Section 16
you are still worldly. We are not good for edu cation, business, or politics. We are not even good for religion or for being a pastor. Forty-five years ago I was completely ruined. Now I am a useless person who is good for nothing. As far as human society and religious organizations are concerned, I am a waste. How about you? Praise the Lord that we are all a waste—a waste because of Jesus and a waste for Jesus. We all have been ruined by Him. Are you still able to be a good professor? The only kind of profes sor you should be is a wasted professor. Can you still be a good businessman or farmer? You must be a wasted businessman or farmer. We have been ruined and are good for nothing ex cept fruit-bearing, for expressing the Father in the Son. In the church you will not see blossoms or materials. You will only see small men who are good for nothing except for bearing fruit.
THE HUSBANDMAN, GOD THE FATHER
The husbandman is God the Father. The Father as the husbandman is the source, the author, the planner, the planter, the life, the sub stance, the soil, the water, the air, the sunshine, and everything to the vine. As we have already pointed out, whatever God the Father is, has, and