1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 As you well know, we are in a series of heart-to-heart talks regarding the greatest sermon that was ever preached. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000 And that sermon was preached by Jesus himself. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:22,000 No sermon has ever been comparable to this masterpiece. 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:29,000 And it came from the lips of the highest authority in heaven and earth. 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:39,000 You need not worry as to whether or not the one who brought this sermon had his theology straight. 6 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:46,000 There can be no argument regarding his doctrine. 7 00:00:46,000 --> 00:01:01,000 For he brought a perfect sermon, perfect in doctrine, perfect in theology. 8 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Remember, preached by the very Son of God. 9 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Now in this sermon, he gave you, he gave me a pattern that we are to follow when we pray. 10 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:24,000 I know we refer to it as the Lord's Prayer, but in reality it really isn't. 11 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:36,000 It is the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray, a pattern for our praying. 12 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,000 We now come to that portion of the prayer. 13 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,000 That means more to me personally than I can begin to tell you. 14 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:58,000 And I do hope that when we have finished our heart-to-heart talk on just this portion of the prayer, 15 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:16,000 that when you repeat it, you will say it very slowly, for it has great depth of meaning. 16 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 17 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Thy will, the will of God for this life of mine, the perfect will of God for your life. 18 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:52,000 In heaven, in glory, there is a perfect blueprint that God holds. 19 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:59,000 He has a perfect will for this life of mine. 20 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Thy will be done right here on earth, here and now, 21 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:16,000 as it is according to the blueprint that God holds for my life in heaven. 22 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 You want to know something? 23 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Life is the most important thing in the whole world. 24 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:32,000 There is nothing, absolutely nothing on this earth that is more important to God than human life. 25 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Believe me, that is true. 26 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:46,000 I know we've come to the day, we've come to the hour when life has become mighty cheap. 27 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 We pick up our daily newspapers. 28 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 We read where there has been an accident. 29 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 A man was killed. 30 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Five were killed. 31 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:06,000 We hear the broadcasts regarding the taking of life. 32 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 It's all so cheap. 33 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 We fold the paper, we put it down on the table. 34 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 We never give it another thought. 35 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Oh, sure, there was a crash. 36 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Fifty-seven killed. 37 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 I know. 38 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:29,000 But we feel that so what? It's just another life. 39 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Life has become so cheap until sometimes I wondered if it has not become one of the cheapest things on earth 40 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:59,000 when it comes to man's sense of values. And yet, in the sight of God, there is nothing more priceless. 41 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 There is no greater treasure. 42 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:12,000 There is nothing of greater value in the mind of Almighty God than human life, so priceless, 43 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:24,000 that He literally gave a commandment that no man should take life. 44 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:33,000 No man has been given the authority to take a human life. 45 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:41,000 God Himself holds within His own power the giving of human life. 46 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:47,000 There is no power on this earth to give life. 47 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:54,000 The giving of life rests in the hand of God Himself. 48 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:04,000 In the hand of God there rests the complete authority to take human life. 49 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:12,000 And to protect human life, God has given a commandment. 50 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Thou shalt not kill. 51 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Don't touch it, God says. 52 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:33,000 The taking of human life rests with me, in me alone. 53 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Thou shalt not kill. 54 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Every time I hold a precious baby in my arms, dedicating that baby, 55 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:54,000 I've never quite gotten over it, even though I have dedicated literally thousands of precious little babies. 56 00:06:54,000 --> 00:07:01,000 When I hold in my arm that little bit of flesh, 57 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:11,000 I pray what I consider the greatest prayer that I can pray for that precious little baby, 58 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:17,000 that that life shall be lived according to His will. 59 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:26,000 I can pray no greater prayer, for I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt 60 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:37,000 that when that little baby gave its first cry, took its first breath, 61 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:45,000 that in the mind of God and in the hand of God there rests a perfect blueprint, 62 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,000 a perfect will for that life. 63 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:59,000 For God does nothing promiscuously, absolutely nothing. 64 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:04,000 God is perfect precision. 65 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I believe that when God spoke the world into existence, He had a perfect plan. 66 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:16,000 I believe that when the three sat down at the great conference table, 67 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:24,000 the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, and talked to the redemption of man, 68 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:31,000 there was a perfect plan, a perfect blueprint, before Jesus ever offered Himself 69 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,000 through the Holy Spirit to be given by God the Father, 70 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,000 that atonement could be made for the soul of man. 71 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:48,000 I believe that God is so perfect in His plan that He had a perfect plan for Abraham, 72 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:53,000 a perfect plan for Elijah, Moses. 