Paul's life demonstrates God's sovereign call and meticulous preparation for ministry, transforming a persecutor into the apostle to the Gentiles. The sermon traces Paul's journey from his Pharisaic upbringing and zealous persecution of the early church, through his dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, to his extensive years of preparation including isolation in Arabia and fellowship in Antioch. The core lesson emphasizes that God equips His chosen servants through diverse experiences, including periods of obscurity and hardship, before launching them into their divine purpose. Ultimately, Paul's life serves as a powerful example of God's redemptive power and the profound impact one life, fully surrendered, can have on the world.
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We read together in the second Timothy chapter four. Second Timothy chapter four. Now we read from verse five. But watch thou in all things, endure affliction, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have followed a good point. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth it is made up for me a crime of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day And not to me only, but unto all men also that love is appearing. During this week we have been speaking about various servants of the Lord in God's school. Our God called them and created them and penned them, and then sent them under the light for us. And we have been testing some of the biographies of Holy Spirit.
Most interesting subject. I want to speak of one of the grids of the terms of God, all the apostles, the apostles of the Gentiles. I want to give a little background because the sketches are blank, and I want to show how God takes this man up, and send it forth into the great arm of the field, and I will use the devil to accomplish how to be the greatest word for God that ever has been accomplished in the sacred Samira. Now, I want to take a plank and divide it up into four parts. First of all, I want to speak of Paul in the very life of the Pharisees. And then I want to speak of Paul in his years of preparation.
And then after that, we want to look at the plank of the pioneer, pioneer church-minded. And then finally, we want to think of Paul as a prisoner from the other part of the plank. The penitent of the Apprentice, the Evangelical gives a little synopsis of his life on a five-fold wave. I don't want to occupy time and speak about that this morning, but I want to cover all his life and point out how God not only called the servant of his, but fitted him to do this mighty work, and how that mighty work was accomplished in fellowship with God. Here we have an example that could be an inspiration to every one of us, that we seek the terms of ours, and our own peers.
Dr. A.C. Robertson, a great scholar, he's considered a total reform about ten years of the Lord Jesus. In order to show authority for that, on all of his propositions, well, I think there is some reason to believe that a new form around about that time. On the daily record, I recognize that he died about eighteen fifty-four to effect the truth in the city of Rome of our lady, fifty-four. So that makes a man of fifty-four years of age when she died. Now in the first thirty-four years of the vine, he was occupied as a farmer's, farmer's tree. You want to speak about that in a moment.
On the other three series of the vine, Dick and the non-traders were occupied with about ten years each. And they were about ten years occupied in preparation for this work. Then ten years of ex-administration, pioneer work in the consular. On the final ten years of the life of March, they occupied with a prisoner. I mean, all of it that was probably a period of liberty, not that time. But on March, the last period of his life, he was a prisoner. So let's get some long figures since part of his life is portioned up. On the commencement, we want to think of them as a primacy in the early part of his life.
When the God picked up a man to do this work, he began the day of the fifth-end sermon. And as God, only God in the Dominicians, was able to see, unfortunately, the kind of work that comes to be done. We were speaking last night about God putting his hands into the Christian home and raising up a man and sending him out at the power of his work. So immediately after the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of the Lord Jesus, our mighty work needed to be accomplished. Here was the word lie in darkness to the Roman Empire. And an instrument was needed to take the Gospel throughout the confines of the Roman Empire and spread it from one end of it to the other in the shortest possible time.
For the believer in the man whom God takes the fallen hardship, We remember that that man, Saul of Tarshish, was the name of the first king of Israel. And there was a tremendous contrast between the first king of Israel, Saul. On this man, Saul of Tarshish, he was taught after that first king. And we were to compare the two lines of the tremendous contrast between the two. Both of them came from the same side, came from the final same dinner. So here was a man that God picked to carry out this wonderful work of evangelism throughout the time of the Roman Empire.
