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I want you to turn, if you have

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your Bible, to the book of Luke.

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Gospel as Luke gives it.

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I take two selections from, two selections from

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that book.

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Luke 1, 5.

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There was in the days of Herod the

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king of Judea a certain priest named Zechariah

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of the course of Abiah.

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His wife was of the daughter of Aaron,

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and her name was Elizabeth.

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And they were both righteous before God, walking

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in all commandments and ordinances of the Lord

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blameless.

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And they were, well, both well fitten in

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years.

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Then in the second chapter, beginning with verse

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25, And behold, there was a man in

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Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon.

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The same man was just and devout, waiting

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for the consolation of Israel.

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And the Holy Ghost was upon him.

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And it was revealed unto him by the

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Holy Ghost that he should not see death

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before he had seen the Lord Christ.

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And he came by the Spirit into the

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temple, and when the parents brought in the

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child Jesus to do for him after the

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custom of the law, then he put him

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up in his arms and blessed God, and

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said, Lord, now let us bow thy servants

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at heart and feet according to thy word.

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For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which

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thou hast prepared before the face of all

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people.

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Delight the likeness of Gentiles in the glory

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of my people ever.

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And skipping to verse 36, And there was

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one Anna.

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In other words, if you take the H

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off the front and the H off the

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back, you have a Hannah.

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So put it on here, and if you

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take them off, you have Anna.

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There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter

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of Samuel, of the tribe of Asa.

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She was of a great age, and had

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lived with her husband seven years from her

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virginity, and she was a widow for about

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four score and four years.

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She departed not from the temple, but served

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God with fastings and prayers night and day.

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And she came in that when she did,

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parents likewise, unto the Lord, and spake of

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him to all them that looked for redemption

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in Israel.

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Now, I'm going to do a very unorthodox

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thing.

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I'm going to ignore young people and talk

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to older people.

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There are three cults abroad in the land.

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There are the cult of feminism, the cult

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of laymanism, and the cult of youthism.

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They're all cults, and they're all in Scripture.

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But in order to get along with friends

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and influence people, you're supposed to blow your

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nose like a trumpet and tell about the

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fine young people.

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They're just like all the other young people

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since Adam's time.

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No better, no worse, about average.

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And as for knowing anything, the average young

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person doesn't know too much.

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But when we get over this youthism cult,

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get back to Bible principles.

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For people went to church together.

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They didn't separate the old from the young,

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didn't ask how old they were and demand

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their birth certificate before you know where they

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were allowed to pray.

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But everybody worshiped God together, and I think

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we need to get back to that.

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And any of you young people that may

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be listening to me, now if you get

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mad, you'll only have to repent and come

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and ask me to forgive you, or you

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might just as well shut up and be

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quiet.

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But I'll tell you something, you desperately need

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the older people.

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And I don't say that because I'm now

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getting older, because I've taught that ever since

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I was old enough to hold a Bible.

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But I want to share with you what

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my life has discovered about these four old

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friends of God.

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There were some old friends of God, four

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of them.

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I've talked briefly this afternoon, although I promise

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you it'll be quite long, about these four

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old friends.

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Well, who they were walking with God.

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It was Zachariah and his wife Elizabeth.

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Now, we think of it as being hard

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to live for God in times like these.

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But I want you to know that God

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never missed a lounge for evil times.

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And my guess is we ought to stop

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kidding ourselves and say, if I had lived

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in the days of Christ, I'd have been

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a good Christian.

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But I can't live now for Christ, this

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day of television, jet airplanes, and culture.

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I can't do it.

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If I'd lived in the days of the

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prophets, I should have.

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But let me tell you that God never

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missed any lounge for evil times.

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In the Old Testament days, the greatest souls

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were the ones who came up out of

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the worst form.

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You couldn't think of any worse time than

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Enoch would have been, and yet Enoch walked

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with God and was not the God chosen.

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Then there was Noah, and Noah, as the

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times got so bad and corrupt that God

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had destroyed the world, and Noah lived like

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shame, and yet Noah found grace and God's

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trust.

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Then there was Abraham, and look at his

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time.

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There was no revelation, no Bible, no hymn

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book, no church, no prophet, no preacher, no

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evangelist, no anything.

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And here up in Ur of the Chaldees,

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as tradition says, Abraham was an idol-maker,

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and yet the Spirit of God spoke to

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Abraham.

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He came true and became the father of

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the faithful.

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Hands don't make men good, but God does

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make men good.

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Hands just provide the chance to send out

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the people.

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Well, and there was Moses.

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You know the rotten time that Moses lived

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in, and how God blessed him, and Elijah,

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that terrible period when they had that wicked

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king and that more wicked wife of his,

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Jezebel.

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And then there was Elijah, and Elijah was

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the good God put into heaven in the

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chair of fire.

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Now, let nobody be discouraged about these times

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in which we live, and don't let anybody

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excuse themselves for living a shoddy Christian life

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in times like these, because we are not

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living in times anyhow, we're living in God.

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We've got to live on supper.

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I don't know whether you've ever heard him,

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he's gone to heaven long, but he used

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to say that no Christian ever ought to

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live under the circumstances.

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The Christians ought to live, maybe in the

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middle of them, but they ought to live

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on top of them.

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But we're saying they live in the circumstances

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or under the circumstances.

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Well, look at the times they had.

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There was Herod the king.

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He was king of Judea, and Israel was

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an occupied country, and the religion of Israel

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was at a low ebb.

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It was divided between the Athenians and the

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Pharisees and the Sadducees, and there was a

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corrupt priesthood, and there was nothing good, nothing

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to encourage anybody.

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The priests were all rotten, and yet here

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were four old men and women walking around

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on the earth just waiting to go.

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God's dear old friends.

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And here they were, here were these two

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now, Zechariah and Elizabeth, and they had saved

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the corruption which is in the world by

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love, and they had stayed faithful in a

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mess of unbelievers.

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And they were both righteous before God.

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Don't let any good fundamentalist hear me say

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that, because he's a tall ship that can

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be brought through with a pail of water,

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because nowadays you're not supposed to say anybody's

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righteous.

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But God said these two were righteous before

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God, walking in all the commandments of God's

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blameless.

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Now, these are comparable times in which we

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live.

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They're pretty bad times.

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Nobody except the liberal would say anything else,

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except they're anything but good times.

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Wicked men are God in the earth, and

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here's what he lives in, and all this

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revival on they say.

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And there are four dumb people who say

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that those that leave are revival times.

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You know Buddhism is having a revival?

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Baha'ism is having a revival?

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Mohammedanism is having a revival?

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Shintoism is having a revival?

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Animism is having a revival?

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Judaism is having a revival?

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And the Roman Catholic Church is having a

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revival?

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If, by a revival, you mean a greatly

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stepped-up interest in religion, all religions of

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the world are having a revival partly because

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they can afford it.

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You know, when times get bad, Christianity languishes

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because we can't afford to carry it on.

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We can't have the big campaigns.

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Nothing will cure a big campaign quicker than

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depression.

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A lot of people that are out, you

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know, they're the modern thingy, but just let

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depression come and they'll collapse overnight because it's

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the good money that's helping us to get

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on.

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The fact is, there's no revival going on

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anywhere in the right sense of the word.

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There's just a lot of interest in religion.

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People are scared, and so they turn to

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religion, but not necessarily to Christ.

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Well, you and I can do one of

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two things.

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We can either walk like Zechariah and Elizabeth

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in the middle of all this corruption and

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keep ourselves keen.

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We can, you know, we can do the

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opposite.

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We can, you know, we can save them

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for the diseases and benefits in the time

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in which we live.

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We can accept it, accept it as normal,

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clap our hands and say, Oh, you've missed

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the boat.

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I've been told I've missed the boat, but

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I replied that I wasn't trying to catch

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that boat.

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Anyhow, that boat and a lot of other

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glasses can go on without me, and I'll

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be quite happy.

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Well, we can conform to the religion of

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our times if we want to.

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I weigh 145 pounds, dripping wet.

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But I stand here to tell you that

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I'm a non-conformist, Christ-born, and a

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rebel, and I will not conform to the

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times.

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Up to now, I've been able to get

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a hearing and refuse to conform to the

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times, but if the day ever comes when

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to conform to the times, and if Christ

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will have to go to be heard, then

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I'll go out and start where I started

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before, on the street corner, police there.

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But I won't conform to the times.

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They say you're supposed to do it.

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They say, Don't you know we have the

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same message?

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But it's just different times we're living in.

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I know the voice of the serpent when

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I hear it.

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The fist of the serpent is in that,

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and I recognize it.

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So, we can either conform or we can

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withdraw from the whole business and falter from

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such turnaways.

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Now, there's a place, even in times like

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these, for us to live where we can

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hear the voice of God speaking to us.

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We don't have to be queer, and we

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don't have to go to a monastery.

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We can do it right in the middle

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of the world in which we live.

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That's where I am living.

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Now, you can live right in Jerusalem that

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thirty-three years later crucified the Son of

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God, and yet they live right in a

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wrong world.

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Now, living right in a wrong world means

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that you are going to have a lot

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of irritation.

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The fish that goes along with the current

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hasn't any trouble with the current, but as

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soon as it gets the other way, the

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current gets sore at it.

