<TITLE>07. Par 54-64</TITLE>L-54 Now I watch which a way that spirit in there leans. If it's always representing the Light, speaking of the Light, talking of the Light, it'll go with the Light. But if it's always on the other side, of the world, the things of the world, influenced by the world, there is nothing but it to turn into darkness when it dies, into outer darkness. So you see, what we are, we must remember that we are only what we are by the grace of God, and none of us can brag about it. We can only bow in adoration and humility, before God, and give praise to Him for His goodness.

L-55   And we find that as long as this king felt that way, God blessed him. But when he got to a place that he wanted to not abide in his own calling, he wanted to take the calling of something else. And he thought, because that God had blessed him, that that was all right, he could do that.

L-56 But how sadly we make them mistakes! How, how bad! You, you must absolutely be honest. You mustn't, you mustn't do nothing unless God has directed you to it, and proves it, and vindicates it, and you know that it's God that's done it.

L-57 Usually, man of God, God has to run him down and catch the real man of God. It ain't those guys that wants a whole lot of something to do a whole lot with, you'd hard tell what they would do with it if they received it. See? But God usually has to catch His man, like Moses, and Paul, and like that, to run him down, to get glory out of his life, and let him become a prisoner to the Holy Spirit.

L-58   Now we notice that, this king, and another thing we learn here on Uzziah, that, when he was called down by the man who had the authority to take the censer in, the consecrated man for the service. When he called him down, he got angry with him.

L-59 Oh, what a--what a cursed thing that would be! When a man tries to point out to a fellow that you're in the wrong, and prove it to him by the Word of God, "You're in the wrong." And then the man, because that he feels in himself he'll do what he wants to, and won't submit to the Word, then he gets angry.

L-60 You notice what happened to the king? Leprosy broke out in his face while he was still in his anger. Leprosy struck Uzziah in the face, and the priests and those recognized it, and threw him out of the temple, and he died, a leper. That great life that started out so well, ended up to be a leper, and cast out, and had to live in a separate house out to himself, all the days of his life, the man that the life that God once influenced.

L-61   I'd say this, respects. We got men today on the field, young men, and middle-aged men, and old men, who started out on a good run, and tried, and made a good showing to God. But we find them, today, out yonder, alcoholics, and broke up, out there in the other, away from us. Some of them backslid, altogether. Some of them have went money crazy, and some went woman crazy and married other women that wasn't their wives. And--and all the things and disgrace that's been brought on, every denomination. We, one can't call the other one bad, because we're all guilty, the whole, or every denomination. We've found men like that, that's once been influenced by God and had a great influence to the people. And yet when they felt self-sufficient...

L-62 When a man gets a place where he can influence for God, he ought to humble himself, all the time, constantly.

L-63   And we find out, this king died in disgrace, a leper. Then, he was a lesson to the young prophet, not to put his hopes upon any man, but to look to God only. When he begin to look at to a man for an example, this man failed, yet being a good man.

L-64 So it's a lesson to us, tonight, to keep our minds upon God, regardless of what man it is. Let him be cardinal, priest, prophet, whatever he might be, he is not immune from mistakes and--and error, and even death, and sin. But there is One Who is, and that's Jesus Christ; He is the One.
By this, Isaiah learned a lesson, God orders His man to place.


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