<TITLE>07. Par 71-81</TITLE>L-71 And friends, this little old tabernacle, today, with its little crude walls, and to the strangers that's in our gates, we most heartily welcome you here in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, as His beloved children. And we love Him, and want you to enjoy this fellowship together, this morning, as we speak on the Word of the living God.
And I desire, solely, for you to pray for me. I'm at the crossroads of my life, at this time. I have been coming up to this point for a long time. And I finally arrived, this place, where I must make a great decision right away. So you pray for me. Will you do it?

L-73 I will just give you a little understanding. I've stood between brethren, not representing anything, coming from one to the other one that... And I have noticed, standing between them, I have brought myself to this place. It's...
I was ordained down here by Dr. Davis, you all know, in the little old Baptist church over here. And now, the... I've often told you that I found two classes of people: One of them is the Baptist and the fundamentalists, which has a good mental conception of the Word. On the other side, I find the full Gospel, Methodist, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, Pentecostals, all them; they have the faith. One of them has climbed up to receive the Holy Spirit, and this... But they so loose with It, they don't know how to control It. And the--the others over here, knows the Word and how to place It, but hasn't got no faith with It. If I could only get pentecostal faith in Baptist theology, (what?) the Church would be set out. That's right, if I could only get it. Those wonderful gifts of pentecost, it's a shame the way you trod them down and mistreat them, and so forth.

L-76 Here, I will tell you a little something that happened the other day, just to show you.
I'd say this because it's the tabernacle, and here it's home. I preach what I want to (See?), and here, or what the Lord tells me to, rather. See? I don't aim to say it, "What I want to." I wouldn't say that, 'cause I--that would be my own desires.
But I--I heard a remark the other day, that someone had--had made about a wagon. A fellow saying, "They had a great meeting." And said, that, "But," said, "there wasn't enough spirit, there wasn't enough noise about it."
And the old preacher said, "Well," said, "when I used to live on the farm, I went out to the farm, and I went with my wagon empty, and every time I hit a little bump it would squeak and crack, pop, jump, and go on." Said, "When I loaded it down with good food and products, I brought it back. And it hit the same bumps, and never moved at all, a good, loaded wagon."
So what we need today, is a good, loaded, solid wagon, knowing where we're going, led by the Holy Spirit.

L-81 Now, sometime ago, I tell you what... You know what my--my theology is? Redeeming love, when you got love one for another. See? No matter what these other things are, how many gifts we got, or how much this we got, or how much that; if we haven't got love one for the another, we--we're lost. That's all.
I went to a fellow. Now, brethren, I'm using church names here this morning. I don't mean harm by it. But I went to a fellow that belonged to the Assemblies of God. He didn't know me. It's been years ago. I walked up to him; I said, "Howdy do, sir."
He said, "Howdy do."
I said, "I understand you're a preacher."
He said, "I am." And just before the... A great man in the Assemblies of God, he wanted me to join the Assemblies of God. He said, "Come, join, because we're the biggest pentecostal organization in the world."
I said, "That may be so, my brother, but I like to stand between all of you, and say, 'We're brothers,' see?" I said, "I may be way off the road on some of mine, you may be too, but let's be brothers, anyhow. See? Let's be brothers."
And he said, "Oh," he said, "all right. We got the church."


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