Here that we come to a point which is very full of the most important instruction, what was God left to do, you say, you say, why when man did that, when man did that, broke that law of dependence, took his will into his own hands, out of God's hands, violated his trust right away, start again there and then, well that is easy isn't it, talk like that, perhaps that is what you would do, perhaps that is what you think he ought to have done, in view of all we know, do you not see that for God to have done that would have been to have simply said he never did give man free will, to have nullified the whole principle of option, he would have destroyed at once the primary thing it is never free will, if when you use it you have at once destroyed the doing so, that is not free will, but what did God do, what did God do, that is history the Lord has been and still is, like it or not, to let the choice and destroy itself, bring its own judgment, that is history, it is a long term business, a long drawn out business, and just into that, into that, let me say a thing, a very intimate thing to you and to my own heart there are some prayers that God answers, oh to God he would never answer, would to God he would never answer, because man would not take a no or an alternative, the little fragment about Israel, long neckedness and hardness of heart, this little fragment is, he gave them their request but sent leanness into their souls have you ever prayed and insisted and refused to take a no or an alternative, a wish to God, he never answered your prayer, that is possible, it is where your will is, on your own side or on his side, there is a lot of spiritual history bound up with that isn't there, but here we are saying that the Lord has taken all time to demonstrate the folly, the madness the iniquity of this wrong use of a sacred time, note then the development of this, all the immense potentialities to which we were empowered in man have been allowed to express themselves, have been drawn out by history amaze the potentialities in man, why in the last 50 years, what are the uncovering, unveiling and exploiting of the potentialities in man, make no mistake about it, in 500 years we have moved from the making of iron cannon balls to the atomic bomb, all that progress to you but look what man can do, what is in man to do, we are all wondering aren't we, what he is going to do next, if things go on for another 50 years as they have gone on in the last 50, my where shall we be, where shall we be, this is no Jules Verne imagination is it things are reality, it is going apace, in the man that God made me, but do you recognize, recognize with the acceleration and the intensification of this process, that man has never yet either made a discovery or an invention but what there has come along a parallel curse with it a new problem, that almost, almost if not all together be devils, any realm you like, oh that we were here long enough to survey the ground adequately, it is all we can do, these potentialities which were in the man that God created have been given full play by God through all time to express themselves, but always with a curse, what is a curse, I could put the curse into one word, fear, fear, the further man goes the more fearful he becomes, fear that is alive to the greatest discoveries and inventions it is fear dear friends, that is ruling men's hearts today, they are in security, they are striving for some kind of security, in order to overcome this fear, this fear, the bible is right you know, it always is, it is right on this, that a mark of the end time will be men's hearts oh you would only have to read some of the books that have been produced by the discoverers of nuclear and they'll tell you, they'll tell you in unvarnished language, that it only wants the touch of a finger to end the whole human race by this very thing that they have discovered and are now exploiting the end of the human race and an awful end, have you read the story of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, spread that over the whole human race, now I don't want to be a rationalist, but these are facts, they are in volume form by the very men who are mostly associated with this very matter there is a fear in their hearts, all this effort to find some way of security, security isn't that a word today, because of this fear and mark you, the point is this, that is accentuated and intensified the further men go in their inventions and discoveries and in the development of the potentialities in their own beings that's the end, coming very near I repeat God has taken all history and what a lot that word history covers, and future, it's not a contradiction to speak of the future as history, but there is a history that is being made for the future history is on the one side demonstrating beyond any question or doubt, oh he has made a mistake somewhere, he has gone wrong somewhere, he has defaulted somewhere no worse than that, he has done something infinitely evil and it's come out of his own use, of his own will, his own will do you not see, are we blind, are we blind, are we not taking account, I said seriously minded people are concerned about history, are you not taking account of this, that where the state of things in development, of uncovering, of intensification, of application, of discovery, of invention everything is most awful against God there is not any argument that the one thing that history has revealed is this contradiction, this strange but so patent paradox, the greatness of man and at the same time his smallness the greater he seems to be, the less he seems to be able to cope with his own greatness, is that true, he has brought it out in mere pawn, a mere puppet, a mere plaything of his own greatness, how little he is at his greatness, greatest, isn't it true that's the way of history and that's what's happening dear friend, the greatness of man, the greatness of man, yes as God made him, but now because of this one thing, a greatness that is cancerous, no other word to explain and define it, it is greatness what is cancer, what is cancer, answer all the research on that matter and I'll tell you what isn't cancer exists because of the loss of one central governing and regulating authority but that is something that's broken away from authority and ignores controlling and regulating authority in the organism and becomes an authority in itself, becomes something that is something in itself that central authority regulating and governing within the organism, taking things into its own hands, that's cancer, this greatness of man is like that, look at it, it has broken right away from the great controlling authority of God and God's will, authority of God, the answer on humanity, now at that point where it's possible, I could put in a tremendous section by way of illustration, I only have to mention things without any additional words what about international relationships, what are you going to do with it, what are you going to do, human life, inhumanity, you cut one off and a half a dozen more spring up at once, isn't it like that, international relationships well you think that you've just got the thing nicely settled and it breaks out in more than one other place, you cannot cope with this, you cannot be up side with this, international relationships, you've got all the existing potential of a prosperous and happy world, upon it what, destruction instead all the instruments and the institutions for peace, and there was never so much loss of peace in human history, all the amenities and facilities for rest, for rest, for rest, think of all your gadgets, save work think of all the inventions to make life easy, never so many amenities and facilities for rest and leisure, and never in history so much discontent, is that true, something's wrong with this humanity and we might look at industry and we might look at science and we might even look at religion, if you want me to stop somewhere, so I must leave it there for the moment, that's one side but dear friends, we're not talking just objectively, that is you, that is me, by nature, deepest, truest thing about you and about me, naturally is self -will, is pride, is possessiveness do you agree with me, all right, all right, you'll allow the Holy Spirit to take you anywhere at all and you'll discover that that is true, that's first man, that's the old, and you will see at once how that opens the door for the second man and the last Adam to start things all over again on another basis, to be the racial firstborn of another kind, and you'll see a lot more once you've seen that but I am very well aware that all that I have said may be oppressive, may be the heavy side, but friends, you and I have got to understand history, and present history, what it means, what it means, what are the forces, and what are the things that are producing this marvelous, wonderful, amazing, startling, terrible world, and where is it leading, you see God has said all right, you have made your choice, you have decided this, and you would not have it otherwise, very well, very well, the history of a kind of person or race like that will lead on and on and on until the final verdict of sin brought out, I wonder if you'll still bear with me just this moment, something that you'll be well to just store up, you know dear friends, one of the things that is going to amaze us, perhaps more than most other things, a few things will amaze us when we get to heaven, will be this, our discovery of how much more, infinitely more there was in any one statement of God than ever we imagined, when God speaks he doesn't speak just platitudes, he does not speak just observations and remarks casually in anything that God says there is the infinitude of his knowledge and his wisdom, and if any life comes into the hands of the Holy Spirit, that's one thing you discover, there is an unfathomable depth of meaning in anything that God has said, and you'll never exhaust it, preach, preach, preach on the same thing all your long life and you haven't exhausted that same thing, it's come from God and I say we're going to be amazed when we get to heaven to see the infinitude of what was in some things which were almost commonplace things with us, oh if God uses the words disobedience, rebellion, self -will, there's all time gathered into that in tragedy never, never will Adam do that, the last Adam did, went to the bottom of it, drained it, that's where the other side opens up.