<TITLE>08. Par 53-59</TITLE>L-53 And I didn't wake the family up in the little cow camp (or where the cowboys stay, where we'd go back there to round up the cattle), I--I just let them sleep until morning. And then, the next day I mentioned it, and I said, "Some young woman, very attractive, is going to die in a heart attack." And on the road out two days later, there it come in on the radio that this Miss (I can't think of her name.) Monroe, Mrs. Monroe. I think that was her stage name, or whatever it was; her name was something else. And she had died, and they said she committed suicide.

L-54 Now, it don't make any difference how much I'd say it; they're still going to say she committed suicide. But the child did not; she died in a heart attack. And if you'd watch, she had her hand, trying to get to the phone--the phone in her hand. She'd had a heart attack. They said sleeping pills was there; she'd been taking them for a month (See?) or more, out of that bottle. She died in a heart attack, and she died about four or five seconds before 4 o'clock, exactly.
And I read of her life's story in the magazine of how that her... She was a illegitimate child; and how that she'd washed so many dishes; and her mother in a insane institution; and she had longed (But she was the most perfect bodied woman, I guess, in the world.)--but she'd longed for something that money wouldn't buy. I thought, "Oh, I wished I could've got to her. I know what she needed." There you are.

L-56 Maybe members of the churches of fame, finest--famous Hollywood, where all the decoration and tinsel is on... But they seen those people... She could see they lived no different life than what she did. It takes influence. It takes the power of the resurrection of Christ amongst the people, that they see that Christ is not a statue hanging in a building, but He's a living Being in the form of the Holy Spirit, living in men and women, bringing peace, and contentment, and happiness. Oh, if we could've only got to the young lady before she left the world.

L-57 Now, influence... We find out that--that Uzziah's life influenced this prophet and till such a place that Ukkiah--Uzziah, rather, built walls and strengthened himself, and took back the grounds and the possession that belonged to them from the Philistines, and so forth, until his fame went all the way to Egypt. And I tell you, of all--the chronicles of the kings, there was none of them outside of Solomon, that spread forth like Uzziah. Why? Because he set the example. He stayed with God, no matter what his people thought, what anybody else thought, what his politicians that tried to influence him. He stayed directly with God, and God blessed him. It was a great help to this young prophet.

L-58 How God blesses a man that will be true to the Word of God. Now, he may not be very popular, but he'll be blessed. And now, people has to take their choice, whether you want to act like the rest of the fellows or whether you want to be blessed of God. Now, you can just take your choice. If you're going to live like the rest of them, you'll be blessed of them; but you turn your--all your desires to God, and you'll be blessed of God. So you have to "Choose you this day who you serve," as the prophet said. "Always remember thy Creator first, always."

L-59 Now, but the... When this king got to a place, being such a great man and influencing Isaiah and the righteous, of course, of his kingdom, he got to a place--he got feeling self-secured. And there's where you make your mistake. There's where so many righteous men bite the dust of shame, bite the dust of defeat, is because they begin to feel self-secure. You begin to think that you have lived so long for Christ, that no matter what He presents before you, you'll take your choice whether you want it or not. You've got to continue to serve God. No matter what you was back ten years ago; it's what you are now.


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