1 00:00:00,740 --> 00:00:03,100 The characteristic of the Son of God was 2 00:00:03,100 --> 00:00:05,880 absolute trust. 3 00:00:06,780 --> 00:00:08,640 Even when he said, you're going to leave 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:09,260 me alone. 5 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,800 And yet I'm not alone, for the Father 6 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:13,600 is with me. 7 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,540 Absolute trust in the Father. 8 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,120 Absolute confidence. 9 00:00:24,420 --> 00:00:27,540 Even on the cross, they accused him of 10 00:00:27,540 --> 00:00:27,900 that. 11 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:30,640 They said he trusted in God. 12 00:00:31,180 --> 00:00:32,900 Let God now deliver him. 13 00:00:33,580 --> 00:00:37,160 Even there, when all heaven seemed to have 14 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:40,120 forsaken him, he trusted in God. 15 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:45,180 In the last extremity, that's why death could 16 00:00:45,180 --> 00:00:46,100 not hold him. 17 00:00:47,860 --> 00:00:49,440 It was impossible. 18 00:00:50,380 --> 00:00:53,320 Now the Bible says, and they that know 19 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:58,100 thy name will put their trust in thee. 20 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,860 You will trust in a person in proportion, 21 00:01:01,060 --> 00:01:06,860 and sometimes little children have a lot of 22 00:01:06,860 --> 00:01:07,420 confidence. 23 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:12,860 When I saw my kindergarten teacher in Switzerland, 24 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:16,600 I was now bigger than she. 25 00:01:17,740 --> 00:01:19,740 She said, you've been a great blessing to 26 00:01:19,740 --> 00:01:19,900 me. 27 00:01:19,940 --> 00:01:33,220 When you were a baby, you 28 00:01:33,220 --> 00:01:34,420 smiled at me. 29 00:01:40,660 --> 00:01:42,120 She said, how do you know that? 30 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,580 Well, she said, I said to her, well, 31 00:01:45,660 --> 00:01:51,780 because you're a little child, and just a 32 00:01:51,780 --> 00:02:00,920 little, that much trust, that much confidence, and 33 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:02,280 of course she didn't drown. 34 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,300 Now, beloved, that's our victory. 35 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:20,780 And to mark all the promises to those, 36 00:02:23,710 --> 00:02:27,770 they that trust in the Lord, can never 37 00:02:27,770 --> 00:02:28,430 be removed. 38 00:02:28,650 --> 00:02:31,770 They shall be like Mount Zion, that cannot 39 00:02:31,770 --> 00:02:32,470 be removed. 40 00:02:34,230 --> 00:02:37,750 And then again, O how gracious thy goodness, 41 00:02:38,650 --> 00:02:42,250 which thou hast wrought for them, that trust 42 00:02:42,250 --> 00:02:45,430 in thee before the sons of men. 43 00:02:46,990 --> 00:02:51,030 And then again, some trust in chariots and 44 00:02:51,030 --> 00:02:54,630 some in horses, but we will trust in 45 00:02:54,630 --> 00:02:56,650 the name of the Lord our God. 46 00:02:56,950 --> 00:03:01,430 They're fallen, they've fallen off their horses, but 47 00:03:01,430 --> 00:03:02,610 we stand upright. 48 00:03:02,610 --> 00:03:05,070 We are trusted in the Lord. 49 00:03:06,010 --> 00:03:09,690 Blessed are all they that put their trust 50 00:03:09,690 --> 00:03:10,330 in thee. 51 00:03:10,770 --> 00:03:11,990 What a wonderful lesson. 52 00:03:12,710 --> 00:03:14,410 What marvelous promises. 53 00:03:14,970 --> 00:03:18,010 Here's one for you personally, individually now. 54 00:03:18,930 --> 00:03:21,430 Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose 55 00:03:21,430 --> 00:03:24,810 mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts 56 00:03:24,810 --> 00:03:26,630 in thee. 57 00:03:28,010 --> 00:03:34,010 Trust ye in the Lord Jehovah forever, for 58 00:03:34,010 --> 00:03:38,330 in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. 59 00:03:39,270 --> 00:03:42,110 It seems to be one of the great 60 00:03:42,110 --> 00:03:45,230 lessons that God has for his people. 61 00:03:45,710 --> 00:03:48,830 Listen, God cannot do anything for me if 62 00:03:48,830 --> 00:03:53,720 I don't, now that's strange, but that's the 63 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:54,880 law of the kingdom. 64 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,160 If I don't trust in the Lord, Madam 65 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:02,440 Guyon says, we perish for want of trusting 66 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:02,820 him. 67 00:04:03,740 --> 00:04:06,160 None that trust in him shall be desolate. 68 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,220 In one place it says, and none that 69 00:04:09,220 --> 00:04:10,780 trust in me shall be ashamed. 70 00:04:10,980 --> 00:04:11,760 Isn't that wonderful? 71 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:13,760 Do you believe that? 72 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,880 Well now we ought to examine a little 73 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,660 bit and see what it means to trust 74 00:04:19,660 --> 00:04:20,440 in the Lord. 75 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,380 It's a matter of the heart, not of 76 00:04:23,380 --> 00:04:23,840 the head. 77 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,140 I've dealt with people who were sick, and 78 00:04:27,140 --> 00:04:29,620 they say, well, I dealt with a woman 79 00:04:29,620 --> 00:04:32,560 who had swallowed a bone, and she couldn't 80 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,000 sing anymore very well. 81 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:36,580 The bone was stuck in her throat, and 82 00:04:36,580 --> 00:04:42,090 I said, why don't you go to the 83 00:04:42,090 --> 00:04:42,190 doctor? 84 00:04:42,190 --> 00:04:44,590 Oh, she says, I want to trust in 85 00:04:44,590 --> 00:04:45,090 the Lord. 86 00:04:46,670 --> 00:04:49,890 Well, then I began to wriggle around on 87 00:04:49,890 --> 00:04:50,710 that bone a little bit. 88 00:04:55,810 --> 00:04:57,870 She wasn't trusting in the Lord at all. 89 00:04:58,490 --> 00:05:00,530 That was far from her mind, but she 90 00:05:00,530 --> 00:05:02,050 was scared to go to the doctor. 91 00:05:02,470 --> 00:05:05,030 And so she says, oh, how many times 92 00:05:05,030 --> 00:05:06,810 people say meekly, I'll trust. 93 00:05:08,580 --> 00:05:11,480 Maybe they're too cheap to pay the medicine 94 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:12,840 or pay for the doctor. 95 00:05:13,220 --> 00:05:14,720 They're not trusting in the Lord. 96 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,480 When you trust in the Lord. 97 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,060 Now put that in your notebook. 98 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,420 None that trust in him shall be ashamed. 