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If you have your Testament or Bible, would

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you turn to the Gospel according to John

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Chapter 14?

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John Chapter 14.

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Now, you want to get your Bible and

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your Testament with you, dear friends?

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Well, you wouldn't know what I might say.

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And you want to keep your eyes, see

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if it keeps you to the Word of

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God.

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John Chapter 14, verse 1.

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Let not your hearts be troubled.

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Ye believe in God, believe also in me.

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In my Father's house are many mansions.

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If it were not so, I would have

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told you.

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I go to prepare a place for you.

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And if I go and prepare a place

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for you, I will come again and receive

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you unto myself.

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But where I am, there ye may be

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also.

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And whither I go ye know, and the

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way ye know.

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Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not

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whither thou goest, and how can we know

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the way?

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Jesus saith unto him, I am the way.

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There are not two ways or two hundred

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ways, there's just one.

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I am the way, the truth, the life.

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And no man cometh unto the Father but

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by me.

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If ye had known me, ye should have

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known my Father also.

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And from henceforth ye know him, and have

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seen him.

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Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the

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Father, and it sufficeth us.

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Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so

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long time with you, and yet hast thou

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not known me, Philip?

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He that hath seen me hath seen the

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Father.

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And how sayest thou then, show us the

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Father?

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You've got some of these rascals today, both

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in our pulpits as well as in our

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colleges, denying the Deity of Christ.

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So it's never claimed to be God, that

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he was only divine, the same as any

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human being is divine, so on.

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Well, what are you going to make of

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this?

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He says, Philip, have I been so long

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with time with you, and yet hast thou

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not known me?

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He that hath seen me hath seen the

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Father.

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And how sayest thou then, show us the

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Father?

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You want to know God?

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See Jesus.

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Want to hear God?

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Hear Jesus.

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Want to know what God does?

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See what Jesus does.

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They're one.

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Believest thou not that I am in the

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Father, and the Father in me?

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The words that I speak unto you I

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speak not of myself, but the Father that

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dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

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Believe me that I am in the Father,

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and the Father in me, or else believe

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me for the very work said.

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that

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believeth, he that keeps on believing on me,

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the works that I do shall he do

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also, and greater works than these shall he

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do, because I go to my Father.

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And whatsoever he shall ask in my name,

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that will I do, that the Father may

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be glorified in the Son.

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If ye shall ask anything in my name,

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I will do it.

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If ye love me, keep my commandments, and

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I will pray the Father, and he shall

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give you another comforter, that he may abide

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with you forever.

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Even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world

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cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither

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knoweth him, but ye know him, for he

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dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

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May the Lord bless you with his own

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word.

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You'll not forget, dear friends, to pray for

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the meetings, will you?

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It isn't always possible to get to a

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prayer meeting these busy days, and so much

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to be done.

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But I wonder, could we dinner wherever we

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may be?

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The Lord knows there's no respect to the

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places.

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If you're driving your car along the road

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there, you can be praying away like mad.

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But it says, watch and pray, so keep

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your eyes open when you're at that job

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in the car, or boy, you'll be an

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undertaker for as long as you live.

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But you women there, when you get your

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children away, and you get your manner to

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work, would you not sit down and take

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fifteen minutes to do a bit of praying?

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It'll do your body a whole lot of

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good, it'll do your soul a whole lot

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of good, and it'll bring blessing upon the

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meeting night by night.

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Would you do that?

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Now, you try to do that, you'll find

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the devil begin to get busy.

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Somebody'll be knocking at the door.

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Telephone'll begin to ring.

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The pot'll begin to boil.

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Oh, that dirty pig, he'll be at anything

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to keep you back from praying.

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He'll move earth and hell.

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He'll not get anything wrong, he'll get things

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right.

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But to get the right things, to keep

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you back from praying.

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The devil's not concerned much about preaching, he's

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not concerned much about meetings, but boy, he's

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concerned about praying.

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When the wicked, the wicked sit on his

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knees, that's when the devil begins to tremble.

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And he'll move earth and hell, and he

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can only just keep you and me from

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praying.

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He'll keep us busy about anything.

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We'll talk to our neighbors across the fence

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there, across the hedge, and we'll have a

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nice social time with them, while they'll deny

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that, for at least this week.

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And just give yourself ten or fifteen minutes

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in the morning to prayer.

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When would you do that?

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You men at your work, you can be

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busy with your hands there, and yet you

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can give your heart up to prayer.

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And as we wait upon the Lord, he

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tells us, glory to God, there's no knowing

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what he'll do, if we'd only give him

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half a chance.

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You know, dear friends, before the Lord died,

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he left us a good deal of instruction.

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And a very good many things he gave

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us instruction concerning.

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The largest portion of the instruction was regarding

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the Holy Spirit, what he would do, what

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he would come, and that he would come,

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and what he would do with all his

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followers, and all his believers.

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But he took up the matter of prayer

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too, and he has left us instruction regarding

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prayer.

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You know, when people come to die, or

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imagine they're coming to die, they're very sober.

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Everybody else around them is sober about it.

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And whatever conversation they may be engaged in,

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it'll be a sober thing, a real thing.

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And you couldn't imagine it'd be frivolous or

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untruthful.

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You believe that it'd be sincere and truthful,

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whatever the conversation would be.

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Now, Jesus Christ, before he died, he left

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us instruction regarding the matter of prayer.

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And I want to talk to you while

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this, about this evening, on this matter of

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prayer.

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In John, chapter fourteen, and verse thirteen.

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Now here's what he says.

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Whatsoever ye shall ask, whatsoever ye shall ask,

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in my name, that will I do, that

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the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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Ask anything, ask anything in my name, and

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I'll do it.

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I believe he meant what he said, don't

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you?

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I believe he said what he meant, and

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I believe he knew what he was talking

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about.

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Some people say things they don't know what

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they're talking about.

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But Jesus knew what he was talking about.

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When you take the gospel of John, thirteen,

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fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, these are the final

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farewell words of Jesus before he went out

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to die for us men and for our

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salvation.

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And these words are the words of Jesus

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a few hours before he went out to

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die.

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Whatsoever ye shall ask, whatsoever ye shall ask,

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in my name, I'll do it.

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I'll do it.

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Ask anything, anything, in my name, and I'll

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do it.

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Now some of you are looking at me

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there with the way the schedule of the

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early days.

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Is Jesus Christ a liar?

