WEBVTT 00:00:00.430 --> 00:00:03.810 You know that phrase, I'm not going to let anything 00:00:03.810 --> 00:00:08.029 master me, is one of the greatest phrases declaring 00:00:08.029 --> 00:00:12.669 a life purpose that has ever been uttered. The 00:00:12.669 --> 00:00:16.449 man who was completely mastered by the will of 00:00:16.449 --> 00:00:21.649 God said that he would not be mastered by anything. 00:00:22.910 --> 00:00:26.649 And the opposite of that holds good too. If you're 00:00:26.649 --> 00:00:32.060 not mastered by God, You'll be mastered by things, 00:00:32.340 --> 00:00:39.700 circumstances, yourself, by other persons, by 00:00:39.700 --> 00:00:45.880 the world, by sorrows, by disappointments. I'm 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:51.200 saying something. What are you being mastered 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:56.520 by? You take the last two things that master 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:01.759 us, the world, sorrows and disappointments, Some 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:06.760 are mastered by the world. Thousands of people 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:13.859 living today are not aware of the fact that they 00:01:13.859 --> 00:01:18.040 are being mastered by the world. Oh, it's usually 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:23.939 a very slow and a very silent process. We scarcely 00:01:23.939 --> 00:01:29.500 know what's happening, but we are slowly being 00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:36.760 mastered by a materialistic outlook. There are 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:40.280 thousands of you listening to me this very hour. 00:01:41.060 --> 00:01:48.219 You do not realize it, but you are being mastered 00:01:48.219 --> 00:01:56.159 by a materialistic outlook. Oh, you say, but 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:00.799 Miss Cooman. You really, you really have to be 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:04.340 in the condition the world is today. You really 00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:08.319 have to be. It's something that can't be avoided. 00:02:08.379 --> 00:02:15.460 Oh, yes, it can be. It's been a slow process 00:02:15.460 --> 00:02:25.659 with you. But my friend, eventually it will be. 00:02:26.460 --> 00:02:32.919 a monster in that life of yours. I don't care 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:38.360 how small the thing may be today. It may only 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:44.159 seem a tiny thing, a very small thing. But if 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:48.039 you allow it to grow to the extent that you're 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:53.419 being mastered by it, then, my friend, You'll 00:02:53.419 --> 00:02:55.719 awaken one of these days to find that that thing 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:59.439 which was so small in its beginning has become 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:07.020 a monster. And it will eventually destroy you. 00:03:08.819 --> 00:03:14.919 The story goes that a robin was offered a worm 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:19.500 for a feather. And the bird thought that this 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:21.840 was a very good bargain, always a wonderful. 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.900 bargain. Dear me, he had so many feathers. Of 00:03:24.900 --> 00:03:29.240 course. He could lose a feather and it would 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:33.099 never be missed. And it would save a lot of hunting 00:03:33.099 --> 00:03:37.620 for worms. He'd not miss a mere little feather. 00:03:38.699 --> 00:03:43.819 But one dreadful day the robin awoke to the fact 00:03:43.819 --> 00:03:48.000 that his feathers were gone. And when his feathers 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:52.189 were gone, he couldn't fly. It was a very slow 00:03:52.189 --> 00:04:02.030 process. He had sold his power to fly for worms. 00:04:04.750 --> 00:04:10.069 He was earthbound. The counterpart of that is 00:04:10.069 --> 00:04:12.490 happening all around us today. The powers of 00:04:12.490 --> 00:04:16.930 soul, the ability to soar, are bartered for physical 00:04:16.930 --> 00:04:21.089 things, material things. and soon the man is 00:04:21.089 --> 00:04:27.889 a dead soul surrounded by many things. I'm talking 00:04:27.889 --> 00:04:31.389 very frankly to you this hour, because we've 00:04:31.389 --> 00:04:34.629 got to get back again to the place where I told 00:04:34.629 --> 00:04:38.339 you before we have to look ourselves... squarely 00:04:38.339 --> 00:04:40.600 in the face. We have to live with ourselves. 