<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>57-0115, God Keeps His Word, People's Tabernacle, Sturgis, MI, 108 min
L-1 Be seated. And happy to be here tonight in the service of the King. We used to sing an old song years ago, "I Am Happy In The Service of The King." You remember that song? Wasn't that just a--a dandy? Happy in the service of the King. Anybody that's serving in the service of this King that we're talking about has got to be happy, hasn't he?
Now, tonight it's a pleasure to be in the little tabernacle here. The People's Tabernacle, I like that name, that title. It's to the people, all people. That's right. Everybody's welcome. I think them titles like "People's Tabernacle, Church with the Open Door, House of Prayer," I kinda like that, kindy something about it, instead of saying it's the Presbyterian, or the Baptist, or the Catholic, or some church like that.
Well now, that don't mean them churches are not all right, understand. They're titles are all right. But I just talking about my own feeling. I think it's a--it's a people's tabernacle; "The Church With the Open Door," or "The House of Prayer." The Bible said, "It is written, My Father's house will be called a house of prayer." And so, they take that... 'Course that don't make it any--any better, any worse. It's just the names they give it.

L-2 And someone was telling me, said, "What do you think about different denominations, and do you think it's these people has, and this people has, and so forth." I tell you: it was a--a dean of the Lutheran college. He'd wrote me a letter. And you talk about giving me a good raking over, he gave me one. I was at Minneapolis, and he said, "I drove fifteen miles last night in a blinding snowstorm, thinking I was going to hear a servant of the Lord, and what did I find but a polished up soothsayer." And he said, "And your theology is, oh, my..." Twenty-two pages in the letter, and he really give me a good one.
And he said, "The very idea of a man that stands before the people that you do and makes statements like you made last night."
I kept on reading; well, I thought, "Wonder what I said." I thought I was going to have to call some of them, get the tape and check up. So he said... Here's what he's getting at me for. He said that I said the devil couldn't heal. And he said, "I want you to understand that with all your brag of twenty-five years of ministry," he said, "son, I was preaching the Gospel before you was born."
Well--well now, I thought, "Well now, that's all right. I... It's okay."

L-3 And he said, "And let me tell you why that I know that the devil can heal." He said, "I live in a city where there's a woman that has a familiar spirit." You know, one of the devil's spirits. And said, "People come to her for healing." And what does she do but pull some hair out of their head, pluck some... No, she pulls hair out of her head, I believe, and plucks the veins and bleeds it on the hair, from her arm--from the arm, goes down to the river behind her house and pitches it over her shoulder. And she walks up, and if she is constrained till she has to turn around and look at it, then the disease remains on the person and comes back. If she doesn't, then she tells the people they're going to get well.
And said, "We've kept count of it," and said, "about twenty percent of those are healings." He said, "And then you mean to tell me that you'd stand up there and have the audacity to say that the devil can't heal."
Well, I thought, "Well now, that's all right. See, everybody's got a right to their own opinion." And I said, "I just have to answer this little letter, little one." And I got me, the one that I was answering was going to be the little one. I couldn't think of all that.


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