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Are you questioning his word?

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Whatever ye ask, I'll do it.

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Ask anything, I'll do it.

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It's a lie.

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Is he telling the truth?

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We all say we believe he's telling the

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truth, but is he telling the truth now?

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Whatsoever ye shall ask.

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Now don't boil it down.

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Whatever is just like dosoever.

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Dosoever means everybody and excludes nobody.

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Whatsoever means everything and excludes nothing.

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Whatsoever, whatsoever ye shall ask, I'll do it.

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Ask anything.

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Now don't boil it.

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Anything means anything.

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Whatsoever means whatsoever.

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A fellow gets up to me and says

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he denies the Deity of Christ and denies

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his word that has been infallible and inerrant.

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Well, I feel sorry for that kind of

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a fool.

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But when a fellow tells me he believes

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it and then begins to tell me this

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is something, this means something else, you want

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to watch that rascal.

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Whether he's got a collar turned by the

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back of his neck or a black nightshirt

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on him, watch him.

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That's yours, you know, if he's going to

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pull the wool on you.

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And you hear them saying, well, whatsoever, it

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doesn't mean exactly that, you know.

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It means something else, that dirty liar.

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It's either true or it's a lie.

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And to begin to talk along that line

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is to handle the word of God deceitfully.

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And how many are doing it?

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And then to say, well, you'll get something,

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you'll not get what you ask.

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But he said, whatsoever you ask.

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You'll not get something, you'll get what you

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ask.

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He says, if your son asks bread, will

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he give him a stone?

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If he asks fish, will he give him

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a scorpion?

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If he asks an egg, will he give

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him a snake?

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And if ye, knowing how to give good

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gifts to your children, how much more shall

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your heavenly Father give good gifts to them

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that ask?

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Whatever you ask.

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Now, don't boil it.

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Whatever means whatever.

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Fair shoes, dress on your back, hat on

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your head, a job, healing of your body,

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sanctifying your soul, saving yourself, whatever, whatsoever.

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Don't, don't, don't boil it, whatever you do.

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It means exactly what it says, whatsoever.

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Whatsoever.

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Ask anything, anything, anything.

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He says, I'll do it.

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Well, boys, doesn't look like that in your

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experience.

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Many were experienced, it doesn't.

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And many times have you asked, what did

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you get?

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And many things have you asked for and

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never received.

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That's a problem.

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That's a problem.

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And it's that big a problem that they've

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given up praying in many of the churches

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now.

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Because if you're in church up in Baromino

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there, they have what they don't call the

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prayer, a prayer meet, they say it's a

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meditation.

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And you meditate.

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And you meditate.

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Shall imagine sitting down at the table and

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the wife saying, you're not going to get

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what you're asking, a meal here, and you're

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going to meditate.

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You're not going to pretend to get it,

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you're going to buy a dirt pocket of

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boogers.

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And yet her, I will get it.

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I'll say, oh yes, keep on praying, and

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you'll get something.

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I don't want something.

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When I asked my mother for a, a

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bread, a piece of good fern and jam

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and pop it on it, I didn't want

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a scalpel.

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I wanted a piece of bread.

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Whatsoever you ask, whatsoever you ask, ask anything,

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and I'll do it.

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Well, has that happened in your life?

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He that asketh, findeth.

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He that seeketh, he that knocketh, it'll be

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opened.

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And yet, what a gulf there is between

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that and our own experience along the line

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of prayer.

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And mind you, I'm not talking to about

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unconverted people now.

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I'm talking about those of us who are

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washed in the blood and born of the

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Spirit, I, along this matter.

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Why be given up praying in your life?

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If I asked today, how many of you

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spent ten minutes alone in prayer to rise

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to your feet?

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Boy, I could show you what a desert

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we've got here.

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Ten minutes in prayer.

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I had a brother-in-law, professor and

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a colleague, and when I was running a

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church in Scotland, he had a night of

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prayer once every month.

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Half night of prayer once a week.

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I said, what on earth do you do?

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He said, I never spent a night in

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prayer.

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There are multitudes of the Lord's people, and

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that's what they think about prayer.

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Some kind of a lovely habit.

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Some kind of nice thing.

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Some kind of religious thing.

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But you don't get anywhere.

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You don't get anything.

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So they quit the prayer.

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Wednesday night used to be the church's prayer

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meeting night.

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See what happens now.

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Generally a picture show.

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Maybe a missionary picture show, but it's a

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missionary picture show.

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Maybe a lecture.

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Maybe a Bible reading.

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Anything but prayer.

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Anything but prayer.

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Some of us, when we get into a

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corner and get into trouble, we'll say, well,

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I suppose I could do nothing else but

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pray.

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That's what we think about.

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Now, I'd like to rub a whole lot

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of that in to you, friends.

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I was hearing about a person that was

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preaching one time, and he said lovely things.

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But as I listened, I said, yes, but

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he's not rubbing them in.

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This is Ruth of the Salvation Army.

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She said she believed the Holy Ghost to

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convict, but he expected me to rub it

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at the same time.

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Rub it in.

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Whatsoever you shall ask.

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Whatsoever.

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Whatsoever.

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Do you hear?

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Whatsoever.

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Ask anything.

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Anything.

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And it's yours.

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He says, I'll do it.

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He's either a liar or he's true.

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He means it or he doesn't.

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He can do it or he can't.

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But that's what he says.

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Those were his dying words.

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These disciples were being comforted.

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He was going to leave them.

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And he says, whatsoever you ask.

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Whatsoever you ask.

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In my name, I'll do it.

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Ask anything.

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I'm rubbing it in.

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Ask anything.

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He says, I'll give it to you.

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Well, dear friends, when I was a good

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deal younger than I am now, and when

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I was beginning to preach, that's a long

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time too, I got to the place where

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I was going to quit preaching and praying,

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or else solve this problem.

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I was going to quit this praying and

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praying and praying and praying.

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Nothing happened.

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Or getting anything that you want.

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What's the good of it?

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You're wasting your time.

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Making a fool out of yourself.

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And I wanted to be in an honest

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job, and I couldn't stand as a preacher

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behind the desk and talk about praying and

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praying and didn't believe in it.

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I was honest enough with that.

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Go and earn an honest living.

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But I got a solution.

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And that solution has studied me nearly sixty

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years.

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Reaching up and down the country, nearly every

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country in the world, but twelve times around

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the world.

