1 00:00:00,670 --> 00:00:02,750 The two passages of scripture I always put 2 00:00:02,750 --> 00:00:05,190 together in my own thinking as I think 3 00:00:05,190 --> 00:00:05,850 about Jesus. 4 00:00:06,410 --> 00:00:08,490 One is in the second chapter of Philippians. 5 00:00:08,610 --> 00:00:11,670 Let this mind be in you, which was 6 00:00:11,670 --> 00:00:15,570 also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the 7 00:00:15,570 --> 00:00:17,590 form of God, thought it not a prize 8 00:00:17,590 --> 00:00:19,450 to be gained to be equal to God, 9 00:00:20,350 --> 00:00:23,430 but made himself of no reputation, and took 10 00:00:23,430 --> 00:00:27,730 upon himself the form of man, a servant, 11 00:00:27,730 --> 00:00:30,350 and being found in fashion as a man, 12 00:00:30,490 --> 00:00:33,890 he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, 13 00:00:33,990 --> 00:00:35,130 even the death of the cross. 14 00:00:35,650 --> 00:00:39,970 Wherefore, God hath also highly exalted him, and 15 00:00:39,970 --> 00:00:41,490 hath given him a name which is above 16 00:00:41,490 --> 00:00:43,590 every name, that at the name of Jesus 17 00:00:43,590 --> 00:00:46,590 every knee should bow, and think in heaven, 18 00:00:47,310 --> 00:00:49,130 and think in earth, and think on the 19 00:00:49,130 --> 00:00:51,250 earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus 20 00:00:51,250 --> 00:00:55,470 Christ is Lord to the glory of God 21 00:00:55,470 --> 00:00:56,030 the Father. 22 00:00:57,110 --> 00:00:59,030 Along with those verses I put a verse 23 00:00:59,030 --> 00:01:01,650 in the third chapter of John's gospel, the 24 00:01:01,650 --> 00:01:02,590 31st verse. 25 00:01:02,690 --> 00:01:04,650 He that cometh from above is above all, 26 00:01:04,810 --> 00:01:07,070 he that cometh from heaven is above all. 27 00:01:08,130 --> 00:01:10,530 Of course, if men set their minds and 28 00:01:10,530 --> 00:01:14,550 their mouths and their pens and their pulpits 29 00:01:14,550 --> 00:01:18,770 and their printing presses and their quaffs, fully 30 00:01:18,770 --> 00:01:21,030 to portray all that Jesus was, is, and 31 00:01:21,030 --> 00:01:23,070 evermore will be, in his glory, his greatness, 32 00:01:23,190 --> 00:01:25,950 his goodness, and his grace, they set themselves 33 00:01:25,950 --> 00:01:28,250 to a task that puts men and angels 34 00:01:28,250 --> 00:01:30,410 to an eternal nonpluss. 35 00:01:31,190 --> 00:01:33,050 How much may be said about Jesus in 36 00:01:33,050 --> 00:01:36,390 one century, and still more in other centuries, 37 00:01:36,630 --> 00:01:39,330 still he peniteth himself will not suffice, fully 38 00:01:39,330 --> 00:01:41,910 to portray all that Jesus was, is, and 39 00:01:41,910 --> 00:01:44,710 evermore will be, in his glory, his grace, 40 00:01:45,250 --> 00:01:47,090 his goodness, and his greatness. 41 00:01:47,850 --> 00:01:50,230 Can one little coal of fire warm a 42 00:01:50,230 --> 00:01:51,810 thousand cold hearthstones? 43 00:01:52,830 --> 00:01:56,350 Can one little rosebud perfume this stifling atmosphere 44 00:01:56,350 --> 00:01:57,330 of a polluted city? 45 00:01:58,730 --> 00:02:00,630 Can one little cup of water cleanse a 46 00:02:00,630 --> 00:02:01,730 thousand dirty hands? 47 00:02:02,890 --> 00:02:06,170 Can any musician play Beethoven's Night Symphony on 48 00:02:06,170 --> 00:02:06,810 a tin whistle? 49 00:02:07,190 --> 00:02:08,270 You say, no. 50 00:02:09,210 --> 00:02:10,870 And I say, no more can all the 51 00:02:10,870 --> 00:02:13,930 words of the wisest of men, most skilfully 52 00:02:13,930 --> 00:02:16,570 combined and most eloquently spoken, set forth Jesus 53 00:02:16,570 --> 00:02:18,930 as he deserves to be set forth in 54 00:02:18,930 --> 00:02:20,790 the minds and hearts of people today. 55 00:02:21,310 --> 00:02:24,410 No mortal can with him compare among the 56 00:02:24,410 --> 00:02:25,230 sons of men. 57 00:02:26,150 --> 00:02:28,410 Fairer is he than all the fair who 58 00:02:28,410 --> 00:02:29,710 fill the heavenly train. 59 00:02:30,490 --> 00:02:34,250 As I said before, Jesus today is heaven's 60 00:02:34,250 --> 00:02:37,230 bread for us hunger, heaven's water for us 61 00:02:37,230 --> 00:02:41,410 thirst, heaven's light for us darkness, heaven's glory 62 00:02:41,410 --> 00:02:44,810 for us shame, heaven's grace for us guilt, 63 00:02:45,710 --> 00:02:49,390 heaven's forgiveness for us sins, heaven's beauty for 64 00:02:49,390 --> 00:02:53,670 us ugliness, heaven's wisdom for us folly, heaven's 65 00:02:53,670 --> 00:02:57,210 peace for us strife, heaven's comfort for us 66 00:02:57,210 --> 00:03:03,030 sorrows, heaven's justification for us condemnation, heaven's salvation 67 00:03:03,030 --> 00:03:04,150 for us damnation. 68 00:03:04,250 --> 00:03:05,690 Oh, who can paint him? 69 00:03:07,290 --> 00:03:09,390 Let the sweetest tone that ever trembled upon 70 00:03:09,390 --> 00:03:11,210 the harps of heaven be discord. 71 00:03:12,710 --> 00:03:15,150 Let the enchanting seraphim whose anthem is eternal 72 00:03:15,150 --> 00:03:22,150 be done by wonder, praise, adoration, all militant 73 00:03:22,150 --> 00:03:24,750 to the newness as it reached to the 74 00:03:24,750 --> 00:03:29,310 Christ, the only perfection earth has ever known, 75 00:03:30,290 --> 00:03:32,510 one eternity above all. 76 00:03:33,810 --> 00:03:35,490 I love to think how Jesus is above 77 00:03:35,490 --> 00:03:36,470 all in his source. 78 00:03:37,610 --> 00:03:39,810 In the seventeenth of John's Gospel, Jesus, in 79 00:03:39,810 --> 00:03:42,990 that marvelous prayer he prayed to his Father, 80 00:03:43,570 --> 00:03:46,230 testified that he had grown with God before 81 00:03:46,230 --> 00:03:48,070 the world was but loved by the Father 82 00:03:48,070 --> 00:03:50,670 before the foundation of the world. 83 00:03:51,230 --> 00:03:52,030 Meaning what? 84 00:03:52,850 --> 00:03:55,550 Meaning that he was co-existent, co-essential, 85 00:03:56,190 --> 00:03:58,710 co-eternal, co-equal with God. 86 00:03:59,250 --> 00:04:02,030 And Jesus himself said, The Father and I 87 00:04:02,030 --> 00:04:03,290 are one, O any one. 88 00:04:04,290 --> 00:04:06,070 No husband was ever so one with the 89 00:04:06,070 --> 00:04:07,010 wife of his bosom. 90 00:04:07,710 --> 00:04:09,670 No wife was ever so one with the 91 00:04:09,670 --> 00:04:10,690 husband of her heart. 92 00:04:11,490 --> 00:04:13,690 No child was ever so one, O any 93 00:04:13,690 --> 00:04:15,350 one, with its mother from the moment of 94 00:04:15,350 --> 00:04:19,149 its conception as was Jesus with God, and 95 00:04:19,149 --> 00:04:20,570 the glory they had, the love they had 96 00:04:20,570 --> 00:04:22,890 with and for each other before this world 97 00:04:22,890 --> 00:04:23,590 ever was. 98 00:04:24,830 --> 00:04:26,750 No beams of light ever came so brightly 99 00:04:26,750 --> 00:04:27,490 from the sun. 100 00:04:28,230 --> 00:04:31,790 No fragrance ever issued so sweetly from flowers. 101 00:04:32,670 --> 00:04:35,450 No crystal streams ever came so purely clear 102 00:04:35,450 --> 00:04:39,030 from crystal fountains as did the delights of 103 00:04:39,030 --> 00:04:44,210 the Holy, Holy, Holy Father's Son, and the 104 00:04:44,210 --> 00:04:46,010 love they had, the glory they had with 105 00:04:46,010 --> 00:04:48,310 and for each other before this world ever 106 00:04:48,310 --> 00:04:48,710 was. 107 00:04:48,810 --> 00:04:51,670 Father's love and glory, the Blessed Holy Spirit 108 00:04:51,670 --> 00:04:54,370 himself, was never excluded. 109 00:04:56,170 --> 00:04:57,950 And again Jesus is above all in his 110 00:04:57,950 --> 00:05:00,030 relation to this physical universe in which we 111 00:05:00,030 --> 00:05:03,850 live, this material universe, because he conceived it 112 00:05:03,850 --> 00:05:05,530 by his wisdom and created it by his 113 00:05:05,530 --> 00:05:05,910 power. 114 00:05:06,710 --> 00:05:08,790 And he's the designer behind all the designs 115 00:05:08,790 --> 00:05:11,810 of this universe, the lawmaker behind all of 116 00:05:11,810 --> 00:05:16,070 God's laws, the great creator behind all creation. 117 00:05:16,590 --> 00:05:17,650 How do I know this? 118 00:05:18,290 --> 00:05:20,410 I know it from this blessed, marvelous Word 119 00:05:20,410 --> 00:05:20,950 of God. 120 00:05:21,830 --> 00:05:24,210 John 1 says that all things were made 121 00:05:24,210 --> 00:05:27,070 by him, and without him were not anything 122 00:05:27,070 --> 00:05:28,250 made that was made. 123 00:05:29,390 --> 00:05:32,110 Paul, the great Aristotle and Demosthenes of the 124 00:05:32,110 --> 00:05:34,790 Jewish race, the great apostle of the gospel, 125 00:05:35,570 --> 00:05:37,530 wrote this to the Christian at Colossae. 126 00:05:37,530 --> 00:05:41,270 All things were created by him, things in 127 00:05:41,270 --> 00:05:46,170 earth, things in heaven, things visible, things invisible, 128 00:05:46,890 --> 00:05:50,330 whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities 129 00:05:50,330 --> 00:05:51,270 or powers. 130 00:05:52,050 --> 00:05:54,490 All things were created by him and for 131 00:05:54,490 --> 00:05:56,570 him, and he is before all things, and 132 00:05:56,570 --> 00:05:58,650 in him all things hold together. 