<TITLE>19. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 And I thank you, Lord, for the church and for the saints of the living God that's in that church, this great spiritual body. But O God, how my heart quivers for those outside of that, knowing that they see the handwriting on the wall, seeing the great things a happening, the signposts. And America's still full of old dirty jokes, and uncensored programs on television and radio, and love story, and scoffers and laughers, and big time frolics, and Hollywood evangelism, and, O God, it--it's... The midnight hour's striking. Truly, she's ready to go.
And what can I do, Lord. I've waited; I've cried; I've begged, I've--I... It's just on You now, Lord. I--I--it's all I can do. I've preached it. I'll just stand right on the Word, Lord. I'm trying to ride right into the camp now. Time won't be long."
Now, God, to those who has the honest heart today, God, do something for them just now. And let them become Your children from this day on. Heal the sick in the midst of us, Lord. Make them well. Bring back those cold backsliders, Lord. Let them know, they're just... They're playing on such treacherous grounds. Soon they'll be gone. It'll be too late then. Grant now, that Your Spirit will deal greatly with us. In Christ's Name. Amen.

L-64 To the young people, I would say this. If I could this morning, after a birthday yesterday of forty-eight years in this life, twenty some odd years of that, about twenty four years I've spent for the Lord Jesus. As a boy of about twenty three years old, I--I started preaching the Gospel. If there is any regrets that I have, any regrets... If I could touch a button this morning and go back to the--the fabulous age of about sixteen or seventeen, I would only want to do it for one thing: that is to serve Christ. That's what it means. To serve Christ, and God Who knows my heart, knows that's true, to serve Christ alone.
I have never seen anything or thought anything that ever compared with this blessed anchor of Christ in my heart. I don't know nothing. I've sailed the sea; I flew through the air; I've seen all the sights the world has; I've seen the seven mysteries of the world. I've seen the seven outstanding sights, rather, of the world. I have seen all the mountainsides, pretty near of the world. I've... I'm a hunter. I've hunted in all kinds of nations. I've done everything, fished; I've rode horses, I've ranched. I've done everything that I've knowed to do. And I'll say this: "That there is all of it put together, won't make one little dot to the love of the Lord Jesus."

L-65 What could I do? What could... Oh, yes, if these little kiddies here, I've had my little girlfriends, and slick my hair down, and put my windshield back on my car, and went out with my date, I thought; but it just didn't satisfy. There's something you're lacking all the time.
I've seen the girl with the pretty brown eyes, and it would... You know how you feel, as the young folks, I thought that was just it. If I could only have the date with this young lady, it would just, it would--it would just take all my anxiety; that--that would just settle it. I'd have a date with her, be out with her fifteen minutes, and looking for someone else. It just doesn't satisfy.

L-66 Oh, there's nothing. But that blessed hour (Blessed be His Name.), yonder in that little old coal shed in the back of the building, kneeling on a old grass sack in an alley, where I knelt down there in the wet ground and said, "Lord Jesus, can You do something for me?"
That's when a peace that passes all understanding, twenty-four years ago anchored here in this heart of mine, and it's worth all there is in the whole world. I've never seen nothing to compare with it.
 Through the many dangers, toils and snares,
 I have already come;
 It's grace that's brought me safe thus far,
 It's grace that'll take me on.


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