WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:05.059 You ready? All right. Another one of those good 00:00:05.059 --> 00:00:07.500 heart -to -heart talks and you were expecting 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:10.060 it because you got your Bible right there. And 00:00:10.060 --> 00:00:14.539 that's exactly the thing to do. It makes it more 00:00:14.539 --> 00:00:21.559 personal. Do like I do. Mark your Bible. Get 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:26.559 a little red pencil. Mark it. It makes it so 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:34.950 personal, so with sort of... Your Bible. You 00:00:34.950 --> 00:00:42.189 know, after Mama was gone, I found her Bible. 00:00:43.250 --> 00:00:47.490 I have it. Just the other day, I went through 00:00:47.490 --> 00:00:52.770 its pages again. I saw the different portions 00:00:52.770 --> 00:00:58.969 that she had marked. It just sort of made... 00:00:59.369 --> 00:01:05.329 The presence of Mama, very real. For in those 00:01:05.329 --> 00:01:14.950 marked pages, I saw my Mama in a new light. It 00:01:14.950 --> 00:01:21.010 was as though I could see my Mama's heart. And 00:01:21.010 --> 00:01:25.750 it's just like that. Well, sir, I left you, you 00:01:25.750 --> 00:01:28.510 know, on our little heart -to -heart talk regarding... 00:01:28.829 --> 00:01:31.049 The personal word of God is found in the first 00:01:31.049 --> 00:01:34.750 chapter of Ephesians. And we've been talking 00:01:34.750 --> 00:01:38.409 about this thing of predestination. There have 00:01:38.409 --> 00:01:41.909 been books written on it. There have been thousands 00:01:41.909 --> 00:01:47.510 of sermons preached on it. Now, let's go back 00:01:47.510 --> 00:01:52.510 to the word of God. And you're always right. 00:01:53.150 --> 00:01:59.010 And you never get off in your doctrine. Stay 00:01:59.010 --> 00:02:04.950 with the Word. All right? I'll just read the 00:02:04.950 --> 00:02:08.949 third verse and then the fourth, and we'll stop 00:02:08.949 --> 00:02:14.750 and talk about this glorious relationship between 00:02:14.750 --> 00:02:19.569 God the Father and His adopted child. Blessed 00:02:19.569 --> 00:02:21.969 be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 00:02:22.250 --> 00:02:25.729 who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings 00:02:25.729 --> 00:02:31.060 in heavenly places in Christ. according as he 00:02:31.060 --> 00:02:40.500 hath chosen us in him before the foundation of 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:44.139 the world, that we should be holy and without 00:02:44.139 --> 00:02:53.219 blame before him in love, having predestinated 00:02:53.219 --> 00:02:58.599 us unto the adoption of children, by Christ Jesus 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:02.120 to himself according to the good pleasure of 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:09.620 his will. Say, you talk about a plan. This is 00:03:09.620 --> 00:03:15.759 the greatest thing that I have ever seen. Talk 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:21.639 about something that is vitally important to 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:27.990 you and to me, to every human being. To be an 00:03:27.990 --> 00:03:35.469 heir of God. To be adopted of God the Father. 00:03:37.210 --> 00:03:41.750 My goodness alive. Have you ever thought what 00:03:41.750 --> 00:03:48.150 it would be like to have been adopted by one 00:03:48.150 --> 00:03:52.449 of the richest families in the world today? And 00:03:52.449 --> 00:03:55.689 probably... In your imagination, you've almost 00:03:55.689 --> 00:04:01.270 become jealous of their children and think, oh, 00:04:01.270 --> 00:04:07.250 my goodness, if only I had had Mr. Sonto as my 00:04:07.250 --> 00:04:13.530 father, if only I had been born in that family, 00:04:13.650 --> 00:04:19.230 why couldn't I have been an heir to that estate? 00:04:20.810 --> 00:04:27.000 Don't sit there envious. Don't sit there thinking 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.980 what it might have been like to have been an 00:04:29.980 --> 00:04:38.120 heir to a multi -million dollar estate. I have 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:42.259 something here in the Word of God that is greater 00:04:42.259 --> 00:04:51.199 than being an heir to an estate in the natural. 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.470 Is there... Anything greater? Could there be 00:04:54.470 --> 00:04:58.689 anything more thrilling? Could anything surpass 00:04:58.689 --> 00:05:06.709 the fact of being an heir of God? First of all, 00:05:06.709 --> 00:05:11.430 you have to realize that he's God Almighty, the 00:05:11.430 --> 00:05:15.189 maker of heaven and earth. All things are in 00:05:15.189 --> 00:05:21.050 his hand. It is in his hands to give, to withhold, 00:05:21.410 --> 00:05:27.949 nothing. He's limitless, boundless, perfect in 00:05:27.949 --> 00:05:30.550 wisdom, perfect in knowledge, perfect in power, 00:05:30.709 --> 00:05:34.389 perfect in all things. Just pause a minute and 00:05:34.389 --> 00:05:44.050 think of it. An heir of God. That is exactly 