Category: Uncle Buddy - IRONSTRIKES

Uncle Buddy: The Difference Between Abraham and Lot

5/6/2018

What was the difference between Abraham and Lot?

You know, they were blood kin and lived in the same country at the same time, and were in the same business.

But here is a part of the difference between them. Abraham commanded his house. Lot’s house commanded him. Abraham had a house of obedience. Lot had a house of disobedience.

Abraham pitched his tents toward Jerusalem. Lot pitched his tents toward Sodom.

Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked toward the mountains. Lot lifted up his eyes and looked toward the plains of Jordan.

Abraham went to the mountain and met God and blessed the world. Lot went to Sodom and well-nigh disgraced the human family.

Abraham chose grace. Lot chose grass.

And grace and grass tell the difference between the two men.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4387-4392). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: It Happened to Old Bud

4/15/2018

My beautiful old mother was a Presbyterian by faith and was very strict. If we boys had met a lady and had not pulled off our caps, the blackjack brush would have been flying. The American flag would have been in view, for while Mother put the stripes on us, we saw stars. Then the red, white and blue would immediately appear on the surface of our legs.

Some time ago I was crossing a large city, and, behold, I met a young woman with a pair of boots and a man’s hat on. Her hair was gone and her mouth was painted red. She was leading a large bulldog and he had pulled her from one side of the walk to the other until her hands were blistered. In front of a large department store the young woman lost her temper and she gave that bulldog the most outlandish cussing that I ever heard a poor dog get. I gave the sidewalk to the woman and the dog, and I kept my hat on.

When I got to my room, I said, “Now, Lord, my precious old mother taught me to take my hat off when I met a lady.” And the Lord seemed to say, “Yes, you must still do that when you meet a lady. Women and bulldogs are another proposition.”

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 4360-4368). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Whole Lamb (part eleven)

2/14/2018

WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD I WILL PASS OVER

Beloved, the last lesson we will give you from the 12th chapter of Exodus is on the blood. We read in this chapter that Moses said, "Ye shall strike the blood on the two side posts, and on the upper door posts," then he adds, "And when I see the blood I will pass over you." The blood of the lamb that was used in the Passover is a beautiful type of the blood of Christ. The lamb himself was a type of Christ and the lamb had to shed its blood before it could be used by the Israelites, and Christ had, to shed His blood before He could redeem a lost world. The blood of the lamb was to be the protection that was thrown around the Israelites, and this blood was to keep back the death angel from entering their home, for every person that did not have the blood on his front door posts, and upper posts, there was a corpse found in that home, and just as truly as the blood protected the Israelites, the blood of Jesus is to be the protection of His people in a world of sin, for it is through the blood of Jesus Christ that we are delivered from sin and the power of the Devil and delivered from eternal death. We even read in the Bible that the angels desire to look into this great salvation and that the songs of the redeemed in the holy city will be concerning the blood of the Son of God. The blood had to be put on the two side posts and the upper door posts as a public sign or example. The command was not to put it on the back posts of the door, on the door steps even, but it was to be put on the front door, and beloved, you can't imagine any old Israelite that night when the death angel was going through the land with a drawn sword leaving a corpse in every home, that any of those people that night would have been ashamed of the blood, and the greatest protection that ever came to a band of slaves was the blood of the lamb, and the little family was safe in his mud hut in the land of Goshen. Therefore that wonderful transaction that took place that night in the land of Egypt is called the Passover.

It was so named or called the Passover simply from the fact that the destroying angel passed over every house that had blood on the door. Again it pointed to the death and sufferings of Christ, when He too, should give up His life and shed His blood to redeem not only Israel but the whole world. And from the day of the shedding of the blood of Christ until this present hour all mankind can look back to the hill of Calvary and see a bleeding victim on the cross which means that there is a deliverance for me from my sin and bondage to the Devil. Thank the Lord, the blood will not only pardon the guilt that is found in the heart of a lost sinner, but will also cleanse and purify the heart of a justified believer. In trying to describe this great salvation we have often said that it was blood-red and snowwhite and red-hot and sky-blue, and as straight as a gun-stick. We have used this language because we probably had no better language to use.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 3645-3665). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Whole Lamb (part ten)

