands the clear spiritual doctrine that God can
be known by personal experience.
He can be known.
These things are now manifest.
They are made known and Christ come for that purpose that the God that we were separated
from by our sin, by our utter darkness and evil nature that God now can be real to the
Christian, to the true Christian.
A loving personality dominates the Bible.
When you read this Bible it's full of gracious invitations, full of wondrous and gentle promises
and when you read the Gospels and you read our Saviour's attitude toward people it's
truly wonderful.
Stretch forth thine arm he said, Lazarus come forth, come unto me all ye that lay back,
my peace be upon you and all the wonderful gentle messages of a Saviour.
And this personality, this loving personality come from heaven to show us the spiritual
excellencies and the glory of God.
He came to show us the God who was unknown, learn of me Christ said not only by precept,
not only by what is written but by example, by his own perfect example of the Father's
attitude to his own and of course you get that in Matthew 11 29, come unto me all ye
that lay back.
The call to come to him, the personal call from God's throne through the Lord Jesus
to come to him, resisted, put off, suppressed by so many that continually hear the word.
Learn of me Christ said, for I am meek and lowly of heart.
He showed us what those graces really are.
He did not associate with the noble and the mighty, he didn't go to the palaces, I don't
read in the gospels where he went to the palaces, the only time he went to Herod's palace was
when he was permitted himself to be a captive and a prisoner with an armed guard, it was
the only time that I read where he went to the palaces.
He did not come to associate with the noble and the mighty but he made fishermen his ambassadors
and sought out the most depressed, learn of me he said, for I am meek and lowly of heart.
He came to ordinary people like you and I, needy people, ordinary people, he didn't come
to the great ones and the meekness of Christ appeared in the readiness to become the head
of his people, to assume our nature and to bring in being subject to his parents, young
ones here ought to remember and think of the fact that the Lord of glory was subject perfectly
to his parents.
In submitting to the order of baptism he submitted to everything, to the law of God and his entire
subjection to the Father's will he made no retaliation and I wonder if people here make
retaliation to the word of God in many cases.
And then finally he freely laid down his life for others, freely laid light when his disciples
said not to go to Jerusalem, they seek to kill them, it says the bible infers that he
set his faint face like a flint, wouldn't be moved and went to Jerusalem knowing that
he was going to lay his life down for us.
We must learn of him, not how to become great or self important, we're not learned that
out of the bible, but how to deny self, the old selfish nature, to become tractable and
gentle, to be servants, not only his servants but also the servants of our brethren.
This is the kind of church that we want to see, where we serve one another as Christ
served us.
And why do the very ransomed children of God know so little of that habitual communion
with God which the scriptures seem to offer?
All through the psalms, the psalms cry unto the God that they knew.
They argued with God, they pleaded with God, they put their statements before God because
they knew him and they knew him well.
And then when we come through the ages like men in the reformation, we come to great men
like there were many of the Puritans and Luther and different ones, they knew their
God.
They could speak to him and they derived their power from him.
And later on through the ages, many, many Christians, many thousands unknown of actual
communion with God, they know their God.
And we might ask one another, do we know our God?
You know the answer is our chronic unbelief.
When I speak of chronic, when we say we have a chronic disease, we have a dangerous one.
We have a disease that's very hard to cure and it's very serious.
Our chronic belief, God and the spiritual world are real, but sin has clouded our hearts
that we cannot see.
In many cases, sin, unbelief, worldliness, carelessness, the great unseen reality is
God.
And as we begin to focus on God, the things of the spirit will take shape before our eyes.
As when we think and meditate on the great glory of God and what he has done for us,
these spiritual things, our eyes will become enlightened.
We've got to do this, we've got to meditate.
Obedience to the word will bring an inward revelation of the Godhead.
In John 14, 21 to 23, we might turn there.
He says, he that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me and
he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him, will manifest, make myself
known to him.
New to sayeth unto him, this is not scary, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself
to us and not unto the world?
Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he will keep my words and my Father
will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.
You see, obedience is involved, belief and faith are involved.
A new God consciousness will seize upon us and will begin to taste and fear and hear
the God who is our life and all, for it is written, the Bible writes, it tells us in
him we live and move and have our being, in him.
God will become to us the great all and his presence, the glory and wonder of our lives.
Goodwin says, my brethren, when God began to love you, he gave you all that he ever
meant to give you in the one lump and eternity of time is that in which he is going to retell
it out to you.
How wonderful, when you come to him first, he gave you everything that you ever needed
for life and eternity and all eternity is going to reveal that wonderful thing.
