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I have been a missionary and evangelist for 68 years. I started in India, but now the world has become my parish. I was interviewed on television in the United States and a commentator asked me this question. Look around the world preaching. What do you have? that other people don't have is a good question and I answered it in one word. I have Christ in my approach to the non-Christian world in the presentation of Christ. By the way, I do not introduce Western civilization to Western forms of Christianity. to preach christ in the presentation we have three approaches, first public conferences, they will not go to churches, so we have to go to schools, colleges, theaters, public halls of various types, we call them conferences and we have non-Christian leaders to occupy the chair which tells the audience, come on, okay with this approach, I put Christ in and let them ask questions.

I knew that when he did it he was exposing me to being questioned by between 50 and 200 lawyers every night. mentality lawyers but when I started this this verse came to me and when they hand you over before kings and governors of my name they say do not be anxious about what you will speak it will be given to you in that hour what you will speak because it is not you who speak, but the spirit of your father that speaks in you, I believe that and I believe that throughout these years, more than half a century, I have been given what I must respond, that is the first approach, it is the approach of the public conference, the second approach.

It's at the roundtable, I thought we should be more intimate, so we took about 30 of the leading non-Christians and about a third of them are Christians and we said, let's take a new approach to religion. We have had the dogmatic. and the comparative, controversial and traditional approaches to religion, let's take one that is more similar to the method of science, in the scientific method of three outstanding things, experimentation, verification and exchange of verifications, closure of results, so I say that here We are just another group of people. or less religious use religion as a working hypothesis in life what have we verified what has become real for us will share with us his verifications I suggest that no one argue no one try to make a case no one speak abstractly no one preach the rest of us but that we simply share what our faith is doing for us in experience we tell the no to the atheists and the agnostics tell us how your atheism works your agnosticism works and we will not summarize it with the clothes but we We will leave it as it is, we will give the Going back to the circle, I tell you, I tell you, if you don't want to say it, just say, pass, the surprising thing is that very few people have died in all these years that have passed.

I'm happy to tell you what they have found and what they haven't found. I have heard this type of approach for about 25 years listening intimately to what people said their faith was doing for them. What was the result? I don't think so. I am not exaggerating when I say that there has not been a single round table in the entire world without this result always coming to light, namely, that in the end Christ was in moral and spiritual command of the situation, not because a Clifford summarized it, not because We tried to put something on top but because he was doing something for people that no one else was doing I just added my word at the end and left it at that in one result and only one result if he didn't know that the new testament says that Jesus is the way I would know this from my roundtable lectures.

Muhammad walked home with me one night after one of these round table conferences and said that we Hindus and Mohammedans must have been more honest and sincere than you Christians at that round table conference. I asked him why well he said we all said we found nothing and all you Christians said you found something therefore we must have been more honest and sincere than you. I said that's one interpretation, there's another interpretation and that's that Jesus is the way he's the way because he's doing something for people that no one else is doing he's the way I sat there feeling like I had the key in my hand and that key was christ the third approach has been what we call the asham approach we felt that it was not enough to give the public proclamation and have this round table conference approach we must demonstrate it in a group this word must become flesh in a group so we organized this movement asha the ashram uh what we call the ashrams in 1930 in india in the himalaya mountains I did it for my own purpose I was an evangelist and I knew how difficult it is to be an evangelist and a Christian you become worthy dogmatic censorious tell other people what to do but no one tells you what to do I'm going to try to pose the question today and try to answer it.

An important question: what happens to the self in the Christian faith? That is important because the self is the only thing we possess, what we brought into the world, what we take out of the world and the only thing we have to live intimately with day to day, is what happens to that self in one of our ashrams, places of spiritual retreat. The head of the ashram at Open Heart said that he used to think of myself. with something to cultivate I wonder now if it is not a cancer that must be removed he alternated between cultivation and cancer obviously confused many are what happens to this me in the Christian faith it is a problem for many people a man said everywhere I I go, I go and I ruin everything.

Another man said that I am addicted to myself like some people addicted to alcohol. One man said: I'm glad I don't believe in an afterlife because I wouldn't. I don't want to live with myself forever obviously the self can be a problem and a pain or it can be something beautiful before addressing the Christian answer I would like to address the non-Christian answer for a moment the life answers that have come out of India have been mostly global and ingenious personality the world was maya an illusion personality is something that must be transcended or truly extinguished buddha would take us to what he calls nirvana literally the state of the extinct I blew out the candle and asked the Buddhist monk in the living room if there was any existence in nirvana.

