We now present Dr. Bob Jones Sr., internationally known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University, who during his earthly ministry was one of God's great warriors for the faith. Thank you very much. My friends, I want to call your attention to two verses here in the sixth chapter of Galatians. This morning, these two verses have taken a strong grip on my heart. I never have preached a sermon, I've quoted the verses over and over, but I want you to notice it. Now this is addressed to Christian people, the sixth chapter of Galatians, brethren, if a man be overtaken of fault, ye which are spiritual, say, restore such one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Now he tells one Christian how to treat another Christian, say, if a man be overtaken of fault, restore him if it's possible to do, say, and do it with longsuffering and patience. And I said, you might be tempted sometime too, and remember that now. And you might need somebody to help you back. That's a mutual relation, you see. Now he says down here, bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. That's the second verse. And then over here in the fifth verse it is, it says, for every man shall bear his own burden. Bear ye one another's burden. Now remember this is addressed to Christian people. Now first, what is a Christian? A Christian, in the Bible's sense, is a man who, knowing he was a sinner, and knowing he couldn't save himself, trusted Jesus Christ and His atoning blood for salvation. Now, people decide for Christ. That doesn't mean anything, just decide for Christ. You can get any sort of people that way. We get about a thousand that way. Decisions for Christ. We, old time, as an evangelistic work, used to give the invitation like this. We'd say, now, if you can say, I know I'm lost, I'm a sinner, I'm unsaved, I can't save myself, I know it, and I want to be saved, and here and now, God helping me, the best I know how, in my heart, I trust Jesus Christ as my Savior, and I'll settle it tonight, and now, from now on, I want to be counted His side. Now, we'd stand up there and say, now, don't come if you don't mean it. Don't just come down here to shake hands. But if you mean that, come on up here at the front. Now, that's the way we gave the invitation, see. All right. Now, I have seen that invitation given back in the old days. I remember one service where there were 4,200 people. And there weren't more than 8 or 10,000 people there. 4,200 people whose names were taken on that kind of invitation. I remember another service where there were over 2,000 high school students in one service on an invitation just like that. Well, a fellow came and knew what he was doing. It was clear cut, it was definitely a decision. Now then sometimes we'd speak to people who had been converted who were out of fellowship. Now we'd put it this way. Now if you say, I've been saved, I was converted, but I wandered away from the Lord, and I'm a backslider, I'm out of fellowship with Christ, and I'm sorry, And God helping me today, I come back to Jesus Christ. I'm going to trust Him to forgive my backsliding. I'm going to start over again. Now, don't come if you don't mean it. And they come. All right. Now, a great many people are taking it for granted they're Christians when they're not Christians. Now, when you read about God speaking to His own, He's talking to born-again ones, not just to church members, not to just folks who have turned a new leaf. Not to just somebody say, well, I think it's a good thing to decide for Christ. Not that kind of thing. It has to be definite, clear, specific faith. All right. Now, when you become a Christian, you're a child of God. God's your father, not till you're converted. But when you're converted, then you're called God's father. You haven't been right to call God your father if you're not saved. Why, Jesus Christ looked out, the people said, you're of your father the devil. We're children of God with faith in Jesus Christ. Now, when you come into the family of God, you become a child of God by new birth. Then every other born-again person is your brother or your sister. We have a family. We are members of it. That's the body of Christ. The Bible says, the eye cannot save the hand, I have no need of thee. Every born-again Christian, child of God, and there is no other kind of Christian, every born-again child of God, is a member of the body of Christ. Now, he tells us how to treat each other. That's what he says. Now, wait a minute. Now, he doesn't tell you to bear another man's cross. Every man's cross is his own responsibility. You're not supposed to bear that. He tells every man to bear his own burden. Every Christian is supposed to carry his own burden to him. But he also tells you to bear one another's burden. Now, what is the difference between cross-bearing and burden-bearing? Now, let me illustrate it. Now, God led me to found a school. I'm as sure of that as I am sure He ever called me to preach. It's as definite and clear. He led me to found a certain type school. And no question about it, in the subsequent years, show what He did. When I sit here and talk to you this morning, all over the world nearly, There are thousands and thousands of people being led to Jesus Christ by missionaries trained here, and preachers trained here, and schoolteachers who are trained here, all over the world. I just had a letter from Bob Jr. yesterday. At least his wife has a letter, and I read it. And Bob Jr. told about some missionaries from our school he met in India. And he told what a wonderful time, what a job they're doing for God. We have them all over the world. All right? There are approximately 1,000 preachers Pastors of churches in America, scattered over America, they were trained in this institution. And there are hundreds and hundreds of school teachers, and hundreds of Christian homes. People came here and found the Lord, many of them, were trained here. All right. Now, God led us to found this school. Now, when we decided to found this kind of school, we knew what it meant. We knew it would be an independent school, and we'd have our own problems. And that would be a cross. Now, I didn't have to found it. I didn't have to found it. I didn't need a job. I had a job. I was at the height of my evangelistic career. I didn't need a job. I didn't need a job to make a living. It cost me money to found this school. I wasn't looking for a job. But I felt a call. Now, Jesus says, take up your cross and follow me. Now, when I took up that cross, it was a cross too. Don't you ever think it wasn't a cross? I said somebody jokingly some time ago, if I had an enemy, and if I was a sinner and had an enemy and wanted to get even with him, I'd talk him into founding the school. I'd say, now, I'd like to advise you something. If I was a mean man and an enemy, see, nobody but a man that hadn't got much sense, except a consecrated Christian who wanted to do what God wanted him to do, went down to school like Bob Jones University. Of course, burdens, day in, day out routine. My son's burdens