WEBVTT 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:02.799 Today I have a question I'm going to put to you, 00:00:02.859 --> 00:00:06.339 which I think is important to every human being. 00:00:07.540 --> 00:00:10.119 And I propose to have a very serious talk with 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:14.160 you about it. And the question that I want to 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:21.440 ask is just this. Are you getting what you want 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:27.640 from life? Really now? Life is a very serious 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:34.600 thing. Life is very important. Every human being 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:42.460 is important. This thing of life is really something. 00:00:44.340 --> 00:00:50.020 You as an individual and if only you as a person 00:00:50.020 --> 00:00:55.179 could know how important you are to God. how 00:00:55.179 --> 00:00:58.159 important you can be to this world, how important 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:01.560 you can be to those around you, with those with 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:06.340 whom you associate. And the longer I live, the 00:01:06.340 --> 00:01:13.340 more I realize how vitally important life really 00:01:13.340 --> 00:01:22.579 is. And I'm glad that I started to give of myself. 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:33.200 early in life. I'm asking you, are you, as an 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:37.780 individual, a father, perhaps a mother there 00:01:37.780 --> 00:01:41.980 in that home, perhaps a businessman, a young 00:01:41.980 --> 00:01:44.719 person, perhaps a young person still in school, 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:51.260 perhaps a young person who's graduated, perhaps 00:01:51.260 --> 00:02:02.239 you're someone unemployed, Are you getting what 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:07.920 you want from life? Perhaps it would be a good 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:11.879 idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:16.439 telephone, to stop the motor of every car, to 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:20.840 halt all activity for an hour someday, just to 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:24.139 give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes 00:02:24.139 --> 00:02:30.860 on what it is all about. Why are they living? 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:39.340 And what do they really want? I think this is 00:02:39.340 --> 00:02:43.500 a very wise suggestion. But the sad fact is that 00:02:43.500 --> 00:02:47.060 many people have no clear idea what do they want 00:02:47.060 --> 00:02:51.460 in life. And many others who think they know 00:02:51.460 --> 00:02:54.840 what they want are not getting it. There's so 00:02:54.840 --> 00:03:00.550 much confusion out there. You get on the freeway. 00:03:01.150 --> 00:03:05.689 Some of you people really... It takes you an 00:03:05.689 --> 00:03:09.550 hour to go to work in the morning. It takes you 00:03:09.550 --> 00:03:13.909 an hour or longer than that to come home in the 00:03:13.909 --> 00:03:17.110 busy traffic. You get home at night completely 00:03:17.110 --> 00:03:21.169 exhausted. During the hours that you spend at 00:03:21.169 --> 00:03:27.150 work, there's confusion, there's noise. There's 00:03:27.150 --> 00:03:33.710 uncertainty until finally you forget that you 00:03:33.710 --> 00:03:38.590 are an individual. You get caught up in all this 00:03:38.590 --> 00:03:44.689 confusion. You get caught up in the swiftness 00:03:44.689 --> 00:03:52.409 of life and living. You get caught up in the 00:03:52.409 --> 00:03:57.009 noise. You don't realize it. You really don't 00:03:57.009 --> 00:04:04.210 realize it. Now just consider, in 24 hours, how 00:04:04.210 --> 00:04:09.650 much quietness and stillness is there in your 00:04:09.650 --> 00:04:16.730 life. Maybe you live on a busy street. I always 00:04:16.730 --> 00:04:23.970 remember what one of Dave Wilkerson's young dope 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:30.899 who had been delivered from dope. And Dave Wilkerson 00:04:30.899 --> 00:04:33.180 took him off the streets of New York because 00:04:33.180 --> 00:04:36.680 all the kid ever knew was the noise of New York 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:40.680 City. And after he was converted and after Dave 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:45.560 Wilkerson brought him real salvation through 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:47.379 the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, he took him 00:04:47.379 --> 00:04:51.899 to the farm at Raresburg. And a couple of weeks 00:04:51.899 --> 00:04:55.730 later, I was out on the farm. And I was talking 00:04:55.730 --> 00:04:58.550 with him and he said, you know, Catherine Kuhlman, 00:04:58.629 --> 00:05:04.850 this quietness is driving me out of my mind. 00:05:05.129 --> 00:05:12.670 Oh, he said. The first week I thought I would 00:05:12.670 --> 00:05:19.189 climb the walls. This quietness. He said, do 00:05:19.189 --> 00:05:21.370 you want to know something? This is the first 00:05:21.370 --> 00:05:27.170 time in my life. that I have ever been where 00:05:27.170 --> 00:05:33.589 it's really quiet. You know, he says it's scary. 