<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>58-0314, Love, National Guard Armory, Harrisonburg, VA, 88 min
L-1 You can be seated...?... It is indeed a privilege to be here tonight, a great privilege to be here to serve the Lord Jesus. We're sorry that we don't have sufficient room, knowing that you have to stand and it makes you tired; and the hall... and I asked if there was some larger place that we should get, and I don't think there is at the time.
But we will try to make our messages just as short as we can, and you be patient and bear with us just a little while. And now, remember the services tomorrow evening, and then Sunday afternoon, and Sunday evening also.

L-2 Now, tonight, if it be the will of the Lord, I wish to read a portion of the Scripture. And then you pray for me as I speak tonight. Been hoarse since I've been up here. Not a bad cold but just an overtaxed voice.
Let me move this thing around a bit... Transposition of that thing. All right. I think that'll be just a little better.
Now, in the reading tonight let's go back to a very familiar Scripture that's familiar to all, one found in the blessed old Bible. And I believe every word that the Bible says is the truth. And I know that all Christians do the same. And this is a very familiar reading: John 3:16.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

L-3 Now, let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Oh, blessed and eternal God, Who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, and He has now been presented to us after nineteen hundred years, yet alive and just as sufficient in His power and in His Presence as He was nineteen hundred years ago when He walked in Galilee. And we thank Thee, our Father, because Thou hast done this to us.
And in this dark evil day that we're living, when there is so much confusion on every hand among the world, and in the nations, in politics, and every walk of life, even to the Christian walk... Yet there is confusion.
But we are so glad to know that Jesus still lives, and as the Scripture has said of Him, "The same yesterday, today, and forever." And when we see the end approaching rapidly, and the signs of His near coming, our hearts jump for joy when we rest upon the blessed promise that He is the same, that He loved us, and He gave Hisself for us.

L-4 We would ask Thee tonight, God, to be merciful to us and pardon us of our sins and trespasses. Give to us the exceedingly abundantly tonight, for weary hearts need it in these days. Bless every one in divine Presence. And heal every sick person that's come tonight expecting, and we know that Thou will not send one hungry person away unsatisfied. For that's Your nature. You're God.
Bless the Word as we have read it, and give to us the context of this Word for this evening's message, for we ask it in the Name of that all sufficient One, the Lord Jesus. Amen.

L-5 I suppose there isn't a child that's attended Sunday schools any time, but what could quote this little passage of Scripture here: just a little small portion of the Word of the eternal and everlasting God.
And it's not very much, but it isn't the reading or how much we read; it's the value of what we read. It doesn't make any difference whether it's very long or not. It's the value of what we have read. That is where we can rest our faith, because It's the Word of the living God.


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