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And just as long as you go the

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way the wind goes, everybody will say you're

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very fine, and they'll commend you for being

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deeply religious.

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But if you decide to go God's way

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instead of the way the wind blows, they'll

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say that you're useless, or that something has

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happened to you that you're not quite all

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this, or you're a fanatic.

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So, you can go along with the times,

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or you can be like Zechariah and Elizabeth

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and refuse to go along with the times.

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And personally, I've decided long time ago I've

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decided that.

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You know, here's a funny thing, people.

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You ought to find this out.

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Some of you young people ought to hear

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this.

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They say that if you don't conform to

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the times and find a common ground for

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getting along with everybody, that nobody listens to

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you.

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Well, the more I non-conform, the more

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people want to hear me.

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I don't know why.

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Even if they are cowards themselves, they'd rather

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admire somebody who isn't, I guess.

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So, let me tell you, I'm telling you,

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if you want to be heard, don't lick

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anybody's palm, and don't follow after anybody.

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Stand out for God.

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Dare to stand out for God.

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But remember one thing.

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If you're going to be good when you're

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old, you've got to start when you're young.

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Zechariah and Elizabeth didn't suddenly get lost in

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their family.

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That is the result of a long lifetime

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of walking with God.

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You're going to be ready to be dull

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when you're old.

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You're going to have to be ready to

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live when you're young.

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And if you expect the arms of the

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Lord to encourage you when you're old, you're

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going to have to keep the arms of

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the Lord when you're young.

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So, remember that.

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Now, we conform to God's people.

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I love God's people.

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I do.

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I love them.

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I don't always agree with them.

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Even when I come to camp meetings, I

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don't agree with half I see and hear.

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But I'm willing to put up with a

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lot of things because they've got people.

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And now that we've got people, just like

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when you've got a family, you don't agree

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with everything your kids do.

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And there are times when you wish that

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you could get away from them, first of

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all, but when you get to the railroad

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station, you want to come back.

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You know how that is.

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But you love them because they're your people.

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I don't agree with my people, but always,

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but they're my people.

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So is God's children.

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They're my people.

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They've been my people now for a good

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many years.

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Some of them are in heaven and some

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of them are on earth, but they're my

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people.

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And if you mingle with God's people, who

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do you mingle with when you're back home?

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I know you're around mingling with the Lord's

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people.

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Yes, but when you get home, who do

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you mingle with?

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Who are your friends?

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Now, there's a place I enjoy here.

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I chose to greet and joy comes with

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mercy.

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And if you want to be like this

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old couple, Elizabeth and Zechariah, you're going to

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have to practice the presence of God.

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You're going to have to find a secret

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place.

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You're going to have to go there often.

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And you're going to have to turn off

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the television and the radio and get your

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Bible out.

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Dust off that Bible.

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Get it out there and learn to read

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it.

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And learn it all over again.

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Well, that's that.

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Now, where were those two fine old people?

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And do you know, here's the thing I

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want to straightly stress.

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They had fruit in old age.

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They were very old.

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It says, well stricken in years, and yet

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he was born to them that day, prophet

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of prophets John the Baptist.

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They had fruit in old age.

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And the Bible promises that we'll have fruit

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when we're older.

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I don't believe ever there ought to be

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a time in anybody's life when he leaves

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ten pounds and doesn't get any fruit.

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I think that we ought to keep on

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bearing fruit until we die.

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It may be that because of physical or

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mental weaknesses, we might not be able to

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carry the old load.

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That's another matter, and that the man retire

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while he's retired.

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That's all that.

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But you oughtn't quit.

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You ought to retire to serve God, not

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to quit.

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Well, now, let's look at these other two.

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Here was Simeon and Anna.

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They weren't in relation to Anna, so far

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as I know.

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They just were Christians around the temple there.

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But here was Simeon.

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Now, while the Pharisees lived like righteous sepulchers,

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and the Sadducees, the liberals of the day,

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spread their evil run beneath, and their lawyers

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quibbled about words, here was a good old

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man who was walking his job right in

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the middle of it.

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It's a wonderful thing to be able to

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walk in the rain and not get wet.

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It's wonderful to be able to walk through

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a cold wind and come out clean.

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It's wonderful to live in a corrupt age

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and be uncorruptible.

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It's wonderful to live in a bad age

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and be good, to live in an unbelieving

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age and still keep your faith.

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I preached to them.

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They were kind enough to ask me to

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preach the anniversary sermon at Houghton College here

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not long ago.

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Houghton College, 75 years old.

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75 years old.

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I was too nice to tell them that

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now I could be a little older by

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a few months, but I preached the anniversary.

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Why did they ask me to preach the

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anniversary?

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I'll never know, but they did, and I

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preached it.

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So when I got up to preach, I

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said, Well, I suppose that I ought to

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add my congratulations to the rest of the

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congratulations that you're receiving by cable, telegram, letter,

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and personal conversation.

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And I said, I want to congratulate you,

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but I don't want to congratulate you for

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the reasons you think.

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I'm not going to congratulate you for being

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75 years old, because that's nothing to live

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75 years.

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All you have to do to live 75

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years is just don't die.

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You know, that's all.

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There's nothing to it.

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If you just don't die, then you'll live

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75 years.

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There's nothing to that.

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There are lots of things older than 75

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years.

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There are mud puddles in the wall that

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were wallowing around there before Houghton was ever

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heard of.

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And there are crows that tell me living

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in the trees.

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The poet talks about the century-living crow

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that grows old and dies among your branches.

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And there's the coral trees out on the

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coast that were out there when Abraham walked

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in from Ur of the Chaldeans.

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So it isn't a great thing that you

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should be 75 years old.

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But I said, let me tell you this,

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when I set the conditions from 75 years

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ago to now, the change in philosophy, the

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change in politics, the world wars, the depression,

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the liberalism, the modernism, the upside-downism, and

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all of the wars and the changes that

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took place, and I said, let's ensure all

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of these changes, hope in life, good and

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excellent, but it's in faith of our fathers,

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the Holy Faith.

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After 75 years, I said, accept my congratulations.

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Not that you're 75 years old, but you've

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kept true to God for 75 years.

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Now, that's what you congratulate people about.

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Pharaoh was a good old man, and he

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walked with his God that said, Behold, there

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was a man in Jerusalem.

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As this God had gone up and down

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the streets of Jerusalem, examining and testing and

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searching, suddenly he cried, Behold, there's a man

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in Jerusalem.

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His name was King.

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God had found him.

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He was just and devout, righteous and merciful,

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waiting for the constellation of Israel.

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That is, he was a convinced believer in

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the prophecies of Scripture.

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Now, we don't preach prophecy anymore.

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Mussolini knocked the crops out from under, and

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the Second World War shut all these prophets

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up, and I don't know what they've done

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with their crops.

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Probably burned them or ripped them someplace, but

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I still believe in prophecy.

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I still think Jesus is coming, and when

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Khrushchev mounts the muscles of hell and begins

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to crow, I recognize I heard Hitler crow

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years ago, and Mussolini, and Tolstoy, and all

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that stuff.

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Where they're crowing now, I don't know.

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But I can guess, and I'm going to

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guess where Khrushchev is going to crow one

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of these days.

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And I'm not worried about that, because I

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believe in prophecy.

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I believe in the sovereignty of God, and

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I'm not afraid to kill him.

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I believe it's a sovereign God running his

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world.

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I believe he's running it, as I said

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yesterday, according to his eternal purpose, and I

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don't think anybody is going to catch him

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unaware.

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I don't think he'll notice it.

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You, that's that hunk of metal into the

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air.

543
00:21:21,570 --> 00:21:25,430
That's the thickness that God would greatly surprise

544
00:21:25,430 --> 00:21:25,830
you.

545
00:21:26,590 --> 00:21:29,390
The God who knows everything that can be

546
00:21:29,390 --> 00:21:32,610
known, and has known it, and does, and

547
00:21:32,610 --> 00:21:35,270
one ever does ask, know all that can

548
00:21:35,270 --> 00:21:35,870
be known?

549
00:21:36,310 --> 00:21:38,130
That poor little thickness.

550
00:21:38,390 --> 00:21:41,110
It's like a half-headed boy playing with

551
00:21:41,110 --> 00:21:43,030
marbles out on a muddy road.

552
00:21:43,790 --> 00:21:45,910
And God Almighty who made the heaven and

553
00:21:45,910 --> 00:21:47,930
earth and all the things that are therein,

554
00:21:48,310 --> 00:21:51,490
and tossed the sun up into the sky,

555
00:21:51,550 --> 00:21:53,790
and the stars to the four corners of

556
00:21:53,790 --> 00:21:54,170
the night.

557
00:21:54,610 --> 00:21:58,630
That God who makes the galaxy beyond galaxy,

558
00:21:58,630 --> 00:22:01,090
and then everybody went into a pillow fight,

559
00:22:01,270 --> 00:22:02,270
even in Washington.

560
00:22:02,770 --> 00:22:04,150
You know, they had to get their smelling

561
00:22:04,150 --> 00:22:06,730
salts out, because somebody threw a little hunk

562
00:22:06,730 --> 00:22:07,970
of metal up into the air.

563
00:22:08,210 --> 00:22:09,750
How serious can you get?

564
00:22:10,450 --> 00:22:13,050
God's still on the throne, my brothers, and

565
00:22:13,050 --> 00:22:15,470
he's still the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac,

566
00:22:15,650 --> 00:22:16,130
and Joseph.

