<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 And I was sitting down the other day in the woods, and I was saying, "Lord, well, why am I such a crank? Well, why did You make me to be such a crank?" I said, "Now there, Brother Banks went hunting with his rifle, and he pulled it up to shoot it in with the telescope sights, and he just..." Ever once in a while you'd... one will go off, 'cause if it... factory loaded ammunition will do that anyhow, 'cause you got a little more powder and little less powder. But it would just hit a little bit off for a inch or two, Brother Banks, "Oh, that's all right; I hit the squirrel." That's all right. It don't--it don't bother him: Charlie, the same way.

L-6 But... I... Mine's got to hit the tack right in the center or it upset me. I said, "I've become a regular crank."
And then I begin to look back, and I find that my life is like that. That's my makeup. And I thought, "Well, why did You make me like that? It even makes me nervous, if--if it goes off just a little bit that way or that way. And that's the way then the Lord revealed to me, setting down there up on Glutton Hollow, ever where we was at hunting, that... I believe it's called Dutton, but the squirrels eat so fast, I call it Glutton.
So they had... Up on this place I thought, "That's it." I would not even teach that there was a hell until I was positive of it. See? And therefore if the Scripture predicts Divine healing... and here looks like this, and like that, if a Scripture says Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, like there's three Gods, and there--I see there's only One, and now, how am I going to just haphazardly about some other man's--what they say about it, take it like that?
If the Bible speaks of predestination and grace, and here it's got works, and here it's got grace. And I--I--I just can't preach it like that. I got to solve that, and through, and through, and through the Bible, till it's perfectly driving a tack (See?), till it really comes out perfectly through the Scriptures.
Then when I stand, I can really have faith in what I'm doing. See? Know that what you're preaching is the truth. See? And then if anybody gets contrary about it, you've already studied enough, till you know just exactly what he said, where to stop him at. See? Right here. See?

L-7 And that's the way it is... God makes us different ways, that we can just simply... That makes the world that way. Well, that's what makes me that nervous, upset type of a person. It's got to be just right.
And I'm so glad tonight--today--this--this morning to say that I know that the Lord Jesus is not dead; He is a living. And He's just as much right here now as He was any time in the world at Galilee, or anywhere else. He's the living, resurrected, omnipresent, Son of the living God. That's... And if I couldn't... If I taught a Scripture of some historical God, and I wasn't sure that He was right here, I--I--I'd be all confused. It'd make me so nervous, I wouldn't know what I was doing. See? And I wouldn't know where to tell people, "Well, now He will do this, or He will do that." I--I couldn't tell you. I don't know, but when you know what He promised He would do and have seen Him do it, then you know where you're standing. See?

L-8 And see, how God, in His great plans just knowed how to make every person just exactly to be a certain thing, 'cause He's going to use them for that purpose.
You hear that little lady up here awhile ago, Mrs. Stricker, singing without any music. She had some kind of a little thing she was blowing through to get her tune, or her key, or whatever you call it. And could stand and sing with that real low voice, and raise it up, that, "Ship Ahoy." Now, you ought to hear me try that sometime. It--it would be terrible.
But you see, God knowed just how to make that woman up, so she'd do that. And that's the way... We're all have different makeups. If we would just find our position in Christ, and there abide and serve Him...


<A HREF="P3">Next Page</A>