During his era Samuel P. Jones was known to be second only to D. L. Moody in fame. Starting life as a brilliant lawyer, than losing it all to alcohol, he went on to preach and see thousands saved all over America.
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00:00 --> 00:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Revived Fauts is a production of Revived Studios.
00:09 --> 00:16 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Troy Angel, and you're listening to Revived Fauts.
00:17 --> 00:25 [SPEAKER_00]: God devotes one book to tell me of my origin and the thousand chapters that follow, tell me where I'm going.
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00:31 --> 00:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Every episode, we bring you a different voice from history and a sermon that they delivered today.
00:36 --> 00:39 [SPEAKER_02]: We're listening to a sermon by Samuel P. Jones.
00:39 --> 00:44 [SPEAKER_02]: He preached a sermon sometime in the late 19th century in America.
00:44 --> 00:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Troy, how are you doing today?
00:46 --> 00:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm doing good.
00:47 --> 00:49 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been a good week.
00:50 --> 00:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Indonesia is finally starting to reign a little bit, which is really nice.
00:54 --> 01:10 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been a very long dry season, uh, Dearing Elini New Year's, what normally when reigns would start to kind of begin in the early October, maybe even late September days, of where I live, they don't come till the middle of November slash.
01:12 --> 01:12 [SPEAKER_01]: December.
01:13 --> 01:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's really hard because the dry season is very, is very, it has, it overcome, it'll is great when it first gets there, but it kind of oversees it's welcome and everything is just how all the plants are like dead everywhere you love fields are like Savannah looking grass right now, like everything is waiting for the rain to come.
01:33 --> 01:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And but it doesn't make it any less hot.
01:35 --> 01:38 [SPEAKER_01]: You're just melting humidity is just as strong as ever.
01:38 --> 01:41 [SPEAKER_01]: So getting those first few raids has been super nice over here.
01:42 --> 01:43 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the closest to fall.
01:43 --> 01:47 [SPEAKER_01]: We get so I've got to enjoy the best like all here is lovely.
01:47 --> 01:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Let me tell you.
01:48 --> 01:49 [SPEAKER_02]: I get we are missing all fall.
01:50 --> 01:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Lovely fall and you know they say the the word around town is that they say we're gonna have a very snowy winter.
01:59 --> 02:02 [SPEAKER_02]: I guess we're we're answering you love so I forgot about that
02:03 --> 02:03 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't dislike snow.
02:04 --> 02:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you do like being sarcastic or you know, I remember you like, you might turn.
02:10 --> 02:22 [SPEAKER_01]: So sometimes you tell stories about me from Bible College embarrassed me, but I just didn't even embarrass me about how I remember, you would like get in a sleeping bag and just sit outside the dorm in the snow, like a little worm.
02:22 --> 02:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I could just be like you, you'd be so loved just like sitting in the cold snow and warm and it sounds nice, don't give it wrong.
02:28 --> 02:30 [SPEAKER_01]: But being from Florida, that was not my vibe.
02:30 --> 02:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I like snow, it's fine.
02:32 --> 02:52 [SPEAKER_02]: for about a day and then it's all black and gross and I'm like are we still doing this yeah yeah we did have some particularly snowy years there at Bible College like more so than normal for that area uh and so you got a full introduction to your your Arctic living style very snowy so I there I do remember there was one
02:52 --> 02:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Tell me if you remember this.
02:53 --> 03:04 [SPEAKER_02]: There was one day we had we went to the cafeteria to eat lunch And in the middle of a snowstorm and yeah, it wasn't very many people that showed up because it was I do I definitely remember this day.
03:04 --> 03:14 [SPEAKER_02]: That was like for a few people in there and we didn't want to leave because it was a Dears talk back to the dorms and it was a middle snowstorm and so we just we stayed there until suffer
03:15 --> 03:32 [SPEAKER_02]: with our little contingent of students and basically just said that it was like a little post-apocalyptic camp that we set up in the cafe that's where the food is, you know, so that's where if we're going to hunker down anywhere, I want to be near the food and that's a good memory, you know?
03:32 --> 03:33 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
03:33 --> 03:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Great memories.
03:34 --> 03:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I look, again, I do like something.
03:36 --> 03:42 [SPEAKER_01]: And one of the, you know, sadness is one of the things I wish I could, you know, my children, they never get to see snow.
03:42 --> 03:46 [SPEAKER_01]: The only times we're in America are for two months in the summer every other year.
03:46 --> 03:50 [SPEAKER_01]: So we go from hot Indonesia to hot Tennessee.
03:50 --> 03:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, it is a regret that my children don't get to grow up.
03:53 --> 03:55 [SPEAKER_01]: What's not when I do wish they did.
03:55 --> 03:57 [SPEAKER_01]: So I do like it.
03:57 --> 03:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I just I get tired of it very quickly.
03:58 --> 04:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Like after a few days I'm like, oh my gosh, I have to put on 40 layers of clothing just to go outside again, come on like knock it off some.
04:05 --> 04:10 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's a very, it's a very, you know, flashing the pan level snow that I have.
04:10 --> 04:11 [SPEAKER_01]: But I do, I do miss it a little bit.
04:12 --> 04:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And I will certainly tell you, I could go for some snow right now.
04:15 --> 04:16 [SPEAKER_01]: We could go for some snow right now.
04:17 --> 04:18 [SPEAKER_01]: We could make it straight now.
04:18 --> 04:20 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it would destroy Indonesia as a country.
04:20 --> 04:22 [SPEAKER_01]: But I would love a snow idea here.
04:22 --> 04:22 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll take it anyway.
04:22 --> 04:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I have this as already a long episode?
04:26 --> 04:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I was gonna say, we should probably, people are not tuned.
04:28 --> 04:32 [SPEAKER_01]: We get comments on, so there are some of you who will reach out and they'll say, hey, we love your friendship.
04:32 --> 04:37 [SPEAKER_01]: We love that you and Joel or friends, and you share, like that's part of what makes listen to her by a thought six years.
04:37 --> 04:39 [SPEAKER_01]: And then we have other people who are like,
04:40 --> 04:45 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to comment it will be like it was with the talk about so that we were here to talk about Christian history.
04:46 --> 04:48 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to do.
04:48 --> 04:50 [SPEAKER_01]: We can't make everybody happy now.
04:50 --> 04:53 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's just going to have to be the way.
04:53 --> 05:00 [SPEAKER_01]: I always want to share positive comments because we try to share, but I want to share every comment I really list it realistically can share.
05:00 --> 05:01 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't just share the good ones.
05:02 --> 05:03 [SPEAKER_01]: And I have a bad one to share.
05:03 --> 05:05 [SPEAKER_01]: This one was a mess up on me.
05:05 --> 05:05 [SPEAKER_01]: I when I put.
05:07 --> 05:09 [SPEAKER_01]: When I put the Garfield episode up, I was at work.
05:10 --> 05:12 [SPEAKER_01]: I was as focused as I should have been.
05:12 --> 05:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And so many of you may have noticed that.
05:14 --> 05:19 [SPEAKER_01]: The whole of this isn't, I mean, now I'm playing it on the guy's name.