Now at one time God has prepared the work. So it was a three-fold preparation for the work that needed to be done. The first thing was the conquest of Alexander the Great. That man, a part of the young man, had a whirlwind campaign. As a result of the celebratory conquest, practically the whole world spoke the same language at that time. That was the Greek language. Now, the second thing was the conquest of Rome. And immediately Rome came into power that brought in law and order and communication. Previously, the conquest of Rome, the world was practically a chaos.
And it was something like what we found central actors when we went there thirty-seven years ago. Our only means of communication then was walking. little nine-inch fan, walking about twenty miles a day and screaming on the ground at night. So after the last war, Africa has been opened up. And while this communication throughout Africa today has been hinted that the country has been opened up to the gospel in a way that it never had before, never had been before. And so it went to the Roman Empire. When Rome came into power, Rome had surrendered on the strong hand of government and lines of communication were opened up throughout the Roman Empire through that.
So the third thing that contributed to the spread of the gospel was the Jewish dispersion. The Jews were scattered throughout the world at that time, and in practically every strategic standard in the Roman Empire, a little Jewish semi-gram had been built. And to a certain extent, they had a tremendous influence on the thinking of the people throughout the Roman Empire. Physics was a three-fold preparation. The Greek language, universal, and then communications with the Roman Empire long. And thirdly, those little speech heads have passed the money throughout the Roman Empire to the Apostle when, and for he first of all preached the Gospel before he reached the Gentile population.
So put the psalmist therein was a man, and God had an eye upon a man. In the first chapter of the Advent of the Galatians, Paul says that he was so brave from his mother's womb. Now, we were speaking about that yesterday. We believe that even a man before he stayed, when God has a life on a man, even in those years before he knows the Lord as well, we believe that God in his omniscience, he fixed his instrument and he fends him behind the scenes for the work that he has to do. Now if the Apostle Peter was the man who was responsible for opening up a gospel to the Jewish people, but as far as the Roman Empire was concerned, a man of an entirely different character was necessary to do that great work.
And the man that was chosen by God for that was Saul Arsh. Now here was a man who touched life in three ways. First of all, he was a Jew. He probably spoke the Hebrew language. As a matter of fact, we know he did. And he spoke the dialect that was spoken among the Jews of that time, Aramaic. He was a Jew. He felt as though he was a Hebrew of the Hebrews. And on that way, he refused the Jews because he was a Jew himself and he was a Pharisee. And then he had a Greek education. He was born in a Greek city of his Tarsus, that was the capital of Cilicia. On the North Capitals, the university, a Greek university, I think, a lot of people think the same that he had his education there.
He was a Greek. He spoke the Greek language. On them, the third thing, he was a Roman citizen. He tells that he was freeborn. Now we don't know how he became a Roman citizen, but he was. And in that way he was able to reach the Romans themselves. He probably also spoke the language of Rome and his Latin. So here was a man who touched life on these three ways, and this was the instrument that God takes to send forth to do this magnificent work. But in the very night for thirty-four years he found that he was a Pharisee. On the way, young and light-few was brought to Jerusalem, and he sat at the feet of L'Amelio, one of those great Jewish teachers.
And he sat there, he had his education in the law, and he was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. He later became a persecutor. On the Marines, they had a sinful, in two of the speeches, and in four of the letters, He held as what he was ranked in those areas before God reached out. He states about him ravaging the Church of God and hailing men and women, and it was before the court, on reaching out, pressing and slaughtering. On the other side, some of the eight terms that he uses in connection with it, it shows that he was a man that could have had his portrait taken with those penetrators during the time of the standings of Inquisition, or clever of his conduct.
for Judge Jeffries in England on Mary, Queen of Scots, he was a man like that, a persecutor for the fingertips, and a man that was driven on by anger and rage against the people of God. For thirty-four years this was the type of a man that he was, and while he was a man that had a magnificent education, on the day of his life in these three days that we have already spoken about, He was a man whose bitter hatred in his heart worked against God and worked against the people of God. So God must greatly reach that man. On the account, a historical account of it is given in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter nine.