00:05:44.050 --> 00:05:49.990 what a man or a woman is who has been born again, 00:05:50.089 --> 00:05:53.970 who is a Christian. who knows Jesus Christ as 00:05:53.970 --> 00:05:59.709 his Savior, his Redeemer. In God's perfect plan 00:05:59.709 --> 00:06:08.370 for man, he willed that every human being should 00:06:08.370 --> 00:06:18.410 be his heir by adoption. Oh, somebody says, Miss 00:06:18.410 --> 00:06:25.040 Kuhlman, you're way out now. Oh, don't tell me 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:30.199 with the condition the world is in today. When 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:34.180 I look around and see some of these human beings 00:06:34.180 --> 00:06:37.399 and the way they act and the way they look and 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:43.980 the way they live, don't tell me it was in the 00:06:43.980 --> 00:06:46.600 will and the plan of God that they should be 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:57.029 his heir. I know. My friend, I know sometimes 00:06:57.029 --> 00:07:00.610 it's hard to believe, but I've got the word. 00:07:00.689 --> 00:07:07.750 I can back it up with the word. People are living 00:07:07.750 --> 00:07:10.829 in the condition that they are living in this 00:07:10.829 --> 00:07:16.050 hour because they will to live in that condition. 00:07:17.009 --> 00:07:22.540 And it's just like that. are way back there when 00:07:22.540 --> 00:07:24.079 the three sat at the great conference table. 00:07:25.459 --> 00:07:30.680 God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:37.279 Holy Spirit. Oh, I have visualized that over 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:41.759 and over again. Of course, the Bible doesn't 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.839 say that there was a great conference or that 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:50.230 there was a conference table. But I know. that 00:07:50.230 --> 00:07:55.410 they were in conference because there was a definite 00:07:55.410 --> 00:08:00.009 time, a definite place, when Jesus Christ, the 00:08:00.009 --> 00:08:04.509 Son of God, offered himself through the Holy 00:08:04.509 --> 00:08:11.750 Spirit to God the Father to be given that you 00:08:11.750 --> 00:08:17.430 and I might have life eternal. The perfect... 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.720 plan of salvation was all laid out, it was all 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:26.459 mapped out before Jesus ever came in the form 00:08:26.459 --> 00:08:32.960 of a babe to Bethlehem. Before Mary was ever 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:40.559 told that her body would encompass that which 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:47.220 was of God, that supernatural something. that 00:08:47.220 --> 00:08:53.759 God himself had ordained. Long before Mary knew 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:58.600 it, it was all in God's plan that it should be 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:04.039 as it was. And when the three sat down at that 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:08.460 great conference table, talking over redemption's 00:09:08.460 --> 00:09:14.120 plan, not one person, regardless of nationality, 00:09:14.220 --> 00:09:24.070 race, regardless of color, every human being 00:09:24.070 --> 00:09:28.070 was included, from the first Adam to the very 00:09:28.070 --> 00:09:31.830 last person who will be born, was included in 00:09:31.830 --> 00:09:42.929 this great plan. And God predestinated, God foreordained, 00:09:42.950 --> 00:09:47.679 even before the foundations of the world, All 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:54.240 should be saved. Salvation was for all. When 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:59.860 Jesus died on the cross, he didn't die for just 00:09:59.860 --> 00:10:06.840 a few or a certain percentage or those of a certain 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:12.759 nationality. But he died for all. There was no 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:19.080 exception. Jew, Gentile. Black, white, yellow, 00:10:19.220 --> 00:10:24.320 all. For God knows no such thing as race and 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:29.159 nationality. Somebody said, well, Ms. Kuhlman, 00:10:29.220 --> 00:10:41.519 what happened? This is what happened. Man was 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:49.600 created with free moral agency. You are free 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:57.940 to do anything you want to do. You are absolutely 00:10:57.940 --> 00:11:02.960 free to live a respectable life. You're absolutely 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:09.799 free to be a hippie. You're absolutely free to 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:15.120 hate. You're absolutely free to love. You are 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:21.159 absolutely free to keep His Word. You are free 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:28.659 to leave all morals out of your life. I am perfectly 00:11:28.659 --> 00:11:33.759 free right now, even though I have been preaching 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:39.279 the Word for years. I am perfectly free this 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:42.909 very moment to get... up from the chair that 00:11:42.909 --> 00:11:46.429 I'm sitting in, walk out of this radio studio 00:11:46.429 --> 00:11:52.429 and say, I've contributed my part to humanity. 