A creeping discontent within assemblies today stems from a desire to move away from established fellowship and serve the Lord independently, mirroring the sons of the prophets who wanted to build their own place by the Jordan. This desire to widen borders and do things one's own way leads to spiritual loss, symbolized by the axe head falling into the water. The core lesson is that true service and effectiveness for God require returning to the place where one's spiritual edge was lost and recommitting to Christ's work on the cross, rather than relying on self-effort. The message concludes by urging listeners to restore their first love and sharpen their spiritual tools through prayer and confession, allowing God to use them powerfully.
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I noticed quite a lot of young eyes staring, excuse me. A lot of young eyes staring as I put this around my neck tonight. All the trouble is that I'm almost scared to tell you about it because we have a friend of mine, Mr. Montgomery, in the reading. And this will be about the fifth time he's heard it in two weeks.
So I feel almost inclined to ask him to come and explain it. But in nineteen sixty, without any warning at all, I went down with romantic fever. During that time, I also had double pneumonia, practically lost sight of my right eye and still under treatment for it. Then I completely lost my hearing and let the sage came back. Then after coming out of the hospital, my voice got thinner and thinner into a slight whisper and then it completely went.
Now for seven months I was back and forth to the University Hospital of Michigan, and I had the miserable experience of hearing the specialist say that this man will never even whisper again as long as he does, as the muscles of the vocal cords are completely paralyzed. So for the next seven months, I wasn't able to even whisper, my wife in fact tells me that she had more love letters in those seven months which she's had in her whole life. But after seven months we thank God that a young Christian nurse got busy experimenting and she had me trying to save a third American riding cavalry.
Came in a very slight whisper. and she brought in the specialist that said I would never speak again. He became excited and put a long story short. I spent the whole summer months of nineteen sixty one learning to speak again at Brooklyn College. Now I went back for a check up last year. I must tell you this because it's quite amusing. I went before a professor West, one of the leading front specialists in the Eastern States. And he said, Davis, he said, without examinations, etc., he said, we don't know how you're whispering.
And he said, you see those books, and it was a war for our plan. Said he, every one of those books is dealing with a frozen voice. And do you know, he said, there is not one of those books can tell me How you can even whisper, leave alone speak. Now I'm greatly amused over this being a minister of the gospel. He said there should only be air coming out in that sound. Sometimes hot air might come out, but that's what he said. So I said to him, I said, you know doctor, I think I have a book which can give me answer. he was very gullible, I would paint his notebook and pencil.
He said I would very much like to get the name on it. But I gave him the name. I even gave the cover of the cover. The last I saw of Antara was going through Bada'ar. The last words I heard from him were these. You faith, he does make me sick. Now friends, I quite agree with him. When you get ten thousand people under a great big canopy of a canvas tent and you get a tremendous amount of hysteria, I agree with that man completely that it's not to make anyone sick.
But do you know we had thousands of letters, we had two come through from China, they had to go to the local Chinese restaurant to get them translated. We had letters from India right through the West Indies, down through Asia, and we had letters, I think, from all parts of the world. Our godly Christian people saying, Brother, we don't think your ministry is finished yet. And we're going to pray for you. So tonight, as I try to pass on God's message, I thank God, but once more I am able to stand before you.
According to doctors and surgeons, you don't know how much longer, but I am confident of this as long as the Lord needs me. Now friends, will you please turn with me to the second book of Kings, chapter six? During these past days I've come up against quite a lot of discouragement by people complaining so much about what's happening in the assemblies today.
So that's the reason for this message tonight and you might understand it better. as the meeting progress. The second book of Kings, chapter six and verse one. And the sons of the prophet said unto Elisha, Behold now the place where we dwell with thee is too strict for us. Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take this every man of thee. and let us make us a place there where we may dwell, and he answered, Go me.
And one said, Be content, I pray me, and go with my servants. And he answered, I will go. So he went with them, and when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. But as one was felling a beam, The axe head fell into the water, and he cried a bit, alas, master, for it was borrowed. And the man of God said, We're correct, and he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick and cast it in the river and behind it swept. Therefore said, He take it up to him, and he took out his hand.
and took it. The Lord will add his blessing on the reading of his words. These were people belonging to the household of faith of their day. They were not strangers in the land. They were not visitors. They were actually the sons of the prophets they had been brought up under the sound and the word of God. But even though they are bringing up, we find that they say the place wherein we dwell with thee is too straight for us.