Another of these magnificent accounts of conversion that we find in that section of the Acts of the Apostles. On the scene of this book, the historian, he took these great typical cases of conversion. A man from Africa, a man from Asia, and a man from Europe. He first of all, he speaks of the Ethiopian unit, and then he speaks of Saul of Kirtis, and then he speaks of Cornelius. And here these three great typical cases of conversion are picked, uninserted, and in the Acts of the Apostles, to show us how God can reach a man. Well, sometimes we think that everybody should be converted in the same way. But when we read these three typical cases of conversion, we find that God acts in a variety of ways.
So here are the persecutors, breathing out trespassings and slaughter against the people of God, and God has his own honor. Now in the three different accounts of this conversion, where he tells himself about it, he uses three words. The first word he uses is an erect, an apprehension. He tells the Buddha in the Epistle of the Philippians chapter three. He said he was apprehended. The word there again means that a policeman or a detective walking down the street and seeing one of these parishes that are wanted by the government, he laid the hand upon him on the arrest of the Lord. This was law. He laid the hand upon him on the arrest of him.
First of all, if it was an apprehension, it was an arrest. The second word that he uses in connection with it, he said it was an illumination. and he uses this word again and again too. On the line from heaven is John, it's a big dark heart, and the Son of God was revealed to him, and he believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour and the Lord. He said, Lord, what will thou have thee to do? And he said, Who are thou, Lord? And he said, Who am I to do? And he said, The Lord, what will thou have thee to do? Well, it has to have its impression, its illumination. It was it was a teamwork through his own weight and a government's life from that moment on.
The third word that he used is in connection with the revelation. It was an apprehension, it was an illumination, and then there was a revelation through his heart. So sometimes we think of a man after he saved immediately after that was the time to turn into the purpose part of the Lord. You know, I work where it is. But on the other hand, when God takes up a man in Houston and has worked very generally long years of preparation. And as far as Paul was concerned, don't go away with the idea that immediately he became the Apostle through the Gentiles. As we will take down, the different references that Paul finds at this time will find that at least ten years, possibly a little bit longer than that, was a five-fold preparation that he had to go through before his great work was inaugurated.
But first of all, we find persecution of the master. And as the result of that persecution, he has to leave. And he goes by the way out into Arabia. And there for three years, he stands in isolation in the desert in Arabia where God spoke to him. But during that time of isolation in Arabia, his mind would be adjusted on the thinking. It was brought back again to what he, so what the word of God teaches. During those three years at the back side of the bedroom, he finally went over the doctrines of the Old Testament once again, and those wonderful things that he prints out in the epithets of the Romans and in the epithets of the Galatians, at that time was the greatest of his heart.
First of all, there was a sign of persecution in Damascus, and then the signs of lack of religion in Arabia. So after he came back from Arabia, he was up to Jerusalem. He gives us a historical account of that in the first chapter of Galatians, and there we find fellowship with the elders at Jerusalem. He went up, so he might have the right hand of fellowship with the prayer there, at Jerusalem. The word of God doesn't just aim and encourage them and talk to whoever. It's what we would call today a rogue wolf, or people who follow the Holy Spirit, or people who believe in going up and not having a fellowship with anybody. You know, some things that happen in the work of the Lord, and some people who profess to have a superior brand of Christianity and guidance, they believe that they don't need anybody's help or anybody's support or anybody's fellowship.
The Word of God doesn't give any encouragement, whatever, for any man to do any of the things. And while Paul tells us that his apostleship came from the Lord himself, still he sought the fellowship of his presence. And he looked at the Jerusalem and he tells us how he interviewed the assembly and interviewed the elders of the assembly at some time in the place on a softer fellowship, on who he was given the right-handed fellowship. And then the next thing, persecution broke out again. And there's a fourth thing in connection with those years of reverberation, he was not discouraged. Others have said where he was born. On their terms, almost eight or nine years he spent in Tarshish in complete obscurity, they don't know what happened.
