<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 But I just got me a Collins' Bible, which is a little bit bigger print. And I thought, "Well, I just can't get used to wearing them." You see? And you don't... You don't look... If I'd look off out like that, you can't see nothing. But you look down close, then it brings it up to you.
He said, "Now, you start reading like this, and the first thing you know, you keep pushing your hand back. After while, your arm's not long enough to reach out to it. So that's--that's the way it is. And so... Now the--the Lord bless.
Now, I want to ask you something this morning before we start into the Sunday school lesson. What--what is value? I been thinking on it. If I had enough throat this morning, I'd preach on that subject. But my throat's bad, and I've got this meeting coming up here in New Albany tonight. And then also I got... The--the campaigns are starting. I just want to teach awhile this morning from some Scripture.

L-8 But what is value? My mother, I don't guess she's here. I don't see her anywhere. Is she? Yes. Mom, you're getting little. So I asked her yesterday. I asked her the subject, 'cause I been studying on it. You ever get a thing on your mind, just start studying? Brother Ledford, you've done that a many time. You just start studying.
What is value? And I begin to think. I said, "You know, if I had a hundred million dollars laying here in a pile, and I had a little button here, if I press this button, I lose my hundred million dollars, but I get to talk with my old dad that's gone on, as one hour a mortal being again, what would I do? No hesitation, I'd press the button. I'd give a hundred million dollars this morning, to sit my dad down in this chair while I teach this lesson.
But what's money worth? How much more is a soul than money? See?
Mama, you remember when I had that little old T-model Ford, the little old '26 model? How I'd polish that thing. I was just a kid about sixteen, seventeen years old. And I was a sinner then. And sometimes... I was working with Mr. Ginther back there. And I'd...

L-9 Well, after Sunday afternoon, Sunday morning, I'd go down and sharpen all the bits, and things for the air compressor, and clean it up. Sunday afternoon, I'd polish that little old Ford till it looked like the paint would almost come off of it.
What if I tried this morning to find one piece of that Ford? What if I tried to find one of those bits off that air compressor? The same time I could been winning souls, I was polishing my Ford. I wonder where value is?
I worked on Sunday mornings up there, as much as they'd let me. I appreciated it, 'cause I was in debt. And I... But where--where did it get me? What did it win?
Brother Ledford, what if somebody come to you and I, and Brother Neville, this morning, all of us here, the three of us, rather, and say, "Ministers, I'm going to give each of you a million dollars," somebody was wor--worth, that could do it...
And I'd say, "Now, Brother Ledford, Brother Neville, I'll tell you what let us do. Let us go out and find all the poor people that we can. Let's make every little home happy by giving the kiddies some clothes, and paying off the mortgage, or buying this little place." We'd never miss it. A million dollars apiece. why, the interest off of it, would take care of it as much as we could do with that, put in some good investment, or something. And then what would we do?
That would be fine. That... Not let nobody know nothing about it. Our hearts would feel satisfied. But now, in a hundred years from today... Brethren, it would take a miracle of God, if we're still living a hundred years from today. You know that. Now, we'd be in eternity. What good would the million dollars do, or all the feeding of the poor, and things that we've done? See? It wouldn't amount to very much. If I had a billion this morning, what good would it do us after we're gone?


<A HREF="P4">Next Page</A>