26-0706P_HIS UNFAILING WORDS OF PROMISE PT-7 (CONVINCED THEN CONCERNED)
Mat 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mat 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
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*...BUT I BELIEVE IT'S
BECAUSE OF A LACK OF INTEREST, CONCERN--NOT ENOUGH CONCERN.
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E-26 So today, I feel, in the face of... Our
nation has more membership-Christians than the nation's ever known of. But did you know, last year
according to the statistics that there hasn't--the--no seminary--one just
barely compared with the year before, but every other seminary, or school, or
Bible school fell under its quota of ministers. Where
young people with calls in their life to go out into the field, and so forth,
that goes for their training, and so forth, how they used to stand in line to be
enrolled in the schools; and now you can hardly persuade them in. There's
something wrong somewhere. See? I believe with all my heart, without any,
hoping not to be saying anything wrong, but I
believe it's because of a lack of interest, concern--not enough concern. There's
too much concern about making a atomic bomb, too much concern about who is
going to get on the moon first, and--and... I ain't caring about getting on the
moon. I want to get in heaven, is where I--I want to get.
*...THIS FALLING AWAY IS A LACK OF CONCERN FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST.
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E-28 Now, this falling away is a
lack of concern for the body of Christ. I believe that maybe the right
thing hasn't been presented. So many young students that would take a call in
life sees so many failures out here, and really see that the order and program
of the day has failed. Not... Christ hasn't failed, but the system that we have
created has failed. Christ's program hasn't failed,
but the people's system has failed. Now, Christ
has a program that we must enter in.
*THEN
THAT LOSES CONCERN, AND AFTER WHILE YOU'VE LOST THE WHOLE--YOU--YOU'VE LOST
EVERYTHING.
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E-48 Convinced and then concerned. Now, Andrew was concerned
about his brother as soon as he was absolutely convinced that that was the
Messiah. How did he do it? He stayed with Him all
night. The trouble of it is, we can't stay with Him five minutes. "Oh,
we got to get home. Some television program's on. We've got to see that play. I
just can't stay no longer; that's all. I haven't missed that in a long time.
It's a serial they're running, you know, and so I can't...?..." That's it.
Uh-huh. "I tell you. I just got to do this, or that. I can't do this and
do that": no time.
Oh, brother, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness." See? But the
thing... Then that loses concern, and after while
you've lost the whole--you--you've lost everything. You're not concerned about
anything then, but just your own self. That's right.
* AND I BELIEVE THAT EVERY
MAN, EVERY WOMAN, EVERY BOY OR GIRL THAT EVER STAYS LONG ENOUGH THAT YOU'RE
CONVINCED THAT IT IS RIGHT
CONVINCED.THEN.CONCERNED_ TEMPE.AZ THURSDAY_ 62-0118
E-44 Now, Andrew become very, very concerned, because he stayed with Him all night and was convinced. And then, when he was--become convinced that He was the Christ, then he was concerned about somebody else. And I believe that every man, every woman, every boy or girl that ever stays long enough that you're convinced that it is right, and it is the Holy Ghost, you're burdened so hard in your heart that you can't stand still and let these people die like this in shame and sin. It'll grind the very heart out of you to get out here on these streets.
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E-39 After Jacob had wrestled all night, instead of trying to war away that
Man, Jacob held onto Him. Oh, I wish we had about a half hour on that, how that
wrestling prince... He--he was able to hold on until he got what he was after.
He held until... It took all night, but he stayed
there. He wanted to be absolutely convinced. And when he stayed, until God
changed his walking, he was convinced.
That's the trouble of
it today. We don't stay long enough till we get our
walking convinced. We don't walk like Christians. If we stay long enough with Him, He will make you walk
different, talk different, live different, act different, sleep different, be
different. And the reason is we don't stay long enough. We don't hold on.
Jacob held on.
He said, "Let me
loose. I've got to go."
He said, "I'm
not going to leave You until I'm thoroughly convinced." Amen. Then when you take a promise of God and hold on to that
un--don't let Him loose, just stay there until you see God come on the scene,
then you're convinced. And when you're convinced then you're concerned about
others. There's something about it that makes you concerned.
Jacob sent forth
cattle, and everything else, to meet his brother. He was concerned about the
welfare of his brother, after he was convinced that there was a God, after he'd
had some wrestling with Him himself. We need that.
* YOU HAVE TO BE CONVINCED
BEFORE YOU CAN BE CONCERNED.
