<TITLE>05. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Well now, for just a few minutes... My wife's in the building, and she looked straight at me, and she knows that I preach too long and cause people to stand up. And I just somehow or another I don't know, Brother Jackson, I just don't know when to quit. I'm just a glutton on the spirit, I guess.
So I'm--I never did like to try to go to work of a morning when I work hard and somebody set me out a little dish of corn flakes, about like that. I can't. Just couldn't thrive. I worked hard. And I had to have something, some biscuits, and some sorghum molasses, and chunk of ham meat, and--and I just sop it all up. So I--I'll--I... That's the way I--I like to eat. And if I'm going to work...
And if I'm going to live for God, I like to have a good square four hour meal once in a while, you know what I mean, just come right out, and get the Bible, and lay right with it. But we southerners down there kind of used to that, but we know that you yankees up here are more of a cultured type. And so we--we know that...

L-16 I tell you; I'd sure like to live up here though. That's right. I sure love this country, beautiful, and the snow real dry, and--and you can just hear it crunching under the wheels when you hear a car going. I just think of back when I was a little boy when we used to have snows down southern Indiana like that. But the world must be a little out of its orbit now somewhere; she isn't working just right. And we... I believe it's so close to the coming of the Lord Jesus that everything's topsy-turvy. The one thing that ought to be straight and running straight is the church of the living God. That's right.
So let us bow our heads a moment just before we approach the Word now, when we lay aside every little things, the little get together, and little, as it was a handshake or something. Now, we're going to approach God now.

L-17 Our heavenly Father, in the Name of Thy beloved Son, we come asking this petition, Who said when He was here on earth, "If you ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it." Now, we're so happy for that. And He said, "When thou prayest, believe that you receive what you ask for, and you shall receive it." And I thank Thee for this, for it's a promise of God. And every promise in the Book belongs to every believer. So I thank Thee for it.
And I pray tonight, as I have laid back these pages of this sacred Book called the Bible... I'm only able to physically to open it up, but only the Holy Spirit can interpret it to us. So we pray that He will come tonight and interpret the Word and the meanings that would create faith for the salvation of souls first, and for the healing of bodies next, and for the bringing of joy to the saints and establishing them, that they might continue on. Grant these blessings, Father, and the forgiveness of our sins, as we ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.


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