133 00:05:59,370 --> 00:06:01,930 What a wonderful cluster of all things there. 134 00:06:02,870 --> 00:06:04,430 And turn to the first chapter of Hebrews, 135 00:06:04,430 --> 00:06:06,210 you'll find another verse that gives us the 136 00:06:06,210 --> 00:06:06,830 all things. 137 00:06:07,010 --> 00:06:10,410 Listen, God, who has sent the times and 138 00:06:10,410 --> 00:06:12,950 dollars, manners and times past, taken unto our 139 00:06:12,950 --> 00:06:15,710 fathers by the prophets, hath in these latter 140 00:06:15,710 --> 00:06:19,390 days spoken unto us by his Son, whom 141 00:06:19,390 --> 00:06:22,450 he hath appointed heir of all things, by 142 00:06:22,450 --> 00:06:25,270 whom also he made the worlds. 143 00:06:26,830 --> 00:06:29,190 And again, he is above all in the 144 00:06:29,190 --> 00:06:31,210 way he came in, the universe he conceived 145 00:06:31,210 --> 00:06:32,970 by his will and created by his power, 146 00:06:33,770 --> 00:06:35,910 being the designer behind all the designs of 147 00:06:35,910 --> 00:06:37,790 it, the lawmaker behind all its laws, and 148 00:06:37,790 --> 00:06:40,870 became a human being without any earth or 149 00:06:40,870 --> 00:06:41,230 father. 150 00:06:42,110 --> 00:06:45,510 In eternity Jesus rested on the bosom of 151 00:06:45,510 --> 00:06:48,290 the Father without any mother, and in time 152 00:06:48,290 --> 00:06:50,470 he rested on the bosom of the Mother 153 00:06:50,470 --> 00:06:52,210 without any earth or father. 154 00:06:52,950 --> 00:06:56,510 He is above all in which he came 155 00:06:56,510 --> 00:06:59,010 in the world and became a human being. 156 00:07:00,090 --> 00:07:01,850 I love to think of ideas above all 157 00:07:01,850 --> 00:07:03,170 as the reveal of God. 158 00:07:04,010 --> 00:07:06,310 John 1.18 says this to us, No 159 00:07:06,310 --> 00:07:09,190 man hath seen God at any time, but 160 00:07:09,190 --> 00:07:10,950 the only begotten Son, who dwelleth in the 161 00:07:10,950 --> 00:07:12,910 bosom of the Father, he hath revealed him. 162 00:07:14,090 --> 00:07:15,550 He hath exegeted God. 163 00:07:15,550 --> 00:07:19,290 In Jesus' silence of God broke into full 164 00:07:19,290 --> 00:07:19,810 voice. 165 00:07:20,830 --> 00:07:24,070 One day Philip said to Jesus, Lord, show 166 00:07:24,070 --> 00:07:26,990 us your Father, and thou shalt satisfy us. 167 00:07:26,990 --> 00:07:27,810 That will be sufficient. 168 00:07:28,910 --> 00:07:31,230 I think Jesus had rebuke himself in his 169 00:07:31,230 --> 00:07:32,510 voice when he answered Philip. 170 00:07:32,850 --> 00:07:35,550 He said, Have I been so long time 171 00:07:35,550 --> 00:07:38,290 of you, and yet thou hast not known 172 00:07:38,290 --> 00:07:38,810 me, Philip? 173 00:07:39,870 --> 00:07:42,730 He that hath seen me hath seen the 174 00:07:42,730 --> 00:07:43,130 Father. 175 00:07:43,710 --> 00:07:46,290 How sayest thou then, show us the Father? 176 00:07:47,310 --> 00:07:49,190 Philip, you have seen me work, you have 177 00:07:49,190 --> 00:07:50,230 seen the Father work. 178 00:07:50,990 --> 00:07:52,750 You have seen me walk, you have seen 179 00:07:52,750 --> 00:07:53,730 the Father walk. 180 00:07:54,390 --> 00:07:56,010 You have heard me speak, you have heard 181 00:07:56,010 --> 00:07:56,930 the Father speak. 182 00:07:57,010 --> 00:07:58,830 He that hath seen me hath seen the 183 00:07:58,830 --> 00:07:59,110 Father. 184 00:07:59,210 --> 00:08:01,630 How sayest thou then, show us the Father? 185 00:08:02,370 --> 00:08:04,830 And what Jesus was in the days of 186 00:08:04,830 --> 00:08:06,730 his place on this earth, to the prodigal, 187 00:08:07,250 --> 00:08:11,090 the publican, the harlot, the hypocrite, the saint, 188 00:08:11,690 --> 00:08:15,250 the sinner, the disciple, to the devil, to 189 00:08:15,250 --> 00:08:18,210 rich, to poor, to men, to women, to 190 00:08:18,210 --> 00:08:21,490 boys, to girls, to scholars, and soldiers, and 191 00:08:21,490 --> 00:08:24,630 peasants, and philosophers, and kings, and queens, and 192 00:08:24,630 --> 00:08:25,010 beggars. 193 00:08:25,090 --> 00:08:28,350 That is God always, everywhere, to everybody. 194 00:08:29,350 --> 00:08:32,470 Jesus was God manifest in the place. 195 00:08:33,970 --> 00:08:35,150 And I love to think how he is 196 00:08:35,150 --> 00:08:37,190 above all in his supernatural power. 197 00:08:37,330 --> 00:08:39,270 He is perhaps super above all the powers 198 00:08:39,270 --> 00:08:40,850 that men know anything about. 199 00:08:41,490 --> 00:08:44,010 We have a little hell-bound human race 200 00:08:44,010 --> 00:08:46,390 that can strut sitting down, boasting about its 201 00:08:46,390 --> 00:08:46,910 power. 202 00:08:48,010 --> 00:08:51,530 Locomotives of power, planes of power, armies of 203 00:08:51,530 --> 00:08:55,890 power, navies of power, satellites of power, bombs 204 00:08:55,890 --> 00:08:56,630 of power. 205 00:08:56,770 --> 00:08:59,210 All this power we boast about. 206 00:08:59,310 --> 00:09:03,210 And we do have power, because human beings 207 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:06,570 discovered something that Jesus put in the universe, 208 00:09:06,790 --> 00:09:07,630 nuclear power. 209 00:09:09,090 --> 00:09:11,950 But Jesus said, All power is given unto 210 00:09:11,950 --> 00:09:13,150 me in heaven and on earth. 211 00:09:14,130 --> 00:09:16,350 And his glorified body in heaven today, which 212 00:09:16,350 --> 00:09:18,070 body we are going to see some blessed 213 00:09:18,070 --> 00:09:22,290 day, thank God, one finger of his glorified 214 00:09:22,290 --> 00:09:23,990 body in heaven, and we will have more 215 00:09:23,990 --> 00:09:26,310 power in it than all the hydrogen bombs 216 00:09:26,310 --> 00:09:28,870 men could invent and explode in fifty years. 217 00:09:29,270 --> 00:09:32,470 All power, he said, is given unto me 218 00:09:32,470 --> 00:09:33,850 in heaven and on earth. 219 00:09:34,870 --> 00:09:38,270 He is above all in his supernatural power. 220 00:09:40,750 --> 00:09:42,090 Then I love to think how he is 221 00:09:42,090 --> 00:09:43,090 above all as a teacher. 222 00:09:43,890 --> 00:09:45,470 I've had some teachers in my life I 223 00:09:45,470 --> 00:09:46,850 wish I could forget their names. 224 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,120 One or two of them were educational donders 225 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:53,900 trying to break into the house of my 226 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:57,020 faith, trying to get me to doubt some 227 00:09:57,020 --> 00:09:57,980 things in this book. 228 00:09:58,540 --> 00:09:59,820 But you know how far they got? 229 00:10:00,580 --> 00:10:03,020 Just as far as a canary bird was 230 00:10:03,020 --> 00:10:04,860 trying to fly across the Atlantic Ocean with 231 00:10:04,860 --> 00:10:06,420 a Washington Monument tied to its tail. 232 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,140 One or two teachers I've had I wish 233 00:10:13,140 --> 00:10:14,080 I could forget. 234 00:10:15,540 --> 00:10:17,780 But Jesus was the greatest teacher of all, 235 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,820 and he stands out above all teachers as 236 00:10:20,820 --> 00:10:22,560 a great palm tree in a desert of 237 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:23,180 mediocrity. 238 00:10:23,820 --> 00:10:26,440 He stands above all teachers as a thousand 239 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,520 -bulb chandelier over a little crust of people 240 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:30,680 in flickering canals. 241 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,080 He falls among all teachers as a deep 242 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,220 crystal-clear river in the middle of a 243 00:10:37,220 --> 00:10:37,580 shallow desert. 244 00:10:37,580 --> 00:10:38,560 I remember I was babbling in the day 245 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:39,980 sometime from Muddy Brooks. 246 00:10:40,980 --> 00:10:43,800 The hypocritical religious authorities of Jesus' day sent 247 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,880 some officers to take him and outlanguish to 248 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:47,440 arrest him. 249 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:50,780 These officers came back without taking him, without 250 00:10:50,780 --> 00:10:52,460 arresting him, without handcuffing him. 251 00:10:53,420 --> 00:10:56,400 These religious authorities, who were rebuking that word, 252 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:57,940 said, Why didn't you bring him? 253 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:00,680 And here's the answer given. 254 00:11:01,140 --> 00:11:03,400 Never may a man speak like this man. 255 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,060 Yes, Jesus is a marvelous teacher. 256 00:11:09,340 --> 00:11:11,540 Jesus believed all the Bible said. 257 00:11:11,980 --> 00:11:13,700 He used the Bible to illumine the midst 258 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:14,420 of his cross. 