Deuteronomy 25, and just one
verse, verse 4. And thou shalt not muzzle the
ox when he treadeth out the corn. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox
when he treadeth out the corn. In ancient times, they don't
look like this now at all. We've got all the modern technology.
But in ancient times, what they would do, they would bring in
their wheat. And when you see corn in the
scripture, it's not like corn that you and I grow today. You
see the stalks five or six or seven foot tall with huge ears
of corn on it. This was wheat. A lot of it was
barley wheat. They would go out and shock it
up. They had what they called a threshing floor, usually a
hard ground, sometimes even rocks. They would come and pile it up
on the threshing floor. Then they would sometimes leave
two or three oxen, and they would just walk around on the grain. And it would separate the little ear of corn, if you ever
saw any wheat, you got the little, the little ears off and those
ox would walk on that and it would tear the ears from the
stalk. And as they walked on it some
more, especially if it was a high place on the threshing floor,
it would separate the little kernel from the husk that was
around the kernel. So that's the way they processed
their corn, their wheat, to take it in and grind it with with
rocks we studied on the last few weeks ago. And this was the
law concerning these oxen. The law of Moses said don't muzzle
the ox. Let him, as he walks around,
let him reach down and give him the big mouth of the straw and
eat it. Don't muzzle the ox as he's working
out the corn. Now this was the law. This was
what they did. You read something about the
history of this, and they always had, the Jews always had the
oxen with muzzles on them. Can you imagine some man who
was stingy, maybe just a little abusive, and he put muzzles on
his ox, and somebody caught him and said, you put the muzzle
on the ox and we're going to tell the priest or somebody in
authority. And he put the muzzle on his ox. It was the law back
then. Don't muzzle the ox as he treads out the corn. That's
the literal meaning to this. Let's turn over now in the New
Testament. You can let go of Deuteronomy.
Let's turn over in the New Testament because this has another meaning
in 1 Corinthians chapter 9. The first meaning is the physical
meaning, the temporal meaning. It applied to this poor old ox
as he treaded out the corn. We go over here to the New Testament
in 1 Corinthians chapter 9 and we see the real meaning of this
verse, the spiritual meaning of this verse. We want to look
at this just for a few minutes. This is very important. Look
in verse 6. 1 Corinthians chapter 9 and verse
6. Paul quotes this passage or text
two times in the New Testament. And we'll look at both of them.
Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 9 and look at verse 6. I only
and Barnabas. Have we not power, don't we have
the right to reframe, to forbear working? Don't we have the right
to quit working where preachers let others support us? Who goeth
to war for any time at his own expense, his own charges? You
don't, do you? If you go off to war, the government
supports you. They supply your weapons and
your uniforms and so on. Who plants a vineyard? If you
ever plant any fruit trees, what do you do? You eat of the fruit
of it, don't you? You eat of the fruit of it. Who
feeds a flock? and eateth not of the milk of
the flock. He kills a steer or he milks
the cow. He has the benefits of keeping
a flock. Say I these things as a man,
my own opinion, or saith not the law the same also? For it
is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth
of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doeth God take care for
oxen? Well, he probably does, doesn't
he? Probably does. He feeds little birds, doesn't
he? The Lord doesn't forbid us using animals. He doesn't mind
a guy riding a horse or working a horse or even eating a cow. But I don't think He'd have us
abusing animals, do you? I know the wise man said, even
the righteous, the righteous, they care for the life of their
beast. You've heard men, they were meaner than snakes. Their
dogs were running high when they see them coming in. The Lord
saved them and it shocked their dogs. It shocked their dogs. They began to be good to their
animals. That's how far it extends being a child of God. It extends
to even poor animals. But Paul says here, does God
take care of oxen? Or saith he it, altogether for
our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this
is written, that he that ploweth should plow in hope. If you are
plowing and planting, then you are hoping to eat of what crop
you are planting. He that thresheth in hope should
be partaker of his hope. If we have sown unto you spiritual
things, Is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things? Now,
the first thing I want to see here is something very, very
important. And it goes right back to this
that we've talked about so many times. When you and I read the
Old Testament, what's important? To come to the New Testament
to see what it means. When they muzzled their ox, I
doubt if any of them knew what the Lord meant by telling them
to do that. and how utterly ridiculous today if you saw a Jew out plowing
with his ox muzzle, and he would say, well, that's what God told
me to do. What would you tell him? Man,
listen, that has another meaning to it. And here's what it means,
and you would tell him the New Testament meaning for it. So
what do we learn first of all with this? That those old laws,
Moses' laws had a deeper meaning. They had a spiritual meaning.