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Helped me far.

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I believe literally the words of Jesus.

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Whatsoever you shall ask, ask anything, and I'll

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do it.

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Do you notice the sublime simplicity of the

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conditions?

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You get some of these big rich fellows

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that leave a trust, or a fund, or

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a foundation, and boy do you see the

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legal statements that's made and the preface that's

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given to you before the document is read

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out.

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Why you doubt it?

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You have about five lawyers to understand it,

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and then they'll fight like devils for the

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love of God and three judges to see

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what they're going to do.

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Now look, Jesus says, Whatsoever you ask, ask

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anything, and then listen, here's the condition, in

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my name.

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Nine letters, three wee words.

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If you've got enough brains to give you

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a headache, in my name.

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That's the condition.

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Whatsoever you ask, in my name.

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Ask anything, in my name.

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Say, you'll get it.

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In these farewell words, seven times he uses

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that in, in my name.

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That name had never been heard in heaven

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before, ever claimed.

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Something new.

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Something new.

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Jesus Christ has brought something to pass.

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Whatsoever you shall ask, ask anything, in my

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name.

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In my name.

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In my name.

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And I will do it.

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Not a dirty budget, dear friend.

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Not a dirty budget.

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He'll do it.

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Now here's what, here's the solution that I

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have, and have, and that's kept me going.

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What do you mean by a name, in

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my name?

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What do you mean?

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Well, there are three legitimate ways that you

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can use a name.

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Three legitimate ways.

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There is, first of all, the filial way.

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There is, second, the marital way.

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And third, the commercial way.

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Now let us look at it a wee

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quiet.

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The filial way.

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The formal way.

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My name's William Paterson Nicholson.

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Our Mr. Paterson was sixty-six years minister

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of the Trinity Church.

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He baptized me in Bangor here, but the

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last before he passed away.

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And they called me after that old fellow.

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William Paterson Nicholson.

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I'm not here under a non-declune.

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I'm not in Bangor John Jackson and Jimmy

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Thompson when I get down yonder in Belfast.

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Or Billy Morgan or no.

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Everywhere I go, I've got the family name.

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Legitimate name.

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I have a right to it.

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Why?

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I was born in the family.

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How do I know?

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My mother said one day, she says, there's

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your father.

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And I'll tell you something, that seat has

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never brushed about that.

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And I've never seen any fellow stand up

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and challenge that.

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But it didn't begin as a protest.

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I'm not illegitimate.

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I'm well-born.

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And all I have is the word of

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a sinner.

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Saved by grace.

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Godly wee woman, my mother.

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She says, there's your father.

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There's your father.

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Dead sure.

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Well satisfied.

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Family name.

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I've been wandering around the world and spending

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my life in riotous living.

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And I came home.

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Just about a fortnight home.

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And I was sitting there smoking.

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Reading the paper.

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My mother was getting ready for the breakfast.

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And suddenly, suddenly, consciously, powerfully, glory to God

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eternally, I was converted in a moment's time.

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In a moment's time.

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One moment I was a child of the

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devil going to hell.

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And the next moment a child of God,

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and an heir of God in a joint

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deal with Christ.

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Don't look at me.

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I'm telling you God's truth.

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And I became a child of God, and

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I'm in the family.

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And have a right to the name.

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Have a right to the name.

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Tell me, dear friend, is this solving your

537
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:36,860
problem?

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00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,360
Oh God, my Father, oh God in heaven,

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Father, would you help me?

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00:21:41,860 --> 00:21:42,460
Would you do this?

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Would you do that?

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00:21:43,420 --> 00:21:44,180
And nothing's happened.

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00:21:45,020 --> 00:21:45,880
Are you in the family?

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00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,120
Have you been born again?

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If you haven't, you're tugging at the wrong

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skirt.

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You're chopping at the wrong door.

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00:22:02,940 --> 00:22:03,840
God's not your father.

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Oh, I thought God was the father of

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00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:09,000
everything.

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00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:09,960
Oh, not in your life.

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00:22:11,180 --> 00:22:12,340
I'll be down the street there, and a

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wee fellow comes and tugs my shirt, coat

554
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:15,800
tail, and he says, Daddy?

555
00:22:16,060 --> 00:22:17,080
Oh, you brat, you go over there.

556
00:22:17,140 --> 00:22:17,640
I'm not your daddy.

557
00:22:21,460 --> 00:22:23,100
I'm not the daddy of every kid that's

558
00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:23,400
knocked over.

559
00:22:25,820 --> 00:22:27,820
God's not the father of every brat, is

560
00:22:27,820 --> 00:22:27,980
He?

561
00:22:30,380 --> 00:22:30,820
Why is He?

562
00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,010
Isn't God the father?

563
00:22:32,010 --> 00:22:33,090
No, no, no, no.

564
00:22:34,130 --> 00:22:35,490
God's not the father of the dead.

565
00:22:36,890 --> 00:22:39,090
There's not a day, a damn shade in

566
00:22:39,090 --> 00:22:39,410
hell.

567
00:22:41,210 --> 00:22:43,030
And there never will be a damn shade

568
00:22:43,030 --> 00:22:43,450
in hell.

569
00:22:44,950 --> 00:22:46,610
And there's not a shade of God on

570
00:22:46,610 --> 00:22:47,370
the road to hell.

571
00:22:48,790 --> 00:22:50,150
Who's on the road to hell?

572
00:22:50,310 --> 00:22:51,030
Children of the dead.

573
00:22:52,290 --> 00:22:53,370
Who's on the road to hell?

574
00:22:53,550 --> 00:22:54,290
Children of God.

575
00:22:56,850 --> 00:22:57,930
Have you been born again?

576
00:23:01,390 --> 00:23:03,630
It's just as necessary to be born again

577
00:23:03,630 --> 00:23:05,970
to get into God's family as it was

578
00:23:05,970 --> 00:23:07,170
to me to be born to get into

579
00:23:07,170 --> 00:23:08,790
my, into my father and mother's family.

580
00:23:10,470 --> 00:23:11,790
There's no other way but birth.

581
00:23:12,510 --> 00:23:13,350
No substitute.

582
00:23:14,230 --> 00:23:18,170
You can be baptized, catechized, confirmed, vaccinated, eat

583
00:23:18,170 --> 00:23:19,690
fish and fried, and wipe your nose and

584
00:23:19,690 --> 00:23:20,370
say your prayers.