But I believe that the Lord had departed that in Tarshish and Tarshish, and then he was at the fifth where he was formed, that he might spend eight or nine years in that flock. And I believe that if any man goes out into the work of the Lord, the first thing returns home. We have met Jesus. We talk about going to Ham, Church, or going out into the mission field. Now, the part of doing any practical work is only concerned, they don't seem to be interested in that at all. But in practically every case where God calls them out and sends them out into these works, they first of all have to come to their own door. I was saved when I was sixteen. And Paul was immediately afterwards with a great burden laid upon my heart.
I believe there's a lot of fruit of death. The tip of God was to come on evangelize, please. I've heard a district in the northern part of Angola, where there were six tribes, their language never has been committed to writing, a place that is completely un-evangelized, and about fifteen years of age, I've heard about it, and the Lord gave it upon my heart, that I'll kindly give my life to the voice among those people who learn their languages and take the gospel through them. I've heard of one day going up to my roots. sharing God upon my knees and asking God to relieve me and guide me and show me what this little family was. And just like a boat from the blue in a front of my mind, what about the old lady next door?
You know, it was an old lady that lived next door where we were living at that time, that's it, somewhere there is. Where did the old woman come from? I don't want to describe her character as well, which is just an awful breath. And every time I get down on the knees and knock the Lord, oh Lord, I want to go on the land of the knees. And the fall of it, it's there right between the eyes. Jesus talked to the Lord, going down there. What about the old lady next door? You know, I couldn't get over it until one day, very scramblingly, I stood a few times for tears in my pocket and I came down the stairs. I will put this door in a background, a little garden, and go on the pantry to say, to the old lady pot when I'm off the door.
You know, many a time when I ask it, will we meet a lion? I'm not going to give an lion. Sometimes when seeing a lion, you know, inside there aren't two to five, three to five, five, and you're standing there with your son. And you'll want to put him on the right foot and say, it's not a very easy thing for to meet a lion on a fence. But as I stood at that door that day, and as I looked at the old lady's footsteps coming down the hall, my hand just pointing at, oh yes, and I read, of that air that heat coming down the hall. Now she opened the door, and she had a hard, as big as a heart of granite, and she looked at me and said, what do you want?
Well, I didn't listen to him, though. I see those, the Lord is sending me out to answer to the feast of lust over the evening. I feel those that have done my thing to trip, unless I can do it right here in my own room. And so the Lord is very hard to say. Well, he said, go ahead. And I'm sure that I told her, if I already hopped in the way, and I'm already standing in the way, I don't know how that says, but I'm going to tell her anyway, how does the Lord has saved me and how she would have said, I would have saved her kids. three hours under a three-piece broad smile. And she stood there like a lady, and listened to everything that had left to say. Prior to the night of the day, and after I was pleased, said, thank you very much.
And she was out back again, and she said, good day. And she looked in, and she closed the door. And when the wife came back again, and when it was a hard time going to look again in the room, and I got such a contagious, still, I had a sudden little incident, I had never forgotten what it was said. Well, the point of this, So the Lord is sending a man to do a work. What's the use of going to rapture them? What's the use of going to Indians? What's the use of going six thousand miles away? Unless we can start right at our own floor by our own far side and take advantage of the people around the streets where we live. That's the way to start. And before God sent the Apostle Paul, here the man who is going to evangelize the Roman Empire.
And we often forget those years of obscurity that he sent incarnate. Do you think you were good? Do you think you were? I don't think you were. But we don't know a thing about it, or what he did, or what was accomplished at that time. God sent a right back again to the fifth where he was born. On there he spent eight or nine years in a year or eight. On there he got a dream. Then there was that wonderful, wonderful revival that broke out at Antioch. And you're never hardwarned with the fruit man. Now, Timothy, So the great authority was to land. And as you look around, for a time to help the assembly of Antioch, he would think of anybody better than Saul of Carthage.
