1 00:00:01,620 --> 00:00:03,800 Now, again in this lecture I'm only going 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,820 to read this verse 13 and 14. 3 00:00:09,660 --> 00:00:14,280 Brethren, brethren, says the Apostle, I count not 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,720 myself to have apprehended, but this one thing 5 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,600 I do, forgetting those things which are behind, 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,060 and reaching forth unto those things which are 7 00:00:25,060 --> 00:00:28,360 before, I press as of the high calling 8 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:29,840 of God in Christ Jesus. 9 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:35,460 Now, you know that he wrote this two 10 00:00:35,460 --> 00:00:37,040 years before he died. 11 00:00:37,180 --> 00:00:39,260 He just had two years to go. 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,820 And then at the end of the two 13 00:00:43,820 --> 00:00:49,060 years, or between the writing of this and 14 00:00:49,060 --> 00:00:58,000 his testimony, something had happened evidently, because the 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:06,300 man of God said that here, that he 16 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:10,480 knew, and that he had fought a good 17 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,260 fight, and that he had kept the faith, 18 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:15,880 and that he was now ready. 19 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,540 Now, that something happened in those two years 20 00:01:20,540 --> 00:01:21,720 to the man of God. 21 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,860 Now, you have been listening to me over 22 00:01:24,860 --> 00:01:25,900 these last years. 23 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,980 And again we ask, what is the pastor 24 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:30,900 advocating? 25 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,140 What is this that he preaches? 26 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:36,400 I am concerned that it be nothing else 27 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:42,080 but Christ, because anything anybody offers you, if 28 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,840 not just more of Christ, is false. 29 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:49,520 I am concerned that his doctrinal foundation would 30 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,400 be the Scripture, and in its whole spiritual 31 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,100 mood would be apostolic, and that it be 32 00:01:56,100 --> 00:02:02,180 in harmony with the best in literature, the 33 00:02:02,180 --> 00:02:06,300 best in humanity, and the best in biography. 34 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:10,520 And yet, why does this preaching sound different? 35 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:17,480 Why does it sound strange when compared with 36 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,900 the much so-called and true gospel preaching? 37 00:02:22,860 --> 00:02:25,320 Well, what is this, before I enter in 38 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,600 really to the message for the night? 39 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,960 But I wanted to tell you that about 40 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,440 a general textualism captured the gospel church. 41 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,380 By the gospel church, I mean the fundamentalists, 42 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,840 the gospel church, those who believe in Christ 43 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:44,840 the Savior and accept him as such. 44 00:02:45,900 --> 00:02:48,500 And the scribes and the lawyers took over, 45 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,460 and set up a hierarchy in schools and 46 00:02:52,460 --> 00:02:56,720 Bible conferences in churches, and they all went, 47 00:02:56,860 --> 00:03:01,980 and the rule became a rigid adherence to 48 00:03:01,980 --> 00:03:02,520 words. 49 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,720 Now, it so happens that I believe, and 50 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,900 have never believed anything else in my entire 51 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:14,020 life, but in the plenary, that means verbal, 52 00:03:14,860 --> 00:03:18,000 inspiration of the Scriptures as originally given. 53 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,980 And you'll be honest with me, there's no 54 00:03:20,980 --> 00:03:23,860 reason to quote me, quote this, that I 55 00:03:23,860 --> 00:03:27,460 believe, and have always believed, as a responsible 56 00:03:27,460 --> 00:03:32,900 Christian teacher, in the plenary, verbal inspiration of 57 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:35,260 the Scriptures as originally given. 58 00:03:36,260 --> 00:03:41,720 But the thing was, and still is, that 59 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,720 the, by school I don't mean in particular, 60 00:03:46,060 --> 00:03:56,920 the thought, the verbal inspiration, rigor 61 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,280 mortis set into it. 62 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:04,760 And with the result that we were, we 63 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:11,000 were, the religious imagination was sultified, the learning 64 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,940 was choked down, the religious aspirations flapped down, 65 00:04:16,660 --> 00:04:20,500 and the longing aspirings of the children of 66 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:22,960 God were clipped like a hen in a 67 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,780 hen coop, and we were told to shut 68 00:04:26,780 --> 00:04:28,680 up and like what, this was it. 69 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:33,960 Brethren, do you know what happened to this? 70 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:38,000 The resulting, with the language of the New 71 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,040 Testament persisting, and the spirit of the New 72 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,980 Testament green, do you know what happened? 73 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:45,800 Well, I'll tell you. 74 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:51,760 There came about a revolt, a revolt against 75 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:52,880 the two directions. 76 00:04:53,820 --> 00:04:59,900 The masses of evangelicals revolted without knowing they 77 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:00,700 were revolting. 78 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:04,320 It was the gasping of a fish in 79 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,580 a bowl where there's no oxygen. 80 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:12,760 The masses revolted with entertainment, until the gospel 81 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,040 churches are now camping on the doorsteps of, 82 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,460 and then over against that and on the 83 00:05:20,460 --> 00:05:25,580 opposite side, some of the more intelligent fundamentalists 84 00:05:25,580 --> 00:05:33,240 revolted into evangelical rationalism, which is already built 85 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:34,120 with liberalism. 86 00:05:35,140 --> 00:05:40,160 And the result is that you just don't 87 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,540 hear what the rest of the time is 88 00:05:42,540 --> 00:05:42,640 about. 89 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:46,920 It sounds strange to hear anyone preaching as 90 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,400 I preach, because on one side we have 91 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,960 the masses saying, I've accepted Jesus, whoop-de 92 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,480 -doop, let's go and have fun. 93 00:05:55,980 --> 00:05:59,520 And on the other side, serious revelers sinking 94 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,160 their way perilously near to the borders of 95 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:04,820 liberalism. 