567
00:22:16,650 --> 00:22:19,550
And he's still running his world, thickness to

568
00:22:19,550 --> 00:22:20,010
no thickness.

569
00:22:22,710 --> 00:22:25,890
Well, it had been revealed to this man,

570
00:22:25,890 --> 00:22:27,770
it had been revealed to him, that he

571
00:22:27,770 --> 00:22:28,790
wasn't a guy.

572
00:22:29,470 --> 00:22:31,250
He was a just man and a devolved

573
00:22:31,250 --> 00:22:34,590
man, and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

574
00:22:34,670 --> 00:22:36,190
The Holy Ghost was upon him.

575
00:22:36,210 --> 00:22:38,050
I wrote an article called, How to be

576
00:22:38,050 --> 00:22:40,150
Filled with the Holy Ghost, published in Christian

577
00:22:40,150 --> 00:22:40,950
Life magazine.

578
00:22:41,030 --> 00:22:42,890
The magazine makes me sick, and I tell

579
00:22:42,890 --> 00:22:44,590
the editor every time I see him, but

580
00:22:44,590 --> 00:22:46,490
I wrote, I thought somebody would read it,

581
00:22:46,570 --> 00:22:47,710
and I couldn't read it from the witness.

582
00:22:50,250 --> 00:22:52,310
So, he comes right out with a letter,

583
00:22:52,370 --> 00:22:53,310
a long letter.

584
00:22:54,530 --> 00:22:57,750
And he tried to prove that he couldn't

585
00:22:57,750 --> 00:22:59,090
be filled with the Holy Ghost.

586
00:22:59,190 --> 00:23:00,510
I never replied to the letter.

587
00:23:00,570 --> 00:23:01,610
He wanted to know if I had seen

588
00:23:01,610 --> 00:23:02,170
him.

589
00:23:02,250 --> 00:23:03,970
Well, I never replied to the letter for

590
00:23:03,970 --> 00:23:04,910
about two months.

591
00:23:05,550 --> 00:23:06,670
Then he wrote me another letter.

592
00:23:06,810 --> 00:23:08,250
He sent me a copy of the original

593
00:23:08,250 --> 00:23:10,210
letter, and he said, I'd like to have

594
00:23:10,210 --> 00:23:11,010
the answer to it.

595
00:23:11,050 --> 00:23:11,970
I deserve an answer.

596
00:23:12,050 --> 00:23:12,970
I should have an answer.

597
00:23:13,190 --> 00:23:14,810
So, I finally sat down, and I said,

598
00:23:14,850 --> 00:23:19,310
I didn't refuse to reply, because I don't

599
00:23:19,310 --> 00:23:21,050
know what you think I was discourteous, but

600
00:23:21,050 --> 00:23:23,090
there are some things too sacred to argue

601
00:23:23,090 --> 00:23:23,610
about.

602
00:23:24,370 --> 00:23:26,190
And I said, my relation to the Holy

603
00:23:26,190 --> 00:23:28,910
Ghost is too personal and too sacred for

604
00:23:28,910 --> 00:23:30,690
me to argue with a man that believes

605
00:23:30,690 --> 00:23:32,970
as you do about the Holy Ghost.

606
00:23:33,650 --> 00:23:35,190
And this man went on to show in

607
00:23:35,190 --> 00:23:36,930
about a page and a half that being

608
00:23:36,930 --> 00:23:39,590
filled with the Holy Ghost was an unrealizable

609
00:23:39,590 --> 00:23:40,230
ideal.

610
00:23:40,930 --> 00:23:42,750
He said, it's just an ideal God has

611
00:23:42,750 --> 00:23:44,430
set up there, but you never can reach

612
00:23:44,430 --> 00:23:44,610
it.

613
00:23:45,210 --> 00:23:47,170
Then I said, I hope that I may

614
00:23:47,170 --> 00:23:50,970
in therapy conclude my letter by saying that

615
00:23:50,970 --> 00:23:53,570
if, he said, I feel, you would spend

616
00:23:53,570 --> 00:23:55,550
as much time trying to be filled with

617
00:23:55,550 --> 00:23:57,370
the Holy Ghost as you do trying to

618
00:23:57,370 --> 00:23:59,710
prove you can't be, the Church of Christ

619
00:23:59,710 --> 00:24:01,170
might come out of her boulders.

620
00:24:02,230 --> 00:24:03,250
Sincerely yours, A.

621
00:24:03,270 --> 00:24:03,490
W.

622
00:24:03,630 --> 00:24:03,950
Church.

623
00:24:04,690 --> 00:24:05,950
But he hasn't replied.

624
00:24:06,090 --> 00:24:07,450
I don't know whether he ever will.

625
00:24:08,310 --> 00:24:10,470
But this man was a good man, and

626
00:24:10,470 --> 00:24:12,250
the Holy Ghost was upon him.

627
00:24:12,270 --> 00:24:14,430
In an awful time of corruption, the Holy

628
00:24:14,430 --> 00:24:16,810
Ghost was upon him, and he came by

629
00:24:16,810 --> 00:24:18,910
the Spirit into the temple, the only way

630
00:24:18,910 --> 00:24:21,730
to come, and it had been revealed by

631
00:24:21,730 --> 00:24:22,550
the Holy Ghost.

632
00:24:22,870 --> 00:24:25,410
We are living in times now when people

633
00:24:25,410 --> 00:24:27,910
are afraid to say the Holy Ghost revealed

634
00:24:27,910 --> 00:24:30,050
something to me, because they will send for

635
00:24:30,050 --> 00:24:31,970
the dogs at me and have them put

636
00:24:31,970 --> 00:24:32,290
away.

637
00:24:33,030 --> 00:24:35,230
Well, they say, you've got your Bible now.

638
00:24:35,270 --> 00:24:37,490
You've had the Holy Ghost revealed.

639
00:24:37,810 --> 00:24:39,810
Well, they had their Bible, too, remember?

640
00:24:39,930 --> 00:24:42,150
They had everything from Genesis to Malachi.

641
00:24:42,810 --> 00:24:45,430
And the man's communion was perfectly familiar with

642
00:24:45,430 --> 00:24:48,510
the Old Testament scriptures, the Psalms, the Proverbs,

643
00:24:48,730 --> 00:24:51,490
and all of the prophets down to Malachi

644
00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:52,250
with Genesis.

645
00:24:52,970 --> 00:24:55,790
So what we need better is not less

646
00:24:55,790 --> 00:24:57,970
Bible, but we need more revelation.

647
00:24:58,790 --> 00:25:00,850
We ought to study the Bible as much

648
00:25:00,850 --> 00:25:03,330
or more than we do now, but we

649
00:25:03,330 --> 00:25:04,290
need revelation.

650
00:25:05,410 --> 00:25:08,510
You can't have revelation without the Bible, but

651
00:25:08,510 --> 00:25:10,390
you can study the Bible a lifetime and

652
00:25:10,390 --> 00:25:11,430
never have revelation.

653
00:25:12,110 --> 00:25:14,010
The Holy Ghost has revealed, too.

654
00:25:14,010 --> 00:25:16,250
You can't get it from going around in

655
00:25:16,250 --> 00:25:18,090
your eyes on a text.

656
00:25:19,530 --> 00:25:22,390
The Word of God you have in you

657
00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:24,510
is only the shell of truth.

658
00:25:25,110 --> 00:25:27,090
The truth is in the Spirit.

659
00:25:27,330 --> 00:25:29,490
The Spirit has to reveal the truth, too,

660
00:25:29,490 --> 00:25:31,430
and we can be students of the Word

661
00:25:31,430 --> 00:25:34,510
all our lives and let not know the

662
00:25:34,510 --> 00:25:36,310
truth, and never have a revelation of the

663
00:25:36,310 --> 00:25:38,090
Holy Ghost to our hearts once.

664
00:25:38,610 --> 00:25:40,770
This old man had, and God had honored

665
00:25:40,770 --> 00:25:43,110
him here, and put him out here, this

666
00:25:43,110 --> 00:25:45,930
old man, one of the fine old men

667
00:25:45,930 --> 00:25:46,510
of the scriptures.

668
00:25:46,650 --> 00:25:48,290
What a fine old chap he was.

669
00:25:48,370 --> 00:25:50,310
He was the salt of the earth and

670
00:25:50,310 --> 00:25:51,670
the seed of survival.

671
00:25:52,570 --> 00:25:55,090
And men like him kept Christa, kept Judaism,

672
00:25:55,330 --> 00:25:59,130
from rotting completely away before the Lord came.

673
00:25:59,770 --> 00:26:01,350
Well, then, now let's go to Hannah.

674
00:26:02,370 --> 00:26:04,010
I want to call her Hannah, but her

675
00:26:04,010 --> 00:26:04,690
name's Anna.

676
00:26:05,190 --> 00:26:08,110
She was over a hundred years old, and

677
00:26:08,110 --> 00:26:10,370
it said she departed not from the temple.

678
00:26:10,370 --> 00:26:13,270
One version says she never got far from

679
00:26:13,270 --> 00:26:13,690
the temple.

680
00:26:13,810 --> 00:26:15,750
I love that, that dear old soul.

