<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Now, I am just about as badly worn as I've ever been to stay on my feet. This is several weeks for me, and it's been much visions. And so the Lord has helped me, to which I am very, very, grateful for His loving kindness; of course, we are. And we just trust that--that He will be with us tonight, and help us tonight.
And now, I'm going to speak just a few moments on a text, if it would be called a text. I'm not very good on taking a text, because I very seldom ever stay with it. And I just... I thought I'd just maybe read something. I think, "Now when I go down to church tonight, I'm going to speak on this." Now, I have did this all my life. And just as sure as I go to thinking I'm going to do this, I get in alone, the Lord tells me to do something else. And I never try to announce what you're going to speak on, just go ahead and do what the Lord says do, and that's all there is to it. And I just have to, as He gives it to me, why, give it to the people. And sometime it's oh, kind of rough, but it'll do you good. It--it saved me and it's kept me happy all these twenty-three years now, that I've been very happy in Jesus Christ, preaching the Gospel. And I'm... There's only one regret that I have in my life; that is, that I didn't know Jesus Christ and the forgiveness of my sins when I was just a little baby boy.

L-6 And I tell you, parents, I--you put the right kind of a home before your children. That's the thing to do. Because if I'd have had a Christian home I'd been reared in, perhaps I'd have been farther along with our Lord Jesus tonight and may more people would been saved. But my people was not a religious family. And God just had, by His amazing grace, to--to save me. And then, since then I've led several of them to the Lord. I baptized my mother, my father gave his heart to Christ, died in my arms. My grandfather, I baptized him at nearly ninety in--in the river. Some of my brothers and so forth... And--and my little, my boy here, and then my little girl was seven. My other one's too young to be baptized yet; she's only two. So I trust if she lives, why, when she's old enough to be baptized, I will...?... and so she's already been committed to the Lord, or we call it dedication. So we just dedicate the baby to the Lord. Try to follow the Scripture just as close as we can.
We never did see where Christ, or any place in the Bible, they ever baptized babies. They just brought them to the Lord and that's the only Scripture I can find. He took them up in His arms and blessed them, said, "Suffer little children to come to Me." If you want to sprinkle them, baptize them, that's okay.
And just like taking these handkerchiefs, many people anoint those handkerchiefs with oil. That's good. That's very fine. That'll--that'll be all right to anoint them with oil. As long as God's a blessing, that's all right. See? But now, if you'll just think of this and bear with me a few minutes, Paul never anointed with oil; they took off of his body. Was that right? They took from the body of Paul.

L-7 Now, Paul knew that what he touched, it was blessed if he'd get the people... You know where I think Paul got that Scripture from? You remember when the Shunammite woman, when her baby was dead, and she'd got to Elijah trying to find out why the baby had died... And Elijah had a stick in his hand; he told his servant (Gehazi, I believe it was), said, "Take this stick and go forward, if anybody speaks to you don't speak to them, just go lay it on the baby."
Now, Elijah knew that what he touched was blessed, that God was in him; but if he could get the Shunammite woman to believe that. But she didn't believe that. She knowed God was in His prophet, but not in the stick, so the stick didn't do the work. The stick would've done the same thing if the woman would've believed it. Don't you think so? Sure. And so...


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