WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.020 You and I were talking about this thing of learning 00:00:03.020 --> 00:00:09.119 how to live. How to be happy in living. My goodness 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:13.699 of life, I have met grumpy people. People were 00:00:13.699 --> 00:00:18.239 complaining. You know what they're going to answer 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:22.839 you even before you ask the question. Why, good 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:29.199 morning. How do you feel? How are you? Oh, nuts. 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:36.140 So well, you'd get the shock of your life if 00:00:36.140 --> 00:00:40.539 sometime that same person would say, oh, oh, 00:00:40.539 --> 00:00:45.119 I feel so wonderful. It's so good to be alive. 00:00:46.820 --> 00:00:56.619 Isn't life wonderful? You just faint if they 00:00:56.619 --> 00:01:01.869 ever. said those words to you. But you want to 00:01:01.869 --> 00:01:06.489 know something? There's a secret in learning 00:01:06.489 --> 00:01:13.549 how to live and how to be happy in living. As 00:01:13.549 --> 00:01:18.049 I told you yesterday, one of the unexplainable 00:01:18.049 --> 00:01:22.950 but one of the true mysteries of life is the 00:01:22.950 --> 00:01:29.420 fact that you never lose anything that you give. 00:01:30.379 --> 00:01:34.480 Never. I don't care how much it is. I don't care 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.640 what it is. I don't care in what form it is that 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:44.980 you give it. You never lose anything that you 00:01:44.980 --> 00:01:50.959 give. It was Jesus himself who said, he that 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:56.900 loseth his life for my sake shall find it. And 00:01:56.900 --> 00:02:04.019 no person really begins to live. No person has 00:02:04.019 --> 00:02:10.879 ever learned to live. No individual has really 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:16.939 lived happily here on this earth until he begins 00:02:16.939 --> 00:02:24.240 to find out the secret of happiness. The secret. 00:02:24.569 --> 00:02:32.090 and he finds it when he finds something big enough 00:02:32.090 --> 00:02:38.289 to give himself to beside himself. Too many people 00:02:38.289 --> 00:02:39.750 give all right, but they give to themselves. 00:02:41.509 --> 00:02:45.150 What do I get out of it? Many a person gives. 00:02:46.009 --> 00:02:50.789 Oh, I have found people who give all right, but 00:02:50.789 --> 00:02:54.379 they give with a selfish motive. Every time they 00:02:54.379 --> 00:03:00.060 give, they give with a mental attitude. What 00:03:00.060 --> 00:03:04.300 am I going to get out of it? They give expecting 00:03:04.300 --> 00:03:09.080 to receive something from it. They give selfishly. 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:12.780 You've learned the secret of giving when you 00:03:12.780 --> 00:03:16.879 give not expecting to get anything in return. 00:03:22.650 --> 00:03:27.389 then that you have found real happiness in giving 00:03:27.389 --> 00:03:32.650 and it's then that you never lose in giving and 00:03:32.650 --> 00:03:37.610 it comes back to you a hundredfold. Oh, that's 00:03:37.610 --> 00:03:42.129 glorious. And I've learned something else. And 00:03:42.129 --> 00:03:45.770 that is the fact that you never get rid of your 00:03:45.770 --> 00:03:50.129 own troubles unless you take upon yourself the 00:03:50.129 --> 00:03:53.539 troubles of others. I don't care how big your 00:03:53.539 --> 00:03:58.099 troubles are. I don't care. I'm talking to you 00:03:58.099 --> 00:04:00.819 this very hour, and I may be talking to somebody 00:04:00.819 --> 00:04:03.439 whose troubles are so big, you say, Ms. Kuhlman, 00:04:03.500 --> 00:04:07.620 you don't know how big my troubles are. Well, 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:11.539 maybe I don't, but I do know one thing, that 00:04:11.539 --> 00:04:13.620 the very best way in the world to get rid of 00:04:13.620 --> 00:04:17.040 your own troubles is to take on the troubles 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.139 of somebody else. And when you take on somebody 00:04:20.139 --> 00:04:24.620 else's troubles, your own troubles are going 00:04:24.620 --> 00:04:30.300 to just fade into insignificance. And suddenly 00:04:30.300 --> 00:04:32.199 at the end of the day, you're going to look around 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:37.459 and say, what became of my troubles? When I got 00:04:37.459 --> 00:04:41.319 up this morning, I felt like I had such big troubles. 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:43.259 They were bigger than anybody else in the whole 00:04:43.259 --> 00:04:48.550 world. Suddenly, I went over to my next -door 00:04:48.550 --> 00:04:51.850 neighbor, and she told me all about her troubles, 00:04:51.949 --> 00:04:55.230 and I took her troubles upon myself, and I tried 00:04:55.230 --> 00:04:58.050 to help her, and in helping her, here I am the 00:04:58.050 --> 00:05:02.129 close of the day, and my word, what happened 00:05:02.129 --> 00:05:07.449 to my own troubles? They just evaporated like 00:05:07.449 --> 00:05:11.730 that candy cotton used to evaporate at the old 00:05:11.730 --> 00:05:17.170 -fashioned county fairs, you know? that old -fashioned 00:05:17.170 --> 00:05:20.970 cotton candy just evaporated and you didn't know 00:05:20.970 --> 00:05:26.910 where it went. Oh, sure. When you find yourself 00:05:26.910 --> 00:05:33.329 oppressed by melancholy, the best way is to go 00:05:33.329 --> 00:05:38.509 out and find something kind to do for somebody 00:05:38.509 --> 00:05:45.600 else. For when I dig a man out of trouble, the 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:51.980 hole which is left behind is the grave where 00:05:51.980 --> 00:06:00.399 i bury my own sorrow then beloved go out each 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:06.740 