Now I want to bring two little words out of that, to the place where we dwell with thee is too straight for us. Is this not the difficulty today with our young people? Is this not the difficulty today with even some older saints they are not content to continue following on in the things of the Lord? I was amazed very recently to hear a servant of the Lord say to me that, do you know the trouble with the assemblies today is this? But brethren are afraid to step forward and say, we have made a mistake for forty years and we have to order our ways.
Looking at this brother across the table, it passed my mind that you have exactly about the same number of years which I have been in assembly fellowship. That's the very thing he mentioned. And I look back over forty years in assembly worship, both in prayer and and in six islands and countries where I've served the Lord besides. And I have found no discontent until within the last year or so. And why is there creeping in today such a terrible discontent among the people of God? The trouble is the place where in wheat well is too straight for us.
we have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and the believer is there as the tabernacle in which the Holy Spirit dwells. And yet I find exactly the same today as we had thousands of years ago. The people are complaining and groaning people. We are not willing to pay for Christ to serve the Lord Jesus Christ, even as our fathers did. of a place where we dwell with thee and where thou dwellest with us. It is too strict for us we are going to do a little thing different thou to the days gone by. And I ask the older brethren to search their souls tonight.
And will there not more souls being one for the Saviour ten, twenty, thirty years ago than there is today? If you're going to serve the Lord Jesus Christ faithfully, if you're going to serve the Lord Jesus Christ acceptably and with Godly fear, I can promise you now something, it is not going to be an easy task. For to serve the Lord Jesus Christ and to serve the Saviour, it really costs. So they said, let us go over Jordan. and we'll go there and we'll make our own way and we'll cut down our own wood and we will make our own place.
Of course, I hastily gripped your mind, but unless the Lord built the house, they labor in vain who built it. And we have to bear in mind, but unless we can take the Savior with us, our labors are going to be in vain. So we come on down to the place over Jordan. They are going, please remember, to the place of death. For over Jordan, and Jordan speaks of the rhythm of death. And if they are willing to leave this servant of the Lord behind them, and they say, the place where you dwell, and the place where we are dwelling with you, is far too straight and too strict and too narrow for us.
We want to wipe down our borders and we want to do a few things on our own without my aid and without my help. And so we're going down to Jordan and we want to do it on our own. Is it any wonder there became chaos? For you cannot leave the Savior behind. You cannot leave the indwelling Holy Spirit back behind. For whatever we do for the Lord, we must remember we can only do it by gifts of this His will. And we can only do it with Him. Being with us, I would have the Savior with me, for I dare not walk alone.
And so they went to the place of death, and there they cut down wood. I want for a moment or two to take you to another place of death. I want to take you for a moment or two to another wood which was cut down. And I take you down into the city of Jerusalem, and there was obviously carried into that city one night a tree. And in that evening, during that night that tree was cut, and it was taken down from its branches, were cut up, separated, and there came a tree, and that tree we came across.
And that cross was taken on the following day up the hillside again, and it was upon the ground in the Savior. Which death are we going to acknowledge? Our own spiritual death by saying, I'm going to do it entirely on my own. Or are we going to gaze into the, look, face of the man on the center cross and say, Lord Jesus, I know that you died on that cross for my redemption. Lord Jesus, as I see the crown of bronze on my head, as I see my torn cheek, as I see my fascinated back, as I see my hands, my feet, my blood-redge cross, I know, Lord Jesus, that it was for me, and it was for a vain world that you came for Christ on Calvary's cross.
and I'm either going into the Jordan and cut my own wood and build my own plate, or nor am I going to be faithful to me and to my finished work on Calvin's grounds. You cannot mix the two. You're going to the feet of the Savior as proudly and say, Lord Jesus, I'm going to lay everything upon the altar now and I'm going to have thee as the Lord and the King of my life. And I want to serve thee, Lord, and I want that that same manner to be my manner. And believe me that I serve thee in a wilderness journey. Are you going to say, Lord, I'm going to go in my own strength.
I'm going to go completely on my own. then the place where thou dwellest and where I dwelleth with thee is too straight. I want to widen my borders. That is the position in which the believer must come back to before there can be a forging on in the things of the gospel and precious souls to be saved. Are we going to serve ourselves and our own desires and our own will? How are we going to say, Lord Jesus, it's going to cost me, but I'm going to move, and I'm going to move with me and be alone? Then we find a place of death, the pro-Jordan.
