The last year succeeded the Prophet Elijah, you know, and of
course, he was a servant of God moving about over the country
doing the will of God, the profits of that day were not too
different from the prophets of our day.
Our preachers. In other words, the profits of
that day, when about over the country, declaring the word of
the god of God. When people needed to be
chastised and rebuked. And when Nations needed to be
review, they did that. When people needed
encouragement. When people needed to be
strengthened, they did that. The only difference between them
and us is they had God's word given to them directly.
We have God's word given to us through his blessed book, The
Bible. And that's not too different
when you come to think Kabul. In fact the business I think
ours is the better way. Everybody can read what we've
taught to see whether or not we are actually repeating what God
Said or not. The point was all the contenders
of the faith. He is that they must give it
just as God gave it to them. Are they are to be blamed and
cursed in that final day. So Elijah was one of these men
who went about over the country working for God.
He had received his lessons from the Elijah, as I've said, now,
relax your himself. Had some sort of profit school.
I don't really know all the particulars of it that doesn't
matter, but over give guy. Girl, he had a profit school and
there. He went down and talk from time
to time. Now.
It seems that after he had made some trips around over the
country. He healed The Widow's son, you
know, and had finally come back to gilgal and second Kings, two.
And one, we're in other places. We find where he had took up
school. As we say, the students were all
in their places, but that was a death in the land.
Don't forget that the Bible takes pains to say now that
simply meant that food. Would be scarce and
circumstances would be very poor and very, very discouraging, no
doubt. So I doubt everybody had enough
food, really to eat. Now, this school of prophets.
I suppose was affected by this particular famine as much as
anybody else. And I just suspect that these
students were sitting there today, before their teacher
hungry, evidently, that must have been the case.
All right, was getting on up toward noon, one, probably.
Swishing noon that soon come a bunch of students really likes
to have noon come around and they like to eat usually but it
seems like that there was not too much to eat back in the
pantry, back in the kitchen department and I suppose of the
servant of the Prophet had charge of this particular
detail. And since that's just was
nothing to eat. One of the students are rather,
a servant went out into the field.
See what he could find looking here and there he couldn't find
any vegetables. He didn't run upon any turnip
greens. He didn't find any peas or
anything like that, going around, but he did find
something, he found something that he thought was edible and
he gathered it up, probably a city boy down there taking
lessons in the field, logical school and you can't expect them
to have too much of a knowledge of agricultural Affairs.
So, So then we find that our he gathered, these things come to
find out. They were gourds are left full
of them. The Bible says he took the men
but they've been real gourds and he's read them into the potage
pot because the prophet had said to some of them go set on the
great pop and see pottage. Well, it had to have a little
bit to eat and it looked like it might have been a little skimpy,
so they're going to do some, some.
Maybe this is potage helper. I don't know.
But anyway, they're going to put something in there that was
going to stretch it a little bit and give them a little bit of
extra, but lo and behold, the Bible says these were wild
gourds. Now this student didn't know
much as I say about gardening. So he just got these things, cut
them up into pot and I'll stood it, and they cooked and cooked.
And after a while it was time to eat.
And so the bell rang of the whistle blew, or he tapped the
table or whatever it was time. Time for dinner and they all sat
in their places and so he began to come in with the great
caught. Begin to pass out.
Partying, stay everybody. Here.
They came with their plates, in their bows, and they'll begin to
get some potage and then they all went over and sat down and
began to eat. Now.
I'm not going to tell you all the effects of this particular
go word because our I'm a little too in delegate.
I'm a little to delegate to do that and some of these things
would be a little in delegate. So Not going to express them to
you, but one of the side effects of this gourd was they were
extremely bitter and you could know you had something bad when
you took a taste of it because it was extremely bitter.
And while they were eating all of a sudden these boys just
realized we've got something on our hands here that we better
take care of. And they cried out that man of
God. There's nothing to pop those
different apart. And he said, well just take it
easy and he went in there and put meal in it.
The Bible says now don't know what healing effect meal has on
it. Maybe it diluting some of the
bitterness and maybe some of the poison and the other effects,
but of course, we believe that was a miracle raw in the thing.
