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Welcome to from the pulpit and classic sermons

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each week We bring you a different message

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from some of history's greatest speakers in the

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Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers

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to this week We have Vance Abner with

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his message the country and the church And

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the church There are some parallels that can

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be drawn here.

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And of course you're familiar with those familiar

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verses in first Peter 2 Where we read

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there's some good advice about country and our

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duty as Christians Beginning with the 13th submit

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yourselves to every ordinance of man for the

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Lord's sake Whether it be to the king

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is supreme or under governors as unto them

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that are sent by him for the punishment

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of evildoers And for the praise of them

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that do well for so is the will

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of God That with well-doing you may

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put to silence the ignorance of foolish men

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as free and not using your liberty for

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a cloak of maliciousness But as the servants

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of God and then he sums it all

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up honor all men Love the brotherhood fear

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God honor the king Our country is about

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200 years old as a Independent nation The

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Church of Jesus Christ about 2,000 years

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old many of the conditions that exist in

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the country today are parallel that by Similar

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conditions in the church and when I say

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the church, I mean the professing church at

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large You'll understand The same story in America

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now as Rome you in our last days

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same symptoms Same disease Said fares the land

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the hastening ills of prey where wealth accumulates

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And men decay We say it can't happen

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here.

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That's what they said.

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They said it in Athens.

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They said in Rome They said it in

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Egypt But the Parthenon and the Colosseum and

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the pyramids bear silent witness.

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Otherwise History repeats itself.

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And the only thing we ever learned from

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history is that we don't learn anything from

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history to begin with Both in America and

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in the church.

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We are rich in what money can buy

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and poor and what it can't buy You

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remember the story of the Pope walking along

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with Thomas Aquinas amidst all the glories of

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the Vatican and saying No longer is the

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church have to say silver and gold have

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I none and so Tom his listener said

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No, and neither can she say rise and

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walk The church can stand anything better than

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popularity and prosperity We're poor when we're rich

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for rich when we're poor We're secure in

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danger, but endangered by security I heard of

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a hillbilly walk down the street sometime ago

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by a furrier's shop And there was a

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leopard skin coat hanging and out there And

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he looked at it in a minute and

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said that old cat was better off before

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he was worth so much That's possible in

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the nation.

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It's possible with people in Revelation 318 Jesus

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tells us that he wants three things for

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the church you know, I'd read that for

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years and years and years and then one

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day it just jumped out of the Text

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and grabbed me you've had that happen He

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wants three things for his church and the

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first of them was that thou mayest be

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rich not get rich God doesn't want the

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church to get rich but be rich in

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all that she has As the bride and

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the groom who though rich for our sakes

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became poor We through his poverty might be

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made rich and both in America and in

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the church Our problem today is material plenty

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and spiritual poverty They had to see a

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rich and increased with goods and don't need

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a thing That's material prosperity But wretched miserable

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blind poor and naked that spiritual poverty I'm

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concerned about the condition of our country.

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I'm bothered about its financial condition I can't

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even think in terms of trillions of dollars

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Neither can you maybe but we spend billions

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on nuclear armaments And probably don't have a

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friend in the family of nations and the

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moral degradation bothers me Everybody wants their rights

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and nobody wants to do anything about their

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responsibilities We lack the moral and spiritual integrity

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to handle the problems that science has raised

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And in fact is if we'd had it

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we wouldn't have some of the problems Because

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they've slipped up on us because we didn't

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handle them The real problem has always been

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sin and Science does not have the answer

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to sin When I think of the drug

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craze and the sex craze drug crazy sex

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crazy show crazy sports crazy land devourers broken

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homes Unmarried couples by the million living as

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man and wife teenage single parents Homosexuality age

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of Permissiveness when men becomes his own God

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Humanism getting ready for the man who will

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claim to be God a little later on

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No king in Israel.

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Every man does not what's right In his

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own eyes, that would be bad enough, but

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what he wants to do whether it's right

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or not No nation can survive that Every

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time we have a disaster Tornado or something

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like that you read immediately that they had

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to be on the guard against looters Well,

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where are those fellows all the time right

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here among us?