96 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:13,820 The New Testament message, objectives, and methods have 97 00:06:13,820 --> 00:06:15,940 been relied on it. 98 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,120 And in the name of the lordship of 99 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,880 Jesus, which is lordship in name only, we 100 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,520 have produced our own message, our own objectives, 101 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,220 and then have thought out our own methods, 102 00:06:31,220 --> 00:06:35,680 achieving those objectives which are in many cases 103 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,840 not scriptural at all. 104 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:42,980 Now, my brethren, is it heresy to yearn 105 00:06:42,980 --> 00:06:45,800 and pray and long after God? 106 00:06:46,740 --> 00:06:52,840 Is it heresy to constitute a radical mind, 107 00:06:53,380 --> 00:06:55,500 to yearn and pray in spite? 108 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:57,000 Do you remember when I read the first 109 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,240 night the great prayer in the cloud of 110 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:01,740 unknowing? 111 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,480 God, I beseech thee, show me the intent 112 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:10,720 of mine heart, with the unspeakable gift of 113 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:15,180 thy grace, that I may lovely and wordily 114 00:07:15,180 --> 00:07:16,920 praise thee. 115 00:07:16,980 --> 00:07:22,760 To long perfectly to love God, to wordily 116 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,480 to praise him, is a mean more than 117 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,340 words when you say it, meaner everything. 118 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:31,800 Is that heresy? 119 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,060 Should they put a man in jail for 120 00:07:35,060 --> 00:07:35,320 it? 121 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,840 Should he be ostracized in the light of 122 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,460 our hymnody, in the light of our devotional 123 00:07:42,460 --> 00:07:45,660 books back to Paul, in the light of 124 00:07:45,660 --> 00:07:47,000 the prophecy of the saint? 125 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:49,200 No, I think not. 126 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,520 Now, I want to read to you just 127 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:58,460 very briefly from Necepharis, from a book called 128 00:07:58,460 --> 00:07:59,700 the Philokalia. 129 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,340 He starts out, he wants to move forward 130 00:08:03,340 --> 00:08:06,940 to know God, to do what the cloud 131 00:08:06,940 --> 00:08:09,480 calls being one with God, united with God. 132 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,840 Now, I want you Christians to ask yourselves 133 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,680 the question, could I go along with this? 134 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,900 Now, this Necepharis was a Greek. 135 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,580 That is, he was over on the Greek 136 00:08:22,580 --> 00:08:23,040 side. 137 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,820 He wasn't a Protestant, and he wasn't a 138 00:08:25,820 --> 00:08:29,980 Roman Catholic, and he wasn't a Coptic, nor 139 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:30,540 a Mexican. 140 00:08:31,020 --> 00:08:34,140 He belonged to over on the Greek side, 141 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,600 but he was a saint to help people 142 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:38,760 to go along with God. 143 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,380 And he said, You who desire to capture 144 00:08:42,380 --> 00:08:47,360 the wonder and illumination of our Savior Jesus 145 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,360 Christ, you believe in this, and you seek 146 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,680 to feel the fire in your heart. 147 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,700 Now, here was a scholar and a saint, 148 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,400 and he wrote it into a book in 149 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,180 the, I think, which is a classic, and 150 00:09:02,180 --> 00:09:04,760 is recognized as such, and he dared to 151 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,660 use the word, you seek to feel the 152 00:09:07,660 --> 00:09:12,440 divine part, and strive to sense and experience 153 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,480 the feeling of reconciliation with God, who in 154 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,220 order to unearth in the field of your 155 00:09:18,220 --> 00:09:20,820 heart, and to gain possession of it, have 156 00:09:20,820 --> 00:09:23,780 renounced everything worldly. 157 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:27,600 You desire that this soul should burn brightly, 158 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,900 even now, not in the future. 159 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:34,480 We have become so distant-minded that we've 160 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:39,180 pushed everything into the future, everything into the 161 00:09:39,180 --> 00:09:39,520 future. 162 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,400 But this man says, You who desire your 163 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,860 soul to burn brightly, even now. 164 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:50,000 And Peter said, In this present world, for 165 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,500 this purpose have renounced all this world, who 166 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:58,320 wish by conscious experience, conscious experience in modern 167 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,580 psychology, to know and to receive the kingdom 168 00:10:03,580 --> 00:10:05,360 of heaven existing within you. 169 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,560 He said what I'm teaching all the time, 170 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:10,980 that Christ dwells in the heart of every 171 00:10:10,980 --> 00:10:11,380 believer. 172 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:14,280 Know ye not that Christ is in you, 173 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:15,040 except you believe? 174 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,660 And if a man has not the Spirit 175 00:10:17,660 --> 00:10:19,160 of Christ, he is none of you. 176 00:10:20,180 --> 00:10:25,300 And the riches of the Lord lie potentially 177 00:10:25,300 --> 00:10:25,760 there. 178 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,640 But we have been forbidden to believe it, 179 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,160 or forbidden to think. 180 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,900 We have been choked down, and the oxygen 181 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:37,180 cut off, and our wings clipped, and our 182 00:10:37,180 --> 00:10:39,180 longings killed. 183 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:43,480 And that's why, when I say it sounds 184 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,180 different and strange, and people say, What is 185 00:10:46,180 --> 00:10:47,140 this new doctrine? 186 00:10:47,340 --> 00:10:48,280 It's an old doctrine. 187 00:10:48,780 --> 00:10:51,500 Ah, my brother, I want to talk a 188 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:55,500 little bit tonight about the cloud of concealment 189 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,220 that has made full atonement for us. 190 00:10:58,280 --> 00:10:59,240 Let's start there. 191 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:01,580 Christ has made full atonement. 192 00:11:01,740 --> 00:11:05,280 Christ has, for sin atonement, made a wonderful 193 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:05,880 Savior. 