<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 So I come home, and the next morning... A lot of people come to the house, you know, and I have to get out just a little while. I just come off of such a trip down in Kentucky where I was a hunting. And I was going squirrel hunting that morning, got in early and looked out, there was nobody on the runway at the house, so I--I went and got my old hat and .22 rifle and started out, and I seen an apple hanging there. It was the horriblest looking apple I ever seen. I thought, "What did Meda put that kind of a apple on the wall for?" Knotty, and worm eaten, and I noticed that it wasn't hanging on the wall; it was in the air. And I knelt down with my old hat and gun in my hand, and I seen another apple, and another apple, until five apples stood there. Then a great big apple with red streaks in it, came down and made five big chomps and just cut the apples to pieces and swallowed them up. And I thought, "What is this?"
And then the Angel of the Lord, whose picture you see there, stood in the room and said, "Go, tell Brother Hall, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD he's not going to die.' He's been sick five months now, but within five days he will be well." Quickly I called Doctor Adair and I said, "He's going to live."
He said, "Billy, how can he live and his liver eat out of him?"
I said, "I don't know, but the Lord just said he's going to live and that's all I know." And he's living today.
His wife, I guess nearly seventy-five or eighty years old, slipped out to be with the Lord a few days ago while I was down in Kentucky. God rest her soul and Sister Casey also. They both have been in this church and fellowshipped with us. Every man, no matter how young, or how old, or how healthy, there's one day that we're all going to meet God. We can prepare for that.

L-5 Now, tonight I... Just few remarks from God's eternal and blessed Word. And I would like to read just a portion of it here found in the Book of Saint Mark, and the 11th chapter of Saint Mark. I want to talk on faith, just for a few moments, 'cause many of you is standing; your limbs will be cramping. I want to begin at the 20th verse. I want to read it from the original Greek Lexicon.
 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
 And Peter calling to remembrance said unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou did cursedst is withered away.
 ... Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God.
 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be... removed, and... cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe that those things which he saith is coming to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

L-6 What a blessed promise. Faith in God, it's a staggering thing to many people. And yet we ought to be ashamed of ourselves to confess that we don't have faith in God. First, there is cowards who die ten thousand deaths while they're here on earth, and a hero never dies. His memories linger on for his great heroic deeds. And usually people who have faith are people who have experience. Experience brings faith.
I think that's the reason that the Bible teaches us--Jesus said in Saint John the 3rd chapter, "Except a man be borned again he cannot understand the Kingdom of God." Now, that's quoting from the original. In the--the King James it said, "He cannot see." But the word doesn't mean "see, like you look with your eyes"; it means to understand. You can't see the Kingdom anyhow. You must understand it. And Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again first, he will--cannot understand the Kingdom of God." So it's--it behooves us to have an experience before faith can ever accomplish very much. Therefore people ought to be saved before... First they come to God and have an experience of salvation before they approach God for their healing. It must... It'll--it'll work wonders if you can only believe it.


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