Who Do You Say That I Am?

Who Do You Say That I Am?

by Gertrude Dekock Keehn

Transcribed from the original recording; may contain errors.

Thank you, Lord, for bringing our minds into a state of quietness and our hearts into such a receptivity that we can hear and feel Thee. We thank You for this wonderful, natural cathedral. Everything is so quiet and so still. Even the trees seem as though they are feeling the rest of the coming night. And the quiet notes of the birds, their last song before they go to sleep. And in the day as in the night, Thy loving care is with them. Oh, Father, what a wonderful thing it is to die to self and live to Thee. That we might hear and see and touch the things of Thy kingdom. And may this hour be a very beautiful one in which we feel ourselves embraced in love divine. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

I’m going to read just two or three verses. Two from the 16th chapter of Matthew are these. “When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I am?” I expect He was wondering, perhaps He knew, but He was wondering if anybody had discovered that He was from God. He was wondering whether anything yet in Him had been so clearly portrayed of His Father that He would be recognized. Now the strange thing is, He is asking these questions, this question of His disciples, with whom He had been for a while. And so we will see what is said. And they said, “Well, some say that You are John the Baptist, and some that You are Elias, and others say Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” And then He said unto them, and I want you to try to picture, not just hear these words, but try to picture how He was feeling His way into their hearts, “But whom say ye that I am?” You whom I have been with, I’ve been trying to reveal to you everything. I’ve taught you the Sermon on the Mount. Whom say ye that I am? Have you found out who I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, Son of the living God.”

And Jesus said to him, “O blessed art thou, for flesh and blood,” human mind, “did not say this.” Your human mind could not have revealed that to you, Peter. It was my Father, who is in heaven, who told you that. “And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” And that rock was the statement, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Had the church been built upon that truth alone, we would have had everything pure in our spiritual teaching today. Now, it is strange, isn’t it, that after having asked the disciples that, He comes to the Pharisees. And this is in Matthew chapter 22. “While the Pharisees were gathered together,” the Pharisees, the learned men, the religious men of that day, the men who really knew the law and the prophets. “While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ?” He didn’t say, “What are men saying about me? Whom do they say I am?” He didn’t say that. He didn’t say, “What are they saying about me, the Son of Man?” He said, “What think ye of Christ? Whose son is He?” And they said unto Him, “The son of David.”

The son of David. And He said unto them, “Well, how is it that David in spirit called Him Lord? Saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on my right hand, till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool. If David called Him Lord, how could He be his son?”

Sometimes I think the way Jesus taught was so marvelous that I wish, oh, I wish I could just get one tiny bit like Him when I give out any message. He very seldom forced His knowledge upon people. He made them think. He made them think. Sometimes I think, if we could know that this Bible is not talking to the disciples or anybody, it’s talking to us as an individual, we would really meet the challenge. And I think we would find out the spiritual meaning of the word of God more if we would feel He was talking to us. And years ago, when I was trying so hard to understand the Bible, it is awfully hard to understand until you have tasted of the Spirit, isn’t it? Very hard to understand. And I can remember, as I was reading it, thinking, “Well, perhaps I’ll change it this way.” And wherever Jesus said, “Peter,” I put “Gertrude.” And wherever He spoke to John, I put “Gertrude.” And you know, I could hardly bear it. I could hardly bear it. Especially if things in my life, you know, I wasn’t being just quite like I ought to. And He’d say, “Gertrude, lovest thou me?” It’s all right to hear Him say, “Peter, lovest thou me?” But to say it to me was just a little hard.

Or when you say, “Yes, Lord, I understand. I know all about You. I know Your teaching.” And He said, “You do?” Like He said to His disciples, “You do? I assure you, in a little while you’ll all scatter. And you will leave me alone. Yet I will not be alone. I will be with my Father.” Now, if He were to say to me that, see, it sounds a little different. Because deep in my human consciousness, I know that that’s what would happen. So the Bible became for me a sort of personal challenge. And as it became that, I found myself trying to meet the challenge. I also discovered this, that that whole New Testament, the whole of the Old Testament is me. Before I found Christ, there is hardly a character, in fact, I think all of them, in the Old Testament that you can’t read and have a sort of little sense of guilt inside. Well, that’s me. That would be me. That is the old Adam before Christ really comes in. Then I found that the New Testament, this little piece before you get to the New Testament, this little piece is Jesus. I found that in that was the whole meaning of life. I found that what they prophesied would be, who they prophesied would come, was now here, right here.