Anyway, and they save the pottage they save the food and
everybody seemed to eat and have just a plenty of that day.
You know, I think there's a lesson in that may seem a little
humorous to us in some places. But I think there's a lesson in
this sermon and I'm going to mention it to you tonight.
There's a dearth in the land today.
A famine in the land, a famine of, not food and water, but Amos
says the name estate and lemon. Behold the day's come.
Saith, the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land.
Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing
the word of the Lord. Now, ladies and gentlemen, if
that time hasn't come, I dread to see it.
Come, I believe there's a famine in the land today are hearing
the word of the Lord. Now, we've got lots of preaching
going on today, probably more than has ever been in all the
history of the world. Probably more than people can
ever remember. We've got more Bible schools
with preachers, going to Bible schools.
We've got more ministers here and there across the land.
We've got more universities, but we've got less of Truth and
probably we've ever had, I said the less of the truth because
men are not taking the truth today.
There's a lot of preaching going on but not the word of the Lord.
There's a doctor's and Commandments being preached
today and it's damning the souls of men.
It's poison and it's poisonous to the people in second, Timothy
4:1. And for the Apostle, Paul said
to people of our day, I charge thee, therefore, before God and
the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the The dead
at his appearing and his kingdom, preach the word be
instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke, exhort
with all long-suffering and Doctrine.
By the time will come here. It is when they will not endure
sound Doctrine. But after their own lusts, shall
they Heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, and they
shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned
unto fables. So, a state to youth as a
famine, in the land today of hearing the word of the Lord, as
Sorry, there's lots of preaching going on, lots of religion.
But a famine are really hearing the truth.
Well, you know, there's a famine of a lot of things going on
today. Besides this.
We find that there's a famine of morality in the world today to
if a person to 50 years ago, could come back to this world
and view the Society of our day. They would certainly have a
shock. I will tell you the dress, the
conduct the malls are this generation.
What absolutely overwhelmed. The people the looseness of
malls in our day is absolutely appalling.
We have adultery fornication, all types of sin, all kinds of
wickedness. We've always had that.
Somebody might say, well, that is, what do you so stirred up
about? We've always had that.
Yes, we've always had that but different today.
One time a fellow down in Wichita Falls, Texas, ask me.
Oh Lord. He said, what do you think about
the church today? In the church, the way it used
to be. How is it compared with you that
I said? Well, I'll give you a little
comparison about it. We've always had problems.
Now. Let's just take women's hair for
instance. Now, just for instance, women
have always cut their hair. We preached against it.
The Bible teaches against it. We know it's wrong, but sisters
have always done it. But the difference in then, and
now, he is back under years ago. When sisters did it, they knew
they were doing wrong and most of them would admit they were
doing it wrong. But today they do it and try to
justify it to do this today. They do it and try to tell you.
So I write and go to Bible, try to prove it to you and not only
that some preacher will come along in the Church of Christ.
And so now uncut ones at that and we'll go to trying to tell
you that, it's all right to do that.
Vacuum the people of always going around dressing scantily,
but people disapproved of it in old and days wearing men's
clothes, women word me and Scrolls and me and wearing
women's clothes, and the likes that's always been.
But back there people found the phone.
But today, it's approved and it's a planet.
Even, I tell you there's a famine in the land.
Of morality. Like I was talking to one of the
brothers before church, we've never had a day just like we've
got today in our lives in the lifetime of our ancestors.
Now, there's been a time in the history of the world as bad as
we've got it today. Back Yonder in olden, times in
Bible times were just as bad maybe even worse.
If you'll read some of these situations, it's described here
in the Bible. But in in our, in our days and
in our scope, it's never been this bad before.
For instance. People have always committed
immoralities. But people didn't approve of it.
They approve of it. Now.
People always committed various things, the government even
sanctions, it, the government allows it.
We've got people today, killing babies by the millions, that's
murder, downright, pure murder and the government approves of
it. In many instances, the
government justifies it and even legalizes.
It, no, there's never been a time.
Just like we got today. There's a famine in the land.
Morality, and you can be assured of it.
Matthew, 19 and 9. The Bible says whosoever shall
put away his wife except it be for fornication and shall marry
another committeth adultery and whoso, marrieth her which is put
away committed adultery. That's plain Bible.
