09 THE EXULTANT MOOD

09 THE EXULTANT MOOD

One other mood, and that is the exultant mood. This is the mood of the Spirit when you have whipped every devil in sight and have plenty of ammunition left. It is the mood you feel when you climb up on the last trench and the enemy is gone. You have your guns drawn and you look around to see if there is anyone else to give battle, and you have triumphed over all your enemies.

You know Paul said we are more than conquerors. Brother Ruth said that was illustrated by David and Goliath, "For David went down to kill Goliath and used one stone and was a conqueror and had four left. Since he had ammunition enough left to kill four more giants he was more than conqueror."

It is a great thing to be a conqueror, but to be more than a conqueror means you have whipped everything in sight and have ammunition enough left for many more if they were in sight.

It is that kind of spirit that the children of Israel had at the Red Sea when Pharaoh’s horses and soldiers lay at the bottom of the sea. Moses wrote a song about it and Miriam sang about it, and they shouted, because every Egyptian soldier was at the bottom of the Red Sea and later many of Pharaoh’s army drifted onto the shore on the other side. There was no other army in Egypt and they said, "Sing unto the Lord for He hath triumphed gloriously." That is the mood they had. That is the mood that Mary had the day when she visited Elizabeth and after they had talked together about God’s dealings with them until their hearts burned. Elizabeth spoke beautifully. Then Mary broke out in that wonderful Magnificat and said, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden; for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name."

What did she care now about those gossips that hung over the back fence and said, "I hate to tell you, but did you know about Mary. It is perfectly awful. We thought she, etc., etc." The same kind of liars have existed in all the centuries; but what did she care when she said, "My soul doth magnify the Lord and henceforth all nations shall call me blessed."

You need not censure your Catholic neighbors for calling her the blessed virgin. Do it yourself. God selected a pure virgin to be the mother of our Lord. We do call her blessed and revere her, but we do not worship her. It was the exultant mood that she had.

It is that mood they have in the 19th chapter of Revelation where the white robed throng begins to sing a hallelujah chorus, when they break out and say, "Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and the bride of the Lamb has made herself ready."

Oh, the wonder of it! -- the last vestige of false religion, false government, false ideas, false theology, and false philosophy, cast down, overthrown, destroyed forever! -- God’s Church vindicated, truth enthroned forever, the saints safe through eternity, and the white robed bride of the Lamb brought to the Lord! -- false religion forever dethroned, never to be exalted again -- false philosophies overthrown, never to be resurrected again -- the white robed are singing hallelujah and millions of angels join, and all the blood-washed around the throne join in the hallelujahs because of the everlasting overthrow of wrong and the everlasting enthronement of righteousness! The day is coming when wrong will forever be overthrown and righteousness shall be enthroned, and that forever. Sometimes, not often, you will have symptoms of that exultancy. Glory! You will have a symptom of that once in a while when you have whipped everything in sight. The devil gathered around but we prayed and God answered and they all fled and there was no one in sight, but the Lord and His triumphant hosts.

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