And instead of just somebody talking about Him, here He was telling Himself, telling about Himself and showing by His life that what He taught was true. And then because He said, if you will live this little piece, if you will live this, then all that you will read in the rest of the Bible will be the result of living like this. The Acts of the Apostles. All the wonderful inspiration and the power of the Spirit right up to the end of the Bible is result of those men living this part of the Bible. So Jesus has to be the very centrepiece of our lives, the very centrepiece of our lives. Or else the old Adam, the old part of us, will keep pushing itself up and pushing itself up. And we never shall work from the Spirit. And so we must be stabilised in Jesus. This morning it was one of the most beautiful sights. I always loved that, when I see people rededicating their lives. And I was so glad that our beloved young minister here invited them to do so. Oh, I just thought it was so beautiful. The shyness dropped away. Just the enthusiasm to be just what God wanted them to be. I felt such an overwhelming joy. I can’t tell you how wonderful it was.

And yet mingled with it, you know, especially somebody who’s older, you think, as you look at all those young people, along that road they’ll have tests. Yes, they’ll have tests. But oh Lord, keep them strong. And I know, and we’ve got many young people here this evening, I know that the only thing I can offer to them is this glorious Sermon on the Mount. You see, we read it so glibly. We go through it and we try to explain it, but I don’t believe a single person in this world can explain the Sermon on the Mount till they have lived it. And when they have lived it, it bubbles out of them as something that’s real. They speak with authority. So many people are peace lovers, but not peacemakers. And you cannot be a peacemaker anywhere but in the midst of strife. You don’t have to make peace where there’s all peace. So Jesus was showing you that you must be a peacemaker. And friends, that isn’t always easy. Because sometimes it means that we must be silent. Sometimes it means we must courageously bear witness, and yet be very calm and very dignified and very humble about it. So actually the Sermon on the Mount, I assure you, is not easy. I’d like to tell you a little story here about a young man.

One of the cities that I worked in Texas was a very lovely young man, very wealthy young man. And he asked me one day, not flippantly, but in a gay manner, was I really satisfied with that kind of life? And I said, “Oh, there isn’t any other life like it.” And he said, “I wish you’d meet me for lunch and I’d like to talk to you about it.” You know, I think he thought he was going to change me to become a gay old person again or something. And to tell me I was stupid, you know, to waste my life. And so many people have told you that, I expect. “Oh, don’t give your life to this. Have a little fun.” They don’t know what fun is. The greatest fun, the holy fun, is when we see people just finding this real joy in life. So I met him for lunch. And of course, like I always do, because, you know, I cannot trust myself to say things alone that have got to be important, I always ask the Lord, “What shall I say?” And then I feel as if I’ve got Him along with me, you know, and I’m all right. And no matter what they say, He will answer. So he said to me while we were having lunch, “Well, what do you feel I ought to do?”

“I mean, do you think there’s anything about me that isn’t right?” And it came up before I could stop myself. I said, “Young man, you’re as poor as a church mouse.” And he said, “Poor?” I said, “So poor that if you died tonight, you’d go over as naked in spirit as you came in body.” He said, “Whatever do you mean?” I said, “Yes. And you know, I am so rich because if He takes me, I’ll have a little clothing on. Yes, I’m richer than you.” And he looked worried. And he said, “I never thought about that.” I said, “I know. It’s just that you have to turn your thought and think.” Jesus kept making people think. Oh, how He made them think. Then he said to me, “Well, what do you advise me to do?” I said, “Read the first beatitude.” He said, “Where is it?” And I’m amazed how few people know where the Sermon on the Mount is found. And I told him. And he said, “All right.” I said, “Just the first one. Don’t go any further. Just the first one. Blessed are the poor in spirit.”

