WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 --> 00:00:02.960 I was just so sure you'd not forget me today, 00:00:03.020 --> 00:00:08.660 all thanks and remember. No matter how you feel, 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:11.619 or what kind of a day it is for you, or what 00:00:11.619 --> 00:00:15.619 the weather is like, or how big your troubles, 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:20.780 as long as God is still on his throne and hears 00:00:20.780 --> 00:00:23.800 an answer's prayer, and just so long as your 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:30.589 faith in him is still intact, Everything will 00:00:30.589 --> 00:00:35.890 come out all right. Today is going to be one 00:00:35.890 --> 00:00:40.590 of those days when I feel that our heart -to 00:00:40.590 --> 00:00:43.289 -heart talk is so important that I'm going to 00:00:43.289 --> 00:00:47.729 get right into it. That's right. Take your hands 00:00:47.729 --> 00:00:51.390 out of the dishwasher. That's right, fella. If 00:00:51.390 --> 00:00:56.780 you're crossing the office... Room, just stop 00:00:56.780 --> 00:01:00.840 right now. Sit down. There won't be any music, 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:03.179 and you won't have time to do something else, 00:01:03.299 --> 00:01:08.200 because what I'm going to talk about today is 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:15.659 as up -to -date as the last bit of news that 00:01:15.659 --> 00:01:19.280 you heard on television. I mean exactly that. 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:25.769 That's the reason I'm killing you folk. If you 00:01:25.769 --> 00:01:30.349 really want to be up on world affairs, get out 00:01:30.349 --> 00:01:36.650 your Bible. That's exactly what I said. Get out 00:01:36.650 --> 00:01:44.790 the Word of God. You can take your Bible in one 00:01:44.790 --> 00:01:48.250 hand. You can take the front page of your newspaper 00:01:48.250 --> 00:01:53.310 in the other. And you'll hardly be able to tell 00:01:53.310 --> 00:01:55.680 whether you're reading the Bible. Or whether 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:58.420 you're reading your newspaper. When you hear 00:01:58.420 --> 00:02:04.000 your newscasters talking about Haifa, Damascus, 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:12.740 the Dead Sea, Israel, Jerusalem. My word, you 00:02:12.740 --> 00:02:16.039 almost feel as though you are back again in the 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.360 Old Testament. Back again with the prophets. 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:22.860 And it's just like that. I want you to remember 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:26.259 something. God really began his plan of redemption 00:02:26.259 --> 00:02:31.460 when he called Abraham, a Hebrew, out from the 00:02:31.460 --> 00:02:35.500 rest of the peoples of the then known world. 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:41.900 Called him to become a peculiar people unto himself. 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:49.439 But remember, they are an earthly people. When 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:53.009 we talk about... The Jews being God's chosen 00:02:53.009 --> 00:02:58.430 people, they are. But they are an earthly people. 00:02:58.930 --> 00:03:03.689 And all of his covenants to Israel, to the Jew, 00:03:03.789 --> 00:03:10.770 are earthly covenants. Bible history reveals 00:03:10.770 --> 00:03:14.550 to us how God carried Abraham on in his plans 00:03:14.550 --> 00:03:19.039 to the birth of Isaac. The next he carried on 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:23.379 by unfolding his will to Jacob and the twelve 00:03:23.379 --> 00:03:28.419 sons. Then on to the Egyptian bondage. On to 00:03:28.419 --> 00:03:33.419 the exodus from Egypt. Then into Canaan. Till 00:03:33.419 --> 00:03:36.280 at last the time came when that race of people 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:41.080 were the dominating force of the world. Under 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:46.900 King Solomon. And all... Through these generations, 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:55.919 when Israel walked with God, when Israel kept 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:01.379 God's word, when they were obedient to him, they 00:04:01.379 --> 00:04:07.319 kept that supreme God -given power. There's nothing 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:10.919 in the world like having God's blessing. There's 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:15.039 nothing. in the world, whether it's an individual 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:21.740 or a nation, like having God's blessing in his 00:04:21.740 --> 00:04:28.740 favor and his smile. But God cannot bless disobedience. 