I want you to turn to several Scriptures with me, and I want
you to see this. Because here in the New Testament,
when the Apostle Paul especially went out preaching to people, the Lord converted them. You
had these Jews, these legalistic Jews, following him around. And
they went about telling people, You've got to keep the Law of
Moses. You've got to be circumcised.
There's holy days. There's certain meats that you
have to eat of and you can't eat of. And if you're plowing,
you've got to be sure and put a muzzle on your ox. And they
got these people so burdened down. The Christians were so
confused. Let's look at these places. Let's
look at them. You may want to put a little
marker in 1 Corinthians. We may come back to that. But
let's look over in Acts chapter 15. Look in Acts chapter 15. I can understand how the poor
early church got so confused when those Jews, those self-righteous
Jews said, You have to keep these laws. You have to be circumcised.
Because they didn't have the New Testament to teach them.
But now we have, you see. And I tell you, it brings us
so much freedom. Look here in Acts chapter 15, look in verse
1. Look here in verse 1. And certain men which came down
from Judea taught the brethren, the Gentile brethren, and said,
Except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot
be saved. Of course, in verse 2, Paul and
Barnabas got in a fuss with them, a debate. They determined we
would go up to Jerusalem, and they went up to Jerusalem. Verse
5, But there arose up certain of the set of the Pharisees which
believed, saying that it was needful, necessary, to circumcise
them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. Now you talk about a burden,
and you talk about confusion. If you had repented of your sins
and believed in Christ, you were a saved man. And now somebody
comes up to you and says, You've got all of these laws. You've
got to find out what they mean and keep them. That's what this
conference here was about. And verse 6, And the apostles
and elders came together to consider this matter. And when there had
been much dispute, and Peter rose up and said unto them, Men
and brethren, you know how that a good while ago God made choice
among us that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word
of the gospel and believe. And God, which knoweth the hearts,
bare them witness, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, even as
he did unto us. And he put no difference between
us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore,
why tempt you God? to put a yoke upon the neck of
the disciples which neither we nor our fathers were able to
bear. We believe that through the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they." There
is another meaning to these laws. They pointed us to the New Testament
time, to the freedom from these laws, to the grace of our Lord
Jesus. Look at Galatians chapter four.
Over to your right, Galatians chapter 4. Galatians chapter 4. Here is
what Paul is telling us in the fullness of time. In verse 4,
Galatians 4. When the fullness of time was
come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the
law, to suffer its curse. to redeem them that were under
the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because
you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your
heart, crying, Father, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a
servant but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Howbeit then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them
which by nature are no gods." Now look at verse 9, After that
you have known God, or rather you are known of God in regeneration,
how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements whereunto
you desire again to be into bondage? You observe days and months and
times and years. He said all of these meats and
these drinks that Moses told us to eat and forbid us to eat,
all of these days that we were commanded to keep holy, what
did He call them now? Weak and vaggarly. They are weak
and vaggarly. Look over here at another place.