05:19 --> 05:23 [SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, the death of, it said the death of President Andrew Garfield,
05:25 --> 05:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but it was actually James Garfield, which we said in the episode, we always call them James I'm pretty sure, um, but the title said Andrew because there's a famous actor whose name is also that.
05:36 --> 05:44 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think while I was writing that episode, you know, doing things at work, I was in paying attention in the headline, became Andrew Garfield.
05:45 --> 05:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Andrew Garfield's a life and he never became president and as far as I know he's doing okay.
05:50 --> 05:53 [SPEAKER_01]: So That was some people.
05:53 --> 05:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that could be a very yeah, that's a very confusing title.
05:56 --> 05:57 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a phrase.
05:57 --> 05:58 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna revive thoughts feed
05:59 --> 06:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're usually pretty good about, you know, not being dumb, so I'm so sorry about that.
06:06 --> 06:17 [SPEAKER_01]: When everybody I, I don't know how I confused the the the weakest of the three spider man actors with the president while I was putting them up, but I did, so I do apologize about that.
06:17 --> 06:18 [SPEAKER_01]: He's he's fine.
06:18 --> 06:28 [SPEAKER_01]: And we did fix it, but yeah, those of you, so this person said fairly certainly mean President James Garfield, I did mean President James Garfield, and I'm very sorry about
06:30 --> 06:31 [SPEAKER_01]: It was the next, you know?
06:31 --> 06:32 [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
06:33 --> 06:36 [SPEAKER_01]: This person with a very nice, fresh, y'all.
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06:40 --> 06:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you share your socials, especially Instagram and TikTok?
06:45 --> 06:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Joel, you're in charge of Instagram and TikTok, right?
06:47 --> 06:48 [SPEAKER_01]: What, how are the socials going over there?
06:48 --> 06:52 [SPEAKER_02]: You don't have the charge of Instagram, if I'm in charge of Instagram, if I'm in charge of Instagram.
06:53 --> 06:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're not going to run in the TikTok revival.
06:56 --> 06:58 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm pretty sure you were the one that has most of the way.
06:59 --> 07:02 [SPEAKER_01]: So nobody has been running in a TikTok, oh yeah, we don't have a TikTok.
07:02 --> 07:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing personal is, well, I mean, I just don't have time to make and clip videos as difficult.
07:07 --> 07:12 [SPEAKER_01]: And our show, I literally talked with a guy who runs a professional YouTube account.
07:16 --> 07:16 [SPEAKER_01]: a couple of hours.
07:16 --> 07:18 [SPEAKER_01]: He had a bunch of advice.
07:19 --> 07:20 [SPEAKER_01]: I've done YouTube shorts based on his advice.
07:20 --> 07:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Our new show Christian or not is using some of his advice.
07:23 --> 07:24 [SPEAKER_01]: It was really cool guy.
07:25 --> 07:30 [SPEAKER_01]: He could not figure out how to turn revive thoughts into a video show with all of his knowledge.
07:30 --> 07:33 [SPEAKER_01]: He was like, you had no, it really doesn't seem like it works.
07:33 --> 07:35 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're not on TikTok.
07:35 --> 07:37 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you have any ideas of how to get us on there, I'm welcome.
07:37 --> 07:40 [SPEAKER_01]: And as for Instagram, and we're not really on there either.
07:45 --> 07:47 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't make all the pictures during the off season.
07:48 --> 07:51 [SPEAKER_02]: You have little devotional thoughts that you share.
07:51 --> 07:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I do.
07:52 --> 07:53 [SPEAKER_02]: I should do those again.
07:53 --> 07:55 [SPEAKER_01]: I've been, I've been telling you back on that.
07:55 --> 07:56 [SPEAKER_01]: They were nice.
07:56 --> 07:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I do need to get.
07:56 --> 08:00 [SPEAKER_01]: And that was actually that YouTube guy who told me like, you should do these.
08:00 --> 08:01 [SPEAKER_01]: These are a good idea.
08:01 --> 08:06 [SPEAKER_01]: So we got thousands of views across our social media from Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube.
08:06 --> 08:12 [SPEAKER_01]: We were getting, I mean, honestly, we got, I think, 25 views that one month, I did that really consistently.
08:13 --> 08:14 [SPEAKER_01]: I should come back to that.
08:14 --> 08:18 [SPEAKER_01]: I think I might actually at least is working on a video project too.
08:18 --> 08:22 [SPEAKER_01]: So, but go to revive anything revive thoughts, Instagram, not TikTok yet.
08:22 --> 08:25 [SPEAKER_01]: YouTube just go to subscribe at all those places.
08:25 --> 08:27 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's where you normally can find us.
08:28 --> 08:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, last one here on the comments, Stephanie says such a wonderful episode, grateful to have discovered your podcasts.
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08:36 --> 08:41 [SPEAKER_01]: We appreciate that you're listening and with that pretty long intro, which was way too many thoughts about snow.
08:41 --> 08:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Joel tells us about Samuel P. Jones, wait, we real quick.
08:44 --> 08:50 [SPEAKER_01]: There's not the first episode where we had Samuel P. Jones, do you remember the first time Samuel P. Jones was featured on our schedule?
08:50 --> 08:51 [SPEAKER_02]: I do not.
08:51 --> 08:53 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I know I recognize the name.
08:53 --> 08:57 [SPEAKER_01]: It has been too long and I have too much has to be known then.
08:57 --> 08:58 [SPEAKER_01]: It's in that totally fine.
08:58 --> 08:59 [SPEAKER_01]: I totally understand.
08:59 --> 09:04 [SPEAKER_01]: The reason I Samuel P. Jones is in blazing in my head is because it was the first.
09:04 --> 09:05 [SPEAKER_01]: We've only ever done like one or two of these.
09:06 --> 09:09 [SPEAKER_01]: But the first prohibition sermon we ever did was Samuel P. Jones.
09:10 --> 09:15 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure Justin that the guy who read the sermon for us on this episode is actually the same guy who read it for us before.
09:17 --> 09:19 [SPEAKER_01]: And he had a sermon called, quote your meanness.
09:20 --> 09:23 [SPEAKER_01]: And I jokingly sent it to some friends of mine.
09:25 --> 09:29 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like basically like, hey, I hope you're not drinking and I sent that link to them as a joke.
09:29 --> 09:29 [SPEAKER_01]: It goes a joke.
09:30 --> 09:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And now, whenever alcohol comes up and like different friends, like with my friends, they'll like that link gets sent back and forth to each other.
09:37 --> 09:45 [SPEAKER_01]: So Samuel B. Jones is episode on Not Drinking has made a huge impact on my friends and I pretty sure they will be happy to see that he has been featured again on our show.
09:46 --> 09:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but yeah, so anytime any of them mentioned something like that, we, I would just be like, hey, what would Samuel P. Jones say about that and send that link up there?
09:52 --> 10:00 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you're not using revived thoughts, sermons to, um, you know, teaser friends, I highly recommend it, right?
10:00 --> 10:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you Samuel P. Jones for starters?
10:02 --> 10:02 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great one.
10:03 --> 10:05 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why Samuel P. Jones, uh, we have such an impact on me.
