<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>57-0306, God Keeps His Word #1, Madison Square Garden, Phoenix, AZ, 83 min
L-1 While we remain standing just a moment, let us bow our heads to Almighty God and offer to Him a word of prayer. Shall we pray.
Our kind heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for the love of the Lord Jesus and for being with us through this another day. And has by Thy grace permitted us to assemble here together tonight and Thou has promised that "wherever two or more are gather in My Name, I'll be in their midst." And we know that Thou art here, because You have promised it. And we pray that You'll bless us tonight, You're Presence being here. May we all recognize it, and may the Holy Spirit take the Word of God and give it to every heart just as we have need. Save sinners. Heal the sick and the afflicted. Call the backsliders back to the home of grace. Grant these blessings, we ask in Christ's Name. Amen.

L-2 As the nights grow on, and the meeting begins to come towards the last of it, of this present meeting, I am trusting to God that many things will be done for His glory. I am hoarse in my throat, not from a bad cold, but just too much speaking. This is about four months straight with hardly a night off. So you can imagine what a great terrible strain it is. From the frozen regions until the tropical jungles, and there's no let up yet. I've got... Go from here; immediately leaving Monday morning, I've got to be at La Cresenta at one o'clock Monday, after leaving here. And then on up into California to Oakland, back into Kansas, dedicating a church; from there up into Canada, around through Canada. And then if the Lord so permits, immediately after the Chicago Christian Business Men convention, a complete worldwide tour all the way around. So I need prayer and need it very bad, so you pray for me.
Now, tonight as we open this blessed Word of God... I just love to read of the Word. Don't you like the Word?

L-3 "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God." We can rest so assured on God's Word, because It's eternally right. It's forever the truth. And with the help of the Holy Spirit, I would like to read for a text, praying that He will give us the context, out of Numbers the 13th chapter and the 30th verse.
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are... able to overcome it.
Just as a Scripture reading... And now I trust that God will help us as we go into this. And now, tonight if it would be so, for the next two or three nights, I'd like to teach on the subject, this: "God Keeps His Word."

L-4 When I was first converted and was ordained in the Baptist church, I had a good old teacher by the name of Dr. Roy Davis. He was a lawyer before his conversion, and he took everything from a legal standpoint in the Bible. And I remember my first sermon I preached. I preached on Samson a grinding for the enemy. Well, I went over and had my own hands tied to the post. And, oh, I went through every emotion that I guess that I thought the preacher could go through. And when I noticed old Dr. Davis setting there with his finger up to his mouth just watching me... And after the service was over, I had made my altar call. A lot of the old mothers was walking up, patting me on the shoulder. Oh, they said, "Billy, that was wonderful."
And Dr. Davis said, "I want to see you in the study."
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "That was just about as ridiculous as I ever heard in my life." Oh, it really took the sails off of me.
So I said, "Well what's the matter, Dr. Davis?"


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