WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:05.240 Each morning when I wake I say, I place my hand 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:10.199 in God's today. I know he'll walk close by my 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:16.859 side, my every wandering step to guide. He leads 00:00:16.859 --> 00:00:21.219 me with the tenderest care when paths are dark 00:00:21.219 --> 00:00:26.519 and I despair. No need for me to understand if 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:34.159 I but hold fast. to his hand. My hand in his. 00:00:35.460 --> 00:00:39.259 No surer way to walk in safety through each day. 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:44.679 And by his great bounty I am fed, warmed by his 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:50.719 love and comforted. And when a day's end, I seek 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:57.759 my rest and realize how much I'm blessed. My 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:02.500 thanks pour out to him, and then I place my hand 00:01:02.500 --> 00:01:10.480 in God's again. This ministry is based upon the 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.159 word of God. That's the reason we have no fanaticism. 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:19.200 It's when one gets away from thus saith the Lord 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:29.179 that we get into fanaticism. But you see, Power 00:01:29.179 --> 00:01:36.760 isn't noise, and noise isn't power. Oh, sure. 00:01:38.939 --> 00:01:42.200 I still remember those old Model T Fords. Somebody 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:44.700 said, look out, Miss Coob, and you're going to 00:01:44.700 --> 00:01:51.239 give your age away. Well, now, confess yourself. 00:01:51.420 --> 00:02:00.030 You remember those. boards, how noisy they used 00:02:00.030 --> 00:02:04.030 to be. Papa had one. And I can tell you the very 00:02:04.030 --> 00:02:08.590 hill that we had to climb going to Aunt Belle's 00:02:08.590 --> 00:02:14.530 house. Oh, the thing went great. It almost purred 00:02:14.530 --> 00:02:18.949 when you were on level ground. But say that one 00:02:18.949 --> 00:02:23.389 hill that we had to climb before we got to Elma, 00:02:23.430 --> 00:02:29.449 Missouri. thing was the noisiest thing you ever 00:02:29.449 --> 00:02:36.830 heard in your life. Oh my goodness a life. If 00:02:36.830 --> 00:02:40.370 noise was power, that thing was the most powerful 00:02:40.370 --> 00:02:44.629 thing in the state of Missouri. But then there 00:02:44.629 --> 00:02:52.189 came the day when Papa bought a V -Lay. You say 00:02:52.189 --> 00:02:55.009 now, Miss Kuhlman, oh, well, I'll tell you exactly 00:02:55.009 --> 00:02:58.550 how old I was. I wasn't going to school yet, 00:02:58.650 --> 00:03:03.490 so I'm not as old as you think that I am. But 00:03:03.490 --> 00:03:06.009 any little girl would remember in those days 00:03:06.009 --> 00:03:10.590 when their papa bought a V -Lay. It was like 00:03:10.590 --> 00:03:17.150 a Rolls Royce today. Oh, but that thing was smooth. 00:03:18.860 --> 00:03:24.819 That thing really purred, let me tell ya. Why? 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:35.300 Because it had power. Mm -hmm. Noise isn't necessarily 00:03:35.300 --> 00:03:48.400 power. You see, we get off into... that which 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:55.900 is not of the Spirit, when we deviate from the 00:03:55.900 --> 00:04:02.900 Word of God. And as long as you and I will stay 00:04:02.900 --> 00:04:07.639 with the Word of God, turning neither to the 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:11.860 right nor to the left, but staying right with 00:04:11.860 --> 00:04:16.879 God's Word, we'll never get off into fanaticism. 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:22.819 No matter how great is the manifestation of God's 00:04:22.819 --> 00:04:34.519 power, we will never get off into fanaticism, 00:04:34.620 --> 00:04:38.839 and the enemy will never be able to make a religious 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:44.540 fanatic, a religious nut, out of us. Remember, 00:04:44.699 --> 00:04:48.079 that's the truth. Well, sir, all right. Now, 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:52.160 I want you to turn, if you will please, to the 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.699 6th chapter of 1 Corinthians. There's a verse 00:04:55.699 --> 00:04:59.300 there that I pray the Holy Spirit will make very 00:04:59.300 --> 00:05:03.860 clear to your understanding. It's something that 00:05:03.860 --> 00:05:10.759 is needed today. It's