10:05 --> 10:07 [SPEAKER_01]: But in that very first episode, we did with him.
10:07 --> 10:11 [SPEAKER_01]: The only one we've done with him before we really focused on the prohibition movement.
10:11 --> 10:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Like kind of explaining why he was a part of that.
10:14 --> 10:20 [SPEAKER_01]: this episode we're going to focus more on like his actual ministry and he had an incredible incredible ministry.
10:20 --> 10:25 [SPEAKER_01]: He's one of the most especially in America while traveled guys, I think we've ever featured.
10:26 --> 10:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Samuel P. Jones was born in the year 1847 in Alabama.
10:32 --> 10:33 [SPEAKER_02]: He comes from a wealthy family.
10:33 --> 10:36 [SPEAKER_02]: His father was a lawyer and a real estate businessman.
10:37 --> 10:45 [SPEAKER_02]: And from all of his extended family, he comes from one that has a large Christian ministry present.
10:45 --> 10:48 [SPEAKER_02]: His grandfather and his great grandfather were Methodist preachers.
10:48 --> 10:52 [SPEAKER_02]: He has four uncles and they were all preachers as well.
10:52 --> 10:55 [SPEAKER_02]: So there was a lot of Christian influence in his life.
10:55 --> 11:03 [SPEAKER_02]: When he was eight years old, eight or nine, his mother would pass away and they'd end up moving to Georgia after his mother's death.
11:04 --> 11:20 [SPEAKER_02]: His mother's final words to him were, I can't go with you anymore, but you can come to me and he kind of seems to be an impactful pivotal moment in his life that he recounts and influences kind of future decisions he makes in his life.
11:21 --> 11:23 [SPEAKER_02]: for a few years he lived with his grandparents.
11:24 --> 11:36 [SPEAKER_02]: He talks about his grandmother specifically being a great godly influence in his life and his father would end up remarrying and when the civil war broke out he was a chaplain during the civil war.
11:36 --> 11:43 [SPEAKER_02]: And you look at all this and you think that oh this would make Samuel a great Christian, a great preacher throughout his community.
11:44 --> 11:46 [SPEAKER_02]: But things did not end up going that way.
11:46 --> 11:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Things did not go smooth.
11:48 --> 11:50 [SPEAKER_02]: During the Civil War, there was just a lot of chaos.
11:50 --> 11:52 [SPEAKER_02]: He's 17 years old during this time.
11:52 --> 11:56 [SPEAKER_02]: And the town that he was in was broken up through because of fighting.
11:56 --> 11:58 [SPEAKER_02]: The people were scattered, people were fleeing.
11:59 --> 12:04 [SPEAKER_02]: and he was separated from his family and couldn't find them and he ended up eventually in Kentucky.
12:04 --> 12:11 [SPEAKER_02]: And there in Kentucky, life is moving on, he ended up meeting a woman that would become his future wife.
12:12 --> 12:17 [SPEAKER_02]: And when the war was over, he did eventually make his way back to Georgia.
12:17 --> 12:23 [SPEAKER_02]: And he was able to reunite with his family there and at his school that he was graduating at,
12:23 --> 12:26 [SPEAKER_02]: He gave the valedictorian speech.
12:27 --> 12:28 [SPEAKER_02]: He was 19 years old at that time.
12:29 --> 12:37 [SPEAKER_02]: And again, he sites it as kind of this pivotal moment that makes him, and especially in the wake of a war ruined home.
12:37 --> 12:41 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, imagine coming back to your home that's been destroyed and tattered by
12:42 --> 12:52 [SPEAKER_02]: war your 19 years old at this point and you're evaluating life and trying to figure out and encourage others to move forward and figure out what this new life looks like.
12:52 --> 13:00 [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people had lost a lot of loved ones during this war, so it was a rebuilding era for him and for America.
13:01 --> 13:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Now Joel Samuel P. Jones here, he wanted to go to college and get a lot of green, but he had a nervous condition, which made him ill in his stomach, especially hurt.
13:10 --> 13:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Now when I think, I mean, an nervous condition, I think it means more like the Victorian era, like his body got sick.
13:15 --> 13:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he meant like he had some kind of psychological condition, but I could be wrong.
13:19 --> 13:23 [SPEAKER_01]: He started drinking alcohol to help with this condition, kind of like help his stomach.
13:23 --> 13:24 [SPEAKER_01]: That was a thing.
13:24 --> 13:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Doctors would say, oh, your stomach hurts.
13:26 --> 13:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Try some alcohol.
13:27 --> 13:36 [SPEAKER_01]: And did that actually work like isn't it, was there anybody who was like, yeah, I guess Paul said drink some wine for your stomach, Timothy Saga, I guess must have.
13:36 --> 13:43 [SPEAKER_01]: They started drinking alcohol with his condition and this led to him enjoying that and led to him regularly drinking.
13:43 --> 13:45 [SPEAKER_01]: And he was a very smart guy.
13:45 --> 13:48 [SPEAKER_01]: He passed the bar with only one year of study.
13:48 --> 13:51 [SPEAKER_01]: He was considered a brilliant attorney who couldn't lose.
13:52 --> 13:53 [SPEAKER_01]: when he was sober.
13:54 --> 14:00 [SPEAKER_01]: As a drunk he was a terrible attorney and a terrible husband and let his family down often.
14:01 --> 14:10 [SPEAKER_01]: He never, well I remember in the previous time when we did his episode he said the one thing I'd ever do was like hit or yell at my wife but like he did everything else wrong you could possibly do as a drunkard.
14:11 --> 14:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He began gambling to top it off and drove his family his business everyone and around him into ruin he would not stop drinking he would not
14:22 --> 14:32 [SPEAKER_01]: he would not stop show it up to work hungover and or drunk and even though he was a brilliant lawyer who was capable of winning many cases he destroyed them.
14:32 --> 14:43 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he moved to Texas and then eventually that didn't work out so he moved Alabama and then eventually that didn't work out so he moved back to his hometown in Georgia where his dad was living and that didn't really work out.
14:44 --> 14:47 [SPEAKER_01]: His alcoholism just absolutely wiped him in his family out.
14:48 --> 14:51 [SPEAKER_01]: He had a wife, he had two kids and it wasn't enough
14:53 --> 15:01 [SPEAKER_01]: he eventually is no longer a lawyer, he eventually kind of just falls out of every job he does and the only job he can get is furnace stoker.
15:02 --> 15:11 [SPEAKER_01]: He shoveled coal into a furnace 12 hours a day and that was the only job anyone would pay him to do because it was the only job that whether he was drunk or not he could still kind of get done.
15:12 --> 15:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And it took him a long time to get out of this.
15:15 --> 15:23 [SPEAKER_01]: And it reminds me of a Jerry McColley episode, if you listen about a month ago, we put up an episode about a guy who kept going to jail and took him a very long time to come to Christ.
15:23 --> 15:27 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you listen to that episode, you know that the things he did when he became a Christian changed the world.
15:28 --> 15:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's quite a wild story, because for the first almost hour of that episode, you're like, this guy's never going to get it together.
15:33 --> 15:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And then man, the Lord changes everything.
