Father God, inspire us with wisdom, divine wisdom,
your wisdom. Inspire all of us of every color,
of every race, of every creed, to use our wealth,
our strength, to help our brother instead of
destroying him. Please, I pray. Be swift to save
us. Dear God, hear the cry of the righteous.
Protect us as we turn to thee. Help us before
it's too late. Amen. Well, sir, again today,
one of those heart -to -heart talks and... I'm
going to begin just exactly where I left you,
and I hope you have your Bible open to the last
scripture that I gave you before I left you the
last time I was in your home. Ezekiel, the 36th
chapter, beginning with the 22nd verse. We'll
read it together. Therefore say unto the house
of Israel, thus saith the lord god i will take
you from among the nations and gather you out
of all countries and will bring you into your
own land then will i sprinkle clean water upon
you and ye shall be clean clean from all your
filthiness and from all your idols I will cleanse
you. A new heart also will I give you, and a
new spirit will I put within you. And I will
take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will
put my spirit within you and cause you to walk
in my statues. and ye shall keep my judgments
and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that
I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people,
and I will be your God. And, beloved, that was
given centuries and centuries ago to Ezekiel
through the Holy Spirit. And in our own present
generation, you and I have lived to see Israel
restored again as a nation, and we will see the
complete fulfillment of God's Word when the Jew
as a nation will have her spiritual eyes opened
And the Lord God himself will put a new heart,
his own spirit, in the Jew. And he will accept
the Christ as the true Messiah. That's thrilling.
Say, you talk about a revival. Oh, some of you
may have lived through some great spiritual awakening.
Some of you have been praying and praying for
revival for your church, for your city, for the
world. The greatest revival that the world has
ever known is yet future, but the very near future.
I say that advisedly. The very near future. All
of Israel, when the Jews as a people will recognize
and will accept the Son of the Living God as
their true Messiah. Oh, that's glorious. Israel's
going to have her day. We're on the very threshold
now of the time when we have the end. of the
time of the Gentiles. And of course, that day
ceases when the Holy Spirit leaves this earth.
The church is raptured. The church is caught
up. And then we come into the day, the time of
the Jew, when God will fulfill every covenant.
and every promise that he made to Abraham and
his seed. Oh, sure. Mm -hmm. Oh, that's glorious.
God's wonderful promise to Israel as a nation.
Read it. It's thrilling. A new heart also will
I give you. A new heart. Here's something that
gives us comfort. That's... stony heart of Israel,
which has withstood the gracious pleading of
their God for so long. So long. For generations,
for centuries, they have rebelled against the
true Messiah. They have rebelled against the
Son of the Living God. Their rebellion has been
so great that literally the word Jesus is almost
a dirty word in a Jewish household. And it's
just like that. In many a Jewish household, the
word Jesus is not to be spoken by the children.
Think of the hardness of that spiritual heart.
And that hardening process has gone on for generations.
But the word of the Lord said, a new heart will
I give you. This is something, that stony heart
of Israel, which for generations, for centuries,
has withstood the gracious pleading of their
God, is going to be replaced. And in its place,
God is going to give. A spiritual heart. A God
-given heart of flesh. What does this mean? Just
this. That God is going to refashion the Jewish
character. Of course, you know, Gentiles has
some mighty disagreeable traits. And those who
are Jew -haters, let me tell you, examine your
own heart. I often smile at these people who
are such Jew -haters, you know. But when I look
in their own hearts, they've got some mighty
bad traits, some mighty disagreeable traits,
too. Whether we're Jew or Gentiles, some of us
aren't very lovely. You know, it's like that
motto that Mama always had above our telephone
at home when I was a little girl. Bad in the
best of us and so much good in the worst of us
that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about
the rest of us, whether we're Jew or Gentile.
But God says, referring to the Jew, a new heart
will I give you. Mm -hmm. His Holy Spirit. will
rule in them. And when this has come to pass,
they will serve God with all of their heart.
They will accept Jesus Christ as their true Messiah.
Have you ever noticed something? I have. And
I say without fear of contradiction, but only
to those who had dealt with the Jewish people.
