1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,280 Welcome to From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:04,780 --> 00:00:06,460 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:06,460 --> 00:00:08,480 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,300 Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:11,560 too. 6 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:14,700 This week we have Hans Wadvogel with his 7 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:17,220 message, Be Diligent to Get Alone with God. 8 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,840 Sometimes people seek the Lord, and they make 9 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,880 all the plans, and they have all the 10 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:26,520 ideas. 11 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,140 When I was a beginner in the ministry 12 00:00:32,140 --> 00:00:35,700 before I came to Brooklyn, I used to 13 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:39,680 try to get a week now or two 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,920 weeks then to wait upon the Lord. 15 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,100 And one time I found out that a 16 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:47,980 brother-in-law of mine and his family 17 00:00:47,980 --> 00:00:49,920 were going away on a vacation, and so 18 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,480 I asked him whether I couldn't be in 19 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:54,060 his house for those two weeks. 20 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,260 So he allowed me to if I would 21 00:00:57,260 --> 00:00:58,300 take care of his chickens. 22 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,860 Well, they were all dead by the time 23 00:01:01,860 --> 00:01:03,860 he came back, and two weeks later. 24 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:06,980 And his little girl said to me, you 25 00:01:06,980 --> 00:01:08,000 died them, didn't you? 26 00:01:09,020 --> 00:01:11,020 Well, no, they died by themselves. 27 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,820 I didn't have to do anything about it. 28 00:01:13,780 --> 00:01:17,200 But at any rate, when I had made 29 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,360 that plan, some ministers got after me and 30 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:22,780 they thought it was a waste of time. 31 00:01:24,140 --> 00:01:26,260 They tried to persuade me that that was 32 00:01:26,260 --> 00:01:27,580 a waste of time, that I ought to 33 00:01:27,580 --> 00:01:28,260 be out preaching. 34 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:31,880 So I went to the Lord. 35 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,620 In those days we had the privilege of 36 00:01:35,620 --> 00:01:37,540 going to some of the so-called vessels 37 00:01:37,540 --> 00:01:38,820 and ask them to pray. 38 00:01:41,260 --> 00:01:43,920 And I said, well, it seems to me 39 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,640 that it makes a lot of difference. 40 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,640 And the Lord said, why certainly two weeks 41 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:50,840 out of your life. 42 00:01:51,380 --> 00:01:52,640 Two weeks. 43 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:56,620 I found out that those two weeks were 44 00:01:56,620 --> 00:01:58,340 controlling weeks. 45 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:00,720 They changed my whole life. 46 00:02:00,860 --> 00:02:04,800 The course of my whole life was changed. 47 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,840 You know that the eyes of the Lord 48 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,260 run to and fro throughout the whole earth 49 00:02:10,260 --> 00:02:15,100 looking for somebody whose heart is perfect toward 50 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:15,460 him. 51 00:02:16,140 --> 00:02:17,820 What is God looking for? 52 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:19,760 Can't he find hearts? 53 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:21,520 Very, very few. 54 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,660 Whose hearts are perfect toward him. 55 00:02:27,660 --> 00:02:30,220 Oh, what an expression. 56 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:35,020 Is my heart perfect toward my God? 57 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:36,980 I don't see him. 58 00:02:37,060 --> 00:02:37,860 That's true. 59 00:02:38,420 --> 00:02:40,560 But I meet with him when I pray. 60 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,740 When I come here, I meet with my 61 00:02:43,740 --> 00:02:46,800 God and he meets with me. 62 00:02:47,340 --> 00:02:49,260 Oh, how I ought to be awake. 63 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,120 How my soul ought to be alert. 64 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,880 How I ought to prepare myself very carefully. 65 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,960 That's what made the saints of old fast. 66 00:03:02,540 --> 00:03:06,500 They wanted nothing to hinder them from approaching 67 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:07,400 to God. 68 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,440 They knew that an overfed stomach would hinder 69 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:12,860 their spirit of prayer. 