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the intimate and revealing providence is of God and his overruling providence is art of the last degree. Wonderful in life. God's providence in life is a fact, very real, very wonderful and immeasurably inspiring. We are headed to bow my divine providence and restrain and constrained far

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more. Then we can even remotely realize the providence of God in human life. Could be, could be told by this audience. Those within these walls and the larger throng it maybe listening in throughout radio land. The story of God's providence in these many liars here. For

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it now could indeed be a story to thrill the mind and the heart. Mhm. What deliverance is this audience has had? What wonderful intervention by divine providence have made been made in behalf of these men and women worshipping together here this hour. What a story could

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be told if the story were all written out for our observation and attention, the angel of the Lord and campus round about them that fear him and deliberate There. You missed the collapsing bread that went down two minutes after you had crossed it. You are not

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on the train that you plan to take which was wretchedly wrecked. You were not on the boat that sank in the water. Go over! Well, the passenger, you were not in the wretched automobile collision, you were not in the dreadful accident that carried others away. You

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have been delivered from sickness serious and finally you have been rescued time and again from the emergent crisis that came upon, how wonderful have been the providence is of God in all our lives this noon day, let us think together very earnestly for a little while

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on the fact that as little thing as a dream is an illustration of the intimate providence of God in our life. Let us vividly recall the illustration of such dreams as it is recorded in the story of the dream of pilot's wife. And given in these

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words when pilot, while set down on the judgment seat his wife sent unto him say have found nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. The theme here mentioned was vividly enacted. Just a

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few hours before Jesus was crucified pilot, the governor was on his bank and before him Jesus was arraigned as a prisoner. Was there ever another prisoner like jesus before that time are sent. Never one behold him there but gentlemen, but calm but dignity. Mark jesus, as

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he stands, are a prisoner before Governor pilot pilot knew him, pilot had talked with him. Pilot had asked him point blank art thou the king of the jews and jesus said yes, I am, but my kingdom, he is not of this world again and again. Evidently

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pilot had crossed the path of jesus and now jesus is a rain before pilot as a prisoner and pilot must do something with him. Pilot was greatly embarrassed, pilot had another notable prisoner called Barabbas and on that particular day feast day he was want to release

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some prisoners of the people whomsoever they wish. And he asked them which of the two will you have and they said release unto us Barabbas and let jesus be crucified. And pilot remonstrated. He said, why what evil has he done? I find no fault any. And

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they cried out the more saying, let him be crucified now in that crucial hour when pilot must decide what he's going to do with geese. God's providence makes one laugh. Supreme Court to reach this pilot and the call is through a dream. Even the dream a

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pilot's own wife so far as we know this method in a dream from pilots life was the only protest made against the death of jesus on the cross. Mhm. This is all. And at the crucial hour there comes this cause from pilot's wife to her grossly

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wicked huh? Every religion may be tested ethically and practically by its attitude toward womanhood, false religion. One can think of them and recall them. The grade woman hurt. She is man's shuttle, his drugs, his slave. The attitude of jesus toward womanhood is so wonderful that one

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marvelous than any woman in the world could keep from loving him and living for it. Oh the exquisite tenderness and different of jesus toward women, Never one harsh would from his lips a bow our toward women even when the poor woman, oh all be soiled and

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shame by a wayward life was dragged into his presence by self righteous man and jesus had the here that enunciate story word concerning the woman while they boy they're loud words, jesus stooped down and rode up on the ground. And then when he raised up he

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said woman, where are your accusers? And she said they've all gone, Oh that wonderful word he said, Neither do I accuse your child, go and sin no more. Oh that is enough to win every woman in the world to the salvation and service of christ. Now

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here this invalid wife of pilot, she seems to have been an invalid from her bedchamber. She stands words in the crucial mama. The pilot have down nothing to do with that. Just man. Oh my husband, I have suffered this day and many things in a dream

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because of him. Leave him alone, do not hire him. He's a good man. He's a just man. Don't invoke upon yourself and call down upon yourself judgment and chastisement and wounds by your mistreatment of that man. How wonderful this last call! The last call of love

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to reach this man. I repeat. one wonders how any woman could keep from loving christ. Here he is. Woman's champions. Here is a woman's defender. Oh you women, how can you be willing to give your lives the little superficial and ephemeral and unsatisfying thing when with

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your life beautifully worthy lee devoted to christ. You can win crown up and crown of immortal favor by living like christ wants women to live and women holds the key very large to the advance of christ kingdom in the world. Their lessons of great moments in