681
00:26:16,170 --> 00:26:18,070
Anybody came around and said, I've got a

682
00:26:18,070 --> 00:26:18,890
letter for Hannah.

683
00:26:19,070 --> 00:26:19,950
Why have you framed her?

684
00:26:20,010 --> 00:26:21,790
Well, I don't know exactly, but you go

685
00:26:21,790 --> 00:26:23,330
down to the temple and wait around.

686
00:26:23,450 --> 00:26:24,170
She'll be there.

687
00:26:24,730 --> 00:26:26,550
But she never got far from the temple.

688
00:26:26,670 --> 00:26:28,390
You framed her there all right.

689
00:26:29,030 --> 00:26:31,090
Right around the temple, he said to the

690
00:26:31,090 --> 00:26:34,390
dear old soul in Chicago that she lived

691
00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:36,010
near the church and she could see him,

692
00:26:36,030 --> 00:26:37,790
and every light went on, she came to

693
00:26:37,790 --> 00:26:38,130
service.

694
00:26:38,130 --> 00:26:40,090
She was too old and puzzled to know

695
00:26:40,090 --> 00:26:41,030
what was going on.

696
00:26:41,150 --> 00:26:42,490
Maybe it was only a board meeting.

697
00:26:43,130 --> 00:26:44,450
But then I showed up.

698
00:26:45,010 --> 00:26:46,690
She was never far from the temple.

699
00:26:46,830 --> 00:26:48,490
Since that, she'd come here and take him

700
00:26:48,490 --> 00:26:50,790
to a rest home, and she comes up

701
00:26:50,790 --> 00:26:51,170
to church.

702
00:26:51,230 --> 00:26:52,590
But as long as she was able to

703
00:26:52,590 --> 00:26:55,050
navigate under her own power, just let the

704
00:26:55,050 --> 00:26:56,690
light flick on in the church and she

705
00:26:56,690 --> 00:26:57,310
was there.

706
00:26:57,630 --> 00:26:59,270
Never this far from the temple.

707
00:26:59,310 --> 00:27:02,050
All of these old abbots that love the

708
00:27:02,050 --> 00:27:02,990
church, don't you?

709
00:27:03,110 --> 00:27:03,570
I do.

710
00:27:03,950 --> 00:27:05,250
These old abbots.

711
00:27:05,370 --> 00:27:06,190
They get old.

712
00:27:06,190 --> 00:27:08,190
If I see some of you, God bless

713
00:27:08,190 --> 00:27:11,830
you, if there's no old, only I see

714
00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:13,390
my very little youth.

715
00:27:13,970 --> 00:27:15,970
But you're getting old.

716
00:27:16,410 --> 00:27:18,130
But you're not far from the temple.

717
00:27:18,390 --> 00:27:19,850
You're starting to hang around.

718
00:27:20,130 --> 00:27:22,370
Young people look at you as an old

719
00:27:22,370 --> 00:27:23,810
relic.

720
00:27:23,930 --> 00:27:24,790
Think of yourself.

721
00:27:25,050 --> 00:27:26,650
They'd want to hang you up on the

722
00:27:26,650 --> 00:27:31,590
wall along with a duffel and a spinning

723
00:27:31,590 --> 00:27:33,990
wheel and an old fuzzy whip.

724
00:27:33,990 --> 00:27:35,710
You belong to another age.

725
00:27:35,830 --> 00:27:37,490
But you're not far from the temple.

726
00:27:37,690 --> 00:27:41,510
You're around when the first benediction, or the

727
00:27:41,510 --> 00:27:43,190
first amen, starts.

728
00:27:43,290 --> 00:27:43,910
You're there.

729
00:27:44,870 --> 00:27:47,070
Hannah wasn't far from the temple, says she.

730
00:27:47,130 --> 00:27:49,090
And she served God and she didn't miss

731
00:27:49,090 --> 00:27:49,690
anything.

732
00:27:50,370 --> 00:27:53,410
And when they brought the little Jesus in,

733
00:27:53,510 --> 00:27:54,350
Hannah was there.

734
00:27:54,490 --> 00:27:56,190
You know, if she'd been like Duncan, told

735
00:27:56,190 --> 00:27:58,710
him to come to church at weddings and

736
00:27:58,710 --> 00:28:00,070
funerals, she'd have missed it.

737
00:28:00,210 --> 00:28:01,850
But she was there every time she could

738
00:28:01,850 --> 00:28:02,410
get there.

739
00:28:02,410 --> 00:28:04,110
So she was there.

740
00:28:04,470 --> 00:28:06,450
No matter when Jesus had been brought in,

741
00:28:06,570 --> 00:28:07,650
Hannah would have been around.

742
00:28:08,130 --> 00:28:09,530
If she hadn't been there when he came,

743
00:28:09,610 --> 00:28:11,110
she'd have been there before he got away.

744
00:28:11,170 --> 00:28:13,710
Because she was an inhabitant of the temple.

745
00:28:14,410 --> 00:28:18,170
She was a bird that laid her nest

746
00:28:18,170 --> 00:28:20,270
near the house of God.

747
00:28:20,810 --> 00:28:21,830
And I love that.

748
00:28:21,930 --> 00:28:24,370
Well, these are the four old friends of

749
00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:24,830
God.

750
00:28:24,970 --> 00:28:26,730
You old people, I want you to take

751
00:28:26,730 --> 00:28:27,190
comfort.

752
00:28:27,630 --> 00:28:29,490
You younger people, I want you to take

753
00:28:29,490 --> 00:28:29,910
warning.

754
00:28:29,910 --> 00:28:32,550
Here are these four old people.

755
00:28:32,710 --> 00:28:35,850
Well, what have the years brought to you?

756
00:28:36,450 --> 00:28:38,070
Now, the years have gone by.

757
00:28:38,350 --> 00:28:39,850
You're not old, but you're older.

758
00:28:40,110 --> 00:28:42,070
There are no old people, just older people.

759
00:28:42,810 --> 00:28:44,730
Now, there were old people there, but not

760
00:28:44,730 --> 00:28:45,110
now.

761
00:28:45,550 --> 00:28:48,310
Well, now somebody will say, well, that tells

762
00:28:48,310 --> 00:28:50,090
you I've grown older and wiser.

763
00:28:50,290 --> 00:28:52,410
Well, I hope you have, and it's possible.

764
00:28:52,970 --> 00:28:55,550
And these four older friends, they have grown

765
00:28:55,550 --> 00:28:57,030
wiser as they've grown older.

766
00:28:57,030 --> 00:28:59,950
But you know you can grow older without

767
00:28:59,950 --> 00:29:00,870
growing wiser.

768
00:29:01,530 --> 00:29:02,550
Ever think of that?

769
00:29:03,190 --> 00:29:06,230
We imagine that we grow wise naturally.

770
00:29:06,410 --> 00:29:08,050
No, no, you don't.

771
00:29:08,390 --> 00:29:10,510
In order to grow wiser as you grow

772
00:29:10,510 --> 00:29:12,310
older, you've got to be a student of

773
00:29:12,310 --> 00:29:12,770
life.

774
00:29:13,610 --> 00:29:15,850
And most Christians aren't a student of life.

775
00:29:15,950 --> 00:29:17,890
They're not students of life at all.

776
00:29:17,890 --> 00:29:21,510
They just gossip and don't read anything but

777
00:29:21,510 --> 00:29:23,710
the newspaper, and read his digest, and only

778
00:29:23,710 --> 00:29:25,270
read the jokes and read his digest.

779
00:29:26,510 --> 00:29:29,130
And they only read the funnies in the

780
00:29:29,130 --> 00:29:31,410
paper, or the murders and rapes.

781
00:29:32,230 --> 00:29:34,150
They don't care much about anything else.

782
00:29:34,510 --> 00:29:35,370
Yet they're Christians.

783
00:29:35,530 --> 00:29:37,490
They have family plans or they can't leave

784
00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:37,650
them.

785
00:29:38,270 --> 00:29:40,310
But they're not students of life.

786
00:29:40,450 --> 00:29:41,910
And yet when they get old, they say,

787
00:29:42,010 --> 00:29:43,030
I'm older and wiser.

788
00:29:43,170 --> 00:29:45,950
Don't be so sure of it, Papa, because

789
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:47,250
it may be you're just older.

790
00:29:48,090 --> 00:29:50,230
Well, well, well, it may be you're older

791
00:29:50,230 --> 00:29:51,990
and wiser, but it could be that you're

792
00:29:51,990 --> 00:29:53,210
not wiser, just older.

793
00:29:53,210 --> 00:29:55,510
To be older and wiser, you've got to

794
00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:56,870
be followers of the light.

795
00:29:57,630 --> 00:29:59,170
You've got to have to walk in the

796
00:29:59,170 --> 00:29:59,510
light.

797
00:29:59,690 --> 00:30:01,590
You know, some people lose their place in

798
00:30:01,590 --> 00:30:04,230
their lives because they have life and don't

799
00:30:04,230 --> 00:30:05,810
walk in it, and they're bogged down there

800
00:30:05,810 --> 00:30:07,250
and never get one inch further.

801
00:30:07,810 --> 00:30:09,650
So when you're bogged down one inch and

802
00:30:09,650 --> 00:30:11,170
go off a little cross, you never get

803
00:30:11,170 --> 00:30:11,910
beyond that.

