I told my husband, and I told the
elder brethren, and I put in my will,
that if anything happens to me, you've got
to come back to Pittsburgh and bury me.
I said, oh, forget it, buddy, we're not
thinking about the undertaker, we're thinking about the
upper taker.
He said, no, I mean that with all
sincerity, that I want you to conduct my
funeral service.
Then he said, will you please tell me
what you're going to say at my service?
So, I again was put on the spot,
you see.
So I said, well, I don't really know,
but I'll give you an illustration.
A friend was conducting a funeral service, and
partially turning towards the casket, while addressing the
congregation, he said, Beloved, our dear brother isn't
here, this is just a shell, the nut
has gone.
He said, I knew it, I knew it,
that's what he was saying.
Right, how am I going to preach tonight?
Right, let us go back, shall we, to
Psalm number 16, the 16th Psalm.
It has been a very wonderful day, all
right, from the very early morning, we've been
very conscious of the Lord's presence with us,
we've had a very deep sense of the
movement of the Holy Spirit, and now we're
coming to a closing.
It's a wonderful day, and we're going to
go back again to Psalm number 16, and
reading it, verse number 5.
Remembering Thee, do I put my trust, Thou
art my Lord, I've no good beyond Thee.
The saints that are in the earth, the
excellent, in whom is all my delight.
Then verse number 4, Their sorrows shall be
multiplied at haste, and after.
Exchange me of our gifts to another God.
Thank God for all who have been telling
us, there have been Gods in the lives
prior to coming here.
Spirit of God has placed His finger upon
one and another, and to be getting alone
with God, and doing business with God, and
that's what we appreciate more and more.
Just the fact of the individual believer getting
alone, battling this thing out, and from their
very heart praying, the dearest idol I've known,
whatever idol be.
Help me, dear Lord, to tear it from
Thy throne, and worship only Thee.
So the psalmist said, Their sorrows shall be
multiplied at haste, and after another God.
He said, the great offerings will I not
offer.
He will not offer offerings to the living
God.
He will not even mention the names of
these particular Gods, and He said, I'll bring
their names before Him.
What a wonderful pattern.
What a wonderful call to practical separation we
have here.
And now we come down to verse 5.
We looked a little at this this morning,
didn't we?
The Lord is a portion of my inheritance,
and of my cup.
Thou maintainest my love.
The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant
places.
Yea, I have a goodly heritage.
We try to link the two together.
The last phrase of verse number 6 with
the first phrase of verse number 5.
I have a goodly heritage.
The Lord is a portion of my inheritance.
Now you love that, don't you?
We thought of that wonderful inheritance, which is
ours as the people of God.
We went back to various scriptures from the
Old Testament, and those in the New Testament.
That was at the 7.20 meeting.
Do you know you miss a lot by
not getting out of that 7.20 devotional
service.
It's there when our minds are so clear,
our spirit life is alert, and in the
quiet of that early hour, we have been
very conscious of the Lord's presence with us.
Now, I'm thinking just now of this fact
here.
The Lord is a portion of my inheritance.
We thought this morning of being a child
of God.
And what an honor.
I trust all of us here tonight are
children of God.
I trust your place, your trust in the
Lord Jesus, and you own Him as your
very own Lord and Savior.
You may say, but aren't we all children
of God?
Aren't all mankind children of God?
Oh, no, they're not.
God is the Creator of all mankind.
He's the Father only of those who have
believed on His Son.
Chapter and verse, Galatians 3, verse number 26,
Now are ye the children of God by
faith in Christ Jesus.
John 1, verse number 12, But to as
many as received Him, to them gave He
power, the legal right, to become the sons
of God a time when we were not,
to become the sons of God, even to
them that believed on His name, which were
born not of blood, nor the will of
the flesh, nor the will of man.
We are born of God.
We are born into God's family.
We don't grow up into God's family.
It is not by blood.
It is not hereditary.
Because my parents were Christians, that did not
mean I was automatically going to become a
Christian.
Oh, no.
Nor by the will of the flesh.
No matter how exemplary my life, no matter
how sterling my character, no matter how noble
my name, no matter how much I may
try and will, it's not by the will
of the flesh.
Nor is it by the will of man.
No ordinance any man can confer upon me,
whether christening, confirmation, or vaccination, they're all about
the same, or baptizing by virtue, or becoming
a communicant, or becoming a church member.
No, no, beloved.