There is an axe head. Christian, in what shape are you to light as an axe head for your Lord? What's there today? If you have a child of God, I want to try to bring back some memories this evening, maybe for a little while. Do you remember that day when he was a young Christian, took that Sunday school class? Do you remember the blush of those thirty days of service to your Lord? Do you remember that day you lent the first salt of a Saviour that you could hardly your feet would hardly touch the ground as you made your way home once.
Do you remember it? Do you remember that first time when you preached the Gospel and the first time of preaching the Gospel, but the first time at the close of a meeting, someone came to you and said, Sir, I wish I could be saved. Could you take that? and the Lord has that day used your lips, but God that day has worked himself through you, you have been a channel that day for the salvation of some precious soul. And you couldn't sleep that night. You were so thrilled because you were brought in his great plan of redemption. You see, that day there was a keen cutting edge on the axe head.
But through the years, how the axe head becomes heavenly bloods? How the years through its continual cutting and cutting and cutting, and to the very prowl and the joy of all space gone by, a string she's lost now, and the axe head is only making a heavy pumping sound, but there is no cutting edge to it. I think it's time we got back to the divine envy wheel. In Jamaica, we had a gentleman who was one of the legislators of the island. The Honourable A.S.
Campbell on Saturday night always got his children together. Sometimes I would be visiting him at home and it was really amusing. The Honourable gentleman would go on the way to Colbert wheel and he would get a little pocket knife. and he would work on that wheel until that night was just about like a razor blade. So he would go back into the chair, and the children would be gathered around after that night, and he would call them one after the other, Dorothy, and Dorothy would come. And he would take everything there. And with that keen blade, he would cut the charles in the nails.
It was original. every Saturday night before going to bed with six children. But when he got down to seven-year-old Macy, the last in the line, she let out one great big yell and she began to bawl and to really shout. So he slapped her and told her not to be amazed and be quiet, and Aunt and Grace stopped her crying. She said, Debbie, would you sharpen it again? because it's come down to me, it's beginning to hurt. Yes, Dorothy, Willie, and Madshree, and the other five, they had the thing rather sharp, but when it came down to Little Macy, she knew that when she was the sixth on the line to get her fingernails cut, just with an ordinary pocket knife, she knew that Father was having to put more pressure on it, and every week when I was visiting, it was always the same story.
Are we getting rather blunt at the edges? Don't you think it's time, Christian? I'm not speaking only of you, I'm speaking of the assemblies across America, Canada and other parts of the world we are losing out today, and I believe it is because we had become rather blunted in our testimony for the Lord. I believe the very first thing that is needed is that we might get back to the end of the yield of prayer. I have seen assembly very few and very far between, and they said, brethren, something's going to happen and something must break.
We cannot continue as we're going, and I join them in a four-hour prayer meeting on a Saturday night. I think of a meeting now in Western Ontario, a place called Sarnia. There were about twelve in fellowship, and three young men said, look, fellas, we're going to do something about this, for our meeting is getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and something must be done about it. And Brother Deaves, a fireman on the railroad, he said, listen, he said, we get up early, five mornings a week to go to work. We get up Sunday morning as married men to get the kids ready for the meetings. He said, why can't we get up early on Saturday mornings, he said, and spend two hours in prayer.
And those few young men, every one of them, hard-working men, most of them in manual jobs, I met with them at seven o'clock every Saturday morning they met for fifteen months before they saw a break. Seven o'clock in the morning, they would pray until nine, and then before a five or six of them, as it came later, would take their coats off, and they'd do the janitor work and go home about ten o'clock. They said, if we can get up six mornings a week, let's get up the sevens. And for eighteen months, absolutely nothing happened in that meeting. And then the blessing came.
First of all, that was once said. Then there were four. We had children's meetings. Then there were a group of children. Then the parents were brought in. These other child of God from their first prayer meeting, within three years they had to enlarge the building. I was there six weeks ago when they took me to the house next door. They said, brother, we now have to buy this building, you know, just a couple of months ago. What did you buy it for? Well, they said we've bought it. We're using the whole house now for Sunday schooled rooms. And I think it's this week or next. They're going to dig the foundations, but their building will be doubled. That little meeting of fourteen in fellowship within five years is now over seventy, meeting around the Lord's table on Lord's Day morning, because poor working young men said, I am not going to sit in bed one morning a week.
If I can do it for my work, I can do it on Saturdays for the Lord. They got to the Emery Will, they knew, but their testimony was very blunt, and they got to the Emery Will, and they began to build it again. Then I'm afraid there's a second Emery Will, which we're afraid of today because of the Roman Catholic Church. You can stand on the platform and hear something and you talk about anything you like, but don't you dare mention the word confession. Because there's a confessionary in Yonder Church every week, every day.
