<TITLE>09. Par 27-29</TITLE>L-27 Walking out on the platform to speak faith, all of a sudden a maniac who had hit a preacher down the street that afternoon, broke out of an institution, broke his collar bone, broke his jaw. He had a mania to kill preachers. He run in and thought, "This was my chance." Up to the platform he come, weighing about two-fifty or two-sixty, nearly six foot ten inches tall, swinging his hands back and forth. He said, "You hypocrite, you snake-in-the-grass." There I was, God's service in order, people being healed, thousands being saved, and plus ministers inspired. This great revival just in its beginning then and start breaking forth across the world... Setting up there, set T. L. Osborn (Amen.), who has won tens of thousands of souls to Christ, setting there pastoring a church with eight or ten in his congregation watching down out of the balcony.
And that maniac run to the platform to disturb the meeting of the Lord, and he said, "You snake-in-the-grass, you hypocrite, and posing yourself as a servant of God; I'll show you tonight you're no servant of God. And I'll break ever bone in your measly little body." And he run up there and pulled back his big fist to hit me. I turned around. Preachers scattered, everything. Stood and he hocked and spit in my face. He said, "You snake-in-the-grass. I'll show you how a servant much God you are, you deceiver."

L-28 I never said one word. I just looked up at him, and all at once the Holy Spirit, something another... What would you think if a man spit in your face? Why, it was in his temper about to get roused. Sure it would; and here come two cops out, but them two cops...?... with things in their hands to beat the man down to take him off, but I couldn't let them do it. God had brought love in my heart for that mortal being.
I thought, "It's not the man. It's the devil that's got him in that condition. That man could be a normal man. He wants to love and live like other men does, but it's the devil has got him like that." And a love begin to swirl out to that man, and the first thing you know that man dropped and fell across my feet there. When Divine love had been projected, sovereign grace stepped in and took its place. It'll do it every time.

L-29 Here not long ago when... I might've told you this before. Last year--year before last it is now, I was mowing my yard there, trying to get my yard mowed down, round and round. and I had to stop and change clothes, go in and pray for somebody, come out. Well, and my yard was growed up before I... And the back, before I could get the front mowed, it was growed up, and so I...
One day I was back in the back with an old mowing machine a mowing around on it trying this little power mower. And I forgot that there was a nest of hornets in the corner there, and I ran that mower into that. And at the back yard I had my shirt off, no shirt on. I hit that fence with that mowing machine, and with no shirt on, and in a moment's time I was covered all over with hornets. You know what they are--a big nest of hornets. They'll kill you. Great big big fellows just a buzzing...
Oh, I thought... First it scared me. When all of a sudden, something begin to happen. I begin to quieten down, them hornets still buzzing around. Now, this sounds like a kid, and it sounds like it's juvenile but God in heaven knows whether it's truth or not of Whom I stand...


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