<TITLE>01. Par -</TITLE>53-0614A, Earnestly Contending For The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints, Roberts Park Amphitheater, Connersville, IN, 65 min
E-1a      Good afternoon, Christian friends. The warmest of Christian greetings in the name of our resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. We're happy to be here this afternoon in the representative way of His Gospel, believing that just what that song said, "All things are possible to them that believe." "If thou canst believe," said Jesus, "all things are possible."
I'm just a little bit late: always that way. I was late for my wedding. If I can just be late for my funeral, all right.  See? That... My wife will get me for that. She's here this afternoon so... But I was late for my wedding; kept her waiting. Well, just one place I don't want to be late, that's when I get to the door up there. I want--want to be just in time then. Maybe I'll work real hard, I can make that one, by grace, anyhow.

E-1b      Well, we're... As we say again, happy to be here. And we had a wonderful time through this services, these last two weeks. I guess I about preached you to death in these last two weeks, but we had a marvelous time. Some of... To see the streams of people coming down the aisles, going across into the little... Say, something happened over there, hasn't it?
Puts me in mind of one time when my brother and I, we were... Mama had fixed us some popcorn to take to school in a gallon bucket. And so it was around Christmas time. We used to pop the corn. That was a rare thing when I was a boy. And so we used to pop and put around a--a tree, you know, on a little old cedar bush. I remember she had some left over and she put it in a little bucket for brother and I to eat. My brother's gone on, so... I was... Thought, you know, it would be nice just before dinner, if I had one good handful out of that bucket. So I held up my hand and asked the teacher to be excused. And as I went out through the cloak room, I raised up that bucket and just nice big handful. I thought that didn't look too good, so I reached and got me another handful. I went outside and stood behind school house and eat all this popcorn. Come back in.
After while, dinner time, we went across the hill and down a little woods to eat, brother and I, we set on a log. Put the little bucket between us. We'd have a little jar of something in there, we'd... couple of spoons. So when it come... We had to eat the popcorn first. You know how kids are. So when I opened up that lid, it was just about half of that popcorn's gone. My brother said, "Say," said, "something happened there, didn't it?"
I said, "Sure did." I knew what had happened. So looks like something's happened over here too, doesn't it? All right.

E-1c      Well, now, I was coming up with some of the folks, awhile ago, and I was saying, "My, what will I speak on this afternoon?" for this Gospel service. Just a little rally in the afternoon instead of spend it out on a beach somewhere, let's come preach the Gospel and enjoy, bathe our self in His beauty and His power. And now... And then tonight, is the closing service. We expect a great healing service tonight. The Lord willing we trust that there will not be a feeble person among us when the services is over tonight. Now, come believing that, expecting that. If you believe it, be inspect--and expect it, God will grant it. Isn't that right? Usually get just what you expecting.


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