585
00:23:20,550 --> 00:23:21,470
But that doesn't make a difference.

586
00:23:22,570 --> 00:23:24,310
That doesn't change you from one family to

587
00:23:24,310 --> 00:23:24,610
the other.

588
00:23:25,730 --> 00:23:27,390
You may be as upright as those popular.

589
00:23:27,930 --> 00:23:29,570
You may be as clean as a hound's

590
00:23:29,570 --> 00:23:29,770
tooth.

591
00:23:30,310 --> 00:23:32,290
You may be as decent and respectable as

592
00:23:32,290 --> 00:23:33,330
anybody that ever lived.

593
00:23:33,810 --> 00:23:34,930
But that doesn't make you a child of

594
00:23:34,930 --> 00:23:35,090
God.

595
00:23:36,790 --> 00:23:38,150
You can pray like an outpour.

596
00:23:38,830 --> 00:23:40,870
You can be as generous as anybody could

597
00:23:40,870 --> 00:23:41,110
be.

598
00:23:42,190 --> 00:23:43,710
That doesn't make you a child of God.

599
00:23:44,950 --> 00:23:46,270
Have you been born again?

600
00:23:47,830 --> 00:23:52,830
Jesus says ye must, an imperative necessity, ye

601
00:23:52,830 --> 00:23:55,430
must be born again.

602
00:23:56,410 --> 00:23:57,250
Born again.

603
00:23:58,210 --> 00:24:00,730
And when you're born again, then of course,

604
00:24:01,270 --> 00:24:01,910
you're in the family.

605
00:24:02,350 --> 00:24:03,550
You've got God as your father.

606
00:24:04,490 --> 00:24:06,730
Jesus Christ as your savior and elder brother,

607
00:24:07,090 --> 00:24:10,450
and comforter as a sanctifier and guiding friend.

608
00:24:11,310 --> 00:24:11,970
You're in the family.

609
00:24:13,510 --> 00:24:15,390
I want to make that clear, dear friends.

610
00:24:16,510 --> 00:24:17,910
There's a queer lot of people and they're

611
00:24:17,910 --> 00:24:18,790
going to hell, don't they?

612
00:24:20,310 --> 00:24:21,690
There's a queer lot of people and they're

613
00:24:21,690 --> 00:24:22,790
out to hell and think they're going to

614
00:24:22,790 --> 00:24:26,730
hell just because they're respectable and decent in

615
00:24:26,730 --> 00:24:27,930
church and all the rest of it?

616
00:24:28,330 --> 00:24:28,670
No, no.

617
00:24:29,710 --> 00:24:32,750
Jesus said many will say unto me in

618
00:24:32,750 --> 00:24:37,150
that day, Lord, now listen, we have preached

619
00:24:37,150 --> 00:24:37,870
in thy name.

620
00:24:40,530 --> 00:24:41,790
Do you mean to tell me every preacher

621
00:24:41,790 --> 00:24:42,390
goes to hell?

622
00:24:42,610 --> 00:24:44,010
He does if he's not born again.

623
00:24:45,650 --> 00:24:47,770
And Jesus says there's many of them not

624
00:24:47,770 --> 00:24:48,330
born again.

625
00:24:48,950 --> 00:24:51,490
But they're using the name, preaching in the

626
00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:51,730
name.

627
00:24:53,430 --> 00:25:01,590
Orthodox Presbyterians, good Baptists, fine Lutherans, Episcopalians, Roman

628
00:25:01,590 --> 00:25:03,850
Catholic Jews or Gentiles, fine!

629
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:07,500
But you see they're not in the name.

630
00:25:07,780 --> 00:25:08,700
They're not in the family.

631
00:25:09,540 --> 00:25:14,880
Many, many, says Jesus, many, from a pulpit

632
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,240
to the pit, from the church to the

633
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,440
caverns of the ground, from the psalm singing

634
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,420
to the weeping and the wailing and the

635
00:25:23,420 --> 00:25:24,080
gnashing of teeth.

636
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,120
That's a terrible thing, isn't it?

637
00:25:27,820 --> 00:25:29,360
So are you born again, dear friends?

638
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,160
You've been born of God-fearing parents?

639
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,220
You've been baptized in the covenant grace?

640
00:25:36,020 --> 00:25:37,260
You've been brought up in at least a

641
00:25:37,260 --> 00:25:38,560
respectable religious way?

642
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,860
You've joined church, Sunday school, choir member?

643
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:43,340
Oh, fine.

644
00:25:44,140 --> 00:25:45,760
An elder or a deacon of the church?

645
00:25:46,020 --> 00:25:46,220
Pillar?

646
00:25:46,220 --> 00:25:47,640
Aye, but a caterpillar.

647
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:55,080
Never been born again, never been saved, never

648
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:55,660
been converted.

649
00:25:56,740 --> 00:25:58,620
I was holding a meeting in the Presbyterian

650
00:25:58,620 --> 00:26:00,460
church in White Inch in Glasgow one time,

651
00:26:01,420 --> 00:26:03,240
and in the after-meeting I noticed a

652
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,940
lady there was being dealt with by some

653
00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:06,260
of the workers, which was in a terrible

654
00:26:06,260 --> 00:26:07,100
hysterical way.

655
00:26:08,540 --> 00:26:10,180
And after a while I stepped up and

656
00:26:10,180 --> 00:26:12,380
I said, if you just stay to the

657
00:26:12,380 --> 00:26:14,140
one side and pray, I'll have a wee

658
00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:14,440
word.

659
00:26:15,380 --> 00:26:17,220
And I took her hand and comforted her

660
00:26:17,220 --> 00:26:18,560
and said, ma'am, I'm awful sorry for

661
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:18,700
you.

662
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,620
Must have been some terrible tragedy in your

663
00:26:21,620 --> 00:26:23,040
life that has made you feel like this.

664
00:26:24,020 --> 00:26:25,120
I'm awful sorry for you.

665
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:26,460
I'd like to help you.

666
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,520
She quietened down a wee bit.

667
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,320
Says, aye, could you tell me what's wrong?

668
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,360
Oh, she said, I've quit going to church.

669
00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:34,320
Aye, I'm sure you have.

670
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,240
So would I if I was in your

671
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:35,500
shoes.

672
00:26:36,980 --> 00:26:37,660
I've quit praying.

