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booklet, all three of them, for one dollar that Sister Griffin has at the back. You will stand, my dear. and she has a few copies remaining that you may secure. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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[MUSIC] ♪ Oh, the one ♪ ♪ The soul ♪ ♪ Is unlike you ♪

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♪ Is hidden ♪ ♪ From view ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ [MUSIC]

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[music] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] ♪ Oh, just think of me ♪

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♪ You and me ♪ ♪ Just think of me ♪ - Come on, come on. (indistinct)

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♪ Oh, just think of me ♪ - That's it. [MUSIC] [MUSIC]

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[music] [Music] Sing it young man, sing it. [MUSIC]

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Yes, sir. [MUSIC] ♪ Sing, sing, sing, sing ♪ ♪ God is good and ♪

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- Go ahead, brother. ♪ Good and ♪ ♪ Good and ♪ ♪ Whoa ♪

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♪ Oh, thank you, thank you ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ God is good and ♪ ♪ God is good and ♪

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[MUSIC] ♪ The angels of his goodness ♪ ♪ God is goodness ♪ ♪ And goodness to you ♪

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♪ He loves you ♪ ♪ Yes, I do ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ He made a ♪

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♪ He made a duty ♪ ♪ God keep our land ♪ ♪ God keep our land ♪ ♪ Good and true ♪

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♪ May love and kindness ♪ ♪ Be good and true ♪ ♪ God be ♪ ♪ Our gift goodness ♪

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♪ Goodness to you ♪ ♪ Oh, star ♪ ♪ Gloriously ♪ ♪ In the earth ♪

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♪ Ever ♪ ♪ Ever to keep ♪ ♪ All the things ♪ ♪ We found in goodness ♪

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♪ We will give to you ♪ - Let's all try that chorus again. Let's just try it. ♪ All the things ♪

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♪ We found in goodness ♪ ♪ We will give to you ♪ ♪ All the things ♪ ♪ Think of His goodness ♪

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♪ Goodness to you ♪ ♪ And most of all ♪ ♪ Are you seeing ♪ ♪ He's the one ♪

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♪ You want to be ♪ ♪ Oh, think ♪ ♪ Think of His goodness ♪ [MUSIC]

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♪ I'm here for the rest ♪ ♪ That's to you ♪ ♪ I'm here for the rest ♪ ♪ That's to you ♪

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♪ I'm here for the stars ♪ ♪ For you too ♪ [MUSIC] [MUSIC]

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[MUSIC] ♪ All the things ♪ ♪ Of His goodness ♪ ♪ His goodness ♪

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♪ We sing ♪ ♪ Come on, you ♪ ♪ To whom ♪ ♪ All the world ♪

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♪ Must bow ♪ ♪ For His sweet ♪ ♪ Come on, sing now ♪ ♪ His great love ♪

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♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ We sing ♪ ♪ All the things ♪ ♪ Of His goodness ♪

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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] ♪ It's a good thing, it's a good thing to you ♪ ♪ To you ♪

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♪ To you ♪ ♪ Oh, stop ♪ ♪ All these tears ♪ ♪ All these tears ♪

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♪ And all this grief ♪ ♪ They are not to be ♪ ♪ Oh, I say ♪ ♪ It's a good thing, it's a good thing to you ♪

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[MUSIC] [INAUDIBLE] [BLANK_AUDIO] Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,

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nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scoundrel. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in his law,

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doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree, planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.

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His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. We want to consider today in this second address the subject, "Life's Learning Tree."

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[Audience] Life's Learning Tree. [President] Life's Learning Tree. [Audience] Mm. [President] And he shall be like a tree.

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[Audience] Yes. [President] Planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

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If we would teach people how to be happy, we must have them to understand the meaning of the words that are recorded here by the psalmist when he says that life is like a tree. The psalmist here is a wise teacher of the biblical tradition

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and he compares life using the tree as a symbol. George Kilmore, Kilmer rather, saw the handiwork of God in a tree and expressed it in a beautiful poem which many of us no doubt remember. I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

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A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray. A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair. A bun whose bosom snow has lain, who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.

