<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>58-0209E, The Door Inside The Door, South Bend Gospel Tabernacle, South Bend, IN, 107 min
L-1 And welcome... That makes me feel real good. But while you are on your feet, let's speak now to He Who's made all this possible.
Our God, we come to Thee in simpleness of heart. We come with our heads bowed, because that we know that Thou did breathe upon us and we come from the dust, and we are Your subjects of the Kingdom. And we pray, Father, that this night that Thou will find a place in each of our hearts to make Thyself known to us and to the people who we associate with. We would want to thank You this time for this fine church, and for its pastor, and for all who are associated with it. And we want to thank You for these who have drove through the snowstorms, over the slick icy ground to get here to worship Thee with us.

L-2 Oh, blessed God, someday in a land beyond the river where we'll never have another snowstorm, or there'll never be another sick person to be prayed for, another funeral service to be held, or even another Gospel message to be preached, we want to meet there, Lord, as unbroken families.
Forgive us of our shortcomings. Let us know that our days are few here on earth; and what we have, may we spend them to Thy honor and Thy glory. Give us many more happy meetings like this. Bless each one of us as individuals. Bless us in our needs, Lord, for they are many. And when life is finished, may we meet at Thy house. Until then, may the barrel never be empty in our houses. May the cruse never run dry until we see our blessed Lord coming in the skies to take us away. Keep us healthy and happy in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-3 There is so many things that I could say, till I hardly know just how to start. And by the way, these handkerchiefs each night that's laying here, I'm so glad that you believe in praying over the handkerchiefs. Now... (Thank you, kind sir.) Many people anoint those handkerchiefs, which is all right. Anything that our blessed Saviour will bless, I'm certainly for it. But if you'll bear record, the Word, Acts 19, Paul just took from his body handkerchiefs and aprons.
I believe that Paul was a fundamental preacher. Don't you believe so? You want me to tell you where I think he got that? I think he got that from in the Scriptures where the Shunammite woman; she had lost her baby which the prophet had blessed her and she gave birth to this fine baby. And when the baby died, the Shunammite woman had one of the servants to saddle a little mule, and she rode to the prophet. For she knew that God was in that prophet. And that was God's representative. That was His agent on the earth.

L-4 And she thought, if she could get to the prophet... I do not believe that she thought she would get her baby back, but she would find out why God took it. And God don't always reveal to His prophets everything that He has in His Divine plan.
So when the woman arrived, the prophet did not know what was the matter. So he said to his servant, Gehazi, "Here comes that Shunammite, and she's troubled but God has hid it from me."

L-5 And while we are on the subject, if you would just think of this... He sent Gehazi forward and he said, "Go see if everything's all right."
And he said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the baby?"
Watch the Shunammite's answer? "All is well," and her baby laying a corpse.
But she had arrived at her destination to where she believed that God would make known unto her what had happened. "All is well." Wonder if we tonight could think that, after the Scriptures being read of the Lord Jesus and His blessed will to heal us all or save us, forgive us of our sins. Is all well tonight?


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