673
00:26:37,780 --> 00:26:38,920
Oh, says I, I know.

674
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:40,440
I feel about that too.

675
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:42,700
I don't believe anymore.

676
00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:44,460
And I indeed says, I'm sure you don't.

677
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,300
I just would feel that way if what

678
00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:49,580
you had, what I'll hear about, I just

679
00:26:49,580 --> 00:26:50,260
feel the same way.

680
00:26:51,540 --> 00:26:52,380
Says, what was it?

681
00:26:53,740 --> 00:26:54,760
It was in the first war.

682
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:55,800
She was a widow.

683
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:57,760
She had only one boy.

684
00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:00,460
And he was got in a draft.

685
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,000
Nearly broke her heart.

686
00:27:04,620 --> 00:27:09,270
When he left the home that morning, she

687
00:27:09,270 --> 00:27:10,550
got back in there.

688
00:27:10,750 --> 00:27:12,510
And after a while, she just, she said,

689
00:27:12,630 --> 00:27:14,150
accidentally opened the Bible.

690
00:27:16,430 --> 00:27:17,810
And she came across these verses.

691
00:27:19,290 --> 00:27:22,390
Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that

692
00:27:22,390 --> 00:27:22,910
will I do.

693
00:27:24,210 --> 00:27:26,970
Ask anything in my name, I'll do it.

694
00:27:27,990 --> 00:27:30,410
Says, Father, I trust you for that.

695
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,840
She said, he's dead and buried in France.

696
00:27:38,990 --> 00:27:40,570
Says, I sister, will you tell me something?

697
00:27:41,970 --> 00:27:43,010
Were you ever converted?

698
00:27:45,270 --> 00:27:46,050
Are you saved?

699
00:27:47,470 --> 00:27:48,810
Have you been born again?

700
00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:52,210
No, she couldn't say that.

701
00:27:53,470 --> 00:27:54,430
I'm a church member.

702
00:27:55,810 --> 00:27:56,510
Same affairs.

703
00:27:57,810 --> 00:27:58,970
Says, who are you praying to?

704
00:27:59,790 --> 00:28:00,950
Our Father in heaven.

705
00:28:01,370 --> 00:28:01,990
Oh, no.

706
00:28:03,370 --> 00:28:04,810
Your Father's not in heaven.

707
00:28:06,450 --> 00:28:07,830
Says, your Father's the Old Devil.

708
00:28:08,970 --> 00:28:09,790
Not God.

709
00:28:11,030 --> 00:28:13,310
Well, why says isn't God the Father of

710
00:28:13,310 --> 00:28:13,490
everything?

711
00:28:13,490 --> 00:28:14,510
Oh, no, no.

712
00:28:15,530 --> 00:28:16,330
Oh, no.

713
00:28:17,070 --> 00:28:19,010
God's not the Father of cats and dogs

714
00:28:19,010 --> 00:28:22,150
and pigs and cows and horses and fleas

715
00:28:22,150 --> 00:28:22,570
and bugs.

716
00:28:22,650 --> 00:28:22,850
No.

717
00:28:23,110 --> 00:28:23,650
He's not that.

718
00:28:26,290 --> 00:28:27,270
He's the Creator.

719
00:28:29,030 --> 00:28:30,810
He's the Creator of everybody.

720
00:28:31,970 --> 00:28:33,750
But He's not the Father of everybody.

721
00:28:34,850 --> 00:28:36,650
He's only the Father of those who are

722
00:28:36,650 --> 00:28:37,210
born again.

723
00:28:38,290 --> 00:28:40,490
Have been converted by faith in Jesus Christ.

724
00:28:42,230 --> 00:28:44,550
And sister, maybe that's where your problem's been.

725
00:28:44,550 --> 00:28:46,490
Oh, I've prayed and prayed.

726
00:28:46,610 --> 00:28:47,350
What's the good of it?

727
00:28:47,770 --> 00:28:49,350
I don't go to a prayer meeting anymore.

728
00:28:49,910 --> 00:28:52,050
I don't bother my head friend.

729
00:28:52,430 --> 00:28:54,050
I may be put through a wee bit

730
00:28:54,050 --> 00:28:56,330
of a down again, but guidance, nothing, nothing

731
00:28:56,330 --> 00:28:56,790
to it.

732
00:28:57,930 --> 00:28:59,330
Does this solve your problem?

733
00:28:59,470 --> 00:29:00,270
Have you ever been saved?

734
00:29:01,710 --> 00:29:03,270
Are you a converted woman or a man?

735
00:29:04,690 --> 00:29:05,690
Are you born again?

736
00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:08,350
You couldn't be born again and not know

737
00:29:08,350 --> 00:29:08,470
it.

738
00:29:09,470 --> 00:29:11,170
You couldn't be saved and not know it.

739
00:29:12,110 --> 00:29:13,930
If you don't know or not sure, you

740
00:29:13,930 --> 00:29:15,230
can be dead sure that you're not.

741
00:29:16,630 --> 00:29:18,250
But thank God you can be born again

742
00:29:18,250 --> 00:29:22,290
suddenly and leave the family of the dead

743
00:29:22,290 --> 00:29:25,590
and instantaneously become a child of God.

744
00:29:26,310 --> 00:29:28,230
So that this very minute you can look

745
00:29:28,230 --> 00:29:31,470
up and say, My Father, My Father, which

746
00:29:31,470 --> 00:29:31,990
art in heaven.

747
00:29:32,970 --> 00:29:34,370
Give a legitimate use to the name.

748
00:29:36,540 --> 00:29:38,520
Supposing Brother Flanagan and I had a business

749
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,660
together and we were partners together in a

750
00:29:41,660 --> 00:29:41,960
business.

751
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,000
I don't know what it would be, but

752
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,800
supposing, we'll suppose that that has happened.

753
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,140
I'd go to my lawyer and say, Lawyer,

754
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:49,040
I've got a partner.

755
00:29:49,180 --> 00:29:50,460
I'm going to enter into business with a

756
00:29:50,460 --> 00:29:51,260
partner called Flanagan.

757
00:29:53,850 --> 00:29:55,690
And I want you to, I want you

758
00:29:55,690 --> 00:29:58,050
to get a, a document here that'll tie

759
00:29:58,050 --> 00:29:59,530
him up, just tie him up well.

760
00:30:00,070 --> 00:30:02,990
And that my interest will be safeguarded as

761
00:30:02,990 --> 00:30:03,390
a result.

