<TITLE>03. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 So that... Now, let's just bow our heads. Our precious Lord, as a bunch of pilgrims and strangers, we humbly bow in Your Presence, first of all, to ask You to forgive us for all of our trespasses, and to say within ourselves that we are unworthy of any blessing that You should give to us.
And we have come this morning as a group of people under the old oak tree, as it was, to set around for a little time of fellowship. And I pray Thee, God, to be merciful too, on us and to give unto us that which we have need of. May the great Holy Spirit now come among us, and come among each of us, and give us the food from the Bible that we have need of. Bless this group of men, Lord. Bless this gathering. Bless the revival, and the Christian Businessmen, and for everything that's been done or said during this meeting. And we pray that in the end we'll hear those wonderful words, "It was well done, My good and faithful servant. Enter into the joys of the Lord." We ask in Jesus' Name, amen.

L-9 Now, may the Lord add his blessings to His Word. And now, on this subject that I would just like to briefly say, because I know we got lots of things to do, and it's ten minutes after ten...
You know, there's none of us just alike. If we should all go up this morning and they'd gave us a fingerprint, we'd find out there is no two fingerprints exactly alike. That's known. They claim, there's no two people got noses just exactly alike. We're so different one to the other and many make-up. But we can certainly agree that we're all humans.

L-10 And in our religious beliefs, we find the same thing. We find that some believe one thing and some another, but I've always tried to make it a policy to never try to cross up anybody, to do anything wrong. I... When I come out of the Baptist church, I never went across the country telling what a bad bunch of people the Baptists are. I'd go across the country and telling what a fine bunch of people the Baptists are, because they are. I might not agree with them just on everything, but I certainly would take one of them before, I would take an unbeliever, before I would take a Communist, or... As long as they are mentioning the Name of the Lord, though I wouldn't believe with them, I certainly... we might not believe on every principle, but we believe on Christ, and that's the main thing.
I wouldn't mean to speak evil of the Baptists, or the Presbyterians, or not even to the Catholics, because there's Catholic people who I believe are saved. God has so... made it so simple to us that, "He that believeth on Me..." See? And there's many of them, you... I wouldn't believe the system of the Catholic church, but I believe in the Catholic people. I don't believe in the system of the... maybe the Baptists, or Presbyterian, or even the Pentecostals, sometime, but I believe in their people, because they are my brothers and sisters.

L-11 And now, in our short message I have just... The first time I've ever tried to write down something, just a point that I want to make in...?... because, not only to preach... I didn't come to preach, I just come to speak to you. And I'm... I preach by inspiration, I try to, but in speaking like this, I just want to talk to you.
But there's four great things here that I want to mention, and that is, Joel, the prophet, who was God's eagle, who climbed up into the sphere of God, and saw the day coming. Peter quoted him on the day of Pentecost in Joel 2:38. He said, "This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel." And Joel saw that coming. And if Joel's prophecy was so accurate, that it saw Pentecost many hundred years before it ever happened, then surely, the prophecy that he has given to this day, we could say would be accurate. But the thing I want to speak on is this: the four great destroyers.


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