<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>58-0214, Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, National Guard Armory, Terre Haute, IN, 85 min
L-1 I've looked forward for some time of this meeting here, to meet with you dear people here in Indiana. And on the road over tonight, I was just thinking, this is just about my fourth meeting in Indiana. First, I think it was in Indianapolis, then over in Evansville, Hammond, and here, South Bend, if it be five times in Indiana. So we're... Of course, you know, I am from Indiana, the little city of Jeffersonville, just across from Louisville, Kentucky.

L-2 But I have waited for some time, to come; I've got letters from up in here, and have had the letter from Brother Ward. And Brother Roy Weems called me, and--or I called him, rather, and he so highly recommend Brother Ward and the meeting here. It certainly is a privilege to be here, tonight, with all these fine brethren who are on the platform, the sponsors of the meeting.
And was telling Billy, coming in tonight, the last five meetings we've been in since the first the year, we brought a snow storm to the city, the first one, Chicago, Waterloo, South Bend, and here. And we've had a snow storm in every one of them. So I hope it don't--it isn't bad. And he was telling me, I believe, that Brother Ward's daughter was hurt today, I believe, in an accident. And the good Lord just kept us from having a horrible one also.

L-3 We was coming up a hill, and a Mennonite brethren was driving a wagon along the side of the hill, and a truck must've got impatient, swung right around, and just at that time, he was looking Billy right in the face, and we were right behind him. So by God's grace, we got to one side of the road just in time, that he swept by. The driver must have been drinking or something.
So you know, the enemy always tries to upset everything that God tries to... is going to do. God doesn't try to do anything; He just does it. But it just makes the enemy so angry, that he just likes to--to go about like a roaring lion, devouring what he may. But our heavenly Father knows all things, and all things are working together for good to them that love God.
And now, this weekend, which I trust that will be one of the fine times of our life, where we have fellowshipped around the Word of God and with His people.

L-4 And now, we love to kindly make this little announcement, that we are--don't come as healers, to heal people; we come as your brother to pray for you, and this is kind of a little motto, I usually say, "I come to pray for God's child, the doctor's patient, my friend." God is the Healer; He... Healing is something that is past tense. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. There's no one that has healing power, I don't believe. Although, gifts of healing in the Bible, could be used in many different ways, that is, a person with a gift of healing would be like someone who had a gift of being a minister. To a Bible expositor, who could explain it so well, that would bring faith to the people by hearing the Word. And that is the original and initial way of receiving anything from God, is to take His Word for it.

L-5 I was thinking of Jairus in the Bible, when he said, "Come, lay Your hand on my daughter, and she shall live." But the Roman Centurion, the Gentile, he said, "I'm not worthy that You'd come under my roof, just speak the Word." Jesus admired that, and I--I love that, because that Roman realized that Jesus had ever disease under His control. See? "Just speak the Word, and my servant will live." And that's the way we want to be, Christians, to admire, and to stand up as great, gallant soldiers in the face of conflict, and let our Heavenly Father say, "I have a child that I'm proud of." You know, God does look upon us like that, because... You know, He said, "David was a man after His own heart." And that's the way we want to be, after His own heart.


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