99 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:24,080 None. 100 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:26,960 Now what is the matter with my trust? 101 00:05:27,220 --> 00:05:28,220 It may be mental. 102 00:05:28,940 --> 00:05:32,520 Some people try to force God to help 103 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,160 them by saying, well, they're trusting in the 104 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:36,340 Lord. 105 00:05:36,340 --> 00:05:38,380 Listen, it's a very serious matter. 106 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,300 It's an awfully serious matter. 107 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,600 The Bible says that trusting in the Lord 108 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,640 is a matter of the heart. 109 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:50,240 And so much so, it also tells us 110 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,920 that the eyes of the Lord run to 111 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:57,200 and fro throughout the whole earth to show 112 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:02,840 himself mighty toward them whose hearts are perfect 113 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:03,780 toward him. 114 00:06:03,780 --> 00:06:05,920 That's trust in the Lord. 115 00:06:06,620 --> 00:06:09,800 When it's a matter of the heart, then 116 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,120 you don't advertise it. 117 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,660 You don't brag about it, how much you 118 00:06:13,660 --> 00:06:14,620 trust the Lord. 119 00:06:15,220 --> 00:06:16,660 It's something in your heart. 120 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,660 Thou will keep him in perfect peace because 121 00:06:21,660 --> 00:06:24,040 he trusts within the Lord. 122 00:06:25,260 --> 00:06:26,720 Oh, that's it. 123 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:32,640 Perfect peace is the characteristic of perfect trust. 124 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,020 But the Bible tells us that if my 125 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:38,720 heart is not perfect, it's a double-minded 126 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:39,280 heart. 127 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:42,360 I don't need to expect anything from the 128 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:42,720 Lord. 129 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:45,320 It's that you don't get anything from the 130 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,400 Lord even though God is, I was going 131 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:49,160 to say anxious. 132 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:50,760 God is never anxious. 133 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,540 But God is eager. 134 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,220 The eyes of the Lord run to and 135 00:06:56,220 --> 00:07:01,280 fro throughout the whole earth to show himself 136 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:02,240 mighty. 137 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:07,220 He talks about the exceeding greatness of his 138 00:07:07,220 --> 00:07:08,060 power. 139 00:07:08,460 --> 00:07:10,420 And now he's talking about the power. 140 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:15,420 And when I look at myself, I can 141 00:07:15,420 --> 00:07:19,140 say, Oh God, I thank thee because I'm 142 00:07:19,140 --> 00:07:20,460 fearfully made. 143 00:07:21,260 --> 00:07:22,860 Wonderful are thy works. 144 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,900 And that's when he makes the world or 145 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:43,650 the universe exceeding 146 00:07:43,650 --> 00:07:44,030 joy. 147 00:07:47,630 --> 00:07:50,750 And I cannot help him in healing my 148 00:07:50,750 --> 00:07:52,710 body when I'm in need of healing. 149 00:07:53,970 --> 00:07:55,450 God's got to do it. 150 00:07:56,630 --> 00:07:59,610 But God did it when he raised Jesus, 151 00:07:59,770 --> 00:08:02,210 my Lord, from the dead and commissioned him, 152 00:08:02,770 --> 00:08:05,550 gave him the job, gave him the command 153 00:08:05,550 --> 00:08:09,770 to perfect redemption in me and in all 154 00:08:09,770 --> 00:08:12,490 that put their trust in him. 155 00:08:12,950 --> 00:08:16,410 That's why trust is so exceedingly important. 156 00:08:16,870 --> 00:08:19,090 And that's the reason we can't fool with 157 00:08:19,090 --> 00:08:19,350 this. 158 00:08:21,430 --> 00:08:23,810 We may think we trust the Lord because 159 00:08:23,810 --> 00:08:25,590 we picked the promise out of the promise 160 00:08:25,590 --> 00:08:25,990 box. 161 00:08:26,910 --> 00:08:28,090 Lots of people do that. 162 00:08:29,250 --> 00:08:31,510 I saw a consumptive woman do that one 163 00:08:31,510 --> 00:08:31,809 time. 164 00:08:31,929 --> 00:08:34,150 Somebody gave her a message, told her that 165 00:08:34,150 --> 00:08:35,110 she was going to be healed. 166 00:08:35,210 --> 00:08:36,929 And, oh, she has such an unction and 167 00:08:36,929 --> 00:08:38,130 such a wonderful blessing. 168 00:08:38,510 --> 00:08:39,409 And then she died. 169 00:08:40,030 --> 00:08:41,429 It wasn't real at all. 170 00:08:41,770 --> 00:08:43,750 You can't fool with these things. 171 00:08:44,570 --> 00:08:47,270 It's a gift of God when your heart 172 00:08:47,270 --> 00:08:48,830 is perfect toward him. 173 00:08:49,130 --> 00:08:50,910 It's because you know his name. 174 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:54,600 We fall down on the job. 175 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,000 Paul said, I count everything but refuge, that 176 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,140 I may win Christ, that I may be 177 00:09:02,140 --> 00:09:03,000 found in him. 178 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,540 And you know God perfected that job in 179 00:09:11,540 --> 00:09:11,880 Paul. 180 00:09:12,180 --> 00:09:14,020 And have you ever found out how God 181 00:09:14,020 --> 00:09:14,520 did it? 182 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:16,920 Why, he said, we have the sentence of 183 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,160 death in ourselves. 184 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:19,420 Terrible. 185 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:20,880 Terrible. 186 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:22,720 You prayed, and everybody prayed. 187 00:09:23,060 --> 00:09:26,260 And you sent messages to all the Pentecostal 188 00:09:26,260 --> 00:09:26,620 churches. 189 00:09:26,860 --> 00:09:29,720 Please, stand in prayer and stand in faith. 190 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,000 Or maybe you send out a mimeograph. 191 00:09:46,750 --> 00:09:48,310 And nothing comes in. 192 00:09:49,190 --> 00:09:51,610 Mailman comes, and he brings you a lot 193 00:09:51,610 --> 00:09:53,570 of bills and not a dollar bill. 194 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:56,520 Terrible. 