<TITLE>07. Par 55-64</TITLE>L-55 God gave man a wife to comfort him, to touch him. And any man knows, that's got a good wife, there's something about a good wife that can... A man be upset in his business or--or his walks of life, and can come home; no matter, there's no one, no doctor...
It is that way with me. When I come from overseas or somewhere, and I'm so nervous and upset, and loss of sleep. And--and hear the cry, and seeing the little hungry children on the street, and, oh, crying and going on, it just kills me. Then when I come home, if wife will set down on the arm of the chair, put her arm around me, and say, "Oh, Bill, I--I understand it, you know."
And just a few little pats from the wife mean so much: same thing, a husband to a wife. That's the way God want it to be. And when we substitute something for that, and you'll get some other woman to try to take that place, or some other man, you see what you do.

L-58 Now, why, He give us friends. He loves... We--we should be friends. We should be brothers. And how that it's good to go to a good friend in time of trouble and say, "Oh, friend of mine, certain-certain thing has happened." And a good, trusted friend to set down and talk with you, that's wonderful. That's of God. Just like your wife is of God, your husband, when you're true.
But it's got so in even man to show his fallen nature, he degrades that that God give him. First thing, he took the bottle, or the world to give him comfort in the stead of the Holy Spirit. God give him a wife to be his life's companion, and he's not satisfied with one, he has to get another and another; vice versa, the woman to the man; young people, and so forth.

L-60 And even all those comforters that the Lord has given us, when it comes down to the end of the journey, and we are pressing a pillow against our fevered brow and dying, our wife can only stand, and the tears run down her face, with her eyes up towards God. Our friend can pat us on the shoulder and shake our hands, and stand, wringing his hands, because he can go no farther. But then when the Comforter, as David said, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil. Thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me, even in the valley of the shadows of death."

L-61 Why is it man thirsts and hungered? Because when he was made, he was made and created with a little place in him that God dwelt to comfort him. And when he shook hisself away from God by sin, then that place is vacant. And that's why he's hungering for it, reaching for it.
And the trouble today, with us Christians, I'm afraid we're not doing all we can do to show our fallen brother that that's what's the matter with him. That's what's the matter with juvenile delinquency, is because there's been a delinquency in the church and a delinquency in the home, that's made the juvenile a delinquency.
That's the reason that the beatniks and so forth are on the streets a-jumping up and down, and is growing all these things, is because they're trying to find something to satisfy.

L-64 Let me say this tonight in the Name of the Lord Jesus: There's nothing will satisfy like the coming of the power of the Holy Ghost, that'll change your life and your attitudes, and give you comfort and Eternal Life.
There is a Fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
When sinners plunge beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stain.
A wife might comfort and pat. A friend might set down and give good advice. But there's only one thing that can take away sin, that's the Blood of the Lord Jesus.
What can take away my sin?
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.
As the writer said:
Oh, precious is that flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.


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