“That is the kingdom of heaven.” You know, I once asked a little boy at the Silver Bay camp to explain. We had a lovely camp there. And I brought these children. And I said, “Now, we’re going to ask you the meaning of the Sermon on the Mount because I don’t think these grown-up people know. And you young children know. So we’re just going to let you answer them.” So the adults would ask, “What does this mean?” Now this particular one came. And this little boy said, I have this under tape. It’s sweet. This little boy said, “Well, see, I’m not very rich in toys and things like that. I’m quite poor. I don’t have too many. And oh, I wish I was rich in them.” So he said, “If I was rich in them, you see, oh, then I’d have just all I wanted. So I guess if you’re poor in spirit and you’d like to be rich in spirit, well, then I guess you got the kingdom of heaven.” Well, I don’t think that’s bad, do you? I know we’re told it means poor in pride, but I rather like his little definition of it. Anything he was poor in, he wanted to get rich in. And I suppose you could say, well, blessed are the poor in spirit, those who are conscious of not having much of the Lord, for now they’re beginning to discover the kingdom of heaven.

Well, anyway, this young man took this verse. I went away. I was away quite a while. I had a letter from his brother and he said, “I don’t know what you’ve done to my brother, but he’s got his nose stuck in that Sermon on the Mount day after day. Worry to death. Just worry to death.” Next time I saw him, I said, “Now, next one, it’s a wonderful one. Blessed are they that mourn.” He said, “What about?” I said, “You’ve been mourning, haven’t you? Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.” And then strangely enough, you know, the other verse says, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” The Lord gives it back to him again. You’ve got to relinquish what you have and feel that’s all there is in the world necessary for your happiness and mourn because you don’t have enough of the Lord’s Spirit. And then He says, “Now you’ve become meek and now I will give you, you shall inherit the earth. I can trust you with it now.” Oh, it is amazing, that Sermon on the Mount. Young people, I wish that you would read just one little beatitude a day and go out in the morning to school or wherever you go and make up your mind you’re going to look for an opportunity to live one of those beatitudes.

So you see, Jesus really gave His whole life to reveal His own teaching. And if you look carefully through His life, you cannot trace one place where He did not keep, absolutely keep truly to the letter of His teaching. And strangely enough, He had to go through it all. He had to go through it all. The non-resistance part, the undying love, the peacemaker, the pure in heart. He had to be every single one of those things and He didn’t fail. So this is why Jesus for me, and I know He is for many of you, He is all in all. And He said, “What think ye of Christ?” Do you still think of Him as son of Joseph, son of Mary, or a biblical story, or a beautiful figure, historical, a good man? Or do you lose sight of the actual human man and say, “You are the Christ, Son of the living God. I feel You. I feel You within you, within me.” How do you feel Christ within you? Many young people have said to me, “How do I know when He lives in me? How do I know?” Well, for one thing, you begin to take on His nature. A little bit of His nature. Where you said, “Well, he brought that on himself.

I can’t help him. He shouldn’t have done that. He made his bed. He must lie on it.” Instead, your heart is filled with compassion. You feel, “Oh, I wish he had made that mistake. Oh, just look what he’s having to go through as a result.” Just like Jesus, you know, when He looked over Jerusalem. I’m sure He didn’t say, “Oh, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets. I would have gathered you as a hen would hurt chicks, and you would not.” I know He didn’t say it like that. “Oh, Jerusalem, thou who killest the prophets. I would have gathered you as a hen would hurt chicks, and you would not.” The yearning, the compassion in His soul. Everything about Jesus was feeling. “And in all your afflictions, I am afflicted. I feel for you.” Even that rich young man, you know, came and he kept all the laws. And yet, he could not. Jesus said, “One thing thou lackest. Could you sell all you have and give it to the poor and follow me?” He didn’t say he had to. He said, “Could you?” If you were put to the test, could you? Does it mean so much to you that you couldn’t do it? Or do you love Him so much you could follow Him, even if that was taken from you?

He didn’t say he had to sell it. But when a young man looked sorrowful, he couldn’t. Because he had many possessions. And Jesus looked at him with love. We read that He looked at him and loved him. He understood. Always He understood. So I knew He understood me. And every time I made mistakes, I knew He understood me. And I can remember so well when I began the work in Cape Town. And it was mostly counseling in the beginning, apart from a few classes. I had to hear problems that I had never myself experienced. And I thought, well, then how is one going to help solve those problems? And again I came to Jesus. “Well, You never had any of those problems, did You, Lord? You were persecuted and misunderstood. But You never sinned. So You didn’t get Yourself into these terrible mistakes and muddles, did You? Well, then, Lord, You knew how to cope with it. I ought to know how to cope with it. You tell me what to say.” And it would be just like relinquishing my little argument within. And I’d say, “You tell me what to say.” And I have learned through the years, in every situation, to say, “What would You do? What would You say?” Of course you don’t say those words.