Now. There's no way of getting and
panning around that, that's viable, but we have that winked
at today. We have people trying to justify
that today. We have people trying to explain
it away today, but there's no way of getting around it, and of
course, divorce and adultery. And fornication is so apparent
today. And so prevalent today, till you
almost a fool to Crying out and you crying out against it.
There's a famine of honesty today.
In other days, a man's word was his bond.
Sometimes men would shake hands on the situation.
But sometimes it didn't even have to do that.
If a man told you something he didn't have to be such.
So so piously religious, he was just playing honesty back in
those days. If a man told you something you
could depend on that now, there had to be some kind of very,
very great circumstances that made that even very a change.
But today's honesty is scarce and there's a famine in the
land. For Pure simple, plain honesty
today, over in the Bible. We read such passages as
Proverbs 23 and 23. That says buy the truth and sell
it not. It is such a valuable thing to
be a truthful person till you accept it.
You grasp it, you get it at all cost and you never, never let
that go. Just plain.
A now, old-fashioned simple honesty that nobody has to
explain nor defined, everyone knows what that is.
We're taught that from our youth up by our Godly Parents.
But in the world today, you have to watch it real close and
sometimes people get such a desire and a love for filthy
lucre and for advantages. And privileges today, and
accumulations today, till they start tipping the scales in
their favor. They start adding a little bit
on here and there. In their favor, you know what I
read. What old dr.
Adam Clark, the Methodist commentator said about that in
Colossians 1. He said Li not one to another I
just turned over there and read and I it's almost amusing the
way they'll gentlemen writes about it back Yonder in the year
18 and 14, but it's not any different.
Listen to what he says. Do not deceive each other speak
the truth. In all your dealings, do not say
my goods or so and so when you know them to be otherwise I do
not under value the goods of your neighbor.
When your convenience, when your conscience rather tells you that
you are not speaking the truth. It is not, it is not, it is not
says the buyer but afterwards, he boasted.
He underwrites. His neighbor's property, till he
gets it. Does that ring a bell?
I believe that rings a bell in 1997.
I believe it's just about as true today as it was in night 18
and 14. I hear bredrin sit around.
Sometimes they don't realize this but they'll say around and
laugh and boost over how they build a good deal over on
somebody else. Would it was pure dishonesty
right at the bottom of it? There's death in that there's a
famine in the land. Well, yes, I say there's a
famine in the land upon payment of all these things in other
days. This I like I said, it was some
different but you know, I want to go home with our story.
Like the prophets of old men of this day are sweating into the
doctrine pot, the poisonous gourds of error and evil.
And a drawing out this hell broth to fill the bellies.
Spiritual bellies of people today.
You know, we've got to check today, to see what the truth is.
We've got to make certain that we are not imbibing, the soul
damning food because all religious food must be tried and
we were in our own rights when we try the teaching that's being
given to us from the pulpit. We've been told to do that
because it's so Danny and there's death.
It is spiritual death. Much more severe Than Physical
death. I want you to note what job says
in 34 and three. He says private ear tried words
as the mouth tasted meat. Jesus said, believe not every
Spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God.
Now. This is how we're going to taste
test our food today that comes out of the doctrine pot.
We're going to try it with our ear.
Instead of tasting it with our mouth, the profits back there
had to taste it physically. We hear it today.
And that's the way we tasted. That's the way we know that's
how we know, whether it's the truth or not because Jesus says,
warned us to try every spirit and make certain that they be of
God. Matthew 5 and 6 says blessed.
Are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness?
Oh, yes, for they shall be filled.
We want the food. We need the food.
We want the truth out. The truth part out of the
doctrine pop, so to speak, but we wanted to be the truth and
not something that's poisonous. Not something that's bad, not
something that's going to be sold, damning to us integrate by
and by. Well, there are things to be
dipped out of the death part tonight, and we need to be very
careful about them. But some of these things we
would know. Anyway, we'll do is one dip of
pottage that people are being fed on today.
Anyway, we'll do, can't anybody in the world?
See that? That's an effort of the devil to
circumvent. The teaching of God's word.