He said: how can it exist? There is no suffering, therefore there is no existence. It goes beyond personality to the impersonal, so personal problems disappear because personality disappears. We come to modern psychology and find a tremendous reaction against that Eastern view of personality. Modern psychology affirms three things about yourself. First, know yourself. accept and express yourself just as I would have to reject the Eastern view of personality I would have to reject this modern psychological view of personality look at those three things know yourself but how can you know yourself by studying yourself in relationship with yourself and with others ? everything is linked to the earth you only know yourself in relationship with god that you are a child of god and that you are being created in the likeness of the child of god second they say accept yourself but how can you accept an unacceptable self

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of fears conflicts self-worry and guilt third express yourself you gather a dozen people all of whom want to express themselves so what do you have?

You have to be prepared for shock, confusion, jealousy and fight. What about these three things? They lack one thing that the Christian faith would put before all three. First, surrender, surrender, the only thing you have in your hands. Back to God, yes, a woman who is a reporter told me this, why is God so cruel that he demands so much of us, that is, he demands the only thing we possess? She was right, God demands that, but what if we? Give that self to God, will he erase it? Cancel it. Some Christians think it is cancelled. that the self is gone, but what is real in the Christian interpretation is not that the self is gone.

God has not created us to uncreate us. He has created us. us to become more creative, so we surrender this self-centered self and give it back to God. What's happening? He cleanses it of selfishness and returns it to us again now affirmed. Can you know yourself? Yes, like a child of God being created. in the likeness of the son of god you can accept yourself if because it is an acceptable self it is under redemption and you can even love yourself Christianity teaches self-love you will love your neighbor as yourself and you could even love yourself now?

Can you express yourself? Yes, because you are not expressing a selfish, self-centered self, but you are expressing to us a self that is centered on God. Paul says that long live his Christ, so expressing himself was expressing Christ now to the whole person. You can say that I have what I call the listening post in the early hours of the morning when I say to God, do you have something to tell me? One morning he said yes, I have this, you are mine, the life is yours, oh, I said, please say that again. He said you are mine life is yours if I belong to Christ then life belongs to me I can go out and dominate it and conquer it and rescue something good from everything that happens the personality then it is affirmed it is not canceled affirmed then the great problem of life is to leave from your own hands into the hands of god yourself in your own hands is a problem and a pain in the hands of god is a possibility and a power just as my fingers are rooted in the palm of my hand so all these external sins have Its roots in the self that does not give up.

Why do we get angry at someone through the self? why we are liars to get some advantage for ourselves why we are dishonest the same reasons some advantage for ourselves why we are impure we think it will be a pleasure for the self and why we are jealous and envious because someone is getting ahead of us oneself? All these external sins have their root in the unsurrendered self. They are the fruit. The unsurrendered self is the root. These are symptoms. The unsurrendered self is. a disease so don't fight the symptoms give up the disease a pastor in America was very bitter against the bishop and the cabinet the power of appointment that he thought they were not giving him the church is big enough for him so he is bitter and resentful then he said: one of his parishioners one day the bishop and the cabinet are crucifying me I am hanging on the cross the prison a very wise person said yes pastor you are hanging on the cross but you have never died you are still writhing with resentments he went straight to his heart knelt and died he died the little man he was and from the ashes of that hour another man rose again the man of god 285 people became his church that year a church he thought was too small for him, but he had been too small for that.

A very beautiful and very talented girl was in one of our ashrams. She walked out onto the side of a mountain and sat on a rustic bridge over a mountain stream. She picked up a chip and threw it. I threw it into the water and said that was where my fears were I saw it float I picked up another one and threw it into the water and she said that was where my resentment was I saw it float and he picked up another one and she threw it away she said that was where it was my pride saw it floating away then he got to the real one he knew this was the real one the other one was preliminary he threw it he said it was me and he watched it float away he returned to the ocean with wings oh he said I'm free I'm free I'm free we are we yes we are free now to be creative and now to develop ourselves if we are in his hands so when you put yourself in the hands of God you have surrendered to creative love you lie align yourself with the creativity of God's love and now you become a creative center in this universe the heir of the millions of coca- tail the youngest candlestick became an alcoholic he fought against alcohol and lost one day he came to his garden half drunk in a car with a driver he heard a voice saying give up it shook him he said oh I have been trying to hand over the alcohol but this says give up I myself went in and told his wife what I had heard.