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They didn't just drop down for that occasion

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My Bible says we're sheep among wolves You

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find that out if you get out much

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among them a Generation that's never learned how

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to work for the most part will turn

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into anarchy if things get worse It's a

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sad time You might as well try to

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damn up Niagara Falls with Toothpicks as to

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hold back the flood tide of lawlessness that

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will sweep in when the great Hinderer is

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removed Cheap Christianity Laodicean Church, I know we

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have the 4,000 who have not bowed

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the knee to be Bale, but millions of

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church members have only a form of godliness

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without the power We used to have too

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much respect for church to join it unless

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we were converted Now everybody comes in and

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as in the days of Constantine out to

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Christian eyes Paganism it turns around pagan eyes

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in Christianity The standard is so low and

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the majority of our church members live with

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so such low Ab you'd have to backslide

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to be in fellowship In the second place

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America has lost her regard for the flag

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Stars and stripes have become chief commonplace Gone

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are the days when it brought tears to

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our eyes and a lump in our throat

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and a tug at our hearts Now all

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the white no longer means purity and the

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blue doesn't mean Lord in the red Doesn't

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stand for the blood of martyrs who gave

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their lives That we might have the land

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of the free in the home of the

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brave and the banner of the church is

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the cross And God forbid that we glory

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in anything else than that, but it's the

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cross of Christ Mind you because a Christless

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cross is as meaningless as a crossless Christ

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Let him come down from the cross and

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we'll believe in they say and they would

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they'd accept him today if you leave the

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cross out of it, but He's not just

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the paragon He's the propitiation and the cross

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is the symbol of our faith The vertical

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beam that speaks of our relationship to God

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love the Lord thy God and the horizontal

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beam Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself

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on these hang all the law and the

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prophets Paul wanted to have a conscience void

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of offense toward God and man and the

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way he did it was exactly that way

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He stayed right with the cross right with

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God and right with people How about you

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this morning, I don't carry a crucifix around

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but many times in my meditations I find

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myself saying Lord, how am I doing in

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my relationship to you?

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Is there any point of rebellion in your

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heart between you and God?

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And how about you and people?

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Is there anybody that's mad at you and

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you you haven't done the thing?

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The Bible says do Jesus says In application

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you bring your envelope to church for the

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offering and remember your brother's mad at you

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Hang on to your offering.

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So you get right with your brother I

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sure would spoil a lot of offerings over

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the country some of our churches get right

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with your brother That's what the book says

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But the church today has devised a new

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cross an ornament to wear around the neck

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a Commonplace symbol twisted out of context a

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charm kind of a holy horseshoe and I

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Think a W toaster never wrote anything better

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than the old cross and the new If

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you've never read that it's been translated in

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other languages.

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I think that was his masterpiece It doesn't

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interfere this new cross with godless living Never

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goes against the grain of the old nature

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Sunday morning church goers saying and sometimes I

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get nervous as I hear them make their

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way through it to the old rugged cross

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I'll ever be true.

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It's shame and reproach gladly Bear God help

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us.

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We're not bearing it any kind of way

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much let alone gladly I saw later told

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me the other day said the kids here

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were supposed to Give a program one night

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and they illustrated this business of putting well

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I the way I put it putting cushions

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in the church instead of crosses these days

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So they were supposed to come down the

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aisle saying it onward Christian soldiers marching as

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the war and at the last minute some

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of Morning each each of them wanted to

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bring a little cross along with them.

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Well, it was too late.

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Some later said But if you had one

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anyhow, but they didn't like it He took

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them away and hid them in the Sunday

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school room when you start that and the

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kids rebelled you're in trouble They came down

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saying an onward Christian soldiers marching as the

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war with the cross of Jesus hid behind

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the door I don't blame the kids.

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I don't blame them at all.

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That's why we've hit it We've hit it

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behind the door It's about time the stars

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and stripes meant something in America about time

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The cross of Jesus meant something again to

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the church during the First World War Caruso

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came to Atlanta to sing for a patriotic

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rally and that man in whose throat was

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lodged Perhaps one of the greatest voices that

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mankind's ever known sang finished with the starspangled

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banner but when you reach that last note

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instead of the normal place where you saying

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it he lifted it an octave and They

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said it didn't nearly half an hour to

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get that crowd quiet Because that did something

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To I'd like to see a church full

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of professing Christians really get happy sometimes singing

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in the cross of Christ Our glory Towering

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over the wrecks of time all the light

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of sacred story gathers around its head and

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sublime the way we saying it now You'd

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think it was a lullaby instead of a

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reveille.