Look in Colossians chapter 2 and look in verse 9. Colossians chapter
2, verse 9. You and I can't appreciate this
because we've got beyond all of that, haven't we? We weren't,
during the time of this transition, we weren't burdened with this,
do I have to go back under the law? Do I have to be circumcised
and keep all of these laws? But these people were surely
burdened with this, were to keep, want to keep, Look here at what
he says in Colossians chapter 2. Begin all the way back in verse
9. In him, or in him, in the Lord Jesus Christ, in his body
dwells all the fullness of the Godhead. In his body. And you
are complete in him, which is the head of all principalities
and powers. in whom also in Him you have
been circumcised, with a circumcision made without hands, in putting
off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of
Christ, buried with Him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with
Him through the faith of the operation of God, who raised
Him from the dead, and you being dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision
of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven
you all trespasses. He blotted out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us,
and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. And having spoiled
principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphant
over them in it. Lookie now, let no man therefore
judge you, judge you and condemn you in meat, you're eating meat,
you're not eating meat, or drink, drinking or not drinking, or
in respect of that holy day, or the new moon, or the Sabbath
days. Look at this, which are a shadow
of things to come. But the body, the substance,
is of Christ. All of these things were shadows,
he says in verse 17. Muzzling the ox, that was a shadow. The priesthood, offering of the
sacrifices, those things were shadows. Christ is the substance. It's like a picture, isn't it?
When you have a photograph and you look at it and you see your
wife on there, or you see your husband on there, but that's
not real, is it? And all of these things in the
Old Testament, all of these laws, they were shadows. They were
shadows of Him who is the Substance, the One who cast the shadows.
So it said let no man judge you because you don't muzzle your
ox. It has another meaning. It has another meaning. Now look
over in another place, one more place, look over in Hebrews chapter
13. Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 13. Paul here was talking about the
new covenant. The new covenant. The children
of Israel was under that old covenant. And they didn't continue
in it. They couldn't. It was too big of a burden on
them. So the Lord said, the day is coming. I'm going to make
a new covenant with you. Look what He said in verse 10.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days saith the Lord. Who is the house of
Israel? I'm looking at some of them.
The church is the house of Israel. A new covenant that I'll make
with the house of Israel after those days, I will put my laws
into their mind. That's the new covenant. I will
write them in their hearts, and I will be to them a God. They
shall be to me a people. They shall not teach every man
his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord.
For they shall know me, they shall all know me. From the least
of the greatest I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, their
sins and iniquities, while I remember no more. In that he saith a new
covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth
and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. And in A.D. 70 the temple was destroyed,
the priesthood was gone, and to my understanding it will never
be rebuilt. Those were shadows of things
to come. So when you and I read in the
Old Testament all these laws and these covenants, come over
to the New Testament and find out what it means. That's so
necessary. There wouldn't be near as much
error in the New Testament, in the profession of Christianity,
if we'd come into the New Testament to interpret the Old Testament.
Do you know of any denomination that keeps Saturday as their
worship day? Seventh-day Adventists do, don't
they? Why do they do that? Because they did it in the Old
Testament. the Old Testament Sabbath. Why do we keep the first
day of the week? Why do we gather? Because the
New Testament church began to worship on the first day of the
week. That's the day that Christ raised. That's the day the Holy
Spirit came. So we come to the New Testament
to figure out what covenant we're under. And we have only, we've
just got two elements as far as food and wine is concerned. We just got two, the Lord's table,
bread and wine, the bread and the cup. We just got one day
when we gather as the early church did and that's on the first day
of the week. This is sort of icing on the
cake here ain't it, on Wednesday. Stand fast in the liberty. wherewith
Christ has made you free, and be not entangled again." Aren't
you so thankful, brothers and sisters? We can have a free conscience. Our conscience can be washed,
can be made free. We're justified by the blood
of Christ, by the death of Christ, by the grace of Christ, through
faith in Christ. And all of those laws of Moses
put in the muzzle on the ox and not eating anything unless it
chews the cud and parts of the hoo. All of those things were
free from them. We know that because we brought
them over to the New Testament and they all were shadows, the
shadows. That is a good thing to remember
to keep people from a lot of error. What does this old ox
represent? Well, Paul says here he represents
the preachers of the gospel. He represented the apostles.
