<TITLE>10. Par 47-49</TITLE>L-47 You're--you're controlled by two elements: either you believe, or you do not believe. Now, let's take unbelief and see what it does. It creates a worry, and it brings oppressions, and it can't help you at all. There's no value in unbelief at all.
If you... Say if you were going to be shot in the morning at sunrise, it wouldn't--it wouldn't help you any to worry about it, not a bit. It'd only just make it worse on you. So you--you can't do that. It's not good to do it.
"Well," you say, "what does faith do?" It... "What does the Word of God do?" It creates a faith. "Well, what could faith do if you was going to be shot in the morning?" It can deliver me--has done it many times. Sure. See? There's no value in unbelief. All the value there is is in faith, believing God's Word, taking God at His Word.

L-48 Now, here some time ago, before they condemned the Statue of Liberty, a present from France to the United States... Now, it's condemned, I understand, that you can't go up in it. I had the privilege of going in it one time. And I went up into the arm of the--of the statue. And then, out there we walked out in a little place, the guide and I, and there was a--a window. And I was looking out across and thinking about my cousin when he came home from the army, out there all beat up and shot.
"But when the ship was coming in towards the shore," he said, "Billy, they--they--they rolled the wheelchairs and the--and the stretcher cases up on top, when we could see way in the distance," in the first World War. That was before the big buildings had come into New York so big yet, and they could see that Statue of Liberty rising up out of the water. He said they begin to play "My country 'tis of Thee, sweet land of liberty." Old veterans, cut and bruised, shot, crippled, when they seen that statue rise up in the water like that, said they just fell down and started screaming. Why? Right behind that, mother waited, sweetheart waited, wife waited, babies waited.
I thought, "If it'd make a soldier feel like that, what won't it be when we see the old rugged cross hanging yonder? A veteran pulling in from the cuts and bruises of the battlefield..." Oh, I want to stand on the deck of the old ship of Zion and raise my hands and say, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound," or, "Oh, how I love Jesus."

L-49 I was looking out through that window and thinking of that, and I noticed laying down here along the side was a bunch of little dead sparrows. And they looked like they'd just been killed. And I said to the guide; I said. "Those sparrows, did you poison them?"
He said, "No, no. We didn't poison them."
I said, "Well, why are they laying dead just around this window here?"
He said, "They beat their brains out on the window."
And I said, "How did that come?"
He said, "Night before last there was a storm." And said, "When the storm was a-blowing, and the winds a-twisting, and the trees a-shaking, and the lightning a-flashing," he said, "those little birds trying to find shelter," said, "they got in the light of this beacon." And said, "Then... And if they would just have used the light to find safety, they'd have been safe. But what they tried to do was fly up and beat the light out. And it only blinded them, and they beat their little brains out, and laying dead."


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