And it is as long as your name. Away up to Cilicia, away up to Carthage, and then he says, Saul, you said, I'm not using those others, to unanthioch. The Lord is working down there on Jerusalem and to help the believers there in St. Ananthioch. And so he comes along with Barnabas. On the two of them, Acts says, pastors and teachers and evangelists in that part on the route of the Lord to fill up the assembly there at Antioch. Now look at the final preparation that he had. He got this preparation and then he sent them in the same way and teach them to fill them up and help them along the way of the way of being Christ. You still need to see who you're the preparation. You know, I believe that any man who is in the mission field or any man who is in the works of the Lord here at all.
should have a very dear idea of the working of a New Testament defender. Now this is a principle. It's a passion that we find in the Ecstasy Apostles concerning any man that goes out into the works of the Lord. He has been by whole preparation. First of all, persecution of the masters, after he was saved. And then we hear the isolation of the back side of the desert in Eritrea, where his thinking was readjusted. And then thirdly, he was set up there to turn. And the passage there, he sent those years of spirit. And then his fellowship was addressed in Antioch and then finally years of practice and years of teaching in the assembly at Antioch.
And what was there? Barnabas and Paul. Barnabas and Paul. The Holy Ghost spoke to the assembly separately, he saw them. Barnabas and Paul were not what I have called them. And they were being sent forth by the Holy Ghost. but by God, we do have an insignificant work. So we often think that that is the work of the establishment of new ten-school churches in the Roman Empire, occupied a long time. But if you sit down and look at the chronology of the Acts of the Apostles, you'll find that it was all accomplished in about ten, ten years. You know, as I think of my work, of the thirty-one years we have spent in Africa, and I feel a little bit ashamed.
In eighteen forty-five There wasn't a single new testament in the family outside of the land of Palestine. On the name G. Fifty-Five, about ten years later, Paul could speak about the work of John. On the four of the provinces of the Roman Empire, at all the strategic standards, through the work of the Apostle Paul, on the other leaders that were associated with them, new testament in churches have been established at all the strategic standards in the four provinces of the Roman Empire. That's a piece of missionary work that is narrowly equal. On here we get the handbook of the missionary. Here we get the pattern that God has saved God for carrying on his work.
On any man who is engaged in an evangelistic work, he is over abroad. He would ignore this portion of the word of God as a prayer. Here we get the pattern, we get the handbook, we get the blueprint of how to carry on the Lord's work. So there are three great things to return. I'm not going to take time this morning to outline them, but I do want to point out that in connection with each one that some specific doctrine or some specific doctrine connected with each one of those great missionary journeys. So in connection with the first one, what we get there is the call and accommodation of the work, and then principles of preaching among both Jews and Gentiles.
And we get examples of the type of preaching in which they were engaged. First of all, there's a cause, and then the commendation, on the commission, of the workers that went forth to carry on that work. All some kind of people get through your ideas about the Lord's work. I heard the lady speaking some, I heard the lady who was speaking some time in one of the two days. She said, the very fact that in the clickiest chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew, we get a great commission there, We ain't all the world of peace and honor, but that's just the only call that anybody needs. And there's nobody that needs any other call than that. Well, really, and I'll have a call.
And the fact that the Lord Jesus said that with disciples on giving us great permission that we don't need any other call. Now, I would like to take issue with that, too. And I would feel very, very sorry for any man or any woman that will come into the work of the Lord that didn't have an individual specific call for the song of the Lord himself. I can say this hard season there, that many, many, many times in our experience on the farm days, that we could have looked at all times. It was a brief of conversion, of times when God spoke to our hearts. Sometimes we won't like to speak about it. We won't like to speak about it a complicated way, but when God deals with it in a secret way, many, many times we would have gone away.
I believe that the Scripture speaks a specific law, on any man or woman who goes out into the work of the Lord without blood, deeds, and lips, in the feet of faith, on speaking to their hearts and calling them through the word, I believe in making it as kindly as it is, and going out into the Lord's work. It's one thing we have always avoided, on any focused platform and not just standing up on making a motion on the feet, or throwing out what is called a day a challenge. Sometimes that word is overworked. I do believe that God, when you have a man that has picked up the pen into his work, he would be doing it in the seat of the kid, and it doesn't make me the time on the platform and work on people's emotions, it doesn't mean it to me or anybody else to do that.
