I was just so sure you'd not forget me today,
all thanks and remember. No matter how you feel,
or what kind of a day it is for you, or what
the weather is like, or how big your troubles,
as long as God is still on his throne and hears
an answer's prayer, and just so long as your
faith in him is still intact, Everything will
come out all right. Today is going to be one
of those days when I feel that our heart -to
-heart talk is so important that I'm going to
get right into it. That's right. Take your hands
out of the dishwasher. That's right, fella. If
you're crossing the office... Room, just stop
right now. Sit down. There won't be any music,
and you won't have time to do something else,
because what I'm going to talk about today is
as up -to -date as the last bit of news that
you heard on television. I mean exactly that.
That's the reason I'm killing you folk. If you
really want to be up on world affairs, get out
your Bible. That's exactly what I said. Get out
the Word of God. You can take your Bible in one
hand. You can take the front page of your newspaper
in the other. And you'll hardly be able to tell
whether you're reading the Bible. Or whether
you're reading your newspaper. When you hear
your newscasters talking about Haifa, Damascus,
the Dead Sea, Israel, Jerusalem. My word, you
almost feel as though you are back again in the
Old Testament. Back again with the prophets.
And it's just like that. I want you to remember
something. God really began his plan of redemption
when he called Abraham, a Hebrew, out from the
rest of the peoples of the then known world.
Called him to become a peculiar people unto himself.
But remember, they are an earthly people. When
we talk about... The Jews being God's chosen
people, they are. But they are an earthly people.
And all of his covenants to Israel, to the Jew,
are earthly covenants. Bible history reveals
to us how God carried Abraham on in his plans
to the birth of Isaac. The next he carried on
by unfolding his will to Jacob and the twelve
sons. Then on to the Egyptian bondage. On to
the exodus from Egypt. Then into Canaan. Till
at last the time came when that race of people
were the dominating force of the world. Under
King Solomon. And all... Through these generations,
when Israel walked with God, when Israel kept
God's word, when they were obedient to him, they
kept that supreme God -given power. There's nothing
in the world like having God's blessing. There's
nothing. in the world, whether it's an individual
or a nation, like having God's blessing in his
favor and his smile. But God cannot bless disobedience.
He can't. He simply cannot bless disobedience,
whether it's in the life of an individual or
that of a nation. Therefore, when Israel walked
with God, was obedient to Him, they kept that
supreme God -given power. But when they failed
Him, when they became disobedient unto Him, He
took that power away, gave it to certain sections
of the Gentile race. And now for generations,
The Jewish people have been scattered to the
four corners of the earth. You'll find them in
every nation in the world. It was not until this
generation, 1947, 1948, 1949, and were again
a recognized nation, the nation of Israel. But
during the time of their being scattered throughout
the world, we had the time of the Gentiles, and
God turned from the Jew to the Gentiles. And
we have had our day. God has been merciful unto
us. We have had our opportunity for salvation.
But remember something, and I must pause here
and make it very clear. Even though the Jew is
God's chosen earthly people, a Jew must be born
again. in exactly the same way that a Gentile
is born again. To be an heir of God and a joint
heir with Christ Jesus. Just because a man is
a Jew does not mean that he is born again and
has a special place in heaven that he does not
need to accept the Son of the Living God as his
true Messiah. A Jew? To make heaven, to become
an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ Jesus,
must be born again, must have that new birth
experience in exactly the same way that a Gentile
must be born again. For when it comes to the
new birth, there is neither Jew nor Gentile,
race, blood, Color has nothing to do with it.
We are all individuals in the sight of God. Race
has nothing to do with it whatsoever. That's
one place where there's no boundary. Ye must.
whether you're Jew or Gentile, be born again.
All right? Now watch something. God made a covenant
with Abraham and to Abraham's seed. And I want
to read that portion of the Word of God where
we see that covenant made, the 70th chapter of
Genesis. I will. Oh, those two words thrill me.
