<TITLE>04. Par -</TITLE>L-5-2 Now, what the Americans responds best to the healing services of my opinion is, well, of Brother Oral Roberts. Now, Brother Oral Roberts is a forceful speaker, a real preacher, and a good God-fearing brother: Brother Oral Roberts, and a bosom friend of mine, a lovely bro--a--brother. And I have a great deep respect for Brother Roberts. And the Lord is with him and blessing him tremendously. And his meetings here in America...
See, we both might go in to a city, and he'd set his meeting and I'd set my meeting. His audiences would snow mine over by many times, just with a little advertising, because his ministry has a greater impact here in America, because he's such a--a--a influential speaker. He's a--he's got a--a way. He's smart, and educated, and knows the Bible, and he can present It in such a way that the educated people listen to that, because that's on the level that they're--they're living.

L-5-4 But take us, when we went to Africa, well, there was no comparison at all. See? And the people that's uneducated, so forth, look for the supernatural, because they don't have the--the education and the--been taught scholarly like these people here. So then the--it's a thing that the Lord has given to win the people.

L-5-5 Now, I don't mean to say that many educated, smart, shrewd, some of the highest, even to kings, potentates, monarchs, certainly, they believe it and receive it; but in the general run, our American churches, it's been a long time since we've had a revival, from way back in the Wesley age.
The old generations died out, when Wesley people used to be kicked out and called "holy-rollers" and "jerkers," 'cause they jerked their head and--and laid in the--on the platforms and all around in the aisles. They poured water on them. They fanned them when the Holy Ghost was on them. Now, that day has died out a long time ago. We've all settled down to, oh, so orthodox. But that's the reason they can't... The people today are taught... Well, a--a speaker who can present it in a--a master way, well, that's just all right; that's just fine and dandy. And as long as you receive Christ, that's the--that's the main thing, just as long as you receive Christ.

L-6-1 Now, we notice our Brother Roberts. You heard his program this morning, perhaps. And I read the articles in the paper and got it first handed from how that in--down in Australia, what a horrible thing, them jeering and call him, "fake," and everything and run him out like that, where perhaps the--this type of ministry would've shook that thing up right now. See, see? It'd been different.
And... But Brother Roberts... Yet, God has given him a way to work with people that I couldn't touch, and maybe I work with people that he can't touch. But together we're brothers, trying to do what we can for the Kingdom of God. See?

L-6-4 And visions is just a part of the Gospel that's preached. Now, you see, if I'd a had an education and probably had a good voice, and so forth, and could've presented the Gospel like, I'd have probably have been a--a preacher of that type. But God, knowing that I wasn't going to be educated, He had to give me something else to work for--with. You see? And that's how He did. It's the only thing that I know.


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