<TITLE>04. Par 26-32</TITLE>L-26   Now, this young fellow, Uzziah, was the king. But before he become king... He was a king during the reign of Isaiah, the prophet. And he was a shepherd boy; he liked the outdoors. He was a great influence on--on Isaiah's life. Isaiah was a young fellow, also, just a young prophet. And you read the story, if you want to take Second Chronicles 26, it'll tell you. How that at the age of sixteen, after the death of his righteous father, he became... they taken him and made him king over Israel. At the age of sixteen he began to reign. And he had seen the influence of his parents; his mother was a godly woman, and his father was a godly man, before him. And, in that, it put the influence in the child to do that which was right.

L-27   I tell you. I think, today, we have such a juvenile crime wave across the nation, but, really, I think it started in the home. I--I think the parents began to let go. And if the child had been raised up in a good, old-fashion, godly home; I don't say it would be all over, certainly not, but it would certainly give that child the right kind of influence. I think, many times, that, homes that children has been brought up wrong, turned loose on the street, and just lived for themself while the mother stays in a barroom, or the... and the father, and so forth. They don't take care of this child. Another thing, they don't love it and give it the affections, to take it up. It's young. You've got to teach it to love and respect, and to read the Bible.

L-28   I think of Susanna Wesley. I think she had seventeen children. I think that's right. But she found two hours or more, every day, to pray. Down at the--the end of her dress, where the little boys knelt around, out of there produced a John and a Charles that changed the course of the world, saved the world in that day. And she didn't have a washing machine and a dryer, as we have today, and a dishwasher, and so forth, or a maid. The thing that... She did it all herself, but yet she could find time because she was putting an influence to some children that finally changed the course of the world. I think that's the old-fashion mother, the old-fashion home, where prayer and the understanding of the Bible.

L-29   I believe, Abraham Lincoln never owned a book in his life, till he was of age, but the Bible and... I think it was either the Foxe's Book Of Martyrs... I might not, it might have been another book. I think it was Pilgrim's Progress, to be right. It was Pilgrim's Progress, and--and the Bible. You see what kind of a character that molded?

L-30 Just let me go in your house and see what kind of pictures you got on your wall. Let me go to your home or your office, and let's see what kind of music is playing. See? What you read, what you look at, I can pretty well tell you what's on the inside of you, see, because it feeds on that. See? And, oh, to a home, if we made a home more lovely, children wouldn't want to run away. Make things more for them, where they feel welcome and nice and comfortable at home; where, home, they can't hardly wait till they get there. And that's the way home should be.

L-31   And I think that's the kind of a home that Uzziah must have been raised in, because of the influence of his godly parents. And as soon as he become king, he ignored all popular opinions and all political differences, and he set his mind for one thing: he would serve God, regardless! We need some more politicians like that. He, he was determined that he was going to serve God, because that's the way he was raised, and his father give him the right influence, that he--he could serve God and live.

L-32 And his kingdom was so great till, I believe, it was next to Solomon's kingdom. I believe it's noted about next to Solomon's kingdom. How God blessed him!


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