<TITLE>11. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 You can't call Him with your lips. He doesn't come by lip service. He comes by faith. When your faith, not your long prayer, your burning out, but He comes with that little dim faith that's way down in your soul, that can take a hold and say, "That little pain that's been... that brought me to this Tabernacle tonight, can light my soul afresh, can send me away from here a-burning and singing just like the birds in the air. Why? He's a historical God and a present day God. He's waiting to be called on. Call upon the Lord. He will hear you.
Speak to Him in songs. Pray to Him and believe Him. He will answer. And these words I say, in closing, that's the reason this meeting tonight, that's the reason this meeting is started. I believe that the God, that told me twenty-seven years ago, when we put this foundation stone in yonder, that I'd preach the Gospel around the world... He brought it to pass. When they laughed and said, "Where you going, Billy, with your seventh grade education?"
I said, "I'm going in the Name of the Lord Jesus."

L-41 When I preached my sermon, before leaving, eleven years ago, across this pulpit, Miss Gurdy setting there, sang that, "Only Believe," and the great giants stood yonder, like... I preached on David and Goliath. There was science, and the great known world to condemn Divine healing, and put it to shame, and everyone tell me, "Boy, you'll crack up out there. They'll throw you in jail. They'll do this, that, or the other..." But the God of history had come on the scene, yonder, and told me to do it. And I did it, by His grace and His mercy.
That same God that was history of ten years ago, has raised on the scene again; just as sure as He brought that to pass, He shall bring this to pass. He's the God of history, and He's God of present day. He never slumbers or sleeps. He cannot die, for He had no beginning or no end.

L-42 And in your case, tonight, sinner friend, that little tickling feeling around your heart, that tells you that He is the same, that tells you that He can free you from every burden, and every crime, and every sin that you've committed against Him... What can you put your hopes in? Not even in your own home, not in your wife, not in you family, mother or father. "My hopes is built on nothing less than Jesus blood with Righteousness. When all around my soul gives way, then He's all my hope and stay. On Christ that solid rock we stand. All other grounds is sinking sand."
Church, friend, whatever it is, they're all coming to an end but He lives forever. And because He lives we live with Him.


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