They knelt and he said I never heard a prayer like the one my wife prayed when we got up from our knees. He knew it was over. The alcohol was gone. I asked my wife to go get a tape. I took the bottle out of the closet and tied this ribbon around it. I put it back in the closet as a museum specimen. I knew I would never touch it again. I could take it day by day and he never touched it again before he died. He said I'm going to give away ninety percent of my income.

I want to give one hundred percent before I die here was a man conquered by habit now on top of his world when he tried not to surrender to alcohol but to surrender to himself alcohol was the symptom the unsurrendered self was the disease so no you do it fight your symptoms surrender the disease the self is the center of all our problems yourself in your own hands is a problem and a pain yourself in the hands of christ is a possibility and a power therefore when you surrender to god that your freedom for his will is our freedom I hope you do it god bless you yes this morning dr

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we are very happy to have you as a guest at the henderson rotary club in sweden we are happy that you promised to talk to us about christianity and the word situation and now I will give you the vlog.

Your committee asked me to speak to you on the subject of Christianity and the world situation. If Christianity has any message for this time, it must speak ofthe central need. of this age and the central need of this age is peace, if I put my ear close to the heart of humanity to listen to their inmosia on both sides of the curtain, I think I would hear one word, peace, if we don't. we don't have peace we don't have anything else no one can win an atomic energy war both sides will be ruined some say in 24 hours another four doesn't matter but it's 4 24 both sides will be ruined so If we don't have peace we don't have anything else what can you say Christianity regarding peace?

Well, when the world war came, a verse of Scripture came up and spoke of my condition, as the Quakers would say, it became authority on this. one to make peace by creating in himself a new man on both sides the situation there, as you will remember, was between Jew and Gentile the Jew thought he had the right to rule because of a divine commission the Roman Gentile felt he had the right to govern Due to the Roman imperial night, a man born Jewish but also a Roman citizen and a deeper Christian entered into that situation. Paul said if the Jew conquers the Gentiles there will be no peace or the Gentiles conquer the Jews there will be no peace, you have to get them both. change and arrive at a third position bringing together the truth in the Jew and the truth in the Gentile in a third something a new man from both sides the emergence of that new man from both sides would bring peace because neither of the two would conquer the other, but something beyond each would conquer both is that the path to peace is to produce that new man from both parties in every tense situation.

Yes, I believe that it is he who chose from reality a universal principle that, if applied to any situation, would bring peace let's take the simplest situation if it is simple between a husband and a wife if the husband conquers the wife and represses her knowing for women like me there will be no peace or if the wife conquers the husband and conquers him by knowing the men as I do again there will be no peace you have to get them both to change by gathering the truth in the husband the truth and the wife in a third something a new man on both sides the union conquers both that will bring peace because neither of the two would conquer the other but something beyond each one would conquer both take other situations take the situation between capital and labor if capital conquers the work and suppresses work there will be no peace or if work conquers capital and suppresses capital again there will be no peace we must ensure that both change and reach a third position by bringing together the truth in capital and the truth and work in one third something a new man on both sides, what would that new man on both sides be?

In the industry, as I see it, he would be a cooperative man. What do I mean by cooperation? I think it would mean management of working capital and division of profits and losses. I told him that in London, Ontario, Canada, the main industrialist came up to me at the end of the meeting and he said: you are right, my factory was a dispute, I was giving the least possible, my men were doing the least possible, we were tied up and not We got nowhere quickly I called the men one day and said look here we are on the wrong foundation some pagan foundations I am on it you are on it I will love yourself let's change it to a Christian basis you will love your neighbor as yourself If both have had the right to hire and Firing now I give it to you, you decide who enters and who stays in the factory and you will set aside twenty-three and one-third percent of the profits of this institution for work above wages, which We will solve it together, the spirit said immediately. my factory changed I didn't have to eliminate the lazy people the workers eliminated them because they were lazy not only against capital but also against the workers it was in everyone's interest to work and work hard because the more everyone worked the more everyone received my factory went from a dispute to a family overnight why because they produced a new man from both sides and that brought peace take the situation between the races is temporary throughout the world if the white races conquer the colored races there will not be peace or if the colored races conquer the white races again there will be no peace you have to get both to change and reach a certain position by bringing together the truth in the white races and the truth in the colored races in a third something like that New man of both parties What would this new man of both parties mean between the races?

