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We now present Dr. Bob Jones Sr., internationally

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known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University,

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who during his earthly ministry was one of

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God's great warriors for the faith.

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O Lord, thou hast searched me and known

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me.

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Thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising.

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Thou understandest my faults of all.

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Thou compassed my path and my lying down

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and art acquainted with all my ways.

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For as there is not a word in

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my tongue, but, O Lord, thou knowest it

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altogether.

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Thou hast beset me behind and before and

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laid thine hand upon me.

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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.

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It is high.

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I cannot attain unto it.

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Whither shall I go from thy spirit, or

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whither shall I flee from thy presence?

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If I ascend up into heaven, thou art

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there.

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If I make my bed in Sheol, Hades,

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or Hell, behold, thou art there.

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If I take the wings of the morning

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and dwell in the elements parts of the

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sea, even there shall thy hand lead me,

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and thy right hand shall hold me.

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If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover

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me, even the night shall be light about

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me.

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Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee, but

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the night shineth as a day.

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The darkness and the night are both alike

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to thee.

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Now what do these verses say down to

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that place?

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Well, in simple language, they say this.

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God knows more than we know.

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He knows all things.

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He knows everything in the universe.

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He knows all the laws of the universe.

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He knows why we do what we do.

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He knows our frame, the Bible says.

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He remembers that too, thank God.

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One of the most comforting verses in all

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the Bible is, Thou knowest my frame, thou

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rememberest that I am dust.

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Now, He doesn't condone or justify any sort

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of weaknesses I have, but He understands them.

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It's a wonderful thing to have a God

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that understands my weaknesses.

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He understands my weaknesses.

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He remembers if we're made out of dirt.

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He knoweth our frame.

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He knows all about us.

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He's an all-wise God.

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Now, if He knows all about us, He's

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sympathetic in His attitude towards us.

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He doesn't condone sin.

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He'll punish sin.

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Like a judge I told you one time

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about on the bench that sentenced some boys

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to the penitentiary, some young men, and I

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saw tears roll down the judge's cheek.

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He was a tender judge, sympathetic judge, but

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a just judge.

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Now, He did His duty, though His heart

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was breaking.

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I cannot believe that God Almighty ever lets

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a man go to hell without a pain

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in his loving heart, because God's a God

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of love.

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He so loved the world, He gave His

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only begotten Son, and who said believe in

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Him should not perish but have a lasting

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life.

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Now, a God that loves sinners, certainly He

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doesn't let a sinner go to hell without

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a pain in his heart.

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Love can suffer and feel pain.

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God's a God of love.

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He's also a God of justice.

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Now, God knows all about us.

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He's sympathetic.

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He'll punish us however tenderly He may feel

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towards us if we deserve punishment, but He

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loves us.

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Now, knowing our strength and knowing our weaknesses

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and knowing our shortcomings, He knows what we

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need and knows how to supply the need.

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So, it's a wonderful thing to have a

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God that knows, isn't it?

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Isn't it a wonderful thing to have a

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Heavenly Father that knows us and knows what

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we need and where we're weak?

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He's so wonderful.

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No one of the psalmists says that's too

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far for me to reach, that's too high

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for me, that's so much above me I

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can't understand it, but I know it's so.

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You can know a good many things that

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you can't quite understand.

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You may not understand the law that makes

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the sun come up in the morning, but

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you know it rises in the morning.

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You may not know the law that makes

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the sun go down in the evening.

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A little child doesn't know the law, but

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he knows the sun's coming up.

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You can know things you can't understand.

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And that's a wonderful thing, though, that we

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look up to God and we know that

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God knows so much that we don't know

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and can't understand, but we know enough about

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Him that He loves us and He's sympathetic

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and tender and pities us.

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Now, we have a God that knows, the

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psalmist said.

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Now, next place, we have a God that's

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everywhere.

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He's there with the goods to deliver when

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we need to have the goods delivered.

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That's the kind of God He is.

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If I take the wings of the morning

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and fly away, you can't get out of

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reach of God.

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Where would you go?

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He inhabits eternity.

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You can't find anywhere God is.

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Eternity?

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You can go back and back and back

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and back forever.

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You're still in eternity.

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You can go on and on and on

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and on forever, and you're still in eternity.

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You can go up and up and up

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forever, and you're still in eternity.

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You can go down, down, down forever, and

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you cannot find the flooring in the house

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of eternity.

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Now, the Bible says God inhabits eternity.

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That's His dwelling place.

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Thus say the high and lofty one that

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is habith eternity.

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The house of God is eternity.

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God's everywhere.

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Now, isn't that wonderful to have a God

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like that?

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You know, you think about old Elijah getting

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out there one day, and the false prophets

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going to see what their gods could do,

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and they were there for the same.

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We're going to demonstrate what kind of gods

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we have.

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And the God that answers by fire, He's

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God.

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So they put on the wood and cried

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out, so there God stands.

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But their gods couldn't answer.

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Their gods were helpless in the hour of

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crisis.

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But old Elijah said, I'll show you what

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kind of God I have.

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And he called out, called out for God

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to come and answer by fire.

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And God came.

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Isn't it wonderful to have a God that

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you can, when I'm speaking respectfully, I hope

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irreverently, isn't it wonderful to have a God

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that you can show off?

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You know, I get such a thrill out

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of this thing.

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I get Bob Jones University, if you'll excuse

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me just a minute.

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I want you to listen to me.

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You know, I think about these schools in

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America, with their conventions, with all their backing,

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great memberships in the denominations, rich men on

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their boards, all the influence of great membership.

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I can see how they can build schools,

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humanly speaking.

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I can say, well, they've got a school

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out there, they've got a lot of folks

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to help them.

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State convention, great big annual conference, a big

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Presbyterian Synod.

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They've got help.

