<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>55-0220E, Contend For The Faith, Shriner Temple, Phoenix, AZ, 107 min
L-1 Good evening, friends. It's indeed a privilege to be back in this auditorium tonight, again. Trusting under the leadership of the Holy Spirit to bring to you the message of the Lord as He gives it to me for the upbuilding of His Kingdom, for the glory of His Church is our intentions of this meeting tonight.
And we're happy to see the auditorium packed out the first night. So we just trust that the Lord Jesus will continue to bless us as we go on from night to night in the services of the Lord.
Now, each afternoon they--they have a service, I believe, here. He said to me... Is that right Brother...?... That's to be two o'clock? Two-thirty. And it's an instruction meeting. And I believe the best that I understood just a little bit ago, I'm asking the one day during the meeting to go up to the Apache Indian reservation (I see some of them are in the meeting tonight.) to have another service up at the Apache reservation.

L-2 I'll never forget the meeting with the Apaches. And now we're trying to make a date for that. And they'll see the missionary and so forth at the in--from the Indian reservation to make arrangements for this meeting. Each afternoon and each evening we'll have services here, the Lord willing, until we announce what day it'll be that we'll be going up there.
And now, we trust that all of you are on praying grounds and love the Lord with all your heart. That's the way to be. And now, to the many here, perhaps, are strangers, maybe your first time. How many has never been in one of our meetings? Let's see your hands, never been in one of our meetings? Just look at the hands. Isn't that...? Well, to them who has been in the meetings, we, and with myself, we certainly welcome you to the first service.
And now, may the Lord bless you, and do something for you, and give you the exceedingly abundantly of His love and grace to you.

L-3 And now, I was going to begin the meeting to just merely come and have an evangelistic service. I have noticed so much in my meetings going around, that the phenomenal--phenomena of this way of the Holy Spirit moves in the meetings has been very strange to the American people, because that there's such a mix up among the American people: So many different denominations with so many different phases of which a way they believe. And they become so indocumated with their belief and--till they hardly know which a way to go.
If there ever was a place that's really has become a mar--modern Babylon, it's America. I hope that it never touches the shores of Africa or any of those heathen countries. I hope that real hard Gospel teachers get in there for tho--those people.

L-4 Well, what causes these things to start up? Hungry hearted children of God, people hungering and thirsting for God. They see something, and away they go and make an issue out of it. There it is: separates brotherhood, tears up the church. But that's America.
And I have said since coming back, that I would in the American meetings, to my many tens of thousands of precious friends that I value with all my heart, and some of the loveliest people God has in His Kingdom, I consider as my friends in America... Thousands and thousands of them the Lord has given me. And I do appreciate every one of them with all my heart.
And then I thought, after crossing back and forth across the country, I had noticed that one of the greatest things--difficults that I have in my meeting... When I'm praying for the sick by the... The gift that the Lord has given me is not to heal the sick. I have no power to heal the sick. And I don't believe there's anyone else does. That lays in God alone. The only thing I can do is point you to the finished work of Jesus Christ Who paid for your redemption and your healing at Calvary. I don't believe there's anyone here to ever save a person.


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