WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.259 Because we are the children of a loving Heavenly 00:00:06.259 --> 00:00:12.560 Father. You and I are entitled to expect that 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:16.739 our Heavenly Father will provide us fully with 00:00:16.739 --> 00:00:20.699 everything that we need, and He's made provision 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:25.219 for exactly that. I'm the only person in the 00:00:25.219 --> 00:00:30.879 whole world who knows real security. The only 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:40.600 person in the whole world who holds the title 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:48.560 deed to a real life insurance policy are God's 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.640 children. You know, we talk about life insurance 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:55.140 policies, and most of you, as I talk with you, 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.920 say certainly. I have a life insurance policy. 00:00:59.179 --> 00:01:04.219 No, you don't. You have a death insurance policy. 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.159 When that one comes to your house and writes 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:12.079 out that insurance policy, it isn't really a 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:17.000 life insurance policy. It's an insurance policy 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.000 to provide for your loved ones after your death. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.739 So it isn't a life insurance policy. The only 00:01:24.739 --> 00:01:28.980 one who can give a real, honest -to -goodness 00:01:28.980 --> 00:01:35.579 life insurance policy is our Heavenly Father, 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:42.560 Jesus Christ, His Son. Think about that a minute. 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:46.500 And you're the richest person in the whole world. 00:01:47.379 --> 00:01:50.819 You are the most secure person in the whole world. 00:01:51.950 --> 00:01:58.590 If you have the life insurance policy that God 00:01:58.590 --> 00:02:02.209 gives, if you're able to look up and say, my 00:02:02.209 --> 00:02:05.150 heavenly father, you know, you and I have been 00:02:05.150 --> 00:02:09.530 studying the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray. 00:02:09.889 --> 00:02:14.189 And I have a feeling that if you've been following 00:02:14.189 --> 00:02:18.530 me day after day in these heart to heart talks, 00:02:18.530 --> 00:02:23.180 somehow. You have a different idea regarding 00:02:23.180 --> 00:02:29.400 life, living life. Life holds a different meaning 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.900 to you entirely. Not only that, this wonderful 00:02:32.900 --> 00:02:40.400 relationship. If you fully understand the meaning 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.259 of the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray, if 00:02:44.259 --> 00:02:48.680 you are living and... if you have that relationship 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:53.620 that this prayer speaks of, the prayer that Jesus 00:02:53.620 --> 00:02:58.280 taught you and taught me to pray, then there 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:02.360 can be no fear in that life of yours whatsoever. 00:03:03.379 --> 00:03:06.520 You will not fear tomorrow. Oh, and there's so 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:10.659 much fear in the hearts of men and women today. 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:16.159 There's so much frustration. And the greatest... 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:20.379 that any human being can take into his life is 00:03:20.379 --> 00:03:28.900 the enemy of fear. You fear the unknown. You 00:03:28.900 --> 00:03:34.419 fear tomorrow. But the greatest enemy is just 00:03:34.419 --> 00:03:38.520 fear itself. No matter what happens to you tomorrow, 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.020 no matter what happens to you next week, it cannot 00:03:42.020 --> 00:03:46.530 be as great an enemy as the enemy of fear. Fear 00:03:46.530 --> 00:03:51.550 itself. Without fear, you're equipped to conquer 00:03:51.550 --> 00:03:55.389 that thing, to get victory over that thing. But 00:03:55.389 --> 00:03:58.810 you will never get victory over it if you as 00:03:58.810 --> 00:04:03.509 an individual are mastered by fear. Therefore, 00:04:03.650 --> 00:04:07.969 when you understand the full meaning of this 