There is such a thing, beloved child of God, of confession. Go to my brother and tell him and let him pray with him. That's what the scripture tells us. The greatest thing of all is to get away to that secret room and say, Lord, I'll know it as well as I know that that brother in the meeting is. He just jumps on my nerves a little bit. And Lord, you know my feelings on the Lord's day. I'll know my feelings on a meeting night. And yes, those little inner differences inside the assembly, let the confession be made to the Lord.
And then you will find that every wheel of a blunted battle of acts will become sharp and scared. So I said, Lord, restore unto me the joy of my salvation. And friend, I think the finest place that every Christian can do is to creep away like the Calvary's cross. Looking into the Savior's face, you can say, Lord, I know that I believe in eternal security. I know that I was gloriously saved that day. I bowed my knee and accepted me as my Savior. But, Lord, I come back to the very place again, and I say, thank you, Lord. are dying for me upon the cross, and I pray I may go from here with a fresh vision of the last and for what thou hast done for them.
Then we find that the axe head became loose on the shower. The blows were not quite as they were. Every time the axe hung into the wood, there was a vibration which carried the muscle. And that is your testimony getting a little bit jagged. It's had a little vibration in your testimony today, which was not in days gone by. Has the shaft, as the axe had become loose on the shaft. Listen, we've got to tighten it or use another shaft. But the tragedy is there's no other shaft to use.
It's not a tragedy. It's a blessing. The only shaft we can use is that glorious shaft of Calvary. Another trouble they had. They were working too near to the water. I think in working a distance to the water, there would be no problem. What business did the man have at the side of the water, and being in Lumbercamps with the gospel, I watch very carefully, and the side that they're doing their chopping is off the side, the tree falls. Why should the tree fall into the water? If he's going to cut in such a way that the edge bed flies off, then he goes in that direction to the water nine times out of ten, that's the way the tree is going to fall.
It's the river of death. And it's that we might not serve dead works, but we might serve a living savior. And be careful, we don't get too near the water's end. for it shall end. Remember, the Lord says, I know my words. Passing on quickly, please remember, it was borrowed. I love the words of the handwriting which says, Lord, I give thee back the life I owe. Do you know that you and your life is a gift from God?
And if you are truly born again, and if the Savior is as precious to you as you claim, you should return unto him the gift which he has given to you. Lord, I am thine, oh, Lord, I have heard my voice. Thou hast drawn me, Lord, to me, and I long to rise in the hands of faith, and be closer, drawn to me. Draw me nearer. If that's our heart's prayer, remember this, that we belong to him, complete. and we've only been known by a zealous God. Your life belongs to him, our life in the paper. That gift you have as a Sunday school teacher, that gift you have of giving us a gospel track, that gift you have of being able to converse with people, a gift so many people do not seem to have, that glorious gift you have of testimony, every bit of that gift do not belong to you, it belongs to him.
and he's wanting it everywhere. You're a heavenly gift in an open bottle. And remember this the moment we start boasting on our work. Now I'm speaking this for a purpose. Because I sit down often and I hear people, they do such awful boasting, I wonder that they even claim that the Lord is with them at all. A year ago I went to Crap number and says, Oh, he says, I'm sorry you've come, I can have carried out another week. Why, brother? Oh, he said, I won four souls for the Lord last week.
I said, Oh, before, I must have to take a little bit of the stiffening out of him. Well, what he did and what he said, you know, he gave me his message for every night that week. I'll be perfectly frank with you. I thought what his doubt he had to show. This is prophetic. He has sixty teenagers coming from Brooklyn homes, from Brooklyn, a New York city. In my word, you, the third, he won a thousand. I must disappear behind the cross before I can come forward and serve my Lord.
And the greatest hindrance we have today is that horrible boasting. And God cannot work through the person which is hindering by making claims of his own value. It's not I, Lord, but everything. But I might be hidden in me. I live in Canada, as you know, and sometimes I get into logging camps. It's a rough work, but it's a profitable one. But in the screen we get into the logging camp and the men have come back for the winter and they have not been able to work and they begin to float their logs down the river.