2/13/2018

RECEIVE THE LAMB IN HASTE

We notice again in this remarkable chapter that Moses told the Israelites to receive the lamb in haste. We understand by this that the time had come when they were to receive the lamb and leave bondage or reject the lamb and stay in Egypt. Egyptian bondage is a type of sin, so understood by the majority at least, of the Bible readers. Pharaoh is a type of the Devil, and Egyptian bondage a type of the work the Devil puts poor sinners to doing, for while the Israelites gathered straw and made brick and worked in the slime-pits under the lash of the taskmaster, they were then away from God's country and on the Devil's territory, and they were servants and serving their enemy, which is the most remarkable picture of the life of sin that is given in the Old Testament. Every man knows, that will think for a moment, that every sinner is serving his enemy, for the greatest enemy any sinner has ever had has been the Devil, and the only friend he ever had was Jesus and yet strange as it seems, sinners will serve the Devil and reject Jesus Christ. Now Moses had been planning for some time to leave Egyptian bondage with the Israelites, and the plan was to go into the land of Canaan which represents God's country, and the lamb had been killed, and the Passover was made ready, and finally the time came when they had stayed in Egypt their last day and up till the last night, and now they were to arise at once and go with Moses out of Egypt, or stay there and perish. His command was, "Receive the lamb in haste." This means to get up and get out of there. It meant, "Don't delay in your going, for every one that delayeth will perish."

It is just so with us today. The time comes when every man must give up sin and go with Jesus Christ or stay in sin and perish eternally. After reading and traveling and talking with people for years I am convinced that multiplied thousands of saints today received Christ on their very last call of mercy. The time came when they had their last call. They realized that God was giving them their last and final call to mercy; hence, we have heard them say by the thousands, "I just barely got in on my last chance." I am sure that they felt that way about it, and they felt truly that if they rejected Jesus Christ one more time He would never pay any more attention to them. In their testimony they have said publicly, "If I had rejected Jesus Christ one more time, it was so plain to me that I would never have another call to mercy that I fairly ran to the altar of prayer and begged God for the sake of my lost soul to have mercy."

Oh, beloved, multiplied thousands have gotten in on their last call. But think of the sad millions that have heard the call so often, and have turned a deaf ear so many times and said no to God and hardened their own hearts, stiffened their own necks, choked and stifled their own convictions that the blessed Holy Ghost had brought to their hearts until God left them, until today we have a nation of God-forgetters and Christ-despisers, and Holy Ghost rejecters, and sad as this statement may seem, God pays no more attention to them than if they had no soul. The buggy horse they drive has just as much conviction now as they have. You might say, "Why is this?" We answer the time came when they were to receive Christ in haste or reject Him and perish, and they shook their head for the last time at God, and God's dealings with them closed. In a few years or maybe a few weeks on their dying bed darkness will settle down over them, they will have no feelings, their friends may pray, they will show but little or no concern, their testimony will be, "I am lost," and the next dealing they will have with God will be at the judgment bar, for we remember the words of Jesus when He said to the Jews, "How often would I have gathered you together as a hen gathers her chickens under her wing, but ye would not, therefore your house is left unto you desolate, for I would and ye would not." So Jesus walked out of their temple and shook the dust from His feet as a testimony against them, and said, "Your house is left desolate." He never went back to it.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 3615-3643). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Whole Lamb (part nine)

2/12/2018

RECEIVE THE LAMB WITH STAFF IN YOUR HAND

Now, beloved, church members and lovers of the gospel truth, we take fresh courage and take our staff in our hand and march to the battle's front, for we notice again in this wonderful 12th chapter of Exodus that Moses told the Israelites to receive the lamb with their staff in their hand.

