<TITLE>04. Par 14-19</TITLE>L-14 Here we can't rest here. The sun's a setting; souls must be saved; something's to be done. If it's to ever be done, it's got to be done right now. I believe that. And I--I want you to pray for me, that God will keep me so that He can use me. I want Him to say whenever He wants something done, say, "I got a servant I can put My trust in; he will do what I tell him to do." That's what I want to be.

L-15 And you don't know, I look around, think of the sick folks, look around see these gray headed men setting here, and women. Wished I had time to give you my view on what's going to happen to me someday, out of the Bible. I can prove it to you; you're going back to young men and women again. But when I see the way you are, and see some of you get sick...?... bad sick, heart trouble. And that's number one killer.

L-16 A crippled person, I've noticed, I'm so glad for cots and things has emptied up at night. But you see a crippled person, they might live an ordinary life like that; it's awfully hard, sure it is. But a man with heart trouble's got to have something done right away or he's going to die. See? The man may have a good heart and good lungs that's crippled; he will live. But this other fellow's got to have something done immediately or he's going to die. Tubercular, cancer, that's the thing; that's the killers. Crippled doesn't kill you, but them things is what kill you. When I think, "What could I do for the person? What's my best approach? What--what can I do?" Then that gets me. The only thing I can do is--is to, by a gift...

L-17 If I knowed that coming down, getting each one of you in my arms, and hugging you, and--and praying with you, and getting down on the floor, or take a quarter and lay it on the floor and push it with my nose all the way over these cities and back, I'd try; I sure would. But that wouldn't do you any good. The main thing is for you to get faith up here in Christ. See? And the little humble gift that He has given me, is to bring your faith up to meet that. I hope you always understand that. And maybe if you don't understand, just pray and I'm sure He will let you know it.

L-18 Thanks to you for the offering. Is that... That was right, wasn't it? Thank you Brother Par--Parton, I sure appreciate it. To you and all your members, all you people, the members of the Body of Christ. I do. I'm not worthy of your offering, that's right. But I have an awful expense. My office and home runs a hundred dollars a day right there whether I'm preaching or not (See?), a hundred dollars a day. I have no income at all, no sponsors of any denominations, nothing at all, no underwriters, nothing, just the free will offerings the people sends and give me. And sometimes I go hundreds of dollars in the red. And then maybe I get a good big love offering somewhere of four, five, six hundred dollars, maybe a thousand, two thousand. I have gotten as much as five thousand in an offering. What I do, I go to my secretary and say, "How much do we need?"
Say, "Well, Billy, we're about fifteen hundred in the red."
I say, "Well, go pay it off. Now, how much it going to take to run till we get this other?"

L-19 "And it'll take another five hundred to run till you go to the next meeting." Well then the rest of it, put it in foreign missions so that I know... Then when it's got enough built up there, enough momentum built up, I can go overseas and preach to them poor little naked, starving, heathens, and things, and see them led to Christ. Then I know I'm just a steward of God's money and I got to give an account for what I do with it. And I know then it isn't given out to some--something to be rode around and taken on safari trips and things like that. I know it's done gone to the Kingdom of God. That's right. And then where--when I answer it'll be the best that I know how to do. Because I take the money and preach the Gospel with it to the heathens.


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