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You can look around and see the source

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of their help.

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And people come out of the other Bob

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Jones University and they say, well, this school,

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a denomination school?

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No.

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No.

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Well, what kind of school?

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It's just a Christian school.

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Well, who's back of you?

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Well, there's nobody special except God, except God.

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You know, we want Bob Jones University out

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here to be a place where we can

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show God off, right?

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And folks come around here and say, how

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did it happen?

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We say, God.

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And we're telling the truth You can't tell

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me.

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You can't tell me we did it.

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I didn't do it.

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Bob didn't do it.

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Nobody around here wants anybody to think any

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of us did it.

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God did it.

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It is wonderful to have a God that

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you can point to and say, God did

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it.

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You know, I'm going to talk on the

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errors that people are making in modern Christian

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programs.

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The things that they are doing, so many

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things that they don't mean to do it,

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but they're hiding God.

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It's so easy to hide God.

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So easy to hide God behind ambition, structure

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stuff.

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You can have a showman ship that's so

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big, if you don't watch out, you won't

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find God.

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You know, I've seen that so many a

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time.

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I remember after World War I, when I

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spoke at the Methodist Centenary of Columbus, Ohio,

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and spoke at the Evangelistic Hour, the great

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big tent, and Bishop Cannon was there, and

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the Chandler Committee, I think I told you

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about before.

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And one day, a modern type preacher walked

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up one of those good old time camp

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meeting country Methodist preachers.

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You know, it's a wonderful thing, those old

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time fellows.

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They were great boys, those men were.

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So he walked up to him, and I

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was standing there, and I got an idea

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myself.

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I've used it many a time since.

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Most I've learned, I've just picked up listening

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to some fellow out in the woods.

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I get more from some of those fellows

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than I can some of these highbrow PhDs.

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So somebody said, isn't this the biggest religious

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show you ever saw?

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This old countryman said, I've been looking around

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here for God.

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I want to find God around here.

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So I went on over there, and I

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said, you can get your show so big

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if you don't watch out, you won't see

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God.

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And they'll think of the great showmanship, the

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crowd, the crowd, the throngs.

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You have to be careful when you put

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up nice modern buildings like that out here

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at Bob Jones University.

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Don't watch out, people come by and look

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at the buildings and say, isn't that a

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remarkable, rather modernistic type plant out there, isn't

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it?

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Have to be awfully careful.

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If you don't watch out, you'll be shoving

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God around, and God won't be shoved around.

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You can't treat God Almighty like that.

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Did you know you can get your ritualism

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so wonderful and spectacular and attractive?

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And ritualism's all right, I'm not talking about

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it.

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Have to watch out.

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Every time we put up a new building

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out here, we preach a little harder, a

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little straighter.

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And every time we get a new PhD

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in the faculty, we put on a little

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more spiritual emphasis.

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You have to watch out.

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If you don't watch out, if you don't

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watch out, sooner or later, you lose sight

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of God.

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The Bible always lifts him up every time

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there is God, God, God.

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And the Bible says, pride goeth before destruction,

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and the Holy Spirit before fall.

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Have to watch out.

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Many women, it's a wonderful thing to have

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a great God.

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It's so wonderful to have a God that

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you can show off.

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You know, I'd like to get around some

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of these little poor, miserable heathens, and let

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them show me that little house garden I'd

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like to point to the date on and

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say, look what my God's doing.

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And then when the evening comes and the

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sun goes down and the curtain of night's

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being drawn, and I watch the stars come

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out, and somebody says, yes, my God.

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I say, look up yonder, my God, he's

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busy lighting the stars in the sky.

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It's wonderful to have a God, isn't it?

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Big God.

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A God that knows all things.

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A God that's everywhere.

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And yet it's a little scary, because the

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psalmist says here, he sees when it's dark.

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He's a God from which men can never

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hide.

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That's what I want to talk to you

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about this morning, but I didn't get to

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it.

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Maybe I'll get to it some other time.

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The psalmist said he's a God.

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A God you can't hide from.

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A God you can't get away from.

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What a God.

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Say, listen, do you know him?

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Oh, I didn't ask you if you're a

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church member.

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Maybe you're a Methodist, a Baptist, a Pentecostal,

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an Episcopalian, Protestant or Catholic.

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I didn't ask you that.

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I asked you if you know God.

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When you say our Father, do you know

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what you're saying?

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Is he your Father?

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You've no right to call him your Father

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unless you're converted.

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We are children of God by faith in

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Jesus Christ.

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It's presumptuous for you to call my Father

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your Father unless you've been born again.

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You have to be born again to call

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him Father.

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You become a child of God when you're

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born a second time.

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And you become a child of God by

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faith in Jesus Christ.

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As many as received him then gave you

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the power or the right or the authority

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to become children of God.

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Now, don't call my Father your Father unless

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he is your Father.

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If he's your Father, we are brothers and

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sisters.

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It's all right, but don't you try to

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claim my Father for yours if you're not

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a Christian, because he isn't.

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But isn't it a wonderful thing to be

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saved, to be a Christian?

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Call God Father.

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That's what the psalmist is talking about.

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God everywhere knows all things and sees all

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things, and he's my Father, our Father.

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We're so glad we can say that.

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We don't deserve to say it.

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We're not worthy of it, except he's always

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made us worthy because we trusted Christ.

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Gave us a new life.

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We haven't been good children.

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We know that.

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We're awfully sorry.

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We try to be better.

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Help us to be better.

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Forgive us for all our weaknesses and shortcomings,

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and help us to be good children, faithful

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to Jesus Christ.

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We pray in his ever precious name.

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Amen.

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You have just heard Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.,

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internationally known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones

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University, who during his earthly ministry was one

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of God's great warriors for the faith.

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This program is sponsored by Bob Jones University.