15:35 --> 15:36 [SPEAKER_01]: It's very cool.
15:36 --> 15:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's kind of how Samuel P. Jones is.
15:37 --> 15:40 [SPEAKER_01]: He really doesn't seem like he's ever going to get it together.
15:41 --> 15:48 [SPEAKER_01]: He would leave home and just kind of bum around town drinking bars, getting fights, gambling, all of that.
15:49 --> 15:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And this would happen for months at a time.
15:50 --> 15:56 [SPEAKER_01]: He was in the middle of the middle of he had already spent 16 weeks binge drinking.
15:56 --> 15:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but this is the middle of it.
15:58 --> 16:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, there was no sign of it ending when he heard that his dad was dying and he kind of sobered up, went to see his father and his father's dying words were, I think it's very, I mean, I, people said I say, oh, don't, you know, don't be too mean to somebody.
16:13 --> 16:15 [SPEAKER_01]: So his father's dying words when he sees his son.
16:16 --> 16:20 [SPEAKER_01]: are my poor wicked wayward reckless boy.
16:20 --> 16:25 [SPEAKER_01]: You have broken the heart of your sweet wife and brought me down and sorrow to my grave.
16:26 --> 16:28 [SPEAKER_01]: Promise me now my boy to meet me in heaven.
16:32 --> 16:46 [SPEAKER_01]: did not hold back right now not not good to see you you look in better right now gave my poor wicked wayward reckless boy he really let him have it at that time Jones was 24 and he promised it's that okay okay I'll do it
16:47 --> 16:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Later, he recounts going to a bar after that moment, and there's this account that he gives.
16:53 --> 17:01 [SPEAKER_02]: And during this, he switches back and forth between talking about himself and the first person and talking about himself and the third person, but it's all his account of this.
17:01 --> 17:04 [SPEAKER_02]: He says, I went to the bar and begged for a glass of liquor.
17:05 --> 17:08 [SPEAKER_02]: I got the glass and I started to drink and looked into the mirror.
17:08 --> 17:11 [SPEAKER_02]: I saw my hair, matted, filth, and vomit on my clothes.
17:12 --> 17:15 [SPEAKER_02]: One of my eyes was totally closed and my lips were swollen.
17:15 --> 17:20 [SPEAKER_02]: And I said, is that all that there's left of the proud brilliant lawyer, Sam Jones?
17:21 --> 17:26 [SPEAKER_02]: I smashed the glass on the floor and fell to my knees and I cried, oh God, oh God, have mercy.
17:27 --> 17:30 [SPEAKER_02]: The bartender ran to my side he thought I was dying, and I was.
17:31 --> 17:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I said, just let me alone.
17:33 --> 17:39 [SPEAKER_02]: I picked myself up and I staggered to my cheap rooming house, and I said to the ladies running it, would you do me a favor?
17:39 --> 17:43 [SPEAKER_02]: The answer to the affirmative, and I asked him to bring me a pot of black coffee.
17:44 --> 17:51 [SPEAKER_02]: I went through three days and nights of hell, but when the morning came, something happened to Sam Jones.
17:52 --> 17:55 [SPEAKER_02]: I went down to the clothing store, and I said, I want you to give me a new suit.
17:56 --> 17:57 [SPEAKER_02]: I got saved last night.
17:58 --> 17:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Sam Jones is coming back.
18:00 --> 18:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Not only did I get a suit, but shirts, ties, coats.
18:03 --> 18:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Everything I needed, and as I left, the merchant tucked a $100 bill into my hand.
18:09 --> 18:12 [SPEAKER_02]: I went to the barber for I had shaved an over a month.
18:12 --> 18:14 [SPEAKER_02]: I asked for a bath, a shave, a haircut.
18:15 --> 18:18 [SPEAKER_02]: I put my new clothes on, looking pale and weak.
18:18 --> 18:20 [SPEAKER_02]: I left to go to my wife.
18:20 --> 18:22 [SPEAKER_02]: She didn't even recognize her own husband.
18:22 --> 18:27 [SPEAKER_02]: I said, honey, that has given you a new husband and the children and new daddy.
18:27 --> 18:30 [SPEAKER_02]: And I wonder if you will forgive me and start over again.
18:30 --> 18:35 [SPEAKER_02]: and she grabbed me in her arms and she cried, how will Luia, how will Luia have been praying for this?
18:36 --> 18:39 [SPEAKER_02]: And I've been going around the country bragging about Jesus ever since.
18:41 --> 19:00 [SPEAKER_01]: So we can disobering up, he went to his grandfather's church, went down the aisle at the end of the service and said, grandfather, I take this step today, I give myself my heart and life, what is left of it, all of it to God and his cause, he felt called to go into ministry, and a week later, his grandpa put him in the pulpit, I think that's a bit too vast for me personally speaking.
19:00 --> 19:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I do appreciate.
19:02 --> 19:06 [SPEAKER_01]: The heart behind it, but a week guys, let's give him a little more time.
19:06 --> 19:09 [SPEAKER_01]: But hey, whom I had a question, the Lord has moved in.
19:09 --> 19:12 [SPEAKER_01]: He very quickly was very successful.
19:13 --> 19:18 [SPEAKER_01]: People really felt they could relate to him because he certainly knew what it was like to send.
19:19 --> 19:22 [SPEAKER_01]: He was very, very obviously coming from a bad place.
19:22 --> 19:26 [SPEAKER_01]: He began to get the nickname, the mountain evangelist, cool nickname.
19:26 --> 19:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And he was famous for putting the word quote what low down where the Pope poor folk were and I guess the idea was that like he was able to share the gospel in a very Clokeyle way you know like really really really shared to them as it was the brilliant lawyer famous for being able to break tough cases Is now famous for breaking down the gospel for in the way that even the poorest person can understand
19:53 --> 20:19 [SPEAKER_01]: he began circuit writing in one of the poorest regions of Georgia and that's where you would get on a horse and go from church to church and it was very exhausting work and he preached to five different churches and four different counties and again the poorest churches which meant it was not making his family a lot of money but he was very popular and within eight years he was asked to visit so many places he only was able to spare half his time on his original circuit and the good for him but not great for his churches.
20:20 --> 20:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, in 1880, the Methodists moved him out of a pastoral role and into a fundraising role, which I get this sense that he preferred.
20:27 --> 20:30 [SPEAKER_02]: He liked having the freedom to move around.
20:30 --> 20:37 [SPEAKER_02]: There was an orphanage that was in a large amount of debt, and so that was kind of his first task is to try to help out this orphanage.
20:38 --> 21:05 [SPEAKER_02]: And so he's going around and preaching as like a traveling pastor and kind of sharing The ministry needs of this orphanage, but it allowed him to get a lot more exposure and to get in front of a lot more people and that popularity that Came with that way people liked people liked him and it was Developing a following for him in his speaking and he started doing revivals a first starting in wakeo Texas and Brooklyn New York
21:06 --> 21:09 [SPEAKER_02]: And this is during a time where tensions were high.
21:09 --> 21:17 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, this is a pastor from the south, but he was breaking down all of these stereotypes and barriers and assumptions that people had with him.