194 00:11:06,460 --> 00:11:08,580 Would you like to hear it said for 195 00:11:08,580 --> 00:11:11,160 you by somebody else that could say it 196 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,980 better than this little lady, Julian? 197 00:11:14,420 --> 00:11:15,680 Here's what she said. 198 00:11:15,780 --> 00:11:21,640 The precious amends for satisfaction are for man's 199 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,640 sin, turning all our blame into endless honor. 200 00:11:27,180 --> 00:11:29,300 Could it be said sweeter than that? 201 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,580 The sins our Lord hath made for man's 202 00:11:32,580 --> 00:11:37,660 sin, turning all our blame into endless honor. 203 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:38,940 Say it a little differently. 204 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,520 He said where grace abounded, sin does what? 205 00:11:43,060 --> 00:11:46,020 Oh, where sin abounded, where grace does much, 206 00:11:46,220 --> 00:11:50,840 turning all our blame into endless honor. 207 00:11:51,660 --> 00:11:54,020 Now, God's face is turned toward us. 208 00:11:54,020 --> 00:11:54,960 Think like that tonight. 209 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:56,460 Don't let the devil cheat you. 210 00:11:56,580 --> 00:11:58,060 Don't let doubt beset you. 211 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:00,800 Don't let anything I say or anybody has 212 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,840 ever said cheat for his knowledge. 213 00:12:03,380 --> 00:12:06,200 But the face of God is turned toward 214 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:06,660 you. 215 00:12:07,420 --> 00:12:10,600 And as a Christian, the smiling face of 216 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:11,940 God toward you. 217 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:15,100 Why then do we not enjoy, now to 218 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:17,860 use these words again, why then do we 219 00:12:17,860 --> 00:12:21,260 as Christians not wonder at the divine illumination 220 00:12:21,260 --> 00:12:23,660 of the Savior Jesus Christ? 221 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,260 Why do we not feel the divine fire? 222 00:12:27,780 --> 00:12:30,060 Why do we not strive to sense and 223 00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:33,300 experience, or why do we not sense and 224 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:37,180 experience, feel affiliation with God as well as 225 00:12:37,180 --> 00:12:38,000 the knowledge of it? 226 00:12:38,620 --> 00:12:41,440 And why do we not gain possession of 227 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:41,560 it? 228 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:43,880 Oh, I know they dismiss it by word, 229 00:12:43,980 --> 00:12:46,000 your position and your possession. 230 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,480 But that can get so cold as dry 231 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:50,160 ice. 232 00:12:50,980 --> 00:12:53,640 Why is it that the candles do not 233 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,100 burn more brightly even now? 234 00:12:56,740 --> 00:12:58,460 Why is it that we do not have 235 00:12:58,460 --> 00:13:02,560 the conscious experience to leave the kingdom existing 236 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:03,840 within us? 237 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:05,920 Well, I'll tell you why. 238 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,560 Because there is the sweet smiling face of 239 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:13,320 God without the clouded concealment. 240 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,020 Now, my friends, there is never such when 241 00:13:17,020 --> 00:13:18,240 the sun doesn't shine. 242 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:20,920 In some of the cities, I think it's 243 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,380 Atlanta, Georgia, maybe I'm wrong, but one of 244 00:13:23,380 --> 00:13:25,340 the southern cities offers, have you heard it? 245 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:29,280 That they will give all that rum, that 246 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,520 day's rum to the newspaper, free of charge 247 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:32,980 if the sun doesn't shine somewhere. 248 00:13:34,020 --> 00:13:34,600 St. Petersburg? 249 00:13:35,340 --> 00:13:37,540 Well, now let me tell you something. 250 00:13:37,540 --> 00:13:42,600 That the sun shines every day and there 251 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,760 never has been a day from the hour 252 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,720 God said, let the sun rule the day. 253 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:54,060 But there are dark days and misty days 254 00:13:54,060 --> 00:13:57,120 and cloudy days and days that get so 255 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,820 dark you have to light, days that get 256 00:13:58,820 --> 00:14:00,820 so dark that in the country the chickens 257 00:14:00,820 --> 00:14:02,180 go to roost, I think. 258 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:06,040 Now, there are dark days and yet the 259 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,500 shining just as brightly as on the brightest, 260 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:11,260 clearest day in June. 261 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,140 Why then does it not shine on the 262 00:14:14,140 --> 00:14:15,700 earth between the sun and the earth, the 263 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:16,940 clouded concealment? 264 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:19,320 The sun is all right, the sun is 265 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,200 up there and brimming broadly and just as 266 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,580 bright and just as hot as red in 267 00:14:24,580 --> 00:14:24,960 the desert. 268 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,400 But he doesn't get through to the earth 269 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:32,200 because there is a clouded concealment, this cloud, 270 00:14:32,340 --> 00:14:32,760 my brothers. 271 00:14:33,580 --> 00:14:36,000 You know what it is from the standpoint 272 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:36,940 of the weather. 273 00:14:38,260 --> 00:14:40,980 But what is it as applied to Christians? 274 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:43,080 Why, what's the matter? 275 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,180 Well, it's the cloud of concealment, the cloud 276 00:14:46,180 --> 00:14:47,740 that we allow to be over. 277 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,460 What is this cloud? 278 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,660 Atonement has been made, there's nothing to do 279 00:14:53,660 --> 00:14:55,060 for it's all been done. 280 00:14:55,220 --> 00:14:57,120 Not a drop to be shed, not a 281 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,420 spear needs to enter a holy heart, not 282 00:15:00,420 --> 00:15:03,040 a tear nor a groan nor a drop 283 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,320 of sweat, not agony, death has no more 284 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:07,600 dominion over him. 285 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,580 It is done, it is finished, it is 286 00:15:10,580 --> 00:15:12,340 forever done. 287 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,220 God shines down upon us. 288 00:15:17,180 --> 00:15:20,720 And even upon Christians, there's that cloud or 289 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,500 above cloud of concealment that puts thee in 290 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:25,120 thy God, as the brothers say. 291 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,040 Now what is that cloud? 292 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,960 Well, it's a cloud in thing, it may 293 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:30,980 be many things. 