00:11:53.090 --> 00:11:57.350 From here on out, I'm going to take it easy. 00:11:59.090 --> 00:12:06.649 I can do it. God won't stop me. I'm not forced 00:12:06.649 --> 00:12:11.519 to do what I'm doing. I have not been forced 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:16.100 all these years to work as hard as I have worked, 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:22.419 16, 18 hours a day. No one has forced me. God 00:12:22.419 --> 00:12:27.259 has not forced me to give my life as a living 00:12:27.259 --> 00:12:31.080 sacrifice to preach the gospel. I have chosen 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:37.039 to do it. I have done it by choice. When it came 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.840 to giving my heart to the Lord Jesus Christ, 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:44.159 in that little Methodist church when I was only 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:48.279 14 years of age. How well I remember that Sunday 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:56.960 morning. Not one soul said a word to me. My mother, 00:12:57.019 --> 00:13:00.360 who stood beside me, knew nothing about salvation. 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.379 My father, at that service, when I said, Papa, 00:13:05.539 --> 00:13:10.440 I've given my heart to Jesus. And he just looked 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:16.679 at me and said, I'm glad. And I wondered thousands 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:22.460 of times if he understood. No one forced me. 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:28.320 No one led me. Only the Holy Spirit spoke to 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:35.159 my heart. And I chose to accept Christ as my 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:39.620 Savior in the forgiveness of my sins. And every 00:13:39.620 --> 00:13:43.840 person this very hour listening to me, if you've 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.759 been born again, you were not forced into it. 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:55.279 God never forced you. You did it out of choice. 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:00.659 In exactly the same way, that man who is unregenerated 00:14:00.659 --> 00:14:05.279 today, that man who is still living in sin, that 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.570 man without morals, That man without peace of 00:14:09.570 --> 00:14:13.409 mind and peace of soul, that man who is living 00:14:13.409 --> 00:14:22.809 in sin, has made his choice. He chooses to do 00:14:22.809 --> 00:14:28.850 what he has done and is doing. But it doesn't 00:14:28.850 --> 00:14:34.169 change the fact one iota that God was not willing 00:14:34.169 --> 00:14:37.879 and is not willing that any should perish but 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.460 that all should come into eternal life. In his 00:14:41.460 --> 00:14:44.879 great plan, before the foundations of the world, 00:14:45.019 --> 00:14:52.779 he predestined, he planned that all men, all 00:14:52.779 --> 00:15:00.200 women, should become his heir by adoption through 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:04.980 Jesus Christ his Son, making us a... joint heir 00:15:04.980 --> 00:15:09.919 with His Son. At the same time, when He created 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.740 man, when He said to the Son and to the Holy 00:15:13.740 --> 00:15:17.159 Spirit, let us make man in our own image and 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:22.379 after our likeness, He created man with free 00:15:22.379 --> 00:15:29.860 moral agency. We are free to choose. We are free 00:15:29.860 --> 00:15:36.519 to reject. Every human being is free, absolutely 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:42.360 free to go to heaven or to go to hell. You make 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:47.620 your choice. No person will ever be able to stand 00:15:47.620 --> 00:15:50.279 in the presence of Almighty God and shake a finger 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:57.879 in God's face and say, you sent me to hell. Because 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:04.059 God doesn't send anyone to hell. You choose to 00:16:04.059 --> 00:16:09.860 go to hell. You have chosen to make your own 00:16:09.860 --> 00:16:16.519 hell right here on earth. We make these choices 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:22.480 ourselves. I'm giving you something to think 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:30.169 about. I'm giving you the word of God. The Lord 00:16:30.169 --> 00:16:36.549 is not willing that any should perish, but that 00:16:36.549 --> 00:16:43.590 all should come into everlasting life. All should 00:16:43.590 --> 00:16:45.950 accept his only begotten Son in the forgiveness 00:16:45.950 --> 00:16:52.210 of his sins. You are living there in defeat? 