Now this staff was a big walking stick, we would judge about as big round as a man's wrist, and probably about five feet long. It was their protection. They didn't use firearms in those days as we do at present, but if a mountain lion came out of the woods and growled at one of those old Israelites when he had his staff in his hand, he could knock every tooth in his mouth right down his neck at one lick, and then beat him into a frazzle, and put his stick on his shoulder, and march on down the highway of holiness. This stick was a great source of joy and comfort to the man who carried it. When he was tired he could lean on his staff and rest, when he went up a mountain, he found it very useful, he could push himself up the hill and help himself over the slick places and rough cliffs. It was also just as useful when the fellow started down the mountain, he could often lean on his staff and hold himself back. He had two legs of his own, and his staff which was a kind of a third leg and meant so much to the travelers in those early days.

But in our day we now use for our staff God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. We lean on the triune Godhead. They protect us from the wild beasts along the highway. They help us to climb the mountains, they help us down the steep hills and when we are tired we lean on them. What would we do without this wonderful staff? It is a comfort to us by day and our protection by night. The old Book is often our walking stick, for as we read the Book, we walk and talk by the way. We draw our very spiritual life and existence from the Word of God through the power of the blessed Holy Ghost, which is sent to us by the Father and the Son. Thank God, we receive the Lamb with our staff in our hands.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 3599-3614). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Whole Lamb (part eight)

2/11/2018

RECEIVING THE LAMB WITH SHOES ON YOUR FEET

Beloved, we are now getting ready to put on our gospel shoes. For again we notice that Moses said to the Israelites that they were to receive the lamb with their shoes on their feet. We read in another place that Moses said that their shoes were to be iron and brass, so I am not surprised now when I think of it that the Israelites wore their shoes for forty years, and we nowhere read that they had to have them half-soled or new heels put on them. Well, beloved, think of a man with iron shoes on, how well protected he is. At a glance you can see that this man can wade through thorns and thistles and briars. He can climb over rocks and hills and mountains for years and never get a thorn in his toe nor a briar in his heel. And of course there is no danger of a man stumping off a toenail. If a great rattlesnake or a copperhead or a boa-constrictor or any of these dangerous reptiles that man has to fight along the path of life undertakes to bother a man with a pair of iron shoes on, he can stamp his head into the ground and mash it as flat as a pancake. There is no danger of a fellow getting snakebitten.

I thank the Lord that a man can have a pair of gospel shoes made out of iron, glory to God for such protection! Thank the Lord for the good things that are coming our way at last. Beloved, iron shoes are quite a fortune. In the next place, if a bulldog would come out of a fence corner and growl at a fellow with iron shoes on, he could simply kick that dog in the under jaw and turn him two double somersaults, and hand him a few good kicks in the short ribs that would open the eyes of that pup and let him realize at once that he had made the wrong choice, and that old warrior wouldn't be bothered any more with a bulldog soon.

Beloved, just think of what a dangerous weapon an iron shoe is to rattlesnakes and bulldogs, and what a wonderful protection they are to a pilgrim as he travels through this world. I wouldn't take anything in the world for mine. St. Paul one day looked down at his iron shoes and a big smile played up and down his face and he said, "Gentlemen, I am shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace," and he turned and said to me, "So run that ye may obtain," and I said, "Bless God, I am everlastingly at it."

Beloved, if a man can have such preparation as we find here offered to the saints, there is no reason in the world why we should hobble around and complain of the little difficulties of life, for a man that is so well shod as the pilgrims were need not fear the rough places of life. We have noticed that he was well clothed with his oriental garment on, and now with his gospel shoes, with his soul on a stretch for the glory land. There is no power on earth or in the pit of darkness that can keep the man from going through. There is no way to keep the Devil from tempting him, but there is no power that the Devil has that can make us yield. No man has to yield to the temptation of the Devil unless he wants to, for our heavenly Father has said, "I will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make a way of escape." We see from the above quotation that when the Devil comes up and throws down a temptation before you, that Jesus walks up and lays down the way of escape by the side of it, and so we will say praise God from whom all blessings flow, and buckle up our belt and put on our shoes and start for the race.