You think it within. And kind of expect, watch, and wait for what He’s going to do and what He’s going to say. And I practiced this. And I can remember this young man coming. And he had done something that was pretty awful in the sight of the world. And he sort of had his head down while he was telling me. And I felt this yearning come into me. And you know, there’s no joy like feeling one of those parts of the nature of Jesus come into you. You know He’s there. You know you have His Spirit. And I looked at him and I wondered what the Lord would say to him. And this is what came. “Young man, you’re in the most enviable position. You’re way out on the mountainside, alone, and it’s dark. And you’ve lost everything and everybody. And yet you’re calling out, ‘Oh, if only somebody could lift me out of this.’ Young man, what a position you’re in. For the Lord comes onto the mountainside and picks you up and gathers you in His arms. This is a grand moment for you. If you hadn’t been lost, how could He find you? You couldn’t have the joy of being found.” And he lifted up his head. He said, “You mean He’ll do that for me?”

Well, I said, “You remember, He said, ‘I didn’t come for those who are healthy. I came for the sick. I didn’t come for those who are good. I came for those who needed me.’” And his face lighted up. And I said, “Isn’t it a grand position to be in?” And his shoulders went up. And he was thrilled to be taken by the Lord at that moment to start his journey back to the fold. Now, that’s one part of His nature. There were other parts of His nature. He was falsely accused. You and I have very often been accused. But there have been things we have done. And we don’t like being found out, naturally. But nevertheless, when we are accused and we are found out, because we are found out, it’s because we deserve it. Now, if you are falsely accused, how wonderful that it isn’t true. How perfectly wonderful that you can be alone with God at your center and say, “Oh, Father, how glad I am it isn’t true.” No wonder He said, “Rejoice and be exceeding glad when you’re accused falsely for my sake.” Don’t you see? We are just not yet in this absolute joy that He gave. A joy that came from, yes, persecution. False accusation. People thinking you’re not normal.

All these things. How much of these have we had in our Christian life? Or are we going smoothly along? And when we come across something in business or home life, where a little bit of compromising won’t be noticed, and that gets you over the situation anyway, it’s peaceful. Friends, when the Spirit dwells within you, when the Spirit dwells within you, every time we do that, we betray our Lord. Oh, how glibly we speak of Judas betraying Him. Oh, Peter denying Him. Oh, Thomas doubting Him. And yet, sometimes in a day, a man can be every one of those things. Betray the Lord, deny Him, and doubt Him. And so, you see, without His Spirit… I know I stress it. I hope this week I haven’t kept on about it. But it’s because I know what my life would have been without it. Without it. The situations I have found myself in many countries. And without it, I could not have got through. I could not have. But with that Spirit, who is the ruler, the supreme ruler of this universe, and of me when I let Him be, why, you haven’t got a thing to fear. And slowly the world knows, and the lukewarm Christians, then know what reality is. We have to be real.

“What think ye of Christ?” Is He son of David to you? Or is He Christ, Son of the living God? You cannot cry that out from your human mind. It can only come from your soul. When you have known that He is. When you have known. I hear crowds sing sometimes, “How will the world see Jesus unless they see Jesus in me? How do I know that Jesus lives? I know because He lives in me.” I hear people sing that over and over again. And I wonder, does He live in you? Does He? Altogether, I mean. So that He is your life. He is your strength. He is all the things that He says He is. And sometimes, you know, when you begin to feel this nearness, you just know that you could say what He says. It seems to come out of you as though the very spirit of you is His Spirit. On one occasion, last time when I was in South Africa, not this time, but two years ago, I was staying with my daughters at the sea. A beautiful rugged place called Plettenberg Bay. They’re the Cape. And they were in the garden and I was outside looking over the sea at these huge rugged rocks. And I was thinking about Jesus.

And it seemed to me that He was sitting there. It just seemed as if He was there. And it seemed as if I could feel Him yearning over this world. After 2,000 years, they’re still living in chaos. And I just felt, oh, what a patient Lord. Waiting till the sons of God should return. And I was just so filled with Him that suddenly I felt His tiredness for the world. You know, Jesus got tired. Some people say, “You shouldn’t get tired, should you?” Oh, yes, Jesus got tired. He got tired doing that glorious work. Tired physically. And He slept. He was tired. Yes, I’m glad He got tired. And in those times, this time, I felt He was looking over there. And the time seemed long. And I cried out without thinking. I said, “Oh, come unto me. I will give you rest. I’ll never leave you nor forsake you.” And it just came into me, almost, how strange, you’re saying what He said. And my daughter came out and she said, “Mommy, what are you doing? You look so, so different. What are you doing? What are you saying?” So I told her. And, you know, she said again, it was the Spirit, you see. She said, “Well, Mommy, I don’t suppose many people offer Him a heart of rest, do they?