195 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,840 We have the sentence of death in ourselves. 196 00:10:00,780 --> 00:10:02,040 We have nothing to do. 197 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:03,800 No lookout. 198 00:10:04,180 --> 00:10:04,780 No hope. 199 00:10:05,460 --> 00:10:07,080 No expectation anywhere. 200 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,540 God said, it serves you right. 201 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:10,940 You don't know. 202 00:10:11,420 --> 00:10:12,880 You don't know your own heart. 203 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,880 You don't know there's a little bit of 204 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,360 a root of trusting in yourself. 205 00:10:17,540 --> 00:10:18,720 Maybe in your own faith. 206 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:21,200 You've had a blessing. 207 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:22,580 You've had wonderful healing. 208 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,300 You've had wonderful answers to prayer. 209 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,280 And you don't know how the old man 210 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,220 has taken credit. 211 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,560 Oh, beloved Jesus is going to have a 212 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:33,860 clean. 213 00:10:37,430 --> 00:10:40,210 And they're going to give all the glory 214 00:10:40,210 --> 00:10:40,790 to him. 215 00:10:40,850 --> 00:10:41,590 Praise God. 216 00:10:42,010 --> 00:10:44,510 And why not rather learn our lesson than 217 00:10:44,510 --> 00:10:45,110 complain? 218 00:10:46,410 --> 00:10:50,450 Do all things without murmuring and disputing. 219 00:10:50,950 --> 00:10:53,330 Nothing can come my way but by the 220 00:10:53,330 --> 00:11:20,930 appointment but 221 00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:22,410 of university. 222 00:11:24,580 --> 00:11:27,600 Praise the Lord, and call us all by 223 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:28,140 his name. 224 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:30,440 And it's that you think, I forgot you, 225 00:11:30,500 --> 00:11:31,280 you little trip. 226 00:11:31,740 --> 00:11:33,260 You think that I don't hear you. 227 00:11:48,930 --> 00:11:50,970 He said, Abraham, come out of that tent. 228 00:11:51,930 --> 00:11:53,490 Don't listen to Sarah anymore. 229 00:11:53,630 --> 00:11:54,010 Come on. 230 00:11:54,290 --> 00:11:55,110 Come into my tent. 231 00:11:55,250 --> 00:11:56,010 Lift up your eyes. 232 00:11:56,250 --> 00:11:56,670 Look. 233 00:11:57,510 --> 00:11:59,310 That's how your seizure is going to be. 234 00:11:59,510 --> 00:12:00,510 Praise God said it. 235 00:12:00,610 --> 00:12:01,490 God said it. 236 00:12:01,490 --> 00:12:02,730 That settles it. 237 00:12:02,790 --> 00:12:04,590 But, beloved, it doesn't settle it. 238 00:12:05,110 --> 00:12:06,550 That's the trouble with us. 239 00:12:06,970 --> 00:12:09,370 It doesn't settle it until we have dealt 240 00:12:09,370 --> 00:12:11,090 with God about it seriously. 241 00:12:11,710 --> 00:12:14,730 We need to be very serious prayer warriors. 242 00:12:15,030 --> 00:12:15,770 Do you know that? 243 00:12:16,970 --> 00:12:19,330 Madame Guy says, don't let anybody think that 244 00:12:19,330 --> 00:12:20,930 you'll get to heaven without prayer. 245 00:12:21,330 --> 00:12:23,030 Now, that would be put down as a 246 00:12:23,030 --> 00:12:24,270 false doctrine today. 247 00:12:24,530 --> 00:12:26,650 But God has arranged it that way. 248 00:12:29,670 --> 00:12:32,150 He said, in nothing be anxious, but in 249 00:12:32,150 --> 00:12:36,730 everything everything becomes a subject for prayer. 250 00:12:37,230 --> 00:12:39,390 Everything becomes a subject. 251 00:12:39,990 --> 00:12:40,470 Hallelujah. 252 00:12:40,710 --> 00:12:42,550 Becomes a contact. 253 00:12:43,530 --> 00:12:44,690 You've got contacts. 254 00:12:45,230 --> 00:12:46,290 We like them. 255 00:12:46,830 --> 00:12:48,810 And if we haven't got them, we put 256 00:12:48,810 --> 00:12:49,270 them there. 257 00:12:49,370 --> 00:12:52,190 We need a contact for our life and 258 00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:54,970 for our hand and organ and for our 259 00:12:54,970 --> 00:12:56,690 recording instruments. 260 00:12:56,850 --> 00:12:59,930 And we need contacts for our washing machines. 261 00:13:00,310 --> 00:13:03,210 And whenever there's a contact, why, you've got 262 00:13:03,210 --> 00:13:03,910 contact. 263 00:13:04,030 --> 00:13:06,430 But you've got to find that contact. 264 00:13:06,750 --> 00:13:09,870 And every circumstance in my life is a 265 00:13:09,870 --> 00:13:13,510 contact for God to manifest the exceeding greatness. 266 00:13:17,180 --> 00:13:18,280 Why do I murmur? 267 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:19,620 Why do I dispute? 268 00:13:19,980 --> 00:13:21,380 I find falsehoods God. 269 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:32,360 I don't believe that all things... 270 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,440 And I said, Romans 8, 28. 271 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:37,280 All things were together. 272 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:38,200 He didn't believe. 273 00:13:39,580 --> 00:13:40,360 I said, what? 274 00:13:40,420 --> 00:13:41,000 You don't believe? 275 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,020 He was a preacher that had been greatly 276 00:13:43,020 --> 00:13:44,180 blessed of God. 277 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,080 Oh, so wonderfully blessed in Pentecost. 278 00:13:47,180 --> 00:13:49,000 But you know, when you don't walk in 279 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,260 the light, that light will become darkness. 280 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,320 And today, this fellow was sick. 281 00:13:54,420 --> 00:13:56,920 And instead of seeking to the Lord, he 282 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,940 sought, not to the doctors only, but every 283 00:13:59,940 --> 00:14:02,480 doctor book and every healing book. 284 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,040 He had all kinds of doctrines about vitamins. 285 00:14:06,380 --> 00:14:09,320 Now, if your little toe aches, that's why 286 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:10,620 you need vitamin A. 287 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,540 Now go to the infirmary or get some 288 00:14:15,390 --> 00:14:16,710 dehydrated fertilizer. 289 00:14:24,490 --> 00:14:28,630 He waits to manifest the exceeding graciousness of 290 00:14:28,630 --> 00:14:29,450 his power. 291 00:14:29,830 --> 00:14:31,010 What power is that? 292 00:14:31,270 --> 00:14:32,090 Why, it's to us. 293 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,180 And if I allowed God to make a 294 00:14:38,180 --> 00:14:39,680 man out of me, he didn't make a 295 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:40,380 monkey out of me. 296 00:14:40,580 --> 00:14:41,260 Thank God. 297 00:14:41,540 --> 00:14:43,140 He did it by his own plan. 298 00:14:52,410 --> 00:14:54,810 And I cannot trust the Lord except in 299 00:14:54,810 --> 00:14:55,770 the hour of trial. 