804
00:30:12,550 --> 00:30:14,250
And they say, I'm older and wiser.

805
00:30:14,290 --> 00:30:15,530
No, you're just older.

806
00:30:16,150 --> 00:30:17,790
You have a facility to walk in the

807
00:30:17,790 --> 00:30:19,910
light, and the result is the light has

808
00:30:19,910 --> 00:30:20,670
dimmed down.

809
00:30:20,670 --> 00:30:23,650
And now, you say, but my conscience doesn't

810
00:30:23,650 --> 00:30:24,110
bother me.

811
00:30:24,150 --> 00:30:26,050
That's because you're getting old, and your conscience

812
00:30:26,050 --> 00:30:26,950
is getting numb.

813
00:30:27,550 --> 00:30:28,910
There's a lot of things you need to

814
00:30:28,910 --> 00:30:30,850
have you don't have anymore because you're losing

815
00:30:30,850 --> 00:30:32,630
your feeling to some degree as you get

816
00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:32,990
older.

817
00:30:33,650 --> 00:30:35,490
Well, if we're going to be like this

818
00:30:35,490 --> 00:30:36,830
as we get older, we're going to have

819
00:30:36,830 --> 00:30:38,190
to be disciples of Christ.

820
00:30:38,290 --> 00:30:39,870
That is only use of Christ.

821
00:30:40,530 --> 00:30:43,030
Most Christians just accept Christ, and then sit

822
00:30:43,030 --> 00:30:44,150
down and sit away some.

823
00:30:44,630 --> 00:30:45,650
Can't do that.

824
00:30:46,090 --> 00:30:47,930
That's why I don't believe much in modern

825
00:30:47,930 --> 00:30:48,630
evangelism.

826
00:30:48,630 --> 00:30:50,470
They're Christ-susceptive all the time.

827
00:30:50,710 --> 00:30:52,030
I want to accept Christ.

828
00:30:52,370 --> 00:30:53,870
Then you go out and do the things

829
00:30:53,870 --> 00:30:55,230
from that time right on.

830
00:30:55,610 --> 00:30:56,810
And there's nothing you won't do.

831
00:30:57,190 --> 00:30:59,490
When I accept Christ, I accept him as

832
00:30:59,490 --> 00:31:02,610
my Lord and Savior and Teacher and Master.

833
00:31:03,330 --> 00:31:05,670
And I'm to be a disciple of Christ.

834
00:31:06,110 --> 00:31:07,990
And if I'm in the school of Christ

835
00:31:07,990 --> 00:31:10,310
a long time, I'll be older and wiser.

836
00:31:10,710 --> 00:31:13,250
But if I just accepted Christ somewhere back

837
00:31:13,250 --> 00:31:15,470
there and got rid of him, well, I'll

838
00:31:15,470 --> 00:31:16,990
just be older, not wiser.

839
00:31:16,990 --> 00:31:19,770
And then, to be older and wiser, we've

840
00:31:19,770 --> 00:31:21,630
got to learn from our own mistakes.

841
00:31:22,290 --> 00:31:23,750
Most people can't do that.

842
00:31:23,810 --> 00:31:25,510
That's a trick, I tell you, my friend,

843
00:31:25,530 --> 00:31:27,090
to learn from your own mistakes.

844
00:31:27,190 --> 00:31:29,370
Most people refuse to admit their mistakes.

845
00:31:29,570 --> 00:31:31,610
They won't, they won't admit them.

846
00:31:32,050 --> 00:31:33,910
You've got to learn from your own mistakes.

847
00:31:33,950 --> 00:31:35,050
And it's very hard.

848
00:31:35,110 --> 00:31:36,230
I admit it's hard.

849
00:31:36,590 --> 00:31:37,150
It's hard.

850
00:31:37,250 --> 00:31:38,970
Especially it's hard before you're wise.

851
00:31:39,570 --> 00:31:40,890
Even if you've been mistaken.

852
00:31:41,410 --> 00:31:42,310
You ever think of that?

853
00:31:42,770 --> 00:31:44,710
I mean, it's hard, but you've got it

854
00:31:44,710 --> 00:31:45,230
to do.

855
00:31:45,230 --> 00:31:47,130
And then, if you're going to be wiser

856
00:31:47,130 --> 00:31:49,150
as you get older, you've got to take

857
00:31:49,150 --> 00:31:51,530
an attitude toward life that is reverent and

858
00:31:51,530 --> 00:31:52,630
serious and humble.

859
00:31:53,130 --> 00:31:54,530
You've got to become a mystic as you

860
00:31:54,530 --> 00:31:55,110
get older.

861
00:31:55,630 --> 00:31:58,550
I'm afraid of these hard, old Christians that

862
00:31:58,550 --> 00:32:00,130
are all dollars and cents.

863
00:32:00,690 --> 00:32:02,730
You've got to take a reverent attitude toward

864
00:32:02,730 --> 00:32:04,270
life, serious and humble.

865
00:32:04,370 --> 00:32:05,870
And toward God you've got to take an

866
00:32:05,870 --> 00:32:08,790
attitude believing in the good and the wicked,

867
00:32:09,030 --> 00:32:09,250
of course.

868
00:32:09,590 --> 00:32:11,390
Now, if you have lived in the life,

869
00:32:11,530 --> 00:32:14,930
obeyed God, loved all God's words for God's

870
00:32:14,930 --> 00:32:17,470
sake, obeyed the scriptures, done what you were

871
00:32:17,470 --> 00:32:20,510
told, prayed a lot, read the Bible regularly,

872
00:32:21,090 --> 00:32:23,790
and stopped messing with yourself, maybe you've gotten

873
00:32:23,790 --> 00:32:25,170
wiser as you've gotten older.

874
00:32:25,390 --> 00:32:26,210
Hannah was.

875
00:32:26,290 --> 00:32:26,630
Hannah.

876
00:32:27,030 --> 00:32:30,030
And so was Kenyon, and so was Zechariah,

877
00:32:30,230 --> 00:32:30,690
and Elizabeth.

878
00:32:31,350 --> 00:32:34,090
They were the very wise, old people.

879
00:32:35,070 --> 00:32:38,250
And you know, when I think of my

880
00:32:38,250 --> 00:32:40,830
Christian life as a young person, you know

881
00:32:40,830 --> 00:32:41,750
who helped me?

882
00:32:42,250 --> 00:32:44,150
Not any young person ever helped me when

883
00:32:44,150 --> 00:32:45,670
I was young or didn't help me.

884
00:32:45,670 --> 00:32:46,510
They wouldn't know how.

885
00:32:46,750 --> 00:32:47,170
They couldn't.

886
00:32:47,230 --> 00:32:48,090
I don't blame them.

887
00:32:48,470 --> 00:32:49,750
They just couldn't.

888
00:32:50,010 --> 00:32:51,390
But I think that some of the dear,

889
00:32:51,570 --> 00:32:53,830
old people around the local streets, they've been

890
00:32:53,830 --> 00:32:54,670
helped to know how.

891
00:32:54,990 --> 00:32:56,290
Their memories are etched.

892
00:32:56,490 --> 00:32:56,610
Fr.

893
00:32:56,670 --> 00:32:58,270
Dr. Truman mentioned one Fr.

894
00:32:58,490 --> 00:32:58,930
Lohr.

895
00:32:59,450 --> 00:32:59,850
Now, Fr.

896
00:32:59,990 --> 00:33:01,730
Lohr was a little bit clear, but he

897
00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:03,550
was clear over on the happy side of

898
00:33:03,550 --> 00:33:03,810
things.

899
00:33:04,770 --> 00:33:06,790
He said that he was God's Daddy.

900
00:33:06,790 --> 00:33:08,850
He used to get up and dress fine

901
00:33:08,850 --> 00:33:10,770
and say, I'm God's Daddy, and the Daddy

902
00:33:10,770 --> 00:33:12,030
that takes care of these gardens.

903
00:33:12,230 --> 00:33:13,090
He said, I'm not worried.

904
00:33:13,630 --> 00:33:15,170
He said, I couldn't get sick of a

905
00:33:15,170 --> 00:33:15,690
lot of things.

906
00:33:15,770 --> 00:33:17,050
And to say that he was well, he'd

907
00:33:17,050 --> 00:33:17,930
jump up and down.

908
00:33:18,290 --> 00:33:19,530
And he must have been in his eighties

909
00:33:19,530 --> 00:33:20,150
when I moved.

910
00:33:21,010 --> 00:33:22,410
The Lord took him off the head and

911
00:33:22,410 --> 00:33:23,870
set him in, and he went over there

912
00:33:23,870 --> 00:33:25,350
as far as I know well now.

913
00:33:25,990 --> 00:33:26,810
He was perfectly right.

914
00:33:26,850 --> 00:33:28,510
He was a clear, but he wasn't a

915
00:33:28,510 --> 00:33:28,750
clear.

916
00:33:29,750 --> 00:33:32,730
I can stand a man who's clear on

917
00:33:32,730 --> 00:33:33,650
the happy side.

918
00:33:34,450 --> 00:33:35,190
And he was.

919
00:33:35,190 --> 00:33:36,490
And there were a lot of others around

920
00:33:36,490 --> 00:33:37,530
there, old men and all.

