The Gospel Our Trust #3 — Ernest C. Reisinger

The choice crowd. The Monday night crowd is the best. They're the choice crowd. I trust that our time together will encourage our hearts. Mutually, my heart will be encouraged by you, and I trust that our gathering together will encourage your heart to do that great work that the Lord called us to do.

Let's just bow to Him in a word of prayer now before we look at the book. Our Father, we would come tonight as men and women who have no strength in ourselves, but Thou art the God of all grace, and our confidence is in that grace and Thine ability to supply our needs.

We pray for Thy church tonight, Lord, the world over. We pray that Thou would forgive us in our fumble, do Thy will, forgive us for our feebleness, and visit us with Thy power by Thy Spirit. Bless Thy servants tonight in every nook and corner of the globe.

May they see Jesus, and may they labor for Thy glory as well as for the good of man. Be with us tonight, Lord, as we fellowship together. May we hear from heaven by Thy Spirit. A little review tonight, Pastor.

The Gospel, Its Bad News, and the Responsibility of the Law

Looking at that verse in 1 Thessalonians 2, verse 4, and we've been considering our church, the gospel. We've already spent one section together on the gospel, the good news, and spent a great deal of time on the fact that bad news presupposes the good news.

And there are certain facts, namely our condition in God's character and man's destination. These facts need to be pressed on men before they'll ever be or desiring to receive the good news. They must hear the bad news.

They must hear what they are in relationship to what God commands them to be. Therefore, we talked about the commandments. The commandments is every man's responsibility, Christian or not Christian. We can say to the world, this is what God demands and commands of you.

That's the knife of Moses that we talked about. That's the knife that Paul said was the schoolmaster to bring him to Christ. That's the instrument that showed Paul in Romans 7, 7, that it was, that he had a covetous heart, that he coveted.

And he had not known sin until he reached that tenth commandment. Then the second time we gathered, we talked about our task. If our trust is the gospel, we see that even so we're to speak. If we have no desire to spread the gospel tonight, the symptoms of bad cause may be, but you may not pursue it very diligently, but if you, if you have been a recipient of the good news and there's no desire in your heart, be into that clear-cut command, I would say that that's symptom.

Possibly you've never received a gospel in a saving way. Possibly you've never closed with Christ as he's offered in a saving way. Our task is to make it known. And then we talked last night about our motives to carry out that task.

The Motives for Spreading the Gospel

And we mentioned two. We didn't get to the last one. First of all, we talked about how we're to carry out that task, our motive. What should motivate me? If my trust is the gospel, every Christian's trust is the gospel, if my task is to speak it and spread it by life and by lip, then what motivates me?

And we mentioned two things and sought desperately to put them in order, which we believe is the scriptural order. First, God's command. Secondly, man's need and compassion on man. And then, if our task is to speak by life and by lip, the gospel, we must know something about this message.

And we pointed out last night that the message was not only trust, but the message was to turn as well as to trust. I hope you read the Westminster Confession of Faith on repentance. Repentance. Repentance.

And we pointed out that the root sin, why men need to repent, is because they have a root sin, a root problem. And that root problem is, I will. That's why they break every commandment, every sin you've ever committed, every sin that I have committed.

I've committed because there's an awful principle of sin in me and in you that says, I will. And until that's touched by the Holy Ghost, brought us to the place where we bow and are anxious about the will of God, we may make crooked steps in seeking to do that will.

But it certainly is the desire of our heart to do it. Whether we stumble and fall and fail, it's still the root desire of our heart to do the will of God. The message is trust as well as turn. We pointed out that it must reach the whole man.

If man would savingly close with Christ as is offered in the gospel, it must reach the whole man. It must reach his intellect because that's what he thinks with, his emotions because that's what he feels with.

It must reach his conscience because that's what he discerns with. And it must reach his will and that's what he decides with. And then the other thing, and we stopped there about, just about, we pointed out that the one that we're to proclaim, we must proclaim him in all of his offices.

Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King

And to savingly close with him, man has to receive him, not one of his offices. We're not saved by one of his offices. We're saved by receiving him. He that hath the Son hath life, not he that hath one of the offices of the Son hath life.

And the offices in particular that we mentioned was prophet, priest, and king. A prophet or a priest who has sacrificed for me and presently intercedes for me. A prophet who guides and instructs me, and a king who rules and reigns over me.