300 00:14:56,030 --> 00:14:58,710 When the trial's over and the victory's won, 301 00:14:58,730 --> 00:15:07,580 you don't have to... 302 00:15:07,580 --> 00:15:09,560 When the bulls goes up and they didn't 303 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,200 have any gyroscopes in those boats on Lake 304 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,340 Janissary. 305 00:15:14,180 --> 00:15:18,160 Now that thing was going, going, going up 306 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,260 and Peter was hanging on to the mast. 307 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:25,050 And he had a bad conscience for the 308 00:15:25,050 --> 00:15:25,790 scrambled eggs. 309 00:15:25,930 --> 00:15:27,550 He wanted her to unscramble them. 310 00:15:27,690 --> 00:15:29,050 You know how these mountains are. 311 00:15:35,530 --> 00:15:37,230 And he finally said, Oh, it's only the 312 00:15:37,230 --> 00:15:37,650 master. 313 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:42,040 Why, he's here. 314 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:43,980 I saw him there sleeping in the back 315 00:15:43,980 --> 00:15:44,380 of the boat. 316 00:15:44,740 --> 00:15:46,640 Oh, he must have washed over the board. 317 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:00,620 Let us open our hearts. 318 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:03,860 But goodness, when you... 319 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,760 They have these thick containers in them. 320 00:16:31,610 --> 00:16:33,570 All day they put their trust... 321 00:16:38,780 --> 00:16:40,980 I'm not bragging about my trust. 322 00:16:49,970 --> 00:16:51,830 He said, We had a lesson to learn 323 00:16:51,830 --> 00:16:53,410 I have not yet attained. 324 00:16:54,050 --> 00:16:55,270 Oh, here I am. 325 00:16:55,650 --> 00:16:57,930 I am willing for lessons. 326 00:16:58,050 --> 00:16:59,910 Any lesson that God has for me. 327 00:17:00,090 --> 00:17:01,330 Praise God. 328 00:17:01,670 --> 00:17:04,890 The sentence of death taught me the greatest 329 00:17:04,890 --> 00:17:06,130 lesson of all. 330 00:17:06,410 --> 00:17:11,260 That we should not trust in our... 331 00:17:11,260 --> 00:17:14,060 Well, if I can't trust in myself anymore, 332 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:14,319 who? 333 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,579 But God who raised us to death. 334 00:17:18,940 --> 00:17:20,599 Tell me, who do you trust in? 335 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:25,000 Who is it that your heart is fixed? 336 00:17:25,140 --> 00:17:27,480 My heart is fixed. 337 00:17:27,660 --> 00:17:29,040 It's an experience. 338 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,520 When God puts trust into your heart, it's 339 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:39,060 an experience that makes Jesus Christ supreme in 340 00:17:39,060 --> 00:17:40,000 your thoughts. 341 00:17:41,220 --> 00:17:43,960 Let the wicked forsake his way and the 342 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,320 unrighteous man his thoughts. 343 00:17:47,220 --> 00:17:49,060 That's where the trouble comes in. 344 00:17:49,420 --> 00:17:50,220 We have thoughts. 345 00:17:50,540 --> 00:17:52,340 And how many times do we open our 346 00:17:52,340 --> 00:17:54,220 hearts to the thoughts of men. 347 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:56,880 You never get into any kind of a 348 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,360 trouble, but all the aunts and uncles and 349 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:01,940 cousins and all your relatives come around. 350 00:18:02,300 --> 00:18:03,880 Yeah, I know what that is. 351 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:05,760 My great-grandmother... 352 00:18:10,270 --> 00:18:11,370 What's the matter with you? 353 00:18:11,950 --> 00:18:13,670 You can't go a half a block from 354 00:18:13,670 --> 00:18:16,110 this church after having had a wonderful divine 355 00:18:16,110 --> 00:18:16,530 evening. 356 00:18:17,970 --> 00:18:19,930 Thoughts of the devil into your head. 357 00:18:20,010 --> 00:18:22,170 You watch and see if that is so. 358 00:18:23,970 --> 00:18:24,930 I'm surprised. 359 00:18:25,710 --> 00:18:27,690 As soon as somebody gets sick, I visit 360 00:18:27,690 --> 00:18:28,550 them sometimes. 361 00:18:29,070 --> 00:18:30,890 And then so-and-so was here and 362 00:18:30,890 --> 00:18:32,230 told me it was bad. 363 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,380 Listen, if you haven't got anything to pray 364 00:18:36,380 --> 00:18:38,540 for, unbelief, stay home. 365 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,300 The word of faith which we preach, it 366 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:45,100 is in heaven, you don't have to get 367 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:45,520 it down. 368 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,900 It's not in the depths, it's in your 369 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:48,440 heart. 370 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,160 Christ is in your heart, thank God. 371 00:18:51,780 --> 00:18:53,320 He can never be removed. 372 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,740 And He is there for a job. 373 00:18:56,060 --> 00:18:58,700 He is there to be the Lord, the 374 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:02,520 Redeemer, to bring you out of every situation 375 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,020 and to make you like unto Himself. 376 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:11,420 And here we are wavering, wavering, spending all 377 00:19:11,420 --> 00:19:13,720 our lives complaining and murmuring. 378 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:16,540 Watch it sometimes. 379 00:19:16,540 --> 00:19:21,080 Get a recording instrument that records everything you 380 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,960 say and every sign you hear. 381 00:19:24,500 --> 00:19:26,160 And you'll be surprised at the end of 382 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,580 the day how many times you've murmured and 383 00:19:28,580 --> 00:19:32,440 complained and caked about something. 384 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,040 That's what defeated Israel. 385 00:19:36,820 --> 00:19:40,560 Beloved, God's eyes run to and fro throughout 386 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,620 the whole earth today, still today, and it's 387 00:19:44,620 --> 00:19:48,220 looking for those whose hearts are perfect toward 388 00:19:48,220 --> 00:19:48,600 Him. 389 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,460 God knows what I think in my heart. 