The Heart Is a Rebel Page #3

Well, every once in a while,

cliff barrows,

our choir director,

asks me to sing a solo.

In fact,

I'll be doing one tonight.

Do you think you

could get Mr. hal

to come and hear me sing?

That's a wonderful idea!

I'll give it a try!

Honey, I just

can't spare the time.

I've got to get the roughs

on this new campaign

ready by tomorrow morning.

Now, Greg Johnson

practically said that

if I can steer things

right on this one,

the sky's the limit.

There's no reason

why you can't go.

After all, we ought to show

Gladys we're proud of her.

Are you sure

you wouldn't mind?

Oh, not at all.

Hardly my idea

of a night on the town,

but at least it'd be

a change for you.

After hearing doc chambers say

the same old things

we have been hearing

for the last four years,

you're entitled

to a night out.

He added one new note...

Hmm?

Just as I was leaving

the office,

he, he hinted

that we might try prayer.

You're kidding?

No, after reminding me

that doctors aren't God.

Well, that tears it!

When they can't come up

with any answers,

they start with

a "prayer bit."

That isn't it at all, hal.

Of course that's it!

He knew you'd grab

at anything.

Oh, darling, do you think

I want you to be hurt?

Any more than you are now?

Don't you think I know

what he's doing?

Trying to raise false hopes

with a gimmick of some kind?

Is that all prayer is to you?

A gimmick?

I've never gone for religion

and I'm not starting now,

just because things

are getting a little tight.

I'll put Davy to bed

before I go.

You're going to have

to start getting to sleep earlier,

young man!

Can't, I'd miss

captain jinx's show.

And that would be

a catastrophe.

[Mumbling]

A what?

A catastrophe,

big trouble!

Hmm.

Is your throat sore, Davy?

Mmm...

A little?

[Mumbles]

What did you say?

I said, a little,

when I swallow.

I thought so.

It doesn't hurt that much!

We take no chances.

And now,

to bed we go, okay?

Okay.

Mommy's going to hear

glady sing

with that big choir

you're always talking about.

Tonight?

Uh-huh.

Daddy's got some

important work to do,

so he'll stay here with you.

Wish I could go

with you.

I'll tell you all about it

tomorrow, okay?

Okay.

Good night, mom.

Good night, darling.

See you in the morning.

See you in the morning.

Hal...

If there's anything

I can do to help

I'd be glad to stay.

You just catch

Gladys' big moment,

but be sure to duck out

before that fire and

brimstone falls!

I love you,

very much.

Now there's a line

that tops anything I've written today.

[George Beverly shea

singing]

Then one day

I met my savior

met him in the twilight dim

joy o'erwhelmed my soul

and sorrow vanished

and I'm happy since

his love came in

the years I spent

in useless pleasure

the hours I lived

in idle play

seemed worthless

and my heart was breaking

I longed to know

a better way

then one day

I met my savior

met him in the twilight dim

joy o'erwhelmed my soul

and sorrow vanished

and I'm happy since

his love came in

I sing because I'm happy

I sing because I'm free

for his eye is

on the sparrow

and I know he watches me

why should I feel

discouraged?

Or why should

the shadows come?

Why should my heart

be lonely?

Away from heaven

and home?

When Jesus is my portion

my constant friend is he

my constant friend is he

for his eye is on

the sparrow

and I know

he watches me

and I know

he watches me

his eye is on

the sparrow

his eye is on

the sparrow

and I know

he watches me

and I know

he watches me

so I sing

because I'm happy

o yes, I sing

because I'm free

for his eye is on

all the sparrows

and children

I know, how I know

that he watches we

(Joan)

So this is what Gladys meant

this afternoon

in the apartment.

(Gladys) Angel, if the good lord

treated us

the way we treat him,

there'd be mighty few

christians around.

You see, he already knows

how much we need him,

but he's got to wait

until we know it,

and ready to do something

about it!

Miss Joan,

why don't you and Mr. hal

come some night

to the Madison square garden?

That man of God,

Billy Graham,

says these things

so much better than I do.

(Billy Graham)

Wouldn't you like to have

all the old things

forgiven and gone

and become a new creature,

a new person tonight?

Well, that's exactly

what Paul said

could happen to you.

That's called the new birth,

it's regeneration,

it's transformation,

it's being born again.

In ephesians he speaks of it

as being quickened,

or being made alive

from the dead!

You're spiritually dead!

Now you have life!

It's very much like

this plant.

I can take some scissors

and clip it,

and lay it on the floor.

It still has lovely color,

it still looks like a plant,

but it's dead.

There's no sap in it,

and soon it will wither

and die

and that's the way

many of you are.

You're separated from God,

there's no spiritual

life in you,

and you need to be grafted

back into God's life

and become a partaker

of the life of God

so that spiritual life

flows through your soul,

and heart and mind,

and your whole spirit,

until you become a new creation

in Christ Jesus.

That can happen to you tonight.

You can become a partaker

of God's nature.

The very nature of God!

And old things

will pass away.

You say, "well, how do you

get the new birth?

"I want it, I need it,

i need a new life!

"I need a change!

"I need my sins forgiven!"

"I want this peace

and this joy that he gives."

Now wait a minute,

don't misunderstand me.

It doesn't mean that

when you come to Christ

you have no more problems,

no more burdens,

no more sorrows.

You may have more troubles,

more problems,

more difficulties

than ever before.

Because you see,

the Christian comes into

conflict

with the society

'round about him.

With all the evil,

all the compromises,

all the temptations

'round about you,

they come in upon you

and the Christian

must walk with God

in the middle of a wicked

and a perverse generation,

and that brings him

into conflict,

and sometimes it causes

suffering and persecution

and it may cause death!

God says, I'm willing to

forgive your sins.

I sent my son.

I love you, I love you,

I love you

with an everlasting love.

I don't care what you've done.

I don't care what

your sins are.

How much you're a hypocrite.

I don't care what you've done,

i love you,

but, first, you must repent

of sin, repent.

That means that you acknowledge

that you're a sinner.

I think you've done that

tonight in your own heart.

You already know that

you've sinned against him.

But that's not all

of repentance.

There must be a willingness

to turn from sin.

I said a "willingness"

because you can't

turn from your sins.

There's not a person

in this crowd

that can turn from their sins.

You don't have the power to,

you don't have the strength to.

But you must be willing.

You come to that point

and you say,

"oh, God, I'm willing!"

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