<TITLE>04. Par -</TITLE>L-4-5 I'll--I just seen the other day where they was going to build a big zoo here in the middle of Louisville. And Mr. Brown (I believe it was over there.) offered $1,000,000 towards the zoo. Well, if I had it, I'd almost give them that to turn them animals loose. I--I don't believe in caging anything up like that. I just--I look--go to the zoo and see them poor old animals, bears and lions and things walking back and forth, prisoned for life. You see? Makes you feel bad. After all, they're--they're captured by the intelligence of a man who's smarter than they are. See? And they capture them and put them in captivity.
Now, I think about, the devil does that. He takes precious people, who should roam God's great places, and fields, and--and things like that, and then put him in a prison house of some denomination, or some creed, or something, and bind him up in there; and what a horrible thing it is.
And I don't like zoos. But I feel something like one of those animals, when you're all caged up, and you're just trying to get loose, you know, to get out to do something.

L-5-3 Now, before we approach the Word, let's approach the Author of the Word as we bow our heads now in prayer.
Our gracious heavenly Father, we have assembled this morning again in the Name of the Lord Jesus, Thy precious Son, God incarnate came to the earth for the propitiation of our sins and died, the Righteous--that we, by His righteous, being unrighteous, may be made perfect in Him. We come confessing that we are unworthy, Lord. There is nothing good about us, and we're all in one big jailhouse. No matter what corner we stand in, we're still all in jail. One cannot help the other. But God, in His infinite mercy, came down and opened the prison doors to set us free. We're no longer caged up now. We are not in the zoo of the world, but now we are free; we're outside.

L-5-5 Oh, how we love Him and adore Him, how we can walk through the great fields of His promise, and see them made manifest before us; and by our own eyes see the great God of eternity unfold Himself before us, and make Himself real like He did to the prophets of old, knowing this that they rest with an assurance that someday we will again be restored back after this life is over and the resurrection unto an Eternal Life that shall never fade. Our bodies will not get old, and we'll never die. And we'll never be hungry, and we'll never have a want. But we shall walk with Him. We want to hear Him say, "Enter into the joys of the Lord that's been prepared for you since the foundation of the world." Back before sin entered in, how He had the preparation made, like for Adam and Eve, that they'd never have to be sick, or have a trouble. And now, He prepared it for us, and He foreknew we were coming. Sin made the great blockade, and now sin's been took away by the Blood of Jesus. Now, we're bound for the promised land by the promise of God, which is eternal.

L-6-1 Bless us now, Father, as we study Thy Word. We want to know what kind of people we must be in order to be there. Help us today in this school, that we might have the great Master Teacher with us, the Holy Spirit, that would come down and reveal Himself to us by His Word. For we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen.

L-6-2 Now, first I would like for you to turn with me to II Peter the 1st chapter, and I want to read a portion of this Scripture: II Peter the 1st chapter. And now, to you that's got your pencils and paper... And I believe I was told this morning that--that sometime, turning my head away from there, dims the tape. I really don't mean to do that. And I believe sometime if we'd figure on getting a web mike and hanging it on the ceiling here. No matter where you'd be then, you'd be right. It would be perfect just all around. Just a mike above the ceiling...


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