00:04:28.779 --> 00:04:36.259 He can't. He simply cannot bless disobedience, 00:04:36.259 --> 00:04:39.680 whether it's in the life of an individual or 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:44.069 that of a nation. Therefore, when Israel walked 00:04:44.069 --> 00:04:49.449 with God, was obedient to Him, they kept that 00:04:49.449 --> 00:04:52.870 supreme God -given power. But when they failed 00:04:52.870 --> 00:04:57.930 Him, when they became disobedient unto Him, He 00:04:57.930 --> 00:05:02.170 took that power away, gave it to certain sections 00:05:02.170 --> 00:05:09.550 of the Gentile race. And now for generations, 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:15.939 The Jewish people have been scattered to the 00:05:15.939 --> 00:05:18.959 four corners of the earth. You'll find them in 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:28.040 every nation in the world. It was not until this 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:43.500 generation, 1947, 1948, 1949, and were again 00:05:43.500 --> 00:05:50.220 a recognized nation, the nation of Israel. But 00:05:50.220 --> 00:05:56.720 during the time of their being scattered throughout 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:04.540 the world, we had the time of the Gentiles, and 00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:10.589 God turned from the Jew to the Gentiles. And 00:06:10.589 --> 00:06:15.189 we have had our day. God has been merciful unto 00:06:15.189 --> 00:06:18.910 us. We have had our opportunity for salvation. 00:06:19.649 --> 00:06:21.949 But remember something, and I must pause here 00:06:21.949 --> 00:06:28.329 and make it very clear. Even though the Jew is 00:06:28.329 --> 00:06:36.750 God's chosen earthly people, a Jew must be born 00:06:36.750 --> 00:06:39.720 again. in exactly the same way that a Gentile 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:44.100 is born again. To be an heir of God and a joint 00:06:44.100 --> 00:06:48.779 heir with Christ Jesus. Just because a man is 00:06:48.779 --> 00:06:56.300 a Jew does not mean that he is born again and 00:06:56.300 --> 00:06:59.199 has a special place in heaven that he does not 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:02.500 need to accept the Son of the Living God as his 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:10.279 true Messiah. A Jew? To make heaven, to become 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:14.279 an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ Jesus, 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:18.160 must be born again, must have that new birth 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:22.439 experience in exactly the same way that a Gentile 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:27.860 must be born again. For when it comes to the 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:32.480 new birth, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, 00:07:32.500 --> 00:07:38.579 race, blood, Color has nothing to do with it. 00:07:38.699 --> 00:07:48.160 We are all individuals in the sight of God. Race 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:56.339 has nothing to do with it whatsoever. That's 00:07:56.339 --> 00:08:04.819 one place where there's no boundary. Ye must. 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:09.939 whether you're Jew or Gentile, be born again. 00:08:10.300 --> 00:08:16.160 All right? Now watch something. God made a covenant 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:23.680 with Abraham and to Abraham's seed. And I want 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.500 to read that portion of the Word of God where 00:08:27.500 --> 00:08:30.660 we see that covenant made, the 70th chapter of 00:08:30.660 --> 00:08:38.110 Genesis. I will. Oh, those two words thrill me. 00:08:38.230 --> 00:08:43.350 When God says, I will, he will. You know, the 00:08:43.350 --> 00:08:47.870 day has come when you can no longer say that 00:08:47.870 --> 00:08:51.289 a man's word is as good as his bond. When I was 00:08:51.289 --> 00:08:53.389 a little girl, I remember they used to say that 00:08:53.389 --> 00:08:56.610 about Joe Kuhlman. And you want to know something? 00:08:56.850 --> 00:09:01.669 To this very day, if you were to go to Concordia, 00:09:01.669 --> 00:09:05.960 Missouri, and you'd drive down that... One main 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:11.539 street. You'd turn off of Highway 40, going from 00:09:11.539 --> 00:09:16.200 Kansas City to St. Louis, and turn into Concordia, 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:19.399 Missouri, go down that main street, and stop 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:22.159 anybody on the main street of Concordia, Missouri, 00:09:22.259 --> 00:09:29.460 and say, Is this the hometown of Catherine Kuhlman? 