They ask Him to come to their troubled heart. Or they go to Him for rest. But seldom do they tell Him to come into a calm heart and mind. And, Mommy, I think it’s rather lovely that we can say to Him, ‘I will never leave You nor forsake You, Lord.’ Oh, He must love that, don’t you think? He says it to us. But how many people say to Him, ‘Lord, I will never leave You nor forsake You. Oh, Lord, will You come into my heart and find rest here?’ This world doesn’t offer You that. This world doesn’t even want Your rest.” So isn’t it the Spirit within us? The Spirit of His very self calling to Him, as it did when He was on earth. I feel strongly that the closer we live to this living Christ, we slowly begin to take on His nature. And unconsciously we yearn, we’re compassionate, we’re non-resistant. All the things that He is becomes visible in us because He lives in us. Now, there is no credit due to you or to me when that happens. The only one thing we did, the only one thing we did was let Him in. Just let Him in. That picture where He knocks at the door, you know. He didn’t force the door open.

He just knocked at the door. “Let me in. If you let me in, I’ll sup with you. And you can sup with me.” And as I am talking about that coming to sup with me, I want to speak just for a few moments on that chapter where He said, “He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood.” You know that verse? And as I read through that chapter, three times He said the same thing. And He seemed as if He was making those people who were hearing Him think, “He who eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood.” But previous to that, He had told them that He was the bread that came down from heaven. That His, the word was the bread. The word of life was the bread, the living bread. The bread, not bread like Moses gave to the Israelites, but the bread that comes from heaven, the Son of Man. The Word made flesh. See? Now, He says, “You must eat of my flesh and drink of my blood.” When I was a little girl, my father used to tell me about this. And I said, “Oh, but Daddy, I think it’s dreadful.” Now, I’m going to tell you what went on in my little mind. I used to think, “Oh, I’m so glad that it’s all gone and I don’t have to eat any.”

Now, it sounds rather blasphemous, but that’s what my little mind thought. That I had to eat His flesh and drink His blood. I couldn’t bear it. So I used to pray, “God, will You show me what that means?” One day when I was older, I read the chapter. He went right on doing this and they were murmuring, “Eat his flesh,” they said, “and drink his blood. This is a terrible thing for us to take in.” And then Jesus gently smiled and He said, “Doth my saying offend you? Doth my saying offend you?” Looking all around at them like this. Of course it did. They took it literally. They had no idea what He meant in the spirit. Then He said, “Oh, the flesh profiteth nothing. It is the spirit that quickeneth.” And then I knew that our holy communion that we have must be taken truly from within. And the Lord, who is at the altar in my heart and in yours, is forever handing out to me the bread of life, His word, which, because He in the fleshly body has departed, because of that, now His Spirit brings back to my memory whatsoever He said when He was on earth. And so the Spirit of Christ within me is that beautiful Spirit which hands out to me the bread of life and the cup of joy.

He drank a cup of sorrow to the dregs, but He gives us a cup of joy. And the sparkling wine stands for the joy. It’s symbolic. But I like, too, to think that it’s the water of life, this absolute fountain within me that can spring up always into joy within me and out from me. So the holy communion must take place within. And He feeds us with the bread of life, and He gives us of the wine of joy as we feed upon the word. Our mouths, our bodies, feed on the food that will strengthen and nourish and cause this body to grow. But the soul feeds on the word of God, the bread of life, and drinks of the water of life for its sustenance. And thus the soul lives. And so if we neglect the soul to look after the body, then the soul doesn’t grow. And the soul is forever crying within, crying within, “Give me the word of God.” Searching for God. That is man’s search. The soul’s hunger. The soul’s hunger is man’s search. So to the young people tonight, as well as the others, I would say this. If you would take on the nature of Jesus, do what He did. Take the Sermon on the Mount. Give yourself that discipline for a time.