Now in the Lord Jesus, God reveals himself, he shows himself not to reason, not to reason,
not this rational thinking, but to faith and love, faith and love.
Faith is an organ of knowledge and love an organ of experience, it's experiential, not
a dead thing, it's alive and a happy thing and God came to us in the incarnation, that
is when God became man at the birth of Christ.
In atonement, he reconciled us or brought us together with God in the atonement, brought
us together and by faith and love, we lay hold of him, it's not a cold thing.
Have we got that faith and love to lay hold of him?
Love and faith are at home in the mystery of the Godhead.
Let reason kneel in reverence outside, that is to try and reason it up.
Satan's first effort or first attack upon the human race was his sly effort to destroy
his confidence in the kindness of God and he said, hath God said, hath God said.
Jeremiah 31-3, our Lord says, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with
loving kindness have I grown, an everlasting love.
In John 4-9, in this was manifest the love of God toward us because that God sent his
only begotten son into the world that we might live through him.
And by the quickening of my spirit, by the irresistible power of my grace, by creating
in you a deep sense of need, by making you willing in the day of my path, the Lord enters
into an everlasting covenant with the saved soul.
This kindness is never removed from his children, to our reason it might appear to do so, yet
it never is.
The kindness of God our savior has never removed.
He says that in the, reiterates it in the promise in the New Testament, I will never
leave thee nor forsake thee.
In Isaiah 54-10, it says, for the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed but
my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my power be removed
saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
And from earliest times men have had a false concept of God.
This is what we've got to fight against in our souls.
This is how we've got to help one another.
We've seen of it a false concept of God.
And the God of the Pharisees for example, these religious fanatics of our Lord's time,
these Pharisees are supposed to be religious with their great phylacteries and long prayers
and ornamentation and all of their words.
He was not an easy God to live with, their God wasn't he?
And from a failure to properly understand God comes a world of unhappiness amongst Christians
today, not understanding God.
The Christian life is thought to be a weary, unrelieved, cross bearing under the eye of
a stern father who expects much and excuses nothing.
Many Christians have that attitude.
The truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings, if I can use that word, and
his service one of unspeakable pleasure, unspeakable delight.
He takes away the weariness and he puts a delight in the heart.
The Christian life is a wonderful life and people think for some strange reason that
it's stern and forbidden.
He loves us for ourselves, not for our works, for ourselves, and he values us more than
a galaxy of new created worlds.
When that scripture is before us, what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world
and loses his own soul?
Well written in the originals like an equation and it puts the world there with all its glories
and it puts one soul at this side, one soul, and the equation is that this soul is more
than equal to all the glories of the world.
So you are precious to God, each particular living soul has come and under the Lord Jesus
can be an eternal soul and delight to him.
Don't think, don't say in your heart, I'm of no consequence.
God doesn't say that at all.
He says that you're of tremendous consequence because you've been given an eternal nature.
You've got to spend eternal destiny in one place or another.
Now how good it would be if we could learn in our hearts that God is easy and wonderful
to live with.
I'm just using simple, homely terms of course.
There has come into modern times a new cross, into popular evangelical circles, a new sort
of a cross, and from this new cross has sprung a new philosophy of the Christian life, a
new technique, a new type of meeting, and a new kind of preaching that's come.
The old cross had no fellowship with the world.
Galatians 2-20 tells us, the apostles said, I am crucified unto the world and the world
is crucified unto the world.
He says that world is dead to me and I am dead to that world, but this is not what's
preached today.
Now for Adam's proud flesh it meant the end of the journey, the end of the old nature,
the end of this intricate, personal, selfish life.
It was the end of it, the old message, the gospel message.
The new cross, if understood correctly, had meant oceans of good, clean fun and innocent
enjoyment.
There's plenty of it.
The pictures show some religion, some religious shows of course.
The beach on the Lord's days, fine, plenty of good, clean sport, eh, maybe an odd glass
of wine.
Free grace, you know, delivered from the law, grand, isn't it, completely defray.
There's a new message, no power in it, it's not real, that the Bible thunders that unless
a man forsake all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
No man can serve two martyrs.
He'll either love one and hate the other, hate one and despise the other.
And these sort of people, under this new message, they seek the pleasures of two worlds.
And it's grand to serve two masters, ride two horses at the one time and travel two
directions at the same time.
Of course, you know, as I'm speaking, it's impossible and it's an absurdity.
No price has been paid and there's no reality in it, it's not what God says.
