<TITLE>13. Par 146-154</TITLE>L-146 I have to stop, friends, 'cause people are getting up and going out.
I said to my wife, the other day, "I have preached in about, I don't know how many different nations, in every city throughout the United States. And Louisville, Kentucky, is the only place that people ever got up and went out when I was preaching." That's right, home (See?), only place I ever seen.
If anybody's noticed that, that's been in other meetings with me, raise up your hands, over the building. Sure, around, everywhere else, and never had it nowhere in my life but here at my own home place, Louisville, Kentucky. People get right up and go out when you go to laying the Gospel right to the hewing line. They'll do it. And I've never had it nowhere else, anywhere in the world I've ever been, even to Africa, all the other places, Sweden, Norway, where tens of thousands set. In my humble opinion I have never one time witnessed one person leaving, getting up and going out, while preaching, only right here.
You see, friends, this week I have battled hard to try to convince some of the people, that...

L-151 Jesus Christ's Words, no matter what It is, has to be right. He said, "A prophet's not without honor, except among his own people, his own county." And that's exactly right. They just won't receive It. I don't know why. Jesus said so, and that settles it. I got people around this country, that would almost be willing to die for me. They love me. But in the general hold, it's God's Word; and God must keep His Word in order to be God. That's right.
And anybody that's been in the meetings before, outside of here, we've had the fewest signs and miracles that's been done in any meeting I've ever seen of this type--of this long. Usually there's blind, deaf, dumb, cripples, and everything, wheelchairs piled in the corner, and people going places, and cots and stretchers.
And there's only, as far as I know, there's been two people setting here. I seen one of them, before, this boy here, setting there. Seen the Holy Spirit stand over him the other night, come very near... I could've pronounced his healing, and just as I... 'fore I got through preaching; but I seen It drop back away from him again. Something crossed his place there and kept it from him. Is the only person that I seen even afflicted in any way, outside of a couple deaf people, or something come to the platform, they told me about. I don't know. But there you are. It's home. It's around your people.

L-154 Now, to my good friend, Mr. McSpaddin, Mr. McDowell, and those who are setting in the building tonight, who I've tried to tell this to, and you people at Jeffersonville, out of the Tabernacle, do you see what I speak of? You can't change the Word of God. It'll be forever that way, 'cause Jesus said so.
Now, and to the people that were begging me to come back to the Tabernacle, do you see why? Where probably been fifty people saved this week, around here in a revival, maybe not that many, maybe not ten for all I know... Where, ordinary, in eight days, it would build into the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, somewhere else. See? See the difference? It's home. It's among your people.
Not because that they don't love me, but because Jesus said so. And when He went to His own people, the only thing He could do was to lay hands on a few sick folks and heal them; no mighty works He could do. Is that right? That's quoting Scripture. And that's the way it has to be. That's right. It isn't me, after all. It's Him. It's just Him. If I was a healer...


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