WEBVTT 00:00:00.810 --> 00:00:03.049 Well, today you and I are going to have another 00:00:03.049 --> 00:00:08.669 one of those heart -to -heart talks. I don't 00:00:08.669 --> 00:00:14.630 know when I got started calling it Old Fashioned 00:00:14.630 --> 00:00:17.410 Missouri Cornbread. I don't know. Maybe it's 00:00:17.410 --> 00:00:22.370 because I like the way Mama made her cornbread. 00:00:22.910 --> 00:00:26.370 She made it differently than any cornbread that 00:00:26.370 --> 00:00:30.820 I have ever eaten in my life. It wasn't... thick, 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:35.920 you know. It wasn't, I guess, the kind of cornbread 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:40.920 that they call real good cornbread is supposed 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:44.899 to stand about two inches high and a little fluffy. 00:00:45.140 --> 00:00:51.460 Well, Mama made hers thin and a little juicy. 00:00:52.140 --> 00:01:00.219 It was really soggy, but it was juicy. Oh, you 00:01:00.219 --> 00:01:04.439 may not have liked it. And you'd be amazed how 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:09.140 many people have sent me recipes for cornbread 00:01:09.140 --> 00:01:14.400 because I refer to Zora Cornbread. But none of 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:17.859 those recipes that you've ever sent me were right. 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:23.739 No, ma 'am. They never were like Mama's. And 00:01:23.739 --> 00:01:29.500 to this day, I get so hungry. For the way Mama 00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:33.000 made the cornbread when I was a kid, those cold 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:40.219 winter mornings in the Zora. Sometimes we had 00:01:40.219 --> 00:01:43.719 molasses syrup, but it tasted just as good without 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:47.200 it because I loved it. And Mama always said, 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:54.799 it's so good for you. And the kind of cornbread 00:01:54.799 --> 00:02:01.590 that I give you. I would like to feel is so good 00:02:01.590 --> 00:02:09.250 for you. Not stiff. Not fancy. Not two inches 00:02:09.250 --> 00:02:15.969 tall. A little soggy. Maybe a little too thin 00:02:15.969 --> 00:02:24.330 at times. But good for you. You know, we're talking 00:02:24.330 --> 00:02:27.330 about living this. Christian life, and it is 00:02:27.330 --> 00:02:31.969 a day -by -day proposition. Let us never forget 00:02:31.969 --> 00:02:36.169 that. Now, when you read the Word of God, you'll 00:02:36.169 --> 00:02:41.509 find that as thy day, so shall thy strength be. 00:02:44.169 --> 00:02:49.830 Always know that He'll not give you strength 00:02:49.830 --> 00:02:56.610 tomorrow for today's trials. Never. It's a day 00:02:56.610 --> 00:03:01.370 -by -day proposition. He'll give me strength 00:03:01.370 --> 00:03:04.229 for today. When I wake in the morning, I have 00:03:04.229 --> 00:03:06.969 this confidence. I have this assurance. I have 00:03:06.969 --> 00:03:11.729 this security that no matter what happens to 00:03:11.729 --> 00:03:16.990 me today, I know that my Lord and my God will 00:03:16.990 --> 00:03:21.389 give me strength for what I have to face that 00:03:21.389 --> 00:03:27.650 day. If I knew when I wake in the morning, everything 00:03:27.650 --> 00:03:31.770 that I would have to face the next 24 hours, 00:03:31.930 --> 00:03:34.270 it would kill me before I ever left the room. 00:03:35.349 --> 00:03:38.949 I couldn't stand it. I couldn't take it. If I 00:03:38.949 --> 00:03:43.110 knew before I ever left my room, the disappointment 00:03:43.110 --> 00:03:48.430 that I would have to face that day or all the 00:03:48.430 --> 00:03:52.090 work that I would have to do, I'd get tired before 00:03:52.090 --> 00:03:58.240 I ever left the room. If I knew everything that 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:04.419 was involved in the next 18, 19, 20 hours, I 00:04:04.419 --> 00:04:06.879 would just crawl back in bed again. Pull the 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:11.280 cover over my face so that I can't take it. But 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:15.599 I do not know what I'll be faced with during 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:20.579 those hours of that day. But I go out secure. 