It is not by the will of man.
We must be born of God.
Oh, I trust all of us know this
joy tonight, I'm able to sing from your
heart, blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine, air
of salvation, purchase of God, born of His
Spirit, washed in His blood.
Oh, are you a child of God?
You say, I hope so.
My friend, tonight you may know so, that
you are a child of God.
You may know you have passed from death
unto life.
You may know you have come from darkness
into light.
From bondage into liberty, from hate into love.
That's what it means to be a child
of God.
But the Bible says, because we are children
of God, we are heirs of God, and
we are joint heirs with Christ.
We talked a little about being a joint
heir with Christ this morning.
All that the Father has, He's given to
the Son.
And because we are in Christ, we share
everything that Christ has, the wonder of it
all.
Oh, what a wealthy people we are.
And what a victorious people we are.
What a powerful people we are, because we
are in Christ Jesus.
My good brother, this morning, finish with these
words.
We are complete in Christ.
Complete.
We are made full in Christ.
We quoted that verse from Colossians 2, verse
number 9, did we not?
For it pleads the Father that in Christ
in all fullness dwell.
Then the next verse says, He looks into
your heart, He looks into my heart, saved
by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus,
and knowing the joy of the indwelling Holy
Spirit, because the Bible says, if we have
not the Spirit of Christ, we are none
of His.
But Galatians 4, 6 says, because we are
sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His
Son into your heart, crying, Abba, Father.
And because we have the Spirit indwelling us,
He says now, ye are my children.
And He says, you are complete, you are
made full, lost in all the fullness that
is treasured up in Him.
No wonder we so often sing, Oh, to
be saved from myself, dear Lord.
Oh, to be lost in Thee.
Oh, that it may be no more I,
but Christ who lives in me.
Not only am I in Christ, wondrous, wondrous,
but now He, by His Spirit, lives in
me.
And I want to underscore this.
There is an indissoluble union.
Nothing else, nor in heaven nor in hell,
can separate us from the love of God
that is treasured up in God's beloved Son.
Yet some of you will wonder, we are
complete in Him.
In Him.
Remember the story of Noah and in the
ark.
For a hundred and twenty years they were
in the building of that wonderful ark.
The moment came when the Lord said, calling
Noah, his wife, and all his family into
the ark.
Eight precious souls, eight precious people entered into
that ark.
The doors could open wide for another seven
days.
Noah stood in that door, and I think
I can see him now, calling to the
people to come in.
God's going to send judgment.
God's going to send a flood.
Come in.
Probably some of those people had helped in
the building of that same ark.
There may have been Noah's carpenters helping in
the building of the ark.
And all the time they could prove the
whole idea why we've never seen rain.
We've never seen rain.
And He tells us it's going to rain
from heaven.
Oh, the poor old fellow has got a
flake loose.
There's something wrong somewhere.
He's suffering from religious mania.
Poor man Noah.
Now, my friend, God in His long suffering
kept that door open for seven days.
Then the Lord said to Noah, shut the
door.
Did He?
Not at all.
The Lord shut the door.
And when the Lord shut the door, no
man can open that door.
And when the Lord opens the door, no
man can shut the door.
But now, my friend, now the rain began
to fall.
The springs are opened up.
And what happens?
My friend, the rain comes down and down.
The people look toward that ark.
They see now the rain.
And then they come knocking.
Noah!
Noah, open to us.
Open to us, Noah.
We'll leave you now, Noah.
But it was far too late.
Noah couldn't open that door.
Did we not hear the zealous people?
And you sang beautifully tonight, girls and boys.
You really did.
I really appreciate that so much.
It did my heart good.
But they came now, but it's too late.
They came knocking.
They believed now, but it's too late.
They would not believe the testimony Noah gave.
They would not believe that testimony.
And they came knocking.
Noah!
Noah, open to us, Noah.
And there they saw the ark blown up
upon the face of the deep.
The ranches of the highest mountain.
And they looked out upon the ark.
We might have been in.
We could have been in that ark.
But oh, we would not believe the testimony.
We would not believe Noah.
They climbed the highest tree.
The water came up, covering the mountain up.
The tree up, up.
And they saw all the animals there floating
around upon the top of the water.
And they looked up, and they saw that
ark, the only place of safety, the only
place of salvation.
And they might have been in that ark,
but they would not believe.
They would not believe, and they perished.
That only one state to take from without
within.
