<TITLE>23. Par 143-147</TITLE>L-143 Let's bow our heads now while we're praying with these at the altar. Dear children, I want you to remember this morning you're there, to lay aside the weight. You're there to lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily beset you. Paul said in Hebrews the 12th chapter:
... seeing that we're compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily beset us.
And what shall I more say? for time would not tell me of Gideon, or Balak--of Barak, of Samson, and of Jephthae, of David, of Samuel, and of the prophets:
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness was made strong, and waxed the--valiant the enemy in flight...
And women received their dead raised to life: and others received torments, cruel mockings... scourgings, yea, moreover--moreover and in bonds and imprisonment, and--and others who had trials, mockings, scourings;...
They all... obtained a good report through faith... And all these having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
God having provided some better thing for us, that without us, they might not be made perfect.
Wherefore seeing we are compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily beset us, that we might run with patience the race that's set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despised the shame, and set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

L-144 Jesus in His prayers said, "Father, I sanctify Myself." Jesus become sanctified to the church. He could've got married but He didn't do it. He become sanctified. He said, "Sanctify them, Father, to the truth; Thy Word is the Truth."
Now, let's lay aside every weight. If you got a temper, you got something about you that you talk when you ought not to talk, oh, God, lay it there now. Lay it there. Watch the fire of the altar come down and take it away. Watch the love of God lick it up. Watch all that old selfishness, the way you've been talking to your wife, the way you been talking to your husband, the way you been talking to your neighbor, the way you've talked about the people in the church; lay it on the altar this morning and the fire of God will come down and take it right away and Divine love will burn in its place.
If you got sickness, lay it on the altar. Say, "Lord, here it is. Create in me a clean spirit. Create in me a healing power." See what God will do. God will do it this morning.

L-147 Our heavenly Father, we bow in Thy Presence in behalf of those at the altar. Let Thy grace rest upon each one of them, Father. Now, as they, Lord... I can't do it for them. They've got to do it themselves. No man can do it for them. They have to do it alone. Let their souls now say in theirself, "Oh God, this temper, I lay it down here Lord; I'll never pick it up. No matter what comes or goes, I'll let it go from now on. This tongue of mine has been easy to take sides with a bunch of gossip, Lord, I'm laying it down here. I'll never pick it up again. Sanctify my tongue, Lord. Let me feel the Angels coming through like Isaiah did when he said, 'I'm of unclean lips. Woe is me.' And the Angel come, took the tongs, and went to the altar, and got the coals of fire, and laid it on his lips, and sanctified it." God, sanctify every talker this morning that talks wrong and sows discord. Grant it, Lord.


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