Jesus has told us in. No uncertain terms that we must
obey his Commandments. Now that word.
Obey is the Forgotten word of this generation.
The word obey if you were to check out the English language
and of all the blank board, you may find the word.
Obey is the Forgotten word of our times.
But your parents don't make the children.
Obey like they ought to in many respects teachers can't make
their students. Obey the law officers.
Had a hard time making people obey and and I respect the law
and people won't obey, God. They never have the old song
says, so beautifully, but we never can prove the Delight of
his love until all on the altar. We lay for the favor.
He shows in the grace. He bestows are for all who will
trust and Obey, you know, that's a third.
Pounds of that song how we sometimes?
People would leave out the second stanza and then lead the
third, as I sometimes say, I'd rather be anything.
But the third stanza for stands the song, cause I don't have to
say that here. I don't think and in a few more
places, but I'll tell you right now, obedience is the Forgotten
Word of Our Generation, but we must obey.
And Jesus tells us that call you me, Lord Lord, and do not the
things which I say, Jesus said, blessed, are they, that do are
rather, the Apostle says blessed, are they that do his
Commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and
may enter in through the gates, into the city.
Jesus said, whosoever heareth, these sayings of mine and doeth
them him. And I can do a wise man who
built his house upon the rock and the rains come and the
floods descend and the winds blow and beat the phone it in.
The phone's not which founded upon a rock.
That's a, that's a description of On obeying the Lord.
That's what he's put their far. It's not the building code for
the Carpenters, but it's to show you the importance of obeying,
the Lord. Now the devil knows that and if
the devil can circumvent that and get people to understand
that they don't have to do what God says.
He's got them in spiritual death.
So he's ladling out to us today. The doctrine of this particular
pottage that we have. This is a We accepted pottage
the world is feeding on to its own destruction, death and
death. Only can be the spiritual end of
it. It makes a difference, it made,
you know, it makes any difference in society.
What you do it makes a great difference in the feel of
mathematics in the answer that you get.
And it makes a difference in religion, to the Bible says,
there is a way that seemeth, right unto a man, but the end
thereof are the ways of death. Now, we don't want to be going.
Going along by just what seemed right and what might appear,
right? We wouldn't do that.
About a deed to our property. We wouldn't do that about some
valuable papers. Some possessions of ours we
would get the best lawyer. We know we would have him to dig
into that and check into that and find out its legality and
know that it's absolutely verified before we would even
put our money and make an investment in it, but people
will blindly go along today and let folks did. up out all kinds
of doctors and they'll just golf it down as if a As if it
matters, not at all. Well, another thing that matters
men are rather the doctrines, the Commandments of men.
Now say that man would have done everything different from the
way that God did it. If he had been making this plan.
I say a man had been making our Plan of Salvation.
He would have done everything different from the way it is.
In this book right here. I say that because you try and
do it. Anyway, you tell.
One thing that man hasn't tried to change.
Jesus has told us that the doctrines and Commandments of
million are dangerous and they're sold aiming now.
Jesus are rather. Isaiah.
The prophet said, my thoughts are not your thoughts.
Saith. The Lord, neither.
Am, I ways your ways for as the heavens are higher than the
earth. So, are my ways higher than your
ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
And if you think it makes no difference, you'll go over and
have a talk with Kane. Kane.
You talked to brother Kane about his problem.
He'll tell you, it made a difference.
Now, God had arranged for men to offer up sacrifices to him.
Now though this was done because over in the Hebrew letter.
The writer says by faith, Abel offered unto God, a more,
excellent sacrifice than Cain, their faith cometh by hearing
and hearing by the word of the Lord.
So I know that he is information about doing that.
Sacrifice correctly, came from a message from the lord.
It's not recorded in this book as to when it came but it came.
And if you want to know what my conjecture is about it, I
believe that it can And when they were put out of the Garden
of Eden, the first thing that was ever killed in this world
was an animal and they use the coats to make the skin rather to
make coats. I didn't think that through that
animal way. I think that animal was offered
up as a sacrifice. I don't think God would have
just gone out and killed an animal.
Just get skin off of it to make Adam a coat.
