WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.179 You and I have been having some good heart -to 00:00:04.179 --> 00:00:09.400 -heart talks. And sure enough, it has been old 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:15.679 -fashioned Missouri cornbread. And maybe doing 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:19.600 some of those heart -to -heart talks, I upset 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:24.940 your theology a little bit. Maybe. But I tried 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:28.039 to give you scripture with... Everything that 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:32.000 I have given you and one thing is sure. Never 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.740 forget it. That if you've been taught one thing 00:00:36.740 --> 00:00:41.320 and the Bible says something differently, the 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:45.420 Bible is always right. Always know that. If I 00:00:45.420 --> 00:00:48.520 say something and it's contrary to what is in 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:53.159 the Bible, the Bible is right. If your church 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:59.880 teaches. something that is contrary to what the 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:06.859 Bible says, never forget the Bible, the very 00:01:06.859 --> 00:01:12.959 Word of God, is absolute authority. Now, this 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.319 thing of living a Christian life is so simple 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:21.420 that sometimes I think we make such a hard... 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:28.359 out of something that should be so natural. The 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:34.340 Christian life is the natural way to live. It's 00:01:34.340 --> 00:01:40.640 something that, I wouldn't say that it was easy 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:44.400 living a daily consistent Christian life, yet 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:51.140 it should not be a struggle, and it will not 00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:57.459 be. A life of struggling if you know how to live 00:01:57.459 --> 00:02:01.879 that life in Christ Jesus. A Christian should 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:06.299 be the happiest person in the world. And you 00:02:06.299 --> 00:02:11.580 will be exactly that if you learn how to live 00:02:11.580 --> 00:02:17.979 this life of victory. And that's exactly what 00:02:17.979 --> 00:02:21.629 I've been talking to you about the past. Two 00:02:21.629 --> 00:02:29.430 days. This life of victory. Now, I'm not going 00:02:29.430 --> 00:02:32.389 to review one single thing. I told you yesterday, 00:02:32.550 --> 00:02:37.090 if you didn't hear the heart -to -heart talk 00:02:37.090 --> 00:02:41.229 the previous day, you should have been there. 00:02:43.650 --> 00:02:49.270 If you didn't hear it yesterday, you should have... 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.180 Delayed your shopping just a half hour. You know, 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:58.500 it's kind of like that. And I just somehow couldn't 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:02.419 wait for you yesterday. I just couldn't do it. 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:08.099 And so today we continue again talking about 00:03:08.099 --> 00:03:12.159 this wonderful life of victory. And I left you 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:15.539 talking about this negative attitude that an 00:03:15.539 --> 00:03:19.659 awful lot of people have. Negative thoughts, 00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:24.780 they live a negative life and everything about 00:03:24.780 --> 00:03:34.400 them just oozes with a negative environment. 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.340 It's just like that. You walk into their presence 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:44.479 and you feel like, oh dear me, what is it, you 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:55.860 know? a negative person. Don't practice a constant 00:03:55.860 --> 00:03:59.939 attitude of, well, I'm not even going to try 00:03:59.939 --> 00:04:04.599 because I might fail. I'm not even going to ask 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.719 because I might be turned down. I'm not even 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:12.979 going to make a request because I just don't 00:04:12.979 --> 00:04:15.900 want to be embarrassed by having somebody say 00:04:15.900 --> 00:04:21.540 no. And so you just sit in that rocking chair 00:04:21.540 --> 00:04:25.920 and you sit there all of your life. And then 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.899 the last day comes and you never had tried to 00:04:28.899 --> 00:04:34.079 do one thing because you were afraid of being 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:37.879 turned down, afraid of somebody saying no, afraid 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:43.740 that you might be refused. Just get up from out 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:47.399 of that chair and say, I'll try it. And you'll 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:54.139 be surprised at what'll happen. You know why 00:04:54.139 --> 00:04:57.600 I can say that? Because that's the kind of life 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:06.259 I've lived all of my life. Yeah? And I've lived 00:05:06.259 --> 00:05:12.560 that