<TITLE>19. Par 180-186</TITLE>L-180 I happened to stand, look behind me, was somebody hoisted up the old rugged cross, standing there yonder. I begin to hum in my heart, "On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame."
I look... Men through the ages... The whole world is drenched with the blood of the martyrs of the Lord Jesus Christ. I thought, "What a little old thing that we are." Thinking about taking a little missionary trip, maybe have to stand a little persecution, somebody laugh at you. I'm becoming a football, that--that people kick me around a whole lot. That don't make any difference. They kicked around men before me. They did things like that, and called this, that, or the other. I've got a Gospel to preach of our Lord that I love. I got a goal to make. And when I come to the end of road, I want to come with every one of you, saying this, "I have fought a good fight." Some of you tonight...
No doubt, I'll be standing at the pulpit, when my face will turn pale, my lips will seal, and I'll... I've always wanted to go across the pulpit like that, home to glory. Some of these days I'll preach my last sermon. I'll make my last altar call. I'll pray for the last sick person. I want to die with a Bible in my hand, calling on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Fight a good fight; finish the course.

L-183 My beloved brothers and sisters, whatever there is, if there's anything in your life contrary to Christ, let's confess it, come up here now and take the Lord's supper, joining our hearts together as one unit of Christian faith, to let our Lord Jesus know that we love Him with all of our heart. And you do it now while we pray. And, Teddy, if you will...
I think they come by sections. Is that right, brother? Now, if the elders will come forward now to--to help us, and stand here... And where do you start, what side, Brother Neville, this side? [Brother Neville answers.] All right. These brethren now, they got a system here, of how they all won't have to come at once.
And now, you come and take the communion with us. We'll be happy for you to eat this supper with us. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-186 I'm sure that we can all say tonight, that we're happy we're Christians. The act that you have just did is almost two thousand years old. Before the going away of our Lord Jesus, He bid us to do this, and to do it until He returned again. And He gave us the assurance of His own Word, which cannot fail, can never fail... He said, "He that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood has Everlasting Life, and I'll raise him up at the last day," Saint John the 6th chapter.
That gives me such a hope, after seeing false religions of the world: sun worship, idol worship, and all their conceptions of a supernatural being. But yet, see this Word, how infallible It is... And the One Who has proved that It's infallible, has give us this Divine promise of His, that He will raise us up at the last day.


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