WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.320 who hath called you out of darkness into his 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:13.699 glorious, his marvelous light. And Peter knew 00:00:13.699 --> 00:00:17.940 all about depression, all about discouragement, 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:23.859 all about fear. That was the reason he could 00:00:23.859 --> 00:00:30.160 say, speaking of the power of God, Speaking of 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:33.899 the one who had given him deliverance, referring 00:00:33.899 --> 00:00:36.439 to that wonderful experience of being born again, 00:00:36.740 --> 00:00:42.479 who hath called you out of darkness into his 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:48.140 marvelous light. In this discussion of being 00:00:48.140 --> 00:00:54.700 depressed, discouraged, awakening in the morning 00:00:54.700 --> 00:00:59.990 to find yourself gloomy and depressed, We found 00:00:59.990 --> 00:01:04.829 out that the greatest possession one can have 00:01:04.829 --> 00:01:11.010 is a wholesome, healthy mind. It's better than 00:01:11.010 --> 00:01:14.010 silver and gold. It's better than any material 00:01:14.010 --> 00:01:18.709 blessing this whole world could give you. A wholesome, 00:01:18.909 --> 00:01:24.629 normal mind. And you can handle any problem that 00:01:24.629 --> 00:01:28.099 you're faced with during the day. if you have 00:01:28.099 --> 00:01:35.920 a wholesome, normal mind. It is indeed not what 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:40.260 you lose, but what you have left that matters. 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:46.980 Everything. Everything in life. All of your problems. 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:53.040 All of your troubles. Everything depends upon 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.250 how you look at things. and it's just like that 00:01:57.250 --> 00:02:03.469 how do you get a normal mind how do you get a 00:02:03.469 --> 00:02:08.889 healthy mind there is only one way just one all 00:02:08.889 --> 00:02:13.349 sure you can go to a psychiatrist if you want 00:02:13.349 --> 00:02:17.569 to and get him to work on you and thousands do 00:02:17.569 --> 00:02:25.759 exactly that that's your business He may help 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:31.900 you to a certain extent. You may go to some counselor 00:02:31.900 --> 00:02:37.919 and they may help you to a certain extent. But 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:42.360 I have found out a long time ago that these psychiatrists 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:47.439 have the same problems that you have. I have 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:50.719 found out that these counselors have the same 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:59.590 problems you have. It's so true. I want to tell 00:02:59.590 --> 00:03:03.289 you that the only way you really can get the 00:03:03.289 --> 00:03:05.729 shadows out of your mind, the only definite, 00:03:05.889 --> 00:03:11.129 the only absolute cure is to have what we call 00:03:11.129 --> 00:03:16.389 an experience of Jesus Christ in your life. He 00:03:16.389 --> 00:03:20.409 is the one who'll give you the change of mind. 00:03:21.009 --> 00:03:26.080 He's the one who'll change everything. He may 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:29.460 not change the problem. The problem may still 00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:34.639 be there. But He will give you the power. He'll 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:38.080 give you the victory to overcome that thing. 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:44.000 We're not only conquerors. We're more than conquerors 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.419 through Christ who loved us. Do you understand? 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:55.219 Sure. I've had a lot of... Trouble with myself. 00:03:56.300 --> 00:03:59.319 More trouble with myself than anybody else I 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.800 know. I've never had as much trouble with anyone 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:07.780 in my life as I have had with myself. I would 00:04:07.780 --> 00:04:12.379 hate to think of what I would be like if I had 00:04:12.379 --> 00:04:17.600 not myself, undeservedly, had this great sense 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.959 of the presence of Christ. I sometimes would 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:25.120 like to know just what I would be like. I think 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.019 perhaps I would be the most difficult person 00:04:27.019 --> 00:04:31.740 in the world to live with. I know me. Did you 00:04:31.740 --> 00:04:34.600 ever see anyone with red hair who didn't have 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:41.019 difficulties with himself? Sure. I'm the offspring 00:04:41.019 --> 00:04:47.720 of Joe Kuhlman. I'm the offspring of Emma Kuhlman. 