00:09:30.820 --> 00:09:35.799 They would turn to you and they would say, Oh, 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:43.139 you mean Joe Kuhlman's girl. Catherine Kuhlman 00:09:43.139 --> 00:09:47.259 doesn't mean a thing to the folk of Concordia, 00:09:47.259 --> 00:09:52.740 Missouri. Oh, I'll tell you, not a thing. But 00:09:52.740 --> 00:09:59.980 when you say Joe Kuhlman, he's the one. And anybody 00:09:59.980 --> 00:10:03.320 in Concordia, Missouri will say, there was a 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.870 man. The most moral man that ever lived. There 00:10:06.870 --> 00:10:12.049 was a man whose word was as good as his bond. 00:10:12.590 --> 00:10:20.029 Ha ha. When Joe Kuhlman said, I will, you could 00:10:20.029 --> 00:10:26.509 stake your life on it. When God says, I will, 00:10:26.809 --> 00:10:32.210 whether it was to Abraham and his seed, or whether 00:10:32.210 --> 00:10:36.399 it's... to an individual today when you and i 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:39.500 have his word when we have his promise we can 00:10:39.500 --> 00:10:45.200 stake our very life on it and a way back there 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:50.500 when god said to abraham and made this covenant 00:10:50.500 --> 00:10:57.679 to abraham and his seed and said i will i'm telling 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:05.539 you something he knew he keep that covenant. 00:11:06.259 --> 00:11:11.620 And the Jew has waited a long time. A long, long 00:11:11.620 --> 00:11:18.419 time. And sometimes I wonder if they wonder whether 00:11:18.419 --> 00:11:21.539 or not God was going to keep that covenant with 00:11:21.539 --> 00:11:29.659 the seed of Abraham. I wonder if they wonder. 00:11:31.179 --> 00:11:36.799 But this was a covenant. I will establish my 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:43.960 covenant between me and thee and thy seed after 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:48.480 thee and their generations for an everlasting 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:55.379 covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed 00:11:55.379 --> 00:12:00.029 after thee. And I will give unto thee. and to 00:12:00.029 --> 00:12:04.190 thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art 00:12:04.190 --> 00:12:10.129 a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting 00:12:10.129 --> 00:12:16.870 possession, and I will be their God. And to think 00:12:16.870 --> 00:12:20.190 that you and I are so privileged that we have 00:12:20.190 --> 00:12:25.769 lived in the generation when God kept, when he 00:12:25.769 --> 00:12:31.389 fulfilled that covenant. to Abraham and his seed. 00:12:31.750 --> 00:12:38.690 Think of it. And today, we have Israel as a nation 00:12:38.690 --> 00:12:44.269 with God's blessing upon them. Don't forget it. 00:12:46.429 --> 00:12:52.690 God's blessing is still upon the Jew. Never forget 00:12:52.690 --> 00:12:59.799 it. Never. And any nation that will attack Israel 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:05.019 will have the wrath of God upon that nation. 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:15.799 Touch not mine anointed. Keep your hands off 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:19.419 of that anointed of the Lord, whether it's an 00:13:19.419 --> 00:13:22.600 individual. If that one has been chosen of God 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:27.379 for a definite work, you keep your hands off 00:13:27.379 --> 00:13:33.879 of that one. Touch not mine anointed. They may 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:38.639 do wrong. They may be disobedient. They may not 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:40.940 be living the life that you think they should 00:13:40.940 --> 00:13:45.139 live. But you keep your hands off. God himself 00:13:45.139 --> 00:13:52.240 will chastise them. Keep your hands off. They're 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.159 his anointed. And as surely as you lay hands 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:00.470 upon them, As surely as you criticize them, there's 00:14:00.470 --> 00:14:06.830 something about it. You'll not be blessed. I 00:14:06.830 --> 00:14:11.470 can't tell you why. I don't know. But it has 00:14:11.470 --> 00:14:16.450 to do with the personality of God. It has to 00:14:16.450 --> 00:14:23.509 do with the love and the compassion of God. In 00:14:23.509 --> 00:14:28.080 exactly the same way with the Jew. I can't tell 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:35.019 you why. He is God's chosen people. I can't tell 00:14:35.019 --> 00:14:39.220 you why. I don't know. I can't understand it, 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.320 but I know that it's true. I've got to believe 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:49.539 in it. The word says so. He is an earthly people. 00:14:51.899 --> 00:14:58.350 God's covenants are earthly covenants. His blessing 00:14:58.350 --> 00:15:05.789 is upon the Jew. He has chastised them for their 00:15:05.789 --> 00:15:11.149 disobedience. They have paid and paid dearly 00:15:11.149 --> 00:15:15.830 for not having accepted his only begotten son 00:15:15.830 --> 00:15:22.830 as the true Messiah. Oh, beloved, what Abraham's 00:15:22.830 --> 00:15:28.059 seed has gone through. the suffering, the persecution. 