<TITLE>11. Par 65-70</TITLE>L-65 If all the little boys that wants to be Hopalong Cassidy or--or some of these others, or the little girls, the Annie Oakleys and so forth; if they only wanted to be like Jesus as much as they want to be like that, the Sunday schools would be running over everywhere. If the women that wants to be like some movie star, would want to be like Jesus, the church... Why, they'd never have to take up an offering. Certainly.
God made a man to desire to have an example, and God gave him an Example. That Example is Jesus Christ, to be identified with Him.
Now, if we would be more like Him, then there wouldn't be so many big shots in the world; there wouldn't be any hungry children in the world; there wouldn't be any whiskey, or drinking, or gambling. God gave us an Example to be like, but we refuse to be it. Now, that's what's the matter with the world. They got the desire; God has give them that; but they've turned it the wrong way. It's time to return back, and get on the right road, and get facing Calvary. Nature proves it.

L-68 Now, if people of this day with that great desire and great ambitions to be like somebody for an example, if they took Christ as their Example, then we would have--we could fire every police there was in the nation. Everybody would be meek and humble; everybody would be kind and have brotherly love one for the other; there would never be a divorce case ever pled in our country. There would never be any sickness; we could even dismiss hospitals, if everybody tried to make Jesus Christ their Example. We wouldn't have need for nothing else.
So that nature is in the man, but he puts it on the wrong thing. He makes some man... And you know the Bible said that we are cursed when we make flesh our stay? When you try to make flesh your stay or put your trust in flesh, the Bible said you are cursed. How well I know; it's so easy to do it.

L-70 Here's what causes a lot of it: is our newsstands full of vulgar magazines; our homes are full of pin-up pictures; our news screens are never censored, they're wide open, can crack any kind of jokes or--or do things that's terrible. There's no cleanness among us any more. I know you think I'm awful hard on that, but it--somebody's got to be hard on it. It's just got to be done.
When I was a little boy, I read the book of Tarzan and the Apes. Mama had an old fur rug that Mrs. Wathen had give her, laid before the dresser. I cut that thing up, and made me a Tarzan suit, and slept in a tree for a week. I wanted to be Tarzan. Then when I read the book of the Lone Star Ranger, I rode a broom stick out, being a hobbyhorse, trying to be the Lone Star Ranger.
It's no more than what people will do; it's what you read, the music you listen to. Go into a restaurant, and this old rock-and-roll... No wonder people are going crazy. That's enough to drive a human being crazy.


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