And so the world needs to know who Jesus is. It's our job to not present him as some kind of a celestial bellboy. You just call on Jesus. This buddy-buddy Jesus stuff in our day is very repulsive to my spirit, and I'm sure repulsive to the Holy Ghost.

People are too familiar with the deity today. It took our grandfathers a half hour to address the deity. Not this buddy-buddy. He's the Lord. And we want to dwell on that aspect a little bit tonight.

Two things our generation needs to know, and that is who Jesus is. He's the Lord. And the second thing they need to know is where he is. He's on a throne. He's not a celestial bellboy, and we run over to the fellow in jail and not talk to him any one.

And boy, he wants Jesus to help him out of his problem. But he has no sense or evidence of any awaking or sin in his heart. He just wants out of trouble. Here's Mary and John, and they're having a tremendous domestic problem.

And so they want this little celestial bellboy that they think can come at the snap of their finger or the whistle. Just come on, Jesus, solve my little domestic problem. And here's my friend in business.

He's gone bankrupt because he stayed in bed too long, or because of some other reason, maybe a legitimate reason. He wants a celestial bellboy to come and solve his problems. Now, I believe that Jesus comes to meet us in our need, whether it be physical or any other way.

Evangelism Must Proclaim the Lordship of Christ

But I don't want to pan him off as a celestial bellboy. Our message, then, we want to talk about tonight is, if our message and our trust is the gospel and our task is to spread it, we must understand and be motivated properly.

We must have the right message. We ought to think a bit about our method. Now, on the premise that Jesus Christ is Lord, what do we do when we take Jesus Christ to the world, the best we know how? Well, first of all, let me tell you what we don't do.

The great error of our evangelical day is begging men to bargain with Jesus. I've been in meetings already where I went through excruciating pains, where the fellow starts to try to get votes for Jesus, just like he's getting votes for Jesus.

And I've been tempted, and I—maybe it was the Spirit prompting me, but I felt like, after a while, standing up and saying, Wait a minute! Wait a minute, preacher! You don't have to get votes for Jesus!

He's already in office, right now! We're not drumming up votes for him. He's in office. And so I say tonight, we're not meant to bring men to bargain with Jesus Christ. We're to tell men to bow, because he's the Lord.

And the only safe place for any subject before his Sovereign is at the feet of the Master, crying out for mercy. I want to look at a few texts tonight and show you that this is not something we've dreamed up.

This is what happened in the New Testament. Crying out for mercy. I hear somebody say, Well, I want what's coming to me! All right, God will give you that. God will give anybody that desires what's coming to them, he'll give it to them.

He'll please you. Frankly, I don't want what's coming to me. And therefore, I've cried out many times, Lord have mercy. If you want what's coming to me, too, you just say, Lord, give me what's coming to me, and he'll do it.

And you'll wake up in hell. All that's coming to me, he's the God of mercy. And we're meant, invite men, to bow at him because he's Lord. Will you turn in the book of Acts, please, just a as we pass through a few scriptures, on this one point, and that is who Jesus is.

And if he is what the Bible says he is, and what we say he is, then we must be very particular about our methods on how we invite men to him. And I say again, not to bargain with the deity, but to bow.

Peter's Pentecost Sermon and the Sovereignty of Christ

Would you look at Acts chapter 2, verse 36. This is the end of the first Christian sermon, or begin, or close the end. And I think if we want to find out some idea of what these, how Peter preached this, read the sermon carefully, but I want to draw your attention to the end of the sermon.

And that begins in verse 36, where he says, Therefore, therefore, somebody told me once long ago, some good Bible teacher, when you see the word, therefore, in the Bible, you want to look why it's therefore.

He's saying all these things he said about the Lord of glory. And now he says, Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made this same Jesus, whom you have crucified, Lord and Christ.

You don't make him Lord, my friend. We don't tell, invite people to make him the Lord. God Almighty's made him Lord. And he is the Lord. You don't make him Lord, you bow because he is the Lord. And you say, well, you're just making a little technical difference the way you say it.

No, my dear, there's a vast difference. And one of it stems from a great problem that they make man sovereign, and the other is God is sovereign. That's the difference. If you make him Lord, you're sovereign.

But if you borrowed his feet because he's sovereign, that's entirely different. That's a million miles apart. And that's the difference between man-centered evangelism and God-centered evangelism. That's the difference.

