<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 I'll be glad when it's all over somehow. You know, as you get to see the world getting wickeder and worse all the time, I think that John, on the Isle of Patmos, said, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Kinda sick and tired of it, aren't you?
I think of being separated. And I get into a group of people. I get to see some friends and get to shake their hands, farewell, go somewhere else across the nation, down here, and over there... And look on the streets and behold the sin in sight and it--and it just kind of bleeds your heart and you--and you begin to see many of the people who once had experiences, are beginning to drop back.
Then you begin to scream, "Come, Lord Jesus." I guess we've all had to put up with that through the ages, the--the different ones, all down through the ages. Tonight, it's... I believe it's the hottest night we--they say, or the hottest day we've had in Chicago yet, in this hot spell.

L-6 And I'm--I'm so sorry that I even have--would ask you to set in the building here, and it so awfully hot. I--I feel bad about it, but I--we don't control the weather, you know. God does that.
And again, I'm so grateful for you, that your love has reached out to a place that you'll set in a place like this to hear the simple Gospel of Jesus Christ. I pray, God, hear my prayer, that there will not be a person here tonight that'll be missing on that day. I pray that every one of you will be there.
And somehow, I'm just one of these old fashion type preachers, probably don't know too much. I don't. I know I don't. But I believe that somehow another, we'll kind of recognize one another, and know all about this somehow.

L-7 Even I believe in hell, there was a remembrance, Jesus said. He said, to the rich man, "Remember, son, in thy lifetime." about Lazarus and so forth. So if there is a remembrance in hell, surely there is in heaven. So, I--I believe that God will--will let us remember.
As Fanny Crosby, when she was... Some critics come in, told her how--criticizing her singing Christian songs and so forth... Many of you know Fanny Crosby, know of her, rather, that she was the blind poet: give the world some of it's best songs. Most touching altar calls that's ever been sang, nearly, was Fanny Crosby's, "Pass Me Not O Gentle Saviour," and all those heart warming songs.
And sometime... One time there was someone passing, said, "How would you ever know Him? What if you're over on the other side and you... there is such a place... and you'll be blind over there?"
She said, "I'd know Him anyhow."
Said, "How do you think you'd know Him?"
Said, "I'd feeled His hands." See? And then she turned and started walking back to her chair and that song came:
I shall know, yes, I shall know Him, (You've heard  it.)
Redeemed by His side I shall stand;
I shall know, yes, I shall know Him
By the prints of the nail in His hand.

L-8 I believe we'll know Him. "It does not yet appear what we shall be like but we know we'll have a body like His. For we shall see Him as He is." Well, that--that's enough for me, just to be where He's at. That's--that's all right.
Have you ever had an idea of what you wanted to do when it was all over and you got to meet Him? Did you ever think what you wanted to do? Here's what I would like to do: Get down on my hands and knees and crawl up to where He's standing and just pat His foot like that. That'd be... If I'm with... Then if He'd turn me away and send me away, and if I'd go to hell, I feel like I'd been dearly paid. That's right. For all the efforts, if I live a hundred years, if I can only pat His foot just one time... Think of how--how wonderful and what He is to me.
And I--I love Him tonight with all my heart. And I believe if--if He would cast me away, He's still just. And if I'd have to go to hell, and if there'd be such a thing as love in hell, I'd still love Him. For what He's been to me, even now, besides what I know that He will be to me...


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