God is sovereign. You can pick up his pen and call them and send them out into his work, on fitness of the work that they have to do. So the connection with the verse makes me praying, we get the call, we get the commendation, on the commission, the wonderful work that those men did in five-year fast forward in the first missionary journey, an example of the preaching, the preaching that they preach. But on the second missionary journey, we find their specific doing for the third. And all their church principles connected with us. There was one time to talk about this morning, half a dozen of them all together. Well, they were suddenly thinking about the second missionary journey with the guidance of the seven through the sermons on even four.
Well, it's a servant's guidance. We learn about the guidance of the Holy Ghost. They want to go down there to sing with the Spirit, welcome them not. And then they wanted to go down to Asia, and again they were strengthened by the Holy Ghost. They wanted to go to the right hand, and then they wanted to go to the left. But the Holy Spirit sustained them, and they were kept moving along a certain path. And they came down to a certain spot, to throw at it. And that's the ancient tribe. And while they were there, they had a, Paul had a vision on the night. It was Paul who had the vision on the night, and he saw a man of Macedonia, come over and help it. And then when he awoke in the morning and told his fellow workers of the vision, it said, Assured me, assuredly, gathering, remember the Lord that Paul was at least the last one for them.
The man who is a leader is guided with all. So the ability communicated of a guidance of it that he has been given to his fellow workers immediately, assuredly gathering the Lord at Thomas of Easter last along the day. So what does that word assuredly gathering mean? We can give the guidance of the Holy Ghost, the guidance of the Word of God. You know, this living word here is a private word in connection with the Lord's word, assuredly gathering. What does it mean? seems to use your common sense. What the word actually means, the fundamental meaning is, to take all the pros and cons, put the pros down on the one side, and put the cons on the other.
All the different factors on this side, and all the other factors on the other side, and sit and look at them for a while, and then use your scientific right common sense. A word I'd like to put upon this morning is, Courtney, Common Drush, in deciding on the root. Here is scientific mind, judgment. You know, sometimes in the word of the Lord comes silly, stupid, wicked, wicked of whom they are done, and people which came, the guidance of the Lord, for their own self-will. But we believe that ordinary common sense should be used in carrying out the words of the Lord particularly in the eyes. There's no brother who speaks the word in this country for a number of years. I have known him practically all my life.
His name is George Gould. He too had another name. And remember the first time I went back to the afternoon, Mr. Guru, let the farewell meet. He was a grubby man, a man who you have to pray. I was just saying to me goodbye that night and said, Brother, because I decided to go all the way with you. I said, Mr. Guru, this is what he means. And he said, as long as you're an actor here, she said, I'm going to pray for you every day. I went away that afternoon. Twenty-three years later, I was in the city of Chicago. And the good of that man was an old man about eighty-one years of his age. He was at the last year of his life.
I was sleeping in the same room with him. And many a time I woke up in the middle of the night and paused the old man out on the floor. He had a little shawl lying on the end of the bed. And I was waking up, realizing that he wasn't, and the bed woke up about two o'clock some morning, and I was a little shawl with none of his knees, and he had a little shawl over the shore, spurring the way. In the end of the night he couldn't sleep very well, but when he couldn't sleep, he looked at us and said, And he would come again and again, and I had caught the one with me, two of them in the morning, but I had to show all the rage stories. And I would, so that all I had was asleep, and I would sit and watch him and listen to them while he was praying. And in the morning he spoke to me, and he said, And he was calling me by my first name.
He said, Aaron, he said, do you remember the first time you went to ask for him? And I said, and Mr. Gould, I do. But he said, I want to tell you, to drink these plenty of beauty in me, that I pray for you three times every day. And when I said, Mr. Gould, I'm here, old man, talking about me, just doing fun in the morning. On the same day, three times a day, Mr. Gould is having me before the Lord. What I said, and Mr. Gould, it's me, but not the Lord. But when I said, and I said, Mr. Gould, tell me, why do you know that you're guided by the Lord? Where do you get your guidance from? And you know he had to speak a few words. While he was a bloody man, he used to say something that was probably the same.