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:44.379 We have to come back again to the word of God. 00:04:44.620 --> 00:04:47.339 We've got to come back again to real principles, 00:04:47.579 --> 00:04:52.879 real living true standards. We've got to come 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:59.720 back again to the old -fashioned truths. It's 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:03.240 just like that. I want to make an amazing statement 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:06.410 to you, and it's so astonishing that I've waited 00:05:06.410 --> 00:05:09.750 very carefully before making it to be absolutely 00:05:09.750 --> 00:05:13.189 sure that nothing is being promised that cannot 00:05:13.189 --> 00:05:16.829 be delivered. That's the reason I try to be so 00:05:16.829 --> 00:05:22.430 practical in my preaching. It's because I want 00:05:22.430 --> 00:05:24.370 to be dead sure that whenever I make a statement, 00:05:24.490 --> 00:05:29.689 I can back it up. I back it up with my own personal 00:05:29.689 --> 00:05:32.560 experience. Because there's nothing like experience, 00:05:32.699 --> 00:05:34.560 you know. If you've been through it, then you 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.600 can help others. And you can tell them it worked 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.579 for you. And what has worked for you will work 00:05:40.579 --> 00:05:45.439 for them. And I always know that I'm right. I 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:49.060 never have to apologize or back down when I give 00:05:49.060 --> 00:05:51.839 the scripture. Because that comes from the highest 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:55.860 authority in heaven and earth. But it'd be a 00:05:55.860 --> 00:06:01.819 cruelty to say anything. That was a promise or 00:06:01.819 --> 00:06:04.980 to assure someone of something that cannot be 00:06:04.980 --> 00:06:09.839 fulfilled. But this thing can be. And it is just 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:18.959 this. You do not need to remain as you are. Perhaps 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:23.399 you sold yourself on the idea that you have to 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:27.860 remain. No circumstances. You have to be the 00:06:27.860 --> 00:06:33.300 defeated person that you are. You cannot change 00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:41.339 things. You're a depressed person, a lonely person, 00:06:41.540 --> 00:06:47.779 an introvert. You were born with certain weaknesses 00:06:47.779 --> 00:06:52.339 that you feel that you'll never be able to get 00:06:52.339 --> 00:06:55.879 victory over those weaknesses. And therefore, 00:06:55.980 --> 00:06:59.500 because of your background, because of that which 00:06:59.500 --> 00:07:02.860 has been inherited, because of your circumstances, 00:07:02.980 --> 00:07:11.279 you have to remain earthbound. Again, I say to 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:17.199 you, and I've thought it through carefully, you 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:23.550 do not need to remain as you are. And this is 00:07:23.550 --> 00:07:27.290 on the authority of the most reliable book ever 00:07:27.290 --> 00:07:30.750 written. For it says in the epistle to the Hebrews, 00:07:31.189 --> 00:07:40.850 Out of weakness were made strong. In 2 Corinthians, 00:07:41.329 --> 00:07:47.529 if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. 00:07:48.910 --> 00:07:52.009 Old things are passed away. Behold, all things 00:07:52.009 --> 00:07:55.709 are become new. That, without doubt, is one of 00:07:55.709 --> 00:08:00.629 the greatest statements ever struck off in the 00:08:00.629 --> 00:08:06.350 history of human thought. If any man be in Christ, 00:08:06.610 --> 00:08:16.209 he is a new creature. It means that you and I 00:08:16.209 --> 00:08:23.060 can be... Become new. How many times in your 00:08:23.060 --> 00:08:28.139 life have you wished that you could be born all 00:08:28.139 --> 00:08:33.820 over again? How often have you looked at a sleeping 00:08:33.820 --> 00:08:39.019 baby, an innocent little child, and looking down 00:08:39.019 --> 00:08:43.539 at that sleeping child, so peaceful, so innocent, 00:08:43.659 --> 00:08:48.100 so beautiful? And whether you've spoken the words 00:08:48.100 --> 00:08:53.200 audibly or not, inside you've said, I wish I 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:56.080 could turn all the pages of my life back and 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:03.820 be just an innocent little child again. Born 00:09:03.820 --> 00:09:11.100 all over. How many a man in defeat. How many 00:09:11.100 --> 00:09:17.009 a depressed person. How many a person. Living 00:09:17.009 --> 00:09:20.450 a life of failure would give anything in the 00:09:20.450 --> 00:09:26.029 world if they could just be born all over again. 