It would mean a cooperative order between the races because each race has something to give to the other races in this rise of social revolution that we are discovering. this as the underdogs begin to rise to the top the underdogs of the world are rising we have discovered that there are no permanently inferior races nor permanent superior races underdeveloped races and developed races but there are no permanent inferiors nor permanent superiors given the same stimulus and the same incentive the brain of humanity will come out more or less the same I don't know what that means for you for me it is good news there are infinite possibilities in all there was when I was in Africa a colonial discourse that was circulating was this all the nations have left their monuments physical monuments to a great cultural past except Africa they have left no monuments but a green jungle, which means they have no past, they have no future, it is true that Africans have no past except a green jungle, but that doesn't I'm not saying no has a future and that does not mean that it is inferior.

It is not inferior. He has the same brain capacity as anyone else in Kenya. We had a school there for African children and they got 99 passes from a foreigner. cambridge language exams european schools 80 passes 30 in indian schools 30 passes why the difference the African had an incentive said you say I'm inferior I'll show you I'm not overcompensated and he moved on there are infinite possibilities in for everyone everywhere, those are good news and we must bring out those infinite possibilities and contribute to a global culture. Let us consider the conflict between individualism and collectivism, one represented by the Americans, the other represented by Russia, if the individualism represented by the United States conquers the collectivism represented in Russia, there would be no plan for peace, revenge or if at all On the other hand, there will be a plan, a plan of revenge, you have to get both to change and reach a third position, guiding the truth in individualism and the truth in collectivism to a third something.

I am convinced that individualism is a half-truth, we forget that life is social and collectivism is a half-truth, we forget that life is individual and personal, so something beyond the individual and collectivism is fighting to birth individualism. It is a half-truth, it forgets that life is social collectivism, it is a half-truth, it forgets to forget that life is individual and personal, something beyond each one is fighting to be born a new society where you love your neighbor, collectivism, choosing as yourself the truth in individualism a kingdom of god society is striving to be born beyond individualism beyond collectivism but gathering the truth in each one in a higher synthesis the kingdom of god society I think that is the meaning of this era that something beyond the individual and beyond individualism and beyond collectivism is going to be born I look forward to that kingdom of the society of God one last word only two great programs for peace leagues pacs treaties and letters between sovereign nations a program the another world government which of these two can bring peace I am convinced that leagues packages treaties and letters between sovereign nations are truces between wars we had 4,800 treaties in force when this last war broke out we broke them without scruples or hesitation the peace treaties of the world have lasted an average of two and a half years in the history of humanity they were supposed to last forever but they lasted two and a half years why, because the leagues contain treaties and statutes are simply truces between wars, we have to come to a government world.

I want a world government government with collective security under which Russia would be free to carry out its way of life within Russia. The United States would be free to carry out its way of life within the United States, all other nations are equal, so whoever can produce the best model of order wins. I am not afraid of that test because I believe that we can produce a better order of society from freedom. men instead of slaves we are going to make this world government before calamity hits us I think we will do it I think that having taken us so far God is not going to allow us to now be blown to pieces with the atomic bomb that he has placed There is a lot in humanity and its interest is broad and having invested so deeply I do not think it is going to let us go bankrupt before reaching consummation I believe that we are going to avoid this world war this third world war we are going to take advantage of atomic energy for the collective good and tomorrow we could abolish poverty.

You say that is an illusion, of course it is an illusion, because I desire it with all my heart, but it is based on the nature of God. God I believe he will carry us through. this crisis in a better day and that is the coming of the kingdom of God that would be the new man of all parties. I believe therefore that the Christian has the answer in this formula to try to produce in each situation a new man on both sides, so that both change and arrive at a new situation, a new base, a new man on both sides, I believe that that would bring peace, so that is the Christian response, as I see it to the current world situation, and I believe that it is workable and that nothing else will work, we invite you to listen to Dr.