294 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,300 There is the cloud of pride for ages. 295 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,160 You are your father's child, your home. 296 00:15:38,900 --> 00:15:42,440 And yet for a lifetime, you may go 297 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,240 without the wondrous divine illumination of the Savior, 298 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,000 without feeling the divine fire in your heart, 299 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:54,300 or sensing or experiencing the healing of wretched 300 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:54,820 God. 301 00:15:54,820 --> 00:15:58,140 And without the candles of your soul burning 302 00:15:58,140 --> 00:16:02,360 brighter, because you allow a cloud of pride 303 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:03,400 over your head. 304 00:16:04,020 --> 00:16:06,460 And the devil says, well, God hates you, 305 00:16:06,580 --> 00:16:09,420 God turned his back, the devil lies. 306 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,640 There have been turns to a child of 307 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,200 God and to a repentant sinner since the 308 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,180 hour Jesus groaned and died and said, it 309 00:16:18,180 --> 00:16:20,360 seems to God he's turned all away. 310 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,120 But we allow this cloud of pride and 311 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,860 the cloud of stubbornness, that are just plain 312 00:16:27,860 --> 00:16:28,580 stubborn. 313 00:16:29,380 --> 00:16:32,260 They will not bend, they will not kneel, 314 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,280 neither to man or God, or to anybody, 315 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,220 law and death, they will not. 316 00:16:38,780 --> 00:16:42,680 And so this cloud of stubbornness, God complained 317 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:46,320 about Israel, it cracks, and the forehead is 318 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:50,120 high, and he couldn't get them to kneel. 319 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:52,940 And then there is self-will. 320 00:16:52,940 --> 00:16:57,120 Now, self-will is a very religious thing. 321 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:02,520 And it may become religious, get converted, and 322 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,859 enter right with you into the church when 323 00:17:04,859 --> 00:17:06,859 you join, and bring you into the chamber 324 00:17:06,859 --> 00:17:07,700 when you pray. 325 00:17:08,140 --> 00:17:11,200 Self-will, and self-will you'll note, is 326 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,660 good natured only when it's getting its own 327 00:17:13,660 --> 00:17:13,920 way. 328 00:17:14,500 --> 00:17:16,520 And it's vouchsafed and ill-tempered when it 329 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:17,119 is crossed. 330 00:17:17,220 --> 00:17:18,160 Think about that. 331 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,460 Is your surrender to God sufficient? 332 00:17:21,460 --> 00:17:21,740 Yes. 333 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,660 So that you can be, to even swing 334 00:17:26,660 --> 00:17:27,680 your cross. 335 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,000 And then there is ambition. 336 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,060 And you know there's even religious ambition? 337 00:17:33,380 --> 00:17:37,820 People that are religiously ambitious for something perhaps 338 00:17:37,820 --> 00:17:39,540 that isn't in the will of God, or 339 00:17:39,540 --> 00:17:42,820 that's for self-aggrandism, and the result is 340 00:17:42,820 --> 00:17:45,200 that it's a cloud above them, between them 341 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:46,400 and their God. 342 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:50,660 Now, there's a little proverb, a Knox translation, 343 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:53,180 it reads like this, it rather amuses me, 344 00:17:53,580 --> 00:17:58,860 because it's so true, and it's a good 345 00:17:58,860 --> 00:18:00,580 picture of the human heart. 346 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,440 It says, Cripped by, cripped, C-R-I 347 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,680 -P-P-E-D, Cripped by his own, 348 00:18:06,780 --> 00:18:10,160 a man eats his heart out, finding fault 349 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:10,980 even with God. 350 00:18:11,780 --> 00:18:14,040 And you'll find Christians like that. 351 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,060 Cripped, golly, they eat their heart out, finding 352 00:18:18,060 --> 00:18:21,240 fault even with God, having what God calls 353 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,120 a controversy with me, and then, everything I 354 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:26,220 claim for myself. 355 00:18:27,060 --> 00:18:29,420 Now this is the one thing I've been 356 00:18:29,420 --> 00:18:32,180 teaching, I suppose, at heart, that I've got 357 00:18:32,180 --> 00:18:33,320 to give up everything. 358 00:18:34,060 --> 00:18:37,060 That this pastor that I have here must 359 00:18:37,060 --> 00:18:39,700 go on the block, and I must be 360 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:41,980 ready to give it up, and let it 361 00:18:41,980 --> 00:18:44,840 ride away on any sermon I preach, or 362 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,120 any position I take. 363 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:50,080 I dare not, my job as editor of 364 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:54,160 the weekly, my position in the religious world, 365 00:18:54,740 --> 00:18:57,940 I must put everything on the block, and 366 00:18:57,940 --> 00:18:58,680 ready to go. 367 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,420 If I own it, it is a cloud 368 00:19:02,420 --> 00:19:03,640 over my head. 369 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,720 It becomes a cloud of obscurity that nothing 370 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:08,520 will penetrate. 371 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:13,040 When people try to pray through it, nothing 372 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,340 can penetrate it. 373 00:19:14,340 --> 00:19:17,720 You try to fast through it, there are 374 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,440 people that fast for days, out of nothing 375 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:21,080 but stubborn. 376 00:19:21,460 --> 00:19:23,620 You know that, the history, I won't go 377 00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:25,660 into politics, but over the world in the 378 00:19:25,660 --> 00:19:29,340 last 25 years, you remember that there were 379 00:19:29,340 --> 00:19:31,820 some who died for political reasons, just sheer, 380 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:32,960 downright stubborn. 381 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,240 And there are those who, you try to 382 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:38,800 fast, you can't do it, brother. 383 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:43,140 The cloud of concealment, if it is something 384 00:19:43,140 --> 00:19:45,680 that you say is yours, and you want 385 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,440 to, but you don't, it'll put a veil 386 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:48,980 over it. 387 00:19:49,340 --> 00:19:50,840 And if there's any sun, it'll not be 388 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:51,580 very bright. 389 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:53,600 It'll be a cloud. 390 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:54,780 Pray through it. 391 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,400 This idea that if you pray long enough, 392 00:19:57,460 --> 00:19:59,020 everything will be all right. 393 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:01,160 Why, God got some people up off their 394 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,320 knees and told them to quit. 395 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:03,620 Two days later, they stopped praying. 