762
00:30:03,390 --> 00:30:05,690
So Flanagan goes to his lawyer and he

763
00:30:05,690 --> 00:30:07,750
says, This fellow Nicholson here, we're going to

764
00:30:07,750 --> 00:30:09,590
have a partnership together and boy, I'll need

765
00:30:09,590 --> 00:30:09,910
a wife.

766
00:30:10,570 --> 00:30:11,610
And so I want you to bring up

767
00:30:11,610 --> 00:30:14,890
a deed, a deed that'll safeguard my interest.

768
00:30:15,650 --> 00:30:17,690
Well, the time comes whenever we get together

769
00:30:17,690 --> 00:30:18,130
the photos.

770
00:30:18,810 --> 00:30:20,670
Lawyer here, lawyer there, Flanagan there and me

771
00:30:20,670 --> 00:30:20,910
here.

772
00:30:21,830 --> 00:30:23,670
And they'll read my, what I want.

773
00:30:24,670 --> 00:30:27,110
And so it's either corrected or accepted.

774
00:30:27,910 --> 00:30:31,150
Flanagan has his read and corrected or accepted.

775
00:30:50,670 --> 00:30:53,530
All right, that out of the two they

776
00:30:53,530 --> 00:30:56,330
get, they get a deed of partnership.

777
00:30:57,190 --> 00:30:58,570
Sign the dotted line.

778
00:30:59,570 --> 00:31:01,530
Now there's where the business will be done.

779
00:31:02,390 --> 00:31:04,510
And we get on fine and, and they,

780
00:31:04,850 --> 00:31:07,650
they, things are prospering well in the way.

781
00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:10,350
And then by and by Flanagan gets kind

782
00:31:10,350 --> 00:31:11,450
of what they call spring fever.

783
00:31:13,290 --> 00:31:15,330
And he says, I'm going out for a

784
00:31:15,330 --> 00:31:15,770
bit of fishing.

785
00:31:16,570 --> 00:31:19,750
Going up the mountains to have some recreation

786
00:31:19,750 --> 00:31:20,690
and rest.

787
00:31:23,430 --> 00:31:24,870
That wasn't in the deed manual.

788
00:31:26,290 --> 00:31:28,610
And by and by I, checks come back

789
00:31:28,610 --> 00:31:29,110
from Flanagan.

790
00:31:30,290 --> 00:31:31,270
He wants money.

791
00:31:32,610 --> 00:31:34,370
I'm sweating and working away at the business.

792
00:31:35,110 --> 00:31:39,710
Flanagan's working away at the fishing, getting money

793
00:31:39,710 --> 00:31:40,430
to keep him going.

794
00:31:41,410 --> 00:31:43,270
And then I get tired and I say

795
00:31:43,270 --> 00:31:45,710
to myself, bless my heart, this is not,

796
00:31:45,770 --> 00:31:47,050
this is not what's in the deed.

797
00:31:48,110 --> 00:31:49,510
And so I go to the lawyer and

798
00:31:49,510 --> 00:31:51,990
I say, lawyer, I want you to go

799
00:31:51,990 --> 00:31:54,410
and get a, an injunction against my partner.

800
00:31:55,990 --> 00:31:58,150
And stop his getting any benefit out of

801
00:31:58,150 --> 00:31:58,570
his business.

802
00:31:59,890 --> 00:32:02,170
So the lawyer goes to the judge and

803
00:32:02,170 --> 00:32:05,510
the judge listens, says, right, in comes the

804
00:32:05,510 --> 00:32:05,910
injunction.

805
00:32:06,930 --> 00:32:09,430
Now Flanagan may sign all the checks he

806
00:32:09,430 --> 00:32:11,230
likes, but he can't get a penny out

807
00:32:11,230 --> 00:32:11,650
of that firm.

808
00:32:12,710 --> 00:32:13,590
The injunction's there.

809
00:32:14,710 --> 00:32:17,010
He's violated the deed of partnership.

810
00:32:18,350 --> 00:32:24,930
Friend, God has a big work on hand.

811
00:32:25,890 --> 00:32:26,730
A big work.

812
00:32:27,910 --> 00:32:31,990
And he has got a company unlimited in

813
00:32:31,990 --> 00:32:34,350
this world to carry out that work.

814
00:32:36,550 --> 00:32:38,630
And you and I are made partners.

815
00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:41,190
We're partners with God.

816
00:32:43,150 --> 00:32:46,330
Not only a child of God, not only

817
00:32:46,330 --> 00:32:51,090
the bride of Christ, but a partner in

818
00:32:51,090 --> 00:32:52,130
God's big business.

819
00:32:53,570 --> 00:32:54,470
And that is the church.

820
00:32:54,930 --> 00:32:55,990
When I speak of the church, I'm not

821
00:32:55,990 --> 00:32:58,410
talking about Church of England or John or

822
00:32:58,410 --> 00:32:59,350
Presbyterian of Athens.

823
00:32:59,530 --> 00:33:00,550
I'm talking about born again people.

824
00:33:00,550 --> 00:33:02,670
Wherever they assemble together.

825
00:33:03,270 --> 00:33:05,030
Whatever they are, church.

826
00:33:06,570 --> 00:33:08,230
And I'm a partner with God in this

827
00:33:08,230 --> 00:33:09,810
big business that God has in hand.

828
00:33:11,190 --> 00:33:14,310
Saving men and women, blessing men and women,

829
00:33:15,250 --> 00:33:16,950
hastening unto the coming of Jesus Christ.

830
00:33:19,810 --> 00:33:21,910
Well, I get tired of that.

831
00:33:22,810 --> 00:33:24,910
Don't like teaching Sunday school anymore.

832
00:33:25,930 --> 00:33:27,290
Get tired of the choir.

833
00:33:28,570 --> 00:33:30,990
Get tired of an officer, been an officer

834
00:33:30,990 --> 00:33:31,670
in the church.

835
00:33:32,910 --> 00:33:35,510
Don't mind been an officer in the Masonic

836
00:33:35,510 --> 00:33:38,870
Lodge or something else, but the church is

837
00:33:38,870 --> 00:33:40,250
getting tired of it anyhow.

838
00:33:40,850 --> 00:33:42,470
And so we're not in the business.

839
00:33:43,610 --> 00:33:44,910
We're not doing anything.