That's the crux of the matter, right there. I'm sure people, the scriptures, we don't use apologetics. We use all the means that God puts in our hands. We're with this in view, that Jesus Christ is Lord.

And that man I'm witnessing to, I'm not desiring that he strike a bargain with Jesus, but that he bow at his feet and cry out for mercy. Let's look at Acts chapter 5. I told you last night that 92 times the word is mentioned in Acts, 13 times the Lord Jesus, and 6 times the Lord Jesus Christ in one book.

Now I'm not going to turn to all those references tonight. I'll let you do that on your spare time. Chapter 5, verse 29, and then I think this is the second, no this is more than the second, the second sermon is back there a little ways.

But this is another, another time when Peter, then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, verse 29, we ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus and he charged him with his death, whom he crucified and hanged on a tree.

He told them about their free will, what it did to him. Free will drove them, led them to crucify the Lord of glory. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a prince. That's somebody that rules.

I don't know anything about a prince rules and reigns. And a Savior. Notice the order, my dear. Notice the order. He's Lord. Let's turn to Nathanael. When, when Nathanael met the Savior. Turn to John chapter 1.

Nathanael, Thomas, and the Recognition of Jesus as Lord

I think it's interesting to note what these men recognized. You see what I'm trying to get at? And what I hope I'm getting through is this, that this little Jesus that people are hustling off today, we ought to raise up our voices in holy horror.

And this little Jesus that's so little, meek, and mild, and he stands outside your big heart's door and he knocks and you want to be a big so-and-so and let him in. And centered evangelism. I speak to you tonight of one who is the Lord of glory and he arrests people and slays them.

He does it with sweet grace in many ways, but he arrests men. And sometimes I get the idea that the sinner's a great big Atlas fella. You know, that's all the ball up in the air. And here's this little wee Jesus outside their heart's door knocking to let him in.

I say, Oh, wait a minute, brother. You got that thing backwards. I got a big Jesus and a wee sinner. I say to that sinner, my friend, you better bow because he's the Lord. You better bow because he's the Lord.

Let's see Nathanael a minute. Chapter one of John, verse 47. Saw Nathanael coming to him and he said to him, Behold an Israelite, indeed in whom is no guile. Nathanael said to him, Whence knowest thou me?

Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when thou was under the fig tree, I saw thee. I love this. Nathanael wasn't looking for him as much as Jesus. You know, it's a wonderful thing.

I used to say in my testimony, I found the Lord. Well, that's true. He was never lost, but I found him anyhow. He wasn't lost. I was the one that was lost, you see. But a long time after I read that wonderful text in the little epistle with John and I found out what it was all about.

I learned a great truth that I love him because he first loved me. This is what you see here. He said, I saw you under the fig tree. Nathanael answered and said unto him, Rabbi, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God.

Thou art the King. Thou art the King. That's recognition. What did Thomas say? We won't turn to it in John 20. Did he say Jesus is my personal Savior? Oh, he was that all right. But he says, my Lord. What did the dying thief say in Luke 23?

Paul's Conversion and Submission to Christ

What did the dying thief say? Remember me. Let's look at St. Paul. I could just go on all night. Chapter 9 of Acts. One text like this. The fellow here, he wasn't looking for Jesus. He was locking up Christians.

The only thing he could against the Lord of glory for Jesus, he was even persecuting those who named his name. But I see a mighty, sovereign, saving Savior. And a man and the bent of his life and the bent of his heart and the desire of his heart is to do death's fight to the name of Christ.

I see him on his way to Damascus by this text and I see him struck down. And when he's struck down, I see, I read here about that voice. It says, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? He stood and said, who art thou?

What class? Who art thou, Lord? Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest. But I want you to see verse 6. And he trembling and astonished, what would thou have me to do? What would thou have me to do?

He was blind. Only God can give sight to the blind. Only God can give sight to the blind. Would you notice that he wanted to know what he could do? Let me ask you a question tonight. Sincerity, which I think all of you have.

I wish I'd believe all of you. What would you have me to do? I'll tell you, it'll be more than sit in the pew Sunday by Sunday. He'll answer you with something else beside that. He'll give you something to do if you mean business.

But the point I want to make is he was Lord. Turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4, verse 5. Paul didn't trust Jesus as his personal Savior and then at some convenient time, like a little fire escape from hell, didn't want to go to hell, so he trust Jesus as his personal Savior.