259 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:17,380 He used the Old Testament scriptures in knowing 260 00:11:17,380 --> 00:11:18,900 what the New Testament would be when it 261 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:19,440 should be written. 262 00:11:19,580 --> 00:11:22,620 He said, Sanctify them by thy truth, thy 263 00:11:22,620 --> 00:11:24,920 word is truth, all thy word is truth. 264 00:11:25,780 --> 00:11:27,220 If one part of the Bible isn't so, 265 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:28,060 then another isn't so. 266 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:30,840 If I can't believe all the Bible, I 267 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:31,760 can't believe any of it. 268 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:32,760 I believe it all. 269 00:11:35,630 --> 00:11:36,470 I wrote a book. 270 00:11:37,190 --> 00:11:37,850 I believe it all. 271 00:11:37,850 --> 00:11:39,130 If you haven't yet, don't claim to be 272 00:11:39,130 --> 00:11:39,650 educated. 273 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,200 That's what I tell college faculty and students. 274 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:46,800 My book at first was called Lord, I 275 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,820 Believe, published by the Broadman Press, and they 276 00:11:49,820 --> 00:11:50,920 dropped publishing of it. 277 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,820 Baker Boothouse was publishing it again under the 278 00:11:53,820 --> 00:11:55,640 title, Talks About Miracles. 279 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,000 I wrote that book when I passed the 280 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,480 First Baptist Church in New Orleans. 281 00:12:00,780 --> 00:12:02,760 But Tulane University students used to come to 282 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:03,460 hear me preach. 283 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,060 Many began to ask me up to their 284 00:12:06,060 --> 00:12:09,640 student forum and let me talk 20 minutes. 285 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,320 That's one of the hardest things I have 286 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:12,600 to do, is to speak 20 minutes. 287 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:14,740 You've found that out already. 288 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:18,580 They had a man with a stopwatch. 289 00:12:18,660 --> 00:12:20,600 If I went one second over 20 minutes 290 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:22,560 down on the stopwatch, you'd press his finger, 291 00:12:22,580 --> 00:12:23,980 and a man with a Chinese gong would 292 00:12:23,980 --> 00:12:25,020 go boom, boom, boom. 293 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,460 They'd shoot questions at me. 294 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,440 Sometimes they kept me there an hour. 295 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:32,740 Wonderful students they were. 296 00:12:33,860 --> 00:12:36,080 One question they asked me was, and my 297 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,160 book talks about the miracles of actual questions 298 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,760 that they asked me and actual answers I 299 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:42,280 gave them. 300 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:43,960 They wanted to know me, where Cain got 301 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:44,440 his wife. 302 00:12:45,140 --> 00:12:46,020 I told them I didn't know her and 303 00:12:46,020 --> 00:12:46,560 I didn't care. 304 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:47,900 She suited Cain, she suits me. 305 00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:52,090 I said, I know a lot of homes 306 00:12:52,090 --> 00:12:53,790 and a lot of folks have been a 307 00:12:53,790 --> 00:12:54,330 lot better off. 308 00:12:54,410 --> 00:12:56,030 Some men let other women along, some men 309 00:12:56,030 --> 00:12:56,870 let other men along. 310 00:12:57,830 --> 00:13:01,610 One very beautiful Auburn-haired, green-eyed girl 311 00:13:01,610 --> 00:13:03,470 asked me a question, very sweetly. 312 00:13:03,610 --> 00:13:06,590 She said, Dr. Lee, do you really believe 313 00:13:06,590 --> 00:13:07,930 in the whale-swallowed Jonah? 314 00:13:08,950 --> 00:13:10,490 I said, my dear, I believe all that 315 00:13:10,490 --> 00:13:12,290 the Bible says, all of it. 316 00:13:12,630 --> 00:13:14,150 Not some of it, not most of it, 317 00:13:14,170 --> 00:13:14,650 all of it. 318 00:13:14,790 --> 00:13:17,530 The Bible tells me that God prepared a 319 00:13:17,530 --> 00:13:19,910 big fish to swallow his runaway preacher. 320 00:13:20,910 --> 00:13:23,310 I said, if God can make a preacher, 321 00:13:23,450 --> 00:13:24,630 he can make a fish big enough to 322 00:13:24,630 --> 00:13:25,070 swallow him. 323 00:13:26,070 --> 00:13:27,530 I said, I'll tell you something if you 324 00:13:27,530 --> 00:13:30,310 don't already know it, if that fish had 325 00:13:30,310 --> 00:13:32,230 to hold down some of your professors three 326 00:13:32,230 --> 00:13:33,570 days, it'd never hold him down. 327 00:13:37,390 --> 00:13:40,290 I don't make fun of anybody's faith, I 328 00:13:40,290 --> 00:13:41,650 never have, never intend to. 329 00:13:42,610 --> 00:13:44,730 But there's one young man down there, had 330 00:13:44,730 --> 00:13:46,610 the biggest nose I've ever seen on a 331 00:13:46,610 --> 00:13:47,110 human face. 332 00:13:47,190 --> 00:13:47,950 Oh, it was a waffle. 333 00:13:49,890 --> 00:13:52,390 He had a little tiny mustache right beneath 334 00:13:52,390 --> 00:13:55,450 that nose, sort of Hitler-like, a little 335 00:13:55,450 --> 00:13:56,030 tiny mustache. 336 00:13:56,190 --> 00:13:58,430 Of course the mustache was small, because nothing 337 00:13:58,430 --> 00:13:59,110 grows a mustache. 338 00:14:03,390 --> 00:14:06,170 And he came up to me with a 339 00:14:06,170 --> 00:14:09,330 super-silly smear on his little Hitler-mustache 340 00:14:09,330 --> 00:14:13,030 -lip and said, now, man-to-man, honest 341 00:14:13,030 --> 00:14:15,730 to God, do you believe Balaam's ass talked? 342 00:14:16,770 --> 00:14:19,210 I said, yes, I believe Balaam's ass talked, 343 00:14:19,290 --> 00:14:20,990 being the female, the species she had the 344 00:14:20,990 --> 00:14:21,930 advantage to start with. 345 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,180 I said, sir, did you ever hear Madame 346 00:14:27,180 --> 00:14:28,040 Schumann-Hicks sing? 347 00:14:28,180 --> 00:14:28,800 He said, no, sir. 348 00:14:28,980 --> 00:14:29,760 I said, I did. 349 00:14:30,340 --> 00:14:33,000 Paid $5 to hear her, worth more than 350 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,820 $5 to hear her sing Silent Night in 351 00:14:34,820 --> 00:14:35,500 German and English. 352 00:14:35,620 --> 00:14:36,920 I said, did you ever hear Caruso sing? 353 00:14:37,020 --> 00:14:37,660 He said, no, sir. 354 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,260 I said, I did, I paid $7 to 355 00:14:40,260 --> 00:14:42,000 take my sweetheart and myself to hear him 356 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:42,320 sing. 357 00:14:43,220 --> 00:14:44,520 Worth more than that to hear him. 358 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,080 I said, I can go down to my 359 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,580 house, sir, start a little wax discs rolling, 360 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,120 and out of the point of that needle 361 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,100 will come Madame Schumann-Hicks' voice and Caruso's 362 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:53,400 voice. 363 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,880 By the way, this hadn't happened when I 364 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:01,520 talked to him, but in 1952, I was 365 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,120 in a Bible conference in New York. 366 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:05,740 I read one day in the New York 367 00:15:05,740 --> 00:15:08,160 Times where they were having a commemorative concert 368 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,380 at a certain park, Amgen Park, I think. 369 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,520 I didn't know anything about the park, didn't 370 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:13,800 know where it was or how far it 371 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,180 was, but I got a cab and went 372 00:15:15,180 --> 00:15:15,500 out. 373 00:15:16,460 --> 00:15:17,920 There were 6,000 people there, and I 374 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:19,560 have a picture in one of my scrapbooks, 375 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,600 because keeping scrapbooks is one of my hobbies. 