There is another interesting fact about this case and it is this, that no man will ever start anywhere until he puts on his shoes. As long as a man lays around in the morning barefooted until his wife gets breakfast, too lazy to knock the flies off his nose, and with barely enough life to knock the bumblebees off his toes, let it be remembered that that man will never get anything done, but you take the old boy that rolls out of bed at break of day and while he is shaking the sand out of his socks with one hand, he is knocking the mud off his heels with the other, that man is going to make a corn crop, and no make-believe about it, and what is true in the literal world is also true in the spiritual world. Amen! So get a move on you and let's meet at the marriage supper of the Lamb. But don't undertake to come without your shoes on, for if you do they won't let you in.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 3568-3598). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Whole Lamb (part seven)

2/10/2018

RECEIVE THE LAMB WITH YOUR LOINS GIRDED

To the sons and daughters of the Almighty scattered abroad: We want to notice again some beautiful things from the 12th chapter of Exodus. Now Moses told the Israelites that they were to receive the lamb with their loins girded. At first this would seem to be a strange statement, but after looking at it more closely it will reveal its own self to you. This refers to the clothing that they were to wear. The oriental garment was a loose robe over their shoulders coming down to their ankles and when they were to make a journey they were to put a big leather girdle around their loins and gird themselves up, in order that it would pull the loose robe up about halfway between their ankle and knees. This was done in order that they might walk well. The girdle also would brace their back and loins and give them strength for their heavy march. The reader will remember that in the picture of the old family Bible of the pilgrims, they all had on this loose garment and the girdle around their loins, so you see the Israelites had to assume the role of a pilgrim before they could receive the lamb, and how true is that with us today. No man can receive Christ without becoming a pilgrim, and the old Book says that we are strangers and pilgrims here below, and that we are seeking a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God. We understand from the teaching of the Book that all truly regenerated people are pilgrims. But the Apostle Paul gave us some wonderful insights into the life of a pilgrim in that wonderful 11th chapter of Hebrews. He said of them that they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, were destitute, and afflicted, of whom he said, this world was not worthy. He said they wandered about in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth and that they all died in the faith. Another remarkable fact in Connection with their receiving the lamb with the loins girded was that they could not leave Egyptian bondage until they assumed the role of a pilgrim and received the lamb with their loins girded.

And what was true of the Israelites is just as true of us. For the child of God today is just as truly robed and girded and is running this remarkable race with his face set toward the celestial city as was the face of the Israelites set toward the land of Canaan. And a Christian is a very busy man. He is making tracks with the toes pointed toward the New Jerusalem; in fact, he has said good-by to this old world, and is so busy following the Lamb, that he has no time to ride the goat.

He has his eye on the cross and is running for his life. It was hard on him to say good-by to all the goat-riders and these splendid gentleman of the cloth and take the lonely way with Jesus.

He has no time for the entertainments and the great blow-outs of the world. His business is to scratch gravel. He has no time to look back, nor to stay on the plains. He is bound for the mountain-top of holiness and righteousness. Every move he makes is heavenward. He now has on his robe, his eye on the cross with a spring in his heel and a well in his soul, and his face is set like a flint. He is one of the most peculiar men on earth; not exactly in the way he is dressed but in the way he lives. For he lives different from the other man, for he is a citizen of another country. Amen!

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 3543-3567). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Whole Lamb (part six)