The rocks gain momentum and it's not very long until there's one fierce rolling of logs but presently right along the water's front at the logging camp a cry goes up of logjam. everybody down close and everyone rushes to the water's edge. And there's not often a log jam, but what, there's very often broken legs and limbs. For the logs coming behind are jamming up and the log does have to go with their longfalls. And you'll be surprised over this. There might be two or three hundred logs jammed up in the river.
and there are fifty loggers searching, and do you know what they're searching for? They're searching for one solitary log. They've got the name of it. They call it the key log. They're climbing over, they're looking at the log's gender, and presently reprise those up, I found the key log, and four of five men will get with their sticks, and they're ready to run fast. and they want to release one log. And then they run with their white boots as half as they can from the shore. For the moment they release that key log, it's not many minutes, until there's a continuation of the flowing of the logs.
One log has jammed two or three hundred others until it could be a catastrophe if it wasn't released immediately. I search my own hand, I search yours. The Lord, that we might get on our face, we call our Holy God and say, Lord, there doesn't seem to be much flowing, but I, Holy Spirit, as they work in days like that. And Lord, I search my heart tonight. I pray that thou might search my very soul. God will thou bring to my mind the hindrance of God, if I am the key, Lord, which is jamming the river of thy blessing, I pray thee, Lord.
If thou might help me with this key love, this miserable key love, which is I will be removed, that the flow may go. You say, what can I do? If my testimony is not what it was, if my life or the Lord Jesus Christ is not what it once was, I've been conscious in my mind for a long time that there is something in my life, and you say, I don't know exactly how to get about it, but there is something in my Christian life, my Christian work, my Christian testimony, my service for me, Lord, what can I do?
You know, Christian, what you can do, there's only one thing you can do. You have to go back to the place where it fell into the water. The very first thing the servant of the Lord asked, he said, where it fell, and he said, here you are, I like you. And Christian, you are not going to start your service again for the Lord in all its power you once had until you go to the very spot where it went in. It's only going to the spot where it went in.
It's the very spot that it didn't come out. You know, there's been no sudden turning away from the things of the Lord. Now, I've never been more serious than I am tonight. I've been mixing with people in this part of the country, and I've said, Teo's not about you. Now, don't think that. They talk about that from meeting in the country over there, you know, where it's not what it used to be, and things are getting worse, and then there's one down there, and that down west, and that down south, and that down east, and that, and that, and that. And it's been a continual talking and it's been a disgruntled talk about the work of the Lord.
Now this isn't valid. This did not happen overnight. And it's got to get back to the very place it went into the water before it can be pulled out. You can only enter where you left. and there must be a confession before there can be a restoration. And they showed him the place. For leaving can be gradual, but the coming back can be instantaneous, providing you can say, Lord, here it is.
Take my life, Lord, and search me. Take my light, Lord, and see if there's been anything in my life which has hindered my testimony for me. There was a day when the people in my workshop listened to me speak for the Lord. Today they really healed. There was a day, Lord, when my children were willing to come to the house of God, but today, Lord, they will come near the place that I know, Father, that deep down in my heart and deep down in my soul, I know, Lord, it's me. And Lord, this is the place where it's now. But I ask, Lord, that thou might do something about it. And all the glorious state is that he cut down the stairs.
He tells me, I think it's in the book of Isaiah that he was at a root out of the ground. There I see a tree, a log has been carved into the ground. For all the country we is today, there are so many people in the world that they are worshipping a cross. In my country they are worshipping a dead, an empty cross. You see it on their edifices all over the country. But I am not thinking tonight of a tree which was cut down. I am thinking of the branch which was cut down. I am thinking of that one who became as a root out of the dry ground. The branch, the branch of Jesse.
the one who left the heavenly glory, the eternal blessed of the Father's love, and came to Bethlehem's manger to be gone today, that one has walked for three and a half years among men. They accused him of the wine-liver. I see that one who could walk into the garden of death's enemy. He set his face at the plentiful towards Jerusalem, and I see him prostrate on the ground, and I see a writhing body. and I see great drops of sweat falling to the ground like blood. Do I hear that tremendous cry? Father, if it be possible, may this cup pass from me.
Nevertheless, Father, not mine will. Mine be done. He was the rooter and the crying ground. He was cut down from the heavenly glory. Yea, he was cut down from the land of the living. I'll see him cross-grained on the cross. There has run a cry in the darkness. It is finished was his cry. Then he bowed his head. He died. I don't look at a tree tonight. God forbid. I look upon the glorious man which is upon it. Beloved child of God, that's the place we have got to get back to if there's going to be a launching out in service for the master in days which I have had.
for it's the place where we tell. The story of the cross became a little stale. The throbbing of the heart when we heard the Saviour's love became frankly cold. And that coldness came and we said, Lord, we were a place where thou dwellest is too straight and too strict for us. Let us go and build a place of our own. But remember this in verse three, Elisha said, yes, I will go with them. You cannot get away from the Lord, but he will drag him down into all his rich places. He said, in spite of your desires in verse one, in verse three, he said, I'm going down with you.
