Welcome to the From the Pulpit in Classic
Sermon series.
Each week we bring you a different message
from some of history's greatest speakers in the
Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers
too.
This week we have Hans R.
Waldvogel with his message, Casting All Your Care
Upon Him.
For he careth...
Now why should he care?
Why should he number all the hairs on
my head?
Well, because every hair needs help, needs attention.
People say to me, what?
Your hair is still not white, and you
still have a nice crop of hair.
Yes, I have a good caretaker of my
hair.
Really, really good.
There was a time when I lost almost
all my hair, but the Lord brought it
back.
And since then I haven't worried about one
hair on my head.
Jesus Christ knows how many I have, and
He knows what...
and He has provided for each hair on
my head.
I suppose I have a hundred thousand at
least.
I never counted them.
But He's provided for each one of my
hairs an oil well, a supply of oil
to keep it lubricated.
I don't have to spend a lot of
money for all the calabrese to keep my
hair alive.
Jesus Christ really takes care of...
And why should He bother?
Why should He bother?
Not just to make me pretty, but to
glorify His name because I belong to Him.
My father used to care for my hair.
I don't know how many times he spat
on it and combed it.
And he says, Why I'm going to be
ashamed of you if you come among the
people without your hair combed.
He cared.
I didn't.
Didn't bother whether I combed my hair or
not, but my father did.
And my mother cared when my ears weren't
clean.
She took strong solution and washed them.
I didn't care.
Corn grew in my ears.
Why?
My mother washed them so clean 70 years
ago that they're still clean today.
But Jesus Christ wants to care about everything
concerning my being from beginning to the end
of eternity.
And I dishonor Him when I don't cast
all my care upon Him.
Not only that, but I rob Him of
His honor and His kingship.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and
His righteousness means that I must seek to
let Him reign within me.
I must seek to make room for Him
to be the absolute provider and the absolute
ruler of my life.
And that means my whole spirit and soul
and body.
And if I do that, He has promised
to preserve me blameless.
Mind you, my whole spirit and soul and
body blameless unto the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
And what for?
Not that I should be honored in that
day.
He promises that too.
But it's the honor of my Lord Jesus
Christ that's at stake.
If He doesn't bring me through, Moses said
to God, if you kill these people, they
deserve it.
You could destroy them in a moment, but
where's your honor?
The Gentiles will say, well, He wasn't as
strong and He wasn't as powerful as He
said He was.
He wasn't able to bring them through and
He wasn't near as merciful as He said
He was, else He'd have forgiven their iniquity.
And in that day, the Bible says, we
shall be the glory of Christ.
And when the Apostle Peter talks about it,
he says, Though now ye are in heaviness
through manifold temptation, Barnabas says, we must through
much tribulation enter into the kingdom.
It is by these testings and by these
trials that I'm given a chance to make
my choice between the devil and Jesus Christ.
And that's the choice I must make.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and
His righteousness means that there is a kingdom,
thank God.
And I can make my choice.
I can enter into that kingdom by choosing
Jesus Christ to rule, to take His great
power and to be master and that kingdom
must be within me.
And it is there that sin reigns.
Oh, where sin abounded and it certainly did
abound and God said it abounded so much
that in many hearts it chokes the Word
and that Word does not bring forth fruit
unto the kingdom of God.
But if I guard my heart with all
diligence and I say to it that Satan
shall not have dominion and sin shall not
have dominion, I choose Jesus, that's my choice.
For instance, he says, In nothing be anxious.
I had to learn that lesson before I
really got established in the ministry and I'm
so glad that God did not let me
go.
I was born anxious.
My father always told me that when I
was three days old I laughed for the
first and the last time.
And when I was five years old I
had the measles and then it's hard to
get along with me after that.
I worried about everything.
I went to school and if my school
work didn't come out perfect I'd worry for
days.
I wouldn't talk to anybody until that thing
was corrected.
I was just full of it.