And then some convenient time, when it was convenient to Paul to make him Lord. No, my dear, that's not there. 2nd Corinthians chapter 4, verse 5. Paul, what'd you do after that? What'd you tell people about Jesus?

Did you kind of huff him off for the fire insurance policy? Listen to this, verse 5. This is what he preached. For we preach not ourselves, Jesus. Do you think I'm straightening this point? Do you think I can, do you think I can overemphasize his Lordship?

I'd like to cry this to the world tonight. He's the Lord. He's the Lord. And I say he's not subject to vote or veto. He's the Lord. I wish our churches, Sunday by Sunday, would know this great truth. I'm not talking about liberal churches.

I wish our evangelical churches knew this truth, that Jesus Christ is the Lord. I want to tell you something else, my friend. Turn to Romans chapter 14. I want to tell you tonight that he's your Lord.

Romans chapter 14, verse 9. To this end, both die that he might be Lord both of the living and the dead, or the dead and the living. I want to say tonight from behind this pulpit, if you're lost tonight, he's your Lord.

Because he's the Lord of the living, and he's the Lord of the dead. Believe it or not, it makes no difference. He's the Lord, right now, of the living and of the dead. I wish we believed it. I wish this vision of evangelicals, so called, why do I bring that in at this point?

Lordship, Assurance, and the Church's Methods

I say it would change our methods. It will make some contribution to changing your method. I know that as God, I believe, by the Spirit showed me this, it changed my method. Changed my method. Our problem today, and this is a good, I don't have to tell you here, in almost any church I get, I'm sure that any speaker that gets around and visits many churches and talks to many pastors, and in his own church, by observation, has a great problem with about half of our people.

We don't know if they're saved or lost. Now I don't mean we're meant to know, necessarily, because there's that area where no man can go. There's that area where no man could go. We want to talk about another aspect of this tomorrow night when we deal, when we talk about the other part of this little verse where Paul said, it dried my heart.

What was it that tried his heart? We've noticed his task, we know the trust, but what was it that tried his heart? We'll save it for tomorrow night. Listen, turn to Colossians with me. You say, I don't know what's the reason for all this problem in the church.

I don't know why a man would ever ask me to his church to speak to his young people and tell me their life didn't change, but they're saved. I don't know how, I don't know how an evangelical man meant to be taught, a middle school man would ever make a statement like that.

I don't know. When you come and speak to my young people, they're saved, but they just, their life just never changed. Tonight I know one of the reasons why we have this whole host of people in no man's land.

They're not serving the Lord. They're miserable in the service of God. The dear pastors have to fight them and twist them at every turn of the hand to do something, and then they do it half-heartedly.

There's no, they've never said, Lord, what would you have me to do? They're spectators, wonderful spectators of the, of the, of the program. A lot of nice people, the kind of people you wouldn't mind spending an evening with, congenial, wonderful, sweet.

They've never said what St. Paul did. I just want to submit one reason. There's probably many. I want to submit one reason. Will you look at Colossians chapter 2, verse 6. Paul's exhorting, exhorting people, and he said, as ye have therefore received Jesus as your personal Savior, ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord.

They got off to a right start. That's what, that's my point. They got off to a right start, right start, or received Christ Jesus the Lord. So walk ye in him. That's the exhortation. But he wasn't trying to get unsafe people that had a fire insurance policy to walk the Christian way.

Biblical Principles for Personal Evangelism

He was talking to people who had, who had come to know Christ Jesus and received Christ Jesus the Lord. John chapter 1, and I'm not going to do it tonight. If you study John chapter 1, you'll find some great hints about methods.

If you study our Lord's dealings with people, you'll find some hints about methods. You know what most people would like us to do when we talk about personal evangelism and carrying the gospel to the ends of the earth?

They'd like us to give them ten rules. That's what everybody would like. They'd like you to give them ten rules, or five rules, or three rules that are foolproof. My dear, there's no ten rules to this holy work.

There's some principles, but there's no ten rules. Look at Jesus as he meets Nicodemus, the religious man, a moral man, obviously, an upright man. The holy eyes of Jesus looks on him and says, Nicodemus, you must be born again.

John chapter 3. But he didn't tell the woman in John chapter 4 that, did he? Oh, she had to be born again, there's no doubt about that. But he didn't tell her that. He talked with that woman, faced with her sins.

