This sermon emphasizes the dangers of pride in various forms, contrasting the pride of nations like Britain and America with the humility found in repentance and tender hearts. It warns against religious pride and calls for a crucified life with Christ, seeking to be holy, peculiar, and zealous for good works, while praying for the removal of rebellion from the heart to avoid perishing in the wilderness.

Everyone on his watch, when is the next explosion? Listen, friends. You know, after the independence of India, I was preaching in England. Not very long after that. Of course, the British were a very proud nation. They ruled the world. They ruled half the globe. That was a different kind of pride. Then across the Atlantic, there appears to be a very just pride of achievement. We have overcome impossible situations. That one young fellow who had no basic education, no great formal education, Edison, the inventor of the incandescent bulb. Do you know how many patents he had? Thirteen hundred patents. Hard work. Inventive genius. Now if you look at the eastern scene, it is all an imitative genius. But, I found that America was justly proud. We are a young country. But of course, I found it very hard. Because I am against pride of every sort. It was a very young country. They were justly proud of it. But I am against any kind of pride. Very young country. But a country based on Christian principles. With the work ethic, hard work. Overcoming natural difficulties. Oh yes, they were proud. An American young man who repented, a businessman who repented at my meeting said, We Americans are very proud. If you go to Germany, you will say, I found the heart was very tender. Soldiers would weep at the word of God. But, you know the doctrine that was given was, we are the Aryan race. We are the supreme people that must rule the world. So that was a different kind of pride. And I don't know if the religious pride is the worst kind of pride. Oh, we are a great people. We have great truths. No, let us not be proud in anything. You know there are two pictures I put in the back walls. And the question there asked is, Are you crucified with Christ? One of the holiness preachers that was here from Britain. What did he say? I will not, we will not dare put such a question to our people as they go out. But let that question be on your heart. Are you crucified with Jesus? God forbid that I should glory in anything but the cross of Christ. These people rebelled on the very brink of the promised land. And they wandered till all of them died. Only those under twenty eventually went into the promised land. Let us pray. Oh, loving father. We do not want any pride of any sort. We are nobodies. We want love, floods of love. The divine nature. The crucified life. No more that old nature pulling us down. Make us holy people. Peculiar people. Chosen people. Zealous of good works. Hear our prayer. Take all rebellion out of our hearts. And let us not perish in the wilderness. We ask in Jesus' holy name. Amen. And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of God, the fellowship and power of the Holy Spirit be with you dear people. Amen.