See whether you can be pure in heart a whole day. No jealousies. No possessiveness. No looking for ugly things. No looking for things that hurt. But looking with a clear eye at only the good. “The pure in heart shall see God.” And “blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.” And “love your enemies. Do good to those that hate you and despitefully use you.” Oh, don’t you see that Jesus reversed everything. He reversed everything because the law of love is giving, giving, giving. Now, final word. When this Christ in you becomes full stature, growing into the fullness of stature, then in an amazing way, God cries out within, “I give my Son to the world.” Do you realize that you can give that loving Jesus to the world? And God says again, “I so love the world that I’ve given my only begotten Son.” And He keeps on giving His only begotten Son through us so that the world might love the Son through knowing Him. Now, I want all you boys and girls, especially those who today made that special, special journey to God. I call it a journey to God when the self turns away and the true self goes forward to learn and to grow. You offered yourselves today.

Don’t let it stop there. Now, as a little girl, I gave my heart to Him pretty well every Sunday and took it away Monday. Oh, I don’t know how many times I gave Him my heart and then took it back again. But it isn’t just saying I’ve given Him my heart or being emotionally sort of disturbed for a while, which I so easily could be as a child, but to give Him myself out of sheer joy and sheer love and say, “Now how shall I keep this joy? How am I going to be able to live this life so that all my friends now know I have found Jesus, so that they know I’m going to witness for Him? What shall I do?” Well, I will open the Sermon on the Mount and I will see what I can do today to prove it, to prove it. The classes I held of young children and teenagers in South Africa didn’t just learn it. They had to go away home and practice one beatitude all through the week and come back the following week and each tell what opportunities they’d had. I said, “If you tell me a lie just so I can be pleased with you, you have lied to God because I must have the truth.”

Oh, you would have rejoiced at the beautiful little stories they would come back and tell me of how it worked. And when I was back in South Africa now, just over Christmas, from September till February, some of those teenagers were now just married. Some of them had little ones and they came to give me a surprise visit from far and near and they all told me how the living of the Sermon on the Mount had shaped their lives. I thought it was very gracious of God to let me see a portion of His harvest. You know, sometimes when you get a little tired and you feel that you’re… sometime you don’t feel you can go on just for a little while, and then up comes this surging joy again because the Lord shows you a little of the harvest reaped from the seeds that He permitted you to sow. And so it is a joyous life, young people. It isn’t a sad life. It isn’t easy, though. I’m just not going to kid you there. It isn’t easy, but it’s so worthwhile. It’s as if you are working towards a high degree. Saint Paul said it is pressing towards the mark of my high calling in Christ Jesus. He certainly reached it, didn’t he? And so let us just not get… But, oh, slack in keeping up these things we’ve heard and absorbed this week.

Let us go back to our schools and homes, determining that the Christ should be seen in every situation. And, you know, as you’re determined to do it, it’s as if the Spirit says, “All right, I’m here. Use me. I’ll never fail you. Just turn in, speak to me, and I will commence this, whatever it is you’ve got to do.” I know that if you’ll do that, your life will be full of joy. And when people say to you, “What do you think about Jesus? I mean, what do you feel about Him?” you’ll say, “Here’s the Christ, Son of the living God.” “How do you know?” “Because He lives in me. Because I feel His presence. Because all the things He’s doing through me now, I never did and never knew how to. That is why I know He is Christ, Son of the living God.” Oh, friends, it would be so wonderful. So that you would never have to say, “What do you think of me? Who do you think I am?” Just tell out who He is by your deeds. I think somehow that life of Jesus was awfully alone. I think if He hadn’t been so close to His Father, He’d have been very lonely. Because it doesn’t matter what He taught. Those men, they never seem to grasp it.

I used to think, “Oh dear, you were the slowest lot of men. If I had lived in that time, I’d have done everything He said.” No, I wouldn’t. I’d have been just like them. And so would you. And so we’re not going to be that way. We’re going to be like they were after Jesus went away and they had received His Spirit. So “whom say ye that I am?” Ask that very often. And who do you think He is? Christ. The Son of the living God. Living in you. That’s who He is. Don’t try to explain about Him. I’ve heard people try to explain about Jesus. And whether He was born this way or that way. Or whether, do you really think this, that and the other. I don’t know. I don’t want to know. And it’s immaterial to me how. Now, all I know is I want Him to live in me. And then I shall prove He is the everlasting Son of the Father.