70 00:03:13,460 --> 00:03:17,300 And so they prepared themselves to meet God. 71 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,660 Oh, my father, my heart perfect toward God. 72 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:27,940 What will God do for me when he 73 00:03:27,940 --> 00:03:30,360 finds my heart perfect toward him? 74 00:03:31,620 --> 00:03:32,980 Well, I tell you something. 75 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,500 There's a very, very, very great difference in 76 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:36,980 hearts. 77 00:03:36,980 --> 00:03:42,480 We may think we're tough, and God thinks 78 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:43,300 differently. 79 00:03:44,340 --> 00:03:46,180 God looks into the heart. 80 00:03:46,820 --> 00:03:49,200 But one thing is very, very hopeful. 81 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,720 Philippians 2, 13, where he says, It is 82 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:54,760 God who worketh in you. 83 00:03:55,620 --> 00:03:59,640 Oh, that's what prayer means. 84 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,940 It isn't me working, but it's God working. 85 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:09,440 God according to his riches in glory by 86 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:10,540 Christ Jesus. 87 00:04:10,540 --> 00:04:14,440 Just think, God, though being in the form 88 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,019 of God, humbled himself, became sin for me, 89 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,400 rose from the dead, received gifts from the 90 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:22,820 Father. 91 00:04:23,340 --> 00:04:25,740 Now he wants the authority in my life. 92 00:04:26,180 --> 00:04:28,500 Now he wants to be the one to 93 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:32,540 work out in me his own salvation. 94 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:34,760 How very wonderful. 95 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:36,660 If I had to do it, I couldn't 96 00:04:36,660 --> 00:04:37,140 do it. 97 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:38,920 I wouldn't get any place. 98 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:40,760 But God does it. 99 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:41,740 Thank God. 100 00:04:42,260 --> 00:04:44,280 And that's the objective we ought to have 101 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,800 at the beginning of this week. 102 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:47,160 God is here. 103 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:49,260 God is here now. 104 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,900 God looks upon my heart now. 105 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:55,080 God sees through me now. 106 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:58,780 Lord, thou hast searched me and known me. 107 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:01,840 He knows my need before I tell him 108 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:02,440 about it. 109 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,920 Not only that, but he has provided so 110 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,020 much more bountifully than I could even tell 111 00:05:09,020 --> 00:05:09,420 him. 112 00:05:09,420 --> 00:05:12,540 Oh, the unsearchable riches of Christ. 113 00:05:12,940 --> 00:05:16,660 Oh, the wonderful salvation God holds in store 114 00:05:16,660 --> 00:05:17,160 for me. 115 00:05:17,540 --> 00:05:20,640 Why is it that we don't advance faster? 116 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,320 Well, it's our attitude toward God. 117 00:05:24,180 --> 00:05:26,720 How often is our attitude in prayer one 118 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,600 of laziness? 119 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,360 The devil will see to that if I 120 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:32,980 don't awaken unto God. 121 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,140 That's why he says, watch unto prayer. 122 00:05:37,020 --> 00:05:39,960 Oh, blessed is the man that knows and 123 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,160 is conscious of the fact that his heart 124 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,520 must be perfect toward God. 125 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,980 In the Old Testament, we read again and 126 00:05:47,980 --> 00:05:52,780 again of men who prepared their hearts unto 127 00:05:52,780 --> 00:05:55,780 the Lord their God to seek by prayer 128 00:05:55,780 --> 00:05:58,940 and fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 129 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:00,660 How did it happen? 130 00:06:00,980 --> 00:06:02,440 Well, they had an objective. 131 00:06:02,620 --> 00:06:04,260 They had a promise from God. 132 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:06,780 And they were not going to miss that 133 00:06:06,780 --> 00:06:07,860 promise of God. 134 00:06:07,860 --> 00:06:10,940 No matter what anybody else did, they were 135 00:06:10,940 --> 00:06:12,980 going to be perfect toward God. 136 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:15,120 They were going to give God a chance 137 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,000 to work out his great plan in their 138 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:18,400 hearts. 