376 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:24,840 There were 6,000 people out there, and 377 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,020 it was just as worshipful an atmosphere as 378 00:15:27,020 --> 00:15:28,600 we have in this auditorium this morning. 379 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,420 Do you know what we were doing there? 380 00:15:32,180 --> 00:15:34,340 We were sitting there and listening to a 381 00:15:34,340 --> 00:15:37,640 man sing who had been dead 30 years. 382 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,620 Mr. Caruso's 30th anniversary of his death. 383 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,800 We were sitting 3,000 miles from where 384 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,960 he was buried, his body. 385 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:49,920 We sat there, worshipful attitude. 386 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,440 Some people had tears on occasion. 387 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:54,520 For an hour and a half we sat 388 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,340 there and heard a man sing who had 389 00:15:57,340 --> 00:15:59,420 been dead 30 years, and we heard it 390 00:15:59,420 --> 00:16:00,440 by means of the phonograph. 391 00:16:01,260 --> 00:16:01,980 Now, listen to me. 392 00:16:02,820 --> 00:16:05,460 If man can compress Caruso in the microscopic 393 00:16:05,460 --> 00:16:08,700 point of a needle, make him sing for 394 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:10,480 an hour and a half, 30 years after 395 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,020 he's dead, and 3,000 miles from where 396 00:16:14,020 --> 00:16:17,080 his body is buried, you think God Almighty 397 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:18,980 would have any trouble making no cloth-haired, 398 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,700 water-eyed, Democratic donkey talk? 399 00:16:23,260 --> 00:16:24,100 I don't! 400 00:16:28,110 --> 00:16:30,830 I believe this book, all this book! 401 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,300 I don't have any trouble believing it. 402 00:16:36,950 --> 00:16:38,130 And Jesus believed it. 403 00:16:38,470 --> 00:16:40,930 He said, Sanctify them by thy truth, thy 404 00:16:40,930 --> 00:16:42,290 word is truth. 405 00:16:42,970 --> 00:16:44,870 He said, Search the scriptures, for in them 406 00:16:44,870 --> 00:16:47,010 ye think ye have eternal life, but they 407 00:16:47,010 --> 00:16:50,150 are they which testify of me, for Moses 408 00:16:50,150 --> 00:16:51,230 wrote of me. 409 00:16:51,990 --> 00:16:53,930 As I said yesterday morning, Jesus is the 410 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:55,090 theme of this book. 411 00:16:55,890 --> 00:16:57,390 Take Jesus out of this book as I 412 00:16:57,390 --> 00:16:57,690 tell you. 413 00:16:57,690 --> 00:16:59,310 He's out of fire, melted out of music, 414 00:16:59,390 --> 00:17:01,570 numbers out of mathematics, mind out of metaphysics, 415 00:17:01,710 --> 00:17:03,810 facts out of history, fiction out of literature, 416 00:17:04,069 --> 00:17:06,230 brains out of scholarly expecting intelligence, and brought 417 00:17:06,230 --> 00:17:08,630 out of the body and expecting health. 418 00:17:09,230 --> 00:17:13,329 This marvelous book, infallible in its authority, inerrant 419 00:17:13,329 --> 00:17:16,530 in all its statesmen, immeasurable in its influence, 420 00:17:16,630 --> 00:17:21,630 inexhaustible in its adequacy, regenerating power, personal navigation, 421 00:17:21,810 --> 00:17:23,670 a miracle book of diversity and unity, of 422 00:17:23,670 --> 00:17:25,710 harmony and infinite complexity. 423 00:17:26,230 --> 00:17:29,210 Jesus believed it to be truth, and I 424 00:17:29,210 --> 00:17:30,550 believe what Jesus believed. 425 00:17:31,590 --> 00:17:33,030 I'm going to preach it that way. 426 00:17:34,030 --> 00:17:35,810 I preached it that way down in Memphis. 427 00:17:36,230 --> 00:17:37,970 The spider didn't spin in the webs of 428 00:17:37,970 --> 00:17:38,790 my Baptist either. 429 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:42,260 Let me say something else. 430 00:17:44,310 --> 00:17:45,570 Jesus was above all in the way he 431 00:17:45,570 --> 00:17:45,930 lived. 432 00:17:46,310 --> 00:17:48,270 Nobody can find any fault in what Jesus 433 00:17:48,270 --> 00:17:49,190 said or did. 434 00:17:50,050 --> 00:17:51,750 One day Jesus said to his enemies, and 435 00:17:51,750 --> 00:17:52,610 he had plenty of them. 436 00:17:53,150 --> 00:17:53,950 I have enemies. 437 00:17:55,110 --> 00:17:57,170 I've told the people of my convention that 438 00:17:57,170 --> 00:17:59,190 if when I die somebody gets up and 439 00:17:59,190 --> 00:18:02,030 says, Dear old Dr. Lee, with some hoot 440 00:18:02,030 --> 00:18:05,030 -owl voice, never met an enemy in all 441 00:18:05,030 --> 00:18:05,610 his life. 442 00:18:05,610 --> 00:18:07,570 I said, I hope God will raise me 443 00:18:07,570 --> 00:18:08,990 to life long enough to stick my head 444 00:18:08,990 --> 00:18:10,250 out of the coffin and say, That's not 445 00:18:10,250 --> 00:18:10,570 so! 446 00:18:18,130 --> 00:18:20,270 No man can take a stand against liquor 447 00:18:20,270 --> 00:18:23,130 today and not make enemies, or communism and 448 00:18:23,130 --> 00:18:25,710 not make enemies, or liberalism and modernism and 449 00:18:25,710 --> 00:18:26,610 not make enemies. 450 00:18:28,350 --> 00:18:28,830 No enemy? 451 00:18:29,890 --> 00:18:30,950 The boast is poor. 452 00:18:31,790 --> 00:18:32,250 No enemy? 453 00:18:33,150 --> 00:18:35,070 You never diced a cup from a purging 454 00:18:35,070 --> 00:18:35,350 lip. 455 00:18:35,430 --> 00:18:35,830 No enemy? 456 00:18:36,330 --> 00:18:37,630 You never hit a traitor on the hip. 457 00:18:37,670 --> 00:18:38,110 No enemy? 458 00:18:38,350 --> 00:18:39,450 You've been a coward in this life. 459 00:18:39,510 --> 00:18:39,890 No enemy? 460 00:18:40,370 --> 00:18:41,910 The man had turned the wrong to right. 461 00:18:43,050 --> 00:18:47,310 Jesus had his enemies, but no one could 462 00:18:47,310 --> 00:18:49,130 find any fault in what he did or 463 00:18:49,130 --> 00:18:49,370 said. 464 00:18:50,550 --> 00:18:53,250 Jesus' life on this earth was a very 465 00:18:53,250 --> 00:18:54,570 geography of perfume. 466 00:18:55,390 --> 00:18:57,250 It was a overflow of graciousness. 467 00:18:57,350 --> 00:18:59,310 It was a thrill of the uncataloged. 468 00:18:59,350 --> 00:19:00,810 It was a language of the unuttered. 469 00:19:00,910 --> 00:19:03,330 And Jesus wore the white flower of a 470 00:19:03,330 --> 00:19:05,190 blameless life in the midst of a crooked 471 00:19:05,190 --> 00:19:07,690 and a perverse and adulterous generation, like the 472 00:19:07,690 --> 00:19:09,050 generation in which we now live. 473 00:19:09,990 --> 00:19:13,590 And Jesus was so finely strung, so unutteredly 474 00:19:13,590 --> 00:19:16,270 keyed to truth, to mercy, to justice and 475 00:19:16,270 --> 00:19:18,730 to love, and so quickly felt the sorrow, 476 00:19:19,090 --> 00:19:22,250 the sympathy, and the indignation which wrong and 477 00:19:22,250 --> 00:19:25,190 injustice invader elicits from all high souls. 478 00:19:26,070 --> 00:19:28,210 Temptations never loosed the moral fiber. 479 00:19:28,970 --> 00:19:30,670 Popularity never caused him to hurry. 480 00:19:30,950 --> 00:19:33,050 Antagonism never caused him to delay. 481 00:19:33,830 --> 00:19:36,030 He never made any apology for anything he 482 00:19:36,030 --> 00:19:36,770 said or did. 483 00:19:37,290 --> 00:19:39,310 He never acknowledged there was any need for 484 00:19:39,310 --> 00:19:40,690 repentance on his part. 485 00:19:41,050 --> 00:19:44,410 He was a sinless, absolutely holy, H-O 486 00:19:44,410 --> 00:19:45,910 -L-Y, holy Christ! 487 00:19:47,110 --> 00:19:49,870 And the devil could not get him to 488 00:19:49,870 --> 00:19:50,110 fall. 489 00:19:50,890 --> 00:19:52,370 He was above all else in life. 490 00:19:52,450 --> 00:19:54,670 Did you find anybody in this world who 491 00:19:54,670 --> 00:19:56,410 never said anything they shouldn't have said? 492 00:19:58,050 --> 00:19:58,730 Didn't you? 493 00:19:59,010 --> 00:20:00,670 Or did something they should not have done? 494 00:20:00,850 --> 00:20:03,310 Jesus was absolutely sinless. 495 00:20:03,830 --> 00:20:04,890 He never made a mistake. 496 00:20:05,610 --> 00:20:07,530 He never said something he should not have 497 00:20:07,530 --> 00:20:07,690 said. 498 00:20:07,730 --> 00:20:09,330 He never stayed silent when he should have 499 00:20:09,330 --> 00:20:09,690 spoken. 500 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:12,170 He's above all else in the life he 501 00:20:12,170 --> 00:20:12,630 lived. 502 00:20:13,570 --> 00:20:16,490 I challenge all the microscopes of skepticism, all 503 00:20:16,490 --> 00:20:20,410 the telescopes of infidelic observation, all the X 504 00:20:20,410 --> 00:20:24,670 -rays of investigation to find anything, anything, anything 505 00:20:24,670 --> 00:20:26,910 wrong in the life of Jesus, by word 506 00:20:26,910 --> 00:20:29,590 or by deed, is above all. 507 00:20:31,250 --> 00:20:32,470 Let us enter a little bit into the 508 00:20:32,470 --> 00:20:34,450 Holy White Sanctuary with your prayer. 