21:18 --> 21:22 [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, depending on what metrics you're looking at, second, second to deal mood.
21:22 --> 21:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Deal mood, he was by far the most popular American feature during this time.
21:27 --> 21:53 [SPEAKER_02]: But there's no argument that he's probably the second most popular preacher during your 1880s decade here in 1885 He had a meeting in Nashville that 10 people came out to see him and then he would kind of do these circuits Where he'd crisscross through the Midwest cities like Kansas City in St. Joseph in Chicago in St. Louis He showed up There was there was one pastor that asked him to preach
21:53 --> 22:16 [SPEAKER_02]: and he didn't have anything else on his schedule didn't have anything else on his right or there was one invitation, but after he showed up and started preaching more and more people started asking him to come and speak at their church as well and he ended up speaking six different engagements during that, uh, during that stop that weren't on the plan before, but that's the kind of, uh, energy and the, the type of, um,
22:17 --> 22:20 [SPEAKER_02]: People wanted to be a part of the movement that he was doing.
22:20 --> 22:27 [SPEAKER_02]: The St. Louis Club, the newspaper, where he was at there in St. Louis, published six different sermons in the paper for people to read.
22:28 --> 22:35 [SPEAKER_02]: So later in Chicago, there was a renovated skating rink where he was coming to preach revivals at.
22:35 --> 22:43 [SPEAKER_02]: He had a six-week run there and during that six-week run over 260 people came to hear and preach and share the gospel.
22:53 --> 22:56 [SPEAKER_01]: We keep going each year, he visited another city.
22:56 --> 23:08 [SPEAKER_01]: I think I read one statistic that in the early every city that had 10 people in it or so, in America, he would go to and you would see big numbers of people hearing the gospel who would come to see him.
23:09 --> 23:09 [SPEAKER_01]: D.L.
23:09 --> 23:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Moody actually once slipped into one of his services, he had heard about him, wanted to hear him preach.
23:14 --> 23:23 [SPEAKER_01]: And wrote him a note afterwards, and it's kind of, I just, I don't know, this is kind of a neat moment where two of America's most famous evangelists in the same era, I kind of interact with one another.
23:24 --> 23:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And Moody said a wrote a note to Jones afterwards that said, God has put into your hands the sledgehammer with which the shatter, the formalism of the church, and battered down the strongholds of sin, and he's helping you mightily to use it, God bless you.
23:37 --> 23:40 [SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like that's a pretty cool statement.
23:42 --> 23:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't mind hearing that one from Rudy from one of my servants for sure.
23:46 --> 23:50 [SPEAKER_01]: But interestingly, notice that he says he has a sledgehammer, like he's very direct.
23:50 --> 23:54 [SPEAKER_01]: My goodness, Jones is very, very direct.
23:54 --> 23:55 [SPEAKER_01]: And he has these anecdotes.
23:55 --> 23:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like Moody has anecdotes of stories of him interacting with people.
23:59 --> 24:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Joan has several of those as well.
24:01 --> 24:05 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just found this one that I thought I wanted to I thought we're kind of interesting.
24:05 --> 24:06 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's just one that I kept.
24:07 --> 24:08 [SPEAKER_01]: He was a very direct preacher.
24:08 --> 24:12 [SPEAKER_01]: He once found out that a town, so he was visiting a town in Iowa at Sigourney.
24:12 --> 24:14 [SPEAKER_01]: If you've ever been there, I have not.
24:14 --> 24:16 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I don't remember actually.
24:16 --> 24:18 [SPEAKER_01]: I've only been Iowa once or twice, but I don't think I have.
24:19 --> 24:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And the town had three saloons each saloon paid $300 for a license.
24:24 --> 24:33 [SPEAKER_01]: So the idea is basically, in the town, $900 a year, the city is making money off the saloons being active.
24:33 --> 24:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And the town's Sigourney itself had 2 people in it.
24:36 --> 24:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, Jones says, look, I did the math and for 40 cents per person, you're keeping your saloons open, your kids are going there, you're getting drunk, you're bringing this town to ruin with these saloons and it's only 40 cents per person.
24:52 --> 25:05 [SPEAKER_01]: And he was preaching and then he looks at the crowd and he goes, how much does a 200-pound hog cost right now and one of the guys shots out $12 and he goes, man, wouldn't it be nice to be worth as much to the people of this town as a hog is because the hogs are
25:06 --> 25:07 [SPEAKER_01]: but you guys are going for 40 cents.
25:08 --> 25:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, this thing's like that, or he's very direct in their faces about what, and he might say, all that sounds kind of mean, you know, compared, but it worked.
25:16 --> 25:26 [SPEAKER_01]: People loved him, and he was extremely popular, and he was that sledgehammer that would come in and tell you things in a way that would, you know, maybe not be today.
25:26 --> 25:28 [SPEAKER_01]: We would all pastor cannot do that kind of thing, right?
25:28 --> 25:31 [SPEAKER_01]: But he would, and I, you know, maybe they could today, maybe we could try it.
25:32 --> 25:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Even the president, theodore Roosevelt at the time invited him to preach a sermon for them.
25:36 --> 25:46 [SPEAKER_01]: This happened about a year before his death, Jones was called, to go to Atlanta and theodore Roosevelt said to him, Sam, you have been doing as a private citizen when I hope I can do as a public servant.
25:47 --> 25:52 [SPEAKER_01]: 59 he died unexpectedly on a train ride back from Oklahoma City from doing some preaching.
25:52 --> 25:58 [SPEAKER_01]: This sermon, you're about to listen to, the logic of damnation is an example of those kinds of things.
25:58 --> 26:07 [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you listen to this sermon by Jones, you will hear, you know, his directness and all the things that we were saying and maybe get a glimpse of why he was so well loved during his time.
26:23 --> 26:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Because sinnets against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is fully set in them to do evil.
26:36 --> 26:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Ecclesiastes 8-11
26:40 --> 26:44 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a wonderful old book we preachers take our text from.
26:44 --> 26:49 [SPEAKER_00]: In the book of Genesis, we read of the creation of the world and the origin of man.
26:50 --> 26:57 [SPEAKER_00]: God devotes one book to tell me of my origin and the thousand chapters that follow, tell me where I'm going.
26:58 --> 27:01 [SPEAKER_00]: We spend an hour here today on the pathway to the grave.
27:02 --> 27:09 [SPEAKER_00]: This text belongs legitimately to the conclusion of my sermon, which is the answer to a question I want to ask you.
27:09 --> 27:16 [SPEAKER_00]: God devotes one book to tell me of my origin and the thousand chapters that follow tell me where I'm going.
27:17 --> 27:21 [SPEAKER_00]: We spend an hour here today on the pathway to the grave.
27:21 --> 27:26 [SPEAKER_00]: I should answer all questions that pertain to life and salvation.
27:27 --> 27:34 [SPEAKER_00]: The question which I now propound plainly stated is this, why will you continue in sin?
27:35 --> 27:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, as simple as every word of that text is, maybe we can spend a minute or two profitably in consideration of these words, why will you continue in sin?
27:49 --> 27:57 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't ask why you happen to be already a sinner, that involves three logical questions which we have not the ability to discuss.
