1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,040 When we get to heaven, we're going to 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:03,000 go to meeting too. 3 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,140 Now maybe this is something you don't know. 4 00:00:06,260 --> 00:00:08,560 This is an advance notice to you that 5 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,020 people in heaven meet also. 6 00:00:11,140 --> 00:00:13,060 They also have meetings, like we have here. 7 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:17,120 Undoubtedly, they're having meetings right now. 8 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,860 The difference there, I suppose, is this, that 9 00:00:20,860 --> 00:00:24,100 while we feel the presence of Jesus, they 10 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:24,680 see him. 11 00:00:25,540 --> 00:00:30,020 We don't see him yet, but the same 12 00:00:30,020 --> 00:00:32,660 Jesus who meets with us, meets with them 13 00:00:32,660 --> 00:00:33,040 there. 14 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:35,540 And it's, there's going to be a very 15 00:00:35,540 --> 00:00:36,360 great difference. 16 00:00:37,580 --> 00:00:41,300 Here, we live by faith, if we do. 17 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:44,660 And there, we live by sight. 18 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,400 To be absent from the body is to 19 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,800 be present with the Lord. 20 00:00:50,180 --> 00:00:53,260 We've got something to look forward to, thank 21 00:00:53,260 --> 00:00:53,660 God. 22 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,200 My, what a wonderful hope, that we shall 23 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,760 see him as he is, that we shall 24 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,620 be forever with the Lord. 25 00:01:06,420 --> 00:01:08,980 Suppose a hydrogen bomb fell right on top 26 00:01:08,980 --> 00:01:10,220 of this church right now. 27 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,540 Well, it might, you know, can't tell. 28 00:01:15,660 --> 00:01:16,660 How'd you like it? 29 00:01:20,780 --> 00:01:22,280 How would you like it? 30 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,400 Well, there would be a great change. 31 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:26,320 There would. 32 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,940 But it's happened, you know, one time, Sunday 33 00:01:29,940 --> 00:01:31,880 morning, one of our sisters, while we were 34 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,660 singing, went to heaven. 35 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,320 I saw her putting up her arms like 36 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:37,480 this, and she was gone. 37 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,080 Well, the change must have been very wonderful, 38 00:01:41,860 --> 00:01:45,420 to come out of the fogs into the 39 00:01:45,420 --> 00:01:48,500 clear sunlight of his presence. 40 00:01:49,380 --> 00:01:50,640 We ought to remember these things. 41 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:52,220 We ought to think of them. 42 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,260 The hope of our salvation is the hope 43 00:01:56,260 --> 00:01:58,980 of seeing Jesus face to face. 44 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,900 But it's far more than that. 45 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,180 Oh, it's far beyond that. 46 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,039 If that's the only hope we have, then 47 00:02:07,039 --> 00:02:08,080 we're pretty bad off. 48 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:11,660 But our hope is way beyond that. 49 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,940 We're going to be like him. 50 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,380 Now, when I look at you, I don't 51 00:02:17,380 --> 00:02:19,220 see how that can possibly be. 52 00:02:21,060 --> 00:02:22,960 And when you look at me, you don't 53 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,180 see how that can possibly be. 54 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:29,180 But you know, this earthly house of this 55 00:02:29,180 --> 00:02:32,440 tabernacle is made only for a little while. 56 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:33,620 That's only a shell. 57 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,600 It's just an eggshell, that's all. 58 00:02:37,980 --> 00:02:40,640 And when the eaglet has come forth to 59 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:43,840 reign in the sky, why, the eggshell is 60 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:44,460 forgotten. 61 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,060 You don't think of it anymore. 62 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,060 It's gone. 63 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,800 It becomes refuse. 64 00:02:51,140 --> 00:02:52,940 And so it will be with this body 65 00:02:52,940 --> 00:02:53,380 of ours. 66 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:56,940 God has given us this body for a 67 00:02:56,940 --> 00:02:57,400 purpose. 68 00:02:58,180 --> 00:03:00,880 It's like the bulb of a peony. 69 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:03,940 You know what a bulb is like? 70 00:03:03,940 --> 00:03:05,540 Looks like onions. 71 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,880 Somebody cooked them because they thought they were 72 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:08,220 onions. 73 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,700 Well, they never turn into peonies. 