509 00:20:35,530 --> 00:20:39,330 Jesus is above all in the sacrifice he 510 00:20:39,330 --> 00:20:41,450 made and in the suffering he endured in 511 00:20:41,450 --> 00:20:42,050 our behalf. 512 00:20:43,850 --> 00:20:45,230 Some man wrote a book and said the 513 00:20:45,230 --> 00:20:47,770 greatest sacrifice ever made was when Solomon dedicated 514 00:20:47,770 --> 00:20:51,010 the Temple of Jerusalem and killed 22,000 515 00:20:51,010 --> 00:20:53,570 oxen and 120,000 sheep in the sacrifices. 516 00:20:54,290 --> 00:20:55,030 That isn't so. 517 00:20:55,170 --> 00:20:56,810 He wrote beautifully, but he wrote error. 518 00:20:57,610 --> 00:20:59,830 The greatest sacrifice ever made in all ages 519 00:20:59,830 --> 00:21:03,490 was when Jesus, the Lamb of God, died 520 00:21:03,490 --> 00:21:07,110 on a cross outside the walls of Jerusalem 521 00:21:07,110 --> 00:21:08,610 at the place called Ascar. 522 00:21:11,740 --> 00:21:14,800 Not all have brought a beast when Jesus 523 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,880 ought to slain to give their guilty conscience 524 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,760 peace or wash away the stain. 525 00:21:20,260 --> 00:21:23,520 But Christ, the Heavenly Lamb, takes all our 526 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,160 sins away, the sacrifice of nobler name and 527 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:28,380 richer blood than day. 528 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:31,860 He saw me plunged in deep distress and 529 00:21:31,860 --> 00:21:33,100 flew to my relief. 530 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:36,260 For me he bore the sinful cross and 531 00:21:36,260 --> 00:21:38,200 carried all my grief. 532 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:40,960 He suffered. 533 00:21:46,870 --> 00:21:51,650 He suffered physically, but he suffered more in 534 00:21:51,650 --> 00:21:52,250 his soul. 535 00:21:53,690 --> 00:21:57,490 He said to his disciples, My soul is 536 00:21:57,490 --> 00:21:59,930 exceeding sorrowful unto death. 537 00:22:01,050 --> 00:22:02,450 I can hardly stand it. 538 00:22:03,110 --> 00:22:04,230 I'm about to die. 539 00:22:06,050 --> 00:22:09,970 My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death. 540 00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:14,170 And soul-suffering is the most terrible suffering 541 00:22:14,170 --> 00:22:15,030 in the world. 542 00:22:16,790 --> 00:22:18,910 Victor Hugo in that great novel, which I 543 00:22:18,910 --> 00:22:20,610 think is the greatest novel ever written, that's 544 00:22:20,610 --> 00:22:21,350 just my idea. 545 00:22:21,430 --> 00:22:22,270 You can have your own. 546 00:22:23,210 --> 00:22:26,450 Picture that truth in John's black hair that 547 00:22:26,450 --> 00:22:27,830 turned white in a single night. 548 00:22:30,820 --> 00:22:34,200 White hair, black hair, turning white in a 549 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:34,860 single night! 550 00:22:36,660 --> 00:22:38,220 When I was in Paris, I said to 551 00:22:38,220 --> 00:22:40,500 my dear friends, Arthur and Muriel Johnson, two 552 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:43,120 of the sweet friends I have, I said, 553 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,240 I want to see the little room in 554 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,720 which Queen Marianne and Ed Spinner last hours. 555 00:22:46,820 --> 00:22:47,860 They said, I can take you to it. 556 00:22:47,860 --> 00:22:48,900 It's below the Seine River. 557 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,900 We went down the steps below the Seine 558 00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:53,600 River, and I gave $5 to the old 559 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:54,700 guy and God. 560 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:58,080 He said, Come, sir, these dungeons you see, 561 00:22:58,220 --> 00:23:00,280 people starve to death, animals rot to death, 562 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:01,160 nobody cares. 563 00:23:01,660 --> 00:23:03,740 No beam of sunlight ever in any of 564 00:23:03,740 --> 00:23:05,480 these dungeons, sir, not a beam. 565 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,100 Down the corridor of the dungeons we went 566 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:10,160 to, we came to the little room, little 567 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,580 plank floor and little wooden swinging doors, where 568 00:23:13,580 --> 00:23:15,480 Marianne and Ed Spinner last hours. 569 00:23:16,380 --> 00:23:18,540 The old God said to me, that chair, 570 00:23:18,540 --> 00:23:22,260 sir, she sat in just before she went 571 00:23:22,260 --> 00:23:24,940 to the death wagon, and said, this little 572 00:23:24,940 --> 00:23:26,800 handkerchief on the glass she used to wipe 573 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,940 her tears away, she had a lot of 574 00:23:29,940 --> 00:23:32,700 them to wipe away, sir, and that blade 575 00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:35,140 on the wall chopped her head off. 576 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,660 But come, sir, your feet are walking on 577 00:23:38,660 --> 00:23:41,160 the same planks her little feet walked on, 578 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:44,340 your body is going through the same little 579 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:46,600 wooden swinging doors that her body went through 580 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:47,580 to the death wagon. 581 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:48,420 Come, sir. 582 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:50,680 He took me out to the place where 583 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:51,700 the guillotine had been. 584 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,560 He said, Here, sir, they chopped off her 585 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:54,920 head. 586 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,360 I remembered my history a bit, how an 587 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:02,540 executioner, when his head fell in the basket, 588 00:24:03,060 --> 00:24:06,060 he picked it up with a hair as 589 00:24:06,060 --> 00:24:07,680 it dripped blood in her eyes, looking like 590 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,600 glass marbles in her head, and his hand 591 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:15,820 was crammed full of hair white like wool, 592 00:24:15,940 --> 00:24:18,700 white as snow, which three days before had 593 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:20,320 been black as a crow's wing. 594 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,020 What made Marianne's black hair turn white in 595 00:24:24,020 --> 00:24:24,700 three days? 596 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:26,120 Soul-suffering! 597 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:27,520 That did it. 598 00:24:27,980 --> 00:24:28,840 Soul-suffering. 599 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:35,340 Jesus said, My soul is exceeding sovereign to 600 00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:35,780 death. 601 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,740 I have a sermon that's being published this 602 00:24:38,740 --> 00:24:39,020 year. 603 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,160 Two deaths died by one man in one 604 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:42,600 day. 605 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,520 Jesus died on the cross. 606 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,680 He died two deaths, a physical death and 607 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,980 a spiritual death, which was absent from God, 608 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,960 when he cried, My God, my God, why 609 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,400 hast thou forsaken me? 610 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,960 All the days that I knew and all 611 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,940 my life I've had one night to them. 612 00:25:06,220 --> 00:25:09,080 The old preacher Amos said to his great 613 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,920 congregation one day, as he preached to them, 614 00:25:12,020 --> 00:25:14,760 There's coming a day when the sun shall 615 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,040 go down at noonday. 616 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,160 I can hear those folks going to their 617 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,280 tents after Amos preached and talking to each 618 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:21,480 other. 619 00:25:22,180 --> 00:25:24,800 Well, I'm eighty-five years old. 620 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:26,800 I ain't never seen the sun go down 621 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:27,440 at noonday. 