00:04:21.620 --> 00:04:27.550 I leave. with a trust, with a confidence in my 00:04:27.550 --> 00:04:34.269 heart and my mind that as that day, so will he 00:04:34.269 --> 00:04:39.490 supply the strength for that day. And so, I've 00:04:39.490 --> 00:04:41.350 lived low these many years without having had 00:04:41.350 --> 00:04:45.550 a breakdown. Now, people have nervous breakdowns 00:04:45.550 --> 00:04:49.930 when they try to see beyond that day. You can't 00:04:49.930 --> 00:04:57.040 do it. If right now, I would just stop and think 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:01.500 of what my calendar looks like. And I visualize 00:05:01.500 --> 00:05:05.199 all those dates on the calendar, and every day 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:09.199 is full. I'm supposed to be in Dallas, Texas. 00:05:09.339 --> 00:05:11.899 I'm supposed to be in St. Louis. I'm supposed 00:05:11.899 --> 00:05:15.120 to be in Washington, D .C. I have all these telecasts 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.279 to make. I have all of these radio broadcasts 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.470 to make. I've got all these sermons to preach. 00:05:21.670 --> 00:05:25.389 I have all this mail before me. I've got all 00:05:25.389 --> 00:05:28.410 of these prayer requests to take care of. I've 00:05:28.410 --> 00:05:30.689 got this commitment. I've got another commitment. 00:05:31.250 --> 00:05:34.629 If I stopped right now and thought about that 00:05:34.629 --> 00:05:38.629 calendar and mentally saw those dates on the 00:05:38.629 --> 00:05:40.449 calendar and all the things that I have to do, 00:05:40.589 --> 00:05:44.170 well, I might just as well say goodbye, folks. 00:05:44.250 --> 00:05:46.110 Let somebody else take over the rest of the broadcast. 00:05:46.990 --> 00:05:51.860 I'd be out of breath. thinking about all the 00:05:51.860 --> 00:05:55.279 hours I have to spend in the air and all the 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.180 work that I have to do and all the sermons that 00:05:57.180 --> 00:06:00.459 I have to prepare. And, you know, I just don't. 00:06:01.660 --> 00:06:05.939 I just don't do it. And that is the reason I've 00:06:05.939 --> 00:06:09.620 never had a nervous breakdown. And if you are 00:06:09.620 --> 00:06:11.879 on the verge of a nervous breakdown, it's because 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:16.939 you're trying to live more than one day at a 00:06:16.939 --> 00:06:24.879 time. Moment by moment. That's how to live a 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:29.680 victorious Christian life. Don't cross that bridge 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:34.459 until you get to that bridge. Don't cross those 00:06:34.459 --> 00:06:38.439 deep waters until you get to the brink of the 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:43.839 water. Don't lie awake at night and worry all 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:48.740 night about that thing that... you're going to 00:06:48.740 --> 00:06:52.819 have to do the next day. If you do, you're going 00:06:52.819 --> 00:06:57.060 to be so tired and such a nervous wreck that 00:06:57.060 --> 00:07:00.000 when you face that thing the next day, you don't 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.360 have the refreshed mentality to do a good job 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:13.160 or the refreshed body. Go to bed and sleep and 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.660 commit that thing to God. That's perfect trust. 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:22.379 That's perfect confidence. That's where our faith 00:07:22.379 --> 00:07:28.279 in Him comes in. You sleep. If anybody's going 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.139 to do the worrying, let God stay up and worry. 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.540 Let Him worry about how He's going to take care 00:07:36.540 --> 00:07:40.300 of it. If anybody's going to do the worrying, 00:07:40.459 --> 00:07:45.339 just let God do it. And it's just like that. 00:07:46.470 --> 00:07:49.750 You go to bed and you sleep. You commit it to 00:07:49.750 --> 00:07:53.610 him. And if anybody has to work during the night, 00:07:53.689 --> 00:07:57.649 let him work on the thing. So that when you awake 00:07:57.649 --> 00:08:01.110 in the morning and you have to face that thing, 00:08:01.189 --> 00:08:06.829 you're refreshed mentally and spiritually. Where 00:08:06.829 --> 00:08:11.509 do you think I keep going? Now, I don't think 00:08:11.509 --> 00:08:13.170 a single one of you listening to me just now 00:08:13.170 --> 00:08:18.540 know how much... Work I put out in one day or 00:08:18.540 --> 00:08:24.959 how long my hours are and everything that I do. 