<TITLE>07. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 Now, we're longing for somewhere there's no death, no sorrow, no heartaches, no old age. That land is somewhere. And we'll never be able to achieve it by guns, and fighting, and so forth, of the natural carnal weapon. But there is a land that we can go to, and it's a battle to get there.
When God gave Israel Palestine when he was in Egypt, but they had to fight for every inch of it. And he told Joshua (in Joshua 1); He said, "Wherever the soles of your foot treads upon, that I have given you." So footprints means possession. See? Just keep walking, walking, pressing on. And every time you make a step into the Kingdom of God, that's yours, just on... And all things are possible that's given; and all things are given that's possible. But it's a battle.

L-29 And in our achievement here in--in the nation, of trying to look around to find out what's taking place, the spies of the other nations here, spying out on us... We have spies over there spying out on us. They're watching to see what kind of a new weapon that will come up. And then they have--take that back to their own country, and find something to counteract that weapon, that'll beat it, get a little better.
Now, first war I remember is the World War I. I was a little boy. And I remember my father coming up the road driving two horses and a wagon. He... And he had a sack of beans setting on the wagon. And we'd go down on Saturday and buy sack of beans, and a--and a sack of flour, and a sack of meal, and--and a few things like that to run us through the week. And I said...

L-30 I heard him say, "War was declared, mother. You hear all those whistles?" Dad was about twenty-three or twenty-four years old then. He said, "I may have to go."
And I thought, "My daddy go to war? I'll take this sack of beans, and hit somebody with it if my..." See? And I was just a little bitty fellow. And I remember his rifle, the old Springfield rifle, how he said it would shoot through a telephone post. That rifle is absolutely obsolete.
The old steam engines on the tracks, that used to bring up the ammunition and--and bring up the soldiers to the battle front, a great old fellow that old steam engine was, but it's obsolete. They don't have it no more. They got something far better than what they had then.
Then in the next--next war, the--and Garand rifle taken the place of the Springfield. And now they've got atomic missiles; the Garand rifle's gone. They're always renewing and getting something better to--to combat the enemy.

L-31 And we are a army. The Christian church is an army of God. We are soldiers, soldiers of the cross. And it is the business of every nation to see that their soldiers has the best that there is. Nothing...
I was preaching the other night about achievement at another meeting somewhere, and I talked about our American soldiers. When Washington was at Valley Forge, about half of them had on shoes. They were bare-footed. But they had a general that prayed all night. He swept across the Delaware the next day. That's why we got America. It's men, gallant men who had something to fight for. We should never let them down.

L-32 Now, they had muskets in them days, knives. That's the best they had. Any nation... They had the best we could give them. And today look at the difference in our army today than there was then.
But you know, when God... Being infinite, infinite He cannot change. There's where my faith rests, is on God's Word, because It is God. And Himself...


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