I said, well, he said, I'll tell you. He said, when I've worked every bit of the gospel, she said, I'm not quite assured that he said, I can always carry out the series of meetings with the Lord. I explained it to him whether I've been judged by the Lord or not. My judgment was a mysterious thing, isn't it? But because at the same time, a man that knows anything at all about God, he knows each principle that we find in the next, you know, the same effect you may hear in him, They carry love in their own time and life. So the dark nations need your name. Your members, Ephesus of the Lord and God, on the fifth principle there, in connection with the work of the Lord, is the fact that very often it is not the evangelist who is a pioneer. Read about a couple, a broadly couple.
Their names were to put in, Priscilla, and all those lovely stories that scroll to the next of the Apostles chapter nineteen, in connection with a parting of that new testament church at Exodus. You remember Aquila and Priscilla, they remained there on the pond that we came in the last city for the apostles. Apollos came along afterward, who were held to him, and then finally the apostles himself came under him there for three years, until the assembly was finally unto God. In the very often we think of the apostles of Andrew, part of the church at Exodus. But I believe that when the rewards are handed out, I'm going to call it Noah.
I believe that that's what I've got up with it is to tell it with the people that were used by the Lord to harm the attendee ahead of us. You know this flood opposite from the spreading joyful world today. It's spreading like a bush fire. It's strong in it. Do you know that the nineteen hundred and seven men in that own days said to be swallowed? On the day of nineteen sixty-one, there are nine hundred million people in the world that are the oldest nomadic of followers that ran in the past. On the top of that fall, that fall to the system. Mind you, they're dedicated. I read a statement the other day that in Russia only two percent of the people were communists.
You don't believe anything of the time. They're dedicated and those young people over in Russia, they're absolutely dedicated. So that fall, satanic, philosophies, that's spreading throughout the world. And the reason they're doing it is, but they are telling it is, on the belief of what they preach, on their willingness to sacrifice and suffer for what they believe. And the result is, it's spreading around the world. And how does it work? Well, what do you call a tale? A tale is a man or a woman that's introduced in some particular situation, in some particular environment, on the brim there, into a factory, or is it some environment, on the that time to meet in college out there.
And from that couple, or from that individual, they tread their doctrine on the infotain, that's all for the time it sits in one of the four years where you are. So the whole faith is impermanent with it, and swamped by the law of the wicked, the tiny doctrine. We've only got the idea that this is the way that God puts there. I put it to fill it in the end of it, living there, and there is God being alone. offering a beachhead with a thread in the gospel. And that's the way the gospel is spread here often in North America. You know, I don't suppose there's a more liminal place in North America than the gospel that's popular today. You know, if you've got the trouble that's in there, it's not the real deal.
You know the name, proper, right? And that's another thing. It's in there that's all they say. And that's the gospel that's there in itself. It's in there in the form of the beachhead. of his repentance and public activity today. And so he is still at this hour, and often not without standing in the way of faith that it will in the Father's way of the Spirit of God. And the whole canon of the evangelist, Council of Rome, and the Apostle Paul comes along, and the gospel of the priest, and the result is, so that he, thanks to the church that comes with, in that particular situation. Paul thanks to us for the pre-grade missionary journey, the pioneer bishop of the Apostle Paul, They were accomplished in a period of about ten years.
And unfortunately, the teaching centers of the Roman Empire, these new settlements are ten years of reform. It is the outstanding period of the life. I took a moment to observe in a couple of other periods. The last ten years of the time, all was a prisoner. And I suppose he thought, when he was taken to Rome as a prisoner, First of all, last period, and there's only iron cards involved. Then, finally, the prisoner in the other kind of way, he possibly thought his work was done. We don't go last ten years to assign the title of the pardon. I want to mention one or two things in connection with the same level of encouragement that some of the world has arrived here, which is why.
Some people tell me the idea, when it comes to history of seventy years, they say, through. That's the idea. So many people have lived within their country. But as part of the search of angel and prayer, beloved brethren, through the least of the last years of our mankind, it would be the most important thing. It always cost for anything. On the last very minute, and during the time they seriously attend, they could put the good technical credit in our last minute with their father. And maybe some of you here perform in six years or seven years of age. and say, well, now that we're tired. And we do things that happen in our life and say, well, that's it. I'm through. So look, it's running your life through. The uncle Paul, when he was a prisoner in Rome, we started after the one-on-one group spoke, and one-on-one, we were going to turn to the light.
