WEBVTT 00:00:00.270 --> 00:00:07.049 We have been having several good heart -to -heart 00:00:07.049 --> 00:00:12.210 talks regarding that prayer which Jesus taught 00:00:12.210 --> 00:00:14.949 you and taught me to pray. It's something so 00:00:14.949 --> 00:00:19.570 very personal. It's something that is so important. 00:00:22.269 --> 00:00:26.530 The Lord's Prayer is definitely the most important 00:00:26.530 --> 00:00:31.420 of all the Christian documents. And it will be 00:00:31.420 --> 00:00:34.280 one of the greatest experiences of your life 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:37.219 when you can get to the place where you'll have 00:00:37.219 --> 00:00:42.939 that wonderful spiritual revelation where you 00:00:42.939 --> 00:00:47.740 can fully understand the meaning of the prayer 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:50.880 that Jesus taught us to pray. It's so simple 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:57.539 that sometimes I think that perhaps that's the 00:00:57.539 --> 00:01:04.079 reason that Thousands miss it. We've gotten to 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:09.099 the day when we try to be so analytical. We try 00:01:09.099 --> 00:01:16.640 to analyze everything. And we just cannot accept 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:22.879 the simple things of life. Accept them as they 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:29.599 are. Sometimes I get so disgusted Disgusted with 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:36.159 human nature. I wonder if God ever does. I just 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:40.400 wonder. I know once he must have because the 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.200 word of God says that he repented that he ever 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:50.920 made man. And, you know, sometimes I look up 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:53.400 and I wonder whether he gets disgusted with me 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:58.260 for my... ignorance and my lack of intelligence 00:01:58.260 --> 00:02:03.019 and understanding. Parents sometimes, even the 00:02:03.019 --> 00:02:06.000 best of parents, get a little disgusted with 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:10.259 their children and will probably shake them a 00:02:10.259 --> 00:02:14.539 little bit and love them at the same time. And 00:02:14.539 --> 00:02:16.900 sometimes I think the Heavenly Father takes you 00:02:16.900 --> 00:02:19.199 and takes me and he shakes us a little bit, you 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.680 know, gets a little provoked with us, but he's... 00:02:22.889 --> 00:02:30.569 still keeps on loving us. And men and women are 00:02:30.569 --> 00:02:36.509 still trying to analyze the power of God, the 00:02:36.509 --> 00:02:40.150 manifestations of the Holy Spirit. When it comes 00:02:40.150 --> 00:02:43.449 to this thing of divine healing, you know, they'll 00:02:43.449 --> 00:02:48.270 call it everything under the sun. Psychosomatic. 00:02:49.590 --> 00:02:53.949 They'll try to say it's... One thing, it's another. 00:02:54.810 --> 00:02:59.310 One group has their name for it. Another group 00:02:59.310 --> 00:03:03.009 over here has its name for it. When in a final 00:03:03.009 --> 00:03:06.250 analysis, it's just so simple. Call it what it 00:03:06.250 --> 00:03:14.150 really is. The power of God. That's all. When 00:03:14.150 --> 00:03:18.430 it comes to slaying by the Holy Spirit, I don't 00:03:18.430 --> 00:03:21.610 understand it. I don't have to understand it. 00:03:23.340 --> 00:03:28.659 God does not demand of me my understanding of 00:03:28.659 --> 00:03:32.759 his great power. Who can analyze God? Who can 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:39.080 understand the person of God? Who has the mentality 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:44.319 to analyze, to understand the great creator, 00:03:44.419 --> 00:03:48.180 the one who spoke the very world into existence? 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:58.099 God never expected man to analyze him, to understand 00:03:58.099 --> 00:04:04.759 him. We are to accept the person of the great 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:10.979 creator. We're to accept the person. The one 00:04:10.979 --> 00:04:14.939 who said that let there be light and there was 00:04:14.939 --> 00:04:20.019 light. In exactly the same way, we are to accept. 00:04:21.069 --> 00:04:26.589 the manifestations of his great power, is just 00:04:26.589 --> 00:04:34.389 enough for me to say it's gone. That's all. The 00:04:34.389 --> 00:04:36.670 slain power of the Holy Spirit, I don't understand. 