<TITLE>08. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 The first thing I can remember nearly, I was about three years old, when He come to me and I saw a vision, and He told me where I would be live--raised at. At seven years old, It appeared to me, and told me never drink, smoke or defile my body. I never... There'd be a work to do.
About twenty-one, I was converted, went into the Baptist church, preached for several years. Visions, just as He'd appear to me, and tell me things that was going to happen. The ministers told me it was the devil. Said, "It's the devil doing that. Don't you think that. You're going to be a fortuneteller." Well, then one night... It scared me to death, brethren. I didn't know what to do. I love the Lord Jesus with all my heart. And I didn't--I didn't want to get messed up with something like that. And He just keep... It would come to me, and everything It told me was the truth, every time, just the truth.
So I said, one night I was... See, I worked, pastored the Baptist church there, tabernacle. And I worked twelve years, while I was pastor, and never received one penny of money. I don't take money. Not... I'm not up here for money, friends. I'm up here to help you to love the Lord. If it was money, I wouldn't be here. And now, I don't do that.

L-27 We just told Brother Collett awhile ago, I said, "Whatever expenses is, pass the collection plate. Don't never (The manager is not along, and they know better than to do that.), never put a string on." What the Lord wants me to have, He's always supplied my needs. And that's the way I live. He takes care of me. I don't have nothing tonight. I don't have nothing or expect to have. If I had it, I'd give it to somewhere else, so it'd go out for the Gospel. I've got one purpose; that's to see the Kingdom of God come on earth in power (That's right.), see Jesus Christ return.
I think we've miserably failed, friends, to take the Gospel that Jesus told us to preach. He said... "What will be the sign of the end?"
He said, "Well, you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars, that... Don't be terrified." All these other things that happen. But He said when this Gospel has been preached to all the world, then He'd return.

L-28 He never ordained us to build any church. He never ordained us to make a hospital, to make a school, or have a seminary. He never one time commissioned us to do that. All them things are good, but yet He did commission us to preach the Gospel to all the world. And we've built schools, and seminaries, and taught theology, and one third of the world is all that's heard about Jesus yet.
But after all, passing tracts is not preaching the Gospel. "The Gospel came not in word only," said Paul, "but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost." See, you're... Not just teach the Word, but preach, make manifest the Word. The Word has to be made alive. It's a dead letter until it's made manifest. And then it's quickened, and it's brought to pass, what God said about it. That's the Gospel in action, the New Testament Christianity.


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