74 00:03:11,540 --> 00:03:15,780 But a peony bulb doesn't look very nice 75 00:03:15,780 --> 00:03:18,060 at all, especially if it's covered with earth. 76 00:03:19,660 --> 00:03:21,300 But let it die. 77 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:25,040 And oh, what beauty comes forth. 78 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:26,900 What beauty. 79 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,840 It's so unlike the bulb, it's so different, 80 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,980 that you wouldn't believe that that beautiful flower 81 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:35,640 had come out of that bulb. 82 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,480 And especially after the bulb has been put 83 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,600 into the earth and has died, has been 84 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,780 corrupted as it were, has gone out of 85 00:03:45,780 --> 00:03:46,300 existence. 86 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,160 And now all at once this wonderful bush, 87 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,320 full of fiery flowers, fiery blossoms. 88 00:03:54,460 --> 00:03:56,900 Well, it is sown in weakness. 89 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,840 It is raised in power. 90 00:04:02,140 --> 00:04:04,600 It is sown a natural body, it's raised 91 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:05,840 the spiritual body. 92 00:04:06,780 --> 00:04:09,940 It is sown in corruption, it is raised 93 00:04:09,940 --> 00:04:10,940 in incorruption. 94 00:04:13,020 --> 00:04:14,680 My, what will it be? 95 00:04:14,860 --> 00:04:16,740 But today it's a good thing we're in 96 00:04:16,740 --> 00:04:21,580 meeting, because what we're going to be depends 97 00:04:21,580 --> 00:04:22,760 on what we are now. 98 00:04:23,260 --> 00:04:25,620 Depends on what God can do for us 99 00:04:25,620 --> 00:04:26,100 now. 100 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,140 And the lesson we received this morning is 101 00:04:29,140 --> 00:04:29,820 valuable. 102 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,320 Rejoice evermore. 103 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,700 What will happen to me if I don't 104 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:38,240 rejoice evermore? 105 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,960 Well, that peony is not going to be 106 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,520 as fragrant or as beautiful in that day 107 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,560 as it would be if I rejoiced evermore. 108 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,000 There's a great difference in flowers. 109 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,840 I've noticed coming to the home of certain 110 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:58,040 ladies, their plants are beautiful. 111 00:04:58,560 --> 00:04:59,400 I know why. 112 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:00,580 They love them. 113 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,360 The plants respond to their loving treatment. 114 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,240 And then there are others that never grow. 115 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,620 They, they're withered before they start, or they 116 00:05:13,620 --> 00:05:16,480 begin to die before they get a good 117 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:16,960 start. 118 00:05:18,180 --> 00:05:20,980 But oh, this morning the Lord Jesus Christ 119 00:05:20,980 --> 00:05:23,520 is here with a very definite job. 120 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:25,200 What is he doing? 121 00:05:26,220 --> 00:05:29,360 Why, out of his fullness have all we 122 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:29,940 received. 123 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,540 Grace upon grace. 124 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,260 And I was so thankful for the things 125 00:05:35,260 --> 00:05:37,980 that were spoken of this morning concerning joy. 126 00:05:37,980 --> 00:05:41,540 The joy of the Lord is the life 127 00:05:41,540 --> 00:05:42,420 of the Lord. 128 00:05:42,820 --> 00:05:44,540 It isn't something you manufacture. 129 00:05:45,340 --> 00:05:47,360 It isn't because you make up your mind 130 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,200 now you're going to be happy. 131 00:05:49,660 --> 00:05:52,080 But it's because you draw out of his 132 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:52,820 fullness. 133 00:05:55,170 --> 00:05:57,070 The joy of the Lord. 134 00:05:57,510 --> 00:05:59,930 You say Jesus instead of self. 135 00:06:01,010 --> 00:06:03,530 You say Jesus instead of weakness. 136 00:06:03,530 --> 00:06:05,510 Do you know why we are not always 137 00:06:05,510 --> 00:06:05,990 happy? 138 00:06:07,110 --> 00:06:09,970 Well, you might give a thousand reasons, but 139 00:06:09,970 --> 00:06:12,910 the only real reason is that we think 140 00:06:12,910 --> 00:06:14,210 too much of ourselves. 141 00:06:15,810 --> 00:06:17,070 That's the reason. 142 00:06:17,470 --> 00:06:20,270 And once you see the reason, you're not 143 00:06:20,270 --> 00:06:22,310 going to fool yourself by getting up all 144 00:06:22,310 --> 00:06:24,490 kinds of excuses for being in a dump. 145 00:06:25,530 --> 00:06:26,710 You won't anymore. 146 00:06:27,330 --> 00:06:29,830 You'll say, like I said, I talked to 147 00:06:29,830 --> 00:06:30,990 myself in German. 148 00:06:30,990 --> 00:06:34,130 I said, was bin ich für ein Esel 149 00:06:34,130 --> 00:06:34,530 gewesen? 