Bob Jones Sr.

Dr.

Bob Jones Sr. famously said this: "Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate." Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

Could I say to you, dear Christian brother or sister, don't sacrifice the eternal on the altar of the immediate.

Don't sacrifice what is truly valuable on the altar of the pleasures of this world.

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Bob Jones University or something.

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[laughs] But, but, uh, I don't...

Bob Jones doesn't even have a medical school.

But, um, I think it's more of an issue with the team's conditioning, at least.

Yeah.

I wouldn't let that frustrate me.

You know, instead of, instead of being what you want to be and, and being all that you can be and, and, and being everything that you'd like to be, why don't you just do what, what, uh, Bob Jones Sr. said? He said, "The successful man is one that finds out what God wants him to do and does it." Now, that is success.

Now, maybe God wants you to be a millionaire.

Now, if He does, He'll give you the ability to do it, you know? And that's okay.

Dr.

Bob Jones Sr. said one time in a chapel talk on this university campus I heard by way of tape, he said, "I'm a member of the family." He said, "I, I just pull my chair up to the table and say, 'Pass the biscuits, pappy.'" [laughing] I, I like that kind of prayer.

I wonder how my dad would feel over in North Carolina if I went up there and knelt in front of Dad and said, "Thou most holy Archie Milton Hudson, who was born in Elko, South Carolina, 75 years ago.

Thou whose hairline is now receding until your neck looks like it's gonna bubble." He'd say, "Son, what's wrong with you?" "Oh," I'd say, "nothing.

It's just talking to God and telling God what we want, and, "Lord, I got a headache and I can't get along without You." Dr.

Rice said, "I've sat beside Dr.

Bob Jones Sr. on the platform.

Most times they're preaching, I'd hear him say, 'Jesus, Jesus, I sure need You.

And so, you know, the Jerry Falwells, the Paul Wyricks went looking for a candidate to run against them.

And it had a lot to do with schools like Bob Jones University being threatened, like they were going to take away their tax status unless they stopped discriminating.

Right.

This this had everything to do with we got to find someone who's willing to enter into a transaction.

Yes.

You know, anyone who listens to this show heard a lot of echoes of what this show has covered.

And the examples I often cite, Bob Jones being one of the biggest ones.

I mean, people forget that they overturned their interracial dating ban in the year 2000.

You see somebody that began in their life pursuing their sin and what had initially become his choice had become his chains.

It was the old evangelist Bob Jones Sr. that said that sin, it will go on like cords of silk.

But when a man seeks to break free from it, he'll find that it is stronger than bands of iron.

So this man, he found out that when sin was no longer fun and it was in control, that all he could say of himself was that he had been egregiously wicked.

The immigration stuff, it's all race.

As they're forming this kind of new right coalition in the Reagan 80s, the catalytic element that kind of sets the hearts afire is the Bob Jones case, which works.

Bob Jones University works its way up to the Supreme Court.

Like we think of abortion as the

quickly remind people about the Bob Jones thing.

So we think of abortion as sort of the Rosetta Stone for how Christian evangelicals come to the right-wing movement, but it's actually desegregation.

Bob Jones University is a segregated academy.

It's a segregationist academy in the 1970s in South Carolina, and it's about to lose its tax exemption because it's... its admissions policy flies in the face of federal law, civil rights law.

And God, through the preaching of that one man, leading thousands upon thousands of people to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Bob Jones Sr. is another one.

1883 to 1968, Bob Jones Sr.

By the 1920s, Bob Jones Sr. was one of the best known evangelists in the United States, right up there with Billy Sunday.

By the time he was 40, He had preached to more than 15 million people, and he preached without amplification.

And you'll notice something about the men who preached without amplification.

They were really, really filled with the Spirit of God and very, very, very, dedicated to God using them to bring other people to the Lord Jesus Christ.

He didn't keep records of his results either.

Dr.

Bob Jones Sr. used to say, when gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, he's well nigh gone.

Let me adjust that just a little bit today.

When gratitude dies on the altar of your home, it is well nigh gone.

I don't have time to go through all the stuff I've written down here.

You know, Bob Jones Sr. said this.

He said something like this.

He said, "A Christian can commit almost any sin given the right circumstances and opportunity." So don't think that you're above this.