396 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:04,700 Did you know that? 397 00:20:04,780 --> 00:20:05,600 Said, no use. 398 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,220 There was a man, Saul, and he was 399 00:20:08,220 --> 00:20:09,300 praying and praying. 400 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,920 God came, put his hand over his mouth, 401 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,000 Saul, Samuel. 402 00:20:12,420 --> 00:20:15,140 Said, Samuel, don't pray anymore for Saul. 403 00:20:15,460 --> 00:20:16,280 He's broke. 404 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:17,180 Don't pray for him. 405 00:20:17,260 --> 00:20:18,180 Shut him up. 406 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,580 And there was another instance where Joshua was 407 00:20:21,580 --> 00:20:23,460 lying face down, praying. 408 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,100 We'd have written a tract about him. 409 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,100 We'd have said, oh, what a thing. 410 00:20:27,140 --> 00:20:29,060 God says, well, she's lying there on your 411 00:20:29,060 --> 00:20:29,440 stomach. 412 00:20:29,580 --> 00:20:31,200 I don't honor a man for lying on 413 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:31,580 his belly. 414 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,440 Get up off your feet and deal with 415 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:35,340 the crowd. 416 00:20:35,860 --> 00:20:37,800 And then I'll bless you and save all 417 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:38,940 that lying around groaning. 418 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,840 So remember that this modern idea that if 419 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:44,540 you pray, everything will be okay. 420 00:20:44,660 --> 00:20:47,020 It's not right, but the Saint of God 421 00:20:47,020 --> 00:20:48,960 loves these long seasons of prayer. 422 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,960 And God gives an answer to prayer. 423 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:53,980 And the soul seeks his desire. 424 00:20:54,820 --> 00:20:56,860 And the breath of the Saint and all 425 00:20:56,860 --> 00:20:59,120 that I believe and I think practice in 426 00:20:59,120 --> 00:20:59,660 some ways. 427 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:02,780 But I can hang on to things and 428 00:21:02,780 --> 00:21:05,100 then pray the cloud away while I'm hanging 429 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:06,020 on to the cloud. 430 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:07,980 No, no, you can't do it. 431 00:21:07,980 --> 00:21:10,400 So nothing will get to it. 432 00:21:10,460 --> 00:21:11,540 And then there is fear. 433 00:21:12,260 --> 00:21:15,720 Fear is always a child of unbelief. 434 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:18,400 No matter what, whether you've got cancer or 435 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,900 whether your child's likely to have polio or 436 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:24,160 whether you're likely to lose your job or 437 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,660 whether she will send a guided missile and 438 00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:27,420 destroy Chicago. 439 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,160 Remember always that fear is a child of 440 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:31,720 unbelief. 441 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,780 And fear over your head and hide that 442 00:21:35,780 --> 00:21:37,660 smiling face from you. 443 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,140 And then 444 00:21:41,140 --> 00:21:49,980 there is self-love. 445 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:50,860 Self-love. 446 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,620 We make a joke out of it, but 447 00:21:52,620 --> 00:21:54,400 we never should make a joke out of 448 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:54,900 it, friends. 449 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,900 Because self-love is concealment, a cloud of 450 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:00,640 obscurity. 451 00:22:01,220 --> 00:22:03,740 And even the Christian who has offered himself 452 00:22:03,740 --> 00:22:08,140 to Christ and has been reverted, that Christian 453 00:22:08,140 --> 00:22:11,700 can keep a cloud of concealment over him 454 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:13,580 simply by loving himself. 455 00:22:14,460 --> 00:22:16,440 And to fall out of love is an 456 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:16,920 accident. 457 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:18,760 That is, it is not only an accident, 458 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:19,680 I mean a hurt. 459 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,020 It hurts you like falling off of something. 460 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:23,980 And that's relation. 461 00:22:24,860 --> 00:22:26,700 And self-admiration. 462 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,580 It's self-esteem. 463 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:32,900 They're there, remain there, and then the odd 464 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:35,380 thing about it is that the scribes have 465 00:22:35,380 --> 00:22:37,740 excused me and proved that they should be 466 00:22:37,740 --> 00:22:39,640 there and who can't do anything about it. 467 00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:42,740 And yet we cry within us, Oh, that 468 00:22:42,740 --> 00:22:45,180 the candles of my soul might burn brightly 469 00:22:45,180 --> 00:22:45,960 even now. 470 00:22:46,540 --> 00:22:49,940 Oh, the divine illumination of my Savior Jesus 471 00:22:49,940 --> 00:22:50,480 Christ. 472 00:22:51,220 --> 00:22:53,420 And we groan with the groan that goes 473 00:22:53,420 --> 00:22:56,240 back to Paul in Philippians, that goes back 474 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,040 to David, that we might come into a 475 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,940 warm, personal, pleasant, lasting fellowship with Jesus Christ 476 00:23:03,940 --> 00:23:07,660 that lifts us and irradiates our hearts. 477 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,960 And yet we can't because we admire him 478 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,520 and we're not going to have anybody disturb 479 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:20,840 us and we congratulate ourselves and we love 480 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:21,060 him. 481 00:23:21,220 --> 00:23:22,440 And then there's money. 482 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,700 Money these days gets between betwixt thee and 483 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:30,060 thy God, there's a verse, betwixt thee and 484 00:23:30,060 --> 00:23:30,860 thy God. 485 00:23:31,420 --> 00:23:33,960 Some revangement years ago in my hearing pointed 486 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,660 out that you can take two dimes and 487 00:23:36,660 --> 00:23:39,040 shout out, you can take two dimes with 488 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,440 you to the Great Smoky Mountain and go 489 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,520 clear to the top knob of the Great 490 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:46,040 Smoky. 491 00:23:46,860 --> 00:23:53,100 Shout out all the glorious, green, rolling, blue 492 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:55,440 -capped, this smoky. 493 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,900 Just put them in front of your eyes 494 00:23:56,900 --> 00:23:58,900 and put them close, that's all it takes. 495 00:23:59,740 --> 00:24:02,040 The mountains are still there smiling in the 496 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,340 sun because there's a dime in front of 497 00:24:04,340 --> 00:24:05,040 each eye. 498 00:24:05,580 --> 00:24:07,300 It doesn't take much money. 499 00:24:08,060 --> 00:24:10,360 We who don't have much money are always 500 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:12,520 snide remarks that the rich man. 501 00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:14,780 But brother, you can be rich and only 502 00:24:14,780 --> 00:24:18,400 have ten dollars because if it is between 503 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,180 you and God, then that cloud, that cloud 504 00:24:22,180 --> 00:24:24,060 is concealing God from you. 505 00:24:24,660 --> 00:24:27,120 And then there's people, just plain people. 