150 00:06:36,450 --> 00:06:38,390 I said, all right, now let's quit. 151 00:06:39,170 --> 00:06:40,610 That's the end of it. 152 00:06:41,270 --> 00:06:43,510 That's positively the end of it. 153 00:06:44,310 --> 00:06:44,990 Hallelujah. 154 00:06:46,710 --> 00:06:48,410 Praise the Lord. 155 00:06:48,970 --> 00:06:51,570 Why should I walk around with torn trousers 156 00:06:51,570 --> 00:06:55,610 when there's a dozen brand new custom-made 157 00:06:55,610 --> 00:06:57,290 suits hanging in the closet? 158 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:03,280 Well, that's what we do when we're not 159 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:03,780 happy. 160 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,240 But when I say Jesus, I delight myself 161 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,200 also in the Lord. 162 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:09,600 Why, that life begins flowing. 163 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:11,500 It comes to me. 164 00:07:11,620 --> 00:07:12,880 Jesus comes to me. 165 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,640 Jesus takes the place of self. 166 00:07:15,540 --> 00:07:19,040 Jesus Christ, the resurrected Son of God, becomes 167 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,080 my portion. 168 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,760 Didn't he say, if you keep my commandments, 169 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:26,480 you shall abide in my love, even as 170 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,740 I've kept my Father's commandments and abide in 171 00:07:29,740 --> 00:07:30,200 his love? 172 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:32,480 And that's what we're here on this earth 173 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,660 for, to make manifest the savor of his 174 00:07:35,660 --> 00:07:40,020 knowledge in every place, to let Jesus Christ 175 00:07:40,020 --> 00:07:42,420 shine in a dark place. 176 00:07:43,660 --> 00:07:46,380 Today we ought to rejoice if God allows 177 00:07:46,380 --> 00:07:48,560 us to be in a dark place, because 178 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,980 we have a light that overpowers all the 179 00:07:51,980 --> 00:07:52,440 darkness. 180 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:53,880 Hallelujah. 181 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,540 How very wonderful. 182 00:07:56,980 --> 00:07:59,860 I've got within me a fountain of victory. 183 00:08:00,420 --> 00:08:04,860 Jesus always wins if I let him, and 184 00:08:04,860 --> 00:08:05,780 that's what's the matter. 185 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:07,620 If I think too much of myself, then 186 00:08:07,620 --> 00:08:10,880 I want sympathy, and then I want consideration, 187 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:13,900 and then I'll say self, and I'll have 188 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:17,620 a thousand excuses for living in the flesh, 189 00:08:17,620 --> 00:08:21,000 and that's corruption, and that is damnation. 190 00:08:21,420 --> 00:08:25,080 My call is to let Jesus live out 191 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,560 his own life within me, and that's why 192 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,820 the Bible says, whatsoever is not of faith 193 00:08:30,820 --> 00:08:32,039 is sin. 194 00:08:32,419 --> 00:08:34,960 Thank God I don't have to live my 195 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:35,900 own life anymore. 196 00:08:36,940 --> 00:08:37,500 I don't. 197 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,299 If I do, I shall die, but thank 198 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:43,760 God I draw from the fountain of living 199 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:44,460 waters. 200 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,260 God worketh in me to will and to 201 00:08:48,260 --> 00:08:51,340 do of his good pleasure, and he that 202 00:08:51,340 --> 00:08:53,640 began a good work will finish it. 203 00:08:53,860 --> 00:08:55,020 He knows how. 204 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,560 That's why the first principle is to delight 205 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:02,680 myself in the Lord, to rejoice in the 206 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:04,280 Lord always. 207 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,880 When I don't do that, I take myself 208 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,500 out of his masterful hand, and I say, 209 00:09:09,620 --> 00:09:10,380 let me do this. 210 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:13,480 I met a sister some time ago who 211 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,160 was in a great trial. 212 00:09:15,580 --> 00:09:16,740 I said, how are you? 213 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:21,140 Well, she said to me smilingly, if I 214 00:09:21,140 --> 00:09:24,940 were to complain, I would be finding fault 215 00:09:24,940 --> 00:09:25,900 with God. 216 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,160 That's done. 217 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:31,880 Whenever you and I complain, we find fault 218 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,760 with God, and we, we prolong the agony. 219 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:39,220 Oh, you can remain in your trial indefinitely 220 00:09:39,220 --> 00:09:41,900 if you keep finding fault with God. 221 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,760 The Bible says, neither murmur ye as they 222 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:51,160 also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 223 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,320 Oh, do you realize what a sin it 224 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:54,140 is to murmur? 