00:04:48.379 --> 00:04:54.319 I've inherited certain characteristics. Oh, sure. 00:04:55.339 --> 00:05:02.019 My papa had a temper. Jokuma's girl was born 00:05:02.019 --> 00:05:06.339 with a temper. Now, it all depends on what you're 00:05:06.339 --> 00:05:09.459 going to do with it. I know a fellow who said 00:05:09.459 --> 00:05:14.680 the other day, you know, I am a very difficult 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:20.180 person to live with. He was mean and proud of 00:05:20.180 --> 00:05:26.069 it. Do you think I let him get by with that statement? 00:05:26.410 --> 00:05:31.430 Not on your life. Some of you women are living 00:05:31.430 --> 00:05:37.930 with men who are mean and proud of it. But if 00:05:37.930 --> 00:05:41.730 you're a person who has a nasty disposition, 00:05:42.069 --> 00:05:46.329 you're mean and proud of it, you're a very small 00:05:46.329 --> 00:05:51.129 person. It takes a big person to look himself 00:05:51.129 --> 00:05:55.850 directly in the face. Go to the mirror and look 00:05:55.850 --> 00:05:58.170 yourself directly in the face and say, now look, 00:05:58.389 --> 00:06:02.149 you have this weakness. You have an uncontrollable 00:06:02.149 --> 00:06:05.529 temper. You're mean. You're irritable. You're 00:06:05.529 --> 00:06:09.089 hard to live with. Even a dog runs from you. 00:06:10.730 --> 00:06:13.990 When you come home, the children run from you. 00:06:14.910 --> 00:06:19.050 Your wife is scared to death of you. If your 00:06:19.050 --> 00:06:22.959 wife is scared to death of you, If your children 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:26.899 are afraid to open their mouth around you, if 00:06:26.899 --> 00:06:30.279 the dog slinks under the chair or the table, 00:06:30.420 --> 00:06:34.500 or puts his tail between his legs and gets out 00:06:34.500 --> 00:06:38.759 of the house when you come, you better start 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:42.800 looking yourself directly in the face. There's 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:50.420 something wrong with you. The smallest... person 00:06:50.420 --> 00:06:53.740 in the world. Oh, you may be broad -shouldered, 00:06:53.819 --> 00:06:58.259 you may be tall, or you may be small of stature. 00:06:59.139 --> 00:07:05.319 If you are disagreeable, if you are ugly in disposition 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:10.100 and proud of it, proud of the fact that people 00:07:10.100 --> 00:07:13.399 are afraid of you, you're the smallest person 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:23.139 I know anything about. That's right. How to get 00:07:23.139 --> 00:07:27.779 a normal mind? First of all, you're going to 00:07:27.779 --> 00:07:31.000 have to look yourself directly in the face. See 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.959 your weakness. You have to admit it to yourself. 00:07:35.180 --> 00:07:38.079 You have to acknowledge it to yourself. And then 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.220 want to get rid of it. You're going to have to 00:07:42.220 --> 00:07:44.439 want to be a normal person. You're going to have 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:51.379 to desire to be a likable person. Did you hear 00:07:51.379 --> 00:07:56.500 what I said? I paused purposely that you might 00:07:56.500 --> 00:07:59.259 just turn around the mirror in the room and look 00:07:59.259 --> 00:08:05.019 at yourself. Mm -hmm. If you'll pray for it, 00:08:05.060 --> 00:08:09.600 if you'll seek after it, if you'll want it with 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.899 all of your heart, if you'll be honest with yourself 00:08:12.899 --> 00:08:17.459 and yield yourself to Jesus Christ, you can have 00:08:17.459 --> 00:08:21.480 it. I don't care what. weaknesses you inherited. 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:28.100 I do not care. I put out this challenge with 00:08:28.100 --> 00:08:33.759 the Word of God as my authority. I don't care. 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:38.159 You can be the meanest person in the world. You 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:42.320 may be considered by your friends, members of 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:47.539 your family, the neighbors, say you're the meanest 00:08:47.539 --> 00:08:51.460 person they've ever seen. I can see the power 00:08:51.460 --> 00:08:55.899 of God taking and transforming that life of yours 00:08:55.899 --> 00:08:59.799 into the kind of person that your neighbors will 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:03.840 marvel at. And they'll open their back door to 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:09.080 say, Hi, Jim. How are you this morning? Just 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:16.919 to see your face light up. Yeah? I know two men 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:22.480 that people... will turn their back to keep on 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.379 speaking to because all they get in return is 00:09:26.379 --> 00:09:31.440 just a grunt. And who enjoys saying good morning 