00:04:07.969 --> 00:04:12.169 wonderful prayer, if you are enjoying this relationship, 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:17.540 As a child of God, an heir of God, one of His 00:04:17.540 --> 00:04:21.360 children, and you can look up and say, My Heavenly 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:27.899 Father. There can be no fear. Perfect love casteth 00:04:27.899 --> 00:04:34.980 out fear. There can be no frustration. You have 00:04:34.980 --> 00:04:41.860 a Heavenly Father. Give us this day our daily 00:04:41.860 --> 00:04:49.550 bread. All these things shall be added unto you. 00:04:51.029 --> 00:04:57.870 Because you are the child of a loving Heavenly 00:04:57.870 --> 00:05:04.089 Father, you are entitled to expect that your 00:05:04.089 --> 00:05:06.910 Heavenly Father will provide you fully with everything 00:05:06.910 --> 00:05:14.899 that you need. It's like that. us this day our 00:05:14.899 --> 00:05:22.519 daily bread a daily allowance the word says for 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:32.300 every day so long as you shall live you have 00:05:32.300 --> 00:05:37.860 a heavenly father he loves you he that looking 00:05:37.860 --> 00:05:42.170 down and seeing individuals as one in a plane 00:05:42.170 --> 00:05:47.850 would look down and see the trees and just see 00:05:47.850 --> 00:05:53.110 the masses below. It's not that. You are as personal 00:05:53.110 --> 00:05:56.170 to him as though you were the only person in 00:05:56.170 --> 00:05:59.490 the whole world who had a need, as though you 00:05:59.490 --> 00:06:05.550 were the only person who was trusting him. That 00:06:05.550 --> 00:06:13.879 love, that everlasting love. You're surrounded 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:17.860 by his tender care. You're a child of his care 00:06:17.860 --> 00:06:24.519 and his keeping. Give us this day our daily bread. 00:06:24.620 --> 00:06:29.220 You can pray about your job. You can pray about 00:06:29.220 --> 00:06:33.459 the clothing for your body. You can pray about 00:06:33.459 --> 00:06:37.300 the daily needs for a little family of yours. 00:06:37.740 --> 00:06:43.470 The shoes on the children's feet. I mean that. 00:06:43.790 --> 00:06:47.889 A heavenly father who's interested in every detail 00:06:47.889 --> 00:06:52.629 of your life. If my papa was interested in the 00:06:52.629 --> 00:07:00.790 smallest details of the life of his child, dear 00:07:00.790 --> 00:07:09.389 me, I can remember the child. I had Eric. It 00:07:09.389 --> 00:07:13.680 was the pain of my life. I have known my papa 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:19.579 to not go to his office for an entire day and 00:07:19.579 --> 00:07:23.860 sit in a rocking chair and hold me in his arms. 00:07:26.180 --> 00:07:32.899 Just because he felt that I felt a little better 00:07:32.899 --> 00:07:39.680 if he held me in his arms. And then he would 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:45.730 take his hand with a little sweet oil on cotton 00:07:45.730 --> 00:07:52.170 and hold it in my ear. And there was something 00:07:52.170 --> 00:07:56.029 about my papa's touch. Whether the sweet oil 00:07:56.029 --> 00:07:59.970 did any good or not, I don't know. I couldn't 00:07:59.970 --> 00:08:04.750 swear by it. But I will tell you just to know 00:08:04.750 --> 00:08:10.560 that papa was holding me. Did more for me. than 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:16.240 all the doctors in the world than all the medication 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:22.259 that could be prescribed i'll tell you why i 00:08:22.259 --> 00:08:28.060 felt the love in my papa's arms around me just 00:08:28.060 --> 00:08:36.200 sitting on his lap and having him hold me eased 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:41.090 the pain and made me feel secure, secure in my 00:08:41.090 --> 00:08:45.330 papa's love. You and I have a heavenly father. 