Stanley Jones, Methodist missionary evangelist, talk about the theme Jesus is Lord. Many people are bewildered by the complexity of religion in heterosexual settlements. A Chinese father sent a blank application to one of our schools to have his child. He admitted that in the blank space on the application there was a column that said what his religion is and the Chinese father wrote the word confusion. Many people are confused about this issue of religion. I would like to reduce it, if I can, to simplicity. The first Christian. the creed was just three words if you confess with your mouth that jesus is lord you will be saved no one can say that jesus is lord but by the holy spirit in both places the phrase jesus is lord is in quotes showing that it was used as an early christian confession such Perhaps the oldest Christian creed tells us that all great discoveries are a reduction of complexity to simplicity the false hypothesis is always complex you have to use several words to cover up the falsehood if you tell lies you have to have a very good memory to remember what what you have told and the more lies you tell the better memory you should have but telling the truth every time is simple of all the great reductions from complexity to simplicity this is the greatest of all the Christian faith reduced to three words Jesus is Lord and he Amazing is that this grew among the Jews who were fiercely monotheistic their characteristic word was from deuteronomy hero israel the lord our god is one lord god was lord these same people found themselves saying jesus is lord how did that happen?

Not lightly, they discovered that Jesus was doing something that only God could do, that their touch on life was God's touch, and from their reluctant lips fell the great confession that Jesus is Lord, it shall not be, and they were right. . to start with Jesus we don't start with God we don't start with man if you start with God you don't start with God you start with your ideas of God that are not God and we don't start with man if you start with man you start with man's problems and if you start with the problem you will probably end up with a problem and in the process you will probably become a problem we do not start with god we do not start with man we start with the god man and from here we work up to god and from him we go down to the man in his life we ​​see the life they fixed Jesus the incarnate if they were profoundly right psychologists tell us that the three basic needs in human nature are these first to belong second to have these we have meaning and the third to have reasonable security the first need of human nature is belong I hear two men, a good man and a noble man say in different language the first thing in life is to have personal freedom I put my question marks I don't think the first thing in life is personal freedom I think the first thing in life is personal bondage defines what to obey where to bend the knee where to give your supreme loyalty to these early christians they said it is jesus and how they came to that conclusion they came to that conclusion because they found that jesus was lord in three directions first he was lord of the past now this past It is a problematic issue, we say that it is the past but it is not the past, it invades today like guilt, what are we going to do with this feeling of guilt?

Some people say you draw the curtain and forget it, you can't, others say you accumulate good deeds to balance what you've done, you can't, what can you do, nothing, can't you? caught between the events of yesterday and the coming judgment and consciencepronounce the verdict in advance, but you can't do anything? If something is done, it must be done from God's side. Will there be anything that the god I see in the face of Jesus Christ has done? We have done something that we could not reach him, so he comes to us carrying our sins on his own body and offers us forgiveness with a hand pierced by a nail.

A great Midwestern businessman said to me one day, "I have a terrible feeling." of guilt in my life night after night I have tied my arm to the dead post so I couldn't sleep decently to punish myself and atone for my sins I said that hasn't taken away my guilt, has it?, he said no, it's still there I said, brother my, you are on the wrong path. You are offering your suffering to God as atonement for your sins. Do not offer your blood except the blood of the son of God. He empties your hands and takes God's gift.

We prayed together a few days later I received a letter from that man saying that he didn't know that a man could be as happy as me. All that guilt is that I went to church the next day and sang hymns I had never sung before. before and I went to my business the next day with the form of step that I had never known and for the first time in my life I dropped all my weight on the universe he discovered that Jesus was the lord of that past he could no longer see him but he saw the savior of the past then your lord of the present now this present is a difficult business that requires us to take responsibility for this business called life jung says that there is a difference between my psychiatry and that of freud freud says that the basis of neurosis is in the past in childhood I say that it is in the present what is the responsibility that this patient refuses to assume.