That orthodox Jew, there is a love there for
God Almighty that I have never found in the heart
of a Gentile. There is a reverence, I'm telling
you something, a reverence that is lacking. king
in the heart of a Gentile for God Almighty. There
is a reverence and awe for Almighty God in the
heart of an Orthodox Jew. that you'll never find
in the heart of a Gentile. I know what I'm talking
about. I stood recently. No, I will not say I
stood. I knelt recently in a little chapel in
the hospital of a Jewish gentleman. who had just
accepted the Christ as the true Messiah. I heard
adoration and worship and reverence pour from
the lips coming from the innermost being of that
Gentile such as I have not heard. heard or experienced
in the life of any Gentile. Yes. A new heart
also will I give him. They will recognize in
Jesus their long unseen Messiah. John tells us
that he came unto his own, and his own received
him not. This gentleman, of whom I speak, said
to me, you know, Miss Kuhlman, you are the only
person that I have ever talked to about religion,
about Jesus. He said, there's one thing that
you say that I cannot accept. I said, and what
is it? He said, you know, when you talk about
being converted, that I cannot accept. When you
talk about the new birth experience, when you
talk about being born again, yes, I have experienced
that. That was my experience when I accepted
Jesus as my Savior and my Redeemer. To be converted?
No, because He has always been there. The Messiah
has always been there. I could have known Him
as my Redeemer and my Savior. When I was a young
boy, I could have known him as my Messiah as
a teenager. I could have known him years ago.
He was always there, only. My eyes were blinded,
and I did not accept him. That scripture, I almost
felt as though God himself had spoken. John,
that first chapter, the twelfth verse, he came
unto his own, and his own received him not. But
when Jesus... The great Messiah returns to earth
again. Remember something. Israel will spontaneously,
Israel will joyously, Israel will wholeheartedly
as one acclaim him as their long -awaited Messiah.
With new hearts they will serve him. And even
now, even this very moment while I'm speaking
to you, even now, One by one, they are beginning
to have their eyes open. One by one, they are
accepting the Son of God as the true Messiah.
They're beginning a score, a hundred. But the
day is coming when the whole of Israel. Oh, that's
glorious. It's there. It's there in the 39th
chapter of Ezekiel. The 22nd verse. So the house
of Israel. In other words, all of Israel. Shall
know that I. Am the Lord their God from that
day and forward. Isn't that thrilling? The same
God who said, I will bring you into your own
land. God gave the land of Palestine to the father
of Israel, to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob. God
did not give it to any other people. Mm -hmm.
God led Israel not to Ethiopia, not to China,
not to South Africa, not to the United States,
not to Canada, not to Great Britain, not to any
of the places to which the scheming politicians
of the world have thought to send them. No? No,
ma 'am. He promised that all of the land of Canaan
would be theirs forever and ever and ever. The
very spot, the very land, there it is. How in
the world any intelligent human being can reject
the Bible, I'll never know. For any intelligent
person to say, I do not believe the Bible, I
do not believe there is a God, only shows his
ignorance. Any human being who will take issue
with the Word of God or says the Bible contradicts
itself only shows his ignorance. Take just this
one... thing alone. When you realize that many
a scheming politician would like to have put
the Jews in a score of different places in the
world and said, here, establish yourself here
as a nation. Or establish yourself there as a
nation. No. No, ma 'am. God led Israel to the
very land that he had promised them. No substitute,
nothing else would suffice. He promised them
all of the land of Canaan, an everlasting and
eternal inheritance. Isn't that something? Yeah.
That's the word of God. There are at least three
times the promise was confirmed to Abraham, then
later to Isaac, and then to Jacob. And then God
even confirmed it to David. And hundreds of times
God reassured his people of this part of the
covenant with Israel. Palestine belongs to the...
It's his. And he's not going to let any other
nation, he's not going to let any other government
have it. Russia will never get it. Know that.
Egypt will never possess it. Never. Red China
will never possess it. It belongs to the Jew.
It's His, and it will be His forever and ever
and ever. In the same day, the Scripture says,
the Lord made a covenant to Abraham, saying,
Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the
river of Egypt. Unto the great river, the river
Euphrates. Oh, that's something. That's glorious.
Some have wondered how the entire population
of the Jews the world over could ever find a
living in the small section of land between the
Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. But they
do not know that the land which God originally
gave to Abraham and to his seed is about fifty
times the size of that portion conquered by Joshua.
Therefore, we need not fear about man -made schemes
to keep Israel from her homeland and from possessing
everything that God promised to Abraham and his
seed. Don't worry about it. He's even made provision
for their wealth. For way back there, centuries
ago, before man became so super intelligent that
he feels he can incorporate the moon. God put
into the Dead Sea. Wealth. Greater wealth than
our poor little puny minds can fathom. For today,
there is more potential wealth in the Dead Sea
than the combined wealth of the nations of the
Earth. He's... even made financial provision
for them. Isn't that something? Mm -hmm. Yeah.
And no one in earth or in hell can prevent God
from keeping his word to Israel. All the schemes
of Satan, all the powers of hell will not...
prevent Israel from holding her own, for she
has God's protection and God's provision. Amen.