I don't believe that I believe there's the first sacrifice then
somewhere. These boys, were taught the
right way. Now know that, where else he
couldn't have offered it by faith.
You don't offer Thing by faith, unless it comes from God.
So he offered it by faith. Cain did not offer it by faith
and Cain was cursed. That's what the record tells.
Us in God's blessed book any through in Ephesians 3 & 4, how
that by Revelation, see, made known unto me, this mystery, as
I wrote a poem. Few words, whereby, when you
read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of
Christ. Now, read that to show you that
we can understand. We can understand.
I talk to people all the time and people say, you know, I just
can't understand the Bible. They'll get some mystery novel
to sit down there and figure it out before they even get to.
The end of it. Are.
Are you okay? Ain't want your program on TV,
but what they'll go to try and tell you the end of it before
you get to it. They're pretty sharp.
But when it comes to the Bible, they can't understand anything.
They claim Paul says you can. And power said, I wrote it down
in a few words, whereby when you read it.
You got to stand this mystery. That's come down.
I believe people can understand it.
I know they can understand it, if I can understand it.
I know they can. Well.
Colossians 2, and 8 says, beware lest any man.
Spoil you, through philosophy and vain deceit after the
rudiments of the world and not after Christ.
Colossians 2, 20, and 21, says, wear for work.
If you did with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why as
though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances
lesson? Now, back to our analogy of
tasting Foods Year back to our picture, back to our parallel
touch now wrapped a snot. He said, handle not.
Coach perish with are using after the doctrines command.
It's a million. Don't taste it if it's wrong.
He not only says don't imbibe it.
Just don't taste. It just don't have anything to
do with it. You know, I have a believe.
I have is greater respect for Great Men as the next one.
And if I hadn't been warned in God's word to follow me in out
of been, one of the biggest follows of Great Men That Ever
Walked because I admire Great Men.
I like to read about them. I like to read their
biographies. I read biographies all the time.
Teach you a lot of things but you know that can go only so
far. Paul said, be you follow us
together of me. Even as I also am of Christ.
First Corinthians 11 and 1. Paul didn't expect anybody to
follow him when he wasn't following Christ and I don't
care how Parish your preacher is, doesn't matter to me how
educated he is or how renowned to you is when that man stops
falling Christ. You are treading on Dangerous
Ground if you follow him steal. And that's what we're taught.
No wonder then Jeremiah. The prophet said, O Lord.
I know the way of man is not in himself for it is not in man
that walketh to direct his steps.
We want to notice. Now, some of the Commandments of
men, I say this because they cannot be found some of the
Commandments of men because it can't be found in the teachings
of God's blessed and holy word. And these are things that come
out of the doctrine, part of the devil.
If we're not very careful conscience, as a true.
I'd sometimes people still today are mixed up on this business of
conscience. People told me, well, you know,
I just believe if you follow your conscience, you can't
follow your conscience, the Apostle Paul following his
conscience, and he was wrong. He said men and Brethren.
I have lived in all good conscience before God, and to
this day, and he was killing people.
He was persecuting the Church of God at that time, but when he
saw, he was wrong, he would change that.
I don't blame anybody for being wrong till they know they're
wrong. You can't blame anybody for
being wrong till they learn the truth.
Maybe that the wrong is on us, for not teaching them.
But I do blame people when they see the truth and won't accept
it. People are not real honest.
They're not honest with God. They're not honest with
themselves. When they see the truth and they
see they're wrong and they won't make a change.
When you make a change tonight, at you knew you were wrong about
something. Sometimes we just discovered has
any people because sometimes we're wrong on some things.
But I believe we were just too stubborn sometimes, as other
people Paul said I barely felt within myself that I like to do
many things. Contrary to the name of Jesus,
procrastination is another thing that the devil is dipping out of
the doctrine pot and pooling the men men of this day.
With Paul says in Hebrews 3 and 15 today.
If you will hear his voice Harden, not your hearts, we're
taught to not procrastinate, defer of things and put them all
not to do. At, but we're taught to do it
today while we have the opportunity, James 4 and 13
says, go to. Now, you that say today, or
tomorrow. We will go into such a city and
continue their year and buy and sell and get gain for.