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this vivid incident and we've time to think on two or three of them together today. And first of all we see here how God's work and providence cooperate God's work. It is in many ways to warn mankind of sin and God's providence. It is in many

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ways to bring to bear the caution and preventive that are necessary to constrain man to turn away from sin and to follow christ jesus let us notice here the providence of God in sending a dream a little thing you say it was little things largely make

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up light just a dream. The providence of God in sending a dream to a man about ready to do one of the decisive things the most decisive in many respects in human life providence of God and sending a dream and that dream you will notice was

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attended here bottom of fine and anguish the wife of pilot who just came on the platform and sat down on the judge's seat to give his verdict concerning the prisoner jesus of Nazareth arraigned before him while a mob around yelled and accused and called for his

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blood pilot is just too that our of passing up in the case when here post page comes from his invalid wife a message oh my husband have found nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered this day many things in a dream because

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of him. The dream was attended by great anguish. As our text disclosed one wonders. But that wife's dream was, we cannot know, we can only surmise and family. She may have dreams that vary in Bethlehem she looked upon a little bay promised by profits again and

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again to be born to be a savior of the people, jesus barn in Bethlehem of judea. She may have seen in her green that little day and then swiftly as dreams can carry us on. She may have seen that baby life unfaltering into boyhood and manhood.

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She may have seen him as the mob with awful malice took him to his cross and nailed him there to his a cross of death. She may have seen it in a dream as he rose from the grave On the 3rd day after his death, just

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as he said, he would ride. But a marvelously attested fact of history is the resurrection of christ. Is there a more gloriously attested fact of history since the world began than the fact that jesus crucified on the cross and laid in joseph's new tomb Came there

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from on the 3rd day, as he said, he would victorious over death and the grave. Many saw him. The loving mary was early at the sepulchre that Lord's Day morning and lo the stone had been rolled away and the grave was empty and that woman's heart

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suffered. And so she turned aside to sobbed her way her grief along. They have taken away my law and I know not where we have lady I wanted his dear body and lo one appeared on tour and said one word mary and she answered back in

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a moment rap and I, my master jesus was a lack and mary knew it, she recognized him and doubting thomas heard about it and he said, except I see the prince of the nail in his hands and thrust my place into the side where the tear

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gassed him, I will not believe. And jesus said, calm down. See feel, look for yourself, touch for yourself. And even doubting thomas cried out, my Lord and my God, he was seen of many, He was seen of above 500 at once, but most of all in

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the hearts of men and women, he mills, he loves, he talked with us, he walks with us. We are conscious that jesus is not under some Syrian sky, in the dust of the grave. He reigns on high and someday he's coming again. This woman may have

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seen all that and she may have seen him coming again As one day he will come even as you went away, coming the next time without sin unto salvation. She may have seen him on his judgment throne As one day he shall be and pilot isn't

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the judge now. But pilot is the prisoner, jesus is just conditions to revert and one day we must call stand before the judgment seat of christ. This woman may have seen it all. It was a dream of such a moment that she suffered unspeakable language and

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she sent her messenger with all heat to warn her husband oh my husband have found nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered this day many things in a dream because of him. Was there ever a site on earth more touching than the

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sight of a way speaking together? Huh to travel in the right road. Was there ever a more inspiring sight beneath the star than the sight of husband and wife walking together in the ways of christ seeking to build our home and rear their families concordant with

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the will of God. How often is the opposite picture? How awful the opposite. Now here here is a white speaking right bo to reach this man. All right, and how is he to be reached? How is it to be reached? Now he's on the judgment seat.

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He's ready to hear the case presented and give his verdict how we hear they read. Shall we be reached by christ's disciples? They've all fled. Poor things. Their hearts have failed him failed them when he was crucified when he was led away by the mouth and

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put through such wretched, wretched testings and trials as they subjected jesus unto by Simon Peter, Jesus said to him, you will deny me three times before the cock shall crow. And the braggart said though all men shall deny the yet not I And yet he denied

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his Lord the three times as christ said he would and now he's gone away and john the beloved john and the other disciples in those awful hour gathering about jesus have forsaken him and play how shall this man pilot be reached? The disciples of jesus are

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not going to reach him. They've run away. How can he be read can he be reached? He can and reached by a simple a thing as a dream, by a simple thing as a dream. And the dream of the man's own wife. If he can be

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impressed at all, he can be impressed. Now. The dream of the man's Dearest one of Earth apartment. I've had a dream, the lack of which I never had before. My heart is bleeding on the desperation and anguish. Have nothing to do with that. Just man that

