<TITLE>15. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 And we kneel there and I say, "God, take care of my little family. I love them. Help me to be Your servant and stand gallant at the battlefront against the enemy. If he should rise, give me strength to stand. And O God if I fall, give me strength to rise again. I'm only going. I commit my family into Your hands." I raise over and take my dear wife in my arms and kiss her good bye, and say, "Sweetheart, pray for me while I am gone."
She'll say, "I will, Billy. I'll be praying while you're gone."
Little ones kiss me good-bye. "Daddy, we'll be praying."
That settles it. I don't worry whether she's going out with anybody else or not. She don't worry whether I'm going out with anybody or not. Why is it? We love one another. There's no law in it at all. Love is the law of God. If you love... If you just boost your wife around, and only by cruel treatment that you get her to live with you, there's--it's a bad home. It's love.
That's the way it is with God. Not because I quit lying, stealing, smoking, drinking, that didn't make it; because I love Him, I don't do it. I just love... I wouldn't hurt that little old gray headed wife of mine for nothing in the world. And if she come...

L-51 If I knowed some woman walked up, some young girl, and said, "Billy, I want to go out with you and have supper tonight." And I know Meda wouldn't... When I got over there that--that she'd forgive me for it... If I tell her, I do something wrong, I--I know Meda would forgive me. I'd say, "Honey, I did certain-certain things. Will you forgive me for it?"
I believe she'd say, "Yes, Billy. I understand. I forgive you."
And I know that I could get by with it. Yet I wouldn't do it. I love her too much to hurt her. I don't want to hurt her; I love her. If I could get by with it, I still wouldn't do it. I love her too much.
And when you really love God, my brother, you don't want to get by with nothing. You love Him and you serve Him, because that you love Him, because that He loves you.

L-52 The world is a hungry today, to see love demonstrated. They don't want to see so much action, so much clapping hands. Them things are all right, now. I'm not discrediting them. I'm just trying to put them in their place. They don't want to hear you speak with tongues to prove you've got the Holy Ghost, or interpret it to get the Holy Ghost. They want to see the love that you got to display. That's what the world is a wanting, is love.
You let people know that you love them. There's something about it. You can't fool the people. It was Lincoln, one time, said, "You can fool part of the people part of the time, but not all the people all the time." You've got to have it. You can't impersonate it. You've got to have it.

L-53 And my brother, sister, why would you take a substitute, when the Pentecostal skies are full of the real thing for you? Why would you run off after some this, that, or other, when the real love of God is waiting for you, where God can get into you, and have confidence in you, and like you--I would my wife, or you would your wife. I don't care how many man would come up, that wouldn't bother me a bit. She don't care how many women would be around. That wouldn't bother her a bit. We got love and confidence. And the only way you can have confidence is to have love. And the only way you can believe God and take Him for your healing or whatever you are taking Him for, is because you love Him: you got confidence in Him, that He won't lie to you. He promised you He'd do it.
When that love is in there, you say, "Yes, God, You're my Father, and You love me, and You'll do it." Oh, brother, that's what the world needs. It don't need a new denomination. It don't need a new something start up. It needs to get back to the love of God. That's what it needs. The world's is a crying for it.


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