00:08:45.830 --> 00:08:52.710 He loves us. I feel so secure in his arms. He's 00:08:52.710 --> 00:09:00.409 holding me. I'm his responsibility. Oh, to live 00:09:00.409 --> 00:09:07.389 like that. Then why should I fear? But there's 00:09:07.389 --> 00:09:11.929 something deeper in that portion of the prayer 00:09:11.929 --> 00:09:15.210 that Jesus taught us to pray, give us this day 00:09:15.210 --> 00:09:19.009 our daily bread. In its inner and most important 00:09:19.009 --> 00:09:23.730 meaning, our daily bread signifies the realization 00:09:23.730 --> 00:09:28.429 of the presence of God, an actual sense that 00:09:28.429 --> 00:09:33.970 God exists, not merely in a nominal way. but 00:09:33.970 --> 00:09:39.389 as the great reality, the sense that he is present 00:09:39.389 --> 00:09:43.429 with us, the feeling that because he is God, 00:09:43.570 --> 00:09:46.669 all good, all powerful, all wise, all loving, 00:09:46.730 --> 00:09:52.009 perfect love, we have nothing to fear. We can 00:09:52.009 --> 00:09:56.970 rely upon him to take care of our every need. 00:09:59.230 --> 00:10:06.039 He will supply all that we have. need of. Teach 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:09.799 us all that we need to know. He'll guide our 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:16.039 steps so that we shall make no mistakes. This 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:22.860 is Emmanuel, our God with us. But there's more 00:10:22.860 --> 00:10:31.860 than even that. He is the bread of life. the 00:10:31.860 --> 00:10:37.820 hidden manna. And when one has that, he has all 00:10:37.820 --> 00:10:44.259 things in deed and in truth. Over and over again, 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.799 Jesus refers to this experience as bread because 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:52.100 it's the nourishment of the soul. And just as 00:10:52.100 --> 00:10:54.960 the physical food is the nourishment of the physical 00:10:54.960 --> 00:11:01.610 body, so also must the soul be fed. daily on 00:11:01.610 --> 00:11:06.389 spiritual food supplied with this food the soul 00:11:06.389 --> 00:11:11.970 grows and waxes strong gradually developing to 00:11:11.970 --> 00:11:19.649 adult stature without it the soul being deprived 00:11:19.649 --> 00:11:26.570 of its essential nourishment is stunned and is 00:11:26.570 --> 00:11:30.669 crippled oh Oh, I wish somehow the Holy Spirit 00:11:30.669 --> 00:11:32.970 would make this clear to you. I'd give anything 00:11:32.970 --> 00:11:36.110 in the world if your understanding could be open 00:11:36.110 --> 00:11:39.309 to this marvelous spiritual truth. There are 00:11:39.309 --> 00:11:42.129 those who wouldn't miss a breakfast for anything 00:11:42.129 --> 00:11:44.509 in the world. There are those who wouldn't miss 00:11:44.509 --> 00:11:49.230 lunch for anything. Millions would not miss their 00:11:49.230 --> 00:11:52.090 evening meal, their dinner. Why? Because they 00:11:52.090 --> 00:11:55.490 say they must have food to keep the physical 00:11:55.490 --> 00:11:59.950 body strong and well. You must. The physical 00:11:59.950 --> 00:12:05.850 body must have daily nourishment. And as surely 00:12:05.850 --> 00:12:09.750 as the physical body needs nourishment to keep 00:12:09.750 --> 00:12:14.049 it strong and to keep it well, the spiritual 00:12:14.049 --> 00:12:20.289 part of man must be dead daily if it is to be 00:12:20.289 --> 00:12:27.740 kept alive, if it is to be kept strong. We're 00:12:27.740 --> 00:12:31.039 so inconsistent sometimes when we come to the 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:36.159 spiritual. We take such good care of our physical 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:44.139 bodies. We nourish it. We protect it. We guard 00:12:44.139 --> 00:12:49.460 the physical well. And yet we treat the soul 00:12:49.460 --> 00:12:55.840 and the spiritual man so lightly. Until literally 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:02.720 we starve part of one's life. It's like that. 00:13:03.580 --> 00:13:08.460 It's just exactly like that. The common mistake 00:13:08.460 --> 00:13:13.860 is to suppose that a formal recognition of God 00:13:13.860 --> 00:13:18.899 is sufficient. Or that talking about divine things, 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:23.929 perhaps even talking very poetically, is the 00:13:23.929 --> 00:13:28.529 same as possessing them. But this is exactly 00:13:28.529 --> 00:13:34.090 on a par with supposing that looking at a tray 00:13:34.090 --> 00:13:38.649 of food or discussing the chemical composition 00:13:38.649 --> 00:13:45.929 of foodstuffs is the same as actually eating 00:13:45.929 --> 00:13:52.700 a meal. It is this mistake which is responsible 00:13:52.700 --> 00:13:58.039 for the fact that people sometimes pray for a 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:00.720 thing for years without any tangible result. 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:06.279 If prayer is a force at all, it cannot be possible 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:12.480 to pray without something happening. A realization 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:16.559 cannot be obtained to ardor. It must come spontaneously 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:21.549 as a result of a regular daily prayer. to seek 00:14:21.549 --> 00:14:26.409 realization by willpower is the surest way to 00:14:26.409 --> 00:14:39.029 miss it. It is not mental effort. Mental effort 00:14:39.029 --> 00:14:45.549 and strain and struggle defeats the purpose. 