00:04:37.430 --> 00:04:44.290 I accept it because I know its scripture. Now, 00:04:44.370 --> 00:04:49.399 when it comes to man's relationship, with the 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:53.759 great creator, with man's relationship to God, 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:00.319 with our relationship with the heavenly father. 00:05:01.939 --> 00:05:11.019 It is so simple that it's beyond the understanding 00:05:11.019 --> 00:05:19.840 of the intellectuals. And so there you are. Yeah. 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:25.879 You have to dismiss a lot of man's thinking and 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:31.199 analyzing to be able to come with a little child 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:44.000 and say, bother. My, Bob. A child never tries 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:50.139 to analyze. That relationship that he has between 00:05:50.139 --> 00:05:52.899 his mother and himself, his father and himself. 00:05:52.939 --> 00:05:59.639 He accepts it. There's Papa. Or you say, my father. 00:06:00.579 --> 00:06:07.420 My dad. And just because you can't analyze it, 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:18.279 your mind cannot analyze it, you don't say. I 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:21.480 won't accept him as my father. I won't accept 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:27.519 her as my mother. But it's the strangest thing. 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:35.300 A child always accepts that relationship and 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:41.879 accepts his father. And the father accepts the 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:47.279 child as his son. Oh! if only we could become 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.959 more simple in our understanding. It would be 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:57.379 so wonderful. Now let's begin where I left you 00:06:57.379 --> 00:07:01.459 in our last heart -to -heart talk, where the 00:07:01.459 --> 00:07:04.279 man says my religion is summed up in the first 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:09.459 two words of the Lord's Prayer. Our Father. Let's 00:07:09.459 --> 00:07:13.420 go a little deeper to this. If you meditate upon 00:07:13.420 --> 00:07:19.240 this fact, Until you had some degree of understanding 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:24.199 of what it really means, then most of your difficulties 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:30.680 and a lot of your physical ailments would disappear. 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:38.319 For they are rooted and grounded in fear. And 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.139 fear is the greatest enemy that you can take 00:07:40.139 --> 00:07:45.089 into your life. There is no greater enemy. that 00:07:45.089 --> 00:07:48.490 any man, any woman can take into his life than 00:07:48.490 --> 00:07:55.009 fear. Right now while I'm speaking to you, pause 00:07:55.009 --> 00:08:00.889 just a moment. You think of your own life. Fear. 00:08:03.750 --> 00:08:10.990 Fear right now keeps you from God's best. Fear 00:08:10.990 --> 00:08:13.290 right now is keeping you from being what God 00:08:13.290 --> 00:08:21.449 wants you to be. Fear. Maybe you have never thought 00:08:21.449 --> 00:08:25.889 of fear as being an enemy. Maybe you've just 00:08:25.889 --> 00:08:29.810 closed your eyes to the fact that you're dominated 00:08:29.810 --> 00:08:36.350 by fear. I'm afraid you may not say it audibly, 00:08:36.429 --> 00:08:40.830 but inside of you. Fear is keeping you from being 00:08:40.830 --> 00:08:48.929 your best. Now, when you are completely immersed 00:08:48.929 --> 00:08:54.610 with this truth that God is your heavenly father, 00:08:54.909 --> 00:08:58.190 that he cares for you, he loves you, you're his 00:08:58.190 --> 00:09:00.570 child, you're the child of his care, you're the 00:09:00.570 --> 00:09:07.240 child of his keeping, it takes away the... Fear 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.320 of what tomorrow holds. All this relationship, 00:09:10.500 --> 00:09:15.500 I just wish I could put it in little capsules 00:09:15.500 --> 00:09:20.980 and just send it out. Millions of capsules to 00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:24.360 every person in the world who's being governed 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:30.740 by fear. Oh, I've seen men and women over and 00:09:30.740 --> 00:09:35.769 over and over again who are... being dominated 00:09:35.769 --> 00:09:40.110 by a great mental depression. If I could just 00:09:40.110 --> 00:09:44.750 get them to see that God is their Heavenly Father. 