00:15:30.620 --> 00:15:41.159 He has paid and paid dearly that wandering Jew 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:47.620 for generations without a homeland. Throughout 00:15:47.620 --> 00:15:56.539 the world, that wandering Jew. But, beloved, 00:15:56.580 --> 00:16:07.639 now he is coming into his own. Coming back again 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:15.600 and very shortly, in the very near future, the 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:22.200 eyes that have been blinded for so long, the 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:30.070 eyes... of the Jew who has not seen spiritually 00:16:30.070 --> 00:16:37.970 that Jesus is all that he said that he was, will 00:16:37.970 --> 00:16:44.549 have his spiritual eyes open and not only one 00:16:44.549 --> 00:16:51.409 or two or a score or a hundred, but as a nation, 00:16:51.870 --> 00:17:00.750 they will... Turn and wholeheartedly accept Jesus 00:17:00.750 --> 00:17:05.369 Christ, the very son of the living God, as their 00:17:05.369 --> 00:17:11.049 true Messiah. Oh, that's thrilling. Whenever 00:17:11.049 --> 00:17:13.509 you talk about it being in the future, that thing 00:17:13.509 --> 00:17:20.049 is in the very near future. Mm -hmm. All right, 00:17:20.089 --> 00:17:24.460 go back again. For hundreds of years. Israel 00:17:24.460 --> 00:17:27.640 had tried the patience of a long -suffering God 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:30.759 before he scattered that nation throughout the 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:34.779 world. Oh, God is patient. I know so very often 00:17:34.779 --> 00:17:39.000 when it comes to an individual life, we wonder 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:44.119 why God doesn't send judgment immediately. More 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:48.140 than once in my life, you know, I've been glad 00:17:48.140 --> 00:17:50.799 that I wasn't God, and the individual can sure 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:56.470 be glad that I wasn't God. Because I would have 00:17:56.470 --> 00:18:00.769 taken that one and I would have sent judgment 00:18:00.769 --> 00:18:05.910 to that one so quickly. And now, don't condemn 00:18:05.910 --> 00:18:07.789 me. You know that you've been in the same position 00:18:07.789 --> 00:18:14.329 when you have literally prayed for judgment to 00:18:14.329 --> 00:18:17.190 strike on an individual. And you've looked up 00:18:17.190 --> 00:18:19.410 and said, why in the world does God let that 00:18:19.410 --> 00:18:26.170 one get by with that thing? Why? Why doesn't 00:18:26.170 --> 00:18:32.970 God strike him? Why does God permit that one 00:18:32.970 --> 00:18:38.109 to get by with what he's done? Well, that's the 00:18:38.109 --> 00:18:42.490 mercy of God. That's the long suffering. That's 00:18:42.490 --> 00:18:48.670 the patience of God. But remember the story of 00:18:48.670 --> 00:18:55.769 the one who... Wrote to Dr. Turnbull, the editor 00:18:55.769 --> 00:18:59.390 of the Sunday School Times, challenging him. 00:18:59.410 --> 00:19:07.529 He said, you know, he said, my next door farmer 00:19:07.529 --> 00:19:13.329 friend, our lands join. And he said, he's a devout 00:19:13.329 --> 00:19:16.529 Christian. He wouldn't plow. He wouldn't harvest 00:19:16.529 --> 00:19:19.190 his grain. He wouldn't work on Sunday for any 00:19:19.190 --> 00:19:22.500 of the world. He goes to church. He believes 00:19:22.500 --> 00:19:26.720 the Bible. He says he's a Christian. And he said, 00:19:26.859 --> 00:19:30.720 I'm an atheist. I don't believe there's a God. 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:35.220 I never read the Bible. Sunday doesn't mean any 00:19:35.220 --> 00:19:38.900 more to me than Monday or Wednesday or Saturday. 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:44.460 And he said, you know, he said my barns are full. 00:19:45.099 --> 00:19:49.880 I've had a wonderful bumper crop this year. And 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:53.140 my neighbor hasn't fared so well with all of 00:19:53.140 --> 00:19:56.420 his Christianity, with all of his praying, with 00:19:56.420 --> 00:20:01.500 all of his Bible reading. He said, yeah, Dr. 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:05.240 Turnbull, how do you account for that? He says 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:11.700 it's October and I've got more than my neighbor 00:20:11.700 --> 00:20:16.859 has. Dr. Turnbull just turned the man's letter 00:20:16.859 --> 00:20:21.259 over. And this is what he wrote on the back side. 00:20:21.299 --> 00:20:29.779 It's the man's letter. God does not make full 00:20:29.779 --> 00:20:39.839 settlement in October. Hmm. Yeah. For hundreds 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:44.039 of years, Israel had cried the patience of her 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.640 long -suffering God before he scattered that 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:48.549 nation throughout the world. Read the book of 00:20:48.549 --> 00:20:53.470 Moses. Read it. From Genesis through Deuteronomy. 