506 00:24:27,580 --> 00:24:29,280 The Lord tells us that we shouldn't be 507 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,280 afraid of man with his breath and his 508 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:31,800 nostrils. 509 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:35,500 And yet there are people who are Christians 510 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:37,420 with a cloud of fear above them. 511 00:24:38,060 --> 00:24:39,880 Constantly a cloud of fear. 512 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,760 They want to fit in. 513 00:24:41,860 --> 00:24:45,340 They want to fit in here and the 514 00:24:45,340 --> 00:24:47,860 sociologists tell us we must do this, that 515 00:24:47,860 --> 00:24:50,060 we must adjust to society. 516 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,200 And the schools are breaking the history and 517 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:57,580 writing and reading and arithmetic and all the 518 00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:57,820 rest. 519 00:24:58,180 --> 00:25:01,440 They're teaching the children to not to be 520 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,680 queer and to get along well. 521 00:25:04,340 --> 00:25:08,580 Well, if you've got that as your goal, 522 00:25:08,740 --> 00:25:10,400 you have heart, my Christian friends. 523 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,640 And then there are our friends. 524 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,140 And then there's a position we hold, whatever 525 00:25:16,140 --> 00:25:17,880 it may be, to our loved ones. 526 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,080 And this is the tenderest and perhaps the 527 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:21,640 hardest. 528 00:25:22,540 --> 00:25:24,320 But that's all got to go. 529 00:25:24,580 --> 00:25:25,460 You say, then what is it? 530 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,800 If this cloud is over my head, is 531 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,700 a cloud of concealment? 532 00:25:31,220 --> 00:25:34,380 When my father's smiling and I can't see 533 00:25:34,380 --> 00:25:38,040 his face, what shall I do? 534 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,560 Well, the old brother suggests, and I've to 535 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,960 you as a beautiful illustration, he calls it 536 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,060 a cloud of forgetting. 537 00:25:46,060 --> 00:25:49,720 He said, put this cloud that's above you, 538 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,860 under you, as a cloud of forgetting. 539 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,160 And Paul said exactly the same thing. 540 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:58,340 Forgetting those things which are behind. 541 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,560 Force under those things which are before. 542 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:05,020 You see, the things which were behind Paul 543 00:26:05,020 --> 00:26:06,360 were a cloud. 544 00:26:06,820 --> 00:26:08,960 If they'd been in front of him, then 545 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:09,940 he'd cut out God. 546 00:26:10,020 --> 00:26:11,460 But he put them behind him. 547 00:26:11,980 --> 00:26:17,640 His deceit, his mistakes, his errors, his wrongs, 548 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,060 the times he'd fallen on his face, and 549 00:26:21,060 --> 00:26:23,900 the time the Lord had his pride, and 550 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:26,660 all this, he put them behind him, and 551 00:26:26,660 --> 00:26:29,200 under his feet is a cloud of forgetting. 552 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,420 And the old man, as God said, under 553 00:26:32,420 --> 00:26:33,300 you. 554 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,460 And he said, now have them not betwixt 555 00:26:36,460 --> 00:26:38,080 thee and thy God. 556 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,880 Like so he put a cloud between betwixt 557 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,440 thee and all the creatures that ever God 558 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:43,880 made. 559 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,280 We've got to get that cloud of forgetting 560 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,020 under our feet. 561 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:49,420 And of course, that's the job of the 562 00:26:49,420 --> 00:26:49,720 Christian. 563 00:26:50,540 --> 00:26:53,040 And that's why I'm preaching like this. 564 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,620 And some are understanding about it. 565 00:26:56,980 --> 00:26:57,920 Others are not. 566 00:26:58,540 --> 00:27:01,040 Others have come up to me, Acadis Barnea, 567 00:27:01,220 --> 00:27:03,920 want to reach to me, and have turned 568 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,100 back to wonder why they're standing in their 569 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:06,460 shoes. 570 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,140 It's because we would not go on Acadis 571 00:27:10,140 --> 00:27:10,780 Barnea. 572 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:11,960 Right? 573 00:27:12,060 --> 00:27:16,440 So forgetting these things, and all this that 574 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,520 has been a cloud of confusion, now becomes 575 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,820 a cloud of forgetting. 576 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,400 The face of God, I repeat, is smiling 577 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:23,880 still. 578 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,980 And not all the cloud I've mentioned, and 579 00:27:25,980 --> 00:27:27,980 not all the cloud the devil can blow 580 00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:28,400 up there. 581 00:27:28,580 --> 00:27:30,720 And the devil can come and put it 582 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,260 between you, betwixt you, and the face of 583 00:27:33,260 --> 00:27:39,220 your God, experientially, but that God is waiting 584 00:27:39,220 --> 00:27:41,920 within the veil, or the king, the figure, 585 00:27:42,020 --> 00:27:44,420 he's waiting for you to move up, to 586 00:27:44,420 --> 00:27:44,760 move up. 587 00:27:44,860 --> 00:27:48,060 I remember getting on a plane at LaGuardia 588 00:27:48,060 --> 00:27:49,720 Field in New York some years ago. 589 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,000 It was about, I would say, three o 590 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:52,780 'clock in the afternoon. 591 00:27:53,620 --> 00:27:57,000 The smiling, relaxed, friendly pilot came out and 592 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,000 made a little speech. 593 00:27:58,820 --> 00:28:00,820 He knew that old doctors like me would 594 00:28:00,820 --> 00:28:02,540 worry about because it was raining. 595 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:04,640 It was a miserable day, like as we 596 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:05,460 get here sometimes. 597 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,040 Just plain miserable. 598 00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:11,560 And he said, now, I'm leaving in a 599 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:11,920 moment. 600 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,460 And he said, the situation is this, friends. 601 00:28:17,020 --> 00:28:19,580 In 15 minutes we'll be in the sunlight. 602 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,640 In 15 minutes we'll be in the sunlight. 603 00:28:24,260 --> 00:28:27,040 And he says, the weather report shows from 604 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,140 here to Chicago. 