<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 O God, that makes the heart of every mortal leap. That hope is within us, and so simple. Thou has made it so simple, that even the fool, You said, should not error in the way. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life." What a loving Father we have. And we're grateful to Him Who brought us to Himself by the death of His Son at Calvary.
And God, we most humbly embrace the cross tonight, and the Christ of the cross, and confess that we're sinners, and not deserving of anything. But alone in His mercy, and on His merits, we come to offer Thee thanksgivings and praises to Thee for what Thou has done.

L-6 And now, loving Father, may You send Him tonight in the power of the Holy Spirit, and may He heal the sick. Many of your children here are sick and needy. They've gathered in from all around different parts of the nation. We pray that You'll bless every church tonight, throughout the world, where they got the doors open, and their members are faithfully at the post of duty; bless them. And these people here, who are scattered from one part of the country to the other, has gathered in here tonight to be prayed for. And God, we pray that You'll heal them everyone. And when we leave, may we say with those from Emmaus that day, "Did not our hearts burn within us because of His Presence?" For we ask it in His Name. Amen.

L-7 I just have a moment or two to speak to you, but I have such a love in my heart for Him, till it just seems as I would just have to speak a word or two for Him.
I'm thinking of the text that I just read, of this aged old man by the name of Simeon. He was a priest at the temple, of a great age, about eighty years old, and a--a great, a name of honor among all the people around the place. And what a--a person he was, what a--a character, renown, man of honor. And it was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit, that he wasn't to see death until he seen the Christ.
Now, the Christ had been the center of all the hopes, since the garden of Eden, of redemption. And all of the prophets had looked forward to Him coming. And now, here was a man eighty years old (Think of it.), and yet, boldly confessing that he wasn't going to die until he seen the Christ. Could you imagine what it would--the people would say about the old fellow? "Why, he's just mentally off. There's something wrong with him. He isn't... His mind isn't right. Well, that old man at eighty years old almost ready to die now, and yet says he's going to see the Christ." And they, the Jews were in Roman captivity at the time of the birth of Christ, and how far away it seemed.

L-8 And that's the way tonight. Many of you here may seem like that your time of deliverance is way away. But sometime when it seems the farthest away, and the darkest of hour, that's when you receive help from God. There's an old God dishonoring proverb which says, "God helps those who help themself." That's an error. God helps those who can't help themself. If you could help yourself, you wouldn't need God's help. But God has mercy on those who cannot help themself.
And Simeon, he wasn't ashamed of his testimony. Why? Because the Holy Spirit told him so.
Now, if I wanted to base the thought here for a few moments, which I will for just a moment, I'm going to take the word: "Expectancy."
And usually a person gets what you expect. Many people comes to meetings, they go to church. Say, "Why, I didn't see nothing. I didn't expect to see anything in the first place." That's the reason you didn't see nothing. "I didn't get helped. I didn't expect to." You usually get what you expect to get. If you come to the service and you're expecting to find something to criticize, a religious service, Satan will be sure that you see it. He will show you something that you can go away and criticize the meeting.


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