<TITLE>15. Par 46-48</TITLE>L-46 A missionary returning from overseas after twenty years, broke down, his shoulders drooped, his hair gray, his lips a quivering, shaking with palsy, after winning hundreds of souls to Christ, came into New York, he seen the bands all beating and everything, he thought, "Oh, thank God." He said, "To get back to the homeland again and the bands all playing and everything, the great police escorts, the flowers and the garlands hanging," he said, "what a welcome home, what a wonderful." But when he stepped off, it was some movie star that had been over there making a picture. Nobody even knowed, didn't have one person to welcome him. He stood and said, "I guess this is not home then."
Right. But wait one day when the angelic bands come out at the portals of glory, when the old weather beaten beat down saints of God come marching in by the angel band. When they stand by the millions singing the redemptive songs of Zion while ten million Angels stands around the earth with bowed heads, not even knowing what we're talking about. That'll be the day of the Lord. Yes. Every--every wheel will stop and give away for that. That's right. This is the day of man. I might get along good, and be acquainted with the mayor, and have the pat on the back, and all these things of the politician; but I'd rather have the kiss of God on my heart to know that I'm branded like He was branded.

L-47 You know, a little song they used to sing down at the tabernacle. Don't know just how the tune of it went; I can't--couldn't sing it anyhow. But something about:
They pass me by unnoticed, where they once passed with a smile.
Something that said,
Now, I'm marked, marked, I'm marked, now wherever I go,
I'm marked, marked, what I am everybody seems to know.
See?
But I'm sealed, sealed, sealed by God's Spirit Divine,
O glory to God, Hallelujah! I am His and I know that He is mine.
Yes. I don't care, just so I got His mark. And what was His mark? The Holy Spirit was in Him without measure, doing the work of the Father, not trying to please men or get the praise of men, not trying to please Himself, but to do the work of God and God was in Him. Peter said, "Ye men of Israel," in Acts 2, "this Jesus of Nazareth Whom you crucified, God, a man approved of God among you by signs and wonders which God did by Him in the midst of you all..."
Nicodemus really testified to the church, said, "We know, Rabbi, You're a teacher come from God, 'cause no man could do the things that you, do except God be with him." That's the mark. That's it. I'm so glad to know tonight that I have the privilege to be called one of them (That's right.), to be one of them.

L-48 When all these brakes a squeaking, I raised up on the outside, and I seen a scene I never had thought I ever would. Right down through the middle of the street, not stopping for a red light or nothing, come a shepherd and all of his sheep following him. All the brakes and cars, everything stopped for the shepherd. I said, "Praise be to God."
"Oh," said, "he's an important person." Said, "Follow him a little." We watched him. He went right over into the little straight places and all laying out on each side of the street. And I said, "Well, don't... Why didn't them sheep turn that way?"
He said, "They everyone follow the shepherd. Wherever he goes the sheep follows." "Where He leads me I will follow." I said, "Do they ever drop out of line?"
He said, "If one ever drops out or disobeys, it's because he's sick."
Oh, spiritually speaking, sick sheep tonight, why did you drop out of the line? The Great Shepherd with His healing balm is here tonight to bundle it all up and bring you back to the walk of a Christian life again. Do you believe that? Sure. Said, "Just the sick and weakly would drop out." And the shepherd so nourishes them and brings them back.


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