00:14:46.769 --> 00:14:53.110 I'm talking about about a daily communion. I'm 00:14:53.110 --> 00:14:57.590 talking about a daily intake. I'm talking about 00:14:57.590 --> 00:15:05.769 daily spiritual food. The reason why the food 00:15:05.769 --> 00:15:11.190 or bread symbol for the experience of the presence 00:15:11.190 --> 00:15:14.429 of God is such a telling one is that the fact 00:15:14.429 --> 00:15:21.129 of the act of eating food is essentially a thing 00:15:21.129 --> 00:15:28.110 that must be done for oneself. No one can assimilate 00:15:28.110 --> 00:15:33.389 food for another. One may hire servants to do 00:15:33.389 --> 00:15:36.029 all sorts of work for him, prepare the food. 00:15:36.850 --> 00:15:40.529 But there is one thing that one must positively 00:15:40.529 --> 00:15:46.350 do for himself, and that is to eat his own food. 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:56.080 You must eat your own food if it is to bring 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:00.700 light and sustenance to your own physical body. 00:16:02.899 --> 00:16:06.740 Therefore, consider something. It's one thing 00:16:06.740 --> 00:16:14.679 to talk about food. It's one thing to see good 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:19.860 food. It's another thing to have someone prepare 00:16:19.860 --> 00:16:31.100 food. But you must consume your own food to receive 00:16:31.100 --> 00:16:36.220 any value, any strength for your own physical 00:16:36.220 --> 00:16:41.299 body. That's exactly the way it is when it comes 00:16:41.299 --> 00:16:47.909 to the bread of life. In speaking of the bread 00:16:47.909 --> 00:16:53.590 of life, Emmanuel, Jesus calls it our daily bread. 00:16:54.250 --> 00:16:57.929 I wish I had hours to talk to you about this 00:16:57.929 --> 00:17:00.549 thing, because this is one thing where we're 00:17:00.549 --> 00:17:03.529 missing it. Thousands are missing it. You're 00:17:03.529 --> 00:17:08.930 still living on that experience of salvation, 00:17:09.029 --> 00:17:11.130 a way back there sometime, or maybe even a year 00:17:11.130 --> 00:17:15.829 ago, or six months ago, or last week. That's 00:17:15.829 --> 00:17:18.970 just the beginning of a spiritual life. Salvation 00:17:18.970 --> 00:17:21.970 is just the starting point. It's not the end. 00:17:22.230 --> 00:17:24.710 There are thousands when it comes to the baptism 00:17:24.710 --> 00:17:29.769 of the Holy Spirit. You talk about your wonderful 00:17:29.769 --> 00:17:32.930 experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit 00:17:32.930 --> 00:17:36.609 way back there, 15 years ago, some longer than 00:17:36.609 --> 00:17:38.950 that. And the first thing that you talk about 00:17:38.950 --> 00:17:41.470 is that wonderful experience being given to the 00:17:41.470 --> 00:17:44.490 Holy Spirit. I don't care what you experienced 00:17:44.490 --> 00:17:51.329 way back there years ago. That was just the beginning. 00:17:51.589 --> 00:17:54.450 For the Bible says God giveth the Holy Spirit 00:17:54.450 --> 00:17:58.930 without measure. And I'm going to surprise you 00:17:58.930 --> 00:18:01.789 when I tell many of you that there is never a 00:18:01.789 --> 00:18:05.049 time when there's a miracle service. Never. But 00:18:05.049 --> 00:18:10.430 what I receive a fresh baptism with the Holy 00:18:10.430 --> 00:18:15.849 Spirit. And yet you, a professing Christian, 00:18:16.130 --> 00:18:19.430 you who talk about believing in the baptism of 00:18:19.430 --> 00:18:22.170 the Holy Spirit, you who feel so spiritually 00:18:22.170 --> 00:18:27.950 secure because once you had the baptism of the 00:18:27.950 --> 00:18:34.150 Holy Spirit, once I had been immersed over and 00:18:34.150 --> 00:18:39.329 over and over and over again in the Spirit. It's 00:18:39.329 --> 00:18:45.119 a daily, it's a... continual thing. Not once, 00:18:45.140 --> 00:18:53.940 but a daily intake. As surely as there is a daily 00:18:53.940 --> 00:18:57.920 intake of food to keep the body strong, there 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:01.220 must be a daily intake of the Holy Spirit. And 00:19:01.220 --> 00:19:03.619 that's exactly what Paul meant when he said the 00:19:03.619 --> 00:19:06.359 communion and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. 00:19:06.460 --> 00:19:09.019 It's a daily fellowship.