225 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:56,660 You're finding fault with God, and God said, 226 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,320 how long before these people will believe me? 227 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:02,880 And the destroyer destroyed them, and these things 228 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,000 are written for our learning. 229 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,100 We've got a lesson to learn. 230 00:10:07,540 --> 00:10:10,200 We've got a fight to fight, a victory 231 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,760 to win, and that victory is that we 232 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:13,940 shall be like him. 233 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,860 Oh my father, is it possible, is that 234 00:10:17,860 --> 00:10:18,460 my hope? 235 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:21,420 He tells us to put on the helmet 236 00:10:21,420 --> 00:10:25,040 of salvation, which is the hope of salvation. 237 00:10:26,060 --> 00:10:27,140 That's my helmet. 238 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,880 You know, good fireman needs a helmet on 239 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,640 his head, because the sparks come from above, 240 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:34,040 and they're liable to kill him. 241 00:10:34,460 --> 00:10:36,820 And so he has a strong helmet, and 242 00:10:36,820 --> 00:10:38,500 you and I need a strong helmet. 243 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:39,600 Hallelujah! 244 00:10:40,220 --> 00:10:43,320 We're going to be like him, and we're 245 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:44,780 only going to be like him if we 246 00:10:44,780 --> 00:10:47,060 allow him to make us like himself. 247 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,320 And the Bible tells us how. 248 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:56,140 The sufferings of this present time are not 249 00:10:56,140 --> 00:10:59,780 worthy to be compared with the glory that 250 00:10:59,780 --> 00:11:01,140 shall be revealed in us. 251 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,300 For our light affliction, which is but for 252 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:06,200 a moment worse. 253 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,160 Oh, that's why God allows it. 254 00:11:09,580 --> 00:11:10,920 It works for us. 255 00:11:11,420 --> 00:11:12,700 It's necessary. 256 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:17,260 It belongs to the great master plan that 257 00:11:17,260 --> 00:11:18,740 God has over my life. 258 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:20,940 And once I get that hope into my 259 00:11:20,940 --> 00:11:23,600 soul, I will banish all fear. 260 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,420 I will trust my God to the very 261 00:11:26,420 --> 00:11:30,700 end, and I will rejoice in the midst 262 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:31,540 of trials. 263 00:11:32,740 --> 00:11:36,420 Look at those three Hebrew children, Shadrach, Meshach, 264 00:11:36,580 --> 00:11:37,400 and Abednego. 265 00:11:40,740 --> 00:11:42,660 And maybe you ought to change your name 266 00:11:42,660 --> 00:11:43,400 to Abednego. 267 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,260 When the king threatened them, the king was 268 00:11:48,260 --> 00:11:49,460 in a dump, I tell you. 269 00:11:49,620 --> 00:11:51,320 His visage was changed. 270 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,360 And he couldn't understand why those three Jews 271 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:56,460 weren't in a dump, too. 272 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:00,420 When he threatened to heat that furnace seven 273 00:12:00,420 --> 00:12:01,040 times more. 274 00:12:01,380 --> 00:12:03,420 Now how does God allow that? 275 00:12:03,500 --> 00:12:04,760 I thought we had the victory. 276 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,640 Why we were anointed and prayed over, and 277 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,320 now seven times hotter. 278 00:12:10,460 --> 00:12:12,160 One sister said to me, you know, since 279 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:13,920 you prayed for me, it's been much worse. 280 00:12:14,020 --> 00:12:15,020 Please pray for me again. 281 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,540 I said, boy, are you courageous. 282 00:12:22,750 --> 00:12:25,770 Why the God whom we serve is still 283 00:12:25,770 --> 00:12:26,290 the same. 284 00:12:26,530 --> 00:12:26,710 Hallelujah. 285 00:12:26,930 --> 00:12:28,090 He's still on the throne. 286 00:12:28,610 --> 00:12:29,970 He is still on the job. 287 00:12:30,210 --> 00:12:30,910 Thank God. 288 00:12:31,410 --> 00:12:32,590 Praise the Lord. 289 00:12:33,050 --> 00:12:35,690 The God whom we serve makes all the 290 00:12:35,690 --> 00:12:36,690 difference in the world. 291 00:12:37,630 --> 00:12:40,190 I've had to learn some lessons in trials 292 00:12:40,190 --> 00:12:42,370 that were very prolonged and very severe. 293 00:12:42,750 --> 00:12:46,030 And to find out that faith grows in 294 00:12:46,030 --> 00:12:46,710 conflict. 295 00:12:47,870 --> 00:12:49,990 That's where you find out that it's the 296 00:12:49,990 --> 00:12:52,170 faith of the Son of God that makes 297 00:12:52,170 --> 00:12:54,950 you laugh at all your foes and rejoice 298 00:12:54,950 --> 00:12:56,710 in the midst of your trials. 