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It's supposed to wake us up in the

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third place The Constitution of the United States

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means might a little to Americans today and

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the Bible means might a little to the

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average church member Daniel Webster said this about

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government if you take one word out of

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what he said you can apply it in

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all directions You may look at government and

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see it possesses all the external marks of

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freedom and yet find nothing of the essence

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in it No vitality Just as you may

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contemplate an embalmed body where art has preserved

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proportion and form amid nerves without action and

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veins without blood The Constitution needs to come

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to life again today and the Bible needs

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to come to life in our experience To

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the average church members almost a dead book.

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Oh, everybody has one once in a while

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I quote it.

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It's in a pew rack at church and

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gathers dust on tables, but Although we say

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lovely things about it in tribute few there

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be who make it the rule of their

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lives My friend Adrian Rogers who has a

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tremendous church now Bellevue following Robert G Lee

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the other day, you know Madame O'Hare

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Was worrying because they didn't have any holiday

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for her crowd No national holiday said I

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know a good one April Fool's Day I'm

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a new like to go hear Bob Ingersoll

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who was quite an ardor but an infidel

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and He came out and said well that

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really did things to your mother's old-time

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religion but it didn't because Mother said she

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wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll lecture

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on the mistakes of Moses But she'd go

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a long way to hear Moses speak on

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the mistakes of Ingersoll There's a wonderful thing

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about this old Bible It's been said That

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if you dig into it you have a

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feeling like an electrician Rewiring an old house

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where the power has not been cut off

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you'll get a shock get a charge Church

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members are ignorant of the Bible and the

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Constitution over to open now We're not the

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worship the Bible that would be bibliologically, but

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it's the only authorized textbook of our faith

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Jesus said when the disciples said we don't

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understand what you told me Well, how can

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we eat your flesh and drink your blood?

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You know that I wonder what would happen

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to the average calm satisfied see date American

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congregation It's a preacher bore down on that

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and some morning when they had the Lord's

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table Observe and say you've got to eat

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his flesh and drink his blood or you

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don't even have the life in you Well,

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no wonder they ask and you said the

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words That I speak in you their spirit

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and their life Then we have another problem

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too many people in America are only Americans

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in name and Un-americans and anti-americans

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in conduct And the church has a corresponding

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ailment community church members name only members of

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the church, but not members of the family

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of God I Remember the First World War

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and how Teddy Roosevelt a lamb basted people

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who had a double order Some to the

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other crowd and although now citizens of this

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country.

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He called him hyphenated Americans He said this

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country is not a polyglot Borden house Hi,

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mr And the Bible says a friend of

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the world is the enemy of God I

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have been in some churches that I've I

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think the Lord's crowd has been well compared

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to sheepfold But I get in some more

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like a zoo as I go about Did

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you hear that church the other day a

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little church had a sign out in the

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front?

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It had so many church splits and divisions

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over the community I get harmony church number

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two No, no, what happened over number one?

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Hyphenated Americans he that is not with me

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is against me he that gather is not

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with me scatters abroad America needs better Americans

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the church needs better Christians One of the

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great leaders in my denomination the Southern Baptist

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at years go gone by dr Gamble said

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the trouble with us Baptists is we're many

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but we're not much That's him to think

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over.

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It's the quality that bothers me We're so

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anxious today to run up a big Roll

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of statistics that somebody said the Bible says

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we shall reap if we faint not But

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in our zeal we faint if we reap

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not so that's the wrong way to go

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about it I've just been out in Los

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Angeles at the Southern Baptist Convention speaking to

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the pastors And that's a crowd of pastors

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to face But I said to them Southern

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Baptists have never been noted for an inferiority

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complex We brag a lot I said now

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we're out here in Los Angeles, they got

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a lot of smoke I think we could

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blow it out in three days But I

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told him this I said, but it reminds

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me years ago They had more smoke than

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usual and the meteorologist said this and it

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has a double meaning It will take a

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wind from elsewhere To clear up this situation

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I Said we need the wind that blew

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at Pentecost To clear up our situation.

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That's the only thing that'll do it and

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I wonder we they say we're the soul

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of the earth My soul if we're the

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soul of the earth, why is it so

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corrupt?