kind of life not because I have had my eyes 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:17.639 on people. but because I've had my eyes on God. 00:05:18.899 --> 00:05:26.120 And in Him, there is no defeat. I'm talking to 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:31.740 people right now. You have used as an excuse 00:05:31.740 --> 00:05:34.319 for not being a Christian the fact that you might 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:40.199 not be able to live it. Then you talk about all 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.540 the hypocrites that you've known all of your 00:05:42.540 --> 00:05:45.730 life. Well, really, I give those hypocrites more 00:05:45.730 --> 00:05:50.829 credit than I do you. At least they put forth 00:05:50.829 --> 00:05:56.490 an effort. You haven't even started. Don't talk 00:05:56.490 --> 00:06:00.610 about those hypocrites. They did more than you 00:06:00.610 --> 00:06:06.730 have done. At least they put forth some effort. 00:06:08.670 --> 00:06:15.360 And you haven't done a thing. You know? Oh, sure. 00:06:15.620 --> 00:06:19.660 There is always the possibility of temptation. 00:06:21.220 --> 00:06:24.420 And as long as you are in the flesh, there will 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:30.480 always be the possibility of sinning. I gave 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:35.000 you this scripture yesterday. That after I read 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:37.939 it and had you picked up from off the floor and 00:06:37.939 --> 00:06:44.720 back in your seating, you, you... probably have 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.060 read it several times since because you didn't 00:06:47.060 --> 00:06:49.939 know it was in your Bible. It's in the Old Testament, 00:06:50.019 --> 00:06:52.180 the fourth chapter of Leviticus, the third verse. 00:06:53.660 --> 00:06:59.699 If the priest that is anointed do sin as the 00:06:59.699 --> 00:07:04.540 people, God even made provision for those that 00:07:04.540 --> 00:07:08.519 he has anointed. Just because you've been anointed 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:12.379 of God, or just because someone has been anointed 00:07:12.379 --> 00:07:18.060 of God and called of God does not mean that that 00:07:18.060 --> 00:07:22.660 one is never tempted or that that one can no 00:07:22.660 --> 00:07:29.240 longer sin. He's made it very clear. In this 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:33.019 case, he talks to the priest and he makes it 00:07:33.019 --> 00:07:39.670 very clear that he has been anointed. and if 00:07:39.670 --> 00:07:45.930 he do sin. So you see, right here, it shows that 00:07:45.930 --> 00:07:52.329 sin is inevitable. No matter who the person is, 00:07:52.509 --> 00:07:57.310 if he's a part of humanity, then it's possible 00:07:57.310 --> 00:08:01.069 for him to sin. But the most thrilling part is 00:08:01.069 --> 00:08:07.389 that the Lord has made provision if that one 00:08:07.389 --> 00:08:14.160 sin. He's made provision for me if I sin. He's 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:18.240 made provision for you if you should sin. That 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:22.939 somebody sitting there and said, well, I can't 00:08:22.939 --> 00:08:26.879 be a Christian because maybe I won't be able 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:31.519 to hold out. Remember, get your eyes on the provision 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:40.240 and not the possibility of sinning. Oh, that's 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:44.940 so wonderful. Jesus thought of everything. God 00:08:44.940 --> 00:08:51.379 the Father just thought of everything. He didn't 00:08:51.379 --> 00:08:58.360 forget a single thing. Not a thing. Now, the 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:02.100 victorious life is secured by an act of faith. 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:08.279 And this wonderful victorious life is only maintained 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:15.019 by by a constant attitude of faith. There's got 00:09:15.019 --> 00:09:19.519 to be that constant trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:28.080 And it's so simple. Suppose then that there's 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:33.440 a failure. And you and I should, in that moment 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:39.299 of temptation, yield to that temptation. In that 00:09:39.299 --> 00:09:46.179 moment of crisis, we yield to failure. And there's 00:09:46.179 --> 00:09:50.799 a possibility that any one of us could yield. 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.539 Don't sit there in your self -righteousness and 00:09:54.539 --> 00:10:00.720 say, Oh, dear me, I've been filled with the Holy 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:07.720 Spirit. I've spoken in tongues. I have this gift 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:13.519 or that gift of the Spirit. I belong to an organization 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:22.080 where we don't believe in sin. Well, I don't 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:27.899 belong to that kind of organization. I find that 00:10:27.899 --> 00:10:32.500 in the body of Christ, and that body of Christ 00:10:32.500 --> 00:10:37.519 is still made up of human beings, And as long 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:43.279 as we're still in the body of flesh, it's possible 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:49.919 for any man or any woman to yield to temptation 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:56.480 and to sin. And you're nothing more than a spiritual 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:03.720 bigot if you feel that you are an exception when... 