605 00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:30,340 And sure enough, it was. 606 00:28:31,820 --> 00:28:34,420 And so we got into that plane almost 607 00:28:34,420 --> 00:28:36,760 feeling a little smog and a mist. 608 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,740 And in 15 minutes we had put the 609 00:28:40,740 --> 00:28:42,460 cloud under our feet. 610 00:28:43,260 --> 00:28:44,300 And the bright above. 611 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,800 And as we rose, even the cloud became 612 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:48,720 white beneath us. 613 00:28:48,860 --> 00:28:51,020 You alone a lot have had the experience 614 00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:54,100 of seeing that gray wood trees that are 615 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:57,460 underneath you white as whipped egg. 616 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,020 And when you were underneath they were a 617 00:29:01,020 --> 00:29:05,460 misty, miserable, smoggy thing that cut out the 618 00:29:05,460 --> 00:29:05,780 sun. 619 00:29:06,260 --> 00:29:08,320 But in 15 minutes they put them under. 620 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,520 And oh brother, is it nice to take 621 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,560 off in the smoke and rain and fly 622 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,320 900 miles in the sun. 623 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,840 Now, that's what I mean. 624 00:29:22,940 --> 00:29:24,500 You're going to have to put this under 625 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:25,040 your feet. 626 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:26,640 Get busy about it. 627 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,060 Do something about this. 628 00:29:28,340 --> 00:29:30,540 And more than sit and take in some 629 00:29:30,540 --> 00:29:32,860 more, you're going to have to work on 630 00:29:32,860 --> 00:29:33,360 yourself. 631 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:34,720 I wonder if you are. 632 00:29:34,980 --> 00:29:38,400 I wonder if I'm not contradicting myself. 633 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,620 For he says he will but look on 634 00:29:42,620 --> 00:29:44,340 him and let him work. 635 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,000 I wonder if it's true. 636 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,640 Wouldn't it be better more accurate to say 637 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,280 no consent to put the clouds under will 638 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,520 put the clouds under. 639 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,080 What does a man do in an airplane? 640 00:29:56,340 --> 00:29:59,880 Now I, if I help the pilot, I 641 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,400 keep balancing the thing as a return. 642 00:30:02,620 --> 00:30:03,680 Now really, I do. 643 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,120 But what help the pilot, that great big 644 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,760 good natured fellow sitting up there winging, what 645 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,580 does he care about a little fellow winging 646 00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:14,160 159 in the summer and a little less 647 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:14,600 in the winter. 648 00:30:14,940 --> 00:30:17,760 What can I do without him being a 649 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,200 four cylinder, four engine monster. 650 00:30:20,740 --> 00:30:21,240 Not at all. 651 00:30:21,300 --> 00:30:22,760 But I help him the best I can. 652 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,740 Into the sunshine, look on him and let 653 00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:26,220 him alone. 654 00:30:27,020 --> 00:30:27,720 That's all. 655 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,140 The kids ought to be willing that cloud 656 00:30:30,140 --> 00:30:30,880 get under your feet. 657 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,000 I don't ever go up. 658 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:33,060 A lot of them. 659 00:30:33,460 --> 00:30:35,260 Oh, they have every excuse in the wide 660 00:30:35,260 --> 00:30:36,820 world that he's not going up. 661 00:30:37,420 --> 00:30:39,320 They'd rather stay right down here. 662 00:30:39,660 --> 00:30:40,340 And they do. 663 00:30:40,940 --> 00:30:43,460 The sun shines brightly and they think the 664 00:30:43,460 --> 00:30:44,920 sun will be shining when it is. 665 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,400 Now, put it under you money. 666 00:30:47,460 --> 00:30:47,960 What is it? 667 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:53,660 Well, I've said money, people, friends, physicians, loved 668 00:30:53,660 --> 00:30:58,840 ones, peers, and all that I claim and 669 00:30:58,840 --> 00:30:59,860 call my own. 670 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:05,900 Ambition, pride, stubbornness, nothing else the Holy Ghost 671 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:08,160 may point to in your life. 672 00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:14,710 Only you know what he's a jealous rival 673 00:31:14,710 --> 00:31:17,670 and he's a jealous lover and he suffers 674 00:31:17,670 --> 00:31:18,790 no rival. 675 00:31:19,670 --> 00:31:22,910 And whatever there is is a cloud between 676 00:31:22,910 --> 00:31:24,170 thee and thy God. 677 00:31:24,890 --> 00:31:28,590 I don't say that you're not going to 678 00:31:28,590 --> 00:31:30,390 it if you're not justified. 679 00:31:31,210 --> 00:31:35,430 I say that this we've talked about, this 680 00:31:35,430 --> 00:31:40,530 wondrous divine ability perfectly to love him and 681 00:31:40,530 --> 00:31:43,430 wear him in his face that has been 682 00:31:43,430 --> 00:31:47,390 choked out and smitten down out of for 683 00:31:47,390 --> 00:31:48,150 a generation. 684 00:31:49,470 --> 00:31:53,610 This, this, we lack and we lack it 685 00:31:53,610 --> 00:31:56,490 because we will not put under our feet 686 00:31:56,490 --> 00:31:58,210 the cloud under the Spirit. 687 00:31:58,830 --> 00:32:02,010 We let it rise between us and our 688 00:32:02,010 --> 00:32:04,390 brethren if you will put it under your 689 00:32:04,390 --> 00:32:04,750 feet. 690 00:32:06,570 --> 00:32:11,310 Why, you'll find that it hides all that 691 00:32:11,310 --> 00:32:14,570 that's bothered you and that that changes and 692 00:32:14,570 --> 00:32:16,010 worries you and brings you. 693 00:32:16,510 --> 00:32:18,430 It's down there and it's out and it's 694 00:32:18,430 --> 00:32:26,550 gone and it's a clear sky and it's 695 00:32:26,550 --> 00:32:35,390 gone and it's gone and it's gone 696 00:32:35,390 --> 00:32:45,090 and it's gone and it's 697 00:32:45,090 --> 00:32:48,110 gone and it's gone and it's and it's 698 00:32:48,110 --> 00:32:54,980 and it's gone and it's gone and it's 699 00:32:56,420 --> 00:33:06,280 gone and it's gone 700 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:15,440 and it's gone and 701 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,640 it's gone and it's and it's and it's 702 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:23,360 and it's gone and it's And because that 703 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,760 crowd has been buzzing and thought they can't 704 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,820 rise, they've rushed to get a little heartbeat 705 00:33:28,820 --> 00:33:32,540 from the theater, rushed to get a little 706 00:33:32,540 --> 00:33:38,080 bit of a feeling from Hillbilly ballad scenes, 707 00:33:38,260 --> 00:33:41,000 religious songs, and theatrical. 708 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:44,280 I don't blame them, they've been cheated and 709 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:49,300 the lawyers have wronged them, as in the 710 00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:50,020 days of Jesus. 