He represents the pastors and the elders. He says, If we have
sown unto you spiritual things, that is what an ox is. He is
just a pastor. He is an elder. If we have sown
unto you spiritual things, I study the Bible. I pray and ask the
Lord to give me understanding so I can come here and feed your
heart by the grace of God. If I have sown unto you spiritual
things, and don't you appreciate that? There's something about
preaching, ain't there? Boy, there's something about
preaching. And Paul said if we have sown unto you spiritual
things, is it a great thing? If you sow unto us your carnal
things, it's sort of a trade-off, isn't it? I feed you and you
feed me. That's what he said. Who is these
ox? Well, they're just preachers. They're pastors. Paul quotes
this again in 1 Timothy chapter 5. Look over at that. Just back
to your left, just a little bit. A couple of books back to your
left. 1 Timothy chapter 5. Here's where
he quotes it again. And he says, he tells us plainly,
who these oxen are. Look in verse 17, 1 Timothy chapter
5 verse 17, ìLet the elders,î thatís the pastors, ìthat rule
well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor
in the Word and doctrine.î We labor. You know just two things
an ox was fit for, only two things. they used him for. Look in the
Old Testament and you find only two things he was fit for. One
was to work and the other was to kill him. Sacrifice. That's what a preacher is. He's
to labor in the Word of God to feed others and he can only do
that as he gives himself up to the Lord as a sacrifice. Gets
his hands off of himself and gives himself to the Lord And
then he can labor in the Lord's vineyard, feeding others. He
labors in the Word and in the doctrine. Then in verse 18, For
the scripture says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth
out the corn. And look at this, And the laborer
is worthy of his reward. You know who he quoted there?
He quoted Luke chapter 10 verse 17. That's what the Lord Jesus
said. So he quoted Moses. And he quoted Christ to prove
you support your oxen. Don't muzzle your oxen that's
treading out the corn. How could a man muzzle an ox? How could you muzzle an ox? Well,
Paul tells us here, doesn't he? Back then they muzzled them physically.
There's another way here to Muslim. Financially. Financially. A man, Scott Richardson, went
out one time at a little restaurant here for a prayer breakfast.
I think I've told you about it. We didn't know but one of the
men, we knew the pastor, but where all these men come from,
I don't know who they were. But a man, Scott, was sitting
there listening to them talk and there was a few of them talking. And they were talking about starving
their pastor out. They had starved, that's the
exact words they used. They starved their pastor out. Now I can't believe that, can
you? I don't care if he's a false prophet. Go to him and tell him,
I'm not coming here and listening to you, I'm sorry. But to starve
a man out? Well, that would mulls you, wouldn't
it? That'd mulls you. You know, you and I, you and
I got a, we got a, we have a sort of a unique situation with me,
because my wife, the Lord gave my wife a good job, and it's
not required too much. I've had to tell you guys, I
don't know how many times I've had to tell you guys, no, I don't
want any more money, don't need any more money. You always want
to give me money. But if it wasn't for the situation
I'm in, you could see If I was going to pastor you full-time,
you could see that I would need much more money than you're paying
me now. So you can see how some congregations
could starve a pastor out. If you got him to pastor you,
and if he didn't please you well in something, and you just cut
off his support, what would he do? Well, he'd have to go to
work, wouldn't he? Therefore, he couldn't study,
could he? and therefore he ain't going to feed you much, is he?
He's going to be muzzled. He's going to be muzzled. Don't
give him time to study, that'll muzzle him. Look here in Galatians, back
in Galatians again. Look in Galatians chapter 6.
I bet all of you remember that passage of Scripture Be not deceived,
God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap. Have you ever studied the context
of that? Look here at the context of that and look what it's about.
In Galatians chapter 6, and look in verse 6. Let him
that is taught in the word, this is the preacher. God is teaching
him, he's studying. Let him that is taught in the
Word communicate. I'm sorry, let me start over.
Let him that is taught. You're being taught, aren't you?
You're being taught. Let him communicate, let him
share, let him give unto him that teaches in all good things. You're being taught. So you share,
you communicate with Me in your carnal things. See how that goes? And look in verse 7. Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever
a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption. He that soweth to
the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. That's
in the context of giving to the ox. of supporting the pastors. And these poor Galatians, I imagine,
they had got very self-righteous, trying to be more sanctified
by keeping the law and being circumcised, and they got where
they wouldn't even support their pastors. They began to sow to their flesh.
You've seen people. We've all seen people like this,
haven't we? And it ain't just hypocrites.