27:58 --> 28:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't ask why you have come out to this service as a sinner, but the question plainly stated is not, should you remain in sin or how are you a sinner?
28:08 --> 28:11 [SPEAKER_00]: But why will you leave here still an impenetent sinner?
28:12 --> 28:17 [SPEAKER_00]: And we narrowed the question down a little, and we put it in this shape, why will you?
28:18 --> 28:21 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean the one behind you nor the one in front of you.
28:22 --> 28:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean you.
28:23 --> 28:24 [SPEAKER_00]: God bless you.
28:24 --> 28:26 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a very personal matter.
28:26 --> 28:34 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't get anybody to die for you and can't get anybody to stand in your stand at the day of judgment and be damned for you.
28:35 --> 28:42 [SPEAKER_00]: You stand in your own shoes, as if you are the only individual that ever violated a law of God.
28:42 --> 28:58 [SPEAKER_00]: This is preeminently a personal matter, and we don't ask you why the world continues in sin or why the members of the church just continue in sin, but we ask you, why will you continue in sin another day, another week, another hour?
28:59 --> 29:03 [SPEAKER_00]: We say first, is it because you are ignorant as to the nature of sin?
29:04 --> 29:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Does any man in this congregation give me his reason for living today and sin and living on it's sin?
29:10 --> 29:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he doesn't know what sin is?
29:14 --> 29:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there a man here this evening that doesn't know what is wrong to drink profusely, wrong to violate the Sabbath, wrong to live in neglect of his Christian duties?
29:23 --> 29:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you plead ignorance to the nature of sin?
29:26 --> 29:28 [SPEAKER_00]: The world stands convicted
29:29 --> 29:33 [SPEAKER_00]: You let a member of the Church do wrong and you are the first one to see it.
29:34 --> 29:38 [SPEAKER_00]: You let my foot slip and you are the first man to see it and talk about it.
29:39 --> 29:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And your criticisms upon the life of the Christian people are an everlasting demonstration that you know what right is and that you know what wrong is.
29:48 --> 29:54 [SPEAKER_00]: You know there is a vast difference between the way we look at men and church and out of church.
29:54 --> 29:57 [SPEAKER_00]: The world expects something of a man in church.
29:57 --> 29:58 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad it does.
29:59 --> 30:04 [SPEAKER_00]: The world doesn't expect much of you, and if it did, it will be very much disappointed.
30:05 --> 30:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Here is the difference between a member of the church and a man out of church.
30:09 --> 30:12 [SPEAKER_00]: The member of the church is a white piece of canvas.
30:13 --> 30:17 [SPEAKER_00]: And if anything is sprinkled upon him, it makes the spot easy to discern.
30:17 --> 30:21 [SPEAKER_00]: But that old center is a black, dingy piece of canvas.
30:21 --> 30:25 [SPEAKER_00]: And you can just take anything and rub upon him, and it doesn't show it all.
30:26 --> 30:35 [SPEAKER_00]: You see me going to a bar room and take a drink of whiskey, and it is wired all over the country, and read an every newspaper at the breakfast table tomorrow morning.
30:36 --> 30:39 [SPEAKER_00]: You go in and take a drink every morning, and nobody knows as you.
30:40 --> 30:43 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the difference between the pastor and the scoundrel.
30:43 --> 30:49 [SPEAKER_00]: You let me go out on the streets and profane the name of God, and it is flashed across the world.
30:50 --> 30:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Jones is in the city swearing.
30:53 --> 30:56 [SPEAKER_00]: But you can swear every day, nobody knows as you.
30:56 --> 30:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody expects any better of you for it.
31:00 --> 31:03 [SPEAKER_00]: That is the difference between a pastor and a scoundrel.
31:04 --> 31:09 [SPEAKER_00]: I thank God, I have lived to see the day in my state when nobody will swear a drink whiskey but criminals.
31:10 --> 31:11 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't like that, do you?
31:12 --> 31:13 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't blame you.
31:14 --> 31:14 [SPEAKER_00]: I would not either.
31:15 --> 31:19 [SPEAKER_00]: 15 years ago, I would have felt very much insulted if I heard a preacher say that.
31:20 --> 31:26 [SPEAKER_00]: The truth is the same now that it was then, but oh, what a different fellow I am now from what I was then.
31:26 --> 31:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Drinking is the habit of a criminal, and profanity is the habit of a scoundrel.
31:31 --> 31:35 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you will be profane and swear, you'd like that much of being a gentleman.
31:36 --> 31:40 [SPEAKER_00]: No gentleman will perfane the name of God and whatever else you lack.
31:41 --> 31:47 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry to say that many of you come that much short of being a gentleman, ignorant of the nature of sin.
31:47 --> 31:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Will you say you don't know your life is wrong?
31:51 --> 31:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Every man answers back and says, that is not my excuse.
31:55 --> 31:58 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what right is and I know right is right.
31:58 --> 32:02 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what wrong is and further than that, I know wrong is wrong.
32:03 --> 32:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we stop here and ask you this question.
32:05 --> 32:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there any man that says the reason I live and sin is because I don't know what the consequence of a sinful life are.
32:13 --> 32:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I know it was certainly because this not-tit century is so wicked that there is a hell.
32:19 --> 32:24 [SPEAKER_00]: I heard a minister say once that science is going to demonstrate that there is no hell.
32:25 --> 32:31 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said back, when the delegation comes back from their exploration there, I want to be on hand when they report it.
32:32 --> 32:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Science knows as little about hell and what is in hell as science knows about the birthplace of God.
32:39 --> 32:48 [SPEAKER_00]: The biggest fool I know is that fool who gets into the biggest, widest way to hell and stops along the way and tries to persuade man there is no hell.
32:49 --> 32:55 [SPEAKER_00]: The biggest fool is the man who spends his probationary existence and arguing that there is no hell.
33:01 --> 33:02 [SPEAKER_00]: you poor don'ts.
33:02 --> 33:05 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you know of what is down there?
33:06 --> 33:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you ever attend a universalist meeting?
33:09 --> 33:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I was at a universalist meeting one day and that day all the red nose drunkards and gamblers and rascals of the town had the front seats and a man corners.
33:20 --> 33:21 [SPEAKER_00]: God pity you live in sin.
33:22 --> 33:24 [SPEAKER_00]: what is to become of you.
33:25 --> 33:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Let this book speak out and this is the only book that says anything on the other side of the tomb.
33:32 --> 33:35 [SPEAKER_00]: I will keep to this book until you find a something better.
33:35 --> 33:41 [SPEAKER_00]: For this book says that the wicked will be tossed into hell with all the nations that forget God.
33:42 --> 33:47 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe in a bottomless hell and I believe that the wicked will be tossed into hell.
33:48 --> 33:52 [SPEAKER_00]: I do believe that the righteous have hope after death.
33:52 --> 33:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And eternal life is the legitimate end of a good man.
33:57 --> 34:06 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean to say that God will not punish a single person, except he flies in the face of the required law laid down on every page of this book.
34:07 --> 34:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Except he lay his hand over every scar on his heart and says there is no scar there.