00:05:35.850 --> 00:05:41.269 I've never forgotten that. The quietness almost 00:05:41.269 --> 00:05:44.389 gave him a nervous breakdown, you know, because 00:05:44.389 --> 00:05:51.009 he was so used to the unnatural that sometimes 00:05:51.009 --> 00:05:55.250 I think, you know, We breathe in so much pollution 00:05:55.250 --> 00:06:01.850 that if we ever got someplace in the world where 00:06:01.850 --> 00:06:05.810 there was no pollution, the cleanness of the 00:06:05.810 --> 00:06:09.009 air would hurt our lungs, would really hurt us 00:06:09.009 --> 00:06:12.649 to breathe. Because we've lived in the unnatural 00:06:12.649 --> 00:06:21.310 so long that the pureness of the natural and 00:06:21.310 --> 00:06:26.550 the right way, to breathe and live is foreign 00:06:26.550 --> 00:06:32.649 to us. That's the reason. Honestly, I know it 00:06:32.649 --> 00:06:37.589 sounds fantastic. I know it. But, uh, do you 00:06:37.589 --> 00:06:40.589 go to bed at night? There's no telephone ringing, 00:06:40.709 --> 00:06:42.870 and yet you'd swear the telephone was ringing 00:06:42.870 --> 00:06:45.930 because you've heard that telephone ring all 00:06:45.930 --> 00:06:52.329 day long. Uh -huh. You're sure that there's the 00:06:52.329 --> 00:06:57.050 motor of a car running outside. There's no motor 00:06:57.050 --> 00:06:59.170 of any car running outside. But you've been in 00:06:59.170 --> 00:07:02.189 that traffic so long. You lie down at night and 00:07:02.189 --> 00:07:05.290 you're still dodging the cars. You're still on 00:07:05.290 --> 00:07:07.870 the freeway. You're still on the highway. Do 00:07:07.870 --> 00:07:11.689 you know what I'm talking about? Uh -huh. The 00:07:11.689 --> 00:07:14.810 clerk behind the counter has so struggled with 00:07:14.810 --> 00:07:19.750 the public. for eight hours until the poor soul 00:07:19.750 --> 00:07:22.810 is lying there trying to sleep and she's still 00:07:22.810 --> 00:07:28.790 trying to satisfy an unreasonable customer. You 00:07:28.790 --> 00:07:33.709 know exactly what I'm talking about. Exactly. 00:07:36.509 --> 00:07:41.610 It's a sad fact that many people have no clear 00:07:41.610 --> 00:07:49.720 idea what they want in life. They really have 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:53.800 never stopped long enough to think whether or 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:59.199 not they are getting what they really desire 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:07.560 from life. I believe that. Some folks never get 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:11.620 a grip on success. The main thing they really 00:08:11.620 --> 00:08:15.600 want. Because there's so many other things, they 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:21.569 won't. let go of. What does that mean? It means 00:08:21.569 --> 00:08:24.029 that a great many people never do get what they 00:08:24.029 --> 00:08:27.310 want because they cling to wrong ideas, wrong 00:08:27.310 --> 00:08:31.149 attitudes, wrong approaches, wrong ways of living. 00:08:32.129 --> 00:08:36.769 In order to make your life a success, and I dare 00:08:36.769 --> 00:08:39.850 say there isn't a single human being this very 00:08:39.850 --> 00:08:43.730 hour, but what really. when they get quiet long 00:08:43.730 --> 00:08:49.330 enough and are honest with themselves. But what 00:08:49.330 --> 00:08:52.389 wants to be a success, I don't think any person 00:08:52.389 --> 00:08:58.830 really wants to be a failure. I mean that. Every 00:08:58.830 --> 00:09:04.990 person really wants to be a success. Now, the 00:09:04.990 --> 00:09:08.490 Bible is a marvelous book for many reasons, and 00:09:08.490 --> 00:09:12.529 one is that it tells the truth. And the Bible 00:09:12.529 --> 00:09:16.009 says, no good thing will he, that's the Lord, 00:09:16.210 --> 00:09:20.529 withhold from them that walk uprightly. Do you 00:09:20.529 --> 00:09:21.950 want to know what that really means? Oh, it's 00:09:21.950 --> 00:09:27.509 so simple. There it is. The one who has all power 00:09:27.509 --> 00:09:29.210 in heaven and earth, the one who has perfect 00:09:29.210 --> 00:09:33.389 wisdom, the one who knows man, the one who is 00:09:33.389 --> 00:09:37.409 the great creator, the one who cannot lie, the 00:09:37.409 --> 00:09:42.200 one who is absolute truth says, No good thing 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:47.360 will he, the Lord, withhold from them that walk 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:51.279 uprightly. And how do you describe a man who 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.860 walks uprightly? It's one who knows what is right 00:09:54.860 --> 00:10:00.659 and what is wrong and holds to that which is 00:10:00.659 --> 00:10:06.759 right. In all of this confusion, in all of this 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:11.450 noise, having been caught up, In a generation 00:10:11.450 --> 00:10:15.789 that is just loaded with frustration, sometimes 00:10:15.789 --> 00:10:22.289 I think we forget what is right and what is wrong. 00:10:24.789 --> 00:10:29.649 Our morals have gone out the window. We really 00:10:29.649 --> 00:10:39.220 don't quite face the fact of thievery. What is 00:10:39.220 --> 00:10:44.399 stealing? We get the idea that anything that 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:48.059 you can get your hands on without being caught 00:10:48.059 --> 00:10:54.519 is rightfully yours. It's just like that. There 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:59.639 was a time when I was a girl in Concordia, Missouri. 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:06.220 Dear me, if you took another youngster's pencil, 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:13.090 it was his. And if you took it, that was stealing. 00:11:14.830 --> 00:11:17.909 If you took something out of another kid's lunch 00:11:17.909 --> 00:11:26.090 pail, that was stealing. If you took something 00:11:26.090 --> 00:11:29.929 that was not rightfully yours, that was stealing. 00:11:32.590 --> 00:11:37.710 And as children, we knew what was stealing. We 00:11:37.710 --> 00:11:41.269 didn't have to say, Mama, is this mine or is 00:11:41.269 --> 00:11:45.909 this his? We knew and we had a conscience about 00:11:45.909 --> 00:11:49.230 it, too, let me tell you. And if we took something 00:11:49.230 --> 00:11:50.769 that was another kid's, I'll tell you, we couldn't 00:11:50.769 --> 00:11:52.490 sleep all night. Our poor little conscience is, 00:11:52.549 --> 00:11:55.669 oh, you know, he would just like that. Even do 00:11:55.669 --> 00:12:00.730 a piece of candy. You wanted it. It was his. 00:12:01.889 --> 00:12:05.850 You took it without asking for it. And then you 00:12:05.850 --> 00:12:10.250 prayed, oh dear God, don't let me die. I've stolen, 00:12:10.350 --> 00:12:14.389 it's swallowed now. Please keep me from dying. 00:12:14.450 --> 00:12:19.789 Because you knew you had stolen. Now remember, 00:12:20.190 --> 00:12:26.929 febri is still febri. Adultery is still adultery. 00:12:27.250 --> 00:12:32.750 Lying is still lying. The word of God has not 00:12:32.750 --> 00:12:36.220 been... altered for this generation, and sometimes 00:12:36.220 --> 00:12:39.860 I think we have lost sight entirely as to what 00:12:39.860 --> 00:12:44.980 is right and what is wrong. Anything that we 00:12:44.980 --> 00:12:50.299 do and can't get by with is right, is the attitude 00:12:50.299 --> 00:12:53.879 of this present generation. Do you know what 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:59.500 I say is right? It's the Word of God. Here it 00:12:59.500 --> 00:13:05.169 is. It's strange how many people today seem to 00:13:05.169 --> 00:13:09.169 have the notion that a person can permit himself 00:13:09.169 --> 00:13:13.950 any kind of wrong thing and get away with it. 00:13:14.250 --> 00:13:18.289 And if you can get away with it, it's right. 00:13:19.769 --> 00:13:25.649 It doesn't work that way. The Lord will withhold 00:13:25.649 --> 00:13:33.860 nothing from the man who walks uprightly. The 00:13:33.860 --> 00:13:37.559 man who doesn't walk uprightly is defeating himself. 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:44.519 And if you are living contrary to God's laws, 00:13:44.820 --> 00:13:47.500 you may feel as though you're getting away with 00:13:47.500 --> 00:13:51.740 it, but you're not. You are absolutely defeating 00:13:51.740 --> 00:13:58.059 yourself. Oh, you say, I got away with it. I 00:13:58.059 --> 00:14:03.059 got by with it. Nobody will ever know. All right. 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:09.080 Let's suppose no one will ever know. Suppose 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:16.679 you'll never get caught. But you still have to 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:22.980 live with yourself. And if you're living contrary 00:14:22.980 --> 00:14:31.509 to God's laws, my friend, you're def... Beating 00:14:31.509 --> 00:14:38.149 yourself. So if you want to get from life what 00:14:38.149 --> 00:14:43.269 you really want, get right with yourself and 00:14:43.269 --> 00:14:47.850 right with God. Learn to be honest with yourself. 