299 00:12:57,250 --> 00:12:59,590 Why the God whom we serve has a 300 00:12:59,590 --> 00:13:00,570 wonderful plan. 301 00:13:00,930 --> 00:13:01,890 Thank God. 302 00:13:02,170 --> 00:13:03,690 Let him have his way with me. 303 00:13:04,010 --> 00:13:05,970 I'm not going to find fault with God. 304 00:13:06,170 --> 00:13:08,030 I'm going to rejoice in the Lord. 305 00:13:08,310 --> 00:13:09,630 That's all I have to do. 306 00:13:09,650 --> 00:13:10,810 He does all the rest. 307 00:13:12,430 --> 00:13:13,110 Praise God. 308 00:13:13,210 --> 00:13:14,190 It's simple, isn't it? 309 00:13:15,010 --> 00:13:17,070 Like the Irishman who moved to this country, 310 00:13:17,150 --> 00:13:18,730 and when another one came and said, well, 311 00:13:18,770 --> 00:13:19,250 how are you? 312 00:13:20,630 --> 00:13:22,250 He says, um, fine. 313 00:13:22,350 --> 00:13:23,310 It's a wonderful country. 314 00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:24,570 He says, it's got nothing to do with 315 00:13:24,570 --> 00:13:26,530 us, but to carry bricks up to the 316 00:13:26,530 --> 00:13:28,170 13th floor, and the guy up there does 317 00:13:28,170 --> 00:13:28,830 all the work. 318 00:13:30,050 --> 00:13:31,410 There's the bricklayer. 319 00:13:36,410 --> 00:13:38,650 All I have to do is to delight 320 00:13:38,650 --> 00:13:40,270 myself also in the Lord. 321 00:13:42,850 --> 00:13:45,870 God sees to it that the work is 322 00:13:45,870 --> 00:13:47,070 done, thank God. 323 00:13:47,550 --> 00:13:49,250 But I ought to trust him. 324 00:13:50,210 --> 00:13:53,110 I ought to delight myself in the Lord. 325 00:13:54,630 --> 00:13:55,190 Happy. 326 00:13:55,510 --> 00:13:58,310 Oh, beloved, it's a wonderful lesson, a marvelous 327 00:13:58,310 --> 00:14:01,230 lesson, out of his fullness. 328 00:14:01,530 --> 00:14:03,770 I'm so thankful that God picked such a 329 00:14:03,770 --> 00:14:05,370 happy way for me. 330 00:14:06,130 --> 00:14:08,430 You can choose what you please, but for 331 00:14:08,430 --> 00:14:11,750 me it's to been the most happy, because 332 00:14:11,750 --> 00:14:13,110 I wasn't born that way. 333 00:14:15,780 --> 00:14:16,940 Glory to God. 334 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,320 I was born with clubbed feet. 335 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:20,200 I couldn't walk. 336 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,860 I stumbled all over myself until Jesus came 337 00:14:23,860 --> 00:14:25,960 and gave me hind feet. 338 00:14:26,340 --> 00:14:27,460 Praise the Lord. 339 00:14:30,110 --> 00:14:30,550 Amen. 340 00:14:32,070 --> 00:14:33,330 Everybody happy? 341 00:14:44,060 --> 00:15:05,120 We ought 342 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,820 to thank God for his persistence in keeping 343 00:15:07,820 --> 00:15:10,080 these truths before us. 344 00:15:11,450 --> 00:15:14,650 I used to say, well, it's really not, 345 00:15:14,670 --> 00:15:17,350 not so easy to be a minister in 346 00:15:17,350 --> 00:15:21,470 Pentecost, because you can't choose your own ministry. 347 00:15:21,870 --> 00:15:27,270 God chooses it for you, and you have 348 00:15:27,270 --> 00:15:30,470 to keep saying the same thing over and 349 00:15:30,470 --> 00:15:36,540 over and over and over, over and over. 350 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,480 But I remember how my boss used to 351 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,220 do in my, in the jewelry business when 352 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:43,760 he taught me how to do things. 353 00:15:44,460 --> 00:15:46,160 I came to him one time and said, 354 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:46,920 that's wrong. 355 00:15:47,020 --> 00:15:48,800 That's not the way to do it, he 356 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:49,220 said. 357 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:51,380 Well, I said, I've always done it that 358 00:15:51,380 --> 00:15:51,600 way. 359 00:15:52,620 --> 00:15:54,360 He said, well, then you've always done it 360 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:54,660 wrong. 361 00:15:57,450 --> 00:15:59,690 And I'm so thankful that we have a 362 00:15:59,690 --> 00:16:03,370 master who doesn't give up until his job 363 00:16:03,370 --> 00:16:03,810 is done. 364 00:16:04,250 --> 00:16:05,410 He's got a plan. 365 00:16:06,050 --> 00:16:07,450 He has a design. 366 00:16:08,250 --> 00:16:10,610 But I remember the school that God put 367 00:16:10,610 --> 00:16:12,350 us into in the faith home inside. 368 00:16:12,510 --> 00:16:14,030 You've all heard us talk about that. 369 00:16:14,510 --> 00:16:17,010 We had a teacher at that time who 370 00:16:17,010 --> 00:16:20,650 lived always in the bosom of the Father. 371 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,440 She had an experience like no one else 372 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:26,440 in the whole world. 373 00:16:26,540 --> 00:16:29,620 She had gifts like no one in the 374 00:16:29,620 --> 00:16:31,820 whole world even approaches them today. 375 00:16:34,460 --> 00:16:38,180 And people would come all over the world 376 00:16:38,180 --> 00:16:41,600 to hear words of God out of her 377 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:41,940 mouth. 378 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,260 And many of them were surprised at the 379 00:16:45,260 --> 00:16:46,780 great simplicity. 380 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,640 They came to hear something highfalutin, you know. 381 00:16:52,980 --> 00:16:55,080 And the first thing the Lord would say, 382 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,080 are you doing what the Bible says? 383 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,960 Are you rejoicing evermore? 