<TITLE>03. Par 19-27</TITLE>L-19 But now, we've turned the pages down like this (See?), but there's only One Who can open It up; that's the Lord Jesus. Isn't that right? No one in heaven or in earth, beneath the earth, was able or worthy to open the Book, or to loose the Seal thereof. But when Jesus came, He taken the Book out of the right hand of God's hand, and took the Book and loosed the Seals, and set down at the right hand of God. And--and there is only One Who's able to do it. So now, if He's the only One that can do it...
Now, my ideas would go, oh, maybe a million miles off. And somebody else's ideas would go way off. But we'll trust that He'll just take, let--let His ideas be ours this morning. Is that right? And then we'll do the best we can, I will, to explain it the best that I know how.

L-21 And I've not pre-studied it. Just absolutely, we just come up here and open up the Word. And used to be, when we would come and have these lessons, we'd--we'd premeditate on them for the week to come, run a series. And I'd have Scriptures wrote down of everywhere through the Scriptures, every little thing that I could... Through the week I'd go in the room and set there, and--and study, and meditate, and--and on the Word. And as the Holy Spirit would give me something, I--I'd write it down. And I'd set and think again, then write it down, whatever He'd tell me.
Then on Sunday, I'd come over here and have sheets of paper laying all over the... And you'd have to have a tablet out there, to keep up with it, and write it out. And when you get the Scriptures, then through the week, the people would study that, and compound it together. There's such... There's a...
A text, you know, is a wonderful thing, but the context is what makes the text magnified. You see? The... It's the context of the text. So in this we--we... Today, we just come in, and wherever, just--just let it go for a little while, and trust the Lord to help us.

L-25 Now, shall we bow our heads. Now, our kind heavenly Father, we are grateful for all that Thou hast done, especially, Lord, for forgiving our sins, keeping sickness and afflictions away from our doors. We're so happy for that and the privilege that we have to gather here in this house of God on this winter morning to worship Thee in the beauty of Thy holiness. Oh, how we love Thee, knowing that Thou has washed us by Thy own Blood, and has presented us before God, faultless, blameless, as new creatures in Christ Jesus, looking for the time to come, that when we'll see Him as He is, and have a body like His. Oh, we long for that hour.
And now, as we gather today, we thank Thee that Thou has give us a safe trip up to New York and back. Thank You for being with the church while here. And many of the things, oh, thousands of those great blessings that we have to thank You for... And Thou knowest all of them, and we bow to give praise to Thee.

L-27 Take the Word, this morning, Father. Bless It now. Bless the church. Bless the pastor. God, be with him, and, O God, just make him a blessing to thousands. The deacons of the church, the trustees, the members, the laity, all, just be with them, Father. The Sunday school teachers out there with the little fellows, be with them. And may their little hearts just burn this morning with the love of God. Help us, likewise, in the church. And when we leave, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, when He talked to us along the road?" For we ask it in His Name. Amen.


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