WEBVTT 00:00:00.270 --> 00:00:04.610 another slice of good old -fashioned Missouri 00:00:04.610 --> 00:00:10.070 cornbread, or in other words, a heart -to -heart 00:00:10.070 --> 00:00:16.570 talk. And I'll be very frank to tell you, if 00:00:16.570 --> 00:00:21.089 in the next several minutes I can get you to 00:00:21.089 --> 00:00:24.910 remember at all times, under all circumstances, 00:00:24.989 --> 00:00:30.760 to whom you belong, It will be the most profitable 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.439 heart -to -heart talk that you and I have ever 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:39.159 had. And I mean exactly that. There are four 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:41.960 words that are found in the Song of Solomon. 00:00:43.659 --> 00:00:50.060 I am his. And if you can get the full meaning, 00:00:50.140 --> 00:00:56.539 the full significance, of those four words until 00:00:56.539 --> 00:01:02.780 they become a living, vital part of you. It's 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:06.579 going to take all of the defeat out of your life. 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:12.359 It will change your thinking completely. You 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:22.560 will literally be a new person. I am his. Somebody 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.040 said to me, Very recently. You know, Miss Grumman, 00:01:25.099 --> 00:01:33.719 you are always so sure of yourself. At all times. 00:01:35.140 --> 00:01:38.560 No matter what the crisis, no matter what happens, 00:01:38.659 --> 00:01:44.359 you always are so sure of yourself. Not really. 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:52.519 I'll tell you a secret. I'm not sure of myself 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:59.079 at all. But I'm dead sure of him. I am sure of 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:06.959 my God. I am so sure of my God that I'd stake 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:11.819 my very life on him. I am so sure that I can 00:02:11.819 --> 00:02:16.460 trust him under all circumstances. I'm not so 00:02:16.460 --> 00:02:20.379 sure that I could trust myself under all circumstances. 00:02:22.189 --> 00:02:27.169 But I'm sure that I can trust him. His strength, 00:02:27.250 --> 00:02:36.610 his power, his courage. I am so sure of his word 00:02:36.610 --> 00:02:43.969 that I would stake my very life on any one of 00:02:43.969 --> 00:02:48.129 his promises. So that when... You look at my 00:02:48.129 --> 00:02:50.710 life and look at me as a person and you feel 00:02:50.710 --> 00:02:54.330 that I am so sure of myself that I am a person 00:02:54.330 --> 00:02:59.330 of complete self -assurance. Remember, it is 00:02:59.330 --> 00:03:05.650 because I am so sure of the one that I love and 00:03:05.650 --> 00:03:13.409 the one on whom I lean completely. I know that 00:03:13.409 --> 00:03:19.419 under all circumstances, I can say with Paul, 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:28.719 who proved it to the very end, we are more than 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:35.680 conquerors through him that loved us. Not only 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:43.659 by the skin of our teeth or just a very thin 00:03:43.659 --> 00:03:52.860 veneer. We are not only conquerors, we not only 00:03:52.860 --> 00:04:00.879 will have strength for just that moment, but 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:09.240 we are more than conquerors through him who has 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:11.919 never lost a battle, who knows no such thing 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:20.550 as defeat. who knows no such thing as worry, 00:04:20.750 --> 00:04:27.509 fear, anxiety, then if I am his, I belong to 00:04:27.509 --> 00:04:33.910 him, then neither should I be worried, neither 00:04:33.910 --> 00:04:39.449 should I have fear, neither should I be troubled, 00:04:39.589 --> 00:04:48.750 because I belong. Now that's exactly what Paul 00:04:48.750 --> 00:04:51.790 was trying to get through the heads of those 00:04:51.790 --> 00:04:56.529 Corinthian Christians. He began his letter with 00:04:56.529 --> 00:04:59.649 it, reminding them that they were saints of God, 00:04:59.750 --> 00:05:02.470 reminding them that they were sanctified in Christ 00:05:02.470 --> 00:05:05.490 Jesus, reminding them that they were literally 00:05:05.490 --> 00:05:09.670 the very church of God, reminding them of their 00:05:09.670 --> 00:05:13.100 position. And in all these things, he was trying 00:05:13.100 --> 00:05:16.779 to say to them, remember to whom you belong. 