840
00:33:45,630 --> 00:33:46,790
In God's business.

841
00:33:48,250 --> 00:33:50,350
And you imagine poor old God's got to

842
00:33:50,350 --> 00:33:50,770
get that.

843
00:33:51,730 --> 00:33:52,450
To take that.

844
00:33:53,670 --> 00:33:55,110
And he's got to work for he said

845
00:33:55,110 --> 00:33:57,630
to Jesus, my Father worketh and so do

846
00:33:57,630 --> 00:33:57,950
I.

847
00:33:58,990 --> 00:34:00,130
God's a working God.

848
00:34:01,110 --> 00:34:03,150
And you and I are partners with him.

849
00:34:03,830 --> 00:34:05,030
But we've got tired.

850
00:34:06,170 --> 00:34:07,830
Or maybe we've got kind of disgusted.

851
00:34:08,670 --> 00:34:11,469
Or maybe we've got annoyed at God for

852
00:34:11,469 --> 00:34:12,610
the way God does things.

853
00:34:12,909 --> 00:34:13,690
And we've quit.

854
00:34:14,570 --> 00:34:16,370
And still you expect to get the benefit.

855
00:34:18,620 --> 00:34:20,300
Just as truly as you and I could

856
00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:24,040
be wise about commercial things, God's as wise

857
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:24,900
as you and me anyhow.

858
00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:27,840
And you can pray to the crack of

859
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,699
doom, brother, but when you get busy again

860
00:34:30,699 --> 00:34:33,000
for God, you'll be able to get something

861
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:33,980
from him, but not to him.

862
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:40,980
Seek first, not second, not third.

863
00:34:42,139 --> 00:34:46,500
Seek first the kingdom of God and all

864
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:48,280
these things shall be out of thee.

865
00:34:51,110 --> 00:34:55,250
But you see, oh, well, I don't see

866
00:34:55,250 --> 00:34:56,830
that I should do this and this, that

867
00:34:56,830 --> 00:34:57,930
and the other for the Lord.

868
00:34:58,650 --> 00:35:00,730
Don't like to take too much bother or

869
00:35:00,730 --> 00:35:02,810
if it doesn't hurt me or doesn't interfere

870
00:35:02,810 --> 00:35:04,510
with anything, I might think about it, but

871
00:35:04,510 --> 00:35:06,650
just, and then we expect God to answer

872
00:35:06,650 --> 00:35:07,070
your prayer.

873
00:35:07,070 --> 00:35:08,730
Ah, no, dear friend.

874
00:35:09,670 --> 00:35:12,670
If you'll get busy, if you'll take the

875
00:35:12,670 --> 00:35:15,610
yoke, come unto me all ye that labor

876
00:35:15,610 --> 00:35:16,430
and are heavy laden.

877
00:35:16,970 --> 00:35:19,030
I will give you rest, but take my

878
00:35:19,030 --> 00:35:22,150
yoke upon you and learn of me, and

879
00:35:22,150 --> 00:35:26,290
you'll find, you'll find what you seek, what

880
00:35:26,290 --> 00:35:28,950
you ask for you'll get, what you seek

881
00:35:28,950 --> 00:35:29,550
for you'll find.

882
00:35:31,530 --> 00:35:34,330
Tell me, dear friends, does this solve any

883
00:35:34,330 --> 00:35:36,070
of your problem of worthless praying thing?

884
00:35:36,250 --> 00:35:36,890
It has for me.

885
00:35:38,770 --> 00:35:40,530
I've never known a man or woman that

886
00:35:40,530 --> 00:35:42,250
was a child of God by faith in

887
00:35:42,250 --> 00:35:45,010
Christ, the bride of Christ and active in

888
00:35:45,010 --> 00:35:46,650
the work of God that didn't pray and

889
00:35:46,650 --> 00:35:51,510
get the answer, that didn't ask and receive,

890
00:35:52,430 --> 00:35:56,470
seek and find, knock and it shall be

891
00:35:56,470 --> 00:35:56,730
opened.

892
00:35:58,210 --> 00:36:01,510
But if we're not doing these, well, we

893
00:36:01,510 --> 00:36:03,250
can't expect God to answer, can we?

894
00:36:05,270 --> 00:36:08,630
Just a word in closing, he doesn't say

895
00:36:08,630 --> 00:36:12,010
how, how he'll answer you.

896
00:36:13,170 --> 00:36:14,110
Well, you mean that?

897
00:36:15,910 --> 00:36:17,350
Some of us think that we know better

898
00:36:17,350 --> 00:36:19,770
than God and we ask God for a

899
00:36:19,770 --> 00:36:23,410
particular thing and we tell God how it's

900
00:36:23,410 --> 00:36:23,970
got to be done.

901
00:36:25,010 --> 00:36:26,230
How it's got to be done.

902
00:36:26,450 --> 00:36:26,950
Can't do that.

903
00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:34,540
God will arrange you but to how, and

904
00:36:34,540 --> 00:36:36,600
God will arrange us to how it's done.

905
00:36:38,580 --> 00:36:40,020
But you see, so many of us, we

906
00:36:40,020 --> 00:36:41,680
just think that God's got to do it

907
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,160
along our way for our peculiar notions.

908
00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:45,960
No, got to leave that to God.

909
00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:50,560
Second, when will he do it?

910
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:51,180
I don't know.

911
00:36:52,740 --> 00:36:53,340
I don't know.

912
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,980
You can't put your fist under God's nose

913
00:36:56,980 --> 00:36:59,260
and say, Lord, I demand immediately.

914
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:00,280
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

915
00:37:02,930 --> 00:37:07,450
Jesus Christ said, if it's possible for this

916
00:37:07,450 --> 00:37:11,210
cup to pass from me, Father, but not

917
00:37:11,210 --> 00:37:14,390
my will, but thy will be done.

918
00:37:15,790 --> 00:37:17,670
You've always got to seek God's will about

919
00:37:17,670 --> 00:37:18,010
the matter.

920
00:37:19,250 --> 00:37:22,230
He knows when it should be done and

921
00:37:22,230 --> 00:37:24,550
he knows how it should be done.