00:20:53.990 --> 00:20:56.589 See the failures. See the murmings of the people. 00:20:56.690 --> 00:20:59.369 Even while God was leading them from Egypt to 00:20:59.369 --> 00:21:01.809 Canaan with a mighty hand. Read the book of Judges. 00:21:03.109 --> 00:21:09.450 Read of the apostasies. Oh, God did everything. 00:21:09.890 --> 00:21:13.869 All the patience that God had with his people. 00:21:14.049 --> 00:21:18.009 Remember the times. Almost without number. when 00:21:18.009 --> 00:21:23.190 the kings of both Judah and Israel did that which 00:21:23.190 --> 00:21:28.130 was evil in the sight of the Lord. I tell you, 00:21:28.150 --> 00:21:30.230 beloved, the mercy and the long -suffering of 00:21:30.230 --> 00:21:38.250 Israel's God really causes us to marvel. Apostasy 00:21:38.250 --> 00:21:44.230 followed apostasy to finally God scattered Israel 00:21:44.230 --> 00:21:54.910 among all the nations. But in spite of their 00:21:54.910 --> 00:22:02.190 apostasy, in spite of the fact that they refused 00:22:02.190 --> 00:22:04.930 to accept the Son of God as their true Messiah 00:22:04.930 --> 00:22:14.930 when he came, God still had his word. with Abraham 00:22:14.930 --> 00:22:19.190 and the seed of Abraham, when he said, I will. 00:22:20.690 --> 00:22:25.970 I will establish my covenant between me and thee 00:22:25.970 --> 00:22:34.170 and thy seed. I will. I will give unto thee and 00:22:34.170 --> 00:22:39.269 thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art 00:22:39.269 --> 00:22:45.480 a stranger. All the land of... Canaan, I will 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:52.400 give you all of this earthly land. I will call 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:57.480 you to be established again as a nation, recognized 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:03.339 by all nations in the world. I will. I'll give 00:23:03.339 --> 00:23:10.400 you this. It's an everlasting possession. I will. 00:23:10.859 --> 00:23:16.700 Be their God. And in spite of Israel's disobedience, 00:23:16.900 --> 00:23:21.099 in spite of the apostasy, in spite of the fact 00:23:21.099 --> 00:23:24.680 that they have refused to accept the Son of God 00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:27.579 as their true Messiah, God still had to keep 00:23:27.579 --> 00:23:36.779 his word. And he did just exactly that. Oh, this 00:23:36.779 --> 00:23:40.759 is thrilling. This is marvelous. Let me just 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:44.859 read something to you. Oh, do you see now how 00:23:44.859 --> 00:23:47.299 we can't have any music for a heart -to -heart 00:23:47.299 --> 00:23:50.000 talk like this? There's just no time. This goes 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:56.859 on and on. And to think that we are living in 00:23:56.859 --> 00:24:01.259 the day, the very hour, right now, that the very 00:24:01.259 --> 00:24:03.759 thing that I'm talking to you about is the very 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:06.380 thing that our newscasters are talking about, 00:24:06.539 --> 00:24:09.940 the very thing that you hear on television. On 00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:14.920 radio. The front pages of your paper. And that's 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:17.319 the reason I can deal you without fear of contradiction. 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:23.099 I'm not a prophet or the daughter of a prophet. 00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:30.599 But I have God's word to back me up. A God who 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:38.519 said, I will. And any nation today, whether it's 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:43.480 Russia, Whether it's Egypt, whether it's China, 00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:51.259 any nation that will touch Israel has sealed 00:24:51.259 --> 00:25:03.460 her doom. And it's just like that. Mm -hmm. Be 00:25:03.460 --> 00:25:11.900 careful. Be careful. Touch not mine anointed. 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:18.940 God is saying keep your hands off of my chosen 00:25:18.940 --> 00:25:27.839 people. He's made provision for them. He'll keep 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:32.440 his word. And I will tell you something without 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:38.400 fear of contradiction. No matter how... It may 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:46.400 appear this hour. Israel will come forth victorious. 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:53.539 God is on her side. God bless you.