<TITLE>03. Par 5-5</TITLE>L-5 Now, I love my brethren; I love my sisters. And I see them, now, but my first duty is to my first love of Jesus Christ. And I was buried with Him in baptism. Is that right? Then that's my first duty. Then...?... I've got to stand true to that, no matter how much I love the--this brother, or Brother Bosworth, Brother Baxter, or Brother Cox, or any of these brothers here. No matter how much I love them, let my first pledge be to Christ. I must take Him first. And then, they're second. All right.
Not comparing that kind of love now to--to the lust or passionate love that I was speaking of concerning the woman, but just giving you a--a parable. You understand? And I think that's what we all do, more or less, we try to express our feelings, towards our Lord. No matter...
Now, if someone comes up, that's a good friend of yours, and says, "Now, look, John, I--I--I think that your wrong about Divine healing. I--I think that you're wrong." And yet, God has touched your body, and you know Divine healing is right.
Now, your first duty is to stand up for Christ. If they say, "Now, look. I believe you're just simply, well, you--you just imagine you're born again. There is no such a thing as that. A man can't be born again. Then your first duty is to stand for Christ.
Say, "Yes, I am. I know I am."
Recently, I was called into a--a famous doctor's office. He said to me; he said, oh, he was very much perplexed that morning, and upset, and all stewing, you know and he said, "Listen here." Said, "You spent two-thirds of your life trying to get an education, and one-third to live it out, and you have to live that for somebody else." And oh, my. He was awful.
He said, "Isn't it awful?"
And I said, "Yes, it is." So he stood there a little while. I seen he was in a hurry and everything. I was to talk to him.
Said, "What I want to talk you about; I hear that you're a missionary."
I said, "Evangelistic missionary, yes, sir." I said, "I've just returned from Africa."
He said, "Look, I studied to be a preacher, too, one time: four years." And said, "I--I come to find out there was nothing to it."
"Yes, sir."


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