<TITLE>02. Par 5-10</TITLE>L-5 Someday, the Lord willing, I hope to return to this lovely place here in Shreveport, Louisiana. You've always been, as I said this morning in the Tabernacle, a spot in my heart. And always on the afternoon when we're having a campaign, Mr. Baxter, when he was managing the meetings and so forth, many others, he always let me have the Sunday afternoon, kinda relax myself to--to speak instead of a healing service. Healing service would get you under a strain and... And I don't know; it's something that I can't explain. But this way, I just feel like we're just all home folks, and roll up your sleeves, and just eat like you would at home.

L-6 And so, that's what I used to say, reminds me of a fishing trip I was taking here sometime ago up in the north woods. And I had a little tent up. I'd been fishing for trout. I don't know why I like water so well; I guess 'cause I was a Baptist; but I--I really like to get around where the water is. You know, the first thing the Spirit of God moved on was the water. We're about eighty percent water anyhow, so I--I kinda like water somehow. I can hear that baptismal song that we sing at the Tabernacle,
On Jordan's stormy banks I stand,
And cast a wishful eye,
To Canaan's fair and happy land,
Where my possession lies.
... bound for the promised land...

L-7 I'd just been ordained in the Baptist church, about--about two weeks and had a revival there in the city, lasted for two weeks. And we was baptizing five hundred converts on the river that afternoon when the Angel of the Lord come visible. The newspapers and things picked it up, and so forth: twenty-three years ago. And the voice that He spoke from there, it has done just exactly what He said He would do. And how I'm just so happy today, I could scream with all my heart to know that by grace I am a Christian, a child of the King. And you're my brothers and sisters there, and we're--we're fellow citizens of the same kingdom, journeying through this dark world, professing that we're pilgrims and strangers and know nothing of it, for we look for a city whose Builder and Maker is God, where God will not be ashamed to be called our God and--or His people.

L-8 Now, may His blessings rest upon you. And this afternoon, I trust that God will meet with us in just a little sermonette, as you would call it, I suppose. I'm not a preacher. I just like to look into the Word, and read a few words of it, and express what the Holy Spirit will have. I never have notes or anything to preach from; I just read a Scripture. And I just watch up and wherever I see it, I just let it out the way I give it. Sometimes it's pretty flat, but that's the way I get it. And just as I get it, I just give it out that way, 'cause I feel it isn't mine then; it's His. And He just give it the way He wants it. It might not go to no one else but one person, and maybe that's the one He's dealing with (You see?): just at that one.

L-9 So if you brethren here, this afternoon, who are really called to be ministers, and teachers, and so forth, just remember I'm not trying to take your place; I'm just trying to explain what I know about the Lord Jesus, because I love Him. And this that I give out, will have to... I'll have to answer for this afternoon when I meet the judgment. And you'll have to answer for this afternoon. And if I told something wrong, God will make me pay for it. If I told right and you refuse it, then God will make you pay for it. So may the Lord come and help us this afternoon, as we look into His Word.

L-10 First, before we can look into His Word, let's ask Him to show It to us, for He said over there, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify. And he'll take out--whosoever shall take out of this book, or add to it, the same shall be taken out, of his part, of the Book of Life, and the plagues are written in this book will be added to him, if he takes from or adds to." So let us just teach the Gospel as the way it is written. Shall we pray.


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