<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 But it does make me feel real funny to see the church just getting in the condition that it's in. I--I don't mean to be rude; you know that. But when I get a chance to really lay it on in conventions where ministers and all are sitting around, they'll start laying it on too (You see?) so then we--we--we don't want to do that. Have to use just a little bit of psychology with it, you know, to get the ministers started. And if we just get back to the old hewing line like our fathers used to lay the rules down, "This is it." See? And they abided by it. See? So we need it now.
Satan, is such a--a--a cunning enemy, he just moves in so... Sin is so, what would I say, it's so shrewd, rude, you know, it's just... It's cunning, just kindy just subt... That's the word: subtle. Just so subtle that it just move right in so easy, you know; it looks just so innocent. The first thing you know it's just like a spider with a web, got you; there you go.
I'm--I'm thinking of one thing: that's the end of the road. Which is, perhaps, not too far off for me. I'm not a boy no more. And I've got to think of then meeting all the people again. My friend was telling me one time; they was giving a--a prize. And I want this to go real down deep to every one of us.

L-6 In Vancouver, British Columbia, they were giving a prize for a boy that could ride a bicycle... Twelve inches across, for a hundred yards, they'd give him a new Schwinn bicycle. And all the boys, they thought they were fine riders. They'd go downtown for their mama, and get a basket of groceries, and put it under their arm, and ride back, and never even touch the handlebars. So each one knew he was going to win this contest.
They had a little old sissy boy there, that just, you know, mama's boy like. And--and none of them cared very much for him. So they--they all got on their--their time... As their numbers were called, they got on this board to ride. And each one fell off. But little sissy boy rode it right out to the end, never made a wobble.
And so all the boys got around him and said, "How did you do it?"

L-7 He said, "I tell you boys; here is where it was." Said, "I watched what you all were doing, and I seen your mistake." See? "You were looking down like this, trying to keep it on the board. I just watched the end and held steady."
There you are (See, see?); that's the idea. Not what's right here, but the end and keep steady, looking to the Lord Jesus. Now let us pray just a moment.
Lord, keep our minds on Thee; let us look to the end to whence when then we shall see Jesus. And here in this convention, Lord, now this group of fine brothers and sisters is assembled together, here to have breakfast and fellowship. How do we know that our next meeting time will not be at a breakfast, but be at a Wedding Supper, where we shall share the joys of the Lord forever.
Bless these men, Lord, who's been preaching for years, setting here this morning gray headed and stooped shouldered. O God, You alone knows what they sacrificed and went through with. And, Father, I pray with all my heart, if I found grace in Your sight, bless these brethren, and give them a great ministries yet, Lord, for we need each one of them in all their peculiarities, and their ministry, yet it all goes to make up Your great Body of saints and believers. And as I stand, Lord, as their brother and fellow citizen of the same Kingdom, help us this morning to speak a few words that would encourage us to move forward. In Jesus' Name we ask it. Amen.


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