73 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,000 He's not promiscuous in His dealings. 74 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Study the Scriptures. 75 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:05,000 You'll see a perfect blueprint for the turn of Israel, 76 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:10,000 and they are living according to that blueprint. 77 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:17,000 It's thrilling. It's amazing. It's astounding. 78 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:26,000 God had a perfect plan for the life of the Apostle Paul. 79 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 And being no respecter of persons, 80 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:38,000 I believe that God has a perfect plan for your life, for my life. 81 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:43,000 And all the devils of hell could never argue me out of that conviction. 82 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 I believe it. 83 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:58,000 I believe it so sincerely that there's a portion of the Word of God that affects me very deeply. 84 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:07,000 I know it has reference to Jesus Himself when He stood before Pilate. 85 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:12,000 But these were the words that Jesus spoke. 86 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:27,000 To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world. 87 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:36,000 I could not begin to tell you the thousands of times in my life that I have looked up, 88 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:43,000 sometimes to blinding tears, and have asked the question, 89 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Why was I born? 90 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:53,000 For what cause came I into the world? 91 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000 I know God has a perfect plan for this life of mine. 92 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:03,000 I know that God has a purpose. 93 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:10,000 I did not decide on what country to be born. 94 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:16,000 I did not decide what century to be born in. 95 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:22,000 God knows that I had no choice of sex. 96 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Had I been given a choice, I would much rather have been a man, 97 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:34,000 especially knowing that I was to be called to preach the gospel. 98 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:41,000 For as a woman, I had two strikes against me before I ever stand behind the pulpit. 99 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:47,000 It would have been a thousand times easier had I been born a man. 100 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:52,000 I don't believe that I would have had to work nearly so hard, 101 00:11:52,000 --> 00:12:01,000 because I just had to preach a little harder than any man who stands behind the pulpit, 102 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 because there's so much prejudice against a woman preacher. 103 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:10,000 But I wasn't given my choice of sex. 104 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,000 I was born female. 105 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:17,000 I had no choice whatsoever when it came to my physical appearance. 106 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Had I had a choice, God knows I never would have chosen red hair. 107 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,000 I had no choice. 108 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:38,000 And the amazing thing is that I cannot even decide when I'm to leave. 109 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Had nothing to say about my coming. 110 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:49,000 I have absolutely nothing to say about my going, my leaving. 111 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,000 That, my friend, is in the hands of an all-wise God. 112 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 This very hour, even while I'm talking to you, 113 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:04,000 some place there's a precious little old soul, perhaps a little saint of God, 114 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 who is well up in years. 115 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Her loved ones are over there on the other shore. 116 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 She feels so lonely. She feels so homesick. 117 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:19,000 She'd give anything in the world if just now Jesus would call her home. 118 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 She feels there's nothing more on this earth to live for, 119 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:28,000 and yet she has nothing to say about her going. 120 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:34,000 She just waits until the Lord says, 121 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,000 It's my time now. Come on. 122 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 And yet, before the clock will strike the midnight hour, 123 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 even before I may have finished speaking, 124 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,000 somebody in the springtime of youth, 125 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:56,000 seemingly with everything in the world to live for, will be taken. 126 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,000 I can't tell you why. 127 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:04,000 I only know that there's one at the helm. 128 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:12,000 There is one who is God Almighty. 129 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:19,000 In His sight, the most precious thing in the whole universe is a human life. 130 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:29,000 It's in His hand, His power to give human life. 131 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:37,000 It's in His power to take human life. 132 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:45,000 We are so personal. We are so individual in His sight. 133 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 My friend, hear me for just a minute. 134 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:56,000 You may feel that you are only one of millions of people, 135 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,000 that He has no regard whatsoever for you as an individual. 136 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:05,000 You may feel that what I'm saying when I said that God has a perfect plan, 137 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 a perfect blueprint for your life, 138 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:14,000 that I am talking about something that's way out someplace. 139 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,000 But pause a minute. 140 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:23,000 You are so individual to God that no one who has ever been born, 141 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 who will ever be born, who is living this hour, 142 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:36,000 has the same fingerprint as yours. 143 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:53,000 My friend, that is making you mighty personal in the mind of God. 144 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:00,000 To this end was I born. 145 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:09,000 And for this cause came I into the world. 146 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Why? 147 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Don't miss our next great heart-to-heart talk. 148 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:31,000 God bless you.