<TITLE>07. Par 29-33</TITLE>L-29 Here she come and jumped up on the other leg, and why, she--she couldn't balance herself. Her little legs wouldn't hit the floor. But she was on the leg anyhow. See? So she was toddling around like that.
Well, to keep her from falling, I just got both arms and put them around her like that to hold her. And I was holding her up close to me, and she put her little old head against me for a little bit. She raised up, and looked at Becky, and said, "Now, Rebekah, my sister," said, "I want to tell you something too." She said, "It may be so that you've got all of daddy. But I want you to know that daddy's got all of me." So that's...
So that's about the way we want... We don't want... We want Him to have all of us. So therefore, in all--to do it we've just got to walk out there by faith and believe Him, that's all, and just trust. We can't explain it. There's no way to explain it; we just believe it, and take it like that.

L-30 This rich young man, he would not give hisself to Christ, and so he went away. And we find him later that he was... He had prospered so much until his barns was so full, until he said, "Soul, take thy rest." Oh, he had prospered, everything. He had so much he had need for nothing.
But something taken place. The next time we saw him, he lifting up his eyes in hell, had seen the beggar far off in the bosom of Abraham. That was because that he wasn't willing to forsake all to follow the Lord Jesus.

L-31 Then, when this taken place, and the young ruler would not give up what he had to follow Jesus, it must've dawned on Peter (I believe it was him that made the remark, or asked the question, raised it), and said, "Now, we have forsaken all to follow You. We have forsaken all. Look what we have done. We left our homes; we left our families; we left our lands; we left everything that we had to follow You."
It begin to dawn on him. Maybe he'd been so carried away in the work, watching Christ, and so forth, that it'd never dawned on him that he'd left his home, he'd left his family, he had left his father, his mother. He'd left all he had to follow Jesus.

L-32 But that's exactly what God requires: forsake all and follow Him. That's God's requirement. We've got to do it too. Sometime we've got to forsake our very thoughts. If our thoughts about anything is contrary to God's Word, we've got to forsake our own thinking and follow Him. And the only way we can follow Him is follow His Word, obey It. And God's request, and God's requirement is that we forsake all and follow Him.
But in doing so we find out sometimes we have to forsake our friends. Many time that's a hard thing to do. Now, many people when they first come into Christ and be filled with the Spirit... Maybe like women has been having a--some kind of a party they've been going to every certain-certain night, where they been playing bunco in the neighborhood--acquainted with all the--the neighbors, and so forth, and belong to certain societies in the neighborhood, and they go play bunco.
And these women, you know, is going to say something about it. They're not going to understand it. But yet, you have to forsake that thing, because it's not right to gamble, play cards. And you've got to forsake that if you follow Christ.

L-33 Sometimes the women in our churches is used to wearing immoral clothes, like shorts, and--and these dungarees. And the Bible said it's an abomination to God for a woman to put on such. She's... No matter what she thinks, she's got to forsake that. Sometimes we find women when they come into the way and get saved, they've been used to cutting off their hair, and they want to be popular like the rest of the world. But they find out it's a hard thing, 'cause they'll call you old fashion whenever you go to dressing like a Christian, acting like a Christian, living like a Christian. They'll call you old fashion, but you've got to forsake all to follow Him.


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