622 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:29,620 Have you, Rebecca? 623 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,920 No, I'm seventy years of age and I've 624 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,860 never seen the sun go down at noonday. 625 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,140 Somebody says, No, I haven't either. 626 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:37,760 I haven't either. 627 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,820 The sun going down at noonday, the preacher 628 00:25:39,820 --> 00:25:41,360 must have been a little wrought up today. 629 00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:42,300 He must have been a little bit on 630 00:25:42,300 --> 00:25:43,980 high tension, a little bit nervous. 631 00:25:46,170 --> 00:25:47,830 No, the preacher can't get wrought up today 632 00:25:47,830 --> 00:25:48,470 and worth shooting. 633 00:25:51,620 --> 00:25:53,300 One of my deacons came by one Sunday 634 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:54,140 morning when I had preached. 635 00:25:54,180 --> 00:25:55,280 He said, You seem to be wrought up 636 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:55,460 today. 637 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:56,600 I said, Yes, I'm wrought up. 638 00:25:56,620 --> 00:25:57,740 When are you going to get wrought up? 639 00:26:03,270 --> 00:26:04,330 That day came. 640 00:26:04,510 --> 00:26:06,870 Midnight came down in his black garments and 641 00:26:06,870 --> 00:26:09,450 pushed noonday with her bright, resplendent garments off 642 00:26:09,450 --> 00:26:11,290 the throne of the universe, and sat down 643 00:26:11,290 --> 00:26:13,090 on the throne and spread his black garments 644 00:26:13,090 --> 00:26:15,750 all around us, a little terrestrial ball, as 645 00:26:15,750 --> 00:26:17,670 we call it, in one of our hymns. 646 00:26:18,530 --> 00:26:22,030 And the earthquake, thunderously and rumblingly and grumblingly 647 00:26:22,030 --> 00:26:25,850 rolled forth its gauge, and irresistibly, that there 648 00:26:25,850 --> 00:26:27,330 in the temple was a man running to 649 00:26:27,330 --> 00:26:28,450 from the top to the bottom. 650 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,060 And in that darkness, Jesus said, My God, 651 00:26:35,540 --> 00:26:39,620 My God, why hast thou forsaken me? 652 00:26:40,540 --> 00:26:43,480 That's when God turned Jesus' soul into hell 653 00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:47,200 in those three hours of darkness. 654 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:48,800 Jesus went to hell for me. 655 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,760 Jesus went to hell for all of us. 656 00:26:54,420 --> 00:26:56,120 Let me give you some words from a 657 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:57,600 man who had a greater mind than I 658 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,600 could ever hope to have, a great theologian, 659 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,140 a great preacher, founder of Southwestern Baptist Theological 660 00:27:04,140 --> 00:27:06,100 Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, Dr. B. 661 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:06,300 H. 662 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:06,740 Carroll. 663 00:27:09,060 --> 00:27:10,540 He used to preach an hour and a 664 00:27:10,540 --> 00:27:11,560 half and two hours. 665 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:14,580 Listen to what he said. 666 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:20,560 It's unquestionable that Christ's soul entered hell while 667 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:21,440 he was on the cross. 668 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:25,940 He had died the spiritual death which is 669 00:27:25,940 --> 00:27:28,380 absent from God when he said, My God, 670 00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:31,660 My God, why hast thou forsaken me? 671 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,200 This must be interpreted literally. 672 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:39,020 During that time of seeming eternal duration, the 673 00:27:39,020 --> 00:27:41,000 Father's face was hidden, his back was turned, 674 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:43,840 and in that awful darkness the Son of 675 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:48,400 God endured the pangs of spiritual death and 676 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,120 desolation. 677 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:52,500 And the devil and demons were around him, 678 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,360 and the thirst of hell was upon him. 679 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,960 But Jesus had said by the prophet these 680 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:58,640 two things. 681 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,540 The pangs of hell got hold upon me, 682 00:28:00,620 --> 00:28:03,060 but God does not leave my soul in 683 00:28:03,060 --> 00:28:03,340 hell. 684 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:05,920 Dr. Carroll goes on to say this. 685 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:07,500 Jesus was in hell. 686 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:09,540 He was not there to stay. 687 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:11,600 He came out of hell to say to 688 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,380 the Father, Receive my spirit. 689 00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:16,480 He was no longer forsaken of God the 690 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:16,840 Father. 691 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:20,380 Christ descended to hell within the three hours 692 00:28:20,380 --> 00:28:23,160 of darkness when he was God-forsaken, and 693 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:27,100 in the power of Satan, to death by 694 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:32,220 one man, one day, by Jesus, who suffered 695 00:28:32,220 --> 00:28:34,160 in hell. 696 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:40,640 Let me say this. 697 00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:43,880 He said, Above all else is death. 698 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,020 The Bible speaks about death being our enemy, 699 00:28:46,180 --> 00:28:47,740 the last enemy that shall be destroyed. 700 00:28:47,740 --> 00:28:52,320 Oh, death, whose only prize are faded garlands 701 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:53,380 on coffin lids. 702 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,000 Death, whose only music is a sob of 703 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,000 broken hearts. 704 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,980 Death, whose only pleasure fattens with the falling 705 00:29:03,980 --> 00:29:05,180 tears of the world. 706 00:29:05,540 --> 00:29:11,750 Death came into my house and left me 707 00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:15,510 a lonely house, left me with a heartache 708 00:29:15,510 --> 00:29:17,430 looking at the vacant chair at the table, 709 00:29:19,450 --> 00:29:22,770 left me with a silence, unbroken, in which 710 00:29:22,770 --> 00:29:25,850 I can't hear the voice I love to 711 00:29:25,850 --> 00:29:27,470 hear for over fifty-seven years. 712 00:29:27,890 --> 00:29:30,470 Death has done as much for some of 713 00:29:30,470 --> 00:29:30,730 you. 714 00:29:36,090 --> 00:29:37,630 And death laid hold upon Jesus. 715 00:29:38,770 --> 00:29:40,490 They never did stop till they killed him. 716 00:29:41,930 --> 00:29:43,430 They said, He's a king. 717 00:29:43,890 --> 00:29:45,930 His enemies said, If he's a king, he 718 00:29:45,930 --> 00:29:47,930 ought to have some royal insignia with high 719 00:29:47,930 --> 00:29:50,150 office, so they cut his back to shreds 720 00:29:50,150 --> 00:29:52,210 with a scourge. 721 00:29:52,690 --> 00:29:53,810 If he's a king, he ought to have 722 00:29:53,810 --> 00:29:57,090 a crown, so they crowned him with piercing 723 00:29:57,090 --> 00:29:57,830 thorns. 724 00:29:59,890 --> 00:30:01,170 If he's a king, we ought to say 725 00:30:01,170 --> 00:30:03,170 so, so that it'd spit in his face, 726 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:06,780 and mouths that had kissed the mouths of 727 00:30:06,780 --> 00:30:09,060 harlots and been placed on rum jugs and 728 00:30:09,060 --> 00:30:12,340 uttered their dirty jokes and profaned words did 729 00:30:12,340 --> 00:30:13,560 spit in his face. 730 00:30:14,860 --> 00:30:16,140 If he's a king, we ought to reach 731 00:30:16,140 --> 00:30:19,760 out our hands to him, so they beat 732 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,700 him up with their hands and pulled out 733 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:22,880 some of his beard. 