And they perished.
My friend, tonight, may I ask you very
lovingly, are you tonight in the ark, Christ
Jesus?
Or are you tonight exposed to the judgment
of a holy God?
Friend, tonight the cry is, just as I
am without one plea, but that thy blood
was shed for me.
Oh, Lamb of God, I come.
Oh, will you come tonight?
Will you take that step tonight?
From judgment, to justification.
From bondage, into liberty.
From death, into life.
I know the joy, just as Noah and
his family were safe and secure in that
ark.
Please, oh please, it was not, it was
not the gulf of wood that kept up
the floods of judgment.
Not at all.
The ark was fixed within, and was up
with pitch.
And it was not the perfect, exemplary life
of my adorable Lord, Jesus, that saved your
soul and mine.
It was that precious, precious blood that was
shed upon the cross.
And without the shedding of blood, there's no
forgiveness.
I thank God tonight for all who are
in Christ Jesus.
Tonight, beloved, they're accepted in Him, and they're
covered by the efficacious blood of our adorable
Lord.
And they're free from judgment.
How do I know?
Corinthians 8, verse number 1 says, There's therefore
now no judgment for them that are in
Christ Jesus.
Oh, how safe, oh, how secure we are
in Christ.
Noah may have looked up through that one
window, and seen, my friend, all the waters
of deluge, all the floods of judgment, and
there he was so safe and so secure
in the ark.
Just like the Comeys, they were safe and
secure in the crest of the rock.
Just like you place the letter in the
envelope, and it is sealed.
So tonight, all who receive Christ by faith
into their hearts, they're accepted in, and they're
complete in Christ.
Where are you tonight, my friend?
Where are you?
Oh, you say, I hope I'm saved.
I hope I'm a child of God.
I hope I'm really in Christ.
Oh, friend, please leave the band of hope,
and savor your heart tonight with all sincerity,
by God's grace, and by the faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ, and by trusting that
precious blood.
Oh, how safe, oh, how secure you are
in Him.
Because we are in Christ Jesus, and as
He is before the Father, so are we
tonight down here on the mountaintop.
Not a spot, not a blemish, not a
wrinkle, not any such thing.
God has accepted His beloved Son in all
His inflexible holiness, in all His intrinsic righteousness,
in all the glory, in the wonder of
His own glorious person.
And my friend, as your brother Christian said
last night, as he placed that, those glasses
in the glass case, he said, now God
sees no longer Jim Boswell.
He sees Christ.
And God sees you no longer as a
Christian.
He sees you in Christ.
But please, oh, please, would Peter Pell say,
because you are, then be.
Because you're holy in Christ, then live a
holy life.
Because you're righteous, then live a righteous life.
Thank God we are accepted in the beloved.
Perfect as He is perfect.
Holy as He is holy.
Righteous as He is righteous.
And no one dare raise their accusing finger.
We sometimes sing, I hear the accuser roar
of ills that I have done.
I know them well and thousands more.
Jehovah findeth none.
Aren't you glad that under the blood tonight,
oh, the joy, oh, they're completely bloodied out.
And we heard, the Bible says, that those
that are in Christ, Jesus, are new creation.
All things have passed away.
All things have become new.
Friend, where are you tonight?
Where are you?
Are you in Christ?
Now, because I'm in Christ, now, I think
of that wonderful Scripture in Romans chapter 6.
I'd love to delve into that one day.
When I don't know, this is going very,
very fast.
But I'd love to get to Romans 6
because you can't come to Romans 12 until
you've been to Romans 6.
Do you know that?
How many people try to come to Romans
12 and the young people and all of
this are pleading to heal their bodies, heal
their bodies, and they try, and they try
with all sorts of, and they have the
purity, and it doesn't fit.
It doesn't work.
Do you know why?
Because they're trying to consecrate their own flesh.
You must come to Romans 6.
And my friend, you know, as an old
man, all you are is a child of
Adam, and was crucified with Christ.
And you do take side with God against
your old self-life.
And now you hear Romans 12, Romans 6,
11 coming in here, they likewise reckon ye,
yourselves be dead indeed unto sin, but alive
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The negative side, you're dead indeed unto sin,
but now you're alive unto God.
And then what does the Bible say?
As those that are alive unto God, now
come and heal yourselves.
Present your bodies, a living sacrifice, the old
man being put away.
And the reckoning of God.
God, the old man, crucified with Him.
