<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 O Father, it shakes our hearts to know; the sense mind could not understand it. It's beyond any of our senses to comprehend what this means: that we tonight are now seated in Christ. Every blessing that He died for is ours right now; we have it. O God, help us to have faith tonight, to use Your faith, that You said it was ours. And let us claim it tonight, Lord, every God-given privilege that we have. For You have bought us, called us by grace, washed us in the Blood of Thy Son the Lord Jesus, and has cleansed us up, filled us with the Holy Spirit, set us in Christ Jesus, here tonight to claim anything, any redemptive blessing. And our enemy tonight is just a bluff. For Christ robbed him of everything he was at Calvary, when He stripped of everything, power that he ever had. For God was... Man was reconciled to God at that time through the Blood of Jesus Christ when He fully paid the price and the full supreme offering was made; and God was pleased with it. And tonight we're resurrected in Him. How we thank Thee for this, knowing this, that no matter what comes or goes, we're in Him. Those who He has justified, He has already glorified. And the Father in His own faith, believing that we'll hold to our redemptive blessings, and the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, foresees us yonder in eternity, glorified together with Him, with glorified bodies, free from sickness, free from death, and to live with Him as His dear beloved children through all ceaseless ages and aeons of time to come.
Bless us, Lord, tonight. May our hearts be moved as the Holy Spirit comes down the aisles of our being, and cleanses us from all doubt and unrighteousness. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.

L-12 Now, someone has been asking why I do not pray for more than I do at night. I might explain that just a moment. See, friends, you don't realize what that does to me. How many--how many knows that that vision takes more out of me than anything else that I know of. The prophet, Daniel, saw one vision and was troubled at his head for many days. Is that right? Look, did you all know that most all poets and prophets and inspired people were considered neurotics, you know, crazy? That's right.
Look. For the people here that probably are not Christians, how about the great folk song writer, gave America some of its most lovely folk songs, was Stephen Foster. He wrote, "The Old Folks at Home," and "Old Kentucky Home," "Swanee River," many of those, "Old Black Joe," many of those great inspiring songs.

L-13 Here not long ago, "My Old Kentucky Home," is just across the river from me. I was over there sitting at the little bench that he was supposed, or table, it was valued at a hundred thousand dollars many years ago, when the World's Fair was held at St. Louis. And he was where he--he penned that song. There was his picture, and with the...?... supposed to touch him, give him, give him inspiration. I thought, "Yes, Mr. Foster, you had it here in the head, not in the heart." But if you notice every time that he'd write a song, that inspiration would leave him, he'd get on a drunk. And finally... Now, he don't... Just don't condemn the man too quick (See?) till you understand. Not being what he should, he'd get on a drunk. He'd leave that inspiration. And finally, when he come out from under the inspiration one day, called his servant and took a razor and committed suicide. He didn't know where he was at.
"Well," you say, "yes..."
How many of you knows William Cowper? Many of you knows his famous song, There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, when sinners plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains.


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