00:05:19.459 --> 00:05:23.160 We come to our second heart -to -heart talk regarding 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:25.079 this person the Word of God is found in the sixth 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:29.079 chapter of 1 Corinthians. And he begins it with 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:34.060 a word that is very challenging. Dare any of 00:05:34.060 --> 00:05:38.879 you, knowing that you belong to him, knowing 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:44.279 that you are his, Knowing that he has never failed. 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.319 Knowing that he is the source of your supply, 00:05:48.579 --> 00:05:56.019 your power, and that he is God Almighty. And 00:05:56.019 --> 00:06:05.279 that all that is his is yours. Watch it. And 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:10.500 because you do belong to him, none else can possess 00:06:10.500 --> 00:06:14.439 you. or has the right or power over you, except 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:20.920 according to his will, knowing that you are his 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:26.560 property, and that he will defend you, that he 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:34.160 loves you, and that the adversary can claim no 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:41.560 right over you. Oh, this is great. Stop right 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:48.040 in the middle of the kitchen floor and look up 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:54.620 in the darkest hour of your life and remember 00:06:54.620 --> 00:07:00.860 to whom you belong. Maybe you will feel like 00:07:00.860 --> 00:07:05.779 saying it right out loud. I am his. I belong 00:07:05.779 --> 00:07:09.980 to him. In a moment of defeat. in a moment of 00:07:09.980 --> 00:07:14.319 discouragement. You don't have to run over to 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.699 your next -door neighbor to get advice from her. 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:22.680 She's unregenerated. She's unconverted. She doesn't 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:26.699 know Him as her Heavenly Father. Serving your 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:30.899 business, you don't have to go to some godless 00:07:30.899 --> 00:07:35.699 somebody who is unsympathetic, who knows nothing 00:07:35.699 --> 00:07:39.240 about the power of God. And in your distress, 00:07:39.540 --> 00:07:43.540 get his advice. God knows he has troubles enough 00:07:43.540 --> 00:07:47.199 of his own. If he was so smart, he wouldn't be 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.000 having those troubles that he's confronted with, 00:07:50.100 --> 00:07:55.800 you know? And it's like that. The one who is 00:07:55.800 --> 00:08:02.459 a Christian has at his command the greatest power 00:08:02.459 --> 00:08:09.579 there is in heaven and earth. God. God Almighty. 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.120 That's the reason. Oh, this is so consistent. 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:21.600 This is so practical. When Paul, almost, should 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:29.920 I say, impatient, he stood aghast to think that 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:36.279 they would have the audacity to go to the heathen, 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.980 the pagan. The outsider, that's somebody outside 00:08:39.980 --> 00:08:45.139 the church, to get help, to get advice. Dare 00:08:45.139 --> 00:08:47.820 any of you, having a matter against another, 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:52.179 go to law before the unjust and not before the 00:08:52.179 --> 00:08:56.860 saints? Are you talking about those who were 00:08:56.860 --> 00:09:01.940 in the church? Do ye not know that the saints 00:09:01.940 --> 00:09:04.659 shall judge the world, and if the world shall 00:09:04.659 --> 00:09:08.629 be judged by you? Are ye unworthy