<TITLE>04. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 But there was one hero among them by the name of Arnold Von Winkelried. And he kissed his wife and his babies good-bye a few hours before he went to battle. He loved his home. He loved his nation; therefore, his love constrained him to do something about it.
And he said. "Men of Switzerland, this day I'll give my life for Switzerland."
They said, "What will you do, Arnold von Winkelried."
He said, "Just follow me and fight for what you've got." And he threw up his arms and he looked towards the deepest of the spears as they marched on like one great big wall. And he found the deepest of the spears. And he screamed, "Make way for liberty." And he started running with his hands in the air. And he screamed again, "Make way for liberty."
Before he left his life, he said, "Across the mountain yonder, is a little white home, and two little children, and a sweet wife that I'll never see no more. Take care of them. But I'll give my life to defend them."

L-17 Love makes you do things, and when the church gets the real love of God in their heart, they'll do things. They'll not be ashamed. Oh, Christ don't want you to be... It isn't so much to be loyal. He don't want your patronage; He wants your fellowship. That's what God wants is to have fellowship with you.
And as this Arnold von Winkelried rushed towards the lines, he grabbed a armful of spears and throwed them into his heart as he fell on them and plunged hisself to death. Was such a gallant act till it routed the enemy. And those who follow him, screaming with sickles in their hands, and rocks, and stones, and sticks, but they beat the enemy out of the country. And Switzerland has never had a war from that day till this.

L-18 That heroism, it's seldom ever compared and never exceeded, but oh, that was a little thing. Till one day when Adam's fallen race was backed into the corner, they had...?... and laws. And they had refused them, and the devil, sin, and sickness, had backed Adam's race into the corner. And there was One stepped out in heaven, said, "I'll go to the earth." For God so loved the world His love constrained Him to do something. It projected a Saviour Who came to the earth and found the thickest of the spears, which was death, and plunged Himself into it.
And on the day that He ascended up, and He sent back the Holy Ghost, and said to His church, "Take this and fight the best that you can."
There's where the church misses it today: The love of God that's shed upon the hearts not a Holy Ghost, and men afraid to take it. You'd rather take some man-made theology and try to fight. You'll lose. Take what our Leader gave. The Lord God will give strengthening. "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son."

L-19 Oh, I've noticed this... Many of you has read the book of that time up in Portland, Oregon, when the maniac run to the platform. However, it ends up on a little personal line.
The maniac went out to the platform that night before sixty-five hundred people and was going to kill me. Great big burly giant, weighed about two hundred and fifty pounds or maybe more, stood nearly seven foot, a maniac out of an insane institution. And I was speaking on faith. I weighed one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. And I seen about three hundred preachers run from the platform, because they knew him. He hated preachers. And the law was looking for him.


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