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they've arraigned before you as a prisoner and don't hire him at all. Oh, how wonderful our gods methods for reaching man by the intimacy and the searching revelation of his own overruling province and I repeat again away. Conspiring a wife, but planning to reach her husband

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for the highest is a sight to move angel and the site that does call for the remarkable sympathy of the internet sales and I say the opposite thing, her husband and wife conspiring and confederates and cooperating, do the wrong thing, how terrible it is, how awful

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it is. Think of the happened, guessable, conspiring her husband and wife to live the record life they live, think of Herod and hair odious consulting their improperly with that man conspiring as they did to chop the head of john the baptist from his body. Think of

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an in our house and Zafira conspiring as they did to bring the path. Wretched wretched harvest for human life. But think on the other side how glorious it being when a woman leads the way in building a worthy home, as did beautiful Hannah or as did

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that lovely s they're thrown among heathens and pagans and yet in a heathen court stood up with unyielding loyalty to the Lord Almighty. Our beautiful, glorious Elizabeth gave her life in such glorious fashion for God and for the right we've had in recent days here thing

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profoundly to move our hearts when we've seen here in recent days, old families make their public alignment with christ the savior and law. Fathers and mothers and the dear Children of various ages ages walking in the steps of their christian parents. Oh that many more may

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walk in this good way and have the smile upon of God upon. But we see here in this story of the dream of pilot's wife dispatched to him in the crucial our pilots like we see here how the last call of Love may fail even as

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it failed here. The last call of love. Pilot went through the farm of washing his hands saying, I'm not responsible, think of a judge deserting the courthouse and letting the mob take the prisoner and lynching pilot went through the farm of washing his arms, paying the

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blood of this just person beyond you. He used to it and they said his blood be on us and our Children and all my soul. It has it has it has been, here's the last call of love for a human soul and this fails in the

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case of science and why did it fail? The reason to right at hand. Pilot pilot was restrained, kept back from doing what his wife begged him to do. The deal right with jesus. Pilot was sweet by his own selfish selfishness is the very essence of sand.

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Selfishness is the negation of God. Selfishness is the suicide of all real lasting. Great selfishness is the apostasy of human life. Selfishness is the precursor of the absolute destruction and downfall of its possessor by and by the selfish nation anywhere is marked by doom. The delay

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maybe for a little while, but the overwhelming wreck of the nation will come by and by the selfishness of a family is marked by do there are no exceptions in the world. The selfishness of an individual is marked for doom. Pilot here is kept back from

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his right decision by his own selfish he was afraid he would lose. He was on position. He was afraid his crown would be taken away. And he said, my way and my will and my preference rather than God, that is the way of doing still again.

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Find it was swayed by the fear of the peak. How awful a thing for a man to be a coward of any kind physical r morrow. How awful a thing for 1 to be a cower. Here's a cower. A truculent power. He was swayed by the

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fear of the people that judge ought to have died on his bench, them to have done the wrong thing. Any governor, a man or woman. In a close place where righteousness is being assaulted or to die any day than to give one moment of sympathy with

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those who assault and despoil and destroy. He swayed here by the fear of the people doesn't the bible tell us the fear of man bring up the snare. Oh, jesus thou art discarded by men and women because they're afraid of what other people around them will

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say, the child discard jesus because his father's discarded him. And he says, I'll follow daddy or the girl says I'll follow mother or the neighbor says, I'll fellow mr so and so he's clever. Oh, the undoing power. Our public opinion and especially so when such public

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opinion is fastened on wrong courses, wrong decision, wrong behavior. Finally dissuade to the fear of man and pilot. Was himself irresolute speaker paul thing. Hesitating, undecided. He needed to hear that great question of the prophet long before. How Long? Oh cheese between two opinions. If jesus

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be the promised messiah servant, if he'd be a fraud turn from him and serve whom you will. Pilot went down also in that crucial hour because he lacked decision. He lacked definite nous and positiveness of decision, of character. The most difficult man or woman in the

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world to reach is the pickle wavering. He revenue undecided first. Now in one hour, warm with emotions toward God. And in the next hour coal laughing cynically against the over tours God makes to forgive and save us. If only we yield to it. File it pilot

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went down and the last call of love failed. The last call of love failed call of his own wife fails. The last call for this man's soul failed. Oh, that last call comes. It's the call of a dying life for a living life. It's the call

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of a dying mother or a living glorious mother. It's the call even of some child with its childish and they e sincere low for daddy. For a mother, with the questions that it asks 13 questions about christ about about the hereafter in these providential ways and

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examples God is making his last cause