390 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:54,200 What I say with my lips is not 391 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,260 near as important, but what I think, what 392 00:19:57,260 --> 00:20:00,300 I feel in my heart, and when my 393 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:03,500 heart is perfect, I will not be anxious. 394 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,960 That will be gone, it will be impossible. 395 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,980 I will think the thoughts of God, and 396 00:20:09,980 --> 00:20:12,220 the Bible gives me His thoughts. 397 00:20:12,860 --> 00:20:14,820 I have thoughts of faith toward you. 398 00:20:14,820 --> 00:20:17,600 Go through the whole Bible and see the 399 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:22,880 exceeding great and precious promises, and every one 400 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,460 of them is for you and for me. 401 00:20:24,980 --> 00:20:25,820 Praise God. 402 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:28,400 And who will guarantee their fulfillment? 403 00:20:28,900 --> 00:20:31,660 Why, God has guaranteed them when He raised 404 00:20:31,660 --> 00:20:33,880 Jesus, my Lord, from the dead. 405 00:20:34,540 --> 00:20:37,240 When Jesus came in flesh, it's at this 406 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,360 day this scripture is fulfilled. 407 00:20:42,350 --> 00:20:45,450 He has anointed me for this purpose, and 408 00:20:45,450 --> 00:20:48,090 I always wondered why was it that Jesus 409 00:20:48,090 --> 00:20:54,760 Christ, He marveled at their unbelief. 410 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:56,260 He said, where's your faith? 411 00:20:56,580 --> 00:20:58,360 He says, why are you so fearful? 412 00:20:58,820 --> 00:21:00,180 What right did He have? 413 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:02,920 Why, He had a right to say in 414 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:04,480 the face of death, don't fear. 415 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,720 I am resurrection and life. 416 00:21:06,860 --> 00:21:08,020 What are you afraid of? 417 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:09,420 Is that death? 418 00:21:10,180 --> 00:21:12,300 Well, that's what I came for, to conquer 419 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:15,420 death, to abolish death, to bring life and 420 00:21:15,420 --> 00:21:18,500 immortality to life through the gospel, and if 421 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:26,020 He demanded that, how much more does He 422 00:21:26,020 --> 00:21:26,500 demand? 423 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,380 Faith of me for the fullness of the 424 00:21:29,380 --> 00:21:32,640 Holy Ghost, when today that's His whole job, 425 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,140 to represent me in the present time. 426 00:21:39,020 --> 00:21:40,240 Find the fulfillment. 427 00:21:41,220 --> 00:21:43,420 I ought to really be serious about this 428 00:21:43,420 --> 00:21:43,740 lesson. 429 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,060 I ought to get to the Bible. 430 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,940 I ought to study the word of God, 431 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,860 and see what it means to trust in 432 00:21:50,860 --> 00:21:52,920 the Lord, and I ought not to be 433 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,860 satisfied with the mere profession of my lips. 434 00:21:56,660 --> 00:21:58,480 You'll fail every time. 435 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:01,800 But when you pray through, and that's what 436 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,760 the Bible teaches us in Philippians 4, 6, 437 00:22:05,180 --> 00:22:07,520 that's the best recipe for us all. 438 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:09,620 In nothing be anxious. 439 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:12,500 What is your anxiety over? 440 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,520 People will come, and they'll ask you to 441 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,580 pray for them, and then they'll spill it 442 00:22:19,580 --> 00:22:20,000 all out. 443 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,340 They'll tell you how sick they are, until 444 00:22:22,340 --> 00:22:25,920 you have an education in anatomy that you 445 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,680 can't get in any biological institution in the 446 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:28,940 world. 447 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:31,680 You can see the inside of their gallbladder, 448 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:34,260 and their stomach, and one man explained to 449 00:22:34,260 --> 00:22:35,840 me what his stomach looked like on the 450 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,280 inside, and all that, and they're just looking 451 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:38,920 for sympathy. 452 00:22:39,060 --> 00:22:39,640 That's all. 453 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:44,000 When you put your trust in Him, that's 454 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:44,920 none of your business. 455 00:22:46,020 --> 00:22:47,720 Absolutely none of your business. 456 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:51,340 You expect everything from Him because He has 457 00:22:51,340 --> 00:22:52,380 done everything. 458 00:22:52,860 --> 00:22:54,980 He is resurrection and life. 459 00:22:57,890 --> 00:22:59,170 Don't you worry. 460 00:23:00,130 --> 00:23:02,570 But they don't learn that lesson overnight, you 461 00:23:02,570 --> 00:23:02,850 know. 462 00:23:03,430 --> 00:23:04,770 It's step by step. 463 00:23:04,850 --> 00:23:06,390 It was that with the apostle Paul. 464 00:23:06,970 --> 00:23:09,110 And finally that grand lesson. 465 00:23:10,470 --> 00:23:13,030 We have the sentence of death in ourselves. 466 00:23:13,190 --> 00:23:15,170 Now most of us would have cashed in, 467 00:23:15,790 --> 00:23:16,610 but he didn't. 468 00:23:17,450 --> 00:23:19,710 He knew that he couldn't die except at 469 00:23:19,710 --> 00:23:20,910 the command of God. 470 00:23:20,910 --> 00:23:21,710 No. 471 00:23:22,530 --> 00:23:24,710 Why, this test has come my way. 472 00:23:25,790 --> 00:23:28,110 God will not suffer you to be tested 473 00:23:28,110 --> 00:23:29,190 above that garable. 474 00:23:30,170 --> 00:23:32,110 God portions that test. 475 00:23:32,230 --> 00:23:33,030 Isn't that wonderful? 476 00:23:33,590 --> 00:23:36,870 All things, all things work together for good. 477 00:23:37,130 --> 00:23:38,170 Isn't it wonderful? 478 00:23:39,190 --> 00:23:41,170 Doesn't it make your life tremendously interesting? 479 00:23:41,690 --> 00:23:42,250 Praise God. 480 00:23:42,530 --> 00:23:44,770 Showing glory in tribulations also. 481 00:23:45,830 --> 00:23:46,510 Hallelujah. 482 00:23:47,350 --> 00:23:48,210 Oh, it's interesting. 483 00:23:48,590 --> 00:23:49,490 It's wonderful. 484 00:23:49,490 --> 00:23:51,150 Here's a tribulation. 485 00:23:51,470 --> 00:23:53,210 Here's another storm. 