He reminded her she had about five or six husbands, and she was livid without the benefit of clergy with the sixth. He put her finger right on it. She found out who he was. Only God can go there. Only God can put his finger in that area.

That's why we ought to pray. If only God can do the work, it ought to drive us to pray. Not drive us to fatalism, drive us to the ordained means that God Almighty has ordained to accomplish the end. Don't despise the means.

Become a fatalist, not scriptural, from the pit. Old John Calvin said, it's just as important to assert the true validity of the secondary agent as it is to assert the ultimate validity of the final cause.

Want me to put that in our language? That was Calvin's language. This is what he meant. He said, the means is just as important. It despises the means that God has ordained. Bound for trouble. The God who ordained the end has ordained the means.

He's the God who ordained the end, ordained that Jesus Christ is son. You think he will have a bride? Leave church. If I didn't believe that, I'd throw in a towel. Bible, Christianity and all. And I'd run.

Say, come what may. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow I might die. I'd quit. If I had confidence in sinners turning to Christ, I'd quit. Confidence in God arresting a witness and pass out another track.

I sent out about 200 a month and I've been doing it for 10 years. I thought that the dependent on a sinner and his great ability to turn to God. But if we got on our knees, we'd agree. Because you and I pray the same prayer.

If I got down on my knees with that mother whose wayward son is out tonight, she'd say, Oh God, save John. Save John. Oh Lord, if you don't save him. If I got down beside that fellow whose brother's lost in sin tonight, she'd say, Oh Lord, save Tom.

I got down beside that young girl whose father's lost and unsaved, she'd say, Oh, save my daddy. The only difference between a lot of us is I believe that when I stand up. Most people, when they get up, they forget what they pray.

That's the difference. Believe it when you stand up, will you? Huh? It'll affect your motive. It'll affect your methods. It will have somewhat to do with your message. I believe that Jesus Christ will have a church tonight.

He just came to make salvation possible. I believe he came to save somebody. That encourages my heart tonight. That drives me on. That he came to save somebody. Luke 19 .10 says the Son of Man has come to seek and to save.

Doesn't say he came to make salvation possible. Possibly some big sinner if he feels like it. At his convenience, if he might just, if you please, pretty please, take Jesus. The Lord of this book came from glory.

Not by accident. He had a mission. Read John Chapin. When I meet somebody that don't hear, I keep on witnessing to them, but I always think of this verse. Now this will encourage you when you witness.

This will stop you from being discouraged. Listen to this. He's talking about in that great picture of the sheep and the shepherds. This is what he said. But ye believe not. Why don't they believe? Because you're not my sheep.

As I said unto you, my sheep hear my voice. Did you? No, they follow me. What do you do for them? Blessed Lord, I give unto them eternal life. Who do you give eternal life? My sheep. What do the sheep do?

They follow me. And what do I do? I give unto them eternal life. They shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Why, Lord? Because my Father which gave them me. He gave them to me.

He said, Jesus, I want you to have a bride. He gave these. He gave all these. All who believe. He gave them to me. My Father gave me these. My Father is greater than all. And he gave me a bride. He gave me a church.

They follow me. I don't know if you're sheep tonight. Are you following him? Are you sheep tonight? Did you believe him? All his sheep believe. And they follow. And he does something for them. I'm talking about our methods.

And I believe a little of this will have something to do with your methods. You believe this, Pastor? Eh? Think it'll affect your methods? I believe it will, too. I know it has affected mine. As I say, Lord.

Personal Testimonies of Patient Evangelism

There's old John. He hates you. He's a slave to alcohol. He's a slave to drink. There's Mary. There's Tom. Oh, Lord. Arrest him. Save him. Bring him to thyself. You say, how does it work? Well, I'll tell you.

May I beg your indulgence just to share a few personal experiences? A real estate man in our town, a leading broker in our town. I talked to that man for ten years. He was in a big ecclesiastical morgue and in the choir.

I started to talk to him. First thing, he learned a lot of the language from me. Wasn't saved. Oh, I could have given him that fuller brush treatment long since. I could have got him to say the verses after me and say yes and no, and I could have patted him on the back and said he was saved.

But I don't give anybody assurance. I don't have more than enough for myself. The Holy Ghost's got to give them assurance. If he doesn't give them to them, they got the wrong kind. So that's not my business.

