<TITLE>05. Par 41-50</TITLE>L-41   And the father and mother with the... praying constantly that--that their son would not turn out just an ordinary man, that he would be an extraordinary man. All parents want that. Did you hear Jesus refer to that commandment, "Honour thy father and mother," then stopped? See? And that's the ambition of any parent, to do the best for their children, that they can, educate them, give them things maybe that they wasn't able to get. That's the way I feel about my children.

L-42 I think, sometime, in going to school, now; I think, send Becky and Sarah and Joseph into these high schools and things, where all this going-on is at? I think I'll take them and get back into the mountain, and--and raise them up there with the... like the Indians live.

L-43   But here is what it is. What's in the kid is going to come out. No matter where it is, it's got, it's going to come out. If it's evil in there, it'll come out in the Indian camp. If it's good in there, it'll come out in any camp. See? It's what's in the kid, the make-up of the kid, what's on the inside of you. And what you are now is what you're probably be the rest of your life. You're on a changing spot.

L-44 Do you know what? Eighty-six percent of the conversions to Jesus Christ is done before twenty-one years old. It shows it. Statistics shows it. Eighty-six percent that come to Christ, come before they're twenty-one. You, after you pass that age, you become more molded or set in your ways. Oh, it's possible, sure. They come, seventy, eighty, years old, but it's very rare. See?

L-45 You make yourself when you're young. You set your ambitions to what you want to do, and what you're trying to achieve in life. You think of it. And as you think, of course, your mind, it's presented into your mind by an unknown something that--that dominates your mind. And then when it becomes in your mind, then you speak it, that you're going to do it. And then your ambitions drive you to it.

L-46   So, mother and father, expecting this young man, too, his ambitions to be great, enough money to carry it out. And then, no doubt, prayed that this--this young lad would--would get that opportunity. You see, they--they had done all they could do. He maybe having fine horses, and--and maybe was very popular amongst the women.

L-47 And what would go for man, would be for woman, vice versa, see, 'cause we're talking about human life, souls, both men and women.

L-48 And then, after all this opportunity the boy had, see, he become on "easy street," we call it, on a place where he didn't have to worry about too much. His parents had money. He had... He was very... He become a ruler. The Bible refers to it here, of the... as the young, rich young ruler. And we see the... At a young age, maybe in his teen age, just out of school, just out of graduation, maybe, a few weeks before, or something, he become... He's a ruler, and he had all that hearts could desire.

L-49   And the boy wasn't no modern ricky. He's a fine kid. I believe, when Luke wrote about it, or Mark, I believe it was, Jesus looked at him and sighed, because He loved him. See? There's something about the kid. There was a nice personality hooked with this kid. Where he come from? Out of a nice family who had taught him the commandments of God, and seen that he kept them. And he did it, from his youth up.

L-50 And the boy had an ambition; he wanted Eternal Life. He said, "Good Master, what could I do to inherit Eternal Life?"


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