CONVINCED.THEN.CONCERNED_
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11-2 Why isn't there a concern like there used to be? It's... I believe the
reason that if there's not as much concern as there used to be; they're not as
convinced as they used to be. You have to be
convinced before you can be concerned. Not concerned--you take the time
now. Instead of evangelizing and trying to do something, everybody wants a
great big school or a great big something that they can teach and--and make the
ministers have better pulpit manners and so forth.
You know what I
believe? I believe that the people is not convinced
that Jesus is coming soon. I don't believe that they're convinced that He's
coming in this age. And I believe that's the reason that they're not concerned,
because they're not fully convinced. That's right. They're not convinced
that He's with them. If they were, they would come
back to the Word. That's right.
* LOVE--LOVE IS--IS
DISCIPLINED. YOU MUST DISCIPLINE PEOPLE, IF YOU LOVE THEM.
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11-4 And now, many people might misunderstand it. Love--love
is--is disciplined. You must discipline people, if you love them. If your
little girl was setting out in the road (as I said this morning) making mud
cakes, if you really love her, you'd get her off that road.
What if your wife
said, "John somebody (whatever your name is)--you know a--a..." You
just let her run out with some other man, because you said, "Bless her
little heart, she wants to do it, and I just love her so much; I'm going to let
her do it." You'd be a poor excuse of a husband. She ought to get rid of
you and get somebody that loves her, that'll take care of her. I didn't mean it
that way, 'cause you can't do that.
* AND GOD'S GOT TO KEEP HIS
WORD TO US.
CONVINCED.THEN.CONCERNED_
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12-1 But what am I trying to get at is this, that what if God would said to
Eve, "Poor little Eve, you know you're My child. I--I--I... You didn't
mean to do that." 'Course she didn't mean to do it; certainly she didn't,
but she did it. And we know she did it. We see the results of it yet. But you
see, He--he loved her, and He had to keep His Word to her. And God's got to keep His Word to us. So we must obey His
Word. And when we obey His Word and see Him then vindicate what He said He
would do, then we're convinced (That's right.), that the Word's right.
* YOU MUST ACT IT, BELIEVE
IT, BE CONVINCED, AND THEN YOU'LL BE CONCERNED.
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12-4 Why? You've got to be convinced first that
it is God. Then you know where you're standing. True. Convinced first,
then you get your concern. Although people claim God's with them, but
they're... It's not all... Mother used to say, "Actions speaks louder
than words." Certainly it does. You must
act it, believe it, be convinced, and then you'll be concerned.
Jesus said, "If you love Me, feed My sheep." Now, that's where I think we've failed a lot, is
feeding His sheep. "If you love Me, feed My
sheep." Today it's almost, "shear my sheep." Get them
into a place and take everything they've got, and make them pledge their home
and all of their old age pensions and everything else. Talk about a shearing;
Jesus never said that.
*"CAST OUR CARES UPON HIM, FOR HE CARETH FOR YOU."
HE.CARETH.FOR.YOU_
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48 I read in the Scripture some time ago, where It said, "Not
discerning the Lord's Body." And I thought, "What a statement,"
found in I Corinthians 11.
... not discerning the Lord's body.
And for this cause many are sick and weakly among
you...
The
Lord's Body is the Church. And we do not have spiritual discernment enough to
care for one another. How can we care then if we can't
care for each other? How can we care for the lost and the dying? What hospital
can we take them to? "Cast our cares upon Him, for He careth for
you."
Man takes this short routes, and what makes them do that is because God, when He made man, He didn't make man to do that. He made man to be happy, to have satisfaction, to be comforted. Man... God doesn't want His children to be uncomfortable. You would not...
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51 Why, you mothers would get up in the middle of the night, if you were
ever so sick; if junior had the cover kicked off of him, and you know that the
little fellow might take a cold, you'd struggle some way to get to the bedside
to make him comfortable. If one of your loved ones was laying sick with a
fever, and you could stay there with a rag and bathe their face in cool water
to make them comfortable, you would do it, one of your children. You would set
there, though you were sick and you needed to be in bed yourself, you'd still
set there; because your children mean something to you. They're a part of you;
they're your life.
Lam 3:22 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lam 3:23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Lam 3:24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lam 3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Lam 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lam 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lam 3:28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Lam 3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Lam 3:30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lam 3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
Lam 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Psa 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psa 84:12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
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