<TITLE>06. Par 46-55</TITLE>L-46 I believe it was in the "Ten Commandments," the late Cecil DeMille, that wrote and put on the screen one of the masterpieces of the movie world. And before it was put on the scene, or let out, Cecil DeMille called Oral Roberts, and Demos Shakarian, and a bunch of the Full Gospel ministers, and took them into his own studios, and showed the four hours of the "Ten Commandments," and asked them their opinion of it. God rest his gallant soul.
And when I seen it, was looking at it, and a little remark always stuck to me. If many of you who did see it, it was when the daughter of Pharaoh... After Moses had found out that he was a--a Hebrew, and he had decided to go dwell with his people, and there sat his once beautiful mother, faded out, with her gray hair and her wrinkled face, setting in an old armchair, a typical mother... And the Pharaoh's daughter came in. And he said, "Whose son am I anyhow?"
And when it was brought to light that Jochebed was his real mother, the daughter of Pharaoh, with her paint and so forth, and all fixed up, she said, "But look. He may be your son," but she said, "I give him wealth and splendor. You could've give him nothing but the slime pits."
But the aged gray-headed mother said, "But I give him life." That makes the difference. "I gave him life." And God gave him Eternal Life. How true, mother...

L-50 Sometimes people say to me, mostly always in my campaigns I'm constantly preaching upon the resurrection. And I read a text this morning, the 15th chapter and the 4th verse of I Corinthians on the resurrection.
But you see, the way they place mother today, is a pot of flowers setting by an old lady, who is old and can't get up, maybe, and feeble, and gray-headed, and wrinkled, and setting in an armchair. That's true enough. But I want to take my theme and paint you another picture of what mother is.

L-52 Someone said, "You preach too much on the resurrection. Most every message has got something about the resurrection."
Why, sure, it's the--it's the cardinal resting place of the Gospel. No matter what He did, if He did not rise again from the dead, then all of it was in vain. It, to me, proves that He was God, proves every claim He made: the resurrection. And it also is the place of the resting of the soul. It's the starting point. It's the crowning of our consolation.
And when we see that He rose from the dead, it places us with the Gospel armor at the battle front to take the place to fight. For we know He said, "He that will lose his life for My sake shall find it again."

L-55 And I think it's the great coronation of the Full Gospel, is the resurrection, and its Divine promises, and the consolation that it gives those who are trusting in it. For it promises the great union of our uniting together again. It promises in the--the fading away of all sin. It promises the fading away of all deformity. All the sufferings that we have did in this, had to go through with in this life, It promises then the vanishing of us all. It promises that even death will lose its hold, and we'll rise in the likeness of Jesus. So to my opinion, the resurrection is the greatest of all the promises in the things of the Scripture. There is where it sealed it.
And the last Easter, when I was preaching on the five things of...
 Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
 Buried, He carried my sins far away;
 But rising, He justified freely forever.
That's the day for me, that great day of days. And to see what it'll mean to all of us in the resurrection, as we labor and wait for that blessed day of days...


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