00:09:26.129 --> 00:09:32.750 You can. I have news for you, my friend. I have 00:09:32.750 --> 00:09:36.570 news for you. It comes from the Lord Jesus Christ 00:09:36.570 --> 00:09:41.610 himself. If any man, that includes you, be in 00:09:41.610 --> 00:09:48.710 Christ, there it is. That's the condition. He 00:09:48.710 --> 00:09:54.889 is a new creature. And it means that you can 00:09:54.889 --> 00:09:58.590 become new. All these old weaknesses that have 00:09:58.590 --> 00:10:01.889 plagued you for years can be done away with. 00:10:02.230 --> 00:10:07.809 And everything become new. This is great. I'm 00:10:07.809 --> 00:10:10.830 saying something. I'm saying something that is 00:10:10.830 --> 00:10:18.379 as old as the Word of God. and as new and fresh 00:10:18.379 --> 00:10:23.100 as tomorrow morning's sunrise. I'm giving you 00:10:23.100 --> 00:10:27.980 something that is not theory. I'm giving you 00:10:27.980 --> 00:10:34.240 something that is not scientific. I'm giving 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:38.539 you something that is not complicated. I'm giving 00:10:38.539 --> 00:10:42.460 you something that is as practical as God himself, 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:54.019 the creator. And behind that promise is all of 00:10:54.019 --> 00:11:02.360 God's power. Do you really want to be a new creature? 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:05.759 Do you really? Are you dissatisfied with yourself? 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.840 Look at yourself now. Are you the man that you 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.500 really want? to be? Are you the woman? Are you 00:11:15.500 --> 00:11:19.840 really the kind of person that you want to be? 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:27.159 Are you doing your best? Or are you living a 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:34.139 life of excuses? A life of failure? A life of 00:11:34.139 --> 00:11:39.360 defeat? Inside of you 24 hours a day, there's 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.000 a battle that's raging. Oh, that inward battle. 00:11:47.740 --> 00:11:53.080 Again and again people have said, but this is 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:58.120 what I am. This is the way I was made. I just 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:04.940 can't help myself. I'm weak in this way. That's 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:08.919 the way it's always going to be. Or maybe someone 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:15.309 will say, this is my weak But who made it weak? 00:12:15.450 --> 00:12:19.629 Let me just ask you a question. Who made it weak? 00:12:20.710 --> 00:12:25.830 Why does it have to be your weak point? Why do 00:12:25.830 --> 00:12:30.210 you accept the idea that you have to be weak 00:12:30.210 --> 00:12:35.570 at this or that point? God never built weakness 00:12:35.570 --> 00:12:40.190 into anybody. If weakness has developed, it's 00:12:40.190 --> 00:12:48.110 because we have developed it. You are still the 00:12:48.110 --> 00:12:53.169 master of your own kingdom. Every human being 00:12:53.169 --> 00:12:59.590 is a master. You are the master of yourself. 00:13:00.389 --> 00:13:04.110 That kingdom. You are a kingdom unto yourself. 00:13:06.830 --> 00:13:14.649 I am a kingdom unto myself. I was born with a 00:13:14.649 --> 00:13:25.750 will. You were born with a will. Know that. You 00:13:25.750 --> 00:13:33.529 have the will to do what you want to with that 00:13:33.529 --> 00:13:40.529 life of yours. I want to tell you there's a power 00:13:40.529 --> 00:13:43.649 available to us whereby we can overcome our weaknesses. 00:13:44.929 --> 00:13:48.830 How do I know? Is it just because somebody perhaps 00:13:48.830 --> 00:13:52.730 told me that years ago? Oh, no. It's because 00:13:52.730 --> 00:13:58.309 I've seen it work over and over again. You see, 00:13:58.370 --> 00:14:00.690 that's the reason I'm so enthused about the Bible. 