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Life like a tree, life's learning tree. But life is not man-made Life and real happiness cannot be purchased at the bargain counter It is the gift of God

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And we cannot teach the way of happiness By ourselves alone God himself must be the teacher's teacher.

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[audience murmurs] [audience murmurs] He establishes all truth. He makes the way plain,

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and shows us how to walk in it. The teacher is a channel through whom God works in communicating his truth to others.

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So it is the teacher's task to be open to God, open to new truth. It's the teacher's task to work with openness and freedom in helping others to live the life of God in the world. Now to do this we need God's help. The teacher must depend on God. Now there's a story of a man who said that he thought that God was unfair. Why would

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God said he make an oak tree so large and only let it produce something as small as an acorn and then make a vine so small and let it produce something as large as a watermelon and he was sitting underneath the tree as he was meditating on this and suddenly an acorn fell on his head and he thanked God that

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things were as they were. So we must let God have his way. Teacher must be able to say, "Have thine own way, Lord. Have thine own way. Thou art the potter, I am the clay." It's the teacher's task to tell others how to

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to live their lives, to show them the way, to help them to be authentic persons, to be a real person, to be genuine, not make-believe. We have enough of that in world, not a fake or a phony, not to have a counterfeit or camouflage existence, we have enough of that, but to teach them the significance of being true to the

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divine image. In Gordon Parks novel the learning tree Sarah Winger says to her son Newt Winger shortly before his 13th birthday these words if you got a battle to fight, you can't rightfully ask the Lord to help you and not help the other fellow. Now can you? No son, you got to fight and hope God likes the way you

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using your fists and that goes for the boy you're fighting. I hope you won't have to stay here all your life Newt. It ain't a all good place and it ain't a all bad place but you can learn just as much here about people and things as you can learn anywhere else. Cherokee flats is sort of like a fruit tree. Some of the

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people are good and some of them are bad just like the fruit on a tree. No matter if you go or stay think of it like that till the day you die let it be your learning tree. Life like a tree, life's learning tree. God himself is the teacher he gives us the supreme privilege as teachers of helping him in

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partnership both to teach and to learn. God teaches the way. He tells Adam and Eve they may eat freely of all the trees in the garden of Eden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil Life's learning tree is situated in the do's and don'ts of life

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The way is shown by God in his direction This do and thou shalt live This thou shall not do for when the in the day that you do it you will surely die God directs

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That is he teaches us to distinguish Between the true way and the false way Life is like a tree This is our task to remember this as we seek to recruit workers in the teaching ministry of the church

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Jotham told a parable about trees in the book of Judges the olive tree and the fig tree and the bramble bush wall Consulted when the trees had a meeting and decided that they wanted to select a ruler over the trees

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They went to the olive and the olive said shall I leave my Fatness which I have to the honor of God and man to rule over the trees

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The fig tree said well shall I leave my sweetness To rule over the trees Then at last they went to the bramble bush and

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Bramble bush said now if you really want me to rule over you then you must put your trust in my shadow Else fire will come out of the bramble and destroy all of the trees We must be careful that we do not seek to get the bramble bush To do the ruling

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In our recruitment of workers in our remembering the significance of the tasks committed to us of portraying life for those

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whom we are privileged to teach. The happy person is like a tree planted by rivers of water and the roots of this tree reach deep into the stream

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for you see Effective teaching must have its roots in the spirit of God No matter how beautiful and polished may be the language and how varied and up-to-date may be the methods if the

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Roots are not in God if the roots are not right the tree produces no good fruit [audience talking] Beside twelve trees the traveler stood, used their shade and fruit.

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Oh foolish man, beside you stand twelve trees without a root. And the traveler grabbed the trunk of one and pulled it from the ground.