Paul speaking. That 12th 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:19.399 verse. things are lawful unto me, but all things 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:27.980 are not expedient. He repeats, all things are 00:05:27.980 --> 00:05:34.959 lawful for me. It must be something most important 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:40.699 because he repeats it twice, and this isn't like 00:05:40.699 --> 00:05:47.730 Paul at all. He continues, But I will not be 00:05:47.730 --> 00:05:53.689 brought under the power of any. Oh, there's dynamite 00:05:53.689 --> 00:05:58.149 in that twelfth verse. That's the twelfth verse 00:05:58.149 --> 00:06:03.589 of the sixth chapter of 1 Corinthians. And before 00:06:03.589 --> 00:06:05.509 I get through with this little heart -to -heart 00:06:05.509 --> 00:06:12.149 talk, don't get angry with me. This is God's 00:06:12.149 --> 00:06:17.379 Word. I didn't say it. These are not my words. 00:06:19.019 --> 00:06:21.139 And not one of us dare take issue with the Word 00:06:21.139 --> 00:06:26.800 of God. Now, we must never take just one verse 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:30.699 of Scripture out of its setting. Let's get the 00:06:30.699 --> 00:06:34.139 full continuity of the whole thing, that which 00:06:34.139 --> 00:06:40.069 precedes and then that which follows. Stay with 00:06:40.069 --> 00:06:42.930 me. If I don't get through today, stay with me 00:06:42.930 --> 00:06:45.189 for the next broadcast because we're going to 00:06:45.189 --> 00:06:48.769 see this thing through because you may need it. 00:06:50.029 --> 00:06:56.230 I need it. The church needs it. Paul is still 00:06:56.230 --> 00:07:01.790 dealing with immorality. Now remember something. 00:07:02.350 --> 00:07:06.550 These people to whom Paul is writing constituted 00:07:06.550 --> 00:07:14.240 the church of God. And you will find that the 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:18.300 spirit of the city had gotten into the church. 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.819 And that's exactly where all the trouble began. 00:07:24.300 --> 00:07:29.680 The church's business is not to catch the spirit 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:36.579 of the age, but to correct it. We are never. 00:07:39.180 --> 00:07:43.800 As members of the body of Christ, as his church, 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:50.839 try to capture the spirit of the age and bring 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:58.899 it into the church. No, ma 'am. That's exactly 00:07:58.899 --> 00:08:06.459 where we are today. The night is dark. Men and 00:08:06.459 --> 00:08:10.100 women are hungry for the spiritual. They're hungry 00:08:10.100 --> 00:08:14.439 for reality. They're hungry for something that 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:18.920 satisfies. Something that will give them peace 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.579 of mind and peace of soul. They want a foundation. 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:30.040 They want something that's tangible. Something 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:38.720 that is practical. They're hungry for God. They're 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:43.340 sick and tired of the sham and the tinsel, the 00:08:43.340 --> 00:08:46.740 veneer. And that's all that the spirit of the 00:08:46.740 --> 00:08:50.539 world is. It's nothing more or less than veneer. 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:56.840 It's a sham. Let's face it. The ordinary man, 00:08:56.980 --> 00:09:02.899 the ordinary woman lives a very shallow life. 00:09:04.169 --> 00:09:10.549 and is a very shallow person. Take the average 00:09:10.549 --> 00:09:18.210 person. Take the person above average. Take the 00:09:18.210 --> 00:09:25.169 woman who's at the very peak of society. Talk 00:09:25.169 --> 00:09:30.009 with that woman for one full hour and you'll 00:09:30.009 --> 00:09:36.929 find out what an the life she really lives. You'll 00:09:36.929 --> 00:09:41.549 find out how dissatisfied, how cruelly unhappy 00:09:41.549 --> 00:09:48.570 she is on the inside. It's such a veneered thing. 00:09:50.450 --> 00:09:56.350 And it's stuff like that. They're hungry for 00:09:56.350 --> 00:10:01.809 God. They want something that's substantial. 00:10:03.769 --> 00:10:08.649 And so, in their hunger, they turn to the church. 00:10:10.370 --> 00:10:16.049 What does the average church have to offer? Very 00:10:16.049 --> 00:10:23.809 little. Why? Because they have tried to catch 00:10:23.809 --> 00:10:29.000 the spirit of the age. And in trying to catch 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:33.960 the spirit of the age, they have lost their vision 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:41.240 of the Holy Spirit. And they stand helpless. 