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I know the world's not going to be

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converted, but it'll be a lot better than

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it is If we're the soul of the

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earth and if we're the light of the

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world, why is everything so dark today?

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I Haven't found a satisfactory answer for that

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except that we're not letting our light shine

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And we're not remembering that God made of

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us the soul of the earth to rub

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us into the carcass of a decaying civilization

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Makes have some effect on it not conversion

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of the whole world.

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No, but as many as you can and

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then America suffers from a low-grade patriotism

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if we had any I Remember World War

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one and the boys leaving for France Their

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sweethearts weeping at the high school where I

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was a student.

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Oh We were going over to make the

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world safe for democracy It's never been safe

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for anything since but anyhow, that's what they

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went for and they were willing to give

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their lives Down in Florida Shell Point Wonderful

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resort plays a met an old general who

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was beside George Patton in World War two

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and George Patton is pretty rugged man, you

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know, but he said one day we were

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standing there in the Battle of the Bulls

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They brought along a bunch of soldier boys

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all shot up Some of them would die

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in a couple hours George went over to

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him said how are you boys?

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And everyone who could get his hand to

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his head saluted and said fine general Said

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we walk down the road a little bit

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and he never said a word and I

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never said a word and finally curiosity got

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The better of me and I looked at

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him and tears were streaming down that rough

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old face Because that was it There was

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patriotism and willing to die for something and

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I think of Paul and that long list

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of things he'd been through shipwrecks and everything

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else under the Sun and yet I'm sure

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that when the Lord called over the parapets

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of heaven to how you doing?

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So he was in pretty bad shape most

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of the time.

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He said fine Do we do that?

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Certainly we should I Know we folks more

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lately than Paul Harvey says we were afraid

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to win in the shame to lose Said

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rightly and we're in a new internationalism and

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lost our national identity sometimes Forgetting that a

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man's a better citizen of the world of

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nations if he's true to his own nation

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Better member of the human family if he's

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a good member of his own family.

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I heard Douglas MacArthur say Strange voices are

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heard across the land about this old and

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proven concept of patriotism Seductive murmurs are arising

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now that it's outmoded and that we are

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provincial and immature and reactionary and stupid When

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we idealize our own country that there is

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a higher destiny for us now under another

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more general flag He said rebuke it from

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the platform Rebuke it from the pulpit and

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I put in my little ten cents worth

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today in that direction just as America's gone

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International and in some strange ways the church

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has gone universal in some rather odd ways

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I know of a heard of a fellow

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who I wanted to sing in the choir

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but didn't want to join the church and

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preacher said what church you belong to I

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belong to the Invisible church preacher said I

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suggest you join the invisible choir I Believe

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we all belong to something.

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I believe in tying up with the local

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fellowship We have a lot of these movers

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Sometime ago.

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I heard of a fellow who was about

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his fifth move I think from denomination to

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denomination and he said to his pastor pro

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-tem Because any pastor he had was pro

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-tem said I think I'm thinking about coming

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to your church Well, the preacher said never

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does any harm to change labels on an

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empty bottle Well said But in such a

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time We need a rebirth of patriotism in

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the country and a rebirth of Pentecost in

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the church and it won't happen Until we

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humble ourselves and pray and seek God's face

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turned from our wicked ways.

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I Don't hear much about that in Washington.

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I haven't heard anything much about it from

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there in a long long long time Pride

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goeth before destruction haughty spirit before a fall

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God resisted the proud and giveth grace to

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the humble and Our forefathers when they came

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over here some of them Had a desire

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to build a new nation on Christian principles

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puritanic and the pilgrim group but Unfortunately, they

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came along with them another crowd who had

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been infected and infested with the philosophy of

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Tom Paine and The viewpoint I'm sorry to

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say of Thomas Jefferson who said that the

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gospel contains no mystery and he never read

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great as the mystery of godliness and Said

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that Jesus Christ never thought of himself in

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terms of human excellence and anything but human

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action Well somehow everything got mixed in and

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to this day the brotherhood of man is

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confused with the fatherhood of God and we're

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trying to create a false millennium counterfeit kingdom

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of God on Unregenerate society and won't work

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I've heard a number of my preacher brethren

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lately who are uneasy about this land and

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they're not that kind But they said things

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aren't turning out so well It sort of

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started in 19 and 12 Old Mordecai ham

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used to have a sermon on the sinking

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of the Titanic He said God was trying

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to give us an object lesson.