2/9/2018

RECEIVING THE LAMB WITH BITTER HERBS

We find again in this remarkable chapter that the Israelites were to receive the lamb with bitter herbs. Now in the preceding chapter we showed you that they had to put away all leaven in order to receive the lamb, and we notice in this chapter that they had to receive the lamb with bitter herbs. It is very clear to the mind of the reader that bitter herbs in this connection stands for the doctrine of repentance. For no cup has ever been drunk by the heart of a penitent sinner that is as bitter as the cup of repentance, and this is one of the hard things in connection with getting rid of sin. No man loves to drink the bitter cup, but all will have it to do in order to find the Lamb. But it must be drunk to the bottom before Christ can he received. For the doctrine of repentance covers all the ground of straightening up the back track. It is a bitter cup to have to publicly confess our sins and forsake our sins and then take our back track and make restitution, and take back that which does not belong to us and beg pardon from both God and man, and that makes the cup a very bitter one. There are plenty of people in the country who would get religion and go to heaven if they did not have to drink the cup of repentance, and as far as possible straighten up their past records, but it will have to be done. For God did not have Moses to preach one kind of doctrine to the Israelites and then preach a different doctrine to us, and the facts are that the Israelites could not receive the lamb without the bitter herbs, and neither can you and I. I used to hear the old Methodist preachers say in their prayers, "O Lord, I thank thee that we are on praying grounds and pleading terms with Thee." I thought in those days that that was a very common expression, but, beloved, that was my mistake, for that was a very uncommon expression, for no man ever uttered a greater statement than those old heroes uttered in that prayer. For no man is on praying grounds and pleading terms, as they called it, as long as he carries one unconfessed sin in his bosom or as long as he has one nickel in his possession that belongs to another; therefore, the old preacher meant more than we thought for when he thanked God he was on praying grounds. But any man that will drink the cup of repentance to the bitter dregs and swallow the bitter herbs can pray a hole through the skies, so big that the light of God's face will shine down through that hole and all over his soul until he will look like he is about half glorified, when the facts of it is he has just drunk the cup of repentance and prayed a hole through the skies and the light of God's countenance has lightened up his pathway from earth to glory. Beloved, that man is liable to have any kind of a religious spell at almost any time of the day, in almost any part of the world that he may be.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 3523-3542). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Whole Lamb (part five)

2/8/2018

PUT AWAY ALL LEAVEN FROM YOU

We are told again in this wonderful 12th chapter of Exodus that the Israelites were to put away all leaven from among them, and they were to receive the lamb with unleavened bread, and the Lord told them emphatically they could not keep any leaven in the house and receive the lamb.

The reason for that was, that leaven is a type of sin, and no man can receive Christ, and keep any sin in his house, or rather in his heart. All leaven had to be put away. Leaven is that peculiar thing that we put in the biscuit dough. It is commonly called yeast nowadays, but it is the same thing that was called leaven in those early days. And you can put a small amount of yeast in a piece of biscuit dough and heat the dough to a certain degree of heat and the yeast will cause it to swell to several times the size that it was before the yeast went to work. We have often had people tell us after they had had a spell of anger and the "Old Man" had gotten up in them and turned over, that they had had an uprising, and how true to life it was. The reader can see at a glance that the yeast was at work, and when you see a man sweating and puffing and swaggering, with his face red and his nose white, with his teeth clenched, you may know at once that the yeast is now doing its work, for you can see now that the dough is several times larger than it was. How true to the spiritual condition are these facts. For they say themselves when they are cooling off that they sure did get hot. Well, don't forget that the biscuit dough has to get hot before the yeast can or will do its work. And when the dough gets as hot as it has to be to start the yeast there is always a mighty upheaval, and we are not surprised that they call it an uprising.

Occasionally we hear a preacher tell us from the pulpit that leaven stands for grace, and that the little grace we get in conversion will work up and work out and work through until the whole is leavened, and try to make it appear that the yeast stands for grace. But, beloved, that couldn't be, for the reader will remember that at the opening of this chapter the Lord told Israelites to put away all leaven from among them before they could receive the lamb, and it would seem strange that leaven would stand for grace, and a man would have to put it all away from him in order to receive Christ. Again, when we come to think it over, leaven could not stand for grace because a sinner has no grace in him, and the reader will remember that in the 5th chapter of 1st Corinthians and the 6th and 7th verses St. Paul said to the church at Corinth, "Your glorying is not good, know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?" then notice in the very next clause he says, "Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened, for even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us." Here the reader will see that if the leaven in the 6th verse is grace, Paul himself tells them in the 7th verse to get rid of it, using almost the same language that Moses had used in talking to the Israelites in the 12th chapter of Exodus, proving to the mind of any reader that leaven could not stand for grace. But it is amazing nowadays how some men have tried to twist the Book in order to dodge facts, and to cover up truth. Here is one point: a big preacher in one of the western cities preached on the "more excellent way," using the 31st verse of the 12th chapter of 1st Corinthians as his text in which he showed the people that the more excellent way that the apostle was going to show these Corinthian Christians, meant our beautiful boulevards and fine road systems of America, and the riding in automobiles, and showed that the difference between the rough roads in early days where our forefathers traveled in ox wagons while any thinking man or woman in any church or faith knows perfectly well that the more excellent way there that the apostle describes was nothing short of the beautiful experience of perfect love as described in the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians, and yet this gentleman was honored with that wonderful title of D.D. In his case evidently D.D. meant Dead to truth and Delivered to the Devil. All Christians enjoy good roads and a ride in an automobile. These are great blessings but have nothing to do with the above Scripture in this world, and couldn't have. The Apostle Paul had no reference to macadamized roads or automobiles when he wrote this wonderful text to the church at Corinth.