What is your life is? Even a vapor that appears for a
little time and then vanisheth away.
So our breath is in God's hand. You reading the book of Daniel.
That's what old Daniel told. That King when he stood before.
Oh King. I'm serving God.
In whose hand your breath is. Our breath, is in the hands of
God. It's not in our hand.
We can't say how long we're going to live.
We can't say what we're going to do.
James says, it's a good thing, just to say, if the Lord Wills,
if the Lord Wills, because we don't know, you've never been
told anywhere in the Bible to put off anything till tomorrow,
but you've been told to do it today.
That's what we've been told to do night, cometh.
When no man can work said Jesus Christ, when he was born.
People about immediately being about their duties.
Accomplishing their work, do it now because night cometh, when
no man can work, when our Labor's must cease, we must be
prepared before night because of the darkness, I'm death of
death, darkness is always a symbol of that.
It's wrong that it's bad. That it's that fits all sad.
That's it's discouraging. That's evil.
That that's wicked damnation. I take a chill sometimes when I
read the account of the last supper.
And when we are told in there, that Judas made that final dip
in the pot and Jesus turned and looked at him and said, said to
him, that thou doest do quickly. And he arose from their walked
out that door, shut the door behind him.
And the record says this was such brevity, but with such
power and it was night. That just chills you right down
to your spine and it was night. This, we certainly agree that
there's something very, very interesting about that.
You know, that was so interesting to me till I know
what some of the commentators said about it.
Mr. Meyer said this conclusion. I rather this conclusion of the
narrative, respecting Judas, presents unsolved, something
full of Horror. And which precisely in the most
simple and simple brevity of expression takes profoundest,
hold of the imagination healed, the weird force of it.
This is your hour and the power of Darkness.
All Ford says, I feel with Myers that there is something powerful
in this termination. We know it was just speaking
about the physical Darkness outside, but I wasn't only
physical Darkness. It was flooding over the heart
of that man. When he walked out and close the
light of that room out of his eyes.
He also close the light of eternal life out of his heart.
And so, does everyone else when they Dash aside?
The offers of Jesus Christ from day to day and from time to
time, we All be very, very careful and not let the devil
deceive Us by giving us a cup of this party.
Jin telling us. You're all right, wait till
tomorrow, wait till next week. Wait, till the next Revival
comes along, then you can obey the gospel.
That's all right. For you to do that.
We need to have Jesus with us when the Night Comes and the
nights coming, ladies and gentlemen, whoever you are.
Whoever you be, it will be night, and we're going to need
him with us. Over there in the narrative,
concerning the resurrection of Jesus.
When these two disciples were walking toward Emmaus.
You know how Jesus journeyed along with him and they walked
along this way, the way didn't seem quite so long.
The hills didn't seem quite so heat hide.
That is so deep. As long as Jesus was walking
with them and pretty soon. They realized they had reached
their home. The Bible said Jesus made as
though he would go on. Jesus says, I've said earlier is
a gentleman. He never imposes himself upon
anyone. You've got to asking he made as
though he would go on, but they look and they said abide with
us. Now.
The reason they said this was because today he attended the
sun was setting in the west and they had to face another night
without Jesus because they didn't know who this man was,
but they do anything. He came the nearest to filling
their heart. Since Jesus said, gone, they
needed by that ever met yet. But their eyes were Homeland,
and they didn't know him abide with us or just toward evening.
And the night is at hand, and the Bible says he went in to
abide with him. Well, the evening is going to
come for you and me one of these days, the end of the roads going
to be reached. We're going to get down to the
end of the trail. And the son of life is going to
set for us and we're going to need somebody, you can't cross
that River by yourself. That's one of the things you
can't do in life. You're going to have to have a
helper that nobody else can go with you.
The trail through death is a narrow narrow Trail, you make it
single file, ladies and gentlemen, but there's only one
can go with you. That's Jesus Christ.
You must take Kim when that time comes.
We're living in a day when people are disregarding.
Holy things. As I've said there, legalizing
all kinds of immorality, but they're disregarding.
Holy things. The home is not being regarded
today as it used to be. The home is not held up in
protecting. There's so much.