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We didn't get it We were so smart

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We built one that one of them even

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said even God can't sink it And the

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only thing it ever did was sink on

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the first trip I Was 11 years old

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and I remember how as a country boy

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that thing that did something to me and

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There are books galore about the Titanic.

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I don't know how many in our library

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in my town Movie about it and they're

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going over now to have another look to

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add it if they can get at it

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this time Quite a problem, but with the

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new paraphernalia, they think they might be able

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to they know it's there and they had

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a glimpse it corresponds to the proportions, but

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The strange thing about it all was that

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it seems as though God said you're not

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as smart as you think you are I'm

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gonna take a hunk of ice.

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He is plain old ice and Slit the

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side of this thing and show you you're

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not as smart as you thought you were.

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I Think there was a lesson in it.

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I Don't think we learned it.

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I know one thing at the offices of

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the line that made the Titanic in and

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the lines in New York that Were a

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back of it, too They had when it

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was all over only two lists Lost and

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Saved and I'm living in the world or

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so far as God's concerned.

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There are only two lists and then on

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that Titanic there were millionaires wealthy people famous

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people on down to poor folks in the

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steerage But after it was all over there

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were only lost and saved And on the

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boat of life you have rich man poor

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man beggar man thief butcher baker candlestick maker

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everybody But when it's all over There's only

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be the Lord and the saved I don't

535
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know how long it's been since I've heard

536
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,720
anybody use that old word lost and say

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00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:31,760
my my boys lost My girls lost I've

538
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been Listening to see if anybody ever says

539
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,340
it anymore Sinners are pretty hard to find

540
00:27:37,340 --> 00:27:41,040
Today my boys my boys a good boy.

541
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So is the rich young ruler, but he

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00:27:43,580 --> 00:27:48,600
wasn't God's boy It's gone out of our

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vocabulary and yet those are the people Jesus

544
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:54,660
came to seek and to save the lost

545
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And I turn over to Revelation and there's

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another one that jumped out lately and sees

547
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me Revelation 22 11 he that is unjust

548
00:28:03,980 --> 00:28:08,180
Let him be unjust Still after after it's

549
00:28:08,180 --> 00:28:11,400
all over and Jesus comes he that's filthy

550
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,400
Let him be filthy still He that's righteous.

551
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,440
Let him be righteous still He that's holy

552
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,760
let him be holy and still do you

553
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,640
realize dear friend this morning that there's coming

554
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a day when we are going to reach

555
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,320
a point of fixation and What you are

556
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then you will be forever How are you

557
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,000
getting fixed for such a thing?

558
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Remember we're going to be congealed But then

559
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we're going to be forever what we are

560
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:45,060
then For we have polls today for and

561
00:28:45,060 --> 00:28:48,860
against and Undecided there aren't any undecided about

562
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Jesus Christ If you've reached the age of

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accountability You've done one or the other he

564
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that is not witness against me He that

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00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,140
believeth is not condemned.

566
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He that believeth not condemned already.

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00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,640
You're one or the other That's all there

568
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:04,260
is to it.

569
00:29:04,340 --> 00:29:06,180
Billy Graham says as an American.

570
00:29:06,180 --> 00:29:09,360
I'm a pessimist but as a Christian, I'm

571
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,820
an optimist That's about the way I feel

572
00:29:11,820 --> 00:29:12,220
about it.

573
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Frankly this morning.

574
00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:17,800
I Heard of a little parade of youngsters.

575
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They were doing pretty well except one kid

576
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was out of step all the time And

577
00:29:22,340 --> 00:29:24,200
they checked and found that he had a

578
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,240
transistor radio in his pocket and was marching

579
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:32,100
to music from a thousand miles away That's

580
00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:35,060
what a Christian does Goes through this whole

581
00:29:35,060 --> 00:29:36,520
world tuned in on heaven.

582
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That's why you can't keep separate you'd better

583
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,040
not with the way this other crowds going

584
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:47,140
because You are going by the beats of

585
00:29:47,140 --> 00:29:47,980
another drummer.

