<TITLE>32. Par 208-212</TITLE>L-208 All right, went and got one of the deacons and went down to his house. Said--said, "Wesley, I want to talk to you." Said, "Are you going to straighten this thing up with the church?" And he give him a short two-answer like that. Said, "Remember, Wesley, I'm the pastor of that church. I'm your daddy, but I'm going to do what God says do. I'm giving you thirty days to make that right with that church, or we'll excommunicate you from the Presence of God. You're my own son; That's my Saviour." Said, "I love you. You know I love you, Wesley; I'd die right now for you, but you got to come straight with God's Word." See? He said, "I'm the pastor; I'm the shepherd of that flock. And if you're my child or whoever you are, you've got to line up with God's Word. If you don't do it, then I'm not fit to be His shepherd."
Boy, that's a pastor. That's a man. Don't you think so? That's a man. He told his boy that. It hurt him, he said. But said Who you going to hurt, the man or hurt your Saviour?"

L-210 So he said, "Then we went on."
And said, "He wouldn't do it. And we... I told the church, and said, 'My own son, Wesley, he refuses to hear me in this matter. He refuses to hear the deacon. You're a witness of this, Brother So-and-so?' 'Yes, I am.' 'All right, at eight o'clock next Sunday, four weeks from now, if he hasn't made that right with this church, we turn Wesley, my son, over to the devil for the destruction of the flesh; this Blood, the Blood of--of Jesus Christ and this church protect him no longer.'"

L-211 And that night come, stood on the pulpit, said, "He's got two more minutes." The time come, he said, "Now, as my son, Wesley Rasmusson, said to this congregation and to You, Almighty God, we've done all we can do, according to Your Words and instructions of Your--of Your Son, our Saviour, has left us, we now... I turn my boy, and this church with me, over to the--to the devil for the destruction of his flesh, that his soul would be saved." That's all was said. Nothing went on for a week or two, maybe a month or two.

L-212 One night old Wesley took sick. And when he got sick, he kept getting sicker. He called the doctor. The doctor come up and examined him. He had a fever of a hundred and five, couldn't find no reason for it. He just kept getting sicker. Doctor said, "Boy, I don't know what's happened to you." He didn't know what to do. Said, "We'll call a specialist." They called a specialist and the specialist come in there. They took him over to the hospital, examined him, everything else, he said, "I just can't tell you, the boy's just--just looks deathly." His wife standing there, crying and everything like that, and the children standing around the bed, and everyone like that. He said, "He's going, that's all." Said, "His pulse and respiration's just going down all the time."
He said, "Call daddy." Oh, yes, that's the way to do it. That's it. "Call daddy." And his daddy run out there to the hospital real quick to see him. He said, "Daddy, I can't now, but God hears my words. I'll make everything right. I'll make it right. Yes, I will." Yes, sir, brother, right then his respiration begin to come back normal.
And the following Sunday, he was up before the church; he said, "I have sinned before God in the presence of this church. I refused to hear the pastor's words. I--I refused to hear the deacon here." And said, "I 'm asking this church to forgive me for the evil that I have done like that." Said, "God has spared my life." I tell you; he lined up right. Yeah. That's what it's got to be. See? See? You, if you'll just do it God's way... See?


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