Our dear brother this morning read a Scripture,
the Matthew Gospel, a very striking Scripture too.
The Lord met the men in the market
square, and He said to them, Why stand
ye all day idle?
Why stand ye all day idle?
The members answered, Because no man hath hired
us.
No man hath hired us.
The same Greek word is used in Romans
6, 6.
But it says, as the body of sin
might be destroyed, your old man...
By the way, young people, that doesn't refer
to your father.
And don't you call your father the old
man.
And don't you call your mother the old
lady.
Remember, they're still mum and dad.
And respect them.
And appreciate them too.
Remember, our old man, all I am is
a child of Adam.
All I am by nature.
The brothers, No, you don't.
You know, says Paul.
Don't you realize?
How many Christians here may not know this?
You may not know it.
You may know it theoretically.
You may know it scripturally.
You may know it doctrinally.
I did for years without entering into it
experientially.
I knew all of the doctrines.
I knew all of the faith and taught
it all over the place.
When this truth dawned upon me by divine
revelation, it revolutionized my life and my ministry.
And I never ceased to preach wherever I
go.
But Paul said, No, you don't.
You know, the old man was criticized with
Christ that the body of sin might be
destroyed, rendered idle, unemployed, discharged, made inoperative, put
out of action.
That's all the same Greek word.
And now get this.
The old man, my friend, was rendered idle.
He's still there.
Still there.
And will be there till the Lord comes
and repairs him with the arsle of death.
When the old man stopped taking a root
away and threw it out and thrown away,
what they call eradication.
Oh, no.
Same thing about this.
Those people who teach eradication to the old
man also teach the falling away doctrine.
I can't reconcile that at all, can you?
Oh, my friend, not at all.
Now, may I help you right here?
The old adamant nature is still there and
will be there.
But now, listen.
You've got a new life, as we said
this afternoon in the preparation period.
We've got a new life.
We've got a divine nature.
A life where you're light from above.
We've got the very life of God indwelling
us.
But my friend, now, and the reckoning of
God, the old life has been crucified with
the flesh and put out of the way.
But we only know from experience only too
well.
The old nature is still there.
But please get this, Christian.
Get this.
What God has reckoned by faith, by grace,
He wants us now to reckon by faith.
He said, Know ye not, your old man
was, has been crucified with Christ.
He wants you to know the meaning of
your whole crucifixion.
That when Christ died, you died.
When He was buried, you were buried.
When He arose, you arose.
When He ascended, you ascended.
But in His place is God's right hand
and you took your place in Him.
In victory.
To share now the fullness of that fulness.
To share now the joy of reigning with
Christ in life.
Not just in the communion, but here and
now.
Not because you have been saved from hell.
I am near fire, you see.
I want to be put in heaven by
and by.
Oh, that is a very poor, negative way
of preaching the gospel.
Oh, friend, think of the positive aspect where
you have been brought into the child of
God.
Oh, this victory is your victory.
Oh, this purity is your purity.
Oh, this power is your power.
Oh, this love is your love.
This life and life in abundance is yours
because you are in Christ.
Because you are in Christ.
Is it real to you, my friend?
Are you in the good of this tonight?
Or do you just know theoretically?
Oh, beloved, by grace, by faith, and you
are into your possessions in Christ.
I am quoting Obadiah, verse 17.
Possess your possessions.
Don't stand out and admire your possessions.
Enter in and possess.
I know the joy of all that is
yours in our adorable Lord Jesus.
May I pause here?
The old man renders idle.
And I want to suggest to you very
lovingly, yet very sincerely, do you know your
old Adamic nature can't move, can't work unless
you employ it.
Do you know that?
You can't lose your temper unless you employ
it.
You can't be impatient or irritable or moody
unless you employ it.
And all that comes from the old Adamic
nature.
God, I reckon it!
How moody we get, how sulky we get,
how irritable, how impatient, how unlovable, how unloving
we are, all springs from the old nature.
And friend, that can't take place unless you
employ it.
It's a death after your will.
Do you know that?
Because no man has hired me.
No man has hired us.
That's what they say.
And the old man can't work.
The old man can't operate unless you employ
it.
To render your will to him tonight.
Now, what God has reckoned by grace, He
wants you to reckon by faith.
Right by reckoning you're going to be damned
for a lie.
I love this.
And dear old Doc Codette used to say,
this is the bridge.