Why is he avoiding the disease and the illusion? Does Jesus have a message for this business called life? Can he help us take responsibility for him without shirking? Can it give us courage, courage and power to undertake this thing called living with fitness and power? he took the worst thing that could happen to him, meaning his death, and turned it into the best thing that could happen to the world, meaning his redemption, and when you can take the worst thing that can happen to you and turn it into the best What can happen to you? can happen then you know how to live if not for that then even though jesus has mastered this matter of life he is lord of every difficulty you face because he can turn every difficulty into a door every impediment into an instrument every ordeal into a morning Easter you can't stand the pain you use it you take it and do something with it just like the lotus flower descends into the mud of dirt and collects the dirt for the purpose of its life and transmutes it into the beauty of the lotus flower so that you can take over of the raw material of human life, something pleasant, something painful, something complementary, something critical, and you can incorporate it into the purpose of your life, transmute it and turn it into something else. character achievement jesus is the lord of the present he is the lord of pain lord of pain a woman arrived in one of our oceans in Canada her life had been destroyed with the death of her husband 10 years before one day she woke up and said : you know, I used to go out in my garden and listen to a bird that went up the tree every morning and said it was a pitiful note, she seemed to sympathize with me, her name was Helen, so the birds seem to say poor Helen, poor Helen Heaven, poor Helen.

She said I came to this ocean and brother Stanley stood by the lake and gave his vespers speeches and his sentences were punctuated by a deep throated bullfrog who kept saying and how hot so hot now she said I've been listening the gospel according to that bird self-pity poor heaven poor helen now I'm going to listen to the gospel according to that bullfrog I have lost my husband so I have been sad then what I found Jesus was the lord of the present a man was converted into a factory, he said before I converted I discovered I was wearing my shoes on my heels because I was rocking on my heels defensively afraid of this business called life after I converted I discovered I was getting my shoes wet on my toes life was leaning forward fearless expectant

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of adventure full of initiative jesus bends life forward with a mastery of this business called life he is lord of the present and his lord of your temptations lord of your passions lord of your appetites on the west coast a very prominent editor He told me you know I have been an alcoholic I looked at him and said impossible he said yes the alcohol gradually took over me I fought against it I lost I went to a sanatorium to see if they could do anything for me they brought a man there one day in very bad condition, I went to a doctor and said, doctor, that man is in a terrible condition, isn't he?

He said yes, but within a year he would be fine within a year. year you will not be fine it hit me like a blow I went out under the stars that night alone and defeated within a year you will not be fine there I remembered what a leper said to Jesus oh Jesus if you want falcons make me clean and the answer came back quickly I will be you clean He said I raised my hands to heaven and cried oh Jesus if you double me clean me and the answer came back quickly I will be you clean he said at that moment the power of alcohol was broken in my life I didn't fight it he was gone I haven't touched a drop since Jesus he is lord lord of your past lord of your present lord of your appetites he is lord then he is lord of the future now many people are afraid of the future because it contains death and many people are afraid of death like Jesus, any word about death through which he passed he came out on the other side and said: I am the resurrection and the life whoever believes in me you will never die if you belong to Christ you do not belong to death he is the lord of it but many people are not so afraid of this matter called death like this thing called time they see time coming and going and leaving its marks on them they look in the mirror and see the marks of the coming age if they get scared then they try to turn back the clock with various subterfuges it is a losing battle my sister my brother then what are you going to do?

There is a passage in the book of revelation that I love the tree of life bears twelve kinds of fruit each month having its own fruit I love that can each month each period of life have its own fruit its own beauty I found it so that each period of life can have its own particular charm and beauty. I loved being 24. I loved being 34. I loved being 44. I loved being 54. I loved being 64. And now, above all, I love being 74. I wouldn't be 24 for anything. It is fun. 74 and a Christian, all you have to do is walk off this road straight into the sunset and every day I say to myself

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, if you want to live, this is the way, if you don't want to live, live something. otherwise and hurting myself everything came down to simplicity when I was 74 years old God told me I'm going to give you the best 10 years of your life the next 10 ahead four of the remaining six these four have been the best four so far, when reach the end of these first ten years, I am going to ask for an extension of another 10 years.

I have warned in advance. I come to the end of the second ten years, I'm not really sure if you want it or not, but it's fun to be 74 years old and be a Christian, you have your rhythm, your harmony, your song and your way of living, and you know that Jesus is Lord, I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds it. the future and now my last word you have done it sir that means self-surrender a woman told me one day I discovered you you only have one remedy self-surrender I said you are right I cannot go down any path with anyone in anything without running directly into the need for the surrender of self, detach yourself from your own hands into the hands of god surrender of yourself he is lord not of this but of the other but of you through a complete and absolute surrender of self and that is my message jesus is lord throughout the world we have adopted that as our righteous in our greeting we raise our three fingers when we meet and say goodbye we raise our three fingers Jesus is Lord that is our testimony and our conviction and nothing can be greater