This Heart Is Too Small - Part 5

And when I started preaching in other parts of the world, people would not even think of that. That's all. They would be perfectly satisfied.

I have done a great job. And you know, my daughter is here, my son is there, doing this, doing that. One day, I got a letter.

Congratulations, Joshua Daniel. When I opened it, you are so lucky. You have been selected for a plot in the cemetery.

I said, what? I am not ready for your plot. That is, of course, a commercial gimmick. Listen, friends.

But, when a father or a mother says, See, one of these days I am going to die. We have done a great job. And my children are all comfortably settled.

You know, that's all some people care. Has my son a double portion of the spirit? You know, my father, before he died, told me something which I could hardly believe. He prayed for me.

And he said to me, God is going to use you more than he used me. God is going to use you more than he used me. I saw that my father was a man of God.

I said, no, that cannot be. I am never going to be anywhere near where my dad is. He seemed to live in the heavenly.

And I knew my follies and foolishness. But, my dear people, many parents don't seem to think of this. What is the spiritual capital they are giving their children? When anybody dies, I consider my own contribution to that person's life.

And I often find myself to be very wanting. I didn't do this for this man. I didn't lift this girl any higher.

I did not go that second mile. You see, friends, I find myself faulted from many directions. I don't know how you take these things.

But God says, Look, you are poor. You are wretched. You are miserable.

You are naked. What? Can you be naked and not know it? On one occasion, Mr. Winston Churchill had just come out of his bath. There was a knock on the door, and in came President Roosevelt.

And he said, I am completely naked. This is a historic occasion. Never did a head of state receive another head of state in this occasion.

Never did a head of state receive another head of state in this occasion. Listen, friends. Don't you behave like that and say, in your diary, this is a historic occasion.

Don't you behave like that and say, in your diary, this is a historic occasion. It is a shameful occasion. Thou dost not know that you are naked.

Oh, my beloved people. And so God said to this church, I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire. The Bible speaks of building with gold, silver, and precious stones.

And every man's work shall be tried by fire. The fire shall prove every man's work. Now we are talking about not the natural fires, but the fire of God.

We are talking about the fire of God. My, I see so much blubber, just fat, only fat. I see so much just froth, big show, nothing there will remain if it is passed through God's fire.

My dear friends, until we meet again,