<TITLE>20. Par 67-70</TITLE>L-67 I've trusted Him in the hours of sickness and accidents. I've trusted Him when the airplanes was spinning in the storm, and you didn't know... I said, "Lord Jesus, are You finished with me? If not, straighten this plane out." See her, just pull right out to her right condition...?...
I've stood in the clinics, where the best of doctors in the nations, to... And they'd look at me and say, "Just a few more minutes to live. He's going."
And when the best doctors, that could be got for me, and I said, "Lord Jesus, are You through with me?" And all of a sudden, I was normally back to myself. Certainly.
Oh, amazing grace how sweet that sound. How I wish I had tongues to explain what it is. It's too great for the human mind. Take my word; don't you take a substitute, friend. Don't take a substitute. Don't just go and say, "Well, I--I do this. I--I tell you what; I'm a pretty good person." Don't rely on that. Don't do it.
Just stay there, until something just reaches down, takes away all the sin, and puts a kiss there that just burns. And when the trials come, you don't have to wonder if I'm going to do that, it's just something holds there.

L-68 And as a middle-aged man now, I've got to come down and think this, that one of these days, I got to go. If Jesus tarries, I got to go.
I don't know what will it be when I get down to the end of the road. I don't know. I'm not trusting upon my preaching. No, sir. No, I'm not trusting upon the things that I done. Oh God, no. Oh, let that be far from me. I've done things since I been a preacher, neglected and done this and that. I don't want to trust in, not in that. No, sir. I don't want to say, "Lord, I've won over a million souls to You." That has nothing to do with it, not a thing.
The only thing I'm trusting is His grace, His promise, is where Lord, You said, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." You said, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee..." When I'm pressing that pillow and the cold death's sweat's running off of my brow, You will be there. Just as sure as I'm standing here, He will be there.

L-69 When I preach my last sermon, close the Bible, and walk away the last time, and the work's over, He will be there. Yes, sir. And just as sure as I believe that He's coming, when He comes again, I will be there, too. Yes, sir. Not because I merit it, it's because He has for me; and I accept it upon the basis of His eternal Word. And I know by that, there was something happened. Something happened.
Not how much noise I can make, how well I can say... If I was the greatest preacher in the world, if I've raised the dead or whatever, that has nothing to do with it. It's because something happened. Something taken place in here. It taken all the old jealousy, and bitterness, and evil, and everything from my heart, and now I just love Him day and night. Something happened. I want to see Him someday, and I want you to also.

L-70 Little church, struggling now for the Kingdom of God, don't never falter in this day. If you do, quickly repent. Jump right back. See? If you stump your toe, don't fall. If you fall, get up. Get up; my, get up. Sure. If you've made a mistake now and this revival coming on, and you went back and got cold, indifferent, wait... Get down to your Bible; walk out in the apple orchard somewhere; get out to yourself, and say, "God, now here I am. I'm sorry of this thing."
You're going to get a whipping for it; just remember that. Yes, indeed. You'll reap what you sow out. Yes, sir. But whatever you do; take your whipping here. Get right up, and straighten up, and say, "Father, here I am. Whip me, just as Thou sees fit, Lord. Here I am." That's right. And walk right back with a hallelujah on your heart.
God lets the whip down on you, just say "Yes, Lord, I deserve every bit of it." Just keep on going. God will take you through all right. It'll be over one of these days.


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