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:11.179 The very Son of God was tempted in all points 00:11:11.179 --> 00:11:20.539 like as we are, yet without sin. That's exactly 00:11:20.539 --> 00:11:24.620 right. You may be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:11:25.070 --> 00:11:27.669 You may have had the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 00:11:27.929 --> 00:11:32.230 You may have spoken in tongues. You may have 00:11:32.230 --> 00:11:35.870 the gifts of the Spirit. Sometimes I think those 00:11:35.870 --> 00:11:38.870 are the folks that the enemy of our soul, the 00:11:38.870 --> 00:11:47.049 devil, attacks the most. That's right. Walk carefully. 00:11:47.889 --> 00:11:53.970 Walk softly. Guard well that which you have. 00:11:54.830 --> 00:11:59.389 If you're spirit -filled, if God has entrusted 00:11:59.389 --> 00:12:05.009 you with the gifts of the Spirit, if you've had 00:12:05.009 --> 00:12:10.950 great spiritual experiences, guard these things 00:12:10.950 --> 00:12:16.809 carefully. Walk softly. For you are the very 00:12:16.809 --> 00:12:23.450 person that the enemy will attack. The more... 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:28.100 deeply spiritual you are, the greater will be 00:12:28.100 --> 00:12:32.419 the attack of Satan upon you. Because you have 00:12:32.419 --> 00:12:35.580 greater influence than that somebody who is perhaps 00:12:35.580 --> 00:12:39.220 just a little weak Christian someplace. Who has 00:12:39.220 --> 00:12:45.899 very little influence. That's consistent. That's 00:12:45.899 --> 00:12:50.639 logical. If the enemy can trip you and you are 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:54.450 a spiritual giant, that's exact. what he wants. 00:12:54.970 --> 00:12:58.549 Some little somebody over here who has no influence, 00:12:58.830 --> 00:13:04.169 sure they're born again. Sure they've had that 00:13:04.169 --> 00:13:08.850 spiritual experience. But their temptation will 00:13:08.850 --> 00:13:13.169 not be the same as yours. And if the enemy of 00:13:13.169 --> 00:13:16.190 their soul will get them to yield to temptation, 00:13:16.470 --> 00:13:19.710 it will not be merely the victory for him, as 00:13:19.710 --> 00:13:22.350 it will be for that somebody whose spiritual 00:13:22.350 --> 00:13:26.389 influence is great. So be careful. Walk softly. 00:13:27.389 --> 00:13:39.070 Be not boastful. Be not boastful. Guard that 00:13:39.070 --> 00:13:43.090 faith well. for the victorious life is secured 00:13:43.090 --> 00:13:47.169 by an act of faith, and it's only maintained 00:13:47.169 --> 00:13:55.389 by a constant attitude of faith. All right, suppose 00:13:55.389 --> 00:14:01.250 there is a failure. Suppose we do fall into sin. 00:14:01.289 --> 00:14:07.210 What then? Like they right now. Satan will immediately 00:14:07.210 --> 00:14:11.399 try to follow up his victory. by trying to persuade 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:15.820 us that there is no such thing as the victorious 00:14:15.820 --> 00:14:21.960 life, or that if there is, then we never had 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:27.559 the blessing in the first place, or if we did 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:31.620 have, well, it's all gone forever and we've lost. 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.320 Somebody says, Catherine Kuhlman, how did you 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:43.149 know that much about me? I didn't. But I know 00:14:43.149 --> 00:14:48.669 just exactly how the enemy works. And if he can 00:14:48.669 --> 00:14:52.769 convince you that you didn't have salvation in 00:14:52.769 --> 00:14:56.169 the first place, he's won a big victory. If he 00:14:56.169 --> 00:14:58.889 can convince you that you've never been filled 00:14:58.889 --> 00:15:02.509 with the Spirit in the first place, he's won 00:15:02.509 --> 00:15:06.620 a double victory. If he can persuade you that 00:15:06.620 --> 00:15:09.600 you've never been called of God in the first 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:17.379 place, I'll tell you, he's won a tremendous victory. 00:15:18.019 --> 00:15:22.360 If he can put doubts in your mind, and remember, 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:27.659 doubts are not of the spirit. Doubts are not 00:15:27.659 --> 00:15:34.090 of God. Doubts come. from the devil, from the 00:15:34.090 --> 00:15:40.190 enemy of your soul. Always remember that. Defeat 00:15:40.190 --> 00:15:46.830 is never of God. Depression is never of God. 00:15:47.169 --> 00:15:51.490 Oppression is never of God. Anything negative 00:15:51.490 --> 00:16:01.860 is not of God. Never. Victory. is the language 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:08.919 of our God. We are more than conquerors through 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:14.200 Christ who loved us. That's the spiritual language. 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:22.000 So immediately after you've yielded to that temptation, 00:16:22.419 --> 00:16:28.120 Satan comes along and says, okay, now you're 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:35.059 ruined. You're Absolutely ruined. Your testimony 00:16:35.059 --> 00:16:40.580 is ruined. What will your family think? What 00:16:40.580 --> 00:16:45.200 will the folk in the church think? Yes, sir. 