Full of worry, full of anxiety, full of
fear, full of all that.
When I was twelve years old I was
sure that I was going to die within
a year or two.
So many people died of consumption at that
time and I had a cough.
That's why I hate cough.
And so I was sure I had consumption
and I worried silently and quietly.
I worried.
I didn't dare go by a cemetery.
And when I came to God He said,
Listen, you've got to make your choice.
In nothing be anxious.
Let me take over.
That's the wonderful thing.
We think, well, it's quite wonderful not to
be anxious and not to worry and not
to fret and not to care.
But that's not the issue.
The issue is to make room for Jesus
Christ who is the King of Glory, the
Prince of Peace, who has conquered, glory to
God, who has conquered and purchased me with
His own blood that I should not live
unto myself but unto Him.
We are His workmanship.
But that word workmanship I understand means masterpiece.
You are His masterpiece if you let Him
have His way.
That's the idea.
When a boy, when in Switzerland or Germany
any young man learns a trade I had
to spend five years learning the jewelry business
and after five years you have to pass
an examination and by this you have to
make a masterpiece.
Now, Barber told me the masterpiece he had
to make for an exhibition he had to
shave a man or many men and he
had to take a pair of tweezers and
he had to take a large piece of
paper and glue, put glue on it and
then he had to take a million pieces
of hair and make a picture of a
house.
That was his masterpiece.
He was ruled by his masterpiece.
A jeweler would have to make a brooch
or a lavalier or a bracelet himself.
He had to make it from bottom up
to the top and finish it.
And that went on exhibition for everybody to
look at and to examine and I remember
in my shop whenever I saw a piece
of jewelry I could tell who made it.
We had a man who had the name
that he was a good jeweler.
He happened to be they called him the
French jeweler and they advertised that among them.
But I said he was a butcher not
a jeweler.
I could tell by every piece of jewelry
that he made that he didn't know much
about making jewelry but he got away with
it somehow.
There was another man when I saw a
piece of jewelry by him I made goo
-goo eyes.
I never saw such wonderful work.
And that man took his time and when
he made a piece of jewelry you know
it had to be as clean looking at
from the front as from the back every
part of it.
He was a master.
His masterpiece honored him and that's what he
was after.
Jesus Christ is making a masterpiece that will
honor him in the day when he presents
you and me to the Father as the
finished product and in the meantime I must
work with fear and trembling to be sure
that I don't interfere with his will.
Oh this mighty will of God and when
he says casting all your care upon him
he means to say I cannot finish my
masterpiece if you fool with it.
If you put your paws to it if
you worry over it you take it out
of my hands.
That's what we do.
But when we don't worry and don't fret
then the Bible says in nothing be anxious
but what?
In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God
and then God takes over.
And how does it take over?
Why the Prince of Peace comes to take
his work his masterpiece and he works it
out and maybe you don't know how he
does it you don't know but that's where
faith and confidence comes in.
How many times we have committed our bodies
to him when we were sick and then
when God allowed some tests to come our
way then we took our bodies out of
his hand again and we began to worry
and God has to stand aside.
I tell you God is a great master
my Lord Jesus Christ is a is a
great master and he's a great savior and
he is one that knows how to finish
the work which he has begun and that
was one of the first lessons I had
to learn when I came to God.
I had to learn to trust him for
every penny I needed.
It was an interesting lesson it was a
difficult lesson how many times did the Lord
hit my knuckles when I tried to fool
with it.