When God says, I will, he will. You know, the
day has come when you can no longer say that
a man's word is as good as his bond. When I was
a little girl, I remember they used to say that
about Joe Kuhlman. And you want to know something?
To this very day, if you were to go to Concordia,
Missouri, and you'd drive down that... One main
street. You'd turn off of Highway 40, going from
Kansas City to St. Louis, and turn into Concordia,
Missouri, go down that main street, and stop
anybody on the main street of Concordia, Missouri,
and say, Is this the hometown of Catherine Kuhlman?
They would turn to you and they would say, Oh,
you mean Joe Kuhlman's girl. Catherine Kuhlman
doesn't mean a thing to the folk of Concordia,
Missouri. Oh, I'll tell you, not a thing. But
when you say Joe Kuhlman, he's the one. And anybody
in Concordia, Missouri will say, there was a
man. The most moral man that ever lived. There
was a man whose word was as good as his bond.
Ha ha. When Joe Kuhlman said, I will, you could
stake your life on it. When God says, I will,
whether it was to Abraham and his seed, or whether
it's... to an individual today when you and i
have his word when we have his promise we can
stake our very life on it and a way back there
when god said to abraham and made this covenant
to abraham and his seed and said i will i'm telling
you something he knew he keep that covenant.
And the Jew has waited a long time. A long, long
time. And sometimes I wonder if they wonder whether
or not God was going to keep that covenant with
the seed of Abraham. I wonder if they wonder.
But this was a covenant. I will establish my
covenant between me and thee and thy seed after
thee and their generations for an everlasting
covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed
after thee. And I will give unto thee. and to
thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art
a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
possession, and I will be their God. And to think
that you and I are so privileged that we have
lived in the generation when God kept, when he
fulfilled that covenant. to Abraham and his seed.
Think of it. And today, we have Israel as a nation
with God's blessing upon them. Don't forget it.
God's blessing is still upon the Jew. Never forget
it. Never. And any nation that will attack Israel
will have the wrath of God upon that nation.
Touch not mine anointed. Keep your hands off
of that anointed of the Lord, whether it's an
individual. If that one has been chosen of God
for a definite work, you keep your hands off
of that one. Touch not mine anointed. They may
do wrong. They may be disobedient. They may not
be living the life that you think they should
live. But you keep your hands off. God himself
will chastise them. Keep your hands off. They're
his anointed. And as surely as you lay hands
upon them, As surely as you criticize them, there's
something about it. You'll not be blessed. I
can't tell you why. I don't know. But it has
to do with the personality of God. It has to
do with the love and the compassion of God. In
exactly the same way with the Jew. I can't tell
you why. He is God's chosen people. I can't tell
you why. I don't know. I can't understand it,
but I know that it's true. I've got to believe
in it. The word says so. He is an earthly people.
God's covenants are earthly covenants. His blessing
is upon the Jew. He has chastised them for their
disobedience. They have paid and paid dearly
for not having accepted his only begotten son
as the true Messiah. Oh, beloved, what Abraham's
seed has gone through. the suffering, the persecution.
He has paid and paid dearly that wandering Jew
for generations without a homeland. Throughout
the world, that wandering Jew. But, beloved,
now he is coming into his own. Coming back again
and very shortly, in the very near future, the
eyes that have been blinded for so long, the
eyes... of the Jew who has not seen spiritually
that Jesus is all that he said that he was, will
have his spiritual eyes open and not only one
or two or a score or a hundred, but as a nation,
they will... Turn and wholeheartedly accept Jesus
Christ, the very son of the living God, as their
true Messiah. Oh, that's thrilling. Whenever
you talk about it being in the future, that thing
is in the very near future. Mm -hmm. All right,
go back again. For hundreds of years. Israel
had tried the patience of a long -suffering God
before he scattered that nation throughout the
world. Oh, God is patient. I know so very often
when it comes to an individual life, we wonder
why God doesn't send judgment immediately. More
than once in my life, you know, I've been glad
that I wasn't God, and the individual can sure
be glad that I wasn't God. Because I would have
taken that one and I would have sent judgment
to that one so quickly. And now, don't condemn
me. You know that you've been in the same position
when you have literally prayed for judgment to
strike on an individual. And you've looked up
and said, why in the world does God let that
one get by with that thing? Why? Why doesn't
God strike him? Why does God permit that one
to get by with what he's done? Well, that's the
mercy of God. That's the long suffering. That's
the patience of God. But remember the story of
the one who... Wrote to Dr. Turnbull, the editor
of the Sunday School Times, challenging him.
