<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>57-0804A, The Great Commission, Edmonton Arena, Edmonton, AB, 78 min
L-1 It is indeed a privilege for me to be back here into this great arena again this afternoon in Edmonton to have this time of fellowship with my fine Canadian friends, and the people throughout all the provinces. We're expecting that God's going to give us the exceedingly abundantly above all that we could do or think.
It's been some time since I've been here before in this arena. And much water's went down the river since then as we express it down in the States, but God remains the same. He never changes. He's the same God here this afternoon that was here when we was here before.

L-2 I've had the grand privilege of preaching the gospel around the world since then seeing in the second million people come to Christ in our meetings. And it's well over a million now. And we're come today to greet you in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
It's very strange that I am here at this time. Two or three times before this, I have been announced to be here, but something turned up that I... One time, especially, that I got snow-bound, and I couldn't get over the mountains for several days. And I couldn't get out of the mountains. It just had me sewed in. I was at Roundup, Montana, and they had a terrific snow-storm.

L-3 And I went in, it was just as nice as it is outside now. And the next morning when I come out, I could just see a part of the top of my little Chevrolet truck that I was in. And there we was snowed in for several days, and we couldn't get here. That I--I apologize for, for maybe I should have come about two or three days earlier. But my meetings are so set that I just have to run from one place to another.
Then I was... This winter, I was supposed to have come again. And it so happened that they got the arrange... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Right... The Vice President of the Christian... [Blank.spot.on.tape.]

L-4 He was going over this year to make a world tour. He asked me if--if I'd go along, and I felt constrained that I should not do it. And I told him I didn't think I could. However, I said, "If it's so that I can then I will do it, but first I would have Mr. Tommy Hicks, or somebody to go, or Mr. Oral Roberts, or someone who could take the place."
And that he tried and fixed it up, and it come time for me to go. Well, I found out they'd advertised for me to be over in Germany. Twenty-five hundred ministers in Germany alone was cooperating with the meeting. We had an exit for the prayer room. It seated forty thousand for the prayer room.

L-5 And then the Holy Spirit forbid me to go. And He sent me to Edmonton. Why? I don't know. I just come this way. It seems like I feel that it's better to go in the will of the Lord than... They that are led by the Spirit of God. "There's no condemnation," I mean to say, Romans 8:1, "to them that are in Christ, that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit." We try to do that. I try and all my ministry, to try to do... Many times I fail, but I try to walk just as God would have me and do just as He would tell me to do.
My ministry hasn't growed any, I suppose, or the crowds and so forth, about like it was when I was here before. But He gets sweeter to me as the days go by. I was a boy when I was here before, middle age man now.


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