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.259 I don't think a single person listening to me. 00:08:28.379 --> 00:08:32.659 I could not be doing the work that I'm doing 00:08:32.659 --> 00:08:37.779 if I didn't live and practice the very thing 00:08:37.779 --> 00:08:43.809 that I'm telling you now. Oh. Oh, that wonderful 00:08:43.809 --> 00:08:48.529 promise is in 2 Kings, the last verse of the 00:08:48.529 --> 00:08:55.590 last chapter. A daily rate every day of your 00:08:55.590 --> 00:09:00.830 life, so long as you shall live. I've lived on 00:09:00.830 --> 00:09:04.090 that promise. I've claimed that promise for years 00:09:04.090 --> 00:09:13.399 and years. A daily rate. Not a weekly rate. Not 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:19.460 a monthly rate. Not a contract for five years. 00:09:21.059 --> 00:09:30.000 It's a guarantee. A daily rate. Every day of 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:37.980 your life. So long as you shall live. Oh, if 00:09:37.980 --> 00:09:41.649 you're worrying about going to poorhouse. Oh, 00:09:41.649 --> 00:09:47.389 Miss Cooman, I tell you, my husband died and 00:09:47.389 --> 00:09:52.210 I'm a poor widow and I tell you, I'm afraid I'm 00:09:52.210 --> 00:09:56.009 going to wind up in a poor house. Oh, honey, 00:09:56.169 --> 00:09:59.149 not if you have the same Heavenly Father that 00:09:59.149 --> 00:10:04.250 I have. And I'm sure you do have. Your Heavenly 00:10:04.250 --> 00:10:07.429 Father is my Heavenly Father and my Heavenly 00:10:07.429 --> 00:10:12.200 Father is your Heavenly Father. There is just 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:16.480 one God. And either you believe his word or you 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:22.080 don't. A daily rate. You say, where is that, 00:10:22.100 --> 00:10:24.360 Miss Cooman? I wasn't so interested when you 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:26.519 first gave the scripture, but I am now. Where 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:31.980 is it? Second Kings, the last chapter and the 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:37.620 last verse. A daily rate. Giving you the king. 00:10:38.259 --> 00:10:43.529 Who's the king? Our Heavenly Father. If that 00:10:43.529 --> 00:10:48.470 isn't security, so many people, you know, turn 00:10:48.470 --> 00:10:53.210 to the government for their security. Well, honey, 00:10:53.309 --> 00:10:59.049 I'm not so sure that those checks are going to 00:10:59.049 --> 00:11:01.409 continue to come in every month from the government. 00:11:02.909 --> 00:11:06.960 That's not... Real security? I can point you 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.620 to one who'll give you better security than even 00:11:09.620 --> 00:11:13.500 the government. Do you realize that the United 00:11:13.500 --> 00:11:17.980 States government can go bankrupt? Whoever thought 00:11:17.980 --> 00:11:19.700 that the Pennsylvania railroads would ever go 00:11:19.700 --> 00:11:23.559 bankrupt? Whoever? Now, let's be realistic about 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:30.259 this thing. Why, if my papa knew that the Pennsylvania 00:11:30.259 --> 00:11:34.700 railroad went bankrupt, he would turn over in 00:11:34.700 --> 00:11:39.440 his grave. There was a day when they would be 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.779 the last institution to ever go bankrupt. But 00:11:43.779 --> 00:11:48.220 they did. Who has the assurance that our government 00:11:48.220 --> 00:11:52.480 cannot go bankrupt? And there goes your Social 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:57.159 Security checks. Let's just be realistic about 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:04.879 this thing. Our real security is in Christ Jesus. 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:13.279 I'm secure in something that is secure. And as 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:17.500 a child of God, you can be secure in something 00:12:17.500 --> 00:12:23.000 that is real security. God will never go bankrupt. 00:12:23.820 --> 00:12:31.659 Never, never, never. Never. In the sermon just 00:12:31.659 --> 00:12:36.460 last night, We were talking about the church, 00:12:36.700 --> 00:12:41.799 not as a denomination, not as an institution. 