<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>53-0512, Speak To The Rock, Bible Hour Tabernacle, Jonesboro, AR, 79 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Reed. Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here tonight again to minister in the Name of our Lord Jesus. I am happy to say that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He... His great loving powers never fails. He's just the same as He--He always was.
I trust that tonight will prove to be a blessing to many of the people who are without God, without Christ in the world, alienated, cut off. I trust that they'll come to Christ tonight and be saved and reconciled to God. And I trust it'll be a blessing for many who are sick and afflicted, that they might be made well. May our Lord grant that is my sincere prayer.

L-2 Brother Reed does the speaking. First part of the week I was speaking myself, and I was only intending to stay about three or four nights. It seemed like the Holy Spirit wanted me to stay just a little longer. I was preaching; I got just a little bit hoarse. Well, it usually accompanies along, there's such a...
Something happens, you... It's in another world; you live in two worlds. There's no need of trying to explain it, because you just can't explain Him. You just have to believe it. God cannot be explained; He has to be just believed. And when we believe God, then that's by faith. We believe Him, and He heals us, saves us.

L-3 And now, tonight while there--the people are standing, and Mr. Reed, our brother here... And I was--been setting in the little room for a little while. I usually maybe try to come along about quarter of eight, something like that, seven-thirty, when they pick me up; come up and hear part of the service.
And I was enjoyed that singing. And Brother Ryan that... I trust that our Lord will let me be that nimble when I'm seventy-three years old, if I live to see it.
I've knowed Brother Ryan for some time now, and I know that he is a humble Christian. When I first saw him, I wondered how would he wear that hair down to his shoulder, that long beard, why was that? You have to know Brother Ryan to know the reason. If you know him, well then, you'll know why. God only made one; that's him. No one else take his place. Without the hair to his shoulders, and his... Now, someone says, "That's woman's hair." That doesn't bypass for you woman, unless, say you got hair went to your shoulder. Read the Greek on that. Feminish hair is way down; hair at the shoulder was short hair. So the man used to pull it around, cut it off, that was short hair, but women let theirs grow all the way down, way down.

L-4 So that's the reason... Jesus, His picture there shows, but He didn't have long hair, not by no means; He had short hair. But today we shore it on up closer.
The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, or the wearing of apparel; it's long-suffering, goodness, meekness, patience, and the Holy Ghost, the Kingdom of God.
So I want to read just a little Scripture, and then I'm going to start the prayer line and pray for the sick. And now, if the Holy Spirit shall come into our presence tonight, to bless us with His great august Being, I trust that you that are unsaved will be saved, and you that are--are sick will be healed. If there be any wayward here, may you come back to God tonight. That's what the meaning of this, these meetings are. First thing is to get the people right with God in their heart. That's the first motive. Secondarily, is those wayfaring people might be healed. And then third, is--is to--for the glory of God, that the saints might be refreshed, watching, listening, looking on.


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