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.600 to somebody when all they get is either silence 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:43.000 or a grunt? And it's just like that. I don't 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.500 care how mean you are, what your weaknesses may 00:09:46.500 --> 00:09:49.559 be. There is a power, there is a person, there 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:54.440 is the son of living God who will literally transform 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:59.720 that life of yours. And he'll do it now. But 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:04.200 you will have to desire that change of life. 00:10:04.860 --> 00:10:08.559 You will have to desire the change of disposition. 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:12.559 You will have to admit to your own meanness. 00:10:13.259 --> 00:10:15.700 And sometimes that's a pretty hard thing to do. 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:26.720 That's the secret. I assure you, from the bottom 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:29.740 of my heart, with all the persuasive power I 00:10:29.740 --> 00:10:35.899 am capable of having, this is the answer to the 00:10:35.899 --> 00:10:39.159 depression which rests upon the human spirit. 00:10:40.379 --> 00:10:44.159 There's a simple thing you may do, something 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:48.009 you can work toward, a simple thing we... All 00:10:48.009 --> 00:10:54.389 can do. Take a piece of paper tomorrow. Put it 00:10:54.389 --> 00:10:58.110 in your pocket. On this piece of paper, write 00:10:58.110 --> 00:11:03.129 down every gloomy and negative thing you say. 00:11:03.769 --> 00:11:06.370 For example, when you get up tomorrow morning, 00:11:06.490 --> 00:11:08.730 you look out of the window. Perhaps you'll say, 00:11:08.870 --> 00:11:12.529 it was a nice day yesterday, but isn't it a horrible 00:11:12.529 --> 00:11:17.690 day today? Oh. You've gotten in such a habit 00:11:17.690 --> 00:11:21.009 of sitting down at the breakfast table and say, 00:11:21.129 --> 00:11:27.129 well, same old breakfast. And then you'll pick 00:11:27.129 --> 00:11:32.190 up the morning newspaper saying, well, I wonder 00:11:32.190 --> 00:11:36.149 what awful news I'll find in the paper this morning. 00:11:36.610 --> 00:11:39.690 And you'll find exactly what you're looking for. 00:11:39.909 --> 00:11:46.149 Exactly. It'll be a bad morning if you... Expected 00:11:46.149 --> 00:11:50.129 to be bad. There'll be bad news if you're looking 00:11:50.129 --> 00:11:56.809 for bad news. It'll be the same old breakfast 00:11:56.809 --> 00:11:59.669 if you're looking for the same old breakfast. 00:12:00.710 --> 00:12:05.610 Oh, sure. Now just write all these things down. 00:12:06.629 --> 00:12:10.070 Things that you maybe were not mindful of saying. 00:12:10.230 --> 00:12:16.210 They've just become a habit to you. And then 00:12:16.210 --> 00:12:20.409 at the end of the day, you won't need any wise 00:12:20.409 --> 00:12:24.250 man to tell you why you're all weighted down 00:12:24.250 --> 00:12:28.289 with glue, why you're such an ugly person, why 00:12:28.289 --> 00:12:32.549 nobody likes you, why you have no friends. You've 00:12:32.549 --> 00:12:38.269 been practicing being ugly and gloomy and negative 00:12:38.269 --> 00:12:43.190 all day. You've spent 12 hours practicing it. 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:46.940 Now suppose the following morning you start practicing 00:12:46.940 --> 00:12:51.299 joy. And let me say right here that if you're 00:12:51.299 --> 00:12:54.620 ever going to be an expert in joy, you have to 00:12:54.620 --> 00:13:01.460 practice it. Work at it. The first thing I would 00:13:01.460 --> 00:13:03.399 suggest is that you do something about your face. 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.879 I just love going down the street and just look 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:13.990 at faces. You'd be surprised. And you can analyze 00:13:13.990 --> 00:13:19.710 people pretty well by their face. You know some 00:13:19.710 --> 00:13:25.850 of the most beautiful people I know. If you were 00:13:25.850 --> 00:13:30.990 to analyze the bone structure, they wouldn't 00:13:30.990 --> 00:13:33.590 pass any beauty contest, I'll tell you that. 00:13:34.169 --> 00:13:36.649 And if someone were to say to me very quickly, 00:13:37.289 --> 00:13:41.830 uh, do you think so -and -so has a pretty face? 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.840 Why, without hesitation, I would say, I think 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:51.799 she's beautiful. But if you were to analyze the 00:13:51.799 --> 00:14:02.940 structure, it really isn't a beauty that would 00:14:02.940 --> 00:14:07.559 win any beauty contest. But there are beaut... 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:12.159 person because they're beautiful on the inside. 