Leave it to me I told you how
my first lesson was to get six bucks
six dollars I owed six dollars I had
been robbed of the money by a saint
and now I didn't have it and I
had to pay a bill six dollars and
for a whole month I worried and grunted
and groaned and murmured in my heart I
remember walking down the street and looking at
the bushes and think now Lord what's six
bucks between you and me why you could
turn these leaves into five dollar bills honestly
I thought he could but he didn't now
why didn't he do it I'd reach into
my pocket I thought well the Lord could
create it in my pocket but he didn't
do it I said now why as long
as I said why I found fault with
God I got nothing nothing after one month's
time in a meeting in Zion in the
faith home I learned my lesson God took
all the fear out of me God made
me look at Jesus instead of into my
pocket and instead of at the bushes and
when I got a sight of Jesus Christ
the peace of God filled my heart and
next day I got six dollars not one
penny more or less and in a most
miraculous way from both of them from people
from whom I could never have expected it
God just showed me that he is not
only able but willing to take care of
his own kingdom and his own honor but
as long as I interfere with his honor
nothing doing then I honor the devil the
devil comes around and he wouldn't be a
good devil if he didn't test you that's
his job when Jesus was baptized with the
Holy Ghost the spirit drove him into the
temptation and if need be ye are in
manifold temptation what for not to be defeated
but that the trial of your faith may
be found unto praise and honor and glory
at the appearing of Jesus Christ and he'll
never say well I remember the trouble you
were in but I happen to be on
a trip I couldn't take care of you
just then or maybe it was a little
too...
he'll never say that he'll never say Abraham
believed God and he hoped against hope and
he waxed strong in faith now that's the
test of true faith the longer the trial
lasts the stronger your faith will grow if
your eyes are upon the promise and him
that promised Sarah counted him faithful that promise
what do you do?
you count him faithful that promise and it
isn't a matter of just making a comfortable
life for myself but it's a matter of
making a comfortable life for Jesus he wants
to live with me he wants to make
his home with me he wants to feel
at home here he wants to see that
I have perfect confidence in him no matter
what all hell does he has already won
the fight and now to learn this grand
lesson and the peace of God which passeth
all understanding why that's Christ he'll keep your
heart and he'll keep your mind and I
find in my travels that very very few
Christian will obey this command they'll obey other
commands they'll stop drinking beer or smoking cigarettes
listen to be worried and to be anxious
is worse than smoking cigarettes it is to
me it would be a greater sin I
would dishonor my God if I murmured I'd
say my Lord you made a mistake you
didn't know what you were talking about there
when he said he cares for you beloved
it's his honor not my honor not my
comfort let me be tested let me be
tried Abraham the Bible says was fully persuaded
that's faith not to feel he didn't feel
he saw his body now dead and the
deadness of Sarah's womb that didn't stagger him
at all he didn't stagger at the promise
of God beloved I'm talking seriously we won't
see one another for a long time I'm
really serious if you don't learn this lesson
you dishonor your God your God who said
all things work together for good we know
that all things work together for good to
them that love God all things belong to
him all things are possible to him that
believe us but we like to have it
thrown at us you know when I was
a boy I told you before I was
saved I devoured the newspaper every day at
my lunch hour and I was especially fond
of Mutton Jeff when I got saved I
quit I had no more room in my
heart for that business but one day I
went to hear a favorite evangelist Paul Rader
that's Miss Schultz's patron saint he was a
wonderful preacher and one day he was using
an illustration from a cartoon of Jigs and
Maggie they loved corn beef and cabbage and
he used it with such a skill that
I said well I must see what that
is and so I looked at a cartoon
of Jigs and Maggie and you know it's
been a blessing to me Maggie and her
daughter naughty women they went to a great
big department store in the city and I
don't know what they did but the manager
flew at them and disgraced them and dishonored
them and they came home weeping sniff sniff
hoo hoo and Jigs wanted to know what
had happened why they told him what a
fresh manager that was and how he had
bawled them out so Jigs put on his
stovepipe hat and he went down and he
bought the store the whole store and then
he fired the manager and then you should
have seen Maggie and her daughter walk into
that store everything belonged to them that's why
God says we should come with boldness we
have a high priest who is made higher
than the heavens the prince of this world
is cast out oh let's believe it you've
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Classic Sermon series this week you heard Hans
R.
Waldvogel with his message casting all your care
upon him tune in next week for another
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