<TITLE>18. Par 173-178</TITLE>L-173 Now, if you are saying you're a Christian, and still living worldly lives, then you are chastened of the Lord, for you should not be condemned with the world.
Wherefore, when you come together... Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for the other. (Watch.)
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

L-174 You notice Paul here. Those Corinthians, they didn't get it. They went up there and even get drunk at the Lord's table. And they eat and drink, done everything wrong. Paul said, "When you come together, if a man's hungry, let him eat at home. But when you come together, tarry one for another." In other words, "Wait on one another." He said, "Now, here's a brother that I don't think ought to take the communion, but don't run up there and jerk him out. Have patience with him. After the service is over, and a time when he... come over to his house some night and sit down, say, "Brother, now, forgive me if I'm wrong. But I seen you down, the other day on the street, drunk," whatever he was doing, "out with some other lady that wasn't your wife, and you're taking communion. I love you, brother. Let--let's you and I pray over this thing and straighten it up." See? Wait on one another. Do service for one another. Don't be bigger than somebody else. Try and see how little you can be.
I've often heard, say, "Don't never be big in your own sight." If you're big, let it be in God's sight. Be little in your own sight. Every man that humbles himself, God will exalt. But those who exalts themself, God will bring abase. See? Be little.

L-176 Here's a man, say, "Well, he said, 'I know that...'" Now, see, he's my brother. I'd like to be his servant. You see? Be servants to one another. Love one another in such a way that, oh, my, and you'll--you'll...
We used to sing a little song. I don't know whether you remember it now. We'd sing.
 Bless be the tie that binds
 Our hearts in Christian love;
 The fellowship of kindred mind
 Is like to that above.
 When we asunder part,
 It gives us inward pain;
 But we shall still be joined in heart,
 And hope to meet again.

L-178 When I stood down there in the Saint Angelo catacombs, and looked laying there, oh, along, for a mile or more, on the ground, graves, where they have to bury their dead. And right on the corner was the little bitty graves, that was the children, where they put the children in the corner. And there was a little church there, where they had to hide away.
I went down into the old Roman cathedral where they burnt them to the stake, fed them to lions. I walked out there in the middle of that place and stood there. I looked around. I hadn't seen it yet. All the bricks was falling in there at the great places where the lions comes out. I walked right about where I thought maybe the lion pit was, where the Christians died. I raised up my hands; stood there. I said, "O Jesus, I'm such an unworthy creature, to think that my brothers sealed their testimony there, by the mouth of lions, and so forth, for the cause of Jesus Christ."


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