<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>55-0603, Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, Porter Stadium, Macon, GA, 79 min
L-1 Remember that God hath set in the church, some apostles, teachers, prophets, evangelist, and so forth, gifts of healing, and divers kinds of gifts, that God has put in the church for the perfecting of the body of Christ. I believe we're living in the shadows of the coming, as I say again. I believe that this light fell in the eastern country on the day of Pentecost, when there was great moving amongst the Jewish people at the first, when the Holy Spirit was first poured out on the eastern people.
The prophet said there would be a day that would not be day nor night, kind of a--a dismal day, kind of cloudy. "But in the evening," He said, "there would be light." And the same light that shined on the Jews in the orient in the eastern country in the beginning... We've come to a day that they denied the gifts of God, the power of God, yet there was enough light for to believe that there was a God and Christ was His Son. And we've accepted it, and joined churches, and built great schools, and so forth which is to be appreciated.

L-2 But, friends, the light shown on the eastern people; we are the western people. And the prophet said, "It'll be light in the evening time." I believe we're in the evening. And the same sun that shined on the Jews in the eastern country is shining on the Gentiles in the last days in the western country, just before the setting of the sun.
You might differ from that, but let's come out this week. Let's get our hearts together; lay down our little differences. Let's come out now and just look right straight in the face of God and say, "God I am not here to criticize; I'm here to learn of Thee. And teach me, oh Lord." And if any man lack wisdom let him ask of God Who can give it. And I believe that God will-will show Himself to you and make Himself known.

L-3 Now, Divine healing, teaching it... Tommy Osborn, and Tommy Hicks, Oral Roberts, many of the other teachers across the world, and Mr. Bosworth, F. F. Bosworth who's one of my field managers... They're great scholars on the Scripture. And they're top men, learned men. And they can take a Scripture and tie Satan in such a place till he just can't get out of it. That's all. I might not be able to do that.
I was raised of a poor parent. My education is very limited. But when I was borned in the little mountain cabin in Kentucky, there was something happened. A Light came in the room. And that Light has followed me all the days of my life.
My people before me, Catholic. And my father and mother didn't attend church at all. I never was in a church house since the day I was... Well, I suppose about eight days old or ten when my mother take me up to old Southern Baptist Church up there for Sunday school. And I was dedicated to the Lord. And from that time, I suppose the next time I was in church I was in church I was about twenty-three years old. But all down through life there keep being something happen like visions. I'd see things. It'd foretell me things that's coming to pass.

L-4 My ministering brethren seemed to tell my after I was converted years later that it was the devil. And I... It scared me. Because I'm sure, friends... I want to go to heaven the same as you want to go to heaven. I love the Lord like you love the Lord. And I don't want to be wrong; I want to be right. I'd rather just quit and walk away, and--than to try to misrepresent anything willfully. I want to be honest. I want to be truthful. I want to be your brother. And--and I want God's blessings on what I do.
And then one night alone He spoke to me. It's all written in the book here. They'll have it in a night or two if they haven't got it tonight. And if you'd would like to question any of it, any officials of the city, where I come from, or anyone, the churches or so forth, call them up at my expense. And you will see that it's true.


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