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Amazed and crazed to see no roots. He pulled the twelve trees down That too many rootless Christians Have no roots There there there too many who are suffering from diseased roots

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and This this affects everything that the teacher does if the spirit is not right roots are wrong Some years ago I was privileged to lead our church into building a new home and

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we built it around a tree so that the tree that was there was sort of an umbrella over the house, a great oak tree, huge, spreading over the house like an umbrella. There came a drought in the town and I noticed that the limbs, the branches on the tree began to die and the leaves began to fade and we became

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concerned about that tree. Very valuable. The architect had already told us that you you couldn't pay for that tree and money it meant so much. Its location, its beauty. I went to a tree surgeon and he gave a solution. He said now you got to see that some water gets down there to the roots. And I put this contraption in

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the ground and put the hose on it and the water went down and the solution which was being carried on down was used and I placed it here in there following the limb so that it could get to the roots and I kept doing that even during that season of drought and the tree began to cheer and look better the

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leaves began to improve. Life is like that. So you see teaching with diseased roots with a bad spirit produces no good fruit. For what the teacher says, the spirit that prompts the teacher to say what the teacher says is far more important than the words. Many times. He who in his own

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activity serves God, who reveals God in his life, even though he may come by nature from a mean and earthly realm is transplanted by

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the streams of water in the direction of the divine And so if you would be Christian teachers, I call upon you to be trees of righteousness Planted by the Lord You might show forth his beauty

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For you see, this tree that's planted by God, only can such a tree survive in the world and thrive and ripen and bring forth fruit. For you see, the law by which the seasons operate of greenness, you see, and withering, one another as the seasons come and go no longer affect this tree that's

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planted by God. The usual tree has sap that circulates you know up and down but this tree is a different tree and if you would be teachers be sure that somehow you have those roots and you have the time to take for yourself and get with God. Get with God. I had breakfast once with Dr. Howard Thurman and I said Dr.

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Thurman you are an outstanding teacher I've admired you through the years as a great writer, as a preacher, as a theologian, but how is it that you're able to write so many books and carry on such a heavy schedule? Many of us as young ministers find ourselves caught up in so many activities. How is it you do

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that? He said, well I tell you. He said, no matter how busy I am and how crowded my activities may be, I was on a campus teaching, he said I always had my secretary to write on my schedule of appointments sometime there for Dr. Thurman. And I would go and get away and I would meditate and pray, he

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said, he said I never got so busy where I didn't have some time, just for myself. where you get with God. And he said he said I've done this all the way through my ministry and he said now I never worried about the Sundays having something to preach on Sunday he said I just want enough Sundays. That somehow

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when we get with God we have something to say. God gives us enough to say we don't have to look for something to say, we get with him, fellowship with him, he'll give us something to say. And we as teachers must remember that we are to deal with life situations. So the tree should have green leaves, and God shows

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us his love and brings his children unto himself through personal experiences in all seasons, in all seasons. And that's what we've got to teach, that God is with us not only in the summer and the spring, but God is with us when things begin to change in the autumn season. And he's even with us in our winter of

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discontent. God is with us in all seasons. So the teacher has to be a person for all seasons and we've got to teach people that they are to grow like a tree. We must be growing if we would keep on living. C.S. Lewis reminds us to consider the egg. What does the egg do as it grows

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older. It goes bad or it hatches. We have the same choice. We must live and become the channel of new life or die. We must grow. Boy wrote to his parents when he was away from camp and later when he was in college father and mother read the letters and they said every time we read the letters and we know we see his

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handwriting oh he wants something now you he wants some money but the father said as the boy grew older that once or twice lately we have received letters not asking for anything but he just seemed to be talking to us and when we get with God it's not not always just asking for something but you just want to

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talk with him. You just want to tell him how life is with you. You just want to talk with him. You got to have someone to talk with. Life is like a tree. And the tree has leaves here that are evergreen. The words here are very important not only are we concerned about the spirit but we are also concerned to have the

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right words. In other words root and you see the the leaves and fruit and I'd like for us to think about the spirit the word and the deed. The spirit the word and the deed if the roots right and then the words come out right and then we're concerned about the deed being profiled. This is most important, very important.