921
00:33:37,630 --> 00:33:39,170
He used to raise his feet up to

922
00:33:39,170 --> 00:33:43,730
heaven and pray, and he'd say, say, I

923
00:33:43,730 --> 00:33:45,010
don't want to go out of there.

924
00:33:45,070 --> 00:33:47,370
The beauty of a mistress, the beauty of

925
00:33:47,370 --> 00:33:51,250
St. Francis, St. Augustine, something beautifully wonderful, and

926
00:33:51,250 --> 00:33:53,490
far away, he'd look you right in the

927
00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:53,970
eyes.

928
00:33:54,230 --> 00:33:55,210
I remember him.

929
00:33:55,290 --> 00:33:57,010
I don't remember the kids, you know, or

930
00:33:57,010 --> 00:33:57,930
the wild cats.

931
00:33:58,430 --> 00:34:00,130
I remember these old fellows.

932
00:34:00,410 --> 00:34:01,910
And I was only myself, it's funny.

933
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,090
But I learned from them.

934
00:34:07,230 --> 00:34:10,070
If you're wise and old, there's some say,

935
00:34:10,290 --> 00:34:12,070
I've grown as a tree grows.

936
00:34:12,150 --> 00:34:13,270
And I hope you have.

937
00:34:14,989 --> 00:34:16,690
But not necessarily.

938
00:34:17,909 --> 00:34:20,270
Because you don't grow automatically.

939
00:34:20,929 --> 00:34:23,429
You only grow as you follow Christ and

940
00:34:23,429 --> 00:34:26,610
carry the cross and meet the conditions of

941
00:34:26,610 --> 00:34:26,929
growth.

942
00:34:27,030 --> 00:34:28,730
And you know what the conditions of growth

943
00:34:28,730 --> 00:34:29,590
are, they're three.

944
00:34:29,590 --> 00:34:32,350
Life, that is exposure to the truth.

945
00:34:32,889 --> 00:34:34,909
Faith, that is the presence of the Son

946
00:34:34,909 --> 00:34:35,550
of God.

947
00:34:35,909 --> 00:34:38,250
And mercy, that is the child of the

948
00:34:38,250 --> 00:34:38,570
Spirit.

949
00:34:39,010 --> 00:34:40,370
That's the only way you grow.

950
00:34:41,070 --> 00:34:42,929
But then remember, there are other ways of

951
00:34:42,929 --> 00:34:44,710
making progress besides growing.

952
00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:49,230
When there's progress, sometimes that's only one figure's

953
00:34:49,230 --> 00:34:49,909
feet growing.

954
00:34:50,250 --> 00:34:53,530
Other figures' feet have to do with the

955
00:34:53,530 --> 00:34:55,770
war, a war is to be won.

956
00:34:56,830 --> 00:34:58,630
And if you've been, if you don't have

957
00:34:58,630 --> 00:35:01,730
any power of control, if you're not fighting,

958
00:35:01,990 --> 00:35:04,150
you're never out of that old, very tired

959
00:35:04,150 --> 00:35:05,110
from the battle, brother.

960
00:35:05,570 --> 00:35:07,550
You've got your physical needs, you can't think

961
00:35:07,550 --> 00:35:08,150
anymore.

962
00:35:08,550 --> 00:35:10,490
Well, you ought to have a faith to

963
00:35:10,490 --> 00:35:12,290
turn around the world.

964
00:35:12,730 --> 00:35:14,270
To turn around the world.

965
00:35:16,550 --> 00:35:20,110
And one can find, life is strong as

966
00:35:20,110 --> 00:35:20,710
a dreamer.

967
00:35:20,750 --> 00:35:23,970
Instead of progress through growth, it's a dreamer.

968
00:35:24,110 --> 00:35:26,710
And the dreamer may be colorless and dark

969
00:35:26,710 --> 00:35:30,270
and only asking for grips and steadfastness and

970
00:35:30,270 --> 00:35:34,270
ability to suffer and patience and faith, but

971
00:35:34,270 --> 00:35:34,950
it's a dream.

972
00:35:35,670 --> 00:35:38,390
We write poetry about the dream, the Christian

973
00:35:38,390 --> 00:35:40,350
life as a dreamer, and it's often written

974
00:35:40,350 --> 00:35:41,990
poetry, because we said it's a good music,

975
00:35:42,070 --> 00:35:42,710
it's singable.

976
00:35:42,890 --> 00:35:44,650
But when you're living the dream, it isn't

977
00:35:44,650 --> 00:35:45,990
singable at all.

978
00:35:46,250 --> 00:35:49,350
You get grips in your shoes and stressors

979
00:35:49,350 --> 00:35:51,310
up your shoes and pounds of stones out

980
00:35:51,310 --> 00:35:54,810
of your shoes, and you get lusty and

981
00:35:54,810 --> 00:35:56,910
you join these dreams.

982
00:35:57,470 --> 00:35:59,150
You just look up to God and say,

983
00:35:59,330 --> 00:36:00,590
God, I'm on my way.

984
00:36:00,690 --> 00:36:01,450
I hope I make it.

985
00:36:01,490 --> 00:36:02,550
I trust you.

986
00:36:02,650 --> 00:36:04,110
And go ahead.

987
00:36:04,630 --> 00:36:06,330
And the Lord will bless you and will

988
00:36:06,330 --> 00:36:08,410
curse you, and after a while, you'll get

989
00:36:08,410 --> 00:36:09,650
a new start and go on.

990
00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:12,130
But don't let them imagine the Christian life

991
00:36:12,130 --> 00:36:13,770
is all just truth.

992
00:36:13,990 --> 00:36:14,310
It isn't.

993
00:36:14,350 --> 00:36:16,130
It's not all a bowl of clay.

994
00:36:16,930 --> 00:36:18,770
There's a whole lot in the Christian life

995
00:36:18,770 --> 00:36:20,150
that isn't a bowl of clay.

996
00:36:20,710 --> 00:36:22,970
It isn't a continuous truth, and there isn't

997
00:36:22,970 --> 00:36:23,970
a lot of time.

998
00:36:24,630 --> 00:36:27,410
Christianity now is a second Christ and then

999
00:36:27,410 --> 00:36:28,150
on Christmas.

1000
00:36:29,110 --> 00:36:30,650
That's Christianity of the day.

1001
00:36:31,010 --> 00:36:34,270
Christianity's an endless Christmas, according to the modern,

1002
00:36:35,630 --> 00:36:37,270
unbeliever's way of looking at things.

1003
00:36:38,030 --> 00:36:40,450
Unbelievers, I mean evangelical unbelievers.

1004
00:36:41,410 --> 00:36:44,290
Well, if you want to go and get

1005
00:36:44,290 --> 00:36:46,430
along with these four or five people, there's

1006
00:36:46,430 --> 00:36:47,690
some things you've got to learn.

1007
00:36:48,990 --> 00:36:51,850
Now, you've been traveling, and I want to

1008
00:36:51,850 --> 00:36:52,750
ask you a question.

1009
00:36:53,470 --> 00:36:55,610
You've been traveling a good many years, some

1010
00:36:55,610 --> 00:36:57,770
of you, but have you been traveling in

1011
00:36:57,770 --> 00:36:59,510
a straight line or have you been traveling

1012
00:36:59,510 --> 00:37:00,210
in a circle?

1013
00:37:01,070 --> 00:37:03,010
Out in the state of Illinois, it was

1014
00:37:03,010 --> 00:37:04,070
perfectly flat.

1015
00:37:04,130 --> 00:37:06,170
You could place checkers all over somewhere over

1016
00:37:06,170 --> 00:37:06,910
the landscape.

1017
00:37:09,010 --> 00:37:10,810
We went out one time for a little

1018
00:37:10,810 --> 00:37:14,790
ride with some friends in the country, and

1019
00:37:14,790 --> 00:37:17,890
we saw a beautiful sight, a red vine,

1020
00:37:17,990 --> 00:37:19,770
a wagon, and a farmer with a straw

1021
00:37:19,770 --> 00:37:21,430
hat on, working around there.

1022
00:37:21,830 --> 00:37:23,430
And I said, isn't that a little romantic?

1023
00:37:23,590 --> 00:37:24,570
That's beautiful.

1024
00:37:26,190 --> 00:37:28,290
We drove on and made a few friends,

1025
00:37:28,470 --> 00:37:30,830
and we soon came to another red vine

1026
00:37:30,830 --> 00:37:33,870
with a man out in front working alongside

1027
00:37:33,870 --> 00:37:34,370
the wagon.

1028
00:37:34,490 --> 00:37:36,350
I said, look, there's finally quite a lot

1029
00:37:36,350 --> 00:37:37,530
of life out there.

1030
00:37:37,570 --> 00:37:39,070
There's proof of uniformity.

1031
00:37:39,870 --> 00:37:41,750
And we drove on for a while, made

1032
00:37:41,750 --> 00:37:43,570
a few more friends, and saw another red

1033
00:37:43,570 --> 00:37:45,570
vine and a wagon.

1034
00:37:46,090 --> 00:37:47,990
Out in front, the farmer working back, and

1035
00:37:47,990 --> 00:37:50,710
in the last century, my first call, I

1036
00:37:50,710 --> 00:37:52,290
said to the driver, do you know what

1037
00:37:52,290 --> 00:37:52,750
we're doing?

1038
00:37:52,870 --> 00:37:53,930
We're driving in a circle.