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:47.580 I was talking about the church of the Lord Jesus 00:12:47.580 --> 00:12:53.940 Christ, where Jesus himself is the head of his 00:12:53.940 --> 00:12:56.679 church, this glorious body of believers. You 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:01.659 and I are born into his. church, this invisible 00:13:01.659 --> 00:13:09.600 church. With Christ as the head, his church will 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:14.659 never go bankrupt. His church will never know 00:13:14.659 --> 00:13:19.000 defeat because he is the head of his church. 00:13:19.940 --> 00:13:26.000 But when you come to a denomination, that denomination 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:30.480 can go bankrupt spiritually. And there are a 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:35.080 lot of denominations that are suffering spiritual 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:40.480 bankrupt state today. But not his church. And 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:45.080 if you are a part of his church, that invisible 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:50.480 body of believers, it'll never go down in defeat. 00:13:51.340 --> 00:14:00.000 You have guaranteed spiritual wealth. and victory 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:06.139 if you are a part of this invisible body. And 00:14:06.139 --> 00:14:10.259 so it is, beloved, with your trust and your confidence 00:14:10.259 --> 00:14:16.620 in him. Not for one minute do you have to go 00:14:16.620 --> 00:14:20.720 down and defeat. Not for one minute do you have 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:33.480 to worry about poverty, about... Because you 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:42.580 have one who has promised you a daily rate. All 00:14:42.580 --> 00:14:46.000 the days of your life, even if you live to be 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:53.860 104. Ask Mr. Hinderlighter and he'll tell you. 00:14:54.700 --> 00:15:00.460 that he has victory in Christ Jesus. He'll tell 00:15:00.460 --> 00:15:04.240 you that the Lord has never let him down, even 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:11.799 at a hundred and four. You'll never live too 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:19.580 long. And no night will be too dark. You do not 00:15:19.580 --> 00:15:25.769 have to be overcome by any burden. Oh, that's 00:15:25.769 --> 00:15:28.370 glorious. Just stop right now and remember to 00:15:28.370 --> 00:15:32.129 whom you belong. Because if you live that kind 00:15:32.129 --> 00:15:37.529 of life, moment by moment, day by day, you'll 00:15:37.529 --> 00:15:42.590 find that you'll be a happy person. It's a happy 00:15:42.590 --> 00:15:45.970 life. And I still contend that people living 00:15:45.970 --> 00:15:49.509 the victorious life are the happiest. They're 00:15:49.509 --> 00:15:54.269 the most human of all people living. There is 00:15:54.269 --> 00:15:59.049 a joy. You can't help it. It isn't something 00:15:59.049 --> 00:16:01.929 that's forced. It's something that's spontaneous. 00:16:03.009 --> 00:16:07.669 I always know when I see an unhappy Christian 00:16:07.669 --> 00:16:12.029 that they're missing the boat someplace. There's 00:16:12.029 --> 00:16:17.870 something wrong someplace in their life. And 00:16:17.870 --> 00:16:22.950 I don't care what the circumstances are. I don't 00:16:22.950 --> 00:16:25.289 care under what circumstances you may have to 00:16:25.289 --> 00:16:31.669 live. God has still made provision for you to 00:16:31.669 --> 00:16:35.009 be happy because the Word of God continually 00:16:35.009 --> 00:16:42.009 speaks of the joy of the Lord. And the promise 00:16:42.009 --> 00:16:47.870 is so profound that the joy of the Lord is your 00:16:47.870 --> 00:17:00.159 strength. what those words really mean. The joy 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:06.259 of the Lord, the joy that He gives me in serving 00:17:06.259 --> 00:17:12.200 Him, the joy that I get from helping others is 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:17.099 my strength. It's something you can't analyze, 00:17:17.259 --> 00:17:21.200 but it's something that's as real to you as the 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:27.279 air that you breathe. No one will ever know the 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:34.799 joy that I get out of helping others. No one 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.940 will ever know. No one will ever know the joy 00:17:37.940 --> 00:17:42.200 that I get out of giving. I get a far greater 