384 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,300 Elder Brooks came there, the colonel from the 385 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:05,700 south. 386 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,900 We always admired his attire because he was 387 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:12,839 always groomed to perfection. 388 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,420 And all the ladies in his church liked 389 00:17:16,420 --> 00:17:16,660 him. 390 00:17:16,740 --> 00:17:18,520 Oh, he was the boy. 391 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:21,800 He was a wonderfully popular preacher. 392 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:26,880 So popular that his church filled up in 393 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:27,460 no time. 394 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,060 He had a large congregation. 395 00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:33,640 But when he came around there, he said 396 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,120 he didn't like these monosyllables of Mrs. Robinson. 397 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:40,380 He wanted to hear something interesting. 398 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:42,700 Well, like people are today. 399 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:46,080 Did you hear that lecture about the little 400 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,320 men that came out of a flying saucer? 401 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,000 Well, you can get all the dub saints 402 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,780 to come by the thousands and listen to 403 00:17:55,780 --> 00:17:58,060 baloney like that. 404 00:17:58,340 --> 00:18:00,480 But you can't get them to listen to 405 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:01,580 the Sermon on the Mount. 406 00:18:03,260 --> 00:18:04,160 You can't. 407 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,220 And yet Jesus says, he that heareth these 408 00:18:06,220 --> 00:18:08,080 sayings of mine and doeth them not is 409 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:09,980 like a man that built his house upon 410 00:18:09,980 --> 00:18:10,480 the sand. 411 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:12,560 Elder Brooks came there, and you know, he 412 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:14,600 couldn't get the baptism in the Holy Ghost. 413 00:18:15,060 --> 00:18:16,280 His wife received it. 414 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:18,780 His wife received wonderful gifts. 415 00:18:19,420 --> 00:18:21,280 And poor elder had to sit at his 416 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,240 wife's feet and listen to her preach. 417 00:18:24,340 --> 00:18:26,300 My, that was a bitter pill for him. 418 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,000 Up to that time, he didn't believe in 419 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:29,800 women ministers. 420 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,500 No, sirree. 421 00:18:33,420 --> 00:18:34,940 That's what he was there for. 422 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,160 But now he saw his need. 423 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,400 And then he discovered something else. 424 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:42,700 He couldn't rejoice in the Lord. 425 00:18:42,740 --> 00:18:43,480 He was a dumper. 426 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,320 He told me this himself, and I'm sure 427 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,260 he wouldn't mind to have me repeat it. 428 00:18:49,260 --> 00:18:51,060 And the Lord told him that he had 429 00:18:51,060 --> 00:18:53,140 a demon that was as big as himself. 430 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,700 The idea of a minister carrying around the 431 00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:57,580 demon with him. 432 00:18:58,020 --> 00:18:59,880 Now don't quote me, don't tell this to 433 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:01,940 anybody, especially Pentecost. 434 00:19:03,580 --> 00:19:05,200 They wouldn't believe that, you know. 435 00:19:07,590 --> 00:19:10,710 But the Lord got after him, saying, God, 436 00:19:10,790 --> 00:19:12,550 he knows what's wrong with us. 437 00:19:13,290 --> 00:19:16,390 He knows why we are like we are. 438 00:19:16,850 --> 00:19:18,870 And God tells us what's the matter. 439 00:19:19,330 --> 00:19:21,350 And if we have sense enough to believe 440 00:19:21,350 --> 00:19:24,010 it, and we can find that out ourselves 441 00:19:24,010 --> 00:19:26,810 by comparing our lives with his command. 442 00:19:27,590 --> 00:19:29,750 Am I doing what Jesus says? 443 00:19:30,210 --> 00:19:33,470 Today the subject was rejoicing evermore. 444 00:19:33,590 --> 00:19:35,950 If I'm not, why then Jesus doesn't reign. 445 00:19:36,270 --> 00:19:38,970 And if he doesn't reign, somebody else reigns. 446 00:19:40,210 --> 00:19:43,630 Positively, there's another master that binds me. 447 00:19:44,250 --> 00:19:47,310 Well, I ought to be scared if I 448 00:19:47,310 --> 00:19:50,670 don't obey the fundamentals of the Bible, of 449 00:19:50,670 --> 00:19:54,110 the Sermon on the Mount, or another wonderful 450 00:19:54,110 --> 00:19:54,790 fundamental. 451 00:19:55,290 --> 00:19:57,290 In nothing be anxious. 452 00:19:58,810 --> 00:20:01,070 In nothing be anxious. 453 00:20:01,770 --> 00:20:04,050 But how many hearts are troubled all the 454 00:20:04,050 --> 00:20:05,670 time by anxiety. 