<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 But I was lost worse than that one day, when a loving hand touched me by the heart and turned me towards Calvary. I held my hands up until Something got a hold of me. I've held onto It reverently, walking quietly and slowly. Someday at the end of this line will wait my loved ones and my Lord. He's a present help in time of trouble.
He... with Job in his troubles... Before his troubles struck him, he said, "Peradventure, my children might have sin, so I will offer a burnt offering for them." He made preparations, whether if anything did happen, when he begin to think of the ways of his children. They might have went perverse to his teaching.

L-25 And let me say this with reverence and with respect: If these American mothers and fathers would put more time praying for their children like Job did, there'd be less juvenile delinquency. The trouble of it is, our modern American mothers and fathers lead them to drinking, and to card playing, and to cigarette smoking, and things of that sort, which makes juvenile delinquency. It really isn't juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. Neglecting to come to God and find Him, then trouble strikes.
When trouble struck Job, he'd offered a burnt offering, come up on the only grounds that God will receive a believer, that's on the burnt sacrifice and the blood. So when trouble struck his house, God was a present help in the time of trouble.
When they accused him of being a secret sinner, he knew that he was righteous with God, because he'd met God's requirements. Then he could say, "I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last day He will stand on the earth. Though the skinworms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I will see God." He... Why? He knew that he'd come God's provided way. He didn't come by the membership of his church; he come by God's sacrifice. That was what God required. Certainly.

L-26 It was David, when he was setting on his throne, and Nathan the prophet come in and been--begin to reveal the secrets of his heart. That David thought on his sinful ways. Yet, he was a good man. Been a man after God's own heart, but he was living with Uriah's wife. And it was wrong. And when David, the king of Israel thought on his ways, It drove him to sackcloth and prayer, because he thought on his sinful ways, drove him to his knees to pray.
It was Jacob, who had deceived his brother and lived luxuriously down with his father-in-law, with camels and sheep and everything. One time there come a yearning to go back home, go back to church, and go back to the right thing again. And he started with his wives, and his children, and his flocks. But when he heard that Esau was coming, he thought on his ways. On his ways of deceiving, he'd deceived Esau. And he knowed Esau was on his way to meet him.

L-27 And there's so many Christians tonight, professed Christians, that's only deceiving the thing that they're confessing to be. Death will come creeping around the door one of these days; you'll go to thinking on your ways then.
As Jacob thought on his ways, he stayed the other side of the brook and prayed all night long.
If Christians would think on their ways, and would drive them to prayer and to repentance, it would be different. The world would be different. The Church would be different. The people would be different.


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