00:14:12.620 --> 00:14:19.759 And that beauty always comes out. And I have 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:25.039 seen people that so far as the structure and 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:29.480 the contour of the face, they're thought of as 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:34.580 being a beautiful person. But they're so ugly 00:14:34.580 --> 00:14:39.269 on the inside. I haven't been able to see where 00:14:39.269 --> 00:14:44.070 the beauty really is. You know, the eyes are 00:14:44.070 --> 00:14:50.769 without expression. They never smile. And so 00:14:50.769 --> 00:14:56.909 they are lacking in those smile wrinkles around 00:14:56.909 --> 00:15:04.070 the eyes and the mouth. There's no... strength 00:15:04.070 --> 00:15:09.470 of character in that face. It's a weak face. 00:15:12.389 --> 00:15:16.549 Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Oh, 00:15:16.549 --> 00:15:20.909 sure. The first thing I would suggest is that 00:15:20.909 --> 00:15:24.289 you do something about your face. Not that there 00:15:24.289 --> 00:15:29.269 is much wrong with the faces that I... may see 00:15:29.269 --> 00:15:32.850 this very moment, but... Remember that it takes 00:15:32.850 --> 00:15:38.110 45 muscles to frown and only 12 to smile. Then 00:15:38.110 --> 00:15:41.490 don't overwork your face as most people do. Stand 00:15:41.490 --> 00:15:44.129 before your mirror, look at your face. Really, 00:15:44.250 --> 00:15:46.870 this is more sensible than it sounds. Look at 00:15:46.870 --> 00:15:48.809 that face and think for a moment about Jesus 00:15:48.809 --> 00:15:51.429 Christ, about God, about yourself when you were 00:15:51.429 --> 00:15:54.029 a little child. Think of the hopes and the dreams 00:15:54.029 --> 00:15:56.230 of your youth. Let them all pass through your 00:15:56.230 --> 00:16:02.299 mind. Then take another look at your face. You'll 00:16:02.299 --> 00:16:06.580 change. All day long, think about those you can 00:16:06.580 --> 00:16:10.820 help. Think thoughts of hope. Think to whom you 00:16:10.820 --> 00:16:13.840 belong. Heirs of God and a joint heir with Christ 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:20.779 Jesus. You're rich. You're rich. Some people 00:16:20.779 --> 00:16:26.220 live such lives of envy. They're so envious of 00:16:26.220 --> 00:16:29.840 their neighbors and envious of everybody else. 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:34.899 There are those who feel that everybody has it 00:16:34.899 --> 00:16:36.779 better than they have it. Everybody in the world 00:16:36.779 --> 00:16:40.379 has more than they have. And so they go around 00:16:40.379 --> 00:16:45.460 with a long face, their lipstick out, their pouty. 00:16:45.659 --> 00:16:54.620 It shows. It just shows. Go around and think 00:16:54.620 --> 00:17:02.250 how fortunate you are. Shoes on your feet. Clothes 00:17:02.250 --> 00:17:13.410 on your body. Two good eyes. Two good legs. Look 00:17:13.410 --> 00:17:22.150 at your hands. Eight fingers, two thumbs. You 00:17:22.150 --> 00:17:27.369 have your hearing. You're rich when you... Count 00:17:27.369 --> 00:17:31.230 everything in dollars and cents. You're poor. 00:17:32.349 --> 00:17:36.630 You're a mighty poor person when everything has 00:17:36.630 --> 00:17:43.769 to have a dollar sign on it. You're weak. You're 00:17:43.769 --> 00:17:53.789 poor. You've lost the real sense of values in 00:17:53.789 --> 00:17:59.940 life. Without peace of mind, without peace of 00:17:59.940 --> 00:18:06.799 soul, without the peace of God, without the relationship 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.559 that a man or woman can enjoy in Christ Jesus, 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:17.819 the richest man in worldly goods today is poor. 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:25.799 You're poor, my friend. You may have your millions. 00:18:28.589 --> 00:18:34.609 you may be able to write out a check for ten 00:18:34.609 --> 00:18:41.109 million dollars in cash, but without peace of 00:18:41.109 --> 00:18:51.089 mind, without peace of soul, without a healthy 00:18:51.089 --> 00:18:58.390 mind. without knowing that God is your Heavenly 00:18:58.390 --> 00:19:02.890 Father, without this wonderful relationship that 00:19:02.890 --> 00:19:06.130 a man can have with Christ Jesus. Without it, 00:19:06.190 --> 00:19:16.369 you're poor, my friend. You're poor. On the other 00:19:16.369 --> 00:19:21.509 hand, you may just be drawing a widow's pension. 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:29.859 You may be living on social security. They may 00:19:29.859 --> 00:19:35.000 have told you you're too old now for the job. 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:41.059 They need someone younger to take your place. 00:19:42.380 --> 00:19:47.319 They have put you on the shelf and you feel unwanted, 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:57.220 unleaded. But with... Peace of soul and peace 00:19:57.220 --> 00:20:04.579 of mind. Knowing to whom you belong, knowing 00:20:04.579 --> 00:20:09.180 that the mighty God, the Great Creator, is your 00:20:09.180 --> 00:20:18.400 Heavenly Father. You're rich. You have something. 00:20:18.900 --> 00:20:24.339 All the money in the world cannot Bye.