486 00:23:54,590 --> 00:23:57,510 And one day, when there were four thousand 487 00:23:57,510 --> 00:24:00,110 men beside women and children, and Jesus fed 488 00:24:00,110 --> 00:24:01,290 them, next day they were crying. 489 00:24:03,990 --> 00:24:08,050 They brought all the kids because naturally they 490 00:24:08,050 --> 00:24:09,330 thought, here we get free lunch. 491 00:24:10,330 --> 00:24:13,270 And the disciples, and Jesus said, how many 492 00:24:13,270 --> 00:24:13,670 did... 493 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:19,040 What's the matter? 494 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:19,960 Where's your faith? 495 00:24:20,220 --> 00:24:21,560 I'm still here, beloved. 496 00:24:25,090 --> 00:24:27,150 And He'll be there till He comes for 497 00:24:27,150 --> 00:24:29,370 you, and He won't come until the overcomer. 498 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,720 And are we learning our lesson? 499 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,620 Oh, that's the question. 500 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,480 It's an individual matter. 501 00:24:37,820 --> 00:24:39,680 It's a personal matter. 502 00:24:47,110 --> 00:24:48,090 They that overcome. 503 00:24:48,450 --> 00:24:50,030 And not only that, He says. 504 00:24:50,310 --> 00:24:51,270 He that overcomes. 505 00:24:51,550 --> 00:24:53,090 It's an individual matter. 506 00:24:53,570 --> 00:24:56,650 The epistle is to the church, but the 507 00:24:56,650 --> 00:24:58,450 promise is to the individual. 508 00:24:58,790 --> 00:24:59,510 Praise God. 509 00:24:59,790 --> 00:25:00,930 He that overcomes. 510 00:25:01,530 --> 00:25:02,450 Oh, Jesus. 511 00:25:02,590 --> 00:25:04,950 To know Thee is to know the power 512 00:25:04,950 --> 00:25:06,010 of Your resurrection. 513 00:25:07,150 --> 00:25:07,790 Hallelujah. 514 00:25:16,190 --> 00:25:19,410 He that sinneth hath not seen Him, neither 515 00:25:19,410 --> 00:25:20,050 known Him. 516 00:25:20,590 --> 00:25:23,530 We'll fall from one pit into the other 517 00:25:23,530 --> 00:25:26,210 because we don't know our Savior. 518 00:25:26,770 --> 00:25:28,930 Beloved, our lives today ought to be a 519 00:25:28,930 --> 00:25:31,310 testimony to the wonder of Jesus. 520 00:25:32,330 --> 00:25:34,170 Not our lips, but our lives. 521 00:25:34,930 --> 00:25:37,770 In Him was life, and the life was 522 00:25:37,770 --> 00:25:38,590 the light of men. 523 00:25:39,150 --> 00:25:42,130 And our lives ought to be lives of 524 00:25:42,130 --> 00:25:42,970 trust. 525 00:25:43,490 --> 00:25:46,170 Not only trusting God to pay your bills. 526 00:25:47,850 --> 00:25:49,250 That's a small matter. 527 00:25:50,470 --> 00:25:54,950 But trusting God for your spiritual victory. 528 00:25:56,670 --> 00:26:00,110 Trusting God for your children if they're unsafe, 529 00:26:00,250 --> 00:26:01,590 your husband, your wife. 530 00:26:02,330 --> 00:26:05,210 Oh, what wonders have we experienced along that 531 00:26:05,210 --> 00:26:05,550 line. 532 00:26:06,490 --> 00:26:10,170 Putting our trust in Him makes Him responsible 533 00:26:10,170 --> 00:26:14,330 to manifest His feeling greatness of His power 534 00:26:14,330 --> 00:26:15,950 to us who believe. 535 00:26:17,070 --> 00:26:21,510 Today, the program is acceleration. 536 00:26:22,790 --> 00:26:25,370 I remember when one of our sisters bought 537 00:26:25,370 --> 00:26:27,290 a new Ford, a Model T Ford. 538 00:26:27,490 --> 00:26:29,130 My, we looked at that thing. 539 00:26:29,650 --> 00:26:31,930 It looked brilliant like a giant. 540 00:26:32,170 --> 00:26:32,990 We thought, my. 541 00:26:33,630 --> 00:26:35,490 And then when she allowed me to run 542 00:26:35,490 --> 00:26:36,110 that thing. 543 00:26:37,390 --> 00:26:39,150 Now it looks funny, you know. 544 00:26:39,150 --> 00:26:40,250 It looked like a goat. 545 00:26:41,190 --> 00:26:43,510 Sort of an over-balanced thing. 546 00:26:44,290 --> 00:26:48,110 But to run that thing, it felt as 547 00:26:48,110 --> 00:26:49,830 if you were going a hundred miles an 548 00:26:49,830 --> 00:26:52,230 hour at a much central horsepower in Schnabel. 549 00:26:53,010 --> 00:26:55,950 And one time I got into a traffic 550 00:26:55,950 --> 00:26:58,130 jam and I stepped on the gas and 551 00:26:58,130 --> 00:26:59,170 the thing wouldn't move. 552 00:26:59,210 --> 00:27:00,550 It just crawled along. 553 00:27:01,170 --> 00:27:08,260 But today, we have 130 horses, if you 554 00:27:08,260 --> 00:27:10,600 wait, just think. 555 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,720 That's 130 horses, Rick. 556 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:13,780 230. 557 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:14,940 230. 558 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:16,520 California is over. 559 00:27:22,450 --> 00:27:24,190 And you know when you get on the 560 00:27:24,190 --> 00:27:26,010 open road, you can't help it. 561 00:27:26,110 --> 00:27:29,410 That power is there waiting to snort along 562 00:27:29,410 --> 00:27:30,010 the road. 563 00:27:30,970 --> 00:27:31,890 Bring it along. 564 00:27:32,170 --> 00:27:34,530 It's just that, just, just, just for your 565 00:27:34,530 --> 00:27:34,950 favor. 566 00:27:35,990 --> 00:27:39,690 It's just waiting to, to make that thing 567 00:27:39,690 --> 00:27:41,150 run like six. 568 00:27:42,660 --> 00:27:45,200 And here is the power waiting. 569 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:47,700 Waiting for a vet. 570 00:27:48,820 --> 00:27:51,640 Waiting for someone that puts their trust in 571 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:52,060 God. 572 00:27:52,380 --> 00:27:53,480 And what is that power for? 573 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:53,660 Why? 574 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,200 To defeat the powers of Satan and of 575 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:56,560 God. 576 00:27:59,250 --> 00:28:01,630 But it doesn't come like so many people 577 00:28:01,630 --> 00:28:01,990 think. 578 00:28:02,790 --> 00:28:04,890 Oh, Heavens, all you have to do is 579 00:28:04,890 --> 00:28:06,350 just defeat. 580 00:28:06,990 --> 00:28:08,090 We're in a school. 581 00:28:08,370 --> 00:28:09,410 Paul was in a school. 582 00:28:09,610 --> 00:28:11,050 You and I are in the school of 583 00:28:11,050 --> 00:28:11,730 the Holy Ghost. 584 00:28:12,070 --> 00:28:14,970 He shall guide you into all truth. 585 00:28:15,270 --> 00:28:17,090 And he doesn't put the thing up here 586 00:28:17,090 --> 00:28:18,650 where you lose it again. 587 00:28:19,270 --> 00:28:22,210 But he'll put it into your bones, into 588 00:28:22,210 --> 00:28:24,850 your life, into your blood. 589 00:28:25,170 --> 00:28:27,090 He makes you a son of God. 590 00:28:27,410 --> 00:28:30,250 We're members of his body, of his flesh, 591 00:28:30,510 --> 00:28:31,890 and of his bones. 592 00:28:32,170 --> 00:28:33,310 And that's how it comes. 