<TITLE>17. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 And, brethren, just in closing may I say this, 'cause I'm overtime now. I'm sorry to keep you this long. I'm... I didn't mean to do it. But to a point... That night at the church, the brethren, when we were all standing there on the platform, you couldn't hear yourself think. You know how it would be. There was hundreds of different tribesmen and everything else in there. And they were scattered all down the roads, expecting me to stay for two weeks, when I could only stay three days, 'cause the--the mobs was so great they couldn't place them in the city, and they asked me to that I'd have to go somewhere else, because they couldn't take care of it. You see? Just, it was terrible. And I told them, "I will return by the grace of God." And I will.
So that night, standing... I was watching for the Holy Spirit. You've read my story of Africa, all of you, in the book. Waited till that crippled man with his hands down when he walked like an animal, you know, and when the thirty thousand received Christ.

L-54 I waited and man come through which was a leper, the first one... You couldn't give out no prayer cards. My, the boys tried to give prayer cards, and their clothes was tore off of them. See? So I said just like it was in Africa, just let the missionaries pick out... Go down and get some from this tribe, and some from that tribe, and some from this tribe, two or three out of each one and stand them up.
And then when we were standing there, and they'd... The officers had picked up some to bring through, which they could, some more able. There come through first was a--a man, a leper and standing... Many times as you see in the meetings, It calls the people's names and where their from. Now, that shouldn't be spooky to you, brethren. That's the Bible. It's a little contrary to the modern conception of It; but so was Christ contrary to the modern conception of that day. And we know that history repeats itself.

L-55 And there, the man, I'd--I'd see their name. I couldn't pronounce it. I could just spell it out as I seen it. It'd tell them what they were and so forth. I would pray for the person and pass them through. And you remember, it's nothing that I can do. I'm just a man. See? It's something. That isn't me that does the talking. I have nothing to do into it. It's your faith that's doing it. So see?
Yesterday afternoon Brother Joseph happened to come into a place, up to my room where I was at, just a little before going to church, and happened to be that at three o'clock I start praying. And Joseph setting there, a friend of mine, we been together for a long time. There come a vision by Joseph, 'cause we love one another. And the times that we been together, never has there been, but the Holy Spirit revealed something to Brother Joseph that... There he is; ask him (See?), showing just what had taken place and so forth. Isn't that right, Joseph? See, see? It's something... There's more happens outside than there is in the church. See? But it's the people in the church are using God's gift. See? It's just as I explained it to Dr., I believe yesterday.

L-56 Would you bear me just another minute...?... Here... So you--you have a right to know this, brethren, sisters. You have a right to know this. You're here; you're shepherds. I don't blame you from holding back. You're shepherds. I don't blame ministers, Baptist ministers, and Presbyterian ministers, and so forth anything from seeing something, holding back, because they are shepherds. They're feeding a flock, and they've got to watch what their flock eats. But what a shepherd ought to do... The Pharisees were shepherds too, but they should've look to the Scripture as Nathanael did and as the woman at the well of Samaria, and looked at the Scriptures and seen what day they were living, and said, "This is the food." See? But now, look.


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