to judge the 00:09:08.629 --> 00:09:14.269 smallest matters? If you can't get along among 00:09:14.269 --> 00:09:19.970 yourselves, if you can't get along at home and 00:09:19.970 --> 00:09:23.090 in the church and with your own brethren in the 00:09:23.090 --> 00:09:27.950 church without having to go outside the church 00:09:27.950 --> 00:09:32.409 to get help and to get advice, then how in the 00:09:32.409 --> 00:09:36.879 world are you going to be able to help him rule 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:45.039 and reign as saints of God. Know ye not that 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:49.500 we shall judge angels? How much more things that 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:54.519 pertain to this life. If then ye have judgments 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.580 of things pertaining to this life, set them to 00:09:58.580 --> 00:10:03.440 judge who are least esteemed in the church. I 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:09.190 speak. To your shame, he says. Then he goes a 00:10:09.190 --> 00:10:12.210 little deeper and he says, remember to whom you 00:10:12.210 --> 00:10:17.570 belong. Remember something, he says. You are 00:10:17.570 --> 00:10:20.889 children of God. You are sons of the Most High. 00:10:22.690 --> 00:10:25.629 One of these days and all this argument that 00:10:25.629 --> 00:10:30.889 he uses is priceless. The unrighteous are not 00:10:30.889 --> 00:10:34.340 living in contact. with the principles of eternal 00:10:34.340 --> 00:10:42.139 justice. They haven't true knowledge. They haven't 00:10:42.139 --> 00:10:46.779 true wisdom. The only one who has true wisdom, 00:10:46.899 --> 00:10:54.259 the one who is perfect knowledge, is the one 00:10:54.259 --> 00:11:00.559 who is your Heavenly Father. The one who has 00:11:02.350 --> 00:11:12.889 perfect principle is God himself. The unrighteous 00:11:12.889 --> 00:11:17.549 are not living in contact with these principles 00:11:17.549 --> 00:11:25.169 of eternal justice. Then why go to them for help, 00:11:25.210 --> 00:11:33.279 for advice? The day is coming when the Unrighteous 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:41.039 will not inherit the kingdom of God. It's your 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:46.360 inheritance. Remember to whom you belong. You 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:51.720 are literally joint heirs with Jesus Christ, 00:11:51.980 --> 00:11:59.240 the Son of God. He reminds them to whom they 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:04.490 belong. Then here's something. You know, every 00:12:04.490 --> 00:12:09.389 once in a while, Paul got just a little sarcastic. 00:12:09.669 --> 00:12:14.070 It would be better to say it was Paul's satire. 00:12:14.230 --> 00:12:23.309 Oh, I tell you, I appreciate this so much. And 00:12:23.309 --> 00:12:27.429 sometimes I think it's overlooked. But I want 00:12:27.429 --> 00:12:32.370 you to see. his satire in this because it is 00:12:32.370 --> 00:12:40.889 priceless. If you think that Paul was easy and 00:12:40.889 --> 00:12:52.570 very patient, oh, my friend, he knew human nature. 00:12:53.870 --> 00:12:58.190 He knew to whom he was writing and speaking. 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:03.940 They were all puffed up with spiritual pride. 00:13:04.419 --> 00:13:08.379 And there's nothing in the world that's so nauseating, 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:13.320 so disgusting. As men and women in the church 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:18.100 with spiritual pride, they were all puffed up. 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:24.139 Oh, sure. They had had this wonderful experience 00:13:24.139 --> 00:13:28.570 with the Lord. They knew that they'd been born 00:13:28.570 --> 00:13:32.549 again, and so they felt a little better than 00:13:32.549 --> 00:13:37.570 those on the outside, you know. And they were 00:13:37.570 --> 00:13:41.289 saying, by the very essence of their action, 00:13:41.389 --> 00:13:47.250 we know it all. We have an experience that you 00:13:47.250 --> 00:13:53.789 don't have. Now, you know, there are those who 00:13:53.789 --> 00:13:58.340 get the idea believe in the speaking in an unknown 00:13:58.340 --> 00:14:03.259 tongue. I do. Oh, my friend, I do. I have to 00:14:03.259 --> 00:14:06.539 believe it because