139 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,360 And if my objective is that, oh, God 140 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,640 has given me his word and his wonderful 141 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:26,240 promise. 142 00:06:27,140 --> 00:06:28,560 Where are the hearts? 143 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:32,980 I found a man after my own heart 144 00:06:32,980 --> 00:06:35,480 who shall do all my will. 145 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,800 Oh, no wonder Billy Sunday says, God stopped 146 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,920 making worlds when he found a man like 147 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:41,260 that. 148 00:06:42,180 --> 00:06:44,960 They were so few and so far between 149 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,540 that if God can find one in a 150 00:06:47,540 --> 00:06:49,240 generation, he's doing pretty well. 151 00:06:51,190 --> 00:06:53,470 But shouldn't he find our hearts like that 152 00:06:53,470 --> 00:06:55,150 when we know all this? 153 00:06:55,890 --> 00:06:57,410 Dr. Gray was here. 154 00:06:58,090 --> 00:06:59,750 We discussed this thing and he said, you 155 00:06:59,750 --> 00:07:03,330 know, Pentecost has lost its objective. 156 00:07:03,550 --> 00:07:05,910 It doesn't have an objective anymore. 157 00:07:06,890 --> 00:07:10,330 One time we had an objective when we 158 00:07:10,330 --> 00:07:13,350 sought the baptism according to Acts 2.4. 159 00:07:13,530 --> 00:07:17,290 We knew that God would fill us with 160 00:07:17,290 --> 00:07:19,930 the Holy Ghost according to Acts 2.4. 161 00:07:19,930 --> 00:07:23,750 And so we sought him earnestly until he 162 00:07:23,750 --> 00:07:26,910 baptized us according to Acts 2.4. I've 163 00:07:26,910 --> 00:07:29,950 seen people, as soon as they stammered a 164 00:07:29,950 --> 00:07:32,670 few words in tongues, get up from prayer 165 00:07:32,670 --> 00:07:35,010 and then never again show themselves as the 166 00:07:35,010 --> 00:07:35,330 author. 167 00:07:35,870 --> 00:07:38,590 They had obtained their objective. 168 00:07:38,750 --> 00:07:41,770 That's what they were after, speaking in tongues. 169 00:07:42,210 --> 00:07:42,910 They had it. 170 00:07:43,210 --> 00:07:46,250 Oh, there's a multitude of Pentecostal people like 171 00:07:46,250 --> 00:07:46,510 that. 172 00:07:46,510 --> 00:07:48,090 Why they've got it now. 173 00:07:48,250 --> 00:07:50,870 And there's a multitude of preachers that teach 174 00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:51,530 that too. 175 00:07:53,150 --> 00:07:55,290 Saw a little girl in Switzerland get the 176 00:07:55,290 --> 00:07:57,330 baptism, a very wonderful baptism. 177 00:07:57,850 --> 00:08:00,790 And in the following meeting, the power of 178 00:08:00,790 --> 00:08:03,090 God came upon her and made her a 179 00:08:03,090 --> 00:08:03,890 real blessing. 180 00:08:04,050 --> 00:08:06,050 She had real intercession in the meeting. 181 00:08:06,370 --> 00:08:08,030 But the minister didn't like it. 182 00:08:08,430 --> 00:08:09,630 He went and shut her up. 183 00:08:09,730 --> 00:08:11,130 He says, now you must be still. 184 00:08:11,190 --> 00:08:11,950 You got it now. 185 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:15,720 Very strange. 186 00:08:16,420 --> 00:08:18,160 You've purchased an automobile. 187 00:08:18,340 --> 00:08:19,500 Now put it in the garage. 188 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:20,300 You got it now. 189 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:21,760 Don't use it. 190 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:25,420 That's the wisdom of the flesh. 191 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,820 But beloved, we have an objective, or don't 192 00:08:28,820 --> 00:08:29,100 we? 193 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:31,419 To know him. 194 00:08:31,679 --> 00:08:34,640 Oh, that I might win Christ. 195 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,880 That I might be found in him. 196 00:08:39,260 --> 00:08:42,620 Oh, that Christ might dwell in my heart 197 00:08:42,620 --> 00:08:43,840 by faith. 198 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,500 The reason we stop seeking is because we 199 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:49,180 don't understand the process. 200 00:08:50,220 --> 00:08:52,400 You seek a while and God empties you. 201 00:08:52,740 --> 00:08:54,880 You wanted to get filled with good feelings 202 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,080 and you don't get them. 203 00:08:56,980 --> 00:08:58,180 The fight starts. 204 00:08:58,980 --> 00:09:00,220 Prayer is a fight. 205 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:03,500 And unless your heart is perfect toward God 206 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:06,620 and you view the objective and you see 207 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:09,760 the promise of Pharaoh and you're persuaded of 208 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,920 it and you're going to set your faith 209 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,220 unto the Lord your God, to have that 210 00:09:15,220 --> 00:09:17,560 promise, you're most likely going to quit. 211 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:20,800 That's why he tells us to work out 212 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,880 our salvation with fear and trembling. 