586
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I Hope you are this morning and making

587
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,300
good time at it I'm glad as an

588
00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:56,780
American to put my hand on my heart

589
00:29:56,780 --> 00:29:59,580
and join and sing in the Star-Spangled

590
00:29:59,580 --> 00:30:01,880
Banner This is the best patch of dirt

591
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,260
there is left on this whole earth They're

592
00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:05,860
trying to get in over here and trying

593
00:30:05,860 --> 00:30:07,380
to get out everywhere else.

594
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It seems to me.

595
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,340
I Love it for rocks and reels and

596
00:30:12,340 --> 00:30:15,680
all the rest of it But I still

597
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,620
get happier when I can sing about that

598
00:30:18,620 --> 00:30:23,480
other country and that Jesus shall reign where

599
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,620
'er the sun doth his successive journeys run.

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You know, we're out like David We're out

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00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:29,940
to crown the king.

602
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,540
I'm I've been working on the son.

603
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:32,980
I haven't got it to suit me yet

604
00:30:32,980 --> 00:30:38,740
on that David was out to crown King

605
00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:46,220
and They started in the cave of Adullam

606
00:30:46,220 --> 00:30:50,560
I said mighty unpromising looking place Somebody said

607
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,740
the history of many a church is from

608
00:30:52,740 --> 00:30:57,830
cave to Cathedral and get to the Cathedral

609
00:30:57,830 --> 00:31:04,300
the different story sometimes But the thing that

610
00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:08,200
makes me happy is expressed most And the

611
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old boot black and a business firm down

612
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,040
our way He'd been there for years and

613
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,940
they all loved him He was a wonderful

614
00:31:16,940 --> 00:31:17,660
Christian.

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00:31:17,940 --> 00:31:21,700
Oh, man Had his Bible right beside his

616
00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:22,680
outfit there.

617
00:31:23,340 --> 00:31:24,800
They all knew he was a Christian wasn't

618
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,680
ashamed of it One day one of the

619
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,760
businessmen came around said well, I see you're

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00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:29,700
reading in Revelation.

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Yes Do you understand what Revelation means?

622
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,180
He said yes, he said I wait a

623
00:31:37,180 --> 00:31:40,420
minute Bible scholars have differed on the meaning

624
00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:42,880
of Revelation and you say, you know what

625
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,600
it's all about What do you say he

626
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:51,960
said it means Jesus is gonna win Thank

627
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,400
God, that's what it does mean why you

628
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,160
could yet 500 theologians together They couldn't come

629
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:58,840
up with anything better than that.

630
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,200
It means Jesus is gonna win Another Bible

631
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,120
with no devil on the first two pages.

632
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,460
No devil on the last two pages Thank

633
00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:08,880
God for a book takes care of the

634
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,620
devil before you get through Meanwhile, I'm a

635
00:32:12,620 --> 00:32:15,020
pilgrim and a stranger and what the church

636
00:32:15,020 --> 00:32:17,860
needs today is to recover her pilgrim character

637
00:32:17,860 --> 00:32:22,440
We're just passing through We're not citizens in

638
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:23,960
this world trying to get to heaven.

639
00:32:24,060 --> 00:32:25,600
We're sitting in heaven trying to get through

640
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,500
this world And Paul Harvey says Christians believe

641
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:33,440
Christ will return and take over When mortals

642
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,920
have made a hopeless mess of self-government,

643
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,380
well, then he ought to come anytime Because

644
00:32:38,380 --> 00:32:41,880
we've done it All we say we've got

645
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,540
democracy Yes And that means government by the

646
00:32:44,540 --> 00:32:46,740
people and the world over the people are

647
00:32:46,740 --> 00:32:50,440
not doing too well with democracy even today

648
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,120
But there's another one I believe in the

649
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,240
theocracy above all and a Christocracy that's coming

650
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,260
and in the meantime Let us render under

651
00:33:00,260 --> 00:33:03,440
Caesar the things that are Caesar and under

652
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,400
God the things that are God You've been

653
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,440
listening to from the pulpit and classic sermon

654
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,040
series this week He heard Vance Havner with

655
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,840
his message the country and the church tune

656
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,880
in next week to hear Joel Rosenberg Talk

657
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,960
about are we living in the last days?

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00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,160
I'm from the pulpit in classic sermons