it's in the word of God. God's 00:14:06.539 --> 00:14:12.419 word teaches it. I do, my friend. What I say 00:14:12.419 --> 00:14:15.559 is that there's a time and a place for these 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:28.159 things. But I have seen folk just because they 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:31.580 have spoken in an unknown tongue, become very 00:14:31.580 --> 00:14:36.039 puffed up over the experience. And you can hardly 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.240 touch them with a ten -foot pole. They feel that 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:43.720 because they have had this experience, that somehow 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:49.559 with the experience, God has given them the authority 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:54.620 to be a little judge. And I swear sometimes, 00:14:55.629 --> 00:14:59.110 that they actually think they have greater wisdom 00:14:59.110 --> 00:15:06.029 and can judge better than God himself. You know 00:15:06.029 --> 00:15:08.009 why I believe they think it? Because they act 00:15:08.009 --> 00:15:18.850 it. Oh, dear me. Paul threw it right back into 00:15:18.850 --> 00:15:23.009 their laps, knowing that they were all puffed 00:15:23.009 --> 00:15:27.710 up with spiritual pride. because of their spiritual 00:15:27.710 --> 00:15:32.629 experience and their spiritual knowledge. And 00:15:32.629 --> 00:15:37.529 really, in the final analysis, they had very 00:15:37.529 --> 00:15:43.230 little spiritual knowledge. But it comes right 00:15:43.230 --> 00:15:47.549 down to it. But they became very puffed up over 00:15:47.549 --> 00:15:54.450 that which they did have. So, what's Paul's... 00:15:54.990 --> 00:16:03.629 Let me read it to you. Oh, it's great. He says 00:16:03.629 --> 00:16:13.610 to them, Is it so that there is not a wise man 00:16:13.610 --> 00:16:20.110 among you? No, not one that shall be able to 00:16:20.110 --> 00:16:26.220 judge between his brethren? think you're so smart. 00:16:27.179 --> 00:16:33.240 You think you have so much when it comes to spiritual 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:40.320 things. And yet, is it so that there's not one 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:47.399 among you wise enough to deal with these things 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:51.879 in your everyday living, in your lives, that 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:56.909 you have to go out? the church to get spiritual 00:16:56.909 --> 00:17:01.850 help and spiritual advice. Isn't that priceless? 00:17:05.029 --> 00:17:09.630 Then he goes on. He says, all right, there was 00:17:09.630 --> 00:17:15.549 that time when you practiced idolatry. You were 00:17:15.549 --> 00:17:19.329 fornicators, thieves. There was a time you were 00:17:19.329 --> 00:17:24.269 covetous. drunkards, he names all of these sins, 00:17:24.549 --> 00:17:30.650 but that day is over with. Now you're washed. 00:17:31.230 --> 00:17:36.329 Now you're sanctified. Now you're justified in 00:17:36.329 --> 00:17:38.670 the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit 00:17:38.670 --> 00:17:44.329 of our God. You are a new creature in Christ 00:17:44.329 --> 00:17:50.130 Jesus. And with that glorious experience, After 00:17:50.130 --> 00:17:54.690 having been born again, you are a living, vital 00:17:54.690 --> 00:18:05.730 part of him, his body. You are literally a joint 00:18:05.730 --> 00:18:10.109 heir with the very son of the living God. You 00:18:10.109 --> 00:18:20.730 are his. Remember to whom you belong. You don't 00:18:20.730 --> 00:18:27.690 have to go outside the confines of God, the church, 00:18:27.950 --> 00:18:33.849 the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ, to get 00:18:33.849 --> 00:18:40.289 help, to get advice. That's exactly when you 00:18:40.289 --> 00:18:44.369 get in to the messes that you get into. That's 00:18:44.369 --> 00:18:49.170 exactly why you get into all the... that you 00:18:49.170 --> 00:18:57.109 get into is when you go outside of the person 00:18:57.109 --> 00:19:01.250 of the Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, the Son, 00:19:01.309 --> 00:19:08.089 the Holy Ghost, and His glorious Word. Remember, 00:19:08.089 --> 00:19:14.569 under all circumstances, to whom you belong, 00:19:14.769 --> 00:19:18.619 you are... He is.