213 00:09:24,620 --> 00:09:27,380 Oh, for a prayer meeting like that, where 214 00:09:27,380 --> 00:09:30,200 every heart fears to miss. 215 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,020 Fears to miss God's best. 216 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,440 How many have missed it and God never 217 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,120 saw fit to return to them. 218 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,880 But what am I expecting from my God 219 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:41,320 today? 220 00:09:41,780 --> 00:09:43,700 Why I feel the current moving on the 221 00:09:43,700 --> 00:09:44,020 line. 222 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:46,640 And you know, the first thing God has 223 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:48,120 to do for me is to change my 224 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:49,820 heart and my attitude. 225 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,440 Oh, these hearts of ours are so calloused 226 00:09:54,440 --> 00:10:00,080 sometimes, so dark, so filled with cobwebs, thistles 227 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,400 and thorns in our hearts. 228 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,200 Why people confess this. 229 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,440 They have an awful time keeping their minds 230 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:08,700 on Jesus right now. 231 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,340 You watch, as soon as that door squeaks, 232 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,900 a dozen heads will turn like on a 233 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:15,060 hinge. 234 00:10:15,620 --> 00:10:16,420 You watch now. 235 00:10:17,820 --> 00:10:20,220 It'll happen as sure as the sun rises 236 00:10:20,220 --> 00:10:20,960 tomorrow morning. 237 00:10:21,860 --> 00:10:23,400 That's our hearts. 238 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,600 Our hearts are deceitful above all things, but 239 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,660 they wouldn't be if God got a chance. 240 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:31,120 They certainly wouldn't. 241 00:10:31,580 --> 00:10:33,500 God would transform them. 242 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:35,360 God would change them. 243 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,400 He would strengthen us with might by His 244 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,500 Spirit in the inner man. 245 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:43,720 Oh, we pay so much attention to the 246 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,260 outer man that we have no time for 247 00:10:47,260 --> 00:10:50,560 God to pay attention to the inner man. 248 00:10:52,020 --> 00:10:54,540 But what will two weeks of prayer like 249 00:10:54,540 --> 00:10:55,840 this mean in your life? 250 00:10:56,180 --> 00:10:58,360 It depends what God can do for you. 251 00:10:58,740 --> 00:10:59,720 That's what it is. 252 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,320 And what can, well, God tells me what 253 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,140 He will do. 254 00:11:03,420 --> 00:11:06,080 If I look into the Bible, He will 255 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,300 transform me on the inside by the power 256 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:10,060 of the Spirit. 257 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:14,120 He will strengthen me with might by His 258 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,280 Spirit in the inner man. 259 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:18,200 He'll get hold of your thoughts. 260 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,060 Thou knowest my thoughts afar off. 261 00:11:23,620 --> 00:11:27,100 Oh, how many people have never consecrated their 262 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:28,320 thought life to God. 263 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,280 They want God to be king, but not 264 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,420 there, not in the heart. 265 00:11:35,180 --> 00:11:38,460 Guard thy heart with all diligence, for out 266 00:11:38,460 --> 00:11:40,120 of it are the issues of life. 267 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,000 Unless I turn my heart and my mind 268 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,360 over to God, it won't happen, but it 269 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:46,860 will happen when I do. 270 00:11:46,860 --> 00:11:50,960 God will renew my mind, thank God. 271 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:53,940 All the wonders that He has promised in 272 00:11:53,940 --> 00:11:56,260 the New Testament are unspeakable. 273 00:11:56,380 --> 00:11:58,120 They're out of this world. 274 00:11:58,980 --> 00:12:02,240 He says, I hath not seen and ear 275 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:06,020 hath not heard, neither have entered into the 276 00:12:06,020 --> 00:12:06,860 heart of man. 277 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,560 The wisdom of man and the learning of 278 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,140 man won't do it. 279 00:12:11,340 --> 00:12:12,300 They're eliminated. 