The bridge out of Romans 7 into Romans
8.
And to live there.
And the captive of Romans 7 becomes a
conqueror in Romans 8.
Oh friend, listen.
The captive who said 32 times the great
big capital I, I, I, I, I, I,
I.
He was an eye specialist, you know.
He was, it is capital I, I, I,
I.
And when you come to Romans 8, it's
no longer the great big capital I.
It's never mentioned.
But I tell you what, 19 times the
Holy Spirit refers to.
He's not referred to once in verses not
in chapter 7, not once, it's all the
great big I.
No wonder Paul said in the chapter, O
wretched man that I am, who shall deliver
me from this body of death?
Who shall?
I thank God who Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore now no condemnation then, there in Christ
Jesus.
No condemnation, no defeat, no separation, no accusation.
Oh the wonder of this glorious joy.
Do you believe that tonight, amen?
Do you believe it is real in your
life?
And now here's the point, I'm alive unto
God.
Now get this, as one is alive unto
God, then says Paul, now this is a
death deliberate act.
The moment you're born again is that moment
as a Christian, you'll yield your whole life,
spirit and soul and body, unreservedly and unconditionally
to Him.
You may not theoretically, you may reckon by
faith and not know the power and you
never will.
It's a death deliberate act of you.
That means you are yielding, why?
Yield yourself.
Immediately, entirely, unlovingly.
Dear though came to me this afternoon about
this glorious verse, Rule Galatians 2.20, and
what does it say?
The Son of God loved me and gave
Himself for me.
Oh here's practical Christianity.
Here's something really full of love.
The Son of God loved me and gave
Himself for me.
And you take the last three words and
you read them backwards.
And what do you read?
He shall be me for Himself.
That's love responding to love.
Love be reciprocated.
The Son of God, and from our hearts
we cry, take my love, O Lord, I
pour at Thy feet a treasure store.
Take myself and I will be ever only
all for Thee.
I'm afraid I love to develop this, but
time will not allow us.
I don't say this.
You say, look, what are you getting at?
Oh, I want you to see that in
John Romans 6, we've been planted together in
the likeness of His death.
He died.
I died.
His death is my death.
Not my trying to die.
Not my trying to crucify myself.
That happened two thousand years ago.
An illustration.
I was in Atlanta, Georgia.
I go there from time to time, they
put up with me.
But I got a lot of spiritual children
in Atlanta, Georgia, and I saw them right
here in this conference and now.
One of those fellows is a prophet at
the, at that particular time, at Georgia Tech.
That is a high school teacher, see?
Both the same Lord's Day.
I spoke to the business and professional women's
club that flew me in from Washington to
do that.
Between three and four hundred women gathered there
at that particular club.
Three women sat before me and they asked
to sit there at the head table.
I, I only knew one of them.
One girl said, will you please pray for
my husband?
I said, I'd be happy to do that.
When were you, say, three months ago?
I said, who led you to Christ?
She said, Evelyn did.
Another girl sat beside her and said, will
you please pray for my husband?
She said, I'd be happy to do that.
Who, how long have you been?
She said, a month.
Who led you to Christ?
She said, Carol did.
She said, interesting.
I said, I lead Evelyn to Christ, Carol,
Evelyn leads Carol to Christ, and Carol leads
you to Christ, Mary.
So Evelyn's my daughter, you're my granddaughter, you're
my great-granddaughter.
So I said to her, pray for your
husband.
And before that group dispersed, I said, there's
a request for prayer and we're going to
pray.
Does that mention any names?
We prayed for those two men on Wednesday
luncheon.
God saved them both.
That's the God we've come to know.
And some people have been prayed for here,
and I believe God's going to save them
tonight, do you know that?
I believe God's going to save them tonight,
right here, He's going to save them, without
the shadow of a doubt.
At that time, there's Dirk, along with some
others who are here tonight, and that particular
baptismal service.
I'll never forget this.
The answer, if I go and see George
O.K. playing Auburn University in a cast
tie.
Now, I've never seen any of your football
in my life.
I play football with my feet.
You call it soccer.
And I can hardly pass a tin can
now without kicking that in my blood.
It gets in you and I just can't
make it pass it, to tell you the
truth.
Anyway, by the way, that was a God
in my life as a teenager.
It came between the Lord and I to
do something about it.
I'd let it go.
I was on my way to international fame
as a soccer player.
So when they began playing on Sunday, that
was a terrible day.