00:14:00.889 --> 00:14:04.549 That's the reason I've given my life to preach 00:14:04.549 --> 00:14:10.000 the Word of God. And I mean faith. My life. Not 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:15.340 just five years. Not just ten years. But do you 00:14:15.340 --> 00:14:19.019 realize that Kathryn Kuhlman has literally given 00:14:19.019 --> 00:14:27.159 her entire life for what she believes? And I 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:32.940 believe it so completely that I feel it's worth 00:14:32.940 --> 00:14:40.169 giving my life for. I'd stake my life on everything 00:14:40.169 --> 00:14:44.970 that I give to you. I've seen this thing work 00:14:44.970 --> 00:14:48.250 in the lives of thousands and thousands of people. 00:14:49.370 --> 00:14:51.629 And because I've seen it work so many times in 00:14:51.629 --> 00:14:55.750 so many people, and I have seen what it's done 00:14:55.750 --> 00:15:01.350 for people over and over again, that's the reason 00:15:01.350 --> 00:15:05.139 I would stake my life on what? I am saying to 00:15:05.139 --> 00:15:07.559 you right now when I tell you that you do not 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:09.679 have to be the kind of person that you are. I 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:13.139 don't care who you are. You can be life's greatest 00:15:13.139 --> 00:15:16.860 failure this moment. You do not have to be a 00:15:16.860 --> 00:15:19.740 failure. You do not have to live one single day 00:15:19.740 --> 00:15:23.440 in defeat. You do not have to be mastered by 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:30.039 circumstances, by troubles, by sorrows, by disappointments. 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:36.870 You don't have to. I've seen people whom you 00:15:36.870 --> 00:15:39.470 might have written off as absolutely hopeless, 00:15:39.889 --> 00:15:45.850 who have become wonderful, controlled, victorious 00:15:45.850 --> 00:15:53.970 individuals. Oh, sure. I was on a talk show from 00:15:53.970 --> 00:16:02.230 Cleveland, and part of it was they opened the 00:16:02.230 --> 00:16:05.580 telephone lines for... conversation from folk 00:16:05.580 --> 00:16:09.360 in the listening audience. And among those who 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:11.799 telephoned me as I was sitting there in the television 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:16.620 station was a man. Oh, he said, Catherine Kuhlman, 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:24.120 remember me? I was that bootlegger's son. At 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:30.940 the age of 11 years old, I was, uh, peddling, 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:37.860 uh, My daddy and granddaddy's booze that they 00:16:37.860 --> 00:16:41.340 were making in a steel down someplace, you know. 00:16:41.539 --> 00:16:44.779 But oh, he said, I'll tell you, since I've gotten 00:16:44.779 --> 00:16:47.899 salvation, it's altogether different. It's a 00:16:47.899 --> 00:16:50.879 wonderful life. And that man has one of the most 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:55.480 responsible positions today with a steel company 00:16:55.480 --> 00:17:01.659 that few men have and thousands would covet. 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:07.880 I've seen it work. You don't have to be a victim 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:12.240 to alcohol. I tell you it. Whether you're a little 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:16.200 lady there in your home and you only drink when 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:19.000 the doors are locked and your family doesn't 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.119 know it. You're one of those silent drinkers 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.119 and you do it all alone. You wouldn't have anyone 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:27.519 know it for anything in the world. I know. You 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:32.809 told me so. Or you may be a businessman and you 00:17:32.809 --> 00:17:35.549 say, I started out just drinking so chalet, but 00:17:35.549 --> 00:17:43.609 now I can't stop. Or you may be an out -and -out 00:17:43.609 --> 00:17:50.710 alcoholic. You don't have to be. You do not have 00:17:50.710 --> 00:17:58.869 to be. I promise you. I promise you. You do not 00:17:58.869 --> 00:18:03.549 need to remain as you are. Become a new creature 00:18:03.549 --> 00:18:05.450 in Christ Jesus.