He said, you know, he said, my next door farmer
friend, our lands join. And he said, he's a devout
Christian. He wouldn't plow. He wouldn't harvest
his grain. He wouldn't work on Sunday for any
of the world. He goes to church. He believes
the Bible. He says he's a Christian. And he said,
I'm an atheist. I don't believe there's a God.
I never read the Bible. Sunday doesn't mean any
more to me than Monday or Wednesday or Saturday.
And he said, you know, he said my barns are full.
I've had a wonderful bumper crop this year. And
my neighbor hasn't fared so well with all of
his Christianity, with all of his praying, with
all of his Bible reading. He said, yeah, Dr.
Turnbull, how do you account for that? He says
it's October and I've got more than my neighbor
has. Dr. Turnbull just turned the man's letter
over. And this is what he wrote on the back side.
It's the man's letter. God does not make full
settlement in October. Hmm. Yeah. For hundreds
of years, Israel had cried the patience of her
long -suffering God before he scattered that
nation throughout the world. Read the book of
Moses. Read it. From Genesis through Deuteronomy.
See the failures. See the murmings of the people.
Even while God was leading them from Egypt to
Canaan with a mighty hand. Read the book of Judges.
Read of the apostasies. Oh, God did everything.
All the patience that God had with his people.
Remember the times. Almost without number. when
the kings of both Judah and Israel did that which
was evil in the sight of the Lord. I tell you,
beloved, the mercy and the long -suffering of
Israel's God really causes us to marvel. Apostasy
followed apostasy to finally God scattered Israel
among all the nations. But in spite of their
apostasy, in spite of the fact that they refused
to accept the Son of God as their true Messiah
when he came, God still had his word. with Abraham
and the seed of Abraham, when he said, I will.
I will establish my covenant between me and thee
and thy seed. I will. I will give unto thee and
thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art
a stranger. All the land of... Canaan, I will
give you all of this earthly land. I will call
you to be established again as a nation, recognized
by all nations in the world. I will. I'll give
you this. It's an everlasting possession. I will.
Be their God. And in spite of Israel's disobedience,
in spite of the apostasy, in spite of the fact
that they have refused to accept the Son of God
as their true Messiah, God still had to keep
his word. And he did just exactly that. Oh, this
is thrilling. This is marvelous. Let me just
read something to you. Oh, do you see now how
we can't have any music for a heart -to -heart
talk like this? There's just no time. This goes
on and on. And to think that we are living in
the day, the very hour, right now, that the very
thing that I'm talking to you about is the very
thing that our newscasters are talking about,
the very thing that you hear on television. On
radio. The front pages of your paper. And that's
the reason I can deal you without fear of contradiction.
I'm not a prophet or the daughter of a prophet.
But I have God's word to back me up. A God who
said, I will. And any nation today, whether it's
Russia, Whether it's Egypt, whether it's China,
any nation that will touch Israel has sealed
her doom. And it's just like that. Mm -hmm. Be
careful. Be careful. Touch not mine anointed.
God is saying keep your hands off of my chosen
people. He's made provision for them. He'll keep
his word. And I will tell you something without
fear of contradiction. No matter how... It may
appear this hour. Israel will come forth victorious.
God is on her side. God bless you.