<TITLE>05. Par 38-49</TITLE>L-38   I know a little motto that I had hanging in my house many years ago. I picked it up one day when at Billy Sunday's tabernacle, when I was at one of the meetings up at--at Winona Lake. And I liked it so much till I--I got it. I hung it up in my house, and I kept it until it just fell apart. It was something like this. "Go no place you would not be want to be found if Jesus should come." And, "Be saying nothing that you would not want to be saying if Jesus should come." And it went on with many things, saying what you... Otherwise, whatever you do or say, or whatever action that you're performing, do not do it if you would not want to be caught in that position when Jesus comes. If we could only do that, I'm sure we would be a great influence upon our associates. And you know the right. There's two ways to do anything, that's right and wrong.

L-39   I had my little son, Joseph, on my lap, the other day. And I said to him... He's eight years old. And some little boy had stepped on his toes, and he and the little boy had a fight. So I said, "Joseph, don't, don't do that."
He said, "But, daddy, he did such-and-such."

L-40 I said, "But that doesn't matter, see, what he did. Just remember, Joseph, that. You love your father?"
He said, "Yes, daddy."

L-41 I said, "Then remember, that people are going to look at your life as a minister's son. And then if you do anything wrong, then they're going to say, 'Does this minister permit his child to do such?'"

L-42 Now, we know they do it, anyhow. But we know that. As Christians, we know that we try to bring up our children right. But it's a good thing to keep that before--before them all the time, to do what's right. Don't, don't never take that other side.

L-43 So I said, "Because, you see, that doesn't only reflect on you, Joseph, but it reflects on your mother, reflects on your sisters. It reflects on your father and the very cause of the family, what we're standing for. And then what we stand for, it reflects on that, on Jesus Christ. You don't want to do that." I said, "Our--our Lord told us if we're... if somebody smites us on one cheek, just turn the other."

L-44 And, course, that's kind of hard for a little boy with a high temper, to begin with, to--to think of such things. But place it before him, anyhow, see, that he should not do it.

L-45   Now, this young fellow, Uzziah, had such a training in his early days, till, when he taken the throne, he never turned right or left, from the thing that was right. He stayed right with it. He never let politics influence him in any way. He was a man who was determined to serve God, regardless. And so politics didn't... He ignored all those things. And another thing that I liked about Uzziah, was that he ignored popularity or popular opinion. No matter what anybody else thought, or what the popular trend of the day was, he wanted to serve God, regardless.

L-46 Oh! We need men like that in our political world. We need men like that in the White House. We need men like that in business. We need men like that in the pulpit, men that will not turn to popular opinion or popularity, but will stay straight with the Word, not turn right or left.

L-47   God, in commissioning Joshua, said, "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shall meditate therein day and night. And then thou shall make thy ways prosperous. Then thou shall have good success."

L-48 And not only that, but you're influencing somebody the same way you're traveling.

L-49 And so I appreciate this stand that Uzziah took, to be determined. The first thing he begin to do, was to repair the house of the Lord, and to build up the places that had been torn down. And then go out to the enemy, after he had proved to God that he was sincere. And he--he was going to take the right stand, regardless of what his people around him, his advisors to influence him to a political side of the--of the kingdom. He would not stand for it. He wanted God's will and that alone.


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