<TITLE>06. Par 36-44</TITLE>L-36 Now, now, we find out that this young man taken the throne. If you want to take some of the Scriptures down, it's II Chronicles the 26th chapter. You can read where tells that King Uzziah after his father died A-m-a-z-i-a-h, Amaziah--after he died, being a righteous man and had turned from the Lord, and was slain by his own people--Uzzikiah taken his--or Uzziah, rather, taking his place as king. And he was set on the throne and anointed at the age of sixteen years old, just a boy; but he was in line to be king, yet being just a lad. And he did well. The Bible tells us that he had a godly father and a godly mother, and he could be nothing else hardly with such influence as to be a godly boy, because that had been what had been placed before him at all time.

L-37 You know what I think? Everybody has their own opinion. But one of the greatest, and to my opinion, the greatest president that we ever had in this nation was Abraham Lincoln. Now, not because he was a Republican, but because he was what he was, a godly man. And he was raised, and he--to serve God. And he said, "If there's anything that I want to give praise to," he said, "or my life was influenced by, was a godly mother who taught me to pray and to know Jesus as my Saviour."
Oh, your family's what you are. You raise your child in a certain environment; it's got a ninety-eight percent better chance to go right than it has to if you bring it up in the wrong way. "Bring up a child in the way that it should go, and when it's old it'll not depart from it." Be brought up right, teach your children to do right, to be honest, to be square and fair even when they're in school.

L-39 Now, many times children are prone to copy off of one another, and--and try to press their way through school. But you know, I think if you'll just get it yourself, then it's something that you--you can appreciate your good graded paper.
You know, if you're going to have a test the next day, instead of running around all night, getting up the next morning, and think, "Well, I'll set next to So-and-so; they're smart. And then they'll--I can copy off of them," if you'll just before dad returns thanks at the breakfast table, if you'll just say, "Dad, remember me today; I got to take a test in chemistry," or whatever it is. Then you, when you pray, dad, say, "God, bless John, Mary in their test today." I tell you; it'll turn the tide.

L-41 Remember, we can have what we want if we will ask in faith believing. Jesus said, "All things are possible to them that will believe. You have not because you ask not, and you ask not because you believe not." He said, "Ask abundance that your joy may be full." I like that.
Our teaching right: say the right thing; do the right thing; think the right thing; always be thinking right. And I have a little slogan:
Do right, that's your duty to God.
Think right, that's your duty to yourself;
And you're bound to come out right.
You can't be going east and west at the same time, nor you can't be going right and wrong at the same time. No matter how much you think you're going the other way, if you're not traveling directly west... You're not going east if you're going west.

L-44 So this young king, being influenced by his father when he was a young man and--and taught Israel the precepts of God... And then all at once he turned in his last days and taught against God. And his own people... He was slain by his own people. It looked like that would've been a great lesson to Uzziah about this. But we find that when Uzziah taken the throne, that he started right in the way his daddy did, bringing back the things of God, bringing Israel back to the worship of God. He strengthened himself.
And I want to always be thankful for him in his young days, because he never played any politics. Although politics might've been against him, but yet, he stayed right on the line of God. And it thrilled this little, young prophet so, till he become a hero. He was an example to Isaiah the prophet.


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