are heavy and all that. When I'm doing what God called me to do, running across the current of the age and running a certain type school without compromise, that was my cross, see? Now, nobody can bear that for me. I have to bear my own cross. My son has to bear his. Everybody connected with has to bear his cross. All right. Now, your burden's a different thing. Now, the burden is a thing that heaps up on you as you go down the road bearing your cross. Your cross is taking up a responsibility that God called you to take up and doing something you don't have to do because you feel you're obligated to God to do it. Now Jesus Christ came to die on the cross. Now he said, take your cross. Now that's what a cross is. Now a burden is something that comes along with me as I carry the cross. It's what's heaped up on you, see. It's what's piled up on you, see. Now then, he comes along and said, now you Christians, you who have taken up your cross now to follow me, made up your mind to go along with me now, regardless of consequences. It needs be to forsake home and father and mother, love me above everything else, and do my will. Now he said, you're going to have some burdens. That's not going to be easy. That cross is going to get heavy, and then the burden will be piled up on you, and responsibilities will increase as you go along. Now he said, you can help each other there. You can bear one another's burdens. Now, you know, I don't think we Christian people realize just what that means. I thought about it this morning. You know, down here at the hospital in town, there's a girl who finished here last year. She's teaching school. She's been real sick down there. Her mother and father have come down here, and her two sisters, they're staying here. So we went down to see her Sunday afternoon. And Ms. Jones had been down before. She's a fine Christian girl. This morning, when we're having our prayer at the table, Ms. Jones and I, we've made our voices and have our prayer, I was praying for so many people. I prayed for the students who'd gone to the mission field, for our students who'd gone out in the world standing for Christ, for the school here, and for the responsibilities and so forth and so on. So when I got out to the door, Ms. Jones said, we forgot to pray for so-and-so and called this girl's name. I said, oh well, I said, let's stop now and pray. Now you know what happened? That's bearing on another's burdens. Now you can help bear the burdens out here at Bob Jones University. Now listen, God called this school existence. Don't you ever forget that, I'm telling you now, not because I founded it. God called this school existence. If you knew what we knew on the inside here, no blowing of trumpets and sounding of horns and headlining the paper, But day in, day out over the world, multiplied hundreds of people, running through the thousands of people who come to Jesus Christ, all over the world. I know one man in Japan, a graduate of Bobbitt University, in the evangelistic effort that we're helping support, I know that young man must lead at least from 500 to 1,000 people to Jesus Christ every week in the year. Now, all over the world it's going on. We have more than 50 evangelists who are just true to what we stand for here. No compromise. They signed a statement. They wouldn't work knowingly on the sponsorship of any man that didn't read the Inspiration of the Bible, the Virgin's Birth, the Incarnation, the Blood of Atonement, the Bodily Resurrection, the Salvation of Grace, the Faith in the Atoning Blood. We have, I think, 104 names on that list of evangelists. And at least half of them are graduates of Bob Jones University. You've got two or three of our fellows that live in this town holding meetings all over this country, leading hundreds and hundreds of people to Jesus Christ every year. No headline, blowing up trumpets, anything like that. Now you can have a part by praying. That's a part of your burden. That's where you help each other out. You can have a part in the work that Bob Jr. is doing in Australia today. You can pray for him over there. You can pray for Bob Jones University. How else can you do? You can bear one another's burdens by helping us when we need finances to put up a building like we have here now. I think some people take it for granted because God Almighty is just so good to us and has prospered this school, best school, we don't ever need anything. But some of you have some of God's money. We could use some of permission money. You own the market permissions all right. We could use some of the student help fund to help young people who can't pay all the expenses. Some of them are going to be missionary preachers. Now you can bear one another's burdens. Now we don't ask you to take our cross. We're willing to carry that. We'll face the fall. We'll face misrepresentation and misunderstanding. Well, He didn't tell you to bear our cross, but He told you to bear one of those burdens. Now, you can do that. And you've got a neighbor over there near you, and maybe she has her cross that she's taken, or he's had his he's taken, to stand. It costs something to stand. You know, in this day and time, it isn't easy. They're trying to stampede you, to put you away from the Bible, and to put you in a compromised movement, to go along because it's a popular thing to do. It isn't easy to stand. But bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the Lord Christ. Now, you can bear your own burden. Don't try to get it out from under yourself. Any burden that comes to you on the road where you took up your cross and started out, go ahead, let it come. Carry on, but don't try to get it out of any burden. Take it on. That's a part of the cross you have. Because you're going God's way, and you're nicely happy. But you can do this. You can help other people, and other people can help you. Now, I want to ask a special prayer at this time. Because we are facing in America today the greatest opportunity Bob Jones University has ever had. And the greatest responsibility we've ever known we know right now. And we're asking you now to bear this burden by a special prayer campaign in this country for Bob Jones University. God's been good to us and the prospects are brighter today than ever before. If God's people help us bear the burden, and if we're going to be truly God, and I promise you we are, Our Heavenly Father, help us to understand Thy Word. Help us to know we have to each one carry his own cross. And everybody who's going with Jesus will have to carry one. Help us to know that. But help us to know that we can bear one another's burdens. We can help each other along the way as we go, carrying the cross that we chose to carry. Keep us safe in all things and true to Thee, for Jesus' sake. Amen. You have just heard Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., internationally known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University. who during his earthly ministry was one of God's great warriors for the faith. This program is sponsored by Bob Jones University.