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The leaves ought to be for healing. Now then this God can use us if we are willing to to be rightly related to him but let's consider here this fruit for you see we are to teach for positive results we are just not teaching just to spend a class period but for results in other words somehow

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God is looking for good fruit to come comes looking for good fruit. Cannon Weedle has a baseball story and he says that once a boy said to his father I want to play baseball and the father said well wait till your birthday comes and we'll see about that and when the boy's birthday arrived he received a

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fine book on the history of baseball. And again the boy made the same plea but instead the boy was not allowed to play on his next birthday he received a book on the stories of baseball and the following year still the father hadn't let him play that next birthday he received another book on the rules of

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baseball. But the boy kept saying to his father, "Father, I want to play baseball." And then the father said, "Well, if you're good during your Easter vacation, I will take you to see a baseball game." And the boy never learned to play baseball until he had a bat placed in his hand and he walked out on the diamond to participate in the

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game. Somehow the classroom is wonderful but life is never lived till we get out here in the arena where things are happening. We must participate in the game and the result of our teaching must be seen in the product. Ye shall know the tree by the fruit that it bears. Somehow we must expect great things. We must not only attempt great things, but we must expect great things

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of our students. We ought to expect a great deal of them. One person prayed, as the story goes, that God would remove the mountain. They went out the next morning and the mountain was still there. They said just as I expected. Didn't expect much. Sometimes we expect even the wrong thing. Burglar came into the house and and the husband

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the man of the house got up and he went in and he caught the burglar and the burglar was all excited he said well now you take whatever you want take whatever you want but before you go I want you to come in here and meet my wife because she's been expecting you for 20 years.

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We just sometimes expect the wrong things. But life is like a tree produce that produces good fruit. This is what our task is to produce good fruit. Jesus makes the parable of that cursed fig tree came and there was no fruit there. Cursed. Well one commentator says well that the fig tree usually produced

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its fruit either before or at the same time of the leaves. But here there were leaves and no fruit and that this was hypocrisy for a fig tree and it was cursed and God is looking upon us as trees and and and the story is that I have come here year after year for three years looking for fruit on this tree and

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and it has produced no fruit. It's occupied a place in the garden, it's taken all of the nourishment I've provided and has produced no fruit. I have left some of them there in our Sunday schools and in the teaching ministry of the church year after year looking for fruit and they have produced no good fruit. And justice says cut them down, cut them down.

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But I hear the voice from Calvary saying spare them for another year. Let them come to the Congress and listen and rededicate themselves, but for my sake spare them for another year. I know they haven't done all that they ought to have done, but spare them for another year.

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Just for my sake, spare them for another year. Well, well, life is like a tree. Life is like a tree. Life is like a tree. That's what God is saying to us from Genesis to Revelation, that life is like a tree. He shall be like a tree.

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A tree in the Garden of Eden is a symbol there of life. And Moses tells us something about a tree in his experience. And you're gonna need this in your teaching, for you'll come to some situations in life that you can't understand and you can't accept by yourself as you teach the way.

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And they came to that point in their wilderness wanderings and they came to Mayra and they said we couldn't drink the waters of Mayra because they were too bitter. Couldn't drink them. And the people of Myrna, they found fault with Moses. A lot of times we find fault with the preacher and we find fault with the church program because we aren't getting the kind of results that we want. The waters are bitter. We've got to teach in places where the waters are bitter, I tell you.

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And we can't drink them by ourselves. We can't drink of this water ourselves. We can't take it ourselves unless somehow we see what Moses did. He went to a tree. And he got him to get that tree and cast it into the stream. And that tree sweetened the bitter waters. Now as you teach, teach the cross. Be sure, be sure that you go by the cross as you teach. Be sure that you experience for yourself the forgiveness of God. Somehow the cross is

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real in your experience. Go by the cross. Ezekiel saw life as a tree and he saw this tree that was situated in the city of God and life was flowing out from it. Think of yourself as being God's tree placed there at God's dwelling place and the means of life for God's people. Cross, cross, cross. From beginning to end, life is

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like a tree. And we see John out there on the Isle of Patmos, and he has a vision. God said, "I want to show you some things, John, and I want you to see how things are going to be." And the last day, and John in the midst of that vision, he saw the New Jerusalem, and he saw the tree of life, the trees of life, and they were on

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both sides of the stream. Not only do you have it over here, but you have it over there. Life is like a tree bearing all manner of fruit, all seasons of the year. Life is like a tree. Life is like a tree. And so as you teach, be sure that you stay by the cross. A little boy was left by his father at a given place and he

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said now no matter what happens I want you to stay here underneath this tree and I'll be back for you. So while the father was away he was detained and a A storm arose, winds began to blow, rains began to fall and beat up on him. The zigzag lightning flashed, thunder began to roll, but the boy just held to the tree.