My business is to tell him to repent, to turn to the Savior, to fall to the sea, and to acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord of all. Ten years I witnessed to it. I even, it got to the place, we had a big deal together, we got to the place where he used to bring his Bible with him when we would go on a trip.

Now I could have run around over the country telling about how I led him to the Lord and he's now bringing his Bible along and somebody could have wrote a tract about me winning that Father Christ. He wasn't saved.

To a place where he cried out for mercy. Do you know what happens to everybody that gets to that place where they cry out to mercy? God shows mercy. Do you ever cry for mercy? He shows mercy because he's a God of mercy.

One of your good parishioners, Earl's family that God guided me into, her brother, this family, LePaul was in law school. We were in a big deal together building about a hundred houses for the government.

He's been our attorney for eight years. When I first got to know him, he was well headed on the way to be an alcoholic. He was starting to drink. Those social little sips had become, he'd become a slave to them.

So he wanted me to give his son a job, give his son a job one year in the summer while he was in law school. I said I'll be glad to do it. So I gave him a job. He didn't get much work done. I usually had to hide him to keep him out of the way to keep other people back.

But he was a real nice fella. I gave him a job. He had heard that I was pretty sane in business. But when it came down to religion, I had a few bricks less than a full load. He had heard all kinds of things about me.

Boy, this fella's a bug on religion. Just don't start to talk to him about religion. So I remember the first night, he's an aggressive character. And the first night on the job, after we'd closed up shop, he was anxious to, in my favorite subject, and it wasn't hard, and I didn't fight him, and we talked for about an hour.

And he went away with a kind of a pity that I hadn't studied Darwin and a few other things. And he was sure that if I'd had a concentrated course of Darwin and so on, that I'd have been straightened out.

And I said to him, let me ask you, have you ever read a book on apologetics, a book on Christian evidence? He never did. I said, well, I might pity you just the same as you pity me. I said, I'll let you have a couple.

You'll read them. Oh, yeah. I gave him the books at the time, and I gave him a lot of tracts, too. The fact is, he still has one that he used to have beside the bed to set the whiskey glass on to keep from staining the table.

He's keeping that as a little souvenir. I think that's about as far as the tracts got. But about Christmas time, his wife was tired of moving these books out of the way, and then my doorbell rang, and I'd been crying out to the Lord for this young fellow, crying out to God for him.

Doorbell rang, here he is with my books, and I'm all thrilled. I thought, boy, he probably got saved. He'd come down to talk about it. Yeah, he got saved, and I said, all eager, you know. I said, well, did you read the books?

He said, no, really, I haven't had time. He said, and Katie, she's just tired of moving these books around the house, and I thought I'd better bring them back. Here's dinner. But you see, that doesn't come under the head of my business to save people.

I'm supposed to tell them how to get saved. So I kind of braced up. The next summer came by, and he wanted a job again. I said, yeah, I'd like you to come to work. I said, but not out on the job this time.

I think I'll put you in the office, and I'm very busy, and I've got to do some speaking. I'd like you to make me a book report on a couple books. I said, while you're answering the phone, I'll let you read these books, and I'll pay you $50 a week, but I want you to give me, I want you to recap for me and put this in a condensed form so I can get it.

I'm busy. So I come in, and he's propped up smoking cigarettes with his feet up on my desk, and I didn't even put my own feet on my desk. So I bore along, and a couple more days, a couple more weeks went by, and finally I saw a Bible there, and he was checking what this fellow said, whether it was really in the Bible or not.

It just took time. Well, let me shorten it. God got a hold of his heart, and he saved that young lawyer, and he saved his brother. He's done a lot of work in that household because he's the Lord, but I'd never keep in the message by trying to get him to bargain with somebody, trying to get him to bow to somebody.

I say to you tonight, he's the Lord, and I say to you tonight, he's your Lord. I say that the method we should use is to tell the world that he's the Lord and invite every sinner to bow at his feet. Let me tell you one other one.

Evangelism Among a Catholic Law Student

Young Catholic fellow in law school. I love law students. Law students and Jews and Catholics, I like that. These lost Protestants, I just kind of have to leave them to the Lord, and I say, Lord, send somebody else to them.

No, I'm not serious. I'm not serious about that. I like to talk to them too, but they've heard so much. They've heard so much. They've heard so much, and know so little. One law student came into my office not too long ago, and it was obvious by his name that I had guessed by his name and his nationality that he was a young Roman Catholic, and I guessed right.