280 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:16,460 There has to be a different source of 281 00:12:16,460 --> 00:12:19,520 wisdom and knowledge, and in Him are hid 282 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,340 all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 283 00:12:22,660 --> 00:12:25,860 Why is not my heart perfect towards so 284 00:12:25,860 --> 00:12:30,240 wonderful a God, so wonderful a lover, so 285 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,960 wonderful a God who loves me all the 286 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,520 time, who works for me all the time, 287 00:12:36,860 --> 00:12:41,420 who proposes to give Himself and His own 288 00:12:41,420 --> 00:12:42,280 wisdom and His own knowledge. 289 00:12:45,650 --> 00:12:48,070 I tell you something, a talk like this 290 00:12:48,070 --> 00:12:51,450 may seem very simple, but do you know 291 00:12:51,450 --> 00:12:54,550 that it brings more wisdom to you than 292 00:12:54,550 --> 00:12:56,750 you can get in a university of learning 293 00:12:56,750 --> 00:12:58,130 in a whole year's time? 294 00:12:59,790 --> 00:13:01,570 It will if you get it, if you 295 00:13:01,570 --> 00:13:02,210 take it. 296 00:13:02,210 --> 00:13:05,050 Oh, that's what's the matter, we don't believe 297 00:13:05,050 --> 00:13:08,430 our God, but when my heart is perfect 298 00:13:08,430 --> 00:13:10,910 toward Him, it will not waver. 299 00:13:11,850 --> 00:13:15,230 God has spoken to us by His Son, 300 00:13:15,570 --> 00:13:16,770 and what did He speak? 301 00:13:17,250 --> 00:13:20,430 Why His New Testament, He that was rich 302 00:13:20,430 --> 00:13:22,970 became poor for our sakes. 303 00:13:22,970 --> 00:13:27,250 That we through His poverty might be rich, 304 00:13:27,490 --> 00:13:28,990 and how rich? 305 00:13:30,210 --> 00:13:33,150 Why rooted and grounded in love. 306 00:13:33,250 --> 00:13:34,610 You want to be like that? 307 00:13:35,990 --> 00:13:38,350 Would you like to be rooted and grounded 308 00:13:38,350 --> 00:13:38,990 in love? 309 00:13:39,710 --> 00:13:42,210 Well, then you can't be a snob anymore. 310 00:13:43,510 --> 00:13:46,270 You can't judge people anymore like you have 311 00:13:46,270 --> 00:13:46,790 been doing. 312 00:13:46,790 --> 00:13:49,990 You can't show the cold shoulder to anybody. 313 00:13:50,530 --> 00:13:53,710 You cannot exercise your own opinions anymore. 314 00:13:54,290 --> 00:13:58,630 Oh, these views, these opinions, how quickly we 315 00:13:58,630 --> 00:14:02,970 judge somebody else, and we're satisfied to do 316 00:14:02,970 --> 00:14:05,370 that, and to keep a heart that is 317 00:14:05,370 --> 00:14:08,930 divided toward God, but to let Jesus Christ 318 00:14:08,930 --> 00:14:11,250 reign is a very different matter. 319 00:14:11,250 --> 00:14:14,630 I ought to see to it with fear 320 00:14:14,630 --> 00:14:18,850 and trembling that Jesus takes His great power 321 00:14:18,850 --> 00:14:22,930 and reigns, and two weeks alone with God 322 00:14:22,930 --> 00:14:25,050 ought to make such a change in my 323 00:14:25,050 --> 00:14:27,910 life, and it will if there are two 324 00:14:27,910 --> 00:14:32,670 weeks with God, if God can have His 325 00:14:32,670 --> 00:14:33,610 way with me. 326 00:14:33,610 --> 00:14:37,830 If God, oh, the light that will come 327 00:14:37,830 --> 00:14:38,710 to my soul. 328 00:14:41,060 --> 00:14:43,080 I was interested in a word the Lord 329 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:44,600 spoke some time ago. 330 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,240 He said, oh, if Jesus could only find 331 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,660 people that are willing to be alone with 332 00:14:51,660 --> 00:14:55,020 Him all the time, there would be wonderful 333 00:14:55,020 --> 00:14:55,620 sight. 334 00:14:57,380 --> 00:14:58,760 Wonderful sight. 335 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:01,480 Do you know that's what we need? 336 00:15:02,020 --> 00:15:04,600 Sight by the Holy Ghost. 337 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,860 It doesn't come intellectually, else the princes of 338 00:15:08,860 --> 00:15:11,000 this world would have known it, but they 339 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,120 didn't know Him. 340 00:15:12,980 --> 00:15:14,840 They didn't understand the prophets. 341 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,900 They wrote books about prophecy and fulfillment of 342 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:21,940 prophecy, and they do that today, but the 343 00:15:21,940 --> 00:15:23,880 Bible says they knew Him not. 344 00:15:24,740 --> 00:15:28,160 Oh, it takes the spirit of wisdom and 345 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:31,520 revelation, and that spirit is here this morning 346 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,860 waiting to give you wisdom. 347 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:39,180 He says through Solomon, turn in hither, ye 348 00:15:39,180 --> 00:15:40,260 simple ones. 349 00:15:40,340 --> 00:15:41,800 That means you dumb ones. 350 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:43,880 Come to me if you're dumb. 351 00:15:44,340 --> 00:15:46,960 If you're not smart enough, I'll make you 352 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:47,300 smart. 