But I got down there and there they
were, and because they had been there on
their faculty that particular time, I was very
happy to have such a vantage point.
You could see the whole field there.
There were 22 full-blooded men down there
in that field, over 50 pounds worth of
padding on, a crash helmet, and a gay
face gown.
And I got one thing.
I couldn't understand those 22 full-blooded men
fighting for a little pumpkin.
I couldn't understand it at all.
And when they got into this huddle, I
thought they were having a prayer meeting for
the next move.
I'll tell you honestly, I didn't know one
thing they were doing.
When they stood up, when they yelled, I
yelled.
I didn't know what I was standing up
for.
By the third quarter, by the second quarter,
I began to get into it.
And by the fourth quarter, I was well
into it.
And by the fourth quarter, when I stood
up, while you were standing up, when I
yelled, and you were yelling about, I knew
what happened.
Georgia won 44 to 7.
It was a glorious day for Georgia.
Georgia won 44 to
7.
We came to stop there, you see.
Wise thing to do.
But then down the side said, I see
Butch, he was also a champion wrestler.
His wrestling name was Butch.
His right name was Hosea.
He says, hey, see Butch, who won?
He says, we won 44 to 7.
So I pulled his coat here, and you
told that man.
He said, we won 44 to 7.
I said, listen, you didn't play in that
game.
And you had no right telling that man
we won and you didn't play.
But he said, but Jim, we, that team
was chosen to represent the school.
And because that team won the whole school
share, it was only representing the school, Jim.
And as the team chose to represent, and
because they won the whole school share of
the victory.
I said, that's true.
But I said, you and you had no
right telling that man we won.
You told him a lie about telling him
you won, we won 44 to 7, and
you didn't play.
I said, not that much, but I got
that much.
He could go back all over again.
He said, Butch, don't worry.
I understand that for the last three weeks,
I've been trying to get into your skull
that when Christ died upon the cross, you
died.
And just as you did not literally play
in that game that you share the victory,
you did not literally die upon that cross.
The nails did not literally go through your
hands and feet.
You died in the person you represented.
His death is your death, man.
Don't you see it?
Oh, it's a shame, hush.
But now, I want you to get this.
Friend, you see that tonight.
Young people, do you see it?
So many people are trying to die, and
you're already dead.
Just as a reminder of that.
His poor head was severed from his body.
A car ran over him, severed his head
from his body.
Mike goes along.
He sees the poor thing.
He says, the poor thing's dead.
His pants says the thing's alive because it's
moving.
I shouldn't be dead.
You're both alive.
You know, there are a lot of Christians
just like that.
They're dead.
You came to me 1,000 years
too late.
You're already crucified.
You were crucified in the person you represented.
You feel dead.
That's what you dead people feel?
Are you trying to feel dead?
Take God as your word.
How do you know you're saved?
You take God as your word, don't you?
How do you know you've died?
You take it
not I.
I live by the faith of the Son
of God.
Are you in Christ?
Are you a child of God?
This peace can be your peace.
This purity can be your purity.
This power can be your power.
How many people come up to me and
say, oh, please, will you please pray the
Lord to give me patience?
When my wife prayed for patience, the Lord
used to send me home.
Tribulation works with patience.
It's not quite as bad as all that.
Not really.
But the government says, Lord, please.
And they've got the brainy idea that God's
going to bundle up a bundle of patience
and put the name upon it and drop
it, don't He?
There you are, my dear.
There is your patience.
He is your patience.
And when you just feel like blowing your
top, He says, Lord, please take over the
situation.
A woman came in, a very dear woman,
also said, Mr. Basil, this Bible victory you're
preaching, is it for a mother with seven
children in a two-roomed house?
And I looked straight at her and said,
with all my love, I said, my dear,
if it were not for you with seven
children in a two-roomed house, I saw
that woman only a few months ago.
And she came and put her arm around
me.
He was, not eight, he was, and said,
when I got in that corner and I
just felt like bubbling and crying, I thought,
please take over the situation.
And oh, the peace.
Oh, the inner serenity.
Oh, I said, Jim, I got rid of
my answers.
They play on the secret.
Cry to the life of the Lord.
Lord, please, oh Lord, send me love.
Lord, I'm longing for love.
I'm yearning for love.
Please send me love.
And he got the brainy idea.
They go up on the bum, up upon
the bum, and drop it, don't He?