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:46.839 thrill, a far greater joy out of giving than 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:49.660 perhaps the joy that the folk receive and the 00:17:49.660 --> 00:17:55.140 pleasure the folk receive who have. to whom I've 00:17:55.140 --> 00:18:00.839 given, is kind of like that. Inside of me, it's 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.519 such a glorious world. It's such a glorious life. 00:18:04.500 --> 00:18:09.180 It's so challenging. I don't know whether those 00:18:09.180 --> 00:18:12.839 people in Vietnam got as big a thrill out of 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.359 receiving what I've done for them as the joy 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.119 that I got out of giving to them. You know, it's 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:21.319 just kind of like that. I'm so excited about 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:24.059 the hospital that... The Catherine Cruman Foundation 00:18:24.059 --> 00:18:28.160 is building in Vietnam. I get so excited about 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:33.539 it. Those wheelchairs that we've sent over. Those 00:18:33.539 --> 00:18:37.819 bed sheets, those pillowcases. My word, I got 00:18:37.819 --> 00:18:40.039 the thrill out of sending all that stuff. You 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.539 would have thought that I was furnishing a magnificent 00:18:42.539 --> 00:18:48.619 home someplace. It's just like that. And the 00:18:48.619 --> 00:18:52.059 bed that we've sent over. And I can just visualize 00:18:52.059 --> 00:18:57.759 these sick people. The comfort that they're finding 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:02.019 in lying on a good bed. The comfort that they 00:19:02.019 --> 00:19:06.539 get out of nice clean sheets. The wells. The 00:19:06.539 --> 00:19:09.059 money that we've sent over for them to drill 00:19:09.059 --> 00:19:13.180 wells. And I think of all the little dirty bodies 00:19:13.180 --> 00:19:15.960 that'll get a bath for perhaps the very first 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:20.700 time in their lives. It's just like that. like 00:19:20.700 --> 00:19:25.099 that. Even in sending you the letters in reply 00:19:25.099 --> 00:19:29.200 to your prayer requests. That piece of paper 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:34.640 is more than just a piece of paper to me. You 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:37.740 are a human being. And when I read that letter, 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:41.420 I don't see just that paper and that envelope. 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:50.700 I see a person. A personality. I live with You 00:19:50.700 --> 00:19:56.960 am as one with you in that need that you are 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:02.839 expressing in that prayer request. Do you understand? 00:20:03.700 --> 00:20:07.000 Some will live or die. Never understand. But 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:08.799 that's the reason that you're not a happy Christian. 00:20:10.099 --> 00:20:12.259 That's the reason that you have never experienced 00:20:12.259 --> 00:20:20.650 the real joy in being a Christian. Love is something 00:20:20.650 --> 00:20:25.730 that you do is inescapable. It's something that's 00:20:25.730 --> 00:20:29.650 spontaneous. Now, if you have to force yourself 00:20:29.650 --> 00:20:34.470 to live the kind of life that I'm talking about, 00:20:34.630 --> 00:20:40.190 then you have never had that experience where 00:20:40.190 --> 00:20:44.670 you have literally become a part of God and God 00:20:44.670 --> 00:20:49.759 has become a part of you. If you have to force 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:56.140 yourself, then there's something wrong. You are 00:20:56.140 --> 00:21:00.839 not a part of Jesus, and Jesus is not a part 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.400 of you. There is a place where literally you 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:07.720 get your vitality from him, and his vitality 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:14.420 flows through your body. You take on the personality 00:21:14.420 --> 00:21:21.480 of Jesus. You can't help it. You can not help 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:28.599 it. You will take on the personality of Jesus. 00:21:30.140 --> 00:21:37.380 And the joy of the Lord will be your strength.