00:09:46.330 --> 00:09:49.330 They don't have to fear the great unknown. They 00:09:49.330 --> 00:09:51.610 don't have to fear tomorrow. They don't have 00:09:51.610 --> 00:10:01.070 to fear the future. You have one. In position 00:10:01.070 --> 00:10:06.750 of Father, our Heavenly Father. eternal, all 00:10:06.750 --> 00:10:14.009 -powerful, the all -present God, the loving Heavenly 00:10:14.009 --> 00:10:20.850 Father, and that you are a child of His care 00:10:20.850 --> 00:10:26.730 and His keeping. And perfect love casteth out 00:10:26.730 --> 00:10:31.909 all fear when you get to the place where you 00:10:31.909 --> 00:10:36.370 love your Heavenly Father. with all of your heart. 00:10:38.549 --> 00:10:42.769 That's that wonderful bond between the two of 00:10:42.769 --> 00:10:47.970 you. When you begin loving him as a heavenly 00:10:47.970 --> 00:10:52.230 father, not only acknowledging him as a great 00:10:52.230 --> 00:11:01.590 creator, or as just God, a mystical being. Living 00:11:01.590 --> 00:11:06.870 somewhere out there in the great unknown. Just 00:11:06.870 --> 00:11:15.789 spirit. Who ever heard of loving a spirit? I 00:11:15.789 --> 00:11:19.669 couldn't love a spirit. That's the reason I know 00:11:19.669 --> 00:11:22.289 that my Heavenly Father is more than spirit. 00:11:23.990 --> 00:11:26.269 When I say that I love my Heavenly Father, when 00:11:26.269 --> 00:11:30.190 I say that I love God, I don't mean that I am 00:11:30.190 --> 00:11:36.070 loving a spirit. We're never told to love a spirit. 00:11:37.929 --> 00:11:43.230 I cannot love some mystery, something that I 00:11:43.230 --> 00:11:49.129 know nothing about. God to me is my heavenly 00:11:49.129 --> 00:11:56.350 father. And as a heavenly father, I loved him 00:11:56.350 --> 00:12:01.049 with even a greater and a deeper love that I 00:12:01.049 --> 00:12:07.350 loved my papa and I loved him. But it was a natural 00:12:07.350 --> 00:12:11.509 love in relationship between a natural earthly 00:12:11.509 --> 00:12:16.230 parent and an earthly child. But there is something 00:12:16.230 --> 00:12:21.049 about my love for my heavenly father that is 00:12:21.049 --> 00:12:26.299 divine. He has imparted that love. And his love 00:12:26.299 --> 00:12:30.940 for me is a divine love. Oh, it's so wonderful. 00:12:31.019 --> 00:12:34.299 Paul saw it. Paul knew it. And that was the reason 00:12:34.299 --> 00:12:37.539 that Paul said, oh, the mercy of the Lord Jesus 00:12:37.539 --> 00:12:42.919 Christ. And who can fathom that mercy? And yet, 00:12:42.940 --> 00:12:45.940 where would any of this be without it? And he 00:12:45.940 --> 00:12:50.580 goes on to say, and the love of God. Who can 00:12:50.580 --> 00:12:56.149 fathom God's love? for his own, for his children, 00:12:56.250 --> 00:13:04.370 for you, for me. The love of one who is all -powerful, 00:13:04.470 --> 00:13:16.730 who is eternal, all -present God. Then why should 00:13:16.730 --> 00:13:26.340 I fear? Why should I be afraid? Thick love casteth 00:13:26.340 --> 00:13:34.539 out all fear. And so I go forth and do what I 00:13:34.539 --> 00:13:39.940 could not do of myself and in the natural. I'm 00:13:39.940 --> 00:13:46.059 no longer afraid. I'm no longer depressed. I 00:13:46.059 --> 00:13:49.840 have nothing to be depressed about. Millions 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:56.230 are living in defeat. That great depression. 00:13:57.690 --> 00:14:00.110 That's the reason you run to a drugstore and 00:14:00.110 --> 00:14:02.529 you get a pill for this and a pill for that and 00:14:02.529 --> 00:14:07.190 a pill for something else. You try to overcome 00:14:07.190 --> 00:14:12.350 this fear and this great mental depression through 00:14:12.350 --> 00:14:18.789 pills. My friend, all on earth that you have 00:14:18.789 --> 00:14:22.590 to do to get rid of your mental depression, to 00:14:22.590 --> 00:14:26.950 get... rid of your anxiety, to get rid of the 00:14:26.950 --> 00:14:32.370 fear that's mastering your life, is to get to 00:14:32.370 --> 00:14:36.909 the place where you have the spiritual revelation 00:14:36.909 --> 00:14:44.490 that the one all -powerful is your Heavenly Father 00:14:44.490 --> 00:14:52.149 and He loves you. Yeah? It's amazing what fear 00:14:52.149 --> 00:14:56.730 can do. It can cause literally a physical breakdown. 