<TITLE>03. Par 21-29</TITLE>L-21 And in this great city, as they felt there was no way in the world for an army ever to invade that city... The great, high walls, and their modern equipment, and they were blocked off from the outside world. But little did they know that a wicked nation called the Medes and Persians, which are now are the Hindus of India, how little did they know that many miles away was digging a riverbed to turn the Euphrates river, so that they could march under the walls. When they felt they were secured, all the time they felt that way, if they did feel that, then they went wading in sin.

L-22 It seems like that when man gets to the place that he feels that he's self-sufficient, sin begins to take ahold of him. The church, the nation, the individual, that feels that he doesn't need any help from outside, sin begins to reign in him. That is true. And we would notice too, that when people begin to feel that superior feeling, usually sin sets in and cankers them.
So when they closed those doors, they thought they were safe. But God looks down from the heavens. "And sin is a reproach to any nation."
I wonder tonight with all of our great equipment, and our atomic-controlled submarines, and our jet planes that fly many hundred miles per second, that even--or minute, that can even pass the sound barrier... But never forget but what your sins will find you out.

L-25 And in this time they had closed the gates. And they thought they would--could just live in revelry as they wanted to, because they were protected. They were the leading nation; all the other nations looked to them for science and for--for help.
And so, on such a time as that there was a... This king thought he would have him a great big time. And he set a date that he was going to have a great big dance, or, as I would say, a modern rock-and-roll; no more to it. And so he set the time, and he invited all the celebrity, all of the soldiers and the captains, and all of the wives and the concubines.
Now, a concubine is just a legal prostitute. And do you see, when man feels self-sufficient, that he starts wading in sin?

L-28 And he called in the best liquors that he could find for this great rock-and-roll party that he was going to have. He thought he was safe. He thought there was nothing could harm him, because he was safe. And he had this great spree in one of these gardens just behind the palace. And while out there in the garden, perhaps they had decorated it all up real pretty, all the tinsel hanging, and got all of the showgirls and many of the women to come to entertain the soldiers. And their beer and their wines... If that isn't a good modern setup of a rock-and-roll party today, I don't know where one would be. That's exactly. And they got everything ready, and they were going to have a big time.

L-29 And no doubt but what many married women came. Their husbands was left at home as babysitters, while they went out to have a good time. And vice versa, no doubt a mother walked the floor, with a sick baby, while a drunken husband went out to have a big time. It's just six of one, and half a dozen of the other.
And I can see them as they begin to drink and to have a big time. And I'd imagine they really struck up the band, and had the music, and the little teen-agers swinging one another. And the soldiers, drunk, grabbing the women and throwing them over their heads, and kissing them and setting down in the chairs, and hurrahing, thinking they were safe.
Oh, America, the God that looked down on that drunken, rock-and-roll party is looking on you tonight.


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