734 00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:25,880 For he fulfilled the scripture, I gave my 735 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,980 back to the smithers and my cheeks to 736 00:30:27,980 --> 00:30:29,560 them that cupped off their hair. 737 00:30:31,940 --> 00:30:33,100 They said, If he's a king, he ought 738 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:36,440 to have a throne, so they nailed him 739 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,820 naked to a wooden cross and lifted the 740 00:30:38,820 --> 00:30:39,320 cross up. 741 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:45,360 They killed him. 742 00:30:46,780 --> 00:30:47,720 You and I killed him. 743 00:30:51,450 --> 00:30:53,030 Our sins killed him. 744 00:30:54,290 --> 00:30:58,470 He bore our sins right on a tree. 745 00:30:59,210 --> 00:31:01,530 Our sins were the scourge that cut his 746 00:31:01,530 --> 00:31:02,190 back to shreds. 747 00:31:02,270 --> 00:31:05,410 Our sins were the dirty sputum that befouled 748 00:31:05,410 --> 00:31:05,790 his face. 749 00:31:05,870 --> 00:31:09,010 Our sins made the procession where he was 750 00:31:09,010 --> 00:31:10,930 loaded down with a wooden cross and fell 751 00:31:10,930 --> 00:31:11,410 beneath it. 752 00:31:11,450 --> 00:31:13,270 Our sins pulled out his beard. 753 00:31:13,390 --> 00:31:15,510 Our sins beat his face to a pulp. 754 00:31:15,610 --> 00:31:17,810 Our sins crowned him with thorns. 755 00:31:18,090 --> 00:31:20,050 Our sins nailed him to the cross, and 756 00:31:20,050 --> 00:31:22,990 our hearts were the hard hammers that drove 757 00:31:22,990 --> 00:31:23,410 him there. 758 00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:24,250 We did it! 759 00:31:24,290 --> 00:31:24,850 You did it! 760 00:31:25,050 --> 00:31:26,010 We did it! 761 00:31:26,090 --> 00:31:26,790 We did it! 762 00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:35,050 They killed him. 763 00:31:36,630 --> 00:31:38,350 I'm glad that Joseph of Arimathea was a 764 00:31:38,350 --> 00:31:38,830 rich man. 765 00:31:38,930 --> 00:31:40,030 I believe if it hadn't been for him, 766 00:31:40,090 --> 00:31:42,250 Jesus would have been taken out and dumped 767 00:31:42,250 --> 00:31:44,490 on the garbage heap with dead dogs and 768 00:31:44,490 --> 00:31:47,290 lambs and cats and all other refuse. 769 00:31:47,430 --> 00:31:48,110 I believe that. 770 00:31:50,130 --> 00:31:51,990 Joseph went in to see Governor Pollack, and 771 00:31:51,990 --> 00:31:53,130 here's the way I picture it in my 772 00:31:53,130 --> 00:31:53,630 own mind. 773 00:31:53,770 --> 00:31:54,830 The Governor's in his office. 774 00:31:55,890 --> 00:31:58,650 Some soldier standing out there with spears to 775 00:31:58,650 --> 00:31:59,550 guard him. 776 00:32:01,670 --> 00:32:03,250 And Joseph the rich man came in, and 777 00:32:03,250 --> 00:32:05,490 Governor Pollack, who had a yellow cotton string, 778 00:32:05,610 --> 00:32:06,430 would have had a backbone. 779 00:32:07,750 --> 00:32:10,650 Well, Joseph, what can I do for you? 780 00:32:12,510 --> 00:32:15,570 And Joseph the rich man said, Governor, the 781 00:32:15,570 --> 00:32:18,510 man dead on the cross out yonder, whose 782 00:32:18,510 --> 00:32:24,610 death was your son, named Jesus, and he's 783 00:32:24,610 --> 00:32:24,970 dead. 784 00:32:26,410 --> 00:32:27,330 I said, well, I don't know if you'd 785 00:32:27,330 --> 00:32:28,930 let me have his body and bury it. 786 00:32:30,350 --> 00:32:32,290 Well, Governor Pollack called a Roman and sent 787 00:32:32,290 --> 00:32:33,670 two of the soldiers and said, is he 788 00:32:33,670 --> 00:32:34,370 dead already? 789 00:32:35,490 --> 00:32:38,550 The soldiers said, yeah, Governor, he's dead, all 790 00:32:38,550 --> 00:32:41,130 right, he's dead, he's dead, he's dead. 791 00:32:42,810 --> 00:32:45,970 Well, Governor Pollack gave Joseph of Arimathea permission 792 00:32:45,970 --> 00:32:47,690 to go take the body of Jesus down 793 00:32:47,690 --> 00:32:48,450 and bury it. 794 00:32:50,050 --> 00:32:51,610 The Bible doesn't tell us this, but I 795 00:32:51,610 --> 00:32:52,570 think this is what happened. 796 00:32:53,650 --> 00:32:54,970 Joseph went out on the street and he 797 00:32:54,970 --> 00:32:58,690 met Nicodemus, who also had been a secret 798 00:32:58,690 --> 00:32:59,570 disciple of Jesus. 799 00:33:00,230 --> 00:33:04,070 He said, hello, Nick, hello, Joe, where you 800 00:33:04,070 --> 00:33:05,970 been, Nick? 801 00:33:06,770 --> 00:33:07,910 I've been to see the Governor. 802 00:33:09,330 --> 00:33:10,590 What do you want to see the Governor 803 00:33:10,590 --> 00:33:10,930 for? 804 00:33:12,290 --> 00:33:13,570 I want to know if you'd let me 805 00:33:13,570 --> 00:33:15,290 have the body of Jesus to bury it. 806 00:33:15,390 --> 00:33:15,950 He said, I could. 807 00:33:16,010 --> 00:33:16,810 You want to help me? 808 00:33:17,390 --> 00:33:21,230 Sure, Joe, sure, I'll help you. 809 00:33:23,470 --> 00:33:28,150 Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea, pulled out the nails, 810 00:33:29,650 --> 00:33:32,590 took his body down, wrapped it in linen 811 00:33:32,590 --> 00:33:34,410 clothes and put the spikes in and put 812 00:33:34,410 --> 00:33:36,410 a napkin around his head, as was the 813 00:33:36,410 --> 00:33:39,370 custom for the Jews to bury, and put 814 00:33:39,370 --> 00:33:40,270 him in that tomb. 815 00:33:40,410 --> 00:33:42,610 He went out on the solid rock, yondered 816 00:33:42,610 --> 00:33:43,610 and derided him to death. 817 00:33:44,730 --> 00:33:47,110 The Roman Empire rolled a big stone to 818 00:33:47,110 --> 00:33:48,450 the door and sealed it with seals and 819 00:33:48,450 --> 00:33:49,570 put soldiers to watch him. 820 00:33:50,570 --> 00:33:52,210 Everybody said he's dead. 821 00:33:53,770 --> 00:33:56,550 Blind Bartimaeus with tears in his now-seeing 822 00:33:56,550 --> 00:33:58,570 eyes said, the one who made me see 823 00:33:58,570 --> 00:33:59,810 is dead. 824 00:34:01,070 --> 00:34:03,230 Mary Magdalene, out of whom Jesus had cast 825 00:34:03,230 --> 00:34:05,890 seven devils, said, the one who took the 826 00:34:05,890 --> 00:34:08,330 devils out of me is dead. 827 00:34:08,489 --> 00:34:10,449 I wonder why they wanted to kill him. 828 00:34:11,989 --> 00:34:15,010 The man with a withered hand reached over 829 00:34:15,010 --> 00:34:16,989 and touched his wife's cheek and said, honey, 830 00:34:17,690 --> 00:34:19,510 the one who made my hand old is 831 00:34:19,510 --> 00:34:20,330 dead. 832 00:34:20,810 --> 00:34:22,989 I wonder why they wanted to kill him. 833 00:34:27,010 --> 00:34:29,150 And if old Zacchaeus was living, I think 834 00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:32,150 he said, the one who changed my life 835 00:34:34,489 --> 00:34:37,750 from darkness to light is dead. 836 00:34:38,770 --> 00:34:40,150 All of them said he's dead. 837 00:34:40,270 --> 00:34:46,300 And Mary said, the one to whom I 838 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:49,980 gave birth, the one who nursed my breast, 839 00:34:51,850 --> 00:34:55,130 the Son of God, is dead. 840 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,360 I hear old Sin cry out to death 841 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,460 with his raucous, sinful voice, hey, you got 842 00:35:05,460 --> 00:35:06,460 that fellow Jesus? 843 00:35:08,180 --> 00:35:09,180 Yes, Sin. 844 00:35:09,980 --> 00:35:11,480 I got him, and I'm going to keep 845 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,160 him like I kept all the folks that 846 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:14,240 ever came in my power. 847 00:35:15,340 --> 00:35:16,380 The first day. 848 00:35:16,980 --> 00:35:19,100 The second day old Sin called out again, 849 00:35:19,460 --> 00:35:23,340 hey, death, you still have that fellow Jesus? 850 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,960 Yeah, I had him, Sin, don't you worry. 851 00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:28,980 And I'm going to keep him like I 852 00:35:28,980 --> 00:35:32,100 kept all the kings and queens and crowned 853 00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:34,580 folks of all ages that ever came in 854 00:35:34,580 --> 00:35:35,060 my power. 855 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,080 I'm going to keep him. 856 00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:40,300 The third day morning old Sin called out, 857 00:35:40,420 --> 00:35:42,340 hey, death, you still there? 858 00:35:42,420 --> 00:35:43,060 Yeah, I'm here. 859 00:35:43,980 --> 00:35:45,560 You still have that fellow Jesus? 860 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:47,140 No. 861 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,060 He'd gone away. 862 00:35:50,990 --> 00:35:51,810 Thank God. 863 00:35:52,910 --> 00:35:54,810 Up from the grave he arose. 864 00:35:56,010 --> 00:35:58,290 With a mighty triumph, oh, it's close. 865 00:35:58,550 --> 00:35:58,990 Hallelujah. 866 00:36:00,290 --> 00:36:02,250 The one who's above death arose. 