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:52.639 What will my friends think? And so you hang your 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:58.059 head and your feet drag. Oh, you're the most 00:16:58.059 --> 00:17:03.919 miserable. person in the world. Maybe you're 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:10.039 a missionary. And you did a tremendous job for 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:12.359 God out on the mission field. But something happened 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:14.640 to you out there. Or something happened to a 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:19.480 member of your family. And the enemy of your 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.319 soul says, you're ruined. You've lost your influence. 00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:28.940 And if he can get you off of the mission fields 00:17:28.940 --> 00:17:35.539 and get you back home again in a little rented 00:17:35.539 --> 00:17:39.920 house and can get you to live the rest of your 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:46.619 life in defeat and discouragement, he's won a 00:17:46.619 --> 00:17:52.079 mighty big victory. Because think of all the 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.920 soul that you might have gone on and won to the 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:58.019 Lord Jesus Christ if he had not attacked you 00:17:58.019 --> 00:18:06.160 in your weakest moment and got defeat in your 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:12.660 mind. Get up right now, sir, and start doing 00:18:12.660 --> 00:18:16.059 something about it. What? You say, what can I 00:18:16.059 --> 00:18:19.619 do? Well, in the first place, remember something. 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:27.279 When a thing is confessed, it's forgiven. And 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:34.980 it's just like that. It's just like that. Do 00:18:34.980 --> 00:18:41.500 not listen either to Satan or to those who may 00:18:41.500 --> 00:18:46.470 accuse you. We've seen that the Bible is... full 00:18:46.470 --> 00:18:49.869 of victorious teaching. It was taught by Christ. 00:18:51.130 --> 00:18:55.049 And it shows itself again and again in Paul's 00:18:55.049 --> 00:18:59.849 epistles and those of John. We remember that 00:18:59.849 --> 00:19:05.130 God gave us the victorious life after many, many 00:19:05.130 --> 00:19:10.430 falls. Will he then withhold it forever because 00:19:10.430 --> 00:19:18.940 of one more fall? No. It's like forgiveness. 00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:23.759 How many times should I forgive my brother if 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:30.960 he sinned against me? Once? Well, maybe I can 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:37.839 forgive him the second time. Lord, at the most, 00:19:37.859 --> 00:19:46.170 I'll forgive him seven times. That's... Stretches 00:19:46.170 --> 00:19:50.630 my power of forgiveness. That stretches my patience. 00:19:50.869 --> 00:19:56.930 What did the scripture say? Seven times seven. 00:19:57.549 --> 00:20:02.069 You keep on forgiving and keep on forgiving. 00:20:04.190 --> 00:20:09.089 As long as they'll confess it, forgive them. 00:20:11.950 --> 00:20:17.130 If the Master had withheld his forgiveness from 00:20:17.130 --> 00:20:23.549 us and promised to only forgive us once or to 00:20:23.549 --> 00:20:28.329 forgive us not more than five, six, seven at 00:20:28.329 --> 00:20:33.230 the most, all of us would be sunk. You cannot 00:20:33.230 --> 00:20:35.769 find in the Word of God where his forgiveness 00:20:35.769 --> 00:20:41.960 is limited. You cannot do it. You... cannot. 00:20:42.859 --> 00:20:47.960 He will not withhold from you his forgiveness. 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:56.559 But if Satan can whisper to you and he'll do 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:03.880 it so softly he'll convince you that you cannot 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:11.119 be forgiven. I want you to know that He's won 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:18.839 a great victory. Now we've conclusively shown 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:24.420 that there's no striving, no struggling on our 00:21:24.420 --> 00:21:30.079 part. It's the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:36.799 It's His mercy. It's His grace. It must therefore 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:40.599 be obvious that such Effort and struggling will 00:21:40.599 --> 00:21:45.619 never reinstate us. If we fall into any sin, 00:21:45.740 --> 00:21:51.000 our Savior wishes us at once to turn to Him in 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:58.539 faith for forgiveness. Do it immediately. Even 00:21:58.539 --> 00:22:04.220 the Old Testament. Watch these precious words. 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:10.029 I have sinned against the Lord. said the penitent 00:22:10.029 --> 00:22:20.650 king. The Lord also hath put away thy sin, replied 00:22:20.650 --> 00:22:32.289 the prophet. The very second that you are conscious 00:22:32.289 --> 00:22:40.339 of that sin, ask forgiveness. And immediately 00:22:40.339 --> 00:22:52.519 the Lord also hath put away thy sin. The sin 00:22:52.519 --> 00:23:02.079 is in not asking forgiveness. There is the sin. 00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:12.119 Is in not asking. to be forgiven. The minute 00:23:12.119 --> 00:23:17.579 that thing is confessed, that minute, that sin 00:23:17.579 --> 00:23:19.980 is put away.