<TITLE>09. Par 49-55</TITLE>L-49 Let us pray now. Heavenly Father, we are grateful to Thee for the goodness of Jesus Christ Who is the center of love. And I used to think that You were angry with me but Jesus loved me; but I find out now that Jesus is the very heart of God. So I--I know that You love me and--and suffered for me.
And Father God, I pray for this world today and for our country. I pray, Lord, for forgiveness of my own mistakes and for the mistakes of my people, the people that You've give me to shepherd over. And I pray that You'll bless them and every one of the people that's been in this little meeting that's asked questions... Or--or maybe I've said something contrary to what they believe. Lord, I can't explain it myself; I'm unable. But let... Will You just let them know, Father, that in my heart what I mean? Please, I pray You'll do that. Bless them together.
Bless us now as we are waiting on Your Word, just a few moments before baptismal service. Help us to speak that which is right. Help us to--in this message tonight, my throat being a little husky; I pray that You'll help me, dear God, and You will even heal the sick and the afflicted that's in the midst of the people. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-52 Now, if you will for just the next few moments, let's turn over to the Book of Romans the 6th chapter.
Well, wait. I believe I've got... Say, I got a whole lot more... Say, I'll just answer these Wednesday night if that's all right; I'm done so late now. I didn't notice those laying there till just now.
Now, Romans the 6th chapter, let us read:
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Know ye not, that so many as--of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized unto his death?
Therefore we are buried with him in baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

L-53 And if I should take a text tonight for about twenty minutes, I would say this: "Identification, Identified With Christ."
You know, there is in the country today so many dissatisfied people. And it's amazing when you get around and find out so much dissatisfaction. People hardly know what they want to do. They come down the road at about seventy and eighty miles an hour in a thirty mile zone, slide the brakes, and turn around the corner, and start up with such speed, till they burn their tires half off to go a city block to set and talk awhile. Seems like people don't know what they do want.

L-55 Some of them get so disturbed until they go down to the drugstore and purchase for themselves a bottle of arsenic, or sulfuric acid, or something, and commit suicide. They find them laying dead. Some will turn their gas jets on in the room or set in their automobiles with the pipe for the carbon monoxide gas, trying to get away from life. Some of them will climb up to the bridge, and write a little note and stick it on their coat, and lay it down, and plunge themselves to death in the river, jumping off of mountains, high towers. And some will take a pistol, and put it up to their head, and actually blow their brains out. They're just dissatisfied.
The hospitals are full of dissatisfied people. The insane institutions are overrun. Dissatisfied, they don't know what they do want. There seemed to be something that they're reaching after, but they just never come to it.


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