1039
00:37:54,350 --> 00:37:56,110
I said, this is the same three vines.

1040
00:37:56,730 --> 00:37:58,770
These three vines are all the same vine.

1041
00:37:58,890 --> 00:38:01,170
You haven't been making any progress at all.

1042
00:38:01,250 --> 00:38:01,890
You're lost.

1043
00:38:03,250 --> 00:38:04,810
And he said, that last year in Illinois,

1044
00:38:04,870 --> 00:38:06,630
you know, everything's just like everything else.

1045
00:38:07,470 --> 00:38:07,810
Flat.

1046
00:38:08,530 --> 00:38:11,070
No more bumps and digs to carry around,

1047
00:38:11,270 --> 00:38:12,270
like they have around here.

1048
00:38:14,010 --> 00:38:15,310
And that's the way it was.

1049
00:38:15,310 --> 00:38:18,130
Well, I remember the story I heard when

1050
00:38:18,130 --> 00:38:20,890
I was young of a wooden-legged man

1051
00:38:20,890 --> 00:38:22,670
who had one wooden leg, and he got

1052
00:38:22,670 --> 00:38:26,110
a little absorbed in a little too much

1053
00:38:26,110 --> 00:38:29,150
mountain dew, and he started home in one

1054
00:38:29,150 --> 00:38:29,950
of these little towns.

1055
00:38:30,110 --> 00:38:32,850
It could have been out here in Newfoundland,

1056
00:38:32,970 --> 00:38:35,270
I don't know, but the sidewalks were made

1057
00:38:35,270 --> 00:38:37,390
out of wood, and one of them was

1058
00:38:37,390 --> 00:38:40,910
a, was a, no, there was a hole

1059
00:38:40,910 --> 00:38:41,510
in the thing.

1060
00:38:41,830 --> 00:38:43,290
There was a knothole was in it, and

1061
00:38:43,290 --> 00:38:44,470
he got a wooden leg and he got

1062
00:38:44,470 --> 00:38:46,110
up in the knothole and walked all in.

1063
00:38:49,010 --> 00:38:50,490
And one of the, one of the ways,

1064
00:38:50,750 --> 00:38:54,180
one of the, and the son of you,

1065
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,220
God bless you, and don't call me now.

1066
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,060
You can bite the feet of God and

1067
00:38:58,060 --> 00:38:59,520
carry the Bible, but you don't call me.

1068
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,980
You sit up there making a wooden leg

1069
00:39:02,980 --> 00:39:05,100
in the knothole, and you come to camp

1070
00:39:05,100 --> 00:39:07,180
once a year, you go to church, you

1071
00:39:07,180 --> 00:39:09,320
come to missionary conventions, but you haven't made

1072
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:09,900
any progress.

1073
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:11,480
You're just waiting there.

1074
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,920
You're walking around with a wooden leg, traveling

1075
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:15,680
in circles.

1076
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,880
That ain't, it ain't my intention, but I

1077
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,600
wonder if the blood of atonement means more

1078
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:24,920
to us than it used to mean.

1079
00:39:25,540 --> 00:39:28,200
I wonder if we've conquered that bad habit.

1080
00:39:28,420 --> 00:39:29,460
How about it, Grandpa?

1081
00:39:30,060 --> 00:39:31,700
When you were young, you had a temple,

1082
00:39:31,780 --> 00:39:33,020
and you used to bring it on your

1083
00:39:33,020 --> 00:39:34,040
I.C. grandfather.

1084
00:39:34,660 --> 00:39:37,040
But you've had 40 years to get your

1085
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,020
temple sanctified.

1086
00:39:38,180 --> 00:39:40,060
Have you been sanctified, or you still get

1087
00:39:40,060 --> 00:39:41,960
mad when things don't go right?

1088
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,060
I don't mind telling you this.

1089
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,100
I've got no confidence in a Christian who

1090
00:39:46,100 --> 00:39:46,720
gets mad.

1091
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,900
If he gets mad, he isn't sanctified.

1092
00:39:50,060 --> 00:39:51,660
If he gets mad, he doesn't have virtue.

1093
00:39:53,140 --> 00:39:55,980
And honey, I have no compliment from people

1094
00:39:55,980 --> 00:39:56,660
at birth.

1095
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,800
If they're ever prepared to pray, haven't got

1096
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,460
cleansed from their nasty senses, they're not making

1097
00:40:03,460 --> 00:40:04,740
progress at all.

1098
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:06,880
They're giving you a tongue.

1099
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:08,920
Mother, what about it?

1100
00:40:10,260 --> 00:40:12,440
Years ago, I preached over there, and I

1101
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,820
told some of you then that what you

1102
00:40:14,820 --> 00:40:16,280
need to do is put your tongue out

1103
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:17,680
for all you do, so you can have

1104
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,520
that much clear thought, and you'll do better.

1105
00:40:19,620 --> 00:40:21,680
You'll get back home and stop talking, and

1106
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,680
you'll grow in grace.

1107
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:23,440
Have you done it?

1108
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,680
Well, you've still got what you used to

1109
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:25,940
do.

1110
00:40:27,100 --> 00:40:29,580
Well, we've got to get the strange ways

1111
00:40:29,580 --> 00:40:31,820
out of our lives and get purified.

1112
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,800
You know, brethren, this is an awful thing

1113
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,860
to say, and I say it often to

1114
00:40:36,860 --> 00:40:40,500
say it, but I'm quite an example of

1115
00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:43,040
the human being, and I have never believed

1116
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,580
that in order to be a good Christian,

1117
00:40:45,740 --> 00:40:47,460
you have to stop looking at things.

1118
00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:50,880
If you know you're nothing, you're nothing, you're

1119
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,320
nothing, you're kind of a monkey Christian that

1120
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:54,120
I don't go for.

1121
00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:56,380
I believe the Lord sent me into the

1122
00:40:56,380 --> 00:40:59,180
world to study the Lord, pray, help people,

1123
00:40:59,380 --> 00:41:00,580
and have looked the King over.

1124
00:41:01,220 --> 00:41:02,500
And you know what I've noticed?

1125
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,860
I've noticed so many Christians as they get

1126
00:41:04,860 --> 00:41:06,280
older, they get careless.

1127
00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:10,600
But I've not only stopped dressing decently, but

1128
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,760
they get careless in their Christian lives, and

1129
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,160
they get indifferent.

1130
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,400
And I've noticed that as we get older

1131
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,700
we get gluttonous and clownish.

1132
00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:22,080
And there's nothing quite so awful as a

1133
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:23,240
clownish old man.

1134
00:41:23,820 --> 00:41:26,860
You know, the young fellas cracking jokes, that's

1135
00:41:26,860 --> 00:41:27,240
different.

1136
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,960
An old fella, he ought to know better.

1137
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,920
The son of God standing down on his

1138
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,860
old bald head, he ought to be ready

1139
00:41:34,860 --> 00:41:36,220
for heaven, he ought to be able to

1140
00:41:36,220 --> 00:41:39,120
take off like a helicopter without any wear

1141
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,500
and tear on him, right straight off into

1142
00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:42,380
the heavens above.

1143
00:41:42,860 --> 00:41:44,840
Instead of that, we find a little clown

1144
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,580
hanging around, a teasing old fella.

1145
00:41:48,460 --> 00:41:50,640
Had a teasing old man in that church

1146
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:51,280
in Chicago.

1147
00:41:51,460 --> 00:41:53,160
He died and he didn't have no attention

1148
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:53,600
to him.

1149
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,120
He died, and he was so teasing that

1150
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:58,900
when the kids made any noise he'd get

1151
00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:00,500
up and walk down the aisle and stare

1152
00:42:00,500 --> 00:42:00,860
at them.

1153
00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:03,040
And they were scared of the old fella,

1154
00:42:03,140 --> 00:42:04,700
and that he was quite a Christian, you

1155
00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:04,920
know.

1156
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:06,400
They're noisy Christians.

1157
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:07,560
But they were teasing.

1158
00:42:08,340 --> 00:42:10,420
Some get greedy when they get old.

1159
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:11,300
Isn't that awful?

1160
00:42:14,230 --> 00:42:17,150
Listen, getting greedy about your money when you

1161
00:42:17,150 --> 00:42:19,390
get old reminds me of what happened out

1162
00:42:19,390 --> 00:42:22,390
in a prison somewhere in the West.

1163
00:42:25,370 --> 00:42:27,710
They had a bunch of fellas around there

1164
00:42:27,710 --> 00:42:28,630
sentenced to die.

1165
00:42:28,730 --> 00:42:31,210
They were in death row and they died.

1166
00:42:32,330 --> 00:42:33,730
And they came to them and they said,

1167
00:42:33,810 --> 00:42:35,370
now you've got a lot of books here.

1168
00:42:35,410 --> 00:42:36,710
Here's a list of books.

1169
00:42:37,830 --> 00:42:40,330
And you can have any book you want.

1170
00:42:41,550 --> 00:42:43,530
And one of them says a book he

1171
00:42:43,530 --> 00:42:44,330
wants to read.

1172
00:42:44,570 --> 00:42:46,070
One who had four or five days to

1173
00:42:46,070 --> 00:42:47,270
live says this book.

1174
00:42:47,750 --> 00:42:49,350
And what do you suppose the name of

1175
00:42:49,350 --> 00:42:50,030
the book was?