353 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:51,240 I will pour out my spirit unto you. 354 00:15:51,780 --> 00:15:55,680 Oh, wonder of wonders, Jesus Christ is made 355 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,500 unto me wisdom from God, and no matter 356 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:02,320 how stupid I am, if I but give 357 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:06,100 God a chance, I sit an infant at 358 00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:10,500 His feet where moments teach me more than 359 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:13,920 all the sages, all the books of all 360 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,480 the ages whore. 361 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,720 There lie my books for all I sought. 362 00:16:20,020 --> 00:16:23,700 My heart possesses now the words are sweet 363 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:26,920 that tell thy love, but love itself art 364 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:30,020 thou, and oh, the love itself comes to 365 00:16:30,020 --> 00:16:30,240 me. 366 00:16:30,860 --> 00:16:32,300 Father comes to me. 367 00:16:32,780 --> 00:16:35,020 Father, that's what prayer means. 368 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,720 When ye pray, don't pray like the scribes 369 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,980 and Pharisees who think they shall be heard 370 00:16:41,980 --> 00:16:43,940 for their much speaking. 371 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,700 Enter into your closet, that means your own 372 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:51,600 heart, and shut the door. 373 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,280 Alone with God, the world forbidden. 374 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:58,120 Alone with God. 375 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,600 Have you ever been alone with God? 376 00:17:01,700 --> 00:17:03,060 Oh, tell me. 377 00:17:03,180 --> 00:17:05,200 Oh, yes, we get alone with God, and 378 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,140 then the telephone rings, and then some duty 379 00:17:08,140 --> 00:17:11,480 presses upon us, and then some friend calls, 380 00:17:11,819 --> 00:17:15,960 and then the flesh gets into power, and 381 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,339 oh, God has to say, their God is 382 00:17:18,339 --> 00:17:18,859 their belly. 383 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:21,300 I am not their God. 384 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:24,680 Oh, beloved, we have an objective. 385 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,200 God has given it to us. 386 00:17:27,940 --> 00:17:31,620 The question only is, have I accepted God's 387 00:17:31,620 --> 00:17:32,320 objective? 388 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:33,940 It's Jesus. 389 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:36,940 Jesus is that objective. 390 00:17:37,580 --> 00:17:41,080 One thing I do for getting the things 391 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,300 that are behind, and reaching for the things 392 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:48,420 that are before, I press toward the mark. 393 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:53,000 Oh, how God desires us to get hold 394 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,380 of this thing, because there will not be 395 00:17:55,380 --> 00:17:58,400 a rapture until God finds a people that 396 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,280 want Jesus like that. 397 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:05,000 There will not be a resurrection from the 398 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,260 dead until we follow the Apostle Paul. 399 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,740 That's in the Bible. 400 00:18:09,740 --> 00:18:14,520 Why do they develop such strange doctrines about 401 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,200 his work that I might attain unto the 402 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:18,720 resurrection of the dead? 403 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,460 When a woman in Switzerland, Jumper Droodle, who 404 00:18:22,460 --> 00:18:25,440 had a gift of faith or a gift 405 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:30,340 of healing, died, some dupes went there and 406 00:18:30,340 --> 00:18:31,260 dug her up again. 407 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:34,600 They wanted to prove that she had been 408 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:35,260 resurrected. 409 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:36,740 She wasn't. 410 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,160 The hunchback lady was still there in the 411 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:40,480 grave. 412 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:42,380 I mean, her corpse. 413 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,540 Oh, beloved, when Paul says, if by any 414 00:18:47,540 --> 00:18:51,500 means I might attain unto the resurrection from 415 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:53,980 the dead, he sets the objective before you 416 00:18:53,980 --> 00:18:54,860 and before me. 417 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:58,200 He has no other objective than we have. 418 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,700 It's the objective before the Church. 