593 00:28:33,530 --> 00:28:36,390 We're displaced as we put our trust in 594 00:28:36,390 --> 00:28:36,630 him. 595 00:28:37,130 --> 00:28:41,840 Step by step to the, step by step 596 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,100 he leads us with a guiding hand. 597 00:28:44,540 --> 00:28:45,820 Step by step. 598 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,040 And now he says, and God delivered us 599 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,660 from so great a death and we trust 600 00:28:52,660 --> 00:28:54,620 he shall yet deliver us. 601 00:28:54,780 --> 00:28:56,760 Now Paul had learned his lesson. 602 00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,200 Now he had shifted gear. 603 00:28:59,740 --> 00:29:01,420 He had no longer looked at himself. 604 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:06,340 No longer studied about violence and stuff and 605 00:29:06,340 --> 00:29:09,400 had a thermometer with him in his pocket. 606 00:29:11,420 --> 00:29:13,320 But he trusted in God and raised us 607 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:13,560 to death. 608 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,340 He said, Beloved, our God has already raised 609 00:29:16,340 --> 00:29:19,210 us from the dead. 610 00:29:19,270 --> 00:29:19,630 Praise God. 611 00:29:19,730 --> 00:29:21,230 He says, you're not a debtor to the 612 00:29:21,230 --> 00:29:21,610 flesh. 613 00:29:22,370 --> 00:29:24,150 You don't have to count calories. 614 00:29:26,290 --> 00:29:28,350 There's another fountain inside of you. 615 00:29:28,610 --> 00:29:31,190 It's he that raised Jesus from the dead. 616 00:29:32,450 --> 00:29:34,870 I don't think I could work if I 617 00:29:34,870 --> 00:29:37,370 couldn't trust in that fountain and that fountain 618 00:29:37,370 --> 00:29:38,510 didn't flow within me. 619 00:29:39,130 --> 00:29:40,430 It's something very wonderful. 620 00:29:40,590 --> 00:29:42,530 It's something beyond divine healing. 621 00:29:42,930 --> 00:29:44,110 It's divine life. 622 00:29:44,810 --> 00:29:46,310 It's life from heaven. 623 00:29:46,310 --> 00:29:49,270 It's the life of Jesus Christ. 624 00:29:49,570 --> 00:29:52,310 But it will not become my portion until 625 00:29:52,310 --> 00:29:55,430 I have gone through with God in nothing 626 00:29:55,430 --> 00:29:59,470 behind this but in everything by prayer and 627 00:29:59,470 --> 00:30:03,310 supplication with thanksgiving. 628 00:30:03,850 --> 00:30:07,520 Let your requests be made known unto God 629 00:30:08,010 --> 00:30:14,830 that unloading, rolling it on him is the 630 00:30:14,830 --> 00:30:15,410 job. 631 00:30:15,950 --> 00:30:18,170 It's been my job ever since I got 632 00:30:18,170 --> 00:30:19,030 into the ministry. 633 00:30:19,630 --> 00:30:21,810 People look at me and sometimes they say, 634 00:30:21,910 --> 00:30:23,610 well, he's been pretty successful. 635 00:30:23,730 --> 00:30:24,510 No, he hasn't. 636 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,520 I've had lots of problems to face and 637 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,980 my job has been to unroll the monty. 638 00:30:32,380 --> 00:30:33,560 It takes a lot of prayer. 639 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,040 I'd be ashamed to tell you how much 640 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,000 I've got to pray even today. 641 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,140 I've not read of it yet but oh, 642 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,340 how wonderful to unroll everything on him but 643 00:30:45,340 --> 00:30:49,360 if I don't do it and I can 644 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,500 have all the holy phrases in my mouth. 645 00:30:52,380 --> 00:30:54,720 I can read all the books about faith 646 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,600 and trust that I want and I can 647 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,540 swing around with advertising my own faith and 648 00:31:00,540 --> 00:31:00,800 so on. 649 00:31:00,860 --> 00:31:01,920 That's no good. 650 00:31:02,260 --> 00:31:04,800 It needs to be gold fried in the 651 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:05,420 fire. 652 00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:10,760 There are people that, oh my, they came 653 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,220 to the faith home in Zion and they 654 00:31:13,220 --> 00:31:15,460 couldn't understand why we didn't have lumps of 655 00:31:15,460 --> 00:31:16,960 butter on the table every morning. 656 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,180 Why we thought you folks live by faith. 657 00:31:20,260 --> 00:31:22,120 You ain't got no faith but less than 658 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:28,330 half the day have been borrowed. 659 00:31:29,990 --> 00:31:32,090 That's where you find out whether your trust 660 00:31:32,090 --> 00:31:34,250 is real or not in the hour of 661 00:31:34,250 --> 00:31:34,750 trial. 662 00:31:35,550 --> 00:31:38,010 Praise God and God in his great mercy 663 00:31:38,010 --> 00:31:41,270 sometimes allows real tests to come our way. 664 00:31:41,350 --> 00:31:43,310 Did you ever feel as if your test 665 00:31:43,310 --> 00:31:45,450 was greater than anybody else's? 666 00:31:46,270 --> 00:31:48,570 Well, that shows that you need it. 667 00:31:50,090 --> 00:31:52,650 That's the way God does praise the Lord. 668 00:31:53,290 --> 00:31:54,570 He fits the shoes. 669 00:31:55,330 --> 00:31:57,230 His fist doesn't praise God. 670 00:31:57,710 --> 00:32:00,030 Well, now you can kick and follow. 671 00:32:00,830 --> 00:32:02,290 He'll never help you any. 672 00:32:03,250 --> 00:32:06,830 You remember the legend by Shemitah of a 673 00:32:06,830 --> 00:32:09,230 man that was going to the holy city 674 00:32:09,230 --> 00:32:12,070 and he found his cross much too heavy. 675 00:32:12,950 --> 00:32:15,790 Oh, he said, my cross is heavier than 676 00:32:15,790 --> 00:32:17,490 anybody else's. 677 00:32:17,790 --> 00:32:19,350 My, I can't make the grave. 678 00:32:19,350 --> 00:32:20,150 It isn't right. 679 00:32:20,250 --> 00:32:21,510 God give me to anyone. 680 00:32:23,330 --> 00:32:24,630 And so he had a vision and he 681 00:32:24,630 --> 00:32:28,130 came to a house, beautiful palace and an 682 00:32:28,130 --> 00:32:30,650 angel said, now here is the arsenal. 683 00:32:30,850 --> 00:32:32,550 Here you can pick a cross that you 684 00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:32,830 like. 685 00:32:32,950 --> 00:32:34,690 If you don't like your cross, go and 686 00:32:34,690 --> 00:32:36,150 put it down at the entrance and he 687 00:32:36,150 --> 00:32:38,890 went through the whole museum and he found 688 00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:42,070 silver crosses and gold crosses and crosses started 689 00:32:42,070 --> 00:32:44,970 with diamonds, little ones and big ones and 690 00:32:44,970 --> 00:32:49,910 he tried them all and finally found one 691 00:32:49,910 --> 00:32:52,050 that he thought was measured to him. 692 00:32:52,290 --> 00:32:54,030 He said, I think I'll take this. 693 00:32:55,090 --> 00:32:57,470 Of all the crosses in the whole palace, 694 00:32:57,810 --> 00:32:59,630 only this one suited him. 695 00:33:00,090 --> 00:33:01,450 And when he looked at it, it was 696 00:33:01,450 --> 00:33:02,850 the one he had laid down when he 697 00:33:02,850 --> 00:33:04,860 came in. 698 00:33:05,020 --> 00:33:06,780 And now it had gotten dark and he 699 00:33:06,780 --> 00:33:09,380 thought I better rush because they are close 700 00:33:09,380 --> 00:33:10,820 to the gates of the holy city. 701 00:33:11,300 --> 00:33:13,360 And so when he came inside of the 702 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,960 city, he saw the porter already closing the 703 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:23,660 gate and there was no bridge across the 704 00:33:23,660 --> 00:33:24,920 river and how is he going to make 705 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:25,060 it? 706 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,600 He yelled and the porter said, try your 707 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,000 cross and so he put that cross there 708 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,480 and look it fit exactly. 