34:13 --> 34:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I do believe if a man lives right, he will get to heaven, and those who do wrong will go to hell.
34:20 --> 34:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think there is fire there?
34:23 --> 34:29 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know whether there will be any before you get there, unless you take something with you to burn you through all eternity.
34:30 --> 34:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Every sinner carries his own brimstone with him.
34:34 --> 34:44 [SPEAKER_00]: No sir, that man says he knows the legitimate end of a sinful life is hell, and if you will tell me how long sin will last, I will tell you how long hell will last.
34:45 --> 34:53 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not because I'm ignorant of the nature of consequences of sin that I continue in it, maybe you're replied to my question, then what is it?
34:54 --> 34:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you indifferent to the results?
34:56 --> 35:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, how many men meet truth without a trimmer in their muscles?
35:01 --> 35:06 [SPEAKER_00]: When a man reaches this point, when you can't move him with truth, he is immovable.
35:08 --> 35:11 [SPEAKER_00]: What stubborn and difference we meet on all sides?
35:12 --> 35:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Men know their life is short, and that they may be in their confidence before tomorrow evening's sun, yet they are indifferent to their condition.
35:22 --> 35:24 [SPEAKER_00]: indifferent, you say?
35:24 --> 35:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what preacher Stake Me and neighbor Stake Me is indifferent, but down in my heart I think and feel more than anybody has discovered.
35:33 --> 35:40 [SPEAKER_00]: I have gone home from church with my Christian wife, her arm and mine, and I have heard my soul beat with conviction.
35:41 --> 35:42 [SPEAKER_00]: But I would not have my wife here.
35:43 --> 35:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank God wherever else I went.
35:45 --> 35:48 [SPEAKER_00]: I was never indifferent to the great truths of eternity.
35:49 --> 35:49 [SPEAKER_00]: No, sir.
35:50 --> 35:51 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not indifference.
35:52 --> 35:53 [SPEAKER_00]: I look as if I were.
35:53 --> 35:54 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm not.
35:55 --> 35:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we ask, is it recklessness?
35:59 --> 36:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it because you know the truth and will dare the truth?
36:03 --> 36:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it that?
36:04 --> 36:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Recklessness is a poor thing in any world.
36:07 --> 36:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, how reckless some men are.
36:10 --> 36:15 [SPEAKER_00]: We see that Alpine Hunter as he walks on a narrow path with his cliffs on both sides.
36:15 --> 36:17 [SPEAKER_00]: He realizes his risk.
36:17 --> 36:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet he walks on across the path, while a very dog that walks behind him will wits in turn.
36:23 --> 36:33 [SPEAKER_00]: I have no men who seem to be so reckless that they were unwilling to live on to their 60 years and lie down and die on the natural order of things.
36:33 --> 36:38 [SPEAKER_00]: I see them at 20 years of age begin to drink, and they drink on until 30 years of age.
36:40 --> 36:42 [SPEAKER_00]: They know they're about to be gone.
36:43 --> 36:51 [SPEAKER_00]: One more year, just 12 months, as all I can last, they say, get the poor fellow goes on and seems to be grieving for damn nation.
36:51 --> 36:53 [SPEAKER_00]: And I see him walk out on the street.
36:53 --> 36:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll soggy with whiskey and pick a quarrel with a friend.
36:57 --> 37:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And that friend shoots him down and he leaps from the sidewalks of the city straight into hell.
37:03 --> 37:04 [SPEAKER_00]: God pity you.
37:05 --> 37:15 [SPEAKER_00]: After all that has been said and done, when you go within 12 months to a drunkards grave, 40 years old before you are 41, you will fall into a drunkards grave?
37:16 --> 37:16 [SPEAKER_00]: How is it?
37:18 --> 37:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Recklessness.
37:19 --> 37:22 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, I know wrong is wrong, but I won't heed it.
37:22 --> 37:28 [SPEAKER_00]: I curse publicly, I drink openly, I sin with a high hand, God pity you.
37:29 --> 37:36 [SPEAKER_00]: If I were going to sin, I would crawl off in some dark corner and never let my example be seen to lead others into it at least.
37:36 --> 37:40 [SPEAKER_00]: How reckless poor humanity is at times concerning the truth.
37:41 --> 37:46 [SPEAKER_00]: It hurries on to the edge of the cliff and stands and shutters but a moment then makes
37:52 --> 37:54 [SPEAKER_00]: No, sir, it is not recklessness.
37:55 --> 37:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I'll stop and ask you this question.
37:57 --> 38:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it because you are satisfied in your present condition?
38:01 --> 38:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank God, no man was ever satisfied with himself as a sinner.
38:06 --> 38:15 [SPEAKER_00]: 25 years of the gall of bitterness and the bonds of a nickname had persuaded me that no man would ever be satisfied with himself as a sinner.
38:15 --> 38:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Like the rough sea, you have no rest.
38:18 --> 38:20 [SPEAKER_00]: You are a devoid of peace within your chest.
38:21 --> 38:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank God, He will not let us in or lie down and sleep on His way to hell.
38:26 --> 38:29 [SPEAKER_00]: No, sir, I'm not satisfied with myself.
38:30 --> 38:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And when those innocent children throw their lovely arms around your neck and look up in your face and all the innocence of their nature, you say, of all the women that God ever gave children to, I am least likely to lead them to God and everlasting life.
38:51 --> 38:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we will ask again.
38:53 --> 38:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it because of your lack of considerations?
38:57 --> 39:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I know sometimes a man will look at a thing and look off.
39:01 --> 39:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what bar rooms are for?
39:03 --> 39:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Bill your tables and cards and all these games we play?
39:07 --> 39:10 [SPEAKER_00]: They are tricks of the devil to keep your mind off of yourself.
39:11 --> 39:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes men get conviction of the divine spirit and they will go and dance it off.
39:16 --> 39:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Drink and swear and gamble it off.
39:19 --> 39:23 [SPEAKER_00]: God pity a man who asks convictions and will dance and curse them away.
39:24 --> 39:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Convictions that a lawso would give the world if he could still have them.
39:29 --> 39:36 [SPEAKER_00]: If the devil can keep you busy all day in your store and make you dance yourself to sleep, he has got you pretty safe.
39:37 --> 39:41 [SPEAKER_00]: There are members of the church that written houses for bar rooms.
39:42 --> 39:54 [SPEAKER_00]: You are a joint stock owner of that thing, and if you can tell me how a man of God can be a joint stockholder in a bar room, then you have explained to me one of the profoundest mysteries of moral science.
39:55 --> 39:59 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not because I'm satisfied with my present condition.
40:00 --> 40:01 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not because I won't think.
40:02 --> 40:05 [SPEAKER_00]: I have thought, but doubts arise about these things.
40:06 --> 40:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it because you're leading a sort of compromise life?
40:09 --> 40:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you say, I'm going to be religious after a while?
40:14 --> 40:18 [SPEAKER_00]: There is not a law spirit and hell that has not said the same thing.
40:19 --> 40:27 [SPEAKER_00]: You are going to be religious tomorrow, all that is within you, between you and eternal despair, is your heart that beats.
40:27 --> 40:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And if that heart stops beating, you are gone forever.