That's the lashing out against the home today.
The Lord's day is not protected, like it used to be either.
We're living in a commercialized age and it looks like that we
just have to have the things that we have, but I can remember
the time when the horses graze the pasture land on Sunday,
tractor said in the shed. No Furrow was turned on Sunday.
And you want to know why we didn't get our guns and go down
in the woods and shoot squirrels.
You know why we didn't get out? Vishal can go to the creek.
If you want a reason fart. We didn't have any better reason
than that. It was Sunday and in our home
that day was respected and honored and Christian people
sometime defile the day just as much as anybody else.
Like I said, I know we're living in a time when it looks like
that. We just can't bring ourselves
down to give it all the It's do, it are working systems and so
on. But today is not what it used to
be. In the hearts of many people,
people. Don't regard the Bible like they
used to today. It's a joke book.
Too many people. People's parents are not honored
today. Like, they used to be.
There's a scripture that says, honor thy father and thy mother,
that thy days may be long upon the Earth.
There's death in the pot. When children disobey their
parents, when children, dishonor, their parents, when
children treat their parents as old fogies.
There's a breakdown in God's plan and God's system, when
that's the case and all the people.
I know who are worth a snap of my finger of people who have
always loved and honored their parents and even let it be
known. They were thankful for it and
people who don't do that regardless of how religious they
are. There's nothing to them.
The Bible says that even Jesus when he with the D age of twelve
went down and was subject unto his parents.
That means, in our Southern way of talking, he minded them.
He mind you them. That's what he did.
He was respectful to them. People great people have always
been people who honored and respected their families, their
parents their home. I'm tempted to tell the story.
I'll President McKinley. In 1879, President McKinley
mother was sick down at the old home in Canton, Ohio.
I was in Canton a few years ago. Health meeting there.
He was in Washington and she became very ill.
And he came down. He sat by her bedside as long as
he possibly cool. She was very old.
He was very fond of his mother. In earlier days, the people
could watch from their doors and see that 54 year-old president
and his aging mother walking down the Broad Streets of
Canton, Ohio with her only ponies arm going to the church
on the corner where they had always met, but now she's very
critical. Affairs of State forced him away
from her bedside and Ruck reluctantly.
He pulled himself away and went back to Washington.
He ordered everybody to put the presidential train.
They didn't have jet. They didn't have Air Force to
then, put the presidential trained under a full head of
steam and it's at there all the time waiting.
And he ordered a foam to be put from her room to his office,
straight line. Finally, one morning, the word,
King. Mr. President.
We think you'd better come. He jumped he wired back and
said, Tell Mother I'll be there. He jumped on that presidential
train, went crashing down through the country and got
there. A half hour before she died.
He took that little form in his arms and held her there, till
the Undertaker's had to tell you.
Mr. President will have to take her now.
That doesn't diminish. My feelings for president again,
because I don't think about his politics not who cares.
Anything about the politics, but when I see his name now, in a
book or anything, I always remember what a great man.
He was. Down in Cincinnati, the next
morning, the fieldwork brothers who are great, songwriter, sit
down at their desk, and wrote a little song that you've all old
people. Remember telling mother.
I'll be there. And that was the story of.
That's how it ended in conclusion.
This evening. Ladies and gentlemen.
Are you sure of what you're feeding your phone?
Spiritually. Are you sure?
Tonight, that what you're feeding?
Phone. Spiritually is the truth.
Jesus said, You shall know the truth and the truth shall make
you free. And until you obeyed the truth.
You will never be free. Am I talking to somebody who's
never obeyed the gospel? Jesus, in the truth has
commanded that you believe on him as the Son of God, that you
repent of your sins. You can.
It's your faith in him and you submit to the Waters of baptism
for the remission of your sins. If you've done that in somewhere
down the line, you've grown cold and indifferent to the Lord's,
cause you can come back home. He's made that provision for
you. By repenting of your sins,
confessing your sins and praying, God for forgiveness.
He will welcome the prodigals back home.
He's calling the prodigals tonight from all over the land
and this could be a great night for somebody.
Who's not in touch with the Lord, like they ought to be come
tonight while we standing while we sing.
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