00:14:49.330 --> 00:14:53.090 And with God's help, eliminate from your living, 00:14:53.210 --> 00:14:56.509 from your thinking, anything that is morally 00:14:56.509 --> 00:15:01.289 wrong or psychologically unhealthy. You've got 00:15:01.289 --> 00:15:04.610 to do it. Oh, if I could only somehow. I wish 00:15:04.610 --> 00:15:08.269 I had the ability. I wish I had the vocabulary. 00:15:08.509 --> 00:15:14.070 I wish I could do something to get men and women 00:15:14.070 --> 00:15:17.830 to understand that, first of all, you've got 00:15:17.830 --> 00:15:23.830 to be true to yourself. You've got to live with 00:15:23.830 --> 00:15:30.269 yourself. I have to know that. Kathryn Kuhlman 00:15:30.269 --> 00:15:34.070 is right on the inside. Before I can go out and 00:15:34.070 --> 00:15:38.330 face the world. Before I can stand on that stage 00:15:38.330 --> 00:15:41.710 and preach about the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:15:44.090 --> 00:15:49.730 I have to first of all live with Kathryn Kuhlman. 00:15:50.450 --> 00:15:56.970 And know that inside of me, I'm right. I'm clean. 00:15:59.820 --> 00:16:06.559 looking at myself in the mirror. Oh, it may not 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.519 be a beautiful face that I see, because recently 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:14.220 I decided that they aren't making mirrors like 00:16:14.220 --> 00:16:20.320 they used to make them. But anyway, regardless 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:24.860 of what I see in the mirror, I can say to the 00:16:24.860 --> 00:16:29.039 one whose face I see, well, I'm not doing a perfect 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:37.279 job. I have my faults. I have my failures. And 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:42.139 I'm sorry. But Catherine Kuhlman, you're doing 00:16:42.139 --> 00:16:46.639 the best that you know how. I don't know how 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:52.320 better to do it. I want to grow. I want to be 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:58.120 a better person today than I was yesterday. I 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:01.059 want to be more like my master today than I was 00:17:01.059 --> 00:17:07.680 yesterday. I want to be a better person tomorrow 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:16.880 than I am today. I think there's also something 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.000 further intended by the statement that the Lord 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:21.500 will not withhold any good thing from the person 00:17:21.500 --> 00:17:26.980 who walks uprightly. To walk uprightly rightly 00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:35.500 means to walk in right ways. You can't walk in 00:17:35.500 --> 00:17:40.960 wrong ways. You can't walk with wrong people. 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:46.819 You can't have wrong thoughts. As a man thinketh, 00:17:46.819 --> 00:17:52.559 so is he, the Bible says. You cannot have wrong 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:58.289 thoughts. At the same time, walk uprightly. You 00:17:58.289 --> 00:18:03.809 can't do it. It's amazing what the mind, really 00:18:03.809 --> 00:18:09.049 the mind governs the entire body. The mind can 00:18:09.049 --> 00:18:16.490 be your master. Know that. Success or defeat 00:18:16.490 --> 00:18:24.250 can literally depend on your mind. If it's wrong 00:18:24.250 --> 00:18:27.509 thinking, you're not going to walk uprightly. 00:18:28.750 --> 00:18:34.490 If there's wrong thoughts, wrong thinking, there'll 00:18:34.490 --> 00:18:40.990 be wrong living. As a man, think it. And this 00:18:40.990 --> 00:18:43.490 comes from the highest authority in heaven and 00:18:43.490 --> 00:18:49.430 earth, and therefore it cannot be argued. This 00:18:49.430 --> 00:18:54.940 is the word of God. What are your thoughts, my 00:18:54.940 --> 00:19:00.480 friend? If this very moment you can tell me what 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:04.259 your thoughts are, I can tell you whether or 00:19:04.259 --> 00:19:09.819 not you're walking uprightly or whether you're 00:19:09.819 --> 00:19:22.359 walking the wrong way. To walk uprightly. means 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:30.640 to walk in right ways. Wonderful Jesus. Make 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:38.279 the simple words real to hearts. Amen.