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He just stayed there. The father was detained and finally he came and he found the boy drenched with rain and what? And he said, Son, you're still here. He said, Yeah, father, you said for me to stay here and I'm here.

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Stay by the cross. Cross cross cross cross. Suffering and stay by the cross. Cross. Yes, the cross misunderstood.

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Stay by the cross. Ridicule, but stay by the cross. Forsaken, but stay by the cross. Cross, cross, stay by the cross.

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I'm gonna cling to the old rugged cross. I'm gonna stay there, stay by the cross. That's the tree that will sweeten your life. That's the tree that will enable you to produce good fruit.

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That's the tree whose leaves never wither. That's the tree that will enable you to be an example of life's learning tree. Would you stand, everybody stand right where you are.

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Don't move, stand right where you are. Don't move. Don't move, but stand where you are. Behind a message like this, I don't want us to break it up.

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Let's close reverently in the spirit of this message. Please join us as Sister Davis leads us. This is important. Don't walk out the door.

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Let's sing together as we close this session. (gentle music) (piano music) - At the cross for our first song of all.

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♪ I am in my Savior's arms ♪ ♪ And I stand in my Savior's feet ♪ ♪ And in my sorrows I ♪ ♪ Would be in hope ♪

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♪ Where safe with him ♪ ♪ Was my Godward and my Lord ♪ ♪ And watch, and watch ♪ ♪ Where I place all the night ♪

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♪ And the word of my God ♪ ♪ Oh, baby ♪ ♪ It was there by me ♪ ♪ I received my son ♪

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♪ And now I am happy again ♪ ♪ Oh, dear old friend ♪ ♪ Where are you ♪ ♪ Dear old love ♪

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♪ Of the dream ♪ ♪ Amazing grace ♪ ♪ How I long to see you ♪ ♪ Oh, that ♪

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♪ Oh, that ♪ ♪ Oh, where I first saw you ♪ ♪ And the range of your eyes ♪ ♪ Oh, that you could see ♪

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♪ I've been seeing my son ♪ ♪ And oh, I'm happy always ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm so proud ♪ ♪ And proud ♪

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♪ And I've heard his song ♪ ♪ And I'm so glad ♪ ♪ I'm so glad ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm so glad ♪

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♪ I'm so glad ♪ ♪ I've been seeing my son ♪ ♪ And I'm so glad ♪ ♪ I'm so glad ♪

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♪ And I'm so glad ♪ ♪ Happy always ♪ ♪ Was a boy ♪ ♪ Was a boy ♪

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♪ Was a boy ♪ ♪ Was a boy ♪ ♪ Was a boy ♪ ♪ Was a boy ♪

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♪ Oh, I'm so glad ♪ ♪ I'm so glad ♪ ♪ Now I'm happy always ♪ ♪ I'm so proud ♪

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♪ I'm so proud ♪ ♪ I've been seeing my son ♪ ♪ I've been seeing my son ♪ ♪ And now I'm happy ♪

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[Choral singing] Sister Davis, remain here. I want you to lead everybody in the "Amen" following the benediction. We'll all receive it, I'm sure. We come back at 1.30.

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So, please, go to a department. The minister's department will be meeting in here, and you have the schedule of the other departments. There should not be anybody in the hall After 1:30 between 1 30 and 4 30. We're here to work

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attended apartment the Superintendents department we will be presenting Christianity in crisis in the Rose room at 6 30 this evening The inner session throughout the day. Dr. Griffin the closing prayer and then we will all join in the amen Oh God our Father, as we stay close to the cross, help us to point the way to

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others, life's learning tree. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord calls his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace now and forever. Amen. [BLANK_AUDIO]

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