419 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:03,620 I show you a mystery. 420 00:19:03,860 --> 00:19:05,880 We shall not all sleep, but we shall 421 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,120 all be changed. 422 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,900 That's why he calls upon us to fight 423 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:12,900 this fight. 424 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:13,740 It's a fight. 425 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,280 And no man that warreth entangleth himself. 426 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:21,940 And if a man also fight for masteries, 427 00:19:22,060 --> 00:19:23,100 he's not crowned. 428 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,060 Oh, that's the crown of life of which 429 00:19:26,060 --> 00:19:27,280 the Apostle Paul speaks. 430 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,200 It's laid up for him and for all 431 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,940 them also that love his appearing. 432 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:37,280 Oh, when you think of his appearing, think 433 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:38,140 of his appearing. 434 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,740 It ought to fill our hearts with a 435 00:19:40,740 --> 00:19:43,320 wholesome fear, shouldn't it? 436 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,140 People talk glibly about the coming of the 437 00:19:46,140 --> 00:19:48,220 Lord and are not getting ready at all, 438 00:19:48,340 --> 00:19:50,040 are not doing anything at all. 439 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,660 Beloved, I can't do anything about it, but 440 00:19:53,660 --> 00:19:56,500 give myself to God so that he can 441 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:59,420 work in me to will and to do. 442 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,800 And he proposes to do that. 443 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,260 It's very different. 444 00:20:03,260 --> 00:20:08,080 When God works to will, that's conviction. 445 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,140 That's conviction that sticks. 446 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,580 When God works in you to will, it's 447 00:20:15,580 --> 00:20:17,760 because he has chosen you to be a 448 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,320 son of God without rebuke. 449 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,240 And he's not going to let you get 450 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,920 by with a superficial experience or a vain 451 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:26,480 profession. 452 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:27,480 He won't. 453 00:20:28,380 --> 00:20:29,380 He will not. 454 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,620 He will not allow you to waste your 455 00:20:31,620 --> 00:20:32,620 time either. 456 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:39,800 Through desire, a man having separated himself, intermediates 457 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,140 with all wisdom. 458 00:20:41,740 --> 00:20:44,500 When I talk like this, there always looms 459 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:46,400 up before me a picture of a young 460 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,860 man, Joseph one and mother, who came into 461 00:20:50,860 --> 00:20:53,180 the faith home in Zion at a time 462 00:20:53,180 --> 00:20:56,720 when God kept this objective before the people 463 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:57,360 all the time. 464 00:20:58,260 --> 00:21:00,580 And I remember the time he came, he 465 00:21:00,580 --> 00:21:01,240 got saved. 466 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,700 And I remember how people were proud of 467 00:21:04,700 --> 00:21:07,320 being at the faith home and hearing from 468 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:07,740 heaven. 469 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,380 They told me what wonderful people they were. 470 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,260 One minister told me what a wonderful man 471 00:21:14,260 --> 00:21:17,700 he was, what a wonderful call he had. 472 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,260 Why he had a wonderful call. 473 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:22,180 The Lord had spoken to him about it 474 00:21:22,180 --> 00:21:24,560 and spoken to him by the hour about 475 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:24,820 it. 476 00:21:24,820 --> 00:21:27,600 And then he spoke to you writingly about 477 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:28,260 Joseph. 478 00:21:29,660 --> 00:21:32,980 But the difference was this, that Joseph didn't 479 00:21:32,980 --> 00:21:36,040 think of any being a great man, but 480 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,640 he took the message and he went to 481 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,720 seeking the Lord. 482 00:21:40,140 --> 00:21:42,600 And though he was very weak, I remember 483 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,720 times when he'd fast for two weeks. 