But they say, there you are, my darling.
There is your love.
He doesn't do that.
He is your love.
He is your patience.
He is your love.
You're walking down the street, somebody comes along,
over-rubs you up the wrong way, and
you just feel like popping into some store
to avoid it, but now you've learned the
secret.
Why, you're my Lord, please love them through
me.
And he says, oh, come on, purity.
What is it?
That's what it means to be in Christ.
That's your inheritance.
Enter in a possession of possessions, and I,
it's not up upon the sky, by and
by.
This is down-to-earth, practical Christianity in
the office, in the hospital, in the lab,
in the operating theater, right there in the
school, on the campus, in the store, in
the factory, wherever we are.
Christ is the life of my life.
Is this real, my friend?
This is an inheritance you've been brought into
as a child of God.
Why stand off, my friend, and admire?
Enter in and possess.
I know this joy, this life.
Now you look up and say, I have
a golden inheritance.
The Lord is the portion of my inheritance.
Oh, let us pray.
May thy beauty rest upon me.
And may they forget the channel.
If only.
Come and abiding, rule in my heart.
Break every fetter.
Thy faith let me see.
Then I shall ever be.
His name was John Waltz.
He was a married man with three children.
He was called up to 1914-18 war.
He had a bachelor's plan, who had no
family responsibilities, nor earthly ties, and his job
exempted him from all military service, but he
volunteered to go in his friend's place.
He said, no, you're not going.
I'm going, he said his friend.
He said, no, let John, I've got no
responsibilities, I want to go, I'm physically A1,
I want to go and fight in your
place.
He went, and cutting my long story short,
everything went wonderfully well, the last clash, and
he was killed in the last battle.
Now the last war broke out, and John
Waltz had worked from the home office, from
the war office, to report.
He ignored it.
Three times he got a letter, and he
ignored it.
But then they said to the recruiting sergeant,
are you John Waltz?
Yes, I'm John Waltz.
Well, why haven't you reported?
Why, you've got no claim upon me.
He said, why, you're John Waltz, aren't you?
Come on.
He said, not at all.
You've got no claim upon me.
He said, you go back and look up
your records, and you'll find I died in
the last war.
They went and looked up the records, and
true enough, John Waltz, by a certain number
of dollars, died in a certain battle on
a certain day.
Now, he did not literally die.
He died in a personal substitute.
Got that?
But my friend, he acted upon that, and
when the word came, he ignored them with
no claim upon him.
When the recruiting sergeant said, no claim, friend,
the world will come in awe of some
lurement, and all of his attractions, and all
of his temptations, with no claim upon him.
He died.
I'm going to teach you a chorus.
In fact, to be suggested, I'm not doing
it tonight, so don't worry.
But these are the words, and I'll close
with them.
Reckon ye yourself to be dead indeed to
sin.
Crucified with Christ, that he now may reign
within.
Raised together with the Lord, filled with life
in you.
Thus the spirit doth afford victory.
Hie me ho, me I, nor victory so
many cry.
Commit thyself to Calvary, confess the death.
God, we have gained his sinning, lark, we
die to live, and his life cometh.
And only in the measure, I have reckoned
my own life crucified with Christ.
Are you in Christ?
If not, will you come here?
Not knowing the Lord Jesus, but he's been
presented to you as the only Lord and
Savior, we want you to trust him and
to receive him.
And as you receive him by faith in
your heart, he receives you.
And you're in Christ.
And you're in Christ forever.
Thus the eternal covenant stands.
Maybe some defeated Christian here, you've been living
a defeated life.
And God's been placing his finger upon this
in one area after another area in your
life.
And quite frankly, you're not the man you
used to be.
And you know that.
You're not the woman you used to be
in the time when you were ablaze for
Jesus Christ.
His Word was your delight.
Your prayer was delightful.
He saw answer your prayer.
And in your ministry it was fruitful.
But it's not so tonight.
Will you openly make that clear to him
now?
Father, have thy way.
Work by thy Spirit.
Bring glory to thy wonderful name in the
salvation of precious souls, in the restoration of
the backslider, bringing from defeat into glorious victory.
Oh, encourage and inspire thy beloved people for
thy glory.
There's no in-due pressing.
There's no button-holding.
But if you're concerned about spiritual matters, please
don't go away.
We're here to help you.
There are many here who pointed through to
the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you have trusted him, do tell us,
and we may rejoice with you.