It's among Christians. Someone was talking the other
night about it took Solomon almost twice as long to build his own
house as it did to build the house of the Lord. That's sad,
ain't it? Aren't we like that sometimes?
But he said, while you're letting your pastor starve, you're sowing
to yourself. You're heaping up. People are
just heaping up thangs, aren't they? Thangs, thangs, thangs.
I was raised that it was almost a sin to support a pastor. But
you go in those people's homes and they had everything. Cars
and trucks and everything in their houses. Don't give anything
to the pastor. That's sad, isn't it? Muzzling
the ox. Muzzling the ox. That's one way. Another way to muzzle the preacher,
the pastor. And this would apply to everybody,
not just the pastors, but especially the preachers. And that is by
intimidation, by threats, by persecution. The Lord Jesus
told his disciples, if they have persecuted me, they'll persecute
you. If they've received my word,
they'll receive your word. If they've rejected me, they're
going to reject you. And boy, they tried their best
to intimidate the Lord Jesus, didn't they? The first message
we have recorded, he preached. When he went back up to his hometown
in Nazareth, he opened up the Bible and said, The Spirit of
the Lord is upon him, for he has sent him to preach the gospel
to the poor, sent him to bind up the brokenhearted, preach
deliverance to the captive, the acceptable year of the Lord.
And he said, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ear.
In other words, he said, I'm the one that God sent. I'm the
one God sent to save sinners. And boy, he saw their faces.
They said, Is this not Joseph's son? Who does he think he is? And he told them two stories,
two little short stories. He knew their hearts. He knew
their thoughts. He knew they had rejected him.
And he said, let me tell you two little stories. It goes all
the way back in the Old Testament. He said there was many, many
widows in Israel in Elijah's day. But Elijah wasn't sent to
any of those widows. But he was sent to the widow
over in Sidon, a Gentile woman. And boy, they started to think,
man, that ain't fair. Who does he think he is? He said,
let me tell you another story. There was a lot of lepers in
Israel in the days of Elijah, but he wasn't sent to cleanse
any of those lepers. And the only leper he did cleanse
was Naaman, that rotten, sorry Syrian. And they said, we've
had all we can hear. and we're going to stop your
mouth." Ain't that what they said? And one got on this arm, one
got on that arm, and they marched him out of town, and they got
right to the edge of the cliff, and he just disappeared. He just
walked out of the crowd. They didn't stop him, did they?
They did not muzzle him. You could not intimidate him.
You could not persecute him to keep him silent. There's another
time in John chapter 6 where he was preaching to them and
said, I'm the bread that come down from heaven. If you eat
of this bread, you'll live forever. And that's my body, which I'll
give you. You eat me, you'll live by me.
They said, this is a hard saying. This is a hard saying. How can
this man give us his flesh to eat and his blood to drink? And
they said, we can't stand to hear you preach anymore. We're
out of here. That'd be intimidating, wouldn't it? Wouldn't some of
us be tempted to say, if you'll come back, thousands of them,
I mean, there was thousands of them, looked like clouds leaving.
I'll try to soften it up just a little bit. But he didn't did
it. I'll tell you what he did do.
He turned to his twelve, the only ones left, and said, you
going to follow? You ain't going to intimidate him. You're not
going to muscle him. In chapter 10, he said, I and
my father have won. And they picked up stones to
stone him. But they didn't stop him from preaching. And you know
when the disciples, when the Lord Jesus had risen and descended
back to heaven, the same tactic started with them. They started
preaching to the Jews and boy did they... You know treading. I thought of this today. Treading?
Man, that's sort of violent. You've got these big ox. And
they're walking around on that straw, and it's separating, it's
dividing the kernel from the husk. Sort of violent, isn't
it? And it's that way with preaching.
