<TITLE>06. Par 62-74</TITLE>L-62 Someone come by one day, and said, while I was preaching here, said, "Did that woman... Billy, how could you preach, and that woman setting back there snubbing, crying, hollering 'Amen'?"
I said, "Maybe that was a whole lot the reason I was preaching. Right. Yeah." I said, "If she..."
Said, "Well, that would just almost kill me, if--if I was trying to talk, and somebody carrying on like that."
I said, "It didn't hurt me, brother. It was encouraging me."
He--he said, "Was she a horrible sinner or something?"
I said, "No. She was a Christian, filled with the Holy Spirit."
"And weeping?"
I said, "Yes. The Bible said, 'He that goeth forth, weeping, shall doubtless return again, bringing with him precious sheaves.'"
Amen. That's right. "He that goeth forth, sowing (see), and--and re... sowing tears, will doubtless return again, bringing with him precious sheaves, rejoicing as he comes back." Put the first things first, breaking up, making over, and then come rejoicing. Amen. All right.

L-67 These children of Israel got down there, was under another king. Not... Their own king had been carried away with them. They come under another king, a cruel king, King Nebuchadnezzar. So one day, he said, that, "If any peoples..." When he made, erected a great image out in the fields, and said, that, "Every person that would not bow down to that image, must be thrown in the fiery furnace and be burned." What a--a agree was made, that these boys should be burnt up, every one.
And there was three down there that had had previous answer to prayer, named Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They turned their backs to the image. And they said, "Be it known to thee, O king..."
I want you to notice this. God wants His witnesses to be stern; not a witness today and wishy-washy tomorrow.

L-70 I was preaching a funeral service today, and cutting it strong; someone asked me to, said, "I think most of the people were sinners, hadn't accepted Christ." I thought maybe I'd cut it a little too strong.
And when I was going out in the--the undertaker's car, he reached over and patted me on the shoulder, said, "Preacher, I want to comment you."
I thought, "Oh-oh."
He said, "That's the way I think that it should be preached." He said, "I don't like wishy-washy religion."
I thought, "Boy, there's hopes for you." That's right. That's right, where you really put it where it belongs. That's exactly right.

L-74 Then these children of Israel, these, Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego, God's witnesses...
God's never been without a witness. He's always... Now, here I want you to get this real close. God has never, at any time, been without a witness on earth. He's always had at least one man He could put His hands on, say, "That's My witness." It's come down to one man, one time; and Job was His only witness, and Abraham in the--in the land; but God had a witness. Somebody's going to witness for God somewhere.
Now, after while, we want to find out what a witness really is, of this day. All right. Notice.
These men, as they went down there, they refused to eat the king's meat, drink his wine, and they refused to bow to his image. They were a genuine true witness of God.


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