00:14:58.409 --> 00:15:04.610 I believe that the main underlying cause of all 00:15:04.610 --> 00:15:17.009 trouble is fear. Analyze that. If only you could 00:15:17.009 --> 00:15:20.870 realize to some extent that omnipotent wisdom 00:15:20.870 --> 00:15:26.629 is your living, loving Father, then most of your 00:15:26.629 --> 00:15:31.570 fears would go. If you could realize it completely, 00:15:32.029 --> 00:15:35.509 then every negative thing in your life would 00:15:35.509 --> 00:15:41.549 vanish away. And you would demonstrate perfection 00:15:41.549 --> 00:15:47.669 in every phase. Now you're beginning to see the... 00:15:47.899 --> 00:15:50.759 object that Jesus had in mind when he placed 00:15:50.759 --> 00:16:01.899 this clause first. My father. Dear Jesus, right 00:16:01.899 --> 00:16:07.259 now, I'm doing the best that I can in these few 00:16:07.259 --> 00:16:13.240 words to let that precious one see that you're 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:19.299 real. This relationship is real. Open their understanding 00:16:19.299 --> 00:16:27.240 of this truth. For Jesus' sake, we ask. Now, 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:31.639 let's go a little deeper. Oh, it's so simple. 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:38.720 And yet so profound. Did you ever dream that 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:45.659 just two words could hold so much meaning? Oh, 00:16:45.659 --> 00:16:52.230 sure. We say, my father. A million times I've 00:16:52.230 --> 00:16:55.470 come into his presence and I've said, my father. 00:16:57.590 --> 00:17:06.029 It's personal. But Jesus taught us to say our 00:17:06.029 --> 00:17:17.230 father. Why? Remember the word? There is neither 00:17:17.230 --> 00:17:23.509 Jew nor Greek. There is neither bond nor free. 00:17:23.950 --> 00:17:33.849 There is neither chosen nor unchosen. Right here, 00:17:33.910 --> 00:17:40.970 Jesus is making his second point. It ends all 00:17:40.970 --> 00:17:47.509 of this idea about the spiritual. superiority 00:17:47.509 --> 00:17:51.529 of any one group of human beings over another 00:17:51.529 --> 00:17:59.789 group. No person is superior in the sight of 00:17:59.789 --> 00:18:05.089 the Heavenly Father over another. I think that's 00:18:05.089 --> 00:18:08.730 a good place to just pause and think of the truth, 00:18:08.930 --> 00:18:12.160 a truth that's profound. And if ever there was 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:14.500 a day, if ever there was an hour when we needed 00:18:14.500 --> 00:18:21.160 this truth, it's now. Here it is. There is neither 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:26.920 Jew nor Greek. There is neither bond nor free. 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:37.140 There is neither chosen nor unchosen. No man 00:18:37.140 --> 00:18:43.130 is superior to another in the sight of God. No 00:18:43.130 --> 00:18:48.630 group is superior over another. No race is superior 00:18:48.630 --> 00:18:56.329 over another. God knows no such thing as race, 00:18:56.490 --> 00:19:07.609 color, class, group. He has taught us to pray 00:19:07.609 --> 00:19:18.839 our. He teaches that the thing that places a 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:26.319 man is the spiritual condition of his own individual 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:34.539 soul. And that as long as he is upon the spiritual 00:19:34.539 --> 00:19:39.640 path, it makes no difference whatever to what 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:45.259 group he belongs to. or does not belong to. It's 00:19:45.259 --> 00:19:48.319 an individual matter. It's a personal matter. 00:19:50.099 --> 00:19:52.680 It's still not a matter of whether one is Jew 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:54.579 or Gentile. It's still not a matter of whether 00:19:54.579 --> 00:19:57.079 one is black or white. It is still not a matter 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:03.220 of whether one is Catholic or Protestant. It 00:20:03.220 --> 00:20:10.079 is what one has as an individual on the inside. 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:23.079 Know that he makes no exception whatsoever in 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:27.740 the prayer that he taught you and taught me to 00:20:27.740 --> 00:20:40.289 pray. And if you have had that spiritual experience, 00:20:40.450 --> 00:20:46.529 that new birth experience, you cannot say, our 00:20:46.529 --> 00:20:51.589 Father, my Father, until first of all, you've 00:20:51.589 --> 00:20:56.769 had that experience in accepting the Father's 00:20:56.769 --> 00:21:01.670 only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, absolute deity 00:21:01.670 --> 00:21:05.670 and absolute divinity. as your Redeemer, as your 00:21:05.670 --> 00:21:09.549 Savior, and then this relationship is made possible 00:21:09.549 --> 00:21:11.589 to you.