<TITLE>04. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 Jesus Christ was the Son of God from the garden of Eden. Moses was born in the world a prophet, a right child. John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was borned was the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Isaiah saw him. God told Jeremiah, Jeremiah, 1:4, before you was even formed in your mother's womb, I knew you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations. But you see, it's without repentance.
Now, this man who dreamed a dream can't help it. The man who doesn't dream a dream can't help it. But a seer, his subconscious is neither back there, nor is it here; it's right here. He doesn't go to sleep to dream; he just breaks from one...?... to the other wide awake. He can't help that. He just can't do that on his own will. It's God.

L-12 But then if--if you're given a gift, and don't use it for the glory of God, then God's going to make you answer for it at the day of judgment...?... without any of His blessing.
I hear on the radio down in the middle part of the country here a man named Mr. Foley. Been going by his surname or given name: Red. He sang a tune throughout here not long ago called "Peace in the Valley." What a marvelous voice? But what's he using it for? God will require that.
Bless Stuart Hamilton, that was converted in our Brother Graham's meeting out in California, movie star, God blessed him, and let him write a--or sing a record, "Is No Secret What God Can Do" and it's taken the first place in all the songs in the--in the nation. Beautiful words...?... one sings for Christ. God makes us answer for our talent.

L-13 As a little baby of about three months old, born in a little cabin up here in Burkesville, Kentucky, a little old...?... looking cab--cabin with clapboard shingles. My mother was laying on a straw tick with a shuck pillow. Perhaps there's many you Kentuckians here tonight who don't even know what that means--a straw tick, a shuck pillow: shucks picked out and put in a pillow case. A little bed built in the side the house with no floor in the cabin. A stump cut off about that big around with three legs, used for a table. A piece taken off of an old side of a barn to make a bench to eat on: poor.
My mother was fifteen and my daddy was eighteen. A window that you don't have no glass in it, just push the little door like that, and that's the window. That was the place that God gave me my life.
When the midwife... We were forty miles from a doctor. When the midwife washed me and laid me on my mother's arm, she opened the window. It was about five o'clock in the morning for the first break of the day the...?... she wanted to look at her child; and through that came the Light. Everybody begin to cry.

L-14 At about fifteen, eighteen months old I had my first vision. I was standing near a little branch and something spoke to me from the bush and said you're going to live near a city called New Albany. I've spent my life there. Two years later we moved.
On and on, ministers discouraged me when I got to be a man. Said it was of the devil. But one glorious night when I was trying to pray, and telling the Lord that I loved Him, and I didn't want to be wrong. I wanted to do what was right. And I asked Him to take it away from me. Here come a Man walking across the floor; He told me what was truth. Sent from the Presence of God. Told me go around the world, pray for kings and monarchs and so forth.
I was then a Baptist preacher, belonged to the Missionary Baptist church. When I told the bishop that, he laughed in my face, said I had a nightmare. I laid my credentials on his desk. I said, "If that's the way the Baptist church thinks about it, I'll serve God." I know nothing about other people who would believe it. But I knowed if God had sent it, God had somebody to receive it.


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