711 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:53,020 Jesus walked among men in that day with 712 00:33:53,020 --> 00:33:56,240 his eyes bright and his beauty seen. 713 00:33:57,260 --> 00:33:59,880 And he said, they tell you do because 714 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:03,140 they're theologically right, but don't be like them. 715 00:34:03,820 --> 00:34:06,160 And they said, we'll kill that man, and 716 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,040 they'll kill that man. 717 00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:09,699 But he rose the third day and sent 718 00:34:09,699 --> 00:34:13,580 down the Holy Ghost into the world in 719 00:34:13,580 --> 00:34:14,260 his mind. 720 00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:25,580 And he said, we'll kill that 721 00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:35,860 man, and 722 00:34:35,860 --> 00:34:36,540 we'll kill that man. 723 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,739 And he said, we'll kill that man, and 724 00:34:39,739 --> 00:34:41,320 we'll kill that man. 725 00:35:15,260 --> 00:35:17,460 Does that make a fanatic out of you? 726 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:20,300 Come on, let's not be fanatics. 727 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:21,860 Just go and sit there in the air. 728 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:26,060 That fanaticism ought to make a fanatic out 729 00:35:26,060 --> 00:35:26,420 of you. 730 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,840 But I have to warn you. 731 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:31,560 No, no, that's not fanaticism. 732 00:35:31,940 --> 00:35:36,460 Fanaticism is going against the scriptures, imagined things, 733 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:37,320 dreams. 734 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,400 And he has to interpret the word of 735 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:41,820 God. 736 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,840 But he can't go over one line of 737 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:45,500 the word of God. 738 00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:47,740 Not one line. 739 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:50,240 It's all here. 740 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,540 The doctrines of this place. 741 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:55,560 The place of living still. 742 00:35:58,210 --> 00:35:59,170 So what about it? 743 00:35:59,210 --> 00:36:00,730 I take it and you take it. 744 00:36:01,430 --> 00:36:02,910 Now if you can go and put that 745 00:36:02,910 --> 00:36:06,250 cloud of self, and cloud of self-love, 746 00:36:06,570 --> 00:36:17,880 and cloud of stubbornness, then 747 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:18,820 there's nothing to it. 748 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,760 For all of you have nothing to do. 749 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,160 You can't find heaven on a rope ladder. 750 00:36:24,820 --> 00:36:26,380 There's nothing for you to do. 751 00:36:26,700 --> 00:36:28,760 Take the hand of the Lord, divine. 752 00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:30,260 I take it. 753 00:36:30,260 --> 00:36:30,480 Take it. 754 00:36:30,660 --> 00:36:30,980 Promise. 755 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:31,680 Mind. 756 00:36:31,780 --> 00:36:32,140 The vision. 757 00:36:32,260 --> 00:36:32,700 Change. 758 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:33,560 Come to shine. 759 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:34,200 I take. 760 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:35,500 Here I'm going to take. 761 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,860 I take it and say, Lord, I give 762 00:36:37,860 --> 00:36:38,760 myself to you. 763 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,060 And thou according to thy word, there's only 764 00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:43,420 a sin to it. 765 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:44,960 Go on and go on and take it. 766 00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:48,080 So many great Christians have been walking around 767 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,780 that little cloud for a long time. 768 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:54,540 You can't get above it, you just can't. 769 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,680 So you try to permeate your way above 770 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,500 it, you try to believe your way above 771 00:36:59,500 --> 00:36:59,720 it. 772 00:36:59,980 --> 00:37:01,320 That way, you can't. 773 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,580 You've got to put it on your feet. 774 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:06,360 And rise above it. 775 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:09,360 And put all these Christians and all the 776 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,500 preachers God ever made, and look away to 777 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:12,940 the sunlight. 778 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,260 When you are alive, there is nothing a 779 00:37:16,260 --> 00:37:16,960 normal man can do. 780 00:37:17,060 --> 00:37:18,820 He can't sell himself as a holy ghost. 781 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:20,380 He can't turn his own head. 782 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:22,720 He can't crucify you. 783 00:37:22,940 --> 00:37:23,220 He can't. 784 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:24,200 God has to do it. 785 00:37:24,620 --> 00:37:25,460 And you do it. 786 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:30,500 And you wait, optimistic, and friendly, and on 787 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:31,300 your side. 788 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,420 Wanting to help you. 789 00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:35,280 Anxious to go. 790 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:36,840 If you could use the word anxious, it's 791 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:37,600 such a good word. 792 00:37:38,740 --> 00:37:42,260 But when you sit back, and you believe, 793 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:44,900 and you've been with so many authors, and 794 00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:47,240 you've read so many books, you're all confused. 795 00:37:48,060 --> 00:37:49,480 Until the sunshine comes. 796 00:37:51,020 --> 00:37:53,820 Until God's cool, simple wind started on the 797 00:37:53,820 --> 00:37:54,360 way to you. 798 00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:57,540 Into this sunshine in fifteen minutes. 799 00:37:58,140 --> 00:38:01,300 Into this sunshine in fifteen minutes. 800 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:03,120 And that's the faith that man has brought 801 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:03,840 to you tonight. 802 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,820 If you put it all in your head 803 00:38:07,820 --> 00:38:08,980 and in your feet. 804 00:38:09,820 --> 00:38:11,300 And look away to the Lord Jesus. 805 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,000 Not trying to tell him what to do 806 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,240 and how to do it. 807 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:14,960 But look. 808 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,180 And over the next thousand days and weeks, 809 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,800 you will move upward into a pure, restful, 810 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,860 true power, such as you never knew before. 811 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,260 And you'll have a marvelous living. 812 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,060 A marvelous future. 813 00:38:33,060 --> 00:38:34,800 You believe in the future. 814 00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:36,820 You believe in the way that is dark, 815 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,300 and it's very bleak for us. 816 00:38:38,980 --> 00:38:40,360 It's luminary for us. 817 00:38:40,740 --> 00:38:41,620 You believe in it. 818 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,320 And yet outward that there will come presence, 819 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,260 and radiance, and illumination. 820 00:38:47,020 --> 00:38:48,180 It's in you every day. 821 00:38:49,180 --> 00:38:51,280 Are those words that you're saying then, you 822 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,720 know what I'm talking about, don't you?