40:36 --> 40:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it because of spiritual apathy as taking possession of you?
40:40 --> 40:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, how men sleep over their eternal interest.
40:43 --> 40:47 [SPEAKER_00]: A man's sleep in on the edge of a cliff, and he may go and roll over forever.
40:48 --> 40:53 [SPEAKER_00]: The wife of Mr. Rogers of Marietta, Georgia, was in disposed one morning.
40:54 --> 41:01 [SPEAKER_00]: He sent a servant down the street for Kwanai, and when he returned with it, his wife took the prescription, mixed it and swallowed it.
41:02 --> 41:10 [SPEAKER_00]: She then went to the door and said, Husband, that was not the Kwanai now, he ran hurly to the drug store.
41:10 --> 41:14 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it that you sent my wife and the doctor answered?
41:15 --> 41:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I've sent enough morphine to your house to kill a dozen persons.
41:19 --> 41:20 [SPEAKER_00]: I did it by mistake.
41:21 --> 41:29 [SPEAKER_00]: He ran back and got another physician, and they went to his house and commenced to administer medicine that would induce vomiting.
41:30 --> 41:34 [SPEAKER_00]: A death-like stupor came over her, and she turned to her husband and said,
41:42 --> 41:49 [SPEAKER_00]: They walked her up and down the floor, through cold water on her face and continued to administer medicines to get her to vomit.
41:50 --> 41:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the death like stupor sees her, and she said, please, sir, let me go to sleep for five minutes.
41:59 --> 42:03 [SPEAKER_00]: No wife, if you sleep five minutes, you will never wake up again.
42:04 --> 42:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And they worked and worried until four hours passed away.
42:08 --> 42:09 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the doctor said,
42:13 --> 42:29 [SPEAKER_00]: I have seen thousands with that deathlike stupor upon them and they say just let me sleep these last precious verses through and as the last note dies away they are asleep and when they wake they will open their eyes and hell.
42:29 --> 42:33 [SPEAKER_00]: God pity a man that will sleep his eternal interest away.
42:34 --> 42:37 [SPEAKER_00]: You say it is not ignorance as to the nature of sin.
42:38 --> 42:40 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not the consequences of sin.
42:41 --> 42:49 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not because you were leading a compromised life, nor because of inconsiderateness, nor because you were sleeping through your interest.
42:50 --> 42:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it because you have a conquered peace that defies all the attacks of heaven?
42:56 --> 43:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Bishop Pierce was preaching at a camp meeting in Georgia, and among those attending, there was a man not a Christian.
43:03 --> 43:06 [SPEAKER_00]: He was an old man and set out in the straw in front of the bishop.
43:07 --> 43:15 [SPEAKER_00]: The bishop said, when he sat down, self-deced to me, you are preaching the last awakening sermon that man will ever hear.
43:16 --> 43:20 [SPEAKER_00]: And the good power came to me, and I turned it upon the head of that old sinner.
43:22 --> 43:33 [SPEAKER_00]: He sat and turned, and twisted in his chair, and bit his lips, and when the bishop quit preaching, he got up, went to his cottage, and barred the door.
43:33 --> 43:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Fasten the window, and prostrated himself on his face.
43:39 --> 43:46 [SPEAKER_00]: By and by, his wife came and knocked for admission, and the only answer she received was the groans of her husband.
43:51 --> 43:55 [SPEAKER_00]: She went back at three o'clock, and he was in the same position.
43:56 --> 43:58 [SPEAKER_00]: At sundown, the battle was going on.
43:59 --> 44:15 [SPEAKER_00]: At 12 o'clock, that night, the contest was still going on, waxing hotter and thicker, but grandeur in its results than the battles of Waterloo or Gettysburg or any battle that Earth ever saw.
44:16 --> 44:18 [SPEAKER_00]: At sunrise next morning, it continued
44:22 --> 44:28 [SPEAKER_00]: At one o'clock, the wife was standing opposite the cottage, and she saw the door fly open, and she ran up to him.
44:29 --> 44:36 [SPEAKER_00]: She could tell by his face that the battle was over, yet it took him 25 hours to do it.
44:37 --> 44:42 [SPEAKER_00]: That old man lived and died, but he did not have to fight against God anymore.
44:43 --> 44:46 [SPEAKER_00]: You have got to surrender to God this evening.
44:46 --> 44:52 [SPEAKER_00]: It may not take you 25 hours, it may not take you 25 seconds to fight the last battle.
44:52 --> 44:54 [SPEAKER_00]: But how long will we go on and sin?
44:55 --> 44:57 [SPEAKER_00]: How long will God be patient?
44:58 --> 44:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Where does hope end?
45:00 --> 45:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And where do the confines of despair end?
45:03 --> 45:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Will you take the step this evening from which there is no recovery?
45:07 --> 45:19 [SPEAKER_00]: In Ecclesiastes, chapter 8, 11th verse is the logic of damnation, because sinnances are not speedily executed, because justice does not crush you down immediately.
45:20 --> 45:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you to go on to ruin?
45:22 --> 45:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Because there are 10 years between me and eternal punishment, while I spend these 10 years in sin.
45:28 --> 45:32 [SPEAKER_00]: because God is good, will I keep on and wickedness?
45:33 --> 45:38 [SPEAKER_00]: If that drunken man knew that in his next drunken dream, God would sin him to hell.
45:39 --> 45:44 [SPEAKER_00]: If that profane swearing knew that the next LT swore God would sin him immediately to hell.
45:45 --> 45:48 [SPEAKER_00]: They would not drink or swear any more.
45:49 --> 45:55 [SPEAKER_00]: don't think because the sentence is not speedily executed, you can keep going speedily on.
45:56 --> 45:58 [SPEAKER_00]: God help every one of us this evening.
45:59 --> 46:07 [SPEAKER_00]: I recollect that day in my experience when I could look my precious wife in the face and say, I have drunk my last drop wife.
46:08 --> 46:14 [SPEAKER_00]: I recollect when I could look my friends in the face and say, I have sworn my last oath.
46:15 --> 46:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't put it off any longer until
46:20 --> 46:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Choose you this day whom you will serve.
46:23 --> 46:26 [SPEAKER_00]: If I were a young man, I would want to be faithful.
46:27 --> 46:30 [SPEAKER_00]: If I were an old man, I would want to be faith.
46:31 --> 46:37 [SPEAKER_00]: If the Spirit of God and Christ had always been cruel to me, I would serve him then for what he was to my mother.
46:38 --> 46:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, how good he was to her.
46:41 --> 46:44 [SPEAKER_00]: How he charmed her to his loving heart and how sweetly she died.
46:45 --> 46:47 [SPEAKER_00]: If Christ had always been cruel to me,
46:48 --> 46:52 [SPEAKER_00]: I would love him for what he was to my precious father.
46:53 --> 46:57 [SPEAKER_00]: I would love him for what he is to my precious wife and children.
46:58 --> 47:03 [SPEAKER_00]: I will love and praise him forever for what he has done for me and mine.
47:10 --> 47:17 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for listening to another episode of Revive Thoughts that a sermon was inherited by Justin Scott Ray.
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