922
00:37:25,510 --> 00:37:28,050
We mustn't be impertinent and begin to tell

923
00:37:28,050 --> 00:37:31,370
God when and how, but assure if you

924
00:37:31,370 --> 00:37:33,250
and I are children of God by faith

925
00:37:33,250 --> 00:37:35,950
in Christ, we are really the bride of

926
00:37:35,950 --> 00:37:39,010
Christ and true to our vows, seeking to

927
00:37:39,010 --> 00:37:40,850
serve the Lord and serving him day by

928
00:37:40,850 --> 00:37:44,210
day, whatsoever ye shall ask.

929
00:37:45,410 --> 00:37:46,290
Ask anything.

930
00:37:46,990 --> 00:37:47,350
When?

931
00:37:48,270 --> 00:37:49,150
That's what's up to God.

932
00:37:49,950 --> 00:37:50,290
How?

933
00:37:50,630 --> 00:37:51,370
That's up to God.

934
00:37:52,450 --> 00:37:53,170
Do you see that?

935
00:37:53,850 --> 00:37:55,130
He can leave it in his hand.

936
00:37:56,030 --> 00:37:58,870
He'll not be an hour too late and

937
00:37:58,870 --> 00:38:00,310
he'll not do anything that's wrong.

938
00:38:01,470 --> 00:38:02,730
It'll be for our good.

939
00:38:02,730 --> 00:38:07,070
God working all things together for our good

940
00:38:07,070 --> 00:38:11,210
because we love him and it's according to

941
00:38:11,210 --> 00:38:11,930
his purpose.

942
00:38:12,670 --> 00:38:14,810
It's according to his purpose.

943
00:38:15,950 --> 00:38:16,990
He has a plan.

944
00:38:17,790 --> 00:38:20,670
He is the architect and he's working for

945
00:38:20,670 --> 00:38:21,770
your good and mine.

946
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:25,450
We're in the will of God and he's

947
00:38:25,450 --> 00:38:27,930
doing it in his own way, in his

948
00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:31,510
own time, and as to how, he knows

949
00:38:31,510 --> 00:38:31,870
best.

950
00:38:33,490 --> 00:38:35,410
I came across these words, listen.

951
00:38:37,250 --> 00:38:40,690
Unanswered yet, the prayer your lips have pleaded

952
00:38:40,690 --> 00:38:42,710
in agony of heart these many years?

953
00:38:43,430 --> 00:38:45,450
Does faith begin to fail?

954
00:38:46,270 --> 00:38:49,570
Is hope departing and think you all in

955
00:38:49,570 --> 00:38:51,870
vain, those falling tears?

956
00:38:53,090 --> 00:38:55,650
Say not the Father hath not heard your

957
00:38:55,650 --> 00:38:56,030
prayer.

958
00:38:56,850 --> 00:39:01,510
You shall have your desire, sometime, somewhere.

959
00:39:03,090 --> 00:39:06,850
Unanswered yet, though when you first presented this

960
00:39:06,850 --> 00:39:10,170
one petition at the Father's throne, it seemed

961
00:39:10,170 --> 00:39:12,010
you could not wait the time of asking,

962
00:39:12,450 --> 00:39:14,250
so urgent was your heart to make it

963
00:39:14,250 --> 00:39:14,510
known.

964
00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:19,130
Though years have passed since then, do not

965
00:39:19,130 --> 00:39:19,630
despair.

966
00:39:20,630 --> 00:39:25,590
The Lord will answer you, sometime, somewhere.

967
00:39:27,670 --> 00:39:32,390
Unanswered yet, yea, nay, do not say ungranted.

968
00:39:33,410 --> 00:39:35,630
Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done.

969
00:39:36,690 --> 00:39:39,050
The work began when first your prayer was

970
00:39:39,050 --> 00:39:43,290
uttered, and God will finish what he has

971
00:39:43,290 --> 00:39:43,710
begun.

972
00:39:44,610 --> 00:39:47,050
If you will keep the incense burning there,

973
00:39:47,710 --> 00:39:52,590
his glory you shall see, sometime, somewhere.

974
00:39:53,490 --> 00:39:57,230
Unanswered yet, faith cannot be unanswered.

975
00:39:57,910 --> 00:39:59,930
Her feet are firmly planted on the rock.

976
00:40:00,770 --> 00:40:04,310
Amid the whitest storm she stands undaunted, nor

977
00:40:04,310 --> 00:40:06,570
quails before the loudest thundershock.

978
00:40:07,370 --> 00:40:11,150
She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer, and

979
00:40:11,150 --> 00:40:16,910
Christ, it shall be done, sometime, somewhere.

980
00:40:17,710 --> 00:40:19,130
Not a doubter with you, friend.

981
00:40:19,990 --> 00:40:21,690
As the Lord has blessed me in this

982
00:40:21,690 --> 00:40:23,930
that I have been telling you, may it

983
00:40:23,930 --> 00:40:25,430
be a blessing to many of you here,

984
00:40:26,250 --> 00:40:28,810
that this problem of prayer has been a

985
00:40:28,810 --> 00:40:30,210
problem in your life in the past.

986
00:40:30,210 --> 00:40:34,190
We'll sing a wee verse together, and I

987
00:40:34,190 --> 00:40:35,330
want you to sing it with all your

988
00:40:35,330 --> 00:40:35,710
heart.

989
00:40:37,330 --> 00:40:39,490
Number 559.

990
00:40:41,030 --> 00:40:45,010
559, and you sister at the piano there,

991
00:40:46,510 --> 00:40:48,270
give us a tune 455.

992
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:08,420
What a privilege to carry everything, everything to

993
00:41:08,420 --> 00:41:09,120
God in prayer.

994
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:10,080
Now we'll sing.

995
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:28,080
What a friend we have in Jesus, our

996
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,140
King and King to bear.

997
00:43:06,430 --> 00:43:07,430
We'll sing the first verse.

998
00:43:20,730 --> 00:43:22,350
The ushers will take the chairs out of

999
00:43:22,350 --> 00:43:22,610
the aisle.

1000
00:43:32,890 --> 00:43:33,370
Is that alright?

1001
00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:34,550
I'll trust you.

1002
00:43:34,830 --> 00:43:36,390
Shall we all rise then, and we'll sing

1003
00:43:36,390 --> 00:43:37,190
this first verse.

1004
00:43:37,670 --> 00:43:40,850
First verse, nobody lean, and ushers lift your

1005
00:43:40,850 --> 00:43:43,030
chairs as quick as you can, and send

1006
00:43:43,030 --> 00:43:43,570
them right down.

1007
00:43:43,630 --> 00:43:44,150
Would you do that?