709 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,820 It was a bridge and he could walk 710 00:33:34,820 --> 00:33:35,340 over it. 711 00:33:35,980 --> 00:33:39,180 It would have been too short. 712 00:33:40,180 --> 00:33:41,920 Oh beloved God is wonderful. 713 00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:45,620 To learn that one lesson, to trust, trust 714 00:33:45,620 --> 00:33:45,980 the Lord. 715 00:33:46,060 --> 00:33:47,320 It makes you love him. 716 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,700 It makes you really love your God. 717 00:33:51,060 --> 00:33:52,340 But you can choose. 718 00:33:52,660 --> 00:33:55,120 You can be a crab all your life. 719 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:57,920 You know the older we get, the more 720 00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:58,960 crab we become. 721 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,800 If you ever find that out, especially if 722 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,160 you are a great saint, you will become 723 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:12,840 so cantankerous that no life will flow from 724 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:13,100 you. 725 00:34:13,540 --> 00:34:15,159 Rivers of life. 726 00:34:16,139 --> 00:34:18,800 Jesus Christ will make a vessel out of 727 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:19,320 you. 728 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:20,719 Hallelujah. 729 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,460 It was the Son of God who put 730 00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:25,100 his trust in the Father when the all 731 00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:26,000 was true. 732 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,100 God raised him from the dead and gave 733 00:34:30,100 --> 00:34:31,500 him a name which is the Father. 734 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,580 And he is waiting today for you and 735 00:34:36,580 --> 00:34:39,760 for me to not trust in ourselves anymore, 736 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:42,560 but in him who is risen from the 737 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:42,760 dead. 738 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,179 He is our Savior. 739 00:34:45,020 --> 00:34:46,840 But he cannot be mine if I don't 740 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:47,460 trust him. 741 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,480 If I don't learn to live by the 742 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,600 faith of the Son of God and praise 743 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,280 the Lord really and truly, put my trust. 744 00:34:57,420 --> 00:34:59,200 After a while it becomes your habit. 745 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,280 After a while it becomes so pleasant that 746 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,560 when a problem comes you say, well, you 747 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,960 smile instead of just smile and say, well, 748 00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:09,720 Lord, I wonder what you're going to do 749 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:10,000 now. 750 00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:12,420 I told how I was locked in there 751 00:35:12,420 --> 00:35:15,720 in South America when everybody was gone and 752 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:18,960 inadvertently I'd let the door go closed and 753 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,500 here I was under the tropical sun and 754 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:22,960 I didn't know when the folks would come 755 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,860 home and I just smiled and said, well, 756 00:35:26,980 --> 00:35:28,760 Jesus, this is wonderful. 757 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:32,220 Here I'll be baking like an apple till 758 00:35:32,220 --> 00:35:33,400 those folks come home. 759 00:35:34,020 --> 00:35:36,860 But, you know, I reached into my pocket 760 00:35:36,860 --> 00:35:39,780 and inadvertently I had taken a key with 761 00:35:39,780 --> 00:35:41,600 me from Brooklyn. 762 00:35:42,020 --> 00:35:44,080 I didn't know I had it there and 763 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,700 when I tried that key it opened that 764 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:45,940 lock. 765 00:35:46,780 --> 00:35:49,580 Now, the strange thing was this, when I 766 00:35:49,580 --> 00:35:52,560 came home I had that key caught by 767 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,080 a locksmith and he looked at it. 768 00:35:55,340 --> 00:35:57,380 He said, this is a very rare key. 769 00:35:57,380 --> 00:36:00,780 It'll open only one in 15,000 locks. 770 00:36:01,820 --> 00:36:04,080 I'm sorry I didn't try that twice, you 771 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,200 know, but it opened that one lock in 772 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:07,920 South America. 773 00:36:08,060 --> 00:36:09,100 Now, the Lord knew that. 774 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,500 Wonderful, it's really wonderful. 775 00:36:11,660 --> 00:36:13,740 It becomes a habit by and by and 776 00:36:13,740 --> 00:36:20,430 you realize that every time... 777 00:36:20,430 --> 00:36:23,190 Elijah, when he came to Jordan, he said, 778 00:36:23,270 --> 00:36:24,590 where is the God of Elijah? 779 00:36:24,970 --> 00:36:26,210 Now, let's see. 780 00:36:26,730 --> 00:36:30,110 And he took Elijah's mantle and smoked the 781 00:36:30,110 --> 00:36:31,230 waters in his heart. 782 00:36:32,410 --> 00:36:34,290 Where is the Father of my Lord Jesus 783 00:36:34,290 --> 00:36:35,270 Christ now? 784 00:36:36,570 --> 00:36:37,590 Glory to God. 785 00:36:37,730 --> 00:36:39,010 But the love of this God to be 786 00:36:39,010 --> 00:36:39,730 real. 787 00:36:40,390 --> 00:36:42,930 And Philippians 4, 6 is a lesson that 788 00:36:42,930 --> 00:36:44,770 very few people are willing to learn. 789 00:36:45,110 --> 00:36:46,270 It's too hard a job.