<TITLE>04. Par 13-17</TITLE>L-13 So there you are. So when anything comes up like that, as my mother used to have an old proverb, "No matter how thin you slice it, it's got two sides to it." So that's right. So I...
This... To be here with Brother Jackson when I seen that I was coming up down here to South Bend to be with Brother Thoms, a very fine man, last night I thought it'd be wonderful if I could drop up here to you, little church, who's been remembering me in the mission works and everything, so faithful and loyal, to come up here and have just a couple nights of fellowship with you.
The last time when I come we just had preaching service over there. And, oh, I'm not much of a preacher. No, I get up, talk, and slobber like a horse eating clover. But you know what--what makes me do that? I've been in Canaan eating some of the new grapes, you know. They kinda--they kinda get you in that way, you know.

L-14 So I thought maybe if we come now and in the little building as we are tonight, kindy get together and pray, and maybe the Lord would come down and bless us and heal some of the sick people around here. So I trust that He will.
And now, without any further talk, I would like to read some out of His Book. Now, there's many things in this Book that I do not know. I--I never had the opportunity to get a good education. I was ordained, and my ordination's still at the Missionary Baptist Church and... Where I come from.
And I love the fellowship of the Baptist people, and not only the Baptist, but all the brethren everywhere. I only... I believe there's only one Body, and that's the Body of Christ. And all believers are in that Body.

L-15 Now, we might different one from another. And I've often thought, the reason that we do that, perhaps, is because that it is a body (See?), not recognizing the different ministerial gifts that's in that body. You see, do you believe in gifts of the Spirit? Certainly, as long as it's God, the supernatural. Now, these gifts, many of them might different one from another, but they're... The Bible says in I Corinthians 12 that there are many di--gifts, but the same Spirit. That...
God is just like a great big diamond that's got--how it's chipped out and fixed up magnificent, and God has so arranged His--His affairs on earth till He would be able, like this big diamond... The light on the diamond would reflect rays of light. And some of them might be blue, some might be green in a real true carated diamond. And each light would be arraying different color maybe, but it's all reflecting from the same great diamond.

L-16 And that's the way that spiritual gifts are. And the nose cannot say to the mouth, "I have no need of thee, be... And you're none of the body." And I think that way, maybe there might be a--a little misunderstanding between different brethren. But I believe, at heart we all want to be one. And someday we will be, for Jesus prayed that we would be. And we will be someday.
Now, I... The Bible is written many ways. It's a love story; a prophet; and It's also a history. And we could get many things from the Bible like that, different approaches to it. But It's all God's Word, and It's written that way, so that it would hid from the--the wise and prudent, and would be revealed to babes such as would--could--would learn, said Jesus. He thanked the Father for it.

L-17 Now, not to know the Bible is Life, although it's wonderful to know the Bible. But did you know Satan was a Bible student? He proved it in the debate with our Lord. He was good. And to know the Bible is not Life. To know your catechism is not Life. To know your theology is not Life. But to know Him is Life; know the Author of this Book is Life. So it's good that He has did it that way, because a person like me, who is a--an illiterate... I--I'm glad I have the privilege of knowing Him.
And now, as we read His Book, and only He alone can reveal it, open it. Shall we bow our heads just a moment and speak to the Author.


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