<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>58-0617, Behold, I Stand At The Door And Knock, Textile Hall, Greenville, SC, 70 min
L-1 I believe that it's right. And then being that we are now swiftly approaching that age, and the coming of our blessed Lord, I think it's most profitable for us to speak to the people in the age and the hour that we are now living.
And may God add His blessings to the reading of His Word. And bring forth the context, as we read the text to His people that we would be warned of the time we're living. And reading now from Revelations the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse...
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: and if any... hear my voice, and will open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

L-2 This is a very unusual Scripture to use at a convention. But, you know, God is unusual. And He does things in an unusual way. We become so earth bound with our finite way of thinking to His great, infinite mind till we just get one, little course set up, and we feel like we're just going fine; but if we could only look and see as God sees, how much different things would look and be to us.
And the Bible says that God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. And then, it might be said that this is rather a small text to take for a big convention. But it is small. There's just a few words in here, but it's not the size of the text. It's what the text is. It's the Word of God.
And that's where the value lays. It's not in the paper that it's written on, nor neither is it the ink that--that made the letter on the paper. But it's what it is.

L-3 Sometime ago, in Louisville, Kentucky, just across from where I live, I had a little friend over there... I knew of him. And he would go up into the attic, one day, the old garret, and was searching around up there to see what he could find, just like a little boy of about ten years old would do, just little busy-body.
And down in an old--old trunk he found a little postage stamp that had turned yellow. It was perhaps many years old.
So with one thing on his mind that maybe he could get out of the sale of this postage stamp, enough money to purchase himself an ice cream... So he knew a stamp collector and down the street he went to the collector.

L-4 And he said to this collector, "Take a look at this stamp and tell me what you will give me for this stamp." And the collector picked it up, and looked at it, and put it under the glass, and he said, "I will give you one dollar for that stamp."
Why, he would thought a five cents would've been a good price. So he sold the stamp quickly, and taken the dollar, and down the street for his ice cream.
Sometime later, I guess about three months, that stamp collector sold that stamp for twenty-five hundred dollars. And it went from one to another, until now that stamp's worth more than a quarter of a million dollars.
You see, it wasn't the paper. The little piece of paper had turned yellow. But it was what was on the paper that counted. That's what meant so much.

L-5 And that's the way it is tonight with this little text. It isn't the paper, or what size it is, it's what's wrote on it. It's the Word of the eternal God. "All heavens and earth will pass away, but this Word shall never fail." It's God's Word.
And many times we overlook the value of little things. I think that's a great thing today, that we're all trying to be something big. And you... Sometimes a minister that's got just a little a group of people back in some mission, he feels like maybe, "Oh, I can't be a Billy Graham or a Oral Roberts, so I'm not very much in the picture."
But he doesn't realize that he's just as important as Billy Graham or Oral Roberts, if he's in the will of God of doing his place.


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