But the new message that gives all of those things, tells men that they're free, they're
no longer under the law of God, quite free, literally to live as they like.
But God thunders down and this is a slippery path and to all those he says in due time,
your feet shall slide.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste, nor has he embraced the methods of our machine age.
I don't think we can gear up a gospel and a new gospel or a new methods, a new ways.
He's never geared.
He says, I am the Lord, I change not.
The man who would know God must give time to him.
Now there's a serious thing in our modern age, in our modern nervous machine age.
We're going to give time to God.
All of God's acts are consistent with all his attributes.
For example, God's love must not be interpreted to deny that he is just.
If man continually speak of the love of God, let that man remember that he is also a just
God.
We cannot press the doctrine of his goodness to contradict his holiness or even to understand
the sovereignty of God in a way that destroys or at least greatly diminishes his goodness
and grace.
We've got to hold things in a careful balance, the attributes of the almighty, and we can
hold a correct view of God and his truth by daring to believe everything God has said
about himself.
This is what faith is, laying hold of these scriptures and believing what God has said.
It is a serious matter when men delete from his self-revelation such features as he in
his ignorance considers to be objectionable.
Many men think today that we've got a nation that hates the election of God, that hates
his predestination, that hates his absolute sovereignty, but doesn't like that, but objects
to it.
I was in one church that a man proposed to the elders of the church where they would
delete the word election even when it occurred in the Bible, and it's a good evangelical
church, I hope it is anyhow, but that was an objection.
We can't delete from the Bible those things that we think are objectionable because they
are actually good for our souls, and what peace it brings to the Christian's heart to
know that our Heavenly Father never changes.
It's a wonderful thing to think that God never changes, and the promises that he reiterates
in his Bible over and over again about our salvation are true and faithful and God will
never change.
If he promises to keep his children, his promise will never fail.
When he says, my sheep hear my voice, I know them and they follow me and I give unto them
eternal life, he means that, he never changes, he never changes.
And he is always receptive to misery and need, and when we have misery and when we have need,
remember God's receptive, as well as to love and faith.
He does not have office hours when he will see no one, God's not like that.
Go to great men in the town, very often you can't see them, you're not permitted even
to ring them up.
Neither does he change his mind about anything.
He never changes moods or loses enthusiasm or cools off, we do sometimes don't we?
We're very enthusiastic at times and then we cool off a little, God doesn't.
God will not compromise and he need not be coaxed, we needn't plead in a desperate way
with God.
He said, I am the Lord, I change not.
We have to meet his clearly stated terms, and are we in our hearts prepared to do this?
He cannot be persuaded to alter his word, nor talked into answering selfish prayers.
In all our efforts to find God, to communicate with him, we should remember all change must
be on our part.
We are the people who are to change toward him, because he never changes.
We should remember this, how completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to God who has
none.
There's no limitations, and it's wonderful, he'll answer your every need.
Eternal years lie with him, for him time does not pass, it remains.
God never hurries, there are no deadlines against which he must work.
We have sought the deadlines we put in front of us, we've got to work on them.
Other people if we're in business want this done on a certain time, and we are so used
according to our nation, our mentality that we think that sometimes we think God has deadlines.
Not so.
And if we know this thoroughly, it will quieten our spirits and relax our nerves, which we
need to do.
For those out of Christ, those who are not saved, time is a devouring beast.
It's devouring carefully their opportunities day by day.
Now faith is not difficult.
It is like God, God, to make the most vital things easy.
Now our mighty God, knowing us, knowing our frailties, has made the wondrous things that
we're speaking about, he's made them easy to us.
God wouldn't make them difficult to us.
That's not his nature.
The vital things, they're easy, and he places it within the range of the weakest and the
poorest of us.
Let's put it right there, with the weakest of us.
As sunlight falls on the open field, so the knowledge of God is a free gift to men who
are open to receive it.
But the knowledge has this difficulty.
There are conditions to be met.
And the optional nature of fallen man does not take kindly to the conditions of repentance.
And what a heavy, tremendous task we have as a church to make God known.
For a wide, far and wide, his power, his wisdom, his saving grace, the true God.
What a tremendous task that we have.
What a wonderful task.
Even though that we are few, if we set our hearts and minds to make God known through
our beloved Savior, I believe that God will be with us mightily, if we meet the conditions
to be wholehearted.
Finally, if it would take seven years to tell a man how to be saved, he'd probably listen
to us.
If we told a man or a woman they ought to walk barefooted from Melbourne to Newcastle.