It separates. It crushes. And Peter on the
day of Pentecost, he got up, boy, and he told those guys,
you have taken and by wicked hands you have crucified the
Son of God. But God raised Him from the dead
and made Him both Lord and Christ. And the Bible says they were
pricked in their hearts, separated from those old notions of self-righteousness. And they began to cry out, men
and brethren, what shall we do? But just a few days later, they
preached again, and they didn't get that same reaction. This
time they preached that Christ was raised from the dead, and
God had exalted Him to be a Prince and a Savior. They said, if you
let us hear you preaching in His name one more time, we're
going to whip you. That's what they said. Do not
speak in His name never again. Now that's the way to muscle
the ox, ain't it? And I tell you, brothers and
sisters, I don't know if it would take grace for us. It would take
grace. We can do it here. It's easy,
isn't it? But boy, when you face something like that, you face
the Sanhedrin, and you've got these guys sitting all around
the room, and there are two old unlearned apostles standing in
the middle of them, and these guys have on their fancy uniform,
and they've got all this pull, this weight with the Roman government.
And they said, we can hurt you, fellas. We can hurt you, fellas. And the only way we're going
to let you go is you never speak in his name again. But they didn't
quit, did they? They just kept on preaching.
You killed him. God has raised him from the dead.
He's exalted, and he's Lord, and he's Christ. They brought
him back and said, we told you. If you preach in his name one
more time, what we're going to do. And they beat those guys.
They whipped them. And they went outside rejoicing
that they were counted worthy to bear shame for Christ's sake.
But they didn't stop. They didn't stop. That's one of the ways, though,
the enemy has always tried to muzzle the churches by persecution.
It's never worked, but they've tried it. It's not worked long
anyway. Here's another way that attempts
are made to muzzle you. Even your friends. Now, buddy,
here's the toughest. I can take my enemies. But let
some dear brother that don't agree with me on something, and
he tries to intimidate me, I've had this to happen. Boy, you
need to be a fly on the wall when a bunch of preachers are
in a room talking. And they don't agree with everything? And you've
got one sort of a bully, and he goes to try to intimidate
you? And I tell you what now, it's pretty tough. It's pretty
tough. Ever had your wife try to intimidate
your husband? Husband try to intimidate the wife? The mother?
You know the Lord Jesus' mother tried to intimidate Him? When
He was 12 years old. He was down there talking to
the doctors and the lawyers in the temple. And she went up to
Him and she said, You have worried me sick, son. You have worried
me sick. Three days I've sought you. You've
got to come home. You can't be doing this. You're
12 years old." He said, Woman, I must be about my father's business.
But it wasn't just his mother. He was about 30 years old or
better when Peter tried it. He told his disciples, he said,
I'm going up to Jerusalem. They're going to betray me into
the hands of the Gentiles. They're going to punish me. They're
going to beat me. They're going to whip me, spit
on me, curse me. They're going to kill me. And
the third day I'm going to raise again. And what did Peter say
to him? Lord, far be it from you to let something like this
ain't going to happen. Don't even talk this way. That's
what he was saying. I tell you, your friends can
intimidate you to be quiet when nobody else hardly can. How about
your boss? How about your boss? How about
somebody that's got a lot of influence? How about somebody
that holds your job in his hand? Can he muzzle you? A lot of ways
out there. Treading, treading, getting that
kernel out. If my preacher, if any preacher, doesn't have the tendency sometime
just to crush you. If it doesn't stir the emotions
sometimes of your soul, if you always leave, you're feeling
good. You're never made to examine yourself. You're never made to
see any sin that you need to lay aside. You never see any
error in your own life. You've never got anything you
need to be separated from. The preaching is supposed to
be like an ox treading. It brings the kernel out. It
turns the old husk away. And when it's finished with you,
oh, your faith is stronger. Your affections are more pure.
It brings out that kernel. And if the preaching doesn't
do that for you, if it doesn't wring you out sometime, cause
you to go home crushed in your soul and praying and sometimes
weeping over it in your heart. Two things is wrong. One, you
need to change preachers. Or you need to listen closer.
Because, boy, when that old ox goes to tread, it's heavy sometimes, ain't it?
It's heavy. And sometimes I haven't tried
to muzzle the ox myself. I've sat in under preachers and
he's started preaching. I don't want to hear that. I
wish he'd go on to something else. I want to hear that. But
that's exactly what I need to hear. Exactly what I need to
hear. Don't muzzle the ox that treadeth
out the corner. I hope that was of help to you.
Brother Wayne, would you please just