<TITLE>08. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 And the other day, I met him. And he said... (Oswald J. Smith, many of you know Brother Smith. He's a great missionary, and he comes to Brother Cauble, because he likes him so well.)
He said, "Brother Cauble, you know," he said, "I" (something about his wife...) He said, "When I first got married," said, "I felt like, well, if I make a mistake, I'll... Oh, I can get another one," 'cause he was young. But said, "After the children comes along," said, "then it's kind of hard to do without her. Then when you get about fifty years old, you just can't do without her. And as you get older, why, you--you feel that way."
I said, "I guess that's about right. I'd..."
What the subject come up about, you know how the ladies can shop, and my wife was in there. And she's queen of all of it. She just stays all the time. My poor feet just nearly kills me on the street walking around with her. And he was telling me, said, "Well, you just can't do without her." And that's how the remark come up. And when I went home, I got to setting in the room there thinking, "That's right." I applied it to something else.

L-37 You know, when I was first converted in the--become a Missionary Baptist preacher, I thought if a person wasn't a Baptist, he just wasn't saved. That's all there was to it. And I packed a Bible under my arm, and I thought the Lord called me to make everybody Baptists. And everybody didn't believe just like the Baptists believed was not in the picture at all.
As the days went on, I thought I had the whole job to do myself. And I come to find out, I noticed another brother that had a church, a pastor. He pulled too just as hard as I did. After all, the blanket stretches a little bit over towards him too, you know. Then we find out, we need one another. And now, after we begin to get this far along, it's just kind of hard to do without one another. That's all. We just got to have one another. That...
And I believe that's in this great Pentecostal move. And I'm glad to see those barriers of indifference breaking down, and the great church of God begin to merging itself together in fellowship. Means that the wedding is coming nearer now. And the stones are peculiar cut as they may be, they got a place somewhere in that building, if they're the stones of the Lord.

L-38 Now, marriage in one sense is a type... The earthly marriage here is a type of the heavenly marriage. Now, let's go over it just for a few moments, to rehearse it a moment. The first thing there is, there must be a decision made. The first thing takes in natural marriage is a decision has to be made. The young lady has to make her decision whether she wants this young man, and the young man, whether he wants the young woman. There has to be a decision made, and you have to make it. She must be the only woman in the world that you love, and he must be the only man. If it isn't, then you made a wrong decision.
And that's the same way it is by making the decision for Christ. The first thing you have to do, is make up your mind whether you're going to serve God and take Him as your Saviour; or, you're not going to do it. Are you going to serve the world, are you going to serve Christ? You have to make up your mind. There has to be a decision made. When you make up your mind that you're either going to serve God or mammon, then you take your choice. But the decision has to be made.


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