455 00:20:05,690 --> 00:20:08,570 Or our sister talked about criticizing. 456 00:20:10,070 --> 00:20:13,090 Isaiah said, Lord, I dwell among a people 457 00:20:13,090 --> 00:20:14,530 of unclean lips. 458 00:20:15,410 --> 00:20:16,310 Woe is me. 459 00:20:16,750 --> 00:20:18,510 Oh, it would be such a good thing 460 00:20:18,510 --> 00:20:21,830 if we would spend some time meditating upon 461 00:20:21,830 --> 00:20:26,510 these words and searching our own hearts by 462 00:20:26,510 --> 00:20:26,850 them. 463 00:20:27,770 --> 00:20:30,630 If you don't go beyond the Beatitudes, you'll 464 00:20:30,630 --> 00:20:33,990 have a wonderful mirror placed before you. 465 00:20:34,530 --> 00:20:36,910 Blessed are the poor in spirit. 466 00:20:40,660 --> 00:20:42,680 Well, do you know what poverty of the 467 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:43,380 spirit is? 468 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,520 Well, it's for me, thank God. 469 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:49,100 Blessed are the pure in heart. 470 00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:52,100 But if I have criticism in my heart, 471 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:55,180 some people didn't like the praises this morning. 472 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,500 I could see it on your faces. 473 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:58,940 Well, the thing to do is to praise 474 00:20:58,940 --> 00:21:00,660 louder than the others, so you don't hear 475 00:21:00,660 --> 00:21:01,140 the others. 476 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,980 But why is it that there is that 477 00:21:03,980 --> 00:21:05,160 feeling in your heart? 478 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:06,740 Where does it come from? 479 00:21:09,580 --> 00:21:11,140 When I was a little boy, I always 480 00:21:11,140 --> 00:21:13,260 wanted to know what bedbugs were like. 481 00:21:13,340 --> 00:21:14,260 I heard about them. 482 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:15,980 I'd never seen any. 483 00:21:17,060 --> 00:21:19,420 And I was always interested in everything the 484 00:21:19,420 --> 00:21:20,040 Lord made. 485 00:21:22,620 --> 00:21:25,300 And so, one day I got up in 486 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:30,520 the morning and my, my, the next morning 487 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,060 the same, I thought it was mosquitoes. 488 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,200 But finally I showed it to my mother. 489 00:21:35,740 --> 00:21:36,720 She got pale. 490 00:21:40,070 --> 00:21:42,270 She came and she turned my bed upside 491 00:21:42,270 --> 00:21:44,890 down, took everything apart, nothing. 492 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:49,780 But she knew it was there someplace. 493 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:51,600 My father found them. 494 00:21:52,620 --> 00:21:53,520 You'll find them. 495 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,760 He took a candle, lit it, and he 496 00:21:58,760 --> 00:21:59,500 went to the wall. 497 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,860 There were cracks in the wall. 498 00:22:01,020 --> 00:22:04,020 He just heated those cracks and out came 499 00:22:04,020 --> 00:22:07,900 the whole battalion of the bottomless pit of 500 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:09,420 pollen leading the van. 501 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,600 I saw them then for the first time 502 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:13,200 in my life. 503 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,540 You see, they hide. 504 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:22,420 They're not rejoiced always. 505 00:22:23,740 --> 00:22:26,120 And when you have criticism in your heart, 506 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,820 oh, when the heart is pure, those things 507 00:22:29,820 --> 00:22:30,780 don't come to you. 508 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,820 Those thoughts don't bother you. 509 00:22:33,220 --> 00:22:34,360 They don't come to you. 510 00:22:34,380 --> 00:22:35,980 They don't afflict you anymore. 511 00:22:37,740 --> 00:22:39,620 I remember a time when I couldn't be 512 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:43,020 happy in some Pentecostal meetings because some people 513 00:22:43,020 --> 00:22:44,360 always got in the flesh. 514 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,320 Well, it was none of my business at 515 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:46,620 all. 516 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,780 God allowed them to be part there for, 517 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,560 just to show me what was in my 518 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,340 heart, what flesh that was here. 519 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,540 That's where the flesh was. 520 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,480 Oh, are you doing what he says? 521 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,520 And constantly the Lord harps on this one 522 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:04,860 thing. 523 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,480 And do you know that everything depends on 524 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,220 what I do with his word. 525 00:23:09,340 --> 00:23:12,320 He says, turn you at my reproof. 526 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,460 Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto 527 00:23:15,460 --> 00:23:15,620 you. 528 00:23:15,940 --> 00:23:17,680 Those that have taken it to heart have 529 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,260 been transformed, transformed into his image. 