<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 So this afternoon, the Lord willing, we have chose a little text just to talk to the people awhile. And then, tomorrow the healing services and so forth will start on again. We don't know what our Lord will do. He might just come right down this afternoon and have the greatest healing service we ever had. We don't know. He just--He does it His own way. We just try to follow His leading.

L-6 And now, before we open His blessed Word in the way that we place...?... to read, let us just talk to Him just a little bit by prayer as we bow our heads. Our blessed heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the privilege that we have of coming into this lovely, big arena this afternoon, a shelter over our head, and to be assembled in the Name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. And to know that in this dark and dreadful hours that we're living, at the end of the age, that there's still thousands of people who believe on You and are looking for Your soon coming. And we feel today, that this is the Elect, the cream of the crop, at Oakland and it's round about that's gathered here this afternoon. They have come for one purpose: to hear the Word of God and to fellowship around It.

L-7 And we humbly pray, our Father, that Thou will take over this service into Your own hands, Your own control, and will get glory to Thyself. Sanctify the voice that's to speak. It's truly all of it Yours; it's all I have, Father, but it's given to You. And sanctify the ears that will hear, and may every heart receive. And may it not be thought of as a Message of man, but may it be as one from God. For we are listening and waiting to hear everything that we can for instructions, that we might stand before Thee, holy and without blemish in that hour that's swiftly approaching. We ask this blessing in Christ's Name. Amen.

L-8 In the book of Ezekiel, the 36th chapter and the 26th verse, I'll read a... this portion. [A prophecy is given--Ed.] Amen. Thanks be to God for this Word. And it always makes us take courage. Now, we used to sing a song: "Let Us All Take Courage, For We're Not Left Alone." That's right. The Lord is here. We believe that.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you, and... you shall walk in my statutes, and... keep my judgments,...
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word. Ezekiel the 36th chapter and the 26th and 27th verses.
Now, we wish to speak this afternoon on this great, mighty prophet, Ezekiel, and his prophecy. And now, you know the prophets of the Bible was thought of as God's eagles.

L-9 Now, in study of nature, as I have been preaching, because it was my first Bible to lead me to Christ. We never had a Bible in our home. And I was twenty years old, we never seen a Bible, as far as I know in our home. We wasn't religious at all. My people formerly were Catholic. And they had left the church, married out of the church and was gone. And they didn't have any religion at all. And then, the Lord just by His grace picked me up. And it makes me love Him. Oh, I could never... There's something within me that holds: the love of God.
And now, in studying nature it--I see where God's great wisdom was, was to let me understand the natural things, so without an education, I could then be able to understand maybe the supernatural. For all of the things in the supernatural, or the natural, are types of things in supernatural. I don't know whether you get that or not, but that--that is true. Everything in earth is made of something above. And types and so forth, it's shadows. Our own shadow here on this earth is... What we are now is just a--a type of what we will be in that glorious resurrection, when all of the sin and sickness and sorrows and death has finished.


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