<TITLE>02. Par 14-19</TITLE>L-14 Did you ever notice a little baby when it's born, its little muscles twitching and jerking? But when it comes to the earth, it receives a spirit, and then it becomes a living soul. And as soon as the soul goes back from that little body, there's another one waiting for it. See? Because, first, God makes the soul and spirit; it just goes to the bodies. And--and when we leave here, we only change dwelling places and go to another one. "For if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." So that's our consolation.

L-15 Now, let us pray. Our glorious, heavenly Father, what could we do in these hours of tremendous need if it wasn't for You? But our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' Blood and righteousness. And we are so glad to know that there is a land beyond the river, that when You are finished with us on this earth, that we only change our dwelling places to that glorious land, yonder, where there's no sickness or heartache, death or separation. We will always be with Thee and with our loved ones. So we thank Thee for this glorious hope that's in our bosom today.
And it seemed, Lord, hard this morning for me to come down, not to serve You, but to know that I am nervous and wondering just how I will be able to approach this message this morning for the church, that I feel that You have placed upon my heart. How the enemy has taken me around and around with it. But I have got this far to the pulpit in Your Name. And I commit myself with the message and all into Thy hands, and know that You are more than able to take it to each heart and to provide everything that we have need of. We commit it all to Thee now, and ourselves, as Your service; as my lips is Your mouthpiece, and the ears as Your hearing post. Bless us, Lord.

L-17 And may other mothers, fathers, and those who will be in the days to come, if the world shall stand may they prepare and know too, that they must come down someday to this hour that mother has arrived at. I pray, God, that they'll make their preparation today. For there is not one more thing in the world that matters. No money can buy, no popularity can sustain; nothing can help but God and God alone. And we hold to His unchanging hand, knowing that He has said, "The footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord." So this little suffering that we have now in present life, will mean so little, as the poet has expressed it, "The toils of the road will seem nothing, when we get to the end of the way."
And help us, Lord, press on towards the mark of the high calling, knowing that someday in a great beyond here, we shall meet in the sweet by-and-by. Bless Thy words now. Bless Thy servants, each child of God that's in here, may their hearts be warmed and stirred this morning. And, Father, I need some of it myself. I pray that You'll grant it, all these things in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

L-19 Now, I notice that here we have a group of handkerchiefs. And I am--will get to them just in a little while.
I come in from a trip where I have been up on a hunting trip with a man up in--near Alaska. You know, this season is kind of a season that I set aside, the fall of the year, to rebuild myself, making ready for the seasons that lay ahead for the service.


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