So that's the nature of the story. The first thing I want to think of is, well, every day, when he was a prisoner, there were four men chained through him, and what four men They were mere old bodyguards, and each one of those Roman soldiers came to the apartment hall for four hours every day. People did not call up their children, but they came to the shelter, whatever, and they don't believe anything of the time. The body was sitting there at home, chained to a Roman soldier, possibly from different parts of the Roman Empire, and they were simply evangelized. And they did, some individuals were talking to those people in the prison, at all.
And he tells us this, that the very God-gifted gospel has penetrated, provided with a burning torch of mirrors, a version of a grudging monster, and believed by believers, saved of Jesus' own soul. How does it make up there? And I believe that the apostle Paul of the joy, day after day, with all those old children that we have chained to them, stop agonizing and living the gospel through, so that the gospel came right in. They're the kind of a constant four of the empire on maintenance of each other's household and its world group even there. All the personal work that one can do in a living life. It's an honor to be in Peter's next part two, a brother that I heard the Bible that I met many years ago.
We all hold out the words of our beloved brother. Mr. Elton did, and my aunt did, and my aunt did. Probably he was in part. I understand even God gave me home, and he gave me what he did. and many hours, and to come to visit an evangelizer on the door. And I do want to encourage the present, to give the point that you did yourself with this wonderful work of evangelism. And I do want to encourage, and I want to give, the present you'll hear this morning, that the last night of life for you did yourself with this wonderful work of evangelism, and to take away personal work, I do believe today that the greatest worship done is not on the right mind.
Well, I should use that, and you always can. But I believe that the faithful worship we do know the truth is. And since the people personally, there is the most important word I believe in the family is, it is. Sometimes you pick up beautiful children, or not against that at all. There's a lot of brethren who give up a beautiful children and set their lives on it, and that's not the answer. I believe that the answer is, when we get paid to pay to the fee. On a full personal content with bringing people in onto the front of the gospel, that's how easy it is. People don't have to be attacked by a beautiful building alone. Mind you, I believe, but that is one factor. But the important thing is, with keeping the people paid to pay on that personal dealing, if the people bring them onto the front of the front of the gospel, this is the way that God is doing it today.
But the second phase of the test of money is a prisoner. with those wonderful writers, the Bureau, the Prince of Israel, talk about what we would have met if we had the official, the Italian, the official the national official, the fellow again, to become the Prince of Israel. And while he was confined in a prison cell, at the same time, he had a pen in his hand, and he was both wonderful, wonderful at this position, such a help that he would have his best friend. Robert Hamm, reminding me yesterday over in the earth. There's one thing that's for a message here today, but none of it is for me.
And of the problems here today, the possibilities are not gifted. It's not upon a platform. You may feel that I move platform, and that's not my line at all, but possibly so are the gifts of you in a good minute. I just mention many, many names of men that I use, of the kind upon a platform. Well, if it just wasn't the Spirit, it's all the one gift, it's not the way. The old man, how the gift is, man. Many, many of us. Many of us do want to encourage. Many of us, we must have gifts today. Three months is a day. This is another way that the Lord has worked in among his people today. It's the early days of the so-called present movement.
Men by charges, by killers, by mannington, by strong evil men, These dwellings were gifted in that way, and we owe a wonderful treasure within a few minutes later, and today as a result of the effect of that soul's breath. So this was the idea, frankly, in the next day, the word of the Apostle. Now, just in closing, another thing that is the next, the five words, the train that came to carry on the words that he had acknowledged. Did you ever think of the twelve men that were as though he was called into their life, namely his men, A man that were able to carry on the work tired that we had gone. Only the Lord shall keep wanting to do it there in this year, and put it into the exile.
He was turning on this work. He was aware of the burden of the poor, and he talked further. I hope it may be clear enough to carry on the work that we can find in that we are up to.