<TITLE>16. Par 62-65</TITLE>L-62 But He stepped forth. The Angel said, "What will you do?" He went to the earth, and He said, "Now, you, every one of you sons of Adam; you take what I give you to fight with, and fight as you can, the best you can." And He never found a weak spot through theology, or neither building of seminaries, or the erecting of churches.
But He went where the spears was the heaviest, down through the valley of the shadow of death. And He gathered death and sickness with His arms into His own bosom, and sent back the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost to place in our hands of requiring of each son of Adam to fight as we can. Though you'll be made fun of, though you'll be persecuted, though you'll be called holy- roller, everything else, fight as the best you can, for the victory is sure, and thanks be to God the enemy's routed. It's garrisons are broke. And the great Captain of our salvation is leading on today by the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

L-63 Oh, sons and daughters of Adam, why set ye here until you die? Let us rise and do something. Let us take what we have. If it's no more than a mortal lip that can still move, let's give praise to God. Let's thank Him for salvation.
If you are a sinner, you can never call yourself out of the quarry of this earth that God has blasted you out by the Gospel. But stand still and let God saw you to--to place you into the building. If you're sick, remember Jesus conquered both death, hell, sickness, grave, and all when He died for you at Calvary. Let us take what we have this morning and fight to the best of our knowledge.
While we bow our heads in a word of prayer... And if I ask the sister to come and play on the piano some good hymn, while we all sensible, sane people...

L-64 Do you appreciate this morning the death of our Lord Jesus? Your churches will not work, though as good as they may be. Your schools will miserably fail, though good as they may be. Your doctor will miserably fail, good as he may be. But this morning let's turn our looks; let's turn our eyes from the laws of the churches, and the denominations, and the doctor's office, and, as good as they all are, and let's hear that voice coming from the shadow that overshadows us this morning. "This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him."
Dear heavenly Father, as humbly as Christians can approach, we come in behalf of the lost and needy. Take these words today, and, O Holy Spirit that's leading the Church, tutor Your children to God today. Many might have fell by the wayside and know not the way of God no more. They've been darkened and blackened. Their hopes has failed, but may they view again Calvary where You caught the fiery darts of the enemy of death, the enemy of sickness, the enemy of sorrow, the enemy of all mankind. And there You placed it in Your bosom and broke the way.

L-65 And down through that dark shadow this morning we see our home in glory. As von Winkelried said, "Behind the mountain is a home. They wait for me to come, but they won't see me no more." But Jesus, You never said, "They won't see Me any more." You said, "In My Father's house is many mansions. I'll go and get one ready and come and get you and receive you unto Myself."
How we respect the gallant death of Winkelried, but he was a mortal. He could only die and leave behind. But Thou come to die and redeem, and bring us, not from our loved ones, but to our loved ones, not from our homes, but to our homes, and cut a line through the darkness of death that we could see beyond the veil where lays the blessings of God.
And now, today, dear Father, if there be any of Your children that You have blasted with the Gospel from the quarry of life, and desire to so make them, and been cutting on them this morning, and hewing them, sawing off their habits, and their evil thinking, and their backbitings, and backslidings, and now You want to place them again and fit them into the building, will You speak to their hearts just now?


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