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:49.159 They stand without the power of God. While the 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:56.500 world stands challenging the church, The church 00:10:56.500 --> 00:11:02.220 has very little to offer because they have compromised 00:11:02.220 --> 00:11:06.779 and compromised and compromised with the world. 00:11:07.740 --> 00:11:13.039 Until we've gotten to the place that the average 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:17.940 church is nothing more or less than a wonderful 00:11:17.940 --> 00:11:29.190 sociable club. is a man delivered from liquor. 00:11:31.490 --> 00:11:36.730 Rarely does a sinner come walking down the aisle, 00:11:36.990 --> 00:11:43.330 kneeling at the place of prayer, and crying out, 00:11:43.429 --> 00:11:50.789 Lord, forgive me. I'm a sinner. I need salvation. 00:11:52.649 --> 00:12:01.269 I need that born -again experience. I need regeneration. 00:12:04.169 --> 00:12:14.269 We need to get back again where the church will 00:12:14.269 --> 00:12:22.370 find its original purpose. where men and women 00:12:22.370 --> 00:12:37.570 find God. Now, let's pause a minute. Just preceding 00:12:37.570 --> 00:12:46.090 this 12th verse, Paul is saying, sure, you will 00:12:46.090 --> 00:12:50.070 find that in the unregenerated man and woman. 00:12:51.570 --> 00:12:57.370 There's fornication. There's adultery. You'll 00:12:57.370 --> 00:13:02.129 find thievery. There's covetousness, drunkards, 00:13:02.470 --> 00:13:08.269 extortioners. He lists them all. But he says, 00:13:08.429 --> 00:13:13.509 these folk shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 00:13:14.269 --> 00:13:21.450 They've never been born again. They are the unregenerated. 00:13:22.230 --> 00:13:30.590 But he continues. You too committed these sins 00:13:30.590 --> 00:13:38.769 before you were regenerated. But now, he says, 00:13:39.389 --> 00:13:43.950 ye are washed. You're sanctified. You're justified 00:13:43.950 --> 00:13:47.779 in the name of Lord Jesus. and by the Spirit 00:13:47.779 --> 00:13:52.700 of our God. Therefore, you no longer do these 00:13:52.700 --> 00:13:58.059 things. You are a new creature in Christ Jesus. 00:13:59.419 --> 00:14:04.840 I want you to see something. This thing of regeneration, 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:12.059 this thing of being born again, call it anything 00:14:12.059 --> 00:14:17.519 that you wish, it is a Definite experience. There's 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:21.519 a definite time. It is a definite experience. 00:14:23.299 --> 00:14:28.460 When literally the blood of Jesus Christ, God's 00:14:28.460 --> 00:14:34.000 Son, cleanseth you. The Bible says you are a 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:39.679 new creature in Christ Jesus. You are a new person. 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.389 The thing... that you once loved you now hate. 00:14:47.950 --> 00:14:56.090 A changed personality. It's like that. This is 00:14:56.090 --> 00:15:00.629 the word of God. All the things having passed 00:15:00.629 --> 00:15:06.289 away and behold all things having become new. 00:15:07.370 --> 00:15:11.470 The world doesn't change just because you have 00:15:11.470 --> 00:15:18.259 been regenerated. No. You go right back home. 00:15:18.779 --> 00:15:25.899 It's the same kitchen. It's the same old washer 00:15:25.899 --> 00:15:34.080 that has caused you so much trouble. Below these 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:40.220 many years, it's the same house. You go back 00:15:40.220 --> 00:15:44.769 to the same husband. who is in the same condition 00:15:44.769 --> 00:15:49.730 he was before you were regenerated. The neighbors 00:15:49.730 --> 00:15:53.350 haven't moved out. You've got the same neighbors. 00:15:55.190 --> 00:15:58.090 Everything is the same. It's the same world. 00:15:58.250 --> 00:16:04.649 Only you are the person that has changed. But 00:16:04.649 --> 00:16:08.149 from that moment of your regeneration, being 00:16:08.149 --> 00:16:12.830 a new person in Christ Jesus, you are... In the 00:16:12.830 --> 00:16:18.029 world. But not of the world. You still have to 00:16:18.029 --> 00:16:22.970 pay your rent. You still have to pay your taxes. 