Thank the Lord we little folks have found out what the old apostle meant. He wanted these people who were so dear to his old heart to be sanctified wholly, and filled with the blessed Holy Ghost, and made perfect in love. Nothing short of that would satisfy the Apostle Paul, or the man that is writing this book. And I want to say right here, bless God, I have got it, and the fire is burning in my soul, and the old leaven is purged out and there is no uprising there today. Glory be to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! Amen, and amen! If the Devil was to just stick his nose through the crack of my theological fence, bless God, I would have another shouting spell.

Hallelujah to the name of Jesus! How wonderful it is to know Jesus in His blessed fullness and His beautiful companionship, and His great loving face out before us with His everlasting arms beneath us, and our souls on the stretch for the home in the glory land. I can say with the old saints, "It is better felt than told." No man can describe it, but all can enjoy it.

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 3484-3522). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.

Uncle Buddy: The Whole Lamb (part four)

2/7/2018

THE LAMB ROAST WITH FIRE

Beloved saints, the Lord bless every one of you nearly to death and set the sideboards of your soul out and make you a bread wagon, and load you up with bread from the King's table, and as you run over the roots and rocks of life may a few loaves fall off for the hungry multitudes. If that will take place, which it ought to, you will be able to toll a great multitude right into the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, for it is a fact that pigs will follow a loaded wagon when the corn is tumbling off, and we ought to be able to do as well by the people as we have done by the pigs, and thank the Lord we will do it. Now for a little while let's you and I study a beautiful thought which is brought out in this wonderful 12th chapter of Exodus, for Moses said, "Your lamb shall be roast with fire." The lamb had to be roasted with fire before it was ready to serve, and just so with us; we must have the fire from heaven on us before we are prepared to serve. The man that hasn't been burned out is still woefully in need of something from the Lord. But thank the Lord, John the Baptist said in the 3d chapter of Matthew, that "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire," and when the refining fire goes through our hearts and inbred sin is burned out, and the old man is crucified, and the "body of sin" is destroyed, and the fire begins to burn on the altar of our soul, it won't be long until there will be somebody sticking out both hands and all their toes as they warm by your fire. If we have fire enough to warm the people, we will be able to burn our way through the difficulties, and surrounding circumstances, and the imaginary impossibilities that the Devil will throw across our pathway. For the Devil is a world-beater on showing weak saints dangerous things that are really not in existence. The most of our troubles have been brought about by troubles that never existed. The average man sees the bridge break down before he is within two miles of the creek, and he just knows that he will never be able to cross the bridge and behold, when he gets to the place where the bridge looked so dangerous, there is nothing in existence there. But thank the Lord, if we get the fire to burning right good, we will be able to burn our way through anything that the Devil can scare up. But don't forget we are no good until we get the fire from heaven. I want to praise the Lord that the fire still burns and the wheel still turns, and God is still dropping me off at the right place. Bless His name!

Robinson, Reuben A. (Bud). The Collected Works of 'Uncle Bud' Robinson (Kindle Locations 3465-3482). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.