<TITLE>02. Par 4-7</TITLE>L-4 Now, tonight, I have chosen for a text, "Faith Is Our Victory." And I wish to read a portion of the Scripture found in I John, the 5th chapter and the 4th verse:
For whatsoever is borned of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Now, such wonderful words, "Our Faith Is The Victory." And now, speaking on victory, there has been many great victories won in this long stretch of years that humanity has been on the earth. I was reading the book on the surrender of--of Paris, that where, in this last, the second world war, that when Hitler had been brought into Paris at the Arch of Triumph, they say that it was such a victory until it taken hours for those German soldiers marching the goose step, right through the Arch of Triumph, while Hitler stood at attention and the whole air was black above. The skies were shut off from airplanes moving over. Such a time of victory, that after they had won the war over France, and France had surrendered to Germany...

L-5 And then in London, England, I had the privilege once of seeing there at the conference, a movie picture of where that the--it'd been taken by the Russians, that when Berlin surrendered to Russia, and how that that great mammoth mass of military equipment, those great cannons that they had on the--mounted onto these great tanks that could revolve around, just moved into Berlin, you could hardly see how any life could even exist. For mile after mile, and every one shooting just on precision shots, to where they'd just come up like a great swarm of locusts. And they just simply battered Berlin to the ground. And when then they pulled off their tanks and the--the infantry went in and mopped up, they sent and got Mr. Stalin. And when they flew him in by the plane, and it landed, all those Russian soldiers went down the street as that twist and a step as they make it, as a victor, the Russian victor sign. And how Stalin stood at attention while tens of thousands of soldiers marched through the streets of Berlin, when it laid in ashes.
And when the German women had been ravished in the streets, and the little killed and some of them burned, and so forth, but that was quite a victory for Russia.

L-6 Then I am told that, Napoleon, the great victor of a day gone by, some years ago, about five years, I had the privilege of stopping near Waterloo. And I was--picked a little book up there, and I was reading the life of Napoleon. He hated the French. He come over into France, borned out on an island, and come to France to get even with them, but become a great conqueror. He was a gentleman to start with, but success went to his head. And it's said, "That women, when they'd go to put their little babies to bed, that he was so feared (He put everything to death that didn't agree with him.), that the women instead of saying, "The old booger man's going to get you.", they would say, "Napoleon's going to get you." And the little bright eyed fellows would get their heads under the cover real quick, thinking of that great monster, Napoleon.
But you see, the victory that he won, didn't last. He was a prohibitionist to start with, and died at the age of thirty-three an alcoholic. Victory of that type don't last, because it's not wrought right. You can never get good out of wrong. You've got to play the rule of the game, fair.

L-7 And anyone of you know that in olympics or any other athletical exercises, no matter if you arrive first in the race, but if you haven't played the game according to the rules, you're disqualified. You have to play the rule right.
And that's the way it is with human life. You can't play the rules of the game of life, wrong, and expect to win. You've got to play it according to God's Word, and the purpose that you were brought here for.


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