00:16:53.509 --> 00:17:00.509 Just stop a minute. For one split second. Just 00:17:00.509 --> 00:17:05.410 check up, take inventory. Look at your past life. 00:17:07.089 --> 00:17:10.710 Oh, I know you've blamed everything on everybody 00:17:10.710 --> 00:17:14.009 else. You either blame it on your husband, or 00:17:14.009 --> 00:17:16.630 you blame it on the children, or you blame it 00:17:16.630 --> 00:17:19.509 on the teacher, or you blame it on circumstances. 00:17:20.210 --> 00:17:24.369 Human beings are made like that. We like to put 00:17:24.369 --> 00:17:28.170 the blame on everybody else. but we'll never 00:17:28.170 --> 00:17:31.670 look ourselves directly in the face and say look 00:17:31.670 --> 00:17:37.509 here old girl you brought this all on yourself 00:17:37.509 --> 00:17:50.549 every bit of it you brought it on yourself this 00:17:50.549 --> 00:17:56.430 very moment you are living in defeat It was never 00:17:56.430 --> 00:17:58.990 God's will that any man or any woman should be 00:17:58.990 --> 00:18:02.650 defeated. Do you mean to tell me that the conditions 00:18:02.650 --> 00:18:06.470 of the world is in this very hour? That that 00:18:06.470 --> 00:18:13.569 is God's perfect will? When I pass some of these 00:18:13.569 --> 00:18:19.529 folks on the street and sometimes I can't restrain 00:18:19.529 --> 00:18:22.349 myself, I have to turn around and look at them. 00:18:23.849 --> 00:18:28.430 You'll never Make me believe that the will of 00:18:28.430 --> 00:18:32.170 God for them, God's perfect will for them, is 00:18:32.170 --> 00:18:35.390 to be in the condition that they are this hour. 00:18:35.630 --> 00:18:42.869 Never. They have made the choice in spite of 00:18:42.869 --> 00:18:50.490 all that God has done for them. In spite of the 00:18:50.490 --> 00:18:54.740 spiritual light. In spite of... The tenderness 00:18:54.740 --> 00:19:00.339 of the Holy Spirit. In spite of the fact that 00:19:00.339 --> 00:19:07.359 God made it possible that they should be his 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:16.180 heir. Think of it. Just pause a moment. Think 00:19:16.180 --> 00:19:26.500 of it. It was God's will. that all of us in his 00:19:26.500 --> 00:19:30.700 great plan, and he made provisions for it, that 00:19:30.700 --> 00:19:36.380 we should literally be a joint heir with his 00:19:36.380 --> 00:19:43.660 only begotten son. Why? To the praise of the 00:19:43.660 --> 00:19:50.579 glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted 00:19:50.579 --> 00:19:56.809 in the beloved. He made full provision that we 00:19:56.809 --> 00:20:00.569 might have this as our inheritance, that we might 00:20:00.569 --> 00:20:07.829 be to the glory of his grace, and that we should 00:20:07.829 --> 00:20:15.049 be something that he could be proud of. It's 00:20:15.049 --> 00:20:19.250 the same thing within the second chapter of Ephesians, 00:20:19.349 --> 00:20:24.619 the seventh verse. that in the ages to come, 00:20:24.700 --> 00:20:29.720 he might show the exceeding riches of his grace 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:35.339 in his kindness toward us through Jesus Christ. 00:20:36.059 --> 00:20:39.200 But there are millions of people who will not 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:44.680 permit him to show his grace and to show his 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:50.039 kindness and to show his glory and to show his 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:56.099 power. Through their lives. Oh, this is so thrilling. 00:20:56.619 --> 00:21:02.279 This is so wonderful. If only men and women could 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:08.519 realize what they could be. In Christ Jesus. 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:18.500 They fight him. They work against him. They deny 00:21:18.500 --> 00:21:27.460 him. They do everything in the world contrary 00:21:27.460 --> 00:21:36.720 to his laws. No wonder they get themselves in 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:44.019 such messes and such predicaments. Until finally, 00:21:44.220 --> 00:21:50.400 the grand finale to the whole thing. will be 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:59.640 that man will destroy himself. God will never 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:06.339 destroy man. Never. God will never destroy this 00:22:06.339 --> 00:22:15.380 generation. Man will destroy himself in spite 00:22:15.380 --> 00:22:21.630 of everything that he has done. to keep you from 00:22:21.630 --> 00:22:27.869 that destruction. Even to the place where man 00:22:27.869 --> 00:22:33.589 will go to hell. Eternal punishment. Not because 00:22:33.589 --> 00:22:37.750 God sent him there or that God ordained that 00:22:37.750 --> 00:22:41.690 it should be or predestined that he should be 00:22:41.690 --> 00:22:47.369 lost. But you and I make the choice.