day and do something that nobody but a christian 00:06:06.740 --> 00:06:11.860 would do i heard a gentleman the other day tell 00:06:11.860 --> 00:06:17.819 something That impressed me greatly. He was from 00:06:17.819 --> 00:06:25.319 the South. He said he was born and grew up in 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:29.759 White County, Georgia. And any of you folk who 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:34.899 are from Georgia, you know where White County 00:06:34.899 --> 00:06:40.000 is. The family had very little money then, but 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.709 of course they didn't need much. Life was simple, 00:06:43.810 --> 00:06:49.670 and they lived a rather secluded life. He said 00:06:49.670 --> 00:06:53.529 it was Christmas Eve when he was just seven years 00:06:53.529 --> 00:06:58.149 of age, and his father was going to drive into 00:06:58.149 --> 00:07:03.850 the little village and told him that he could 00:07:03.850 --> 00:07:09.050 go along. And just before they reached the little 00:07:09.050 --> 00:07:14.209 town of Cleveland, His father handed him a dime. 00:07:15.509 --> 00:07:18.029 Remember, he was only seven years of age. It 00:07:18.029 --> 00:07:22.509 was Christmas Eve. It was the first dime he said 00:07:22.509 --> 00:07:27.389 his father had ever given him. And his father 00:07:27.389 --> 00:07:29.829 told him when he handed him the dime, he said, 00:07:29.850 --> 00:07:33.329 Now, you can get anything that you want with 00:07:33.329 --> 00:07:39.230 it. Anything that you like, you may buy with 00:07:39.230 --> 00:07:43.560 that dime. And of course, that dime looked like 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.620 the whole world. It looked like a fortune to 00:07:47.620 --> 00:07:51.600 this kid, seven years of age, who had never had 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:56.620 anything in his life. And the first dime his 00:07:56.620 --> 00:07:59.839 father had ever given him. Well, he said when 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:01.899 they got to town, he began looking in the stores 00:08:01.899 --> 00:08:06.300 for something he could buy. He said he could 00:08:06.300 --> 00:08:11.149 have spent a peck. of dimes because it was so 00:08:11.149 --> 00:08:13.769 many things he wanted, and it looked so big and 00:08:13.769 --> 00:08:17.769 looked so wonderful to him. Well, he saw some 00:08:17.769 --> 00:08:22.689 oranges, the first he'd ever seen, and he wondered 00:08:22.689 --> 00:08:28.550 how an orange tasted. Then he saw a big red paper 00:08:28.550 --> 00:08:31.910 cloth with a part of the Constitution of the 00:08:31.910 --> 00:08:35.889 United States printed on it. Oh, he wanted one 00:08:35.889 --> 00:08:43.120 of those, the worst. How he wanted that big red 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:47.559 tablecloth with a part of the Constitution of 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:52.500 the United States printed on it. Oh, he wanted 00:08:52.500 --> 00:08:55.360 it so badly, but he passed it by. Then there 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.460 were toys. He said he'd never forget that red 00:08:58.460 --> 00:09:03.600 striped candy. There were a hundred things he 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:09.100 wanted to buy. He went back to the wagon. And 00:09:09.100 --> 00:09:12.919 he and his father ate the food that they had 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:15.500 brought from home. They didn't go to a restaurant. 00:09:15.620 --> 00:09:18.200 They brought their food from home. Sat in the 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:20.720 wagon, ate it. Then he went back to the store 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.200 again, trying to decide what he could buy with 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.840 that dime. Well, sir, finally it was time to 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:34.580 go home. He had made a decision. He put the package 00:09:34.580 --> 00:09:37.990 in his pocket. Ran to the wagon his father was 00:09:37.990 --> 00:09:41.889 waiting. And while they were driving along home, 00:09:42.250 --> 00:09:48.110 he pulled the package out of his pocket. It was 00:09:48.110 --> 00:09:53.730 a huge red handkerchief. He looked up at his 00:09:53.730 --> 00:10:00.009 father, handed that big red handkerchief to him 00:10:00.009 --> 00:10:10.739 and said, I bought you a Christmas present. He 00:10:10.739 --> 00:10:15.940 said the great big tears filled his father's 00:10:15.940 --> 00:10:19.419 eyes and ran down his cheeks and he never spoke 00:10:19.419 --> 00:10:24.559 a word. He said I could feel the thrill that 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:30.340 my father felt, but he said my dad's thrill was 00:10:30.340 --> 00:10:35.679 nothing to be compared with what I felt. on the 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:44.340 inside of me when I handed him the big red handkerchief 00:10:44.340 --> 00:10:49.659 that I had bought with the only dime I had ever 00:10:49.659 --> 00:10:54.580 possessed and said, I bought you a Christmas 00:10:54.580 --> 00:11:00.440 present. Beloved, this is a great big world and 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:04.970 there's so many ways I could spend My little 00:11:04.970 --> 00:11:08.970 life. In fact, there's so many ways I would like 00:11:08.970 --> 00:11:12.289 to spend it. It's hard to know just what to do. 00:11:13.129 --> 00:11:20.309 I can spend it all just for myself. But I've 00:11:20.309 --> 00:11:23.509 learned that the best and biggest way I can invest 00:11:23.509 --> 00:11:27.429 this little life of mine is to give it back to 00:11:27.429 --> 00:11:31.590 the father who gave it to me and to give it to 00:11:31.590 --> 00:11:38.240 you. that I may help to make your burdens a little 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.440 lighter. Amen.