484 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:46,640 He'd pray. 485 00:21:47,180 --> 00:21:49,000 He was so weak he had to stay 486 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,420 in bed to pray. 487 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:51,680 But he prayed. 488 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:53,500 Oh, how he prayed. 489 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,020 It was my privilege to pray with him. 490 00:21:56,420 --> 00:21:57,700 He had an objective. 491 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,160 He wanted to find God. 492 00:22:00,660 --> 00:22:01,860 He found God. 493 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:06,200 And though he had no eloquence, he couldn't 494 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,960 preach like these other great men. 495 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,140 Yet he went way beyond them. 496 00:22:10,220 --> 00:22:12,120 The others are today broken vessels. 497 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,660 They're no place. 498 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,160 Talking about it won't do it. 499 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,360 Priding yourself of having a call won't do 500 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:20,740 it. 501 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,120 But acting upon it will. 502 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,020 And Joseph acted upon it. 503 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:27,360 He prayed. 504 00:22:28,020 --> 00:22:30,400 He set his faith unto the Lord, his 505 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:30,880 God. 506 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:32,600 He sought God. 507 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,660 God came to him. 508 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:36,200 God changed him. 509 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,080 Today his name shines not only in this 510 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,280 country, but in Europe as well. 511 00:22:42,660 --> 00:22:43,480 He's unique. 512 00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:45,620 He's one in ten thousand. 513 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,400 How did he become that way? 514 00:22:49,020 --> 00:22:51,680 Well, he didn't seek to be great, but 515 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,300 he sought to do the will of God. 516 00:22:53,700 --> 00:22:56,600 For instance, he sought to live a life 517 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,380 of love. 518 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,800 Oh, beloved, what are we doing? 519 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,220 God's calling you. 520 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,780 God's calling me today, this morning, now, this 521 00:23:06,780 --> 00:23:07,560 very moment. 522 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:09,260 Is my heart awake? 523 00:23:09,620 --> 00:23:12,060 If it isn't, I ought to wake it 524 00:23:12,060 --> 00:23:12,460 up. 525 00:23:13,140 --> 00:23:14,020 Do you know how? 526 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,180 And I envy those who are young, very 527 00:23:19,180 --> 00:23:20,320 young in this place. 528 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:22,980 You know, when you get older, you get 529 00:23:22,980 --> 00:23:24,580 kind of flabby. 530 00:23:26,890 --> 00:23:28,750 But when you're young, you have pen. 531 00:23:29,170 --> 00:23:30,750 You've got energy. 532 00:23:31,290 --> 00:23:33,410 That energy ought to be given to God. 533 00:23:35,090 --> 00:23:37,390 Oh, how blessed it is to hear the 534 00:23:37,390 --> 00:23:38,270 voice of God. 535 00:23:38,770 --> 00:23:41,170 Give me, my son, thy heart. 536 00:23:41,590 --> 00:23:45,490 Seek now the Lord, thy creator, in the 537 00:23:45,490 --> 00:23:47,510 days of thy youth. 538 00:23:47,950 --> 00:23:49,830 That's the time to seek the Lord. 539 00:23:51,660 --> 00:23:54,520 But most young people think that's the time 540 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,460 to have a good time. 541 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:56,920 They can always seek the Lord. 542 00:23:57,740 --> 00:24:00,640 One day passes, another day passes, a week, 543 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,120 a month, a year passes. 544 00:24:02,580 --> 00:24:03,820 Well, we're still young. 545 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,100 That's not having a heart perfect toward God. 546 00:24:08,660 --> 00:24:10,400 Oh, God calls upon us. 547 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,860 And I trust that in this assembly, God 548 00:24:12,860 --> 00:24:16,520 will find hearts that are perfect toward him. 549 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:21,080 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 550 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,360 in Classic Sermons series. 551 00:24:22,860 --> 00:24:25,500 This week, you heard Hans Wadvogel with his 552 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:27,900 message, Be Diligent to Get Alone with God. 553 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,000 Tune in next week to hear Amy Simbel 554 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,980 McPherson speak about the power of faith on 555 00:24:32,980 --> 00:24:34,940 From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.