<TITLE>03. Par 12-16</TITLE>L-12 So I want to say this though, if I ever forget anything, I don't mean to do it. But I want to thank each one of you for the offering. Now, whatever there is of it, we'll see if we need--meet our expenses here. If we don't, 'course we'll pay the expenses out of the offering. And if we do make the expenses, and if there would be enough to--would little more than what I have to use for my living (I've got two--three children and a wife. And I have to make a living for them some way.)... And I--I... If there's anything left over, I'll put it in foreign mission work. God knows my heart.
I come in this world poor, I shall go out the same way. I could've been a millionaire if I'd wished to be. But He Who knows, if I had to go this afternoon and show a hundred dollars or get killed, I'd just have to get killed.

L-13 Frankly, the--the contractor working on my mother's house is setting present now, and I owe him six hundred and some dollars and couldn't pay him until after this meeting. See? So just fixing on my mother's house...
I just wanted you to know that--the people, evangelists--I don't--I don't believe that a brother literally, some of them say they go out and take up lots of money and do lot... That's up to them. I just have to answer for my part. That's--that's right.
So before God, God knows my heart and knows that I have tried with all my heart to give to... Just as I would receive it, I put it right back out in the Gospel, just everything. At that day when I stand before Him, my treasures, I want them to be up there, for I don't know what time I'm going to leave here (You see?), so I--I want them to be there.

L-14 Now, in the book of Jude we read this:
 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, the brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
I want you to notice he's addressing this now, directly to a specific, or people, and a time also.
 Mercy unto you, and peace be--and peace, and love, be multiplied.
 Beloved, I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.
 For there are certain men crept in unaware, who were before ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

L-15 I just begin for a word to Him. Father, would You accept us now. And I'm standing here not knowing what to say, but it has been written in Your Word, "Take no thought what you shall say," and we believe that. So I pray now, that--that in trying to explain this afternoon why I love You and why I have--have chosen by Your will, I believe, to serve You in this beautiful way of holiness and mercies of God, I pray that You'll help us today. Circumcise my lips with Thy Holy Spirit. And circumcise the ears of the people that they might hear. And may the Holy Spirit take the Word of God and deliver it to each heart as we have need, for we ask it in Christ's Name. Amen.

L-16 I like to refer to Jude many times. He is... didn't write very many verses, but what he wrote was pertaining to the last days. If you go on, he goes ahead in predicting, showing, what will be in the last days, what will take place. And it's for a time.
Now, he was--his theme here, that I wish to get on just for a few moments, is... He's saying this: he's writing to the Church, them that are in God and sanctified in Christ and called. He's addressing the letter to them to stir up their faith, that they would earnestly contend for the, the faith that was once delivered unto the saints.


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