00:16:23.549 --> 00:16:30.769 You still have to eat. But, beloved, you have 00:16:30.769 --> 00:16:37.929 a new nature. Something else happens. At that 00:16:37.929 --> 00:16:45.220 time of your regeneration, The power of sin is 00:16:45.220 --> 00:16:49.899 broken in that life of yours. This is that wonderful 00:16:49.899 --> 00:16:54.440 liberty that Paul is talking about. I am laying 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:58.600 the groundwork now for one of the most important 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:03.379 truths in the Word of God. This is the foundation. 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.380 Therefore, you must get everything that I say 00:17:07.380 --> 00:17:11.319 or you will not be able to understand it when 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:16.079 I go. deeper in giving you the explanation to 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.720 this 12th verse, where Paul says, all things 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:24.640 are lawful unto me. That has great and deep meaning. 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:32.480 Before you were regenerated, you were under bondage 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:39.359 to Satan, to sin. Every person in the world at 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:44.089 this very moment, who has not had that experience 00:17:44.089 --> 00:17:50.890 of being born again, is under bondage. You're 00:17:50.890 --> 00:17:55.509 a slave to Satan. Oh, you say, Miss Cooman, I'm 00:17:55.509 --> 00:17:57.609 the most independent person in the whole world. 00:17:59.150 --> 00:18:08.150 I am absolutely independent. Not. If you are 00:18:08.150 --> 00:18:14.279 unregenerated, is the reason that a man, knowing 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.880 that he's losing his family, is costing his home, 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:25.019 is costing his business, and yet he cannot break 00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:29.339 that power of liquor, that desire for liquor, 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:32.420 that craving that he has for liquor. He cannot. 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:38.579 He is absolutely sincere. When he comes into 00:18:38.579 --> 00:18:41.880 the presence of his wife and he cries and he 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:46.140 cries and he begs for her forgiveness, he's sincere 00:18:46.140 --> 00:18:52.099 when he says, I don't want to do it. I don't 00:18:52.099 --> 00:18:56.380 want to do it. I'll never do it again. If you'll 00:18:56.380 --> 00:18:58.700 just please forgive me this time. Oh, some of 00:18:58.700 --> 00:19:02.380 you women, you've heard it a thousand times until 00:19:02.380 --> 00:19:07.599 you're so sick of hearing it. Never doubt. his 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:16.119 sincerity. But he's under bondage. He is a slave 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:20.680 to the power of sin. And every man and every 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:26.700 woman who is not a Christian is a slave to Satan. 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:32.200 The things they do not want to do, they know 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:37.619 are wrong yet. They are powerless in breaking 00:19:37.619 --> 00:19:45.220 from that bondage. Satan is your master. You 00:19:45.220 --> 00:19:49.019 can argue this thing from now to doomsday. Your 00:19:49.019 --> 00:19:56.440 own life proves it. And the only power that will 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:01.140 set you free is the power of the Son of the Living 00:20:01.140 --> 00:20:07.549 God. That's the... Only power. You do not become 00:20:07.549 --> 00:20:11.210 a free person, a free man. You are never loosed 00:20:11.210 --> 00:20:16.970 from this bondage until you are loosed by the 00:20:16.970 --> 00:20:20.250 power of the Son of the Living God. There is 00:20:20.250 --> 00:20:30.210 only liberty in Christ Jesus. The only person 00:20:30.210 --> 00:20:34.720 in the whole universe. who has real liberty, 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:42.920 complete freedom, who is set free from the bondage 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:47.279 of Satan, the bondage of sin, and the master 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:56.000 of Satan, is that one who has been set free through 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:01.950 Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Paul reminds them, 00:21:02.029 --> 00:21:12.130 I'm free. All things are lawful unto me. Did 00:21:12.130 --> 00:21:18.630 he stop there? No. I shall continue in our next 00:21:18.630 --> 00:21:21.509 heart -to -heart talk. God bless you.