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can when you come to the Physician and
say, Scan you cure that?'
Many a time have / thanked God that
He has set our secret sins in the light OF
His countenance, because while / realize
that "the heart is deccitful above all
things, and desperately wicked" and
when l think have Topped of sin here
and there, and then find that the deadly
poison still exists, / feel like crying, "Who
shall show us any goodE" ana
then j feel like crying, "Lord, lift
Thou up the light of Thy countenance
upon u.s." And / remember that God es-
timated my heart III all its sinfulness when
he made IL possible for man TO be free
from sin. And glory to God! 'if we con-
fess our sins, He is faithful and just TO
forgive US our sins, and TO cleanse us from
all unrighteousness." ME sinner; me,
a sinner,-God be merciful TO me a sinner"
Tell ii i'm your name. Tell Him your name.
And then notice that during this in
terview jacob seems TO have surrendered
his will to God. He seems to have real
lied the Importance of this hour. Some
times we hear it suggested that Jacob
overcame by saying, "My will, not Thine
be DONE" But, as have already suggested,
he never overcame until he said. Thy
will, not mine be DONE" / have heard
men try to pray this prayer OF Jacobs,
but never heard more than few people
say just what Jacob said. What do we
say? We say, II cannot let Thee go ex-
cept Thou bless me-" That was not what
Jacob said. There is n great difference in
saying to God 81 cannot let Thee go ex-
cept Thou bless me-" and 81 will not let
Thee go except Thou bless me-" "WhyW
you say, 81 think il would be presumpt-
uous to say to God Il will not let Thee
go.'n Well, that depends upon the idea
you have of God. That depends on what
you think God wants to do, whether you
think He Is trying to get away or trying
to bless you. II you believe in God as your
great lover, as your Father, and all your
conceptions OF God are centered in the
thought of the great, loving heart that
is breaking to pour itself out for your sal
vation, then it is the very lowest touch OF
humility and the very highest height OF
faith. But to say 81 cannot let Thee go
except Thou bless me-" that seems TO me
to SAVIOR OF distrust OF God, of impiety and,
phemy. As il God did not want TO bliss
you! May God help you to believe in
Him, to believe that He loves you, TO be-
slieve that He Is round about you like the
atmosphere today, pressing upon you,
trying to fill you full of Himself. II you
believe that, then this also must you be-
lieve: that it is not for God to say, but
for you to say whether you will be filled
with all the fullness OF God. God has done
His part, and / believe He has made Ii
possible for each one of US TO fulfill the
conditions by which we shall challenge
Him and say, go God, If you ever saved
anybody, you must save me. III you ever
cleansed any heart, my heart Shall be
cleansed." God exults in spirit like
unto that, one that believes in Him enough
to say: so God, You cannot deny Your
self, and You must do this. / have full
filled the conditions, and i will have the
results" am afraid that some of us in
ofca slya ha hrt, hat
ing the doorbells and then run away. Tine
last thing they want is to have people find
them there. How many OF us have prayed
that we might have the mind of Christ?
All of us, think. What did you mean
by it? IL you saw the mind of Christ
you not run from it +! Here Is what Paul
said was the mind OF Christi "Let this
mind be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus, who, being in the form of God,
thought il not robbery to be equal with
God, but made himself OF no reputation, and
took upon Him the form of servant, and
was made in the likeness of men," Was
that what you wanted? Brethren. was
that what we want when we ask for the
mind OF Christi He humbled himself
and became obedient unto the death, even
tho death of the Cross" Was that
what we wanted when we asked
for the mind of Christ?
about some things in our prayer, go God,
receive this il it be Thy will.n He said
He is more willing to give us the Holy
Spirit than earthly parents are TO give
good gifts unto their children. You
pray for it. You say, 30 God, have de-
cided that will receive the Holy Ghost"
1t is for you 10 say, 81 have made up my
mind that will receive the Holy Ghost.b
You can do il. You say, "WeIl, 4 have
tried this, and haven't had any results.
1 really did kneel down just last night, and
1 said, Lord, Twill not let Thee go except
Thou bless me- IL hasn't done any good"
'I did not" Well, have YOU got hold
yet? You did let go, friend. You did
let 20. And l think know, by a snd and
weary experience, how you came TO let go.
too. You said, 80 Lord, ] viii not let
Thee go except thou bless me-" And lie
touched that sore spot, and you realized
that there was poison beneath it, and you
saw the surgeons knife ready TO cut il
out, and you said, 81 will let CO." And
you did let go. You saw that path up
the mountain side, which you said that
you would never travel, and you said, 81
will draw the line there. Anything but
that. That confession OF sin, that bring
ing the SC ret thing TO light, that hum
bling OF self. Anything but that" And
you said, 81 will let gO,n and you did let
go. Oh, would to God that we might
come realizing that IT IL Tor US this after
noon TO say whether we will be filled with
all the fullness Of God. | would rather
see one that could honestly pray this
prayer than to see many stirred by pass
ing impulse.
A friend OF wine, who is n delightful
preacher on the Holy Ghost, told me that
he was preaching q series OF sermons on
the Baptism OF the Holy Ghost and a
minister came to him just "a he was
COino into the church 10 prcach ono of
those sermons, and he said, 81 have never
received the Holy Chest. / have been
successful in a certain way i'm my ministry
but have known all along that there has
been something lacking. So the preacher
said he thought when he had finished his
sermon IL might do this friend GOOD to
pray. So he asked him II nc would do SO.
The man knelt down i'm front of thc
platform, and my friend said that ne
never heard such a prayer. lie said
il was so filled with the divine
magnetism that the people lifted up their
nd of