<TITLE>03. Par 12-16</TITLE>L-12 I remember the first time I saw him. I never forgot it. He was the most curious little fellow, real skinny. And he come up to me, and he said, "Tell me what's wrong with this woman in the car and I'll believe you."
I said, "Sir, I don't--can't do that." I said, "That takes God to do that."
He said, "Well, I'm--I'm curious. I want to know."
And I said, "I shall go over and ask." And when I got over there, the Holy Spirit told who she was and all about her.
He said, "That settles it for me."
And I said, "You're just a little curious preacher. And someday, you'll be doing this very same thing, praying for the sick."
The next time I saw him was in Chicago, about ten years later. He'd sure growed up. I said, "Brother Jack, what's happened?"
He said...?... "Two T-bone steaks after each meeting and some two or three malted milks..."
I said, "They surely didn't take the calories out," I said... Just a fine fellow, and God rest his soul is my prayer. To be here on these grounds around close to where Jack Coe once ministered...

L-13 Now, someday I'll be gone too. Someday we'll all be gone.
Partings leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
May God ever let his work continue on. May we walk faithfully in the cause that he died behind, is my prayer.
I wish to read just some now from the Bible. I just love the reading of the Word. You know, the Holy Spirit feeds on the Word. Jesus said, "It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. And if you just take it each day, not as just a routine, but just to, oh, I'd say, to just make it that your heart craves for it, to just set down each day and read so much out of the Bible. You'd be surprised what it'll do to your spiritual growth. It certainly will. "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

L-14 So let us turn tonight, that I've chosen for a subject or reading, Scripture reading, out of the Psalms, 63rd Psalm. And I wish to read just a portion of it here, the 1st, and 2nd, and perhaps, 3rd verse.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek Thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.
To see thy power and thy glory, as I have seen it in thy sanctuary.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

L-15 Did ever you read such words? "How my soul longeth for Thee in a thirsty land, where no water is." This is rather an unusual text, but God is unusual; God does unusual things, and He works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.
And we're living in an unusual day and an unusual time, but we're serving the God that's been in all times. And when I thought of this... You know, my soul thirsts for Thee... If your soul is what directs you, it's what makes you what you are. A conversion is... A soul is the nature of the spirit. And when a man is converted, he doesn't get another spirit. He gets a spirit change, a conversion means to change his thinking, change his way of living and so forth. So my soul thirsts for Thee.

L-16 And I thought, because of Thy lovekindness is better than life. What is greater than life? Just tell me one thing, tonight. What's greater than life? Nothing is greater than life.
And there's only one type of Eternal Life, and that Life comes from God. Anything that had a beginning has an end. It's those things which have not a beginning, has no end. And in the beginning, God, Eternal Life... And then out of Eternal life, which in the Greek is called "zoe," or "God's Life."
Agapao love, and phileo love, and so forth, as we drop down like from agapao love is the love that's God's love. Phileo love is the love that you have for your wife or your friend.


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