530 00:23:21,620 --> 00:23:24,540 They've received from him grace upon grace. 531 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,220 Like Sister Wally said, you find out that 532 00:23:27,220 --> 00:23:29,760 you can't get it any other place but 533 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:30,980 from him. 534 00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:34,160 But thank God he has gold tried in 535 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,300 the fire that you may be rich. 536 00:23:36,780 --> 00:23:38,320 And he offers it to us. 537 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,440 And when Elder Brooks found that out, he 538 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:42,700 wanted to know what to do. 539 00:23:42,980 --> 00:23:49,900 What do you think an educated, civilized, sophisticated 540 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:51,220 theologian should do? 541 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,860 A man that could take any text in 542 00:23:54,860 --> 00:23:56,740 the Bible and preach an hour and a 543 00:23:56,740 --> 00:23:57,500 half on it. 544 00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,000 Any of them. 545 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:02,300 He could tell you anything from revelation to 546 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:02,920 revolution. 547 00:24:03,580 --> 00:24:04,180 Anything. 548 00:24:04,820 --> 00:24:07,520 He, he was a wonderful preacher. 549 00:24:07,620 --> 00:24:08,580 What should he do? 550 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:10,940 The Lord told him what to do to 551 00:24:10,940 --> 00:24:11,800 get rid of his dumb. 552 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,740 Go to every meeting 15 minutes ahead of 553 00:24:15,740 --> 00:24:20,800 time and spend the 15 minutes shouting, hallelujah, 554 00:24:21,180 --> 00:24:23,600 praise the Lord from the heart. 555 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,480 You wouldn't find many ministers that would do 556 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:27,880 that. 557 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:30,840 And you wouldn't find many men that would 558 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:31,180 do that. 559 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:32,960 If you offered them a dollar a minute, 560 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,020 yes, they would. 561 00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:35,760 They would. 562 00:24:36,060 --> 00:24:39,000 Ananias and Sapphira fills our churches. 563 00:24:40,140 --> 00:24:41,200 You try it once. 564 00:24:41,260 --> 00:24:42,780 You see what they'll do for a coffee 565 00:24:42,780 --> 00:24:43,180 class. 566 00:24:43,820 --> 00:24:47,160 Or a little honor, a little place of 567 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:47,720 distinction. 568 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,600 Some people won't play unless they can sing 569 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:51,160 solos. 570 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,740 Unless they're the whole chief. 571 00:24:54,580 --> 00:24:55,720 Why we've seen it here. 572 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,960 People, ministers want members. 573 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:01,180 Well, they get them to pass the hat 574 00:25:01,180 --> 00:25:02,520 if they can't do anything else. 575 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:03,700 Now they're big shots. 576 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,960 Oh, the flesh stinks, beloved. 577 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:09,180 To high heaven. 578 00:25:09,940 --> 00:25:12,060 And God wants us to be rid of 579 00:25:12,060 --> 00:25:13,920 it and he gives us his word as 580 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,560 a sharp, two-edged sword. 581 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:17,760 And Elder Brooks did it. 582 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,480 He told me for three months. 583 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,080 He did that three times a day. 584 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,820 Three times a day, he said he felt 585 00:25:25,820 --> 00:25:27,360 like dying sometimes. 586 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,300 But he'd get down and he'd praise the 587 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:30,880 Lord. 588 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:33,940 Forty-five minutes every day. 589 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,560 And he said after three months he had 590 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:37,760 dug a hole through that. 591 00:25:38,580 --> 00:25:40,760 He had really come out on top and 592 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,180 his enemy was gone. 593 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,820 The Lord came to him and those who 594 00:25:44,820 --> 00:25:46,580 have known him know. 595 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,120 When we think of Elder Brooks, we think 596 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,880 of Jesus because the savor of his knowledge. 597 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:53,760 Oh, what a man. 598 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,760 What a man, one in ten thousand because 599 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,280 God was with him.