1176
00:42:50,670 --> 00:42:52,110
Out of a boy from the states in

1177
00:42:52,110 --> 00:42:52,370
England.

1178
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:58,920
He was going to die in four or

1179
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:00,460
five days, but he wanted to read up

1180
00:43:00,460 --> 00:43:01,080
on his English.

1181
00:43:01,340 --> 00:43:03,000
So at least he would die dramatically.

1182
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:06,860
How completely silly English is.

1183
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,120
Now it's just as bad to be greedy

1184
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:11,060
when you're old.

1185
00:43:12,260 --> 00:43:14,200
You can't take that along, Pop.

1186
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,480
Why don't you let us do your mission?

1187
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,020
Why don't you give us the work of

1188
00:43:19,020 --> 00:43:19,680
God?

1189
00:43:20,340 --> 00:43:21,880
You'll come in in one piece.

1190
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,420
We'll drag you and pick you up and

1191
00:43:24,420 --> 00:43:26,740
slide you down into oil or whatever there

1192
00:43:26,740 --> 00:43:27,540
is in those days.

1193
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:30,040
And when you go back, you're going to

1194
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,020
get treated just exactly the same.

1195
00:43:32,660 --> 00:43:34,140
You'll just be in one piece.

1196
00:43:34,300 --> 00:43:36,040
There'll be nothing you can take with you.

1197
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,960
So how perfectly silly to try to pile

1198
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,380
up your money when you're old.

1199
00:43:42,020 --> 00:43:44,380
Yet I found greedy old people.

1200
00:43:46,220 --> 00:43:48,300
Doctor, I know women all don't do any

1201
00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:49,020
of that, folks.

1202
00:43:49,940 --> 00:43:56,850
But, uh, well, what can we do, fam?

1203
00:43:57,890 --> 00:43:59,850
Just mourn the waste of years.

1204
00:44:00,790 --> 00:44:03,110
That's my, that's about the only grief I

1205
00:44:03,110 --> 00:44:04,250
have is the waste of years.

1206
00:44:05,010 --> 00:44:07,370
People think I'm a very busy man.

1207
00:44:07,470 --> 00:44:09,730
I get letters almost half the letters I

1208
00:44:09,730 --> 00:44:11,210
get that say, I know you're a very

1209
00:44:11,210 --> 00:44:12,010
busy man.

1210
00:44:13,110 --> 00:44:15,050
Oh, if they knew how much I love,

1211
00:44:16,150 --> 00:44:18,170
and if they know how lazy I've been

1212
00:44:18,170 --> 00:44:19,010
down the years.

1213
00:44:19,630 --> 00:44:21,390
I'm used over it.

1214
00:44:21,830 --> 00:44:24,150
Let mourn the waste of years.

1215
00:44:25,130 --> 00:44:27,670
And you young people, take example from this,

1216
00:44:27,670 --> 00:44:28,650
and don't waste yours.

1217
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,620
And pretend to take advantage of every opportunity

1218
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,780
to look at Moses and Jacob, and how

1219
00:44:39,780 --> 00:44:40,940
they had no chance.

1220
00:44:41,980 --> 00:44:44,140
And yet, they grabbed hold of the least

1221
00:44:44,140 --> 00:44:46,000
little bit of information they could get and

1222
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,320
made good on it.

1223
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:53,440
So take a stumbling block to you, to

1224
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,860
old professors who aren't living right.

1225
00:44:58,900 --> 00:45:02,240
Back in your home church, when you were

1226
00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:04,720
a little older too, nobody in it under

1227
00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:08,640
50, you would say, how many did you

1228
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,800
do for them young people that's going to

1229
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:13,640
the dogs?

1230
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,680
You don't know that some of them started

1231
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:19,760
to go to heaven and saw you and

1232
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:20,760
turned off to the dogs.

1233
00:45:26,180 --> 00:45:37,360
I wonder how many of did you

1234
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:37,460
do

1235
00:45:37,460 --> 00:45:51,460
for

1236
00:45:51,460 --> 00:45:51,840
them?

1237
00:45:53,580 --> 00:45:55,280
don't know that some of them started to

1238
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:56,440
and saw and turned You don't know that

1239
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:56,680
some started to go to heaven and turned

1240
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:21,500
off to the dogs.

1241
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:27,120
I wonder how many did you them young

1242
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,300
Other people would be glad to live in

1243
00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:34,760
the better enough, in the 60s.

1244
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,920
Some people live so the only thing they

1245
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:39,280
can do in the world is die.

1246
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:42,520
And the greatest thing they can do in

1247
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:43,580
the world is to die.

1248
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,540
Others live so that people agree when they

1249
00:46:48,540 --> 00:46:48,920
die.

1250
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:50,280
They were darker.

1251
00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:51,440
They weren't old.

1252
00:46:52,260 --> 00:46:54,780
But boy, they could chew up a new

1253
00:46:54,780 --> 00:46:55,080
needle.

1254
00:46:57,660 --> 00:47:01,440
Chew what was sold, and trade what was

1255
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,380
sold tomorrow, and help the poor, and pass

1256
00:47:04,380 --> 00:47:06,600
out clothing to the poor, and one day

1257
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:07,760
something hit him, he died.

1258
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:09,980
And they gathered around and they said, We

1259
00:47:09,980 --> 00:47:10,920
can't give her up.

1260
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:11,760
She's indispensable.

1261
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,380
And they sent for Peter and explained the

1262
00:47:13,380 --> 00:47:15,420
circumstance, and Peter said, Well, I didn't think

1263
00:47:15,420 --> 00:47:17,400
there were any indispensables, but look who's here.

1264
00:47:18,140 --> 00:47:20,300
So Peter said, Get out of here, everybody.

1265
00:47:20,420 --> 00:47:21,560
And he laid his hands on him to

1266
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:22,240
roll him from the bed.

1267
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:23,200
He went back to a needle.

1268
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,200
She was so useful, they just couldn't let

1269
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:27,740
her die.

1270
00:47:29,460 --> 00:47:33,620
But some people are so useless, that the

1271
00:47:33,620 --> 00:47:35,480
only thing they can do is the church,

1272
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:36,220
is the phone.

1273
00:47:39,370 --> 00:47:40,170
Oh, man.

1274
00:47:41,490 --> 00:47:45,430
If we're older, let's try to walk with

1275
00:47:45,430 --> 00:47:46,030
these four.

1276
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:49,890
If we're younger, let's try to throw it

1277
00:47:49,890 --> 00:47:50,150
in.

1278
00:47:50,790 --> 00:47:52,970
But if we get older, we'll be like

1279
00:47:52,970 --> 00:47:53,110
them.

1280
00:47:53,110 --> 00:47:53,790
Let's go.

1281
00:48:01,940 --> 00:48:07,940
Oh, Lord Jesus, Thou ageless, timeless, immortal One.

1282
00:48:10,420 --> 00:48:12,780
Time hath not laid its hand on thee,

1283
00:48:13,500 --> 00:48:16,280
and the years have exacted no tribute from

1284
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:16,560
thee.

1285
00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:20,460
Thou remaineth in thy years for evermore.

1286
00:48:21,700 --> 00:48:25,320
We thank Thee that in the very near

1287
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:29,080
future Thou art going to impart to us

1288
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,600
the immortality which is Thine.

1289
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,540
And we shall be glorified and so delightfully

1290
00:48:35,540 --> 00:48:36,760
entreated as Thou art.

1291
00:48:38,260 --> 00:48:41,300
And Thou art going to give us of

1292
00:48:41,300 --> 00:48:47,680
the same deathless, immortal body and mind that

1293
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,880
relished it without its past.

1294
00:48:50,260 --> 00:48:52,740
Oh, Christ, prepare us for that day.

1295
00:48:52,740 --> 00:48:55,960
And we can save us from bogging down

1296
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:57,800
and getting sulky in silence.

1297
00:48:58,300 --> 00:49:00,220
Help us to pray to our God to

1298
00:49:00,220 --> 00:49:06,380
be as fresh and warm and vigorous as

1299
00:49:06,380 --> 00:49:08,240
the old temple of our body and heart.

1300
00:49:09,540 --> 00:49:11,320
Forgive us for our wasted years.

1301
00:49:11,860 --> 00:49:13,860
Forgive us for the people that we have

1302
00:49:13,860 --> 00:49:15,300
turned aside by our conduct.

1303
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:21,170
And may we pray that from now on,

1304
00:49:21,170 --> 00:49:23,710
everybody will, when they see us, want to

1305
00:49:23,710 --> 00:49:26,630
turn to our Savior because they saw us

1306
00:49:26,630 --> 00:49:26,890
live.

1307
00:49:27,750 --> 00:49:30,170
Bless us, we pray, through the rest of

1308
00:49:30,170 --> 00:49:31,090
this afternoon.

1309
00:49:31,710 --> 00:49:35,570
We will assert, we will spoil the discourse,

1310
00:49:36,510 --> 00:49:40,730
touch the mind of the troubled, warm all

1311
00:49:40,730 --> 00:49:43,910
our spirits together, and greatly bless us.

1312
00:49:44,050 --> 00:49:45,790
We ask in the name of Jesus Christ.

1313
00:49:46,310 --> 00:49:46,630
Amen.