But they can thank God he did, for it was he which saved the axe head, was it not? And he's the only one that can save things today. What could that stick accomplish? That same stick could have been in the hand of a humble man and that axe head would never have floated again. As you see, the secret was, it was the God of heaven, it was the hand of God's servant which went down into the water. And you can preach the cross until you're blue in the face and your modernists and your Catholics and all the other faces right across the world.
It is not the cross. It's the glorious person that died upon it and it's the resurrected Savior which is living in the heart of a believer. But is he living in your heart today? Are you sharing him in a strange way? You have to come back to the very place where he entered your soul. Oh, he's there today. But the trouble is you have him turned, maybe. You have to come to the place where he first entered, and you've got to say, Lord, there, after when there's the trouble, I have left my first love.
And the answer he turned to it. And the iron did swim. The iron can swim today. The iron can come back under the shaft. The iron today can still cut. Great heavy blows into the trees of this world's empty glory. In the book of Jeremiah chapter fifty, I think it is, it says, Thou art my battle acts of war. For with thee I will bring to peace his nations and kingdoms. He is speaking of Israel.
He says, you are my great battlements. And I wonder if the Holy God is not referring back to this book in two Kings. And he says, you are not only my battlements, but with me, I am going to bring him peace with the opposition, the nations of the kingdom. And beloved child of God, a group of people faithful to him, they can cut deep cuts into this world in its empty glory today. And precious souls can still be one for the Lord. Is there a dead weight in your river? May be there's a dead savior in your life. Is there a dead weight in your river as you could on the stream of time today?
Beloved child of God, may be the Holy Spirit is not a little bit as alive as he could be in your heart and in your soul in service for him. For he arose and he says, Because I live, he shall live also. Are we living for him? This ever lost cause in our lives. Where shall it? Beloved child of God, our service for the Lord can only be restored to us in the place where we lost it. Sting is cast and we must turn our eyes on Calvary. And the Savior says, now I want you to take the other day.
There is one desire the Master has, the Master's desire is, that the cause, that once vibrated might vibrate again. And in closing days, in difficult days, in dark days, I believe with all my heart, the Lord is waking, and the Lord is saying, I want you to change that again, and I'll use you. I haven't finished with you, it's because you have finished. with your energies and your service to me. I'm the same today as I was twenty years ago, thirty years ago, when souls were being saved every Lord's day, when people were being brought into the assembly testably, when the buildings were full and there was a real work of anxiety and an anxious dealings with souls week after week, says the Lord today, I'm the same God as I was thirty years ago.
But the trouble is, the axe has become blunt, and it's gone into the water. It's sunk. I'm willing to raise it again, but are you willing, he says. You might put your hand in the water and take it up again. All that glorious thing of coming back into that whole service that there once was. The very child of God, you and I, by simple faith tonight, We can reach our hand that now we're at our head's side and say, yes, Lord, yes, I'm coming now to be. Lord, there seems to be a stagnant pool in my life, but Lord, I'm going to put it behind me now.
I am going to reach into the old Jordan. There's been a little bit of dead works in my life, but Lord, I'm going to put my hand in. I'm going to take the axe head again, and I'm going to see it. It's going to keep cutting blows in the neighbourhood where I live. I'm going to serve the Lord in the vineyard in which I will eat at you. It's happening in Las Vegas. demand. Eight years ago I went there in a reverse cervical place. They almost thought it was a hut the first time I saw it. The souls have been one continually and there's a great interest there.
I was there two weeks ago. The Lord is using these servants back. Simply because they have reached out in simple faith and they have said, Lord, I'll take him back, we accept. I'm not going to use that old new shaft. They fell into the door. I'm going to be on a new shaft. And there are heavy plows being laid for the Lord today. And yes, we know that precious souls have been saved. We know that others are being bestowed to the Lord. Are we willing to take our stand and reach out to our hands in simple faith at our bedside? Say, Lord Jesus. I question myself tonight, doesn't it, if I do question me, and say, am I a soldier of the cross?
I want to be. And Lord, restore to me the joy of my salvation, and restore to me, Lord, the zeal and the energy, but I might go out and the precious souls may be washed in closing days for my glorious Lord. Yes, Lord, yes. I'm coming now to be. Good wonderful brethren, please close the meeting in prayer.