867 00:36:03,230 --> 00:36:05,950 He says to us today, I am he 868 00:36:05,950 --> 00:36:08,630 who liveth and was dead, but I am 869 00:36:08,630 --> 00:36:11,470 alive forevermore, and I have the keys. 870 00:36:12,310 --> 00:36:13,190 And he does. 871 00:36:14,250 --> 00:36:15,630 What he locks, nobody can unlock. 872 00:36:15,710 --> 00:36:17,090 What he unlocks, nobody can lock. 873 00:36:17,450 --> 00:36:22,350 He has the keys, because he has the 874 00:36:22,350 --> 00:36:23,190 key to your life. 875 00:36:24,150 --> 00:36:27,330 I'd like to ask you, incidentally, the last 876 00:36:27,330 --> 00:36:28,690 thing I want to say is this, not 877 00:36:28,690 --> 00:36:29,950 the last thing I want to say, but 878 00:36:29,950 --> 00:36:30,770 I'm going to say it. 879 00:36:31,430 --> 00:36:33,530 He's above all, and he's coming back to 880 00:36:33,530 --> 00:36:36,690 this earth again, literally, visibly, bodily like he 881 00:36:36,690 --> 00:36:37,250 went away! 882 00:36:39,550 --> 00:36:40,950 Coming in the air first! 883 00:36:42,290 --> 00:36:43,790 He's going to bring our loved ones with 884 00:36:43,790 --> 00:36:43,950 him. 885 00:36:45,270 --> 00:36:46,830 Oh, I'm going to see my little lady 886 00:36:46,830 --> 00:36:49,870 Lee again, when she comes back with her 887 00:36:49,870 --> 00:36:50,170 Savior. 888 00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:54,200 And when he comes in the air, the 889 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,000 dead in Christ shall rise first! 890 00:36:58,660 --> 00:37:00,420 What are these general resurrections going to do 891 00:37:00,420 --> 00:37:01,780 with that, who say the wicked are dead 892 00:37:01,780 --> 00:37:03,180 and the Christian dead are going to rise 893 00:37:03,180 --> 00:37:03,820 at the same time? 894 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:04,360 It isn't so. 895 00:37:04,740 --> 00:37:06,800 The dead in Christ shall rise first, and 896 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,660 we who are alive and who are Christians 897 00:37:08,660 --> 00:37:10,940 will be given glorified bodies, and caught up 898 00:37:10,940 --> 00:37:12,320 together with them to meet the Lord in 899 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,140 their soul, and say, Well, we'll be with 900 00:37:14,140 --> 00:37:15,620 the Lord, and after a wedding in the 901 00:37:15,620 --> 00:37:16,000 sky! 902 00:37:16,260 --> 00:37:18,100 Dr. Peter Wolfe used to talk about it. 903 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,240 He's coming back to this earth. 904 00:37:20,380 --> 00:37:21,480 He's going to land on the Mount of 905 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:21,920 Olives. 906 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:23,860 The whole mountain is going to split wide 907 00:37:23,860 --> 00:37:25,740 open, part will go one way and part 908 00:37:25,740 --> 00:37:27,340 another, and he is going to set up 909 00:37:27,340 --> 00:37:29,320 his throne in Jerusalem and make real what 910 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:30,700 he promised in the Luke that the first 911 00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:33,000 God would give to him, the throne of 912 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,100 the Father, David! 913 00:37:34,420 --> 00:37:36,240 God hasn't done that yet, but he's going 914 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:36,700 to do it! 915 00:37:39,020 --> 00:37:40,580 The Bible tells me that the time is 916 00:37:40,580 --> 00:37:42,480 coming when little children can play with highland 917 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,080 moccasins and rattlesnakes and cobras and not be 918 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:45,340 hurt. 919 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:46,700 Has that time ever been? 920 00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:48,520 No. 921 00:37:49,540 --> 00:37:51,200 The Bible tells me the time is coming 922 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,180 when the terrestrial will be taken out of 923 00:37:54,180 --> 00:37:57,080 wild animals, and the lambs shall lie down 924 00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,540 together, and the lamb will not hurt the 925 00:37:58,540 --> 00:37:58,840 lamb. 926 00:37:58,880 --> 00:37:59,900 Has that time ever been? 927 00:38:01,340 --> 00:38:03,180 This book tells me the time is coming 928 00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:04,880 when men shall beat their swords in the 929 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,300 process, and their spears in the pruning hooks, 930 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,220 and men shall learn war no more. 931 00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:11,520 Has that time ever been? 932 00:38:11,620 --> 00:38:14,420 Look at Cyprus today, where the Turkish army 933 00:38:14,420 --> 00:38:15,740 marches! 934 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:16,660 War! 935 00:38:18,540 --> 00:38:20,780 No, that time never has been, but it's 936 00:38:20,780 --> 00:38:22,720 going to be when Jesus comes back and 937 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:24,720 reigns on this earth a thousand years. 938 00:38:26,140 --> 00:38:28,340 Oh, blessed Lord Jesus, come quickly! 939 00:38:30,220 --> 00:38:31,440 When he comes, it's going to be the 940 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,780 Master's reckoning day, it's going to be the 941 00:38:32,780 --> 00:38:34,040 Servant's pay day, it's going to be the 942 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,060 King's coronation day, it's going to be the 943 00:38:36,060 --> 00:38:37,360 Bride's wedding day! 944 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,000 Amen! 945 00:38:38,140 --> 00:38:39,820 He will so come quickly, Lord Jesus! 946 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,660 But I thank God Jesus above all. 947 00:38:43,540 --> 00:38:45,300 I'd like to say to him today in 948 00:38:45,300 --> 00:38:46,880 my heart, and I'd like for you to 949 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,860 say it too, if you will, what Shakespeare 950 00:38:49,860 --> 00:38:53,060 pictures say to Bassanio, her lover. 951 00:38:54,640 --> 00:39:00,000 She said, For you, my Lord Bassanio, I 952 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,420 would be troubled twenty times myself, one thousand 953 00:39:04,420 --> 00:39:08,800 times more fair, ten thousand times more rich. 954 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:10,980 And I'd like to say to him this 955 00:39:10,980 --> 00:39:12,700 morning as we turn and go away, For 956 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:16,420 you, my Lord Jesus, I would be troubled 957 00:39:16,420 --> 00:39:17,820 twenty times myself. 958 00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:21,400 I'd like to be a thousand times better 959 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:29,200 for thee than I've ever been, until thou 960 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,840 shalt come again, or until thy holy blessed 961 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,660 fist in hand shall open the gates of 962 00:39:35,660 --> 00:39:37,160 grace to me, shall open to me the 963 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,940 gates of glory beyond which I'm going to 964 00:39:39,940 --> 00:39:42,200 see some angels' faces I've loved long since 965 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,920 and lost awhile, and best of all to 966 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:45,680 see Jesus. 967 00:39:46,460 --> 00:39:48,240 And I'll walk around a little while with 968 00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:50,380 him in the fields of glory. 969 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:53,000 Would you like to say that to him 970 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:53,480 this morning? 971 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,780 For you, my Lord Jesus, I'd be troubled 972 00:39:57,780 --> 00:39:59,720 twenty times myself if I could. 973 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,340 I'd like to be a thousand times better. 974 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:04,780 Would you like to say that? 975 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,020 Well, say it to him while we bow 976 00:40:06,020 --> 00:40:06,500 our heads. 977 00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:09,680 If I say it to him, please, he's 978 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:10,200 right there. 979 00:40:10,980 --> 00:40:11,960 Say it to him. 980 00:40:12,860 --> 00:40:16,020 Say it to him right now, no matter 981 00:40:16,020 --> 00:40:17,500 who you are, no matter where you live. 982 00:40:23,780 --> 00:40:24,720 Make him a promise. 983 00:40:26,140 --> 00:40:29,400 Keep that promise, till he comes again, or 984 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,500 until he opens the gates of glory for 985 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:32,700 you.