<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Well, I--I just love to talk about Him so much, that I just can't get through talking. I've been twenty-three years now in the ministry, and I come in the ministry when I was just a boy and the only regrets that I have if I could strain my life of one thing that I regret more than anything else, that I didn't know Jesus when I was just a little bitty boy. I wished I could turn it back. Every hour of my life I would give for His glory.
I remember as a young boy just in twenty... Why, they... The boys used to say, "Billy, you don't get any pleasure out of life. You don't dance. You don't drink. You don't smoke. You don't go to shows or dances. What do you get out of life?"
And one night a young lady asked me when I was taking her home. She said, "What do you get out of life?"

L-6 And the next night I made an altar call in the place where I was preaching, a local Baptist church, and down the aisle come thirty or forty people kneeling at the altar. The young lady was setting there weeping. I said, "Would you stand up, sister?" I said, "You wanted to know where I got my pleasures. This is worth more to me than all the things that the world ever give me, this one thing here. It gives such a peace and a satisfaction to my soul."
I'm so happy tonight, that Almighty God in His infinite mercy, and His redeeming grace saw fit one time to--to save me and to give me the privilege of speaking to His people. I love people. I love every one, the world, whether they're sinners or Christians. I--I feel that in my heart.

L-7 Every one of us, Jesus died for all of us. I see the men sometime out on the street drinking, and I see them gambling, and I but... And some of them cursing and so... That doesn't turn me against the person. It just only makes me know that Satan is doing that. That's my brother, and it's--it's... I... Just hurts me to see Satan having...?... like that. Now, if I can say something to him to win him over to our Lord Jesus where he can have Eternal Life, why, he will stop that. He--he is my brother. He's just fallen, and I love to help him up. See? And that's truly from my heart.
And if I should die tonight the--the testimony that I have given which has now went around the world and I... If I should die tonight, and this would be my last sermon that I'd ever speak, or last prayer line I'd ever pray for the sick, my testimony's true. And if I'd meet you at the judgment, you'll find out that I have only testified what is the truth of Jesus Christ and His mercy.

L-8 Sometime ago, just in this little testimony, I was at Houston, Texas, and I was having a meeting. We were having somewhat about eight thousand in--in a coliseum, and Mr. Bosworth and I was together, my brother here. We're having a lovely meeting. Raymond Richey and many of churches around was sponsoring the meeting, and there came a man...
I have plenty of critics. We know that. We're bound too. If Jesus had them, well, I've got to have them too and so have you. We all have them. But there was a man just out of the seminary, and he was a very smart, brilliant man. He was a doctor, had just got his degree, and he was a--a Baptist minister. His name was Doctor Best, and he was a very brilliant young man. He had a--a nice tabernacle there, and a very fine following. And some of his people was coming over to the meeting, and so he took the--the side to say that there was no such a thing as Divine healing.
Well, Mr. Bosworth in fixing the itinerary and the advertisement, and--and Mr. Richey and many of the other ministers had hung a sign out in the street said, "Miracles every night."


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